23 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

2008 Israeli postage stamp for Holocaust Remembrance Day, part of a joint philatelic issue with the United Nations Postal Administration. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Alberta Environmental Stewardship Coalition Forum (Photo credit: ItzaFineDay)

English: Flickr photo caption: "15th January 2009 - ISM photos taken in the aftermath of UNRWA building shelled by Israeli army in Gaza." UNRWA = United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Reality Sandwich

• The Pagan Pilgrim: The Story of America's Firs ...
    This article originally appeared on Newtopia Magazine.     The Ordinary Beginning of an Extraordinary Man read more
• Say You Want a Rawvolution
  Learn how to bring the benefits of raw foods and superfoods into a diet that's right for you from the rock star of superfoods, David Wolfe, in a special, one-time live, interactive video webinar, "Raw Food and the Real World: How to Start a Rawvolution Every Day," on December 16t ...
• Psi in the News
  Neuroscientists test Brazilian mediums, a Buddhist monk shows “unheard of” brain activity during meditation, interviews from the 2012 Parapsychological Association Conference, and more discussion of Dr. Eben Alexander’s NDE in this edition of Reality Sandwich’s Psi-in-the-News!  Dr. Richa ...
• Why Isn't Everyone Having Psychic Experiences ...
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• Ketamine: A Future Class of Antidepressants
  Researchers from Yale and NIMH have recently found ketamine to be extraordinarily useful in treating major depression by restoring damaged neurons.  read more

Desertification

• Planet on Path to Four C Warming, World Bank Warns
  Coal, oil and gas companies and their backers in the financial and investment industry must stop putting billions of dollars into finding and extracting new sources of fossil fuels. If they don’t shift their investments, temperatures will soar four to 10 degrees C higher, devastating many ...
• Worms, Termites, Microbes Offer Food Security
  Worms and termites are not likely to win hearts and minds, but they, along with lichens and microbes, are vital to food security, say biodiversity specialists who attended this month’s United Nations conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in this south Indian city.   “Worms, ...
• Shadow Over Aichi Biodiversity Targets
  With negotiations to mobilise resources for preservation of biodiversity at a major United Nations conference going nowhere, the Group of 77 and China have hinted at  possible suspension of the ‘Aichi targets’  under the Nagoya Protocol.   Algeria, current G 77 chair, stressed in a statement at ...
• Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on Biodiversity
  The United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties  to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars needed to implement the ‘Aichi targets,’ due to be met by 2020. “Decisions made here will lay th ...
• Donors Must Seize 2013 Opportunity in Sahel, U ...
  Reporting that the worst of the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa appears to have been averted, the United Nations’ top official on the area, David Gressley, warned on Wednesday that the potential passing of the immediate emergency should not divert international attention from what need ...

Blogging Canadians

• Harper least trusted. Media at dismal 6% approval.
• Alberta: PCs don’t give a damn about rules
  Not a week goes by without the PCs, Alberta’s government party, having their corruption exposed again and again. The most recent case: Daryl Katz, who donated $430,000 to the PC, way above the legal limit, and the PCs trying to cover it up by splitting the amount and issuing separate tax r ...
• Say it isn’t so Martha.
  You have to admit that Martha Hall Findlay can add a little something to the federal Liberal leadership contest. The former MP for Willowdale has been outed as a candidate by her purported campaign guru, Stephen Carter. He says that she will make it official today. Since prairie political strate ...
• Canada: Where The World Learns
  I'm absolutely thrilled to see the government of Canada moving on the issue of opening Canadian universities and colleges to the world.  I mean what a novel idea.  I mean it's not like I was talking about this 18 months ago or anything.  Seriously though, this is the kind of think ...
• Beyond The Power of Your Subconscious Mind - B ...
  Before undertaking to read and review C. James Jensen's book, 'Beyond The Power of Your Subconscious Mind', I had already read many books of a similar nature, titles like 'The Magic of Believing' and 'The Secret'. I had already formed the opinion that people are very much like ice bergs, tha ...

Press TV - Middle East

• Yemenis hold anti-US demo in Sa’ada
  Yemenis have staged an anti-US demonstration in the northern province of Sa’ada to express their anger over Washington’s assassination drone attacks in their country.
• 'Gaza war belied fake Israeli power’
  A senior Iranian commander says the Palestinian victory over Israeli aggressors in Gaza has revealed emptiness of Israel's outward grandeur and power.
• Three killed in fresh Syria car bombing
  At least three Syrian civilians have been killed and four others injured in a car bomb explosion in the northwestern city of Idlib.
• Israel’s ability to confront Iran doubted
  While the massive Israeli bombardment of Gaza deflected attention from its publicity campaign about attacking Iran, the landing of Hamas rockets in Israeli cities as far as Tel Aviv has raised serious questions on how the regime would protect itself in case of Iranian retaliatory strikes.
• Israeli fire kills Palestinian in Gaza
  At least one Palestinian has been killed and seven others injured by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip despite an Egypt-mediated ceasefire.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• A Post-Sandy Report from Far Rockaway
  Hello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]
• Five Questions for SPS Veterans
  To all of the veterans, active troops, and military families in the SPS community, we thank you! Returning home and making higher education a goal is not always easy.  We asked alum Armando Vega, and current student Enrique Diaz to share some of their thoughts on being student veterans. 1. What ...
• American Red Cross Volunteer
  Hello friends, Some of you know already that I volunteered at a Red Cross shelter on Long Island as part of the disaster relief efforts after the Hurricane Sandy (Monday, 10/29/2012). I’d like to share some of these experiences with you. You would hardly believe the pace of work at these p ...
• A Message From Dean Mogulescu
  To the students, faculty, and staff of the SPS community: Much of this week we have been reaching out and hearing back. The stories of lives disrupted make it impossible to deny the enormous impact of the storm, even as it feels impossible to reckon fully with that impact. But we have also been ...
• Powering Up and Coming Back Together
  The message below is posted on behalf of Dean Brian A. Peterson: The City, the University, and everyone at SPS are diligently working to cope with the aftermath of the many challenges associated with Hurricane Sandy.  I want to express our deepest concerns and support for those who may have suff ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

  IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Shrinking Ozone Hole, Growing Hopes
    Argentine scientists agree that there are signs of recovery of the ozone layer that protects life on earth by filtering out the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation, but they are cautious about saying that the problem is on its way to a solution. “This year was benign, but the problem ...
  • Nepal Unprepared for Imminent Earthquakes
    Nepal now ranks 11th on a list of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, yet it remains one of the least disaster-prepared nations globally. Two major earthquakes in the last two years, one on Sep. 18, 2011 and the other on Oct. 5 of this year, have failed to spur the government into actio ...
  • Gaza Assault Shows a New Egypt
    The reaction of post-revolution Egypt to Israel’s weeklong onslaught on the next-door Gaza Strip – brought to a halt temporarily at least by a Wednesday night ceasefire – has contrasted sharply with the former regime’s callous approach to the besieged coastal enclave. “The Muba ...
  • Bombed, Wounded, and Celebrating
    The ceasefire has brought extremities in Gaza. In the morning the coastal territory woke up bashed and bloody from one of Israel’s most intensive nights of bombardment since a week’s tit for tat violence broke out between Hamas and Israel. By late morning the coastal strip was ghostly quiet, gri ...
  • Africa – Calling for a GMO-Free Continent
    South African smallholder farmer Motlasi Musi is not happy with the African Centre for Biosafety’s call for his country and Africa to ban the cultivation, import and export of all genetically modified maize. “I eat genetically modified maize, which I have been growing on my farm for more t ...

  My AntiWar

  • Hamas leaders emerge stronger than ever, Pales ...
    Summary: A week of Israeli bombardment has pulverized government buildings and militant weapons stores, and left 161 Palestinians dead. But the Gaza Strip’s Hamas leadership has emerged stronger than ever, Palestinians in Gaza said Thursday. source: The Independentread more
  • Whitewashing an Assault: BBC Coverage of the I ...
    Summary: On Wednesday night a ceasefire came into effect after a week of attacks on Gaza which left over 150 Palestinians dead (at least 40 of them children) and rocket fire into Israel which left 5 Israelis dead. Before the news of the ceasefire became the front-page headline on the BBC News w ...
  • Two Killed in Iraq Attacks
  • Washington’s Role in the Renewed Violenc ...
  • Thailand Braces for Large Anti-Government Rally

  CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Whitewashing an Assault: BBC Coverage of the I ...
    Summary: On Wednesday night a ceasefire came into effect after a week of attacks on Gaza which left over 150 Palestinians dead (at least 40 of them children) and rocket fire into Israel which left 5 Israelis dead. Before the news of the ceasefire became the front-page headline on the BBC News ...
  • Hamas leaders emerge stronger than ever, Pales ...
    Summary: A week of Israeli bombardment has pulverized government buildings and militant weapons stores, and left 161 Palestinians dead. But the Gaza Strip's Hamas leadership has emerged stronger than ever, Palestinians in Gaza said Thursday. source: The Independentread more
  • Netanyahu's strategic defeat
    Summary: On the face of it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored a perfect hit by launching the assault on Gaza. The score sheet for the weeklong operation codenamed "Operation Pillar of Defense" may seem to stand at 10 out of 10. The only drawback is that it is a Pyrrhic victory. ...
  • 'Israelis talk about fear, we Palestinians tal ...
    Summary: "I've really tried to understand the Israelis. I used to work on a farm in Israel. I speak Hebrew. I watch their news. All the time they talk about fear. How they have to run to their bunkers to hide from the rockets. How their children can't sleep because of the sirens. This is not ...
  • Gaza’s Internet Boy Wonder Takes on Israel
    Summary: One of the frustrating elements for those playing defense in a cyberwar is that it’s difficult to ever know for sure who is launching the attacks. Bob Gourley, a former chief technology officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency, said, “The latest attacks could be from folks who sym ...

  The Daily Galaxy

  • Weekend Image: "The Aquarius Stream" --Remnant ...
                 The shredded remains of of one of the estimated seven trillion dwarf galaxies in the observable Universe has been located  buried within our Milky Way Galaxy. Some astronomers think that the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way, Omega Centauri, might have once bee ...
  • The Missing Neutron Galaxies of the Early Univ ...
                   Three hundred billion ultradense cosmic cannonballs used to tear around the universe, punching through regular galaxies like a bullet through a cloud , going their own way and scientists don't know where they are now. Because of the speed of light staring into space is e ...
  • Has 'Curiosity' Sniffed Signs of Life? NASA Pr ...
                     NASA's John Grotzinger, principal investigator for the rover mission, announced in an interview with NPR  the Mars' Curiosity rover has made a discovery that "is gonna be one for the history books. This data is ... looking really good," he said. Grotzinger told NPR i ...
  • "Pandora's Cluster" --The Most Colossal Known ...
                  This is the most colossal known smash-up observed in the universe. This awesome bundle of galaxies, nicknamed Pandora's cluster, turns out to be the result of a violent mashup between at least four separate galaxy clusters that occured over hundreds of millions of years. ...
  • 1st Planet Ever Observed Being Devoured by Its ...
                      A planet, WASP-12 b, a gas giant originally spotted in 2008,is roughly 1.4 times the size of Jupiter and is being consumed by its own star behind a shroud thanks to a magnesium veil absorbing all of certain light wavelengths, according to new observations by the Hubb ...

  Natural News

  • Economic IQ test: If the national debt doesn't ...
    The U.S. federal government is over $16.2 trillion in debt. But that doesn't really matter, we're told, because the Federal Reserve -- a private banking monopoly -- can create an unlimited quantity of dollars to keep buying up the U.S. debt. This is called "QE unlimited...
  • Think before you drink!
    Soda/pop/soft drinks, whatever you choose to call it, is bad for you! Food colorings, preservatives, empty calories, obesity, yellow teeth, decreased bone density, spikes in blood sugar and increased cancer risk are some negative effects of drinking soda. Why continue...
  • How cancer feeds on sugar (and other big reaso ...
    Not only is sugar the primary source of excess calories in the United States, but the latest research also shows that cancer cells lap up high-fructose corn syrup, adding yet another reason to avoid it. A couple of years ago, researchers from the University of California...
  • Cops taser Florida man for trying to save his ...
    Daniel Jensen of Pinellas Park, Florida, was simply trying to protect his house from burning down when he instinctively grabbed the garden hose and began dousing the corner of his roof and backyard fence with water to prevent nearby flames from catching hold. But this...
  • Himalayan Crystal Salt Lamps, Tea Lights and U ...
    Harvested from deep inside the Himalayan mountain range, these salt lamps, tea lights and USB-powered LED salt lamps are made entirely of pink Himalayan (full-spectrum) salt crystals. They resemble large rose quartz crystals (see pictures below), and when lit from the...

  Threat Level

  • Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a Schoo ...
    A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a radio-frequency identification chip implanted on student ID cards. Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body cards when the semester began in the ...
  • John McAfee, Unhinged: His Bizarre Breaks From ...
    McAfee is a complex and volatile person. I can say that in my two visits to Belize, and in dozens of phone conversations, McAfee was reasonable and lucid. But on a number of occasions, he snapped.
  • Key E-Mail-Privacy Senator Denies a Turn to th ...
    Patrick Leahy, the Vermont chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and legislative aides said Tuesday that the Democrat was not entirely watering down proposed legislation that would require authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant to get access to all e-mail ...
  • Hacker Found Guilty of Breaching AT&T Site to ...
    A hacker charged with federal crimes for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's website was found guilty on Tuesday.
  • Megaupload Assisted U.S. Prosecution of Smalle ...
    Eighteen months before Megaupload's operators were indicted in the United States, the company complied with a secret U.S. search warrant targeting five of its users who were running their own file-sharing service using Megaupload's infrastructure, according to interviews and newly ...

