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Thomas Paine

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Friday, November 2, 2012

2 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Black Hoods & Orange Jumpsuits Under the "...Black Hoods & Orange Jumpsuits Under the "Authority Of Law" Statue At The Supreme Court (Washington, DC) (Photo credit: takomabibelot)

thwap's schoolyard

  • News Round-up For Our Disgraced Country
    The majority on the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that procedural errors shouldn't deprive a vote of its integrity. You have to prove fraud in order for votes (with no accompanying verification) to be discounted. What the SCOC did not do was to say that the government cannot create laws that re ...
  • What Can You Say?
    The theme this week and for the foreseeable future is Canada's putrid political culture. Today's morning heave came from the homepage of the Toronto Star. If you don't know already, the Toronto Star is joining the Globe & Mail by going behind a paywall. I have no intention of reading this st ...
  • The Bullshit Supreme Court Ruling
    "Just because I sold you into prostitution to feed my drug-habit, .... I'm still your father godammit! You owe me your respect and devotion!!!" After a certain point, a line is crossed. The blowhards who serviced stephen harper and ted opitz can believe all they want about their exalted positi ...
  • "Democracy in Crisis"
    I think it's much more insidious and "evil" than Don Lenihan describes it, but this is still a worthwhile read. Personally, I think there's a deliberate, self-interested and cynical strategy of the elite to exalt the incoherent frustrations and babbling of the stupidest among the electorate. Fo ...
  • Conversation
    Well, I've got other things to do and other things to think about, AND I've got a headache. So I think I'll just delight you with the transcript of an actual conversation I had with a "conservative." (The whole point of our speaking to each other was to present this clash of opposing viewpoints ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Report finds free speech in Canadian universit ...
    Canadian universities received a failing grade in the annual Campus Freedom Index by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF). The report claims that these post-secondary institutions have desecrated free speech.
  • Minister Kathleen Wynne steps down from Queen' ...
    Ontario Aboriginal and Municipal Affairs Minister Kathleen Wynne announced her resignation from the cabinet Thursday. The Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament is expected to officially launch her campaign for the party leadership Monday.
  • Quebec student leader found guilty of contempt ...
    The poster boy for the Quebec student demonstrations which ultimately contributed to the demise of Jean Charest's Liberal government in Quebec faces a possible year in jail and $50,000 fine.
  • Obama vs. Romney decides the issue - women are ...
    To begin, I get that Republicans are not likely to buy this argument but some Democrats might so I'm putting it out there - women are smarter than men and their support of Barack Obama over Mitt Romney cinches it.
  • Multiple collisions across GTA kill two pedest ...
    Police are continuing to investigate a string of collisions that injured 10 pedestrians , including two who had been struck fatally, in separate crashes across the Greater Toronto Area, in a single day.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Funeral directors forced to subsidize burials ...
    With insufficient subsidies from the federal government, funeral directors are shouldering some of the costs to bury Canadian veterans.
  • Do you remember for peace, or for war?
    Remembrance Day is changing as the veterans of the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War, pass away. More attention is being paid to current and more controversial conflicts, such as those in Afghanistan and Libya. Remembrance Day was first marked within the British Commonwealth (which ...
  • Mitt Romney’s Defence Spending Plans
    A week out from the election, the Republican campaign remains vague about its promises to strengthen the American military.
  • Ottawa event: Does Canada need a Department of ...
    The Canadian Peace Initiative will be hosting events on November 2 and 3 in Ottawa, titled "Does Canada need a Department of Peace?" Ceasefire.ca's Steven Staples will be part of Saturday's public consultation panel on Bill C-373.
  • Canadian government worries about Huawei &#821 ...
    A new op-ed by Steven Staples looks at the relationships between the Canadian government and various foreign corporations.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Dirty Kids Are Healthy Kids
    April 5, 2012 Natural News By J.D Heyes “Let your kids play in the dirt. It’s good for them. In fact, you should join them. It’s fun getting dirty.” –KTRN Here’s a concept that most parents will find a little hard to believe: new research shows that it’s ...
  • 78 Percent Increase In Autism Rates Over Past ...
    April 5, 2012 Info Wars By Jonathan Benson “Here is more evidence that demonstrates how vaccines are causing autism in children.” –KTRN The rate of autism among American children has nearly doubled over the past decade, according to a new report released by the U.S. Centers for ...
  • Big Pharma Gets 77,500% Return On Lobbying Inv ...
    April 5, 2012 United Republic By UP “Big pharma’s #1 goal is to make money – they are not interested in making you well and healthy – in fact they want you sick and diseased so you buy more of their drugs.” –KTRN Investing is a time-honored American tradition. ...
  • Man Arrested for Tainting Food with Mercury, a ...
    April 5, 2012 Natural Society By Anthony Gucciardi “Talk about corruption.” –KTRN Is tainting food with mercury a crime? Apparently only if you’re a citizens and not a major corporation or a United States government agency. One retired pharmacist was rightfully arrested after c ...
  • ‘Pink Slime’ Manufacturer Files For Bankruptcy
    April 5, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “It serves them right for trying to sell us tainted and dangerous food.” –KTRN AFA Foods, a leading American processor of ground beef, has filed for bankruptcy, citing the wave of negative media coverage surrounding their so-called ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Deadline Approaching: Intern with Campaign for ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCampaign for Liberty is looking for dedicated, liberty-minded high school or college students to intern for our spring semester (January 7Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • Bulldozing Islam: Israelis and Saudis target h ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comwww.veteranstoday.comBy Kevin Barrett It isn’t just Israeli Zionists and Burmese Buddhists who are bulldozing Islam – the Saudis are doing their part. View the full article at www.veteranstoday.comCheck out a ...
  • As society unravels in wake of Sandy, politici ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAaron Dykes Infowars.com November 2, 2012 News wires across the spectrum are filled with harrowing signs of unfolding social collapse in the wake of Sandy that could exacerbate in the days to come as power outages are ex ...
  • ‘Fox & Friends’: Delay NBC hurricane telethon ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The hosts of Fox & Friends on Friday suggested that NBC should postpone a Hurricane Sandy telethon until after the election because making sure that the event did not benefit President Barack Obama ...
  • Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: Dropping Nucle ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBulletin of Atomic Scientists: Dropping Nuclear Power Brought Economic and Environmental Benefits to Germany By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Case Study Proves that Nuclear Is Bad for the Economy and Environment We& ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Ralph Nader: Obama–Prosecutor, Judge, Ju ...
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Nov 1, 2012 by TheBigPictureRT Thom sits down with former presidential candidate Ralph Nader for an extended interview about the 2012 election, and with journalist and author Thomas Frank on our country’s subservience to the billionaire class. In tonight&#8 ...
  • Wake Up and Smell the Bullshit. Then Go Vote b ...
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org November 1, 2012 The universe unraveling The Southeast Asian country of Laos in the late 1950s and early 60s was a complex and confusing patchwork of civil conflicts, changes of government and switching loyalties. The CIA and th ...
  • Bahrain Bans Protests After Cops Tear Gas and ...
    Dandelion Salad Oct 30, 2012 by RussiaToday Bahraini authorities have banned all protest gatherings amid escalating clashes in the Gulf kingdom. It’s the most sweeping attempt so far to quash anti-regime protests that’ve been going on in the country for nearly two years. The restrict ...
  • Michael Parenti on The State of Human Rights i ...
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org October 31, 2012 [Clip from Long Distance Revolutionary - www.mumia-themovie.com/index.html] Oct 29, 2012 by mumiathemovie Follow Us: http://twitter.com/LDRmovie Like Us: http://on.fb.me/QFLhnk Micha ...
  • Ralph Nader: The Corporatization of Your Dreams
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Oct 25, 2012 by jeannekyle [Presented by Speakers Committee and the Political Student Assembly, a part of USC Program Board. Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate & Former Green Party Candidate for President, will be at USC to discuss "The Corporatization of America ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
  • No title
    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
  • No title
    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
  • No title
    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
  • No title
    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - Science

  • Talking Elephant Learns 5-Word Vocabulary
    Annyong! The Korean word for "hello" is part of 22-year-old Asian elephant Koshik's five-word vocabulary. He can also utter the words for sit down (anja), lie down (nuo), good (choah) and no (aniya), according to a study published today in the journal Current Biology.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Lightnin ...
    These false-color mosaics from NASA's Cassini spacecraft capture lightning striking within the huge storm that encircled Saturn's northern hemisphere for much of 2011. The larger mosaic on the left of the panel shows the lightning flash, which appears as a blue dot. The smaller mosaic on the ri ...
  • Physics Students Make Zombie Movie Decay Deep ...
    This ghoulish indie flick could be really awesome. It will definitely be free.
  • Curiosity Rover Takes Best Self-Portrait Ever
    NASA's Curiosity rover has been sitting tight on the Martian sand doing a few sciences for nearly a month now. But it recently took some time out for a vanity shot, producing this adorable self-portrait (click for a larger version).
  • Help Discover Dark Matter in the Universe, Win ...
    Why not spend Halloween looking for something truly ghostly and mysterious? Astronomers have created a new competition that asks the general public to generate algorithms that can help spot dark matter in Hubble images.

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

  • Russia Starts New Kalashnikov Trials
    Russia’s central arms testing body started trials on Friday of the AK-12, the latest incarnation of the 65-year-old Kalashnikov assault rifle, its maker Izhmash said.
  • Stepping Out: First Bionic Leg Set for Test
    It sounds like Hollywood science-fiction. But a US man plans Sunday to ascend one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers using a bionic leg in a groundbreaking test of a new prosthetic limb that is controlled by mental impulses of the user, researchers said.
  • Russia to Keep Silo and Mobile ICBM Launchers ...
    Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) will continue deploying silo-based and mobile ballistic missile launchers in the future, SMF Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. Valery Mazurov said on Thursday.
  • Skolkovo Institute Teams Up with Defense Companies
    The Skolkovo Instiute of Science and Technology on Thursday signed a technology cooperation agreement with two Russian defense companies and Intel Corp.
  • China Tests Fifth-Generation Jet Fighter
    China successfully completed a test flight on Wednesday of its new fifth-generation J-31 jet fighter, according to the Huanqiu Shibao newspaper.

