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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, December 14, 2012

14 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

moped mirrormoped mirror (Photo credit: Paul Keller)
Perth, Ontario - July 2, 2011 - Guinness World...Perth, Ontario - July 2, 2011 - Guinness World Records' Largest Kilt Race (Photo credit: Jordan Cameron)
Guntur wedding marching bandGuntur wedding marching band (Photo credit: brocktopia)
English: This is a main temple of Andhra Prade...English: This is a main temple of Andhra Pradesh dedicated to Lord Narasimha (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The great architectural marvel, Ramappa temple...The great architectural marvel, Ramappa temple in Andhra pradesh, India. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Leukemia treatment - immune system T-cells (ce...Leukemia treatment - immune system T-cells (center) binding to beads which cause the cells to divide (Photo credit: Microbe World)
Cyber towers at Hyderabad, the state capital a...Cyber towers at Hyderabad, the state capital and largest city in Andhra Pradesh. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: High Court at Hyderabad, the main jud...English: High Court at Hyderabad, the main judicial body for Andhra Pradesh. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Diagram of the HIV virus.English: Diagram of the HIV virus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Assembly ...The Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Assembly at the centre of Hyderabad City. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Food World Order

  • #Video: What's a Food Industry to Do?
    from Activistpost.com:
  • The HIV Virus: A Possible Cure for Leukemia?
    from yahoo.net: In April 2012, 7-year-old Emily “Emma” Whitehead was in the fight of her life following her second relapse of acute lymphoblastic—or lymphocytic—leukemia (ALL). The then 6-year-old’s parents and doctors turned to an unlikely source to save the young girl's life—the HIV virus. ...
  • Warning to all pot smokers in Colorado and Was ...
    from naturalnews.com: Colorado and Washington pot smokers are lighting up in celebration after having achieved a stunning decriminalization victory at the ballot box. Inhale while you can, my brothers and sisters, because Obama is already plotting how to re-criminalize your swag and nullify st ...
  • Thanksgiving Season Left Martha Stewart with S ...
    from foodsafetynews.com: Celebrity chef Martha Stewart came down with a Salmonella infection in late November, reported the New York Post this week. Stewart was forced to cancel a number of post-Thanksgiving engagements due to her illness. “It really hit me hard and I was in bed for days ...
  • Antibiotics In Chicken Causing New Infections
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Antibiotics are routinely given to factory farmed chickens, even healthy birds, to increase their growth rate. New research show a direct link between a superbug, resulting from eating chicken raised on antibiotics, and bladder infections. Eight million women suffer ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

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 ...

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Desktop Zoom, Animations in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 ...
    Ever wondered what happened to all those mind numbing animations and effects in older Ubuntu releases running GNOME 2.x? We used to conduct Linux installation fests during our college days and showing off Compiz Fusion's capabilities was a major highlight during every such event. But with the ...
  • Reditr Beta Arrives, DEB Package Makes Install ...
    Reditr is a multi-column Reddit client for desktops. It currently supports Ubuntu, Mac, Windows and Google Chrome platforms. When it was first announced few months back, it created a lot of excitement, especially among Linux folks. But the initial Reditr Alpha release disappointed quite a few. ...
  • New Official Gmail App for Android Arrives wit ...
    The wait is finally over. Official Gmail for Android app now supports pinch-to-zoom action. This was perhaps one of the most requested feature by users of Gmail app. Apart from that, the new app also brings in features such as swipe to delete/archive action, attaching of photos and videos from ...
  • Google Play Store Revenues Spiking, Japan Over ...
    More Android growth stories. Google Play Store is growing in numbers. Nearly 900,000 apps and games are already in there and have been downloaded more than 25 billion times. But what about the revenues? App Annie has some interesting statistics.  Google Play Store Reven ...
  • 30 Must Have Android Games for 2012
    Android is surging, their remains no questions about it. Android is a proven platform now and that is particularly showing in the burgeoning apps market. Google Play Store is now home to nearly 900,000 applications and games. More than 25 billion apps and games have already been downloaded fro ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Pentagon Chief Signs Order To Deploy Missile T ...
    U.S. Department of Defense December 14, 2012 Panetta Signs Order to Deploy 400 U.S. Personnel to Turkey By Cheryl Pellerin INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has signed an order that will deploy 400 U.S. personnel to Turkey to support the deployment that NATO agreed to ...
  • Neptune’s Trident: NATO, Global and Eternal
    U.S. Department of Defense American Forces Press Service December 13, 2012 Training, Resource Sharing Boost NATO Transformation Initiatives By Amaani Lyle ==== “From a strategic, operational, tactical level we do training. From an individual to collective level, we do training. Cradle to grave & ...
  • Turkey: NATO Interceptor Missiles, 800 Troops ...
    Voice of Russia December 14, 2012 “Patriot” missiles to be operational on Turkey’s border with Syria January 2013 NATO photograph “Patriot” anti-aircraft missiles, deployed by NATO on the Turkish border with Syria, are to become operational late January 2013. This was announced in Brussels by Pr ...
  • Holy Triumvirate: The EU, NATO and U.S.
    The News International December 13, 2012 Holy Triumvirate William Blum EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “President” Atifete Jahjaga and European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton in Pristina ...
  • Michel Corday: Blood! Blood! But there is stil ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Michel Corday: The everlasting glorification of murder Anatole France and Michel Corday: Threat of annihilation in gigantic Armageddon Anatole France and Michel Corday: The press fans the flames of war’s blast furnace ==== Mich ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

  • Seeds of Change: Bio-Pharmaceuticals, Transhum ...
    By JG Vibes & Bob Tuskin theintelhub.com December 13, 2012 Today’s “Seeds of Change” segment on the Bob Tuskin show featured an in depth interview with health researcher Anthony Gucciardi of Natural Society. Today’s guest, provided a fascinating introduction to “bio-pharmac ...
  • $41.5 Million Dollar EPA Investigation Finds H ...
    Shepard Ambellas | As a result of that investigation the EPA has now deemed that the land is toxic and contaminated with high levels of radiation.
  • Miami TSA Screening Chief Was Fired From Polic ...
    theintelhub.com | A report revealed that Miami International Airport had fired more TSA agents for theft than any other airport in the country and, after some investigation, revealed the startling fact that once again a head supervisor in the TSA is a sexual deviant.
  • The Grope Repost: TSA Catches Terrorist!
    JG Vibes & Bob Tuskin | Todays grope report on the Bob Tuskin Show featured some of the weeks most interesting TSA related stories, including the anti-gun legislator in Chicago who was caught bringing a gun into an airport.
  • Geoengineering: Assessing the Implications of ...
    Shepard Ambellas | A 2009 hearing details how there would be no more blue skies is geoengineering programs were to persist.

FRS

  • Israel’s Culture of Aggressive Removal o ...
    Genocidal Israelis now quite willing to see Palestinians put out of the way, says US historian Wherever the Israelis and their Zionist cohorts are leading us, it is not into the light, it is to someplace very, very dark. December 3, 2012 by Lawrence Davidson “The Israelis have taught their child ...
  • Israel’s Culture of Aggressive Removal o ...
    Genocidal Israelis now quite willing to see Palestinians put out of the way, says US historian Wherever the Israelis and their Zionist cohorts are leading us, it is not into the light, it is to someplace very, very dark. December 3, 2012 by Lawrence Davidson “The Israelis have taught their child ...
  • Palestinian Prisoners Support Office Raided by ...
    Addameer Offices Raided by Israeli Occupying Forces This Morning http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=549 The Israeli Occupation Forces raided three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ramallah at 3 am this morning, including Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Five ...
  • Palestinian Prisoners Support Office Raided by ...
    Addameer Offices Raided by Israeli Occupying Forces This Morning http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=549 The Israeli Occupation Forces raided three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ramallah at 3 am this morning, including Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Five ...
  • The Unsilenced Voice of a ‘Long-Distance Revol ...
    Chris Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed, Tuesday 11 December 2012 Abu-Jamal, who was a young activist in the Black Panthers and later one of the most important radical journalists in Philadelphia, a city that a few decades earlier produced I.F. Stone, has long been the bête noire of the state. I am sitting ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Obama is Right -- Higher Tax Rates on the Rich ...
    People like myself are getting tired of hearing about this fiscal cliff deal being held up just because the GOP refuses to accept the Nov. 6 election results. Taxing the rich more isn't being done for fun, it's necessary.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Dec 06, 2012
  • Sunset of Terror War: Too Little, Too Late
    In a pre-weekend address, general counsel to the Pentagon, Jeh Johnson, for the first time, uttered the sentiment that the “War on Terror,” which began on September 11, 2001, would, finally, be facing its long-awaited sunset.Contributor: D. Benjamin Satkowiak Published: Dec 03, 2012
  • U.N. Palestinan Vote Argues for the Abolishmen ...
    The New York Times reports that the United Nations has voted to elevate the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank to the status of non member observing state. Hot Air suggests that this is to the detriment of peace in the Middle East.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Nov 30, 2012
  • Grover Norquist Anti-Tax Crusade is Slowly Ending
    Grover Norquist, behind-the-scenes anti-tax puppeteer, is losing ground now that people know about him.Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Nov 20, 2012
  • Blame Execs, Not Unions, for Hostess Closing
    Hostess Brands closing should be blamed on poor and unethical decisions by execs.Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Nov 16, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • NASA's Twin Orbiters Will Crash Into The Moon ...
    NASA is deliberately crashing the probes into a small mountain-like feature on the moon's north pole. Farewell, GRAIL! Just shy of a full year encircling the moon, NASA’s twin lunar probes are bidding farewell on Monday, crashing in a controlled fashion into a small mountain-like formation at t ...
  • New Venomous Primate Species Discovered In Borneo
    Researchers discover an adorable (yet scary!) species of slow loris. In the jungles of Borneo, an international team of researchers have discovered a new species of slow loris, and classified two previously known subspecies as distinct species in their own rights. That up there is the Kayan lor ...
  • Hubble Captures Earliest Views Yet Of The Universe
    The deepest images taken to date show the universe when it was only 3 percent of the age it is now. Ever since the Hubble Space Telescope’s final upgrade, astronomers have been able to push it farther and farther in look-back time--that’s a technical term--to the infancy of the universe. Now th ...
  • Which Cuddly Land Mammals Are Most In Danger F ...
    Now that the most adorable animals are under threat, surely we'll turn the tide on the warming planet. Many species of mammals are at a greater risk of extinction due to the predicted rise in extreme weather events (see: climate change), a new study by the Zoological Society of London concludes ...
  • BigPic: NASA Discovers Largest River Ever Seen ...
    NASA scientists are comparing Titan's river to a Nile full of flowing liquid hydrocarbons. Stretching more than 200 miles from its headwaters toward a large and mysterious sea, this river probably looks very familiar. But it is not the Nile. It is an as-yet-unnamed river on Titan, Saturn’s larg ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • The Beast from the East is slain
    The cold easterly which a large majority of computer models were predicting to develop this week has failed to materialise, with a much more unsettled weather pattern expected to return from the Atlantic during tomorrow. Last week, 80% of the ECMWF model solutions wanted an easterly 'blocking' ...
  • The Beast from the East is lurking
    There is now growing consensus between most weather computer models that cold air from the east is likely to spread across Britain next week. If so, it will be the first time since March that high pressure has properly dominated our weather, and will end a long sequence of at times record brea ...
  • 2012 on course to be in wettest top 10
    Only two thirds of average rainfall needs to fall across the UK in December for 2012 to end up in the top ten wettest years on record, according to Met Office data which was first collated over a hundred years ago in 1910. Should this be the case, it would also mean that nearly half of the yea ...
  • Cold to follow latest deluge
    A welcome change to drier but colder weather is likely as we head through this week following heavy rainfall since Saturday night which is once again testing flood defences across the county. November is continuing a remarkable run of wet weather, becoming the 8th successive month where rainfa ...
  • What's behind the 'coldest winter for 100 year ...
    Those of us with a keen interest in the weather can't fail to have noticed yet another headline in the Express this weekend, claiming this winter would be the coldest in 100 years, which you can see here. Wherever I went this weekend, I've been stopped in the street by people asking me when the ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • And the World's Best Finance Minister is...
    Cesar Purisima of the Philippines for 2012 according to Euromoney. It just goes to show you how far the United States has fallen in the opinion of those in the know that an American has not won this award since Bob Rubin back in 1996 (before being tarnished by all that Citi stuff during the glob ...
  • Michael Pettis Should Read More, Blog Less
    Skip the maths, will ya?I have in the past tied Michael Pettis to the whipping post for uncritically accepting Bernanke's self-serving notion of a "global savings glut" amidst falling levels of savings worldwide and a fantasyland assertion that the US household savings rate would hit double digi ...
  • Egypt Falls at First Hurdle to Get $4.8B IMF Loan
    As Egypt falls into a Morsi-made crisis by him trying to ramrod an Islamist-designed, next-to-no other public consultation constitution via a hastily called referendum this Saturday, its financial rescue prospects get even cloudier. Public order has gotten even worse than in recent months--which ...
  • Lord Patten, 'Fat Pang', on the 21st 'Asian Ce ...
    Though not always, expatriates often develop piercing insights into the often strange political economy of Asian nations as outsiders looking in. Lord Christopher Patten of Barnes should be familiar to all scholars of Asia as the last British governor of Hong Kong. He remains controversial to th ...
  • Venezuelan Bonds: Pricing Hugo Chavez's Demise
    While I am certainly no fan of Hugo Chavez, I do not wish terminal illness on anyone as a God-fearing Christian. That said, financial markets make it their business to peer into the crystal ball to foresee the future. Will Venezuela open itself up again to foreign investment in the energy sector ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-12-12 Assange confirms Senate run, announ ...
    Julian Assange has reportedly confirmed his candidacy for the Australian Senate in the 2013 federal election. The WikiLeaks editor-in-chief has also announced the imminent formation and registration of a WikiLeaks political party, which would promote government transparency and oppose recent ero ...
  • 2012-12-10 President Correa of Ecuador says as ...
    Ecuador's President Rafael Correa stated in an interview this month that his government would consider granting political asylum to Syrian head-of-state Bashar al Assad. President Assad is reportedly mulling asylum for himself, his family members, and close associates, in the event that he is fo ...
  • 2012-12-10 Now on DVD: "The WikiLeaks Tapes"
    Directed by teacher and citizen journalist Cathy Vogan, The WikiLeaks Tapes is a new, two-disc DVD of interviews with dozens of prominent personalities on the topic of WikiLeaks. Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, John Pilger, Christine Assange, Julian Morrow, Senator Scott Lundlam, and Mary Kostaki ...
  • 2012-12-07 Ecuador's President Correa wins fre ...
    Controversy erupted earlier this week after the journalism department of Argentina's National University of La Plata awarded Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for freedom of expression. Proponents of media freedom have harshly criticized Correa for his treatment of the E ...
  • 2012-12-05 Assange to meet with French Left Pa ...
    AFP news agency has reported that Julian Assange will meet this Thursday in London with French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, co-Chairman of France's Left Party (PG). A press conference will be held at Ecuador's London embassy after the meeting. Promoting what he calls a "citizens' revolution," ...

