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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.

Friday, November 2, 2012

2 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Power to the Powerless
climate change and income disparity have reared their ugly heads to become defacto issues in the waning days of Eternal Presidential Campaign 2012. Superstorm Sandy has wedged out the wedge issues. Big Bird has flown the coop.

Even corporate media giants like CNN are noticing the inequality. Side-by-side images of desperately hungry people in Brooklyn sifting through garbage in search for food, and VIPs bemoaning the closing of the Dumpling Bar at JP Morgan Chase would never have been possible without the cooperation of Superstorm Sandy.

Poverty was once the word that could not be spoken, especially during political campaigns. Not any more. The shame of the richest nation in the world is hung out for all the world to see. New York City boasts the most glaring income inequality in the entire country. Its arrogant mayor is our 10th richest plutocrat, with a net worth of $25 billion. But more than a fifth of his subjects (you can't really call them constituents) fall below the national poverty line.

It's easy for Michael Bloomberg to brag about the resilience of his fair city in the face of the storm, because he doesn't have to look at the people who are bearing the real brunt. He triumphantly presided over the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. He thumbed his nose at Sandy by insisting that the annual Marathon will be run this Sunday.* But thanks to the magic of TV, the rest of America now bears witness to  the grinding existence of ordinary New Yorkers who must run the equivalent of a city marathon every single day just to earn a subsistence wage. According to the Pratt Center for Community Development,
We found great disparities in transportation access between higher-income, professional workers and low-wage manual and service workers. High housing costs mean that most low-wage workers live in areas outside the city's subway-rich core. Those workers also must travel to work sites dispersed widely around the city and region. This leaves the lowest-paid workers with the longest commutes to work, and limits the geographic range of job opportunities for residents of high-unemployment communities.
Three-quarters of a million New Yorkers travel more than one hour each way to work, and two-thirds of them earn less than $35,000 a year. By contrast, just 6 percent of these extreme commuters earn more than $75,000 a year. Black New Yorkers have the longest commute times, 25 percent longer than white commuters; Hispanic commuters have rides 12 percent longer.
Meanwhile, Wall Street plutocrats are telling harrowing tales of their own. One investment banker had to find his way to his wine cellar in the dark to scarf down a $1000-dollar bottle of wine before it went bad when the temperature controls failed. The CEO of Morgan Stanley had to hoof it three miles from his corporate suite to his domestic suite. Local news coverage of the storm was interrupted with a breathless announcement from Lexus to luxury car owners whose rides were damaged by flooding. A concierge service will pick you up and take you wherever you want to go while you're waiting for a replacement vehicle.

Jason Sheftell, who covers the luxury real estate beat for the Daily News, is totally blaming utility giant Con Ed -- not the hurricane -- for disrupting the lifestyle to which he is accustomed. His piece epitomizes the high-end whining of the entitled:
Con Edison has temporarily rendered a large portion of the greatest city on planet Earth irrelevant. They are treating us like we’re some kind of small town in Connecticut. In the sticks, power is an afterthought after 10 p.m. New York is the city that never sleeps.... Power is our lifeblood. It is our backbone. Without it, we are nothing. One day, acceptable. Two days, fine. Five days, in downtown New York, an egregious error where someone, somebody, some power company, must be accountable. No more excuses.
It is to the credit of some would-be Marathoners that they are forgoing the Bloomberg staged event and volunteering on hard-hit Staten Island instead. Despite the televised orgy of mutual back slapping and self-congratulations by swarms of political candidates, the government response is not all that it's been cracked up to be. People are stranded, people are hungry, people are cold, and people are getting mighty pissed off. Brooklynites waited in line for hours for National Guard handouts of water and MREs (meals ready to eat) The indy newspaper Gothamist has coined a new phrase for the forgotten people and where they live: The Powerless Zone. The lack of electricity is obvious; the lack of political power, not so much.

But  guess what? Occupy Wall Street, that social movement that the PTBs had either written off or co-opted into President Obama's re-election bid, is making a comeback. They're setting up aid camps in the Powerless Zones, even creating their own electricity with those exercise bike generators used in the Zuccotti Park encampment. Information on how to help can be foundhere.

Mayor Shrillionaire wouldn't dare send his paramilitary police army to bust heads at the new humanitarian Occupy encampments. Or would he?

* Update 5:30 p.m. Sanity prevailed, and the race has been cancelled.


 ( Albertans know the disparity well. For years Con Government called screwing the working poor "The Alberta Advantage' when marketing the province as a home to business.  
 I notice Coney Island was immediately the centre of police attention when 'looters' tried to salvage the wreckage. Question though : was that really the smart or best response ?  Somebody should do it.  I suppose 'law of the sea' and the like might not best apply - but there are interesting historical precedents for what to do re: salvage in various disaster situations. Pretending it is 'business as usual' is unimaginative. )
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War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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Internat'l Political Economy

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Economic Collapse Blog

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Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Heartless Hart at it Again
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WL Central

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U N News

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Conspiracy Reality TV

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Rewilding Institute

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Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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Tarpley

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Modern Survivalism

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Fast Company

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Jadaliyya

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mediagazer

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Chemtrail News

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    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
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  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
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  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Air Seychelles to fly to Hong Kong
    Air Seychelles has announced that it will introduce services to Hong Kong in February 2013, subject to regulatory approvals. This will follow the delivery of its second Airbus A330-200 aircraft in January 2013. The airline will operate three return services per week from Seychelles to Hong K ...
  • Are all probiotic drinks alike?
    No, all probiotic drinks are not alike. The beneficial effect of a particular probiotic strain may not be seen in others. Each strain has its unique qualities. So every time you see a famous actor endorsing a particular bottle of probiotic, don't just jump to the offer! There are certain...
  • Chris Brown to remain on probation
    somewhat cryptic The 'Turn Up The Music' singer - who is still being supervised for a felony assault since beating up his on-again/off-again girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 - has been ordered to return to court to update the judge on his progress after...
  • Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asks minist ...
    NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called upon his Cabinet colleagues to work together and adopt remedial measures to tackle 'critical deficiencies on a priority basis' while cautioning against the high fiscal deficit that was a 'deterrent for domestic and foreign investment'. Calling ...
  • 1st MAS Hajj flight arrives in KLIA
    SEPANG: MH8201, Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) first Hajj flight with 447 pilgrims on board arrived safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport about 11 am today. MAS Customer Services...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