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, November 2, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey An Israeli censor has allowed the publication of an interview with the commando who killed the PLO’s Abu Jihad in 1988. International human rights groups have welcomed China’s decision to introduce a new organ donation system that will no longer ...
  • UK Supreme Court Rejects Jack Goldsmith’s Inte ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I blogged late last year about the UK Court of Appeal’s judgment in Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v. Rahmatullah, which implicitly repudiated a little-known OLC memo written by Jack Goldsmith that concluded “operatives of ...
  • Canadian Council International Law Meeting
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon The annual CCIL annual conference in Ottawa is just around the corner.   The program this year is fantastic (as always).  Here is an overview from Prof. Fannie Lafontaine, one of the co-chairs: From the financial turmoil in Europe and the environmental disasters ...
  • The Oxford Guide to Treaties: An Opinio Juris ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Attentive readers will note our calendar had indicated that we were supposed to start a new symposium today on The Oxford Guide to Treaties.  It appears, however, that we are not immune from hurricane Sandy’s effects.  I’ve received several requests for ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, November 1, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The United Nations is resisting calls by the African Union to end the arms embargo against Somalia. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking France’s backing over Iran. EU sanctions on natural gas exports have unintentionally strangled Iranian li ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Elders "Treading Water" with Social Security
    AZ Elders "Treading Water" with Social Security PHOENIX – In January, one million Arizonans will be getting a 1.7 percent increase in their Social Security checks. That's one of the smallest increases since they started receiving cost-of-living adjustments in 1975. Mark Hornbeck, a regiona ...
  • Biggest Halloween Danger for AZ Kids Isn&#8217 ...
    Biggest Halloween Danger for AZ Kids Isn’t Candy? PHOENIX - Ghosts, goblins and zombies aren't the scariest things for Arizona children this Halloween. Neither is the remote possibility that candy is poisoned. According to an analysis from State Farm Insurance, the biggest safety risk for ...
  • State Land Exchange Proposal Back on AZ Ballot
    State Land Exchange Proposal Back on AZ Ballot PHOENIX - Arizona voters are again being asked this election to decide if state trust lands can be exchanged for federal lands. The exchanges would be limited to protecting military bases from encroachment, enhancing the value of trust lands, or con ...
  • Cyberbullying: Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and T ...
    Cyberbullying: Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and Taunting PHOENIX - Kids have teased and taunted each other for generations, but the wireless age is allowing youngsters to extend their harmful reach in the form of cyber-bullying. Using technology to threaten or humiliate peers can range from sending ...
  • Tempe Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast ...
    Tempe Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month PHOENIX – One of the final events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is Saturday's fundraiser for research and education at Tempe Beach Park. The three-mile, non-competitive walk is called Making Strides Against Breast Ca ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Anheuser-Busch sending cans of water to Sandy ...
    Anheuser-Busch will ship more than one million cans of drinking water to residents along the East Coast impacted by Hurricane Sandy.After Hurricane Katrina, the first people on the ground providing support were Blackwater (they helicoptered in, hired to protect the rich) and Walmart, who loaded ...
  • Superstorm Sandy – the struggle to recover
    Dumpster diving in the East VillageThis is what downtown Manhattan three days after Hurricane Sandy has come to: with no power, dwindling gas, and nowhere to go, people are lining up at dumpsters to find food for themselves and their families.Duracell rolls out trucks with charging stations, bat ...
  • Hollywood: “Any notion of self esteem or digni ...
    Polizeros contributor John Wight writes in The Independent about the vicious caste sytem and ritualistic abuse of Hollwood. His memoir of the years he spent in Hollywood “Dreams That Die” is due out on paperback on Jan 25 2013 from Zero Books.But talent alone is not enough in this to ...
  • US likely to get involved in Syria civil war
    Despite Americans’ exhaustion with 11 years of foreign conflict, the victor in Tuesday’s presidential race may find it all but impossible to keep the United States from becoming more deeply entangled in the unfolding calamity of Syria’s sectarian civil war.Hogtwaddle.The US could simply no ...
  • Red Hook NYC Recovers – community-powered disa ...
    Red Hook Recovers is a recovery organizing site for New York’s Red Hook neighborhood in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The site allows people to offer/request assistance, and is coordinated by the folks at OWS and community organizations on the ground. or information on volunteering and dona ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook helps some local businesses provide f ...
    Facebook is testing a new service that allows local businesses to offer customers free Wi-Fi after checking in on the social network, the company tells us. For this small test, Facebook is supplying the router but businesses are providing the … Continue reading →
  • Facebook’s John Yi on the state of the Preferr ...
    It’s been just over six months since Facebook created the Preferred Marketing Developer program, which certifies developers with badges in up to four areas: ads, apps, pages and insights. In that time, Facebook has introduced a host of new ad … Continue reading →
  • Facebook enables charitable contributions thro ...
    Facebook today announced a new feature for the Facebook Gifts platform which enables users to make a charitable contribution in honor of friends or a family member. Facebook Gifts, launched in September, enables users to buy physical goods that can be … Continue reading →
  • Facebook brings keyword search to App Center
    Facebook is rolling out search for App Center, allowing users to not only find apps by name but also by keyword such as “cars” or “fitness.” This change will help users better navigate App Center, which previously offered filters by … Continue reading →
  • PageLever introduces real-time analytics for i ...
    Facebook analytics platform PageLever has introduced PageLever Now, which newest features include Facebook engagement analytics displayed in real time. With real-time insights, page admins can now pinpoint the exact time when fans are engaging with their page’s posts. The tool … Continue r ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • DSM-5 Field Trials Discredit the American Psyc ...
    The $3 million DSM-5 Field Trials have been a pure disaster from start to finish. The DSM-5 field trial fiasco and its attempted cover-up is more proof that APA has lost its competence and credibility as custodian for DSM. A diagnostic system that affects so many crucial decisions in our socie ...
  • Best-Case Election Scenario: The Status Quo
    Even if Barack Obama wins the presidency, he will likely be stuck with the same kind of Congress we have now. So don't go overboard celebrating an Obama victory...unless you enjoy Washington gridlock.
  • Torturer In Chief 2012; Mitt Caligula or Barac ...
    Are two warmongering corporate shills running for the office of America's Torturer In Chief a democracy? And is MSNBC the face of democracy? Their new ads seem to imply so...
  • The Day That Changed The World
    The coming election will change nothing. The wars will go on. The plundering of our national wealth will continue. The waste of our valuable talents and energies through unemployment/underemployment will march forward. Social Security and Medicare will be chipped away until sometime in the futur ...
  • Supreme Court Spurns Justice
    Several previous articles discussed the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) charity case. Five extraordinary human beings were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to long prison terms. They're doing hard time in America's gulag.

Switchboard

  • How to Protect Our Communities from Climate Ch ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City New York and New Jersey are inching toward recovery, but we have a long way to go before we rebound from Hurricane Sandy. Like millions of residents, my family is still without power. NRDC’s N ...
  • One Very Heartfelt Thank You to Mayor Michael ...
    Margaret Brown, Legal Fellow, Urban Program, New York We are in the fourth post-Sandy day here in New York City, and I think it is safe to say we’re short on transportation services and long on NYC pride. Much of mine is directed towards our ...
  • Shelter from the Storm? The Entire Nation Has ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Spectacular storm Sandy immobilizes the biggest city in America, along with large swaths of the East Coast, and I find myself thinking about the most unspectacular stuff…infra ...
  • Safeguarding New York's Subways in Sandy's Aft ...
    Eric Goldstein, Director of NRDC's New York City Environment, NY As it barreled into New York and New Jersey, Hurricane Sandy caused significant loss of life and billions of dollars of property damage just in the metropolitan area alone. All of us ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Requiring That You Get Something In Return For ...
    Since the contest to parody syndicated columnist William F. George went so well, the Wiseacre Society at the Columbia School of Journalism held a follow-up requesting parodies of over-the-top winger freakouts about Lena Dunham’s Obama ad. Almost immediately, they received this perhaps slig ...
  • Care To Make It Interesting?
    Friedersdorf is right about this. The public editor’s admonition to Silver — who, if I understand correctly, isn’t even a staff writer — is silly on its face. But it’s doubly silly because there was a real and important point behind it: namely, that Joe Scarborough ...
  • Numbers
    The Labor Department released its final pre-election jobs report a little over an hour ago.  This was never going to have more than a marginal effect on the election this late in the game, as economic measures have long since been baked into the polling numbers and approval ratings (not to menti ...
  • Signs of progress
    (1) The Washington Post Magazine has a good story on the law school crisis, full of statistics which will be familiar to many LGM readers, but remain too-little known or understood by prospective law students. Among other things the story highlights the mind-boggling absurdity that is UC-Irvine& ...
  • Spanier
    Finally gets what’s coming to him: With findings very similar to the Freeh report, Attorney General Linda Kelly today announced charges of conspiracy, obstruction, perjury and child endangerment against former Penn State president Graham Spanier, vice president Gary Schultz and athletic di ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • The tao of trademarks: restaurant denies night ...
    A family-owned Maine restaurant is demanding a trial of a claim by a nightclub operator that its use of the word "Tao" is trademark infringement.
  • Google opts to make a deal in AdWords spat wit ...
    Google Inc. and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel have given up the fight in a closely-watched case challenging fundamental features of Google's most profitable product, AdWords.
  • Wells Fargo alleges DOJ playing unfair with la ...
    Lawyers for Wells Fargo Bank claimed Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department violated the terms of a mortgage fraud settlement, reached earlier this year, when the government filed a new lawsuit in October in Manhattan federal district court.
  • Tool designed to help students choose the righ ...
    Prospective law students have a new resource for researching schools. Law School Transparency has launched a "Score Reports" tool on its website that provides users with an apples-to-apples comparison between schools on employment outcomes, admissions standards and costs.
  • Boston area man gets 17 years for plot to atta ...
    A Boston federal judge has sentenced Rezwan Ferdaus to 17 years in prison for plotting to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol with explosive-filled remote-controlled airplanes.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy Shows Birth and D ...
    As the storm that was Hurricane Sandy weakened over Pennsylvania, NASA released a timelapse animation of the lifespan of the massive storm, tracking its path from NASAVIDEO: The path of Sandy the Caribbean, where it developed, to its violent landfall on the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. The ...
  • Photo Gallery: A Quest to Document The Earth’s ...
    Since 2007, photographer James Balog has deployed dozens of time-lapse cameras on four continents to chronicle one of the starkest examples of global warming — the rapid melting of the world’s glaciers. That project, known as the Extreme Ice Survey and carried out in collaboration wit ...
  • An Obsessive Quest to Document Earth’s Disappe ...
    For the past six years, photographer James Balog has deployed dozens of time-lapse cameras around the world to chronicle one of the starkest examples of global warming — melting glaciers. In a Yale Environment 360 interview, Balog talks about his passion to capture these vanishing landscapes.
  • In New York, Rising Threats of Flooding Have B ...
    While climate experts hesitate to say Hurricane Sandy was caused by climate change, scientists for years have predicted that such devastating events would become increasingly common as sea levels rise and ocean View Gallery MOMA Rising Currents: A 2010 exhibit showed visions of New York ad ...
  • How Fishing Gear is Killing Whales in the Nort ...
    Researchers have been documenting the deadly threat that fishing lines and ropes pose to large whales that become entangled in them. Now, new studies are pointing to another disturbing fact: the ensnared whales endure enormous pain and prolonged suffering. BY REBECCA KESSLER

Red Ice Creations

  • Placebo’s Effect May Depend on Your Genes
    Your response to placebos, or dummy medicine, may depend on your genes, according to a new study. People with a gene variant that codes for higher levels of the brain chemical dopamine respond better to placebos than those with the low-dopamine version. The findings could help researchers design ...
  • Uh Oh: Germany Wants to SEE its US Gold
    For decades, almost half of Germany’s gold has been stored deep below the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Now, with the euro crisis swirling, German politicians are asking their central bankers to take stock of the reserves. Some even say that the gold should be shipped home. Bundesbank Presid ...
  • US Police State: Growth Rate of Cops Exceeds P ...
    The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a report demonstrating the growth of police in the United States. The survey was conducted with agencies that participated in the 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies and the results were released by the Justice Department this mon ...
  • When People Worry About Math, the Brain Feels ...
    Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the University of Chicago. Using brain scans, scholars determined that the brain areas active when highly math-anxious people prepare to do math overlap with th ...
  • BP’s Macondo Gulf Oil Spill: The Public Was Mi ...
    BP Had Pretended There Was Only 1 Wellhead During the 2010 Gulf oil spill, BP talked about, filmed, and ultimately announced that it had capped one leaking wellhead. But as we noted at the time: Matt Simmons was an energy adviser to President George W. Bush, is an adviser to the Oil Depletion An ...

