1 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Genetic Engineering (Photo credit: Eugene of Norway)

Property market (Photo credit: Alan Cleaver)

Big Sur, California (Photo credit: the_tahoe_guy)

English: Government Genetically Engineered, Homegrown (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S. HT = herbicide tolerance. BT = insect resistance. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Center for Food Safety

• Help CFS Defend Farmers Against GE Crops
  Farmers are at the front lines in the battle against genetically engineered (GE) crops. They are the ones that risk economic harm should their crops be contaminated by GE material.  For more than a decade, Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been representing farmers in court against chemical compa ...
• After Halt to Planting, Court Orders Eradicati ...
  Remedies Include Three-Year Monitoring Period to Track, Destroy Any Germinating GE Plants In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern United States.  The court also ordered steps t ...
• Center for Food Safety’s Statement on th ...
  Yesterday, California voters narrowly turned down Proposition 37, which, if passed, would have required the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the state. While late polls showed the initiative losing in the double digits, Prop 37 failed by a 6-point margin. A full 47 percent of Cal ...
• California Newspaper Editorial Boards Spread F ...
  By Michele Simon Each election season, proponents and opponents of the various initiatives on the California ballot hope for the state’s major newspaper endorsements. While you can’t expect every paper to endorse your side, Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods produced using gen ...
• Center for Food Safety Releases New Geneticall ...
  Latest research shows 61 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE foods, while U.S. lags behind Center for Food Safety (CFS) has announced the release of its new, interactive Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Labeling Laws map detailing the powerful, growing presence of laws requiring ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

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

Politics in the Zeros

• T’is the Treason. La Cucaracha
• EU climate change report is alarming
  The European Environment Agency has released a 300 page report detailing anticipated results of climate change. Grist summarizes it, and the predictions are unsettling [...]
• Renewable energy facing rough times, coal and ...
  BusinessInsider has detailed charts showing how renewable energy is generally expensive while the cost of natural gas and coal is low. Even worse, government subsidies for renewable energy are much less effective than subsidies for nuclear, oil, and gas in terms of electricity produced. Investor ...
• Microsoft hater admits they may be getting coo ...
  Seemingly all of a sudden, Microsoft is releasing innovative new products that even impress hardcore Microsoft haters. The Borg is back in town. [...]
• Public solar-powered charging stations
  A Serbian startup, Strawberry Energy, is building public solar-powered charging stations. GigaOm says this is exactly what all cities need, especially considering what happened to New York and New Jersey after mega-storm Sandy, when the recharge zombies wandered the streets searching for power. ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

• Just a Little More Fair
  What will we do when the US runs out of money? A few months ago it seemed that the American public may actually grasp the size of the numerical problem, but the elections revealed that people in bulk are not capable of basic math. It only takes the most cursory of reviews to understand that [...]
• Camp 2012
  Another deer season gone, I didn’t get any.  This time I did see several doe and maybe a spike buck in the morning of the first day but it was too dark to tell. Camp is a special place and I have a few minutes so here are some of my favorite images and videos [...]
• Climategate Season!
  Gone hunting for invisible deer again. It is climategate season!! The week will probably end with nothing new (including deer-s) but the UK police managed to leak (publish) that nobody involved in Climategate could be prosecuted after three years. Hopefully, the boys/(manly girls) aren’t s ...
• Left Behind
  The media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to the left, the media reactions are universal.  Ignore it! This time they have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation ...
• Required Reading
  For those seriously interested in climate sensitivity, Paul K has a very interesting post up at Lucia’s. Pinatubo Climate Sensitivity and Two Dogs that didn’t bark in the night  

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Want button leads to countersuit, antitrust ca ...
  Facebook countersues over ‘want’ button – Facebook this week filed a countersuit against Michigan-based company CVG-SAB, which claims the social network’s unreleased “want” button is infringing on the trademark of its own button of the same name. CVG-SAB says ...
• Facebook Gift Cards and others make gains to b ...
  Facebook Gift Cards entered our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week at No. 14 with 41 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s … Continue reading →
• FB shares close at $28, highest since July
  Facebook shares closed today at $28, up more than 16 percent this week and hitting a new high not seen since July. Shares have been on the rise now that major lockup periods have passed and a number of analysts … Continue reading →
• Facebook rolls out photo sync to more users
  Facebook today officially announced its photo sync feature that uploads and stores a user’s mobile photos in a private album on the social network for quick sharing later. The company began testing photo sync for Android in August and earlier … Continue reading →
• Facebook careers: commercial counsel, patent p ...
  Facebook added about two dozen new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the legal, HR, data analysis and account management teams. A noteworthy addition is a job listing for an Integration Manager, Corporate Development … Continue reading →

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Obama Wants State-Sponsored Murder Legalized
  Elevating Murder, Inc. to a Higher Level A previous article discussed Obama’s kill list. Another explained his “disposition matrix.” Both constitute elevating Murder, Inc. to a higher level. Obama now wants more. He wants murder legalized. On November 24, The New York Times hea ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• Podcast Show #100: The Black Hole Called Guant ...
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Andy Worthington Journalist Andy Worthington updates us on Guantanamo, where 85 men cleared for release are still held. We talk about the September death of Adnan Latif, the Yemeni who had languished for 8 years since being cleared by Bush-era officials, the almos ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

Afro Spear

• sat’day riddymz
• Happy Birthday Shirley Chisholm (November 30, ...
• Lincoln: Reliving and Relieving the White Man& ...
  I am looking forward to see Lincoln, the recent film by Steven Spielberg. I want to see it for purely selfish reasons: I am a huge Daniel Day Lewis fan. He plays Uncle Abe and from what I see from the previews, his performance is spellbinding. Those who have followed along with me in this bloggi ...
• “Miseducation of Africans About Their Hi ...
  In order to put this article into its proper perspective, Chinweizu informs us thus: “It was miseducation which sought to withold from me the memory of our true African past and to substitute instead an ignorant shame for whatever travesties Europe chose to represent as African Past. It wa ...
• Obama and the Jews
  Very insightful and telling article from 2008 on then Presidential candidate Obama and the dynamics of his long standing relationship with pro-Israeli Jews. Click on image below for article.

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Are Banksters & the Fed Becoming the Fourth Br ...
  Despite its pathetic propaganda encouraging us to practice doublethink, the Federal Reserve freely admits that it is privately owned, is a monopoly empowered by Congress, and that it operates independently from -- above? -- Congress and the president. Yet it pays its private undisclosed shareh ...
• Organic: Food Justice for the 99% (Response to ...
  As Americans become increasingly aware of the story behind conventional foods--the ecologically destructive monoculture fields, the petrochemical fertilizers, the toxic pesticides and dangerous fumigants--the agrochemical industry has launched an all-out media offensive against the booming organ ...
• Baby, It's Cold Outside
  What is our real life experience beneath the Christmas hype and false news of a prosperous holiday season? What is the truth of the state of our lives?
• Apologies from Canada - Congratulations Palestine
  The recent recognition of Palestine by the UN may be symbolic, but symbolism carries a long history and a long memory.
• An historic victory for Palestine-another reje ...
  The UN action, which was backed by an overwhelm majority of UN members with a lopsided vote of 138 to 9, may well force the Zionist regime to seriously consider a just peaceful resolution of the conflict.

Switchboard

• Latin America Green News: Chilean copper mine ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.  November 26-30, 2012 Chile The Supreme Court ruled this week th ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• U.S. - Mexico presidential meeting highlights ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña-Nieto visited U.S. President Barack Obama this week, just before taking office on December first. As Peña Nieto himself remarked, the meeting m ...
• Los Angeles County Water Pollution and the U.S ...
  Steve Fleischli, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC In their Oscar-winning song, Burt Bacharach and Hal David got it all wrong: Raindrops keep fallin' on my head But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red Cryin's not for me Cause I'm nev ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Let the Silliness Begin
  Baseball Hall of Fame voting debates are going to be intolerable for the rest of my life. And personally, Curt Schilling saying that cheaters don’t deserve to be in is pretty funny. What about fleecing the state of Rhode Island, Curt? Should that disqualify you?
• Down the Memory Hole
  One conservative strategy will be to pretend that George W. Bush never existed. I suspect that it’s only a matter of time before Bush becomes a tax-hiking Democrat. (Jonah Goldberg pointed the direction on this many moons ago.) Relatedly, I would like to note this from the latest column of ...
• “A creepy, brutal hypocrite.”
  Paul Finkelman on the Sage of Monticello: Contrary to Mr. Wiencek’s depiction, Jefferson was always deeply committed to slavery, and even more deeply hostile to the welfare of blacks, slave or free. His proslavery views were shaped not only by money and status but also by his deeply racist views ...
• The “Health Insurance is a Corporate Bai ...
  There’s a recent comment that reminds me of a deplorable line of argument I’ve seen repeatedly but don’t I’ve ever addressed: Nobody has universal healthcare. Not even after it’s fully implemented will it be honestly “universal”. Obama handed corporations billions of doll ...
• 8 CA Grants Stay Based On Free Excercise Argum ...
  I’m not sure how seriously they’re taking the appeal, but it’s still cause for concern. In light of Oregon v. Smith, the argument that the contraceptive mandate violates the First Amendment should be laughed out of court, but in a context in which ad hoc arguments that the PPAC ...

Desert Research Institute

• Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...
  This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...
• Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...
  Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.
• DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...
  DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
• Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...
  Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.
• 2012 Tahoe Summit Report
  The Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.

Earth Techling

• Aussies Seek To Shush Wind Turbines
• The Aussie Solution For Rainwater Harvesting I ...
• Honda Accord Hybrid, Plug-In Hybrid Get New De ...
• Fiscal Cliff And Wind Power: Renewing The Prod ...
• An Eco-Friendly Space Heater That Won’t Destro ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• THE CAREERIST: Gay lawyers in NYC make gains
  New York's gay lawyers are on a roll, according to a report by the New York City Bar Association. While women and minorities are seeing ups and downs in their numbers, it's all upwards for gay lawyers.
• OPINION: Plan: 'pick off' plaintiff to scuttle ...
  An employer's strategy of making an offer of judgment to the original plaintiff is at issue before the Supreme Court.
• OPINION: Unending imprisonment
  Statute allowing for indefinite detention of even American citizens is clearly unconstitutional, raising the question of why Congress and Obama approved it.
• THE PRACTICE: SEC enforcement: What has gone w ...
  The more it needs quick, publicity-generating settlements, the more it tends to forgo suits against individual executives.
• E-Discovery: Courts allowing expedited discove ...
  One standard allows a 'flexible standard of reasonableness and good cause.'

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Holiday Return Engagement for 'Tinkerbell Thea ...
  Tots need live theater in Christmas break. Upper West Side needs more daytime activities for pre- and lower schoolers. Frog and Peach Theater is bringing back two fairy tale plays.
• 2012 Likely The Most Expensive Year Ever At Th ...
  It has been a year for records in America. One of the records we won't be popping champagne corks over is the price of fuel.
• California Post Office Named After Lance Corpo ...
  The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation to name a postal facility in Granite Bay the Lance Corporal Victor A. Dew Post Office.
• The Yardbirds Celebrate 50th Anniversary with ...
  The Yardbirds, British Blues band, 'Making Tracks' two DVD Tour Set grabs you by the heart and ears.
• India: Everybody's Invited To Rise and Strike ...
  2012 has been a depressingly violent year for women in India. There were very public acts against women, with case after case of sexual assault, rape, sometimes with murder, suicide

environment 360

• Accelerated Ice Sheet Melt At Both Poles Docum ...
  The ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are losing three to five times as much ice annually as they did two decades ago, a rate of ice loss equivalent to sea level rise of 0.04 inches per year, according to a new study supported by NASA and the European Space Agency. In an analysis of data fr ...
• China is World’s Largest Importer Of Illegal T ...
  China has become the world’s leading importer of illegally harvested timber, even as the growing economic giant has made strides in protecting its own forests, according to a new report. Drawing on its own investigative research and the work of Interpol, the London-based Environmental Investigat ...
• Tar Sands Oil Boom Drives Push for A Northern ...
  The rapid development of Alberta’s tar sands has spawned a new proposal for a 731-mile pipeline that would transport oil to the British Columbia coast. The project is strongly opposed by conservationists and First Nations leaders, who fear the environmental risks it would bring. BY ED STRUZIK
• Scientists Develop Standardized Analysis of Ci ...
  A team of Israeli researchers has developed a method to track pollution over the world’s mega-cities, a satellite-based process they say could help hold nations accountable for their pollution and promote cleaner NASA Smog over Beijing industrial practices. Using data collected by t ...
• Pine Beetle Attacks Cause Temperature Rise in ...
  The decimation of trees by mountain pine beetles in British Columbia has caused air temperatures in affected areas to climb by an average of 1 degree Celsius during the summer months, according to a new study. iStock A mountain pine beetle In an analysis of satellite and forest data colle ...

Red Ice Creations

• The US Is Collecting the DNA of World Leaders
  The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information. In the not-too-distant future, they may provide something more as well—the basis for the creati ...
• Despite US Refusal to Sign On, Global Landmine ...
  Syria sole country to employ deadly mines in 2012; US among few countries still maintaining right to produce them Only a single government—Syria’s—continued to actively deploy new landmines in 2012 while the number of countries rejecting use of of the deadly weapons increased worldwide, accordin ...
• How the Globalists Write The Script, And What ...
  Neo: "What truth?", Morpheus: "That you are a slave, Neo. That you, like everyone else, was born into bondage... kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch – a prison for your mind." ~The Matrix In the movie the Matrix, Morpheus and Trinity knew that something in reality had sud ...
• Judge stops school from expelling girl who ref ...
  A Texas high school student will be allowed to continue going to class for now despite her refusal to cooperate with a program that forces pupils to be mandatorily tracked with computer chips. Andrea Hernandez was told she’d be expelled from John Jay High School’s Science and Engineering Academy ...
• The Cashless Society is Almost Here – And With ...
  Among the long list of items bundled by consensus reality merchants under the banner of ‘conspiracy theory’, is a world without cash – where technocrats rule over the populace, and everything and anything is exchanged via plastic and RFID chips. In this sterile and controlled Orwellian hi-tech s ...

