1 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Underground wine caves in the Champagne where Champagne is aged in a constant cool temperature environment. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

MediaCom talk about McKinsey Purchase Cycle (Photo credit: EEPaul)

Cover of Scarlett Johansson

Veterans Today

• The personification of self-righteousness
  In the song Mack the Knife there’s a line about a body on the sidewalk “oozing” life. Last night there was a body, a living one, oozing self-righteousness. It was not on the sidewalk. It was at the speaker’s podium in the General Assembly. It was that of His Excellency Mr. Ron Proser, Israel’s a ...
• UN Vote on Palestine
  Haaretz said Israel suffered a humiliating defeat in New York. So did truth about what actually happened, what it means, and what's likely going forward. More on that below.
• Press TV: Iran planning indigenous S-300 missi ...
  - One of the boomerangs of the Western sanctions is that they have only spurred Iranian development of domestic defense production
• Jones and InfoWars Increasingly Cited as &#822 ...
  A video analysis of Alex Jones accounting for statements made that are grossly in contradiction to reality and fact. Is the once seen as independent and influential Jones serving an agenda.
• ESPN: Israeli Football Champs, Racists and Ha ...
  Presented unedited, courtesy of ESPN Sports:

electric politics

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

PR News

• UK PR industry comes out in favor of Leveson r ...
  The UK PR industry has come out largely in favor of the recommendations made in Justice Brian Henry Leveson's report on press ethics.
• MediaCom wins McCain territories after pitch
  MediaCom has extended its relationship with McCain to include six more European markets after a competitive pitch.
• Moet & Chandon replaces ScarJo with Federer
  Champagne brand Moët & Chandon is ending its relationship with actress Scarlett Johansson and replacing her with tennis great Roger Federer as brand ambassador.
• Sterling Bank taps Lane PR as agency of record
  PORTLAND, OR: Sterling Bank has named Lane PR its first PR AOR as it attempts to fight negative perceptions of the financial services industry and connect with local communities.
• P&G's Iyer joins Brandware Group as COO
  ATLANTA: The Brandware Group has appointed 25-year Procter & Gamble executive Nataraj Iyer to the role of COO.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The race tightens as Obama, Romney prepare for ...
  AUSA begins, What Ishmael Jones’ experience tells us about “No Easy Day,” Thanks for the cowbells, and more.
• Pakistan's Bid for Tolerance
  A tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
• Leaving Afghanistan
  Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Prairie Grasslands and Species at Risk Protected
  Government Sets High Bar for Suffield National Wildlife Area Alberta Wilderness Association 30 Nov 2012 The seven-group Suff ...
• Wild prairie grasslands or gas wells and pipel ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association For four years, we've been keeping you up-to-date on Suffield National Wildlife Area and this very question: What will it be, wild prairie grasslands or 1,275 new Cenovus gas wells and 220 kilometres of ...
• Call for Workshop Proposals: Earth Matters Con ...
  Organization:  Alberta Council for Environmental Education Initiative:  Earth Matters Conference ...
• Job Posting: Program Assistant, Alberta Counci ...
  Position:  Program Assistant Organization:  Alberta Council for Environmental Education The Alber ...
• ELC Comments on Public Lands & Wind Power Regu ...
  Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has posted its comments on Bill 202: Public Lands (Grasslands Preservation) Amendment Act, 2012 and the Alberta Utilities Commission's Wind Power Regulatory Pro ...

Stop NATO

• Georgia: U.S. Builds Military Ties As Russia W ...
  Trend News Agency November 30, 2012 Georgian-American consultations on defense held in Tbilisi N. Kirtzkhalia Tbilisi: Bilateral Georgian-American consultations on defense were held in the Tbilisi Marriott hotel on Friday. The main themes of the consultations were the issues of deepening militar ...
• Billionaires Bond in Tbilisi: Soros Connives w ...
  Civil Georgia December 1, 2012 Soros Meets Ivanishvili in Tbilisi ==== “Bidzina Ivanishvili and George Soros have talked about the improvement of the investment climate in Georgia. Meetings with leading world business circles on the sidelines of [the World Economic Forum annual] meeting in Davos ...
• Russian Foreign Minister: U.S. Cannot Conduct ...
  Russian Information Agency Novosti December 1, 2012 Use of Force by US Cannot Solve Problems – Russia MOSCOW; Resolving world problems by force as the US is trying to do does not work, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday in an opening speech to the 20th session of the F ...
• Interview: NATO Controlling Missile Batteries ...
  Voice of Russia November 30, 2012 NATO controlling Turkish missile batteries – interview John Robles Audio: Download Regular Voice of Russia contributor Rick Rozoff, the owner of Stop NATO, once again made sense of the plans and activities of the NATO alliance and gave his candid and frank ...
• NATO Activates Allied Land Command In Turkey
  Stars and Stripes November 30, 2012 NATO activates Allied Land Command in Turkey By John Vandiver ==== “It is not an accident that NATO decided to put Land Command here. Rather, it represents recognition by all 28 Nations of Turkey’s strategic importance to NATO.” “These last 17 years of operati ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

• Cities to Dissolve? – Detroit and Surrou ...
  Shepard Ambellas | Just weeks before the city runs out of cash Mayor Dave Bing was a no-show for his emergency meeting as the city plummets into the abyss.
• San Bernardino Official: ‘Citizens Shoul ...
  Shepard Ambellas | The residents do not have the quality of life in their city they deserve as the police department is nearly bankrupt itself.
• Greek Government Aims to Depopulate Intravenou ...
  theintelhub.com | The HIV boogieman has been around for years as unknowing victims take the AZT treatment as a eugenics elixir designed by the elites.
• White House Opposed New Iran Sanctions
  ForeignPolicy.com | But the White House told several Senate offices Thursday evening that the administration was opposed to the amendment.
• Banks Paying Billions in Overdraft Fee Class-A ...
  Avalon | Well, finally some good news that has been kept from the public at-large. The Major Banks, including TD Bank, JPMorgan, RBS Citizens Bank, Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of America have recently offered massive settlements on Class-Action Lawsuits over Overdraft Fees and other cri ...

FRS

• The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-t ...
  by Julianne Hing, ColorLines Monday, November 26 2012 Cedrico Green can’t exactly remember how many times he went back and forth to juvenile. When asked to venture a guess he says, “Maybe 30.” He was put on probation by a youth court judge for getting into a fight when he was in eighth grade. Th ...
• The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-t ...
  by Julianne Hing, ColorLines Monday, November 26 2012 Cedrico Green can’t exactly remember how many times he went back and forth to juvenile. When asked to venture a guess he says, “Maybe 30.” He was put on probation by a youth court judge for getting into a fight when he was in eighth grade. Th ...
• China in Revolt
  [This essay from Jacobin magazine traces the trajectory of recent working class struggle in China.  It draws on many unknown examples, and for that reason Frontlines posts this material for our readers.  The analysis and conclusions drawn by the author are his own. -- Frontlines ed.] by Eli Frie ...
• China in Revolt
  [This essay from Jacobin magazine traces the trajectory of recent working class struggle in China.  It draws on many unknown examples, and for that reason Frontlines posts this material for our readers.  The analysis and conclusions drawn by the author are his own. -- Frontlines ed.] by Eli Frie ...
• “Hands off the People of Iran” exp ...
  [Frontlines recently posted an article ("The Iran Tribunal and the crimes of the Islamic Republic") about recent hearings, proclaimed to be in the historic tradition of the Bertrand Russell Tribunals in the 70's against war crimes, but focused on the mass murder of Iranian political prisoners in ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• U.N. Palestinan Vote Argues for the Abolishmen ...
  The New York Times reports that the United Nations has voted to elevate the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank to the status of non member observing state. Hot Air suggests that this is to the detriment of peace in the Middle East.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Nov 30, 2012
• Grover Norquist Anti-Tax Crusade is Slowly Ending
  Grover Norquist, behind-the-scenes anti-tax puppeteer, is losing ground now that people know about him.Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Nov 20, 2012
• Blame Execs, Not Unions, for Hostess Closing
  Hostess Brands closing should be blamed on poor and unethical decisions by execs.Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Nov 16, 2012
• Bobby Jindal's Criticism of GOP, Romney Signal ...
  Bobby Jindal has sometimes been analogized as the Barack Obama of the Republican Party. A former Congressman and current second-term governor of Louisiana, the thin man of Indian heritage is outspoken and not afraid to buck trends.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Nov 15, 2012
• Mitt Romney’s ‘Sour Grapes’ Remarks Won’t Win ...
  The losing GOP presidential candidate is at it again. He generalized voters at a post-election event to justify why he lost. Such comments do nothing positive to attract people to the Republican Party.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Nov 15, 2012

Popsci - Science

• As Kilauea Volcano Spews Lava Into The Ocean, ...
  Unlike hurricanes or earthquakes, this natural disaster could actually encourage tourism. Remember those plucky writers who were reckless enough to walk outside during Hurricane Sandy? Oh, right...that was us. But we at PopSci might not be the only ones who enjoy a good disaster despite the dan ...
• Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This King Of Th ...
  Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: We have a winner! So, here are the rules: To answer, follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag #mysteryanimal. For example: Hey ...
• FYI: Can Viagra Make You A Better Athlete?
  The idea that Viagra helps out athletes has been around for years now, but is there a scientific consensus on it? Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall caused a great engorgement in the wit of the sports commentariat when he admitted that he's "heard (of) guys using like Viagra, seriously" to ga ...
• Lava's 7-Mile Journey And 10 More Amazing Imag ...
  A road made of a trampoline, a baby hippo, NASA's 1964 "moon simulator," surprisingly beautiful indications of climate change, and more! Click to launch the gallery.
• Images Of The Week, November 26-30, 2012

Veterans Today

• The personification of self-righteousness
  In the song Mack the Knife there’s a line about a body on the sidewalk “oozing” life. Last night there was a body, a living one, oozing self-righteousness. It was not on the sidewalk. It was at the speaker’s podium in the General Assembly. It was that of His Excellency Mr. Ron Proser, Israel’s a ...
• UN Vote on Palestine
  Haaretz said Israel suffered a humiliating defeat in New York. So did truth about what actually happened, what it means, and what's likely going forward. More on that below.
• Press TV: Iran planning indigenous S-300 missi ...
  - One of the boomerangs of the Western sanctions is that they have only spurred Iranian development of domestic defense production
• Jones and InfoWars Increasingly Cited as &#822 ...
  A video analysis of Alex Jones accounting for statements made that are grossly in contradiction to reality and fact. Is the once seen as independent and influential Jones serving an agenda.
• ESPN: Israeli Football Champs, Racists and Ha ...
  Presented unedited, courtesy of ESPN Sports:

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• M Carey, J Bieber & Barack the Enviro-Fraud
  I was shopping at a discount store when I caught sight of an LED TV playing what I thought was a  music video of Mariah Carey's 1994 seasonal hit "All I Want for Christmas is You." I smiled as I recalled fond memories of a more innocent age. To my eyes at least, the young Mariah Carey was u ...
• Tim Geithner, I Dub Thee 'Pantywaist of Global ...
  I've been meaning to make this post for four long, steenkin' years--and here it finally is. Perhaps Timmy thought he got away with stepping down soon as Treasury Secretary, but alas, I've pulled the trigger at the last moment. Anyway, this award is for continually being cowed in the China-bashin ...
• God Save the Empire: UK's Canadian BoE Guv'nor
   To be sure, outgoing Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King has a number of things going for him in my book. He was a longtime LSE professor before giving up his teaching position for a higher calling. He is also a long-suffering Aston Villa fan as our team battles to save itself from th ...
• 12.9% Inflation? Bah! Serbia's Soccer Club Bai ...
  Ladies and gentlemen, today I bring you the best act of "sticking it to the EU and the IMF" for 2012. So those Greeks may have caved in to the IMF-ECB-EU tri for the umpteenth time, but it appears those only aspiring to join the EU are keen on Sticking It To The Man. Having told the IMF to take ...
• Can the White People Have Mubarak Back Now?
  Sometime ago now, some wet-behind-the-ears white kid criticized me for suggesting that US policy in the Middle East could use improvement since it was contradictory and incoherent--especially when it came to using ICT as a diplomatic tool. Unsurprisingly, greenhorns like him took the events of A ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Wake Up! 11 Facts That Show That Europe Is Hea ...
  Europe is not just heading into another recession.  The truth is that Europe is heading into a full-blown depression.  The economy of the EU is actually larger than the U.S. economy, and we are watching it melt down right in front of our eyes.  Things just continue to get worse in Europe, and ye ...
• 34 Signs That America Is In Decline
  The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline.  Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me.  I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love.  Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our Founding ...
• All Of This Whining About The Fiscal Cliff Is ...
  The fiscal cliff is coming!  Run for the hills!  There have been endless stories in the mainstream media about the "fiscal cliff" that our country is facing if the Democrats and the Republicans can't come to some sort of an agreement.  If there is no agreement, taxes will go up and government sp ...
• The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming T ...
  By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar.  The rest of the world is watching this nonsense, and at some point they are going to give up on the U.S. dollar and throw their hands up in the air.  When that happens, ...
• Hungry For The Holidays: 20 Facts About Hunger ...
  All over America there are millions of people that will be missing meals and going hungry this holiday season.  Even as much of the country indulges in the yearly ritual of unbridled consumerism that we refer to as "the holiday season", more families in the United States than ever before will be ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• The Broken Teapot: A critical analysis of curr ...
  We all start life with our teapot intact and at some point a little crack starts and slowly grows, or maybe one day we slip and the whole thing ...
• Modern Slavery journal has new website
  Modern Slavery is a new journal for the abolition of all forms of enslavement, published as an independent, not-for-profit project of CAL Press....
• Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
  Despite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
• July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
• Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For Papers
  Jurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...

