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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

24 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 14: People walk past Gol...NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 14: People walk past Goldman Sachs headquarters on March 14, 2012 in New York City. Former Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith wrote a scathing editorial about the company while resigning in today's New York Times. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JULY 31: A protestor dres...SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JULY 31: A protestor dressed as a Goldman Sachs executive performs a skit during a demonstration outside of the Goldman Sachs San Francisco headquarters on July 31, 2012 in San Francisco, California. A few dozen protestors, including Oakland city council members and faith leaders, staged a demonstration outside of the San Francisco headquarters of Goldman Sachs demanding that the bank ends an interest rate swap with the City of Oakland that has already cost the city $32 million. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

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Scoop - NZ

  • Why I left Goldman Sachs
    On Monday morning, Grand Central Publishing will release Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story, a memoir penned by former Goldman employee Greg Smith, based on his op-ed for the New York Times entitled, “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs.” When Smith’s piece came out last March, few if any ...
  • Saudi coronavirus raises concerns about Haj
    Senior author Ron Fouchier, the virologist whose laboratory first spotted that this was a never-before-seen coronavirus, said bats and coronaviruses have co-evolved over millenniums. Because of that fact, one can generally predict which bat is host to which coronavirus, Fouchier said in an in ...
  • Pilger: Julia Gillard is no feminist hero
    The Guardian's description of Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott as "neanderthal" is not unreasonable. Misogyny is an Australian blight and a craven reality in political life. But for so many commentators around the world to describe Julia Gillard's attack on Abbott as a "turning point fo ...
  • GMO: Should Californians Have the Right to Know?
    GMO: Should Californians Have the Right to Know?
  • UK/US Foreknowledge of Pearl Harbour ?
    The Nazis, imperial Japanese and fascist Italians were nasty folks trying to take over the world, who brutalized millions within their own borders and in the nations they occupied. But a full and honest account of World War II shows that some big American banks funded the Nazis. And America d ...

Independent - London

  • Special report: What links Diana’s death to th ...
    Seven weeks after the brutal murder of four people on a mountain road in the French Alps, the dark mystery of Annecy remains intact. But media speculation thrives.Related StoriesKnifeman held close to Finnish PMRyanair offers concessions in EU probe of Aer Lingus dealAusterity? Cameron warned o ...
  • Hands on: First review of Apple's 'iPad mini' ...
    Fancy an iPad but find it just too big and heavy? Apple has an alternative. Mind you, so does Google. And Amazon.Related StoriesHoward Hughes, the Abercrombie & Fitch CEO who went from fashion guru to megalomaniac with rules on staff pants on planeHoward Hughes and the Abercrombie & Fitch CEO w ...
  • Barack Obama accelerates into final two weeks ...
    A pugnacious President Barack Obama has accelerated into the final two-week stretch of the US campaign at a rally in Florida today as he replayed the punches he landed on Mitt Romney at last night’s foreign policy debate.Related StoriesGiant reptile ruled the Jurassic Seas'Every time you've off ...
  • Chief scientist quits over jail terms for L'Aq ...
    The head of the Major Risks Commission has resigned in protest at the conviction of seven colleagues found guilty of failing to give adequate warning of the L'Aquila earthquake.Related StoriesKnifeman held close to Finnish PMRyanair offers concessions in EU probe of Aer Lingus dealAusterity? Cam ...
  • China: Top-ranking military officers reshuffled
    Beijing has named a new air force commander and reshuffled other top military positions ahead of next month's appointment of new Communist Party leaders.Related StoriesIndian bureaucrat hounded out of office 43 times for fighting corruption

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Gold price bounces off $1720 as Germany wants ...
    Back in mid September when the gold price was trying to break above $1777 and hold there, something that it attempted several times but eventually failed, we cited the $1720 level as a place where any significant pull-back should be supported: Should $1770 not hold decent support can be found ...
  • Woman gets set on fire and has 'KKK' written o ...
    A Louisiana woman was the victim of a horrific attack during which she was reportedly set on fire and had her car defiled with the letters "KKK," police reported Monday.
  • New Comet: C/2012 U1 (PANSTARRS)
    Cbet nr. 3264, issued on 2012, October 22, announces the discovery of a new comet (discovery magnitude 21.0) by Pan-STARRS Survey on images obtained with the 1.8-m Pan-STARRS1 telescope at Haleakala on October 18.3. The new comet has been designated C/2012 U1 (PANSTARRS). We performed some foll ...
  • Earth's magnetic and gravity fields are going ...
    Scientists writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) said the magnetic gravity fields of Earth are going through some changes. Earth's magnetic field is generated by flows of liquid iron in the outer core. The Earth's magnetic field protects us from cosmic ra ...
  • Puppies only pick up yawns when they're old en ...
    Dogs catch yawns from humans, but not if they're too young. To perform this study, Danish scientists cuddled with puppies all day. Dogs catch contagious yawns just like people, baboons and chimps, which can be used as a measure of empathy. But this is a behavior they learn after they emerge fro ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Simple is good . . .
  • The war on women . . .
    THE WAR ON WOMEN continues in the Middle East, and according to Roya Hakakian's article in the Washington Post, "How blaming the West hides a war on women", it developed to a fine art in Iran and has institutionalized misogyny in the Islamic fundies, and has put a killing frost in the Arab Sprin ...
  • Bullies beware . . .
    LOVE COMPETENT PEOPLE. Then again, there are those who will demand a National Long-Bow Registry.
  • Back to the Bates . . .
    DALTON EXITS Ontario politics with a masterful stroke: proroguing the Ontario Legislature. As a result, there are no debates about the worst series of mistakes committed by an Ontario administration in one very long time. From E-Health, to Ornge, to the Oakville Power Station Stu ...
  • "This Is What Democracy Looks Like . . . ."
    in the Excited States of America: Pitiful, isn't it ? ? ? ?

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Help Romney Hide His Oppositi ...
    Right-wing media are abetting Mitt Romney's attempt in the third presidential debate to hide his opposition to the successful U.S. automobile industry rescue. In fact, Romney condemned the auto rescue, a rescue that experts say was necessary to save the industry.During Debate, Romney Claimed He ...
  • Media Look Past Romney's Shift To Center On Fo ...
    Following Mitt Romney's repeated claims during the presidential debate that he largely agrees with President Obama on foreign policy, mainstream media adopted the narrative that little separates the candidates on this issue. In fact, this narrative allows Romney to disavow extreme positions.Medi ...
  • Another Debate, Another Litany Of Romney False ...
    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney rehashed at least seven previously debunked claims during the October 22 presidential debate, including the phony talking point that Obama went on an apology tour. Romney's dishonesty, now apparent in the third straight debate, continues to present a ...
  • Fox Spent Four Hours Trying To Explain Away Ob ...
    In the second presidential debate, moderator Candy Crowley corrected Mitt Romney after he falsely claimed that President Obama had waited 14 days to describe the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya as an act of terror. In th ...
  • How Conservative Media Wrote Romney's Energy A ...
    Conservative media outlets pushed at least eleven misleading attacks on President Obama's energy policies that have become talking points used by Mitt Romney's campaign. The conservative media bubble has largely prevented voters from hearing the facts about clean energy programs, fossil fue ...

Global Research.ca

  • “Obama the Muslim:” Ploy to Cover- ...
    US establishment admits arming Al Qaeda, but blames it on “Obama the Muslim.” Neo-Conservative Frank Gaffney thinks you are stupid. After plotting for the better part of a decade, arming Al Qaeda across the Arab World in a documented conspiracy to use the notorious terror group as a ...
  • Crimes against Humanity: Iraq’s Mass Graves
    * US Occupation authorities: guilty. They created, trained and armed the National Police and controlled the Ministry of Interior, responsible for death squad policies. * Maliki government: guilty. They acted as local US stooges. They carried out the US counterinsurgency strategy, protected the k ...
  • GRTV: Obama and Romney Should Realize American ...
    …
  • Recalling the 2004 US Presidential Elections: ...
    This article  originally published 3 days after the November 2, 2004 presidential elections under the title Footprints of Electoral Fraud:The November 2 Exit Poll Scam sheds light on the process of fraud offered by “black box” voting. This analysis is of particular relevance in relat ...
  • Israel Wages War on Human Rights
    Daily incidents reveal Israeli state terrorism writ large. Praying to the wrong God is called terrorism. So is wanting out from under Israel’s repressive boot. Occupation harshness knows no limits. Torture is official policy. So are virtually all other crimes against humanity.…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Can We Survive the Lifestyle Choices of the Pl ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Although you would not know it from what passes for debate during the ongoing presidential campaign here in the United States, the biosphere is under siege. A historically high rate of ice melt in the Artic, devastatin ...
  • A New Low: Shale Gas Industry Targets College ...
    In Pennsylvania - a state that sits in the heart of the Marcellus Shale basin - the concept of "frackademia" and "frackademics" has taken on an entirely new meaning.On Sept. 27, the PA House of Representatives - in a 136-62 vote - passed a bill that allows hydraul ...
  • 5 Weird and Frightening Effects of Fracking Yo ...
    This article was published in collaboration with GlobalPossibilities.org.What comes to mind when you think of fracking? Perhaps it’s images of tap water being lit on fire or stories of families suffering health problems after nearby wells are fracked. Indeed, the health and environ ...
  • Wake Up! Our World Is Dying and We're All in D ...
    We live in a culture of denial, especially about the grim reality of climate change. Sure, we want to savor the occasional shrimp cocktail without having to brood about ruined mangroves, but we can’t solve a problem we can’t face.I don't like to think about global environmental p ...
  • Towns That Dare to Face Up to Fracking Industr ...
    This article was published in collaboration with GlobalPossibilities.org.Pennsylvania’s pro-fracking forces are punishing four townships that passed local environmental rights ordinances challenging the industry by withholding nearly $1 million from a new fund collected from gas dr ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Solar Backers Rally as Public Comment Period Ends
    Advocates fault PUC for turning a blind eye to industry as Texas falls behind Solar energy backers rallied outside the Texas Public Utility Commission [last] week seeking enforcement of a seven-year-old law that would boost electric generation from geothermal, biomass and the state’s ample suppl ...
  • PRICELE$$ – the movie
    From the Fourth of July to the halls of Congress, PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker’s personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are some of our government’s most basic policies, like food and energy, so out-of-date – and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion o ...
  • Rally for Clean Energy and Good Jobs – Thursda ...
    We are taking our Clean Energy Works for Texas campaign to the doorstep of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) next week.  We hope you will join us for a rally on Thursday, October 18 at 12 p.m. in front of the William B. Travis building at 1701 N. Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701 We are [...]
  • Breaking: Daryl Hannah joins tar sands blockade
    Actress Daryl Hannah has been arrested along with Winnsboro ranch owner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, while staging a protest against Keystone XL construction on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The duo where defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been e ...
  • Bill McKibben speaking in Austin, TX
    Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, and technical adviser to the Texas Drought Project, will appear Thursday, October 4th, at 7 PM at the Belo Center for New Media Auditorium (BMC 2.106), at the northeast corner of Dean Keeton and Guadalupe, University of Texas, Austin, TX. McKibben is known for ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Beluga whale mimics human voice
    Scientists have identified a beluga whale capable of producing eerily human-like vocalizations. The abilities of a whale named 'Noc' were first observ...
  • Scientists face jail over prediction failure
    Six Italian scientists face up to six years in prison because they failed to predict an earthquake. The seismologists were part of the National Commis...
  • Teacher injured by falling fish
    A teacher in Southwest Florida was injured after being hit by a fish that had fallen from the heavens. Despite being hit on the head by what was later...
  • Man claims Bigfoot vandalized his RV
    Bigfoot hunter John Reed has claimed that one of the creatures damaged his 1973 Dodge Winnebago. Founder of the Lykens Valley Sasquatch Hunters, John ...
  • Can insects reach the size of humans ?
    Giant insects have been featured in science fiction films for years, but how big can they actually get ? Researchers aren't exactly sure what limits t...

