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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, October 26, 2012

26 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

FORT MEADE, MD - DECEMBER 17: A public affair...
FORT MEADE, MD - DECEMBER 17: A public affairs officer holds a military artist's drawing of defense council entering the court during the second day of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's Article 32 hearing December 17, 2011 in Fort Meade, Maryland. An Article 32 hearing for Army Private Bradley Manning is being held at the fort and will determine if a general court martial can be held for Manning who leaked military documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. State Department cables to WikiLeaks. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Prague (Day 1)
Prague (Day 1) (Photo credit: --Tico--)
CIA jobs ad
CIA jobs ad (Photo credit: thomas pix)
English: London Raiders, an LGBT softball club...
English: London Raiders, an LGBT softball club, and protestors campaigning against the imprisonment and treatment of Bradley Manning (the suspected Wikileaks leaker), at Pride London 2011, near Portland Place. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Protest against the imprisonment of B...
English: Protest against the imprisonment of Bradley Manning#2, March 2011, Fort Snelling, Minnesota Deutsch: Protest gegen die Inhaftierung von Bradley Manning#2, März 2011, Fort Snelling, Minnesota (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sudan
Sudan (Photo credit: USAID_IMAGES)
FORT MEADE, MD - DECEMBER 17: Artist Seth Tob...
FORT MEADE, MD - DECEMBER 17: Artist Seth Tobocman works on a sketch of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning and his hearing outside the main gaits during a rally December 17, 2011 in Fort Meade, Maryland. An Article 32 hearing for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is being held at the fort and will determine if a general court martial can be held for Manning who leaked military documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and US State Department cables to WikiLeaks. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
, former member of the United States Senate fr...
, former member of the United States Senate from Minnesota. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Invisible Opportunity

  • Sudan blames Israel for Khartoum arms factory ...
    The Sudanese government says it believes Israel was responsible for explosions at a military factory in the capital Khartoum on Tuesday. Culture and Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman said four Israeli planes attacked the factory and two people were killed. Israel has not commented. Sudan ha ...
  • Police suspect two of carbon credit fraud wort ...
    Prague, Oct 23 (CTK) – The Czech anti-corruption police have accused two men of 378 million crowns worth of tax evasion linked to carbon credits trade, for which they would face up to ten years in prison, if convicted, the police spokesman Jaroslav Ibehej writes on their website. The two s ...
  • MKUltra – Secret LSD Experiments By CIA
    By Lazer Horse For a period of time it became a pretty regular occurance for the experimenters to randomly spike CIA staff with LSD without warning or reason to see what the adverse effects were like in real life situations e.g. business meetings (FFS!). One guy was spiked via his morning coffee ...
  • 9/11 Red Pill
  • Senator Paul Wellstone (July 21, 1944 – Octobe ...
    10/25/2002 Anti-war Senator Paul Wellstone dies in plane crash .     Anti-war senator Wellstone dies in plane crash Friday . Wellstone, a 58-year-old former college professor and one of the foremost liberals on Capitol Hill, was flying to Virginia, Minn., to attend the funeral of Martin Ruk ...

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

  • A National Disgrace
    If you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible — even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College — n ...
  • Your Vote Matters
    Quite apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right To ...
  • For the Love of Music
    In our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture — even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...
  • The End of the Age of Oil
    Coal, because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed, compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy, bring ...
  • Assessing Bradley Manning
    According to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether, indeed, ...

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • State Department: U.S. Supports Georgia’ ...
    Trend News Agency October 26, 2012 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State: U.S. support Georgia’s integration into NATO N. Kirtskhalia Tbilisi: The Deputy Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Eric Rubin has expressed support for Georgia’s territorial integrity and its integration i ...
  • U.S. Military Chief: Pentagon Deploys Troops T ...
    Trend News Agency October 26, 2012 Dempsey: US sent troops to Turkey many times to assist in anti-terror efforts X-band missile radar of the type deployed to Turkey in January Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey has said there have been many times when the US sent teams ...
  • Videos and Photos: U.S. Holds Largest-Ever Mis ...
    Missile Defense Agency October 25, 2012 Ballistic Missile Defense System Engages Five Targets Simultaneously During Largest Missile Defense Flight Test in History Photographs and videos: Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) The Missile Defense Agency ...
  • Star Wars or Star Peace?
    Russia & India Report October 26, 2012 Star Wars or star peace? Andrei Kislyakov ==== The US is making huge investments into satellite technology. Back in 2009 US Defence Minister Robert Gates convinced Congress to designate a sum of $10.7 billion to developing this field. “Whoever owns spac ...
  • Georges Duhamel: The Third Symphony, a slender ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Georges Duhamel: The Fleshmongers, War’s Winnowing Basket ==== Georges Duhamel From The New Book of Martyrs (1918) Translated by Florence Simmonds Throughout the Land From the disfigured regions where the cannon reigns supreme, to ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • How To Hack Your Alarm Clock [Gallery]
    From the Popular Science archives: How to make your alarm clock water your lawn, cook you breakfast, turn on a light and more Like anyone who's ever seen "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," I fervently wish I had a Rube Goldberg machine that made me breakfast for an alarm clock. While vintage PopSci doe ...
  • Archive Gallery: Hack Your Alarm Clock
  • Mystery Animal Contest: October 26th, 2012
    Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. UPDATE: We have a winner! So, here are the rules: To answer, follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag #mysteryanimal. For example: Hey ...
  • BeerSci: How To Brew A Beer In A Week
    Want to make a homebrew by Election Day? It's possible! A couple of days ago, one of the PopSci.com edit staff asked me if it was possible to brew a beer in time for election day. That's related to one of the most-often encountered questions I get about homebrewing: How long does it take to ma ...
  • A Bloody Seeping Hole In My Foot, And Other Me ...
    "When your feet start to bleed - and boy, will they ever - don’t panic. The hole that appears to be eating its way into the space between your 4th and 5th toes on your right foot won’t go any deeper than a full centimeter (you know this because you stuck your finger inside of it and then measur ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • First cold snap of the season
    After a relentlessly gloomy week, much clearer but colder air is on its way from the Arctic in the next 12 hours, giving us our first cold snap of the season, albeit a short lived one. Some of us, mainly in eastern parts of the region will see showers, and the air will be cold enough for some ...
  • Quiet spell of autumn weather on the way
    After what has seemed like a relentless period of unsettled weather stretching back to the end of March, it's nice to be able to report that a quieter spell of weather seems likely next week - although talk of an 'Indian Summer', for our region at least, is a little far-fetched. Friday and Sat ...
  • A step forward in forecasting cold winters?
    Sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) has been the 'in' topic in meteorological circles in the last couple of years, ever since the severe winter of 2009/2010 in which December was the coldest since the late 19th century. SSW is linked to sudden large increases in temperature over a few days in t ...
  • Regional and global climate update
    Provisional Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average. It was also cooler but sunnier than normal. Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...
  • All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...
    The deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the autumn of 2000. Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Without You: Contemplating the UK-Free EU
    Rest assured that it's not only the Chinese who have a habit of disowning Nobel laureates. For the longest time, the British have shown disdain for the European Union project over both their supposed loss of sovereignty and the waste of money going to Brussels (or was that Strasbourg?). To be su ...
  • China's Growth Slowdown is Utterly Unsurprising
    Nobody is immune to economic slowdowns, and it was perhaps only a matter of China encountered such an episode. To paraphrase my erstwhile LSE IDEAS colleague Martin Jacques, when China rules the world may be set back a few years. Even the Associated Press via Yahoo! News has noticed that, gee, m ...
  • Of Obama's 'Retreat Dividend' and Condi Rice
    Dear readers, something most commentators missed in observing that the United States has now had four consecutive years of trillion dollar-plus deficits is that something remarkable has transpired: For the first time since 1955, US government spending has gone down--from fiscal year 2011 to 2012 ...
  • Fed, Asia & Bailing Heavily Indebted Rich Coun ...
    A recent speech by this rather deplorable character Ben "Choplifter" Bernanke defends US monetary policy from its international critics by shifting the blame on them as frustrating global rebalancing. Quoth he: In some emerging markets, policymakers have chosen to systematically resist currency ...
  • Unionization, Or Why American Carriers Stink
    [NOTE: This post won't win me any points with the Barack Obama / Dean Baker / union apologist crowd, but this blog couldn't care less about parochial US concerns. This is the international political economy zone, buddy.] Everyone knows that American carriers are among the worst in the world, and ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Soldier X Reveals Soviet Style Takeover Plans ...
    Edgar Cayce said Russia would be the savior of the planet. Maybe that means that the populations suriving best will be in Russia – as Russia has been building enough underground shelters for ALL of its people. Why isn’t the US doing this? ~ John Rolls - Video read more
  • “Doomsday Preppers Will Be Treated As Terroris ...
    “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” So begins the Oath of Enlistment for the U.S. military, but in an explosive interview with a National Guard whistleblower shown below, soldiers are now bein ...
  • Taxed to Death!... If You Love Poverty, You'll ...
    If there was no other reason to defeat President Obama in November, it would be the planned destruction of what is left of the U.S. economy by the Environmental Protection Agency. ~ Alan Caruba read more
  • Replay of U.S. Third Party Presidential Debate
    If you missed the Third Party Presidential Debate lastnight, here's another chance to watch it. ~ Video read more
  • Make Necessary Preparations Now for Yourself a ...
    You've probably seen the news all over the 'net: If Romney wins the election on November 6, many Obama supporters plan to riot in the streets. A surprising number have announced their plans to "kill Romney." ~ Mike Adams read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Generator Safety
    With the prediction or onset of powerful storms, people rush out to buy generators. For many people, it is the first time they have ever used a generator. Spend a few minutes BEFORE the storm, making sure your back-up power generator is ready to go. Check the oil and gas levels in your generator ...
  • Nuclear Meltdown Risk In The United States
    Many of you may not even know where the nuclear power plants are located here in the U.S., and as a result you may not understand the associated risk if one of these plants suffers a nuclear meltdown. Here are a few maps which show some of the geographical vulnerabilities of nuclear plants compa ...
  • Hurricane ‘To-Do’ List
    Guest Post: by ‘GrnMtnBoy’ When considering hurricanes, I like to break down my storm preparations into these time-line lists: the Start of the Hurricane Season, Hurricane Watch, Hurricane Warning, During the Hurricane and The Aftermath:   Start of the Hurricane Season Have the ...
  • Food Storage Danger: Botulism
    It is just as important to store food safely, as it is to store food. One significant consideration is the nasty bacteria botulism and its deadly toxins. Food-borne botulism may be found in your home food stores unless you are careful. Botulism is a rare, deadly poisoning which is caused from to ...
  • Forecast Model: Major East Coast Halloween Storm
    Source: ECMWF model for OCT-30, as of OCT-23 A Hurricane, A Extra-Tropical Storm, A Perfect Storm, a “Super Nor’easter”… these are some of the possibilities of the storm named ‘Sandy’, a major storm that could charge up the East Coast of the United States just ...

