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Thomas Paine

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Monday, November 26, 2012

26 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Glen Davis Oil Shale Works
Glen Davis Oil Shale Works (Photo credit: Rossco ( Image Focus Australia ))
EOG's Big Gamble on Shale Oil (1)
EOG's Big Gamble on Shale Oil (1) (Photo credit: mikesolita)
Jeddah Saudi Arabia
Jeddah Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dhaka
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English: Tomb of Muhammad in Madinah, Saudi Arabia
English: Tomb of Muhammad in Madinah, Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dhaka's bridge Bangladesh
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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • VUW: Harnessing Energy from Earthquakes
    When earthquakes occur, the energy harvested from the vibrations activates the wireless transceiver to transmit the data packets which contain the sensor’s identifier. The greater the vibrations, the greater the energy harvested and the more packets that are sent. The device uses minimal energy— ...
  • Kunstler: Shale Oil, an Epic Disappointment
    Here's why the shale oil story is not the "game changer" that the wishful claim it is: the price required to get it out of the ground (between $80-90 a barrel) will crush the US economy. Since prices are already in that range, the economy is already being crushed. The result is an economy in mor ...
  • WHO: New Saudi Coronavirus Cluster
    Four additional laboratory-confirmed cases have been identified; one of the four has died. One case is in Qatar, the location of one of the original two cases earlier this year. Three of the new cases, including the dead person, are in Saudi Arabia, site of the other original case (who also di ...
  • RE sales collapse in Paris, Ile de France ..
    2012 will remain a very bad year for real estate professionals. In this comprehensive figures on the property market in November 2012, discover the sharp decline in real estate sales in Paris and Ile-de-France, the figures very bad housing, the amount of sales that fall on the implementation upd ...
  • Quiggin: The End of the Tax Revolt
    Long after President Obama’s re-election was secure, another election day result came in, one that may be of comparable significance in the long run. By a 54-46 margin, Californian voters approved Proposition 30, which raises about $6 billion a year in additional income and sales taxes to pre ...

Independent - London

  • Split vote leaves Catalonia's separatists in q ...
    After a split in the separatist vote in Sunday's regional elections saw their drive for independence from Spain in serious danger of losing momentum, Catalonia's largest nationalist party, CiU, has begun an urgent quest for new political allies.Related StoriesPutin's power stirs Russians watchin ...
  • Dhaka workers demand action after factory fire
    Thousands of angry textile workers demonstrated on the outskirts of Dhaka after a fire swept through a garment workshop at the weekend, killing more than 100 people in Bangladesh's worst-ever factory blaze.Related StoriesTurkey confronts a resurgent Kurdish threat13 killed by 'toxic cough syrup' ...
  • Clashes at protest hub in Bahraini capital
    Riot police used tear gas and stun grenades yesterday to disperse thousands of marchers trying to reach a heavily guarded square in Manama that was once the hub of their anti-government uprising. Related StoriesSyria cluster bomb attack 'kills 10 children' in villageMohamed Morsi: In Egypt, Pres ...
  • Care of Japan's nuclear victims 'poor', says UN
    A United Nations rights investigator said yesterday that Japan has not done enough to protect the health of residents and workers affected by the Fukushima nuclear accident. Related StoriesTurkey confronts a resurgent Kurdish threat13 killed by 'toxic cough syrup' in PakistanPoison pen is mighti ...
  • Poison pen is mightier than the sword for Nort ...
    The first weapon looks like an innocuous electric torch, except it is able to fire three bullets. The second is a ballpoint pen with a poisoned needle. The third is another "poison pen", containing a bullet that both punctures the skin and releases a deadly toxin.Related StoriesTurkey confronts ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Taming the bullying tactics of Walmart
    Nationwide walkout emboldens America's labor movement. In the radical spirit of Buy Nothing Day, thousands of Walmart workers are staging a nationwide walkout on Black Friday . . . Walmart is notorious for forcing small retailers out of business, pushing suppliers to bankruptcy, depressing la ...
  • Mallory Owens, Alabama lesbian, allegedly atta ...
    An Alabama woman is recovering after allegedly being attacked by her girlfriend's brother over Thanksgiving weekend. Though details of the case are continuing to emerge, NBC affiliate Local 15 reports that 23-year-old Mallory Owens is being treated for injuries following a Nov. 22 assault by Tr ...
  • The Palestinians' only option
    In the final countdown to the UN General Assembly vote on recognition of Palestine as a non-member state, the PLO has indicated that it's expecting "a pleasant surprise", it being the number of European countries which will not do Zionism's bidding on this occasion and will vote for the resoluti ...
  • Religious freedom? Expanding the power to impo ...
    One of the most upsetting and disturbing developments in the past few years of wingnut propaganda is the attempt to define "religious freedom" as expanding the powers of the already-powerful over others, specifically with an eye towards coercing others to live by your religious rules. Even thoug ...
  • 4,250% increase in fetal deaths reported to VA ...
    Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS) fetal death reports by 4,250 percent in pregnant women. Eileen Dannemann, NCO ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Guns and college
    Much head-scratching going on in certain quarters down south over this one, I'm sure. via LGM. Since the University of Colorado's Boulder and Colorado Springs campuses began segregating dorms for students with valid concealed-carry permits this year, not a single student has asked to li ...
  • Ford fall, Blatchford does not like
    As we might expect with today's news from Toronto, the media pundits are starting rejoice or lament. Christie Blatchford is a lamentator: So, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been given the boot from office because an opportunistic citizen hired a smart and politically savvy lawyer who fo ...
  • The spark . . .
    FABIUS MAXIMUS has a thoughtful site, worthy of your perusal. "Attention Americans: the Revolution has begun. You must choose a side." is a post that discusses how important WikiLeaks has been to the resistance to America's fascists. The first sparks of Revolution are invisible to ...
  • Good things still happen to Canada
    West End Bob, one the Ink-stained Wretches here at the Beaver and other places in the interwebs just officially became Canadian. I mean it isn't like we didn't already think of him as one, but it is definitely nice to make it official! Congratulations Bob!
  • Get angry . . .
    KUDOS TO THE SIXTH ESTATE, for going to all the cerebral effort to post "Inside Elections Canada’s Whitewash Report on Election Fraud: Armwaving, Cynicism, Red Herrings". If you missed it, you must read it — and get very, very angry.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Uses Hostess And Wal-Mart Disputes To Revi ...
    Fox attacked unions over the liquidation of Hostess Brands after negotiations with its bakers union failed, but Fox ignored the fact that the company faced myriad financial problems. Similarly, Fox attacked Wal-Mart employees for striking, but failed to acknowledge the workers' concerns. Fox has ...
  • Conservative Media Promote Myths To Shield Wea ...
    In an effort to discredit President Obama's plan to increase taxes on the wealthy, conservative media outlets have pushed a number of myths to suggest that a large number of Americans will be negatively affected. In reality, only a small percentage of taxpayers would be affected by Obama's propo ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attack Obama Over Gaza Confli ...
    Right-wing media are attempting to portray President Obama as anti-Israel and pro-Hamas in light of the conflict between Israel and Gaza, ignoring recent public praise of the Obama administration from Israeli officials.Right-Wing Media Attack Obama As Anti-Israel And Pro-Hamas Hannity: Standing ...
  • Betsy McCaughey Returns To Fox To Misinform Ab ...
    Fox hosted serial health care misinformer Betsy McCaughey to push false and misleading claims about health care reform, following announcements from some Republican governors that they have decided not to create state-run health insurance exchanges.CLAIM: Health Insurance Subsidies Not Available ...
  • Daily Caller Gins Up Outrage Over Years-Old We ...
    The Daily Caller attempted to stoke anger about a Homeland Security Web page for new immigrants that provides information about government benefit programs, but buried at the end of its article the fact that the page was created in 2007. The Daily Caller also implied that immigrants abuse the U. ...

Global Research.ca

  • فن الحرب – غزة تحترق: هو ذا المُحرق
    من جهة، تلعب الولايات المتحدة دور وسيط عندما تهاجم اسرائيل غزة. ومن جهة أخرى، توفر لها الأسلحة والتدريب الذي يسمح لها بهذا النوع من الهجومات. إن رزنامة تل ابيب ترتبط برزنامة واشنطن. يستذكر مانليو دينوتشي أن الهجوم الاخير على غزة بدأ عندما انتهت المناورات العسكرية المشتركة بين الولايات المتحدة وإ ...
  • فن الحرب : شريك مونتي الأفغاني
    في 4 نوفمبر، احتفل الوزير الأول مونتي بيوم القوات المسلحة، وذلك بزيارة مفاجئة إلى أفغانستان. وأكد للعسكر الايطاليين في هرات: “لستم تمثلون أمة في حرب، إننا هنا كي نؤمّن لهذا البلد السلم والاستقرار والازدهار”. بعد ذلك التقى الرئيس كرازاي، مؤكدا  له أن ايطاليا، مثل الدول الأخرى، ستطور د ...
  • Keynes’s Case Against Fiscal Policy: For Publi ...
    Left liberal and radical economists routinely excoriate the economics profession for its failure to anticipate the dot.com and housing bubbles and the debacle of September 2008, and for its post-2008 refusal to consider the no-brainer that “static equilibrium” neoclassical orthodoxy is impotent ...
  • “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothes”: O ...
    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was bitterly right when he said US president Barack Obama “seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem” and aptly described him as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”. Under the pretext of combating terrorism, Obama has followed in the footsteps of former ...
  • The Osama bin Laden Myth
    The interview below with Osama bin Laden was conducted by the Karachi, Pakistan, daily newspaper, Ummat and published on September 28, 2001, 17 days after the alleged, but unsubstantiated, al Qaeda attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center twin towers and Pentagon.…