  PERRspectives : Blog

  • It's Cheney Time on Benghazi
    During a heated exchange on the Senate floor back in June 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney famously told Vermont Democrat Pat Leahy, "f**k yourself." Looking back on the episode six years later, Cheney told Fox News that he had no "qualms, second thoughts, or embarrassment" about his Leahy outb ...
  • Walmart Owners Look to Slash Federal Tax Payments
    Black Friday is the single biggest shopping day of the year. And this Friday, all eyes will be on Walmart, the nation's single biggest retailer and employer. But while the planned protests at 1,000 of the chain's 4,000 locations will keep the focus on Walmart's below-industry standard pay to it ...
  • Four Years Later, Media Still Getting It Wrong ...
    As President Obama continues to press his plan to slice $800 billion off the national debt by ending tax cuts for the top two percent of earners, the New York Times on Sunday profiled upper-income Americans trying to skirt the modestly higher bill. But the Times didn't merely fail to note the e ...
  • John McCain Rewrites His Epitaph
    As John McCain launched his first run for the White House in 1999, he was forced to confront the Keating Five scandal that nearly ended his political career. "The fact is, it was the wrong thing to do," McCain acknowledged, "and it will be on my tombstone and deservedly so." As it turns out, J ...
  • Blue States Will Rescue America from the Fisca ...
    In Washington and on Wall Street, there is growing optimism in the wake of President Obama's White House meeting with Congressional leaders Friday that the U.S. will avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff." After their drubbing on Election Day, Republicans are walking back their scorched-earth opposi ...

  Blackspot News Feed

  • Kurdish Prisoners End Mass Hunger Strike
    Baris Karaagac: The Kurdish movement is the greatest challenge to the neo-liberal, conservative Turkish government
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  • Woody Guthrie at 100: Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg ...
    Commemorations are being held across the country this year to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the country's greatest songwriters, Woody Guthrie. Born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma, Guthrie wrote hundreds of folk songs, including, "This Land Is Your Land," "Pastures of P ...
  • A Deadly Déjà Vu–Operation Pillar of Cloud by ...
    by Clive Hambidge Guest Writer Dandelion Salad November 22, 2012 “Now we can sense the sweet scent and the soulful breeze of the spring, a spring that has just begun and doesn’t belong to a specific race, ethnicity, nation or region, a spring that will soon reach all territories in Asia, Europe, ...
  • Gareth Porter: Hamas Has Been Willing to Negot ...
    with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 22, 2012 Nov 22, 2012 by TheRealNews Gareth Porter: Hamas proposed talks several times that were rejected by Israel. Gareth Porter, an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy, received the UK-bas ...

  Consortium News

  • Obama’s Challenge at Treasury
  • Thanksgiving or Day of Mourning?
  • Playing Games with Narratives
  • Muzzling an Anti-Nuke Trial Defense
  • Hyping Iran’s Nuke Capabilities

  TruthOut

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

  Planetsave

  • Tyranny Enabled Through Identification, Not Pa ...
    The idea that atrocities result from “unblinking obedience” to authority has become so ingrained in our social consciousness that we rarely ever question it. Indeed, more recently, popular culture has adopted the phrase “Resistance is futile” – taken from Star Trek ...
  • Gratitude Has Many Benefits (& Thank You!)
      First off, a huge thanks to you wonderful Planetsave readers! I think I can speak for all of our writers today in saying that we greatly appreciate you and your ongoing support. And for a little bit of “Thanksgiving fun,” check out this cool infographic on the benefits of grat ...
  • Variety Of Tsunami Threats On U.S. East Coast, ...
      New studies conducted by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey have found that tsunamis pose a risk to the East Coast of the United States. Researcher Uri ten Brink noted that, “although the risk is small,” a variety of sources could actually trigger a tsunami on the East ...
  • Dwarf Planet Makemake Doesn’t Have A Substanti ...
    Makemake is one of the largest known dwarf planets in the solar system, at around two thirds of the size of Pluto. It follows a very distant orbit around the Sun, far beyond the of Pluto but closer than the largest dwarf planet Eris. Some of the few observations that we have of the ice dwarf sug ...
  • New Light Shed On The Role Of Dinosaurs’ In Th ...
    New insight into the evolution of flight has been gained thanks to research on the structures of feathers found on bird-like dinosaurs. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Yale and Calgary have found that a considerably simpler version of the types of wings in modern birds was present in ...

  Water Quality - WordPress

  • Wild Swimming New Zealand - Water Unfit
    A report from The New Zealand Herold into water quality for New Zealand’s monitored recreation
  • Texas Native Plant Week
    I am a little late with this post, but this week happens to be Texas Native Plant Week. This is a gr
  • Floating Wetland Project To Improve Water Qual ...
    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is ringed with concrete, and that’s help
  • Question: Why focus WellIntel on water quantit ...
    We’re often asked why we’re starting with technologies to measure how much water a well
  • Celebrating a Public Protections Milestone: Th ...
    Celebrating a Public Protections Milestone: The 40th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act | OMB Watch.

  Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

  • Chris Hedges: The Disease of Empire
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 15, 2012 Image by Mentatmark via Flickr
  • Chris Hedges: The Assault on Civil Liberties U ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 14, 2012 Image by Shrieking Tree via Fli
  • Chris Hedges: The teacher strike in Chicago is ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 11, 2012 Image by firedoglakedotcom via
  • The Collision Course Is Set by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 10, 2012 Image by celesteh via Fl
  • Colonels in Mirrored Sunglasses by Greg Palast
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com September 6, 2012 Image by djwudi

  Axis of Logic

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

  They Gave Us a Republic

  • And They Call US Takers?
    By @TomBales1 As income inequality continues to grow in this country, it isn't about the gap between the rich and poor, but the gap between the insanely wealthy and everyone else._Sam Williford, Economy in Crisis Far from being the land of the free, The US has become the land of financial slave ...
  • Neocons Exploiting Benghazi to Regain Their "W ...
    By @TedFrier Conservatives always need their dragons to slay. And so, to fully appreciate the furor which has erupted on the Right over the tragic deaths of four Americans at that remote consulate in Benghazi on September 11th it is necessary to recall the right wing outrage four years ago when ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By@BGinKC I'm still getting on top of the school work I'm catching up on, but I did have an appointment with my neurosurgeon today and he is as pleased as I am with my progress, so I haven't been deluding myself about that. I also handled the stairs getting out of and back into my building bette ...
  • This probably means that we can kiss filibuste ...
    Last night, via Twitter: Claire McCaskill ‏@clairecmc In KC tonight the McCaskill and Blunt staffs have dinner together at one of their homes. Good stuff. #bipartisan [....] 10:25 PM - 19 Nov 12 Michael Bersin ‏@MBersin @clairecmc Why did I suddenly get the urge to check to see if my Social Se ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By@BGinKC It's about damned time. The feds - via the new CFPB - is cracking down on misleading mortgage ads. "Misrepresentations in advertising for mortgage products pose a significant risk of harm to consumers because they can confuse and mislead consumers when they are making one of the bigges ...

  Care 2

  • Yes, the wolf hunt stirs emotions : In respons ...
    Come on, we're talking about choosing which animals live and die! But as it turns out, while emotional reasoning is OK in the protection of dogs, cats and bald eagles, it is the amusing ways of the unsophisticated when it comes to wolves. Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals  |  &nbsp ...
  • Protect Dogs ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    Change of status for the dog so that it is finally protected from all forms of abuse and cruelty! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • President Obama: No Blank Checks for the Frack ...
    Send your letter today, telling President Obama that DOE must look at effects of fracking on our communities before making a decision on LNG export facilities. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Do Not Export Brazilian Donkeys To China ! PLE ...
    we ask the Brazilian authorities to reconsider the free trade agreement exchange donkeys, signed with China. Donkeys deserve to be treated with dignity! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Give max sentance to - The Petition Site
    Sending out one last push for my petition for Young Calico,it ends on 11/26,he goes to court on 11/27,we are at 678 signs with a goal of 1000,plz if you have not yet signed and share--plz do,thank you. Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...

  Smirking Chimp

  • Agenda 21: The Latest Sleight of Hand Trick by ...
  • Thanksgiving in Dystopia
  • Hot Air, Stuffed Turkeys, and the CEOs' Hansel ...
  • Economic Prosperity and the Fiscal 'Speed Bump'
  • Dead Woman Working: Thankful for Cancer Struggle

  Paul Krugman

  • Friday Night Music: Alabama Shakes
    God bless America.
  • Franc Thoughts on Bond Vigilantes
    Has the deficit-scare story ever really happened?
  • Thanksgiving Leftovers
    Odds and ends.
  • The 2012 Election, Reenacted
    Thanksgiving!
  • All Hail Calculated Risk
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  No Quarter

  • Aye, Aye, Sir! Message Received … Loud and Cle ...
    BBF sent me this toon! Isn’t it a riot? Yes, Hillary did “volunteer” to take on that immense task of worrying about all those nations around the world. And, yes, she screwed up big time … but, you know, she cannot possibly keep track of every single little thing. She need ...
  • Leave Rice Alone
    Let me state up front that I hope and pray that Susan Rice is confirmed as Secretary of State. Why? She is a total, dysfunctional bitch and will make Barack Obama’s life miserable. (Lest you think that sexist, I’m happy to ammend my description to refer to her as a “total prick ...
  • When Diplomacy Turns Rancid
    Love this moment from today’s (Monday) press conference at State Department. Spokeswoman Nuland gets tuned up by a nasty white male and deserves every verbal lick she gets: Cowering before Turkey is a non-starter. Israel, at least in terms of the current war with Hamas, is not a terrorist ...
  • Israel and Iran Playing Live Fire Poker with Gaza
    My title is not intended to suggest that Israel is to blame for the Hamas rain of rockets that escalated this past week. It appears that this is an effort by Hamas, at the behest of Iran and with Iranian assistance, to divert Western and Arab attention from efforts to depose Syria’s Presid ...
  • Your Help Is Needed
    I’ve created a new Web site for Bronwyn’s Harbor. Please visit this site especially for Bronwyn at a moment in her life in which she needs help. I have asked her to add some descriptions of her physical challenges, and she will post those shortly. In the meantime, please click here o ...

  Futurismic

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

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  Mountaintop Removal

  • Patriot Coal Giving Up Mountaintop Removal in ...
    Patriot Coal Giving Up Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia Occupational Health and Safety 15, with the company saying it will halt large-scale mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia, and was hailed by the three environmental groups involved in the agreement. The company is currently in bankr ...
  • Patriot's move away from MTR another sign of c ...
    Patriot's move away from MTR another sign of coal's decline Charleston Gazette On Thursday, Patriot Coal CEO Ben Hatfield stood up in federal court and announced what once might have seemed unthinkable: A major Appalachian coal producer is phasing out its use of mountaintop removal and a ...
  • Patriot Coal Commits to Phase Out its Mountain ...
    Patriot Coal Commits to Phase Out its Mountaintop Removal, Reaches ... OpEdNews Patriot Coal Commits to Phase Out its Mountaintop Removal, Reaches Agreement with Community and Conservation Groups. Quicklink submitted by Tracy Turner Permalink November 17, 2012. Become a Fan (14 fans) ... and mo ...
  • Will The Patriot Coal Agreement Affect Jobs? - ...
    Will The Patriot Coal Agreement Affect Jobs? WDTV Patriot Coal has become the first U.S. coal operator to agree to stop large-scale mountaintop removal mining in our region. Three environmental groups who sued the company over the practice are happy, but what is it going to mean for jobs? Patrio ...
  • Coal company announcement renews debate over M ...
    Coal company announcement renews debate over MTR WKYT (WYMT) - A coal company plans to phase out mountaintop removal at its operations in western Kentucky. Bankrupt Patriot Coal Company made the announcement Thursday. While environmental groups are calling the move a sign of things to come, expe ...

  Memeorandum

  • Egypt's President Mursi assumes sweeping power ...
    BBC: Egypt's President Mursi assumes sweeping powers  —  President Mursi has ordered the re-trial of officers accused of attacking protesters under Hosni Mubarak  —  Egypt's President Mohammed Mursi has issued a declaration banning challenges to his decrees, laws ...
  • Tea Party Seeks to Regroup (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal: Tea Party Seeks to Regroup  —  Movement Sets Sights on Ousting Republicans Seen as Not Conservative Enough  —  The tea-party movement is trying to regroup after taking some licks in this month's elections.  Several groups already are set ...
  • Man dressed as clown dies during Macy's Thanks ...
    New York Post: Man dressed as clown dies during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade  —  DEATH AT THE PARADE:Robert Blasetti is tended to by emergency workers after collapsing at the parade yesterday.  He was later pronounced dead.  —  A 67-year-old man dressed as ...
  • Walmart Strikers Arrested in SoCal Civil Disob ...
    Josh Eidelson / The Nation: Walmart Strikers Arrested in SoCal Civil Disobedience (Updated 3:30 PM)  —  Check this space for updates throughout the day, and please send tips to jeidelson at gmail dot com.  —  3:30 PM: Civil disobedience is underway now in Paramou ...
  • Grand Old Planet (Paul Krugman/New York Times)
    Paul Krugman / New York Times: Grand Old Planet  —  Earlier this week, GQ magazine published an interview with Senator Marco Rubio, whom many consider a contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, in which Mr. Rubio was asked how old the earth is.  After decl ...

