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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 III

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English: JERUSALEM (Dec. 21, 2010) Secretary o...English: JERUSALEM (Dec. 21, 2010) Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Ray Mabus speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during an office call in Jerusalem. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien/Released) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, m...Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, meeting Secretary Clinton for a working dinner in Washington DC, May 18, 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook for iOS 5.3 includes photo album sele ...
    Facebook today released an update to its iOS application that improves the speed of the app and includes a new feature for users to upload photos to an album. The iOS update comes on the heels of an overhaul of … Continue reading →
  • Recent articles module helps Facebook users di ...
    Some Facebook users are seeing a new “recent articles” module that highlights news stories related to a page that a user has Liked. A Facebook spokesperson tells us, “This unit is a test of a new kind of News Feed … Continue reading →
  • Developers can now easily add ‘go to app’ or ‘ ...
    Facebook has given developers a self-serve option to add a ”go to app” or “play game” button to their app’s Facebook page, according to a recent developer blog post. Developers can do this by linking their Facebook pages with app detail pages … Continue readin ...
  • Facebook for Android 2.0 focuses on speed
    Facebook today announced a major update to its Android application that improves the speed of launching the app, viewing photos and loading Timeline. The update is similar to the one done for iOS in August. Previously, Facebook’s mobile applications were … Continue reading →
  • Facebook introduces option for SMBs to create ...
    Facebook today introduced a new way for small business owners to create ads to build their fanbase without going through the more complex Facebook ad tool, a company spokesperson tells us. Similar to Promoted Posts, these ads are created directly … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 9
    “Rejecting Compromise, Committing to Action” Presenting David Swanson This week Eric has the pleasure of having an in-depth conversation with blogger, author, and activist David Swanson. David and Eric discuss the mythology of the fiscal cliff and the propaganda and lies of both major parties. A ...
  • The New American Magazine’s William Jasper Rev ...
    I am truly grateful to Mr. Jasper and the New American Magazine for writing and publishing this very well-written and assessed review of my book. This review is written by a journalist and author who knows and truly understands the saga of government whistleblowers. Several years ago, in the ear ...
  • Unmasking the Brotherhood: Syria, Egypt, and B ...
    The most powerful weapons of the Western ruling class in the Muslim world The complexities of the Arab Spring and the struggle for political freedom throughout the Arab world should not obscure what has now become an absolutely essential understanding for all anti-imperialists: the Muslim Brothe ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • An Electronic People's Congress and How To Get It
    Representative government is sooooo 20th century. Time for a real democracy
  • "Lincoln:" A First Rate Second Rate Film
    "Lincoln" is second rate because it leaves us with an eighth grade understanding of its subject. It fails to deepen our grasp not only of the complexities of the man Lincoln, but also those of his historical context and the important working class struggle that was represented by the United Stat ...
  • The Fiscal Cliff and the Coming Swindle of "Sh ...
    The specter of the "fiscal cliff," along with the Democrats' call for shared sacrifice, is a political and ideological ruse behind which to dismantle what's left of the welfare state. It's no more than a "good cop-bad cop" song and dance to hide from us the current agenda of the neoliberal state.
  • Eight Days to the End of the World
    A little discussion of being an 'ex-suicide,' the greatness of Walker Percy, and taking the end of the world seriously.
  • Noam Chomsky Interview Transcript Part 2. Amer ...
    CHomsky discusses America in decline, how the US literally has a standard game plan to block democracy, some thoughts on civilization, and on Gaza how to reply to people who try to defend Israel's actions.