TPM Cafe

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

  • 5 Crucial New Findings About Climate Change
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.This just in: The planet is screwed. Well, if you ask Bill McKibben (and you should) we still have a fighting chance. But that’s only if we actually start fighting. This week proved a holiday downer with multipl ...
  • Why the War Against Fracking May Be Our Most C ...
    To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the  latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.  There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement.  It’s a secret war being ...
  • The Everyday Chemical That Makes Breast Cancer ...
    This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. Windsor, Ontario—For more than three decades, workers, most of them women, have complained of dreadful conditions in many of this city's plastic automotive parts factories: Pungent fumes and dust that caused noseble ...
  • Why Fracking May Ruin Your Thanksgiving
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.My, how things have changed since the Pilgrims tasted their first cranberries in their Plymouth colony! Until 1816, cranberries were a thoroughly wild food; something gathered, not grown. But the discovery that allowed ...
  • Science for Hire: Why Industry's Deep Pockets ...
    This story first appeared on Public Trust Project.It’s sunset in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a time when the little town’s handful of shops board up for the night, and the lights click off at no fewer than six marine research institutes.But at the far end of the town, one blo ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Stop Keystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska – protec ...
    Submit a comment to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on how risky the Keystone XL pipeline route is for the Nebraska Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer. Help us get over 1,000 comments submitted.  Click here to send a comment to the Nebraska DEQ.  If you are not from Nebras ...
  • NRC MAINTAINS HEIGHTENED WATCH OVER NUCLEAR PL ...
    According to an NRC press release, three reactors (Nine Mile Point 1 in Scriba, N.Y., Indian Point 3 in Buchanan, N.Y.; and Salem Unit 1 in Hancocks Bridge, N.J.) experienced shutdowns as Hurricane Sandy pounded the East Coast.  Another plant, Oyster Creek in New Jersey, remains in an “Alert” du ...
  • Public Utility Commission Ignores Texans’ Crie ...
    Even Support from Businesses Like IKEA Is Not Enough for PUC AUSTIN, TX – The Public Utility Commission delivered a slap in the face to the more than 6,000 Texans and 70 businesses and organizations  who have actively called on the Commission to implement and expand the non-wind renewable portfo ...
  • Solar Backers Rally as Public Comment Period Ends
    Advocates fault PUC for turning a blind eye to industry as Texas falls behind Solar energy backers rallied outside the Texas Public Utility Commission [last] week seeking enforcement of a seven-year-old law that would boost electric generation from geothermal, biomass and the state’s ample suppl ...
  • PRICELE$$ – the movie
    From the Fourth of July to the halls of Congress, PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker’s personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are some of our government’s most basic policies, like food and energy, so out-of-date – and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion o ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Non-melting chocolate invented
    Food experts at Cadbury's have developed a new type of chocolate that doesn't melt in hot weather. An achievement even Willy Wonka himself would be en...
  • Curiosity braces for possible storm hit
    A growing dust storm on the Red Planet could pose a risk to NASA's two active Mars rovers. Unlike storms on Earth, dust storms on Mars can grow so lar...
  • Giovanni amputation mystery revealed
    The tomb of Renaissance warrior Giovanni dalle Bande Nere has revealed an intriguing mystery. Giovanni was said to have died from an infection in 1526...
  • Man recites world's longest word
    One man has decided to record himself reciting the world's longest word at 189,819 letters long. The ridiculously long word is unsurprisingly the long...
  • Daydreaming can solve complex problems
    Scientists believe that daydreaming could be the key to helping us solve complex problems. While many people would tend to find themselves chastised i...

Grassroots

  • People Power versus Hydropower
    Subheadline:  Affected communities say mega-dams put profit over people, environment brazil-mab-demonstration.jpg A massive, very active social movement against the loss of ...
  • Indigenous Kaiowá in Brazil Pledge ‘Collective ...
    Leaders of the Guarani Kaiowá boldly announced that the entire community would rather die in their land defending from businesses and corporations. Their assertion is more than a war declaration. For us, the buyers of “clean energy,” their pronouncement is a jarring wake-up call that the “Green ...
  • SOFA’s Violence Against Women Campaign in Hait ...
    b_350_0_16777215_00___images_stories_women_2012-12-20_afiche_mujeres.jpg Although the January 2010 earthquake suspended the government’s work on a national strategy to combat violence against women, women’s organizations led by SOFA ...
  • Rehabilitating Haiti’s Central Plateau through ...
    mpp_november_2012_blog.jpg The Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) is one example of the amazing work peasant organizations are doing across rural communities in Haiti. In those communities, peasant organizations are working hard with limited ...
  • Who Fishes Matters
    Subheadline:  An interview with Niaz Dorry of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) who_fishes_matters_seafood_card-1.jpg I recently had a chance to interview Grassroot ...

Climate

  • Natural Gas Drillers Target U.S. Truck, Bus Market
    (AP) If the trash truck or bus rolling down your street seems a little quieter these days, you're not imagining things. It's probably running on natural gas. Surging gas production has led the drilling industry to seek out new markets ...
  • Cuba to Hold Conference on Hurricane Sandy, Gl ...
    (Xinhua) Cuba will host an international conference next May to discuss the effects of hurricane Sandy and issues related to climate change, the official news agency Prensa Latina said on Saturday. The Sixth International Conference o ...
  • Last Decade Was Warmest on Record in Europe
    (Euractiv) European temperatures in the last decade were 1.3 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average — the warmest since records began — according to new research by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the EU’s climate advi ...
  • Oil Rig Worker Dies of Injuries From Black Elk ...
    (Reuters) One of the men burned last week in an explosion and fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexicodied on Friday of his injuries, an official said, bringing the confirmed death toll from the accident to two. read more
  • Study Eats into Oil Sands Opponents' Corrosion ...
    (The Globe and Mail) It has taken on the air of fact among those seeking to halt pipelines designed to carry crude from the oil sands. The diluted bitumen those pipelines would carry, critics say, is more corrosive than "normal" crude. ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Should Go Without Saying...
    Only morons think Obama caved in his negotiations over the Bush tax cuts in 2010. I thank David Corn for setting the record straight, but it really wouldn't be necessary if there weren't a bunch of progressives running around who are addicted to poutrage and who have no understanding of how Was ...
  • Could It Be Racism?
    I think Charles Murray has a blind spot. He does a nice job of explaining why Asian-Americans should be more receptive to the Republican Party but his explanation for why they are not is off the mark. First of all, Mr. Murray notices that Asian-Americans have college degrees at more than d ...
  • You may now videotape cops in IL
    ... without fear of being arrested for violating the law against video or audiotaping cops in public: (Reuters) - The Supreme Court refused on Monday to revive a controversial Illinois law that prohibited audio recordings of police officers acting in public places, a ban that critics said vio ...
  • The GOP Will Have to Learn to Legislate
    According to Politico, the Republicans "readily and publicly admit that repeal [of ObamaCare] is impossible in the next four years unless something outrageous happens." It is also almost impossible that the Democrats will retake control of the House of Representatives in the next four years. Wh ...
  • Stop Treating Pot Like Heroin
    Politicians have a tendency to be honest about difficult issues only when they are leaving or have already left office: ENDING the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is impossible, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexicos outgoing president. In an interview with The Economist Mr Ca ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Best JFK Conspiracy Theories
    Half a century on and nobody is sure who assassinated JFK. Still, conspiracy theories abound about who was behind the shooting. Here are ten of our favorites. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Bajau Sea Gypsies of Borneo
    The Bajau people of Borneo are sea gypsies who spend almost their entire lives on the ocean – living off the bountiful waters of the Coral Triangle. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Bull Jumping and Whipping Rituals of Ethio ...
    In the ancient Omo Valley of Ethiopia, Hamer tribespeople converge for an initiation ceremony that will see women whipped and a boy leap over a line of cattle! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    Courageous journalists, stolen inventions, genius programmers and seriously heavy people are just some of the fascinating topics covered in the articles linked to here. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Treading the Tunnels of an Abandoned Mine in Wales
    Long, dark tunnels and deep pools of still water await in this abandoned mine in Wales. The perfect expedition for a brave explorer. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar
    The climate talks get under way in Doha, Qatar, a ship traverses the Arctic and Vancouver finds a way to reuse plastic as sidewalk paving.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Did You Save Some Turkey Fat? Other Oils?
    All that cooking grease can be diverted to avoid clogging pipes and sewers or even generate a little biofuel.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • A few more elements on the semi-suspended MN D ...
    Previously on hongpong.com: MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Evaluator BCA Investigation files (Nov 12 2012) -- MK Occupy Minnesota (May 3 2012) The training section of Minnesota's Drug Recognition Evaluator program continues to be suspended, after a 513-page Bureau of Criminal Apprehen ...
  • MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Eval ...
    By Dan Feidt -- hongpong.com -- MINNEAPOLIS -- NOV 12 2012 -- Law enforcement officers under a state training program called Drug Recognition Evaluators encouraged people in downtown Minneapolis, including Occupy Minnesota protesters at Peavey Plaza and other vulnerable and houseless people to p ...
  • Occupy gets rolling in Sandy disaster relief; ...
    Via Occupy Sandy Relief NYC 4 hrs ago: https://www.facebook.com/OccupySandyReliefNyc?fref=ts >>> #NOT ANOTHER KATRINA <<< Contrary to what might be inferred by a media and government blackout - Rockaway IS. NOT. RECOVERING. We can't stress this enough. It looks li ...
  • Question Time: Jimmy Savile pedophile network ...
    "What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how mu ...
  • FawkesFail: Even more #OpCartel related shadin ...
    ‏@AnonNCarolina2 - We spend all night informing ppl about indefinite detention only to be placed at the top of the list by some dumbfuck. #StopNDAA#Anonymous - SOURCE Fortunately #stopNDAA at least hit a huge volume on twitter during tonight's presidential debate. So... Synchronicity in the F ...

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AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • Bruce Schneier explains why the TSA is a $1 tr ...
    Those of us who’ve been writing about the TSA for a few years are well familiar with security expert Bruce Schneier. He and others like him, people who actually study actual security, using data, risk assessment, statistical analysis, and empirical evidence, are a balm to our weary psyches, ...
  • Gaza Still Boils
      Gaza Still Boils   by Stephen Lendman   Pillar of Cloud settled nothing. Little changed for 1.7 million Gazans. Suffocating siege continues. Israel provoked two border incidents.    One Palestinian was shot and killed. Others were wounded. They threatened no one. These ...
  • Netanyahu Plans More War
      Netanyahu Plans More War   by Stephen Lendman   He admitted it. He's not finished. He has lots more killing and destruction to do. He "will not hesitate to do what is necessary to defend our people," he said.    In other words, he'll ignore memorandum of understanding ...
  • Howard Zinn's Echoes
    We're approaching three years since Howard Zinn left us, and to my ear his voice sounds louder all the time.  I expect that effect to continue for decades and centuries to come, because Zinn spoke to enduring needs.  He taught lessons that must be relearned over and over, as the tempta ...
  • Syria News - Nov 26
        Syrian Kurds Agree on Forming Joint Military Council, defected Kurdish soldiers from the Syrian army will join - Rudaw Kurdish Fighters announce a temporary truce with the Syrian Islamist groups in Ras Al Ain - Rudaw Syria rebels take loyalist Palestinian training camp, with casual ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Flu Shot Given To Pregnant Women Causes Fetal ...
    By Christina England An increase of fetal deaths were reported to VAERS after pregnant women were given flu vaccines. Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine ...
  • Pink Floyd – Song for Palestine
    Pink Floyd – Song for Palestine – YouTube.
  • Russian Navy deploys 6 warships off Gaza coast
    Is this why “Pillar of Cloud” ended so quickly? Russian warships have dropped anchor off the coast of Gaza in the case that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict escalates, a Russian Navy Command source told Voice of Russia. The Russian Navy continuously monitors the situation and studies ...
  • The Deep Sea Mystery Circle – a love story
    By Johnny But even for a man who spent the last 50 years immersed in the underwater world of sea life, the ocean proved infinitely mysterious. While diving in the semi-tropical region of Amami Oshima, roughly 80 ft below sea level, Ookata spotted something he had never seen. And as it turned out ...
  • Seriously? Paramedic Punished For Covering Old ...
    Amanda Warren Activist Post Don’t know what the weather is like in your region, but in Detroit, Michigan it is currently cold! So when paramedic Jeff Gaglio noticed a shivering, elderly crippled man in nothing but his underwear brought outside during a house fire two weeks ago; he very nat ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • World Leaders Hopeful As 2013 Doha Climate Cha ...
    In recent years, climate change conferences have had underwhelming results – as the ones in Copenhagen and Bonn showed. However as the 18th session of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) gets underway in Doha, Qatar (the first time an Arab state has hosted th ...
  • Jacob Haim’s RaceBRAID Bike Features a F ...
    German industrial designer Jacob Haim has teamed up with Munich Composites to develop a super-light carbon fiber bike with a frame that is woven instead of welded. As a thesis project for his degree in applied technology and science from FH Joanneum- Graz, Haim worked with Munich Composites to m ...
  • Berkey Water Filters Provide Clean, Fresh Drin ...
    With bottled water and potable tap water both so readily available in developed countries, it’s easy to take clean drinking water for granted. But when natural disasters strike, one of the first things to sell out on store shelves is bottled water, and running water may be either turned of ...
  • Ice Womb is a Geometric Warming Hut for Chilly ...
    Read the rest of Ice Womb is a Geometric Warming Hut for Chilly Ice Skaters Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, green design, Ice Skating hut, Ice Womb, sustainable design, Virginia Melnyk, warming hut
  • SDA’s Stunning Wood-Wrapped Chelsea Work ...
    Read the rest of SDA’s Stunning Wood-Wrapped Chelsea Workspace Features a Sweeping World Map Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", birch, chelsea, cnc, green architecture, green design, green interiors, LED, Office, sustainable design, synth ...

