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Friday, December 14, 2012

14 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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  • The One Chart About Oil's Future ..
    Hydraulic fracturing was first used in 1947. More than 30 years later in the early 1980s, building on government research, George Mitchell and his company Mitchell Energy and Development began pursuing natural gas in deep shale deposits. It took Mitchell 20 years of experimentation, government h ...
  • 2012: Year of the Afghan Drone
    The soldiers and marines are packing their bags. The pilots are sitting on the tarmac. But the armed robotic planes are busier than they’ve ever been: Revised U.S. military statistics show a much, much larger drone war in Afghanistan than anyone suspected.
  • Burma’s unresolved conflicts & civil wars
    President Obama’s unexpected sudden visit to Burma made it clear that the world has noticed the changes in the country over the past two years, and its new willingness to be open externally. But internally, Burma is not a unified state. Burma’s president Thein Sein — through his envoy, former ...
  • Sandy compounds public school crisis
    Thousands of teachers joined volunteers on the East Coast to help victims in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and subsequently, filling in the many gaps in government relief. This is no accident. On a daily basis educators make a dedicated effort in the face of official negligence and ...
  • Terry Waite meets with Hezbollah, after 25 yrs ..
    During his trip last week, on which he was accompanied by British newspaper the Sunday Telegraph, Waite met with Ammar Moussawi, and told the Hezbollah official “that the past was the past,” according to an article he wrote for the newspaper published Sunday. Waite was in Lebanon to bring att ...

Independent - London

  • Woman left with burns after being Tasered by p ...
    A woman has been left with severe burns to her arms after allegedly being Tasered by police for refusing to leave an Apple store and purchasing too many iPhones.Related StoriesRepublican attacks force Rice to withdraw as Secretary of StateChristie insists size doesn't matter when it comes to th ...
  • US judge prompts outrage after saying: ‘If she ...
    A US judge has prompted outrage after saying that a rape victim didn't put up a fight during her assault and that if someone doesn't want sex, the body 'will not permit that to happen.'Related StoriesRepublican attacks force Rice to withdraw as Secretary of StateChristie insists size doesn't ma ...
  • Postcard from... Paris
    Weightlessness is coming to Paris. This week it was announced that the sensation of zero-gravity can be purchased for a price of €5,980 (£4,852) a flight.Related StoriesPostcard from... Karachi
  • Brazil's consumer boom hits wall
    By early November, the retailers along bustling Doze Outubro street were in full holiday mode. Balloons and streamers bedecked a newly opened branch of the Magazine Luiza department store, a deep-voiced salesman boomed offers of easy credit through a sidewalk sound system, and store banners sum ...
  • Suicide attack at site of Panetta visit
    An American service member was killed and three others were wounded Thursday afternoon when a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a heavily armored military vehicle just outside a base where US Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta had been visiting troops earlier in the day.Rel ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Speed camera madness - man gets ticket for goi ...
    The City of Baltimore recently issued a ticket to Daniel Doty for speeding 38 miles per hour in a 25-mph zone - but photos and video captured by the speed camera system showed that his car was stopped at a red light at the time. Doty told The Baltimore Sun that photos included with the ticket ...
  • US to send missiles, troops to Turkey in bid t ...
    Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order Friday to send two Patriot missile batteries to Turkey to protect it from rounds crossing the border from Syria. The order includes 400 American personnel to operate the batteries. "We are deploying two patriot batteries here to Turkey along with ...
  • USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.3 - 263km SSW of ...
    Event Time: 2012-12-14 10:36:02 UTC 2012-12-14 02:36:02 UTC-08:00 at epicente Location: 31.213°N 119.560°W depth=11.3km (7.0mi) Nearby Cities: 263km (163mi) SSW of Avalon, California 269km (167mi) WSW of Rosarito, Mexico 276km (171mi) WSW of Imperial Beach, California 277km (172mi) S ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: Western smoke-and-mirrors ter ...
    Barack Obama, America's Conjurer-in-Chief, is trying to entertain the world with a new smoke-and-mirrors trick, with the announcement that his government is recognizing the Syrian National Coalition as "the sole representative of the Syrian people". The chemical weapons trick seems to have fizz ...
  • Winter storm Caesar dumps record-breaking snow ...
    Minneapolis - The heaviest snowstorm to hit the region in two winters, named Caesar by The Weather Channel, dumped heavy snow across a broad belt of Minnesota including the Twin Cities area Sunday, as well as parts of western Wisconsin. A snowfall totalling 10.5 inches fell on Minneapolis, se ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Great military men
    “He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man” said US General Norman Schwarzkopf on Saddam Hussein during the 1991 war, but he might has well have been describing the US military- ...
  • Old, old, OLD growth . . .
    THE ARCHANGEL ANCIENT TREE ARCHIVE is preserving the genetics of the Earth's oldest trees.
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  • Land of the free . . .
    ACCORDING TO ZERO HEDGE'S George Washington, "Americans Have Less Access to Justice than Botswanans … And Are More Abused By Police than Kazakhstanis", America is now Amerika with State Security.
  • Genetic patents . . .
    MONSANTO'S MONSTROSITIES? Seems that Monsanto has been really pushy about patents, with the result that WIRED reports "Supreme Court to Rule on Patents for Self-Replicating Products", as people have resisted Monsanto's demands for payment because some of their patented seeds have spread to their ...

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT : TV News Coverage Of Budget Negotiatio ...
    In recent weeks, media outlets have focused heavily on current budget negotiations regarding automatic tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect on January 1, 2013 if an alternative agreement is not reached. But major television news outlets are inadequately reporting on year-end budget neg ...
  • Fox Deceptively Links Growth Of Food Stamp Pro ...
    Fox News' Special Report falsely suggested that the recent growth of the food stamp program was due to President Obama's 2009 economic stimulus, asserting that the bill "eviscerated" work requirements for food stamps. In fact, most of the growth in the program was due to economic factors, primar ...
  • Lou Dobbs Is Wrong: "Forced Union Membership" ...
    Fox Business host Lou Dobbs falsely claimed that right-to-work laws eliminate forced union membership. In fact, federal law already prohibits unions from requiring membership, and right-to-work laws actually allow workers to receive union benefits without having to pay fees.Michigan Becomes Righ ...
  • Gangnam Style Overshadows Uganda's "Kill The G ...
    An Equality Matters analysis found that cable news networks' coverage of the reemergence of Uganda's proposed "Kill the Gays" bill - legislation which would make homosexuality punishable by death - has been scant over the past several weeks and paled in comparison to their coverag ...
  • Myths And Facts About "Right-To-Work" Laws
    In the wake of Michigan passing a so-called "right-to-work" law, which significantly weakens the ability of unions to bargain on behalf of workers, right-wing media pushed numerous myths about the anti-union policy.Are workers in states without right-to-work laws forced to join unions? Do right ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

  • Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry ...
    Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation's drinking water.In many cases, the Environmental Protection ...
  • Pack Your Bags: Ethical Traveler Shares 10 Bes ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Ready for a vacation — or just ready to start dreaming of one? Ethical Traveler, a nonprofit organization that is a project of Earth Island Institute, just released its annual list of the top places to hit if yo ...
  • Is it Time to Just Say No to Eating Beef?
    Like plastic bags, coal, and SUVs, beef has few friends in the environmental community. Most environmentalists would point to beef — in particular, beef cattle that spend their final days in confined feedlots — as being responsible for an array of ills — the greenhouse gas ...
  • Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Lea ...
    My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology. The songs ...
  • Bombing North Dakota: What It's Like to Live A ...
    In 1979, Brenda and Richard Jorgenson built a split level home in the midst of a large ranch outside the tiny town of White Earth, North Dakota. Richard’s family is from the area – his grandfather started homesteading on the plains in 1915 – and the couple’s affinit ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • The Results Are In: Cleaner Air Does Save Lives
    Fine particles in the air (particularly those smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) cause a multitude of health problems, ranging from difficulty breathing and asthma to heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.  The question has been whether or not cleaning the ...
  • Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Dit ...
    The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has taken a step that any self-respecting supporter of renewable energy should do – ditched the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  This relationship looked a lot like the fabled one between the scorpion and tortoise. Despite member ...
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        $25 Advance Tickets ($35 at Door, please register in advance) (Tickets include live entertainment, all food and beverages) Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin Eco Network, Public Citizen, Design Build Live, USGBC-Central Texas Chapter, Center for Maximum Potential, Texas League of Con ...
  • Koch Brothers Exposed Screening with Progress ...
    Progress Texas is hosting a special screening of the documentary Koch Brothers Exposed at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar.  They have already sold out more than half the theater – be sure to reserve your seats now before they sell out! From director Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, WalMart: ...
  • New Sea Level Rise Study Indicates the Impacts ...
    In a new peer-reviewed scientific study, experts said satellite data show sea levels rose by 3.2 millimeters a year from 1993 to 2011 — 60 percent faster than the 2 mm annual rise projected by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for that period, however  the IPCC wa ...

