29 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Eastpoint, Florida (June 2010) ... What's killing Pensacola's famed East Bay oysters? (October 29, 2011) ...item 2.. Governor Scott Gets Oyster Lesson (Thu 12:06 AM, Oct 04, 2012) ... (Photo credit: marsmet552)

Bell Telephone System .. Dinner in a Flash -- “What’s for dinner?” (October 29, 2011 / 1 Cheshvan 5772) ...item 2.. Delicious meals prepared in minutes (February 9, 2012 / 16 Shevat 5772) ... (Photo credit: marsmet542)

Dark Politricks

• Weather Channel Meteorologist Flips Out About ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Oct 29, 2012 Weather Channel meterologist Stu Ostro is raving over Hurricane Sandy: - History is being written as an extreme weather event continues to unfold, one which will occupy a place in the annals ...
• Texas Warns Globalist Vote Observers They May ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com October 29, 2012 Following a warning issued by the Attorney General of Texas that members of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will be arrested and prosecuted if ...
• Greek journalist detained for publishing list ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Police detain magazine editor for breaching Greece’s privacy law A Greek journalist has been arrested for publishing the names of wealthy Greek citizens with deposits totalling 2bn ( 1.bn) in Swiss ...
• Gangs Plan Hurricane Looting Spree Via Twitter
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNew York National Guard to “protect against looting” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com October 29, 2012 Scores of Twitter users have flooded the social networking site announcing their plans to go on looti ...
• Military Commander Gets Court Order to Protect ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy David Swanson Some friends of mine have gotten arrested more times than I can count now for the offense of protesting drone use outside Hancock Air Field near Syracuse, N.Y. S ...

Dandelion Salad

• Why I’m Voting Green by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 29, 2012 The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us. And if we do not immediately engage in th ...
• Ch. 12: The Split: Differences over Israel tea ...
  by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad October 29, 2012 The Split: Differences over Israel tear apart a Jewish marriage From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Published by Trine Day Stan and Hannah Cooper are friends of mine from college days. Both a ...
• Michael Parenti: The 1% Pathology
  with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org October 24, 2012 Oct 20, 2012 by pinballwyz “A man who steals a goose from the commons is punished, while a man who steals the commons itself is rewarded.” -unknown- Michael Parenti is a ...
• Urban Forest Erupts In San Francisco’s E ...
  Dandelion Salad Oct 28, 2012 by kirstendirksen The “Tenderloin National Forest” is likely the one of the world’s smallest “forests”- it’s just 23 feet wide by 136 feet deep-, but it is a refuge in one of the most densely-packed neighborhoods in the heart of Sa ...
• The Peerless Quartet: I Didn’t Raise My ...
  Dandelion Salad Oct 28, 2012 by StoptheWarCoalition Released in 1915, I Didn’t Raise My Son to be a Soldier, sung here by the Peerless Quartet, was the first commercially successful anti-war record and featured prominently in the American anti-war movement opposing US entry in the first wo ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Young an ...
  The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers an impressive view of the centre of globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of this spherical collection of stars takes a deeper look at the core of the globular cluster, which contains a high concentration of stars with different colours.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Colorful ...
  Colour composite image of RCW120. It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed. The 870-micron submillimetre-wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on th ...
• You’ll Never Guess What This Is: Mysterious Mi ...
  Sometimes a closer look doesn't make things more clear. And at microscopic levels, even familiar things can become completely unrecognizable. Can you guess what these award-winning microscope photos are of?
• NASA Building Deep-Space Habitat From Spare IS ...
  Deep-space engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Texas are putting together a prototype of a deep space station from scrap parts of the ISS.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Family P ...
  NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has constructed the first portrait of our solar system by combining 34 images taken by the spacecraft’s Wide Angle Camera on Nov. 3 and 16, 2010. The mosaic, pieced together over a period of a few weeks, comprises all of the planets except for Uranus and Neptune, whic ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Ahead of Israel election, PA bid in UN may pus ...
  Senior Foreign Ministry officials and Israeli diplomats abroad have been warning of a scenario in which Israel's government "goes crazy" the day after the UN vote. And far from being insulted,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Jonathan Cook: Israel’s formula for a starvati ...
  There can be no doubt that the diet devised for Gaza – much like Israel’s blockade in general – was intended as a form of collective punishment, one directed at every man, woman and child. The goal,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Moshé Machover: On Israeli Apartheid
  In my opinion the whole semantic discussion of Israeli "apartheid" skirts around the fundamental question: the underlying political economy of Zionist colonization. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to ...
• How Chomsky came to Gaza: a statement by eight ...
  The eight signatories of this letter are members of the group that traveled with Noam Chomsky to Gaza. We have spent three and a half days here in Gaza with Chomsky, who departed yesterday. We would... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Gideon Levy: Apartheid without shame or guilt
  Now it is not just critics at home and abroad, but Israelis themselves who are openly, shamelessly, and guiltlessly defining themselves as nationalistic racists. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Iran Claims Drone Filmed Israeli Secret Sites
  Iran claimed on Monday it has pictures of highly protected sites in Israel, taken from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launched by the Lebanese Hezbollah group on October 6, the head of Iran's parliamentary defense commission Esmail Kossari told Arab-language channel Al-Alyam.
• US, Swedish Inspectors to Fly over Russia, Belarus
  Inspectors from the United States and Sweden will conduct inspection flights over Russia and Belarus under the Open Skies Treaty starting on Monday.
• Russian Military Inspectors Begin Surveillance ...
  A group of Russian military observers begin on Sunday a four-day inspection mission in the skies of France under the Open Skies Treaty, the Defense Ministry’s press office reported.
• US Military Tests Missile Defense Capability
  The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has successfully conducted its largest and most complex missile defense flight test ever, involving the simultaneous engagement of five ballistic missile and cruise missile targets.
• Main News of October 25
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

NewsWise

• Migraine in Children May Affect School Perform ...
  Children with migraine are more likely to have below average school performance than kids who do not have headaches, according to new research published in the October 30, 2012, print issue of Neurology(r), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
• Diet Buster: Halloween Candy in the Office
  Watch out for that post-Halloween sugar crash on Thursday, as well-meaning co-workers bring in buckets and bowls of leftover candy.
• Mummy Unwrapping -- Science or Spectacle? A Mi ...
• Researchers Identify Genetic Basis of Cardiac, ...
  Researchers have made important advances in the rapidly-expanding field of "regenerative medicine," outlining for the first time connections in genetic regulation that normally prevent birth defects in heart and facial muscles. This basic research will provide a road map to ultimately allow sci ...
• Mass Extinction Study Provides Lessons for Mod ...
  The Cretaceous Period of Earth history ended with a mass extinction that wiped out numerous species, most famously the dinosaurs. A new study now finds that the structure of North American ecosystems made the extinction worse than it might have been.

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: Monday, October 29, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Israeli Air Force has struck back at rocket installations in Gaza. Ethnic violence in Myanmar has displaced over 22,000 people according to UN estimates. Nigeria also experienced violence between different religious groups after a car bomb on a church, f ...
• Upcoming Events: October 28, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Upcoming Events The University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law will host a symposium entitled: Mass Torts in a Shrinking World, November 2, 2012. You can find the program here. On November 2-3, 2012 at Duke University School of Law, the Private ...
• The Washington Post’s Three Article Series on ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The Washington Post has featured three major front-page stories on what they call “The Permanent War” – meaning the war on terror or however one might like to label it, as the US moves from Obama 1 to either an Obama 2 or a Romney admin ...
• Weekend Roundup: October 20-26, 2012
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we welcomed Kristen Boon as our newest permanent blogger. In her opening post, she examined why the Security Council’s work on Children and Armed Conflict has turned out to be controversial. She also asked readers’ opinion on ...
• 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 ...

Public News Service

• Cyberbullying: Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and T ...
  Cyberbullying: Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and Taunting PHOENIX - Kids have teased and taunted each other for generations, but the wireless age is allowing youngsters to extend their harmful reach in the form of cyber-bullying. Using technology to threaten or humiliate peers can range from sending ...
• Tempe Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast ...
  Tempe Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month PHOENIX – One of the final events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is Saturday's fundraiser for research and education at Tempe Beach Park. The three-mile, non-competitive walk is called Making Strides Against Breast Ca ...
• Arizona Community Legal Services Marks 60th An ...
  Arizona Community Legal Services Marks 60th Anniversary PHOENIX, Ariz. - This is National Pro Bono Week, a week when lawyers across the country provide free legal advice. A local Arizona agency is marking its 60th anniversary of offering year-round, cost-free legal services. ...(Read More)
• Educators Push for a "Bully-Free" Arizona
  Educators Push for a "Bully-Free" Arizona PHOENIX - October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and Arizona educators are being asked to take a pledge to stand up for bullied students. The National Education Association launched a campaign called "Bully Free: It Starts With Me" because, says ...
• An Ounce Of Financial Prevention
  An Ounce Of Financial Prevention PHOENIX, Ariz. - New research is helping families break the cycle of constant financial crises, and it doesn't cost much to do it. According to financial educator Syble Solomon, the key findings confirm that people make mistakes when they're under stress. ...(Rea ...

