21 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: Gaza! (Artwork made for the "Israeli Apartheid Week"). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cartoon about the conflict between Isreal and the Hamas in 2008/2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Yasser Arafat International Airport, located in the southern corner of the Gaza Strip, is currently inoperable (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

August 16, 2005. Israeli soldiers regularly meet with the Palestinian Police stationed at the Erez District Coordination Office. Pictured: Israeli and Palestinian officers hold a field situation assessment in preparation for Israel's 2005 Gaza Disengagement. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dandelion Salad

• To Hell With Israel by Finian Cunningham + US ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from www.presstv.com Nov. 20, 2012 Israel’s holocaust of innocents in Gaza has not sated the blood lust of its Zionist rulers, with the death toll rising to over 110 and the injured numbering more than a thousand – l ...
• Israel-Palestine – What Is The U.S. National I ...
  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Nov. 20, 2012 Israeli elections are coming up in January so it is Palestinian hunting season again. Israeli cynics call it a time “for mowing the grass.” Out comes the well-worn playbook by Israel’s militaristic government that has worked to silence ...
• Undermining Peace in Gaza and Israel in One Mi ...
  Dandelion Salad by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington Nov 20, 2012 How the House Defeated the Democratic Process “Unanimously” On November 16, 2012, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution, H. Res 813, expressing “vigorous support” and “unwavering commitment” to the ...
• Name 10 things that you are grateful for this ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) November 19, 2012 Sometimes we human beings just have to sit down now and then and take stock. Gratefulness is not only good for reflection, but it is also very healthy for the soul. There ...
• Gaza Is A Window On Our Coming Dystopia by Chr ...
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 19, 2012 Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have falle ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Israeli mayor calls on State to declare Arab c ...
  Mayor of mainly Jewish Upper Nazareth claims Arab-majority Nazareth is becoming "a nest of terror in the heart of the Galilee, a center for the spread of hatred of Israel that supports and backs... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Jonathan Cook: Why Gaza must suffer again
  The inciting cause of the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas has little to do with the firing of rockets, whether by Hamas or the other Palestinian factions. The conflict predates the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Noam Chomsky responds to Gisha’s “What we want ...
  I have always admired the work of Gisha, and therefore read its response to my “Impressions of Gaza” with much interest — and comparable disappointment. The response refers to exactly one statement... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Jonathan Cook: Don’t expect Obama to take on I ...
  Obama may not have to worry about re-election but he will not want to hand a poisoned legacy to the next Democratic presidential candidate, nor will want to mire his own final term in damaging... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Israeli peace activist: Hamas leader Jabari ki ...
  Hours before Hamas strongman Ahmed Jabari was assassinated, he received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• China Unveils Yi Long UAV
  China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
• Airshow China 2012
• Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
  Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
• Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
  Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
• Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
  Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

• Miss America Contestant Chooses Mastectomy: N ...
• IUDs Don't Cause Pelvic Inflammatory Disease i ...
  The risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) following insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD) is very low, whether or not women have been screened beforehand for gonorrhea and chlamydia, according to a joint study of nearly 60,000 women by researchers at the University of Californ ...
• Patients with Online Access to Clinicians, Med ...
  Patients with online access to their medical records and secure e-mail communication with clinicians had increased use of clinical services, including office visits and telephone encounters, compared to patients who did not have online access.
• Citicoline Does Not Improve Functional, Cognit ...
  Although approved for use for treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) in nearly 60 countries, use of citicoline in a randomized trial that included more than 1,200 participants with TBI did not result in improvement in functional and cognitive status.
• Tom Friedman Talks About Engineering
  Feature summarizes New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's keynote address at the recently concluded ASME 2012 Mechanical Engineering Congress.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• University of Michigan Seeking Assistant Dean ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Job posting here. This would be a fabulous opportunity for someone with an international law background. Michigan of course has one of the country’s top international law faculties and led the way in requiring transnational law as part of its first-law curri ...
• Can International Law Resolve the Iran Nuclear ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku UK human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson has a confused, muddled, and revealing editorial in Bloomberg about how international law might help resolve the Iran nuclear crisis. While he describes the relevant law accurately, he fails to show how international law is do ...
• ICJ Gives Colombia an Empty Victory Over Nicaragua
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Just a further quick note on the ICJ opinion yesterday (press release here)  on the long-running Colombia/Nicaragua dispute over sovereignty and control over certain Caribbean islands.  The ruling seems a mixed bag since it recognizes Colombia’s sovereignty and ...
• Argentina’s Very Weak Case for Jurisdiction in ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This analysis from Professor Matthew Happold offers very good reasons to doubt that Argentina can validly invoke the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea in its dispute with Ghana. Putting aside Argentina’s argument that it did not (o ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The ICJ has ruled against Nicaragua in the territorial and maritime dispute it had filed against Colombia, and rejected claims that Colombia violated international law. International pressure to reach a ceasefire after six days of conflict between Israel and Hamas ...

Public News Service

• Study: Arizonans Can Save Billions Through Ene ...
  Study: Arizonans Can Save Billions Through Energy Efficiency PHOENIX - Energy efficiency could save the average Arizona utility customer 30 percent on his or her electric bill, according to a new study. The report from the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) projects more than $7 billio ...
• Survey Finds Dangerous Toys Remain on Store Sh ...
  Survey Finds Dangerous Toys Remain on Store Shelves PHOENIX - Toys that make loud noises, contain high levels of toxic substances or small parts that pose a choking risk are the focus of this year's "Trouble in Toyland" report from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. Toys ...
• Nation’s Wildlife Refuges Facing Impacts ...
  Nation’s Wildlife Refuges Facing Impacts of Fiscal Cliff PHOENIX - Crippling cuts could be coming to the system of National Wildlife Refuges if Congress fails to prevent the country from going over the so-called "fiscal cliff" at year's end, according to a new report. Already operating on ...
• Arizona Wealth & Income Gap Growing Quickly
  Arizona Wealth & Income Gap Growing Quickly PHOENIX - A new study based on Census figures shows the income gap between the rich and poor continues to grow quickly. And the most recent figures say Arizona has the second-highest inequality of any state. Analysts say it's becoming a serious issue f ...
• Will Farm Bill Be "Job One" for Lame Duck Cong ...
  Will Farm Bill Be "Job One" for Lame Duck Congress? PHOENIX, Ariz. - Congress is back in session, and among the major pieces of unfinished business is trying to agree on and pass a new Farm Bill. Arizona farmers and ranchers know that the Farm Bill covers a lot more than agriculture, including f ...

Center for Food Safety

• After Halt to Planting, Court Orders Eradicati ...
  Remedies Include Three-Year Monitoring Period to Track, Destroy Any Germinating GE Plants In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern United States.  The court also ordered steps t ...
• Center for Food Safety’s Statement on th ...
  Yesterday, California voters narrowly turned down Proposition 37, which, if passed, would have required the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the state. While late polls showed the initiative losing in the double digits, Prop 37 failed by a 6-point margin. A full 47 percent of Cal ...
• California Newspaper Editorial Boards Spread F ...
  By Michele Simon Each election season, proponents and opponents of the various initiatives on the California ballot hope for the state’s major newspaper endorsements. While you can’t expect every paper to endorse your side, Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods produced using gen ...
• Center for Food Safety Releases New Geneticall ...
  Latest research shows 61 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE foods, while U.S. lags behind Center for Food Safety (CFS) has announced the release of its new, interactive Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Labeling Laws map detailing the powerful, growing presence of laws requiring ...
• Why California Needs Prop 37: Center for Food ...
  by Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high fructos ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

• Kangaroo cull
  Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
• Environmental News 01/06/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
• Green Capital Australia
  Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
• Environmental News 31/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
• Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
  Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...
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• Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...
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• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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• The Vitamin D Briefing
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• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
  Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
• How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
  We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
• Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...
  …but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...
• Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...
  Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...
• Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
  The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

• Climategate Season!
  Gone hunting for invisible deer again. It is climategate season!! The week will probably end with nothing new (including deer-s) but the UK police managed to leak (publish) that nobody involved in Climategate could be prosecuted after three years. Hopefully, the boys/(manly girls) aren’t s ...
• Left Behind
  The media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to the left, the media reactions are universal.  Ignore it! This time they have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation ...
• Required Reading
  For those seriously interested in climate sensitivity, Paul K has a very interesting post up at Lucia’s. Pinatubo Climate Sensitivity and Two Dogs that didn’t bark in the night  
• Will Penn State Ever Learn?
  Michael Mann has decided to sue for defamation because someone compared him to Sandusky.  Besides the general disgust for the Penn State sexual scandal, there was a certain  irony for me in that  brought about an article discussing what is a solidly apparent cultural deficiency in the university ...
• Crazy Stuff on Michigan Ballot
  PROPOSAL 12-3 A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY This proposal would: Require electric utilities to provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from renewable energy sources, which are wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower, ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Data visualization company SumAll raises $6M, ...
  Data visualization company SumAll today announced it raised $6 million in a Series A round led by Battery Ventures. The funding agreement includes $500,000 for SumAll.org, a charitable foundation established by employees of the company. SumAll’s free service helps companies understand how ...
• Facebook suggests upcoming events and recently ...
  Some Facebook users are seeing stories about upcoming events and recently released albums in their News Feeds, we’ve found. The new stories are similar to the “upcoming concerts” module that some users began to see last month. Now, Facebook is … Continue reading →
• Analytics company Socialbakers raises $6M
  Social media analytics company Socialbakers announced Monday that it raised $6 million in a Series B round led by Index Ventures. Socialbakers tracks publicly available analytics for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn, which can then be used for competitive … Continue reading ...
• Facebook brings photo-syncing to iOS
  Some Facebook users now have the option to sync their iPhone photos to a private album on the social network. This feature was previously available for the Android app but is newly being tested on iOS. Photo syncing helps users … Continue reading →
• Cityville 2, TripAdvisor, Pet Rescue Saga, Cal ...
  CityVille 2 jumped to the No. 1 spot on our list of top Facebook apps growing by monthly active users this week with 1,575 percent gain as Zynga seems to have turned on full marketing efforts for the game. The developer’s Ruby Blast … Continue reading →

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Help Us Counter the ‘Dumb-ification of the Mas ...
  We are $3900 short in meeting this quarter’s budget!   We can’t have it both ways: On one hand moan and complain about the ‘dependent’ mainstream and pseudo alternative propaganda machine, but on the other hand not back and support the very few independent alternative mediums. We can’t; pure and ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Dennis Kucinich on “National Security State USA”
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This is What Co ...
  A Transnational Corporate Coup over the Democratic Process & Public Accountability In 2008, the United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab announced the U.S. entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks as “a pathway to broader Asia-Pacific regional economic integration.” Originating ...
• Puppet State America
  “The “American superpower” groveling at Netanyahu’s feet!” 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 c ...

Afro Spear

• Obama and the Jews
  Very insightful and telling article from 2008 on then Presidential candidate Obama and the dynamics of his long standing relationship with pro-Israeli Jews. Click on image below for article.
• The Silence of America on the Murder in Gaza
  Thanks to Sis. Deb. for introducing me to this powerful piece by Chris Hedges of Truthdig.
• How to Rob Africa
• sat’day riddymz
  Part 1 Part 2
• Taps For The Black Man
  For the second time in four years, I did NOT vote for the anointed, black messiah. I never considered it; what I did consider, yet again, was my residence in a country full of black, white, red and yellow people who would vote for him – or his opposite – and trying to justify it?! [...]

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Clinton Seeks Middle East Ceasefire
  To Israel's claim that its military assault on Gaza is no different than the rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, Orthodox Jewish blogger Jeremiah Haber has a statistic that puts the two sides' firepower in perspective: "IDF rockets and missiles have killed more innocent [Gaza] civilians in the ...
• We're All Gazans Now
  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.
• Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 7
  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.
• US battles Iraq and Afghanistan over detention ...
  In Afghanistan and Iraq, the US government is engaged in a fierce and protracted battle over the fundamental right to be free of indefinite detention. Specifically, the US is demanding that the governments of those two nations cease extending this right to their citizens.
• Hamas Shouldn't Fire Rockets ... But Israel Ha ...
  Chris Hedges: "The continued presence of Israeli occupation forces defies nearly a hundred U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for them to withdraw. The Israeli blockade of Gaza, established in June 2007, is a brutal form of collective punishment that violates Article 33 of the Fourth 1949 ...

Switchboard

• World Toilet Day Has a Different Meaning in Ch ...
  Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Today is World Toilet Day. Reading this in the relatively developed world, especially in the relatively clean and sterile world of modern America, we might be tempted to stif ...
• Former BLM scientist: the BLM fails to perform ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Stan Olmstead is a BLM retiree who spent 20 years with the agency. He retired in September from his job as a natural resource specialist and environmental scientist in Utah. Before he left the a ...
• Give Thanks to Your Food Visionary - Nominate ...
  Tiffany Traynum, Program Assistant, San Francisco The holiday season is my favorite time of year. You could easily argue that there are other seasons as equally stunning as winters on the west coast, but there is undoubtedly no other time that fee ...
• Massachusetts takes a step for smart neighborh ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Last week, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick announced a new policy initiative designed to encourage diverse, walkable neighborhoods that use land efficiently.    ...
• Cooling India with Less Warming: Examining th ...
  David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. As living standards rise for tens of millions of people, India is on the verge of an enormous expansion in room and vehicle air conditioning that could strain the countr ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• A 10% Discount Card
  Got to give CNN a little credit. Their reporters are actually challenging power for once. First you have Anderson Cooper providing quality reporting from Gaza, along with engaging in some seriously awesome (and I’m guessing stress relieving) pushback against critics who want the American m ...
• Happy Birthday to the Monkey Cage!
  On behalf of Lawyers, Guns and Money, let me wish a very happy fifth birthday to the Monkey Cage. John Sides and company have done a wonderful job of bringing political science to the blogosphere in a compelling, digestible manner. I have my differences with how John characterizes the relationsh ...
• Iron Dome
  I have some thoughts on Iron Dome over at Open Zion: Even on its own terms, the strategic success of Iron Domes remains in serious question. Whatever tactical success Iron Dome achieves comes at considerable cost. An Iron Dome battery runs $50 million, with each missile in the neighborhood of $4 ...
• Cuomo Will Not (And Must Not) Be the 2016 Demo ...
  To follow up a bit on Dr. Black, I agree entirely with Alex’s substantive take on Cuomo. I don’t agree, though, that the Evan Bayh of New York politics will be able to “retain[] a progressive reputation,” at least among Democratic primary voters. (For that matter, I don&# ...
• An Accident
  One of thousands of deaths on the job in the Pacific Northwest timber industry over the years. From West Coast and Puget Sound Lumberman June 1903. A horrible accident occurred in the West & Slade mill, Aberdeen, Wash., on June 10. C.R. Wyman fell on a saw and his body was cut in two. The [...]