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Climate

  • Barge Captain Steers Rocky Course as Mississip ...
    (Bloomberg) Sandbars no one can remember seeing above water are visible from the wheelhouse of the Capt. Bill Stewart as it churns past Hanging Dog Bluff on the Mississippi River south of St. Louis, a warning of more treacher ...
  • NOAA Chief Says She Will Leave in February
    (AP) The woman who was a key figure in the federal government's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 said Wednesday she will leave her post at the end of February. "I have decided to return to my family and academia ...
  • Sans Polar Satellites, Sandy Forecasts Would’v ...
    (Climate Central) Five days before Hurricane Sandy plowed into coastal New Jersey — driving a wall of water over the iconic Jersey Shore boardwalks and deep into portions of New York City — a computer model run by a European weather mo ...
  • Energy Dept. to Underwrite 7 Wind Projects
    (New York Times) The federal government is stepping up its efforts to kick-start the offshore wind industry by awarding $28 million in grants to seven projects that are developing varying kinds of power-generation technology. The Depa ...
  • Wind Industry Floats Tax Phaseout Plan
    (The Hill) The wind industry is trying to break a Capitol Hill logjam by backing a phaseout of taxpayer support as it seeks to prevent an immediate cut-off of tax credits. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) proposed Wednesday ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • The stupid, it burns (Xtreme weather ed.)
    Most climate scientists and many Americans link extreme weather to Climate change. However, sadly 1 out of every three have an alternative explanation for all the droughts, wildfires, hurricans, derechos, tornados, heat waves, and melting arctic ice: A third of Americans believe the intensit ...
  • Stumbling, Bumbling John Boehner
    We can pore over the tea leaves to try to determine what John Boehner is trying to accomplish, and why. But I think it is pointless. The simplest explanation is usually the best. John Boehner is not very good at his job. He doesn't know what he is doing, or why. Stick with that hypothesis a ...
  • Kerry for State
    My first pick for Secretary of State was John Kerry, but I began to root for Susan Rice after I saw how she was mistreated. Now that she has withdrawn her name from consideration (in admirable fashion), it looks like the pick will be John Kerry after all. The fact that David Ignatius endorses ...
  • He Drinks Your Milkshake
    I do not recommend Chuck Hagel as our next Defense Secretary but he isn't being considered because he will get along well with AIPAC or the Republicans in Congress. He is being considered because his selection would enable Obama to drink more of the Republicans' milkshake. Whenever Obama can c ...
  • Merkley's Talking Filibuster is a Good Idea
    Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon has circulated a memo on his "talking filibuster" reform. It's nice to see the details spelled out. The key element pertains to situations where there are at least 51 votes for cloture, but not sixty. Next year, there will be 55 members of the Democratic caucus and ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • From Artist to Führer: The Paintings of Young ...
    In his own mind, Adolf Hitler wasn't just the leader of the Third Reich but also an artistic genius. As for how accurate he was in this assessment, judge for yourself. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Disaster Tourism at the Chernobyl Nuclear Acci ...
    A first-hand account of disaster tourism sees guest writer Adrienne Erin on a trip to explore the abandoned city of Pripyat, site of the Chernobyl nuclear Accident. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How to Sail a Boulder Across Lake Titicaca on ...
    Thousands of years ago, ancient sailors and builders moved gigantic boulders 55 miles across Bolivia's mighty Lake Titicaca. Could this be how they did it? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Birth of a Painted Lady Butterfly in Pictures
    In these stunning photographs, we're treated to a close-up look at a Painted Lady butterfly as it emerges from its chrysalis. It's Mother Nature at her most magical. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Incredible Boulder-Strewn Landscapes
    Boulders of different shapes and sizes fill these seven stunning landscapes around the world... Incredible boulder-strewn scenes. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Doctors Urge U.S. to Block Gas Export Terminals
    Until the health implications of fracking are understood, they argue, the administration should not approve the infrastructure that would allow the export of vast quantities of natural gas.
  • Storm Recovery Won't Be 'Business as Usual,' O ...
    Leading a post-hurricane task force, the nation's housing secretary says the vast majority of communities can be rebuilt safely, however.
  • No Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card on Sea Level
    A new study rejects the notion that enough snowfall will be preserved as glacial ice in Antarctica to help limit sea level rise.
  • On Our Radar: Eco-Pragmatists on the Rise
    A new mode of environmental thinking emphasizes that the movement might as well reconcile the needs of people with the needs of nature, given that humankind has irreversibly transformed the planet anyway.
  • Battle Brews Over a Small, Vital Fish
    The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meets Friday to consider imposing a strict catch limit on the menhaden, a fish that is vital to the ocean food chain but also to the fertilizer and food-supplement industry.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Mordor Mayor Rybak makes moves to hide Minneap ...
    "It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." ~ Cryptographer/security guy Bruce Schneier (src) We all know the old motif - Feds staking out parking lots, reporting the license plates back to Hoover. Nowadays things are a little different - com ...
  • EXCLUSIVE MnDOT info cake: 2.97gb emails/docs ...
    After a long wait, on Nov 28 2012, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) released ~2.97 gigabytes of data from inside the development of a GPS-based vehicle tracking system intended to introduce a vehicle tax - which would entail a great deal of data constantly collected by the gove ...
  • A few more elements on the semi-suspended MN D ...
    Previously on hongpong.com: MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Evaluator BCA Investigation files (Nov 12 2012) -- MK Occupy Minnesota (May 3 2012) The training section of Minnesota's Drug Recognition Evaluator program continues to be suspended, after a 513-page Bureau of Criminal Apprehen ...
  • MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Eval ...
    By Dan Feidt -- hongpong.com -- MINNEAPOLIS -- NOV 12 2012 -- Law enforcement officers under a state training program called Drug Recognition Evaluators encouraged people in downtown Minneapolis, including Occupy Minnesota protesters at Peavey Plaza and other vulnerable and houseless people to p ...
  • Occupy gets rolling in Sandy disaster relief; ...
    Via Occupy Sandy Relief NYC 4 hrs ago: https://www.facebook.com/OccupySandyReliefNyc?fref=ts >>> #NOT ANOTHER KATRINA <<< Contrary to what might be inferred by a media and government blackout - Rockaway IS. NOT. RECOVERING. We can't stress this enough. It looks li ...

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Litvinenko was working for UK, Spanish intelli ...
    A lawyer representing the family of a KGB defector to Britain, who died of poisoning in 2006, has told a court hearing in London that the late spy was working for British and Spanish intelligence at the time of his death.
  • Who leaked Iranian nuclear document that turne ...
    On November 27, the Associated Press published an alleged Iranian document which it said proved Iran was working on a nuclear bomb. However, an analysis of the document in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists concluded that it was either massively erroneous or a hoax. The question now is, who l ...
  • US Senate blocks Pentagon plan to launch new C ...
    Last week the United States Department of Defense flooded media outlets with press releases announcing the planned establishment of a new military intelligence organization that would rival the Central Intelligence Agency in both size and scope. Not so fast. The US Senate has just blocked the pl ...
  • News you may have missed #816
    Danish minister vows more control over spy agency. South Korea jails alleged North Korean assassin. US Pentagon to double the size of its worldwide spy network.
  • Afghan government blames Pakistan for attempt ...
    The Afghan President and senior cabinet officials have described the recent assassination attempt against the country’s spy chief as the work of “a professional intelligence service” and said they would be asking Pakistan “for clarification”.

War is a Crime.org

  • Propaganda War on Syria Rages
      Propaganda War on Syria Rages   by Stephen Lendman   Propaganda wars precede hot ones. Conflicts and other forms of violence are glorified in the name of peace. Doublespeak duplicity claim it. Wars are waged to prevent it.    Ongoing ones assure more ahead. Unconsciona ...
  • Waging War on US Workers
      Waging War on US Workers   by Stephen Lendman   America's war on workers dates from the 19th century. Labor learned the hard way what it takes to win.    It requires organizing, pressing demands, taking to the streets, going on strike, holding boycotts, battling police ...
  • A Great Flyer to Hand to Nearby Fiscal Cliffers
    By Ed Fisher Inspired by comments of Dennis Kucinich posted here at warisacrime.org PDF. read more
  • City Council to consider banning drones
    By Mitchell Handler, the Daily Californian Berkeley City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a recommendation to adopt a resolution proclaiming Berkeley a “No Drone Zone.” If approved, the resolution, drafted by the city’s Peace and Justice Commission, will attempt to ban the unmanned aerial ...
  • Kucinich: Throw out the NDAA, End the Wars and ...
    Billions to Continue War, Provoke Iran, Shred the Constitution -- All Leading to Perpetual War Washington D.C. (December 13, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement on the NDAA:  “Today, this House will send the National Defense Authorization Act ( ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
    By Michael Eisen | April 22, 2011 A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The [...]
  • Hackers Steal Data from Pentagon, NASA, Federa ...
    Ben Weitzenkorn, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer Members of the Anonymous-affiliated Team GhostShell hacking collective have published what they claim is stolen information for 1.6 million accounts linked to government agencies, including the Pentagon, NASA and the Federal Reserve. The hackers appear ...
  • Israel passes law banning calls for boycott
    By Jonathan Lis | Jul.11, 2011 | 11:05 PM The Knesset passed Monday a law penalizing persons or organizations that boycott Israel or the settlements, by a vote of 47 to 38. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not present during the vote. MK Zeev Elkin (Likud), who proposed the law, s ...
  • United Nations tells Israel to let in nuclear ...
    The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Monday calling on Israel to quickly open its nuclear program for inspection and backing a high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle East which was just canceled. All the Arab nations and Iran had planned to attend ...
  • Just Streaming Through. Reflections in a Petri ...
    By Visible There are hacks and there are bought and sold whores of the trade and then there is Michael Isikoff, doing what he does for all things bright and beautiful. It’s a wonderful thing. Never let it be said that those who should have gone to the gallows, like Pollard and sundry, shou ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • BOARD’s Recycled Apartment Playground is Made ...
    Read the rest of BOARD’s Recycled Apartment Playground is Made from Items Donated by Surrounding Apartments Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: apartments, board, Competition, dutch, green, landscape, Netherlands, playground, Playground Awards, Recycled Materials, Ri ...
  • StarEnergy’s INTI Solar Charge Point is a Sola ...
    Portuguese energy company StarEnergy recently unveiled the INTI Solar Charge Point, a solar-powered charging station for mobile phones, tablets and laptops that can be installed in public spaces like parks, beaches, airports, bus/train stations, cities or even be used temporarily in open-air eve ...
  • Check Out Inhabitat’s 2012 Green Holiday Gift ...
    INHABITAT 2012 GREEN HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE > The Inhabitat Green Gift Guide is back again this year and it’s chock full of eco-conscious gifts “yule” love! Whether you’re shopping for your mom, dad, siblings, better half, kids, friends or co-workers, we’ve got all ...
  • This Fantastic Paper Globe by The Makerie Stud ...
    Paper sculptors The Makerie Studio created this beautiful paper globe puzzle for photographer Andrew Barter as part of the Freshfield’s 2012 promotional campaign. The globe consists of just 12 precise slices, and is a beautifully simple paper sculpture of a complex concept. Read the rest of This ...
  • Spazio Open Source is a Glowing Roman Pavilion ...
    S.O.S., or Spazio Open Source, is a permanent pavilion installation built with 100% reclaimed materials. The project was created to provide a space that could enliven and reactivate an abandoned public area located in Rome, Italy. During night-time, when the cultural center nearby is hosting eve ...