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

• Environmental News 30/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Spooked rare cockatoos fly away from Taronga Zoo Taronga Zoo is calling on the public to help find three rare red-tailed black cockatoos after they were spooked by four sea eagles during a bird show at 3pm on Monday and flew away, spokesman Mark Willi ...
• Global warming
  This picture is quite unbelievable and unreal, right? You're probably right because basically global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html) makes the ice melt... But anyway you must think about global warming and keep climate change impacts (glossary/categories/climate-change/climate-cha ...
• Arcimboldo's portraits
  Franzconde (http://www.flickr.com/people/79928508@N00/) and Laura Padgett (http://www.flickr.com/people/laurapadgett/) via Flickr Creative Commons
• UN Indigenous Peoples' Forum
  Slow Food President Carlo Petrini spoke at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) on May 14 on the right to food and food sovereignty.
• Genetic safety in numbers, platypus study finds
  Platypuses on the Australian mainland and in Tasmania are fighting fit but those on small islands are at high risk of being wiped out from disease, according to a University of Sydney study.

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

• Crane collapse due to wind in NYC
• Sandy is just warming up – trampoline in power ...
• Clipper and FoxPro migration. My business webs ...
  My business website, bomoco.com , is now in WordPress. Among my specialties is Clipper and FoxPro migration, converting mission-critical database programs written in the 1990′s to Windows and the cloud.What’s that you ask? Such dinosaur programs are still running? Yes, they are. Clip ...
• Hurricane Sandy updates
  From my sister this morning near Hartford CT, which is about 40 miles inland. “Wind howling. Expected to hit with wind around noon, full force by dinner. Winds on coast already 45 mph.” The Connecticut shoreline is going to get clobbered. It’s mostly second homes owned by the w ...
• Joss Whedon: Vote Romney, he will us lead to z ...

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 roundup: share price up, Firefox gets ...
  Facebook stock sees post-earnings surge – Following the company’s third quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Facebook experienced its largest single-day leap in stock price since the company went public in May of this year. Shares went as high as $24 … Continue reading →
• Facebook recommends upcoming concerts in News Feed
  Some Facebook users are seeing a new “Upcoming Concerts” story in their feeds. The feature seems to suggest nearby music events based on a user’s interests, listening activity and friend connections. It is unclear whether Facebook is testing other recommended … Continue reading →
• JetSet Secrets, MeuChip, Cinemagram, Jurassic ...
  Electronic Arts’ JetSet Secrets led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 214 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top … Continue readin ...
• Facebook users reached with paid media have hi ...
  Facebook reports that fans reached through paid media have greater shopping and buying habits compared to average Internet users, according to a joint study with Internet analytics company comScore. The study covers three different brand pages: Samsung mobile, an unnamed major retailer and an un ...
• Facebook adds more quality controls for app no ...
  Facebook today announced new quality control measures for canvas app notifications, seeking to maintain the effectiveness of the channel for developers without upsetting users. Starting Nov. 9, developers will no longer be able to send notifications to users who have … 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

• America R.I.P.
  “A country so poorly led can do nothing but decline.” During the second half of the 20th century the United States was an opportunity society. The ladders of upward mobility were plentiful, and the middle class expanded. Incomes rose, and ordinary people were able to achieve old-age security. In ...
• 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 ...
• Don’t Vote For Evil
  “The only people who will benefit from the election of either Romney or Obama are those associated with the private oligarchies that rule America.”   Back during the George W. Bush neocon regime, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in his UN speech summed up George W. Bush for the world. I am quo ...
• 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 ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Bluetech- “667” When Sibel asked me to do Soothing the Beast, I thought it might be fun to and by week 40, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is and I’m glad she asked me. I really enjoy doing it. I’ve tried to mix it up the best I can and this week is [...]

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

• Obama, Romney: Silent on Significant Domestic ...
  As Election Day nears the political rhetoric from President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney rev up. Television ads echo: "I approve this message." But what message resounds for civil servants bullied in the workplace?" The article discusses "bullying" in the federal workforce and the need for m ...
• American History: Era of Greed and Destruction
  This article describes the forces presently at work in the American and world economies which are destroying the common man.
• Obama's Disposition Matrix
  Call it elevating Murder, Inc. to a higher level. A Washington Post Special Report discussed America's permanent war agenda.
• Remember Bani Walid
  For courageous Jamahiriya fighters, it's their finest hour. Despite overwhelming force, use of chemical and other illegal weapons, and US-sponsored mass murder, they hang on valiantly.
• Another Cheesy Hollywood Parody: Republicans a ...
  This article is another Republican parody but shows how dumb some people can be... how some people can be manipulated by "faith," instead of using "logic" and "reasoning." Instead of using what God gave us all, the ability to decipher lies from truths... is being wasted on the "faithful."

Switchboard

• India Green News: Solar & Renewables get a big ...
  Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York India Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India. October 17 - 23, 2012 Climate India, China team up with developing na ...
• Boom, Bust, Boom: We Need the Pebble Mine Lik ...
  Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA Last month, Grover Norquist surprised a lot of people when he appeared to take up the cause of renewable energy, noting in a Politico column that copper is a necessary component of w ...
• Will Hurricane Sandy Get Politicians to Pull t ...
  Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Another monster storm is bearing down on the Eastern United States, prompting yet another mad scramble to rearrange travel plans, prep for power outages and dig in for potential ...
• 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Talking About Bad and Unpopular Republican Pol ...
  Shorter Kathleen Parker: “How dare Democrats focus on an increasing number of creepy Republican comments about rape, policies enacted and/or opposed by federal and state Republican legislatures, and the Republican platform to show that Republicans are in many ways opposed to the interests ...
• Hey Ladies — Ross Douthat Knows What&#82 ...
  Shorter Ross Douthat:  “Barack Obama’s pitch to women is so weirdly paternalistic.  Anti-paternalism, of course, is using state coercion to force women to carry pregnancies to term (while assuming that women do not have the moral agency sufficient to be held legally accountable) whil ...
• Broken Clock, Etc.
  My contempt for Tom Friedman is without limit. But he nails this column like Luther and a church door. At least until the point where he brings up Michael Bloomberg. But I’m going to focus on this part, which is actually good. In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be a ...
• How to Organize Around Elections
  As I’ve said repeatedly through this election cycle, big national elections are not the primary vehicle for change in this country, nor should they be the singular focus of progressives. It’s my contention that the real change in electoral politics happens on the local level. Like co ...
• Conservatives Cheer for Detroit?
  I was sure that Mark Judge had the stupidest sports column of the year wrapped up for his Bryce Harper, Conservative Hero piece. But the Howler clearly wants to up the ante. And thus we have Matt Lewis arguing that conservatives should root for Detroit over San Francisco in the World Series. Tha ...

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

• NY State All Wishy-Washy On Great Lakes Wind
• 5 Green Gadgets To Help You Survive Hurricane ...
• The IPv6-Addressable Light Bulb Goes On Sale
• Chinese Electric Car Revolution Running On Hal ...
• A (Discreet) Green Retrofit For A 1870 Farmhouse

National Law Journal | U.S.

• WHO REPRESENTS CORPORATE AMERICA
  For this year's survey of the law firms who represent America's largest corporations, we've chosen to highlight one example of the longer-term relationships between in-house counsel and the law firms that represent them.
• THE CAREERIST: Women's lack of progress: no fix
  Let's just call this latest National Association of Women Lawyers report what it is: depressing.
• OPINION: Why the ITC should be supported
  Exclusion-order process is a necessary part of real world's IP-dependent trade structure.
• OPINION: A misplaced crusade
  Suit by immigration officers against deferred-action program has disturbing implications.
• THE PRACTICE: With fact witnesses, do you get ...
  Ethical issues aside, the credibility of the testimony is tarnished in direct proportion to the degree of varnish.

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

• Hurricane Sandy to Become Historical Storm: Pr ...
  The impact from Sandy will reach hundreds of miles from the center of landfall, including areas well inland and well ahead of the storm's landfall Monday night.
• Iranian Regime Dictates Suppressive Measures A ...
  This is a clear acknowledgment of the fact that the suppressive measures against Ashraf and Liberty residents and forcible displacement of them are completely dictated by the mullahs' regime policies.
• Is Global Illicit Economy Experiencing a Boom?
  Recognizing the harms of illicit trade and the illegal economy to international peace and security, the United States of America today reported the global illicit economy is experiencing a boom.
• Hurricane Sandy Updates: Catastrophic Impacts ...
  The worst of Sandy in the mid-Atlantic and southern New England will be Monday through Monday night, mostly occurring ahead of when the hurricane slams onshore.
• The Music Video Obama and Romney Do Not Want Y ...
  In this age of high technology during the information age, neither Romney nor Obama are without having committed major campaign errors that have been caught on tape

