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Thomas Paine

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Friday, October 26, 2012

26 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Why I left Goldman Sachs
    On Monday morning, Grand Central Publishing will release Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story, a memoir penned by former Goldman employee Greg Smith, based on his op-ed for the New York Times entitled, “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs.” When Smith’s piece came out last March, few if any ...
  • Saudi coronavirus raises concerns about Hajj
    Senior author Ron Fouchier, the virologist whose laboratory first spotted that this was a never-before-seen coronavirus, said bats and coronaviruses have co-evolved over millenniums. Because of that fact, one can generally predict which bat is host to which coronavirus, Fouchier said in an in ...
  • Saudi coronavirus raises concerns about Haj
    Senior author Ron Fouchier, the virologist whose laboratory first spotted that this was a never-before-seen coronavirus, said bats and coronaviruses have co-evolved over millenniums. Because of that fact, one can generally predict which bat is host to which coronavirus, Fouchier said in an in ...
  • Pilger: Julia Gillard is no feminist hero
    The Guardian's description of Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott as "neanderthal" is not unreasonable. Misogyny is an Australian blight and a craven reality in political life. But for so many commentators around the world to describe Julia Gillard's attack on Abbott as a "turning point fo ...
  • GMO: Should Californians Have the Right to Know?
    GMO: Should Californians Have the Right to Know?

Independent - London

  • Spanish jobless rate soars past 25 per cent
    The relentless lengthening of Spain’s jobless queues continues apace, new figures showed yesterday, with more than one in four now out of work, the worst unemployment levels in the country since General Franco’s dictatorship ended in November 1975 and modern records began.
  • Medina: Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam's history
    Three of the world’s oldest mosques are about to be destroyed as Saudi Arabia embarks on a multi-billion-pound expansion of Islam’s second holiest site. Work on the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina, where the Prophet Mohamed is buried, will start once the annual Hajj pilgrimage ends next month. When ...
  • Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam's history
    Three of the world’s oldest mosques are about to be destroyed as Saudi Arabia embarks on a multi-billion-pound expansion of Islam’s second holiest site. Work on the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina, where the Prophet Mohamed is buried, will start once the annual Hajj pilgrimage ends next month. When c ...
  • A golden handshake – or an error that could co ...
    The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's big political gamble to join forces with ultra-nationalists before early elections in January threatened to backfire today as signs emerged that the new alignment could alienate moderate voters.Related StoriesSyria: Fighting threatens Eid al-Adha ...
  • Exclusive: How Syria's rebel fighters were sol ...
    To the Syrian rebels, the offer was enticing: Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles and ammunition at below-market price, with supplies plentiful. The dealers were convincing: two of them had European passports, one a British passport, and they claimed to have been involved in supplying arms during the Bosn ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Mysterious pumice raft in Pacific explained
    Back in August, an enormous floating mass of pumice was spotted in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand. New evidence of changes on the seafloor confirms an erupting undersea volcano created the sprawling rock raft. New Zealand scientists aboard the research vessel Tangaroa rec ...
  • Zionist lobbyist Patrick Clawson reveals more ...
    Patrick Clawson, Director of Research at Washington Institute Of Near East Policy (WINEP), was in the news last month for suggesting that a false flag attack should be used to incite a war with Iran and now, in a new exclusive interview, he candidly admits to the existence of "shadow wars" in th ...
  • Institutionalized state assassinations and the ...
    With barely a week and a half to go until the November 6 presidential elections, the entire spectrum of the American pseudo-left is exerting maximum efforts to turn out votes for Obama with the claim that the reelection of the incumbent Democrat would represent the "lesser of two evils." If the ...
  • Walmart labor abuses come back to haunt as Bla ...
    Walmart has been hit with a class action lawsuit in the midst of a threatened employee walkout on Black Friday, one of the busiest, most profitable shopping days of the year. Will worker troubles have an impact, or is this old hat for Walmart? Editor's note: This story has been updated to inclu ...
  • Bullying Victim Kills Self in Front of Classmates
    Felicia Garcia was just 15 years old when she killed herself on Wednesday. Her final tweet? "I can't, im [sic] done, I give up." On Saturday night last week, the high school freshman went to a party. At the party she ended up having sex with four members of the varsity football team. Since Satu ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • TransCanada in Texas . . .
    TRUTHOUT is a fine site for concerned citizens, and Candice Bernd has an account you should check out, "SLAPPed, Arrested, Deemed Eco-Terrorists: TransCanada Blockaders Persevere". It seems that there are concerned Americans, that don't want Stevie's Tar.  Sure seems to have fallen in a black ho ...
  • Simple is good . . .
  • The war on women . . .
    THE WAR ON WOMEN continues in the Middle East, and according to Roya Hakakian's article in the Washington Post, "How blaming the West hides a war on women", it developed to a fine art in Iran and has institutionalized misogyny in the Islamic fundies, and has put a killing frost in the Arab Sprin ...
  • Bullies beware . . .
    LOVE COMPETENT PEOPLE. Then again, there are those who will demand a National Long-Bow Registry.
  • Back to the Bates . . .
    DALTON EXITS Ontario politics with a masterful stroke: proroguing the Ontario Legislature. As a result, there are no debates about the worst series of mistakes committed by an Ontario administration in one very long time. From E-Health, to Ornge, to the Oakville Power Station Stu ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Gave Indiana Senate Candidate's Rape Comme ...
    The day after Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said that "even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," Fox News mentioned the comment twice, devoting just over two minutes of coverage to it. Meanwhile, CNN gave t ...
  • Fox Distorts Obama's Comments To Claim He Igno ...
    Fox & Friends ignored parts of President Obama's recent interview with the Des Moines Register to accuse him of admittedly ignoring the economy when he took office. In fact, Obama emphasized in the interview that he had done as much as possible to fix the economy given constant Republican ob ...
  • Fox's Van Susteren Misrepresents State Dept. E ...
    Fox host Greta Van Susteren claimed that recently released State Department emails prove that the Obama administration knew the attack in Benghazi, Libya, was an act of terrorism as it was happening and that it was "ridiculous" for the administration to link the attack to an anti-Islam video. Ye ...
  • Media Focus On Bayonet Numbers, Ignore Romney' ...
    In response to Mitt Romney's debate claim that the Navy's fleet "is smaller now than any time since 1917," President Obama noted that military also has fewer bayonets and horses because it has modernized. Rather than discuss President Obama's accurate point about military strength, members of th ...
  • TIMELINE: Fox News' Role In The "Climate Of Doubt"
    PBS' Frontline recently aired a documentary titled "Climate of Doubt," examining how conservative groups, frequently funded by the fossil fuel industry, have pushed Republicans to reject the scientific consensus on manmade global warming. Here, Media Matters looks back at how Fox News has contri ...

