31 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: Watchtower, Rafah, Gaza Strip border with Egypt, April 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Map of Israel, the Palestinian territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip), the Golan Heights, and portions of neighbouring countries. Also United Nations deployment areas in countries adjoining Israel or Israeli-held territory, as of January 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Smuggling Tunnel, Rafah, Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Newshoggers - AfPak

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

• 'Paani' shoot to begin April 2013
  New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Shekhar Kapur's long pending project "Paani" will go on floors in April next year, says the filmmaker.
• Singapore Leads World in Water Recycling
  Goal Is 100% Water Independence by 2061. Special Report by Circle of Blue’s Brett Walton on Sharon Kleyne Power of Water Radio Talk Show.Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) October 30, 2012 The tiny island nation of Singapore, despite minimal natural water sources, has become the world’s leader in water rec ...
• Unterman leads caucus on Lake Lanier issues, i ...
  Unterman: Lowering boating under the influence threshold "a given"
• Sociology Club hosts “Blue Gold” screening, di ...
  If humans go one week without water, they will literally cry blood. According to Blue Gold: World Water Wars, a documentary shown in the Wildcat Theater, some experts believe that in 50 years, there will likely be a collapse of the earth’s water source if there is not a change made to the way th ...
• Blue Gold: World Water Wars panel talk changes ...
  The free Film Forum presentation of "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," set for 10 a.m. at the Boca Grande Community Center Auditorium Nov. 9, will be followed by a revised panel discussion.

WordPress | Economics

• Payday Loan Depot
  Credit card offer So many credit card offers, what to do? Just browse through the daily newspaper an
• Iceland’s Economy now growing faster than the ...
  H/T From the Trenches World Report Good for Iceland. I wish America would do the same thing.  
• Union Prepaid Credit Card
  Excessive credit card debt Excessive credit card debt Most people advocate the case of credit cards,
• Don't Worry Germany - Your Gold At The New Yor ...
  The hurricane water surge has come and gone, devastating downtown New York, but one place, the one t
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Electronic Intifada

• UN finds "crisis of dignity" as settlers destr ...
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Salem 30 October 2012 Farmers in the West Bank village of Salem have only been allowed access their olive groves for four days this year.
• Israel's viciousness against Bilin captured in ...
  Asa Winstanley 30 October 2012 Emad Burnat’s house was declared a “closed military zone” by Israel — but that didn’t stop him from making a great film.
• Druze youth faces jail for refusing to serve i ...
  Budour Youssef Hassan Jerusalem 30 October 2012 Musician and high school student Omar Saad insists that his viola is his only weapon in letter to Israeli leaders.
• VIDEO: the images and sounds of Gaza's vibrant ...
  29 October 2012 “Not a dreamland”: exploring vibrant subcultures in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip.
• Why is a New York hospital being sacrificed fo ...
  Terri Ginsberg 26 October 2012 Plans for massive science campus linking an Israeli and American university in New York City moving forward, despite opposition.

The Wonk Room

• Conservative Group Compares Obama’s Policies T ...
  A day after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, a conservative group is distributing a flyer in northern Virginia that compares President Obama’s policies to a storm rolling through the state. “WE’VE SEEN STORMS IN VIRGINIA, BUT NONE LIKE THIS,” read the Americans for ...
• Why The Federal Government Should Handle Disas ...
  Almost on cue after Hurricane Sandy, conservatives and libertarians have begun arguing that the federal government should get out of the business of providing disaster relief. The function could be delegated to states and the private sector, they claim, echoing an argument advanced by Mitt Romne ...
• In Sandy’s Wake, Bill Clinton Calls Out Mitt’s ...
  After his adoptive hometown of New York City was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, former president Bill Clinton railed against Mitt Romney for having mocked the idea of climate action. In a campaign stop in Minneapolis, MN, Clinton criticized Romney for having “ridiculed the president for hi ...
• What Spain Should Be Teaching U.S. Conservativ ...
  According to the latest data from its government, Spain’s economy contracted for the fifth straight quarter during the three months ending in September. Despite this, Spain seems intent on doubling down on austerity measures, as Reuters reported: Gross domestic product shrank for the fifth ...
• SURVEY: Americans Still Uncertain About What O ...
  Findings from a new Stanford University survey demonstrate that while Americans have a vague understanding of the health reform law’s specifics, most remain uncertain about what Obamacare’s specific provisions actually do. The survey asked over 2,000 participants to decide whether 18 ...

thwap's schoolyard

• The Bullshit Supreme Court Ruling
  "Just because I sold you into prostitution to feed my drug-habit, .... I'm still your father godammit! You owe me your respect and devotion!!!" After a certain point, a line is crossed. The blowhards who serviced stephen harper and ted opitz can believe all they want about their exalted positi ...
• "Democracy in Crisis"
  I think it's much more insidious and "evil" than Don Lenihan describes it, but this is still a worthwhile read. Personally, I think there's a deliberate, self-interested and cynical strategy of the elite to exalt the incoherent frustrations and babbling of the stupidest among the electorate. Fo ...
• Conversation
  Well, I've got other things to do and other things to think about, AND I've got a headache. So I think I'll just delight you with the transcript of an actual conversation I had with a "conservative." (The whole point of our speaking to each other was to present this clash of opposing viewpoints ...
• Vote Suppression ... Here it comes!!!
  This is emblematic of the sort of rationalization progressives are making in response to the bone-headed ruling by a bunch of hack Supreme Court justices and allied moron Supreme Court justices: By now it may have become apparent that I've been won over by the majority ruling and I'll tip my ha ...
• I'm Not Calling For Voter ID Laws
  Some progressives have been hailing the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing Ted "Homo-Hater" Opitz his theft of the Etobicoke-Centre election. Supposedly, the Supreme Court of Canada has decided that our rules, procedures and safeguards for conducting free and fair elections shouldn't interfere ...

on Government Oversight

• SIGAR Slams Army Corps for Letting DynCorp Wal ...
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• POGO's Top Picks for Defense Budget Bill
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• Watchdog: Interest Rate Manipulation Puts Taxp ...
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• SIGAR Seeks Debarment of Contractors Who Aid t ...
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• DoD Service Contract Budget & Spending Data Do ...
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Digital Journal

• Report: Councillors who meet in secret should ...
  Andre Marin, Ontario's Ombudsman, found many municipal councils throughout the province regularly meet illegally in private. Currently, there are no consequences for breaching the law that requires open meetings.
• Is Gallup again producing 'outlier' numbers to ...
  Whether the pollster Gallup is again producing numbers that wrongly favor the GOP presidential candidate won't be known until votes are counted. But they show Mitt Romney with a big national lead and a lead in early voting when other polls differ widely.
• Will Ferguson is the winner of the 2012 Scotia ...
  The winner of Canada's most prestigious literary prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was announced this evening at a gala in Toronto. The winner of the award will be given $50,000 and sales for their book is expected to increase dramatically.
• Toronto woman killed by super storm Sandy
  A Toronto woman is the city's first victim of super storm Sandy, after high winds blew a large Staples sign away, striking her in the head. The woman, believed to be in her 50's, was walking home on Monday evening, when she was killed.
• NASA releases stunning video of Hurricane Sand ...
  A NASA time-lapse video shows a satellite view of Hurricane Sandy's journey across the U.S. East Coast on Monday, from dawn to dusk.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Looters Plague Hurricane Victims Post-Sandy
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThieves pose as utility workers to con residents Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com October 31, 2012 Despite an attempt by some to dismiss scores of tweets sent prior to Hurricane Sandy making landfall on the east coas ...
• Sandy Total Loss Estimate: Up To $100 Billion
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Oct 31, 2012 In a stunningly accurate prediction of what to expect from a 100-year storm, the following 2011 report assessing the ‘risk increase to infrastructure due to a sea level rise‘ pro ...
• “Fast Food is Good for Your Waistline” — Really?
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMike Barrett Prisonplanet.com Oct 31, 2012 Could fast food actually be good for your waistline? According to a writer from U.S. News Health, fast food may be the right choice if youre looking to slim down and cut calorie ...
• Individual preparedness, not Big Government ‘m ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJ. D. Heyes Natural News Oct 31, 2012 A headline in Tuesday’s OP-ED section of The New York Times summed up the mentality of too many Americans these days and all that is wrong with it: “A Big Storm Requires ...
• Who Killed Lucia and Leo Krim?
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Moti Nissani On 10/25/2012 two corporate financial media bastions, MarketWatch (an affiliate of the Wall Street Journal) and CNBC, presented their readers with a bombshell. In ...

Dandelion Salad

• 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 ...
• How the 1 Percent Conjured a Monster Storm by ...
  Dandelion Salad by Chris Williams SocialistWorker.org October 30, 2012 Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, examines the man-made factors contributing to the disaster of Hurricane Sandy. “If the study to which you apply yourself has a ...
• Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate C ...
  Dandelion Salad Oct 29, 2012 by democracynow www.democracynow.org Much of the East Coast is shut down today as residents prepare for Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm that could impact up to 50 million people from the Carolinas to Boston. The storm has already killed 66 people in the Caribbean wh ...

Your New Reality

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  Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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  This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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  Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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  Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - Science

• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: The Ghos ...
  Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition," mysterious reflection nebula VdB 152 really is very faint. Far from your neighborhood on this Halloween Night, the cosmic phantom is nearly 1,400 light-years away. Also catalogued as Ced 201, it lies along the northern Milky Way in the roya ...
• Tricks and Treats: 12 Amazing Things About Bats
  Bats are among the world's most successful mammals. Found on six continents, they do at night what birds do in daytime. But other than a bit of Halloween lip service, they go largely unnoticed, and are appreciated mostly for being scary and carrying disease. We at Wired, however, are big fans of ...
• Curiosity Rover’s First X-Ray Analysis Reveals ...
  NASA's Curiosity rover has completed the first-ever detailed x-ray analysis of Martian sand, determining that it contains minerals similar to volcanic soil found at places like Mauna Kea shield volcano in Hawaii.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Degas on ...
  Though many craters are visible in this color view of Mercury's limb, Degas gets noticed. Located near the center of the image, the distinctive blue color of the low-reflectance material associated with Degas contrasts with the surrounding terrain and neighboring craters. View these previously p ...
• Human-Like Shark Vision May Be Key to Preventi ...
  Structures in great white shark brains similar to those found in humans could be the key to preventing attacks by the species.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Gideon Levy: Errors and omissions excepted – m ...
  The truth, as I wrote in the news piece, is different: "Just" 33 percent of the respondents said they don't want Arabs to vote in parliamentary elections, "just" 42 percent wouldn't want an Arab... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Ahead of Israel election, PA bid in UN may pus ...
  Senior Foreign Ministry officials and Israeli diplomats abroad have been warning of a scenario in which Israel's government "goes crazy" the day after the UN vote. And far from being insulted,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Jonathan Cook: Israel’s formula for a starvati ...
  There can be no doubt that the diet devised for Gaza – much like Israel’s blockade in general – was intended as a form of collective punishment, one directed at every man, woman and child. The goal,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Moshé Machover: On Israeli Apartheid
  In my opinion the whole semantic discussion of Israeli "apartheid" skirts around the fundamental question: the underlying political economy of Zionist colonization. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to ...
• How Chomsky came to Gaza: a statement by eight ...
  The eight signatories of this letter are members of the group that traveled with Noam Chomsky to Gaza. We have spent three and a half days here in Gaza with Chomsky, who departed yesterday. We would... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Kalashnikov Hits Kremlin With Wage Complaints
  Long-serving employees at Russian small arms and light weapons manufacturer Izhmash, including the legendary Mikhail Kalashnikov, have sent a letter to the Kremlin complaining about falling production volumes and low wages.
• Defense Ministry Confirms Su-24 Crash; Pilots ...
  Russia’s defense ministry on Tuesday confirmed that a Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft crashed during a training flight in the Chelyabinsk Region.
• Upgraded Indian Submarine Starts Seas Trials i ...
  An Indian Kilo class diesel-electric submarine that has been overhauled at the Zvezdochka shipyard in northern Russia has sailed for two-week sea trials, the company said.
• First Ka-52K Choppers for Mistral Ships to be ...
  The Russian Navy will receive the first batch of Kamov Ka-52K attack helicopters for Mistral class amphibious assault ships in 2013, Kamov General Designer Sergei Mikheyev said.
• Iran Claims Drone Filmed Israeli Secret Sites
  Iran claimed on Monday it has pictures of highly protected sites in Israel, taken from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launched by the Lebanese Hezbollah group on October 6, the head of Iran's parliamentary defense commission Esmail Kossari told Arab-language channel Al-Alyam.

