24 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Breaking News: The Fourth Restatement on the ...
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’ve long wondered whether and when the American Law Institute (ALI) might try to update its 3rd Restatement on the Foreign Relations Law of the United States.  Since its 1987 publication, the two-volume set, culled together under the leadership of Profe ...
• The Election and International Law: Silence Ma ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Let’s just say international law was not a fulcrum in last night’s debate. It’s not like the topic was being discriminated against — many important topics were ignored.  (Among them the Eurozone crisis, climate change, cyberwar, NATO, anyth ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, October 23, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Iran has said it may stop oil production if Western sanctions tighten. The United Kingdom will double the number of drones it has in Afghanistan for combat and surveillance missions. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germany could take part in assist ...
• Controversy at the Security Council: Children ...
  by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon Children and armed conflict or “CAAC” (as the unharmonious acronym goes), has become a controversial area of activity for the UN Security Council.   Although the Security Council has adopted a series of important resolutions on the topic since 2005, its most rec ...
• The U.S. Can “Drone” the Benghazi Perpetrators ...
  by Julian Ku Kevin and I have still never met in person, but we've already had our first twitter encounter last week on the legality of a U.S. military response to the attacks that killed the U.S. Ambassador in Libya (as well as three other Americans).  Although the news reports on the attacks ...

Public News Service

• Media Debate: More Newsrooms Avoid “Ille ...
  Media Debate: More Newsrooms Avoid “Illegal Immigrants” PHOENIX, Ariz. - Adjective or adverb? More newsrooms are debating how best to use the word "illegal" when referring to residents who did not move to the U.S. with proper documentation. ...(Read More)
• Champions of Paid Care Leave: More Baby Talk N ...
  Champions of Paid Care Leave: More Baby Talk Needed in Prez Debates PHOENIX – Abortion, contraception and equal pay for women have come up so far in the debates between President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney. Not yet discussed, however, is why America lags behind many other nations in ...
• ASU Campus Tobacco Ban Part of a National Trend
  ASU Campus Tobacco Ban Part of a National Trend PHOENIX - Arizona State University joins a national trend next month when it announces a total ban of on-campus tobacco use effective next August. The ban is likely to include events at Gammage Auditorium and Sun Devil Stadium. Kathy Staats, a pr ...
• Latino Leaders Celebrate Colorado River Heritage
  Latino Leaders Celebrate Colorado River Heritage PHOENIX, Ariz. - Preserving the Colorado River was the focus of Wednesday's gathering of Southwestern Latino leaders in Yuma. The event was a celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez and the river itself, which is s ...
• Poll: Immigration Top Issue for AZ Latino Voters
  Poll: Immigration Top Issue for AZ Latino Voters PHOENIX - Arizona's registered Latino voters say immigration reform and the DREAM Act are the most important issues that should be addressed by Congress and the president. That's one result from the latest poll by Latino Decisions. In other state ...

Center for Food Safety

• California Newspaper Editorial Boards Spread F ...
  By Michele Simon Each election season, proponents and opponents of the various initiatives on the California ballot hope for the state’s major newspaper endorsements. While you can’t expect every paper to endorse your side, Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods produced using gen ...
• Center for Food Safety Releases New Geneticall ...
  Latest research shows 61 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE foods, while U.S. lags behind Center for Food Safety (CFS) has announced the release of its new, interactive Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Labeling Laws map detailing the powerful, growing presence of laws requiring ...
• Why California Needs Prop 37: Center for Food ...
  by Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high fructos ...
• “Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Cou ...
  By Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media uproar and consumer ...
• Center for Food Safety Calls Dow, SOCC Backroo ...
  Today, Center for Food Safety issued a response to a joint statement by The Save Our Crop Coalition (SOCC) and Dow Chemical announcing SOCC has dropped its opposition to 2,4-D resistant “Agent Orange” crops. This backroom agreement was made prior to any approval of 2,4-D resistant crops by the U ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

• Fractal Reality
  We inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...
• Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?
  Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
• O Ridiculous Fortune
  O fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
• Where’s the switch?
  I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
• Older and Wiser
  I had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...

Green Times

• Kangaroo cull
  Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
• Environmental News 01/06/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
• Green Capital Australia
  Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
• Environmental News 31/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
• Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
  Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook addresses mobile monetization concern ...
  Facebook announced today that 14 percent of its total advertising revenue in Q3 came from mobile ads — less than 8 months since the company began its monetization efforts in the space. According to earnings reports, Facebook generated $1.086 billion … Continue reading →
• Facebook’s global growth in Q3: 1.01B MAU, 604 ...
  Facebook today shared new stats on its user growth across the globe, including that it reached 1.01 billion monthly active users on Sept. 14. This is a 26 percent increase year-over-year. The social network also reports that 604 million people now … Continue reading →
• Facebook reports $1.262B in revenue for Q3 201 ...
  Facebook today reported $1.262 billion in revenue for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2012 — a 32 percent increase from the $954 million reported in Q3 2011. Revenue from advertising was $1.09 billion, representing 86 percent of total revenue … Continue reading →
• Zuckerberg: The games ecosystem is growing
  Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Facebook’s games ecosystem “is not doing as well as I’d like” today on Facebook’s Q3 earnings call, though he said it is growing overall. Payments revenue from social game giant Zynga dropped 20 percent for … Continue reading ...
• Facebook code hints at ads possibly coming to ...
  New wording in the code for Facebook Messages suggests the social network could introduce a type of promoted product within a user’s inbox. Developer Tom Waddington, who was first to spot code for a Want button, pointed us to three … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

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

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Boiling Frogs Post: It Boils Down to ‘Us’ vs. ...
  Support the Alternative to Mainstream & Pseudo Alternatives Dear Readers & Friends: Three years ago this website began with very few of us and a few of you. I promised (to myself and you) a site where the irate minority, those aware and tired of the creators of lies-fables-smoke and mirr ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• FDL’s Gosztola Takes on Obama & the Assault on ...
  The Toothless Nature of Obama’s Recent Directive is No Accident or Mistake Last Friday, Firedoglake’s Kevin Gosztola took on Obama and his NGO entourages in Washington on the administration’s recent cosmetic and toothless directive to provide an appearance of protection for government whistleblo ...
• My Brief Interview on RT- For War with Syria: ...
  ‘NATO, Turkey seek pretense for attack on Syria’ Yesterday I was on RT for a brief interview on the recent developments in the long-ago-planned US war on Syria. As I mentioned during the interview, Boiling Frogs Post was one of the first news sites reporting on those long-ago-conceiv ...
• Podcast Show #96: Austerity is the Consensus o ...
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Eric Draitser Eric Draitser joins us to define and discuss austerity, what austerity looks like in the US, the fact that austerity is the consensus of both parties, why an anti-austerity movement is essential in the US, and helps us connect what’s happening ...

Afro Spear

• sat’day riddymz
• “Imagine If” by Ian Ki’laas ...
  This is so deep I had to share it! Ok, Let’s do a little exercise in contextualizing. Imagine if: There was a caucasian relocation program specifically targetting caucasians to remove them from the areas where Indigenous peoples lived and where they desired to make a profit from the trees, ...
• sat’day riddymz
  A Bob Marley kinda day today! Jah Rastafari!
• Surprising Europe Series
  A fascinating 9 part series on the experiences of African migrants, mostly undocument workers, in various European countries. As an immigrant to Canada myself, I identify with some of these personal experiences. In the late 50′s, early 60′s, my parents travelled to England to study a ...
• A new 3rd party candidate for US presidency!

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• The Missionary Equivalent of Military Service
  Whoopie Goldberg questioned Ann Romney regarding her "qualifications," should she become First Lady, for consoling the bereaved family members of the fallen given that her husband never served in the military but, rather, spent the Vietnam War as a Mormon Missionary in France. A-1 In response, ...
• Obama Officials to New York Times, Iran/U/S. A ...
  It was probably an election ploy but yesterday Obama administration officials leaked to the NY Times the administration had reached a mutual agreement in principle w/ Iran on direct one-on-one negotiations. Simply put, if the madness of war w/ Iran can be averted by one-on-one talks the world ca ...
• Karen Greenberg: Preparing for a Digital 9/11
  Traditionally, war powers have resided with Congress -- or so the Constitutional story goes. It's been a long time, of course, since that's been a reality, but over the last few decades American wars have become ever more purely and starkly presidential in nature.
• Thoughts Regarding Tonight's Debate
  As we listen to Democratic and Republican presidential candidates it is worth saying that a thoughtful foreign policy isn't about who can drop the most bombs. In August I asked, "Will we continue to spend tax dollars to create even more U.S. enemies which will then be used to justify the expendi ...
• Rigged Elections for Romney?
  Extensive analysis of 50 state Republican primaries shows a major tend of vote flipping that favored Mitt Romney in the 2012 Republican primaries. What does this mean for the 2012 election?

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• What Happened to Barack Obama? Um, He Had to W ...
  The class of writers like John Cook with a sad because Barack Obama isn’t the adult standing above the fray he was in 2008 shows a lot of naivete about politics. Why is Obama using terms like “Romnesia?” Oh, I don’t know. Maybe because the Republicans have shown for the l ...
• The Decline of Civilization
  If it hasn’t already started, I’d say this might be the time. I don’t care that the review said it was less terrible than you’d expect. There are lines that should not be crossed.
• Texas History: The More You Know, The More You ...
  I had a fairly good sense of violence against white opponents of secession in Texas during the early period of the Civil War, including the massacre of German settlers as they attempted to flee to Mexico. I was somewhat aware of the hangings at Gainesville, in the north part of the state near th ...
• The Hack Gap Revisited
  Republican operatives are plunging ahead with nonsense about how Romney was just fine in the two debates he lost, now tied to the idea that he will cruise to victory when he’s still clearly behind. I agree that this is what’s going on: In recent days, the vibe emanating from Mitt Rom ...
• Final Debate Thoughts: Horses and Bayonets
  Some thoughts over at the Diplomat on the debate, and on what a Romney administration Navy might look like: However, the Romney campaign has given little indication as to how it will pay for these increases.  Unless it can reallocate funding from the other services, an increase in the size of th ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Construction Begins On Masdar City’s Big Green ...
• 15MW Solar Plant In Mauritania Will Boost Grid ...
• Developing India’s Solar Power Sector: Potenti ...
• Conscious Commuter Offers Discounts On E-Bike ...
• Federal Weatherization Program A Winner On All ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Law school retains luster for many recent grad ...
  Nearly all of the recent graduates surveyed by test preparation company Kaplan Inc. in August gave their law school either an "A" or "B" grade, even though more than half had yet to find legal jobs.
• Judge shutters phony law firm run by attorney- ...
  Michael Mancini, proprietor of the fictitious Scalia & Seidel, has been blocked from conducting business and ordered to pay $261,000.
• Fourth Circuit: Obscenity directed at judge ca ...
  A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on October 23 unanimously upheld the criminal contempt conviction of a man who used obscene language in a federal courtroom in South Carolina last year.
• Consumer financial agency draws ire by ruling ...
  On October 24, the CFPB released its final rule for overseeing debt collectors, and included attorneys among those who will be subject to direct federal supervision for the first time.
• Ex-staffer says she was ordered to pad law sch ...
  A former assistant career services dean at the Thomas Jefferson Law School has filed a declaration in a class action against the institution in which she acknowledges padding graduate employment statistics in 2006.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Another Case of Self-Immolation Stirs Controve ...
  Labrang Tashikyil monastery is one of the great monasteries in the Gelugpa tradition and one of the most important centers of Tibetan religious culture in Tibet.
• PA TV Hails Terrorists as 'Heroes' in Annual B ...
  On June 15, 1975, terrorists from the Arab Liberation Front penetrated the Israeli village Kfar Yuval near the Lebanese border. Four terrorists seized control of one of the homes and held its inhabitants hostage. Three Israelis were killed.
• US Allocates $58M Additional Aid to Crisis in ...
  Hillary Rodham Clinton notes that although the famine in Somalia ended earlier this year, more than two million people in that country still urgently need humanitarian aid.
• Dino Vassilopoulos The Real Deal Behind Hollyw ...
  Dino Vassilopoulos is a bodyguard to the stars, and a master of the martial arts. Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel gives readers here an exclusive interview with the powerhouse behind some of Hollywood's most rich and powerful.
• US Calls for Ceasefire in Syria During Eid Al-Adha
  Eid al-Adha is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honor the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ismael as an act of obedience to God.

environment 360

• French Panel Rejects Study That Linked GM Corn ...
  An independent state panel in France has rejected the findings of a recent controversial study that linked genetically modified corn to cancer in rats, but the panel did recommend long-term research into the risks of genetically engineered food. In the report, requested by the French government, ...
• Solar Geoengineering Projects Could Be More Ef ...
  A new modeling study by several geoengineering experts suggests that injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to block more of the sun’s energy and reduce temperatures could be most effective when done on a region-by-region basis. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, said tha ...
• Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science ...
  On issues ranging from genetically modified crops to nuclear power, environmentalists are increasingly refusing to listen to scientific arguments that challenge standard green positions. This approach risks weakening the environmental movement and empowering climate contrarians. BY FRED PEARCE
• Shifting Arctic Wind Patterns May Cause Increa ...
  U.S. scientists say unusual air pressure patterns over the Arctic during the month of June in recent years have altered wind patterns in the region, funneling warmer air into the Arctic and contributing to record low Arctic View images NOAA Air pressure over the Arctic, 2007-2012. summe ...
• Increased Nutrient Levels May Drive Collapse o ...
  Increasing levels of nutrients seeping from septic systems and lawn fertilizers may be driving the steady decline of salt marshesthat has occurred along the U.S. East coast in recent decades, a new study has found. David S. Johnson/MBL While scientists had long believed that salt marshes ...

