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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, November 26, 2012

26 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Belinda Stronach and Me
Belinda Stronach and Me (Photo credit: Peter Broster)
Beyond
Beyond (Photo credit: ruSSeLL hiGGs)
Ubuntu running on Intel D945GLCF
Ubuntu running on Intel D945GLCF (Photo credit: zeroathome)
In Flight Linux
In Flight Linux (Photo credit: John C Abell)

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 30 Must Have Android Games for 2012
    Android is surging, their remains no questions about it. Android is a proven platform now and that is particularly showing in the burgeoning apps market. Google Play Store is now home to nearly 900,000 applications and games. More than 25 billion apps and games have already been downloaded fro ...
  • How to Get Netflix Working with Ubuntu 12.04/1 ...
    Yes you read it just right. Netflix now works with Ubuntu. And no, there's no official Netflix support for Linux yet. Thanks to the hard work done by Erich Hoover and guys at iheartubuntu, Netflix has been made to work under Ubuntu using Wine and there is now a PPA to install the whole hac ...
  • Unity 4 Released, Adds Ability to Publish Game ...
    First, it was Valve, who went all the way by releasing Steam dedicated client for Linux (still in beta testing phase). Then came NVIDIA, a world leader in GPUs, announcing their optimized for Linux NVIDIA GeForce R310 drivers (in collaboration with Valve) for enhanced gaming experience in Linu ...
  • Elementary OS Luna Beta 1 Released
    The much anticipated Linux distro, Elementary OS "Luna", is finally here. For a beta release, Luna already looks pretty awesome. A quick overview of Elementary OS Beta 1. What's New in Elementary OS Luna Beta 1? Pantheon is the new desktop environment and shell for Elementar ...
  • Android is Surging, Adoption Rate Now 6 Times ...
    This is not news anymore, Android is becoming or as some might say, has already become, the numero uno OS for smartphones. But smartphones market is still in its infancy and is set to explode in the coming years, especially in the developing world. In places like India, Android has been a bloc ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
  • FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
    *Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

  • VA Purchases Land for Two New National Cemeter ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that it has purchased land for two new national cemeteries in Florida.
  • VA Releases New PSA Targeting Women Veterans
    The Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a new public service announcement (PSA) to let women Veterans know they've come to “The Right Place” when seeking VA health care.
  • Stem Cells Could Aid in Healing Traumatic Brai ...
    Scientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the Clement Zablocki VA Medical Center received a one-year, $20,000 grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) to study the capacity of stem cells derived from bone marrow to assist in the h ...
  • Government Documents Link Global Warming to Ad ...
    It’s unacceptable that the UN/IPCC continue to push CO2 as the cause for climate change but refuse to acknowledge the military has been actively engaged in Climate Warming Weapons Technologies for more than twenty 20 years.
  • Greatest Threat To Democracy
    I'm tired of the power brokers whose only concern is whether or not the storms of nature and the storms of mankind will affect their outsourced pocketbooks.

electric politics

  • Running Against the Grain (Part II)
    Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...
  • Running Against the Grain (Part I)
    Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a nearly ...
  • A National Disgrace
    If you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible — even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College — n ...
  • Your Vote Matters
    Quite apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right To ...
  • For the Love of Music
    In our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture — even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia Hold Military T ...
    Azeri Press Agency November 24, 2012 Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia to hold joint military training in Ankara Malahat Najafova Baku: The Turkish Armed Forces will start a special military training, “Caucasus Eagle,” on November 26. APA reports that servicemen from Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia ...
  • Aldous Huxley: All devote themselves methodica ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Aldous Huxley: Rhetorical devices used to conceal fundamental absurdity and monstrosity of war ==== Aldous Huxley From Science, Liberty and Peace (1946) In a world where the concentration of economic power is advantageous to the ru ...
  • NATO to Survey Patriot Missile Sites in Turkey
    Russian Information Agency Novosti November 26, 2012 NATO to Survey Patriot Missile Sites in Turkey ANKARA: NATO officials will start surveying sites along the Turkey-Syria border on Tuesday for possible deployment of Patriot air defense systems, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement. Th ...
  • Iran, Russia, Syria Fight NATO Missiles On Tur ...
    Arutz Sheva November 25, 2012 Iran, Syria, Russia Fight NATO Missiles on Turkish-Syrian Border Iran is fighting the placement of Patriot defense missiles along the Turkish-Syrian border. So are Syria and Russia. By Chana Ya’ar Iran is doing everything it can to fight the placement of Patri ...
  • U.S. intensifies military encirclement of China
    Voice of Russia November 24, 2012 US intensifies military encirclement of China Rick Rozoff “With the emergence of China as the world’s second-largest economy and its concomitant renewal of (comparatively minor) territorial claims in the East China Sea and South China Sea, the stage ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

FRS

  • “Hands off the People of Iran” exp ...
    [Frontlines recently posted an article ("The Iran Tribunal and the crimes of the Islamic Republic") about recent hearings, proclaimed to be in the historic tradition of the Bertrand Russell Tribunals in the 70's against war crimes, but focused on the mass murder of Iranian political prisoners in ...
  • Bangladesh factory fire kills 112 in Dhaka
    Blaze broke out at the seven-storey factory on Saturday and firefighters recovered more than 100 bodies on Sunday morning Associated Press in Dhaka guardian.co.uk, Sunday 25 November 2012 A firefighter tries to control a fire at a garment factory in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka Photograph: AN ...
  • Tens of Thousands Protest in Indonesia
    Indonesia protest Workers demand a higher minimum wage and an end to outsourcing as unrest in southeast Asia’s largest economy amplifies. Al Jazeera, November 22, 2012 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/11/2012112253436646925.html Tens of thousands of workers have gathered out ...
  • Brazil: Landless Peasant Movement facing viole ...
    [See the following statement from CEBRASPO.  The rough English translation is followed by the Portuguese original text. -- Frontlines ed.] CEBRASPO — Brazilian Center of Solidarity with the Peoples Manga, November 23, 2012  Cowardly attack by gunmen against families who occupied the farm B ...
  • Spain: Economic crisis pushes funeral costs o ...
    [As the capitalist crisis -- the so-called "Great Recession" -- continues to shake up lives and property relations, real estate corporations are reorganizing housing markets to take advantage of mass desperation and this now also affects the funeral and cemetary markets.  For a diabolical view o ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...
  • Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...
    Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
  • Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...
    I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

Popsci - Science

  • NASA Employees Have Highest Job Satisfaction I ...
    An Office Personnel Management report shows that NASA is a pretty sweet gig. Working for the famously bureaucratic federal government can feel like a major drag--unless, that is, you work for NASA. The US Office of Personnel Management conducted the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, a yearly q ...
  • Laser-Cut Scotch Tape Makes A Tiny Gripping Ro ...
    The holiday staple/bane of gift wrappers' existence is now a water-collecting gripper. Scotch tape is indispensable this time of year, even for the least-skilled gift wrappers among us. Now it may have another use that lasts well beyond the wrapping paper frenzy: a shape-changing gripper. It t ...
  • Can Taking A Pill Before Bed Get Rid Of Bed Bugs?
    A so-called "bed bug pill" has been in the news. Is it for real? Can you cure a bed bug infestation just by downing drugs? While the idea has appeal, particularly for people afflicted with nightly bites and for scientists dealing with a pest that is increasingly difficult to kill, the short an ...
  • These Beautiful Nano-Rainbows Could Make Bette ...
    Potential to make better solar cells? Check. Improved televisions down the road? Check. Pretty? Check. It's difficult to manage color when you get to the nanoscale, but researchers from King's College London have found a way to trap light on nanostructures. Based on the shape of the structure, ...
  • BeerSci: How To Drink Your Thanksgiving Meal
    Tips on making Turkey Beer and other highly questionable holiday brews Ah, Thanksgiving. That gluttonous annual tribute to post-colonial greed. To celebrate, many of us are going to be drinking beer -- a lot of it -- before, during and after the main event. This helps one tolerate one's insane ...

Veterans Today

  • VA Purchases Land for Two New National Cemeter ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that it has purchased land for two new national cemeteries in Florida.
  • VA Releases New PSA Targeting Women Veterans
    The Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a new public service announcement (PSA) to let women Veterans know they've come to “The Right Place” when seeking VA health care.
  • Stem Cells Could Aid in Healing Traumatic Brai ...
    Scientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the Clement Zablocki VA Medical Center received a one-year, $20,000 grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) to study the capacity of stem cells derived from bone marrow to assist in the h ...
  • Government Documents Link Global Warming to Ad ...
    It’s unacceptable that the UN/IPCC continue to push CO2 as the cause for climate change but refuse to acknowledge the military has been actively engaged in Climate Warming Weapons Technologies for more than twenty 20 years.
  • Greatest Threat To Democracy
    I'm tired of the power brokers whose only concern is whether or not the storms of nature and the storms of mankind will affect their outsourced pocketbooks.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Cold to follow latest deluge
    A welcome change to drier but colder weather is likely as we head through this week following heavy rainfall since Saturday night which is once again testing flood defences across the county. November is continuing a remarkable run of wet weather, becoming the 8th successive month where rainfa ...
  • What's behind the 'coldest winter for 100 year ...
    Those of us with a keen interest in the weather can't fail to have noticed yet another headline in the Express this weekend, claiming this winter would be the coldest in 100 years, which you can see here. Wherever I went this weekend, I've been stopped in the street by people asking me when the ...
  • Antarctica sea ice & latest global temperatures
    ANTARCTICA The record breaking Arctic sea ice minimum recorded this summer (based on satellite data) was well documented in the media and on this blog. Conversely, at the other end of the world, little mention was made of the Antarctica ice extent which approached a record high in September, a ...
  • 'High risk' of further flooding this winter
    Ground water levels remain unseasonably high across parts of Yorkshire following the very wet conditions this summer, according to the Environment Agency. Although autumn is traditionally the wettest season of the year, the land is more saturated than normal because of excessive rainfall since ...
  • First cold snap of the season
    After a relentlessly gloomy week, much clearer but colder air is on its way from the Arctic in the next 12 hours, giving us our first cold snap of the season, albeit a short lived one. Some of us, mainly in eastern parts of the region will see showers, and the air will be cold enough for some ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Can the White People Have Mubarak Back Now?
    Sometime ago now, some wet-behind-the-ears white kid criticized me for suggesting that US policy in the Middle East could use improvement since it was contradictory and incoherent--especially when it came to using ICT as a diplomatic tool. Unsurprisingly, greenhorns like him took the events of A ...
  • Susan Rice, the New Archetypal Ugly American
    Although years and years of economic stagnation have thinned their numbers somewhat, Ugly Americans are still rather plentiful--including policymakers who act internationally. How can you distinguish these folks? In general, they all share the following attitudes and behaviours: Think all that's ...
  • The Honest Truth: ASEAN is Still Rather Lame
    World leaders--among them from ASEAN member countries, China, Japan and the US came, saw and whimpered in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Among other things, differences within ASEAN itself are causing trouble coming up with a united policy on the matter of the South China Sea to negotiate with China. (Re ...
  • Singapore is Least Emotional Nation; Mine Most
    Are all Southeast Asians stereotypically taciturn? Well no. BusinessWeek has an interesting article entitled "Singapore Confronts an Emotion Deficit" that, in my opinion, provides some ammunition for Singaporeans-as-automatons stereotypes. Worker ants, to make an analogy. The data comes from an ...
  • Egypt Back to Poorhouse, to Get $4.8B From IMF
    It is no surprise to me that the IMF has just announced that Egypt is now in line to receive the $4.8B it asked for. It's geopolitics: the United States cannot really afford to lose Egypt as a mediator between Hamas and Israel as it has done in the past. Of course, matters are greatly complicate ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Who is the victim here?
    The arrogant, entitled prince of a wealthy, influential monarchical religious institution which considers itself, and is treated, as above the laws of the land or The damaged, impoverished, abandoned child victims of serial rapists, whose suffering has been dismissed and whose pleas for help hav ...
  • Why did you make us wait so long?
    The sheer joy of Monday’s announcement of a national Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions in Australia was not the only emotion bringing victims to tears this week. There was sadness at years of unnecessary suffering by victims who had begged and beg ...
  • Australian Prime Minister Announces National R ...
    I woke up today with no expectation that by late afternoon I would achieve an almost impossible dream. But finally victims of child sexual abuse throughout Australia are to be given a voice, to be given a chance of justice, to be able to use our painful experiences to prevent other children havi ...
  • Heartless Hart at it Again
    Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
  • True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”
    C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children