Switchboard

  • Good news for hellbenders: test-tube snot otters!
    Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago These days wildlife work can be a bit depressing. Climate change and disappearing habitat have a lot of species on the ropes. But occasionally, we get good news. Here’s some on a species I have blogged ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Divorce?
    So, it seems like there was a hippie punching party and nobody invited me.  Two thoughts: 1. The term “hippie punching,” while satisfying in an @OldHossRadbourn “Beat the Irish” kind of way, does not accurately describe the dynamic of internecine strife in Left Blogistan. ...
  • What’s another word for “Gah”?
    SEK: What you have here is a solid B+ paper. You need to elevate your diction if you want to convince me that this is an A. STUDENT: So I need to sound more academic? SEK: Yes. STUDENT: So I need to predicate the logic of my arguments on rhetorical substance of the visual nature [...]
  • Anti-left?
    What does it mean to be a leftist? Let me start by saying that this is a pretty wankertastic question. Who cares, right? I think a discussion of the merits of various Ray Price albums would lead us closer to a more just society. It’s also be more fun. Also the answer is of course [...]
  • Standing and the DOMA/Prop 8 Cases
    I argue that the Court should and will claim jurisdiction over both suits. As always, Linda Greenhouse is worth reading on the subject as well.
  • Michigan
    I’ve been remiss in not talking about the Michigan right to work disaster. Part of it is that it’s so bloody depressing, part is that I’m really focusing on my book and thus have reduced some of the political writing. That said, my basic thought on the matter is that organized ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Gary Trubl, Dec. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate St ...
    Meet Gary Trubl, a student working towards his masters in Environmental Science and currently studying the biogeochemistry related to denitrification of Lake Vida, Antarctica.
  • Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...
    This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...
  • Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.
  • DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...
    DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
  • Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...
    Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • U.S. Awards $28 Million to Offshore Wind Farm ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to provide $28 million in grants to seven proposed offshore wind projects, a financial commitment the Obama administration hopes will provide a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to gain a foothold in American waters. Each of the seven p ...
  • Interview: Creating Clouds in a Lab To Better ...
    At the CERN research laboratory in Switzerland, scientists are conducting experiments to help solve a key riddle: the role of clouds in future CERN Jasper Kirkby climate change. Leading that study is British physicist Jasper Kirkby, who oversees complex experiments in a large steel chambe ...
  • Large Cellulosic Biorefinery Will Convert Corn ...
    Chemical giant DuPont has started construction of a large-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Iowa capable of converting corn stalks and leaves into USDA Corn stover in bales a biofuel that could be used in place of fossil fuels at some power plants. The $200 million facility, which will ...
  • NASA Visualization Captures Record Year for Wi ...
    This year has been an unusually severe one for wildfires in the U.S., with more than 9.1 million acres of land burned through the end of November, federal officials say. The total affected area, which is depicted in a new NASA map, is already the third-largest since records were first kept in 19 ...
  • Doha Talks Preserve Kyoto, But Achieve Few Mea ...
    As the latest round of global climate talks ended over the weekend in Doha, Qatar, delegates approved a weakened extension of the Kyoto Protocol, as expected, but obtained no commitments from major emitting nations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While nearly 200 nations agreed to extend t ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Nazca Lines May Be a Labyrinth
    Hundreds of vast patterns traced across 80km of plateau in Peru’s Nazca desert have perplexed archaeologists since the markings were rediscovered almost a century ago. The designs, which were drawn between 100 BC and 700AD by scraping away red dust and rock to reveal white ground beneath, clearl ...
  • Mystery orb crash: ’It was like Armageddon’
    Frightened residents in western Sweden reported seeing a bright, blue light racing across the night sky on Tuesday before an orange-coloured orb smashed into the ground in a mysterious phenomenon that has yet to be explained. "It lit up the sky and flew over us, then we heard an explosion," witn ...
  • Psychiatry’s New Rules Threaten to Turn Grievi ...
    A controversial change to official psychiatric guidelines for depression has raised fears that grief over the death of loved ones will be classified as clinical depression, turning a basic part of what it means to be human into a recognized sickness. The change, contained in new revisions to the ...
  • Listen to the Music of the Spheres
    Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and philosopher, is credited with saying, “There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.” This idea of the “Music of the Spheres” has endured over the centuries, ultimately informing how Kepler visualized the mo ...
  • Polish Plane Crash : TNT after all
    On the 5th of December, Military investigators admitted to Members of Parliament during a sitting of the Justice Committee that some detectors traced TNT in the wreckage of the plane. In another twist to the investigation of 2010 Smolensk aircraft crash, which killed President Lech Kaczynski and ...