Russia Today

• Explosion in Gaza amid fragile ceasefire with ...
  Conflicting media reports coming from Gaza suggest an Israeli strike has hit a residential area, wounding four Palestinians. But others stress it was an industrial accident. This comes amid a fragile ceasefire between... Read Full Article at RT.com
• US arrivals : Accident prone Pentagon drones s ...
  A newly-released internal investigation by the US Air Force has shown a plague of non-mission-related accidents involving drones in its foreign operations. Meanwhile, Washington is pushing ahead with plans to allow... Read Full Article at RT.com
• New Mexican president sworn in amid violent pr ...
  Protesters clashed with police outside the Mexican Congress in Mexico City on Saturday, as the country’s new president, Enrique Pena Nieto, took the oath of office. Read Full Article at RT.com
• President Morsi sets new date for constitution ...
  Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has called for a public referendum on the country’s new constitution on December 15. He has yet to sign the draft, which was approved by the country’s Islamist-dominated assembly. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Heavy snowfall severs Russia: 40km jam clogs m ...
  Hundreds of drivers were caught by surprise in a 40km traffic jam after an unexpected snowfall and heavy winds. They are waiting in long lines on the federal freeway connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg, the country’s... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Fast Food Forward!
  A working wage for those working in the fast food industry is a righteous cause to struggle to get! There is now a strike of fast food workers underway being led by Fast Food Forward that is seeking a change to this modern day fast food factory slavery that has come to symbolize all that’s ...
• Are you really sure you want to call the cops ...
  Gosh, how many times around the US do relatives call the cops and the cops then kill that relative? LESSON- The police in the US are not really your friends. Coroner identifies man shot, killed by Aurora police
• Africa for Norway- Bono and Western World fak ...
  — Watch this one several times because it keeps getting funnier! We’re talking about Africa For Norway – New charity single out now! Official christmas video
• US backed terrorists continue attacks on Syria ...
  ‘Two car bombs exploded minutes apart in a suburban residential area of Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least 45 people and injuring 120, Syrian media reported. The blasts targeted an area called Jaramana populated by Christians and Druze, minority groups that have mostly supported the Syrian ...
• So-called Fiscal Cliff is a Buffalo Jump
  Remember the “Financial Crisis” from out of nowhere when Obama first came to office? Now it’s Bank Heist, the Sequel, branded most assuredly with the assistance of Madison Avenue as a “Fiscal Cliff”, shall we call it FC2? This time instead of extorting a so-called & ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Chemical Engineer Mark Basile to Conduct New N ...
  9/11: EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY EXCLUSIVE - AE911Truth.org - Mark Basile Chemical Engineer For information on the the first peer-reviewed paper of the WTC dust, which claims that active thermitic material was found in it, and the recent attempt that claimed it could not replicate the results of th ...
• A 2009 Paper Claims to Have Found Explosive Ma ...
  By John-Michael Talboo and Siggi Super. Ever more people are realizing that the official account of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 is a cover-up, and that we need a proper independent investigation. One aspect of that investigation will have to deal with the explosive destruction of the Twin Towers ...
• Two Remixes Further Confirming My Thoughts Tha ...
  Lowkey - Obama Nation Part 3 (Ft. Malcolm X, 2pac, Lupe Fiasco, M1 & Black the Ripper) 2Pac feat. Lupe Fiasco & Lowkey - Terrorist (DJ Nabz Remix) Related: Would 2Pac Have Been a 9/11 Truther?
• 9/11 Free Fall 11/22/12-- Abolitionists and 9/ ...
  Published on Nov 25, 2012 by Free Fall On the Thanksgiving day episode Andy Steele goes over the latest 9/11 related news and headlines and discuss the fairy tales children believe in like Santa Claus, and the fairy tales adults believe in...such as the lies their government tells them. As wel ...
• Joe Rogan - The JFK Magic Bullet and Assessing ...
  [Language Warning] Joe Rogan points out the ridiculousness of the official story of the JFK "magic bullet" theory as described by the Warren Commission: _____________________________________ Joe Rogan's very sensible recommendation in regard to evaluating evidence in difficult-to-follow crime ...

Fooducate

• New Study – Artificial Sweeteners More Fatteni ...
• Kaiser Permanente Warns Millions of Members: A ...
• Pediatrician Group Warns: Pesticides are a Dan ...
• The Fat Lie We Tell Ourselves
• Should You Be Drinking Water with Karma Added?

Traffikd

• How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
  People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
• Twitter Step by Step
  Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
• SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
  When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
• How To Choose Keywords
  Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
• Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
  So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

• Russian indigenous peoples’ organization order ...
  A Khanty man in Siberia© Jon SpaullAn organization representing indigenous peoples in Russia has been ordered to close, in the country’s latest crackdown on NGOs. The Ministry of Justice said it was suspending RAIPON (Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North) for six months b ...
• Brazilian Indians' water 'poisoned' in bitter ...
  Guarani Indians of Ypo’i community in Brazil.© MPFA community of Brazilian Indians say their main source of water has been poisoned by one of the state’s most controversial ranches. The Guarani from Ypo’i community in Mato Grosso do Sul state used a mobile phone to film the contamination, which ...
• Brazilian mining giant given green light for p ...
  Awá man. The Awá are warning the expansion of the Carajás railway could bring disastrous consequences© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian government has given the go-ahead for a railway project that severely endangers Earth’s most threatened tribe. Mining giant Vale announced it has obtained an ...
• Penan set deadline for dam demands
  Penan man, Sarawak, Malaysia.© Robin Hanbury-Tenison/SurvivalMembers of Malaysia’s Penan tribe have suspended their lengthy blockade of the Murum dam site, and given the Sarawak government an ultimatum. They say authorities have a month to guarantee sufficient compensation for the dam’s ne ...
• US food giant accused over biofuel 'tainted wi ...
  A Guarani man in front of sugarcane crops, grown where the tribe’s forests once stood.© SurvivalA US food giant has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians. He ...

Greg Palast

• Sandy De-Filed Us! Please Donate to our Hurri ...
  A personal note from Greg Palast Damn that Sandy! She flooded our New York office. I am asking those of you who can, to make a tax-deductible donation and download my New York Times bestselling book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps or simply make a con ...
• Greg Palast at Los Angeles GreenFestival This ...
  Greg Palast will be the featured speaker at this Sunday's GreenFestival in Los Angeles. The presentation will be: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits A post-Election Analysis When and Where: Sunday, November 18, 2012  3 PM Main Stage Los Angeles Convention Center SOUTH KENTIA HALL 1201 South Figue ...
• Democracy Now: Ohio – Wrong Ballots for Black ...
  A special report by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Watch the Report [Dayton, Ohio. Tuesday November 6, 2012] Several thousand African-American voters in Dayton, Ohio, may find their ballots left uncounted, and they, and America, won’t know it––even if the lost votes change the presidency. First, ...
• 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits Lee Camp's ...
  Lee Camp's riffs on Greg Palast's bestelling book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits. Get a copy here.   1. Don't go Postal 2. Vote Unconditionally - NOT Provisionally 3. Register, Register - Then Register again 4. Make the Democracy Demand - No Vote Left Behind 5. Vote Early - Before the Ba ...
• Starting Today: No Charge for my Bestselling B ...
  Palast Fund to give away FREE copies of Bestseller Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps A personal note from Greg Palast Call me crazy.  The Palast Investigative Fund is dead broke and our office in New York is under water.  No kidding. But America is drown ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Update: Seclusion Rooms, Pollutio ...
  Nov 29, 2012, ABC News: Death at School: Parents Protest Dangerous Discipline for Autistic, Disabled Kids Nov 29, 2012, US News: Brain Scans Show Differences in Adults With Autism Nov 28, 2012, FOX Seattle: Are ‘isolation rooms’ in some school...
• Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Vax v Unvax Brings ...
  By Dan Olmsted Back in the summer of 2005, I asked then-CDC Director (now Merck vaccine prexy) Julie Gerberding the following 19-word question (or 20 words, if you count U and S as two words, but I don't, especially because...
• Landmark Autism Hearing: "The Troops Have Land ...
  By Dan Olmsted Thursday's hearing before the House oversight committee (view the autism hearing here) will surely be remembered as a landmark. By the end of the day, the government spokesmen from the NIH and the CDC seemed to be...
• UK Leveson Inquiry Authorises Government/Pharm ...
  By John Stone As predicted on Age of Autism Lord Justice Leveson has used the inquiry initiated to investigate press abuse of ordinary citizens to authorise a power grab for government bureaucrats and industry lobbyists over science reporting – a...
• SafeMinds' Mark Blaxill Autism Hearing Testimo ...
  Testimony of Mark Blaxill Board Member, SafeMinds Before theCommittee on Oversight and Government Reform US House of Representatives November 29, 2012 Good afternoon Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee. I am honored to be here today on behalf of...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Organic: Food Justice for the 99%
  Dr. Oz in Time Magazine Slanders Families Who Choose Safe, Organic Food for Their Children
• Don’t Think The US Military Is Concerned With ...
  The glaring reality is that climate change, and the manipulation of the global climate system, are a top priority for the US military.
• Monsanto Nightmare
  The food revolution will not be modified.
• GM woes: no water, no birds, no butterflies, a ...
  There's plenty of water here. And there are no birds. Again, the only thing that's changed is we’re surrounded by GM fields.
• Coast to Coast AM – Nov 15 2012 – GMO Dangers ...
  Barb and George talk about the dangers GMOs pose to our health.

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Coal's share of power generation slipping
  Coal’s role in fueling power plants is expected to continue to shrink in coming years as old, polluting plants are taken out of operation and power companies turn to cheaper natural gas to generate electricity.
• Summertime fog preserves relic coastal pine fo ...
  May gray. June gloom. Even fog in August, some wags call "Faugest."
• Ice sheet melting accounts for 20% of sea leve ...
  The loss of ice covering Greenland and Antarctica has accelerated over the last 20 years, shrinking three times as much as in the 1990s and contributing substantially to sea level rise, according to a comprehensive new study of ice sheet loss conducted by 26 laboratories around the world.
• Thawing permafrost may amplify global warming, ...
  Think of broccoli that you’ve got in the freezer. As long as it’s frozen, it will remain stable for years. As soon as you pull it out, it’ll go mushy and soon begin to unleash the stench of decay.
• No solid clues in mountain lion death in Santa ...
  The cause of the death of a young mountain lion found by hikers last month in the Santa Monica Mountains remains a mystery after inconclusive laboratory tests.

water.org

• Conference Call: December
  Join our live conference call on December 19, 2012 to hear about the past year and what's to come.
• Celebrate World Toilet Day
  No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
• East African Water Forum
  Water.org and The MasterCard Foundation convene the East African WaterCredit Forum to accelerate access to microloans designed to reach over 180,000 with safe water and sanitation in Kenya and Uganda by 2015.
• Regaining Trust In Haiti
  The Logalit water and sanitation committee is tenacious, resilient and serves as a model to others. Like citizens of most countries, households in Logalit pay for water. Several months ago, the number of households that were paying to get water in Logalit started to decline.
• Farmville 2 and Safe Water
  For the next month, Zynga and Water.org are partnering to help people get access to safe water. Players of FarmVille 2 are now able to purchase water-themed items that help in-game farms and benefit those struggling around the world without water.

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Energy’s Presence, Not Price, Changes Lives
     The Sustainable Energy for All initiative has rightfully united the world’s attention on a critical development issue – delivering universal energy access. r ...
• Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
  Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
• Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
  Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
• Chinese oversupply sees cost of solar panels d ...
  Right now we’re seeing a glut of solar panels in the market largely due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flo ...
• Chinese oversupply sees cost of solar panels d ...
  Right now we’re seeing a glut of solar panels in the market largely due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flood of ...

News Blaze

• Holiday Return Engagement for 'Tinkerbell Thea ...
  Tots need live theater in Christmas break. Upper West Side needs more daytime activities for pre- and lower schoolers. Frog and Peach Theater is bringing back two fairy tale plays.
• 2012 Likely The Most Expensive Year Ever At Th ...
  It has been a year for records in America. One of the records we won't be popping champagne corks over is the price of fuel.
• California Post Office Named After Lance Corpo ...
  The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation to name a postal facility in Granite Bay the Lance Corporal Victor A. Dew Post Office.
• The Yardbirds Celebrate 50th Anniversary with ...
  The Yardbirds, British Blues band, 'Making Tracks' two DVD Tour Set grabs you by the heart and ears.
• India: Everybody's Invited To Rise and Strike ...
  2012 has been a depressingly violent year for women in India. There were very public acts against women, with case after case of sexual assault, rape, sometimes with murder, suicide

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• [News Focus] Regulatory Science: Amid Europe's ...
  Europe's food-safety watchdog, celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, wins praise for sticking to the science—even when Europeans prefer not to hear it. Author: Kai Kupferschmidt
• Laser-capturing the essence of Hodgkin lymphoma
• [Report] Crocodile Head Scales Are Not Develop ...
  Tension-induced cracks generate random polygonal scales in the keratinized skin on crocodile heads and jaws. Authors: Michel C. Milinkovitch, Liana Manukyan, Adrien Debry, Nicolas Di-Poï, Samuel Martin, Daljit Singh, Dominique Lambert, Matthias Zwicker
• ri-vital® Spot-Check Monitor From Riester ...
  MUMBAI, November 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Riester's ri-vital® is engineered for the fast and accurate measurement of vital signs on the move, simultaneously monitoring blood pressure, pulse rate, blood oxygen level and temperature in a matter of seconds. This German-engineered...
• Engineering: Turbulent genius
  Allan McRobie enjoys a life of the audacious engineer who pioneered the windproofing of bridges and skyscrapers.