Global Research.ca

  • Syria: US-NATO Sponsored Rebels break the Ceas ...
    Reported this morning, the cease fire war was broken by the NATO sponsored rebels. Terrorist acts directed against military posts were conducted  throughout the country on Friday. “Armed terrorist groups opened fire on military posts in Deir Ezzor, including checkpoints in Halabyeh at 7.25 ...
  • Imperialism In The X-Factor Age
    In Vietnam, Agent Orange was dropped by the US to poison a foreign population. In Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, depleted uranium was used. In Western countries, things are a bit more complicated because various states have tended to avoid using direct forms of physical violence to quell their ...
  • Countering the Global Corporate-Insurgency whi ...
    The terms insurgency and counterinsurgency can quickly become confusing in a politically motivated context. However, generally speaking, an insurgency seeks to overthrow an established institution or political order, while a counterinsurgency seeks to maintain that order.In the United States, an ...
  • NATO Using Al Qaeda “Rat Lines” to ...
    The discredited and now obscure, defected Syrian ambassador Nawaf Fares, had claimed mid-summer of 2012 that the Syrian government had been behind the influx of foreign terrorists that entered Iraq during the later phases of the US-British occupation of Iraq. These terrorists took part in campai ...
  • Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the Military Trial ...
    Pretrial arguments began last week and continued Wednesday in the military commission trial in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba of the alleged 9/11 plotters over the US government’s attempt to suppress any testimony by the defendants on their torture at the hands of the CIA.…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Obama vs. Romney: A Stark Contrast on the Envi ...
    Few policy issues separate Barack Obama and Mitt Romney more widely than the environment and energy. One man believes human activity is driving global warming, the other questions to what extent humans are responsible. One advocates federal support for renewable energy technologies, the other ...
  • Coverup No More: Shocking Photos and Emails of ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Some two and a half years after the BP oil spill, Greenpeace has obtained emails and photos from a U.S. government agency that reveal the extent to which the government tried to shield the public from the wildlife casu ...
  • Why We May Be Able to Start Feeding Ourselves ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.They are back: blue mussels and menhaden have returned to Long Island Sound this year in huge numbers. On this 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, we can celebrate their homecoming as a sign of the progress made r ...
  • U.S. Poised to Be World's Top Oil Producer, Pa ...
     Drill, Baby, Drill Strategy Won’t Lower Gasoline Prices, Will Enrich Big OilThe AP reports today: This is a good news, bad news story, which the media, characteristically, gets half right.U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon overtake Saudi ...
  • Can We Survive the Lifestyle Choices of the Pl ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Although you would not know it from what passes for debate during the ongoing presidential campaign here in the United States, the biosphere is under siege. A historically high rate of ice melt in the Artic, devastatin ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Public Utility Commission Ignores Texans’ Crie ...
    Even Support from Businesses Like IKEA Is Not Enough for PUC AUSTIN, TX – The Public Utility Commission delivered a slap in the face to the more than 6,000 Texans and 70 businesses and organizations  who have actively called on the Commission to implement and expand the non-wind renewable portfo ...
  • Solar Backers Rally as Public Comment Period Ends
    Advocates fault PUC for turning a blind eye to industry as Texas falls behind Solar energy backers rallied outside the Texas Public Utility Commission [last] week seeking enforcement of a seven-year-old law that would boost electric generation from geothermal, biomass and the state’s ample suppl ...
  • PRICELE$$ – the movie
    From the Fourth of July to the halls of Congress, PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker’s personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are some of our government’s most basic policies, like food and energy, so out-of-date – and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion o ...
  • Rally for Clean Energy and Good Jobs – Thursda ...
    We are taking our Clean Energy Works for Texas campaign to the doorstep of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) next week.  We hope you will join us for a rally on Thursday, October 18 at 12 p.m. in front of the William B. Travis building at 1701 N. Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701 We are [...]
  • Breaking: Daryl Hannah joins tar sands blockade
    Actress Daryl Hannah has been arrested along with Winnsboro ranch owner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, while staging a protest against Keystone XL construction on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The duo where defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been e ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Mobile owners' bizarre insurance claims
    Insurance companies have had to deal with some rather ridiculous claims from mobile phone owners. In one case a farmer claimed that he'd lost his phon...
  • Japan plans space vessel by 2022
    Japan is looking to follow China by launching its own manned space programme within the next decade. To get astronauts in to space there are plans to ...
  • Can some people 'see' sound ?
    Researchers have been investigating the areas of the brain relating to the ability to 'see' sounds. An experiment was carried out involving the sound-...
  • Cinema shows wrong movie to kids by mistake
    Families settling down to a showing of Madagascar 3 ended up with Paranormal Activity 4 instead. The untimely error took place at Cineworld in Notting...
  • Could Curiosity return to Earth one day ?
    It is believed that Mars rovers like Curiosity may one day be retrieved and placed in a museum. NASA's Mars programme director Doug McCuistion has sai...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Worst Storm in 100 Years Seen for Northeast U.S.
    (Bloomberg) Hurricane Sandy will probably grow into a “Frankenstorm” that may become the worst to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years if current forecasts are correct. Sandy may combine with a second storm coming out of the Midwest to ...
  • BP Ends Plan for Biofuel Plant
    (Reuters) BP said Thursday that it had canceled plans to build a plant in Florida to turn tough grasses such as sorghum and cane into cellulosic biofuel, the second big oil company this year to back out of plans to produce “next genera ...
  • Japan Nuke Plant Water Worries Rise
    (AP) Japan's crippled nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water used to cool the broken reactors, the manager of the water treatment team said. About 200,000 tons o ...
  • Rising Ocean Temps Threaten the Ocean Food Chain
    (Climate Central)   read more
  • Electric-Car Maker Tesla Bucks Traditional Dea ...
    (Los Angeles Times) When electric-car company Tesla Motors Inc. started selling its flagship Model S luxury hatchback earlier this year, it eschewed the traditional dealership network to open its own stores. But that's not sitting wel ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Sampling the Latino Vote
    I am really skeptical of any analysis that is predicated on the polls being off in one direction or another. In my experience, the average of polls is rarely off by a whole lot. Maybe a couple of points, but when the polls say you are going to lose, you are almost definitely going to lose. In ...
  • Republicans: Winning the Rapist Vote
    Word. Especially the second-to-last paragraph. Discuss
  • U.S. Senate Predictions
    Here are my predictions for who will win in individual Senate races. An asterisk indicates a non-incumbent. A 'D' and 'R' or an 'Ind' indicates a change in party. At the end, I'll tally it up and I'll discuss individual races and consequences in the comments. Arizona- Richard Carmona* D+1 ...
  • Losing My Health Insurance
    Thanks to the bankruptcy of my wife's former employer, it is highly likely that we will lose our health care coverage on January 1. 2013. The court hearing on the company's motion to do so is scheduled for November 29th. Because it has the support of the creditors' committee and the Committee ...
  • The Many Kinds of Republican Rape
    The many types of rape via Republicans: Gift from God Rape Forcible Rape Honest Rape Easy Rape Emergency Rape Want the details? Watch the video by Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks: And don't forget the Sodomized Virgin Rape (via Digby) And I used to think Republicans (wel ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Insane Body Piercings of Phuket's Vegetari ...
    The Vegetarian Festival of Phuket takes body piercing to a whole new level, with everything from motorbike parts to beach umbrellas used to puncture the skin. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Most Incredible Abandoned Power Plants on Earth
    When they are operational, power plants are constant hives of industry. Once closed, however, they make perfect sites for urban exploration. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Hajj: A Sea of Pilgrims Converging on Mecca
    Every year, approaching two million pilgrims converge on Mecca to perform the mandatory once-in-a-lifetime rituals of the Hajj. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    From legendary Civil War nurses and famous agoraphobia sufferers, to tragic rock concerts and air disasters that could have been averted... Five cool links. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Shipwreck Carcasses Strewn Around the Cape of ...
    The Cape of Good Hope is known for its violent winds and rough waters. In these photos, relics of these destructive forces can be seen littering the rocky coastline. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • MI5 official’s diaries reveal tensions between ...
    Newly declassified personal diaries belonging to a senior British intelligence official reveal tensions between British and American spy agencies in the years immediately following World War II.
  • News you may have missed #804
    CIA officer reportedly among dead in Afghanistan bombing. Canadian intel officer was 'on Russian payroll for years'. Panama wants to adopt euro as legal tender.
  • Jordan claims arrest of seven-member Syrian sp ...
    Security services in the Kingdom of Jordan announced on Tuesday the detention of seven Syrian nationals who were allegedly caught with sophisticated communications devices in their possession.
  • France pressing for Western military intervent ...
    The government of France is holding secret talks with American and other Western officials to explore options for a concerted military intervention in Mali, according to diplomatic sources.
  • Comment: The Significance of the Killing of Le ...
    The view that last week’s bombing, and Hassan’s killing, may signify the internationalization of the Syrian Civil War is myopic. Politically and ideologically, Lebanon has been an integral part of Syria for decades, so much so that it would be strange if the Syrian crisis did not —sooner or late ...

War is a Crime.org

  • conscientious objectors need our support
    ISRAEL: Conscientious objector Moriel Rothman sentenced to 10 days' imprisonment Israeli conscientious objector Moriel Rothman, 23 year old, from Jerusalem, arrived in the morning of Wednesday, 24 October 2012, to the Induction Base in Jerusalem, where he declared his refusal to serve in the Isr ...
  • So Who Do I Vote For?
    By Debra Sweet I was listening to the "foreign policy debate" while reading blogs and tweeting. Among people I follow there was a lot of interest in whether the drone war would come up. It was brought up by Mitt Romney, approvingly, and then not spoken to by Obama. People also hoped Guantanamo w ...
  • Police Assault Whistle-Blowers in Their Ranks
      By Linn Washington, Jr. Two police lieutenants face a similar criminal charge but one gets a slap on the wrist while the other is fired. One of these two police supervisors is an officer with a distinguished record of exposing corruption and misconduct. Guess which of those two veteran ...
  • John Douglass: Embodiment of a Ruined Election ...
    By David Swanson In April I had a chat with Congressional candidate John Douglass who had just about wrapped up his party's nomination for Congress here in Virginia's Fifth District.  Douglass is a retired Brigadier General, a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and a former deputy U.S ...
  • Gaddafi and 66 Others Murdered After Capture - ...
    More at The Real News

Grist - News

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

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    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
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    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
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  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Michael Jantzen’s Solar-Powered Transformation ...
    Read the rest of Michael Jantzen’s Solar-Powered Transformation House Rotates to Create Different Rooms! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptable construction, green architecture, michael jantzen, modular building, solar power building, sustainable design, the t ...
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    Piers Saxby Candy, a Brighton-based designer, hand crafted his Jelly Desk Lamp and Jelly Table Lamp with using oak wood for the stand and cast an original 1930s copper jelly mold for the shade. Candy specializes in traditional lighting with an architectural twist using metalwork techniques to ha ...
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    Natural disasters are physically, socially, and psychologically devastating to a town. It can be extremely difficult to rebuild civic infrastructures and restore the lives of residents. Where do individuals, families, organizations and governments begin to look for help? Are there processes, pol ...
  • HKS Architects’ Renovated Warehouse Earns San ...
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  • Sweden Plans to Import 800,000 Tons of Garbage ...
    Garbage photo from Shutterstock We’ve heard of importing goods and raw materials, but importing trash? That’s exactly what Sweden intends to do in order to compensate for its trash shortfall. Sweden burns trash to create about 20 percent of its heat, but the Swedes are so diligent about recyclin ...