  Energy & Environment News

  • Britain to Encourage Both Nuclear and Wind Power
    The plan is intended to keep the government on track in meeting its goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Green Blog: Another Path to Biofuels
    At a sugar plantation in Brazil, a company will use genetically modified algae that eats carbon dioxide from sugar and excretes ethanol.
  • BP Names Chief of Oil Production Business
    Lamar McKay, currently chairman and president of BP America, will run the British oil giant's "upstream operations" -- exploration, development and production.
  • Dot Earth Blog: Creating a Vital Long View for ...
    Scientists build part of a continent-wide system for monitoring long-term change in important ecosystems.
  • Green Blog: The Worldwide Vulnerability of Forests
    Many trees operate with only a narrow margin of safety when it comes to their water supply, so many of the world's important forest species are vulnerable to hydraulic failure.

  5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Solomon Islands
    Friday, November 23, 2012 20:50:48 UTC Saturday, November 24, 2012 07:50:48 AM at epicenterDepth: 32.00 km (19.88 mi)
  • M 5.3, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Friday, November 23, 2012 20:21:28 UTC Saturday, November 24, 2012 05:21:28 AM at epicenterDepth: 47.00 km (29.20 mi)
  • M 5.2, Luzon, Philippines
    Friday, November 23, 2012 04:52:39 UTC Friday, November 23, 2012 12:52:39 PM at epicenterDepth: 199.70 km (124.09 mi)
  • M 5.0, Molucca Sea
    Friday, November 23, 2012 00:40:19 UTC Friday, November 23, 2012 08:40:19 AM at epicenterDepth: 57.50 km (35.73 mi)
  • M 5.0, southeast of the Loyalty Islands
    Thursday, November 22, 2012 22:44:31 UTC Friday, November 23, 2012 10:44:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 35.30 km (21.93 mi)

  China Dialogue

  • 联合国气候&#2379 ...
    一份措辞严厉的报告强调指出：如果政府不能兑现使全球气候变暖限制在2°C的承诺，& ...
  • 气候变化：&#1998 ...
    气候变化从来都不仅仅是环境问题，我们把时间耗费在了自欺欺人上。为了群体安全 ...
  • 气候变化已&#3246 ...
    最新研究表明，在美国，人们对全球变暖的切身感受越来越强烈了。这能敦促更多的 ...
  • 熊猫“淘淘” ...
    中国正在进行大熊猫第二次放归，这是继2007年首次尝试失败后的又一次努力。让一个&#22 ...
  • 共产党怎样&#8220 ...
    今天落下帷幕的共产党十八大为中国奠定下一个十年的基调。较之上一次共产党全国 ...

  AlterNet Top Stories

  • AlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on How David Pet ...
    Fri, 11/23/2012 - 08:04
  • Rush Limbaugh's Vile Rants Are So Bad They're ...
    It would appear that Rush Limbaugh's vile form of commentary is starting to have a negative impact on radio profits as a whole:Doug Stephan, president of Stephan MultiMedia and host of the nationally syndicated “Good Day” program, had this to offer: Let’s face it, the ...
  • Walmart Retaliates Against Black Friday Activists
    As Black Friday approached, the honchos at Walmart, the largest employer in the United States, found themselves at a loss to respond to a nationwide rebellion within the ranks of their near-captive workers -- people who work for an average wage of $8.81 per hour, according to The National ...
  • 6 Reasons the Fiscal Cliff is a Scam
    Stripped to essentials, the fiscal cliff is a device constructed to force a rollback of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, as the price of avoiding tax increases and disruptive cuts in federal civilian programs and in the military.  It was policy-making by hostage-taking, timed for t ...
  • 12 Reasons I’m Thankful on Turkey Day 2012: A ...
    I know what you’re thinking -- not another namby-pamby, reasons-to-be-cheerful, holiday-themed list of reasons to be happy while the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Okay, okay; point taken. But sometimes we progressives forget to sit up and take notice of our own progress; we&#x ...

  Threat Level

  • Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a Schoo ...
    A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a radio-frequency identification chip implanted on student ID cards. Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body cards when the semester began in the ...
  • John McAfee, Unhinged: His Bizarre Breaks From ...
    McAfee is a complex and volatile person. I can say that in my two visits to Belize, and in dozens of phone conversations, McAfee was reasonable and lucid. But on a number of occasions, he snapped.
  • Key E-Mail-Privacy Senator Denies a Turn to th ...
    Patrick Leahy, the Vermont chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and legislative aides said Tuesday that the Democrat was not entirely watering down proposed legislation that would require authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant to get access to all e-mail ...
  • Hacker Found Guilty of Breaching AT&T Site to ...
    A hacker charged with federal crimes for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's website was found guilty on Tuesday.
  • Megaupload Assisted U.S. Prosecution of Smalle ...
    Eighteen months before Megaupload's operators were indicted in the United States, the company complied with a secret U.S. search warrant targeting five of its users who were running their own file-sharing service using Megaupload's infrastructure, according to interviews and newly ...

  Equality Trust

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

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

  Marler Blog

  • Another Petting Zoo E. coli Outbreak, Another ...
    I am beginning to sound a bit like a broken record.  How many of these outbreaks have to happen until WE rethink what WE are exposing our kids to? For... Continue Reading
  • Forever Cheese Listeria Outbreak over for some
    • A total of 22 persons infected with the outbreak-associated strain of Listeria monocytogenes were reported from 13 states and the District of Columbia. • 20 ill persons were hospitalized.... Continue Reading
  • Cherry Tomatoes Recalled Due to Salmonella Risk
    Rio Queen Citrus, Inc. of Mission, TX is recalling 840 cartons of 12/1 Dry Pints of Mexican cherry tomatoes in “Karol” brand boxes, because they have the potential to be... Continue Reading
  • E. coli Sickens 28 in Connecticut, Massachuset ...
    The CDC just reported that four leftover packages of Wegmans brand Organic Spinach and Spring Mix blend collected from four ill persons’ homes yielded the outbreak strain of E. coli... Continue Reading
  • 20 years fighting for victims of bad food
    I had a rare Sunday afternoon where I got to focus of something other than yet another company sickening yet another customer (well, I did do some work).  I got... Continue Reading

  AutoblogGreen

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

  Rafe's Radar

  • Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computers
    PointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
  • First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...
    CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
  • Groupiter makes workflow as simple as Dropbox
    Tiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
  • Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...
    New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
  • Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...
    New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...

  Camera Obscura

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

  Democracy Now!

  • In Gaza: "It's the Occupation, Stupid"
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan “The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation,” award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy summed up this week. It is that simple. This latest Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza is not an isolated event, but part of a 45-year occu ...
  • VIDEO: Coney Island Residents Remain Without H ...
    It’s been more than two weeks since Superstorm Sandy hit New York City, yet thousands of people in the city’s public housing buildings are still in the cold. The city says it has restored some level of power to all housing projects, but as of Wednesday nearly 16,000 public tenants were without ...
  • "The Growing Global Movement Against Austerity"
    "The Growing Global Movement Against Austerity" By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Amaia Engana didn’t wait to be evicted from her home. On Nov. 9, in the town of Barakaldo, a suburb of Bilbao in Spain’s Basque Country, officials from the local judiciary were on their way to se ...
  • Part 2: Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West Call ...
    We continue our conversation with broadcaster Tavis Smiley and professor, activist Dr. Cornel West about their push for President Obama to address poverty in his second term. Smiley argues the ultimate question now, is: "Are we ready to push?" He and West have organized a symposium to ...
  • VIDEO: Democracy Now! and Riverkeeper Tour NYC ...
    Many of the East Coast’s waste treatment plants failed during Superstorm Sandy, causing them to release thousands of gallons of raw sewage into the area’s waterways. This mixed with other pollutants–like more than 330,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled near Arthur Kill, the w ...

  Suzie-Q

  • President Obama’s Election Night Speech
    The New York Times Published: November 7, 2012 President Obama spoke in Chicago on Tuesday night after winning re-election. Transcript: Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. (Cheers, applause ...
  • Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...
    PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn Univ ...
  • President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...
    The President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!
  • Presidential Debate President Obama and Mitt R ...
    PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK OCTOBER 16, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CANDY CROWLEY, MODERATOR CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, ...
  • Joe Biden/Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Debate ( ...
    Addicting Info October 11, 2012 By Matthew Desmond Here’s the transcript, via the New York Times: MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. I’m Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honore ...

  Solari

  • QE3 – Pay Attention If You Are in the Real Est ...
    With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money…and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way ...
  • Just a Taste – 9.13.12
  • What Ever Happened to Thanksgiving?
    Photo Credit: Christian Hansen [CAF Note: There is no Solari Report this week. I invited the newest member of our team, Solari Report producer Kristen Linton, to write a special blog post to celebrate the occasion.  I hope you will take the time to enjoy this wonderful season  and contemplate [...]
  • Transcript of A Passion for Privacy with Kathe ...
    Transcript of Neurofeedback & Autism is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Austin Fitts: Let’s turn to our interview. It’s always a special treat because Katherine Albrecht is just amazing – she has an amazing ability to articulate and communicate the challenges of new and v ...
  • Dagong’s Credit Rating for Each Country
    This interactive map shows Dagong’s credit rating for each country. Dagong Global Credit Rating is a credit rating agency based in China. It is one of the few notable non-US based credit rating agencies. It is recognized as a credit rating agency which gave the US debt a lower credit rati ...

  Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

  AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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  Fabius Maximus

  • Attention Americans: the Revolution has begun. ...
    Summary: The first sparks of Revolution are invisible to the Proles and considered insignificant by the Outer Party.  Only the fierce reaction by the government reveals their importance.  The combination of power and ambition gives its officials clarity of vision we lack.  Watch closely. The opp ...
  • On Counterinsurgency: How We Got to Where We Are
    Summary:  The greatness of a nation depends as much on its ability to learn as much as its power. Failure to learn can prove fatal. As with German’s refusal to learn from its defeat in WWI, substituting resentment for wisdom. As with America’s refusal to learn from its defeat in Viet ...
  • Let’s give thanks for America’s lu ...
    Summary:  We have much to give thanks for on this holiday, for we are the lucky country. Our challenge is to deserve that good fortune, and wisely use the prosperity, power, and security that it has allowed us to create. “Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share it ...
  • Tell Me How This Ends: Restoring American Powe ...
    Summary:  Guest author Mike Few looks at America’s broken observation-orientation-decision-action loop, and proposes a three-program for reform. —————– Tell Me How This Ends: …….Restoring American Power in the 21st Century By Mike Few Many po ...
  • Israel becomes its enemy
    Summary: Israel fights for its very existence against an enemy who has no regard for life.  From a cosmic sense, Israel can lose in two ways. Violent defeat in some fashion (causing economic collapse or out-migration). Or spiritual defeat, becoming inflected by the evil Israel has fought for so ...

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  The Progressive Realist

  • Of Drones & Drugs
    So I lobbed two posts on Twitter yesterday morning, pertaining first to drones and then to drugs, that probably weren’t a good fit for the 140-character format. In short, I implied that using UAVs for counternarcotics implied the GWOT had entered a “doing whatever the fuck we want&#8 ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Targeted Killings, the ...
    Nicholas Schmidle, “After Pakistan,” The New Yorker, November 26, 2012. And then there were the drones. A couple of weeks ago, on his first day at Columbia, Munter admonished a class of fourteen law students not to blog his comments—“These are very sensitive things”—before dishing about the CIA’ ...
  • Israel Should Rethink its Strategy Against Ham ...
    Since Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections in January 2006 and subsequently took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, Israel has dealt with the "Islamic Resistance" through a policy of non-recognition, political isolation, and military containment. The recent escalation o ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Day after Tomorrow: Israel and Gaza
    Anyone who has ever written anything about Israel or Palestine will know that there is no such thing as a single defining moment, at least not one that exists in the absolute.  Time stretches forward and backward and more so in times of crisis. The current situation in Israel and Gaza is no exce ...

  TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Road Trip! Road Trip!
    The Criterion Collection has just brought out a new Blu-ray edition of Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 phantasmagoria about cars, nihilistic consumerism, and civilization's imminent collapse into barbarity. As I often do these days in connection with Godard's movies—and not only his movies, eit ...
  • Why You Shouldn't Shop at Wal-Mart on Friday
    A half century ago America’s largest private-sector employer was General Motors, whose full-time workers earned an average hourly wage of around $50, in today’s dollars, including health and pension benefits. Today, America’s largest employer is Wal-Mart, whose average employee earns $8.81 an h ...
  • Why I Love Thanksgiving
    Flickr/Due Chiacchiere As I do every morning, I just rode my bike around the gorgeous city reservoir a block from my house, with my little Toto-like terrier running joyously alongside me—honestly, you should see how he bounds through the grass. I wave at the regular walkers and dogwalk ...
  • Under Water Pressure
    (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, center, accompanied by Senator Jeff Bingaman, right, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, October 1, 2009, to discuss future activities relating to the Navajo-Gallup water supply project. Fiv ...
  • Why We Should Stop Obsessing about the Federal ...
    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 both. Deficit ...

