8 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...
  Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
• Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...
  There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
• Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...
  A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
• Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...
  The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
• Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...
  A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.

Sideways News

• Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
  The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
  Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
  Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
  The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
• 10 green resolutions to save you money
  By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

• The votes were counted and one wing of our one ...
  Summary:  Our political pundits focus on the “election as horse race” to conceal the relatively small policy differences between the two parties, and so sooth a somnolent public who might become restive if they understood the nature of the New America being constructed on the ruins o ...
• Conservatives, celebrate the historic victory ...
  Summary:  The votes are counted. The Democratic Party defeated the GOP. The Left won a phantom victory. The Right won the real thing.  This is not the full story about the election, which has so many threads (each with its own implications). It might be the most important.  Also — see the ...
• Invaluable guidance to read before you vote
  Summary: Here are three excerpts from articles that perfectly express my view about the election, doing so far better than I could. Please read them in full.  This is an important election, although in different ways than believed by partisans on both sides. . Contents “The Politics of Fea ...
• Wither war? The View from the Mindshaft
  Steven Metz, Chairman of the Regional Strategy Department of the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, noted in a tweet a few days ago that “Ten plus years and people are still trying to pound the round peg of terrorism into the square hole of war.” Which got me think ...
• A look at the foundations of conservative powe ...
  Summary: On weekends the FM website runs mostly Q&A, speculative opinions, and excerpts from extraordinarily insightful articles.  This is an excerpt.  Please read it in full, as it provides powerful insights about the foundations of today’s political machinery. This excerpt provides j ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
  Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
• Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
  Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
• British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
  PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
• Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
  IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
• Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
  Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

The Progressive Realist

• With Obama’s Re-election, “Global Health Diplo ...
  President Obama’s re-election means that several recent international development initiatives from his administration suddenly have four more years bear fruit. These include the Feed the Future effort to improve global food security, and USAID Forward, an effort to improve the effectiveness of t ...
• For Obama, a Second Chance in South Asia
  With a second term assured, President Barack Obama has a shot at making a huge difference in greater South Asia, an opportunity that he failed to take in his first term. This may now be the time for a new hyphenation across the map of that critical part of the globe: bringing together a string o ...
• Top of the Morning: Scores Killed in Massive E ...
  Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Scores Killed in Massive Earthquake in Guatemala This was the biggest earthquake to hit Guatemala since a calamitous quake of 1975 that killed 20,000. “A 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Guatemala on Wednesday, killing at least 48 people in two states as it toppled ...
• What Can Hurricane Sandy Tell Us About Climate ...
  Linking a single storm to climate change is perilous at best for the simple reason that anything less than a decade or two of data isn’t climate,  it’s just weather. But Sandy may yet prove the exception owing to its sheer anomalousness. Even before Sandy fully dissipated, ...
• The Cedar Retribution: The Long Struggle for t ...
  This post is by Anthony Elghossain, an attorney at a global law firm based in Washington, D.C. He blogs at Page Lebanon.  On October 19, a bomb tore through Achrafieh, a predominantly Christian neighborhood and upscale gathering place in Beirut. Initially, many Lebanese believed the bomb was a ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Why Obama Needs to Restart the Conversation on ...
  When the applause among Democrats and recriminations among Republicans begin to quiet down—probably within the next few days—the President will have to make some big decisions. The biggest is on the economy. His victory and the pending “fiscal cliff” give him an opportunity to recast the econom ...
• Hey, Obama, Hands Off Their Medicare
    The day after Barack Obama was re-elected, the Dow Jones lost 312.96 points. It wasn’t just that investors were hoping for the lower taxes and further deregulation that would come with a Romney win. The news from Europe was bad, and pundits were obsessively focused on the “fiscal cliff” of ma ...
• The Future of the White Man's Party
    (AP Photo/Nick Ut) Former California governor Pete Wilson with his wife Gayle in 1995. During his tenure, Wilson promoted Proposition 187, which would have denied all public services to undocumented immigrants—a move that is credited with turning Latinos in the state against the GOP ...
• Happy Liberal Schadenfreude Day
  How long has it been since America’s long-suffering liberals had an Election Night like Tuesday? The answer is 1964, folks. So enjoy your schadenfreude and revel in the spectacle of the right wing dealing with the combination of dismay and cluelessness that has regularly, like clockwork, beset ...
• Governors' Races: No Silver Lining for GOP
  Given how little Republicans have to celebrate today, it might be tempting for the more enthusiastic conservatives to sip at least a little champagne over gubernatorial dominance. While races for the top state job in Montana and Washington remain too close to call, Republicans successfully capt ...

Buzzflash

• Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...
  PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
• Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent Adventure
  WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
• BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
• We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...
  ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
• The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOP
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Skunk pharma
  A case study of six leading pharmaceutical companies – Amgen, Elan, Lundbeck, Merck, UCB and Wyeth – by Annabeth Aagaard of the University of Southern Denmark points to how the industry might adapt to ongoing pressures from rising R&D costs, depreciating patent value and public ...
• Deceived Wisdom official launch
  In case you haven’t been keeping up, I wrote a book this year – Deceived Wisdom: Why what you thought was right is wrong. It’s all about the facts that we take for granted that aren’t really facts at all. They’re ficts, you might say. The received wisdom that deceiv ...
• Seeding growth for Indian pharma
  During the last two decades, India has emerged as a leading player in clinical trials, manufacturing and R&D of pharmaceuticals. Today, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is growing rapidly and ranks third in the world by volume sales (14th by value) amounting to US $20 billion with forecas ...
• Asimov on the three laws of robotics
  Laws of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in or simply interested in research and development in the fields of robotics ...
• There are no afterlife-time guarantees
  There is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads, interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with you, but if they can ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Mass. Voters Urge Tax Fairness, Military Cuts ...
  By a three to one margin, Massachusetts voters yesterday sent a clear message to both Democrats and Republicans in Washington about the federal budget crisis and the impending “fiscal cliff”. The Budget for All ballot question passed by 661,033 to 222,514 votes. It calls for no cuts ...
• Sanders: Congress Has a New Mandate to Protec ...
  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), re-elected with 71 percent of the vote, said right-wing extremism suffered a major defeat in yesterday’s election. Despite dozens of billionaires spending unprecedented sums of money trying to defeat President Barack Obama and progressive candidates around ...
• Sanders: Congress Has a New Mandate to Protec ...
  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), re-elected with 71 percent of the vote, said right-wing extremism suffered a major defeat in yesterday’s election. Despite dozens of billionaires spending unprecedented sums of money trying to defeat President Barack Obama and progressive candidates around ...
• Move to Amend Wins Big at the Ballot Box: Amer ...
  From Massachusetts to Oregon, Colorado to Illinois and Wisconsin, and Ohio to California, citizens throughout the country voted overwhelmingly yesterday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commiss ...
• Move to Amend Wins Big at the Ballot Box: Amer ...
  From Massachusetts to Oregon, Colorado to Illinois and Wisconsin, and Ohio to California, citizens throughout the country voted overwhelmingly yesterday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commiss ...

Common Dreams-Views

• An Open Letter to Obama from the World's Poore ...
  Pa Ousman Jarju Dear President Obama,read more
• Voting? Done. Democracy? Just Begun.
  Erin Niemela Election night is finally over.  Television can resume its originally broadcast programs and Facebook can return to cat memes and photos of our dinner.  We can go back to talking about our personal lives at work and o ...
• Let's Get to Work
  Vince Warren Two big things happened in the last week, and they're both going to require our attention for the next four years and beyond: the national election repudiated religious conservatives and handed Obama a second term, and Hurr ...
• On a Progressive Civic Agenda
  Ralph Nader The “democracy gap” in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why af ...
• On a Progressive Civic Agenda
  Ralph Nader The “democracy gap” in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why af ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• This Is The War That Never Ends
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• Who could have expected...?
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• Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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• The Costs of War
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• NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?
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Water Wars

• Nov. 8 tops hectic Boca Grande month
  November opened the season briskly on Boca Grande with at least 46 events scheduled, including six today - Nov. 8 -making it the busiest day of the rollicking month. Today could have been even busier.
• Pasco officials give fond farewell to Commissi ...
  By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Outgoing Pasco County Commissioner Ann Hildebrand hugs Property Appraiser Mike Wells, at a luncheon on Wednesday. DADE CITY – When county Administrator John Gallagher offered to organize a blowout retirement party at Saddlebrook Resort ...
• Friends assembles 'Blue Gold: Water Wars&# ...
  The critical issue of water availability is the subject of an expert panel discussion at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at the Boca Grande Community Center Auditorium.
• Have we got it wrong?
  Have communities such as Goondiwindi got it all wrong as far as the Murray-Darling debate is concerned. This is what the Melbourne Age thinks. What’s your view?
• Sandy, Climate Change, and the Risk to Your Po ...
  There is a growing consensus among reinsurers that climate change is contributing to an increase in costly extreme weather events.

WordPress | Economics

• The Rise and Fall of A Second Obama Term
  By: Tom Chatham – Author of Rebuilding The Republic 10 things that will rise: Precious metals – With
• Awards for Outreach in Science
  A new prize has rolled out in the science world. Called the John Maddox Prize, sponsored by Nature a
• Sources of Small Business Financing in the Con ...
  According to recently-published data from the Census Bureau, businesses in the construction sector d
• A Moment Of Sanity
  The BOE announced this morning that it is halting its QE program after “some policy makers que
• The taxes the re-election of President Obama g ...
  As many focus on the upcoming fiscal cliff, people are ignoring the taxes now guaranteed to take eff

Electronic Intifada

• Israel is responsible for "price tag" attacks, ...
  Philip Bato 7 November 2012 Settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank are routinely portrayed as the work of isolated extremists, but the reality is very different.
• New film on Nazi links to Zionism sidesteps th ...
  Terri Ginsberg 7 November 2012 Despite purporting to tackle propaganda, documentary The Flat adheres closely to the acceptable parameters of Zionist discourse.
• Palestinian protesters harassed, beaten by Abb ...
  Budour Youssef Hassan Jerusalem 7 November 2012 Counter-demonstrators outnumbered protesters renouncing Abbas’ comments over right of return.
• Israel forces mother to bring up children by phone
  Ramallah 5 November 2012 Due to Israel’s ongoing separation policies between Gaza and the West Bank, countless Palestinian spouses have been split while parents have been forcibly separated from their children.
• UK dance troupe al-Zaytouna retell Shakespeare ...
  Asa Winstanley London 5 November 2012 A London dance company uses Shakespeare to tell Palestine’s modern tale through traditional dance.

The Wonk Room

• Under President Obama, Mercy is Scarce For Tho ...
  Earlier this year, a series by investigative outlet ProPublica found that whites are four times more likely than minorities to receive a presidential pardon, and that the rates over the past few presidencies for both pardons and sentence commutations are jarringly low. The coverage prompted the ...
• Moving Beyond The Invisibility Of Transgender ...
  It’s fair to say that the 2012 elections were a big victory for the LGBT community, in terms of both issues and candidates, but that is much more true for the LGB than it is the T. Certainly the transgender community can benefit from same-sex marriage laws; some states will recognize their ...
• How Wall Street Tried, And Failed, To Elect La ...
  Wall Street, after giving more to President Obama during the 2008 election than to his opponent Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), flipped during the 2012 election to give the vast majority of its campaign donations to Mitt Romney. As Matt Phillips outlined at Quartz, “individuals affiliated with th ...
• House Majority Leader Insists On Keeping Obama ...
  Now that President Obama has secured reelection, his landmark health care reform law is here to stay. But that doesn’t stop Republican leaders in Congress from continuing their crusade against Obamacare, which they have already wasted over 80 hours and more than $50 million dollars trying ...
• Iranian Intelligence Ministry Report Indicates ...
  On Tuesday, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry released a report that mentions diplomacy and negotiations with foreign powers as a potential solution to the nuclear issue. The report, according to the Washington Post, suggests “that the ministry has a pragmatic understanding of the challenges the coun ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Rob Ford (again)
  Edward Keenan has another good smashing of Toronto's embarrassment of a mayor, Rob Ford, in this week's Grid TO: On his radio show this past weekend—in the leadup to a contentious casino proposal at City Hall—Mayor Rob Ford said he’d welcome a gambling palace in Toronto, and justified the decis ...
• It's Personal With Me
  The thing is, for the past 15 years or so, a big part of my real-world thinking and writing has been on using our present parliamentary system of representative democracy/constitutional monarchy/whatever you want to call our quasi-democratic-part-time-rule-of-law system, to constitutionally e ...
• Haiti Needs International Help
  Given his penchant for spending billions of dollars to harass us while failing to provide the "security" the billions were ostensibly spent on, d'you think harper could move himself to provide $79 million for Haiti?
• Why the Vitriol?
  Robert Reich asks it in a fairly reasonable essay: What’s going on? Yes, we’re divided over issues like the size of government and whether women should have control over their bodies. But these aren’t exactly new debates. We’ve been disagreeing over the size and role of government since Thoma ...
• Why I Don't Pay For Newspapers
  So, the Globe & Mail paid lots of young 'uns to hand out special US election editions of their paper. (Paid for with help from the fine people at Nissan!) So, right from the start I'm thinking that one reason I don't buy the Globe is because they don't have the sense to know that this is one ...

on Government Oversight

• Government Sues Triple Canopy for Iraq Contrac ...
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• Government Best Practices for Managing a Crisis
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• Energy IG Finds Security Contractor Cheated
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• 5 Steps to Curing Election Dysfunction
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• SIGAR Slams Army Corps for Letting DynCorp Wal ...
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Digital Journal

• Lawyers for Marineland begin issuing threats o ...
  Marineland's owner John Holer has gone on the defensive following several recent reports from former trainers and conservation groups alleging the park's animals were kept in deplorable conditions. Holer is pursuing legal action against those involved.
• Enjoying the simple quiet life: Profile of a D ...
  A Digital Journalist since 2009, Andrew Moran isn't your average 24-year-old man: He listens to radio plays from the '40s, regularly reads books on economics, and follows politics like a grizzled Reuters reporter. This is his story.
• Mr. President you got a second chance to do th ...
  The neck-to-neck opinion polls prior to election night was certainly engaging, as the results started pouring in there was no doubt that Barak Obama would be back in Oval Office for the second term as U.S President.
• Mississauga: Profile of a dynamic city
  As Canada's sixth largest city, there are many reasons Mississauga continues to be in the spot light. Home to one of the longest serving mayors in urban history, booming infrastructure and a growing population, shifting changes are plain to see.
• Canada's new $20 polymer bank note officially ...
  With a few days until Remembrance Day, the Bank of Canada announced the new $20 polymer bank note that goes into circulation Wednesday. The new bill honours the nation's military men and women and the back features the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

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

• Campaign strategy update
  I wanted to provide you with this strategy update to give you some inside information on our campaigns.
• DND is listening!
  The work of Ceasefire.ca and Steven Staples has not gone unnoticed by departmental officials.
• Funeral directors forced to subsidize burials ...
  With insufficient subsidies from the federal government, funeral directors are shouldering some of the costs to bury Canadian veterans.
• Do you remember for peace, or for war?
  Remembrance Day is changing as the veterans of the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War, pass away. More attention is being paid to current and more controversial conflicts, such as those in Afghanistan and Libya. Remembrance Day was first marked within the British Commonwealth (which ...
• Mitt Romney’s Defence Spending Plans
  A week out from the election, the Republican campaign remains vague about its promises to strengthen the American military.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• U.S. Ambassador: Al Qaeda Could Plan Other 9/1 ...
  April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The US Ambassador is lying.” –KTRN According to Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Kabul, if the United States does not continue to occupy Afghanistan, al Qaeda would be able to plan and carry out another September 11, 2001- ...
• 78 Percent Increase In Autism Rates Over Past ...
  April 5, 2012 Info Wars By Jonathan Benson “Here is more evidence that demonstrates how vaccines are causing autism in children.” –KTRN The rate of autism among American children has nearly doubled over the past decade, according to a new report released by the U.S. Centers for ...
• Big Pharma Gets 77,500% Return On Lobbying Inv ...
  April 5, 2012 United Republic By UP “Big pharma’s #1 goal is to make money – they are not interested in making you well and healthy – in fact they want you sick and diseased so you buy more of their drugs.” –KTRN Investing is a time-honored American tradition. ...
• Man Arrested for Tainting Food with Mercury, a ...
  April 5, 2012 Natural Society By Anthony Gucciardi “Talk about corruption.” –KTRN Is tainting food with mercury a crime? Apparently only if you’re a citizens and not a major corporation or a United States government agency. One retired pharmacist was rightfully arrested after c ...
• ‘Pink Slime’ Manufacturer Files For Bankruptcy
  April 5, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “It serves them right for trying to sell us tainted and dangerous food.” –KTRN AFA Foods, a leading American processor of ground beef, has filed for bankruptcy, citing the wave of negative media coverage surrounding their so-called ...

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

• Voter Turnout Plunges Throughout the Western W ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comVoter Turnout Plunges Throughout the Western World … Largely Due to Political Corruption By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Less People Voted than in 2004 or 2008 AP notes: Preliminary figures suggest fewer peop ...
• Child Removal for Adoption
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Mirah Riben Ill tell you what [we] really need to do with these illegitimate families on welfare ” give all the kids up for adoption and execute the parents. This is the ...
• Obama Continues To Wage Aggressive War On Whis ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWikiLeaks flags Obama’s “persecution” of anti-secrecy activists, secret killings; Assange Slams President as wolf in sheeps clothing Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Nov 8, 2012 Wikileaks founder Julian As ...
• Romney blasted after loss for not campaigning ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAlex Pappas Daily Caller November 8, 2012 Conservative leaders are steaming that Republicans failed to make President Obama a one-term president and are criticizing Mitt Romney for not pursuing a conservative enough agen ...
• Tens of thousands without power after nor’east ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   NEW YORK ” A snowstorm left tens of thousands more people without power in the New York region Thursday, slowing efforts to overcome the devastation caused by last week’s superstorm Sandy. Th ...