U N News

  • Young Colombian woman named first winner of UN ...
    A 25-year-old Colombian woman has been selected as the winner of an inaugural United Nations prize recognizing contributions to social science research.
  • UN launches new initiative to eliminate choler ...
    The United Nations today announced a new initiative to help eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the two nations that make up the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
  • UN refugee agency and NGO appeal to United Sta ...
    The United Nations refugee agency and a global non-governmental organisation are jointly appealing to the United States Government to take further action to end the hardships facing stateless people in the North American country.
  • UN officials mourn the death of Brazilian arch ...
    United Nations officials today mourned the death of Oscar Niemeyer, a world-renowned Brazilian architect who was also a key figure in the design and building of the world body's headquarters in New York.
  • UN human rights office concerned over Colombia ...
    Expressing "serious concern" over a constitutional reform measure affecting Colombia's military justice system, the United Nations human rights office today called on the country's President and the President of the Congress to reconsider their support for the bid, which could undermine efforts ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • How the American Matrix Destroys Every Culture ...
    Alexis de Tocqueville is the best commentator of the modern agenda of alienation, giving aristocratic critics to the American matrix which starts its nuisances at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Tocqueville foresees a bleak American future for Europe and the whole world. ~ Nicolas B ...
  • Russia Bans Poisonous U.S. Meat
    U.S. meat supplies to Russia have been banned. The Russian Federation and the United States differ in the assessment of the causes of the situation. Russia claims that the reason for the ban was the presence of ractopamine drug in US meat. ~ Anastasia Garina read more
  • McDonalds Fast Food... Toxic Ingredients of Pu ...
    Every mouthful of McDonalds meal contains a handful of chemicals that raise ‘bad’ cholesterol levels, increase diabetes risk, lower immunity, and damage DNA. In fact fast food contains so many harmful ingredients it shouldn’t even be fed to a pet because that would be cruel. read more
  • Popular Toothpaste Contains 5,000x Fluoride!!! ...
    Popular fluoride toothpaste contains 5,000 PPM sodium fluoride — almost 500,000% beyond the level known to damage your body. ~ Umayyad Ulemma - Video read more
  • Studies Continue to Show Television Decreases ...
    “TV uses even less of your brain than is used to add single digit numbers.” ~ Dr. Aric Sigman ~ Video read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Terrorist Cells Will Target Critical EHV Power ...
    WND.com has recently reported that Iran’s death squad is here. 10 terrorist cells, apparently ‘highly trained’ and ‘sophisticated’, are reportedly here and ready to attack critical infrastructure in the United States during 2013… “The source within the o ...
  • Debt Free Living, A Simple Concept?
    Sounds simple, right? Living debt free is a simple concept: Spend less than you earn, and accrue no debts. Pay as you go. Sounds simple, right? So, why are so many people unable to do it? We’ve heard it before… “live within our means,” “develop budgets”. But in the end, m ...
  • Why Is A Near Death Experience A Life “G ...
    Why is it that when we see, read, or hear a report about someone surviving a near death experience, or someone who has been diagnosed with a terrible condition, the person will drastically change their life, their outlook on life, and the things that they do from then on? From that point on, tho ...
  • Food: Do You Eat Out Much?
    The following is a very short true survival story of one example why you should have extra food in your home. During my previous career, and regarding one of the VP’s of the company that I worked for at the time (who was/is a great guy – everybody liked him) came down with the flu. [...]
  • Wet Fire Wood… How To Start A Fire
    Guest Post: by Tom at CampingSurvival.com   Now that we’re getting into winter, you might not have nice dry wood lying around your campsite or sitting outside your hunting cabin. Some people will use a bunch of lighter fluid or – even more unwisely – gasoline (don’t do this!), but there are ...

Fast Company

  • A “Nest” For Humans Made From Bales Of Straw
    Comprised solely of recyclable materials, Studio 1984’s Ecological Pavilion doesn’t have much in the way of modern conveniences, but it wouldn’t be a bad spot to spend a cozy afternoon. When asked about the name of his fledgling architecture collective, Studio 1984, cofou ...
  • The Raw, Carefully Improvised Furniture of Hen ...
    Henry Wilson creates work that straddles homemade and high-end. My father-in-law makes the best shelves. They’re unfinished plywood, connected by a few dozen L-brackets. They’re strong, durable, and have a timeless earnestness that I really dig. But Henry Wilson is a designer w ...
  • Operation Bethlehem Lights the Way Home For Gu ...
    Ad agency Lowe SSP3 tries to lure guerilla fighters out of the jungle and home to their families with unmissable beacons of light. Guerrilla fighters situated in Colombia may be tempted to demobilize and go home to their families this holiday season. At least that’s what one ad agenc ...
  • Are Online Games Going To Be The New Apprentic ...
    Instead of hands-on training at the job, what if people could learn how to work from playing online? An estimated 75 million youth worldwide are unemployed, at rates triple those of older adults. Untold millions of those probably spend their time on the couch playing Halo 4 or Call of Duty ...
  • The New York Times Is Getting Into eBooks With ...
    The New York Times is getting into the e-books business through partnerships with digital publishers Byliner and Vook. The Times will up to 12 original e-singles through Byliner on a variety of topics including culture, sports, business, science, and health. The first Byliner title, "Snow Fall: ...

Jadaliyya

  • The State of Egypt Today: Political Protests a ...
    On November 22nd, thousands of protesters took to the streets when President Mohammad Morsi unilaterally granted himself sweeping powers to govern Egypt. He later rescinded some provisions of his decree but forced through a draft constitution and set a deadline for a popular referendum to enshri ...
  • On the Margins Media Roundup (December)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Somalia, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands, and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the On the Margins Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each month's ...
  • الحركة المثلية في فلسطين ومقارعة الخطاب الإسرائيلي
    هل تصدّقون وجود مثليين فلسطينيين ومثليات فلسطينيّات خارج الأفلام الأوروبيّة والإسرائيلية التي لا تكفّ عن مضغ القصة السطحية ذاتها حول فلسطيني مثلي الجنس يعشق مثلي إسرائيلي، فيهربان من غابة «الهوموفوبيا» (رهاب المثليين) العربيّة إلى مملكة التحرر في تل أبيب؟ مثابرة حثيثة يقودها مثليّون ومثليّات من ...
  • كتاب: أمراء وسماسرة وبيروقراطيون: النفط والدول ...
    [“كتب” هي سلسلة تستضيف “جدلية” فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بفصل من الكتاب.]  "أمراء، وسماسرة، وبيروقراطيون: النفط والدولة في المملكة العربية السعودية". تأليف ستيفان هيرتوغ مطبعة جامعة كورنل، 2011. صدر بالإنجليزية. جدلية: ما الذي دفعك ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (December 13)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadaliyya.c ...

mediagazer

  • 8 Things Cleveland Can Expect from The Plain D ...
    Rebecca Theim / Cleveland Scene: 8 Things Cleveland Can Expect from The Plain Dealer's “Press-Ageddon”  —  When former journalists and alumni of the New Orleans Times-Picayune heard the news about the imminent changes at The Plain Dealer, our hearts broke for Clevela ...
  • Buffett Is Latest Billionaire to Struggle With ...
    Edmund Lee / Bloomberg: Buffett Is Latest Billionaire to Struggle With Newspaper Revival  —  Warren Buffett, the investor famous for betting on aging industries like railroads and insurance, is now trying to pull off something other billionaires have tried and failed to do: save ...
  • Warren Buffett eyeing Allentown Morning Call? ...
    Sam Kennedy / Morning Call: Warren Buffett eyeing Allentown Morning Call?  —  Ownership of Lehigh Valley newspaper in question, and one of the world's richest men has something to say about it.  Tribune Co.'s imminent emergence from an epic bankruptcy has fueled a flurry of ...
  • NY Times Describes 'Torture' More Under Obama ...
    Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: NY Times Describes ‘Torture’ More Under Obama  —  The New York Times, which tied itself in linguistic knots during the Bush years to avoid describing waterboarding as torture, splashed this headline on Thursday's front page: & ...
  • DealBook Conference Was Impressive, Lucrative ...
    Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal: DealBook Conference Was Impressive, Lucrative and Chummy  —  There was a lot happening at the inaugural DealBook conference on Wednesday — and much of it was undeniably impressive.  —  Here is what the invita ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Ian McKellen clarifies prostate cancer re ...
    Sir Ian McKellen has spoken out to clear up confusion over his health status. The 73-year-old British actor revealed in an interview with the this week that he has had prostate cancer for the past "six or seven years". "When you have got it you monitor it and you have to be careful it doesn' ...
  • Keira Knightley, ‘Skyfall’: End of the ro ...
    Updated: December 13, 2012 7:47PM Every year, award season in Hollywood includes both snubs and surprises as key nominations are announced — and Thursday’s revelation of who will be vying for trophies at the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards was no exception. Though voted on only by the 90-som ...
  • A Tense Boat Ride Across A Crocodile-Infe ...
    During a recent press trip to Tanzania, I spent a morning on Lake Tagalala in the heart of the Selous Game Reserve. The lake is teeming with wildlife, including hippos and dozens of bird species. But it's best known for its massive crocodile population, said to be one of the densest in the w ...
  • Does Bernanke’s clearer ‘Fed speak’ make ...
    This past summer, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, told a magazine how he’d practice the opaque dialect known as “Fed speak” in his nearly two decades leading the U.S. central bank. He said to Bloomberg Businessweek that he would think about whether a se ...
  • Bank of Japan survey shows business senti ...
    TOKYO — A quarterly survey by Japan’s central bank shows major Japanese manufacturers are increasingly gloomy, due largely to weakening exports that resulted from antagonisms with China over a territorial dispute. The Bank of Japan’s “tankan” index for the three ...

