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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

21 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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SS United States (Photo credit: kchbrown)
Richard Warren, among 10 passengers in the lan...
Richard Warren, among 10 passengers in the landing party, when the Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod, November 11, 1620 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Français : La Conciergerie de nuit depuis la Samaritaine, Paris, Ile de France (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: The Eiffel Tower in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, Ile-de-France, France (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: View from Eiffel Tower, 7th arrondissement of Paris, Ile-de-France, France (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: Paris Marathon in Paris, Ile-de-France, France (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Fat cats have their cake & eat it too! The Zed 99 Dj really made it sound like the workers fault. Then again when you consider 90% of the news is distributed by the same outlet is it any wonder?
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Scoop - NZ

  • RE sales collapse in Paris, Ile de France ..
    2012 will remain a very bad year for real estate professionals. In this comprehensive figures on the property market in November 2012, discover the sharp decline in real estate sales in Paris and Ile-de-France, the figures very bad housing, the amount of sales that fall on the implementation upd ...
  • Quiggin: The End of the Tax Revolt
    Long after President Obama’s re-election was secure, another election day result came in, one that may be of comparable significance in the long run. By a 54-46 margin, Californian voters approved Proposition 30, which raises about $6 billion a year in additional income and sales taxes to pre ...
  • U.S. housing market: déjà vu
    I am of the opinion that everyone and their mother should be extra cautious when dabbling in real estate these days. Look around, and it’s clear we’ve been here before. And the results weren’t pretty the first time. For starters, the market is clearly kicking into a higher gear. Yes, the U.S. h ...
  • Thorburn: Housing & NZ's anomalous tax system
    Stopping just short of calling for the introduction of a capital gains tax, BNZ CEO Andrew Thorburn says Kiwis need to face up to the "fundamental anomalies" at the heart of their tax system in order to both encourage investment away from residential property and into job creating, productive bu ...
  • 1930s medicine, eurozone recession
    The eurozone has relapsed into double-dip recession as the austerity shock in the Mediterranean region spreads to the core countries of the north.

Independent - London

  • Obama points to greater activity for US in Mid ...
    Hamas says Gaza truce has been agreed, but Israel says no deal yetWrath of Gaza is felt by those accused of treasonWhile ceasefire talks gather pace, the death toll continues to riseCeasefire talks hit stalemate as death toll climbs to 144Rising animosity between Iraqis and Kurds raises risk of ...
  • Rising animosity between Iraqis and Kurds rais ...
    A shootout over an unpaid gasoline bill in this small but hotly contested town has sent tensions soaring between the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the northern region of Kurdistan, threatening to ignite the Arab-Kurdish conflict that many have long feared.Related StoriesHamas says Gaza truce ...
  • New Zealand volcano erupts
    A New Zealand volcano erupted with a brief blast of dark ash today, forcing the cancellation of flights but causing no significant damage. Schoolchildren and dozens of other hikers who were walking on trails along the mountain's base were safe. Related StoriesAustralian 'collar bomb' banker Pau ...
  • In great secrecy, India hangs last surviving M ...
    India executed the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai today, after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his plea for mercy. Related StoriesObama pushes economic counter to ChinaChristian girl accused of burning Koran is cleared of blasphemyKarzai orders takeover of air b ...
  • It's still mostly a man's world on Wall Street
    On the face of it, Marianne Lake's elevation to the top finance job at JP Morgan isn't simply a personal triumph for the 43-year-old finance head of the bank's consumer unit – it also marks another crack in Wall Street's rightly maligned glass ceiling that is blamed for holding back sharp finan ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Mars mystery: has Curiosity rover made a big d ...
    NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has apparently made a discovery "for the history books," but we'll have to wait a few weeks to learn what the new Red Planet find may be, media reports suggest. The discovery was made by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, NPR reported today (Nov. 20). SA ...
  • The Psychopath Leaders Are Going To Make It Ne ...
    If you have a farm or a small business, would you like to pass it on to your children when you die? Well, unless Congress does something, it is going to become much, much harder to do that starting next year. Right now, there is a 5 million dollar estate tax exemption and anything above that is ...
  • Volcano erupts on New Zealand's North Island
    Wellington - New Zealand's Mount Tongariro volcano erupted on Wednesday, sending a column of ash high into the atmosphere of the country's North Island, scientists said. The official GNS Science monitoring service issued a potential threat alert after the 1:25 p.m. (0025 GMT) eruption at the vo ...
  • Challenging Israel's myths
    A carefully cultivated mythology sustains Israel's territorial claims to Palestine and rationalizes Israel's ethnic cleansing of millions of Palestinians from the land. Challenges to those myths are typically met with fierce counterattacks. Soon after my Nov. 4 analysis, "In Defense of Richard ...
  • Spain health workers vent fury at austerity me ...
    Madrid -- Tens of thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and hospital staff marched through the capital Madrid on Sunday to denounce budget cuts and privatizations, the latest protest against deeply unpopular austerity measures. Dressed in white, the protesters chanted "Public health!" and "Healt ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Sacred words
    Shoah. Culture is a system of values, beliefs, norms, and narratives. Held in the minds of people it is the glue of shared identity and description. Never quite static and changing slowly over time, it forms the unique corpus of a society. Like a body it it can be infected with pathogens. So ...
  • Gaza ghastliness . . .
    SAD IRONY: children who were abused have a propensity to become abusers, and thus the misery proceeds into the future. Similarly, the survivors of the Holocaust have been working over the poor Palestinians in Gaza. The Israelis have been mendacious, to say the least, and today's web allows spin ...
  • Con v. Internet
    Oh, Conservatives! Threatening Teh Internet? Good luck with that. It's easy to understand why they're afraid of it though. It's bigger than them by (heh) googols, and stands in ideological opposition to them in form and function. The internet has allowed governments to topple and revolutions ...
  • Res Ipsa Loquitor
    Actual screen capture. To say anything further would be superfluous. (an actual crossposting from the actual Woodshed, actually.) Tweet
  • Only a Conservative...
    ...would find joy in putting large numbers of people out of work. "We said we would eliminate 19,200 positions within the federal government and we are doing what we promised to do. In just six months, we have already achieved more than half the reductions set out in the budget. A lean ...

Media Matters for America

  • Betsy McCaughey Returns To Fox To Misinform Ab ...
    Fox hosted serial health care misinformer Betsy McCaughey to push false and misleading claims about health care reform, following announcements from some Republican governors that they have decided not to create state-run health insurance exchanges.CLAIM: Health Insurance Subsidies Not Available ...
  • Daily Caller Gins Up Outrage Over Years-Old We ...
    The Daily Caller attempted to stoke anger about a Homeland Security Web page for new immigrants that provides information about government benefit programs, but buried at the end of its article the fact that the page was created in 2007. The Daily Caller also implied that immigrants abuse the U. ...
  • Fox News Attacks Obama's Defense Of Susan Rice
    Fox News figures attacked President Obama's defense of Ambassador Susan Rice during a press conference, claiming his statement that critics of Rice "should go after me" was "absurd and chauvinistic." Fox has a history of attacking Obama and Rice, most recently by invoking Libya smears in order t ...
  • Fox Ignores Hostess' Array Of Troubles To Scap ...
    Fox News placed the blame for the planned liquidation of Hostess Brands squarely on a labor dispute with one of the company's unions. In fact, Hostess' unions had previously made significant concessions when the company went through a failed bankruptcy, and Hostess had many problems beyond ...
  • Fox Attacks Infrastructure Spending
    Fox attacked infrastructure spending as a "a pat on the back" for labor unions after AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said that the federal deficit is not the primary short-term crisis. In fact, economists and studies say that government spending is needed to repair America's crumbling infrastru ...

Global Research.ca

  • UK Defence Select Committee to investigate use ...
    The Times is today reporting that the UK Defence Select Committee is to hold an inquiry into the use of armed drones: Members of the Commons Defence Select Committee are to investigate the deployment of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Afghanistan as part of a two-year inquiry into the u ...
  • The Limits of Israel’s “Muscularit ...
    The war on Gaza combines the characteristic drastic brutality towards Palestinians and Arabs that Israel periodically demonstrates with the lack of effectiveness in achieving its stated goals that those who follow and support the resistance have come to expect (especially since the 2006 war in L ...
  • The U.S. Role in Israel’s Attack on Gaza
    As Obama tours Southeast Asia to strengthen his alliances against China, Gazans are being killed and maimed by the hundreds, with the possibility of an incredibly bloody Israeli invasion. The United States still wields tremendous power internationally; its actions and inactions have direct conse ...
  • Council of Canadians Demands an End to Impunit ...
    The Council of Canadians is issuing a statement of solidarity as hundreds of protestors gather in front of the Canadian embassy in Mexico City (1 p.m. EST) to express their outrage at the growing death toll of community activists opposing Canadian mining in Mexico.…
  • National Syrian Dialogue Meeting concludes in ...
    The two-day meeting on Syria with the slogan of “Violence No, Democracy Yes” concluded in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Monday with the participants calling for a ceasefire and an end to the armed conflicts in the crisis- ridden country, local media reported.…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Why the War Against Fracking May Be Our Most C ...
    To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the  latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.  There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement.  It’s a secret war being ...
  • The Everyday Chemical That Makes Breast Cancer ...
    This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. Windsor, Ontario—For more than three decades, workers, most of them women, have complained of dreadful conditions in many of this city's plastic automotive parts factories: Pungent fumes and dust that caused noseble ...
  • Science for Hire: Why Industry's Deep Pockets ...
    This story first appeared on Public Trust Project.It’s sunset in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a time when the little town’s handful of shops board up for the night, and the lights click off at no fewer than six marine research institutes.But at the far end of the town, one blo ...
  • Disaster in the Gulf Again as Oil and Gas Rig ...
    Yesterday BP was charged with manslaughter for the 2010 Gulf disaster and today two workers on a Black Elk Energy oil and gas rig off the coast of Louisiana are dead after an explosion. NBC has reported that two more workers are missing and four others in critical condition were flown to a hos ...
  • BP To Pay Largest Criminal Fine In U.S. Histor ...
    BP has agreed to pay a historic $4.5 billion criminal fine over a six-year period, after pleading guilty to 11 felony counts and criminal charges for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers. After two years, the litigation is not yet over since BP faces damages fro ...

