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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

31 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

FORT MEADE, MD - DECEMBER 17: A public affair...
FORT MEADE, MD - DECEMBER 17: A public affairs officer holds a military artist's drawing of defense council entering the court during the second day of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's Article 32 hearing December 17, 2011 in Fort Meade, Maryland. An Article 32 hearing for Army Private Bradley Manning is being held at the fort and will determine if a general court martial can be held for Manning who leaked military documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. State Department cables to WikiLeaks. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: Former Central Int...
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: Former Central Intellegence Agency (CIA) analyst Ray McGovern joins members of Code Pink for Peace in front of the U.S. State Department to protest the resignation of State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley and the detention of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning March 14, 2011 in Washington, DC. Two days after saying the treatment of accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning was 'ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid,' Crowley resigned. The demonstrators stripped their clothing off to protest against the treatment of Manning, who has been allegedly held naked in a Marine Corps base in Virginia after being accused of leaking information to the Wikileaks website. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
English: Slogan for the support of the persecu...
English: Slogan for the support of the persecuted American ex-soldier who is claimed to have leaked secret documents to WikiLeaks Deutsch: Slogan für die Unterstützung und Freilassung von Bradley Manning, der beschuldigt wird, geheime Dokumente an WikiLeaks weitergegeben zu haben (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: Code Pink for Peac...
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: Code Pink for Peace demonstrators are watched by police as they stand in front of the U.S. State Department to protest the resignation of State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley and the detention of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning March 14, 2011 in Washington, DC. Two days after saying the treatment of accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning was 'ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid,' Crowley resigned. The demonstrators stripped their clothing off to protest against the treatment of Manning, who has been allegedly held naked in a Marine Corps base in Virginia after being accused of leaking information to the Wikileaks website. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
English: Hamid Mir interviewing Osama bin Lade...
English: Hamid Mir interviewing Osama bin Laden for Daily Pakistan in 1997 behind them on the wall is an AKS-74U carbine. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Rally in support of Bradley Manning on August ...
Rally in support of Bradley Manning on August 8, 2010, in Quantico, Virginia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
FORT MEADE, MD - JUNE 06: David Coombs (R), l...
FORT MEADE, MD - JUNE 06: David Coombs (R), lawyer for U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, arrives for a motion hearing in the case United States vs. Manning June 6, 2012 in Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, has been accused of passing thousands of diplomatic cables and intelligence reports to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks and faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy. Manning returned to court to ask for a dismissal of 10 of the charges. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
United State Marine Corps Memorial
United State Marine Corps Memorial (Photo credit: Adelaide Archivist)
Henry Waxman, member of the United States Cong...
Henry Waxman, member of the United States Congress. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Sweden Pulled Deeper Into NATO’s Global ...
    The Local/Agence France-Presse October 31, 2012 Sweden agrees to help monitor Nato airspace ==== [Finland] is the only non-Nato European state bordering Russia, and its non-alignment with the military bloc is seen as an important tool for maintaining good relations with its mighty neighbour. [Be ...
  • Nicaragua: Latin America, World Need Multi-Pol ...
    RT October 31, 2012 ‘Latin America needs independence to prosper’ – President of Nicaragua VIDEO Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega believes Latin America requires freedom from external influence to flourish. For Nicaragua, this means building a canal for self-sustainability. He told RT that all ...
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organization Can Break U. ...
    Voice of Russia October 31, 2012 US to give up Internet dominance Shanghai Cooperation Organization heads of state summit in June of this year The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) can compete with the United States in controlling the Internet via a new global system, SCO Business Club’s D ...
  • Middle East War Could Erupt Right After U.S. P ...
    Voice of Russia October 30, 2012 Middle East in anticipation of war, reaching its peak after US elections Vladimir Sazhin Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey in Israel ahead of the unprecedented Austere Challenge 12 interceptor missile war games ==== While Israel’s right ...
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky: Holy blood was shed, regula ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** 1862: Dostoevsky on the new world order Vladimir Odoevsky: City without a name, system with one ===== Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) Translated by Constance Garnett I suddenly, quite without noticin ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Canadian Seeks Class Action Lawsuit Against Ap ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com October 31, 2012 An administrative assistant from Vancouver named Amanda Ladas is taking the Apple Corporation to court for violating the privacy and security rights of iPhone users. According to a recently posted press release: Ladas is concerned that, without her pe ...
  • Hazardous Waste Leaves Hundreds of People Sick ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com October 31, 2012 This week an industrial park in New Mexico has released a mysterious waste product into the local environment that has made over 200 people sick. According to the Associated Press “A 1-mile area surrounding the Dona Ana County Industrial Park and Mexi ...
  • Mainstream Attacks Popular Alternative News Ou ...
    Shepard Ambellas | Some would say the globalists that fund Obama and possibly the president himself had access to "HAARP it up".
  • NYSE Set to Reopen After Longest Weather Relat ...
    Shepard Ambellas | The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is set to reopen Wednesday morning from what will be the longest weather related shutdown in more than 100 years.
  • Obama Ordered DHS to Control Hurricanes
    Related: Hurricane Sandy Under Aerosol Geoengineering by DHS to Modify Intensity and Land-fall? By Melissa Melton Infowars.com October 30, 2012 While the debate rages regarding whether or not the U.S. government uses weather manipulation technology to steer storms like Hurricane Sandy, further e ...