Grassroots

  • Preparations Underway for the World Social For ...
    For the past year, Stop the Wall and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (both Grassroots International partners) have been working diligently with their Palestinian and Brazilian allies to fulfill the call issued in 2011 at the World Social Forum in Dakar. Then, participants expresse ...
  • No Olive Branches Here: Settler Violence Threa ...
    Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property, which escalated this summer, is on the rise again with this October’s olive harvest season in the West Bank. Officials from the United Nations as well as activists in Palestine and Israel are calling on Israeli forces to intervene ...
  • For-Profit Folly in Haiti
    Subheadline:  Development-Industrial Complex Can't Deliver Reconstruction After Earthquake Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Jake Johnston is a Research Associate at th ...
  • Message from Rafael Alegría, Honduran leader o ...
    On May 1 of this year, my colleague Saulo Araujo (Program Coordinator for Latin America) and I spent the day with Rafael Alegría, a leader of the Vía Campesina based in Honduras.  The video below offers some of his reflections.   Rafael’s message is clear:read more
  • Korean Women Peasant’s Association Awarded the ...
    kwpalogo.jpg Last Wednesday, October 10th, in New York City, I had the privilege of witnessing the US Food Sovereignty Alliance award the fourth annual Food Sovereignty Prize to the Korean Women Peasant’s Association (KWPA).read more

Climate

  • 190 Million Tons of Ice a Day Has Sea Rising 1 ...
    (The Age) Antarctica is shedding an average of 190 million tons of ice daily - and causing sea levels to rise about a millimeter a year. Although parts of East Antarctica are growing, glaciers in West Antarctica are melting faster, le ...
  • Ikea Shifting to Renewable Energy by 2020
    (Reuters) IKEA, the world's largest furniture retailer, will shift to renewable energy by 2020 and grow more trees than it uses under a plan to safeguard nature that has won support from environmentalists. The Swedish-based group, whi ...
  • Romney, Obama Go One Last Round in Debate on C ...
    (The Hill) President Obama and GOP White House nominee Mitt Romney grappled over federal funding for clean energy in Monday’s final presidential debate. Obama said the federal government must maintain basic research to keep pace with ...
  • Low Electricity Prices Lead Dominion to Decomm ...
    (E&E Daily) Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. said Monday it will shut down and decommission the Kewaunee Power Station near Green Bay, which would make it the first U.S. nuclear reactor to be permanently retired sin ...
  • Sempra to Build $1 Billion Natural Gas Pipelin ...
    (Reuters) Sempra Energy unit Sempra Mexico has been chosen to build a $1 billion natural gas pipeline that will connect the U.S. grid in Arizona with northwest Mexico, after a bidding process was completed, the company said on Monday. ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Spoil Sports
    We can be grateful that intrepid political reporters at ABC News are aggressively fact-checking President Obama's "horses and bayonets" comment. Fox News, too. These reporters are killing a good joke. Did you laugh when Obama told the joke? Yes? Then that's the end of it. J ...
  • People Won't Like President Romney
    Michael Tomasky on Mitt Romney's ability to lie without shame or even apparent self-awareness. Were used to a politician who says, You know, I once thought… or something like that. Then our minds can kind of buy the idea that hes flip-flopping. Most pols do this. It used to be thought by pol ...
  • Another Tea Party Fanatic
    Richard Mourdock has some funny ideas about God and rape: Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Tuesday that pregnancy that results from rape can be something that God intended to happen. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift ...
  • Lying Romney in Couplets
    Let's do a little exercise. I am going to provide you with some couplets. They are things Mitt Romney said at different times about the same subject. And I want you to try to explain to me how they do not contradict each other. Ready? Here goes. 'It was not my desire to go off and se ...
  • Romney Wussed Out
    I think it's funny that Mitt Romney's cynicism bit him in the ass last night. For the first time, I watched a debate on CNN so I could watch the moment-to-moment reaction of their survey group. Every time that Romney said something bellicose the audience reacted negatively, which seemed to vin ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    From legendary Civil War nurses and famous agoraphobia sufferers, to tragic rock concerts and air disasters that could have been averted... Five cool links. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Shipwreck Carcasses Strewn Around the Cape of ...
    The Cape of Good Hope is known for its violent winds and rough waters. In these photos, relics of these destructive forces can be seen littering the rocky coastline. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Hooked: Early 20th-Century Fishing Photographs ...
    These late 19th century and early 20th century photographs from Florida show us what sport fishing was like in an earlier time in America's history. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Amazing Facts About Pelicans!
    Pelicans are fascinating creatures with crazy physical characteristics ranging from air sacs in their bones, to bills and pouches that change color. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Spellbinding Tilework Mosaics of Iranian A ...
    With a history dating back to at least 5000 BC, it's not surprising that Iranian architecture contains such a wealth intricate and beautifully designed tile mosaics. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • FawkesFail: Even more #OpCartel related shadin ...
    ‏@AnonNCarolina2 - We spend all night informing ppl about indefinite detention only to be placed at the top of the list by some dumbfuck. #StopNDAA#Anonymous - SOURCE Fortunately #stopNDAA at least hit a huge volume on twitter during tonight's presidential debate. So... Synchronicity in the F ...
  • ECHELON GCSB military surveillance vs New Zeal ...
    " i'm one of those horned rimmed guys sitting behind a desk in DC dreaming of ways to manipulate Anonymous for UK's and USA's purpose :)" Backtrace Security - Pastebin.com http://pastebin.com/KtLfurP1 -posted BY: A GUEST ON MAR 16TH, 2012 | SYNTAX: NONE | SIZE: 9.62 KB | HITS: 833 | ...
  • Anonymous & Wikileaks beefing - it's bigger th ...
    A review of the latest internet dickering, with mostly unrelated useful new programs & ideas at the end... It ain't a 'war' but several prominent representations of the anon flock are speaking out against Wikileaks and it's not just the Javascript paywall (disable JS to get around it). This ...
  • A time to run around and a time to think
    For better or worse (and mostly better) for these six weeks or so I've got to do what the developers call 'refactoring' on a bunch of stuff in my life & won't be able to churn out posts at a good clip until probably early October. For more frequent updates see https://twitter.com/hongpong - ...
  • UPDATE: Govt Sites appear OK right now // Earl ...
    UPDATE: August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on a t ...

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AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Jordan claims arrest of seven-member Syrian sp ...
    Security services in the Kingdom of Jordan announced on Tuesday the detention of seven Syrian nationals who were allegedly caught with sophisticated communications devices in their possession.
  • France pressing for Western military intervent ...
    The government of France is holding secret talks with American and other Western officials to explore options for a concerted military intervention in Mali, according to diplomatic sources.
  • Comment: The Significance of the Killing of Le ...
    The view that last week’s bombing, and Hassan’s killing, may signify the internationalization of the Syrian Civil War is myopic. Politically and ideologically, Lebanon has been an integral part of Syria for decades, so much so that it would be strange if the Syrian crisis did not —sooner or late ...
  • News you may have missed #803
    Phone seized from Pakistani doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden. US whistleblower protections extended to intelligence community. What do CIA spies do after retirement?
  • White House review ‘found no evidence’ of Huaw ...
    A review commissioned by the government of the United States has reportedly found no evidence that Chinese telecommunications hardware manufacturer Huawei Technologies spied for the Chinese government.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Oct 24
      VIDEO: Obama and Romney disagree on arming Syrian rebels - 9news.com Turks say no to Syria intervention if Assad falls, Fifty-one percent believe that Turkey must “remain impartial without favoring any side" - AFP Turkish opposition party chief opposes military intervention in Syria in WS ...
  • Talk Nation Radio: Green Party Presidential No ...
    Jill Stein is the Green Party's nominee for president.  We discuss her platform and her campaign. Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson. Producer: David Swanson. Engineer: Christiane Brown. Music by Duke Ellington. Download or get embed code from Archive or  AudioPort or LetsTryDe ...
  • Israel Wages War on Human Rights
      Israel Wages War on Human Rights   by Stephen Lendman   Daily incidents reveal Israeli state terrorism writ large. Praying to the wrong God is called terrorism. So is wanting out from under Israel's repressive boot.   Occupation harshness knows no limits. Torture is officia ...
  • A Paean to Walls (or To Pee on Walls)
      By Gary Lindorff (with a Spanish translation by Carlos Ramirez)   According to Webster  the first walls were steep hillsides  or palisades utilized for defense. How many walls do we need  read more
  • TSA’s history of double standards
    by Bill Fisher   Last week we had headlines about the TSA firing 25 workers and suspending 19 others at Newark airport for not confiscating 4-ounce containers of liquid or sufficiently delaying travelers. In addition, NBC 7 San Diego reported that Federal Security Director Michael Agui ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Israeli Commandos Electro-Torture Ship to Gaza ...
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com October 23, 2012 On October 20, masked Israeli commandos lawlessly interdicted Ship to Gaza Estelle in international waters. It was over 30 nautical miles from Gaza’s coast when intercepted. Netanyahu praised their criminality. He accused on board ...
  • India May Ban GMO Crop Field Trials for 10 Years
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post It has been a devastating month for Monsanto as nations around the globe continue to enact bans and restraints on the company’s genetically modified crop varieties. India, the same country that hit Monsanto with ‘biopiracy’ charges for patenting life on the planet ...
  • Brisk Walk Can Reduce Stroke, Heart Attacks Ri ...
    Elizabeth Renter Activist Post When you walk, do you stroll, or do you march like you’re on a mission. Researchers have found that how fast you walk may play a role in reducing your risk of stroke and heart disease—urging people to get out and walk some every day, but to do it quickly. Scientist ...
  • Vote counting company tied to Romney
    by Gerry Bello & Bob Fitrakis September 27, 2012 Several Tanker trucks full of political ink have been spilled on Mitt Romney’s tenure as a vulture capitalist at Bain Capital. A more important story, however, is the fact that Bain alumni, now raising big money as Romney bundlers are al ...
  • NYT: Iran agrees to one-on-one nuclear talks, ...
    by Clark Kent MSNBC The United States and Iranhave agreed for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, according to Obama administration officials, setting the stage for what could be a last-ditch diplomatic effort to avert a military strike on Iran. Iranian officia ...

