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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

18 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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English: The largest chullpa on the Sillustani...
English: The largest chullpa on the Sillustani site near Puno, Peru. Taken pinga 2003. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Philosopher of education Richard V. Kahn.
English: Philosopher of education Richard V. Kahn. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Icke (top right) with the BBC's first Breakfast Time team. Clockwise from top left: Francis Wilson, Debbie Rix, David Icke, Nick Ross, Selina Scott, Frank Bough. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Mediterranean Region as per Olive Trees' Border (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • U.S. housing market: déjà vu
    I am of the opinion that everyone and their mother should be extra cautious when dabbling in real estate these days. Look around, and it’s clear we’ve been here before. And the results weren’t pretty the first time. For starters, the market is clearly kicking into a higher gear. Yes, the U.S. h ...
  • Thorburn: Housing & NZ's anomalous tax system
    Stopping just short of calling for the introduction of a capital gains tax, BNZ CEO Andrew Thorburn says Kiwis need to face up to the "fundamental anomalies" at the heart of their tax system in order to both encourage investment away from residential property and into job creating, productive bu ...
  • 1930s medicine, eurozone recession
    The eurozone has relapsed into double-dip recession as the austerity shock in the Mediterranean region spreads to the core countries of the north.
  • Kunstler: A Look in the Mirror
    The so-called Grand Old Party now faces a fugue of recrimination that could end in its demise. The party marginalized itself by becoming an alliance of corporate oligarchs with poorly-educated Southern suburban white trash religious fanatics, both using each other to browbeat the nation into tra ...
  • Gallup attacks Nate Silver
    It’s not easy nor cheap to conduct traditional random sample polls. It’s much easier, cheaper, and mostly less risky to focus on aggregating and analyzing others’ polls. Organizations that traditionally go to the expense and effort to conduct individual polls could, in theory, decide to put the ...

Independent - London

  • The wrong man: Two British women waive anonymi ...
    When Derick Crawford is led into the dock of a Barbados magistrates' court on Tuesday, he will stand accused by police of being a "dangerous felon", the perpetrator of the particularly brutal daylight rapes of two British women.Related StoriesBillions spent on flood barriers now might save New ...
  • Mumbai in mourning for Hindu extremist leader
    Hundreds of thousands of grieving supporters thronged the streets of Mumbai yesterday for the funeral of Bal Thackeray, a Hindu extremist leader linked to waves of mob violence against Muslims and migrant workers.Related StoriesPhilippines fears crimes as biggest Ponzi scam victims retaliate'De ...
  • Woman sets herself on fire in Tibetan protest
    A Tibetan taxi driver set herself on fire and died in the latest protests against Chinese rule over her homeland, overseas rights groups confirmed yesterday. Related StoriesPhilippines fears crimes as biggest Ponzi scam victims retaliate'Devil Wife': All hell breaks loose when a Japanese woman ...
  • Slum blaze kills 11 and injures dozens in Bang ...
    A fire tore through a slum on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka yesterday, killing at least 11 people and injuring many more. Related StoriesPhilippines fears crimes as biggest Ponzi scam victims retaliate'Devil Wife': All hell breaks loose when a Japanese woman wants a career and a familyMumba ...
  • Riot after road accident exposes anger at Chin ...
    Thousands of residents have protested in the south-eastern city of Fuan after a road accident, smashing police cars and overturning three police vans. Related StoriesPhilippines fears crimes as biggest Ponzi scam victims retaliate'Devil Wife': All hell breaks loose when a Japanese woman wants a ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • We are forbidden to say this: Gaza is a Concen ...
    The most striking and significant quality of our national conversation "is one of overwhelming, oppressive and suffocating unreality. It is as if everyone knows, but will never acknowledge, that we may speak only in code, and that we may only utilize the safe, empty phrases that we have agreed ...
  • TSA stops, jails man with 'strange watch' at a ...
    A Southern California man was arrested at Oakland International Airport after security officers found him wearing an unusual watch they said could be used to make a timing device for a bomb, authorities said Friday. Geoffrey McGann, 49, of Rancho Palos Verdes was taken into custody Thursday nig ...
  • Giant Sun eruption captured in NASA video
    The sun unleashed a monster eruption of super-hot plasma Friday (Nov. 16) in back-to-back solar storms captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft. The giant sun eruption, called a solar prominence, occurred at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT), with another event flaring up four hours later. The prominences w ...
  • Aid pours into New Jersey as many residents st ...
    Traveling from one storm-ravaged city to another, a "Train of Hope" steamed into Newark from New Orleans Saturday afternoon, nearly two weeks after Hurricane Sandy tore through New Jersey. Instead of passengers, however, the Amtrak train came laden with relief supplies. It was just one ray of l ...
  • Israeli air strike kills 11 civilians in Gaza: ...
    An Israeli missile killed at least 11 Palestinian civilians including four children in Gaza on Sunday, medical officials said, apparently an attack on a top militant that brought a three-storey home crashing down. International pressure for a ceasefire seemed certain to mount in response to the ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Gaza ghastliness . . .
    SAD IRONY: children who were abused have a propensity to become abusers, and thus the misery proceeds into the future. Similarly, the survivors of the Holocaust have been working over the poor Palestinians in Gaza. The Israelis have been mendacious, to say the least, and today's web allows spin ...
  • Con v. Internet
    Oh, Conservatives! Threatening Teh Internet? Good luck with that. It's easy to understand why they're afraid of it though. It's bigger than them by (heh) googols, and stands in ideological opposition to them in form and function. The internet has allowed governments to topple and revolutions ...
  • Res Ipsa Loquitor
    Actual screen capture. To say anything further would be superfluous. (an actual crossposting from the actual Woodshed, actually.) Tweet
  • Only a Conservative...
    ...would find joy in putting large numbers of people out of work. "We said we would eliminate 19,200 positions within the federal government and we are doing what we promised to do. In just six months, we have already achieved more than half the reductions set out in the budget. A lean ...
  • The turnaways . . .
    WOMEN AS SLAVES: a woman who is denied freedom of choice is as much a slave as those unfortunates in the slaver holding pens of 200 years ago, who were bred at the whims of their owners. And as we have seen, the GOP likes it that way, and American conservatives have made every effort to make abo ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News Attacks Obama's Defense Of Susan Rice
    Fox News figures attacked President Obama's defense of Ambassador Susan Rice during a press conference, claiming his statement that critics of Rice "should go after me" was "absurd and chauvinistic." Fox has a history of attacking Obama and Rice, most recently by invoking Libya smears in order t ...
  • Fox Ignores Hostess' Array Of Troubles To Scap ...
    Fox Blames Bakers Union For Hostess Liquidation But Hostess Was A Troubled Company That Had Recently Emerged From A Previous Bankruptcy Hostess' First Bankruptcy Was Expensive And Did Not Improve The Company's Prospects Hostess Asked Unions For More Pay Cuts Despite "Substan ...
  • Fox Attacks Infrastructure Spending
    Fox attacked infrastructure spending as a "a pat on the back" for labor unions after AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said that the federal deficit is not the primary short-term crisis. In fact, economists and studies say that government spending is needed to repair America's crumbling infrastru ...
  • Fox Pushes Six Tax Myths Ahead Of Spending Neg ...
    Fox News tried to undermine President Obama's tax plan by pushing six debunked tax myths in advance of negotiations on how to avoid a series of automatic tax increases and spending cuts. In reality, Obama's proposal to let tax cuts for wealthy Americans expire will grow the economy and is suppor ...
  • Fox News Underreports Marriage Equality Victor ...
    Fox News continued its habit of downplaying major advancements for LGBT equality after last week's election, underreporting three states' adoption of marriage equality through popular vote and ignoring Wisconsin's election of the country's first openly gay senator.Analysis: F ...

Global Research.ca

  • Silencing the Media: Press TV Station in Gaza ...
    The office building of Iran’s English-language 24-hour news channel, Press TV, in Gaza has been hit twice in the Israeli regime’s fresh airstrikes. During the bombings, a Press TV cameraman has been injured. Israel launched fresh air raids on two media buildings in Gaza City on Sunday morn ...
  • A Timeline: How Israel shattered the Gaza Truce
    by Electronic Intifada Today, 3 Israelis were killed as a result of rocket fire from Gaza. This came after Israel had killed 13 Palestinians, including 3 children and a woman, and injured 115, including 26 children and 25 women since yesterday, 14 November.…
  • Iran Condemns International Silence over Israe ...
    Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi condemned the international community’s indifference to “the Israeli regime’s aggression against the Gaza Strip,” Press TV reported on Sunday. The Iranian foreign minister made his remarks at an opening address to Syria’s National Dialog meeting in Tehran ...
  • Qatar helped locate Palestinian leaders to be ...
    The residence and offices of a number of Hamas leaders were identified during the recent visit to the Gaza Strip by Qatar’s King Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and later targeted by Israeli missile and bomb attacks, informed sources disclosed.…
  • Arab Divide: Lebanon, Algeria, Sudan, Mauritan ...
    The Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki renounced the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip. The remarks came in a speech on Saturday during the emergency meeting of the Arab foreign ministers in Cairo to discuss the Israeli military escalation in Gaza.…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

  • Science for Hire: Why Industry's Deep Pockets ...
    This story first appeared on Public Trust Project.It’s sunset in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a time when the little town’s handful of shops board up for the night, and the lights click off at no fewer than six marine research institutes.But at the far end of the town, one blo ...
  • Disaster in the Gulf Again as Oil and Gas Rig ...
    Yesterday BP was charged with manslaughter for the 2010 Gulf disaster and today two workers on a Black Elk Energy oil and gas rig off the coast of Louisiana are dead after an explosion. NBC has reported that two more workers are missing and four others in critical condition were flown to a hos ...
  • BP To Pay Largest Criminal Fine In U.S. Histor ...
    BP has agreed to pay a historic $4.5 billion criminal fine over a six-year period, after pleading guilty to 11 felony counts and criminal charges for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers. After two years, the litigation is not yet over since BP faces damages fro ...
  • Energy Independence for America Is a Worthy Go ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Can we drill our way to energy independence? Republicans (and some Democrats) have long proclaimed we can -- and now a recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) says the U.S. may be poised to become the ...
  • This Election’s 4 Biggest Populist Victories Y ...
    No matter which side you butter your political bread, by now you’ve heard more that you ever wanted to about the election results and who won.But that’s just politics.What you probably missed in the glare of the pundits flashy graphics and the incessant Wednesday m ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • NRC MAINTAINS HEIGHTENED WATCH OVER NUCLEAR PL ...
    According to an NRC press release, three reactors (Nine Mile Point 1 in Scriba, N.Y., Indian Point 3 in Buchanan, N.Y.; and Salem Unit 1 in Hancocks Bridge, N.J.) experienced shutdowns as Hurricane Sandy pounded the East Coast.  Another plant, Oyster Creek in New Jersey, remains in an “Alert” du ...
  • Public Utility Commission Ignores Texans’ Crie ...
    Even Support from Businesses Like IKEA Is Not Enough for PUC AUSTIN, TX – The Public Utility Commission delivered a slap in the face to the more than 6,000 Texans and 70 businesses and organizations  who have actively called on the Commission to implement and expand the non-wind renewable portfo ...
  • Solar Backers Rally as Public Comment Period Ends
    Advocates fault PUC for turning a blind eye to industry as Texas falls behind Solar energy backers rallied outside the Texas Public Utility Commission [last] week seeking enforcement of a seven-year-old law that would boost electric generation from geothermal, biomass and the state’s ample suppl ...
  • PRICELE$$ – the movie
    From the Fourth of July to the halls of Congress, PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker’s personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are some of our government’s most basic policies, like food and energy, so out-of-date – and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion o ...
  • Rally for Clean Energy and Good Jobs – Thursda ...
    We are taking our Clean Energy Works for Texas campaign to the doorstep of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) next week.  We hope you will join us for a rally on Thursday, October 18 at 12 p.m. in front of the William B. Travis building at 1701 N. Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701 We are [...]