Dandelion Salad

• Dennis Kucinich’s Home Ransacked
  Dandelion Salad I find this quite disturbing. by Emily Valdez fox8.com Nov. 7, 2012 The Cleveland home of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was ransacked and burglarized sometime over the weekend. “You know, it’s just disappointing at the least and a little bit shocking,” Kucinich said. The intruder ...
• Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the failure ...
  Dandelion Salad Reposting in case you missed it or would like to view it again. Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. [...] Sub-headed “Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist democracy”, this fil ...
• Rocky Anderson: Democrats Line Up For Obama Ev ...
  Dandelion Salad Nov 7, 2012 by breakingtheset Abby Martin speaks to Justice Party Presidential Candidate, Rocky Anderson, about how we [are] changing the way we vote and building a progressive base. Justice Party’s Rocky Anderson: Change the Way We Vote| Think Tank see Dennis Kucinich ...
• Dennis Kucinich: Amazing That We Have to Defen ...
  Dandelion Salad Nov 7, 2012 by democracynow During Democracy Now!’s seven-hour election special last night, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill asks Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich about the secret drone war that has expanded under President Obama’s first term and the killing of Anwar al ...
• Ralph Nader: Where Do We Go From Here? Unite O ...
  Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Nov 7, 2012 by TheRealNews Ralph Nader: Time for a broad coalition to push Congress towards policy that most Americans can agree. Nader on What To do Now see Ralph Nader: Both Parties, Two Heads of Same Corporate Beast Ralph Nader: Obama–Prosecutor, Judge, Jury, ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: White Dw ...
  Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a pair of stars orbiting each other at the centre of one of the most remarkable examples of a planetary nebula. The new result confirms a long-debated theory about what controls the spectacular and symmetric appearance of the material ...
• Super-Earth in 6-Planet System May Have Oceans ...
  A newly discovered exoplanet joins the small but growing list of worlds other than our own that may host life. The exoplanet is a super-Earth, having about seven times the mass of our home planet, but orbits its parent star at roughly the same distance as Earth does from the sun. The star, HD 40 ...
• Hog Farm Stink Raises Neighbors’ Blood Pressure
  The stench of a large hog farm may seem nauseating, but a study now suggests that hog farm emissions—which include dust, irritants, allergens, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and hundreds of volatile organic compounds—could have a measurable impact on human health. Neighbors of such farms experience ...
• The Next 4 Years: Battlegrounds in Science, Me ...
  The next four years will give America to a chance to shape, for better or worse, a host of vitally important scientific, medical and environmental issues. Here is some of what we'll be arguing over -- and hopefully figuring out -- in years to come.
• New Prosthetic Hand Has Sweet Skills, Terminat ...
  Nigel Ackland lost half his arm in an accident six years ago. But now he's got an advanced carbon-fiber prosthetic arm that is strong enough to grip a beer yet gentle enough to clutch an egg.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Noam Chomsky: Impressions of Gaza
  Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• New documents reveal early Palestinian attitud ...
  Bedouin tribe writing the Ottoman Sultan in 1890: "Lately, the supreme government has sold the place to certain people of the land. We did not protest since the new owners of the land clearly knew... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Juan Pedro Schaerer: The Levy report vs. inter ...
  The West Bank is under the effective control of Israel. Israel acquired this control through a military campaign and maintains it through military force. Even those who hold that Israel has "a claim... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Jonathan Cook: Israeli Ministry of Tourism map ...
  Is Israel preparing to annex Area C, as a growing number of analysts have recently been speculating? This week, on a visit to the Israel’s tourism bureau in Nazareth, Jonathan Cook came across an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Gideon Levy: Errors and omissions excepted – m ...
  The truth, as I wrote in the news piece, is different: "Just" 33 percent of the respondents said they don't want Arabs to vote in parliamentary elections, "just" 42 percent wouldn't want an Arab... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Turkish Commandos Raid Northern Iraq
  Turkish commando troops have conducted a cross-border ground raid on suspected bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party in northern Iraq, Turkish media reported on Wednesday.
• Russia ‘Sees Interest’ at International Arms Show
  Russian arms and military equipment are attracting interest at the Indo Defence 2012 Expo & Forum exhibition that opened on Wednesday in Indonesia, the head of the Russian delegation said.
• Ukraine to Build Medevac Helicopter
  Ukrainian gas turbine maker Motor Sich plans to produce its own six-ton class medical evacuation helicopter within five years, the company's Deputy General Director Vladimir Semyonov said on Wednesday.
• Main News of November 6
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Kremlin Power Struggle Flares with Minister Ou ...
  The public sacking of Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, a member of President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, was an unprecedented outburst of turf war in the Kremlin, Russian analysts said.

NewsWise

• Program Helps Kidney Specialists Discuss Diffi ...
  * Kidney specialists do not routinely receive formal education on how to talk with patients about end-of-life and other serious issues. * A new workshop helps nephrology fellows be prepared to deliver bad news, express empathy, and discuss dialysis initiation and withdrawal.
• Circulating Blood Factor Linked with a Leading ...
  * Most patients with a leading cause of kidney failure, have high levels of suPAR circulating in their blood. * suPAR levels could help doctors monitor the disease's progression as well as patients' response to different therapies. * suPAR might be a therapeutic target of future treatments.
• Saving Sandy-Damaged Photos
  Advice and resources from conservators on saving victims' photo memories.
• Diabetes Study: 'Mindful Eating' Equals Tradit ...
  Eating mindfully, or consuming food in response to physical cues of hunger and fullness, is just as effective as adhering to nutrition-based guidelines in reducing weight and blood sugar levels in adults with Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.
• Mayo Clinic Arizona Is the First in the Southw ...
  ayo Clinic in Arizona is the first and only clinical center in the Southwest to offer a new treatment that disrupts the growth of recurrent glioblastoma brain tumors.

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

• The Oxford Guide to Treaties Symposium: Treaty ...
  by David Stewart by David Stewart [David P. Stewart is a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center] Duncan Hollis deserves hearty congratulations on the publication of the Oxford Guide to Treaties.  There’s no doubt that it will quickly become the essential reference for la ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, November 8, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Atlantic has a piece on the foreign policy priorities of Obama’s second term. Shortly after Obama’s re-election, the US has supported a call in the UNGA’s Disarmament Committee to revive talks on an Arms Trade Treaty. Other reactions to ...
• The Oxford Guide to Treaties: An Opinio Juris ...
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’m extraordinarily pleased to be able to announce that today marks the start of the Opinio Juris symposium on my recently-edited volume, The Oxford Guide to Treaties (you can buy your copy here and there’s even a discount for Opinio Juris readers! ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey In a roundup of some of the big news coming out of the US elections, President Barack Obama was elected to serve a second term, the Republicans have kept control of the House of Representatives and the Democrats still control the Senate, Maine and Maryland h ...
• From the Trenches: Head of State Immunity Di ...
  by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon This week, state delegates to the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the UN have been debating the most politically sensitive topic of the latest International Law Commission‘s (ILC) report: Head of State Immunity from criminal jurisdiction. The topic is sensitive for s ...

Public News Service

• Immigration Concerns Fuel Record AZ Latino Vot ...
  Immigration Concerns Fuel Record AZ Latino Voter Turnout PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona's Latino voters turned out in record numbers for the presidential election, motivated by concerns about the economy and, especially, immigration reform. An election eve poll by impreMedia and Latino Decisions show ...
• Did Climate Change Make Sandy Worse?
  Did Climate Change Make Sandy Worse? PHOENIX - Climate scientists say global climate change could have contributed to Hurricane Sandy's impact, although some political leaders are unconvinced. Robert Henson is a meteorologist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the author of "T ...
• Arizona Hunters Take Aim at Being Heart Smart
  Arizona Hunters Take Aim at Being Heart Smart PHOENIX - Deer season is underway in Arizona, and the American Heart Association is encouraging hunters who are spreading out across the state to be "heart smart." Dr. Bob Oatfield, cardiologist with St. Alexis Medical Center, says the activity can b ...
• Breast Cancer is Not Just an Issue for Women
  Breast Cancer is Not Just an Issue for Women PHOENIX - Tom Retzack is a man's man, a sports official who puts on the stripes and blows the whistle at football, basketball, and baseball games. Retzack also is a breast cancer survivor, who will soon pass the nine-year mark since his first diagnos ...
• Media Debate: More Newsrooms Avoid “Ille ...
  Media Debate: More Newsrooms Avoid “Illegal Immigrants” PHOENIX, Ariz. - Adjective or adverb? More newsrooms are debating how best to use the word "illegal" when referring to residents who did not move to the U.S. with proper documentation. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

• 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 ...
• “Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Cou ...
  By Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media uproar and consumer ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

• How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
  We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
• Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...
  …but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...
• Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...
  Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...
• Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
  The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
• Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
  We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Greek protesters throw molotovs at police
  Athens on fire as Memorandum 3 passes.Greek protesters react violently. This seems more pre-revolutionary than protest. After all, their country and economy is being raped by the banksters.
• Occupy for President: 2012 and Beyond
  The 2012 presidential race bears no trace of Occupy or the militancy it spawned among Chicago teachers and Wal Mart workers. This is no accident — the U.S. political system is a machine, and this machine smothers militancy. The ugly inner workings of the Democratic part of that machine wer ...
• Solar power battery pack with USB for emergencies
  ReVIVE Solar power battery pack with one solar panelAdd-on solar panelsThe ReVIVE solar power battery pack has a 4000 mAh battery, universal USB charging port, suction mounts for windows, charges at a max rate of 2.1 amps, and has a flashlight. It will keep most smart phones and portable devices ...
• The Rise of Siri – startup dystopia novella fr ...
  Aaron Ridgeway, Director of Apple’s Security Division, spends most of his time suppressing leaks about iterations of the same old products.It’s not amazing.Neither is Apple. Not anymore. Under pressure from dividend-hungry shareholders and a never ending plague of intellectual property law ...
• Elections have consequences: cheating fails, b ...
  Election 2012 probably doesn’t prove anything. But it provides some evidence for the hopeful proposition that even when the game is rigged, the cheaters lose. Elections have consequences. MONEY. Even though the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision allowed gross amounts of money (almost ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

• Left Behind
  The media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to the left, the media reactions are universal.  Ignore it! This time they have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation ...
• Required Reading
  For those seriously interested in climate sensitivity, Paul K has a very interesting post up at Lucia’s. Pinatubo Climate Sensitivity and Two Dogs that didn’t bark in the night  
• Will Penn State Ever Learn?
  Michael Mann has decided to sue for defamation because someone compared him to Sandusky.  Besides the general disgust for the Penn State sexual scandal, there was a certain  irony for me in that  brought about an article discussing what is a solidly apparent cultural deficiency in the university ...
• Crazy Stuff on Michigan Ballot
  PROPOSAL 12-3 A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY This proposal would: Require electric utilities to provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from renewable energy sources, which are wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower, ...
• Tax the 3%
  I am tired of politics but in the recent debate a topic which I have frequently discussed here took center stage. Taxation of private business in America. Recently, I was critiqued by several readers for making the exact same points that were stated by Romney and Obama. Those unknown wealthy peo ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Obama, Bachmann, Huckabee and others in this w ...
  Barack Obama is this week’s top gainer in the People Talking About This metric among politician pages. With 3,586,328 engagements this week and growing, the Obama campaign found itself far ahead of the Romney campaign just in time for the election. … Continue reading →
• Obama and Romney Facebook stores and donation ...
  An AppData analysis of Facebook app usage shows Barack Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s Facebook stores and donation apps have equal reach this month, but more people are using the Obama 2012 app than “Commit to Mitt” and similar apps on Romney’s … Continue reading & ...
• Facebook gets out the vote, this time with mob ...
  Once again, Facebook is prompting users to share that they voted, though this year the social network has introduced a mobile component and a real-time map of voters. Most voting-age Facebook users in the U.S. were met with a module … Continue reading →
• Facebook updates iOS app with Gifts, photo edi ...
  Facebook today released an update for iOS that introduces support for Facebook Gifts and brings key features of its standalone Camera and Messenger apps to the main app. Users in the U.S. who already have access to Facebook Gifts will … Continue reading →
• The Facebook Marketing Bible: Updates for Nove ...
  The Facebook Exchange is one of the newest ways for a business to market to potential customers. Done through a select group of third party advertising companies, the Facebook Exchange has been found to be one of the most cost-efficient … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: RT @tomtomorrow: If you missed this ...
  truthout: RT @tomtomorrow: If you missed this week's toon, read it on @Truthout: http://t.co/7cBG1K7c
• truthout: Bush May Have Been Absent From the # ...
  truthout: Bush May Have Been Absent From the #RNC, but the #DNC Banished a Past President, Too http://t.co/IcbQDQYK @profwolff #FDR
• truthout: "It is impossible to portray war." R ...
  truthout: "It is impossible to portray war." Read Chris Hedges' talk from Sunday's #antiwar protest in NYC: http://t.co/FGYvrF92 @VFPNational
• truthout: How #Netanyahu's "Bomb #Iran" Ploy F ...
  truthout: How #Netanyahu's "Bomb #Iran" Ploy Failed http://t.co/1j1lR00i #Israel @GarethPorter
• truthout: Citizen Diplomacy in #Pakistan's Tri ...
  truthout: Citizen Diplomacy in #Pakistan's Tribal Areas: "You Are Welcome!" http://t.co/CRjV5MBC @naiman @medeabenjamin #drones #stopdrones

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Frank Sinatra- “You Make Me Feel So Young” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick is a dedication. I’m dedicating this to my much better half for her Birthday this Sunday. She loves Sinatra and this is her favorite Sinatra song. So Linda, this one’s for you… ...
• Podcast Show #97: Obamney No-Debate Debate, Ir ...
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Pepe Escobar Our favorite globetrotting investigative reporter, Pepe Escobar, joins us in-studio for the first time, and shares his encyclopedic knowledge on many issues. We largely focus on Iran, which was mentioned 45 times by the candidates, and Romney’s “me-to ...
• In Amerika There Will Never Be A Real Debate
  “Every time Americans vote it is a vote for their own obliteration” God help them if Obama and Romney ever had to participate in a real debate about a real issue at the Oxford Union. They would be massacred. The “debates” revealed that not only the candidates but also the entire country is compl ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The Reality Principle -Episode 2
  “Pipelines, Politics, and People” with Steve Horn “A century ago, oil was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.” – James Buchanan There are countless factors that contribute to the geopolitical reality of today’s world. None are more infl ...

Afro Spear

• Taps For The Black Man
  For the second time in four years, I did NOT vote for the anointed, black messiah. I never considered it; what I did consider, yet again, was my residence in a country full of black, white, red and yellow people who would vote for him – or his opposite – and trying to justify it?! [...]
• Congratulations for winning a 2nd Term Preside ...
• Educating Black Boys – Al Jazeera Corres ...
  This documentary by Tony Harris takes an indepth look at the failure of the educational system, particularly for Black males and uses Baltimore’s inner city as the backdrop to address cartain issues. I found it rather fascinating that some of the issues he discusses are similar to the ones ...
• sat’day riddymz
• “Imagine If” by Ian Ki’laas ...
  This is so deep I had to share it! Ok, Let’s do a little exercise in contextualizing. Imagine if: There was a caucasian relocation program specifically targetting caucasians to remove them from the areas where Indigenous peoples lived and where they desired to make a profit from the trees, ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Ignorance Wins in California
  The Monsanto, Bayer, Dupont et. al. disinformation campaign has convinced California NOT to label experimental GMO Frankenfoods and to remain ignorant of what it is they are actually ingesting.
• Mass. Voters Urge Tax Fairness, Military Cuts ...
  Massachusetts voters passed the Budget for All referendum, calling for no cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or other vital programs; investment in useful jobs; an end to corporate tax loopholes and to the Bush cuts on taxes on high incomes; withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan now; and re ...
• The Right Wing's Mourning After
  A quick post-election tour of the Right's reaction to Obama's victory.
• You See, to me, it's all about Value
  We are all valuable, equally. Regardless of race, religion, sex, ability or orientation, not one of us is more valuable than the other. I believe that once we become comfortable and aware of that fact, once we are fully willing to see it as true of ourselves and others, we will be better equippe ...
• QUIET! The Righteously Indignant Ones Are Spea ...
  Glen Beck may lead the pack in reactionary fear-mongering and hatred of all things liberal as a result of the election, but it's a pretty big pack.