E U Times

• Anomalous winter disasters paralyze Moscow
  Moscow was literally paralyzed at night of November 30. The city and the region experienced two natural disasters in one night: a super heavy snowfall and an ice storm. The ice storm approached the Russian capital from the southwest. “The movement of these precipitations to the north and n ...
• Mexicans protest Enrique Nieto’s swearing in a ...
  As Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is worn in, thousands protest across the country, clashing with police and injuring at least five officers. Protesters on Saturday threw Molotov cocktails and objects towards police officers, who were standing outside the country’s congress. Police respond ...
• New Year’s Resolution: Stop Smoking
  For those who (yet again) have earmarked giving up smoking for their New Year’s Resolution, then there is some good news on the way: Facilitas Healthcare has come up with some important new information: regular consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables reduces craving. The research divulge ...
• Eurozone jobless rate at record high of 11.7% ...
  Official data show that the unemployment rate in the eurozone hit a new record high of 11.7 percent in October as the 17-nation bloc continues to grapple with a worsening financial crisis. The Eurostat data agency said on Friday that a total of 18.7 million people were out of work in October, up ...
• GMO giant hires retired cops to hunt down farmers
  GMO giants DuPont have contracted dozens of retired law enforcement officers to begin patrolling farms in the US next year to spot any potential intellectual property theft. DuPont Co, the second-largest seed country in the world, is hoping to find farmers that have purchased contracts to use th ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2012-11-29 Quantico psychiatrist: Bradley Mann ...
  *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Ft. Meade, MD November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-te ...
• 2012-11-27 European Commission enabling blocka ...
  European Commission documents released today by WikiLeaks show that hard-right U.S. politicians were directly behind the extrajudicial banking blockade against WikiLeaks. In the heavily redacted documents, MasterCard Europe admits that Senator Joseph Lieberman and Congressman Peter T. King both ...
• 2012-11-26 Assange to give keynote speech at H ...
  On November 27, 2012, Julian Assange will give a keynote speech regarding "A Vision of the Future Society" at ConventionCamp 2012, an Internet conference in Hanover, Germany. read more
• 2012-11-26 WikiLeaks donations now tax deducti ...
  Monday, 26th November 1900 GMT Wau-Holland-Stiftung (WHS), named in memory of the German philosopher and net activist Wau Holland, has been collecting donations for WikiLeaks since 2009. In the immediate aftermath of WikiLeaks publication of the US diplomatic cables in 2010, not only did PayPal ...
• 2012-11-23 Rafael Correa's New South America
  The South American media has reverberated lately with reports that the CIA has been using drug money in efforts to destabilize the government of Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa. If these stories are accurate, then the plan's exposure and apparent failure may illustrate the impotence of trad ...

U N News

• UN human rights office concerned over Colombia ...
  Expressing "serious concern" over a constitutional reform measure affecting Colombia's military justice system, the United Nations human rights office today called on the country's President and the President of the Congress to reconsider their support for the bid, which could undermine efforts ...
• Judicial system in El Salvador must remain ind ...
  A United Nations expert today urged El Salvador to ensure the independence of its judicial system and comply with its decisions to avoid a constitutional crisis such as the one it experienced earlier this year.
• Investments key for long-term resilience, rebu ...
  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stressed that investments are crucial to help rehabilitate Haiti's agricultural sector in the wake of various natural disasters this year that caused colossal damage to the farming and fishing industries.
• UNESCO chief urges investigation into murder o ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the murder of Mexican crime reporter and called for an investigation into the attacked that killed him and a former municipal police officer.
• Ban welcomes progress made on territorial disp ...
  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon salutes the progress made by Belize and Guatemala under the auspices of the Organization of American States to resolve their longstanding territorial dispute, according to his spokesperson.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Thai Flight Attendant Stirs Honey's Nest
  • (http://twitter.com/share) People, Cathay says. They make an airline. They sure do
• More Embarrassment for Malaysia's UMNO
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Party forced to deal with corruption allegations in the midst of its annual general assembly
• Beijing Ratchets up the South China Sea Pressure
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Revelations that Beijing intends to stop and board maritime vessels entering its territory in the disputed South China Sea were predictably poorly received by fellow claimant s ...
• How did Hong Kong's Oligarchs Get so Rich?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Ask Sir Henry Pottinger
• Taiwan Readies for Yuan Convertibility
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Another pirouette into Beijing's Embrace

We Know the Lies

• Corporate Media Talking Heads Push 'Iran Nuke ...
  It has now been well established that the coordinated lies and distortions centered on WMDs that led to wars in the Middle East was sold to the American people and the world by the corporate media arm of the military-industrial complex. ~ Joe Wright read more
• What Kills One Person Every 19 Minutes?
  When it comes “how you’re going to die,” many people fear things like airplane crashes or shark attacks, even though statistics show that deaths from these events are very rare. Conversely, far too many people mistakenly believe that certain common aspects of everyday life are extremely safe ...
• Louisiana Sinkhole Continues to Grow... In Jus ...
  The following constitutes the latest update on the Louisiana Sinkhole from Texas Brine Company... ~ Video read more
• Exposed!... Mammograms are a Profit Making Med ...
  Mammography is a cruel medical hoax. As I have described here on Natural News many times, the primary purpose of mammography is not to "save" women from cancer, but to recruit women into false positives that scare them into expensive, toxic treatments like chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. ~ ...
• Obama Off on 3 Week - $4 MILLION Hawaiian Vaca ...
  Fiscal Cliff? The newly reelected President reappointed Obama has little time to worry about such things.  His contribution to the national debt will be just FOUR MILLION DOLLARS during his twenty day vacation to Hawaii.  Malia Zimmerman over at the Hawaii Reporter has put together a ...

Tarpley

• Britain’s Pacific War Against the United ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. April, 1995 « Against Oligarchy – Table of Contents “…we must put the growing consciousness that there will be only two great powers left — Great Britain and the United States. Which one is going to be greater, politically and commercially? In t ...
• Coup and Counter-coup in Washington
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV November 19, 2012 Sometimes, generals purge politicians. In 1648, during the English Civil War, Colonel Pride and his troops removed those members of the Long Parliament who opposed military domination; the puppets who remained were called the Rump Parliament. ...
• Netanyahu’s Insane Gaza Adventure Faces ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV November 17, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Petraeus, Ham Fall In Night Of Long Knives For ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio November 17, 2012 [download audio]
• Netanyahu Bet Wrong on Romney, Has Lost Neocon ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV November 16, 2012 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• Another Emergency Survival Preparedness List
  msb-note: Lists are often helpful in that often times you will find a gem within, something you may not have thought of. Here is a list in no particular order of items worth considering in your overall emergency survival preparedness plans. As with most lists of this type, they are seldom all in ...
• Hundreds Of Earthquakes In Alaska Last 7 Days
  msb-note: I happened to be browsing Google Earth for recent earthquakes and was shocked at what I saw as I scrolled over towards Alaska… hundreds of earthquakes… all just in the last 7 days! Just last night (Friday) residents on Kodiak Island and the Kenai Peninsula were shaken awake ...
• Going After Your 401k
  We know the government wants to go after them next; your 401k and your IRA. They want to tap into private pensions. It’s just another step towards the socialized society that they are moving towards. A 2012 study by the Investment Company Institute illustrates that U.S. retirement assets t ...
• NYPD Officer Lawrence DePrimo Buys Boots For H ...
  From the person who snapped the photograph: Jennifer Foster of Florence, AZ who works for the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office there, was visiting Times Square with her husband Nov. 14 when they saw a shoeless man asking for change. She writes, “Right when I was about to approach, a police officer ...
• Deputy Stan Lenic Defends The Rights Of Americans
  This ‘must see’ video will actually fill you with pride and hope for America. In this video we have two young Americans who are handing out flyers at Albany Airport pointing out how we have the right to ‘opt out’ of getting scanned. Given the unknown potential dangers of ...

Fast Company

• Surrealist Terrors From A Visionary Japanese P ...
  This month in Zurich, 76-year-old artist Keiichi Tanaami shows vivid works made after a bout with severe illness. There are conventional ways to describe Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami: Pop Art superstar. Designer of album covers for the Monkees and Super Furry Animals. Long-time art dire ...
• New National Parks Feature Humans In Their Nat ...
  Instead of pristine lands containing only animals, new efforts at preservation acknowledge that humans have been interacting with these ecosystems for generations--and enlists those humans to help keep them safe. Wilderness and humans don’t mix. Or so we thought. After centuries crea ...
• A Stunning Music Video, Inspired By A Solar Ec ...
  Known for his deftly programmed stage shows, Nosaj Thing’s first new single in three years comes with its own high-tech performance art. In January, Nosaj Thing (née Jason Chung) will release his sophomore album, Home, more than three years after the debut album that made him ...
• 3 Lessons In Game Design, From A Cutting-Edge ...
  Being a launch title is one of the greatest honors (and pressures) for a studio. Especially when your team is only five people. You probably haven’t heard of the Vienna-based indie game studio Broken Rules. But with just five full-time staff (and three part-timers), it’s manage ...
• Elijah Wood Takes A Dark Trip With Flying Lotu ...
  “A survivor-guilt-ridden, drug-addled amputee" anchors the latest Flying Lotus video, a dark, photoreal vision achieved with the help of some vinegar, egg yolk, and hand sanitizer. When director David Lewandowski conceived his video for experimental rapper and producer Flying Lotus&r ...

Jadaliyya

• The Draft Constitution: Some Controversial Sti ...
  After long hours of article-by-article voting on the Egyptian constitution by the Constituent Assembly, the draft was passed on early Friday. The current draft has been submitted to President Mohamed Morsy, who in turn will put it up for a referendum, the conditions of which remain unknown ...
• November Culture
  Jadaliyya's November culture bouquet arrived on the last day of November. Culture Page co-editor Maymanah Farhat reviews a recent exhibit by the Lebanese-American artist Etel Adnan. Mai Serhan reviews Tahani Rached's latest documentary. Ghad Mourad translates poems by the Lebanese poet Wadih Saa ...
• Qatar and the Palestinians
  Whether in terms of timing or substance, the October 2012 visit of Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani to the Gaza Strip defies simple explanation. As so often where Palestinian politics is concerned, a cottage industry of explanations and interpretations rapidly materialized. Thus Qat ...
• Three Poems by Saadi Youssef
    Three Poems Saadi Youssef Translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon & Peter Money   The Glance   Our loss is not the earth for the earth will stay, it stayed before us, it will stay after us, earth of the singers, and of silent ones, earth of those who stay an ...
• Wadih Saadeh: Because of a Cloud, Most Likely
    Because of a Cloud, Most likely Wadih Saadeh Translated by Ghada Mourad   Shadows They moved toward the water descending from their mountains like soft shadows so that as not to awaken the grass. When their shadows passed the fields some parted company and slept there ...

