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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

24 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: Former Central Int...WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: Former Central Intellegence Agency (CIA) analyst Ray McGovern joins members of Code Pink for Peace in front of the U.S. State Department to protest the resignation of State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley and the detention of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning March 14, 2011 in Washington, DC. Two days after saying the treatment of accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning was 'ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid,' Crowley resigned. The demonstrators stripped their clothing off to protest against the treatment of Manning, who has been allegedly held naked in a Marine Corps base in Virginia after being accused of leaking information to the Wikileaks website. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: A Code Pink for Pe...WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: A Code Pink for Peace demonstrator protests the resignation of State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley and the detention of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning in front of the U.S. State Department March 14, 2011 in Washington, DC. Two days after saying the treatment of accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning was 'ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid,' Crowley resigned. The demonstrators stripped their clothing off to protest against the treatment of Manning, who has been allegedly held naked in a Marine Corps base in Virginia after being accused of leaking information to the Wikileaks website. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Bradley Manning Rally - Oakland - Apr24Bradley Manning Rally - Oakland - Apr24 (Photo credit: savebradley)
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English: The Centers for Disease Control and P...English: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Druid Hills CDP in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia as seen from Emory University (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

  • Your Vote Matters
    Quite apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right To ...
  • For the Love of Music
    In our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture — even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...
  • The End of the Age of Oil
    Coal, because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed, compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy, bring ...
  • Assessing Bradley Manning
    According to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether, indeed, ...
  • Inner Worlds
    Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote prolifically about his inner life. His wild visions influenced, among many others, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, and W.B. Yeats. Yet Swedenborg remains difficult to access directly, difficult to assess objectively. Paradoxically, what was cry ...

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Russia To Block Any Move In United Nations For ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti October 23, 2012 Moscow to Block Any Bid for Force Against Iran – Lavrov MOSCOW: Russia will scuttle any UN Security Council resolution that could be interpreted as allowing military action against Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tues ...
  • Japan Engaged In Further Efforts To Reverse Re ...
    Global Times October 23, 2012 Efforts to overturn war’s verdict futile Zhong Sheng The Chinese have highly valued credibility and integrity since ancient times. There is a time-honored proverb that “credibility is a trump card to sustain governance and win public support.” In o ...
  • Number 2 U.S. Military Commander In Turkey
    Hürriyet Daily News October 23, 2012 US admiral in Turkey to discuss closer cooperation in anti-PKK fight Sevil Küçükkoşum ANKARA: A top U.S. admiral is visiting Turkey today amid increasing military cooperation between Washington and Ankara on the fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ P ...
  • Russia Initiates Security Council Consultation ...
    Voice of Russia October 23, 2012 Russia calls for UNSC consultations on Syria, Libya Russia has initiated a series of consultations at the UN Security Council on Tuesday on the situation in Syria and Libya. A pair of Moscow-proposed draft statements on Syria condemns the October 21 terrorist att ...
  • NATO’s Global Expansion: The Growing Threat
    Global Research TV October 22, 2012 NATO’s Global Expansion: The Growing Threat As NATO continues to expand across the globe through a series of partnerships, initiatives and dialogues, what was once a collective security agreement is increasingly becoming a global military strike force ca ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

  • New York: Police program stalking Muslims deno ...
    NYPD informant who tracked militants quits, denounces police Police barricade in NYC (Mario Tama, Getty Images) By Mark Hosenball, Reuters, October 22, 2012 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An informant recruited by the New York Police Department to collect information on suspected Islamic militants ...
  • India: Tribal villagers displaced by fire set ...
    Forest Department Burns Tribal Village to Ashes Oct 12, 2012 by VideoVolunteers On the morning of 15th June 2012, without any prior notice, the Forest Department broke into the houses of 18 tribal families. They used force to drive the families out before setting their homes on fire. When the me ...
  • China: Yinggehai Coal Power Plant Brings Chin ...
    By LOUISE WATT, Associated Press,  10/22/12 BEIJING — Residents of a south China town protesting the building of a coal-fired power plant threw bricks at police who fired volleys of tear gas and detained dozens in the country’s latest unrest over an environmental dispute, townspeople ...
  • China: Yinggehai Coal Power Plant Brings Chin ...
    By LOUISE WATT, Associated Press,  10/22/12 BEIJING — Residents of a south China town protesting the building of a coal-fired power plant threw bricks at police who fired volleys of tear gas and detained dozens in the country’s latest unrest over an environmental dispute, townspeople ...
  • US: Pesticide Threat Looms Large Over Farmwor ...
    Saturday October 20, 2012 By Michelle Chen, In These Times [Among agricultural workers such as these fruit pickers in Oxnard, Calif., birth defects and cancers are alarmingly high.   (Alex E. Proimos / Flickr / Creative Commons)] No matter how good your next meal tastes, it’s likely it mad ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Listen to Your Intuition, Because Your Body Ca ...
    Humans can predict the future when we have some evidence--like clouds and the smell of rain hinting at a storm. But can we anticipate future events without sensory clues? Pre-cognition might really exist, at least in some limited fashion, according to a new study of studies. Humans can anticipa ...
  • Infographic: How A Raw Food Diet Kept Primates ...
    For human ancestors, raw diet meant tough tradeoffs between brawn and brains. Humans differ from their primate ancestors in a few obvious ways (our conspicuous lack of body hair, our short arms), but evolutionary researchers all agree that what really sets us apart--what makes us social and cr ...
  • FYI: How Do Places On Mars Get Their Names?
    Mars monikers follow a careful set of rules--but that doesn't mean their Earthbound sister cities can't have a little fun. Just ask the Tartan Martians. This week, the Mars rover Curiosity is humming its way across the pebbly surface of Yellowknife, leaving behind Peace Vallis and Hottah, and m ...
  • 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 ...
  • Can Andrea Rossi's Infinite-Energy Black Box P ...
    Rossi--a lone Italian inventor with no real credentials and a history as a convicted scam artist--has convinced a small army of researchers that his box can harness a new type of nuclear reaction. What if they're right? On January 14, 2011, a 61-year-old Italian inventor named Andrea Rossi stag ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Quiet spell of autumn weather on the way
    After what has seemed like a relentless period of unsettled weather stretching back to the end of March, it's nice to be able to report that a quieter spell of weather seems likely next week - although talk of an 'Indian Summer', for our region at least, is a little far-fetched. Friday and Sat ...
  • A step forward in forecasting cold winters?
    Sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) has been the 'in' topic in meteorological circles in the last couple of years, ever since the severe winter of 2009/2010 in which December was the coldest since the late 19th century. SSW is linked to sudden large increases in temperature over a few days in t ...
  • Regional and global climate update
    Provisional Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average. It was also cooler but sunnier than normal. Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...
  • All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...
    The deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the autumn of 2000. Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...
  • Yorkshire at risk from renewed flooding
    Heavy rainfall in the next 30 hours could lead to yet more flooding across parts of Yorkshire. Current indications suggest some Pennine catchments of North & West Yorkshire could be most at risk. The very active weather system which I wrote about here on Friday and is currently affecting much o ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • China's Growth Slowdown is Utterly Unsurprising
    Nobody is immune to economic slowdowns, and it was perhaps only a matter of China encountered such an episode. To paraphrase my erstwhile LSE IDEAS colleague Martin Jacques, when China rules the world may be set back a few years. Even the Associated Press via Yahoo! News has noticed that, gee, m ...
  • Of Obama's 'Retreat Dividend' and Condi Rice
    Dear readers, something most commentators missed in observing that the United States has now had four consecutive years of trillion dollar-plus deficits is that something remarkable has transpired: For the first time since 1955, US government spending has gone down--from fiscal year 2011 to 2012 ...
  • Fed, Asia & Bailing Heavily Indebted Rich Coun ...
    A recent speech by this rather deplorable character Ben "Choplifter" Bernanke defends US monetary policy from its international critics by shifting the blame on them as frustrating global rebalancing. Quoth he: In some emerging markets, policymakers have chosen to systematically resist currency ...
  • Unionization, Or Why American Carriers Stink
    [NOTE: This post won't win me any points with the Barack Obama / Dean Baker / union apologist crowd, but this blog couldn't care less about parochial US concerns. This is the international political economy zone, buddy.] Everyone knows that American carriers are among the worst in the world, and ...
  • Of Payday Lender Football Sponsorship and Islam
    Shirt sponsors obviously occupy the best camera-estate you can buy on football jerseys. In the past, there have been infamous companies occupying this space alike the late AIG with the world's most famous football club, Manchester United. Unfortunately for the Mancunians, they had to sport the d ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Ban congratulates Argentine Foreign Minister o ...
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today met with Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and congratulated Argentina on its accession to the Security Council for the 2013 - 2014 session.
  • UN food agency mourns death of US Senator who ...
    The United Nations food agency today paid tribute to former United States Senator George McGovern who died on Sunday at the age of 90, praising his efforts to combat hunger in his own country as well as abroad.
  • UN independent experts urge Colombia to recons ...
    A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called on Colombian authorities to revisit the military criminal law provisions of proposed constitutional reforms, warning they could have serious implications for the rule of law, violate international law, and reverse the Latin ...
  • At dedication of memorial, UN chief lauds Fran ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to a key figure in the formation of the United Nations, United States wartime President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died just months before seeing his dream come true 67 years ago but whose global vision surmounting national boundaries still gu ...
  • UN and Brazil sign $20 million agreement to he ...
    A $20 million agreement signed today by the United Nations and Brazil will seek to transfer the expertise of the South American country to support cotton farmers in developing economies.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Sea Shepherd sheds some light on the recent Sh ...
    Posted by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is simply smok ...
  • Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...
    (September 4, 2012)  The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy.  PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
  • Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...
    Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
  • Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...
    Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...
    Natural History:  the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango.  It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Make Necessary Preparations Now for Yourself a ...
    You've probably seen the news all over the 'net: If Romney wins the election on November 6, many Obama supporters plan to riot in the streets. A surprising number have announced their plans to "kill Romney." ~ Mike Adams read more
  • What Will Donald Trump Expose About Barack And ...
    Excerpted from The Daily Mail... Donald Trump is to claim that he has unearthed divorce papers of Michelle Obama and the President, according to a respected financial pundit with links to the tycoon. ~ Pat Dollard - Video - related article read more
  • Pennsylvania... Montgomery Co... Recorder of D ...
    The Montgomery County Pennsylvania Recorder of Deeds, Nancy Becker has sued for all "like situated" in Montgomery County (approximately 130,000 MERS households of mortgages) for "Quiet Title". ~ Document read more
  • WATCH LIVE... Third-Party Presidential Debate ...
      Promo Video Former CNN host Larry King will moderate a debate between third-party candidates in Chicago coming up on Tuesday, October 23rd at 9:00 PM. This debate will not include President Obama or Governor Romney but it will be available streamed online as well as broadcast l ...
  • Pennsylvania... 'Back Door' Money Laundering? ...
    Money laundering doesn’t always involve drugs, nor is it always illegal. Take for example Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s 2010 campaign. ~ Noel Brinkerhoff - related articles read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Forecast Model: Major East Coast Halloween Storm
    Source: ECMWF model for OCT-30, as of OCT-23 A Hurricane, A Extra-Tropical Storm, A Perfect Storm, a “Super Nor’easter”… these are some of the possibilities of the storm named ‘Sandy’, a major storm that could charge up the East Coast of the United States just ...
  • Earthquakes Swarming Northern Iceland
    Source: Icelandic Met Office Northern Iceland has suddenly become extremely active with swarms of earthquakes, many of them of sufficient magnitude to shake up the region. The earthquakes actually began yesterday, Sunday. ——————– Excerpts from a local Ic ...
  • What Are Your Post Collapse Skills?
    Source: NBC’s ‘Revolution’ The severity and flavor of a collapse will alter the value of one’s skill set and its favorable contribution to your own self reliance and/or that of a group. You could say that the more severe the collapse, the more primitive of skills and stre ...
  • The Maya Grand Cycle And The Dark Rift
    There is a lot of conjecture during this time (the end of 2012, the winter solstice, December 21), about the Mayan Long Count Calendar, the ‘Dark Rift’, and the Earth-Sun alignment relative to our Milky Way galaxy. While it (the aforementioned) may not be significant in a known Geo-p ...
  • 10 Items For Your Pets Emergency Kit
    Just as you do with your family’s emergency kit, when it comes to your pets, think first about the basics for survival, particularly food and water. Then, consider keeping two kits. In one, put everything your pets will need to stay where you are. The other should be a lightweight, smaller ...