Pogue's Posts

  • You Can Stop Spreading That Facebook Notice Now
    An odd piece of boilerplate text about copyright that has been making the rounds on Facebook is not grounded in reality.
  • Pogue's Mailbag: Tethering, Generators and More
    A sampling from just one day's worth of reader e-mails - an inside look at a technology columnist's job. Topics include tethering to a phone for wireless data on a laptop, the reliability of Drobo storage and unsubscribing from junk mail.
  • What Is a 4G Network?
    Here is the difference between 4G and 4G LTE.
  • How to Keep Electronics Going With No Power
    How a tech columnist muddles through a 10-day stretch without electricity and Internet (not to mention heat or hot water). Sometimes, the technologies a columnist and his family crave most are 100 years old.
  • A Windows 8 Cheat Sheet
    If you install Windows 8, you'll have to learn both environments, like it or not; you can't live in just one environment or the other. So how are you supposed to operate it if you have a nontouch computer? David Pogue provides a cheat sheet.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Elon Musk Wants to Build 80,000-Person Mars Colony
    Elon Musk doesn't just want to put a person on Mars -- he wants to put 80,000. According to Space.com, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX recently spilled details about his hopes for a future Mars colony during a talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society in Lo ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Pac-Man ...
    Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon "Pac-Man" on moons of Saturn. One was observed on the moon Mimas in 2010 and the latest was observed on the moon Tethys. The pattern appears in thermal data obtained by Cassini's composite infr ...
  • Making a Flu Vaccine Without the Virus
    A new vaccine strategy could make flu shots cheaper, safer, and easier to produce. Using synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) instead of proteins purified from viruses, German scientists have shown they can protect mice, ferrets, and pigs against influenza.
  • Incredible Time-Lapse Video Shows Stars and Cl ...
    Clouds and stars sail through the sky and reflect off the telescopes at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in this breathtaking time-lapse video.
  • Self-Filling Water Bottle Mimics Desert Beetle ...
    A US startup is developing a self-filling water bottle that sucks moisture from the atmosphere to create condensation, in the same way the humble Namib desert beetle does.

PakAlert

  • Use of RFID Tracking Technology To Be Mandator ...
    “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16-17)
  • Officials: Israel’s Gaza Offensive Was Trainin ...
    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, Israel was not confronting Gaza, but Iran,” Israeli ambassador to the U.S. States and military historian Michael B ...
  • Obama & Netanyahu Use Egypt to Gain Strategic ...
    Mainstream propaganda hails the recent accord of a ceasefire in the Israeli/Hamas attacks as a moment to breathe and regroup so that peace talks may now begin. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Thanks to secret talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu and US Pre ...
  • Black Friday 2012 Filled With Violent Outburst ...
    The Zombie Apocalypse went off without a hitch as debt – slaves gathered in long lines outside retail outlets across the nation to purchase imported goods from multi-national corporations and feed more digital debt into the credit system scheme. However, there were a few incidents of violence, a ...
  • Satanist Pedophiles Rule Great Britain
    Cabalist (Masonic) bankers have empowered a class of perverts they control through blackmail. Cabalism is Satanism. Mankind has fallen under satanic domination and is unable to discern the difference.

Andy Worthington

  • Save Lewisham Hospital A&E: Photos of the Mass ...
    Save Lewisham Hospital A&E: The Massive Protest on November 24, 2012, a set on Flickr. The rain fell, but nothing could deter the people of Lewisham — and supporters from elsewhere –  from marching in numbers not seen in living memory to protest about the disgraceful plans, annou ...
  • On Guantánamo, the New York Times Abdicates Re ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • Shops, Ships and Union Jacks: Photos of a Surr ...
    Shops, Ships and Union Jacks: A Surreal Tour Around Canary Wharf, a set on Flickr. This photo set — the 60th in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike — is the last in a series of five sets recording a journey I made one sunny day in July, from my [...]
  • Guantánamo: Andy Worthington Discusses Shaker ...
    So here’s a quick message to invite anyone in Hull — or anywhere near — to come along to Hull University on Tuesday to hear me speak about Shaker Aamer, the Last British resident in the prison, and the shameful responsibility of both the British and the American governments for ...
  • Save Lewisham Hospital from Tory Destruction: ...
    Please sign the petition to save Lewisham’s A&E and maternity services and send it on to your friends and family. Over 16,000 people have already signed! And here are the crucial dates for your diary: This Saturday, November 24, “Hands Around Our Hospital” is a major march and ra ...

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

SPL Center

  • Racist Accused of Shooting Idaho Deputies Face ...
    A man with white supremacist tattoos, accused of shooting and nearly killing two Idaho sheriff’s deputies last month, has been charged by federal authorities with being a felon in possession of a handgun. That handgun, with an obliterated serial number, was found after Kyle Alan Batt was arreste ...
  • NYPD Investigating Hate as Possible Motive in ...
    Hate crime detectives in New York City are joining the investigation into three unsolved killings of Brooklyn business owners in the past four months – crimes believed to have been carried out by a serial killer. All three victims were shot with the same .22 caliber handgun, all three were immig ...
  • Radical Right Joins in Secession Frenzy
    Hundreds of thousands of disgruntled conservatives, still smarting from the re-election of President Obama last week, are signing petitions to allow more than 30 states to secede from the United States — and they are being joined by a motley collection of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Klan s ...
  • Racist Former SCV Leader Gets 19 Years in $57 ...
    A man who was once seen as a genteel Southerner defending the “honor” of the Confederacy but who secretly lived lavishly on other people’s money now faces the next 19 years in a federal prison cell — possibly in solitary confinement. The first jolt for 65-year-old Ron Wilson — former national le ...
  • Indictment Deals ‘Devastating Blow’ to Aryan B ...
    In one of the largest racketeering cases brought this year, the U.S. Department of Justice has just unsealed a 43-page indictment of 34 members of a “violent, whites-only prison-based gang with thousands of members operating” in and out of prisons throughout Texas and elsewhere. The Aryan Brothe ...

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  • Lawyers: Bradley Manning Already Punished for ...
    Three months before Bradley Manning is scheduled to face a court martial, and more than two years after his arrest, lawyers for 24-year-old Army Private First Class say the intelligence analyst accused of releasing classified documents to Wikileaks has already been punished for yet unproven char ...
  • Florida GOP Admission: Voter Fraud 'Just a Mar ...
    Two former Florida GOP leaders and current party strategists are blowing the whistle on early voting law HB 1355, which—they admit—was designed by Republicans to limit Democratic turnout, specifically targetting minorities.  ...
  • First Amendment Win: Supreme Court Rejects Att ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Illinois that allows the enforcement of a law that blocks recording of police officers on duty. read more
  • Thousands Protest in Morocco Condemning Israel ...
    On the eve of Monday's cease-fire talks in Egypt, tens of thousands of Moroccans marched in support of Palestinians condemning Israel's "crimes against humanity" during the eight-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip. read more
  • Polarized Protests Grow as Morsi Meets over Po ...
    Protests continued to rage throughout Egypt on Monday as President Mohamed Morsi was due to meet with senior judges over Morsi's decree last week, which gave sweeping powers to the executive branch and rendered legal challenges to Morsi's rule powerless -- causing national unrest and pol ...

Lifehacker

  • Remains of the Day: The Nexus 4 Secretly Has L ...
    The Nexus 4's lack of LTE may be fixable for some, Facebook Gifts now includes iTunes credit, Netflix strikes a deal with Warner Brothers for Canadian customers, and Twitter users will soon be able to download their tweet histories. More »
  • Build a Soft Focus Filter for Your DSLR with a ...
    Using a soft focus filter makes for flattering portraits and dream-like effects, but that comes at a cost. For about $6 you can make your own that offers the same benefits with a cool, unique look. More »
  • Why would anyone settle for wireless on their ...
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even ...
  • Bones Simplifies the Process of Creating a Wor ...
    WordPress is a wonderful blogging platform and CMS—a reader favorite, in fact—but creating a theme isn't easy if you don't know the ropes. Bones simplifies the process by providing you with starting code that's already optimized, functions across browser types and versions (esp ...
  • Fantastical Intelligent Calendar On Sale for 5 ...
    OS X: Fantastical—the attractive, intelligent calendar tool we've written about before—is now on sale for $9.99. That's half off, and removes our only real qualm with the app: its price. More »

Water Privatization

  • South Whitehall residents speak out against Al ...
    It’s a rare township meeting where talk is dominated by matters that directly do not influence that township. Yet that most unusual scenario unfolded with spontaneous alacrity during what was otherwise a ho-hum South Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners’ meeting on Wednesday night. Recogniz ...
  • Privatization of water districts discussed
    The possibility of selling the county's special water districts to a private company was eliminated from discussions by the Madera County Privatization Committee recently -- an announcement made to the… Click to Continue »
  • Drilon supports privatization of MIWD
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  • Water Industry Outlook: 'The Time Is Ripe& ...
    The privatization of the nation's water industry is set to explode in the next five years, according to the findings of a recent survey. WeiserMazars LLP, a New York-based tax and advisory services firm, detailed the findings in its first annual U.S. Water Industry Outlook (pdf), in which pr ...
  • U.S. Water Industry Expects Significant Consol ...
    WeiserMazars LLP, a leading accounting, tax and advisory services firm, recently announced the release of its first annual U.S. Water Industry Outlook survey. Participants were asked to predict the future of the industry over the next three to five years - 71% of respondents expect significant c ...