Pogue's Posts

  • A Windows 8 Cheat Sheet
    If you install Windows 8, you'll have to learn both environments, like it or not; you can't live in just one environment or the other. So how are you supposed to operate it if you have a nontouch computer? David Pogue provides a cheat sheet.
  • More Advice on Home Data Storage
    Readers weigh in with more advice about backing up data at home.
  • Do We Ban App Distractions, Too?
    David Pogue says he'll still ask Siri to "read my messages" while his attention is on the road. Yes, of course, any kind of distraction is worse than none. But hearing one sentence read aloud seems to be the least of our automotive distractions, he says.
  • Tim Cook's Apology Is an Important Step Forward
    Whatever the story, the Apple chief's apology for the condition of the new maps app conveys a note of humility that has been missing so far. Without it, the Apple Maps fiasco felt even worse than it was.
  • What Makes Google's Maps So Good
    Nobody ever raved about Google's mapping app for phones until they saw how hard it was for Apple to come up with a rival. Conversations with executives at Google make clear that the company's maps represent years and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Dinosaurs Sprouted Wings Earlier Than Thought
    Dinosaurs still walk—and fly—among us: We call them birds. Most paleontologists think birds descended from a group of winged dinosaurs, and thus dinos never went completely extinct. But where did the wings come from? New discoveries from Canada suggest that both wings and feathers arose earlier ...
  • Saturn Storm Creates Largest and Hottest Vorte ...
    On the surface, Saturn seems calm. But the appearance of the largest and hottest vortex ever seen in the solar system has astronomers thinking that Saturn’s atmosphere has more going on than meets the eye.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Monster ...
    The giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is the most massive and brightest member of the galaxy cluster Abell 2261.
  • Public or Private: The Fight Over the Future o ...
    All around the world, from the Himalayas to the Great Plains, fresh water is starting to run low. It’s shaping up to be one of the 21st century’s great environmental and humanitarian challenges: People use water faster than nature can replenish it. Some people argue that privatization is the ans ...
  • Video: Easter Island Statues Could Have ‘Walke ...
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PakAlert

  • Ed Klein: Bill Clinton ‘Urging’ Hillary to Rel ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered additional security for the U.S. mission in Benghazi ahead of the terrorist attack but the orders were never carried out, according to “legal counsel” to Clinton who spoke to best-selling author Ed Klein. Those same sources also say former President Bil ...
  • Did Israel just blow up an Iranian weapons fac ...
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  • U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes for Using ...
    5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said “my interest is to hit Saddam”. He also said “Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not.” And at 2:40 p.m. on September 11th, in a memorandum of discussions between top administration officials, several lines below the sta ...
  • Mississippi Town Sued for Sending Students to ...
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  • GM Wheat May Permanently Alter Human Genome, S ...
    Experts say that the GM wheat currently in development by an Australian governmental research agency could, if ingested, shut down certain genes, leading to premature death or risk thereof to multiple generations. The GM wheat developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research O ...

Andy Worthington

  • Who Are the 55 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners on ...
    I wrote the following report exclusively for the “Close Guantánamo” campaign and website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive upda ...
  • Back Streets and Shop Fronts: Photos of Soho
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  • The 9/11 Trial: Torturing Justice
    The last time the US government wheeled out Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other men accused of initiating and being involved in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 was in May this year, and, as is usual, the mainstream media turned out in force. That occasion was the formal arraign ...
  • Photos: A Riot of Colour, Solidarity and Indig ...
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  • Photos: The Best Placards and Banners from &#8 ...
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  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
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  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
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  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
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  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
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SPL Center

  • FBI May Investigate Apparent Hate Murder of Wh ...
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  • Sovereign President: ‘I am in jail because I s ...
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  • Bogus Louisiana Hate Crime Report Illuminates ...
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Water Privatization

  • Public or Private: The Fight Over the Future o ...
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  • PSALM Sets Angat Plant Award
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  • SC approves sale of Angat power plant to Korea ...
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  • American States Water Company to Report Third ...
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Guardian

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    Experts warn Sandy could contribute to a storm of 'historic proportions' expected to strike US coastline as early as MondayA state of emergency was declared in some areas along the US east coast on Friday as experts warned Hurricane Sandy could contribute to a storm of "historic" proportions.The ...
  • Wen Jiabao's £1.68bn family wealth: China furi ...
    New York Times website blocked after disclosing web of assets in new embarrassment for Communist partyChina has lashed out at a US newspaper report that premier Wen Jiabao's family has amassed vast wealth worth at least $2.7bn (£1.68bn), censoring the New York Times website and questioning the p ...
  • Government orders building standards review
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  • Tearful trader Kweku Adoboli tells trial: 'UBS ...
    Former trader breaks down several times on first day in witness box on charges that he gambled away £1.5bn of bank's moneyKweku Adoboli repeatedly broken down in tears on Friday as the former UBS "rogue trader" defended himself against charges that he gambled away £1.5bn of his Swiss bank's mone ...
  • Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to four years in j ...
    Italian former prime minister, who also faces accusations of sex with underage prostitute, can appeal twice more against rulingSilvio Berlusconi was sentenced to four years' jail by an Italian court on Fridayat the end of a lengthy trial for tax fraud related to the acquisition of TV rights by h ...

McClatchey

  • Rep. Jeff Denham sues over ad in hotly contest ...
    The closely watched San Joaquin Valley congressional race between Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., and challenger Jose Hernandez has veered again into court, with the incumbent suing Democratic operatives for defamation.Click to Continue »
  • In blur of final days, Obama adopts tone of ch ...
    Heading toward the final week of a long campaign, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are locked in a neck-and-neck contest, with Obama scrapping like a challenger and Romney…Click to Continue »
  • Scoutmaster who admitted abusing kids worked i ...
    A former Scoutmaster who admitted this week to molesting numerous Boy Scouts in the Fayetteville area nearly four decades ago worked for years in the preschool center at Charlottes Selwyn…Click to Continue »
  • Holiday cease-fire imperfect, but slows Syria ...
    A United Nations cease-fire that went into effect Friday morning in Syria was breached almost immediately, but people across the country reported less violence than usual.Click to Continue »
  • Syria-like violence seen as unlikely in a Leba ...
    Lebanon?s politics are inextricably linked to Syria?s. Syria and Lebanon were one country until Lebanon gained independence in 1943, and Syria occupied Lebanon militarily from 1976 until 2005.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • RIAA Apparently Forgot To Tell Six Strikes Coo ...
    TorrentFreak broke an unsurprising, but amazing, story this week in uncovering that Stroz Friedberg, the supposedly "independent and impartial tech expert" that was brought on to assist the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) in making sure that the new "six strikes" program BitTorrent monito ...
  • Cisco's CEO Rips Into The Patent System & All ...
    There are plenty of discussions about the problem of patent trolls, but if you think that's the only problem with the patent system, you haven't been paying attention. There have been a ton of major clashes going on between big companies, spending billions buying up patents, suing each other... ...
  • DailyDirt: The Unquestioned Benefits Of Chocolate
    In a few days, a lot of chocolate will be eaten by kids (and maybe their parents), and there will also be a lot of discounted candy and chocolate on sale in many grocery stores. Just so that we don't feel too bad about indulging on Halloween treats, here are a few studies that might ease our gui ...
  • Pakistan To Start Monitoring All Emails, Phone ...
    You may remember that, a year ago, Pakistan announced they were banning encryption online. Not that any such ban would likely to be effective, but it seems to fit in with the claim that the government has told PTCL, the Pakistani telco, that within 90 days it must monitor basically all communic ...
  • Warner Brothers And Redbox Sign New Deal: Rent ...
    Redbox has ended its "standoff" with Warner Brothers and, despite its earlier moves, has come out on the losing end of the deal. If you'll recall, earlier in the year Redbox decided to let its contract with Warner Brothers expire after the studio decided to withhold its new releases for 56 days ...

VacTruth

  • The American Medical Association Will Soon Be ...
    The American Medical Association (AMA) recently published a paper proposing the introduction of a new law to force you and your children into experimental vaccine trials against your wishes. Your only way out of this directive would be to sign an ‘opt out form.’ In January, the AMA publish ...
  • Postman Could Soon Deliver Your Nanopatch Vacc ...
    In 2010, UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday reported that a collaborative research study undertaken by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University in Atlanta had detailed a new way to deliver painless effective vaccines. [1]  Reporting on a study published in th ...
  • Secret Papers Reveal Funding Refused to Resear ...
    Secret papers hidden in archives for years clearly show that when medical researchers applied for funding to study the link between vaccinations and the debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
  • The State of Autism—and 15 Questions for the P ...
    Does anyone know what our presidential candidates’ plans are for dealing with the autism epidemic in this country? Does anyone know what their policies are regarding vaccines? Few people can say yes to either of these questions.
  • Are Eye Drops and Vitamin K Shot Mandatory in ...
    A parent who wishes to remain anonymous writes: “Hello, I was wondering if the eye drops and vitamin k shot are mandatory in Michigan? Also, I have read women take nettle leaf a few weeks before giving birth to boost vitamin k levels. Does anyone know what kind of nettle leaf to take becau ...

BroadSnark

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

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War in Context

  • Neither Obama nor Romney have the guts to talk ...
    The New York Times reports: For all their disputes, President Obama and Mitt Romney agree that the world is warming and that humans are at least partly to blame. It remains wholly unclear what either of them plans to do about it. Even after a year of record-smashing temperatures, drought and Arc ...
  • The Bibi-Lieberman deal: A wake-up call to the ...
    Larry Derfner writes: The only way Israel is ever going to give up the occupation and its habit of military aggression is by going too far – by becoming such a Goliath that the Western world finally tells it to clean up its act or find some new allies. Tonight’s union between Bibi Netanyahu’s Li ...
  • In shaky holiday truce, Syrian enemies eye victory
    Reuters reports: Lakhdar Brahimi’s holiday truce may have saved Syrian lives on Friday, as government troops and rebels drew breath on several fronts – though dozens still shed blood on Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice. The U.N. envoy, discreetly downbeat since he succeeded ...
  • Obama’s African base for drone warfare
    The Washington Post reports: Around the clock, about 16 times a day, drones take off or land at a U.S. military base here, the combat hub for the Obama administration’s counterterrorism wars in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. Some of the unmanned aircraft are bound for Somalia, the colla ...
  • Britain rejects U.S. request to use U.K. bases ...
    The Guardian reports: Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces in the Gulf, citing secret legal advice which states that any pre-emptive strike on Iran could be in breach of international law. The Guardian has been told that US diplomats hav ...

Watts Up With That?