Fast Company

  • Livestrong And Armstrong Stick Together Throug ...
    He stopped tweeting, but he didn't disappear. On Saturday night, amid an onslaught of bad news and the dismantling of his once-storied cycling career, Lance Armstrong stood center stage at the Austin Convention Center. It was the 15th anniversary gala for Livestrong, the cancer foundation he’d f ...
  • Color Failed. What Happens To Its $41 Million?
    Before Color became the poster child for Bubble 2.0, some very smart people made what were, in hindsight, very poor decisions to invest a combined $41 million in a team without a product. If a report from All Things D is correct, Apple recently acqhired a majority of the all-star team of enginee ...
  • UN Anti-Terror Report Calls For More Internet ...
    A UN report entitled "The Use Of The Internet For Terrorist Purposes" (PDF) has set the organization against privacy campaigners. Released yesterday at a conference in Vienna, the 148-page document suggests more surveillance of the Internet, retention of data by ISPs, as well as an increase in m ...
  • Yahoo Trains Its Gaze On Mobile
    Marissa Mayer yesterday gave a glimpse of what the world is to expect from Yahoo. In her first investor call as CEO, ostensibly to reveal the firm's averagely average Q3 results, she revealed her plans for both Yahoo's internal culture as well as what its core values would be. The firm's main f ...
  • Mystery Over Samsung's Role in Apple's Supply ...
    Samsung has poured cold water over yesterday's claims that one of its oldest ties with Apple was to come to an end. The firms have enjoyed a relationship on the supply chain front for many years, with the Korean firm providing LCD screens for the U.S. firm's devices. The report claims that Sams ...

Jadaliyya

  • 'Community is based on justice'
    At seven o'clock in the morning, I was already up, so excited was I by the idea of voting for the first time in my life. The joy felt at finally being a citizen was one shared by all Tunisians a year ago, on 23 October 2011. After the fall of the Ben Ali dictatorship, our hopes for Tunisia, as c ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (October 23)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • Des trucs, des machins et des choses
    J’ai regardé, comme vous cette vidéo édifiante, enregistrée ce lundi 17 septembre, lorsqu’au  matin, avait eu lieu une invasion  de fonctionnaires, au voisinage immédiat de Ali Lmrabet, celui que le régime a pensé condamner au silence en l’emprisonnant et le condamnant à une ...
  • الاستئثار بالسلطة... الفساد الكبير نموذجاً
    من المظاهر الأكثر دلالةً على الاستئثار بالسلطة في أي مجتمع هو تفشي «الفساد الكبير»،. العوائد النفطية الهائلة في دول مجلس التعاون خلقت تناقضاً غريباً على مدى العقود الماضية؛ فالطفرات في أسعار النفط بلورت في دولنا فساداً كبيراً تخطى في كمه ونسبته أية مقارنة مع باقي دول العالم، فتمكن المتنفذون من ...
  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (22 October)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup ...

mediagazer

  • Editor Elder quits DNAInfo Chicago on eve of l ...
    Robert Feder / Time Out Chicago: Editor Elder quits DNAInfo Chicago on eve of launch  —  With the launch of DNAInfo.com Chicago just around the corner, Robert K. Elder suddenly resigned this week as managing editor of the hyperlocal digital news service.  Elder, who recruit ...
  • Mel Karmazin Stepping Down As Sirius XM CEO (J ...
    Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Mel Karmazin Stepping Down As Sirius XM CEO  —  No one can say they didn't see this coming: Mel Karmazin is out as CEO of Sirius XM Radio.  Karmazin will step down on Feb. 1, 2013, after the expiration of his current contract, the company has announ ...
  • Netflix Says Amazon Is Gaining and HBO Is Comi ...
    Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Netflix Says Amazon Is Gaining and HBO Is Coming  —  Another earnings report, another wild swing in share price for Netflix: The stock is down double digits this afternoon, even though the company's earnings of 11 cents a share handily beat the Street's ...
  • Netflix Subscriber Additions Disappoint, Repor ...
    Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: Netflix Subscriber Additions Disappoint, Reports Q3 Revenue Of $905M And Earnings Of $0.13  —  Netflix's third-quarter 2012 earnings report just came out, with revenue reaching $905 million for the quarter, up from $822 million last year.  It's als ...
  • Lessons for Madison Avenue From 'Real-Time' Ol ...
    Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder: Lessons for Madison Avenue From ‘Real-Time’ Olympics  —  The World Series is about to begin, but for the experts at the Nielsen Sports Forum Tuesday morning the focus was on the Summer Games in London and the lessons for marketers who ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Obama makes closing argument to voters in ...
    WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is making his closing argument to voters, arguing the country has made progress under his watch...
  • The president is just like the party: Ben ...
    New Delhi: Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma Tuesday took a dig at BJP and its chief Nitin Gadkari, saying "the president is just like the party". "Gadkari is fully qualified for...
  • No committee ready for burial of Durga id ...
    KANPUR: The proposal to bury the idols of Durga instead of immersing them in the river with a view towards saving Ganga from pollution has found no takers from among the several puja committees across the city. While some argue the immersion of idols doesn't cause even a fraction of river po ...
  • Dandiya events are now venues for friends ...
    NAGPUR: Garba events have now turned into occasions for friends reunion. For the scores of youngsters studying in cities away from home, this festival offers an opportunity to come...
  • Sharapova not backing pay rise for losers
    Maria Sharapova is not convinced it is a good idea to give first round losers at next year's Australian Open a huge pay increase as part of a $4 million rise in overall prize money. Tournament organisers announced earlier this month that the total prize money pool at the opening grand slam o ...

no frakking consensus

  • ‘Climate Rebel’ Reporting In
    I spoke in Calgary last week, was interviewed on television three times, and attracted some great newspaper coverage.
  • Deja Vu All Over again…1991′s &#82 ...
    Before there was Al Gore, there was George Mitchell. Politicians have been casting themselves as environmental crusaders, saving the planet, for two decades.
  • How Science (Really) Works
    A new report argues that alternative perspectives are vital to the scientific process. Expecting dispassion from individual researchers is probably a lost cause.
  • Another False Alarm – ‘The Dying o ...
    A 17-year-old book about the state of America's forests is similar to current books about climate change. Its analysis and predictions were wrong, wrong, wrong.
  • Your Future, Courtesy of Climate Activists
    The head of research at a prominent UK climate facility believes that those of us who use refrigerators and drive cars will need to be coerced into altering our lifestyles.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
  • Tokyo’s Katsumi
    Japan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
  • Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
    BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Introducing Aussie Beach TV - Part 1
      SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-13", width: 600, height: 400 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://www.truthnews.com.au/slideshowpro/images.php?album=13" } }); ...
  • Chemtrails brownshirts renew threats against TNRA
    I have once again received an ominous threat, allegedly from the group "Anonymous", and once again because of my sceptical response to claims about the existence of a global aeorsol spraying campaign known as "chemtrails", and because I insist that such claims must be supported by evidence in or ...
  • A journey into Truth
    In tonight's show we plunge into the deeply confusing realm of philosophy with the objective of understanding the nature of truth itself. In philosophy this type of investigation is sometimes called Epistemology, or the study of knowledge. During the show we look at 2 major philosophical debat ...
  • Thugs have threatened to shut down TNRA - we m ...
    Some of the fanatical chemtrail believers are posting threats on this website, eg: Hereward as a computer whatever I hope you know about zombie trojans and how to check for them. Buckle up boys the ride is about to get bumpy These threats are of course pathetic and indicative of a major ...
  • Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1
    Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...