Guardian

  • Britain ready to back Palestinian statehood at UN
    Mahmoud Abbas pledge not to pursue Israel for war crimes and resumption of peace talks are UK conditionsBritain is prepared to back a key vote recognising Palestinian statehood at the United Nations if Mahmoud Abbas pledges not to pursue Israel for war crimes and to resume peace talks.Abbas, pre ...
  • Tories slap down vice-chairman for suggesting ...
    Poll finds majority want EU withdrawal, if Britain can keep trading links, as Conservative leadership rules out referendum dealThe Conservative leadership was forced to slap down its parliamentary campaign chief after he handed the UK Independence party a public relations gift by suggesting that ...
  • Labour accuses ministers of flood defence cuts
    Three die in downpours and 900 homes are hit as environment secretary denies talks with insurers have stalledThe government came under increasing pressure on Monday over cuts to flood defences and its apparent impasse with the insurance industry as the number of homes and properties damaged by t ...
  • Mohamed Morsi indicates judicial decree will b ...
    Egypt's president tries to defuse 'immunity' decree crisis by indicating acceptance of judiciary-proposed compromiseEgypt's president has agreed that only his decisions related to "sovereign matters" would be protected from judicial review, his spokesman has said, indicating he had accepted a ju ...
  • Doha 2012: US claims 'enormous' efforts to cut ...
    Two weeks of talks aim at securing a treaty by 2015 to cut greenhouse emissionsThe US is claiming credit for "enormous" efforts on climate change – delivered in part by the carbon reductions from its investments in the controversial practice of "fracking" for shale gas.The claim came as nearly 2 ...

McClatchey

  • Bipartisan ‘gangs’ in Congress r ...
    Armies of lawmakers from both parties are sending signals that they stand ready to back a bipartisan deficit reduction compromise, giving President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner an…Click to Continue »
  • Fiscal cliff threatens scientific research, ex ...
    . Scientists and inventors such as Joe DeSimone will be keeping an eye on the budget deal-making in Washington over the next month, because if negotiators fail to steer the…Click to Continue »
  • Grape growers can sue USDA as Supreme Court st ...
    The Supreme Court on Monday provided legal juice for growers who want to sue the U.S. Agriculture Department and the California Table Grape Commission over grapevine patents.Click to Continue »
  • Israel’s Ehud Barak retires, signaling ...
    In a development that could lead to a hardening of Israel?s position on Iran?s nuclear program, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced Monday that he was resigning from political life,Click to Continue »
  • New cry from some Obama foes: It’s time ...
    In the three weeks since President Barack Obama?s re-election victory, his most ardent foes ? nearly 1 million people from all 50 states ? have signed online petitions to take…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • West’s latest Afghanistan Mali
    A volunteer fighter in a military training exercise near the town of Mopti by members of Ganda Koy, one of several militia groups in Mali that seek to recapture the north of Mali from the Islamist ...
  • David Cameron set to decide on Afghanistan wit ...
    national security council .A series of plans will be presented by the chief of the defence staff, General Sir David Richards, and the prime minister will agree in principle the favoured timetable, ...
  • Rasmussen Discusses Afghanistan Progress Missi ...
    By Claudette RouloAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2012 NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is confident Afghan security forces will be able to take full responsibility ...
  • Post-2014 Afghanistan Troop Levels Remain Unde ...
    By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2012 Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has yet to forward a recommendation to the White House on ...
  • 10k US troops to stay in Afghanistan past 2014 ...
    The incoming top commander in charge of the United States' military efforts in Afghanistan made remarks to Congress on Thursday that suggest he sees a US presence extending overseas well past US ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • DailyDirt: Animals With Tools
    The more we watch animals, the more we can see them show off their intelligence. A bunch of different animals have been observed making and using tools -- and sharing how to use them with their friends. Here are just a few examples of some animals using tools in fascinating (and maybe dangerous) ...
  • Case Against UCLA For Streaming Licensed DVDs ...
    A few years ago we wrote about how UCLA professors were barred from continuing an existing program in which they had streamed properly licensed DVDs to students. The lawsuit came from the Association for Information Media and Equipment (AIME). We noted that one of the key aspects of "fair use" ...
  • Report Claims Confidential Police Info Used As ...
    Mathew Ingram points us to the somewhat stunning claim that, during the Macy's Thanksgiving parade last week, some of the confetti showered down on viewers in Manhattan was poorly shredded documents from the Nassau County police department (for those not from the area, Nassau County is not in NY ...
  • Annual Cyber-Monday ICE Take Down Blitz 2012
    It's cyber-Monday, the day when many of us basically go to Amazon.com and get a bunch of gifts for friends and family because going to the store this time of year is as dangerous as a North Korean prison camp. I say "many of us" partially to account for anyone out there who doesn't celebrate Chr ...
  • Disney Sued For Copyright Infringement
    A few folks sent over the following story of how Disney is being sued for copyright infringement. Seems a bit ironic, given just how strict Disney has been over the years in enforcing its copyright and being at the forefront of efforts to expand copyright law -- even as it tend to build some of ...

VacTruth

  • 4,250% Increase in Fetal Deaths Reported to VA ...
    Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS) fetal death reports by 4,250 percent in pregnant women.
  • Brainwashed Police Prosecute Parents to Protec ...
    Retired Sergeant Christopher Savage confirms police are writing off cases of vaccine injury as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. and Shaken Baby Syndrome.
  • Bill Gates Funding Drone Technology to Deliver ...
    When it comes to money and imagination, Bill Gates seems to have an endless supply of both. One of his latest financial donations is funding unmanned aerial vehicles to quickly and inexpensively deliver vaccines.
  • The American Medical Association Will Soon Be ...
    The American Medical Association (AMA) recently published a paper proposing the introduction of a new law to force you and your children into experimental vaccine trials against your wishes. Your only way out of this directive would be to sign an ‘opt out form.’ In January, the AMA publish ...
  • Postman Could Soon Deliver Your Nanopatch Vacc ...
    In 2010, UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday reported that a collaborative research study undertaken by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University in Atlanta had detailed a new way to deliver painless effective vaccines. [1]  Reporting on a study published in th ...

BroadSnark

  • Ted Leo Benefit Show for Bradley Manning
    I have disappeared again, mostly hiding in a case of vodka. But I have also been helping to put together the benefit show this Saturday. If you are in the area, come out. Also, there is a protest out at Ft. Meade on Tuesday. The FB event is here.
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Took this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town. Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more about putti ...
  • Book Review – The Occupy Handbook
    The Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning wr ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Follow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
  • Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...
    By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...

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War in Context

  • The White House’s rush to formalize its extraj ...
    President Obama insists that his right to kill anyone anywhere is based on law, but if the legal basis for his assassination program is so strong, why would there be any need to write a “rules” on how it gets carried out? The crafting of rules after 2,500 people have already been kil ...
  • Free Syria Army could be on brink of major vic ...
    EA Worldview‘s James Miller writes: [A]t several points in this conflict there have been collections of bad data that suggested that EA, and the media at large, was missing a trend. For several weeks there has been a growing number of rumors, low-quality Youtube videos, and eyewitness repo ...
  • Flight records say Russia sent Syria tons of cash
    By Dafna Linzer, Michael Grabell and Jeff Larson, ProPublica, November 26, 2012 This past summer, as the Syrian economy began to unravel and the military pressed hard against an armed rebellion, a Syrian government plane ferried what flight records describe as more than 200 tons of “bank n ...
  • Barak preferred to be the master of his own po ...
    In an analysis on defense minister Ehud Barak’s sudden announcement that he is withdrawing from Israeli politics, Anshel Pfeffer wrotes: n recent weeks, Barak has finally realized that his chances of remaining Netanyahu’s defense minister are increasingly slim. Not because Bibi doesn ...
  • Oded Na’aman: Is Gaza outside Israel?
    On returning from his first trip to the Gaza Strip, Noam Chomsky told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, “It’s kind of amazing and inspiring to see people somehow managing to survive as caged animals subject to constant, random, sadistic punishment only to humiliate them, no pretext. ...

Watts Up With That?

  • On noes! CO2 dissolving snails in Antarctica
    From the British Antarctic Survey  and the University of East Anglia comes one of those press releases where I just have to wonder if this won’t eventually go the way of the “global warming causes mutated frogs” claim that turned … Continue reading →
  • Another WUWT.TV segment – Engineer and a ...
    This aired on WUWT.TV on November 14th in response to Al Gore’s “dirty weather report”. Engineer and aviation pioneer Burt Rutan gives his presentation on why he doesn’t think global warming/climate change is a problem, by presenting the data that … Continue reading ...
  • Heartland to present ‘rein in the EPA&#8 ...
    The Heartland Institute has collected more than 15,000 signatures on a petition demanding Congress rein in a “rogue” Environmental Protection Agency. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and The Heartland Institute will present the petitions to Congress at a public event in … Continue reading →
  • Dendros stick it to the Mann
    People send me stuff. In case you don’t know, ITRDBFOR is an electronic forum (a listserver) subscribed to by most of the world’s dendrochronologists. What is most interesting is that Hughes and Briffa are co-authors of the response to Mann. … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “Give me four parameters, and I can fit an elephant. Give me five, and I can wiggle its trunk.” John von Neumann ############################# ...

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Biosingularity

  • Newly discovered effects of vitamin D on cancer
    Vitamin D slows the progression of cells from premalignant to malignant states, keeping their proliferation in check A team of researchers at McGill University have discovered a molecular basis for the potential cancer preventive effects of vitamin D. The team, led by McGill professors John Whit ...
  • Terminator arm is worlds most advanced prosthe ...
  • Inadequate cellular rest may explain effects o ...
    Ss aging inevitable? What factors make older tissues in the human body less able to maintain and repair themselves, as in the weakening and shrinkage of aging muscles in humans? A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators and collaborators at King’s College London d ...
  • Too Much Alcohol Cuts Brain Neuron Formation
    Drinking a couple of glasses of wine each day has generally been considered a good way to promote cardiovascular and brain health.  But a new Rutgers University study indicates that there is a fine line between moderate and binge drinking – a risky behavior that can decrease the making of adult ...
  • Omega-3 Intake Heightens Working Memory in Hea ...
    While Omega-3 essential fatty acids—found in foods like wild fish and grass-fed livestock—are necessary for human body functioning, their effects on the working memory of healthy young adults have not been studied until now. In the first study of its kind, researchers at the University of Pittsb ...