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PakAlert

  • Transhumanism: How the Elite Plan to Live Forever
    The eugenicists at The Royal Society, in conjunction with Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy and Royal Academy of Engineering came together this month to discuss the potentials, opportunities and challenges of the melding of man with machine (i.e. transhumanism) under the guise of augm ...
  • TSA Moves to Sovietize Internal Travel: The Ne ...
    Wendy McElroy, writing for the Dollar Vigilante, has uncovered a TSA move to extend its airport Gestapo zone to the nation’s mass transit system and highways. McElroy spotlights an application on page 71431 of Volume 77, Number 231of the Federal Register that “constitutes a preliminary step t ...
  • 55 Reasons Why California Is The Worst State I ...
    Why in the world would anyone want to live in the state of California at this point? The entire state is rapidly becoming a bright, shining example of everything that is wrong with America. It is so sad to watch our most populated state implode right in front of our eyes. Like millions of Ame ...
  • Secret Hill Meeting ‘Major War’ Looming In The ...
    American Free Press is reporting that there was a secretive meeting upstairs in the library of congress November 30th through December 3rd. AFP is unable to confirm if all members of the trilateral commission attended this secretive meeting,members of congress and senators also attended.What was ...
  • Geoengineering: Assessing the Implications of ...
    In November of 2009 a geoengineering hearing took place in the US House of Representatives. During the hearing, the committee addressed the need for Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and how productive it is as an investment

Andy Worthington

  • Blue Skies and Golden Light: Photos of the Riv ...
    Blue Skies and Golden Light: The River Thames in September, a set on Flickr. After my recent five-part series of photo sets from south east London — my home turf — in November, I promised to publish some photos from September, from the huge archive of photos I’ve been building ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: Please Support My ...
    Please support my work! It’s the third day of my quarterly fundraiser, in which I ask you, my friends and supporters, to help support my work as an independent journalist, researcher and activist — primarily on Guantánamo, and America’s embrace of torture and indefinite detenti ...
  • Save Lewisham Hospital: Last Chance to Respond ...
    For Lewisham residents, and residents of any other boroughs in south east London who are concerned about the future of the NHS, Thursday December 13, 2012 — tomorrow, as I write this — is a very important day. By midnight tomorrow, anyone wishing to respond officially to the disgrace ...
  • Supermaxed: Andy Worthington Speaks at Stop th ...
    For anyone in south east London who wants to know more about Guantánamo, about what is happening there now, and about the fate of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, please feel free to come along to “Supermaxed,” an event at Goldsmith’s College in New Cross ...
  • The Death of Empathy in Cruel, Heartless Britain
    Last Wednesday, while George Osborne was delivering his Autumn Statement, taking aim at the most vulnerable members of society once more, with another savage attack on the welfare state, I was in central London, and I returned home after he had made his smug and visibly heartless performance in ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Idaho Suspected ‘Sovereign’ Arrested After Nat ...
    A kidnapping suspect with suspected extremist connections and a history of assaulting police was arrested Wednesday after attempting to hijack a tractor-trailer rig at a truck stop in Bismarck, N.D. Mitchell L. Walck, wanted for shooting at an Idaho state trooper last weekend and later kidnappin ...
  • ‘Anarcho-Capitalists’ Seen as Cousins of the ‘ ...
    Back in 1978, when the world was young and “Saturday Night Live” was only in its third season, a young comedian named Steve Martin took to the stage and told his audience how to become millionaires and never pay taxes. “First … get a million dollars,” he said. “What do [you] say to the tax ...
  • FBI: Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Remain Relatively ...
    Hate crimes against perceived Muslims, which jumped up 50% in 2010 largely as a result of anti-Muslim propagandizing, remained at relatively high levels last year, according to 2011 hate crime statistics released today by the FBI. The bureau reported that there were 157 reported anti-Muslim hate ...
  • More Links Between Alaska Serial Killer and Ra ...
    Confessed serial killer Israel Keyes committed suicide in an Alaska jail cell last weekend by slitting his wrist with a disposable razor and strangling himself with a sheet tied between his neck and extended foot, authorities say. Before killing himself, the 34-year-old man, who was exposed to C ...
  • Four Anarchists Sentenced in Cleveland Bridge ...
    Four young self-described anarchists caught planning to blow up an Ohio bridge in an FBI sting operation have received sentences ranging from six to 11½ years in federal prison. Anthony M. Hayne, 35, of Cleveland, the first to plead guilty and the last of the four to be sentenced, received a six ...

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Common Dreams -News

  • Susan Rice Withdraws from Secretary of State C ...
    Developing... U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration for secretary of state, NBC News is reporting after obtaining a letter from Rice to President Obama Thursday afternoon. read more
  • Anti-Poverty Network: Large Corporations Avoid ...
    As Congress and President Barack Obama continue to clash over end-of-the-year budget talks, an anti-poverty network on Thursday urged the federal government to find savings by closing offshore tax loopholes. read more
  • Michigan Right to Work Law Brought to You by B ...
    The passage on Tuesday of the so-called right to work law in Michigan is the result of efforts by ALEC and the billionaire Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity (AFP) years in the making, and may serve as an ominous sign to other states. ALEC, AFP and the Anti-Worker Agenda As Mary Bottari ...
  • Leaked AP 'Iranian Bomb' Graph Appears Adapted ...
    WASHINGTON - The suspect graph of a nuclear explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons yields appears to have been adapted from a very similar graph in a scholarly journal article published in January ...
  • Study Identifies 15 Top Threats to Biodiversity
    Widespread development of nuclear power and seabed-located oil drilling are among the top 15 threats to biodiversity in 2013, according to a new study published this month in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. read more

Lifehacker

  • EasilyDo for iPhone Gets You Directions to You ...
    iOS: EasilyDo is a new app that aims to be a central hub for all of those personal things you need to do, but would rather have technology do for you. The app can clean up your contacts, let you know when to leave for your next appointment and give you driving or walking directions there ...
  • Plan an Activity to Look Forward To or Treat Y ...
    Some of us just aren't morning people, and so help the person who tries to talk to us before we get a cup of coffee. That said, if you're regularly grumpy or grouchy in the morning, the problem may be easier to fix than you think. More »
  • Most Popular Repurposing Tricks of 2012
    Getting a shiny new toy is great, but nothing beats the special thrill of realizing something you already have can do something incredible you never knew it could. That's the magic behind repurposing tricks and hacks, and we've had many great ones over this last year. Here are the most pop ...
  • Remains of the Day: Apple Updates Malware Defi ...
    Apple responds to yesterdays malware find, Orchestra is making an iOS mail app, Last.fm is going subscription-only, and music sharing app SoundTracking lets you play music without leaving your feed. More »
  • Best NAS Enclosure?
    Need a ton of storage space, but want it neatly managed in a low-power, always-on, highly redundant box? Well you need a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device or enclosure for your hard drives! The real question though is which one should you buy? Price is a factor, but so is dependability ...

Water Privatization

  • Transportation forecast
    Who to know, what to watch and the numbers that define the problems.
  • Water Privatization in Russia: More Than a Dro ...
    Without water, humans can only live for a few days. Yet only about 1 percent of the earth's water is suitable for human consumption. Rising GDP brings increases in demand for food production, including meat, which demands the greatest amount of water. Treating water is therefore a key utility.
  • NRG Expert shares its latest collection of wat ...
    Max Krangle, Managing Director of NRG expert is pleased to share the recently released collection of water and waste market research reports.London, UK (PRWEB UK) 12 December 2012 The world’s population is averaging a growth rate of around 1.1% annually. This is putting pressure on the world’s w ...
  • UVM hails bottled water ban
    BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- An arch made with 2,000 empty plastic water bottles in the student center at the University of Vermont was dedicated Wednesday as a monument to the school’s decision to end the sale of bottled water on the Burlington campus.
  • Saudi- Water company unveils strategy to save ...
    (MENAFN - Arab News) The National Water Company has announced its new Treated Sewage Effluent (TSE) initiative. "The TSE initiative is essentially designed to address the challenges of water ...

Guardian

  • Syria conflict: Russia denies ditching Assad - ...
    Follow live updates as Russia's foreign ministry plays down an admission that rebels could topple the Assad regimeMatthew Weaver
  • Mississippi river faces shipping freeze as wat ...
    Navigation has become treacherous as the worst US drought in half a century brings water levels close to record lowsThe Mississippi as seen from Ed Drager's tug boat is a river in retreat: a giant beached barge is stranded where the water dropped, with sand bars springing into view. The floating ...
  • Eva Rausing died of cocaine abuse, coroner rules
    Body of one of Britain's richest women lay covered by bedding in family home for two months until husband's arrestEva Rausing, one of Britain's richest women, died as a result of cocaine abuse, a coroner has ruled.The 48-year-old's body lay for two months at the five-storey west London home she ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Cameron defends 'multifa ...
    Overnight, EU leaders agreed to plot a route towards closer economic and monetary union. Talks continue this morningGraeme Wearden
  • Hospital and ambulance workers arrested over m ...
    Five people questioned on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence after man died outside Walsall Manor hospitalPolice have arrested four ambulance workers and a member of hospital staff on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence and misconduct in a public office after a man died outs ...

McClatchey

  • Kentucky man charged with assaulting Dakota Meyer
    Kentucky State Police charged an 18-year-old Columbia man on Thursday with assaulting Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer.Click to Continue »
  • Obama dares Congress to fight over Rice, then ...
    A month ago, a freshly re-elected President Barack Obama was defiant as he dared Congress to battle him over his apparent choice of close friend Susan Rice to be the…Click to Continue »
  • White House won’t rule out age increase f ...
    A Republican proposal to raise Medicares eligibility age gradually from 65 to 67 has gotten the cold shoulder from congressional Democrats, but an awkward silence from the White House.Click to Continue »
  • Egypt scrambles to prepares for Saturday vote ...
    Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi?s decision to rush a referendum on a new constitution already has polarized the country. Now the balloting itself appears likely to heighten those divisions.Click to Continue »
  • Interest in revising Social Security grows as ...
    A Republican ?fiscal cliff? proposal to change the way that cost-of-living adjustments are handled in federal programs has sparked renewed interest in a broader overhaul of the way Social Security…Click to Continue »

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Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Special Holiday Offer
    This year, as you are deciding what to give your loved ones, friends, and colleagues for the holidays, why not choose to give something interesting and useful? One of the most powerful gifts you can give is knowledge. The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What's Right an ...
  • Congress Passes Magnitsky Act
              Sergei Magnitsky On December 6, 2012 Congress passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012. (Magnitsky Act). The law was inspi ...
  • Record Recoveries under False Claims Act
      The Justice Department confirmed in a release issued on December 4 that it has been a record year for recoveries from the False Claims Act.  In fact 2012 garnered the DOJ the “largest annual recovery in Department history.” Most of the recoveries were from actions filed ...
  • NWC Files Amicus Brief on IRS Whistleblower Pr ...
    On November 5, 2012, the National Whistleblower Center filed a briefing paper/amicus brief with the Internal Revenue Service addressing key questions of law governing the IRS Whistleblower program. The brief, linked here, addresses the issue of "collected proceeds" under the IRS w ...
  • Federal Whistleblower Protection Enhancement A ...
    President Barack Obama signed into law today the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). Whistleblower attorneys working pro bono with the NWC played an instrumental role in passing this Act. NWC’s Executive Director Stephen Kohn testified before the Senate Homeland Security Commi ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Who Knew? Apparently Censoring Terrorists From ...
    We just recently had written about how grandstanding politicians were on this rampage about how Twitter should be forced to censor accounts used by terrorists. This follows on similar complaints in the past by politicians against YouTube. So, it's good timing to see that the Bipartisan Policy ...
  • Chinese Nobel Prize-Winner Says We Need Censor ...
    This year's winner of the Nobel prize in literature, the Chinese writer Mo Yan, was a controversial choice. Some saw him as too close to the Chinese establishment, and thus insufficiently heroic -- unlike the previous Chinese Nobel prize-winner, the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo. While Mo ...
  • Sony's New German Ebookstore Features Thousand ...
    DRM is becoming less and less prevalent these days as more companies are realizing that the backlash from crippling the purchases of paying customers far outweighs any perceived prevention of infringement. It's not a wholesale conversion, but new DRM-free converts are appearing more frequent ...
  • FTC Now Likely To Admit That Google Does Not, ...
    A few months ago, there were rumors that the FTC was ready to go after Google with antitrust charges, though we couldn't figure out how this made sense. At first the story was that it was abusing its search position, but there was little evidence to support it. Then there was talk of using its ...
  • DailyDirt: Learning More About Our Brains
    We've discovering interesting things about the way our brains work all the time. Maybe someday we'll fully understand how our brains actually think, but we're a long way from that now. But in the meantime, here are a few more fascinating tidbits from studying our brains that might lead to smarte ...