Beacon

  • What is that animal?
    ©OCEANA Juan Cuetos Click "read more" to find out
  • Anchovy Poop Fights Global Warming
    Anchovies move carbon to the deep sea ©Oceana Add fish poop to the growing list of unlikely allies in the fight against global warming. A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports outlines the critical role small forage fish, in particular northern anchovies, play in burying carbo ...
  • CEO Note: The Danger of Seismic Blasts
    Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless Sometime early next year the Department of the Interior will decide whether to approve seismic airgun testing to search for oil and gas deposits in a wide swath of ocean, from Delaware to Florida. If the Department goes ahead with the proposal, by their own conservat ...
  • Chef Barton Seaver gets Duped by Seafood Fraud
    Chef Barton Seaver Sustainability-minded chef and National Geographic fellow Barton Seaver is the latest victim of seafood fraud. He admitted as much in a recent post on National Geographic's Ocean Views blog. Shopping at one of his favorite seafood markets Seaver was taken in by what he thou ...
  • Ranger Expedition Uncovers Seamount Life, Poll ...
    Pink frogmouth captured by ROV camera ©Oceana In the past few weeks Oceana's Ranger expedition has been exploring a series of underwater mountains 130 miles West of Portugal known as the Gorringe bank. Formed along with the Atlantic Ocean as Pangaea pulled apart 145 to 155 million years ago, ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • Debates Over, Republican Noise Tries to Drown ...
    THE RACE is tied. Ohio still looking like the Democratic firewall, thanks to Mitt Romney, a state he has to win, but Obama needs, too. The notion that Sen. Harry Reid would let Nevada slip to Romney is laughable, when you think of scenarios to 270. So now that the debates are over, perhaps peopl ...
  • A Woman’s Body Is Not A “Social Issue”
    “You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song. Now a PSA has been done for 2012, with a bun ...
  • Mitt’s Middle East Muddle
    DETAILS. DETAILS. “Syria is Iran’s route to the sea.” – Mitt Romney Mitt Romney, evidently, never heard of the Persia Gulf. This is what happens when you let a conservative off the mat. Those of you who remember this moment four years ago, when Obama won the 2008 election ...
  • Wounded Vet: “The Mitt Romney I Know Cares Dee ...
    IT’S ONE of the unifying issues in politics. The soldier whose life is blown apart by war that civilians vote to wage. How could it not be turned into a political opportunity by a man struggling to prove he’s got a heart? The biggest casualty of this election is that we never had a r ...
  • Data Cookies Flag and Track Our Political Pref ...
    We all know we’re marked and flagged and tracked on the web. Visit a site about, for example, hiking, and very soon you’ll see ads about, say, hiking boots pop up on other sites. Propublica’s Lois Beckett has a piece about how this same kind of thing is happening related to our politics. Go chec ...

Hudson New York

  • Why Palestinians Want Israeli Citizenship
    The Palestinian Authority says it is worried because of the rise in the number of Palestinians from Jerusalem who are seeking Israeli citizenship. Hatem Abdel Kader, who is in charge of the "Jerusalem Portfolio" in the ruling Fatah faction in the West
  • Nobel Peace Prize Rewards The End of Democracy
    Many of us can, I am sure, remember where we were when we realized that the resplendence of the Nobel Prize had diminished. For some this realization can be traced to the news that Yasser Arafat had become joint recipient of the Peace Prize (an award of
  • "I Will Answer Only to Allah"
    An Islamist radical convicted of stabbing two German police officers during a protest against "offensive" cartoons has been sentenced to six years in prison. Murat K, a 26-year-old German-born Salafist of Turkish heritage from the western state of
  • Honing Anti-Semitism in France and Sweden
    A wave of anti-Jewish violence has taken place in France and Sweden over the past few weeks. The difference in government response is notable, and yet there is something similarly disquieting about their actions. The Swedish government alternately denies
  • Missile Defense: Serious Business as Usual
    The major argument against taking preemptive military action against Iran is the fear that Tehran's retaliatory capability will engulf the Middle East and other regions in serious violence and turmoil, throwing the world's already fragile economy into a

Urban Survival

  • Markets Score Obama Win
    (Ellijay, GA) Have the Kleenex ready for the nose bleed when the markets opening in a few minutes.  No surprise here, though. Since it’s a given that Romney would attempt to extend tax cuts, and is considered more business-friendly than … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Do Humans Sense Quakes?
    (East Ellijay, GA)  The prediction from Patrick Geryl (yesterday’s column) is coming up pretty quickly.  And, how timely all this is, since there are several events that may be foreshadowing…not the least of which is the sunspot activity ramping up … Continue reading ...
  • Poll-A-Ticks
    (East Ellijay, GA)  Despite being on the national Do No Call register, I still seem to be getting flooded with last-minute BS calls from politicos who thing I telemarketing message will somehow change my mind.  One of these days I’m … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Our Next Hobby? "Speeders!"
    (East Ellijay, GA) “Speeders” are a really cool part of Americana…and we had a chance to savor some classics this weekend here in the Georgia Mountains.  But before we go there, le’s back up to Saturday morning and go through … Continue reading →
  • Port and Reality Check
    Ah…as the week winds up, we notice that the futures were down significantly in the early going, and gold was down, too.  Why is something of a mystery.  The overnight figs from the Federal Reserve showed the annualized 3-month rate … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • California's Vote on Prop 37 Will Send a Messa ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Consumers have a right to know what's in their food. And in much of the world, they do, because of government labeling laws. For example, China, Russia, and India are among the 50-odd nations that ...
  • The Dangerous Life of a Grizzly
    Janet Barwick, Research Associate, Montana Photo courtesy of the National Park Service: Photographer unknown It isn’t easy being a grizzly bear.  Sure, they spend six months of the year sleeping and the other six months eating (and who ...
  • Disclosed: FDA's confidential strategy memos o ...
    Jonathan Kaplan, Senior Policy Specialist, San Francisco In private, agency sounds less confident about its voluntary approach in lieu of binding regulatory action It’s hard to explain the significance of newly disclosed FDA memos without fir ...
  • Major Investors Say Tar Sands Impacts Unacceptable
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. While the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has stimulated a major political debate, the financial sector is now increasingly voicing concern about the growing financial risks associated wit ...
  • Energy Efficiency Already Provides More than " ...
    Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA Throughout a long presidential election season in which both sides constantly invoke “all of the above” as the energy policy of choice, neither campaign has paid much -- if an ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, October 20 to Monday, October 22: Omega, Georgia:  The police chief was sentenced to two years in prison for slapping and punching an inmate at a county jail. “There … Continue reading →National Police Misco ...
  • National Police Misconduct Daily NewsFeed Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, October 19, 2012: Mayflower, Arkansas: The police chief was suspended pending the results of an investigation. It involved allegations that he turned in fraudulent paperwork for a radar speed … Continue reading →National ...
  • 60 Minutes Looks at Upcoming Marijuana Ballot ...
    I offer comments about the initiatives and the role of the Department of Justice and the federal government in this Cato podcast. More here.60 Minutes Looks at Upcoming Marijuana Ballot Initiatives is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, October 17 , 2012: Washington, DC: A federal jury indicted an officer on nine counts, including assault with intent to kill while armed, in connection with a shooting that … Continue reading →National Police Misconduc ...
  • Upcoming Supreme Court Action: Florida v. Jardines
    Go here to read the Cato Institute amicus brief in this case.Upcoming Supreme Court Action: Florida v. Jardines is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net

Total Collapse

  • Largest ever US, Israeli air defense exercise ...
    The Israeli military says its largest ever exercise with the United States has begun. A major air defense drill called Austere Challenge 2012 started Sunday and includes more than 3,500 Americans and 1,000 Israelis. The militaries are practicing their ability to work together against a range of ...
  • Russian Nuclear Forces Complete Large-scale Drill
    Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces ended a large-scale command drill on Saturday, the Kremlin said. President Vladimir Putin, the supreme commander-in-chief of Russian armed forces, on Friday participated in the exercises and directly controlled the testing of the automated communications c ...
  • Monsanto “War” Kills US Ambassador To Libya
    A stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today is claiming that the 11 September attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed American Ambassador John Christopher Stevens (1960-2012) was an act of terrorism led by an armed force of mercenaries lin ...
  • October surprise: US and Israel prepare to str ...
    The United States and Israel are already involved in discussions over how they could soon conduct a joint surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, a source close to the talks tells Foreign Policy magazine. After months of urging from Israeli authorities for the US to intervene in a rumored ...
  • US sources: US, Israel plan October Surprise. ...
    Four facts deserve attention with regard to a potential attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The first is that the Iranian-Israeli war is already at hand. Iran launched it by sending an unmanned drone into Israeli air space Saturday, Oct. 6, breaking new ground in belligerence with a cyber attac ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Parliament supports motion for solar
                                   Today the South Australian Parliament committed to looking seriously at building solar thermal in Port Augusta. Th ...
  • Rising prices show we must get off gas
                               Australian households are to be hit by another rise in energy bills, this time due to rising gas prices, as highlighted by a report releas ...
  • Sydney, NSW: Health and Social Harms of Coal M ...
    When: Monday 29 October 2012 Time: 5:30pm-7pm Location: Medical Foundation Auditorium - The University of Sydney, 92-94 Parramatta Road Camperdown NSW 2050 See map below for directions Cost: Free but RSVP is essential to kerry.jenson& ...
  • BZE submission to Sydney Trigeneration plan av ...
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  • Zero carbon housing arrives in Australia
    By Matthew Wright Designs have been released for the award winning Cape Paterson Ecovillage, Australia's first zero carbon housing development. Thirty-eight of 220 lots are available in the first section of the development. The project takes sustainable house design, sustain ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Will designation of new administrative distric ...
    On Monday Indonesia's House of Representatives moved to establish 'North Kalimantan', a new province in Indonesian Borneo. It also voted for four new districts: Pangandaran in West Java, South Coast in Lampung, and South Manokwari and Arfak Mountains in West Papua. While the moves aim to improve ...
  • Remarkable comeback: blue iguana downgraded to ...
    The wild blue iguana population has increased by at least 15 times in the last ten years, prompting the IUCN Red List to move the species from Critically Endangered to just Endangered. A targeted, ambitious conservation program, headed by the Blue Iguana Recovery Team, is behind this rare succes ...
  • Authorities confiscate 600 dead elephants' wor ...
    Hong Kong authorities have confiscated two massive shipments of elephant tusks, totaling 1,209 tusks, stemming from Kenya and Tanzania. Representing over 600 poached elephants, the shipments are estimated to be worth $3.4 million on the black market. African elephants are being decimated for the ...
  • Wealthy nations, excluding U.S., pledge to dou ...
    Although negotiations came down to the wire, nations finally brokered a new deal at the 11th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad, India; at its heart is a pledge to double resources from wealthier countries to the developing world by 2015 to conserve embattled sp ...
  • Cute animal picture of the day: baby pygmy hippo
    A new pygmy hippo calf has been born at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. Named Georgina, the calf is the second for parents Flora and Tapon.