WL Central

  • 2012-11-26 "Cypherpunks," the new title by Jul ...
    Today OR Books released Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, a new title by WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and fellow internet visionaries Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, and Jérémie Zimmermann. Cypherpunks comes roughly a year after the publication of Julian Assan ...
  • 2012-11-26 WikiLeaks donations now tax deducti ...
    Monday, 26th November 1900 GMT Wau-Holland-Stiftung (WHS), named in memory of the German philosopher and net activist Wau Holland, has been collecting donations for WikiLeaks since 2009. In the immediate aftermath of WikiLeaks publication of the US diplomatic cables in 2010, not only did PayPal ...
  • 2012-11-23 Rafael Correa's new South America
    The South American media has reverberated lately with reports that the CIA has been using drug money in efforts to destabilize the government of Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa. If these stories are accurate, then the plan's exposure and apparent failure may illustrate the impotence of trad ...
  • 2012-11-20 European Parliament votes to protec ...
    In a landmark decision today the European Parliament initiated the drafting of legislation that would stop the arbitrary banking blockades against WikiLeaks and other organizations facing economic censorship. This is an important signal from the European lawmakers. It is a recognition of the ser ...
  • 2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'
    After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more

U N News

  • Investments key for long-term resilience, rebu ...
    The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stressed that investments are crucial to help rehabilitate Haiti's agricultural sector in the wake of various natural disasters this year that caused colossal damage to the farming and fishing industries.
  • UNESCO chief urges investigation into murder o ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the murder of Mexican crime reporter and called for an investigation into the attacked that killed him and a former municipal police officer.
  • Ban welcomes progress made on territorial disp ...
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon salutes the progress made by Belize and Guatemala under the auspices of the Organization of American States to resolve their longstanding territorial dispute, according to his spokesperson.
  • UN court rules Colombia has sovereignty over i ...
    The principal judicial organ of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), today ruled that Colombia, and not Nicaragua, has sovereignty over seven disputed islands in the Caribbean Sea.
  • Panamanian jazz composer Danilo Pérez to becom ...
    The United Nations agency tasked with conserving and promoting humanity's cultural heritage today announced its move to appoint renowned Panamanian pianist and jazz composer Danilo Pérez as an Artist for Peace for his efforts to promote music programmes for children living in extreme poverty in ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Aurora Batman Shooting – Many Coincidences
    The trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
  • CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...
    He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Rewilding Institute

  • Wild Utah Project needs your help!
    HERE’S WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing West-wide for years. They have just gone live with their first video, Dance for Survival: Protecting the Sage-Grouse and a fundraising chall ...
  • Sea Shepherd sheds some light on the recent Sh ...
    Posted by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is simply smok ...
  • Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...
    (September 4, 2012)  The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy.  PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
  • Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...
    Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
  • Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...
    Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • 55 Reasons Why You Should Buy Products Made In ...
    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 particip ...
  • US Food Stamp Program... RFID Tracking Chips W ...
    "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) - Related article re ...
  • LIST OF ALL FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA
    Get this info and hold onto it ... make it Viral! Knowledge is power! This info is priceless! ~ Video - 116 page Document read more
  • 'States Can’t Legalize Marijuana Under Interna ...
    The president of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, wrote a threatening letter to the U.S. government to challenge marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington. read more
  • NJ Hurricane Victims Told to 'Demolish Their H ...
    After hurricane Sandy hit the east coast, all of the mainstream media sources were praising FEMA and the governments overall response to the disaster. ~ JG Vibes read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Plywood Window Barriers For Emergency Home Sec ...
    Image Source: National Geographic One of the episodes of the TV series, Doomsday Preppers (Season 2), highlights Jay Blevins who is preparing for the breakdown of social order following an economic collapse. Jay’s primary risk awareness motivator is one that I believe to be perhaps the mos ...
  • People Controlled By A System Which Eliminates ...
    While unknowingly controlled by the system, these people don’t even know what they don’t know. It is unfortunate, sad, and frightening, in that our future as a species is changing as a result of a system which is eliminating the need for sensible ‘thinking’, or to even &# ...
  • Mega-Tsunami Wave Risk To Our Coast
    The risk of a Tsunami is a very real and present danger to nearly anyone living within miles of an ocean shoreline. An even more frightening risk, a Mega-Tsunami, exists in many parts of the world where unfortunately much of the world’s population lives (near the coast). What is a Mega-Tsu ...
  • Farmers To Pay Insurance For Monsanto GE Conta ...
    Monsanto Company is a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. It is a leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and of the herbicide glyphosate, which it markets under the Roundup brand. The Monsanto business model has been to inves ...
  • Turkey Cooking Time
      What is the right Turkey Cooking Time? The turkey cooking time depends if the turkey is stuffed or not stuffed, and how many pounds the turkey weighs. This turkey cooking time chart is for a preheated oven at 325 degrees F. The best way to to determine if a turkey is cooked and done [...]

Fast Company

  • A Certification Program To Say Which Cities Ar ...
    The City Protocol aims to codify exactly what makes a smart city, and say which cities are actually doing what it takes to earn the label. If you wanted to construct a high-performing green building before 1998, you were pretty much on your own without any sort of guidance system to nudge ...
  • Pipes So Handsome You’ll Wish You Were A Smoker
    Stiff’s pipes give a fresh new look to an age-old bad habit. In popular culture (and perhaps in the real world, too), tobacco pipes are typically found attached to a certain type of character, someone old and curmudgeonly, with patches on the elbows of their jacket and an unusual abu ...
  • The Personal Side of 3-D Printing: Awesome Act ...
    At a Japanese pop-up store, you can get a perfectly lifelike rendering of yourself--in miniature. The democratization of 3-D printers might lead to new houses, better equipped soldiers, and even a revitalization of U.S. manufacturing. On the other end of the spectrum, it’s also resul ...
  • Watch: For Muji’s Unsung Designers, Imperfecti ...
    In a new short produced by Herman Miller, the design duo behind hundreds of Muji’s no-brand products speaks to why and how they work. In a new film series from Herman Miller, designers like Yves Béhar and Studio 7.5 are posed with a simple question: “Why design?” A ...
  • Benevolent Robot Uprising Depicted In New Gene ...
    GE’s new ad, preceded by a stealth campaign offline and on Tumblr, features robots you know (and some you don’t), roving the streets to join the company in solidarity. This is pretty much how The Terminator said it would be: all the world’s machines joining together. Acco ...

Jadaliyya

  • يمكن لقابوس أن يخطئ كغيره من البشر- نزع القداس ...
     امتلأ صيف 2012 بتقارير متعددة تتحدث عن اعتقالات وإدانات لمدونين وناشطي حقوق إنسان. حملة القمع هذه بدأت في أيار (مايو) حين تم اعتقال ناشطي حقوق انسان ومحامٍ أثناء محاولتهم الالتقاء بعمال نفط مضربين في اثنين من أهم حقول النفط العمانية. في بداية حزيران (يونيو)، تم اعتقال ثمانية مدونين وكتاب و ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (Nov 19-25)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles.  Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: ...
  • تفكيك أمننة المجتمع
    ألقت الثورة المصرية الكثير من زجاجات المولتوف الحارقة على خطوط المواجهات بين قوات الأمن والثوار على مدار أكثر من عامين- أشتدت فيهما المواجهات تارة وهدأت تارة أخرى. فالصراع على نمط السلطة وتجلياتها في أشكال الممارسة ما يزال قائماً حتى هذه اللحظة. والقطيعة مع النظام السابق صارت تتمحور حول تلك النق ...
  • فواز طرابلسي: حرير وحديد
      [“كتب” هي سلسلة تستضيف “جدلية” فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بفصل من الكتاب.] فواز طرابلسي، “حرير وحديد: من جبل لبنان الى قناة السويس”، رياض الريس للكتب والنشر، بيروت، كانون الثاني ٢٠١٣. جدليّة: كيف تبلورتْ فكرة الكتاب وما الذي قادك نحو الموضوع؟ فواز طر ...
  • Why Israel Didn't Win
    The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the Strip, and Pal ...

mediagazer

  • Guest on Fox News to Discuss Benghazi Attack I ...
    Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Guest on Fox News to Discuss Benghazi Attack Is Given a Quick Exit  —  Thomas E. Ricks, the veteran defense reporter and author, said he expected his Monday morning appearance on Fox News to last about three minutes.  It ended, in fact, after ...
  • No, Andrew W.K. is Not the State Department's ...
    Asawin Suebsaeng / Mother Jones: No, Andrew W.K. is Not the State Department's Cultural Ambassador to the Middle East  —  Over Thanksgiving weekend, hard-rock performing artist and self-declared “King of Partying” Andrew W.K. announced that he had just landed a new g ...
  • Why pushing for a paywall at the Washington Po ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Why pushing for a paywall at the Washington Post completely misses the point  —  As paywalls continue to spring up at newspapers both large and small, like mushrooms after a rainstorm, those who have chosen to take a different path — the Guardian in ...
  • Guardian's 'Three Little Pigs' named top comme ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Guardian's ‘Three Little Pigs’ named top commercial of 2012  —  Adweek's Tim Nudd says the Guardian's “open journalism” advertisement is “the year's greatest mix of craft and storytelling—a rousing triumph in an indus ...
  • So Where Did That Fake Google Acquisition Pres ...
    Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: So Where Did That Fake Google Acquisition Press Release Come From?  —  So now we know that the press release concerning Google acquiring public Wi-FI firm ICOA Wireless was fake.  —  But what do we know about who sent the press relea ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • European Stock Futures Little Changed; Sw ...
    European stock futures were little changed, after the Stoxx Europe 600 Index posted its biggest weekly rally this year, as euro-area finance ministers prepared to meet on Greece’s finances. U.S. index futures fell, while Asian shares rose. Swiss Re Ltd., the world’s second-biggest reinsurer, ...
  • Broccoli boosts your immunity
    From optimal brain function to muscle growth, broccoli is a power-packed vegetable. Broccoli contains a high amount of potassium, which helps maintain a healthy nervous...
  • Zeenat Aman to walk the ramp at IRFW
    Tweet New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Yesteryears glamorous actress Zeenat Aman is all set to walk for designer Riyaz Gangji at the India Resort Fashion Week (IRFW), starting Nov 28. Titled Shimmering Sand, Gangji's collection takes inspiration from Japanese author Yukio Mishima's book "The Sound o ...
  • Baggies streak no fluke, says Clarke
    London – Before Saturday, the last time West Bromwich Albion had won four top flight matches on the bounce, Bryan Robson was marshalling their midfield and Cyrille Regis was banging the goals in up front. Margaret Thatcher was British prime minister, best-selling arcade game Pac-Man wa ...
  • Turkey confronts a resurgent Kurdish thre ...
    This town of 19,000 nestled in an idyllic mountain pass of impossibly green pastures and golden autumn trees is on the front lines of Turkey's rapidly escalating guerrilla war. In a struggle for autonomy as well as independent language and education rights, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Pa ...

no frakking consensus

  • UN Bureaucrats Wield Science for Undemocratic ...
    UN officials say we should listen to science. Don't be fooled. It's a rhetorical ploy, a cover for their own agenda.
  • 2 IPCC Announcements
    In an official statement, the IPCC says it's improper for any of its personnel to describe themselves as Nobel laureates. But the statement is all but invisible on the IPCC's website.
  • Busy Days
    I'll be participating in the WattsUpWithThat answer to Al Gore's 24-hour web project this week. Additionally, I'll be talking to a university class tomorrow and addressing a climate skeptics' conference in Munich on December 1st.
  • Celebrating Human Life
    A searing critique of environmental thought has emerged from an unlikely source - contemporary French philosophy.
  • Logical Conclusion to Scientific Prognostications?
    Scientists often claim to know what the future holds. In such a milieu, some people will want revenge when science gets it wrong.