no frakking consensus

  • Tuvalu’s Gruesome Animal Friends
    Does the IPCC think Tuvalu will be the first island nation to disappear due to climate change - or has a gruesome art exhibit manufactured that claim?
  • The Climate Change Echo Chamber
    Green activists want to restrict your ability to fly, but they themselves remain addicted to the UN's pointless annual beach party.
  • UN Bureaucrats Wield Science for Undemocratic ...
    UN officials say we should listen to science. Don't be fooled. It's a rhetorical ploy, a cover for their own agenda.
  • 2 IPCC Announcements
    In an official statement, the IPCC says it's improper for any of its personnel to describe themselves as Nobel laureates. But the statement is all but invisible on the IPCC's website.
  • Busy Days
    I'll be participating in the WattsUpWithThat answer to Al Gore's 24-hour web project this week. Additionally, I'll be talking to a university class tomorrow and addressing a climate skeptics' conference in Munich on December 1st.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 12/13/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! – Does lowe ...
    corporatetax.procon.org – NEW ProCon.org Website! – Does lowering the federal corporate income tax rate result in employers creating more jobs? – Throughout US corporate tax history, Americans have debated whether or not lowering the rate results in job creation. Propone ...
  • 12/12/12 - UPDATED: Are social networking site ...
    socialnetworking.procon.org - Are social networking sites good for our society? - The 47% of Americans who use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have spent billions of minutes social networking in 2012. Our newly revamped Social Networking site has statistics from over 200 ...
  • 12/7/12 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear two ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - US Supreme Court agrees to hear two same-sex marriage cases.  One case challenges California's Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in the state. The other case challenges the federal Defense of Marriage Act's denial of benefits to gay ...
  • 12/6/12 - The first medical marijuana dispensa ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - The first medical marijuana dispensaries in Arizona and New Jersey opened on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Both states passed medical marijuana in 2010.
  • 12/5/12 - ProCon.org Student Video Contest
    www.procon.org - - ProCon.org Student Video Contest – The early entry deadline was Dec. 1, and Mark from Oregon won the $100 Amazon.com gift card. Congratulations! The final deadline for video entries is Sunday Dec. 16. See what has been submitted so far.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Population dynamics in Nairobi’s Korogocho slum
    As part of our dissemination activities for the Royal Society ‘People and the planet’ report, Sir John Sulston FRS and I visited Nairobi for a series of meetings with policymakers and a public lecture at the University of Nairobi. While we were there, the African Population and Health Research C ...
  • Medicine gets personal
    In 2005, the Royal Society’s report Personalised Medicines: hopes and realities looked at the potential and limitations of pharmacogenetics, the use of genetics to predict an individual’s response to a drug. The report came at a time when the Department of Health was entertaining the idea of imp ...
  • Learning from the next generation
    Members of the Royal Society’s Vision Committee went back to school yesterday to meet with pupils from the Paddington Academy. In a session full of lively debate, pupils challenged the Committee on a wide variety of issues to do with science and science education. Among the major concerns they d ...
  • Valuing Natural Capital at the Royal Society
    Last week’s PolicyLab saw the launch of the government mandated Natural Capital Committee (NCC). The committee was established earlier this year and has been tasked with advising government on when, where and how the UK’s natural resources are being used unsustainably; how action to protect and ...
  • Shovels at the ready – more capital cash for s ...
    Paul Nurse welcomed the Chancellor’s £600 million investment in science this lunchtime, saying that the money ‘will hopefully help ensure that our world leading scientists have world leading facilities with which to work’. The Society has become accustomed over the past two years to thanking the ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Interview with Hanadi Assoud
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  • Stop Smart Meters Australia - Part 1
    Today's show features an interview with a representative of Stop Smart Meters Australia, an organisation which is opposing the introduction of electricity smart meters which are currently being rolled out in homes throughout Victoria. From the petition: Victorian Citizens are being forced to ...
  • Chris Emery on recent film projects - Part 1
    The Crew of Free Mind Films, creators of "A Noble Lie". Clockwise from left: Austin Green, Holland Vandennieuwenhof, Chris Emery and James Lane. My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Chris Emery, co-producer of the award winning documentary "A Noble Lie", which exposes the US government' ...
  • Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 2
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  • Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 1
    In tonight's show we bring you a menagerie of weirdness as we plough through the many bizarre themes which dominate the news on this Halloween night. We look at recent developments in the Julian Assange case, with a Parliamentary Briefing on the case now in progress. In the 2nd hour am joine ...

Beacon

  • DOE Gives $28 Million Boost to Offshore Wind
    The Department of Energy wants wind ©Oceana News yesterday that the Department of Energy had awarded $28 million to a range of innovative offshore wind projects around the country came as, dare we say it, a breath of fresh air? In total, seven projects will be receiving $4 million each. Thes ...
  • Q&A: Callum Roberts
    Callum Roberts is a professor of marine conservation at the University of York in England and author of the 2007 book “The Unnatural History of the Sea.” His second book, “The Ocean of Life”, was published this spring. Oceana asked Roberts about the new book and why we need a “New Deal” fo ...
  • The Dolphins of Robinson Crusoe Island
    Our team in Chile sent us this stunning picture today from just off the shore of Robinson Crusoe Island, part of the remote Juan Fernandez archipelago 400 miles West of mainland Chile. In 1704 Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk became marooned on the island, serving as the inspiration for Danie ...
  • Report Links Overfishing to Piracy
    Bottom trawlers embark from Roses, Spain in Catalonia. ©Oceana/Juan Cuetos A report out this week, “Resources Futures” by the venerable U.K. NGO, the Chatham House, issues a clarion call for wiser management of the world’s finite resources. In the face of a more crowded planet in the coming c ...
  • NBC News and NY Times Take on Seafood Fraud
      Last night, NBC Nightly News took note of Oceana's most recent troubling report about the widespread problem of seafood fraud. The report focused on fish that was purchased in the New York City area and subjected to DNA testing. That testing revealed, among other startling findings, tha ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • TOP STORY — Amb. Susan Rice Removes her Name f ...
    Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities,” Rice wrote in a letter to President Obama, ...
  • Scalia Defends Anti-Gay Comments in Response t ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Prop 8 and DOMA cases. Obviously no one knows the outcome, but Justice Antonin Scalia provided yet another indication about his perspective on LGBTs, and they remain decidedly in the anti-LGBT side of things. At an appearance at Princeton University, freshman Dun ...
  • News Desk: Clinton to Testify Next Week on Ben ...
    AS WELL she should. From CBS News: Amid ongoing questions about the September violence in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Capitol Hill next week to testify on the matter, appearing before both House and Senate committees to answer questions abo ...
  • Chris Christie’s Weight Is a Presidential Heal ...
    “That’s ridiculous,” said Christie. “I mean, that’s ridiculous. I don’t know what the basis for that is.” [ABC News] GOVERNOR CHRIS Christie is wrong. What’s worse is that he appears to be in denial, too. His weight is an issue when considering him ...
  • Hillary Clinton and 2016, the Waiting Begins [ ...
    “Nobody interacts with Hillary Clinton like she’s fading off into the sunset.” – Philippe Reines, Clinton’s State Department spokesman DO YOU care what’s being said about Secretary Clinton and 2016? I wonder how many people want to read analysis and the obligatory c ...

Hudson New York

  • Syrian Rebels in Control of Border Area with I ...
    Syrian rebels have taken control of the border with Israel, and are consolidating their presence in the area, according to Israeli defense sources. One source said that the rebels managed to oust the Syrian military from the area after months of battles,
  • "Whoever Fights Us, Fights Islam"
    In the ongoing conflict between those Egyptians who strongly oppose a Sharia-based constitution — moderates, secularists, non-Muslim minorities — and those who are strongly pushing for it -- the "Islamists" -- are currently evoking the one argument that
  • The Unbearable Silence about the Jewish Refugees
    The Palestinian narrative of victimhood, emphasizing the pitiful condition of Palestinian refugees, and portraying them as the world's major refugee problem, has convinced many in the international community to accept this version of their unfortunate
  • Radical and Moderate Palestinians
    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 --
  • "The Sheikh's Dog Thinks He is the Sheikh"
    It is now clear that the West was overly hasty in unilaterally recognizing "Palestine" as a non-member observer state in the UN, against Israel's wishes and in legal contravention of the Oslo Accords. The decision was made without providing Israel with a

Urban Survival

  • Life on the Ragged Edge
    The very first peek at the market this morning showed the futures were up a tad…but after seeing the Dow bleed off 74 points Thursday, and the S&P losing 9, Peoplenomics readers will appreciate why in my personal trading system … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Friday at the WuJo
    OK, time to roll up our sleeves for the last time this week, and get into some serious WuJo stuff.  But at foreplay, did you happen to notice, writes Ssygman, that a record number of people were killed by falling … Continue reading →
  • Wednesday’s Key Reversal
    As I reported at the open yesterday for Peoplenomics readers, the stock market was right at the juncture where I’d be forced to go long…despite my natural bearish nature, but that the decision wouldn’t be final until and unless the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With More Grounded Humans
    Reader Doug kicks on this morning’s discussion of how Life can be improved upon…picking up on our discussion of sleeping oriented north-south instead of east-west:   “Hi George,     Your north-south, turn-off-wifi discussion is ripe to edge into earthing: Ea ...
  • Rabid Rally, New Highs Ahead?
    The possibilities that we talked about with Peoplenomics readers seems to be shaping up.  I mean, other than the end of the world, there is a kind of muddle-through path ahead into 2013 once we get past the current round … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Yellowstone Wolves Killed
    Matt Skoglund, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana   Several wolves from Yellowstone National Park have been killed in wolf-hunts in the Northern Rockies this fall. Of the wolves killed, many wore radio collars, which researcher ...
  • Court Kills Zombie Power Plant Case
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. How do you kill a zombie power plant lawsuit?  It’s easier than shooting it in the head.  You just grant the motions to dismiss.  That’s what ...
  • Costly Oil Subsidies Drag Us Down; Clean Energ ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City In the prolonged showdown over the fiscal cliff, Democrats and Republicans claim to agree on two goals – reducing the deficit, and doing so in a way that builds a stronger economy in the long run ...
  • See this movie. Then act on it.
    John Steelman, Climate Program Manager, New York Last night I saw a truly amazing cinematic event, the new documentary film, Chasing Ice, which chronicles acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog’s heroic multi-year effort to capture t ...
  • Fossil Fuel Polluters Urge EPA to Break Law, L ...
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. And ye shall know them by their desperation. Lobbyists for oil, coal and dirty power companies have mounted a desperate, last-minute campaign to stop EPA Administrator Lisa Jack ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, December 12, 2012: Raton, New Mexico: A police officer has resigned following a recent gathering at his home that allegedly involved underage drinking. http://ow.ly/g16G5 Oakland, California: A college instructor … Continue ...
  • Woman Tasered Outside Apple Store; Police Say ...
    More here.Woman Tasered Outside Apple Store; Police Say “Routine” Call is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, December 11, 2012: Charleston County, South Carolina: A lawsuit has been filed against the sheriff’s office and three deputies that alleges the use of excessive force in a traffic … Continue reading →National Pol ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, December 8 to Monday, December 10, 2012: Woodland Park, New Jersey: A suspended police officer has been indicted on charges of attempted aggravated sexual assault, attempted sexual assault, luring … Continue reading → ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, December 7, 2012: Lawrence, Indiana: A police officer is facing criminal charges. He as been accused of using excessive force during an arrest. ow.ly/fVhLe Hurricane, West Virginia: A man … Continue reading →National Pol ...