Desert Research Institute

• Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...
  Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.
• DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...
  DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
• Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...
  Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.
• 2012 Tahoe Summit Report
  The Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
• DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...
  The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.

Earth Techling

• Philly Considers Future Of Old Railroad: Park ...
• Nest Learning Thermostat Inspires Energy Effic ...
• Indian IT Company Tops Greenpeace’s Electronic ...
• The Psychology Of Small-Scale Solar
• Hawaii Gets Big Wind, Helping Give Oil The Boot

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Judge tosses suit by two former students who f ...
  A federal judge in Texas on November 16 dismissed a lawsuit against Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law and a professor brought by two former students who flunked out.
• Plaintiffs seek to attach assets of compoundin ...
  In a two-hour hearing, lawyers battled over whether a federal judge should order the attachment of up to $461 million in assets belonging to New England Compounding Pharmacy Inc.--which is primarily linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak that caused 34 deaths--and other related companies and in ...
• Former Ohio AG loses law license for six months
  The Ohio Supreme Court on November 20 determined that former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, a Democrat who served 17 months in office before resigning in 2008, engaged in conduct that reflected adversely on his fitness to practice law.
• Feds act on key provision of Obamacare
  The release of new rules offering guidance on how to put key provisions of the federal health care reform law into practice sent a loud and clear message to lawyers: time to pay attention again..
• A third 'Foley' firm finds its niche in Minnea ...
  Kyle Mansfield, managing partner of Foley & Mansfield, speaks to NLJ about how a midsize firm competes with bigger competitors.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• California Independent Living Centers Offer Li ...
  One example of ILCs reaching out to veterans can be seen at the Independent Living Resource Center, Inc. (ILRC-Satellite) located in Santa Barbara, CA, which received a grant and specifically hired a veteran to lead a Veteran Outreach Services progr
• Michael Dobkowski: Complexity of Polish-Jewish ...
  Speaking to a full house of students, faculty, staff and community members, Dobkowski discussed the complexity of Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust.
• Young Tibetan Father Self-Immolates in Tsekhog
  Officials Warn Tibetans Not to Gather At Cremations. It is sending the wrong message.
• Iraq Steals Camp Ashraf Residents' Property
  The Iraqi government, by bringing a merchant affiliated to Iraq's Prime Ministry Office and causing delays in the process of selling the property during the past ten months, has averted the entrance of other Iraqi merchants to Ashraf.
• Iraq Steals Camp Ashraf Residents' Property
  The Iraqi government, by bringing a merchant affiliated to Iraq's Prime Ministry Office and causing delays in the process of selling the property during the past ten months, has averted the entrance of other Iraqi merchants to Ashraf.

environment 360

• U.S.-Mexico Reach Accord On Sharing Colorado R ...
  The U.S. and Mexico have reached an agreement on how to share water from the Colorado River, a five-year deal crafted to help both nations prepare for future droughts. Under the agreement, regional water agencies in California, Arizona, and Nevada will purchase nearly 100,000 acre-feet of water ...
• Breeding Birds in UK Have Declined 20 Percent ...
  The population of breeding birds in the UK has plummeted by 21 percent since 1966, losing more than 44 million birds in less than a half-century, according to the newly released State of the UK’s Birds 2012 report. According to experts, the number of house sparrows has State of the UK's Birds ...
• Five Questions for Bill McKibben: The ‘Do the ...
  Bill McKibben — author, climate activist, and founder of 350.org — is in the midst of a 21-city “Do the Math” tour to build grassroots support for combating climate change.
• A Global Treaty on Rivers: Key to True Water S ...
  No broad-based international agreement on sharing rivers currently exists, even though much of the world depends on water from rivers that flow through more than one nation. But that may be about to change, as two separate global river treaties are close to being approved. BY FRED PEARCE
• Majority of Marine Species Still Remain Unknow ...
  While more new marine species were identified over the last 10 years than during any previous decade, as many as two-thirds of the plant and animal species living in the oceans may still be unknown to scientists, a new study says. Writing in the journal Current Biology, a team of international s ...

Red Ice Creations

• They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found ...
  The master wears an amulet with a blue eye in the center. Before him, a candidate kneels in the candlelit room, surrounded by microscopes and surgical implements. The year is roughly 1746. The initiation has begun. The master places a piece of paper in front of the candidate and orders him to pu ...
• "Incredibly rare" thyroid abnormalities found ...
  [The health survey of children in Fukushima Prefecture] found 40% have thyroid abnormalities, which is incredibly rare in pediatrics. Some of these children almost certainly are bound to develop cancer of the thyroid. And indeed one 12 year old boy has already been diagnosed with it. And a girl ...
• Myths of Mankind - The Mahabharata
  The Epic Mahabharata. The Mahabharata (Sanskrit Mahābhārata महाभारत) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa. The epic is part of the Hindu itihāsa (or "history"), and forms an important part of Hindu mythology. This episode is hosted by Canadian aut ...
• Shades of the Warsaw Ghetto: Israel Drops Leaf ...
  Reports from Gaza have Israel dropping leaflets advising residents to evacuate their homes and, using specific roads, make their way to Gaza City Center, BBC reports. This in the wake of last night’s advisement that anyone leaving their home would be targeted. The leaflets this evening, though, ...
• Cruel Britannia: Torture history exposed
  At the beginning of 2012 the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg stated that the government ‘completely condemns torture and inhumane treatment’ and that ‘we never support it or ask other people to do it on our behalf.’ They are words that have echoed for decades, in one form or another. The UK is ...

Russia Today

• Bus explodes in terror attack in central Tel A ...
  At least 20 confirmed injured and three critical in an explosion on a bus in central Tel Aviv near Shaul Ha Melech Street. Police have reported that the blast was a terrorist attack. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Gone phishing: US behind hack of French govt c ...
  Washington used software resembling the ‘Flame’ virus to hack French government computers, l’Express reported, citing anonymous officials. The country’s network was reportedly infiltrated through a Facebook scam on... Read Full Article at RT.com
• 3 killed, many injured in twin terror bombing ...
  Two Dagestani police officers and one civilian were killed in successive terrorist bombings in a village in the Russian republic. The second bomb detonated when officers arrived to investigate the scene of the first... Read Full Article at RT.com
• IDF: 'Israel desires peace, wrongly accused of ...
  Speaking to RT, Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson Josh Hantman said “collateral damage” will continue in Israel’s ferocious ongoing ‘Pillar of Defense’ campaign in Gaza, and that Israel is being wrongly accused of... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Moscow bans protest against political repressi ...
  The Moscow authorities have refused to grant permission for a rally against “political repressions” and “violations of human rights,” saying that state law does not recognize such a phenomenon in the country. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• The working class Monterrey, Mexico fans of Co ...
  —Looking to see some working class rebellion close to home? Check out the story of the THE CHOLOMBIANS- STONER CUMBIA IN NORTHERN MEXICO …Colombian musicians migrating out from Colombia to San Antonio and Monterrey, Mexico spread their music to North America. Thus they spread some pa ...
• Just another normal day in USA-run Dictatorshi ...
  Yesterday was a selection day in the USA-run coup made Honduras. Top Honduran parties chose presidential candidates ….But what did the day really look like though? See Death Squads, Swastikas and "Medieval Methods" of Torture Honduras’ Post-Coup Elections by CHARLES HINTON for a be ...
• Some cops are worse than others
  NYPD Officer Arrested In Plot To Kidnap And Cook Women, Pleads Not Guilty
• If Israel can intercept Hamas rockets, it can ...
  If the Iron Dome works, Israel won’t have to retaliate after each Hamas rocket! These acts of desperation by the besieged Gazans, victims of Israel’s occupation, will become like the rocks thrown by Palestinian youth, futile. Hopefully Israel will expand its dome of impunity to prote ...
• Colorado Springs anti- panhandling ordinance s ...
  The creepy new Right Wing mayor of Colorado, Steve Bach, has gotten HIS anti-panhandling ordinance passed this week and it’s set to become an expensive big flop that city tax payers will have to pay out with our monies, as the city attorneys try to defend municipal enforcement for a clearl ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• What? No collapse?
  Here's another towering inferno, a 34 story apartment building in Dubai, with pretty severe fires yet remained standing. These flames poured out of the building and were obviously more severe than what was observed with the 2 WTC towers and WTC 7.  Guess the "anomaly" of fire collapsing and ...
• Has Ventura's show been hijacked?
  So far the third season of Jesse Ventura's show has been disappointing. In episode one they tried to discredit David Icke by insinuating he's just in it for the money, which - agree with Icke's beliefs or disagree with them - is a low blow and totally hypocritical. This is Icke's residence.&nb ...
• We agree with Colin Powell
  We agree with retired General Colin Powell. There is no rational reason why we can’t deal with the deficit if we cut the Pentagon budget, saying “I don’t think the defense budget should be made sacrosanct,” On CNN’s State of the Union Powell noted that when he was the chair of the Joint Chie ...
• Ladies in Pink Slips: 10 Years of CODEPINK Cre ...
  Published on Nov 13, 2012 by codepinkaction CODEPINK celebrates 10 years of peaceful troublemaking in November, 2012. Watch highlights from the growing movement for justice and join us to end war! www.codepink.org  
• Support the Walmart Black Friday Strike
  Support the Walmart Black Friday Strikers!  Fellow occupier, it's time to take a stand and support the workers who are standing up to live better through an unfair labor practice strike. Walmart workers decided to strike on Black Friday after they were targeted for retaliation for speaking ...

Fooducate

• Buying Groceries: The Problem with Catchy “Hea ...
• The Real Problem with 5 Hour and other Energy ...
• Give Thanks for REAL Cranberries!
• Not a Joke: Pepsi Launches Fat Blocking Soft D ...
• 10 Ways to Healthify Your Thanksgiving, Stay S ...

Traffikd

• How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
  People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
• Twitter Step by Step
  Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
• SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
  When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
• How To Choose Keywords
  Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
• Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
  So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

• Brazilian Indians' water 'poisoned' in bitter ...
  Guarani Indians of Ypo’i community in Brazil.© MPFA community of Brazilian Indians say their main source of water has been poisoned by one of the state’s most controversial ranches. The Guarani from Ypo’i community in Mato Grosso do Sul state used a mobile phone to film the contamination, which ...
• Brazilian mining giant given green light for p ...
  Awá man. The Awá are warning the expansion of the Carajás railway could bring disastrous consequences© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian government has given the go-ahead for a railway project that severely endangers Earth’s most threatened tribe. Mining giant Vale announced it has obtained an ...
• Penan set deadline for dam demands
  Penan man, Sarawak, Malaysia.© Robin Hanbury-Tenison/SurvivalMembers of Malaysia’s Penan tribe have suspended their lengthy blockade of the Murum dam site, and given the Sarawak government an ultimatum. They say authorities have a month to guarantee sufficient compensation for the dam’s ne ...
• US food giant accused over biofuel 'tainted wi ...
  A Guarani man in front of sugarcane crops, grown where the tribe’s forests once stood.© SurvivalA US food giant has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians. He ...
• Colombian Indian leader escapes assassination ...
  Rogelio Mejía has narrowly survived an assassination bid.© SurvivalOne of Colombia’s most important Indian leaders has narrowly escaped an attempt on his life. Rogelio Mejía, the leader of the Arhuaco tribe of northern Colombia, was traveling in a car which was stopped at a roadblock by a group ...

Greg Palast

• Greg Palast at Los Angeles GreenFestival This ...
  Greg Palast will be the featured speaker at this Sunday's GreenFestival in Los Angeles. The presentation will be: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits A post-Election Analysis When and Where: Sunday, November 18, 2012  3 PM Main Stage Los Angeles Convention Center SOUTH KENTIA HALL 1201 South Figue ...
• Democracy Now: Ohio – Wrong Ballots for Black ...
  A special report by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Watch the Report [Dayton, Ohio. Tuesday November 6, 2012] Several thousand African-American voters in Dayton, Ohio, may find their ballots left uncounted, and they, and America, won’t know it––even if the lost votes change the presidency. First, ...
• Starting Today: No Charge for my Bestselling B ...
  Palast Fund to give away FREE copies of Bestseller Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps A personal note from Greg Palast Call me crazy.  The Palast Investigative Fund is dead broke and our office in New York is under water.  No kidding. But America is drown ...
• Did The Romneys’ Auto Bailout Bonanza Violate ...
  By Greg Palast for The National Memo At the same time, taxpayer-subsidized Delphi expanded its workforce in China to 25,000. Today, Delphi supplies GM and Chrysler parts from Mexico and China. This week, Republican vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan arrived in Ohio to accuse the Obama admi ...
• UAW Files Charges Against Romney on his Auto ...
  Broke ethics law hiding millions, say good government groups by Greg Palast Toledo, Ohio For Mitt Romney, it's one scary Halloween.  The Presidential candidate has just learned that tomorrow afternoon he will charged with violating the federal Ethics in Government law by improperly concealing hi ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• The Charade of Hacked Off
  By John Stone Last week the Daily Mail went to town exposing the web of interests surrounding the UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media abuse: a network of interests so tangled that it took seven articles to describe . In particular...
• Autism File Magazine: At Holiday Time Follow Y ...
  Our friends at Autism File Magazine have shared an article on The Holidays. We invite you to subscribe to The Autism File - published by Belvoir Media. Every issue is loaded with info about education, recreation, family challenges, biomedical treatments,...
• Dachel Media Update: 11/19
  Nov 18, 2012, Examiner: Studies showing mercury-containing vaccines to be safe alleged to be fraudulent Nov 18, 2012, The Toronto Star: Toronto police to receive autism awareness training Nov 17, 2012, CBS Atlanta: Special needs student repeatedly beaten at school...
• “If I Ran the CDC…I’d Be a Hell of a Lot More ...
  By J.B. Handley In the activism world, there are times when I have really felt like I’ve said everything I can possibly say on the topic of autism. When those feelings arise, I usually take a break and shut my...
• If I Had a Nickel
  By Cathy Jameson Several times in the last two weeks I‘ve run into an expression that I have a love-hate relationship with: “Cathy, I don’t know how you do it all. How do you do it?” Since it’s usually a...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• GM woes: no water, no birds, no butterflies, a ...
  There's plenty of water here. And there are no birds. Again, the only thing that's changed is we’re surrounded by GM fields.
• Coast to Coast AM – Nov 15 2012 – GMO Dangers ...
  Barb and George talk about the dangers GMOs pose to our health.
• GMO Dangers on Coast to Coast AM with George N ...
  Joins us on Coast to Coast AM radio as we discuss the dangers of genetic engineering from 11:00 pm to 2:00 am Pacific Time on Thursday, November 15, 2012!
• The Little Government that Could
  The poor American government just wanted to grow up to be big and strong like the governments in Europe, but his mean Fathers wouldn't let him. Follow this happy tale of how a little government made his dreams come true...
• Yes on 37 says Rappoport is “disrupting the he ...
  The “experts” who are advising YES ON 37 make their living by accepting all vote-counts as real and honest and correct.