NewsWise

• Clinical Hypnosis Can Reduce Hot Flashes After ...
  Clinical hypnosis can effectively reduce hot flashes and associated symptoms among post-menopausal women, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Baylor University's Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory.
• GM Third-Quarter Earnings Good News for U.S. A ...
• Biofuel Breakthrough: Quick Cook Method Turns ...
  It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil. Michigan Engineering researchers can "pressure-cook" algae for as little as a minute and transform an unprecedented 65 percent of the green slime into biocrude.
• Guidelines Developed for Extremely Premature I ...
  For the last decade, prematurity has been the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States. As a result of prematurity many infants enter this world too early with a small chance of survival. In order to help treat these extremely premature infants, physicians at Nationwide Children's ...
• Boise State Authors Offer 'Bat' Book Series De ...
  The BAT book series -- short for Business Aha! Tips -- is a collection of snappy, easy-to-read books with tips and "Use it Now" sections for immediate application of ideas. Written by two Boise State University authors, the first book focuses on creativity and is now available for $14.95 at Amazon.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• New Article on the Legality of Signature Strikes
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The article, which is available in draft form on SSRN, is entitled “‘One Hell of a Killing Machine’: Signature Strikes and International Law.”  It is forthcoming in the Journal of International Criminal Justice as part of a mini-s ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey International observers have criticized last weekend’s elections in Ukraine citing systematic problems in the political and electoral system. US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is in Algeria, discussing how to tackle the growing presence of Islamist ...
• In the Eye of the Storm: Developments in Inter ...
  by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon For those of us in the direct line of Hurricane Sandy, it seems appropriate to highlight recent developments in international disaster law. Many of the legal challenges arising from natural disasters involve practical issues such as obtaining visas, removing bur ...
• Bayonets and the Law of Edged Weapons
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson With zero desire to enter into debates about bayonets and all that politically, purely as an aside I thought OJ readers would be the sorts of people who would take an interest in … the law of edged weapons.  There is law on the subject; I used to r ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Monday, October 29, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Israeli Air Force has struck back at rocket installations in Gaza. Ethnic violence in Myanmar has displaced over 22,000 people according to UN estimates. Nigeria also experienced violence between different religious groups after a car bomb on a church, f ...

Public News Service

• Biggest Halloween Danger for AZ Kids Isn&#8217 ...
  Biggest Halloween Danger for AZ Kids Isn’t Candy? PHOENIX - Ghosts, goblins and zombies aren't the scariest things for Arizona children this Halloween. Neither is the remote possibility that candy is poisoned. According to an analysis from State Farm Insurance, the biggest safety risk for ...
• State Land Exchange Proposal Back on AZ Ballot
  State Land Exchange Proposal Back on AZ Ballot PHOENIX - Arizona voters are again being asked this election to decide if state trust lands can be exchanged for federal lands. The exchanges would be limited to protecting military bases from encroachment, enhancing the value of trust lands, or con ...
• Cyberbullying: Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and T ...
  Cyberbullying: Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and Taunting PHOENIX - Kids have teased and taunted each other for generations, but the wireless age is allowing youngsters to extend their harmful reach in the form of cyber-bullying. Using technology to threaten or humiliate peers can range from sending ...
• Tempe Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast ...
  Tempe Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month PHOENIX – One of the final events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is Saturday's fundraiser for research and education at Tempe Beach Park. The three-mile, non-competitive walk is called Making Strides Against Breast Ca ...
• Arizona Community Legal Services Marks 60th An ...
  Arizona Community Legal Services Marks 60th Anniversary PHOENIX, Ariz. - This is National Pro Bono Week, a week when lawyers across the country provide free legal advice. A local Arizona agency is marking its 60th anniversary of offering year-round, cost-free legal services. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Vote No on California Proposition 30
  I’m voting No on California Proposition 30 as it essentially is extortion, solves little, and demonstrates the irresponsibility of the legislature.The California budget was “balanced” this year by a desperate and cynical legislature by assuming a) Prop 30 would pass and b) it w ...
• London Array wind farm now generating, soon to ...
  Britain, Germany, and Scotland continue to zoom ahead of the United States in offshore wind installations. A new wind farm in Britain, the London Array is now operational and will soon be the biggest on the planet. As readers of this blog know, the US still has no offshore wind. It would just be ...
• Bio-adaptive facade grows algae, creates shade ...
  People who live in glass houses should use a bio-adaptive facade and grow algae? The algae is grown by the sun and creates biomass that can be used to create energy, as well as excess heat for warming, and shade as well. This test house will be in Germany, where it gets cold. I [...]
• NYC subway station damage. South Ferry and Whi ...
• Whole Foods says No on California GM food labe ...
  Proposition 37 has little to do with health and everything to do with lawsuits by lawyers. Further, it is riddled with bizarre exemptions and loopholes so not all GM food would be labeled while other food might be labeled as possibly GM to avoid lawsuits..Emphasis added.One of the provisions of ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook tests non-social Marketplace ads in N ...
  Facebook is testing a new ad unit that puts non-social Marketplace ads in News Feed rather than the sidebar. Marketplace ads are the standard units in the right-hand sidebar of Facebook.com. Advertisers can select a small image and write brief … Continue reading →
• An Introduction to Facebook Mobile Ads
  This article originally appeared in the Facebook Marketing Bible, our subscription product for marketers and advertisers looking to better understand the Facebook platform. Nearly 60 percent of Facebook users are mobile users, up from about 47 percent a year ago. With … Continue reading &# ...
• Facebook platform industry hires: AudienceScie ...
  Due to recent changes in the way Linkedin displays hiring information we have have changed the format of our weekly new hires posts. Companies who want their new hires included in the post must contact us directly at mail (at) … Continue reading →
• Farmville 2, Ruby Blast, Muzy, Instagram and m ...
  FarmVille 2 yet again takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top Facebook apps growing by monthly active users this week with 11 percent gain. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from … Continue reading →
• Announcing Inside Social Apps NYC 2012
  We’re excited to announce the first East Coast edition of Inside Social Apps, happening in New York City on December 3, 2012. This full-day conference will include focused panels, presentations and fireside chats on timely topics and trends. If you’re … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

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

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• The Reality Principle -Episode 2
  “Pipelines, Politics, and People” with Steve Horn “A century ago, oil was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.” – James Buchanan There are countless factors that contribute to the geopolitical reality of today’s world. None are more infl ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  The TPP: Obama’s Transnational Corporate Tyranny The Trans-Pacific Partnership – or TPP – is a so-called “trade” agreement which has been negotiated by the Obama administration in secret for three years, involving 11 countries along the Pacific rim, and while Congre ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The EyeOpener- Psyops 101: An introduction to ...
  Psyops, or psychological operations, is a term used to describe the techniques of psychological manipulation used in warfare. These operations are used to deceive, confuse, disrupt and demoralize the enemy, with an aim toward weakening enemy resistance or even causing enemy forces to surrender a ...

Afro Spear

• Educating Black Boys – Al Jazeera Corres ...
  This documentary by Tony Harris takes an indepth look at the failure of the educational system, particularly for Black males and uses Baltimore’s inner city as the backdrop to address cartain issues. I found it rather fascinating that some of the issues he discusses are similar to the ones ...
• sat’day riddymz
• “Imagine If” by Ian Ki’laas ...
  This is so deep I had to share it! Ok, Let’s do a little exercise in contextualizing. Imagine if: There was a caucasian relocation program specifically targetting caucasians to remove them from the areas where Indigenous peoples lived and where they desired to make a profit from the trees, ...
• sat’day riddymz
  A Bob Marley kinda day today! Jah Rastafari!
• Surprising Europe Series
  A fascinating 9 part series on the experiences of African migrants, mostly undocument workers, in various European countries. As an immigrant to Canada myself, I identify with some of these personal experiences. In the late 50′s, early 60′s, my parents travelled to England to study a ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Supreme Court Spurns Justice
  Several previous articles discussed the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) charity case. Five extraordinary human beings were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to long prison terms. They're doing hard time in America's gulag.
• Greek Whistleblower/Journalist Risks Imprisonment
  Doing the right thing is risky. Greek magazine publisher Costas Vaxevanis faces charges of violating state privacy laws. Potentially he faces two years in prison.
• Alarming Sinkhole Continues to Cave In: Seismi ...
  The treacherous sinkhole that first appeared on Aug. 4 in Bayou Corne continues to cave in. On Oct 30, a 20-ft by 80-ft section caved in on the east side of the sinkhole, just a week after a "short duration, pronounced seismic event was recorded at the site."
• China takes over Bryce Canyon
  That other storm approaching -- the fiscal cliffhanger -- when the Bush-era tax cuts will be gone by January 1, with the predictable follow-up of more Washington gridlock, another downgrade of US debt, panic on global stock markets, etc. There was hardly any signs of a "recovery" in Salt Lake, e ...
• Romney's Latest Lie, His Former Lies, and Why ...
  Anyone who tells or countenances lies such as Romney tells cannot be trusted to hold the highest office in our land, because he has no compunctions about feeding false information to the public. In recent memory we've had a president who told us there were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, ...

Switchboard

• Electric Car Sales Increase 228 Percent
  Max Baumhefner, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco Automakers operate on a different calendar, in which the 2012 model year recently came to a close.  As my colleague, Luke Tonachel, explains, this was the year of the green car, with reco ...
• Year of the Green Car: 2012 Autos Set Records ...
  Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City 2012 is the greenest new automobile fleet ever. Preliminary data for model year 2012, which ended with September, show that new records have been set for fleetwide average fuel economy and the sales of ...
• Energy Efficiency: The Path to Constructing Ch ...
  Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C.   With the costs of climate change increasing daily, we need the savings to be gained from energy efficiency more than ever. In India, the state of Andhra Pradesh just ann ...
• 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Senator Sam
  No evening is complete without a track from the album Senator Sam Ervin put out after the Watergate hearings.
• Sandy Should Be Politicized
  This couldn’t be more right: What you are going to see over the next week is an overt effort by Democrats to politicize the issue of disaster response. They’re right to do it. Conservatives are already complaining about this, but the attempt to wall disaster response off from politics in t ...
• That’s Some Catch
  The Obama administration is continuing to argue that the potential legal defects of the warrantless wiretapping regime established by Congress should insulate the program from meaningful legal review. I continue to find this…unconvincing. Jeff Rosen is also good on this.
• Then the grasshopper said, “You’ve ...
  The person who subtitled Alias is either brilliant or an idiot: SYDNEY: WHERE IS THE ANECDOTE! RUSSIAN SPY: THERE IS NO ANECDOTE! SYDNEY: GIVE US THE ANECDOTE NOW! RUSSIAN SPY: ALRIGHT! Alright, I’ll tell you … It’s like a spy novel written by old Jews.
• Conservertarianism Again Obliterated By Reality
  I see that Nick Gillespie has argued that, as a principled libertarian, he wishes that Democrats would stop bringing up the fact that Republicans want to coerce women to carry pregnancies to term. In fairness, this does put him one step ahead of LGM’s resident coservertarian, since Gillesp ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• This Solar Concept House Really Gets Around
• 3 Ways Technology Will Speed Hurricane Sandy R ...
• Smart Meters: Smart, But Not The Same As A Sma ...
• How Urban Transportation Should Be: Toyota’s H ...
• Knock On Wood: Consumer Group Calls LEED Out O ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• MIDSIZE MATTERS: Patent lawyer found the link ...
  The NLJ talks to Brinks Hofer partner Eric Sosenko about identifying the world's most patented sport as well as other pressing patent matters.
• Sixth Circuit upholds Michigan ban on controve ...
  The American Freedom Defense Initiative, which won court victories for its controversial ads in the face of opposition by transit authorities in New York and Washington, suffered a different fate in a recent federal appeals court decision.
• Law firms, courts and schools struggle to cope ...
  East Coast legal communities were mopping up on October 30 as the "superstorm" Sandy finally began to quit the region. Power outages, mass transit shutdowns and wind and water damage meant a second day on hiatus for attorneys, judges and students in the storms' path.
• Intellectual Property Trademarks: A Special Report
  The Internet spotlight can create a backlash against overaggressive trademark owners, even if they have legitimate claims. In this special report, we examine this trend as well as nontraditional trademarks, injunctions in trademark cases after eBay, plus ten hot issues in trademark law and how t ...
• Law schools discovering the charms of city life
  A number of law schools are preparing to ditch their university campuses for downtown digs that will place them within steps of state and federal courthouses, law firm offices, government agencies and major corporations.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Pakistani Women Leaders Call for 'Reform' in P ...
  As is the case in India, family connections are an important factor in bringing women into the political space. As Senator Khalid puts it, 'I was born into politics.
• New Campaign Slams Walmart's Support for Anima ...
  Animal Advocates Target Walmart Over Pork Suppliers' Cruel Treatment of Pigs in National Campaign
• US and Algeria Collaborate to End Insecurity i ...
  Ms. Clinton says she appreciates the President's analysis, based on his long experience, as to the many complicated factors that have to be addressed to deal with the internal insecurity in Mali
• Photos: Fences and Forces, India's Futile Atte ...
  If India and Bangladesh leave illegal immigration solely to fences and border forces, ethnic violence is sure to escalate in the Indian Northeast.
• Ocean Stars to Be Encamped in Kampala Prior To ...
  The secretary General said that because of two main reasons the Somali Football Federation has decided to take the national team to Kampala.

environment 360

• Vulnerability of Infrastructure Revealed Durin ...
  The storm that crippled the New York City region has revealed the extreme vulnerability of its transportation and electricity infrastructure and highlights the need to better protect subways, tunnels, low-lying roads, and power substations as sea levels rise View gallery Andrew Burton/Getty ...
• Photos Reveal Finch Species Long Thought Vanis ...
  Photos taken in a remote region of the Tibetan Plateau have revealed the existence of a rare species of finch long thought to have vanished. During a trip to Xinjiang, China in June, a French photographer Click to enlarge Photo by Yann Muzika The Sillem’s mountain finch snapped images of ...
• French Panel Rejects Study That Linked GM Corn ...
  An independent state panel in France has rejected the findings of a recent controversial study that linked genetically modified corn to cancer in rats, but the panel did recommend long-term research into the risks of genetically engineered food. In the report, requested by the French government, ...
• Solar Geoengineering Projects Could Be More Ef ...
  A new modeling study by several geoengineering experts suggests that injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to block more of the sun’s energy and reduce temperatures could be most effective when done on a region-by-region basis. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, said tha ...
• Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science ...
  On issues ranging from genetically modified crops to nuclear power, environmentalists are increasingly refusing to listen to scientific arguments that challenge standard green positions. This approach risks weakening the environmental movement and empowering climate contrarians. BY FRED PEARCE

Red Ice Creations

• In emails to UK police, Anonymous seeks solidarity
  The online movement known as Anonymous has made an unusual appeal to British police: "Stand with us." Authorities said Thursday that the cyber rebels apparently broke into a forum called UKPoliceOnline to steal officers’ email addresses, which they used to distribute a manifesto to current and f ...
• Conscious or Not? Brain Responses Bring Scient ...
  When a brain-damaged person seems unresponsive, the uncertainty is excruciating. Is the person in a vegetative state, awake but not conscious, or are they minimally conscious, still retaining some shreds of awareness? Scientists can now distinguish between people in vegetative and minimally cons ...
• Was human technology superior to neanderthals’?
  Why our neanderthal cousins died out is the source of intense debate in evolutionary anthropology, with a plethora of ideas being thrown back and forth between competing camps. Certainly I’ve written my fair share of posts on the subject. Sadly there is little definitive evidence for any of them ...
• The Roof Comes Off the Parthenon: Greek Auster ...
  Rumors of budget cuts have been trickling out for the last four months. Now a 94-page draft memorandum, yet to be officially released, appears to detail Greece’s new austerity measures in full. The draft states an increase of 5 percent on personal taxes made last year will be retained through 20 ...
• Earth’s Magnetic Field Made Quick Flip- Flop
  Earth’s magnetic field reversed extremely rapidly soon after modern humans first arrived in Europe, completely flip-flopping in less than a thousand years, new research suggests. These findings, detailed in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters,could shed light on how and why magnetic ...