Sierra Express

  • Government Opens Floodgates to Deforestation
    The Government of Sierra Leone is considered to have given the green light to timber exporters to continue rigorous logging exercises, especially in the rural areas following the lifting of the ban on the exportation of timber early October by President Koroma and the Government of the Republic ...
  • Security blunder or mokonday tactics?
    It is of importance to note that Presidential Guards are of paramount significance in any country because the president who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Military Forces and other security apparatus in a country has a noble duty to protect the lives and properties of its citizenry. Appar ...
  • Port Loko Scrambles for APC Regalia
    Supporters of the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) party in Port Loko District Northern Province are reportedly in a mad rush to secure party T-shirts, caps and other party regalia ahead of the 23rd October campaign rally.  (Photo; APC supporters in their party regalia) Information streaming i ...
  • Arrest Warrant for Maada Bio?
    There has been a clarion call from well meaning Sierra Leoneans for the police to summon and obtain statement from the flagbearer and presidential candidate of the opposition SLPP on why he interrupted the motorcade of His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma in the east of Freetown past Frida ...
  • EJF Seeks to Monitor Forest Operators
    As government allows forest operators/timber exporters to resume exporting logs from Sierra Leone following the lifting of the ban on timber export in October this year, Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is calling on government to assign them alongside other Civil Society Organizations to ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Gas line leak costs dairy industry $46m
    More than 48 million litres of raw milk was dumped during the Maui gas pipeline emergency a year ago, a government-ordered report shows.Milk processing plants were shut down during the five-day outage, caused by a landslide damaging...
  • Fonterra unveils new share trading board
    Former PriceWaterhouseCoopers chairman John Shewan has been appointed chairman of the establishment board set up for the introduction of the new Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, which is expected to be launched before the year's end.Shewan,...
  • Dairy prices up 1.8pc overnight (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, with whole milk powder posting its biggest gain since March last year.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.8 per cent compared to the last sale two weeks...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Meanwhile, back at the ranch
    Is Fonterra's Sir Henry van der Heyden staying on past his use-by date as the dairy co-operative's chairman to protect chairman-elect John Wilson from a boardroom coup?That question was doing the rounds even before Fonterra confirmed...
  • Oz supermarket giant drops Kiwi cheese
    One of Australia's biggest supermarket chains has dropped New Zealand's Mainland cheese brand much to the chagrin of its loyal customers, but Mainland's owner Fonterra is still smiling after its Aussie-made Bega brand remains...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Join Us as Reason Tweets the Third-Party Presi ...
    CSPAN is broadcasting a debate between the third-party candidates right now! Reason staff is live tweeting the whole shebang right now! The drinking game is simple: Drink at will, due to the fact that these people were excluded from the real debates. The participants will include ...
  • D.C. Transit Authority Claimed Controversial A ...
    U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer, who earlier this month issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to start running the American Freedom Defense Initiative's controversial anti-jihad ads, recently released an opinion in ...
  • Hockeystick Climatologist Michael Mann Sues Co ...
    Over at Science Blogs, Greg Laden is reporting that Penn State climatologist Michael Mann is suing the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the National Review for refusing to apologize for comparing him in a blog post to child molester Jerry Sandusky. In the original post on ...
  • Europe Notices Snub at Presidential Foreign Po ...
    The Frankfurter Rundschau writes about our word count of the Obama-Romney foreign policy debate last night and what it means that Europe got nary a mention.  The paper points to the fact as a teachable moment for Europe: Omitting Europe is also the result of the current pea ...
  • Ronald Bailey on Whether Presidential Debates ...
    As of last night, there have been 30 televised presidential campaign debates in U.S. history. Numerous political scientists have tried over the decades to discern what, if any, effects the debates have had on voters. How do voters judge debate participants? Is it by competence? Knowl ...

Mercury Rising

  • A Romney presidency would generate memes, not jobs
    First there was Women in Binders. Now, via Greg Mitchell (and whoever it was who linked him), there’s Horses and Bayonets. See, Romney isn’t completely useless.
  • Obama Stomps Romney: “We Have These Thin ...
    Thanks to Elliott at Firedoglake for sharing the DNCClips video above with us all. This is representative of what Obama did to Romney tonight. Not surprised to see this polling result from CBS News’ Twitter account: BREAKING: CBS NEWS INSTANT POLL Who won the #Debate? OBAMA: 53%; ROMNEY: 2 ...
  • Mitt Romney Profits From Sensata Workers&#8217 ...
    This is something Mitt Romney is hoping doesn’t get broadcast to most Americans: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney started the “private equity” firm Bain Capital. Bain Capital makes its money by purchasing companies using “leveraged buyouts” that borrow ...
  • George McGovern, Martin Luther King, And The N ...
    The late George McGovern was in many ways a very brave and principled man, both at war and at peace. He also was Exhibit A in the fracturing of the economic-liberal and social-liberal coalition that FDR used to pass the New Deal. He was a bonafide war hero — probably the best bomber pilot ...
  • George McGovern, Martin Luther King, And The N ...
    The late George McGovern was in many ways a very brave and principled man, both at war and at peace. He also was Exhibit A in the fracturing of the economic-liberal and social-liberal coalition that FDR used to pass the New Deal. He was a bonafide war hero — probably the best bomber pilot ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Modern Psychedelic Research
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  • Evolver Bay Area Seeks Event Coordinator
    Evolver Bay Area is seeking an event coordinator to organize a regular series of events. What is Evolver? http://www.evolvernetwork.org/ Designed for this time of accelerated awakening, The Evolver Network is a learning laboratory of local communities bringing people and groups toge ...
  • The Fall of Man
      The following is excerpted from The Heart-Mind Matrix: How the Heart Can Teach the Mind New Ways to Think, available from Inner Traditions. A humankind abandoned in its earliest formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to its survival. --Maria Montessori, M.D. read more
  • Vote on Pot
    [Action Alert] • Recently, nine former heads of the Drug Enforcement Administration sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder to to speak out against the marijuana legalization ballot initiatives in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington.  Marijuana legalization is supported by a significant p ...
  • Art, Drugs & Consciousness
    This Thursday, The Evolver Network will be presenting a conversation with Daniel Pinchbeck, Adam Green and Hamilton Morris, followed by a dance party at the Intercourse in Brooklyn, New York. We'll kick off the night with a special dialogue featuring three pioneers exploring the intersec ...

Desertification

  • Worms, Termites, Microbes Offer Food Security
    Worms and termites are not likely to win hearts and minds, but they, along with lichens and microbes, are vital to food security, say biodiversity specialists who attended this month’s United Nations conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in this south Indian city.   “Worms, ...
  • Shadow Over Aichi Biodiversity Targets
    With negotiations to mobilise resources for preservation of biodiversity at a major United Nations conference going nowhere, the Group of 77 and China have hinted at  possible suspension of the ‘Aichi targets’  under the Nagoya Protocol.   Algeria, current G 77 chair, stressed in a statement at ...
  • Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on Biodiversity
    The United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties  to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars needed to implement the ‘Aichi targets,’ due to be met by 2020. “Decisions made here will lay th ...
  • Donors Must Seize 2013 Opportunity in Sahel, U ...
    Reporting that the worst of the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa appears to have been averted, the United Nations’ top official on the area, David Gressley, warned on Wednesday that the potential passing of the immediate emergency should not divert international attention from what need ...
  • Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food ...
    Humanity’s ability to feed itself is in serious doubt as climate change takes hold on land in the form of droughts and extreme weather, as well as on the world’s oceans. Less well known to many is the fact that emissions from burning oil, coal and gas are both heating up the oceans a ...

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Press TV - Middle East

  • Dozens of insurgents slain in Aleppo
    Syrian Army soldiers have killed dozens of foreign-backed insurgents fighting government forces in the flashpoint city of Aleppo.
  • Ashton meets Mikati on bomb attack
    European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has met with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati over the recent car bomb attack in Beirut.
  • Qatari Emir visits Gaza Strip
    Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has visited the Gaza Strip to inaugurate a project to rebuild the besieged territory.
  • 3 killed in Israeli onslaught on Gaza
    At least three Palestinians have been killed and six others injured in attacks on the Gaza Strip by Israeli aircraft and tanks, as the wave of aggression on the besieged territory continues unabated, Press TV reports.
  • Syrian shell lands in southern Turkey
    An anti-aircraft shell from Syria has hit an empty room of a health center in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay but no injuries were reported.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • CUNY SPS Students Making Strides Against Breas ...
    The following message is posted on behalf of David Mordkofsky, SPS student in the Project Management (PROM 210) course. Hello SPS Community! We wanted to let you know that a group of SPS students will be taking part in a worthy event on Oct 21st, and we invite you to join us! As part of [...]
  • A Walk Down Memory Lane
    In less than 4 weeks, I will be standing in Staten Island waiting for the start of the 2012 ING NYC Marathon with great anticipation. This is what I have been working so hard for over the last 5 months. It started with giving up a pack of Marlboro Lights a day and my commitment [...]
  • Support SPS: Give the Gift of Opportunity
    Dear SPS Community, As we inaugurate the 2012-13 academic year at the CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS), in addition to celebrating new beginnings, we are also very proud to mark the 10th anniversary of SPS. As a member of the SPS community, you are vital to our growth and success, and I ...
  • The Final Countdown
    Does anyone remember what the feeling is like when you are on your way to school and you realized that you forgot your homework assignment at home? I had that heavy pit in my stomach last night at practice. A fellow American Cancer Society DetermiNator reminded me that we have just 4 weeks left ...
  • Alumna Linda Ames Key Receives Fulbright Speci ...
    The School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Linda Ames Key, a graduate of the School’s M.A. in Applied Theatre program, has been named a Fulbright Specialist. In 2011, while completing her M.A. in Applied Theatre degree at SPS, Ms. Key participated in the School’s Project Rw ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