mediagazer

• British Press Lauds Cameron Over Leveson Stand ...
  Sarah Lyall / New York Times: British Press Lauds Cameron Over Leveson Stand  —  LONDON — It is hard to find much common ground among Britain's squabbling, competing newspapers.  Not only do they naturally mistrust one another, but they also tend to divide along party ...
• Syria Rebels Find Skype Useful, but Dangers Lu ...
  Amy Chozick / New York Times: Syria Rebels Find Skype Useful, but Dangers Lurk  —  In a demonstration of their growing sophistication and organization, Syrian rebels responded to a nationwide shutdown of the Internet by turning to satellite technology to coordinate within the co ...
• News Corp. Set to Name WSJ Editor as Publishin ...
  John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal: News Corp. Set to Name WSJ Editor as Publishing Company's CEO  —  News Corp . plans to name Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and editor in chief of Dow Jones, as chief executive of its publishing company as early as ...
• UK's House Of Lords Summons Facebook And Googl ...
  Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK's House Of Lords Summons Facebook And Google To Talk Convergence And Media Power  —  The UK's House of Lords has summoned senior figures from Facebook and Google in their ongoing investigation into media convergence, media power and how this should ...
• Journalists pay down, but happiness up since 2 ...
  William Turvill / PressGazette: Journalists pay down, but happiness up since 2002  —  Journalists have seen a decline in real term income of £3,315 over the last decade and ten per cent fewer feel they are “fairly rewarded”, according to a new survey.  Res ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Special touches brighten homes this holid ...
  No sooner has the aroma of Thanksgiving dinner faded than itâs time to transform homes from autumnâs golden glow to winterâs holiday sparkle. Whether the goal is to create a splashy display or add a quiet touch of festivity, the key to holiday decorating is to coordinate Christmas decor with ...
• Road trip: Canton’s First Monday
  Canton’s First Monday promises to be busy this weekend, what with the promise of balmy, springlike temperatures. LauriaAnna’s Vintage Home, a just-expanded, freestanding home-furnishings store on Highway 19, near the flea...
• 5 things to do in your garden: Keep water ...
  By Jack E. Christensendailynews.com Posted: 11/30/2012 03:53:19 PM PST December 1, 2012 12:1 AM GMTUpdated: 11/30/2012 04:00:07 PM PST 1 Citrus trees need continuous soil moisture as the fruits ripen, so be careful to continue irrigating them as necessary. If you haven't done it, obtain ...
• Thunder Hold Off Jazz 104-96, Sweep Homes ...
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 25 points, Russell Westbrook made a two-pronged bid for his sixth career triple-double and the Oklahoma City Thunder finished off an impressive homestand by beating the Utah Jazz 106-94 on Friday night. Keep up with the latest news, on the court ...
• France Backs Off, Announces Deal With Arc ...
  The French government backed away on Friday from a threat to nationalize a steelworks, saying it secured promises from the owner, ArcelorMittal, to invest and avoid any forced layoffs at the site where the company has idled two blast furnaces. Workers at the plant said the announcement fell ...

no frakking consensus

• The Climate Change Echo Chamber
  Green activists want to restrict your ability to fly, but they themselves remain addicted to the UN's pointless annual beach party.
• UN Bureaucrats Wield Science for Undemocratic ...
  UN officials say we should listen to science. Don't be fooled. It's a rhetorical ploy, a cover for their own agenda.
• 2 IPCC Announcements
  In an official statement, the IPCC says it's improper for any of its personnel to describe themselves as Nobel laureates. But the statement is all but invisible on the IPCC's website.
• Busy Days
  I'll be participating in the WattsUpWithThat answer to Al Gore's 24-hour web project this week. Additionally, I'll be talking to a university class tomorrow and addressing a climate skeptics' conference in Munich on December 1st.
• Celebrating Human Life
  A searing critique of environmental thought has emerged from an unlikely source - contemporary French philosophy.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 11/29/12 - International Comparison of Felon V ...
  felonvoting.procon.org - International Comparison of Felon Voting Laws - In the US, felons in prison are prevented from voting in every state except Maine and Vermont, but in many other countries felons in prison are free to vote. View our chart on felon disenfranchisement laws in 45 different c ...
• 11/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! – Should ta ...
  tablets-textbooks.procon.org – NEW ProCon.org Website! – Should tablets replace textbooks in K-12 schools? – Publishing for the K-12 school market is an $8 billion industry and tablets are a $35 billion industry in the United States. As tablets have become more prevalent, a new debate has formed ...
• 11/19/12 - Israel Launches Operation Pillar of ...
  israelipalestinian.procon.org - Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 14, 2012. Read about this latest military operation and the entire history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 10,000 BC to the present on our historical timeli ...
• 11/13/12 - Palestinian Authority to Seek Non-M ...
  israelipalestinian.procon.org - Palestinian Authority to Seek Non-Member State Status at UN
• 11/7/12 - 2012 Election Results
  2012election.procon.org  - 2012 Election Results - President Barack Obama has been elected to a second term in office with 50% of the popular vote. See our election results page for the final popular vote totals as they are updated. Third party results will be added as soon as ...

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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Interview with Hanadi Assoud
    SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-14", width: 550, height: 400 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://www.truthnews.com.au/slideshowpro/images.php?album=14" } }); ...
• Stop Smart Meters Australia - Part 1
  Today's show features an interview with a representative of Stop Smart Meters Australia, an organisation which is opposing the introduction of electricity smart meters which are currently being rolled out in homes throughout Victoria. From the petition: Victorian Citizens are being forced to ...
• Chris Emery on recent film projects - Part 1
  The Crew of Free Mind Films, creators of "A Noble Lie". Clockwise from left: Austin Green, Holland Vandennieuwenhof, Chris Emery and James Lane. My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Chris Emery, co-producer of the award winning documentary "A Noble Lie", which exposes the US government' ...
• Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 2
  Part 2 of Halloween Special with Josh Jackson
• Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 1
  In tonight's show we bring you a menagerie of weirdness as we plough through the many bizarre themes which dominate the news on this Halloween night. We look at recent developments in the Julian Assange case, with a Parliamentary Briefing on the case now in progress. In the 2nd hour am joine ...

Beacon

• Angela Kinsey Loves Penguin Cookie Cutters
  Angela Kinsey of NBC's The Office supports the oceans It’s no surprise that Oceana supporter Angela Kinsey is crazy about her daughter Isabel. Angela loves the oceans, but it’s 4-year-old Isabel who she thinks of most when Angela helps us protect endangered sea turtles for future generations ...
• Sea Turtles in Peril without Turtle Excluder D ...
  Loggerhead turtle escaping net using TED. Photo courtesy NOAA Last May, Oceana was encouraged to hear the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) was proposing a new rule that would require all skimmer trawl fishing boats in the Gulf of Mexico to use turtle excluder devices (TEDs) to protect ...
• Oceana Wins Major Victories in Chile
  Treasures of the Juan Fernandez seamounts It has been a whirlwind few weeks in Chile, where Oceana’s hard work has paid off in some monumental policy victories. Last week the Chilean senate passed sweeping new fisheries regulations that, simply put, place the health of the oceans ahead of th ...
• Victory! EU Passes Strict Shark Finning Ban
  Blue shark ©Wikimedia Commons You might have missed it, but over Thanksgiving Oceana won some major victories. One that we are especially excited about was the vote by the European Parliament to impose a strict ban on shark finning. While this ban has technically been in place since 2003 the ...
• Budget Sequester Will Punish Oceans
  ©Wikimedia Commons Corry Westbrook is Oceana's federal policy director On January 2, 2013, our country will be poised to go over the fiscal cliff if leaders in Washington, D.C. are unable to agree on ways to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion. Why is this relevant to ocean conservation? Ou ...

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Taylor Marsh

• Queer Talk: World AIDS Day
  December 1 is World AIDS Day. Much progress has been made, but the need for ways to educate people about HIV / AIDS is still very real, as is the need for ongoing research. World AIDS Day 2012 is themed “Working Together for an AIDS-Free Generation.” At WorldAIDSDay.org: World AIDS Day is &#8230 ...
• Boehner Scurries to Find Woman in All Male GOP ...
  Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AFTER BEING busted for an all white, all male Republican leadership monopoly, with no woman in sight, Speaker John Boehner responds by taking a woman not even on the committee, because there are no women on the last rema ...
• Who Will Get Last Fiscal Laugh?
  ”Right now, the only thing preventing us from reaching a deal that averts the fiscal cliff and avoids a tax hike on 98 percent of Americans is the refusal of Congressional Republicans to ask the very wealthiest individuals to pay higher tax rates. The President has already signed into law over $ ...
• Secretary Clinton on What Lies Ahead in Foreig ...
  A FOREIGN policy speech given by Secretary Clinton at Foreign Policy’s “transformational trends” forum, also included a Q&A with Secretary Clinton. The speech comes as anticipation grows for President Obama to soon nominate her successor, perhaps even next week, with U.N. ...
• Palestinians Win Nonmember Observer Status in ...
  …the General Assembly vote — 138 countries in favor, 9 opposed and 41 abstaining — showed impressive backing for the Palestinians at a difficult time. It was taken on the 65th anniversary of the vote to divide the former British mandate of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab ...

Hudson New York

• Legal implication of the United Nations Resolu ...
  The General Assembly vote declaring that Palestine, within the pre-1967 borders, is a "state", at least for some purposes, would have nasty legal implications if it were ever to be taken seriously by the international community. It would mean that
• Muslims Pressing for Blasphemy Laws in Europe
  The Dutch parliament has approved a motion to revoke a law that makes it a crime to insult God. Free speech activists say the move represents a significant victory at a time when Muslim groups are stepping up pressure on European governments to make it a
• "Because they Could"
  Before a radio interview this week, the host sent a list of questions that might arise. The answer to an extraordinary number of them was, "Because they could." Because bad actors were reasonably sure no one (read: United States) would protest and even
• Providing a Platform for Terror
  On the 28th November, Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn will be hosting an event organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the British House of Commons with Mousa Abu Maria, an activist for the proscribed terrorist organisation Palestinian Islamic Jihad
• Hamas: A Pawn in the Sunni-Shiite War
  A full scale Middle Eastern, Islamic type of war between the Sunnis and Shiites is raging. Officials in Washington are doing their best to label it anything but a war; when asked if it is a war, they seem to react in fear, and ignore the issue by saying,

Urban Survival

• Stand-Up: Tim Geithner on Budget
  One of the reasons I write about economics (besides being intensely interested in the angle-grabbing plans of the bankster class) is that it’s fun to lighten people’s day up a bit with some good-natured humor.  Upper IQ comedy is how … Continue reading →
• Coping: Christmas Gift from Dr. Rob
  Taking some time out from teaching students at a major university where he guides student in the fine points of laser eye surgery, our friend Dr. Rob sent us a wonderful YouTube link which you deserve to watch and think … Continue reading →
• Detroit: Dead Canaries & The Bad News Rally
  No, you didn’t win the PowerBall.  Now, down to business: After the National Association of Newspaper Columnists convention in Detroit in mid-2011 I wrote a Peoplenomics report which was summarized in the subscriber index this way:   “June 26, 2011: … Continue reading ...
• Coping: Global Coastal Event Awareness
  We’ve got a reader in NOAA who sent us a whole bunch of new video’s – eight in fact – which NOAA has put together:  “Thought you would like to see the latest videos on the rising sea levels from … Continue reading →
• The S&P Housing Numbers
  This is pretty simple: “Data through September 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that home prices continued to rise in the third quarter of … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• World War 3 Scenarios & Military Technology
  George Knapp welcomed aviation expert and author... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
• Links for 2012-11-30 [del.icio.us]
  BUILD UP TO WWIII / IRANS 1ST DAY OF WARGAMES TO PREPARE | Trends Forecasts and Prophecies Blog BUILD UP TO WWIII / IRANS 1ST DAY OF WARGAMES TO PREPARE 2013 ~ Dawn of a New Age & possible World War. Dawn of the NWO | Trends Forecasts and Prophecies Blog 2013 ~ Dawn of a New Age & possi ...
• We are Preparing for Massive Civil War, Says D ...
  The Government has declared it can lock anyone up... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
• Julian Assange Prophecy: Governments plan Inte ...
  Julian Assange has made a name for himself by... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
• Alex Jones Hires Former Analyst of CIA Front S ...
  Alex Jones Hires Former Analyst of CIA-Front... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]