Russia Today

• Lei of the land: Curiosity Rover finds similar ...
  Mars is tens of millions of miles away from Earth, but the planet’s soil isn’t worlds away from what is found in the Aloha State. NASA’s Curiosity rover has determined that soil on Mars contains minerals similar to dirt... Read Full Article at RT.com
• UK wipes hands of ‘renditioned’ US terror prisoner
  UK’s Supreme Court have ruled against a charity seeking the return of a Pakistani national who was handed to America by Britain to be held in prison without trial. The UK government earlier said it cannot get him back... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Other side of Sandy: Caribbean devastation (PH ...
  Hurricane Sandy’s toll in the Caribbean amounts to at least 69 dead, thousands homeless and few funds available to rebuild. Yet, the Caribbean carnage remains largely behind the scenes as media spotlight focuses on the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Israel ‘postpones’ nuclear Iran red line by ‘8 ...
  Iran’s decision to produce fuel rods from a third of its medium-enriched uranium stockpile delayed its alleged nuclear weapon program, says the Israeli defense minister. But Tel Aviv continues to advocate a military... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Pirate Bay co-founder in solitary confinement ...
  Sweden has The Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm in solitary confinement, locked up for 23 hours a day, says his mother. Svartholm was convicted of helping people to break copyright law by creating and running the... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• If President Obama is not reelected, the US em ...
  NOT A BIG IF. Who else can dictate austerity, deal justice with drones, and spout mendacious doublespeak without rousing a backlash?
• Romney versus Obama
  The American people await anxiously for nothing to change one week from today.
• Americans don’t get treatment due to lac ...
  — Here is the real state of medical ‘care’ in the US. ‘Americans are skimping on their healthcare needs even more than last year, the result of a struggling economy that’s forcing people to continue to cut back on prescription drugs, medical tests and doctors visits ...
• Young people have abandoned any sense of HOPE ...
  Obama’s ‘pragmatic’ reactionary values has lost him the enthusiasm that the youth once showed for him. As a result he might just lose to a complete loser of a candidate that the Republicans stuck themselves with. Incredible that such a creep as Mitt Romney might soon be in char ...
• Road to victory! Comparing Chavez to Obama ...
  — Here is a post electoral review of the Chavez campaign leading up to his reelection earlier this month in Venezuela- Venezuela, camino a la Victoria. Oct/2012— And now, a look at the sad campaign of Barack Obama here in the US- First Presidential Debate: Obama vs. Romney (Complete ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• 9/11 Total Proof: Bailed-out Bankster's Inside ...
  I don't necessarily agree with all the info presented here, such as explosives being responsible for the damage to WTC 6. That said, many interesting points are made that are well worth considering. Published on Oct 30, 2012 by WarCrime911 The motivation for this video came from readi ...
• War is A Lot Scarier Than Halloween
    http://progressivepress.com/peaceweek.html On a lighter Halloween related note, here is a 9/11 was an inside job Monster Mash parody song produced for the "Stew's Conspiracy Funhouse" podcast, as well as an interactive zombie film, both made by blog contributor Stewart ...
• 9/11: Journey for Truth
  Published on Oct 30, 2012 by wearechangect Rena Patty & Pamela Senzee reminiscing their journey bike riding from the San Juan Islands, WA on July 25th to WTC 7 on October 27th handing out AE911 truth DVD's and information to Firefighters, Police Officers, Churches & general public. Check ou ...
• 9/11 Debate: Jon Gold Vs. Pat Curley
  Published on Sep 17, 2012 by Jon Gold I combined the three parts, and increased the audio. Related: 'Debunker' Related Excerpts from and Review of '9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability' by Jon Gold Debunking the Debunkers search results: Pat Curley
• 911 Conspiracy Debunk This 08 (RL13)
  Published on Oct 22, 2012 by ChangeDaChannel Weekly reload for new subscribers or in case ya missed it. A show for debunkers to do their thing as well as for the choir to have a reference point. So many people find it hard to believe that we are being Poisoned, tested on, lied to, that plans a ...

Fooducate

• Coming Soon? Healthier Peanut Butter, Utilizin ...
• Top 10 Hurricane Foods (that are healthy too)
• Planters NUT-rition and its Vitamin C Mystery ...
• Diet Cola, Aspartame, and Cancer
• Front of Pack Nutrition Labeling in the UK Set ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Human rights protest mars Indonesia’s state vi ...
  Dozens of protesters gathered outside Downing Street to mark the visit of Indonesia's President to the UK© SurvivalA demonstration by Survival International and dozens of human rights protesters has marred the start of Indonesia’s first state visit to London in 33 years. Protesters held ba ...
• London visit by Indonesian President fuels hum ...
  Survival’s protest will coincide with the arrival of Indonesia’s President in London.© SurvivalSurvival International will join dozens of protesters tomorrow (October 31), to demonstrate against Indonesia’s brutal repression of West Papua’s tribal people, coinciding with the country’s first stat ...
• ‘Kill us all, then bury us here’: desperate ap ...
  The Guarani are forced to make a perilous river crossing using a narrow cable to get food supplies.© MPF/SurvivalA group of Brazilian Indians who endured violence and death to return to their land have made a dramatic appeal to the government after learning that they face eviction once more. Th ...
• UK snubs tribal rights by refusing to ratify k ...
  The more countries that ratify ILO 169, the more protection it offers for tribal peoples everywhere.© Stephen Corry/SurvivalThe UK has dismayed tribal and indigenous peoples as well as activists around the world by refusing to ratify a key international law, which protects their basic human righ ...
• Land grabs in Ethiopia leave tribes hungry on ...
  A boy from the Lower Omo stands on the riverbank.© SurvivalViolent land grabs in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley are displacing tribes and preventing them from cultivating their land, leaving thousands of people hungry and ‘waiting to die’. As the world prepares to raise awareness of the issues beh ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• The Canary Party Challenges 2012 Presidential ...
  The Canary Party Challenges 2012 Presidential Candidates on Three Key Healthcare Questions Children’s Health Crisis Ignored on the Campaign Trail “The U.S. Presidential election is down to the wire, with both candidates in a dead heat”, states Mark Blaxill, Chairman...
• AofA Science Summary: Autism prevalence follow ...
  J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Mar;38(3):481-8. Epub 2007 Jul 6. Autism prevalence following prenatal exposure to hurricanes and tropical storms in Louisiana. Kinney DK, Miller AM, Crowley DJ, Huang E, Gerber E. Source Genetics Laboratory, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St.,...
• Dachel Media Update: 10/29
  Oct 29, 2012, The St. Louis Post Dispatch: St. Louis County's Special School District seeks tax increase Oct 28, 2012, New York Magazine: Are You On It? Oct 28, 2012, WBTV VIDEO (Concord, NC): 10th Carolinas Walk for Autism kicked...
• IACC Meetings Cancelled
  From our friends at SafeMinds: In light of the near certainty that Hurricane Sandy will create dangerous conditions in the Washington, DC area, the fact that many people--including some subcommittee co-chairs-- will not be able to attend the workshop in...
• Canary Party Responds To Brian Deer's Rebuttal
  When Brian Deer was introduced at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse earlier this month to give his version of events in the Wakefield/MMR controversy, the audience was told, "There is no debate.” That statement was swiftly refuted by WKTV...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

• One Family at a Time
  Water.org’s local partner —BWDA — works directly with Self Help Groups (SHG) and their individual members to provide loans for safe water access. In the Pondicherry territory of India, BWDA works with women who are in need of microloans for household water connections.
• The Keys to a New Life
  When the Ethiopian village of Enda Silassie worked with Water.org to install a new handpump, they also came together to choose a community water guardian.
• Talking Water on Wall Street Journal Report
  Maria Bartiromo, Wall Street Journal Report, talks to Oscar winner Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of Water.org, about the big bet they’re making to bring clean water to the nearly 1 billion people without it. Watch the interview.
• Short Stories: Haitian Collection
  Mike McCamon, CCO for Water.org, recently visited Haiti and saw something in Port au Prince that underlined why we do the work we do.
• Charlie Rose Discusses the Water Crisis
  Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White joined Charlie Rose for a discussion about the water crisis on September 27th.

Before It's News

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

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Pakistani Women Leaders Call for 'Reform' in P ...
  As is the case in India, family connections are an important factor in bringing women into the political space. As Senator Khalid puts it, 'I was born into politics.
• New Campaign Slams Walmart's Support for Anima ...
  Animal Advocates Target Walmart Over Pork Suppliers' Cruel Treatment of Pigs in National Campaign
• US and Algeria Collaborate to End Insecurity i ...
  Ms. Clinton says she appreciates the President's analysis, based on his long experience, as to the many complicated factors that have to be addressed to deal with the internal insecurity in Mali
• Photos: Fences and Forces, India's Futile Atte ...
  If India and Bangladesh leave illegal immigration solely to fences and border forces, ethnic violence is sure to escalate in the Indian Northeast.
• Ocean Stars to Be Encamped in Kampala Prior To ...
  The secretary General said that because of two main reasons the Somali Football Federation has decided to take the national team to Kampala.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Food Allergy Hurricane Preparedness
  Hurricane Sandy is getting closer to the east coast, and experts estimate it could leave 10 million people without power.  If you live in an area that may be affected, act now to prepare yourself for several days without power. In addition to bottled water, flashlights, and batteries, y ...
• What to Pack in Your Dairy-Free Lunchbox
  Packing a lunch without dairy can be daunting, but with a little advance planning and label reading (note that milk and whey are common bread ingredients) you or your child can have a lunchbox to look forward to. Try one of these ideas:... Read Full Post
• Emergency Food Pantry
  Nature can strike quickly with floods, hurricanes and other disasters. Those of you living on the East Coast and New England states of the U.S. might be thinking about this ... Read Full Post
• Take Back the Night Event This Tuesday Night & ...
  Vanderbilt University is holding a Take Back the Night event this Tuesday night. This sort of thing is not a given on this campus, because there hasn’t been one over the last couple of years, so please consider supporting the students in this activity to raise awareness and encourage discu ...
• Science Podcast - The Twitter vote, our climbi ...
  How political propaganda sneaks in through social media’s back door; what an ancient shoulder blade can tell us about human evolution; the scientific challenges for the next U.S. president; and more.

Common Dreams

• ClimateChange/Election Twitter Feed
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• Hurricane Sandy Pushing Obama, Romney to Break ...
  Will Hurricane Sandy force climate change to be the decisive issue in the presidential election? The aftermath from historic storm Sandy continues to unfold and has brought presidential campaigning by the contenders to a halt. Both President Obama and Republican contender Romney took Monday and ...
• Education Reform on the Ballot 2012
  CORPORATE EDUCATION REFORM: On November 6, three states—Washington, Idaho, and Georgia—will allow voters to vote on ballot initiatives that will have direct impact on the future of public education in their state. read more
• Watchdog: Storm Released 'Staggering' Amount o ...
  Flooding due to Hurricane Sandy has released "unprecedented" pollution of the Hudson River, watchdog organization Riverkeeper warns on Tuesday, as the effects of the "superstorm" continue to unfold. The storm surge from Sandy caused flood levels to the river in New York, and ...
• Blow to Pro-Democracy Movement as Bahrain Bans ...
  The Bahrainian government on Tuesday banned all protests and demonstrations as police and anti-government demonstrators continue to clash following nearly two years of sometimes violent unrest. The order is the harshest attempt to quell the anti-government uprising since martial law was imposed ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Energy Collective

• Three Countries That Could Be Devastated By Wa ...
  Hurricane Sandy’s assault on the Eastern United States should remind us that this could happen again. We rightly grieve for the storm’s victims and, if past is prologue, will generously contribute to helping them get back on their feet.
• Sandy Leaves Millions Without Power, Triggers ...
  At least 6 million people across the mid-Atlantic region are without power Tuesday morning after Hurricane Sandy inundated homes and underground infrastructure, toppled trees and downed power lines. Surreal scenes of a darkened Manhattan emerged after flooding and a substation explosion Monday n ...
• Solar Investing Made Easy?
  We have enough solar resources in the United States to power the whole country many times over. And yet, most of us are still not getting our power from the sun. Even with leases making solar affordable for more people, many others are still left out of the equation — including low-inc ...
• If half of U.S. consumers don’t know what a 's ...
  That is perhaps the most interesting question raised by the latest “Consumer Pulse” research by the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative.
• An Electricity eBay Framework Takes Shape in E ...