Switchboard

• Know Any Good Food Heroes? Nominate Them for t ...
  Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco  Every holiday season, it’s a struggle to not start drooling when walking down the aisles of a grocery store. You know the feeling—food magazines tempting you with stunning, mouthw ...
• Long Beach Councilmember Johnson holds a packe ...
  Morgan Wyenn, Project Attorney, Santa Monica Last night there was another public hearing overflowing with community members wanting to speak out about the proposed rail yard project known as the “SCIG”—the Southern California Inter ...
• The Absurdity of Influence: The Chemical Indus ...
  Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC There are two major pillars that help the chemical industry wield power in Washington and in state capitols around the country.  First, of course, is money.   A recent report by Common ...
• CPUC Approves Suite of Energy Efficiency Progr ...
  Lara Ettenson, Director, California Energy Efficiency Policy, San Francisco Californians looking for ways to save energy in the New Year will be glad to learn that the California Public Utilities Commission today unanimously approved a suite of ener ...
• Fuel Efficiency and EVs Get Big Boost from Ele ...
  Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco Clean energy emerged a big winner Tuesday night. Big polluters emerged a clear loser. The American people chose many candidates who campaigned on clean, renewable sources of energy– ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Context…
  Supplying some much needed context for discussions of military spending in Asia: The increase in absolute defense spending in Asia obscures an important truth, however; despite the increases, the economies of East and South Asia remain relatively demilitarized in comparison to the Cold War. Apar ...
• Did Obama Move American Government to the Righ ...
  Larison actually has a good and important point to make here, but I’m not sure why feels compelled to spoil it by saying something this silly.   Here he is, responding to George Will’s banal claim that the American electorate “has reelected the most liberal president since Lynd ...
• A matter of discretion
  I have a piece in Salon on the Obama administration’s pending decision regarding what to do about the fact that Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana. In my view the importance of the fact that two states — one of them much more mauve than blue — decided to begin to ...
• I Accept Your Terms, Sir!
  I can strongly endorse this position: However, for me, I’m choosing another rather unique path; a personal boycott, if you will. Starting early this morning, I am going to un-friend every single individual on Facebook who voted for Obama, or I even suspect may have Democrat leanings. I wil ...
• In More Great News for the Republicans
  Barack Obama won Cuban-Americans in Florida, 49-47.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Are ‘Smart Bulbs’ The Next Bright Idea In Ener ...
• Wind And Solar Cheer US Election Results
• New Green Life For An Historic Baltimore Brewery
• Review: Talalay Natural Latex Pillows From Plu ...
• West Oakland’s Own Community-Owned Grocery Store

National Law Journal | U.S.

• LSU launches energy law center
  John Laborde, former head of offshore service vessel company Tidewater Marine Inc., donated $2 million to the Louisiana State University Paul M. Herbert Law Center. The money will fund an endowed chair and support the new LSU John P. Laborde Energy Law Center.
• Midsize law firms upbeat&#151cautiously--about ...
  The results of a survey The National Law Journal sent to leaders at firms with fewer than 400 attorneys showed that most firms of that size planned to add lawyers--although not many--to their practices. They also expected higher profits per partner.
• First Circuit weighs 'Citizens United'-based c ...
  Debate about whether the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision renders unconstitutional a Massachusetts restriction on speech within 35 feet of abortion clinics reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on November 7.
• Election night produces mixed results for Am L ...
  Winners like Morgan, Lewis & Bockius appellate litigation partner Ted Cruz, who ran for the U.S. Senate in Texas, were offset by losers like former Republican Governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson, who stepped down as health care partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld in January to also run ...
• California's three-strikes reform vote a victo ...
  Stanford Law School students and faculty celebrated onelection night, after years of hard work paid off when California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, which reforms the state's tough "three strikes" sentencing law.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• California Gas Consumption Down 1.3 Percent in ...
  California Gasoline Consumption Down 1.3 Percent in July, Fuel Tax Data Says
• Rhode Island Re-elects Congressman Langevin
  I am grateful to Rhode Islanders for their support and for again putting their trust in me to fight for them. I will never take it for granted.
• South Sudan Expels UN Rights Investigator
  At Washington DC today, Acting Spokesperson Mark C. Toner says the United States is deeply concerned about the Republic of South Sudan's decision to order a Human Rights Officer working for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
• PA TV Defines All of Israel as 'Palestine'
  Dozens of times, PA TV broadcasts programs and music videos in which Israeli places and cities like Ashkelon, Haifa, Acre, Tiberias, Beit Shean, Jaffa, Nazareth, Ramle, Lod, Safed, Mt Carmel, the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights
• New Sanctions to End Haqqani Network's Reign o ...
  Ms. Rice notes that Zakir is an operational commander who has been involved in many of the Haqqani Network's highest-profile suicide attacks and has trained individuals to use small arms, heavy weapons and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

environment 360

• Forget Kyoto: Putting a Tax on Carbon Consumption
  Given the failure of international climate negotiations, an Oxford University economist says a carbon consumption tax would be the most effective way of lowering CO2 emissions. If countries are serious about addressing climate change, he argues, then they must pay for the carbon pollution they c ...
• China and Russia Block Proposal to Protect Ant ...
  International talks to protect large areas of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica collapsed last week after several nations, including China, blocked the proposal over concerns about fishing access, according to reports. Representatives from 25 member states — including China, Russia, the ...
• Reduced Snowpacks Allowing Trees to Invade Mou ...
  Some mountain meadows in the U.S. Northwest are steadily disappearing as the effects of climate change have allowed trees to invade the ecosystemsin recent decades, a new study says. In an analysis of Jefferson Click to enlarge Oregon State University A meadow at the base of Mount Jefferso ...
• Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy Shows Birth and D ...
  As the storm that was Hurricane Sandy weakened over Pennsylvania, NASA released a timelapse animation of the lifespan of the massive storm, tracking its path from NASAVIDEO: The path of Sandy the Caribbean, where it developed, to its violent landfall on the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. The ...
• Photo Gallery: A Quest to Document The Earth’s ...
  Since 2007, photographer James Balog has deployed dozens of time-lapse cameras on four continents to chronicle one of the starkest examples of global warming — the rapid melting of the world’s glaciers. That project, known as the Extreme Ice Survey and carried out in collaboration wit ...

Red Ice Creations

• Thousands march on Parliament in Anonymous ’V ...
  Thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar square on the 5th of November before marching to Parliament in a reenactment of the iconic scene in V for Vendetta. The protest, organised by international hacktivism collective, Anonymous, was intended to warn the government about a number of issues inc ...
• Princess Shert Nebti Tomb Unearthed Near Cairo
  Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, in a finding that suggests other undiscovered tombs may be in the area, an official from Egypt’s antiquities ministry said Saturday. Mohammed El-Bialy, who heads the Egyptian and Greco-Roman Antiq ...
• Exposure - The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, Hor ...
  Victims tell of horror inside North Wales care home where gang rape, strip searches and vicious canings were a way of life... and Jimmy Savile was a regular visitor DailyMail.co.uk Keith Gregory was just 11-years-old when he was taken away from his parents in the 1970s to Bryn Estyn children’s h ...
• Macabre Little People Invade Vienna
  You’re walking along in a hurry to get to work. Around you are the same gray, noisy, impersonal parts of the city you pass every day. Then something catches your eye. At first, you dismiss it as a piece of litter, or maybe a toy some kid has dropped. But something about it makes you take a secon ...
• The Lull Before the Storm
  Vast social revolutions and wars are often preceded by periods of giving up on reforms, despairing withdrawal from public life by the best and brightest, and even peacefulness which seems to have become the normal condition in spite of deep conflicts and growing crises beneath the surfaces of pu ...

Russia Today

• Adjourned again: Bahraini activist Nabeel Raja ...
  A Bahraini court has once again adjourned the appellate trial of human rights activist Nabeel Rajab. The court also denied a petition filed by Rajab’s lawyers, which was designed to question the legality of the law... Read Full Article at RT.com
• American election a ‘capitalist battleground’ ...
  Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out at the record-shattering cost of this year's US presidential election, deriding the self-declared “forerunners of democracy” of the Western world. Read Full Article at RT.com
• 'Assad is completely demonized by the press' – ...
  The Syrian conflict is exponentially more complicated than portrayed in the press – and as for President Bashar Assad, he is a well-educated man who has fallen victim to media demonization, says RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Newfound 'super-Earth' could support life
  Astronomers have discovered another potentially habitable planet – and it’s at least seven times the mass of Earth. Dwarf star HD 40307g hosts a system of six planets, and one of those is believed have the potential to... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Ban in Iran: Islamic Republic reportedly halti ...
  Iran is banning the import of foreign-made cars, laptops, and other "luxury" goods in the hope of saving billions of dollars in hard currency, claims a report published by the state-owned IRAN daily. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Why can’t the State of Florida tally votes?
  By my clock it is just minutes away from 4 pm the day after the national election, however in Florida all the national election reporting sites say that it is still too close to call yet in Florida! How can that be, as 100% of the votes have been supposedly tabulated and there is a [...]
• Gandhi as Jesus? A critique of this pacifis ...
  In the US amongst pacifist Christian liberals, Gandhi is considered to be the son of Jesus almost. The following is a brief look at this mindset which is brewed in India itself by the Hindu Right Wing politicians governing there. —An Interview With Perry Anderson on "The Indian Ideolog ...
• Passivity in the US with Rebellion in Greece
  Tens of thousands outside The Greek parliament in Athens demand that the capitalists suffer the ‘austerity’, and not the working class. Meanwhile in the US, the day after the pathetic ‘win’ by the Democratic Party over their Republican Party co-callaborators FOR the capit ...
• It’s just another day in The Land of Cor ...
  — The American people will have wasted another one of our days in The Land of Corporate Dictatorship. Yes, ‘your’ USA is run by the collective Walmarts, Bank of Americas, KFCs, Lockheeds, and et al Corporation that makes up our nobility, Serf People. Have a Nice Day if you can ...
• Letter to Michael Moore, indelible hero, retro ...
  Dear Michael, I write you as a longtime, enthusiastic fan, and please pardon me if the deference and affection I’d like to convey have been overcome by my shock at your recent emails. My question may sound rhetorical, but I would really like to know: what the hell compels you to shill once ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• President Obama Reelected: Charlie Sheen and S ...
  A video I made back in 2009. Send this page to the White house! Maybe without the fear of losing reelection due to tackling controversial subjects, President Obama will be more inclined to reexamine things like the 9/11 truth movement, wake up, and do something. An important update on the first ...
• One Thing Wrong and A Lot of Things Right
  PhD Physicist Crockett Grabbe was recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Engineering Mechanics, disputing the the pile-driver or crush-down theory in which the tops of the Towers act as giant sledgehammers put forward by engineer Zdenek Bazant. One reason I bring this ...
• Action Alert: Help Firefighters and Scientists ...
  Firefighters for 9/11 Truth currently have 91 "Confirmed Firefighter Signatories" at their site and Scientists for 9/11 Truth currently have "76 Active Members." Let's help to give them an extra push to reach 100 members each. This can be done in a variety of ways. When I lived in Erie PA, I too ...
• How To Be Free and Conscious in a Society of E ...
  By Winston Wu of DebunkingSkeptics.com happierabroad.com/Awakening.htm Chinese version: http://www.happierabroad.com/Awakening-Chinese.htm "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti "During times of universal deceit, telling the tru ...
• Tony Blair at UCL - No comeback for the war cr ...
  1b Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ www.stopwar.org.uk | office@stopwar.org.uk | 020 7561 9311 twitter.com/STWuk | facebook.com/stopthewarcoalition Tony Blair at UCL - no comeback for the war criminal Tony Blair is back in town on the speaking circuit, this time helping to l ...

Fooducate

• Kellogg’s Liquid Breakfast to Go – Yes or No?
• GMO Labeling, Now that Prop 37 Failed
• Please Elect to Eat Better
• The Sports Drink Myth Exposed
• 10 Beliefs About Childhood Obesity that Get in ...

Traffikd

• Twitter Step by Step
  Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
• SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
  When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
• How To Choose Keywords
  Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
• Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
  So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
• How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
  Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

• Harassed and imprisoned: activists held for pe ...
  Medha Patkar had vowed to go on hunger strike until her release.© K. ShanmughamVeteran human rights campaigner Medha Patkar has been released after being detained by police in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Ms Patkar had been peacefully protesting against the diversion of vital water supp ...
• Tourists leafleted at Machu Picchu over uncont ...
  Survival's leaflets highlight the plight of uncontacted Indians only 100km from Machu Picchu© SurvivalSurvival has launched a leafleting campaign targeting tourists arriving at Machu Picchu in Peru. Survival representatives recently handed out leaflets to tourists at Machu Picchu train sta ...
• Earth’s most threatened tribe make unprecedent ...
  Members of the Awá have made a rare trip to Brasilia to urge Brazil to evict illegal invaders.© SurvivalFifteen members of Earth’s most threatened tribe have made an unprecedented visit to Brazil’s capital to urge the government to evict illegal invaders and protect their land. The Awá’s three- ...
• In pictures: Tanzania’s Hadza mark land rights ...
  Hadza hunters in Tanzania use the song of an African bird to guide them to bees’ nests in baobab trees.© Joanna Eede/ SurvivalSurvival International has published a picture gallery to celebrate the first anniversary of the Hadza tribe’s historic land victory in Tanzania. An intimate picture of ...
• Yanomami mark 20 years of land recognition
  Yanomami greet guests attending the seventh Assembly of Hutakara Yanomami Association at Watoriki © Fiona Watson/SurvivalSome 700 Yanomami from many communities in Brazil recently gathered for the 7th assembly of Hutukara, the Yanomami association. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the rec ...

Greg Palast

• Democracy Now: Ohio – Wrong Ballots for Black ...
  A special report by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Watch the Report [Dayton, Ohio. Tuesday November 6, 2012] Several thousand African-American voters in Dayton, Ohio, may find their ballots left uncounted, and they, and America, won’t know it––even if the lost votes change the presidency. First, ...
• Starting Today: No Charge for my Bestselling B ...
  Palast Fund to give away FREE copies of Bestseller Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps A personal note from Greg Palast Call me crazy.  The Palast Investigative Fund is dead broke and our office in New York is under water.  No kidding. But America is drown ...
• Did The Romneys’ Auto Bailout Bonanza Violate ...
  By Greg Palast for The National Memo At the same time, taxpayer-subsidized Delphi expanded its workforce in China to 25,000. Today, Delphi supplies GM and Chrysler parts from Mexico and China. This week, Republican vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan arrived in Ohio to accuse the Obama admi ...
• UAW Files Charges Against Romney on his Auto ...
  Broke ethics law hiding millions, say good government groups by Greg Palast Toledo, Ohio For Mitt Romney, it's one scary Halloween.  The Presidential candidate has just learned that tomorrow afternoon he will charged with violating the federal Ethics in Government law by improperly concealing hi ...
• Advisory: UAW files ethics charge on Romney au ...
  Unions, Good Government Groups to File Ethics Complaint Against Romney For Failing To Disclose His Big Auto Rescue Profit Groups Urge Office of Government Ethics to Make Romney Disclose or Divest WASHINGTON – A coalition of community, labor and good-government organizations is calling on the U.S ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Mercury, Vaccines and Autism
  By Tony Bateson I believe mercury was the cause of my daughter's autism resulting from a DTP shot in January 1964. Claire had a frightening response to the jab and our General Practitioner sent Claire to hospital where she stayed...
• Dachel Media Update: 11/7
  Nov 7, 2012, Press release: Saint Joseph’s University Adds Autism Studies Concentration to Online Bachelor’s Completion Program Nov 6, 2012, Charleston Business Journal: MUSC to study autism in local children Nov 5, 2012, Barrow County (GA) News: To protect or...
• AAP Calls Autism an Epidemic
  The new head of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. James Perrin, calls autism an epidemic. He really does. Perrin was the focus in an interview just out from the Boston Globe: Pediatrics leader talks about biggest issues facing kids....
• President Obama Will You Acknowledge and Act o ...
  Congratulations to President Obama on winning a second term. Healthcare has been a priority for him. Will the President acknowledge the grim side of the ever rising childhood health epidemics including vaccine damage like this adverse reaction to birth dose...
• Dachel Media Update: 11/6
  Nov 5, 2012, Forbes: We Can Now Add Forced Sweating To The Faux Autism Treatment List Nov 5, 2012, Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel: The Autism Channel: all autism, all the time Nov 3, 2012, San Angelo Standard-Times: Sensory Santa offers...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Millions of GMO Mosquitoes Released Without Ri ...
  The WHO-funded Mosqguide project, which was supposed to be developing best practice, also allowed the company to gain approval from Brazilian regulators to release 16 million GM mosquitoes before draft regulations on the release of GM insects had been finalised or adopted, without publishing a r ...
• Monsanto Crams GMOs Down California’s Throat
  Welcome to Monsanto world, America. California has just voted them in and you out.
• David vs. Monsanto – The Percy Schmeiser Story
  Percy Schmeiser, Canola farmer, tells his story about his fight with Monsanto after his fields got contaminated with GMOs.
• Biotech Nightmare – GMO Jumping Genes
  Since jumping genes are already a large part of our genome naturally, and they are subject to mutation, which can lead to diseases such as cancer and hemophaelia as well as antibiotic resistance, the introduction of genetically engineered DNA into the mix is especially alarming.
• Discovery Channel Covers Geoengineering/Chemtrails
  Michael J. Murphy, Barry Kolsky and Dr. Nick Begich of "WHY in the World are They Spraying?" www.witwats.com are featured in this episode.

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...
  One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
• Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
  Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.  Th ...
• Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
  As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
• EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
• Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
  Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...

water.org

• Water Brings Peace
  Mrs. Pramila Chichore lives in the Raipur area of Hingna with her five family members. Before she applied for a water loan, she spent at least two hours a day fetching water from a distant public tap.
• Helping gets more social
  Millions of us want to connect the charities we support to the celebrations we share with friends online. Water.org is excited to be included in the introduction of charitable giving through Facebook Gifts, the social platform's recently launched product that enables real-time gift giving throug ...
• One Family at a Time
  Water.org’s local partner —BWDA — works directly with Self Help Groups (SHG) and their individual members to provide loans for safe water access. In the Pondicherry territory of India, BWDA works with women who are in need of microloans for household water connections.
• The Keys to a New Life
  When the Ethiopian village of Enda Silassie worked with Water.org to install a new handpump, they also came together to choose a community water guardian.
• Talking Water on Wall Street Journal Report
  Maria Bartiromo, Wall Street Journal Report, talks to Oscar winner Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of Water.org, about the big bet they’re making to bring clean water to the nearly 1 billion people without it. Watch the interview.