Total Collapse

  • Russian Warships Return From Gaza
    Russian warships are returning from the coast of Gaza to their home ports in the Black Sea, the country’s Defense Ministry reported Saturday. The combat ships include the missile cruiser Moskva, the patrol ship Smetliviy, large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov. They were heading off Somal ...
  • Iranian Warships Dock Again in Sudan
    Two Iranian navy warships arrived Saturday morning in Port Sudan, in the second such visit to Sudan within two months, eyewitnesses and officials said. “These visits by Iranian navy warships to Sudan come in the framework of routine exercises by navy forces of friendly nations,” Col. ...
  • Egypt’s President Morsi to allow military to a ...
    A decree authorising the armed forces to arrest civilians — a right previously reserved for police officers alone — will soon be issued by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, reported state-owned Al-Ahram daily Friday. The decree would be in effect until a constitution is approved and parliamentar ...
  • US planned one big nuclear blast for mankind
    The US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War. In an exclusive interview with The Observer, Dr Leonard Reiffel, 73, the physicist who fronted the project in the late Fifties at the US military-back ...
  • U.S. warships moving to monitor North Korea’s ...
    The United States is shifting warships into position to track and possibly defend against a planned North Korean rocket launch while urging Pyongyang to cancel its second such attempt this year, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command said on Thursday. Admiral Samuel Locklear, who commands U.S. for ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Maps for iOS is final ...
    Google has finally released a Maps app for iOS, Last.fm is killing off most of its Radio services, and John McAfee lands in the USA. It’s all in today’s Daily... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Internet Explorer vuln ...
    On today’s Daily Dose catch the latest in browser vulnerabilities, slot games, and filtered posts. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web.... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Android patent deals, ...
    Surface production ramps up, Amazon changes its shipping dates, Android deals abound, and Apple delays Microsoft’s plans. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google pulls Motorola out of ...
    Motorola Mobility is closing down its Korean operations, HBO gets a new CTO whose pedigree will encourage those looking for improved online offerings from the broadcaster, and Twitter makes an... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Bye-bye free Google Apps, th ...
    Google Apps will no longer be offered for free, Amazon’s Kindle Store comes to Canada, YouTube new gets subscription-focused features and Foursquare lets businesses add events to their listings. It’s... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Solar research funding is just passing the buck
    December 13 2012 Martin Ferguson's announcement this morning for $83 million for solar energy research is a diversion from actually building large solar, according to Matthew Wright from the climate and energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “While Australia is limiting its large-scale sola ...
  • Why are we buying insurance from power companies?
    By Richard Keech Much has been said in the discussion about the introduction of smart meters. According to Michael West in the Sydney Morning Herald, “smart meters and ‘flexible pricing’ merely shift the business risk from the company to the consumer”. This entirely misses the point that shield ...
  • BZE 2011-12 Annual Report now available
    BZE's Annual Report for the financial year 2011-12 (and a bit beyond) is now available. You can download it here. A big well done to volunteers Liem and Robin for their work in putting it together! (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopp ...
  • High praise for Port Augusta solar hub plan at ...
    A PLAN to transform Port Augusta into a green energy hub has been lauded at the Civic Trust's annual Awards and Brickbats ceremony. However, the State Government's axing of heritage advisory services in its May Budget is the stand-out among this year's brickbats. The Civic Trust a public t ...
  • CSG leaks' carbon liability could end the industry
    Media release 19/11/2012 Coal-seam gas (CSG) developers have been massively understating their carbon tax liability, throwing the whole future of the industry into question, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Researchers at Southern Cross Univers ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Children's Christmas books published by Harper ...
    Fancy Nancy’s Splendiferous Christmas and other children's books sold by publisher HarperCollins show traces of rainforest fiber and are therefore linked to deforestation in Indonesia, says the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), an environmental activist group.
  • Cutting through the rhetoric on palm oil produ ...
    Palm oil is widely acknowledged as one of the most important drivers of deforestation and forest diminishment in Southeast Asia. Conversion of forests and peatlands for oil palm plantations is both a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions and a major threat to biodiversity — one st ...
  • Rainforests teem with insects, most of which a ...
    Researchers in Panama have published the results of the most comprehensive survey of arthropods in a small area of tropical rainforest. At a high level, the findings surprise no one: the Panamanian rainforest is full of insects, spiders, and crustaceans. Yet the results also show how little is k ...
  • New species of cute, but venomous, primate dis ...
    Researchers have described a new species of slow loris, a type of primate that is imperiled by the pet trade.
  • Most Indonesians aware of climate change, but ...
    Nearly 90 percent of Indonesians in East Kalimantan and Central Java are aware of climate change, reports a study published in Nature Climate Change.

Sierra Express

  • Photo News – Watching developments in Sierra Leone
    His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma seems to have the Midas touch and whenever it comes to developmental drives, whatever he touches turns into gold as in the case of Wilkinson Road and various other road networks across the country.   (Photo: Solar street lights illuminate Wilkin ...
  • Birthday greetings go out to MallayDumbuya
    Birthday greetings go out to Mallay Dumbuya (in photo) of 8 Sumaila Town, Freetown and of Sierra Express Media.  As you celebrate your natal day, wishes of a long-life, good health, God’s richest blessings and all the good things that you wish for you be yours. May you live long to celebrate man ...
  • No Accommodation for 758 Pupils
    “With 758 SSS1 Candidates at the Sierra Leone Int. Mission School with limited space to accommodate them is a great challenge,” said the SSS principal Mr. Lionel S. Kanu. According to Mr. Lionel S. Kanu the Sierra Leone Int. Mission School (SLIMS) located at 24 Momoh Lane, Old Wharf, Wellington, ...
  • Unprofessional Conduct… Lawyers Draw Dagger in ...
    On Monday the 10th it was indeed a shock at the Magistrate Court No3 presided over by Magistrate Bonkole Shyllon when two lawyers namely Defence Lawyer Sahid Sesay and prosecuting Lawyer Julian Cole turned the court into a war zone. The two legal practitioners rained insults at each other which ...
  • Business woman clinches Airtel’s Le 20 million ...
    Airtel’s 4040 SMS trivia promotion has ended with Mrs. Gloria June Olu Collier (in photo) with mobile number 076 600 944 emerging as winner of Le 2o million. At a press conference at their head office in Freetown on the 12th December, Commercial Director Keith Tukei congratulated Madam Collier s ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Farmers to continue selling raw milk
    Farmers will be allowed to continue selling raw milk at the gate, Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson has announced.Consultation carried out by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) on possible changes to rules for raw drinking...
  • Fonterra boosts forecast payout
    Fonterra has revised its forecast payout range for the 2012/13 season to $5.90-$6 per kg of milksolids, up 25c per kg compared with the previous forecast, reflecting a recovery in dairy prices that has taken place since May.The...
  • Fonterra hikes payment forecast
    Fonterra , which raised $525 million through a unit trust for external investors last month, has hiked its forecast payment to farmers and expects to see more gains in global dairy prices next year. The dairy cooperative increased...
  • Fonterra hunts for new HQ
    The world's largest global milk processor and dairy exporter wants to move into New Zealand's best new building in four years, in a $100 million-plus boost for the construction sector.Theo Spierings, Fonterra's chief executive,...
  • Fonterra look to expand with new milk powder plant
    Fonterra said it was looking to expand its milk processing capacity in the lower North Island by building a new milk powder plant at its Pahiatua site.Fonterra, which last week officially opened a new $500 million factory at Darfield,...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Friday Funnies: Right to Work
  • Brickbat: Dirty Laundry
    The Great Neck, New York, village board has banned people from hanging laundry to dry in their front yards. Violators face a $1,000 fine and up to 15 days in jail.
  • Ravi Shankar: The Hippie Hater
    The death of the Indian sitar maestro, Ravi Shankar (and the illegitimate dad of singer Norah Jones) earlier this week at the ripe age of 92 is no doubt a huge loss for the Woodstock generation. But to Shankar that generation was dead a long time ago. He might have been an icon of ...
  • Latest News in California’s Skill at Revenue P ...
    As noted earlier today at Reason 24/7, California failed terribly at projecting its November tax revenue. Income tax and corporate tax were both down from predictions. Altogether revenue was down $806 million from what the state projected, a 10.8 percent drop. Total tax revenue is ...
  • Federal Arrests of Pot Smokers Are Not the Rea ...
    The letter that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has sent to drug czar Gil Kerlikowske regarding marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington, noted earlier today by Mike Riggs, is encouraging insofar as it indicates that a prominent senator of the pr ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • In the ongoing mythology vs. reality wars…
    An entry by several NBER members and Sumit Agarwal on the mythology side, countered by Barry Ritholtz on the reality side: There are two major, critical questions that show up in the literature surrounding the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The first question is how much compliance with ...
  • In the ongoing mythology vs. reality wars…
    An entry by several NBER members and Sumit Agarwal on the mythology side, countered by Barry Ritholtz on the reality side: There are two major, critical questions that show up in the literature surrounding the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The first question is how much compliance with ...
  • Florida, where magical things happen
    Richard Luscombe, The Guardian: The scale of abuse at a notorious youth residential school in Florida has been laid bare with the release of a report by investigators who say they have evidence of almost 100 deaths at the institution. Investigators say they believe more graves are yet to be unco ...
  • Florida, where magical things happen
    Richard Luscombe, The Guardian: The scale of abuse at a notorious youth residential school in Florida has been laid bare with the release of a report by investigators who say they have evidence of almost 100 deaths at the institution. Investigators say they believe more graves are yet to be unco ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Life on Mars?
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  • Marijuana Legalization is Not Enough! Envision ...
    Pot-smokers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your pipe dreams. Marijuana legalization is a beginning, not an end. When residents of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize the adult use of cannabis, it felt like a momentary rush of sobriety in a country dazed by decade ...
  • This Week in Psychedelics
      Washington and Colorado marijuana legalization laws go into effect, former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter speak out against the global drug war in a new documentary, and the UN General Assembly plans a Special Session on drug policy in this week's psychedelic news. & ...
  • Indigenous Wisdom
    Shift Long Beach and The Evolver Network present Change of Ages, a multimedia, interactive event exploring the end of the Mayan long-count calendar, and the significance of indigenous knowledge and culture in a time of transition. Thursday December 20th, 2012  6-10pm  The Bungalow Art C ...
  • A Healing Vision for December 2012
    With the end of the Mayan calendar now upon us, I would like to offer some thoughts regarding where we have been, where we are going, and what this may all mean for our present lives and the future of humankind. The more aware we are about the choices we make, the less likely we will contribut ...