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

• Obama Rejects Palestinian Statehood
  by Stephen Lendman What do you call a Black man who rejects equal rights for his own people and others? A racist traitor. What do you call a rejectionist leader? A criminal who should be impeached, removed and prosecuted. Obama stands guilty on multiple counts. His rap sheet includes ...
• PLO representation is not a sacred text
  By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem Sheikh Hamad al Thani Whenever the Palestinian Islamic liberation movement, Hamas, edges toward eroding the Israeli-American blockade of the Gaza Strip, the western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) becomes thoroughly convulsive. This hysterical ...
• Tepid Palestinian Authority UN Upgrade Bid
  by Stephen Lendman Instead of going for easily within reach full UN membership, Abbas prefers settling for less. Why he'll have to explain. Others say it reflects his longtime collaboration with Israel. Doing so betrays his own people. Why they tolerate him, they'll have to explain. ...
• Deepening the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade Part ...
  By Dana Gabriel Overshadowed by the upcoming American election are reports that the U.S. and European Union (EU) are working towards launching official negotiations on a deal that would further deepen their transatlantic trade partnership. According to a recent Reuters article, “Europ ...
• Obama's Disposition Matrix
  by Stephen Lendman Call it elevating Murder, Inc. to a higher level. A Washington Post Special Report discussed America's permanent war agenda. It includes targeted killings, Obama's secret kill list, global drone wars, and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan's new rules fo ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• WWH/CJE Wednesday News Briefs
  Iran’s hospitals feel pain of sanctions Actually, it’s the sick and children that feel the pain of Political sacrifices on the alter on Israel! Great PR for Obama… Hey, Billy Clinton bragged about doing this to Iraq and he got re elected. Difficulties in importing medicine and ...
• The Weight of a Tear
  Tammy Davis,.modernhippiemag.com – Every morning and every evening, I see posts and websites offering new and improved ideas for eating healthy as well as effectively losing weight. AND, while it is possible to lose weight by following the recommendations, eliminating certain foods, gettin ...
• What’s A Lake Doing In The Middle Of The ...
  by ARI DANIEL SHAPIRO,NPR – One place you don’t expect to see waves lapping against the shore is in the middle of a desert. But that’s exactly what’s happening deep inside the United Arab Emirates, where a recently formed lake is nestled into the sand dunes, and a new eco ...
• Supreme Courts Updates: Dirty Utah Supreme Cou ...
  FBI investigates (Alleged) Real corrupt, sleazy, low life scammer and probable future Republican Candidate for anything - Michigan Supreme Court Justice Hathaway for possible mortgage fraud Her kids are proud of Mommy; They got a cut. (Allegedly)  By Tresa Baldas,freep.com – The FBI is inv ...
• Hippie Digest: 16th-century ‘sex colony& ...
  Journal reveals details of 16th-century ‘sex colony’ of castaways By Tariq Tahir,metro.co.uk – Free love – that was started by Californian hippies in the 1960s, wasn’t it? Think again. Swinging sex was being practised 400 years earlier with eyewatering ardour by the famously un ...

FourWinds10

• 'STAGE TWO' OF THE BP GULF OF MEXICO ENVIRONME ...
• Fracking May Have Caused 50 Earthquakes in Okl ...
• Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leav ...
  (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...
• TEXAS GULF ALERT TO SAY AWAY, 4.2 MILLION POIS ...
• Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Wat ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Why Sandy’s Impact Will Differ From Katrina
  As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, a lot of prognosticators are offering up predictions for what it means for gasoline prices in that market. I thought it might be of interest to note the differences in Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina concerning the oil and gas markets. Hurri ...
• Can You Make Fuel from Air and Water?
  In this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier addresses the recent claims of a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis that they have invented a process to create fuel from air and water.
• Hofmeister: An Energy Plan for America
  John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil, set forth his vision of a sound energy policy for America in a recent interview with Consumer Energy Report.
• The Potential for a Heating Oil Crisis
  The Energy Information Administration (EIA) last week reported on a potential crisis for heating oil customers in the Northeast part of the United States. In This Week in Petroleum (TWIP), the EIA reported: For the week ending October 5, distillate inventories in the U.S. Northeast (PADDs 1A and ...
• Understanding California’s Gasoline Prices
  I am getting numerous questions about the situation with California’s surging gasoline prices. Therefore, I want to take some time to explain what makes California’s gasoline situation unique. The EPA defines gasoline specifications, but many states have more restrictive specificatio ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Disp Recorder for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone ...
  Comments:An effective way of creating screencasts directly from the iPad of the iPad and apps themselves. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, screencast, Displayrecorderby: Dean Mantz
• Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing a ...
  Comments:Digital magazine from Stanford University highlights interesting and challenging stories of innovation. Could be a great kick-starter for project-based learning or to engage kids in innovative and critical thinking. - Randy RodgersTags: innovation, social, stanford, nonprofit, philanthr ...
• Twelve Interactive Activities for Learning Abo ...
  Comments:Edutopia has shared a nice collection of classroom lessons engaging students through the election process.  The resources shared are even broken down by grade levels.  - Dean MantzTags: edutopia, interactive, activities, elections, studentsby: Dean Mantz
• Free Technology for Teachers: Six Multimedia T ...
  Tags: freetech4teachers, timeline, multimedia, createby: Dean Mantz
• 30+ Really Useful Infographics Tools & Resources
  Comments:Over 30 infographic tools and resources. - Carolyn RainsTags: infographics, infographic, resourcesby: Carolyn Rains

Rodale News

• Can Eating More Vegetables Make You Happy?
  Feeling stressed at work? Hit the salad bar on your lunch break. Economists from Dartmouth University and England have stumbled onto findings that suggest that eating more vegetables and fruits could boost your happiness. In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a U.S. n ...
• An Alarming Message from Bumblebees
  By now you've probably heard about colony collapse disorder, the recent phenomenon in which an unprecedented number of honeybees have died. Increasingly, colony collapse disorder, or CCD, is linked to chemical pesticides. The unfortunate situation threatens not only honeybees, but also human fo ...
• Is Your Grocery Store Lying to You?
  All across the country, grocery stores are participating in a scheme to keep you in the dark. Shelves are lined with products containing genetically engineered ingredients, substances that have never been tested for long-term impacts on human health. All of that could change, though, as Califo ...
• Avoid These 5 Halloween Pet Threats
  Halloween brings the promise of lots of holiday fun for kids, but it does pose some serious risk for pets. So before you stock up on sweets for trick-or-treaters, there are a few simple things you can do to protect your favorite four-legged friend from what The American Society for the Preventi ...
• 4 Food Myths—Busted!
  Maggots in canned mushrooms, drug residues in chicken, filth and insect bits in shrimp…sometimes there's just nothing good to say about the state of our food supply. But that's not the case on Food Day, a day devoted to celebrating healthy, sustainable food and what it can do for your health an ...

big think

• Ai Weiwei: The Internet vs. The Chinese Government
  I think those technology platforms [the internet and social media] constantly put the government on trial. And every event, every policy they make, people will laugh about it, and they will make fun about it. This is amazing for the younger generation.  – Ai Weiwei Edit ...
• Separating Michelangelo the Man and Artist fro ...
  Five hundred years ago today, Michelangelo unveiled The Sistine Chapel Ceiling to Pope Julius II. The next day, All Saints’ Day 1512, the Pope inaugurated the newly decorated chapel with grand pomp and circumstance. With half a millennium between us and that momentous debut, it’s hard to i ...
• This Article Was Written By A Human Being
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Philip Parker, a professor at INSEAD Business School in France, has created software that automatically generates books through a process involving the compilation of existing information. Over 100,000 titl ...
• Global Warming and Hurricane Sandy?
  Hurricane Sandy's the hurricane from hell. It broke all records. It was the storm of the century. It is the hurricane we will tell our grandkids about. But can it happen again? This depends on the science behind the storm. Hurricane Sandy was unusual because it involved the collision of three a ...
• Most Young Adults Say They NEED The Internet
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? A recent survey of 1,000 adults taken at London's Science Museum showed that four-fifths of those under the age of 25 depend on the Internet and would feel "lost" without it, compared to just three in five ...

Information Liberation

• The Virtual Recovery
  Since mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates inflation. The financial Presstitutes spoon out the government*s propaganda that prices are rising less than 2%. But anyone who pur...
• England schoolboy rugby star locked up - 'for ...
  A rugby player has accused police officers of trying to hack the phone he had used to record them taking a break - locking it for a staggering 42 years. Management trainee Jake Coplestone, 20, used his mobile phone to record footage of five office...
• Freedom, Fascism and Statism - Stefan Molyneux ...
  Stefan Molyneux, host Freedomain Radio, debates Sam Seder of The Majority Report on the role of the State in a civil society, the ethics and sustainability of Social Security, the reasons for ever-increasing healthcare, and the supposed virtue of ...
• Surfers ride the big waves from Hurricane Sand ...
  Here's another angle, it's Palm Beach, looks like the same waves, pretty amazing: ...
• Man Calls 911 To Report Criminal Cop, Dispatch ...
  In an astonishing display of thuggery and intimidation, a 911 dispatcher allegedly ratted out a man who reported the crimes of a police officer to the criminal cop himself, then the cop called the man personally and threatened to "f**k him up." ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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! ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Inclusive Wealth Report 2012: Measuring Progre ...
  United Nations University International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change | UN Environment Programme http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=2688&ArticleID=9174 [From Press Release]  The world’s fixation on economic growth ignores ...
• Atlas of Health and Climate
  WHO | World Meteorological Organization http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2012/climate_atlas_20121029/en/index.html (Press Release) http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/atlas/report/en/index.html (Report) …Droughts, floods and cyclones affect the health of millions ...
• The 27–year Decline of Coral Cover on the Grea ...
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (October 30, 2012 v109 n44 p17995-17999) / by Glenn De’atha, Katharina E. Fabricius, Hugh Sweatman, and Marji Puotinen http://www.pnas.org/content/109/44/17995.short [Abstract] The world’s coral reefs are being degraded, and the need to reduce loca ...
• International Deployment of Cooperative Intell ...
  US Dept. of Transportation | European Union http://www.its.dot.gov/connected_vehicle/pdf/Joint_EU-US_Report.pdf The United States and the European Union (EU) are working together to foster international connected vehicle research and international harmonization of the technology and standar ...
• Greenhouse Gas Emission Trends and Projections ...
  European Environment Report http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/ghg-trends-and-projections-2012 This report presents an overview of the progress achieved so far by the EU, its Member States and other EEA member countries towards their respective targets under the Kyoto Protocol and the EU burd ...

Scientific American - News

• The Stats Are In: Superstorm Sandy Totals
  Sandy caused many problems during its life. Here are some of the most impressive statistics from the storm. [More]
• Hepatitis E Vaccine Debuts
  From Nature magazine. [More]
• Hurricane Sandy Spins Up Climate Discussion
  From Nature magazine. [More]
• Fairly Simple Math Could Bridge Quantum Mechan ...
  From Nature magazine. [More]
• Live Chat at 1 P.M. EDT on Tropical Cyclone Sandy
  Join us below at 1 P.M. Eastern time on Tuesday, October 30, for a live 30-minute online chat with climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford University's , who will discuss Sandy--the tropical cyclone that has caused 20 deaths and left more than 7 million people in the U.S. Northeast ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Frack Waste-Water Trade?
  Imaginary stop-orders, questionable origins, missing documents: all part of fracking in Nova Scotia K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – The great hydraulic fracturing fiasco in Nova Sco ...
• Justice for victims of police killings - Oct. ...
  Montreal police are coming under increasing criticism for their use of lethal force. Over the past two years, three people have been shot to death during what could have b ...
• Student supporters say the punishment doesn't ...
  When it comes to the fate of two Nigerian students facing deportation, the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. This was the message at a rally held at the University of Regina today in support of Victoria Sharon Ordu and Ihuoma Favour ...
• Powershift Brings Halloween Early to Governmen ...
  Hundreds set to participate in "Toxic Trick or Treat" in Ottawa this morning OTTAWA—After three days inside, Powershift 2012 is ready to hit the streets. Monday morni ...
• L'autre blocus 138
  Ces images relatent les événements survenus à la mi-octobre 2012 sur la Côte-Nord, dans la communauté de Ushat mak Mani-Utenam. Devant des préoccupations grandissantes sur ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Campaign note: Obama or the deluge (no kidding)
  David Seaton's  News LinksReaders of mine should not be under the impression that I am a big fan of Obama's or of the Democrats... I wrote this back in 2008:I find myself against almost everything that the Republicans stand for, but at least they seem to truly stand for what they say they s ...
• Why it is essential that Barack Obama be reelected
  David Seaton's News Links No matter what you may feel or think about Barack Obama, no matter how disappointed you may be by his failure to live up to the promises he made in 2008 or the hope he inspired four years ago; it is essential for every progressively minded American to do what they can ...
• What are things like in Spain right now? Watch ...
  David Seaton's News Links See SpongeBob SquarePants duke it out with Hello Kitty in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol… (where the “Indignados” camped out last year). DS
• Big Bird poster (in case you missed it)
• Romney's biggest lie
  David Seaton's News LinksEye on the bottom line Except for his sincerely wanting to be president, it is very difficult to locate any truth in Willard Mitt Romney. However, we may be able to take him at his word when he says he believes that his success in making lots of money in business especia ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• FEMA: A Case Study in the Difference Between D ...
  Mitt Romney apparently still thinks that downsizing and privatizing the functions of FEMA is a good idea. After all, everyone knows that federal bureaucracies are cesspools of incompetence. Except....it turns out that they're only cesspools of incompetence during certain eras. See if you ...
• Romney Doubles Down on Deceitful Jeep Ad in Ohio
  Earlier this morning I said I was skeptical that being called a liar by a bunch of Ohio newspapers outweighed the benefits of running deceitful ads aimed at scaring Ohio autoworkers about their jobs getting shipped to China. Obviously the Romney campaign agrees with me, because they're now gle ...
• Is It Time to Start Adapting to Climate Change?
  Andy Sabl has kinda sorta given up on the prospect of collective action to head off climate change: A few minutes ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a press conference (no video or transcript yet, but I’ll be happy to provide it later if I can find it) again gave a version of the ...
• Supreme Court Might Deliver a Tiny Victory for ...
  The FISA surveillance act had its day in court yesterday, but the subject was solely whether the act would ever have a real day in court. Adam Serwer explains: Here's what the civil libertarians and human rights activists are upset about: The FISA Amendments Act authorized the warrantl ...
• Ohio Press Slams Romney Over Jeep Ad
  Greg Sargent scans the Ohio media for coverage of Mitt Romney's ad claiming that Obama is helping Chrysler ship jobs to China, and finds that it's mostly pretty scorching: This is hardly a comprehensive look at the local coverage, but it does suggest the possibility that Romney’s Jeep ...