Common Dreams

• Rival Protesters in Egypt as Tensions Mount ov ...
• In Wake of Palestinian Statehood Vote, Netanya ...
  The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has ordered the construction of thousands of new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied territories in a move widely regarded as a retaliation for the United Nation's vote to recognize a Palestinian state on Thursday. ...
• Supreme Court to Hear Case of Human Genes Unde ...
  The US Supreme Court announced (pdf) on Friday that it will hear a case on whether human genes can be patented and thus under corporate control. Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics has patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, creating a monopoly on genetic test ...
• 'Tipping Point': Obama Lawyer Talks About Endi ...
  If a global war declared by the world's sole military and economic superpower against a shadowy, fragmented, franchisable, and loosely-grouped band of erstwhile 'dangerous' but also 'ravaged' and 'largely dismantled' terror group was over, how would you know it? You w ...
• Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud and IAEA C ...
  That Associated Press story displaying a graph alleged to be part of an Iranian computer simulation of a nuclear explosion — likely leaked by Israel with the intention of reinforcing the media narrative of covert Iranian work on nuclear weapons – raises serious questions about the In ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

• Honda Accord Hybrid, Plug-In Hybrid Get New De ...
  Honda, at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show, unveiled additional information about hybrid plans for its popular Accord sedan. The vehicle has not seen a hybrid in its line up since 2007, so the fact Honda is choosing now to ramp up its plans reinforces the fact that, while it recently crossed 1 mil ...
• Why Did President Obama Veto Europe's Airline ...
  In a rare show of bipartisan action, Congress recently passed and the President signed a bill to protect all U.S. Airlines from possible future European Union (EU) carbon taxes. A planned EU Emission Trading System (ETS) action would require all Commercial Airlines to pay carbon taxes for their ...
• Ford Fusion Named the Green Car of the Year 2013
  With two of its cars among the five finalists, Ford took the Green Car of the Year Award for its 2013 Fusion on Thursday at the LA Auto Show.
• US East Coast Hit By Historic Sea Level Rise
  Hurricane Sandy and a series of noreasters have combined with an apparently unprecedented one year jump in sea level to cause a wave of destruction on the U.S. east coast.
• Scientific American: ‘Loss of Ice, Melting Of ...
  Another day, another (accurate) apocalyptic review of climate science.

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

• The personification of self-righteousness
  By Alan Hart 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 ...
• Obama Wants State-Sponsored Murder Legalized
  by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed Obama's kill list. Another explained his "disposition matrix." Both constitute elevating Murder, Inc. to a higher level. Obama now wants more. He wants murder legalized. On November 24, The New York Times headlined "Election Spurred a Move ...
• Israel's Genocidal War on Palestine
  by Stephen Lendman Longstanding Israeli policy reflects slow-motion genocide. Non-Jews aren't wanted. Israel considers them subhuman. Peace, nonviolence, diplomacy, human and civil rights, as well as fundamental rule of law principles are systematically spurned. That's now rogue states o ...
• Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution&#82 ...
  James Petras Introduction For the past forty-five years the state of Israel has been dispossessing millions of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories, confiscating their lands, destroying homes, bulldozing orchards and setting-up ‘Jews-only’ colonial settlements serviced ...
• Susan Rice's Conflict of Interest - Major Hold ...
  By Michael Collins (Washington, DC 11/29) United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice will face serious and blatant conflicts of interest if nominated and confirmed as United States Secretary of State. Rice has major financial interests in the company extracting oil from Canada's tar sands, the compa ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Taxes: British Columbians are ready to talk
  Popular wisdom seems to be that you can't talk about raising taxes: people just won't stand for it. But today we released poll results that suggest something a little different. The majority of British Columbians not only feel that the wealthiest should be taxed more, but they are also willing t ...
• BC's water and hydroelectricity: more fragile ...
  It's easy to think of BC's water and hydro resources as limitless, especially in the rainy Lower Mainland. But our latest study examines the serious challenges facing these resources, particularly from industrial use, and calls for a new policy approach to protect and manage them. This is th ...
• CETA and the implications for health care
  The CCPA’s Scott Sinclair and Teresa Healy from the Canadian Labour Congress recently presented on the implications of the proposed Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) for healthcare in Canada.  The webinar was hosted by the Canadian Fede ...
• Impaired Judgement: The Economic and Social Co ...
  In Alberta and British Columbia, liquor retail privatization has meant higher liquor prices but lower government revenue. Moreover, the increased availability of alcohol brought on by privatization and its lax regulation contravene recognized methods for protecting public health. In light of Pre ...
• CETA and Nova Scotia: Who Pays for 'Free' Trade?
  As the federal government continues to move forward with the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) our research finds that the benefits are being oversold while the costs and consequences are being minimized and even ignored.  CETA could result in between 510 and 2587 net job loss ...

World Wide Hippies

• Don’t get fooled again – Little la ...
  By Cliff Schecter,aljazeera.com - The debate is still often about “who loves the economy more, when it should be about people”. Washington, DC, can be a strange place. It’s a city where experience is considered paramount – even if that experience sometimes consists of scr ...
• Vampire on the loose in Serbia? They can&#821 ...
  WWH/CJE - With the possible exception of my ex-wife, I’ve never met a true bloodsucker. But this story keeps coming up from my news feeds. So it was this story or John Boehner makes deal with Dems. This was far more believable. BY DUSAN STOJANOVICvsalon.com - In this Nov. 30, 2012 photo, t ...
• WWH/CJE Saturday News Briefs
  Fukushima worst confirmed, radiated children need evacuation As many as 300,000 Japanese children are being radiated daily. The radiation level is increasing. Responding to the right to health being violated in Japan, the World Network for Saving Children from Radiation is circulating two urgent ...
• Fukushima worst confirmed, radiated children n ...
  From examiner.com - Evidence has been released Friday showingnew radiation is leaking at Fukushima’s nuclear power plant as its operator TEPCOdisclosed more video recordings of its in-house teleconferences in the early phase of the 2011 catastrophe, showing employees’ tense communica ...
• Why Are Cows Tails Dropping Off?
  By Elizabeth Royte, The Nation | Report This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an investigative reporting nonprofit focusing on food, agriculture and environmental health.  In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd ...

FourWinds10

• TV: 'Some beaches have essentially turned into ...
  June 23, 2012     Shoes swept up in tsunami land on Washington beaches KING5.com Seattle by LINDSAY CHAMBERLAIN June 22, 2012 at 1:44 PM A grim and personal reminder of the thousands of lives lost in last year’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan is drifting toward the West Coast &m ...
• GMO Farming, Glyphosate Significant Causes of ...
  June 29, 2012 Water pollution and air pollution has been and continues to be a serious issue in many nations. Both of these pollution types are successfully bringing down the health of not only humans, but also animals, plant life, and the ecosystem as a whole. While the causes of water pollutio ...
• WHY ARE COWS TAILS DROPPING OFF?
• Amazon of Europe Threatened by a Straightening
  BELGRADE, Jun 30 2012 (IPS) - Wildlife is being increasingly threatened around the Danube river, the “Amazon of Europe”. The need for profit is taking over from the need to protect natural resources along the river. Austria and Croatia are engaged in a major project to tame the Danub ...
• ~WHAT THE FRACK?

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Hofmeister: Treat Climate Change as a Waste Ma ...
  John Hofmeister outlines his ideas for what would constitute a sound plan of attack on climate change.
• President Obama Has Little Impact on Oil and G ...
  Following President Obama's reelection, a number of fossil fuel stocks sold off based on the belief that Obama's policies would prove harmful to the fossil fuel industry. But will the President manage to push through tough new regulations that raise the cost of production for fossil fuel companies?
• What Happens After the Long Recession?
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question from a reader about what happens as The Long Recession plays out. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumerenergyreport [dot] com or leave the question after this post (at the original source). ...
• Hofmeister: Surging Demand and Flat Production ...
  John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil and currently the head of Citizens for Affordable Energy, discusses the events responsible for the explosion in the price of oil over the past decade.
• Guest Post: US Energy Independence Can Be Created
  First thing, on this day after the U.S. presidential elections I would like to congratulate President Obama on his reelection. My top prediction for 2012 – made nearly a year ago and reiterated many times since — was that Obama would easily win reelection, primarily because all of th ...

Discovery Educator Network

• 11 Great Video Tools for Teachers
  Comments:Magistro and vReal are two new video options for me. - Dean MantzTags: tools, teachers, video, edit, create, produceby: Dean Mantz
• Marqueed - Simple image collaboration and mark ...
• NCSS 2012 - CYAO Video Creation - Google Drive
  Comments:Very nice Google Presentation on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" video using YouTube.  - Dean MantzTags: video, creation, google, adventureby: Dean Mantz
• YouTube
  Tags: youtube, tutorial, adambelow, tweet, Keynoteby: Dean Mantz
• Using Doink and Green Screen in iMovie - Dryde ...
  Comments:Using the DoInk animation & drawing app to add animation to a green screen movie project.  - Dean MantzTags: Doink, animation, tutorial, art, drydenby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• The 4 Best Moisturizers for Dry Skin
  The season for dry, flaky skin is upon us. But before you reach for that bottle of lotion, consider this: Some ingredients in moisturizers can actually make your skin drier, interfering with the barrier on your skin that prevents moisture from dissipating. "Skin creams can actually increas ...
• The Most Toxic Thing in Your House?
  There's nothing more relaxing than coming home after a long day and flopping on the couch to unwind. That is, until you realize that your couch and the chemicals inside it are doing anything but helping you de-stress—like even causing cancer or reproductive problems. Those chemicals, intended t ...
• And the Official Color of 2013 Is…
  Thinking about repainting a room in your house? Now is a good time to choose blue, the official color of 2013. The Color Marketing Group predicts that blue will dominate the color movement for the next few years. Blue didn't get this first-place honor without the help of another hue, though. T ...
• The Autism Risk You Can't Ignore
  Throughout the years, there have been many studies—some credible, some not—trying to figure out what causes autism. What is increasingly clear is the disease seems to occur when a child with a genetic predisposition is exposed to certain environmental factors within a specific timeframe. In the ...
• 5 Ways to Dodge Dangerous Food Threats
  American children are eating dangerous levels of contaminants hiding out in the food supply, including food by-products like acrylamide, commonly found in crackers, cookies, and french fries, a November 2012 study published in the journal Environmental Health found. While many studies look at ...

big think

• When it Comes to Meat, Processed is Worse than Red
  What's the Latest Development? While eating excessive amounts of red meat is known to cause health problems, such as a higher risk of developing heart disease, it turns out that processed meats are a greater danger to your health over time. The high salt content in meats like bacon, sala ...
• A Womb with a View: The Future of Reproductiv ...
  In September of 1965, Life magazine ran a piece on medicine’s “astonishing” and “audacious experiments” that might even promise a “kind of immortality.” The first article dealt with reproduction. The article predicted IVF technology not so much as an infertility treatment but as a means ...
• Does the Flu Shot Give You the Flu?
  What's the Latest Development? In a double-blind study on the effects of the flu vaccine, in which half the participants were given a placebo, the only side-effect reported more often in the group that received the real vaccine was soreness in the arm. The results demonstrate the powerfu ...
• Bill Nye and Pat Robertson Agree on What?
  There didn't seem to be anything all that remarkable about what Bill Nye said in one particular segment of his interview on Big Think that went viral. Perhaps it was the way he said it that hit a nerve. Nye said in a very straightforward manner that if parents don't want to believe in evolution ...
• Why Strangers Benefit More From Our Rationalit ...
  What's the Latest Development? A recent study published in PLOS ONE revealed that, when offered the choice of gifting a small amount of money immediately or a larger amount later, test subjects were more likely to go for immediate gratification when the beneficiary of that gift was thems ...

Information Liberation

• No Charges For St. Paul Cop Recorded Kicking D ...
  Remember the video of the St. Paul, Minneapolis police officer who violently kicked a defenseless man lying on the ground in the face after he had already maced him? Well, the Olmsted County attorney's office have chosen not to charge the cop wi...
• Outrage at Potential 80-Year Sentence for Mont ...
  Chris Williams is sitting in a private federal prison on the Montana prairie these days awaiting sentencing. If the federal government has its way, he won't be a free man again for three-quarters of a century, an effective life sentence for a middle-...
• State Trooper Accused Of Stealing From Body Of ...
  America's finest at work. Second report: ...
• End the Pretense that Government Schools and P ...
  It's for your own good, kids: The "Isolation Box" at Longview, Washingon's Mint Valley Elementary School. Warrantless "drug sweeps" in government-run schools have become routine in recent years. So have "lock-down" drills in which SWAT teams condu...
• Shock Video: Cop Protects First Amendment
  A shocking video has emerged of a police officer who abides by the oath he swore to uphold the constitution by defending the free speech rights of activists who were targeted by airport officials during the opt out and film campaign. The clip sh...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Liberals Have Taken Over California
  An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...
• A Necessity Disguised As A Virtue
  Events in Australia have overtaken my plans for two upcoming LibertyGibbert articles, one on Liberty and children, and the other on the Catholic Church. Yet the Gillard government’s announcement on Monday of a Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse … Continue reading ...
• America On A Collision Course With Reality
  After Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year. If the American electorate are daft enough to re-elect the man who has racked up … Continue reading →
• The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...
  I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … Continue reading →
• Clutching At Straws
  I’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Market Based Climate Mitigation Policies In Em ...
  The Pew Center on Global Climate Change / by Sara Moarif and Namrata Patodia Rastogi http://www.c2es.org/publications/market-based-climate-mitigation-policies-emerging-economies [Summary] Used by governments for decades, market-based policies are mechanisms to control environmental pollution at ...
• Road Transport: Unlocking Fuel-saving Technol ...
  Georgetown U. School of Business, Duke U. School of Business and Nicholas School of the Environment for the Carbon War Room and Trimble http://bit.ly/QaSLDQ [Energy Efficiency News] Existing technologies that improve the fuel efficiency of trucks could save owners over $26,000 per vehicle and re ...
• West Is Best: How Public Lands in the West Cre ...
  Headwaters Economics http://headwaterseconomics.org/land/west-is-best-value-of-public-lands/ General findings: Higher-wage services industries, such as high-tech and health care, are leading the West’s job growth and diversifying the economy. Entrepreneurs and talented workers are choosing to wo ...
• Global Climate Risk Index 2013: Who Suffers Mo ...
  Germanwatch / by Sven Harmeling and David Eckstein http://germanwatch.org/de/download/7107.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Nayantara Narayanan, sub. req'd] …The United States was among the 10 countries most affected by climate change in 2011, as it was battered by tornadoes, hurricanes ...
• CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery
  Institute for 21st Century Energy | U.S. Chamber of Commerce http://tinyurl.com/crtug65 [From Press Release]  The U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy has issued a new report detailing the contribution that a groundbreaking technique is making on American oil field production—wi ...