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...
• Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
  Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• India’s Solar Revolution, Small is Big
      A while back I wrote a post on the need to get India’s solar boom right solar boom right. read more
• India’s Solar Revolution, Small is Big
      A while back I wrote a post on the need to get India’s solar boom right solar boom right. read more
• The US Navy has fewer warships, but more solar ...
  China Lake is home to NAVAIR’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). While energy remains at the top of the agenda in the US election, Governor Mitt Romney’s charge tha ...
• The US Navy has fewer warships, but more solar ...
  China Lake is home to NAVAIR’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). While energy remains at the top of the agenda in the US election, Governor Mitt Romney’s ...
• Solar Power Helps Drive Energy Prices Down in ...
  The recent uptake of solar and wind energy across South Australia has forced the State’s pricing regulator to reassess wholesale electricity costs, recommending an 8.1% cut to power bills. read more

News Blaze

• California Gas Consumption Down 1.3 Percent in ...
  California Gasoline Consumption Down 1.3 Percent in July, Fuel Tax Data Says
• Rhode Island Re-elects Congressman Langevin
  I am grateful to Rhode Islanders for their support and for again putting their trust in me to fight for them. I will never take it for granted.
• South Sudan Expels UN Rights Investigator
  At Washington DC today, Acting Spokesperson Mark C. Toner says the United States is deeply concerned about the Republic of South Sudan's decision to order a Human Rights Officer working for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
• PA TV Defines All of Israel as 'Palestine'
  Dozens of times, PA TV broadcasts programs and music videos in which Israeli places and cities like Ashkelon, Haifa, Acre, Tiberias, Beit Shean, Jaffa, Nazareth, Ramle, Lod, Safed, Mt Carmel, the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights
• New Sanctions to End Haqqani Network's Reign o ...
  Ms. Rice notes that Zakir is an operational commander who has been involved in many of the Haqqani Network's highest-profile suicide attacks and has trained individuals to use small arms, heavy weapons and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Worldnews

• Gary Numan and Officers collaborate on ne ...
  Gary Numan and Officers have collaborated on a brand new track, 'PETALS'. Additional re-working's from Numan's right hand man Ade Fenton, uber producer, Jagz Kooner (PrimaScream/Oasis/Kasabian) and remixes by LOSERS - (headed up by XFMs legendary Eddy Temple Morris, Paul Mullen from YourCode ...
• Frightened Rabbit announce new album and ...
  Critically-acclaimed Scottish quintet Frightened Rabbit are pleased to announce details of their eagerly-awaited fourth studio album Pedestrian Verse, out February 4th through Atlantic Records. The forthcoming release was recorded at the famed Monnow Valley Studio in Rockfield, South Wales, ...
• 'American Idol': Nicki Minaj discusses re ...
  Related topics reality televisionAmerican IdolNicki MinajMariah Carey Advertisement Rapper Nicki Minaj is the topic of a new report that was published today. The "American Idol" judge was asked if she would ever perform with Mariah Carey who is also a judge on the show. Minaj was also asked ...
• Jermaine Jackson petitions to alter famou ...
  LOS ANGELES (AP) Jermaine Jackson wants to change his name to something a little brighter. He's asking a court to allow him to alter his famous surname and become Jermaine Jacksun. The older brother of Michael Jackson filed a name change petition on Tuesday in Los Angeles, stating the switch ...
• China's Hu calls for sterner measures to ...
  BEIJING: Preparing to hand over power after a decade in office, China’s President Hu Jintao called Thursday for sterner measures to combat official corruption that has stoked public anger while urging the Communist Party to maintain firm political control. In a 90-minute speech opening a w ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Correction: Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthi ...
• Hopes linger for Mars methane
  But negative signal from the Curiosity rover raises questions about planned European mission.
• Inattention to history dooms patient to repeat ...
  COMMENTARY PROVIDED BY,John Hickner, MD, MSc
• Let's put a stop to the prescribing cascade
  John Hickner, MD, MSc
• Wave Goodbye to the Remote Control
  Startup PredictGaze thinks technology that can determine where you’re looking—and what you look like—is the interface of the future. Ketan Banjara’s living room isn’t cluttered with remote controls. To shush the music, he simply holds a finger up to his lips. And wh ...

Common Dreams

• For Champions of Degrowth, Less Is Much More
  NEW YORK - The concept of degrowth is not a very comfortable one in overdeveloped countries such as the United States. But with the planet’s resources stretched to the limit, many argue that an action plan is needed to prevent the world’s largest economy from getting any bigger, espe ...
• Chaos Reigns as Hundred Thousand Greeks Rally ...
  In the largest rally since last August, nearly 100,000 protestors crowded Athens' central square Wednesday as parliament met to vote on the lastest round of crippling tax hikes, spending cuts and labor reform. Al Jazeera reports that the protestors stared down parliament guards as they carri ...
• Pakistan's American-Flag Makers in High Demand ...
  American flag makers in Pakistan are likely to benefit from US President Barack Obama's reelection this year, as mass protests over Obama's drone policy are likely to increase along with the demand for American flags to burn, Agence-France Presse reported Wednesday. ...
• Netanyahu Faces 'Payback' After Obama Victory?
  "This is probably not a very good morning for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai said Wednesday. Netanyahu and his Likud Party had actively supported Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in what Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz described as “ ...
• Michigan Voters Reject Emergency Manager Law
  In a victory for unions and grassroots organizers, Michigan voters rejected the controversial Emergency Manager Law or Public Act 4 of 2011 which bequeathed a state-appointed manager with sweeping powers including the ability to get rid of union contracts, dissolve local governments, sell public ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Jack Osbourne, Lisa Stelly ge ...
  ExamineReligion: Jack Osbourne, Lisa Stelly get married in Hawaii nearly six months after baby http://t.co/DesNpnyn
• ExamineReligion: Boast of the Lord's Power and ...
  ExamineReligion: Boast of the Lord's Power and Providence http://t.co/TtvRNXJJ
• ExamineReligion: Blessing of the Waves. This S ...
  ExamineReligion: Blessing of the Waves. This Sunday. Surf City. http://t.co/ODdsCALR
• ExamineReligion: Love the One You're with - A ...
  ExamineReligion: Love the One You're with - A Devotion http://t.co/gWOEQB3K
• ExamineReligion: What are the meaning and valu ...
  ExamineReligion: What are the meaning and value of faith? http://t.co/tODkCvsv

Energy Collective

• Financial Issues Affecting Energy Security
  Last week, I gave a talk called Financial Issues Affecting Energy Security at the Advances in Energy Studies conference in Mumbai, India. The general topic of the conference was, “Energy Security and Development-The Changing Global Context.”
• Americans Elect a Leader on Clean Energy, Clea ...
  Energy issues figured prominently in this election. Candidates mentioned it frequently on the stump and it was among the top three topics discussed in campaign ads. Yet despite the dirty ad blitzes and the anti-environmental policy proposals, voters rejected this outdated vision for our country.
• Yes, Climate Change Contributed To Superstorm ...
  As Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast last week, meteorologists and climate scientists were repeatedly asked to explain what role climate change played in amplifying the storm. Overall, we know that climate change has stacked the deck so that this kind of event happens more frequently. That ...
• Obama's Re-election: A Mandate for Clean Energy?
  With President Obama’s victory tonight, the renewable energy industry keeps an important ally in the White House. The win comes at a time when energy is rising in national importance.
• How Do Obama And Romney Stack Up On Science Po ...
  Economic growth is front and center in this presidential election, but the two candidates haven’t spent much time talking about two of the most important drivers of the economy: science and technology. Science is not only at the root of our increasing prosperity but it is also the best tool we h ...

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

• Money Party Wins US Election
  by Stephen Lendman The same party wins every time. Duopoly power rules. America is a one party state with two wings. Each replicates the other. On major issues mattering most, not a dime's worth of difference separates them. The late Gore Vidal explained it as well as anyone. Some of his ...
• Washington State and Colorado Join the Fray: C ...
  by chycho The big news from last night is not that the lesser of two evils won the US presidential elections, but that “Washington and Colorado voters legalized recreational use of marijuana.” “’It’s very monumental,’ said Allen St. Pierre, executive direct ...
• Obama Votes for Romney
  by Stephen Lendman "Well, he might have," said Mark Crispin Miller on his blog site. He doesn't know. Nor do other voters. Corporate owned, programmed and manipulated electronic voting machines control things. The Carter Center monitors elections globally. It refuses to do so in America ...
• Congress does its job?
  David H. Marshall It is the responsibility of the U.S. Congress, "To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces"; U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 14. The Congressional Oath of Office: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defen ...
• Election Fraud, November 6 - Watch for Vote Fl ...
  Michael Collins (Washington, DC) Our elections are officially privatized. They are hidden from our view by design. On November 6, your votes will be cast and tallied on voting machines manufactured and serviced by private companies. The computerized voting machines run on software that is ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Impaired Judgement: The Economic and Social Co ...
  In Alberta and British Columbia, liquor retail privatization has meant higher liquor prices but lower government revenue. Moreover, the increased availability of alcohol brought on by privatization and its lax regulation contravene recognized methods for protecting public health. In light of Pre ...
• CETA and Nova Scotia: Who Pays for 'Free' Trade?
  As the federal government continues to move forward with the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) our research finds that the benefits are being oversold while the costs and consequences are being minimized and even ignored.  CETA could result in between 510 and 2587 net job loss ...
• Striking shifts in education and community act ...
  The Fall 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between education and activism, but it focuses extensively on issues raised before, during and since the Québec student strike. The strike provides us with a superb case study of how the Charest government labeled student resistanc ...
• The Case for A Living Wage
  In a new CCPA-Ontario report, Jordan Brennan looks at the history of the minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and makes the case for a living wage as an essential tool to help reduce income inequality. The report, Enhancing Democratic Citizenship, Deepening Distributive Justice: The Living Wa ...
• Will BC break its own GHG emissions law?
  In 2007 the BC government legislated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), but just five years later, the province’s 2012 Natural Gas Strategy risks breaking that legislation. Our latest report, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad ...

World Wide Hippies

• Education Beat: Critical Thinking; Bogus “Refo ...
  by John Konopak, Ph.D. (LSU, 1989, Education) WWH/CJE +~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+   Critical Thinking: All parents would claim they want their kids to think critically…Just not til the little bastids leave home! Probably the one person who has had the greatest ...
• No More Campaign Ads
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – No more ads, no more calls no more trees chopped down for the tons of campaign literature! I am grateful. Yes, I AM happy that the Prez won reelection. I am also THRILLED that so many fine women won their races and that, so many knuckle dragging, misogynisti ...
• WWH/CJE Thursday News Briefs
  SANDY-TORN NORTHEAST DEALS WITH MORE WIND, WATER Great cover for Bloombergs racist handling of sandy. NEW YORK (AP) – The nor’easter, as promised, brought gusting winds, rain, snow and the threat of flooding. It menaced travelers with icy roads, snarled the Long Island Rail Road and ...
• We are Closed for the day – Back tomorrow
  Enjoy the Corporate Media for Today! It’s their Victory. The Man,.One – The truth,Love and Peace Zero!
• WWH/CJE Wednesday News Briefs – Heart ju ...
  GAY MARRIAGE, MARIJUANA BACKED IN HISTORIC VOTES Altering the course of U.S social policy, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, while Washington state and Colorado set up a showdown with federal authorities by legalizing recreational use of mar ...

FourWinds10

• 'STAGE TWO' OF THE BP GULF OF MEXICO ENVIRONME ...
• Fracking May Have Caused 50 Earthquakes in Okl ...
• Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leav ...
  (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...
• TEXAS GULF ALERT TO SAY AWAY, 4.2 MILLION POIS ...
• Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Wat ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Guest Post: US Energy Independence Can Be Created
  First thing, on this day after the U.S. presidential elections I would like to congratulate President Obama on his reelection. My top prediction for 2012 – made nearly a year ago and reiterated many times since — was that Obama would easily win reelection, primarily because all of th ...
• “As Important as Food and Water”
  When Hurricane Sandy was forecast to make landfall on the East Coast, I advised people to top off their automobiles with fuel. There were a number of reasons for that, and some people in New York and New Jersey are learning those reasons the hard way. When a hurricane hits an area, it can damage ...
• Do Falling Gasoline Prices Help President Obama?
  In this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier answers a reader's question on how falling gasoline prices might impact the Obama campaign for reelection.
• Why Sandy’s Impact Will Differ From Katrina
  As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, a lot of prognosticators are offering up predictions for what it means for gasoline prices in that market. I thought it might be of interest to note the differences in Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina concerning the oil and gas markets. Hurri ...
• Can You Make Fuel from Air and Water?
  In this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier addresses the recent claims of a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis that they have invented a process to create fuel from air and water.

Discovery Educator Network

• My favorite ( top 10 ) romanian #edtech #start ...
  Comments:"Curated by Lucian, http://bit.ly/LucianCurator who really want to implement Curation Restart Education Project http://bit.ly/credproject . For more Like https://www.facebook.com/CurationRestartEducationProject and follow http://twitter.com/web20education" - LUCIAN DUMATags: no_tagby: L ...
• Digital scrapbooks for student creativity, sel ...
  Comments:A Glogster-like scrapbooking tool for students. Free for 1 teacher + 30 students. Paid plan if you need more. Embeddable. They also have a clipping tool you can add to your browser for collecting clips.  - Dennis GriceTags: scrapbook, web2.0, poster, tools, scrapbooking, creativity, glo ...
• zondle - games to support learning
  Tags: learning, web2.0, zondle, interactive, education, game, technologyby: Dean Mantz
• Disp Recorder for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone ...
  Comments:An effective way of creating screencasts directly from the iPad of the iPad and apps themselves. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, screencast, Displayrecorderby: Dean Mantz
• Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing a ...
  Comments:Digital magazine from Stanford University highlights interesting and challenging stories of innovation. Could be a great kick-starter for project-based learning or to engage kids in innovative and critical thinking. - Randy RodgersTags: innovation, social, stanford, nonprofit, philanthr ...

Rodale News

• The Bad News about the 2012 Election
  No matter which presidential candidate you were rooting for, if you care about food, you were probably watching California on Tuesday night. There, organic food advocates were fighting one of the biggest, most expensive campaigns in the country in support of a ballot measure that would have led ...
• Do You Have the Worst Neighbor in America?
  Let's be real here. Chances are your neighbor's gotten on your nerves at least once or twice. A power tool returned out of order, a messy lawn, and moodiness are just a few reasons you may sometimes despise the person living next door. But things could definitely be worse. You could live next ...
• Before You Vote, Do This
  In the hours before you head to the voting booth, instead of flicking to your favorite cable news show for your latest fix of exit poll numbers, turn off all of your devices and use some simple yoga tricks to ease stress and promote a more honest vote. Using just three easy go-to yoga moves wil ...
• The Weirdest—and Best—Side Effect of Voting
  Regardless of your political affiliation or which issues you hold most dear on Election Day, the one thing you can be assured of, if you vote, is that you're saving the planet. Energy analysts at Opower, an energy analytics firm that works with 80 utility companies to help their customers monit ...
• The Truth about Stronger Hurricanes
  As Americans on the East Coast continue to pick up the pieces left behind in the wake of deadly Hurricane Sandy, many scientists and residents are wondering if an unstable climate fueled this out-of-the-ordinary megastorm. While the timing of the hurricane isn't all that strange—late-October h ...

big think

• Sandy's Legacy: DIY Urbanism
  What's the Big Idea? The Portland, Oregon-area activists known as Depaved do more than cut through red tape in their communities. They use jackhammers to rip up pieces of asphalt. This type of action is an example of DIY Urbanism, an idea that combines urban theory with activism and tend ...
• Sanaa Notebook: al-Qaeda and Electricity
  On Tuesday, October 2 the lights in Sanaa went out.*  The power cut in the Yemeni capital wasn’t particularly surprising.  Yemen has been suffering rolling blackouts for years; a problem that only grew worse during the 2011 uprisings that forced the country’s long-serving president, Ali Abdullah ...
• Enjoy That Cup Of Arabica While You Still Can
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? A study published today in the journal PLOS ONE reveals that climate change will have a profoundly negative impact on wild Arabica plants, which many see as key to the sustainability of the coffee industry. ...
• The End of Smoke-and-Mirrors Politics?
  Who won big in last night's election? Data. Cold, hard data and the analytical tools to interpret it. The Obama campaign won by leveraging unbelievably detailed information about voters, as Michael Scherer describes today. And those observers who did best at predicting what voters would do (like ...
• NASA Hopes To Continue Its Space Exploration Plans
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Now that President Barack Obama has been reelected, NASA is expected to announce its plans for furthering human exploration of deep space, starting with a mission to a location above the far side of the moo ...