CFACT

  • UN’s Green Climate Fund to cost you
    Front and center at the UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar will be the "Green Climate Fund," designed to transfer over a trillion dollars from the developed to the developing world. The world should abolish the Green Climate Fund now before this infant grows into the monster it is destined to become.
  • UN intends central economic control
    Are you ready to have a Central American UN bureaucrat oversee a "centralized transformation" of your economy?
  • The Gray Hair Index
    Soon, the Comission is due to wrap up the current debate on energy efficiency measures, introducing a GDP based paneuropan standard, somehow intended to be applicable all over the continent. Quite a daunting task, and not surprisingly, both business, Green NGO's and national governments are rath ...
  • CFACT takes on UN climate summit in Qatar
    CFACT is headed to the Arabian Peninsula -- to Doha, Qatar, for COP18, the UN Conference on Climate Change. The Obama administration is set to begin its first major UN climate negotiation since reelection. EPA already has crippling regulations lined up and ready to go to give the UN's climate ...
  • Time to end tax credits for wind energy
    MARITA NOON Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) ... said the nation’s fiscal situation has become so dire that the government can no longer afford to maintain a wind power production credit that has been in place since 1992: “I think there is certainly the largest realization that we have ever had t ...

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

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My Care2 Picks

  • Thank You for being a Virtuous Citizen!
    We, the virtuous self-governors of the world are truth seekers and believe in ourselves, our talents and abilities to create a world of abundance without tyranny and oppression. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 28-Gate: BBC Crisis Deepens in Exposure of Rig ...
    The BBC sank further into crisis today after new evidence ties two recent pedophile scandals to a secret climate advisory panel that rigged reporting on global warming for six years. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • A Box Filled With Love
    Mom started the care packages. She sent them to my brothers when they left home to join the military, to us girls when we moved away to other cities and towns, to friends who were going through tough times and to complete strangers who faced a particular Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat &n ...
  • U.S. uses al Qaeda to Advance Its Military Adv ...
    Israeli spy chief says Tel Aviv supports regime change in Syria, amid ongoing efforts by the anti-Syria governments to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Climate Change Timeline
    The history of climate change concern 1895 - 2009 How does this fit in with co2 concern? http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/08/19/the-pariah-u-n-requests-criminal-prosecution-immunity-for-climate-scientists-engaged-in-constructive-fraud/ Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture &nbsp ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Same-sex case ruling favors gay employee
    ShareThisSame-sex case ruling favors gay employee 25 Nov 2012 A regional court council has ordered San Francisco's federal court to pay an employee's costs for insurance coverage for his husband, citing an increasing number of rulings that have declared Congress's ban on same-sex spousal ben ...
  • Texas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party as Ter ...
    ShareThisTexas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party as Terrorist Act 23 Nov 2012 The most historical instance of protesting against taxation without representation is now being taught in Texas schools as a terrorist act. As recently as January of this year, the Texas Education Service Center Curric ...
  • US to leave 10,000 troops in Afghanistan past 2014
    ShareThisUS to leave 10,000 troops in Afghanistan past 2014 26 Nov 2012 Some 10,000 US troops will remain in Afghanistan after NATO combat operations end at the end of 2014, US media reports said Sunday. The administration of President Barack Obama aims to keep around 10,000 US troops in Afghani ...
  • TriHealth fires 150 employees for not getting ...
    ShareThisFlu Fascism: TriHealth fires 150 employees for not getting flu shots 22 Nov 2012 One of Cincinnati's largest employers fired approximately 150 employees Wednesday for failing to get a required flu shot. TriHealth offered all of its 10,800 employees free flu shots. Employees had a month ...
  • Protesting Greek municipal workers occupy town ...
    ShareThisProtesting Greek municipal workers occupy town halls 22 Nov 2012 Greek municipal workers occupied hundreds of town halls across the country for a fifth day on Thursday to protest against public sector layoffs demanded by European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders. Greece has ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Mysterious Blood Trails at my Home
    26 November 2012 About a month ago, I came home and found mysterious blood trails around my home. I mapped them out, studied them, and kept trying to recreate the scene.  The scene confounded me.  I did not assume that it was blood.  There was no physical evidence of painting or ...
  • Now Everyone Can be a Sniper (if this works)
    22 November 2012 Make sure to see this:
  • Taliban Email Distribution List
    18 November 2012 Recently the Taliban accidentally made public its entire (apparently) distro list during an email accident: From ABC: In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference. He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on ...
  • Petraeus Stoning Sentence Handed Down by Elders
    18 November 2012 Petraeus and the Woman Broadwell to be Stoned on the White House Lawn Uproar over Stone Auction: first Stone bid reaches $1 million (A Humorless, gonzo parody.) The Nine Wise Elders convened for tea to discuss the fates of the woman Paula Broadwell and General (ret.) David ...
  • The U.S. Can’t Afford Not to Lead
    15 November 2012 Written by: Paul Wolfowitz Paul Wolfowitz, a former president of the World Bank and former deputy secretary of Defense, is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. President Obama may believe he can abandon “nation-building abroad” to focus on “nation-building at home ...

The Killing Train

  • Goma falls to Rwanda
    Rebels, called the M23, have taken Goma, the main city of North Kivu, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s eastern provinces. Their plan is to march to Bukavu, the main city of South Kivu, and from there, they say, across the massive country to Kinshasa, the Congo's capital. A geogra ...
  • Pillar of Defense Deaths until November 18
    A map of deaths from Israel's Pillar of Defense operation, inspired by the UK Guardian's map of "incidents". I added a timeline and removed anything that didn't result in deaths, on the basis that war is mainly a collection of deaths, and not a collection of "incidents". The geographical informa ...
  • One less reader
    Writing political books about, for example, Haiti, means knowing that every reader who gets the book is a victory. Consequently, having one less reader get the book is a serious matter. I tried to send my book to Alex Hundert, a G20 defendant who is currently locked up in Penatanguishene. I was ...
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship: Video of Book Launch ...
    This talk was recorded on November 15, 2012 at Concordia University in Montreal.
  • An attack on Dr. Mukwege
    Gunmen came to Dr.Mukwege's house in Bukavu, killed his security guard, and almost killed him. Here is a profile I wrote of Mukwege in 2009 for The Progressive Magazine. Here is the press release from PMU.

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Aung Min warns activists over demands to close ...
    President’s Office Minister Aung Min called on activists to respect China and warned against shutting down the Latpadaung Copper Mine following demands from activists who called for the cancellation of the project
  • Police arrest four miners during march to Nayp ...
    Four miners from Moehti Moemi gold mine in central Burma’s Yemathin township, who have been marching to Naypyidaw to protest a government order that closed their mines, were attacked by police and arrested
  • $41 million needed in Arakan state
    The Revised Rakhine Response Plan has called for an additional $41 million for urgent humanitarian assistance in Arakan state.
  • Sisters of charity
    By Aaron Joel Santos These photographs represent the beginning sketches in an ongoing work on the Sisters of Charity organisation, and on faith and duty in an unforgiving landscape. Within Shan state, the Sisters of Charity run numerous orphanages and care centers for the elderly and handicapped ...
  • Poster-artists: A dying profession

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Jurist - Legal Research

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

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Tikun Olam

  • 125 Attend “Crisis in Gaza” Public Meeting
    Tonight we hosted the Crisis in Gaza event I’ve been promoting here over the past week.  It went extremely well.  There were 125 guests and we raised $650, which will go toward Gaza charities (after expenses are covered).  Two videographers filmed the event and their work will be uploaded ...
  • IDF Murders Gazan in First Major Ceasefire Vio ...
    The ink was barely dry on the ceasefire document Israel signed, before it had already violated the terms by killing a 20 year old Gazan farmer and wounding ten others who’d dared to take seriously the terms of the agreement.  It allowed them free movement in formerly no-go border zones whi ...
  • Crisis in Gaza, Seattle Community Meeting
  • Morsi Assumes Absolute Power
    While I’m not an expert on Egyptian politics, I can’t help speculate on what Pres. Morsi’s assumption of absolute powers may mean for his country’s relations with Israel and the U.S.   Especially in light of the critical role he played in negotiating and jawboning Hamas f ...
  • Hasbara Meme #4,226: Hamas Executes Collaborators
    Hasbara Central appears to have sent out a directive instructing the social media brigade to point to the disgusting picture of Gazans dragging the body of a suspected collaborator through the streets of Gaza tied by a rope to a motorcycle.  They circulate stories of others executed for such all ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Highlights from the Mozilla Festival in London
    This post was written by Miranda Mulligan, executive director of the Knight News Innovation Lab, and originally appeared on the the Knight Lab blog. A significant portion of the Knight Lab team was fortunate enough to join the Mozilla Festival in London, November 9-12. This incredible event, ...
  • Meograph: The Future of Storytelling is 4D (wi ...
    Meograph, new storytelling startup that launched in July, gives online journalists and storytellers an added dimension that too often has been missing: context. With Meograph, you can create what co-founder and CEO Misha Leybovich calls "4D storytelling" through a simple interface that lets u ...
  • MapBox: The Secret to Making USA Today's Elect ...
    MapBox worked with USA Today to build their election night maps that tracked results as they came in from across the country. USA Today's primary goals for their digital-mapping content was it should have multiple forms of embeddable maps for the home page, articles and landing pages, it should ...
  • Lessons Learned From Sandy 'HurricaneHackers' ...
    This post was co-written by Pablo Rey Mazón. A day before Hurricane Sandy touched down, netizens began to congregate via etherpads, Google Docs and IRC, assuming the name "HurricaneHackers." HurricaneHackers teamed up with Sandy CrisisCamps -- a series of hackathons organized by CrisisComm ...
  • OpenNews Announces the 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellows
    When talking about the OpenNews project, I describe it as an ecosystem. All of our programs are interdependent: Hack Days and Code Sprints and Source -- they all work together to build, implement and document new experiments at the intersection of journalism and code. But the living, breathing h ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Broken Government - States Choose Own Paths wi ...
    In Washington, Americans have two-party government, with a Democratic president and Senate and a Republican House. We had it before November's election and will have it again for the next two years.Looking back from 2014, we will have had two-party government for most of the preceding two decade ...
  • The Environment on Edge - Doha Climate Confere ...
    For the next two weeks, delegates will meet in Doha, Qatar to attend the annual round of negotiations on the climate change agreements under the United Nations Framework Agreement on Climate Change (UNFCCC). While there are a number of issues under discussion, the primary objective of the Doha m ...
  • Benghazigate - Fight Over Susan Rice Holds Ris ...
    President Obama and congressional Republicans appear to be itching for a fight over U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s possible nomination as secretary of State. The ensuing political battle, however, comes with high risks and uncertain rewards for both sides. So far, President Obama has aggressivel ...
  • Edging Towards the Fiscal Cliff - GOP, Dem Law ...
    As they return to Washington this week, lawmakers from both parties are talking compromise to avoid the impending “fiscal cliff,� showing a willingness to put once inviolable positions on the negotiating table.More senior Republicans distanced themselves from conservative activist Grover Nor ...
  • Russia on Edge - Russian PM Proposes Life Bans ...
    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is calling for the most notorious soccer hooligans to be banned for life from matches. During a meeting with deputy prime ministers on November 26, Medvedev said punishments should be "extremely harsh against those who come to the stadium to misbehave rathe ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Norquist: GOP Lawmakers Will NOT Break Tax Pledge
    Will GOP members of Congress break their pledge not to raise taxes? On Sunday, three leading Republicans — Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, and Rep. Peter King — said they no longer viewed the anti-tax pledge designed by activist Grover Norquist and made to their constituents to be binding ...
  • Supreme Court Opens Door To More Obamacare Cha ...
    The Supreme Court decision on Obamacare announced last June, did not close the door to other challenges to the new healthcare law. Today the court ordered the 4th US Circuit court of Appeals to reconsider Liberty University’s legal argument that President Obama's health care law violates the sch ...
  • Typical Progressive Bigotry, Misogyny and Racism
    This morning's NY Daily News has a column by progressive bigot Stanly Crouch. In 605 words he manages to bash every conservative as some sort of liar and or nut job. He begins by calling  Rep. Allen West, an imposing and muscular Tea Party hawk (a phrase which if a conservative used he ...
  • Who Won The Latest Israel-Hamas War?
    By Barry Rubin Naturally the question of who won any given war preoccupies people’s minds. And I’m amused by those who think that Hamas won the recent conflict. Winning has to mean something real, not just bragging to reassure oneself. Let’s begin by examining the causes and goals of each ...
  • Is This America's Future? Britain May Slash MD ...
    British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is planning to save £2.9billion ($4.7 billion dollars) by eliminating an unnecessary part of medicine, the live, in-person doctor's appointment.  According to the A new system of “virtual clinics” is being planned in which GPs connect with patients via i ...