Scientific American - News

• Ice Confirmed on Mercury Despite Planet's Sola ...
  Talk about a land of fire and ice. The surface of Mercury is hot enough in some places to melt lead, but it is a winter wonderland at its poles -- with perhaps a trillion tons of water ice trapped inside craters -- enough to fill 20 billion Olympic skating rinks. [More]
• Solar System's Moons May Have Emerged from Lon ...
  "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch," as Carl Sagan once said, "you must first invent the universe." And if you wish to make a moon from scratch, according to new research, you must first create planets with rings (after inventing the universe, of course). [More] ...
• Flame Retardants on the Rise in Furniture
  Flame retardants in U.S. furniture are on the rise, with a new study finding them in nearly all couches tested. [More]
• Outbreak Specialists Track Down Recent Coronavirus
  Maria Zambon was having déjà vu. Earlier this fall, she found out about a new coronavirus that had come seemingly from nowhere to kill a Saudi man in Jeddah in June and seriously sicken another.  The survivor had been flown from Qatar to a London hospital. His lungs were overw ...
• Supersymmetry Fails Test, Forcing Physics to S ...
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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Increasing Concerns over Climate Funding at UN ...
  DOHA, QATAR—There are increasing concerns about the outcomes of the UN climate negotiations due to the major uncertainties around funding for climate financing programs. Today, campaigners from Time for Climate Justice held a silent ...
• Increasing concerns over climate funding at UN ...
  DOHA, QATAR—There are increasing concerns about the outcomes of the UN climate negotiations due to the major uncertainties around funding for climate financing programs. Today, campaigners from Time for Climate Justice held a silent ...
• Criminalizing Non-disclosure
  AIDS activists see recent Supreme Court ruling as major step backwards MONTREAL—On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court delivered a ruling that significantly expanded the legal s ...
• Criminalizing Non-disclosure
  AIDS activists see recent Supreme Court ruling as major step backwards MONTREAL—On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court delivered a ruling that significantly expanded the legal s ...
• The Gazan Doctor Comes to Halifax
  Despite Personal Tragedy, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish Speaks for Peace On January 16, 2009, a tumultuous explosion followed by a blinding flash rippled through Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish&rsqu ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Palestine at the UN
  David Seaton's News Links  Some commentators have said the UN vote, which, by a massive majority, gave Palestine observer status is meaningless... Meaningless? Now, for starters, we finally are not talking about a stateless "PLO" or the "Palestinian people", we are talking about "Palestine" ...
• The American religious + economic right fractures
  David Seaton's News LinksLosing the election seems to have really shaken the American conservative movement deeply and the most significant long term effect, that I perceive, is watching some important, born again, wooly-evangelicals slowly morphing into what, in Europe, would be classified as C ...
• The wacky Petraeus tacky attack tactic
  With Gen Petraeus' public downfall, the American public can begin to grapple with why after 11 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan "we haven't won anything", (Andrew) Bacevich says. The consequences of the myth of "the great heroic general" have been dire, he says. "It's an excuse to not think ...
• What Romney has taught the American left
  "The president was elected on the basis that he was not Romney and that Romney was a poopy-head." - Grover Norquist (ht:Doonesbury)Just for argument's sake let us accept that Romney was right and that 47% of Americans will always vote against the Republicans because, as "dependent" parasites, t ...
• Whew!
  At least the sinuous Romney isn't going to be president... At least the first African-American president gets to serve two terms... At least the Tea Party wont get to name any justices of the Supreme Court... and at least a hundred "at leasts" that we might not even imagine till they happened, b ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Quote of the Day: Plan? What Plan?
  From Michael Grunwald, on Republican whinging about President Obama's budget plan: It’s really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican complaints that President Obama’s opening offer in the fiscal cliff talks is just a recycled version of his old pl ...
• Friday Cat Blogging - 30 November 2012
  Domino wasn't really cooperative this morning, so I didn't have a whole lot of catblogging photos to choose from. She did deign to let me take a few pictures, though, before she got up to rub her face against the camera and then go upstairs for her mid-morning snooze (not to be confused with her ...
• What Exactly is Unclear About "Expressly" and ...
  Adam Serwer has a helluva strange piece up today about Dianne Feinstein's recently passed amendment blocking indefinite detention of US citizens and legal residents captured on US soil. Here's the nut of the thing: The question of what the Senate actually did hinges on language in the amend ...
• Will Democrats Vote for Filibuster Reform?
  The biggest impediment to filibuster reform has never been Republicans. Senate rules can be changed without them, and their threats of retaliation are mostly bluster. In reality, the biggest impediment has always been Democrats themselves. Harry Reid needs nearly unanimous consent from his own ...
• I Guess the Future Wasn't at Stake in This Yea ...
  There's one particular strain of Republican reaction to their election loss that's always given me the biggest chuckle, and today Paul Waldman highlights it: the absurd proposition that Mitt Romney never forthrightly defended conservative principles. Now, it's true that Republicans didn't t ...

Insanity Report

• IC 363: Don’t Be Stupid
  Topics: Team building exercises Work sucks Its not them its me Kids are soft these days The Karate Kid Taking a stupid position Obama should offer Romney a job Chris Brown needs to man up Not everything is about race The difference between Chris Brown and Charlie Sheen R Kelly is a pedophile, st ...
• IC 362: Big Endians vs Little Endians
  Topics: Jesus is Master Chief What We’re thankful for More Black Friday Bullshit the Great BBQ Debate Your Preference != The Only Way Grits are nasty Elmo Getting Skinny on Food Stamps Chris Christie is Fat Share with your friends:
• IC 361: God is Chris Brown
  Topics: Door-to-Door Jesus Salesmen God doesn’t care about your problem God is Chris Brown, You are Rihanna Why Christmas seems to come so early Black Friday Star Wars Episode 7 Twinkies gone Republicans lack empathy & just don’t get it Your dick is an asshole what you have to s ...
• IC 360: Fox News Tears
  Topics: Run for Your Lives Drunk White Girls Drunk Black People vs Drunk White People Taking things out of context Our political system balances out Fox News Tears Black Republicans are full of shit Papa Johns vs Obamacare Share with your friends:
• IC 359: Drunkish
  Topics: Kev gets White Boy Wasted Kriss & Rodimus decipher Kev’s drunk tweets Can’t wait for the election to be over “I don’t see color” Covering the election like sports The world won’t end on November 7th Jamie Foxx as Electro George Lucas sells LucasFi ...

Simple Climate

• Space agencies pinpoint polar ice sheet damage
  Greenland and Antarctica lost over 4 trillion tonnes of ice from 1992-2011 - equivalent to 11 mm of sea level rise, the giant Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE) has shown by bringing together over 50 years’ worth of satellite data .
• Carbon conundrum could push firmer emission action
  Climate models might be wrong in assuming plants and soil will absorb more CO2 as the world warms, meaning that more aggressive action might be needed to keep climate change at ‘safe levels’, finds Paul Higgins from the American Meteorological Society
• Australians overestimate climate change rejection
  Actual opinions on climate change in Australia are very different from what people estimate, thanks mainly to our tendency to think more people agree with us than really do, but possibly also to how the issue has been debated, shows a survey run by Zoe Leviston from CSIRO.
• Monsoon instability raises food questions for ...
  An unstable balance between dry and wet monsoon rain seasons could become important for farming in South Asia as the world warms into the 22nd century, find Jacob Schewe and Anders Levermann from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
• Butterfly effect limits climate models
  Tiny changes in climate simulations otherwise held constant can lead to a wide range of outcomes, Clara Deser from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and her team find, showing uncertainty we can’t eliminate.

e!Science News

• Obese children more vulnerable to food advertising
  Rates of childhood obesity have tripled in the past 30 years, and food marketing has been implicated as one factor contributing to this trend. Every year, companies spend more than $10 billion in the US marketing their food and beverages to children; 98% of the food products advertised to c ...
• UI researcher predicts more intense North Atla ...
  Tropical storms that make their way into the North Atlantic, and possibly strike the East Coast of the United States, likely will become more intense during the rest of this century. read more
• Native Americans and Northern Europeans more c ...
  Using genetic analyses, scientists have discovered that Northern European populations -- including British, Scandinavians, French, and some Eastern Europeans -- descend from a mixture of two very different ancestral populations, and one of these populations is related to Native Americans. This d ...
• Autism severity may stem from fear
  Most people know when to be afraid and when it's okay to calm down. read more
• Birds may spread, not halt, fever-bearing ticks
  The country Turkey raises and releases thousands of non-native guineafowl to eat ticks that carry the deadly Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus. Yet research suggests guineafowl eat few ticks, but carry the parasites on their feathers, possibly spreading the disease they were meant to stop, s ...

unEarthed

• Boxer Throws Punch At Coal Ash
  Defends DoD Bill against unrelated Hoeven Coal Ash Amendment Sen. Boxer takes a stand against false rider tactics. Some members of the Senate believe it&rsquo ...
• Lung Association Poll: Voters Want Soot Protection
  Nearly two-thirds of those surveyed support standards The microscopic size of soot allows it to lodge deep within the lung. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice.) ...
• Resident Orcas Attacked By Anti-Environment Group
  Earthjustice will act to protect them L87, a southern resident orca, breaches at sunset with Whidbey Island and Mt. Baker in the background.  (Susan Berta / Orca Network) ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Legislating Disaster
  Lawmakers are leading nation to environmental cliff More than a hundred million gallons of coal ash slurry were released when a coal ash dam failed, flooding Buffalo Creek Valley in West Vi ...
• The Shiny Scary Truth About Chromium
  Cancer-causing chemical threatens lungs of many Chromium plating facilities emit high levels of the carcinogen into local communities.  (Neal Sanche) Chr ...

Brave New Climate

• Energy White Paper is hazy on future vision fo ...
  The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a “clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of decarbonising o ...
• CSIRO Energy Future 2050 tool
  CSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...
• Objective analysis of nuclear and wind-solar o ...
  I’ve never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of my pocket and give my time freely, because I think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. But now, I’d like to ask you to give a little, t ...
• The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstratio ...
  I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24 Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...
• Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...
  Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Today We Honor All Veterans
  No trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.
• Tax Debate Time – Fiscal Cliff – T ...
  Just remember to start all conversations with the fact that the richest 200 families in America have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined. The Republicans will fight tooth and nail to keep these wealthy folks from being taxed more, even though they make most of the money, and own almost ev ...
• Get The Tar And Feathers
  If anyone sees Grover, grab him. It is tar and feather time. America’s wealthy have so much money, they could pay a little (or lot) more in taxes. Sorry Grover. We could balance the budget without cutting one single program that helps struggling Americans. We could tax America’s weal ...
• Pshewwwwww
  Great night for Dems. Now for the house in 2014.
• Any Mother Fucker That Votes For Any Republica ...
  I call Republicans Mother Fuckers because they support policies that fuck their mothers, and their fathers, and their children, workers, and all Americans that are not wealthy. After watching all the voter suppression it is amazing some patriotic American doesn’t make things right and give ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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• On anti-normalization, dialogue and activism – ...
  “Those who reject dialogue as a means of ending occupation are alienating even the most sympathetic activists by positing replacement of one monumental injustice – occupation oppression and dispossession – with another: envisaging the disappearance of most Israelis from the reg ...
• A sad day of ‘victory’ in Ramallah
   In spite of the headlines, the international media attention, and the flow of pictures showing celebrating Palestinians waving flags – the UN resolution sparked little excitement or joy in the streets of Ramallah, which is still surrounded by walls and settlements on all sides. If anything, it ...
• J14 fades in Labor primaries: New faces, mostl ...
  The most important news about the Labor primaries is the depressing scarcity of news – most of the list  breathes the same old politics Israeli voters grew weary of years ago. Even J14 has not managed to breathe new life into the party – and the most prominent new figure on the ballo ...
• Polls: Netanyahu is heading toward an easy victory
  Four polls have the right-Orthodox bloc winning between 63 and 65 Knesset seats, making it impossible for any candidate to prevent Netanyahu from securing another term in office.  Four new election polls were released in the last couple of days. (Five if you count Haaretz, but I don’t.) Th ...
• PHOTOS: Palestinians celebrate UN victory
  Palestinians throughout the West Bank gathered, first in anticipation, then in celebration of their bid for upgraded status at the United Nations. In a  138-9 vote, with 41 abstentions, the UN General Assembly voted to change Palestine’s status from “nonmember observer entity” ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• New Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder ap ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke today announced that David Papps has been appointed as the new Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder.
• Independent Expert Scientific Committee to adv ...
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today announced the membership of the new Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development.
• New floodplain projects to bring boost for riv ...
  The Murray's mighty river red gums and native fish populations will be rejuvenated under a major new environmental infrastructure program.
• Gillard Government delivers historic water reform
  After more than 100 years of disagreement, the Gillard Government will today present a final Murray Darling Basin Plan.
• Super trawler banned while expert assessment i ...
  The super trawler FV Abel Tasman, (formerly FV Margiris), will not be able to operate in Australia's Small Pelagic Fishery following a decision by the Australian Government to prohibit large mid-water trawl freezer vessels from operating in this fishery under national environment law.