Insanity Report

• IC 358: The Awesomeness of White Privilege
  Topics: Overboard doomsday storm prepping the DMV’s reaction to natural storms Black people react to Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone We just don’t care enough Apparently America isn’t post racial after all White privilege is awesome Joss Whedon for Romney Phenom & Kriss as reve ...
• IC 357: Stupid Opinions
  Topics: Deodorant isn’t optional Stupid sayings like “there are no stupid opinions” You’re entitled to your own opinion but it could be a stupid opinion Losing builds character Gay Marriage and hiding behind religion when you’re a bigot Black James Bond? Buying a vi ...
• IC 356: Trick or Treating For Jesus
  Topics: Changes to The Insanity Report Political douchebags 2007 All-Star game Black events Who should be cast in the Justice League Movie? Disney’s first Latina princess Share with your friends:
• IC 355: Binders Full of Stupid
  Topics: People Asking Stupid Questions The real problem with Tyler Perry Movies The election needs to end Liberals aren’t built for this Its not really funny Movie News Deer Crossings Share with your friends:
• IC 354: Don’t Start No Shit, Won’t Be No Shit
  Topics: Making Santa quit smoking Anderson Silva is the greatest fighter in combat sports history Bringing a first date to a fight party That Uppercut What a real debate is Anti-Goon What “if you want to act like a man” means to Kriss Kriss admits to being a coward Movie news Danny D ...

Simple Climate

• Climate provides weak power to predict African ...
  Though there is a modest link between conflict and rainfall and temperature changes, this has been overplayed in political discussions, according to a detailed analysis by John O’Loughlin from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team-mates.
• Cause vagueness hinders climate extinction action
  A PhD class from Stony Brook University in New York State has found that difficulties in researching how climate wipes organisms out have left a knowledge gap, and urges scientists to tackle these tough questions.
• Focus on uncertain climate cliff-edge invites ...
  Not knowing what greenhouse gas level climate catastrophe might happen at undermines negotiations using emission limits alone, an experiment by Scott Barrett and Astrid Dannenberg from the Earth Institute at Columbia University suggests
• Warming weakens deep freeze on Arctic islands
  Current Svalbard temperatures are the warmest in 1,800 years say William D’Andrea from Columbia University in New York and his teammates
• New models still give Arctic summer ice 30 years
  September Arctic ice will be ‘nearly gone’ between 2021 and 2043, Muyin Wang from the University of Washington finds, even though only seven of the top climate models simulate the area well.

e!Science News

• Stars ancient and modern?
  A colourful new view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 was captured by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This new picture, along with a new image of the central region from the NASA/ESA Hubb ...
• First direct detection sheds light on dark gal ...
  Most people think of galaxies as huge islands of stars, gas and dust that populate the universe in visual splendor. Theory, however, has predicted there are other types of galaxies that are devoid of stars and made predominately of dense gas. These "dark" galaxies would be unseen again ...
• Study suggests new way to prevent recurrent ea ...
  Eliminating bacteria's DNA and boosting antimicrobial proteins that already exist may help prevent middle ear infections from reoccurring. These are the findings from a Nationwide Children's Hospital study that examined how an immune defense protein common in the middle ear interacts with a stru ...
• Import of proteins into chloroplasts is differ ...
  New research has found that the transport of proteins into chloroplasts in plants is differentially regulated by the age of the chloroplast; upturning the previously accepted notion that this process is age-independent or only globally up- or down- regulated for all proteins. read more
• American consumers overvalue US-produced appar ...
  In today's globalized economy, a large percentage of apparel products are multinational products as raw materials are produced, transported and assembled in different countries. However, consumers have little information about where and to what extent their apparel is produced domestically or ov ...

unEarthed

• Speak Up for the “Most Important Fish in the Sea”
  Fisheries commission needs to hear from you, today! Menhaden are harvested by the millions. (NOAA) Something very unusual happened at the November 2011 meetin ...
• Conservationists Act to Protect Sensitive Bay ...
  State permit allowing log storage facility challenged Dungeness crabs in a crab trap. (Debra Hamilton / DFG) Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest i ...
• Fracking in California? We're On The Case.
  We file a lawsuit, state officials scramble to respond Fracking rig.  (Bob Warhover) Here’s what we know: Fracking is already happening in Californ ...
• Too Close to Risk It
  Shell’s drill ship off the coast of treasured wilderness The Arctic Refuge is one of the most splendid stretches of wilderness left in America.  (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
• How Clean Are Your Local Waterways?
  And how do your Congressional reps vote on clean water? You know that creek in your backyard, or the river or lake near your town? Have any idea what kind of condition it is in, or how polluted it is? Most people probably don ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Met One Really Animated Republican Today
  As I was driving my wife to work this morning, a watched a really agitated dude that couldn’t wave the finger at me any more fervently. He rolled down the window in his pickup and very very energetically shook his middle finger at me over and over. I guess he didn’t like the Republic ...
• Romney Made In China
• Fox And CNN Work For Mitt Romney – Obviously
  Isn’t it amazing how CNN, and Fox refuse to report on all the lives Romney, and his buddies have destroyed. All the factories the Bain Bastards closed and the work moved to China. Every bit of news is skewed as much as humanly possible to make Romney look as good as they can. If Obama [...]
• Republicans Sabotaging Housing – Again
  This just in from Democratic Underground and Think Progress. We can’t have no housing help stimulating the economy with a black guy / Democrat in the White House now can we? Republican Bastards. Voting for any Republican is an act of economic treason.
• Thank You John McCain Mourdock Must Apologize ...
  Now I hate Republicans. It is true. Since my hate is based simply on actions Republicans take, especially their voter suppression efforts, I believe it is justified. I must however admit John McCain actually does things from time to time that I approve of. Thanks for shutting down Mourdock John. ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Who gets to vote in Israel’s democracy?
  If we exclude Gaza, one in every 4.5 people living under Israeli rule doesn’t have the right to vote in the coming elections; that one person is (almost) always Palestinian. If Gaza is included, it’s one in three who is not represented. The Israeli Knesset is the sole sovereign betwe ...
• The war on the Palestinian olive harvest
  Some 80,000 Palestinians families depend on the annual olive harvest for their livelihoods. This year alone, settlers, with the backing of the army, have destroyed or damaged thousands of olive trees, threatening both a major source of income and an age-old agricultural custom. By Alon Aviram Dr ...
• As national resentment grows in Ukraine, far-r ...
  Although it has been accused of anti-Semitism in the past, the Svoboda nationalist party’s newfound success has more to do with a growing number of people who are disillusioned by mainstream politics and disappointed by a sluggish economy, than with people harboring genuine hatred of Jews. ...
• African refugees must be processed by Israel, ...
  When it comes to the issue of refugees, or ‘infiltrators,’ emotions often get the best of those who are defending one term or another. But facts are facts, apples are apples, oranges are oranges. I was reminded of the above when reviewing Oren Ziv’s images of the mother and dau ...
• Photo essay: Galilee Bedouins face house demol ...
  Houses of the Bedouin family of Khawalid threatened to be demolished by the Israeli administration, October 27, 2012. Seen in the distance, the houses of the Bedouin village of Khawalid, which was recognized as a permanent village in 1992. (photo: SG/Activestills.org) The little piece of land th ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Next generation weather forecasting for Wester ...
  The Bureau of Meteorology is today releasing a major upgrade to its forecast and warning services for Western Australia.
• Australia leads Antarctic protection legacy
  Australia and other Antarctic nations have today reaffirmed their commitment to protect and preserve Antarctica as a natural reserve devoted to peace and science.
• Decision made on Savage River Tailings dam wall
  A proposal by Grange Resources to raise the existing Mains Creek tailings dam wall at Savage River Iron Ore Mine in Tasmania can go ahead without further environmental assessment.
• Environmental protection in Antarctica strengt ...
  Legislation to further strengthen environmental protection and tourist safety in Antarctica has passed the Federal Parliament.
• Extension to enable completion of forest negot ...
  The Australian and Tasmanian Governments have agreed to a short extension of time requested by the Reference Group of Signatories to enable finalisation of the Tasmanian forests negotiations.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• government/tax elements on gdp | economics new ...
  How government fudges the books to make GDP, a measure of prosreity, appear healthier than it is in reality.
• updated: current fuel prices in france | motor ...
  A temporary lowering of crude prices, as well as French government subsidy, has helped lower vehicle fruel prices from the summer's highs, but still proces are higher than the beginning of the year.
• the horse chestnuts at bushy park - the modern ...
  Near London was once a magnificent horse chestnut tree avenue, used by Francis Galton to visualise a million. And look at it now.
• how gdp is calculated | economics news at abel ...
  The money merry-go-round, ever depleted by government taxes, fudged by double accounting.
• socialism is a creed of the effete middle clas ...
  Socialism grew out of the sad lot of the 'downtrodden' working classes. Now, socialism is fashionable amongst those who have no need for it.

The Parallel Parliament

• And Now For Some Good News
  Everything seems to be about domestic issues at present, and it’s clear that there are plenty of them to occupy …Continue reading »
• Inside/Outside, Offside/Onside
  Last week Andrew Coyne, a writer I have much respect for, posted a comment on Twitter that, despite its cogency, …Continue reading »
• Why I Chose the Stable
  When politics was done for me, I had some decisions to make. As job offers started to come in, Jane …Continue reading »
• Preserving Neglect
  It remains one of the three great lessons I learned in my time in politics and it’s even more pertinent …Continue reading »
• The Biggest Obstacle In Running For Politics
  You want to run politically – locally, provincially, or federally. You might think that your greatest challenge will be the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• Superstorm Sandy fizzles to a tropical storm
  By the time it hit the US coast, the storm system Sandy which had been hyped by an alarmist media and a frightened set of politicians into the worst storm ever to hit the US had fizzled to be a tropical storm.
• Superstorm Sandy fizzles to a tropical storm
  By the time it hit the US coast, the storm system Sandy which had been hyped by an alarmist media and a frightened set of politicians into the worst storm ever to hit the US had fizzled to be a tropical storm.
• The Nobel prize that wasn’t: A self proc ...
  Michael Mann is no Nobel laureate - but he likes to claim he is one.
• The Nobel prize that wasn’t: A self proc ...
  Michael Mann is no Nobel laureate - but he likes to claim he is one.
• The Liverpool Care Pathway: Euthanasia? Or is ...
  The LCP leads over 100,000 people to death every year - just in the UK. It smacks of execution of the elderly for convenience.An assisted death for someone who does not wish to die is an execution.

Left Foot Forward

• US Election Digest: Campaigning scaled back as ...
  Larry Smith's latest round-up of the US Presidential election campaign.
• Enough is enough: Can the government go just o ...
  Today, it was DECC's turn to look like DOSAC with the Secretary of State slapping down his junior minister over wind farms.
• Jobs, fighting crime, a bigger voice, rights, ...
  Amidst the debate on the EU budget, here are five key areas in which Britain benefits from membership of the EU.
• Watch: Charlotte Harris rebuts the anti-regula ...
  Watch Charlotte Harris rebut the anti-regulation "scaremongering" of the likes of Neil Wallis and Boris Johnson.
• How will Hurricane Sandy impact the election?
  As Hurricane Sandy continues to lash the Eastern Seaboard, Dan Holden looks at the potential political impact.