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Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
  • Modern economics is … sick
    Geoffrey M. Hodgson Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and pra ...
  • CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    Rebecca Saxe The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That’s the question that I’m asking myself right now, can ...
  • Progress: A Linear Development?
    Rolf-Dieter Heuer With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last gap in the "Standard Model" of physics has been filled. Martin Eiermann talked with the head of the CERN laboraties, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, about the future of physics, the value of diversity, and the difference between knowle ...
  • The intelligent textbook
    Want to know more about your subject? Type in your own question and artificially intelligent software will construct a new page to answer your query Michael Reilly The aim of Inquire is to provide students with the world’s first intelligent textbook, says its creator David Gunning of Seatt ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • What is that animal?
    Carlos Minguell © Oceana Click "read more" to find out
  • Sandy and Climate Change
    On Monday Hurricane Sandy covered 1.8 million square miles. Photo courtesy NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team As a record-breaking hurricane pummeled the Northeast almost into November--this on the heels of a scorching summer that saw arctic ice shrivel to its smallest extent ever record ...
  • Energy Independence and Gas Prices: The Truth
    ©OceanaWavemaker By listening to the presidential debates and political pundits you could be forgiven in assuming that there is some correlation between domestic oil production and the price you pay at the pump. By now it has almost become a tenet of conventional wisdom that an uptick in dome ...
  • Oceana CEO Slams Seismic Testing in USA Today
    Today Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless wrote an op-ed in USA Today, "A Deaf Whale is a Dead Whale", about seismic airgun testing. As you may know by now, the Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal to search for oil and gas deposits in a huge expanse of the Atlantic Ocean stretch ...
  • Oceana Ranger Explores Spanish Seamounts
    Our friends in Europe have wrapped up the Oceana Ranger's 2012 expedition, capturing more than 100 hours of footage documenting the incredible variety of life, both familiar and bizarre, living on underwater mountains known as seamounts off the coast of Spain and Portugal. What they documented, ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • More Vintage Airline Posters
                Sources: Google Images, www.airlineposterart.com    
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  • This Halloween, Enjoy This Ship Made From Huma ...
    Ship Made From Human Bones       Ship Made From Human Bones     Ship Made From Human Bones Given that the French and English warred with each other for centuries it’s a little surprising to hear that French prisoners during the Napoleonic wars were treated fairly well. M ...
  • The Allied Breakout At St. Lo Was A Major Comb ...
      July 24, 1944; it has been seven weeks since the Allies opened a second front against the Third Reich in the daring invasion known as D Day. The Germans however had recovered from the initial shock and were able to cobble together an almost impervious defensive battlefield. The verdant ro ...
  • Pirate Mothership defeated by lowly transport ...
    Rotterdam Class Amphibious Transport Dock     I long ago stopped doing news items but I couldn’t help talk about this. I have often written about asymmetrical warfare and this is an example of what happens when a renegade low tech high chutzpah organization comes across a vastly superi ...

Taylor Marsh

  • How Dumb Was It For Mitt Romney to Skip Letter ...
    IF YOU watch Letterman you’ve no doubt seen and heard him chide, putting it mildly, Mitt Romney for not coming on his show. Joe Biden shows how it’s done.
  • Benghazi “Series of Secret Agreements” Between ...
    A few meters to the right is the safe haven’s bathroom. Everything here is blackened by smoke. One of the two white toilets is covered with bloodstains. On the mirror in the bathroom, an unknown person has written a macabre text in a thin layer of ash. “I am Chris from the dead,&#822 ...
  • Obama’s Grand Bargain is Not a “Betrayal,” It’ ...
    “It is safe to say many groups are very concerned that a grand bargain will be foisted on the Congress that goes against what Democratic candidates promised on the campaign trail,” said Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future. “And it is clear the president is considering ...
  • New ‘Advisory Council’ Expands Homeland Securi ...
    President Obama recently signed an Executive Order “Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council.” From the White House release: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to advance the Federal ...
  • News Desk — BLS Report: Unemployment Rate Esse ...
    THE LAST jobs report is in from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The reports shows 171,000 jobs were created. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 171,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. E ...

Hudson New York

  • Islam Overtaking Catholicism as Dominant Relig ...
    A majority of people in France, according to a new poll, believe that Islam is too influential in French society, and almost half view Muslims as a threat to their national identity. The survey reveals a significant degradation of the image of Islam in
  • West Bank: What the West is Funding
    The Palestinian Authority leadership in the West Bank has come up with a new method to silence its Palestinian critics. From now on, any Palestinian writer or journalist who dares to criticize Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his
  • Egypt's Government and Media Conspire against ...
    From top to bottom, from the Muslim Brotherhood president to the Muslim Brotherhood-monitored media, the lies concerning Egypt's Christian minority—whether lies from the President, claiming the Copts are cared for, or whether lies from the media,
  • The Islamists' Need to Feel Wronged
    When the truth finally came out that three loyal Americans and the American Ambassador had been murdered in Benghazi, Libya, on 9/11/12 as the result of a calculated terror attack and not, as the White House had been insisting for two weeks, a YouTube
  • Islam and Extremism: What Is Underneath
    An excursion into the blogosphere reveals the polarization which attends Islamic issues. Comment areas are populated with readers who seem to think that Islam is a monolithic belief system. This myth, maintained by both "Islamophiles" and "Islamophobes,"