FRS

  • First Nations lead the way in Victoria protest ...
    Carrie Saxifrage October 23rd, 2012 First Nations are leading the way in British Columbia’s opposition to pipelines, tankers and exploitation of the climate damaging oil sands Protesters trickled in like salmon heading home—a few signs on the Canada Line at 5:30 in the morning, a big line ...
  • China: Among protesters, “middle class& ...
    Successful pollution protest shows China takes careful line with rising middle class GILLIAN WONG,  Associated Press October 29, 2012 NINGBO, China — A victory by protesters against the expansion of a chemical plant proves the new rule in China: The authoritarian government is scared of middle-c ...
  • India: Thousands of protestors detained while ...
    #Koodankulam By Tariq Abdul Muhaimin, Kracktivist,  10/29/12  NEWZFIRST CHENNAI, TN – Thousands of protestors including leaders of different political parties were detained by the police on Monday, when they were en route to lay siege outside the Tamil Nadu assembly demanding the closure of Kuda ...
  • Covert War on Terror: UN team to investigate ...
    October 25th, 2012 | by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism [London-based UN expert says Geneva unit will investigate civilian drone deaths] The United Nations plans to set up a special investigation unit examining claims of civilian deaths in individual US covert drone strikes. UN inves ...
  • Prisoner Advocates Question Evacuation Plan fo ...
    Monday Oct 29, 2012 3:31 pm By Amy Armstrong, In These Times As much of New York prepares for the possibility of evacuation, 12,000 inmates at Rikers Island, which lies in the water between Queens and the Bronx, will remain in the facility throughout Hurricane Sandy’s worst wind, rain and waves. ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Obama Volunteers Keep Busy on California's Cen ...
    It's been nearly a quarter-century since a Republican has carried California in the race for president: Think Bush over Dukakis. But on California's Central Coast, Obama supporters are still busy, focused on states that aren't a sure win for Obama.Contributor: Mike Nemeth Published: Oct 24, 2012
  • Politics Hard for a Disenfranchised Centrist
    Between living in these politically polarized times and living in the swing state of Michigan, where there are also several hotly contested Congressional, state and regional races, it’s been difficult to stay above the fray.Contributor: Phil Watson Published: Oct 22, 2012
  • Voting in Ohio: Vote Early, Vote Carefully
    There is a tension in the air as Ohio approaches this election. It is caused by the constant refrain of political advertising from television, radio, yard signs, and others. To avoid it, vote early and with care.Contributor: Phil Cole Published: Oct 22, 2012
  • Obama-Romney 2012: a View from Inside the Beltway
    Do the two sides have to disagree on everything?Contributor: Elizabeth Williams Published: Oct 22, 2012
  • VP Shows How Not to Win a Vote
    Living in a battle ground state, I can tell both parties how to not get the vote and actually how to lose some votes. Lots of votes are lost this way.Contributor: Jim Chase Published: Oct 18, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • What Not To Do In A Superstorm
    Wondering what it was like in New York when Sandy made landfall? Popular Science senior editor Martha Harbison took to the streets (and now totally regrets it). I wish I could blame the following stupidity on booze, but I don't even have that crutch. I'll blame it instead on being cooped up in ...
  • Disney Will Release A New Star Wars Movie In 2015
    For better or worse, the $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm gets Disney the rights to Star Wars. Disney has bought Star Wars. In a just-announced deal for $4 billion, the company picked up Lucasfilm, the production company that made The Biggest Cultural Thing In Modern Times. And along with that, ...
  • In New York, The Day After Sandy
    Having weathered the storm, PopSci staff in New York venture out on Tuesday to inspect the aftermath.
  • Lebbeus Woods, Futuristic Architect, Dies
    The influential architect, who once proposed a traveling space station to memorialize Albert Einstein, died today. Lebbeus Woods, an experimental architect, artist, and theoretician, has died. He passed away in his sleep this morning, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman report ...
  • Cheap New Nanoparticle HIV Test Gives Fast Res ...
    The highly sensitive test turns blue for a positive result and red for a negative one. It could be altered to detect other diseases, such as malaria and sepsis. Researchers at Imperial College London have created a simple and quick HIV test that is both more sensitive and 10 times cheaper than ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Unfree Markets & the Hong Kong Property Bubble
    The late Milton Friedman once lauded Hong Kong as the archetypal success story in laissez-faire economics--especially when compared with its erstwhile colonial master the United Kingdom. With its low taxes, few penalties in opening and closing businesses and so on, it is no surprise that Hong Ko ...
  • NOT Going to America? Japanese Baseball Protec ...
    Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball - Jacques Barzun [RIP] Those with even a passing knowledge of baseball know that the Japanese are the best in the world at this sport. Despite extending my congratulations to the 2012 US champions the San Francisco Gia ...
  • No Surprise: Asia is World's Wealthiest Region
    Although Swiss bankers have lost some of their cachet in recent years as reputations for both banking secrecy and sound money management have taken a hit, all is not lost. Even the seemingly hapless UBS has been dinged mostly on their investment banking side and not their private banking side. F ...
  • Without You: Contemplating the UK-Free EU
    Rest assured that it's not only the Chinese who have a habit of disowning Nobel laureates. For the longest time, the British have shown disdain for the European Union project over both their supposed loss of sovereignty and the waste of money going to Brussels (or was that Strasbourg?). To be su ...
  • China's Growth Slowdown is Utterly Unsurprising
    Nobody is immune to economic slowdowns, and it was perhaps only a matter of China encountered such an episode. To paraphrase my erstwhile LSE IDEAS colleague Martin Jacques, when China rules the world may be set back a few years. Even the Associated Press via Yahoo! News has noticed that, gee, m ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 18 Startling Quotes About The Incredible Destr ...
    It is hard to put into words the absolute devastation that we are seeing along many areas of the east coast right now.  Boats have been washed ashore, homes have been razed, some coastal roads have been essentially destroyed, and large numbers of people are still trapped in their homes by flood ...
  • Worst Case Scenario: Hurricane Sandy Is The Bi ...
    The biggest storm to ever hit the northeast United States is creating a tremendous amount of havoc up and down the eastern seaboard.  It is hard to describe how gigantic this storm actually is.  From end to end, Hurricane Sandy is more than 1000 miles across.  It is twice the size of the state o ...
  • The $100 Billion Storm: 17 Things You Should K ...
    Meteorologists are warning that Hurricane Sandy could potentially be the worst storm to hit the east coast of the United States in 100 years.  Do you remember "the perfect storm" back in 1991?  That storm was so bad that Hollywood made a blockbuster movie starring George Clooney about it.  Well, ...
  • Will The Bottom Fall Out? 15 Signs That Layoff ...
    If you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the United States is about to start getting worse again.  Over the past several weeks, a substantial number of large corporations have announced disappointing ...
  • 37 Facts That Show How Cruel This Economy Has ...
    Have you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because you didn't know how your family was possibly going to make it through the next month financially?  Have you ever felt the desperation of not being able to provide the basic necessities for your family even though you tr ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Russia, China and US challenge rating agencies
    A new agency is about to appear in the rating business that will be created by the Russians, Chinese and Americans. The agency Universal Credit Rating Group that claims to be a global player, came into being in Beijing and is the joint brainchild of the Chinese rating agency Dagong Global, the A ...
  • Swiss banking giant UBS AG to cut about 10,000 ...
    The largest bank in Switzerland, UBS AG, has announced plans to cut about 10,000 jobs worldwide, as the economic crisis in the European country continues to worsen. “This decision has been a difficult one, particularly in a business such as ours that is all about its people. Some reduction ...
  • Gangs Plan Hurricane Sandy Looting Spree Via T ...
    Scores of Twitter users have flooded the social networking site announcing their plans to go on looting sprees once Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, as the New York National Guard announced it would put troops on duty in Long Island to prevent such activity. 1,175 New York National Guard troops h ...
  • Bahrain Bans All Public Gatherings
    Bahraini authorities have prohibited protest gatherings and rallies until further notice, a day after police cracked down heavily on demonstrators, once again during the 20-month fatality-riddled unrest. ­The statement made by the country’s Interior Ministry did not define precise measures that ...
  • Iran group of naval fleets docks at Sudan port
    In line with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s strategy of expanding its naval presence in international waters, Iran Navy’s 22nd fleet of warships has called at a Sudanese northeastern port in the Red Sea. The fleet which comprises Kharg helicopter carrier and Admiral Naqdi destroyer arrived at th ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Russian Report... Obamacare, Drone Strikes and ...
    Russia claims that Obamacare, the National Defense Authorization Act and CIA drone strikes are all examples of human rights violations being committed by the United States. ~ Christopher Goin read more
  • Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Race in 2016 Co ...
    The saga of Benghazi continues to be froth with disinformation because of one remaining factor: placing the blame for the murder of US Ambassador and CIA-asset J. Christopher Stevens, whether directly or indirectly, on Obama will cause an electoral upset and push the American people to vote ...
  • As Sandy Approached NYC, Mayor Bloomberg Annou ...
    With Hurricane Sandy approaching the New York Area, Mayor Bloomberg declared a state of emergency and ordered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in low laying and vulnerable areas... An area called Rikers Island in New York is in one of these dangerous areas, however... for mos ...
  • Proof?... Aerosol Geoengineering by DHS to Mod ...
    The 2010 American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting presented details of aerosol geo-engineering program run by the Department of Homeland Security.  The program included discussion of how aerosols were effective at decreasing and increasing the intensity of Hurricane Katrina. ~ Haro ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Generator Maintenance
    Gasoline Generator Maintenance is crucial to being assured that during the next power outage, it will be ready to run. Gasoline is formulated to only be optimum for about a month. After that, gasoline molecules react with each other and will eventually become sticky varnishes that can clog fuel ...
  • President Signs Another Executive Order
    The President has signed another executive order. This one expands the mission of Homeland Security in the U.S. The order establishes a new “Security Partnership Council”. Yes that’s right, more government workers to be hired for this new bureaucracy ‘council’. &#16 ...
  • 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 ...