  • NOAA and FEMA gearing up for Sandy
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UPDATED: Media Briefing: FEMA & NOAA to discuss preparations for Hurricane Sandy and potential storm impacts Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and NOAA’s National Weather Service are actively tracking Hurricane Sandy as it continues moving northward over &#8230 ...
  • Major announcement coming Monday from WUWT
    This is just a heads up to watch on noon (PDT) Monday for a major announcement coming from WUWT. The content of the announcement is TV related, and is interesting with the timing of  Al Gore’s announcement about his sale … Continue reading →
  • Review of Cato’s ADDENDUM: Global Climat ...
    Earlier this week I pointed out how the atmosphere went beserkers over this report in Unable to effectively refute the contents, the alarmosphere resorts to calling a new report ‘counterfeit’. That’s still going on, for example in the Washington Post … Continue reading →
  • Arctic Ice and the DMI deficit
    There’s been some interest in these before and after graphs highlighted by the blog “sunshinehours” here. Arctic Sea Ice Not As Bad As They Claimed??? DMI To me it looked like a data processing change at DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute) of … Continue reading →
  • Reply to Warren Warren
    (Note: The is a reply to Warren S. Warren’s guest post here – Anthony) By Roger Cohen First I would like to say that I respect Warren greatly. He has been very energetic in his support of the APS Topical … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Eye implants restore ‘useful sight&#8217 ...
    The first blind patients to be fitted with electronic eye implants in a UK clinical trial have regained “useful vision” only weeks after surgery. Chris James was able to see outlines of objects for the first time in 20 years after surgeons fitted him with the device during an eight-h ...
  • How That Glass of Red Wine Might Help You Live ...
    Researchers have found new evidence showing that resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, may play a role in preventing cell aging. The study in rodents found that when mice had a particular gene — SIRT1 — knocked out, or turned off, resveratrol had no effect on them. But tests of ...
  • Scientists uncover exciting lead into prematur ...
    Scientists have discovered that they can dramatically increase the life span of mice with progeria (premature aging disease) and heart disease (caused by Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy) by reducing levels of a protein called SUN1. This research was done by A*STAR’s Institute of Medical ...
  • ‘Brake gene’ turned off in pancrea ...
    Aggressive pancreatic tumours may be treatable with a new class of drugs, according to Cancer Research UK Less than one in five people with this form of cancer are still alive a year after being diagnosed. A study, published in the journal Nature, showed that a gene was being switched off in the ...
  • Eating more berries may reduce cognitive decli ...
    Blueberries and strawberries, which are high in flavonoids, appear to reduce cognitive decline in older adults according to a new study published today in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society. The study results suggest that cognitive ...

CFACT

  • Will the election continue to give our fossil ...
    There’s a lot more at stake for America on November 6th than Sesame Street or free contraceptives for female grad students. Like, for example, whether or not anti-carbon regulatory obstructionism based upon flawed science and crony politics will continue to escalate energy costs, kill jobs, and ...
  • German media’s veer from green energy
    A few years ago, Germany was “fully committed” to the EU’s goal of ending fossil fuel use. It was building lots of wind turbines, and even some solar farms despite its often-cloudy skies. After the tsunami, Prime Minister Angela Merckel announced Germany would phase out its nuclear plants quickl ...
  • Perverse environmentalist oil sands ethics
    The duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion, amassing political power, securing taxpayer-funded government grants, and persuading people to send them money and invest in “ethical” stock funds.
  • Obama vs. Romney on gasoline
    Initially, President Obama passed on the gasoline price issue, but Governor Romney picked it back up, noting that, "When the President took office, the price of gasoline here in Nassau County was about $1.86 a gallon. Now it's $4.00 a gallon." Obama had to agree on the prices, but had some very ...
  • Obama vs. Romney on oil and natural gas
    President Obama boasts that, "We have increased oil production to the highest levels in 16 years. Natural gas production is the highest it’s been in decades." What's this "we" stuff? Romney counters, "the president’s right in terms of the additional oil production, but none of it came on federal ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Korean Rocket Launch Delayed Over Russian Engi ...
    The launch of South Korea's KSLV-1, its first space launch vehicle, which was due to take place on Friday morning, has been put off owing to a minor failure in its Russian-made Khrunichev RD-191 first-stage rocket motor, the Russian space agency said.
  • Main News of October 25
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • Soyuz with New Crew Docks at Space Station
    A Russian Soyuz TMA-06M spaceship with the new crew of the International Space Station (ISS), which took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday, docked with the station successfully on Thursday, Russia's Flight Control Center (TsUP) said.
  • Live Broadcast of Soyuz Spacecraft Docking on ...
    At 4:00 p.m. Moscow time (noon GMT) EN.RIA.RU will begin its live broadcast of the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft’s docking with the International Space Station (ISS).
  • Soyuz Crew Prepares for Docking with Space Station
    A crew of Russia’s Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft is preparing to dock with the International Space Station on Thursday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said.

Pruning Shears

  • Home rule on that ballot this election season: ...
    Ohioans have experienced a number of different frustrations in trying to get their government to be responsive to their concerns about fracking. The biggest one may be the state’s usurping of home rule of home rule on the issue. Ohio’s Constitution had home rule - basically, the ri ...
  • Bain Capital, leveraged speculation and cancer
    Maha has occasionally focused on mesothelioma, and yesterday she emailed a link to this from Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Cohn. It is a look at how a Kansas City steel company named GS Industries was bought out by Bain Capital, sucked dry and shut down. The resulting struggle for many former emp ...
  • Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement und ...
    The NFL’s lockout of union referees, which began in June and ended today, is just one of several recent examples that serve to illustrate how little regard Americans give to labor and the treatment of workers.  This phenomenon is found not just among the likes of rightwing union-buste ...
  • Partial transcript, trustee meeting
    From here. Roughly from 2:36-4:50.Q: He didn’t tell you what he thought? There would be any risk associated with it?A: He said it was, trying to think of his exact words, symbolic. A lot of what you’re saying is symbolic, because we still have the Ohio Revised Code we have to follow. ...
  • Trustees reject symbolic statement on fracking ...
    The trustee meeting I attended Tuesday actually began over hundred years ago. In 1910 Ohio voters approved the calling of a constitutional convention, and in 1912 a whole series of amendments were adopted. The Ohio History Central link goes to a short but very good summary, and it’s defi ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Busted: Food Myths Brought to You by Corporate ...
    Over the past few months, I've been writing about Proposition 37, the California initiative that would require foods made through genetic engineering to be labeled, a policy that is common sense in 61 other countries, but has been denied to Americans thanks to lobbying by Big Biotech.Click here ...
  • Monsanto Roundup-Ready Alfalfa Should Be Block ...
    Alfalfa genetically modified to withstand Monsanto Co. (MON)'s herbicide should be taken off the market because regulators didn't properly consider how it affects endangered plants and animals, environmental groups told a federal appeals court. Click here to read this article
  • SOS: 12 Days Left in Epic California GMO Label ...
    The most recent voter poll on the November 6 Proposition 37 California ballot initiative to label genetically engineered foods comes out today, Thursday. And the results are somewhat alarming: after enjoying a 26-point lead for the past six months, our side is now barely ahead in the polls. We ...
  • Prop. 37 is in Dead Heat Amid Ad Blitz
    SACRAMENTO - Once riding high, Proposition 37, the statewide ballot measure to label genetically engineered foods, has seen its voter support plummet during the last month, and a new poll shows the high-stakes battle now is a dead heat.Click here to read this article
  • How can we Feed the World-Today and Tomorrow?
    The biggest players in the food industry-from pesticide pushers to fertilizer makers to food processors and manufacturers-spend billions of dollars every year not selling food, but selling the idea that we need their products to feed the world. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...
    Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
  • 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 [.. ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • Channelling Counterpunch
    Seeing the RSS for Counterpunch down I decided to scan some articles - which served as a jumpoff for an overview of the Iranian menace stories Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Public Schools Use RFID Chips to Track and Pun ...
    In the San Antonio school district, the Student Locator Project (SLP) is being beta-tested at Jay High School and Jones Middle School. The SLP includes the use of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note- ...
  • Why Does The U.S. Government Treat Military Ve ...
    The way that the U.S. government treats military veterans is absolutely disgraceful. Men and women that have given everything for this nation are literally being treated like human garbage by their own government. After watching how vets are treated, it i Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...
  • Ten-Year-Old Convinces Jamba Juice To Go Styro ...
    Now this truly is a heartwarming story that goes to show how a little effort can go a wrong way. Ten-year-old Mia Hansen, with a little help from her mother, started a Change.org petition to get Jamba Juice, a smoothie franchise, to quit styrofoam. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &nbsp ...
  • The Peculiar Stability of Instability
    We actually deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, and SE Asia as if we were still living in the WW-II era : we deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, separately Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Discovery Channel Covers Geoengineering/Chemtrails
    Michael J. Murphy, Barry Kolsky and Dr. Nick Begich of "WHY in the World are They Spraying?" www.witwats.com are featured in this episode.
  • GM Cancer Warning Can No Longer Be Ignored
    ISIS Prof Peter Saunders Dr Mae-Wan Ho The latest findings of cancers and deaths from GM maize and Roundup herbicide are the result of the most in-depth long-term toxicology study ever done on GM food; we ignore them at our peril. In the Vatican Museums in Rome stands a statue of La0coön and his ...
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Sen. Harry Reid discharged from hospital after ...
    ShareThisSen. Harry Reid discharged from hospital after crash on Las Vegas freeway 26 Oct 2012 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was discharged from the hospital less than three hours after an apparent rear-end crash Friday afternoon on a Las Vegas freeway, a hospital spokeswoman said. Reid suff ...
  • Iran military action not 'right course at this ...
    ShareThisIran military action not 'right course at this time', Downing Street says --Government reiterates its current opposition to military action against Iran after revelation US has requested use of UK bases 26 Oct 2012 The UK government has reiterated that it does not believe military actio ...
  • Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in ...
    ShareThisBritain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran --Secret legal advice states pre-emptive strike could be in breach of international law as Iran not yet 'clear and present threat' --Military action not 'right course', Downing Street says 25 Oct 2012 Britain has r ...
  • Hurricane Sandy 'could break 100-plus-year wea ...
    ShareThisGlobal warming, the greatest nationl security threat went unmentioned in the 'debates,' of course. We don't want to upset the Koch-sucker brothers and ExxonMobil, now, do we? 'Our best available number-crunching simulations of the atmosphere simply weren't designed for this scenario' Hu ...
  • Harry Reid hospitalized after car crash, in go ...
    ShareThisHarry Reid hospitalized after car crash, in good condition 26 Oct 2012 Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, was hospitalized on Friday with non-life threatening injuries following an accident in his motorcade. A spokeswoman for the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Karen Gordon ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • War Panorama
    25 October 2012 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, with 4-4Cav and Afghan counterparts, shortly before minor IED strike. (11 September 2011) Please click on image to view full screen. or... Click here to view it in panorama mode.
  • MEDEVAC at FOB Pasab, Afghanistan
    24 October 2012 Mullah Omar Google has a function called “Alerts.”  This function allows users to program keywords and receive daily updates from the web.  Using alerts is like having your own investigative wing scouring for information on topics of interest.   Two of the k ...
  • Customary Law in Afghanistan (2004 report)
    23 October 2012 Afghanistan is not lawless: it is different.
  • First, Aid the Living
    WrittenBy: Bing West NATIONAL REVIEW October 22, 2012 A U.S. ambassador is missing and his diplomatic team is desperately fighting off terrorist attacks. Our commander-in-chief and his national-security team in Washington are listening to the phone calls from the Americans under attack and watc ...
  • Mark Safranski Comments Col (ret.) Harry Tunnell
    22 October 2012 The following email came from Mark Safranski subsequent his reading this letter from Colonel (ret.) Harry Tunnell.  The letter. ===Email from Mr. Safranski:=== Interesting, this part in particular: ""A gross lack of concern for subordinates," Tunnell wrote, "manifests it ...