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  Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
    Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
  • Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
    A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
  • Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
    A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
  • Celebrating the fall of a dictator
    Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
  • A tweet that explains everything
    The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

  The BiPartisan Report

  • Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
  • Nihilism 1 American People Nil
  • Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
  • Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
  • Those holier than thou Conservatives

  Sciencebase

  • Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5
    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5 is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
  • Science book prize shortlist
    The shortlist for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is out. The winning book will be announced at a public event on 26 November 2012. The judging panel comprises: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting Professor at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Jasper Fforde, ...
  • Getting Viagra up in 20 seconds
    Pierre Morieux, a postdoc in medicinal chemistry in France sent me a Youtube clip he made. In it he uses some neat tricks, keyboard shortcuts, hotkeys and the like to construct a molecule of Viagra in ChemDraw in less than 20 seconds. He reckons it could save anyone who has to draw chemical stru ...
  • 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 ...

  Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Third Report Warns that Leaders' Lack of Actio ...
    A string of recent reports paints a clear picture that the world is not on track to fulfill leaders’ stated goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 F) above pre-industrial levels, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).read more
  • Will Palestinians “Be Likened to the Sioux”?
    SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS, [Twitter]  Sharif Abdel Kouddous is a Democracy Now! correspondent based in Cairo, now in Gaza. See his reporting, including about how protesters from Tahrir Square in Cairo got into Gaza.read more
  • Bahrain: Promises of Reform Broken, Repression ...
    Bahrain is facing a stark choice between the rule of law, or sliding into a downward spiral of repression and instability, Amnesty International warned in a new briefing today. The briefing Bahrain: reform shelved, repression unleashed comes days before the first anniversary of a landmark report ...
  • Protests Nov. 27 to Demand Accountability from ...
    On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, concerned individuals and organizations will demonstrate in dozens of cities to call attention to the illegal abuse inflicted upon Army PFC Bradley Manning. In violation of military law, Manning was subjected to nine months of brutal pre-trial confinement condition ...
  • Backlog of Plants and Animals Waiting for Prot ...
    For the first time since 1996, the number of plants and animals waiting for federal protection has dropped below 200, highlighting the success of a landmark agreement reached with the Center for Biological Diversity that requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to speed protection decisions f ...

  Common Dreams-Views

  • When ‘Grading’ Is Degrading
    Michael Brick In his speech on the night of his re-election, President Obama promised to find common ground with opposition leaders in Congress. Yet when it comes to education reform, it’s the common ground between Democrats and Repub ...
  • The Naked Truth about San Francisco's Nudity Ban
    Gypsy Taub Scott Wiener (no, I am not trying to be rude: this is the guy's real name), the supervisor of the Castro district of San Francisco, introduced legislation that would ban public nudity city-wide. First offense is a $100 fine; ...
  • Gaza: A Time to Reflect
    Michael Nagler This partial check to the mad violence unleashed last week on Gaza, while it comes as a great relief to all of us, should also be an opportunity to refocus our determination that this violence stop happening, and never happen ...
  • Palestinian Funerals Are Not ‘Militant Pageantry’
    Rania Khalek Palestinians love their children and want them to live just like the rest of us.read more
  • Black Friday: Deciphering the Importance of Bu ...
    Jan Lee For many Americans, Black Friday is a special but important part of the holiday season. A time in which the warm, appreciative glow of a family Thanksgiving is replaced by insatiable deals at midnight store openings; when hot turkey ...

  Newshoggers - AfPak

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  • Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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  Water Wars

  • U.S. and Mexico Sign Deal on Managing Colorado ...
    The United States and Mexico agreed to overhaul how water from the Colorado River, which serves 33 million people in both countries, will be shared and managed.
  • Water Wars
    There's a new move to ease drought conditions in parts of Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
  • Community news briefs
    City pond to be drained On Thursday, Nov. 15, the City of Sequim Public Works Department will temporarily drain the water reuse storage pond at the Water Reuse Demonstration Park for maintenance; the pond will be back in service as soon as possible.
  • Port St. Lucie officials look to annex propert ...
    Ensuring the city's future population has enough potable water is a priority for city leaders who will consider annexing and purchasing a $10.1 million land parcel to capture water runoff and store it to meet those needs.
  • Lecture on world efforts to address climate change
    The Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) is hosting a lecture, “From Kyoto to COP18”, today. The discussions make up part of a series of open lectures on climate change, being held until December 2 at the SFS-Q, bringing together thought leaders on this topic.

  WordPress | Economics

  • Conservatives Abandon Community Pasture Protection
    If the Conservatives removed protection on all fish in the ocean, do you think there’d be an o
  • What’s Your Attitude Toward Peacemaking?
     Blessed are the peacemakers,     for they will be called children of God. [Matthew 5:9] As if verse
  • passage
    the wind doesn’t beg and needs no praise, but i throw it spare change anyway. it’s got t
  • Picard Facepalm, Star Trek
    Copy the code and paste on Facebook Chat ! No script needed ! [[450516291651218]][[450516298317884]
  • Demystifying the volatile Indian Rupee
    Direct exchange of commodities such as precious metals, furs and grain in early human societies led

  Electronic Intifada

  • From under the bombs: our catastrophe and our ...
    Ayah Abubasheer Gaza Strip 23 November 2012 Three of my relatives were martyred by Israel’s “precision-guided” missiles.
  • In photos: Palestinians in Gaza celebrate vict ...
    22 November 2012 There were celebrations across Palestine at the Gaza ceasefire, amid continued mourning at the high cost in lives of the Israeli assault.
  • "United in resistance," Palestinians in Gaza r ...
    Joe Catron Gaza City 22 November 2012 Thousands fled their homes in the north of Gaza but some stayed behind.
  • Father and two sons among 162 slain by Israel ...
    Mohammed Omer Gaza City 22 November 2012 More than half of those injured were women and children.
  • Palestinian youth activists in Haifa, Akka: "G ...
    Sawsan Khalife' the Galilee 21 November 2012 Israel has arrested several Palestinian citizens following Gaza solidarity demonstrations.

  The Wonk Room

  • Rotten Fruit: Why ‘Picking Low-Hanging Fruit’ ...
    by Auden Schendler, via EDC Magazine Sometimes a failure can arrive disguised as a success. For example, DDT. The A-bomb. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The Industrial Revolution (if it ends up destroying civilization with runaway climate change). Highly profitable energy efficiency. Wait—energy effic ...
  • Walmart Workers Protest For Better Wages And B ...
    Workers at Walmart stores across the country are walking off their jobs to protest the national retailer’s low wages and poor working conditions in an effort to raise public awareness about how the company treats its employees on the busiest shopping day of the year. The strikes, which beg ...
  • 1.3 Million Women Received Unnecessary And Inv ...
    Routine mammograms have caused more than a million U.S. women to receive “unnecessary and invasive cancer treatments over the last 30 years,” a new study finds, detecting tumors that are harmless. The results come after the government’s Preventive Task Force issued recommendati ...
  • AP: Drought Worsens For More Than Half Of Coun ...
    “The worst U.S. drought in decades has deepened again,” reports the AP. “Scientists struggled for an explanation other than a simple lack of rain.” Over half of the continguous U.S. has been in a drought since summer. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report showed a rise i ...
  • 24 States To Be Dominated By Republicans In 2013
    At least 37 states will fall under single-party control come January, with one party holding the governor’s office and majorities in both legislative chambers, the New York Times reports, “raising the prospect that bold partisan agendas — on both ends of the political spectrum — will ...

  thwap's schoolyard

  • F-35 Sleaze
     Nice work. Steal an election. Steal a majority. Dominate committees to hide your crimes. The NDP accused the Conservatives of using a House of Commons committee to whitewash the auditor general's scathing indictment of the government's mammoth F-35 jet fighter procurement. The NDP levell ...
  • Gaza
    What can we do? We can't even guarantee free and fair elections in our own country. We can't get our own government to respect the source of its own authority. How the fuck are we supposed to get our illegitimate government to do the right thing on Gaza? Instead, we have our coward Fucking Affai ...
  • Illegal Misleading Election Calls & More Utter ...
    ... and scuzz-baggery. Aside from the reality that communications firms with contracts with the Conservative Party of Canada made phone calls to people using the Conservative Party of Canada's own database on Canadian voters, falsely telling people their polling stations had been moved, the def ...
  • Apologies to Recent Commentors
    I don't get that many comments so it's a sign that I'm particularly busy that I haven't replied to all of them. My apologies.
  • Chris Hedges on the emptiness of Obama's Re-El ...
    Not so much emptiness, I suppose, as a different moral travesty from what a Mitt Romney victory would have been: Liberals, by voting for Barack Obama, betrayed the core values they use to define themselves—the rule of law, the safeguarding of civil liberties, the protection of unions, the pres ...

  on Government Oversight

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  Digital Journal

  • Black Friday Madness. Top 5 videos of 2012 Bla ...
    It's only been a few hours since the madness known as Black Friday began, but some videos are already making their way onto YouTube. One video shows shoppers going berserk over cellphones, while another shows a consumer cussing out the store.
  • Canada to tighten rules for mentally ill offenders
    The Canadian government will introduce legislation to amend the Criminal Code to make it more difficult for offenders who are found not criminally responsible to gain their freedom.
  • Twitter posts lead to arrest, harassment charg ...
    A 52-year-old Toronto man was arrested and charged with criminal harassment Wednesday for allegedly harassing a woman on Twitter.
  • Pfizer Canada drops price of Viagra to compete ...
    Erectile dysfunction drug Viagra suddenly comes cheaper in Canada in a move by its maker, Pfizer, to compete with generic versions of the pill in the local market.
  • When fringe NHL players make more than franchi ...
    There will be no end to the NHL's lockout if the players can't get it out of their collective heads that it's unfair that they must make concessions. They must do so because Gary Bettman and the owners are obviously tired of losing. Losing money.

  End Homelessness | Change.org

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

  Ceasefire.ca

  • Peace activists speak out against US nuclear w ...
    Ten peace activists who blocked entry to a Trident nuclear submarine base were convicted earlier this month of "walking on a roadway where prohibited."
  • Why is Canada going soft on cluster bombs?
    Bill S-10, which is designed to bring Canada into compliance with the UN Convention on Cluster Munitions, contains serious flaws.
  • Thousands of Canadians ‘remembered for p ...
    Thank you for supporting our I remember for peace campaign! We reached many people across Canada this year, spreading the message that Remembrance Day should be less about war and more about peace. Over 2,000 people counted themselves as someone who would remember for peace. You can still sign o ...
  • Youth more interested in remembering peace tha ...
    Most Canadian “Millennials” between 18 and 30 years of age view Remembrance Day as a time to honour those who have served, and for us to be reminded of the need for peace. Few believe it to be a day to celebrate military achievements.
  • Campaign strategy update
    I wanted to provide you with this strategy update to give you some inside information on our campaigns.

  Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-1-12
    Today, Kevin reveals how the government is ‘helping’ the economy by letting you get sick and why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Self Help: Avoid Skin Cancer Safe Sunscreen Get Rid Of Gut Bacteria The Good Stuff Health: EPA Still Evades Zonolite Warnings Toxin From R ...
  • MAJOR LEGAL UPDATE!
    Cato Institute backs Kevin Trudeau in Supreme Court case! Click here to read all about it: http://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/Trudeau.pdf  
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-15-12
    Today, Kevin gives you a story from the ‘Obama was wrong’ file and gives you a few tips on how to make a good first impression when applying for a job. Self Help: Change The Way You Think Health: Low Salt Diet Actually Increases Your Risk Of Heart Attack Government: Local Ice Cream Makers Face [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-22-12
    Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life. Self Help: Grass Fed Meat & Poultry KT’s Daily Supplement Program Change Your DNA Vibration Health: How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet? Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 C ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-6-12
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that the economy is getting worse and that your standard of living is deteriorating! Plus, the creator of the Resolve mineral detox, Dr. Ray Lala, stops by to explain how his mineral detox can virtually cure you from any viral infection, including herpes an ...

  Armies of Liberation

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

  Dark Politricks

  • Officials: Israel’s Gaza Offensive Was Trainin ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Kelley Business Insider Israel’s eight-day Gaza offensive was a dry run for any future armed confrontation with Iran, U.S. and Israeli officials told The New York Times. In Operation Pillar of Defense, Isra ...
  • Supreme Court nears same sex marriage decision ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The nine judges of the US Supreme Court will decide next week whether to consider the constitutionality of same-sex marriage ” a keenly awaited choice that will have far-reaching implications for t ...
  • Obama’s pledge of US troops to Sinai next week ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDEBKAfile Nov 23, 2012 Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to a ceasefire for halting the eight-day Israeli Gaza operation Wednesday night, Nov. 21, after President Barack Obama personally pledged to start d ...
  • When The Economy Collapses In The USA, The Peo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSteve Watson Prisonplanet.com Nov 23, 2012 In Greece, with the economy collapsing, the people attempt to push through barricades where their political leaders are meeting: In the US, with the economy collapsing, the peop ...
  • Afghan midwives fight for progress but fear th ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   In spite of the 12 years the U.S. has spent nation-building in Afghanistan and the billions of dollars that have been poured into the country, it remains one of the most dangerous places for women to giv ...