Radical Chic

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

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NRDC Switchboard

• How Solar Saved Thanksgiving
  Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." - Rahm Emanuel, former Obama Administration Chief ...
• New Englanders Begin to Plan Their Ocean Future
  Ali Chase, Policy Analyst, New York While many of us busily prepped for our Thanksgiving feast last week, New England policymakers had another task in their sight—kicking off a brighter, healthier future for our oceans. As Americans, we like ...
• We Won't Prevent Cancer Until We Prevent Expos ...
  Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. A smart editorial in Nature this week (Nov 29, 2012), one of the top scientific journals in the world, criticizes the U.S. National Breast Cancer Coalition for setting an unrealistic and unscientific ...
• Off the Cliff, and Into Deep Water? Cutting Cl ...
  Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City The health cost of power plant pollution is an estimated $100 billion each year, nationwide, when people get sick or die from breathing dirty air. When polluted water makes swimmers sick, the additiona ...
• Reviving a rainforest helps keep migratory bir ...
  Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC  Wondering where that brightly colored songbird that visited your yard during the summer disappeared to when the temperature dropped? Many songbirds and other migratory birds spend the coo ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, November 29, 2012: Williams, Arizona: A police officer who used a chokehold on a handcuffed prisoner, and another officer who witnessed the incident, have resigned. The accused officer resigned … Continue reading →Nat ...
• The Angela Jones Case: Taser and Cardiac Arrest
  Video from California Highway Patrol here. So much wrong here.  The entire encounter with the police seems dubious.  The use of the taser was unnecessary and excessive. Some like to point out that the prisons are not filled with marijuana … Continue reading →The Angela Jone ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, November 28, 2012: Memphis, Tennessee: An officer has been arrested and charged with rape, statutory rape by an authority figure, and incest against a 16-year-old girl. At least 20 … Continue reading →National Police ...
• National Police Misconduct Newsfeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, November 27, 2012: St. Lucie County, Florida: A deputy flipped over a 62-year-old handicapped woman’s car when he used a Precision Immobilization Technique to stop her car by hitting … Continue reading →National P ...
• Another Victory for First Amendment and Record ...
  From the Chicago Tribune: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a controversial Illinois law prohibiting people from recording police officers on the job. By passing on the issue, the justices left in place a … Continue reading →Another Victory for First Amen ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose: iTunes 11 arrives, new iDevi ...
  We’re a bit Apple-heavy today! Apple’s delayed iTunes 11 finally launches, China gets the iPad mini, 4th gen iPad and iPhone 5 next month, and Richard Branson is the first... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Syria’s Internet ...
  The Syrian Internet goes down amid clashes with the government, Apple starts to build its new home in Santa Clara, Spotify reveals its top of the pops and Samsung cuts... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: iMacs are coming, Siri ...
  Apple lets us know when we can have the new iMac, Siri for your car and Tajikistan says Facebook is a “hotbed of slander”. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose.... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Touchscreen Chromebook repor ...
  Google is reportedly working on a touchscreen Chrome OS notebook, Motorola Mobility closes international websites, and Nokia rolls out new feature phones with an interesting new filesharing feature. It’s all... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: RFID tags, 64 bit Fire ...
  In today’s Daily Dose we look into a case involving forced RFID tagging, Mozilla’s big Windows choice, and a key executive loss at Nokia. You can catch The Daily Dose... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• High praise for Port Augusta solar hub plan at ...
  A PLAN to transform Port Augusta into a green energy hub has been lauded at the Civic Trust's annual Awards and Brickbats ceremony. However, the State Government's axing of heritage advisory services in its May Budget is the stand-out among this year's brickbats. The Civic Trust a public t ...
• CSG leaks' carbon liability could end the industry
  Media release 19/11/2012 Coal-seam gas (CSG) developers have been massively understating their carbon tax liability, throwing the whole future of the industry into question, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Researchers at Southern Cross Univers ...
• Coal seam gas faces tax bill of billions
  By Paddy Manning. Source: Sydney Morning Herald AUSTRALIA'S coal seam gas industry could face future carbon tax liabilities of up to $4 billion a year if ''fugitive'' emissions of methane from unconventional gas production turn out to be substantially higher than expected.Three huge coal sea ...
• Alinta seeks $65m from Federal Government for ...
  By Cameron England. Source: Adelaide Advertiser ALINTA Energy wants the Federal Government to stump up $65 million for a solar thermal plant in South Australia to secure electricity generation for the next 15-20 years. Alinta chief executive Jeff Dimery said the company wants to press ahead ...
• Wind farms lower power bills: authorities
  By Samantha Landy. Source: Weekly Times Mt Millar wind farm, SA. Photo by David Clarke. WIND energy is helping decrease South Australian energy bills, not increase them, clean energy authorities say. Climate and energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions said the suggestion wind farms upped power ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Introducing the 'Obama-fish'
  Scientists have named five newly discovered fish after former and current U.S. political leaders, including President Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and Teddy Roosevelt, reports the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute and Scientific American.
• Brazilian bank approves $10.8 billion loan for ...
  Brazil's National Development Bank (BNDES) on Monday announced it has approved a $10.8 billion (22.5 billion Brazilian reais) loan to the consortium that is building the controversial Belo Monte dam in the state of Par´ in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, reports International Rivers, a ...
• 'Exporting deforestation': China is the kingpi ...
  Runaway economic growth comes with costs: in the case of China's economic engine, one of them has been the world's forests. According to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), China has become the number one importer of illegal wood products from around the world. Illegal ...
• Complaint filed with palm oil body over orangu ...
  Conservationists have filed a complaint against an Indonesian palm oil company for allegedly clearing an area of forest that contained orangutans. Earlier this month, the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) filed a complaint against PT Sisirau for allegedly breaching the Roundtable on Sustainable P ...
• World has lost half its wetlands
  Half of the worlds wetlands have been destroyed in just the last 100 years, says a new report. Published by the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), the report found that of the 25 million square kilometers of wetlands that existed in 1900 just 12.8 million square kilometers now rema ...

Sierra Express

• Romanians mess up VIMETCO
  Over the past few years, there has been a wave of protests against injustices perpetrated by some mining companies imported to this country.  Landowners in Sahn Malen, Pujehun District have been protesting against the Socfin Agricultural Company for what they consider as flagrant injustice and n ...
• DIF-SIL to hold event for International Day of ...
  In commemoration of International Day of the Persons with Disabilities, Disabled International Foundation – Sierra Leone (DIF-SIL) will be organizing a symposium and talent show for children living with disabilities in the Western Area. Date: - Sunday 2nd December Time: - 3:00 p.m. Venue: - 118 ...
• Over Parliamentaryand Councilor stand-off… Inf ...
  The Minister of Information and Communication, Ibrahim Ben-Kargbo (in photo) has called on Sierra Leone’s oldest and leading opposition party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), to reconsider their stand-off over refusing to participate in the democratic process following the recent out com ...
• Teachers Damn SLTU
  It is an unchallenged fact that the Sierra Leone Teachers Union SLTU is one of the richest and most academic unions in Sierra Leone but many teachers contributing monthly to the union have started questioning the necessity of its very existence.  (Photo: National President of Sierra Leone Teache ...
• SLPP’s Irrational and Unpatriotic Decision
  The people of Sierra Leone after a display of patriotism and nationalism at the November polls, that resulted in global admiration and appreciation of peaceful and democratic elections are at this moment disappointed at the present political status-quo which seems very crucial and uncalled for i ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Crafar dairy farms deal finally settled
  Following almost two years of legal and political challenges, China's Shanghai Pengxin finally settled its purchase of the 16 Crafar Farms yesterday.The Supreme Court last month threw out an appeal by Maori trusts that had been...
• Fonterra shares soar in first day trading
  Units in the new Fonterra Shareholders Fund have debuted at $6.66 per unit - a $1.16 premium to their $5.50 issue price.The units do not confer a direct voting interest in Fonterra but their trajectory is expected to be based on...
• Intense investor interest in Fonterra fund
  Intense investor interest in the Fonterra Shareholders Fund meant the units are likely to debut at a premium to their $5.50 issue price when they list on the NZX at noon tomorrow, investment sources said.Andrew Bascand, managing...
• Fonterra IPO foreign ownership flak
  Some New Zealand institutions are crying foul over the high level of foreign ownership in the newly-formed Fonterra Shareholders Fund, though others say the way units were distributed is just a reflection of the extensive groundwork...
• Top price for Fonterra fund
  Units in the newly-formed Fonterra Shareholders Fund have been priced at the very top of the dairy cooperative's $4.60 to $5.50 indicative range following a two-day institutional book-build, with 58 per cent of units going to New...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Nick Gillespie: Please Read This if You Think ...
  New economic reseach suggests that countries like the United States that carry high debt levels for sustained periods massively reduce future economic growth for decades to come.  Reason's Nick Gillespie argues that our debt and deficits are primarily the result of increased fe ...
• Video: Libertarian Party Candidate Bruce Major ...
  "Libertarian Party Candidate Bruce Majors vs D.C.'s One-Party System" is the latest video from Reason TV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more Reason TV clips. View this article.
• Baylen Linnekin on California’s Unconstitution ...
  Earlier this week the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Hot’s Kitchen, a popular Hermosa Beach restaurant, for violating California’s consumer protection laws by continuing to sell foie gras after the ...
• Debbie Nathan on How Sex Became a Civil Liberty
  How Sex Became a Civil Liberty is Leigh Ann Wheeler's dense but fascinating account of the ACLU's efforts to bring sex under the purview of the Bill of Rights. Wheeler, a Binghamton University historian, has combed vast archives, including personal correspondence of the AC ...
• The NSA Tells Congress What to Think And Say A ...
  Julian Sanchez at Cato with some bitter but worthwhile examples of how checks and balances really work when it comes to congressional oversight on executive action, especially when "national security" is (supposedly) involved: Blogger Mike Masnick recently came across a se ...

Mercury Rising

• Friday Cat Blogging
• Walker edges ever closer to indictment
  (Image of convicted Scott Walker aide Timothy Russell from Wisconsin State Journal) Steve Schultze of Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, via Giles Goat Boy at DK: Timothy D. Russell, a former aide to Gov. Scott Walker, pleaded guilty Thursday to embezzling more that $21,000 from a nonprofit group that ...
• Debt burden continues to decline under proflig ...
  First, household debt: (Image from Quartz, via Barry Ritholtz) Now, that’s pretty easy. If the bank forecloses on your house, your debt is extinguished. This is not really the kind of debt decline we’d like to see. But actually the federal deficit has been falling since the end of th ...
• Definitely on my “to read” list
  Via Barry Ritholtz, a book by Aaron James on why some people are, well, irritating: They aren’t mere jerks, and they aren’t rapists or murderers. Rather, James writes, a–holes populate the vast moral middle ground between the two. The true a–hole, James writes, “is immunized by his s ...
• Hermitage, GT Group, and offshore tax havens
  A huge fraud, $230M, was committed in Russia against the Hermitage group. Jerome Taylor, The Independent: What [auditor Sergei] Magnitsky uncovered was as follows. In late 2007 Russian police raided the offices of Hermitage Capital Management, a multi-billion pound investment fund set up by the ...

Reality Sandwich

• Sex in the News
    The link between oxytocin and monogamy, sex and social media, America's earliest political sex scandals, military sex, gay penguin dads, and more in this week's sex in the news. read more
• Moksha Art Fair 2012
  When the international contemporary art world descends on Miami in December for the annual Art Basel Miami Beach extravaganza, a different kind of art fair will be showcasing its own gems in a place far removed from the glitzy Miami Beach spotlight. read more
• Myth, Ritual, and Revelry: A Talk with Damian ...
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• Harvard Students Vote To Divest From Fossil Fuels
    Students at Harvard have voted in favour of divesting the school's $30.7bn endowment from fossil fuel related assets and in doing so have made their university the first in the US to pass a student fossil fuel divestment referendum. read more
• Top Destinations (or States of Mind) for Decem ...
  As the Popol Vuh's penultimate date for our era creeps ever closer, we thought it a good time to poll some Reality Sandwich contributors and find out where they would most like to find themselves on the coming Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012, as the Mayan calendar's 26,000-year astr ...

Desertification

• OP-ED: Loss and Damage from Climate Change Mus ...
  As United Nations climate talks get underway this week in Doha, Qatar, they show a subtle, unsettling shift in the global climate change debate. Just four or five years ago, the debate was sharply focused on how much we should cut greenhouse gas emissions to avoid dangerous climate change, and h ...
• Deep Emissions Cuts Urged at Climate Summit
  Extreme weather disasters, including floods and droughts intensified by climate change, have totalled many billions of dollars in damages this year. And much worse is yet to come, warned the World Bank, International Energy Agency and even the big accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Internati ...
• Planet on Path to Four C Warming, World Bank Warns
  Coal, oil and gas companies and their backers in the financial and investment industry must stop putting billions of dollars into finding and extracting new sources of fossil fuels. If they don’t shift their investments, temperatures will soar four to 10 degrees C higher, devastating many ...
• Worms, Termites, Microbes Offer Food Security
  Worms and termites are not likely to win hearts and minds, but they, along with lichens and microbes, are vital to food security, say biodiversity specialists who attended this month’s United Nations conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in this south Indian city.   “Worms, ...
• Shadow Over Aichi Biodiversity Targets
  With negotiations to mobilise resources for preservation of biodiversity at a major United Nations conference going nowhere, the Group of 77 and China have hinted at  possible suspension of the ‘Aichi targets’  under the Nagoya Protocol.   Algeria, current G 77 chair, stressed in a statement at ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

• Iraqi PM condemns arming Syrian rebels
  Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maleki has criticized countries that are arming Syrian rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
• Bomb blast rocks Syrian capital
  A car bomb has exploded in the Syrian capital Damascus, reportedly leaving some casualties one day after another bomb attack targeted vehicles belonging to Press TV and al-Alam television networks.
• AI warns against pressuring Palestinians
  Amnesty International has expressed concern about reports that several states, including the UK and US are pressuring Palestinians not to sue Israel for war crimes at the International Criminal Court.
• ICC studies Palestine after UN upgrade
  The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor's office says it is considering the legal implications of the upgraded status of Palestine to non-member observer state at the United Nations.
• Internet, mobiles working in Damascus
  Mobile and Internet connections have been restored across Damascus after three days of a widespread telecommunications outage caused by rebels.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• There’s Life in the AIDS Ribbon
  Thirty-year old Swapna Raj of Hyderabad is a woman in a hurry: in time for the International AIDS day Swapna, a HIV positive person on anti-retroviral therapy (ART), has received a contract from the state government to deliver 5,000 red ribbons. She bends over the bundles of red silk ribbon spre ...
• Q&A: Combating Gay Stigma Critical in Fight Ag ...
  Rebecca Hanser interviews MICHAEL IGHODARO, a gay rights activist in Africa and the United States.
• Q&A: How Innovative Funding Combats HIV/AIDS
  Julia Kallas interviews PHILIPPE DOUSTE-BLAZY, U.N. under-secretary-general in charge of innovative financing and chair of the UNITAID executive board
• DRC – Wishing the Rebels Would Remain
  Lined up along a dirt path that meanders its way up into the lush war-torn mountains surrounding the small town of Sake, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of young rebel soldiers sat on the road banks in the baking sun. As villagers causally walked past, the battle-hardened rebel ...
• Trawlers Glide Past International Fishing Laws
  Somali pirates on the southwest Indian Ocean have become one of the biggest security risks for commercial maritime shipping over the last several years. But even as piracy gave rise to international furore, an unlikely benefactor emerged: bluefin tuna stocks in the Indian Ocean. Sari Tolvanen, a ...