Russia Today

  • Violent Syria video footage: UN warns of possi ...
    Video footage has emerged from Syria allegedly showing rebel fighters beating and kicking surrendered soldiers before shooting them dead. The UN says that if the killings are confirmed, the acts constitute a war crime. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Old-fashioned Britain gone': Most Brits unhap ...
    A new survey has found many middle-class UK families want to emigrate as Britain can no longer offer them a good quality of life. Almost two in three families surveyed want to emigrate due to the economy, weather and a... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Bulgarians take to Facebook to lambast bad, la ...
    Thousands of Bulgarians have joined a Facebook group collecting photos of local police breaking rules while on duty. The law enforcement agency is already subject to special monitoring by the EU for failing to tackle... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Bahraini blogger gets six months for alleged r ...
    A Bahraini online activist has been sentenced to six months in jail for Twitter posts allegedly insulting the king. Three other bloggers remain in custody, awaiting court rulings, in the latest crackdowns on opposition... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Iranians burn American flags, chant 'death to ...
    Thousands of Iranians have gathered in Tehran, setting US flags on fire and chanting “Death to America.” The demonstration marks the 33rd anniversary of the taking of the US embassy, in which 52 Americans were held... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Hurricane Sandy- the real threat to US nationa ...
    — The fool’s summary of what happened with Hurricane Sandy can be found in the scientifically infantile editorial today of the Denver Post where we, the general public, are all encouraged to be aware of the weather outside. OPINION Editorial: What Sandy can teach us in Colorado Thoug ...
  • Much of the US Left simply doesn’t under ...
    Much of the US population has been told by US Left liberals that the US ‘lost’ the Vietnam War and that the US military is some sort of paper tiger, when in reality the US military continues to be a very capable US ruling class killing machine that has killed millions around the glob ...
  • If President Obama is not reelected, the US em ...
    NOT A BIG IF. Who else can dictate austerity, deal justice with drones, and spout mendacious doublespeak without rousing a backlash?
  • Romney versus Obama
    The American people await anxiously for nothing to change one week from today.
  • Americans don’t get treatment due to lac ...
    — Here is the real state of medical ‘care’ in the US. ‘Americans are skimping on their healthcare needs even more than last year, the result of a struggling economy that’s forcing people to continue to cut back on prescription drugs, medical tests and doctors visits ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Civil Information Actions - Poster Fall/Winter ...
    Published on Nov 1, 2012 by Doug Brinkman Posters can be downloaded at -http://www.ciactivist.org/ Civil Information Actions - Poster Fall/Winter 2012
  • Jesse Ventura For President In 2016?
    Published on Nov 1, 2012 by Mohammed Amin Minnesota's former governor lays out his blueprint for an independent run and discusses his new book, "DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans" with Forbes Editor Randall Lane. Related: Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura Season 3 Excerpt from Jesse Vent ...
  • 'Cognitive Infiltration' My Encounter with a 9 ...
    [Sourced from Rise Like Lions blog] The second thing which stood out was that the majority of posts were promoting Dr Judy Wood and Andrew Johnson. They both propose a Directed Energy Weapon theory, as well as Andrew a 'No-Planes' theory. After considerable research on both positions it was c ...
  • Hypocrites
    Published on Nov 1, 2012 by Jon Gold Related: 'Debunker' Related Excerpts from and Review of '9/11 Truther The Fight for Peace, Justice and Accountability' by Jon Gold John Lennon's 70th birthday: How will you mark the day?
  • Debunking the Debunkers Now Linked at Debunkin ...
     I'm happy to anounce that DebunkingSkeptics.com has added the blog to their 9/11 links page, as well as to their great blogs list, on the home page. Related: Debunking PseudoSkeptics - CSICOP, James Randi, Michael Shermer, etc Why James Randi, Michael Shermer and other Pseudoskeptics ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Yanomami mark 20 years of land recognition
    Yanomami greet guests attending the seventh Assembly of Hutakara Yanomami Association at Watoriki © Fiona Watson/SurvivalSome 700 Yanomami from many communities in Brazil recently gathered for the 7th assembly of Hutukara, the Yanomami association. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the rec ...
  • Human rights protest mars Indonesia’s state vi ...
    Dozens of protesters gathered outside Downing Street to mark the visit of Indonesia's President to the UK© SurvivalA demonstration by Survival International and dozens of human rights protesters has marred the start of Indonesia’s first state visit to London in 33 years. Protesters held ba ...
  • London visit by Indonesian President fuels hum ...
    Survival’s protest will coincide with the arrival of Indonesia’s President in London.© SurvivalSurvival International will join dozens of protesters tomorrow (October 31), to demonstrate against Indonesia’s brutal repression of West Papua’s tribal people, coinciding with the country’s first stat ...
  • ‘Kill us all, then bury us here’: desperate ap ...
    The Guarani are forced to make a perilous river crossing using a narrow cable to get food supplies.© MPF/SurvivalA group of Brazilian Indians who endured violence and death to return to their land have made a dramatic appeal to the government after learning that they face eviction once more. Th ...
  • UK snubs tribal rights by refusing to ratify k ...
    The more countries that ratify ILO 169, the more protection it offers for tribal peoples everywhere.© Stephen Corry/SurvivalThe UK has dismayed tribal and indigenous peoples as well as activists around the world by refusing to ratify a key international law, which protects their basic human righ ...

Greg Palast

  • Starting Today: No Charge for my Bestselling B ...
    Palast Fund to give away FREE copies of Bestseller Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps A personal note from Greg Palast Call me crazy.  The Palast Investigative Fund is dead broke and our office in New York is under water.  No kidding. But America is drown ...
  • Did The Romneys’ Auto Bailout Bonanza Violate ...
    By Greg Palast for The National Memo At the same time, taxpayer-subsidized Delphi expanded its workforce in China to 25,000. Today, Delphi supplies GM and Chrysler parts from Mexico and China. This week, Republican vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan arrived in Ohio to accuse the Obama admi ...
  • UAW Files Charges Against Romney on his Auto ...
    Broke ethics law hiding millions, say good government groups by Greg Palast Toledo, Ohio For Mitt Romney, it's one scary Halloween.  The Presidential candidate has just learned that tomorrow afternoon he will charged with violating the federal Ethics in Government law by improperly concealing hi ...
  • Advisory: UAW files ethics charge on Romney au ...
    Unions, Good Government Groups to File Ethics Complaint Against Romney For Failing To Disclose His Big Auto Rescue Profit Groups Urge Office of Government Ethics to Make Romney Disclose or Divest WASHINGTON – A coalition of community, labor and good-government organizations is calling on the U.S ...
  • A Hostile Takeover of our Country Treasonous, ...
    by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for EcoWatch from the foreword to Billionaires & Ballot Bandits American democracy is under assault. In one super-PAC alone, Karl Rove and the Enron grifter Ed Gillespie, have assembled $200 million from big polluters and Wall Street moguls to buy the 2012 election. ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Wakefield Battle Revs Up with Appeal, Facebook ...
    Editor's note: It's been great to see our side fighting back against Brian Deer and the medical-media orthodoxy, with the strong parental protest against Deer's appearance in Wisconsin, most recently Jen Larson's powerful letter to Deer's enablers in and around...
  • WANTED BY THE FEDS: Poul Thorsen, Who Helped P ...
    Poul Thorsen is the man whose research is used by the AAP, media, public health establishment and pharma spokespeople like Dr. Paul Offit, and Bill Gates and Dr. Nancy Snyderman to "prove" that there is no connection between vaccines and...
  • Happy Halloween!
    Tell us your Halloween plans to help your child on the spectrum enjoy (survive) the doorbell ringing, candy eating (or not), school party chaos.
  • The Canary Party Challenges 2012 Presidential ...
    The Canary Party Challenges 2012 Presidential Candidates on Three Key Healthcare Questions Children’s Health Crisis Ignored on the Campaign Trail “The U.S. Presidential election is down to the wire, with both candidates in a dead heat”, states Mark Blaxill, Chairman...
  • AofA Science Summary: Autism prevalence follow ...
    J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Mar;38(3):481-8. Epub 2007 Jul 6. Autism prevalence following prenatal exposure to hurricanes and tropical storms in Louisiana. Kinney DK, Miller AM, Crowley DJ, Huang E, Gerber E. Source Genetics Laboratory, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St.,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Biotech Nightmare – GMO Jumping Genes
    Since jumping genes are already a large part of our genome naturally, and they are subject to mutation, which can lead to diseases such as cancer and hemophaelia as well as antibiotic resistance, the introduction of genetically engineered DNA into the mix is especially alarming.
  • Discovery Channel Covers Geoengineering/Chemtrails
    Michael J. Murphy, Barry Kolsky and Dr. Nick Begich of "WHY in the World are They Spraying?" www.witwats.com are featured in this episode.
  • GM Cancer Warning Can No Longer Be Ignored
    ISIS Prof Peter Saunders Dr Mae-Wan Ho The latest findings of cancers and deaths from GM maize and Roundup herbicide are the result of the most in-depth long-term toxicology study ever done on GM food; we ignore them at our peril. In the Vatican Museums in Rome stands a statue of La0coön and his ...
  • A Rat’s Tale
    Animated cartoon on GMOs. This says it all!
  • GMO Labeling Guys Sponsored by Anti-labeling D ...
    Why is the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), which puts out the Non-GMO Shopping Guide, sponsored by Silk, which is owned by Dean Foods, which is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting GMO labeling in California? Isn’t this a conflict of interest?

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Helping gets more social
    Millions of us want to connect the charities we support to the celebrations we share with friends online. Water.org is excited to be included in the introduction of charitable giving through Facebook Gifts, the social platform's recently launched product that enables real-time gift giving throug ...
  • One Family at a Time
    Water.org’s local partner —BWDA — works directly with Self Help Groups (SHG) and their individual members to provide loans for safe water access. In the Pondicherry territory of India, BWDA works with women who are in need of microloans for household water connections.
  • The Keys to a New Life
    When the Ethiopian village of Enda Silassie worked with Water.org to install a new handpump, they also came together to choose a community water guardian.
  • Talking Water on Wall Street Journal Report
    Maria Bartiromo, Wall Street Journal Report, talks to Oscar winner Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of Water.org, about the big bet they’re making to bring clean water to the nearly 1 billion people without it. Watch the interview.
  • Short Stories: Haitian Collection
    Mike McCamon, CCO for Water.org, recently visited Haiti and saw something in Port au Prince that underlined why we do the work we do.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Ochronosis
    New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 367, Issue 18, November 2012.
  • Hunting Down Huntingtin
    New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 367, Issue 18, Page 1753-1754, November 2012.
  • How Much Would You Give to Save a Dying Bird? ...
    New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 367, Issue 18, Page 1755-1759, November 2012.
  • Low milk supply: What causes it?
    Low milk supply — A Mayo Clinic specialist discusses factors that affect breast milk production.
  • How Old Is Yoga?
    If you asked most people today how old yoga is, they would probably say that it is really old. Like, 5000 years old or something, right? This idea of yoga's ancient roots is part of its mystique and attraction, but how accurate is it? Using the works of Mark Singleton and N.E. Sjoman as sources, ...

Common Dreams

  • How Hurricane Sandy Will Impact the Election
    Thanks to a wave of new voting restrictions passed by Republicans, the 2012 election was already shaping up to be pretty chaotic before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, which left 8.2 million households witho read more
  • Ravaged Staten Island: Torn Apart, Comes Together
    Thousands of homes on Staten Island were searched for the dead and survivors, including this house, swept into a marsh in Oakwood. Neighbors helped recover items from the house. (Michael Appleton for The New York Times)A full four days after Hurricane Sandy ripped through New York City, resident ...
  • Penn. Town Mayor Pushes Privatization to Preve ...
    The city of Allentown, Penn. is making steps towards the privatization of its public water and sewage systems. The town's mayor, Ed Pawlowski, has pushed the measure in as the only solution to prevent the town from being pushed off a "fiscal precipice" as city faces a funding pensi ...
  • 'Pronounced Recovery' for Oil Drilling in Gulf ...
    In the face of any lessons learned from the 2010 BP oil disaster and the impacts climate change up, oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is booming. Drilling permit approvals are back to pre-Deepwater Horizon levels, and the future holds   deeper wells held by a handful of big companies, ...
  • NGO Report: Global Inequality at Highest in 20 ...
    According to a new report (pdf) from international organization Save the Children, income inequality is at a 20-year high worldwide. While this in itself is not a surprising trend, their findings suggest a global shift in poverty, from a developed versus developing issue to a domestic one. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Simplifying the Planetary Boundaries
    The nine planetary boundaries developed by the Stockholm Resilience Centre have become a useful metric, but the complexity of the subject has been a challenge. A further challenge to simplify the structure has been posed back to The Centre. They have taken up this challenge and revisited the app ...
  • Would a North American Energy Pact Lead to Ene ...
    “Screw the Canadians and be good to the Venezuelans.”So Richard Nixon advised his aides in 1970. This was about oil; the Canadians were not doing what U.S. officials wanted.  So screw them.
  • Hurricane Sandy, Smart Grids And Advanced Stor ...
    There’s a lot of good reasons to have some advanced energy distribution systems at the ready in your home, community and throughout the grid. If a tree falls on a wire and no one is there to hear it, it will be like it never happened at your house. At least you’ll have enough power to recharge y ...
  • Sustainability, social media and big data
    The term Big Data is becoming the buzz word du jour in IT these days popping up everywhere, but with good reason – more and more data is being collected, curated and analysed today, than ever before.
  • CalBattery Breakthrough a Product of the Natio ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Greece Suppresses Free Expression
    by Stephen Lendman Ordinary Greeks face deepening Depression conditions. At a time vital help is needed, force-fed austerity is policy. Corrupt governance mandates it. Severe repression targets resisters. Now they've got another woe. Press freedom isn't tolerated. A previous article expl ...
  • Palestinians brace for tough Eid Al-Adha
    Khaled Amayreh in Dura in the West Bank While an unprecedented economic crisis grips the occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinians can still rely on the bonds of social solidarity. Mohamed is a middle-aged taxi driver from the small town of Dura in the southern part of the West Bank. Wi ...
  • Drone Wars
    by Stephen Lendman Perhaps one day they'll arrive over a neighborhood near you. Drones are becoming America's weapon of choice. Domestically so far, they're used only for eyes in the sky spying. Big Brother wants to watch everyone all the time. Don't bet against eyes not being weaponize ...
  • Predicting Protracted Hard Times
    by Stephen Lendman It works the same way every time. Bad policies assure bad results. Prioritizing short-term profits jeopardizes long-term gains. Force-fed austerity when stimulus is needed is madness. So is harming economies, communities, and ordinary people to save banks. Chicke ...
  • UAW FILES CHARGES AGAINST ROMNEY ON HIS AUTO B ...
    by Greg Palast For Mitt Romney, it's one scary Halloween. The Presidential candidate has just learned that tomorrow afternoon he will charged with violating the federal Ethics in Government law by improperly concealing his multi-million dollar windfall from the auto industry bail-out. At a pre ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CETA and Nova Scotia: Who Pays for 'Free' Trade?
    As the federal government continues to move forward with the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) our research finds that the benefits are being oversold while the costs and consequences are being minimized and even ignored.  CETA could result in between 510 and 2587 net job loss ...
  • Striking shifts in education and community act ...
    The Fall 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between education and activism, but it focuses extensively on issues raised before, during and since the Québec student strike. The strike provides us with a superb case study of how the Charest government labeled student resistanc ...
  • The Case for A Living Wage
    In a new CCPA-Ontario report, Jordan Brennan looks at the history of the minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and makes the case for a living wage as an essential tool to help reduce income inequality. The report, Enhancing Democratic Citizenship, Deepening Distributive Justice: The Living Wa ...
  • Will BC break its own GHG emissions law?
    In 2007 the BC government legislated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), but just five years later, the province’s 2012 Natural Gas Strategy risks breaking that legislation. Our latest report, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad ...
  • More equitable compensation needed for vulnera ...
    In Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage—that is, sufficient income to afford the basics of life—because of discrimination. Women workers and those who are racialized, immigrant, Aboriginal, living with disabilities or similarly disadvantaged are all segregated into low wage job ghettoe ...