Matt Weidner Blog

• First Florida Had Rocket Dockets….Now Fl ...
  MR. RESNICK: Objection, Your Honor. 11 THE COURT: Grounds? 12 MR. RESNICK: They haven’t introduced 13 this into evidence yet and they’re trying to 14 testify as to the endorsement or not the 15 endorsement. 16 THE COURT: Overruled. 17 THE WITNESS: There is an endorsement 18 from Wash ...
• THE MORTGAGE FOLLOWS THE NOTE! THE MORTGAGE FO ...
  Americans who have been subjected to the abuses of an out of control banking and financial system, along with their co-conspirators in the largest crime spree ever perpetrated upon a human population, this nation’s court system, have sat in the front row while they and their communities go ...
• A Sheriff’s Deputy That Stands Up And Fi ...
  MUST SEE VIDEO OF SHERIFF SUPPORTING THE FIRST AMENDMENT!   Scridb filter
• HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL Bank of America Deposition ...
  Huh?  What’s that you say? I dunno. Which way did he go? What do you mean “does”? And when you say “me”…do you mean “you” or “me”? Oh, the wicked games we weave when we’re all so practice to deceive…. SEE MORE HERE   &# ...
• Florida Bar Journal- Morgtgage Notes Are NOT N ...
  From Tom Ice: Contemporary negotiable instruments law developed hundreds of years ago, before every important institution of the modern financial world: incorporated banks, business corporations, developed capital markets, global monetary systems, electronic transfers, and even paper currency.1 ...

abelard - news

• the reconquista | short briefings document at ...
  How Muslim invaders were driven out of Spain and France in the Middle Ages.
• occam's razor - how to deal with leveson and h ...
  abelard recommends applying existing laws to reporters, rather than creating more statutes, supervisors and other layers of bureaucracy and complication.
• the myth of islamic tolerance in al-andalus | ...
  Spain under Islamic conquest was not the cosy partnership between Muslims and Christians as now commonly believed.
• freedom of religion, 1220 | behaviour and inte ...
  Clearly, being a Christin missionary in an Islamic land was equivalent to sedition - severely not on.
• the classification jerseys for the 2013 giro | ...
  Much more romantic reasons behind the Giro d'Italia next year than the French - like Italy and Italians!

The Parallel Parliament

• Even the Queen Gets It
  As she looked out over the lands from her Sandringham estate, Queen Elizabeth II came to a conclusion. It was …Continue reading »
• Citizenship As A Contact Sport
  Joseph Priestley, a keen observer of the modern condition, noted recently that, “The more elaborate our means of communication, the …Continue reading »
• Dignitas, Gravitas, Veritas
  General Romeo Dallaire was in town last week to deliver the Claude and Elaine Pensa Lecture on Human Rights at …Continue reading »
• A Time For “Honest Abes”
  Jane and I came out of the movie “Lincoln” deeply moved. I had written a book on perhaps America’s favourite …Continue reading »
• Call of Duty
  It had been a good session – lots of talk and ideas about the need for a renewed sense of …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

• Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
  Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
• Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
  Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...
• Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
  Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
• Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
  August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
• Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
  Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...

2020 Science

• The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
  Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
• Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
  Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
• Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
  Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
• What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
  In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
• Want to know about teens and social media from ...
  If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

• منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
  للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
• Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
• Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
  by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
• A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
  By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
• The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...
  “On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• European Gypsies (Roma) descended from the anc ...
  A new paper now pinpoints the ancestry of today's Roma to the ancestors of the Adivasi ("original people) tribes of North West India. I note , in passing, that the discrimination and "oppression" of the current Roma populations across all of Europe is not so unlike the discrimination and "oppr ...
• Liverpool Care Pathway for babies is surely eu ...
  Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults.But the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies. If a Care Pathway - by definition - is ...
• On the shoulders of midgets:10 years of scient ...
  Dr. Eric J. Smart, former Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology, Department of Pediatrics and Physiology, at the University of Kentucky has been found guilty of falsifying data over the past 10 years.
• Stapel fraud report blames lack of critical sc ...
  The final report into how Diedrik Stapel, a Dutch university professor was able to fake research data for years blames the absence of a critical scientific culture at academic institutions.
• Modern English derives from Scandinavian rathe ...
  English is in reality a language belonging to the Northern Germanic language group which includes Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese rather than deriving from Old English where Old English, in turn, was derived from the West Germanic language group brought into Britain by the An ...

Left Foot Forward

• This week’s most read
  The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
• Where is the coverage of Carers Rights Day?
  Today is Carer's Rights Day, but where is the media coverage? Left Foot Forward urges politicians to push forward this vital campaign.
• US Politics Digest: Obama campaigns on fiscal ...
  The latest US politics news - including President Barack Obama campaigning on the the fiscal cliff and trouble for Hillary Clinton's potential successor.
• Celebrations at Palestine UN vote – but ...
  Yesterday saw the UN vote to make Palestine a ‘non-member observer state’ - a vote the UK abstained from.
• We must all fight the deadly ignorance about T ...
  Fiona Twycross AM writes about what needs to be done to fight the discrimination surrounding Type 1 diabetes.

Consumerist

• Study Begs The Question: If You Love Your Phon ...
  We already know there’s a name for that intense anxiety you might feel at being separated from your cellphone (where are my fellow nomophobics at?) but how many of actually admit we love our phones with true, shameless burning affection? A new study from Pew says if you adore your phone bu ...
• Menards Flying 50 Workers From Wisconsin To No ...
  Business might not be booming everywhere around the country, but in Minot, N.D. it’s booming so big there aren’t enough people to fill the available jobs at home improvement retailer, Menards. In order to supply enough of a workforce to staff the store near North Dakota’s thriv ...
• Kmart Pretends I Gave Them Wrong PayPal Addres ...
  Did you preorder a Wii U from Kmart? Chris did. Well, he tried to. He paid using PayPal, and Kmart now tells him that he typed in an incorrect PayPal address, and they’re sold out of them. The funny thing is that they must have had his correct address at one point: when he first placed the ...
• Secret Santa From Missouri Hands Out $100 Bill ...
  Winter chill is setting in across our fair land, so how’s about a little warming of the old blood pump? Here you go: A philanthropist from Missouri has popped up as a Secret Santa of sorts on the East Coast, and has been handing out $100 bills to victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and ...
• Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
  Here are fourteen of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for usability in a Consumerist post or just plain neatness. Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a regist ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Bradley Manning Testifies at Pretrial Hearing: ...
  Politico: WikiLeaks – Bradley Manning Testifies on Harsh Jail Conditions Summary: Yesterday, Bradley Manning spoke publicly for the first time since his arrest in 2010. At his pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade in Maryland, Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeak ...
• Inter-American Development Bank Issues Fatally ...
  On October 31, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the release of a revised whistleblower protection policy and Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Although the IDB claims that its new whistleblower policy maintains “alignment with international best practices,” in reality t ...
• Tell Congress to Provide Federal Contractors w ...
  GAP Teams Up with TakePart to Demand Accountability! Summary: On the heels of the major Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) victory, GAP has teamed up with TakePart – a digital division of Participant Media – to demand essential whistleblower protections for federal contractors.&nb ...
• GAP Teams Up with TakePart to Demand Accountab ...
  On the heels of the largest whistleblower rights victory for federal workers in decades, the momentum for advancing an agenda of government accountability and transparency has never been stronger. And while many federal employees now have strong whistleblower protections thanks to this week's pa ...
• President Obama Signs WPEA: Daily Whistleblowe ...
  Associated Press: President Signs Whistleblower Bill to Protect Federal Workers Who Expose Fraud, Waste Summary: Yesterday, President Obama signed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) into law. GAP has been fighting for these stronger whistleblower protections for the better par ...

UK Progressive

• Bungee-Jumping Over the Fiscal Cliff
  by Robert Reich What’s the best way to pressure Republicans into agreeing to extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class while ending them for the wealthy? The President evidently believes it’s to scare average Americans about how much additional taxes they’ll pay if the Bush tax cuts expire o ...
• Republican Women: Seen But Not Chairmen
  UPDATED: Late Friday Speaker Boehner announced the appointment of Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.) as Chair of the Administration Committee. by Tina Dupuy I blame feminism for why I feel entitled to equal rights. I have no qualms seeing the toil and struggle of my foremothers allowing me opportunit ...
• Homeland Security Has Spent $430 Million on Ra ...
  by Theodoric Meyer ProPublica Getting the agencies responsible for national security to communicate better was one of the main reasons the Department of Homeland Security was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But according to a recent report from the department’s inspector gen ...
• Filibuster Reform: Harry and Mitch Duke It Out
  by Brent Budowsky One of the highest-stakes games of poker in Senate history is now unfolding between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who on the issue of filibusters is not inappropriately compared to the Jimmy Stewart character in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” and Senate Republica ...
• AP’s Discouraging “Homophobia” is Discouraging
  by Rev. Irene Monroe The editors at the Associated Press Stylebook have announced that they are “discouraging” use of the word “homophobia.” The AP Stylebook is the widely used guide that media use to standardize terms and general usage. Why should the LGBTQ community be in a kerfuff ...

NewsAlert

• A Nation of Singles : The most politically pot ...
  The Weekly Standard reports:You don’t hear nearly as much about the rise of single voters, despite the fact that they represent a much more significant trend. Only a few analysts, such as Ruy Teixera, James Carville, and Stanley Greenberg, have emphasized how important singletons were to Preside ...
• Pelosi: Of course I support giving Obama “unil ...
  Hot Air
• Colleges have free speech on the run
  George Will
• Six Boomer Jobs to Ride the Age Wave
  CNBC
• Antony Sutton: Skull and Bones At War With The ...

JoNova

• Unthreaded weekend
  Let it rip… Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)
• More medical good news… the research we ...
  It’s a feel good thing, to read some of the latest medical news. Stem cells are the child-like cells within us that could theoretically be converted into almost any tissue we need. But getting them is difficult. Embryonic cells pose all kinds of dilemma’s. We’ve already managed ...
• Is your snout in the trough yet?
  While cancer patients will have to pay more or wait longer for treatment, the Department To Fix The Weather handed out nearly 1 billion dollars in 2010-2011 to “educate” people about energy efficiency and the benefits of government policies. Is this advertising by any other name? Ins ...
• Tim Flannery – baseload is just a &#8220 ...
  How is this for a scary thought? Tim Flannery says renewables will run the economy: “What we can now see is the emerging inevitability that renewables are going to be running the economy…” And I say: Prepare for economic armageddon. Picture an Australia where we all have jobs & ...
• The message from boreholes
  There have been suggestions that Jo Nova might be trying to hide or ignore the most recent boreholes graph from Huang et al. So here it is. This is the last 2,000 years according to 6000 boreholes, with the last 100 years also using the “instrumental record” which gives us that hocke ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• 2012 Fact #1: The Long Count Calendar
  The ancient Mayans had roughly 20 calendars, all of which were short in duration, with the cycles equating to astronomical phenomena, or were intended to relate to history repeating over and over again via prophecy. Except for the Long Count calendar. The Long Count is the Mayan equivalent of ou ...
• East Coast USA Has Tsunami Threats
  The biggest tsunami threats to the USA are on the West Coast. But that doesn’t mean the East Coast is immune. And to make things worse, because they aren’t expecting a tsunami, they won’t be prepared when one arrives. To be fair, most of the threats are negligible: Puerto Ric ...
• Australian Earthquake Zones
  Here’s the official map from Geoscience Australia. As is the case with any earthquake maps, it is purely backwards looking. Prior to the recent strong quake in Moe, Victoria, that part of map wouldn’t have been in  red. The Latrobe Valley town joined locations in the Northern Territo ...
• Illuminati Infographic
  If you have been following this blog, you’ll know that I am not an “everything plus the kitchen sink” conspiracy theorist. I pick and choose. As a quick example, I think crop circles are made by the military, I am a global warming denialist, the moon landings could have been a ...
• Rob on The Project Tonight – Australian TV
  The Project, on Channel 10, have a feature story tonight about 2012, and they have interviewed myself and Dr Karl presenting the science, a pair of 2012 Forum members who met on the forum (changing their lives) and some New Age nut jobs as well. For those not in Australia, it will be view-able f ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: The deepening partisan divide ...
  In the wake of the latest election, the number of state legislatures under one-party control is at a historic high -- and half have partisan supermajorities. What does this mean for the future of politics nationally? read more
• The changing face of Southern voters
  The 2012 elections revealed that, like the rest of the country, the South is undergoing big demographics changes that will change the shape of politics in the region for years to come. read more
• Latest sanction against BP goes beyond Gulf spill
  The government's decision to at least temporarily ban BP from federal contracts is a result of not just the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, but years of safety problems at the oil giant. read more
• Is North Carolina's renewable energy law in je ...
  Conservative groups whose clout grew in the recent N.C. elections want to repeal a groundbreaking state law requiring utilities to generate a small percentage of energy from renewable sources. Incoming Republican Gov. Pat McCrory has close ties to renewable energy foes -- and to renewable energy ...
• Giving Tuesday: Support a voice for a better S ...
  Giving Tuesday is your chance to support fearless media and a voice for a better South. read more

One News Page

• A batting Eden awaits our fallen superstars
  Kolkata used to have one of the most sporting wickets in India at one time, with bounce for the pacers initially and sharp turn towards the end. Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
• Syria rebels bombed as opposition open to peac ...
  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian jets bombed rebel-held areas of Damascus on Saturday, residents said, as the opposition indicated it could accept an international peacekeeping force if President Bashar al-Assad is forced from power. Warplanes attacked the Damascus suburbs of Kafar Souseh and Darraya, ...
• Plethora of artists paint the city with myriad ...
  A large turnout of art lovers at the India Art Festival, which is being held in Bandra Kurla Complex, has artists basking in the limelight. Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
• Fake job placement gang busted, 1 held
  A job consultancy firm owner was arrested for cheating innocent students by luring them with high paying IT jobs, police said. Singh's accomplices — Rahul Tiwari, Apurv Verma and Rana — are on the run, police added. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago
• Narendra Modi talking like a frustrated person ...
  Ahmed Patel, Congress leader from Gujarat and political secretary to the party president Sonia Gandhi said Chief Minister Narendra Modi was talking like a 'dejected and frustrated' person. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Thousands Demonstrate in Solidarity with Gaza
• Arafat's Body Exhumed and Checked for Poison
• Lisbon On Strike: Fighting Back Against Austerity
• Humanitarian Interventions: Reframing the War ...
• Tears of Gaza: The Brutal Truth of Modern War

Daily Tech

• Hyundai, Kia Must Provide More Answers to Sena ...
  Rockefeller wants answers on how the automakers plan to reach their customers by December 14, 2012
• Fisker Karma Production Waiting on Sale of A12 ...
  For now, Fisker is using the batteries it currently has to replace those in Karmas with owners
• Report: Specs of Second Generation Microsoft S ...
  If accurate, Microsoft is planning an ambitious upgrade for its colorful hardware
• Lockheed Martin Trials Next Generation Laser-B ...
  Using high energy lasers could reduce the cost of shooting down missiles and UAVs, while improving accuracy
• Google VP Bashes Facebook, Says Ads are Intrusive
  He compared Facebook ads to a guy with a sandwich board popping in between a father and his daughter during an important conversation

Oriental Review

• French Colonisers Have Not Accepted The Loss O ...
  A photograph taken in 1941, when Syria was still under the rule of French colonisers, has recently been circulating on social networking sites. In the worn black and white photograph, French General Georges Catroux is walking next to an elderly man with cunning eyes, Nur-Eddin al-Khatib. More th ...
• Libyan Scenario for Syria
  In September the Times published an article saying the largest shipload of arms destined for Free Syrian Army came to Turkey from Libya. It stated there were 400 tons of weapons, including an unspecified number of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, grenade launchers and other arms aboard a L ...
• Anglo-Saxon Troops Should Leave Afghanistan
  Negotiations began last week in Kabul between Afghanistan and the USA on a security agreement regarding the terms for the presence of American troops in the country following the official withdraw of the foreign contingent in 2014. Evidently, the peacekeeper’s Nobel Laurels already played ...
• The American Gulag Emerging Today
  An interesting paper was recently published on «Democracy in America today», and it commented in particular, on an aspect of the American prison system. It mentioned the so-called «commercial prisons»: «In the U.S. this is a thriving» business, which operates using prison labor. One in 10 prison ...
• The Assads: Washington’s One-Time Favorite Fam ...
  Archived declassified files from the Central Intelligence Agency point to successive U.S. administrations supporting Syria’s long-serving President Hafez al-Assad, the father of current President Bashar al-Assad, as a bulwark against Arab radicals. Israel also recognized Hafez al-Assad as the “m ...