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • NASA teases 'historic' Mars discovery
    Curiosity's chief scientist John Grotzinger has described the find as 'one for the history books'. So far very little has been revealed about whatever...
  • Does the full moon cause madness ?
    According to a new study conducted by a group of psychologists in Canada, no, it does not. The full moon has often been associated with an increase in...
  • Officials puzzled by dolphin deaths
    Dolphins have been washing up along the northern Gulf Coast with bullet wounds and mutilations. Officials are currently investigating the discovery of...
  • Villagers attacked by mysterious creature
    An unidentified animal has been attributed with multiple attacks on villagers in remote Indonesia. 75-year-old farmer Aris Kuna was working in his gar...
  • Scientists develop new 'white noise' smell
    The fascinating new odor known as 'olfactory white' can only be experienced inside the laboratory. In a similar way to which white noise is a mixture ...

Grassroots

  • Gaza’s Civilians under Attack
    20-11-3.jpg The toll Operation Pillar of Defense (Pillar of Cloud in Hebrew) is taking on Gaza’s population is unimaginable to most Americans, but Twitter is changing that. As information flows from Gaza City, Beit Hanoun, and Khan Younis t ...
  • Message from Raji Sourani, Director of the Pal ...
    19-11-1.jpg Operation Pillar of Defense (Pillar of Cloud in Hebrew) is once again destroying Gaza missile by missile, building by building. Our partner Raji Sourani, the director of Palestinian Center for Human Rights, sees history repeatin ...
  • Grassroots International Condemns Violence in ...
    gaza-bombing2012.jpg Once again, the steady violence that passes for “normal” in Palestine and Israel has escalated to alarming proportions. After months of rocket exchanges between militants in Gaza and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), th ...
  • Communities Stand with those Impacted by Hurri ...
    cja_in_detroit_sept_2012.jpg Last week, a broad group of organizations involved in a Climate Justice Alignment process in the US released the statement below, in solidarity with communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy in the Caribbean and t ...
  • First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Peas ...
    seeds-mali.jpg Members of the Via Campesina gathered in Thailand to discuss, strategize and coordinate about one of the mainstays of farmers across the globe: Seeds.read more

Climate

  • EU Emissions Trading Scheme 'Used to Subsidize ...
    (Guardian) Some of the companies that have complained loudest about the European Union's environmental measures are using the EU's emissions trading scheme (ETS) to give money to rivals in other countries instead of cutting their own g ...
  • China Grabs Share in Latin America Wind With C ...
    (Bloomberg) Chinese wind-turbine makers have broken into the South American market, the world’s fastest- growing, by offering government-backed loans at interest rates as much as 50 percent lower than local offerings. The package deal ...
  • DESERTEC Solar Power Chief Denies Crisis
    (Guardian) Reports of turmoil in a futuristic plan to generate 15% of Europe's energy from Saharan solar power have been stoutly denied by the chief executive of the Desertec initiative, Paul van Son.  The Desertec alliance of co ...
  • Solar Companies Seek Ways to Build an Oasis of ...
    (New York Times) When Hurricane Sandy wiped out the power in areas like coastal Long Island and the Jersey Shore, what should have been beacons of hope — hundreds of solar panels glinting from residential rooftops — became symbols of f ...
  • Fracking Regulations Back on the Agenda in Ill ...
    (Midwest Energy News) The debate over hydraulic fracturing regulation in Illinois will return to the front burner in coming weeks. Fracking regulations will likely be discussed by state legislators either during a six-day veto session ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Winning Back the House
    What I've done is looked through all 435 elections for the House of Representatives and identified all the races the Republicans won by less than 30,000 votes. I hope I missed one or two, but I came up with only 34 districts that fit my criteria of potentially winnable Republican-held seats. T ...
  • Serious Question
    Now that Allen West and Joe Walsh are no longer in Congress, who tops your list for most annoying? Discuss
  • Casual Observation
    I have never been tested for HIV, mainly because I never had any reason to suspect I had the virus. But, reading this, I guess I have to admit to myself that I wouldn't have wanted to give the impression that I engaged in the types of high-risk behaviors associated with HIV/AIDs. Still, if my ...
  • So, That's How Profits are Made in Media
    Now I know what I am doing wrong: Unlike some of his colleagues in the conservative press, [Tucker] Carlson showed no hint of regret at his site's performance, citing record traffic, and crediting Obama's first term with making the company profitable. In fact, he said he founded The Daily Ca ...
  • Sabotaging ObamaCare
    There are still at least two ways for conservatives to fight the implementation of ObamaCare. Thanks to the stupid ideological ruling of the Supreme Court, the states don't have to accept federal money and expand Medicaid. They can just let their poor suffer. The states can also refuse to set ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Bull Jumping and Whipping Rituals of Ethio ...
    In the ancient Omo Valley of Ethiopia, Hamer tribespeople converge for an initiation ceremony that will see women whipped and a boy leap over a line of cattle! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    Courageous journalists, stolen inventions, genius programmers and seriously heavy people are just some of the fascinating topics covered in the articles linked to here. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Treading the Tunnels of an Abandoned Mine in Wales
    Long, dark tunnels and deep pools of still water await in this abandoned mine in Wales. The perfect expedition for a brave explorer. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Forsaken People of Japan's Largest Slum
    When most of us picture Osaka, we imagine a prosperous modern city of neon lights and gleaming skyscrapers, yet hidden in their shadow lies another, darker world. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Urine 'Bio-Fences' Could Save African Wild ...
    Find out how researchers and conservationists are using an innovative new method to protect the critically endangered African wild dogs... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • Grand Central NYC Freezes to Support Gaza & Br ...
    Grand Central Memorial for Gaza Victims of Israeli Missiles - Monday November 26 Meet up at 5 pm at the NW corner of Lexington and 42nd St.  Enter Grand Central at 5:30 pm Wear black.  Head scarves encouraged. Details at the Meet-Up. The freeze will highlight a "surgical" Israeli mis ...
  • Is the TSA killing us?
    A column by Charles Kenny has been reposted all over the web. read more
  • We're All Gazans Now
      We're All Gazans Now   by Stephen Lendman   The whole world's watching. Growing millions know. Israel’s a rogue terror state. It's amoral, brutish, and ruthless. Arabs are murdered for not being Jews.    Gazans suffer most of all. Israel's been terror-bombing them dail ...
  • Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 7
      Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 7   by Stephen Lendman   When will Israel decide enough's enough? When will enough dead Palestinian men, women, children, infants, and elderly satisfy Netanyahu's blood lust? He'll have to explain.   Death and injury totals keep rising. Perhaps h ...
  • Syria News - Nov 21
      Dozens die as Kurds, rebels clash in northern Syria: NGO - Ahram Online Syrian Rebel Commanders Killed in Clashes with Kurdish Fighters - Rudaw Inter-Kurdish tensions mounting against Free Syrian Army - ekurd VIDEO: FSA Going Door To Door in Ras Al Ain - YouTube Syria Kurdish leader rejec ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Banker Nation’s, Thug-life Brutalization ...
    By Visible The collective stink of greed, money and blood, is stupefying. I do not enjoy the smell of this toxic waste, burning in the morning. It should be clear to anyone, who deserves to live past this day, that it is of signal importance to control the information media, if mass murder and r ...
  • Israeli minister vows Palestinian ‘holoc ...
    By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem 2:25PM GMT 29 Feb 2008 A senior Israeli politician provoked controversy today when he warned that Palestinians firing rockets from Gaza would be punished with a “bigger holocaust” from Israeli armed forces. The use of the Hebrew word for holocaust, “ ...
  • Why bankers rule the world
    By Ellen Brown In the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released this month, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35% to 40% of everything we buy goes to interest. This interest goes to bankers, financiers, and bondholders, who take a 35% to 40% cut of our gross domestic product. That hel ...
  • The Trained Observer in the Horse Latitudes
    By Visible Much of the quality of our lives, depends on our information flow; the sort of information and where it comes from. Generally, people rely on sources outside themselves, to confirm or refute what they are picking up on, or not picking up on. This makes all the difference in how we fee ...
  • Quote of the Day…YOU Take my water…
    YOU Take my water Burn my olive trees Destroy my house Take my job Steal my land Imprison my father Kill my mother Starve us all Humiliate us all BUT I am to blame: I shot a rocket back… Anonymous