Red Ice Creations

• A massive and illegal geoengineering project h ...
  A private company backed by a controversial U.S. businessman has unilaterally conducted the world’s most significant geoengineering project to date. Russ George, in conjunction with a First Nations village, has dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean in a technique known ...
• The Strange Disappearance of Granger Taylor
  On the night of November 29, 1980, gale force winds tore through the central portion of Vancouver Island, knocking out the electricity and sending locals scurrying for shelter. In the midst of this violent storm a shy and uncannily bright young man posted a short note on his father’s bedroom doo ...
• Police to spy on drivers suspected of texting ...
  As more states ban texting behind the wheel in a fight against deadly driver distractions, police departments around the country have found enforcing those laws difficult, if not impossible. Now a new federal grant will pay for experimenting with the only technique shown to work so far -- spying ...
• The Minden Mystery: Meteorite, or Misdirection?
  We’ve been receiving a lot of information regarding the mysterious events of October 15, 2012 in Minden, Louisiana. Apparently the small forest town was rocked late Monday night by a blast so large that it shattered windows, damaged homes within a 25 mile radius, and was reportedly felt by many ...
• Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doct ...
  Modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world’s most popular grain. Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn’t the wheat your grandma had: "It’s an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in ...

Russia Today

• Thousands in Madrid protest 2013 budget cuts ( ...
  Thousands have taken to the streets of the Spanish capital, just outside the Parliament building, to protest their government’s latest bid to further cut spending in 2013. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Lebanese Army imposes ceasefire between rival ...
  The Lebanese Army has deployed soldiers to Tripoli, claiming a ceasefire has been arranged there following three days of deadly fighting between Sunni and Alawite gunmen. Both claim loyalty to different sides in the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Arrested development: Tunisia deeply divided o ...
  One year since the mass uprising in Tunisia was vindicated by the election of its National Constituent Assembly, the country remains split on almost every issue, with tensions over a stalled constitution, human rights... Read Full Article at RT.com
• 'ACTA and SOPA for the blind': US, EU block tr ...
  The US and the EU are adamantly defending media copyright laws in their latest attempt to tackle counterfeit goods online. But while publishers reap the benefits, disabled persons suffer - and some even say they are... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Iran threatens to stop oil exports, considers ...
  Iran warns that it could stop exporting oil, driving global crude prices up, should the US and allied Europe tighten sanctions further. For such a case, Tehran says, it has a contingency strategy to carry on without oil... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• ARGO is a near deftly crafted thriller, jingoi ...
  This movie is rated AYFKM– Film critics are unanimous in their praise of ARGO, Matt Damon’s retelling of an Iran Hostage Crisis era escape caper. Either these reviews also reflect media agencies uniformly shrugging off Argo’s obvious anti-Iranian jingoism or these authors are i ...
• Democratic Party Chairwoman shows own ignoranc ...
  Amazing! Obama Rep. Schultz on The NDAA and Secret Kill List —How can a top Democratic party leader be so ignorant of her own party’s politics?
• Austerity for the Business Class, and not for ...
• And what about Ronald Reagan?
  - Ronald Reagan is the real but totally unmentioned war criminal masermind here in this story linked to below about supposedly only one Guatemalan and his immigration to the US. -How an Accused Guatemalan War Criminal (Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes) Won U.S., Canadian Citizenship …Notice how ...
• Yet another alleged and absolutely fake &#8216 ...
  ——- Here we go again, with yet another fake ‘terror attack’ planned by our own national political police authorities and our own US politicians who OK this sort of buffoonery. But just who is this confused and baffled looking fall guy for our racist US policing forces to ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Clarion PA, Library Now Has '9/11 Experts Spea ...
  From Pennsylvanians for 9/11 Truth: I made sure with library staff that the DVD would be made available for rental and not go into a book fair or whatever. I donated DVDs at another library once that never made it into the catalog. So make sure you do that and get to donating if you're able! T ...
• We are not tin foil hat wearers...
  This is a tin foil hat wearer (Skip to ~17:00)... This is from the final episode of the new series of "Conspiracy Road Trip" on BBC3. It's about UFOs. Seriously, I didn't know there were people out there who actually wore tin foil hats. I always thought that was something the Simpsons made up ...
• Action Alert: Contact TV Program Unsealed Cons ...
  After recently catching a few episodes of the new program Unsealed Conspiracy Files, I decided to write them today and passd along information on AE911Truth, peer-reviewed papers supporting controlled demolition, the NORAD stand-down, and 9/11 whistleblowers. Here was their response: Hi John, ...
• 9/11 Free Fall-- Dr. Crockett Grabbe, Controll ...
  Apparently, since Grabbe is such an esteemed scientist, some "debunkers" on the JREF Forum have resorted to theorizing brain damage was the reason for his being a controlled demolition advocate. As their usual ally Oystein wrote: Folks, seriously, this "brain damage" argument - it's weak. As ...
• New Video: Century of Manipulation
  New video! Probably my best one yet if you can stand the highly repetitive background music that I stretched out for 18 minutes! I had real trouble finding music I liked for this one. This video covers: The Reichstag fire and Hitler's rise to power Pearl Harbor Hiroshima Operation Northwoods ...

Fooducate

• Opinion: Don’t Blame “Added Sugars” in Food fo ...
• Are You a Breakfast Eater or a Breakfast Skipper?
• Video Contest: Pour One Out!
• Arsenic and Rice. A Deadly Combination
• 5 Myths About Kids and Food

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• UK snubs tribal rights by refusing to ratify k ...
  The more countries that ratify ILO 169, the more protection it offers for tribal peoples everywhere.© Stephen Corry/SurvivalThe UK has dismayed tribal and indigenous peoples as well as activists around the world by refusing to ratify a key international law, which protects their basic human righ ...
• Land grabs in Ethiopia leave tribes hungry on ...
  A boy from the Lower Omo stands on the riverbank.© SurvivalViolent land grabs in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley are displacing tribes and preventing them from cultivating their land, leaving thousands of people hungry and ‘waiting to die’. As the world prepares to raise awareness of the issues beh ...
• Leaked plans to resettle Penan surface as bloc ...
  The Penan's blockade of the Murum dam road began on 26th September.© SCANE/SurvivalLeaked plans to resettle Malaysia’s Penan have surfaced, as the tribe continues to hold a two-week blockade on the road leading to the controversial Murum dam. Anger is growing within the tribe, which says i ...
• Australia’s Channel 7 seeks judicial review of ...
  Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease.© Channel 7Australia’s Channel 7 goes to court tomorrow (11 October) seeking judicial review of a devastating ruling a ...
• Company boss named in forgery probe linked to ...
  Paraguay's Ayoreo were the victims of a forgery scandal earlier this year.© SurvivalThe boss of a company controlled by one of Spain’s biggest corporations has been linked to a scandal involving forged signatures in Paraguay. Diego Eduardo León is the vice-President and acting Chairman of ...

Greg Palast

• Romney & Co Shipped Every Single Delphi UAW Jo ...
  by Greg Palast | Truthout He's kidding, right? Did I just hear Mitt Romney say, "I would do nothing to hurt the US auto industry" Really? REALLY? Here's the facts, ma'am: As I reported in this week's Nation magazine cover story "Mitt Romney's Bail-out Bonanza", the Romneys are in a special ...
• Romney's Auto Bailout Profiteering Palast on D ...
  Watch Greg Palast talk about his new Nation magazine article Romney's Bailout Bonanza. Elements of this story appear in Palast’s brand new New York Times Bestseller: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. * * * * * * * * Greg Palast is the author of the New ...
• Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza
  by Greg Palast for The Nation Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television ads blasting Romney’s November 2008 New York Times op-ed,“Let Detroit Go Bankrup ...
• It's Magic!
  by Greg Palast for FireDogLake Here’s an easy way to spoil a vote: digitize it . . . then lose the digits. Prestidigitation is the French-derived term for conjury, legerdemain, sleight-of-hand, presto-change-o hand-jive, disappearing trickery . . . or, in the language of Karl Rove, “Helping Amer ...
• Latinos–too lazy to vote?
  by Greg Palast for Utne Reader It’s lookin’ bad for the old white guys. Eleven million Hispanic citizens remain unregistered, Americans all, and 15 million kids between the ages of 18 and 24 who can’t be pried away from Facebook long enough to register—at least so the tally of vote registries sa ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Update: 10/23
  Oct. 17, 2012, Loop 21: Online debate: Pro vs Con: Should We Immunize Our Children? Dr. John Snyder and Barbara Loe Fisher debate Oct. 22, 2012 FORBES: Jenny McCarthy Is A Newspaper Columnist Oct. 22, 2012 Huffington: Chicago Sun-Times Signs...
• Dr. Carol Stott: The beginning of a blog, and ...
  By Carol Stott How appropriate that the first post on my new blog comes at the end of an era. Today my friends, Polly and Jonathan Tommey, have arrived in the US with their family, for the beginning of a...
• Dachel Media Update: 10/22
  Oct 21, 2012, The Wichita Eagle: Number of autistic Wichita students doubles in five years Oct 21, 2012: The Detroit Free Press: Health Q&A: Study was a hoax; MMR vaccine doesn't cause autism The Wichita Eagle This is surreal. No...
• What Is Causing Beta Amyloid Production In Alz ...
  By Teresa Conrick It is not new news that beta amyloid, a protein heavily studied in Alzheimer's disease has also been showing up in Autism: 2006 - High levels of Alzheimer beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) in children with severely autistic...
• You Know What I Hate?
  By Natalie Palumbo People that cry over inspirational videos that show no concern in real life. I am 18, a senior in high school, and the younger sibling of a 21 year old brother with low verbal autism. First, the...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• A Rat’s Tale
  Animated cartoon on GMOs. This says it all!
• GMO Labeling Guys Sponsored by Anti-labeling D ...
  Why is the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), which puts out the Non-GMO Shopping Guide, sponsored by Silk, which is owned by Dean Foods, which is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting GMO labeling in California? Isn’t this a conflict of interest?
• America and Australia Team up at Fair Dinkum Radio
  [Fair Dinkum] Today at 12 noon Pacific Time, Leon Pittard from Fair Dinkum Radio in Australia and I will be broadcasting on American Freedom Radio and discussing the GMO threat.
• The Right to Know About Your Food Would Explod ...
  Celebs get on the Label GMOs bandwagon - Danny DeVito, Bill Maher and more: The Right to Know About Your Food Would Explode Your Puny Little Head
• “Tell Us What You’re Growing” Label GMO Foods ...
  Singin' it! Tell us what you are growing and label GMOs!

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

• The Keys to a New Life
  When the Ethiopian village of Enda Silassie worked with Water.org to install a new handpump, they also came together to choose a community water guardian.
• Talking Water on Wall Street Journal Report
  Maria Bartiromo, Wall Street Journal Report, talks to Oscar winner Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of Water.org, about the big bet they’re making to bring clean water to the nearly 1 billion people without it. Watch the interview.
• Short Stories: Haitian Collection
  Mike McCamon, CCO for Water.org, recently visited Haiti and saw something in Port au Prince that underlined why we do the work we do.
• Charlie Rose Discusses the Water Crisis
  Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White joined Charlie Rose for a discussion about the water crisis on September 27th.
• 6 Things You Can Do Now
  When we stare facts in the face - 780 million people lack access to an improved water source - it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. However, everyone has a role to play, here are six things you can do right now to help.

Before It's News

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

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• The US Navy has fewer warships, but more solar ...
  China Lake is home to NAVAIR’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). While energy remains at the top of the agenda in the US election, Governor Mitt Romney’s ...
• Solar Power Helps Drive Energy Prices Down in ...
  The recent uptake of solar and wind energy across South Australia has forced the State’s pricing regulator to reassess wholesale electricity costs, recommending an 8.1% cut to power bills. read more
• Solar Power Helps Drive Energy Prices Down in ...
  The recent uptake of solar and wind energy across South Australia has forced the State’s pricing regulator to reassess wholesale electricity costs, recommending an 8.1% cut to power bills. read more
• Obama administration makes 285,000 acres avail ...
  The Obama administration's new and more refined approach to solar energy development called the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy, establishes 17 “solar energy zones” on federal land that will “serve ...
• Obama administration makes 285,000 acres avail ...
  The Obama administration's new and more refined approach to solar energy development called the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy, establishes 17 “solar energy zones” on federal land that will “serve as pr ...