Consumerist

• 80,000 Pounds Of Walnuts Stolen In California, ...
  They’re not pecans (pies!), pistachios (good in ice cream!), almonds (easy snack!) or even cashews (bar nuts!), but simple walnuts.* To be exact, 80,000 pounds of walnuts, and they were coveted enough to be stolen in the last two weeks from Tehama County in California. Sounds like someone ...
• Reforms Needed To Keep Consumers From Being Tr ...
  It’s been nearly a year since the first Bank Transfer Day, when people around the country ditched fee-laden accounts in favor of more consumer-friendly institutions, and yet many bank customers still find roadblocks that keep them from easily jumping ship from one bank to another. “Consum ...
• The Not-For-Sale DVD Players And The Invisible ...
  Yesterday, we asked you for your tales of big-box stores with items on the sales floor that weren’t actually for sale. A decade ago, Jan scored a consumer victory against Best Buy with the help of her state attorney general. Big Blue and Yellow had a case full of portable DVD players that ...
• Relief In Sight For Sandy’s Stranded Pas ...
  Call her a hurricane or call her a superstorm, but weather phenomenon Sandy is responsible for either stranding a lot of passengers  away from home or keeping them from their destinations elsewhere. There’s some relief in sight after three days of flight cancellations, as two New York-area ...
• Verizon Sells Me An International Phone That C ...
  Jerrod was making a grand gesture: taking a surprise trip to Italy to propose to his girlfriend, who is serving in the Navy and stationed there. He acquired a phone from Verizon Wireless that he could use in that country in emergencies, but that plan had a flaw: he couldn’t test whether th ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Part Four – Election Theft? Nothing to See Her ...
  by Denis G. Campbell So says Arizona’s Pima County Election Commission in the ongoing SPIN war to (falsely) assure Arizona voters their electronic voting machines are 100% safe and reliable. This clean bill of health is based on the excuse parents give a three year old who incessantly says ...
• Documents Found in Meth House Bare Inner Worki ...
    Kim Barker, ProPublica, Rick Young and Emma Schwartz, Frontline This post was co-published with PBS’ Frontline. The boxes landed in the office of Montana investigators in March 2011. Found in a meth house in Colorado, they were somewhat of a mystery, holding files on 23 conservative ...
• Republicans Mantra: When They Win, They Win; W ...
  by Anthony Samad The debates are now over and I called the rounds this way: Debate 1 – Even, Debate 2 –Obama 10-8, Debate 3 – Obama Technical Knockout. Funny thing about debates though. Like boxing matches, when the fix is in, it really doesn’t matter what you think you saw. If you listen to [.. ...
• In Eight Days It’s All Over–Maybe
  by Richard A. Hudson In 10 days everyone will have voted. Some voted early and some not until election day. Hopefully we will all go to bed early that evening and voters will have registered a clear decision. As of today, we still have a very close election. I’m really not sure why, but that’s [ ...
• The GOP Is Systematically Stealing Democracy
  By Charley James The United States is facing its greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War. With multiple studies providing incontrovertible proof that operatives of the Republican Party – either direct agents or individuals operating on its behalf – are stealing votes, then we cease be ...

NewsAlert

• Eurozone unemployment rises to new record
  The Miami Herald
• U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez to side with Chicago ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times reports on an Illinois state House race:In a House district that is 51-percent Latino, state Rep. Angelo "Skip" Saviano said Tuesday he has lined up backing from the best-known Latino politician in Illinois.There's more:Saviano (R-Elmwood Park), who is running against Democ ...
• Swing State Early Voting Tally
  The National Journal
• (Video) War Revisionism | Gary North
• Housing Agency: 'We Have Fun' - With Public Money
  NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather

JoNova

• Government funds anti-science name-calling cro ...
  There’s a mindset, a world view here that’s profoundly unreal, anti-science, and of course, fully funded by the Taxpayer from start to end (how could it be any other way?). From the researcher who holds childish assumptions and misunderstands his own results, to the site that posts i ...
• RET “success” means $18 billion do ...
  The Clean Energy Council is an industry group promoting renewables. Not surprisingly it defines “success” as being the amount of money it has diverted from other causes into the coffers of it’s members. Good for them. They are free to lobby. But the RET or “renewable ener ...
• Weekend Unthreaded
  Because there is always something else that needs saying…. Rating: 6.7/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 6.7/10 (6 votes cast)
• Gillard knew the Australian public didn’ ...
  Gillard knew eight months before the last election that the public did not want an emissions trading scheme (ETS): (Former Labor MP and ABC presenter) Maxine McKew writes that Ms Gillard met Mr Rudd at Kirribilli House in early January 2010. “Gillard had a blunt message for her Prime Minis ...
• Where did that El Nino go? Wiped out by unpre ...
  The Australian weather bureau has never seen anything quite like it. The El Nino that was predicted for this summer down-under seems to be gone suddenly. “Forecasters surprised by El Nino turnaround” [ABC] The chief climate forecaster says it is the biggest turnaround in weather patt ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Giant Hippos Invade England!
  For me this is one of the most powerful pieces of evidence, in that it causes people to think: Once upon a time, and not too long ago, hippopotami waded English rivers. Hippos are from Africa, and African weather reaches the United Kingdom only a couple of times per year…. Pretty much ther ...
• HAARP and Hurricane Sandy
  So here’s the conspiracy news, helped along by Alan Jones: An independent website that has a real-time sensor network from over 28 sensors placed in rural areas across the United States has recorded the strongest HAARP readings in the projects history. The readings, in and around the New ...
• Massive Bunker Being Auctioned – $1
  You know how you hear stories about people buying something at auction for a bargain basement price, like a foreclosed home? Well, it can happen with bunkers as well – earlier this year in Switzerland someone picked up an underground hotel for just $1000. Maybe the same can happen in Atchi ...
• Could Solar Storms Cause Geomagnetic Reversals?
  I’m not talking ordinary solar storms. I’m talking a once-in-every-40-thousand-years solar storm. That’s something we have no written record of, and given how little we know about our Sun, it is quite possible that it is capable of sending such a super-massive solar storm our w ...
• Free Camping in Australia
  These days camping is becoming less free and more commercialized. The primary blame for this is glamping (glamorous camping) where people love a hybrid cross between the freedom of camping and the relative luxury of staying at home.  That’s nice for them, but doesn’t help the skint s ...

Facing South

• Failure of climate talks imperils nowhere more ...
  The Gulf Coast is disappearing underwater while political leaders fail to act. read more
• Justice for sale? Backers of shadow groups pus ...
  The race for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court is turning out to be one of the state's most expensive contests, largely due to spending from conservative groups. Many of the special interests pouring money into the contest may have high stakes in the outcome. read more
• Living apart: How the government betrayed a la ...
  The authors of the 1968 Fair Housing Act wanted to reverse decades of government-fostered segregation. But presidents from both parties declined to enforce a law that stirred vehement opposition. read more
• What's going on in the Southern swing states?
  President Obama won three Southern states en route to the White House in 2008. What's happened in the South's swing states? Is it any different than what's happened in the rest of the country? And can he still win? read more
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Watching the tea party poll w ...
  With True the Vote and other tea party-affiliated groups planning a massive poll-watching effort for this election, voting rights advocates are mobilizing in unprecedented numbers to fight back against intimidation. read more

One News Page

• First NTRO station comes up in Chhattisgarh
  The NTRO station will act as a gateway for acquiring satellite data and pass them on to ground patrol parties. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• United SC terminate rape accused, East Bengal ...
  United SC today terminated the contract of Baldeep Singh, while East Bengal stood by Jagpreet Singh after both were accused of raping a 14-year-old girl. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• CISF probes `Ram Ram dupatta` episode at Taj
  The CISF is investigating complaints that its men forced some women entering the Taj Mahal to take off their stoles bearing the words `Ram Ram`. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• Superstorm Sandy looks enormous even from spac ...
  'It's pretty huge and hope everybody down there is safe and sound,' Williams said. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
• Curiosity finds Martian dust akin to Hawaiian ...
  Washington: NASA's Curiosity rover which completed its first soil analysis on Mars has found minerals on the Red Planet similar to weathered basalt volcanic soils in Hawaii. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• The Toronto Hearings on 9/11 Uncut
• Money, Media and Minds: Coverage or Cover Up?
• Libya: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Huma ...
• Obama & Romney Should Realize Americans Sick o ...
• Bush and Blair Wanted for War Crimes

Daily Tech

• Disney Purchases Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 Bill ...
  Disney will make Episodes 7, 8 and 9 as well
• New Sensor Allows Naked Eye to See Early Detec ...
  It has proved effective with prostate cancer and HIV biomarkers
• ASUS's Wild Growth Continues in Tablet, Notebo ...
  ASUSTek Computer is the biggest winner among the Asian OEMs
• Report: Apple Employees Celebrating Scott Fors ...
  Rather, many Apple employees have welcomed the promotions given to Ive, Cue, Mansfield and Federighi
• Researchers: If Meteorite Hit 13 Million Years ...
  Research shows that pre-extinction disruption of food webs makes ecosystems more fragile, susceptible

Oriental Review

• Episodes 9. How the British “liberated&# ...
  The first airborne troops of the British army landed in Greece on 4 October, 1944. England’s main goal in this country was not to defeat the German forces however, far from it, but a speedy advance to meet Soviet Marshal Tolbukhin’s troops, which had just carried out a successful ope ...
• Human Rights in the US: Immigration Policy, Hu ...
  The third paragraph of the  Report on Human Rights in the USA, released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reviews the US immigration policy and illegal human trafficking through the US borders. About 400 thousand migrants and victims of human trafficking are taken into custody for diff ...
• Human Rights and Medical Experiments on the Am ...
  In September 2012, the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in New York prepared their annual report entitled “Human Rights in the USA”. The authors are in no doubt that civil rights have made American society freer and fairer. They are acting as independent and objective research ...
• Human Rights in the US: Excessive Use of Force ...
  The second paragraph of the  Report on Human Rights in the USA, released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, deals with the excessive use of force by the police and racial profiling in the United States. According to the estimates of the American non-governmental organizations, approxima ...
• Human Rights in the US: Manifestations of Raci ...
  ORIENTAL REVIEW initiates a series of articles based on the recently released Report on Human Rights in the USA, prepared by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the first chapter  the manifestations of racial, ethnic and religious intolerance in the United States are briefly reviewed. In ...

BlogHer

• Raising a Rockstar: My Son Wants to Wear Nail ...
  A friend of mine texted this afternoon in the midst of a crisis. She couldn't locate her giant box of nail polish and was afraid she'd thrown it out in a fit of overzealous purging. She asked if I had any she could borrow. I can see why she asked. I don't do nail polish often, but I do have som ...
• Surviving the Windows 8 Transition
  [Editor's Note: Sarah Kimmel from Technology for Moms has been using Windows 8 for a while. She's got video, she's got tips, she's got great ideas to help you adapt. -Virginia] Windows 8 is finally here! Since I’ve been using it for the last 6 months or so, I thought I’d explain a few things I ...
• We Are What We Read
  I often find that what I'm reading influences the way I read and speak. It happens to all of us. Sometimes, especially if I've been reading something written in dialect, it can be downright irritating. If I'm trying to evoke a specific mood or tone in my writing, going back and reading somethin ...
• Point-Counterpoint: California's Prop. 37 to L ...
  On November 6, California voters will decide on Prop. 37 which would require companies to label products that include genetically modified organisims (GMOs). Consider the "Golden (State) Rule", the widely accepted belief that "as California goes, so goes the nation", this 'local' proposition is ...
• Feeling Beautiful in My Own Skin
  As a child, I was always told I was beautiful. As the baby girl in the family, my parents and older siblings nurtured me and constantly reaffirmed that I was intelligent, capable, and beautiful both inside and out. Looking back on it, those words of affirmation truly gave me the initial spark of ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Early ...
  Parents need to worry about this: early puberty in their children, which can not only negatively affect their social life, but also their health.  Among other things, early puberty is associated with high risk of ...
• Lung Cleansing Benefits of Oregano
  Upper respiratory problems may be caused by bacteria, viruses, allergies, asthma, and even inhalation of various pollutants. Symptoms of respiratory problems can include chest congestion, difficulty breathing and irritated nasal or throat passages. If you, ...
• Shocking Scans Show The Real Impact of Love on ...
  You comfort them over a skinned knee in the playground, and coax them to sleep with a soothing lullaby. But being a nurturing mother is not just about emotional care – it pays dividends by ...
• Experts Predict What We’ll Be Eating In 2050
  The second annual Food Day was held on Wednesday, and the theme centered around predicting what our plates will look like 38 years from now. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick celebrated Food Day by discussing sustainability — ...
• New Treatment System Could See Discharges Into ...
  Workers at the Fukushima No. 1 plant are struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water used to cool its crippled reactors, the manager of the water treatment ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• EPA responds to CONSOL permit criticism
  Last evening’s coverage of the CONSOL announcement about layoffs that it and state political leaders are blaming on the Obama administration EPA noted that federal agency officials had not yet commented on the matter — which isn’t unusual, given the lack of transparency that ha ...
• Campaign talk: In attacking Romney, AFL-CIO&#8 ...
  President Barack Obama is introduced by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka before he spoke about jobs and the economy during an address before the AFL-CIO Executive Council in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is getting a fair amount ...
• W.Va. political leaders blast EPA over delay o ...
  Late this afternoon, word came down from CONSOL Energy’s corporate headquarters outside of Pittsburgh: CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE:CNX) has issued notice under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) of its intent to idle its Miller Creek surface operations near Naugatuck ...
• Is Gov. Tomblin convinced about climate change ...
  Halloween decorations are seen during a snowstorm, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Elkins, W.Va. Superstorm Sandy buried parts of West Virginia under more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, cutting power to at least 243,000 customers and closing dozens of roads. At least one death was reported. (AP Phot ...
• Coal mine safety and the presidential election
  Helmets are place on crosses on a table during a memorial service for the miners killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine during which President Barack Obama will give the eulogy in Beckley, W.Va., Sunday, April 25, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) For folks who may have missed them, we had two stories i ...

