26 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Former New York Cancer Hospital, long abandoned, restored as luxury condominiums at 455 Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side, an area also known as Manhattan Valley. See also File:Nycanchospjeh.JPG (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

NewsWise

• NSU's Institute for Special Needs Dentistry Re ...
  Located at 1750 NE 167th Street, North Miami Beach, the Special Needs clinic is now housed in a larger modern space near the existing general dentistry and optometry clinics.
• World Wide Web Expert Jim Hendler Receives Ina ...
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Honored for Contributions to Open Data
• TTU Testing Compound Effective in Stopping Bre ...
  Tennessee Tech students are testing a series of chemical compounds that show promise of stopping cancer in its tracks. TTU is collaborating with cancer centers, including the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, for further studies and possible testing on patients, especially women with breas ...
• Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff Sch ...
  Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing held its Dedication to the Profession ceremony and reception on Saturday, Oct. 20. The annual event, which replaces the former capping ceremony, provided an opportunity for junior class nursing students, accelerated program nursing stu ...
• Study Reveals Inhaled Anesthesia's Effects on ...
  Stony Brook University School of Medicine researchers have found that children's brains are more affected by an inhaled anesthetic than an intravenous anesthetic with increased levels of brain lactate.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Weekday News Wrap: Friday, October 26, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The NY Times reports on a transcript from the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference that was recently discovered in a library at the US Treasury and has been released as an e-book by the Center for Financial Stability. The NY Times also published about the wealth ac ...
• The Haiti Cholera Case against the UN
  by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon Two years ago this month, an unprecedented cholera outbreak in Haiti left more than 7,500 Haitians dead.   As the New York Times reported in a front page article in May 2012, “Lightning fast and virulent, it spread from here through every Haitian state, erupting ...
• Texas v. the OSCE Election Observers: The Kerf ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The agonizing close presidential race in the U.S. has made everyone on edge about election day problems at the polls.  This may explain why the State of Texas has decided to pick a fight with the election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, October 25, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Japan claims that four new Chinese ships have appeared in the territorial waters related to the Senkaku/Diaoyu island dispute. The African Union has reinstated Mali to the organization while stating it was planning an intervention against Islamist fighters i ...
• The Death Penalty and Evolving Norms of Custom ...
  by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon In his August 9, 2012 report, the Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, makes the claim that there is an emerging norm that the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.  Mendez acknowledges that international law does not prohibit the death ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

• Left Behind
  The media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to the left, the media reactions are universal.  Ignore it! This time they have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation ...
• Required Reading
  For those seriously interested in climate sensitivity, Paul K has a very interesting post up at Lucia’s. Pinatubo Climate Sensitivity and Two Dogs that didn’t bark in the night  
• Will Penn State Ever Learn?
  Michael Mann has decided to sue for defamation because someone compared him to Sandusky.  Besides the general disgust for the Penn State sexual scandal, there was a certain  irony for me in that  brought about an article discussing what is a solidly apparent cultural deficiency in the university ...
• Crazy Stuff on Michigan Ballot
  PROPOSAL 12-3 A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY This proposal would: Require electric utilities to provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from renewable energy sources, which are wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower, ...
• Tax the 3%
  I am tired of politics but in the recent debate a topic which I have frequently discussed here took center stage. Taxation of private business in America. Recently, I was critiqued by several readers for making the exact same points that were stated by Romney and Obama. Those unknown wealthy peo ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook removes Collections feature after tes ...
  Facebook hasn’t given up on Collections — the test feature that looked similar to Pinterest and allowed users to “want” or “collect” products that pages posted — but it temporarily removed all posts and activity related to it. TechCrunch noticed … Continue reading →
• Facebook careers: strategic partnerships, medi ...
  Facebook added nearly 30 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the international media solutions and partnership teams. The company is also looking for a few new finance employees: a finance manager, a … Continue reading →
• Facebook hires: lead privacy counsel, executiv ...
  Facebook removed 21 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of business operations, data analysis, software engineering, sales and others. The company appears to have filled a position for lead privacy counsel, … Continue reading →
• Facebook says some viral channels for games ha ...
  Facebook provided insight on just how much regrowth the games ecosystem has seen in the last year during a whiteboard session on social games today at its headquarters. First, Facebook’s Sean Ryan said that games are seeing 30 to 40 percent … Continue reading →
• SchoolFeed, Instagram, Angry Birds Friends, Am ...
  Classmates network schoolFeed gained the most daily active users this week on our list of top growing Facebook apps by DAU with 36 percent gain. The titles below grew between about 100,000 and nearly 2 million DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

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

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• FDL’s Gosztola Takes on Obama & the Assault on ...
  The Toothless Nature of Obama’s Recent Directive is No Accident or Mistake Last Friday, Firedoglake’s Kevin Gosztola took on Obama and his NGO entourages in Washington on the administration’s recent cosmetic and toothless directive to provide an appearance of protection for government whistleblo ...
• Marinetti’s and Kramer’s Puppets: Romney, Obam ...
  “The denial of history in favor of an unmoored existence” By John Stanton “Marinetti [and Benito Mussolini] understood the masses as material to be formed by men of action. A bond was established between futurists and fascists…” US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech at the Vi ...
• Oregon-Beyond Portland
  Classified Woman on Lew Rockwell Show-Transcript I’ve been meaning to write a long post to update you on my major life-change; however, I’ve been racing against time; nonstop-since July. Here is a brief update instead of waiting for a needed break to write a comprehensive update: First, I want t ...
• My Brief Interview on RT- For War with Syria: ...
  ‘NATO, Turkey seek pretense for attack on Syria’ Yesterday I was on RT for a brief interview on the recent developments in the long-ago-planned US war on Syria. As I mentioned during the interview, Boiling Frogs Post was one of the first news sites reporting on those long-ago-conceiv ...
• Podcast Show #96: Austerity is the Consensus o ...
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Eric Draitser Eric Draitser joins us to define and discuss austerity, what austerity looks like in the US, the fact that austerity is the consensus of both parties, why an anti-austerity movement is essential in the US, and helps us connect what’s happening ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• "Isolationist Sentiment" favored by the Americ ...
  Isolationism & avoiding foreign entanglements was once the favored view of a majority of the American people. After 8 yrs. in Iraq, 11 yrs. in Afghanistan & counting along w/ a long recession Americans are once again having isolationist sentiment. Considering both Obama & Romney in Monday's deba ...
• Vote NO on HJRCA49--The Poison Pill for Pensions
  A battlefield report from the front lines in Illinois in the war on public workers.
• The Looming Menace of the Protestant Ethic
  The American obsession, now spreading, for hard work and material domination of Nature, also known as the Protestant Ethic, is a great example of overdoing a good thing. Now too much folly about conquering nature will boomerang in our stricken faces.
• You Are God
  Reality is different in different states of consciousness.
• Ohio Needs International Election Observers
  The 2012 election, like the 2004 election, will come down to Ohio. Ohio has a criminal history of stealing election. Criminal!! It is essential that many, many international election observers come to Ohio to observe elections, particularly in areas where there are many African Americans a ...

Switchboard

• This Week in Whales: Critical Court Hearing fo ...
  Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica News in the world of whales this week (or close to it). Morgan in captivity at Loro Parque, Tenerife, Spain - © Ingrid Visser/Free Morgan Foundation Lawyers and activists a ...
• Latin America Green News: Chile considers nuc ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.  October 21 – 26, 2012 Chile Chile’s Energy Undersec ...
• 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Travel Question
  Sorry to intervene in our round the clock coverage of why 3rd parties are silly to ask a personal question. I am supposed to give a talk at Macalester College in Minnesota on Thursday. One slight problem–the gigantic hurricane/nor’easter/Hades’ fury/apocalypse that is going to ...
• Misogyny
  It ain’t limited to religious discourse. Paul has already mentioned the disgraceful behavior of Richard Dawkins, but the additional detail Watson provides here is both instructive and chilling.
• Texas: Doing a Pretty Good Imitation of a Dict ...
  I’m impressed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s bluster about arresting international election monitors coming to his state to observe the upcoming presidential election. I’m not sure what actual law such monitors would be breaking. But then, it’s not like Texas has ...
• Workplace Political Intimidation
  Ever since Mike Elk broke the story about the Koch Brothers intimidating Georgia Pacific mill workers in Oregon to vote for Mitt Romney, we’ve seen a tidal wave of corporate overloads trying to influence their workers’ votes. Just in last 24 hours, I’ve seen a number of stories ...
• “The Roots of the Crisis”
  This is just hopelessly lazy: To understand the roots of the crisis in Libya, after all, would mean examining how, for years, the United States helped Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and other Arab leaders hold on to power and terrorize their opponents anywhere in the world, in the name of the “war on t ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Solar Energy Officials And The Roads They Travel
• BrightSource Eyes More Power Towers With Cash ...
• Stay In This Awesome Shipping Container Home I ...
• Winter Snow Poses Little Risk For Home Solar P ...
• Saudis Aim For Renewables While We Dig Fossil ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• St. Thomas' new dean recognizes the challenges
  The University of St. Thomas School of Law has named Robert Vischer as its new dean, effective on January 1. Now associate dean for academic affairs, Vischer has taught at the Roman Catholic-affiliated law school since 2005.
• Judge allows trademark infringement suit again ...
  A federal district judge in California has rejected a motion to dismiss in a trademark infringement suit against Google.
• THE PLAINTIFFS' HOT LIST
  These 19 firms are at the cutting edge of plaintiffs' work -- and are giving defense players a run for their money.
• DOJ's brief on Fast and Furious: marginalizing ...
  Given the tone, substance, and analysis of this brief, there is little reason for the House to expect additional accommodation from the administration.
• THE CONNECTED LAWYER: Are you marketing yourse ...
  Prospective clients have become far more discriminating. They aren't looking for a corporate generalist any more; they want to find the lawyer with outstanding abilities.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Warning: Catastrophic Storm Heads for The Midd ...
  This will then be a catastrophic storm for the Middle Atlantic and Northeast. It will not be a purely tropical system, with a core of powerful winds near the center, but rather more like a Nor'Easter, with strong winds over a larger area.
• US Slams UN Expert's Anti-Israel Report
  Reports say the UN expert called for a boycott of private companies accused of profiting from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank as 'irresponsible and unacceptable.'
• Hurricane Sandy: Charity Prepares Domestic Dis ...
  The domestic disaster relief team of Operation Blessing International reports it is preparing for relief efforts as Hurricane Sandy sets its course on the East Coast.
• Benghazi and Obama's Final Days Options
  Will the White House release unclassified versions of the PDB's and Daily Threat Briefs for the three weeks preceding the Benghazi attacks
• How Can An Addict and Addict's Family Heal?
  Interview with William Moyers, author of Now What? An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery

environment 360

• 3D Digital Atlas App Documents Human Effects o ...
  A team of UK-based developers has created an interactive app that enables users to explore a trove of global data on several critical issues, including how human populations are impacting the natural world and View images Collins Mapping world trends: Carbon emissions the production and ...
• Rapid Thinning of Glaciers Seen After Collapse ...
  NASA has released satellite photos that vividly depict the precipitous thinning and retreat of two Antarctic glaciers following the disintegration of the Larsen B Ice Shelf. That ice shelf — which floated on top of the Click to enlarge NASA Thinning of Hektoria and Green glaciers, 2002-2012 ...
• For Wolves on the Brink, A Hobbled Recovery Plan
  Few creatures in the United States have come as close to extinction as the Mexican wolf, which was wiped out in the U.S. by 1970. Now, scientists and conservationists contend, federal officials are caving into political pressure and failing to implement a legally mandated reintroduction plan. ...
• Plastic Waste Increasing on Remote Arctic Seab ...
  Deep-sea cameras deployed to monitor biodiversity on the Arctic seabed have documented a significant rise in the amount of plastic waste and other litter on the remote sea floors of the Far North, according to a new study. While looking at many thousands of seabed photos taken in 2011 between Gr ...
• Ocean Acidification May Alter Acoustics of Sea ...
  Increased ocean acidification over the next century could alter the acoustic properties of seawater, giving the planet’s oceans the same hi-fi sound they had during the age of the dinosaurs. In an analysis of ocean acidity over 300 million years, U.S. researchers David G. Browning and Peter M. S ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• Chinese man sues wife over ugly child – and wi ...
  Many people are used to returning merchandise if they find that it doesn't match their needs. But one Chinese man went a step further, and returned his wife – getting $120,000 in a court settlement. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Dotcom’s ‘ultimate file hosting solution’ to b ...
  Kim Dotcom has announced plans to launch “Mega,” a new and improved raid-proof service that is expected to go live on the one-year anniversary of Megaupload’s shutdown by American authorities. Read Full Article at RT.com
• EU to build 700-million euro lasers to zap nuc ...
  The EU is to spend €700 million to build the world’s most powerful lasers, in Romania, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The technology may be used to destroy nuclear waste and provide new cancer treatments. Read Full Article at RT.com
• One in four Spaniards jobless as unemployment ...
  Spain's unemployment rate has hit a record high of 25 per cent. The country is currently facing its worst jobless crisis since the 1970s. Read Full Article at RT.com
• UK refuses to ‘violate international law’ and ...
  Britain has said that it is not right “at this point in time” for a possible strike on Iran, but is involved in military contingency planning with the US and other allies over Iran, according to the UK newspaper the... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Meat Loaf swings into backing Romney; Jane Fon ...
  — Hows this for a pretty picture? ‘Meat Loaf’, the White boys from the country group ‘Alabama’, and Mitt Romney all singing ‘America the Beautiful’ together on stage? Meat Loaf backs Romney, citing the candidate’s ‘backbone’
• Obama regime railroads whistleblower to prison ...
  Please Help Defend John Kiriakou
• Made by US government slaughter continues in Libya
  For better or for worse? Libya plagued with violence, instability one year after Gaddafi
• ARGO is a near deftly crafted thriller, jingoi ...
  This movie is rated AYFKM– Film critics are unanimous in their praise of ARGO, Matt Damon’s retelling of an Iran Hostage Crisis era escape caper. Either these reviews also reflect media agencies uniformly shrugging off Argo’s obvious anti-Iranian jingoism or these authors are i ...
• Democratic Party Chairwoman shows own ignoranc ...
  Amazing! Obama Rep. Schultz on The NDAA and Secret Kill List —How can a top Democratic party leader be so ignorant of her own party’s politics?