Global Insights

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

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

Inhabitat

  • Ibuku Constructs Three New Bamboo Homes in Bal ...
    Read the rest of Ibuku Constructs Three New Bamboo Homes in Bali’s Gorgeous Green Village Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Bali architecture, balinese home, bamboo architecture, eco-houses, eco-resorts, Green Village, green village bali, Ibuku, sustainable bamboo ...
  • IKEA Announces Plan to Become 100% Energy-Neut ...
    Ikea has long been recognized for its adoption of sustainable practices, from investment in renewable energy to their participation in the American Forests plant-a-tree program, and today the company has unveiled what might be its most ambitious initiative to date. The Swedish furniture manufact ...
  • Fiona Roberts’ Creepy Scopophilia Chair is Mad ...
    The eyes have it in Fiona Roberts‘ spooky Scopophilia chair – which is made from hundreds of glass eyes! The Australian designer didn’t skin a hundred Furby dolls to make the eye-catching chair, but instead repurposed a slew of disused plastic eye balls. The red upholstered chair sur ...
  • Cold War-Era Russian Bunker Transformed Into M ...
    Read the rest of Cold War-Era Russian Bunker Transformed Into Massive Club Beneath Moscow’s Streets Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, Bunker 42, bunker club Moscow, Cold war Museum Moscow, converted bunker, eco design, green design, soviet bunker, s ...
  • 7 Winter Home Improvement Tips to Save You Mon ...
    This year’s record breaking summer high temperatures and general worrisome warming trend, don’t necessarily mean that the coming winter will be a walk in the park. Before the cold weather strikes, get your home buttoned up and ready for it with our expert hands-on game plan, which will not ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Watch Live as Two Comets Fly Past Each Other i ...
    Like celestial drifters passing in the night, two comets will zoom by one another during a live show from the Slooh space camera, starting at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: The Gran ...
    Valles Marineris, seen at an angle of 45 degrees to the surface in near-true colour and with four times vertical exaggeration. The image covers an area of 630 000 sq km with a ground resolution of 100 m per pixel. The digital terrain model was created from 20 individual HRSC orbits, and the colo ...
  • Raw Food Not Enough to Feed Big Brains
    Eating a raw food diet is a recipe for disaster if you're trying to boost your species' brainpower. That's because humans would have to spend more than 9 hours a day eating to get enough energy from unprocessed raw food alone to support our large brains, according to a new study that calculates ...
  • Incredibly Small: Best Microscope Photos of th ...
    Every year for nearly four decades, Nikon has received hundreds of entries in its Small World microscope photography contest. Every year, the images are more amazing, and this year's winners -- selected from nearly 2,000 submissions -- are undoubtedly the best yet. Super-close-ups of garlic, sna ...
  • Creepy Close-Ups: Best Microscope Critter Photos
    Spiders, weevils, wasps, lice, mites and mosquitoes are among the creepiest subjects of the winners of Nikon's Small World microscope photography competition this year. Super-close-ups of eyes, tongues and silk spinnerets are amazingly beautiful, but also gross enough to induce shivers.

PakAlert

  • CBS News affiliate calls 2012 presidential rac ...
    The 2012 presidential election is still more than two weeks away, but on Friday a CBS News affiliate in Arizona called the race for President Barack Obama. For 17 seconds, Phoenix, Arizona CBS News affiliate KPHO ran a lower third graphic that showed that Obama had won the Nov. 6 election ove ...
  • “Inside Job” : The US is a Kleptocracy
    "Inside Job," the film about the 2007 credit crisis is not an Illuminati cover-up or spin job. Rather, it lays out our predicament in stark terms. The banking-government complex is a kleptocracy run by the Illuminati central bankers. They are out to steal our money, and enslave us to ensure w ...
  • Global Enviro-Eugenic Consensus Fixes 500 Mill ...
    The Georgia Guidestones- a collection of standing stones mimicking ancient Celtic stone circles in Britain and France, remind us that this particular monument, crafted and donated by “a small group of Americans who seek the Age of Reason” is a commemoration of ancient sacrifices performed by the ...
  • Election Software Company Could Intercept and ...
    The Free Press has previously reported, Scytl, a Barcelona based e-voting company will be counting votes in 26 states. They will be doing so through something called the Federal Overseas Voting Program or FVAP. FVAP is a program designed to allow military personnel and other overseas Americans t ...
  • How Facebook Is Trying to Kill Independent Media
    For years we’ve been sold the lie that the internet was the last great refuge for the freedom of speech. People talk about how the internet has helped small business and independent media sites compete with the large corporations of the world

Andy Worthington

  • The 9/11 Trial: Torturing Justice
    The last time the US government wheeled out Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other men accused of initiating and being involved in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 was in May this year, and, as is usual, the mainstream media turned out in force. That occasion was the formal arraign ...
  • Photos: A Riot of Colour, Solidarity and Indig ...
    A Riot of Colour, Solidarity and Indignation on the TUC March in London, a set on Flickr. Following up on the photos I published yesterday of the best placards and banners I saw on Saturday’s 150,000-strong march and rally in central London (“A Future That Works,” organised by ...
  • Photos: The Best Placards and Banners from &#8 ...
    The Best Placards and Banners from “A Future That Works,” the TUC March and Rally in London, a set on Flickr. Anyone with a heart would be hard-pressed to say that living in Tory Britain — with the particularly savage dolts currently in Downing Street and in the Cabinet — ...
  • The Colours and Characters of Soho: Photos of ...
    Soho: Berwick Street and Around, a set on Flickr. I can’t imagine London without Soho, which, as the jazz ands blues singer George Melly explained, was the only interesting place in the whole country in the 1950s. I first visited Soho in 1976, as a teenager, on a trip to London with my mum ...
  • “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánam ...
    On Sunday October 21, 2012, almost three years since it first premiered in London, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the documentary film I co-directed with Polly Nash, is being screened by Lewes Amnesty International Group, in a high-profile event that involves a panel dis ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Possible Hate Attack on Black Woman Roils Loui ...
    Update: Late Tuesday afternoon, authorities in Louisiana said Sharmeka Moffitt, a 20-year-old African-American woman, set herself on fire in a park in Winnsboro, La., Sunday night and faked what appeared to be a brutal, racially motivated hate crime. The alleged attack rattled the small city of ...
  • AFA’s Bryan Fischer Takes Knockout Punch on CNN
    Bryan Fischer, the gay-bashing, truth-challenged spokesman for the American Family Association, went one rant too far Tuesday for CNN anchor Carol Costello.
  • WorldNetDaily Now Peddling White Nationalism
    WorldNetDaily (WND) says it opposes racism in any form. That’s why the online publication has added a series of articles on “black mob violence” to its usual fare of antigovernment conspiracy theories, gay-bashing, anti-Muslim propaganda, and End Times prophecy. The series, which began in mid-20 ...
  • Two Prominent National Alliance Websites Pulle ...
    Two of the most influential websites associated with the National Alliance, a failing neo-Nazi group once considered a powerhouse of the racist radical right, have been pulled offline in what seems to be further evidence of organizational struggle and discord.
  • Suspect Ordered Held without Bail in Arson Att ...
    A federal judge has ordered Randolph T. Linn – who is charged with setting fire to a mosque outside of Toledo, Ohio, earlier this month – held without bail until he stands trial on two federal hate crime charges returned this week by a grand jury. Linn, who has expressed obscenity-laced anti-Mus ...

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  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Supreme Court Refuses to Block Montana Campaig ...
    In the latest battle in Montana's war against Citizens United, the Supreme Court refused to block a Montana law "limiting campaign contributions to candidates for state office, leaving the caps in place at least through the November general election," reports Reuters. ...
  • Fighting Citizens United, Corporate Personhood ...
    The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of 2010 allows for corporate and union donors to contribute unlimited amounts of money to any given organization that deals in "electioneering communications," or political messaging ahead of any given campaign.read more
  • Greenpeace: 'Unreliable' Monitoring of Fukushi ...
    Environmental activist group Greenpeace reported Tuesday that government monitoring of radiation near the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is unreliable, and  that some heavily populated areas are exposed to 13 times the legal limit of radiation. Three Greenpeace radiation-monitori ...
  • Fighting Citizens United, Corporate Personhood ...
    Fighting Citizens United, Corporate Personhood The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of 2010 allows for corporate and union donors to contribute unlimited amounts of money to any given organization that deals in "electioneering communications," or political messaging ahead ...
  • Ex-CIA Officer, Torture Whistleblower to Be Se ...
    Former CIA officer and torture whistleblower John Kiriakou plead guilty on Tuesday to a charge of revealing an undercover operative's identity, a case that whistleblower advocates say shows continued immunity for torturers while those who expose the torture are prosecuted. Kiriakou, who serv ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Transfer Everything From Your iPhone to ...
    If you've gotten a new computer or reinstalled iTunes, migrating your iTunes library is easy—unless you've somehow lost it. Luckily, you can get everything off your iPhone without too much of a hassle. Here's how to do it. More »
  • Learn the Most Common “Hidden Crapware&# ...
    Have you ever installed a program only to find that it came with some ridiculous, hidden crapware like the Ask.com toolbar? Don't feel bad, the installer probably tricked you into installing it. Weblog FreewareGenius details the most common tricks companies use, and how to avoid each one. ...
  • Have any tips for dealing with bad tech etiquette?
    Great discussions are nothing new here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more wo ...
  • Create a No-Waste Soap Dish
    Soap gunk can clog drains when you wash the buildup from its container, but soap dishes designed to prevent buildup still end up wasting the soap you use. YouTube DIYer OneFreeBrain created a no-waste soap dish that prevents both problems. More »
  • Worst Company for Customer Service: Comcast
    When we asked you which companies were the worst at customer service, we expected to hear all kinds: tech companies, communications companies, banks, retailers, restaurants. We didn't expect you to weigh in so heavily with communications companies though, most of which have virtual monopol ...

Water Privatization

  • Tax Watch: Playland privatization could spark ...
    Sustainable Playland's promising plan to reinvent Westchester's amusement park could invigorate the historic venue as a destination for county families. It also could provide an unintended tax bonanza for the City of Rye, Rye schools and Westchester County itself.
  • Mayor eyes revival of water district privatization
    ILOILO City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog issued an ultimatum to the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) to fulfill its water promises or face charges in court, augmented by the revival of privatization of the water district starting January 2013. Mabilog said the new MIWD general manager Pablo Berci ...
  • MSD board discusses potential lease of Ashevil ...
    While there was no formal action taken, the board of the Metropolitan Sewerage District has reviewed what were called “underlying assumptions” used by staff in studying the proposed merger of the Asheville water system with MSD’s operation. The option of leasing the approximately 20,000 acres of ...
  • Mayor eyes revival of water district privatization
    Sun.Star website empowers Philippine communities by providing news and information from the provinces to a national and global audience. It is your link to home in the Philippines.
  • Privatization Pushback: Civil Society Slams Wa ...
    Civil society groups Wednesday are slamming the European Commission's continued insistence that privatization of municipal water systems be a condition for receiving rescue funds, a plan the groups describe as "economically, socially and democratically flawed." read more

Guardian

  • Mark Thompson in spotlight at New York Times o ...
    Incoming CEO faces questions about his time as BBC director general when report into child abuse allegations was axedThe incoming chief executive of the New York Times is facing new questions over what he knew about the Jimmy Savile paedophile scandal when he was director general of the BBC, ami ...
  • iPad mini: Apple launches smaller tablet
    Apple unveils mini iPad tablet with prices starting at $329 (£269 in the UK) to compete with Amazon and Google's tablets The iPad mini launch as it happenedApple made its play to dominate the fast-growing tablet market on Tuesday by unveiling an "iPad mini" - a new tablet half the size of its e ...
  • London 2012 medallists welcomed by the Queen t ...
    Stars of the Olympics and Paralympics receive thanks for summer of sporting successBritain's Olympic and Paralympic medallists capped a summer of sporting success as guests at a Buckingham Palace reception on Tuesday night.About 225 athletes attended – and, for some, the event presented unexpect ...
  • Facebook shares rise as mobile growth spurs re ...
    Social network posts third-quarter loss of $59m, but revenues rise to $1.09bn as Mark Zuckerberg touts mobile successesFacebook has a billion users, the social media giant announced on Tuesday as it unveiled its latest quarterly results and modestly beat analysts' expectations.The company hit a ...
  • Lord Patten defends BBC as Jimmy Savile scanda ...
    Chairman speaks out amid criticism of director general George Entwistle's testimony before MPsThe BBC's chairman, Lord Patten, has launched a spirited defence of the corporation's independence as ministers criticised an uncertain performance by director general George Entwistle in front of MPs, ...