VacTruth

  • Congressional Hearing on Autism—From the Aweso ...
    We know that the NIH and CDC have fallen way short in recognizing, let alone fixing, this autism epidemic. They’ve proven that time and time again. But Congress is listening. They understand that autism is an emergency, that it’s not genetic, that something is terribly wrong...
  • Who Says There is No Money in Making Vaccines? ...
    In 2011, the US Federal government awarded 6 pharmaceutical corporations over 5.7 Billion to manufacture vaccines children’s vaccines alone.
  • 4,250% Increase in Fetal Deaths Reported to VA ...
    Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS) fetal death reports by 4,250 percent in pregnant women.
  • Brainwashed Police Prosecute Parents to Protec ...
    Retired Sergeant Christopher Savage confirms police are writing off cases of vaccine injury as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. and Shaken Baby Syndrome.
  • Bill Gates Funding Drone Technology to Deliver ...
    When it comes to money and imagination, Bill Gates seems to have an endless supply of both. One of his latest financial donations is funding unmanned aerial vehicles to quickly and inexpensively deliver vaccines.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Finding wealth in poverty
    Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash. For more information about the film, please visit facebook.com/landfillharmonicmovie. I was sent this video by a reader and shortl ...
  • Why we haven’t had a revolution
    Michael Lind writes: More than half a decade has passed since the recession that triggered the financial panic and the Great Recession, but the condition of the world continues to be summed up by what I’ve called ‘turboparalysis’ — a prolonged condition of furious motion without movement in any ...
  • Syrian opposition doesn’t subscribe to America ...
    As a people, Americans are inclined towards fundamentalism and fundamentalism is not at its core about religion — it’s about belief buttressed by a disdain for reason. The national dogma of the last decade or so has been an unquestioned belief in the righteousness and importance of f ...
  • Russia admits Assad may be ousted by Syrian op ...
    The Guardian reports: Russia has acknowledged for the first time that the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is losing control of the country. “One must look the facts in the face: the tendency is that the regime and government of Syria is losing more and more control and more and ...
  • Britain’s Israel lobby and Israel’s U.S.-assis ...
    Peter Oborne writes: It is impossible to understand the modern Conservative Party without a grasp of the scale and profundity of its links to the state of Israel. The connection dates back at least as far the historic meeting between the great Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann and the Conservative p ...

Watts Up With That?

  • What’s up with RGGI? Moving the cap down.
    Guest post by Ric Werme Things have been pretty quiet in the northeast’s the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). New Jersey has gotten out and remains out, New Hampshire didn’t get out, but most of the money collected will be … Continue reading →
  • IPCC AR5 draft leaked, contains game-changing ...
    Full AR5 draft leaked here, contains game-changing admission of enhanced solar forcing (Alec Rawls) I participated in “expert review” of the Second Order Draft of AR5 (the next IPCC report), Working Group 1 (“The Scientific Basis”), and am now making … Continue read ...
  • NYT, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and David Crane ha ...
    Hurricane Sandy seems to have brought out the latent stupidity in just about everyone in their zeal to get in on the climate alarm resurgence. I laughed out loud when I read this op-ed in the NYT by DAVID CRANE … Continue reading →
  • Circular Logic not worth a Millikelvin
    Guest post by Mike Jonas A few days ago, on Judith Curry’s excellent ClimateEtc blog, Vaughan Pratt wrote a post “Multidecadal climate to within a millikelvin” which provided the content and underlying spreadsheet calculations for a poster presentation at the … Continue r ...
  • Misguided PBS Spreads Acid Ocean Alarm
    Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times On December 5, the PBS News Hour showed a segment titled “Endangered Coral Reefs Die as Ocean Temperatures Rise and Water Turns Acidic,” with Hari Sreenivasan reporting. The story … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • New antidepressant acts very rapidly and is lo ...
    A first-of-its-kind antidepressant drug discovered by a Northwestern University professor and now tested on adults who have failed other antidepressant therapies has been shown to alleviate symptoms within hours, have good safety and produce positive effects that last for about seven days from a ...
  • Making a Flu Vaccine Without the Virus
    A new vaccine strategy could make flu shots cheaper, safer, and easier to produce. Using synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) instead of proteins purified from viruses, German scientists have shown they can protect mice, ferrets, and pigs against influenza. “This is a very interesting new approa ...
  • Newly discovered effects of vitamin D on cancer
    Vitamin D slows the progression of cells from premalignant to malignant states, keeping their proliferation in check A team of researchers at McGill University have discovered a molecular basis for the potential cancer preventive effects of vitamin D. The team, led by McGill professors John Whit ...
  • Terminator arm is worlds most advanced prosthe ...
  • Inadequate cellular rest may explain effects o ...
    Ss aging inevitable? What factors make older tissues in the human body less able to maintain and repair themselves, as in the weakening and shrinkage of aging muscles in humans? A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators and collaborators at King’s College London d ...

CFACT

  • Time to laugh away the shale gas scare
    Energy prices are high, economies are reeling and people need relief -- Along comes the shale gas revolution at just the right time. 'What's that,' asks the radicals? 'Plentiful, safe, affordable, domestically produced energy? Can't have that. If there are no valid reasons to say no to sh ...
  • Government eyes crippling climate-control measures
    CFACT in the Washington Times: EPA is ready to unleash its first wave of carbon-dioxide regulations. Congress wants to tax hydrocarbons and carbon-dioxide. The UN is trying to devise a new treaty to regulate energy at the international level. Even one of these actions would send shock waves t ...
  • End the wind Production Tax Credit
    MARY KAY BARTON If people wonder why the world is in the sad shape it is in, they need look no further than the neighbors stuck living within the massive footprints of dysfunctional wind factories. Sadly however, politicians, corrupt crony-corporatists and people getting wind scam royalties a ...
  • Did Doha sputter – or succeed?
    For those who believe humans are causing catastrophic climate change – or simply crave control over the world’s energy and “unsustainable” economic systems – Doha resulted in bitter failure.
  • UN takes concrete steps toward global tax
    In Doha, Qatar late Saturday delegates attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change took concrete steps toward a new global treaty to address global warming that will transform the economic structure of the world with a new global tax. To be completed by 2015, the UN expec ...

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Pruning Shears

  • "no one is there for you but you know who? You ...
    One of the under appreciated hazards of fracking is its effect on democracy. Fracking is a big, intrusive process - one that sucks up lots of water, creates enormous amounts of traffic and an ungodly amount of noise, etc. Setting aside the environmental dangers and health effects (!), the heav ...
  • Transcript: When fracking comes to town: Maria ...
    Video here.…now sits there with two contaminated wells up for sale. As you can imagine, there’s not a lot of customers for a contaminated farm. So it’s sitting there waiting to go into bankruptcy. Her husband’s in Africa serving in the military. Her horses - she has t ...
  • Reasons to support Corrente fund raising week
    Corrente is having its fund raiser; please stop by and throw some money into the hat if you can.Corrente is an important site for liberals to support because of what it is and what it does. Here’s what it is: an old school blog. While political blogs existed before 2000, they weren&#8217 ...
  • Trafficking and the new civil liberties debate
    Civil liberties are more often than not difficult to stand up for in practice. In theory everyone is in favor of them, but the only times they make it into national debate is when they are under attack. When times are good policy makers and the public don’t seem to give much thought to r ...
  • Third party laziness, 2012 edition
    Kevin Gosztola’s post on safe voting strategies quotes historian Howard Zinn’s claim that “we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls.” But Zinn veers ...

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • Opa! Food For Thought Symposia at The Black Ol ...
    Black Olive owner Stelios Spiliadis and his family have been introducing Baltimore not only to their Greek culture, but also to their passion for health and wellness. Their hopes of inspiring real change through the power of good food have been spreading like wildfire.
  • FDA Should Share Data about Livestock on Drugs
    It’s my hope that GAP’s lawsuit against FDA will finally compel the agency to break ties with drug companies and release the information that the public health community needs to monitor the use—and misuse—of antibiotics and other drugs in food animal production.
  • Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun: Nutrient Trading a ...
    "My first objection to this kind of program is semantics. Let's call it what it is: pollution trading. Excess nutrient pollutants in the bay lead to public health problems, just as other pollutants do."
  • Government Accountability Project Sues FDA for ...
    The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is suing FDA for data on antibiotic sales. If we want more data, we have to sleuth it out of the agency ourselves.
  • 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Retrospective : Greenhouse Gas
    A look back at older thoughts on an ongoing political football Continues in the next post http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-december-more-on-ghgs.html Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Extreme Weather Report
    125 International Scientists Rebuke UN for Climate Claims in Open Letter: 'Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused extreme weather of past few years. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • War on Wikileaks : Why It Is Illegal
    Charging Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit espionage would effectively be setting a precedent with a charge that more accurately could be characterized as conspiracy to commit journalism. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Henry Kissinger - Architect Of The New World Order
    Like his lieutenant and subordinate in the New World Order, B.H. Obama, Kissinger won the Nobel Peace prize - clear indication of an Orwellian world controlled by oligarchy propaganda. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Rancher Loses Livestock Due To GMO Corn
    The Food Nation Radio Network conducted an exclusive interview this week with Jerry Rosman, an Iowa pig and cattle rancher who lost his entire operation due to GMO corn that he says made his livestock sterile. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |&n ...