BlogHer

• A Tool To Turn Your Kindle Into A Cookbook
  Thanks to a technologically-savvy food lover who needed an easier way to store and transport her favorite recipes, avid cooks and Kindle users can sign up for an account on KindleCooking, a free site that allows users to store recipes and move them to their Kindles (or, now, their iPad) in a sin ...
• Festive Raspberry Martini Mousse Shooters
  [Editor's Note: If you're looking for a fun, boozy dessert for an adult holiday gathering, this is perfect. It's relatively simple to throw together, and you can either make chocolate cups to hold the mousse, or go an easier route by just making the shooters in shot glasses. Either way, it's fes ...
• Eavesdropping Mannequins Could Be Invading You ...
  Facial recognition technology is being used in ways you might not have expected. Spydergrrl takes a look at this story about how your shopping habits are being monitored in the mall. She writes, In case the oddly skinny mannequins with the built-in shoe-feet and cream-coloured eyes weren't dist ...
• Can Sodastream Replace Soda?
  Whenever I ask folks if they like their Sodastream, they respond with notable passion: "It has CHANGED MY LIFE." Wow, um, okay. In this post, Jen drills down to numbers and the reality of replacing soda with a homemade version:"In the last 6 months we have used 1 canister (it lasted exactly 6 mo ...
• Books to Film: Gift it, Read it, Watch it!
  After spending Christmas Eve with my dad's side of the family, we sometimes spent Christmas day at home as a family of four. Many of those days I curled up with a new book, alternating between devouring the new words and snacking on my mom's pumpkin bread. My books weren't always at the top of ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Cancer-Causing Flame Retardants Remain in Home ...
   Chemicals designed to slow household fires continue to be found in worrying quantities in US homes, long after some of them have been banned because of suspected links to cancer and other conditions. The most controversial chemicals ...
• Aspartame-Cancer Link Exposed: Increasing Your ...
  There have been several studies over the years that established a link between aspartame consumption and cancer risk. But, these studies were frequently criticized as being too small, only capturing a short period of time, and otherwise ...
• Calcium in Vegetables
  You may be surprised to learn that there is enough calcium in vegetables to supply all of your daily calcium requirements. The advertising industry has led us all to believe that cow’s milk is the ...
• Short-Term Exposure to Essential Oils Lowers B ...
  The scents which permeate our health spas from aromatic essential oils may provide more benefits than just a sense of rest and well-being. For according to a new study(1) in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, the ...
• A Dose of ‘Good’ Bacteria Could He ...
  Some chronic sinus problems may be caused by a depletion of “good” bacteria and the presence of “bad” bacteria in the sinuses, a new study says. The findings suggest adding back some of these good bacteria ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Search continues at CONSOL slurry impoundment
  That’s an aerial photo taken yesterday by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, which routinely uses its helicopter for inspections of sites like this CONSOL Energy slurry impoundment in Harrison County, where today two miners were injured and one remains unaccounted fo ...
• Another W.Va. coal miner dies on the job
  The bad news this morning comes from Greenbrier County, W.Va., where a 27-year-old coal miner was killed on the job. The accident occurred at about 1:30 a.m. today at White Buck Coal Co.’s Pocahontas Mine near Rupert. This is a former Massey Energy operation now controlled by Alpha Natural ...
• Blankenship: ‘I don’t think I&#821 ...
  The Wall Street Journal’s Kris Maher has what I guess is considered a big scoop, a story posted last evening based on an interview with former Massey CEO Don Blankenship. The story starts out: The former chief executive of Massey Energy Co. said in a rare interview that he has no immediate ...
• More mines face ‘pattern of violations&# ...
  Here’s the news issued yesterday by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that four mining operations have received letters putting them on notice about a potential pattern of violations of ...
• New GAO report confirms: Coal still ‘key ...
  There’s a new report out today from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (thanks to the State Journal’s Taylor Kuykendall for tweeting his story about it) that confirms things we already knew about the future of Appalachian coal: Retirements of older units, retrofits of existing ...

Daniel Miessler

• Atheists and Christmas
  An excellent piece. Related Posts:How to Handle BullyingBike ParkourOn Failure and SuccessThe Onion Obliterates the “Idea Guy”Stellar Dance Routine
• On Spending Time With the Opposite Sex
  I don’t believe men and women in relationships should spend much time with people of the opposite sex. It sounds very 1950s, but it isn’t. Let me explain. I think humans are designed to fall in love with each other. Quickly. We’re geared to be around someone in the clan or ...
• OS X Easter Egg Reveals LoTR Calendar
  # Read the LoTR calendar file from a default OS X install ~ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr Related Posts:Connecting to Serial Ports from OS XEmployment Status by Education LevelRemoving Files from a Git Repository Without Actually Deleting ThemObama Gaining GroundMount an ISO Fro ...
• iTunes 11 Lets You Redeem Gift Cards By Using ...
  Awesome touch in the new iTunes 11 iTunes Store: Apple will now allow you to redeem iTunes gift cards using your computer’s camera. It seems like a newer type of Apple gift card will be required. via 9to5mac.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Posts:iPh ...
• New Open Source Intelligence Gathering Tool &# ...
  Users could set the OSINT OPSEC (Open Source Intelligence / Operational Security) Tool to monitor for keywords, allowing, for example, an organisation to be alerted if a hacking group dumped its sensitive data to clipboard site Pastebin. Or it could scour Stack Exchange for intellectu ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Chinese UFOs offer intricate puzzle
  From examiner.com- On November 29, 2012, the NBC NewsCosmic Log reported how a European Ariane 5 rocket carrying two telecommunications satellites launched from French Guiana had caused Chinese skywatchers to report a UFO incident in a case of mistaken identity. The Chinese website Sina told how ...
• Don’t get fooled again – Little la ...
  By Cliff Schecter,aljazeera.com - The debate is still often about “who loves the economy more, when it should be about people”. Washington, DC, can be a strange place. It’s a city where experience is considered paramount – even if that experience sometimes consists of scr ...
• Vampire on the loose in Serbia? They can&#821 ...
  WWH/CJE - With the possible exception of my ex-wife, I’ve never met a true bloodsucker. But this story keeps coming up from my news feeds. So it was this story or John Boehner makes deal with Dems. This was far more believable. BY DUSAN STOJANOVICvsalon.com - In this Nov. 30, 2012 photo, t ...
• WWH/CJE Saturday News Briefs
  Fukushima worst confirmed, radiated children need evacuation As many as 300,000 Japanese children are being radiated daily. The radiation level is increasing. Responding to the right to health being violated in Japan, the World Network for Saving Children from Radiation is circulating two urgent ...
• Fukushima worst confirmed, radiated children n ...
  From examiner.com - Evidence has been released Friday showingnew radiation is leaking at Fukushima’s nuclear power plant as its operator TEPCOdisclosed more video recordings of its in-house teleconferences in the early phase of the 2011 catastrophe, showing employees’ tense communica ...

reference frame

• Enrico Fermi started nuclear era 70 years ago
  An unusually well written article appeared in the financial section of the Czech Press Agency's server. Here's the translation into Lumo English. Chicago/Prague – Exactly seven decades ago, on December 2nd, 1942, the mankind found itself on the threshold of the nuclear era. A team ...
• Does the Bigfoot exist?
  You must have noticed that two days ago, news sources were hyping a claim of Melba Ketchum, a Texan veterinarian, that she has sequenced the DNA taken from Mr Bigfoot Sasquatch Jr. After a 5-year-long research, her DNA team in Nacogdoches has allegedly determined that he exists and he is ...
• Firewalls vs analytic continuation
  Two new interesting anti-firewall papers and one pro-firewall paper The black hole firewall argument by AMPS is probably invalid but it has already led to a significant new wave of research and discussions about the black hole information puzzle which is a good thing. There ar ...
• Dark matter discovery: behind the corner?
  Clara Moskowitz did a pretty good job Two days ago, I read a popular article about dark matter: Dark Matter Mystery May Soon Be Solved It was written by Clara Moskowitz, an important editor of Space.com, and I thought that the article was unusually good. The article sketched wha ...
• Palestinian statehood and the U.N.
  The State of Judenfrei Palestine was painfully accepted to UNESCO one year ago. Today, another vote of this kind is expected. It's almost certain that a vote will determine that the Israeli Arabs will win the same status in the U.N. that the Vatican enjoys – the status of a non-member state r ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein is the Face of Class ...
  from Common Dreams: Incredulous that Wall Street investment bankers and billionaire CEOs have descended on Washington in the midst of ongoing budget talks to tell Americans that they should “lower their expectations” when it comes to the security of their retirement and future health ...
• Thousands rally in support of Egypt’s president
  Tens of thousands of people waving Egyptian flags and hoisting large pictures of the president are demonstrating across Egypt in support of him and Islamic law. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Egyptian train hits school bus, killing at least 51 Egyptian security officials say grievi ...
• Cornyn: Obama ‘crazy’ to claim unilateral debt ...
  from The Hill: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who will soon be the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, on Friday panned a proposal by the White House that would allow President Obama to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval. Cornyn was referring to a plan Treasury Secretary Tim ...
• Chris Hall: What should be Canada’s role in th ...
  Stephen Harper has shown the ability to adapt his foreign policy position in other parts of the world, notably China, Chris Hall writes. Why is he so resolute when it comes to Israel and the Middle East? CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Chris Hall: Is Obama really the best choice for ...
• Study: American Households Hit 43-Year Low In ...
  from CBS Local Washington: The median net worth of American households has dropped to a 43-year low as the lower and middle classes appear poorer and less stable than they have been since 1969. According to a recent study by New York University economics professor Edward N. Wolff, median net wor ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

• EWG Seeks Answers About Loophole in Proposed N ...
  By Thomas Cluderay, EWG Assistant General Counsel EWG is requesting records from New York officials to shed light on a potentially glaring loophole in the state's draft plan for regulating high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the event that Gov. Andrew... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Toxic Fire Retardants Are Everywhere in Homes, ...
  By Sonya Lunder, Senior Research Analyst  Harmful fire retardant chemicals are turning up in everything from furniture to dust in American homes, researchers report in two new studies being published today (Nov. 28), a finding that underscores... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Cell Phone Radiation May Alter Brain, DNA
  By Johanna Congleton, Senior Scientist New research by Russian scientist Igor Belyaev, Ph.D., and Turkish researcher Nesrin Seyhan, Ph.D., shows that radiation emitted from portable devices may damage DNA and disrupt the process of DNA repair. ... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Race, Class, and Climate Change in the Wake of ...
  By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law FellowHurricane Sandy ravaged much of the eastern seaboard, leaving some dead, many without shelter, and all of us wondering how such an event could happen. What we realized, though, is that we can no... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website f ...
• Greener Holiday Dishwashing with EWG
  By Heather White, EWG Chief of Staff and General Counsel Having guests around during the holiday season? Inviting them to hang out in your kitchen?  Setting out munchies?  Cooking an entire humongous festive holiday meal? ... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• In a change of plan, Cuomo follows other New Y ...
• A Council redistricting body finds its way
• Arthur Sulzberger Jr. splits up with girlfrien ...
• After the harvest: on a stretch of Route 22, f ...
• Rangel: Hillary Clinton 'would answer' a 2016 ...