environment 360

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

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• Rise of the Titan: 'World’s fastest' supercomp ...
  After falling behind Asia and Europe in the great race, where success is measured in FLOPS (floating-point operations per second), the US has struck back at the new high-tech Olympians with Titan: quite possibly the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• RT's online news 'more social' than CBS, Bloom ...
  Besting the Wall Street Journal and outflanking CBS News, RT has ranked 27th among 5,000 English-language newspapers when it comes to attracting likes, shares and comments on Facebook. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Turkish police teargas thousands-strong secula ...
  Tear gas and water cannons met thousands of protesters in Ankara who had staged a pro-secular rally on Republic Day. The clashes mark a growing gap between the Islam-leaning government and the country's secular layers. Read Full Article at RT.com
• 'Key witness' in Polish presidential plane cra ...
  A Polish parliamentary investigation into President’s Lech Kaczynski plane crash in Smolensk in 2010 is considering witness protection: A flight engineer set to deliver critical testimony was found hanged in his house... Read Full Article at RT.com
• At least 6 dead, many injured in car bomb atta ...
  At least six people were killed, including children, in a suspected car bombing in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus, reports the state news agency. Jaramana is mostly populated by Christian and Druze residents. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Road to victory! Comparing Chavez to Obama ...
  — Here is a post electoral review of the Chavez campaign leading up to his reelection earlier this month in Venezuela- Venezuela, camino a la Victoria. Oct/2012— And now, a look at the sad campaign of Barack Obama here in the US- First Presidential Debate: Obama vs. Romney (Complete ...
• Racism in Mexico
  Case of blonde girl beggar strikes nerve in Mexico
• How the French now handle women’s need f ...
  France Free Abortion Bill: Lawmakers Vote To Fully Reimburse Procedure
• Providing Nursing Care is America’s risk ...
  — I tell this to people all the time, that Nursing is a very dangerous job, however nobody ever seems to believe me on that. Go figure? Here it is though from the magazine ‘Business Insider’… Check out what they have to say on this question! It's Ironic What Job Is M ...
• Racist Texas cops AND POLITICIANS start shooti ...
  That sicko clone of Dubya called Rick Perry, who is the current governor of Texas, is a very busy man. When he’s not defunding Planned Parenthood in his home state, he has been recently up here in Colorado campaigning for Mitt Romney, under the basic theme of going backwards in order to ge ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Horizonal Blast (Thermite Cutter?) in South To ...
  The close up observation made in the above video is confirmed in raw video footage of this event: Related Info: Homemade Thermite Cutters cut and blast through steel beams.
• Content from Debunking the Debunkers Aired on ...
  Blog contributor Stewart Bradley writes, "Here's something cool - there's a 9/11 Truth public access show in Portland that aired my '911 Mash' video." http://www.portlandae911truth.org/
• The Reichstag Fire - Sound Familiar?
  Something I put together from the source material for my Century of Manipulation video. Clips from: The History Channel - Third Reich: The Rise (2010) [UKTV Version] ZDF Digital Productions - The Reichstag Fire Criminal Case (2008) [AKA: Kriminalfall Reichstagsbrand] US National Archiv ...
• Romney Exposed
  Published on Oct 15, 2012 by John Hankey Romney's secrecy in business is detailed, and revealed; as well as his role as a drug money launderer for GHW Bush; his connection, through Bush, to CIA death squads in Central America; his role in 9-11; in the murder of US ambassador to Libya, Christop ...
• Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura Season 3
  ALL NEW SEASON! 10P WEDNESDAYS STARTING NOV. 7 TV-14-LV http://www.facebook.com/ConspiracyTheoryWithJesseVentura/app_183077381783332#!/ConspiracyTheoryWithJesseVentura/info Related: TruTV's 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura' - 9/11 Jesse Ventura's Pentagon Episode & a response to Neig ...

Fooducate

• Top 10 Hurricane Foods (that are healthy too)
• Planters NUT-rition and its Vitamin C Mystery ...
• Diet Cola, Aspartame, and Cancer
• Front of Pack Nutrition Labeling in the UK Set ...
• The Skinny on Skinny Snacks

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

• IACC Meetings Cancelled
  From our friends at SafeMinds: In light of the near certainty that Hurricane Sandy will create dangerous conditions in the Washington, DC area, the fact that many people--including some subcommittee co-chairs-- will not be able to attend the workshop in...
• Canary Party Responds To Brian Deer's Rebuttal
  When Brian Deer was introduced at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse earlier this month to give his version of events in the Wakefield/MMR controversy, the audience was told, "There is no debate.” That statement was swiftly refuted by WKTV...
• Clueless
  By Cathy Jameson Every few weeks I wear a t-shirt I purchased several years ago from the National Autism Association. The front of the shirt says, “I WISH I’D KNOWN”. The back of the shirt includes five tips: A lot...
• Dachel Media Update: 10/26
  Oct 26, 2012, The Union-Times San Diego: Twelve year old with severe autism finds freedom in running Oct 25, 2012, The Toronto Star: Autism: Environmental factors often neglected in search for a cause The Union-Times: Somehow we’re all supposed to...
• Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: What Causes Autism
  By Dan Olmsted We've had a fascinating back-and-forth during the past couple of weeks over how to apportion the causes of the autism epidemic. It started with a comment by Tony Bateson of Birmingham, England, that I posted in the...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• 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 ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   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 ...
• 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 ...
• Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
  Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

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

• Hurricane Sandy to Become Historical Storm: Pr ...
  The impact from Sandy will reach hundreds of miles from the center of landfall, including areas well inland and well ahead of the storm's landfall Monday night.
• Iranian Regime Dictates Suppressive Measures A ...
  This is a clear acknowledgment of the fact that the suppressive measures against Ashraf and Liberty residents and forcible displacement of them are completely dictated by the mullahs' regime policies.
• Is Global Illicit Economy Experiencing a Boom?
  Recognizing the harms of illicit trade and the illegal economy to international peace and security, the United States of America today reported the global illicit economy is experiencing a boom.
• Hurricane Sandy Updates: Catastrophic Impacts ...
  The worst of Sandy in the mid-Atlantic and southern New England will be Monday through Monday night, mostly occurring ahead of when the hurricane slams onshore.
• The Music Video Obama and Romney Do Not Want Y ...
  In this age of high technology during the information age, neither Romney nor Obama are without having committed major campaign errors that have been caught on tape

Worldnews

• Libyans disillusioned with government ami ...
  Libyans disillusioned with government amid chaos 19 minutes ago New Syria fighting despite UN-backed truce Officials say 3 killed in airstrike in north Yemen Iran: Drone hit by Israel not 'latest' technology Official: Iraq searches Syria-bound Iranian plane 2 hours ago Deals! View All...
• Barack Obama sees no hurricane impact on ...
  President Barack Obama said on Sunday that he did not expect that Hurricane Sandy would have an impact on...
• Manchester United's Javier Hernandez happ ...
  Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez is pleased to score the winning goal in a 3-2 win at Chelsea after coming off the substitutes' bench. The Mexican followed up his mid-week brace in the Champions League against Braga ...
• What a Romney presidency looks like
  (BOSTON GLOBE) By Renee Loth Being from Massachusetts and a political junkie, I’m forever asked by people in other states what Mitt Romney is “really” like — as if the man running for president were a contestant in that old game show, “To Tell the Truth.” “Will the...
• Del Potro ends losing streak, beats Feder ...
  Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro overcame a partisan crowd and tough challenge from the world’s top ranked player to win the Swiss Indoors Basel title on Sunday to clinch his fourth title of the season. Del Potro already assured himself a place at the elite ATP World Tour Finals in Lond ...

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

• [Report] Feathered Non-Avian Dinosaurs from No ...
  Analysis of feathered theropod fossils from North America suggests that feathers may have first evolved for display. Authors: Darla K. Zelenitsky, François Therrien, Gregory M. Erickson, Christopher L. DeBuhr, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, David A. Eberth, Frank Hadfield
• [Report] Status and Solutions for the World&#8 ...
  Poorly monitored, small-size fisheries are in decline, but few of them are near collapse. Authors: Christopher Costello, Daniel Ovando, Ray Hilborn, Steven D. Gaines, Olivier Deschenes, Sarah E. Lester
• Editors' Choice
  Astronomy: Blowing in the Solar Wind | Education: Pay for Percentile | Neuroscience: Countering Impaired Cognition | Geophysics: The Core from Above | Biochemistry: A Viral Turn-Off | Physics: Topological Quasicrystals | Materials Science: Feeling the Strain
• [Report] Fluorescence Enhancement at Docking S ...
  A DNA origami structure enhances the emission of a dye molecule by directing the proximate binding of gold nanoparticles. Authors: G. P. Acuna, F. M. Möller, P. Holzmeister, S. Beater, B. Lalkens, P. Tinnefeld
• Kicking Your Gas Problem
  Image © Piotr Marcinski/Dreamstime It may be the brunt of many jokes, but there's nothing funny about having excess gas. The bubbles can cause pain and discomfort in your belly as well as some embarrassing emissions in the form of flatulence (tooting, farting, breaking wind - pick ...

Common Dreams

• Extreme Weather Hits the Poor First – and Hardest
  PANSALGOLLA, Sri Lanka - The old adage ‘nature is the great equaliser’ no longer holds true in countries like Sri Lanka, where the poor bear the brunt of extreme weather events. Gamhevage Dayananda, a farmer from the remote village of Pansalgolla in Sri Lanka’s north-central Po ...
• Climate Change Feeds Hurricane Sandy
  Hurricane Sandy, 2012: Massive and dangerous Hurricane Sandy has grown to record size as it barrels northeastwards along the North Carolina coast... -Jeff Masters, Weather Underground, Oct. 28 2012. Science paper, 2010: read more
• 'Storm Like No Other': Ongoing Coverage as Pow ...
  As Hurricane Sandy makes landfall on Monday, meteorologists predict a powerful storm that will cause power outages for millions, a storm surge creating massive inland and coastal flooding, and sustained winds that are threat for those living in urban and more rural areas across the northeast. ...
• Several Killed in US Drone Attacks in North Yemen
  Yemeni officials say a day of US Drone attacks has killed at least four people in Northern Yemen, the first report of airstrikes in the Saada province. Officials say the strikes targeted two households in the region in a search for a local al Qaeda commander, Hadi al-Tais, but there was no confi ...
• Several Killed in US Drone Attacks in North Yemen
  Yemeni officials say a day of US Drone attacks has killed at least four people in Northern Yemen, the first report of airstrikes in the Saada province. Officials say the strikes targeted two households in the region in a search for a local al Qaeda commander, Hadi al-Tais, but there was no confi ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Jack Osbourne, Lisa Stelly ge ...
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• 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

• CNN Bans Term "Frankenstorm" for Warming-Drive ...
  For those who aren’t regular readers of Climate Progress, here’s more of the literature on how man-made carbon pollution is making many of the most destructive kinds of extreme weather events — Frankenstorms – more frequent and more intense.
• More Clean Power Online; Damn that Loan Program!
  Another project backed by the U.S. Department of Energy is pumping renewable electricity to the grid. NRG Energy and SunPower said this week that California Valley Solar Ranch, which is being helped along by a $1.237 million loan guarantee from the Feds, flipped the switch on the first 22 megawa ...
• Nu-Flame BioFireplace Provides Cozy Alternativ ...
  Most fireplaces require lots of wood or gas to stay lit. These fuels are not only expensive, burning them isn’t the greatest for the environment. Enter the Nu-Flame Ardore BioFireplace.
• Hurricane Sandy, Steve Jobs, and A123 Systems
  Unfortunately, many of the leading firms in the electricity storage industry paid scant attention to electricity consumers over the past few years. Those firms spent that time counting their federal grant dollars and just sort of hoping that a market for advanced batteries would suddenly appear.
• 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.