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Solar prominences erupt -- and the best is yet ...
  A solar prominence can be a thing of beauty -- a glowing red, looping structure that can twist and turn hundreds of thousands of miles into space from the surface of the sun and last up to several months.
• New Mexico coyote hunt this weekend sparks pub ...
  A New Mexico gun store owner’s plan to hold a competitive two-day coyote hunt this weekend has been blasted by critics and generated protests from as far away as Europe.
• Australian scientists find excess greenhouse g ...
  Environmental researchers have detected excess greenhouse gas levels near the site of Australia's biggest coal seam gas field, prompting calls for halting expansion of hydraulic fracturing until scientists can determine whether it might be contributing to climate change.
• Even after $4.5-billion oil spill fines, civil ...
  WASHINGTON -- BP has accepted criminal responsibility for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a move that it said has put the criminal part of one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters in the rear-view mirror.
• 'BP lied to me' and the nation about the oil s ...
  WASHINGTON — As a dramatic, 24-7 webcast showed oil gushing from BP’s blown-out well during the spring and summer of 2010, Rep. Edward J. Markey suspected the oil giant was underestimating the amount of the spill.

water.org

• Celebrate World Toilet Day
  No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
• East African Water Forum
  Water.org and The MasterCard Foundation convene the East African WaterCredit Forum to accelerate access to microloans designed to reach over 180,000 with safe water and sanitation in Kenya and Uganda by 2015.
• Regaining Trust In Haiti
  The Logalit water and sanitation committee is tenacious, resilient and serves as a model to others. Like citizens of most countries, households in Logalit pay for water. Several months ago, the number of households that were paying to get water in Logalit started to decline.
• Farmville 2 and Safe Water
  For the next month, Zynga and Water.org are partnering to help people get access to safe water. Players of FarmVille 2 are now able to purchase water-themed items that help in-game farms and benefit those struggling around the world without water.
• Water Brings Peace
  Mrs. Pramila Chichore lives in the Raipur area of Hingna with her five family members. Before she applied for a water loan, she spent at least two hours a day fetching water from a distant public tap.

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
  Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
• Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
  Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
• Chinese oversupply sees cost of solar panels d ...
  Right now we’re seeing a glut of solar panels in the market largely due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flo ...
• Chinese oversupply sees cost of solar panels d ...
  Right now we’re seeing a glut of solar panels in the market largely due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flood of ...
• India’s Solar Revolution, Small is Big
      A while back I wrote a post on the need to get India’s solar boom right solar boom right. read more

News Blaze

• California Independent Living Centers Offer Li ...
  One example of ILCs reaching out to veterans can be seen at the Independent Living Resource Center, Inc. (ILRC-Satellite) located in Santa Barbara, CA, which received a grant and specifically hired a veteran to lead a Veteran Outreach Services progr
• Michael Dobkowski: Complexity of Polish-Jewish ...
  Speaking to a full house of students, faculty, staff and community members, Dobkowski discussed the complexity of Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust.
• Young Tibetan Father Self-Immolates in Tsekhog
  Officials Warn Tibetans Not to Gather At Cremations. It is sending the wrong message.
• Iraq Steals Camp Ashraf Residents' Property
  The Iraqi government, by bringing a merchant affiliated to Iraq's Prime Ministry Office and causing delays in the process of selling the property during the past ten months, has averted the entrance of other Iraqi merchants to Ashraf.
• Iraq Steals Camp Ashraf Residents' Property
  The Iraqi government, by bringing a merchant affiliated to Iraq's Prime Ministry Office and causing delays in the process of selling the property during the past ten months, has averted the entrance of other Iraqi merchants to Ashraf.

Worldnews

• Twists and turns of Mumbai court drama
  Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab was found guilty in May 2010 of murder and waging war on India during the 2008 attacks on Mumbai (Bombay), and executed on 21 November 2012. The BBC summarises the twists and turns in the 14-month-long trial that gripped India. TRIAL BEGINS: 23 MARCH 2009 As the tri ...
• Up next for Clippers: Wednesday at Oklaho ...
  CLIPPERS AT OKLAHOMA CITY When: 4:30 PST. Where: Chesapeake Energy Arena. On the air: TV: Prime Ticket, ESPN; Radio: 980, 1330. Records: Clippers 8-2; Thunder 8-3. Record vs. Thunder (2011-12): 3-1. Update: The Clippers have matched their best 10-game start to a season in franchise history, ...
• UN sanctions rebel leaders
  Headlines Congo violence The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to sanction the leaders of Congo's M23 rebel force, which hours earlier occupied the eastern Congolese city of Goma as UN peace-keepers stood by without resisting. But it did not name two countries accused ...
• Mr. Miami: Haslem closing in on Mourning' ...
  MIAMI - When Udonis Haslem was trying to make the Miami Heat take notice of him a decade ago, assistant coach Keith Askins gave him one piece of advice. He told Haslem every NBA player can score, but not everyone rebounds. Haslem remembers that conversation so well that he's about to become ...
• UK recognizes Syrian opposition coalition ...
  Tweet London, Nov 21 (ANI): Britain has formally recognised the newly united Syrian opposition as the 'sole legitimate representative' of the Syrian people. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague made the announcement in a statement to MPs on Tuesday. Hague said he had sought and received 'impor ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Yoga Holiday Gift Guide 2012
  Whether you plan to hit the malls this Friday, the internet next Monday, or to run around town frantically on December 24, the holiday shopping season is upon us. I've rounded up some really excellent gift ideas for folks who love yoga, so take a gander before sending your own list off to S ...
• How birds are used to monitor pollution
  Swallows and homing pigeons do their part for environmental surveillance.
• Federal Register: Medical Devices; Custom Devi ...
  The FDA is in the process of developing an implementation strategy and policy for the custom device exemption criteria in the FD&C Act amended by FDASIA. FDA is seeking information on appropriate uses of the custom device exemption.
• Federal Register: Unique Device Identification ...
  The FDA is amending its July 10, 2012, proposed rule (77 FR 40736) to establish a unique device identification system as required by recent amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act). On July 9, 2012, the Food and Drug...
• In This Issue
  In This Issue Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 92, 667 (December 2012). doi:10.1038/clpt.2012.195

Common Dreams

• 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

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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 ...

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

• Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 6
  by Stephen Lendman Israeli terror attacks continue. They're merciless. Defenseless civilians are targeted. It's official policy in all Israeli conflicts. Besieged Gazans are sitting ducks. Where can they go? How can they hide? What can they do but pray they'll survive? Many won't. Through midd ...
• Sharon the Truth Teller
  By Gilad Atzmon Gilad Sharon, son of Ariel Sharon, wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Israel should “Flatten all of Gaza.” “There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they’d really call for a ceasefire,” he wrote. “We ...
• Israeli Aggression: Dress Rehearsal for Iran?
  by Stephen Lendman Longstanding US and Israeli policies call for regime change in Iran. Replacing its independent government with a pro-Western puppet one is planned. War is the bottom line option if other methods fail. Both countries have longstanding plans. War could erupt any time. Doing so ...
• Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 5
  by Stephen Lendman Sunday as this is written is day 5. Monday when it's read will be day 6. How much longer will this continue? How much more death, destruction, and human misery is tolerable? Seventy-two confirmed Palestinian deaths were reported. Sunday attacks killed 24. Most are civilians. ...
• Nothing Lasts Forever - Do the Math!
  By Michael Collins (Washington, DC 11/18) Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. had some tough words for the oil giants at the organization's events in the nation's capital. He announced to a packed house at the Warner Theater, "We're going after the fossil fuel industry" for trying to wreck ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• BC's water and hydroelectricity: more fragile ...
  It's easy to think of BC's water and hydro resources as limitless, especially in the rainy Lower Mainland. But our latest study examines the serious challenges facing these resources, particularly from industrial use, and calls for a new policy approach to protect and manage them. This is th ...
• CETA and the implications for health care
  The CCPA’s Scott Sinclair and Teresa Healy from the Canadian Labour Congress recently presented on the implications of the proposed Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) for healthcare in Canada.  The webinar was hosted by the Canadian Fede ...
• Impaired Judgement: The Economic and Social Co ...
  In Alberta and British Columbia, liquor retail privatization has meant higher liquor prices but lower government revenue. Moreover, the increased availability of alcohol brought on by privatization and its lax regulation contravene recognized methods for protecting public health. In light of Pre ...
• CETA and Nova Scotia: Who Pays for 'Free' Trade?
  As the federal government continues to move forward with the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) our research finds that the benefits are being oversold while the costs and consequences are being minimized and even ignored.  CETA could result in between 510 and 2587 net job loss ...
• Striking shifts in education and community act ...
  The Fall 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between education and activism, but it focuses extensively on issues raised before, during and since the Québec student strike. The strike provides us with a superb case study of how the Charest government labeled student resistanc ...

World Wide Hippies

• Kissinger in Cambodia
  Do perpetrators of crimes against humanity get worried as they near the end of their lives? Holy Shit! What if there is a God! One can only hope… By LUKE HUNT,latitude.blogs - PHNOM PENH —  Theary Seng was taking aim with precision and anger. The 41-year-old U.S.-trained lawyer and a regul ...
• Jailed Protesters switch legal team. A move aw ...
  By Fred Weir,csmonitor.com – Three lawyers representing two imprisoned Pussy Riot punk rockers have withdrawn – or been fired – from the case amid general agreement that they are not able to effectively represent the women as the atmosphere around their jailing grows increasingly politiciz ...
• Documentary Claims Serial Killer Murdered O.J. ...
  My Brother the Serial Killer Premieres November 21 at 9 PM E/P This November, be thankful for your family, even if they’re not perfect – not everyone is so lucky. On November 21 at 9 PM E/P, Investigation Discovery Films premieres MY BROTHER THE SERIAL KILLER, a feature-length docume ...
• Walmart rattled by growing unrest ahead of Bla ...
  Everyone should shop at Walmart. And leave your full cart in the check out line. Sarah Jaffe guardian.co.uk - As Walmart opens its doors earlier than ever for Thanksgiving sales, it faces its first strike in 50 years by disgruntled workers On Friday, Americans by the millions will crowd into big ...
• History, Farce, and David Petraeus
  By Tom Engelhardt,.tomdispatch.com – History, it is said, arrives first as tragedy, then as farce. First as Karl Marx, then as the Marx Brothers. In the case of twenty-first century America, history arrived first as George W. Bush (and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz and ...

FourWinds10

• The Alabama Department of Conservation and Nat ...
  April 29, 2012 Alabama - The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has temporarily closed some local waterways to shrimping.  The waters were closed to shrimping on Monday.   The areas include all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf ...
• The ONE woman who refuses to leave her toxic K ...
  June 3, 2012 Treece, Kansas, is a poisoned town. Only one house remains. Tim and Della Busby are the lone residents of the community today. And they say they're staying put. Even if it's toxic, Treece is still their home.
• Michigan Oil Spill Compounded by Poor Safety P ...
  June 7, 2012 Canadian pipeline company Enbridge is in the hot seat for an oil spill from a ruptured line in southern Michigan. Crews in Marshall, Mich., are still working to clean up contaminated areas nearly two years after Line 6B burst open, dumping about 20,000 barrels of so-called tar sands ...
• Great Barrier Reef at a Crossroads
  CAIRNS, Australia, Jul 18 2012 (IPS) - The world’s largest and best protected coral reef will be doomed by Australia’s unprecedented scale of planned coal and gas development, experts say. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest reef system, with 3,000 reefs running 2,300 ...
• Special Investigation: The Earthquakes and Tox ...
  July 31, 2012 Fracking is facilitating an oil and gas boom in the Buckeye State, and Ohioans have reason to be shaken up about the issue. Between the spring of 2011 and early 2012, a fracking waste injection well known as Northstar 1 caused more than a dozen minor earthquakes near Youngstown, Oh ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• President Obama Has Little Impact on Oil and G ...
  Following President Obama's reelection, a number of fossil fuel stocks sold off based on the belief that Obama's policies would prove harmful to the fossil fuel industry. But will the President manage to push through tough new regulations that raise the cost of production for fossil fuel companies?
• What Happens After the Long Recession?
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question from a reader about what happens as The Long Recession plays out. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumerenergyreport [dot] com or leave the question after this post (at the original source). ...
• Hofmeister: Surging Demand and Flat Production ...
  John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil and currently the head of Citizens for Affordable Energy, discusses the events responsible for the explosion in the price of oil over the past decade.
• Guest Post: US Energy Independence Can Be Created
  First thing, on this day after the U.S. presidential elections I would like to congratulate President Obama on his reelection. My top prediction for 2012 – made nearly a year ago and reiterated many times since — was that Obama would easily win reelection, primarily because all of th ...
• “As Important as Food and Water”
  When Hurricane Sandy was forecast to make landfall on the East Coast, I advised people to top off their automobiles with fuel. There were a number of reasons for that, and some people in New York and New Jersey are learning those reasons the hard way. When a hurricane hits an area, it can damage ...