The Killing Train

  • An attack on Dr. Mukwege
    Gunmen came to Dr.Mukwege's house in Bukavu, killed his security guard, and almost killed him. Here is a profile I wrote of Mukwege in 2009 for The Progressive Magazine. Here is the press release from PMU.
  • The Latest Colombian Peace Process
    Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has reinitiated a dialogue with the FARC. Talks began in Oslo and will continue in Havana. The Colombian government suspended orders to capture the 29 members of FARC's negotiating team as long as the negotiations take place, but have warned that they will ...
  • Rabble podcast about Haiti's New Dictatorship
    Matthew Adams from rabble.ca just did a podcast with me about Haiti's New Dictatorship. Check it out.
  • My little review of Fanfare for the Future: Oc ...
    I just wrote a review of Albert, Azulay, and Marty's Fanfare for the Future: Occupy Strategy at amazon: *** Full disclosure: I write for ZNet and come from this school of thought, so this is a knowledgeable review, but not an 'objective' one. read more
  • Updating my archives - Palestine 2002, Chiapas ...
    I have been updating my Writings Archive (see the tab above) and making sure that all of the links are working, putting copies of the material published elsewhere into this blog so it's all searchable and such. Part of this is re-posting work that hasn't been on the internet in a long time, so i ...

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Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Education Minister Rumored Enmeshed in ...
    I reported here last year on one of the greatest stories never told in the Israeli media: that education minister Gideon Saar had sex in a Tel Aviv club with an underage girl; that all the Israeli reporters knew this and that none could report it.  Though this blog gets the discreet attention of ...
  • New Tikkun Magazine Piece on Israeli Elections
    I significantly expanded upon a post I wrote here about the Israeli elections for my latest piece in Tikkun Magazine. It lays out the thesis that Israeli electoral and party politics are essentially dead.  Netanyahu will win the election, but that nothing will change for the better and nothing c ...
  • Israel Sabotages Sudanese Weapons Factory, Two ...
    Israel’s Mossad continued its campaign of sabotage through the Arab world with a bombing at one of Sudan’s national weapons factories in the national capital, Kharthoum.  Though Sudan said only two workers were killed in the explosion and several wounded, given the stories told by ey ...
  • Israeli Arms Exports Fuel Armenian-Azeri Confl ...
    Global Post has published an important overview of Israel’s role as major arms exporter fueling the Armenian-Azeri conflict.  Recently Azerbaijan announced a $1.6-billion arms deal with Israel that would bring its drone fleet to 100 including Israel’s most advanced Heron model.  Here ...
  • Survey of Israeli Racism: 58% of Jews Label Th ...
    Yesterday, I wrote a post about an Israeli survey by Prof. Camil Fuchs, one of Israel’s leading pollsters, that examined Israeli Jewish attitudes toward ethnic and religious identity, racism and other forms of discrimination.  The survey was commissioned by the Yisraela Goldblum Fund and t ...

If Americans Knew

  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Book Review - Insider Histories of the Vietnam ...
    We can’t seem to shake the 1960s. It haunts our politics and presidential campaigns. It’s echoed in ideological battles in the Weekly Standard, National Review, New York Review of Books and The Nation, and in countless websites and blogs. The issues raised by the sixties always reappear when ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Obama's Failed Foreign Policy ...
    Presidential candidates usually frame national security in terms of foreign policy -- relations between nations, including their treaties, military agreements, arms sales, foreign aid and military action. But if a president’s most important job is to protect the welfare of his nation’s citiz ...
  • Film Review - The Oranges: Rotten Fruit
    Sometimes it is a good idea to go to a picture that is an obvious flopperoo, a real stinker like The Oranges, just for the sake of the insight it can give you into the workings of the typical Hollywood mindset — which in this case extends to such very talented stars as Hugh Laurie, Catherine K ...
  • Inside Afghanistan - Afghani Special Forces Ma ...
    Eleven years after U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops first drove the Taliban out of Afghanistan, more questions than answers litter the landscape of a country that has been reeling under the burden of war for over 30 years. Most of those questions ask essentially the ...
  • The 2012 Vote - A Slight Edge for Romney in a ...
    President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, are engaged in a furious final push for votes with a little more than a week to go before Election Day on November 6. Both campaigns are going to great lengths to ensure their supporters get to the polls either on or before Elect ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Request For Help During Benghazi Attack DENIED!
    UPDATE: CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood, though, denied the claims that requests for support were turned down. "We can say with confidence that the Agency reacted quickly to aid our colleagues during that terrible evening in Benghazi," she said. "Moreover, no one at any level in ...
  • VIDEO-"They Murdered My Son" Seal's Dad Reacts ...
    Listen to the sad voice of Charlie Woods talk about how his son Tyrone was denied the military help that could have saved his life.   This is not about politics, this is about a dereliction of duty which led to the death of four brave Americans and the lack honesty coming from the Obam ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Just Added-One More Pres ...
    Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the television set.  There were twenty-six debates during the  GOP primary season, one debate for the VP candidates and three more for the two presidential candidates. One would think that a total of thirty debates was enough--but no. In ...
  • Obama's Disgusting New Ad Simulating "First Ti ...
    Maybe I am getting old but I feel this latest commercial for President Obama is disgusting. This video targeting young adults that compares voting to having sex for the first time. There really are not words to describe the ad except wonder if he would really like for his two little girls to thi ...
  • Texas To U.N. "DROP DEAD!" (And Good For Them!)
    The UN has no authority in Texas! That's the message Texas AG Greg Abbot sent the United Nations about their plan to send observers to the US for the election in two weeks.  Abbot sent a letter to the OSCE  (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) warning the organizati ...

The Real Agenda

  • Wikileaks Releases DoD Procedure Manual for Gu ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 26, 2012 WikiLeaks published early this morning hundreds of documents from the Department of Defense that describe the procedures established by the US government to be used with suspects detained by the American government who were sent to t ...
  • American Medical Association will force people ...
    Freedom of choice when it comes to injecting — or not — a poisonous vaccine may be a thing of the past if the AMA has its way. By CHRISTINA ENGLAND | VACTRUTH | OCTOBER 26, 2012 The American Medical Association (AMA) recently published a paper proposing the introduction of ...
  • Recuperación económica sólo occurrirá si los b ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTUBRE 24, 2012 A pesar de que se dice que la crisis financiera comenzó en 2008, su inicio real fue muchos años antes. Como se explicó ayer, la llamada recuperación que casi todos los políticos dicen que los gobiernos están buscando es una farsa. N ...
  • Panamanian people temporarily defeat sale of C ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 25, 2012 Not even the heavy hand with which President Ricardo Martinelli governs Panama was able to stop The People there from protesting the sale of publicly owned lands. The strength of a movement supported by social and trade unions last w ...
  • Trace from Gardasil vaccine found in brains of ...
    Researchers find that vaccine antigen HPV-16-L1 crossed brain barrier. By NORMA ERICKSON | SANEVAX | OCTOBER 25, 2012 For the first time in history, a biologically plausible mechanism of action has been discovered linking a vaccine to a serious adverse event. Gardasil has left behind i ...