McClatchey

  • Penn State climate scientist files defamation suit
    Penn State University scientist Michael Mann, whose work showed that Earth?s temperatures have risen along with increased fossil fuel use, announced Tuesday he had filed a lawsuit against the conservative…Click to Continue »
  • Guantánamo captives tuned into debate too
    Dozens of well-behaved captives tuned into Monday nights foreign affairs debate between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney, a detention center official said Tuesday.Click to Continue »
  • To tally the Navy’s strength requires m ...
    America?s Navy is stronger, smaller, more dominant, more vulnerable and more lethal than at any time since World War I. So, for those confused by dueling candidates on the topic…Click to Continue »
  • As leader of the free world, Obama is a loner ...
    Barack Obama hits the exit early at glitzy fundraisers with rock stars. He makes only brief small talk in a roomful of supporters or at a rope line. He rarely…Click to Continue »
  • Romney, used to role as fixer, might find diff ...
    To his supporters, Mitt Romney exudes cool fire. The rigid jaw, the focused eyes, the straight shoulders and the perfect hair all project the image of a man who seems…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pak-Afghan strategic accord likely next year
    The Pakistan-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, being midwifed by the West, is expected to be signed next year despite a lingering mistrust between the two ...
  • Family grieves larrikin soldier killed in Afgh ...
    SA The family of an Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan on Sunday has described him as having an "endearing larrikin charm".Corporal Scott Smith, 24, was killed instantly when an ...
  • Pak Taliban other militant outfits behind MQM ...
    Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Raza Haider in Karachi was part of a plan hatched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and ...
  • Schoolgirl fears she is next Taliban target
    Pakistani authorities have extended security coverage to a teenage schoolgirl from the northwestern Swat district after new Taliban threats, a top official says.Hina Khan claims she is on the ...
  • Video Final presidential debate Deadline in Af ...
    With the final presidential debate centered on foreign policy, Bob Schieffer asks how Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would each react if they felt Afghan forces weren't ready to take control of ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • And... Jonathan Coulton Crowdsourcing A Piece ...
    It would appear that crowdsourcing concerts is suddenly becoming quite popular. Just as we wrote about Andrew Bird crowdsourcing his new South American tour via Songkick, someone points out that Jonathan Coulton (who has experimented with crowdsourcing shows in the past using Eventful), just an ...
  • DailyDirt: Robots Are Stealing Our Jobs
    Robots are moving towards taking over more tasks that are boring and/or unpleasant for people to do. Some folks are concerned that robots will replace too many human jobs, but it'll take some time before robots are cheap enough to really replace a lot of people. Still, it really is just a matter ...
  • Tomorrow: Internet Freedom Experts Team Up For ...
    All day tomorrow, Wednesday, October 24, a bunch of people heavily involved in internet freedom causes -- from the SOPA fight to the Declaration for Internet Freedom to work around cybersecurity and the fight against ACTA/TPP are all teaming up for a giant Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything -- or, basi ...
  • Tiananmen Square Activist Loses Trademark Bull ...
    We've been covering the absolutely ridiculous lawsuit of educational software firm Jenzabar against documentary filmmakers Long Bow for a few years now. The short version is that Long Bow made a documentary about some of the activists from the Tiananmen Square uprising, that was somewhat critic ...
  • Aereo: Has No One Noticed It's Insane That We' ...
    The Aereo copyright fight continues. As you may recall, Aereo is a startup that is trying to let people stream free over-the-air broadcasting over the internet. To stay within the framework of copyright law, they've set up the most inefficient system possible, in which each subscriber gets his ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Took this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town. Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more about putti ...
  • Book Review – The Occupy Handbook
    The Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning wr ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Follow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
  • Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...
    By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...
  • Things You Might Miss
    Not much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello. Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Solitary in Iran nearly broke me. Then I went ...
    Shane Bauer writes: It’s been seven months since I’ve been inside a prison cell. Now I’m back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in another man’s cell. Like the cell I go back to in my sleep, this one is built for solitary confinement ...
  • Former CIA officer pleads guilty in leak case
    The New York Times reports: A former Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of leaking to journalists the identities of two former colleagues involved in the agency’s detention and interrogation program for high-level Qaeda suspects pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a single charge. The plea dea ...
  • Does Romney know the location of the Strait of ...
    Saeed Kamali Dehghan writes: Mitt Romney is not particularly new to gaffes but when it comes to one about the relationship between Syria and Iran, he has shown extraordinary courage in repeating it at least six times just in the past year. During last night’s foreign policy debate, Romney ...
  • Video: Aleppo struggles to survive amid violence
  • Egypt: When protest serves power
    Issandr El Amrani writes: Last Friday, thousands of protesters affiliated with Egypt’s secularist parties took to the streets for what may have been the country’s first specifically anti-Muslim Brotherhood demonstration. Grievances concerned the performance of the current government, the “Brothe ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The ‘Media Academic Complex’ on di ...
    Guest post by Christopher Horner Tonight, PBS’s axe-grinding vehicle “Frontline” is running what promises to be a tantrum against people who seek debate over the global warming agenda, and scrutiny of claims underpinning it. It appears that you have me … Continue reading →
  • Heartland Institute Anticipates Unfair Treatme ...
    Press release On Tuesday, October 23, PBS’s “Frontline” program will broadcast a special titled “Climate of Doubt.” It promises to go “inside the organizations” that helped turn the tide of public opinion, and then of elected officials, away from excessive … Continue reading →
  • Earth’s great oxidation event
    From the University of California – Riverside Oxygen’s ups and downs in the early atmosphere and ocean UC Riverside-led research team finds evidence for a dramatic rise in early oxygen about 2.3 billion years ago followed, more surprisingly, by an … Continue reading →
  • Breaking: Mann has filed suit against NRO
    NOTE: This is a top sticky post for awhile since the interest is high. New stories appear below this one.   In related news, popcorn futures explode.  More details to follow. From Michael Mann’s Facebook page. Lawsuit filed against The … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the Week – Ray Pierrehumbert an ...
    Former IPCC lead author Raymond T. Pierrehumbert has a real zinger this time. You have to read this one to believe it. From an interview in Slate magazine via Tom Nelson: Mitt Romney coal jobs: Romney talks about jobs, but … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • How Genes Organize the Surface of the Brain
    The first atlas of the surface of the human brain based upon genetic information has been produced by a national team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The work is published in the March 30 issu ...
  • 3D medical animation about acne
  • Stand up: Your life could depend on it
    Standing up more often may reduce your chances of dying within three years, even if you are already physically active, a study of more than 200,000 people published in Archives of Internal Medicine today shows. The study found that adults who sat 11 or more hours per day had a 40% increased risk ...
  • Fatty Diet Leads To Fat-loving Brain Cells
    Cheeseburgers pack on the pounds, but in mice a high-fat diet also packs on new nerve cells in the brain. More brain cells may seem like a good thing, but these newly sprouted cells appear to trigger weight gain in the animals, a new study finds. The results offer insight into how the brain cont ...
  • New Layer of Genetic Information Discovered
    A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ribosome profiling, which enables the measurement of gene activity inside ...

CFACT

  • Time to pull the plug on electric car hype
    Why is the market now dead for the award-winning Chevy Volt and its cousin, the Nissan Leaf? The answer is simple: battery life and battery cost. As one observer put it, the 1902 Studebaker got 40 miles to a charge, and today’s Chevy Volt can go maybe 50 miles before its much more expensive b ...
  • Collegians Stand up for Energy, Security and a ...
    CFACT’s Collegians have been busy in the last month standing up for common sense energy projects and fighting against radical greens. In Arkansas, the Collegians ended an Arkansas Public Service Commission with ‘a bang’ when University of Arkansas students called out the Sierra ...
  • Obama still believes in climate change
    The Hill reported today that President Obama has not wavered in his committment to reducing carbon dioxide levels and fighting man-made climate change: Activists with President Obama’s campaign are trying to dampen criticism from environmentalists who say global warming has been given short shri ...
  • Peace please
    As military war is possibly the worst threat to humanity and the environment, alongside with famine caused by socialised economies, the Nobel Peace Price, is indeed one of of top events of the year. And constantly debated. This year, as well as previous. The usual questions are: Should it really ...
  • What is ethical energy and why aren’t th ...
    From Ron Arnold’s article in The Washington Examiner: When Romney told Obama, “You cut permits and licenses on federal land and federal waters in half,” the president replied, “Not true, Gov. Romney.” Romney hounded Obama for about five minutes about it. Neither bud ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • US Responds to Russia Human Rights Report: ‘Br ...
    The US State Department on Tuesday said it welcomed a report by the Russian Foreign Ministry this week that harshly criticized America’s human rights record, adding that the United States is an “open book” and wants “to continue to improve our society.”
  • Debate Zinger Highlights US Military Bayonet Use
    If nothing else new came from the third and final US presidential debate of 2012, the voting public had learned one thing by Tuesday morning: yes, in this era of high-tech, sophisticated, stealth weapons, the US military still uses bayonets.
  • Russian Ambassador Rejects Criticism of UN
    The effectiveness of the United Nations depends on interaction between the organization’s members, Russia’s ambassador to the UN said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
  • Social Media Lights Up Again With US Debate Jokes
    It’s now happened at each of the three US presidential debates in 2012, a comment either made by or directed at Republican challenger Mitt Romney has lit up social media and blog sites overnight with jokes and memes.
  • Beluga Whale Mimicked Human Speech, New US Stu ...
    Parrots are apparently not the only animals that can impersonate people: A captive beluga whale was able to spontaneously mimic human speech, according to a new study released in the United States this week.

