30 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

One of the park's beaches (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Global Village (Photo credit: Bilal /\/\iRza بلال ميرزا)

English: Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic, seated before the demonstration flight of WhiteKnight2 at Oshkosh Airshow 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I don't recall ever losing a post that I had just made - but I have been revising and editing my Archives of Drafts. Here we go again.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• A River of Illicit Money Flows Out of China
  • (http://twitter.com/share) New report says nearly US$4 trillion disappeared – 10 percent of GDP
• Australia and the Asian Century
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Oz likely to remain an observer
• Spy Game: Kids for Tricks
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The first world's child soldiers?
• Another Blow to International Investment In In ...
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Puzzling Campaign Against Chevron Indonesia
• Ethnic violence Escalates in Burma's Arakan State
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Rohingya, Rakhine minorities clash

We Know the Lies

• Former Ohio Rep. Jim Traficant Tells What He W ...
  The National Retail Sales Tax Program (NRSTP) I have offered up as a solution to our country’s economic troubles would replace the current income tax scheme with a flat 25% national retail sales tax on all new goods and services. There would be no tax on used goods under my plan, and all tax wit ...
• Obama Ad... Kids Sing About America Where ‘Sic ...
  A new pro Obama ad has come out in which “children of the future” sing about an America whee “sick people just die” and they blame their parents for their failure. This is only round two of Obama indoctrination of young impressionable minds... Wake up parents! Government wants to turn your ...
• Meteorologist Scott Stevens... 'Sandy Is Man ...
  Alex Jones welcomes meteorologist and award winning television weatherman Scott Stevens to explain how it’s possible that “Frankenstorm” Hurricane Sandy could be manipulated with military technology already at our disposal. ~ Video read more
• Proof... Obama Orders FEMA Camps For Hurricane ...
  GET OUT OF TOWN NOW! ~ Video read more
• Alert!... 16 US Nuclear Reactors and Utility S ...
  Nuclear reactors on the East coast are now being monitored heavily by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as Sandy moves in. ~ Shepard Ambellas read more

Tarpley

• Tarpley to Address McClendon Group, National P ...
  McClendon News Service, Inc. (Since 1946) Founded by Senior White House Correspondent Sarah McClendon (1911-2003) Post Office Box 6010, Washington, D.C. 20005 — Telephone: (703) 855-1266 McCLENDON GROUP MEETING Who: Webster Tarpley, Author, Journalist, Commentator What: Mormonism & M ...
• Political Report to the United Front Against A ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net October 27, 2012 Over the next several months, the Wall Street ruling class and its controlled politicians in the Republican and Democratic parties will attempt to inflict a series of savage and brutal austerity measures on the American people — measure ...
• Ominous Implications of Bishop Romney’s ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Kevin Barrett Show The Kevin Barrett Show on No Lies Radio October 23, 2012 [download audio]
• United Front Against Austerity, Public Assembly
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. UFAA – United Front Against Austerity October 24, 2012 When: Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:00 pm — 6:00 pm Where: Walker Auditorium / INN World Report 56 Walker Street New York, NY 10013 One and one half blocks south of Canal Street, between Church & Br ...
• Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the ...
  Webster G. Tarpley with Dr. Randy Short TARPLEY.net October 19, 2012 Dr. Tarpley’s recent conference call with Dr. Short and other participants [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• Power Outage Maps
  Mid Atlantic, Northeast, New England Power outage maps of who has lost power (where / location) or how many are without power. Here are sources of maps that indicate real time power outages in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions. During major storms, this may be of interest…   Powe ...
• LOW Pressure Is Making This Storm VERY Differe ...
  As also reported on the Weather Channel, this is a remarkable storm. Forget about everything that you know about storms that have come up and across the northeast in the past, because while this is a Category 1 storm with 75 mph winds, the central pressure now is 951 mb (28.08 in.). Now comparat ...
• Doomsday Preppers Will Be Treated Like Terrorists
  “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” I received an email from a reader who asked: “I just read this article and was curious about your take on it….” http://www.infowars.com/national ...
• Govt ‘Stingray’ Intercepting & Tra ...
  The federal government is using a new tool called “Stingray” to intercept and track people by their cell phone, and have been doing it apparently without a warrant. The secretive device that federal law enforcement have been using with increased frequency is being challenged by the E ...
• Generator Safety
  With the prediction or onset of powerful storms, people rush out to buy generators. For many people, it is the first time they have ever used a generator. Spend a few minutes BEFORE the storm, making sure your back-up power generator is ready to go. Check the oil and gas levels in your generator ...

Fast Company

• Quora Introduces A New Top Writers Program As ...
  Quora's latest push to keep the answers flowing from its most valuable users is a new Top Writers feature it introduced today. Quora's first class of 492 "Top Writers," who have contributed an average of 350 answers each, will now have a little pen-and-ink badge show up on their profile pages, s ...
• As Pandora Evolves, Simplicity Battles A Featu ...
  Pandora CTO Tom Conrad insists his number one priority is to make the best playlists in the world. But he’s also aware that users increasingly expect more than a simple music-listening experience from their music apps. Nowhere are these competing priorities more difficult to balance than on the ...
• Terry Kelly, The "Un-CEO" Of W.L. Gore, On How ...
  Terry Kelly is the "un-CEO" of W.L. Gore, the brand best known for consumer products like Gore-Tex fabric and Elixir guitar strings but that also sells a dizzying range of industrial products, from fuel-cell components to specialized plastics. Gore has long been known, and lauded, as an innovati ...
• W.L. Gore CEO Terry Kelly's Response To Chaos: ...
  Terry Kelly is the "un-CEO" of W.L. Gore, the brand best known for consumer products like Gore-Tex fabric and Elixir guitar strings but that also sells a dizzying range of industrial products, from fuel-cell components to specialized plastics. Gore has long been known, and lauded, as an innovati ...
• How Rob Corddry Turned A Web Parody Into A TV ...
  Intended as a confidence-builder for the novice writer, "Children’s Hospital" rode the 15-minute programming wave all the way to the Emmys. And it turned its creator into a power-crazed writer!

Jadaliyya

• Last Week on Jadaliyya (Oct 22-28)
   This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles.  Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.  ميليشيات الإخوان الإلكتروني ...
• Egypt Media Roundup (October 29)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
• نظرة داخل البيت السلفي
  معلوم أن المحن تٌوحد ضد الخطر المشترك أما وقت الرخاء فيظهر فيه الخلاف بين المصالح أو الأيدلوجيات أو الأولويات وحتى على مستوى التيار الواحد أو الأحزاب الكبرى التي تتأسس في ظروف استثنائية عقب الثورات أو الاحتلال تجد الاجتماع بسبب الظرف الاستثنائي ومع مرور الوقت يحدث انفصال بين الأجنحة المختلفة الت ...
• Dia al-Azzawi's "Sabra and Shatila Massacre"
  Earlier this year, London’s Tate Modern acquired “Sabra and Shatila Massacre” (1982-83), an epic mural-sized drawing by pioneering Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi. Sprawling as it is towering and engulfing, the artist began the massive work after news surfaced that between two and three thousand Pale ...
• سياسة الاستئثار واقتلاع الجذور
  استهوتني قصة المشاريع العقارية الضخمة والمدن الجديدة التي سيطرت على النشاط الاقتصادي في دول الخليج العربية، لأنها تجسد في طياتها كل أوجه الخلل المزمنة التي تواجهها المنطقة. فيتجسد الخلل السياسي والاستئثار بالسلطة في الفساد الذي استشرى في صفقات الأراضي وعمليات ردم البحر (الدفان) الذي تطلبته هذه ا ...