Fast Company

  • Mepedia: LinkedIn For The Desperately Unemploy ...
    The average LinkedIn user is 44. Therein lies the tragedy of trying to navigate the white-collar social network as a member of the Desperately Unemployed Generation. So Mepedia is trying to become "the LinkedIn for millennials," by creating a networking site that, if the scruffy tattooed gentlem ...
  • Triposo's Travel App Lets You Plan And Journal ...
    On a recent trip to Marrakech, the team behind smart travel app Triposo stayed in an old town without any real streets or street signs, and the few existing signs were in Arabic. Even finding a place to have a beer became a challenge. Lots of us have been there--not Marrakech, any foreign enviro ...
  • You Don't Need Wealthy Donors To Run A Campaig ...
    500,000 people hold elected office in the U.S. And a lot more will be running for office on November 6th. How do they steal the spotlight--and get votes-- during the presidential race? NationBuilder’s software is making it simple to tap into social media and get results.
  • A Look At The World's Most Amazing Kitchens An ...
    Todd Selby is known for his character-filled photographs of the homes of creative luminaries. Now he’s in the kitchens, restaurants, and gardens of the world’s most interesting chefs and he’s bringing you a drool-inspiring look.
  • Nile Rodgers On How To Collaborate With Anyone ...
    He’s made landmark albums for David Bowie, Duran Duran, Daft Punk, Diana Ross, and more. Here’s how he finds his place, even in a superstar’s galaxy.

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt’s Constituent Assembly: Contempt and Cou ...
    The constitution has taken center stage this week in Egypt’s fraught political transition. On Tuesday, Cairo’s Administrative Court referred the matter of the Constituent Assembly’s legality to the Supreme Constitutional Court, and the SCC is not expected to rule on the matter for at least two m ...
  • A Boiling Kettle: Kuwait's Escalating Politica ...
    Power-sharing is always a messy affair. Under the best of circumstances striking a balance between competing forces is a perpetual work in progress, with political actors continually vying for control of the driver’s seat. In advanced democracies the structural checks and balances built into the ...
  • The Syrian Refugee Crisis Intensifies
    Over three-hundred thousand refugees have fled across Syria’s borders to Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon, according to the latest UNHCR statistics. This number accounts for only those who have registered with the UN, or are waiting to register. The UN also estimates that one to one and a ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (October 25)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadaliyya.c ...
  • المدن الجديدة في الخليج العربي و«الخلل السكاني»
    يشكل الوافدون جزءاً كبيراً من سكان الخليج، لكن قلّما يتم التطرّق إليهم في الإعلام. وقد زاد عدد الوافدين بشكل هائل في دول مجلس التعاون على مدى السنوات الأخيرة، فكانت نسبة نموهم السنوية أكثر من ضعف نسبة النمو السنوية للمواطنين، حيث ارتفعت أرقامهم من نحو عشرة ملايين في العام 2000 إلى ستة عشر مليونا ...

mediagazer

  • Censored? Information goes missing from politi ...
    Jake Harper / Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group: Censored?  Information goes missing from political ad files  —  The Federal Communication Commission's online political ad database is supposed to make information about heavy political hitters more accessible, but a lack o ...
  • How one geek just outdid the entire publishing ...
    Tim Windsor / Zero Percent Idle: How one geek just outdid the entire publishing industry  —  Most of my friends and colleagues in journalism or the magazine world have never heard of Marco Arment.  A few more may have actually used his offline article reader, Instapaper.&nb ...
  • Current TV to Consider Offers From Potential B ...
    Jeanine Poggi / AdAge: Current TV to Consider Offers From Potential Buyers  —  Any Sale Seems Likely to Trigger Significant Changes  —  There's a long list of potential buyers who might be interested in Current TV, analysts said Friday after the network said it w ...
  • Awkward: Seattle Times fact-checks its owner's ...
    Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: Awkward: Seattle Times fact-checks its owner's political ads  —  The Seattle Times Co. sponsored political ads in its paper with claims that aren't entirely true, the Seattle Times reports.  If that sounds a little twisted, it is.  —&nbs ...
  • Weibo reaction to Wen Jiabao's corruption (Rac ...
    Rachel Lu / FP Passport: Weibo reaction to Wen Jiabao's corruption  —  On Thursday Oct 26 The New York Times published a 4,700 word article on corruption among the members of Wen Jiabao's family, alleging that they amassed a fortune of $2.7 billion through shadowy business dealings.

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Myanmar making progress: UN expert
    New York: The UN special investigator on human rights in Myanmar says he is encouraged at improvements as the country's reform program moves ahead rapidly but serious challenges...
  • 'Rape is rape', Barack Obama attacks Repu ...
    US President Barack Obama chose to go full throttle against the Republicans over controversial rape remarks by a GOP candidate, contending that attempts to redefine rape make little sense and a predominantly male political class should...
  • 27 forest land diversion proposals come u ...
    NAGPUR: At least 17 fresh proposals for diversion of forest land of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries and 10 fresh proposals for taking up non-forestry activities within 10km of national parks and sanctuaries will come up before the standing committee of National Board for Wildlife (NB ...
  • Baseball: Tigers hope storybook finish is ...
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander embraced the challenge of returning home 2-0 down to the San Francisco Giants in the World Series and envisioned a storybook finish for the American League champions. "It's lined up to be storybook, we just got to make it happen," ...
  • Why China’s Bank Earnings Could Surprise ...
    Bank of China, the country’s fourth-largest lender by market value, defied expectations and beat consensus estimates for its third-quarter earnings on Thursday amid concerns that the sector is hurting from a slowing economy. Now, some analysts say pessimism about the sector may be overblown ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 10/25/12 - 3,218 schools in all 50 states and ...
    www.procon.org - - ProCon.org has been used by teachers, librarians, and administrators in 3,218 schools in all 50 states and 50 countries. We're thrilled to have educators in 643 elementary and middle schools, 1,652 high schools, and 923 colleges and universities using our free educational reso ...
  • 10/24/12 - Gay Marriage Favored by Majority of ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Gay Marriage Favored by Majority of Latinos in United States
  • 10/16/12 - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of What It Is and What It Is Not - Our new 128-page review compiles responses from experts and legislators to 62 frequently asked questions about Obamacare in topics ranging from taxes, insurance premiums, and pre-existing condit ...
  • 10/15/12 - Six States with Pending Legislation ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Six States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Two states have initiatives on the Nov. 6, 2012 ballot (Arkansas and Massachusetts) while four other states have pending bills in the state legislature (IL, NY, OH, and PA).
  • 10/11/12 - 174 Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - 174 Books Citing ProCon.org - We've added 16 new books to the list of works citing ProCon.org research, including books about the Middle East, bioethics, criminal law, and even the death of Bruce Lee.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • Tokyo’s Katsumi
    Japan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
  • Women’s Migraines
    Carol Cruzan Morton Migraines are a battle of the sexes that women might prefer not winning. Each year, roughly three times more women than men—up to 18% of all women—suffer from the debilitating headaches, as tallied by epidemiological surveys in Europe and the United States. A new brain imagin ...
  • Once Upon a Time
    The lure of the fairy tale. Joan Acocella Once upon a time there was a stubborn child who never did what his mother told him to do. The dear Lord, therefore, did not look kindly upon him, and let him become sick. No doctor could cure him and in a short time he lay on … Read more
  • Violence as a way of life
    Humanity has hardly produced a more destructive version of itself than the new breed of terrorists, who are convinced that they have been chosen to show mankind the way to utopia. Helene Lööw The scenes and testimonies of the disaster in Norway make it difficult to justify. Pictures of children ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Energy Independence and Gas Prices: The Truth
    ©OceanaWavemaker By listening to the presidential debates and political pundits you could be forgiven in assuming that there is some correlation between domestic oil production and the price you pay at the pump. By now it has almost become a tenet of conventional wisdom that an uptick in dome ...
  • Oceana CEO Slams Seismic Testing in USA Today
    Today Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless wrote an op-ed in USA Today, "A Deaf Whale is a Dead Whale", about seismic airgun testing. As you may know by now, the Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal to search for oil and gas deposits in a huge expanse of the Atlantic Ocean stretch ...
  • Oceana Ranger Explores Spanish Seamounts
    Our friends in Europe have wrapped up the Oceana Ranger's 2012 expedition, capturing more than 100 hours of footage documenting the incredible variety of life, both familiar and bizarre, living on underwater mountains known as seamounts off the coast of Spain and Portugal. What they documented, ...
  • Baiji, Vaquitas, Extinction and You
    The now-extinct baiji ©Wikimedia Commons In this thought-provoking piece on the National Geographic's Ocean Views blog, Mediterranean Science Commission director general Frederic Briand discusses the precarious and uncertain fate of ocean creatures staring down extinction. About sharks and ra ...
  • 500 Chefs Agree: End Seafood Fraud
    Illegally-caught fish is not on the menu The cuisine of Mario Batali, Rick Bayless, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, Jacques Pepin, Eric Ripert and Michael Symon may run the gamut from modern French to traditional Mexican, but they can all agree on one thing: It is time to end seafood fraud. Mo ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Day Sugar Ray Robinson Killed Welterweight ...
      Sugar Ray Robinson Knocks Out Jimmy Doyle     It was 1947 when Irish American pugilist managed to get a fight with Sugar Ray Robinson, the world Welterweight champion. It must be mentioned that there are people like me who consider Sugar Ray Robinson one of the top ten boxers of ...
  • Captured German War Films
    This is a compilation of pro Nazi news films in French, Japanese and German. This is raw beautiful film. Amazing.     Captured German War Films Summary: POSTHUMOS AWARDS: CU, Swastika emblem, CUs, display of medals – men at attention. Sequence: Civilians receiving awards from Her ...
  • The Corkscrew Tank.
        Here is one of the funniest success stories I have ever read in military technology. The Russians were extremely creative, if not always elegant. I mean there was no fahrfegnugen in a Russian tank. Aseesentially a poor country, their engineering was embedded with a deep sense of pr ...
  • The Actual Contents Of The Famous Lost Dispatc ...
    Before the Battle of Antietam Robert E. Lee issued Order 191. The orders, written on paper that was rolled into an envelope and carried by horseback was lost. A Union Corporal Barton Mitchell with the 27th Indiana discovered the tube on Best Farm. He took the orders, wrapped with three cigars up ...
  • Abandoned Fighter Aircraft.
              Source: Google Images    