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Grassroots International Condemns Violence in ...
    gaza-bombing2012.jpg Once again, the steady violence that passes for “normal” in Palestine and Israel has escalated to alarming proportions. After months of rocket exchanges between militants in Gaza and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), th ...
  • Communities Stand with those Impacted by Hurri ...
    cja_in_detroit_sept_2012.jpg Last week, a broad group of organizations involved in a Climate Justice Alignment process in the US released the statement below, in solidarity with communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy in the Caribbean and t ...
  • First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Peas ...
    seeds-mali.jpg Members of the Via Campesina gathered in Thailand to discuss, strategize and coordinate about one of the mainstays of farmers across the globe: Seeds.read more
  • Brazil’s “Green Energy” too Costly, say People ...
    brazil-mab-demonstration.jpg Before becoming Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Roussef helped to engineer an ambitious development plan that would change the country. Known as the Accelerated Growth Plan and the Ten-year Energy Plan, i ...
  • Hurricane Sandy Washes Away Haitian Livelihoods
    haitian-_flooded_farmland-2012.jpg Hurricane and Superstorm Sandy caused billions in damages from the Caribbean to Canada, killed more than 100 people and left many in its wake without basic necessities. For those of us who live in cou ...

Climate

  • U.S. Firm to Launch NAFTA Challenge to Quebec ...
    (Globe and Mail) A U.S.-incorporated energy firm, Lone Pine Resources Inc., is taking on Quebec’s stand against fracking, saying it violates the North American free-trade agreement and demanding more than $250-million in compensation. ...
  • Washington Weighs Moving Climate Politics Beyo ...
    (EurActiv) The US is considering a funnel of substantive elements of the Doha Climate Summit away from the UN framework and into the Major Economies Forum (MEF), a platform of the world’s largest CO2 emitters, EurActiv has learne ...
  • Sen. Murkowski Floats Five-Year Phaseout of Wi ...
    (The Hill) Congress should extend a wind power tax credit for one year as a bridge to an eventual phaseout, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources’s ranking member, said Thursday. Congress ...
  • Top Senate Lawmakers See Chance to Revamp U.S. ...
    (Reuters) The United States needs to update its energy policy to reflect the boom in natural gas and oil production that has boosted manufacturing jobs, said the top Democrat on the Senate energy committee on Thursday. read ...
  • Carbon Output from Canada Oil Sands Higher Tha ...
    (Reuters) As President Barack Obama faces a decision on whether to approve the Alberta-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline, a study said Canadian oil sands release more planet-warming gases compared to other crudes than originally ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    Probably not helpful to evoke Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I thought the Interior Minister talking about the Middle Ages was intemperate enough, but at least it didn't bring America into the discussion. Also, too, comparing the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians to scoring a soccer goal is ...
  • Look in the Mirror
    Here is an Australian point of view on Mitt Romney and the presidential election. In the minds of many critics, Mr Romney's comments about Mr Obama's "gifts" reinforces the idea that he lacked empathy with voters to start with. Many Republicans were lukewarm about their candidate: he was see ...
  • Israel is Making a Mistake
    It hardly matters to the Palestinians and Israelis who are facing aerial bombardment, but one downside of the fighting in the Middle East is that it is overshadowing the president's trip to Southeast Asia. In my opinion, the timing of this escalation of fighting was at Israeli Prime Minister Ne ...
  • It's the Nihilism, Stupid
    You can find hundreds of explanations for why the Republicans lost the most recent elections. I think the simplest explanation is that the conservative movement has developed an ideology that is basically hostile to the idea that the federal government should do anything. And that is tough for ...
  • Idle Question for Sunday Morning TV
    Fresh off his latest week of posturing for the cameras, Sen. John McCain is almost certain to be using his personal lockers in the green rooms of the various Sunday morning chat shows tomorrow. Now that the Friday testimony of former CIA Director Petraeus has definitively exploded right wing ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Treading the Tunnels of an Abandoned Mine in Wales
    Long, dark tunnels and deep pools of still water await in this abandoned mine in Wales. The perfect expedition for a brave explorer. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Forsaken People of Japan's Largest Slum
    When most of us picture Osaka, we imagine a prosperous modern city of neon lights and gleaming skyscrapers, yet hidden in their shadow lies another, darker world. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Urine 'Bio-Fences' Could Save African Wild ...
    Find out how researchers and conservationists are using an innovative new method to protect the critically endangered African wild dogs... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Creepiest Abandoned Churches
    These magnificent old churches may be falling apart, but that just makes them more intriguing places to explore – if you've got the nerve! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Whether it's worthy economists, school propaganda posters, infamous hacker groups, or would-be accountant celebs, cool links aplenty are to be found right here. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • E.P.A. Upholds Ethanol Requirement
    The agency said it found no evidence that the renewable fuel requirement for gasoline is causing severe economic hardship.
  • Obama on Climate Policy: Not Just Now, Thanks
    Rather than propose a way to bridge the political divide on the issue, the president said he would be listening to experts and then conducting an "education process" about long-term steps to address a warming planet.
  • On Our Radar: The BP Indictments
    By charging individuals, the government is signaling a return to the practice of prosecuting officers and managers rather than a company alone, scholars say.
  • Mapping Cameroon's Motley Canopy
    An updated interactive map of the forests of Cameroon reveals a complicated mix of land use below the green canopy.
  • Taxpayers at Risk As Storm Bills Come Due
    Whether they live near the coast or not, state taxpayers and insurance ratepayers are likely to be on the hook when damage from hurricanes exceeds insurance policy reserves.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Eval ...
    By Dan Feidt -- hongpong.com -- MINNEAPOLIS -- NOV 12 2012 -- Law enforcement officers under a state training program called Drug Recognition Evaluators encouraged people in downtown Minneapolis, including Occupy Minnesota protesters at Peavey Plaza and other vulnerable and houseless people to p ...
  • Occupy gets rolling in Sandy disaster relief; ...
    Via Occupy Sandy Relief NYC 4 hrs ago: https://www.facebook.com/OccupySandyReliefNyc?fref=ts >>> #NOT ANOTHER KATRINA <<< Contrary to what might be inferred by a media and government blackout - Rockaway IS. NOT. RECOVERING. We can't stress this enough. It looks li ...
  • Question Time: Jimmy Savile pedophile network ...
    "What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how mu ...
  • FawkesFail: Even more #OpCartel related shadin ...
    ‏@AnonNCarolina2 - We spend all night informing ppl about indefinite detention only to be placed at the top of the list by some dumbfuck. #StopNDAA#Anonymous - SOURCE Fortunately #stopNDAA at least hit a huge volume on twitter during tonight's presidential debate. So... Synchronicity in the F ...
  • ECHELON GCSB military surveillance vs New Zeal ...
    " i'm one of those horned rimmed guys sitting behind a desk in DC dreaming of ways to manipulate Anonymous for UK's and USA's purpose :)" Backtrace Security - Pastebin.com http://pastebin.com/KtLfurP1 -posted BY: A GUEST ON MAR 16TH, 2012 | SYNTAX: NONE | SIZE: 9.62 KB | HITS: 833 | ...

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Analysis: Should the CIA kill less and spy more?
    Sooner or later the news media will move on to something else and General David Petraeus' extramarital affair and resignation will fade into the distance. For seasoned intelligence observers, however, the question of the CIA’s future will remain firmly in the foreground.
  • MI5 arrests Royal Navy petty officer for tryin ...
    A member of the British Royal Navy has been arrested in a counterintelligence sting operation, after trying to sell top-secret government documents to people he believed were Russian operatives.
  • News you may have missed #812
    Russia to help probe Yasser Arafat's death. Revisiting the foiled 1984 Nigerian kidnap plot. Putin congratulates KGB double spy on his birthday.
  • News you may have missed #811
    Former Mossad chief pushes for dialogue with Iran. UK says attack on Iran 'not right course at this time'. German spy agencies disclose spy tools in rare move.
  • Mossad ‘tried to kill’ Saddam Huss ...
    Israeli intelligence tried unsuccessfully to kill Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the 1970s using a bomb disguised as a book. This revelation is included in a new documentary film, which was aired on Monday evening on Israel’s Channel 1 television.

War is a Crime.org

  • Two petitions about the TSA
    There are two petitions I’m asking you to sign. First off, I know petitions don’t, by themselves, effect change. I get it. But they still serve a useful purpose. They provide moral support to the person or organization sponsoring the petition. And they let other people know that they’re not alon ...
  • Straight Talk on Gaza
      Straight Talk on Gaza   by Stephen Lendman   Palestine's democratically elected government is targeted. West Bank coup d'etat authority has no legitimacy. Abbas' term as president expired in January 2009. Israel rigged his 2005 election.    What's ongoing is illegal ag ...
  • Bahrain Cracks Down on Freedom
      Bahrain Cracks Down on Freedom   by Stephen Lendman   The ruling Al Khalifa monarchy is one of the world's most brutal dictatorships. It's also a valued US ally. Bahrain is home to America's Fifth Fleet.   Imperial priorities matter most. Washington backs Bahraini harshness ...
  • Syria News - Nov 18
      Syrian coalition to name ambassador to France (VIDEO) - FRANCE 24 UK has ‘encouraging’ talks with Syria opposition - ArabNews Putin warns against West hasty move on Syria, “We believe that it's necessary to first agree about the future… and only then make changes" - PressTV Sena ...
  • Video: Speakers Stand Up for Palestine at Inne ...
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Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Prop 37: The top 7 reasons not to believe the ...
    by Jon Rappoport November 14, 2012 www.nomorefakenews.com The verdict is in. You would be a fool to accept the vote-count in the California Prop 37 election. I’ll show you why. Apparently, the CA secretary of state’s office has been getting hit by a lot of calls. People are asking them about the ...
  • US denies visas to Iranian UN delegates
    This is some great diplomacy.  This makes it look like we really want to talk and solve problems... The United States has denied visas to Iranian officials hoping to attend a UN meeting in New York, Iran’s state news agency reported on Saturday. The Iranian judiciary’s human rights h ...
  • Hemp Can Repair DNA! : Federal Jack
    by POPEYE DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the hereditary material found in humans, animals, and organisms. DNA is in every cell in our bodies. Each cell’s nucleus has DNA, which is rolled into structures that are our chromosomes (23 pairs). “Most genes contain the information needed to make funct ...
  • Quote of the Day – I don’t travel& ...
    I don’t travel. If I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: What are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. [...]
  • Ice Age Cometh? Coldest Weather for One Hundre ...
    A severe bout of cold weather looks to be heading Britain’s way Britain will grind to a halt within weeks as the most savage freeze for a century begins. Temperatures will fall as low as minus 20C in rural areas, forecasters warned last night, while heavy snow and “potentially danger ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

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Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Caleb Charland Takes Incredible Photograph of ...
    Nobody makes renewable energy look as beautiful or curious as Caleb Charland. A professional photographer whose work is displayed in collections throughout the globe, Charland has been working on a series of images of alternative batteries like this one powered by citric acid. Galvanized nails r ...
  • Architecture Students Design Lattice Bib to Pr ...
    As Hurricane Sandy demonstrated, rising sea levels, combined with increasingly powerful storms, can be devastating for New York City. While relief efforts continue in many parts of NYC, the storm has many architects thinking about how to better protect the city from future storms. Tingwei Xu and ...
  • How ‘Soft Infrastructure,’ Like We ...
    As the climate changes and sea levels rise, cities that were previously thought to be relatively safe are looking more and more vulnerable — just ask anyone in New York who lived through Hurricane Sandy. Last year, a group of architecture firms united to tackle these issues with innovative ...
  • My Eco Home by LG Allows Green Facebook Users ...
    If you dream about designing your own home but want to experiment with some baby steps before committing to a huge project, you’ll want to check out My Eco Home by LG Electronics (LG). This fun, interactive digital interface allows Facebook users to design a virtual home online and then sh ...
  • DIY Holiday Gift: The Urban Gardener Kit
    Read the rest of DIY Holiday Gift: The Urban Gardener Kit Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: gardening tools, Urban Farming, urban farming tools, urban garden, urban gardening

Pogue's Posts

  • Pogue's Mailbag: Tethering, Generators and More
    A sampling from just one day's worth of reader e-mails - an inside look at a technology columnist's job. Topics include tethering to a phone for wireless data on a laptop, the reliability of Drobo storage and unsubscribing from junk mail.
  • What Is a 4G Network?
    Here is the difference between 4G and 4G LTE.
  • How to Keep Electronics Going With No Power
    How a tech columnist muddles through a 10-day stretch without electricity and Internet (not to mention heat or hot water). Sometimes, the technologies a columnist and his family crave most are 100 years old.
  • A Windows 8 Cheat Sheet
    If you install Windows 8, you'll have to learn both environments, like it or not; you can't live in just one environment or the other. So how are you supposed to operate it if you have a nontouch computer? David Pogue provides a cheat sheet.
  • More Advice on Home Data Storage
    Readers weigh in with more advice about backing up data at home.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Amazing Time-Lapse Video Features Ever-Changin ...
    Heaven meets the Earth in this moving time-lapse video showing gorgeous landscapes underneath an ever-changing night sky.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Planetar ...
    These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30 show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase of evolution for these objects. The inset image on the right is a close-up view of A30 showing X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple and Hubble Space Telescope data ...
  • Get Inside the Replica That Trained Every Shut ...
    It's not named Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor or Enterprise. But the Full Fuselage Trainer at the Museum of Flight in Seattle is the only full-size artifact of the space shuttle program that visitors can actually go inside and follow in the footsteps of every shuttle astronaut.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dry Ice ...
    Have you ever played with dry ice (with leather gloves on of course!)? Perhaps you've made Halloween punch? Set a spooky scene? The fun comes from the fact that dry ice goes directly from solid to vapor, unlike water ice which melts into liquid when it gets warm.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Stellar ...
    Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material for new star formation. The nebula, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, contains a centr ...