Debunking the Debunkers

• Peer-reviewed 9/11 Truth
  What you need to know about "Peer-review" Academic Papers on 9/11 Some of the papers below are discussions papers published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics. "Debunkers" have claimed that discussion papers in this journal are not peer-reviewed. This is consclusively shown to be inc ...
• Clarion PA, Library Now Has '9/11 Experts Spea ...
  From Pennsylvanians for 9/11 Truth: I made sure with library staff that the DVD would be made available for rental and not go into a book fair or whatever. I donated DVDs at another library once that never made it into the catalog. So make sure you do that and get to donating if you're able! T ...
• We are not tin foil hat wearers...
  This is a tin foil hat wearer (Skip to ~17:00)... This is from the final episode of the new series of "Conspiracy Road Trip" on BBC3. It's about UFOs. Seriously, I didn't know there were people out there who actually wore tin foil hats. I always thought that was something the Simpsons made up ...
• Action Alert: Contact TV Program Unsealed Cons ...
  After recently catching a few episodes of the new program Unsealed Conspiracy Files, I decided to write them today and passd along information on AE911Truth, peer-reviewed papers supporting controlled demolition, the NORAD stand-down, and 9/11 whistleblowers. Here was their response: Hi John, ...
• 9/11 Free Fall-- Dr. Crockett Grabbe, Controll ...
  Apparently, since Grabbe is such an esteemed scientist, some "debunkers" on the JREF Forum have resorted to theorizing brain damage was the reason for his being a controlled demolition advocate. As their usual ally Oystein wrote: Folks, seriously, this "brain damage" argument - it's weak. As ...

Fooducate

• Front of Pack Nutrition Labeling in the UK Set ...
• The Skinny on Skinny Snacks
• Today is Food Day. Treat Yourself to Real Food!
• Opinion: Don’t Blame “Added Sugars” in Food fo ...
• Are You a Breakfast Eater or a Breakfast Skipper?

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• ‘Kill us all, then bury us here’: desperate ap ...
  The Guarani are forced to make a perilous river crossing using a narrow cable to get food supplies.© MPF/SurvivalA group of Brazilian Indians who endured violence and death to return to their land have made a dramatic appeal to the government after learning that they face eviction once more. Th ...
• UK snubs tribal rights by refusing to ratify k ...
  The more countries that ratify ILO 169, the more protection it offers for tribal peoples everywhere.© Stephen Corry/SurvivalThe UK has dismayed tribal and indigenous peoples as well as activists around the world by refusing to ratify a key international law, which protects their basic human righ ...
• Land grabs in Ethiopia leave tribes hungry on ...
  A boy from the Lower Omo stands on the riverbank.© SurvivalViolent land grabs in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley are displacing tribes and preventing them from cultivating their land, leaving thousands of people hungry and ‘waiting to die’. As the world prepares to raise awareness of the issues beh ...
• Leaked plans to resettle Penan surface as bloc ...
  The Penan's blockade of the Murum dam road began on 26th September.© SCANE/SurvivalLeaked plans to resettle Malaysia’s Penan have surfaced, as the tribe continues to hold a two-week blockade on the road leading to the controversial Murum dam. Anger is growing within the tribe, which says i ...
• Australia’s Channel 7 seeks judicial review of ...
  Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease.© Channel 7Australia’s Channel 7 goes to court tomorrow (11 October) seeking judicial review of a devastating ruling a ...

Greg Palast

• A Hostile Takeover of our Country Treasonous, ...
  by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for EcoWatch from the foreword to Billionaires & Ballot Bandits American democracy is under assault. In one super-PAC alone, Karl Rove and the Enron grifter Ed Gillespie, have assembled $200 million from big polluters and Wall Street moguls to buy the 2012 election. ...
• How Mitt Romney Profited from Delphi Workers' ...
  Greg Palast on Current TV - The Young Turks Cenk Uygur breaks down the numbers from investigative journalist Greg Palast’s report detailing how Ann Romney’s blind trust profited from the government bailing out General Motors. Exactly how much money did the Romneys make? Between $15 million and $ ...
• Romney & Co Shipped Every Single Delphi UAW Jo ...
  by Greg Palast | Truthout He's kidding, right? Did I just hear Mitt Romney say, "I would do nothing to hurt the US auto industry" Really? REALLY? Here's the facts, ma'am: As I reported in this week's Nation magazine cover story "Mitt Romney's Bail-out Bonanza", the Romneys are in a special ...
• Romney's Auto Bailout Profiteering Palast on D ...
  Watch Greg Palast talk about his new Nation magazine article Romney's Bailout Bonanza. Elements of this story appear in Palast’s brand new New York Times Bestseller: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. * * * * * * * * Greg Palast is the author of the New ...
• Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza
  by Greg Palast for The Nation Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television ads blasting Romney’s November 2008 New York Times op-ed,“Let Detroit Go Bankrup ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Do Nursing Home Diseases and Death Increase af ...
  By Anonymous Last week I was at a nursing home that offers long- and short-term care. On Friday publicly posted signs indicated that residents received influenza vaccinations that day. By law patients' personal health information is protected by HIPPA, so...
• Dachel Media Update: 10/25
  Oct 24, 2012, Catherine Lord (Huffington): Ending Fear Over the New Autism Diagnosis Oct 24, 2012, FOX News: Clinical trial attempts to cure autism with cord blood Oct 24, 2012, FOX News: Challenges remain to diagnosing, treating autism Huffington: Lord...
• Age of Autism Science Summary: Death after Qua ...
  Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs: Open Access Research Article Open Access Death after Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination: (Read the full study HERE. Causal or Coincidental? Lucija Tomljenovic1* and Christopher A Shaw1,2,3 1Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Unive ...
• LEGO and Autism: Considerations From The Scien ...
  By Carlo Pandian Naturally adverse to dealing with new situations and communicating with other people, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face numerous challenges in dealing with day to day life in which new situations come as part of the...
• Dachel Media Update: 10/24
  Oct 22, 2012, CBS News: U.S. boys reaching puberty up to 2 years earlier, study suggests Oct 23, 2012, PEDIATRICS Organic Foods: Health and Environmental Advantages and Disadvantages Oct 23, 2012, Alice TX Echo News Journal: Almouie Pediatrics: Is Autism...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Discovery Channel Covers Geoengineering/Chemtrails
  Michael J. Murphy, Barry Kolsky and Dr. Nick Begich of "WHY in the World are They Spraying?" www.witwats.com are featured in this episode.
• GM Cancer Warning Can No Longer Be Ignored
  ISIS Prof Peter Saunders Dr Mae-Wan Ho The latest findings of cancers and deaths from GM maize and Roundup herbicide are the result of the most in-depth long-term toxicology study ever done on GM food; we ignore them at our peril. In the Vatican Museums in Rome stands a statue of La0coön and his ...
• A Rat’s Tale
  Animated cartoon on GMOs. This says it all!
• GMO Labeling Guys Sponsored by Anti-labeling D ...
  Why is the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), which puts out the Non-GMO Shopping Guide, sponsored by Silk, which is owned by Dean Foods, which is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting GMO labeling in California? Isn’t this a conflict of interest?
• America and Australia Team up at Fair Dinkum Radio
  [Fair Dinkum] Today at 12 noon Pacific Time, Leon Pittard from Fair Dinkum Radio in Australia and I will be broadcasting on American Freedom Radio and discussing the GMO threat.

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

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

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Warning: Catastrophic Storm Heads for The Midd ...
  This will then be a catastrophic storm for the Middle Atlantic and Northeast. It will not be a purely tropical system, with a core of powerful winds near the center, but rather more like a Nor'Easter, with strong winds over a larger area.
• US Slams UN Expert's Anti-Israel Report
  Reports say the UN expert called for a boycott of private companies accused of profiting from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank as 'irresponsible and unacceptable.'
• Hurricane Sandy: Charity Prepares Domestic Dis ...
  The domestic disaster relief team of Operation Blessing International reports it is preparing for relief efforts as Hurricane Sandy sets its course on the East Coast.
• Benghazi and Obama's Final Days Options
  Will the White House release unclassified versions of the PDB's and Daily Threat Briefs for the three weeks preceding the Benghazi attacks
• How Can An Addict and Addict's Family Heal?
  Interview with William Moyers, author of Now What? An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Song of Outlandia
  New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 367, Issue 17, Page 1672, October 2012.
• Statistics of Medical Imaging
• Who Should Notify an Emergency Department Pati ...
• Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound
• Small is beautiful
  Photo competition highlights the complexity of microscopic natural specimens.

Common Dreams

• Animal Rights Fight to "Keep Cows on Grass"
  Cows are vanishing from the rolling pastures of the european landscape. The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) has joined forces with Ben & Jerry's and Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) in a new campaign to draw attention to the disappearance. ...
• UN Expert: Boycott Companies Profiting from Is ...
  Richard Falk, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, has called for a boycott of businesses profiting from the Israeli occupation Thursday. read more
• Chevron Gives $2.5 Million to Conservative Sup ...
  The dearth of large contributions being made by big corporations to super PACs so far this election has ended. Chevron Corp., ranked No. 3 on the Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. companies, made a $2.5 million contribution on Oct. 7 to the conservative Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC ...
• Dept of Justice Sues State of Mississippi over ...
  The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued the state of Mississippi, the city of Meridien, the county and several state agencies, alleging they "help[ed] to operate a school to prison pipeline" that routinely violated the rights of African-American children and children with disab ...
• Afghanistan: Suicide Bomb Kills Dozens on Musl ...
  A suicide bomb detonated at a mosque Friday morning as worshipers were emerging from prayers on the first day of Id al-Adha, the most important Muslim holiday of the year. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

• Genocide in Bani Walid
  by Stephen Lendman Washington bears full responsibility for waging multiple wars on humanity. It planned, initiated and controls direct and proxy conflicts across North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Bani Walid made headlines for three weeks. Genocide threatens its residents. ...
• Proposing a Vision of a New Earth
  By Rajesh Makwana The following article is based on a presentation by Share The World’s Resources for the World Public Forum ‘Dialogue of Civilisations’ 10th Anniversary Conference, Rhodes, October 2012 The earth’s ecological problems stem largely from our collective fa ...
• Big Week for Justice Department Vigilantes
  by Stephen Lendman Call it three-bagger injustice. Three "bad guys" in one week include one wrongfully arrested, another forced to plead guilty though innocent, and a third convicted without having committed a crime. In America, criminal justice works that way more times than not. It's e ...
• Green Party Populism
  by Stephen Lendman Jill Stein right, and running mate Cheri Honkala, today's Green ticket.Imagine a political party wanting America governed progressively. Imagine its platform stressing social justice, human and civil rights, peace, disarmament, and other populist policies America's duopoly ...
• Romney & Co Shipped Every Single Delphi UAW Jo ...
  by Greg Palast He's kidding, right? Did I just hear Mitt Romney say, "I would do nothing to hurt the US auto industry" Really? REALLY? Here's the facts, ma'am: As I reported in this week's Nation magazine cover story "Mitt Romney's Bail-out Bonanza", the Romneys are in a special partnership ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• WikiLeaks: The Detainee Policies. “those ...
  John Konopak,CJE – Julian Assange, embedded in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and the rest of those mischievous sprites at WikiLeaks have gone done stuck another grubby thumb in the eye of the National Security State. Beginning on Oct. 25, and continuing intermittently, the minions of A ...
• Corrupt,Perverted Dope Fiend (Not Clarence Tho ...
  By STEPHANIE BEECKEN,6 News Reporter KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Arguments began Thursday in the trial against Ex-Judge Richard Baumgartner. Baumgartner’s mistress, Deena Castleman, took the stand in the afternoon. Castleman testified the former judge gave her $250 to $300 each time he purcha ...
• Bitch Magazine’s Alison Sargent is an Ig ...
  WWH/CJE – Calvinist doctrine and Hippie or Hipster culture can never blend. One will exorcise the other. (Could there ever be a blending of the KKK and the NAACP?) But once again a writer tries to use a stereo type as a focal point in an article. Hippie bashing (Even if it’s unintent ...
• Amulets for Hippies from Hippies “MoonB ...
  This weekend only – Free large WWH Tank Top with purchase of an Amulet! “MoonBeams in a Jar”    Amulets – exclusively for Worldwide Hippies on the Web. Help Citizen Journalism and Independent Media “Keep up the Howl” for Peace and Justice. Hand Made – Di ...
• Hey kids… Lets play Gay Wheel of Fortune ...
  Gay rights in the US, state by state Gay rights laws in America have evolved to allow — but in some cases ban — rights for gay, lesbian and transgender people on a range of issues, including marriage, hospital visitation, adoption, housing, employment and school bullying. The handling of gay rig ...