Taylor Marsh

  • Missing Issues in the Duopoly Presidential Cam ...
    There’s been a lot of conversation about what’s missing from the Democratic / Republican presidential campaigns, usually with some analysis about why the identified issues are, if not completely left out, clearly not a primary focus of either Obama or Romney. The articles often focus on the pres ...
  • Nor’Easter Sandy “May Be Unlike Anything Regio ...
    CHILDISHLY NICKNAMED “Frankenstorm,” around here we’ll call it a historic nor’easter. The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang said “this storm may be unlike anything the region has ever experienced.” People are already talking about a potential impact ...
  • About Today’s GDP Report
    IT’S GOOD political news for President Obama, who is now trailing Mitt Romney on the economy, who has a 20-point lead among independents in today’s daily tracking poll from Washington Post/ABC News. Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labo ...
  • Fox News Hypes “Exclusive” and “Death and Dece ...
    Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com But — but the basic principle here — basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place. – Secretary Leon Panetta IF THE purpose was ...
  • Lena Dunham Ad Upsets Mourdock Supporters
    IT’S ALREADY known around here that I’m a huge fan of the brilliant Lena Dunham and an avid viewer of HBO’s GIRLS. So, I’m sure you’re not shocked that I love this Obama ad. Young women vote in much smaller numbers. If that wasn’t true, Al Gore would have beco ...

Hudson New York

  • Freedom House Downgrades Israel, Based on Pale ...
    In a clear distortion of information, the once prestigious Freedom House, a not-for-profit organization that purports to monitor which societies in the world are truly free, appears deliberately to have omitted and misrepresented easily verifiable
  • Jordan's Next Leader?
    It might be helpful now to start wondering what sort of ideas Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, and its leader, Controller General Sheikh Hamam Sai'd, will advance if they seize power in Jordan -- possibly with the blessing and encouragement of the United
  • Turkey in the Syrian Crisis: What Next?
    Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad treats Turkish military reprisals as pin-pricks. Nonetheless, while massacres continue inside Syria, confrontations and counterblows proliferate along the country's border with Turkey, including exchanges of mortar-shell
  • CAIR Features Imam with Ties to Hamas
    The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, founded in 1994 by operatives from Hamas, this month continued its tradition of embracing individuals with ties to terrorist organizations, such as Mousa Abu Marzouk and Yusuf al Qaradawi, by featuring,
  • U.S. State Department Strengthening Hamas
    The U.S. Administration has sought to downplay the significance of this week's visit to the Gaza Strip by the Emir of Qatar, Hamad al-Thani. "We have seen the reports that Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa visits Gaza today on a humanitarian mission," State

Urban Survival

  • Hurricane Sandy: There Goes The Election?
    No question about it, the Northeast could get messy this next week with a Perfect Storm kind of set up to the hurricane’s passage this weekend.     Which means to the north we will like see a mess with … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Catastrophism & Prepping
    Our discussion Thursday about whether there really is any “End of the World” event coming in 2013 got reader Bill inspired to send me an email – where he takes me to task for only putting 10% odds on a … Continue reading →
  • How Much “QE” Will It Take?
    (Palestine, TX) I’m not sure how long it will take before someone in Washington sobers up, comes down, wakes up, or otherwise figures this, but have you noticed that the $40-billion a month print job on Quantitative Easing Indefinite (*QEI) … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Worries Beyond Quake Watching
    Oh, here’s a video on some earthquake predictions making the rounds on YouTube…and since Patrick Geryl’s window is here this weekend, we’ll be watching HAARP to see what oddities bump the earth’s magnetic field in there. Yesterday’s 6.5 in Costa … Contin ...
  • Markets Score Obama Win
    (Ellijay, GA) Have the Kleenex ready for the nose bleed when the markets opening in a few minutes.  No surprise here, though. Since it’s a given that Romney would attempt to extend tax cuts, and is considered more business-friendly than … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • National Academies: Algae Biofuels aren't sust ...
    Cai Steger, Energy Policy Analyst, New York, Center for Market Innovation This week, the National Academy of Sciences released a report on the Sustainability of Algae Biofuels, the drafting of which I had the privilege to be a part of as a member of ...
  • Empire State Building Cuts Energy Waste, Becom ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City  The Empire State Building was never intended to be low-impact. It was built as a symbol of the power of New York--and today, it's a surprising case study in the power of efficiency. A series of c ...
  • Celebrating the autumnal city
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC     Portland Fall is a great time to be a city dweller. These photos, which can otherwise speak for themselves, remind us why. Only three are mine; most have been curated ...
  • It's Time for the California PUC to Make Energ ...
    Devra Wang, Director, California Energy Program, San Francisco Energy efficiency is the cheapest and cleanest way to meet our energy needs. Yet, the California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates the state’s largest utilities, current ...
  • Eco-Fitness: Maintaining Your Body and the Planet
    Tiffany Traynum, Program Assistant, San Francisco I work in one of the most gorgeous buildings in San Francisco; a stunning 22-story high-rise built in 1926 with a French Romanesque design. It’s not unusual to see me dodging at least a dozen t ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Police Chief Sounds Off
    So this morning I received an angry email from a police chief in Michigan.  His complaint concerns a story we related about a dog getting shot by a police officer.  This is the item from our September 11 recap: St. … Continue reading →Police Chief Sounds Off is a post from ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, October 25, 2012: Battle Creek, Michigan: An officer was charged with a felony of resisting and obstructing police officers, and two misdemeanors of operating a motor vehicle while under … Continue reading →National P ...
  • Chicago Bartender Gets Her Day in Court — 5 Y ...
    A drunk off-duty cop, Anthony Abbate, beat up a pettite lady bartender, Karolina Obrycka in 2007.  The video below went viral at the time.    The case is now back in the news because the civil lawsuit is now underway … Continue reading →Chicago Bartender Gets Her Day i ...
  • East Haven Police Promise to Reform
    Related story in today’s Washington Post.East Haven Police Promise to Reform is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police MIsconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, October 23, 2012: Wallkill, New York: A state trooper has been suspended without pay after he was charged with assault and choking his girlfriend during a domestic dispute. He … Continue reading →National Police MIscond ...