Urban Survival

  • Fried Day
    This morning we shall see how the markets fare, since gold was down earlier and the first thing out of the chute this morning is the jobs report – the last one we get before the election which last I … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Is it ATC or Chemtrails?
    In our Thursday discussion a number of people (sort of as expected) thought I had turned into a shill for the dark forces (or government, if you can distinguish between ‘em…no small matter sometimes…) with my simple explanation of how … Continue reading →
  • From the Editor’s Desk
    Before we launch into this morning’s conventional headlines, I have a whole pile of  Post-It Notes (software version) all over the computer that I should mention.  These are in no particular order, but it’s the kind of stuff that keeps … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Prepping: Sandy After-Action Reports
    Oh, boy, to we have some goodies this morning: A couple of really good after-action reports from the Sandy area.  Let’s start with this from “Jersey Joe”: “Hi George   I live between Trenton, N.J. and Phila, Pa. along the Delaware … Continue reading & ...
  • S&P Housing Report: Half-Full or Half-Empty?
    This is one of those reports which can be taken either way:  In one sense, the year-on-year change is up 2% – better than the 1.7% expected, but on the other hand, the prices are still stuck at summer-autumn 2003 … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Climate change: clear and present danger
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. This week, my brother, his wife and young baby were trapped without electricity in their Hoboken apartment. My sister is still in the dark in Allentown. Hurricane Sandy brought ...
  • TransCanada's record presents a strong case fo ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC Canadian pipeline regulators have announced a sweeping audit of TransCanada’s Canadian operations after confirming the account of a whistleblower documenting repeated violations ...
  • Deniers take note: "IT'S GLOBAL WARMING, STUPI ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. With more than 90 lives lost, thousands of people still stranded, and millions still without power due to Superstorm Sandy our immediate focus as a nation is, as it should be, r ...
  • In Wake of Superstorm Sandy, Media Connects Th ...
    Bob Keefe, Senior press secretary, Washington, DC Journalism is usually at its best in the wake of disaster. The tragic scenes we are seeing on the airwaves and in the newspapers in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy are a bitter testament to that. ...
  • New economic study: fracking risks reduce valu ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. There is a new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)* working paper, from researchers at Resources for the Future and Duke University, on the effect that prox ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Shame on the Federal Authorities
    For more background on civil forfeiture, go here.Shame on the Federal Authorities is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • LAPD Withholds Key Details
    From the Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Police Department’s news release on an Oct. 12 officer-involved shooting seemed fairly routine. Officers searching for several suspects who had fled after being stopped for questioning found one hiding under an SUV … Continue reading &#8594 ...
  • Hope Springs Eternal Award
    From the Associated Press: A Metro Nashville police officer charged with domestic violence has been disciplined 31 times in his 24-year career. The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/S6LrFJ ) Andre Johnson was decommissioned earlier this month after he was charged with misdemeanor … Contin ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, October 27 to Wednesday, October 31, 2012: Ash Flat, Arkansas: The sheriff says that a detective resigned after sexually explicit photos of him were found on a county-owned cell … Continue reading →National Police Mis ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    *Note* Due to Hurricane Sandy, Cato was shut down 10-29-12 and 10-30-12. When Cato shuts down, there will not be tweeting/blogging on PoliceMisconduct.net. Tweeting/recaps resumed as normal today. Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, October … Continue reading &# ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Microsoft and Facebook phone ...
    Rumors of a Microsoft smartphone – and a Facebook phone made by HTC – are back. Meanwhile, Facebook is trying out a ‘Free WiFi for check-ins’ program. It’s all in... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple to apologise aga ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Apple’s apology is deemed non-compliant, AT&T launches Locker for iOS and Kim Dotcom prepares to change the world. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Disney buys Lucasfilm, ...
    Disney buys Lucasfilm, Kickstarter opens up in the UK and Siri can’t find prostitutes in China. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple shuffle, Mail.ru ...
    Apple’s reshuffle, Google for art and politics and Mail.ru for global expansion. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google’s next Nexuses ...
    Google unveils new Nexus devices, Android 4.2 and music matching in Google Play; Amazon takes on the iPad Mini right on its homepage, and Philips launches iPhone-controlled lightbulbs. It’s all...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Wind farms lowering electricity bills in SA
    Wind farms are making a major contribution to lower electricity prices in South Australia, with bills set to fall $160/year on average. The Essential Services Commission of South Australia has lowered standing contract electricity prices by 8.1% from January ...
  • Health and Social Harms of Coal Mining in Loca ...
    There is clear evidence from the international health literature that living near coal mines or coal power stations causes serious harm to peoples health. Burning coal is also the single largest cause of global warming, which the world’s leading medical journal, The Lancet, has described as “th ...
  • Health analysts want study near NSW mines
    AAP October 29, 2012 10:05AM A HEALTH impact study is urgently needed in the NSW Hunter Valley to find out if communities near coal mines are more prone to illness and disease, health analysts say. The call follows a study of international evidence showing increased rates of cancer, heart, l ...
  • Parliament supports motion for solar
                                   Today the South Australian Parliament committed to looking seriously at building solar thermal in Port Augusta. Th ...
  • Rising prices show we must get off gas
                               Australian households are to be hit by another rise in energy bills, this time due to rising gas prices, as highlighted by a report releas ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • China, India should cut tariff on eco-certifie ...
    China and India, the world's largest palm oil buyers, should reduce or eliminate an import tariff on eco-certified palm oil to boost demand for less-damaging production of the widely-used oilseed, said the President of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) during the body's tenth annual ...
  • Photos of flooded New York Aquarium released
    The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today released pictures showing damage caused earlier this week at the New York Aquarium by Hurricane Sandy. The photos show extensive flooding in parts of the aquarium, which is located on the Coney Island boardwalk and is run by WCS.
  • Scientists create 'tree of life' mapping all k ...
    Scientists have created an evolutionary maps for all the world's nearly 10,000 bird species. The 'tree of life' is published in the current issue of the journal Nature.
  • Mysteries surrounding the legendary and vanish ...
    In a remote corner of the Ethiopian highlands in January 2011, the bright tropical light combined with the fresh and thin air at 3,600 metres. The Ethiopian bird-watching guide and conservationist, Yilma Dellelegn, from the Ethiopian Wildlife Society, was startled when he spotted two un-ringed y ...
  • Indonesia could plant 14.5m ha of oil palm in ...
    Indonesia could establish some 14.5 million hectares of oil palm plantations in Borneo without needing to clear rainforest or high-carbon peatlands, finds a new interactive mapping tool developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI).

Sierra Express

  • “Give Peace a Chance” Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew ...
    New York, NY — In anticipation of Sierra Leone’s upcoming Presidential elections on November 17, 2012, superstar trio Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew, based in Brooklyn, New York, USA, released a new song called “Give Peace a Chance” to encourage youths to vote peacefully and re ...
  • Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Labour; Gaim ...
    We often hear stories about how some government Ministers in Africa and in other parts of the world display acts of power drunkenness against the very people that they are supposed to serve. We’ve seen innocent and defenseless Sierra Leoneans being brutalized upon the orders of some of our Minis ...
  • Sierra Leone Scouts Association prepares for C ...
    The Sierra Leone Scouts Association over the weekend at the Sierra Leone Museum in Freetown launched its inaugural Camporee 2012 with the theme: ‘Spirit of Unity’. The Camporee will be stage from December 29 2012 to January 2 2013 in Magburaka and it will be the first time in the history of scou ...
  • UNFPA takes safer sex and reproductive health ...
    The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was given the responsibility to strengthen the knowledge and capacity of adolescents and young women and men who suffer from difficulties in accessing Sexual and Reproductive Health information and services. Young farmers that have completed one month t ...
  • Kenema District Assures APC and EBK of a Secon ...
    Residents and Indigenes of Kenema District have assured the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) and its Presidential Candidate Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma of victory on the first ballot in his reelection bid as President and for other candidates running on his party’s ticket for parliamenta ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra completes five-farm 'hub' in China
    Fonterra is set to increase its milk production in China after signing an agreement today to develop two more large-scale dairy farms.The investment agreement with Yutian County completes Fonterra's 'hub' of five farms in Hebei...
  • Fernbaby tones down web claims
    Fernbaby, the infant formula firm that became a sponsor of the Vodafone Warriors this week, is distancing itself from claims made on a Chinese website that it is the world's "number two" baby formula brand.The statement, made in...
  • Infant formula company wants $78 a can in China
    A Chinese-owned infant formula maker that has emerged as a sponsor of the Vodafone Warriors has bold plans to commence exports to China, where it plans to sell its New Zealand-made formula for $78 a can.Auckland-based Fernbaby -...
  • Fonterra gets ready for big sell
    Non-farm investors will soon be able to gain exposure to New Zealand's dairy industry when Fonterra issues $500 million in units next month that will give them access to the farmer-owned co-operative's dividend flow.Upon listing,...
  • Brian Gaynor: Agriculture debt is an economic ...
    New Zealand has a strange attitude towards debt. We criticise the agriculture sector for having too much debt even though it generates the bulk of the country's export earnings.Meanwhile individuals are encouraged to take on more...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Brian Doherty on Argo's Unheeded Less ...
    Argo was number one at the box office in its third week of release. The film tells the story of the complicated CIA scam that rescued six hostages from Iran in 1980, while the rest of the United States’ embassy’s employees were held captive by Islamic radicals. The bulk of the ve ...
  • Running Away from Sandy, Gary Johnson Storms C ...
    Mayor Michael Bloomberg is insisting on going forward with the New York City Marathon this weekend, which is causing a bit of a backlash. Businesses in Brooklyn who can’t get flood insurance because they’re in a high-risk area want free money from the government to recover fro ...
  • Shelby County, Texas to Return Property Stolen ...
    Officials in Shelby County, Texas, which borders on Louisiana, agreed to return $100,000 to victims of asset forfeiture abuse this week. Police in Tenaha, an East Texas town of 1,160, seized an estimated $3 million from motorists between 2006 and 2008. Police detained over 140 dri ...
  • Like It Or Not, the 2012 Election is a Referen ...
    The Obama campaign has worked hard to brand this year’s presidential contest as a choice between two different paths forward. Considering the overlap between the two technocrats at the top of the tickets, it’s less of a choice than the Obama administration would have us beli ...
  • Gary Johnson Touts His Entrepreneurial Experie ...
    BOWLING GREEN—On the second stop of his statewide tour of Ohio, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson relayed tales of his time in the private sector while offering the 150 people packed into the Cla-Zel Theatre some career advice. “I have been an entrepenruer my entire lif ...