Desertification

  • Critics Brand Climate Talks Another Lost Oppor ...
    Rich countries came to the U.N. climate talks in Doha intent on delaying needed action on climate change for another three years and a still to be hammered out new global treaty. This delay will be extraordinarily expensive and risky. Every year that fossil fuel emissions fail to decline adds to ...
  • Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts ...
    The United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without financial commitments between 2013 and 2015. “This an incredibly weak deal,” said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a coalit ...
  • A Hotter World Is a Hungry World
    Food prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18, scientists and activists say. Carbon emissions are already disrupting the world&# ...
  • An Empty Table at Doha Climate Talks
    United Nations climate talks are on the edge of collapse Thursday, according to a coalition of civil society and representatives from half of the world’s countries. Once again, rich industrialised nations are putting nothing on the table in terms of increased emissions cuts and financial s ...
  • A Storm Brews in Doha
    While the Philippines copes with the aftermath of powerful super-typhoon Bopha, which killed more than 300 people this week, tempers flared at the U.N. climate summit here. Developing countries are angry the U.S. and European Union and other rich industrialised countries refuse to increase their ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Disbarred Manitoba Lawyer Robert Fisher
    The following disciplinary notice has been edited in terms of formatting. THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA NOTICE OF DISBARMENT TAKE NOTICE that by resolution of a Panel of the Discipline Committee of The Law Society of Manitoba, ROBERT LEWIS FISHER was fou ...
  • "The Oppressive State"
    @VicPopuli Preserving a free State is an obligation. Keeping/bearing arms to fulfill obligation is a right. Secede from the oppressive State by Bryan Runnels As originally posted on: Bryan Runnels (scythewieldor) on Twitter December 7, 2012
  • "Your President"
  • Akaash Maharaj: Political Corruption is a Crim ...
    My article in the Globe and Mail: Canadians now have a lower opinion of their own government's commitment to public integrity than do Pakistanis, Iraqis, or Nigerians... Parliamentarians are the watchdogs of democracy, and it is tragic that so many citizens perceive our watchdogs as having mu ...
  • Manitoba Lawyer Terry Beley
    The following disciplinary case summary has been edited in terms of its formatting. THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA DISCIPLINE CASE DIGEST ____________________ Case 11- 02 Member: Terry Peter Beley Jurisdiction: Winnipeg, Manitoba Called to the Bar: June 30, 1977 Particulars ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Russia urges political solution in Syria
    Russia has once again reiterated its stance on Syria, highlighting that there is no alternative to a political solution to resolve the unrest in the Arab state.
  • Israeli forces attack Reuters cameramen
    Israeli forces have assaulted two cameramen working for Reuters news agency in the occupied West bank, forcing them to strip on the street.
  • Israel FM indicted on breach of trust
    Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman has been indicted on breach of trust and fraud, charges that trigger calls for his resignation ahead of the upcoming elections.
  • Bomb attack kills 8 near Syrian capital
    At least eight people, mostly women and children, have been killed in a bomb attack near the Syrian capital city of Damascus, the state media report.
  • Militants in Syria may kill journalist
    Militants in Syria have threatened to execute a kidnapped Ukrainian journalist if their demand for a USD-50-million ransom is not met.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • I am a marathoner.
    Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...
  • A Post-Sandy Report from Far Rockaway
    Hello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]
  • Five Questions for SPS Veterans
    To all of the veterans, active troops, and military families in the SPS community, we thank you! Returning home and making higher education a goal is not always easy.  We asked alum Armando Vega, and current student Enrique Diaz to share some of their thoughts on being student veterans. 1. What ...
  • American Red Cross Volunteer
    Hello friends, Some of you know already that I volunteered at a Red Cross shelter on Long Island as part of the disaster relief efforts after the Hurricane Sandy (Monday, 10/29/2012). I’d like to share some of these experiences with you. You would hardly believe the pace of work at these p ...
  • A Message From Dean Mogulescu
    To the students, faculty, and staff of the SPS community: Much of this week we have been reaching out and hearing back. The stories of lives disrupted make it impossible to deny the enormous impact of the storm, even as it feels impossible to reckon fully with that impact. But we have also been ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Iranian Bomb Graph Appears Adapted from One on ...
    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 2009 and ava ...
  • War Widows Struggle in a ‘Man’s World’
    Sita Tamang’s husband went missing sometime in 2004, two years before Nepal’s civil war came to an end. A native of Dharan, a town about 600 kilometres southeast of Kathmandu, Tamang waited seven years after his disappearance before she tried to claim compensation offered by the government after ...
  • Saving Tanzania’s Poorest Children
    Half asleep, Anuary lies exhausted on his bed in Amana Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital. His mother, Mariam Saidi, sits on the edge of his mattress, staring blankly out of the window. Every now and then, she turns to wipe her 18-month-old son’s forehead. When she brought Anuary to t ...
  • Argentina Making Strides in Protection of Ocea ...
    Argentina is creating protected marine areas at a rate of knots. In the last 10 years, the preservation of saltwater areas has expanded, and for the first time an Atlantic ocean zone is being added to the list. In late November, Congress approved the creation of two coastal parks in ocean waters ...
  • Bolivia’s Tapiete People – a Culture in the Ha ...
    Three and a half hours away from the nearest town along a dirt road, 38 families are struggling to preserve their land, customs and language in Bolivia’s Gran Chaco region. They are the Tapiete Indians, who refuse to disappear. In this community of makeshift shacks in a clearing in the forest al ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.N. agency reports progress in Iran nuclear talks
    Summary: Talks between the U.N atomic agency and Iran are expected to lead to a deal next month on how to conduct an investigation into Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, the chief U.N. inspector said after returning from Tehran on Friday. source: Reutersread more
  • Iranian Bomb Graph Appears Adapted from One on ...
    Summary: WASHINGTON, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) - 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 journ ...
  • US Officially Recognizes the unrepresentative ...
    Summary: The Coalition is supposed to be made up of Syrian dissidents and opposition groups from across the spectrum. But it is largely another exile group without strong roots inside the country, and vehemently rejected by the armed rebel groups fighting the Assad regime on the ground in Syr ...
  • The Impact of Sanctions on Iranian Society and ...
    Summary: Economic sanctions are not only shattering the lives of the Iranian people but also strangling Iran’s social and cultural development. Iran is headed for a humanitarian catastrophe unless steps are taken to avert it. source: Fair Observerread more
  • DIY graphic design of shody sources
    Summary: The diagram leaked to the Associated Press this week is nothing more than either shoddy sources or shoddy science. In either case, the world can keep calm and carry on. source: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website.read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Origins of Life" --Radical New Theory Say ...
                     A radical new approach to the question of life's origin has been proposed by two Arizona State University scientists that attempts to dramatically redefine the problem. The researchers – Paul Davies, an ASU Regents' Professor and director of the Beyond Center for Fund ...
  • Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight and Tomorrow
                                 On the evening of 13 and the morning of 14 December, skywatchers across the world will be looking up as the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak, in potentially one of the best night sky events of the year. At its peak and in a clear, dark sky tens of 's ...
  • Image of the Day --NASA Finds Vast River Syste ...
                   Titan has been considered a “unique world in the solar system” since 1908 when, the Spanish astronomer, José Comas y Solá, discovered that it had an atmosphere, something non-existent on other moons. It seems perfectly appropriate that one of the prime candidates for li ...
  • "Black Hole Engines of the Universe" --New Bre ...
                     Black holes are surrounded by many mysteries, but now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have come up with new groundbreaking theories that can explain several of their properties. The research shows that black holes have properties that resemble ...
  • Image of the Day: Aboriginal Cave Art --Rapid ...
                   Researchers from The University of Queensland, Central Queensland University and Wollongong University made the discovery while investigating rapid climate change and its catastrophic impacts in the remote Kimberley region of northwest Australia. Their findings were publi ...

Natural News

  • Why Himalayan Salt is the perfect storable bar ...
    Most people vastly underestimate the amount of salt they will need in a survival scenario. This happens because all our food is pre-salted right now by food manufacturers. So we don't think we need extra salt. But in the absence of processed, pre-salted food, an individual's...
  • Fit kids do better academically
    Middle school students who are more physically fit get better grades and perform better on standardized tests, according to a study conducted by researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) and published in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. According...
  • Three simple practices to lengthen your life
    (NaturalNews)Following are three powerful practices from ancient oriental medicine that will serve your health and well-being. 1. THE HUMAN BODY POSSESSES A PROFOUND AND POWERFUL REGENERATIVE CHEMISTRY. PRESUME THAT POWER UNDER ALL CONDITIONS Time and time a ...
  • Many women clueless about healthy weight gain ...
    Most women do not know how much weight they are supposed to gain during pregnancy, according to a study published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. "Pregnancy is an important time that influences being overweight in both mothers...
  • Crowds gather in downtown Seattle to celebrate ...
    Washington state made more history on December 6 when it became the first American state to officially legalize the recreational use of marijuana. As reported by Reuters, Initiative 502 became law at the stroke of midnight that day, prompting hundreds of excited Washingtonians...

Threat Level

  • America Demands: Obama, Build Us a Death Star
    A petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets ...
  • State Secrets Front and Center in Dragnet Surv ...
    A federal judge on Friday is to hold the first hearing following an appellate court's decision reinstating allegations the government is siphoning Americans' communications from telecoms to the National Security Agency without warrants. The new judge on the case, U.S. ...
  • FBI Memo: Hackers Breached Heating System via ...
    Hackers broke into the industrial control system of a New Jersey air conditioning company earlier this year, using a backdoor vulnerability in the system, according to an FBI memo made public this week.
  • ‘Non-Harmful’ Phone Spoofing OK, Appeals Court ...
    A federal appeals court is nullifying a Mississippi law that forbids phone spoofing of any type, ruling that Congress has authorized so-called "non-harmful" spoofing.
  • Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability ...
    In a secret government agreement granted without approval from lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently granted the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Texas Cuts to Family Planning Triple State Exp ...
    When a federal judge ruled in August that Texas can withhold millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics, Governor Rick Perry proclaimed it a "win for Texas women." As it turns out, Perry's crusade against Planned Parenthood isn't a win for either the women of ...
  • Lindsey Graham Promises Global "Financial Coll ...
    It's bad enough that obstructionist Republicans in Congress have shattered the record for filibusters, blocked President Obama's judicial at an unprecedented rate and stonewalled economy-boosting legislation like the American Jobs Act. Now for the second time in as many years, extortionist GOP ...
  • CBS Misleads Small Businesses about Fiscal Cliff
    Among the very worst practices of American broadcast news is the "focus group of one." That is, reporters casually substitute the tale of a single person, company or community for actual analysis of a complex issue. And so it was Sunday, when CBS Evening News profiled Rod Hudson of Quicksilver ...
  • Republicans Mugged by Reality on Election Day
    For Democrats, the 2012 presidential campaign has produced some delicious ironies. For starters, Mitt Romney's share of the final vote will come in at a memorable 47 percent, the same figure he used to disparage half the electorate as self-described "victims" bought off by "free stuff" and "gif ...
  • 10 Things Republicans Don't Want You to Know A ...
    This week, former President Bill Clinton urged calm in the face of Washington's stand-off over the so-called fiscal cliff. "They are moving toward a deal," Clinton assured Americans, suggesting that the current posturing by both parties is "just a Kabuki dance." Unfortunately, Republicans have ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Saturn’s Moon Titan, Large River Valley Discov ...
    NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has just discovered and imaged a large river valley on Saturn’s moon Titan. The river is more than 200 miles long, spanning from its headwaters to the mouth of a large sea. This is the first time that images of a river system this large have been taken anywh ...
  • Lethal Box Jellyfish Stings Can Be Treated Wit ...
    The venom from arguably the most venomous animal in the world, the box jellyfish, can be significantly slowed down simply by administering zinc, new research has found. The Chironex species of box jellyfish is one of the most venomous animals in the world, it is capable of very rapidly killing a ...
  • Big Tsunami Changed Caribbean Ecosystem 3,300 ...
    A new analysis of sediments from the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean makes a convincing case for a tsunami dating back 3,300 years, one that had a massive impact on the island’s ecosystem. Scientists studied sediments that suggested the tsunami had entirely changed the coastal ecosystem ...
  • Stronger Snowfall Increases Ice Loss on Antarctica
    Here’s one of those science stories that seem to make no sense on the surface: according to new research Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) increased snowfall over Antarctica as a result of climate change is actually countered by an increase in ice-flow to the ocean, up to ...
  • NASA Releases Amazing Animation of Earth At Ni ...
    The last two years have been banner ones for high-resolution imaging of the Earth. And as remarkable as these images are, they still (non-moving) images — photographs of but one moment in time (or a single, composite image of several moments). But just last week, at the annual American Geo ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC I don't advocate violence, but Steve Crowder, the jerk from Fox who got punched in the head a couple of days ago earned a hell of a lot worse beating than he got, and the Michigan State Police haven't come right out and said they agree with me, but it's implied. Don't let the door hit ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Idaho's Otter bucks the GOP trend. The Governor of the largely rural, underserved and elderly state announced on Tuesday that he will set up a state insurance exchange, in the interest of the residents - and hospitals in the state. Meanwhile, in Missouri...Governor Nixon is pushing fo ...
  • Who's Calling Who a "Partisan Hack?"
    By @TedFrier Recently a friend called me a "partisan hack" unfit to have a debate with because I rejected the Fox News party line that the "terrorist" attack on our Benghazi consulate was a scandal of epic, Watergate-like proportions.   He also found it unconscionable that rather than findi ...
  • What REALLY Happened To Your Twinkies? (Redux)
    Well, the wind blew and the shit flew and Hostess lasted but a week or two.  The ink wasn't even dry on the election certifications before Hostess... or what remained of Hostess after it had been picked clean by private equity companies and hedge fund investors... folded with the right usin ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC What could possibly go wrong? The GOP is on a mission to figure out "what went wrong" in November, and they are tasking the same people who had them convinced that victory was inevitable - Ari Fleisher and Henry Barbour, two of the more prominent so-called "poll truthers" - to find th ...