PakAlert

  • Pictures Tell the Story: Aftermath of Hamas Ro ...
    As Israel and Hamas exchange “attacks” the world continues it’s debate over who the real aggressors actually are. For their part, the Israeli government has hired literally thousands of paid trolls to spam social media and comment sections with pro Zionist rhetoric
  • The coming EBT riots: What will happen when go ...
    EBT cards are modern-day food stamps, except they're electronic. In essence, they are government-issued debit cards that allow recipients to spend taxpayer money for their own groceries. But EBT cards aren't merely good on food staples like beans and rice, they can be spent on processed junk foo ...
  • Elites Gearing Up with Doomsday Shelters and 2 ...
    In late 2011 I had a chance to interview Brian Camden with Hardened Structures LLC. The interview was interesting to say the least as we covered private and military applications of underground bases and shelters
  • War In Gaza: Why Now?
    It was widely reported that Israel agreed to delay any war against Iran until after U.S. elections. A little over a week after the election, Israel launched a “targeted assassination” against the leader of Hamas (who Haaretz called Israel’s subcontractor in Gaza). That is what started the cur ...
  • 32 Questions That All Americans Must Answer
    Ron Paul, in his historic farewell speech to Congress this week, asked 32 thought-provoking questions addressed to his fellow Americans. It's very clear upon examination of these questions that something is very wrong with our government. Below are his questions

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of Shadwell: School, Street Art, Studio ...
    Shadwell: School, Street Art, Studios and Railway Bridges, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, I’m currently posting five sets of photos of a journey I made on a hot, sunny day in July, when I travelled from my home in Brockley, south e ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Need to Close G ...
    Yesterday, I was delighted to talk to Michael Slate on his long-standing progressive show, on KPFK in Los Angeles, about Guantánamo past, present and future. The show is here, as an MP3, and our interview lasts for around 20 minutes. If you have the time, I hope you can listen to the show. Micha ...
  • Photos of Commercial Road: The 21st Century Ra ...
    Commercial Road: The 21st Century Rag Trade, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, this is the second of five photo sets that I’m belatedly publishing, many months after they were taken, which capture a journey that I took, on a particula ...
  • President Obama, It’s Time to Fulfill Yo ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • From Deptford to Bermondsey: Photos of a Summe ...
    From Deptford to Bermondsey: A Summer Journey Through London’s History, a set on Flickr. After posting five set of photos of autumn in London,  as part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, I’m briefly returning to summer to post five of the 46 sets I have ...

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  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Eleventh Person Charged in Fort Stewart Militi ...
    As the investigation continues into a murderous Georgia-based militia group led by American military personnel who were plotting to overthrow the federal government, a former Navy recruit has become the 11th person charged in the case that includes allegations of burglaries and car break-ins to ...
  • Radical Right Joins in Secession Frenzy
    Hundreds of thousands of disgruntled conservatives, still smarting from the re-election of President Obama last week, are signing petitions to allow more than 30 states to secede from the United States — and they are being joined by a motley collection of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Klan s ...
  • Racist Former SCV Leader Gets 19 Years in $57 ...
    A man who was once seen as a genteel Southerner defending the “honor” of the Confederacy but who secretly lived lavishly on other people’s money now faces the next 19 years in a federal prison cell — possibly in solitary confinement. The first jolt for 65-year-old Ron Wilson — former national le ...
  • Indictment Deals ‘Devastating Blow’ to Aryan B ...
    In one of the largest racketeering cases brought this year, the U.S. Department of Justice has just unsealed a 43-page indictment of 34 members of a “violent, whites-only prison-based gang with thousands of members operating” in and out of prisons throughout Texas and elsewhere. The Aryan Brothe ...
  • Alleged Cop Shooter in Idaho Said to be White ...
    An Idaho sheriff’s deputy is alive today after his bulletproof vest was struck by bullets allegedly fired at close range by a 27-year-old fugitive who reportedly is a white supremacist with ties to the neo-Nazi Hammerskins. That deputy and another officer, whose names were not released, were sho ...

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Common Dreams -News

  • Thousands Surround Obama's White House: 'Stop ...
    Thousands of people began a planned march around the White House on Sunday afternoon, calling on the Obama Administration to reject the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and keep tar sands crude out of the US. read more
  • Five Reasons to Reject (Again) the Keystone XL ...
    This Sunday, activists are organizing another round of protests at the White House to urge the President to kill the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This marks the beginning of a new post-election campaign to pressure the Administration to abandon dirty fossil fuel projects. Below is a piece, wr ...
  • Israel's Netanyahu: We're Preparing to 'Signif ...
    Palestinians search through the debris of the destroyed home of the al-Dallu family following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. (Photograph: MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)UPDATE:  (3:39 PM EST) Media coverage on Sunday afternoon reported an escalation of Israeli air strikes, including one ...
  • Momentum Builds for Historic Black Friday Stri ...
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  • US Escalation Against Iran Would Carry High Co ...
    WASHINGTON - The world economy would bear substantial costs if the United States took steps to significantly escalate the conflict with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, according to the findings of a Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) special report released here Friday ...

Lifehacker

  • Build a Bicycle Cargo Carrier with a Milk Crat ...
    We've covered DIY bicycle panniers made with kitty litter buckets before but those require your bike to be fitted with a cargo rack. If you don't have one and still need to carry a few basics you can use PVC pipe and fittings to support a milk crate. More »
  • Repurpose Clear Storage Totes as Mini-Greenhouses
    If you have warm temperatures during the day but cold nights and want to add plants to your Fall or Winter garden you can start your seedlings in small containers stored inside clear plastic totes. Take the totes outside before you leave in the morning so they can get a day's worth of sunl ...
  • "Is it possible to share files or stream video ...
    Is it possible to share files or stream video to my android tablet or iPod Touch from my [Windows 7] laptop without a router? Do you think there will be comparable deals to Black Friday in-store sales online over the weekend or on Cyber Monday? I remember hearing that most flagship phones ...
  • Backup and Sync Your Minecraft Saves on All Yo ...
    If you're a hardcore Minecraft player you won't want the chance of losing your time-consuming masterpieces. Why not use Dropbox to sync your game saves so you can access your creations from any of your computers running Windows, Mac, or Linux. More »
  • Use a Clothing Iron as an Improvised Hotplate
    If you're staying in a hotel room and need to heat water for your french press or just want to make a grilled cheese sandwich in your lab you can use most clothing irons as a hotplate. Simply find a way to secure the iron upside down, turn it on, and wait for the flat metal surface to heat ...

Water Privatization

  • John Boyle: Water merger on fast track?
    What we have here is some fast-moving water. In the coming weeks and months, expect to hear a lot about the proposed merger of Asheville’s Water Resources Department and the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County.
  • Drilon supports privatization of MIWD
    SENATOR Franklin M. Drilon is supporting the move of Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog to start the ball rolling for the privatization of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD). Admitting to bite the bullet when the time comes for drastic...
  • Panel talk, film on prison privatization postponed
    EXETER — A panel discussion and film about the possible privatization of New Hampshire prisons set for Wednesday, Nov. 14, was rescheduled.
  • Frost & Sullivan: Efficiency and Innovation on ...
    LONDON, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Efficiency is and will be a top priority for water utilities during the coming years and will create a favourable environment for innovations, finance and new business ...
  • Water Department Privatization, Massive Layoff ...
    There was an overflowing crowd -- and heated comments -- at the Detroit City Council meeting Tuesday as members heard about massive cuts possible within the city's Water and Sewerage Department.

Guardian

  • Rightwing rivals both declare victory as battl ...
    Jean-François Copé and François Fillon attack one another on TV as the vote for a new leader of the UMP party ends in chaosThe vote for a new leader of Nicolas Sarkozy's rightwing UMP party turned into a shambles on Sunday night after both candidates declared themselves the winner amid a vicious ...
  • Gaza: four children killed in single Israeli a ...
    Attack believed to be aimed at Hamas official increases death toll of military offensive to 67 peopleAt least 11 members of one family, including five women and four children, were killed when Israel bombed a house in Gaza City on Sunday as the five-day-old war claimed more civilian lives with n ...
  • More than one in 10 high street shops left empty
    Northern Ireland, Wales and the north record highest vacancy rates as retailers call for business rate freeze in 2013More than one in 10 shops in the UK's town centres were empty in October as retailers suffered from stagnating sales and rising costs, and the outlook is likely to get worse, acco ...
  • Britain 'sleepwalking towards EU exit' under C ...
    PM comes under attack on two fronts as Labour seeks to reset pro-European case and key Tory demands double referendumDavid Cameron's stance towards the EU will come under pressure from two directions on Monday, with Labour accusing him of allowing Britain to "sleepwalk towards exit" and a leadin ...
  • Ivory Coast military accused of torture during ...
    Hope of reconciliation after civil war fades amid claims of inhuman treatment of perceived Gbagbo loyalistsIvory Coast's military has carried out arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions, extortion, inhuman treatment and torture, Human Rights Watch claims, dealing another blow to hopes of reconcili ...

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Afghanistan Sun

  • James Bond visits British troops in Afghanistan
    By Reuters James Bond actor Daniel Craig surprised British troops in Afghanistan on Sunday by turning up at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province to introduce the latest 007 movie "Skyfall" as ...
  • Craig joins troops watching Skyfall in Afghanistan
    James Bond film Skyfall premieres in London James Bond actor Daniel Craig has surprised British troops in Afghanistan by turning up at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province to introduce the latest 007 ...
  • Obama speaks with Putin Karzai about re-election
    The White House says President Barack Obama has talked to several foreign leaders about his re-election, including Russian President Vladimir Putin (POO'-tihn) and Afghan President Hamid ...
  • Afghanistan Bond Star Drops In On UK Troops
    Troops at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan were taken by surprise when 007 star Daniel Craig dropped in on their base. The actor met 800 soldiers, airmen and sailors just before they watched the new ...
  • Afghanistan neighbours focus on regional econo ...
    On the pulpit, the diplomats spoke about security and elections and trade. The validity of next April’s elections and the Afghan forces’ ability to protect its people after NATO ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Perspectives from the NWC Founders
    DC cable television aired this timeless interview with NWC founders Stephen Kohn, Michael Kohn, and David Colapinto:
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in Monday at 5:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Jane Turner interviews Kenneth Smith and John Melson along with their lawyer, Dave Scher. Kenny & John were hired by government contractor Jorge Scientific to perform security services in Afghanistan, but end ...
  • Squashed By Russia: The Sergei Magnitsky Story
    NWC nabbed an exclusive interview with Jamison Firestone, the law partner and friend of Sergei Magnitsky – a whistleblower whose disturbing story reveals the ruthlessness and corruption of the Russian government. Sergei was tortured and killed after he exposed the looting of Russian taxpay ...
  • Presidential Policy Directive on Whistleblower ...
    A recent White House directive on national security whistleblowers has sparked a major dialog in the whistleblower community. You can read the National Whistleblowers Center's press release on the directive here. Below is a full-text analysis from the Whistleblower Support Fund's Linda Lew ...
  • ARB issues decisions on summary decision, sett ...
    Today, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a summary of the September 2012 decisions of its Administrative Review Board (ARB).  The twelve decisions issued in September cover important procedural issues involving the time limits for filing complaints and petitions for review to the ARB, con ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Cognitive dissonance is a scary thing. Orwell called it doublethink; Star Trek called it engrammatic dissociation; both, along with many others, painted it as terrifying. On the Insightful side of this week's top comments, we've got several instances of our readers ferreting out the inherent con ...
  • That Was Fast: Hollywood Already Browbeat The ...
    So, late Friday, we reported on how the Republican Study Committee (the conservative caucus of House Republicans) had put out a surprisingly awesome report about copyright reform. You can read that post to see the details. The report had been fully vetted and reviewed by the RSC before it was ...
  • Nick Grossman's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The ...
    Hello Techdirt! It's an honor to be here. Here are my favorite posts from this week. Most of these fall under the general theme of "be careful what you wish for"... If There Needs To Be An Investigation, It Should Be About Why The FBI Was Reading Certain Emails While some have noted the ...
  • House Republicans: Copyright Law Destroys Mark ...
    Right after the Presidential election last week, Chris Sprigman and Kal Raustiala penned an opinion piece suggesting that one way the Republicans could "reset", and actually attract the youth vote, would be to become the party of copyright reform. We had actually wondered if that was going to h ...
  • Unsealed Megaupload Seizure Warrants Reveal Us ...
    Last month, we wrote about how the EFF, representing Kyle Goodwin, had asked the US district court handling the Megaupload case to unseal the warrants for the seizures of Megauploads domains and servers. The court has now ordered the documents unsealed. To be honest, there isn't too much surpr ...