mediagazer

• Pandora's New iOS And Android Apps Get The Fac ...
  Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Pandora's New iOS And Android Apps Get The Facebook Treatment: Listening Timelines, Activity Feeds And Social Sharing Features To Do Battle With Spotify (And Perhaps Apple)  —  Pandora is one of the older and more established internet radio services o ...
• Roku cross-platform search supports Netflix, A ...
  CNET: Roku cross-platform search supports Netflix, Amazon Instant, Hulu Plus, HBO GO, Vudu  —  Roku Search's cross-platform capability is Roku's latest feature in the back-and-forth battle against the Apple TV.  —  Streaming video may be the epitome of instant gr ...
• Google Music to launch free scan-and-match nex ...
  Greg Sandoval / CNET: Google Music to launch free scan-and-match next month  —  The feature that helps users avoid having to upload every song individually to Google's cloud will be offered free of charge to consumers, first in Europe and then in the U.S.  —  Goo ...
• Hurricane Sandy: TV stands by its live shots ( ...
  Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Hurricane Sandy: TV stands by its live shots  —  So this is the big one, the historic one, the unprecedented one.  It's packed with water, has an impressive millibar count and it's headed right at us.  As the Weather Channel's Bryan Norcr ...
• Nate Silver: One-term celebrity? (Dylan Byers/ ...
  Dylan Byers / Politico: Nate Silver: One-term celebrity?  —  Nate Silver could be a one-term celebrity.  —  The New York Times' resident political predictor says President Barack Obama currently has a 74.6% chance of winning re-election.  It's a prediction t ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Baltimore hotels offer discounted rates f ...
  Sarah Meehan Reporter- Baltimore Business Journal Email Baltimore-area hotels are preparing for an influx from locals seeking refuge from the power outages expected in Hurricane Sandyâs wake. Some, such as the Hotel Monaco and the Royal Sonesta Harbor Court, are offering discounted rates for ...
• Google unveils another phone, larger Nexu ...
  Associated PressAssociated Press Posted: 10/29/2012 10:14:52 AM PDT October 29, 2012 5:17 PM GMTUpdated: 10/29/2012 10:17:41 AM PDT More Google Google News More Google news...
• iPad Mini vs. Kindle Fire HD: Amazon Comp ...
  Among those not overly impressed by Apple's iPad mini: Amazon. In a bold bit of gamesmanship, Amazon has posted on its website homepage a graphic comparing its own Kindle Fire HD to Apple's recently announced iPad mini, making the case that the Kindle Fire has a better display, better speake ...
• Greek Socialists signal they will back au ...
  ATHENS Oct 29 (Reuters) - Greece's PASOK party on Monday gave its strongest hint yet that it intends to provide the support the government needs to get cuts demanded by foreign lenders approved in parliament. Athens has been locked for months in talks with its European Union and Internationa ...
• Maui beaches closed after shark attack
  Capitol Alert: California teacher unions rated as nation's 6th most powerful 6 minutes ago Maui beaches closed after shark attack 16 minutes ago Fresno woman killed in crash, children injured 31 minutes ago CHP officer, suspect wounded in downtown gunbattle 36 minutes ago Google unveils anot ...

no frakking consensus

• IPCC Author Becomes Green Party Apparatchik
  A lead author of the IPCC's 'hard science' section is a Green Party candidate and deputy leader.
• ‘Climate Rebel’ Reporting In
  I spoke in Calgary last week, was interviewed on television three times, and attracted some great newspaper coverage.
• Deja Vu All Over again…1991′s &#82 ...
  Before there was Al Gore, there was George Mitchell. Politicians have been casting themselves as environmental crusaders, saving the planet, for two decades.
• How Science (Really) Works
  A new report argues that alternative perspectives are vital to the scientific process. Expecting dispassion from individual researchers is probably a lost cause.
• Another False Alarm – ‘The Dying o ...
  A 17-year-old book about the state of America's forests is similar to current books about climate change. Its analysis and predictions were wrong, wrong, wrong.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 10/29/12 - Updated: Do euthanasia and physicia ...
  euthanasia.procon.org - UPDATED: Do euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide violate the Hippocratic Oath? - Read pro and con arguments from Christian Medical and Dental Associations (pro), US Court of Appeals Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt (con), Director Emeritus of the Concordia Bioethics Inst ...
• 10/25/12 - 3,218 schools in all 50 states and ...
  www.procon.org - - ProCon.org has been used by teachers, librarians, and administrators in 3,218 schools in all 50 states and 50 countries. We're thrilled to have educators in 643 elementary and middle schools, 1,652 high schools, and 923 colleges and universities using our free educational reso ...
• 10/24/12 - Gay Marriage Favored by Majority of ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org - Gay Marriage Favored by Majority of Latinos in United States
• 10/16/12 - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of What It Is and What It Is Not - Our new 128-page review compiles responses from experts and legislators to 62 frequently asked questions about Obamacare in topics ranging from taxes, insurance premiums, and pre-existing condit ...
• 10/15/12 - Six States with Pending Legislation ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Six States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Two states have initiatives on the Nov. 6, 2012 ballot (Arkansas and Massachusetts) while four other states have pending bills in the state legislature (IL, NY, OH, and PA).

Truth About Our World

• Notification
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• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• V. Bush
  Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
• The Killing of the Liberal Arts
  JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
• Tyrants and Art
  Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
• Barthes in China
  Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
• Tokyo’s Katsumi
  Japan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Introducing Aussie Beach TV - Part 1
    SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-13", width: 600, height: 400 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://www.truthnews.com.au/slideshowpro/images.php?album=13" } }); ...
• Chemtrails brownshirts renew threats against TNRA
  I have once again received an ominous threat, allegedly from the group "Anonymous", and once again because of my sceptical response to claims about the existence of a global aeorsol spraying campaign known as "chemtrails", and because I insist that such claims must be supported by evidence in or ...
• A journey into Truth
  In tonight's show we plunge into the deeply confusing realm of philosophy with the objective of understanding the nature of truth itself. In philosophy this type of investigation is sometimes called Epistemology, or the study of knowledge. During the show we look at 2 major philosophical debat ...
• Thugs have threatened to shut down TNRA - we m ...
  Some of the fanatical chemtrail believers are posting threats on this website, eg: Hereward as a computer whatever I hope you know about zombie trojans and how to check for them. Buckle up boys the ride is about to get bumpy These threats are of course pathetic and indicative of a major ...
• Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1
  Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Pirate Mothership defeated by lowly transport ...
  Rotterdam Class Amphibious Transport Dock     I long ago stopped doing news items but I couldn’t help talk about this. I have often written about asymmetrical warfare and this is an example of what happens when a renegade low tech high chutzpah organization comes across a vastly superi ...
• The Ling Tempco Vought XC-142
      XC-142     LTV-XC-142   During the race for jet combat aircraft there was also a race for rotorcraft as well. If not rotorcraft, at leats for V/STOL aircraft. One of the oddest stories is the one about a tilt rotor plane that performed really well in tests and still ...
• The Ling Tempco Vought XC-142
      During the race for jet combat aircraft there was also a race for rotorcraft as well. If not rotorcraft, at leats for V/STOL aircraft. One of the oddest stories is the one about a tilt rotor plane that performed really well in tests and still lost most of its official and corporate ...
• The Puckle Gun
    In the early 18th century, a British barrister and inventor named James Puckle invented a multi shot flintlock with a cylinder that could fire about 9 shots a minute, three times what one of the Queen’s well-trained blooded infantrymen could fire at the time. Demonstrations brought money into ...
• The Day Sugar Ray Robinson Killed Welterweight ...
    Sugar Ray Robinson Knocks Out Jimmy Doyle     It was 1947 when Irish American pugilist managed to get a fight with Sugar Ray Robinson, the world Welterweight champion. It must be mentioned that there are people like me who consider Sugar Ray Robinson one of the top ten boxers of ...

Taylor Marsh

• 1000 Mile Wide Sandy Still Pounding, While Rep ...
  NASA REPORTS, photos and video show the nor’easter Sandy as it truly is, a monster, extreme weather storm of historic proportions. In the middle of this atmospheric carnage, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley decides to show his base classlessness by suggesting the Bureau of Labor Statistic ...
• Romney Tortures Facts in Jeep Ad, Gets Slammed ...
  “Biggest load of bull in the world…” – President Bill Clinton How desperate is Mitt Romney to win Ohio? Before you answer, pay attention to what he and his campaign have been saying about the auto industry in the last few days. … – Jonathan Cohn YOU WOULD expe ...
• Why I’m Voting Green Party, by Joyce Arnold
  As of tomorrow, there is one week remaining, and this round of politics as usual – with the largest amount of money ever spent, and no reason to think it won’t grow again in 2016 – will be over. Unless there’s a split in electoral and popular votes, and then it will be a while [...]
• Pew Poll: Race Tied Nationally, Romney has Sli ...
  As the presidential campaign enters its final week, Barack Obama has failed to regain much of the support he lost in the days following the first presidential debate and the race is now even among likely voters: 47% favor Obama while an identical percentage supports Mitt Romney. – Presiden ...
• Photo of the Day: The President Doing his Job ...
  “Gov. Romney believes that states should be in charge of emergency management in responding to storms and other natural disasters in their jurisdictions. As the first responders, states are in the best position to aid affected individuals and communities, and to direct resources and assistance t ...