Information Liberation

• BREAKING: Tax Slaves Stick With The Familiar
  Obama will lord over the tax slaves for the next four years, or at least until the United States collapses. You're safe now Kobe....
• What If We Had To Vote On The Food We Bought A ...
  Imagine if people voted on what groceries to buy. Rather than go to the store and pick out what you specifically want, everyone in the United States decided every four years in massive elections what food everyone will be forced to buy. What would ...
• CTRAFFIK -- "What if Nobody Showed Up to Vote? ...
  What if someday an entire population was enlightened enough to withhold from participating in their local elections? What would that day look like and what would be the ramifications for everyone involved? Explore how the people free themselves fro...
• But Who Will Build The Roads?
  One of my favourite movies is Mike Judge*s Office Space. For those who haven*t seen it, I won*t spoil anything. The only reason I bring it up is because there*s a scene where a character named Tom Smykowski is, essentially, being interviewed for the ...
• How the State Subverts Responsibility
  One of the most destructive influences of "the State" upon society, is the way it subverts responsibility. In order to understand the nature of this subversion, one has to understand what "the State" really is, and the irrational paradigm in the ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• America On A Collision Course With Reality
  After Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year. If the American electorate are daft enough to re-elect the man who has racked up … Continue reading →
• The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...
  I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … Continue reading →
• Clutching At Straws
  I’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
• Clutching At Straws
  I’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
• Getting The Government We Deserve
  I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Seeding growth for Indian pharma
  During the last two decades, India has emerged as a leading player in clinical trials, manufacturing and R&D of pharmaceuticals. Today, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is growing rapidly and ranks third in the world by volume sales (14th by value) amounting to US $20 billion with forecas ...
• Asimov on the three laws of robotics
  Laws of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in or simply interested in research and development in the fields of robotics ...
• Asimov on the three laws of robotics
  Laws of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in or simply interested in research and development in the fields of robotics ...
• There are no afterlife-time guarantees
  There is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads, interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with you, but if they can ...
• There are no afterlife-time guarantees
  There is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads, interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with you, but if they can ...

RFF Library

• Observation of Observed Seisminicity in the Ho ...
  British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission http://www.bcogc.ca/document.aspx?documentID=1270&type=.pdf [Smithsonian blog] …A recent report by the British Columbia Oil & Gas Commission, however, finds that fracking actually can cause earthquakes. Earthquake monitoring equipment in nort ...
• Natural Gas in the U.S. Economy: Opportunities ...
  Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42814.pdf Due to the growth in natural gas production, primarily from shale gas, the United States is benefiting from some of the lowest prices for natural gas in the world and faces the question of how to best use this resource. Di ...
• Green Growth Innovation: New Pathways for Inte ...
  Brookings Institution / by Nathan Hultman, Katherine Sierra, Jason Eis and Allison Shapiro http://bit.ly/TuvOWF …Innovations in green technology represent transformational approaches to these and others of the world’s thorniest development and environment challenges. Innovation for green g ...
• Eco-Driving Index
  University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute http://www.umich.edu/~umtriswt/EDI_sales-weighted-mpg.html [Michael Sivak quoted on DotEarth]  …The University of Michigan Eco-Driving Index (EDI)–an index that estimates the average monthly emissions of greenhouse gases generated by ...
• Talking Climate: The Gateway to Research on Cl ...
  Climate Outreach and Information Network | Public Interest Research Centre http://talkingclimate.org/database/  (literature database) http://talkingclimate.org/ (main site) [Dan Kahan on culturalcognition.net]  …[George] Marshall, a man of apparently unbounded curiosity, creativity, a ...

Scientific American - News

• See This: Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks, No ...
  Hearing and seeing things that aren’t there is more common than you might think. As part of their series Science & Story, our friends at the World Science Festival are bringing together neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks and award-winning journalist John Hockenberry to ...
• Canada Declares War on Rats
  VANCOUVER--"I have a freezer full of dead rats," says Laurie Wein, project manager at Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in western Canada. It's a necessary evil, for the restoration specialist leading Parks Canada's war on rats in the biodiverse archipelago of Haida Gwaii (o ...
• Great Lakes Legacy: Old Contaminants Decline, ...
  Legacy contaminants are decreasing more quickly than previously reported in three of the Great Lakes, but have stayed virtually the same in two other lakes, according to new research. [More]
• Lab-Made Droplets Move Themselves Continuously ...
  Using biological building blocks found inside a living cell, researchers have created a material that moves itself. [More]
• Seismic Risk in Eastern U.S. May Be Higher Tha ...
  The surprise magnitude-5.8 earthquake that stuck central Virginia and rattled cities up and down the US East Coast last year was a record-breaker in more ways than one. Not only was it felt by more Americans than any previous tremor, it triggered landslides over a wider area than any other recor ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Canada's Canoe Routes Under Threat
  Conservatives attempt to eliminate waterway protection with proposed legislation changes Proposed legislative changes in the federal government’s omnibus budget bill will strip ...
• Has the Freshwater Fish Marketing Act Gone Stale?
  Criticisms levelled at western Canadian crown corporation focus on fish waste, inability to compete WINNIPEG—With the recent demise of the Canadian Wheat Board as a single-desk buyer ...
• CKUT's Off the Hour speaks with journalist Amy ...
  Amy Goodman of Democracy Now comments the issues of the 99 per cent. The clock races down to the fate US presidential elections. CKUT speaks with independent journalist and author, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! about the issues that matter ...
• An Environmental Bill of Rights for Canada?
  An interview with environmental lawyer David Boyd It may surprise you that, according to Canada’s constitution, you don’t have the right to a healthy environment — ...
• GroundWire News – November 4, 2012
  This edition was produced by Michael Welch at CKUW in Winnipeg Manitoba. Headlines: In BC on October 22 and 24, over 7,000 people participated in the Defend our Coast actions across the province PowerShift 2012 - a conference organized by youth for youth - took place last weekend in Ottawa foc ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Whew!
  At least the sinuous Romney isn't going to be president... At least the first African-American president gets to serve two terms... At least the Tea Party wont get to name any justices of the Supreme Court... and at least a hundred "at leasts" that we might not even imagine till they happened, b ...
• Dear God, will it ever end?
  Abbie has nailed it.... If anything defines the period we live in, it is the sight of a nation of over 300M people, with historically unsurpassed military and economic power in a state of sluggish political and social paralysis... and managing to make such a crisis, one so objectively earth ...
• Campaign note: Obama or the deluge (no kidding)
  David Seaton's  News LinksReaders of mine should not be under the impression that I am a big fan of Obama's or of the Democrats... I wrote this back in 2008:I find myself against almost everything that the Republicans stand for, but at least they seem to truly stand for what they say they s ...
• Why it is essential that Barack Obama be reelected
  David Seaton's News Links No matter what you may feel or think about Barack Obama, no matter how disappointed you may be by his failure to live up to the promises he made in 2008 or the hope he inspired four years ago; it is essential for every progressively minded American to do what they can ...
• What are things like in Spain right now? Watch ...
  David Seaton's News Links See SpongeBob SquarePants duke it out with Hello Kitty in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol… (where the “Indignados” camped out last year). DS

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Quote of the Day: America's Billionaires are P ...
  Via Atrios, this is pretty funny: "The billionaire donors I hear are livid," one Republican operative told The Huffington Post. "There is some holy hell to pay. Karl Rove has a lot of explaining to do ... I don't know how you tell your donors that we spent $390 million and got nothing.".... ...
• We Should Probably All Calm Down a Bit
  I am going to be a killjoy tonight. I have two things to say: Liberals, you should rein in the triumphalism. Obama won a narrow 51-49 percent victory and the composition of Congress changed only slightly. This was not a historic vindication of liberalism, and it doesn't mean that we can sud ...
• Republicans Got Seriously Smoked in the Senate
  I know plenty of people have already said this, but the Senate is an even more impressive story for Democrats than President Obama's reelection last night. Just a few short months ago it was conventional wisdom that Democrats would be lucky if they only lost three seats, and might very well lo ...
• John Boehner's Desperate Bluff on Taxes
  House Speaker John Boehner lost no time getting in the first shot today on taxes and the fiscal cliff, telling reporters that in order to forge a bipartisan agreement Republicans are "willing to accept new revenue, under the right conditions": While Boehner suggested that Republicans would ...
• Beware of Beguiling Explanations for Obama's V ...
  One more quick thing: before everyone starts getting too enthralled with demographic time bombs and other in-the-weeds explanations for why Obama won last night, just remember this: most of the political science models, based on little more than a few economic fundamentals, predicted a modest Ob ...

Insanity Report

• IC 359: Drunkish
  Topics: Kev gets White Boy Wasted Kriss & Rodimus decipher Kev’s drunk tweets Can’t wait for the election to be over “I don’t see color” Covering the election like sports The world won’t end on November 7th Jamie Foxx as Electro George Lucas sells LucasFi ...
• IC 358: The Awesomeness of White Privilege
  Topics: Overboard doomsday storm prepping the DMV’s reaction to natural storms Black people react to Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone We just don’t care enough Apparently America isn’t post racial after all White privilege is awesome Joss Whedon for Romney Phenom & Kriss as reve ...
• IC 357: Stupid Opinions
  Topics: Deodorant isn’t optional Stupid sayings like “there are no stupid opinions” You’re entitled to your own opinion but it could be a stupid opinion Losing builds character Gay Marriage and hiding behind religion when you’re a bigot Black James Bond? Buying a vi ...
• IC 356: Trick or Treating For Jesus
  Topics: Changes to The Insanity Report Political douchebags 2007 All-Star game Black events Who should be cast in the Justice League Movie? Disney’s first Latina princess Share with your friends:
• IC 355: Binders Full of Stupid
  Topics: People Asking Stupid Questions The real problem with Tyler Perry Movies The election needs to end Liberals aren’t built for this Its not really funny Movie News Deer Crossings Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• Monsoon instability raises food questions for ...
  An unstable balance between dry and wet monsoon rain seasons could become important for farming in South Asia as the world warms into the 22nd century, find Jacob Schewe and Anders Levermann from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
• Butterfly effect limits climate models
  Tiny changes in climate simulations otherwise held constant can lead to a wide range of outcomes, Clara Deser from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and her team find, showing uncertainty we can’t eliminate.
• Climate provides weak power to predict African ...
  Though there is a modest link between conflict and rainfall and temperature changes, this has been overplayed in political discussions, according to a detailed analysis by John O’Loughlin from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team-mates.
• Cause vagueness hinders climate extinction action
  A PhD class from Stony Brook University in New York State has found that difficulties in researching how climate wipes organisms out have left a knowledge gap, and urges scientists to tackle these tough questions.
• Focus on uncertain climate cliff-edge invites ...
  Not knowing what greenhouse gas level climate catastrophe might happen at undermines negotiations using emission limits alone, an experiment by Scott Barrett and Astrid Dannenberg from the Earth Institute at Columbia University suggests

e!Science News

• Ben-Gurion University develops side-illuminate ...
  Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a radically new design for a concentrator solar cell that, when irradiated from the side, generates solar conversion efficiencies that rival, and may eventually surpass, the most ultra-efficient photovoltaics. read more
• Chernobyl cleanup workers had significantly in ...
  A 20-year study following 110,645 workers who helped clean up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the former Soviet territory of Ukraine shows that the workers share a significant increased risk of developing leukemia. The results may help scientists better define cancer ris ...
• Fighting bacteria with mucus
  Slimy layers of bacterial growth, known as biofilms, pose a significant hazard in industrial and medical settings. Once established, biofilms are very difficult to remove, and a great deal of research has gone into figuring out how to prevent and eradicate them. read more
• Stanford researchers develop light-based 'remo ...
  Scientists at Stanford University have developed an intracellular remote control: a simple way to activate and track proteins, the busiest of cellular machines, using beams of light. read more
• Even yeast mothers sacrifice all for their babies
  A mother's willingness to sacrifice her own health and safety for the sake of her children is a common narrative across cultures -- and by no means unique to humans alone. Female polar bears starve, dolphin mothers stop sleeping and some spider moms give themselves as lunch for their crawly babi ...

unEarthed

• Voters Tell Obama: Get To Work On Clean Energy ...
  President must unite America to secure prosperity and fight climate change The American people have reinvested their faith in a President who now has a second chance to put this nation on course to a prosperous future built on clea ...
• Sandy Staggers East Coast -- And Climate Deniers
  Superstorm blows climate change onto national ballot Lower Manhattan was without power for days.  (Eric Konon) Hurricane Sandy delivered a lot of pa ...
• Super-storm Sandy: Spawn of Climate Change?
  The effects are clear, if not the cause, says LA Times NOAA satellite photo of Sandy Today, in an editorial, the Los Angeles Times took on a question that man ...
• Speak Up for the “Most Important Fish in the Sea”
  Fisheries commission needs to hear from you, today! Menhaden are harvested by the millions. (NOAA) Something very unusual happened at the November 2011 meetin ...
• Conservationists Act to Protect Sensitive Bay ...
  State permit allowing log storage facility challenged Dungeness crabs in a crab trap. (Debra Hamilton / DFG) Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest i ...

Brave New Climate

• CSIRO Energy Future 2050 tool
  CSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...
• Objective analysis of nuclear and wind-solar o ...
  I’ve never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of my pocket and give my time freely, because I think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. But now, I’d like to ask you to give a little, t ...
• The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstratio ...
  I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24 Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...
• Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...
  Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...
• Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...
  The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Any Mother Fucker That Votes For Any Republica ...
  I call Republicans Mother Fuckers because they support policies that fuck their mothers, and their fathers, and their children, workers, and all Americans that are not wealthy. After watching all the voter suppression it is amazing some patriotic American doesn’t make things right and give ...
• Maher ‘If It’s Obama, America Wins. If I ...
• What Side Are You On Asks Chris Hayes
  For some time Chris Hayes has been voicing his frustration with the fact that neither of the presidential candidates, or any other politicians have been loudly addressing climate change. As I watch “media” it seems that he is the only one I follow regularly that keeps sounding the gl ...
• Four More Days
  No more Mitt. Thank God.
• What Are You Doing?
  I ask, what are you doing to make sure The Republican Hoard of Neanderthal zombies don’t get elected in your city, state, or sent to D.C.? If you don’t understand the risk of 2-4 years of having Republicans making your choices for you, think about it. We all know once elected all Rep ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Headline on Adelson’s paper: ‘Amer ...
  Mr. Adelson, a friend and supporter of Prime Minister Netanyahu,  poured almost 100 million dollars into six Republican campaigns, but saw only one of his candidates win. Sore losers: Israel Hayom, the free daily paper owned and published by American gambling billionaire Sheldon Adelson, didn&#8 ...
• A week in photos: November 1-6
  Protests in Nabi Saleh, Ma’asara and Kfer Qaddum; Beit Arabiya is demolished; arrest raid on remaining South Sudanese refugess in Israel; and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week.                    
• Israel demolishes two Palestinian homes in Area C
  As America celebrated the re-election of Barack Obama, it was business as usual in Israeli-controlled Area C of the West Bank. At least two Palestinian homes were demolished today. The residents’ ‘crime?’ They didn’t have building permits, which are issued by Israel and a ...
• After Bibi’s bet on Romney, ‘peace ...
  Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni can win the January 22 election.  If there is one loser in the U.S. election outside the U.S., it is Benjamin Netanyahu – and all of Israel knows it. No one is fooled by his denials that he backed Romney and opposed Obama as demonstratively as he possibly could. ...
• Obama victory: Israeli memes poke fun at Bibi
  Israeli meme artists have been particularly drawn to one particular aspect of the U.S. elections: the alliance between Benjamin Netanyahu, Mitt Romney and Sheldon Adelson. Here are some of our favorite memes that appeared throughout election night and the morning after. > Click here for +972 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Innovative Nyrstar stormwater project saves wa ...
  Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today joined Senator for Tasmania Carol Brown to announce the Australian Government's $2.9 million funding contribution to the Integrated Water Cycle Management Project at Nyrstar Hobart.
• Sustainable water supply for the Huon Valley
  A $30 million upgrade and expansion of Southern Water's Huon Valley water supply infrastructure will provide a reliable and sustainable drinking water supply to local communities.
• Grants to kickstart Indigenous carbon farming ...
  The Gillard Government's new grants program to support Indigenous land managers establish carbon farming businesses opens today.
• Biodiversity fund opens for land managers in N ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced new funding to help protect and manage the unique biodiversity values of northern Australia.
• National Wildlife Corridors Plan Released
  The Gillard Labor Government today announced the National Wildlife Corridors Plan - a bold vision for reconnecting the Australian landscape through a network of wildlife corridors across Australia.

Matt Weidner Blog

• FORECLOSURE DEFENSE NATIONWIDE! CLE JANUARY 16 ...
  LawReviewCle’s Foreclosure Defense in America is an in-depth examination of the tools you will need to build a successful foreclosure defense practice, along with a detailed treatment of the emerging pleading, discovery, trial and appellate strategies you need to achieve results for your c ...
• Will A Democrat or a Republican Be Killing Wom ...
    DRONE CAMPAIGN Scridb filter
• The NDAA- IMMEDIATE, PERMANENT DETENTION!
  After voting for the National Defense Authorization Act last year, U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney is taking a second look at some of its controversial provisions. “People have raised concerns and he’s looking into it,” said Michael Mahaffey, spokesman for the Tequesta Republican. Approve ...
• Floridians Reject Florida Republican Party Ext ...
  I’m most pleased to announce that my opponent in the Florida House Race, District 68, Dwight Dudley beat his opponent Frank Farkas.  I endorsed Dudley after I watched Farkas and the Florida GOP devolve into a viscous campaign of lies and distortions, attacking The Law and Our Constitution. ...
• A vote for Obama is a vote for……RO ...
  Do you really think your vote matters? Do you think it’s counted? Depends on whose programming the software…. MSNBC Scridb filter

abelard - news

• islam - 'good' or 'bad'? the 'scientific' view ...
  Interesting summary of Islam, until the spezker has to answer questions. Then hes as dogmatic as any socialist politician.
• the last push as seen by canada | politics usa ...
  Less partisan, more realistic and so able to make uncomfortable anaalysis.
• international diseases and changing climate th ...
  Shifting living species around the global village spreads disease. No wonder Australia has had very strict visitor and import hygiene rules for decades.
• the Tour de France, 2013 - the centenary year! ...
  Descriptions and photos of the early days of oil extraction in the Middle East; when drilling for oil goes wrong. Book source reviewed.
• government/tax elements on gdp | economics new ...
  How government fudges the books to make GDP, a measure of prosreity, appear healthier than it is in reality.