VacTruth

  • Brainwashed Police Prosecute Parents to Protec ...
    Retired Sergeant Christopher Savage confirms police are writing off cases of vaccine injury as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. and Shaken Baby Syndrome.
  • Bill Gates Funding Drone Technology to Deliver ...
    When it comes to money and imagination, Bill Gates seems to have an endless supply of both. One of his latest financial donations is funding unmanned aerial vehicles to quickly and inexpensively deliver vaccines.
  • The American Medical Association Will Soon Be ...
    The American Medical Association (AMA) recently published a paper proposing the introduction of a new law to force you and your children into experimental vaccine trials against your wishes. Your only way out of this directive would be to sign an ‘opt out form.’ In January, the AMA publish ...
  • Postman Could Soon Deliver Your Nanopatch Vacc ...
    In 2010, UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday reported that a collaborative research study undertaken by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University in Atlanta had detailed a new way to deliver painless effective vaccines. [1]  Reporting on a study published in th ...
  • Secret Papers Reveal Funding Refused to Resear ...
    Secret papers hidden in archives for years clearly show that when medical researchers applied for funding to study the link between vaccinations and the debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Took this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town. Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more about putti ...
  • Book Review – The Occupy Handbook
    The Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning wr ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Follow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
  • Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...
    By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...
  • Things You Might Miss
    Not much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello. Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]

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War in Context

  • Hamas, Gaza, and the Arab Spring — an intervie ...
    No one in Washington has a better understanding of Hamas than Mark Perry. He’s been in communication with the Palestinian resistance movement’s leadership for much of the last two decades. As bombs rain down on Gaza we are again reminded of the ruthlessness with which Israel controls ...
  • Obama backs Israel’s use of disproportionate f ...
    Reuters reports: U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he fully supported Israel’s right to defend itself and called for an end to the firing of missiles into Israel by militants inside Gaza in order for a peace process to go ahead. “There’s no country on earth that would ...
  • How Obama has failed his own supporters
    In “An open letter to the President from a bereaved sister,” Abby Okrent writes: Dear Mr. President, My younger brother was an early believer in you. He worked for your Senate campaign. At the age of 25, he ran the GOTV campaign in North Carolina, delivering an improbable victory for ...
  • The ongoing failure of Israel’s military thinking
    Yagil Levy writes: Israel assassinated its subcontractor, the one who took care of its security in the Gaza Strip, Aluf Benn says in a Haaretz article (November 14 ) about the killing of Hamas’ military chief, Ahmed Jabari. Indeed. Israel has done it again. Its history is fraught with the ...
  • Video: Al Jazeera reporters on Gaza-Israel con ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Frontline responds to complaints about Oct 23 ...
    Note: I’m late getting this up, mainly due to most of Russel Cook’s emails at attachments going into the spam bin, then there was the last week when I just didn’t have any time beyond getting WUWT-TV on the air. … Continue reading →
  • Weekend open thread – Attack of the Gorebots
    I’m a little bit toasted from the effort to get WUWT-TV online, so I’m taking a rest. I did note with some humor though this gloating missive from Dana “scooter” Nucitelli over at “Open Mind” about Gore’s event: See Dana, … Continue reading →
  • EPA under investigation for skirting email tra ...
    From the Washington Times: A House committee has launched an investigation into whether EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used an email alias to try to hide correspondence from open-government requests and her agency’s own internal watchdog — something that Republican lawmakers … Continue rea ...
  • Thank you for watching WUWT-TV
    Hello Everyone, I wish to offer my sincere thanks for your assistance and willingness for the help and ideas in putting together a presentation and appear on the WUWT-TV event. Much of this came from reader’s ideas and insight. We … Continue reading →
  • Announcing the launch of ClimateDialogue.org
    Exploring different views on climate change Goal of ClimateDialogue.org ClimateDialogue.org offers a platform for discussions between invited climate scientists on important climate topics that have been subject to scientific and public debate. The goal of the platform is to explore … Cont ...

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Biosingularity

  • Inadequate cellular rest may explain effects o ...
    Ss aging inevitable? What factors make older tissues in the human body less able to maintain and repair themselves, as in the weakening and shrinkage of aging muscles in humans? A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators and collaborators at King’s College London d ...
  • Too Much Alcohol Cuts Brain Neuron Formation
    Drinking a couple of glasses of wine each day has generally been considered a good way to promote cardiovascular and brain health.  But a new Rutgers University study indicates that there is a fine line between moderate and binge drinking – a risky behavior that can decrease the making of adult ...
  • Genetic variation may modify associations betw ...
    Findings from a study suggest that certain variations in vitamin D metabolism genes may modify the association of low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations with health outcomes such as hip fracture, heart attack, cancer, and death, according to a study appearing in the November 14 issue of JA ...
  • ’1000 genomes barrier’ broken
    A landmark project that has sequenced 1,092 human genomes from individuals around the world will help researchers to interpret the genetic changes in people with disease. The first study to break the ’1000 genomes barrier’ will enable scientists to begin to examine genetic variations ...
  • Omega-3 Intake Heightens Working Memory in Hea ...
    While Omega-3 essential fatty acids—found in foods like wild fish and grass-fed livestock—are necessary for human body functioning, their effects on the working memory of healthy young adults have not been studied until now. In the first study of its kind, researchers at the University of Pittsb ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Trafficking and the new civil liberties debate
    Civil liberties are more often than not difficult to stand up for in practice. In theory everyone is in favor of them, but the only times they make it into national debate is when they are under attack. When times are good policy makers and the public don’t seem to give much thought to r ...
  • Third party laziness, 2012 edition
    Kevin Gosztola’s post on safe voting strategies quotes historian Howard Zinn’s claim that “we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls.” But Zinn veers ...
  • Empty chairs and missing signs in Ohio
    This year’s presidential election has produced a brand new form of messaging. It isn’t very cutting edge, though; not some kind of recently developed social media application or scary new number crunching technology. No, it’s empty chairs. Really. People (in northeast Ohio ...
  • Home rule on that ballot this election season: ...
    Ohioans have experienced a number of different frustrations in trying to get their government to be responsive to their concerns about fracking. The biggest one may be the state’s usurping of home rule of home rule on the issue. Ohio’s Constitution had home rule - basically, the ri ...
  • Bain Capital, leveraged speculation and cancer
    Maha has occasionally focused on mesothelioma, and yesterday she emailed a link to this from Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Cohn. It is a look at how a Kansas City steel company named GS Industries was bought out by Bain Capital, sucked dry and shut down. The resulting struggle for many former emp ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic Consumers Association Statement On Cal ...
    The OCA Continues to Monitor Prop 37 Election Results, Has Not Ruled Out a ChallengeClick here to read this article
  • How to Build a Grassroots Power Base
    Millions of Americans are eager, even desperate, for a political movement that truly challenges the power of Wall Street and the Pentagon. But accommodation has been habit-forming for many left-leaning organizations, which are increasingly taking their cues from the party establishment: deferrin ...
  • The Invisible Nuclear Threat Within Non-Organi ...
    There is a profound misunderstanding in the mass market today about the value of certified organic food. The question is not whether the 50% higher or more you pay at the register for an organic product is really worth the added vitamin, mineral and phytonutrient content you receive.Click here ...
  • "Labeling It Ourselves": With Real Food Calcul ...
    As the defeat of Prop 37 is mourned in California and throughout the food movement, students are actually enacting it, continuing the hard work for food chain transparency that they started well before the Prop 37 battle entered the mainstream.Click here to read this article
  • Liberals and Progressives Happy but Not Elated ...
    Many Americans sighed with relief the day after the 2012 election that they had beaten back a powerful right-wing assault. There was little enthusiasm about what we had achieved in retaining Obama, but much joy that for the moment the most reactionary forces in American life were held at bay. Li ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Improved Agriculture—It’s About Energy, Soil, ...
    How can farms become more resilient? Self-sufficient? Energy-efficient? The answer to all these questions is “ecological agriculture.”
  • 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 ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • A Box Filled With Love
    Mom started the care packages. She sent them to my brothers when they left home to join the military, to us girls when we moved away to other cities and towns, to friends who were going through tough times and to complete strangers who faced a particular Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat &n ...
  • U.S. uses al Qaeda to Advance Its Military Adv ...
    Israeli spy chief says Tel Aviv supports regime change in Syria, amid ongoing efforts by the anti-Syria governments to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Climate Change Timeline
    The history of climate change concern 1895 - 2009 How does this fit in with co2 concern? http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/08/19/the-pariah-u-n-requests-criminal-prosecution-immunity-for-climate-scientists-engaged-in-constructive-fraud/ Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture &nbsp ...
  • Channelling Counterpunch
    Seeing the RSS for Counterpunch down I decided to scan some articles - which served as a jumpoff for an overview of the Iranian menace stories Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • U.S. nonprofit 'names and shames' to put bite ...
    Iran is being killed for a lie. http://www.transcend.org/tms/2010/05/the-npt-and-the-nuclear-power-trap/ False witness noted http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=about http://www.leadingtowar.com/ Sanctions opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2011/12/19 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...

Angry Indian News

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  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Hackers launch assault on Israeli government w ...
    ShareThisHackers launch assault on Israeli government websites 18 Nov 2012 More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government websites since Wednesday when Israel began its Gaza offensive, according to Israeli officials. Finance minister Yuval Steinitz said just one hacki ...
  • Anonymous attacks Israeli government websites
    ShareThisAnonymous attacks Israeli government websites 19 Nov 2012 Hacker collective Anonymous appear to have joined forces with Palestinian combatants and has attacked several Israeli government sites in what it terms Operation Israel. A press release posted on the Anonymous affliated Anonpaste ...
  • NORAD plans flights in US, Canada to practice ...
    ShareThisNORAD plans flights in US, Canada to practice identification and intercept procedures 15 Nov 2012 Officials with the Colorado-based North American Aerospace Defence Command are holding exercise flights in the United States and Canada. Flights to practice intercept and identification pro ...
  • U.S. denies visas to Iran officials for U.N. m ...
    ShareThisU.S. denies visas to Iran officials for U.N. meeting: report 17 Nov 2012 The United States has denied visas to Iranian officials hoping to attend a U.N. meeting in New York, Iran's state news agency reported on Saturday. The Iranian judiciary's Human Rights Headquarters said in a statem ...
  • Gaza hospitals stretched, need supplies to tre ...
    ShareThisGaza hospitals stretched, need supplies to treat wounded: WHO 17 Nov 2012 Gaza hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties from Israel's bombings and face critical shortages of drugs and medical supplies, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday. The U.N. health agency appeale ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...
  • VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
    ‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
  • VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
    We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • The U.S. Can’t Afford Not to Lead
    15 November 2012 Written by: Paul Wolfowitz Paul Wolfowitz, a former president of the World Bank and former deputy secretary of Defense, is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. President Obama may believe he can abandon “nation-building abroad” to focus on “nation-building at home ...
  • Keeping Promises
    15 November 2012 [Admin note from Michael Yon: I knew David from the surge in Iraq in 2007.  David is the man who interpreted from Arabic to English the horrific accounts of children being baked by al Qaeda: I can confirm from being there with him that David saw much combat in Iraq.] A ...
  • Soldiers using sunlight to improve combat capa ...
    14 November 2012 SunDial Solar Generators: A SunDial 28.2-kilowatt solar generator is in use in Afghanistan. In addition to being used by Special Forces Soldiers in Afghanistan, these systems have been deployed for oil companies, railroads, mining companies and a number of non-governmental... ...
  • Petraeus: A Sad Day for the United States
    12 November 2012 (Photo courtesy of CIA) General (ret.) David Petraeus is a peerless asset to the United States.  His contributions to the war and to the nation have been incalculable.  No one can estimate the number of lives among Americans, the Coalition and Iraqi civilians that hi ...
  • DOD Releases Detailed Timeline for Benghazi Re ...
    11 November 2012 Written By: Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2012 – The Defense Department released a detailed timeline yesterday of the Pentagon’s response to the September attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, including U.S. Ambassador J. ...