Views & News from Norway

• Foreign minister backs ‘Palestine’
  Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has thanked Norway and all the other nations that supported the Palestinians’ successful bid for upgraded status at the United Nations on Thursday. On Friday, Norway’s foreign minister said he and other government officials would start referrin ...
• New artificial island proposed for the Oslo Fjord
  An estimated 11 million tons of soil and rock will be excavated during construction of Norway’s longest train tunnel between Oslo and Ski. The chairman of Oslo’s harbour authority (Oslo Havn) wants to use it all to build a new artificial island in the southeastern arm of the Oslo Fjo ...
• Russian relations ‘not the same’
  After years of political pride and satisfaction over Norway’s close relations with its large neighbour to the east, concerns are now rising in the Norwegian foreign ministry. “Russia has changed” during the second term of President Vladimir Putin, according to Norwegian Foreign ...
• Crown couple ends Indonesian tour
  Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit ended a three-day official trip to Indonesia on Wednesday with a visit to both Gadjah Mada university and the Borobudur temple in Yogyakarta, considered the country’s cultural heart. Norway’s university system has had a cooperation w ...
• Trade minister turned author
  Trond Giske has been making lots of headlines in recent months as Norway’s busy and sometimes controversial trade minister, but he’s also managed to find time to write a book. Giske teamed up with former AUF vice-chairman and political adviser Jo Stein Moen to write a book on Utøya, ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Reflections on a Tropical Island PDC with Rham ...
  The sun goes down on another PDC and another 11 students are glowing and growing. This time the sun sets on a little mystical island in the southern reaches of Thailand, a little island called Koh Phangan. Their teacher and inspiration was, and still is, Rhamis Kent (author profile, WPN profile) ...
• Consumer Choices
  by William Park, Eco Ola, Peru Heritage varieties of Quinoa outside Alausí, Ecuador Can consumer choice be a driver of change? The answer is yes, provided that consumers make informed decisions based on awareness of how their purchases impact others and our planet. If, however, all the ...
• What To Do With Apples From the Backyard Orchard
  by Ernest Rando This post is a general how-to for preserving apples. We have a 3-ish acre orchard (mostly apples) that is quite mature and in need of some tender loving care. We have many apple trees that could be replaced and we believe the orchard is in need of greater tree diversity as [...]
• Fascine, Revetments, and Wattle Hurdle
  by Daniel Halsey This year I have been in Haiti after a downgraded hurricane, and then in New Jersey a week after Sandy. While in New Jersey two tornadoes passed by my old house. What do they have in common? In each case water was being limited in its flow by developement or the removal of [...]
• Put Your Questions to the Experts, Round 1: Ge ...
  We’ve just started a new Q&A series in our forums, adding a new sub-forum titled ‘Put Your Questions to the Experts!‘, where our forum members (a very nice bunch of people by the way), put their questions to various experts we’ll approach over the weeks and months ah ...

Pointman's

• How tropical storm Sandy became a Frankenstorm ...
  Infowar uses propaganda, which is directed at a population to give them a worldview which accords with your own political beliefs. There are a lot of propaganda techniques; disinformation, censorship, misrepresentation, character assassination, lies, intimidation and the rewriting of history, to ...
• The real doh! about Doha.
  Well, here we are again. It’s November and that time of year for the annual international conference on figuring out ways of saving us all from global warming. Since the last one was called COP17, this one rather unsurprisingly is called COP18. Incidentally, COP stands for Conference of the Part ...
• The real doh! about Doha.
  Well, here we are again. It’s November and that time of year for the annual international conference on figuring out ways of saving us all from global warming. Since the last one was called COP17, this one rather unsurprisingly is called COP18. Incidentally, COP stands for Conference of the Part ...
• Some direct questions for the BBC that it&#821 ...
  The revelations of the last couple of weeks, have shone a bright light into some dark corners of the BBC and what’s been exposed, while very disturbing and quite frankly seamy, comes as no surprise to those of us who’ve long entertained doubts on its supposed impartiality, integrity  ...
• The BBC : Aunty Beeb or Mummy knows best?
  The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was set up in the early 1920s, in order to establish a radio service for both the UK and the its empire. Its first Director General was a fiery Scot called John Reith, who despite saying that he’d little idea of what broadcasting actually was, set ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• Typography for the Web
  In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
• Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
  There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
• Baby Steps in Data Journalism
  This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
• The best video export options
  How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
• Video Resources updated
  The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Hundreds in New Orleans Protest Israeli Killin ...
  In one of the larger protests New Orleans has seen in recent years, nearly two hundred demonstrators marched through New Orleans' French Quarter on Saturday, November 17, to protest the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The next day, a mostly student crowd of about 40 held a candlelight vigil at Tula ...
• African Americans for Justice in the Middle Ea ...
  The initial signers of this petition include former People's Hurricane Relief Fund director Kali Akuno, and writer and scholar Robin D.G. Kelley. To see the original petition, click here. African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa (AAJMENA) strongly condemns Israeli agg ...
• Food Justice Event This Thursday in New Orleans
  From our friends at Survivors Village and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: Join Survivors Village, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, and the New Orleans Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for this critical program about the struggle for food ...
• New Orleans City Council Candidate Launches An ...
  District B City Council candidate Eric Strachan sent out a mailer this week attacking one of his opponents for supporting Barack Obama. While President Obama is not popular in Louisiana, he is popular in New Orleans, including in the district Strachan seeks to represent. In 2008, Obama easily ca ...
• Want to Help People Recovering From Hurricane ...
  In response to Hurricane Sandy and those who are looking for places to donate, we are publishing below an edited excerpt/combination from articles about the Red Cross and relief previously posted on this site. Perhaps nowhere in the US is Red Cross as unpopular as in New Orleans, where the mem ...

Information Underground

• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: Yes, I understand a lot of people bash Catholics that aren't Jews, but the dialectic is Jewish in the follow tweets by Dice. As far as I am aware, the "Jewish dialectic" is not anti-Catholic but anti-Christian. I don't see any Jew calling for a Catholic to b ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssxEvQNa16EStatistics: Posted by MikeWB — Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:07 pm
• Historical Events • Re: ZioDenniger on Zionist ...
  So British Intel-Jews already know that 6 million have been killed with nearly a year in WWII to go? This indicates to me that the entire "Zionist-Nazi" collaboration story is probably a British Intel Hoax like the Holohoax itself. With the US invading and Soviets winning in the East, ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Fester it's not like Smith (myself) bad mouthed Rivero every chance we got, we didStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sat Dec 01, 2012 6:31 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  So, the Rivero crowd stopped showing up when Rivero stopped linking? There was nothing there for them besides following Mikey's crumb trail? Dubious. I think it's more likely that Rivero had a larger problem with WUFYS than my occasional mocking of him. I could be wrong, but I don't see him ...

TVNZ

• NFL game to go ahead despite murder-suicide
  An NFL player fatally shot his girlfriend, then drove and committed suicide in front of two team officials, police said.  
• Egypt's Mursi calls referendum as Islamists march
  Mohamed Mursi has called a December 15 referendum on a draft constitution.
• Hamas complains to Egypt after Israeli army ki ...
  Hamas accused Israel on Saturday of violating the shaky, Egyptian-brokered Gaza truce.
• US judge refuses to order anti-Muslim film off ...
  An actress who appeared in an anti-Islam film has lost her second legal bid to force the video offline.
• Stung by UN defeat, Israel pushes settlement plan
  Israel plans to build thousands of new homes for its settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

environment 360

• Accelerated Ice Sheet Melt At Both Poles Docum ...
  The ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are losing three to five times as much ice annually as they did two decades ago, a rate of ice loss equivalent to sea level rise of 0.04 inches per year, according to a new study supported by NASA and the European Space Agency. In an analysis of data fr ...
• China is World’s Largest Importer Of Illegal T ...
  China has become the world’s leading importer of illegally harvested timber, even as the growing economic giant has made strides in protecting its own forests, according to a new report. Drawing on its own investigative research and the work of Interpol, the London-based Environmental Investigat ...
• Tar Sands Oil Boom Drives Push for A Northern ...
  The rapid development of Alberta’s tar sands has spawned a new proposal for a 731-mile pipeline that would transport oil to the British Columbia coast. The project is strongly opposed by conservationists and First Nations leaders, who fear the environmental risks it would bring. BY ED STRUZIK
• Scientists Develop Standardized Analysis of Ci ...
  A team of Israeli researchers has developed a method to track pollution over the world’s mega-cities, a satellite-based process they say could help hold nations accountable for their pollution and promote cleaner NASA Smog over Beijing industrial practices. Using data collected by t ...
• Pine Beetle Attacks Cause Temperature Rise in ...
  The decimation of trees by mountain pine beetles in British Columbia has caused air temperatures in affected areas to climb by an average of 1 degree Celsius during the summer months, according to a new study. iStock A mountain pine beetle In an analysis of satellite and forest data colle ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Welcome to the International Climate Science C ...
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• Liberty Classroom | The history and economics ...
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• poorrichard's blog
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backofthebook

• BlackBerry 10: RIM’s comeback device
  By Mark Evans Research in Motion has thousands of employees but, in some respects, it’s a startup whose prospects hinge on the much-anticipated introduction of the BlackBerry 10 on Jan. 30th. With negative sentiment surrounding Canada’s flagship technology company slowly starting to dissipate as ...
• Will Canada’s Progressives defeat themse ...
  By Montreal Simon In the growing darkness of Harperland, it’s hard to know what’s the truth, what is illusion, and what’s just another Big Lie. But sometimes the truth is so blinding, like a fire in the sky, that it’s impossible to ignore it. Or to live, like so many Cana ...
• The Cons’ $165 billion fiscal cliff
  By David@Sixthestate.net As I pointed out in my last post, the fact that the Conservatives have admitted they will miss their budget projections next year isn’t news. There hasn’t been a single annual budget yet that actually reached the projected balance it was supposed to, and, as a result, th ...
• A Modest Opinion — I Demand to See Nate ...
  By Nathaniel Moher Listen, I never thought I would be agreeing with Donald Trump about anything (except for picking Arsenio Hall as the winner of “Celebrity Apprentice” – because that dude worked his ass off . . . at convincing people he was still a celebrity). I mean, when Trump sta ...
• The Conservatives miss their budget projection ...
  By David@Sixthestate.net Last week, the media delivered its resounding judgement on the Conservatives’ fall budget update. Jim Flaherty, they say, has unfortunately allowed the projections to slip. The deficit has grown. Canada may not balance its budget on time. Curiously, this fact does nothin ...

Daily Beast

• Where Does the GOP Go From Here?
  To cap off today's series on proposals for a stronger, better GOP, here's a quote from Rod Dreher, a writer for The American Conservative (and a must read for people who want to understand the strongest arguments put forth by theological conservatives.) Dreher:
• Some Conservative Pundits Tout Moderation Afte ...
  Kristol, Hannity urge GOP rethinking
• More Fallout at the BBC
  The BBC is investigating why a report about abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile, one of its former stars, was scuppered.
• Chris Hayes is a Type?
  The host of Up With Chris Hayes has unknowingly seduced famed singer Cher. Very impressive!
• Don't Let a Good Thing Pass Us By
  Jeffrey Leonard has a fascinating article in the Washington Monthly regarding the future of our electrical grid. He seems cautiously optimistic about natural gas as a replacement for dirtier forms of carbon such as coal and gasoline, but there's a hangup. Without major upgrades to our elect ...

Loonwatch

• Queens: Second Savage Attack on Elderly Muslim ...
  Gang of violent, nose-biting anti-Muslims on the loose in Queens.
• Swastika painted on Muslim prayer hall in Nice
  More racist acts by anti-Muslim bigots in France.
• Ask Subway to Apologize to Louisiana Muslim Ba ...
  Muslim barred due to his faith from Subway.
• Feminist Scholar Leila Ahmed’s Book on t ...
  Ahmed points out that "Many women who wore the hijab, or headscarf, 'now essentially made up the vanguard of those who are struggling for women’s rights in Islam,' Ahmed wrote."
• ‘Sharia zone’: Christian pastor fires up over ...
  Anti-Islam crusader Daniel Nalliah and his evangelical Christian church are set to fight a plan to build a mosque in the same street.

Energy News

• State: “Potential danger to human life” due to ...
• Man Films Area Near Giant Sinkhole: Homeland S ...
• WHO: Fukushima workers had radiation dose over ...
• Radio: Tests indicate Minnesota pelicans expos ...
• TV: More oil reported at BP disaster site — ‘P ...

Japan Times

• Celtics thump Blazers as Rondo serves ban
  Two young fans held up a sign that said, "We Miss RONDO." The Celtics looked just fine without him.
• Horse power helps bring light to a national fo ...
  If you drive, ride or fly over Japan, you might note that a very large part of the country is covered with trees. If you're traveling in autumn or early winter, you might also note that much of the forested land is in uniform patches and swaths of dense, dark green, or perhaps a faint pale-yello ...
• BayStars interested in slugger Blanco
  Yokohama BayStars general manager Shigeru Takada indicated on Friday that his club would likely pursue slugging first baseman Tony Blanco, whom the Chunichi Dragons have been unable to re-sign. The 32-year-old, who led the Central League in home runs and RBIs in his first Nippon Professional B ...
• U.S. to get $5 million for tsunami debris
  Japan is providing $5 million to the United States to help with the collection and disposal of marine debris swept into the Pacific Ocean by the 2011 tsunami disaster. The Foreign Ministry declared the donation to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Friday. Prime Mi ...
• Koreeda's daring TV drama stands alone
  Once upon a time television was considered much less prestigious than the movies, and then cable and other forms of pay TV showed up. Producers no longer had to think mainly about sponsors and family sensitivities because they could target programs at specific demographics. Delivery delineated c ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• This is the week that was
  Seven days on and around Parliament Hill
• Because nothing is funnier than a fiscal cliff
  No movement but lots of talk on Twitter about the showdown in Washington
• Gaming the system
  Andrew Coyne calls for a one-time cooperation pact aimed at electoral reform. There are...
• Fixing the system
  Chris Selley calls for a move to a ranked ballot. In the longer term,...
• The most memorable people of 2022
  For once, Feschuk files a column early

Making It Count - CCPA

• Implementing Budget 2012: No Rest for Women
  The current government’s economic policies, being rolled out in a series of omnibus bills and ‘administrative changes,’ come at a high price to women. These policies do not create jobs in industries where women work; these policies increase the tax burden on working women while decreasing their ...
• Québec’s Budget: the only option available
  Some present the new PQ government’s first budget as a necessary first step before truly plunging into more liberal measures. In fact, it was out of obligation, they say, that the new Finance Minister, Nicolas Marceau, presented a budget so unexciting, in keeping with its PLQ predecessors. And y ...
• Twenty years of talk about climate change
  Doha, Qatar — The 18th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is now underway in Doha, Qatar. This year’s president is His Excellency Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiya, chair of Qatar’s Administrative Control and Transparency Authority. A ...
• Mark Carney’s tenure and the state of monetary ...
  Mark Carney’s tenure as Governor of the Bank of Canada overlaps some challenging economy history. Appointed in early 2008 just as the US housing bubble was popping, Carney took the helm in time for a financial crisis that brought the global economy to its knees. We are still living that hi ...
• Social Impact Bonds: the anti-philanthropy
  Interest in Canadian “Social impact Bonds” has spiked following HRSDC Minster Finley announcement that the federal government is investigating them for use in Canada.  I’ve already commented on the story in The Toronto Star and on The Current (min 16) but I wanted to write my thoughts up in a fu ...