Total Collapse

  • Israel halts war games to deploy troops, resou ...
    Defense minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz decided Wednesday, Oct. 24, that the heavy Palestinian missile assault from the Gaza Strip, which escalated to 60 rockets on Israeli civilian locations, in a few hours, must be stopped. The bulk of the personnel taking part in t ...
  • US Deploys 70 Nuclear Bombs in Turkey
    The United States of America deploys around 70 B61 nuclear bombs in Turkey to use them in case of necessary. According to a Turkish news agency citing well informed sources, all of the bombs are deployed in the Turkish Incirlik air base in Adana, south of the country. The greater part of these b ...
  • Russian Nuclear Forces Ordered On “High Alert” ...
    A grim report issued today by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov states that all Russian nuclear forces and Airborne Troops (VDV) have been ordered by President Putin to extend their full combat alert status put into place by former President Medvedev last November (2011) [watch video HERE] to c ...
  • Largest ever US, Israeli air defense exercise ...
    The Israeli military says its largest ever exercise with the United States has begun. A major air defense drill called Austere Challenge 2012 started Sunday and includes more than 3,500 Americans and 1,000 Israelis. The militaries are practicing their ability to work together against a range of ...
  • Russian Nuclear Forces Complete Large-scale Drill
    Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces ended a large-scale command drill on Saturday, the Kremlin said. President Vladimir Putin, the supreme commander-in-chief of Russian armed forces, on Friday participated in the exercises and directly controlled the testing of the automated communications c ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Parliament supports motion for solar
                                   Today the South Australian Parliament committed to looking seriously at building solar thermal in Port Augusta. Th ...
  • Rising prices show we must get off gas
                               Australian households are to be hit by another rise in energy bills, this time due to rising gas prices, as highlighted by a report releas ...
  • BZE submission to Sydney Trigeneration plan av ...
    Download full submission here: Trigen_master_plan_BZEsubmission.pdf Download accompanying spreadsheet here: BeyondZeroEmissions_Trigen_master_plan_data.xls (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this p ...
  • Biogas no saviour for Sydney’s trigen plan
    By Matthew Wright. The City of Sydney plans to build a network of gas burners, each of which would simultaneously provide power, heating and cooling to public and private buildings. The City believes that this approach – known as trigeneration – would reduce the carbon emissions of connecte ...
  • Zero carbon housing arrives in Australia
    By Matthew Wright Designs have been released for the award winning Cape Paterson Ecovillage, Australia's first zero carbon housing development. Thirty-eight of 220 lots are available in the first section of the development. The project takes sustainable house design, sustain ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Indonesia remains epicenter for illegal wildli ...
    Demand for exotic pets is driving the illegal harvest and trade of herpetofauna (reptiles and amphibians) in Indonesian New Guinea, according to a recent study published in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation. Between September 2010 and April 2011, Daniel Natusch and Jessica Lyons of the U ...
  • Smuggling of illegally logged rosewood in Mada ...
    Timber traders in Madagascar are smuggling illegally logged rosewood despite an official export ban, alleges a new report published by a Malagasy researcher.
  • After seven year search, scientists film crypt ...
    South America's rare and little-known bush dog (Speothos venaticus) looks like a miniature dachshund who went bad: leaner, meaner, and not one to cuddle on your lap, the bush dog is found in 11 South American countries, but scientists believe it's rare in all of its habitats, which include the A ...
  • Picture of the day: a bizarre baby bird with o ...
    The crested coua (Coua cristata) is native to island of Madagascar. Unlike much of Madagascar's wildlife, the crested coua is not considered threatened with extinction, but is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List. There are around nine species of coua in the world, all found in Madagasca ...
  • APP overstates significance of its logging mor ...
    Beleaguered forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is overstating the conservation significance of its recently announced moratorium on forest conversion on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, argues a new report issued by an Indonesian activist group.

Sierra Express

  • On Eid ul-Adha peace, joy and Allah’s blessing ...
    May this festival shower you with love, peace, goodness, warmth and blessings of Allah From Sierra Express Media People who looked at this item also looked at… Command Recognition by Passing a Microsoft Office Master Exam Change of System for Payment of UK Entry Clearance Fees from 1 Novem ...
  • Light policing ‘A good sign for a peaceful ele ...
    Freetown, 25 October 2012 – Following the first phase of electioneering for the forthcoming Sierra Leone elections, the light policing at campaign rallies has been described as “a good sign for a peaceful election” by the Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observatio ...
  • Change of System for Payment of UK Entry Clear ...
    From 1 November all applicants for UK Entry Clearance must have paid the relevant application fee in to the British High Commission’s account with Standard Chartered Bank before they attend the British High Commission and submit their biometrics, application form and supporting documents. The ap ...
  • Political Chaos is always connected to Languag ...
    Winston Churchill once said that “politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” Sometimes, political necessities can be political mistakes. The November 17 elections have been billed as our country’s date with destiny. Some of us, as armchair observers, have enjoyed and watched from safe d ...
  • African leaders, academics to debate economic ...
    Kigali, Rwanda, October 25, 2012 – Hundreds of leaders and scholars from Africa and around the world will gather in Kigali, Rwanda, from October 30 to November 2 to debate the continent’s prospects for sustainable and inclusive growth in the context of the international economic crisis. Organize ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra gets ready for big sell
    Non-farm investors will soon be able to gain exposure to New Zealand's dairy industry when Fonterra issues $500 million in units next month that will give them access to the farmer-owned co-operative's dividend flow.Upon listing,...
  • Brian Gaynor: Agriculture debt is an economic ...
    New Zealand has a strange attitude towards debt. We criticise the agriculture sector for having too much debt even though it generates the bulk of the country's export earnings.Meanwhile individuals are encouraged to take on more...
  • Fonterra unveils $500m NZX offer
    Fonterra has today released details of its $500 million public offer, which will be by far the biggest issue to hit the NZX this year when it lists on November 30.The offer will allow non-farm investors access to the cooperative...
  • Gas line leak costs dairy industry $46m
    More than 48 million litres of raw milk was dumped during the Maui gas pipeline emergency a year ago, a government-ordered report shows.Milk processing plants were shut down during the five-day outage, caused by a landslide damaging...
  • Fonterra unveils new share trading board
    Former PriceWaterhouseCoopers chairman John Shewan has been appointed chairman of the establishment board set up for the introduction of the new Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, which is expected to be launched before the year's end.Shewan,...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • North Carolina's War on Free Speech About Diet ...
    Sara Burrows at Carolina Journal had done some great digging into the practices of the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. They are, regular readers of Reason might remember, the villains in the case of Cooksey v. Futrell et al., in which they tried to censor the w ...
  • Rolling Stone Continues Proud Traditi ...
    Back when Rolling Stone interviewed President Barack Obama in 2010, I had a little fun at the expense of ageless/deathless interviewer Jann Wenner, because his first three questions to the most powerful man on earth were about how awful those damn dirty Republicans are ("When did ...
  • Defining Radical Down
    As the presidential race tightens, Democrats and their supporters are working vigorously to define radical down. In his Bloomberg View column today, for example, Jonathan Alter warns that even if GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney seems moderate now, he won't possibly govern that ...
  • Obama Campaign Now Raffling Off Election Night ...
    On the heels of news Mitt Romney and Republicans hold a $45 million advantage over Obama and Democrats going into the last twelve days of the campaign, the campaign is raffling off tickets to the president’s downsized election night rally in Chicago.  Obama campaign manager ...
  • J.D. Tuccille on Ballot Initiatives That Reviv ...
    There's an important constitutional issue on ballots across the country next month, but it's not labeled by its name anywhere that it appears. That issue encompasses concerns traditionally considered both conservative and liberal, even if it is embraced oh-so-selectively by its new-f ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Princess Mia graciously permitted the paparazzi to photograph her. Thanks, as always, to her catstaff for sharing this portrait with us.
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    Princess Mia graciously permitted the paparazzi to photograph her. Thanks, as always, to her catstaff for sharing this portrait with us.
  • Yet Another Set Of “If The Perps Were De ...
    Here, for your reading pleasure, are well-sourced yet oddly obscure stories about Republicans — stories that, had they been about Democrats, would be getting a lot more coverage than they are now: – Mitt Romney has an in-law problem, and his name’s Ryan Davies. – Richard ...
  • Yet Another Set Of “If The Perps Were De ...
    Here, for your reading pleasure, are well-sourced yet oddly obscure stories about Republicans — stories that, had they been about Democrats, would be getting a lot more coverage than they are now: – Mitt Romney has an in-law problem, and his name’s Ryan Davies. – Richard ...
  • A comment on drones
    Not that anyone pays any attention to my opinion, but I think that the complaints about using drones for targeting killing are probably largely misplaced. Drones are bombs. Bombs are instruments of war. If one believes that we are at war with a stateless army, then killing members of that army w ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
    How voting for Romney screws both men and women, sex addiction redefined, marriages that survive political differences, small penises, and more in this week's sex in the news. read more
  • Unveiling Isis
    The following is excerpted from Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality (Tarcher/Penguin 2012).   read more
  • Psi in the News
    Ethnography of the afterlife, skeptics issue UK psychics a scientific challenge, presentiment, premonitions and a heaping helping of NDE, in this edition of Psi-in-the-News: Healing Touch therapy, the role of memory in precognitive dream experience and a replication of Dean Radin’s presentim ...
  • Evolving the Vision
      This article originally appeared on Erowid.org I once gave a talk in Peru at the Annual Amazonian Shamanism conference on the theme "Grace and Madness." My presentation went a little something like what follows. Imagine that I'm reading this to you in a lush tropical pa ...
  • Butch Bellbird
    The safety net of referring to the animal kingdom for any kind of justification of human gender roles is proven tenuous by the various gender-bending animals that have been discovered.  read more