Care 2

  • KKK Advertising in South County Target Parking Lot
    "Law-abiding citizens don't have anything to fear from the Klan," Ancona said, adding that if he saw a car being broken into, he would report the issue to police whether or not the car was owned by a white person. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!   ...
  • 121212: The Concert for Sandy Relief: Concert ...
    Paul McCartney teams with Nirvana survivors for new song and Michael Stipe duets with Chris Martin on "Losing My Religion" as perhaps the greatest concert lineup of the new century comes together to help victims of the storm of the century Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture &n ...
  • Iron Age Feast Found in England
    Remnants of an Iron-Age feast, including cattle skulls and 13 cauldrons, have been unearthed in Chiseldon, United Kingdom, according to a report in the latest British Archaeology The discovery marks the largest grouping of early cauldrons ever found Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Te ...
  • 'Smaller piece of the pie' for workers worldwi ...
    Workers are getting a smaller piece of the pie in booming China and economically stressed Europe alike, the United Nations labor agency said Friday, chalking up the trend to technological strides, globalization and the weakening muscle of labor unions. Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |&n ...
  • Turkey Jails More Journalists Than Any Other C ...
    With 49 journalists imprisoned for their work, according to CPJ's annual worldwide prison census, released today, Turkey holds more individuals behind bars than Iran (45), China (32), or Eritrea (28). This number is down from 61. Submitted by Rob and Jay B. to World  |   Note-it ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Rice Pulls Plug on Herself
    Damn. Am I disappointed. I was so hoping that Rice would stick it out and replace Hillary. Why? Susan Rice, while a smart, accomplished person, is as smooth as sandpaper toliet tissue in a cactus outhouse. She would have been a disaster at State. Sadly, she has now taken herself out of considera ...
  • Syrian Disaster Brewing
    The history of the United States meddling in the affairs of other countries is long and tawdry. We had success in some places, such as Greece, where we helped stem the tide of Communism. But the record in other places–e.g., Iran, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt–is tarnished at best ...
  • You Can’t Change Human Nature
    The fundamental difference between genuine conservatives and genuine liberals is this–liberals believe they can make people do what they, the liberals, conceive as the right thing by passing laws and imposing sanctions. See, liberals know what is best for others and do not trust people to ...
  • Mob Protests in Lansing, Michigan Today
    “Michigan Right-To-Work Union protest mob attacks tent in Lansing” I was just watching “The Five” on Fox, and wanted to see what all the “ruckus” was about. Bob Beckel pointed out that Michigan ranks 46th of the 50 states in unemployment (currently 9.1%). Beck ...
  • Marjuana: Legal or Not? (open thread)
    I’ve usually considered myself “libertarian” in most regards. I used to think that it was alright if people wanted to smoke pot. “Let people make their own choice,” I used to think. However, I have changed my position and feel strongly that marijuana should be tight ...

Futurismic

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

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Mountaintop Removal

  • Explo Systems faced scrutiny before Camp Minde ...
    Explo Systems faced scrutiny before Camp Minden scare Shreveport Times The company also came under scrutiny in West Virginia, where it was using the old military explosive tetryl in mountaintop removal mining for Catenary Coal Co. in 2006 and 2007, according to documents reviewed by The Associat ...
  • I'm proud of Livonia - The Livingston County News
    I'm proud of Livonia The Livingston County News Livonia's about the same size as the place I grew up in Southwestern Virginia, and has a lot of the same character — minus the coal trucks belching diesel fumes or the practice of mountaintop removal to extract coal from deep underground de ...
  • Concert for Sandy Relief - Current TV
    Concert for Sandy Relief Current TV CHASE also supports mountaintop removal and coal plants through their financing... Coal=Sandy... How ironic. My prayers are with those in the Rockaways, Staten Island, Brooklyn and NJ who still live in 3rd world squalor and we will come back. But we ...
  • The Blame Game: The Death of Coal in the U.S. ...
    The Blame Game: The Death of Coal in the U.S. Energy Digital Mining jobs have dwindled for 40 years in the king-of-coal state, thanks to competition from Wyoming's vast Powder River Basin and the advent of mountaintop-removal mining, requiring fewer miners to go underground. What's more, ...
  • Underground Coal Gasification: A Trend Worth W ...
    Forbes Underground Coal Gasification: A Trend Worth Watching Forbes 2) it has a lower environmental footprint, as it does not involve strip mining or mountaintop removal. 3) it leaves coal's most toxic elements – mercury, arsenic, and lead – largely underground. 4) it may create a low-carbon ...

Memeorandum

  • Report: Hagel likely top White House pick for ...
    Carlo Muñoz / The Hill: Report: Hagel likely top White House pick for Department of Defense chief  —  Former Nebraska Republican senator and Vietnam veteran Chuck Hagel has taken the top spot on the Obama administration's shortlist of candidates to replace Defense Secreta ...
  • Virginia GOP Official Calls Union Members 'Ter ...
    Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress: Virginia GOP Official Calls Union Members ‘Terrorists’  —  Union workers who were protesting the passage of so-called “right-to-work” laws outside the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan are “terrorists,” accordi ...
  • In truth, Ravi Shankar couldn't stand the hipp ...
    Mick Brown / Telegraph: In truth, Ravi Shankar couldn't stand the hippies  —  The godfather of world music had little time for audiences who misunderstood his art  —  Ravi Shankar always displayed a slightly ambivalent attitude to the extraordinary enthusiasm wit ...
  • Promise vs. Reality in Newark on Mayor's Watch ...
    Kate Zernike / New York Times: Promise vs. Reality in Newark on Mayor's Watch  —  NEWARK — When snow blanketed this city two Christmases ago, Mayor Cory A. Booker was celebrated around the nation for personally shoveling out residents who had appealed for help on Twitter.& ...
  • Only 15 States Opt to Run Obamacare Exchanges ...
    David Morgan / CNBC: Only 15 States Opt to Run Obamacare Exchanges  —  Only 15 states have told the federal government they plan to operate health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's reform law, leaving Washington with the daunting task of creating online marketpl ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • 有机磷农药&#2148 ...
    有机磷农药如今是世界上使用最广泛的杀虫剂，但研究证实，少量接触有机磷农药可 ...
  • 负责任的股&#1999 ...
    2008年金融危机使得金融业声名扫地。而全社会对投资的社会责任和生态责任的诉求再&#27 ...
  • 尼克•罗宾&#26031 ...
    汇丰银行气候变化卓越中心主任 尼克•罗宾斯为我们开出了他的可持续投资推荐书&#21 ...
  • 迁徙候鸟被&#2643 ...
    候鸟栖息地大片消亡，迁徙的鸟类又被成批猎杀，人类成为这些鸟儿的生存天敌。谁 ...
  • 应对气候变&#2127 ...
    从各国权益出发解决气候变化问题是推动美、中等国之间错综复杂的气候谈判向前迈 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Abortion Deaths Wildly Underestimated
     By now, many have heard the name of Savita Halappanavar, whose death in a Galway hospital this fall was a chilling reminder of how abortion bans can be deadly.That case had the benefit of a vocal and angry person to speak on the dead woman’s behalf — her husband, Praveen. H ...
  • How Bernie Sanders’ Tax Plan Can Close the Hug ...
     Last week I argued that the debate over taxes—a tussle at the heart of the current “fiscal cliff” discussions—is actually one about racial justice. Since questions of right and wrong must ultimately become about action, what America needs is a new tax pol ...
  • Matt Taibbi: You Can Go to Prison for Pot, Whi ...
    The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda. Despite evidence of wrongdoing, the U.S. Department of Justice has allowed the bank to avoid prosecution and pay a $1.9 billion fine. No top H ...
  • 6 Ways Retailers Trick You Into Buying More Sh*t
    Happy holidays! Tis the season for family togetherness, holiday parties, cold weather, and for the majority of us, shopping. So this is a good time of year to take a look at why we buy what we buy, and how stores manipulate us in order to get every dollar they can out of our pockets.Even the s ...
  • Revealed: What the Beef Industry Pumps Into Yo ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.If acclaimed authors Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Jeremy Rifkin (Beyond Beef) and John Robbins (Diet for a New America) haven’t given you enough reasons over the last century to be wary of the meat industry, the ...