Fast Company

  • Google Brings Advanced Voice Search To iOS
    Google's advanced voice search is now available for iOS devices, meaning that anyone with an iPad, iPhone or iPod who is sick of messing around with Siri can use Google's superior version. Siri is taking it well, however: I just asked it who was better, Siri or its rival, and it led me to an pro ...
  • Post-Sandy, FCC Warns Of Worsening Cell Phone ...
    Sandy has wreaked havoc on the cell phone network, the FCC chair said yesterday. Julius Genachowski told reporters that due to sustained power outage and damage to cell sites the situation would probably get worse before it got better. The main problem for people, he said, was the fact that peop ...
  • The Intrapreneur's Playbook
    When it comes to innovation, entrepreneurship gets a lot of attention. But every day, people are generating new products and business models within established companies as well. This so-called intrapreneurship may seem cushier--after all, a corporate parent eliminates some risks of a startup--b ...
  • How To Power Through The Next Sandy
    The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has left more than 8 million people without power and without the ability to power up critical devices--including cell phones. Sure, there are rechargeable batteries and power inverters on the market to help you in a pinch, but they require the foresight to stock ...
  • Why The Internet Is (Mostly) Hurricane-Proof
    As Hurricane Sandy devastated the east coast Monday night, the Internet was less severely damaged. Yes, Gawker, Buzzfeed, and the Huffington Post went down, but all in all the web marched on. According to Reuters, all three New York City-based media companies had one thing in common: they housed ...

Jadaliyya

  • NEWTON Year in Review
    Since we first launched our New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) page a little more than a year ago,  we have had the opportunity to feature an astonishing range of books and articles for Jadaliyya readers. With authors generously agreeing to discuss their new works, offer background information ...
  • Is the Sky Falling? Press and Internet Censors ...
    Since January 2011, the Jordanian political scene has been significantly affected by the waves of change in the region collectively known as “the Arab Spring.” Emboldened by regional events, some fear barriers have been broken in Jordan as political and labor activists throughout the country hav ...
  • Studying Social Streams: Cultural Analytics in ...
    One of the challenges of studying technology is learning how to deconstruct the tools from the political ideologies held by those who develop them. As Timothy Mitchell explains in his book on Colonising Egypt, the practice of science and systems of ordering national standards are modern projects ...
  • As Syria Free-Falls . . . A Return to the Basi ...
    [This is Part 2 of “As Syria Falls.” Part 1 can be accessed here] Amid the mounting and tragic violence, loss of life, and loss of Syria, it seems difficult to write about history and causes. Yet it is equally difficult to write critically about the current chaos, precisely because of the infor ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (October 30)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...

mediagazer

  • Councilman Pushes For Charges Against Twitter ...
    Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed: Councilman Pushes For Charges Against Twitter User Who Spread Falsehoods  —  “I hope the fact that I'm asking for criminal charges to be seriously considered will make him much less comfortable and much less smug,” says Vallone  &mda ...
  • Yelp Launching Visual Menus With User-Contribu ...
    Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Yelp Launching Visual Menus With User-Contributed Photos  —  Yelp is announcing a new feature today that allows users to browse restaurant menus (with accompanying food porn) directly from the Yelp website and mobile app.  —  Last year, t ...
  • In Search of One Last Hurrah for Rupert Murdoc ...
    Simon Dumenco / AdAge: In Search of One Last Hurrah for Rupert Murdoch, Fading Press Baron  —  Does the News Corp. Chief Really Want to Buy The L.A. Times And Chicago Tribune?  Does It Matter?  —  When I saw the recent headlines about Rupert Murdoch wanting ...
  • Meet the man behind "Is Twitter Wrong?" who he ...
    David Holmes / PandoDaily: Meet the man behind “Is Twitter Wrong?” who helped debunk fake pictures during Hurricane Sandy  —  Yesterday was a big day for citizen journalism.  At one point during the storm users were posting 10 pictures to Instagram every second, ...
  • With Lucasfilm Deal, Disney Spends Big to Land ...
    Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook: With Lucasfilm Deal, Disney Spends Big to Land a Lucrative Franchise  —  With its $4.05 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm, the Walt Disney Company is proving yet again that it is willing to pay up to land a big franchise.  —  Di ...