Hudson New York

• The Benghazi Sharia Factor
  Americans need answers as to why the Obama administration had no response to the eight-hour terror attack on the US consulate in Benghazi and who was involved in the decision not to go to their aid despite their repeated requests for help. And why is the
• Palestinian Elections: Which Fatah Won?
  Fatah leaders were quick to declare victory in the October 20 local elections in the West Bank. But the results of the vote for 93 municipal and village councils show that the vote was anything but a victory. True, in some cities and villages, Fatah did
• The Real Islamophobia
  Many critics of the West's policy in the Middle East and Western attitudes towards the Islamic faith are keen to invoke Edward Said's theory of Orientalism, which posits that our study of the East is unavoidably distorted by the West's inherent
• Freedom House Downgrades Israel, Based on Pale ...
  In a clear distortion of information, the once prestigious Freedom House, a not-for-profit organization that purports to monitor which societies in the world are truly free, appears deliberately to have omitted and misrepresented easily verifiable
• Jordan's Next Leader?
  It might be helpful now to start wondering what sort of ideas Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, and its leader, Controller General Sheikh Hamam Sai'd, will advance if they seize power in Jordan -- possibly with the blessing and encouragement of the United

Urban Survival

• Hype-o-cane or Hide-o-cane?
  There are a lot of questions which even a rational, non-believer in “fringe” media want might want to be asking about now: Why has a website which monitors HAARP radio wave action been showing the Sandy impact area has been … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Another World Series
  …it’s over and I managed to get through the whole series without watching so much as a single pitch this year.  One of the reasons that we don’t do much sports coverage here is that it’s hard to do good … Continue reading →
• Patrick Geryl’s Amazing Quake
  I don’t normally offer Sunday updates, but this morning, exactly on prediction, we’ve had an earthquake within 0.2 on the Richter Scale of where 2012 researcher Patrick Geryl predicted it would be!   As I published on Monday (10/22, source … Continue reading →
• Hurricane Sandy: There Goes The Election?
  No question about it, the Northeast could get messy this next week with a Perfect Storm kind of set up to the hurricane’s passage this weekend.     Which means to the north we will like see a mess with … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Catastrophism & Prepping
  Our discussion Thursday about whether there really is any “End of the World” event coming in 2013 got reader Bill inspired to send me an email – where he takes me to task for only putting 10% odds on a … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Our Enemy, The State ~ by Stefan Molyneux
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Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• Big storms and fracking: what's at stake?
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Here in Washington, D.C. the winds are fast, furious, and loud as we await the brunt of Hurricane Sandy. Winds have been clocked up to 90 mph as the storm hits land with the lowest pressure ever reco ...
• 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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

• Police Shoot From Helicopter, Kill Two
  From the Associated Press: A Texas state trooper who fired on a pickup truck from a helicopter and killed two illegal immigrants during a chase through the desert was trying to disable the vehicle and suspected it was being used … Continue reading →Police Shoot From Helicopter, Kill ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, October 26, 2012: Woodbridge, Virginia: A secret service officer who guarded the home of V.P. Joe Biden has been charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and three … Continue reading →National Police Misc ...
• Police Chief Sounds Off
  So this morning I received an angry email from a police chief in Michigan.  His complaint concerns a story we related about a dog getting shot by a police officer.  This is the item from our September 11 recap: St. … Continue reading →Police Chief Sounds Off is a post from ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, October 25, 2012: Battle Creek, Michigan: An officer was charged with a felony of resisting and obstructing police officers, and two misdemeanors of operating a motor vehicle while under … Continue reading →National P ...
• Chicago Bartender Gets Her Day in Court — 5 Y ...
  A drunk off-duty cop, Anthony Abbate, beat up a pettite lady bartender, Karolina Obrycka in 2007.  The video below went viral at the time.    The case is now back in the news because the civil lawsuit is now underway … Continue reading →Chicago Bartender Gets Her Day i ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose: Google’s next Nexuses ...
  Google unveils new Nexus devices, Android 4.2 and music matching in Google Play; Amazon takes on the iPad Mini right on its homepage, and Philips launches iPhone-controlled lightbulbs. It’s all...
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple’s quarterly earn ...
  Apple’s latest quarter might not have quite met analyst expectations but its earnings call did have floating cars; Dropbox, Tumblr and Google App Engine all suffer outages, and Pinterest rolls...
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple radio, Yahoo buy ...
  Apple radio rumours, Yahoo buys Stamped and Microsoft Windows 7 pushes 670 million licences. All this and more in today’s edition of the Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily...
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook loves mobile, ...
  TNW reviews the Surface RT tablet from Microsoft, Zynga lays off a chunk of its staff, Zuckerberg digs mobile, and we take a quick look at Apple’s news. You can...
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple’s iPad Min ...
  Apple thrills its audience with the launch of the iPad Mini, Zynga lays off staff in Austin and Google does a little house keeping. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose....

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Health and Social Harms of Coal Mining in Loca ...
  There is clear evidence from the international health literature that living near coal mines or coal power stations causes serious harm to peoples health. Burning coal is also the single largest cause of global warming, which the world’s leading medical journal, The Lancet, has described as “th ...
• Health analysts want study near NSW mines
  AAP October 29, 2012 10:05AM A HEALTH impact study is urgently needed in the NSW Hunter Valley to find out if communities near coal mines are more prone to illness and disease, health analysts say. The call follows a study of international evidence showing increased rates of cancer, heart, l ...
• Parliament supports motion for solar
                                 Today the South Australian Parliament committed to looking seriously at building solar thermal in Port Augusta. Th ...
• Sydney, NSW: Health and Social Harms of Coal M ...
  When: Monday 29 October 2012 Time: 5:30pm-7pm Location: Medical Foundation Auditorium - The University of Sydney, 92-94 Parramatta Road Camperdown NSW 2050 See map below for directions Cost: Free but RSVP is essential to kerry.jenson& ...
• BZE submission to Sydney Trigeneration plan av ...
  Download full submission here: Trigen_master_plan_BZEsubmission.pdf Download accompanying spreadsheet here: BeyondZeroEmissions_Trigen_master_plan_data.xls (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this p ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• How climate change may be worsening Hurricane ...
  While scientists are still debating some fundamental questions regarding hurricanes and climate change (such as: will climate change cause more or less hurricanes?), there's no debating that a monster hurricane is now imperiling the U.S. East Coast. A few connections between a warmer world and H ...
• Photo: high-altitude bird rediscovered after 8 ...
  In 1929 the U.S. Stock Market collapsed, the Geneva Convention set standards for prisoners of war, the first Academy Awards was celebrated, and Jérôme Alexander Sillem collected two bird specimens on a high plateau in Xinjiang, China. For 62 years, the specimens sat in a drawer at the ...
• Picture of the day: Shell drilling rig within ...
  Twelve miles off shore from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge floats a seemingly tiny man-made device—at least from an airplane—but it's actually a 160-foot high Shell Dutch Royal oil drilling rig. While the hugely controversial plan to drill for oil in the Arctic ocean was postpon ...
• Smuggling of illegally logged rosewood in Mada ...
  Timber traders in Madagascar are smuggling illegally logged rosewood despite an official export ban, alleges a new report published by a Malagasy researcher.
• Rebels kill 3 rangers in Congo's Virunga Natio ...
  Mai-Mai PARECO rebels attacked a ranger patrol in Virunga National Park killing two park staff and one government soldier, reports Gorilla.cd, the park's official web site.

Sierra Express

• Wind of Change: Sierra Leoneans in South-East ...
  It is without doubt that tribalism, ethnicity, or regionalism, have been and continue to be key contributory factors to underdevelopment, slow progress or the total absence of progress in many African countries.  Rwanda, Burundi and Nigeria have their horrible stories of tribal or regional bigot ...
• President Koroma Congratulates 837 Sierra Leon ...
  Mecca: Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma has congratulated the 837 Sierra Leone pilgrims in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the successful completion of their pilgrimage.  (Sierra Leone pilgrims at Mina) Delivering the congratulatory message on behalf of the President at the tent city of ...
• Electoral chiefs agree action plan to improve ...
  West Africa’s election management bodies have agreed an Action Plan to improve electoral processes to facilitate the conduct of free, fair, transparent and credible elections and deepen democracy in the region.  (Photo:  Dr. Christiana Thorpe of Sierra Leone, elected President Coordinating Commi ...
• Airtel launches 3X
  Airtel on Thursday 25th October, 2012 launched another exciting promotion for its customers at the National Stadium.  This launch was chaired by the corporate affairs manager June Rose-Johnson and Marketing Officer Martha Johnson.  (Members of the high table) Speaking at the ceremony, Commercial ...
• ACC takes anti-corruption messages to rural co ...
  In its quest to disseminate anti-corruption messages to rural communities, the Northern Regional office of the Anti-Corruption Commission has in a sensitization drive engaged stakeholders and community members of Madina, Kawula and Bamoi Luma in the Tonko Limba, Magbema and Masumgbla Chiefdoms, ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

• Announcing Reason's Chia Pet Presidential Pred ...
  I'm happy to announce an unprecedented politico-horticultural experiment gone mad in divining the eventual winner of a presidential election: Reason's Chia Pet Presidential Predictor™  It has absolutely no basis in reality - or botany - which puts it fully in the mainstream o ...
• Growth in Years of Education Didn''t Seem to E ...
  Garrett Jones at the Econlog blog reports that from 1960-2000, there is no evidence that increasing growth in years people spend in formal education has any measurable effect on economic growth--in fact there seems to be a slight decrease in growth associated with growth in education ...
• It's a Wonderful Life (With Capitalism)
    Here's a new video from The Fund for American Studies. The group's writeup: Oct 17, 2012 by TFASvideo Ever wonder what life would be like without capitalism? Join The Fund for American Studies on a journey to an alternate universe -- one where capitalism n ...
• 46 Percent of Californians Have Seriously Cons ...
  In the latest Reason-Rupe poll of 696 California voters, including 508 likely voters, 46 percent report they have seriously considered leaving the Golden State, 54 percent say they have not. Among those who have considered moving out of California, the most likely reason g ...
• Jacob Zuma, South African President and Former ...
  According to Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, who was accused of and subsequently acquitted of rape charges seven years ago (at trial he also claimed taking a shower after having sex with the HIV-positive woman helped protect him from the disease), media freedoms are someth ...