Global Insights

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

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

Inhabitat

  • Tankstelle Bülowstrasse is a Renovated Gas Sta ...
    Read the rest of Tankstelle Bülowstrasse is a Renovated Gas Station Turned Art Studio in Berlin Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", adaptive reuse, art gallery, artist in residence, berlin, gas station, gas station Bülowstrasse, gas station reno ...
  • 21 of China’s Quirkiest, Craziest and Mo ...
    Read the rest of 21 of China’s Quirkiest, Craziest and Most Fantastical Buildings Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 163.com, big construction, bold architecture, china architecture, chinese design, crazy architecture, crazy chinese architecture, Crazy Chinese Build ...
  • Six Yummy Organic Pumpkin Recipes You Can Make ...
    Read the rest of Six Yummy Organic Pumpkin Recipes You Can Make for Thanksgiving! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: DIY, fall recipes, organic recipes, pumpkin, pumpkin butter, pumpkin pasta sauce, pumpkin pudding, pumpkin recipes for fall, pumpkin recipes organic, pumpk ...
  • The DROP Eco-Hotel is a Portable Prefab Pod Ho ...
    The DROP Eco-Hotel is an ultra-mobile prefab dwelling developed by In-Tenta for a contest organized by Urban Square, O-Cults, and Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. The mobile hotel room draws inspiration from organic shapes found in nature, and it can be installed on a variety of terrains. ...
  • Foldable Cuts’ Greeting Cards Can Be Ass ...
    Foldable Cuts has created a line of greetings that can be turned into a keepsake and shown off. Their range of DIY boat cards consists of designs that can be cut out in pieces and re-assembled into a cute miniature boats. Currently their collection includes a dingy, a sail boat, a cargo ship, a ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Curiosity Rover’s Secret Historic Breakthrough ...
    Much of the internet is buzzing over "big news" from NASA's Curiosity rover but, as yet, scientists are keeping quiet about the exact details of such an announcement.
  • First Impressions: The Science of Meeting People
    A strong handshake and assertive greeting may not be the best way to make a good first impression. New research suggests that people respond more positively to someone who comes across as trustworthy rather than confident. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy explains why.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Galactic ...
    ESA’s Planck space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space.
  • Chemists Concoct the ‘White Noise’ of Smell
    If you play sounds of many different frequencies at the same time, they combine to produce neutral "white noise." Neuroscientists say they have created an analogous generic scent by blending odors.
  • How Biopharmaceuticals Can Help Fix the Softwa ...
    Translation initiation codons are quite important because they signal the beginning of the actual protein-coding region within a DNA sequence. So though the idea of using algorithmic analysis to find such codons is appealing, the examiner rejected this patent for failing to describe the details ...

PakAlert

  • Puppet State America
    The United States government and its subject peoples think of the US as “the world’s only superpower.” But how is a country a superpower when its entire government and a majority of the subjects, especially those members of evangelical churches, grovel at the feet of the Israeli Prime Minister? ...
  • NASA Changing Space-Time With Vortex Energy Blasts
    A researcher into strange atmospheric phenomenon has gathered evidence that the American space agency NASA is conducting incredible experiments—perhaps in conjunction with mysterious HAARP activities. He believes that scientists have found a way to punch holes into spacetime
  • 29 Signs That The Elite Are Transforming Socie ...
    The elite want to tightly control almost everything that we do, say and think. When most people think of "tyranny", they think of thugs with guns and little dictators running around barking orders at everyone. But that is not how the elite are accomplishing their goals these days. They want u ...
  • California is Destroying Itself. The U.S. is Next.
    There’s a very entertaining, but terrifying book by Laer Pearce, “Crazifornia: Tales from the Tarnished State—How California is destroying itself and Why It Matters to America.” I recommend everyone read it because it lays out the template for why California will go belly up and why the nation i ...
  • Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail ...
    Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans' e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files. A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, givin ...

Andy Worthington

  • Development and Decay: Photos of Commercial Ro ...
    Development and Decay: Commercial Road in Stepney and Limehouse, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, this is the 59th photo set I have posted, and the last of three photo sets recording a journey I made along Commercial Road, in the East End, ...
  • The Banality of Evil: How the US Killed an Inn ...
    Now that the all-consuming, and insanely expensive Presidential election is over for another four years, President Obama’s in-tray still contains Guantánamo, where, of the 166 men still held, 86 were cleared for release by the Guantánamo Review Task Force. Consisting of officials from the ...
  • Ex-Children’s Minister Sarah Teather Con ...
    Hurrah for Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat MP for Brent Central, and the minister for children and families in the Tory-led coalition government until September, when she was sacked. I was sorry to see Sarah under the yoke of this hideous government, because she clearly had more humanity tha ...
  • Photos of Shadwell: School, Street Art, Studio ...
    Shadwell: School, Street Art, Studios and Railway Bridges, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, I’m currently posting five sets of photos of a journey I made on a hot, sunny day in July, when I travelled from my home in Brockley, south e ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Need to Close G ...
    Yesterday, I was delighted to talk to Michael Slate on his long-standing progressive show, on KPFK in Los Angeles, about Guantánamo past, present and future. The show is here, as an MP3, and our interview lasts for around 20 minutes. If you have the time, I hope you can listen to the show. Micha ...

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

SPL Center

  • NYPD Investigating Hate as Possible Motive in ...
    Hate crime detectives in New York City are joining the investigation into three unsolved killings of Brooklyn business owners in the past four months – crimes believed to have been carried out by a serial killer. All three victims were shot with the same .22 caliber handgun, all three were immig ...
  • Eleventh Person Charged in Fort Stewart Militi ...
    As the investigation continues into a murderous Georgia-based militia group led by American military personnel who were plotting to overthrow the federal government, a former Navy recruit has become the 11th person charged in the case that includes allegations of burglaries and car break-ins to ...
  • Radical Right Joins in Secession Frenzy
    Hundreds of thousands of disgruntled conservatives, still smarting from the re-election of President Obama last week, are signing petitions to allow more than 30 states to secede from the United States — and they are being joined by a motley collection of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Klan s ...
  • Racist Former SCV Leader Gets 19 Years in $57 ...
    A man who was once seen as a genteel Southerner defending the “honor” of the Confederacy but who secretly lived lavishly on other people’s money now faces the next 19 years in a federal prison cell — possibly in solitary confinement. The first jolt for 65-year-old Ron Wilson — former national le ...
  • Indictment Deals ‘Devastating Blow’ to Aryan B ...
    In one of the largest racketeering cases brought this year, the U.S. Department of Justice has just unsealed a 43-page indictment of 34 members of a “violent, whites-only prison-based gang with thousands of members operating” in and out of prisons throughout Texas and elsewhere. The Aryan Brothe ...

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  • Homeland Security Wants to More Than Double I ...
    Despite renewed criticism from both parties in Congress that domestic drones pose a privacy danger to US citizens—and a report from its own Inspector General
  • NJ GOP's Failed Attempt to Block Minimum Wage Bill
    New Jersey Republicans attempted to sideline a new proposal to raise the minimum wage to $8.50 from $7.25 an hour and provide annual cost-of-living increases. The Budget Committee in the Democratically controlled House advanced the bill by a 7-6 vote, and the Senate is expected to deliver final ...
  • Harvard Students Vote to Divest From Fossil Fuels
    Harvard University students overwhelmingly voted in support of divesting from fossil fuels on Friday, an act that adds the university to a nascent but growing movement modeled after the  anti-apartheid divestment campaigns of the 80s. ...
  • US Joins with Iran, N. Korea, Syria in Opposin ...
    The US on Monday once again voted down a resolution at the UN calling for an international moratorium on the death penalty. In doing so, the US joined nations it often critcizes as human rights "outliers" like Iran, North Korea, Syria and China in opposition to a growing global trend a ...
  • New Report Ranks States in Efforts to Reduce O ...
    There is much work to be done, state by state, in order to ween American off of its fossil fuel addiction; however, there is a noticeable difference in fossil fuel dependence between states that actively produce clean energy initiatives versus states who don't, according to a new report by N ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Get Rid of a Virus (Even When Your Comp ...
    So you've contracted a virus that's taken over your computer, and you can't even boot up to try and troubleshoot the problem. The solution: Create a rescue CD, boot into a safe environment, and rid your PC of any nefarious software while it sleeps. Here's how to do it with minimal effort. ...
  • Best Deal Site?
    The holiday shopping season is about to kick off, and now's the time to start thinking about how you can get everyone on your list something great without going broke in the process. You're a smart shopper, so you probably have plenty of deal sites you use to get he best bang for your buck ...
  • Remains of the Day: Nokia's iOS Maps Leave a L ...
    Nokia releases its new maps app for iOS, some Android users get 50GB of free cloud space, Skype starts selling gift cards, and Facebook tests instant photo uploads. More »
  • "Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Noth ...
    French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery is a great reminder that often, less is more. Whether you're a designer, writer, or anything else, many of us tend toward too much detail when we should be erring on the side of simplicity. The more cruft you can cut, the more efficient you can be in ...
  • You can't really learn a new language quickly, ...
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even ...

Water Privatization

  • Water Industry Outlook: 'The Time Is Ripe& ...
    The privatization of the nation's water industry is set to explode in the next five years, according to the findings of a recent survey. WeiserMazars LLP, a New York-based tax and advisory services firm, detailed the findings in its first annual U.S. Water Industry Outlook (pdf), in which pr ...
  • U.S. Water Industry Expects Significant Consol ...
    WeiserMazars LLP, a leading accounting, tax and advisory services firm, recently announced the release of its first annual U.S. Water Industry Outlook survey. Participants were asked to predict the future of the industry over the next three to five years - 71% of respondents expect significant c ...
  • John Boyle: Water merger on fast track?
    What we have here is some fast-moving water. In the coming weeks and months, expect to hear a lot about the proposed merger of Asheville’s Water Resources Department and the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County.
  • Drilon supports privatization of MIWD
    SENATOR Franklin M. Drilon is supporting the move of Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog to start the ball rolling for the privatization of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD). Admitting to bite the bullet when the time comes for drastic...
  • Panel talk, film on prison privatization postponed
    EXETER — A panel discussion and film about the possible privatization of New Hampshire prisons set for Wednesday, Nov. 14, was rescheduled.