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

• Obama's Disposition Matrix
  by Stephen Lendman Call it elevating Murder, Inc. to a higher level. A Washington Post Special Report discussed America's permanent war agenda. It includes targeted killings, Obama's secret kill list, global drone wars, and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan's new rules fo ...
• Remember Bani Walid
  by Stephen Lendman For courageous Jamahiriya fighters, it's their finest hour. Despite overwhelming force, use of chemical and other illegal weapons, and US-sponsored mass murder, they hang on valiantly. Western major scoundrels shamelessly ignore the slaughter or misreport it. More on t ...
• Beyond President Chavez Electoral Victory: Soc ...
  James Petras Introduction The successful re-election of President Chavez by a resounding 10% margin winning 20 of the 22 states, with a massive 80% turnout provides his government with a clear and decisive mandate to set the political and economic course of the country over the next six yea ...
• The myth of the Christian right
  Mary Shaw GOP politicians and their followers love to play the Christianity card. They wave their bibles and wag their fingers at anyone whose behavior doesn't pass their sanctimonious moral judgment. They call themselves Christians, but in Catholic school I was taught that Christians adore an ...
• John Douglass: Embodiment of a Ruined Election ...
  By David Swanson In April I had a chat with Congressional candidate John Douglass who had just about wrapped up his party's nomination for Congress here in Virginia's Fifth District. Douglass is a retired Brigadier General, a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and a former deputy U.S. mil ...

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

• Reports: UK police arrest (child rapist) Gary ...
  SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press – LONDON (AP) — Police investigating child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about whether ...
• Fracking Update: spoiled hay fields – g ...
  Another Voice: Fracking spoiled farm’s hay fields By John Peters The oil and gas industry apparently believes its own propaganda – that modern drilling techniques are environmentally friendly. Maybe it’s time the true-believers at the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York stop by my sm ...
• Institutionalized state assassinations the dea ...
  WWH/CJE – Will a vote for Romney or Obama make you complicit in the murder of innocent people?  Yes it will! You know about it, you vote for it, you make excuses for it, you approve it.And if you believe in Heaven and Hell… You really should worry about it. Now go ahead and shoot the ...
• Hippie Digest: Ours is yours – Chuck Ber ...
  ‘Chuck Berry, 2012′: Giving John Lennon’s solo career a hippie-era boost (video) By Chuck Yarborough, The Plain Dealer One of the men who got rock rolling, Chuck Berry, is being honored this week as the 17th recipient of the American Music Masters award, conferred jointly by th ...
• Why Democrats still suck and we’re fuc$e ...
  BY SALLY KOHN,SALON – To borrow the old adage, with Democrats like ‘Gov. Moonbeam’ Jerry Brown, who needs Republicans? After all, the former mayor of the so-called People’s Republic of Oakland and now-repeat governor of California, was called “more of a fiscal conservative than ...

FourWinds10

• 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 ...
• Researchers discover massive methane 'fountain ...
  Dec. 22, 2011 (NaturalNews) When a Russian team recently stumbled upon a few methane "fountains" releasing large amounts of methane gas from shallow arctic waters directly into the atmosphere, they had no idea that there were hundreds, if not thousands, more. The UK's Daily Mail re ...
• 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

• Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing a ...
  Comments:Digital magazine from Stanford University highlights interesting and challenging stories of innovation. Could be a great kick-starter for project-based learning or to engage kids in innovative and critical thinking. - Randy RodgersTags: innovation, social, stanford, nonprofit, philanthr ...
• 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

Rodale News

• Can Eating More Vegetables Make You Happy?
  Feeling stressed at work? Hit the salad bar on your lunch break. Economists from Dartmouth University and England have stumbled onto findings that suggest that eating more vegetables and fruits could boost your happiness. In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a U.S. n ...
• 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 ...

big think

• Why I'm Not Voting Third-Party
  Last week, four third-party U.S. presidential candidates had a debate in Chicago. As is usual in American politics, third-party debates tend to be all over the map: a mixture of completely loony ideas and eminently sensible ideas that no major candidate dares touch. On the surface, I pro ...
• Mindfulness: How to Call Off the Emotional Att ...
  What's the Big Idea? In his book, The Social Conquest of Earth the evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson made the following provocative observation about the human condition in the 21st century: “We are living in a Star Wars civilization with Stone Age emotions, medieval insti ...
• Is the Pill Responsible for the Rising Divorce ...
  In addition to being the best popular introduction to evolutionary psychology in a Q&A format, Jena Pincott’s Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? makes at least one novel prediction which has turned out to be true. In the section “Why do some men smell better to you than others ...
• Why Science Must Learn to Talk With Religion
  What's the Latest Development? Last week, scientists working at CERN—the world's largest physics experiment and arguably today's vanguard of scientific advancement—organized a discussion meant to bridge the gap between scientists and the general population. CERN's director general, Rolf ...
• Predicting the Meaning of the Election and the ...
  James Ceaser, perhaps our most distinguished student of American politics on the conservative side, isn't about predicting the outcome of elections.  That's actually hard to do. And those political scientists who predict outcomes correctly well in advance are almost always just lucky.  This ... ...

Information Liberation

• Romney Rep. Peter King: Presidential Kill List ...
  Luke Rudkowski asks NY Congressman and Romney representative, Peter King for his insight on how Mitt Romney should handle the inheritance of Obama's kill list should he become president. Peter King touts the kill list as "totally right, totally Con...
• Obama Campaign Advisor David Axelrod Dodges ND ...
  After the debate at Hofstra University, Luke Rudkowski and Sierra Adamson do their best to get answers out of Senior Strategist for Obama's re-election campaign, David Axelrod. David clearly was very uncomfortable with the questions raised to him a...
• Romney Rep. Tom Ridge Doesn't Think Presid ...
  Luke Rudkowski questions former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Romney representative, Tom Ridge on how Mitt Romney should handle having a kill list should he become president. Tom Ridge states that he does not think that presi...
• New Megaupload To Launch On Police Raid Annive ...
  January this year the U.S. Government destroyed Megaupload, but founder Kim Dotcom is a not done with the file-hosting business yet and is preparing a comeback with something bigger and better. Over the past months a group of coders have been working...
• Cisco's CEO Rips Into The Patent System & All ...
  There are plenty of discussions about the problem of patent trolls, but if you think that's the only problem with the patent system, you haven't been paying attention. There have been a ton of major clashes going on between big companies, spending b...

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

• Don’t play with matches
  Hallowe’en is almost upon us, so now’s the time to start mixing toxic chemicals and getting ready to play some pranks on neighbours. Or maybe not. Gizmodo had a few ideas, including spiking drinks with methylene blue and mixing match heads and ammonia to make a sprayable stink bomb! ...
• 10 Accidental Inventions
  10 Accidental Inventions – Some taste good, others save lives but all 10 of these inventions came about by accident. Popsicles, the Slinky, Velcro, Teflon, Superglue, synthetic dyes and more. Music is Hokey Pokey by Bruce Maginnis and Daniel Weltlinger. Thanks to Jenny Winder for drawing m ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• World Disasters Report 2012- Focus on forced m ...
  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) http://www.ifrc.org/PageFiles/99703/1216800-WDR%202012-EN-LR.pdf  (report) http://www.ifrcmedia.org/assets/pages/wdr2012/ (microsite) [From a Climate Wire article by Lisa Friedman, sub. req'd] One out of every 100 people in ...
• Clean Water Act and Pollutant Total Maximum Da ...
  Congressional Research Service http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/R42752.pdf [From Summary] Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) requires states to identify waters that are impaired by pollution, even after application of pollution controls. For those waters, states must establ ...
• Characterizing Pivotal Sources of Methane Emis ...
  America’s Natural Gas Alliance | American Petroleum Institute / by Terri Shires and Miriam Lev‐On http://www.api.org/~/media/Files/News/2012/12-October/API-ANGA-Survey-Report.pdf API and ANGA recently offered an updated version of a report they originally issued in June with a new est ...
• The World’s Worst Pollution Problems: Assessin ...
  Blacksmith Institute | Green Cross Switzerland http://www.worstpolluted.org/files/FileUpload/files/2012%20WorstPolluted.pdf [Guardian] Waste from mining, lead smelters, industrial dumps and other toxic sites affects the health of an estimated 125 million people in 49 low- and middle-income ...
• Sustainable Development of Algal Biofuels
  National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13437 [Description] Biofuels made from algae are gaining attention as a domestic source of renewable fuel. However, with current technologies, scaling up production of algal biofuels to meet even 5 percent of U.S. transportation ...