Mercury Rising

• Thumbs On The Scale, Minnesota Division: Big M ...
  Two polls on the presidential race in Minnesota came out this weekend. One, the Saint Cloud State poll, has methodologies that are as good as it gets, and it has Obama up by 8 in the North Star State: But unlike many of the voter surveys sparking headlines recently, this one used gold-standard m ...
• Facebook Shows How To Hose Groups Organizing O ...
  From FDL’s Jane Hamsher, we hear of this: Facebook quietly introduced a new “Promoted Posts” feature that forces you to pay money to reach upwards of 80% of your friends and fans, effectively censoring you by limiting the prominence of your posts if you pay nothing. Users are asked to ...
• The Ad That Could Sink Romney In Ohio: “ ...
  Just watch: The thing speaks for itself.
• Friday Cat Blogging
  Princess Mia graciously permitted the paparazzi to photograph her. Thanks, as always, to her catstaff for sharing this portrait with us.
• Friday Cat Blogging
  Princess Mia graciously permitted the paparazzi to photograph her. Thanks, as always, to her catstaff for sharing this portrait with us.

Reality Sandwich

• Coal Train Stopped
  As the coal industry faces declining domestic consumption and demand, Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest join efforts to contest a proposal to build six coal export terminals near tribal land. read more
• Confessions of a Precog
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• Sex in the News
  How voting for Romney screws both men and women, sex addiction redefined, marriages that survive political differences, small penises, and more in this week's sex in the news. read more
• Unveiling Isis
  The following is excerpted from Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality (Tarcher/Penguin 2012).   read more
• Psi in the News
  Ethnography of the afterlife, skeptics issue UK psychics a scientific challenge, presentiment, premonitions and a heaping helping of NDE, in this edition of Psi-in-the-News: Healing Touch therapy, the role of memory in precognitive dream experience and a replication of Dean Radin’s presentim ...

Desertification

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

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Press TV - Middle East

• Yemenis protest US drone attacks
  People have taken to the streets in Yemen’s northern Sa’ada Province to denounce the US assassination drone attacks in their country.
• ‘Syria’s current situation transitional’
  A leader of the so-called Syrian National Council (SNC) has called the current situation in Syria “transitional.”
• Syrian forces pound insurgent hideouts
  The Syrian army forces have clashed with a group of foreign-sponsored insurgents in the AlQaboun neighborhood, east of the capital city of Damascus.
• 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.
• Iran urges commitment to Syria truce
  An Iranian deputy foreign minister has lashes out at 'certain parties' supporting irresponsible armed groups in Syria, urging them to respect the truce which was announced by Damascus last Friday.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• Zero Hunger Plan in Guatemala Still Grounded
  “I heard about the Zero Hunger plan on television, but unfortunately it has not arrived here,” complained Elías Ruíz, a small farmer in the southern community of Santa Odilia, about the Guatemalan government’s flagship programme to end poverty. “Projects to increase produ ...
• Latino Excitement at Record Levels in U.S. Ele ...
  Just over a week before the United States votes in a highly anticipated and historically tight presidential election, a new poll released Monday finds that interest by Latino voters has strengthened significantly over the past two months, and that turnout among Hispanics could be higher than the ...
• Southern U.S. States Inch Towards Renewable Energy
  With the U.S. East Coast virtually shutting down Monday with the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, the broader debate over transitioning to cleaner energy sources and slowing, if not halting, climate change is taking on ever greater urgency. While some parts of the U.S. have been made significant stri ...
• OP-ED: Uruguay – Lessons from a Successful Ric ...
  Uruguay is in the headlines of agricultural development news this week as it hosts the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD 2) from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1 in the resort city of Punta del Este. Leading agricultural researchers and organisations from around the world ...
• Beating Rural Poverty in South America
  Agriculture is on its way to becoming a top-priority economic activity in the Southern Cone, thanks to the growing world demand for food, say experts from the region.

My AntiWar

• US and Algeria Discuss Invading Mali
• US Seeks Algeria’s Support in Possible M ...
• US Pushes Algeria to Endorse War in Mali
• Likud Overwhelmingly Endorses PM’s Deal ...
• Senior Israeli Officer: Chances of Conflict Ar ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran War on the Ballot
  Summary: War or peace with Iran will be on the U.S. presidential ballot, with Barack Obama’s reelection likely to clear the way for direct talks on resolving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program but with a victory by Mitt Romney putting neocons in a position to seek “regime change,” report ...
• Lebanon's red lines, bared
  Summary: Not only was the UNSC speaking with one voice, but the speed and decisiveness of their message also undermined a key March 14-FUKUS refrain. In effect, the global powers were recognizing that the Iran and Hezbollah-backed Lebanese government was integral to guaranteeing the country's ...
• The unfolding human catastrophe in Iran
  Summary: The world must recognise that in certain respects the path taken by the United States and its allies is eerily similar to what was done to Iraq in the 1990s. The United Nation's UNICEF estimated that the sanctions imposed on Iraq caused the death of up to 500,000 Iraqi children. Give ...
• “Romnography”: Where’s the Persian Gulf? Epic Fail
  Summary: “Syria is Iran’s only ally in the Arab world. It’s their route to the sea. It’s the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel. And so seeing Syria remove Assad is a very high priority for us” (Mitt Romney, presidential debate, October 23 ...
• Switzerland slams unilateral sanctions against ...
  Summary: Switzerland has reinforced its opposition to unilateral sanctions imposed on Iran outside the framework of the United Nations in defiance of Israel, the United States and the European Union. source: The Hinduread more

The Daily Galaxy

• Galactic Bubble Powered by One of the Most Mas ...
                 The image at the bottom of the page was made during the test-phase of the LOFAR telescope, and targeted the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (above), at the center of a galaxy cluster in the constellation of Virgo. This galaxy is 2000 times more massive than our Milky W ...
• NASA Image of Sandy --Experts Ask: "Is a 'Hype ...
                  NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at 1302 UTC (9:02 a.m. EDT). The line of clouds from the Gulf of Mexico north are associated with the cold front that Sandy is merging with. Sandy's western cloud edge is alrea ...
• "Is the Cosmos a Vast Computer Simulation?" Ne ...
               Professor Silas Beane, a theoretical physicist at the University of Bonn in Germany said that his group of scientists have developed a way to test the 'simulation hypothesis'--the idea that we may be living in a computer generated universe that has been debated by the greats ...
• Weekend Image: Our First View of Jupiter in th ...
                Amazing first ever image of Jupiter taken in infrared light on the night of 17 August 2008 with ESO's Very Large Telescope. This false colour photo is the combination of a series of images taken over a time span of about 20 minutes, through three different filters. The ima ...
• From the 'X Files': "ET Technology Could Exist ...
                  Stephen Hawking warned recently that contact with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization could have dire consequences for the human species. Arthur C Clarke once made the famous observation that any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable fro ...

Natural News

• Hurricane Sandy could leave people 'fighting i ...
  Monster Hurricane Sandy made landfall along the South Jersey coast, as forecasters had predicted, on Monday evening with gale-force winds of 90 miles per hour and bringing with it the promise of "historic" damage that could lead to scores of unprepared Americans "fighting...
• Tired of that extra body fat?
  When we want to lean down and melt away some extra body fat, most of us know the general drill: restrict simple, refined carbs, burn more calories with exercise and physical activity, and monitor our caloric intake. But what about when this approach feels futile and...
• Why are men and women smoking cigarettes while ...
  The following is a recent interview with retired Navy Commander Donald E. Minnich, who smoked during service for 20 years, and who served in three wars, including WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Reporter: "So you were in WWII and you smoked? When did you actually start smoking...
• High on food - New studies show that diet alte ...
  It may come as no surprise that what we eat affects the brain, and this is most obvious when looking at dietary disorders like obesity, compulsive overeating, and diabetes. The annual conference of the Society for Neuroscience took place between October 13 and October...
• Discover the many health benefits of Moringa, ...
  Often referred to as the "miracle tree" because of its uniquely diverse array of nutritional, medicinal, and purifying properties, Moringa oleifera is a little-known, and highly undervalued, "superfood" treasure with incredible potential to greatly improve health and...