  Dandelion Salad

  • A Deadly Déjà Vu–Operation Pillar of Clo ...
    by Clive Hambidge Guest Writer Dandelion Salad November 22, 2012 “Now we can sense the sweet scent and the soulful breeze of the spring, a spring that has just begun and doesn’t belong to a specific race, ethnicity, nation or region, a spring that will soon reach all territories in Asia, Europe, ...
  • Gareth Porter: Hamas Has Been Willing to Negot ...
    with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 22, 2012 Nov 22, 2012 by TheRealNews Gareth Porter: Hamas proposed talks several times that were rejected by Israel. Gareth Porter, an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy, received the UK-bas ...
  • Ceasefire: Egypt Manages the Crisis; More US A ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews Nov 21, 2012 Vijay Prashad: Egypt brokers Gaza crisis working with US; Palestinians won’t give up their struggle; There will be no accountability for Israel’s illegal war. see Israeli Refusnik, Maya Yechieli Wind: Israel is a Nation of Soldiers To Hell Wit ...
  • Israeli Refusnik, Maya Yechieli Wind: Israel i ...
    Dandelion Salad breakingtheset Nov 21, 2012 Abby Martin talks to Maya Yechieli Wind, an Israeli activist and dissenter, who advocates against Israeli aggression toward occupied Palestine. see To Hell With Israel by Finian Cunningham + US Money and Policy Makes Israeli Attack on Gaza Possible Isr ...
  • A Thanksgiving Day Fast For Peace By Gary Cors ...
    First published on Dandelion Salad in 2008. Originally published in 2005. By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 20, 2012 “Our lives flow from our beliefs, and our beliefs are conditioned by our daily actions. As we act, so we build our character and so we become.” *** “Because of ...

  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

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Celestia ...
    This colour-composite image was obtained by FORS1 on ANTU. It displays a sky area near the Chamaeleon I complex of bright nebulae and hot stars in the constellation of the same name, close to the southern celestial pole.This picture was taken a few days before the Paranal Inauguration and the "h ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Winter D ...
    Dunes within a crater on Mars are visible in this image. This crater is located in the Southern hemisphere where it was winter at the time this image was taken.
  • Thanksgiving on Mars: What Astronauts Will Fea ...
    NASA has a long way to go before sending a crew to Mars, yet it’s already considering the important details—like lunch. The agency’s Advanced Food Technology Project, working with Lockheed Martin, is developing menus for a manned mission to the Red Planet sometime in the 2030s. ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Loose Sp ...
    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the spiral galaxy ESO 499-G37, seen here against a backdrop of distant galaxies, scattered with nearby stars. The galaxy is viewed from an angle, allowing Hubble to reveal its spiral nature clearly. The faint, loose spiral arms can be distinguishe ...
  • High-Speed Video Investigates Mystery of Hummi ...
    Scientists have shot high-speed video of feeding hummingbirds in an effort to understand why the flowers they pollinate almost always hang upside-down.

  Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Assaf Kfoury: Why Gaza?
    Three weeks before Israel launched its Operation Pillar of Defense on November 14, 2012 I was part of an academic delegation on a short trip to the Gaza Strip. For the mainstream media, October was a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • 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, ...

  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

  • Finding Ways to Reduce Costs and Energy in Aer ...
    The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Pratt & Whitney Canada have partnered to award a $1.25 million Industrial Research Chair (IRC) to Dr. Stephen Corbin of Dalhousie's Faculty of Engineering. The Chair will study superalloy bonding as a way to develop stro ...
  • Growing a Longer-Lasting Christmas Tree
    Dalhousie Faculty of Agriculture scientist, Dr. Raj Lada, driven by a commitment to rural sustainability, is providing support and research to innovate the Christmas tree industry in Eastern Canada. Lada has established the first, national (international) Christmas tree Research Centre (CRC) in ...
  • Stony Brook Researchers Look Back on Scientifi ...
    Fifty years after scientists first posed a question about protein folding, the search for answers has led to the creation of a full-fledged field of research that led to major advances in supercomputers, new materials and drug discovery, and shaped our understanding of the basic processes of lif ...
  • Better Blood Transfusions for Preterm Babies
    Results of new research from the University of Adelaide are a promising step forward in helping to improve the quality of life-saving blood transfusions for preterm babies, by reducing the likelihood of adverse inflammatory responses to the blood.
  • New Oral Drug Overcomes Resistance in Patients ...
    A new targeted drug demonstrated its ability to control metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor, an uncommon and life-threatening form of sarcoma, after the disease had become resistant to all existing therapies, report investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who led the worldwide clini ...

  Natural Health News

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

  Climategate

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

  Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, November 23, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen
  • Judge Sow’s Shocking Interview with the New Af ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve written before about Judge Sow’s attempt to make a statement in open court criticizing Charles Taylor’s conviction.  Now Judge Sow has given a lengthy interview to the New African magazine concerning the trial, his attempt to make ...
  • US and Mexico Pact on Colorado River Water
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Happy Thanksgiving, the best of the American holidays … I’m taking a quick break from cooking to note this Washington Post story on water rights.  Riparian rights are a fairly obscure topic to most lawyers, unless one is in a place like the s ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, November 22, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The cease fire in Gaza appears to hold, in what is seen as a test for the new Egyptian government’s ability to influence Hamas. More than 20 people have been killed in a suicide attack on a Shiite procession in Rawalpindi, in northern Pakistan. The Taliban h ...
  • Security Council Debates Maritime Piracy
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon Under India’s presidency, the UN Security Council debated the global phenomenon of maritime piracy on November 19.  The outcome was a presidential statement, not a resolution.  Although not binding, it highlights future trends in the Security Council’s app ...

  Public News Service

  • Move Over, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, #Givin ...
    Move Over, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, #Giving Tuesday is Here PHOENIX, Ariz. - The idea was hatched just a few weeks ago. It grew out of the simple observation that Americans have a day for giving thanks and two days – Black Friday and Cyber Monday - for getting bargains, so why not a da ...
  • 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 ...

  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

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  Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
  • 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 ...

  Politics in the Zeros

  • Drought may curtail Mississippi River barge sh ...
    Water levels on the Mississippi River may drop to historic lows next month in the Midwest, delaying barges carrying everything from grains and coal to steel and petroleum, after the worst U.S. drought in 56 years.Agriculture prices will no doubt increase as shipments are delayed. The drought is ...
  • Finally, a computer programming methodology I ...
    This epic rant is against trendy computer programming methodologies that pretend to help clients but in reality just boost billable hours and put coders in little boxes, managed by chimpanzees. Think the pointy-haired boss….Programming, Motherfucker. Do you speak it?We are a community of m ...
  • Cost of transporting coal to power plants rose ...
    It can now cost more to transport coal than the commodity costs. In some areas, transportation costs for coal are now 60% of the total cost for delivered coal to power plants.
  • Tweet of the Day
    America, a place where a girl from a middle-eastern immigrant family can sell Waylon tees to Texan chain stores. Happy Thanksgiving y’all!— BloodIsTheNewBlack (@BloodyBlack) November 22, 2012
  • Americans – a Public Service Film by Kid Rock ...
    United we stand, divided we fall.“Americans” is a short, public service film starring Sean Penn and Kid Rock, directed by Jameson Stafford. The goal of the film is to tear down the one-dimensional political stereotypes portrayed by the media by confronting them head on. It reminds us ...

  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

  • Camp 2012
    Another deer season gone, I didn’t get any.  This time I did see several doe and maybe a spike buck in the morning of the first day but it was too dark to tell. Camp is a special place and I have a few minutes so here are some of my favorite images and videos [...]
  • 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 ...

  Focal Point

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

  Inside Facebook

  • Facebook careers: investigator, executive prot ...
    Facebook added 22 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the data analysis, business intelligence, recruiting, data center operations, sales and security teams. The company added listings for an Executive Protection Detail Leader to manage … Continue ...
  • Facebook hires: machine learning engineer, dir ...
    Facebook removed about a dozen job listings from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of engineering, data center management, marketing and business operations. The company also seems to have hired a new product marketing … Continue reading →
  • Report: Facebook Exchange seen as key influenc ...
    Advertising spending through real-time bidding is expected to nearly double this year, and the maturation of the Facebook Exchange likely to be a key influence on future growth in the industry, eMarketer reports. Real-time bidding is a form of programatic … Continue reading →
  • Cityville 2, Instagram, MyLife.com, Gogobot, a ...
    Zynga’s CityVille 2 gained the most daily active users this week on our list of top growing apps by DAU with 91 percent gain. The titles below grew between 100,000 and 2 million DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering … Continue reading →
  • Facebook proposes data-sharing with Instagram, ...
    Facebook today proposed changes to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that will allow the company to share information with affiliates like Instagram and put an end to site governance voting, among other more minor changes. New … 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

  • “Sibel Edmonds’s Secrets” – Philip Giraldi Rev ...
    The anticipation is over. The review of my memoir Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story is published in the American Conservative Magazine. You can read the entire review here. I think Mr. Giraldi has done a good job, and done so objectively-free of any bias. I am grateful. I know how hard i ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 6
    Examining the Chessboard: The Geopolitics of the Middle East with Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya This week, Eric sits down with political analyst and author Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya. The two discuss the Israeli war on Gaza and the regional implications of the conflict. Additionally, they examine how the ...
  • Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnershi ...
    The Most Secretive & “Least Transparent” Trade Negotiations in History The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and “least transparent” trade negotiations in history. Luckily for the populations and societies that will be affected by the agreement, there are public research organi ...
  • Coming Up This Friday: The American Conservati ...
    I just got a heads up on the coming review of my book Classified Woman in The American Conservative magazine by Philip Giraldi. I am thrilled. I am honored. And most importantly, I am heartened to see channels still-not-corrupted or co-opted by the government-the establishment and its tentacles. ...
  • No Wonder China is Nervous as Obama Pivots
    The US Military Posture Change Part I: China a Military Threat? To read the mainstream Western media, one would conclude that China has become an economic giant now intent on flexing its military muscle and making a massive arms buildup to do so. China’s designated new President, Xi Jinping, has ...

  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
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  • 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

  • Recognizing the Long Arc of Jesse Jackson Jr's ...
    Jesse Jackson Jr. served his constituents and his conscience through 17 of the most demanding years in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives. He cast more courageous votes and stood on principle more consistently than the vast majority of his colleagues. His career has ended on a sad ...
  • Obama's Mideast Policy Burns
    The U.S. believes it can manipulate jihadi fighters in a holy war against the West's enemies in the Muslim world. However, "Israel's murderous assault on Gaza threatens to unravel the Salafist-Qatari-Saudi-NATO axis, for one simple and irreducible reason: there is no place for the racist settler ...
  • Israeli Violence Finally on Trial
    If the Turkish court convicts the accused, then international arrest warrants can be issued and INTERPOL would be required to arrest them if they leave Israel, for virtually any country other than the United States. The Turkish judgment could also be used as a basis for further judicial proceedi ...
  • Power, Sex, and Symbiotic Attachment
    Powerful men engaging in extramarital affairs with beautiful younger women.A new means to examine why powerful and intelligent men risk everything for sex.
  • Prosecution of Anonymous activists highlights ...
    This was a case where the US government -- through affirmative steps and/or approving acquiescence to criminal, sophisticated cyber-attacks -- all but destroyed the ability of an adversarial group, convicted of no crime, to function on the internet. Who would possibly consider that power anythin ...

  Switchboard

  • Small Business Saturday Reminds Us of Another ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC With Small Business Saturday just around the corner, the Sacramento Bee recently raised another reason to reform Wildlife Services’: its devastating effects on small businesses. Indeed, as des ...
  • Thanks, but No Thanks: Bill to Carve Special ...
    Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC Like every American, I’m thankful to live in a country that has a reasonably well-functioning democracy – where we can vote for our President and representatives in Congress – where ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • Frugal Feasting like it's 1917!
    Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York I headed to my childhood borough of Queens last weekend for this month’s Frugal Feast, hosted in the warm and eclectic Long Island City home of Sylvana and Karl. As regular readers of these ...
  • The Quiet Revolution in Vehicle Lightweighting
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City The company that brought American consumers the heavyweight Hummer SUVs, as well as the maker of the perennially best-selling truck in the U.S. are both “getting religion” on the benefits of ...

  Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Black Friday Wal-Mart Strikes
    I’m going to assume anyone who actually shops today is someone I don’t want to know. But in any case, you should be following the Black Friday Wal-Mart strikes, the largest organized labor action in the history of the company. Josh Eidelson’s blog at The Nation is the best plac ...
  • Abraham Lincoln: Railroad Hack
    Lynn Parramore’s piece exposing Abraham Lincoln’s history as a railroad lawyer has some demythologizing value, but it would be a lot more useful if it placed Lincoln’s railroad history within the larger context of the early Republican Party. Thinking of Lincoln as a corrupt Gil ...
  • Foreign Entanglements: Horse, Bayonets, and Ir ...
    Happy post-Thanksgiving, all. With luck, we won’t have to deal with another holiday situation until Memorial Day or thereabouts. On Monday, I spoke with Bryan McGrath (my co-blogger at Information Dissemination) about the election, asymmetric beliefs, maritime issues, and Iron Dome: On the ...
  • Occupy Best Buy
    On early Wednesday evening I noticed four tents were pitched in a line in front of my local Best Buy, and I decided to do some journamalizing. It turned out the first tent at this Black Friday base camp was occupied by a couple of college students. One was a 23-year-old architecture grad student ...
  • Who knows more about football than Rex Ryan? W ...
    My cat Sigmund: Between swatting at Sanchez (0:27) and turning his head in disgust at the image of Tebow (0:56), I think he’s at least earned himself an interview.

  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

  • A Smog-Fighting Billboard For Los Angeles?
  • Alternative Energy Vehicles: Then And Now. How ...
  • Energy Efficiency Incentives Could Save Billio ...
  • Wind After The Production Tax Credit
  • Scientists Use Sunlight To Produce Steam Witho ...