Wayne Madsen

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • In Foreign Policy Debate, Romney Capitulates, ...
    Summary: On Afghanistan, Libya, Iran, Syria, and drones, the candidates fundamentally agree on a militarist, interventionist foreign policy source: antiwar.comread more
  • Iran not to hold "independent" nuclear talks w ...
    Summary: TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Sunday that Iran will not hold "independent" talks with the United States outside the framework of nuclear negotiations with six world powers, dubbed P5+1, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported. sourc ...
  • Press TV starts online petition to save news c ...
    Summary: Following the European satellite provider Eutelsat SA’s illegal move to stop the broadcast of several Iranian satellite channels, Press TV launches an online petition to save Iran’s English-language broadcaster across Europe. source: Press TVread more
  • Iran, US, and the MEK
    Summary: On September 28, 2012, the Obama administration announced the removal of the Mojahedin-e Khalgh (variously referred to as the MEK, MKO, or PMOI) from the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). After the collapse of the regime of its main benefactor, Sa ...
  • "You are mistaken" if you believe the media ab ...
    Summary: Remember when NeoCon Oliver Kamm wrote an article (behind paywall) in Rupert Murdoch's Times (of London) in which he dramatically "exposed" a document that supposedly proved that Iran had conducted tests with atomic bomb detonators (known as neutron triggers)? Naturally, it quotes Da ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Milky Way's 'Sleeping' Supermassive Black Hole ...
                   NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has captured its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. The observations show the typically mild-mannered black hole during the middle of a flar ...
  • Quasar 'Fog' Cloaking an Ancient Hidden Galaxy
                     Hubble astronomers have looked at one of the most distant and brightest quasars in the universe and were surprised by what they did not see: the underlying host galaxy of stars feeding the quasar. The best explanation is that the galaxy is shrouded in so much dust that ...
  • Image of the Day: The Greatest Canyon in the S ...
                     Mars' Valles Marineris Stretches over 4000 km long and 200 km wide, and with a dizzying depth of 10 km, it is some ten times longer and five times deeper than Earth's Grand Canyon, a size that earns it the status of the largest canyon in the Solar System. Shown here i ...
  • First Analysis of 14-Million-Year Old Antarcti ...
                   The Russian research vessel Akademik Fyodorov arrived at its St.Petersburg port this past May with samples from 14-million year old subglacial waters of  Lake Vostok in Antarctica, Earth's analog for what we might encounter on future probes of the 64-mile deep oceans o ...
  • Massive "G2" Cloud Sucked Into Close Encounter ...
                                  The Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole may soon devour much of an approaching cloud of dust and gas known as G2. A supercomputer simulation suggests that some of G2 will survive, although its surviving mass will be torn apart, leaving it with a different s ...

Natural News

  • Zinc deficiency lowers immune response, increa ...
    Many natural defenses slowly begin to decline after we reach our fourth decade of life; due, in large part, to suboptimal nutrition from processed foods, environmental and household pollutants and lack of physical activity. Maintaining sufficient levels of critical nutrients...
  • Is arsenic in food really a health risk?
    Arsenic is an element all around us in the environment, found in soil, water, and air. Seeing that it's in these important parts of nature, it's easy to understand how it ends up in our food. However, it is known that high levels of arsenic in the human body can lead...
  • Washington could soon become first state to (s ...
    The state of Washington could soon make history as the first U.S. state to legalize the sale of marijuana at the retail level, albeit with some very serious restrictions and heavy control by the state government. CBS Seattle reports that, if Initiative 502 passes on...
  • Study shows antidepressants increase rare stro ...
    If you take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to treat depression symptoms, you could be significantly upping your risk of suffering a rare form of stroke. These are the findings of a new study recently published in the journal Neurology, which found that...
  • So what's vertical gardening all about? 13 Rea ...
    Jack had it right when he planted the magic seeds that grew into a sky high beanstalk. Not only did he stumble upon the principles of vertical gardening; but Jack also discovered the path to abundance and self-reliance when he realized he could provide for himself and...

Threat Level

  • Feds Cite ‘State Secrets’ in Dragnet Surveilla ...
    The Obama administration is again arguing that a lawsuit accusing the National Security Administration of vacuuming up Americans' electronic communications without warrants threatens national security and would expose state secrets if litigated. "This case may be dismissed on the ground ...
  • Online Analytics Firm Settles Suit Over Unstop ...
    KISSmetrics, an online analytics company, agreed to pay more than $500,000 to lawyers to settle accusations that its sneaky tracking technologies violated hacking laws. The two users who sued get $5,000.
  • Man Banned Mid-Trip by No-Fly List Gets Strand ...
    The farce that is the government's no-fly list got another bizarre twist this week when the spouse of a Navy lieutenant, flying on a military jet to visit his wife in Japan, was booted from his flight during a layover ...
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    Traffic-light tickets have ticked off a gazillion drivers, some of whom have had to fork over $500 for running a light. Now there’s a way for you to throw a monkey wrench into that money-making machine.
  • Inside the Mansion—and Mind— of Kim Dotcom, th ...
    Please Choose One of the Following Statements: A. Kim Dotcom is not a pirate. He’s a hero. The savior of my online liberties. A visionary digital entrepreneur. His company Megaupload was a legitimate data-storage business used by hundreds of millions ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • To Prosecute Ahmadinejad, Romney Turns to Inte ...
    Among the more puzzling moments of Monday's final presidential debate was Mitt Romney's call for the prosecution of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on war crimes charges. As it turns out, Romney has been urging the United Nations to indict Ahmadinejad ever since his "close friend" and Isr ...
  • Romney's Ever-Shifting Red Line on War with Iran
    Among the six topics CBS' Bob Schieffer has announced he plans to cover during Monday's night's third and final presidential debate is "Red Lines - Israel and Iran." With Election Day just 15 days away, that discussion cannot come soon enough for American voters. After all, while the Obama adm ...
  • Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Follies
    As the presidential candidates prepare for their third and final debate on Monday, recent polling suggests Mitt Romney has cut into Barack Obama's sizable lead on foreign policy issues. But if his demagoguery on China (where he apparently still profits from his portfolio of Bain investments) an ...
  • Romney Declares His Self-Interest Equals Natio ...
    Ann Romney raised some eyebrows this week when she used an appearance on the The View to equate her sons' missions for their church with military service to the nation. But while many Americans were doubtless disgusted with her analogy, few should have been surprised. After all, Mitt Romney ha ...
  • Romney Family Values
    Tagg Romney never fought for his nation, but for his thin-skinned dad he would take a swing at the President of the United States. But if he seems like the embodiment of Romney family values--unshakable belief in their own entitlement and destiny, unacknowledged privilege, generosity and charit ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Why are Obama and Romney Bashing China?
    Minqi Li on Presidential foreign policy debate and why Obama and Romney are competing to be the âtough guyâ on China
  • Foreign Policy Debate Ignores Honduras, Congo ...
    Jihan Hafiz, Andrea Pine and Kambale Musavuli discuss the Presidential debate on foreign policy
  • Exclusive: As Obama and Romney Agree on Afghan ...
    In the last of our exclusive "Expanding the Debate" series, we bring you highlights of our coverage of last night's final presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney, with the added voices of third-party candidates. As Obama and Romney faced off for the last time before the gener ...
  • Wilkerson and Prashad on Foreign Policy Debate
    Vijay Prashad and Lawrence Wilkerson comment on Presidential debate on US foreign policy
  • Headlines for October 23, 2012
    Obama Derides Romney on "Battleship" Approach to Military Spending, Drone Attacks Among Shared Foreign Policy Stances in Romney-Obama Debate, Ex-CIA Agent to Be Sentenced for Disclosing Torture, African-American Woman Left in Critical Condition After Brutal Louisiana Attack, Doctor: Pakistani Te ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Increasing Amounts Of Plastic Trash Being Foun ...
    The seafloor in the Arctic deep sea is becoming increasingly polluted with plastic garbage and waste, according to researchers. There is more trash seen at the AWI deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN in the Arctic than even in a deep-sea canyon that’s located next to Lisbon, Portugal. The rese ...
  • Elephant Song from Planetsave Reader: “Standin ...
      Here’s a nice video of and song about elephants, courtesy of one of our great Planetsave readers/musicians. Here’s more information on the video from the musician who contacted us, Jan Schnell: With the help of some top Danish musicians, I have made a music video tribute to th ...
  • 2-Million-Light-Year-Long Supersonic Jet Of Un ...
      A supersonic jet of unknown material has been discovered blasting out over two million miles from the center of a distant galaxy’s resident super massive black hole. It apparently looks very similar to what’s called the afterburner flow, which is released from a jet engine. A ...
  • Elliptical Galaxy With A Spiral Galaxy Hidden ...
      Large galaxies are usually categorized either as pinwheel-shaped spiral galaxies or blobby elliptical galaxies. The Milky Way is a pretty typical spiral galaxy, with lots of gas and dust giving birth to new stars. While ellipticals are more like the “cosmic retirement villages, full ...
  • Climate Variability and Conflict Risk Measured ...
    Socioeconimic, political and geographic factors play a much more substantial role in human conflict across the East of Africa than climate does, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. “The effects of climate variability on conflict risk is different in different coun ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Third Debate Shows Scumney Isn't Ready For Pri ...
    What seemed to emerge clearly from Monday night's final presidential debate between incumbent Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Scumney -- er, Romney, may have to get used to that if the bozo really gets elected -- is that he doesn't seem ready for prime time. Oh, he was very well- ...
  • "LIBERAL" The 21st Century "N" Word
    By @TomBales1 To those of you who base your entire political agenda on anger and hate, I would like to ask you once and for all just what your definition of Liberalism is.  You post your little Facebook entries and you carry your little misspelled signs proudly at the Tea Party's hate rall ...
  • Four Years Closer to a Nuke?
    By @TedFrier When Mitt Romney said the Iranians are "four years closer" to building a nuke by way of accusing the President of being weak and feckless in promoting the exact same foreign policy Romney supports, it was another one of those weasel phrases for which Romney and the Republicans are f ...
  • Romney Fails Commander-in-Chief Test
    By @TedFrier A fly on the wall as the two families mingled pleasantly onstage following the third and final presidential debate in Boca Raton last night might have overheard President Obama asking Mitt Romney if the Republican challenger would like to become his press secretary. "You make the ca ...
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Care 2