FourWinds10

• Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Wat ...
• TAR SANDS: PROTECTING THE SACRED , Josh Fox's ...
• MONTEZUMA WELL UNDER ATTACK AGAIN! PLEASE SIG ...
• EPA finally acknowledges fracking dangers
  Dec. 14, 2011 (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency on December 7 released its first report linking fracking to water contamination. The report identified fracking as the source of poisons, including the carcinogen benzene, in the groundwater of a central Wyoming community.   So ...
• The Early Show: Japan tsunami debris hits U.S. ...
  Dec. 16, 2011 It is estimated a debris field the size of Calif. is headed toward the U.S. West Coast.

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Can You Make Fuel from Air and Water?
  In this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier addresses the recent claims of a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis that they have invented a process to create fuel from air and water.
• Hofmeister: An Energy Plan for America
  John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil, set forth his vision of a sound energy policy for America in a recent interview with Consumer Energy Report.
• The Potential for a Heating Oil Crisis
  The Energy Information Administration (EIA) last week reported on a potential crisis for heating oil customers in the Northeast part of the United States. In This Week in Petroleum (TWIP), the EIA reported: For the week ending October 5, distillate inventories in the U.S. Northeast (PADDs 1A and ...
• Understanding California’s Gasoline Prices
  I am getting numerous questions about the situation with California’s surging gasoline prices. Therefore, I want to take some time to explain what makes California’s gasoline situation unique. The EPA defines gasoline specifications, but many states have more restrictive specificatio ...
• Hofmeister: A Difficult Decade Ahead For Oil P ...
  Consumer Energy Report recently conducted a broad-ranging interview with John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil. The topics touched upon included future oil supplies and prices, climate change, U.S. energy policy, and topics familiar to R-Squared Energy readers such at Peak Lite and the ...

Discovery Educator Network

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

Rodale News

• An Alarming Message from Bumblebees
  By now you've probably heard about colony collapse disorder, the recent phenomenon in which an unprecedented number of honeybees have died. Increasingly, colony collapse disorder, or CCD, is linked to chemical pesticides. The unfortunate situation threatens not only honeybees, but also human fo ...
• Is Your Grocery Store Lying to You?
  All across the country, grocery stores are participating in a scheme to keep you in the dark. Shelves are lined with products containing genetically engineered ingredients, substances that have never been tested for long-term impacts on human health. All of that could change, though, as Califo ...
• Avoid These 5 Halloween Pet Threats
  Halloween brings the promise of lots of holiday fun for kids, but it does pose some serious risk for pets. So before you stock up on sweets for trick-or-treaters, there are a few simple things you can do to protect your favorite four-legged friend from what The American Society for the Preventi ...
• 4 Food Myths—Busted!
  Maggots in canned mushrooms, drug residues in chicken, filth and insect bits in shrimp…sometimes there's just nothing good to say about the state of our food supply. But that's not the case on Food Day, a day devoted to celebrating healthy, sustainable food and what it can do for your health an ...
• Study: Organic Protects Kids from Superbugs, P ...
  So is organic really better for kids? Conflicting headlines from recent published reports make it hard for parents to decide. New studies from Stanford University and the University of Florida attempt to analyze the current state of research looking at two very different matters—nutritional con ...

big think

• Why You're Not As Politically Astute As You Th ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? A study recently published in the journal Political Psychology confirms something that most people already know on some level: The kinds of social networks we create affects our ability to express ourselves ...
• Proposition 37. Putting 'Scary' Labels on Food ...
  California voters will be asked in November whether the state should require labels to inform consumers that their food contains genetically modified ingredients. Supporters base their case on scientific evidence they claim indicates various harms from GM food. Opponents say the proposition ...
• Dissatisfied With Your Life? Try Eating More V ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? In a study of 80,000 British citizens, led by Dartmouth's Daniel Blanchflower, it was discovered that those who described themselves as being highly satisfied with their lives also tended to eat more vegeta ...
• ISTE Leadership Forum
  Here are some great resources from the 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum held in Indianapolis. The resources from the conference are hosted on the Leadership Forum Wiki - feel free to browse.  Chris Lehmann's slide deck 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals Educa ...
• Hilarious Epic Fails from a “Grumpy” Literary ...
  I’ve just discovered a wonderful, Onion-worthy site for much-needed if wicked comic relief. Although I’m sorry to report that it’s not a parody site but one compiled from the real world of a self-declared “grumpy literary agent” who sounds as if he’s setting new records in his drinking life and ...

Information Liberation

• VIDEO: Cop Shoves Crippled Woman With Cerebral ...
  If you want to understand the disdain cops have for the general public, just watch this video a few dozen times. In it, a Vancouver police officer walking down the street with two fellow gang members comes upon a clearly disabled woman and shoves ...
• Do Obama Voters Support His Policies When They ...
  This is an epic video, dare I say one of WeAreChange's most epic ever. Luke runs down a list of Obama's policies and asks Obama voters if they support them, the twist is he frames them as "Mitt Romney's policies." What follows is pure gold,...
• Bruce Jessen: The CIA Torturer in the Pulpit
  As a newly appointed ecclesiastical leader in Spokane, Washington, Bruce Jessen will have the opportunity to baptize new converts. He will also be expected to interview them regularly to evaluate their understanding of the church*s teachings and thei...
• Law Enforcement Looking To Create A Searchable ...
  Back in August, Mike wrote about some questionable sharing of license plate information between the US Border Patrol and various insurance companies. While the stated aim of tracking stolen vehicles might seem to make this sharing justified, the fact...
• Do bans on texting while driving actually incr ...
  SALT LAKE CITY * It's perplexing for both police and lawmakers throughout the U.S.: They want to do something about the danger of texting while driving, a major road hazard, but banning the practice seems to make it even more dangerous. The Insura...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Order my book Deceived Wisdom
  You can order a copy of Deceived Wisdom from Amazon right now or grab the free sampler, which is currently riding high at #17 in the science Top 100 on Amazon. The Sciencebase site will be selling the e-version directly for readers outside the UK. Latest reviews are looking good. Positive commen ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• America’s New Energy Future: The Unconventiona ...
  IHS Global Insight http://www.ihs.com/images/Americas-New-Energy-Future-National-Main.pdf [Bloomberg] Drilling for oil and natural gas in shale rock is supporting 1.7 million U.S. jobs this year, including workers outside the energy industry such as waiters and shop clerks, according to research ...
• Water Management in Shale Gas Plays
  IHS (Free download with registration) http://www.ihs.com/info/en/a/shale-gas-water-management.aspx [From Conclusion] …The rate of water production in shale gas plays presents a compelling market opportunity for water technology and service providers. However, unlike municipal or existing industr ...
• Increased Greenhouse-gas Intensity of Rice Pro ...
  Nature Climate Change (Published online 21 October 2012; doi:10.1038/nclimate1712) / by Kees Jan van Groenigen, Chris van Kessel and Bruce A. Hungate http://bit.ly/TqOY5X [Abstract]  Increased atmospheric CO2 and rising temperatures are expected to affect rice yields and greenhouse-gas (GHG) emi ...
• Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabiliti ...
  Cooperative Report to the 2013 National Climate Assessment / edited by Burkett, V.R. and Davidson, M.A. Burkett_Davidson_Coasts_Final_2012-1012 Burkett_Davidson_Coasts_References_Final_2012-1012 “The report was compiled by a team of authors that reviewed the literature produced since the l ...
• Valuing the Ocean [book preview]
  Stockholm Environment Institute / edited by Kevin Noone, Rashid Sumaila and Robert J Díaz http://www.sei-international.org/publications?pid=2064 (executive summary, extended summary versions and previews of selected chapters) [From Valuing the Ocean Environment: Economic perspectives chapter]  & ...

Scientific American - News

• Nuclear Fusion Project Struggles to Put the Pi ...
  The world's largest scientific project is threatened with further delays, as agencies struggle to complete the design and sign contracts worth hundred of millions of euros with industrial partners,  Nature has learned. [More]
• 'Penis Worm' Shakes Evolutionary Tree
  A study on the development of priapulids or ‘penis’ worms throws doubt on a feature that has been thought for more than 100 years to define the largest branch of the animal tree of life. Members of this branch -- the protostomes -- have historically been defined by the order in which ...
• Gulf Stream Shift Linked to Methane Gas Escapi ...
  Somewhere off the eastern coast of North Carolina, a frozen mixture of water and methane gas tucked in seabed sediments is starting to break down. Researchers blame a shifting Gulf Stream -- the swift Atlantic Ocean current that flows north from the Gulf of Mexico -- which is now delivering warm ...
• How Food Became Technology [Excerpt]
  Editor's Note: Excerpted from Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food , by Frederick Kaufman. With permission from the publisher, Wiley. Copyright © Frederick Kaufman, 2012. [More]
• The BuZZZ: Sleepy Honeybees Have Harder Time R ...
  We're all familiar with the feeling--waking up from a restless night only to realize that this will be a very long, sleepy day. Recent research reveals that honeybees are also sensitive to sleep deprivation, and although a cup of coffee may give you a morning buzz, the bees aren't so luc ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Nova Scotia New Dems SAP the Province
  Public Service IT jobs looking to be outsourced to corporate baddy, private information of Nova Scotians at risk K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – Talk about alienating your fan ...
• Enbridge applies for second phase of pipeline ...
  Environmental group says documents confirm tar sands oil will be pumped east for export Enbridge has filed documents with the National Energy Board (NEB)  asking for the second ...
• Have a Story to Tell? Send us your Pitches by ...
  Have a story to tell? Tell it to The Dominion and our many unique readers. We will pay two contributors for news features to be published in the next issue of The Dominion. We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, including photo essays, info-graphics and video pitches ...
• Community Journalism Across Generations
  Abby Lippman, an academic and activist in Montreal, speaks about the on-going project that aims to bridge the generation gap between youth and seniors. For more information about the project and regular updates on upcoming workshops and sk ...
• Guatemala: Peaceful Resistance in the Face of ...
  Anti-mining activist speaks out for first time since being shot SAN JOSÉ DEL GOLFO, GUATEMALA—Telma Yolanda Oquelí Veliz, ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 26 October 2012
  This morning Domino was basking in the sunshine playing with her new catnip mouse. (It's the bright blob on top of her paws.) This afternoon will be a little more stressful, featuring another trip to the vet. Hopefully the news won't be too bad. If you need an additional cat fix, check out th ...
• 2012 Most Racialized Election in Past Two Decades
  John Sununu, the surrogate the Romney campaign uses to promote crazy uncle memes they can't afford to be associated with themselves, told Piers Morgan yesterday that Colin Powell was endorsing Barack Obama mainly because, hey, Powell's a black guy and endorsing Obama is the kind of thing ...
• BLAME THE UNITED NATIONS FOR ALL CAPS WEATHER ...
  Matt Yglesias is unhappy that the National Weather Service continues to issue its bulletins in all caps, as if they were still using an old-style teletype. I direct his attention to this survey from 2006: NWS Customer Survey for Official and Experimental Products/Services Name of Product/S ...
• The US Economy Is Kind of Meh
  A couple of years ago, wonky bloggers started really digging into new releases of economic data. When GDP numbers were released, you could find a dozen posts diving deep into the weeds and explaining why the numbers did or didn't really matter: defense spending was artificially up, inventory g ...
• Obama's Ground Game Advantage May Not Be As Bi ...
  The chart below has been making the rounds over the past couple of days. It shows how many field offices each campaign has in the top ten swing states, and it's pretty stunning. Obama has twice as many offices as Romney in Virginia. Twice as many in Florida. Three times as many in Iowa. And mo ...