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 11/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! – Should ta ...
    tablets-textbooks.procon.org – NEW ProCon.org Website! – Should tablets replace textbooks in K-12 schools? – Publishing for the K-12 school market is an $8 billion industry and tablets are a $35 billion industry in the United States. As tablets have become more prevalent, a new debate has formed ...
  • 11/19/12 - Israel Launches Operation Pillar of ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 14, 2012. Read about this latest military operation and the entire history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 10,000 BC to the present on our historical timeli ...
  • 11/13/12 - Palestinian Authority to Seek Non-M ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Palestinian Authority to Seek Non-Member State Status at UN
  • 11/7/12 - 2012 Election Results
    2012election.procon.org  - 2012 Election Results - President Barack Obama has been elected to a second term in office with 50% of the popular vote. See our election results page for the final popular vote totals as they are updated. Third party results will be added as soon as ...
  • 11/7/12 - Should gay marriage be legal?
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Should gay marriage be legal? – Read pro and con quotes from experts, politicians and organizations including Barack Obama (pro), Mike Huckabee (con), Dick Cheney (pro), George W. Bush (con), the American Psychological Association (pro), and the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Verbs, nouns, grammar
    Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Elon Musk on the Future of Energy and Transport
    “Dumping garbage in the atmosphere and no one is paying for the garbage collection” is how ex-physicist-turned-serial-entrepreneur Elon Musk described current public attitudes towards carbon dioxide emissions in an electrifying talk at the Sheldonian in Oxford. Elon Musk is best known for co-fou ...
  • Enough funding on the Horizon?
    Today Sir Tim Hunt FRS and Jules Hoffmann (NobelPrize winners in medicine in 2001 and 2011 respectively) met with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, to press for a healthy settlement for the European research budget – ‘Horizon 2020’. They joined a press conference this lu ...
  • All Aboard the Stem Cell Rollercoaster
    Anyone trying to keep up with recent developments in stem cell research is in for a bumpy ride. The field has had its ups and downs, a particular high point being John Gurdon FRS and Shinya Yamanaka winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their paradigm-shifting work on induced pluripotent ...
  • African Academies in London
    Jackie Olang is the Programme Director for the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC). The Royal Society has been working closely with NASAC over recent years, on an number of activities with science academies across Africa On 29th October 2012, the African Academies delegates arrived in L ...
  • George Osborne talks science and sausage machines
    It was an earlier than normal start for some us at the Society last Friday morning, as we prepared to welcome the Chancellor of the Exchequer in to the building; our colleagues on reception are not accustomed to seeing so many of the Science Policy Centre in before 8am. Not that we can complain ...

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 2
    Part 2 of Halloween Special with Josh Jackson
  • Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 1
    In tonight's show we bring you a menagerie of weirdness as we plough through the many bizarre themes which dominate the news on this Halloween night. We look at recent developments in the Julian Assange case, with a Parliamentary Briefing on the case now in progress. In the 2nd hour am joine ...
  • Chemtrails Revisited - Part 1
    In today's show I spend a good deal of time talking about why I don't subscribe to the theory that there is a global campaign of aerosol spraying (aka chemtrails) going on. In the 2nd hour I am joined by Josh Jackson, who chimes in with his views regarding the alleged spraying. This discussi ...
  • World Roundup with Damon Crowe - Part 1
    Our first hour guest in today's show is Damon Crowe. Our discussion ranges through many issues affecting the world today, with an emphasis on the warped psychology of the manipulators who run our global financial systems. In hour 2 we bring you a shocking story of medical tyranny from Australi ...
  • Introducing Aussie Beach TV - Part 1
      SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-13", width: 600, height: 400 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://www.truthnews.com.au/slideshowpro/images.php?album=13" } }); ...

Beacon

  • Budget Sequester Will Punish Oceans
    ©Wikimedia Commons Corry Westbrook is Oceana's federal policy director On January 2, 2013, our country will be poised to go over the fiscal cliff if leaders in Washington, D.C. are unable to agree on ways to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion. Why is this relevant to ocean conservation? Ou ...
  • Oceana Talks Seafood Fraud on ABC's 20/20
    Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Oceana’s senior vice president for North America and chief scientist Mike Hirshfield sat down with 20/20 to discuss the widespread problem of seafood fraud (skip to around 3:30 in the video). He gives a stark example of the problem. “If you ...
  • Good News for Bluefin Tuna, Bad News for Sharks
    Today in Morocco the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) wrapped up. Contrary to its name, the ICCAT oversees more than just tuna, regulating a variety of highly migratory fish including several kinds of shark in the Atlantic and surrou ...
  • There are One Million Species in the Ocean
    Common Octopus, one species in a million ©Oceana/Carlos Minguell It is difficult to describe the ocean's vastness and variety of life, but that is exactly what some researchers have tried to do. In a study released this week, and carried out with the help of 270 taxonomists from 32 countries, ...
  • Seismic Testing Proposal Rejected in California
    Seismic testing deafens dolphins ©Oceana Yesterday the California Coastal Commission rejected a proposal by Pacific Gas and Electric to conduct high-energy seismic testing in the ocean surrounding the Diablo Canyon Power Plant near Morro Bay, CA, citing the unacceptable harm such testing woul ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • UN Climate Change Convention Begins Today, Tar ...
    Take a deep breath (unless you’re outdoors some place like “America’s energy sacrifice zone,” on the Gulf Coast – more on that later), and take in the rather lengthy description of what begins today, in Doha, Qatar: the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framewor ...
  • Leaving State, the Hillary Effect
    SECRETARY CLINTON’S pending departure is going to manifest a contagion of articles, all of which will be forced to ignore her adamant refusals not to run for president in 2016. How each writer and media outlet folds this denial into the piece will likely become a chronicle of the absurd. T ...
  • ‘Failure of the American Conscience’ but ‘Walm ...
    One of the best commentaries I’ve read regarding the Black Friday actions by Walmart employees and supporters is from Pam Spaulding, in Failure of the American conscience: Walmart reports record Black Friday sales despite 100-city worker strike. So, what does this say about the American people, ...
  • News Desk: Israel’s Ehud Barak Announces Resig ...
    THE DEFENSE minister Ehud Barak’s resignation comes as reports swirled he would start a center-left party after the January elections. Instead, he has declared he’s quitting politics, effective upon the elections in the New Year. From CNN: [...] Some Israeli political commentators ha ...
  • Estimated 8000 Protest Austerity in Dublin: ‘C ...
    The quote in the headline is from a sign held by one of the thousands who participated in an “anti-austerity” march in Dublin on Friday. Follow the link to The Journal article that provides details and some great photos. The demonstration, organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, is prot ...

Hudson New York

  • Is Abbas About To Join Hamas?
    As of last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will think twice before he condemns any rocket or terror attack on Israel. Alarmed by Hamas's growing popularity among Palestinians, especially in wake of its purported "victory," Abbas
  • "Obey The Prophet, Even If He Tells You To Kill"
    Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi — the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who is now helping Egypt draft its new constitution, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, and author of over 100 books on Muslim doctrine — maintains that Muslims must
  • More Trouble in Jordan
    Last week, protests broke out in Jordan after a government decision to raise fuel prices. While protests have been taking place in Jordan for almost two years now, for the first time there is major involvement from Jordan's Palestinians, with open calls
  • Hamas's Victory: How Muslims See It
    Do Americans understand the Muslim view of war? Throughout the Muslim world, there were celebrations with people singing and dancing and giving each other sweets, celebrating Hamas's victory over the Israelis. Hamas suffered serious losses. As Ehud
  • Converting Denmark into a Muslim Country
    Muslim immigrants in a town near Copenhagen have forced the cancellation of traditional Christmas displays this year even while spending lavishly on the Islamic Eid celebration marking the end of Ramadan. The controversy has escalated into an angry

Urban Survival

  • Ure Does Retail: So, How Was Spending
    Right out of the chute this morning, it would take a lot to convince me that the weekend was a runaway success in retail.  Although the dollars are out there floating around the economy, they may not be (to borrow … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Monday at the WuJo (#1)
    A couple of interesting notes about the “world not seen” which, as I explained in excruciating details to Peoplenomics subscribers last Wednesday is likely – as one friend of mine proposed – really a 10 (or more) dimensioned Hilbert Space … Continue reading →
  • Save America: Go Shopping
    Nothing shows the darker side of humans more than stories – like this one about a man threatening to stab people at a K-Mart - which come up as a result of mixing credit cards, a tendency toward excessive consumption … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Walter Mitty’s Next Writing Gig
    (Branson, MO)  If you can remember as far back as yesterday’s column, you’ll recall that my Walter Mitty persona had been harboring a dream of becoming the world’s greatest travel writer.  Unfortunately, publications like Travel and Leisure may not have … Contin ...
  • Madness in America
    (Branson, MO) What the hell am I writing a column for on a national holiday?  Well, like income tax (which doesn’t get the day off either) I figure it’s suitable punishment for your past deeds.  Now that we’ve cleared that … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Newly Elected State Governors and Legislators: ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Looking beyond the top of the ticket, we see big changes in states with 11 new governors were elected and according to Governing magazine a dozen legislatures moved either rightw ...
  • Stranded Seniors Need Public Transportation
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City My parents are among the 8 million senior citizens in this country who are stranded by a lack of public transportation. If we want to spend time together over the holidays, I, or one of my daughters, w ...
  • Less is More: A "How-To" Guide to Saving Ener ...
    Wendy Fok, Project Director, High Performance Tenant Demonstration Project, Center for Market Innovation, New York In the U.S., over $20 billion a year is spent on energy use in commercial office buildings.  With tenant spaces responsible for m ...
  • Mitigating the environmental paradox of smart ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   To move more deliberately toward anything resembling a sustainable future, we need to use land more efficiently, building more compactly, with significantly higher densities o ...
  • Canadian diluted bitumen study is a missed opp ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC The Globe and Mail recently reported on a study by Natural Resources Canada which evalating the corrosivity of a variety of crudes, including diluted bitumen. In many ways, this study re ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct Newsfeed Daily Reca ...
    *Note* This is the recap for both Tuesday and and Wednesday as I was out of the office Wednesday. Here are the 23 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, November 20 to Wednesday, November 21, 2012: Newark, New Jersey: … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct Newsfeed ...
  • Police Keep Working as Misconduct Cases Drag On
    More from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution here.Police Keep Working as Misconduct Cases Drag On is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • Finality Over Justice: The 21-day Rule
    From the Washington Post: The immediate cause of the legal logjam keeping him behind bars is Virginia’s noxious 21-day rule, which prohibits trial judges from reviewing newly discovered evidence if it is presented more than three weeks after sentencing. Exceptions … Continue reading ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, November 17, to Monday, November 19, 2012: Polk County, New Jersey: An officer was charged with aggravated battery after he attacked a fellow officer who was in town to … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct N ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    *Note* I was out of the officer Friday, so the Thursday recap is also included in this post. Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, November 15 and Friday, November 16, 2012: Polk County, New Jersey: … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed ...