  • URGENT! PLEASE HELP FIND AJAX A HOME! Mutilate ...
    A few months ago a young German Shepherd was horribly abused & mutilated in So. California. Someone very sick had cut off his tail. Concerned people contacted the German Shepherd Rescue of Orange County for help. His health is good but he needs a home! Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nbsp ...
  • The White House: STOP Monsanto from taking cha ...
    Farmers in Africa now practice sustainable agriculture and organic methods to produce their food. If Monsanto takes charge they'll flood the continent with Genetically Modified Seeds, which encourage the use of pesticides that will begin the decline of... Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |& ...
  • PLEASE HELP! Senior German Shepherd Dumped At ...
    Zorro was dumped at a high kill shelter and was rescued by the German Shepherd Rescue of Orange County (GSROC) but needs substantial assistance in the form of donations to get better before he finds a new forever home worthy of him. PLEASE HELP ZORRO! Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals  | ...
  • Blazing meteor lights up sky above California
    A streaking fireball lit up California skies and stunned stargazers Wednesday night, and professional observers say more meteors are on the way. Submitted by Agnes N. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Hershey's Charity for Children Became GOP Slus ...
    What the charity also does, of late, is shovel money and favors to a coterie of prominent Pennsylvania Republicans Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

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  • Finlay & Smart Talk (+ open thread)
    Social media. Has it coarsened the culture? Emboldened the cranks? Or made conversation more vital and immediate? Join John Smart and me tonight for a lively discussion on today’s news and last night’s debate. Then we’ll move to our main topic, social media: 7 PM PDT/10pm EDT. ...
  • Post Debate Media Depression
    I am on a plane that departed Fort Lauderdale 10 minutes ago (seat 11a for any of you media mavens on board and using GoGo) and am surrounded by a legion of the mainstream media. I anticipated there might be one or two Washington press or political types on the plane. Boy was I wrong. [...]
  • Romney Beats Obama
    The Obama campaign hinged tonight’s debate on portraying Mitt Romney as a reckless cowboy who would take us to war. Just one more reminder of how inept and desperate the Obama campaign is. And what did Romney do? He stepped back. He refused to take the bait and, instead, offered a vision o ...
  • “government of the people, by the people, for ...
    Abraham Lincoln. Joe Wilson. Chris Stevens. They ALL knew the score. Just as Chris Stevens did in Libya last month, just as Joe Wilson who stood up to Saddam Hussein. The ambassador to Iraq held up a noose, declaring to the world he was willing to die, if he must, before he would give up [...]

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Quakers protest banks support of mountain top ...
    Main Line Quakers protest banks support of mountain top mining (with video) Main Line Activists with Earth Quaker Action Team protested mountaintop removal mining operations at the Narberth branch of PNC Bank on Saturday. Protesters walked into the Montgomery Ave. bank shortly before 11 a.m. and ...
  • Candidate Will Keep Running Until He Wins Or D ...
    Candidate Will Keep Running Until He Wins Or Dies Trying Huffington Post Or as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency describes it, "Mountaintop removal is a form of surface coal mining in which explosives are used to access coal seams, generating large volumes of waste that bury adjacent ...
  • “I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” - C ...
    “I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” CounterPunch Hell's Gate was the property line from where you could literally look down on massive mountaintop removal operations. It was stunning. I've seen clear cut forests, oil spills and an industry polluted lake near Butte, Montana, bu ...
  • Howard Swint counters Capito on nearly all iss ...
    Howard Swint counters Capito on nearly all issues in race for 2nd District Charleston Gazette During a meeting with Charleston Gazette editors Friday, Howard Swint said three of his key campaign issues are supporting the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for women, opposing the continued deregulation ...
  • Lawsuits target health impacts of mountaintop ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Lawsuits target health impacts of mountaintop removal mining Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two new lawsuits filed in West Virginia and Kentucky allege the Obama administration is ignoring a growing body of science that links living near mountaintop removal opera ...

Memeorandum

  • Bob Woodward: Obama 'mistaken' on sequester (L ...
    Leigh Munsil / Politico: Bob Woodward: Obama ‘mistaken’ on sequester  —  Bob Woodward says President Barack Obama got some of his facts wrong on sequester at Monday night's debate.  —  Woodward's book, “The Price of Politics,” has been the ...
  • Sharmeka Moffitt, Louisiana Woman, Set On Fire ...
    Cavan Sieczkowski / The Huffington Post: Sharmeka Moffitt, Louisiana Woman, Set On Fire And Confronted With ‘KKK’ Slur In Race-Related Attack (VIDEO) (UPDATED) … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Video, Kkk Attack, Louisiana Race Attack, Prayers For Sharm ...
  • CNN's GUT CHECK for October 23, 2012 (CNN)
    CNN: CNN's GUT CHECK for October 23, 2012  — n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle  —  DEVELOPING... ELECTION A JUMP BALL: CNN's Peter Hamby scores some key inside acknowledgements in his new story filed from Boca Raton:
  • Apple Special Event, October 23, 2012 (Apple)
    Apple: Apple Special Event, October 23, 2012 … Shop the Apple Online Store (1-800-MY-APPLE), visit an Apple Retail Store, or find a reseller.
  • Reid calls himself a 'one-man wrecking crew' a ...
    David McGrath Schwartz / Las Vegas Sun News: Reid calls himself a ‘one-man wrecking crew’ aimed at Romney  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called himself a “one-man wrecking crew” on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's refusal to release ...

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China Dialogue

  • 德国为何如&#2749 ...
    保罗•霍克诺斯认为，德国决定摒弃核电，并不是因为被福岛核事故吓到了，而是上&# ...
  • 碳出口税可&#3845 ...
    迈克尔•雅各布斯认为，中国等国若实行碳出口税将有助于防止贸易争端，并加快在&# ...
  • 中国近海涸&#2790 ...
    中国近海捕捞已连续多年处于“零增长”。受过度捕捞和环境污染影响，今年出海可&# ...
  • 低油价何以&#2510 ...
    如果能够抑制化石燃料价格并重新分配补贴，可再生能源将势不可挡，成为真正的赢 ...
  • 美国和中国&#2523 ...
    为了使世界摆脱对化石燃料的补贴，石油价格需要稳定。为了实现这一目标，中国和 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The 5 Goofiest Right-Wing Defenses of Romney's ...
    The Romney camp is in damage control mode after President Obama scored a debate victory so resounding, that even a Fox News contributor acknowledged “President Obama won the debate on knowledge of the issues.” But the clear competency of the President isn’t stopping t ...
  • How Corporations Know Who You Will Likely Vote For
    If you're a registered voter and surf the web, one of the sites you visit has almost certainly placed a tiny piece of data on your computer flagging your political preferences. That piece of data, called a cookie, marks you as a Democrat or Republican, when you last voted, and what contributio ...
  • Meet the Man Monsanto and Friends Hired to Lie ...
     This post was originally published on Care2 Causes.You may have never heard of Henry I. Miller, but right now he is attempting to determine the future of food in this country.  And he has enormous financial backing.Mr. Miller is the primary face and voice of the “No on Prop 3 ...
  • Romney-linked Voting Machine Company Will Coun ...
     Voting machine provider Hart Intercivic will be counting the votes in various counties in the crucial swing states of Ohio and Colorado and elsewhere throughout the country come November 6—even though it has extensive corporate ties to the Mitt Romney camp, and even though a study ...
  • How the Ever-Growing Gigantic Nature of Our El ...
     To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Obesity is an American plague -- and no, I’m not talking about overweight Americans. I’m talking about our overweight, supersized presidential campaign.&#x ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Cite ‘State Secrets’ in Dragnet Surveilla ...
    The Obama administration is again arguing that a lawsuit accusing the National Security Administration of vacuuming up Americans' electronic communications without warrants threatens national security and would expose state secrets if litigated. "This case may be dismissed on the ground ...
  • Online Analytics Firm Settles Suit Over Unstop ...
    KISSmetrics, an online analytics company, agreed to pay more than $500,000 to lawyers to settle accusations that its sneaky tracking technologies violated hacking laws. The two users who sued get $5,000.
  • Man Banned Mid-Trip by No-Fly List Gets Strand ...
    The farce that is the government's no-fly list got another bizarre twist this week when the spouse of a Navy lieutenant, flying on a military jet to visit his wife in Japan, was booted from his flight during a layover ...
  • License Plate Frame Foils Irksome Traffic-Ligh ...
    Traffic-light tickets have ticked off a gazillion drivers, some of whom have had to fork over $500 for running a light. Now there’s a way for you to throw a monkey wrench into that money-making machine.
  • Inside the Mansion—and Mind— of Kim Dotcom, th ...
    Please Choose One of the Following Statements: A. Kim Dotcom is not a pirate. He’s a hero. The savior of my online liberties. A visionary digital entrepreneur. His company Megaupload was a legitimate data-storage business used by hundreds of millions ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • E. coli Test and Hold Needs to be the Rule
    Higa Meat & Pork Market, a Honolulu, HI establishment, is recalling approximately 4,100 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of... Continue Reading
  • After Positive E. coli Test, Main Street Quali ...
    Main Street Quality Meats, a Salt Lake City, Utah establishment, is recalling approximately 2,310 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department... Continue Reading
  • Is Stewart Parnell heading before a Grand Jury?
    I got a call today from someone who has a subpoena to appear at a Grand Jury in the 2009 Peanut Corporation of America case.  It is hard to be... Continue Reading
  • Say it isn’t so Jimmy Johns – Sprouts making a ...
    Elizabeth Weise of USA TODAY reported yesterday that Kroger, the nation’s largest supermarket chain, had announced it will stop selling sprouts next week because of their “potential food safety risk.”... Continue Reading
  • 90 Confirmed, 179 Probable E. coli Cases at No ...
    Flicks also linked to E. coli outbreak weeks earlier. BBC reports this morning that as of Sunday, Northern Ireland’s Public Health Agency (PHA) is now confirming 90 cases – with... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • WATCH: Full Expanding the Debate Special on Fo ...
    Watch our full three-and-a-half hour Expanding the Debate special featuring Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and Justice Party nominee Rocky Anderson responding to the same questions posed to President Obama and Mitt Romney in the final debate of the campaign. In addition, we speak t ...
  • Part Two: Shane Bauer: "Solitary in Iran Nearl ...
    In his first live television interview since his release from Iranian prison, journalist Shane Bauer shines the light on solitary confinement inside the California prison system. Bauer was one of three Americans detained in 2009 while hiking in Iraq’s Kurdish region near the Iranian border. He ...
  • Audio: Aid Boat Set to Reach Gaza Saturday, Fa ...
    We speak with Mattias Gardell, who is sailing through international waters on board the Estelle, the latest boat to attempt to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza. The boat aims to reach the Gaza Strip Saturday and has been called a "provocation" by Israel’s ambassador to the U ...
  • Watch Amy Goodman on teleSUR Friday Night, Oct. 19
    Amy Goodman will be interviewed on the program "Cruce de Palabras" airing on teleSUR Friday, Oct. 19. Viewing times on teleSUR are: Caracas, Venezuela: 21:00 Havana, Cuba: 21:30 Buenos Aires, Venezuela: 22:30 New York: 21:30 “Click here for more information about ...
  • VIDEO: Amy Goodman's Appearance on C-SPAN's Wa ...
    Amy Goodman appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Sept. 29 to discuss the recent events and social movements that are shaping society, many of which are documented in her new book, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance & Hope, written with Denis ...