Threat Level

  • America Demands: Obama, Build Us a Death Star
    A petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets ...
  • State Secrets Front and Center in Dragnet Surv ...
    A federal judge on Friday is to hold the first hearing following an appellate court's decision reinstating allegations the government is siphoning Americans' communications from telecoms to the National Security Agency without warrants. The new judge on the case, U.S. ...
  • FBI Memo: Hackers Breached Heating System via ...
    Hackers broke into the industrial control system of a New Jersey air conditioning company earlier this year, using a backdoor vulnerability in the system, according to an FBI memo made public this week.
  • ‘Non-Harmful’ Phone Spoofing OK, Appeals Court ...
    A federal appeals court is nullifying a Mississippi law that forbids phone spoofing of any type, ruling that Congress has authorized so-called "non-harmful" spoofing.
  • Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability ...
    In a secret government agreement granted without approval from lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently granted the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Butchers Choice Beef Burgers Causing E. coli I ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Loblaw Companies Ltd. are warning the public not to consume certain Butcher’s Choice Beef Burgers because this product may be contaminated with E.... Continue Reading
  • Taylor Farms Recalls Hearts of Romaine
    Taylor Farms Retail, Inc. of Salinas is initiating a precautionary recall of 110 cases of Taylor Farms Hearts of Romaine 10 oz. bags with an expiration date of 12-13-12. This... Continue Reading
  • England may stop serving burgers (minced meat) ...
    As the Daily Telegraph printed today: James Armitage, the council’s food health and safety manager, said: “This is about making sure customers are eating meat that is not a threat... Continue Reading
  • What do Martha Stewart, Hillary Clinton and Gr ...
    OK, well Bill Clinton does like to golf, and Martha, Hillary and Greg know vomit and diarrhea. According to press reports, Greg Norman has withdrawn from the Australian PGA golf... Continue Reading
  • More Nuts Recalled in Canada
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the Golden Boy brand Inshell Mixed Nuts described below because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. The... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Coda Automotive undergoes "massive lay ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/Financials, Electric Plug In Cars is reporting that there have been "massive layoffs" at California electric vehicle startup Coda Automotive. Apparently, more than 50 employees, "including a substantial part of its sales and marketing staf ...
  • Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...
  • Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost
    Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...
  • Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
  • First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • The Trials of Bradley Manning
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Pfc. Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own defense, in a preliminary hearing of his court-martial. Manning is the alleged source of the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history. He was an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, ...
  • VIDEO: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Cli ...
    As Venezuela says President Hugo Chávez has undergone successful cancer surgery in Cuba, after disclosing that his cancer had returned, we revisit a 2009 interview in which he discusses climate change and President Obama. Democracy Now! ’s Amy Goodman spoke with Chávez at the 2009 Unit ...
  • "Harvest of Empire" by Democracy Now!'s Juan G ...
    Curators at Smithsonian have included Democracy Now! co-host Juan González’s book, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America on their holiday gift guide for history lovers. This comes as the film based on his book has won an award for the best use of archival footage at the ...
  • A Carbon Tsunami in Doha
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan DOHA , Qatar—The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Delegates, press, dignitaries and the legions of low-paid, foreign ...
  • VIDEO: Voices from the Cooper Union Occupation ...
    Twelve students have barricaded themselves inside a campus building of New York City’s Cooper Union demanding the school affirm its commitment to free education. Cooper Union recently approved graduate student tuition for the first time in its 110-year history, and students fear the undergradua ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • Fiscal Cliff with Catherine Austin Fitts ~ Coa ...
    Fiscal Cliff Monday December 10, 2012 Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts offered analysis and commentary regarding the current ‘fiscal cliff’ that the United States is facing. If Congress doesn’t act, the Bush era tax cuts, and the payroll tax decrease will end on Janua ...
  • The Ultimate in Tax and Debt Collection
    By RT.com The next generation of military drones, unveiled by a leading US manufacturer, will not just carry a limited supply of rockets – but will likely be fitted with an ultra-light laser, capable of repeatedly destroying objects at the speed of light. “It would give us an unlimited magazine ...
  • Quote Du Jour
    “The number one source of bankruptcy right now in America is a bad diagnosis.” -Nora Gedgaudas
  • Transcript of Your Taxes in 2013 with Chuck Gi ...
    Transcript of Your Taxes in 2013 is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Let’s talk a little bit about the fiscal cliff and your goals. It’s very important before the end of the year. Are there going to be changes in the tax code? And again, we don’t know for sure what’s ...
  • Ravi Shankar: A Musical Ambassador
    By Ben Brumfield His music transcended trends and cultural barriers. Pandit Ravi Shankar’s life, which traversed nearly a century, ended Tuesday. The legendary sitar player, who taught Beatle George Harrison how to play the stringed instrument and brought Indian music to the West, passed a ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Sideways News

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Fabius Maximus

  • BRIC building: the future of Brazil, Russia, I ...
    Summary: Today we have a follow-up by Paul Schulte to Does corruption limit China’s growth, or pose a threat to its existence? He looks at the leading emerging nations, comparing them to the US and UK at similar point in their evolution to greatness. . Guest Post by Paul Schulte Institutional In ...
  • Lessons the Left can learn from the Right when ...
    Summary:  A trick of propagandists is giving rebuttals to theories held only by a few extremists, and ignoring the far stronger theories held by thoughtful opponents. That gives the illusion of strength while marginalizing opponents. It works only when your side dominate the media.  Which neithe ...
  • Does corruption limit China’s growth, or ...
    Summary:   Critics of China often cite its high level of corruption as a limiting factor to its growth, or a possible cause of its fall — or even disintegration. Like so many of American’s views about China, it’s false. Probably a way to diffuse awareness that a powerful rival ...
  • How do we respond to the Robot Revolution?
    Summary: The productivity of the next industrial revolution — based on semi-intelligent machines, with sensors and manipulators — will create fantastic abundance. Perhaps on a scale and nature we cannot imagine. The question is choice: how we divide the results. Here are two extreme ...
  • Does the September jump in food stamp recipien ...
    Summary:  The number of households getting food stamps tells us little about the future (ie, it’s not a leading indicator). It tells us something about the present. And reporting about it tells us much about the reporter.  America will become a stronger nation when we demand high-quality s ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • Chuck Hagel Would Be an Asset to Obama’s Natio ...
    “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” That’ ...
  • Afghanistan Weekly Reader: Officials Evade U.S ...
    Two U.S. government reports released this week paint a grim picture of security and anti-corruption efforts in Afghanistan. An investigation by the U.S. agency that oversees Afghanistan reconstruction found that Afghan officials are resisting efforts to track the billions of dollars in cash f ...
  • Top of the Morning: Syria Humanitarian Respons ...
    Top stories from the DAWNS Digest mobile app. Syrian Humanitarian Response Plan Woefully Underfunded Everyone agrees Syria is a tragedy, but donors are not ponying up. “The Syria humanitarian response remains seriously underfunded. So far, only 51 percent of the required US$348 million has been ...
  • Outgoing Top House Democrat Offers Parting Gif ...
    Congressman Howard Berman has had a distinguished career in the House of Representatives. He will leave Congress as the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee at the end of the term, having lost a tight race to a fellow Democrat in California. Congressman Berman, though, is leaving ...
  • Scuds!
    Looks as if the Syrian military has decided to launch some Scud missiles at rebel positions: Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have fired Scud missiles at rebel fighters in recent days, Obama administration officials said on Wednesday. The move represents a significant escalation ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Joe Lieberman Does Not Deserve Your Sympathy
    Joe Lieberman left the Senate for the last time today, and the Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank was there to witness his lonely departure. For Milbank, Senate Democrats’ clear disdain for the Connecticut senator is further evidence of the polarization and incivility that mark modern Washington: A ...
  • Susan Rice Withdraws
    After weeks of attacks from Senate Republicans, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has withdrawn herself from consideration for Secretary of State. Here’s a portion of her letter to President Obama: I am highly honored to be considered by you for appointment as Secretary of State. I am fully confident ...
  • Things Change
    Liberals often joke about how all it takes is one backbench Democratic member of Congress looking at another one funny to produce a "Dems in Disarray!" headline. But today the Republicans truly are in disarray. They just got whupped in a presidential election; they can't quite seem to figure ou ...
  • Full Employment is the Best Deficit Reduction Plan
    Despite the fact that Democrats have already agreed to large spending cuts, the Republican position continues to be that further reductions are needed, despite the fact that spending on social programs has already been cut to the bone. The problem, of course, is that there just isn’t much money ...
  • The Federal Reserve Gets Down to Business
    At a press conference in April 2012, New York Times reporter Binyamin Appelbaum asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to respond to criticism that he wasn’t doing enough to bring down unemployment. Bernanke responded: “[T]he question is: Does it make sense to actively seek a higher inflat ...

Buzzflash

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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Slo-Mo Slinkies
    I’ve mentioned this bizarre-seeming effect in which a Slinky seems to defy gravity. It doesn’t, of course, it just takes a finite time for the “fact” that the top is no longer supported to reach the bottom and the whole spring to hit the deck. Researcher discusses it in t ...
  • Does smarter mean happier?
    If you’re smarter than other people it won’t make you personally happier but the brightest nations score high on measures of happiness compared to countries with lower intellectual ranking, according to a study by Ruut Veenhoven of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands an ...
  • Hyperemesis gravidarum
    Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy that is different from the more common nausea and vomiting known as morning sickness. The term hyperemesis meaning “excessive vomiting” from the Greek hyper meaning above and beyond and emesis, vomiting, ...
  • Slave to the circadian rhythm
    Writing in JACS recently, chemists at Yale University have reported details of the active site in the pigment molecule melanopsin. Melanopsin is present in the eye, but is not involved in vision. Instead it responds to light that enters the eye and reaches neurones (ganglions) deep within the re ...
  • Voyager hits magnetic highway on its way to th ...
    NASA’s venerable spacecraft, Voyager 1, has entered the farthest reaches of our solar system ahead of hitting interstellar space. Scientists refer to this new region as a magnetic highway for charged particles because our Sun’s magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magne ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Kucinich: Throw out the NDAA, End the Wars and ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement on the NDAA: “Today, this House will send the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to conference. Contrary to its title, the bill does not provide for the protection of the American people. It expands war. It fu ...
  • Congressional Committee Debates Drone Policy
    The House Judiciary Committee today conducted an overdue discussion about the United States policy of using drones to target and kill American citizens and others overseas. The policy has come under criticism for killing innocent civilians and inciting radicalization. The Committee discussed H. ...
  • Levi’s Bows to Global People Power: Bans Toxic ...
    December 13, 2012 – The world’s largest denim brand, Levi’s, today committed to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout its entire supply chain and products by 2020, following public pressure in response to Greenpeace’s global Detox campaign.read more
  • Lawsuit Targets $3 Billion in U.S. Funding for ...
    Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s nearly $3 billion in financing for a massive Australian fossil fuel facility in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Construction and operation of the liquefied natural gas facility will threaten sea ...
  • On Budget Talks: “Close Offshore Tax Loopholes ...
    The Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of religious denominations, human rights groups and development agencies focusing on global poverty, says in a recently-released statement: “If corporations paid the $150 billion in taxes that they avoid per year through offshore tax loopholes it would ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Costly Oil Subsidies Drag Us Down; Clean Energ ...
    Peter Lehner In the prolonged showdown over the "fiscal cliff," Democrats and Republicans claim to agree on two goals – reducing the deficit, and doing so in a way that builds a stronger economy in the long run. A sensible ...
  • Michigan Adopts the ALEC Model for Diminishing ...
    John Nichols Michigan legislators did not write the so-called “right to work” legislation that they have enacted in a mad rush of anti-democratic excess.(Image: DonkeyHotey | Flickr | Creative Commons) They simply did as they we ...
  • Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the GOP Titanic
    Jeremiah Goulka Mitt Romney had hardly conceded before Republicans started fighting over where to head next.  Some Republicans -- and many Democrats -- now claim that the writing is on the wall: demography is destiny, which means the G ...
  • We Lost Michigan
    David Macaray When you examine the history of organized labor—the birth, growth, trajectory—you have to be shocked and mortified by what just happened to the great state of Michigan. They went from being one of the strongest, mo ...
  • Syria, Endgame, and Blowback
    Paul Rogers The pace of the conflict in Syria is accelerating.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • The Water Wars and Urban Sprawl of 2030
    # thefuture The year 2030 is only 17 short years away. (Wow. I can remember when it was 25 years away.) What will the world be like in 2030? According to a new " Global Trends " report from the US National Intelligence office—a deeply researched report provocative in its predictions wh ...
  • Drought revives old water wars among river states
    The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.      Officials from more than 30 states have written President Barack Obama urging him to interv ...
  • Drought revives water war
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River - to drink from their faucets, irrigate their crops and float the barges that carry billions of dollars of agricult ...
  • Drought revives old water wars among states th ...
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.
  • Drought revives old water war among river states
    The water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River — to drink from their faucets, irrigate their ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Mother Nature Is Just Getting Warmed Up: Recor ...
    We’ve had spring weather in early December — and that guarantees 2012 will be the hottest year on record for the United States. I had reported on Monday that 2012 was virtually certain to be the hottest on record thanks to the warm November and blistering early December. Now Climate ...
  • Will Keystone XL Spoil Your Holidays?
    by Tony Iallonardo, via National Wildlife Federation One of the sadder rituals in the nation’s capital is the “December surprise,” whereby the administration in power makes controversial pronouncements right around a major holiday. I’d be willing to bet all the candy canes in my stocking that th ...
  • How The Media Have Failed To Explain Negative ...
    A lot of ink and airtime have been spent on the ongoing negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” the tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to take place at the end of the year. However, according to a Media Matters report, media outlets have been much more focused on the p ...
  • MSNBC Host On Susan Rice Withdrawal: ‘A Woman ...
    MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell said this afternoon that Susan Rice’s withdrawal as a candidate for Secretary of State will not “help Republicans at all” because members of the party “forced out” a woman of color “before she was nominated.” For months now, Republicans, in an effort spearheaded by ...
  • House GOP Secretly Authorized $500,000 To Defe ...
    It has come to light that House Administration Committee Chairman Dan Lungren (R-CA) secretly approved a $500,000 increase to a contract with a private law firm to defend the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in federal court. While the increase was approved in September, neither t ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Unions Should Defy Bullshit Law From Illegitim ...
    Big deal. The election fraud party passed a hypocritical bill forcing unions to disclose everything about their spending, supposedly because union dues are tax exempt. It's harassment, pure and simple. It's also the work of a lawless bunch of thugs and thieves. To hell with 'em. The labour mo ...
  • Democracy ... harpercon style
    (The picture is just to give the ladies ... or dudes who're into that sort of thing ... some morning eye-candy.) So, let's remember how stephen harper thinks a representative parliamentary democracy/constitutional monarchy should function: 1. Elections should be decided by out-right lying to t ...
  • Bad Faith
    Kirby Cairo describes the impossibility of honest disagreement with dishonest political hacks: The problem is, however, that not all disagreements are rooted in honest differences of opinion. This is where the rightwing ideology of a man like Harper comes in. If Harper honestly believed that h ...
  • That Whole F-35 Thing
    Okay, help me out here people. What's going on? It looks like the KPMG audit is forcing the harpercon regime to "rethink" its commitment to the F-35 fighter. Seems, just like everybody said, that this was really a $40 billion (plus) expenditure and not the $15 billion it was first touted as. So ...
  • A Smoking Gun in harper's hands?
      Commenter "The Salamander" has passed along some links about a story wherein the harpercons are deliberately suppressing scientists studying diseases in salmon farms. This is all out of my balliwick, but as I understand it, the story is as follows: 1. Canada is legally obligated to info ...