Daniel Miessler

• New Logo
  I’ve come up with a tentative design for my new logo and I’m curious as to what you guys think of it. Naturally, I’ll be updating the site with a color pallette that matches the blue, so don’t worry about the blue-on-brown; it’s temporary. How Do You Like My New Logo?
• Memoto Begins What Will Become Lifecasting
  And so it begins.
• 8 Things You Should Probably Start Doing Immed ...
  A recent discovery phase has lead me to the following productivity/interest gems. Get a Personal Assistant through Fancy Hands. This is a digital personal assistant service where you subscribe to a number of requests per time period. Here are some examples of what you can do with them: Call Alle ...
• North Carolina Teacher Quits | Diana Ravitch
  I’m tired of watching my students produce amazing things, which show their true understanding of 21st century skills, only to see their looks of disappointment when they don’t meet the arbitrary expectations of low-level state and district tests that do not assess their skills. I refuse to hear ...
• Anonymous Launching Wikileaks Clone Called “TY ...
  The project is called TYLER, and will be based on decentralized, peer-to-peer technology rather than fixed, dedicated servers. If successful, in the same way as torrents need seeding parties, user participation will be necessary to keep information flowing. The hackers claim that this kind of pr ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• In “A Lawless America”: Another To ...
  by Andy Worthington,fff.org - In the last two weeks, the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay enjoyed a brief resurgence of interest, as pre-trial hearings took place in the cases of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of directing and supporting the terrorist attacks on Septem ...
• WWH/CJE Wednesday News Briefs
  Iran’s hospitals feel pain of sanctions Actually, it’s the sick and children that feel the pain of Political sacrifices on the alter on Israel! Great PR for Obama… Hey, Billy Clinton bragged about doing this to Iraq and he got re elected. Difficulties in importing medicine and ...
• The Weight of a Tear
  Tammy Davis,.modernhippiemag.com – Every morning and every evening, I see posts and websites offering new and improved ideas for eating healthy as well as effectively losing weight. AND, while it is possible to lose weight by following the recommendations, eliminating certain foods, gettin ...
• What’s A Lake Doing In The Middle Of The ...
  by ARI DANIEL SHAPIRO,NPR – One place you don’t expect to see waves lapping against the shore is in the middle of a desert. But that’s exactly what’s happening deep inside the United Arab Emirates, where a recently formed lake is nestled into the sand dunes, and a new eco ...
• Supreme Courts Updates: Dirty Utah Supreme Cou ...
  FBI investigates (Alleged) Real corrupt, sleazy, low life scammer and probable future Republican Candidate for anything - Michigan Supreme Court Justice Hathaway for possible mortgage fraud Her kids are proud of Mommy; They got a cut. (Allegedly)  By Tresa Baldas,freep.com – The FBI is inv ...

reference frame

• Different ways to interpret Feynman diagrams
  Feynman diagrams are the funny pictures that Richard Feynman drew on his van: You see that a Feynman diagram is composed of several lines that meet at vertices. Some of the lines are straight, some of them are wiggly: this shape of each line distinguishes the particle type. For exa ...
• Is Hurricane Sandy unprecedented?
  The media are full of panic and strong words inspired by Hurricane Sandy, the "Frankenstorm" as some writers nicknamed it. Of course, this moniker – perhaps originally meant to indicate the Halloween time – is popular especially among those crackpots who want to argue that the storm is "man-m ...
• Doha, Qatar will host a climate conference
  What a paradox! Qatar is a peninsula located on the opposite side of the Pilsner Gulf than Iran. Its economy is the wealthiest one not only in the Islamic world – even in comparison with Kuwait and UAE – but it's almost certainly richer than the economy of your country. The GDP per capit ...
• Preons probably can't exist
  Don Lincoln is the star of several cute Fermilab videos in which he explains various issues in particle physics. He's also authored several related texts for Fermilab Today. He chose a much more controversial topic, namely preons, for his fresh article in the Scientific American: ...
• Galileo's 1633 trial: a tragic hero
  I was pleased that virtually all the media criticize the recent manslaughter verdict against the Italian seismologists. Many outlets compare the trial to the 1633 trial against Galileo Galilei. So I decided to find a video explaining some details about that event in particular and ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Sell your euros and hoard gold as ‘war’ looms, ...
  by Tom Prendeville, Independent.ie: Renowned trend forecaster Gerald Celente is famed for having accurately predicted everything from the 2008 global economic crash to the demise of the dotcom bubble. As publisher of the Trends Research Institute Journal, the gritty, no-nonsense, straight-talkin ...
• EXCLUSIVE | The CBC in Syria: Under siege in A ...
  This is the first in a series of stories from CBC reporters who ventured inside Syria earlier this month to report on the brutal civil war. You can hear and see more all this week on CBC Radio and TV about the battle for Aleppo, one of the world’s oldest cities. CBC | Top Stories [... ...
• 18 Startling Quotes About The Incredible Destr ...
  from The Economic Collapse Blog: 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 ...
• Neil Macdonald: Romney’s big FEMA storm
  Reporters are eager to hear Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney expand on his views about chopping FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Neil Macdonald: How ‘Moderate Mitt’ might steal this election Barack Obama’s ...
• Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know – China in A ...
  There’s no denying that China has major investments in countries across Africa, but what does it mean in the long-term? Tune in to learn why some politicians and conspiracy theorists believe that China is actually colonizing Africa. ::Mirrored:: & ::ReUploaded:: FAIR USE NOTICE: This ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• 'Like pictures we've seen of the end of World ...
• 'There could be worse': What New York isn't do ...
• A twitter villain, a Cuomo quote, and lots of ...
• In Bushwick, a central figure in the gallery b ...
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Views & News from Norway

• SAS tries to head off another crisis
  UPDATED: Weeks of new crisis speculation that’s been swirling around long-troubled Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) effectively forced the company to reveal on Tuesday that it finally will post a third-quarter operating profit, but still must undergo another round of major cost-cutting. SAS per ...
• Royal respects for Karin Stoltenberg
  UPDATED: King Harald and Queen Sonja were among the many who gathered at a chapel in west Oslo on Tuesday to pay their last respects to Karin Stoltenberg, a pioneering women’s rights activist in Norway whose son went on to become prime minister. She died on October 17 at the age of 80. A s ...
• Royal respects for Karin Stoltenberg
  King Harald and Queen Sonja were among the many gathering at a chapel in west Oslo on Tuesday to pay their last respects to Karin Stoltenberg, a pioneering women’s rights activist in Norway whose son went on to become prime minister. She died on October 17 at the age of 80. A solid portion ...
• Crime unit probes cash redemption
  Various denominations of Norwegian currency printed as far back as 1979 will be rendered worthless as of November 1. Norway’s economic crimes unit Økokrim is closely following the redemption now going on all over the country, to be on the lookout for money laundering. Newspaper Dagens Næri ...
• Crime unit probes cash redemption
  Various denominations of Norwegian currency printed as far back as 1979 will be rendered worthless as of November 1. Norway’s economic crimes unit Økokrim is closely following the redemption now going on all over the country, to be on the lookout for money laundering. Newspaper Dagens Næri ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Permagardens In Practice: Resilience in Action ...
  PDCs are tricky. For two weeks we tumble into this community of unfamiliarly familiar, curious strangers. The constant whirlwind of habits, obligations, and distractions that composes our lives momentarily dissipates and we are thrust into this world where our main responsibility is to be open-m ...
• Bitter Seeds Documentary (video)
  This new documentary, with perfect timing for the upcoming Proposition 37 vote on November 6, is a heartbreaking look at the impact GMOs have had in India, where many thousands of peasant farmers have been pushed to the brink, and beyond, due to crop failures and spiraling costs for seed and the ...
• Money Spinners
  Here’s how we can defeat political corruption of the kind that’s destroying US democracy. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. It’s a revolting spectacle: the two presidential candidates engaged in a frantic and demeaning scr ...
• Pam Warhurst: How We Can Eat Our Landscapes (T ...
  This is a fun and very inspiring talk by Incredible Edible Todmorden champion, Pam Warhurst, on the great work her town is doing in northern England and its growing influence around the world. One of the many encouraging things I take from this talk is hearing how local businesses in Todmor ...
• Sign Up For Phone Calling on Prop 37
  Editor’s Note: In case you missed our alert, take the opportunity to watch Genetic Roulette for free until the end of October, 2012, and also see our GMO category for many more articles and videos. Prop 37 is an historic opportunity — I hope that all who can will get involved. ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• "Bounce Nation" Holds Protest at Local Radio S ...
  Reposted from the Alliance Institute: Supporters of bounce music culture rallied on Oct. 18th in front of 201 St. Charles, home of Cumulus Broadcasting and 102.9FM Radio, asking that station management reinstate the “Power Posse” morning show. Recently the “Power Posse” was taken off the ...
• Librotraficantes Mark Opening of New Latino Cu ...
  From a press release from friends of the Librotraficantes: Join the Librotraficantes for an evening of contraband prose at Casa Borrega, 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, Friday, November 2, from 7-8:30pm. Imagine the New Orleans School Board banning African American books. Well, the equiv ...
• Inmates at Angola Prison Complain of Excessive ...
  From a letter sent by the ACLU of Louisiana: Dear Warden Cain: In the past few months, the ACLU of Louisiana has received numerous allegations of excessive or unjustified use of chemical agents, such as OC (oleoresin capsicum), upon inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP). We write to br ...
• Reflections on the Protest at Walter L. Cohen ...
  While in Houston TX. to attend a convention on reparations I began receiving phone calls, text and email messages describing a situation back home in New Orleans. It appeared that juniors and seniors at Walter L. Cohen walked out of school on Thursday October 4, 2012. Students say they are “ ...
• Students at Walter L. Cohen High School Walk O ...
  From a press release from students and their allies at Walter L. Cohen High School: See below for the students' demands. Students at Walter L. Cohen in New Orleans began a walk out/protest on October 4th, 2012 when their teachers and administrators were dismissed and the announcement was mad ...

Information Underground

• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  Welcome back Gord and well said... Hey Timmmzee.... your source of "occult" credibility is crap... --CSR Michel-Jean Angebert, The Occult and the Third Reich (1971); Trevor Ravenscroft, The Spear of Destiny (1972), and J.H. Brennan, Occult ReichStatistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepubl ...
• Social Engineering • Re: 2016: Obama's America ...
  Worth a look on how the Jews started the Mormon religion. Datura mentioned. Alexander Neibaur: Early Jewish Mormon Leader and Freemason viewtopic.php?f=13&t=10929&start=0 Another idiot Jew'd over Foreign Born Shabbos Goy Poster-Boy -- Dinesh D'Souza: In 1988 D'Souza left the magazi ...
• Social Engineering • 2016: Obama's America the ...
  This Shabbos Goy "Mormon" is so far up Jew Butt he's far past sphincter now... produced "Schindler's List" and doesn't want the liberal "Chicago Jews" with their Jew'Bama to beat his fellow Mormon "MoR'money". Another running dog for Jew Scams... --CSR ...
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  Welcome back, Gordo. Missed ya. Let's not lose sight of the fundamentals of Zionism. Is Zionism merely the Jewish vision of establishing a theocracy based out of Jerusalem? Not exclusively. Zionism is the vision of a particular racial group seeking to establish heaven on earth, upon which, said ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Israeli planes attacked an arms factory in Kartum. Apparently there has been a quiet war going on between Israel & Sudan for some time. (google Israel bombs Sudan) The Israelis seem to back Southern Sudan since they've gained independence. There have been many other air strikes for assinati ...

TVNZ

• Afghanistan presidential election set
  Afghanistan will hold its next presidential election on April 5, 2014.
• Millions struggle after massive storm
  A super storm has pummelled the east coast of the United States with a record storm surge.
• Earthquake shakes Philippine capital
  An earthquake has shaken buildings in the Philippine capital of Manila, although there were no immediate reports of damage.
• As it happened: Superstorm Sandy day two - Mor ...
  The developments as superstorm Sandy travels through the US.
• Live updates: Superstorm Sandy day two - Morni ...
  Raed here the developments as superstorm Sandy travels through the US.

environment 360

• Vulnerability of Infrastructure Revealed Durin ...
  The storm that crippled the New York City region has revealed the extreme vulnerability of its transportation and electricity infrastructure and highlights the need to better protect subways, tunnels, low-lying roads, and power substations as sea levels rise View gallery Andrew Burton/Getty ...
• Photos Reveal Finch Species Long Thought Vanis ...
  Photos taken in a remote region of the Tibetan Plateau have revealed the existence of a rare species of finch long thought to have vanished. During a trip to Xinjiang, China in June, a French photographer Click to enlarge Photo by Yann Muzika The Sillem’s mountain finch snapped images of ...
• French Panel Rejects Study That Linked GM Corn ...
  An independent state panel in France has rejected the findings of a recent controversial study that linked genetically modified corn to cancer in rats, but the panel did recommend long-term research into the risks of genetically engineered food. In the report, requested by the French government, ...
• Solar Geoengineering Projects Could Be More Ef ...
  A new modeling study by several geoengineering experts suggests that injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to block more of the sun’s energy and reduce temperatures could be most effective when done on a region-by-region basis. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, said tha ...
• Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science ...
  On issues ranging from genetically modified crops to nuclear power, environmentalists are increasingly refusing to listen to scientific arguments that challenge standard green positions. This approach risks weakening the environmental movement and empowering climate contrarians. BY FRED PEARCE

oldephartte/Diigo

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• The Devil's Excrement
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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Are Jews 'The Real Housewives' of Cuyahoga County?
  It’s not often that one’s particular religious and geographic subgroup becomes the topic of a New York Times op-ed, as mine did with Roger Cohen’s latest Times column, “The Jews of Cuyahoga County.” As a proud Shaker Heights native and former campaign staffer for the 2006 Ohio gubernatorial race ...
• Jimmy Savile Scandal Reaches Prince Charles
  Former aide tells of his concern at star's wierd behaviour
• Nate Silver is a Math Loving Nerd, Ctd.
  Since baseball statistics confuse people - me very much included - our statistical friend Andrew Gelman suggests a football analogy instead, quoting the social scientist Mark Kleiman:
• Redeeming Jewish Jocks
  Spencer Ackerman on a new book of collected essays and what Jews and athletes have in common.
• HuffPo Live
  I'll be on Huffington Post Live at 12 pm EST chatting about Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Sandy, and Star Wars.