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Moment of Truth: Is the 'Food Movement' for Re ...
    At the start of the Obama administration, the newly minted president, the same one who quoted Michael Pollan, immediately and disappointingly set about enforcing the food and farm policy status quo.Click here to read this article
  • e-Voting Company Could Intercept and Change Ba ...
    The Free Press has previously reported, Scytl, a Barcelona based e-voting company will be counting votes in 26 states. They will be doing so through something called the Federal Overseas Voting Program or FVAP. FVAP is a program designed to allow military personnel and other overseas Americans t ...
  • U.S. States Tighten Vaccine Exemption Requirements
    The ethical principle of informed consent means that you have the human right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of a medical intervention and be free to make a voluntary choice about whether or not to take the risk.Click here to read this article
  • Prop 37 Needs Your Help!
    Prop 37 Needs Your Help!Click here to read this article
  • Some Interesting Facts on Prop 37 and How You ...
    Some interesting facts on Prop 37 and how you can help.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...
    If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
  • 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • U.S. nonprofit 'names and shames' to put bite ...
    Iran is being killed for a lie. http://www.transcend.org/tms/2010/05/the-npt-and-the-nuclear-power-trap/ False witness noted http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=about http://www.leadingtowar.com/ Sanctions opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2011/12/19 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • Tritium in the Twilight Zone
    For over 20 years SSI has been releasing, on average, more than a trillion becquerels of tritium into the environment every day. http://ccnr.org/Tritium_Blog_12_09_08.pdf Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Engineered Viruses Created in Government Labs ...
    Canadian researchers have concluded that H1N1 flu shot is more dangerous than the flu. The studys release coincided with North America and certain parts of Europe preparing to promote massive vaccination efforts. Shot caused more physiological issues Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
  • WATCH: Our Planet Is Literally Falling Apart ( ...
    A new documentary has captured some of the most compelling visual evidence of climate change to date, with batteries of time-lapse cameras recording entire glaciers melting over a span of three years. Submitted by Tinkie K. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...
  • Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies
    decoding astroturfing & malicious forum & Internet operations, trolls, sockpuppets, crapflooding & disinfo specialists Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • New Afghanistan drones to be remote-controlled ...
    ShareThisNew Afghanistan drones to be remote-controlled from Britain as RAF doubles its unmanned aircraft strike force 23 Oct 2012 Britain is doubling the number of armed RAF drones flying missions in Afghanistan. And for the first time, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be controlled by ...
  • Ex-CIA agent faces jail for exposing torture i ...
    ShareThisEx-CIA agent faces jail for exposing torture in agency's secret prisons 23 Oct 2012 An ex- CIA agent and major critic of US torturing of "terror suspects," who was charged with leaking classified information, has been forced to plead guilty to a single charge in a plea bargain agreeme ...
  • Obama and Romney concur on war, assassination ...
    ShareThisObama and Romney concur on war, assassination and reaction 23 Oct 2012 In their debate on foreign policy Monday night, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney voiced nearly identical positions in support of war, illegal killings and imperialist intervention acr ...
  • UK to double number of drones in Afghanistan
    ShareThisUK to double number of drones in Afghanistan --RAF makes urgent purchase of five more US-made Reaper drones, which will be the first to be controlled from a UK base 22 Oct 2012 The UK is to double the number of armed RAF "drones" flying combat and surveillance operations in Afghanistan ...
  • Obama and Romney Bristle From Start Over Forei ...
    ShareThisObama and Romney Bristle From Start Over Foreign Policy 23 Oct 2012 President Obama and Mitt Romney wrapped up a series of defining debates on Monday night with a bristling exchange over America's place in the world as each sought to portray the other as an unreliable commander in chief ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Monk group calls on locals to target ‘Rohingya ...
    A group of Arakanese monks have called for Rohingya “sympathisers” to be targeted and exposed as “national traitors” while tensions again flare between Buddhists and Muslims in Burma’s westernmost state
  • Police officers taken into custody following i ...
    Two police officers in Sagaing division’s Monywa district who have been providing security at the Latpadaung copper mine were taken in for questioning by local officials after being interviewed by a citizen journalist
  • Gov’t seeks to manage surging influx of ...
    Over the last few years tourism in Burma tourism has rocketed, with more than 360,000 foreigners arriving in Rangoon in 2011. Reforms have opened the way for more tourism and local businesses are enjoying the extra income the sector is generating.
  • Suu Kyi to visit India next month
    Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first trip in 25 years to India next month, a country where she studied and her mother served as an ambassador, an organiser said Friday
  • Trading hair: Burma’s booming business
    The hair trading business in Rangoon is quickly developing and its earning buyers and exporters a steady profit. Often women cut their hair to support their families but increasingly, hair is being donated and the money is used to build bridges, roads or fund social activities for local people.

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • IDF to Double Unit 8200 Cyber-War Manpower
    The Israel’s Channel 2 reports (Hebrew) that the IDF intends to double the manpower of its Unit 8200, which is charged with waging  cyber-war on Israel’s enemies.  It plays a role akin to the NSA here in the U.S. and was responsible for creating Stuxnet, Flame and the other cyber-vir ...
  • Israeli Poll: Israelis Support Population Tran ...
    A new poll (if anyone can find the full poll results please let me know) of Israeli Jews by Camil Fuchs and commissioned by the New Israel Fund has alarming findings concerning the deterioration of democratic values in Israel.  Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz that Israelis (Jews) have largely shed ...
  • Yair Lapid’s Future Party Has No Future
    I usually don’t waste blog posts on things I consider a flash in the pan, but I couldn’t resist this one.  You all know how much I hate hypocrisy and Yair Lapid displayed it in spades today.  Haaretz tells us that the TV journalist who’s formed a new celebrity-driven centrist p ...
  • New Polls Show Americans Believe U.S. Should N ...
    In the lead-up to the final presidential debate, which will focus on U.S. foreign policy, two major new polls track U.S. opinion on issues related to the Mideast.  The first poll was conducted for the Brookings Institution, usually a pro-Israel think tank (funded by Haim Saban).  But the actual ...
  • U.S., Iran to Enter Talks After November Election
    Obama administration officials announced today that they’d negotiated secretly with Iran to start one-on-one negotiations over its nuclear program.  Until now, negotiations have involved at least five other nations with an interest in the issue.  This will be the first time in years that t ...

If Americans Knew

  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Poynter Study Suggests Designers Give Readers ...
    This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. A team from Medill and Poynter recently presented their findings on an Eye Track Study for tablets, that sought to answer two questions: 1) How do people choose what to read? and 2 ...
  • Announcing 'Source': Where Journalism and Codi ...
    I sent an e-mail from a hotel room in Berlin in September of last year, while completely blitzed out from jet lag. In it, I mentioned the idea of putting together a site that could serve as a center-point for a lot of the amazing code being written in the journalism community. The response I got ...
  • Super-Fast Autoplay-Enabled Watchup 1.4 Now in ...
    One of our bold beliefs here at Watchup has always been to iterate fast over users' feedback. Watchup is a Stanford startup, incubated at StartX, the Stanford startup accelerator, and as such we always try to apply the design thinking principles to our work. The latest version 1.4 of your ...
  • A LocalWiki for Antarctica
    Many months ago, we were approached about helping start up a LocalWiki project in Antarctica. In. Antarctica. Antarctica! The project, named "Open Antarctica," would aim to initially document a region of roughly 2 miles surrounding the Palmer Station United States base on the Antarctic Pen ...
  • Social Media's Role in the Evolution of Frontl ...
    It's Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS. 'Democratization of Development' In a recent BBC Future article, I wrote about ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Film Review - Sister: Moral and Income Equalit ...
    Sister, by the Franco-Swiss director Ursula Meier (Home), achieves its considerable effects at least partly by misdirection. Set during the Christmas season, it offers up a bitter irony in its French title, L'enfant d'en haut or The Child from On High, which helps steer the more simple-minded so ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Obamacare vs. Women
    President Obama is campaigning hard on his promise to give women access to free oral contraceptives and surgical sterilization, benefits that are guaranteed under ObamaCare. But women should also know about all of the health services they stand to lose.ObamaCare empowers a host of new boards and ...
  • Broken Labor - California Union Members Demand ...
    Members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have launched a protest against their own union in California over waste and corruption. They rallied outside SEIU headquarters last week and plan to be in Sacramento on Wednesday.The protestors are calling for transparency, accountabil ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Debates Go into Foreign Territory
    During the debate, we went into some foreign territory. The election is going to be about the economy and the size of government, not foreign policy, but the task of a president—and, let’s not forget, a government—is most essentially to protect Americans. It is, at the most basic level, no ...
  • The Edge of Medicine - Discovering Stem Cell B ...
    Hiding deep inside the bone marrow are special cells. They wait patiently for the hour of need, at which point these blood-forming stem cells can proliferate and differentiate into billions of mature blood immune cells to help the body cope with infection, for example, or extra red blood cells f ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Here Comes the Obama Hit Squad!
    As posted the other day, the desperation amongst the President's allies is running at a fever pitch.  The two latest examples are a supposed link between Romney, a voting machine company and Ohio voting, and the other is the expected hit on Romney's religion. In Ohio, liberals are peddli ...
  • Does Obama Think Cancer is FUNNY?
    This is tasteless and unpresidential.  As someone who lost his mom two years ago from Cancer, I don't think its funny, and as someone who lost his mom from the horrible disease Obama should be more sensitive. At a campaign event in Florida today,Obama changed his Romnesia attack to a r ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama Called Benghazi "Not Optimal ...
    President Obama received much criticism when he told Jon Stewart that the attack against the Benghazi mission which killed our ambassador and three other Americans was not optimal. It now appears that criticism may have been a bit unfair.  In an exclusive report by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi M ...
  • New Romney Ad Bashes Obama For "Apology Tour"
    One of Romney's strongest moments last night was when he spoke of Obama's apology tour and the role America played in promoting freedom in the world. This latest commercial recounts that moment. Transcript and video follow: VIDEO TEXT: “In 2009, President Obama Began An Apology T ...
  • Debate Three: Presidential Romney Vs. Petty Obama
    Going into tonight’s third debate Mitt Romney’s task was to “pass the commander-in-chief test” and President Obama’s task was to win big and make Romney look like a vicious warmonger. In the end Governor Romney took the high road and didn’t attack Obama when he could have. He looked the ...

The Real Agenda

  • Japan is reeling between economic and nuclear ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 23, 2012 The earthquake that shook Japan last year is not the only origin of the shock waves the country is now experiencing. The economic crisis has also shaken the Asian nation. During the first semester of the current fiscal year, the Japa ...
  • If no one believes in the recovery, why are Eu ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 23, 2012 I don’t know you, but I’m sick and tired of hearing about the financial collapse. The financial crisis we are now in was predicted long ago, and those predictions were correct. So why hasn’t it happened? First of al ...
  • Leon Panetta announces that “Cyber Pearl ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 22, 2012 The cyber ​​war against Iran began under President Bush with a series of attacks commanded by the governments of the United States and Israel. Their first known product, the Stuxnet virus, severely disrupted the Iranian nuclear facil ...
  • Indústria de Biocombustíveis Extermina Povo Gu ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OUTUBRO 21, 2012 De quantas maneiras você pode descrever o assassinato, a corrupção, o crime, a conivência, a cumplicidade para cometer assassinato, o banditismo, a injustiça? Foi muito difícil colocar m tíulo neste artigo porque uma ou duas linhas ...
  • Industria de Biocombustibles Exterminando Guar ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTUBRE 21, 2012 ¿De cuántas maneras se puede describir el asesinato, la corrupción, el crimen, la connivencia, la complicidad para cometer asesinato, el bandolerismo, la injusticia? Me fue muy difícil titular este artículo porque una o dos líneas n ...