Insanity Report

• IC 357: Stupid Opinions
  Topics: Deodorant isn’t optional Stupid sayings like “there are no stupid opinions” You’re entitled to your own opinion but it could be a stupid opinion Losing builds character Gay Marriage and hiding behind religion when you’re a bigot Black James Bond? Buying a vi ...
• IC 356: Trick or Treating For Jesus
  Topics: Changes to The Insanity Report Political douchebags 2007 All-Star game Black events Who should be cast in the Justice League Movie? Disney’s first Latina princess Share with your friends:
• IC 355: Binders Full of Stupid
  Topics: People Asking Stupid Questions The real problem with Tyler Perry Movies The election needs to end Liberals aren’t built for this Its not really funny Movie News Deer Crossings Share with your friends:
• IC 354: Don’t Start No Shit, Won’t Be No Shit
  Topics: Making Santa quit smoking Anderson Silva is the greatest fighter in combat sports history Bringing a first date to a fight party That Uppercut What a real debate is Anti-Goon What “if you want to act like a man” means to Kriss Kriss admits to being a coward Movie news Danny D ...
• IC 353: The Rant Show
  Topics: The Rant Show Using your real name on Twitter Not giving a fuck 7th Day Adventist Cheery people suck Jurassic Park 4 Too Fat to kill Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Smoking takes 10 years off life expectancy in ...
  Smoking reduces life expectancy by ten years in Japan, but much of the risk can be avoided by giving up smoking, a paper published on bmj.com shows. read more
• Strengthening fragile forests of carbon nanotu ...
  Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are incredibly tiny devices, often built on the scale of millionths of a meter. Conventional MEMS structures tend to be made out of silicon-based materials familiar to the micro-electronics industry, but this ignores a suite of useful materials such as other ...
• Scientists build 'nanobowls' to protect cataly ...
  It may sound like a post-season football game for very tiny players, but the "nanobowl" has nothing to do with sports and everything to do with improving the way biofuels are produced. That's the hope of a team of scientists from the Institute for Atom Efficient Chemical Transformation ...
• Scientists demonstrate high-efficiency quantum ...
  Research shows newly developed solar powered cells may soon outperform conventional photovoltaic technology. Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have demonstrated the first solar cell with external quantum efficiency (EQE) exceeding 100 percent for photons with energi ...
• Next-generation antireflection coatings could ...
  Photovoltaic cell efficiency may soon get a big boost, thanks to next-generation antireflection coatings crafted from nanomaterials capable of cutting down on the amount of light reflected away from a cell's surface. read more

unEarthed

• Conservationists Act to Protect Sensitive Bay ...
  State permit allowing log storage facility challenged Dungeness crabs in a crab trap. (Debra Hamilton / DFG) Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest i ...
• Fracking in California? We're On The Case.
  We file a lawsuit, state officials scramble to respond Fracking rig.  (Bob Warhover) Here’s what we know: Fracking is already happening in Californ ...
• Too Close to Risk It
  Shell’s drill ship off the coast of treasured wilderness The Arctic Refuge is one of the most splendid stretches of wilderness left in America.  (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
• How Clean Are Your Local Waterways?
  And how do your Congressional reps vote on clean water? You know that creek in your backyard, or the river or lake near your town? Have any idea what kind of condition it is in, or how polluted it is? Most people probably don ...
• Lies, Damned Lies And Coal Company Biologists
  Forests will die someday, why shouldn't coal companies help them along? Bear claw marks on aspen in the Sunset Trail Roadless Area. (Ted Zukoski / Earthjustice) ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Republicans Sabotaging Housing – Again
  This just in from Democratic Underground and Think Progress. We can’t have no housing help stimulating the economy with a black guy / Democrat in the White House now can we? Republican Bastards. Voting for any Republican is an act of economic treason.
• Thank You John McCain Mourdock Must Apologize ...
  Now I hate Republicans. It is true. Since my hate is based simply on actions Republicans take, especially their voter suppression efforts, I believe it is justified. I must however admit John McCain actually does things from time to time that I approve of. Thanks for shutting down Mourdock John. ...
• Chuck Todd Is An Idiot Someone Tell Him Electr ...
  Today Mr. Todd tweeted “The voting machine conspiracies belong in same category as the Trump birther garbage.” Chuck, you are an idiot. Anyone that thinks “electronic voting systems” are secure, unhackable, and can’t be compromised belongs in a nuthouse. I really do ...
• Republican Arrested For Throwing Away Voter Re ...
  The Republicans are up to their old tricks. Hiring slimeball companies to sign up voters, and then throwing away the registration forms of Democrats. Make sure everyone involved is prosecuted. Pennsylvania Man Arrested On 12 Felonies
• Tagg Romney Is A Tough Guy Who Wants To Take A ...
  Tagg, I know you are not used to watching your daddy being pushed around by anyone. He has always been the boss, and has always been the bully. In this case he tried to bully someone with more character in his little finger than your whole family has combined. I know it could be a [...]

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Five initial reactions to the ‘Bieberman ...
  1.  Wow. The most powerful leaders in Israel’s Knesset really have no concept of being loyal or trustworthy to their voting constituencies, and are making a mockery of the democracy of which they so often boast.   2. This also reflects the majority of Israeli society itself – th ...
• Palestinian employment in Israel and settlemen ...
  The high rate of unemployment in the Palestinian territories and the gap in wages and quality of life between the Israeli and Palestinian economies have led to a constant supply of Palestinian workers seeking work with Israeli employers, since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip began ...
• The Bibi-Lieberman deal: A wake-up call to the ...
  By unifying himself and the country’s ruling party with an internationally despised neo-fascist, Netanyahu has brought Israel a sizable step closer to the limits of Western tolerance. Ultimately, that’s good news. The only way Israel is ever going to give up the occupation and its ha ...
• A return of the post-Zionist cabaret
  A successful indie band whose radical lyrics dealt with Israeli taboos – from the Nakba to militarism – is making a comeback.  Photographs by Goni Riskin The basic rules for political engagement in Israel: Yearning for peace is welcomed, criticism of the occupation is tolerated but n ...
• A week in photos: October 18-24
  The olive harvest, an attempt at breaking the siege on Gaza, Palestinian elections and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week.                        

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Second stage of Queensland's Alpha Coal projec ...
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has approved the joint GVK / Hancock Coal proposed new coal terminal at the existing Port of Abbot Point subject to strict conditions.
• Murray-Darling Basin modelling released
  Minister for Water, Tony Burke, today released the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's modelling for 3200GL and 2800GL scenarios after key constraints in the system have been relaxed.
• Brisbane city stormwater put to good use
  The Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Farrell, and Member for Griffith, Kevin Rudd, today announced the Australian Government is contributing $5.39 million towards the Brisbane City's Stormwater Harvesting and Reuse Project.
• Eavesdropping on the elusive blue whale
  Australian Antarctic scientists have successfully tested new acoustic technology to track and locate scores of blue whales hundreds of kilometres away by eavesdropping on the resonating song of these rare and elusive animals.
• Taking Tasmania's wild beauty to the world
  The wild natural beauty of Tasmania's coastline, forests and mighty rivers will be promoted to the world as Australia's fifteenth National Landscape, underpinned by the stories of its people, places and heritage.

Matt Weidner Blog

• American Elections Are A Fraud….The Part ...
  Are you one of those delusional Amerikans that thinks your vote decides who is the next figurehead of this nation? Silly Sheep. The Amerikan voting system has become so thoroughly corrupted….if we’re lucky The United States Supreme Court might elect the next president.  And if the 20 ...
• THE MOST DISTURBING JACK BOOTED THUGH/BANK BRE ...
  EVERY AMERIKAN NEEDS TO LISTEN TO THIS STORY…. THIS IS THE DANGEROUS CONDITION THAT THE BANKS HAVE CREATED IN THIS COUNTRY. JACK BOOTED THUGS MASQUERADING AS AGENTS OF BANKS OR ACTING AS ACTUAL AGENTS OF THE BANKS…MOVING THROUGH COMMUNITIES, TAKING PROPERTY, TRASHING LIVES. HAS IT GO ...
• FLORIDA’S LEGAL SYSTEM IN CRISIS-” ...
  STETSON LAW REVIEW AND FORECLOSING IN A HURRICANE In the Florida Supreme Court’s 2009 Report, it described the coming foreclosure crisis in terms every Floridian would under-stand: the Court compared it to a hurricane bearing down on the state.1 Today, nearly three years later, the analogy remai ...
• FORECLOSURE (JACK BOOTED THUGS) TERROR STORIES ...
  THIS IS IT FOLKS…THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WARNING ABOUT FOR A VERY LONG TIME. THIS IS NOT GOING TO GET BETTER….IT’S GOING TO GET MUCH, MUCH WORSE. FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE FORECLOSED HOMEOWNER THEN THEY CAME FOR….. TRASH OUT #1 and this one TRASH OUT #2     S ...
• FLORIDA’S SUPREME COURT JUSTICES UNDER A ...
  VOTE YES TO RETAIN ALL FLORIDA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES….DO NOT SUPPORT THE FASCISTS! A Florida professor commissioned by the conservative Federalist Society to review controversial cases of the three Florida Supreme Court justices up for merit retention concluded Wednesday that some of the ...

abelard - news

• raising GDP does not necessarily improve your ...
  Political contenders in power set enormous concealed taxes, especially when there are elections due. President Obama is a current example.
• mismeasuring our lives: why gdp doesn't add up ...
  The best of a poor crop of books, this book does give an idea ofcrude, useless and misleading are measures of GDP.
• just some of the flaws with gdp | economics ne ...
  A clarification and development of well-known issues with GNDp as a means of measuring standards of living.
• american 'justice' - conrad black | politics u ...
  Canadian-born newspaper mogul banged up by the USA and now released, writes on his treatment and experiences in the US legal and prison systems.
• cameron confronting the eussr by steps | civil ...
  A graceful distancng from the qauasi-communist European Union taking away civil rights.

The Parallel Parliament

• Why I Chose the Stable
  When politics was done for me, I had some decisions to make. As job offers started to come in, Jane …Continue reading »
• Preserving Neglect
  It remains one of the three great lessons I learned in my time in politics and it’s even more pertinent …Continue reading »
• The Biggest Obstacle In Running For Politics
  You want to run politically – locally, provincially, or federally. You might think that your greatest challenge will be the …Continue reading »
• The Political Industrial Complex
  There was a strong reaction to my last blog post on the need for good folks to run for politics. …Continue reading »
• Go For It
  By now we’ve all heard of Malala Yousafzai,  the 14-year old Pakistani education advocate who was attacked on her school …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Basic research and personal responsibility
  Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
• Risk Science – A personal perspective
  As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
• Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
  In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
• Lost in the Maize
  As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
• Small gods and the art of technology innovation
  There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...
  Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
• Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...
  If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
• Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...
  Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.
• World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...
  October seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused as t ...
• The Farm Bill – What Now?
  As of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to make [.. ...

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

• Conrad Black: Angry, brash, unrepentant… ...
  Conrad Black, felon, fraudster, crusader against the US justice system, over here and on tele, protesting his innocene and flogging his book.
• Breakfast clubs axed, teacher handouts…. ...
  A study released by Kellogg's tells us of the importance of breakfast in education, writes Fiona Twycross AM.
• We must ensure the government plays its part i ...
  World Polio Day this year sees us closer than ever to eradicating Polio - we must ensure the UK government plays its part, writes Sam Bacon.
• Time for MPs to take action on racism in footb ...
  Les Ferdinand decries the existence of racism in the game, John Terry's lacklustre punishment and a lack of representation in football.
• Does Lansley think global warming is a “bourge ...
  Andrew Lansley yesterday failed to condemn a Tory council leader who said global warming "may not exist" and was dreamt up by “bourgeois left-wing academics”.