Mercury Rising

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  • The Time-Traveling Launderette Story Gets Even ...
    Yesterday morning, Sally Jo Sorensen, the best blogger in the state and one of its very best journalists, period, posted this piece tracking the ever-shifting timeline (from 2006 to 2008 to 2010) of the alleged incident described by the Beautiful Launderette story, a story that voter-suppression ...
  • Voter Suppression’s “Launderette&# ...
    Once again, Sally Jo Sorensen spots something nobody else in journalism does — namely, that there are serious problems with the Launderette Story, the favorite anecdote used by voter suppression advocates to “prove” the need for the Voter Suppression Amendment. For starters, th ...
  • A word in favor of the electoral college
    The storm on the East Coast gives one more reason why the Electoral College is a good idea. Very likely many people in that region will be unable to vote due to the storm. That will be especially true in the poorest towns and rural areas. If there were no Electoral College, the Eastern Seaboard ...
  • The Republican War On Objectivity: Nate Silver ...
    Paul Krugman reads Brad DeLong, and via Brad he found out about the National Review’s bizarre attack on Nate Silver for what they, without meaningful evidence, insinuate are wrong and biased poll numbers. Like all decent people, he is horrified: Yet the right — and we’re not talking about ...

Reality Sandwich

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  • Poison-Free Food
    [Action Alert] • Recent investigations conducted by Consumer Reports have revealed dangerous levels of arsenic in many of the 200 rice products tested, from brown rice to cereal. The arsenic found in these products can lead to increased cancer risks.  The FDA must set limits on arsenic in fo ...
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  • Occupy NYC's Recovery
      As New York City deals with the aftermath of superstorm Sandy's devastation, the speedy, collective efforts of Occupy to create a grassroots relief operation have been nothing short of impressive. Occupy Sandy is a community relief project to provide aid in neighborhoods hit harde ...

Desertification

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

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Press TV - Middle East

  • Palestinians hold anti-Israeli demo
    Palestinians have staged an anti-Israeli demonstration near the West Bank city of Nablus to protest against the expropriation of their land by the Zionist regime.
  • Russia slams US stance on Syria
    Russia has slammed the US call for an overhaul of the Syrian opposition, accusing Washington of trying to resolve the crisis on its own terms.
  • 'Violence, an excuse to meddle in Syria'
    A political analyst says Western countries support mass killings carried out by insurgents in Syria to justify foreign intervention in the Arab nation, Press TV reports.
  • ‘UN must suspend Bahrain membership’
    A Bahraini political activist says the United Nations must suspend the membership of the Persian Gulf kingdom due to Manama regime’s human rights violations, Press TV reports.
  • 16 civilians injured in Syria bombings
    At least 16 Syrian civilians have been injured in twin bomb explosions in the capital, Damascus, as insurgents continue their deadly attacks.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • A Message From Dean Mogulescu
    To the students, faculty, and staff of the SPS community: Much of this week we have been reaching out and hearing back. The stories of lives disrupted make it impossible to deny the enormous impact of the storm, even as it feels impossible to reckon fully with that impact. But we have also been ...
  • Powering Up and Coming Back Together
    The message below is posted on behalf of Dean Brian A. Peterson: The City, the University, and everyone at SPS are diligently working to cope with the aftermath of the many challenges associated with Hurricane Sandy.  I want to express our deepest concerns and support for those who may have suff ...
  • SPS Supports NYC Office of Emergency Management
    The message below is posted on behalf of Dean Brian A. Peterson: My usual flurry of associate deanery was interrupted late Wednesday afternoon by a call from the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM). Not that I minded the interruption, I love the OEM, but I knew the call could only ...
  • CUNY SPS Students Making Strides Against Breas ...
    The following message is posted on behalf of David Mordkofsky, SPS student in the Project Management (PROM 210) course. Hello SPS Community! We wanted to let you know that a group of SPS students will be taking part in a worthy event on Oct 21st, and we invite you to join us! As part of [...]
  • A Walk Down Memory Lane
    In less than 4 weeks, I will be standing in Staten Island waiting for the start of the 2012 ING NYC Marathon with great anticipation. This is what I have been working so hard for over the last 5 months. It started with giving up a pack of Marlboro Lights a day and my commitment [...]