Angry Indian News

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  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Pro-GMO Congress Critter Klobuchar Exposed!
    Evidently, Senator Klobuchar, your job is to shill for the biotech industry. But just in case I’m wrong on this, please show us the tests that you so heavily rely on that are conducted by the USDA, FDA and EPA on genetically modified food (GMOs). You can’t, Senator, because they don’t exist.
  • Prop 37′s biggest supporter was… Monsanto
    Monsanto and its allies have a time table. They believe they can accomplish, in a relatively short time, a fait accompli. There will be so many licensed GMO food crops and so many drifting genes, the very idea of ridding the world of GMO crops will be seen as impossible. In the meantime, they ...
  • This Revolution Is Personal
    This will not be a fight calling for bloodshed and ruin, but for life. For independence from tyranny. For self-sufficiency and hope.
  • Rebooting the System Infographic
    When I say reboot the system, this is what I mean...
  • If a goat won’t eat it, why should I?
    Fiona was raised on a porch and hand fed for a good portion of her life. She eats everything out of my hand. Except those carrots...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Panetta signs order to deploy Patriot missiles ...
    ShareThisPanetta signs order to deploy Patriot missiles, 400 troops to Turkey 14 Dec 2012 The United States will deploy Patriot missile shield system and 400 troops to Turkey following the announcement of a similar move by Germany. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has signed orders to authorize ...
  • Susan Rice drops bid to be next secretary of state
    ShareThisSusan Rice drops bid to be next secretary of state 14 Dec 2012 Susan Rice, the embattled United Nations ambassador, abruptly withdrew herself from consideration Thursday to be the next secretary of state after a bitter, weeks-long standoff with Republican senators who declared they w ...
  • Terrorism-related arrests rise by 60%
    ShareThisTerrorism-related arrests rise by 60% 13 Dec 2012 Official figures show that arrests for suspected terrorism offences rose by 60% in the last year, but that a new stop and search power granted to officers was not used once. The new power under section 47a of the Terrorism Act 2000 came ...
  • Japan largely excludes foreign firms in Fukush ...
    ShareThisJapan largely excludes foreign firms in Fukushima's 30-year clean-up 13 Dec 2012 Nearly two years after disasters caused meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan is failing to keep a pledge to tap global expertise to decommission its crippled reactors, executives at nuclear con ...
  • Drone Strikes Draw Congress's Ire Over Lack of ...
    ShareThisDrone Strikes Draw Congress's Ire Over Lack of White House Transparency 13 Dec 2012 A rare congressional hearing into the use of unmanned drones for targeted killings drew bipartisan agreement over the White House's lack of transparency, even as lawmakers rejected a measure that would r ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...
  • VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
    ‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Wolfpack 104 –Jungle Man Art vs. GI Science
    Butterflies on suspected elephant dung: many signs are obvious. 10 December 2012 The British learned that employing local trackers can be disastrous.  Indigenous folks can be immensely talented at local tracking because they are tuned intimately to their biowebs.  Problems start fro ...
  • CAUTION to Military Public Affairs
    08 December 2012 US Navy image with GPS data embedded Military photographers sometimes forget to turn off the camera GPS.  The Navy caption for this electric image is found on Flickr: Lightning flashes near USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Nov. 19, 2012) ...
  • VIDEO: Firefight While Waiting for MEDEVAC
    07 December 2012 This video apparently was made by a helmet cam.   It shows normal combat in Afghanistan.  Similar scenes have unfolded thousands of times during the war.  This underlines why so many people are serious about removing the red crosses from Dustoff MEDEVAC heli ...
  • Giduck Dismissal Order
    04 December 2012
  • Wolf Pack 103: Sole Mates
    REMEMBER THIS PRINT. The terrain in Afghanistan is great for tracking: prints are often sharp and clear, and quarry is frequently channelized. During a mission with British forces, this print pinged my senses so I made the photograph in the morning light. Soldiers found many bombs nearby, and we ...

The Killing Train

  • Mark Twain's Killing Train
    Every time I give someone my email address, or tell them the title of my blog, I get a raised eyebrow or a shocked look. Now, telling people the title of my first book has the same effect. For that reason, I've set up this blog to have "Why Killing Train?" and an explanation about the new book v ...
  • Partition talk
    When Belgium realized in the 1950s that, given that France and Britain were losing their African colonies, it would no longer be able to hold on to Congo, it set about trying to guarantee continued control over the strategic aspects of the economy, especially the mines. At first, it sponsored it ...
  • Podcast on the DRC
    I was on Kudakwashe Cayenne's radio program, Heart of Africa, yesterday, along with Maurice Carney from Friends of the Congo. Here's the podcast.
  • Sources on teaching
    I've been gradually collecting sources on teaching without realizing it. Teaching instruction can come from some unlikely places (the likely places are Alfie Kohn, John Holt, Carol Dweck, Paolo Freire...). Here are some of mine: read more
  • How Criminals Communicate - thoughts for above ...
    Just finished reading Diego Gambetta's "Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate" (Princeton University Press 2009). One of Gambetta's contentions is that criminals face more extreme versions of the same problems people face in above-ground life. I read it thinking about the connection ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • No progress without engagement on Burma’ ...
    While Thein Sein says he plans to sign the International Atomic Energy Agency Additional Protocol, the government still needs to be transparent and cooperative with the agency
  • Sugarcane nomads
    Words and Photos by Brennan O’Connor During Thailand’s dry season, hundreds of undocumented Burmese migrant workers cross the Thai/Burma border to harvest sugarcane that will be converted into bio-fuel at one of the country’s only processing plants in Mae Sot. Most of the migrants co ...
  • Burma drug production fueling SE Asian narcoti ...
    Burma is at the heart of a growing narcotics crisis in Asia that threatens public security, the UN said Wednesday, urging regional help for the impoverished nation in stemming drug production
  • Copper mine protests across Burma
    Hundreds of Buddhist monks took to the streets of several towns and cities in Burma on Wednesday, to protest against police violence at the Lapadaung copper mine.
  • Ashok Nigam: ‘Fundamentally, everybody h ...
    The United Nations humanitarian coordinator Ashok Nigam spoke to DVB about the IDP camps, aid and citizenship in Arakan state.  

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • CIA, MI6 Guilty in Two Extraordinary Rendition ...
    Two European cases involving the CIA and extraordinary rendition put the case of Dirar Abusisi in the spotlight today.  The European Court of Human Rights found Macedonia guilty of collaborating with the CIA in the case of Khaled al Masri, who was kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. in Afghanista ...
  • Israeli Cyber-War, Hackers and the “Fire Next ...
    God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time! –African-American spiritual Over the past few years, my blogging and freelance journalism has exposed Israeli national security secrets.  I’ve revealed that Israel’s intelligence services along with those of Ukraine and Jor ...
  • Spain Offers Citizenship to Jews Exiled by Inq ...
    In November, the Spanish government made what at the time seemed a remarkable offer to restore citizenship to any Jew tracing his or her heritage back to those who were expelled during the Spanish Inquisition in 1492.  It was a brave, courageous act of expiation by Spain for a national crime.  I ...
  • Meshal’s Triumphal Welcome in Gaza
    A few days ago, Khaled Meshal made a triumphal, first-ever visit to Gaza to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hamas’ founding and the movement’s “triumph” in Operation Pillar of Cloud.  Hundreds of thousands of Gazans greeted him as he delivered a hardcore message of defi ...
  • Israel’s Fourth President, Ephraim Katzir, Fou ...
    I recently wrote a post which recounted two episodes in Israeli history in which the IDF resorted to biological warfare against its Arab enemies.  In one case, Moshe Dayan brought home tubes containing typhus to be used in poisoning the water supply of the Jordanian Legion (which instead infecte ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Follow the Money: A Spending Stories Guide for ...
    History is littered with awards and accolades for those tenacious journalists who have dutifully discovered money that was spent on something it shouldn't have been. Evidence of spending is often the ultimate proof of wrongdoing. These stories have ranged from presidential campaigns spending mon ...
  • An Exit Interview with PANDA Project's Brian B ...
    This is the first in a series of Q&As with Knight News Challenge winners who've wrapped up their projects. Brian Boyer, currently the news applications editor at NPR, is the project manager of PANDA Project, a Knight News Challenge winner in 2011. I recently interviewed Boyer about the pr ...
  • Poderopedia Uses Public Data to Take on Powerf ...
    The last months for the Poderopedia team have been full of learning, making mistakes, correcting them, and learning again in a never-ending iteration process. In the beginning of November, we started our private beta testing with friends and family, fixing bugs and updating the platform in o ...
  • Pop Up Archive Breathes New (Media) Life into ...
    When we talk about the changing face of media on the web, archiving isn't generally the first subject to come up. As we were beginning Pop Up Archive, we grappled with the fact that it's hard to show the vibrant, innovative side of archiving. Historically, archives have been hands-off; this was ...
  • Highlights from the Mozilla Festival in London
    This post was written by Miranda Mulligan, executive director of the Knight News Innovation Lab, and originally appeared on the the Knight Lab blog. A significant portion of the Knight Lab team was fortunate enough to join the Mozilla Festival in London, November 9-12. This incredible event, ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Syria - Scud Missile Strikes in ...
    The Assad regime's use of Scud missiles over the past several days represents a dramatic escalation in its war against the rebels, with deep military, psychological, and political implications for the Syrian people. More urgently for Washington, the Scud strikes have come just as the United Stat ...
  • Broken Promises - Michael Swimm Drowning in St ...
    Michael Swimm wants to do a good job. He's the special executive troubleshooter in the office of the Staples president. But he is so swamped with complaints, he can't return all the phone calls needed to resolve the unhappiness of angry Staples customers. Those complaints increased when the offi ...
  • Turkey on Edge - Turkey's Distinctive Brew
    It is 5 a.m. in Istanbul, and I am looking for coffee. Having arrived in Istanbul's old city the night before and seriously jetlagged, I decided to walk into the Eyup quarter, which hosts Istanbul's most sacred mosque, Eyup Sultan. I hoped the revered shrine, which attracts early morning worship ...
  • Broken Labor - ALEC's Decades of 'Right-to-Wor ...
    Amid protests by labor unions, and objections from the state’s congressional delegation and even the president, Michigan’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed a “right-to-work� bill into law Tuesday, drawn word-for-word from a 32-year-old “model bill� pushed by a corporate-funded, con ...
  • Palestine on Edge - Radical and Moderate Pales ...
    When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas returned from New York to Ramallah and told the Palestinians that he obtained UN recognition of a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 lines -- namely, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem -- fewer than 5,000 Palestinians, many of them ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Will the NJDC Oppose Terrorism Loving, Israel- ...
    Now that the election is over Barack Obama no longer has to appeal to supporters of Israel or haters of terrorism--so he is about to appoint former Senator Chuck Hagel to replace Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense. Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is likely to be President Barack Obama's ...
  • NASA Creates "Why The World Didn't End Yesterd ...
    NASA doesn't have money to build rockets in its budget but it can afford to create videos like this? ...If you are watching this video it means one thing...the world didn't end yesterday. Thus begins a NASA video scheduled to be viewed a week from Saturday on December 22nd (no ...
  • Democratic Senators Fighting Part of Obamacare
    Under Obamacare, seniors pay higher taxes for the honor of being rejected for necessary treatments. Higher taxes on drugs took effect last year and beginning on January first unless some Democratic Party senators have their way, there will be a tax on medical devices. Each of these taxes will h ...
  • "Peaceful" Palestinian Authority Praises Terro ...
    As you know the UN General Assembly recently gave the Palestinians "Observer State" status for its corrupt institution.  It doesn't matter to them that the government they now call a state and its controlling party (Fatah) is still calling for violence and/or the destruction of Israel. ...
  • The 40 Best Political Quotes For 2012 (Fourth ...
    Regular readers of "The Lid" know that my friend John Hawkins is master of the list post.  I don't know where he finds the time for all the research but his latest The 40 Best Political Quotes For 2012 is exceptional (even though it doesn't include me): For example 38) “If liber ...