The Killing Train

  • One less reader
    Writing political books about, for example, Haiti, means knowing that every reader who gets the book is a victory. Consequently, having one less reader get the book is a serious matter. I tried to send my book to Alex Hundert, a G20 defendant who is currently locked up in Penatanguishene. I was ...
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship: Video of Book Launch ...
    This talk was recorded on November 15, 2012 at Concordia University in Montreal.
  • An attack on Dr. Mukwege
    Gunmen came to Dr.Mukwege's house in Bukavu, killed his security guard, and almost killed him. Here is a profile I wrote of Mukwege in 2009 for The Progressive Magazine. Here is the press release from PMU.
  • The Latest Colombian Peace Process
    Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has reinitiated a dialogue with the FARC. Talks began in Oslo and will continue in Havana. The Colombian government suspended orders to capture the 29 members of FARC's negotiating team as long as the negotiations take place, but have warned that they will ...
  • Rabble podcast about Haiti's New Dictatorship
    Matthew Adams from rabble.ca just did a podcast with me about Haiti's New Dictatorship. Check it out.

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Activists slam Burma amnesty ahead of Obama visit
    Burma pardoned hundreds of prisoners on Thursday under an amnesty criticised by pro-democracy activists as a cynical ploy to curry favour before a landmark visit by US President Barack Obama.
  • Auditor General’s report details misappropriat ...
    Burma’s Auditor General filed a report on Wednesday to the Union Parliament revealing his office’s findings concerning the misuse of funds by 15 government ministries during the 2011/2012 fiscal year.
  • A pivot to Burma
    The happiest lot in Burma ahead of US President Barack Obama’s historic visit to the country will be the ex-generals who have continued ruling the country behind the veneer of reforms. The ruling elites have been waiting for this moment since they came into power nearly two years ago. The US’s a ...
  • “Responsible investments needed” & ...
    Aung San Suu Kyi called for responsible investments in Burma while speaking at the Energy and Resources Institute in India.
  • Suu Kyi says Burma unrest an ‘internatio ...
    Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday described violence in western Burma between Buddhists and Muslims as a "huge international tragedy" and said illegal immigration from Bangladesh had to be stopped.

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Gaza Ceasefire on Bibi’s Terms
    UPDATE: Day 5, the death toll has risen to 52 Gazans killed with 400 wounded (three Israelis were killed several days ago). Haaretz is reporting that Bibi Netanyahu is telling foreign leaders that Hamas has two choices: to stop rocket fire on Israel or prepare for war.  The terms for the ceasefi ...
  • Jerusalem: “Wash This Blood from Our Hands and ...
    God, for something positive and constructive to rise up out of these ashes.  We can’t lose sight of hope, can we? Gregg Mitchell highlighted some wonderful music for Middle East peace in his Nation column.  I wanted to focus in particular on Steve Earle’s fine, fine song, Jerusalem ( ...
  • Israel at “Highest State of Readiness” for Gaz ...
    Sheera Frenkel reports in the Times of London that a senior IDF officer told her the army has been moved to its “highest state of readiness.”  In IDF jargon, this is called P+1, which means the entire army must be ready for combat on one hour’s notice.  Israel will not invade G ...
  • Israeli Ground Invasion of Gaza Imminent
    IDF heavy weaponry, including tanks and armored personnel carriers are massing near the Gaza border, signalling Israel’s intent to launch a ground invasion of the enclave.  16,000 reservists have been summoned for military service, another sign of a planned assault.  The AP has been speaki ...
  • Gaza Death Toll: 11 Palestinians Dead, 3 Israe ...
    UPDATE: There will be a local Seattle protest outside the Federal Building from 4-6PM tomorrow at 915 2nd Avenue. So the grisly accounting begins.  I’ve seen this before when I reported the Lebanon War and Cast Lead.  The images of death flickering from screens.  Thanks to Bibi Netanyahu w ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Lessons Learned From Sandy 'HurricaneHackers' ...
    This post was co-written by Pablo Rey Mazón. A day before Hurricane Sandy touched down, netizens began to congregate via etherpads, Google Docs and IRC, assuming the name "HurricaneHackers." HurricaneHackers teamed up with Sandy CrisisCamps -- a series of hackathons organized by CrisisComm ...
  • OpenNews Announces the 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellows
    When talking about the OpenNews project, I describe it as an ecosystem. All of our programs are interdependent: Hack Days and Code Sprints and Source -- they all work together to build, implement and document new experiments at the intersection of journalism and code. But the living, breathing h ...
  • How OpenSpending Is Getting the Story Out of t ...
    At OpenSpending we really want to make it easy and fun for journalists to write great stories with data. But what can we do to help? There are already tons of ways for journalists to find newsworthy data. For example, in the U.K. there are daily email alerts for government data releases and ...
  • Our Picks for the Most Innovative Election Cov ...
    Election Day is always one of the most exciting days in any newsroom. The rush of breaking news, the crunching of data late into the night, and covering stories that matter to the country and to your community make it one of the most exhilarating days to be a journalist. And with the growth of d ...
  • Poynter Study Suggests Designers Give Readers ...
    This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. A team from Medill and Poynter recently presented their findings on an Eye Track Study for tablets, that sought to answer two questions: 1) How do people choose what to read? and 2 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Health - New Electrode May Send Brain' ...
    A thin, flexible electrode developed at the University of Michigan is 10 times smaller than the nearest competition and could make long-term measurements of neural activity practical at last. This kind of technology could eventually be used to send signals to prosthetic limbs, overcoming inflamm ...
  • Edge of Health - A Pleasant Personality and Pl ...
    Are you good at coping when life gets tough? Do people call you a straight-shooter? Will you help others without expecting anything in return?Those personality traits might do more than help you win a popularity contest. According to new University of Michigan-led neuroscience research, those qu ...
  • Operation Pillars of Defense - Obama Defends I ...
    President Barack Obama says he continues to work to achieve a negotiated solution to the crisis between Israel, and Hamas in Gaza. Before the president arrived in Southeast Asia, White House officials said he was working the phones with leaders in the region in search of a solution to end Hamas ...
  • Operation Pillars of Defense - Contradictory R ...
    Contradictory rumors regarding the outcome of cease-fire negotiations between Hamas and Israel have increased dramatically in recent hours. A Hamas spokesman told Al Jazeera that Israel and Hamas have agreed to 90 percent of the terms of a new cease-fire. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is repo ...
  • Operation Pillar of Defense - Gaza and the Ne ...
    Washington should craft its response to the Gaza crisis to reinforce its position and alliances in the region.The conflict unfolding in the Gaza Strip takes place against a starkly different regional backdrop than the last round of fighting in late 2008 and early 2009. The old regional order tha ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • How—As With This Israel-Hamas War—Western Eli ...
    By Barry Rubin Update 2: Perhaps Hamas was hoping for a spectacular provocation. After Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil arrived for a visit to the Gaza Strip, November 15, Hamas launched a barrage of rockets and mortars at Israel, perhaps trying to provoke an Israeli counterattack tha ...
  • Twinkies: A Tribute and Obituary
    Note: There are four videos in the post, if you cannot see them please click here. An  American Icon died today:  Twinkies, the Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling. Born 82 years ago in Schiller Park, Illinois, Twinkies was murdered by a selfish Baker's Union.  When it ...
  • Newsbusted: MSNBC Urges GOP To Reach Out to DE ...
    The mainstream/liberal media has been generous with its advice to Republicans and Conservatives since the election a week and a half ago.  Unfortunately none of the advice has explained how to get the mainstream/liberal media to report the news fairly and accurately.  In a special repo ...
  • Why We're Asked NOT To Say Where HAMAS Rockets ...
    Part of Yesterday's IDF Blogger's briefing sounded like this: Q: Where did the rocket hit, if not Tel Aviv? A: The rocket didn't land in Tel Aviv. Q: Where? A: The launch didn't reach its destined area. I can't disclose anything further. In fact all throughout yesterday,  b ...
  • Operation Pillar of Defense Update: Day Two Bl ...
    Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich held a phone briefing with bloggers to provide a summary of day two of Operation Pillar of Defense.  Below is a transcript of the call: "We started the operation yesterday with two goals – one, to defend Israeli civilians, and the second, to cripp ...

The Real Agenda

  • FMI presiona os países Europeus a entregarem s ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 18 NOVEMBRO, 2012 O Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI) pediu aos países sob pressão do mercado por custos de financiamento elevados, incluindo a Espanha, que busquem a ajuda dos fundos de resgate europeus para o programa de compra de dívida criado ...
  • Mossad e o Exército Israelense se negaram a cr ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 18 NOVEMBRO, 2012 Todo mundo sabe que Benjamin Netanyahu, o primeiro-ministro israelense, e o seu ministro da Defesa, Ehud Barak, mal podem esperar para bombardear o Irã. Todo mundo, também, está consciente de sua incapacidade de convencer os seus m ...
  • Traficantes de drogas entre os melhores client ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 18 NOVEMBRO, 2012 O Ministério Britânico das Finanças e Alfândega (HMR) abriu uma investigação sobre contas bancárias no Banco de Hong Kong e Xangai (HSBC) cujos proprietários são cidadãos britânicos da ilha de Jersey, conhecida por seus baixos impo ...
  • The Logical Aspects of Vaccines
    What do vaccine makers and vaccine pushers hope you don’t understand is that vaccines are a cocktail of chemicals that cause, not cure disease. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 17, 2012 I have good news for those of you who did not have time to read our in-depth repor ...
  • 25 Questions Society needs to answer before ge ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 16, 2012 As if there is a need to prove that big government and excessive government action in any scope of life is a direct result of social immorality, or that government intervention has created the mess where most of the world is into ri ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbine compensation stirring discontent
    People living next to wind turbines say that their compensation does not reflect the actual value of their property losses. Better than nothing, politicians counter An evaluation of the 551 compensation payments made to people living next to wind turbines indicates that the average amount was 57 ...
  • Maine DEP rejects Passadumkeag wind project
    GRAND FALLS TOWNSHIP, Maine — The Maine Department of Environment Protection has denied a 14-turbine industrial wind site atop Passadumkeag Mountain. Passadumkeag Wind Park LLC was sent a 45-page decision signed by DEP Commissioner Patricia Aho on Thursday that detailed the department’s decision ...
  • 60 Herkimer Co. residents file lawsuit against ...
    Some Herkimer County residents near the Hardscrabble Wind Farm are fed up with the noise, the view and “negative impact” they say 37 wind turbines bring to their backyards. Frustrated by the wind farm that some residents say drives them “crazy,” 60 Middleville, Fairfield and Norway residents hav ...
  • Wind, recall ordinances in Peru approved by voters
    PERU — An ordinance regulating wind-energy developments was approved by the town on Tuesday by a vote of 585-30. Jim Pulsifer, chairman of the Industrial Wind Power Committee that drafted the regulations, said they “wrote a very strong ordinance that would make it very hard to bring wind turbine ...
  • Wind noise comes as a big surprise
    ALBANY — The sound woke Ray Giroux and his wife up at three o’clock Saturday morning. “It sounded like a jet plane taking off,” Mr. Giroux said in an e-mail to the Chronicle. The couple’s home is on the Eden Road in Albany, less than a mile and a half from the new w ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Now in Portuguese and Chinese: Reporter’s Guid ...
    A new translation of this guide is now available, thanks to the efforts of Alessandra de Falco, a journalism professor at Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei in Brazil. She uses the guide in her classes. Em Português: Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency (PDF; 1 MB) Also, I neglec ...
  • Election 2012 maps: Showing data
    This was the first U.S. presidential election in the post-Flash era. In 2008, data maps were made with Flash. Now the online mapmakers have moved on to other technologies, largely using JavaScript. Here are three examples, with a full view and a zoom of each: WNYC Radio, New York: LA Times ...
  • 5 examples of interesting data presentations
    What do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.) Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.) Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...
  • What should be in a “visual journalism” course?
    One meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism. There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism” is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...
  • Should you major in journalism now?
    Like any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and whether it’s smart to be a journalism major. I teach about online journali ...