Scientific American - News

• Sandy versus Katrina, and Irene: Monster Hurri ...
  Sandy is already the largest hurricane to ever hit the U.S. mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. How does it compare with Katrina , which struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, and is considered the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history? And what about Irene , which came ashore on North ...
• 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]

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

• Powershift Brings Halloween Early to Governmen ...
  Hundreds set to participate in "Toxic Trick or Treat" in Ottawa this morning OTTAWA—After three days inside, Powershift 2012 is ready to hit the streets. Monday morni ...
• L'autre blocus 138
  Ces images relatent les événements survenus à la mi-octobre 2012 sur la Côte-Nord, dans la communauté de Ushat mak Mani-Utenam. Devant des préoccupations grandissantes sur ...
• CKUT's Off the Hour: Occupy Montréal celebrate ...
  Activists and supporters gather at the Place du Peuple to commemorate the revolutionary movement's arrival in Montréal a year before The audio, a series of interviews with supporters at Place du Peuple on October 15th, was originally a ...
• "Wild salmon are being killed by politics"
  Dr. Alexandra Morton visits Halifax, full audio from lecture K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - On October 19th, the indomitable Dr. Alexandra Morton visited Halifax as part of a whirlwind east coast tour. Dr. Morton, whose defence of Canada's ...
• "Wild salmon are being killed by politics"
  Dr. Alexandra Morton visits Halifax, full audio from lecture K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - On October 19th, the indomitable Dr. Alexandra Morton visited Halifax as part of a whirlwind east coast tour. Dr. Morton, whose defence of Canada's ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Why it is essential that Barack Obama be reelected
  David Seaton's News Links No matter what you may feel or think about Barack Obama, no matter how disappointed you may be by his failure to live up to the promises he made in 2008 or the hope he inspired four years ago; it is essential for every progressively minded American to do what they can ...
• What are things like in Spain right now? Watch ...
  David Seaton's News Links See SpongeBob SquarePants duke it out with Hello Kitty in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol… (where the “Indignados” camped out last year). DS
• 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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Mitt Romney Gets Desperate in Ohio
  Last Thursday, Mitt Romney told a group of Ohio autoworkers that Chrysler was planning to move Jeep production to China. Chrysler very quickly explained the real story: they're thinking about opening new plants in China to sell Jeeps into the Chinese market. No American plants are going to be ...
• Why Does Chrome Suck on My Android Tablet?
  I might blog this in more detail later, but for now I'll just do something quick. I'm now the proud owner of an Android Tablet, an Asus Transformer Infinity, and overall it's a pretty nice device. But I've sure had trouble finding a decent browser for it. The basic problem, as near as I can te ...
• 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 ...

Insanity Report

• IC 358: The Awesomeness of White Privilege
  Topics: Overboard doomsday storm prepping the DMV’s reaction to natural storms Black people react to Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone We just don’t care enough Apparently America isn’t post racial after all White privilege is awesome Joss Whedon for Romney Phenom & Kriss as reve ...
• 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 ...

Simple Climate

• Climate provides weak power to predict African ...
  Though there is a modest link between conflict and rainfall and temperature changes, this has been overplayed in political discussions, according to a detailed analysis by John O’Loughlin from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team-mates.
• 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.

e!Science News

• Researchers look beyond space and time to cope ...
  Physicists have proposed an experiment that could force us to make a choice between extremes to describe the behaviour of the Universe. read more
• 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 ...

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

• Romney Made In China
• Fox And CNN Work For Mitt Romney – Obviously
  Isn’t it amazing how CNN, and Fox refuse to report on all the lives Romney, and his buddies have destroyed. All the factories the Bain Bastards closed and the work moved to China. Every bit of news is skewed as much as humanly possible to make Romney look as good as they can. If Obama [...]
• 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 ...

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

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• Photo essay: Galilee Bedouins face house demol ...
  Houses of the Bedouin family of Khawalid threatened to be demolished by the Israeli administration, October 27, 2012. Seen in the distance, the houses of the Bedouin village of Khawalid, which was recognized as a permanent village in 1992. (photo: SG/Activestills.org) The little piece of land th ...
• Photos: African refugee mother and daughter ar ...
  On Sunday morning, inspectors from the Oz immigration unit arrested a mother moments after she brought her daughter to the kindergarten in the Hatikva neighborhood in Tel Aviv. The inspectors then arrested the daughter in the kindergarten. Neither of them had the option of going home to fetch th ...
• WATCH: Ukrainians vote in ‘test for demo ...
  Voters in Ukraine are casting their ballots on Sunday in the country’s parliamentary elections. As of Sunday morning, there were already complaints of bribery near some polling stations. KIEV, UKRAINE – The ruling “Party of Regions” is likely to keep its majority, thanks ...
• A sign of weakness: On the Netanyahu-Lieberman ...
  Netanyahu is building his coalition before the elections rather than after them – and at a greater price. Avigdor Lieberman has made a huge step on his way to becoming the Likud’s next leader. A few takeaways from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to run in the next electi ...
• WATCH: World boxing champion makes bid for Ukr ...
  World Boxing Champion Vitali Klitshchko is running for parliament in Ukraine’s elections on Sunday.     KYIV, UKRAINE - A popular personality in a country where sports figures do quite well, Klitshchko is promising to rock the political status quo. Some have said the boxer is being us ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Australia leads Antarctic protection legacy
  Australia and other Antarctic nations have today reaffirmed their commitment to protect and preserve Antarctica as a natural reserve devoted to peace and science.
• Decision made on Savage River Tailings dam wall
  A proposal by Grange Resources to raise the existing Mains Creek tailings dam wall at Savage River Iron Ore Mine in Tasmania can go ahead without further environmental assessment.
• Environmental protection in Antarctica strengt ...
  Legislation to further strengthen environmental protection and tourist safety in Antarctica has passed the Federal Parliament.
• Extension to enable completion of forest negot ...
  The Australian and Tasmanian Governments have agreed to a short extension of time requested by the Reference Group of Signatories to enable finalisation of the Tasmanian forests negotiations.
• Progress on Australian Government assessment o ...
  The Australian Government's environmental assessment process for the Alpha Coal mine and rail project has progressed significantly over the last week.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Martin Andelman on the Spires $(ahem) 43 Trill ...
  From Martin Andelman: Yesterday, the PR Wire was set ablaze by a press release issued by Spire Law Group, announcing their filing of a lawsuit seeking $43 trillion in damages on behalf of a long list of homeowners… and it would appear, the United States Treasury itself. It appears to be yet anot ...
• The Abeel v. Bank of America HOMEOWNER SCAM WA ...
  The latest scam targeting homeowners is not the 49 State Attorney General Sellout anymore….it’s a “lawsuit” called Abeel v. Bank of America. I wonder how long it will take before the Federal Judge presiding over the case hauls these people into court and tears them apart& ...
• The Disgusting Republican Party of Florida&#82 ...
  Just when you think the RepubliCON Party of Florida couldn’t stoop any lower….they’ve gotten even slimier in the Florida House Race that I am qualified and appear as the independent candidate on the ballot. THEY ARE ATTACKING DWIGHT DUDLEY FOR SERVING AS A PUBLIC DEFENDER! I DO ...
• Abeel v. Bank of America…The $43 Trillio ...
  Consumers all across this nation have been preyed upon…and they continue to be preyed upon as they take efforts to save their homes.  It’s particularly disturbing or me when consumers are preyed upon by lawyers who prey upon them to sell them a bill of goods. Pay attention to whateve ...
• 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 ...

abelard - news

• the horse chestnuts at bushy park - the modern ...
  Near London was once a magnificent horse chestnut tree avenue, used by Francis Galton to visualise a million. And look at it now.
• how gdp is calculated | economics news at abel ...
  The money merry-go-round, ever depleted by government taxes, fudged by double accounting.
• socialism is a creed of the effete middle clas ...
  Socialism grew out of the sad lot of the 'downtrodden' working classes. Now, socialism is fashionable amongst those who have no need for it.
• faked up gdp numbers for the usa for impending ...
  Another example of how government economic figures are massaged to give an appearence of wonderful improvement - this time to benefit Obama whose struggling pre-election.
• 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.

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

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• 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 Nobel prize that wasn’t: A self proc ...
  Michael Mann is no Nobel laureate - but he likes to claim he is one.
• The Nobel prize that wasn’t: A self proc ...
  Michael Mann is no Nobel laureate - but he likes to claim he is one.
• 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.
• 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 ...

Left Foot Forward

• Advice? What advice? Salmond finds himself in ...
  Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon found themselves embroiled deeper in the political storm on whether they sought legal advice over Scotland's EU membership.
• Comment: Miliband’s mental health speech ...
  A look at Ed Miliband's One Nation speech on mental health today.
• GDP growth masks fall in wages and impact on u ...
  Tentative GDP figures draws our attention to the fall in wages and its impact upon union rights, writes Tony Burke.
• NATO ‘on message’ on Afghanistan – but w ...
  NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells us we are near the end of our mission in Afghanistan, but are we really?
• US media falls behind each candidate as Presid ...
  As the 2012 US presidential election enters its final days, newspapers in key swing states have started to take sides, reports Caroline Mortimer.

Consumerist

• Subway Worker Hurls Hot Soup At Robber Because ...
  Sometimes it’s not about being particularly strong or skilled with self-defense techniques, it’s just about using the materials at hand to  protect yourself. If you’ve got some hot soup around to fight off a would-be robber, well, that works a lot better than plenty of other fo ...
• Bed Bath And Beyond Applies Coupon After The F ...
  Where there is a mattress and there are small children, it is inevitable that the children will try to jump on the mattress. At least, that’s what happened when Kurt rolled out the air mattress for some out-of-town guests. He ran to Bed, Bath and Beyond to get a new one, but couldn’t ...
• Ford Continues To Sink Toward Bottom Of Consum ...
  In 2010, Ford was among the top 10 auto brands in Consumer Reports’ Annual Auto Reliability Survey, with more than 90% of its models rated average or better by CR readers. But in the two years since, the shine has gone off the Ford brand, and in the newly released survey, it now comes in n ...
• Cosi Manager Wins Over Customers By Opening Du ...
  With Hurricane Sandy about to hop on the Atlantic City Expressway toward Philadelphia, many area stores opted for the better safe than sorry route and closed for the day. But one Cosi eatery in Center City won over some hospital employees by not only opening just for them, but by also not chargi ...
• Tax Collectors Using The Power Of Peer Pressur ...
  Peer pressure can work wonders when it comes to convincing us to buy certain products, dress a certain way or even decide to start cooking kale even though we don’t totally get it. But taxation experts are hoping it will also do the trick to encourage people to pay up on their delinquent t ...