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

  • AC Milan comes from behind and ties game ...
    Related topics SoccerSerie AAC Milan Advertisement In the first game of Round 10 in the Italian soccer league, AC Milan comes from behind to tie the game at 2-2 against Palermo. Milan played away and with the tie the team might have salvaged 9th place in Serie A. Milan sits in 9th place with ...
  • Barcelona begin Copa del Rey title defenc ...
    A review of the Copa del Rey ties on Tuesday night as Barcelona and Valencia both earned away wins at lower-league opposition....
  • Trader who lost £1.4bn 'told to push boun ...
    An alleged rogue trader accused of gambling away £1.4bn was urged to "push the boundaries" by his bosses, a jury heard yesterday. Kweku Adoboli, 32, is accused of committing Britain's biggest ever fraud while working...
  • Walcott rescues Arsenal from the brink to ...
    It is easy to forget at the moment but football is one of the best things so far invented by man. Arsenal's collapse and then comeback, within 90 astonishing minutes of Capital One Cup football, ought to be how the 2012/13 season is remembered. This game had 12 goals, four of them in extra t ...
  • Cole likely to make first start
    PAUL WILSON JOE COLE is expected to make his first proper start of the season for Liverpool in the League Cup game against Swansea tonight, with Brendan Rodgers also likely to give Samed Yesil his chance to lead the attack with Luis Suarez and Steven Gerrard allowed a rest. Cole has only sta ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 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
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

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

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 ...
  • Tokyo’s Katsumi
    Japan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
  • Women’s Migraines
    Carol Cruzan Morton Migraines are a battle of the sexes that women might prefer not winning. Each year, roughly three times more women than men—up to 18% of all women—suffer from the debilitating headaches, as tallied by epidemiological surveys in Europe and the United States. A new brain imagin ...

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

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

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

  • The Allied Breakout At St. Lo Was A Major Comb ...
      July 24, 1944; it has been seven weeks since the Allies opened a second front against the Third Reich in the daring invasion known as D Day. The Germans however had recovered from the initial shock and were able to cobble together an almost impervious defensive battlefield. The verdant ro ...
  • 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 ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Bush Architect of Katrina Response Disaster Cr ...
    NO, THIS isn’t a headline from The Onion. It’s George W. Bush’s former FEMA Director Michael “Heck of a Job” Brownie reminding American voters what happens when a Republican sits in the Oval Office and a catastrophe strikes. Barack Obama has completely ignored clima ...
  • A Word from Al Gore
    THERE IS resentment whenever a person calls something before others and is proven right. Nobody has taken more incoming than Al Gore, but he’s been right about climate change from the start. The images of Sandy’s flooding brought back memories of a similar–albeit smaller scale– ...
  • Arguments For Abolishing the Electoral College
    I’m not sure if having this conversation a few days before the presidential election is good timing or not, but then, once this voting cycle is over, how many people will pay attention to much of anything related to elections until, maybe, midterm elections, more likely not until the 2016 WH rac ...
  • Free & Equal Elections Moves Presidential Deba ...
    In response to the huge storm system still effecting weather across a large area, Free and Equal Elections Foundation announced that the scheduled debate between Gary Johnson and Jill Stein will be moved from October 30 to November 5. From Free & Equal: The debate will feature Libertarian Pa ...
  • Treading: Nor’Easter Sandy in Europe, and a “C ...
    THE PHOTO above is sobering [h/t reader/commenter mjsmith]. Of course, if you were in the line of Sandy you already know her power. Andrew Kaczynski gathered the evidence and reported the story that went viral: How One Well-Connected Pseudonymous Twitter Spread Fake News About Hurricane Sandy. A ...

Hudson New York

  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2012
    The aftermath of collective punishment for Pakistan's Christians—the inevitable byproduct of the notorious Rimsha Masih blasphemy case, concerning a possibly mentally challenged, 14-year-old Christian girl falsely accused of desecrating a Quran—was more
  • Benghazi vs. Reykjavik
    This weekend marks the thirty-third anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Embassy hostage crisis; there is much about the current Benghazi debacle reminiscent of what happened in Teheran all those years ago. As a response to both events, the world's superpower
  • Al-Qaeda's Strategy of a "Thousand Cuts"
    Spanish police have arrested six members of an al-Qaeda cell in Barcelona that was dedicated to providing a related terrorist cell in Germany with large numbers of stolen passports. The Spanish Interior Ministry said the police action, dubbed Operation
  • Egypt's "United States of Arabs"
    Recent comments by the head of the Muslim Brotherhood [MB], the winner of the recent elections in Egypt, and others, provide yet another jolting reminder of the ruling party's plans for the Middle East. With the presidency under its control, members of
  • 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

Urban Survival

  • S&P Housing Report: Half-Full or Half-Empty?
    This is one of those reports which can be taken either way:  In one sense, the year-on-year change is up 2% – better than the 1.7% expected, but on the other hand, the prices are still stuck at summer-autumn 2003 … Continue reading →
  • Sandy: Blackout Bingo
    50-houses up in flames in a flooded area and the president has declared NYC a major disaster area this morning as a result of Hurricane Sandy.   This morning’s entertainment, if you live comfortably in a different part of the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: How Sandy Leads to WW III
    “Say what???”  Oh…uh….just the start of WW III in 11 days…. And all this from Hurricane Sandy?  Oh boy…hot cup of coffee on this here this email which rolled in from G.A. “Stu” Stewart of heavy-duty Nostradamus research and books … ...
  • 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 →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Superstorm Sandy Reminds Us Why We Have to Car ...
    Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de NRDC, San Francisco Over the years I’ve written several blogs about the connection between extreme weather and climate change, so watching Sandy pummel the East Coast compelled me ...
  • Americans Increasingly Believe There Is Proof ...
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Another national poll confirms that Americans increasingly believe there is solid evidence of global warming and that human activities are mostly to blame for climat ...
  • "Smart Grids" Need Smart Planners
    Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA Billions of dollars will be invested in upgrading America’s electrical grid in the coming years but making it smarter in California and elsewhere won’t lead to lower bills, he ...
  • India Needs Energy-Smart Building Construction ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Cities are booming throughout India, with workers and cranes speeding to construct new high-tech computing centers, offices, and residential buildings. But with this massive building construction underw ...
  • Innovative "Off Cycle" Credits Give Stop-Start ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco New provisions in the recently finalized model year 2017 to 2025 carbon and fuel efficiency rules are set to give a huge boost to Innovative fuel-efficiency technologies. These new so-call ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    *Note* Due to Hurricane Sandy, Cato was shut down 10-29-12 and 10-30-12. When Cato shuts down, there will not be tweeting/blogging on PoliceMisconduct.net. Tweeting/recaps resumed as normal today. Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, October … Continue reading &# ...
  • 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 ...