Loonwatch

• Mississippi Science Teacher, Under Fire For Ca ...
  This particular anecdote is a microscopic view of the Islamophobic culture and its affect on members of our society.
• Michigan City: Judge Bans Pamela Geller’ ...
  The public transit authority in southeastern Michigan has the right to ban advertisements that it deems political for targeting Islam, the 6th Circuit ruled.
• Unholy Prayer: “Jews” Are Not Our Enemy
  Fighting anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, hand-in-hand.
• Imran Khan: Another Prominent Muslim Detained
  Vigilant security or vindictive humiliation?
• Freudian Slip at the Daily Mail
  The Daily Fail does it again, revealing the general mindset at the newspaper.

Energy News

• Troubling level of destruction seen near NJ nu ...
• Live 10 miles from NJ nuke plant: We can hear ...
• Flood waters receeding at NJ’s Oyster Creek nu ...
• Officials: Gas main explosion in NJ town suspe ...
• 9pm ET Special Edition: Exactly what happened ...

Japan Times

• 37 prefectures: Be firm on Senkaku, Takeshima
  Thirty-seven prefectural assemblies have adopted resolutions or opinions urging the central government to take a robust stand on the island disputes with China and South Korea. The resolutions began emerging in August when the long-standing territorial disputes intensified with the landing of ...
• Smith, 49ers roll past Cards
  Three touchdown passes, one incomplete pass. Not a bad night for Alex Smith, and it could have been better, considering that the one incomplete pass was dropped by a wide-open receiver.
• Zeller's long journey to NBA began with Shiga ...
  Luke Zeller, one of three brothers to earn the prestigious Mr. Basketball title during his Indiana schoolboy days, was undrafted after a steady but unspectacular four-year collegiate career at Notre Dame. He began his professional career with the Shiga Lakestars in 2009. And now, three years l ...
• NFL pushes back trade deadline
  The NFL has moved its trade deadline back two days to Thursday because of potential complications from Hurricane Sandy. All 32 teams were notified Monday that the league's offices would be closed through Tuesday because of the storm. So the deadline now is 4 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, when ...
• Hitachi to buy Britain's nuclear Horizon
  High-tech firm Hitachi said Tuesday it will buy British nuclear power venture Horizon to expand its nuclear business overseas as post-Fukushima Japan remains wary over the technology. The company said it has agreed with Horizon Nuclear Power's 50-50 German owners E.ON and RWE to buy all Horizo ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• The Giller Gala Gallery
  12 Maclean's-exclusive photos of the nominees, the winner, plus Margaret Atwood!
• Happy Halloween from the NDP
  The official opposition presents “The Tale of the Monster Budget Bill.”...
• Joe Comartin vs. The NHL
  The NHL joins Major League Baseball in opposing Joe Comartin’s bill on sports betting....
• Justin Trudeau raises expectations
  In an op-ed for the Star, Justin Trudeau focuses on the middle class. So...
• Canada’s housing market: is it a cooling ...
  Here's a guide to bullish and bearish arguments

Making It Count - CCPA

• Will Frankenstorm put climate change back on t ...
  In recent years the world has experienced a sequence of climate-change-related disasters. Hurricane Sandy comes on top of massive drought through the summer that has led to 40% loss of American corn and other grain crops, raging wildfires in the southeast US, tornados and derechos, etc – and tha ...
• Privatizing CMHC?
  In a recent interview with the Globe and Mail, Canadian Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty expressed worries about the financial burden laid on taxpayers by having the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) deal and trade mortgages. As a remedy, he suggests privatizing the federal Crown co ...
• The Limits of Demography
  Here is a piece I wrote for today’s Globe Economy Lab re the Department of Finance report on the costs of an aging society. The key point is that the mainstream doom and gloom projections of the costs of falling labour force growth  ignore the positive impacts which can be expected as and when w ...
• The CETA and Nova Scotia: Oversold benefits, U ...
  A new report on the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) concludes that the agreement’s benefits for Nova Scotia are being oversold, while its costs and consequences are minimized or even ignored. Indeed, EU officials are in Halifax right now selling the benefits of the CETA for N ...
• Taxing the rich in Québec: major myth debunking
  Québec has been immersed in the last weeks in much drama following a proposal to further tax the wealthiest. When the brand new Marois government took office (Parti québécois, PQ), it announced it would introduce new tax brackets for the wealthiest. A first bracket would have been added for inco ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

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

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...
  Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
• An interview with conservation writer David Qu ...
  David Quammen has done consistent and conscientious reporting from the trenches of ecological and evolutionary research for over thirty years now. Few in the world can claim as intimate and broad an understanding of conservation biology as he can. His books such as The Song of the Dodo and Mons ...
• WWF: Asia Pulp & Paper misleads public about i ...
  Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to mislead the public about its role in destroying rainforests and critical tiger habitat across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups including WWF-Indonesia. The report, t ...
• The dark side of new species discovery
  Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
• Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...
  For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Ross Sea deal leaves critics wanting more
  A compromise between the United States and New Zealand could create the world's largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea.But it has disappointed the Kiwi filmmaker of The Last Ocean.The joint proposal, agreed at the weekend...
• Bright future for robots just like us
  Canterbury student Jakub Zlotowski says it will be several decades before robots will be capable of behaving as depicted in movies such as Blade Runner.New Zealand research has shown we see robots as more like ourselves than as...
• SpaceX Dragon splashes down off US coast
  An unmanned space capsule carrying medical samples from the International Space Station has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, completing the first official private interstellar shipment under a billion-dollar contract with Nasa.The...
• Egg test improves IVF chances
  New Zealand researchers hope to greatly improve the efficiency of making babies in the laboratory by developing an accurate egg test.Expensive tests exist but the experimental one would be much cheaper and could be used to screen...
• Embryos created with two women, one man
  Scientists in the US have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that someday could be used to prevent babies from inheriting certain rare incurable diseases.The researchers at Oregon...

The Bovine

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

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Governor Chris Christie Strongly Praises Obama ...
  Here's a headline story including an interview on Fox news that caught me by surprise: New Jersey Chris Christie Praises Obama, Doesn't 'Give a Damn' about Election Day The presidential candidates have canceled all campaign events on Tuesday, but Republican New Jersey Chris Christie seemed t ...
• Japan Manufacturing PMI Falls to 18-Month Low
  The Japanese economy continues to skid as evidenced by the October Japan Manufacturing PMI™ Key points Output and new orders both down at sharper rates Employment falls at fastest pace since July 2009 Average output charges pared to steepest degree since December 2009 Summar ...
• NY Subway May Take Weeks to Restore Service, 5 ...
  Hurricane Sandy has moved on but the damage remains. The following picture of Times Square posted on Gizmodo caught my eye. Fortunately, it does not look real. Lights should not be on and there would be debris everywhere. However, the Metra chairman did say water was "literally up to the ce ...
• Greece Coalition Splinters, Austerity Vote Del ...
  In Greece, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras coalition has split. The result is yet another delay in an austerity vote required for the next tranche of loans to Greece, and the PM warns of 'chaos'. Greece's conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is at odds with the Democratic Left party, a ...
• 670,000 Without Power in NYC; Flood Crests 13. ...
  The good news for New York City is the storm crest has peaked. The bad news is the cleanup will take days, or longer, and much is the city is blacked-out. Please consider Hurricane Sandy’s Waters Flood Blacked-Out New York City. Hurricane Sandy sent floodwater gushing into New York’s fi ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  We Do Engage in Censorship- Here is How I have been a major advocate of transparency, and an avid fighter against censorship. I have been proudly (and consistently) engaged in censorship in publishing Boiling Frogs Post Nightly News & Editorials. You would think these two statements are utte ...
• Boiling Frogs Post: It Boils Down to ‘Us’ vs. ...
  Support the Alternative to Mainstream & Pseudo Alternatives Dear Readers & Friends: Three years ago this website began with very few of us and a few of you. I promised (to myself and you) a site where the irate minority, those aware and tired of the creators of lies-fables-smoke and mirr ...
• The Virtual Recovery
  “The Federal Reserve represents the banksters, not the American public!” Since mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates inflation. The financial Prostitutes spoon out the government’s propaganda that prices are rising less than ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  We Do Engage in Censorship- Here is How I have been a major advocate of transparency, and an avid fighter against censorship. I have been proudly (and consistently) engaged in censorship in publishing Boiling Frogs Post Nightly News & Editorials. You would think these two statements are utte ...
• The Global Banking ‘Super-Entity’ Drug Cartel: ...
  I would like to introduce you, the reader, to some realities of our global banking system, resting on the rhetoric of free markets, but functioning, in actuality, as a global cartel, a “super-entity” in which the world’s major banks all own each other and own the controlling shares in the world’ ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Tall Ships America Issues Statement on HMS Bou ...
  The non-profit maritime heritage organization Tall Ships America, of which the HMS Bounty was a member, released a statement on Tuesday expressing its condolences to those effected by yesterday’s tragedy [...]
• For Bounty Victim, It Was About “Making Her An ...
  As the search continues off the coast of Hatteras, N.C. for the missing captain of the sunken Bounty, the reality of the devastation left by Hurricane Sandy begins to sink [...]
• Seventh Shipbreaker Dies From Injuries Sustain ...
  A seventh shipbreaker has died as the result of an explosion on board a beached tanker at an Alang shipbreaking yard earlier this month. gCaptain reported on October 8 that [...]
• Canada’s Fednav Orders New Icebreaker
  Fednav, the world’s largest operator of ice-classed vessels and Canada’s leading deep-sea bulk transporter, announced Tuesday that it has placed an order for a new ice-breaking bulk carrier after securing [...]
• A Day in the Life of Keith Schultz, Captain of ...
  Captain Keith Schultz wakes up every morning on board the Q4000 with a long day ahead of him. Much more than just sailing the vessel safely throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Schulz’s [...]

Press TV

• 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.
• Japan airport reopens after bomb found
  Flights have resumed at a major Japanese airport after bomb disposal units barricaded the area around an unexploded World War II bomb found near the airport’s busy runway.
• 130 Muslims go missing in Myanmar
  At least 130 Rohingya Muslims fleeing the Myanmar violence have gone missing after their boat sank off Myanmar-Bangladesh border.
• Greek union calls anti-austerity strike
  Greece's main labor union has called for a 48-hour general strike in protest against the government’s new round of austerity measures, on November 6-7.
• US assessing losses as Sandy rages
  US officials and ordinary people begin assessing the trail of losses left by Hurricane Sandy on the northeast of the country, with at least 50 people reported killed during the super storm.

SciDev.net

• Lethal Salmonella strain targets HIV positive ...
  A recent strain of Salmonella is targeting the weakened immunity of HIV positive people in Sub-Saharan Africa, says a study.
• Mexico: Scientists call on government to suppo ...
  The Mexican science community has issued an agenda with more than 100 proposals to boost science and increase research and development resources from 2013.
• South-East Asia blazing a trail on research co ...
  South-East Asian countries have higher rates of international collaboration on research than the global average, a study has revealed.
• Qatar renews focus on development-orientated r ...
  Qatar's new research strategy aims to put scientific research and innovation firmly at the heart of the country's development plans.
• African health research network gets cash inje ...
  Research capacity in infectious and non-infectious diseases, which affect millions of Africans, has been boosted by a multi-million dollar fund.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
  A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
• Nanoparticles poison soil
  Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...
• Semen chemical triggers ovulation
  Scientists have identified a substance in semen that triggers ovulation in some species and could also affect human fertility. Many animals, humans included, are spontaneous ovulators, meaning that...
• Old dads bad for offspring's DNA
  Ageist as it is, older fathers are deleterious to their offspring's DNA, placing them at increased risk of mental and other illnesses. Over 60 years ago, the biologist JBS Haldane pointed out that a...
• Sickly birds "pretend to be well" in company
  Sick zebra finches pretend to be well if their buddies are around, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley.Patrcia Lopes, who is interested in the evolutionary benefits of...

Nick Turse

• "You never have to change anything you got up ...
  ““You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”” -...
• LEXINGTON AVENUE LINE SUBWAY PASSENGERS ARE PA ...
  LEXINGTON AVENUE LINE SUBWAY PASSENGERS ARE PARTIALLY HIDDEN BEHIND GRAFFITI ON A WINDOW: 04/1974
• "The Pinterest of Book Discovery? Bookstores!"
  “The Pinterest of Book Discovery? Bookstores!” - (via wwnorton)
• Fulton Street Dock, Manhattan skyline, Manhatt ...
  Fulton Street Dock, Manhattan skyline, Manhattan. (November 26, 1935)
• On the same day that I nabbed Tom Wolfe’s The ...
  On the same day that I nabbed Tom Wolfe’s The Pump House Gang from The Strand’s 48 cent “bargain bin,” I picked up the above volume: Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.  (I guess somebody decided to sell off their whole collection of old Wolfe paperbacks, because there were a few other ...

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