News Blaze

• Another Case of Self-Immolation Stirs Controve ...
  Labrang Tashikyil monastery is one of the great monasteries in the Gelugpa tradition and one of the most important centers of Tibetan religious culture in Tibet.
• PA TV Hails Terrorists as 'Heroes' in Annual B ...
  On June 15, 1975, terrorists from the Arab Liberation Front penetrated the Israeli village Kfar Yuval near the Lebanese border. Four terrorists seized control of one of the homes and held its inhabitants hostage. Three Israelis were killed.
• US Allocates $58M Additional Aid to Crisis in ...
  Hillary Rodham Clinton notes that although the famine in Somalia ended earlier this year, more than two million people in that country still urgently need humanitarian aid.
• Dino Vassilopoulos The Real Deal Behind Hollyw ...
  Dino Vassilopoulos is a bodyguard to the stars, and a master of the martial arts. Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel gives readers here an exclusive interview with the powerhouse behind some of Hollywood's most rich and powerful.
• US Calls for Ceasefire in Syria During Eid Al-Adha
  Eid al-Adha is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honor the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ismael as an act of obedience to God.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Helpful (and Not So Helpful) Responses to a Lo ...
  Have you ever been in the position of hearing the surprising news from a friend or family member that he has dementia? Or, perhaps you're in the early stages of Alzheimer's and have decided to share this recent diagnosis with a friend. Are you concerned about how she'll react?... Read Fu ...
• Does Social Anxiety Make You Selfish?
  I was recently reading through some forum postings on the topic of social anxiety and selfishness. The posters were debating whether having social anxiety makes you selfish.... Read Full Post
• Food Irradiation
  A reader recently asked me about food irradiation. It sounds scary, but it's been around for a long time and appears to be a safe way to reduce germs that ... Read Full Post
• Invasion of Asian Lady Bugs!
  They fly. They swarm. They cause nasal allergies and asthma. Who are they? Asian ladybugs, of course! And in many parts of the Midwest and East Coast, they're invading homes and causing all sorts of allergy problems. Asian Ladybugs cause allergies as a result of the droppings and body parts they ...
• Sink Your Teeth into Dental Health Month!
  October is Dental Hygiene Month, which makes sense since most of us consume more candy than usual this month! If you are like me, you avoid buying Halloween candy until the very last moment so you don't end up eating your body weight in miniature chocolate bars!... Read Full Post

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

• In the Grip of War and Sanctions…. Damas ...
  Franklin Lamb Damascus The half hour drive from the Lebanese border at Maznaa to Damascus is always pleasant with the wide, well paved and maintained highway, cutting through rolling hills often with large herds of goats and sheep lazily watching the traffic below. As this observer watched som ...
• Two Essays from the Past, On the 10th Annivers ...
  Gary G. Kohls October 25th, a week and a half before 2012’s election day, was the 10th anniversary of the death of Paul Wellstone. A number of commemorative events during the week and, sadly, the loss of this courageous patriot will soon be forgotten by voters who should care enormously t ...
• Rigged Elections for Romney?
  By Michael Collins A group of independent researchers caught a pattern of apparent vote flipping during the 2012 Republican primaries that consistently favored Mitt Romney. A form of election fraud, vote flipping occurs when votes are changed from one candidate to another or several others duri ...
• Western Media Dictatorship
  By Dr. Elias Akleh The Western wars against the Middle Eastern countries, especially the Islamic Republic of Iran, had been escalated, lately, to an unprecedented higher level. Besides being economical, political, intelligence and technological, the war had been escalated to include telecommun ...
• Rage Against Austerity
  by Stephen Lendman The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan. Together they planned force-fed pain. They met secretly. They mandated poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and hunger during hard times. They did it when vital help is needed. Officially it's called "austerity." Obama calls ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• Paul Seyfried, of Utah Shelter Systems the new ...
  I’ll sell you a “Duck and Cover” Manual for three dollars. A lot cheaper and just as affective by Margarette Burnette,foxbusiness.com – If you are worried about protecting your family from a tornado, hurricane, wildfire or worse — radioactive particles from a nuclea ...
• “October Surprise”: The Nobel Peace Committee’ ...
  By Felicity Arbuthnot,globalresearch.ca – “When Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize satire died”, satirist Tom Lehrer, memorably commented. The Former US Secretary of State was awarded his Nobel for “negotiating the Vietnam Peace Accords.” In fact he had been involved in oversight of the s ...
• McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul
  By Chris Hedges,TruthDig - In the summer of 1972, when I was 15, I persuaded my parents to let me ride my bike down to the local George McGovern headquarters every morning to work on his campaign. McGovern, who died early Sunday morning in South Dakota at the age of 90, embodied the core values ...
• Hippie Digest: Black Magic Man – Joni Mi ...
  Black Magic Man Legendary Latin rock guitarist Carlos Santana talks about his first gig in India, spirituality and an upcoming memoir The summer of 1969 was epic — Flower Children across the World were basking in the glory of the Summer of Love, rock n roll was at its peak and a hippie renaissan ...
• THANKFULLY: The LAST Debate
  By Sherry Pasquarello ,WWH/CJE - I must confess that I was very nervous leading up to this debate. Not so much that the president might look as if he lost but because some real damage could have been done in our ongoing relations in some pretty dicey events overseas right now.  I figured the pre ...

FourWinds10

• Researchers discover massive methane 'fountain ...
  Dec. 22, 2011 (NaturalNews) When a Russian team recently stumbled upon a few methane "fountains" releasing large amounts of methane gas from shallow arctic waters directly into the atmosphere, they had no idea that there were hundreds, if not thousands, more. The UK's Daily Mail re ...
• Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to Portect Badl ...
  Feb. 4, 2012 Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to protect Badlands National Park from coal pollution.   Scenic Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota is visited by nearly a million people each year,1 but the park's beautiful views are increasingly threatened by air pollution from ...
• Judge Bars 17 Chevron Executives From Leaving ...
• Fracking's Health and Environmental Impacts Gr ...
• FRACKING: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania's ...
  March 22, 2012 Corruption and politics may be at the root of why Pennsylvania has allowed near-unlimited drilling for natural gas--at the expense of health and environment. (part 3 of 3) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploit ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

• Twelve Interactive Activities for Learning Abo ...
  Comments:Edutopia has shared a nice collection of classroom lessons engaging students through the election process.  The resources shared are even broken down by grade levels.  - Dean MantzTags: edutopia, interactive, activities, elections, studentsby: Dean Mantz
• Free Technology for Teachers: Six Multimedia T ...
  Tags: freetech4teachers, timeline, multimedia, createby: Dean Mantz
• 30+ Really Useful Infographics Tools & Resources
  Comments:Over 30 infographic tools and resources. - Carolyn RainsTags: infographics, infographic, resourcesby: Carolyn Rains
• instaGrok | A new way to learn
  Comments:Very interesting and resource rich visual search engine. It will even filter searches.  - Dean MantzTags: searchengine, research, tools, education, learning, Grokby: Dean Mantz
• Using Google Apps On Your iPad - miGoogle
  Tags: google, google appsby: Cheryl Lykowski

Rodale News

• 4 Food Myths—Busted!
  Maggots in canned mushrooms, drug residues in chicken, filth and insect bits in shrimp…sometimes there's just nothing good to say about the state of our food supply. But that's not the case on Food Day, a day devoted to celebrating healthy, sustainable food and what it can do for your health an ...
• Study: Organic Protects Kids from Superbugs, P ...
  So is organic really better for kids? Conflicting headlines from recent published reports make it hard for parents to decide. New studies from Stanford University and the University of Florida attempt to analyze the current state of research looking at two very different matters—nutritional con ...
• Boys Going Through Puberty Surprisingly Early, ...
  In a finding that can have all sorts of negative health ramifications, researchers from the University of North Carolina have discovered that boys are now going through puberty up to two years earlier than boys did 30 years ago. African-American boys are entering puberty at about 9 years old, ...
• 12 Fun Ways to Prevent Colds…Organically!
  Chicken soup, echinacea, R&R—they're all great cures for the common cold, but why suffer through one if you can keep the pesky rhinovirus from attacking your system in the first place? And what better way to prevent colds than drinking beer and singing in the shower? Take a few of these ti ...
• The Shocking Reason Your Salad Could Be Making ...
  Ever wonder if there's really that much difference between conventional and organic lettuce sold at the supermarket? On the outside, the two may not look very different at all. But what's on—and even inside—some of those greens could predispose people to weight gain. New research appearing in t ...

big think

• Social Locator App Puts Self-Photos On Screens ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? MeetMe, a social locator app available for iOS and Android, is taking the concept of meeting local people a couple of steps further by adding a new feature, Photoboard, that will allow users to take and upl ...
• Neuroscientist Declares Female Colleagues Too ...
  In the umpteenth example of the Onion-ification of reality—the collapse between real life and parody--Jezebel gives us this item on a University of Chicago neuroscientist who was attending a professional conference. He posted on Facebook that female neuroscientists weren’t attractive enough to . ...
• Is the iPad Mini too small for the Classroom?
  Apple announced the new iPad Mini today and as so often the rumors and leaked pictures of prototypes we have seen over the past couple of months were pretty accurate. And we can be sure that the latest product in the Apple lineup will sell like sliced bread. As you know, education and es ...
• The Worst Song in the World: Music & Evolution ...
  Several years ago Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid teamed with violinist, composer and neuroscientist Dave Soldier to explore popular music preferences in the United States. They determined what music people enjoyed or disliked based on a series of questionnaires and used the data to profile “ ...
• E-Book "Pay What You Want" Bundle Shatters Exp ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? The Humble e-book Bundle, a collection of 13 science fiction and fantasy titles available for sale at a price chosen by the buyer, has sold more than $1.1 million worth of copies since it launched on Octobe ...

Information Liberation

• America's Drone Terrorism
  In the United States, the dominant narrative about the use of drones in Pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the U.S. safer by enabling *targeted killing* of terrorists, with minimal downsides or collateral impacts. T...
• Georgia Man Holding Pepper Spray Killed in Dru ...
  Georgia police executing a drug search warrant shot and killed the 60-year-old home owner holding a canister of pepper spray of during a confrontation last Wednesday. Daniel John Thomas Hammett becomes the 51st person to die in US domestic drug la...
• Am I Free to Go?
  A man stands up to checkpoint thugs in Texas....
• America's Prisons are Worse than Iran's
  Shane Bauer was one of three American hikers arrested in Iran after accidentally crossing that country*s border with Iraq. He eventually spent more than two years incarcerated in Tehran*s Evin Prison, including four months in solitary confinement. ...
• Stingrays: The Biggest Technological Threat to ...
  On Friday, EFF and the ACLU submitted an amicus brief in United States v. Rigmaiden, a closely-followed case that has enormous consequences for individuals' Fourth Amendment rights in their home and on their cell phone. As the Wall Street Journal ex...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...
  I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … Continue reading →
• Clutching At Straws
  I’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
• Clutching At Straws
  I’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
• Getting The Government We Deserve
  I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
• Getting The Government We Deserve
  I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Increased Greenhouse-gas Intensity of Rice Pro ...
  Nature Climate Change (Published online 21 October 2012; doi:10.1038/nclimate1712) / by Kees Jan van Groenigen, Chris van Kessel and Bruce A. Hungate http://bit.ly/TqOY5X [Abstract]  Increased atmospheric CO2 and rising temperatures are expected to affect rice yields and greenhouse-gas (GHG) emi ...
• Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabiliti ...
  Cooperative Report to the 2013 National Climate Assessment / edited by Burkett, V.R. and Davidson, M.A. Burkett_Davidson_Coasts_Final_2012-1012 Burkett_Davidson_Coasts_References_Final_2012-1012 “The report was compiled by a team of authors that reviewed the literature produced since the l ...
• Valuing the Ocean [book preview]
  Stockholm Environment Institute / edited by Kevin Noone, Rashid Sumaila and Robert J Díaz http://www.sei-international.org/publications?pid=2064 (executive summary, extended summary versions and previews of selected chapters) [From Valuing the Ocean Environment: Economic perspectives chapter]  & ...
• Detailed Maps of Tropical Forest Types are Wit ...
  Forest Ecology and Management (2012) v279 p147–166 / by E.H. Helmer http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/pubs/ja_iitf_2012_helmer001.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Tiffany Stecker, sub. req'd]  Satellite images taken during certain key periods — like stretches of drought or the flowering ...
• Best Practices for Leading Sustainability Efforts
  IBM Center for the Business of Government http://bit.ly/PSX1DV This report: Examines the sustainability processes of three organizations, two private and one public Identifies three recommendations that demonstrate the critical success factors for meeting sustainability compliance The purpose of ...