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: Apple shuffle, Mail.ru ...
    Apple’s reshuffle, Google for art and politics and Mail.ru for global expansion. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here...
  • 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...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Wind farms lowering electricity bills in SA
    Wind farms are making a major contribution to lower electricity prices in South Australia, with bills set to fall $160/year on average. The Essential Services Commission of South Australia has lowered standing contract electricity prices by 8.1% from January ...
  • 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 ...
  • Rising prices show we must get off gas
                               Australian households are to be hit by another rise in energy bills, this time due to rising gas prices, as highlighted by a report releas ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Mysteries surrounding the legendary and vanish ...
    In a remote corner of the Ethiopian highlands in January 2011, the bright tropical light combined with the fresh and thin air at 3,600 metres. The Ethiopian bird-watching guide and conservationist, Yilma Dellelegn, from the Ethiopian Wildlife Society, was startled when he spotted two un-ringed y ...
  • Leopard poaching is a bigger problem in India ...
    A recent study conducted by wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC uncovered unnerving statistics about the illegal trade of leopards (Panthera pardus) in India: at least four leopards have been poached every week for the past decade in the country. The study, entitled Illuminating the Blind Sp ...
  • 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 ...

Sierra Express

  • Proudly Investing in Sierra Leone
    London Mining is focused on identifying, developing and operating mines to become a significant producer of Iron Ore. We are currently producing from our Marampa Operation in Sierra Leone, and developing two Iron Ore Mines in Saudi Arabia and Greenland, as well as a Coking Operation in Colombia. ...
  • Sierra Rutile named ‘2012 International Compan ...
    Sierra Rutile Ltd was named ‘2012 International Company of the Year’ by the UK’s business, stock market and investment elite this month becoming, in the process, the first Sierra Leonean company to win a prestigious Alternative Investment Market (AIM) Award. Receiving the accolade, at the AIM Aw ...
  • Agenda for Change is a Resounding Success
    The second joint report on the Agenda for Change has been published since March 2012. This document is the result of collaboration between the Government of Sierra Leone and its development partners, presented as a compendium of activities and outputs that can be directly attributed to the Agend ...
  • As Citizen Radio Manager becomes Victim of Fan ...
    As the Station Manager for Citizen Radio Kissy fell victim of Fan Kay, the President of the Sierra Leone Indigenous Traditional Healers Union (SLITHU),  Dr. Sulaiman Kabba (in photo)  has condemned this act. He was making this pronouncement over the weekend at his Calaba Town residence at Freeto ...
  • Fire Disaster Claims Two Children at Sunday St ...
    Latest reports reaching this press allege that a fire disaster broke out in the Sunday Street Community along Foamex Factory, on the Freetown Waterloo Highway. The said incident occurred on Wednesday 24th October around 9:30 p.m. Sources further went on to state that, both victims, 4 year old Pr ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Infant formula company wants $78 a can in China
    A Chinese-owned infant formula maker that has emerged as a sponsor of the Vodafone Warriors has bold plans to commence exports to China, where it plans to sell its New Zealand-made formula for $78 a can.Auckland-based Fernbaby -...
  • 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...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Happy Halloween from Reason
    With the presidential election now less than a week away, you've got plenty of reasons to be frightened. So to take your mind off the impending horrors of a second Obama or a first Romney administration, why not relax with this selection of Reason’s best Halloween-related writings. Y ...
  • Nick Gillespie on 3 Incredibly Stupid Response ...
    Writes Nick Gillespie: Every time a disaster strikes - whether it's natural, man-made, or a combination of the two such as Hurricane Katrina - politicians, the media, and the public immediately start playing out a script that is every bit as threadbare as it is stupid. If the defi ...
  • FEMA: Did Mitt Call for its Abolition? And Why ...
    Never let a good hurricane or "frankenstorm" go to waste, right? The past few days have been awash not just in detritus from Hurricane Sandy's smashing the East Coast but in politically motivated attacks on decentralized government and fact-free championing of that great American i ...
  • A.M. Links: Sandy U.S. Death Toll at 48, Mitt ...
    The U.S. death toll from Superstorm Sandy is up to 48. The New York City subway may take several weeks to several months to come back online after Hurricane Sandy. NASA, meanwhile, is working on hurricane drones, because the space agency now focuses on weather and clime almost a ...
  • Don't Break Out the Sparkling Apple Cider Just ...
    First, from The Hill's Mark Mellman, who notes that most of the "fundamentals" (such as economic trends, demography, etc.) all favor a Barack Obama win. Snippet: The president retains more routes to 270 electoral votes than does Mitt Romney, making it more likely he will succeed i ...

Mercury Rising

  • A word in favor of the electoral college
    The storm on the East Coast gives one more reason why the Electoral College is a good idea. Very likely many people in that region will be unable to vote due to the storm. That will be especially true in the poorest towns and rural areas. If there were no Electoral College, the Eastern Seaboard ...
  • The Republican War On Objectivity: Nate Silver ...
    Paul Krugman reads Brad DeLong, and via Brad he found out about the National Review’s bizarre attack on Nate Silver for what they, without meaningful evidence, insinuate are wrong and biased poll numbers. Like all decent people, he is horrified: Yet the right — and we’re not talking about ...
  • 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: “ ...
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Reality Sandwich

  • Waxing "Sacred Economics" with Charles Eisenstein
      This interview originally appeared on The Huffington Post. While political pundits, financial analysts, and Occupiers fumble on how to transcend the intensifying global financial crisis, Eisenstein is trailblazing bold new ideas and possibilities for how we conduct monetary exchan ...
  • Community Currency in Your Neighborhood
    Starting a community currency is no small task. As Mira Luna suggests in her article on Sharable, it's not going to happen overnight, and it's not going to happen on its own. read more
  • 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

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

  • Blast kills 8 civilians in Damascus
    At least eight civilians have been killed and several others injured after a bomb attack hit Sayeda Zainab district in Syrian capital, Damascus, Press TV reports.
  • Bahrainis hold protests despite ban
    Bahraini anti-regime protesters have once again staged rallies in the capital Manama despite a recent ban on all opposition protests and public gatherings.
  • Turkish police clash with Kurds
    Kurdish protesters have clashed with Turkish police in two cities to draw international attention to the deteriorating situation of hundreds of Kurdish hunger-strikers in Turkey’s prisons.
  • Syria rebels move in Turkey ambulances
    A report says the Syrian army has detected Turkish ambulances being used as transportation vehicles for the insurgents in Syria.
  • ‘China can play active role on Syria’
    UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has expressed hope that China will play an active role in resolving the turmoil in Syria.