Desertification

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

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Press TV - Middle East

  • Hamas censures Israel for Sudan attack
    The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned Israel for attacking a military factory in Sudan.
  • Three soldiers killed in Dara’a car bomb
    At least three soldiers have been killed in a car bomb explosion in the southern Syrian city of Dara’a as insurgent attacks continue across the country despite a temporary truce being in place.
  • Muslims mark Eid al-Adha in Mecca
    Millions of Muslims have marked the festival of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) in the holy city of Mecca, throwing pebbles at three stone pillars that symbolize Satan.
  • Syrian rebels not after ceasefire: Expert
    A political expert says the volatile situation in Syria will not allow a ceasefire due to divisions among the numerous petty warlords in the anti-government camp, Press TV reports.
  • Insurgents attack army checkpoints
    The Syrian army says insurgent groups fighting against the government have violated the temporary ceasefire by attacking military checkpoints in several cities.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • SPS Supports NYC Office of Emergency Management
    The message below is posted on behalf of Dean Brian A. Peterson: My usual flurry of associate deanery was interrupted late Wednesday afternoon by a call from the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM). Not that I minded the interruption, I love the OEM, but I knew the call could only ...
  • CUNY SPS Students Making Strides Against Breas ...
    The following message is posted on behalf of David Mordkofsky, SPS student in the Project Management (PROM 210) course. Hello SPS Community! We wanted to let you know that a group of SPS students will be taking part in a worthy event on Oct 21st, and we invite you to join us! As part of [...]
  • A Walk Down Memory Lane
    In less than 4 weeks, I will be standing in Staten Island waiting for the start of the 2012 ING NYC Marathon with great anticipation. This is what I have been working so hard for over the last 5 months. It started with giving up a pack of Marlboro Lights a day and my commitment [...]
  • Support SPS: Give the Gift of Opportunity
    Dear SPS Community, As we inaugurate the 2012-13 academic year at the CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS), in addition to celebrating new beginnings, we are also very proud to mark the 10th anniversary of SPS. As a member of the SPS community, you are vital to our growth and success, and I ...
  • The Final Countdown
    Does anyone remember what the feeling is like when you are on your way to school and you realized that you forgot your homework assignment at home? I had that heavy pit in my stomach last night at practice. A fellow American Cancer Society DetermiNator reminded me that we have just 4 weeks left ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

Wayne Madsen

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Poll: Iranians support their nuclear program
    Summary: According to recent data collected by Ebrahim Mohseni, who is conducting research inside Iran as part of his dissertation at the University of Maryland, 85 percent of Iranians said it was very important for Iran to have a civilian nuclear program. This high statistic suggests that, d ...
  • Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in ...
    Summary: 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. source: The Guardianread more
  • What the Obama-Romney Foreign Policy Consensus ...
    Summary: The Obama-Romney debate revealed much about the strategic and moral bankruptcy of America’s approach to the Middle East. On Syria, attachment to the delusion that the United States can arm, fund and train fighters to undermine the Assad government—and that some of those same fighter ...
  • Iran Considers Tougher Line After Combative US ...
    Summary: Iran “is weighing a more confrontational strategy” that would “boost levels of uranium enrichment unless the West makes clear concessions to ease sanctions,” according to the Associated Press. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Hollywood Demonizes Iran Again
    Summary: Comparing Not Without My Daughter with Argo through critical lenses simply alerts us to a frozen time, as if in the twenty year separating the two movies, commonly focusing on Americans' escape from Iran, Hollywood has learned nothing new, still immersed in its ideological wheel of s ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: A Cosmic Bubble Mystery
    Wolf-Rayet stars are massive, highly luminous stars that continually shed material in a stellar wind -- which commonly form bubbles in the interstellar medium. But the unusual structure of the NGC 2359 arcs indicate something more complex is going on. Experts wonder if ...
  • The Strange Planets of 'Fomalhaut' --A Spectac ...
                   Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile discovered that planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut must be much smaller than originally thought. The discovery was made possible by exceptionally sharp ALMA images of a disc, or ring, o ...
  • Monster Elliptical Galaxy Discovered --Ten Tim ...
                     Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy, with a core bigger than any seen before. There are two intriguing explanations for the puffed up core, both related to the action of one or ...
  • Saturn's Monster Storm --Bigger than Jupiter' ...
                    The heat-seeking capabilities of the international Cassini spacecraft and two ground-based telescopes have provided the first look at the aftermath of Saturn’s ‘Great Springtime Storm’. Concealed from the naked eye, a giant oval vortex is persisting long after the visi ...
  • Mystery of the Background Glow of the Universe ...
                     A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky. It comes from isolated stars beyond the edges of galaxies. These stars are thought to have once belonged to the galaxies b ...

Natural News

  • All Non-GMO Project Verified groceries on sale ...
    This is big news, so let me get right to the point. Food prices are rising everywhere. Global food inflation is on the rise, and 2013 is going to be even worse thanks to the extreme droughts of 2012 that struck croplands across North America. At the same time, grocery...
  • Cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure a ...
    In a world where threats to national security are increasingly coming from online sources, the United States must do more to beef up its cyber defenses or suffer consequences similar to, or worse than, those suffered on 9/11. That dire warning came from Secretary...
  • Life Without Limbs: An Exclusive Interview wit ...
    The world is beating a path to the door of Nick Vujicic. When I called, his publicist was managing 8,000 press inquiries and turning down 300 speaking engagements per week. The meteoric rise of his evangelical ministry, LifeWithoutLimbs.org, and for-profit motivational...
  • Health benefits of steam inhalation
    Steam inhalation is a method of introducing warm, moist air into the lungs via the nose and throat for therapeutic benefit. Essential oils are often added to provide additional relief. Ancient Egyptians recognized the good therapeutic effects of inhalation therapy through...
  • British cop blasts blind stroke victim with 50 ...
    When 61-year-old Colin Farmer, a blind, retired architect and stroke victim from the British town of Lancashire, was forced to the ground recently while walking to meet his friends for dinner, he thought he was being murdered. But in reality, Farmer was actually suffering...

Threat Level

  • Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The hearing will mark the first time the Supreme ...
  • Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Arrest ...
    A New York man claiming to own half of Facebook was arrested from his rural New York home Friday and charged with a multi-billion dollar scheme to defraud the social-networking site and its chief executive and founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Buzzfeed’s Sponsored Stories Stink in Infringe ...
    Like many online media outlets, Buzzfeed is moving toward the so-called "sponsored stories" advertising model -- a blending of advertising and editorial content placed smack dab in the content stream. But 6-year-old Buzzfeed, whose motto is to capture the viral ...
  • Supreme Court Weighing ‘First-Sale’ Copyright ...
    The Supreme Court on Monday will hold oral arguments concerning the global reach of U.S. copyright law, in a case testing whether an overseas purchaser of a copyrighted work may resell it in the United States without the copyright holder's ...
  • Feds Reject Legalizing DVD Cracking, Game Cons ...
    Copyright regulators are rejecting proposals to make it lawful to jailbreak videogame consoles and to copy DVDs for personal use.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Romney Recession vs. the Obama Boom
    After campaigning for months on the long ago debunked slander that President Obama "made the economy worse," Mitt Romney is now promising voters a "big change" over the next four years. President Romney's change would be big, all right, just not in the way he is pledging. That's because while ...
  • Top Romney Economic Adviser: "Rich Are Taxed E ...
    Back in June, Mitt Romney's top economic adviser Glenn Hubbard caused a stir when he took his partisan politics beyond the water's edge and onto the op-ed page of a German newspaper. Now, the man the New York Times labeled Romney's "go-to economist" has uttered something far more appalling, if ...
  • GOP Still Mocking the "Health of the Mother"
    If for nothing else, you have to give the 2008 and 2012 GOP tickets for getting their lines straight. On Thursday, John McCain rejoined Mitt Romney in support of embattled Indiana Republican Senate hopeful Richard Mourdock. That McCain would come around after accepting Mourdock's "apology" for ...
  • The Economist Pounds Romney on the Economy
    In the next several days, The Economist newsmagazine will make its 2012 presidential endorsement. Despite its mantra on free trade and free markets, in the past that icon of international business and politics has endorsed both Democrats (Bill Clinton in 1992, John Kerry in 2004) and Republican ...
  • To Prosecute Ahmadinejad, Romney Turns to Inte ...
    Among the more puzzling moments of Monday's final presidential debate was Mitt Romney's call for the prosecution of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on war crimes charges. As it turns out, Romney has been urging the United Nations to indict Ahmadinejad ever since his "close friend" and Isr ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Establishing t ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House For Immediate Release October 26, 2012 Executive Order — Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - ESTABLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL B ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Who Owns the World? + Transcript
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Oct 26, 2012 by democracynow In the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT Professor, Noam Chomsky. In a ...
  • Gaddafi and 66 Others Murdered After Capture - ...
    Vijay Prashad: Report says that Misrata-based militias butchered Gaddafi then captured and disarmed members of the Gaddafi convoy and executed at least 66 at the nearby Mahari Hotel
  • Black Financial and Fraud Report
    Bill Black: Government Sues Bank of America but No Criminal Prosecutions
  • Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fuele ...
    In the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT professor, Noam Chomsky. In a recent speech, Chomsky examined topics largely ignored or gloss ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Exoplanet That Was Previously Discovered And T ...
    A previously discovered exoplanet, that had its existence called into question by outside researchers, is most likely a real planet, according to new research. The work, done with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, is reviving the idea that the nearby star Fomalhaut is orbited by a massive exo ...
  • Backyard CAFOs
    More on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and Factory Farms From PlanetSave: Top 5 Ways to End Factory Farming From CAFOtheBook: CAFO the Book From GMO Journal: Big Chicken=Big Pollution From PETA: Chickens Used for Food Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon ...
  • Neuro Scientists Discover How to ‘Read’ Dreams
    Dreaming and ordinary (waking) visual perception share similar neural representations in the higher-order visual areas of the brain. Knowing this, researchers are able to “decode” and even predict the content of our dreams. This is the main finding of a team of neuroscientists led by ...
  • The Rise and Fall of Oxygenation
      The generally held theory regarding the oxygenation of planet Earth can be described as a one-way staircase starting 2.4 billion years ago with what is informally dubbed the Great Oxidation Event, followed almost 2 billion years later with a second irreversible rise in oxygen. However, a ...
  • Mars Rover Curiosity Is Now On The Hunt For Bi ...
      NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been the subject of rumors lately –specifically, that it may have discovered methane on the planet (Curiosity is the first rover with the ability to do so). Methane has been previously detected on Mars from a variety of different satellites and telesc ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Romney's Epitaph: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt"
    By @TedFrier The funniest line from the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney wasn't the President's riff about "horses and bayonets" which he used to sink Mitt Romney's hilarious suggestion the US Navy has gone to rot on Obama's watch because America has fewer dreadnaug ...
  • Republicans Suffer Empathy Gap
    By @TedFrier The sorry spectacle of Richard Mourdock reminds us why putative "Massachusetts moderates" like Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have been trying to step away from today's Republican Party as if it were an ugly fat man who just farted. The Indiana Republican whose name rhymes with those l ...
  • Syria-Iran Gaffe Shows Scumney Too Stupid To B ...
    Haven't we had enough stupid MFs as our presidents? Monday night, Mitt Scumney repeated a gaffe that he'd committed several times before. Unfortunately, Obama chose not to drive a Mack truck through that one. I guess he didn't have time to get to all of them. Syria, he said, is Iran's route to t ...
  • Third Debate Shows Scumney Isn't Ready For Pri ...
    What seemed to emerge clearly from Monday night's final presidential debate between incumbent Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Scumney -- er, Romney, may have to get used to that if the bozo really gets elected -- is that he doesn't seem ready for prime time. Oh, he was very well- ...
  • "LIBERAL" The 21st Century "N" Word
    By @TomBales1 To those of you who base your entire political agenda on anger and hate, I would like to ask you once and for all just what your definition of Liberalism is.  You post your little Facebook entries and you carry your little misspelled signs proudly at the Tea Party's hate rall ...