Scientific American - News

• Egg Freezing Enters Clinical Mainstream
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• Climate Scientist Sues for Defamation
  Michael Mann, an influential climatologist who has spent years in the center of the debate over climate science, has sued two organizations that have accused him of academic fraud and of improperly manipulating data. [More]
• GPS-Free Tech Can Track Miners' and Soldiers' ...
  A mining crew is trapped deep underground after a cave-in. Firefighters run into a smoke-spewing high-rise to battle a violent blaze. A team of soldiers breaches a door and storms into a dark building. [More]
• Bill McKibben Launches Campus Crusade for Climate
  BURLINGTON, Vt. – Bill McKibben is lanky, soft-spoken, scholarly and engaging. He may also be the closest thing the U.S. environmental movement has to a leader. [More]
• Gene Genesis: Scientists Observe New Genes Evo ...
  The history of life on Earth has been marked by the evolution of new genes--humans clearly have more genes with more diverse functions than do amoebas. So where do these additional genes, with their new roles, come from? Analysis of genomes shows that the duplication and modification of existing ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Murder of Anti-Mining Activists in Mexico a St ...
  Barzón leader and his partner shot to death in Chihuahua after harassment from people paid by Vancouver based company CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO-The double murder of the leader of the Barzón, Ismael Solorio Urrutia, and his wife, Manuela Martha Solí ...
• Rising Tide Targets Shell Tar Sands Plans
  VANCOUVER - Rising Tide activists targeted Shell Canada in Vancouver this afternoon to protest Shell's expansion plans in the Tar Sands. Protesters blocked three gas stations in East Vancouver in support of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. Shell Canada is proposing two new tar sands min ...
• Local Residents Bring Pipeline Fight to the Pumps
  Vancouver activists demonstrate in solidarity with Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Constitutional Challenge of Shell’s Tar Sands Mining Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories- Vancouver Actvists took the Tar Sands fight to the gas p ...
• Resistance to Deportations Growing
  Teach-in held at University of Regina A campaign to save two University of Regina students from deportation is gathering steam across Cana ...
• En solidarité avec les InnuEs en lutte de Uash ...
  le vendredi 19 octobre à «Montréal» Entrevue avec deux participantEs autochtones à une manifestation tenue devant le siège social d'Hydro-Québec à «Montréal» en support aux InnuEs de Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam qui ont bloqué la ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Romney's biggest lie
  David Seaton's News LinksEye on the bottom line Except for his sincerely wanting to be president, it is very difficult to locate any truth in Willard Mitt Romney. However, we may be able to take him at his word when he says he believes that his success in making lots of money in business especia ...
• Mitt got whupped
  David Seaton's News LinksWhat a poem this man's face is: anger mixed with fear. He almost looks like he is going to burst into tears. I think he knows he is beaten. It might be more appropriate for Romney's autobiography to be titled "Dreams from my Father", than Obama's. DS
• Barack fights back
  David Seaton's News LinksHe was having a ball I had my doubts for a while, but now I think I might have been right to imagine in a previous post that President Obama threw the first debate, that he deliberately underperformed.The question would have to be, why take such a huge, deliberate risk?T ...
• You say you want a revolution... it's staring ...
  David Seaton's News Links The continued slide in median earning power, rather than public obfuscation or even lack of jobs, is America’s real problem. It is the wood as distinct from the trees. It tends to loom larger when the television is off. Edward Luce - Financial Times What we are witnes ...
• Maybe Obama is actually up to something
  David Seaton's News Links If you study the effect of Obama's stunningly bad debate performance, all the sound and the fury is coming from Obama's supporters. They are electrified, galvanized... to use Samuel L. Jackson catchy phrase they finally seem to have awakened "the f**K up". Take a look a ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Meet the Snake Oil Salesman of the Voter Fraud ...
  In my piece a few months ago about the Republican push for voter ID laws ("The Dog That Voted"), I hung my narrative largely around Thor Hearne, the little-known Republican lawyer who founded the American Center for Voting Rights in 2005 and spent the next two years barnstorming the country wi ...
• Quote of the Day: Leave George Bush Alone!
  From Jennifer Rubin, in a column insisting that Barack Obama has too apologized for America: Liberals don't even see that Obama’s excoriating his predecessor is apologizing for this nation, but of course it is. George W. Bush wasn't acting as a private citizen, and whatever he actions ...
• Programming Note: Obama Is Expanding His Lead ...
  Just a quick update. The press mostly seems to be stuck in its post-first-debate groove of insisting that Mitt Romney has all the momentum and is closing fast on President Obama. And maybe so. But that's not what our best forecasters think. Models from both Sam Wang and Nate Silver show the sa ...
• The Triumphant Return of the Hack Gap
  Speaking of the hack gap, can I take a little victory lap on this? Think about what we saw last night: Mitt Romney dispassionately marched through the entire oeuvre of conservative obsessions on foreign policy and rejected virtually every single one of them. He's getting out of Afghanistan wit ...
• Mitt Romney Wants to "Indict" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  I'm just curious. Has this passage from the debate last night gotten any attention in conservative circles? It's Mitt Romney explaining what he'd do to Iran aside from tightening sanctions further: Secondly, I’d take on diplomatic isolation efforts. I’d make sure that Ahmadineja ...

Insanity Report

• IC 356: Trick or Treating For Jesus
  Topics: Changes to The Insanity Report Political douchebags 2007 All-Star game Black events Who should be cast in the Justice League Movie? Disney’s first Latina princess Share with your friends:
• IC 355: Binders Full of Stupid
  Topics: People Asking Stupid Questions The real problem with Tyler Perry Movies The election needs to end Liberals aren’t built for this Its not really funny Movie News Deer Crossings Share with your friends:
• IC 354: Don’t Start No Shit, Won’t Be No Shit
  Topics: Making Santa quit smoking Anderson Silva is the greatest fighter in combat sports history Bringing a first date to a fight party That Uppercut What a real debate is Anti-Goon What “if you want to act like a man” means to Kriss Kriss admits to being a coward Movie news Danny D ...
• IC 353: The Rant Show
  Topics: The Rant Show Using your real name on Twitter Not giving a fuck 7th Day Adventist Cheery people suck Jurassic Park 4 Too Fat to kill Share with your friends:
• IC 352: Stanning for Celebrities
  Topics: Groupons for Dates Bet you’re still gonna eat the food Teasing vs Bullying The Debates and Politics are depressing No one cares about PBS Jay-Z and celebrity stans Jay-Z’s ownership == marketing and not much more The Cabin in the Woods commentary David Denby makes some ridicu ...

Simple Climate

• Cause vagueness hinders climate extinction action
  A PhD class from Stony Brook University in New York State has found that difficulties in researching how climate wipes organisms out have left a knowledge gap, and urges scientists to tackle these tough questions.
• Focus on uncertain climate cliff-edge invites ...
  Not knowing what greenhouse gas level climate catastrophe might happen at undermines negotiations using emission limits alone, an experiment by Scott Barrett and Astrid Dannenberg from the Earth Institute at Columbia University suggests
• Warming weakens deep freeze on Arctic islands
  Current Svalbard temperatures are the warmest in 1,800 years say William D’Andrea from Columbia University in New York and his teammates
• New models still give Arctic summer ice 30 years
  September Arctic ice will be ‘nearly gone’ between 2021 and 2043, Muyin Wang from the University of Washington finds, even though only seven of the top climate models simulate the area well.
• Warming cost estimates cheat our children
  Economic analysis of the social cost of carbon that treats future generations as less important is close to insanity, according to economist Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.

e!Science News

• Local wildlife is important in human diets
  Animals like antelope, frogs and rodents may be tricky to catch, but they provide protein in places where traditional livestock are scarce. According to the authors of a new paper in Animal Frontiers, meat from wild animals is increasingly important in central Africa. read more
• Analysis of dinosaur bone cells confirms ancie ...
  A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has found more evidence for the preservation of ancient dinosaur proteins, including reactivity to antibodies that target specific proteins normally found in bone cells of vertebrates. These resul ...
• Scientists build 'mechanically active' DNA mat ...
  Artificial muscles and self-propelled goo may be the stuff of Hollywood fiction, but for UC Santa Barbara scientists Omar Saleh and Deborah Fygenson, the reality of it is not that far away. By blending their areas of expertise, the pair have created a dynamic gel made of DNA that mechanically re ...
• Neutron experiments give unprecedented look at ...
  Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found that nitrogen atoms in the compound uranium nitride exhibit unexpected, distinct vibrations that form a nearly ideal realization of a physics textbook model known as the isotropic quantum harmonic oscillator. rea ...
• The Generation X report
  Less than half of Generation X adults can identify our home in the universe, a spiral galaxy, according to a University of Michigan report. read more

unEarthed

• Fracking in California? We're On The Case.
  We file a lawsuit, state officials scramble to respond Fracking rig.  (Bob Warhover) Here’s what we know: Fracking is already happening in Californ ...
• Too Close to Risk It
  Shell’s drill ship off the coast of treasured wilderness The Arctic Refuge is one of the most splendid stretches of wilderness left in America.  (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
• How Clean Are Your Local Waterways?
  And how do your Congressional reps vote on clean water? You know that creek in your backyard, or the river or lake near your town? Have any idea what kind of condition it is in, or how polluted it is? Most people probably don ...
• Lies, Damned Lies And Coal Company Biologists
  Forests will die someday, why shouldn't coal companies help them along? Bear claw marks on aspen in the Sunset Trail Roadless Area. (Ted Zukoski / Earthjustice) ...
• Time To Slay Another Dragon At Fisheating Creek
  Earthjustice sues to protect a 15-year-old victory in Florida Fisheating Creek As everyone involved in the environmental movement knows, we’ve got to st ...

Brave New Climate

• The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstratio ...
  I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24 Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...
• Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...
  Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...
• Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...
  The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on ...
• 21st century nuclear… for beginners
  SACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
• Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
  This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Chuck Todd Is An Idiot Someone Tell Him Electr ...
  Today Mr. Todd tweeted “The voting machine conspiracies belong in same category as the Trump birther garbage.” Chuck, you are an idiot. Anyone that thinks “electronic voting systems” are secure, unhackable, and can’t be compromised belongs in a nuthouse. I really do ...
• Republican Arrested For Throwing Away Voter Re ...
  The Republicans are up to their old tricks. Hiring slimeball companies to sign up voters, and then throwing away the registration forms of Democrats. Make sure everyone involved is prosecuted. Pennsylvania Man Arrested On 12 Felonies
• Tagg Romney Is A Tough Guy Who Wants To Take A ...
  Tagg, I know you are not used to watching your daddy being pushed around by anyone. He has always been the boss, and has always been the bully. In this case he tried to bully someone with more character in his little finger than your whole family has combined. I know it could be a [...]
• All Facts Tax Plan
  A simple plan to fix America’s (and the world’s) revenue / tax problems. Audit all bank accounts worldwide. Calculate taxes on all funds held at 35% of all income over $1,000,000 per year for all individuals and return the money to the countries they stole the money from. Tax all cor ...
• Romey Releases Tax Plan
  Click – HERE – to find out the details on Romney’s Tax Plan!

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Photos: Three arrested as settlers, soldiers d ...
  It was the first time Hashem Al Azzeh could harvest his olives in five years. Living directly next door to the Tel Rumeida settlement, which like all West Bank settlements is illegal under international law, he has faced years of harassment and violence from some of Israel’s most ideologic ...
• Poll: Israelis support discrimination against ...
  A majority of the public wants the state to discriminate against Palestinians, says a poll published in Haaretz. The findings don’t reflect a failure in education, as some might argue, but rather the inherently discriminatory nature of the state and the result of decades-long occupation. G ...
• +972 bloggers discuss the U.S. foreign policy ...
  U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican contender Mitt Romney faced off in Boca Raton, Florida in the third and final debate on Monday. The debate focused on foreign policy, with a major emphasis on the Middle East. +972 bloggers discuss the debate, the candidates, and their positions on the ...
• Anti-abortion group comes under fire following ...
  Raz Atias was shot by police after holding a gun to his pregnant girlfriend’s head. Relatives of the girl are now blaming Efrat, an anti-abortion group, for ‘brainwashing teens.’  The Hebrew news cycle was dominated last weekend by the death of Raz Atias following a shootout wi ...
• Tonight’s debate: What Obama can’t ...
  Americans should be scared to vote for Romney, but they’re too scared and antagonistic toward Muslims for Obama to tell them why.  Tonight’s Obama-Romney foreign policy debate is no doubt going to go heavy on the issues of Iran and Israel. By rights, Obama has a powerful argument to ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Meeting with the Queensland Government
  The meeting with Deputy Premier Seeney and Minister Powell today was productive and is hopefully the first step in resolving the differences which have unfolded between the Commonwealth and Queensland over the past fortnight.
• World Environment Day delivers new protection ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced new funding to protect the Great Barrier Reef from the coral eating crown-of-thorns starfish.
• Statement on Queensland Environmental Assessments
  Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has issued a response to a statement issued by Queensland Deputy Premier Jeff Seeny
• Minister welcomes UNESCO's Great Barrier Reef ...
  Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has welcomed the release of a joint UNESCO World Heritage Centre and International Union for the Conservation of Nature report on the Great Barrier Reef.
• Queensland environmental regulation
  Response to media statement from Deputy Premier Seeney about the environmental assessment of the Alpha project.