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

    • Q&A: Kenyan Women Set to Take on Men in Elections
      As Kenya gets ready for voter registration this month, ahead of the country’s Mar. 4, 2013 polls, women’s rights organisations are hoping that the provisions for gender equality in the new constitution will mean significantly increased representation in the government. Winnie Lichuma, chairwoman ...
    • Indigenous Seek Profits From Forests
      Kenya’s Ogiek community, the indigenous group of hunter-gatherers who were evicted from the Mau Forest three years ago, say they will no longer sit by and watch logging companies profit from the resources of their traditional home while they live in poverty in tented camps around the forest with ...
    • Uphill Struggle for Caribbean Financial Servic ...
      In the 1980′s, Caribbean countries wanted to shore up their prospects of social and economic development in the coming decades, so they looked to the financial services sector to spur employment and development. They managed to develop a robust industry, particularly in the Bahamas and the ...
    • Young People Celebrate Reduced Voting Age in A ...
      A new law lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 expands the political rights of young people in Argentina. The law, passed by Congress at midnight Wednesday, allows youngsters between the ages of 16 and 18 to vote, although in their case it will not be compulsory, as it is from people between th ...
    • Hurricane Sandy Fans Flames of Climate Change ...
      As the East Coast deals with the havoc and devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy, climate scientists are seeing yet another reason to put climate change and global warming on the current political agenda. The storm has reignited the hotly debated topics of climate change and global warming, whi ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Assuaging the the guilt-pangs of Iran sanction ...
      Summary: In light of reports that the US-imposed sanctions on Iran have started to negatively affect innocent people including the sick and elderly who are deprived of needed imported medicine, I thought it would be a good time to remind everyone of the various spins which were employed by th ...
    • Nuclear threat in the Middle East
      Summary: Dimona plantOn 27 September Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations. He produceda cartoon-style drawing of a nuclear bomb and drew a “clear red line” which he said Iran must not cross in its uranium enrichment efforts. source: Peaceline, newslette ...
    • Support Gareth Porter's book on the history of ...
      Summary: Helena Cobban of Just World News and Just World Books has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to publish a book by Gareth Porter entitled "Manufactured Crisis: A history of the Iranian nuclear program". I sugges that all my readers contribute whatever they can to finance th ...
    • Economic sanctions are an act of war
      Summary: During the most recent presidential debate, President Barack Obama congratulated himself on a continuation of the United States’ policy of economic sanctions against Iran. “We … organized the strongest coalition and the strongest sanctions against Iran in history, and it is crippling ...
    • Tehran still undecided on US vote
      Summary: NEW YORK - With the US presidential elections only five days away, Tehran is preoccupied with the question of who the next Oval Office occupant will be and what that would mean for the future of troubled US-Iran relations. Over the past couple of weeks the question has gained urgency ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Asteroid Belts May Determine Presence of Compl ...
                     Two NASA astronomers suggest that the size and location of an asteroid belt, shaped by the evolution of the sun's planet-forming disk and by the gravitational influence of a nearby giant Jupiter-like planet, may determine whether complex life will evolve on an Earth-like ...
    • New Particles that "Self Assemble" Created
                     Scientists have created new kinds of particles, 1/100th the diameter of a human hair, that spontaneously assemble themselves into structures resembling molecules made from atoms. Scientists have created new kinds of particles, 1/100th the diameter of a human hair, that sp ...
    • The Ancient Glaciers of Mars --Is the Red Plan ...
                     "Mars is not a dead planet -it undergoes climate changes that are even more pronounced than on Earth," according to James Head, planetary geologist, Brown University. The image above was taken on 6 June 2012 by ESA’s Mars Express --combined to form a natural-co ...
    • Massive Black Hole Discovered Shaping the Orio ...
                     An international team of astrophysicists, including UQ's Dr Holger Baumgardt, has shed light on the long-standing mystery of the binding force behind a cluster of unruly and rapidly swirling stars located in the Sword of Orion. Using sophisticated computer modelling progr ...
    • The Unseen Universe --"Billions of Undetected ...
                   The European Space Agency’s Herschel space telescope discovered that previously unseen distant galaxies are responsible for a cosmic fog of infrared radiation. The galaxies are some of the faintest and furthest objects seen by Herschel, and opened a new window on the birt ...

    Natural News

    • Is choosing to be a victim a taboo subject?
      (NaturalNews)Some people apparently think there are no fake victims, only real ones. They believe that if all the oppression in the world were magically lifted tomorrow, people would suddenly become independent. I don't believe that. I raise these issues bec ...
    • Kindle passion, beat the blues and invigorate ...
      Sometimes we need a lift during winter -- a dash of joy, fortification against illness or just a bit more verve. Clary sage may help. Topically, this essential oil is treasured as a stress reliever, antidepressant and aphrodisiac. It also enhances the immune system,...
    • How to help your baby recover from thrush natu ...
      Oral thrush is a condition in which the yeast-like fungus Candida albicans accumulates on the lining of the mouth. The white 'cottage cheese-like' lumps are actually present on the inside of the lips, cheeks and/or tongue. This fungus is normally present in our bodies...
    • Hot flashes halted with hypnosis
      While there are very divided sentiments about the concept of alternative therapy, new research has found a potentially effective treatment for hot flashes due to menopause. The study, conducted by researchers at Baylor University's Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory...
    • Seven methods for creating the best digestion ...
      Dealing with the symptoms of chronic digestive dysfunction can be discouraging for many people, especially when unknown dietary and environmental triggers constantly seem to create bloat, abdominal pain, gas, and other problems. But correcting the issue can also be as...