The Parallel Parliament

• What Now?
  It’s all over but the complaining and the cheering. Barack Obama won in a tight race and Mitt Romney put …Continue reading »
• We Have Overcome
  This past weekend was the date of our annual Sudan concert, where numerous school choirs come together with some pretty …Continue reading »
• Dwarfed
  So New York City mayor Bloomberg decided to endorse Barack Obama for president, despite much disillusionment with the president’s performance, …Continue reading »
• Why I Write
  I wrote my very first novel when I was 11 years of age. For Christmas, my parents gave me a …Continue reading »
• And Now For Some Good News
  Everything seems to be about domestic issues at present, and it’s clear that there are plenty of them to occupy …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Basic research and personal responsibility
  Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
• Risk Science – A personal perspective
  As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
• Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
  In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
• Lost in the Maize
  As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
• Small gods and the art of technology innovation
  There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

Reader Supported News

• The Good of WikiLeaks
  Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
• Race War in Arizona
  Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
• Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
• Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
  Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC)     Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
• Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
  Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)     Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...
  Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
• Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...
  If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
• Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...
  Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.
• World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...
  October seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused as t ...
• The Farm Bill – What Now?
  As of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to make [.. ...

k2p blog

• Do not resuscitate! A case of an “instit ...
  Something is not quite right if the death of a patient - even a terminally ill patient - is caused deliberately and prematurely - whether by action or by inaction - against the patient's wishes. This comes perilously close to being an execution mandated by an institution's "policies".
• Do not resuscitate! A case of an “instit ...
  Something is not quite right if the death of a patient - even a terminally ill patient - is caused deliberately and prematurely - whether by action or by inaction - against the patient's wishes. This comes perilously close to being an execution mandated by an institution's "policies".
• Idle thoughts: Disciplines, sciences and pseud ...
  But there are still far too many disciplines which strive for academic or political approval as a science long before they are mature enough to apply the scientific method. Such frauds are not sustainable.They may well do damage while they remain in fashion but in the long run these "pseudoscien ...
• Idle thoughts: Disciplines, sciences and pseud ...
  But there are still far too many disciplines which strive for academic or political approval as a science long before they are mature enough to apply the scientific method. Such frauds are not sustainable.They may well do damage while they remain in fashion but in the long run these "pseudoscien ...
• By 2100 a world population decline and a short ...
  Alarmists and environmentalists are increasingly taking faith-based and anti-science positions. Alarmism invokes political correctness and "consensus beliefs" rather than evidence to silence criticism . Even hard-core environmentalists are beginning to question this myopic adhesion to ideology. ...

Left Foot Forward

• NHS on ‘amber alert’ in Scotland & ...
  With yet another question about the honesty of the SNP, just how accountable, really, is Alex Salmond?
• Look Left – Obama: The win, what it means for ...
  Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
• Look Left going out shortly – sign up to recei ...
  Look Left, our round up of the week’s politics, will be going out shortly.
• Comment: The Olympic legacy must be about more ...
  Culture secretary Maria Miller delivered a barely-keynote speech on tourism and the Olympic legacy on Tuesday - but surely the legacy is more than just tourism?
• Science spending fell 7.6% in 2010/11, plungin ...
  Science spending has fallen even faster than expected, with individual departmental spends down 7.6% in the first year of the parliament.

Consumerist

• Twitter Apologizes For Freaking Everyone Out B ...
  First of all: Take a deep breath. If you got an email from Twitter saying it had reset your password, the odds are that everything is just fine. The company said it sorta kinda accidentally “unintentionally reset passwords of a larger number of accounts” than it meant to. There&#8217 ...
• Homeowner Discovers Squatters The Night Before ...
  A Florida woman says the sale of her childhood home is now in jeopardy after squatters were discovered living in the property on the night before the sale was supposed to close. The homeowner recently inherited the property after her mother passed away. But when the realtor stopped by on the eve ...
• Housing Administrator Figured Elderly Resident ...
  The very young and the elderly have bodies with needs that are much different from those of us somewhere in between, including the need to be warm. Elderly residents at one Boston Housing Authority public housing complex are feeling the chill after a renovation project changed up the heating sys ...
• Stop Worrying So Much About Your Credit Score ...
  We’re constantly getting e-mails from readers asking if their particular unpaid debt will hurt their credit score (Hint: the answer is likely “yes”) or how they can repair their damaged credit score in a short period of time (Hint: you probably can’t). The fact is, you ne ...
• Amazon To Customers: How’d You Like A Bo ...
  While many of my Amazon purchases arrive as the result of a glass (or three) of wine and access to the World Wide Web, the company is moving from being the purveyor of wine accessories like wine racks and corkscrews to booze merchants. Specifically, the company announced today that it will be se ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Bill Binney Talks Obama Crackdown on Intellige ...
  RT: NSA Whistleblower Exposes Obama’s Secrets Summary: Amid the RT election night coverage last night, GAP client and NSA whistleblower Bill Binney talked about Obama’s unprecedented crackdown on intelligence whistleblowers and expanded surveillance of US citizens. Six whistleblowers have been ...
• NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney Talks Post-9/11 ...
  The Story: Blowing the Whistle on Spying Summary: GAP client and NSA whistleblower Bill Binney talked to The Story last week about his efforts to blow the whistle on post-9/11 NSA surveillance. According to Binney, and fellow whistleblower Kirk Wiebe, the agency is intercep ...
• Whistleblower – Spirit Lake Child Abuse Proble ...
  Map of North Dakota reservationsForum Communications (ND): Official Says Children At Risk in 'Ongoing Epidemic' at Spirit Lake in New Report Summary: In the ongoing saga of the whistleblower allegations of rampant child sexual abuse at the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, the whistlebl ...
• Fukushima Whistleblower Condemns Disaster Afte ...
  The New Zealand Herald: Fukushima Whistleblower – ‘We Shouldn’t Have Been There’ Summary: A worker at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is alleging that the plant knew the risks associated with highly radioactive water at the site but sent in crews without adequate protection. The plant exp ...
• Justice Dept Joins False Claims Suit Against D ...
  Corporate Crime Reporter: Feds Join False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Triple Canopy Summary: The US Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower suit that alleges defense contractor Triple Canopy filed false claims to the federal government for unqualified security guards under a security c ...

UK Progressive

• Reid Soars, Warren Shines
  by Brent Budowsky At the moment of his greatest political triumph, which will rank among the finest in the history of the United States Senate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) reaches out in the tradition of Henry Clay to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speake ...
• Obama’s Next Economy: Why He Must Take This Op ...
  by Robert Reich When the applause among Democrats and recriminations among Republicans begin to quiet down — probably within the next few days — the President will have to make some big decisions. The biggest is on the economy. His victory and the pending “fiscal cliff” give him an opportunity t ...
• Danger: Talking Heads Exploding!
  by Charley James The City of New York had a huge mess to clean up Wednesday morning, and it had nothing to do with Sandy remains or trailing effects from the Nor’easter lashing lower New England. Rather, it’s the result of all of the talking heads on Fox and other right wing media ex ...
• We the People and the New American Civil War
  by Robert Reich The vitriol is worse than I ever recall. Worse than the Palin-induced smarm pf 2008. Worse than the swift-boat lies of 2004. Worse, even, than the anything-goes craziness of 2000 and its ensuing bitterness. It’s almost a civil war. I know families in which close relatives are no ...
• Tales from the Crypt! Challenges Everywhere! T ...
  by Charley James The Republican Party is doing everything in its power to disenfranchise, challenge and intimidate voters across the USA. Here are examples from across the USA Virginia Ginger Weigel, a 47-year old administrative assistant in Columbus Ohio, showed up at her polling station in a w ...

NewsAlert

• Karl Rove's election debacle: Super PAC's spen ...
  NBC News
• Ron Paul: Election shows U.S. 'far gone'
  The Washington Times
• Sal Khan on AirTalk talking about his new book
• 3 Reasons Mitt Romney and Republicans Lost Big ...
• In Defense of History | Butler Shaffer
  The Mises Mises

JoNova

• Are ARC grants for science or a form of govern ...
  ARC Grants have just been announced for 2013 Let’s look at what won a grant in light of the fact that nearly 80% of all the applications for ARC funding fail. (Indeed Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt wonders if our best scientists are hobbled by an arduous waste-of-time process where they spe ...
• It’s back. Voting is over, and the clima ...
  Good news for climate bloggers (why aren’t I “excited”?) The topic no one was going to mention in the election campaign, just got a mention. And in less than 24 hours, it’s already being revived from oblivion. Banking group HSBC tells us that: Barack Obama  may consider i ...
• The US Election — spot the numbers misma ...
  Voting is now underway in all states of the US including Hawaii and Alaska. Something very strange is going on with money. Normally bets are a decent indicator, but in the US right now as people roll out to vote, polls are largely at 50:50, but betting odds of 2-9. The bet-takers own website exp ...
• Extreme heat in 1896: Panic stricken people fl ...
  Photo: Jo Nova Post by: Lance Pidgeon with assistance from Chris Gillham and others. It is as if history is being erased. For all that we hear about recent record-breaking climate extremes, records that are equally extreme, and sometimes even more so, are ignored. In January 1896 a savage blast ...
• Weekend Unthreaded…
  Want to discuss elections that are coming? Rating: 6.3/10 (4 votes cast) Rating: 6.3/10 (4 votes cast)

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

• The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
  Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
• S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
  In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
• Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
  At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
• Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
  John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
• TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
  Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

• How Mayan is the Aztec Sun Disk?
  I’ve been told off many-a-time for using the following image to represent the Mayan doomsday meme: It is known as the Aztec Sun Stone / Aztec Calendar Stone / Aztec Sun Disk – yep, it is of Aztec origin and not Mayan. Pedants out there take great pleasure in pointing this out. Howe ...
• Does the sun have the power to transform human ...
    This is brand new – just released this weekend, and is perhaps the last piece of new, quality 2012 science available before the ancient Mayan doomsday. Video link below.   Does the sun have the power to transform humankind? In Solar (R)evolution, world-renowned German biophysic ...
• The Scarlet Plague: Very Old 2012 Prediction
  I found this via Dennis McClung’s blog… The statistician and skeptic in me says that of all the books ever written about the future, some would have nominated 2012 and some would have got some things right. That isn’t especially meaningful, it’s the same as a million monk ...
• Science: Mass Violence Due Soon
  All of my 2012 work has revolved around aspects that are scientifically plausible – even if sometimes they are a bit “out there”.  Here’s something that is definitely scientific, Violence Due in 2020: Professor Peter Turchin suggests that peaks of violence in the US work ...
• Giant Hippos Invade England!
  For me this is one of the most powerful pieces of evidence, in that it causes people to think: Once upon a time, and not too long ago, hippopotami waded English rivers. Hippos are from Africa, and African weather reaches the United Kingdom only a couple of times per year…. Pretty much ther ...

Facing South

• The outlook for 'Obamacare' in two maps
  After Tuesday's election, President Obama's health care plan remains alive. But its future is uncertain, with many Southern states still uncommitted to creating insurance exchanges and others rejecting federal funding to expand coverage for the poor. read more
• Justice for sale? Backers of shadow groups pus ...
  The race for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court is turning out to be one of the state's most expensive contests, largely due to spending from conservative groups. Many of the special interests pouring money into the contest may have high stakes in the outcome. read more
• Living apart: How the government betrayed a la ...
  The authors of the 1968 Fair Housing Act wanted to reverse decades of government-fostered segregation. But presidents from both parties declined to enforce a law that stirred vehement opposition. read more
• What's going on in the Southern swing states?
  President Obama won three Southern states en route to the White House in 2008. What's happened in the South's swing states? Is it any different than what's happened in the rest of the country? And can he still win? read more
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Watching the tea party poll w ...
  With True the Vote and other tea party-affiliated groups planning a massive poll-watching effort for this election, voting rights advocates are mobilizing in unprecedented numbers to fight back against intimidation. read more

One News Page

• China’s Hu says graft threatens state, party m ...
  BEIJING (Reuters) - President Hu Jintao warned China's incoming leaders on Thursday that corruption threatened the ruling Communist Party and the state, but said the party must stay in charge as it battles growing social unrest. Reported by Firstpost 52 minutes ago
• India to pay state fuel retailers $5.5 bln oil ...
  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will pay 300 billion rupees ($5.5 billion) to state-owned fuel retailers forced to sell at cheaper government-set rates in the first half of the year, said three sources who saw the finance ministry's confirmation letter. Reported by Firstpost 52 minutes ago
• You’ve been a wonderful partner: Obama to PM
  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called up US President Barack Obama to congratulate him on his re-election. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
• PM calls up Obama, says chance to build furthe ...
  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called up US President Barack Obama to congratulate him on his re-election and said this had given the opportunity to the two countries to carry forward and build on the 'enormous successes' achieved in bilateral ties in the last few years. Reported by IndiaT ...
• Obama thanks PM for his wishes, calls him a ‘w ...
  While thanking Singh, Obama described him as 'a wonderful partner' whose leadership at the world stage he appreciated and said he looked forward to working together. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• The Air Defense on 9/11: Anomalies and Questions
• Greece's Uncertain Future: Social Crisis, Fasc ...
• Análisis sobre estrategias de EEUU y OTAN en e ...
• Yes on Prop 37: A Farmer's Perspective
• Despotic vs Democratic: Gulf States Suppress R ...

Daily Tech

• T-Mobile USA Reports Q3 2012 Operating Results
  T-Mobile is still losing post-paid customers
• Smartphone Chipmaker Qualcomm Blows Away Analy ...
  Massive profit bests even the highest analyst expectation
• Lenovo Reveals Fiscal Q2 Earnings, Bucks Trend ...
  Lenovo is still growing faster than the overall PC industry
• Samsung Galaxy S III Pushes Ahead of the iPhon ...
  iPhone 5 is expected to take the top spot in Q4
• Fisker Loses 320 Karmas to Hurricane Sandy
  Sixteen were destroyed by a fire while the rest had flood damage

Oriental Review

• Killing the Alternative: the US Elections Is a ...
  The history of the third parties in the US is a struggle for survival. Political analysts often proclaim that bipartisanship is hardwired in the structure of the electoral process. They notice three main factors that predetermine the existence of the two-party system: campaign finance rules, Ele ...
• US Presidential Elections Procedures – A Showc ...
  The US presidential elections are not direct, not universal, not equal, and do not safeguard the secrecy of voting. This is shown by the reports of all the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights’ missions to monitor the US presidential elections starting from 2002. The re ...
• Democracy in Today’s America (IV)
  Part I Part II Part III What else is in the third basket from Uncle Sam? The Russian Foreign Ministry report on human rights in the United States, along with other crimes, recorded numerous cases of police abuse. In January 2009, the American edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal published t ...
• Democracy in Today’s America (III)
  Part I Part II Uncle Sam and the «matrix of justice» A very special topic in the report by the Russian Foreign Ministry on human rights in the U.S on the partial review of offenses committed by the American side, is in the absolutely abhorrent practice of extra-judicial killings abroad. As part ...
• Democracy in Today’s America (II)
  Part I Uncle Sam, you’re wrong! The fundamental political rights of Americans in today’s society, not only are not exempt from elements of an archaic character, but they have become even more vulnerable, and even more manipulated. Uncle Sam is increasingly dominating them. Elections ...

BlogHer

• Ever Feel Like You Need a Dictionary to Unders ...
  [Editor's Note: I have good news, parents. Your kids are listening to you! I also have bad news, of course. The problem, according to Robyn at Hollow Tree Ventures, is that your kids speak a different language than you. Have no fear! Robyn made us a Parent-to-Kid Dictionary so you can begin to u ...
• All In The Details: Top 8 Hosting Ideas Sure t ...
  Ever find that you are wondering how to put in that one special touch here and there that will set your event apart from others that you've hosted? It all really comes down to the details! You don't have to rent a horse to escort your guests into your party (a la Bridesmaids), just try one or a ...
• From Bad Nails to Nail Art
  The internet has been flooded with excellent Nail Art and I’ve pinned more nail inspirations then I will ever have time to try. When the trend first started, I loved ogling the lovely nails, but I kept my distance. I could barely paint my nails a solid color and have them look nice. My right han ...
• Rep. Gabby Gifford's Shooter Sentenced--It's N ...
  Editor's Note: Ashleigh Burroughs was shot three times at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Tucson, Arizona press event in January 2011. She has been writing about the shooting and its aftermath for BlogHer. Below is what she had to say after gunman Jared Loughner's plea bargain in August. Loughner was o ...
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II Strives To Break Th ...
  [Editor's Note: Are you a gamer? I love reading what The Married Gamers have to offer, I'm not a Call Of Duty enthusiast myself, but I can certainly relate to bonding with my hubby through gaming! --Morgan]courtesy of Activision By now you’ve probably heard of Call of Duty. Maybe you’ve already ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Seven Methods For Creating The Best Digestion ...
  Dealing with the symptoms of chronic digestive dysfunction can be discouraging for many people, especially when unknown dietary and environmental triggers constantly seem to create bloat, abdominal pain, gas, and other problems. But correcting the ...
• Doctors Planning to Use Depo-Provera to Combat ...
  A new study released by the American Academy of Pediatrics states that boys in America are reaching puberty at an earlier age than is considered standard 30 to 40 years ago. Which translates to a full 6 ...
• Health Benefits of Organic Royal Jelly
  Royal Jelly is unique and its health benefits are tremendous in bees and in humans. This creamy secretion, produced by worker bees, is fed to bee larvae to develop them into workers. However, if higher ...
• Green Tea Found to Reduce Rate of Some GI Cancers
  Women who drink green tea may lower their risk of developing some digestive system cancers, especially cancers of the stomach/esophagus and colorectum, according to a study led by researchers from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The study by ...
• Our Brains Can Be Logical and Compassionate — ...
  The human brain is unquestioningly an amazing thing. But for all its strengths, it can be pretty glitchy at times. And indeed, as new research from Case Western Reserve has revealed, our brains have two ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• ‘War on coal’ effort fails to beat ...
  President Barack Obama waves as he walks on stage with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha at his election night party Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Chicago. Obama defeated Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Well, it turns ...
• Before tomorrow: Election Day in coal country
  Across West Virginia, the polls have opened. Election Day 2012 has begun.  The endless news articles, television ads and public opinion surveys are over. Now we vote. In our nation’s coalfields, it’s time for miners, their families and their neighbors to decide if there really is a & ...
• Coal politics: Some other races to watch on Tu ...
  Republican Tom Smith, left, speaks as Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey looks on during a debate between Pennsylvania’s candidates for U.S. Senate, at the WPVI-TV studio, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, in Philadelphia.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) We’ve written before on this blog about the absurdit ...
• Almost over: One last flurry of coal election ...
  President Barack Obama waves to supporters during a campaign event at McArthur High School, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in Hollywood, Fla. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) With Election Day finally almost here, there’s been a flurry of last-minute coverage of coal-mining issues and coal&#8217 ...
• Friday roundup, Nov. 2, 2012
  In this April 2010 photo, miners watch as a piece of equipment passes by in the Tech Leasing and Rebuild Inc. Mine #1 in Buchanan County, Va. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger) As so many of our neighbors continue to dig out and otherwise try to recover from super-storm Sandy, it&# ...