World Wide Hippies

  • “Hipster Sexism”: Just as Bad as R ...
    by Kelsey Wallace,bitchmagazine.org/ – As the saying goes, “If you hate hipsters, you probably are one.” This is because, while many of us are familiar with the term (especially if describes us), it is obnoxious and has been used to identify numerous non-trends, from mustaches to homestead ...
  • Justice Without Universal Applicability Is an ...
    by Kim Petersen,dissidentvoice.org/ -If the US can recognize the historic Jewish claim to Middle East land, then it should recognize this historic precedent with Indian nations. – Vine DeLoria Jr.1 Social justice advocates and activists consider social injustices to be anathema. That a segment o ...
  • Keystone XL protest: It’s not easy being ...
    Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein charged with trespassing in Keystone XL protest By Steven Mufson,washingtonpost.com – Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested Wednesday morning in east Texas while attempting to bring food and Halloween candy to protesters ca ...
  • WWH/CJE Friday News Briefs
    Gasoline Runs Short, Adding Woes to Storm Recovery UNION, N.J. — Widespread gas shortages stirred fears among residents and disrupted some rescue and emergency services on Thursday as the New York region struggled to return to a semblance of normalcy after being ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. Tiny ...
  • In Sandy’s Wake, New York’s Landscape of Inequ ...
    BY MICHELLE CHEN,inthesetimes.com - The shock of Sandy is still rippling across the northeastern United States. But in the microcosm of New York City, we can already see who’s going to bear the brunt of the damage. As Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, floodwaters have a way of exposing the race an ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Do Falling Gasoline Prices Help President Obama?
    In this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier answers a reader's question on how falling gasoline prices might impact the Obama campaign for reelection.
  • Why Sandy’s Impact Will Differ From Katrina
    As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, a lot of prognosticators are offering up predictions for what it means for gasoline prices in that market. I thought it might be of interest to note the differences in Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina concerning the oil and gas markets. Hurri ...
  • Can You Make Fuel from Air and Water?
    In this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier addresses the recent claims of a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis that they have invented a process to create fuel from air and water.
  • Hofmeister: An Energy Plan for America
    John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil, set forth his vision of a sound energy policy for America in a recent interview with Consumer Energy Report.
  • The Potential for a Heating Oil Crisis
    The Energy Information Administration (EIA) last week reported on a potential crisis for heating oil customers in the Northeast part of the United States. In This Week in Petroleum (TWIP), the EIA reported: For the week ending October 5, distillate inventories in the U.S. Northeast (PADDs 1A and ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Digital scrapbooks for student creativity, sel ...
    Comments:A Glogster-like scrapbooking tool for students. Free for 1 teacher + 30 students. Paid plan if you need more. Embeddable. They also have a clipping tool you can add to your browser for collecting clips.  - Dennis GriceTags: scrapbook, web2.0, poster, tools, scrapbooking, creativity, glo ...
  • zondle - games to support learning
    Tags: learning, web2.0, zondle, interactive, education, game, technologyby: Dean Mantz
  • Disp Recorder for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone ...
    Comments:An effective way of creating screencasts directly from the iPad of the iPad and apps themselves. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, screencast, Displayrecorderby: Dean Mantz
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing a ...
    Comments:Digital magazine from Stanford University highlights interesting and challenging stories of innovation. Could be a great kick-starter for project-based learning or to engage kids in innovative and critical thinking. - Randy RodgersTags: innovation, social, stanford, nonprofit, philanthr ...
  • Twelve Interactive Activities for Learning Abo ...
    Comments:Edutopia has shared a nice collection of classroom lessons engaging students through the election process.  The resources shared are even broken down by grade levels.  - Dean MantzTags: edutopia, interactive, activities, elections, studentsby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

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

big think

  • Why Do Museum Patrons Hurt the Ones They Love?
    In a letter responding to Anthony M. Amore’s editorial “No ‘Thomas Crown Affair’” in The New York Times about the recent robbery at the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Georgia Museum of Art guard Ed Tant acknowledged the very real threat posed by thieves, but fingered a very ...
  • Why You Should Be a Voter
    In my earlier post about whether to vote for third parties, there were some commenters who asserted that there's no good reason to vote at all. Since we're now right on the verge of Election Day, I thought it was worthwhile to address this argument. Putting aside the inevitable paranoid ...
  • Mark Ruffalo's Energy Avengers
    What’s the Big Idea?  21st century problems create strange bedfellows. Actor Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk, Shutter Island, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) was minding his own career and family when a series of coincidences led to his becoming a passionate activist for renewable energy. ...
  • Two Things for those with Electricity
    Hurricane Sandy hit Waq al-waq hard - although, mercifully, not nearly as hard as many who are still suffering - knocking out power and forcing us to become one of those people of the dark, scurrying about town trying to find a place to plug in a trio of mac products with laughably short battery ...
  • The Expert's Ear: Expertise And Aesthetic Judg ...
    The first time I listened to Pinkerton, Weezer’s second studio album, I hated it. And so did almost everyone else. Rolling Stone readers ranked it as the third worst album in 1996. Writing for Entertainment Weekly Jeff Gordinier compared it to “a collection of get-down party anthems for ... Rea ...

Information Liberation

  • 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 a...
  • Police State: Growth Rate of Cops Exceeds Popu ...
    The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a report demonstrating the growth of police in the United States. The survey was conducted with agencies that participated in the 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies and the results...
  • TSA Screener Arrested For Alleged Raping Boy
    A TSA agent from Cleveland has been arrested for allegedly raping a young boy, just the latest example of an employee of the federal agency being accused of child molestation while carrying out pat downs of children on the job. Returning from Ger...
  • Ex-Chicago cop gets 18 months for extorting pa ...
    A former Chicago police officer was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison for using his police muscle to extort protection payoffs from heroin and crack dealers in the Ida B. Wells public housing complex. Kallatt Mohammed, 47, remained d...
  • Nearly 100 Dogs Shot by Metro Police Since 2010
    ATLANTA * A Channel 2 Action News investigation found nearly 100 cases of local officers shooting dogs within the past two years. The investigation looked into the heartbreaking circumstances when a police officer kills a family pet -- probably on...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Asimov on the three laws of robotics
    Laws of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in or simply interested in research and development in the fields of robotics ...
  • Asimov on the three laws of robotics
    Laws of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in or simply interested in research and development in the fields of robotics ...
  • There are no afterlife-time guarantees
    There is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads, interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with you, but if they can ...
  • There are no afterlife-time guarantees
    There is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads, interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with you, but if they can ...
  • Don’t play with matches
    Hallowe’en is almost upon us, so now’s the time to start mixing toxic chemicals and getting ready to play some pranks on neighbours. Or maybe not. Gizmodo had a few ideas, including spiking drinks with methylene blue and mixing match heads and ammonia to make a sprayable stink bomb! ...

RFF Library

  • Pavillion Air Quality Monitoring Summary
    Wyoming Dept. of Natural Resources http://deq.state.wy.us/out/downloads/Memo_090612_initialed.pdf [WRAL.com] After more than a year of testing, a Wyoming state study found no air quality problems near Pavillion’s natural gas field. The Casper Star-Tribune reported Friday that the Departmen ...
  • Inclusive Wealth Report 2012: Measuring Progre ...
    United Nations University International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change | UN Environment Programme http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=2688&ArticleID=9174 [From Press Release]  The world’s fixation on economic growth ignores ...
  • Atlas of Health and Climate
    WHO | World Meteorological Organization http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2012/climate_atlas_20121029/en/index.html (Press Release) http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/atlas/report/en/index.html (Report) …Droughts, floods and cyclones affect the health of millions ...
  • The 27–year Decline of Coral Cover on the Grea ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (October 30, 2012 v109 n44 p17995-17999) / by Glenn De’atha, Katharina E. Fabricius, Hugh Sweatman, and Marji Puotinen http://www.pnas.org/content/109/44/17995.short [Abstract] The world’s coral reefs are being degraded, and the need to reduce loca ...
  • International Deployment of Cooperative Intell ...
    US Dept. of Transportation | European Union http://www.its.dot.gov/connected_vehicle/pdf/Joint_EU-US_Report.pdf The United States and the European Union (EU) are working together to foster international connected vehicle research and international harmonization of the technology and standar ...

Scientific American - News

  • The Science behind Superstorm Sandy s Cripplin ...
    GOWANUS, BROOKLYN--Superstorm Sandy's surge halted a little more than a block from my home, mirroring almost precisely the border of two different nearby flood zones on New York City's evacuation map . Homes, stores and warehouses closer to the Gowanus Canal at the westernmost end of Lo ...
  • The Presidential Debate We Never Had: Climate ...
    A surrogate presidential candidates' debate on climate change was held at Mott house on Capital Hill, Washington, D.C., on Thursday, featuring Obama campaign representative Kevin Knobloch and former Republican congressman and Delaware governor Mike Castle.  [More]
  • People in Poor Neighborhoods Breathe More Haza ...
    Tiny particles of air pollution contain more hazardous ingredients in non-white and low-income communities than in affluent white ones, a new study shows. [More]
  • The Stats Are In: Superstorm Sandy Totals
    Sandy caused many problems during its life. Here are some of the most impressive statistics from the storm. [More]
  • Hepatitis E Vaccine Debuts
    From Nature magazine. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • A Power Shift
    Indigenous voices at forefront of growing movement The environmental movement in Canada just got bigger – and so have the movements for Indigenous rights, migrant justice and a ...
  • Powershift Galvanizes Climate Justice Organizing
    Ottawa conference sees protests, trainings, national networking OTTAWA-- As the "Frankenstorm" hit North America hundreds of youth from across Canada marched through the st ...
  • October in Review
    Pipeline problems, grand jury resistance, joke job act and celebrity arrests The Dominion's Martin Lukacs broke the story that an American businessman dumped approximat ...
  • Ex-student spokesperson Nadeau-Dubois found gu ...
    Judge finds he illegally encouraged students to ignore injunction against picket lines (Updates at bottom) Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the ex-student spokesperson who for many became the ...
  • Halloween Demonstration Links Tar Sands with D ...
    Local constituents raise concerns with Conservative MP Mark Strahl about the Harper government’s undemocratic, back room, pro-tar sands policies and agreements. Chilliwack, BC, Unceded Sto:Lo Territories—Following a week of epoch-maki ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in October
    The American economy beat expectations and added 171,000 new jobs last month. However, about 90,000 of those jobs were needed just to keep up with population growth, so net job growth is closer to 81,000 jobs. The chart below, which I update monthly, shows net job creation since the beginning ...
  • Something to Look at While You Wait for the BL ...
    Here's something to ponder over while you wait for the BLS to release its final jobs report before the election. Gallup released its monthly unemployment survey on Thursday, and it showed a seasonally adjusted drop from 8.1 percent in September to 7.4 percent in October. The Gallup numbers are ...
  • Election Forecasting Update - 1 November 2012
    Here's another update on the status of the most popular presidential forecasting models. I've mixed it up a bit since the previous one. On the top are Nate Silver and Andrew Tanenbaum; on the bottom are Sam Wang and Josh Putnam. Obama continues to widen his lead, and the average of the models ...
  • Drudge: "Obama Left Them Behind"
    On Monday a friend emailed me about the likelihood of conservatives going all out to make Sandy look like Obama's Katrina. "I'd watch Drudge for the cues," he said. "He should have a picture of a stranded black person up at some point tomorrow." Today he emails to claim victory: He was ...
  • Bloomberg: It's No Time for a Climate Skeptic ...
    Here is our updated aphorism for the day: Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows a climate skeptic might be elected in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. This wasn't true last week for New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, but apparently Hurricane Sandy has brought him do ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Navy researchers look to rotating detonation e ...
    With its strong dependence on gas-turbine engines for propulsion, the U.S. Navy is always looking for ways to improve the fuel consumption of these engines. At the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), scientists are studying the complex physics of Rotating Detonation Engines (RDEs) which offer ...
  • Giving fluorescence microscopy new power to st ...
    The ability of fluorescence microscopy to study labeled structures like cells has now been empowered to deliver greater spatial and temporal resolutions that were not possible before, thanks to a new method developed by Beckman Institute faculty member Gabriel Popescu and Ru Wang from his resear ...
  • Abstract thinking can make you more politicall ...
    Partisans beware! Some of your most cherished political attitudes may be malleable! Researchers report that simply answering three "why" questions on an innocuous topic leads people to be more moderate in their views on an otherwise polarizing political issue. read more
  • Were dinosaurs destined to be big? Testing Cop ...
    In the evolutionary long run, small critters tend to evolve into bigger beasts -- at least according to the idea attributed to paleontologist Edward Cope, now known as Cope's Rule. Using the latest advanced statistical modeling methods, a new test of this rule as it applies dinosaurs shows that ...
  • Disaster defense: Balancing costs and benefits
    Do costly seawalls provide a false sense of security in efforts to control nature? Would it be better to focus on far less expensive warning systems and improved evacuation procedures that can save many lives? read more