Total Collapse

  • AIPAC, decapitators inside US government: Inte ...
    Seventy hours ago, at this writing, while on Air Force One, President Barack Obama issued a press release that has been utterly ignored by the Western Press. The president has openly announced a move against violent plotters inside the US government and espionage agents. He does not use the term ...
  • Russian warships in position opposite Israel
    The Black Sea Fleet’s naval task force, including the missile cruiser Moskva, the destroyer Smetlivy, the large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov, the tugboat MB-304 and the large oil tanker Ivan Bubnov, have received an order to remain in a designated area in the eastern Mediterrane ...
  • Netanyahu: Israel Prepared to Resume Gaza War
    In a speech at Police National Headquarters to tout the war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted the war dealt a decisive blow to factions in the Gaza Strip, while insisting Israel is “prepared” to start a new attack at any time. Though Netanyahu originally couched the comment as ...
  • Egypt Brotherhood leader blasts peace with Israel
    The top leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood denounced peace efforts with Israel and urged holy war to liberate Palestinian territories on Thursday – one day after the country’s president, who hails from the movement, mediated a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians to e ...
  • 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 Michae ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Touchscreen Chromebook repor ...
    Google is reportedly working on a touchscreen Chrome OS notebook, Motorola Mobility closes international websites, and Nokia rolls out new feature phones with an interesting new filesharing feature. It’s all... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: RFID tags, 64 bit Fire ...
    In today’s Daily Dose we look into a case involving forced RFID tagging, Mozilla’s big Windows choice, and a key executive loss at Nokia. You can catch The Daily Dose... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook and Instagram ...
    Facebook is said to be changing its relationship with Instagram, Microsoft is reportedly launching an ‘Xbox TV’ set-top box, and YouTube comes to the Nintendo Wii U. It’s all in... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Rovio’s soft dri ...
    Today on the Daily Dose, TNW checks in on the makers of Angry Birds, takes a look at the newly launched BlackJet, and looks into Apple’s HQ delay. You can... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Color’s sale to Apple ...
    A lawsuit filing has confirmed that Color Inc has sold ‘key assets’ to Apple, HP says that it overpaid for Autonomy due to alleged accounting malpractices at the UK company,... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • CSG leaks' carbon liability could end the industry
    Media release 19/11/2012 Coal-seam gas (CSG) developers have been massively understating their carbon tax liability, throwing the whole future of the industry into question, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Researchers at Southern Cross Univers ...
  • Coal seam gas faces tax bill of billions
    By Paddy Manning. Source: Sydney Morning Herald AUSTRALIA'S coal seam gas industry could face future carbon tax liabilities of up to $4 billion a year if ''fugitive'' emissions of methane from unconventional gas production turn out to be substantially higher than expected.Three huge coal sea ...
  • Alinta seeks $65m from Federal Government for ...
    By Cameron England. Source: Adelaide Advertiser ALINTA Energy wants the Federal Government to stump up $65 million for a solar thermal plant in South Australia to secure electricity generation for the next 15-20 years. Alinta chief executive Jeff Dimery said the company wants to press ahead ...
  • Wind farms lower power bills: authorities
    By Samantha Landy. Source: Weekly Times Mt Millar wind farm, SA. Photo by David Clarke. WIND energy is helping decrease South Australian energy bills, not increase them, clean energy authorities say. Climate and energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions said the suggestion wind farms upped power ...
  • Coal industry thriving, but at what social and ...
    Coal mining in NSW’s Hunter region co-exists with wine growing, racehorse breeding, dairy and other pastoral industries. Jo Schmaltz By Ruth Colagiuri and Emily Morrice. Source: The Conversation If you believe industry propaganda, coal mining is a panacea not only for economic ills b ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Photos reveal destruction of Cameroon rainfore ...
    Newly released photos by Greenpeace show the dramatic destruction of tropical forest in Cameroon for an oil palm plantation operated by SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), a subsidiary of the U.S. company Herakles Farm. The agriculture company is planning to convert 73,000 hectares to palm oil ...
  • Could marine cloud machines cool the planet?
    In 1990, British cloud physicist John Latham published a paper arguing he could cool global climate by brightening clouds over the ocean. Most colleagues ignored the paper, titled 'Control global warming?'—probably because this thing called global warming was not yet a hot topic. Now, mor ...
  • Could rebuilding global fisheries save hundred ...
    Global fisheries are gutting the world economy by US$13 billion annually, according to an economic analysis published July 13 in the journal PLoS ONE. National subsidies that encourage overfishing cause the most losses, the analysis claims. However, researchers believe that allowing fish stocks ...
  • Endangered muriqui monkeys in Brazil full of s ...
    On paper, the northern muriquis (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) look like a conservation comeback story. Three decades ago, only 60 of the gentle, tree-dwelling primates lived in a fragment of the Atlantic Forest along the eastern coast of Brazil. Now there are more than 300. But numbers don’t t ...
  • Hopes pinned on Obama again as Doha Climate Su ...
    A number of observers have expressed hope that the Obama Administration, fresh from a re-election victory in the U.S., will take a more active and ambitious role at this year's UN Climate Summit, held in Doha, Qatar. The summit opens amid fresh—and increasingly dire—warnings over cli ...

Sierra Express

  • “Embrace Olive-Branch Ideology…” President Kor ...
    In his maiden speech after being re-elected into office, President Ernest Bai Koroma called on all party supporters and sympathizers to embrace the olive-branch ideology by cuddling ‘hugging’ the spirit of oneness to all losing party supporters. The President in his clinical words at State House ...
  • Obituary – Ben Ambrose Thomas
    The death is reported of Ben Ambrose Thomas in the United States of America.  He is survived by his mother Madam Nanette Thomas, National Coordinator and Second in Command of the Attitudinal and Behavioral Change Secretariat (ABC). Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Stay with Sierra E ...
  • Media in massive radio sensitization
    Members of the forth estate from various media houses in Freetown and Kenema on Thursday 22 November 2012 engaged at one of the biggest radio stations in the city of Kenema (City Radio 103.3) in non violence sensitization after polling.  (Photo: Media guys on radio discussion (103.3 FM)) Ibrahim ...
  • Don Bosco Reconciles Street Children and Parents
    As Sierra Leone braces towards enhancing an enabling environment to ensure every child has access to education and free health care, hundreds of children are being subjected to child labour in every part of the country especially in the various towns. Alfred Musa (alias) aged 14, has been on the ...
  • Arab Spring or Mistaken Identity of Democracy?
    Since the volcanic eruptions in the Middle East, the attempt to transform Egypt into the political laboratory for the region’s litmus test for democracy has been fraught with socio-cultural gridlocks. Whether the rise against Mubarak was a domino effect from Tunisia, or a genuine call for democr ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Final price for Fonterra Shareholders' Fund set
    Fonterra said it had set its final price for units in the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund at $5.50 per unit - the top end of an indicative $4.60 to $5.50 range.The price was decided after an institutional and broker bidding process,...
  • NZ sets TPP signing terms
    New Zealand will not sign a Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement unless it removes tariffs on dairy products and allows the state-owned drug-buying agency to stay, Prime Minister John Key said yesterday."We are not prepared to see...
  • Milk production soars 11.3pc
    New Zealand's milk production leaped 11.3 per cent last season, the most productive on record.The 2011-12 New Zealand dairy statistics report, released by LIC and DairyNZ, showed average production per cow reached a record 364kg...
  • Final pricing for Fonterra Shareholders' Fund due
    The long-awaited debut of the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund on the NZX's main board will loom large on the business agenda this week.The final phase of the offer - the institutional book-build, where institutions put in their bids...
  • Fonterra: Muted response from members for shar ...
    Fonterra will put in the bulk of shares required for the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund following a muted response from its farmer members. The dairy co-operative said farmers had taken a "wait and see'' approach in the supply phase...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Barack Obama’s Not Ending the War in Afghanistan
    Barack Obama campaigned in 2008 on a promise to end the war in Iraq. That promise he tried his best to break by supporting a residual force of 10,000 U.S. troops past the 2011 withdrawal date agreed to by George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki several years prior. ...
  • Cyberterror: Who Cares?
    Peter W. Singer at the Brookings Institute site has some calming words about "cyberterror": About 31,300. That is roughly the number of magazine and journal articles written so far that discuss the phenomenon of cyber terrorism. Zero. That is the number of people that who been ...
  • Why Cities Like Cleveland Die: They Refuse to ...
      Earlier this month, Cleveland's West Side Market celebrated its 100th anniversary with a fundraising party designed to raise dollars to help maintain the facility. As all of us involved in the production of the documentary series Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew ...
  • Dumb Laws Force Kids to Go Naked, Shut Down Sm ...
    OK, maybe naked is an exaggeration. But small companies are bailing out of the children's clothing business, thanks to a dumb batch of regulations put into place in 2009. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Nancy Nord writes that: At least some apparel manufacturers are opting t ...
  • Ira Stoll on Treating the Tax-Me-More Crowd to ...
    As the clock ticks toward a tax increase scheduled to take effect at year end, expect to hear a lot from the “tax me more” crowd, writes Ira Stoll. These are wealthy individuals who profess to favor increases in their own tax bills. A series of recent articles help define the genre, ...

Mercury Rising

  • Monday Morning News Roundup
    – The best news I’ve heard in the past two weeks, courtesy of co-blogger Charles: A leaked document reveals that the UK plans to impose its own version of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) on the crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, as well as i ...
  • An inspiration to Mssrs. Boehner, McConnell, N ...
    John Lichfield, The Independent: Seldom in any democratic country can such fraternal hatred, such bloody-minded determination to eviscerate nominal colleagues, have been exposed within one political party. Forget John Major’s war with the Tory Eurosceptic “bastards” in the 1990s. Forget Republic ...
  • Offshore abuses
    Following up on a previous post regarding an effort to clamp down on tax evasion…. The presidential campaign might have failed to address poverty and global warming. But it did bring forward one important issue: the use of offshore shell companies to evade taxes and commit other crimes. Ja ...
  • Maybe Obama has been doing something during hi ...
    Jamie Doward, The Guardian: Radical plans to force the UK’s tax havens to reveal the names behind hidden companies, account holders and trusts have been drawn up by the Treasury. … A leaked document reveals that the UK plans to impose its own version of the US Foreign Account Tax Com ...
  • Wal-Mart: Always low wages
    Via ql at Eschaton, USAT: [Elizabeth Paige] Laurie, the granddaughter of Wal-Mart co-founder Bud Walton, has returned her degree, nearly a year after Elena Martinez told ABC’s 20/20 that she had written term papers and done assignments for Laurie for 3 1/2 years. She paid $20,000 for how m ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Prepare Yourself
    Develop a plan for yourself, your family and your business for coping with the dangers of an unexpected crisis with survival expert Aton Edwards in the upcoming interactive, live webinar, "Preparedness Now: Create Your Emergency Survival Plan." This Evolver Intensive starts on Decembe ...
  • Trusting Others in the Sharing Economy
    It can be challenging to confidently rely on complete strangers. An emerging online service named TrustCloud provides a way to measure trustworthiness so users can estimate how another person will behave. read more
  • A Revolution in Consciousness
      read more
  • The Pagan Pilgrim: The Story of America's Firs ...
      This article originally appeared on Newtopia Magazine.     The Ordinary Beginning of an Extraordinary Man read more
  • Say You Want a Rawvolution
    Learn how to bring the benefits of raw foods and superfoods into a diet that's right for you from the rock star of superfoods, David Wolfe, in a special, one-time live, interactive video webinar, "Raw Food and the Real World: How to Start a Rawvolution Every Day," on December 16t ...