  National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE CAREERIST: Do men care about balance?
    I keep hearing that men secretly crave work/life ­balance, but I'm not sure that I buy it.
  • THE PRACTICE: Notable circuit splits on federa ...
    One issue dividing the circuits is whether a court may transfer part of an action while retaining the remainder.
  • OPINION: Equal justice for immigrants
    Many prosecutors hope the high court will allow them to revisit plea deals that led to unintended detention or deportation.
  • OPINION: Recess appointment challenges
    Obama's NLRB recess appointments should not be subject to judicial review because of the doctrine of political-question nonjusticiability.
  • Law firm PACs focus on states
    The top federal political action committees for law firms pumped just as much money into the 2012 election cycle as four years ago, but channelled a larger chunk of their money away from Congress and toward state lawmakers across the country.

  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

  • Prescribed and Abandoned-Another Drug Settlement
    Would women want to trade 'hot flashes for decreased libido, nausea, increased blood pressure and incredible withdrawal issues' found with Pristiq asked another poster?
  • How OECD Countries Responding to Financial Crisis
    To speed-up their economic recovery and to restore lasting prosperity, many OECD countries are combining austerity measures with pro-growth structural reforms, particularly in the product and labour markets.
  • US Condemns Bus Bombing in Tel Aviv
    In her remarks today in DC, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed concern to the victims and the people of Israel.
  • Congressman Langevin Hails Middle East Ceasefi ...
    Realizing that much work remains to make the ceasefire last, we continue to recognize our ally Israel's right to self-defense and hope for an end to the Hamas rockets that not only threaten Israelis, but also put Palestinian civilians in danger.
  • PA Daily Accuses Israel of Intentionally Targe ...
    A regular columnist in the official PA daily wrote: 'Like hidden snakes whose fangs bite in the darkness, the oppressing invaders (i.e., Israel) chase after our children... They have no shame.

  environment 360

  • Solar-Equipped ‘iShacks’ Offer Cheap, Sustaina ...
    South African researchers say they have developed a low-cost and sustainable housing alternative to the flimsy corrugated iron shacks found in the country’s growing settlements. Developed by an interdisciplinary Click to enlarge Hope Project/iShack An iShack team at Stellenbosch Universit ...
  • Interview: UN Climate Chief Says Talks are Ste ...
    Few jobs on the international stage are more daunting than that held by Christiana Figueres, the woman in UNFCCC Christiana Figueres charge of the UN talks aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Figueres is executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Cha ...
  • 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.

  Red Ice Creations

  • Bible Wrong? Jesus was born years earlier than ...
    The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several years earlier than commonly believed. The assertion that the Christian calendar is based on a false premise is not new – But the fact that doubts over one of ...
  • Lucid Dreaming and Mental Illness
    I got the weirdest phone call last week. The editor of Gawker, A.J. Daulerio, contacted me, requesting information on lucid dreaming. (Lucid dreaming is knowing you’re dreaming while firmly in the dreamstate). He said he’s doing a new piece on lucid dreaming and Jared Loughner, who was sentenced ...
  • Elite Intrigues and Military Purges: It’s Not ...
    The headline stories claim that CIA Director General David Petraeus resigned as head of the CIA because of an adulterous relation with his young biographer and that General John Allen, Supreme Commander of US troops in Afghanistan, was under investigation and his promotion to top commander of US ...
  • No Sailors Saw Osama Bin Laden’s Alleged Buria ...
    More than a year after Navy SEALs supposedly killed former CIA asset Osama bin Laden, a FOIA by the Associated Press has produced emails revealing that no American sailors aboard the USS Carl Vinton witnessed the terrorist’s burial at sea. The heavily redacted emails are said to be the first pub ...
  • ’Titan’ supercomputer is world’s most powerful
    The top two spots on the list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers have both been captured by the US. The machine, built by Cray at the US government’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has seized the top spot in the Top500, a closely-watched global league of the fastest superco ...

  Russia Today

  • Single statue streaker stops central London (P ...
    A naked man atop a bronze monument brought central London to a standstill for three hours, as police feared the statue straddler might pose a security risk. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Gaza ceasefire gave Morsi green light for dra ...
    A day after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, he widely expanded his own powers. It’s been met with both approval and anger, with accusations that he cares only about his... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • No Deal: EU in discord as leaders fail to agre ...
    Fractious two-day talks on the new seven year European Union budget have collapsed in Brussels with sides no closer to agreement than before the start. The failure will cast a pall over the crisis-stricken union in the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Tunisia and Libya delay formal recognition of ...
    Tunisia and Libya refrained from recognizing a newly formed Syrian opposition coalition until more is known of the group’s composition. Arab Spring opposition in both countries received international recognition... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Solo act: Jailed Pussy Riot member granted sol ...
    A jailed member of the controversial Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot has asked to be transferred to a solitary cell after quarreling with other inmates, prison authorities said. 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

  • Joe Rogan - The JFK Magic Bullet and Assessing ...
    [Language Warning] Joe Rogan points out the ridiculousness of the official story of the JFK "magic bullet" theory as described by the Warren Commission: _____________________________________ Joe Rogan's very sensible recommendation in regard to evaluating evidence in difficult-to-follow crime ...
  • Israel Started The Conflict Not Hamas
    Debunking the propaganda that Hamas started the fighting with rocket attacks. The Israelis also broke the truce in November 2008: Remember, when you can't find the source of your troubles, or mis-identify it, finding a solution becomes very difficult.
  • 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 ...

  Fooducate

  • Black Friday, Consumerism, and Obesity
  • Happy Thanksgiving, Gobble Gobble…
  • Is the Lawsuit Against Goldfish Crackers’ Manu ...
  • Buying Groceries: The Problem with Catchy “Hea ...
  • The Real Problem with 5 Hour and other Energy ...

  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

  • Russian indigenous peoples’ organization order ...
    A Khanty man in Siberia© Jon SpaullAn organization representing indigenous peoples in Russia has been ordered to close, in the country’s latest crackdown on NGOs. The Ministry of Justice said it was suspending RAIPON (Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North) for six months b ...
  • 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 ...

  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

  • Can't Get to DC Autism Hearings? Send a Messag ...
    Want to attend the Federal Response to Autism Hearing on November 29th but can't? We know that many of you are writing letters and calling your Representatives and sending thank you faxes to Representative Burton and kicking yourselves that you...
  • The Autism Team Reality TV Program and Reality ...
    By Anne Dachel Like most autism parents, I have vivid memories of when my husband and I were informed about our son’s autism. The first official diagnosis came when he was seven in the second grade. That was in 1993,...
  • Happy Thanksgiving
    Here's to Thanksgiving with our own personal stamp. We might not be "traditional" but we have homes full of love, caring and the strongest folks since.... the Pilgrims. Happy Thanksgiving friends. (PS) Is that toast GF?
  • Happy Thanksgiving from SafeMinds: TACA Famili ...
    All of us at SafeMinds are thankful for our community of wonderful fellow parents who love and support our children every day. These TACA famillies took the time to visit Chairman, Darrell Issa's office this week. They wanted to thank...
  • Dachel Media Update: 11/21
    Nov 20, 2012, KCEN-TV Eddy, TX: Autism Definition Change Could Affect Millions “Next spring the definition of Autism will officially change. “That means a large number of people with forms of Autism may not qualify for a diagnosis. “This will...

  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

  • Prescribed and Abandoned-Another Drug Settlement
    Would women want to trade 'hot flashes for decreased libido, nausea, increased blood pressure and incredible withdrawal issues' found with Pristiq asked another poster?
  • How OECD Countries Responding to Financial Crisis
    To speed-up their economic recovery and to restore lasting prosperity, many OECD countries are combining austerity measures with pro-growth structural reforms, particularly in the product and labour markets.
  • US Condemns Bus Bombing in Tel Aviv
    In her remarks today in DC, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed concern to the victims and the people of Israel.
  • Congressman Langevin Hails Middle East Ceasefi ...
    Realizing that much work remains to make the ceasefire last, we continue to recognize our ally Israel's right to self-defense and hope for an end to the Hamas rockets that not only threaten Israelis, but also put Palestinian civilians in danger.
  • PA Daily Accuses Israel of Intentionally Targe ...
    A regular columnist in the official PA daily wrote: 'Like hidden snakes whose fangs bite in the darkness, the oppressing invaders (i.e., Israel) chase after our children... They have no shame.

  Worldnews

  • Ricky Hatton on how boxing became his 'th ...
    Exclusive interview: Ricky Hatton believes that all he achieved in a 47-fight career yielding five world titles and including contests against modern greats Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jnr was wiped out in three years of depression, boozing and suicidal tendencies. Yet Hatton reveale ...
  • Chita Rivera, almost 80, can't sit still
    NEW YORK - Even when she should be relaxing, Chita Rivera just can't. Enlarge This undated photo made available by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Chita Rivera in a performance of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" in New York. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus) Currently starring in the ensemble ...
  • Palmer leads Raiders into Cincy
    — If nothing else, Carson Palmer ought to know his surroundings Sunday. A two-time Pro Bowler and two-time playoff participant during seven seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, he'll make his first appearance at Paul Brown Stadium as an opponent when he arrives with the Oakland Raiders ...
  • Maria Sharapova Would Love To Try Acting
    Russian professional tennis player Maria Sharapova smiles during a media function in New Delhi on November 11,2012. Sharapova came to Delhi as part of a promotional event. By Dave Kelsey, Awful Announcing As if tennis star Maria Sharapova wasn't already ridiculously talented enough, she has ...
  • Counting Crows among the bands to see in ...
    Related topics Orange County CA live musicCounting CrowsUnwritten LawThis Weekend Advertisement You've got a long weekend, so there is no reason for you to let it pass without taking in some live music. Friday Rock out with local band Gasoline Addicts at the Westside Bar and Grill. He's play ...

  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

  • [Report] The Structure of Native Influenza Vir ...
    Electron microscopic analysis of a purified RNA-protein complex links its structure to the influenza lifecycle. Authors: Rocío Arranz, Rocío Coloma, Francisco Javier Chichón, José Javier Conesa, José L. Carrascosa, José M. Valpuesta, Juan Ortín, Jaime Mart& ...
  • [Report] Organization of the Influenza Virus R ...
    Electron microscopic analysis of a reconstituted RNA-protein complex outlines pathways of transcription. Authors: Arne Moeller, Robert N. Kirchdoerfer, Clinton S. Potter, Bridget Carragher, Ian A. Wilson
  • [Review] Heparin-induced skin lesions
    Heparins are widely used for prophylaxis and treatment of thromboembolic diseases. Besides bleeding complications, heparin-induced skin lesions are the most frequent unwanted adverse effects of subcutaneous heparin treatment. Evidence suggests that these lesions are more common than previously t ...
  • AP PHOTOS: Hundreds of Indonesians get free ey ...
  • The Bayesian equation and psychosis

  Common Dreams

  • Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man at Border
    Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man and wounded 15 more at the Gaza border on Friday, only two days after a truce brought an end to 8 days of fighting. The death is the first reported killing since the ceasefire took effect Reuters reports: ...
  • 'Black Friday' Strikes Mark Start of Walmart W ...
    In what critics see as an insatiable and rapacious strategy to lure deal-hungry consumers, many of the nation's largest big box retailers opened their doors Thursday night in efforts to extend the available hours for the national shopping glut known as "Black Friday". ...
  • Egypt's Revolutionaries Protest 'Coup Against ...
    In what critics are calling "a coup against legitimacy," thousands of protesters gathered throughout Egypt on Friday after President Mohamed Mursi assumed new powers that ban challenges to his decrees, laws and decisions, and bar his decisions from being revoked by any court. ...
  • Economic Sanctions Cause 'War-time Conditions' ...
    Economic sanctions imposed by the United States and other Western countries have left hospitals in Iran working in "war-time conditions," with many drugs scarce or too costly for most patients. Medical practitioners also allege that the government has mismanaged state funds, exacerbati ...
  • Worldwide Anti-Dolphin Slaughter, Whale Hunt R ...
    Anti-whaling activists announced Thursday that there will be a co-ordinated global day of protest this weekend against Japan's annual state-sponsored hunt and to the capture and slaughter of dolphins in the town of Taiji. The Japanese annual whaling mission to the Southern Ocean is due to st ...

  The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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  Energy Collective

  • Climate Concerns Rise in the East
    A new study from the Carbon Trust reveals a divide between Generation Y’s attitude to carbon reduction in the East and West.
  • GM to Produce 500,000 Green Cars By 2017
    General Motors, seeming more confident in the face of rising Volt plug-in hybrid sales, looks to be expanding its vehicle electrification efforts. Primarily through its brand Chevrolet, the Detroit automaker hopes to significantly bump up the number of green cars it produces by 2017.
  • Cultivating agricultural cleantech
  • Eight Ways The Drought Is Influencing Thanksgiving
    Thanksgiving is a time of plenty – or, maybe more accurately, of vast over-consumption — from the meal to the midnight shopping rampage afterward.
  • Why not make Black Friday a Green Friday?
    As we approach one of the biggest shopping days of the year, take a minute to think about the things you can do to make searching for the perfect gift a little friendlier on the planet (and your wallet).Here are nine ideas for making Black Friday -- and the rest of the holiday season -- a little ...