unEarthed

  • Super-storm Sandy: Spawn of Climate Change?
    The effects are clear, if not the cause, says LA Times NOAA satellite photo of Sandy Today, in an editorial, the Los Angeles Times took on a question that man ...
  • Speak Up for the “Most Important Fish in the Sea”
    Fisheries commission needs to hear from you, today! Menhaden are harvested by the millions. (NOAA) Something very unusual happened at the November 2011 meetin ...
  • Conservationists Act to Protect Sensitive Bay ...
    State permit allowing log storage facility challenged Dungeness crabs in a crab trap. (Debra Hamilton / DFG) Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest i ...
  • Fracking in California? We're On The Case.
    We file a lawsuit, state officials scramble to respond Fracking rig.  (Bob Warhover) Here’s what we know: Fracking is already happening in Californ ...
  • Too Close to Risk It
    Shell’s drill ship off the coast of treasured wilderness The Arctic Refuge is one of the most splendid stretches of wilderness left in America.  (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • What Are You Doing?
    I ask, what are you doing to make sure The Republican Hoard of Neanderthal zombies don’t get elected in your city, state, or sent to D.C.? If you don’t understand the risk of 2-4 years of having Republicans making your choices for you, think about it. We all know once elected all Rep ...
  • Met One Really Animated Republican Today
    As I was driving my wife to work this morning, a watched a really agitated dude that couldn’t wave the finger at me any more fervently. He rolled down the window in his pickup and very very energetically shook his middle finger at me over and over. I guess he didn’t like the Republic ...
  • Romney Made In China
  • Fox And CNN Work For Mitt Romney – Obviously
    Isn’t it amazing how CNN, and Fox refuse to report on all the lives Romney, and his buddies have destroyed. All the factories the Bain Bastards closed and the work moved to China. Every bit of news is skewed as much as humanly possible to make Romney look as good as they can. If Obama [...]
  • Republicans Sabotaging Housing – Again
    This just in from Democratic Underground and Think Progress. We can’t have no housing help stimulating the economy with a black guy / Democrat in the White House now can we? Republican Bastards. Voting for any Republican is an act of economic treason.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • A week in photos: October 25-31
    A prisoner’s release, a fight for academic freedom, a demolition threat, and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week.            
  • The One-State Condition: Guided Imagination
    Imagine a Middle Eastern democracy not based on negation of the Middle East; one which embraces the Mizrahi Jew, woman and the Arab, the Muslim and the Christian, granting Judaism a truly safe haven, a living space in which the memory of annihilation does not become a concrete, imminent threat. ...
  • Photos: Palestinian house demolished for sixth ...
    Beit Arabiya, a family home and peace center, had been rebuilt in July. At 3:00 a.m. this morning, Israeli forces demolished Beit Arabiya, the family house of Salim and Arabiya Shawamreh, for the sixth time. First built in 1994, it was rebuilt once again this summer by international, Palestinian ...
  • Exit poll: 80,000 Americans in Israel voted, 8 ...
    According to iVoteIsrael exit poll, half of the 160,000 eligible U.S. voters living in Israel voted absentee, of which an overwhelming majority selected Republican candidate Mitt Romney, allegedly  7,500 registered in swing state Florida alone.  iVoteIsrael - the campaign that has worked hard to ...
  • Deport the African refugees to Egypt? Not so fast
    Refugees in Egypt face regular threat of arrest, torture, and deportation to their countries of origin. The revolution has not changed that reality. On the life of one Darfuri refugee in search of protection. By Amir Heinitz “No one cares about what happens to refugees anyhow. Last week 30 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Vidal v. Liquidation Properties- A Horribly Mu ...
    A decision which befuddles and confudlles….. Cesar and Ruth Vidal (“the Vidals”) appeal the trial court’s order granting summary judgment and entering a final judgment of foreclosure in favor of Liquidation Properties, Inc. (“Liquidation”). The Vidals claim the trial court erred in finding ...
  • The Servicers, The Banks, The Debt Collectors ...
    The debt collectors that are going into courtrooms and throwing Amerikans out into the street in most cases do not own the notes they are foreclosing on.  But that does not stop them from going into courtrooms all across this country and committing perjury, fraud and engaging in improper legal t ...
  • The Republican Party of Florida and Frank Fark ...
    YOUTUBEVIDEO WATCH THIS 11 MINUTE “HEATHER’S VIDEO”…IT’S SAD AND DISGUSTING The battle between Republican Frank Farkas and Dudley is shaping up to be one of the nastiest legislative races in the Sunshine State. (TIMES) Dudley’s opponent, Republican Frank Farka ...
  • “SECRET” DOCUMENT- THE LINDA GREEN ...
    Remember the delusion, the lie, the fantasy that was America? A big part of that lie was that America was a country based on a system of laws that governed the people who lived there.  But what we found over the last several months is that it was all a lie, a delusion, a fraud.  [...]
  • Are First Amendment Rights Being Violated in C ...
    I’m not entirely convinced all of our votes are counted anyway…in fact, there’s very compelling evidence that the electronic voting machines are subject to fraud and manipulation and that the votes are in fact being manipulated. I’m predicting a real fight over whomever i ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Why I Write
    I wrote my very first novel when I was 11 years of age. For Christmas, my parents gave me a …Continue reading »
  • And Now For Some Good News
    Everything seems to be about domestic issues at present, and it’s clear that there are plenty of them to occupy …Continue reading »
  • Inside/Outside, Offside/Onside
    Last week Andrew Coyne, a writer I have much respect for, posted a comment on Twitter that, despite its cogency, …Continue reading »
  • Why I Chose the Stable
    When politics was done for me, I had some decisions to make. As job offers started to come in, Jane …Continue reading »
  • Preserving Neglect
    It remains one of the three great lessons I learned in my time in politics and it’s even more pertinent …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
  • Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
    In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
  • Small gods and the art of technology innovation
    There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Cut out one hour of watching TV and you can sm ...
    Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes.By comparison, smoking a single cigarette reduces life expectancy by about 11 minutes
  • UK embraces being “cared to death”
    The decision to put someone onto a "Care Pathway" is itself then an irrevocable sentence of death. Why not - having passed sentence - just give them a quick, quiet lethal injection after putting them on a "Care Pathway"? Why go through the charade of care while ensuring the patients rapid demise?
  • UK embraces being “cared to death”
    The decision to put someone onto a "Care Pathway" is itself then an irrevocable sentence of death. Why not - having passed sentence - just give them a quick, quiet lethal injection after putting them on a "Care Pathway"? Why go through the charade of care while ensuring the patients rapid demise?
  • So, once upon another time, I closed my Twitte ...
    Once upon a time I opened a Twitter account.. ..... So, once upon another time, I closed my Twitter account.
  • So, once upon another time, I closed my Twitte ...
    Once upon a time I opened a Twitter account.. ..... So, once upon another time, I closed my Twitter account.

Left Foot Forward

  • The long weekend: The first ‘billion dol ...
      This weekend is the last before Tuesday’s Presidential election. The US is still reeling after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy whilst Barack Obama and Mitt Romney try and go for the jugular whilst stepping on egg shells. In New York forty people have been found dead and 98 nationwide. ...
  • Syrian rebels accused of more human rights abuses
      Video footage posted on the internet shows what appears to be Syrian Rebels summarily executing government soldiers. The footage shows rebels beating the soldiers before shooting them and represents the latest in a line of allegations of human rights abuses. The alleged atrocities were co ...
  • Comment: Rebellions, loyalty and Governor Christie
    With different faces of rebellion being seen on either side of the Atlantic, Young Fabians chair Sara Ibrahim looks at the various aspects of political loyalty.
  • Scomnishambles latest: Legal ding-dong on EU a ...
    The UK and Scottish governments have turned down an offer from the EC to provide its legal advice over the status of an independent Scotland within the EU.
  • Will there be a General Strike in the UK?
    After increased talk of a General Strike after the October 20th protest and an upcoming European strike, John Millington asks if the UK will see one.

Consumerist

  • Homeowners Impacted By Hurricane Sandy Could G ...
    While one major problem facing many homeowners is dealing with insurance claims in the aftermath of Superstorm/Hurricane Sandy, there’s another long-term issue causing trouble for people whose homes have been damaged by the natural disaster — simply paying the mortgage. Relief is in sight ...
  • You Won’t Get Paid For Breaking Into A H ...
    Despite how dirty you might think a home is and how in need it is of a cleaning, breaking in to tidy up and leaving a bill for your services isn’t going to be an easy way to make a living. And if you leave your phone number, it’s all the more convenient for the police. A woman near C ...
  • Now At Walmart: Gingerbread Oreos
    Here’s one bit of early Christmas merchandise that we’re not going to complain about. For once. Hitting shelves now, only at Walmart, introducing… gingerbread-flavored Oreos. We haven’t been able to get our hands on the cookies yet, but consensus around the Consumerist v ...
  • Expedia Books Me Into 4 Hotels I Can’t S ...
    Like many New Yorkers in low-lying areas, Consumerist reader Jacob’s home was evacuated. Without a place to stay, he used his phone to book a room at a Manhattan hotel. Little did he know that he wouldn’t be staying at that hotel, or the one after that, or the one after that. In spit ...
  • Should The NYC Marathon Go On As Planned This ...
    Update: The New York Times is reporting that the marathon will not be held Sunday. Original Text: In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy New York City (and its fellow East Coast cities) is struggling to recover from the devastation the storm wrought. And now a battle is brewing between two camps, ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Justice Dept Joins False Claims Suit Against D ...
    Corporate Crime Reporter: Feds Join False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Triple Canopy Summary: The US Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower suit that alleges defense contractor Triple Canopy filed false claims to the federal government for unqualified security guards under a security c ...
  • FAIR Criticizes Canadian Whistleblower Legisla ...
    Calgary Herald (Canada): Hutton – Why Redford’s Whistleblower Law Falls Short Summary: The Executive Director of GAP’s Canadian sister organization, Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR), wrote an op-ed for the Calgary Herald, criticizing whistleblower protection legisl ...
  • Big Pharma Company to Pay $95M to Settle Whist ...
    Associated Press: Pharmaceutical Company to Pay $95M to Settle Allegations of Improper Drug Promotion Summary: Major pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim will pay $95 million to settle whistleblower allegations that the company promoted three drugs for uses that were not FDA approved an ...
  • GAP Clients/NSA Whistleblowers Call on SCOTUS ...
    Supreme Court buildingPolitico: SCOTUS Must Be Last Bulwark Against NSA Snooping Summary: GAP clients and NSA whistleblowers Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe have written an op-ed calling on the Supreme Court to rule that the NSA cannot listen or read the international communications of US ...
  • GAP Praises Successful OSC Mediation for Borde ...
    (Washington, DC) – The Government Accountability Project (GAP) today praised the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) for successfully mediating the Whistleblower Protection Act complaint of a U.S. Border Patrol agent harassed for refusing overtime pay when there was no extra work to be performe ...