The Real Agenda

  • Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Quits
    Ehud Barak along with Meir Dagan were two of the most visible opponents of an Israeli attack on Iran. By AMY TEIBEL | AP | NOVEMBER 26, 2012 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday abruptly announced he was quitting politics, injecting new turmoil into the Israeli political syste ...
  • Obama re-elected by illiterate Americans
    By XAVIER LERMA | XLERMA | NOVEMBER 26, 2012 Putin in 2009 outlined his strategy for economic success. Alas, poor Obama did the opposite but nevertheless was re-elected. Bye, bye Miss American Pie. The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyugan ...
  • Fetal Deaths up 4000% after pregnant mothers t ...
    CDC had recommended the double-dosing of the pregnant population with the seasonal flu vaccine with mercury and the untested H1N1 vaccine with mercury. By CHRISTINA ENGLAND | VACTRUTH | NOVEMBER 26, 2012 Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) state ...
  • 25 perguntas que a sociedade deve responder an ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 24 NOVEMBRO, 2012 Como se há a necessidade de demonstrar que um governo excessivo e suas ações em qualquer área da vida é o resultado direto da imoralidade social, ou que a intervenção do governo criou a bagunça na que a maior parte do mundo está ag ...
  • Aspectos lógicos da Vacinação
    O que os fabricantes de vacinas e revendedores esperam que você não entenda é que as vacinas são um coquetel de produtos químicos que causa, e não cura doenças. POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 24 NOVEMBRO, 2012 Eu tenho uma boa notícia para aqueles que não têm tempo para ler a nos ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Indian Santa: Garnering support for the United ...
    The producer of a lighthearted documentary film about a Houma Indian Christmas tradition hopes it will draw attention to the Louisiana tribe's struggle for federal recognition, which has become especially critical in the aftermath of the BP disaster. read more
  • 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
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Default to Kindness
    If there is one policy point I’d like to make it isn’t a policy point, it’s an ethical one: default to kindness. Or try kindness first. In policy terms, the kind thing to do is usually the right thing to do.  I’d go so far as to say, almost always. Treating prisoners with ...
  • The Gaza Reminder
    is about the value of human life. When I was a child, my father once threw some Christian evangalists off our property. They had said, “everyone who doesn’t believe in Christ will go to hell.” Now my father had a temper, but the way his voice dropped to a whisper, and the step ...
  • The Gaza Reminder
    is about the value of human life. When I was a child, my father once threw some Christian evangalists off our property. They had said, “everyone who doesn’t believe in Christ will go to hell.” Now my father had a temper, but the way his voice dropped to a whisper, and the step ...
  • Another note on Republicans
    They seem to be moving to change protected works (so called IP) laws, to make them less punitive.  I didn’t expect this, but it makes sense: 1) Hollywood is a Democratic bailiwick, and IP is how they make their money. 2) Libertarians took a couple percent in a lot of states, sometimes more ...
  • Another note on Republicans
    They seem to be moving to change protected works (so called IP) laws, to make them less punitive.  I didn’t expect this, but it makes sense: 1) Hollywood is a Democratic ballywack, and IP is how they make their money. 2) Libertarians took a couple percent in a lot of states, sometimes more ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Millennials Ready to Play Key Role in Housing ...
    Recent data from a survey commissioned by Better Homes and Garden Real Estate (BHGRE) suggests a pent up desire among 18-35 year olds to own a home of their own that could easily fuel a real estate boom for at least the rest of this decade.  In contrast to predictions from some futurists ...
  • Off the Rails: How the Party of Lincoln Became ...
    For a century now, Republicans have confused being the party of plutocrats with being the party of prosperity. Thus Mitt Romney. To win back the so-called 47 percent—an insulting description Romney doubled down after the election when he blamed his loss on Obama’s “gifts”—Republican might loo ...
  • Detroit: America's Whipping Boy Needs a Second ...
    Every so often, Detroit seems to pop up in our popular consciousness in a negative way.  Ever since the ’67 riots, a steady stream of bad press has altered the national perception of the Motor City.  Right now the city’s efforts to prevent state takeover because of its fiscal ...
  • What is a Half-Urban World?
    Within the last couple of years, the population of the world has become more than one half urban for the first time in history. By 2025, the world's urban areas are expected to account for 58% of the world population, rising further to two-thirds in 2050. This represents a huge increase from ...
  • Faking It: The Happy Messaging of Placemaking
    Picasso said “Art is a lie that tells the truth”. Nowadays, there’s less truth to that, as the creative process is increasingly about prettying up and papering over what’s broke. More on that shortly, but first, about the breakage: it’s legitimate. Said Nobel ...

GM Watch

  • Bt cotton hit by 40% yield failure: Government ...
    EXTRACT: "The agrarian crisis sweeping through the state due to Bt cotton failure has only widened. Unlike when cotton crop failure was reported only from Vidarbha and Marathawada, reports of such crop failure are now coming in from Khandesh in north Maharashtra, too," said Kishore Tiwari of far ...
  • 400 African organisations call for ban on GM crops
    African Civil Society calls on the African Union to ban genetically modified crops African Centre for Biosafety, 25 November 2012 http://www.acbio.org.za/index.php/media/64-media-releases/412 An urgent appeal has been made to the African Union (AU) to discuss a ban on the cultivation, import ...
  • French protesters destroy imported GM soya
    NOTE: On Wednesday 21st anti-GMO campaigners in France stuck hundreds of posters on newsagents' billboards across Brittany under the headings of the papers Ouest-France and Le Telegramme: "Brittany imports 3,000,000 tonnes of GM soya a year - did you know?", "Calfs, cows, and pigs force-fed with ...
  • Maharashtra reports massive Bt cotton failure
    NEWS FROM INDIA 1.Maharashtra reports Bt cotton failure in 4 Million hectares 2.GM poses threat to value of local crops --- --- 1.Maharashtra reports Bt cotton failure in 4 Million hectares Vidarbha Times, 24 November 2012 http://vidarbhatimes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/maharashtra-reports-btcotton ...
  • Those bugs "are going to outsmart us"
    Those bugs "are going to outsmart us" Josephine Marcotty Star Tribune (Minneapolis), November 24 2012 http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-11-24&val=751113&cat=material PRESTON, MINN. - Danny Serfling knew he was in trouble in July. Tiny white worms in the soil had eaten ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Are Black Friday Riots A Preview Of The Civil ...
    If Americans will trample one another just to save a few dollars on a television, what will they do when society breaks down and the survival of their families is at stake?  Once in a while an event comes along that gives us a peek into what life could be like when the thin veneer [...]
  • They Are Going To Make It Nearly Impossible To ...
    If you have a farm or a small business, would you like to pass it on to your children when you die?  Well, unless Congress does something, it is going to become much, much harder to do that starting next year.  Right now, there is a 5 million dollar estate tax exemption and anything above [...]
  • 55 Reasons Why You Should Buy Products That Ar ...
    This is the time of the year when Americans run out to their favorite retail stores and fill up their shopping carts with lots of cheap plastic crap made by workers in foreign countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages.  By doing this, the American people are actively participating in ...
  • The Twinkie That Broke The Economy’s Back?
    Can you hear that sound?  It is the sound of the air being let out of the economy.  Since the election, there has been a massive tsunami of layoffs and business failures.  Of course the company that is making the biggest headlines right now is Hostess.  On Monday, Hostess will be in a New York [...]
  • The Worst Economic Numbers In More Than A Year
    With everything else that is going on in the world, a lot of people have failed to notice that we are seeing some of the worst economic numbers that we have seen in more than a year.  For example, it was announced on Thursday that initial claims for unemployment benefits have hit their highest l ...