Suzie-Q

  • Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...
    PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn Univ ...
  • President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...
    The President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!
  • Presidential Debate President Obama and Mitt R ...
    PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK OCTOBER 16, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CANDY CROWLEY, MODERATOR CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, ...
  • Joe Biden/Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Debate ( ...
    Addicting Info October 11, 2012 By Matthew Desmond Here’s the transcript, via the New York Times: MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. I’m Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honore ...
  • Mitt Romney Isn’t Telling the Truth &#82 ...
    Published on Oct  5, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom Mitt Romney didn’t tell the truth about his tax plan, his plan for Americans with pre-existing conditions, his Medicare plan, nor the President’s Medicare plan. Why would Romney not tell the truth about what he’d do as Presiden ...

Solari

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Today’s debate: a passionate defense of ...
    Today’s question for debate: are credentials (broadly defined) a useful way to judge opinions in our increasingly post-fact America? Post your views in the comments. One criticism that’s come up lately in comment concerns my reliance on “credentials” of people providing i ...
  • What does a “broken OODA loop” loo ...
    In a comment to an earlier post, Duncan Kinder had suggested that:  Broken OODA loop = madness. This got me to thinking about what a “broken OODA loop” might be. Could Kinder be right? [Readers not familiar with the concept might want to glance over "Boyd's Real OODA Loop," available ...
  • Rep Schultz shows how to avoid seeing the ugly ...
    Summary: Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL, Chair of the Democratic National Committee) made a revealing answer when asked about our government’s assassination programs. The resulting mockery misses the key point. Her remarks provides a fascinating look at America, but only as ...
  • Examples of America’s broken vision. Her ...
    Summary:  I’ve written thousands of words about America’s broken Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action (OODA) loop. Here we have examples of broken observation & orientation in action. These are the mechanisms that prevent us from seeing the world clearly, a precondition for ac ...
  • Under the cloak of liberalism America slides t ...
    Summary: Today’s post shows that another American has become aware that our two major parties have broadly similar policies, differing mostly in the speed with which they’ll take us to oligarchy and empire. That’s not to say that the choice is unimportant. Speed is deadly for u ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Mitt Romney Approvingly Cites UN Efforts for A ...
    You may have noticed this very early in the debate:  We don’t want another Iraq, we don’t want another Afghanistan. That’s not the right course for us. The right course for us is to make sure that we go after the — the people who are leaders of these various anti-American ...
  • Bahrain Sought to Divide and Conquer Protestor ...
    "The Uprising is Over. But What Is the Price of Bahrain’s Victory?" So asks Bahrain watcher Justin Gengler in a post at Religion and Politics in Bahrain on September 30 regarding the state of the protests there that began on February 14, 2011 in the island nation. Despite an ever-gro ...
  • The Neocons' Long Game
    (AP Photo/Pool, Win McNamee) President Barack Obama answers a question as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney listens during the third presidential debate at Lynn University, Monday, October 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Florida. Most of the snap polls taken after last night's foreign policy ...
  • How did the Candidates Differ on Iran?
    Last night’s presidential debate tended to blur some of the fundamental differences that had emerged during the campaign in the candidates’ approaches to the Iran nuclear issue, and probably left most viewers more confused about the Iranian imbroglio than ever. “Red Lines” Governor ...
  • Romney Wrong on American Weakness
    Tonight’s debate was right to include the rise of China as its own section for discussion. But taking the challenge posed by China seriously first requires an honest look at the Sino-U.S. relationship. Regrettably, here, Governor Romney instead decided to paint picture of fear and paranoia. In t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Let's Hold Off on the Champagne, Team Romney
    One way to win any close contest is to project an aura of confidence. This is exactly what we’re seeing right now from the Romney campaign. From Politico, you have a campaign advisor declaring that Mitt Romney would win 305 electoral votes on Election Day. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell says t ...
  • The "Apology Tour" Lives On
    During last night's debate, when Mitt Romney started to go off on his usual "apology tour" line, President Obama got a little smile on his face. Here it comes, I thought—he knew Romney might say this, and he's got a killer response ready. After all, there may be no single falsehood Romney has r ...
  • The Neocons' Long Game
    (AP Photo/Pool, Win McNamee) President Barack Obama answers a question as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney listens during the third presidential debate at Lynn University, Monday, October 22, 2012, in Boca Raton, Florida. Most of the snap polls taken after last night's  ...
  • Are Pollsters Undercounting Latinos?
    In the most recent national poll from Monmouth University, Mitt Romney leads President Obama by three points, 48 percent to 45 percent. If you dip into the internals, however, you’ll see something odd: Obama has a small six-point advantage over Latinos, 48 percent to 42 percent. What’s unusual ...
  • Bellwether by the Sea
    Jamelle Bouie This is part two of the Prospect’s weeklong series on the swing districts that could determine the national outcome on November 6. In a tiny Virginia Beach office belonging to Scott Rigell, an auto dealer who swept into Congress on the 2010 Tea Party Republican wave and is ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • BBC Newsnight journalist and the economic crisis
    BBC Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason discusses the current global economic crisis from a journalist’s perspective, asking – “When and how will the crisis end?” Writing in the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Mason argues that the global ec ...
  • Sound levitation makes drugs safer
    Earlier this year, researchers at Argonne National Lab demosntrated how they could use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing different pharmaceuticals. The aim being to allow solvent to evaporate with crystallisation occurring so that an amorphous form of a drug can ...
  • Customary blog post about my book
    It’s nice to be in such esteemed company. Apparently, customers who downloaded the free Kindle sampler of my forthcoming book Deceived Wisdom have also grabbed a copy of one or more of the following popular science books: “How Many Friends Does One Person Need?” by Robin Dunbar ...
  • Something for the weekend…
    Well-known popular science author John Emsley had this to say about my forthcoming book: “Bradley debunks more than a hundred popular misconceptions that govern the way we behave, and he does it in a light-hearted and enjoyable fashion.” As I think I may well have mentioned before, y ...
  • A chemistry song
    “Hallo Jen, with your eyes of cobalt blue, A man-gan-e-asily fall in love with you…” “I really like your pigtails, Why thank you, I’ve been platinum…” A chemistry song is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogA chemistry song is a post from: Sciencebase S ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU to Testify Thursday Before House Field Pa ...
    On Thursday, October 25, at 10 a.m. CT the American Civil Liberties Union will testify about the need for strong legal protections surrounding the government’s growing use of domestic drones. Information from the forum will be used to help draft legislation on this threat to privacy rights ...
  • Report Details Massive Chemical Investments in ...
    Determined to block efforts to strengthen the 36-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act, chemical interests have invested $375 million since 2005 to elect and influence industry-friendly political leaders, Common Cause said in a report released today.read more
  • Groups Urge Penn. Governor to Reverse Policy T ...
    A coalition of regional, state, and local groups is calling on Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett to reverse a new policy that would delay warning the public of water pollution from oil and gas development. Until now, regional Department of Environmental Protection offices had issued warnings, or ...
  • Sierra Club Launches “Big Polluters, Bad Polit ...
    Today, The Sierra Club launched “Big Polluters, Bad Politics,” an interactive online platform that gives Americans the chance to fight back against the corrosive influence of the dirty energy industry this election cycle. The website allows voters to easily create their own humorous ...
  • Consumer Groups Appeal Court Decision in Suit ...
    Public Citizen, Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union are appealing a federal court decision, released Monday, permanently sealing from public view key facts about a lawsuit filed by an anonymous company against the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Bizarro Romney's Foreign Policy
    Stephen Zunes Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the third and final presidential debate of the 2012 campaign was the similarity between the two candidates on many basic foreign policy issues. Part of the reason is that, as he did in the ...
  • The Death of the Israel-Palestine Two-State So ...
    Rachel Shabi We could argue over who killed it, but what's the point? It's increasingly obvious that a continued insistence on zombie peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians is deluded, because the two-state principle framing ...
  • Binders Full of Women and the Matriarchy Myth
    Linda McQuaig One of the least scary things about Mitt Romney is that, when he was trying to figure out who to appoint to his cabinet in Massachusetts, he ordered up “binders full of women.” So the rumpus over his remark in last ...
  • What a Difference Other Candidates Make
    Laura Flanders Haven’t read Lee Fang’s excellent expose on the lobbyists controlling the Presidential Debate Committee? You should. Then imagine what these debates would be like if things were very different. For one thing, ther ...
  • My Big Fat American Election
    Tom Engelhardt Obesity is an American plague -- and no, I’m not talking about overweight Americans.  I’m talking about our overweight, supersized presidential campaign.  I’m talking about Big Election, the thing ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • U.S. Poised To Be World’s Top Oil Producer, Pa ...
    Drill, Baby, Drill Strategy Won’t Lower Gasoline Prices, Will Enrich Big Oil This is a good news, bad news story, which the media, characteristically, gets half right. The AP reports today: U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the wo ...
  • Companies Fail To Regulate Pro-Smoking Content ...
    Since the adoption of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) by 168 member countries in 2005, it has been illegal for companies to publicly advertise tobacco products via any medium — including the internet. But as News-Medical reports, the ...
  • More Hispanic Voters In Arizona Given Wrong Da ...