Care 2

  • 10 U.S. Cities with the Cleanest Air
    On average, people take more than 21,600 breaths a day. Yet, research suggests two-thirds of the American population does not think much about the quality of the air they are breathing. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Former CIA chief: Romneys Right on Iran
    Former CIA chief Michael Hayden agrees with Romney that Iran and their pursuit of nuclear weapons is our greatest threat and says that Obama has been largely ineffective at stopping the mullahs march to nuclear proliferation. Submitted by Paula M. to World  |   Note-it!  | ...
  • New study adds to evidence that common pestici ...
    The evidence that common pesticides may be partly to blame for a decline in bees keeps piling up. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Google Street View heads to the Grand Canyon
    If youve always wanted to check out the Grand Canyon, but never got around to ticking off that task: Google Street View has found a way to tide you over for a bit. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The week in wildlife in pictures
    A hungry chameleon, colourful sea slug and an ancient tree are among the picks of this week's images from the natural world Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Hillary and Barack, The 3AM Failure
    The 3AM phone call came, but it was not at 3AM. The phone rang a little after 1600 Lima (that’s military jargon for local) in Washington, DC. And Hillary Clinton, David Petraeus and Barack Obama failed to answer. Their failure facilitated the deaths of Americans. In my opinion, they have b ...
  • Mitt Romney Seals The Deal
    It was “Reagan-esque.” This is Mitt Romney’s “closing argument” on the economy. A moving, powerful, compelling speech … many adjectives, all deserved. A sweeping panoramic view of how we can HEAL this nation, ourselves, and every country on earth. So goes our ...
  • Breaking News: Obama Admin Denied Real Time R ...
    Latest Update: Charles Woods wants to know why his son Tyrone died. The father of the slain former SEAL gave a radio interview today. From the audio below: “When [Obama] came over to our little area’ at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, “he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m ...
  • Lucky 13! Place Your Bets
    It is HIGH NOON on Friday — thirteen days to go until we find out who the NEXT man will take the oath of Office in January, 2013. (Below the fold: Insights and advice from “Ho Ho” and Sally Vaca‘s comments last night, and more news.) Huh. Dwight Eisenhower was president o ...
  • Was Iran Behind Benghazi?
    * Bumped Up * Regular readers of NoQuarter know that I am no hawk in favor of starting a war with Iran. I think it would be foolish and self-destructive for us and Israel. But when you look at what happened in Benghazi, it is clear that the elimination of the CIA base there serves [...]

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • “I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” - I ...
    “I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” It's Getting Hot In Here Hell's Gate was the property line from where you could literally look down on massive mountaintop removal operations. It was stunning. I've seen clear cut forests, oil spills and an industry polluted lake near Butte, ...
  • Open Letter to President Chopp: Quakerism in t ...
    Open Letter to President Chopp: Quakerism in the Tri-Co The Daily Gazette I am particularly excited to tell you about a Tri-Co Fall Break trip which I was able to attend this past week to learn about and protest Mountain Top Removal coal mining in West Virginia. The trip was co-sponsored by two ...
  • Quakers protest banks support of mountain top ...
    Main Line Quakers protest banks support of mountain top mining (with video) Main Line Activists with Earth Quaker Action Team protested mountaintop removal mining operations at the Narberth branch of PNC Bank on Saturday. Protesters walked into the Montgomery Ave. bank shortly before 11 a.m. and ...
  • Candidate Will Keep Running Until He Wins Or D ...
    Candidate Will Keep Running Until He Wins Or Dies Trying Huffington Post Or as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency describes it, "Mountaintop removal is a form of surface coal mining in which explosives are used to access coal seams, generating large volumes of waste that bury adjacent ...
  • “I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” - C ...
    “I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” CounterPunch Hell's Gate was the property line from where you could literally look down on massive mountaintop removal operations. It was stunning. I've seen clear cut forests, oil spills and an industry polluted lake near Butte, Montana, bu ...

Memeorandum

  • Romney economic speech at company that receive ...
    Jim Acosta / CNN: Romney economic speech at company that received stimulus funds  —  Ames, Iowa (CNN) - The owner of an Iowa construction company where Mitt Romney will deliver a speech on the economy received stimulus funds, according to the government's web site that tracks ex ...
  • Romney's Closing Argument (Zeke Miller/BuzzFeed)
    Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed: Romney's Closing Argument  —  At speech today in Ames, Iowa, Romney will make the case for “Big Change,” because “We cannot afford four more years like the last four years.”  —  Republican presidential nominee Mitt ...
  • Romney Makes Closing Argument At Firm That Ben ...
    Josh Dorner / ThinkProgress: Romney Makes Closing Argument At Firm That Benefited From Stimulus Funds  —  On Friday, Mitt Romney will make his closing argument on the economy in what his campaign is touting as a major address.  The site Romney has chosen, however, exposes t ...
  • Transcript of 1944 Bretton Woods Conference Fo ...
    Annie Lowrey / New York Times: Transcript of 1944 Bretton Woods Conference Found at Treasury  —  WASHINGTON — A Treasury economist rummaging in the department's library has stumbled on a historical treasure hiding in plain sight: a transcript of the Bretton Woods conferenc ...
  • Ronald Reagan Made A 'First Time' Voting Joke ...
    Eric Kleefeld / Talking Points Memo: Ronald Reagan Made A ‘First Time’ Voting Joke 32 Years Before Lena Dunham Did  —  Some conservative were outraged Thursday, when the Obama campaign posted a Web ad starring Lena Dunham, creator of the TV show “Girls,” ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, southern Italy
    Thursday, October 25, 2012 23:05:26 UTC Friday, October 26, 2012 01:05:26 AM at epicenterDepth: 3.80 km (2.36 mi)
  • M 5.4, northern Peru
    Thursday, October 25, 2012 20:49:33 UTC Thursday, October 25, 2012 03:49:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 8.00 km (4.97 mi)
  • M 5.0, Papua, Indonesia
    Thursday, October 25, 2012 18:57:08 UTC Friday, October 26, 2012 03:57:08 AM at epicenterDepth: 44.40 km (27.59 mi)
  • M 5.3, Fiji region
    Thursday, October 25, 2012 18:40:39 UTC Friday, October 26, 2012 06:40:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 604.10 km (375.37 mi)
  • M 5.8, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:32:27 UTC Thursday, October 25, 2012 07:32:27 PM at epicenterDepth: 48.10 km (29.89 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 中国城市：&#2173 ...
    公共自行车项目在北京、武汉和杭州的命运各不相同。政府的作用被证明是至关重要 ...
  • 转基因作物&#2615 ...
    转基因粮食作物日益被指为美国杂草抗药性加剧的根源，专家敦促恢复传统的庄稼轮 ...
  • 27万吨遗存核&#24 ...
    政府想要把核废料深埋地下，但问题是找不到合适的地方。丽贝卡·哈姆斯从18岁就&#2432 ...
  • 德国为何如&#2749 ...
    保罗•霍克诺斯认为，德国决定摒弃核电，并不是因为被福岛核事故吓到了，而是上&# ...
  • 德国为何如&#2749 ...
    保罗•霍克诺斯认为，德国决定摒弃核电，并不是因为被福岛核事故吓到了，而是上&# ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 10 Big Surprises in Store For Tea Partiers Fle ...
    If there's one thing that screams 'patriotism' and love of country, it's fleeing the United States when a Democrat wins an election.Here are but a few examples of the hundreds, if not thousands of Tea Party types who totally swear they're moving to Canada if the Kenyan usurper and his Zombie A ...
  • The Cultists Lose Their Minds After Barack Oba ...
    The election's tight, so the racket is to yell "we're winning" in a loud voice till the votes are counted. (And if you have a little lung power left over, bitch about the liberal media.) We that have free souls, it touches us not, and we take our pleasures where we can. I'm ...
  • 10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing ...
     Brace yourself for one of the most aggressive corporate lobbying campaigns of all time. And one of the most hypocritical.“Fix the Debt” is a coalition of more than 80 CEOs who claim they know best how to deal with our nation’s fiscal challenges. The group boasts a $6 ...
  • Tina Fey Unleashes Her Wrath on Akin and GOP R ...
    At a gala for the Center for Reproductive Rights, comedian Tina Fey had a few choice words for Todd "legitimate rape" Akin. Known for her dead-on impersonation of Sarah Palin on SNL and acerbic wit in general, Fey took aim at the folks whom Stephen Colbert would call "team rape": Akin and ...
  • Almost 1.4 Million Pledge For Jesus as Write-I ...
    As of October 18, 2012, when I reported in my story Graham's Romney Endorsement Accidentally Spreads "Mormonism is a cult" Meme to Millions - about superstar evangelist Billy Graham's disastrous effort to woo Protestant evangelical voters to vote for Mormon Republican presidential ca ...