Wind Watch

  • Anti-windfarm campaigners march on SNP conference
    Protesters across Tayside and Fife marched on the SNP conference in Perth at the weekend to add their voice to opposition to the Scottish Government’s windfarm policy. Coinciding the mass protest with Alex Salmond’s address to the party faithful on Saturday, the campaigners claimed h ...
  • Scots tourism chiefs take on wind farms
    Scottish tourism chiefs have finally admitted wind farms could drive away visitors. In a move that’s sure to put them on a collision course with the Scottish Government, VisitScotland has opposed a development near Lockerbie on the grounds it “could have a detrimental effect” o ...
  • Superior Court rules for BRSA; Union Beach can ...
    FREEHOLD — The Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority (BRSA) scored another victory in court today in its fight with the borough of Union Beach over a controversial wind turbine project. State Superior Court Judge Honora Kilgallen heard cross motions from both parties at the Monmouth County ...
  • State defends Newark in wind energy case
    New, clearly written opposition to commercial wind development in the Newark town plan must be considered as the Public Service Board weighs an application for a project known as Seneca Mountain Wind, the Public Service Department argued in a memorandum filed this week. At issue are plans by Eol ...
  • Wind turbines threaten Monastery of St. Simeon
    The Monastery of St. Simeon near Antakya in southern Turkey is one of the world’s most important pilgrimage sites for Christians. Yet Turkey has no official data base of the area’s heritage, leaving valuable sites open to destruction “Recently 23 wind turbines were situated on Samandağı or Simeo ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Subjective Value
    For an undetermined period of time I felt myself cut off from the world, an abstract spectator. . . . The road kept descending and branching off, through meadows misty in the twilight. –Jorge Luis Borges, “Garden of the Forking Paths” The eye of the beholder—that’s where beauty lies. I look at a ...
  • Moving Beyond Free-Market Minimalism
    The “economic point of view” means, to a lot of people, assuming people are nothing but cost-cutting opportunists—economizers who wouldn’t hesitate to gain at someone else’s expense if they could get away with it. Such bloodless calculators, though perhaps staying within the law, wouldn’t miss a ...
  • China’s Doldrums Put Pressure on U.S. Exporters
    “Even as the presidential candidates try to outdo each other in promising to get tough on Chinese exports to protect American jobs, experts say the more immediate threat to American workers may actually be the slowing of sales to China, which has bid up the price of much of what the United State ...
  • Across Corn Belt, Farmland Prices Keep Soaring
    “Economists say farmland values are getting a boost from corn and soybean prices, which had reached records highs because of the drought. Farmers are carrying less debt than they were 30 years ago, and low interest rates are also a factor because they make it less costly for farmers to borrow. T ...
  • Kuwaitis Take to Streets Over Electoral Change
    “Police in Kuwait have used teargas, stun grenades and baton charges to disperse tens of thousands of demonstrators protesting against changes to the electoral law, which the opposition has called a “constitutional coup” by the government. …The opposition decided to take ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 5 examples of interesting data presentations
    What do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.) Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.) Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...
  • What should be in a “visual journalism” course?
    One meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism. There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism” is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...
  • Should you major in journalism now?
    Like any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and whether it’s smart to be a journalism major. I teach about online journali ...
  • Blogging basics for journalism students
    Having just finished grading some student blog posts, I have a few thoughts: 1. Headline. The headline (or title) of a blog post should accurately represent the content of the blog post. If the blog post is a critique of, say, a news story, don’t write your blog post headline as if your p ...
  • Plagiarism lessons and examples
    I’m catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious transgressions: Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com I think one thi ...

Facing South

  • Keystone XL pipeline blockaders face arrests, ...
    As protestors in East Texas continue to fight construction of a pipeline originally proposed to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries, builder TransCanada has threatened them with a type of lawsuit designed to stifle citizens' right to assemble and freedom of expression. ...
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Decline Of The Asian Family: Drop In Births Th ...
    In the last half century, East Asia emerged as the uber-performer on the global economic stage. The various countries in the region found success with substantially different systems: state-led capitalism in South Korea, Singapore and Japan; wild and wooly, competitive, entrepreneur-led ...
  • The Swaps of Damocles
    "Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy...." Michael Brock in John Grisham's The Street Lawyer (Doubleday, 1998). "There can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms…&rd ...
  • Is College Worth It?
    Is college worth it? The question almost seems ludicrous on its face.  The unemployment rate for people with a college degree is only 4.2% versus 9.1% for people with a college degree and 13.0% for people with less than a high school education. In this economy, that should be an open and shu ...
  • Demographic Dead End? Barack Obama's Single Na ...
    President Obama brought up Planned Parenthood three separate times at Tuesday’s town hall debate. It was an appeal aimed directly at a key part of his base: If he is reelected, it will be because of the Single Nation.  Democrats have woken up to the huge political rifts that have ...
  • The Land Premium That's Punishing Property
    High land prices have all but killed the Australian housing industry. Lower housing starts has led to lower GST revenues (house construction attracts full GST) and lower stamp duty receipts are crippling state budgets and cruelling the chances of low and middle income earners to get a start ...

GM Watch

  • Stop trials of GM crops, say farmers unions
    NEWS & VIEWS FROM INDIA 1.Stop trials of GM crops, say farmers unions 2.'Study on bollworm attack on Bt cotton vital' 3.Traditional breeding outperforms genetic engineering 4.Saved from reaping a deadly harvest NOTE: Great picture from the farmers protest in Haryana that led to the destruct ...
  • French food regulator calls for long-term stud ...
    French Food Regulator Calls for Long-Term Study of Biotech Crops Rudy Ruitenberg Bloomberg News, October 22 2012 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-22/french-food-regulator-calls-for-long-term-study-of-biotech-crops France's food-security authority Anses called for long-term research on ...
  • Need for long term GM safety studies acknowledged
    1.Panel rejects GM corn, cancer link 2.Panels reject study on GM corn but urge wider probes NOTE: Despite the rush to dismiss Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini's GM maize paper, there's a growing recognition of the need for long-term studies of the sort he conducted on Monsanto's GM maize NK603. Ev ...
  • US farmers warn EU: do not follow GM path
    US farmers warn EU: do not follow GE path to agricultural Armageddon Greenpeace, 22 October 2012 http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/US-farmers-warn-EU-do-not-follow-GE-path-to-agricultural-Armageddon/ Warsaw – European agriculture will be irreparably damaged if the Europ ...
  • Of course Monsanto says it's safe
    NOTE: Good article on the double standards being applied to Seralini's study. It's also worth remembering that Monsanto's 90-day "safety assurance" study on GM maize NK603, which Monsanto claimed showed the maize was safe and which was accepted by EFSA as proof of safety, was later re-analysed b ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 37 Facts That Show How Cruel This Economy Has ...
    Have you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because you didn't know how your family was possibly going to make it through the next month financially?  Have you ever felt the desperation of not being able to provide the basic necessities for your family even though you tr ...
  • What If We Adopted A System Where The Banks Di ...
    What if there was a financial system that would eliminate the need for the federal government to go into debt, that would eliminate the need for the Federal Reserve, that would end the practice of fractional reserve banking and that would dethrone the big banks?  Would you be in favor of such a ...
  • Obama And Romney Both Favor A One World Econom ...
    Either way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get slaughtered by the millions.  During this campaign, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have both attempted to portray each other as the "outsourcer in chief".  Unfortunately, they are both right.  Barack Obama and Mitt Romn ...
  • 55 Facts About The Debt And U.S. Government Fi ...
    The future of the United States of America is being systematically destroyed by our politicians, but unfortunately most Americans don't really grasp exactly what is happening.  30 years ago, our national debt had just crossed the one trillion dollar mark.  Just recently, it crossed the 16 trilli ...
  • The Last Days Of America? 25 Signs Of Extreme ...
    Are we on the verge of societal collapse?  Many of the greatest empires throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces.  Rather, they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in.  There have been many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what America is goi ...

Desertification

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

The Paper Trail

  • Obscure nonprofit threatens campaign finance l ...
    Voters haven’t had a clue who is behind American Tradition Partnership — the Colorado-based group pushing to rewrite Montana’s campaign finance laws — and that’s just the way the secretive nonprofit wants it.A 2010 fundraising pitch to its donors promised that “no politician, no bureaucrat, a ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Bauer-backed super PAC assai ...
    President Barack Obama has the dictator vote, at least according to a super PAC run by evangelical leader Gary Bauer.Hours before Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney began a debate on foreign policy, Bauer’s super PAC released an ad with quotes from Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez ...
  • Public betrayal in the Bay State
    Deep flaws in Massachusetts laws constructed to keep government honest have sustained a recurring parade of criminal and ethical misconduct charges involving public servants in the past five years, a study by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting shows.Massachusetts earned a “C” ...
  • Furniture king a celebrity in Colorado
    Jacob "Jake" Jabs is not quite a national figure, but he is a celebrity in Colorado — so much so that he was featured in the animated comedy series “South Park,” which is set in the state.A cartoon version of Jabs made a cameo appearance in 2007, according to Furniture Today. Kyle, one of the ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Pro-Obama super PAC outpaces ...
    Restore Our Future, a super PAC supporting Mitt Romney’s candidacy, doubled its fundraising total in September taking in $14.8 million, but was still outraised by the pro-President Barack Obama Priorities USA Action, which raised $15.3 million for the month.The totals show a reversal of a tre ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Is the MPs’ new pension plan a clever ma ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net After weeks of rumours about MP pension reforms in the works, the Harper regime finally brought them out in the budget .  .  . sort of. And it received great approbation for it. The mediasphere is tremendously excited at the good example the government is setting here. E ...
  • Israel, Gaza, and the Estelle: more high seas ...
    By Frank Moher Once again, Israel has illegally intercepted and boarded a vessel bound for Gaza with humanitarian supplies, this time with a modest contingent of 30 aboard, including former Canadian MP Jim Manly. The ship was in international waters when it was surrounded by six IDF boats and, a ...
  • 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:  ...