Desertification

  • Deep Emissions Cuts Urged at Climate Summit
    Extreme weather disasters, including floods and droughts intensified by climate change, have totalled many billions of dollars in damages this year. And much worse is yet to come, warned the World Bank, International Energy Agency and even the big accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Internati ...
  • Planet on Path to Four C Warming, World Bank Warns
    Coal, oil and gas companies and their backers in the financial and investment industry must stop putting billions of dollars into finding and extracting new sources of fossil fuels. If they don’t shift their investments, temperatures will soar four to 10 degrees C higher, devastating many ...
  • Worms, Termites, Microbes Offer Food Security
    Worms and termites are not likely to win hearts and minds, but they, along with lichens and microbes, are vital to food security, say biodiversity specialists who attended this month’s United Nations conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in this south Indian city.   “Worms, ...
  • Shadow Over Aichi Biodiversity Targets
    With negotiations to mobilise resources for preservation of biodiversity at a major United Nations conference going nowhere, the Group of 77 and China have hinted at  possible suspension of the ‘Aichi targets’  under the Nagoya Protocol.   Algeria, current G 77 chair, stressed in a statement at ...
  • Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on Biodiversity
    The United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties  to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars needed to implement the ‘Aichi targets,’ due to be met by 2020. “Decisions made here will lay th ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • Israeli troops injure 2 in Gaza
    Two Palestinians have been injured by Israeli gunfire in the southern Gaza Strip, which has been under an Israeli blockade for the past five years.
  • France gives $1.5mn to Syria insurgents
    French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says the country has allocated 1.2 million euros (1.5 million dollars) in emergency aid to the newly-formed Syrian opposition, known as the National Coalition.
  • Bahraini forces attack protesters
    Bahraini security forces have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Al Khalifa regime.
  • Barak quit over Gaza failure: Hamas
    The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has hailed the resignation of Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak as another victory for the resistance.
  • Hamas supports Palestinian UN bid
    Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal has expressed support for acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas in his upcoming bid for the status of non-member observer state for Palestine at the United Nations.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Guyana Seeks to Shield Gold Miners from Mercur ...
    As regional delegates meet to discuss a legally binding ban on the use of mercury this week, Guyanese officials are arguing that an exception should be made for the South American country’s lucrative gold mining sector until an acceptable alternative is found. Since world gold prices began ...
  • Building More Democratic Families in Argentina
    A wide-ranging reform of Argentina’s civil code is looking to replace traditional concepts of parental authority and control with one of parental responsibility, while expressly prohibiting corporal punishment for children and adolescents. “The changes are pursuing a more democratic ...
  • The Planet’s Thermostat Moves to Doha
    Qatar, a major oil-producing country, is hosting the latest round of UN climate talks, where the world’s countries will need to negotiate measurable targets to keep global warming under control.
  • Deep Emissions Cuts Urged at Climate Summit
    Extreme weather disasters, including floods and droughts intensified by climate change, have totalled many billions of dollars in damages this year. And much worse is yet to come, warned the World Bank, International Energy Agency and even the big accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Internati ...
  • ‘The Children Could Die’ in Easter ...
    Humanitarian agencies working in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been overwhelmed following a massive displacement triggered by fighting between the Congolese army (FARDC) and rebel movement M23 in North Kivu. “The situation is truly precarious. There is no medici ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • US Cancels Mid East Conference on Nuke-Free Zone
    Summary: The US has called off a major international conference on establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East, claiming turmoil in the region prevents action on the issue. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • The top ten myths about Israel's brutal assaul ...
    Summary: 1. Israeli hawks represent themselves as engaged in a ‘peace process’ with the Palestinians in which Hamas refuses to join. In fact, Israel has refused to cease colonizing and stealing Palestinian land long enough to engage in fruitful negotiations with them. Tel Aviv routinely annou ...
  • Iran facing medicine shortages
    Summary: Medicine is getting more and more expensive in Iran. Experts blame the trend on currency fluctuations and economic sanctions. Meanwhile, patients are the ones to suffer. source: DWread more
  • Iran accuses US Navy of 'illegal' acts in Pers ...
    Summary: UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran is accusing the U.S. Navy of carrying out "illegal and provocative acts" in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman. source: APread more
  • Whitewashing an Assault: BBC Coverage of the I ...
    Summary: On Wednesday night a ceasefire came into effect after a week of attacks on Gaza which left over 150 Palestinians dead (at least 40 of them children) and rocket fire into Israel which left 5 Israelis dead. Before the news of the ceasefire became the front-page headline on the BBC News ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Origin of Life" --Astrobiologists Find Mechan ...
                     The question of how life began on a molecular level has been a longstanding problem in science. However, recent mathematical research sheds light on a possible mechanism by which life may have gotten a foothold in the chemical soup that existed on the early Earth. Res ...
  • Horsehead Nebula Found to Cloak a Vast Interst ...
                     The spectacular Horsehead Nebula in the Orion constellation is not only a favourite object of astronomy photographers all over the world, but apparently also a cosmic petroleum refinery.What sounds like science fiction is actually reality: using the 30m-telescope of t ...
  • EcoAlert: Spain's Stunning Cathedral of Trash ...
                 Justo Gallego Martínez (also known as Don Justo) has built this beautiful cathedral of trash in Madrid over the past 50-odd years. Don Justo, a former monk, has been building the cathedral (modelled on St. Peter's in Italy) in the Spanish village of Mejorada del Campo ...
  • Hubble Captures Gargantuan 'Cosmic Fossil' (We ...
                   The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a galaxy located approximately 320 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus, the River, which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil – the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage o ...
  • Milky Way's Halo Rife With Ancient Stars Torn ...
                  The Milky Way's ancient stars once belonged to other galaxies instead of being the earliest stars born inside the galaxy when it began to form about 10 billion years ago. Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies ripped asunder by vi ...

Natural News

  • Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and China now more fre ...
    In reviewing all the breaking news over the last few months and looking for the "big picture" of where America is headed, one pattern has emerged with striking regularity: America has quietly become less free in many ways than nations like Cuba, China and even Venezuela...
  • ORCA act ensures all food and medicine to be 1 ...
    (Satire) You may be wondering why neither President Obama nor Governor Romney spoke for one single second during the campaigns or debates about how toxic food and prescription medications are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every year, and neither "candidate...
  • The insanity of avoiding magnesium
    Below, I present a lengthy case history as an illustration of a medical system no longer serving the public as it ignores the amazing properties of magnesium that could revolutionize health care. It was sent to me as a testimonial to the miracle-working powers of magnesium...
  • Brown adipose tissue - The fat-burning furnace ...
    Fat gets a bad rap. It's not only essential to life and human function, but can actually burn calories and trim up the waistline. Brown adipose tissue (AKA brown fat) is a type of fat found in the bodies of mammals that acts as a furnace for the body. Once thought to...
  • Watchdog warns of risks of mixing popular stat ...
    Patients taking one of the most frequently taken statin drugs may be told that their dosages will have to be cut following a report that recognizes they may have side effects worse than the diseases they treat. Statins are normally taken to ward off heart disease. However...

Threat Level

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

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Why McCain Wants GOP to Leave Abortion Alone
    Appearing on Fox News Sunday morning, Arizona Senator John McCain urged his Republican Party to leave the abortion issue "alone." Given the drubbing among women voters the GOP endured thanks in part to anti-abortion extremists like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, McCain's fear is well-founded. ...
  • It's Cheney Time on Benghazi
    During a heated exchange on the Senate floor back in June 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney famously told Vermont Democrat Pat Leahy, "f**k yourself." Looking back on the episode six years later, Cheney told Fox News that he had no "qualms, second thoughts, or embarrassment" about his Leahy outb ...
  • Walmart Owners Look to Slash Federal Tax Payments
    Black Friday is the single biggest shopping day of the year. And this Friday, all eyes will be on Walmart, the nation's single biggest retailer and employer. But while the planned protests at 1,000 of the chain's 4,000 locations will keep the focus on Walmart's below-industry standard pay to it ...
  • Four Years Later, Media Still Getting It Wrong ...
    As President Obama continues to press his plan to slice $800 billion off the national debt by ending tax cuts for the top two percent of earners, the New York Times on Sunday profiled upper-income Americans trying to skirt the modestly higher bill. But the Times didn't merely fail to note the e ...
  • John McCain Rewrites His Epitaph
    As John McCain launched his first run for the White House in 1999, he was forced to confront the Keating Five scandal that nearly ended his political career. "The fact is, it was the wrong thing to do," McCain acknowledged, "and it will be on my tombstone and deservedly so." As it turns out, J ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • NIGHT MUSIC: Theory Anesthetic
    I was very fond of Theory Anesthetic when she was recording back in the 00’s.  And, hey, this turned up on Bandcamp the other day and took me back a few years.  Excellent night music. EP 2009 by Theory Anesthetic
  • Western State Terrorism Loses Crucial Battle I ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from www.presstv.com Nov. 23, 2012 It was a David and Goliath battle in which the Zionist Goliath was forced to retreat with a bloody nose and a severely dented ego. The biblical reference is rather apt since the Zionist r ...
  • Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnershi ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Nov. 21, 2012 The following is the second installment of a three-part exclusive on the TPP for Occupy.com. Part 1: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This is What Corporate Governance Looks Like The Trans-Pacific ...
  • Bookmarks for 2012-11-26
    Subcompact Publishing — by Craig Mod"SIMPLE TOOLS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIGITAL PUBLISHING"(tags:magazines publishing ) The Pelican ProjectBecause these are among the greatest book covers in the world.(tags:books covers design )
  • Did IAEA Fudge the Numbers?
    Gareth Porter: Recent IAEA alarmist report on Iran misstates enrichment numbers, putting Iran program closer to Israeli "red line"