Discovery Educator Network

• #globaled12 session ICT4eTwinners project Smil ...
  Comments: See presentations, recordings and a web tour and if you like leave a comment or rt https://twitter.com/LucianeCurator/status/269887968074936320 - LUCIAN DUMATags: ict4eTwinners, smile, curation, social, mediaby: LUCIAN DUMA
• 8 Simple Ways To Start Using Video In Your Cla ...
  Comments:Great infographic supporting why we all love using DE videos within our classrooms.  - Dean MantzTags: classroom, edudemic, infographic, video, education, lessonby: Dean Mantz
• Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCE ...
  Tags: utah, coalition, videos, tutorials, ibooksauthor, technology, educationby: Dean Mantz
• Solar Eclipse 2012 in Cairns, Australia [Infog ...
  Comments:Infographic explaining solar eclipses based on the recent one in Australia. - Dean MantzTags: eclipse, infographicby: Dean Mantz
• 500px — World's Best Photos
  Comments:500px now providing CC image options.  - Dean MantzTags: photography, photos, portfolio, 500pxby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• How Your Breakfast Can Save the Economy
  Want to help stimulate your local economy? Pick up a glass of organic dairy milk or drizzle some over your cereal. While presidential candidates fought over job creation tactics over the last few months, it turns out your neighborhood heifers were the ones actually stimulating growth in rural c ...
• The Worst Turkey Statistic Ever
  The amount of perfectly edible turkey meat Americans will throw into the garbage can this Thanksgiving is enough to make you lose your appetite. Of the nearly 248 million turkeys raised for slaughter in the United States, a whopping $282 million worth of perfectly edible meat will be wasted, en ...
• Could Your Kitchen Pass a Public Health Inspec ...
  You’re a clean cook: You keep meats and vegetables separate and you wash your hands obsessively. But that may not be enough to "pass inspection," according to the Los Angeles Department of Public Health. The agency polled home chefs to see how they would fare if their kitchens were scrutinized ...
• How to Ensure a Hotel Crib Is Baby-Safe
  Booking a hotel or vacation rental that provides a crib sounds like a no-brainer for parents with babies in tow. Why cram a portable crib into your trunk or pay the airlines for the privilege of lugging one around an airport when you can just show up and have a roomier, comfier bed for your bam ...
• The Energy-Saving Trick That's Costing You You ...
  Line-drying your clothes is one of the easiest ways to reduce your energy usage, save a little cash, and keep a few pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. It's also the fastest way to pollute your home if done indoors, finds a new report from Scotland. Engineers and public health resea ...

big think

• Questions for Pro-Lifers
  Earlier this week, I answered a set of "tough questions" posed to advocates of reproductive choice. Well, turnabout is fair play. Although millions of religious people want abortion to be outlawed, they're surprisingly vague on the details. What exactly would their ideal society look lik ...
• The Mind of the Cosmos: How Humans Found Our W ...
  Here is one of the great existential problems that caused a lot of 20th century angst: the more we learn about the universe, the more we realize how insignificant we are.  Here is 21st century science's answer to that: Humans are very sophisticated conglomerates of materials. We are very ...
• Why Won't We Buy What Republicans Are Selling?
  “Consider two companies that are each given a billion dollars and ten months to close a sale,” Mohan Kompella says. “One does, the other doesn’t. What should the losing side do? Re-think its products, its strategy, and its marketing campaign? Or blame dumb, incompetent, and worthless consumers f ...
• Does the Art World Have a Demographics Problem?
  In story after story after story, one powerfully persistent meme of the 2012 American presidential election was that the GOP faced a significant “demographics problem” in which the growing numbers of former minorities such as African-Americans and Latinos threatened to make the Republican Party ...
• Is Living in Cities Making Us Smarter?
  In a discussion of the five major trends that will change the world over the next 25 years, star architect Daniel Libeskind recently told Conde Nast that the long-term trend toward urbanization will help human creativity. Living in densely populated spaces all over the globe will make us all ... ...

Information Liberation

• Caught On Camera: Woman Goes Into Cardiac Arre ...
  ENCINO (CBS2) * A video taken by the California Highway Patrol may be the first time a camera has captured all of the events leading up to a cardiac arrest following the use of a TASER* electronic control device. On June 4, CHP officers stopped ...
• Legal logjam lets troubled cops keep their badges
  Police officers punished for serious misconduct by the state may continue to draw their pay and even carry a badge for years if they appeal the sanctions, according to an analysis of state data by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Some appeals lan...
• Criminalizing Vice Turns Police into Criminals
  For two and a half years, a married father of two children in Florida was paid to lure people into buying drugs from the police so that they could be prosecuted on felony narcotics charges. The informant, who received a bounty of $325 per arrest, ...
• An Analysis Of The Effects Of Prohibition Of T ...
  When societies grow opulent life becomes more precious to the living. People have a good reason to want to live longer lives as more of the promises of Paradise become Earthly. As a result, the ever growing body of evidence of the harmful effects of ...
• The House Is Still a Dump
  "Half of the nation*s 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders have announced plans to curtail capital expenditures this year or next." This is The Wall Street Journal further confirming the mounting evidence that the presidential election did n...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Liberals Have Taken Over California
  An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...
• A Necessity Disguised As A Virtue
  Events in Australia have overtaken my plans for two upcoming LibertyGibbert articles, one on Liberty and children, and the other on the Catholic Church. Yet the Gillard government’s announcement on Monday of a Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse … Continue reading ...
• America On A Collision Course With Reality
  After Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year. If the American electorate are daft enough to re-elect the man who has racked up … Continue reading →
• The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...
  I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … Continue reading →
• Clutching At Straws
  I’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Deceived Wisdom competition from @Waterstones
  If you’re on Twitter check out @Waterstones for a chance to win a copy of my new book, Deceived Wisdom, every day this week. If you’re not on Twitter, sign up and enter the competition anyway! Deceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right is Wrong Book by David Bradley 2012: Waters ...
• Deceived Wisdom competition from @Waterstones
  If you’re on Twitter check out @Waterstones for a chance to win a copy of my new book, Deceived Wisdom, every day this week. If you’re not on Twitter, sign up and enter the competition anyway! Deceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right is Wrong Book by David Bradley 2012: Waters ...
• Girl with dog poop, a study
  This picture of a girl in a woolly hat with autumn leaves on her eyes lying on a woodland floor has been doing the rounds on Facebook etc. Not because it’s cute or funny but because if you look closely you can see a dog turd right next to her head, at 1 o’clock in [...]Girl with dog ...
• Girl with dog poop, a study
  This picture of a girl in a woolly hat with autumn leaves on her eyes lying on a woodland floor has been doing the rounds on Facebook etc. Not because it’s cute or funny but because if you look closely you can see a dog turd right next to her head, at 1 o’clock in [...]Girl with dog ...
• Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, house dust mite
  I do like a word game or puzzle. Biking Becky was just wondering on twitter what is the etymology of the scientific binomial for the house dust mite, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus. My first guess is dermato = skin and phagoides means eating, so skin-eating. The ptero part of the name threw Beck ...

RFF Library

• Regional Investment of RGGI CO2 Allowance Proc ...
  Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) http://www.rggi.org/docs/Documents/2011-Investment-Report.pdf [From Press Release]  The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) states today released a report summarizing the consumer, economic, and environmental impact of investments made using procee ...
• Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4 Degree Warmer Worl ...
  Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Climate Analytics for the World Bank http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/11/turndown-20121119.html [Green Car Congress]  A new report…provides a snapshot of …risks that would be associated with a 4 °C global warming within this ...
• Understanding Relationships between Biodiversi ...
  International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) / by Editors: John A. Parrotta, Christoph Wildburger, Stephanie Mansourian http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=5303 [From Press Release] The report is the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date of the relationship between biodive ...
• Water Under Pressure: What Oil Shale Could Mea ...
  Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development (the National Wildlife Federation, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Trout Unlimited are lead partners in the SFRED coalition) http://www.ourpubliclands.org/sites/default/files/files/Oilshale_report.pdf [Akron Beacon Journal]  Commer ...
• SkyTruth Database Provides Downdoadable Data o ...
  SkyTruth http://frack.skytruth.org/fracking-chemical-database The folks at SkyTruth have “scrapped” the PDF-only data in the FracFocus database — notoriously unsearchable and useless for data aggregation but the only game in town for chemical disclosure of hydrofracking operati ...

Scientific American - News

• Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem
  It’s hard to stand out from the crowd -- particularly if you are a single photon in a sea of millions in an optical fiber. Because of that, ultra-secure quantum-encryption systems that encode signals into a series of single photons have so far been unable to piggyback on existing telecommu ...
• Great Apes Can Have a Mid-life Crisis, Too
  They may not take up surfing or start second careers as cupcake-makers, but chimpanzees and orangutans seem to go through a ‘mid-life crisis’, just like humans. [More]
• Shame Villagers about Toilets, Save a Child's Life
  BETTIAH, INDIA--A jeep traveling through this small town in rural Bihar State affords the usual sights: the traffic chaos of donkey carts, cycle-rickshaw wallahs, motorbikes carrying six-person families, wandering cattle and pigs--all contributing to the cacophony of urban Indian life. As the to ...
• Slowing Cargo Ships More than Halves Pollution ...
  Slowing cargo vessels near coastlines by 10 to 15 miles per hour could dramatically cut ships’ air pollution, according to a new study. But only a few U.S. ports have initiated such efforts. [More]
• Bug-Eared: Human and Insect Ears Share Similar ...
  A rainforest katydid has ears that evolved to be remarkably like those of humans and other mammals. The insect's hearing organ, although tucked in the crook of its front legs, has components that echo the structures of our own middle and inner ear, researchers have discovered. [More] ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Apache Surveyors Ordered Off Unceded Wet’suwet ...
  On the evening of November 20th, 2012, Wet’suwet’en Chief Toghestiy intercepted and issued an eagle feather to surveyors from the Can-Am Geomatics company who were working for Apache’s proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline (PT ...
• Western's Administration Using "Campus Police" ...
    It is well known that Western (in London, Ontario) has taken some hits to its reputation this year over the issue of freedom of discussion on campus. When the University decided to issue year-long campus bans to two journa ...
• CKUT's Off the Hour: Operation Pillar of Defen ...
  This audio originally aired on CKUT on Tuesday, November 20th, 17h-18h. Last Wednesday, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) launched Operation Pillar of Defense with the assassination of Ahmed Jabari, the chief of the Gaza military wing in Hamas. The Operation consists of an intense bombing campaig ...
• VIDEO: Vancouver Rallies for Gaza
  Video of the November 18 Gaza Soldiarity rally on the Robson side of the Vancouver Art Gallery (unceded C.S.T.), followed by a march around downtown. Make sure you listen ...
• Unis'tot'en Statement of Solidarity with Tar S ...
  There Will Be Many Pipeline Blockades! To our Friends and Allies on the Salish Coast, we miss you and will send along an update soon regarding progress at camp  and what is happ ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The wacky Petraeus tacky attack tactic
  With Gen Petraeus' public downfall, the American public can begin to grapple with why after 11 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan "we haven't won anything", (Andrew) Bacevich says. The consequences of the myth of "the great heroic general" have been dire, he says. "It's an excuse to not think ...
• What Romney has taught the American left
  "The president was elected on the basis that he was not Romney and that Romney was a poopy-head." - Grover Norquist (ht:Doonesbury)Just for argument's sake let us accept that Romney was right and that 47% of Americans will always vote against the Republicans because, as "dependent" parasites, t ...
• Whew!
  At least the sinuous Romney isn't going to be president... At least the first African-American president gets to serve two terms... At least the Tea Party wont get to name any justices of the Supreme Court... and at least a hundred "at leasts" that we might not even imagine till they happened, b ...
• Dear God, will it ever end?
  Abbie has nailed it.... If anything defines the period we live in, it is the sight of a nation of over 300M people, with historically unsurpassed military and economic power in a state of sluggish political and social paralysis... and managing to make such a crisis, one so objectively earth ...
• Campaign note: Obama or the deluge (no kidding)
  David Seaton's  News LinksReaders of mine should not be under the impression that I am a big fan of Obama's or of the Democrats... I wrote this back in 2008:I find myself against almost everything that the Republicans stand for, but at least they seem to truly stand for what they say they s ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Benghazi and the Fox News Effect
  Why has the shameful witch hunt against Susan Rice continued to gain traction even though there is literally not a shred of evidence that she did anything wrong? I'd say this Pew poll tells us all we need to know. The only segment of the country that really cares about the sham Benghazi scanda ...
• Marginal Tax Rates, Take 2
  Yesterday I wrote a post that described the effect of letting the Bush tax cuts on the rich expire. Thanks to the fact that rates would only increase on income over $241,000, it turns out that the effect on anyone earning $1 million or less is pretty modest: Several commenters pointed out t ...
• Could "Present and Voting" Help Reform the Fil ...
  Senate reformers have been talking lately about new filibuster rules that would require minority senators to keep talking during the entire length of their filibuster. No more nonsense about just announcing a filibuster and then heading out for drinks. Gregory Koger points out a problem with t ...
• The Tea Party Strikes Back
  For two weeks, the extreme right has been forced to listen to party sages blame the 2012 election loss on them. Todd Akin! Richard Mourdock! Demographic apocalypse! The 47%! Now they're fighting back: “The moderates have had their candidate in 2008 and they had their candidate in 2012 ...
• Liberals and the 2-Parent Family
  I'm reluctant to weigh in on topics I haven't studied much and don't know a lot about. And yet, the sheer unlikelihood of agreeing with Jonah Goldberg prompts me to say that I think conservatives have a point when they lament the breakdown of the traditional two-parent family, a trend far more ...

Insanity Report

• IC 361: God is Chris Brown
  Topics: Door-to-Door Jesus Salesmen God doesn’t care about your problem God is Chris Brown, You are Rihanna Why Christmas seems to come so early Black Friday Star Wars Episode 7 Twinkies gone Republicans lack empathy & just don’t get it Your dick is an asshole what you have to s ...
• IC 360: Fox News Tears
  Topics: Run for Your Lives Drunk White Girls Drunk Black People vs Drunk White People Taking things out of context Our political system balances out Fox News Tears Black Republicans are full of shit Papa Johns vs Obamacare Share with your friends:
• IC 359: Drunkish
  Topics: Kev gets White Boy Wasted Kriss & Rodimus decipher Kev’s drunk tweets Can’t wait for the election to be over “I don’t see color” Covering the election like sports The world won’t end on November 7th Jamie Foxx as Electro George Lucas sells LucasFi ...
• IC 358: The Awesomeness of White Privilege
  Topics: Overboard doomsday storm prepping the DMV’s reaction to natural storms Black people react to Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone We just don’t care enough Apparently America isn’t post racial after all White privilege is awesome Joss Whedon for Romney Phenom & Kriss as reve ...
• IC 357: Stupid Opinions
  Topics: Deodorant isn’t optional Stupid sayings like “there are no stupid opinions” You’re entitled to your own opinion but it could be a stupid opinion Losing builds character Gay Marriage and hiding behind religion when you’re a bigot Black James Bond? Buying a vi ...