libcom

  • No More Foreclosures: Rochester's Housing Move ...
    552275_531807396834295_1639699215_n.jpg On October 16th, Metro Justice, Take Back the Land Rochester, and other community partners came together for a rally and march under the idea that housing is a ...
  • The effect of benefit sanctions
    job.jpg An examination of the new benefit sanctions which came into force in the UK yesterday, 21 October, and the effect they will have on the most vulnerable in society. From ...
  • An anti-anarchist witch-hunt
    31008_10151243770241023_352066072_n.jpg An article detailing the case of three anarchists in the Pacific Northwest who are in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury. " ...
  • Revolts of the iSlaves – More labour unrest a ...
    foxconn-factory-shenzhen-2012_small.JPG Two incidents of mass unrest at Foxconn factories made worldwide headlines in late September and early October 2012. The leading customer Apple had just release ...
  • More leaks expose depth of attack on civil ser ...
    jobcenter 2.jpg On September 28, the Cabinet Office wrote to all HR directors across the Civil Service, instructing them to review terms and conditions with a clear view to rolling them back. The lett ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The POTUS “Election” – Chara ...
    Oh yes, it is all just one big “conspiracy” – and anyone who even dares to entertain the thought that POTUS “elections” are a hoax must be certifiably insane. Let’s just take an objective look at the facts. First a direct quote: “You know very well, and the st ...
  • CIA – What You Need to Know, But Are Afr ...
    From my friend and colleague in Truth, John Hankey comes this 40 minute video on the FRAUD that is Mittens Romney:   Commentary from Alex James: Romney’s secrecy in business is detailed, and revealed; as well as his role as a drug money launderer for GHW Bush; his connection, through ...
  • Way to Go Veterans!!!
    This has to be filed in the “What Were They Thinking?”  waste bin. The American Flag is a symbol that means a great deal to American vets – men who bled and comrades who died to raise the emblem on the mountain top at Iwo Jima. Unfortunately, to many others The Flag has sadly b ...
  • World War III – The Protocol of the &#82 ...
    This pretty much says it all. “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter, who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.” (Eugene Debs, 1855-1926, speech Canton, Ohio, 16th June 1918.)   The Life of an A ...
  • The Future of Medicine is Here NOW!
    Part of the “programming” of the masses is brainwashing them that only those “MD’S” (i.e. Medical Deities) in white coats are qualified to dispense health information. The Truth is that most “MD’s” are themselves programmed from day one in “M ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • US candidates face up to foreign policy dilemmas
    The back-drop to the next president's foreign policy is the persistent and potentially corrosive debate about US decline.   read more
  • سقوط ارزش ریال، صعود خط فقر!
    به گفته حسین راه فر استاد دانشگاه در ماه های اخیر نرخ تورم بالای 50 تا 60 درصد بوده و هم اکنون این نرخ به سه رقمی رسیده است. اثرات چنین روندی حتی بر کالاهای اساسی مورد نیاز مردم که در داخل نیز تولید می گردد به چشم می خورد و اجناس بگونه ای بی سابقه تا چند برابر گران شده اند. بازرگانان read more
  • .ميزان فقر مطلق در ايران بين 25 تا 32 درصد است
    حسين راغفر، كارشناس اقتصادی با بيان اين كه بر اساس محاسبات، ميزان فقر مطلق در ايران بين 25 تا 32 درصد است،‌گفت: بر اساس اين آمار، طی 3 سال گذشته در دولت احمدي‌نژاد، هر سال 2 درصد به جمعيت فقير کشور (32 درصد) افزوده شده است. در اين بررسي، وضعيت بازار کار بر اساس شغل رييس خانوار تعيين مي‌شود. ...
  • فردا وزیردر مجلس باید مسئول حادثه اردوی راهیان ...
    همانطور که اطلاع دارید خانواده ها مجبورند که فرزندشان را به این اردوها بفرستند در حالیکه آموزش و پرورش هیچ مسئولیتی برای این حوادث نمی پذیرد.آیا نباید وزیر آموزش و پرورش پاسخگو باشد؟read more
  • US denies Iran nuclear talks New York Times report
    he White House has denied a report in the New York Times saying that Iran had agreed to one-on-one negotiations over its nuclear programme with the US. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Nothing is What it Seems
        If video won’t play go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p_NretS7To Brilliant news summary by Wide Awake News anchor Charlie McGrath. McGrath reminds us that the garbage the mainstream media feeds us regarding the US political system, the US economy and the war on ...
  • CIA Officials Face Arrest in Pakistan
    Mail Online photo According to the British Mail Online, Pakistani human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar has filed two separate court cases intended to trigger a formal murder investigation into the roles of two US officials responsible for ordering drone strikes which killed teachers, student ...
  • It's Official: Times Acknowledges al Qaeda Rol ...
    Syrian "rebel" - note black al Qaeda flag in background According to an October 14thNew York Times artice: “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the g ...
  • Non-Union Walmart Workers Strike!
    Walmart strikers in LA Officially Walmart, a notorious anti-union company, isn’t unionized. All efforts by employees to form legal unions have been crushed. This makes it all the more significant that a recent strike by Walmart employees has spread to 28 stores in 12 cities. Walmart ...
  • Portland Activist Imprisoned for Political Beliefs
        Statement From A Resister – Leah-Lynn Plante from Because We Must on Vimeo. Last week Plante was imprisoned for 18 months for refusing to snitch on fellow activists. She hasn’t committed or been charged with any crime. Go to Green is the New Red for what you can ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • An Energy Solution with True Bipartisan Support?
    Two out of three respondents in a new University of Texas poll said energy issues are important to them. But the harsh rhetoric of campaign season makes it seem like politicians can never agree on important policies needed to provide safe, reliable and affordable energy while also protecting the ...
  • Is An Electricity eBay in our Future?
  • Fracking & Groundwater Contamination: Are EPA ...
    When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the latest follow-up tests of water surrounding natural-gas-drilling sites near Pavillion, Wyo., October 10, they appeared to confirm how water can be contaminated by hydraulic fracturing.
  • The Challenges of Carbon Capture and Climate C ...
    Last month I participated in a webcast on The Energy Collective on the topic of carbon capture and the mounting climate crisis. While the discussion covered many approaches and some new ideas that are in the process of being tested, it did not give us time to go into details.
  • The Case for Near-Term Commercial Demonstratio ...
    I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives.

EU Times

  • UN Calls for Internet Big Brother System to Co ...
    Under the rubric of combating international terrorism, the United Nations is calling for pervasive and widespread internet surveillance, Declan McCullagh reported on Monday. Terrorists are exploiting Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Dropbox, to spread “propaganda” and open Wi-Fi networks in airpo ...
  • US Navy gears to deploy Laser Weapon in two years
    The US Navy’s research office expects that ship-based laser weapons will be ready for deployment in two years, which is two years ahead of previous estimates. But this futuristic weaponry may face setbacks in the form of looming budget cuts. ­“We’re well past physics,” Rear Admiral Matthew Klund ...
  • Harlem Désir, France’s first black president?
    France’s ruling Socialist Party has officially appointed Harlem Désir as its new leader, a move that potentially puts the former anti-racism activist on track to becoming the country’s first black president. Members of France’s ruling Socialist Party overwhelmingly picked Harlem Désir as p ...
  • Italian Supreme Court Rules Mobile Phones Can ...
    The Italian Supreme Court has ruled there is a causal link between mobile phone use and brain tumors in a landmark case. The ruling has set a legal precedent that could potentially trigger a deluge of lawsuits. Innocente Marcolini, a 60-year-old retired businessman argued that the excessive use ...
  • Cuba’s aging Fidel Castro emerges in public af ...
    Cuba’s former revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time in months, challenging the rumor mill that he is on death’s door. Commercial director at the Hotel Nacional, Yamila Fuster, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the 86-year-old politician dropped ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Morning Brief: Syrian violence spreads to Leba ...
    Syrian violence spreads to Lebanon, Jordan Topnews: Lebanese and Jordanian authorities took action Monday to prevent violence from spreading to their respective countries fromSyria. In Lebanon, the military deployed to Beirut and Tripoli to end sectarianfighting that left at least six dead foll ...
  • Apple announces iPhone 5 as fastest selling ph ...
    Apple ‘s event has just kicked off this morning where we’re expecting tons of exciting news. From the iPad mini , an improved iMac mini, and tons more. While they’ve just got started and we’re patiently awaiting the good news, they are taking time to share some notes on the iPhone 5 . Stating i ...
  • Now you can buy a 3rd gen iPad (with Retina di ...
    Apple didn’t just introduce two new iPads today. The company also discontinued the model it introduced just half a year ago. That means you can now pick up refurbished models for as little as $379 from the Apple Store. That’s a pretty spectacular price for a tablet with a 9.7 inch, 2048 x 1536 ...
  • New Mac mini announced
    Apple announced an update to the Mac mini. The base model starts at $599 and includes a 2.5GHz dual-core i5 "Ivy Bridge" processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive. Also included is an Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics processor, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.0. The storage is expandable to a ...
  • Engadget's post-iPad mini event live broadcast ...
    Wowza. Can you believe Tim Cook did that thing with the unicycle and the polar bear to close out the show? Just kidding! If you were following along with the liveblog you'd know we're just pull in' your leg, but in case you missed any of the fun today we've got a little recap for you after the ...

Groklaw

  • Microsoft Surface review
    When I was just dealing with the core OS, the Surface felt like a lively, sophisticated, fast-moving new system, but the deeper I got into apps and the more apps I opened, the more the device seemed to bog down. There were other issues too: video playback in the browser was a spotty experience. ...
  • Rights? You have no right to your eBooks. - Up ...
    Update @ 23:55 - Linn just contacted me to say her account has been mysteriously re-activated and she's busily downloading her books. Hopefully Amazon will have more news for us all soon. Even positive arbitrary actions disclose how much Kindle customers read only with the grace of Amazon, of co ...
  • Seismologists Convicted of Not Predicting Eart ...
    Well, I was just wondering the other day what if anything had ever happened with that ridiculous case in Italy where seismologists were charged with manslaughter-manslaughter!- for telling people not to worry too much about an earthquake (which then happened). See Italy Actually Going Through Wi ...
  • Attorney seeks to stop online photos of suspects
    A Columbia lawyer wants jails across South Carolina to stop publicly posting pictures of people who are arrested. The pictures are being picked up by a website .... The site then charges people up to $399 to remove a photo, even if charges were dropped, scrubbed from someone's record or the ...
  • Penn State Climate Scientist Sues National Rev ...
    Scientist Michael Mann, whose work on climate change led to contentious litigation over access to his emails, filed a libel lawsuit yesterday against National Review, accusing the conservative publication of defaming him by accusing him of academic fraud. In the complaint (PDF) filed in Distric ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Tweet of the Day
  • Siemens quits solar power, will focus on wind ...
    Market conditions are bad for solar now but this move by Siemens to leave solar power could be a bellwether. The amount of installed renewable energy in wind and hydro dwarfs that of solar. In addition to planning to sell their solar businesses, Siemens is also leaving Desertec, a consortium of ...
  • Presidential foreign policy debate was a point ...
    There were no serious differences in the presidential foreign policy debate last night. Obamney agreed with Rombama that the US must remain the unchallenged biggest gun on the planet, even as military adventurism is bankrupting this country and making us enemies everywhere.Marc Cooper on Faceboo ...
  • Fukushima freakout obscures real accident that ...
    An early morning flurry of internet reports carried scary – but false – headlines about Fukushima nuclear power plant’s fuel pools exploding and burning, and releasing massive amounts of radiation on October 22. Many readers expressed skepticism, as the reports seemed to come from a single, unco ...
  • Horses and bayonets
    And all of Brooklyn tries to register HorsesAndBayonets.tumblr.com at the same time. #debates— Andrew Fitzgerald (@magicandrew) October 23, 2012