Matt Weidner Blog

• From 3rd Party Debate: THE NDAA IS THE MOST UN ...
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• LIVE NOW! The Third Party Presidential Debate ...
  There are 12 candidates of Florida’s ballot for United States President. The two clowns that were on last night were just puppets for Goldman Sachs and the fact that one of them will be elected shows how corrupt this nation is and what fools Americans have become. Four of the candidates th ...
• THE CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DISGUST ME ...
  The Presidential Debates are a scam, an affront to the delusion of democracy some Amerikans still harbor.  Or, as the respected League of Women Voters wrote: WASHINGTON, DC —”The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October beca ...
• GMAC Bankruptcy Borrowers’s Committee&#8 ...
  For the reasons explained below, the Court denies the Motion. I suppose we shouldn’t really have suspected anything more…with what this nation has become. God Help Us All….. The Court has approved two stalking horse purchase agreements: one with Nationstar Mortgage LLC as the s ...
• BANK OF AMERICA (wells, chase, citi, etc.)&#82 ...
  The matrix we all need to be paying attention to is the fact that the BANKS DO NOT OWN THESE LOANS. THE BANKS DON’T REALLY HAVE THE GREATER VESTED INTEREST IN THESE LOANS….THE INVESTORS DO! Understanding this…and keeping the implications of this in mind are critical. Recently I ...

abelard - news

• cameron confronting the eussr by steps | civil ...
  A graceful distancng from the qauasi-communist European Union taking away civil rights.
• auch cathedral choir stalls | French cathedral ...
  1,500 mediaeval wood carvings on 113 stalls (seats) are a hidden treasure to marvel.
• after 50 years, people are now allowed to esca ...
  The socialist legacy of Fidele Castro gradually recedes.
• romney as comedian at al smith dinner - edgy a ...
  Latest Gallup poll and Romney's fund-raiser speech.
• denying agw - a couple of amusing graphs | beh ...
  Just as statistics can be massaged to appear to show whatever is wanted, so can graphs.

The Parallel Parliament

• The Biggest Obstacle In Running For Politics
  You want to run politically – locally, provincially, or federally. You might think that your greatest challenge will be the …Continue reading »
• The Political Industrial Complex
  There was a strong reaction to my last blog post on the need for good folks to run for politics. …Continue reading »
• Go For It
  By now we’ve all heard of Malala Yousafzai,  the 14-year old Pakistani education advocate who was attacked on her school …Continue reading »
• Get Some Sleep – We Could Use It
  Most of us remain aware of the advantages of sleep, even as we feel we never get enough of it. …Continue reading »
• A Nobel Gesture
  Fifty-five years ago today – October 12, 1957 – a cable was sent to his residence from Oslo, but ended …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...
  If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
• Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...
  Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.
• World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...
  October seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused as t ...
• The Farm Bill – What Now?
  As of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to make [.. ...
• Where Was Agriculture in the Presidential Debate?
  Ignoring agriculture and food policy in presidential debates is nothing new, but the availability of food is essential to life.

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

• Obama edges it over defensive, under-confident ...
  Caroline Mortimer reports on the final American presidential debate where Obama scored a triumphant win on foreign policy and security.
• One small step for flip-flop Mitt, one giant l ...
  As we enter the last few weeks of the presidential campaign, last night's debate saw Mitt Romney change policy yet again.
• Gummer attacks Daily Mail: “You will not ...
  Speaking at today's TUC's climate change conference, John Gummer, the Tory head of the Climate Change Committee, launched a stinging attack on the Daily Mail.
• The “bang ‘em up” brigade&#8 ...
  Andrew Neilson, is the director of campaigns at the Howard League, rebuts the latest right-wing claims on longer prison sentences deterring crime.
• SNP resignations leave Salmond with majority o ...
  Highland and Islands MSPs John Finnie & Jean Urquhart have announced they have quit the Scottish National Party over Alex Salmond's decision not to leave NATO.

Consumerist

• Mistaking A Table For Your Own Private Bedroom ...
  Nothing ruins a pleasant family dinner like the couple at the next table who simply won’t stop getting down to bedroom business in front of everyone. Or at least the parents at nearby tables on the patio of a Florida restaurant felt their dining experiences were negatively affected when a ...
• Your Warm Little Smartphone Makes A Perfectly ...
  Ladies and germs, you can wash your hands and refuse to touch the bathroom handle at work without a paper towel as often as you want, but you might be cradling a veritable incubator of bacteria right up to your face all day long anyway. Those warm little constant companions of ours, smartphones, ...
• If You Haven’t Seen Your Doctor In A Few ...
  For years, a growing number of healthcare providers have been tacking on fees that most patients didn’t notice because they were being paid by insurance companies. But as insurance companies trim the list of fees they’ll cover — and employers shift to cheaper health plans to ke ...
• It’s Like UPS Sent Me A Bill From 1953
  Rick should not have needed to speak to six separate customer service representatives at UPS in order to pay his bill for an international package. He received a bill with no indication that they accept credit cards: only a stub to return with his check or money order. He doesn’t use check ...
• Complaining About McDonald’s Food Is One ...
  A disappointing meal can be quite the infuriating experience, that much is true. However, as good consumers, we must complain with our words and not with slaps. A woman in Pennsylvania allegedly resorted to such uncouth tactics, unfortunately, after her meal from McDonald’s was less than h ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• The Back Story to Kiriakou's Imminent Guilty Plea
  John KiriakouA change of plea hearing is set for today at 11:00 am in the Espionage Act case against Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whistleblower John Kiriakou. Let's be clear, there is one reason, and one reason only that John Kiriakou is taking this plea: for the certainty that he'll ...
• Canadian Whistleblower Office Retaliates Again ...
  Ottawa Citizen: Integrity Commissioner Says Criticism Deters Whistleblowers Summary: GAP’s Canadian counterpart, the Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR), has been critical of that country’s agency designated to protect whistleblowers – the Office of the Public Sector. ...
• CIA Whistleblower to Spend Years in Jail for R ...
  DO NOT let this become the headline. As reported over the weekend, (here and here) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whistleblower John Kiriakou is inches from being put in jail for allegedly "outing" a torturer. ("Outing" is in quotes because the allegations are not that Ki ...
• Corporate Whistleblowers Gain New Rights and O ...
  Largely under the public radar, the last decade has seen a legal revolution in the United States in the area of corporate freedom of speech. Although a hodgepodge of 57 laws protecting corporate and government whistleblowers remains, 11 private sector laws passed since the turn of the millenniu ...
• SEC Whistleblower Office Has Received Nearly 3 ...
  Wall Street Journal: SEC Whistleblower Office Gets Nearly 3,000 Tips Summary: The SEC whistleblower program, which opened in August 2011, has already received nearly 3,000 tips. In addition, the SEC Commissioner said this week that there’s been a “noticeable difference” in the quality of infor ...

UK Progressive

• Bolivia: Life at the Extreme Edge of Climate C ...
  by: Robert Hunziker The Earth is really truly changing right before our eyes, weather patterns are more erratic than ever before, storms more severe, droughts more parched, and glaciers disappearing faster than ever. This is climate change, and it is different… different from what anybody rememb ...
• Did the Dark Money Group that Spurred a Landma ...
  by Kim Barker, ProPublica and Emma Schwartz, PBS Frontline A western nonprofit that played a key role in freeing corporate spending on elections nationwide appears to have misled the IRS when it applied for the tax-exempt status that shields its donors from being publicly disclosed. Documents ob ...
• Thanks Alternet for Explaining My Post China T ...
  by Denis Campbell I sent much of August and part of September recovering from a nagging, undiagnosed illness I attributed to fatigue, travel and weather after an 11-day race across Western China. In last week’s series on Mitt’s China investments, I jokingly called the Xinjiang provin ...
• Romney the Detail Man?
  by Robert Reich The so-called “mainstream media” (aka The New York Times) is constantly being assailed by Republicans and the right for their supposedly liberal slant. Yet another convenient right-wing lie. Take, for example, Saturday’s above-the-fold NY Times story, entitled (in the print editi ...
• Hard To Believe: Romney Lies Like Bush
  by Charley James When George W. Bush was president, comic genius Harry Shearer wrote and recorded Songs of the Bushmen that included “Who Is Yoo? (He’s The Torture Memo Man)” and “Turd Blossom Special” about Karl Rove. Also on the album was “935 Lies,” w ...

NewsAlert

• Chicago to borrow $78.4 million to pay for fir ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times on running out of money.
• Temporary Medicaid pay hike confuses doctor
  The Washington Post
• Gender Gap in Election Fueled More by Men Than ...
  Gallup
• REZKO, OBAMA, AND THE NADHMI AUCHI RAILROAD LI ...
  Former Undersecretary of Defense for International Technology Security John A. Shaw has a three part series of articles in Illinois Pay to Play. Here's an extract from part one:The kingpin of Iraqi corruption, Nadhmi Auchi, and his Chicago henchman, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, built a well-financed ne ...
• Decline Of The Asian Family: Drop In Births Th ...
  New Geography reports:The signs of an emerging Asian malaise can be seen in slowing economies — in Japan’s case an almost two-decade-long stagnation. South Korea and Singapore may grow this year at levels approaching that of the United States — mediocre by their historic standards. The notion of ...

JoNova

• Heatwave kills thousands of birds — thi ...
  Trawling through our National Archives, Lance Pidgeon has found stories of how a heatwave in 1932 was so extreme that it caused mass bird deaths across outback Australia. The PDF is posted on Warwick Hughes blog. As Lance says, imagine the headlines if that had happened 80 years later.  Presumab ...
• A discussion of the Slaying the Sky Dragon sci ...
   ”Skeptics” are described as if they are one small block of  fringe extremists, but not only is half the population skeptical in some sense, in this debate I am not on either extreme, but a centrist, smack in the middle. On the one hand, alarmists are convinced the climate is headed ...
• Unthreaded Weekend
  For all those thoughts that don’t belong… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
• Gergis hockey stick withdrawn. This is what 95 ...
  In May it was all over the newspapers, in June it was shown to be badly flawed. By October, it quietly gets withdrawn.  The apology and press release are coming soon…right? Thanks to help from the Australian Research Council it only took 300,000 dollars and three years to produce a paper t ...
• Buy gold while it’s in the ground (Plus David ...
  Next Monday David is speaking at The Gold Symposium in Sydney. (I’ll be in the audience, and at the GoldNerds booth.) Who should go? — only people who don’t want to be poor. Money is grubby thing, but financial independence means freedom. Freedom to spend time writing what a he ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• The Global Impact of a Yellowstone Eruption
  It is well-known by U.S. survivalists that if Yellowstone erupts, the western half of the country will be a terrible place to be. And because ash will ruin motors, the only way to survive would be to stay indoors for long periods, and survive on stored food and water. But what about the rest of ...
• Most Recent Magnetic Pole Shift Just 41,000 Ye ...
  Orthodox scientists, especially those who debunk the idea of a magnetic pole shift in 2012, need to keep up with the latest research and perhaps change their tune. Newly published data has confirmed that the Laschamp event was not an excursion, but actually a full-blown magnetic reversal that oc ...
• Visit Mexico Post-2012
  Mexico is packed full of tourists for the next few months, strange folk drawn to the homeland of an apocalyptic prophecy, at the time the doomsday is meant to occur. If they didn’t believe it was special, they wouldn’t be there… But next year it will be relatively quiet, and vi ...
• All Roads Lead To Prepping
  I believe in prepping so much that I can’t see any valid argument for not preparing for the worst. I’m not a blinkered, narrow-minded obsessive, but rather a rational bloke who has thought about all the arguments for and against. Consider the evidence: Our grandparents (generally) ...
• Scientist warns of Mount Fuji eruption
  There are two reasons why Mount Fuji in Japan should be feared: 1) Obviously a major eruption in Japan could affect the entire planet economically 2) It used to erupt every 30 years, but has been dormant since 1707 Now Japanese scientist Professor Toshitsugu Fujii has warned that Fuji is due for ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Army squandered over Rs 100 cr between ’09-’11 ...
  An internal audit report of the Defence Ministry has detected a loss of over Rs. 100 crore in spendings by six army commanders between 2009 and 2011, prompting defence minister AK Antony to order strict checks and balances on expenditure. Reported by Firstpost 40 minutes ago
• Facebook’s mobile surprise allays growth fears
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc ( FB.O ) grew mobile advertising revenue several times in the third quarter, a faster-than-expected pace that helped drive shares in the world's No. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Asian shares slip, focus on China data
  TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares faltered while the yen firmed on Wednesday as investors maintained their risk aversive, spurred by continued weak corporate earnings results worldwide and worries about economic slowdowns. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Powerful 6.6 magnitude quake strikes Costa Ric ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck western Costa Rica on Tuesday, the U.S. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
• PVP Ventures to bid for new IPL franchise
  PVP Ventures, a Hyderabad-based multi business house which has interest in realty, media and entertainment, on Tuesday said that it would throw its hat in the upcoming bidding for a new Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise. Reported by Rediff.com 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Bush and Blair Wanted for War Crimes
• Chavez : La crise syrienne est planifiée et pr ...
• The Truth About the Commission on Presidential ...
• The New Corporate State: Exposing UK Police Vi ...
• Remember Us: Gaza Refugees in Jordan

Daily Tech

• ARM Celebrates Another Winning Quarter, Pocket ...
  Ubiquitous chipmaker beats the street expectations
• Microsoft Adds Two 250GB Models to Subsidized ...
  Customers can get these prices on any of the three models when they sign up for an Xbox Live Gold account for two years
• Despite Junk Status, Nokia Hopes to Score $750 ...
  Bond offering will only be available to Europeans, will be converted to shares
• House Committee Looks into Terms of DOE's Fisk ...
  The Committee wants a look at all emails exchanged between the White House, DOE and Treasury regarding tax implications of the Fisker loans
• Apple Unveils 7.9" iPad mini, 16GB Model Start ...
  Apple goes for the kill in the tablet market

Oriental Review

• America’s Pacific Zone of War
  The United States has successfully installed two America-compliant leaders as the heads of government of Australia and New Zealand, Washington’s two most important Asia-Pacific regional allies. Both leaders, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, rose ra ...
• How to Find Qualified Afghan Leadership
  As 2014 approaches and NATO prepares to leave Afghanistan while the Afghan presidential election begins to activate, there are a set of indigenous conditions that must set the standard for the effective transfer of power to qualified Afghan leadership that cannot be ignored any longer by policy ...
• Europe’s Peacekeeping Process
  Call the European Union anything you want: an organization, an association, a community, etc. But the EU is a state just like Russia, China or any other. The main difference between the EU and Russia is that the European Union is a confederation, whereas Russia is a federation. Interestingly, a ...
• Episode 8. The Great Odd War (IV)
  Part I Part II Part III At the point when the Russian command began to run into difficulties during the German offensive in 1915, they vainly tried to get at least some kind of real help from the Allies. The actions of the Entente countries however, unlike their adversaries, continued to lack co ...
• Nobel Insane Asylum
  A rare and extravagant news has come from the Nobel Committee: The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the European Union – an organization comprising 27 European nations that has absolutely nothing to do with international military and political conflicts management according to its charter. ...