Daniel Miessler

• A Brilliant Discussion on the Founding of Our ...
  Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:06:08 — 115.5MB) On Alexander Hamilton/James Madison’s Federalist Papers (1, 10-12, 14-17, 39, 47-51), published as newspaper editorials 1787-8, plus Letters III and IV from Brutus, an Anti-Federalist. via partiallyexaminedlife.com If you care at all about politics ...
• Google Eliminates Left Sidebar from Search Results
  You’ll notice a new simpler, cleaner design on the search results page — we’ve been working on ways to create a consistent search experience across the wide variety of devices and screen sizes people use today. We started with tablets last year, got it to mobile phones a few weeks ago, and are n ...
• Using the Best | Dustin Curtis
  “The best” isn’t necessarily a product or thing. It’s the reward for winning the battle fought between patience, obsession, and desire. It takes an unreasonably long amount of time to find the best of something. It requires that you know everything about a product’s market, manufacture, and desi ...
• Difficult-to-read Font Reduces Political Bias ...
  Liberals and conservatives who are polarized on certain politically charged subjects become more moderate when reading political arguments in a difficult-to-read font, researchers report in a new study. Likewise, people with induced bias for or against a defendant in a mock trial are less likely ...
• A Depressing Truth About Friendship in Adulthood
  One of the most depressing things in life is not being able have all your friends from various phases of your life meet and spend time with each other. I have my first friends–from growing up and high school. I have my university friends. And I have friends from my various work phases and ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Education Beat: Critical Thinking; Bogus “Refo ...
  by John Konopak, Ph.D. (LSU, 1989, Education) WWH/CJE +~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+   Critical Thinking: All parents would claim they want their kids to think critically…Just not til the little bastids leave home! Probably the one person who has had the greatest ...
• No More Campaign Ads
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – No more ads, no more calls no more trees chopped down for the tons of campaign literature! I am grateful. Yes, I AM happy that the Prez won reelection. I am also THRILLED that so many fine women won their races and that, so many knuckle dragging, misogynisti ...
• WWH/CJE Thursday News Briefs
  SANDY-TORN NORTHEAST DEALS WITH MORE WIND, WATER Great cover for Bloombergs racist handling of sandy. NEW YORK (AP) – The nor’easter, as promised, brought gusting winds, rain, snow and the threat of flooding. It menaced travelers with icy roads, snarled the Long Island Rail Road and ...
• We are Closed for the day – Back tomorrow
  Enjoy the Corporate Media for Today! It’s their Victory. The Man,.One – The truth,Love and Peace Zero!
• WWH/CJE Wednesday News Briefs – Heart ju ...
  GAY MARRIAGE, MARIJUANA BACKED IN HISTORIC VOTES Altering the course of U.S social policy, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, while Washington state and Colorado set up a showdown with federal authorities by legalizing recreational use of mar ...

reference frame

• A slower speed of light: MIT relativistic acti ...
  In the past, this blog focused on relativistic optical effects and visualizations of Einstein's theory: special relativity (download Real Time Relativity), general relativity, and Andy Hall's relativistic raptor. But there's some new competition on the market: MIT Gamelab: A slow ...
• When truths don't commute. Inconsistent histories.
  A short introduction to Consistent Histories after some trivial appetizer When the uncertainty principle is being presented, people usually – if not always – talk about the position and the momentum or analogous dimensionful quantities. That leads most people to either ignore the princip ...
• Cosmic GDP drops 97% since peak star
  Staunch Chicken Littles such as Alexander Ač love to talk about "peak oil", a hypothetical moment (and, in their opinion, a predictable and important moment) at which the global oil production reaches its global maximum. But Phys.ORG has discussed an even more far-reaching peak of ...
• RSS AMSU: 2012 seems to be 11th warmest on record
  For almost 15 years, the climate alarmist bigots have been dreaming about another warm year that would dethrone 1998 as the warmest year on the satellite temperature record. It's totally clear by now that year 2012 won't become this divine signal of their holy global warming they have been de ...
• Obama-Romney: TRF poll
  This poll is very simple and unsurprising. I want the U.S. readers – which make up 1/2 of the TRF visitors – to report whom they voted for and whom they expect to win. Well, I only mean the U.S. readers who are not crying of being tired of Bronko Báma and Mitt Romney yet. Who ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Hotel room tests uncover high levels of contam ...
  A CBC Marketplace investigation has uncovered potentially dangerous levels of filth and contamination in hotel rooms across the country. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Radioactive Contamination On San Francisco’s Treasure Island: A Tale Of US Government Obfuscation & Willful Ig ...
• Terrorism In Canada On November 5, 2012
  Terrorism Comes to Canada The west coast of Canada is now under attack by terrorists while British Columbia Premier, Christy Clark, continues to cover up her government’s participation in the murder of Justice Carolyn Layden-Strevenson and Ottawa lawyer, Eric Noel,&#160 ...
• The End of the 9-5: When Work Time is Either A ...
  from Silver Vigilante: In the expeditiously metastasizing economy of globalization, the traditional means of accomplishing work in everyday life now have the opportunity to be revolutionized in their present makeup. To a small degree, for the western nations, what work is has changed in the wake ...
• Military investigating video of racially charg ...
  The Canadian military has launched a formal investigation after a racially charged video was leaked to CBC News. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Mom charged in baby deaths gives birth in custody A woman charged with killing two babies and trying to... Spy Delisle’s guilty ple ...
• Jim Rogers: Obama Re-election Will Spark SOARI ...
  by Forrest Jones, Money News: A newly re-elected President Barack Obama will continue encouraging loose monetary policies that will fuel inflation rates down the road, and investors need to get ready now, said famed commodities investor Jim Rogers. Under Obama’s first term in office, the F ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

• EWG, Public Citizen Seek Court Backing for S. ...
  By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow The Environmental Working Group and Public Citizen have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to support a San Francisco law that would require cell phone retailers to distribute a consumer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
• Environmental Groups Sue California for Failin ...
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• BPA: Recent Research Shows Continued Need for ...
  By Jason Rano, Director of Government Affairs There is now solid evidence that Americans have gotten the message that the plastics chemical bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that can disrupt the hormone system, is hazardous to their health. On September... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Fracking Leases May Lower Property Values, Def ...
  By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners near wells. The New York Times reported last month that uncertainty over whether hydraulic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• Type 3 Diabetes?
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Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Cuomo and Bloomberg channel public outrage aft ...
• Albany now, Obama in four years
• City: Athena could bring up to three inches of ...
• Bloomberg on the Board of Elections: 'There's ...
• M.T.A. reaps goodwill with post-hurricane perf ...

Views & News from Norway

• Strike averted, but airport delays can continue
  Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen along with airports in Trondheim and Bergen were spared new strike action by ground personnel on Thursday, but air traffic control delays continue to loom because of short staffing in the towers. More than 200 members of the labour union Handel og Kontor w ...
• Vandal unleashes rampage in Bergen
  Police in Bergen were holding a man in custody on Thursday after he ran amok with a hammer and crowbar in the middle of the night. The man smashed up no less than 26 parked cars before he was finally caught. Residents of the area called police around 3am when they heard the sounds of [...]
• Bellona: ‘Regulate the rig regulators’
  Norwegian environmental organization Bellona was calling on Thursday for Norwegian regulatory agencies to do a better job of regulating offshore oil and gas installations, following Wednesday’s evacuation of an accommodation platform off Kristiansund that threatened to tip over. The  platf ...
• SAS postpones crisis plan release
  Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), caught in severe turbulence over its heavy debt and high costs, failed to present as scheduled on Thursday either its third-quarter results or its plans for dealing with its latest financial crisis. Analysts and reporters were told SAS executives need more time to re ...
• Hundreds airlifted off tilting platform
  An accommodation platform off the northwest coast of Norway was being evacuated on Wednesday after it started to tilt in the early morning hours. Helicopters were sent out to the platform from the nearest mainland base at Kristiansund. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that 374 offshore work ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Climbing the Ladder of Awareness
  When it comes to our understanding of the unfolding global crisis, each of us seems to fit somewhere along a continuum of awareness that can be roughly divided into five stages: Dead asleep. At this stage there seem to be no fundamental problems, just some shortcomings in human organizatio ...
• A Journey of Transition: Becoming a Profession ...
  by Dan French Photo © Craig Mackintosh Like the title suggests, I’m going to write a few articles about my journey to becoming a professional permaculture designer… if you don’t mind? I’m doing this for a few reasons: to help me articulate and formalize what it is I ...
• The Great Transition, Part II: Building a Wind ...
  by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In the race to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy and avoid runaway climate change, wind has opened a wide lead on both solar and geothermal energy. Solar panels, with a capacity totaling 70,000 megawatts, and geothermal power ...
• The Great Transition, Part I: From Fossil Fuel ...
  by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about pollution and climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world ...
• We Don’t Want to Know
  I awoke this morning eager to find out the results of November 6th’s voting in the U.S. of A. And no, I’m not talking about the tiresome presidential election…. The voting I’m referring to is in regards to Proposition 37 — the bill aimed at getting GMO-contain ...

Pointman's

• Green Myths : We must conserve everything.
  There’s this unquestioned idea, that’s been firmly planted into the public mind. That idea is that nothing should ever be allowed to go extinct and therefore conservation of anything is automatically a good thing. It’s nearly universally accepted and yet it’s totally unna ...
• I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.
  Blogging is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at some consid ...
• Intentions, profiles and predictability.
  I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life working out other people’s real intentions, and what they would do and how they would attempt to do it, because of those intentions. Getting one jump ahead of complex, imaginative and sometimes troubled minds, is a tough business, but that’s what made i ...
• The creeping betrayal of democracy in Australia.
  For various reasons, I’ve travelled a lot and had the opportunity to meet and get to know, people from many different countries and cultures. It’s one of the pleasures of life and if you’re a gregarious person, which I am, you find out about each other. Like you and I, they all ...
• The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...
  Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• New Orleans City Council Candidate Launches An ...
  District B City Council candidate Eric Strachan sent out a mailer this week attacking one of his opponents for supporting Barack Obama. While President Obama is not popular in Louisiana, he is popular in New Orleans, including in the district Strachan seeks to represent. In 2008, Obama easily ca ...
• Want to Help People Recovering From Hurricane ...
  In response to Hurricane Sandy and those who are looking for places to donate, we are publishing below an edited excerpt/combination from articles about the Red Cross and relief previously posted on this site. Perhaps nowhere in the US is Red Cross as unpopular as in New Orleans, where the mem ...
• New Series of Short Videos on Al Jazeera Highl ...
  Al Jazeera English is a 24-hour news channel available in more than 250 million households in over 130 countries. They have 65 bureaus across the globe, mostly rooted in the global South. As part of their US election coverage, they are airing this series of short videos focused on some of the is ...
• "Bounce Nation" Holds Protest at Local Radio S ...
  Reposted from the Alliance Institute: Supporters of bounce music culture rallied on Oct. 18th in front of 201 St. Charles, home of Cumulus Broadcasting and 102.9FM Radio, asking that station management reinstate the “Power Posse” morning show. Recently the “Power Posse” was taken off the ...
• Librotraficantes Mark Opening of New Latino Cu ...
  From a press release from friends of the Librotraficantes: Join the Librotraficantes for an evening of contraband prose at Casa Borrega, 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, Friday, November 2, from 7-8:30pm. Imagine the New Orleans School Board banning African American books. Well, the equiv ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Roy please refer to Fuck sake, party system, America is fucked Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:52 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Are Humans this stupid? Or is the whole system rigged?Statistics: Posted by Roy Hobs — Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:46 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Fuck sake, party system, America is fucked http://rt.com/usa/news/jesse-jackson-house-absence-194/ On Election Day, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sat in a Minnesota hospital being treated for depression and bipolar disorder, where he had been for five months. Despite his absence, the congressman was r ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  Carolyn Yeager covered this topic in depth: http://thewhitenetwork.com/data/audio/t ... 121103.mp3 Worth a listen, IMHO. Should we accept the truth of the Protocols of Zion? Published on November 3, 2012by Carolyn in Saturday Afternoon with Carolyn Yeager Oct. 3, 2012 Carolyn wades into t ...
• Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
  A good show. --CSR CHS and Gordon Long discuss Lessons From Japan: "How has Japan avoided an economic death spiral?". iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aqrnA6tJ1gStatistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:54 am

TVNZ

• Seven life sentences for Arizona gunman
  Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords stood in federal court to face her would-be assassin today.
• St Martin's festival triggers Croatian drink-d ...
  Croatian police urged drivers to stay away from their vehicles during celebrations for St Martin's Day.
• Guatemala quake toll rises as search for survi ...
  Rescue workers carted out dead bodies found under rubble after Guatemala's most powerful earthquake in decades.
• New Yorkers staggering after one-two weather punch
  New York City and much of the US Northeast today dug out from a snowstorm.
• Assad says he will 'live and die' in Syria
  President Bashar al-Assad has scotched any suggestion he might flee Syria.

environment 360

• Forget Kyoto: Putting a Tax on Carbon Consumption
  Given the failure of international climate negotiations, an Oxford University economist says a carbon consumption tax would be the most effective way of lowering CO2 emissions. If countries are serious about addressing climate change, he argues, then they must pay for the carbon pollution they c ...
• China and Russia Block Proposal to Protect Ant ...
  International talks to protect large areas of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica collapsed last week after several nations, including China, blocked the proposal over concerns about fishing access, according to reports. Representatives from 25 member states — including China, Russia, the ...
• Reduced Snowpacks Allowing Trees to Invade Mou ...
  Some mountain meadows in the U.S. Northwest are steadily disappearing as the effects of climate change have allowed trees to invade the ecosystemsin recent decades, a new study says. In an analysis of Jefferson Click to enlarge Oregon State University A meadow at the base of Mount Jefferso ...
• Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy Shows Birth and D ...
  As the storm that was Hurricane Sandy weakened over Pennsylvania, NASA released a timelapse animation of the lifespan of the massive storm, tracking its path from NASAVIDEO: The path of Sandy the Caribbean, where it developed, to its violent landfall on the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. The ...
• Photo Gallery: A Quest to Document The Earth’s ...
  Since 2007, photographer James Balog has deployed dozens of time-lapse cameras on four continents to chronicle one of the starkest examples of global warming — the rapid melting of the world’s glaciers. That project, known as the Extreme Ice Survey and carried out in collaboration wit ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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

backofthebook

• Son of “Midnight’s Children”
  By Mark Leiren-Young When I walk into the downtown Toronto hotel room to meet Salman Rushdie, I can’t help scoping the halls for bodyguards. Even though he’s no longer in hiding, there’s still a three million dollar bounty on the writer’s head and he’s still the most buzzed about celebrity at th ...
• The man who predicted Sandy
  By John Klein (aka Saskboy) I find the current political and media climate in Canada to be insufferably stupid. Despite there being excellent, professional journalists everywhere, there are many more time/space fillers who skew the public’s perception of what is going on and what really ma ...
• A Modest Opinion — It’s a Liberal ...
  By Nathaniel Moher Are you sitting down? Well  . . . answer the question. Whatever. If you’re not sitting down, you should be sitting down, because I’m about to blow your mind. Did you know that there are other Liberals that aren’t Justin Trudeau? And I’m not talking about his father Joseph, I’m ...
• The Navigable Waters Unprotection Act
  By David@Sixthestate.net Continuing Sixth Estate’s fall 2012 budget coverage, which began with a look at what appears to me to be some appalling chicanery in the MP pension “reform” scheme, I thought it would be nice to look at the end of the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Symbolic of the shif ...
• Is the MPs’ new pension plan a clever ma ...
  By David@Sixthestate.net After weeks of rumours about MP pension reforms in the works, the Harper regime finally brought them out in the budget .  .  . sort of. And it received great approbation for it. The mediasphere is tremendously excited at the good example the government is setting here. E ...