UK Progressive

  • Hillary Women Will Save Obama
    by Brent Budowsky President Obama will be reelected president by a narrow Electoral College margin for three reasons. First, when autoworkers and auto companies faced a 1930s-style depression and Mitt Romney proposed a vulture bankruptcy that would have destroyed Ohio for a generation, Barack Ob ...
  • Romney Hosts ‘Storm Relief’ Event, Buys Suppli ...
    by Denis G. Campbell Dayton, Ohio is a microcosm of America. Its late school superintendent was a close family friend and the King family home was a stopping-off point on many cross country journeys for our family. It is a city filled with hard working, blue collar  people of all ethnicities who ...
  • Romney’s Latest Lie, His Former Lies, and Why ...
    by Robert Reich Over the weekend, Romney debuted an ad in Ohio showing cars being crushed as a narrator says Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China. Mitt Romney will fight for every American job.” In fact, Chrysler is retaining and expanding its Jeep production in ...
  • Let’s Rethink Presidential Debates
    by Charley James Every four years, we are treated to a kind of Kabuki Theater that passes as presidential debates. In fact, they aren’t debates at all or even a decent interview but rather a choreographed photo op where talking points and YouTube ad copy takes precedent over substantive di ...
  • Tom Hayden’s Obama Factums
    by Robert Hunziker Tom Hayden was interviewed on KPFK, 90.7/LA by Terrence McNally’s Free Forum on Sunday, October 28th. McNally discussed Hayden’s September 2012 article Saving Obama, Saving Ourselves as well as Hayden’s general support for Obama’s re-election. The interview lasted one hour, an ...

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JoNova

  • Thousands of hundred-dollar*-rubber-ducks to w ...
    Thousands of rubber ducks have been touring the worlds oceans for 15 years, and they are about to bob up in England. They fell off a boat in the Pacific Ocean in January 1992, and while most washed up in the South Pacific, some lucky ducks got in the Subpolar Gyre (near Alaska) then frozen in Ar ...
  • Blockbuster: Earths Energy Balance measured &# ...
    For all the data we can scrape out of rocks, shells and cylinders of ice, what we really need to know, in detail on a planetary scale, is how much energy comes in and how much goes out. That can only be measured (even roughly) with satellites. This paper rattles the whole table of key numbers, w ...
  • Government funds anti-science name-calling cro ...
    There’s a mindset, a world view here that’s profoundly unreal, anti-science, and of course, fully funded by the Taxpayer from start to end (how could it be any other way?). From the researcher who holds childish assumptions and misunderstands his own results, to the site that posts i ...
  • RET “success” means $18 billion do ...
    The Clean Energy Council is an industry group promoting renewables. Not surprisingly it defines “success” as being the amount of money it has diverted from other causes into the coffers of it’s members. Good for them. They are free to lobby. But the RET or “renewable ener ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    Because there is always something else that needs saying…. Rating: 6.7/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 6.7/10 (6 votes cast)

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Science: Mass Violence Due Soon
    All of my 2012 work has revolved around aspects that are scientifically plausible – even if sometimes they are a bit “out there”.  Here’s something that is definitely scientific, Violence Due in 2020: Professor Peter Turchin suggests that peaks of violence in the US work ...
  • Giant Hippos Invade England!
    For me this is one of the most powerful pieces of evidence, in that it causes people to think: Once upon a time, and not too long ago, hippopotami waded English rivers. Hippos are from Africa, and African weather reaches the United Kingdom only a couple of times per year…. Pretty much ther ...
  • HAARP and Hurricane Sandy
    So here’s the conspiracy news, helped along by Alan Jones: An independent website that has a real-time sensor network from over 28 sensors placed in rural areas across the United States has recorded the strongest HAARP readings in the projects history. The readings, in and around the New ...
  • Massive Bunker Being Auctioned – $1
    You know how you hear stories about people buying something at auction for a bargain basement price, like a foreclosed home? Well, it can happen with bunkers as well – earlier this year in Switzerland someone picked up an underground hotel for just $1000. Maybe the same can happen in Atchi ...
  • Could Solar Storms Cause Geomagnetic Reversals?
    I’m not talking ordinary solar storms. I’m talking a once-in-every-40-thousand-years solar storm. That’s something we have no written record of, and given how little we know about our Sun, it is quite possible that it is capable of sending such a super-massive solar storm our w ...

Facing South

  • Facebook's dubious social mission
    Why is a corporation that may soon have a market value of $100 billion persuading struggling communities like Rutherford County, N.C. to fork over taxpayer-financed subsidies? read more
  • Failure of climate talks imperils nowhere more ...
    The Gulf Coast is disappearing underwater while political leaders fail to act. read more
  • Justice for sale? Backers of shadow groups pus ...
    The race for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court is turning out to be one of the state's most expensive contests, largely due to spending from conservative groups. Many of the special interests pouring money into the contest may have high stakes in the outcome. read more
  • Living apart: How the government betrayed a la ...
    The authors of the 1968 Fair Housing Act wanted to reverse decades of government-fostered segregation. But presidents from both parties declined to enforce a law that stirred vehement opposition. read more
  • What's going on in the Southern swing states?
    President Obama won three Southern states en route to the White House in 2008. What's happened in the South's swing states? Is it any different than what's happened in the rest of the country? And can he still win? read more

One News Page

  • Never attempted to influence VVIP helicopter d ...
    Helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland that is currently under the scanner in an ongoing probe Reported by Indian Express 20 minutes ago
  • Messi's girlfriend gives birth to son Thiago
    REUTERS - World Player of the Year Lionel Messi has become a father for the first time following the birth of his son Thiago on Friday. Reported by Reuters India 31 minutes ago
  • Storm Sandy blamed for at least 102 deaths in ...
    (Reuters) - Deaths in the United States and Canada blamed on Sandy, the mega-storm that tore across the U.S. Reported by Firstpost 33 minutes ago
  • Syria army quit base on strategic Aleppo road
    BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army abandoned its last base near the northern town of Saraqeb after a fierce assault by rebels, further isolating the strategically important second city Aleppo from the capital. Reported by Firstpost 48 minutes ago
  • U.N. rights boss chides China over Tibet protests
    GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' most senior human rights official urged China on Friday to address deep-rooted frustrations that have led to desperate forms of protest by Tibetans, including some 60 self-immolations since March 2011. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Protect Your Voting Rights on November 6
    As I write this, millions of people in the US and Caribbean are struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy. While some people are searching for missing loved ones, burying their dead, and trying to pump millions of gallons of seawater out of subway tunnels, U.S. election officials are trying to ...
  • And Yet She Runs
    I went to pick up my daughter yesterday after track practice. She is a sophomore in high school and on the JV track team. I arrived early and was sitting in the car. As I was scanning the area looking for her, I spied a lone runner off in the distance. As the runner got closer I realized that it ...
  • How President Obama Is Protecting Women's Jobs
    I’m not one to chuckle at another person’s public embarrassment, but I can’t help but hand it to Mitt Romney. Rarely has a political candidate managed to single-handedly alienate an entire gender in such a spectacular series of gaffes and SNL-worthy laugh lines. His odd reference to “binders ful ...
  • Blushing-Cream Roast Chicken & Red Curry Pot Pie
    As I prepared to make this newly-created recipe, I had to bear the burden of hearing negative and worried comments: “You’re not making your usual chicken pot pie?” If it isn’t broke why fix it! “You’re adding CURRY? I don’t like curry!” Oh, my, but that’s awfully yellow. Do you think you’ve used ...
  • Blushing-Cream Roast Chicken & Red Curry Pot Pie
    As I prepared to make this newly-created recipe, I had to bear the burden of hearing negative and worried comments: “You’re not making your usual chicken pot pie?” If it isn’t broke why fix it! “You’re adding CURRY? I don’t like curry!” Oh, my, but that’s awfully yellow. Do you think you’ve used ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Doctors Planning to Use Depo-Provera to Combat ...
    A new study released by the American Academy of Pediatrics states that boys in America are reaching puberty at an earlier age than is considered standard 30 to 40 years ago. Which translates to a full 6 ...
  • Health Benefits of Organic Royal Jelly
    Royal Jelly is unique and its health benefits are tremendous in bees and in humans. This creamy secretion, produced by worker bees, is fed to bee larvae to develop them into workers. However, if higher ...
  • Green Tea Found to Reduce Rate of Some GI Cancers
    Women who drink green tea may lower their risk of developing some digestive system cancers, especially cancers of the stomach/esophagus and colorectum, according to a study led by researchers from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The study by ...
  • Our Brains Can Be Logical and Compassionate — ...
    The human brain is unquestioningly an amazing thing. But for all its strengths, it can be pretty glitchy at times. And indeed, as new research from Case Western Reserve has revealed, our brains have two ...
  • Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Early ...
    Parents need to worry about this: early puberty in their children, which can not only negatively affect their social life, but also their health.  Among other things, early puberty is associated with high risk of ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Nov. 2, 2012
    In this April 2010 photo, miners watch as a piece of equipment passes by in the Tech Leasing and Rebuild Inc. Mine #1 in Buchanan County, Va. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger) As so many of our neighbors continue to dig out and otherwise try to recover from super-storm Sandy, it&# ...
  • Storms and climate: Silence from W.Va. leaders
    Lisa Kravchenko, of Staten Island, stands amongst flood debris in her princess Halloween costume, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the Staten Island borough of New York. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million h ...
  • Walker expands: Wait, what about the ‘wa ...
    Yesterday morning, an interesting little e-mail message showed up in my inbox, alerting the Gazette that the folks at Walker Machinery were planning a “major announcement” later in the day … While some prognosticators are signaling the decline of the coal industry, Whayne Suppl ...
  • Coal permits and superstorm politics: What wou ...
    West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin  is briefed by Jimmy Gianato, right, state director of homeland security and emergency management, at the National Guard Armory before a teleconference with officials scattered throughout storm-affected areas of West Virginia, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Char ...
  • MSHA targets respirable dust in ‘impact& ...
    Today’s news release from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration about its monthly “impact” inspections included a new twist: MSHA recently added a criterion to its impact inspection policy to emphasize the selection of mines that have had compliance issues related to r ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Trying Out Google Web Fonts
    So I’ve decided to try Google Web Fonts, and the site is currently displaying the ‘Open Sans’ option, which I quite like. Performance impact is negligible, which made me happy, and I think it’s a major improvement over the Verdana that I was using before. I’ve yet t ...
  • Steven Pinker’s Thoughts on Right vs. Left | N ...
    But while these theories help explain why the seemingly diverse convictions within the right-wing and left-wing mind-sets hang together, they don’t explain why they are tied to geography. The historian David Hackett Fischer traces the divide back to the British settlers of colonial America. The ...
  • The Economist Endorses Obama
    For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don’t believe most of what he says. That is not a convincing pitch for a chief executive. And for all his shortcomings, Mr Obama has dragged America’s economy back from the brink of disaster, and has made ...
  • Being Smart in the 21st Century
    image from seedmagazine.com Boredom and stupidity are linked because curiosity cures both of them. I just don’t know many dumb inquisitive people. I think many are confused about what it means to be smart today. I hear people speaking often about others being “way smarter than them&# ...
  • My Site’s Technology Stack
    I get a lot of questions about my site’s setup. Here are the main components: Ubuntu Linux 64-bit Linode for hosting (help me out by using that link to sign up) Nginx for primary web server Varnish for HTTP acceleration PHP-FPM WordPress for blog (non-themed, i.e. using overall custom site ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • “Hipster Sexism”: Just as Bad as R ...
    by Kelsey Wallace,bitchmagazine.org/ – As the saying goes, “If you hate hipsters, you probably are one.” This is because, while many of us are familiar with the term (especially if describes us), it is obnoxious and has been used to identify numerous non-trends, from mustaches to homestead ...
  • Justice Without Universal Applicability Is an ...
    by Kim Petersen,dissidentvoice.org/ -If the US can recognize the historic Jewish claim to Middle East land, then it should recognize this historic precedent with Indian nations. – Vine DeLoria Jr.1 Social justice advocates and activists consider social injustices to be anathema. That a segment o ...
  • Keystone XL protest: It’s not easy being ...
    Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein charged with trespassing in Keystone XL protest By Steven Mufson,washingtonpost.com – Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested Wednesday morning in east Texas while attempting to bring food and Halloween candy to protesters ca ...
  • WWH/CJE Friday News Briefs
    Gasoline Runs Short, Adding Woes to Storm Recovery UNION, N.J. — Widespread gas shortages stirred fears among residents and disrupted some rescue and emergency services on Thursday as the New York region struggled to return to a semblance of normalcy after being ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. Tiny ...
  • In Sandy’s Wake, New York’s Landscape of Inequ ...
    BY MICHELLE CHEN,inthesetimes.com - The shock of Sandy is still rippling across the northeastern United States. But in the microcosm of New York City, we can already see who’s going to bear the brunt of the damage. As Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, floodwaters have a way of exposing the race an ...