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Minister confused about wellbeing
    The Minister for Local Government said on Morning Report last Friday: I think there is a role for local government to undertake economic development within their regions. It’s contributing to the creation of jobs and that’s contributing to the wellbeing on that community. (Click here to listen) ...
  • Equal Pay – 51 years behind schedule
    We have just discovered this article from the 1958 Public Service Journal which reports that equal pay will be fully achieved in three years. The Equal Pay Act actually took 14 years to be passed in 1972. 51 years after the deadline in the journal we are still waiting for equal pay to be fully [...]
  • Climate Change & NZ: Whatever you do, keep it ...
    Tuesday, I asked the Climate Change Minister about the future of New Zealand’s climate change policy. After 20 years since Rio and the Framework Convention, we are approaching the end of the first, and only, five-year commitment period (2008-12) in which New Zealand has a binding obligation to e ...
  • Counselling service starved to death
    Kiwi girls: are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer or losing their parents. who severely diet are 18 time more likely to develop an eating disorder. are likely to think they’re fat when they’re not. Only 15 per cent of 15 year olds are overweight, yet 68 % want [...]
  • The Parliamentary week that was, 16-18 Oct, fo ...
    This is the start of what I hope will be a periodic review of what’s been happening in Parliament and what it might mean for Pacific communities. This week I’ll focus on three possible law changes, two bad and one good. Youth Rates – the Government has introduced a Bill into the House to extend ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • State Cuts Philosophical Objections from Vacci ...
    By Dr. Mercola The ethical principle of informed consent means that you have the human right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of a medical intervention and be free to make a voluntary choice about whether or not to take the risk. The right to make an informed, voluntary vacci ...
  • Toxic Alert: Herbicide Now Detected in Human Urine
    By Dr. Mercola Last year, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec made the disturbing discovery that Bt-toxin from genetically engineered Bt corn in fact accumulates in the human body – contrary to industry assurances. The toxin was identified in 93 percent of pregnant women tes ...
  • The Drugs Don’t Work: A Modern Medical Scandal
    By Dr. Mercola When your physician writes you a prescription, you probably assume that it has been scientifically proven to be both effective and safe. This is the basis upon which the modern medical paradigm revolves... break this revered tenet and the entire system comes crashing down. We ...
  • Many Medications Remain Safe and Effective Wel ...
    By Dr. Mercola Now, as you know, I am not a big fan of using prescription drugs for just about any reason. I don't take them, nor do my parents who are 77 and 83. However, I realize that many reading this are in a transition phase or simply unwilling to get off of them at this time. The ...
  • Could Chronic Niacin Deficiency Be a Root Caus ...
    By Dr. Mercola As mass killings occur around the nation by obviously disturbed perpetrators at increasing frequency, there's plenty of blame to go around. The medical system gets blamed for not identifying these killers in time; the gun lobby gets blamed for fighting stricter gun regulations; ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • corrupt #Portland city council secretly met wi ...
    from naturalnews.com: The driving force behind adding fluoride to the drinking water of Portland and surrounding communities is Upstream Public Health, but the group's plan has been challenged via a referendum effort that could block the council's unanimous Sept. 12 vote of app ...
  • Parents' fury as boy, 11, is told to leave sch ...
    from dailymail.co.uk: A California schoolboy has been forced to stay at home after his school banned him from attending classes because he carries the gene for cystic fibrosis. Colman Chadam, 11, carries the genetic mutation for cystic fibrosis but doesn't actually have the disease and show ...
  • Three-Quarters of Scientific Retractions Cause ...
    from allgov.com: When journals are forced to issue retractions about inaccurate information in articles and papers, the cause of the errors are largely the result of misconduct by scientists and academics. A new study of 2,047 retractions of biomedical and life-science research articl ...
  • #VIDEO: The Mexican Mormon War (Drug Cartels v ...
    from vice.com: The Mexican drug cartels are at war... with Mormons. VICE founder Shane Smith went down to Ciudad Juárez, near the US border, to investigate this bizarre story. Here's [is] our documentary filled with guns, drugs, murder, and Romneys.
  • World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'vio ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Guardian: A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July, a Guardian investigation can reveal. Lawyers, environmentalists and civil society ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 37 Facts That Show How Cruel This Economy Has ...
    Have you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because you didn't know how your family was possibly going to make it through the next month financially?  Have you ever felt the desperation of not being able to provide the basic necessities for your family even though you tr ...
  • What If We Adopted A System Where The Banks Di ...
    What if there was a financial system that would eliminate the need for the federal government to go into debt, that would eliminate the need for the Federal Reserve, that would end the practice of fractional reserve banking and that would dethrone the big banks?  Would you be in favor of such a ...
  • Obama And Romney Both Favor A One World Econom ...
    Either way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get slaughtered by the millions.  During this campaign, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have both attempted to portray each other as the "outsourcer in chief".  Unfortunately, they are both right.  Barack Obama and Mitt Romn ...
  • 55 Facts About The Debt And U.S. Government Fi ...
    The future of the United States of America is being systematically destroyed by our politicians, but unfortunately most Americans don't really grasp exactly what is happening.  30 years ago, our national debt had just crossed the one trillion dollar mark.  Just recently, it crossed the 16 trilli ...
  • The Last Days Of America? 25 Signs Of Extreme ...
    Are we on the verge of societal collapse?  Many of the greatest empires throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces.  Rather, they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in.  There have been many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what America is goi ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • Keystone XL pipeline blockaders face arrests, ...
    As protestors in East Texas continue to fight construction of a pipeline originally proposed to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries, builder TransCanada has threatened them with a type of lawsuit designed to stifle citizens' right to assemble and freedom of expression. ...
  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Canonical ups the ante over Windows 8, Calls i ...
    "Avoid the pain of Windows 8. All new Ubuntu 12.10 is out now," reads Canonical's official banner announcing the arrival of Ubuntu's latest iteration, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Pretty strong language, I must say. It is a normal practice in the corporate world to NOT name their biggest comp ...
  • Ubuntu Needs a "Project Butter" like Android
    I'm a fairly satisfied Ubuntu 12.04 LTS user and I'm quite optimistic about the forthcoming changes to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. But that doesn't mean they both are somehow "perfect" or something. Unity, which was a huge departure from the traditional GNOME 2.0 desktop, has been around&nbs ...
  • Additional Drivers Application Moved to Softwa ...
    On the WiFi front, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was a big disappointment for me. Nothing seemed to work until I started using an alternative network manager called Wicd. Things are slowly starting to get better with each new update in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but not there yet. So ...
  • 23 Brand New Features in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal ...
    The Ubuntu juggernaut is moving ahead and huge improvements and brand new features keeps pouring in. Every new Ubuntu release cycle gives you the impression that, things have really been improved and enough features have been added, until you start seeing the changes being done in the next rel ...
  • Tears of Steel: Fourth Official Blender Movie ...
    Blender movies have always amazed us all with its interesting little stories and sophisticated visual graphics. While Elephants Dream was of sci-fi kind with mind-bending ideas and graphics, Bug Buck Bunny was a light-hearted comedy. The third one, Sintel, also had splendid graphics to bac ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Israeli Commandos Electro-Torture Ship to Gaza ...
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com October 23, 2012 On October 20, masked Israeli commandos lawlessly interdicted Ship to Gaza Estelle in international waters. It was over 30 nautical miles from Gaza’s coast when intercepted. Netanyahu praised their criminality. He accused on board ...
  • India May Ban GMO Crop Field Trials for 10 Years
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post It has been a devastating month for Monsanto as nations around the globe continue to enact bans and restraints on the company’s genetically modified crop varieties. India, the same country that hit Monsanto with ‘biopiracy’ charges for patenting life on the planet ...
  • Brisk Walk Can Reduce Stroke, Heart Attacks Ri ...
    Elizabeth Renter Activist Post When you walk, do you stroll, or do you march like you’re on a mission. Researchers have found that how fast you walk may play a role in reducing your risk of stroke and heart disease—urging people to get out and walk some every day, but to do it quickly. Scientist ...
  • Vote counting company tied to Romney
    by Gerry Bello & Bob Fitrakis September 27, 2012 Several Tanker trucks full of political ink have been spilled on Mitt Romney’s tenure as a vulture capitalist at Bain Capital. A more important story, however, is the fact that Bain alumni, now raising big money as Romney bundlers are al ...
  • NYT: Iran agrees to one-on-one nuclear talks, ...
    by Clark Kent MSNBC The United States and Iranhave agreed for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, according to Obama administration officials, setting the stage for what could be a last-ditch diplomatic effort to avert a military strike on Iran. Iranian officia ...

    TO DO

    renewable recyclingconservation
    Ikea More Than DoublesRenewable-Energy Spending as Costs Climb
    Businessweek
    Ikea Group, the biggest home- furnishings retailer, more than doubled planned spending on wind farms and solar parks to as much as $2 billion as increased use ofrenewable power protects it from volatile fossil-fuel prices. The investment will help the ...
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    Environmentalists, utilities pour money into Proposal 3 renewableenergy proposal
    MLive.com
    Stakeholders on both sides of Proposal 3 have spent millions of dollars on the 25 by 25 measure, which would amend the constitution to require Michigan utilities to derive at least 25 percent of their annual electric retail sales from clean renewable...
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    AGL Says Price Regulation Threatens Australia's RenewableTarget
    Bloomberg
    AGL Energy Ltd. (AGK), the Australian electricity and gas retailer, said regulatory changes limiting retail power prices in South Australia and Queensland states “call into question” whether the country will achieve itsrenewable energy target.
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    Glenview won't mandate 100 percent renewable energy
    Chicago Tribune
    If Glenview residents approve a November referendum measure on municipal electrical aggregation, the village will not follow other communities in requiring that 100 percent of electricity used is offset by the purchase of renewable energy credits.
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    HUMAN HABITAT

    ecology water energy
    EARTH AND SPIRIT: 'It's theecology, stupid!'
    Wicked Local
    You may feel that this election season has been filled to overflowing with the noise and often negativity of advertising, charges and counter charges, endless debates, and so on – and on. And it would be hard to disagree. But in another way this...
    US Ecology - A Small Cap In A Niche Market Paying A 3.2% Dividend
    Seeking Alpha
    I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. (More...) US Ecology (ECOL) was formed in 1952 as American EcologyCorporation providing nuclear waste services. Their name was changed in 2010 to US Ecology.
    Ecological space shrinks in Shanghai
    Global Times
    The area in Shanghai covered by forests, rivers, wetlands, farms, parks and other green space shrank 1.5 percent on average each year from 2005 to 2009, falling closer to the minimum threshold set by the local government, local media reported Tuesday.
    Dept. of Energy confirms tank leak at Hanford nuclear reservation
    Kansas City Star
    The Ecology Department has not seen the latest reports on Tank AY-102, "but obviously this is not great news," said spokesman Dieter Bohrmann. However, it was somewhat expected after DOE said earlier this month that preliminary results of sampling ...
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    WATER POWER

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    Americans favor water recycling, but there's an "ick factor"
    Reuters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans have scant understanding about their watersupply, but they are concerned about it, and believe recyclingwater gives the United States an advantage over other countries, a survey said on Tuesday. However...
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    Water Stress Hurting More Than 50% of Global Companies, CDP Says
    Bloomberg
    Water stress affects more than half of the world's largest listed companies, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project, which urged businesses to set targets and increase board oversight to manage a shrinking resource. In a 185-company survey, 53 ...
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    Lesotho Water Project Expansion Costs May Increase by 15%
    Bloomberg
    “We are hoping that by November 2020 the water will be flowing into South Africa” from the new dam, Zodwa Dlamini, South Africa's chief delegate to the Lesotho Highlands Water Commission, which oversees the project, told lawmakers in Cape Town today.
    Detroit water contracts focus as extortion part of Kwame Kilpatrick public ...
    Detroit Free Press
    After a month of trial, jurors heard testimony Monday about ex-Detroit water department chief Victor Mercado, and how he let a contract balloon from nearly $13.5 million to $55.6 million, according to a government witness. The witness, waterdepartment ...
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