Simple Climate

• Australians overestimate climate change rejection
  Actual opinions on climate change in Australia are very different from what people estimate, thanks mainly to our tendency to think more people agree with us than really do, but possibly also to how the issue has been debated, shows a survey run by Zoe Leviston from CSIRO.
• Monsoon instability raises food questions for ...
  An unstable balance between dry and wet monsoon rain seasons could become important for farming in South Asia as the world warms into the 22nd century, find Jacob Schewe and Anders Levermann from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
• Butterfly effect limits climate models
  Tiny changes in climate simulations otherwise held constant can lead to a wide range of outcomes, Clara Deser from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and her team find, showing uncertainty we can’t eliminate.
• Climate provides weak power to predict African ...
  Though there is a modest link between conflict and rainfall and temperature changes, this has been overplayed in political discussions, according to a detailed analysis by John O’Loughlin from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team-mates.
• Cause vagueness hinders climate extinction action
  A PhD class from Stony Brook University in New York State has found that difficulties in researching how climate wipes organisms out have left a knowledge gap, and urges scientists to tackle these tough questions.

e!Science News

• Wormholes from centuries-old art prints reveal ...
  By examining art printed from woodblocks spanning five centuries, Blair Hedges, a professor of biology at Penn State University, has identified the species responsible for making the ever-present wormholes in European printed art since the Renaissance. The hole-makers, two species of wood-boring ...
• Researchers decode birch tree genome sequence ...
  Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have sequenced the genetic code of a birch tree for the first time, which could help protect British birch populations. read more
• Warming to shift heavy rainfall patterns in the UK
  It appears that it's not just us Brits who are fascinated with the UK weather. read more
• High-speed video and artificial flowers shed l ...
  How flowers have evolved particular colours, shapes and scents to attract pollinators has long fascinated ecologists. Now, using artificial flowers and high-speed video, researchers have gained intriguing insights into the intimate relationship between hummingbirds and the flowers they pollinate ...
• Beneficial microbes are 'selected and nurtured ...
  Animals, including humans, actively select the gut microbes that are the best partners and nurture them with nutritious secretions, suggests a new study led by Oxford University, and published November 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology. read more

unEarthed

• The Shiny Scary Truth About Chromium
  Cancer-causing chemical threatens lungs of many Chromium plating facilities emit high levels of the carcinogen into local communities.  (Neal Sanche) Chr ...
• Your Lungs Will Thank Us
  Clean air champions go to court on "fracking" and other drilling air rules Heavy smoke caused by flaring operations at natural gas well located on state land near Pinedale, WY. &n ...
• Climate Change Re-elected As Political Issue
  It's back on Obama's agenda, along with "all of the above" President Obama, on election night.  (Christopher Dilts) Life doesn’ ...
• 180 Seconds Of Coal Ash Pollution
  4 years after the Tennessee coal ash spill, problems continue to grow Aerial view of the devastating 2008 coal ash disaster in Tennessee. (TVA) Four years ago ...
• Patriot Agrees To End Mountaintop Removal Mining
  Historic agreement signals beginning of end for tragic mining practice Yesterday, one of the nation’s top coal companies, Patriot Coal, announced that it i ...

Brave New Climate

• Energy White Paper is hazy on future vision fo ...
  The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a “clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of decarbonising o ...
• CSIRO Energy Future 2050 tool
  CSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...
• Objective analysis of nuclear and wind-solar o ...
  I’ve never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of my pocket and give my time freely, because I think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. But now, I’d like to ask you to give a little, t ...
• The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstratio ...
  I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24 Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...
• Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...
  Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Today We Honor All Veterans
  No trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.
• Tax Debate Time – Fiscal Cliff – T ...
  Just remember to start all conversations with the fact that the richest 200 families in America have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined. The Republicans will fight tooth and nail to keep these wealthy folks from being taxed more, even though they make most of the money, and own almost ev ...
• Get The Tar And Feathers
  If anyone sees Grover, grab him. It is tar and feather time. America’s wealthy have so much money, they could pay a little (or lot) more in taxes. Sorry Grover. We could balance the budget without cutting one single program that helps struggling Americans. We could tax America’s weal ...
• Pshewwwwww
  Great night for Dems. Now for the house in 2014.
• Any Mother Fucker That Votes For Any Republica ...
  I call Republicans Mother Fuckers because they support policies that fuck their mothers, and their fathers, and their children, workers, and all Americans that are not wealthy. After watching all the voter suppression it is amazing some patriotic American doesn’t make things right and give ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Life in Gaza: Letter from a Palestinian woman
  My friend Oded Adomi Leshem from Tel Aviv sent me an email he received from a friend of his in Gaza. She writes about what she is going through and what she does when missiles hit her neighborhood. She puts a human face on the suffering of people in Gaza. After all, it is ignorant to [...]
• Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli bashed for not ...
  Israeli top model Bar Refaeli, whose every move, shmooze, instagram and tweet is reported extensively in Israeli media, got herself in a bit of a jam when one of her posts on Twitter didn’t seem to meet the criteria demanded by the masses who support the assault on Gaza. Refaeli tweeted on Nov 1 ...
• WATCH: Palestinian journalists protest attacks ...
  Members of the Palestinian Union of Journalists and their supporters gathered in Ramallah’s Al-Manara Square on Sunday to demonstrate against an Israeli attack on two media buildings in Gaza.   Ramallah, West Bank – Dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank – territorially separa ...
• Israelis in the U.S. mobilize against Gaza con ...
  By The Israeli Opposition Network Last month, we started discussing strategies for countering the policies of the Israeli government, which we believe has become increasingly dangerous for its citizens. We wanted to communicate our concerns to Americans with longstanding connections to Israel. L ...
• Israel suppresses Gaza protests in West Bank; ...
  Rushdi Tamimi, 31, was shot by Israeli soldiers during a protest in Nabi Saleh on Saturday; he died today in a Ramallah hospital. A 22-year-old protester in Hebron, Hamdi Falah, died today after soldiers shot him four times. In the past several days, Israeli forces have violently put down demons ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Super trawler banned while expert assessment i ...
  The super trawler FV Abel Tasman, (formerly FV Margiris), will not be able to operate in Australia's Small Pelagic Fishery following a decision by the Australian Government to prohibit large mid-water trawl freezer vessels from operating in this fishery under national environment law.
• $10.3 million wastewater recycling upgrades in ...
  Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today joined Member for Wakefield, Nick Champion, to mark the completion of the Riverton and Clare Integrated Community Water Supply and Re-use Schemes.
• Fisheries Adjustment Assistance Package to sup ...
  The Gillard Government today announced details of the Fisheries Adjustment Assistance Package worth around $100 million that will support the creation of the largest network of marine reserves in the world.
• Gillard Government proclaims the final network ...
  Australia's precious marine environments have been permanently protected with the proclamation of the world's biggest network of marine reserves.
• $5.4 million Port Pirie wastewater recycling u ...
  Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today marked the completion of Port Pirie's Community Water Reuse project, located in regional South Australia.

Matt Weidner Blog

• The Lorraine Brown Indictment- “The Cour ...
  The following paragraph comes from the plea agreement just entered today in USA v. Lorraine Brown.  Now, the plea makes it very clear..(see that word SHALL), that the defendant must pay restitution to the victims of her offense.  When the offense is executing false assignments and forging signat ...
• The Lorriaine Brown/Docx LLC/LPS Plea Agreemen ...
  Count One carries a maximum sentence of up to five (5) years imprisonment, a fine of up to a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the gross pecuniary gain or twice the gross pecuniary loss occasioned by the offense, a term of supervised release of not more than three (3) years, and a special [...]
• EXPLOSIVE BOMBSHELL!~ INDICTMENT FOR FORMER DO ...
  WOW! WOW! WOW! THIS IS HUGE! LORRAINE BROWN, a resident of Georgia, founded DocX LLC (hereinafter, “DocX”) in the 1990s in Ohio. In the early 2000s, Brown relocated the bulk of DocX’s operations to Alpharetta, Georgia (the Alpharetta operations of DocX LLC are referred to herei ...
• The National Mortgage Sellout And The Propagan ...
  We are no longer Americans, that proud and thinking people that meant something in this world.  Today we are Amerikans…drugged, dumded down. Out of touch, out of work and unable to engage in that lost American skill….critical thinking. The propaganda surrounding the National Mortgage ...
• The Hell of Gaza Is a Precursor to The Hell We ...
  Chris Hedges is a real pain in the ass.  Had the balls to sue Barack Obama because Obama, using the NDAA wants to drag Hedges away, under the cover of darkness..in secret…torture him…indefinitely…and never let him see the light of day again. (Ignore all of this….isn&#8217 ...

abelard - news

• 3-d printing - is it coming of age | science a ...
  Three-dimensional printing is more than just little plastic bits.
• deer ticks: what they are, and what to do | he ...
  Pesky little critters best to be avoided. What to do if you haven't.
• martial bliss? | fun news at abelard.org
  By modern touchy-feely PC standards, an ascerbic view of adult relationships.
• the 2013 giro d'italia - the fight for pink! ...
  Created to be fair to riders, and balanced in types of stages, while visiting touristic and historc sites, the 2013 Giro should attract both climbers and sprinters.
• imputations (part of how gdp is calculated) | ...
  Clarifying how government adjust this feel-good figure to feel even better.

The Parallel Parliament

• Call of Duty
  It had been a good session – lots of talk and ideas about the need for a renewed sense of …Continue reading »
• Negatives and Positives
  Illustration by Jane Roy There are those in London – the city I live in – who say that we …Continue reading »
• The Scarlet Letters
  It wasn’t the kind of visit I expected on a Sunday afternoon. A well-dressed gentleman knocked on our door on …Continue reading »
• A Place For Us
  How do you write a book about the city in which you live? Seriously. There are so many takes on …Continue reading »
• You Can Fight, But You Can’t Fly
  When President Lyndon Johnson attempted to raise the subject of equitable arrangements among Americans, exemplified in his comprehensive attempt at …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
  Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
• Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
  Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
• Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
  Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
• What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
  In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
• Want to know about teens and social media from ...
  If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• 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.

k2p blog

• Flu vaccines are “over-promoted and over ...
  The flu vaccine given to millions of people each year in Britain is “over-promoted” and “over-hyped” and the protection it offers against the seasonal illness has been exaggerated.
• Retired High Court judge accuses Danish govern ...
  The only thing that matters for wind turbine makers is money. You can wonder why law makers would play along with their game, but as soon as they threatened to move jobs abroad they did as they were told. The fear that Denmark could lose jobs and the near religious obsession with wind power has ...
• Retired High Court judge accuses Danish govern ...
  The only thing that matters for wind turbine makers is money. You can wonder why law makers would play along with their game, but as soon as they threatened to move jobs abroad they did as they were told. The fear that Denmark could lose jobs and the near religious obsession with wind power has ...
• How to use your CV to “control” th ...
  Your CV is a document to market yourself. But it should not be treated as a general brochure to be sent indiscriminately. It is not a "one size fits all" document. It must be directed with precision and with forethought as to what perceptions it must engender in the readers. It must not only be ...
• How to use your CV to “control” th ...
  Your CV is a document to market yourself. But it should not be treated as a general brochure to be sent indiscriminately. It is not a "one size fits all" document. It must be directed with precision and with forethought as to what perceptions it must engender in the readers. It must not only be ...

Left Foot Forward

• Church women bishops vote “a long and bo ...
  There was disappointment today at the Church of England General Synod's vote against the appointment of women bishops.
• Hague officially recognises Syrian opposition ...
  Britian today officially recognised the Syrian national coalition as "the sole legitimate representitve" of the Syrian people.
• Coulson and Brooks face more charges
  David Cameron's close allies Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks faced fresh criminal charges today, in connection with payments to police and public officials.
• Anti-immigration Copé succeeds Sarkozy as UMP ...
  The UMP have picked themselves up from Sarkozy's defeat and internal strife to pick a new leader, Jean-Francois Copé.
• Is Wales about to get tax varying powers?
  After the Silk Commission has finished its report, recommendations for greater fiscal powers have been well received in Wales.

Consumerist

• Three Deer Walk Into A Kohl’s Department ...
  If only these three four-legged members of the animal kingdom were reindeer, this might make a bit more sense: A doe and two of her fawns recently wandered into a Kohl’s department store in Iowa, simply by sauntering through the automatic doors. No word on whether they were just too early ...
• Hey, How Hard Is It To Remake A Starbucks Drink?
  Reddit user Larebearspear had a rotten experience at Starbucks, and shared it with the /r/talesfromretail subreddit. Now, normally the community is for retail workers to share stories from the other side of the counter. But some experiences are so terrible that you just can’t be sympatheti ...
• Tiny Terrors: This Holiday Season’s Trou ...
  Don’t want your kids messing around with potentially dangerous phthalates, picking up traces of lead or swallowing tiny toy parts? You might want to check out the U.S. Public Interest Research Group’s 27th annual survey of toy safety. The someone ominously titled “Trouble in To ...
• Trying To Get Out Of A Busy Grocery Store Quic ...
  Yesterday, we shared the heartwarming story of a Harris Teeter supermarket that let customers leave with carts full of free groceries and not force them to wait around for the registers to start working again. Yesterday evening, sort of the exact opposite of that happened to Dina when she tried ...
• DirecTV Says It Will Credit Accounts Of Custom ...
  Earlier today, we told you about the angry DirecTV customers with Tivo DVRs that are rebooting on a regular basis. The satellite service has since responded to our request for a comment regarding timeline and compensation for affected users. A rep for DirecTV tells Consumerist: A small number of ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Sex Scandal at the SEC: Daily Whistleblower News
  Rolling Stone: SEC Rocked by Lurid Sex-and-Corruption Lawsuit Summary: The former chief investigator for the SEC Inspector General’s (IG) office has filed a whistleblower suit, accusing the agency of retaliating against him for being a whistleblower. Allegedly, the agency’s IG and his successo ...
• Hanford Nuclear Whistleblower to Speak at Whit ...
  Tri-City Herald: Hanford Whistleblower to Speak at Whitman Summary: Hanford nuclear site whistleblower Walt Tamosaitis will speak next week at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington as a part of GAP’s American Whistleblower Tour. Whitman is the second stop of the 2012-2013 Tour. You ...
• GAP National Security Whistleblowers Honored i ...
  (left to right) Wiebe, Binney, GAP's Jesselyn Radack, Claire Nader, KiriakouHindsight is 20/20, as the saying goes. And I'm really hoping that's the case. Because the government's current vision is pretty clouded – at least when it comes to national security. And by clouded, I mean nearly blind. ...
• Nobel Laureates Call for Release of Bradley Ma ...
  Nobel Laureate Desmond TutuThe Nation: Nobel Laureates Salute Bradley Manning Summary: This article by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – all winners of the Nobel Peace Prize – calls for the release of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified ...
• Bolkovac's Story Moves Students at UHCL Whistl ...
  GAP’s American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability kicked off its second year at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) with a stirring event featuring Kathryn Bolkovac, an International Police Task Force human rights investigator in Bosnia who, while working to support ...

UK Progressive

• Why We Should Stop Obsessing About The Federal ...
  by Robert Reich I wish President Obama and the Democrats would explain to the nation that the federal budget deficit isn’t the nation’s major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn’t be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive ...
• The AIDS-like Disease Seldom Mentioned
  by Karen Lambert I have Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFS/CFIDS/ME) and HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS, idiopathic CD lymphocytopenia. With these two clinical diagnoses, I believe that makes me living proof that the AIDS-like CFS/ME is transmissible, something that the medical establishment se ...
• Susan Rice: Qualified
  by Brent Budowsky U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is qualified to be secretary of State and if nominated should be confirmed. The attacks against her are grossly unfair. In my new column “Petraeus: Lessons Learned,” I suggest that war and peace should never be partisan matters, that when America goes ...
• Daring To Hope
  Suddenly Homeless – 37 by Charley James The hardest thing to hold onto when you’re homeless is hope. During the time leading up to losing my own place, every time I thought life was turning around, it didn’t. The last few years did everything possible to compel me to give up: L ...
• The Bottom Line
  by Carl Matthes Bitterly disappointed that their big ideas were solidly rejected by American citizens, Romney/Ryan, vapid and insipid Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates, are now trying to digest a heaping-helping of crow covered with sour grapes. They are whining. Crying. Flinging acc ...