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

• Part Three – GOP Election Stealing and a Funda ...
  This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Integrity matters in elections and life. Yesterday, the 2nd referee did not show so I had to referee a Men’s Division 1 game solo. It was hugely competitive with Team B coming back from a 26-point deficit in the second half to win 95-94. Team A’s [...]
• If You Succumb to Cynicism? The Regressives Wi ...
  by Robert Reich This is for those of you who consider yourself to be progressive but have given up on politics because it seems rotten to the core. You may prefer Obama to Romney but don’t think there’s a huge difference between the two, so you may not even vote. Your cynicism is understandable. ...
• GLAD’s Diversity Work
  Rev. Irene Monroe I was lounging on the sofa watching a rerun episode of The Bernie Mac Show when the FedEx truck stopped in front of the house. The mail courier handed me a letter that stated the following: “Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), New England’s leading l ...
• Senator Bernie Sanders – An American Icon
  by Robert Hunziker  Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), 71, is America’s No. 1 socialist. This accolade was headlined in an article, Bernie Sanders: America’s No 1 Socialist Makes his Move into the Mainstream, The Guardian (UK) Oct. 2011: The subtitle reads: Vermont senator, for years a political exi ...
• Reading Guide: Where Romney and Obama Stand on ...
  by Suevon Lee ProPublica The Supreme Court has remained a largely unspoken topic on the campaign trail — even though the Court plays a critical function in Americans’ lives. (This past June’s Affordable Care Act ruling, anyone?) The next president could very well appoint one or two n ...

NewsAlert

• Sandra Fluke: Free birth control will help car ...
  The Daily Caller
• Rasmussen: Romney up 2 in Ohio, 50/48
  Hot Air
• Romney 49% Obama 47%
  Rasmussen reports:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 47%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate, and another two percent (2%) remain undecided. ...
• ‘Who the F**k Is Mitt Romney?’: A Detailed Loo ...
  The Blaze
• Win or lose, Obama faces electoral disaster
  The Washington Times

JoNova

• RET “success” means $18 billion do ...
  The Clean Energy Council is an industry group promoting renewables. Not surprisingly it defines “success” as being the amount of money it has diverted from other causes into the coffers of it’s members. Good for them. They are free to lobby. But the RET or “renewable ener ...
• Weekend Unthreaded
  Because there is always something else that needs saying…. Rating: 6.7/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 6.7/10 (6 votes cast)
• 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 ...

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

• HAARP and Hurricane Sandy
  So here’s the conspiracy news, helped along by Alan Jones: An independent website that has a real-time sensor network from over 28 sensors placed in rural areas across the United States has recorded the strongest HAARP readings in the projects history. The readings, in and around the New ...
• 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 ...

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

• Four children drown, three missing in Bihar rivers
  Four children drowned and three others went missing in the Ganga and Lalbakia rivers in Bihar on Monday, police said. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• Steps taken to clear accumulated garbage: Karn ...
  Reacting to a New York Times report on garbage problem in the city, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Monday said Bangalore is a global city and anything happening here grabs international space. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• PM reeled out wrong facts to mislead people: D ...
  Hitting out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister P K Dhumal accused him of reeling out wrong facts and figures at an election rally in the state to mislead people. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• Action to be taken, says Nitish on ex-MLA`s ex ...
  The opposition on Monday slammed the ruling JD(U) after a jailed former MLA allegedly called up an engineering college director demanding Rs two crore. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• Hurricane Sandy: Air India flights to US delayed
  Air India's fights AI 101/102 from Delhi to New York and back and AI-191/192 from Mumbai to Newark and back for October 30 have been delayed inordinately due closure of airports in New York and Newark. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Money, Media and Minds: Coverage or Cover Up?
• 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 ...

Daily Tech

• Phillips "Hue" LED Bulb Offers Limitless Color ...
  Starter kit with three bulbs is $199
• Quick Note: Nexus 7 16GB Now Priced at $199, 3 ...
  32GB version takes over the $249 spot
• Quick Note: Google Tries to Help People Prepar ...
  Google offers detailed information on Hurricane Sandy
• Intel, AMD, Lockheed, and Honeywell Form New S ...
  Cybersecurity alliance will focus on technology exchange, annual symposium
• Quick Note: "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" Comi ...
  Rockstar games said its coming sometime this fall

Oriental Review

• Human Rights and Medical Experiments on the Am ...
  In September 2012, the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in New York prepared their annual report entitled “Human Rights in the USA”. The authors are in no doubt that civil rights have made American society freer and fairer. They are acting as independent and objective research ...
• Human Rights in the US: Excessive Use of Force ...
  The second paragraph of the  Report on Human Rights in the USA, released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, deals with the excessive use of force by the police and racial profiling in the United States. According to the estimates of the American non-governmental organizations, approxima ...
• 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 ...

BlogHer

• Go Away, Sandy: Notes From the Path of a Hurricane
  Dear Hurricane Sandy,You are not welcome at my house or on my island. Please go away and take your coastal flooding with you. I was not interested in moving all of my worldly goods to the second floor, and packing up all of my pictures and important irreplaceable things and evacuating again. I d ...
• Green Halloween
  'Tis the season for black, orange and purple but let's not forget about green! While we are prepping for ghouls, goblins and sinful goodies, be sure to try some of these simple green tips so that the rest of the year doesn't become an environmental nightmare!Visit and sign up for Green Halloween ...
• Shrimp Fideos with Bell Pepper and Edamame
  [Editor's Note: One of the hallmarks of making this Spanish pasta dish is toasting the noodles before adding other ingredients. It creates a different flavor and toothsomeness in the finished dish, one that stands up well to bright, bold, Meditteranean flavors. The toasted noodles can serve as a ...
• iPhone Tip: 4 Ways to Decline a Voice Call
  [Editor's Note: Did you know your iPhone allows you to decline to answer certain calls in ways that are more polite (or more abrupt) than other ways? Find out all about it at Here's the Thing. -Virginia] Gone are the days when declining a call was a simple matter of, you know, just not answering ...
• Working from Home: Not the Luxury You Think
  Is working from home a luxury? So many people think so, yet ask someone who does and they will laugh at you. I've worked from home via telecommuting to a corporate job and as my own boss. While I consider it a privilege to work from home, it's not as luxurious as you think. Here's one working mo ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us
  Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation’s geology as an invisible dumping ground. No company would ...
• New Research Suggests Humans Can Sense Future ...
  Wouldn’t it be nice to predict future events, even if they are just ten seconds ahead? According to researchers at Northwestern University, we can do just that. Researchers already know that our subconscious minds sometimes know ...
• Germans & Russians Used Fluoride to Make Priso ...
  “To whom it may concern: I, Oliver Kenneth Goff, was a member of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League from May 2, 1936 to October 9, 1939. During this period of time, I ...
• 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 ...

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

• Coal mine safety and the presidential election
  Helmets are place on crosses on a table during a memorial service for the miners killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine during which President Barack Obama will give the eulogy in Beckley, W.Va., Sunday, April 25, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) For folks who may have missed them, we had two stories i ...
• 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) ...

Daniel Miessler

• Women Diss Their Betas During Ovulation
  As women mated to less sexually attractive men moved from their least fertile to most fertile period, their closeness scores dropped one point on a seven-point scale. Women mated to the most sexually attractive men, meanwhile, experienced the opposite effect. As these women moved from their leas ...
• 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 ...

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

• Climate and Clarity
  by Rebecca Solnit,.tomdispatch.com - All summer, there were screaming weather headlines and stories, in part because of the worst drought the U.S. has seen in more than half a century — a continuing drought that is now threatening the winter wheat crop.  (“Much of Kansas and Oklahoma, the ...
• Fish Tales: Federal Scientists say a little ce ...
  By Craig Welch, Seattle Times – Researchers have found tiny amounts of radioactive cesium in albacore caught off Washington and Oregon. The radiation, originating from the 2011 tsunami in Japan, is thought to pose no public-health risk, but it is allowing scientists to track the migratory ...
• WWH/CJE Monday News Briefs
  Sandy menaces U.S. coast, closing schools, markets, businesses (Reuters) – Hurricane Sandy, a mammoth storm menacing the East Coast, took aim at the most densely populated U.S. region on Monday, forcing hundreds of thousands to seek higher ground, halting public transport and closing schoo ...
• You mite want to read this… Then again&# ...
  The Bill of Rights: A Transcription The Preamble to The Bill of Rights Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopti ...
• Reports: UK police arrest (child rapist) Gary ...
  SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press – LONDON (AP) — Police investigating child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about whether ...