Guardian

  • Students stage mass protest in London
    10,000 expected to demonstrate against youth unemployment, rises in tuition fees and other financial burdens facing studentsAround 10,000 demonstrators are expected to take part in a mass protest in London on Wednesday to express anger at the financial and other burdens facing students.Demo 2012 ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Anger in Greece as debt ...
    Greece's prime minister says there is no justification for the eurozone finance ministers' failing to agree a deal on its bailout in overnight talksGraeme Wearden
  • Labour refuses to make guarantee to reverse co ...
    Jim Murphy to set out the 'four pillars' of Labour's defence programme in speech to thinktankThe Labour party will warn on Wednesday that it can offer no guarantees that it will be able to reverse any of the coalition's defence cuts in light of Britain's tight public finances.In what is describe ...
  • Mumbai attacker hanged by India
    Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, who was the only perpetrator to survive, is first person executed in India since 2004India has hanged Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the only militant to have survived the 2008 attacks on the financial centre Mumbai, the country's home ministry has said.In August, India's supreme co ...
  • 45 children a day at risk from sexual exploita ...
    Local authorities, police and healthcare professionals ignoring warning signs displayed by those at risk, says interim reportAs many as 45 children a day are at risk of rape, violence and sexual exploitation at the hands of gangs who prey on their vulnerability, according to the biggest study of ...

McClatchey

  • U.S. warns Bahrain’s society ‘co ...
    The strategic Persian Gulf island of Bahrain, scene of continuing protests since early last year by the majority Shiite Muslims against the Sunni minority monarchy, is on the verge of…Click to Continue »
  • Fall of Goma in eastern Congo raises fears of ...
    The Congolese army fled and United Nations peacekeepers watched paralyzed as Rwandan-linked rebels wrapped up a stunning five-day offensive Tuesday by strolling into one of the Democratic Republic of Congo?s…Click to Continue »
  • The biggest challenge to immigration bill may ...
    As immigration talks resume, the public debate has once again zeroed in on the merits of granting some type of so-called amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants. But another, more…Click to Continue »
  • Insurers’ duties under health care law ...
    The nation?s health care overhaul took another step forward Tuesday when the Obama administration proposed new rules that clarify insurers? duties and legal responsibilities under key provisions of the Affordable…Click to Continue »
  • Obama returns from Asia, his ‘pivot&#x2 ...
    Welcomed by U.S. friend Thailand and greeted with rock star status during a historic visit to Myanmar, President Barack Obama felt the love on much of his three-nation tour of…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghanistan urged to halt executions
    The Afghan government should end its sudden surge of executions and institute a moratorium on further executions, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. On Nov 20, the Afghan government executed eight ...
  • Man’s best friend takes on Afghanistan’s enemy
    As NATO forces gear up to withdraw, Afghans are preparing to counter one of their deadliest enemies using man's best friend: dogs. At the Mine Detection and Dogs Centre (MDC) a few kilometers ...
  • Pakistani Taliban shocked over execution of Mu ...
    The Pakistani Taliban has expressed "shock" over Wednesday's execution of Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of a militant squad that killed 166 people in a rampage across India's financial capital ...
  • Afghanistan should halt executions says Human ...
    Afghanistan should end its sudden surge of executions and institute a moratorium on further executions, Human Rights Watch said today. The weakness of the Afghan legal system and the routine ...
  • Taliban suicide attack kills two in Kabul
    AFP © A destroyed vehicle is pictured at the scene of a suicide attack in Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul on November 21, 2012. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a NATO base in ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Why Was It Poland That Led The European Revolt ...
    In retrospect, it is now clear that the pivotal moment in the campaign against ACTA was last January, when thousands of people took to the streets in Poland despite the sub-zero temperatures there. A few weeks later, similar protests took place across the continent, especially in Eastern Europe ...
  • Newly Independent Band To Fans: Don't Just Rem ...
    At this point, bands releasing stems and asking fans to remix their work is old hat. We've seen it done a bunch over the years, and it's pretty common. But Darren Hemmings alerts us to a cool variation on that done by the UK band Chapel Club. Earlier this year, Chapel Club "parted ways" with ...
  • DailyDirt: Exploring Our Solar System
    Our solar system is a pretty big place, and we haven't really seen that much of it. But as we send out more and more probes and get fancier telescopes, we're learning about a ton of interesting phenomena that occur beyond our own planet. Here are just a few fascinating factoids and links on how ...
  • US Patent Boss Completely Clueless: Insists Th ...
    Last week, there was a fascinating full day conference on ways to fix the patent system. There was a lot to digest, and I've been working on a much longer post about it, which I may not finish until next week. Someone from the USPTO was in attendance, and at one point stated that director Davi ...
  • Stuxnet's Infection Of Chevron Shows Why 'Weap ...
    The Stuxnet worm that attacked an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility a couple of years ago was exceptional from several viewpoints. It is believed to have been the costliest development effort in malware history, involving dozens of engineers. It also made use of an unprecedented number of z ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The safer Israel is, the more dangerous it becomes
    When it’s the season for Israelis to slaughter Palestinians, Barack Obama likes to go on vacation. In 2009, as Israel rained down bombs and missiles on Gaza, the president-elect relaxed on the beaches and played golf in Hawaii. This time the Nobel Peace Prize winner has found time for reju ...
  • The sounds in Gaza City
    Wasseem El Sarraj writes: The bombing started on al-Hijriyah (the first day of the Muslim New Year); I was off of work because of the associated national holidays and was looking forward to a four-day long weekend. I have since spent those four days trapped in my home, in Remal, Gaza, an affluen ...
  • When will the economic blockade of Gaza end?
    Robert Wright writes: President Obama and Bibi Netanyahu are on the same page when it comes to the justification for Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Netanyahu: “No country in the world would agree to a situation in which its population lives under a constant missile threat.” Obam ...
  • Hamas and the need for Palestinian unity
    Nathan Brown writes: Hamas has always boasted of its pragmatism. It continues to claim to be a “wasati” movement — the term means “centrist” and is used by Islamists who want to communicate their responsiveness to the interests of the public rather than their devotion to the strictest vers ...
  • Video: Not everyone in Israel supports war

Watts Up With That?

  • Another climate sticky wicket – ‘c ...
    From the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies  where if you can get past the headline, this is notable: “We found that global climate models omit factors critical to understanding forest response, such as hydrology, soil conditions, and plant-animal interactions.” Point … Contin ...
  • Myths and Facts about Global Warming
    From Friends of Science. Be sure to visit their page and bookmark it. COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING MYTH 1:  Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate. FACT:  The HadCRUT3 surface temperature index shows warming to 1878, cooling … Continue reading →
  • Chris Horner responds to the EPA statement tod ...
    Earlier today I posted this story linking to the IBD editorial: Is the EPA running a black-ops program? I got this direct email statement from the EPA, to which Horner responds. This email was sent directly to me this morning, my … Continue reading →
  • Another indicator that climate is falling off ...
    I suppose if the CIA doesn’t think enough of it to keep their center going, climate isn’t as much of a security problem as the NYT once claimed. I wonder what the pols and military guys on this list think … Continue reading →
  • First WUWT.TV video now online – Senator ...
    It has been a bit of a rough couple of days following the debut of WUWT-TV last week. At first, I couldn’t get any of the videos to play on other systems, and it was then I realized that the … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

  • CFACT takes on UN climate summit in Qatar
    CFACT is headed to the Arabian Peninsula -- to Doha, Qatar, for COP18, the UN Conference on Climate Change. The Obama administration is set to begin its first major UN climate negotiation since reelection. EPA already has crippling regulations lined up and ready to go to give the UN's climate ...
  • Time to end tax credits for wind energy
    MARITA NOON Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) ... said the nation’s fiscal situation has become so dire that the government can no longer afford to maintain a wind power production credit that has been in place since 1992: “I think there is certainly the largest realization that we have ever had t ...
  • Governor Moonbeam: Pay up on warming or find ...
    California Governor Jerry Brown warns us to address global warming or prepare to live on "another planet." No, this is no spoof – just the latest prattle from California’s unconventional Governor affectionately known as “Moonbeam.”
  • Munich climate conference to debunk myths on e ...
    Join CFACT Europe at the EIKE climate conference in Munich, Germany, November 30th and December 1st, 2012. Discuss climate science and policy with scientists, scholars and policy experts as they gather just days before the UN climate summit in Qatar.
  • Lord Monckton exposes Al Gore’s “d ...
    WATCH NOW! Lord Monckton expose Al Gore's "extreme weather" propaganda

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • What We’re Reading: HIGH STEAKS Strikes at Hea ...
    In High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat, author Eleanor Boyle addresses these reasons and many more for why America should steer away from industrial meat production in both its policy priorities and consumption habits.
  • Improved Agriculture—It’s About Energy, Soil, ...
    How can farms become more resilient? Self-sufficient? Energy-efficient? The answer to all these questions is “ecological agriculture.”
  • FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...
    Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
  • Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...
    If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
  • Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...
    Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.