NewsAlert

• FBI agents raided Detroit Public Library over ...
  The Detroit Free Press
• TV report: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to speak Wed ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times
• L.A. union worker told members to put fake nam ...
  The L.A. Times reports:One of Los Angeles' largest public employee unions admitted Tuesday that a staffer sent an email to members asking that they sign "fake names/addresses" on a petition being circulated by former Mayor Richard Riordan to place a pension initiative on the ballot. City electi ...
• Blue States Fear Closing Loopholes
  The Washington Post
• Why Democrats Are in Trouble
  William Murchison

JoNova

• Australia managed the mining boom so well we c ...
  Our award-winning treasurer is forcing the nation to spend $8.9 billion on wind-turbines, to generate electricity which will be3- 4 times more expensive than coal powered electricity, probably won’t reduce CO2 at all, and which definitely won’t change the weather. Victoria’s windfarm ...
• Catalyst: climate astrology in your very own b ...
  The ABC tv program Catalyst was quite special last Thursday. Was that a science report, or an advertorial? Forget gloom and doom it’s “kinder” climate now The ABC team have shifted gear. They heard they should stop being all gloom and doom (it’s climate fatigue you know) ...
• Weekend Unthreaded
  Plenty of hot potatoes in the air at the moment… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
• Did Julia really say that? She’s here to ...
  Her speech to the Australian Business Council yesterday: And the “other Presidential contest”, the Chinese leadership transition is taking place today.  In 2015, China should take its pilot emissions trading scheme national. In total around sixty per cent of the world’s GDP is either subject to ...
• Nature paper: Global droughts unchanged in 60 ...
  How many images have we seen of drought-stricken cracked land, or been told this is the future? How many headlines have suggested that global warming causes droughts? Since the end of World War II humans have produced some 85% of all their CO2 emissions, but here is a new study showing that for ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

• Hurricane Sandy: Not Good Enough
  Preppers throughout the USA played close attention to Hurricane Sandy, and how well people in New York coped with the situation. These minor disasters are a good indicator for how a country can survive when a massive disaster occurs. Apologies to New Yorkers and New Jersey folk for calling it mi ...
• Pope Benedict: No Doomsday in 2012
  For more than a thousand years the Bible has pretty much had a monopoly on apocalyptic prophecy. Today Pope Benedict, head of the Catholic church, has denounced the Mayan doomsday, as well at Biblical prophecy: During his weekly Angelus address from the window of his Vatican apartments on St P ...
• Things Built On SuperVolcanoes
  I didn’t know some of these, so thanks to Cracked for their post 6 Important Things That We Built On Top of Supervolcanoes: Lake Taupo – this supervolcano is located in the middle of New Zealand’s North Island, which is home to 80% of the population. Next time it erupts, popu ...
• Semi-Gourmet Suvivalist Meals
  I have read a lot of prepper recipes in the last few years, and most are rather bland and/or vegetarian. I don’t know who created these really interesting recipes, but they appear to be brought to us by the Doomsday Prepper TV series. They aren’t really gourmet, but considering they ...
• Pineal Gland and Fluoride
  I read a lot of alternative news items, books etc. The vast majority of it fails to pass my BS-detector. But some do – which is good because I am skeptic who wants to believe. And when it comes to fluoride in our water, I think perhaps it could be for reasons other than protecting our teet ...

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

One News Page

• Ajmal Kasab’s last words: ‘Won’t do it a ...
  Four years after carrying out the horrifying terror attack in Mumbai, Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab on Wednesday was remorseful of his act. Reported by Zee News 22 minutes ago
• ITBP squad guarding Kasab to be called back
  The ITBP contingent guarding 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai will soon be 'deinducted'. Reported by Zee News 22 minutes ago
• Ajmal Kasab hanged, buried inside Yerwada Jail
  Five days before the 4th anniversary of 26/11 attacks, Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab was executed at Pune’s Yerwada Jail on Wednesday morning. Reported by Zee News 22 minutes ago
• The man who caught Ajmal Kasab alive
  Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar spoke to Inspector Sanjay Govilkar, who was on duty at Chowpatty when Ajmal Kasab and his accomplice Ismail Khan approached them in their stolen car on November 26, 2008. Reported by Rediff.com 30 minutes ago
• Winning start for Saina at Hong Kong Open Supe ...
  The third ranked Indian took time to get into the groove but went from strength to strength as the match progressed to notch up a 22-20, 21-8 win over Aprilla Yuswandari of Indonesia at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Kowloon. Reported by Firstpost 36 minutes ago

Global Research TV

• Fake War on Terror: What Really Makes People B ...
• Gaza War is Cover for Israeli Occupation
• Greece: Days of Decline
• Portugal General Strike: This is What Austerit ...
• Israel's Deadly 'Monopoly of Force' in Gaza

Daily Tech

• Boeing 737 MAX Reaches "Firm Concept" Stage
  New aircraft will (hopefully) be delivered in 2017
• T-Mobile Says Apple's iPhone Isn't Worth the S ...
  T-Mobile doesn't want to spend billions just to get the iPhone like some competitors did
• Western Digital Adds New 4 TB Capacity Hard Dr ...
  New 4 TB hard drive will sell for under $350
• Audi Announces Four New Diesels for U.S.
  They're all expected to hit dealerships in 2013
• Microsoft is Full of "It" -- Feces-Derived Bio ...
  Software giant looks to power its data center with feces

Oriental Review

• The Assads: Washington’s One-Time Favorite Fam ...
  Archived declassified files from the Central Intelligence Agency point to successive U.S. administrations supporting Syria’s long-serving President Hafez al-Assad, the father of current President Bashar al-Assad, as a bulwark against Arab radicals. Israel also recognized Hafez al-Assad as the “m ...
• Obama Goes to Myanmar
  On November 9, the White House Press Office officially confirmed that President Obama “will travel to Bangkok, Thailand; Rangoon, Burma and Phnom Penh, Cambodia from November 17-20. In Thailand, he will meet with Prime Minister Yingluck to mark 180 years of diplomatic relations and reaffirm the ...
• Islamic Centre: KSA’s Strategic Move on the Af ...
  Afghanistan is an ideal springboard and battleground for the spread of Saudi Sunni Wahhabism and Iranian Shiite fundamentalism throughout Central Asia; especially out towards the former Soviet breakaway nations that are hungry for any teaching necessary to fill the failed Bolshevik indoctrinatio ...
• America Forever?
  So, Obama’s victory was predetermined by the choice of his opponent. And it seems that this choice was no accident. Romney is a standard caricature Republican with a distilled ultra-Republican image and matching public demagogy. He is probably the only candidate who was unable to beat Obam ...
• Flooding Syria with Foreign Arms
  During a recent stay in Syria , I was able to observe first hand, substantial demonstrative evidence supporting the thesis that American and Gulf intelligence agencies as well as private arms dealers from these countries top the list of more than two dozen countries benefiting from the crisis in ...

BlogHer

• Woodland Creature Brown Paper Bags
  If you've seen many of my other tutorials, I'm sure you've noticed that I love animals and I love creative gift bags and boxes, and sometimes these two just happen to collide. Today I'm going to show you how to turn simple brown paper bags into three woodland creature gift bags: a hedgehog, a ra ...
• Storytelling on Transgender Day of Remembrance
  Whether you know it or not, since 1998 November 20th has been set aside as the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day for remembering the tragically high number of transgender men and women who have lost their lives to violence. Tonight there will be memorial vigils held in cities across the nati ...
• Little Puff Pastry Pizzas With Bell Peppers, M ...
  [Editor's Note: Though this recipe was designed as an appetizer, it would also make a quick and easy elegant dinner option! Use the baking time to add a salad, and you're all set. --Genie] I love puff pastry, and for some time have been on a serious puff pastry kick, which is why I have lots of ...
• GIF is the American Word of the Year
  The Oxford English Dictionary finds the American penchant for creating animated GIFs to joke about almost anything worthy of bestowing the American Word of the Year award to the word "GIF." The Mary Sue explains, and shows you some moving examples. Well how do ya like them apples? The Oxford En ...
• Knowing Where Things Are & Other Things I Miss
  What do you miss most about the days before you became a mother. I miss sleeping really, really soundly. The smallest noises wake me up now! I liked the list that The Girl Next Door Drinks and Swears came up with in her "before" post. I agree with one a whole lot: I miss remembering why I walked ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• A Dose of ‘Good’ Bacteria Could He ...
  Some chronic sinus problems may be caused by a depletion of “good” bacteria and the presence of “bad” bacteria in the sinuses, a new study says. The findings suggest adding back some of these good bacteria ...
• 5 Health Problems Linked to Energy Drinks
  Concerns over the potentially harmful effects of energy drinks, especially when they’re combined with alcohol, have been growing in recent years. A story in the New York Times today (Nov. 15) added to that concern, noting that the ...
• Big Rise in Diabetes, Especially Down South
  A breakdown of U.S. diabetes cases shows dramatic increases in the number of people diagnosed with diabetes overall between 1995 and 2010, with especially sharp increases among people in the South and in Appalachian states. According ...
• Food Sickens Millions as Company-Paid Checks F ...
  William Beach loved cantaloupe — so much so that starting in June last year he ate it almost every day. By August, the 87-year-old retired tractor mechanic from Mustang, Oklahoma, was complaining to his family ...
• F.D.A. Finds Safety Problems at Company Supply ...
  A federal inspection has turned up a long list of unsanitary conditions and unsafe practices at Ameridose, a drug supplier with some of the same owners as the pharmacy whose tainted steroid caused a nationwide outbreak of ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• 44 years ago: The Farmington Mine Disaster
  Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce Forty-four years ago today, 78 miners were killed in an explosion at Consolidation Coal Co.’s No. 9 Mine in Farmington, W.Va Here’s how the United States Mine Rescue Association describes the disaster: At approximately 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 20, 1 ...
• Illinois coal miner dies on the job
  Here’s the weekend’s sad news from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: At approximately 5:00 am Sunday, a miner (the continuous mining machine operator), who was reported to be about 30 yrs old, was killed after being caught between the continuous mining machine and the c ...
• Strip mining phase-out deal leave some speechless
  Photo by Vivian Stockman, OVEC. Flyover courtesy of Southwings. Now it’s become pretty common over the last four years that any development about mountaintop removal or the coal industry in general — especially if it’s something perceived as another overreach by the Obama admin ...
• CEO Ben Hatfield: Ending mountaintop removal & ...
  Here’s the full statement read in federal court today by Patriot Coal CEO Ben Hatfield about his company’s decision to phase out mountaintop removal coal mining: Patriot Coal has concluded that the continuation or expansion of surface mining, particularly large scale surface mining o ...
• Huge news: Patriot Coal to end mountaintop removal
  We’ve got this afternoon’s huge breaking news from the coalfields on the Gazette website: Patriot Coal has agreed to phase out mountaintop removal and other forms of strip mining in a move Patriot officials say is in the best interests of the company and the communities where it oper ...

Daniel Miessler

• Our Earth’s Timeline, Scaled to One Year
  This certainly gives some perspective on things. Related Posts:Obama Gaining GroundHow the States Voted by EducationNew Cisco Switch For the HouseThe Future of AppSec Liability is ObviousIs it becoming cool to not capitalize story titles?
• New Cisco Switch For the House
  Just got me one of these slick little beasts for my home network. Full 10/1000 speeds, advanced security and QoS features, and–most importantly–IOS manageable. Related Posts:Obama Gaining GroundOur Earth’s Timeline, Scaled to One YearHow the States Voted by EducationThe Futu ...
• Are We Living in a Simulation?
  One thing that later generations might do with their super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears. Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are c ...
• Malware uses Google Docs as Communication Medi ...
  Security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec have uncovered a piece of malware that uses Google Docs, which is now part of Google Drive, as a bridge when communicating with attackers in order to hide the malicious traffic. The malware — a new version from the Backdoor.Makadocs f ...
• Looking For an Assistant / Intern
  Hey all, I’m looking for an assistant / intern. I need someone to help me work on various projects related to my site, including updating articles with the latest markup, optimizing CSS, updating my logo with proper quality, researching topics, etc. That’s what I need. Wh ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Drone test flights anger residents of Welsh town
  Drone test flights anger residents of Welsh town from joe mcevoy on Vimeo.   RTnews-For victims in tribal regions of Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan, it’s the last sound heard before bloodshed ensues. A constant whirring that gets louder before it becomes visible. But for residents of the q ...
• Kissinger in Cambodia
  Do perpetrators of crimes against humanity get worried as they near the end of their lives? Holy Shit! What if there is a God! One can only hope… By LUKE HUNT,latitude.blogs - PHNOM PENH —  Theary Seng was taking aim with precision and anger. The 41-year-old U.S.-trained lawyer and a regul ...
• Jailed Protesters switch legal team. A move aw ...
  By Fred Weir,csmonitor.com – Three lawyers representing two imprisoned Pussy Riot punk rockers have withdrawn – or been fired – from the case amid general agreement that they are not able to effectively represent the women as the atmosphere around their jailing grows increasingly politiciz ...
• Documentary Claims Serial Killer Murdered O.J. ...
  My Brother the Serial Killer Premieres November 21 at 9 PM E/P This November, be thankful for your family, even if they’re not perfect – not everyone is so lucky. On November 21 at 9 PM E/P, Investigation Discovery Films premieres MY BROTHER THE SERIAL KILLER, a feature-length docume ...
• Walmart rattled by growing unrest ahead of Bla ...
  Everyone should shop at Walmart. And leave your full cart in the check out line. Sarah Jaffe guardian.co.uk - As Walmart opens its doors earlier than ever for Thanksgiving sales, it faces its first strike in 50 years by disgruntled workers On Friday, Americans by the millions will crowd into big ...