Russia Today

  • Beaten and sodomized: European human rights co ...
    The European Court of Human Rights found the CIA guilty of torturing a terror suspect for the first time ever. A German citizen was illegally detained, tortured and sodomized by a CIA “rendition team’ after being... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'UK losing war on drugs': Deputy PM calls for ...
    British deputy PM Nick Clegg is pushing for an inquiry into drugs law to be opened with a view to possible reform. He called for a new strategy in a war that claims thousands of lives every year, criticizing the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Heavy clashes in Egypt’s Alexandria over refer ...
    At least five people have been injured in scuffles between supporters and opponents of Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi in Alexandria, report local media. Tensions have been running high ahead of the constitutional... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Ex-police officer sentenced to 11 years in jai ...
    Former police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov was found guilty of involvement in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and faces 11 years in a maximum security penal colony, ruled a Moscow Court. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Court overturns early release decision for Kho ...
    A Russian court has overturned the early release of Platon Lebedev, one of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s partners. Prosecutors had appealed the decision in November that would have allowed Lebedev's release in summer 2013. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Humanitarian Left imperialism dissected well
    Now a great commentary dedicated to dissecting the war mongers of the fallen to the Right… ‘Left’. Article titled- Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End- Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
  • Together we all can beat the capitalist snakes ...
  • The discussion about Fracking and the oily tru ...
    Fracking has become a big topic of discussion and controversy right this moment, as giant corporations work with whore-like politicians right here in Colorado, to ensure that OIL OIL OIL production will continue nonstop to produce all those consumer items that make some Fat Cats super rich off t ...
  • Obama pulls out Dubya’s lying routine of ...
    It is amazing how much Obama and the Democrats use straight from the Republican Party playbook! This time they are using the ol’ WOMD routine to whip up American war fever once again. If they want to ‘destroy’ WOMD, then they should start in Pueblo, Colorado first. And then com ...
  • The Colombian government and its US ally &#821 ...
    Revolutionary armed forces in Colombia have made Peace with the Colombian government many times, and each time they abandoned armed struggle they were subsequently slaughtered. Now, once again, the biggest of the Left armed groups, the FARC, is trying to negotiate Peace with the Colombian govern ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Tell President Obama and Congress--​Jobs Not Wars
    http://www.peace-action.org 12/11/2012 On Election Day, we sent a message. Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. End the wars and reinvest in our communities.  The wars and tax breaks for the rich and corporations got us into this mess. Move the money from wars and weapons to f ...
  • 9/11 Free Fall 12/6/12-- 9/11 Experiments, Ric ...
    Rick Shaddock is a 9/11 Truth activist and he is the webmaster of several 9/11 Truth related sites. Currently he is working on a PhD in an education research project to see if there is a correlation between critical thinking ability, and scores on a survey about "Truther" related topics. In this ...
  • Fund Raiser for New Objective Study of WTC Dust
    Here is a new blog I put together to promote the fund raiser for Chemical Engineer Mark Basile to conduct a new nano-thermite study. Please give it a look and help promote it if you like it. http://nanothermite911.blogspot.com/
  • Prison for a poem?
    Imprisoned poet Muhammad al-AjamiSend a letter to the Emir of Qatar, tell him to free Ajami!Submit a haiku to be read at the Embassy of Qatar on December 19th! http://CodePink.org December 10, 2012 On November 29, 2012, Qatari poet Muhammad al-Ajami was handed a life sentence for “insultin ...
  • Nano Thermite Found in WTC Dust
    Chemical Engineer Mark Basile to Conduct New Nano-thermite Study For information on the the first peer-reviewed paper of the WTC dust, which claims that active thermitic material was found in it, and the recent attempt that claimed it could not replicate the results of the experiments, but r ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • Before it's too late...Xmas/Xanuka Gifts from ...