Desertification

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

The Paper Trail

  • Secrecy for Sale: Front men disguise the offsh ...
    The existence of a global network of sham company directors, most of them British, can be revealed today.The UK government claims such abuses were stamped out long ago, but a worldwide joint investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Guardian, and BBC's Pa ...
  • Gridlocked election commission awaits action b ...
    The nation’s enforcer of election laws was largely paralyzed during the 2012 election, despite a Supreme Court ruling that left several key money-in-politics issues open to interpretation.With five of six Federal Election Commission members working on expired terms (one since 2007), President ...
  • OPINION: Giving thanks for regulation of insur ...
    Although it’s a few days past Thanksgiving, I’m still feeling grateful, even to much maligned federal employees. Last week bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services did us a big favor by resisting pressure from insurance company executives. Those executives wanted to keep cha ...
  • Marijuana decriminalization law brings down ju ...
    Marijuana — it’s one of the primary reasons why California experienced a stunning 20 percent drop in juvenile arrests in just one year, between 2010 and 2011, according to provocative new research.The San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice (CJCJ) recently released a pol ...
  • Front men disguise the offshore game's real pl ...
    The existence of a global network of sham company directors, most of them British, can be revealed today.The UK government claims such abuses were stamped out long ago, but a worldwide joint investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Guardian, and BBC's Pa ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The Cons’ $165 billion fiscal cliff
    By David@Sixthestate.net As I pointed out in my last post, the fact that the Conservatives have admitted they will miss their budget projections next year isn’t news. There hasn’t been a single annual budget yet that actually reached the projected balance it was supposed to, and, as a result, th ...
  • A Modest Opinion — I Demand to See Nate ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Listen, I never thought I would be agreeing with Donald Trump about anything (except for picking Arsenio Hall as the winner of “Celebrity Apprentice” – because that dude worked his ass off . . . at convincing people he was still a celebrity). I mean, when Trump sta ...
  • The Conservatives miss their budget projection ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net Last week, the media delivered its resounding judgement on the Conservatives’ fall budget update. Jim Flaherty, they say, has unfortunately allowed the projections to slip. The deficit has grown. Canada may not balance its budget on time. Curiously, this fact does nothin ...
  • Harper’s stealth attack on Medicare
    By Montreal Simon Oh boy. Trying to keep up with Stephen Harper these days is like trying to keep up with a pickpocket working a crowded railway station. Or a pimp working a Republican convention. One moment he’s selling us out to the Chinese Communist Capitalist Party. The next moment he& ...
  • Pavel Bure: Love at first shot
    By Mark Leiren-Young When Pavel Bure sat down in the stands beside me, my brain vanished as if he’d snapped it away with his lightning fast wrist shot. This was training camp, 1992, just after he won the Calder Cup for Rookie of the Year, becoming the first Canuck ever to win an NHL Award. [...] ...

libcom

  • Moscow anti-fascist may become permanently dis ...
    Health condition of anti-fascist Alexei Olesinov, who is held at Moscow's Medvedkovo pre-trial detention centre as a suspect in the "Moscow antifa case" for allegedly participating in a brawl, has sharply deteriorated. Independent expert e ...
  • PAMSU website goes live as union announces liv ...
    Pret.png The Pret a Manger Staff Union, formed in London when a group of workers got sick of management mistreatment, has been standing up for Pret employees for a number of months now. As part of th ...
  • IWW John Lewis cleaners win pay rise
    cleaners.png Cleaners at contractor ICM working in John Lewis stores in London, who are members of the Industrial Workers of the World revolutionary union, have won a 9% backdated pay rise following t ...
  • Moscow court holds first hearing in "antifasci ...
    After two weeks ago the case against Nizhny Novgorod antifascists (the Antifa-RASH case) was sent back to prosecutor's office "to remove doubts, irregularities and obstacles" by a court, which is not likely to hear that case again, the cas ...
  • Moscow: Police threaten violence against paren ...
    Anti-fascist Alen Volikov, who is under arrest at Moscow's Butyrka pre-trial detention centre, was visited by police operatives on November 13, and subjected to psychological pressure aimed at making him admit his guilt. Volikov's lawyer Farid ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)
    What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...
  • Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)
    What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...
  • Important Update on Hurricane Sandy – th ...
    I just received this incredible, “smoking gun” document from a trusted source in Washington who understands the subject and how it is controlled by Israel and the “Jews”: WeatherModificationReport 1966 This was authored by NASA Director, Homer E. Newell, a deeply Zionist ...
  • Important Update on Hurricane Sandy – th ...
    I just received this incredible, “smoking gun” document from a trusted source in Washington who understands the subject and how it is controlled by Israel and the “Jews”: WeatherModificationReport 1966 This was authored by NASA Director, Homer E. Newell, a deeply Zionist ...
  • Hurricane “Sandy” Yet Another Zion ...
    There are few superlative adjectives left in the human vocabulary to adequately describe the Synagogue of Satan – aka the collective state of Israel – and their clearly reprobate mindset.  (See the apostle Paul’s epistle to the  Romans 1:28) - Without a doubt in my mind, (after ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • فاقد شرايط رهبری هستيد؛ استعفا دهيد،
    read more
  • Iran may slash oil sales outlook, store more a ...
    "Apparently, the government wants to decrease the 1392 (the next Iranian year starting on March 21) state budget's reliance on oil exports to one million barrels a day," parliamentarian Gholamreza Mesbahi Moqaddam was quoted as saying by Fars. read more
  • در باره روز جهانی محو خشونت علیه زنان
    درروز 25 نوامبر 1960 در جمهوری دومینیکن در آمریکای لاتین سه خواهر به نامهای، پاتری، مینروا و ماریا ترزا میرابل همراه با همسران خود در کنار سایر مبارزان علیه حکومت دیکتاتوری رافائل تروجیلو مبارزه میکردند. آنها به دستور دیکتاتور مزبور ربوده شده، مورد تجاوز قرار گرفته و بطرز فجیعی به read more
  • ناو استینس آمریکا زودتر از موعد به خلیج فارس ب ...
    این ناو بر خلاف برنامه ریزی های قبلی 4 ماه زودتر از موعد به خلیج فارس بازگشته است. باز گشت این ناو هواپیمابر 4 میلیارد و پانصد میلیون دلاری به خلیج فارس ظاهرا به منظور مقابله احتمالی با ایران در صورت مسدود شدن تنگه هرمز است.
  • پيام روشن به تهران، کالبدشکافی يک نوشته،
     يک حزب نيست و نخواهد شد. هيچ ايدئولوژی معينی ندارد و نمی‌تواند داشته باشد. به هيچ نيروئی جز مردم ايران اتکاء ندارد.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • A New Zealand View on Black Friday
    Security guards break up Black Friday fight in Kentucky (AP photo) Stuff.co.nz compares America’s Black Friday to “something you might see might see amid a humanitarian crisis, a war or in the aftermath of a natural disaster.” They link to a video which originally appeared ...
  • Washington County Bans GMOs
    Washington's idyllic San Juan islands While some anti-GMO legislation like Prop 37 was shot down via a deceptive “No” campaign that received massive corporate funding, San Juan County in Washington State thumbed their nose at Monsanto et al by passing Initiative Measure No. 2012-4 ...
  • Rand Paul Tries to End Indefinite Detention un ...
    Just days before Thanksgiving, the US Senate was planning on taking a vote on the National Defense Authorization Act. The vote was delayed by Republican Rand Paul’s amendment reaffirming the sixth amendment right to a fair and speedy trial. The following RT video clip features comment ...
  • Petraeus Resignation Linked to Iran
    photo credit abcnews.go.com Writing at ConsortiumNews.com, long time investigative reporter Robert Parry reveals that Petraeus would have been sacked if he hadn’t resigned. Quoting political and intelligence insiders, he makes a strong case that Bush’s favorite general had a l ...
  • 47 State Petition to Secede from US
    Photo credit http://www.examiner.com/article/what-the-secession-petitions-mean According to the Daily Caller, the day after Obama was re-elected, the White House website received a petition asking the administration to allow Louisiana to secede. If 25,000 people sign the petition by Dec. ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • India to launch first aircraft carrier in 2013
    Indian Defense Minister AK Antony says Russia will deliver a renovated Soviet-era aircraft carrier in the last quarter of 2013. The Indian minister told the lower house of the parliament on Monday that the end of 2013 was set as the date for the handover of the Russian-origin aircraft carrier, w ...
  • Infants of EU nationals in Ireland at risk fro ...
    Whatever the actual risks for EU-national mothers in Irish hospitals, if their babies are fed infant formula, it will contain amounts of fluoride that are neither safe nor medically legal in other EU member states. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland’s (‘FSAI’) guide of 19th Nov 2012 (1) recomm ...
  • Confirmed: US planned to nuke the moon
    In a secret project recently discovered, the United States planned to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb in the 1950s as a display of the country’s strength during the Cold War space race. The secret project, called “A Study of Lunar Research Flights”, as well as “Project A119” was never carri ...
  • Brzezinski: “Populist Resistance” is Derailing ...
    During a recent speech in Poland, former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned fellow elitists that a worldwide “resistance” movement to “external control” driven by “populist activism” is threatening to derail the move towards a new world order. Calling the notion that the 21s ...
  • World’s tallest skyscraper to be built in China
    The skyscraper 838 meters tall is to be built in China. It will be not only the highest skyscraper in the world, but also a massive construction built in a record time. The project is being implemented by BROAD Sustainable Building (BSB), which is known for its buildings in the sky. BSB has rece ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Gabriel Aubry Wins Restraining Order Against M ...
    Halle Berry’s ex Gabriel Aubry has obtained a restraining order against the actress’ fiance following a Thanksgiving Day brawl at her home in Hollywood. Both Aubry and French actor Olivier Martinez were hospitalised after the bust-up, and now the Canadian model has opened up about his version o ...
  • Will The Israel - Hamas Cyberwar Continue?
    After the Cease-Fire in Gaza, Will the Cyberwar Continue? -- Vivienne Walt, Time You didnât need to be a Middle East specialist to understand that something was seriously off-kilter early on Wednesday when Israelâs Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom displayed a âFree Palestineâ photo on his Face ...
  • JUSTIN BIEBER Booed During His CFL Grey Cup Ha ...
    JUSTIN BIEBER was booed during his performance at the CFL Grey Cup halftime show on Sunday. Yikes! Justin Bieber may have a huge following both online and in real lifeâjust check out his Twitter and his sold-out “Believe” tour âbut once in a while, he encounters unenthusiastic crowds
  • Susan Rice Can't Outrun Benghazi
    by Douglas V. Gibbs The new narrative is that Susan Rice cannot be blamed for inaccuracies in her report regarding the violence in Benghazi that resulted in the death of Ambassador Stevens, and three SEALs.  The information she gave that indicated the violence was nothing more than spontaneous ...
  • Justin Bieber Booed at Canada’s Grey Cup Halft ...
    Apparently Canadian football fans are not Bieber believers. During his performance of “Boyfriend” at Canada’s  Grey Cup Halftime Show , Justin Bieber , a Canadian,   was booed and blasted with heckles from the crowd as he did his thang in those baggy crotch genie/MC Hammer pants he wears dail ...