Wind Watch

  • Windmills overload East Europe’s grid ri ...
    Germany is dumping electricity on its unwilling neighbors and by wintertime the feud should come to a head. Central and Eastern European countries are moving to disconnect their power lines from Germany’s during the windiest days. That’s when they get flooded with energy, echoing struggles seen ...
  • Cape Vincent wind power meeting message to BP: ...
    Town officials and community members from the Jefferson County towns of Cape Vincent and Lyme gave BP a clear signal at a meeting last night in Cape Vincent: a wind farm isn’t welcome there. Hundreds turned out for the meeting. Signs reading, “BP Go Home!” filled the town recre ...
  • Turbine troubles: Plymouth area residents cry ...
    PLYMOUTH — Pick a wind turbine, any turbine at all, and chances are the project is under attack. The one at Camelot Park is the exception. But this 364-foot turbine is located nowhere near residential properties, unlike the majority that have been proposed in America’s Hometown. “We have nine wi ...
  • World Heritage status at stake on Öland
    The planned wind turbines in southern Öland may cause the area to lose its World Heritage status. The warning comes from the Swedish Department of ICOMOS, which is the UN organization UNESCO expert bodies, reports Ölandsbladet. World Heritage area Southern Öland comprises over 56,000 hectares. T ...
  • Anti-windfarm campaigners march on SNP conference
    Protesters across Tayside and Fife marched on the SNP conference in Perth at the weekend to add their voice to opposition to the Scottish Government’s windfarm policy. Coinciding the mass protest with Alex Salmond’s address to the party faithful on Saturday, the campaigners claimed h ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off whos on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle ...
    Ever since the Royal Navy converted its ships from coal to oil in 1911, oil has been a “strategic” resource. Powerful nations whose fleets and economies depend on abundant, readily available oil have schemed and when necessary fought to make certain they would be able to get all the oil they wan ...
  • Is Hive Democracy an Improvement?
    Finland and Iceland are experimenting with hive democracy (my term for crowdsourcing ideas for legislation). I suppose it’s fine as far as it goes. It seems like the practice gives people more ‘voice.’ But it doesn’t do that much for ‘exit.’ Consider these sch ...
  • Klinging to Reality
    Up until recently, one of the brightest lights in today’s blogosphere was EconLog’s Arnold Kling. (Alas, he recently decided to opt for the essay form.) He was one of the few bloggers whose every post I read and pondered carefully. When I found myself objecting to something that Arnold had writt ...
  • Free Cities: From Honduras to Jamaica?
    Now that the Honduran Supreme Court has struck down legislation that would allow for a Hong Kong-style free city to spring up in that corrupt and beleaguered country, the Jamaican government is now sitting up and taking notice. Officials with the corporation (MKG) that would develop free cities ...
  • Subjective Value
    For an undetermined period of time I felt myself cut off from the world, an abstract spectator. . . . The road kept descending and branching off, through meadows misty in the twilight. –Jorge Luis Borges, “Garden of the Forking Paths” The eye of the beholder—that’s where beauty lies. I look at a ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Keystone XL pipeline blockaders face arrests, ...
    As protestors in East Texas continue to fight construction of a pipeline originally proposed to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries, builder TransCanada has threatened them with a type of lawsuit designed to stifle citizens' right to assemble and freedom of expression. ...
  • Standing up to the bully of Bentonville
    In the hope that we are seeing a major turning point in the relationship between Wal-Mart and its workforce, it is worth looking back at the company's record to recall just how bad its behavior has been. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: North Carolina's racially-cha ...
    Voting-rights advocates are challenging North Carolina's new legislative and congressional districts as racially discriminatory. read more
  • VOICES: New constitutional amendment needed to ...
    Civil rights leader Judith Browne Dianis of The Advancement Project makes the case for a new constitutional amendment protecting the right to vote, which most of the world's democracies already have. read more
  • Complaint seeks cleanup of coal ash groundwate ...
    The Southern Environmental Law Center has filed a complaint on behalf of four environmental advocacy groups asking state regulators to require cleanup of documented groundwater contamination from coal ash storage ponds at 14 power plants owned by Duke Energy and its Progress Energy subsidiary. ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Postwar Prefabs: Britain's Factory-Made Palaces
    After the financial crisis of 2008, much of Great Britain's construction industry capacity was wiped out. Now, in 2012, there is much fear that the “traditional” construction industry is too weak to rapidly increase the rate of housing production, even if the administrative planning system wante ...
  • Local Government in Ohio: More Accessible and ...
    There is general agreement that smaller units of government are more responsive and accountable to their electorates. However, proponents of larger governments often claim that this advantage also creates   higher spending and tax levels. On this basis, bigger-is-better proponents often sugg ...
  • The Rise of the Great Plains: Regional Opportu ...
    This is the introduction to a new report on the future of the American Great Plains released today by Texas Tech University (TTU). The report was authored by Joel Kotkin, Praxis Strategy Group, and Kevin Mulligan of TTU. Visit TTU's page to download the full report, read the online version, o ...
  • Decline Of The Asian Family: Drop In Births Th ...
    In the last half century, East Asia emerged as the uber-performer on the global economic stage. The various countries in the region found success with substantially different systems: state-led capitalism in South Korea, Singapore and Japan; wild and wooly, competitive, entrepreneur-led ...
  • The Swaps of Damocles
    "Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy...." Michael Brock in John Grisham's The Street Lawyer (Doubleday, 1998). "There can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms…&rd ...

GM Watch

  • Monsanto sleight-of-hand in its NK603 maize st ...
    NOTE: Below is a further comment on the Seralini study by the former government research analyst (30 years' + experience) who previously supplied two other comments on why Seralini's findings likely show real toxic effects and must be taken seriously: http://www.gmwatch.org/component/content/art ...
  • Has a deal been done to bring GM crops to Europe?
    Has a deal been done to bring GM crops to Europe? Helen Wallace and Pete Riley Public Service Europe, 25 October 2012 http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/2644/has-a-deal-been-done-to-bring-gm-crops-to-europe Some famers in the US are now warning their European counterparts not to make th ...
  • Biofortification is an obstacle to food justice
    NOTE: This article by Bob Phelps, the founder and director of Australia's Gene Ethics campaign group, focuses on biofortification by GM, so when Bob says, "There are no biofortified foods yet" he's referring to GM ones. In contrast to GM's lack of success, there is in fact a long list of non-G ...
  • Protests and court action over GM alfalfa
    1.Canada: Farmers Protest "Industry Spin" Designed to Facilitate Licensing of GM Alfalfa 2.USA: Monsanto Roundup-Ready Alfalfa Should Be Blocked, Court Told NOTE: Useful resource for those in Canada http://www.cban.ca/Resources/Topics/GE-Crops-and-Foods-Not-on-the-Market/Alfalfa --- --- 1.Farme ...
  • Protests and court action over GM alfalfa
    1.Canada: Farmers Protest "Industry Spin" Designed to Facilitate Licensing of GM Alfalfa 2.USA: Monsanto Roundup-Ready Alfalfa Should Be Blocked, Court Told NOTE: Useful resource for those in Canada http://www.cban.ca/Resources/Topics/GE-Crops-and-Foods-Not-on-the-Market/Alfalfa --- --- 1.Farme ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Will The Bottom Fall Out? 15 Signs That Layoff ...
    If you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the United States is about to start getting worse again.  Over the past several weeks, a substantial number of large corporations have announced disappointing ...
  • 37 Facts That Show How Cruel This Economy Has ...
    Have you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because you didn't know how your family was possibly going to make it through the next month financially?  Have you ever felt the desperation of not being able to provide the basic necessities for your family even though you tr ...
  • What If We Adopted A System Where The Banks Di ...
    What if there was a financial system that would eliminate the need for the federal government to go into debt, that would eliminate the need for the Federal Reserve, that would end the practice of fractional reserve banking and that would dethrone the big banks?  Would you be in favor of such a ...
  • Obama And Romney Both Favor A One World Econom ...
    Either way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get slaughtered by the millions.  During this campaign, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have both attempted to portray each other as the "outsourcer in chief".  Unfortunately, they are both right.  Barack Obama and Mitt Romn ...
  • 55 Facts About The Debt And U.S. Government Fi ...
    The future of the United States of America is being systematically destroyed by our politicians, but unfortunately most Americans don't really grasp exactly what is happening.  30 years ago, our national debt had just crossed the one trillion dollar mark.  Just recently, it crossed the 16 trilli ...

Desertification

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

The Paper Trail

  • Secret money thrives in presidential, high-pro ...
    Editor's note: This story was first published by the Center for Responsive Politics, where Robert Maguire is a researcher and Viveca Novak is the editorial and communications director. When Crossroads GPS went up with an ad last week accusing Democrat Tim Kaine of wanting to raise taxes, it wasn ...
  • Mystery deepens over origins of nonprofit batt ...
    The origin story of the secretive nonprofit that is leading efforts to invalidate Montana’s campaign finance laws keeps getting murkier.In a document filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the group claimed Jacob Jabs as its “primary donor” who had “agreed to provide $300,000” to get the group ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Chevron gives $2.5 million t ...
    The dearth of large contributions being made by big corporations to super PACs so far this election has ended.Chevron Corp., ranked No. 3 on the Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. companies, made a $2.5 million contribution on Oct. 7 to the conservative Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC d ...
  • Donor profile: Joe Ricketts
    Ranking: 4Total contributions to super PACs: $12.85 million*$12.25 million to Ending Spending Action Fund (pro-conservative)$500,000 to the Campaign for Primary Accountability (anti-incumbent)         $100,000 to Restore Our Future (pro-Mitt Romney)Notable federal h ...
  • Dark-horse presidential candidates berate role ...
    While President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, heartily disagree about the role of money in politics, campaign finance reform was never breached in any of the three presidential debates this month.But the issue was front and center during a debate Tuesday in Chicago spo ...

backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion — It’s a Liberal ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Are you sitting down? Well  . . . answer the question. Whatever. If you’re not sitting down, you should be sitting down, because I’m about to blow your mind. Did you know that there are other Liberals that aren’t Justin Trudeau? And I’m not talking about his father Joseph, I’m ...
  • The Navigable Waters Unprotection Act
    By David@Sixthestate.net Continuing Sixth Estate’s fall 2012 budget coverage, which began with a look at what appears to me to be some appalling chicanery in the MP pension “reform” scheme, I thought it would be nice to look at the end of the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Symbolic of the shif ...
  • 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 [. ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • 9/11 Perps Still in the Saddle: Killers of 3,0 ...
    Here is yet another independent analysis of the stark truth – posted by Dr. Kevin Barrett on Veteran’s Today website. People get really upset when they read my earlier posts, their collective COGNITIVE DISSONANCE makes them unwilling and unable to grasp the true facts. The Bottom Lin ...
  • Comprehensive List of Zionist Crimes Against H ...
    This is not “Fiction” people.  This is Fact. When do We The People say ENOUGH???? A Comprehensive History of Zionist Crimes Revised November 26, 2011 (removed Bali “micro nuke” story – insufficient evidence; updated 9/11 information)   Preface It was decided to ...
  • The POTUS “Election” – Chara ...
    Oh yes, it is all just one big “conspiracy” – and anyone who even dares to entertain the thought that POTUS “elections” are a hoax must be certifiably insane. Let’s just take an objective look at the facts. First a direct quote: “You know very well, and the st ...
  • CIA – What You Need to Know, But Are Afr ...
    From my friend and colleague in Truth, John Hankey comes this 40 minute video on the FRAUD that is Mittens Romney:   Commentary from Alex James: Romney’s secrecy in business is detailed, and revealed; as well as his role as a drug money launderer for GHW Bush; his connection, through ...
  • Way to Go Veterans!!!
    This has to be filed in the “What Were They Thinking?”  waste bin. The American Flag is a symbol that means a great deal to American vets – men who bled and comrades who died to raise the emblem on the mountain top at Iwo Jima. Unfortunately, to many others The Flag has sadly b ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Grand Ayatollahs Chide Khamenei Over Iran's Fa ...
    While Khamenei fails to differentiate between the forces that came together in the Green Movement and those involved in current economic protests, the Grand Ayatollahs recognize that a different social class — Iran’s poor and lower middle class — is now involved.
  • نسرين ستوده در پی اعتصاب غذا به بهداری زندان ا ...
    نسرين ستوده، فعال حقوق بشر و وکيل دادگستری که در زندان اوین است، در پی اعتصاب غذایی که از هفته پیش شروع کرده، با وخامت حال روبرو شده و به بهداری زندان اوین منتقل شده است. read more
  • عکس: ترس مقامات ایران از دست دادن با زنان
    مقامات رسمی جمهوری اسلامی در ملاقات‌های دیپلماتیک از دست دادن با زنان خودداری می‌‌کنند. این رفتار در برخی مواقع موجب به وجود آمدن شرایط خنده‌داری می‌شود http://www.dw.de/flashcms/shakinghand/fa/fa_shakin...
  • رژیم ایران شیطانی است
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  • Iran says may stop oil sales if sanctions tighten
    (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it would stop oil exports if pressure from Western sanctions got any tighter and that it had a "Plan B" contingency strategy to survive without oil revenues. Western nations led by the United States have imposed tough sanctions on the Islamic Republic this year i ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Keep Your Hand on Your Gun
    Catchy little rap number by Lowkey that questions why the ruling elite should have a monopoly on gun violence.     If video won’t play go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBNeD57-RVg
  • Nothing is What it Seems
        If video won’t play go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p_NretS7To Brilliant news summary by Wide Awake News anchor Charlie McGrath. McGrath reminds us that the garbage the mainstream media feeds us regarding the US political system, the US economy and the war on ...
  • CIA Officials Face Arrest in Pakistan
    Mail Online photo According to the British Mail Online, Pakistani human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar has filed two separate court cases intended to trigger a formal murder investigation into the roles of two US officials responsible for ordering drone strikes which killed teachers, student ...
  • It's Official: Times Acknowledges al Qaeda Rol ...
    Syrian "rebel" - note black al Qaeda flag in background According to an October 14thNew York Times artice: “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the g ...
  • Non-Union Walmart Workers Strike!
    Walmart strikers in LA Officially Walmart, a notorious anti-union company, isn’t unionized. All efforts by employees to form legal unions have been crushed. This makes it all the more significant that a recent strike by Walmart employees has spread to 28 stores in 12 cities. Walmart ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Does Obama Still Support Cap and Trade?
    An article in today’s New York Times discusses how the issue of climate change has been conspicuously absent from the recent US presidential debates and the candidates’ stump speeches.
  • Patience and Policy Needed on Drive toward Sus ...
    We shouldn’t be discouraged about the future of electric vehicles because some early movers are not meeting expectations. The recent decision by advanced battery maker A123 Systems to seek bankruptcy protection is evidence the company made missteps and perhaps grew faster than it could handle, w ...
  • Solyndra's Second Chapter
  • Can Rare Earth Replacements Spur A Supply Chai ...
    Rare earth metals are naturally occurring minerals whose properties make them uniquely suited to certain clean technologies, particularly electric vehicles and wind turbines. The components in these clean technologies — including magnets, superconducting wire, batteries, and motors — are made po ...
  • Undervalued Natural Gas Giant Chesapeake Becom ...
    I wrote this article for the Motley Fool under the title: “Chesapeake Should Heat Up Over This Cold Winter” I’m expecting demand for natural gas to rise in the short term due to a colder winter than last year for the eastern half of the United States and coal to gas switching among electrical ut ...

EU Times

  • Texas threatens to arrest European monitors se ...
    A handful of international election monitors have touched down in the US to swing by polling places next month when voters cast ballots for the president, but officials in the state of Texas have issued them a warning: you’re not welcome. State Attorney General Greg Abbott has sent a scathing le ...
  • Argentina workers protest new labor risk legis ...
    Workers in Argentina have staged a massive protest to voice their anger at the new labor risk legislation which they say protects only the insurance companies, Press TV reports. The demonstrators gathered outside the National Congress in the capital city, Buenos Aires, to protest a bill submitte ...
  • UK: Want a state pension? Then do voluntary work!
    First of all we were told, British workers are “among the worst idlers” now it’s suggested when you retire, you could do voluntary work to qualify for a full state pension! Members may remember some months ago, we were told that British workers are “among the worst idlers in the world” according ...
  • 600 die in new Libya war with supporters of th ...
    Amid conflicting reports that the Libyan city of Bani Walid was captured by army forces, RT has learned that 600 people were allegedly killed in Wednesday’s fighting, and over 1,000 have been hospitalized. Locals are appealing for international aid. Libyan officials claimed that government force ...
  • Arctic plastic debris doubled in past 10 years
    A recent study has revealed that the amount of plastic debris and litter piled up on the Arctic Ocean’s seabed has doubled in the past ten years. German researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research studied more than 2,000 photographs of the Arctic Ocean’s seabed take ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • ATLwood: Arnold Schwarzenegger is Tuckered out
    Sightings â There have been several Arnold Schwarzenegger sightings this week as he is in town filming Breacher (also called The Ten , since it's inspired by Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians ) around Tucker and off of Lawrenceville Hwy . The movie also stars Malin Akerman , Sam Worthington ...
  • We asked, you answered: did the fourth-generat ...
    Apple CEO Tim Cook during Apple's media event on October 23, 2012. Third-generation iPad owners: does the fourth-gen iPad irk you? We asked that question of Ars readers on Wednesday this week, just after Apple's second fall media event to introduce the device (as well as plenty of other products)
  • Thursday Night Football Open Thread: Buccaneer ...
    Well, after all that, it is time for another Thursday night game. Tonight's game features our bitter rivals to the northwest taking on Josh Freeman and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay is coming off a home 35-28 loss to the New Orleans Saints (the Bucs wore their creamsicle uniforms) while t ...
  • Microsoft Has Two Principal Strategic Aims For ...
    After months of intensive ground-preparing activity, Microsoft has launched the consumer marketing campaign for the much-anticipated new edition of its OS platform, Windows 8. This is an unusually important launch for Microsoft, as Windows 8 is more than a mere new version; it is, in Microsoft’ ...
  • World Series Game 2, Giants vs. Tigers score: ...
    The San Francisco Giants and the Detroit Tigers are scoreless through five innings. Madison Bumgarner has given up some loud outs, but they've been outs nonetheless, and he's stayed ahead of the Tigers so far in this game. Bumgarner has gotten through five innings, giving up two hits while stri ...

Groklaw

  • Does Apples website notice satisfy the court o ...
    The thing that I think is really wrong is Apple's running commentary attached to the notice. In that notice, only the first paragraph is the one that the court requires Apple to display. Apple then spent 5 more paragraphs, or visually speaking approximately 4x more screen space arguing its posit ...
  • EFF Wins Renewal of Smartphone Jailbreaking Ri ...
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won renewal of critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in a ruling published today, including the upholding of jailbreaking rights for smartphones as well as new and expanded legal protections for video remixing. "The DMCA crea ...
  • Statement of the Librarian of Congress Relatin ...
    Section 1201(a)(1) of the copyright law requires that every three years I am to determine whether there are any classes of works that will be subject to exemptions from the statute's prohibition against circumvention of technology that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work. ...This i ...
  • Samsung outdoes Apple 2-to-1 in smartphones; N ...
    During the third quarter, Samsung shipped 56.3 million smartphones worldwide, helping it to secure 31.3 percent of that space for the three-month period. In the year-earlier quarter, Samsung shipped 28.1 million handsets for a 22.7 percent share. Samsung's shipments last quarter were strong eno ...
  • Man Claiming Facebook Ownership Arrested on Fr ...
    On Friday, federal authorities sided with Mr. Zuckerberg, arresting Mr. Ceglia and charging him with a multibillion dollar scheme to defraud Facebook. Prosecutors say that Mr. Ceglia, 39, of Wellsville, N.Y., filed a sham federal lawsuit claiming to have been promised a 50 percent share of Face ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • My considered opinion about the presidential c ...
    I’ve been done with the presidential candidates for over a week now. They’ve raised upwards of two billion, filled the airwaves and intertubes with endless attacks and platitudes, and managed to not to discuss climate change, the Eurozone crisis, corruption in high places, or present ...
  • Europe crime
    ExxonMobil executive murdered in Belgium. Maybe it was an attempted robbery but it sounds like a deliberate hit to me. ExxonMobil executive Nicholas Mockford and his wife were walking out of a Belgium restaurant. Someone attacked his wife, beat her, then Mockford was shot three times by another ...
  • Microsoft stores have big lines for Surface an ...
    It’s been a long time since Microsoft rocked and rolled. But the Borg is definitely back in town. Windows 8, Surface, Windows Phone, Bing are all seriously good. Microsoft tablets can have multiple windows and apps open at once. The iPad can’t do that (yet).The current explosion of ...
  • TransCanada tar sands pipeline blockade in fif ...
    The tar sands pipeline blockade hasn’t given up yet despite media near-blackout. Officially, it seems, the Tar Sands Blockade was supposed to be over in mid-October, when the New York Times, having thus far ignored the story, announced that it was a “last-ditch bid.” But Tar Sands Blockade ...
  • Is New York City going insane?
    NYPD officer plotted to kidnap, cook and eat women, authorities sayNYC nanny accused of killing 2 kids, stabbing 2 adults