Consumerist

• Good Thing Comics Fans Don’t Mind Buying ...
  We put out a call for purportedly “new” books mangled in the shipping process by Amazon, but Kain wanted us to see what happened when he tried to buy a graphic novel at Barnes & Noble. This book had different characters’ origin stories condensed into single pages, so of cou ...
• T-Mobile Assumes I Owe Them Money Just Because ...
  If you work in the collections department for a wireless company and you’re trying to contact a delinquent customer but don’t have a home phone number for him. What to do? If you’re T-Mobile, apparently you just find someone else with the same name and assume he’s the guy ...
• I Swear, Officer: That Fragrant Odor Is McDona ...
  If you’re going to come up with an scapegoat smell to cover your tracks, perhaps choosing the familiar fragrant, salty scent of McDonald’s french fries isn’t the best choice. That odor is basically ingrained in the collective conscious of the country by now, after all. Oh, and ...
• Detroit To Lose Again When Everyone Else Gets ...
  With the Phillies nowhere near the baseball postseason, the only reason I’ve been watching the World Series is to add to my Ken Rosenthal bow tie Pinterest page and to see which player would be the first to steal a base and thereby win free Taco Bell tacos for the entire nation. Well, it ...
• Latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich Update Makes ...
  While some Motorola customers are upset that they can’t update their phones to the second newest version of the Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich, Elise wishes that she hadn’t. The newest system and OS upgrades are making her Droid Bionic run hot. Really hot. She sent alon ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Big Pharma Company to Pay $95M to Settle Whist ...
  Associated Press: Pharmaceutical Company to Pay $95M to Settle Allegations of Improper Drug Promotion Summary: Major pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim will pay $95 million to settle whistleblower allegations that the company promoted three drugs for uses that were not FDA approved an ...
• GAP Clients/NSA Whistleblowers Call on SCOTUS ...
  Supreme Court buildingPolitico: SCOTUS Must Be Last Bulwark Against NSA Snooping Summary: GAP clients and NSA whistleblowers Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe have written an op-ed calling on the Supreme Court to rule that the NSA cannot listen or read the international communications of US ...
• GAP Praises Successful OSC Mediation for Borde ...
  (Washington, DC) – The Government Accountability Project (GAP) today praised the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) for successfully mediating the Whistleblower Protection Act complaint of a U.S. Border Patrol agent harassed for refusing overtime pay when there was no extra work to be performe ...
• Coverage of Torture Whistleblower John Kiriako ...
  Associated Press: Ex-CIA Officer Kiriakou Pleads Guilty to Leaking Covert Operative’s Identity to Reporter Summary: This is extended coverage of GAP client and former CIA officer/torture whistleblower John Kiriakou, who pled guilty yesterday (in a plea deal) to violating the Intelligence Ident ...
• The Back Story to Kiriakou's Imminent Guilty Plea
  John KiriakouA change of plea hearing is set for today at 11:00 am in the Espionage Act case against Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whistleblower John Kiriakou. Let's be clear, there is one reason, and one reason only that John Kiriakou is taking this plea: for the certainty that he'll ...

UK Progressive

• BREAKING: Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is St ...
  By Denis G. Campbell and Charley James (c) 25 October 2012  Why is Mitt Romney so confident? In states where the winner will be decided by less than 10%, of the vote he already knows he will win. This is no tinfoil hat conspiracy. It’s a maths problem. And mathematics showed changes in actual ra ...
• Mitt Romney’s Question-Mark Economy
  by Robert Reich As we close in on Election Day, the questions about what Mitt Romney would do if elected grow even larger. Rarely before in American history has a candidate for president campaigned on such a blank slate. Yet, paradoxically, not a day goes by that we don’t hear Romney, or some ot ...
• Why Florida is Sitting on $300 Million Meant t ...
  by Cora Currier ProPublica Florida has the highest percentage of home loans in foreclosure in the country. So why is more than $300 million that could help homeowners sitting unused? Florida was awarded those millions in February as part of the $25 billion national settlement between five of cou ...
• Reagan 1984, Obama 2012
  by Brent Budowsky Ronald Reagan was bullish about America in 1984. I am bullish as hell about America in 2012. Here is why: As I started early this morning to finalize this column, I read the front page of The Wall Street Journal, which headlined: “Home building surges as confidence grows. ...
• Obama as Commander-in-Chief, Romney as Banal Bully
  by Robert Reich   I thought the third and last presidential debate was a clear win for the President. He displayed the authority of the nation’s Commander-in-Chief – calm, dignified, and confident. He was assertive without being shrill, clear without being condescending. He explained to a c ...

NewsAlert

• Insurers Must Boost Reserves for Residential M ...
  The Wall Street Journal reports:State regulators agreed to require that insurers set aside more capital to support their investments in bonds backed by residential mortgages, a step they say will help insulate the industry from losses during a severe downturn.
• Access to the good life for low-income America ...
  Professor Mark Perry
• Who gets rich off 'free' government phones
  CNN Money
• Internet Gains Most as Campaign News Source bu ...
  Pew
• (Video) Obama Voter Wants to Whip Mitt Romney' ...
  THIS IS NOT A VIDEO FOR VIEWING AT WORK. THIS IS NOT A VIDEO FOR A FAMILY AUDIENCE. THIS IS A HIGHLY OFFENSIVE VIDEO OF AN OBAMA VOTER USING HIGHLY OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE.

JoNova

• Gillard knew the Australian public didn’ ...
  Gillard knew eight months before the last election that the public did not want an emissions trading scheme (ETS): (Former Labor MP and ABC presenter) Maxine McKew writes that Ms Gillard met Mr Rudd at Kirribilli House in early January 2010. “Gillard had a blunt message for her Prime Minis ...
• Where did that El Nino go? Wiped out by unpre ...
  The Australian weather bureau has never seen anything quite like it. The El Nino that was predicted for this summer down-under seems to be gone suddenly. “Forecasters surprised by El Nino turnaround” [ABC] The chief climate forecaster says it is the biggest turnaround in weather patt ...
• Heatwave kills thousands of birds — thi ...
  Trawling through our National Archives, Lance Pidgeon has found stories of how a heatwave in 1932 was so extreme that it caused mass bird deaths across outback Australia. The PDF is posted on Warwick Hughes blog. As Lance says, imagine the headlines if that had happened 80 years later.  Presumab ...
• A discussion of the Slaying the Sky Dragon sci ...
   ”Skeptics” are described as if they are one small block of  fringe extremists, but not only is half the population skeptical in some sense, in this debate I am not on either extreme, but a centrist, smack in the middle. On the one hand, alarmists are convinced the climate is headed ...
• Unthreaded Weekend
  For all those thoughts that don’t belong… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Massive Bunker Being Auctioned – $1
  You know how you hear stories about people buying something at auction for a bargain basement price, like a foreclosed home? Well, it can happen with bunkers as well – earlier this year in Switzerland someone picked up an underground hotel for just $1000. Maybe the same can happen in Atchi ...
• Could Solar Storms Cause Geomagnetic Reversals?
  I’m not talking ordinary solar storms. I’m talking a once-in-every-40-thousand-years solar storm. That’s something we have no written record of, and given how little we know about our Sun, it is quite possible that it is capable of sending such a super-massive solar storm our w ...
• Free Camping in Australia
  These days camping is becoming less free and more commercialized. The primary blame for this is glamping (glamorous camping) where people love a hybrid cross between the freedom of camping and the relative luxury of staying at home.  That’s nice for them, but doesn’t help the skint s ...
• The Global Impact of a Yellowstone Eruption
  It is well-known by U.S. survivalists that if Yellowstone erupts, the western half of the country will be a terrible place to be. And because ash will ruin motors, the only way to survive would be to stay indoors for long periods, and survive on stored food and water. But what about the rest of ...
• Most Recent Magnetic Pole Shift Just 41,000 Ye ...
  Orthodox scientists, especially those who debunk the idea of a magnetic pole shift in 2012, need to keep up with the latest research and perhaps change their tune. Newly published data has confirmed that the Laschamp event was not an excursion, but actually a full-blown magnetic reversal that oc ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Riot after riot: UP under Akhilesh takes dange ...
  'The law and order issue all over UP needs national attention,' says a senior journalist from a Hindi daily published from Lucknow, and he is right. Under Akhilesh Singh Yadav, communal violence returns with a vengeance to the state, reports Sheela Bhatt Reported by Rediff.com 3 hours ago
• Missing Indian toddler in US found dead
  A 10-month-old Indian girl, who was kidnapped early this week, was on Friday found dead in the basement of an apartment in a Philadelphia township in the United States. Reported by Rediff.com 3 hours ago
• 10 best countries to start a business
  Let's take a look some countries that are best when it comes to growing business. Reported by Rediff.com 3 hours ago
• India, Japan, US to hold trilateral talks; mar ...
  Against the backdrop of increased Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea, India, the US and Japan will hold their third trilateral dialogue on Monday. Reported by Zee News 3 hours ago
• Cabinet reshuffle: Krishna resigns; Soni, Wasn ...
  External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Friday quit the Union Council of Ministers, just two days ahead of the scheduled Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday. Reported by Zee News 3 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Libya: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Huma ...
• Obama & Romney Should Realize Americans Sick o ...
• Bush and Blair Wanted for War Crimes
• Chavez : La crise syrienne est planifiée et pr ...
• The Truth About the Commission on Presidential ...

Daily Tech

• U.S. LoC Restores Fines, Prison Time for Unloc ...
  In Soviet Russia, the smartphone unlocks you
• HTC Makes Deep Cuts to R&D, Marketing, Amid Fi ...
  Troubled investments and troubled sales equate to a troubled HTC
• Apple Publishes Notice on UK Site that Samsung ...
  However, Apple made sure to highlight a few facts in its favor
• 10/26/2012 Daily Hardware Reviews -- AMD FX-83 ...
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
• DOE Lab Cooks Up Rare Earth Recycling With Mol ...
  New process could help combat rare Earth resource shortage

Oriental Review

• Human Rights in the US: Manifestations of Raci ...
  ORIENTAL REVIEW initiates a series of articles based on the recently released Report on Human Rights in the USA, prepared by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the first chapter  the manifestations of racial, ethnic and religious intolerance in the United States are briefly reviewed. In ...
• Weekly Video Update #49: Special Edition &#821 ...
  The next special edition of the ‘Redivision of the World‘ video review series will cover the build up of the military crisis in Syria, who is behind the engine of aggression, and, most importantly, the beginning of foreign military intervention in Syria. We will also attempt to figur ...
• America’s Pacific Zone of War
  The United States has successfully installed two America-compliant leaders as the heads of government of Australia and New Zealand, Washington’s two most important Asia-Pacific regional allies. Both leaders, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, rose ra ...
• How to Find Qualified Afghan Leadership
  As 2014 approaches and NATO prepares to leave Afghanistan while the Afghan presidential election begins to activate, there are a set of indigenous conditions that must set the standard for the effective transfer of power to qualified Afghan leadership that cannot be ignored any longer by policy ...
• Europe’s Peacekeeping Process
  Call the European Union anything you want: an organization, an association, a community, etc. But the EU is a state just like Russia, China or any other. The main difference between the EU and Russia is that the European Union is a confederation, whereas Russia is a federation. Interestingly, a ...

BlogHer

• Eid Mubarak! Celebrating With My Family
  {Editor's Note: The Muslim holiday of Eid ul Adha begins this Friday morning. BlogHer Aisha Iqbal has fond memories of the occasion from her own childhood and is trying to create new memories with her son. How do you pass on your cultural traditions to your kids? --Grace] I remember waking up ...
• 40 Fabulous Family-Friendly Halloween Picture ...
  40 Fabulous Family-Friendly Halloween Picture Books The Legend of Spookley the Square PumpkinA very unique pumpkin delivers a special message of tolerance and self-acceptance that's just right for Halloween...and every day of the year. Plus, the book comes with a FREE CD that features the ...
• Politics and Religion are Destroying My Family
  This morning, I grieve the loss of my brother. Someone I love fiercely. Someone I believed always had my back and was there for me more times than I can count. Someone I would have done anything for. Instead, it would seem that the hammer of politics and religion packs too strong a punch and the ...
• Spooky Specimen Jars
  [Editor's Note: Every Halloween should include one really, really spooky food item, and these edible specimen jars more than fill the bill. They're creepy enough to please the kids in your life, and cute and inventive enough to wow all your fellow parents. Try them out for a particularly happy H ...
• "Have You Found a Nanny Yet?"
  Have you found a nanny yet? This is the most popular question I'm asked by any and everyone. Not, "Boy or girl?" or, God help me, "Are you getting an epidural?" No, people want to know what I'm going to do when I go back to work. They not only assume I am heading back to the mines after twelve ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• High Chocolate Intake And Nobel Prize Winnings ...
  It seems that countries with the highest regular chocolate intake per person have a proportionally greater number of Nobel Prize, winners, researchers from Kings College London and the Wellcome Trust have revealed in a new ...
• New Self-Healing Coating for Aluminum Develope ...
  A research team at the University of Nevada, Reno has developed a new environmentally-friendly coating for aluminum to replace the carcinogenic chromate coatings used in aerospace applications. The chromate conversion coatings have been used for ...
• TV, Devices in Kids’ Bedrooms Linked to ...
  Children who bask in the nighttime glow of a TV or computer don’t get enough rest and suffer from poor lifestyle habits, new research from the University of Alberta has shown. A province-wide survey of Grade ...
• Flu Shot Being Forced on Health Workers
  Why don’t they want it? Because some of them know too much. Here’s the whole tawdry tale. This week we learned that hospital employees throughout Colorado will be fired unless they get a flu shot by the end ...
• Antibiotic Resistance Racing Downriver
  The South Platte River system begins in pristine Rocky Mountain streams and flows east through the Coloradan plateau dotted with cattle ranches, sheep pastures, dairy farms — and human wastewater-treatment plants. In the first quantitative ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Oct. 26, 2012
  This week over in Kentucky, Erica Peterson at WFPL continued to follow that India coal deal, reporting: The first shipment in a huge deal to export coal to India hasn’t yet left Appalachia. The much-touted $7 billion dollar agreement was first announced in August by Governor Steve Beshear and re ...
• Black lung, Obamacare and the election
  My friend Bill Bishop, who runs a great blog called The Daily Yonder, has written an important piece about the impact of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s plan (a move also endorsed by Republican gubernatorial and senate candidates here in West Virginia) to repeal Obamacare. Bill ex ...
• EPA decision on Tenn. cleanup coming on Electi ...
  There’s an interesting item out of Tennessee in this morning’s Knoxville News-Sentinel: The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision on how to proceed with the final phase of TVA’s cleanup of coal ash spilled in a 2008 calamity will be issued Nov. 6, an official said. T ...
• Coal miners and the Paul Ryan budget
  Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan gives “thumbs up” to supporters as he arrives for a campaign rally in a bus on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 at Valley View Campgrounds in Belmont, Ohio. Ryan talked about economic conditions and the coal industry. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) ...
• Coal decline: “It’s a geological f ...
  The Washington Post has a good story this morning which looks at another of the important factors that is central to the ongoing coal decline, one that isn’t mentioned so much by industry public relations campaigns or Republican presidential candidates: It’s become common to blame the flag ...