Facing South

  • What the election means for immigration
    Last week's election demonstrated the growing power of Latino voters and the renewed demand for results on immigration policy. read more
  • With record criminal settlement reached over G ...
    The oil giant has agreed to pay the largest criminal fine in U.S. history, and three of its managers were indicted on charges including felony manslaughter. But the company says it plans to "vigorously defend" itself against pending civil claims, even while its spilled oil still washes ashore an ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Will the Supreme Court gut th ...
    Three days after an election that saw numerous attempts to suppress the minority vote, the high court agreed to hear Shelby County, Ala.'s challenge to the Voting Rights Act. read more
  • Big Money plays big role in North Carolina ele ...
    Outside groups unleashed more than $14 million into North Carolina state races, helping fuel Republican victories across the state. read more
  • Gas drilling drags down home values in communi ...
    Properties that draw their drinking water from wells lose as much as a quarter of their value when natural gas drilling takes place within a mile. The finding has important implications for North Carolina, where fracking may be coming soon to rural communities that rely on well water. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Another note on Republicans
    They seem to be moving to change protected works (so called IP) laws, to make them less punitive.  I didn’t expect this, but it makes sense: 1) Hollywood is a Democratic ballywack, and IP is how they make their money. 2) Libertarians took a couple percent in a lot of states, sometimes more ...
  • Some Words on the Republican Party
    Here’s what I expect from Republicans 1) Immigration reform.  They want it, they need it.  If Boehner is smart (and he’s not stupid, despite what people think), he’ll tie it to the Grand Bargain.  Some money for southern States and municipalities.  A hard lean on Republicans in ...
  • Some Words on the Republican Party
    Here’s what I expect from Republicans 1) Immigration reform.  They want it, they need it.  If Boehner is smart (and he’s not stupid, despite what people think), he’ll tie it to the Grand Bargain.  Some money for southern States and municipalities.  A hard lean on Republicans in ...
  • Some Personal Thoughts
    Recently I had a day where I burned out on anger.  Oh  yes, when it comes to public affairs I’ve been angry for years, though I think rage is the more applicable word.  I don’t think this rage was misplaced, and I still get spasms of it. The reason for the rage is simple enough: [...]
  • Some Personal Thoughts
    Recently I had a day where I burned out on anger.  Oh  yes, when it comes to public affairs I’ve been angry for years, though I think rage is the more applicable word.  I don’t think this rage was misplaced, and I still get spasms of it. The reason for the rage is simple enough: [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Petraeus's Turf: The South Tampa Scene
    Bimbo eruptions are never fortunate occurrences, least of all for the bimbos involved. When they occur in South Tampa, they carry the sordid spectacles to new frontiers. A gentle but feisty cultural mix of blue-collar, white-collar, and varied ethnicities stretches between Old Tampa Bay and Hi ...
  • Patraeus's Turf: The South Tampa Scene
    Bimbo eruptions are never fortunate occurrences, least of all for the bimbos involved. When they occur in South Tampa, they carry the sordid spectacles to new frontiers. A gentle but feisty cultural mix of blue-collar, white-collar, and varied ethnicities stretches between Old Tampa Bay and Hi ...
  • The Rise of the Third Coast
    In the wilds of Louisiana’s St. James Parish, amid the alligators and sugar plantations, Lester Hart is building the $750 million steel plant of his dreams. Over the past decade, Hart has constructed plants for steel producer Nucor everywhere from Trinidad to North Carolina. Today, ...
  • The Emerging Professional, Scientific, and Tec ...
    Although the professional, scientific, and technical industry sector makes up only 6% of the U.S. workforce, it was responsible for 10% of national job growth from 2010 to 2012. In addition, the broad industry (NAICS 54) grew by 6% in the past two years, which illustrates our nation’ ...
  • For A Preview Of Obama's America In 2016, Look ...
    Conservatives of the paranoid stripe flocked to the documentary “America: 2016” during the run up to the election, but you don’t have to time travel to catch a vision of President Obama’s plans for the future. It’s playing already in California. Some East Coa ...

GM Watch

  • EFSA: A playground of the biotech industry?
    NOTE: Testbiotech has just published a useful background paper summarizing some of the findings on conflicts of interest at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA): http://www.testbiotech.de/node/736 --- --- A Playground of the Biotech Industry? Testbiotech, November 2012 http://www.testbiotec ...
  • U.S. closes antitrust investigation into seed ...
    NOTE: The antitrust investigation launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2010 marked a real moment of hope for farmers and consumers that the Obama administration really did care about the impact on them of industry concentration. See, for instance, the article: Farmers to DOJ -- "B ...
  • Now five Environment ministers want review of ...
    NOTE: At the end of October the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that  three former Environment ministers were calling for a revision of the market authorizations for Roundup and Monsanto's NK603 maize. http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&a ...
  • Growing wave of resistance to attacks on Seralini
    The corporate links and orchestrated character of the attacks on the research of Seralini et al (Food and Chemical Toxicology 50 (2012) 4221-4231)  has been exposed by the French journalist Benjamin Sourice, among others. http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i ...
  • Growing wave of resistance to attacks on Seralini
    The corporate links and orchestrated character of the attacks on the research of Seralini et al (Food and Chemical Toxicology 50 (2012) 4221-4231)  has been exposed by the French journalist Benjamin Sourice, among others. http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Securing the Homeland: You Might Be A Terroris ...
    Via: Public Intelligence: Known or possible terrorists have displayed suspicious behaviors while staying at hotels overseas… Not providing professional or personal details on hotel registrations—such as place of employment, contact information, or place of residence. Using payphones for ou ...
  • Poverty: 50 Million Americans Struggling to Su ...
    The United States is projected to spend an estimated US$323 billion for development and procurement on the F-35 program, making it the most expensive defense program ever. The total lifecycle cost for the entire American fleet is estimated to be US$1.51 trillion over its 50-year life, or $618 mi ...
  • Broadwell Had Substantial Classified Data on C ...
    Hmm. Via: Reuters: A computer used by Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with CIA Director David Petraeus led to his resignation, contained substantial classified information that should have been stored under more secure conditions, law enforcement and national security officials said on W ...
  • Open Sourced: Google Engineer Builds Page-Turn ...
    Via: The Verge: For the past eight years, Google has been working on digitizing the world’s 130 million or so unique books. While the pace of new additions to the Google Books initiative has been slowing down, members of the team have come up with a new automated scanner design that could both m ...
  • Bloated College Bureaucracies, Absurd Salaries ...
    Via: Bloomberg: J. Paul Robinson, chairman of Purdue University’s faculty senate, strode through the halls of a 10- story concrete-and-glass administrative tower. “I have no idea what these people do,” said Robinson, waving his hand across a row of offices, his voice rising. The 59-year-old prof ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Worst Economic Numbers In More Than A Year
    With everything else that is going on in the world, a lot of people have failed to notice that we are seeing some of the worst economic numbers that we have seen in more than a year.  For example, it was announced on Thursday that initial claims for unemployment benefits have hit their highest l ...
  • There Will Be War In The Middle East
    The military action that we are watching in the Middle East right now is just a preview of coming attractions.  Tensions in the region are rising with each passing day, and all sides have been anticipating future conflicts and preparing for war for decades.  It would be wonderful if everyone cou ...
  • Will The Wealthy Race To Dump Stocks And Other ...
    The election results made it abundantly clear that taxes are going to be going up, and right now a lot of wealthy people all over America are trying to figure out how to best position themselves for the hit that is coming.  There are a whole host of tax cuts that are set to expire [...]
  • Share This Massive List Of Post-Election Firin ...
    The victory by Barack Obama on election night has resulted in a huge wave of firings and layoffs all over America.  A large number of businesses seem to have suddenly shifted into panic mode.  The number of layoff announcements that we have seen in the last 48 hours has been absolutely shocking. ...
  • The Politicians We Have Chosen Reflect Who We ...
    The American people have spoken.  It is estimated that approximately 6 billion dollars was spent on political campaigns in 2012, and we ended up exactly in the same place that we were before.  Barack Obama is still in the White House, the Democrats still have solid control of the U.S. Senate and ...

Desertification

  • UPDATING OF THIS BLOG
    FOR YOUR INFO Dear Readers, I underwent surgery on October 16th. Everything went well. My doctor advised me to take some weeks of complete rest. Therefore, I will resume this blog as soon as I feel fully fit again. Thank … Continue reading →
  • UPDATING OF THIS BLOG
    Due to an urgent surgical intervention, the updating of this blog will be temporarily interrupted until complete recovery. Thanks for your understanding.
  • What farmers can do themselves for better land ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...
  • Local solutions to combat desertification (The ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This film highlights the global problem of desertification ...
  • The bottle tower method highly appreciated (Ll ...
    A message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea. I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • New report: Minors in 'solitary' hallucinate, ...
    A new report on solitary confinement of minors includes harrowing descriptions of the psychological and physical impact ‘solitary’ has on young people, as well as surprising revelations about why some authorities resort to isolating juveniles.In “Growing Up Locked Down,” the groups Human Righ ...
  • More on Fred Humphries, FBI friend of Jill Kelley
    Fred Humphries does not fit the stereotype of an FBI agent as cool and unemotional. In person, the man who helped initiate the investigation of CIA Director David Petraeus comes across as a passionate and empathetic person.Until this week, Humphries was best known as the FBI agent who gleaned ...
  • Hospitals request government help in curbing p ...
    The nation’s largest hospital group has asked federal officials to create new Medicare pay scales for emergency rooms and outpatient clinics and determine if electronic health records are prompting hospitals to overcharge the federal program.The American Hospital Association, which represents ...
  • Medical journal issues warning about human tis ...
    In its latest issue, the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet warns about the dangers of “profiteering” in the $1 billion international trade on human tissue and the lack of sufficient regulation worldwide – echoing the findings of an International Consortiu ...
  • Blistering inspector general report says feds ...
    Like a growing number of disabled Americans on Medicaid, Keith Foreman, a 57-year-old in Metropolis, Ill., qualified for a personal caregiver to help him with daily activities like dressing, shaving, and preparing meals.Foreman, who prosecutors say suffers from a spinal injury, hired his girl ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Harper’s stealth attack on Medicare
    By Montreal Simon Oh boy. Trying to keep up with Stephen Harper these days is like trying to keep up with a pickpocket working a crowded railway station. Or a pimp working a Republican convention. One moment he’s selling us out to the Chinese Communist Capitalist Party. The next moment he& ...
  • Pavel Bure: Love at first shot
    By Mark Leiren-Young When Pavel Bure sat down in the stands beside me, my brain vanished as if he’d snapped it away with his lightning fast wrist shot. This was training camp, 1992, just after he won the Calder Cup for Rookie of the Year, becoming the first Canuck ever to win an NHL Award. [...] ...
  • To my alleged progressive friends: What are yo ...
    By Frank Moher Since Tuesday evening, alleged progressives in both the U.S. and Canada have been celebrating the re-election of an American president who, in his first term: - Signed the National Defense Authorization Act, the most damaging piece of legislation to US civil liberties since Roosev ...
  • Son of “Midnight’s Children”
    By Mark Leiren-Young When I walk into the downtown Toronto hotel room to meet Salman Rushdie, I can’t help scoping the halls for bodyguards. Even though he’s no longer in hiding, there’s still a three million dollar bounty on the writer’s head and he’s still the most buzzed about celebrity at th ...
  • The man who predicted Sandy
    By John Klein (aka Saskboy) I find the current political and media climate in Canada to be insufferably stupid. Despite there being excellent, professional journalists everywhere, there are many more time/space fillers who skew the public’s perception of what is going on and what really ma ...