BlogHer

• Cinnamon-Spiced Fish Tagine with Raisins and C ...
  I do blogging kind of like I do laundry. Are you ready for this? You sure? The fact is I'm not very good at doing laundry. You see, we have the "general" pile: socks, PJs, gym clothes, pretty much anything I don't really care about separating. That gets thrown in the hamper and my darling h ...
• Why Kids Today Worry Me
  Most of the time I roll my eyes at "kids these days" sentiments and blog posts. Yes, being a kid today is different than when we were children. It's supposed to be! That said, Becky at Stories About My Underpants had me howling with her incomplete list of why kids today worry her. Howling. Becau ...
• Today's Apple iPad Mini Announcement
  Today's Apple Announcements were in a smaller venue – a theater in San Jose – and were live-streamed on Apple TV and the Apple website. Apple hasn't live-streamed an event in quite some time. But the news that Apple indeed will be taking orders on the iPad Mini starting on Friday was as big as e ...
• Russell Means: A Warrior Goes Home
  Russell Means, best known as an actor and a Native American activist, died on Monday, October 22 at age 72. While you may recognize him from one of his many films, such as "Last of the Mohicans", Dana Lone Hill, who blogs at Just a Rez Chick remembers him as a warrior for the American Indian Mov ...
• The Importance of Supporting Young Mothers
  [Editor's Note: I wish I had read this post by Chaunie at Tiny Blue Lines in 2003. Maybe my journey would have been the same, but maybe I wouldn't have felt so alone, so judged, so abnormal just for being pregnant. I am all for supporting young mothers, for empowering them to be the best they ca ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• New Self-Healing Coating for Aluminum Develope ...
  A research team at the University of Nevada, Reno has developed a new environmentally-friendly coating for aluminum to replace the carcinogenic chromate coatings used in aerospace applications. The chromate conversion coatings have been used for ...
• TV, Devices in Kids’ Bedrooms Linked to ...
  Children who bask in the nighttime glow of a TV or computer don’t get enough rest and suffer from poor lifestyle habits, new research from the University of Alberta has shown. A province-wide survey of Grade ...
• Flu Shot Being Forced on Health Workers
  Why don’t they want it? Because some of them know too much. Here’s the whole tawdry tale. This week we learned that hospital employees throughout Colorado will be fired unless they get a flu shot by the end ...
• Antibiotic Resistance Racing Downriver
  The South Platte River system begins in pristine Rocky Mountain streams and flows east through the Coloradan plateau dotted with cattle ranches, sheep pastures, dairy farms — and human wastewater-treatment plants. In the first quantitative ...
• Monsanto Tries to Criminalize Saving Seeds, Dr ...
  As if its costly genetic tampering with the whole natural world weren’t brazen enough, Monsanto continues to bully and intimidate farmers across the United States, hoping this time to push its agenda through the highest ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Don Blankenship: ‘American competitioni ...
  We’ve had a couple of posts over the last few weeks (see here and here) about the recent activities of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. Well, it seems Blankenship has also launched his own website, DonBlankenship.com. The site makes for some interesting reading, proclaiming Blanke ...
• What could President Obama say about coal?
  President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial for the victims of the Upper Branch Mine explosion at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center in Beckley, W.Va., Sunday, April 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) We’ve covered several times on this blog (see here, here and here) how silly ...
• AP on the future of the coalfields: ‘The ...
  In this April 2010 photo, a coal miner drives a scoop while working in the Tech Leasing and Rebuild Inc. Mine #1 in Buchanan County, Va. Once, coal miners were literally at war with their employers. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger) If you missed it yesterday, you really should ta ...
• Friday roundup, Oct. 19, 2012
  In this March 16, 2011, file photo, exhaust rises from smokestacks in front of piles of coal at NRG Energy’s W.A. Parish Electric Generating Station in Thompsons, Texas. Everyone wants clean air and water. But people also want to drive their cars whenever they wish and light up a room by f ...
• Coal up in August, but long-term decline continues
  The U.S. Energy Information Administration has some new data out today: In August 2012, coal produced 39% of U.S. electricity, up from a low of 32% in April 2012, when the natural gas share of generation equaled that of coal. Increased demand for electric power in the summer months—to run air co ...

Daniel Miessler

• Reality Check: FiveThirtyEight Has Obama as a ...
  image from nytimes The news media and internet seem a bit confused right now about how close (or not) the presidential race is. I won’t flirt: it’s not close. If you’ve not heard of Nate Silver before, he’s a true force when it comes to election polling. He used to blog o ...
• The Happy Secret to Better Work | TED
  An extraordinary presentation, on many levels. Related ContentSam Harris on the Joe Rogan ShowMichael Smith @rybolov DDoS Talk‪Java TrailerCultivating Gratefulness | TEDMagnet Through Copper Pipe
• Zagg Keyboard for iPad
  As part of my workflow I am looking to do more with remote coding via iPad, SSH, and tmux. As part of that I’ve purchased a keyboard for my iPad–the Zagg Backlit Pro model. I’m quite pleased with it. Anyone else using a keyboard with their iPad in an attempt to be more effectiv ...
• Site Redesign in Progress
  web survey I’m looking to do a pretty major redesign of the site in the next few months, and I’ve started already. The general concepts are: Simplicity and legibility A minimalist feel Even better performance Focus on current content This has materialized as: I’ve removed the s ...
• Profit vs. The Middle Class
  Both the left and the right talk about the health of the middle class as a key indicator of American prosperity, but they fail to give specifics on ideal minimum income, the ideal cost of healthcare, etc. If we were able to define those key goals properly we’d be able to identify what&#821 ...

Fitwatch

• Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
  Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
• Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
  Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
• Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...
  Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...
• Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #3 – Affinity ...
  For the purposes of a mass demonstration, affinity groups – small groups of people who attend the same demonstration together - are a great way to stay safe and anonymous, providing a miniature support network that is both empowering and practical. This is one of the first things you should be c ...
• Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous! #2 – Masking Up
  This is possibly the easiest form of FITwatching that can be done. It is 100% legal (although you need to read the Legal Information at the bottom of this post), keeps you off a database and, when done en masse, creates a sea of obscured faces that are much harder to identify. This is something ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Environmentally Speaking: Kansas Teen Files Cl ...
  Kansas Teen Files Climate Change Lawsuit (Topeka, Kansas) – In the current ‘political climate’ of disinformation regarding human-caused climate change, and the pervasive political (Congressional) inertia to do anything substantive about it, it is quite heartening to know that some of the most se ...
• Paul Seyfried, of Utah Shelter Systems the new ...
  I’ll sell you a “Duck and Cover” Manual for three dollars. A lot cheaper and just as affective by Margarette Burnette,foxbusiness.com – If you are worried about protecting your family from a tornado, hurricane, wildfire or worse — radioactive particles from a nuclea ...
• “October Surprise”: The Nobel Peace Committee’ ...
  By Felicity Arbuthnot,globalresearch.ca – “When Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize satire died”, satirist Tom Lehrer, memorably commented. The Former US Secretary of State was awarded his Nobel for “negotiating the Vietnam Peace Accords.” In fact he had been involved in oversight of the s ...
• McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul
  By Chris Hedges,TruthDig - In the summer of 1972, when I was 15, I persuaded my parents to let me ride my bike down to the local George McGovern headquarters every morning to work on his campaign. McGovern, who died early Sunday morning in South Dakota at the age of 90, embodied the core values ...
• Hippie Digest: Black Magic Man – Joni Mi ...
  Black Magic Man Legendary Latin rock guitarist Carlos Santana talks about his first gig in India, spirituality and an upcoming memoir The summer of 1969 was epic — Flower Children across the World were basking in the glory of the Summer of Love, rock n roll was at its peak and a hippie renaissan ...

reference frame

• Climate hysteria in presidential debates RIP ( ...
  In the hot summer of 1988, James Hansen gave his notorious and by now perfectly discredited testimony in front of the U.S. Congress in which he has predicted approximately 1 °C of warming for the following 25 years. It was an election year in America and the the first one in which the "climat ...
• Alan Guth on himself, science, cosmology
  Aside from Edward Witten, another well-known winner of the Newton Medal (in 2009) was Alan Guth, the first father of cosmic inflation. Two month ago, the Institute for Physics posted the post-Newton-Medal interview with him, too. He had no science background in his family. At least ...
• Italy earthquake witch trial: 6 years in prison
  A few moments ago, I randomly made a Google News search about the Italian earthquake trial that I discussed in June 2011 and September 2011. And holy cow, the verdict is just out: L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists guilty of manslaughter (BBC) That's incredible. Even a year ago when I talke ...
• Edward Witten on science, strings, himself
  Two months ago, the Institute of Physics revealed this YouTube video: Edward Witten, whom they still call "a 2010 Newton Medal Winner" rather than the "An Inaugural Milner Prize Winner" because they think that £1,000 with a stamp "IOP" on it (plus the name of Isaac Newton, without ...
• In awe about entanglement
  Entanglement is nothing else than correlation described in the quantum language Quantum entanglement is arguably the most "sexy" feature of quantum mechanics when it comes to the exploitation and abuse of quantum mechanics by popular books and TV programs. When I talk to the laymen and w ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Who Came Up With The Phrase, False Flag ?!
  Anytime I hear this statement, It was a false flag attack, I cringe. Why does it matter? Any action is going to have a reaction no matter who or what started it, right? It is so… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: False flag attacks by the United States Just ...
• Amanda Todd was not internet obsessed, mother says
  The mother of cyberbullying victim Amanda Todd says the teen, whose story led to a worldwide outpouring of anger and grief, touched the heart of most people she met and was not obsessed with being on the internet. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Amanda Todd’s alleged tormentor ...
• Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know – Illuminati ...
  This episode examines the alleged links between music and the Illuminati, especially in modern music. Tune in to learn why some people believe today’s most popular artists are members of a secret society bent on subverting the will of music-lovers. howstuffworks.com http twitter.com itunes ...
• September 25, 2011 – WHITE HATS REPORT #29
  Obama, Bush and the true, Sordid State of Our Cabal Controlled Union. It has been a little bit of time since we last posted an article.  Although we have volumes to report, we do not have the time to author stories of more scandals, it’s just more of the same and vastly larger than reported ...
• US Deployed Nuclear Warheads In Turkey.
  The United States of America deploys around 70 B61 nuclear bombs in Turkey to use them in case of necessary. According to a Turkish news agency citing well informed sources, all of… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Turkish State TV: Turkey Forces Syrian Air ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Fracking Leases May Lower Property Values, Def ...
  By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners near wells. The New York Times reported last month that uncertainty over whether hydraulic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• Type 3 Diabetes?
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• Why Some "Green" Cleaners Get Poor Grades
  A number of cleaning product manufacturers are expressing surprise at their products' scores on Environmental Working Group's Guide to Healthy Cleaning. Frankly, we're surprised they're surprised. The fact is, the industry has gotten complacent about its... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• Keratin is still "Flat-Out Risky"
  By Erika Duthely, Stabile Law Fellow, EWG The popular online discount deal promoter Groupon has been offering great prices on keratin hair-straightening treatments at a Washington, D.C. salon in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood, but this is one deal... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Getting Arsenic out of Your (and Your Kids') Diet
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Research Analyst and Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• With 'friends' like Vito Lopez and John Haggerty
• Howard Wolfson, nonpartisan operative, on last ...
• Miss Subways of yore return to pose for the ca ...
• 'Create and capture': An NYPD confidential inf ...
• Conservative Party spends on Wendy Long robocalls