Daniel Miessler

• Designing My New Logo
  I need some help designing my new logo. It’s going to be super simple–circular with something in the center that represents me or the site. Here is the basic concept: Since I already know I’m going with this concept I just need to figure out a couple of things: What should I us ...
• The Evolution of Music Tastes | Steve Klabnik
  Here’s the thing: once I finally admitted to myself that I enjoy terrible pop music and stopped trying to apologize for my taste, I realized I was way more productive. Upbeat music with a vaguely positive vibe means I get shit done. Way better than the heavy, dreary, angry stuff I listened to in ...
• The Job Board @ AppSecUSA: AppSec Skills = Hired
  The overall job market is in a bad state. In information technology it’s much better. And in information security it’s even stronger still. But in application security…companies simply cannot find enough people. Bottom line: If you have appsec skills you are hired–instantly
• Use This | Colleen Wainwright
  I keep a handwritten journal in the cheapest wide-rule spiral notebooks I can find, using a Waterman Phileas: red, medium-nib with blue ink. I also burn through a prodigious amount of old-school Sharpies and 3×5 index cards, both ruled and blank varieties. And I am almost never without a ba ...
• Use This | Rob Pike
  Twenty years ago, you expected a phone to be provided everywhere you went, and that phone worked the same everywhere. At a friend’s house, or a restaurant, or a hotel, or a pay phone, you could pick up the receiver and make a call. You didn’t carry a phone around with you; phones wer ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• WikiLeaks: The Detainee Policies. “those ...
  John Konopak,CJE – Julian Assange, embedded in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and the rest of those mischievous sprites at WikiLeaks have gone done stuck another grubby thumb in the eye of the National Security State. Beginning on Oct. 25, and continuing intermittently, the minions of A ...
• Corrupt,Perverted Dope Fiend (Not Clarence Tho ...
  By STEPHANIE BEECKEN,6 News Reporter KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Arguments began Thursday in the trial against Ex-Judge Richard Baumgartner. Baumgartner’s mistress, Deena Castleman, took the stand in the afternoon. Castleman testified the former judge gave her $250 to $300 each time he purcha ...
• Bitch Magazine’s Alison Sargent is an Ig ...
  WWH/CJE – Calvinist doctrine and Hippie or Hipster culture can never blend. One will exorcise the other. (Could there ever be a blending of the KKK and the NAACP?) But once again a writer tries to use a stereo type as a focal point in an article. Hippie bashing (Even if it’s unintent ...
• Amulets for Hippies from Hippies “MoonB ...
  This weekend only – Free large WWH Tank Top with purchase of an Amulet! “MoonBeams in a Jar”    Amulets – exclusively for Worldwide Hippies on the Web. Help Citizen Journalism and Independent Media “Keep up the Howl” for Peace and Justice. Hand Made – Di ...
• Hey kids… Lets play Gay Wheel of Fortune ...
  Gay rights in the US, state by state Gay rights laws in America have evolved to allow — but in some cases ban — rights for gay, lesbian and transgender people on a range of issues, including marriage, hospital visitation, adoption, housing, employment and school bullying. The handling of gay rig ...

reference frame

• The holographic principle
  The newest episode of The Big Bang Theory that was aired last night was called "The Holographic Excitation" (S06E05). It's pretty cool that a TV sitcom manages not only to show a hologram but Leonard Hofstadter was even allowed to present a rather accurate definition of the holographic p ...
• Evangelista Torricelli: an anniversary
  Evangelista Torricelli was born on October 15th, 1608 – we could commemorate his birthday ten days ago – and died of typhoid fever contracted a few days earlier in Florence exactly 365 years ago, on October 25th, 1647. This early physics worker is mainly remembered for the discovery of t ...
• PBS Frontline: Climate of Doubt
  PBS, a major U.S. Public TV station, has aired this 54-minute documentary, The Climate of Doubt: See also additional PBS material on the program. The program – starting with some video sequences from the latest Heartland Climate Skeptics Conference in Chicago – was largely cri ...
• Czech police uncovers a $20 million carbon cre ...
  A day later, it also foils a $100 million solar fraud The most straightforward way to learn what's going on with carbon trading in my country is... to read e-mails from a well-informed Malaysian American at Harvard. ;-) Willie Soon sent me this URL: Police suspect two of car ...
• Candida: uncertainties, strategies, victories
  I have declared a victory in the war against the yeast and started a normal diet. As a result, the yeast cells have been downgraded from hostile eukaryotes and wannabe animals to largely counterproductive oversized molecules. Coming attacks by the microorganisms will be considered sporad ...

Tatumba 2.0

• August 16, 2011 – WHITE HATS REPORT #28
   THE TROPOS AFFAIR:  The Theft & Demise of America For many months The White Hats have been reporting on numerous aspects of how America has been ripped off by its former and current leaders.  Readers have been informed of how it has occurred and how it continues to occur … in ...
• Student dies after Alberta classroom crash
  A student has died one day after a minivan crashed into a classroom at a school in St. Paul, Alta., Thursday morning. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Alberta students hurt after car crashes into classroom Several students at a school in St. Paul, Alta., were... Quebec police office ...
• The Recovery Meme and Why It’s Just Talk
  from The Daily Bell: End of recession’ greeted with joy in defiant Notts … The end of Britain’s longest double-dip recession since the 1950s has been welcomed by leading figures in Notts. The Office for National Statistics yesterday issued a preliminary estimate of GDP growth f ...
• North Korea in Nationwide Quasi-State of War ( ...
  Source: A North Hamkyung Province source reported in a hurried phone call at 9AM, âAn order to enter a quasi-state of war came this morning; they said to be on alert… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: 2 Hours until S.Korea Launches Propaganda Balloons into N ...
• ‘Frankenstorm’ may be headed for Eastern Canad ...
  Weather forecasters are predicting that Hurricane Sandy could merge with another weather system as it moves north, and bring a “Frankenstorm” to parts of Eastern Canada and the U.S. in time for Halloween. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Hurricane Sandy nears Bahamas afte ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• BPA: Recent Research Shows Continued Need for ...
  By Jason Rano, Director of Government Affairs There is now solid evidence that Americans have gotten the message that the plastics chemical bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that can disrupt the hormone system, is hazardous to their health. On September... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Fracking Leases May Lower Property Values, Def ...
  By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners near wells. The New York Times reported last month that uncertainty over whether hydraulic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• Type 3 Diabetes?
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• Why Some "Green" Cleaners Get Poor Grades
  A number of cleaning product manufacturers are expressing surprise at their products' scores on Environmental Working Group's Guide to Healthy Cleaning. Frankly, we're surprised they're surprised. The fact is, the industry has gotten complacent about its... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• Keratin is still "Flat-Out Risky"
  By Erika Duthely, Stabile Law Fellow, EWG The popular online discount deal promoter Groupon has been offering great prices on keratin hair-straightening treatments at a Washington, D.C. salon in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood, but this is one deal... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• The horror of Marina Krim, on a hideous news d ...
• A Whitney retrospective puts an exclamation po ...
• Bill Clinton rallies for his former aide, agai ...
• Remember Landry Fields?
• Mindy Meyer misses a chance to be seen (with K ...

Views & News from Norway

• Island overrun by moose
  A small island off Norway’s northern coastline of Helgeland has been all but overrun by moose, who now outnumber residents by two to one. Local newspaper Brønnøysunds Avis said that parents now fear for the safety of their small children. Moose are generally shy animals, but they’re ...
• Radical Islamists pose biggest threat
  Radical Islamists continue to pose the greatest security threat in Norway, confirmed the new head of the state police intelligence agency PST (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) this week. Benedicte Bjørnland’s assessment came just a day before Oslo police mounted a major effort to apprehend a ...
• Radical Islamists pose biggest threat
  Radical Islamists continue to pose the greatest security threat in Norway, confirmed the new head of the state police intelligence agency PST (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) this week. Benedicte Bjørnland’s assessment came just a day before Oslo police mounted a major effort to apprehend a ...
• Frequent flyers disappointed
  The Norwegian government has rejected a call by competition authorities to reinstate frequent flyer programs on domestic airline routes in Norway. They were banned several years ago largely because government officials thought smaller and upstart carriers wouldn’t be able to compete agains ...
• Islamic leader held for making threats
  The leader of the radical Islamic organization Profetens Ummah in Norway was arrested in Oslo Thursday on charges of making threats “against certain individuals.” Ubaydullah Hussain, who already was in the news on Thursday over provocative social media comments he’d posted that ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Update on Permaculture Implementation and Desi ...
  The Hafto Solar Community Water Project site project is a solar powered water supply facility for the surrounding community of Hafto in the Hadiya Zone, South Ethiopia. The project was planned and implemented by a German NGO called DWC and is owned and run by a local NGO called SMART. The facili ...
• Plant Profile: Passionfruit (Passiflora edulis)
  This passionfruit was growing in a family vegetable garden setting in Coonamble (western NSW, Australia), in a hot and dry climate with low rainfall, but the garden beds were irrigated by creek water. The vine is growing over a farm fence which has three horizontal wires. Surrounding the vine in ...
• My Solar Oven: Renewable Energy the Simpler Way
  by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne. I was at the salvage yard the other day and saw some cheap mirrors, so I bought them. Not so that I could look at myself. From my typical appearan ...
• Seeds of Doubt Conference (Videos)
  To follow are six videos, recorded at the October 6 2012 Seeds of Doubt Conference in Los Angeles: Part I — Jeffrey Smith, Michelle Perro MD Part II — Don Huber, PhD Part III — Tom Malterre interviews [...]
• GMO Myths and Truths
  Editor’s Note: Michael Antoniou, PhD, is reader in molecular genetics and head of the Gene Expression and Therapy Group, King’s College London School of Medicine, London, UK. His work and experience with genetic engineering is comprehensive, working in the field for almost three deca ...