libcom

  • Moscow court holds first hearing in "antifasci ...
    After two weeks ago the case against Nizhny Novgorod antifascists (the Antifa-RASH case) was sent back to prosecutor's office "to remove doubts, irregularities and obstacles" by a court, which is not likely to hear that case again, the cas ...
  • Moscow: Police threaten violence against paren ...
    Anti-fascist Alen Volikov, who is under arrest at Moscow's Butyrka pre-trial detention centre, was visited by police operatives on November 13, and subjected to psychological pressure aimed at making him admit his guilt. Volikov's lawyer Farid ...
  • Uprising in the Cape Winelands - self-organise ...
    Driving through the Hex River Valley after Wednesday’s chaotic protests feels like entering a ghost town. Yet when one manages to find residents and speak to them, it becomes crystal clear that the farm workers are planning to hold out for their wage demand ...
  • Self-Organised Strikes on the Mines & Farms in ...
    Two interesting new articles on the self-organised wave of strikes in South Africa that has now spread from the mines to the farms (self-organised militancy began in the shack settlements in 2004). With militant mass strikes organised outside of the unions ...
  • One more sleep til the Bristol Mayor elections!
    samsFBWLSTICKER4.jpg Check out the runners and riders here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Z9VisprWI&feature=plcp or on our latest show http://www.mixcloud.com/fbwl/from ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)
    What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...
  • Important Update on Hurricane Sandy – th ...
    I just received this incredible, “smoking gun” document from a trusted source in Washington who understands the subject and how it is controlled by Israel and the “Jews”: WeatherModificationReport 1966 This was authored by NASA Director, Homer E. Newell, a deeply Zionist ...
  • Hurricane “Sandy” Yet Another Zion ...
    There are few superlative adjectives left in the human vocabulary to adequately describe the Synagogue of Satan – aka the collective state of Israel – and their clearly reprobate mindset.  (See the apostle Paul’s epistle to the  Romans 1:28) - Without a doubt in my mind, (after ...
  • 9/11 Perps Still in the Saddle: Killers of 3,0 ...
    Here is yet another independent analysis of the stark truth – posted by Dr. Kevin Barrett on Veteran’s Today website. People get really upset when they read my earlier posts, their collective COGNITIVE DISSONANCE makes them unwilling and unable to grasp the true facts. The Bottom Lin ...
  • Comprehensive List of Zionist Crimes Against H ...
    This is not “Fiction” people.  This is Fact. When do We The People say ENOUGH???? A Comprehensive History of Zionist Crimes Revised November 26, 2011 (removed Bali “micro nuke” story – insufficient evidence; updated 9/11 information)   Preface It was decided to ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • 1st Floor Weatherization-Benton Project
    3 MAIN ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES TAKEN ON THE BENTON PROJECT R22 Insulation installed in 2×6 Wall Framing Members Vapor and Air Filtration Barrier Additional HVAC Cold Air Return Duct R22 Batt Type Insulation-Friction Fit- Johns Mansfield No Itch Insulation Water and Air Barrier The Above ...
  • Residents Meet About Nuclear Waste In West Lak ...
    Reblogged from FOX2now.com – St. Louis News & Weather from KTVI Television FOX2: BRIDGETON, MO. (KTVI) – A group of north St. Louis county residents met Tuesday night to discuss what they believe is a radioactive hazard in their midst.  It is a story that has its roots in the Manhattan Proje ...
  • Paint Pro Tip #35
    Pro Tip Supplied by:Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy *As seen in the following photo: Use an Old T-Shirt to cover the Tank on a toilette bowl before painting for easy clean up. See the Benton Rehab Green Blog Series at:http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com/2012/10/series ...
  • CAD Drawings Benton Project
    CADD Courtesy-Scotty,Scotts Contracting-St Louis Renewable Energy Eighty Percent of the Time Construction Projects seem to run more efficiently, finish on-time, and stay within budgets when a set of Design Plans are available for the project. Old Western – Old South St Louis Architecture D ...
  • CAD Drawings Benton Project
    CADD Courtesy-Scotty,Scotts Contracting-St Louis Renewable Energy Eighty Percent of the Time Construction Projects seem to run more efficiently, finish on-time, and stay within budgets when a set of Design Plans are available for the project. Old Western – Old South St Louis Architecture D ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • مرتضوی همسرش را مدیرکل تامین اجتماعی کرد
    سعید مرتضوی همسرش هما فلاح تفتی را به سمت مدیرکل آموزش و پژوهش سازمان تامین اجتماعی منصوب کرد.   read more
  • Iran ready to double uranium enrichment at For ...
    A leaked report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there were 2,784 centrifuges at Fordo, and that Iran could soon double the number operating from 700 to 1,400. read more
  • Friends Speak Out on Iranian Blogger Sattar Be ...
    A few days earlier, on November 4—a day after the blogger’s death—security forces had appeared at Beheshti’s home and asked his mother whether he’d ever suffered from a heart condition, or whether he’d been taking any medications. In hindsight, the family thinks, they might have been looking for ...
  • شلیک موشک حماس به تل‌آویو
    حماس می‌گوید که با دو موشک فجر ۵ یک مرکز تجاری را در تل‌آویو هدف قرار داده است. هاآرتص می‌گوید شهر حولون در جنوب تل آویو، مرکز بزرگ اسرائیلی‌های ایرانی‌تبار هم هدف چند راکت قرار گرفته است.
  • رای کمیسیون مجلس به محدودیت صدور گذرنامه برای زنان
    کمیسیون امنیت ملی و سیاست خارجی مجلس ایران به ماده‌ای از لایحه گذرنامه رای داده است که بر اساس آن، صدور گذرنامه برای زنان ایرانی مجرد زیر ۴۰ سال مشروط به موافقت رسمی «ولی قهری» آنان و در غیر این صورت «حکم حاکم شرع» می‌شود.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • 47 State Petition to Secede from US
    Photo credit http://www.examiner.com/article/what-the-secession-petitions-mean According to the Daily Caller, the day after Obama was re-elected, the White House website received a petition asking the administration to allow Louisiana to secede. If 25,000 people sign the petition by Dec. ...
  • America's Nonexistant Free Market
    The clip below is a recent talk by former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz on his recent book The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. The main premise of Stiglitz's presentation (and book) is that the US is the most unequal of advanced industrialized ...
  • My Introduction to Socialism (Age 10)
    “There were no poor people in the land of Oz, because there was no such thing as money, and all property of every sort belonged to the Ruler. Each person was given freely by his neighbors whatever he required for his use, which is as much as anyone may reasonably desire. Every one ...
  • Everything is Illegal in America
    Never in my wildest did I imagine I would ever post a news clip by Fox New commentator John Stossel. Well I guess it pays to keep an open mind. What follows is a clever and tragic account of the extreme over-policing that categorizes contemporary US society.   If video ...
  • Richard Heinberg on the End of Growth
      If video won’t play go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amRrz2jog_U Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute visited New Zealand, where he has a large following, at the beginning of October. Two hundred fifty people attended his presentation at the Tauranga (pop 121, ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Criticizing Democ ...
    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Se ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About the War on Women on ...
    From @MMFlint "McCaskill, Warren, Stabenaw, Klobuchar, Baldwin Senate victories = Declare a War on Women, prepare to lose. #legitimate" "RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, how the f*** are all these women winning?! They don't even wear TIES." "RT @KailiJoy: Magic lady parts not only detect rape s ...
  • GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quite
    By Walt De Vries From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...
  • OCTOBER 9, 2002, TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S. Gov ...
    From Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn: In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative Italian Prime Minister Sil ...
  • TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: Ari Fleischer Claims Oil ...
    Original ... Q And I have a question -- how much does oil have to do with the assessment of the threat from Saddam Hussein? President Bush didn't mention it. MR. FLEISCHER: I'm not sure I follow your question. Q Well, you keep talking about blackmail. You're talking about blackmail ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • The Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Is far from ...
    This pipeline is far from a done deal. It will undergo a thorough environmental review in a political climate where Americans want action on global warming. President Obama has personally committed to this review before making any decision. This pipeline does not align with a pro-climate agenda ...
  • Seashell-Like Concrete Fills in Its Own Cracks
    America’s infrastructure–our roads, sidewalks, and bridges–is in bad shape. Recent assessments show that one in four U.S. bridges supports more traffic than was originally intended, or is in need of significant repair. A full third of all U.S. roadways are in sub-standard condition. There are lo ...
  • Tuning Up the President's Message on Climate C ...
    I think the President's answer reflected an 'inside the beltway' assessment of the political landscape. His approach understimates the will of the American people to do something about climate change. The public opinion numbers are clear. Since 2010, the number of Americans who be ...
  • In Hurricane Sandy's Wake
    Hurricane Sandy’s impact on large parts of New Jersey and the New York City area made for riveting and sobering television, prompting an outpouring of responses – including those from the oil and natural gas industry. Other responses included work by companies to clear routes to fuel terminals t ...
  • Oil Platform Fire Sends Shockwaves through Gul ...
    Many people in the Gulf are still recovering from the BP oil disaster that residents say continues to impact their fisheries and beaches more than two years later. Grand Isle mayor David Camardelle, whose community has been one of the hardest hit by the oil disaster, said he was saddened to lear ...

EU Times

  • Low cost airline to start selling standing fli ...
    The head of Irish low cost airline Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, known for his extravagant and even shocking statements, has started to actively promote the idea of “standing seats” at company aircraft. O’Leary does not worry about the fact that European safety regulations re ...
  • BBC’s Climate Propaganda Exposed as Secret Pan ...
    In scientific circles, the exact causes of climate change are heavily debated, but if you listened to the mainstream media you would be led to believe that they were all in agreement, and all believed that climate change was entirely man made and carbon based. Most of these mainstream sources al ...
  • Obama angry at Netanyahu over Gaza assault
    Timing of the recent escalation in tension between Israel and Gaza is not coincidental. It is a calculated move, Phyllis Bennis, director of the Institute for Policy Studies has told RT. “The Israelis launched their attack shortly after the US elections and shortly before the US was about to swe ...
  • CIA Drug Profits-Russian “Honeypot” Spies Link ...
    An interesting Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin’s firing of Deputy Defense Ministers Dmitry Chushkin and Yelena Kozlova yesterday were “directly related” to their actions in helping the United States uncover the full depth of the ...
  • Israeli Defense Minister approves summons of 3 ...
    Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the summons of 30,000 reserve soldiers. The troops can be called into action by the military at any point, an IDF spokesman told Israel’s Channel 2 TV, as quoted by AFP. Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai said the army was in the process of expandin ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Gameday For Cleveland Browns @ Dallas Cowboys
    It's game day as the Dallas Cowboys try to get back to .500 against the 2-7 Cleveland Browns. All the BTB threads for the day. Can the Dallas Cowboys sting together wins for the first time this season? They have a good opportunity against the Cleveland Browns in Cowboys Stadium. As you get read ...
  • Remembering What Petraeus Did Right
    Remember What Petraeus Did Right -- Amir Taheri, New York Post Gen. David Petraeusâ fall from grace should not overshadow his achievements both as military strategist and commander. Petraeus first caught the attention of those following the Middle Eastern crises in 2003, when he commanded a div ...
  • National Security Council altered Benghazi int ...
    Washington Times: The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that Obama administration political appointees removed references to al Qaeda -linked groups from intelligence agenciesâ accounts of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya . Rep. Michael Rogers ...
  • BBC Jerusalem Bureau leads the charge in false ...
    This is a cross-post from BBC Watch . Please click images to enlarge. Over the past five days since Operation âPillar of Cloudâ began, the BBC has â perhaps inadvertently â done an excellent job of documenting Hamasâ cynical exploitation of the local civilian population in the Gaza Strip as hum ...
  • Do Twinkies have an indefinite shelf life?
    Snopes: Claim – Hostess Twinkies have an indefinite shelf life. Fact – Twinkies have a shelf life of twenty-five days, not seven years, and certainly not fifty years. Even so, twenty-five days is an unusually long time for a baked product to stay fresh. The secret to Twinkies’ longevity is thei ...