    Threat Level

    • Farewell to Threat Level Editor Ryan Singel
      Ryan Singel, the co-founder and editor of this blog, is leaving us Friday after 10 years writing for Wired.com. He's moving on to focus on his start-up, Contextly, which among other things powers the nifty "Related Links" box at the ...
    • Feds Say No Dice in Retrieving Your Data Seize ...
      Federal prosecutors are proposing a process that would make it essentially impossible for former Megaupload users to recover their data following the government's criminal copyright infringement indictment of Megaupload's operatives and the seizure of the file-sharing service's servers and domai ...
    • Supreme Court to Decide if Drug Dogs Pass Cons ...
      The Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hold oral arguments concerning the novel question of whether judges may issue search warrants for private residences when a drug-sniffing dog outside the home reacts as if it smells drugs inside. In ...
    • Oops: E-Mail Marketer Left Walmart, US Bank an ...
      Think you fixed your DKIM e-mail security problem by swapping out your weak key with a stronger one? According to one researcher, you may still be vulnerable if you use a third-party e-mailer who is using a weak key to ...
    • NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homewo ...
      The New York Post has uncovered an anti-terrorism class that requires students to write up a terrorism plan. That's bad enough, but there's even more terrorist-support coming out of Hollywood.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • GOP Protest Forces Congressional Research Serv ...
      The truth will set you free. Unless, that is, you're a Republican and the subject in taxes. As the New York Times reported on Thursday, "The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of co ...
    • Elderly Will Be Hit Hard by Romney's Medicare, ...
      If Mitt Romney carries the always hotly contested state of Florida, his smokescreen about mythical Obama "raid on Medicare" will have a lot to with it. A new Kaiser survey shows the Republican ticket has narrowed President Obama's edge on Medicare from 16 to just five points over the last month ...
    • Will Mitt Romney Really End His Tax Deduction ...
      As voters by now are hopefully aware, Mitt Romney has refused to name a single tax break he would end to help offset the $5 trillion, 10-year cost of his tax cut windfall for the wealthy. But the Republican has been very clear about which of the $1 trillion in annual tax deductions and loophole ...
    • The Romney Clan Parrots Limbaugh's Racist Obam ...
      When Rush Limbaugh slandered Sandra Fluke as a "slut" back in March, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said only, "It's not the language I would have used." But when it comes to Limbaugh's repeated slurs of the first African-American President of the United States as a "little boy" ...
    • Ryan Blames Obama for Delphi Layoffs Romney Ca ...
      While the Romney campaign continues to push its lie about Jeep shifting jobs from Ohio to China, Paul Ryan has been busy trying to hoodwink Buckeye voters with a tall tale about another company saved by President Obama's rescue of the U.S. industry. Recycling a charge Team Romney first introduc ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • Bookmarks for 2012-11-01
      New Aesthetic: Time Travel Test on VimeoNew Aesthetic: Time Travel Test Using my own photos from Instagram, I plotted the Lat and Longitude of each photo, taking me from London, to Liverpool, to the Scottish Border, and then Edinburgh. After looking further into the Lat and Long and how the co-o ...
    • Interview at The Verge
      In which I am interviewed by Adrianne Jeffries at The Verge.  I think I make sense in some of it.   Seriously, just take five minutes a day to make yourself look around. Just a couple of minutes to be where you are, take it in, and compare it to memories of ten, twenty years [...]
    • As Missouri Senate Race Tightens, New Details ...
      As we broadcast from St. Louis, we turn to one of this election cycle’s most closely watched U.S. Senate races. Republican Rep. Todd Akin is challenging Missouri's Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill in one of a handful of contests nationwide that could potentially help Republicans regain contro ...
    • David Rohde: Superstorm Sandy Has Exposed New ...
      We continue our coverage of Superstorm Sandy by looking at how it has impacted an economically divided New York City, especially in Manhattan, where the the richest fifth make 40 times more money than the poorest fifth. Inequality in Manhattan rivals parts of sub-Saharan Africa. We're joined in ...
    • Without Power and Aid, Low-Income Residents of ...
      We speak with residents of the low income and largely minority community of Manhattan’s Lower East Side who live in the shadow of a Con Edison substation that flooded during Superstorm Sandy and has left thousands in the dark. With no sign of help from the city or the Federal Emergency Managemen ...

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    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • 7 Surprising Things You Should Not Recycle
        According to an Ipsos poll, 87 percent of American adults recycle regularly and nearly 51 percent recycle every day. While more and more people are learning about the benefits of recycling and taking action, there are many common mistaken non-recyclables that get thrown in the green bin t ...
    • Al Gore On Global Warming–Sandy Connection (Video)
        Al Gore, again, nails communication of the link between global warming and Sandy, as well as numerous other US climate disasters this year. Check it out: He also nails the fact that political money from dirty energy is what is slowing important efforts to stop global warming:
    • Superstorm Sandy: What If Storms Like This Can ...
        Reposted in full from Everyone’s Harvest, with permission: Blog by Chiara Cabiglio, Everyone’s Harvest Intern and University of California, Santa Cruz Alumna Superstorm Sandy has caused at least 157 human deaths as of midday November 1st. Its impacts include flooding of lower Manhat ...
    • “Global Warming,” by Hannah & the Gentlemen
        A reader just dropped this music video in a comment this week. It’s a beautiful song, a good satire on the horrible situation we’re in today. Worth a watch:
    • Vision Emerged Much Earlier Than Previously Th ...
      The light-sensitive proteins that are the source of vision, opsins, emerged earlier and have experienced fewer genetic changes than was previously thought. The research was done using computer modeling “to provide a detailed picture of how and when opsins evolved, sheds light on the origin ...

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    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • Romney the "Quibbler" Not Welcome at West Point
      By @TedFrier As someone whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather all graduated from the United States Military Academy, I'm guessing that if Mitt Romney ever attended West Point his fellow cadets would almost certainly have kicked him out by now. West Point's Cadet Honor Code famously sta ...
    • One Last Time-VOTE Dammit!
      By @TomBales1 One thing that has been forcefully brought home to me during my efforts to do this little blog thing is that I will never be a successful analyst or pundit.  People aren't going to click here to see me say the same old things that are being said on thousands of personal blog ...
    • Romney, Bain Create Own 47%
      By @TedFrier Here's the 47% Question:  If the hedge fund founded by the Republican candidate for president buys a company in a small Midwestern town and then sends all its jobs to China, do those workers who are suddenly thrown onto unemployment relief now count as the "victims" and "depend ...
    • Scumney Is Worst Liar Ever To Win A Presidenti ...
      There have been many lies coming from Mitt Scumney's mouth during the course of this presidential campaign, but he's come to a point at which he's not the least bit artful about it. The latest mendacity is in an ad in the battleground state of Ohio, claiming that Jeep is outsourcing manufacturin ...
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    • Presidential Polls 2012: Romney Losing Badly i ...
      First up, Wednesday's swing-state polls should be making folks in Romneyland very nervous. Obama has gained in seven of nine crucial states, including massive gains in the three most important swing states:- policymic.com Submitted by Frank S. to US Politics & Gov't  |  &nbsp ...
    • 9 New Tree-Loving and Endangered Tarantula Spe ...
      Nine new species of colorful, arboreal tarantulas have been discovered in central and eastern Brazil, an area where only seven tarantula species had previously been known. All nine of the newly described species are threatened by habitat loss... Submitted by John Platt to Environment  |&nb ...
    • Wolf hunt may reach quota limit by end of next ...
      Wisconsins first wolf hunt might end before animal rights groups are able to stop it. About one-third of the seasons quota has already been taken in the first two weeks. AnimalActionWORLD Submitted by Shirley S. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Please act against Saudi Hunting Corporation e ...
      Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete is preparing to sign a deal with a big-game hunting corporation that would force 48,000 members of Africas Maasai tribe into homelessness and destitution .More info in first comment. Please signa, note and share. Submitted by Xil L. to World  |  &nb ...
    • Global Toxic Emergency Created by the Electron ...
      The rapid growth of the electronics industry has been accompanied by massive increased use of toxic chemical substances and an increase in adverse health outcomes during manufacturing and end of life stage… Submitted by Stefanie S. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |& ...