Pointman's

• Examples will have to be made : Germany.
  I wrote an analysis piece some time back, which put forward the idea that we climate realists had a secret weapon, and that weapon was time. Time would inevitably bring down the environmental movement, because it would demonstrate the fundamental unworkability of its policies in the real world f ...
• It’s time for a change.
  It’ll soon be time to cast your vote, so you have to look back at what the current politico has done for you over the last four years. I see auto workers in Detroit, who no longer work on the line because that line no longer exists, and now have to swallow the indignity of watching &# ...
• Green Myths : We must conserve everything.
  There’s this unquestioned idea, that’s been firmly planted into the public mind. That idea is that nothing should ever be allowed to go extinct and therefore conservation of anything is automatically a good thing. It’s nearly universally accepted and yet it’s totally unna ...
• I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.
  Blogging is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at some consid ...
• Intentions, profiles and predictability.
  I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life working out other people’s real intentions, and what they would do and how they would attempt to do it, because of those intentions. Getting one jump ahead of complex, imaginative and sometimes troubled minds, is a tough business, but that’s what made i ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Inmates at Angola Prison Complain of Excessive ...
  From a letter sent by the ACLU of Louisiana: Dear Warden Cain: In the past few months, the ACLU of Louisiana has received numerous allegations of excessive or unjustified use of chemical agents, such as OC (oleoresin capsicum), upon inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP). We write to br ...
• Reflections on the Protest at Walter L. Cohen ...
  While in Houston TX. to attend a convention on reparations I began receiving phone calls, text and email messages describing a situation back home in New Orleans. It appeared that juniors and seniors at Walter L. Cohen walked out of school on Thursday October 4, 2012. Students say they are “ ...
• Students at Walter L. Cohen High School Walk O ...
  From a press release from students and their allies at Walter L. Cohen High School: See below for the students' demands. Students at Walter L. Cohen in New Orleans began a walk out/protest on October 4th, 2012 when their teachers and administrators were dismissed and the announcement was mad ...
• Obama, Romney, and Race(less De)Baiting
, By R ...
  Reprinted from the Bridge The Gulf blog: While Romney and Obama dance around race, the Gulf Coast continues to suffer devastating racial disparities, worsened by the government's inaction New Orleans finally came up this week in the presidential contest – in a soundbite about race and the g ...
• Jasmine Groves Invites Community to Memorial F ...
  This letter from Jasime Groves comes via the New Orleans Independent Police Monitor: From Tragedy to Triumph: Advocating for your family and community after a Police Shooting Kim Marie Groves Homecoming Memorial Greetings! You are cordially invited to the 18th Annual Memorial for Kim Marie ...

Information Underground

• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apep Apep (play /ˈæˌpɛp/ or /ˈɑːˌpɛp/) or Apophis (play /ˈæpəfɨs/; Ancient Greek: Άποφις; also spelled Apepi or Aapep) was an evil god in Egyptian mythology, the deification of darkness and chaos (ı͗zft in Egyptian), and thus opponent of light and Ma'at (order/trut ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 28441.html Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to 4 years in jail following a tax fraud trial. An Italian court delivered verdicts today against the former Prime Minister and others in a six-year-old tax fraud trial. ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmUbyLAjVTI ............jews are elohim, golems and jew saturn/sea goddess law makers etc etc note vid+os101 banned for connecting saturn to jews.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:15 am
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  May be posted on TIU elsewhere... has a bit of disinfo on the 19-hijackers... --CSR The House of Rothschild January 5, 2011 — Dean Henderson The Rothschild family combined with the Dutch House of Orange to found Bank of Amsterdam in the early 1600’s as the world’s first private central ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxXFs8EL35o .......eat Gaelic Drum Lizards.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:43 pm

TVNZ

• Abu Hamza to get new prosthetic hands for US jail
  US authorities to give radical Islamist Abu Hamza new prosthetic hands to replace metal hooks in prison.
• NY nanny attempted suicide in front of dead ch ...
  The nanny suspected of slaying two young children began stabbing herself as their mother entered the bathroom.
• Damascus car bomb shatters Syria truce
  A powerful car bomb exploded in Damascus as a truce intended to mark a Muslim religious holiday unravelled.
• China begins probe into disgraced ex-politician
  China moved quickly to announce it had formally begun a criminal probe into disgraced former senior politician Bo Xilai
• Italy's Berlusconi sentenced to jail for tax fraud
  Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to four years in jail for tax fraud.

environment 360

• 3D Digital Atlas App Documents Human Effects o ...
  A team of UK-based developers has created an interactive app that enables users to explore a trove of global data on several critical issues, including how human populations are impacting the natural world and View images Collins Mapping world trends: Carbon emissions the production and ...
• Rapid Thinning of Glaciers Seen After Collapse ...
  NASA has released satellite photos that vividly depict the precipitous thinning and retreat of two Antarctic glaciers following the disintegration of the Larsen B Ice Shelf. That ice shelf — which floated on top of the Click to enlarge NASA Thinning of Hektoria and Green glaciers, 2002-2012 ...
• For Wolves on the Brink, A Hobbled Recovery Plan
  Few creatures in the United States have come as close to extinction as the Mexican wolf, which was wiped out in the U.S. by 1970. Now, scientists and conservationists contend, federal officials are caving into political pressure and failing to implement a legally mandated reintroduction plan. ...
• Plastic Waste Increasing on Remote Arctic Seab ...
  Deep-sea cameras deployed to monitor biodiversity on the Arctic seabed have documented a significant rise in the amount of plastic waste and other litter on the remote sea floors of the Far North, according to a new study. While looking at many thousands of seabed photos taken in 2011 between Gr ...
• Ocean Acidification May Alter Acoustics of Sea ...
  Increased ocean acidification over the next century could alter the acoustic properties of seawater, giving the planet’s oceans the same hi-fi sound they had during the age of the dinosaurs. In an analysis of ocean acidity over 300 million years, U.S. researchers David G. Browning and Peter M. S ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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• Alexander Higgins Blog - The Latest Buzz, Anal ...
• The Devil's Excrement
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backofthebook

• A Modest Opinion — It’s a Liberal ...
  By Nathaniel Moher Are you sitting down? Well  . . . answer the question. Whatever. If you’re not sitting down, you should be sitting down, because I’m about to blow your mind. Did you know that there are other Liberals that aren’t Justin Trudeau? And I’m not talking about his father Joseph, I’m ...
• The Navigable Waters Unprotection Act
  By David@Sixthestate.net Continuing Sixth Estate’s fall 2012 budget coverage, which began with a look at what appears to me to be some appalling chicanery in the MP pension “reform” scheme, I thought it would be nice to look at the end of the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Symbolic of the shif ...
• Is the MPs’ new pension plan a clever ma ...
  By David@Sixthestate.net After weeks of rumours about MP pension reforms in the works, the Harper regime finally brought them out in the budget .  .  . sort of. And it received great approbation for it. The mediasphere is tremendously excited at the good example the government is setting here. E ...
• Israel, Gaza, and the Estelle: more high seas ...
  By Frank Moher Once again, Israel has illegally intercepted and boarded a vessel bound for Gaza with humanitarian supplies, this time with a modest contingent of 30 aboard, including former Canadian MP Jim Manly. The ship was in international waters when it was surrounded by six IDF boats and, a ...
• Amanda Todd’s avengers: not Anonymous enough
  By Frank Moher As much as one would like to see some sort of justice for Amanda Todd, the 15-year old BC girl who took her life last week after years of cyber-bullying, what’s gone down on the internet in the last few days is truly disturbing. On Monday, someone purporting to be part of [. ...

Daily Beast

• Obama the Star Trek Geek
  Seems I spoke way, way too soon dismissing the idea of Obama expressing views on Star Trek …
• Should Animal Sacrifice End?
  Anila Muhammad of Muslims for Progressive Values argues against the tradition of animal sacrifice on the holiday of Eid al-Adha, which Muslims observe today:
• Likud, Meet Lieberman
  Close to four years ago, Avigdor Lieberman became Israel’s foreign minister, and with a few laudable exceptions, the American Jewish establishment shrugged. “There is nothing in his speeches that indicates someone who would threaten the shared values that we have,” insisted the Anti-Defamation L ...
• Pippa Middleton Four Outfit Changes On Book To ...
  And the new color this season is "Monaco Blue."
• What's the Most Indispensable Kitchen Machine?
  Tough question, but I think I have an answer.

Loonwatch

• AlJazeera: 2004 Massacre of Thai Muslims Remem ...
  Eight years after the deadly southern crackdown, military still reluctant to talk about the Tak Bai incident.
• Sears: Get Your “Sexy Middle Eastern Ara ...
  "Arab girl" Burka costume sold on Sears and other retail e-store sites this Halloween.
• Survey: Most Israeli Jews Would Support Aparth ...
  Survey, conducted by Dialog exposes anti-Arab, ultra-nationalist views espoused by a majority of Israeli Jews.
• Arlington, Virginia Mall Bombing and “sudden j ...
  Islamophobes are engaged in a disinformation campaign that involves throwing out as many crazy charges as possible in the hopes that even one out of a hundred will turn out to be true.
• Nazi Graffiti on French Family’s House
  Family of Algerian origin had their house covered in Nazi graffiti.

Energy News

• Nuclear Expert on Recent Fukushima Fire: “It’s ...
• Reporter: Can Tepco confirm Fukushima plant is ...
• Top Scientific Journal: Fukushima still leakin ...
• State Expert: Crude oil and gas now coming up ...
• Colbert Report: Living next to a nuclear plant ...

Japan Times

• Aim for nuclear disarmament
  Every year, the member states of the United Nations gather in New York to debate disarmament, both conventional and nuclear. While the military and technical aspects of nuclear disarmament have been discussed at length, little attention has been paid to the humanitarian aspects — what happ ...
• Steel giants' industrial spying suit closely w ...
  Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. says its lawsuit against South Korean steelmaker Posco has broader implications for other domestic businesses whose technology is leaked. During the first session at the Tokyo District Court on Thursday, Posco categorically denied stealing technological ...
• Abortions set new low at 200,000
  The last fiscal year saw 202,106 abortions performed, a record low and down roughly 10,000 from 2010, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said. The overall number has been trending lower since 1955, when the ministry started tracking data.
• Hybrid Microsoft 8 OS makes debut
  The Windows 8 operating system debuted worldwide Friday, with Microsoft Corp. looking to gain a competitive edge in the market for mobile devices by focusing on smartphones and tablets. As Apple Inc. and Google Inc. continue to increase their presence in multiple markets, Microsoft views its n ...
• Ishihara 'out of control': Tanaka
  Education minister Makiko Tanaka criticized Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara on Friday for planning to launch a new party after resigning as governor. At a news conference, Tanaka, an outspoken popular politician, called the 80-year-old Ishihara an "out-of-control senior," citing his exit in the m ...

Alexander Higgins

• RT Destroys Corporate Media Blackout, Airs Ful ...
  In response to the blackout from both the corporate media and the American political elite, RT hosted a third-party presidential debate.
• FBI Releases Documents That Confirm They Spy O ...
  As two anarchists remain locked up for refusing to testify against themselves the FBI has accidentally blown its own cover.
• Romney’s Ties With Voting Machines Maker ...
  Makers of voting machines known to be susceptible to fraud have been donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Romney campaign.
• CIA Whistleblower Sentenced To 2 1/2 For Reve ...
  Former CIA agent John Kiriakou pleaded guilty to blowing the whistle on the US government’s torture program and was sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison.
• The War On The Constitution
  As the Obama administration continues Bush's war on the Constitution a grass roots effort to fight the destruction of our civil liberties is under way.

Macleans - Central

• Passports and fake marriages: Politics on TV, ...
  Talking about e-passports, tenderized meat, and fake marriages
• Maclean’s View from the Hill
  Print guys on video discuss the SCOC ruling, Conservative appointees and a car bomb assassination in Beirut.
• Your guide to the Monetary Policy Report: A ch ...
  All you need to know—and a bunch of cool charts
• Moody’s puts most of Canada’s bank ...
  Adding to the growing chorus of analysts predicting a bursting of the Canadian housing...
• Supreme Court makes the right call on election ...
  Emmett McFarlane: 'The closer I read today’s judgment, the less convincing I find the minority’s logic'

Making It Count - CCPA

• The Limits of Demography
  Here is a piece I wrote for today’s Globe Economy Lab re the Department of Finance report on the costs of an aging society. The key point is that the mainstream doom and gloom projections of the costs of falling labour force growth  ignore the positive impacts which can be expected as and when w ...
• The CETA and Nova Scotia: Oversold benefits, U ...
  A new report on the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) concludes that the agreement’s benefits for Nova Scotia are being oversold, while its costs and consequences are minimized or even ignored. Indeed, EU officials are in Halifax right now selling the benefits of the CETA for N ...
• Taxing the rich in Québec: major myth debunking
  Québec has been immersed in the last weeks in much drama following a proposal to further tax the wealthiest. When the brand new Marois government took office (Parti québécois, PQ), it announced it would introduce new tax brackets for the wealthiest. A first bracket would have been added for inco ...
• Right-to-Work: The (Ayn?) Rand Formula
  There’s reluctance among Canadian proponents to call for it by name. But Right-to-Work (longer, harder, without representation or recourse, for less money and fewer sick days or pee breaks) seems to be the flavour du jour amongst…ahem…politicians of a certain age. (By which I mean the Age of Dic ...
• Household debt going from bad to worse
  Statistics Canada today revised the national accounts and found Canadians are now more indebted than either the Americans or the Brits were at the peak of their housing bubble.  Instead of Canadian households having a debt to disposable income ratio of 154, as was previously estimated, it has no ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