reference frame

• Papers refuting black hole firewalls spread
  Some research activity following the provoking black hole firewall claim by AMPS (Polchinski et al.) continues. The papers that say – or pretty much say – that black holes don't have any firewalls at/near the event horizon start do prevail. It's interesting to mention that Samir Mathur's ...
• Leonard Susskind on Higgs boson
  If you have 75 minutes, you may want to listen to the July 30th, 2012 post-discovery talk about the Higgs boson by Leonard Susskind that was addressed to the curious pensioners in Palo Alto, California. At the beginning, he reminds you that you have already heard that the Higgs bos ...
• Polish Breivik Wannabe: Dr Brunon Kwiecień, a ...
  I guess you have heard about the foiled plan (thank God) by a Polish nationalist to bomb the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament and to kill the president, the prime minister, and lots of lawmakers. He has had accumulated tons of explosives, detonators, guns, and lots of other equip ...
• BaBar directly measures time reversal violation
  Microscopic processes involving particles proceed differently if forced to go backwards One of them is Babar the Elephant. Don't ask me which one – I would guess it's the daddy. Instead, I can offer you Peter F.'s elephant who can paint an elephant with a flower. Physical Revi ...
• World Bank abuses AGW lies to grow its bureaucracy
  Jim Yong Kim is a Korean-American physician and a former president of Dartmouth College who was recently named the president of the World Bank after Barack Obama nominated him half a year ago. Let me confess that I simply can't stand similar superficial careerist assholes. In an ap ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Clinton presses on with Israel-Hamas truce efforts
  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will try on Wednesday to wring an elusive truce deal from Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: UN considers emergency meeting on Israel’s military action in Gaza An Israeli airstrike killed the c ...
• A Major Crisis Indicator Just Hit Its Highest ...
  from Zero Hedge, via BusinessInsider: When one thinks of America, the word “savings” is likely the last thing to come into a person’s head, for the simple reason that the vast majority of Americans don’t save: recall that in September the personal savings rate dipped to 3 ...
• Obama: A Better Wartime President?
  So last term, we had Obama acting extremely diplomatically. That may have some of you thinking that he is not ready to handle a world war. I, however, think he has the perfect… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: President Obama is helping Iran build bomb. Fro ...
• Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know- The Surpris ...
  Video Rating: 3 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know – Christmas Chances are that you’ve heard of the alleged war on... Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know – Christmas Chances are that you’ve heard of ...
• Israel holds the record for breaking the most ...
  We condemn Hamas for firing rockets into Israel. We believe that targeting civilians is unconscionable, and is a war crime. But by any objectives measure, Israel has broken the… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Israel prepping for strike on Iran Was just on ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Greener Holiday Dishwashing with EWG
  By Heather White, EWG Chief of Staff and General Counsel Having guests around during the holiday season? Inviting them to hang out in your kitchen?  Setting out munchies?  Cooking an entire humongous festive holiday meal? ... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• Drilling Rigs: Not So Pretty In Pink
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• EWG's Guide to a Healthy Thanksgiving
  This year, give thanks with less--fewer pesticides, greenhouse gases and maybe less money. Small turkeys can be tastier.  And when you cook just what you need, you don't waste.    1. Try an organic, local or heritage turkey or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
• EWG, Public Citizen Seek Court Backing for S. ...
  By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow The Environmental Working Group and Public Citizen have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to support a San Francisco law that would require cell phone retailers to distribute a consumer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
• Environmental Groups Sue California for Failin ...
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Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• At Barclays, Hoyas overshadow top team and top ...
• Quinn runs up front, with qualifications
• Cuomo complains again about power companies, s ...
• Hillary Clinton in Israel, Trudeau on Nate Silver
• Schneiderman sues Credit Suisse, hints at more ...

Views & News from Norway

• Jens jabbed in another book
  Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg hasn’t been having a very good year, and now he’s being jabbed by yet another of his government colleagues who are supposed to be on his side. The latest political poking comes from Gerd Liv Valla, a Labour Party colleague who rose to be Norway’s ...
• Seasonal darkness full of light
  Norway has now entered what’s traditionally called mørketiden, literally “the dark time,” when the sun dips below the horizon in the northernmost areas of the country, and the days get extremely short elsewhere as winter sets in. The dark time of the year, however, can really o ...
• Western Norway braced for flooding
  Another storm was due to roll in over Western Norway on Wednesday, prompting flood warnings for the western portions of Vest-Agder, all of Rogaland and the southern portion of Hordaland counties. State meteorologists warned that a rise in temperatures and lots of heavy rainfall will lead to high ...
• State oil company keen to avoid taxes
  Statoil, Norway’s state-controlled oil company, was threatening this week to move some of its operations out of Norway if the government goes through with new tax regulations that would leave Statoil with a much bigger tax bill. Statoil executives aren’t at all happy with the governm ...
• Smaller plates, less waste
  Hotels in Norway and Sweden took part last summer in an interesting experiment that produced even more interesting results: Smaller plates provided to guests at the hotels’ traditional breakfast buffets led to a 20 percent reduction in the amount of food that was thrown away, which in turn ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate ...
  This is the second monthly post for the research project about perennial plants, and perennialising annual plants, which provide food in temperate climate parts of Australia. The original article introducing this project, stating its aims, and providing participant instructions, can be found her ...
• Pigscavation to Help Water Penetration
  Capturing water before it runs off your property is key to rehydrating parched landscapes. Building ‘swales’ or channels along contour with uncompacted mounds is one way of assisting water infiltration. Building swales can also be an expensive exercise utilising heavy machinery w ...
• Housebroken
  There’s a second environmental crisis, just as potent as the first. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. “One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow”(1). That radical green press ...
• Rwanda – Emerging in a Changing Climate (video)
  Filmmaker and environmentalist, John Liu, takes us to Rwanda again (last time was here), showing us how the country is seeking to leapfrog the disastrous ‘development‘ route most of the countries of the North have gone down, to instead head more directly towards sustainability. G ...
• Dust Bowl Revisited
  by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Credit: Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress On October 18, 2012, the Associated Press reported that “a massive dust storm swirling reddish-brown clouds over northern Oklahoma triggered a multi-vehicle accident along a major interstate… for ...

Pointman's

• The BBC : Aunty Beeb or Mummy knows best?
  The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was set up in the early 1920s, in order to establish a radio service for both the UK and the its empire. Its first Director General was a fiery Scot called John Reith, who despite saying that he’d little idea of what broadcasting actually was, set ...
• Why hasn’t there been a real debate on c ...
  Given that the alarming scenarios predicted by climate science are being used as the reason for advocating massive changes in society, prosperity, industrial infrastructure, lifestyles and even democracy, there’s never been a real debate over its veracity. You have alarmists on one side, w ...
• Examples will have to be made : Germany.
  I wrote an analysis piece some time back, which put forward the idea that we climate realists had a secret weapon, and that weapon was time. Time would inevitably bring down the environmental movement, because it would demonstrate for all to see, the fundamental unworkability of its policies in ...
• It’s time for a change.
  It’ll soon be time to cast your vote, so you have to look back at what the current politico has done for you over the last four years. I see auto workers in Detroit, who no longer work on the line because that line no longer exists, and now have to swallow the indignity of watching &# ...
• Green Myths : We must conserve everything.
  There’s this unquestioned idea, that’s been firmly planted into the public mind. That idea is that nothing should ever be allowed to go extinct and therefore conservation of anything is automatically a good thing. It’s nearly universally accepted and yet it’s totally unna ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• African Americans for Justice in the Middle Ea ...
  The initial signers of this petition include former People's Hurricane Relief Fund director Kali Akuno, and writer and scholar Robin D.G. Kelley. To see the original petition, click here. African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa (AAJMENA) strongly condemns Israeli agg ...
• Food Justice Event This Thursday in New Orleans
  From our friends at Survivors Village and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: Join Survivors Village, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, and the New Orleans Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for this critical program about the struggle for food ...
• New Orleans City Council Candidate Launches An ...
  District B City Council candidate Eric Strachan sent out a mailer this week attacking one of his opponents for supporting Barack Obama. While President Obama is not popular in Louisiana, he is popular in New Orleans, including in the district Strachan seeks to represent. In 2008, Obama easily ca ...
• Want to Help People Recovering From Hurricane ...
  In response to Hurricane Sandy and those who are looking for places to donate, we are publishing below an edited excerpt/combination from articles about the Red Cross and relief previously posted on this site. Perhaps nowhere in the US is Red Cross as unpopular as in New Orleans, where the mem ...
• New Series of Short Videos on Al Jazeera Highl ...
  Al Jazeera English is a 24-hour news channel available in more than 250 million households in over 130 countries. They have 65 bureaus across the globe, mostly rooted in the global South. As part of their US election coverage, they are airing this series of short videos focused on some of the is ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Is the site dead now?Statistics: Posted by MikeWB — Wed Nov 21, 2012 2:42 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Am I the only one thats always thought Joe Blow was an agent? serious question.Statistics: Posted by a_little_byrdie — Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:53 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Honestly, I think DBS is irrelevant at this point in time. He has disappeared off the map like Mike Ruppert did. But if you finally provide the details of his Masonic membership, I would be interested in learning about it.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:44 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I like this Mark Dice guy. He is a good satirist. He is the ideal charismatic counter-personality to Fatboy. Is he clean as far as the J question is concerned?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:42 pm
• Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: Charlie ...
  Sheen needs to take a vacation from himself.Statistics: Posted by FrankDialogue — Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:48 pm

TVNZ

• India executes 2008 Mumbai attacker in secret
  Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the only militant to have survived the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, has been executed.
• Two killed in suicide bomb attack near Afghan ...
  A suicide bomber has killed two Afghan guards outside a NATO-run compound in Kabul.
• China promotes senior female leader
  Sun Chunlan has been promoted to Communist Party chief of the port city of Tianjin.
• US blocks UN Security Council action on Gaza c ...
  The US has blocked a UN statement condemning the escalating conflict between Israel and Palestine.
• Ex-UBS trader jailed for $US2.3 billion fraud
  The biggest fraud in British history cost the Swiss bank UBS $US2.3 billion.

environment 360

• U.S.-Mexico Reach Accord On Sharing Colorado R ...
  The U.S. and Mexico have reached an agreement on how to share water from the Colorado River, a five-year deal crafted to help both nations prepare for future droughts. Under the agreement, regional water agencies in California, Arizona, and Nevada will purchase nearly 100,000 acre-feet of water ...
• Breeding Birds in UK Have Declined 20 Percent ...
  The population of breeding birds in the UK has plummeted by 21 percent since 1966, losing more than 44 million birds in less than a half-century, according to the newly released State of the UK’s Birds 2012 report. According to experts, the number of house sparrows has State of the UK's Birds ...
• Five Questions for Bill McKibben: The ‘Do the ...
  Bill McKibben — author, climate activist, and founder of 350.org — is in the midst of a 21-city “Do the Math” tour to build grassroots support for combating climate change.
• A Global Treaty on Rivers: Key to True Water S ...
  No broad-based international agreement on sharing rivers currently exists, even though much of the world depends on water from rivers that flow through more than one nation. But that may be about to change, as two separate global river treaties are close to being approved. BY FRED PEARCE
• Majority of Marine Species Still Remain Unknow ...
  While more new marine species were identified over the last 10 years than during any previous decade, as many as two-thirds of the plant and animal species living in the oceans may still be unknown to scientists, a new study says. Writing in the journal Current Biology, a team of international s ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Welcome to the International Climate Science C ...
  Tags: science climate analysis
• Liberty Classroom | The history and economics ...
  Tags: liberty classroom history economics
• poorrichard's blog
  Tags: blog survivalism news nwo history education
• Alexander Higgins Blog - The Latest Buzz, Anal ...
• The Devil's Excrement
  Tags: Venezuela blog tech science politics oil

backofthebook

• 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 ...

Daily Beast

• Where Does the GOP Go From Here?
  To cap off today's series on proposals for a stronger, better GOP, here's a quote from Rod Dreher, a writer for The American Conservative (and a must read for people who want to understand the strongest arguments put forth by theological conservatives.) Dreher:
• Some Conservative Pundits Tout Moderation Afte ...
  Kristol, Hannity urge GOP rethinking
• More Fallout at the BBC
  The BBC is investigating why a report about abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile, one of its former stars, was scuppered.
• Chris Hayes is a Type?
  The host of Up With Chris Hayes has unknowingly seduced famed singer Cher. Very impressive!
• Don't Let a Good Thing Pass Us By
  Jeffrey Leonard has a fascinating article in the Washington Monthly regarding the future of our electrical grid. He seems cautiously optimistic about natural gas as a replacement for dirtier forms of carbon such as coal and gasoline, but there's a hangup. Without major upgrades to our elect ...

Loonwatch

• Murfreesboro Mosque Celebrates Opening
  More than two years of a rocky path behind it, the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro celebrated its opening Sunday with food, fellowship and special guests.
• France: Anti-Muslim Elements Emerge Victorious ...
  A right-winger famed for his anti-Muslim rhetoric has been elected new leader of France's former ruling party.
• West Bank mosque damaged by fire; locals blame ...
  Vandals set fire to the entrance of a West Bank mosque on Monday, damaging the door, in an attack that villagers blamed on Jewish settlers.
• Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: “We Must Blow G ...
  "We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages destroying all the infrastructure including roads & water."
• Update: Oklahoma Muslim On No-Fly List to Retu ...
  Saadiq has been barred from returning to the United States as US authorities has placed his name in the no-fly list.

Energy News

• Officials “Aghast”: High levels of cesium dete ...
• Japan reactor likely wrecked by seawater durin ...
• Officials: High levels of extremely dangerous ...
• Expert: In all honesty things have taken so lo ...
• Reports: Fukushima decontamination proving fut ...

Japan Times

• ¥1 trillion for next stimulus
  The government will spend ¥1 trillion on a second round of fiscal stimulus as it tries to revive the economy before it slides into recession, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Tuesday. The measures will be paid for by tapping reserve funds from this fiscal year's budget, Fujimur ...
• Maryland bolts ACC for Big Ten
  Choosing to look toward the future rather than honor the past, Maryland joined the Big Ten on Monday, bolting from the Atlantic Coast Conference in a move driven by the school's budget woes. Maryland was a charter member of the ACC, which was founded in 1953.
• Abandoned animals find new home on farm
  Seiji Taniguchi, 64, smiled as he put a tray of sweet potatoes and nutmeg in front of one of the cages in his farm. "Momo, is it good?" he asked. Momo, a female Japanese macaque, squeaked in joy and nibbled the food.
• Kaepernick, 49ers rout Bears
  Strong-armed fill-in Colin Kaepernick made all the right throws, looking every bit a capable NFL No. 1 quarterback. Kaepernick passed for 243 yards and two touchdowns in his first career start in place of the injured Alex Smith, and the San Francisco 49ers whipped the Chicago Bears 32-7 on Mon ...
• Hashimoto lifts his party's ban on taking corp ...
  Bowing to pressure from those around him, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto announced Tuesday that the ban by Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) on accepting money from corporations and organizations has been lifted, apparently in consideration for new members, including Shintaro Ishihara. ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Canada’s drug problems
  Opioid addiction, transparency, clinical trials, post-marketing surveillance, Pharmacare
• Foreign policy and CNOOC leaks: Politics on TV ...
  Talking about that leaked foreign policy document, leaks about the CNOOC takeover deal, and the situation in Gaza
• The Maclean’s Photo Daily 5
  Best photos from the past 24 hours
• The Quebec budget: Cutting spending to buy time
  How to propose an austerity budget and try to dodge a political battle
• The Commons: Holier than thou (as long as thou ...
  The Scene.... Peggy Nash had asked why the Prime Minister wouldn’t be in Halifax

Making It Count - CCPA

• The Rich Stay Rich: Fraser Institute
  A new report came out from the Fraser Institute today looking at income mobility.  It certainly doesn’t intend to make this conclusion, but a thorough look at their data shows that the rich stay rich as everyone else fights for entrance to this exclusive club. Plenty has already been written abo ...
• How Progressive is the Personal Income Tax System?
  (Apologies if others have commented on this previously.) The 2011 Tax Expenditures report by the federal Department of Finance includes an analysis of the progressivity of the federal personal income tax system. What I find striking is just how weak the federal personal income tax is as a tool f ...
• Quality assurance in Ontario
  The traditional model of quality assurance, where professors and institutional bodies evaluate, approve and improve programs, has always existed in Ontario. However, the centralization and standardization of quality assurance has been accelerated by university and college administrators and enco ...
• Stagnant economy may mean more cuts to come
  The federal government released its annual fall update on the country’s finances today. Despite the upbeat messaging around the “Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections” there are concerning underlying trends with the country and its finances. For regular Canadians, there is no explosive growt ...
• Fiscal Cliff Notes
  The US federal budget is back in the spotlight now that the election is over. In one sense, not much has changed in that the Republicans continue to hold the House, the Democrats the Senate and White House. But what we are now witnessing is the culmination of budget deals going back to the first ...