My AntiWar

• Panetta Reiterates US Commitment to Israel
• Assange: Entire Nations Intercepted Online, Ke ...
• European Stealth-Combat Test Drone Flies in France
• New Jersey Marine Was Role Model for His Three ...
• Michigan Army Medic Dies of Injuries Sustained ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Sanctions on Iran destroying a generation of c ...
  Summary: Iran has been subjected to a large range of vicious sanctions that are in the process of destroying a generation of children. These young people do not only suffer physical privation forced on them by the casual malevolence of the west, but will be affected mentally, too. source: ...
• UN Votes in Favor of Upgrading Palestinian Status
  Summary: The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution upgrading Palestine to a “non-member observer state,” from a “non-member observer entity.” source: antiwar.comread more
• As if Iraq never happened: the media and fake ...
  Summary: Just as with Iraq, the western media blindly trumpets whatever is shoveled to them about Iran, keeping fear levels sky-high to justify crippling sanctions and preparing the ground for war. source: The Guardianread more
• AP Presents Shoddy Evidence From Dubious Sourc ...
  Summary: An Associated Press report by a journalist with a reputation for speculative and misleading coverage of Iran’s nuclear program claims that a shoddy Iranian diagram, leaked by “a country critical of Iran’s atomic program” suggests the Islamic Republic is working on a nuclear weapon. ...
• IAEA hacked over Israeli nuclear program
  Summary: The UN nuclear agency has confirmed that one of its servers has been hacked. A previously unknown group posted contact details of more than 100 experts working with the IAEA, calling on them to act against Israel’s alleged nuclear activities. source: Russia Todayread more

The Daily Galaxy

• Discovery of Mercury Water Ice Points to Compl ...
                     New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters. The new observations have also raised new qu ...
• Image of the Day: Spectacular Jets of a Superm ...
                 The innocuous-looking galaxy, elliptical galaxy Hercules A,also known as 3C 348, has long been known as the brightest radio-emitting object in the constellation Hercules. Emitting nearly a billion times more power in radio wavelengths than our Sun, the galaxy is one of th ...
• Colossal Black Hole Equal to 17 Billion Suns D ...
                   A group of astronomers led by Remco van den Bosch from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) have discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution. The Hubble image above shows the small, flattened disk galaxy NGC ...
• Saturn's Hexagon --"One of the Most Bizarre Th ...
                   One of the most bizarre things seen in the solar system is captured in the image above, taken on 27 November by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini's camera zoomed into Saturn's polar hexagon storm's eye from from a distance of about 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers). ...
• "Gravity Doesn't Exist" --Is this Fundamental ...
                        Could both gravity and the Big Bang be an illusion? In January 2010, Erik Verlinde, professor of Theoretical Physics and world-renowned string theorist, caused a worldwide stir with the publication of On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton, in which he cha ...

Natural News

• Natural News Store update: Storable organics, ...
  Here's a detailed update of what's new and interesting at the Natural News Store, plus some behind-the-scenes details. We've just received 900+ cans of "Storable Organics" foods that were packed in 2011 and stored in another facility. They consist of #10 cans (that's...
• Dr. Oz viciously attacks organic foods and far ...
  Dr. Oz has finally done it: He has sold out to Big Ag by declaring organic foods to be "elitist," "snooty" and no better than conventional foods. The man who once urged Americans to eat organic has sold his soul to the criminally-run food giants in a mind-blowing editorial...
• Grand Canyon may be 60 million years older th ...
  The Grand Canyon may be 60 million years older than scientists had previously believed, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Colorado-Boulder and the California Institute of Technology, and published in the journal Science. "Our research...
• Why psychiatry and big government are in a por ...
  Modern psychiatry is based on the premise that there is something wrong with almost everybody. But when it comes to dependence, psychiatry takes a distinct back seat to big government. Psychiatry and big-government actually share a bed. They both need dependents;...
• Discover the ancient wisdom and modern science ...
  Winter is the season of the kidney according to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It is especially important to tend to these organs during this time. With a measure of proper care and attention, kidney health is strengthened while painful stones and infections are...

Threat Level

• Supreme Court to Decide if Human Genes Are Pat ...
  The Supreme Court announced Friday it would review a case testing whether human genes may be patented, in a dispute weighing patents associated with human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer.
• Convicted File-Sharer Gets Record 40-Month Pri ...
  A member of the in-theater camcording gang known as IMAGiNE Group was handed Thursday a 40-month prison term in what is the nation's longest sentence in a file-sharing case. A Virginia federal judge handed the confinement to Gregory A. Cherwonik, ...
• Bank Agrees to Reimburse Hacking Victim $300K ...
  In a case watched closely by banks and their commercial customers, a financial institution in Maine has agreed to reimburse a construction company $345,000 that was lost to hackers after a court ruled that the bank's security practices were "commercially ...
• Opinion: Hackers Should Forget Disclosure, Kee ...
  Vendors, governments and the information security industry have incentives to protect their interests over their users'. Not all the players will act ethically, or capably. So who should the hacker disclose to?
• Two Indicted for Online Distribution of Puppy- ...
  A Houston man and a woman are being indicted for allegedly distributing over the internet "snuff" films they allegedly produced in which puppies and other animals were tortured and killed, federal officials said.

PERRspectives : Blog

• Right Ignores Cheney, Halliburton in Attack on ...
  Reports this week that UN Ambassador Susan Rice and her Canadian husband Ian Cameron have investments in firms involved with the Keystone XL pipeline project and past energy deals in Iran are drawing scrutiny across the political spectrum. But conservatives eager to link Rice to Tehran might wan ...
• Obama's Gift to Mitt Romney
  On Thursday, President Obama as promised will host Mitt Romney in a private lunch meeting at the White House. There, a magnanimous Obama should offer a parting gift to the small man who accused him of buying reelection by dispensing "gifts" to women, African-Americans, Hispanics, college studen ...
• Why McCain Wants GOP to Leave Abortion Alone
  Appearing on Fox News Sunday morning, Arizona Senator John McCain urged his Republican Party to leave the abortion issue "alone." Given the drubbing among women voters the GOP endured thanks in part to anti-abortion extremists like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, McCain's fear is well-founded. ...
• It's Cheney Time on Benghazi
  During a heated exchange on the Senate floor back in June 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney famously told Vermont Democrat Pat Leahy, "f**k yourself." Looking back on the episode six years later, Cheney told Fox News that he had no "qualms, second thoughts, or embarrassment" about his Leahy outb ...
• Walmart Owners Look to Slash Federal Tax Payments
  Black Friday is the single biggest shopping day of the year. And this Friday, all eyes will be on Walmart, the nation's single biggest retailer and employer. But while the planned protests at 1,000 of the chain's 4,000 locations will keep the focus on Walmart's below-industry standard pay to it ...

Blackspot News Feed

• THREE PANELS OPEN: Eric Grissom & David Halvorson
  Eric & David have a free download of the zero issue of their comic PLANET GIGANTIC here.
• “Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Ab ...
  An explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino teenagers were ar ...
• Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Ro ...
  With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." Newsweek des ...
• Headlines for November 28, 2012
  Egypt: More than 200,000 Fill Tahrir Square in Biggest Protest Against Morsi, At Least 34 Dead in Syrian Car Bomb Blasts, Shiite Worshipers Among At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Explosions, Report: M23 Rebels Preparing to Leave Goma After Initially Defying Deadline, Bangladeshi Factory Managers Arres ...
• Palestine Activism in the UK
  Across Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians

Consortium News

• A Shot for a Possible New World
• Explaining the Unexplainable
• How the World Was Saved
• The Bigger Question about Libya
• Vermont Nuke Case Cites Risks

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Water Ice And Organic Compounds Discovered On ...
  Even with its incredibly close distance to the Sun, and its extreme heat, the planet Mercury has been found to have water ice in deep craters at its poles. And not just water ice, there is apparently also organic material that has collected there. Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in ...
• Water Ice And Organic Compounds Discovered On ...
  Even with its incredibly close distance to the Sun, and its extreme heat, the planet Mercury has been found to have water ice in deep craters at its poles. And not just water ice, there is apparently also organic material that has collected there. Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in ...
• Water Ice And Organic Compounds Discovered On ...
  Even with its incredibly close distance to the Sun, and its extreme heat, the planet Mercury has been found to have water ice in deep craters at its poles. And not just water ice, there is apparently also organic material that has collected there. Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in ...
• Water Ice And Organic Compounds Discovered On ...
  Even with its incredibly close distance to the Sun, and its extreme heat, the planet Mercury has been found to have water ice in deep craters at its poles. And not just water ice, there is apparently also organic material that has collected there. Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in ...
• World’s Polar Ice Sheets Are Melting Faster An ...
  The two most massive ice sheets in the world have been losing ice faster and faster over the past ten years, leaving some uncertainty about how quickly they will melt in the future. And now, new research is providing a more clarity about the state of continental ice sheets and how much they are ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Is London water drinkable?
  There’s nothing terribly bad about London water but researching this made me buy my 12L 6 stag
• Assessing High Salinity Levels in Your Irrigat ...
  Now that you understand the importance of testing your irrigation water quality, it’s time to
• The Porterdale Explorers need Sponsors for kay ...
• Malabar beach gets a makeover
  Sydney’s most polluted beach no more? Photo: Liam Taylor In 2010 Beachwatch revealed that Rand
• Save the bloody river!
  A pipeline threatens the water quality of the Macquarie River. But are there alternatives? Lauren Ba

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• How Do You Take Your Poison? by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 24, 2012 Image by Thorius via Fli
• Benghazi Attack and The NATO Cover-up by Finia ...
  by Finian Cunningham and Mark Robertson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from ww
• Michael Hudson: Modern Money and Public Purpos ...
  Image by Truthout.org via Flickr by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hu
• Wake Up: Reject the Two-Party Plutocracy by Jo ...
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org September 21, 2012 Image by Rafe
• Michael Hudson: QE3 Another Fed Give Away to t ...
  Image by david_shankbone via Flickr Updated: Sept. 25, 2012 added transcript with Michael Hudson Fea

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Right 's Own Political Correctness
  By @TedFrier As required class reading, I am tempted to assign to George F. Will "Revenge of the Reality-based Community," an essay in this month's American Conservative written by former Reagan economic adviser and Republican apostate, Bruce Bartlett, that chronicles his excommunication from th ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC Wow. This week - the last week I will be in my 40s, by the way - really flew by. On the school front, I hit the reset switch after missing over 6 weeks, talked to professors and I'm doing one class at a time, picking up from where I was and working straight through to the end, then mo ...
• High Broderism: it was a bad decision then, it ...
  It's supposed to be a clue when the simple act of joining a "bipartisan" group, rather than actual substantive policy, provides the "bipartisan" group the political cover and enhances their label. High Broderism - Also frequently seen as merely "Broderism." A fetishistic attachment to bipartisan ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC This ought to do wonders for the vaunted GOP outreach to women and minorities. Every single gavel of every single House committee is in the hands of a white man. Careful, or you'll be called the "liberal media." McClatchy is running the following headline on their front page as I wri ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC It's a sad commentary on the human condition that this is news...On Monday in New York city not a single shooting, stabbing or slashing was reported. Police don't remember the last time that happened. You know that extended unemployment benefits are about to expire, right? But did you ...