  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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  • This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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  Peoples Voice

  • Elite Intrigues: It’s Not About Sex, Stupid!
    James Petras Introduction The headline stories claim that CIA Director General David Petraeus resigned as head of the CIA because of an adulterous relation with his young biographer and that General John Allen, Supreme Commander of US troops in Afghanistan, was under investigation and his pr ...
  • Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 8
    by Stephen Lendman What can't go on forever, won't. As long as world leaders let Israel get away with murder, killing Palestinians won't stop. Wednesday marks Operation Pillar of Cloud day 8. Ceasefire deals don't stop Israel's killing machine. It's a weapon of mass destruction. It speci ...
  • In response to Danny Ayalon
    by Philip Greaves In response to the recent article by Israeli FM Danny Ayalon’s article in Comment is Free in the Guardian “Hamas leaves Israel no choice” I felt obliged to leave a comment to counter the propaganda and inaccuracies in his article… Mr Ayalon, The main ...
  • The Hypocrisy of US Foreign Policy: Obama agre ...
    by chycho To emphasize the hypocrisy of US foreign policy in the following reply from President Obama, the word “missiles” has been replaced by “drones”, the word “landing” replaced by “striking”, and the word “Israel(i)” replaced by ...
  • Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 7
    by Stephen Lendman When will Israel decide enough's enough? When will enough dead Palestinian men, women, children, infants, and elderly satisfy Netanyahu's blood lust? He'll have to explain. Death and injury totals keep rising. Perhaps hundreds already perished. Those injured approach 1,00 ...

  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

  • Saboteur An interview with a domestic insurgent
    From RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway I first met the man we’ll call Trucker in 1970 at a rally against the Vietnam War. Our demo was going to start on the Berkeley campus and continue with a march down Telegraph Avenue. This was shortly after the National Guard an ...
  • 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence 2012
    Orange your day on 25 November Join the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign from 25 November through 10 December.  16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign is an international campaign that began in 1991. From November 25th, the International Day of Elimination of Vi ...
  • WWH/CJE Friday News Briefs
    Wal-Mart strike could put damper on Black Friday Remember the hidden Homeland security cameras folks! The license plate readers, face recognition computer and the mirrors in the ladies room! Big Sis Places Cameras in Wal-Mart Stores for Department of Homeland Security Five of the Nastiest Exampl ...
  • WWH/CJE Thursday News Briefs
    Gaza ceasefire takes hold but mistrust runs deep Israel is just reloading, and Hillary got her face time for 2016. (Reuters) – A ceasefire between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers took hold on Thursday after eight days of conflict, although deep mistrust on both sides cast doubt on how ...
  • Sex Therapists Call for Legalization of &#8216 ...
    By Michael Allen, opposingviews.com - Amsterdam sex therapists Rik van Lunsen and Erik van Beek have caused controversy by calling for ‘virtual’ imaginary child porn to be legalized to relieve the sexual urges of pedophiles. The sex therapists are advocating that pedophiles view draw ...

  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

  • Why You Still Shouldn't Visit Fast Food Joints
    Here's some shocking news just in time for holiday travel season: Fast-food contains as many calories as ever, despite the increasing number of healthy items like oatmeal, salads, and other menu items with a healthy halo now appearing on menus. "Clearly restaurants are adding some healthy ...
  • 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 ...

  big think

  • Bringing Unmanned Commercial Flight Closer To ...
    What's the Latest Development? In the next few weeks, UK researchers are scheduled to test-fly a twin-engine Jetstream aircraft outfitted with video cameras and controlled by a pilot on the ground. The flight, which will take place over Scotland, will determine the communications quality ...
  • How Alcohol Levels Affect Trauma Victim Surviv ...
    What's the Latest Development? A recent University of Illinois-Chicago study suggests that while alcohol may play a role in a person's acquiring a traumatic injury, it may also play a role in helping their body survive that injury, with higher alcohol levels corresponding to higher rates ...
  • Why Communal Performance Is Good For You
    What's the Latest Development? Psychologist Robin Dunbar and his colleagues at the University of Oxford conducted several experiments with different groups of people to determine how their activities affected their pain tolerance. In three of the experiments, groups of people who were pe ...
  • Why Blue Light May Be As Good As Coffee When D ...
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers at universities in France and Sweden conducted tests involving 48 male drivers who were asked to drive an experimental vehicle during early morning hours (1:00 - 5:15 am). Some were given caffeinated coffee, some were given decaffeinated coffee ...
  • Why Rachel Held Evans Won't Change Christianity
    Some progressive Christian bloggers I respect have been writing enthusiastically about a new book, Rachel Held Evans' A Year of Biblical Womanhood, which they say proves that the Bible has been misused to justify patriarchy and demands for female submission. When the book became a bestseller .. ...

  Information Liberation

  • FL Man Shot By Deputies At 1:30AM Follow Up: C ...
    Remember the story of the Lake County, Florida man who answered his door at 1:30AM with a gun and was shot by deputies who mistakenly went to the wrong house? The deputies said they were looking for an "attempted murder" suspect, though the suspect ...
  • Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confis ...
    An anti-piracy company has found itself in the middle of a huge controversy. CIAPC, the company that had The Pirate Bay blocked by ISPs in Finland, tracked an alleged file-sharer and demanded a cash settlement. However, the Internet account holder re...
  • Cop Vs Camera: Camera Wins
    "Not so routine traffic stop" Via Youtube: "A VPD cop thinks he can bully and intimidate me on a 'routine' traffic stop. However, when the camera comes on, he starts singing a new tune and does a 180 degree attitude change. Still gives me a ...
  • Why Are Brothels Illegal?
    In contrast to the boring and predictable presidential candidates,*there are some unusually colorful candidates who somehow manage to get*into office each time there is an election. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger*was twice elected to the California gove...
  • Patriotic Millionaires Unmasked
    Despite the breathless post-election "think pieces" that have drawn sweeping and deeply considered conclusions about the political drift of the country, at its core President Obama's re-election is easy to understand. He essentially promised mil...

  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

  • Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5
    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5 is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
  • Science book prize shortlist
    The shortlist for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is out. The winning book will be announced at a public event on 26 November 2012. The judging panel comprises: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting Professor at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Jasper Fforde, ...
  • Science book prize shortlist
    The shortlist for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is out. The winning book will be announced at a public event on 26 November 2012. The judging panel comprises: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting Professor at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Jasper Fforde, ...
  • Getting Viagra up in 20 seconds
    Pierre Morieux, a postdoc in medicinal chemistry in France sent me a Youtube clip he made. In it he uses some neat tricks, keyboard shortcuts, hotkeys and the like to construct a molecule of Viagra in ChemDraw in less than 20 seconds. He reckons it could save anyone who has to draw chemical stru ...
  • Getting Viagra up in 20 seconds
    Pierre Morieux, a postdoc in medicinal chemistry in France sent me a Youtube clip he made. In it he uses some neat tricks, keyboard shortcuts, hotkeys and the like to construct a molecule of Viagra in ChemDraw in less than 20 seconds. He reckons it could save anyone who has to draw chemical stru ...

  RFF Library

  • The Carbon Market: A Primer for Airports
    Transportation Research Board http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=14607  [Description] TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 57: The Carbon Market: A Primer for Airports provides information on carbon and other environmental credit trading markets, and highlights th ...
  • Oil Sands, Greenhouse Gases, and U.S. Oil Supp ...
    IHS http://bit.ly/TSw8yR [From Press Release] The IHS Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue has released an update to its 2010 report comparing the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from fuels made from Canadian oil sands to those from other crude sources. The new analysis—updated to include more current dat ...
  • 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 ...

  Scientific American - News

  • Rare Apparition of Dwarf Planet Makemake Revea ...
    A new look at the dwarf planet Makemake , one of the more recent additions to the known solar system, has pinned down some of the object's most basic--and important--attributes. [More]
  • Hunt for Life under Antarctic Ice Heats Up
    Nestled in a steep fjord beneath three kilometers of Antarctic ice, the lost world of Lake Ellsworth has haunted Martin Siegert’s dreams ever since he got involved in subglacial research a dozen years ago. Finally, the time has come for him to explore its mysterious waters. [More] ...
  • 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 ...

  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

  • Can a Sustainable Salmon be Farmed?
    Is Sobey's lice-infested product an anomaly, or par for the course? Halifax, NS – The rise of consumption in today's world is due to the rapid growth of the world' ...
  • Hunger Strike against Trinidad Highway Reaches ...
    Concern mounts as Wayne Kublalsingh nears organ failure after eight days without food or water Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh, who I interviewed fo ...
  • Rental rules get overhaul
      It’s been a decade since the Residential Tenancies Act got a facelift, and on Nov. 15, changes took effect to the law that governs rentals. Landlords and tenants should get acquainted with the tweaks to subletting rules, ...
  • Pipeline Surveyor Equipment Confiscated
    Direct actions keep Pacific Trails Pipeline out of Unis'tot'en territory From the beautiful unceded Unis’tot’en Yintah (Territory): At 10am on the morning of No ...
  • Protest Against Israel's Deputy Ambassador Eli ...
    Protest Jason Kenney and Israel's Deputy Ambassador Eliaz Luf! Hundreds came out in Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories, for an emergency protest against Israeli Deputy Minister Eliaz Luf, Canadian Deportation Minister Jason Kenney, and former Tory Cabinet Minister Sto ...

  David Seaton's News Links

  • The American religious + economic right fractures
    David Seaton's News LinksLosing the election seems to have really shaken the American conservative movement deeply and the most significant long term effect, that I perceive, is watching some important, born again, wooly-evangelicals slowly morphing into what, in Europe, would be classified as C ...
  • 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 ...

  MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Today's Crazy Idea: Let's Get Rid of Tax Brack ...
    A few days ago I wrote a post about rich people who didn't understand how marginal tax rates worked, and therefore thought that under President Obama's plan they'd suddenly face a big hike in their tax bill as soon as they passed Obama's magic $250,000 threshold. Today I extend an abject apolo ...
  • My Annual Black Friday Post
    According to the retail industry, "Black Friday" is the day when retail profits for the year go from red to black. Are you skeptical that this is really the origin of the term? You should be. After all, the term Black ___day, in other contexts, has always signified something terrible, like a ...
  • Thanksgiving Cat Blogging - 22 November 2012
    Happy Thanksgiving from everyone in the Drum household! May all your dreams of turkey come true today.
  • The Federal Deficit Is Shrinking Already, But ...
    So how's the federal deficit doing? Last month the Treasury Department figured that the FY2012 deficit would clock in at about $1.1 trillion, or 7 percent of GDP. That's down considerably from three years ago, when the deficit peaked at a hair over 10 percent of GDP. Jed Graham, using the thr ...
  • Obamacare Still a Bargaining Chip in Fiscal Cl ...
    In an op-ed today, House Speaker John Boehner said that Obamacare needs to be on the table during negotiations over the fiscal cliff: The president’s health care law adds a massive, expensive, unworkable government program at a time when our national debt already exceeds the size of o ...

  Insanity Report

  • IC 362: Big Endians vs Little Endians
    Topics: Jesus is Master Chief What We’re thankful for More Black Friday Bullshit the Great BBQ Debate Your Preference != The Only Way Grits are nasty Elmo Getting Skinny on Food Stamps Chris Christie is Fat Share with your friends:
  • 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 ...

  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

  • Poor and often inaccurate web info on 'designe ...
    The quality of internet information available for women opting for "designer vagina" procedures is "poor," and in some cases, inaccurate, reveals a small study published in the Obstetrics & Gynaecology edition of the online only journal BMJ Open. read more
  • Male bias persists in female-rich science conf ...
    Women scientists in primatology are poorly represented at symposia organized by men, but receive equal representation when symposia organizers are women or mixed groups, according to research published November 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Lynne Isbell and colleagues from the Univer ...
  • An antidote for hypersomnia
    Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered that dozens of adults with an elevated need for sleep have a substance in their cerebrospinal fluid that acts like a sleeping pill. read more
  • Researchers offer simple, inexpensive way to i ...
    Bones are resilient and heal well after most fractures. But in cases of traumatic injury, in which big pieces of bone are missing, healing is much more difficult, if not impossible. These so-called "large segmental defects" are a major clinical problem, and orthopaedic surgeons struggl ...
  • Star Trek Classroom: The next generation of sc ...
    Researchers designing and testing the 'classroom of the future' have found that multi-touch, multi-user desks can boost skills in mathematics. 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

  • WATCH: UNRWA chief says donor commitment to Ga ...
    The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, provides “assistance, protection and advocacy for some 5 million registered Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the occupied Palestinian territory, pending a solution to their plight. ...
  • WATCH: Israelis from Sderot play Palestinians ...
    There has been a lot of nationalism, warmongering and even racism in the Israeli media this past week, and inflammatory militaristic statements are still heard everywhere. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to post this video by filmmaker Itamar Rose. Several months ago, Rose traveled w ...
  • Ceasefire tells the world: Gaza still under Is ...
    By agreeing to negotiate freedom of movement for Gazans, Israel has admitted – with the whole world watching – that 1.7 million Gazans are not free. A victory for truth in the ‘information war’. One of the good things about the Israel-Gaza ceasefire is that it highlights ...
  • A week in photos: Gaza escalation, ahead of ce ...
    Palestinians in Gaza celebrated the ceasefire yesterday evening, but the destruction and grief left in the wake of Israeli airstrikes are enormous. Activestills documented the Israeli operation from beginning to end, capturing its effects in Israel, the West Bank and, most acutely, the Gaza Stri ...
  • Operation ‘Cast Ballot’: Post mortem
    As yet another military campaign ends, the IDF turns out to be, as usual, the weakest link in the chain. Operation Cast Ballot, or as it is formally known, “Pillar of Defense,” has come to an end. Childish to the end, the Palestinians and Israelis managed to miss a ceasefire on Tuesd ...

  Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Indigenous grants program supports sustainable ...
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and groups involved in the sustainable use of dugong, turtle and marine resources have been invited to apply for a range of grants.
  • Gillard Government delivers historic water reform
    After more than 100 years of disagreement, the Gillard Government will today present a final Murray Darling Basin Plan.
  • 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.

  Matt Weidner Blog

  • NY TIMES: NATION’S BANKS STILL ABUSING T ...
    Maybe the New And Improved President of the United States of Amerika will stand up and hold Wall Street and The Banks accountable.  Kinda hard to imagine that though when he’s the president they bought.  But if the political pressure were strong enough, maybe the Monitor of the National Mo ...
  • The National Mortgage Settlement….REPORT ...
    I will remain critical of the National Mortgage Sellout until consumers get treated fairly…which is to say that I will always be critical of this deal that sold out consumers and was a gift to the banks…a reward for their wrongdoing. It drives me nuts that reporters fail to report th ...
  • Obama’s 49 State Attorney General Sellou ...
    It’s not “our” government anymore.  Not at the local level, not at the state level, not in the courts and certainly not at the federal level. Trial court judges are often prejudiced against  the interests of the lowly unwashed masses of defendants that appear before them.  They ...
  • My Most Devastating and Disturbing Appellate L ...
    Remember the AHMSI v. Hassell appeal (watch video above)?  Remember those oral arguments held just a few days ago?  Remember the solid legal argument on many, many issues that demanded that our nation’s court system reach out and send a message? (It’s all right here….just in ca ...
  • Department of Justice Press Release on LPS/Lor ...
    ______________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                CRM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012                                                                       ...

  abelard - news

  • leveson, gove, boris and press freedom | polit ...
    Sharp Conservative politicians rail against socialist curbs on liberty - this time on freedom of expression.
  • give and take | behaviour and intelligence new ...
    Do turkeys vote for Christmas, or Thanksgiving?
  • the just war - an update | behaviour and intel ...
    With Israel again being attacked, and defending itself, more from Augustine and the addition of Gregory VII's ideas on just war could help clarify some whys and wherefores.
  • 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.

  The Parallel Parliament

  • A Time For “Honest Abes”
    Jane and I came out of the movie “Lincoln” deeply moved. I had written a book on perhaps America’s favourite …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

  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

  • “Green” subsidies increase energy ...
    Further job losses in the UK were announced by Tata Steel just as the government announced plans to triple the burden on consumers for further nonsense subsidies for "green" power.
  • The India “Diwali night” photograp ...
    The picture purports to be from NASA of Diwali night as seen from space --- but it isn't.
  • The India “Diwali night” photograp ...
    The picture purports to be from NASA of Diwali night as seen from space --- but it isn't.
  • European Parliament defeats alarmist scare-mon ...
    The European Parliament has rejected a moratorium on the exploitation of shale gas and has approved the right of each member state to decide for itself on shale gas exploitation.
  • European Parliament defeats alarmist scare-mon ...
    The European Parliament has rejected a moratorium on the exploitation of shale gas and has approved the right of each member state to decide for itself on shale gas exploitation.

  Left Foot Forward

  • Everyone blames Cameron for leading Europe&#82 ...
    The course of the failed EU budget negotiations have revealed David Cameron's quasi-Thatcherite negotiating style, enjoyed by Ms Merkel but not by many others.
  • Rising costs, mega profits, price fixing&#8230 ...
    Bill hikes, “Libor-like” fixing of wholesale gas prices, huge profits... time to investigate the limitations of private utilities running our energy supplies.
  • Try as he may, Chris Grayling can’t make priso ...
    Efforts by the coalition to reduce expenditure on prisons are fraught with problems, including, potentially, from the ever-reliable G4S.
  • Respect implicated in aggressive and slanderou ...
    In the Rotherham by-election, the Respect Party and Yvonne Ridley have been implicated in a campaign leaflet that accuses Labour of racism.
  • Watch: Republican claims “spiritual weap ...
    Republican Bryan Fischer has claimed exorcism can be used as a "spiritual weapon" to cure homosexuality.

  Consumerist

  • Remember To Send Us Your Black Friday Photos A ...
    Given the sheer number of people who will be out and about this weekend, it’s inevitable that some of you will have experiences ranging from the ridiculous to the horrifying to the horrifyingly ridiculous. But don’t just keep them to yourself, share them with Consumerist. Black Frida ...
  • 7 Things To Keep In Mind When Shopping This We ...
    Though some of us plan on spending this holiday weekend the traditional way — hiding in our room, away from the shame of being caught drinking directly from the gravy boat — some of you will be out shopping and spending. And like any risky expedition, it’s best to go into Black ...
  • If You Don’t Want To Eat A Turkey, How A ...
    Is there tofurkey destined for your dinner plate this Thanksgiving or are you looking forward to chowing down on the traditional bird? If you’re going the veggie-based route, maybe you’d be so inclined as to keep a turkey as a pet. While we’ll be eating 46 million of the birds ...
  • Passenger Steps Up To Help Fly Plane When Co-P ...
    When most of us get a migraine, we don’t need to find someone nearby to continue doing our job right at that moment. That’s different you’re a pilot and currently in the act of flying a plane. Luckily enough for a Lufthansa flight headed from Newark to Frankfurt, Germany, ther ...
  • “Stop Eating” Is Not The Kind Of T ...
    Leaving a $0 tip on a $30 bill at Applebee’s is bad enough. But then taking the effort to write “Stop Eating B*tch!” as a “tip” is crossing the line from being a bad consumer into being a horrible human being. But that’s exactly what some customer at an Appleb ...

  Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Another Whistleblower Killed in India: Daily W ...
    Deccan Herald (India): Whistleblower Hacked to Death Summary: A Right to Information (ability of citizens to get information from the government) activist and corruption whistleblower was killed earlier this week in India. Three men attacked him with “lethal weapons” in his village in front of ...
  • 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 ...

  UK Progressive

  • Happy Thanksgiving!
    In celebration of the holiday, we’ll be taking a few days off here as well. Unless news really breaks, we’ll be back next Mondaymorning! All of us here wish you and yours a blessed and safe holiday weekend. If you are travelling please be careful out there. Please pray with us for co ...
  • 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 ...

  NewsAlert

  • Obama Wants Higher Revenues and Rates -- But I ...
    Larry Kudlow
  • Obamacare Funding Planned Parenthood Sex Educa ...
    Big Government
  • Roderick Long on Race, Gender, Equality and Li ...
  • Ken Burns' The Dust Bowl: Blowing Sand in Our Eyes
    Gary North
  • Just 32 months later, Obama administration tel ...
    Hot Air

  JoNova

  • Doha barely begun, and Crikey, someone makes s ...
    From the Australian report on Doha (coming up next week) Firstly — there is the usual nonsense, the must-have-caveats, the litany, that allows a brave journalist to write something that’s pretty obvious, but political incorrect. So first we-the-reader apparently needs to know (again) ...
  • Feelings on the ABC are running strong
    Just one of the emails that crossed my desktop today. From Eric Fleay to corporate affairs @ the ABC, CC’d to myself, The Bunyip, Catallaxy, MichaelSmith, and Pickering. (Thank you Eric, such praise, for bloggers and commenters) I would not have said things this way myself, but for all tho ...
  • 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)

  ReNew America

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

  Truth Offering

  Empty newsfeed.

  2012 Blog

  • Airborne Ebola Possible Says Researchers
    Ebola is one of the most feared diseases in the history of humankind. Once infected your odds of not dying painfully are only 1-in-3. In Africa there have been numerous outbreaks, the worst of which infected 425 Ugandans, with more than half of them dying. There are two key reasons why outbreaks ...
  • Yep, the Thesaurus Told Us!
    There are two sad cases of tabloid journalism on Australian TV: A Current Affair and Today Tonight. Unless you are a master of not providing a half-sentence that can be taken out of context, they are best avoided. Especially when it comes to crazy topics like 2012. I’ve turned them down&#8 ...
  • 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 ...

  Facing South

  • Art Pope rides again
    Conservative donor Art Pope's money helped the GOP take control of North Carolina's legislature in 2010. In 2010, Pope's family, business and groups helped fuel even bigger Republican gains in the battleground state. read more
  • The unequal burden of coal plant pollution
    A new report finds that U.S. coal-fired power plants are disproportionately located in low-income communities and communities of color -- and many of the worst plants and power companies from an environmental justice perspective are located in the South. read more
  • 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 ...

  One News Page

  • Pakistan arrests 24 Indian fishermen
    Pakistan has arrested 24 Indian fishermen and seized four of their boats on charges of illegally entering its territorial waters. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Consensus on CBI powers in Lokpal after `hard ...
    A 'consensus' regarding powers of CBI in the Lokpal Bill has been reached through 'hard bargain' with parliamentarians and civil society members, Union minister V Narayanasamy on Friday said. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Map row: India terms Chinese action as unaccep ...
    India on Friday termed as 'unacceptable' China depicting Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as its territory in maps of the country on their new e- passports, a step that led to retaliatory action by New Delhi. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Government may relax norms for roads in rural ...
    The Union Cabinet asked Jairam Ramesh to come up with the revised proposal which could relax norms to connect the unreached habitations. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Panesar delighted to 'get Prince of India Tend ...
    It was the perfect stage for batting ace Sachin Tendulkar to delight his home crowd with an entertaining innings in what could be his last Test match at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

  Global Research TV

  • "We teach life, sir": A Tribute to Gaza
  • Ghosts of Medak Pocket: Untold Story of Croati ...
  • West Papua: The Secret War in Asia
  • Obama's War Machine, American Assassinations & ...
  • The Revolving Door from the Pentagon to the Pr ...

  Daily Tech

  • Study: Single Gene, Plus Some "Junk" DNA Turne ...
    Crucial gene controls higher brain growth
  • Classroom of the Future Takes Cues from Star Trek
    Star Trek classroom helps kids learn math
  • Anti-Piracy "Mafia" in Scandinavia Raid House, ...
    The piracy police made one 9-year-old a very unhappy camper
  • Anti-Piracy "Mafia" in Sweden Raid House, Conf ...
    The piracy police made one 9-year-old a very unhappy camper
  • Anonymous Hackers Cost PayPal Huge Sums of Mon ...
    Prosecutor alleges Anonymous attacks cost PayPal £3.5m

  Oriental Review

  • The American Gulag Emerging Today
    An interesting paper was recently published on «Democracy in America today», and it commented in particular, on an aspect of the American prison system. It mentioned the so-called «commercial prisons»: «In the U.S. this is a thriving» business, which operates using prison labor. One in 10 prison ...
  • 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 ...

  BlogHer

  • Rich and Decadent Flourless Nutella Cake
    [Editor's Note: For some winter holiday parties, nothing but a decadent chocolate dessert will do. This nutella cake, which eschews flour for dreamy, creamy chocolate-hazelnut flavor, would be a beautiful, celebratory end to a special dinner party this season. --Genie] Flourless Nutella Cake ...
  • 15 Fun Family Activities for Black Friday
    15 Black Friday Alternatives to Shopping  I have always been amazed at the way Americans clamber for a great deal the day after Thanksgiving. I mean, did we really just spent a holiday expressing gratitude for family, friends, health and all the other non-material blessings in our lives on ...
  • Hard-Won Travel Tips
    Leaving the house for faraway lands comes with certain risks. Here are some hard-won tips for easy, drama-free travel:"There are pickpockets everywhere. The Eiffel Tower even has large signs warning tourists to be aware of the pickpockets – definitely a buzz kill from that awesome first experien ...
  • Vote With Your Dollar - Today, Every Day
    Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Buy Nothing Day, Small Business Saturday. Boycott Walmart, but don't forget to support the workers!Are the pressures to both spend and not spend driving you crazy yet? I have a solution for you, which is to make every day of a year a day that you make deliberate and c ...
  • BlogHer Conferences Weekly Update - - November ...
    Hello friends and happy Black Friday to our US friends, and for those of you outside the US, happy Friday! And don't forget Monday is Cyber Monday for all of us -- happy shopping! Because of the short week here at BlogHer, this update is a bit shorter than usual but there are a few things you n ...

  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

  • Friday roundup, Nov. 23, 2012
    A vessel is seen carrying coal on the river Rhine in Duisburg, Germany, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein) Just after the election, the Herald-Dispatch over in Huntington published an interesting op-ed by Kenova native Cliff Staten headlined, “King Coal politics more complicat ...
  • Happy Thanksgiving from Coal Tattoo
  • Patriot’s move away from mountaintop rem ...
    Photo by Vivian Stockman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition West Virginia’s political leaders continue to say very, very little about the major news latest week that one of the region’s largest coal producers is moving away from — and eventually abandoning altogether — ...
  • 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 ...

  Daniel Miessler

  • What Are Android Users Doing With Their Phones?
    Apple has a lot to do with that: IBM says the iPhone led as the most popular device driving retail shopping, with 9.6% of traffic coming from it. In a very close second place was the iPad, at 9.3%. IBM aggregates all Android devices together, and collectively they drove 7.3% of all traffic. v ...
  • EC2 Now Supporting FreeBSD, Debian, and CentOS
    You can now launch three new operating systems from within the AWS Marketplace: FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive security features, and world class performance, and is used by so ...
  • Onion Post on Saudi Arabia Electronically Trac ...
    Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements. Since last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones info ...
  • Tracking Web Visitors Using Cached HTTP Redire ...
    Here’s how it works, in brief: A user visits the website. The website contains a