Views & News from Norway

• Doping hits Norwegian cycling
  Norwegian cycling has been on a roll lately, but the sport careened into the gutter on Tuesday when the sports chief of Norway’s own cycling association (Norges Cykleforbund), Steffen Kjærgaard, admitted he was guilty of doping himself when he rode professionally. Kjærgaard admitted he had ...
• Doping hits Norwegian cycling
  Norwegian cycling has been on a roll lately, but the sport careened into the gutter on Tuesday when the sports chief of Norway’s own cycling association (Norges Cykleforbund), Steffen Kjærgaard, admitted he was guilty of doping himself when he rode professionally. Kjærgaard admitted he had ...
• Most Norwegians hope Obama wins
  Fully eight out of 10 members of the Norwegian Parliament hope US President Barack Obama wins re-election next week, according to a survey conducted by Oslo newspaper Dagsavisen. That seems to reflect the mood of most Norwegians as well, in a country where the US Democratic Party would be consid ...
• Most Norwegians hope Obama wins
  Fully eight out of 10 members of the Norwegian Parliament hope US President Barack Obama wins re-election next week, according to a survey conducted by Oslo newspaper Dagsavisen. That seems to reflect the mood of most Norwegians as well, in a country where the US Democratic Party would be consid ...
• Debate flies over new war book
  A new book that highlights Norwegian complicity with Nazi occupiers during World War II is setting off controversy in Norway because it clearly identifies Norwegian members of Statspolitiet, the Norwegian version of the ruthless Gestapo. One former member is already threatening legal action agai ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Seeds of Doubt Conference (Videos)
  To follow are six videos, recorded at the October 6 2012 Seeds of Doubt Conference in Los Angeles: Part I — Jeffrey Smith, Michelle Perro MD Part II — Don Huber, PhD Part III — Tom Malterre interviews [...]
• GMO Myths and Truths
  Editor’s Note: Michael Antoniou, PhD, is reader in molecular genetics and head of the Gene Expression and Therapy Group, King’s College London School of Medicine, London, UK. His work and experience with genetic engineering is comprehensive, working in the field for almost three deca ...
• Defend Indigenous People and the Amazon from O ...
  I have an urgent message to share — it is extremely important that you all know this. Our brothers and sisters in the Ecuadorian rainforest are under significant pressure from the oil companies. The government of Ecuador is planning to auction off 10 million acres of pristine rainfor ...
• Ash Cloud
  How conservatism turned into an orgy of destruction. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. There was a time when conservatism meant what the word suggests. It was an attempt to keep things as they are: to arrest economic and ...
• Upcoming Courses at Zaytuna Farm – PDC and Int ...
  As the first point of contact regarding education enquires, I often get asked "why should I do a course through PRI?", or more specifically, "why should I take a PDC at PRI as opposed to…". My answer is always very clear, Geoff Lawton and Zaytuna Farm. Apart from Geoff&#82 ...

Pointman's

• It’s time for a change.
  It’ll soon be time to cast your vote, so you have to look back at what the current politico has done for you over the last four years. I see auto workers in Detroit, who no longer work on the line because that line no longer exists, and now have to swallow the indignity of watching &# ...
• Green Myths : We must conserve everything.
  There’s this unquestioned idea, that’s been firmly planted into the public mind. That idea is that nothing should ever be allowed to go extinct and therefore conservation of anything is automatically a good thing. It’s nearly universally accepted and yet it’s totally unna ...
• I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.
  Blogging is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at some consid ...
• Intentions, profiles and predictability.
  I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life working out other people’s real intentions, and what they would do and how they would attempt to do it, because of those intentions. Getting one jump ahead of complex, imaginative and sometimes troubled minds, is a tough business, but that’s what made i ...
• The creeping betrayal of democracy in Australia.
  For various reasons, I’ve travelled a lot and had the opportunity to meet and get to know, people from many different countries and cultures. It’s one of the pleasures of life and if you’re a gregarious person, which I am, you find out about each other. Like you and I, they all ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• Social Engineering • Re: Confessions of a Paid ...
  This article was posted recently on Veterans Today...Somebody rightly commented that these spammers are all over the place, although I myself doubt the pay is very high or consistent.Statistics: Posted by FrankDialogue — Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:46 pm
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  The Regime of the zionist state is actually suggesting to the Arab rulers: you will enjoy the Sephardi assets and we will enjoy the Palestinian assets, but without sharing anything with both groups of refugees themselves. http://www.haokets.org/2012/10/16/%D7%A ... %99%D7%9D/ The distorted dist ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  This promotion of homosexuality is even part of the US foreign policy. I wonder why the Muslims detest Western "culture"? 10 years ago, if someone had asserted that schools were trying to turn children into homosexuals, this person would have been called "paranoid". But we ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  no joke. legit. the sign of things to come it seems.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:31 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  This must be a joke.....right??? I'm 46. Sometimes I wish I was 86! Can you imagine this world in 50 years, or even 25, if the Jews are not stopped???Statistics: Posted by Roy Hobs — Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:29 am

TVNZ

• Tropical Storm Sandy headed for Jamaica, then Cuba
  Tropical Storm Sandy is expected to become a hurricane as it approaches the south coast of Jamaica.
• Gold makes glittering souvenir of Mecca for Is ...
  For many visitors thronging Mecca's streets, the perfect souvenir of their trip is that most glittering of commodities: gold.
• Powerful quake strikes Costa Rica, no initial ...
  A 6.6 magnitude earthquake has struck Costa Rica, the US Geological Survey reports.
• UN chief meets Psy, Felix Baumgartner
  'You are so cool,' Ban Ki-Moon tells Psy, after asking Baumgartner if he could jump from UN HQ.
• Debates 'super-charged' campaign, Romney says
  Romney tells a rally in Nevada his campaign is 'full steam ahead'.

environment 360

• French Panel Rejects Study That Linked GM Corn ...
  An independent state panel in France has rejected the findings of a recent controversial study that linked genetically modified corn to cancer in rats, but the panel did recommend long-term research into the risks of genetically engineered food. In the report, requested by the French government, ...
• Solar Geoengineering Projects Could Be More Ef ...
  A new modeling study by several geoengineering experts suggests that injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to block more of the sun’s energy and reduce temperatures could be most effective when done on a region-by-region basis. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, said tha ...
• Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science ...
  On issues ranging from genetically modified crops to nuclear power, environmentalists are increasingly refusing to listen to scientific arguments that challenge standard green positions. This approach risks weakening the environmental movement and empowering climate contrarians. BY FRED PEARCE
• Shifting Arctic Wind Patterns May Cause Increa ...
  U.S. scientists say unusual air pressure patterns over the Arctic during the month of June in recent years have altered wind patterns in the region, funneling warmer air into the Arctic and contributing to record low Arctic View images NOAA Air pressure over the Arctic, 2007-2012. summe ...
• Increased Nutrient Levels May Drive Collapse o ...
  Increasing levels of nutrients seeping from septic systems and lawn fertilizers may be driving the steady decline of salt marshesthat has occurred along the U.S. East coast in recent decades, a new study has found. David S. Johnson/MBL While scientists had long believed that salt marshes ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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

backofthebook

• Is the MPs’ new pension plan a clever ma ...
  By David@Sixthestate.net After weeks of rumours about MP pension reforms in the works, the Harper regime finally brought them out in the budget .  .  . sort of. And it received great approbation for it. The mediasphere is tremendously excited at the good example the government is setting here. E ...
• Israel, Gaza, and the Estelle: more high seas ...
  By Frank Moher Once again, Israel has illegally intercepted and boarded a vessel bound for Gaza with humanitarian supplies, this time with a modest contingent of 30 aboard, including former Canadian MP Jim Manly. The ship was in international waters when it was surrounded by six IDF boats and, a ...
• Amanda Todd’s avengers: not Anonymous enough
  By Frank Moher As much as one would like to see some sort of justice for Amanda Todd, the 15-year old BC girl who took her life last week after years of cyber-bullying, what’s gone down on the internet in the last few days is truly disturbing. On Monday, someone purporting to be part of [. ...
• The Globe: War is Peace
  By David@Sixthestate.net Even by the steadily declining standards of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s “paper of record” hit an unusual low in its angry and Orwellian response to the announcement that the European Union was being given this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It’s definitely a bit of a head-sc ...
• Out of the woods
  By Montreal Simon I went for a walk the other day through the leafy lanes of The Shire, with a friend of mine who has suffered from severe depression from about this time last year. It was such a beautiful fall day. He was so happy, at having made so much progress on the road [...] Tags:  ...

Daily Beast

• Prince Charles Attends 'Skyfall' Premiere in L ...
  Looking dapper, the Prince schmoozed with producer Michael G. Wilson and the film's stars Daniel Craig and Judi Dench.
• The U.S. Army's Last Bayonet Charge
  Today's post-debate interest in bayonets offers a fragment of an excuse to reproduce this delightful Peter Worthington column from the old Frum Forum.
• Conrad Black to BBC Interviewer: You Are a Gul ...
• Be Interesting, Zany, and Cute
  Forget beautiful or sublime. Zany, cute, and interesting are the words that define us today. Benjamin Lytal on what these words reveal about our lives.
• Europe’s Aung San Suu Kyi?
  As Ukraine heads to the polls, Julia Tymoshenko languishes in prison at the mercy of her political enemies. Geoffrey Robertson describes the ongoing injustice.

Loonwatch

• Salon.com: A “Debate” to be Ashamed Of
  A progressive nightmare: On drones, Israel, and Iran, the candidates presented a united hardline front.
• French Muslims Demand Group Ban After Mosque A ...
  The French Muslim Council urged the government to ban a far-right group that occupied a mosque on Saturday and issued a "declaration of war" against what it called the Islamization of France.
• Informant: NYPD Paid Me to ‘Bait’ ...
  Former FBI informant Shamiur Rahman, "I hated that I was using people to make money."
• Pakistan: Christian Couple Who Converted to Is ...
  Kalsoom Bibi, daughter of Irshad Masih and Muhammad Bilal, son of Ashraf Masih, were killed on the spot after Kalsoom’s brother Imran opened fire on them.
• Texas church urges Americans to ‘Vote for the ...
  The Church in the Valley marquee reads, “VOTE FOR THE MORMON, NOT THE MUSLIM! THE CAPITALIST, NOT THE COMMUNIST!”

Energy News

• Watch: Concern Japan gov’t is manipulating rad ...
• New flyover footage shows oil covering giant s ...
• Leak at Shut Down California Nuke Plant: “Like ...
• Officials: Worries about more subsidence in ar ...
• AFP: Some school facilities in Fukushima city ...

Japan Times

• New LCD panels eyed to up mobile phone biz
  Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it is aiming to win back its market share in the mobile phone business with next-generation liquid crystal display panels featuring clear images and low energy use. Among seven models of mobile devices that the Osaka-based company plans to launch from this winter to sp ...
• Nakaima protests rape case during visit to Was ...
  Visiting Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima lodged a protest Monday with the United States over last week's alleged rape of a Japanese woman by two U.S. sailors, calling it "extremely regrettable" and urging steps to prevent such crimes. In a closed-door meeting with Nakaima at the State Department ...
• Fujitsu aims at women; Huawei targets Japan
  Fujitsu tends to get left out of the conversation when it comes to the world's top PC-makers these days, but it's still an important player in its home market of Japan — where it holds about 15 percent of the market, placing it second behind the NEC Lenovo Group. And in an effort to mainta ...
• Pentagon to explain Osprey flights
  The Pentagon is expected to convey to Japan how the U.S. Marine Corps will carry out low-level training flights using the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto said Tuesday. Because governors from around the country are due to gather at the prime minister's office ...
• Besieged Tanaka exits over 'health reasons'
  Justice Minister Keishu Tanaka stepped down Tuesday for "health reasons" only three weeks after his appointment amid strong calls for his exit not only from the opposition camp but from within the ruling bloc over past mob ties and illicit donations. The resignation of Tanaka, 74, who admitted ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• The Auditor General has concerns: Politics on ...
  In which everybody was talking about the Auditor General's report
• The Maclean’s Photo Daily 5
  Best photos from the past 24 hours
• The Commons: Thomas Mulcair and Stephen Harper ...
  The Scene.... What does it mean to act? What is change? What does one
• The cost of reducing GHGs
  The Conservatives sent up four MPs during members’ statements this afternoon to lament for...
• PQ accomplishes the impossible—makes life easy ...
  Marois has already overplayed her hand and completely misread the population she claims to represent

Making It Count - CCPA

• The CETA and Nova Scotia: Oversold benefits, U ...
  A new report on the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) concludes that the agreement’s benefits for Nova Scotia are being oversold, while its costs and consequences are minimized or even ignored. Indeed, EU officials are in Halifax right now selling the benefits of the CETA for N ...
• Taxing the rich in Québec: major myth debunking
  Québec has been immersed in the last weeks in much drama following a proposal to further tax the wealthiest. When the brand new Marois government took office (Parti québécois, PQ), it announced it would introduce new tax brackets for the wealthiest. A first bracket would have been added for inco ...
• Right-to-Work: The (Ayn?) Rand Formula
  There’s reluctance among Canadian proponents to call for it by name. But Right-to-Work (longer, harder, without representation or recourse, for less money and fewer sick days or pee breaks) seems to be the flavour du jour amongst…ahem…politicians of a certain age. (By which I mean the Age of Dic ...
• Household debt going from bad to worse
  Statistics Canada today revised the national accounts and found Canadians are now more indebted than either the Americans or the Brits were at the peak of their housing bubble.  Instead of Canadian households having a debt to disposable income ratio of 154, as was previously estimated, it has no ...
• Charitable Organizations: A Pillar of Democracy
  A variation of this blog post was published in the weekend Huffington Post as part of PEN Canada’s blog series examining freedom of expression for Non-Speak Week. While you’re reading this, about two million employees are busy trying to make our world a little bit better through their work ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

• Water Stress Hurting More Than 50% of Global C ...
  “Water stress affects more than half of the world’s largest listed companies, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project, which urged businesses to set targets and increase board oversight to manage a shrinking resource. “In a 185-company survey, 53 percent suffered from water scarci ...
• Rainwater structures vital to improve groundwa ...
  “National Cadet Corps of 5th battalion took out a rally at Palayamkottai on Saturday to create awareness among the public on establishing rainwater harvesting structure in every house before the monsoon intensifies. After being flagged off by Mohamed Sathick, Principal of Sathakkathullah A ...
• Embracing the Urban-Nature Ethic
  “The EPA in July 2010 declared the LA River navigable, giving it the full protection of the Clean Water Act. “This is a watershed as important as any other,” said the EPA’s Lisa Jackson, as she stood in front of Compton Creek, an almost destroyed tributary to the LA River. “So we are going ...
• You Don’t Miss Your Water…
  “When 40 years ago yesterday Congress passed the Clean Water Act, no one had to ask why we needed it. Memories were still fresh of seeing Ohio’s Cuyahoga River actually catch fire, and many of our national waterways were filthy. In the four decades that followed passage of the Clean ...
• Manila Water Acquires Suez’s 51% Stake in PAM ...
  “Manila Water Co. (MWC) agreed to acquireSuez Environnement Co. (SEV)’s 51 percent stake in PT PAM Lyonnaise Jaya, which holds the concession contract for western Jakarta. “No terms were given by the utility, which supplies water to half of the Philippine capital. Closing of the deal ...