• Graphene offers clear window on liquids
  BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
• Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
  Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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  Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
• Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
  Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
• Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
  Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

• Fukushima Operators Struggle to Contain &#8216 ...
  “The plant currently holds 200,000 tonnes of highly contaminated waste water, used to cool the broken reactors, but operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, continues to struggle to find ways to store the toxic substance. TEPCO has said they are running out of room to build more storage tan ...
• Pursuit of Desal Driving Santa Cruz Water Cost ...
  “Santa Cruz – Overlooked by local newspapers and area media outlets, USA TODAY last month published a unique study of residential water rates over the past 12 years for water agencies nationwide with immediate implications for Santa Cruz . The investigative report found that monthly ...
• Questions Over China Dams
  “Some questions remain about whether hydro dams on the upper Mekong River in China exacerbated conditions during Cambodia’s devastating drought of 2010, environmental groups say, as China’s dam program powers ahead. When the first power-generating unit was switched on last month at China’s ...
• Native Water Rights to Play Big Part in Arizon ...
  “Navajo and Hopi tribal leaders are still working on various fronts to salvage pieces of the Navajo Hopi Little Colorado River Water Right Settlement Act of 2012, with no clear path in sight. The proposal touched off reservation-wide protests at both tribes last spring, when it was introdu ...
• Shale Gas Industry Targets College Campuses, K ...
  “On Sept. 27, the PA House of Representatives – in a 136-62 vote -  passed a bill that allows hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” to take place on the campuses of public universities. Its Senate copycat version passed in June in a 46-3 vote and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Demands EPA Suspend Chemical Devastat ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today addressed a rally organized by the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and Pesticide Action Network of North America where advocates urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) to take immediate action and suspend the use of a harmful pe ...
• 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 ...
• A Considered Approach to Syria
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement citing an author writing for The New York Times who has spent time in Syria and opposes a military intervention. See video here. “A recent opinion editorial in The New York Times highlights the dangers of western interve ...
• The Kill Matrix
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement opposing the codification and the streamlining of the United States’ “Kill Matrix” which determines when and where the United States uses drones to conduct targeted killings. Kucinich added, “state-sponsored murder has kil ...
• The United States’ Foreign Policy Boomerang
  Tonight’s presidential debate will focus on foreign policy. As we listen to Democratic and Republican presidential candidates it is worth saying that a thoughtful foreign policy isn’t about who can drop the most bombs. Consider the case of Libya. In the midst of a civil war, Gaddafi made terri ...

Authentically Wired

• Mandatory ‘Rape Babies’ Are the GO ...
  … Romney/Ryan … GOP – Tea Party – Republicans declare all rape victims shall have their babies … but don’t expect their political party to extend any helping hand to educate or care for that child … expect them just to turn their backs and walk away … compassionate humanity GOP style 2012 … Why ...
• What If We Adopted A System Where The Banks Di ...
  What If We Adopted A System Where The Banks Did Not Create Our Money? 10-24-2012  •  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael 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 Feder ...
• Creating government and Regulators who authent ...
  Creating government and Regulators who authentically serve "We the People" John Q Public has been stone-walled by local elected officials who don’t believe there is a problem or are afraid to rattle corporate cages for fear of reprisals. Mounting an OPEN rule development process gives us ...
• we now we act as if we are unaware corporate o ...
  … We elected fools who in turn appointed corporatist to serve on our Supreme Court gifting us with “citizens united” and we now we act as if we are unaware corporate owns all three branches of our government … Vote Obama For Unaccountable Drone Warfare. Vote Romney For Unaccountable Drone Warfar ...
• AND STILL WE TRUST THEM … WHY …?
  FROM … www.NaturalNews.com In researching vaccine additives a shocking admission by the CDC: Vaccines are intentionally formulated with some of the most toxic brain-damaging substances on the planet: - Aluminum - Formaldehyde - Mercury - MSG (yes, monosodium glutamate) The CDC openly admits this ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Embryos created with two women, one man
  Scientists in the US have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that someday could be used to prevent babies from inheriting certain rare incurable diseases.The researchers at Oregon...
• Boffins work on invisibility cloak
  A "cloaking device" that makes things invisible, the effect of a depleting ozone layer on the prevailing wind and just how birds tell the time before migrating.These are some of the ideas that the country's brightest minds are investigating...
• Cartoon: Italian justice
• Gwynne Dyer: Out of petrol? So let's just make ...
  Stockton-on-Tees, a small city in northeastern England, has only one claim to fame: the first railway tracks were made and laid in the city in 1822, and the first train ran on those tracks in 1825. But it might one day have another...
• Stunning meteor showers light up sky
  Streaking fireballs lighting up California skies and stunning stargazers are part of a major meteor shower, and the show is just getting started, professional observers said.The Oakland Tribune reports the exploding streaks were...

The Bovine

• Raw milk in the U.K. (United Kingdom)
• What’s behind the FDA’s censorship ...
  From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “Why would the U.S. Food and Drug Administration feel so threatened by a scientific assessment of research on raw milk out of Europe that it would bully a dairy group into forcing the article’s removal … Continue reading →
• Italy, Switzerland, ban flu vaccines
  From Eva von Schaper and Phil Serafino on Bloomberg.com: “Italy and Switzerland halted sales of Novartis AG’s (NOVN) flu vaccines after the company informed Italian authorities of a buildup of particles in the shots. Novartis said the products are safe. Novartis didn’t … Continue rea ...
• Upcoming webinar on mobile abbatoirs
  From Hillary Barter, on Sustain Ontario. “The topic is “Mobile Abattoirs” – litterally, slaugherhouses on wheels! – which some say could bring more meat processing capacity to rural Ontario, and thus improve access to local meat around the province.  What … Continue reading →
• Industrial farming interests setting us up for ...
  From the Alliance for Natural Health: “Allowing only one color of pig (or cow, corn, wheat, tomato, etc.) is a very bad idea. You can help. Action alert! As we reported in April, Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued an … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Superb Hugh Hendry Interview on Gold, Hyperinf ...
  Here is an excellent interview at The Economist Buttonwood Conference featuring Hugh Hendry. You may have to enter your email address to play, but I doubt it has to be accurate as there was no verification process. The interview is well worth a play in entirely, covering Gold, Hyperinflati ...
• Credit Crunch in Europe; Eurozone Lending Sink ...
  A collapse in demand for credit is underway in Europe. Bank lending is down sharply and the decline has "surprised the experts". I wasn't surprised in the least, but nonetheless, please consider Lending in the euro zone is declining fast, courtesy of Google translate (slightly modified by M ...
• Dire State of Affairs in Illinois; Mish Six-Po ...
  I just finished slogging through a 69 page PDF by the State Budget Crisis Task Force outlining the dire state of affairs in Illinois. I knew in advance that pension funding is the biggest issue facing Illinois. The task force shows exactly that. Here is a summary. Pension Funding Level ...
• Mass Firings Soar at Fastest Pace Since 2010; ...
  In precisely the kind of news president Obama does not want heading into the election, Ford (F), Dow Chemical (DOW), DuPont (DD), and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) all announced mass layoffs this past week as Firings Reach Highest Since 2010. North American companies have announced plans to e ...
• Fed and ECB Smokescreens to Print Money
  Fresh on the heels of ECB president Mario Draghi's Lies In Defense Bond Purchases, Including a Warning of Deflation comes news of an unexpected rise in Eurozone price inflation. Economists had expected price inflation to drop, instead Eurostat reports Euro area inflation estimated at 2.7% u ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• FDL’s Gosztola Takes on Obama & the Assault on ...
  The Toothless Nature of Obama’s Recent Directive is No Accident or Mistake Last Friday, Firedoglake’s Kevin Gosztola took on Obama and his NGO entourages in Washington on the administration’s recent cosmetic and toothless directive to provide an appearance of protection for government whistleblo ...
• Marinetti’s and Kramer’s Puppets: Romney, Obam ...
  “The denial of history in favor of an unmoored existence” By John Stanton “Marinetti [and Benito Mussolini] understood the masses as material to be formed by men of action. A bond was established between futurists and fascists…” US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech at the Vi ...
• Of Course I Didn’t Watch It! How About You?
  What’s the deal with all the e-mails asking for my thoughts on and analyses of ‘the show’ last night? Seriously!  I thought I was more transparent than that. Of course I didn’t watch it. Well, I don’t own a TV-that’s for one. But that’s beside the point. It’s not that I don’t like shows. But [...]
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Syria, the Story Thus Far
  “Today, many Americans are asking — indeed I ask myself,” Hillary Clinton said, “how can this happen? How can this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction? This question reflects just how complicated, and at times, how confounding the w ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Rena Owners Fined
  Daina Shipping, owner of the stricken M/V Rena containership, was fined $300,000 today in a Tauranga District Court after pleading guilty to a charge under the Resource Management Act relating [...]
• Incident Photos of The Week – Daring Barents S ...
  The Rescue Coordination Centre in Northern Norway on Thursday was forced to coordinated the dramatic rescue of 14 mariners who ran into trouble during a storm in the Barents Sea [...]
• BP Oil Spill Trial Postponed by Mardi Gras and ...
  (Bloomberg) — The trial over liability for BP Plc’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was postponed to Feb. 25 so the lawyers won’t lose their accommodations to Super Bowl and Mardi Gras [...]
• Crowley Christens First Ocean Class Tugs
  Crowley Maritime Corp. on Thursday christened the first two of four tugboats in the ocean class series, Ocean Wave and Ocean Wind, during a ceremony in New Orleans, La. On [...]
• Batista Shows You Need to Spend Money to Make ...
  (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Eike Batista is pledging as much as $2 billion to shore up the finances of his oil and shipbuilding companies after drilling and output delays. The controlling investor is [...]

Press TV

• Hamas censures Israel for Sudan attack
  The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned Israel for attacking a military factory in Sudan.
• Anger boils in Japan over US rape case
  Tensions are on the rise in Japan over the US military bases in the country in the wake of fresh charges of sexual assault filed against two US Navy servicemen, Press TV reports.
• Exxon chief assassinated in Brussels
  British executive for ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, Nicholas Mockford has been shot dead in front of his wife outside a restaurant in Brussels, Belgium.
• 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.
• US cycling star must pay back winnings
  Former American professional road racing cyclist, Lance Armstrong, must pay back all the prize money he received because of using performance enhancing drugs, International Cycling Union (UCL) say.

SciDev.net

• Climate change mitigation 'far cheaper than in ...
  Developing a low carbon economy will be far cheaper than responding to climate change in an ad hoc fashion, says a global report.
• Biodiversity protection needs community input
  A pledge to increase support for biodiversity targets in developing countries is welcome, but care for indigenous people is vital too.
• Cook Islanders grow sustainable food using 'aq ...
  A new project using aquaponics, a combination of aquaculture and hydroponics, promises to help Pacific islanders grow sustainable food.
• Earthquake aftershock forecasting 'must be imp ...
  Researchers are calling for more reliable aftershock forecasting after a Sumatran 'megaquake' last year caused other large earthquakes as far as Japan and Mexico.
• Arabic translations of science need a quality ...
  Poor translations undermine efforts to promote science in Arab countries, says science translator and lecturer Ehab Abdelrahim Ali.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Knocking epilepsy on the head, electrically
  Electrical brain stimulation triggered by the impending onset of a seizure could be used to prevent epileptic attacks, scientists have shown. Epileptic seizures are caused by intermitten bursts of a...
• Artifical protein scaffold props up heart repair
  Using short, self-assembling bio-degradable protein nanofibres impregnated with a blood-vessel growth factor, scientists have been able to prevent some of the negative changes that occur in the heart ...
• The violent histories of hot Jupiters
  A paper published in Nature last week has discovered that planetary systems containing so-called hot Jupiters are likely to have had violent pasts. The evidence stems from a difference in the way th...
• Black holes, as revealed by X-rays
  This week, the journal Science have produced a special issue dedicated to the subject of black hole research, and Rob Fender of the University of Southampton reviewed what we know about the X-ray emi...
• Do elephants purr?
  The way elephants make the low-frequency rumbles they use to communicate over long distances has been revealed by scientists in Austria. Humans and other mammals use sound extensively; whales and elep...

Nick Turse

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  bookshelfporn: Book Igloo sculptural installation by Colombian artist Miler Lagos at MagnanMetz Gallery. (This is colossal + nevver)
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  “In 1973 the journal Science published an article that caused an immediate furor. It was...
• loveshanicerose:la vie s’envole on We Heart ...
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• climateadaptation:reuters:People walk on a ...
  climateadaptation: reuters: People walk on a street littered with debris after Hurricane Sandy hit Santiago de Cuba October 26, 2012. The Cuban government said on Thursday night that 11 people died when the storm barrelled across the island, most killed by falling trees or in building collaps ...

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