Care 2

• OVERHEARD IN TAHRIR - CAIRO'S PRO-DEMOCRACY MO ...
  When the president issued a series of decrees last Thursday drastically expanding his powers while robbing the judiciary of its own, the consequences were immediate: a weekend of renewed violence, a nosedive in the stock market, and the widespread brandin Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World &n ...
• The Invasion of the Boa Constrictors
  Breeding populations of Burmese python and boa constrictor have been confirmed in South Florida, and there is evidence that the northern African python is breeding in the wild as well. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Action Alert: Idaho Legislators: Make animal c ...
  "47 states have made animal abuse a felony. We are one of three that have not. Especially because of the recent Zoo Boise Patas monkey death, this is a potential law that needs to be reconsidered." Please sign the petition. Submitted by Brian M. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |&n ...
• Take Action to keep California's strawberry fi ...
  Instead of investing fully in moving towards safe strawberry fields, some decision makers have caved to industry pressure by petitioning to create more loopholes to allow the use of methyl iodides banned predecessor, methyl bromide. Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |   Note-it! ...
• Talk Show Queen Wendy Williams Stars in Sexy Ad
  . ..As the holiday shopping season begins, talk show queen Wendy Williams appears in a sexy new PETA campaign declaring, "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur," to urge shoppers to join her in crossing fur off their lists. The ad will be unveiled live .. Submitted by Rosemary Rannes to Of ...

Smirking Chimp

• Global Climate Change: Preparing for World War III
• Blanking Bradley Manning: NYT and AP Launch Op ...
• Dirty campaigns are sad bipartisan fact
• We Used to Make the Rich Poorer and the Poor R ...
• Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud and IAEA C ...

Paul Krugman

• Against Willful Denseness, The Gods Themselves ...
  What is it about zero that you don't understand?
• Friday Night Music: Decemberists
  Less is more.
• Notes on Epistemic Closure
  What they didn't know hurt them.
• Destructive Responsibility
  Hard money and fiscal responsibility can be terrible things.
• The Con Goes On
  Naked emperors, still honored.

No Quarter

• Delusional Government, Delusional Society
  Are you tired of the bullshit surrounding the hysteria of the “fiscal cliff?” I am. America, by and large, is unwilling to grow up and face some hard facts. First, where are we spending our Federal dollars: In 2011, we spent 3.603 trillion. Almost 70% of that amount was spent on Pens ...
• The Election is Over. Now Get To Work!
  I am really, really fed up with politicians and their ceaseless campaigning.  We just went through an exhausting election to basically end up with the same dynamics, the same players, as we had before.  It was all one enormous waste of time, judging by the results. So, here we are, facing what e ...
• Obama Naivete Destabilizing the Middle East
  Barack Obama’s inexperience in international military affairs will be come glaring in the coming months as the fallout from Syria starts to sink in. What am I talking about? There is a major, coordinated covert op undeway designed to oust Bashir Assad and the United States, at Obama’ ...
• News Blackout & Open Thread
  I haven’t watched TV news or read newspapers in weeks. Just been too busy. I happened to catch part of Bill O’Reilly’s program tonight. He focused on the need for “bold leadership.” I recalled the day I stood in the gallery above the U.S. Senate chamber and got to s ...
• Entitlement Gloom
  LARRY is on John Batchelor right now. If you miss it, look here to see the podcast. He is explaining the process through which CIA memoranda go from person to person. Ladies and Gentleman, I titled this image: “THEY WHO RULE US ALL.” That sizes it up. These geniuses are supposed to l ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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Mountaintop Removal

• Photographer Terry Evans' exhibit at the Nelso ...
  Kansas City Star Photographer Terry Evans' exhibit at the Nelson tracks the changing prairie. Kansas City Star Yet viewing this show of 100 works, it's clear that Evans has always been an environmentalist, reveling in the confetti-effect presented by thousands of migrating snow geese ove ...
• Rep. Yarmuth won't run against Sen. McConnell ...
  Rep. Yarmuth won't run against Sen. McConnell The Hill (blog) He said his opposition to mountaintop removal mining made him a less than ideal choice statewide and, with a laugh, said that his lifetime "F" rating from the National Rifle Association is "probably a little bit of ...
• Unearthly Images of Appalachian Mountains That ...
  Slate Magazine Unearthly Images of Appalachian Mountains That Have Been Blown Up Slate Magazine Former strip miner Ed Wiley looks up at mountaintop-removal operations near Peachtree, W.Va. When his granddaughter Kayla became sick while attending Marsh Fork Elementary School, located in the shado ...
• The Worst Thing About Mountaintop Removal Isn' ...
  Slate Magazine The Worst Thing About Mountaintop Removal Isn't the Exploded Mountaintops. Slate Magazine Since the 1990s, small bands of Appalachian residents, regional environmental groups, and more recently the EPA have fought what often seemed like a futile battle against mountaintop-remo ...
• Blair Mountain's removal from historic places ...
  Blair Mountain's removal from historic places appealed State Journal ... part of my family's history," Martin said. "My grandfather and great uncle fought at Blair Mountain in 1921 on the side of the United Mine Workers of America. It would be a huge loss for Blair Mountain to ...

Memeorandum

• MITT ROMNEY WOULD HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE PRESIDE ...
  Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: MITT ROMNEY WOULD HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE PRESIDENT, FOR REASONS THAT GO BEYOND HIS POLICIES  —  The New Republic's Noam Scheiber gained access to some of the Romney campaign's internal polls, which gave Team Romney a wildly unrealistic sense th ...
• Ed Rendell Is on the Wrong Side of the Class W ...
  Jonathan Valania / blogs.phillymag.com: Ed Rendell Is on the Wrong Side of the Class War  —  What you need to know about his “Fix the Debt” cabal.  —  Like pretty much everybody not named Tom Corbett, I like Ed Rendell.  A lot.  How could yo ...
• School Quotas and Speech Codes May Result From ...
  Hans Bader / Col·lege In·sur·rec· tion: School Quotas and Speech Codes May Result From Senate Amendment to Defense Bill  —  Suing schools and colleges has nothing to do with supporting our troops.  —  But that didn't stop Senators from ...
• The Monster of Monticello - Durham, N.C. - THO ...
  Paul Finkelman / New York Times: The Monster of Monticello  —  Durham, N.C.  —  THOMAS JEFFERSON is in the news again, nearly 200 years after his death — alongside a high-profile biography by the journalist Jon Meacham comes a damning portrait of the third ...
• House cuts back on Fridays (Jonathan Easley/Th ...
  Jonathan Easley / The Hill: House cuts back on Fridays  —  The House is scheduled to be in session on only 15 Fridays in 2013, an almost 30 percent drop from 2011, according to the calendar released by House Majority leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Friday.  —  In 2 ...

Energy & Environment News

• Solar Industry Borrows a Page, and a Party, Fr ...
  Solar parties, like Tupperware parties, are being used by solar companies to sell their products to neighbors of homeowners who have installed the arrays.
• National Briefing | East Coast: Government to ...
  The federal government plans to sell leases for wind farms off the coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Virginia, officials said Friday.
• Green Blog: New View from Inside Fukushima: Ch ...
  While the plant owner made calm statements, videotapes of calls between the plant and company headquarters show a more dire picture.
• Green Blog: On Our Radar: Ice Melt Accelerates ...
  A sampling of environmental news for Friday, November 30.
• Dot Earth Blog: Agency Seeks Protection for 66 ...
  Dozens of coral species from the Pacific and Caribbean are proposed for endangered species listing.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.6, Alaska Peninsula
  Saturday, December 1, 2012 08:00:57 UTC Friday, November 30, 2012 11:00:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 88.20 km (54.80 mi)
• M 5.5, Tonga
  Friday, November 30, 2012 11:20:36 UTC Saturday, December 1, 2012 01:20:36 AM at epicenterDepth: 181.80 km (112.97 mi)
• M 5.0, Near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  Thursday, November 29, 2012 23:22:35 UTC Thursday, November 29, 2012 01:22:35 PM at epicenterDepth: 33.20 km (20.63 mi)
• M 5.2, offshore Guatemala
  Thursday, November 29, 2012 19:32:34 UTC Thursday, November 29, 2012 01:32:34 PM at epicenterDepth: 32.10 km (19.95 mi)
• M 5.9, near the north coast of New Guinea, Pap ...
  Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:10:27 UTC Thursday, November 29, 2012 09:10:27 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• 中国：联合&#2226 ...
  尽管中国的新领导集体需要时间来安顿一切，但中国已表明有能力保持政治势头达成 ...
• 中&#20
• 多哈与中东&#6530 ...
  叙利亚冲突在内的诸多中东动荡背后，与气候变化引起的水资源短缺和农业收成下降 ...
• 中俄能源贸&#2613 ...
  日益繁荣的中俄能源贸易引发了环境抗议和反对在东西伯利亚建设新水电站的法律诉 ...
• 南苏丹石油&#2279 ...
  南苏丹最大的石油客户——中国发现自己已经处在解决苏丹南北争议的中心，但这一&# ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• World AIDS Day: We Can’t “Get to Zero” Until W ...
   The official theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is “Getting to Zero.” As we acknowledge the vast suffering of the hundreds of millions of people who have been infected or impacted by HIV/AIDS on December 1st, it is impossible to ignore an inconvenient truth: th ...
• Julian Assange on Wikileaks, Bradley Manning a ...
  JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, may testify today at a pretrial proceeding for the first time since he was arrested in May 2010. Manning could face lif ...
• Should a 7-Year-Old Use Medical Marijuana?
  Seven-year-old Mykayla Comstock was diagnosed with leukemia last year. To deal with the debilitating side-effects of chemotherapy, Mykayla has turned to another medication: Cannabis oil."It helps me sleep," Mykayla told the Oregonian,"The chemotherapy makes you feel like you want to stay up al ...
• Petraeus Was a Disaster: Enough with Glorifyin ...
  To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Few things have characterized the post-9/11 American world more than our worshipful embrace of our generals. They’ve become our heroes, our sports stars, and our c ...
• 8 Reasons Wall Street Greed Is the Cause, and ...
  Wall Street, which caused the economic crash that drove up the debt and gave politicians an excuse for this fiscal cliff debacle, is once again getting a free pass. Given Wall Street's greed, this should be a national disgrace. There is no debt crisis. Rather there is a crisis in courage -- no ...

Threat Level

• Supreme Court to Decide if Human Genes Are Pat ...
  The Supreme Court announced Friday it would review a case testing whether human genes may be patented, in a dispute weighing patents associated with human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer.
• Convicted File-Sharer Gets Record 40-Month Pri ...
  A member of the in-theater camcording gang known as IMAGiNE Group was handed Thursday a 40-month prison term in what is the nation's longest sentence in a file-sharing case. A Virginia federal judge handed the confinement to Gregory A. Cherwonik, ...
• Bank Agrees to Reimburse Hacking Victim $300K ...
  In a case watched closely by banks and their commercial customers, a financial institution in Maine has agreed to reimburse a construction company $345,000 that was lost to hackers after a court ruled that the bank's security practices were "commercially ...
• Opinion: Hackers Should Forget Disclosure, Kee ...
  Vendors, governments and the information security industry have incentives to protect their interests over their users'. Not all the players will act ethically, or capably. So who should the hacker disclose to?
• Two Indicted for Online Distribution of Puppy- ...
  A Houston man and a woman are being indicted for allegedly distributing over the internet "snuff" films they allegedly produced in which puppies and other animals were tortured and killed, federal officials said.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• US Walnuts Recalled in Canada Again
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Compass Food Sales are warning the public not to consume Compass brand in-shell California Walnuts because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella. ... Continue Reading
• What’s up with Trader Joe’s? – Peanut Butter a ...
  Last night the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is alerted the public of a recall being conducted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and... Continue Reading
• The FDA Is Out to Lunch – Or, at Least Breakfast
  Barry Estabrook has published a great story on the problems with FDA oversight – it is worth a full read, but I like these parts: “It’s like doing 100 miles... Continue Reading
• 20 States, 42 People Sickened by Salmonella Pe ...
  Collaborative investigation efforts of state, local, and federal public health and regulatory agencies indicated that Trader Joe’s Valencia Peanut Butter, manufactured by Sunland, Inc. of Portales, New Mexico, was a... Continue Reading
• Marler Clark E. coli Client Speaks Out

AutoblogGreen

• Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...
  Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...
• Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost
  Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...
• Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
• First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid
  Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
• Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...
  Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...