The Real Agenda

  • Spanish public debt reaches 77.4% of GDP
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 14, 2012 Government debt in Spain grew another 1.55% in the third quarter with respect to the second quarter to reach 817.164 million euros, or the equivalent to 77.4% of GDP. This is the highest level ever since the cork popped out of the c ...
  • EU Ministers agree on framework to create New ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 13, 2012 Ministers of Economy and Finance of the European Union reached an agreement early Thursday on the  legal framework that will allow Europe to create a single banking supervisor. The pact is the first step towards joining the euro zon ...
  • Operações Militares e Especiais dos EUA: Qual ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 13 DEZEMBRO, 2012 Bem como os interesses públicos e privados se uniram nos últimos 20 anos, assim aconteceu com as operações terroristas da agência mais corrupta que existe — a CIA — e o Departamento de Defesa dos Estados Unidos. Dadas a ...
  • Operaciones Militares y Especiales Estadounide ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 13 DICIEMBRE, 2012 Al igual que los intereses públicos y privados se han fusionado en los últimos veinte años, también lo han hecho las operaciones de la agencia terrorista más corrupta que existe — la CIA — y las del Departamento de Def ...
  • El cambio climático causado por la Ingeniería ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 12 DECIEMBRE, 2012 Aunque la actividad antropogénica como la causa del calentamiento global es un engaño, el planeta parece estar calentándose por otras razones. El asunto es que lo que los alarmistas han estado diciendo durante décadas sobre la inf ...

Wind Watch

  • Judge dismisses Litchfield wind turbine lawsuit
    A Herkimer County Supreme Court judge last week dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Litchfield wind turbine law. While town law bans industrial turbines, smaller, domestic powered turbines — 120 feet or less at 50 kilowatts — are permitted. The complaint filed by several Litchfield residents cha ...
  • Anti-wind group getting organized
    Opponents of proposed wind farms in the Newfound Lake region are getting organized. They hope that they’re forming the foundation of a state-wide anti-wind effort. Newfound Lake Wind Watch has changed its name to New Hampshire Wind Watch: it has a new website, work committees, petitions and lett ...
  • Colebrook wind turbine plan approved, but batt ...
    COLEBROOK — Nearly 18 months after the Connecticut Siting Council approved a pair of industrial wind turbines in Colebrook, the turbines have yet to see the light of day, as the main players in the battle over the turbines are still at work. Both BNE Energy, which will erect the turbines, ...
  • Argyll grandmother takes UK and EU to the Unit ...
    A community councillor from Argyll is mounting a landmark legal challenge against the UK and the EU at the United Nations in Geneva this week over their renewables policies, on the grounds that the public is being denied the truth about the alleged benefits, and the adverse impact, of wind power ...
  • Lights, blade shadows disturb residences in Oc ...
    Ocotillo Express Wind, built on 12,500 acres of public, formerly protected federal Bureau of Land Management property, is now filled by dozens of towering wind turbines. Each massive turbine flashes red lights all night long. During the day, long blade shadows whirl across the desert sands, so t ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Teaching programming to journalists
    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been preparing a syllabus for an upper-level undergraduate journalism course that I will begin teaching in January. I’ve been learning Python and starting to learn about jQuery. I’ve got some advantages: I learned HTML in ...
  • Most-viewed posts in 2012
    According to my WordPress stats, these are the posts with the most pageviews in the past 12 months: Best social media tools for journalists (5,669) Timelines in journalism: A closer look (4,365) A few words about digital audio recorders (3,626) How to shoot video interviews (3,465) 10 Rul ...
  • Now in Portuguese and Chinese: Reporter’s Guid ...
    A new translation of this guide is now available, thanks to the efforts of Alessandra de Falco, a journalism professor at Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei in Brazil. She uses the guide in her classes. Em Português: Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency (PDF; 1 MB) Also, I neglec ...
  • Election 2012 maps: Showing data
    This was the first U.S. presidential election in the post-Flash era. In 2008, data maps were made with Flash. Now the online mapmakers have moved on to other technologies, largely using JavaScript. Here are three examples, with a full view and a zoom of each: WNYC Radio, New York: LA Times ...
  • 5 examples of interesting data presentations
    What do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.) Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.) Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...

Facing South

  • The racist roots of 'right to work' laws
    Today's Right-to-Work movement can trace its origins to the Jim Crow and Red Scare South. read more
  • Out of the Bangladesh tragedy may come global ...
    The fire that killed 112 workers last month in a Bangladesh garment factory has sparked protests and brought scrutiny to retailers including Arkansas-based Walmart, which is embroiled in labor unrest back home. read more
  • For controversial fracking researcher, a discl ...
    A professor involved in a scientific conflict of interest scandal at the University of Texas has moved to a Louisiana coastal research nonprofit -- where he continues to be less than upfront about his oil and gas industry connections. read more
  • The other crucial civil rights case the Suprem ...
    In addition to hearing challenges to laws banning same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, landmark civil rights legislation that's been increasingly under attack. read more
  • Just how extreme is North Carolina's new Lt. G ...
    A proponent of abolishing the minimum wage and corporate income taxes, Dan Forest is quite likely the most conservative statewide elected official in North Carolina. But his work with a nonprofit that criticizes retailer Sears for promoting pornography by showing photos of women in lingerie cros ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Reagan Play
    The Reagan play, in the last period of high oil prices was this: crush the economy and bring new sources of hydrocarbons online. This is also Obama’s play: fracking and  other unconventional hydrocarbon sources are being ramped up massively, while austerity crushes resource demand.  China ...
  • The Reagan Play
    The Reagan play, in the last period of high oil prices was this: crush the economy and bring new sources of hydrocarbons online. This is also Obama’s play: fracking and  other unconventional hydrocarbon sources are being ramped up massively, while austerity crushes resource demand.  China ...
  • Interview available for listening
    My interview on Virtually Speaking is now up. If you missed it and would like to listen, it can be found here. We talked about kindness in public policy and about the economics and politics of global warming.
  • Interview available for listening
    My interview on Virtually Speaking is now up. If you missed it and would like to listen, it can be found here. We talked about kindness in public policy and about the economics and politics of global warming.
  • Interview tonight at 9pm EST
    I’ll be talking with Virtually Speaking’s Jay Ackroyd tonight at 9pm EST.  Current plan is to discuss kindness as the base prescription for policy and then talk about the implications of Bill McKibben’s 3 numbers on global warming, but if past episodes are any guide we’ll ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Entrepreneurial Software Developers and the Ap ...
    The New York Times continued its excellent iEconomy series with an article on the job prospects for app developers. The lengthy piece gives a few snippets of labor market data for software developers and touches on the work of economist Michael Mandel in measuring the “App Economy.&rdq ...
  • Hong Kong’s Decentralizing Commuting Patterns
    Hong Kong is a city of superlatives. Hong Kong has at least twice the population density of any other urban area in the more developed world, at 67,000 per square mile or 25,900 per square kilometer. The Hong Kong skyline is rated the world's best by both emporis.com (a building database) an ...
  • Our Dysfunctional Housing Market
    This is the story of how elites prospered while killing the singular trend that built America, and all that you proles got in return was a dysfunctional housing market. In a reversal of more than 100 years of American history, the unique force that built the United States and the wealth of its ...
  • Born Into Ruin: How the Young are Changing Cle ...
    It’s true. I am not happy all the time living in Cleveland. But I don’t want to be happy all the time. That’s unnatural. Said Nietzsche: “Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would no ...
  • Obama’s Energy Dilemma: Back Energy-Fueled Gro ...
    Talk all you want about the fiscal cliff, but more important still will be how the Obama administration deals with a potential growth-inducing energy boom. With America about to join the ranks of major natural gas exporters and with the nation’s rising oil production reducing imports, ...

GM Watch

  • Kenya GMO ban: the industry fights back
    Kenya GMO Ban: The Industry Fights Back GM Education, 13 December 2012 http://www.gmeducation.org/latest-news/p196838-kenya-gmo-ban:-the-industry-fights-back.html The GM industry is pushing to reverse the Kenyan government decision to ban GM imports and remove genetically engineered food from t ...
  • Kenya GMO ban: the industry fights back
    Kenya GMO Ban: The Industry Fights Back GM Education, 13 December 2012 http://www.gmeducation.org/latest-news/p196838-kenya-gmo-ban:-the-industry-fights-back.html The GM industry is pushing to reverse the Kenyan government decision to ban GM imports and remove genetically engineered food from t ...
  • Growing maize disaster in Mexico
    Growing Maize Disaster ETC. Group, News Update, 13 December 2012 http://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/ETCNR_maizeupdate121212-final.pdf Mexico remains on high alert following the attempts of Monsanto and other agribusiness multinationals to win the government's approval to plant ...
  • Growing maize disaster in Mexico
    Growing Maize Disaster ETC. Group, News Update, 13 December 2012 http://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/ETCNR_maizeupdate121212-final.pdf Mexico remains on high alert following the attempts of Monsanto and other agribusiness multinationals to win the government's approval to plant ...
  • Are the GM Industry and failed bankers directi ...
    ACT NOW: We need to ensure supermarkets are not confused by these messages from people like Owen Patterson in the UK Government, and by all the noise from the biotech industry and it's supporters. The following article suggests that if you're on Twitter, please tweet this today: I won't buy ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • AP’s Dangerous Iran Hoax
    Via: Guardian: Although it was intuitively obvious that the graph trumpeted by AP as scary and incriminating of Iran’s nuclear program was actually a farce, there is now new, overwhelming, very compelling scientific evidence that is the case. Whether as victim or recklessly culpable partic ...
  • Australian Government Admits to Accessing Peop ...
    I wonder what happens when their targets/citizens run persistent VPNs located in other countries? Via: Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIAN law enforcement and government agencies have sharply increased their access without warrant to vast quantities of private telephone and internet data, promptin ...
  • DOE ‘Manhattan Project’ to Build N ...
    There’s just one problem with this analogy. The Manhattan Project cost about $25.8 billion (in 2012 dollars). This DOE effort is $120 million over five years. That’s a noise level allocation of resources compared to The Manhattan Project. Of course, if you need a façade to role out s ...
  • The New Zealand Film Being Passed Off As North ...
    Really quick, to let people know to please stop submitting this: Propaganda is a pisstake by New Zealand filmmaker Slavko Martinov. The artifice of the hoax was what grabbed the attention of mainstream media with this thing. Here are some films that cover similar topics (and aren’t hoaxes) ...
  • DOJ Drops Monsanto Antitrust Investigation
    Via: Mother Jones: There’s an age-old tradition in Washington of making unpopular announcements when no one’s listening—like, you know, the days leading up to Thanksgiving. That’s when the Obama administration sneaked a tasty dish to the genetically modified seed/pesticide indu ...

The Economic Collapse

  • We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business ...
    Historically, small businesses have been the primary engine of new job creation in the United States.  If the economy was getting healthy, we would expect to see the number of jobs at new businesses rise.  Instead, we are witnessing just the opposite.  We are told that the economy is supposed to ...
  • 55 Reasons Why California Is The Worst State I ...
    Why in the world would anyone want to live in the state of California at this point?  The entire state is rapidly becoming a bright, shining example of everything that is wrong with America.  It is so sad to watch our most populated state implode right in front of our eyes.  Like millions of Ame ...
  • Sorry Protesters: Your Jobs Are Being Sent To ...
    Did you see the huge crowds of protesters that flooded the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday?  They were there to protest two bills there were being considered by the state legislature that would limit the power of unions in the state.  Michigan lawmakers approved the bills and this absolutely infuria ...
  • 15 Signs That The Economy Is Rapidly Getting W ...
    How can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is "improving" when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated?  According to numbers that were just released, the number of Americans on food stamps rose by more than 600,000 in a ...
  • Unemployment Is Not Going Down: The Employment ...
    The mainstream media is heralding the decline of the official unemployment rate to 7.7 percent as evidence that the U.S. economy is improving.  But it is a giant lie.  The truth is that unemployment in America is not actually going down.  The percentage of working age Americans with a job actual ...