    For the second time in as many weeks, election officials in Maricopa County, Arizona are in hot water for providing Hispanic voters with false information about when election day is. Last week, ThinkProgress reported on how Maricopa County Elections Department officials attached a document to vo ...
  • NYPD Paid Man To ‘Bait’ Muslims Into Criminal ...
    The New York Police Department used a 19-year-old paid informant to infiltrate New York’s Muslim community and then spy on it and entice individuals into criminal acts, according to a painstaking review of related evidence by the Associated Press. The activites in question: Shamiur Rahman, ...
  • CHARTS: ‘Uncertainty’ Is Not Holding Back The ...
    Congressional Republicans love to blame “uncertainty” — ostensibly caused by the Obama administration’s tax and regulatory policies — for the country’s still too slow job growth. “By pursuing a steady repeal of job-destroying regulations, we can help lift the ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Make the Rich Pay!!!
    Posters like this used to adorn telephone poles in my hometown when the Communist Party ran candidates in federal elections. I was about ten years old. My friends and I used to snicker because we knew that communists were authoritarians masquerading as democrats and they were also looney-toons l ...
  • NAMBLA Gives Award to First Nations Individual
    The North American Man-Boy Love Association today awarded a North American Aboriginal person (who has obtained a legal injunction against the publication of his name in association with this story) with their not-coveted "Person of the Year" prize. All major media outlets are featuring this sto ...
  • Are We Real?
  • Readings ...
    I feel sleepy today. So I'll just link to two books that I'm reading. Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. It was on sale at a reduced price. It's from 2003, before the Large Hadron Collider, so there you go. Some of the ideas about String Theory were good. It's a very good intro to theoretica ...
  • Rape?
    I've long had a problem with the argument that "rape is not about sex; it's about power." If that were the case, there'd be a lot more bar fights between men, ending with the loser getting forcibly sodomized, than there are. I mean, if it's not about sex, but about power, who has more power in t ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Ottawa med students protest refugee health cut ...
    University of Ottawa medical school students protested outside Parliament Hill Monday afternoon in response to a letter from Conservative MP Kelly Block regarding spending cuts to refugee health care coverage.
  • Seán Cullen keeps bringing the funny, in multi ...
    “It's a party game, and that's the atmosphere we're trying to bring,” comedy veteran Seán Cullen says about “Match Game”, the latest reboot of the classic American game show. “This version has got a little bit of everything.”
  • Recession leads to steep decline in Canadian q ...
    The Canadian Well-being index shows that since the onset of the recession between 2008 and 2010, the quality of life deteroriated by 24%. Canada's GDP, in contrast, declined by only 8.3% during the same period.
  • Amsterdam Brewery announces two new locations ...
    Amsterdam Brewing Company Ltd are relocating their current downtown operations to Leaside Village this fall, with a new Brew Pub to open on the waterfront in the spring.
  • Woman stabbed to death on Toronto street
    This morning a woman was found in a laneway near 510 Ontario Street was found by Toronto Police suffering from multiple stab wounds.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • U.S. Ambassador: Al Qaeda Could Plan Other 9/1 ...
    April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The US Ambassador is lying.” –KTRN According to Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Kabul, if the United States does not continue to occupy Afghanistan, al Qaeda would be able to plan and carry out another September 11, 2001- ...
  • Lawyer For Soldier Accused Of Afghan Slaughter ...
    April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Should anyone be surprised by this?  What are they trying to hide?” –KTRN John Henry Browne, the attorney for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the man accused of single-handedly massacring 17 Afghan villagers, is now accusing the Unit ...
  • Orwellian Free Speech Zones Expand to Mesa, Ar ...
    April 2, 2012 Activist Post By AP “Shouldn’t there be free speech everywhere? Watch the video below. The man interviewing the cop should be given a medal.” –KTRN The “free speech zone,” despite being anathema to the U.S. Constitution, has been used intermitten ...
  • French Constitutional Court Bans Law Enforceme ...
    April 2, 2012 EFF By Katitza Rodriguez & Maira Sutton Last week, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the highest authority on the French Constitution, declared the provisions of a law permitting judicial and police use of a centralized national ID database to be unconstitutional. 200 members of the ...
  • How Wall Street Manipulates and Manufactures A ...
    April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Tony Cartalucci An attempted color revolution backed by Wall Street unfolded in Bangkok, Thailand in 2010, leaving 91 dead. Since then, Wall Street as well as its proxies inside of Thailand have attempted to blame all 91 deaths on the Thai military despite overwhel ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • GOP activist charged with sexual abuse commits ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A high-profile Republican activist in Utah who was charged with multiple sex crimes has committed suicide. Greg Peterson, 37, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Heber City cabin ju ...
  • Democrats urge Justice Department to probe all ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Three House Democrats on Tuesday called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate alleged voter registration fraud carried out by a firm hired by Republicans. “We are writing today to urge t ...
  • Debate Summary: Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDebate Summary: Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel – And, oh yeah, America Antiwar.comJustin Raimondo One striking impression of this debate was that out of some 17,000 words uttered by both candidates and the moderato ...
  • Watch the Third Party Presidential Debate
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWatch the Third Party Presidential Debate By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com The presidential debates between Obama and Romney are nothing but a scripted beauty contest. Third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill St ...
  • Tweets Reveal Obama Supporters Fueled by ‘Raci ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comChris Matthews gets it wrong again Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com October 23, 2012 Not content with making violent death threats and promising riots if Obama loses, Obama voters have flooded Twitter with racist slu ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Noam Chomsky: Europe Is Now Suffering From Its ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Oct 16, 2012 by Xenu An interview with the world-renowned linguistics and political scholar, writer, and activist Noam Chomsky, discussing the financial crisis in Greece and worldwide, the global democratic deficit, and possible solutions for Greece to emerge fr ...
  • Will New York be Just Another Sacrifice Zone s ...
    by Jill Dalton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad recoveringarmybrat October 8, 2012 The woman standing at the podium may seem small and unassuming but don’t be fooled she’s a powerhouse and has a warning to share with the world. Vera Scroggins is a mother, a grandmother, resident of Susquehanna Count ...
  • The Nobel Peace Prize for War by Michael Parenti
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org October 18, 2012 Those who own the wealth of nations take care to downplay the immensity of their holdings while emphasizing the supposedly benign features of the socio-economic order over which they p ...
  • Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Ho ...
    Dandelion Salad Oct 16, 2012 by NothingIsNew88 While President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney will get the red carpets rolled out for them at Hofstra University Tuesday night, Green Party candidate Jill Stein got a far chillier reception when she and her running mate were arrested n ...
  • Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives
    Dandelion Salad Oct 8, 2012 by GeneticRoulette Are you and your family on the wrong side of a bet? When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented pr ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Survey: Most Israeli Jews would support aparth ...
    Most of the Jewish public in Israel supports the establishment of an apartheid regime in Israel if it formallhy annexes the West Bank. A majority also explicitly favors discrimination against the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Chomsky makes first Gaza visit
    Jewish-American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky reportedly called for an end to Israel's siege of Gaza, on his first ever visit to the Hamas-ruled enclave on Thursday. Chomsky, who was in the Gaza... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Jonathan Cook’s new website
    An announcement from frequent IOA contributor, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook: I am excited to announce the launch of my new website – Jonathan Cook: the View from Nazareth – and a related... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Noam Sheizaf: Between anger and denial – Israe ...
    A new documentary by frequent IOA contributor Israeli-Canadian journalist Lia Tarachansky aims to decipher some of the anxiety that accompanies the Israeli debate over the events of 1948. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
  • Gaza siege report: 2,279 calories per person – ...
    In September 2007, the [Israeli] cabinet, then headed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, decided to tighten restrictions on the movement of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip. The "red lines"... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Computer Simulation Shows Grandmas Made Humans ...
    Computer simulations provide new mathematical support for the "grandmother hypothesis" - a famous theory that humans evolved longer adult lifespans than apes because grandmothers helped feed their grandchildren.
  • APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting: Highli ...
    Insights into Flight, the Knuckleball of Soccer, Penguin Dynamics and More The 65th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) will include more than 2,000 compelling presentations from across the physical sciences, engineering, and medicine. The ...
  • UCSD Hospital Administrator is "Woman of the Year"
    Lisa Murphy, associate administrator for University of California, San Diego Health System and administrative director for Cardiovascular and Medicine Services, has been chosen "Woman of the Year" in the field of health care by the Women in Leadership program sponsored by the San Diego East Coun ...
  • Dr. Peter A. Grant Welcomed as New President o ...
    The American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) is pleased to announce the selection of Peter A. Grant, MD, to lead the organization in 2012-13 as its new president. Dr. Grant replaces John Kincaid, MD, of Indiana, who completed his term on October 4, 2012.
  • Rotorcraft Expert Farhan Gandhi Joins Renssela ...
    Rotorcraft and adaptive structures expert Farhan Gandhi recently joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr. '33 Professor of Engineering. He is a tenured full professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering.
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