    By Greg Palast The Mayans sure know how to take the fun out of Christmas. The world ends on December 21... but that still gives you time, if you act NOW, to make your year-end tax-deductible donation to the not-for-profit Palast Investigative Fund. And we'll get a 'Thank You Gift' out to you (or ...
  • Don’t Touch that Snooze Button
    by Greg Palast Monday, December 10, 2012 By my initial calculation, 9.3 million Americans lost their vote on November 7 – purged from voter rolls, blocked at the polls, or had their “provisional” and absentee ballots thrown in the dumpster. Let's get to the bottom of this: In the next 90 days, w ...
  • Sandy De-Filed Us! Please Donate to our Hurri ...
    A personal note from Greg Palast Damn that Sandy! She flooded our New York office. I am asking those of you who can, to make a tax-deductible donation and download my New York Times bestselling book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps or simply make a con ...
  • Greg Palast at Los Angeles GreenFestival This ...
    Greg Palast will be the featured speaker at this Sunday's GreenFestival in Los Angeles. The presentation will be: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits A post-Election Analysis When and Where: Sunday, November 18, 2012  3 PM Main Stage Los Angeles Convention Center SOUTH KENTIA HALL 1201 South Figue ...
  • Democracy Now: Ohio – Wrong Ballots for Black ...
    A special report by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Watch the Report [Dayton, Ohio. Tuesday November 6, 2012] Several thousand African-American voters in Dayton, Ohio, may find their ballots left uncounted, and they, and America, won’t know it––even if the lost votes change the presidency. First, ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Polly Tommey Welcomes UK Government Announceme ...
    Polly Tommey, the founder and trustee of The Autism Trust, welcomed yesterday’s government announcement that thousands of patients will be taken out of NHS funded private hospitals and placed in community-based care. Polly said, “Thousands of young people with Autism...
  • Dachel Media Update: DSM, Marine with Vax Inju ...
    Dec 9, 2012, Albany Times Union: Identity crisis big fear--Some say plan to eliminate Asperger's as diagnosis will impact flow of aid to disorder Dec 10, 2012, Tufts Daily: Op-ed | Autism Speaks does not speak for autistic people Dec...
  • Top 10 List For Congress Post Autism Hearing
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to Laura Hayes who shared this email and list with us at Age of Autism - sent to Congressman Bill Posey and his Chief of Staff & Legislative Assistant in Florida after the hearings. Contact...
  • Autism Sibling Perspective: Faking Happiness f ...
    By Natalie Palumbo I am 18, a senior in high school, and the younger sister of a 21 year old brother with low verbal autism. I recently suffered a terrible heartbreak. My relationship of four years came to an abrupt...
  • Dachel Media Update:
    Two Sides to Salon.com I’m constantly amazed when the media covers autism. They happily give health officials and mainstream medicine the last word and show no real interest in a disorder that has can strike any child—even one who was...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • How do you wrap an iceberg?
    As part of a new study of future water shortages in the Colorado River Basin, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation solicited ideas on how to solve the looming gap between supply and demand.
  • Officials call for limits on use of super-toxi ...
    D-CON kills rats and mice, the label reads. And, according to state and federal officials, it can kill hawks, owls, eagles, foxes, bobcats, mountain lions and other non-targeted wildlife too.
  • Most of California's water footprint tied to f ...
    These days, there’s a lot of discussion of carbon footprints. A new study by the Pacific Institute focuses on another footprint, that of water.
  • Lawsuit seeks subspecies status for protected ...
    The Mexican gray wolf—although listed as endangered—has languished in bureaucratic limbo with no plan to recover the species, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the Center for Biological Diversity.
  • Arctic shipping is disaster waiting to happen, ...
    Ferrying a load of soybeans from Seattle to China in 2004, the engine of Malaysian freighter Selendang Ayu lost power and the vessel broke in half on rocks off Unalaska Island in the middle of the Alaskan archipelago.