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Digital Journal

  • Barack Obama talks about NHL lockout, urges th ...
    It seems unlikely the NHLs Gary Bettman or the NHLPAs Donald Fehr are in a mood to listen to an outsider when it comes to ending their CBA dispute. But if they were they might consider heeding the words of no less a figure than the U.S. president.
  • Study shows women with breast cancer at high r ...
    Researchers know that diabetes can coexist with cancer; requiring both diabetes management and cancer treatments. But a large Canada study found that 20% of women with postmenopausal breast cancer would be at high risk for Type 2 diabetes.
  • RIP Flashpoint, you were one of the best Canad ...
    The series finale of Flashpoint, airing tonight on Canada's CTV, marks a poignant end for the most compelling police drama series I've ever watched. You couldn't help but sympathize with the characters. [No spoilers in the review, don't worry, fans].
  • Rare drug resistant bacteria found in Toronto ...
    A multidrug resistant bacteria has been found in a hospital in Toronto. This may appear nothing unusual. However, the bacterium is very rare to North America and scientists have traced its origins to India.
  • High Canadian debt levels soar, Q3 hits all-ti ...
    A new report from Statistics Canada has found that consumer debt levels have hit an all-time high in the third quarter of 2012. The debt-to-disposable-income ratio stood at 164.4 percent, up from 163.3 percent in the previous quarter.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • New Information Regarding My Legal Battle
    Watch the video above to get all the latest information directly from Kevin regarding his legal battles!
  • The Flu Season Is Upon Us
    Here are a few of my personal recommendations for avoiding the flu this holiday season. These recommendations are also the best way to slow, or potentially reverse, the aging process, making you look and feel younger than you have in years. In general terms the way to eradicate any and all illne ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-20-12
    Find out why the mainstream media news anchors are nothing more than actors and puppets! PLUS, Dr. Marc Sorenson joins the show and explains where you can get your Vitamin D3 and why it is so essential to your health and your body! Health: Chocolate Better Than Aspirin For Heart Attacks Orange J ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-1-12
    Today, Kevin gives you an inside look into what is really wrong with America and what you can do to fix it! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting You! Sunscreen May Actually Accelerate Cancer Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling We ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-27-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Samsung TVs Can Be Hacked to Spy on Viewers
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSecurity firm exposes dangers of so-called “smart” products Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com December 14, 2012 A security firm has discovered a vulnerability in Samsung’s ‘Smart’ TVs tha ...
  • Special Report: Drug Companies Push Vaccines O ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Dec 14, 2012 A free whooping cough vaccine will be available to all pregnant women from 1 January 2013 to help protect their new-born babies from this serious disease.Check out all the best #altnews at D ...
  • Russia never changed position on Syria – Forei ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRT Dec 14, 2012 Russia has not changed its position on the crisis in Syria and the latest comments by the US State Department are a misinterpretation of the facts, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aleksandr Lukashev ...
  • Torture Was Systemic, Doesn’t Work … and Both ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWashington’s Blog Dec 14, 2012 The Guardian reports: CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him, as Macedonian state police looked on, the European court of human rights said in a ...
  • We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Snyder Economic Collapse Dec 14, 2012 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 ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: Third World America
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 12, 2012 [Talk given on Sept. 26, 2012] unitedforchangetv·Nov 21, 2012 In this lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges will examine how America has devolved, economically and politically, into a Third World country and th ...
  • Gareth Porter: The Petraeus Myth
    with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Dec. 11, 2012 TheRealNews·Dec 11, 2012 Gareth Porter: America needed a war hero but his “achievements” riddled by half-truths and pure propaganda. *** Ted Asregadoo·Nov. 30, 2012 Gareth Porter, an investigative historian and journali ...
  • Noam Chomsky: President Obama Is The Major Hum ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky by Jovana Vukotic Voice of Russia Dec. 11, 2012 Magnitsky Act implementation and uneasiness in US-Russia relations, NATO approving the deployment of Patriot missile interceptors to defend Turkish border with Syria, modus vivendi in which there could be a reducti ...
  • “Death by Stupidity” by William Bl ...
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org December 11, 2012 “Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens” 1 The hurricanes, the typhoons, the heat waves … the droughts ...
  • The Boy Scouts and the Greening of America&#82 ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) December 11, 2012 Before we heard about climate change, global warming, and the Green Party, the Boy Scouts of America were not only holding the fort down in their activities in being resp ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the J ...
    International NGOs are working extensively in the Palestinian villages, towns and cities of Areas A and B, whilst Palestinians in Area C (including most of the Jordan Valley) are systematically... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Haneen Zoabi: If Balad is banned, Arabs won’t vote
    Haneen Zoabi: “Legally, they have no case. I never imagined myself to be in the middle of a war like this. I don’t think they will disqualify me. If so, and if Balad is disqualified, there will be no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israeli forces take over Jordan Valley in ‘Aus ...
    Since late October, major defence drills, including manoeuvres involving heavy tanks as well as air and missile training, have been taking place throughout the Jordan Valley as part of the joint... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Preserving or looting Palestinian books in Jer ...
    The National Library in Jerusalem houses more than 8,000 volumes in Arabic which once belonged to Palestinians who fled the country or were forced out in 1948. Were these books collected for the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Eyal Megged: If it walks like fascism and talk ...
    I would even dare to suggest that in Israel of the early 21st century, the fascist atmosphere with all its trappings ... reflects the public mood more than in the classic fascist regimes of the 20th... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • International Relations as Depicted by Cats
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Two of my favorite things, now together in one hilarious tumblr site.  My two favorites: Check them all out here.
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, December 13, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Syrian troops have been accused of using Scud missiles in populated areas, according to a US official and Human Rights Watch. The United Kingdom has announced its intent to legalize same-sex marriage in the coming year. Trial Chamber II of the ICTY convicted ...
  • Appeals Chamber Confirms Retroactive Ad Hoc Ju ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I had an interesting — and respectful — disagreement with André de Hoogh last week concerning the right of non-states parties to retroactively accept the jurisdiction of the Court pursuant to Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute.  I argued in my ...
  • Al Qaeda in IKEA
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein As loathe as I am to call any attention to Eric Posner’s latest over on Slate, his piece engaging the Jeh Johnson speech (about the notion that the Al Qaeda that attacked us on 9/11 might someday be defeated) is such a blast from the past it’s hard t ...
  • Various Congratulations
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson A quick roundup of congratulations to folks in the broad OJ community … To OJ’s good friend Joseph Weiler – whose distinguished record I won’t even try to summarize – named as the new president of the European Union Institut ...

Public News Service

  • Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for ...
    Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for Native American Schools PHOENIX – Three new wind turbines spin outside Leupp Schools on the Navajo Nation. On the roof, more than 10 kilowatts of solar panels have been installed. The additions help power the school while stimulating classroo ...
  • Attorney: Uranium and Explosives on “Mos ...
    Attorney: Uranium and Explosives on “Most Dangerous Toys” List PHOENIX, Ariz. - A blowtorch, asbestos and uranium. Children's toys with those features or ingredients are on a new list of the "10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time" from the American Association for Justice (AAJ). ...(Rea ...
  • New Study Questions Wisdom of "Right-to-Work" Laws
    New Study Questions Wisdom of "Right-to-Work" Laws PHOENIX – Supporters of “right-to-work” laws in Arizona and the ones just passed in Michigan say that by limiting the power of unions, they will attract businesses to their states. But a new study from the Economic Policy Insti ...
  • Be Careful How You Give to Disaster Relief
    Be Careful How You Give to Disaster Relief PHOENIX - Wildfires charred the West and Superstorm Sandy clobbered the East this year. Consumer advocates encourage holiday disaster relief donations, but they also caution that some homework is in order. The Federal Trade Commission ranks Arizona sixt ...
  • Advocates: AZ Tax Credits Lack Oversight, Acco ...
    Advocates: AZ Tax Credits Lack Oversight, Accountability PHOENIX - Arizona's tax credit system is out of control, according to three diverse advocacy groups. Children's Action Alliance, the Goldwater Institute and the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (Arizona PIRG) say income tax credits d ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety, Save Our Seeds File Su ...
    Case pitting corporations against farmers set to impact the future of seed patents Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS)—two organizations dedicated to promoting safe, sustainable food and farming systems—challenged the agrochemical giant Monsanto and its restrictive “seed ...
  • Groups Stand Up for Clean Water Act in West Vi ...
    Pollution of local waterways, public health at stake from farm lobby actions A coalition of local and national public interest organizations have asked a federal court for permission to participate in a legal action that will decide when Clean Water Act restrictions apply to the release of pollu ...
  • Help CFS Defend Farmers Against GE Crops
    Farmers are at the front lines in the battle against genetically engineered (GE) crops. They are the ones that risk economic harm should their crops be contaminated by GE material.  For more than a decade, Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been representing farmers in court against chemical compa ...
  • After Halt to Planting, Court Orders Eradicati ...
    Remedies Include Three-Year Monitoring Period to Track, Destroy Any Germinating GE Plants In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern United States.  The court also ordered steps t ...
  • Center for Food Safety’s Statement on th ...
    Yesterday, California voters narrowly turned down Proposition 37, which, if passed, would have required the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the state. While late polls showed the initiative losing in the double digits, Prop 37 failed by a 6-point margin. A full 47 percent of Cal ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
  • Buying Property
    Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
  • IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
    IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...

Pensieve

  • Another Civil Coup in Honduras?
    In 2009, the Honduran congress and supreme court perpetrated a messy coup against president Manuel Zelaya. Yesterday President Lobo and the Honduran congress have perpetrated an “institutional” coup against the supreme court, sacking 4 out of its 5 members. This was in retaliation fo ...
  • Fractal Reality
    We inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...
  • Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?
    Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
  • O Ridiculous Fortune
    O fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
  • Where’s the switch?
    I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
  • Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
    Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
  • How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
    We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
  • Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...
    …but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...

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 ...

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