Threat Level

• NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homewo ...
  The New York Post has uncovered an anti-terrorism class that requires students to write up a terrorism plan. That's bad enough, but there's even more terrorist-support coming out of Hollywood.
• All Three Branches Agree: Big Brother Is the N ...
  Indeed, Big Brother is the new normal. Despite Hurricane Sandy, the Supreme Court on Monday entertained oral arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications, a program that Congress eventually ...
• Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The hearing will mark the first time the Supreme ...
• Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Arrest ...
  A New York man claiming to own half of Facebook was arrested from his rural New York home Friday and charged with a multi-billion dollar scheme to defraud the social-networking site and its chief executive and founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
• Buzzfeed’s Sponsored Stories Stink in Infringe ...
  Like many online media outlets, Buzzfeed is moving toward the so-called "sponsored stories" advertising model -- a blending of advertising and editorial content placed smack dab in the content stream. But 6-year-old Buzzfeed, whose motto is to capture the viral ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• After Bashing Auto Workers, Romney Asks for Th ...
  In an effort to win over auto workers in Ohio and across the Midwest, Team Romney this week unveiled a jaw-droppingly fraudulent ad rewriting Mitt's opposition to the federal bailout that saved the entire industry. But largely overlooked in the shocked response to his bogus claims about Jeep sh ...
• Mitt Romney's Auto Neurotic Prevarication
  It's as if Mitt Romney simply can't help himself. Gripped by an irresistible obsession to become President of the United States, Romney will lie to voters on almost any issue, large or small. And on no point is Romney's compulsion to fabricate more pathological than on President Obama's succes ...
• Romney 's Closing Argument is "Obama Made Econ ...
  So Mitt Romney has decided to end his presidential campaign the same way he started it. That is, by lying. During what his aides touted as a "major address" in Iowa Friday, Governor Romney charged that while President Obama "inherited a troubled economy," he "made the problem worse." That's t ...
• The Romney Recession vs. the Obama Boom
  After campaigning for months on the long ago debunked slander that President Obama "made the economy worse," Mitt Romney is now promising voters a "big change" over the next four years. President Romney's change would be big, all right, just not in the way he is pledging. That's because while ...
• Top Romney Economic Adviser: "Rich Are Taxed E ...
  Back in June, Mitt Romney's top economic adviser Glenn Hubbard caused a stir when he took his partisan politics beyond the water's edge and onto the op-ed page of a German newspaper. Now, the man the New York Times labeled Romney's "go-to economist" has uttered something far more appalling, if ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Koch Brothers and the Road to "Citizens United"
  Greg Palast: When billionaires break the law, they get the law changed
• Refugees March to Berlin Demanding Full Human ...
  Refugees from all over Germany converged on Berlin to demand the stopping of deportation
• FAQ 29oct12
  FAQ category. ponyenglish asked: Would you ever want to write an episode for Doctor Who? I often think about it what it might be like. I get asked this a surprising amount.  Here’s why I don’t think about what it might be like.  One writes for DOCTOR WHO by invitation.  To be invi ...
• Hurricane Sandy Kills 51 in Haiti, Leaving Beh ...
  As Hurricane Sandy makes its way to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, it has already left behind a trail of destruction in Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba. Government officials have reported 65 storm-related deaths across the Caribbean, with 51 of those in Haiti, which had three days of continu ...
• Nuclear Plants from Virginia to Vermont Could ...
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has acknowledged the massive Sandy storm could impact both coastal and inland nuclear power plants. At least 16 reactors are in the storm's projected path, including North Anna and Surry in Virginia; Calvert Cliffs in Maryland; Oyster Creek, Hope Creek and Salem ...

Consortium News

• The Price of Political Purity
• Iran War on the Ballot
• Telling Truths about Israel/Palestine
• In Case You Missed…
• Anti-Government Economic Orthodoxy

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Brits Love Renewable Energy, Hate Fossil Fuels ...
  A new survey conducted by UK pollsters YouGov has shown that support for renewable energy remains consistently strong in Britain whilst support for fossil fuels continues to decline. However, the same survey shows that there is division over whether large scale fracking in the north of England s ...
• Sandy / Frankenstorm News Roundup
    There’s a lot of good coverage out there about Hurricane Sandy / Frankenstorm, a storm that is expected to cause billions of dollars in damage and affect approximately 50 million people. Here’s a roundup of some of those stories: Toles on Ignoring the Climate Issue (via Climat ...
• Frankenstorm — Perfect Term For Hurricane Sandy
    Here’s an excellent piece from the always excellent Dr Joe Romm (with several updates in there from the tie the article was originally published until now), focused on Hurricane Sandy and why “Frankenstorm” is an excellent term for the giant, human-influenced, scary hurr ...
• Hurricane Sandy, Coastal Development, & You Cl ...
    Before reposting an excellent piece from Skeptical Science on Hurricane Sandy, here’s something to consider: I ran across that one on Facebook. Of course, if you’ll remember, most political pundits (including Candy Crowley, moderator of the second 2012 presidential debate) see ...
• How To Measure Your Company or Organization’s ...
    Want to get your company or organization comprehensively measuring its carbon footprint, but not sure how? Take a look at this post about “CarbonDiem” from sister site CleanTechnica: Measuring Organisations’ Carbon Footprints (via Clean Technica)   A new easy-to-use smartphone ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Precinct Walking & What Voters Care About
  I walk precincts every day.  At first I only walked about 3 hours a day but I’ve realized that
• Michigan Marina's Scramble to Get Boats Out as ...
  I got a voice mail early Monday morning from Hoy’s Saginaw Bay Marina in Caseville, “Mike, the
• Killer Whales: Who is the REAL Killer?
  Orca whales are known as killer whales, but what makes them so ‘killer’? In fact, are these ‘killer’
• Has the Ninth Circuit Confounded the Supreme C ...
  The Ninth Circuit (AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA) has a reputation for listening to the beat of
• Preliminary investigation of the hydro-geochem ...
  D.E. Egirani*1, & J. K. Nomji2 1. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, N

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Marikana, where the ANC's chickens came home t ...
  by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 26 August 2012 Image by aminael
• What is Happening in Syria is an Imperialist P ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from www.presstv.com Augus
• Fixing the Mortgage Mess: The Game-changing Im ...
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com August 22, 2012 Image by inkknife_2000
• Gareth Porter: Israel drops Iran-attack hints ...
  Image by Alex Garland, World Can’t Wait via Flickr with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelio
• A World of Hillbilly Heroin by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 21, 2012 Image by Sonny W. via Flickr The Hol

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• Mitt's Halloween Tricks
• Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): if we could only poli ...
  One hundred sixty-six pages. Previously: Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): "Benghazigate" hearing - another republican clown show (October 11, 2012) Vice Presidential Debate: chutzpah (October 11, 2012) Presidential Debate: Benghazi, Libya was an act of terror (October 16, 2012) The House republicans con ...
• Lonely
  Recently we've noted a number of Todd Akin (r) yard signs popping up in our locale here in west central Missouri - most alone and in or quite close to the public right of way. No home for the right wingnut crazy.
• Video Upload Shows How Ignorant U.S. Right Win ...
  http://youtu.be/6dlhZppKNLc This was presented as "Hilarious Leftist Propaganda from the Mid-50s." I saw nothing hilarious here, and it seems fairly accurate historically. If you compare the anti-Semitic rhetoric of "radio priest" Father Coughlin and the Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith with that of the N ...
• Scumneys, Already Rich Off Others' Sweat, Appa ...
  So, who would name their son Tagg? For that matter, who would name their son Mitt? I suppose it doesn't matter what one's name is, provided that one conducts oneself with a modicum of honor. That, it seems, is too much to expect. Tagg Scumney is a major investor in a company that owns a lot of v ...

Care 2

• Take Action: Spread the Word and Gather Signat ...
  We are less the 10 days away from the start of the 2012-13 Wolf Hunting and Trapping Season that begins in Minnesota on November 3rd Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Pressure legislators to pass Ohios first felon ...
  Nitro's Law (H.B. 108), Ohio's first felony animal abuse law, is being held hostage by Ohio Senate President Niehaus. As of Dec. 31, this will be the fourth time that Nitro's Law will have died at the hands of the Ohio Senate president. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-i ...
• Let's Save the Bear Sanctuary ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
  In early October 2012 we learned the shocking news that the bears at Animals Asia Foundations wonderful sanctuary in Vietnam are facing eviction. The 104 bears living there are the rescued victims of the appallingly cruel bear bile farms. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Not ...
• 'Aquaponics' Help Islanders Cultivate Crops an ...
  A pilot aquaponics experiment is now underway in the Cook Islands that has the potential to become the South Pacific region's best chance for preventing food shortages. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Its Our Cats' Home, Really -- We Just Live in It
  Nothing is safe in our house: Throw rugs, holiday decor, ANYTHING left on the counter. Here's how we survive. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Smirking Chimp and Hurricane Sandy
• Is Our Deepest Desire to Die?
• Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit's 'Our Words Are Our W ...
• Pentagon Nixed 1998 U.S. Nuclear Scientists’ P ...
• The Quest For Truth And Peace: A Conversation ...

Paul Krugman

• Cliff Confusions
  Hey, the deficit was supposed to be cut at the expense of the working class!
• Sandy Attacks
  No power to the people.
• Doris, R.I.P. (Personal)
  All things end.
• The War on Objectivity
  Smearing Nate Silver.
• More Financial Crisis Denialism
  Horrible Hubbard.