reference frame

• Is Hurricane Sandy unprecedented?
  The media are full of panic and strong words inspired by Hurricane Sandy, the "Frankenstorm" as some writers nicknamed it. Of course, this moniker – perhaps originally meant to indicate the Halloween time – is popular especially among those crackpots who want to argue that the storm is "man-m ...
• Doha, Qatar will host a climate conference
  What a paradox! Qatar is a peninsula located on the opposite side of the Pilsner Gulf than Iran. Its economy is the wealthiest one not only in the Islamic world – even in comparison with Kuwait and UAE – but it's almost certainly richer than the economy of your country. The GDP per capit ...
• Preons probably can't exist
  Don Lincoln is the star of several cute Fermilab videos in which he explains various issues in particle physics. He's also authored several related texts for Fermilab Today. He chose a much more controversial topic, namely preons, for his fresh article in the Scientific American: ...
• Galileo's 1633 trial: a tragic hero
  I was pleased that virtually all the media criticize the recent manslaughter verdict against the Italian seismologists. Many outlets compare the trial to the 1633 trial against Galileo Galilei. So I decided to find a video explaining some details about that event in particular and ...
• Anniversaries: Meitner, van Vleck, Mills, Bohm
  If you're a famous physicist, you should be careful today: October 27th is a day when many famous physicists die. This very date turned out to be fatal for Lise Meitner in 1968, John Hasbrouck van Vleck in 1980, David Bohm in 1992 (twenty years ago), and Robert Mills in 1999. They're kno ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Canadians urged to prepare for Hurricane Sandy
  Canadian officials are urging those in the path of Hurricane Sandy to be ready for at least 72 hours without power, while forecasters warn that some areas of the country could see in excess of 50 millimetres of rain and winds climbing up 100 km/h or more. CBC | Top Stories News Related pos ...
• Is Canadian Prime Minister Harper A Target for ...
  Terrorists Target Canada  Two terrorist events aimed at Canada have occurred in the past two days, one directed at the Canadian House of Commons, in Ottawa, (shown in photo on left) and the other directed at the Canadian Embassy, in Washington, (shown in photo on ri ...
• TSA pulls naked body scanners out of key airpo ...
  by J. D. Heyes, Natural News: After months of complaints, negative feedback, bad press and no small amount of controversy, the Transportation Security Administration has announced it will begin removing its naked body scanners out of key airports around the country. Janet Napolitano, head of the ...
• 37 Years On, Landmines still Killing and Maimi ...
  37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam Somewhere in the centre of Vietnam, roughly halfway between Hanoi and Saigon, lies the small province of Quang Tri. Palm trees line its white-sand beaches, water buffaloes lounge in its many p ...
• Hurricane Sandy nears eastern U.S. with 50 mil ...
  A raging storm surge, high tides, wicked winds and driving rain have started pounding the northeast coast of the United States, as millions of people hunker down for what could become one of the most fearsome tempests on record in the country. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Eastern ...

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

• 'Out of Zone A': Bloomberg orders mandatory ev ...
• 'There will be a lot of water, and low-lying a ...
• In 'The Loneliest Planet,' a pervasive dread, ...
• 'Times' foreign editor says readers in China a ...
• Glenn Ligon lights up Luhring Augustine, thoug ...

Views & News from Norway

• Winter weather snarls traffic
  The first real onslaught of winter weather in and around the Oslo area led to a rash of car accidents, disruptions in public transport and serious delays at the main airport at Gardermoen on Monday morning. One towing service had already fielded more than 225 calls for help by 7am. State meteoro ...
• Alarms ring for ruling coalition
  Despite brave smiles in public, the results of more public opinion polls are setting off alarm bells, if not death tolls, for the left-center government coalition that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has led for the past seven years. Less than 5 percent of Norwegian voters now say they want the ...
• 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 ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Pam Warhurst: How We Can Eat Our Landscapes (T ...
  This is a fun and very inspiring talk by Incredible Edible Todmorden champion, Pam Warhurst, on the great work her town is doing in northern England and its growing influence around the world. One of the many encouraging things I take from this talk is hearing how local businesses in Todmor ...
• Sign Up For Phone Calling on Prop 37
  Editor’s Note: In case you missed our alert, take the opportunity to watch Genetic Roulette for free until the end of October, 2012, and also see our GMO category for many more articles and videos. Prop 37 is an historic opportunity — I hope that all who can will get involved. ...
• Support ‘Seeds of Permaculture’ – a Free Docum ...
  Seeds of Permaculture Trailer While working as a site manager at a startup permaculture education center in Thailand I had the unique opportunity to participate in the filming of a documentary film about permaculture and, in particular, the education center I was helping to create. This ...
• What the Economic Crisis Really Means – and Wh ...
  The video above is a nice, brief summation of our present predicament, and ends with the only really logical conclusion — permaculture, and resilient, interdependent communities living in the real economy. It’s well worth watching and sharing. Regular readers of this site won’ ...
• 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 ...

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

• Librotraficantes Mark Opening of New Latino Cu ...
  From a press release from friends of the Librotraficantes: Join the Librotraficantes for an evening of contraband prose at Casa Borrega, 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, Friday, November 2, from 7-8:30pm. Imagine the New Orleans School Board banning African American books. Well, the equiv ...
• 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 ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Ognir wrote: was expecting Yeti to explode on him and yet remains very calm, used no bad language and after all he only made a suggestion on how to limit traffic from Server to cut costs. Shane John's latest emails The thread which started it all His first threatening emails More threatening em ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  It's all about the shekels The 120 most important Jewish policy-makers will gather for two days as part of the Jewish People Policy Institute's Conference on the Future of the Jewish People. By Anshel Pfeffer| 02:05 26.10.12 | 12 The 120 most important Jews in the world will meet nex ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Seems Yeti took offense to a newbie telling him how to run his tracker and of course exploded on him with name calling, might regret that. This person called Shane Johns from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Here is his Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/shane.johns.771 Johns got the ConCen Paypa ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_%28Egyp ... l_spark.29 Ka (vital spark) D28 kȝ (D28) in hieroglyphs The Ka (k3) was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, that which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the ka left the body. The Egyptians b ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  Enoch has been misused by the occult, just like the Masons have misused Jesus. Remember that the Jews rejected the Book of Enoch itself because Christ appeared to fulfill its prophecies to closely. The Book of Enoch also does a great job of proving the Messiah's divinity, literally God coming do ...

TVNZ

• Live updates: Hurricane Sandy hits US
  The latest information on Hurricane Sandy as the superstorm hits the US.
• Warning of acute danger as hurricane edges closer
  Hurricane Sandy has begun battering the densely populated East Coast of the US.
• Korean alliance mooted for World University Games
  UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has expressed confidence that North and South Korea can field a joint team for the 2015 World University Games.
• Water gone to waste as valve breaks in Melbourne
  Two million litres of water have gone down the drain, after a water main burst in suburban Melbourne.
• New female 'sex-drive' drug to be tested
  Clinical trials will be undertaken in Australia to test the world's first female "Viagra".

environment 360

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

oldephartte/Diigo

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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

• Rich People Really Hate Sandy
  Billions of dollars in property value are at stake--and the 1% who own the best of it are bracing for the worst. Paula Froelich on the hurricane elite’s disaster plans.
• Manhattan Battens Down (Sorta)
  Some New Yorkers ignored evacuation orders while others headed for city-run shelters, Matthew DeLuca reports.
• H&M's Minimum-Wage Fiasco
  A new Swedish documentary alleges that the retailer pays its Cambodian workers $.45 an hour.
• Police Nab Gary Glitter
  The glam rocker is the first to be arrested in the Jimmy Savile child abuse investigation--and the net could be closing on other celebrities.
• Should Pro-Israel Blue-state Democrats Boycott ...
  Gil Troy on whether pro-Israel Democrats in states Obama will already win should vote against the President over Israel.

Loonwatch

• ‘Near total destruction’ of Myanma ...
  The violence continues in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
• EDL Leader and Bedfordshire Police Commissione ...
  The reality of the EDL: a movement of far-right racists who hate Muslims.
• Blaming the Muslims
  Will Mitt Romney or Barack Obama dare to say the truth?
• SIOA/SION/AFDI & JihadWatch’s Robert Spencer E ...
  Robert Spencer's hate history and agenda summarized for the public record.
• Plans for Mosque in Lincoln Win Backing of Res ...
  This is excellent news and one in the eye for the far right, who have consistently opposed the Islamic Association of Lincoln's plans for the development of the Boutham Park Dairy site.

Energy News

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• NOAA: “This is the worst-case scenario” — Offi ...
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Japan Times

• Federer, Del Potro set for Swiss Indoors final
  Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro advanced to the Swiss Indoors final on Saturday, setting up a rematch of their epic semifinal at the London Olympics. Top-ranked Federer brushed aside Paul-Henri Mathieu of France 7-5, 6-4 in the semifinals after Del Potro eased to a 6-2, 6-2 win over th ...
• Fighters skipper Kuriyama maintains light mood ...
  Despite a lopsided 8-1 loss to the Yomiuri Giants in Game 1 of the Japan Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters manager Hideki Kuriyama came out in front of the media throng in a cheerful mode before Sunday's Game 2 at Tokyo Dome. And the first word that came out of his mouth was sort of a joke. ...
• Fernandez routs Chan for Skate Canada gold
  Spain's Javier Fernandez won the Skate Canada men's title Saturday night, upsetting two-time world champion Patrick Chan in his own country. It wasn't even close, either.
• Hashimoto's overtures to Ishihara, other hawks ...
  Negotiations between Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), Your Party and departing Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara regarding political cooperation in the next general election continued over the weekend, with Hashimoto formally entrusted by his camp to make th ...
• Hasebe seizes starting opportunity
  Japan captain Makoto Hasebe set up Bas Dost for the third goal in his first appearance of the season on Saturday as Wolfsburg hammered Fortuna Dusseldorf 4-1 away to move off the foot of the Bundesliga. Hasebe had fallen out of favor and not even made the bench prior to Saturday's game, but he ...