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 ...
  • 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

  • What Price Rice May Do
    Rice remains the most popular staple in Guinea, but the high price of imported rice is pushing many consumers in this West African country to change their diet. Farmers have responded by rapidly expanding the land area planted with an alternative food crop: cassava. According to statistics from ...
  • Towns in Argentina Unite to Confront Climate C ...
    Through everyday practices like avoiding the use of disposable products and sorting garbage for recycling, communities in the Argentine interior are joining forces to implement more effective environmental policies.
  • Kashmiris Demand the Right to Know
    Bashir Ahmad Malik was flabbergasted when a helicopter carrying an Indian official from Kashmir’s summer capital of Srinagar landed in his resident Drang village, just 17 miles away from its point of departure. The 41-year-old local, whose village is devoid of basic amenities like clean water an ...
  • ‘Breastfeeding Best for Bangladesh’
    Bangladesh’s achievement in raising exclusive breastfeeding rates for infants under six months from 43 percent to 64 percent, over the last five years, is said to be the result of a determined campaign by government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).  At the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical Co ...
  • Students Torn Between School and Work in DR Congo
    Hanging from the door of a mini-bus taxi as it jerks and jinks through traffic, 16-year-old Gires Manoka calls out the van’s destination to potential passengers as it crosses Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. One pedestrian asks the fresh-faced teen if he shouldn&# ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Pentagon nixed Iran nuclear visit in 1998
    Summary: In 1998, the Defense Department vetoed plans by a delegation of prominent US nuclear specialists investigate Iran's nuclear program at the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, according to the nuclear scientist who had organized the missio ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • EcoAlert: Titan Supercomputer --Launches New E ...
                 The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second — or 20 petaflops — peak performance by employing a family o ...
  • First Planet Discovered in a Quadruple Star Sy ...
                  High-contrast imaging observations have confirmed the first extrasolar planet discovered in a quadruple star system. The images (bottom of page) revealed that the system involved two sets of binary stars, according to Justin Crepp, Freimann Assistant Professor of physics a ...
  • Previously Unknown Population Explosion of Hum ...
                   DNA sequencing of 36 complete Y chromosomes has uncovered a previously unknown population explosion that occurred 40 to 50 thousand years ago, between the first expansion of modern humans out of Africa 60 to 70 thousand years ago and the Neolithic expansions of people in ...
  • Image of the Day: NASA Captures Sandy's Eye
                   The image was taken on Sunday, the day before Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, by the radar on NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite. It reveals that Sandy had a distinctive eyewall, surrounding the relatively calm eye at the center of the storm. The TRMM ...
  • 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 ...

Natural News

  • Natural News accused of 'fear mongering' for r ...
    Superstorm sandy never happened. There was no flooding, no power grid failure and no fatalities. In the aftermath of the storm that never happened, there will be no looting, no property loss, and no economic losses, either. This is the world according to those I call...
  • Emergency first aid checklist: Herbs, medicine ...
    In the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, which has devastated many parts of the East coast, we've been receiving a flood of calls and emails asking about emergency preparedness items for first aid and natural medicine. Here, I've put together a quick checklist of things...
  • Beat systemic lupus naturally
    Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that is known to inflame and damage the heart, lungs, brain, joints, blood vessels, skin and kidneys among other things. Typical medical treatments for lupus include corticosteroids that suppress the immune...
  • Bed-ridden hospital patients to be electro-sho ...
    Researchers from the University of Calgary (UoC) in Canada have come up with an unconventional new method of treating bed sores that they say could help save health systems around the world billions of dollars every year. As reported by BBC News, doctors from the school...
  • Lobelia gets scientists' attention as an antim ...
    Traditional herbalists consider lobelia to be one of the most powerful and useful herbs on the planet, and use it in a variety of herbal formulas. Lobelia is an adaptogen, or "thinking" herb, meaning it will take the beneficial phytochemicals in other herbs with it to...

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court to Decide if Drug Dogs Pass Cons ...
    The Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hold oral arguments concerning the novel question of whether judges may issue search warrants for private residences when a drug-sniffing dog outside the home reacts as if it smells drugs inside. In ...
  • Oops: E-Mail Marketer Left Walmart, US Bank an ...
    Think you fixed your DKIM e-mail security problem by swapping out your weak key with a stronger one? According to one researcher, you may still be vulnerable if you use a third-party e-mailer who is using a weak key to ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Romney Clan Parrots Limbaugh's Racist Obam ...
    When Rush Limbaugh slandered Sandra Fluke as a "slut" back in March, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said only, "It's not the language I would have used." But when it comes to Limbaugh's repeated slurs of the first African-American President of the United States as a "little boy" ...
  • Ryan Blames Obama for Delphi Layoffs Romney Ca ...
    While the Romney campaign continues to push its lie about Jeep shifting jobs from Ohio to China, Paul Ryan has been busy trying to hoodwink Buckeye voters with a tall tale about another company saved by President Obama's rescue of the U.S. industry. Recycling a charge Team Romney first introduc ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Ralph Nader: The Corporatization of Your Dreams
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Oct 25, 2012 by jeannekyle [Presented by Speakers Committee and the Political Student Assembly, a part of USC Program Board. Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate & Former Green Party Candidate for President, will be at USC to discuss "The Corporatization of America ...
  • Michael Parenti: The Destruction and Colonizat ...
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org October 30, 2012 Oct 21, 2012 by Milina Jovanovic Destruction and Colonization of Yugoslavia event, 09-15-2012 Parenti’s introductory comments. Michael Parenti, part 1, Destruction & Coloni ...
  • Does Voting Even Matter? by Jill Dalton
    by Jill Dalton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad recoveringarmybrat October 30, 2012 I remember sitting in the large impersonal lecture hall in my American History 101 class feeling a bit forlorn and overwhelmed. I’m a freshman at the University of South Carolina. It’s 1968, the Vietnam War is raging ...
  • Bill McKibben on Resilience of New York City R ...
    We briefly speak with longtime environmental activist Bill McKibben about his reaction to watching residents of New York City cope with flood waters that turned the Lower East Side neighborhood into an "extension of the East River." McKibben is the co-founder of 350.org. His latest piece for The ...
  • Climate Change Impact Often Felt Most by the P ...
    We speak further with Henia Belalia of the group Peaceful Uprising about the issue of climate change, which was not raised in any of the three presidential debates. "The reason that we always bring this back to being a social justice issue is that we're looking at this infinite growth machine th ...