Threat Level

  • Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The hearing will mark the first time the Supreme ...
  • Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Arrest ...
    A New York man claiming to own half of Facebook was arrested from his rural New York home Friday and charged with a multi-billion dollar scheme to defraud the social-networking site and its chief executive and founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Buzzfeed’s Sponsored Stories Stink in Infringe ...
    Like many online media outlets, Buzzfeed is moving toward the so-called "sponsored stories" advertising model -- a blending of advertising and editorial content placed smack dab in the content stream. But 6-year-old Buzzfeed, whose motto is to capture the viral ...
  • Supreme Court Weighing ‘First-Sale’ Copyright ...
    The Supreme Court on Monday will hold oral arguments concerning the global reach of U.S. copyright law, in a case testing whether an overseas purchaser of a copyrighted work may resell it in the United States without the copyright holder's ...
  • Feds Reject Legalizing DVD Cracking, Game Cons ...
    Copyright regulators are rejecting proposals to make it lawful to jailbreak videogame consoles and to copy DVDs for personal use.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • E. coli Poisons 293 in Belfast – Someone Needs ...
    I had a long talk today with a great barrister from Belfast Northern Ireland who asked that I send him a copy of the book Poisoned. There are now 130... Continue Reading
  • Cheese Kills 4, sickening 22 with Listeria
    The CDC reports that a total of 22 persons infected with the outbreak-associated strain of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported from 13 states and the District of Columbia. The number... Continue Reading
  • Petco starts “turtle relinquishment program” t ...
    As Salmonella infections linked to turtles continue to be reported across the United States, Petco™ has responded with their “turtle relinquishment program” in joint partnership with Concordia Turtle Farm. The... Continue Reading
  • What’s been happening while I have been in Sio ...
    Well, I woke up to snow this morning while parts of the world had either Salmonella or E. coli. Dutch food safety officials have announced and increase of 76 patients... Continue Reading
  • 290 E. coli cases from Flicks in Belfast, Nort ...
    The Public Health Agency (PHA) and Environmental Health Officers from Belfast City Council are continuing to investigate an outbreak of Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157 linked to Flicks restaurant in... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Last week’s dark prediction becomes this ...
    Summary: Forecasting the next stage in the decay of the Second Republic becomes more difficult as it accelerates. Last week we posted Putin’s ads today are those of America’s future, describing the likely evolution of campaigns into entertainment — like Wimbledon, a fun stylish competitive ...
  • How OODA loops break
    Summary: Analysis of America on the FM website talk about broken Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action (OODA) Loops. But what does this description mean? What are the consequences? Here’s the second of a series by Chet Richards (Colonel, USAF, retired) explaining this important subject. ...
  • The Syrian dominos
    Summary: Today Tom Hayden briefs us on the situation in Syria, about what’s happening — and what might happen soon. Civil wars are the worst type of warfare. However, we are not implying that there is such a thing as “good warfare.” There are only good causes. In Syria we have a situ ...
  • How Strong Is the U.S. Navy?
    Summary:  We spend a substantial faction of the US national income on national defense (broadly defined), roughly the same amount as the rest of the world spends (most of which is by our allies). Yet our leaders frequently warn that we’re at risk, and our military edge can vanish quickly.  ...
  • Where do we start, taking the first step to re ...
    Summary: Again we consider solutions, how to reform America. None of the past presented here have held up to scrutiny and time.  Perhaps this one will.  Share your thoughts in the comments. Contents Where do we start? Solutions For more information A reminder that it’s always been all abou ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Syrian Ceasefire Shattered after Four Hours
    It took only four hours for the ceasefire painstakingly negotiated by Lakhdar Brahimi to come undone. From the BBC: The [Syrian Observatory for Human Rights], one of the most prominent groups monitoring Syrian casualties, says its reports are impartial. However, its information cannot be indepe ...
  • Afghanistan Weekly Reader: An Expensive, Ineff ...
    The U.S. has almost met its target number for Afghanistan’s security forces. But the limited capabilities of the Afghan army and police have many wondering why the U.S. spent billions pursuing a “quantity over quality” strategy. Meanwhile, NATO allies are seeing signs that cos ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Targeted Killin ...
    Maria Abi-Habib, “Troops Shot After Taliban Leader’s Call,” Wall Street Journal, October 26, 2012. Anti-American feelings are rife in the Afghan army and police, the two forces that are supposed to take over once the coalition’s military mandate ends in 2014. “We call the Americans t ...
  • Though Bin Laden Was Hiding in Plain Sight, Hi ...
    Mark Bowden of Black Hawk Down fame has just weighed in on the mission to kill bin Laden with a book titled The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (Atlantic Monthly Press). Much of the excerpt that Vanity Fair published chronicles how President Obama et al chose between a drone strike, preci ...
  • What a China Corruption Story Says About the P ...
    Yesterday, the New York Times dropped a bombshell of investigative journalism on the Chinese Communist Party, reporting that the family of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has amassed something like $2.7 billion in wealth in recent years, mostly through insider dealings. That a top Party official has p ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Wed, Nov. 07 Electoral Vote Predictor
    Obama Wins Third Debate The snap polls are in and President Obama clearly won last night's debate. The CBS poll of uncommitted voters gave President Obama a decisive 53% to 23% victory. The CNN poll of debate watchers also put Obama ahead, albeit by a smaller margin, 48% to 40%. PPP ...
  • Hope in Maryland for Marriage Equality
    I’ve heard from many folks in the Maryland and D.C. area who really, really want to win marriage equality at the ballot this November 6. And I deeply hope that you will—more profoundly than I can express. But I don’t like how the numbers look at this particular moment. Going into the balloting ...
  • Peeking In on Canada's Election
    AlexSBurton Last year, Canada's Liberals—the party of Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien, the party that held power for most of the 20th century—suffered a crushing electoral defeat. Its representation in the House of Commons was cut by more than half, and for the first time in its histor ...
  • Paul Ryan's Other Opponent
    Flickr/Rob Zerban for Congress) Rob Zerban giving a speech in early October as he delivered 50,000 petition signatures to Paul Ryan's office requesting a debate.   Paul Ryan's congressional district should be prime swing territory for Democrats. The party held the seat from the 1 ...
  • Fri, Oct. 26 Electoral Vote Predictor
    Are We Heading toward a Split Decision? The closer we get to election day—and it is only 12 days away now—the more likely it becomes that the voters render a split decision with Mitt Romney winning the popular vote and Barack Obama winning the electoral college. A new WaPo/ABC national poll ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • The Moderators' Agendas: An Analysis of What W ...
    The establishment media figures who moderated the 2012 major-party candidate debates confined the discussion to a remarkably narrow range of topics, a FAIR analysis of debate questions finds. A wide variety of topics were never brought up in questions during the six total hours of debate. Amo ...
  • Climate-change Denying Senator James Inhofe Wi ...
    Senator James Inhofe, one of Congress’ staunchest deniers of climate change and stalwart human obstacle to federal action on this unprecedented global crisis, is the lucky recipient of the Center for Biological Diversity’s 2012 Rubber Dodo Award, which is given annually to those who ...
  • Voting Rights Advocates Call on Florida Electi ...
    Today, Common Cause President Bob Edgar condemned the anonymous and fraudulent letters that were sent to eligible Florida voters misstating their voting rights, and called on Florida election officials to investigate this act of voter intimidation. The letters, sent largely to Republican voters ...
  • Voting Rights Advocates Call on Florida Electi ...
    Today, Common Cause President Bob Edgar condemned the anonymous and fraudulent letters that were sent to eligible Florida voters misstating their voting rights, and called on Florida election officials to investigate this act of voter intimidation. The letters, sent largely to Republican voters ...
  • Consumers Demand Right To Know
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement calling for labeling laws to inform consumers which foods are genetically modified. A ballot initiative in California may soon give consumers in that state a chance to demand information. Congressman Kucinich is the author ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Formula for ‘Equal Opportunity’: Why Affir ...
    Michelle Chen Once again, affirmative action is on trial in the Supreme Court. The pending case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, challenges U.T. Austin's admissions policy, which aims to bring in more students of color by consi ...
  • Suppression Surges as Election Nears
    Aura Bogado With a little more than a week before Election Day, grassroots campaigns are hoping to  maximize voter participation among often disenfranchised communities. Cuéntame has launched a series of public service announcem ...
  • On Obama and 'Too Big To Fail' Banks: A Brief ...
    Matt Taibbi The new issue of Rolling Stone features an in-depth interview with President Obama. An interview with a sitting president is always an intense experience for any news outlet, but in this case the Obama interview offered us an ad ...
  • Ladies, Don't Fall for Moderate Mitt!
    Katha Pollitt Dear Undecided Women Voters of America: It’s been fun watching you force the candidates to pay attention to the stuff men really don’t like to think about—equal pay and abortion and “legitimate rape&rdq ...
  • Rust-Bucket Nuclear Reactors Start to Fail
    Harvey Wasserman The US fleet of 104 deteriorating atomic reactors is starting to fall. The much-hyped "nuclear renaissance" is now definitively headed in reverse.The 2007 collapse of a Vermont Yankee cooling tower convinced many ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Sociology Club hosts “Blue Gold” screening, di ...
    If humans go one week without water, they will literally cry blood. According to Blue Gold: World Water Wars, a documentary shown in the Wildcat Theater, some experts believe that in 50 years, there will likely be a collapse of the earth’s water source if there is not a change made to the way th ...
  • Blue Gold: World Water Wars panel talk changes ...
    The free Film Forum presentation of "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," set for 10 a.m. at the Boca Grande Community Center Auditorium Nov. 9, will be followed by a revised panel discussion.
  • Editorial: Swing this
    Re: This newspaper's series called Swing State.
  • A Hay Ride Down Memory Lane
    For me, a trip to Mt. View Orchards is a trip down memory lane.
  • Warring parties agree on some levee, habitat f ...
    They have fought over the sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for years. Now Delta residents and those who demand its water have managed to agree on $1 billion in short-term projects to help the estuary.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Why is a New York hospital being sacrificed fo ...
    Terri Ginsberg 26 October 2012 Plans for massive science campus linking an Israeli and American university in New York City moving forward, despite opposition.
  • Israel's starvation diet for Gaza
    Jonathan Cook Nazareth 24 October 2012 Recently released documents reveal that Israel deliberately allowed much less food than was previously thought to have been imported into Gaza.
  • As Holy Land 5 appeal begins, Palestinians in ...
    Joe Catron Gaza Strip 24 October 2012 Going to university has become more difficult for Palestinians in Gaza since George W. Bush shut down a charity that helps underprivileged students with fees.
  • "Let us not be brought down": Last legal recou ...
    Noor Elashi New York City 24 October 2012 Noor Elashi anticipates this week’s decision by the US Supreme Court whether or not to hear the Holy Land Foundation case, in which her father is a defendant.
  • "Six Flowers" help keep Palestinian handicraft ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza City 23 October 2012 A group of six sisters in Gaza have started their own business selling embroidery that combines traditional Palestinian patterns with modern trends.