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My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Report: French officials accuse US of hacking ...
    ShareThisReport: French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy's computers 20 Nov 2012 The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyberwarfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l'Express. The magazi ...
  • Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy
    ShareThisWhy Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy 15 Nov 2012 After Hurricane Sandy, survivors needed, in addition to safety and power, the ability to communicate. Yet in parts of New York City, mobile communications services were knocked out for days. The problem? The companies that prov ...
  • Faster than NATO, France ends Afghan combat role
    ShareThisFaster than NATO, France ends Afghan combat role 20 Nov 2012 France on Tuesday ended its combat operations in Afghanistan, pulling hundreds of troops from a base in a volatile region northeast of Kabul and fulfilling promises to end its combat role on a faster track than other NATO a ...
  • Fort Bragg officials investigate body found on ...
    ShareThisFort Bragg officials investigate body found on post 20 Nov 2012 Officials are investigating reports of a remains found on post in a remote area of Fort Bragg. The Army's Criminal Investigation Command has now removed the remains which were found in the Eastern Training Area. Due to thei ...
  • For Bragg officials investigate body found on post
    ShareThisFor Bragg officials investigate body found on post 20 Nov 2012 Officials are investigating reports of a remains found on post in a remote area of Fort Bragg. The Army's Criminal Investigation Command has now removed the remains which were found in the Eastern Training Area. Due to their ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Taliban Email Distribution List
    18 November 2012 Recently the Taliban accidentally made public its entire (apparently) distro list during an email accident: From ABC: In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference. He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on ...
  • Petraeus Stoning Sentence Handed Down by Elders
    18 November 2012 Petraeus and the Woman Broadwell to be Stoned on the White House Lawn Uproar over Stone Auction: first Stone bid reaches $1 million (A Humorless, gonzo parody.) The Nine Wise Elders convened for tea to discuss the fates of the woman Paula Broadwell and General (ret.) David ...
  • The U.S. Can’t Afford Not to Lead
    15 November 2012 Written by: Paul Wolfowitz Paul Wolfowitz, a former president of the World Bank and former deputy secretary of Defense, is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. President Obama may believe he can abandon “nation-building abroad” to focus on “nation-building at home ...
  • Keeping Promises
    15 November 2012 [Admin note from Michael Yon: I knew David from the surge in Iraq in 2007.  David is the man who interpreted from Arabic to English the horrific accounts of children being baked by al Qaeda: I can confirm from being there with him that David saw much combat in Iraq.] A ...
  • Soldiers using sunlight to improve combat capa ...
    14 November 2012 SunDial Solar Generators: A SunDial 28.2-kilowatt solar generator is in use in Afghanistan. In addition to being used by Special Forces Soldiers in Afghanistan, these systems have been deployed for oil companies, railroads, mining companies and a number of non-governmental... ...

The Killing Train

  • Pillar of Defense Deaths until November 18
    A map of deaths from Israel's Pillar of Defense operation, inspired by the UK Guardian's map of "incidents". I added a timeline and removed anything that didn't result in deaths, on the basis that war is mainly a collection of deaths, and not a collection of "incidents". The geographical informa ...
  • One less reader
    Writing political books about, for example, Haiti, means knowing that every reader who gets the book is a victory. Consequently, having one less reader get the book is a serious matter. I tried to send my book to Alex Hundert, a G20 defendant who is currently locked up in Penatanguishene. I was ...
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship: Video of Book Launch ...
    This talk was recorded on November 15, 2012 at Concordia University in Montreal.
  • An attack on Dr. Mukwege
    Gunmen came to Dr.Mukwege's house in Bukavu, killed his security guard, and almost killed him. Here is a profile I wrote of Mukwege in 2009 for The Progressive Magazine. Here is the press release from PMU.
  • The Latest Colombian Peace Process
    Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has reinitiated a dialogue with the FARC. Talks began in Oslo and will continue in Havana. The Colombian government suspended orders to capture the 29 members of FARC's negotiating team as long as the negotiations take place, but have warned that they will ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Hundreds protest against Burma copper mine
    Hundreds of Burmese villagers, students and monks have joined protests at a Chinese co-owned copper mine which they allege has forced people off their land and polluted the area, activists said on Tuesday.
  • Burmese ministries ordered to repay missing cash
    Burma's president has ordered more than a dozen ministries to repay tens of thousands of dollars "embezzled" by staff, in a rare public move to tackle graft.
  • “Elements are ripe for radicalisation&#8 ...
    The Secretary-General of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations warned that the conflict in eastern Burma could destabilise the region if it isn’t handled correctly.
  • Investment, discretion and Burma’s future econ ...
    The Foreign Investment Law’s greatest drawback is not the restrictions, but the lack of clarity on many important issues, which are either left to the discretion of the MIC or the rules and regulations of the ministries.
  • Obama speaks at Rangoon University
    President Obama gave a speech to a crowded Convocation Hall at Rangoon University. He lauded the country's ongoing reform process, addressed the recent unrest in Arakan state and ceasefires with ethnic groups.

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Jurist - Legal Research

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Birth Pangs of a New Mideast Ceasefire
    Day 8: Gaza death toll 140 Palestinian dead, 1,000 wounded.  5 Israeli dead. In the title, I deliberately echoed Condi Rice’s infamous saying from the last Lebanon war, in which she offered Israel free rein to reshape Lebanon in its image (an attempt that failed miserably and left Hezbolla ...
  • Crisis in Gaza: End the Assault, End the Siege
    On Sunday, November 25th here in Seattle, a group of community peace activists are joining together to host Crisis in Gaza: End the Violence, End the Siege (see poster graphic).  It will be held at University Temple United Methodist Church (corner of 43rd and 15th Avenue across from the UW Law S ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire Consensus Developing
    Day 7: Palestinian death toll, 111 killed, 840 injured. The Palestine Committee for Human Rights has determined 60 of those killed were women or children or men over 50 (hence not participating in armed struggle).  Well over half of the dead whose identity is known were civilians. The Irish Time ...
  • Barack Obama: Dying to Give a Damn
    Day 6: 81 Palestinians killed, 720 wounded. The title of this post is harsh.  But the one I first considered was even more so: “Barack Obama, go to Hell.”  I am so glad I didn’t vote for this man for president.  At the time I cast my vote I did it thinking I was doing [...]
  • Gaza Ceasefire on Bibi’s Terms
    UPDATE: Day 5, the death toll has risen to 52 Gazans killed with 400 wounded (three Israelis were killed several days ago). Haaretz is reporting that Bibi Netanyahu is telling foreign leaders that Hamas has two choices: to stop rocket fire on Israel or prepare for war.  The terms for the ceasefi ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Meograph: The Future of Storytelling is 4D (wi ...
    Meograph, new storytelling startup that launched in July, gives online journalists and storytellers an added dimension that too often has been missing: context. With Meograph, you can create what co-founder and CEO Misha Leybovich calls "4D storytelling" through a simple interface that lets u ...
  • MapBox: The Secret to Making USA Today's Elect ...
    MapBox worked with USA Today to build their election night maps that tracked results as they came in from across the country. USA Today's primary goals for their digital-mapping content was it should have multiple forms of embeddable maps for the home page, articles and landing pages, it should ...
  • Lessons Learned From Sandy 'HurricaneHackers' ...
    This post was co-written by Pablo Rey Mazón. A day before Hurricane Sandy touched down, netizens began to congregate via etherpads, Google Docs and IRC, assuming the name "HurricaneHackers." HurricaneHackers teamed up with Sandy CrisisCamps -- a series of hackathons organized by CrisisComm ...
  • OpenNews Announces the 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellows
    When talking about the OpenNews project, I describe it as an ecosystem. All of our programs are interdependent: Hack Days and Code Sprints and Source -- they all work together to build, implement and document new experiments at the intersection of journalism and code. But the living, breathing h ...
  • How OpenSpending Is Getting the Story Out of t ...
    At OpenSpending we really want to make it easy and fun for journalists to write great stories with data. But what can we do to help? There are already tons of ways for journalists to find newsworthy data. For example, in the U.K. there are daily email alerts for government data releases and ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Operation Pillar of Defense - Iron Dome’s Ba ...
    The performance of the revolutionary Iron Dome system in the ongoing defense of Israel from Hamas rocket attacks, dubbed Operation Pillar of Defense, has been so extraordinary as to be considered by all but the most hardline critics to have proven the efficacy of missile defense. By November 20, ...
  • Diplomacy on Edge - C'est la Guerre: France Ac ...
    The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyberwarfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l'Express.The magazine reported late Tuesday that the computers of several close advisers to then-president ...
  • The Drug Wars - Mexican Drug Cartels and Hezbo ...
    During an interview of a top GOP lawmaker on Fox News Channel on Monday, while discussing the threat by terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah to Israel, Congressman Mike McCaul stated that a new report reveals that Hezbollah is operating in the Western Hemisphere and is as much a threat to the Un ...
  • Operation Pillar of Defense - A Potential Ceas ...
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in Israel overnight Nov. 20 and rumors are rapidly spreading of an imminent cease-fire agreement. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has also confidently claimed Nov. 20 that "the war will end today," but statements out of Israel have been far more ...
  • The Race for Nuclear - Administration Awards G ...
    The Energy Department selected a grant recipient Tuesday for a class of small nuclear reactors that top U.S. energy officials say could revitalize the domestic industry.Babcock & Wilcox landed part of a $452 million Energy grant that aims to speed commercialization of smaller, less capital-i ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Rep James Clyburn Attacked By The Stupid Fairy
    If you were in Washington DC earlier in the week, you would have seen an extra twinkling object in the night sky over the Capitol building.  That twinkle was just the Fairy of Stupidity spreading his stupid dust over the office of Rep James Clyburn. And that fairy dust is wo ...
  • Despite Earlier Reports--No Middle East Cease- ...
    Around Noon NYC time, the reports were coming fast and furious, Israel and Hamas had agreed to a truce moderated by the Egyptian officials. The source for most of those reports was Hamas. Apparently no one asked Israel. According to Israel's Channel 2 reporter Ehud Yaari who spoke to sour ...
  • UPDATE: Leahy Changes Mind About Bill Allows F ...
    UPDATE: Sen. Patrick Leahy has abandoned his controversial proposal that would grant government agencies more surveillance power -- including warrantless access to Americans' e-mail accounts -- than they possess under current law. The Vermont Democrat said today on Twitter that he would "no ...
  • Hillary On Way to Mid East For Fool's Mission
    Secretary of State Clinton must feel she needs more frequent flyer miles for her retirement, because that is the only thing she  is bound to get out of her trip to the middle east today. Not that she wont get a cease fire that will undoubtedly happen, but it won't ...
  • Rep. Allen West Concedes Race: A Victory for L ...
    After two weeks of fighting for a recount, Rep. Allen West (or as I like to call him Congressman Mensch) conceded that he lost his bid for re-election to Congress, saying that while questions about the vote count remained, he was unlikely to close the gap between him and Patrick Murphy, ...