Alexander Higgins

• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.
• UK Refuses To Violate International Law By Arr ...
  Britain says that a strike on Iran at this time would be a violation of international law but acknowledges contingency planning for a future attack.

Macleans - Central

• Maclean’s Live: QP livestream and Twitte ...
  Your front-row seat to the House with rolling commentary from the press and peanut galleries
• The prince
  The Ottawa Citizen profiles Pierre Poilievre. Baird’s influence on Poilievre is obvious, Martin says....
• Thomas Keller is coming to Toronto
  Thomas Keller, the only American chef to simultaneously win three Michelin stars for two...
• How Sandy hits the campaigns
  Cancelled events, impact on voter turnout—and the importance of not botching the emergency response
• The post-Etobicoke Centre future of elections
  Stephen Thiele and Gavin Tighe, Borys Wrzesnewskyj’s lawyers, consider the ramifications of the Supreme...

Making It Count - CCPA

• Privatizing CMHC?
  In a recent interview with the Globe and Mail, Canadian Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty expressed worries about the financial burden laid on taxpayers by having the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) deal and trade mortgages. As a remedy, he suggests privatizing the federal Crown co ...
• 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 ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

• 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

• creating a better way requires
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• JURY NULLIFICATION is or its power
  … Doubtful most Americans are aware of what JURY NULLIFICATION is or its power … Jury Nullification Keeps NJ Weedman Out of Jail; DEA Comes Calling 10-27-2012  •  www.reason.com  Two hours," Forchion gripes. "Two hours after I won, I got a call from the DEA in L.A. They ha ...
• security state is code for CORPORATE control
    … In the USA security state is code for CORPORATE control …   New Visions for Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution   Sherif Joseph Rizk and Matt Meyer, New. Clear. Vision …Read the Article  The Egyptian Revolution is an unfinished revolution. It removed Mubarak but not Mubarakism; Eg ...
• now it’s the legacy we leave in Iraq tha ...
  … Why would anyone find this the least bit surprising … it’s our American efficacy we left in Vietnam thanks to “agent orange” & now it’s the legacy we leave in Iraq thanks to depleted uranium bullets …   Severe Birth Defects Soar in Post-War Iraq Sunday, 28 October 2012 10:36By Julia K ...
• www.allonewater.com
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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

• SpaceX Dragon splashes down off US coast
  An unmanned space capsule carrying medical samples from the International Space Station has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, completing the first official private interstellar shipment under a billion-dollar contract with Nasa.The...
• Egg test improves IVF chances
  New Zealand researchers hope to greatly improve the efficiency of making babies in the laboratory by developing an accurate egg test.Expensive tests exist but the experimental one would be much cheaper and could be used to screen...
• 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

The Bovine

• GMO kids right to know walk, Toronto
  From GMO News.com 13 Year old Rachel will lead a GMOs – Kids Right to Know Walk! 10 am on Saturday, Nov 3, Dundas Square (33 Dundas St. E.) to St. Lawrence Market (95 Front St.). Please join TV Host Julie Daniluk and Rachel, Kids, Families, Friends, … Continue reading →
• Resurrecting raw milk Stilton in Britain
  From Simone Gie on Slow Foods: “1989 was a bleak year for Stilton. The illustrious English blue-veined cheese was accused as the culprit of a food poisoning scare that sickened several people whose Christmas tables it had graced. Fears that … Continue reading →
• Could GMO alfalfa take down the Canadian organ ...
  From What Really Happened.com: As we reported on previously, natural alfalfa already grows quite well without the need for herbicides or pesticides, which makes Monsanto’s chemical-resistant GM variety completely pointless. Alfalfa is also a highly volatile plant because it is … Cont ...
• 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• EU Bureaucracy has Lost Control of Italy; Soci ...
  In Italy, former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi waged a full frontal attack on technocrat prime minister Mario Monti, Germany, Angela Merkel and the EU imposed austerity during a 1.5 hours press conference near Milan. The problem for Brussels is Berlusconi can force a vote because by wi ...
• Multigenerational Households On Rise; Boomeran ...
  According to a study by the U.S. Census Bureau Multigenerational households on rise in U.S. More than 4.3 million, or 5.6 percent, of the 76 million family households in the U.S. today are multigenerational households, or families living together that include a grandparent, parent and child ...
• Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Secessioni ...
  Secessionist Candidates are about to dominate the next election according to recent polls in Catalonia. My friend Bran totals the polls up this way. Corvergencia and Union goes from 62 seats to 65 or 66 (Independence) ERC aumenta from 10 to 16 (Independence) SI from 0 to 4 (Indepe ...
• Australian Banksia Securities Assets Frozen As ...
  Every day I get emails and links from all over the world. I wish I had time to comment on all of them. Here are a pair of stories regarding Canada and Australia. The Financial Post reports Six Canadian banks on review for Moody’s downgrade Debt rating heavyweight Moody’s Investors Servi ...
• New Definition of "Sustainable" is Six Months; ...
  Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has changed the meaning of the word sustainable to "six months". While "sustainable" never had a definitive time-frame, when it comes to economic recoveries I am quite certain the term has never before been used to mean anything as short as "six ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• The Global Banking ‘Super-Entity’ Drug Cartel: ...
  I would like to introduce you, the reader, to some realities of our global banking system, resting on the rhetoric of free markets, but functioning, in actuality, as a global cartel, a “super-entity” in which the world’s major banks all own each other and own the controlling shares in the world’ ...
• London: Parasites’ Paradise (Or the Best Crimi ...
  “God bless God damn London, the Parasites Paradise!” Whenever financial swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or bank jiggers interest rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises or rent gouging petrol monarchies recycle profits or oligarchs pillage economies and ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
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• Oregon-Beyond Portland
  Classified Woman on Lew Rockwell Show-Transcript I’ve been meaning to write a long post to update you on my major life-change; however, I’ve been racing against time; nonstop-since July. Here is a brief update instead of waiting for a needed break to write a comprehensive update: First, I want t ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Bluetech- “667” When Sibel asked me to do Soothing the Beast, I thought it might be fun to and by week 40, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is and I’m glad she asked me. I really enjoy doing it. I’ve tried to mix it up the best I can and this week is [...]

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

• Offshore Drilling is Becoming Far Less Profita ...
  (Bloomberg) — Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the world’s largest deep-water oil driller, is becoming less profitable as costs rise faster than sales because of equipment shortages and falling output. For every [...]
• Maersk Line – How Do Ships Ride Out Storms Lik ...
  Steffen Conradsen, Head of Global Execution at Maersk Line, the world’s largest containership owner, gives us some insight into the decision-making process when ships encounter storms like Hurricane Sandy.
• HMS Bounty Abandoned, Sinks in Heavy Seas off ...
  Rescuers at the United States Coast Guard have swung into action this morning after receiving word that the crew of the 180-foot, three-masted tall ship, HMS Bounty, has abandoned ship approximately [...]
• Maritime Monday for October 29th, 2012: What S ...
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• Shipping Ore from Sierra Leone? Watch Out Say ...
  (Bloomberg) — Iron-ore exports from Sierra Leone may be unsafe because the moisture content of the steel-making commodity is too high, creating the risk some shipments may liquefy during transit, [...]

Press TV

• 2nd car bomb goes off near Damascus
  Several people have been killed in the second car bomb explosion that hit the Syrian capital city of Damascus in a day.
• Lowest paid UK workers suffer most
  A new study has revealed that almost five million British workers are paid less than the living wage, an amount meant to provide a basic standard of living for workers.
• 'US policies failed Afghan test'
  A political analyst says the US government has failed in bringing peace to Afghanistan and should revisit its policies towards the war-torn country, Press TV reports.
• Majority of Arabs want democracy: Poll
  After the revolutions in the North Africa and amid people’s ongoing struggle against totalitarian regimes in the Middle East, a study indicates that majority of Arabs desire to be ruled by a democratic government.
• British MPs foreign trips costs soaring
  A new report has revealed that Members of British Parliament (MPs) have wasted millions of taxpayers’ money on needless foreign trips at a time when people are struggling to make ends meet.

SciDev.net

• Asia–Pacific Analysis: Solving the water dilemma
  The Pacific islands are surrounded by water, yet inhabitants face severe water shortages. Crispin Maslog highlights potential solutions.
• 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.

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

• Dark matter close to home
  Dark matter is a mysterious material that produces no visible light of its own, but which astronomers need to explain the tremendous speeds with which galaxies rotate. The problem is that galaxies ro...
• 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...

Nick Turse

• On the same day that I nabbed Tom Wolfe’s The ...
  On the same day that I nabbed Tom Wolfe’s The Pump House Gang from The Strand’s 48 cent “bargain bin,” I picked up the above volume: Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.  (I guess somebody decided to sell off their whole collection of old Wolfe paperbacks, because there were a few other ...
• imwithkanye:Waters Run High. Red Hook, Brook ...
  imwithkanye: Waters Run High. Red Hook, Brooklyn is flooded. [via]
• usatoday:Satellite comparison of Hurricane I ...
  usatoday: Satellite comparison of Hurricane Irene last year and Hurricane Sandy. (via @nationalgridus on Twitter)
• motherjones:Did Team Romney alter an image t ...
  motherjones: Did Team Romney alter an image to exaggerate the size of its rally? Or, as MJ senior editor Dave Gilson puts it: “Looks like Romney campaign ‘shopped a man in Reno…”
• theatlantic:The Subway Looks Kind of Creepy ...
  theatlantic: The Subway Looks Kind of Creepy When Its Empty It’s a rare sight to behold in the city of 24-hour everything.  [Image: Flickr/MTA]