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    No Quarter

    • The Decline & Fall of the Obama Empire
      Romney Means Business “ROMNEY: WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO UNDERSTANDS BUSINESS” Some peope are small. And some are larger than life. Did you hear that David Axelrod will shave off his mustache if Obama loses? (What’s hiding behind that bush?) And that Jay Carney isn’t going ...
    • “The Choice 2012″ A PBS biography
      This two-hour production was aired on Wednesday 9 October, 2012. (The full video is below.) It was a thorough look at the two men. I was not comforted. President Obama may not be strong enough physically and emotionally to suffer the “blows” that would be his portion in another four- ...
    • “When Mitt Romney Bet on Staples” * Open Thread
      We know that we need a president with, oh, experience starting and running a business … the kinda guy willing to stock shelves and talk with employees to earn their trust (see the video below). “Romney had reservations about Staples: Staples revolutionized the office supply business, ...
    • “By the way, you skipped Israel”
      “Candidate Obama’s disdain for Mr. Romney, undisguised and even exaggerated in the Hempstead, New York debate (video below) and the Boca Raton, Florida debate* suggests a peculiar defensiveness …” more below. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]
    • Cape Cod? Boston? Cincinnati and Columbus? Det ...
      I’m rubbing my eyes like a kid on Halloween, and I can’t wait to open all that candy. Want some? Gome and get it, just like those kids in Cape Cod are doing this very minute. Come on, Mom and Dad, let them go door to door. Give the parents a Romney brochure while you’re [...]

    Futurismic

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

    Therapy News

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

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Letter: Stop toxic mining - Topeka Capital Journal
      Letter: Stop toxic mining Topeka Capital Journal Mountaintop removal pollutes waterways and also allows such toxic heavy metals as cadmium, selenium and arsenic to leach into local water supplies. Mountaintop removal also causes air pollution that affects communities for miles around. Furthermor ...
    • State opposed permit deal accepted by company ...
      State opposed permit deal accepted by company Charleston Gazette Earl Ray Tomblin's environmental regulators threatened to sue the Obama administration over tougher language in a mountaintop removal permit, even though the company seeking the permit accepted the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
    • "The Last Mountain" showing free at Bagdad - P ...
      "The Last Mountain" showing free at Bagdad Portland Tribune Multnomah County's Sustainability Film Series presents “The Last Mountain,” a documentary about the fight against mountain-top removal techniques to extract coal, on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 6 p.m.. The film is being offered at ...
    • The battle against Big Energy's rush to ruin o ...
      The Guardian The battle against Big Energy's rush to ruin our planet The Guardian To mine coal more inexpensively, the industry has taken to simply blowing up entire mountains in a mind-boggling practice called mountain top removal. Over 500 mountains of the United States' oldest mountai ...
    • Huntington non-profit OVEC celebrates 25 years ...
      Huntington non-profit OVEC celebrates 25 years this weekend Huntington Herald Dispatch OVEC members noted the recent passing of the late, great advocate, Larry Gibson, who had helped bring thousands of people from around the world to Kayford Mountain to see mountain top removal, including Robert ...

    Memeorandum

    • Economy Adds 171,000 Jobs in October; Topline ...
      David Dayen / Firedoglake: Economy Adds 171,000 Jobs in October; Topline Unemployment Rate at 7.9%  —  Employment Population Ration and Participation Rate  —  The US economy continues to add jobs, and October's establishment survey showed a solid increase of 171, ...
    • 'LET'S WIN THIS MOTHERFU**ER!': SPECIAL ASSIS ...
      Benny Johnson / TheBlaze.com: 'LET'S WIN THIS MOTHERFU**ER!':  SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT DELIVERS SHOCK SPEECH AT DNC NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS  —  In a speech to a packed room of Obama for America phone bank volunteers at the Democratic National Committee headquarters ...
    • Food Stamp Growth 75X Greater than Job Creatio ...
      Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Food Stamp Growth 75X Greater than Job Creation  —  With the latest jobs report, it is now the case that “Under Obama, Food Stamp Growth [Is] 75 Times Greater Than Job Creation,” according to statistics compiled by the Republican side ...
    • 2012 Polls And The Long-Dormant 'Incumbent Rul ...
      Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post: 2012 Polls And The Long-Dormant ‘Incumbent Rule’ … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Mitt Romney, Barack Obama 2012 , Elections 2012, Polling, Video, 2012 Polls, 2012 Polls Incumbent, 2 ...
    • Final jobs report before election gives ammo f ...
      CNN: Final jobs report before election gives ammo for both sides  —  (CNN) - The final set of monthly jobs data before Tuesday's presidential election provided both campaigns fodder to drive home their closing arguments on jobs and the economy, with President Barack Obama's team ...

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    China Dialogue

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    AlterNet Top Stories

    • Why Conservatives and Pundits Are Petrified of ...
       In terms of issues dividing the nation as we approach the long-overdue end of this endless campaign season, the raging War on Nate Silver is not as big a deal as, say, the war on poor people and minorities having their votes counted, or the fact that thousands of people on the eastern se ...
    • Republicans Try to Hide Study That Shows Tax C ...
       The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report in September that showed that cutting tax rates for the wealthiest Americans did not spur economic or job growth, refuting a key Republican justification for the party’s continued obsession with maintaining the t ...
    • "Please Don't Leave Us!" NYers Desperate for H ...
      This post has been updated.Days after the initial devastation from Sandy, the city still lies in danger of a second humanitarian crisis.Residents of the worst-hit low-lying areas like Staten Island, Breezy Point, Queens (which was devastated by a fire) and Long Beach, are recovering from the s ...
    • 171,000 Jobs Added in October -- Final Bit of ...
       So the October Jobs Report from BLS beat expectations quite a bit, with 171,000 net new jobs (consensus expectation had been 121k), and revisions to the last two monthly reports adding another 84,000 jobs. This year’s average monthly gain up until now has been ...
    • Mitt Hits the Panic Button
       With just six days before Election Day it’s time to ask: Who’s going to win? If you ask the Romney campaign, they’ve got this thing in the bag. “The race comes down to independents. We lead among independents,” Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said on acon ...

    Threat Level

    • Farewell to Threat Level Editor Ryan Singel
      Ryan Singel, the co-founder and editor of this blog, is leaving us Friday after 10 years writing for Wired.com. He's moving on to focus on his start-up, Contextly, which among other things powers the nifty "Related Links" box at the ...
    • Feds Say No Dice in Retrieving Your Data Seize ...
      Federal prosecutors are proposing a process that would make it essentially impossible for former Megaupload users to recover their data following the government's criminal copyright infringement indictment of Megaupload's operatives and the seizure of the file-sharing service's servers and domai ...
    • Supreme Court to Decide if Drug Dogs Pass Cons ...
      The Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hold oral arguments concerning the novel question of whether judges may issue search warrants for private residences when a drug-sniffing dog outside the home reacts as if it smells drugs inside. In ...
    • Oops: E-Mail Marketer Left Walmart, US Bank an ...
      Think you fixed your DKIM e-mail security problem by swapping out your weak key with a stronger one? According to one researcher, you may still be vulnerable if you use a third-party e-mailer who is using a weak key to ...
    • NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homewo ...
      The New York Post has uncovered an anti-terrorism class that requires students to write up a terrorism plan. That's bad enough, but there's even more terrorist-support coming out of Hollywood.