The Wonk Room

  • Democratic Rep. Explains Why Now Is The ‘Absol ...
    LOUISVILLE — There is no better time than now to invest in America’s crumbling infrastructure, Kentucky Rep. John Yarmuth (D) told ThinkProgress in an interview this week. With the nation facing high unemployment and in need of a massive upgrade to its roads, bridges, and other infra ...
  • Tennessee Appeals Court Upholds Most Of Voter ...
    A Tennessee appeals court upheld the state’s voter ID law Thursday, with the caveat that the state must accept Memphis library identification cards. In a unanimous ruling, the state’s intermediate court held that the photo ID requirement did not impose burdens akin to a poll tax, and that the st ...
  • 116 Million Europeans ‘At Risk Of Poverty,’ Wi ...
    According to the European Commission, “roughly 40 million Europeans are suffering ‘severe material deprivation’”, while “116 million EU citizens are judged ‘at risk of poverty.’” Yet, the continent is doubling down on the same austerity policies th ...
  • Brian Brown: Obama Wants To ‘Insert’ Gay Marri ...
    The National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown is back with another brash claim about what marriage equality advocates are trying to do. In his weekly fundraising screed, he claims that if President Obama is re-elected, he will appoint a new Supreme Court Justice and the Court will & ...
  • High Health Care Costs Force Many To Crowd Sou ...
    While politicians clash over the details of health policy and President Obama’s landmark health reform law, social media often serves to cut through the political rhetoric and reveal the human impact of what’s at stake in this debate. When a musician tweeted about her experience goin ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • I'm Not Calling For Voter ID Laws
    Some progressives have been hailing the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing Ted "Homo-Hater" Opitz his theft of the Etobicoke-Centre election. Supposedly, the Supreme Court of Canada has decided that our rules, procedures and safeguards for conducting free and fair elections shouldn't interfere ...
  • Canadian Democracy Officially a Fraud
    I am, at present, reeling from skimming this article - "Conservative MP Ted Opitz to keep his Etobicoke-Centre, Supreme Court rules". Here's how it works folks. We have elections, see? And they're first-past-the-post, meaning that all a candidate has to do is get the largest bloc of votes in th ...
  • No Responsibility
    So, I'm almost finished The Monster by Michael W. Hudson. There's a part in it where some state regulators are trying to shut down the predatory lending scam. Wall Street poured out billions and billions of dollars to predatory mortgage companies so that they can gouge people and Wall Street can ...
  • Make the Rich Pay!!!
    Posters like this used to adorn telephone poles in my hometown when the Communist Party ran candidates in federal elections. I was about ten years old. My friends and I used to snicker because we knew that communists were authoritarians masquerading as democrats and they were also looney-toons l ...
  • NAMBLA Gives Award to First Nations Individual
    The North American Man-Boy Love Association today awarded a North American Aboriginal person (who has obtained a legal injunction against the publication of his name in association with this story) with their not-coveted "Person of the Year" prize. All major media outlets are featuring this sto ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Alix Ohlin's 'Inside' is masterfully written
    Alix Ohlin’s ‘Inside’, is a masterfully written novel that spans more than a decade and travels to Montreal, Nunavut, New York, Hollywood, and Africa.
  • Foreign Policy Calls For Diplomacy, Not Bravado
    Diplomacy is no joke. Foreign policy is not a pissing contest. And pure bravado does not diplomacy make. Watch the 3rd Presidential debate in its entirety to get the facts straight before forming your opinion about the candidates' foreign policy position.
  • Ipsos/Reuters poll: Obama beat Romney in final ...
    An Ipsos/Reuters post-debate poll published Tues., Oct. 23 shows respondents favored President Barack Obama as winning the third and final presidential debate. Forty-seven percent said Obama won the debate while 31 percent said the same of Mitt Romney.
  • Writer offers Mitt Romney $5 charity donation ...
    A writer for the online news site, Digital Journal, is offering to donate $5 to the charity of Mitt Romney's choosing if the GOPs presidential nominee releases more taxes. He's giving Romney until the night before the Nov. 6 election to make up his mind.
  • Toronto cops Name-tags — Not visible as push-i ...
    Several years ago the City of Toronto made it mandatory that on duty police must wear their personal name-tags on their uniforms at all times. If that is the case, why are they attached to the uniforms with velcro.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • Seven Killed Across Iraq
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSeven Killed Across Iraq – Friday: 7 Killed, 18 Wounded Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis The Eid al-Adha holiday has, so far, been relatively quiet. Violence had been expected surrounding the observances, which began la ...
  • ‘Americans extremely reluctant to enter ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com Israel’s calls to bomb Iran have stoked the U.S. presidential debate, making support for Tel Aviv a tough issue for the candidates. President Obama and his rival Romney are now walking a tig ...
  • Study of charter schools supported by Romney, ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The teacher’s command of his class is total. “Which one is the whole number?” he asks crisply. “Is it seven over three, or is it four?” He zeroes in on a child who gives the ...
  • New Film Exposes Engineered Collapse
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com October 26, 2012 Joel Skousen sits down with Alex Jones and discusses strategies on how to prepare for and survive major disasters. Joel Skousen is a world renowned expert in designing secure homes, geo ...
  • DHS, Secret Service Say They Are Taking Romney ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMedia still silent on assassination, riot chatter Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Oct 26, 2012 As threats of violence and death against Presidential candidate Mitt Romney continue to explode on Twitter, Homeland Security o ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Establishing t ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House For Immediate Release October 26, 2012 Executive Order — Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - ESTABLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL B ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Who Owns the World? + Transcript
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Oct 26, 2012 by democracynow In the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT Professor, Noam Chomsky. In a ...
  • Chris Hedges: Everything Emanates From Corpora ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 26, 2012 Oct 19, 2012 by CUTV CUTV met with journalist Chris Hedges on the occasion of the publication of La Mort de l’Élite Progressiste, French translation of The Death of the Liberal Class, by Lux Éditeur. We asked him about the ...
  • Ralph Nader: Half of Democracy Is Showing Up ( ...
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader www.booktv.org Oct 21, 2012 by reticularimus Ralph Nader presents his thoughts on America’s economic and sociopolitical landscape and provides seventeen solutions that he contends will answer several issues facing the country. The independent candidate for ...
  • Michael Parenti, Savvina Chowdhury, Sarah Rega ...
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org October 24, 2012 Oct 21, 2012 by ToddBoyle Michael Parenti, Savvina Chowdhury, Sarah Regan panel: “State of the Struggle” – at the Peoples’ Movement Assembly in Olympia WA, Oc ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...
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