Desertification

  • Best practices to combat desertification (DNI ...
    Read at : DNI The Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), in response to a specific request by its governing bodies, is looking for potentially interested and technically equipped agencies, institutions and organizations which could support … Continu ...
  • MY QUESTIONS TO WFP (Willem VAN COTTHEM)
    Dear friends of WFP, Your initiatives are very noble. I am really impressed by your achievements.  My sincere congratulations for that. However, you claim (see message below) : “Providing the right nutrition at the right time is one of the … Continue reading →
  • WFP and hunger : donations welcome
    Today’s message : I just got back from Ethiopia, where I visited one of WFP’s amazing food centers that specializes in helping the most vulnerable people — pregnant women, mothers and children younger than five-years-old — get the nutrition they … Continue reading →
  • Desert Restoration Bites (DNI / Greenwich Univ.)
    Read at DNI : Conference flyer Image Additional information and how to register at http://desertrestorationbites.eventbrite.co.uk/
  • Drought and Water Scarcity (EC)
    Read at : EGU 2013 – Drought and Water Scarcity (HS4 4) Dr. Jürgen Vogt European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Climate Risk Management (CRM) Unit, TP 280 21020 Ispra (VA), Italy

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • Robocalls: So where were we?
    By Alison@Creekside Three days before polls opened in the last federal election, Elections Canada officials were using the word “scam” to describe election irregularities, making this statement from the EC commish throwing in the towel two weeks after the election even before any inv ...
  • Artists for the rainforest — and reality
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Art is at the forefront of a raging energy debate in Canada. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline – you know, the one that would travel 1,000 kilometres from Alberta to British Columbia’s coast, delivering oil to be pumped into tankers taller than monuments, destination: ...
  • Nexen: China nationalizes Canada’s oil sands
    By David@Sixthestate.net Well, try that on for size. Let me be clear, says Stephen Harper: “Canadians have not spent years reducing the ownership of sectors of the economy by our own governments, only to see them bought and controlled by foreign governments instead. It is not an outcome any resp ...
  • Canadian tech needs more brash, less nice
    By Mark Evans Canadians are, by and large, nice and polite. Unfortunately, we’ve made this approach part of our business and entrepreneurial landscape as well. While we may be confident, we’re not bold, cocky or aggressive. South of the border, entrepreneurs are a different breed. They tru ...
  • A Modest Opinion — Obama and the Robo-ap ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Well, we went and did it. Or rather, the Americans did. (You wouldn’t know it if you were to speak to any Canadians, but apparently we don’t actually have a say in the American election.) That’s right, America re-elected President Obama in stunning numbers. (Well, stunning num ...

libcom

  • Fired workers taken to court for blogging abou ...
    riskypopcorn.jpg Solidarity with the Workers of Natais popcorn factory in France! Exposed to hazardous substances, forced to work on precarious conditions, the workers tried to fight back. On Thursday ...
  • Education workers’ strike in Slovakia after tw ...
    hesla_get_rich_die_striking.png This is a very rough and hardly exhaustive summary of recent two weeks of strike in education sector in Slovakia. The strike is still on despite being put on hold by it ...
  • Exploitation in Split: University Students Tri ...
    img1121cr.jpg Croatian students struggling for their wages. A group of about 40 university students from Split employed through the Student Employment Service spent their summer ...
  • Police places pressure on relatives and friend ...
    Antifascists Alexey Sutuga and Alexey Olesinov have already been in the"Butyrka" prison in Moscow for more than half a year. Investigator Y. Egorov, who is conducting the investigation, is expected to modify the criminal case into a more seriou ...
  • Monti’s government “democratic and sober” resp ...
    roma 14 nov1.jpg The demonstrations that took place all over Italy on 14th November as part of a European Day of Action against austerity are already setting the pace of the new management of public o ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • So-Called “Junk” DNA Explains &#82 ...
    Genetic researchers have long ignored the majority of the human DNA strand, calling it “Junk” simply because it doesn’t relate to the color of your skin or eyes – and because it doesn’t dissect proteins.  The fact is, the “Junk” DNA makes up over 90% of ...
  • “Minority Report” – the Futu ...
    I’ve been lecturing about the “CIA’s Best Kept Secret” for years.   This godless, Edomite super-technology is closely tied to the “Elite’s”  TRANSHUMANISM agenda – where God’s masterpiece of creation called the human DNA becomes literally int ...
  • The Fat Lady Doesn’t Sing Until Monday, ...
    Just because an event has never before happened, doesn’t mean it won’t ever occur.   The November “elections” are a month old, and yet the presidential “race” is not “official” under U.S. Law until the first Monday after the 2nd Wednesday of Decemb ...
  • Death Ray = Deuterium Laser = SDI (Strategic D ...
    I authored the following document in May of 2010 – and posted it on this blog.   Download the original PDF file by clicking here: MIRACL ILLUMINATION!! The article prompted a visit from U.S. Air Force “investigators” – who simply wanted me to tell them who was leaking inf ...
  • Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)
    What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • At Least Three Missouri Babies Born on 12/12/12
    Reblogged from CBS St. Louis: ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Congratulations to at least three Missouri Couples who had babies on yesterday’s special date: 12/12/12. Mehlville couple Kelly and Elias Ford gave birth to a son.  Elias Ford Junior was born by C-section at St. Anthony’s Medical Cente ...
  • How Alternative Renewable Energy Helps Fuel th ...
    How Alternative Renewable Energy Helps Fuel the Economy and Create Green Jobs Alternative energy is here to stay. With new advances in energy comes new industries, and with that comes new jobs. Simply put, lots of jobs are created every month in the green industry. With incentives from the gover ...
  • PSC approves $260 million Ameren rate increase ...
     More than $100 million of the rate increase will go to pay for higher fuel costs, much of it for coal hauled by rail to Missouri power plants from sprawling mines in Wyoming. PSC approves $260 million Ameren rate increase 8 Print Email Ameren headquarters in St. Louis. Photo courtesy of Am ...
  • Water Main Repair-Benton Rehab
    If your Water Main is leaking it can cost you Thousands of Dollars over the year. Safety First-when there are open holes in a sidewalk A leaking water main can cost a building owner thousands in water bills in St Louis and can cause damage to the Rock Foundation Walls and Footings- which will al ...
  • Kitchen Framing Tip #36-Benton Rehab Project
     Here is a good tip I learned from the Owner of this Property.  Before Installing the Drywall over the framing members in a Kitchen Wall. Take a Picture and Make a Drawing of the Wall that the Future Kitchen Cabinets will attach to.  This will eliminate any guess work and possible ...

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Update on Secret "Free" Trade Treaty
    photo credit LiveNews (This is a follow-up of two previous posts on the secret “free” trade treaty the Obama administration is negotiation: Will the RCEP kill the TPP and Why You Never Hear of Either One and Will China Kill the TPP?) The Auckland round of Transpacific Partnership ...
  • Former Reagan Official Questions bin Laden's R ...
    Two very different bin Laden clones (Veterans Today) Paul Craig Roberts isn’t your garden variety conspiracy nut. We’re talking about a former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business ...
  • Will China Kill the TPP (the "classified" free ...
    Anti-TPP protest in Auckland (TV3News)   (This is the second of two posts about a “classified” free trade treaty called the Transpacific Partnership and a Chinese-friendly alternative the Regional Comprehensive Economic plan. As I outlined in my last post  Will the RC ...
  • Kucinich Fights to Declassify the TPP
      Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) Will the RCEP Kill the TPP and Why You Never Heard of Either One To view Kucinich Report on TPP (html editor isn't working at all today) to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtBUL_rgG1k  (This is the first of two posts regarding an extremely dangerous ...
  • Ron Paul on Ending the Tragedy in Gaza
    Retiring Congressman Ron Paul, former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, comes done on the same side as many progressives on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. A recent post on his website, reiterates comments he made when was president about Gaza being nothing but a va ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...
    Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Criticizing Democ ...
    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Se ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About the War on Women on ...
    From @MMFlint "McCaskill, Warren, Stabenaw, Klobuchar, Baldwin Senate victories = Declare a War on Women, prepare to lose. #legitimate" "RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, how the f*** are all these women winning?! They don't even wear TIES." "RT @KailiJoy: Magic lady parts not only detect rape s ...
  • GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quite
    By Walt De Vries From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...
  • OCTOBER 9, 2002, TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S. Gov ...
    From Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn: In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative Italian Prime Minister Sil ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Energy Shortages - Why Malthus Got His Forecas ...
    Most of us have heard that Thomas Malthus made a forecast in 1798 that the world would run short of food, and that great famine would result. But most of us don’t understand why he was wrong. This issue is relevant today, as we grapple with the issues of world hunger and of oil consumption ...
  • Economic Impacts of Another Drop In Natural Ga ...
    Last year, significant growth in natural gas production combined with low demand – due to a warm winter – caused natural gas prices to plummet below US$2 per thousand cubic feet.
  • The Doha Climate Gateway: Stumbling Toward a G ...
    In typical international climate summit fashion, COP18 ended in a last–minute marathon session complete with frustration, accusation, acrimony and a halting step forward in what is called the “
  • John Sununu: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Energy ...
    According to John Sununu: “Government did not create the shale gas boom. Government did not turn North Dakota’s once languishing Bakken oil fields into one of the country’s largest.”“America,” he argues, “has had energy policies — lots of them — and they all stunk.” He points to 1977 as the birt ...
  • The Smart Grid and Natural Disasters
    More than 8 million people along the U.S. East Coast were rendered powerless in the wake of October 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, for example. Each new large-scale natural disaster delivers its own unique cocktail of heartache and damage, but the need to modernize the electrical grid is a common denom ...