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • This week on the lobbying bill
    The Lobbying Disclosure Bill has been in the media again this week as submissions continued at select committee. One of the recurring questions raised by submitters was why New Zealand needs a disclosure regime, given that we already have a relatively transparent system. While this may be true i ...
  • World Teachers Day
    This is the day we acknowledge the huge contribution of our teachers to our lives and communities. A teacher who helps students liberate their imagination and capacity is a lifelong gift. Yes, we can all remember teachers who acted as if they would rather have been in the army or spoke in incomp ...
  • Poetry for Maui’s
    On Wednesday I had the awesome opportunity to speak to a class of 8 year olds at Eastern Hutt School about Maui’s dolphins. It was such a great day, while I was there I got to listen to their poetry and see all the effort they have put in to raising awareness and wanting to make a difference. I ...
  • Sharpen up Business NZ
    Does Business New Zealand’s Paul Mackay really think that all the mums that take the first year of their child’s life off work come back less competent than their colleagues. Really? His comparison of mothers returning from parental leave being like rugby players trying to get back on the ‘top t ...
  • Minister confused about wellbeing
    The Minister for Local Government said on Morning Report last Friday: I think there is a role for local government to undertake economic development within their regions. It’s contributing to the creation of jobs and that’s contributing to the wellbeing on that community. (Click here to listen) ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • What Happens to Your Body If You Don’t Let It ...
    By Dr. Mercola When's the last time you pulled an all-nighter in order to cram for a college exam, prepare an important work presentation or socialize out on the town? If you can't remember, that's a very good thing, as depriving your body of sleep in this way can lead to some very serious – ...
  • Rice Farmers Suing Drug Company and Poultry In ...
    By Dr. Mercola Three Arkansas farming operations have filed a class-action lawsuit against Pfizer, Tyson Foods, and three Arkansas poultry producers over arsenic detected in their rice.1 The lawsuit claims the defendants "knew that excessive arsenic in chicken litter used as fertilizer on ma ...
  • ADHD Drugs Prescribed to Poor Children to ‘Hel ...
    By Dr. Mercola Medicating children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a double-edged sword, not only because of the steep health risks posed by the medications themselves, but also because many kids labeled with "ADHD" actually do not have ADHD at all. Diagnosing ADHD r ...
  • How Tumors Exploit Gut Flora to Fuel Growth, a ...
    By Dr. Mercola Could your gut flora play a role in cancer growth? According to recent research, the answer is a tentative yes. Findings published in the journal Nature1 report the discovery of microbial-dependent mechanisms through which some cancers mount an inflammatory response that fuels ...
  • State Cuts Philosophical Objections from Vacci ...
    By Dr. Mercola The ethical principle of informed consent means that you have the human right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of a medical intervention and be free to make a voluntary choice about whether or not to take the risk. The right to make an informed, voluntary vacci ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • ‘Kill us all, then bury us here’: desperate ap ...
    The Guarani are forced to make a perilous river crossing using a narrow cable to get food supplies.© MPF/SurvivalA group of Brazilian Indians who endured violence and death to return to their land have made a dramatic appeal to the government after learning that they face eviction once more. Th ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Coca-Cola, Sanofi team for new line of 'Beauti ...
    from reuters.com: U.S. soft drink company Coca-Cola Co is teaming up with French drugmaker Sanofi to launch a line of drinks in France that will claim to aid health and beauty. The partnership calls for the co-development and distribution of drinks under the Oenobiol "Beautific" brand, a Co ...
  • Medicine rarely a slam dunk, despite splashy s ...
    from reuters.com: Next time a research finding leaves you slack-jawed, thinking it's too good to be true, you might just be right, according to a massive new analysis tracking the fate of splashy medical studies. It turns out that 90 percent of the "very large" effects described in initial ...
  • Portland City Council calendars don't show mee ...
    Lots of Good News on Anti-fluoridation* from oregonlive.com: Fluoride lobbyists reported meeting personally with all five members of the Portland City Council in July or August but only one of those initial meetings appears on public calendars -- under a vague heading -- leaving lingering ...
  • corrupt #Portland city council secretly met wi ...
    from naturalnews.com: The driving force behind adding fluoride to the drinking water of Portland and surrounding communities is Upstream Public Health, but the group's plan has been challenged via a referendum effort that could block the council's unanimous Sept. 12 vote of app ...
  • Parents' fury as boy, 11, is told to leave sch ...
    from dailymail.co.uk: A California schoolboy has been forced to stay at home after his school banned him from attending classes because he carries the gene for cystic fibrosis. Colman Chadam, 11, carries the genetic mutation for cystic fibrosis but doesn't actually have the disease and show ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Will The Bottom Fall Out? 15 Signs That Layoff ...
    If you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the United States is about to start getting worse again.  Over the past several weeks, a substantial number of large corporations have announced disappointing ...
  • 37 Facts That Show How Cruel This Economy Has ...
    Have you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because you didn't know how your family was possibly going to make it through the next month financially?  Have you ever felt the desperation of not being able to provide the basic necessities for your family even though you tr ...
  • What If We Adopted A System Where The Banks Di ...
    What if there was a financial system that would eliminate the need for the federal government to go into debt, that would eliminate the need for the Federal Reserve, that would end the practice of fractional reserve banking and that would dethrone the big banks?  Would you be in favor of such a ...
  • Obama And Romney Both Favor A One World Econom ...
    Either way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get slaughtered by the millions.  During this campaign, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have both attempted to portray each other as the "outsourcer in chief".  Unfortunately, they are both right.  Barack Obama and Mitt Romn ...
  • 55 Facts About The Debt And U.S. Government Fi ...
    The future of the United States of America is being systematically destroyed by our politicians, but unfortunately most Americans don't really grasp exactly what is happening.  30 years ago, our national debt had just crossed the one trillion dollar mark.  Just recently, it crossed the 16 trilli ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • Keystone XL pipeline blockaders face arrests, ...
    As protestors in East Texas continue to fight construction of a pipeline originally proposed to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries, builder TransCanada has threatened them with a type of lawsuit designed to stifle citizens' right to assemble and freedom of expression. ...
  • Standing up to the bully of Bentonville
    In the hope that we are seeing a major turning point in the relationship between Wal-Mart and its workforce, it is worth looking back at the company's record to recall just how bad its behavior has been. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: North Carolina's racially-cha ...
    Voting-rights advocates are challenging North Carolina's new legislative and congressional districts as racially discriminatory. read more
  • VOICES: New constitutional amendment needed to ...
    Civil rights leader Judith Browne Dianis of The Advancement Project makes the case for a new constitutional amendment protecting the right to vote, which most of the world's democracies already have. read more
  • Complaint seeks cleanup of coal ash groundwate ...
    The Southern Environmental Law Center has filed a complaint on behalf of four environmental advocacy groups asking state regulators to require cleanup of documented groundwater contamination from coal ash storage ponds at 14 power plants owned by Duke Energy and its Progress Energy subsidiary. ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 20 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.10 ...
    Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is here already. A lot of new features has been added, but overall performance remains a major cause of concern. Feedback from our readers also point to such a direction. You can find a number of interesting reactions from users in our previous post discussing Ubun ...
  • Canonical ups the ante over Windows 8, Calls i ...
    "Avoid the pain of Windows 8. All new Ubuntu 12.10 is out now," reads Canonical's official banner announcing the arrival of Ubuntu's latest iteration, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Pretty strong language, I must say. It is a normal practice in the corporate world to NOT name their biggest comp ...
  • Ubuntu Needs a "Project Butter" like Android
    I'm a fairly satisfied Ubuntu 12.04 LTS user and I'm quite optimistic about the forthcoming changes to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. But that doesn't mean they both are somehow "perfect" or something. Unity, which was a huge departure from the traditional GNOME 2.0 desktop, has been around&nbs ...
  • Additional Drivers Application Moved to Softwa ...
    On the WiFi front, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was a big disappointment for me. Nothing seemed to work until I started using an alternative network manager called Wicd. Things are slowly starting to get better with each new update in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but not there yet. So ...
  • 23 Brand New Features in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal ...
    The Ubuntu juggernaut is moving ahead and huge improvements and brand new features keeps pouring in. Every new Ubuntu release cycle gives you the impression that, things have really been improved and enough features have been added, until you start seeing the changes being done in the next rel ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

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