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • How To Run An Eco-Friendly (& Money-Friendly) Home
    With the current economic climate, it is important that you try to save money in every way you can. As a homeowner, there are many different steps you can take to ensure that you run an eco-friendly home. Even if you make small adjustments and changes to your daily routine, you are sure to make ...
  • Global Warming to Shift Heavy Rainfall Times i ...
    The United Kingdom is one of those places that have been studying their weather and rainfall patterns for ages, with huge numbers of rain gauges scattered all across the country. Using this wealth of information, researchers from Germany have found that as the global climate warms the time of ye ...
  • Undiscovering Pacific Island
    Normally when you see the word ‘discovery’ in a headline you can be assured of a new point of interest in the next atlas you buy. Not this time, however, after a group of scientists ‘undiscovered’ an island in the south Pacific which has been recorded on maps for over a d ...
  • Most Energy Efficient TVs In World (& In North ...
      Look around your home — what do you think uses the most energy? One of the first things you notice is probably a large-screen TV — they’re more and more common these days. And you know that huge TV is pulling energy. Even if TVs have become a lot more efficient than thos ...
  • A Huge Purchase You Make Without Thinking
      Generally speaking, we compare products when shopping. We look for the cheapest, greenest, most socially responsible options we can find. It’s quite common for us to do this when it comes to food, clothing, electronics, and even cars. However, there’s one huge expense we pay f ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Monday Morning Quad Shot
    By@BGinKC * It'a only rock-n-roll but I like it, like it, yes I do. The Rolling Stones are a couple of weeks older than me...they turned fifty over the weekend, and I won't pass that milestone until the first Wednesday in December. ** Telling us what we already know. Two former top republicans i ...
  • We've Got Some Decisions to Make
    By @TomBales1   Big money men are always going to assholes.  You can't reason with them because they aren't capable of reason where wealth and power are concerned.  You can't barter with them because you don't have anything they want except everything you've got and as long as th ...
  • Conservatives to Hostess Workers: Let Them Eat ...
    By @TedFrier It's possible the US East Coast might become a flooded swamp, say conservatives, but there is nothing we can do about it since global warming is a ludicrous hoax. Likewise, it's possible women and children might once again have to work 12 hour days in sweatshop conditions for pennie ...
  • For every season, spin, spin, spin...
    Previously: Black Friday labor demonstration in Roeland Park, Kansas (November 23, 2012) A press release from Walmart: The following statement can be attributed to David Tovar, Vice President, Corporate Communications. Nov. 23, 2012 - The number of protests being reported by the UFCW are grossly ...
  • Oh please, spare me this idiocy
    By @BGinKC Sweet Jesus, this persecuted-Christian nonsense really pisses me off... "It's, well, Christmas all over again. The Grinch is trying to steal our holiday. It's been so beautiful, the nation comes together, we sing Christmas carols, we give gifts to each other, we have lighted trees, an ...

Care 2

  • The Beautiful Aurora in Time-Lapse HD
    This video is a time-lapse video of the Aurora. It's in HD and it's so pretty. One of Earthly Beauty! Submitted by Cheryl O. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Prevent the destruction of Indonesias remainin ...
    Only 400 Sumatran tigers left, urgent action needed! Alternatives to rainforest destruction do exist let APP know youre waiting for real change. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Benefits of Oil Skimming
    An oil skimmer is a special equipment that removes oil floating on the surface of water. Oil contamination of waste water is a serious problem, and proper water decontamination is no longer optional for any ethical enterprise. It is absolutely critical Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &n ...
  • What I Talk About When I Talk to My Dog
    Dogs are our confidants. With purpose and sometimes without intent, we tell our dogs things that would almost never be uttered to another human being (at least not to their faces). We also tell them mundane things -- anything and everything, actually. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |&nbs ...
  • Applaud European Parliament for Closing Loopho ...
    Support decision to fully enforce shark finning bans Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • “Jaw-Jaw is the War-War”
    What a clever title, I thought, as I post this so you can all read John’s typically brilliant, insightful posts.Written Nov. 18. Please see my note below. – Bronwyn My information is that the triad of Morsi of Cairo, Erdogan of Ankara, and the Emir Hamad of Qatar conferred and agreed ...
  • Moving On To 2016…
    DISCLAIMER/REMINDER:  I write my own opinions, not necessarily shared by Larry Johnson or other writers at NoQuarterUSA.net.  I’m NOT a Republican or a Democrat.  I’m an Indy, a political cynic, and a former (disappointed) supporter of Hillary Clinton. And I keep my tongue firmly in ...
  • How Barack Obama, With an Assist from George W ...
    Only Obama acolytes sing the praises of their Hawaiian Messiah for achieving a meagre economic growth, sputting along at barely above 1%. If a Republican was producing numbers like that you can bet your ass that the name of Herbert Hoover would be mentioned in every sentence describing the curre ...
  • “Hamas Boasting”
    “Yes, POTUS Obama sides with the Arab Spring strongmen of Morsi, Erdogan, Hamad of Qatar. …” (more below) I spoke with Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s “Kudlow Report,” along with Ambassador Marc Ginsburg, in re the Gaza crisis. [Video below.] My information is that Ham ...
  • Obama and Hillary Get Snookered by Egypt’s Morsi
    What a difference a day makes. Yesterday, Obama and team were celebrating the emergence of Egyptian President Morsi as a moderate willing to mediate the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Earlier fears that Morsi would arm and stoke Hamas faded as Morsi played the critical role in brokering the cease ...

Futurismic

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

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Mountaintop Removal

  • Independent Media Now! - In These Times
    Independent Media Now! In These Times And in case that sounds abstract, she has dozens of examples from the past four years of how exactly it's been done: by climate protesters in Copenhagen, by anti-mountaintop removal activists in West Virginia, by whistleblower Bradley Manning, by ... ...
  • Once again, we must stand for free speech and ...
    Once again, we must stand for free speech and assembly Charlotte Observer He does work tirelessly to try to stop climate change and mountaintop removal, and has been targeted by our government for this. Why would such a person be on this list? I do understand the importance of our nation protect ...
  • Letter: Wind power reality check - Concord Monitor
    Letter: Wind power reality check Concord Monitor Anyone who opposes wind power should be required to view a documentary on destructive coal-mining practices, from those in Wyoming's Powder River Basin to those in Appalachia, including the irreversible practice of mountaintop removal. In our ...
  • Middletown native rises through music - Freder ...
    Frederick News Post (subscription) Middletown native rises through music Frederick News Post (subscription) In early summer 2009, Cahall was invited to play at a conference in Washington focusing on mountaintop removal, because of another song he had written about a mining accident, he said. DeC ...
  • Want a reason to oppose oil and gas fracking? ...
    Want a reason to oppose oil and gas fracking? Where should I start? Athens NEWS It would certainly beat burning coal, especially when it comes from mountaintop removal. The bottom line is this: it's not just fracking; it's the burning of all fossil fuels that is contributing to massive e ...

Memeorandum

  • Young Voters Supported Obama Less, But May Hav ...
    Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: Young Voters Supported Obama Less, But May Have Mattered More  —  In winning reelection, Barack Obama won 60% of the vote among those younger than 30.  That was down somewhat from 2008, when Obama won nearly two-thirds (66%) ...
  • Way cleared for health care challenge (UPDATED ...
    Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog: Way cleared for health care challenge (UPDATED)  —  The Supreme Court on Monday arranged for a Virginia university to go forward with new challenges to two key sections of the new federal health care law — the individual and employer mandates t ...
  • Supreme Court orders new look at Liberty Unive ...
    Fox News: Supreme Court orders new look at Liberty University's health care challenge … The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to reconsider Liberty University's legal argument that President Obama's health care law violates the school's religious freedom.
  • GOP warns of shutdown over filibuster (Manu Ra ...
    Manu Raju / Politico: GOP warns of shutdown over filibuster  —  By and large, Reid and his caucus are on board with this approach — they are furious at what they see as deliberate attempts by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues to threaten ...
  • Guest on Fox News to Discuss Benghazi Attack I ...
    Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Guest on Fox News to Discuss Benghazi Attack Is Given a Quick Exit  —  Thomas E. Ricks, the veteran defense reporter and author, said he expected his Monday morning appearance on Fox News to last about three minutes.  It ended, in fact, after ...

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China Dialogue

  • 南苏丹石油&#2279 ...
    南苏丹最大的石油客户——中国发现自己已经处在解决苏丹南北争议的中心，但这一&# ...
  • 联合国气候&#2379 ...
    一份措辞严厉的报告强调指出：如果政府不能兑现使全球气候变暖限制在2°C的承诺，& ...
  • 气候变化：&#1998 ...
    气候变化从来都不仅仅是环境问题，我们把时间耗费在了自欺欺人上。为了群体安全 ...
  • 气候变化已&#3246 ...
    最新研究表明，在美国，人们对全球变暖的切身感受越来越强烈了。这能敦促更多的 ...
  • 熊猫“淘淘” ...
    中国正在进行大熊猫第二次放归，这是继2007年首次尝试失败后的又一次努力。让一个&#22 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • How Organizing for Change Is Very Different Th ...
    “Raising Hell” is what the title of Jane McAlevey's new book says she spent her time in the labor movement doing, and she isn't joking.In the book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, out now from Verso, McAlevey names names and sha ...
  • What Happens When S&M Sex Clubs Sprout Up on I ...
    “Sometimes my friends and I stop each other mid-sentence and say, ‘Oh my god, you guys. We go to Harvard. This is so weird,’” Maria, a junior, said recently over Skype chat.Harvard had been Maria’s dream school for years. (She requested a pseudonym, but not b ...
  • 5 Burning Questions About Legalizing Pot
    PBS recently ran a Need to Know segment on marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado. The episode featured interviews with three prominent marijuana policy reform activists: Paul Armentano, Deputy Director of NORML;Major Stanford “Neill” Franklin, a 34-year ...
  • How to End a Fox News Interview Abruptly: Call ...
    Now here's one of the few good reasons to go on Fox News. Thomas Ricks, a member of the Center for a New American Security, author of several books on the military, and a Pulitzer Prize winner, went on Fox to talk about Benghazi. But his interview didn't last long. Asked why Sen. Joh ...
  • When Right-Wing Blather Killed
     Taking a break from 24/7 politics after the election, I finally read John Kelly’s troubling “The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People.” Our problems feel small. Ireland lost one in three people in the late 1840s. At least a ...

Threat Level

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

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Illinois McDonalds Link to Salmonella
    The McLean County Health Department and the Illinois Department of Public Health are currently investigating a cluster of salmonella cases who reported eating at a variety of restaurants in Central... Continue Reading
  • FDA “cracks” down on Sunland Peanuts
    The FDA suspends Sunland Inc.’s Food Facility Registration; Facility Prohibited from Distributing Food In the interest of protecting public health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suspended the food facility... Continue Reading
  • China Bans Sunland Peanuts from Import
    For a company that has poisoned its customers, recalled years of product and been closed for months, China’s decision likely does not come as a surprise. According to China Daily,... Continue Reading
  • Another Petting Zoo E. coli Outbreak, Another ...
    I am beginning to sound a bit like a broken record.  How many of these outbreaks have to happen until WE rethink what WE are exposing our kids to? For... Continue Reading
  • Forever Cheese Listeria Outbreak over for some
    • A total of 22 persons infected with the outbreak-associated strain of Listeria monocytogenes were reported from 13 states and the District of Columbia. • 20 ill persons were hospitalized.... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Video: Part 2 of Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznic ...
    Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick discuss the creative process behind their new 10-part documentary series, "The Untold History of the United States," which spans from the 19th century to the present. "American’s don’t know history,&quot ...
  • In Gaza: "It's the Occupation, Stupid"
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan “The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation,” award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy summed up this week. It is that simple. This latest Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza is not an isolated event, but part of a 45-year occu ...
  • VIDEO: Coney Island Residents Remain Without H ...
    It’s been more than two weeks since Superstorm Sandy hit New York City, yet thousands of people in the city’s public housing buildings are still in the cold. The city says it has restored some level of power to all housing projects, but as of Wednesday nearly 16,000 public tenants were without ...
  • "The Growing Global Movement Against Austerity"
    "The Growing Global Movement Against Austerity" By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Amaia Engana didn’t wait to be evicted from her home. On Nov. 9, in the town of Barakaldo, a suburb of Bilbao in Spain’s Basque Country, officials from the local judiciary were on their way to se ...
  • Part 2: Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West Call ...
    We continue our conversation with broadcaster Tavis Smiley and professor, activist Dr. Cornel West about their push for President Obama to address poverty in his second term. Smiley argues the ultimate question now, is: "Are we ready to push?" He and West have organized a symposium to ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • Money & Markets – Week of 11.25.2012
    Retail’s Hidden Potential: How Raising Wages Would Benefit Workers, the Industry, and the Overall Economy Demos | 19 November 2012 With more than 15 million workers in the sector, and leverage over workplace standards across the supply chain, retail wields enormous influence on Ame ...
  • Geopolitical – Week of 11.25.2012
    Date Set for Arafat’s Body to be Exhumed The Rutherford Institute | 20 November 2012 School officials for the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, have informed high school student Andrea Hernandez that she will be “withdrawn” from John Jay High School’s Sci ...
  • Science & Technology – Week of 11.25.2012
  • The Power of IT
    Photo Credit: Christian Hansen        Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.                                                         ~ Colossians 4:5 [...]
  • The Real Estate Deal That Could Change the Fut ...
    By Emily Badger Dan and Ben Miller began tugging two years ago at a simple question they believe is central to the failings of the American real estate industry. The brothers – sons of a well-known Washington, D.C. developer – had begun acquiring properties themselves in the city’s emerging nei ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Sideways News