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

• A Global Treaty on Rivers: Key to True Water S ...
  “Back in 1997, the UN adopted the Convention on the Non-Navigable Uses of International Watercourses. It did not lay down hard and fast rules for sharing waters, but it was a statement of principle that nations should ensure the “sustainable and equitable use of shared rivers.” Only three ...
• US, Mexico to sign agreement for Colo. River water
  “Government officials from United States and Mexico have made a Tuesday date in San Diego to sign a landmark agreement to share Colorado River water during times of drought and surplus. “The time and place were confirmed Friday by International Boundary and Water Commission official ...
• Water: The next challenge for China’s new leaders?
  “China faces a number of challenges, including dependence on exports and weak domestic consumption, but one of the most pressing issues is a risk of severe water shortages. “A map from research firm Maplecroft shows that four Chinese provinces are at “extreme risk” of lacking enough ...
• Drought, water scare gets attention of agribus ...
  “At the height of this year’s drought, decision-makers at the agribusiness giant Archers Daniels Midland kept an uneasy eye on the reservoir down the hill from their headquarters. “At one point, the water level fell to within 2 inches of the point where the company was in dange ...
• The Problem Is Clear: The Water Is Filthy
  “SEVILLE, Calif. — Like most children, the students at Stone Corral Elementary School here rejoice when the bell rings for recess and delight in christening a classroom pet. “But while growing up in this impoverished agricultural community of numbered roads and lush citrus orchards, ...

D. Kucinich

• Undermining Peace in Gaza and Israel in One Mi ...
  On November 16, 2012, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution, H. Res 813, expressing “vigorous support” and “unwavering commitment” to the State of Israel while bombs were being dropped on Gaza and missiles were launched toward Ashkelon. The resolution expresses the offic ...
• Congress Hears Expert Testimony About Combat D ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today hosted a Congressional briefing to examine the United States’ policy regarding the use of armed drones.  U.S. drone strikes are estimated to have killed thousands of people. In Pakistan have killed an estimated 3,378 people; in Yemen such strikes are ...
• Kucinich Statement Regarding Violence in Gaza
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement. "The recent news of a military offensive in Gaza and retaliatory rocket attacks in Southern Israel is heartbreaking.  This escalation of violence is extremely dangerous in the current changing and fragile landscape ...
• The Real Scandal Surrounding the Petraeus Resi ...
  The National Security Agency routinely collects 1.7 BILLION emails, phone calls and communications every single day. Any kind of digital communication can be recorded and stored. Where you were when you wrote an email, where the recipient was when it was read, the text of the message can all be ...
• Kucinich Calls for General Petraeus to Testify ...
  In the first Congressional session since the election, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the House floor to call upon General David Petraeus, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to testify before Congress about the circumstances surrounding the terrorist attack in Bengha ...

Authentically Wired

• Might I suggest “whistleblowers” a ...
  … Might I suggest “whistleblowers” are a bane to all those in government – city – county – state – national – desirous of withhold full disclosure and transparency from “we” – the people … and this extends to all their government sponsored “citizens” committees which they manipulate …   US ...
• turned a blind eye when
  … WOWEE … the “corporate-congressional-press” sees red today, but conveniently turned a blind eye when Dick Cheney actively pursued his skullduggery …   Congress demands EPA’s secret email accounts 11-18-2012  •  Washington Times EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used an email alias ...
• Look as long as corporate makes $$$ you really ...
  … Look as long as corporate makes $$$ you really think they give a damn …   25% of Credit Information Is Flat-Out Wrong? How Consumers Are Getting Screwed It’s about time regulators take on the industry that impacts your financial fate. Monopoly.  We all know the game – one of th ...
• you really buying this crap
  Clinton heads to Mideast to seek solution on Gaza Israel faces risky choices over Gaza Israelis used to the sound of sirens Clinton heads to Mideast to talk Israel-Gaza crisis By: Josh Gerstein  …  The secretary of state embarks on peacemaking trip to Israel, the West Bank and Egypt. m ...
• Think Mon$anto or FoxyNew$ wants you to consid ...
  … Think Mon$anto or FoxyNew$ wants you to consider this … A new video revealing the brain-damaging ingredients the CDC admits are intentionally added to vaccines: Mercury, MSG, aluminum and formaldehyde: http://www.naturalnews.com/038022_vaccines_mercury_seizures.html  Here’s a new wa ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Remembering the Dust Bowl: it could happen again
  The Dust Bowl, a film by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, and The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History, a book authored by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history. Told in first-person narrative by survivors of the Dust Bowl and brought to colo ...
• In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant AP ...
  Over the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhou ...
• Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...
  Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
• An interview with conservation writer David Qu ...
  David Quammen has done consistent and conscientious reporting from the trenches of ecological and evolutionary research for over thirty years now. Few in the world can claim as intimate and broad an understanding of conservation biology as he can. His books such as The Song of the Dodo and Mons ...
• Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
  A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Test measures life expectancy
  A blood test to determine how fast someone is ageing has been shown to work on a population of wild birds, offering support to claims the technique could accurately predict the natural life span of humans.The research represents...
• Twelve Questions with Nico Fournier
  1. What's the state of play with Ruapehu, as we speak? It's showing signs of slightly elevated unrest. There have been small earthquakes under the volcano, the heat underground has increased but the crater lake remains cold. So...
• Study aims to unlock mysteries of autism
  An Auckland University hunt for the genetic causes of autism has been secured by a five-year Government grant.Scientist Dr Jessie Jacobsen is one of 10 top up-and-coming researchers to be awarded the Rutherford Discovery Fellowships,...
• Jeff Tallon: If research is sidelined our best ...
  Cabinet minister Steven Joyce has announced the name of his soon-to-be-established Advanced Technology Institute - "Callaghan Innovation".This, appropriately, recognises the wide-ranging contributions of Sir Paul Callaghan to New...
• Herald on Sunday editorial: Bad genes don't ex ...
  The human genome is going to be a mixed blessing. Already people can have their personal gene sequence "mapped" for individualised medical treatment, and lawyers have been quick to see the forensic possibilities.One gene, MAOA,...

The Bovine

• Why does raw milk fan feel like a rebel?
  From Trisha Gilkerson on Intoxicated on Life: “Why do I feel like a rebel? Well, there are a couple of reasons, but one in particular is because our family has now traversed into the world of raw milk. Ah, yes, the rebellion … Continue reading →
• A short history of convenience foods
  From Alice Abler on Vision.org: “Throughout the 20th century, the food industry worked to provide not only convenience but also ostensibly wholesome substitutes for natural foods, including butter. In fact, margarine has been around since the late 19th century, but … Continue reading ...
• UK-designed genetically modified mosquitoes &# ...
  From Mike Barrett, on Natural Society: “In case you didn’t know, genetically modified mosquitoes have been unleashed numerous times on planet Earth. Thus far, millions mosquitoes were released in various locations; Cayman Islands, Malaysia, and Brazil. Now, the GM mosquito creator Oxitec & ...
• UK-designed genetically modified mosquitoes &# ...
  From Mike Barrett, on Natural Society: “In case you didn’t know, genetically modified mosquitoes have been unleashed numerous times on planet Earth. Thus far, millions mosquitoes were released in various locations; Cayman Islands, Malaysia, and Brazil. Now, the GM mosquito creator Oxitec & ...
• Is there an anti-human agenda behind all that ...
  It does sound like the grave diggers of civilization are at it again:

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• No Greek Deal; Talks Postponed Till Monday; Wh ...
  A marathon nannycrat session ended with no deal as the IMF played hardball insisting Greece reduce debt to 120% of GDP by 2020. Not to worry, Jean-Claude "Lie When It's Serious" Juncker says progress was made. CNN Money says No deal for Greece as talks drag. European finance ministe ...
• Sky City: China to Build World's Tallest Build ...
  Given China already has entirely empty cities, as well as the world's largest mall (and it's empty), one can only wonder what the occupation rate of its next project will be. Nonetheless, Gizmodo reports China Will Build the Tallest Building In the World in Just 90 Days. According to ...
• Ron Paul on Sound Money Prospects for USA
  Following his “Farewell to Congress” speech last week, Congressman Ron Paul talks to GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan about the achievements and legacy of his recent presidential campaign – particularly in the context of monetary policy. They discuss the recent re-publication of his book The Case fo ...
• "Entirely Self-Made" Crisis; I Love My Family ...
  As debt that cannot possibly ever be paid back spirals out of control, it is amusing (as well as saddening) to watch widely-read economists propose still more of the same policies that have failed time and time again. Today's silliness comes from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at the Telegraph. ...
• Idiocy in Spain: Bank Proposal to Build More H ...
  Idiocy is running rampant in Spain. The Association of Spanish Banks (AEB) thinks the solution to the debt crisis is to build more houses in spite of the fact sales are down by as much as 85%. Via Google translate, please consider Nonresident aliens buy 85% fewer homes than before the crisi ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Help Us Counter the ‘Dumb-ification of the Mas ...
  We are $3900 short in meeting this quarter’s budget!   We can’t have it both ways: On one hand moan and complain about the ‘dependent’ mainstream and pseudo alternative propaganda machine, but on the other hand not back and support the very few independent alternative mediums. We can’t; pure and ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Dennis Kucinich on “National Security State USA”
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This is What Co ...
  A Transnational Corporate Coup over the Democratic Process & Public Accountability In 2008, the United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab announced the U.S. entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks as “a pathway to broader Asia-Pacific regional economic integration.” Originating ...
• Puppet State America
  “The “American superpower” groveling at Netanyahu’s feet!” 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 c ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Vantage Drilling Invests in Drillship Joint Ve ...
  Vantage Drilling (NYSE: VTG) said Tuesday that the company has invested $31 million in a new joint venture established for the purpose of constructing a new, high specification drillship at [...]
• Now THAT’s a Fid! Workers Splice Bitter End of ...
  Either that or these guys are just very well-dressed, and very tiny shipyard workers.  
• BP Settlement Seen As Credit Positive – Moody’s
  LONDON–BP PLC‘s (BP.LN) $4.5 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission over criminal charges and claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster are credit positive for [...]
• Diana Shipping Q3 Results: Earnings Decline Bu ...
  Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and operation of dry bulk vessels, today reported a net income of $12.3 million for the third [...]
• Smit Lamnalco Orders Three Newbuilds to Meet S ...
  Smit Lamnalco said Tuesday the company has renewed its marine support services contract with Shell in the African republic of Gabon, in a deal that has triggered investment in three [...]

Press TV

• Taliban attack CIA office in Kabul
  The Taliban militants in Afghanistan carried out a bomb attack targeting an office of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Kabul, with ongoing clashes at the site of the bombing, Press TV reports.
• Afghans protest Israel war on Gaza
  People in Afghanistan have staged a massive rally to protest against the murderous Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
• Plane crashes in Yemen, 10 killed
  A military plane has crashed in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, killing at least 10 people, the country’s defense ministry says.
• Iran to hold major naval drill: Cmdr.
  Iran’s Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says the Islamic Republic will hold a major naval drill, dubbed Velayat 91, in the near future to display its might and deterrence power.
• ‘Attacking Gaza, Zionists’ mistake’
  A senior Iranian lawmaker has referred to the escalation of the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip as “strategic mistake” on the part of the Tel Aviv regime.

SciDev.net

• Snakes and folk tales meet science in disaster ...
  Indigenous knowledge and science often seem poles apart, but meshing them can curb disaster risk, reports Smriti Mallapaty.
• Early warning of disasters: Facts and figures
  Lucy Pearson looks at early warning systems for disasters, their uses and limits, and what accounts for the gap between warning and action.
• Why disaster warning and development go hand i ...
  To engage people in early action we must understand their experience, behaviour and constraints, says disaster policy expert Andrew Collins.
• Understanding uncertainty to prevent humanitar ...
  Dialogue enables scientists and communities to work with uncertain information, say humanitarian policy experts Emma Visman and colleagues.
• How Cuba turns early warning into joined-up action
  Cuba's early warning approach holds lessons for other countries, write disaster risk reduction specialists Veronica F. Grasso and José Rubiera.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Robotic router
  Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
• Flexible batteries
  One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
• Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
  Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
• Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
  A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
• Nanoparticles poison soil
  Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...

Nick Turse

• 23rd Street Surface Car, West 23rd Street, Man ...
  23rd Street Surface Car, West 23rd Street, Manhattan. (March 26, 1936)
• Published in 1972, Frances FitzGerald’s Fire i ...
  Published in 1972, Frances FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize.  Since then, its been indispensable reading for those seeking to understand the Vietnam War.  As such, I can’t help but share FitzGerald’s blurb for my next book, Ki ...
• "A poster general for American decline, David ...
  “A poster general for American decline, David Petraeus will be a footnote to history, a man...
• "In his 1987 Princeton dissertation, David Pet ...
  “In his 1987 Princeton dissertation, David Petraeus wrote this on perception: “What...
• thisistheverge:The Biblio-Mat is a custom-bu ...
  thisistheverge: The Biblio-Mat is a custom-built vending machine for random second-hand books Toronto bookstore The Monkey’s Paw features a unique and intriguing way for readers to obtain new books: the Biblio-Mat. Created by the store’s owner, Stephen Fowler, and The Juggernaut co-founder, Cr ...

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