No Quarter

• Priorities
  Why am I turning on Fox News to get the latest on … what’s happening next week? … and all I see is this? THIS is what I want to see: RNC TV Ad: “Obamacare” Helen2k, that is a fantastic image, and I am so glad you posted it, but I had to voice my [...]
• Hk2′s Open Thread and an SEIU Whistleblower
  I believe every word of what you’re about to hear. Who was Obama’s most frequent visitor at the White House 2009-2010-, according to official visitor logs? Andy Stern (photo right), then-head of SEIU. (He is now a “Senior Fellow at Columbia University.”) Interesting, eh? ...
• “Newspapers abandon 2008 Obama endorsements, c ...
  The Des Moines Register endorsement: Mitt Romney offers a fresh economic vision Ten months ago this newspaper endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for president. An overarching consideration was which of the party’s candidates could we see occupying the Wh ...
• Mitt’s Latest TV Ads
  “I don’t think I’ve seen a moment in our nation’s history when a man and the moment have met so perfectly.” – Paul Ryan “Who Will Do More?,” a short video attacking Obama’s failure to solve the auto industry’s woes; “Momentum&#822 ...
• New Obama Plan is Not New and Not A Plan… and ...
  “Attacking me is not an agenda.” That was Mitt Romney’s best line in the last presidential debate. It summed up Obama’s debate style so succinctly and so cleverly, it was pure genius in its simplicity! And you know what? It turns out that Obama likes Mitt Romney’s agenda so muc ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

• Huntington non-profit OVEC celebrates 25 years ...
  Huntington non-profit OVEC celebrates 25 years this weekend Huntington Herald Dispatch OVEC members noted the recent passing of the late, great advocate, Larry Gibson, who had helped bring thousands of people from around the world to Kayford Mountain to see mountain top removal, including Robert ...
• Another View: Clean coal but dirty water? - De ...
  Another View: Clean coal but dirty water? DesMoinesRegister.com Mountaintop-removal coal mining contaminates and destroys streams and rivers in downstream watersheds. Burning coal emits carbon dioxide, sulfur oxides, particulates and toxic metals into the atmosphere. To protect our skies, the U. ...
• Coal ash's threat to NC water - News & Observer
  Coal ash's threat to NC water News & Observer Mountaintop-removal coal mining contaminates and destroys streams and rivers in downstream watersheds. Burning coal emits carbon dioxide, sulfur oxides, particulates and toxic metals into the atmosphere. To protect our skies, the U.S. Environment ...
• Mountaintop Removal Activist Wins Prestigious ...
  Mountaintop Removal Activist Wins Prestigious Wallenberg Medal WFPL The University of Michigan awarded the prestigous Wallenberg Medal to mountaintop removal activist Maria Gunnoe earlier this week. Gunnoe lives in Boone County, W.Va., and has spent the past eight years campaigning against mount ...
• “I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” - I ...
  “I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” It's Getting Hot In Here Hell's Gate was the property line from where you could literally look down on massive mountaintop removal operations. It was stunning. I've seen clear cut forests, oil spills and an industry polluted lake near Butte, ...

Memeorandum

• People Who Can't Do Math Are So Mad At Nate Si ...
  The Atlantic Wire: People Who Can't Do Math Are So Mad At Nate Silver  —  The New York Times' Nate Silver has created a model to predict the outcome of the presidential election that's watched by just about every pundit, and yet Silver's model refuses to perfectly reflect the co ...
• Slain SEAL's father to Obama: 'Better to die t ...
  Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller: Slain SEAL's father to Obama: ‘Better to die the death of a hero than it is to live the life of a coward’   —  In an appearance on Fox News Channel's “Geraldo at Large” Sunday night, Charles Woods, father of slain Navy SEAL T ...
• Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy (Lymari ...
  Lymari Morales / Gallup.Com: Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy  —  This is a statement from Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport regarding Gallup polling and Gallup Daily tracking during Hurricane Sandy: … Look for future updates here.
• Clinton: Obama's Feelings Most Hurt Over Jeep ...
  Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Clinton: Obama's Feelings Most Hurt Over Jeep Ad  —  Bill Clinton revealed at a campaign rally today that President Barack Obama's feeling were hurt over Mitt Romney's ad suggesting Jeep might move some of its production facilities overseas:&nbsp ...
• Former SEIU organizer: I was 'required' to do ...
  David Martosko / The Daily Caller: Former SEIU organizer: I was ‘required’ to do ‘political work’  —  In a case that could have wide-ranging implications for the political future of the Service Employees International Union, a former SEIU organizer told a ...

Energy & Environment News

• Dot Earth Blog: #Frankenstorm Sandy, Climate S ...
  Do some people resist strong messaging on climate because of a tendency toward reverse tribalism? Yes.
• Green Blog: Hurricane Could Prompt Review of N ...
  The impacts of Hurricane Sandy are likely to revive debate over whether New York City has done enough to concretely prepare for storm surges, as opposed to commissioning studies.
• Green Blog: Line Workers at the Ready
  Power line repairmen from several states mass in a parking lot near Baltimore as their host utility, BGE, begins assessing damage.
• Rachel Carson’s Lessons, 50 Years After ...
  Rachel Carson, who warned of pesticides’ toll on nature in “Silent Spring” 50 years ago, offered an indelible example of the power of individual action.
• Green Blog: On Our Radar: Tracking the Hurricane
  Forecasters say the hurricane will bring "life-threatening" flooding to the East Coast and other disruptions lasting days.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia
  Monday, October 29, 2012 19:49:06 UTC Tuesday, October 30, 2012 04:49:06 AM at epicenterDepth: 28.90 km (17.96 mi)
• M 5.7, Molucca Sea
  Monday, October 29, 2012 15:29:53 UTC Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:29:53 AM at epicenterDepth: 62.30 km (38.71 mi)
• M 5.2, Flores region, Indonesia
  Monday, October 29, 2012 06:28:33 UTC Monday, October 29, 2012 02:28:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.70 km (6.03 mi)
• M 5.3, Nias region, Indonesia
  Monday, October 29, 2012 02:22:44 UTC Monday, October 29, 2012 09:22:44 AM at epicenterDepth: 54.50 km (33.86 mi)
• M 5.1, Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada region
  Sunday, October 28, 2012 19:16:55 UTC Sunday, October 28, 2012 12:16:55 PM at epicenterDepth: 47.20 km (29.33 mi)

China Dialogue

• 水库诱发地&#3866 ...
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AlterNet Top Stories

• Early Voting Scorecard: Obama Ahead in Iowa an ...
  With more than 10 million people already casting a ballot, early voting is on pace likely to exceed the 41 million cast in 2008. Next week will be crunch time as millions of people across the country cast ballots.Everyone wants to know who is winning. In my commentary below I explain why I con ...
• How Mitt Romney Wants to Make America Like China
   Near the end of a transcript of a Mitt Romney speech to donors revealed by MoJo’s David Corn (who brought the famous Boca Moment to our attention), Romney makes this plenary comment about the United States and China that goes a little deeper than claims of currency manip ...
• Nuclear Trouble: 16 Reactors in the Path of Hu ...
  16 nuclear reactors are in the potential path of Hurricane Sandy, the powerful storm bearing down on the East Coast of the United States, according to Reuters. “There are more than a dozen nuclear plants near Hurricane Sandy's path in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pe ...
• Sandy the Frankenstorm: "If There Was Ever a W ...
   AMY GOODMAN: We’re on the road in Medford, Oregon, broadcasting from Southern Oregon Public Television.Much of the East Coast is shut down today as residents prepare for Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm that could impact up to 50 million people from the Carolinas to Bost ...
• 11 Most Disturbing Facts About Hurricane Sandy
  If you’re on the East Coast, things outside look pretty grey as Hurricane Sandy comes barreling towards New York and other states. The trees are blowing, the rain’s starting to come down, and reports are coming in of flooding in parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Here's a round-up ...

Threat Level

• NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homewo ...
  The New York Post has uncovered an anti-terrorism class that requires students to write up a terrorism plan. That's bad enough, but there's even more terrorist-support coming out of Hollywood.
• All Three Branches Agree: Big Brother Is the N ...
  Indeed, Big Brother is the new normal. Despite Hurricane Sandy, the Supreme Court on Monday entertained oral arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications, a program that Congress eventually ...
• Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The hearing will mark the first time the Supreme ...
• Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Arrest ...
  A New York man claiming to own half of Facebook was arrested from his rural New York home Friday and charged with a multi-billion dollar scheme to defraud the social-networking site and its chief executive and founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
• Buzzfeed’s Sponsored Stories Stink in Infringe ...
  Like many online media outlets, Buzzfeed is moving toward the so-called "sponsored stories" advertising model -- a blending of advertising and editorial content placed smack dab in the content stream. But 6-year-old Buzzfeed, whose motto is to capture the viral ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

• My Favorite Case: TEXAS FOOD INDUSTRY ASS’N v ...
  This case has saved a lot of illnesses and deaths in consumers of ground beef over the last two decades.  It has also saved the beef industry – although it... Continue Reading
• Willow Grove Gardens linked to Four Kids with ...
  Three petting zoo E. coli outbreaks – one in the UK. Longview Daily News reports that two more young children have fallen ill with E. coli after visiting a Longview... Continue Reading
• E. coli and Petting Zoos Don’t Mix
  Here we go again! Last Friday the Division of Public Health of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services in collaboration with Local Health Departments is investigating an outbreak... Continue Reading
• E. coli Poisons 293 in Belfast – Someone Needs ...
  I had a long talk today with a great barrister from Belfast Northern Ireland who asked that I send him a copy of the book Poisoned. There are now 130... Continue Reading
• Cheese Kills 4, sickening 22 with Listeria
  The CDC reports that a total of 22 persons infected with the outbreak-associated strain of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported from 13 states and the District of Columbia. The number... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

• Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computers
  PointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
• First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...
  CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
• Groupiter makes workflow as simple as Dropbox
  Tiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
• Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...
  New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
• Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...
  New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

• Just a Taste – 9.13.12
• Bundesbank Slashed London Gold Holdings in Mys ...
  By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Germany withdrew two thirds of its vast holdings of gold from Bank of England vaults shortly after the launch of the euro more than a decade ago, according to a confidential report by German auditors The revelation came as Germany’s budget watchdog demanded an ...
• US Bond Market Closed on Tuesday for Sandy
  From Reuters The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) recommended on Monday that the U.S. bond market stay closed on Tuesday Oct. 30 due to Hurricane Sandy. The market is scheduled for an early close at noon ET on Monday, per SIFMA’s recommendations. The equity mar ...
• Hacking the President’s DNA
  By Andrew Hessel, Marc Goodman and Steven Kotler This is how the future arrived. It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly performed in-house, by a single employee, could more efficiently be crowd-sourced to a larger group of ...
• The Oddest Revelation From the Bank of America ...
  By Jonathon Weil There is something very weird about the civil complaint the Justice Department filed this week against Bank of America Corp. (BAC) for allegedly defrauding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Prosecutors are suing under a statute called the False [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...
  Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
• Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...
  There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
• Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...
  A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
• Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...
  The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
• Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...
  A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• Our Army, under attack on many fronts, fights ...
  Summary:  The US Army is under attack.  The stress of the long war — loss of confidence in its leadership, family problems from the long war, potential loss of internal cohesion if forced to substantially downsize. A corrupt and too-often incompetent corps of senior generals. Gangs seeking ...
• New requirements for passports, another small ...
  Summary:  You cannot slowly boil a free frog, but you can slowly fry a Republic, if its people have lost their vigilance and will to govern themselves. It’s a matter of a thousand small steps, whittling away their protections and liberties. Today we examine one such small step, concerning ...
• Hurricane Sandy asks when did weather become e ...
  Summary: When did normal weather become exceptional? Hurricane Sandy tells us much about our climate, weather — and ourselves. The truth is out there, if only we wished to see it. If you find this useful, please pass it on to others! Contents Hysteria about Hurricane Sandy The problem with ...
• Today’s open thread about the death of t ...
  Summary:  A quick look at our government’s latest blows on the Constitution, kicking the corpse.  Please post your reactions to this news, and how the people you know see the Republic’s death. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violent ...
• Last week’s dark prediction becomes this ...
  Summary: Forecasting the next stage in the decay of the Second Republic becomes more difficult as it accelerates. Last week we posted Putin’s ads today are those of America’s future, describing the likely evolution of campaigns into entertainment — like Wimbledon, a fun stylish competitive ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

• The Failure of Light-Footprint Intervention to ...
  Today the RAND Corporation released Libya's Post-Qaddafi Transition: The Nation-Building Challenge co-written by a team of researchers. The paper is pretty good on discussing the current security, economic, and political situation and challenges in Libya. However, the paper's discourse on t ...
• Ukraine's Paradoxical Election
  Ukrainian voters elected a new parliament Sunday but already the initial results point to a modest rebuke for President Viktor Yanukovych and his ruling Regions Party. The independent watchdog Committee of Ukrainian Voters, which deployed thousands of monitors nationwide, indicated that the numb ...
• Top of the Morning: Hurricane Sandy Slams Hait ...
  Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Hurricane Sandy Slams Haiti With Deadly Force; Bears Down on US East Coast From Boston to Washington,DC, Americans are bracing for an epic storm that has already killed scores in Haiti. “As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Off ...
• Affirmative Action in Brazil: The Problems of ...
  It’s old news that Brazil is enacting social quotas – both socioeconomic and racial – for public higher education. In my earlier post, I detailed the impact this sort of policy could have on the quality of higher education.  However, before I had the chance to write a follow-up to that post, a n ...
• An Interview with Chen Guangcheng: "Be Confide ...
  Our new issue is on the newsstands and in mailboxes. It is full of interesting articles, plus some new design touches. And so ...subscribe! I have two short items in this November issue, before a long story in December. One is a tech column q-and-a with David Allen, the creator of the Getting Th ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Wed, Nov. 07 Electoral Vote Predictor
  Obama Wins Third Debate The snap polls are in and President Obama clearly won last night's debate. The CBS poll of uncommitted voters gave President Obama a decisive 53% to 23% victory. The CNN poll of debate watchers also put Obama ahead, albeit by a smaller margin, 48% to 40%. PPP ...
• Higher Taxes Hurt Job Creators? That's Malarkey.
  As we go into the final days of a dismal presidential campaign where too many issues have been fudged or eluded—and the media only want to talk about is who’s up and who’s down—the biggest issue on which the candidates have given us the clearest choice is whether the rich should pay more in tax ...
• The Politics of Frankenstorm
  Between checking The Weather Channel and dashing out to buy new batteries for flashlights, most folks along the Eastern Seaboard are already hunkered down in preparation for the Storm, a.k.a. Frankenstorm, a.k.a. Hurricane Sandy. Making their way to the polls is probably not at the top of anyon ...
• Considering an Electoral-Popular Vote Split
  In this final stage of the presidential race, the tension grows with each passing day, even as the campaign itself ceases to be interesting at all. There might be some kind of October Surprise, as happened in 2000, when five days before the election it was revealed that George W. Bush had been ...
• The Comeback Kids
  Six months ago, liberals were preparing for the worst. After a winter of fast growth, the economy had begun to slow down and unemployment had begun to creep back up. Mitt Romney was close behind in the race for the White House, and there was little indication that President Obama could pull ahe ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• 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 ...
• BBC Newsnight journalist and the economic crisis
  BBC Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason discusses the current global economic crisis from a journalist’s perspective, asking – “When and how will the crisis end?” Writing in the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Mason argues that the global ec ...
• Sound levitation makes drugs safer
  Earlier this year, researchers at Argonne National Lab demosntrated how they could use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing different pharmaceuticals. The aim being to allow solvent to evaporate with crystallisation occurring so that an amorphous form of a drug can ...
• Customary blog post about my book
  It’s nice to be in such esteemed company. Apparently, customers who downloaded the free Kindle sampler of my forthcoming book Deceived Wisdom have also grabbed a copy of one or more of the following popular science books: “How Many Friends Does One Person Need?” by Robin Dunbar ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Corporate Slush Fund Pays for State Lawmakers’ ...
  Corporate backers of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have funneled more than an estimated $4 million in gifts to state legislators for travel, hotel rooms, and meals at posh resorts since 2006, according to estimates based on internal ALEC records. The corporate lobby front grou ...
• Corporate Slush Fund Pays for State Lawmakers’ ...
  Corporate backers of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have funneled more than an estimated $4 million in gifts to state legislators for travel, hotel rooms, and meals at posh resorts since 2006, according to estimates based on internal ALEC records. The corporate lobby front grou ...
• To Counteract Deceptive Ads by Prop 37 Foes, H ...
  With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, the David vs. Goliath battle over Proposition 37, the initiative to require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food, or GMOs, is in a dead heat, according to polls.read more
• To Counteract Deceptive Ads by Prop 37 Foes, H ...
  With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, the David vs. Goliath battle over Proposition 37, the initiative to require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food, or GMOs, is in a dead heat, according to polls.read more
• The Moderators' Agendas: An Analysis of What W ...
  The establishment media figures who moderated the 2012 major-party candidate debates confined the discussion to a remarkably narrow range of topics, a FAIR analysis of debate questions finds. A wide variety of topics were never brought up in questions during the six total hours of debate. Amo ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Watching Sandy, Ignoring Climate Change
  Elizabeth Kolbert A couple of weeks ago, Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance firms, issued a study titled “Severe Weather in North America.” According to the press release that accompanied the report, “ ...
• 10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing ...
  Sarah Anderson Scott Klinger Brace yourself for one of the most aggressive corporate lobbying campaigns of all time. And one of the most hypocritical.read more
• Romney's Extremist Energy Plan and the Systema ...
  Michael T. Klare
• Why Elections Matter—and Why We're Still Argui ...
  Phyllis Bennis (AP Images)It’s practically the eve of the election—and I’m still kind of stunned to hear from people who don’t plan to vote, who think voting doesn’t matter. A young writer, 21 years old, wrote ...
• Romney-Ryan and the Slashing of Medicaid
  Paul Krugman There’s a lot we don’t know about what Mitt Romney would do if he won.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

• This Is The War That Never Ends
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• Who could have expected...?
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• Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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• The Costs of War
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• NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?
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Water Wars

• Unterman leads caucus on Lake Lanier issues, i ...
  Unterman: Lowering boating under the influence threshold "a given"
• Sociology Club hosts “Blue Gold” screening, di ...
  If humans go one week without water, they will literally cry blood. According to Blue Gold: World Water Wars, a documentary shown in the Wildcat Theater, some experts believe that in 50 years, there will likely be a collapse of the earth’s water source if there is not a change made to the way th ...
• Blue Gold: World Water Wars panel talk changes ...
  The free Film Forum presentation of "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," set for 10 a.m. at the Boca Grande Community Center Auditorium Nov. 9, will be followed by a revised panel discussion.
• Editorial: Swing this
  Re: This newspaper's series called Swing State.
• A Hay Ride Down Memory Lane
  For me, a trip to Mt. View Orchards is a trip down memory lane.