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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

  • Sandy & Global Warming Not A Laughing Matter, ...
      Mitt Romney made a big joke during the Republican national convention about Obama’s efforts to address climate change, and the crowd loved it. He then made the note that he was going to “help you and your family” — very contradictory statements there. As is evident ...
  • Introducing Hurricane Sandy to the Internet
    For what may be the first time in history, a climate disaster has hit a populated area with enough advance warning that the Internet was able to quickly kick into gear and prepare: everything from Twitter-hashtags to Google Docs peppered the Internet in preparation of the big storm. Preparation ...
  • The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
    Monday night saw Hurricane Sandy make landfall in New Jersey after days of heavy rains and slow progress up the Mid-Atlantic. While not as horrific as past hurricanes — owing to the intricate workings of what makes a storm a hurricane and what makes a hurricane a storm — Hurricane Sa ...
  • Hole-y Cow! WTFistula?
    Here’s some text from a PBS interview with Michael Pollan, entitled “Modern Meat.” This covers the need for the holes (“Rumen Fistula”) and more. Read the whole thing via the link, this snippet is just the beginning. The problem with this system, or one of the probl ...
  • 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 ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Scumney Is Worst Liar Ever To Win A Presidenti ...
    There have been many lies coming from Mitt Scumney's mouth during the course of this presidential campaign, but he's come to a point at which he's not the least bit artful about it. The latest mendacity is in an ad in the battleground state of Ohio, claiming that Jeep is outsourcing manufacturin ...
  • 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 ...

Care 2

  • The Pack is Back ( A Roundup of the Wolf Rein ...
    In the new war of the West, reintroduction of the near-extinct gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park has been the centerpiece of battle among farm groups, local ranchers, and environmental organizations. Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...
  • Domestic Violence in the Deaf Community
    Domestic Violence has always been a problem in the Deaf community. For many years it has been a hidden problem, secret and taboo. It was treated as a private matter between two people and the community should not get involved. ASL videos. Submitted by Brian M. to Society & Culture  |&n ...
  • Leaving Islam: My Journey to Freedom
    I slowly started cross-checking the references cited by the Islam-bashing writers. All the translations were mostly agreeable amongst themselves; they were mostly agreeable to the interpretations of the Islam-bashing authors of FFI. Submitted by Tommy S. to Society & Culture  |  & ...
  • Madonna Booed by Fans After Endorsing Barack O ...
    Last time Madonna mentioned Obama, & made headlines about it, was when she told a crowd in D.C., "So, you all better vote for f--kin' Obama, OK? For better or for worse, all right, we have a black Muslim in the White House!" Her fans were not amused. Submitted by Carol K to Society & Cultur ...
  • URGENT ACTION REQUIRED - Act now to save the M ...
    New Zealands critically endangered Mauis dolphin is the world's smallest and rarest marine dolphin but it is in very real danger of extinction. New reports indicate only 55 adult dolphins now remain alive, yet the NZ Governments response has been zero. Submitted by Grigori Rasputin to Animals & ...

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No Quarter

  • Obama’s Benghazi Fail Ain’t Going Away
    Barack Obama turns out to be a hell of a comedian. He went on TV today vowing to, “leave no one behind” to face the menace of Sandy the Hurricane. Wasn’t that special. But when it came to Americans under terrorist attack in Benghazi on September 11, Barack left them on their ow ...
  • Benghazi and the Swing States: “In Real Time”
    [John Batchelor's is a hell of a post - Bronwyn] The national likely-voter polls continue to show a distinct advantage toward Mitt Romney, while the state polls of critical swing states, OH, VA, NH, show strength for POTUS. What can explain this disconnect? I am told that the last week will see ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • A Department Of Business Is None Of Obama's Bu ...
    Investor's Business Daily: A Department Of Business Is None Of Obama's Business  —  Election '12: Eight days before election day, President Obama proposes creating a new “Secretary Of Business” cabinet post.  Just what the country needs: Another layer of bureauc ...
  • New York Subway System Faces Weeks to Recover ...
    Bloomberg: New York Subway System Faces Weeks to Recover From Storm  —  If you laid the New York City subway system in a line, it would stretch from New York to Detroit.  Now imagine inspecting every inch of that track.  —  That's the job ahead for Metropoli ...
  • FACEBOOK CENSORS NAVY SEALS TO PROTECT OBAMA O ...
    Awr Hawkins / BREITBART.COM: FACEBOOK CENSORS NAVY SEALS TO PROTECT OBAMA ON BENGHAZI-GATE  —  Over the weekend, Facebook took down a message by the Special Operations Speaks PAC (SOS) which highlighted the fact that Obama denied backup to the forces being overrun in Benghazi.&n ...
  • Will global warming bring storm barriers to Ne ...
    Daily Mail: Will global warming bring storm barriers to New York Harbor?  Bloomberg and Cuomo blame Hurricane Sandy on climate change  — Despite a chorus of support for the climate change link, some experts deny there is sufficient evidence to blame global warming for the storm
  • Stephens: Barack Obama and Other Has-Beens (Wa ...
    Wall Street Journal: Stephens: Barack Obama and Other Has-Beens  —  Yesterday's man of destiny is today's peddler of spent ideas.  —  On the eve of the U.S. presidential election four years ago, educated people nearly everywhere understood that China was the coun ...