Rafe's Radar

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• VIDEO: On Strike! Fast-Food Workers in NYC Cal ...
  Democracy Now! was there when workers at dozens of restaurants owned by McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC , Taco Bell and others went on strike Thursday and rallied in a bid for fair pay and union recognition. Organizers with the Fast Food Forward campaign are seeking an increased pay rate of $15 ...
• Democracy Now! Will Broadcast Live From COP18 ...
  Democracy Now! will broadcast from the annual UN Climate Summit, as it convenes in Doha, Qatar. Tune in next week, Dec. 3-7 to see our coverage of the official proceedings as well as events outside the conference. As Amy Goodman noted in her recent column, "No world leader at the UN c ...
• Our Climate Future and the Doha Summit
  By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The annual United Nations climate summit has convened, this year in Doha, the capital of the oil-rich emirate of Qatar, on the Arabian Peninsula. Dubbed “COP 18,” an army of bureaucrats, business people and environmentalists are gathered ostensibly to limi ...
• "1775: A Good Year for Revolution" -- Author K ...
  We interview political and economic author Kevin Phillips Wednesday about his new book, 1775: A Good Year for Revolution, which follows "a United States taking shape rather than losing headway." Phillips argues 1775–not 1776–is the more important year of the American Rev ...
• Video: Part 2 of Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznic ...
  Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick discuss the creative process behind their new 10-part documentary series, "The Untold History of the United States," which spans from the 19th century to the present. "American’s don’t know history,&quot ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

• Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
  YouTube | 15 October 2009 About Mumford & Sons
• Reengineering Schools: Here it Comes
  Michigan Public School System Being Destroyed.  RIGHT NOW. By Brainwrap at The Daily Kos Hyperbole? Hair on Fire? Sky is Falling? Absolutely. If you or anyone you know and care about live in Michigan, or if you care whatsoever about the public school system in this country–or, for that ma ...
• Black Hole Upsets Galaxy Models
  By Science Codex A group headed by Remco van den Bosch from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has discovered a black hole that shakes the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution. This monster has 17 billion solar masses and is thus significantly heavier than the models predict. A ...
• Catherine Austin Fitts by Anne Hess
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• Stone Builders, Mound Builders, and the Giants ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Sideways News

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Fabius Maximus

• Learning skepticism, an essential skill for ci ...
  Summary:  In the New America we’re controlled by skillful propaganda. To regain our freedom we must develop greater skepticism. Here’s a good place to start, with an except from Marcello Truzzi’s famous article about the important role of skepticism in science.  His insights ca ...
• On counterinsurgency: Conclusions. Let’s ...
  Summary:  In this last chapter of “On Counterinsurgency” Martin van Creveld sums up the results of the post-WWII history of counterinsurgency. this was first published in 2005; hopefully we’ll learn these lessons soon. As the first phase (Iraq, Af-Pak) of our mad foreign wars w ...
• Ed Dolan Asks: What Does it Mean for Fiscal Po ...
  Summary:  As we approach the fiscal cliff, economists of different schools offer radically different advice.  Austrians and Chicago-ians warn about the consequences of anything other than a fast austerity. Keynesian economists suggest continued deficits until the economic growth (and especially ...
• Is America on the road to zero growth?
  Summary: Experts have a wide range of forecasts for America’s economy. Rapid growth, leading to the singularity. Slow growth, the muddle-through economy. An no growth. Each of these poses different challenges for America. All of these look plausible. Here we look at the darkest of three th ...
• Music to accompany a Revolution
  Summary: Music can motivate individuals to join a political movement, and build support for it among the people. Here we look at music that might spark not specific policy change (eg, about the environment), but broad reform of our political system. Profound political reform at some point become ...

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The Progressive Realist

• You Might Have Missed: Drones, Nuclear Smuggli ...
  Craig Whitlock, “Drone Crashes Mount at Civilian Airports,” Washington Post, November 30, 2012. In Djibouti, five Predators have crashed since the Air Force began ramping up drone operations there to combat terrorist groups in nearby Yemen and Somalia. Many of the mechanical breakdowns have been ...
• Yemen's Democratic Revolution, One Year Later
  Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, stepping down from power after more than 10 months of protests led by youth activists and joined by a cross-section of opposition groups and ordinary Yemenis throughout the country. Over the past year, Yemen has ...
• US Commanders in Chief Should Heed the Militar ...
  To ensure civilian control over its military, the US Constitution specifies that the president, and not a general or an admiral, is commander in chief of the armed forces. As Clausewitz brilliantly observed nearly two centuries ago, war is an admixture of policy with other means. Thus, successfu ...
• US Senators Threaten Retaliation Against Pales ...
  The Obama administration strenuously opposed Palestine’s bid at the General Assembly yesterday to upgrade its status to “non-member observer state.” The measure passed overwhelmingly, with the USA one of only 9 countries to vote against the upgrade. On Capitol Hill yesterday, m ...
• Embassy Security in the NDAA
  It’s that time of year again, when the amendments process for the National Defense Authorization Act is used as a vehicle to put forth new legislation. Yesterday and today have seen a flurry of amendments go to the floor. One amendment that passed through a voice vote caught my eye. It was propo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Why Washington Can’t Stop Talking about "Lincoln"
  Advent, as anyone who grew up with the seasonal fire hazard of a dry pine wreath affixed with lit candles or a calendar filled with sub-par chocolates can explain, is a season of preparation. In the month leading up to Christmas in the city of bad suits and broken dreams, behind all the noise o ...
• Win, Win, Win: The Case for a Carbon Tax
  As deficit talks continue to make little progress, we should revisit how a carbon tax would not only help raise badly needed revenue but could also be essential to fighting the climate crisis. A recent Congressional Research Service report found that a tax of $20 per metric ton of carbon dioxid ...
• Cold War Revisited
  Two very different books have recently done their best to remind me that nobody knows just when “the new normal” became the very handy cliché it is. But it sure fits how quickly the Cold War went from potentially apocalyptic confrontation to historical curio once the Berlin Wall fell, Germany r ...
• Ongoing Conservative Delusions
  There's a phenomenon I've long noticed among liberals dissatisfied with Barack Obama, whereby they'll say, "He's never said X!", with X being some kind of defense of liberal values or articulation of the liberal position on a particular issue. But if you look through his speeches and comments, ...
• A New, Tougher Obama?
  In response to pushback from Congress and progressive activists following a report in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal that Obama had offered to be “flexible” on tax-rate hikes for the very richest, the White House formally unveiled a tough bargaining stance: $1.6 billion in tax increases over a ...

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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• Anamorphic illusions
  I suspect lots of you have already seen this video of a Rubik’s cube, a roll of tape and a shoe on a desk, but if not you will be surprised: Anamorphic illusions is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogAnamorphic illusions is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
• The next big thing
  There is so much happening in materials: novel composites, nanostructured morphologies, biomimetic materials, biomaterials themselves, materials for solar energy conversion, highly porous materials for energy and gas storage…preparation, modification, characterisation. Seemingly, never a d ...
• Stimulating gravity simulation
  Faraday could play with magnets and currents to figure stuff out, but without a desktop model of reality, nobody could ‘play’ with gravity to see what happens. This virtual gravitational model apparently adds precision lacking in earlier simulations. The simulation is a quick run-thr ...
• You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books
  There seems to be an assumption out there that you need an actual Kindle, the device itself, to read Kindle books. Well, that’s deceived wisdom. You don’t, you just need to link your amazon Kindle account to a Kindle app on almost any device you happen to use: Android phone or tablet ...
• Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5
  There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5 is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• 66 Corals Declared Endangered Due to Global Wa ...
  The federal government proposed today that 66 species of coral should be newly protected under the Endangered Species Act, 12 as “endangered” and 54 as “threatened,” because global warming, disease and ocean acidification are driving them toward extinction. Today’s ...
• 66 Corals Declared Endangered Due to Global Wa ...
  The federal government proposed today that 66 species of coral should be newly protected under the Endangered Species Act, 12 as “endangered” and 54 as “threatened,” because global warming, disease and ocean acidification are driving them toward extinction. Today’s ...
• Senate Adds Anti-Fraud Amendment to Defense Bill
  The Senate today agreed to make the Pentagon compile annual reports on contracting fraud. The provision by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was added to a Department of Defense authorization bill. “This country has a $16 trillion national debt. It is unacceptable that the Department of Defense ...
• Senate Adds Anti-Fraud Amendment to Defense Bill
  The Senate today agreed to make the Pentagon compile annual reports on contracting fraud. The provision by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was added to a Department of Defense authorization bill. “This country has a $16 trillion national debt. It is unacceptable that the Department of Defense ...
• Civil Society Groups Appeal to UN Secretary-Ge ...
  Forty-eight prominent human rights groups from civil society and academia appealed to United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to demonstrate UN leadership in human rights by responding to claims of victims of the raging cholera epidemic that UN troops brought to Haiti two years ago.rea ...

Common Dreams-Views

• The Latest Palestinian Skirmish: A New Ballgame?
  Immanuel Wallerstein The whole world watched the latest violent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Everyone held their breath to watch Pres. Morsi of Egypt broker the truce, which for the moment is lasting. And everyone except th ...
• Compromise: A Misnomer for Absurdly Unequal De ...
  Voices of the 1% are dominating the media and congressional discourse regarding the “fiscal cliff” by offering a “compromise” which justifies significant cuts in the safety-net “entitlements” by promising economic growth as a mask for their own self-interest.r ...
• 2016
  Christopher Brauchli Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. & ...
• Bradley Manning: A Tale of Liberty Lost in America
  Glenn Greenwald Over the past two and a half years, all of which he has spent in a military prison, much has been said about Bradley Manning, but nothing has been heard from him.read more
• Bitter Irony: UN Vote to Recognize Palestine L ...
  Joseph Massad On 29 November 1947, the UN general assembly voted to partition Palestine between native Palestinians and overwhelmingly European Jewish colonists. The partition plan granted the colonists (one-third of the population) 57% of ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• This Is The War That Never Ends
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• Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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Water Wars

• 5 Things-Today
  By The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking California news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• Fracking Water
  I enjoyed reading Natalie Cherot’s article on hydraulic fracturing for many reasons.
• Water Wars: On the LA Aqueduct's (and Four ...
  Say what you want about the tendency of the federal government to overreach, but sometimes you need to carry a big stick to get water flowing. Case in point: the Act of Congress of June 30, 1906, which provided the...
• State irrigation plan to spark water wars
  THE State Government wants to open the historic Cooper Creek and Diamantina and Georgina rivers to irrigation, risking a full-on brawl with graziers.
• U.S. and Mexico Sign Deal on Managing Colorado ...
  The United States and Mexico agreed to overhaul how water from the Colorado River, which serves 33 million people in both countries, will be shared and managed.

WordPress | Economics

• Friction in Foreclosures
  Over at Credit Slips, Adam Levitin argues there is simply not enough capacity in our foreclosure sys
• Sen Sanders Goes After the Corporatists....again!
  Senator Bernie Sanders has some rather enlightening remarks for the Wall Street Fascist Corporatists
• The Republicans’ urban problem
  The turnout in Paul Ryan’s Milwaukee – for President Obama In a post-election interview
• Strategy for innovation - Society and Culture ...
  Strategy for innovation – Society and Culture – AEI. I think this is all crap.  Innovati
• Mark in Life
  It is always a struggle to make a mark in life. I wonder what would happen if you fail to make yours

Electronic Intifada

• Will Hamas squander its Gaza victory?
  Hicham Safieddine Beirut 30 November 2012 Khaled Meshaal’s U-turns make him sound like a broken record of Mahmoud Abbas.
• Book review: Miko Peled sets the record straig ...
  Susan Abulhawa 29 November 2012 The General’s Son traces how an Israeli liberated himself from racism.
• Palestinian forces increasingly join Israel in ...
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Ramallah 28 November 2012 Palestinian journalists routinely self-censor following increased violations of media freedoms in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
• Israel's repression of Palestinian students re ...
  Yara Sa'di Haifa 28 November 2012 Behavior of Israeli universities demonstrates academy’s support for state violence.
• “Boycotting Israel works,” says Rachel Corrie’ ...
  Joe Catron Gaza City 27 November 2012 Craig Corrie underscored the importance of BDS campaigns as he visited Gaza just before it came under attack.