The Real Agenda

  • Will Israel be held accountable for War crimes?
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 20, 2012 The question above is one that always comes to mind whenever a more powerful military force uses its might to destroy livelihoods anywhere in the planet. In the case of the Israeli regime, its despise for live, especially ...
  • United States plays along with Israel, sends w ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 20, 2012 Even though it is obvious that Israel’s goal is to use the military intervention in Gaza as a ploy to delay or postpone elections, the United States has decided to play the same game that the Israeli leadership started last we ...
  • Here are the real costs of Obamacare
    “The Obama Care Health Care Reform Plan or Health Care For America Plan will cost the average American around $70.”–obamacarefacts.com By BOB LIVINGSTON | PLD | NOVEMBER 19, 2012 First of all, allow me to disabuse you of the notion that Obamacare has anything to do with “health” care. ...
  • Shadow Banking Bonanza hits $67 Trillion in 2011
    REUTERS | NOVEMBER 19, 2012 The system of so-called “shadow banking,” blamed by some for aggravating the global financial crisis, grew to a new high of $67 trillion globally last year, a top regulatory group said, calling for tighter control of the sector. A report by the Financ ...
  • Israel attacks Gaza and mercilessly murders in ...
    The Israeli army uses white phosphorus bombs on the Arab population. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 19, 2012 While Israeli warships bombarded Gaza from the sea, other Israeli forces pounded the headquarters of several media outlets in Gaza. In the meantime, from the West, ...

Wind Watch

  • Planners reject 21-turbine wind farm
    There were cheers and applause from the public gallery as plans for 21 wind turbines in Carmarthenshire were rejected by councillors this afternoon. The planning committee refused to give energy company Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Ltd permission to build on Mynydd Llanllwni, in north east Car ...
  • Wind farm rejected
    Plans for a wind farm on the New South Wales far south coast have been shelved. The Sydney based company known as Epuron lodged an application with the Bega Valley Shire Council in 2011. The proposal outlined a plan to build seven turbines at the South East Fibre Export site, south of Eden. The ...
  • Proposed wind project near Joshua Tree Nationa ...
    A proposed wind turbine installation that would have covered more than 63,000 acres of the California desert on the eastern edge of Joshua Tree National Park has been canceled by the Bureau of Land Management, ReWire has learned. The project, which would have spanned the Cadiz and Palen valleys ...
  • Wind farm rejected
    Council voted Monday to withhold support for the Blue Sky wind farm project support in its application for a contract from the Ontario Power Authority. IPR-GDF Suez Canada had spent five years developing the 46.8 megawatt FIT project in Essex that would have seen 27 wind turbines erected on low ...
  • Wind farm developer Iberdrola hears from residents
    The company behind two New Hampshire wind farms would like to build a third and its largest in the state, a 37-turbine project on land in Danbury, Alexandria and Grafton. Officials from Iberdrola Renewables say they’ve been considering the site for about three years, a mostly behind-the-scenes p ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • With historic strikes underway and Black Frida ...
    The Arkansas-based retail giant wants the National Labor Relations Board to block Black Friday protests organized by a group backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers, which is also supporting striking Walmart workers. read more
  • What the election means for immigration
    Last week's election demonstrated the growing power of Latino voters and the renewed demand for results on immigration policy. read more
  • With record criminal settlement reached over G ...
    The oil giant has agreed to pay the largest criminal fine in U.S. history, and three of its managers were indicted on charges including felony manslaughter. But the company says it plans to "vigorously defend" itself against pending civil claims, even while its spilled oil still washes ashore an ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Will the Supreme Court gut th ...
    Three days after an election that saw numerous attempts to suppress the minority vote, the high court agreed to hear Shelby County, Ala.'s challenge to the Voting Rights Act. read more
  • Big Money plays big role in North Carolina ele ...
    Outside groups unleashed more than $14 million into North Carolina state races, helping fuel Republican victories across the state. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Gaza Reminder
    is about the value of human life. When I was a child, my father once threw some Christian evangalists off our property. They had said, “everyone who doesn’t believe in Christ will go to hell.” Now my father had a temper, but the way his voice dropped to a whisper, and the step ...
  • Another note on Republicans
    They seem to be moving to change protected works (so called IP) laws, to make them less punitive.  I didn’t expect this, but it makes sense: 1) Hollywood is a Democratic ballywack, and IP is how they make their money. 2) Libertarians took a couple percent in a lot of states, sometimes more ...
  • Some Words on the Republican Party
    Here’s what I expect from Republicans 1) Immigration reform.  They want it, they need it.  If Boehner is smart (and he’s not stupid, despite what people think), he’ll tie it to the Grand Bargain.  Some money for southern States and municipalities.  A hard lean on Republicans in ...
  • Some Words on the Republican Party
    Here’s what I expect from Republicans 1) Immigration reform.  They want it, they need it.  If Boehner is smart (and he’s not stupid, despite what people think), he’ll tie it to the Grand Bargain.  Some money for southern States and municipalities.  A hard lean on Republicans in ...
  • Some Personal Thoughts
    Recently I had a day where I burned out on anger.  Oh  yes, when it comes to public affairs I’ve been angry for years, though I think rage is the more applicable word.  I don’t think this rage was misplaced, and I still get spasms of it. The reason for the rage is simple enough: [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • What is a Half-Urban World?
    Within the last couple of years, the population of the world has become more than one half urban for the first time in history. By 2025, the world's urban areas are expected to account for 58% of the world population, rising further to two-thirds in 2050. This represents a huge increase from ...
  • Faking It: The Happy Messaging of Placemaking
    Picasso said “Art is a lie that tells the truth”. Nowadays, there’s less truth to that, as the creative process is increasingly about prettying up and papering over what’s broke. More on that shortly, but first, about the breakage: it’s legitimate. Said Nobel ...
  • Review: Driving Detroit, The Quest for Respect ...
    For more than a century, the city of Detroit has been an ideological and at times actual battleground for decidedly different views about the economy, labor and the role of government.  At one time it was the center of a can-do entrepreneurialism that helped launch the American automobile i ...
  • Petraeus's Turf: The South Tampa Scene
    Bimbo eruptions are never fortunate occurrences, least of all for the bimbos involved. When they occur in South Tampa, they carry the sordid spectacles to new frontiers. A gentle but feisty cultural mix of blue-collar, white-collar, and varied ethnicities stretches between Old Tampa Bay and Hi ...
  • Patraeus's Turf: The South Tampa Scene
    Bimbo eruptions are never fortunate occurrences, least of all for the bimbos involved. When they occur in South Tampa, they carry the sordid spectacles to new frontiers. A gentle but feisty cultural mix of blue-collar, white-collar, and varied ethnicities stretches between Old Tampa Bay and Hi ...