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Fabius Maximus

  • On Counterinsurgency: The Two Methods that Win
    Summary:  In this second chapter of “On Counterinsurgency” Martin van Creveld describes the two methods of crushing insurgencies.  We have tried neither; we might lack the capacity to use either method.  Note that both successes were, like almost all defeats of insurgencies, done by ...
  • Do we have a broken OODA loop? Or are we just ...
    Summery:    Three dozen posts on the FM website have described different aspects of America’s broken OODA loop. An op-ed by Frederick and Kimberly Kagan in today’s Washington Posts points to a different and darker diagnosis. It’s presented here so that we see all alternative ex ...
  • The New America needs a new national anthem! H ...
    Summary: We have become a new nation, and so need a new national Anthem.  Just as the old anthem reflected the spirit and needs of the Republic, so should our new anthem. Here’s my nomination. Post yours in the comments! The “Star Spangled Banner” fit The-America-That-Once-Was, ...
  • Attention Americans: the Revolution has begun. ...
    Summary: The first sparks of Revolution are invisible to the Proles and considered insignificant by the Outer Party.  Only the fierce reaction by the government reveals their importance.  The combination of power and ambition gives its officials clarity of vision we lack.  Watch closely. The opp ...
  • On Counterinsurgency: How We Got to Where We Are
    Summary:  The greatness of a nation depends as much on its ability to learn as much as its power. Failure to learn can prove fatal. As with German’s refusal to learn from its defeat in WWI, substituting resentment for wisdom. As with America’s refusal to learn from its defeat in Viet ...

Open Your Eyes News

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The Progressive Realist

  • Time Running Out as Israel Cuts the Grass
    Is there any hope for a permanent peace in the Middle East when Israel believes the only way to deal with the Palestinians is akin to "cutting the grass," a bizarre belief that now governs Israeli foreign policy as the New York Times recently reported, The operative metaphor is ofte ...
  • Conflict, Self-Interest and Disaggregating the ...
    The following is a guest post by Jonathan Powell. Dr. Powell is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.  His research focuses on conflict processes, particularly aspects related to civil-military relations. He recently received his Ph.D. ...
  • The Beginning of the End of the Israeli-Palest ...
    (Sipa via AP Images) A Palestinian girl is seen cleaning off debris from a chalkboard inside Al Shejaia school in Gaza City. The school was damaged when Israeli forces targeted a building next to it with an airstrike. The political landscape of the Middle East has changed drastically over the p ...
  • Top of the Morning: International Climate Talk ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest, a mobile app and global humanitarian news aggregation service. International Climate Talks Kick Off in Doha The Qatari capital is site of the next big international climate negotiations.“This year’s meeting comes just a month before the expiration of the firs ...
  • Speaking of Sen Marco Rubio...
    Now that Marco Rubio has kicked off his 2016 bid by discoursing with GQ about our planet's, er, genesis and getting better acquainted with Republicans in Iowa,* this seems like a good time to look back at Sen. Rubio's big foreign policy speech at Brookings last April. I have to admit, it really ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Don't Believe the Fiscal Cliff Hype
    For the past week, GOP lawmakers have been falling over themselves to move away from Grover Norquist, pied piper of low tax rates on rich people (see Daily Meme. Tennessee Senator Bob Corker said that he was not “obligated on the pledge,” and Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss followed suit, telli ...
  • Good News from the Supreme Court
    There are a lot of ways that police, prosecutors, and other government officials argue that they can check on you without rising to the level of a "search" that would require a warrant. In recent years, officials at various levels and in various places have held that they can attach a GPS to yo ...
  • Donald Trump Continues to Troll Everyone
    Gage Skidmore / Flickr Donald Trump, America’s most prominent purveyor of the “birther” conspiracy, thinks the Republican Party ought to be less “mean-spirited” and “unwelcoming” toward people of color. No, seriously: “Republicans didn’t have anything going for them with respect to Lati ...
  • How Not to Appeal to Asian Americans
    House Committee on Education and the Workforce Dem / Flickr Of the various post-election stories, the GOP’s “Latino problem” is one of the most prominent. At some point over the last three weeks, every prominent Republican leader has had something to say about the party’s poor performan ...
  • What Do Republicans Want?
    (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) In this November 16, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama acknowledges House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio while speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, as he hosted a meeting of the bipartisan, bicameral leadersh ...