reference frame

  • All Souls' Day
    It's All Souls' Day today (yesterday, we had All Saints' Day). I am just learning that it's a mostly Catholic event – but one that pretty remarkably survived even in places such as the atheist Czech Republic. I am learning that the event expresses the people's belief in eternal lif ...
  • Paul Frampton: from prison to house arrest
    For everyone who have been at least a bit worried about Paul Frampton who got fooled by a fake Czech Californian supermodel in Argentine whose gang inserted some drugs to his luggage, there is some semi-good news. Drugs suspect freed from jail, Google News The officials finally noticed th ...
  • Edward Teller's great H-day: 60 years ago
    Ivy Mike released 188 times more energy than Hurricane Sandy Hungarian-Jewish-American physicist Edward Teller had a great day exactly 60 years ago, on November 1st, 1952. For some years, he's been working on an idea originally due to the great physics guru Enrico Fermi (most likely, and ...
  • CMS proton-lead ridge: color glass condensate?
    Two years ago, I reported the observation of surprising two-particle correlations at the CMS in proton-proton collisions, something that was previously observed at Brookhaven's RHIC in their 2005 gold-gold collisions. You know that the LHC sometimes collides lead nuclei against lea ...
  • Was Sandy systemically caused by CO2?
    Anthony Watts wrote down a nice table describing which folks believe or at least pretend to believe that CO2 "caused" Hurricane Sandy and which people don't. If I simplify it a little bit, activists, liars, and crackpots such as Al Gore support the link while scientists don't. I am kind of pl ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Sandy devastation stirs anger in NYC, New Jersey
    The region hit by superstorm Sandy was a patchwork of returning normality and despair, as bodies of the more than 90 dead across several U.S. states continued to be found while more communities were recovering power, gas and other basic needs. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Sandy b ...
  • Chaos in Manhattan as millions of New Yorkers ...
    by Beth Stebner and Emily Anne Epstein, Mail Online: Millions of New Yorkers endured a nightmare commute into Manhattan today as the city struggled to return to normal after the devastation of superstorm Sandy. Limited parts of the New York City subway were reopened early Thursday morning, but w ...
  • Job growth stalls in October
    The Canadian economy added no new jobs in October and the unemployment rate stayed at 7.4 per cent after two months of gains. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Gold To Rally Strongly In November After Expected October Correction from Gold Core: Today’s AM fix was USD 1,704.00, EUR... ...
  • Anarchy Along The Jersey Shore And On Long Isl ...
    from The Economic Collapse Blog: Hurricane Sandy is another reminder of just how incredibly fragile the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis really is. Many of the hardest hit areas along the Jersey shore and the coast of Long Island have descended into a sta ...
  • If Obama loses will America be vulnerable unti ...
    Given the failings of this President to protect Americans overseas and his downsizing of our military, coupled with his obvious Muslim ties, will he respond to attacks on America? … AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Man loses 18 relatives in Syrian strikes y ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

  • Environmental Groups Sue California for Failin ...
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  • BPA: Recent Research Shows Continued Need for ...
    By Jason Rano, Director of Government Affairs There is now solid evidence that Americans have gotten the message that the plastics chemical bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that can disrupt the hormone system, is hazardous to their health. On September... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Fracking Leases May Lower Property Values, Def ...
    By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners near wells. The New York Times reported last month that uncertainty over whether hydraulic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
  • Type 3 Diabetes?
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  • Why Some "Green" Cleaners Get Poor Grades
    A number of cleaning product manufacturers are expressing surprise at their products' scores on Environmental Working Group's Guide to Healthy Cleaning. Frankly, we're surprised they're surprised. The fact is, the industry has gotten complacent about its... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Fishing industry still fears retaliation over ...
    Norway’s huge and important fishing industry remains deeply worried that its seafood exports will be slapped with higher customs duties, in retaliation for the Norwegian government’s decision to protect domestic agriculture by jacking up import tariffs on meat and cheese from abroad. ...
  • Housing prices slipped again
    There were more signs this week that Norway’s high housing prices may finally be flattening out. Average prices in October fell slightly for the second month in a row, not by much but enough to spark speculation that the hot real estate market is indeed cooling off. The national real estat ...
  • Synagogue security under review
    Several new security measures are being evaluated in the area around the Jewish community’s synagogue in Oslo’s St Hanshaugen district. A government minister visited the synagogue this week and a top city politician is also planning an emergency meeting next week with Oslo police and ...
  • Swedes paid to seek work in Norway
    Young, unemployed Swedes are getting some financial assistance from their home communities to seek their fortunes in Norway, where the jobless rate remains low and many employers are eager to hire fellow Scandinavians. Sveriges Radio reported this week that the Swedish city of Söderhamn, about 2 ...
  • Interpreting costs worry the police
    Norwegian police are struggling with the cripplingly high cost of hiring interpreters.  They say it is eating into their annual budgets, leaving them short of funds for criminal investigations. They are now hoping that the Justice Ministry, which oversees Norway’s state police, will take o ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • La Cuccagna – the Rural Garden Project in the ...
    Clearing the entrance with the help of friends (April 2011) La Cuccagna emerged in March last year, here in Italy, as one of some of the projects from our organisation, Montagna Viva. This organisation was founded as a catalyst to undertake projects to revive the countryside, in the form of do ...
  • GM Cancer Warning Can No Longer Be Ignored
    The latest findings of cancers and deaths from GM maize and Roundup herbicide are the result of the most in-depth long-term toxicology study ever done on GM food; we ignore them at our peril. by Prof Peter Saunders and Dr Mae-Wan Ho A fully referenced version of this report is posted on ISIS me ...
  • Urgent, Prop 37 Needs Your Help Today!
    If you wish to donate directly to place this ad on more stations, you can go to this dedicated donation page. Please be generous (and swift!). With only a few days left before the vote on November 6, there’s no time to lose. The latest California poll now puts Prop 37 ten points behind ...
  • Straw Bale Guest House, Switzerland
    Swiss architect, Werner Schmidt, created this hyper-insulated guest house in the Swiss mountains. Find out more about this particular building here.
  • A Timorese Forest Struggle
    Editor’s preamble: Unfortunately, the kind of story told below is being played out on a daily basis, worldwide. Most of these stories never reach us. It needs to be understood, I believe, that the invisible hand of the market, if left without ethical guidance, does not care about anyone, ...

Pointman's

  • Why hasn’t there been a real debate on c ...
    Given that the alarming scenarios predicted by climate science are being used as the reason for advocating massive changes in society, prosperity, industrial infrastructure, lifestyles and even democracy, there’s never been a real debate over its veracity. You have alarmists on one side, w ...
  • Examples will have to be made : Germany.
    I wrote an analysis piece some time back, which put forward the idea that we climate realists had a secret weapon, and that weapon was time. Time would inevitably bring down the environmental movement, because it would demonstrate the fundamental unworkability of its policies in the real world f ...
  • It’s time for a change.
    It’ll soon be time to cast your vote, so you have to look back at what the current politico has done for you over the last four years. I see auto workers in Detroit, who no longer work on the line because that line no longer exists, and now have to swallow the indignity of watching &# ...
  • Green Myths : We must conserve everything.
    There’s this unquestioned idea, that’s been firmly planted into the public mind. That idea is that nothing should ever be allowed to go extinct and therefore conservation of anything is automatically a good thing. It’s nearly universally accepted and yet it’s totally unna ...
  • I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.
    Blogging is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at some consid ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    .....closely related to the subjects of Ka' http://www.answering-islam.org/Books/Zw ... /chap5.htm V THE FAMILIAR SPIRIT OR QARINA AMONG all the superstitions in Islam there is none more curious in its origin and character than the belief in the Qarin or Qarina. It probably goes back to the ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    From CyberSage Ognir is a good guy, I just think he should re-think the AJ critcisms. AJ has caused so much damage to the truth movement and now he's mainstream but he has appeal because he speaks the candyland conspiracy theory. If you look from the outside, it looks like to me that we debat ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://news.sky.com/story/1006095/mps-e ... -suspended MPs' Expenses: Ex-Labour Minister Suspended Former Labour minister Denis MacShane is being suspended from the Commons over a string of false expenses claims running to thousands of pounds. The Committee on Standards and Priv ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    .......your claiming that the vedic source for the symbol and hence any thereof meaning occurs before the jew or even european pagan source. Qualify that, don't just state it. People like you give revisionism a bad name. Show me the source or your talking shit. Do you want me to hand you a kleen ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    mgt23 wrote: u are on a board where it is considered good practice to post a primary or in your case any source or shut the fuck up. You're quite funny...One of those lower life forms who thinks he is an internet intellect...Little twerps like you are bold when fingering your keyboard, and you ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy Shows Birth and D ...
    As the storm that was Hurricane Sandy weakened over Pennsylvania, NASA released a timelapse animation of the lifespan of the massive storm, tracking its path from NASAVIDEO: The path of Sandy the Caribbean, where it developed, to its violent landfall on the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. The ...
  • Photo Gallery: A Quest to Document The Earth’s ...
    Since 2007, photographer James Balog has deployed dozens of time-lapse cameras on four continents to chronicle one of the starkest examples of global warming — the rapid melting of the world’s glaciers. That project, known as the Extreme Ice Survey and carried out in collaboration wit ...
  • An Obsessive Quest to Document Earth’s Disappe ...
    For the past six years, photographer James Balog has deployed dozens of time-lapse cameras around the world to chronicle one of the starkest examples of global warming — melting glaciers. In a Yale Environment 360 interview, Balog talks about his passion to capture these vanishing landscapes.
  • In New York, Rising Threats of Flooding Have B ...
    While climate experts hesitate to say Hurricane Sandy was caused by climate change, scientists for years have predicted that such devastating events would become increasingly common as sea levels rise and ocean View Gallery MOMA Rising Currents: A 2010 exhibit showed visions of New York ad ...
  • How Fishing Gear is Killing Whales in the Nort ...
    Researchers have been documenting the deadly threat that fishing lines and ropes pose to large whales that become entangled in them. Now, new studies are pointing to another disturbing fact: the ensnared whales endure enormous pain and prolonged suffering. BY REBECCA KESSLER