GM Watch

  • GM 2,4-D-tolerant crops to accelerate pesticid ...
    EXTRACTS: "This century's epidemiological research of 2,4-D formulations continues to show elevated risks of cancers, particularly non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," said Dr. Meg Sears (PhD) of Prevent Cancer Now. Research has shown 2,4-D to be an endocrine disruptor, and that 2,4-D can be persuasively li ...
  • GM 2,4-D-tolerant crops to accelerate pesticid ...
    EXTRACTS: "This century's epidemiological research of 2,4-D formulations continues to show elevated risks of cancers, particularly non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," said Dr. Meg Sears (PhD) of Prevent Cancer Now. Research has shown 2,4-D to be an endocrine disruptor, and that 2,4-D can be persuasively li ...
  • Obama promises, organic boycotts and label-it- ...
    1.GMO Labeling Efforts Change Course After California Defeat 2.Boycott Organic and 'Natural' Brands that Helped Defeat Prop 37 3.Cincinnati Passes Resolution Requiring GM Food Labeling 4.Obama Official Comments on Administration's GMO Labeling Stance 5.After GMO Labeling Shot Down, Citizens Star ...
  • Obama promises, organic boycotts and label-it- ...
    1.GMO Labeling Efforts Change Course After California Defeat 2.Boycott Organic and 'Natural' Brands that Helped Defeat Prop 37 3.Cincinnati Passes Resolution Requiring GM Food Labeling 4.Obama Official Comments on Administration's GMO Labeling Stance 5.After GMO Labeling Shot Down, Citizens Star ...
  • Suspended sentences for wrecking GM crop
    NOTE: See also: Scientists warn of GM wheat threat http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/51-2012/14180 GM wheat health dangers http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/51-2012/14181 --- --- Activists get suspended sentences for wrecking crop Will Ockenden and Elizabeth Byrne ABC, November 19 2012 h ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • They Are Going To Make It Nearly Impossible To ...
    If you have a farm or a small business, would you like to pass it on to your children when you die?  Well, unless Congress does something, it is going to become much, much harder to do that starting next year.  Right now, there is a 5 million dollar estate tax exemption and anything above [...]
  • 55 Reasons Why You Should Buy Products That Ar ...
    This is the time of the year when Americans run out to their favorite retail stores and fill up their shopping carts with lots of cheap plastic crap made by workers in foreign countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages.  By doing this, the American people are actively participating in ...
  • The Twinkie That Broke The Economy’s Back?
    Can you hear that sound?  It is the sound of the air being let out of the economy.  Since the election, there has been a massive tsunami of layoffs and business failures.  Of course the company that is making the biggest headlines right now is Hostess.  On Monday, Hostess will be in a New York [...]
  • The Worst Economic Numbers In More Than A Year
    With everything else that is going on in the world, a lot of people have failed to notice that we are seeing some of the worst economic numbers that we have seen in more than a year.  For example, it was announced on Thursday that initial claims for unemployment benefits have hit their highest l ...
  • There Will Be War In The Middle East
    The military action that we are watching in the Middle East right now is just a preview of coming attractions.  Tensions in the region are rising with each passing day, and all sides have been anticipating future conflicts and preparing for war for decades.  It would be wonderful if everyone cou ...

Desertification

  • YOUR FREE CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE THIS WORLD BETT ...
    Become a FAN of container gardening by clicking the ‘LIKE’ button at http://www.facebook.com/willemvancotthem   A kitchen garden in The Philippines : riser-with-tetrapots-photo-our-knowledge-consulting-asia-643922_433802009998691_1705869722_n.jpg   Here are some of your trumps   1. If we offer a ...
  • KITCHEN GARDENS TO ALLEVIATE HUNGER AND MALNUT ...
    Nutritional deficiencies in the third world affect the daily life of almost all the poor, mostly hungry people.  If one wants to alleviate those deficiencies, recurrent food aid will never be a solution.  That’s where kitchen or family gardens get … Continue reading →
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    FOR YOUR INFO Dear Readers, I underwent surgery on October 16th. Everything went well. My doctor advised me to take some weeks of complete rest. Therefore, I will resume this blog as soon as I feel fully fit again. Thank … Continue reading →
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    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...

The Paper Trail

  • Pentagon spending for non-military programs as ...
    What do scientific experiments involving babies and robots have to do with excessively costly elementary schools and low-priced grocery stores for the elderly?The answer is, these endeavors are all financed by the Department of Defense’s $629 billion annual budget, in what one Senator depicts ...
  • IMPACT: Florida Senate votes for stronger ethi ...
    Florida’s Senate approved a new set of ethics rules today that will strengthen the body’s conflict of interest guidelines. The vote marked the first action to emerge from a vocal push for ethics reform by the state’s incoming legislative leaders.Senate President Don Gaetz, who took control du ...
  • Reporter Jim Morris and Canadian researchers J ...
  • Union demands protection for workers, after br ...
    Join reporter Jim Morris and Windsor researchers Jim Brophy and Margaret Keith for a live web chat today at noon.WINDSOR, Ontario — When some women walk onto a factory floor, punch their time card at a food processing facility, or start their shift at the foundry, they are ...
  • Gridlocked election commission awaits action b ...
    The nation’s enforcer of election laws was largely paralyzed during the 2012 election, despite a Supreme Court ruling that left several key money-in-politics issues open to interpretation.With five of six Federal Election Commission members working on expired terms (one since 2007), President ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The Conservatives miss their budget projection ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net Last week, the media delivered its resounding judgement on the Conservatives’ fall budget update. Jim Flaherty, they say, has unfortunately allowed the projections to slip. The deficit has grown. Canada may not balance its budget on time. Curiously, this fact does nothin ...
  • Harper’s stealth attack on Medicare
    By Montreal Simon Oh boy. Trying to keep up with Stephen Harper these days is like trying to keep up with a pickpocket working a crowded railway station. Or a pimp working a Republican convention. One moment he’s selling us out to the Chinese Communist Capitalist Party. The next moment he& ...
  • Pavel Bure: Love at first shot
    By Mark Leiren-Young When Pavel Bure sat down in the stands beside me, my brain vanished as if he’d snapped it away with his lightning fast wrist shot. This was training camp, 1992, just after he won the Calder Cup for Rookie of the Year, becoming the first Canuck ever to win an NHL Award. [...] ...
  • To my alleged progressive friends: What are yo ...
    By Frank Moher Since Tuesday evening, alleged progressives in both the U.S. and Canada have been celebrating the re-election of an American president who, in his first term: - Signed the National Defense Authorization Act, the most damaging piece of legislation to US civil liberties since Roosev ...
  • Son of “Midnight’s Children”
    By Mark Leiren-Young When I walk into the downtown Toronto hotel room to meet Salman Rushdie, I can’t help scoping the halls for bodyguards. Even though he’s no longer in hiding, there’s still a three million dollar bounty on the writer’s head and he’s still the most buzzed about celebrity at th ...

libcom

  • IWW John Lewis cleaners win pay rise
    cleaners.png Cleaners at contractor ICM working in John Lewis stores in London, who are members of the Industrial Workers of the World revolutionary union, have won a 9% backdated pay rise following t ...
  • Moscow court holds first hearing in "antifasci ...
    After two weeks ago the case against Nizhny Novgorod antifascists (the Antifa-RASH case) was sent back to prosecutor's office "to remove doubts, irregularities and obstacles" by a court, which is not likely to hear that case again, the cas ...
  • Moscow: Police threaten violence against paren ...
    Anti-fascist Alen Volikov, who is under arrest at Moscow's Butyrka pre-trial detention centre, was visited by police operatives on November 13, and subjected to psychological pressure aimed at making him admit his guilt. Volikov's lawyer Farid ...
  • Uprising in the Cape Winelands - self-organise ...
    Driving through the Hex River Valley after Wednesday’s chaotic protests feels like entering a ghost town. Yet when one manages to find residents and speak to them, it becomes crystal clear that the farm workers are planning to hold out for their wage demand ...
  • Self-Organised Strikes on the Mines & Farms in ...
    Two interesting new articles on the self-organised wave of strikes in South Africa that has now spread from the mines to the farms (self-organised militancy began in the shack settlements in 2004). With militant mass strikes organised outside of the unions ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Small Business Saturday
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog SBA Region 7 SBA News Shop Small Business Saturday – November 24, 2012 By Karen Mills In between the Black Friday sales and the Cyber Monday deals is Small Business ...
  • 1st Floor Weatherization-Benton Project
    3 MAIN ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES TAKEN ON THE BENTON PROJECT R22 Insulation installed in 2×6 Wall Framing Members Vapor and Air Filtration Barrier Additional HVAC Cold Air Return Duct R22 Batt Type Insulation-Friction Fit- Johns Mansfield No Itch Insulation Water and Air Barrier The Above ...
  • Residents Meet About Nuclear Waste In West Lak ...
    Reblogged from FOX2now.com – St. Louis News & Weather from KTVI Television FOX2: BRIDGETON, MO. (KTVI) – A group of north St. Louis county residents met Tuesday night to discuss what they believe is a radioactive hazard in their midst.  It is a story that has its roots in the Manhattan Proje ...
  • Paint Pro Tip #35
    Pro Tip Supplied by:Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy *As seen in the following photo: Use an Old T-Shirt to cover the Tank on a toilette bowl before painting for easy clean up. See the Benton Rehab Green Blog Series at:http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com/2012/10/series ...
  • CAD Drawings Benton Project
    CADD Courtesy-Scotty,Scotts Contracting-St Louis Renewable Energy Eighty Percent of the Time Construction Projects seem to run more efficiently, finish on-time, and stay within budgets when a set of Design Plans are available for the project. Old Western – Old South St Louis Architecture D ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Petraeus Resignation Linked to Iran
    photo credit abcnews.go.com Writing at ConsortiumNews.com, long time investigative reporter Robert Parry reveals that Petraeus would have been sacked if he hadn’t resigned. Quoting political and intelligence insiders, he makes a strong case that Bush’s favorite general had a l ...
  • 47 State Petition to Secede from US
    Photo credit http://www.examiner.com/article/what-the-secession-petitions-mean According to the Daily Caller, the day after Obama was re-elected, the White House website received a petition asking the administration to allow Louisiana to secede. If 25,000 people sign the petition by Dec. ...
  • America's Nonexistant Free Market
    The clip below is a recent talk by former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz on his recent book The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. The main premise of Stiglitz's presentation (and book) is that the US is the most unequal of advanced industrialized ...
  • My Introduction to Socialism (Age 10)
    “There were no poor people in the land of Oz, because there was no such thing as money, and all property of every sort belonged to the Ruler. Each person was given freely by his neighbors whatever he required for his use, which is as much as anyone may reasonably desire. Every one ...
  • Everything is Illegal in America
    Never in my wildest did I imagine I would ever post a news clip by Fox New commentator John Stossel. Well I guess it pays to keep an open mind. What follows is a clever and tragic account of the extreme over-policing that categorizes contemporary US society.   If video ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Should Washington Extend Tax Credits for Wind ...
    As the Jan. 1, 2013, “fiscal cliff” approaches, one of the most divisive issues in Congress is whether to extend tax credits for wind power that are scheduled to expire at the end of 2012. The political battle lines among legislators are largely set, with supporters enthusiastically discussing j ...
  • The Misguided Neoclassical Economic Thinking B ...
  • Shocking World Bank Climate Report: ‘Can a 4°C ...
    And So The Bank Must Stop Funding All New Fossil Fuel PlantsAnother day, another staid international organization reviews the latest climate science and rings the loudest possible alarm.
  • Could a Carbon Price Help Us Avoid 4°C Rise in ...
    A new report from the World Bank which looks at the unsettling prospects of a 2°C world and then the somewhat alarming implications of letting the climate issue slide and all of us wandering, eyes wide open, into a 4°C world. Would a carbon price within the world energy system help us avoid this ...
  • Solving Oil Addiction, State by State
    As 43 million people hit the road for Thanksgiving — members of my family among them — I'm reminded again of how dependent we are on gasoline to live our lives. We need it to get to work, to school, to spend holidays with our families. When gas prices spike, all drivers suffer, but in some state ...