EU Times

  • Bosch under fire for tech sales to Chinese prisons
    German multinational engineering and electronics company, Bosch, has come under attack by human rights activists for offering surveillance systems to China to spy on inmates at visiting time. Kai Muller, the manager of the International Campaign for Tibet, told the German-language newspaper Sudd ...
  • How to Brainwash the Sheeple into Doing Anythi ...
    A few hours ago I was cycling through a nearby neighborhood. As I approached a mother and her two children walking down the sidewalk, the cutest little four-year-old piped up. “Hi…!” she said. “Hi…!” I replied. At that point, mom jerked the little girl by the arm, bent down and whispered somethi ...
  • UN conference to approve world wide snooping ‘ ...
    A United Nation conference in Dubai has been disrupted by a suspected hacking group after the UN agreed to adopt a new Internet standard that allows governments and corporations to spy on people. The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) has convened in Dubai to debate chan ...
  • Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti plans to resign
    Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has announced he is going to resign as he has lost support in the country’s parliament hours after former Premier Silvio Berlusconi said he would run again for head of government. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano’s office issued a statement on Saturday, ann ...
  • Mysterious Alaska Pyramid Fears Said Behind US ...
    An interesting report prepared by the Aerospace Defence Forces (VKO) circulating in the Kremlin today states that the “subcritical” nuclear test conducted by the United States last Wednesday (5 December) was in preparation for a much larger atomic explosion being planned by the Americans whose f ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • D’Antoni Says Point Guards Are Key to Ne ...
    Last season, the New York Knicks didnât have a reliable starting point guard capable of distributing the ball to their star players Carmelo Anthony and Amarâe Stoudemire. The Knicks amnestied Chauncey Billups and his $14.2 million contract last December and were left with Toney Douglas heading ...
  • Report: Josh Hamilton joining the Angels
    Last year, the Los Angeles Angels made a huge splash in free agency, by landing Albert Pujols. It didn’t lead to the World Series, heck, it didn’t even lead to the playoffs. Since the Angels were unable to resign Zack Greinke to a deal, they turned their attention to former AL MVP, Josh Hamilto ...
  • Cincinnati Bengals At Philadelphia Eagles: Ina ...
    Prior to the sun lifting beyond the Eastern horizon, we had already known that the Cincinnati Bengals would be without cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, running back Cedric Peerman and place kicker Mike Nugent. The Eagles won't have quarterback Michael Vick, running back LeSean McCoy, tight end Brent ...
  • Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria claims another s ...
    The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda in Iraq's affiliate in Syria, claimed credit for yesterday's complex attack against the Syrian Interior Ministry in Damascus. Five people were killed in the bombings
  • Survey shows the iPhone 5 tops Christmas smart ...
    If you know a family member who wants a smartphone this Christmas but you don’t know what specific brand, your safest bet is to buy them an iPhone 5 .  AppleInsider points us to a new Piper Jaffray survey of 800 people in the United States that finds that the iPhone 5 is the top choice for ho ...

Groklaw

  • China surpasses U.S. in number of 2011 patent ...
    Last year, for the first time, more patent applications were filed in China than in the United States. This surge reflects China's increasing intellectual property maturity and growing pains, according to U.S. Intellectual property lawyers and experts. [PJ: Sub req'd, so don' t click on the li ...
  • Nate Silvers Google Talk: Like Jimi Hendrix at ...
    When electoral clairvoyant Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight fame, goes to Google to discuss/plug his fancy new book, the collective IQ in the room probably matches the entire state of Rhode Island. So kick back, relax, and learn a little something from this hour-long smartypants chitchat. - Gizmodo
  • Sorting Out the Last 36 Hours of the WCIT
    First, we remain committed to the Civil Society declaration at Best Bits in Baku, Azerbaijan last month. Consistent with this, we continue to urge the ITU members to reject any version of the ITRs or any resolutions that would expand the scope of the ITU to Internet governance or Internet servic ...
  • WCIT collapses: US, UK, allies refuse to sign ...
    After working for 12 days to reach a compromise text described by the conference chairman as "95% there" the crisis erupted last night when the African bloc attempted to have its preferred form of words over the rights of member states to access telecommunications networks accepted in the treaty ...
  • Statement from Dr Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary ...
    I have been saying in the run up to this conference that this conference is not about governing the Internet. I repeat that the conference did NOT include provisions on the Internet in the treaty text. Annexed to the treaty is a non-binding Resolution which aims at fostering the development and ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Occupy the Democratic Party say misguided writ ...
    pics on SodaheadWriters at The Nation magazine are calling for progressives to occupy the Democratic Party and take back control of it from the evil-bellied ones who control it now. Honestly, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the futility of their attempt.How they plan to do this is ...
  • Swiss Army Cybertool. It does it all
    This Swiss Army Cybertool has just about everything you might need in a compact package, including removable screw and nut adapters and a long handle for getting at computer parts, along with Philips and traditional screwdrivers. The adapters snap into place on the long handle, which locks firml ...
  • Paul McCartney and Nirvana Reunion – Cut Me So ...
    Who would have thought that the highlight of the Hurricane Sandy benefit would be an absolutely badass performance by Sir Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear? The song is “Cut Me Some Slack” and was written collectively by Sirvana during a jam session
  • Russia admits Assad is losing the Syria war
    Even Russia is no longer pretending that Assad will remain in power. What comes next after Assad falls will not be pretty. There will be warring factions. Numerous outside countries including ours will have proxy fighters there. Syria has no economy now. It will take years for them to recover. I ...
  • Our compromised, faux journalist mainstream media
    Donkey Mountain has a fine rant on the deplorable state of our mainstream media. I would add that Fox News and MSNBC are simply mirror images of each other, only concerned with doing investigative journalism when it involves attacking the Other Side and never their own side. This of course means ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

  • Crunch time for funding G. Porter's book on Iran!
    Hi, everyone! We have just six days to go in our online fundraiser for Gareth Porter's very important planned book Manufactured Crisis: The Secret History of the Iranian Nuclear Scare. We've just topped getting pledges for 2/3 of the $10,000 we need for this. Can you do anything to help us get ...
  • Palestine and the Arab Spring
    Plenty of western commentators have asserted that the attention that participants in the Arab Spring have been paying to governance issues in their own countries means that somehow they no longer really care about Palestine. (A few people, most notably As'ad Abou-Khalil, have challenged that as ...
  • Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?
    Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with ...
  • Notes on Israeli threats of launching a 'Dahiy ...
    1. Some prominent Israelis are calling for a 'Dahiyeh' operation against Gaza. I just watched this clip from a news/discussion program on Israel's Channel 2. In it, "military analyst" Roni Daniel openly calls for the implementation of a "Dahiyeh" operation ("like in Beirut"), against Gaza. Dahi ...
  • Fundraiser for key new book on Iran-- please help!
    As some JWN readers know, twelve days ago I launched an online fundraising campaign to support the writing and publication of one of my company's most important books for 2013, a book by award-winning investigative reporter Gareth Porter that exposes how the U.S. and Israel have "manufactured" t ...

frogblog

  • Salisbury School
    The Green Party is pleased that Salisbury school for girls with learning disabilities is to remain open for at least another year. We are not attacking other schools or their capacity to keep young people safe from abuse. We are also not the champions of residential schools as a long term model ...
  • Yet another environmental attack from National ...
    The Resource Management Act is a cornerstone of environmental management in New Zealand. We may hear complaints about it, but rarely do we think about what our back yards, our beaches, our streets, parks and rivers would look like without it.   Our living space would be much worse off if the RMA ...
  • D.I.Y. Lawyering in the Family Court?
    Last week the Family Court Proceedings Reform Bill got its first reading in Parliament.  There are 58 family courts around the country, and while it is a place most people would no doubt prefer to avoid, the courts nevertheless have a very high case load, especially in regards to the Care of Chi ...
  • Correnso proposal to undermine Waihi residents
    On Monday I attended the hearings in Waihi for a new mine underneath a residential area. This proposal known as Correnso will immediately affect 30 houses but as residents have told me effects can ripple in unexpected directions. I attended the hearings to hear the mining company Newmont Gold em ...
  • John Key and Me
    John Key and I have a similar background in some ways.  We both come from a childhood of deprivation and honour our parents for their hard work and unconditional love.  As children, we both had access to a state education, to free healthcare, to a state provided home and state support for our pa ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Zinc—One of the Best Supplements to Help Figh ...
    By Dr. Mercola Now that daylight is waning, cold and flu bugs are ready to jump on any warm body not armed with a strong immune system. With so many novel herbs and supplements on the market, it's easy to lose sight of the basics for robust immune defenses. One of those is the trace ele ...
  • The Dangers of Christmas Decorations
    By Dr. Mercola More than 80 percent of Americans decorate their homes as part of their holiday celebrations.1 For many, Christmas wouldn’t be the same without colored lights, garland, stockings hung from the mantel and, of course, a carefully decorated Christmas tree. For the most part, ...
  • Acne Drug Widely 'Overused' Says UK Dermatologist
    By Dr. Mercola Up to 50 million Americans struggle with acne, making it the most common skin disorder in the United States.1 When it strikes during the teen years, it can lead to feelings of self-consciousness, embarrassment and depression. Many severe acne sufferers struggle with low self-c ...
  • Why I Do Not Recommend Pork - Nearly 70 Percen ...
    By Dr. Mercola Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, there may be good reason to carefully consider your decision to include pork as a regular part of your diet, because despite advertising campaigns trying to paint pork as a "healthy" alternative to beef, research suggests it may be hazardou ...
  • Will the Natural Products Association Live Up ...
    By Dr. Mercola As you've no doubt heard, California Proposition 37, which would have required genetically engineered (GE) foods to be labeled as such and prohibited GE-containing foods to be labeled as "natural" or "all-natural," failed to pass on November 6 by just two percentage points. C ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • South American tribe labelled backward by BBC ...
    Marr’s TV series re-enacts Ibore and Parojnai’s (pictured) first contact in 1998.© SurvivalA South American tribe whose way of life was labelled backward in a major BBC TV series has hit back at the programme. The moment in 1998 when members of the Ayoreo tribe in Paraguay first made contact wi ...
  • Bushmen beaten, suffocated and buried alive fo ...
    Kebonyeng Kepese has been arrested and beaten for hunting to feed his family. © Survival Paramilitary police have severely beaten two Bushmen, burying one in a shallow grave, after accusing them of hunting without permits in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Nkemetse Motsok ...
  • Siberian Evenk indigenous organization under a ...
    Evenk boy with reindeer© Raipon/SurvivalMasked gunmen have raided the offices of a Siberian tribal community in Russia, kidnapping two men and taking them to undisclosed locations. After weeks of silence, one of the hostages managed to phone his relatives. He said he had been beaten and threate ...
  • Worldwide solidarity on Human Rights Day for E ...
    A London supporter in carnival costume carried a message for Brazil to 'Save the Awá'.© SurvivalSurvival supporters around the world held an international protest on UN Human Rights Day, urging Brazil to ‘Save the Awá’; Earth’s most threatened tribe. A supporter in carnival costume le ...
  • Thousands join rally of defiance as Vedanta mi ...
    Thousands marched to voice their continued opposition to plans to mine the Niyamgiri Hills.© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalA rally of defiance was held at the foothills of India’s Niyamgiri Hills on Thursday, by thousands of tribal men and women, including the Dongria Kondh, who turned out to voice thei ...

Montreal Gazette

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


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    Of the major renewable fuel categories, biomass accounted for over half (53 percent) of totalrenewable energy consumption in 2010, while hydroelectric power accounted for nearly a third (31 percent). Wind was the source of 11 percent of total ...
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    Too Many Antibiotics? BacterialEcology That Lives On Humans Has Changed in ...
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    They may receive milk or other food sources from the government, which could alter the microbial ecology of the community. Our evolutionary cousins, non-human primates are important to consider. However, the human-chimp common ancestor was over six ...
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