Groklaw

  • Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Meant to Pre ...
    On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the implementation of an Illinois law that was meant to prohibit people from recording the activities of police officers by refusing to accept an appeal against a lower court order banning the law. The Justices left in place a lower court ruling that fou ...
  • Director Kappos Will Leave USPTO in January 2013
    In an email sent to USPTO employees, Director David Kappos announced that he will be leaving his post as head of the agency around the end of January 2013. In the email he wrote as follow: ...
  • David Kappos to Leave PTO Early Next Year
    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos, who oversaw the agency during the biggest change to the patent system in decades, will leave his post in January, according to a PTO spokesman. During his three-and-a-half year tenure, Mr. Kappos was widely credited for making the agency m ...
  • Director Kappos's Speech on Software Patents, ...
    Software patents, like all patents, are a form of innovation currency. They are also ecosystem enablers, and job creators. The innovation protected by software patents is highly integrated with hardware. All of it must remain eligible for protection. The current software patent "war" is hardly t ...
  • GNOME: Can this Linux desktop be saved?
    After taking a design path that sent many of its users running to other desktops, GNOME seems to be giving its users what they want: a GNOME 2.x style desktop. But, is it too late? Will GNOME fans come back? - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Huge companies like Walmart can help in catast ...
    Walmart is renown for the efficiency of their logistics and shipping. Sometimes that is what is needed to get supplies to the people who need them during emergencies. Small stores can’t re-route hundreds of trucks quickly, load them with what people need, then get the supplies to them. Wal ...
  • Obama ignored economists, bailed out banks not ...
    Instead of doing what actual capitalism demands, and letting corrupt, insolvent entities fail, Obama instead ignored the advice of top economists and bailed out big banks to the huge detriment of the economy at large and everyone but the 1%. This was no a mistake. This was not a tragic oversight ...
  • Imagine there’s no fracking
    Sign the petition at Artists Against Fracking asking Gov. Cuomo not approve a fracking bill that will allow 50,000-100,000 gas wells in New York, something which will almost certainly harm the water supply.Why is fracking dangerous?Aquifer. To drill down to the shale, one must drill through the ...
  • Calderon says US bears huge responsibility for ...
    “[E]ither the United States and its society, its government and its congress decide to drastically reduce their consumption of drugs, or if they are not going to reduce it they at least have the moral responsibility to reduce the flow of money towards Mexico, which goes into the hands of c ...
  • The behemoth that is Walmart. Maybe it is evil
    Doug Henwood continues the discussion, making the cogent point that while Walmart wages may be average for retail, that Walmart has played a major role in lowering wages and cutting benefits. Because of their size, they set wages as well as prices.By lowering the cost of the bare minimum, Walmar ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

  • Palestine and the Arab Spring
    Plenty of western commentators have asserted that the attention that participants in the Arab Spring have been paying to governance issues in their own countries means that somehow they no longer really care about Palestine. (A few people, most notably As'ad Abou-Khalil, have challenged that as ...
  • Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?
    Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with ...
  • Notes on Israeli threats of launching a 'Dahiy ...
    1. Some prominent Israelis are calling for a 'Dahiyeh' operation against Gaza. I just watched this clip from a news/discussion program on Israel's Channel 2. In it, "military analyst" Roni Daniel openly calls for the implementation of a "Dahiyeh" operation ("like in Beirut"), against Gaza. Dahi ...
  • Fundraiser for key new book on Iran-- please help!
    As some JWN readers know, twelve days ago I launched an online fundraising campaign to support the writing and publication of one of my company's most important books for 2013, a book by award-winning investigative reporter Gareth Porter that exposes how the U.S. and Israel have "manufactured" t ...
  • Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)
    I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...

frogblog

  • Safe mothers, safe children
    Rodney Hide’s latest piece in the NZ Herald exposes a callous and dangerous attitude. He needs to ask himself whether he really wants solutions to reduce child death or whether he just wants to pontificate while more women and more children suffer. Every death of a child at the hands of parent i ...
  • Pacific representation in NZ politics
    Last week was a very sad week for Pacific Peoples’ representation in Aotearoa-New Zealand. The Pacific Peoples Advisory Panel in the Auckland Council presented to Council and raised again issues of their continuance. Pacific communities want a discussion on how to best represent their view ...
  • Climate Change and International Development J ...
    Oxfam have just released a report called Climate Fiscal Cliff; evaluation of the fast start finance programme which is another indictment on this Government’s lack of commitment to human rights and climate justice. One of the few hopeful things to come out of Copenhagen three years ago was a com ...
  • Alcohol lobby again highlights need for greate ...
    It seems almost every week there is a new example of why we need greater transparency about political lobbying. This time it’s the influence of the alcohol lobby on the Government’s decision not to tackle RTDs in the Alcohol Reform Bill.
  • Patriarchy
    According to popular belief the only people reading this blog post now that I have mentioned the P word are likely to be either trolls, who will be excited that I’ve so opened myself to ridicule, or some purple wearing feminists over the age of 50. I’m testing this out because I’ve recently been ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • 10 Spices, Herbs That Aid Weight Loss
    By Dr. Mercola Adding herbs and spices to your food gives your meals an "upgrade" in more ways than one. First, you get the extra flavor enhancement and complexity that only natural spices can bring, and second, you get health benefits galore because herbs and spices contain antioxidants, mi ...
  • Common Sleep Mistakes Can Wreak Havoc on Your ...
    By Dr. Mercola Sleep is such an important part of your overall health that no amount of healthful food and exercise can counteract the ill effects of poor sleeping habits. Researchers have linked poor sleep to a number of health ailments, from short-term memory loss and behavioral problems, t ...
  • General Health Checkups and Medical Screening ...
    By Dr. Mercola Alan Cassels, a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, has written several books about the drug industry. His latest work is called Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease. This book is loaded with helpful info ...
  • The Latest Weapon in the War on Cancer: Honey Bees
    By Dr. Mercola Propolis, the "caulk" honeybees use to patch holes in their hives, has been used as a natural remedy since ancient times, treating ills ranging from sore throats and burns to allergies. New research has revealed another exciting use for this seemingly miraculous substance, thi ...
  • Internet Addiction is the New Mental Health Di ...
    By Dr. Mercola The next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) – often referred to as the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) diagnostic "bible" – is due out in May 2013. In this latest edition, DSM-5, "Internet use disorder" will be recommended a ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Poll confirms sovereignist movement ...
    The separatist movement’s problem is not so much that it is divided into partisan factions , but that most Quebecers aren’t interested in what it’s peddling.
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.

Food World Order

  • Are Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather” Claims And Tacti ...
    from drtimball.com: Fraud is defined as “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.” Did Al Gore campaign to deceive the world about the role of human produced CO2 causing world ending global warming and climate change. He profited through carbon credits b ...
  • Opium Cultivation Rose This Year in Afghanista ...
    from nytimes.com: Opium poppy cultivation rose substantially in 2012 in an “alarming” trend, despite a major opium eradication effort by Afghan governors, United Nations officials said Tuesday as they released the organization’s 2012 opium survey, which was undertaken with the Afghan Ministry ...
  • Empirical Data Confirm Autism Symptoms Related ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Entropy: Abstract: Autism is a condition characterized by impaired cognitive and social skills, associated with compromised immune function. The incidence is alarmingly on the rise, and environmental factors are increasingly suspected to play a role. This paper inve ...
  • Hostess Products Flying Off the Shelves
    from nbcchicago.com: In the wake of news that Hostess, the company that makes Twinkies and other baked goods would liquidate its business, Chicago area connoisseurs started hoarding the sweet treats. The Target store on Roosevelt Road in Chicago reported higher than normal sales for the ...
  • #GMO Grassroots Labeling Initiative
    from source: Activists and concerned citizens around the world have had enough with corrupt corporations censoring their right to know what’s in their food, and frankly they’re beyond upset. And if the government will not side with the 90 plus percentage of consumers who are in f ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Are Black Friday Riots A Preview Of The Civil ...
    If Americans will trample one another just to save a few dollars on a television, what will they do when society breaks down and the survival of their families is at stake?  Once in a while an event comes along that gives us a peek into what life could be like when the thin veneer [...]
  • They Are Going To Make It Nearly Impossible To ...
    If you have a farm or a small business, would you like to pass it on to your children when you die?  Well, unless Congress does something, it is going to become much, much harder to do that starting next year.  Right now, there is a 5 million dollar estate tax exemption and anything above [...]
  • 55 Reasons Why You Should Buy Products That Ar ...
    This is the time of the year when Americans run out to their favorite retail stores and fill up their shopping carts with lots of cheap plastic crap made by workers in foreign countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages.  By doing this, the American people are actively participating in ...
  • The Twinkie That Broke The Economy’s Back?
    Can you hear that sound?  It is the sound of the air being let out of the economy.  Since the election, there has been a massive tsunami of layoffs and business failures.  Of course the company that is making the biggest headlines right now is Hostess.  On Monday, Hostess will be in a New York [...]
  • The Worst Economic Numbers In More Than A Year
    With everything else that is going on in the world, a lot of people have failed to notice that we are seeing some of the worst economic numbers that we have seen in more than a year.  For example, it was announced on Thursday that initial claims for unemployment benefits have hit their highest l ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

Facing South

  • Indian Santa: Garnering support for the United ...
    The producer of a lighthearted documentary film about a Houma Indian Christmas tradition hopes it will draw attention to the Louisiana tribe's struggle for federal recognition, which has become especially critical in the aftermath of the BP disaster. read more
  • 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
  • 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 ...

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

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    Climate skeptic group works to reverse renewable energy mandates
    Washington Post
    The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change science, has joined with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council to write model legislation aimed at reversing state renewable energy mandates across the country.
    Indian Renewable Energy Sector to Create 2.4 Million Jobs by 2020
    Energy Collective
    Meanwhile, the radical shift to renewable energy and energy efficiency on a long-term basis will deliver savings of about one-fourth of the country's energy spending. Given that renewables have no fuel costs, India could save as much as 285 trillion ...
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    Plant ecology: Forests on the brink
    Nature.com
    Next article. Nature. Computational materials science: Substitution with vision. Plant ecology: Forests on the brink. Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht1. Journal name: Nature; Year published: (2012); DOI: doi:10.1038/nature11756. Published online: 21 November ...
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    Patch.com
    The work days are part of Sonoma County Water Agency's Youth Ecology Corps which seeks to give local youth work skills while improving local habitats. Teens who participate in the program in the winter are given priority when applying for a summer job ...
    Ecology's adoption of Dungeness water management rule helps ensure future ...
    Access Washington
    OLYMPIA – Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) Director Ted Sturdevant has signed a new water management rule for the Dungeness watershed that secures water supplies for current and future uses in the Sequim area for the benefit of people, ...
    Redford creates ecology program with Calif college
    Boston.com
    Redford creates ecology program with Calif college. Los Angeles Times / November 20, 2012. E-mail |; Print |; Reprints |. Text Size: –; +. E-mail. E-mail this article. To: Invalid E-mail address. Add a personal message:(80 character limit). Your E-mail ...
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    Attempting to take Zlatan Ibrahimovic's water out of his hand while he's ...
    Yahoo! Sports (blog)
    Zlatan Ibrahimovic made his defiant return to Ligue 1 following his two-match ban for kicking a goalkeeper in the chest and he promptly scored two goals and set up two others in PSG's 4-0 win against Troyes. Of course, being the best player in France ...
    Water Main Break In Manayunk
    KYW Newsradio
    A six inch water main broke in Manayunk just before 5 a.m. on the 400 block of Carson Street says officials. PWD says one commercial property and six residential properties were affected by the break. Crews say there is no water damage that they know ...
    Self-filling water bottle takes cues from desert beetle
    Phys.Org
    (Phys.org)—Biomimicry is the term given to using nature as an inspiration for sustainable technology ideas, and a young company has joined the biomimicry brigade with its prototype self filling water bottle, which mimics the Namib desert beetle. NBD ...
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    Water Main Leak Floods Silver Spring Street
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