EU Times

  • USSR to rise from ashes through joint Eurasian ...
    The creation of the supranational currency within the scope of the Customs Union is inevitable, Prime Minister of Armenia, Tigran Sargsyan, believes. According to him, this should be the next stage of integration within the organization, which makes sense from the point of view of simplification ...
  • All monuments of Lenin to be removed from Russ ...
    Russian lawmakers believe it is time to remove monuments to the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, from town and city squares across the country. Memorials to such “a controversial figure” should be re-located in museums or alleys with statues of other historic persons, suggeste ...
  • Israel delays ground invasion of Gaza
    Israel has delayed a plan to launch a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip for at least a day amid Egyptian-mediated efforts to implement a ceasefire in the coastal sliver, Israeli media report. In an urgent Sunday night meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Military Affai ...
  • SWAT team storms Maryland home and Shoots at U ...
    This Thursday morning in District Heights, Maryland, an FBI swat team rushed into the home of an average, innocent family and shot at an unarmed, 18 year old girl. According to RT: Members of a SWAT team opened fire on an unarmed teenage girl this week when police officers outside of Washington, ...
  • Learning foreign languages triggers brain growth
    In the Swedish Academy of young translators, new recruits study a crash course in complex languages. It is not only about military discipline: specialists discovered that intensive study of foreign tongues stimulates the growth of the hippocampus and causes changes in other structures of the bra ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Video: Nokiaâs Here Maps on the iPhone 5
    Here Maps by Nokia was just released for iOS. In this video, we show you how it looks on the iPhone 5. Right away, I noticed the maps were blurry. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but a quick switch to Apple Maps shows a noticeable difference. Video after the jump. click thumbnail t ...
  • Android Overload: Nexus 10 now in stock on Goo ...
    CyanogenMod tinkering around with Android 4.2 source. Progress is being made, but it’s far from complete. [ Google+ ] Samsung’s pumping out more Nexus 10′s. Both storage options now available in the Play Store. [ Google Play ] Android 4.2 factory images now available for Yakju Galaxy Nexus mode ...
  • Hillary Clinton and Benjamin Netanyahu on the ...
    I think it's safe to say that Hillary Clinton articulated complete support for Israel's operation against Gaza, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets Israeli PM Netanyahu 11/20/2012: Ari Shavit writes in End the war while you're ahead Haaretz 11/19/2012 that the current conflict started p ...
  • The All-Inclusive Black Friday & Cyber Monday ...
    Tweet Let the sale-ing begin! We’re serving up your all-inclusive Black Friday & Cyber Monday sales all weekend, so check back each day for tons of new sale additions. WOMEN’S ONLY SALES: SHOPBOP Take up to 35% off  your order with code BIGEVENT12. Spend $250+: save 20% , $500+: save 25% ; ...
  • NASA Mars Curiosity Rover's Thanksgiving: Sear ...
    NASA on Tuesday released an update on its Mars Curiosity Rover mission, stating that the rover would attempt to find the first rock to drill into over Thanksgiving break on Thursday and Friday. As NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Twitter account tweeted :  Thanksgiving isn't so different on Mars. I ...

Groklaw

  • Leahy scuttles his warrantless e-mail surveill ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy has abandoned his controversial proposal that would grant government agencies more surveillance power -- including warrantless access to Americans' e-mail accounts -- than they possess under current law. The Vermont Democrat said today on Twitter that he would "not support su ...
  • Federal judges rulings favored companies in wh ...
    But in at least three cases before the federal District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, Real did not recuse himself: In 2008, he awarded Microsoft Corp. $746,027 in damages and fees in a copyright infringement case against a computer sales and repair company. ...
  • PACER federal court record fees exceed system ...
    Earlier this year, the Center for Investigative Reporting, parent organization of The Bay Citizen, applied for a limited exemption from PACER fees to research potential judicial conflicts in California. Such fee waivers are typically given to academics and nonprofits "to avoid unreasonable burde ...
  • US patent chief to software patent critics: "G ...
    David Kappos, the head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, offered a strong defense of software patents in a Tuesday address at the Center for American Progress. Kappos touted several provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA), which he argued would allow the patent office to weed ...
  • Linux Foundation support for booting Linux on ...
    Alas, the plan's been delayed. When I asked Bottomley what the status of the project was he told me "We're all done and dusted with the signed contract with Microsoft and the binary ready to release. However, I've been having bizarre experiences with the Microsoft sysdev centre." Specifically, ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Rackspace CloudU
    I just completed the short, highly useful Rackspace Cloud U, which gives an excellent introduction to the cloud, how it operates, and why that’s where computing is moving to.Cloud computing allows users to concentrate on building apps and value without having to deal with underlying hardwa ...
  • Science denier Marco Rubio is a rising Republi ...
    We here at Polizeros firmly believe that the earth rest of the back of a turtle and that it’s turtles all the way down.Marco Rubio’s willfully ignorant and craven denial about the age of the earth shows how captive the Republican Party is to the lunatic fringe and what a coward he is ...
  • Anatomy of Bias: How Vermont media pimps for t ...
    Development of the F-35 fighter-bomber began in 2001 and has grown into the most expensive military weapons program in history, so it probably wouldn’t be surprising if a local TV affiliate of a network owned by a major defense contractor ran a week-long series called “Investigating the F- ...
  • Woot! I fixed a cranky WordPress plugins conflict
    Coders and bloggers can do the victory dance too…Geek alert: this will be highly technical, convoluted, and no doubt indecipherable to many. A WordPress plugins conflict on this blog made it seemingly impossible to create a sitemap, no matter what I did. The problem appeared to be a proble ...
  • Desertec plan to power Europe from North Afric ...
    Desertec is a consortium of large corporations and governments that wants to build humongous concentrated solar power plants in North Africa and the Middle East that would power Europe.I’ve always thought the Desertec plan was a bit dicey, given the its obvious overtones of colonialism and ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

  • Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?
    Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with ...
  • Notes on Israeli threats of launching a 'Dahiy ...
    1. Some prominent Israelis are calling for a 'Dahiyeh' operation against Gaza. I just watched this clip from a news/discussion program on Israel's Channel 2. In it, "military analyst" Roni Daniel openly calls for the implementation of a "Dahiyeh" operation ("like in Beirut"), against Gaza. Dahi ...
  • Fundraiser for key new book on Iran-- please help!
    As some JWN readers know, twelve days ago I launched an online fundraising campaign to support the writing and publication of one of my company's most important books for 2013, a book by award-winning investigative reporter Gareth Porter that exposes how the U.S. and Israel have "manufactured" t ...
  • Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)
    I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...
  • News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...
    I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...

frogblog

  • Fourth Dirty Water Tour starts in Southland
    I launched our fourth “Dirty Water Tour” this week at Invercargill’s New River Estuary, with Southland Green Party member Dave Kennedy, and Maurice Rodway of Fish and Game.  Invercargill could potentially overtake Oamaru as the heritage capital of the south  – distinctive and a ...
  • Keep our talent project launched
    Very cool to hear yesterday of the ‘Keep Our Talent’ survey - a project being led by a group of Victoria University students to find out about the expected impacts of the Government’s decision to cut student allowances from postgraduate students.
  • The Parliamentary week that was, 13-15 Nov, fo ...
    This week, Parliament was preoccupied with a few Bills that didn’t really make the headlines and many more questions about unemployment. Sky City The Greens had another Member’s Bill in the House this week; to ensure money that had been stolen and used in casinos was returned to the people it wa ...
  • Slippery fishing boats and decisions for the A ...
    There was an early sailing today for Antarctica’s Ross Sea from Port Nelson by the Talleys-Sealord toothfishing boat Janus, to avoid protest action. This reflects the slippage of New Zealand in making a strong stance in the recent Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources CCAMLR ne ...
  • Student allowance cuts – making a bad po ...
    Postgrads, if you thought you were ok for student allowance next year because your course already started, think again… At the time of the Budget in May, Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce announced that postgraduate students would no longer be eligible for a student allowance. In itself, ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

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    Red State Renewable Alliances Aims To Republicanize The Wind Industry
    CleanTechnica (blog)
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    Al Gore On Climate Policy, Renewable Energy, Natural Gas, & More (100% Agree)
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    Bias in Ecology and Climate Studies? How Leaves Shrink as They Dry out Is ...
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    Iowa man convicted of murder, but not before he pours water on lawyer
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