The Wonk Room

• Top Conservative Author Endorses ‘Benevolent S ...
  Charles Murray, a scholar at the leading conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, may be the most influential populizer of racist views in the country. His book The Bell Curve, which posits that black people are genetically less intelligent than whites, practically spawned an e ...
• Republicans Claim That Obama’s Long Time Econo ...
  Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) ripped into President Obama’s opening offer on a package to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, during the GOP’s weekly address on Saturday, characterizing the proposal as “radical” and a “classic bait-and-switch.” “Maybe I missed i ...
• Negotiations Over The Kyoto Protocol Continue ...
  by Gwynne Taraska The UN climate talks currently taking place in Doha will decide the future of the Kyoto Protocol, which is the world’s only legally binding climate treaty.  Although the protocol’s impact on global emissions has been limited, it is still necessary to keep the policy infrastruct ...
• On World AIDS Day, Here Are Five Huge Advances ...
  Today marks World AIDS Day, an annual public health initiative to raise awareness about and mobilize support for combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic around the globe. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pointed out in a speech earlier this week, significant advances in HIV research and treatment s ...
• Open Thread Plus Cartoon Of The Week
  Opine Away. Ocean acidification is killing sea life, and we are the culprits Horsey provides his own sobering commentary on his cartoon, which I excerpt below: If the prospect of coastal cities sinking into the sea 100 years from now does not motivate Americans to do something dramatic to reduce ...

thwap's schoolyard

• The Good Ol' Common Horse Sense of the Canadia ...
  I'm a political animal. I think about politics to the detriment of succeeding in my everyday life. A lot of people don't really follow politics. They watch the news. But they vote. The thing is, I believe in democracy. I believe people are the best judges of their individual self-interest WHEN T ...
• We Have to Recover Lost Ground
  Radicals and centrists will have to cooperate. Social Democrats, Liberals and libertarian socialists will have to cooperate. This is a death struggle for Canadian democracy. We will have to tolerate bourgeois corporate parties that at least respect the traditions of Parliament. (This excludes Li ...
• Interesting Take on Recent Egyptian Politics
  Counterpunch has an interesting article by Eric Walberg about newly elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's power-grab. Given that Morsi's actions are going to be portrayed by the mainstream corporate press in the western countries as "scary, scray Muslim Brotherhood leader assaults nascent E ...
• Rob Ford, Bev Oda and Peter 1
  So, surprise, surprise. Sometimes there are consequences for your actions when you're a "conservative." It seems though, that you have to be bone-stupid and meth-addict reckless before you get nailed. Rob Ford solicited for donations to his charity from lobbyists using his City of Toronto Counci ...
• Alberta
  Alberta, to the extent that the petroleum economy and its rural base makes it prone to embrace "free markets" and social conservatism, needs to be controlled. The same way that Bay Street parasites in Ontario who vote harpercon need to be controlled. By "controlled" I mean that their self-destr ...

on Government Oversight

• DoD Contractors Cost Nearly 3 Times More than ...
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Digital Journal

• Toronto's Swiss-Master Chocolatier is the plac ...
  Chocolate and the holidays are the perfect mix. Everyone loves getting a present of a delicious creamy treat, even those impossible to buy for family members.
• Canadian economic growth slows in third quarter
  In the July-September, third quarter, Canada suffered the largest drop in exports in three years. The economy grew at a 0.6% annual rate compared to 1.7% in the first two quarters.
• Scientists create new method to keep bread mou ...
  A technique developed by a research company linked to Texas Tech University can prolong the shelf-life of bread for up to two months. The new technology could become the most significant bread-related development since the invention of the bread-slicer.
• Canada's new refugee rules come into effect on ...
  Beginning on Dec. 15, foreign nationals making refugee claims in Canada will be divided into two groups, depending upon whether their country of origin is considered a genuine refugee producing country.
• Canada neuroscientist develops a working, virt ...
  Neuroscientist, Chris Eliasmith, feels there will soon be an explosion in artificial intelligence and "human-like" machines. As part of this future venture, he and his scientific team have built "the world's largest simulation of a functioning brain."

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

• The future of Canadian peacekeeping
  Canada's participation in global peacekeeping operations is now almost negligible, even though the demand for blue helmets is steadily increasing.
• Harper: Find military role for Goose Bay
  Prime Minister Harper has told Defence Minister Peter MacKay to find a role for 5 Wing/Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay, a military base in Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Peter Penashue's riding.
• Peace activists speak out against US nuclear w ...
  Ten peace activists who blocked entry to a Trident nuclear submarine base were convicted earlier this month of "walking on a roadway where prohibited."
• Why is Canada going soft on cluster bombs?
  Bill S-10, which is designed to bring Canada into compliance with the UN Convention on Cluster Munitions, contains serious flaws.
• Thousands of Canadians ‘remembered for p ...
  Thank you for supporting our I remember for peace campaign! We reached many people across Canada this year, spreading the message that Remembrance Day should be less about war and more about peace. Over 2,000 people counted themselves as someone who would remember for peace. You can still sign o ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-27-12
  Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
  Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-10-12
  Today, Kevin reveals how he was able to build his financial empire and gives you tips on how to do the same! Self Help: Flood Your System With Nutrition Lose Weight Safely Become Financially Set Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast Follow Kev ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-30-12
  Today, best-selling GMO author and independent filmmaker, Jeffrey Smith, gives you the inside story behind genetically modified food and how it is affecting your health. Plus, Dr. Bob Marshall gives you the facts behind the dangers of Magnesium Stearate & Stearic Acid! Self Help: Tap Your Wa ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-25-12
  Today, Kevin proves that majority of the studies done around the world are complete scams! Plus, get the latest scoop on natural ways to cure and prevent diseases. Self Help: Get Rid Of Candida Change The Way You Think What’s In Your Water? Kill Viruses Naturally Health: Low Vitamin D Leve ...

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

• ESPN: Israeli Football Champs, Racists and Ha ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comwww.veteranstoday.comBy Veterans Today ESPN: Israeli Football Champs, Racists and Hate Mongers (ESPN Video)By Veterans TodaySaturday, December 1st, 2012— Presented unedited, courtesy of ESPN Sports: YouTube – ...
• News Corp. taps WSJ editor as publishing CEO
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate News Corp. plans to name Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson as chief executive of its publishing spinoff, the newspaper said on Saturday. The Journal ...
• US Senate Passes New Sanctions on Iran
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUS Senate Passes New Sanctions on Iran Antiwar.comJim Lobe The U.S. Senate approved a new round of economic sanctions against Iran Friday, ignoring warnings by the White House that the additional measures could prove cou ...
• Intelligence Asset Anonymous Declares Cyber Wa ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com December 1, 2012 The Anonymous hackster collective has announced it will attack Syrian websites outside the country in response to the Syrian government shutting down the internet in that cou ...
• For Amish, fastest-growing faith group in U.S. ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com For Amish, fastest-growing faith group in US, life is changing For Jacob Beachy, life moves along much as it always has. Every day, there are the 35 cows that need tending, as well as 90 acres of farmland. H ...

Dandelion Salad

• Michael Ratner: Bradley Manning Testifies Abou ...
  Dandelion Salad Nov 30, 2012 by TheRealNews Michael Ratner: Manning describes cruel and unusual punishment; offers to plea to lesser charges. see Julian Assange: Human Civilization Has Merged With The Internet Julian Assange Addresses UN On Human Rights: US Is Trying To Build A ‘Regime Of Secrec ...
• The Stimulator: The End of THEIR World
  Dandelion Salad http://submedia.tv/ Nov 30, 2012 by stimulator 1. Pajama Jammy Jam 2. Egypt’s Re-Revolution 3. NATO 5 4. Molotovs for Alex 5. Spain’s anti-video ninja laws 6. Like pigs in milk 7. I’m moving to Indiana 8. ΕΞΤΑΣΗ ΤΕΑΜ 9. Natives stop gas pipelines Filed under: An ...
• Uprooted – A documentary film by Donia M ...
  Dandelion Salad In case you missed it when it was first posted on July 7, 2007. [replaced video Nov. 30, 2012] “I should of, I could of” made a shorter film, but I was angry, very angry. I felt that we are so bombarded by this propaganda about terrorists and what terrorism is, that I ...
• Kucinich, Paul and Holt Introduce H. Res. 819 ...
  Dandelion Salad by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, DC Nov 28, 2012 Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Ron Paul (R-TX) and Rush Holt Jr. (D-NJ) today introduced H. Res. 819, a resolution of inquiry to compel the Administration to release documents which it reportedly uses as the legal ...
• Julian Assange: Human Civilization Has Merged ...
  Dandelion Salad Nov 29, 2012 by democracynow In his most extended interview in months, Julian Assange speaks to Democracy Now! from inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been holed up for nearly six months. Assange vowed WikiLeaks would persevere despite attacks against it. On Tue ...

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: Teddy Be ...
  In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed ...
• Link to Price Spikes Prompts Banks to Consider ...
  Financial giant Barclays is considering an end to food speculation, a controversial practice linked to sudden, dangerous spikes in global food prices. Rich Ricci, head of Barclays' corporate and investment banking arm, told British lawmakers on Nov. 28 that public disapproval of food speculation ...
• From Medieval Map to Modern Mind: A Quirk of F ...
  What’s most intriguing to me, though, is how medieval ribbon farms – or rather the lack thereof in much of the United States – shaped attitudes toward modern transportation, and continue to shape our psychology as a nation today.
• Spider Silk Inspires Beautiful Music
  Musical compositions based on the structure of silk could help engineers make stronger threads.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Heights ...
  This new topographic map, from Arizona State University in Tempe, shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire Moon with a pixel scale close to 100 m (328 feet). A single measure of elevation (one pixel) is about the size of two football fields placed side-by-side.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Irene Gendzier: How much did we know?
  [L]et’s face it. It isn’t that we don’t know what happened in 1947-1948. It’s that we’ve chosen not to see or hear anything that jars our thinking on the subject. Certain words and ideas have... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to ac ...
  Voting by an overwhelming majority — 138 in favour to 9 against (Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Panama, Palau, United States), with 41... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Zvi Barel: Give the Palestinians a state
  What kind of threat is it when the Palestinian state cannot even dislodge one settler, place guards on its borders, or restore one dunam of "state lands"? For the moment it seems that the Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Stephen R. Shalom: Gaza Quiz
  An uneasy cease-fire has been declared ending Israel's attack on Gaza, Operation Pillar of Defense. Take this quiz to see how much you know about the situation. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...
• Adam Shatz: Why Israel didn’t win
  The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

• Studying Access to Specialized Care One Commun ...
  One of the largest studies examining disparities of care ever to be conducted in a developed country, involving almost 200,000 adults with epilepsy will be presented for the first time at the American Epilepsy Society's 66th Annual Meeting in San Diego California. While there have been studies ...
• Brain Cooling to Treat EpilepsyMoves Closer ...
  Neuroscientists from Japan's Yamaguchi University today reported that chronic focal brain cooling suppresses seizures during wakefulness and achieves the effect without significantly affecting brain function. Their research, and that of others in the field, provides critical evidence that this ...
• Steroid Injection Linked with Significant Bone ...
  Postmenopausal women suffered significant bone density loss in their hip after they were treated with an epidural steroid injection for back pain relief, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. Bone density loss after six months was six times greater when compared to the typical bone density l ...
• Geneticist and Inventor Steven Henikoff Named ...
  Steven Henikoff, Ph.D., a geneticist, biologist and inventor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has been named a 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.
• Mild Vibrations May Provide Same Benefits as E ...
  Low-intensity vibrations led to improvements in the immune function of obese mice by restoring B and T-cell populations and thereby diminishing consequences of obesity, according to a Stony Brook University study.

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

• Bluefin Tuna: Is the Tide Turning?
  by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon A recent meeting of the International Commission on the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) has been heralded by environmental groups as a win for science in the management and conversation of scarce resources on the high seas.  One of the species within ICCAT ...
• Weekend Roundup: November 25-30, 2012
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller wrote about Niger’s offer to extradite Saadi Gaddafi to the ICC, should this be requested. Kevin also discussed the conditions attached by the UK for a vote in favour of Palestine’s “non-member state&#8 ...
• Watch: ITLOS Webcast of Argentina v. Ghana (AR ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Today is Argentina Day here at Opinio Juris! (OK, it is Bash-Argentina Day).  In any event, it is worth highlighting that while Argentina has escaped for now a NY federal court ruling that would have forced it to pay holdout creditors next month, it is also battling G ...
• More on the End Game
  by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Thanks to Ken for posting the link to Jeh Johnson’s important speech below, and bravo to Jeh Johnson for saying it aloud. In addition to the central passage Ken highlights, I might add this from Johnson’s speech (to reiterate, Johnson is General Coun ...
• DOD General Counsel Jeh C. Johnson on Conditio ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Quick note further to Deborah’s post on the “end-game” of the current US counterterrorism regime.  In category of great minds think about the same things, if not precisely alike, the same day Deborah posts, Defense Department General Co ...

Public News Service

• Testing Emphasized as World AIDS Day Observed
  Testing Emphasized as World AIDS Day Observed PHOENIX – Tomorrow (Saturday) is World AIDS Day and events are planned across Arizona to raise awareness of the disease and to celebrate successes in fighting the virus. Dr. Rhianna Meadows, staff physician with Planned Parenthood Arizona, sa ...
• Lawsuit Challenges AZ Ban on Driver’s Li ...
  Lawsuit Challenges AZ Ban on Driver’s Licenses for DREAMers PHOENIX – Immigrant and civil rights groups are suing to reverse Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's ban on driver's licenses for young immigrants granted work permits under President Obama's deferred-action program. The federal ...
• Minority Farm Program at Risk
  Minority Farm Program at Risk PHOENIX –Arizona's Native American, immigrant and minority farmers may be losing access to an innovative program that helps train them to become successful farmers. The “Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Program&#82 ...
• Whooping Cough Cases on the Rise
  Whooping Cough Cases on the Rise PHOENIX - An increase in cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, has been seen in many states this year. In Arizona, the number of cases is running double that of last year, but in Maricopa County the number of confirmed cases has been more than triple last year's ...
• A Memorable, Meaningful and Stress-Free Holida ...
  A Memorable, Meaningful and Stress-Free Holiday Season? Plan It Now! PHOENIX - The holidays are upon us and images of peace, love, harmony and family togetherness are popping up everywhere. But the reality is that it can also be the most tense and stressful time of the year. Dr. ...(Read More)

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