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China Dialogue

  • “环保斗士” ...
    65岁的“中国最佳公民环境记者”刘福堂被控以“非法经营罪”，罪行是自费印刷书籍&# ...
  • 中国企业在&#2101 ...
    全球见证组织的调查揭示了外国公司如何滥伐刚果的森林资源，以满足中国对热带硬 ...
  • 水库诱发地&#3866 ...
    一位美国科学家实地走访了中国西部河流上已建、在建和计划建造的130多座大坝坝址&#652 ...
  • 中国城市：&#2173 ...
    公共自行车项目在北京、武汉和杭州的命运各不相同。政府的作用被证明是至关重要 ...
  • 转基因作物&#2615 ...
    转基因粮食作物日益被指为美国杂草抗药性加剧的根源，专家敦促恢复传统的庄稼轮 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Pesticide Industry Backed Opponents of Prop 37 ...
    The $36 million No on 37 campaign, bankrolled by $20 million from the world's six largest pesticide companies, has been caught in yet another lie, this time possibly criminal.These companies and their allies in the junk food industry know that their profit margins may suffer if consumers have ...
  • Marijuana Prohibition Is Hanging on by Its Fin ...
    Even though I’ve lived west of the Mississippi for half my life, the native New Yorker in me has always been dismissive of reports that my tax dollars are being used to fund black helicopters that are hassling Americans in defense of foreigners, or the UN, or something.“We have a ...
  • Mitt Blows it on Sandy: Did the Hurricane Just ...
    It’s become a platitude to say that no one should be playing politics with Hurricane Sandy, but that’s silly. When the performance of government suddenly becomes a literal matter of life and death to many Americans, we ought to be thinking about what kind of government we want to ...
  • Major Retailer Urges Workers To Take 'Civics C ...
    If you live in the Midwest and you're working on a home-improvement project, you're as likely to do your shopping at a Menards store as at a Lowe's or Home Depot. With 270 stores and 40,000 employees, Menards is the third-largest home-improvement chain in the U.S., and one of the largest priva ...
  • No Shame: Understanding Romney's Latest Lie Ab ...
    Over the weekend, Romney debuted an ad in Ohio showing cars being crushed as a narrator says Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China. Mitt Romney will fight for every American job.”In fact, Chrysler is retaining and expanding its Jeep productio ...

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court to Decide if Drug Dogs Pass Cons ...
    The Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hold oral arguments concerning the novel question of whether judges may issue search warrants for private residences when a drug-sniffing dog outside the home reacts as if it smells drugs inside. In ...
  • Oops: E-Mail Marketer Left Walmart, US Bank an ...
    Think you fixed your DKIM e-mail security problem by swapping out your weak key with a stronger one? According to one researcher, you may still be vulnerable if you use a third-party e-mailer who is using a weak key to ...
  • 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 ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • 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 ...

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Camera Obscura

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  • 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

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

  • The US army under attack by internal foes, but ...
    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 to un ...
  • Look in the mirror at America and see the worl ...
    Is this American exceptionalism? From an interesting article in the latest New York Review of Books: {It} might fit something John Dower identifies as a common trait in America, something he translates as “victim consciousness” {in Japanese higaisha ishiki}. What this means is the tendency to fo ...
  • Where did the great post-war dream for a new w ...
    Summary:  Tom Hayden’s post The Syrian dominos sparked some fascinating threads in the comments. One discussed what might be a formative moment in world history, one of events which set 21st century history on a very different track than that dreamed by the victors of WWII.  A path that me ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • Obama to the Rescue
    When Chris Christie delivered the keynote address at the Republican National Convention in August, he had some choice words for President Obama. “It’s time to end this era of absentee leadership in the Oval Office and send real leaders to the White House,” Christie thundered.  If he ever genuin ...
  • Michael Barone's Tenditious History
    Electoral historian and Fox News commentator Michael Barone, having long since made the trek from mainstream liberal to standard-issue conservative, is now endeavoring to pull the whole of American history along with him. In today’s Financial Times, he argues that Franklin Roosevelt never reall ...
  • Manhattan, Shaken and Stirred
    New York City is still assessing the extent of the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy. Over 660,000 people lost electricity—a quarter of a million customers in Manhattan alone. Schools, the stock exchange, and the subway system all shut down as businesses closed their doors and people sought she ...
  • A Privacy Catch-22
    When the Bush administration decided to wiretap some suspects without a warrant, it was acting contrary to the procedures that had been established by Congress Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Unfortunately, Congress reacted to this lawlessness by passing the Protect America Act, m ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • There are no afterlife-time guarantees
    There is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads, interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with you, but if they can ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CMD and Common Cause Prevail in Open Records L ...
    Five Wisconsin state legislators have agreed to turn over any correspondence and documents with or related to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and held on their personal email accounts; the action settles a lawsuit brought by the Center for Media and Democracy and Common Cause. T ...
  • Halloween Start for Panama FTA Means Tricks, N ...
    The biggest scare of Halloween 2012 is the implementation of the Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which weakens the U.S. government’s ability to stop U.S. corporations and wealthy individuals from dodging taxes in Panama, one of the world’s most notorious tax havens. Passed in Octo ...
  • In Response to Hurricane Sandy
    We woke up this morning with a deep sense of sadness. Hurricane Sandy has brought serious hardship to many of the people we love and places we treasure. Large parts of New York City are underwater, millions are still without power, and tens of thousands have been evacuated from their homes. Last ...
  • In Response to Hurricane Sandy
    We woke up this morning with a deep sense of sadness. Hurricane Sandy has brought serious hardship to many of the people we love and places we treasure. Large parts of New York City are underwater, millions are still without power, and tens of thousands have been evacuated from their homes. Last ...
  • Superstorm Sandy’s Devastating Impact to Hudso ...
    Riverkeeper mourns the loss of life from Superstorm Sandy, and we will assist as we can by land and water with cleanup efforts. Riverkeeper also wants to alert the public to the presence of unprecedented storm-related pollution of the Hudson River.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Name Storms After Oil Companies (The Ones Most ...
    Bill McKibben As gutsy New Yorkers begin the task of drying out the city, here’s one thought that occurred to me last night watching the horrifying pictures from a distance. It’s obviously not crucial right now — but in th ...
  • The Great Betrayal – and the Cynicism of Calli ...
    William K. Black Robert Kuttner has written much of the column I intended to write on this subject, so I will point you to his excellent column and add a few thoughts.
  • The Great Betrayal – and the Cynicism of Calli ...
    William K. Black Robert Kuttner has written much of the column I intended to write on this subject, so I will point you to his excellent column and add a few thoughts.
  • Has Sandy Abruptly Put Climate Change on the E ...
    Tom Mitchell Last week, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney stressed their commitment to developing oil and gas to improve energy security. Climate change was not mentioned. This position is senseless. The U.S.read more 

    ( It makes it hard to have a two way conversation when you deny  alternative thought any consideration - and misrepresent /promote false motivations for diverse people. Nor do we hear much except promotion of wind and solar, going off coal, etc. Yet all the truly wild and inventive ideas go nowhere. Why ? 

     Typical - and p.o.'d me completely even though I had no money in the game 

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