Groklaw

  • If I Were Your Lawyer I'd Tell You Not to Brag ...
    But she apparently spoke clearly enough a few months later when she called in to a radio talk show and bragged about how she put one over on the judge. And if you're going to do this despite my advice (if I were your lawyer), here's one final tip: Don't do this on a station that reaches into the ...
  • Court Orders Password Turnover and In Camera R ...
    Gak! In the realm of zany things courts consider doing (e.g., offering to friend litigants), requiring disclosure of passwords should be completely off the list. Apart from the fact that this results in disclosure of or access to the entire contents of the account (including information that is ...
  • Internet censorship in Russia: Lurk no more
    ON NOVEMBER 11th Russian internet-users began to notice that Lurkmore, a sometimes funny, often vulgar website with a cult following, was no longer accessible. Lurkmore (pictured) is a user-generated encyclopedia, a Russian-language wiki Wikipedia focusing on obscure internet jokes and memes, or ...
  • Phone patents: An absurd battle
    One reason boils down to the nature of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, according to Daniel O'Connor, a self-styled anti-trust and internet policy wonk as well as senior director of public policy at the Computer and Communications Industry Association. He says that software is a part ...
  • Trying to Keep Your E-Mails Secret When the C. ...
    The two could have masked their I.P. addresses using Tor, a popular privacy tool that allows anonymous Web browsing. They could have also used a virtual private network, which adds a layer of security to public Wi-Fi networks like the one in your hotel room. By not doing so, Mr. Blaze said, "th ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Is Microsoft now more innovative than Apple?
    Inside Microsoft’s Cauldron Of Ideas:From the outside looking in, Microsoft’s research labs look like the jewel in the crown of a corporation founded ice ages ago, in technology terms, helping to ensure that, despite being the grand old daddy of tech — with a former sales chief for a CEO — Redmo ...
  • Pentagon pushes Vermont F-35 base, Democrats r ...
    Vermont Democrats defend boondoggles and militarization in military push for Vermont F-35 baseOpponents of the F-35 nuclear-capable stealth fighter bomber being based in Vermont are planning non-violent direct action against the Democratic supporters of this multi-billion dollar military boondog ...
  • Capitalism gone wild. Twinkies auctions on eBay
    Because really, what’s more important than paying exorbitant prices for a food-like substance with no apparent nutritional value? Of course, the hedge fund parasites that have deliberately destroyed Hostess while enriching themselves will sell rights to make Twinkies to someone else. So fear not ...
  • Orca vs Narwhal. Obama campaign did disaster p ...
    Narwhal, the computer infrastructure essential to the Obama campaign, was tested, re-tested, and subject to disaster scenarios. It performed perfectly. Contrast this to the bumbling Romney campaign that attempted a lightweight platform called Orca that they didn’t even test and which faile ...
  • Wind turbines. Sherman Island, Sacramento Delta
    Sue and I briefly explored the Sacramento Delta last weekend and will be back. It’s an amazing place, and of course, it is the focus of the California water wars. Central Valley agriculture and southern California want the Delta’s water.This photo is from Sherman Island looking at wi ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

  • Fundraiser for key new book on Iran-- please help!
    As some JWN readers know, twelve days ago I launched an online fundraising campaign to support the writing and publication of one of my company's most important books for 2013, a book by award-winning investigative reporter Gareth Porter that exposes how the U.S. and Israel have "manufactured" t ...
  • Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)
    I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...
  • News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...
    I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
  • Two observations on the tragedy in Syria
    1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...

frogblog

  • Charities as Advocates: Time We Called the Gov ...
    The government has announced that it will indefinitely postpone the review of the Charities Act which had been agreed to with the community and voluntary sector and which was to commence next year and conclude by 2015. Minister Jo Goodhew said that one of the main reasons for her decision was be ...
  • Another deal shows importance of transparency
    This week we’ve had another reminder of the importance of transparency about lobbying activity. On Wednesday in the House, Winston Peters forced Immigration Minister Nathan Guy to come clean about an agreement between the Government and a Chinese airline to allow frequent flyers to skip normal b ...
  • Where is the Conservation Minister on Bryde&#8 ...
    It’s not just Japan that is killing whales regularly. Auckland Regional Council estimates that, since 1989, on average two Bryde’s whales per year in New Zealand die from ship strike. News out yesterday from the Department of Conservation has found that ship strike was the cause of death for a B ...
  • The Parliamentary week that was, 6-8 Nov, for ...
    Parliament was preoccupied by two major pieces of news last week, the unemployment figures and concerns about Housing. It also passed the Climate Change legislation (as previously discussed in this blog post series) and failed to pass Labour MP Darien Fenton’s Bill to stop libraries from c ...
  • UN must learn from Sri Lanka
    It comes as no great surprise to discover that international agencies such as the United Nations were unable to protect civilians in the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war according to a leaked report. The last few months of the civil war in Sri Lanka were every bit as bloody and violent as t ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Naked Truth About Breast Implants--How The ...
    By Dr. Mercola There are many millions of women who receive breast implants for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately many are simply unaware of some of the dangers associated with them. Whether you're a woman who has, or is considering, breast implants, or you have a loved one who is, th ...
  • The Scary Trend Of Boomer Addiction
    By Dr. Mercola The picture of a drug addict in your head is probably not one of a grey-haired grandmother or grandfather, a middle-aged professional or a soon-to-be retiree. But the face of drug addiction in the United States is changing, and a significant number of older adults, particularl ...
  • Why Weight Loss Surgery is NOT a Sound Treatme ...
    By Dr. Mercola The Cleveland Clinic recently published its Top 10 Medical Inventions for 2013 list1. Doctors and researchers at the Clinic voted for what they thought were the most significant inventions out of 250 submitted ideas. Noted medical inventions include an implantable neuromodula ...
  • For Every Life Saved by Mammograms, 3-10 Women ...
    By Dr. Mercola A new study published in The Lancet1 shows that for every life saved by mammography screening, three women will be overdiagnosed and treated for a cancer that might never have given them trouble in their lifetimes. This cost to women's well-being is worth considering, the s ...
  • Melanoma Risk May Be Genetic for Redheads
    By Dr. Mercola People with red hair, very fair skin, freckles and a genetically-based inability to tan have the highest risk of developing melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Conventionally, this has been blamed on the fact that people with fair skin have less pigment (melanin) in t ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Penan set deadline for dam demands
    Penan man, Sarawak, Malaysia.© Robin Hanbury-Tenison/SurvivalMembers of Malaysia’s Penan tribe have suspended their lengthy blockade of the Murum dam site, and given the Sarawak government an ultimatum. They say authorities have a month to guarantee sufficient compensation for the dam’s ne ...
  • US food giant accused over biofuel 'tainted wi ...
    A Guarani man in front of sugarcane crops, grown where the tribe’s forests once stood.© SurvivalA US food giant has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians. He ...
  • Colombian Indian leader escapes assassination ...
    Rogelio Mejía has narrowly survived an assassination bid.© SurvivalOne of Colombia’s most important Indian leaders has narrowly escaped an attempt on his life. Rogelio Mejía, the leader of the Arhuaco tribe of northern Colombia, was traveling in a car which was stopped at a roadblock by a group ...
  • Harassed and imprisoned: activists held for pe ...
    Medha Patkar had vowed to go on hunger strike until her release.© K. ShanmughamVeteran human rights campaigner Medha Patkar has been released after being detained by police in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Ms Patkar had been peacefully protesting against the diversion of vital water supp ...
  • Tourists leafleted at Machu Picchu over uncont ...
    Survival's leaflets highlight the plight of uncontacted Indians only 100km from Machu Picchu© SurvivalSurvival has launched a leafleting campaign targeting tourists arriving at Machu Picchu in Peru. Survival representatives recently handed out leaflets to tourists at Machu Picchu train sta ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.

Food World Order

  • Hostess Products Flying Off the Shelves
    from nbcchicago.com: In the wake of news that Hostess, the company that makes Twinkies and other baked goods would liquidate its business, Chicago area connoisseurs started hoarding the sweet treats. The Target store on Roosevelt Road in Chicago reported higher than normal sales for the ...
  • #GMO Grassroots Labeling Initiative
    from source: Activists and concerned citizens around the world have had enough with corrupt corporations censoring their right to know what’s in their food, and frankly they’re beyond upset. And if the government will not side with the 90 plus percentage of consumers who are in f ...
  • #ExclusiveArticle: Vitamin D - Benefits Outwei ...
    In the news recently, some articles have caught attention with a surprising assertion. Apparently a study linking lower levels of vitamin D with longevity has been put forth by the CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal. I would take the "conclusions" of this study with a large grain of salt, ...
  • Foodstamps Surge By Most In One Year To New Al ...
    from zerohedge.com: While there had been speculation that the BLS may delay the release of its October nonfarm payroll number until after the election, it turned out there was no reason to worry. Perhaps this is because the number, while at stall speed, was not quite as horrible as some had ...
  • YES ON 37 REFUSES TO CHALLENGE VOTE FRAUD!
    from nomorefakenews.com: Lying down on the road in front of a truck isn’t the best way to end a political campaign, but that’s what the YES ON 37 forces are doing. In an email sent out on Nov. 9, the PR people for 37 wrote: “They [the leaders of YES ON 37] assume these [millions of unc ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Worst Economic Numbers In More Than A Year
    With everything else that is going on in the world, a lot of people have failed to notice that we are seeing some of the worst economic numbers that we have seen in more than a year.  For example, it was announced on Thursday that initial claims for unemployment benefits have hit their highest l ...
  • There Will Be War In The Middle East
    The military action that we are watching in the Middle East right now is just a preview of coming attractions.  Tensions in the region are rising with each passing day, and all sides have been anticipating future conflicts and preparing for war for decades.  It would be wonderful if everyone cou ...
  • Will The Wealthy Race To Dump Stocks And Other ...
    The election results made it abundantly clear that taxes are going to be going up, and right now a lot of wealthy people all over America are trying to figure out how to best position themselves for the hit that is coming.  There are a whole host of tax cuts that are set to expire [...]
  • Share This Massive List Of Post-Election Firin ...
    The victory by Barack Obama on election night has resulted in a huge wave of firings and layoffs all over America.  A large number of businesses seem to have suddenly shifted into panic mode.  The number of layoff announcements that we have seen in the last 48 hours has been absolutely shocking. ...
  • The Politicians We Have Chosen Reflect Who We ...
    The American people have spoken.  It is estimated that approximately 6 billion dollars was spent on political campaigns in 2012, and we ended up exactly in the same place that we were before.  Barack Obama is still in the White House, the Democrats still have solid control of the U.S. Senate and ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

Facing South

  • What the election means for immigration
    Last week's election demonstrated the growing power of Latino voters and the renewed demand for results on immigration policy. read more
  • With record criminal settlement reached over G ...
    The oil giant has agreed to pay the largest criminal fine in U.S. history, and three of its managers were indicted on charges including felony manslaughter. But the company says it plans to "vigorously defend" itself against pending civil claims, even while its spilled oil still washes ashore an ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Will the Supreme Court gut th ...
    Three days after an election that saw numerous attempts to suppress the minority vote, the high court agreed to hear Shelby County, Ala.'s challenge to the Voting Rights Act. read more
  • Big Money plays big role in North Carolina ele ...
    Outside groups unleashed more than $14 million into North Carolina state races, helping fuel Republican victories across the state. read more
  • Gas drilling drags down home values in communi ...
    Properties that draw their drinking water from wells lose as much as a quarter of their value when natural gas drilling takes place within a mile. The finding has important implications for North Carolina, where fracking may be coming soon to rural communities that rely on well water. read more

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Unity 4 Released, Adds Ability to Publish Game ...
    First, it was Valve, who went all the way by releasing Steam dedicated client for Linux (still in beta testing phase). Then came NVIDIA, a world leader in GPUs, announcing their optimized for Linux NVIDIA GeForce R310 drivers (in collaboration with Valve) for enhanced gaming experience in Linu ...
  • Elementary OS Luna Beta 1 Released
    The much anticipated Linux distro, Elementary OS "Luna", is finally here. For a beta release, Luna already looks pretty awesome. A quick overview of Elementary OS Beta 1. What's New in Elementary OS Luna Beta 1? Pantheon is the new desktop environment and shell for Elementar ...
  • Android is Surging, Adoption Rate Now 6 Times ...
    This is not news anymore, Android is becoming or as some might say, has already become, the numero uno OS for smartphones. But smartphones market is still in its infancy and is set to explode in the coming years, especially in the developing world. In places like India, Android has been a bloc ...
  • NVIDIA Releases New Linux Drivers, Receives HU ...
    It is not everyday that you hear a major hardware vendor releasing a dedicated Linux driver with much fanfare. NVIDIA has just announced the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers - R310 - for Linux. According to NVIDIA, this new set of drivers for Linux almost double the performance and dramatically r ...
  • Ubuntu GNOME Remix Reviewed: This is my NEW Fa ...
    Netbooks are an extremely useful breed of laptops especially for those who travel a lot. Most of them are extremely cheap to own too. But there's a catch. Windows 7 is an absolute pain to use in lower spec'd devices and I have realized that newer versions of Ubuntu is not exactly what you want ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
  • FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
    *Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...

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