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Time stands still on Amami Oshima
    We had already been on Amami Oshima for a week waiting for Typhoon No. 21 to pass. But the typhoon was meandering around the Pacific like a drunken sailor, zigzagging a path north-west, once making a U-turn then righting itself, and another time its path taking a complete pirouette. The typhoo ...
  • Electronics firms need to act fast
    If Japan's electronics giants, which again posted deep losses this week, want to beat Samsung, LG and Apple, they need to quickly overhaul their business strategies and carry out further cost cuts, analysts said Friday, but prospects appear bleak that true soul-searching will come anytime soon. ...
  • Regulators study disputed fault at Oi nuke plant
    The Nuclear Regulation Authority conducted a one-day investigation Friday at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture to check whether a disputed fault running underneath it should be viewed as active. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, Japan's only operating nuclear plant co ...
  • Libraries a magnet for school kids
    The number of books checked out by elementary school children from libraries nationwide reached a record average of 26 per child in fiscal 2010, the education ministry said. The increase from 18.8 per child in the previous survey in fiscal 2007 apparently reflects the trend of refraining from ...
  • Tokyo Marathon officially joins World Major Ma ...
    Next year's Tokyo Marathon will be a part of the World Marathon Majors made up of the top races around the world, it was announced Friday. Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose believes the Japanese capital's inclusion in the 6-year-old series will provide a boost to the city's bid to the stage the 2020 ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Welcome to the Wageless Recovery
    The Harper government likes to remind Canadians that we’ve done better than most developed nations in bouncing back from the global economic crisis. But digging into the data shows why many people might be having trouble cheering this news: wages have not kept pace with inflation, and new hires ...
  • Getting at the root causes of hunger in Atlant ...
    Food Banks Canada released its latest statistics on national food bank usage this week.  The data are assembled in a document titled HungerCount 2012.  Not only has food bank usage continued to increase, more and more users are working and more are families with children.  According to the repor ...
  • Will Frankenstorm put climate change back on t ...
    In recent years the world has experienced a sequence of climate-change-related disasters. Hurricane Sandy comes on top of massive drought through the summer that has led to 40% loss of American corn and other grain crops, raging wildfires in the southeast US, tornados and derechos, etc – and tha ...
  • Privatizing CMHC?
    In a recent interview with the Globe and Mail, Canadian Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty expressed worries about the financial burden laid on taxpayers by having the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) deal and trade mortgages. As a remedy, he suggests privatizing the federal Crown co ...
  • The Limits of Demography
    Here is a piece I wrote for today’s Globe Economy Lab re the Department of Finance report on the costs of an aging society. The key point is that the mainstream doom and gloom projections of the costs of falling labour force growth  ignore the positive impacts which can be expected as and when w ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Water Security Conflicts: A Regional Perspective
    “Water scarcity has received a lot of attention over the last three decades. It has been predicted to be the source of future wars and many experts have publicly warned about the dangers of water scarcity as the main factor for armed conflict in the Middle East and Africa.  Despite the pre ...
  • Fukushima Operators Struggle to Contain &#8216 ...
    “The plant currently holds 200,000 tonnes of highly contaminated waste water, used to cool the broken reactors, but operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, continues to struggle to find ways to store the toxic substance. TEPCO has said they are running out of room to build more storage tan ...
  • Pursuit of Desal Driving Santa Cruz Water Cost ...
    “Santa Cruz – Overlooked by local newspapers and area media outlets, USA TODAY last month published a unique study of residential water rates over the past 12 years for water agencies nationwide with immediate implications for Santa Cruz . The investigative report found that monthly ...
  • Questions Over China Dams
    “Some questions remain about whether hydro dams on the upper Mekong River in China exacerbated conditions during Cambodia’s devastating drought of 2010, environmental groups say, as China’s dam program powers ahead. When the first power-generating unit was switched on last month at China’s ...
  • Native Water Rights to Play Big Part in Arizon ...
    “Navajo and Hopi tribal leaders are still working on various fronts to salvage pieces of the Navajo Hopi Little Colorado River Water Right Settlement Act of 2012, with no clear path in sight. The proposal touched off reservation-wide protests at both tribes last spring, when it was introdu ...

D. Kucinich

  • FirstEnergy Incompetence Leaves 127,000 Reside ...
    Cleveland, OH (November 1, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement concerning FirstEnergy’s failure to return power to the people of Northeast Ohio. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that 127,000 area residents are still without power after FirstEnergy ...
  • Laws of Physics Won’t Wait for Laws from Congress
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement. When Congress returns he will introduce climate change legislation that will establish a target goal for carbon in the atmosphere of 350 parts per million. It is currently at 394 parts per million. See the video here. “ ...
  • Kucinich Demands EPA Suspend Chemical Devastat ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today addressed a rally organized by the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and Pesticide Action Network of North America where advocates urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) to take immediate action and suspend the use of a harmful pe ...
  • Consumers Demand Right To Know
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement calling for labeling laws to inform consumers which foods are genetically modified. A ballot initiative in California may soon give consumers in that state a chance to demand information.  Congressman Kucinich is the ...
  • A Considered Approach to Syria
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement citing an author writing for The New York Times who has spent time in Syria and opposes a military intervention. See video here. “A recent opinion editorial in The New York Times highlights the dangers of western interve ...

Authentically Wired

  • This is inevitably true
    … I rise to salute Rosemary Kist and the simple truth she so succinctly offers to us for our consideration … … There is honesty presented which is difficult to accept … … It reminds me of an adage attributed to Sir Isaac Newton … “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” [...]
  • COMPROMISE
    …Why should this come as any surprise as COMPROMISE is no longer part of any negotiating tool … today it’s my way or the highway… Filed under: Blogroll
  • why the need for secrecy
    … You have the right to support any political positions you choose … you do not have the right to hide your identity from us … why the need for secrecy …? California Judge: ‘dark money’ 501(c)(4) non-profit must disclose its donors to the Fair Political Practices Commission Filed und ...
  • I will not condone
    … I can assure you Mr. Robb … my outrage over anonymous political advertising propaganda is NOT selective … I detest all of it … any form of it … … I will defend with my last breath one’s right to have, hold and share any opinion … but to hide what one’s political beliefs [...]
  • FoxyNew$ proves deception works
    …FoxyNew$ proves deception works… How Fox News Created a New Culture of Idiots Aaron James, Random House Publishing Group… READ MORE» Cable news has created an entirely new breed of blowhards — and the style has infected banking and even the arts. Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant AP ...
    Over the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhou ...
  • Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
    A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
  • Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...
    A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
  • Chart: Forest loss in Latin America
    Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
  • Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragments
    When the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest, stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in rivers and giant ant ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Maths - yes, it can really cause you pain
    Being confronted with maths can cause some people physical pain, researchers have found.Researchers at the University of Chicago say fear of maths can activate regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical pain and...
  • Rob Brooks: Grandmothering makes for extra dec ...
    Our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, can last into their mid-40s in the wild. Yet somewhere in the past six million years, human lifespans have lengthened dramatically, so that living into our 70s is no big surprise.A recent...
  • Ross Sea deal leaves critics wanting more
    A compromise between the United States and New Zealand could create the world's largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea.But it has disappointed the Kiwi filmmaker of The Last Ocean.The joint proposal, agreed at the weekend...
  • Bright future for robots just like us
    Canterbury student Jakub Zlotowski says it will be several decades before robots will be capable of behaving as depicted in movies such as Blade Runner.New Zealand research has shown we see robots as more like ourselves than as...
  • SpaceX Dragon splashes down off US coast
    An unmanned space capsule carrying medical samples from the International Space Station has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, completing the first official private interstellar shipment under a billion-dollar contract with Nasa.The...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk avec un certain je ne sais quoi
  • Pink ribbon products… and GMOs
    From Raine Saunders, at Agriculture Society: “Before the clock runs out on this month’s breast cancer and GMO awareness, I’d like to point out some facts that may not be obvious to some consumers. No doubt you’ve seen the pink … Continue reading →
  • Editorial calls for compulsory flu shots for a ...
    From “Health workers should be required to get flu shots” in the Toronto Star: “Every year, as many as 8,000 Canadians die from the flu. Another 20,000 are hospitalized. They are often old or sick and are already in the … Continue reading →
  • Canada and European countries ban flu vaccine; ...
    From the Canadian Press, via Huffington Post Canada: TORONTO – Canada is following the lead of several European countries and suspending distribution of flu vaccine made by the pharmaceutical firm Novartis. The decision relates to the discovery by the company … Continue reading →
  • GMO kids right to know walk, Toronto
    From GMO News.com 13 Year old Rachel will lead a GMOs – Kids Right to Know Walk! 10 am on Saturday, Nov 3, Dundas Square (33 Dundas St. E.) to St. Lawrence Market (95 Front St.). Please join TV Host Julie Daniluk and Rachel, Kids, Families, Friends, … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Nonfarm Payrolls +171,000, Unemployment Rate 7 ...
    Initial Reaction and Election Impact The establishment report of +171,000 jobs was above what most expected. Hurricane Sandy had no effect. The BLS finished gathering stats before the hurricane hit. This report will likely be viewed as favorable for the president. On the surface, and i ...
  • Reflections on "Moral Choice" and Definition o ...
    California voters have some choices to make in the upcoming election. For example, Governor Brown says Californians Face ‘Moral Choice’ in Tax Vote California Governor Jerry Brown said voters face a “moral choice” on his ballot measure to raise taxes to avoid deep cuts to schools. “What w ...
  • "Deposit Wars" an Act of Desperation by Spanis ...
    Acts of Desperation Looking for the next major thing in Spain to blow sky high? I have a strong candidate in mind. Bank deposits are down 154 billion euros this year and banks have resorted to paying unsustainable interest rates as high as 8% to attract money. Via Google translat ...
  • What's "Really" Behind Gross Inequalities In I ...
    Here is the question of the day: What's Behind Gross Inequalities In Income Distribution? I ask the question after reading three incorrect answers in the article Inequality and the Second Gilded Age on the Real-World Economics Review Blog. Misguided Notions on Commodity Values Wr ...
  • ADP Grossly Overstates Job Growth for Last 12 ...
    ADP has announced revised methodology to "enhance" its monthly job reports, no doubt because its prior numbers simply were grossly inaccurate. Indeed, I stopped commenting on ADP numbers because I thought they were absurd. Let's take a look at their revised methodology. Here is the ADP ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Questions Surround Fatal MT Pratibha Cauvery G ...
    A tanker grounding in India turned fatal on Wednesday after a lifeboat capsized in heavy surf  and now many are wondering why the Coast Guard wasn’t listening? gCaptain reported Wednesday [...]
  • USCG Launches Formal Investigation into Bounty ...
    Rear Adm. Steven Ratti, the Coast Guard 5th District commander, ordered a district formal investigation Thursday to determine the cause of the sinking of the Tall Ship Bounty, the three-masted [...]
  • Zhejiang Shipbuilding Delivers New X-Bow PSV f ...
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  • Sec’y Napolitano Issues Jones Act Waiver to He ...
    US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has issued a Jones Act waiver to allow foreign-flagged ships from the Gulf of Mexico into ports in the US northeast in [...]
  • American Maritime Partnership Will Not Oppose ...
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Press TV

  • British MP suspended for fraud
    A member of Britain’s opposition Labour Party and an MP for Rotherham constituency has been suspended from the House of Commons following allegations of misusing expenses.
  • 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.
  • US unemployment rate continues to rise
    Official data released in the United States show that unemployment rate continues to rise in the country with the figure standing at 7.9 percent last month.
  • Iran becomes Turkey's 3rd trade partner
    Recent statistics show that the Islamic Republic of Iran was the third major trade partner of Turkey in the first three quarters of 2012.
  • Iran builds ceramics plant in Uzbekistan
    The Islamic Republic of Iran is planning to construct a ceramic tiles plant with an annual production capacity of two million square meters in Uzbekistan.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse



( The more things change the more they stay the same. Remember General Armstrong Custer who led his men to their deaths at Little Big Horn ? The disillusioned Civil War hero had put himself in bad odour in Washington for revealing the President's brother  was milking military procurement with shoddy goods and practices including bad food. The same thing happened on the Indian reserves later too BTW.  Does it happen today ? )

Qui tam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was marked by fraud on all levels, ... War II
while the government rushed to sign large military procurement contracts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Canadian procurement - Wikipedia

A wooden mock-up of the F-35 in Canadian Forces markings, 2010 ....
Undertaking sole-source deals leaves the procurement process more vulnerable
to fraud, ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II_Canadian_procurement

crime | Defense Procurement News

Feb 22, 2012 ... The issue of fraud, waste and abuse has been a constant in defense .... rather
than companies in the United States or Canada as required.
www.defenseprocurementnews.com/topics/events/crime/

Defense Contractor Fraud - False Claims Act

Healthcare Pharmaceutical Defense Contractor Energy Fraud Iraq
Reconstruction ... The overwhelming majority of this defense procurement is
done through contracts ... Moreover, delivering worthless or substandard
products or services can, ...
www.falseclaimsact.com/common_frauds_defense_contractor.php

Procurement Fraud: How Tech Insiders Cheat Their Employers

Jun 7, 2006 ... The scam? It's called procurement. Case #2: Canadian Department of National
Defence. The Target: The Department of National Defence ...
www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Past-News/Procurement-Fraud-How-Tech-Insiders-Cheat-Their-Employers/2/

Military procurement - CBC

Canada's Military. Military procurement. Last Updated June 22, 2006. CBC News.
For military buffs, all next week should be like Saturday morning at Canadian ...
www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdnmilitary/procurement.html

Defense Spending Fraud, Waste, and Abuse: Hype, Reality, and ...

Nov 20, 2008 ... Such proposals ignore the fact that eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse ....
Military personnel are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and can in
some ... This project characterizes the nature of defense procurement.
www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/11/defense-spending-fraud-waste-and-abuse-hype-reality-and-real-solutions
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