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

• The children risking their lives on the way to ...
  “Children in Indonesia are risking their lives everyday just to get to school. They use an aqueduct, suspended hundreds of metres above the ground as a shortcut, even though it was not built for people to walk on. It is meant to transport water, but the wooden structure links Suro Village ...
• California air board says DWP must control dry ...
  “The California Air Resources Board has ruled that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is solely responsible for controlling the choking dust storms that arise from the dry Owens Lake bed. The board said the DWP must take additional air pollution control measures on 2.9 square mi ...
• Drought No Obstacle to Record Income for U.S. ...
  “Even after the worst drought in a half century shriveled crops from Ohio to Nebraska, U.S. farmers are having their most-profitable year ever because of record- high prices and insurance claims. Farmer income probably will jump 6.9 percent to $144 billion, exceeding the government’s Augus ...
• Loophole Lets Toxic Oil Water Flow Over Indian ...
  “These operations have the federal government’s permission to dump wastewater on the land — so much that it creates streams that flow into natural creeks and rivers. And this water contains toxic chemicals, including known carcinogens and radioactive material, according to documents ...
• A Global Treaty on Rivers: Key to True Water S ...
  “Back in 1997, the UN adopted the Convention on the Non-Navigable Uses of International Watercourses. It did not lay down hard and fast rules for sharing waters, but it was a statement of principle that nations should ensure the “sustainable and equitable use of shared rivers.” Only three ...

D. Kucinich

• After Hundreds of Billions in Bailouts, Wall S ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today continued his unstinting defense of the middle class calling the most recently proposed budget plan a boondoggle for the top 1% at the expense of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The full text of his remarks follows. “You think cutting Social Sec ...
• Families Living with Autism Heard by Congressi ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who as Chair of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee in the 111th Congress held multiple hearings examining mercury waste from dental offices and persuaded the EPA to issue stricter guidelines, today spoke out about the man-made contributions of mercury in our env ...
• Kucinich Questions U.S. Involvement in Expandi ...
  Washington D.C. (November 28, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who led Congress to limit our intervention in Libya, today warned that following the same Libya playbook in Syria would lead to similar chaos, wider conflict and increased instability in a volatile region of the world. He ...
• Kucinich, Paul and Holt Introduce Bipartisan R ...
  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 justification for the use of drones to assassinate people abroad, including U ...
• Kucinich to Corporate CEOs: Push the Middle Cl ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today continued his unstinting defense of working people in America. Rep. Kucinich took to the House floor to tell 71 CEOs visiting Washington that the American people will not accept a fix to the so-called fiscal cliff that includes cuts to Social Security, Me ...

Authentically Wired

• OPPS … forgot they are people of color
  … are you telling us they have not already … how about our Military action over the years against the Native Americans or doesn’t that count … OPPS … forgot they are people of color and well especially in Arizona they sure as hell don’t count …   Will American Troops Commit Genocide Against ...
• BIG WOOPIE
  BIG WOOPIE … like that is really going to stop them from eavesdropping … you think…?   Privacy up for vote: Senate considers new electronic communication law 11-29-2012  •  http://rt.com,  Members of the US Senate are expected to vote this week on a bill that would finally re ...
• USA is viewed as a “paper-tiger”
  … Increasingly is appears as though the USA is viewed as a “paper-tiger” …   General Assembly Grants Palestine Upgraded Status in U.N.   More than 130 countries voted on Thursday to grant Palestine the upgraded status of nonmember observer state in the United Nations, a stinging defeat ...
• corporate dominated
  … Reflect the origin of EPA was corporate dominated and that has never changed … revolving door is SOP … BP will be granted “good-guy” status quite quickly … after all our government is corporate controlled …     BP to Shareholders: We’re Already Working With EPA to Lift Federal ...
• Just tell the UN to go to hell
  … Still believe the United States of America is a free independent republic … if so what the hell business is it of …  One Word Government  … New World Order … United Nations … when Colorado and Washington legalize marijuana …  Just tell the UN to go to hell … The United Nations i ...

Popular Technology

• Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
  Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
• The Truth about Skeptical Science
  Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
• 2016: Obama's America
  2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
• The Truth About "Jon Stewart"
  "Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
• Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Organic farming keeps carbon out of the atmosphere
  With the worst effects of climate change, we are seeing how pollution hurts both human health and the environment but there is good news: a new study shows that organic farming stores more greenhouse gases in the soil than non-organic farming. By switching to organic methods, many farmers acros ...
• Legislation leaves future of world's largest t ...
  Although unlikely to pass anytime in the near term, recurring legislation that would hand over 80,000 acres of the Tongass Rainforest to a Native-owned logging corporation has put local communities on guard in Southeast Alaska. "The legislation privatizes a public resource. It takes land that be ...
• Wolves, mole rats, and nyala: the struggle to ...
  There is a place in the world where wolves live almost entirely off mountain rodents, lions dwell in forests, and freshwater rolls downstream to 12 million people, but the place—Ethiopia's Bale Mountains National Park—remains imperiled by a lack of legal boundaries and encroachment b ...
• Mongabay book of nature essays earns top review
  A new book of essays by mongabay.com reporter, Jeremy Hance, has earned a starred review from Publisher's Weekly, a top book reviewer for the publishing industry. Hance's book, Life is Good: Conservation in an Age of Mass Extinction, highlights the struggle of species to survive in a rapidly cha ...
• Above the ocean: saving the world's most threa ...
  A life on the ocean is a perilous one for any bird. They must expend energy staying aloft for thousands of miles and learn to be marathon swimmers; they must seek food beneath treacherous waves and brave the world's most extreme climates; they must navigate the perils both of an unforgiving sea ...

Science - NZ Herald

• New species of cave weta discovered on West Coast
  A new species of cave weta has been discovered on the West Coast's Denniston Plateau.The Denniston white-faced weta has distinctive white markings behind its head.More work needed to be done to determine its genus, but a distinctive...
• Ice on Mercury despite proximity to sun
  A NASA spacecraft has confirmed there's ice at Mercury's north pole.Scientists announced Thursday that the orbiting probe, Messenger, has found evidence of frozen water, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. The...
• Teenager's discovery opens eyes
  An Auckland teenager has proved a fresh pair of eyes should never be underestimated when it comes to science.And eyes are the forte of 17-year-old Hannah Ng, a Year 13 student at St Cuthbert's College who yesterday was awarded the...
• Scientists win prize for research
  Two scientists whose work behind the scenes in New Zealand's food and beverage industry has been described as a "marriage made in heaven" have been recognised with the $500,000 2012 Prime Minister's Science Prize.The top award,...
• Shark takes long way home
  A shark that swam from New Zealand to Fiji has returned home for Christmas, rounding off an 11,000km odyssey and amazing the scientists who tracked her journey.In May, "Carol" became the first mako shark in New Zealand waters to...

The Bovine

• Milk skirmishes at the EU in Brussels
  Nothing specifically to do with raw milk, but it sure does make for some dramatic looking pictures! Story from Agri 007 blog: BRUSSELS – Dairy farmers sprayed thousands of litres of fresh milk at the European Parliament in Brussels to protest … Continue reading →
• USDA advising organic farmers to get insurance ...
  Remember Percy Schmeiser? Remember the case in Canadian courts in which he was sued by Monsanto for contamination of his crops with stray Monsanto seeds? And how he lost at the Supreme Court? Following along from that precedent, the onus … Continue reading →
• DATCP seeks to subpoena journalists for new Ve ...
  During one of Michael Schmidt’s trials, a Toronto Sun journalist was called to the stand to give testimony about an interview he had done with Michael just the day before. In this case, the Sun clearly didn’t want to make … Continue reading →
• DATCP seeks to subpoena journalists for new Ve ...
  During one of Michael Schmidt’s trials, a Toronto Sun journalist was called to the stand to give testimony about an interview he had done with Michael just the day before. In this case, the Sun clearly didn’t want to make … Continue reading →
• CFIA memo to XL Foods inspectors
  “Nothing about the CFIA would surprise me”, said Karen Selick, in a comment on a recent post on The Bovine. Well, here’s another case in point. Why should different, and higher, standards apply for meats being exported to Japan, than … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Stalemate: Obama Warns of Prolonged Talks as R ...
  The word of the day is "stalemate". Last year the Republicans had a chance to accept spending cuts to tax hikes at a 10-1 ratio. They declined. Now president Obama does not want to bargain. Who can blame Obama (except Republicans)? We may disagree, but that is part of the platform that got ...
• Japan Manufacturing Contracts at Sharpest Rate ...
  In Japan things have gone from Grim to Grimmer. The Markit/JMMA Japan Manufacturing PMI™ shows Japanese manufacturing sector contracts at sharpest rate for 19 months in November. Key points: Output and new orders both continue to decline Capital goods producers register sharpest falls ...
• Important New Legal Principal
  Yesterday the General Court of the European Union ruled ECB right not to disclose Greece-related documents. The European Central Bank was right to refuse access to documents on the economic situation in Greece to a journalist in 2010, because disclosure would have undermined the public inter ...
• Peter Schiff Backs Down from Debate with Mish ...
  Peter Schiff was on Capital Account with Lauren Lyster on Tuesday. For that show, he was asked, and he agreed to debate me on hyperinflation. Thus, I semi-expected to be on the show as well. I even received email confirmation from Demetri, the Capital Account producer last Sunday. The ...
• New Meaning of the Word Voluntary; Bond Buybac ...
  It is a deep stretch of the imagination to twist arms and appeal to "patriotic duty" in an effort to coerce someone to do something they really do not want to, then call the action "voluntary". It is yet another thing to claim something is voluntary yet tell them it is "required". The latte ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Obama Wants State-Sponsored Murder Legalized
  Elevating Murder, Inc. to a Higher Level A previous article discussed Obama’s kill list. Another explained his “disposition matrix.” Both constitute elevating Murder, Inc. to a higher level. Obama now wants more. He wants murder legalized. On November 24, The New York Times hea ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• Podcast Show #100: The Black Hole Called Guant ...
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Andy Worthington Journalist Andy Worthington updates us on Guantanamo, where 85 men cleared for release are still held. We talk about the September death of Adnan Latif, the Yemeni who had languished for 8 years since being cleared by Bush-era officials, the almos ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
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• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• After 1,000,000 Nautical Miles and 51 Years at ...
  51 years after being commissioned into the US Navy’s fleet, USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the world’s first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, has seen her last deployment.  She was officially decommissioned [...]
• Performance Optimization for the Commercial Sh ...
  Wärtsilä hosted a webinar yesterday on the subject of “Performance Optimization for the Merchant Marine Market” and it was moderated by Atte Palomäki, Wärtsilä’s Group Vice President for Communications & Branding. Speakers [...]
• Too Little, Too Late for Mississippi River Shi ...
  (Bloomberg) — Barge traffic on the Mississippi River will be stalled even if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decides next week to release more water from a major tributary, [...]
• U.S. Announces First-Ever Offshore Wind Energy ...
  The U.S. Department of The Interior today announced the nation’s first-ever lease sales for renewable energy development in two wind energy areas (WEAs) on the Outer Continental Shelf, proposing nearly [...]
• Drewry: Shipbuilders Will Have to Fight for Su ...
  Drewry Maritime Research’s latest Annual World Shipbuilding Market Review and Forecast highlights the bleak prospects that are facing the world’s shipbuilders as a result of the slump that has hit [...]

Press TV

• M23 completes withdrawal from Goma
  The March 23 movement (M23) rebels have withdrawn from the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
• British NGO NUS censures Israeli regime
  Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS) has voted unanimously to condemn Zionist regime of Israel for its aggressions against the Palestinian people and its apartheid siege of the Gaza Strip.
• Morsi sets date for referendum
  Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has set December 15 for referendum on the new constitution for the African country.
• ‘Germany to continue to support Israel’
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Berlin will continue to support Israel, despite Tel Aviv’s recent attacks on the Gaza Strip which left scores of women and children dead.
• 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.

SciDev.net

• Mixed results for big pharma work on drug acce ...
  The world's largest drug firms have increased spending on drug access in developing countries, but face questions over clinical trial ethics.
• Asia–Pacific Analysis: Safer path needed for e ...
  Instead of limiting imports of electronic waste, the Asia–Pacific region should set up a robust recycling system, says Crispin Maslog.
• More infectious HIV strains spreading in India
  New strains of the HIV1- C subtype are rapidly gaining in prevalence in India.
• Scientists torn over Kenya's recent GM food ban
  In the aftermath of Kenya's banning of genetically modified organisms, some scientists say the directive threatens national food security.
• Mapping tool to support sustainable palm-oil f ...
  An online tool that combines analysis of deforestation and land mapping could help improve sustainable farming in Indonesia.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Robotic router
  Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
• Flexible batteries
  One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
• Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
  Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
• Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
  A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
• Nanoparticles poison soil
  Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...

Nick Turse

• Protesters, right, confront with police office ...
  Protesters, right, confront with police officers, left, near the local government office building Saturday July 28, 2012 in Qidong, Jiangsu Province, China.  AP
• Facade, 317 Broadway, Manhattan. (March 6, 1936)
  Facade, 317 Broadway, Manhattan. (March 6, 1936)
• thenationmagazine:Meet 6 of the CEOs who’ve ...
  thenationmagazine: Meet 6 of the CEOs who’ve met with the White House and congress to offer their advice on the so-called fiscal cliff: their “Fix the Debt” campaign.
• atavist:In Agent Zapata, Mary Cuddehe invest ...
  atavist: In Agent Zapata, Mary Cuddehe investigates the case of an American agent allegedly murdered by Mexico’s most feared cartel. 
• : Are you a writer in need affected by Hurrica ...
  : Are you a writer in need affected by Hurricane Sandy?: penamerican: Many writers were hard hit...

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