    Equality Trust

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

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

    Marler Blog

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    • Are there E. coli Illnesses Linked to Wegmans ...
      Yesterday, Wegmans announced that it and its supplier, State Garden, were recalling two types of organic spinach and spring mix due to the risk of E. coli O157:H7. Oddly, there... Continue Reading
    • Bolthouse Farms Recalls Carrot Chips Due to Sa ...
      Bolthouse Farms is voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of Bolthouse Farms® 16-ounce Carrot Chips following a routine sampling event, conducted on October 22, 2012, by a North Carolina health official.... Continue Reading
    • Wegmans Recalls Organic Spinach & Spring Mix D ...
      Batch/UPC Code: Wegmans Food You Feel Good About Organic Spinach & Spring Mix, 11oz – UPC: 77890-16411 – ONLY product sold between 10/14/12 and 11/1/12. Wegmans Food You Feel Good... Continue Reading
    • A Bit(e) of Spinach and Lettuce E. coli History
      E. coli outbreaks associated with lettuce or spinach, specifically the “pre-washed” and “ready-to-eat” varieties, are by no means a new phenomenon.  In fact, the frequency with which this country’s fresh... Continue Reading

    AutoblogGreen

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

    Rafe's Radar

    Camera Obscura

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    • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
    • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
    • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
    • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

    Democracy Now!

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

    Suzie-Q

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

    Solari

    • Bloomberg Decides to Back Obama
      [CAF Note: Climate Change or HAARP Change? My 2 cents is that Bloomberg has been told to fall in line. Given the death rate of leaders in strategic positions these days, the pressure is on] By Michael Howard Saul Mayor Michael Bloomberg is endorsing President Barack Obama for re-election, citin ...
    • Ethiopian Kids Hack OLPCs in 5 Months with Zer ...
      By Evan Ackerman What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled ha ...
    • Crowdsourcing a Cure for My Brain Cancer
      By Alison George You were told you had brain cancer and your response was to hack open your medical records and publish them online. Why? When I was diagnosed I was a bit unsatisfied with what took place at the hospital: it was almost as if I had nothing to do with it. [...]
    • Belinda Martineau: A Scientist Says Yes on Pro ...
      From Mercury News I’m a molecular geneticist who helped commercialize the world’s first genetically engineered whole food. I wholeheartedly support providing Californians with information about whether the foods in their grocery stores have been genetically engineered. I believe this ...
    • Self Driving Cars Become Legal in Nevada
      [Note from CAF: This is a description of a panel coming up at Stanford Law School. It shows that when a decision is made to innovate that the powers that be (in this case Google) have the ability to change significant laws and regulations fairly quickly, and well ahead [...]

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • About the October jobs report: new jobs, bough ...
      Summary:  Most people focus on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consists mostly of noise (recently unpleasant noise).  The year-to-date and 12-month changes are more reliable, but miss the current trends.  Here we look at the change during the past two months. We remain in a ...
    • A look at the Army’s plans to adapt to t ...
      Summary: We spend roughly as much on defense (broadly defined) as the rest of the world combined, the money feeding an organization of unique size and complexity.  Now every aspect of DoD faces the need for radical change in response to the challenges of the 21st century. New threats, funding cu ...
    • A thanks to all readers of the FM website
      The FM website had 76 thousand page views in November, the most since October 2009 (during the big debates about our wars). Including subscriptions and RSS feeds (not well tracked by WordPress), the total would be well over 100,000! My thanks to our contributors — both authors and those gi ...
    • Japan can again become the land of the rising sun
      Summary:  Today we look at the future of Japan. The bad news suggests some tough times ahead, but their unique strengths (some wrongly considered weaknesses) suggests the 21st century might become a century of the rising sun over Japan. Content The bad news The Robot Revolution Falling populatio ...
    • The US army under attack by internal foes, but ...
      Summary:  The US Army is under attack.  The stress of the long war — loss of confidence in its leadership, family problems from the long war, potential loss of internal cohesion if forced to substantially downsize. A corrupt and too-often incompetent corps of senior generals. Gangs seeking to un ...

    Open Your Eyes News

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

    The Progressive Realist

    • Top of the Morning: Donors Suspend Aid to Ugan ...
      Top stories from DAWNS Digest, a mobile app and news clips service for global news junkies. USA Withdraws Support For Syrian National Council A frustrated USA is now very firmly hedging against Syria’s main umbrella opposition group. “The United States called on Wednesday for an overhaul of Syri ...
    • Pakistan's Heavyweights
      Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's national hero who peddled nuclear weapons secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya (under Moammar Gadhafi), now has his own political party to promote his presidential ambitions. He is also a media columnist and his anti-U.S. lucubrations are read in both English and ...
    • The Failure of Light-Footprint Intervention to ...
      Today the RAND Corporation released Libya's Post-Qaddafi Transition: The Nation-Building Challenge co-written by a team of researchers. The paper is pretty good on discussing the current security, economic, and political situation and challenges in Libya. However, the paper's discourse on t ...
    • Ukraine's Paradoxical Election
      Ukrainian voters elected a new parliament Sunday but already the initial results point to a modest rebuke for President Viktor Yanukovych and his ruling Regions Party. The independent watchdog Committee of Ukrainian Voters, which deployed thousands of monitors nationwide, indicated that the numb ...
    • Top of the Morning: Hurricane Sandy Slams Hait ...
      Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Hurricane Sandy Slams Haiti With Deadly Force; Bears Down on US East Coast From Boston to Washington,DC, Americans are bracing for an epic storm that has already killed scores in Haiti. “As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Off ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Wed, Nov. 07 Electoral Vote Predictor
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    Buzzflash

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    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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    Sciencebase

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    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • Most US Waters are Polluted and Getting Dirtier
      Hurricane Sandy has generated sewage overflows and storm-water run-off that is transforming many Eastern Seaboard waters into toxic soup, too hazardous to even touch. But many of these waters were already profoundly polluted, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) figures repost ...
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    Common Dreams-Views

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    • Romney Declines as Obama Answers Poverty Questions
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    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

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    • 'Paani' shoot to begin April 2013
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    The Wonk Room

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      This week Mitt Romney’s son Matt traveled to Moscow for business and, reports say, allayed any concerns the Russian government had about his father’s harsh stance on Russia. When it comes to Russia, Mitt Romney has been brash, at one point labeling Russia “without question our number one geopoli ...
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    • NBC’s Chuck Todd: ‘Let’s Not Bury Our Heads In ...
      Perhaps Sandy will be a turning point for the media. In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, NBC political director Chuck Todd said bluntly during MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown”: Second year in a row the New York Metro area hit by this stuff. Let’s not bury our heads in the sand wh ...
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      The Androscoggin County Republican Party in southern Maine put out a flier this week looking for volunteers to serve as poll “challengers”. Their responsibility is to monitor who’s voting and challenge a voters’ eligibility in certain cases. This is not the first time Rep ...

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