D. Kucinich

• The United States’ Foreign Policy Boomerang
  Tonight’s presidential debate will focus on foreign policy. As we listen to Democratic and Republican presidential candidates it is worth saying that a thoughtful foreign policy isn’t about who can drop the most bombs. Consider the case of Libya. In the midst of a civil war, Gaddafi made terri ...
• Kucinich Senior Staffer Marty Gelfand to Recei ...
  Marty Gelfand, Senior Counsel for Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), will be presented an award for “his tireless efforts to promote Fair Lending and Housing Justice in Ohio through the dedicated work of Congressman Kucinich’s Office” at the 22nd Annual Fair Lending Conference on October 26, 20 ...
• Kucinich Calls for Transparency and Accountabi ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who led Congressional opposition to Free Trade Agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama this year, today released the following statement calling upon the U.S. Trade Representative to be more open with Congress and the American people. See the video here. T ...
• Stimulus Package Used to Saddle Local Ratepaye ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Department of Treasury to examine whether the use of Build America Bonds to help finance a coal plant in southern Illinois was a lawful use of the economic stimulus funds authorized by Congress in 2009. Congressman Kucinich has been investigati ...
• Kucinich to Celebrate Observance of Pulaski Da ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will present to the Polonia Foundation of Ohio and the Ohio Division of the Polish American Congress original copies of legislation granting General Pulaski honorary posthumous citizenship signed by President Barack Obama and leaders of the House and Senate thi ...

Authentically Wired

• Remember “agent orange” and Vietna ...
  … Remember “agent orange” and Vietnam another American legacy … American bombing of Iraq left legacy of deformed babies: Siddiqui 10-22-2012  •  http://www.thestar.com, By Haroon Siddiqui Remember Falluja? That city in central Iraq was the scene of two furious attacks in 2004 by Americ ...
• Who says it has survived …?
  … Who says it has survived …? Can Public Education Survive in a Country Dominated by Privatizers? By Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut.org… READ MORE The democratic mission of public education is under assault thanks to a right-wing reform culture that treats students as human capital rather than as fut ...
• disclosure … what’s next
  … WOW … wonders never cease to happen … disclosure … what’s next … Researchers Admit That Flu Shots Might Not Actually Work In Everyone 10-22-2012  •  Melinda Wenner Moyer Every year around this time, 120 million Americans roll up their sleeves to get their annual flu shots.  File ...
• Just tell them to go the Hell it is none of th ...
  … Just tell them to go the Hell it is none of their damn business … Video: Truck Driver Stands Up To Unconstitutional Checkpoint 10-22-2012 • http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson …  Read Full Story A truck driver who passed through an unconstitutional checkpoint 30 miles from the ...
• America’s Schools: Breeding Grounds for ...
  … for another perspective … read Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto … America’s Schools: Breeding Grounds for Compliant Citizens 10-18-2012  •  https://www.rutherford.org, By John W. Whitehead For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our na ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Gwynne Dyer: Out of petrol? So let's just make ...
  Stockton-on-Tees, a small city in northeastern England, has only one claim to fame: the first railway tracks were made and laid in the city in 1822, and the first train ran on those tracks in 1825. But it might one day have another...
• Stunning meteor showers light up sky
  Streaking fireballs lighting up California skies and stunning stargazers are part of a major meteor shower, and the show is just getting started, professional observers said.The Oakland Tribune reports the exploding streaks were...
• Something odd and bright in martian dirt
  Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has dug up a mini-mystery for scientists: an odd white fleck that sticks out like a beacon in the reddish soil.It looks out of place, but scientists said Thursday that it's probably just a different hued...
• Earth-type planet found around closest stellar ...
  Astronomers have found a planet that's the closest you can get to Earth in location and size, right next door to our solar system.Scientists have been searching across the Milky Way galaxy for a planet with a mass similar to Earth...
• Bill aims to plug pollution loophole
  A new bill aims to tighten controls on sustained pollution of waterways by closing a legal loophole.Green MP Catherine Delahunty said her member's bill, which has passed its first reading, sought to close a loophole in the Resource...

The Bovine

• 14-yr old girl dies from 2 energy drinks
  From Louise Boyle in The Mail Online. “Monster Beverage has been sued by the family of a 14-year-old girl who died after she had just two cans of the energy drink. The Food and Drug Administration announced today it was investigating … Continue reading →
• Michael Pollan talks GMO labeling in NY Times: ...
  Michael Pollan, in the New York Times: “…Big Food is also feeling beleaguered by its increasingly skeptical and skittish consumers. Earlier this year the industry was rocked when a blogger in Houston started an online petition to ban the use … Continue reading →
• Is the FDA censoring academic speech about raw ...
  From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “… So what exactly  happened to the raw milk article? The word I have on pretty good sources (I don’t  want  to identify them because this stuff is so sensitive that jobs … Continue reading →
• GMOs: the rat report animated minute
• Readers Digest article on Michael Schmidt and ...
  From Readers Digest Canada: “The gaggle of reporters waiting inside Queen’s Park in Toronto on Friday, November 4, 2011, no doubt expected a feeble, exhausted radical when dairy farmer Michael Schmidt emerged. It was the 37th day of the hunger … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Spanish Home Loans Plunge 28.5% to Record Lows ...
  The implosion in Spain continues, with the budget deficit heading in reverse, now revised up to 9.4% of GDP. [Correction: 9.4% was upward revision for 2011. The upward revision for 2012 is "only" 7.3%] Spain's original deficit target for 2012 was 4.4%, then revised to 5% then 5.3%. Yet anot ...
• Saturated Fat: McDonald's to Revisit 'Dollar M ...
  McDonald's is facing lean times, not just in the US, but globally. Earlier this year, McDonald's shifted from a 'Dollar Menu' to an "Extra Value Menu" which Chief Executive Don Thompson said didn't "resonate as strongly" with consumers. One reason? There was no value in it, except for ...
• Obama Slashes Four Hours Off Definition of "Fu ...
  The BLS Glossary defines full-time workers as "Persons who work 35 hours or more per week". For monthly reporting, the BLS defines part-time as "those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the survey reference week". With that wording, I am not precisely sure where 34.1 or 34.5 hours fit. In ...
• Wholesale Price Deflation Hits China's Factories
  Bloomberg reports China’s Factories Losing Pricing Power in Earnings Threat. Chinese factories are losing pricing power in the worst wholesale-cost deflation since 2009, signaling corporate earnings may deteriorate further and putting a damper on global inflation pressures. Steelmaker Chi ...
• Italy 2013 Countdown: Rescue Me
  There is an interesting article in El Mundo by Fabrizio Goria regarding the escalation of problems in Europe. Via Google Translate please consider a few snips from Italy 2013 Countdown. After Spain, Italy. Let us not deceive risk premiums are going down these days. The country is torn b ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Oregon-Beyond Portland
  Classified Woman on Lew Rockwell Show-Transcript I’ve been meaning to write a long post to update you on my major life-change; however, I’ve been racing against time; nonstop-since July. Here is a brief update instead of waiting for a needed break to write a comprehensive update: First, I want t ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Bluetech- “667” When Sibel asked me to do Soothing the Beast, I thought it might be fun to and by week 40, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is and I’m glad she asked me. I really enjoy doing it. I’ve tried to mix it up the best I can and this week is [...]
• My Brief Interview on RT- For War with Syria: ...
  ‘NATO, Turkey seek pretense for attack on Syria’ Yesterday I was on RT for a brief interview on the recent developments in the long-ago-planned US war on Syria. As I mentioned during the interview, Boiling Frogs Post was one of the first news sites reporting on those long-ago-conceiv ...
• Podcast Show #96: Austerity is the Consensus o ...
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Eric Draitser Eric Draitser joins us to define and discuss austerity, what austerity looks like in the US, the fact that austerity is the consensus of both parties, why an anti-austerity movement is essential in the US, and helps us connect what’s happening ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• U.S. Awards Second Offshore Wind Farm Lease Bu ...
  (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Interior Department agreed to lease more than 96,400 acres of ocean off the Delaware coast for an offshore wind farm, while NRG Energy Inc., the project’s owner, considers selling [...]
• Top Five Most Notable X-BOW Vessels
  There is no denying that ULSTEIN’s X-BOW® hull design made a splash in the maritime and offshore world when it was introduced with the launching M/V Bourbon Orca in 2005. Since [...]
• ClassNK Certifies World’s First Specially Buil ...
  Tokyo – ClassNK, the world’s largest classification society, announced Tuesday that the world’s first specialized vessel for the transport of Nickel Ore has been built and registered to the NK [...]
• Maersk Line’s Ginormous Triple-E Class Propell ...
  Construction of the world’s largest ship is picking up speed. Recently, the very first propeller was loaded onto the Maersk Salalah container ship in Hamburg bound for the DSME shipyard [...]
• COSCO CEO: “We’re Only Beginning to See Signs ...
  (Bloomberg) — China Cosco Holdings Co., the nation’s largest listed shipping company, said the industry will expand as Chinese economic growth picks up momentum. “We’re only beginning to see signs [...]

Press TV

• ‘Morocco uses torture in interrogation’
  The United Nations special rapporteur on the use of torture says the Moroccan government tends to use “torture in interrogation.”
• Third-party presidential debate held
  After three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate between the Democratic incumbents and their Republican challengers in the United States, the third-party presidential debate has been held at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago.
• ‘Iran halts oil sales if bans tighten’
  Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi says Tehran will halt oil exports if more sanctions are imposed on the country.
• 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.
• 6.6-magnitude quake hits Costa Rica
  An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has struck Costa Rica, but there have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage and no tsunami warning has been issued.

SciDev.net

• Gulf states to discuss closer political union
  Ministers of the Gulf cooperation council have agreed to discuss a closer union — modelled after the European Union — which could harmonise regional R&D.
• Women 'under-represented' in emerging nations' S&T
  Women are scarce in sectors such as engineering and physics, and their role in leadership positions is marginal too, says a report.
• The rise of African science journalism
  Science journalism in Africa is making remarkable progress, with widespread improvements in the quality and quantity of science in the media, reports Esther Nakkazi.
• Biodiversity meeting calls for more science-ba ...
  The Convention on Biological Diversity meeting also urged caution in fields such as synthetic biology.
• Gender gap in agriculture 'must be addressed'
  Enabling women the same access to agriculture and markets as men is vital to boosting food security and nutrition, a conference hears.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Robotic router
  Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
• Flexible batteries
  One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
• Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
  Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
• Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
  A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
• Nanoparticles poison soil
  Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...

Nick Turse

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• laphamsquarterly:Suffragists march down New ...
  laphamsquarterly: Suffragists march down New York City’s Fifth Avenue. October 23rd, 1917. Related, from the Fall 2012 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly: Emma Goldman on why women and the vote might not be such a good match after all Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the rights denied in 19th century America
• fotojournalismus:Anti government protesters ...
  fotojournalismus: Anti government protesters shout slogans as they try to enter al-Eker village, south of Manama, October 22, 2012. Seven people have been detained over the killing of a policeman last week in al-Eker, which police has blocked off since Friday. Wefaq, the main opposition group ...
• "Don’t get me wrong—happiness is a wonderful e ...
  “Don’t get me wrong—happiness is a wonderful emotion and a state to be desired. But is that...
• ghostofyesterday:timetravelnow:1950s, Time ...
  ghostofyesterday: timetravelnow: 1950s, Times Square New York City Ah, to have lived in a time when the latest Hitch was on the big screen.