Buzzflash

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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Stimulating gravity simulation
    Faraday could play with magnets and currents to figure stuff out, but without a desktop model of reality, nobody could ‘play’ with gravity to see what happens. This virtual gravitational model apparently adds precision lacking in earlier simulations. The simulation is a quick run-thr ...
  • You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books
    There seems to be an assumption out there that you need an actual Kindle, the device itself, to read Kindle books. Well, that’s deceived wisdom. You don’t, you just need to link your amazon Kindle account to a Kindle app on almost any device you happen to use: Android phone or tablet ...
  • Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5
    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5 is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
  • Science book prize shortlist
    The shortlist for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is out. The winning book will be announced at a public event on 26 November 2012. The judging panel comprises: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting Professor at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Jasper Fforde, ...
  • Getting Viagra up in 20 seconds
    Pierre Morieux, a postdoc in medicinal chemistry in France sent me a Youtube clip he made. In it he uses some neat tricks, keyboard shortcuts, hotkeys and the like to construct a molecule of Viagra in ChemDraw in less than 20 seconds. He reckons it could save anyone who has to draw chemical stru ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Global Tobacco Treaty Meetings Marred by Indus ...
    Today, global tobacco treaty negotiations concluded after a week of Big Tobacco’s attempts to derail, distract, and intimidate 175 countries from strengthening lifesaving measures required by the public health treaty. Despite the industry’s underhanded tactics, governments made concr ...
  • Exit of SEC Chair Mary Schapiro Provides New O ...
    Today, Chairman Mary Schapiro announced her decision to leave the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “President Obama should appoint an aggressive, tested, zealous consumer advocate to replace Mary Schapiro at the SEC,” said Lisa Gilbert, director of Public Citizen’s Con ...
  • 200 Groups Object to Lead-poisoning Provision ...
    More than 200 citizen groups are objecting to a provision in the Sportsmen’s Act of 2012 (Senate Bill 3525) that would create an exemption under federal toxics law to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from evaluating or regulating lead poisoning of wildlife and humans from huntin ...
  • Morsi vs. The Continuing Egyptian Revolution?
      SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS , @sharifkouddous Sharif Abdel Kouddous is a Democracy Now! correspondent based in Cairo. He reported this morning: “Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi dropped a bombshell with this seven point constitutional declaration. … The only check on Morsi was the ...
  • Climate ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Looms for Developing Co ...
    After another year of extreme weather, developing countries face a looming climate ‘fiscal cliff’ at the end of 2012 with no clarity about how they will be supported to reduce emissions and adapt to the devastating impacts of climate change, international aid agency Oxfam said today ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Sorry, John McCain, But Anti-Choicers Are Judg ...
    Amanda Marcotte This video of John McCain on Fox News Sunday morning is getting a lot of traction, because it seems like he’s telling Republicans to back off their opposition to abortion rights. read more
  • Private, Public, Union, or Management: Who Tak ...
    Paul Buchheit It's not public workers.. Start with local government, whose 14 million employees make up almost two-thirds of the public payroll, according to Census Department data. They make up 11% of the total U.S. workforce but recei ...
  • Same Day Voter Registration a "Problem" Scott ...
    Brendan Fischer As the final votes are tallied, it is becoming clear that Barack Obama won reelection November 6, 2012 with a higher popular vote than Ronald Reagan enjoyed in 1980, thanks in part to near-record turnout from ...
  • Using War as Cover to Target Journalists
    David Carr The setting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Tuesday represented the height of refinement, but Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian, reminded the black-tie crowd at the annual dinner for the Committee to Protect Journa ...
  • What’s at Stake for Agriculture in COP 18?
    Shefali Sharma The biggest threat for agriculture at the 18th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC is the certain likelihood (oxymoron intended) of “non-decisions” for setting ambitious emissions reduction targets for the p ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Water Wars: On the LA Aqueduct's (and Four ...
    Say what you want about the tendency of the federal government to overreach, but sometimes you need to carry a big stick to get water flowing. Case in point: the Act of Congress of June 30, 1906, which provided the...
  • State irrigation plan to spark water wars
    THE State Government wants to open the historic Cooper Creek and Diamantina and Georgina rivers to irrigation, risking a full-on brawl with graziers.
  • U.S. and Mexico Sign Deal on Managing Colorado ...
    The United States and Mexico agreed to overhaul how water from the Colorado River, which serves 33 million people in both countries, will be shared and managed.
  • Water Wars
    There's a new move to ease drought conditions in parts of Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
  • Community news briefs
    City pond to be drained On Thursday, Nov. 15, the City of Sequim Public Works Department will temporarily drain the water reuse storage pond at the Water Reuse Demonstration Park for maintenance; the pond will be back in service as soon as possible.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • ‘Family’ Group Applauds Uganda’s Anti-Homosexu ...
    The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins is once again reminding that the group supports efforts to punish and execute gays and lesbians. Applauding Uganda for taking up the “Kill The Gays” bill, Perkins tweeted that the country’s president is “leading his nation ...
  • Virginia Senator Tim Kaine: ‘We Have A Respons ...
    by Mike Casey, via Scaling Green In our first post on the Clean Energy Forum we held recently at Tigercomm, we noted that there’s an aggressive, ongoing effort by the fossil fuel lobby to push clean energy policy into the culture wars (hat tip to J. Patrick Coolican of the Las Vegas Sun).  How t ...
  • Over 100 Killed By Fire In Bangladeshi Factory ...
    A fire that killed 129 people in a Bangladeshi garment factory is raising questions about working conditions in the exporting hub. Sunday’s deadly fire immolated the Tazreen Factories plant just outside the major city of Dhaka, which appeared to have been making clothes for Western clothin ...
  • A Geek’s Guide To Surviving Your High School R ...
    Sometimes, it can seem like pop culture is converging on real life: romantic comedies highlight a vein of unproductive thinking, a movie about an aging parent highlights the path forward through a dilemma, an origin story makes certain bits of psychology make sense, even if they lead a character ...
  • Fox News Abruptly Ends Interview After Guest C ...
    Tom Ricks, author and Pulitzer prize winner who has reported for the Washington Post, lambasted Fox News’s coverage of the Benghazi attacks in an interview with the conservative network on Monday. Ricks, who has written extensively on the American military, called the Fox an “operati ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Alberta
    Alberta, to the extent that the petroleum economy and its rural base makes it prone to embrace "free markets" and social conservatism, needs to be controlled. The same way that Bay Street parasites in Ontario who vote harpercon need to be controlled. By "controlled" I mean that their self-destr ...
  • Jeffrey Simpson - Shill
       This stupidity has been Jeffrey Simpson's shtick for years and years: One of the most comforting, yet debilitating, mythologies in Canada holds that we have the best health-care system in the world, or at least among the best. Canadians desperately want to believe this assertion ...
  • Would You?
    If someone cheated at cards and you know they cheated, would you allow them to keep your money? Would you allow them to keep your money and then play against them at a later date under the same conditions? Would you allow someone who wants you dead to make your health care decisions for you? Wo ...
  • F-35 Sleaze
     Nice work. Steal an election. Steal a majority. Dominate committees to hide your crimes. The NDP accused the Conservatives of using a House of Commons committee to whitewash the auditor general's scathing indictment of the government's mammoth F-35 jet fighter procurement. The NDP levell ...
  • Gaza
    What can we do? We can't even guarantee free and fair elections in our own country. We can't get our own government to respect the source of its own authority. How the fuck are we supposed to get our illegitimate government to do the right thing on Gaza? Instead, we have our coward Fucking Affai ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canada to increase Tax-Free Savings Accounts t ...
    Canada's Department of Finance announced Monday that the amount savers and investors can put into the Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) will rise an additional $500 from $5,000 to $5,500 per year starting Jan. 1, 2013.
  • Did Toronto's Rob Ford know about conflict of ...
    Rob Ford has been removed as Mayor of Toronto. On Monday Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles T. Hackland ruled that Rob Ford had violated conflict of interest rules.
  • Mark Carney steps down as head of Bank of Cana ...
    Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney announced that he is stepping down as of July 1 after serving nearly five years. The central bank head, who has received accolades across the globe, will take the top job at the Bank of England.
  • Toronto Mayor removed from office, eligible to ...
    Justice Charles Hackland has found Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in violation of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act. This means that the mayor will be removed from office, but will be eligible to run for mayor again.
  • Otaru — A quaint little town where music is in ...
    The Otaru canal, lined by old brick and stone warehouses now used as museums and restaurants, offers visitors an atmosphere of nostalgia and romance enhanced by many historical buildings and delightful handicraft shops selling glassware and music boxes.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-2-12
    Did you know that the government arranges to kill people all over the world? KT reveals the shocking details! Plus, find out why the White House is putting the pressure on news organizations, and why news organizations are putting the pressure on the White House! Self Help: A Trusted Fish Oil Yo ...
  • Pay Now or Pay Later…
    This is an example of why people in America are fat, disgusting pigs, and why so many of you have diabetes. It’s all because of processed food and fast food.  Everyone gets high cholesterol and is dying of diabetes and has heart disease and is depressed. Years ago, it was different because we we ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-9-12
    Today, the director of Farmageddon, Kristin Canty, stops by to give you the inside story on what really happened during the Rawesome Foods raid and why her documentary is so important for every American to see! Plus, Thomas James of HempUSA.org stops by to discuss the amazing health benefits you ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-16-12
    Today, Kevin gives you proof that the end of organic products in America is near and that drugs for cholesterol are a complete and 100% SCAM ! Plus, hair care expert, Anthony Morrocco, stops by to reveal the disturbing truth about the commercial hair care products you use on a regular basis! You ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-23-12
    Today, Kevin explains how the media is only there to distract you from the real issues. Plus, friend of the show, Fred Van Liew, stops by to give you the facts behind electromagnetic chaos and how it is virtually killing you and your children. Self Help: Diversify Your Income Change The Way You ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Fraudster behind anti-Islam film on YouTube vo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   WASHINGTON ” The convicted fraudster behind an online video that outraged Muslims with its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed as a thuggish deviant says he has no regrets, the New York Times reporte ...
  • Supreme Court Upholds Right to Film Police, Ev ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAaron Dykes Prisonplanet.com November 26, 2012 The state of Illinois has some of the harshest “eavesdropping” laws on the books, and those statutes have been frequently abused to prosecute individuals for fil ...
  • FERC Chairman Dubs .22 Rifles Terrorist Weapons
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com November 24, 2012 The chairman of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has provided aspiring terrorists with an idea ” use a .22 rifle to take out power transformers. There are ...
  • Video: New Jersey Professor Angrily Claims Sta ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCommunist professor an apologist for mass murder Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com November 26, 2012 A shocking video has emerged which illustrates how American colleges are infested with Marxist professors who are no ...
  • Goldman Sachs Completes Economic Takeover of E ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com“Surprise” BoE pick Mark Carney attended Bilderberg meeting earlier this year Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com November 26, 2012 The “surprise” announcement that Canadian Mark Carney is to be appoi ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Western State Terrorism Loses Crucial Battle I ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from www.presstv.com Nov. 23, 2012 It was a David and Goliath battle in which the Zionist Goliath was forced to retreat with a bloody nose and a severely dented ego. The biblical reference is rather apt since the Zionist r ...
  • Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnershi ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Nov. 21, 2012 The following is the second installment of a three-part exclusive on the TPP for Occupy.com. Part 1: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This is What Corporate Governance Looks Like The Trans-Pacific ...
  • Stand Still For the Apocalypse by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 26, 2012 Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inh ...
  • Stand Still For the Apocalypse by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 26, 2012 Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inh ...
  • How Neoliberal Tax and Financial Policy Impove ...
    by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com November 23, 2012 * A shorter version of this paper has been published in the Russian Academy of Sciences journal, Mir Peremen (The World of Transformations), 2012 (3):49-64 (in Russian). An earlier version was posted by ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Guilty of the crime of pushing for Palestinian ...
    Dr. Mahmoud Ramahi: "Israel and the United States are preventing the PA from reaching reconciliation with Hamas. It's in Israel's interest not to prevent this reconciliation... But the Israelis don't... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Gideon Levy: Gaza accounting
    [T]he primary victim, the one who is bleeding most, is Gaza; Israel is only in second place. It's impossible to ignore this. In Gaza, the death toll is enormous. And there, the battle is against a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Assaf Kfoury: Why Gaza?
    Three weeks before Israel launched its Operation Pillar of Defense on November 14, 2012 I was part of an academic delegation on a short trip to the Gaza Strip. For the mainstream media, October was a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israeli mayor calls on State to declare Arab c ...
    Mayor of mainly Jewish Upper Nazareth claims Arab-majority Nazareth is becoming "a nest of terror in the heart of the Galilee, a center for the spread of hatred of Israel that supports and backs... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Why Gaza must suffer again
    The inciting cause of the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas has little to do with the firing of rockets, whether by Hamas or the other Palestinian factions. The conflict predates the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Biology Professor's Work Yields Largest Cactus ...
    Western Illinois University Department of Biological Sciences Professor and Fulbright Scholar Eric Ribbens has created one of the largest collections of the Opuntia fragilis, or prickly pear cactus, on the planet for his research of this rare and, in some places, endangered plant. The collection ...
  • California Western School of Law Program Helps ...
    Award-winning law school course sends students into local detention facilities teach mediation skills to juvenile detainees, help them avoid life of incarceration.
  • BU to Launch the East Coast's Largest Academic ...
    Boston University researchers this month will fire up the largest academic GPU (graphics processing unit) computer cluster on the East Coast, thanks to a gift of 160 GPUs from the Hewlett-Packard Company.
  • $1.9M NIH Grant for Hopkins Sleep Center
    More than one-quarter of adults in the U.S. suffer from sleep disturbances known to contribute to life-threatening illnesses, depression, chronic pain, and fatigue. The JHU Center for Sleep-Related Symptom Science is being established to break the cycles of sleeplessness and suffering.
  • Solar-Powered Speedwell Foundation Conservatio ...
    The Speedwell Foundation Conservation Carousel--one of the only solar-powered carousels in the world--is now open at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. The carousel, made possible by the Speedwell Foundation, features hand-carved and hand-painted animals and has a net-zero impact on the Zoo's energ ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Britain to Support Palestine’s UNGA Resolution?
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The United Nations General Assembly is set to decide Thursday whether to upgrade Palestine to “non-member state” status, on par with the Vatican. The resolution will almost certainly pass, given that more than 130 states have already recogniz ...
  • Human Rights Watch Report on Autonomous Weapon ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Human Rights Watch has released a new report (co-authored by the Harvard Law School Human Rights Clinic) on autonomous weapons systems that might emerge over the next several decades, titled “Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots.” ...
  • Sephardic Jews Get Right of Return – To Spain
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Spain is now granting citizenship automatically without any residency requirement to those who can demonstrate descent from those Jews expelled from Spain more than 500 years ago. The rule could make as many as 3 million Sephardic Jews worldwide eligible for Spani ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, November 26, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change kicks off today in Doha, Qatar, for a last ditch effort to negotiate new emission reductions before the current ones expire at the end of the year. The Guardian has ...
  • Auguring Afghanistan: Foreign Criminal Jurisdi ...
    by Chris Jenks by Chris Jenks [Chris Jenks is an assistant professor of law at SMU Dedman School of Law. He previously served as chief of the US Army’s international law branch where his responsibilities included foreign criminal jurisdiction (FCJ) over US service members.] The U.S. and Afghan ...

Public News Service

  • New, Landmark Protections in Place for Colorad ...
    New, Landmark Protections in Place for Colorado River PHOENIX - A landmark agreement between the United States and Mexico sets up clear guidelines for how the Colorado River will be managed and protected through 2017. The agreement was just signed and goes into effect immediately. The Bureau of ...
  • Move Over, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, #Givin ...
    Move Over, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, #Giving Tuesday is Here PHOENIX, Ariz. - The idea was hatched just a few weeks ago. It grew out of the simple observation that Americans have a day for giving thanks and two days – Black Friday and Cyber Monday - for getting bargains, so why not a da ...
  • Study: Arizonans Can Save Billions Through Ene ...
    Study: Arizonans Can Save Billions Through Energy Efficiency PHOENIX - Energy efficiency could save the average Arizona utility customer 30 percent on his or her electric bill, according to a new study. The report from the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) projects more than $7 billio ...
  • Nation’s Wildlife Refuges Facing Impacts ...
    Nation’s Wildlife Refuges Facing Impacts of Fiscal Cliff PHOENIX - Crippling cuts could be coming to the system of National Wildlife Refuges if Congress fails to prevent the country from going over the so-called "fiscal cliff" at year's end, according to a new report. Already operating on ...
  • Arizona Wealth & Income Gap Growing Quickly
    Arizona Wealth & Income Gap Growing Quickly PHOENIX - A new study based on Census figures shows the income gap between the rich and poor continues to grow quickly. And the most recent figures say Arizona has the second-highest inequality of any state. Analysts say it's becoming a serious issue f ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
  • Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
    Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
  • How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
    We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
  • Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...
    …but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...
  • Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...
    Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...

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