Daily Beast

• Pile Driving
  The Daily Pic: Mike Kelley paints carpet and goes grim in "Funny".
• TGIF Is Dead
  The Disney Channel’s planned reboot of Boy Meets World is blasphemy, writes Sujay Kumar.
• Appoint Bill Clinton Peace Envoy
  Bernard Avishai gives advice to Obama: appoint Bill Clinton as Mideast peace envoy.
• Elizabeth the Great
  Republicans thought they’d bested Warren by denying her confirmation to run the CFPB. They were wrong. Daniel Gross reports.
• The One That Adelson Won
  Ali Gharib on the one race that Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson may have tipped in his favor.

Loonwatch

• Election 2012: Islamophobes Lose Big
  Good riddance.
• Dateline: Election Day 2012
  "The morning after and days that follow will no doubt bring the pangs of regret: that no one was strong enough to transcend the foolishness and make a real difference, and that this is all hastening to the time where things truly fall apart."
• Salon.com: Bachmann Stands by Muslim Witch Hunt
  In the final debate of her campaign, Bachmann defends her witch hunt.
• UC Berkeley Launches Islamophobia Studies Journal
  New academic journal analyzes Islamophobia and its effect on Muslim people.
• Richard Dawkins As Crusader: “Islam, One ...
  Mealy-mouthed caveats distinguishing the "evil of Islam" from the "majority of Muslims" won't dispel Dawkins' implicit Islamophobia.

Energy News

• “Astonishing”: Thyroid abnormalities found in ...
• 4 quakes M4.0 and above hit Fukushima in 24-ho ...
• TV: Methane “much closer” to community than pr ...
• AP: Fukushima native elected to U.S. Senate
• ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’ gets 4-minute segment ...

Japan Times

• Japan, U.S. to start review of defense guidelines
  The government and the United States plan to launch working-level talks early next month on revising the guidelines for bilateral defense cooperation, officials said Thursday. Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto has expressed his willingness to rethink the guidelines in a bid to deal with emergi ...
• Kyushu 2012 — once more, two yokozuna he ...
  For the first time since 2009, the Kyushu Basho, Nov. 11-25, will see two yokozuna featured on the ranking sheet. Hakuho is in the slightly more prestigious east slot, with Harumafuji over on the west side of the banzuke. Harumafuji will, of course, be the one many want to see in his first tou ...
• Residents near Futenma file base noise lawsuit
  Residents living near U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa sued for damages Thursday for excessive noise levels. Lawyers for the 1,199 plaintiffs demanded ¥470 million in compensation from the central government during the first session before the Naha District Court's branch ...
• Cultural institute hosts symposium, concert on ...
  On Nov. 16, the Goethe-Institut Tokyo will host an event titled "Die Niemandsklänge" ("The Sounds of Nobody"), which will feature a symposium and a concert focusing on artistic expression in Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the ensuing nuclear disaster. P ...
• Mr. Obama wins again
  U.S. President Barack Obama has won a second term in the White House. His victory was narrow, but it was definitive. Equally important for him, his Democratic Party retained control of the U.S. Senate. On the other hand, as expected, the Republican Party maintained its majority in the House of R ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• Harper on India
  The Prime Minister considers the political situation in New Delhi. Mr. Harper, who this...
• Harper on the United States
  The official readout of the Prime Minister’s conversation with Barack Obama. Prime Minister Stephen...
• Trouble for Penashue
  The Canadian Press considers Peter Penashue’s present predicament. Embattled Conservative cabinet minister Peter Penashue...
• Maclean’s Live: Question Period livestre ...
  What are you waiting for? Join the fray using the hashtag #QP
• Real estate: Toronto still defying gravity
  Housing starts and new home prices out this morning

Making It Count - CCPA

• What if the minimum wage was a living wage?
  Increasingly, leadership for policy change comes from outside of government, not from within. It’s why many Ontarians who are focused on reducing and eliminating poverty in this province have engaged in a broadening conversation about how to end working poverty through decent jobs, a better mini ...
• Welcome to the Wageless Recovery
  The Harper government likes to remind Canadians that we’ve done better than most developed nations in bouncing back from the global economic crisis. But digging into the data shows why many people might be having trouble cheering this news: wages have not kept pace with inflation, and new hires ...
• Getting at the root causes of hunger in Atlant ...
  Food Banks Canada released its latest statistics on national food bank usage this week.  The data are assembled in a document titled HungerCount 2012.  Not only has food bank usage continued to increase, more and more users are working and more are families with children.  According to the repor ...
• Will Frankenstorm put climate change back on t ...
  In recent years the world has experienced a sequence of climate-change-related disasters. Hurricane Sandy comes on top of massive drought through the summer that has led to 40% loss of American corn and other grain crops, raging wildfires in the southeast US, tornados and derechos, etc – and tha ...
• Privatizing CMHC?
  In a recent interview with the Globe and Mail, Canadian Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty expressed worries about the financial burden laid on taxpayers by having the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) deal and trade mortgages. As a remedy, he suggests privatizing the federal Crown co ...

ReDress

• Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
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• What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
  Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
• Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
  Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
• Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
  Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Physics Today

• Graphene offers clear window on liquids
  BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
• Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
  Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
• No title
  Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
• Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
  Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
• Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
  Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

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Peakwater

• San Franciso Votes to Keep Its Yosemite Water ...
  “San Francisco voters rejected overwhelmingly a measure that sought to restore of flooded gorge in Yosemite National Park that is used as a giant city reservoir. “The San Francisco Department of Elections on Wednesday reported that only about 23 percent of voters supported Measure F. ...
• Right to vote on desal in Santa Cruz sails through
  “Santa Cruz voters have soundly said they want a future vote on a controversial desalination plant. Measure P, a ballot question organized by the Right to Vote on Desal Coalition, asked voters not whether they want to approve the plant but rather whether they want a future say on plans to ...
• Obama And Romney Say Little About Water Issues ...
  “Next week, voters in San Francisco will decide whether the city  should draw up plans to end a century-old dispute over the environmental  cost of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, which supplies 61 percent of the city’s  drinking water. The cost of removing O’Shaughnessy Dam and replacing  both it ...
• Water Security Conflicts: A Regional Perspective
  “Water scarcity has received a lot of attention over the last three decades. It has been predicted to be the source of future wars and many experts have publicly warned about the dangers of water scarcity as the main factor for armed conflict in the Middle East and Africa.  Despite the pre ...
• Fukushima Operators Struggle to Contain &#8216 ...
  “The plant currently holds 200,000 tonnes of highly contaminated waste water, used to cool the broken reactors, but operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, continues to struggle to find ways to store the toxic substance. TEPCO has said they are running out of room to build more storage tan ...

D. Kucinich

• Statement Regarding Burglary and Ransacking of ...
  “I arrived from Washington on Monday, November 5 to discover that my home had been burglarized and ransacked. The Cleveland Police Department responded promptly and they are investigating,” said Kucinich.
• Avoiding the “Fiscal Cliff”
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will hold an educational conference tomorrow on avoiding the “fiscal cliff,” solving our long-term fiscal problems, and creating millions of good jobs. The event is open to the media. When: 10:30 am. Where: 14400 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio 44107. D ...
• Kucinich Announces Congressional Briefing on U ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video criticizing the lack of oversight in the United States’ combat drones program. Kucinich also announced plans to hold a Congressional briefing on the drone program on November 16, 2012.   See the video here. “The Washing ...
• Repeating their Efforts, State Department Hope ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement responding to news reports that the State Department is organizing a new conference in Qatar to organize scattered Syrian opposition groups into a single entity. Previous efforts resulted in the Syrian National Council, co ...
• Save Billions and Protect our Children’s Healt ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video explaining how American tax dollars go to subsidize the childhood obesity epidemic facing America. Kucinich is author of legislation, HR 4310, which would end the subsidy. See video here. “Did you know that YOU are paying to ...

Authentically Wired

• and after all the $$$ corporate has spent in p ...
  … and after all the $$$ corporate has spent in propaganda on the virtues of unregulated capitalism … Americans Aged 18-29 Have a More Favorable View Towards Socialism Than Capitalism 11-04-2012  •  http://www.dailypaul.com, by Paulreal A recent Pew poll showed that young people IN THE ...
• on a Massive Crime Spree
  American Banks Are on a Massive Crime Spree; Obama and Romney Hope You Won’t Notice   READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE …. 1-04-2012  •  Phoenix New Times  …http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/122001-2012-11-04-american-banks-are-on-a-massive-crime-spree-obama-and.htm?From=New ...
• do you really believe the either political par ...
  … ? … do you really believe the either political party supports any electoral process they cannot control or manipulate …? Arizona’s Proposition 121 Explained 11-04-2012  •  http://www.youtube.com,by IVoterNetwork 90 Second Explanation of Prop 121. The proposition would fundament ...
• possibility America might follow
  … any possibility America might follow suit … Sweden Wants Your Trash http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/28/163823839/sweden-wants-your-trash …by SOPHIA JONES …October 28, 2012 5:24 PM Move over Abba, Sweden has found new fame. The small Nordic country is breaking recor ...
• Instead of ranting
    … Instead of ranting about the NY Times why not inform us which publications, in your opinion, provide honest information …! The despicable New York Times is a pro-Monsanto rag, and it has been tweeting out lies and disinformation about Proposition 37 in an effort to make sure it fails: h ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant AP ...
  Over the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhou ...
• Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
  A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
• Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...
  A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
• Chart: Forest loss in Latin America
  Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
• Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragments
  When the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest, stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in rivers and giant ant ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Mammoth skeleton found in France
  Archaeologists in France have unearthed a rather hairy fossil - a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth.The bones - thought to belong to a creature that roamed the earth between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago - were discovered by...
• From lab to golden opportunity with wool
  A partnership between a Victoria University professor and his former student has led to a startup which has developed technology to alter the colour and properties of wool.Chemical and physical sciences professor Jim Johnston worked...
• Website to get tails wagging
  Two animal-loving Massey University PhD students have joined forces to create a social media network for Kiwi pet owners.The website, petsnearby.com , is both a social network and database of servi
• Stephan Lewandowsky: Sandy sways opinion on cl ...
  "It's global warming, stupid" - Bloomberg's Businessweek cover last week left little doubt about its opinion concerning "Frankenstorm" Sandy.The accompanying tweet anticipated that the cover might "generate controversy, but only...
• Dollar drives Rakon shift to Asia
  Rakon's plan to shift New Zealand manufacturing to lower-cost plants in India and China will help address a "commoditisation" that has taken place in the smart wireless device segment of its business and the challenge posed by the...

The Bovine

• Israel ahead in medical marijuana; Colorado an ...
  From USA Today: “SAFED, Israel (AP) — Moshe Rute survived the Holocaust by hiding in a barn full of chickens. He nearly lost the use of his hands after a stroke two years ago. He became debilitated by recurring nightmares … Continue reading →
• New science on buttermilk’s benefits
  From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “The International Milk Genomics Consortium (IMGC) continues to challenge the conventional wisdom about milk. After deleting one of its articles from the October issue about the potential benefits of raw milk, it now … Continue read ...
• It looks like a “NO” on California ...
  From Natural News.com (NaturalNews) Proposition 37 appears to have failed at the ballot box in California, according to the California Secretary of State ballot measures results. The GMO labeling ballot measure, which would have required food companies to label the GM … Continue reading &# ...
• California’s Proposition 37 for GMO labe ...
  Californians vote today on whether they want GMO-containing foods labeled as such. From Suzanne Goldenberg in The Guardian (UK): “Monsanto and other agribusiness and food companies have spent more than $45m (£28m) to defeat a California ballot measure that would require labelling of some G ...
• California’s Proposition 37 for GMO labe ...
  Californians vote today on whether they want GMO-containing foods labeled as such. From Suzanne Goldenberg in The Guardian (UK): “Monsanto and other agribusiness and food companies have spent more than $45m (£28m) to defeat a California ballot measure that would require labelling of some G ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Merkel and Cameron Deadlocked Over EU Budget; ...
  Merkel and Cameron Deadlocked British Prime Minister David Cameron is locked in a battle with German chancellor Angela Merkel over whether to increase the size of the EU budget. Cameron is the only holdout (yet he deserves no credit for his position). Rather, the British Parliament Vo ...
• Explosion in Uncovered Employment During the R ...
  Covered employment is the set of working employees that have unemployment benefits. Self-employed persons such as myself have to pay into state unemployment insurance programs but we are ineligible to receive benefits (we are not covered). Similarly, people selling trinkets on Ebay a ...
• Dreadful Economic Data in Germany, Italy, Spai ...
  With all the focus (mine included) on the US elections it was easy to overlook some quite a lot of extremely poor economic reports in the Eurozone. By the way, many people are attributing the stock market decline to the election of Obama. I was up at 3:00AM and the futures were still green. ...
• Equities Smashed Following Election; European ...
  It's a sea of red in the US and European equity markets following the victory of president Obama and statements made by ECB president Mario Draghi. US equities are now down well over 2% and most of Europe was down between 1 and 2 %. Things would not be any different if Romney had won. ...
• Far Right Costs Romney the Election; Mitt Romn ...
  People Believe What They Want to Believe Conventional wisdom says late deciders break against the incumbent. I said otherwise. I based my 90% likelihood of an Obama win on the notion that late deciders break in an unknown manner but in a big way. When the surge in support for Romney ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• The Reality Principle -Episode 4
  Recovery & Resistance: Sandy, Obama, and the Fight for Health Care The past ten days have seen the utter devastation of Hurricane Sandy and the triumph of Barack Obama. From ignoring heavily affected poor and working class communities to framing Obama’s victory as a triumph for democr ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Mass Delusion & Obama’s Election Obama’s re-election was a wonderful example of how the public relations and advertising industries created what Walter Lippmann referred to as the “bewildered herd” of “ignorant and meddlesome outsiders” who need to have t ...
• Money Party Wins US Election
  “America is a one party state with two wings-Each replicates the other.”  The same party wins every time. Duopoly power rules. America is a one party state with two wings. Each replicates the other. On major issues mattering most, not a dime’s worth of difference separates them. The late G ...
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Borgholm Dolphin Receives 12 Month North Sea C ...
  Dolphin Drilling Ltd, a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy ASA, received a letter of intent today for the provision of the accommodation semi-submersible Borgholm Dolphin for a twelve month period commencing [...]
• Britoil Jumps into PSV Market with Pair of Uls ...
  Singapore-based shipowner Britoil Offshore Services Pte Ltd. entered into a contract today with the Ulstein Group for the design and equipment packages for two platform supply vessels of Ulstein’s new [...]
• Martek Marine Releases New Gas Monitoring Syst ...
  Martek Marine announced today the release of a new product called Marine Tankscape, a gas monitoring system for tankers and reefer vessels which removes the need for seafarers taking hand notes [...]
• EMAS AMC Wins $200 Million in Offshore Enginee ...
  Singapore-based Ezra Holdings Ltd announced today that its subsea division, EMAS AMC, secured two contracts with major South Korean clients worth a combined total of approximately US$200 million. EMAS AMC [...]
• Clarkson Plc Shares the Pain of the Shipping I ...
  (Bloomberg) — Clarkson Plc, the world’s largest shipbroker, plunged the most since 2009 after saying this year’s earnings will be lower than executives expected because of a slump in vessel [...]

Press TV

• Rohingyas declare global day of action
  Rohingya organizations and activists around the world have declared Nov. 8 a global day of action to draw attention to the ongoing plight of Muslims in Myanmar.
• ‘Syria invasion not affordable by world’
  Syrian President Bashar Assad has dismissed the likelihood of any Western-led military intervention against his country, saying the domino effect of such adventurism will be unbearable for the global community.
• Turkish troops kill three PKK members
  Three members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in a Turkish military operation against the group in Turkey’s southeastern province of Hakkari.
• Almost half of Britons want EU exit
  Almost half of Britons are expected to vote for the UK to leave the European Union (EU) if a referendum is hold, a new survey has found.
• ‘Obama obeys Wall Street masters’
  A political analyst says the United States President Barack Obama obeys “the masters on the Wall Street” in his financial policies, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

• Africa Analysis: Donors should focus on nation ...
  Aid agencies and international research funders have a role in supporting Africa's nascent national science funds, writes Linda Nordling.
• Foresight studies: a current challenge for Lat ...
  Latin America is taking its first steps towards introducing foresight studies in agriculture, in order to forecast scenarios and plan ahead.
• A match made in cyberspace: how networks nurtu ...
  With the growth of online science networks, geography and economics no longer dictate how research is undertaken or published, finds Smriti Mallapaty.
• Deep sea mining: exploration is inevitable
  Despite concern over adverse impacts, deep marine mineral exploration is set to become a global industry, says geologist Chris Yeats.
• Climate change could hit crops far worse than ...
  A synthesis of climate change impact studies for key crops in Africa and South Asia warns of significant yield reductions and knowledge gaps.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Robotic router
  Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
• Flexible batteries
  One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
• Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
  Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
• The violent histories of hot Jupiters
  A paper published in Nature last week has discovered that planetary systems containing so-called hot Jupiters are likely to have had violent pasts. The evidence stems from a difference in the way th...
• Black holes, as revealed by X-rays
  This week, the journal Science have produced a special issue dedicated to the subject of black hole research, and Rob Fender of the University of Southampton reviewed what we know about the X-ray emi...

Nick Turse

• Blurbs are coming in for my next book, Kill An ...
  Blurbs are coming in for my next book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam and I can’t help but share this one from Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried, Going After Cacciato, and If I Die in a Combat Zone, among others.  I’m left speechless.  “This bo ...
• "In Syria on Wednesday, insurgents escalated a ...
  “In Syria on Wednesday, insurgents escalated attacks on targets within earshot of President...
• wnyc:(via Map: How New York Tweeted During H ...
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• "I had to go to the wine cellar and find a goo ...
  “I had to go to the wine cellar and find a good bottle of wine and drink it before it goes...
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