WordPress | Economics

• The Rapidly Changing Education Model
  Further to my piece yesterday, where I suggested the debate around the implementation of the Asia in
• WHY YOU HAVE ALL THOSE CONTACTS IN YOUR PHONE
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• “This man is a leader.” – Paul Ryan
  New Romney ad – closing the deal…     “I don’t think I’ve seen a moment in our
• $60,000 PER POOR FAMILY SPENT IN 2011
  I was visiting one of my favorite websites (Tomwoods.com)and this caught my eye. According to a 2011
• The Real Problem With The US Economy
  For the last two hundred years, there has been an incredible trend in productivity growth. On averag

Electronic Intifada

• VIDEO: the images and sounds of Gaza's vibrant ...
  29 October 2012 “Not a dreamland”: exploring vibrant subcultures in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip.
• Why is a New York hospital being sacrificed fo ...
  Terri Ginsberg 26 October 2012 Plans for massive science campus linking an Israeli and American university in New York City moving forward, despite opposition.
• Israel's starvation diet for Gaza
  Jonathan Cook Nazareth 24 October 2012 Recently released documents reveal that Israel deliberately allowed much less food than was previously thought to have been imported into Gaza.
• As Holy Land 5 appeal begins, Palestinians in ...
  Joe Catron Gaza Strip 24 October 2012 Going to university has become more difficult for Palestinians in Gaza since George W. Bush shut down a charity that helps underprivileged students with fees.
• "Let us not be brought down": Last legal recou ...
  Noor Elashi New York City 24 October 2012 Noor Elashi anticipates this week’s decision by the US Supreme Court whether or not to hear the Holy Land Foundation case, in which her father is a defendant.

The Wonk Room

• A $20 Billion, 1000-Year Frankenstorm? Sandy S ...
  “Atlantic City is under water. The boardwalk is in the street.” via @MikeStacks609 Disaster modeling company Eqecat projected today that “Hurricane Sandy is likely to cause insured losses of $5 billion to $10 billion and economic losses of $10 billion to $20 billion.” If ...
• Does Publicly Discussing The Consequences Of I ...
  Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic and a Bloomberg News columnist, today criticized the Obama administration for publicly discussing the consequences of war with Iran. Goldberg emailed Mitt Romney wondering if his Iran policy had changed given his relatively moderate tone during ...
• ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Would Cause More Austerity Than ...
  The spending cuts and tax increases that will occur at the beginning of 2013 — the so-called “fiscal cliff” brought about by Congress’ deal to raise the debt ceiling last year — would cause more budgetary contraction than the austerity measures used to address debt ...
• Ann Romney: We Need To ‘Throw Out’ The Public ...
  Ann Romney told Good Housekeeping magazine that the campaign issue closest to her heart is taking on teachers unions and dismantling public education as we know it. In an interview, she told the publication: I’ve been a First Lady of the State. I have seen what happens to people’s li ...
• Massachusetts Cracks Down On Unregulated Compo ...
  Now that the current deadly meningitis outbreak — which has infected an estimated 337 Americans across 18 different states, and caused 25 deaths so far — has put a spotlight on compounding pharmacies that currently fall outside the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration&#82 ...

thwap's schoolyard

• "Democracy in Crisis"
  I think it's much more insidious and "evil" than Don Lenihan describes it, but this is still a worthwhile read. Personally, I think there's a deliberate, self-interested and cynical strategy of the elite to exalt the incoherent frustrations and babbling of the stupidest among the electorate. Fo ...
• Conversation
  Well, I've got other things to do and other things to think about, AND I've got a headache. So I think I'll just delight you with the transcript of an actual conversation I had with a "conservative." (The whole point of our speaking to each other was to present this clash of opposing viewpoints ...
• Vote Suppression ... Here it comes!!!
  This is emblematic of the sort of rationalization progressives are making in response to the bone-headed ruling by a bunch of hack Supreme Court justices and allied moron Supreme Court justices: By now it may have become apparent that I've been won over by the majority ruling and I'll tip my ha ...
• I'm Not Calling For Voter ID Laws
  Some progressives have been hailing the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing Ted "Homo-Hater" Opitz his theft of the Etobicoke-Centre election. Supposedly, the Supreme Court of Canada has decided that our rules, procedures and safeguards for conducting free and fair elections shouldn't interfere ...
• Canadian Democracy Officially a Fraud
  I am, at present, reeling from skimming this article - "Conservative MP Ted Opitz to keep his Etobicoke-Centre, Supreme Court rules". Here's how it works folks. We have elections, see? And they're first-past-the-post, meaning that all a candidate has to do is get the largest bloc of votes in th ...

on Government Oversight

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• Watchdog: Interest Rate Manipulation Puts Taxp ...
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• SIGAR Seeks Debarment of Contractors Who Aid t ...
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Digital Journal

• Boston Globe endorses Barack Obama over shifti ...
  It may not be a surprise given the newpaper's history, but it is nonetheless a blow to Mitt Romney that the Boston Globe, the biggest paper in the state he was once the governor of, is backing President Barack Obama.
• Kim Thúy's 'Ru' is poetic and moving
  Kim Thúy’s debut novel, ‘Ru’, is a beautifully poetic and moving book, which brings readers from Vietnam, to Malaysia, and onto Quebec. Inspirational, wise and powerful, Thúy flourishes and captivates readers absolutely.
• Russell Wangersky's 'Whirl Away' is chaotic an ...
  Russell Wangersky’s ‘Whirl Away’ is a short story collection centred on chaos and how people react when life spirals out from under them. Comprised of twelve traumatic, unrelenting, and often witty stories, ‘Whirl Away’ refuses reservation.
• Toronto Star to introduce paywall in early 2013
  Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank announced Monday plans to introduce a paywall structure in 2013. Complete details of the proposed plan have not been released, but it is in line with other Toronto outlets, such as the Globe and Mail.
• B.C. teenager arrested for taking photograph i ...
  Jakub Markiewicz,16, who wants to be a journalist found himself arrested after he photographed an incident at a mall in Burnaby B.C.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Do you remember for peace, or for war?
  Remembrance Day is changing as the veterans of the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War, pass away. More attention is being paid to current and more controversial conflicts, such as those in Afghanistan and Libya. Remembrance Day was first marked within the British Commonwealth (which ...
• Mitt Romney’s Defence Spending Plans
  A week out from the election, the Republican campaign remains vague about its promises to strengthen the American military.
• Ottawa event: Does Canada need a Department of ...
  The Canadian Peace Initiative will be hosting events on November 2 and 3 in Ottawa, titled "Does Canada need a Department of Peace?" Ceasefire.ca's Steven Staples will be part of Saturday's public consultation panel on Bill C-373.
• Canadian government worries about Huawei &#821 ...
  A new op-ed by Steven Staples looks at the relationships between the Canadian government and various foreign corporations.
• Cuban Missile Crisis Anniversary Highlights Co ...
  This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a time when the world was on the brink of nuclear war. Has the threat of nuclear war diminished since 1962?

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Time Magazine Reports Skin Cancer Is Up In You ...
  April 2, 2012 KTRadioNetwork.Com By William Kitner (KTRN Exclusive)  Time Magazine recently published an article about the rise of skin cancer in young people supposedly due to their overuse of tanning beds.  The article reports “Mayo Clinic researchers reported skyrocketing rates of skin cancer ...
• Kofi Annan Handpicked By The CIA
  April 2, 2012 Global Research By Thierry Meyssan Although Kofi Annan’s track record at the UN is an indisputable success in terms of management and efficiency, he has been sharply criticized for his political shortcomings. As Secretary General, he aspired to bring the Organization into line with ...
• Pink Slime’ is Now in 70 Percent of The Ground ...
  April 2, 2012 Natural News By Tony Isaacs Would you knowingly eat ground beef which contained scrap meat items such as muscle connective tissue which had been sprayed with ammonium hydroxide? Would you want your children to eat such ground beef in their school lunches? According to recent revela ...
• Cannabis Miraculously Saves Lives After Physic ...
  April 2, 2012 Natural News By Raw Michelle At 16, Kristen Peskuski was suffering from joint inflammation and an array of autoimmune conditions which made her organs and other tissues swell, including interstitial cystitis and lupus. She was prescribed over 40 different anti-inflammatory, antibio ...
• Another Cop Flips Out
  April 3, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Here we go again. Another cop goes berserk over two guys filming shopping carts outside of a WalMart. They were doing nothing wrong and the cop almost tazes the men. Talk about a police state.” –KTRN In the United States there is ...

Armies of Liberation

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

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