water.org

  • CNN Big Stars, Big Giving
    Co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon appear on CNN’s holiday special.
  • A community's bright future
    Since childhood, Jacque helped her mother collect water from wherever they could scavenge it near their village in the Central Plateau of Haiti. Children often got ill with diarrhea from drinking water collected from open and unprotected water sources.
  • Leveraging the collective online voice
    To further the work of causes around the world, Water.org has open sourced it's "donate your voice" technology that allows non-profits to effectively organize and execute viral online campaigns.
  • In Rajamma's Lifetime
    In her lifetime, Rajamma wanted desperately to be able to provide her daughters with an education. Thanks to Water.org, and the support of our donors, she was able to realize this dream.
  • Hope for the future
    Mr. and Mrs. Nagalakshmi live in the Villupuram District of Tamil Nadu, India with their three children, two sons and a daughter. In her lifetime, Mrs. Nagalakshmi's main ambition was to see all of her children attend school and graduate from college.

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • India’s solar mission, phase 2
    An Indian worker cleans solar arrays during the inauguration of a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant near Gandhinagar, in 2011. The ground-mount photovoltaic power plant is the firs ...
  • Energy’s Presence, Not Price, Changes Lives
       The Sustainable Energy for All initiative has rightfully united the world’s attention on a critical development issue – delivering universal energy access. r ...
  • Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
    Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
  • Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
    Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
  • Chinese oversupply sees cost of solar panels d ...
    Right now we’re seeing a glut of solar panels in the market largely due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flo ...

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Great Social Security Robbery
    James Petras Introduction The leaders of both major parties, Congress, the White House, the editorial writers, journalists of all the principle newspapers and most academic economists claim that Social Security and Medicare need to be ‘reformed’ in order to reduce the “uns ...
  • Waging War on US Workers
    by Stephen Lendman America's war on workers dates from the 19th century. Labor learned the hard way what it takes to win. It requires organizing, pressing demands, taking to the streets, going on strike, holding boycotts, battling police and National Guard forces supporting management, ...
  • America, Israel and Arab Authoritarianism Need ...
    Mahboob A. Khawaja “….a transition from "the war on terrorism" to the outright demonization of Muslims. While underscoring the freedom of religion, the Obama administration is "beating the drums" of a broader war against Islam….. the objective is to instill fear, rouse and h ...
  • America and Israel Wage War on Humanity
    by Stephen Lendman America's longstanding policy is permanent war. It's the only nation ever to wage them every year in its history abroad and/or at home. Multiple direct and proxy wars rage now. Obama plans more. He's a war criminal multiple times over. He violates fundamental human and c ...
  • A Dinner Conversation: Israel and Armenia, Opp ...
    by chycho Below you will find two perspectives from a recent dinner conversation: I. Candid and Confrontational II. Compassionate and Personal I. Candid and Confrontational I recently attended a small family gathering, not my immediate family but my partners, so by extension people that ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Ontario 2013: Toward a Post-Austerity Vision
    On January 9th, the CCPA's Ontario Office will be hosting an update on the province’s economy and a strategy session focusing on how to move toward a post-austerity vision. Ontario 2013: Toward a Post-Austerity Vision 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, January 9, 2013 (lunch included) Thomas Lounge, Oakham H ...
  • Taxes: British Columbians are ready to talk
    Popular wisdom seems to be that you can't talk about raising taxes: people just won't stand for it. But today we released poll results that suggest something a little different. The majority of British Columbians not only feel that the wealthiest should be taxed more, but they are also willing t ...
  • Taxes: British Columbians are ready to talk
    Popular wisdom seems to be that you can't talk about raising taxes: people just won't stand for it. But today we released poll results that suggest something a little different. The majority of British Columbians not only feel that the wealthiest should be taxed more, but they are also willing t ...
  • BC's water and hydroelectricity: more fragile ...
    It's easy to think of BC's water and hydro resources as limitless, especially in the rainy Lower Mainland. But our latest study examines the serious challenges facing these resources, particularly from industrial use, and calls for a new policy approach to protect and manage them. This is th ...
  • BC's water and hydroelectricity: more fragile ...
    It's easy to think of BC's water and hydro resources as limitless, especially in the rainy Lower Mainland. But our latest study examines the serious challenges facing these resources, particularly from industrial use, and calls for a new policy approach to protect and manage them. This is th ...

World Wide Hippies

  • A Wednesday Abortion – Viewpoint from th ...
    Written by Alex vande Bruinhorst,reformedprolifer.com - Sunday night, quarter after eleven. I’m almost sleeping when the familiar chime of a text message startles me awake. Who is texting me late on a Sunday evening, I wonder. It’s one of my friends, letting me know that she is meeti ...
  • Here It Comes (Slouching towards Bethlehem and ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – Yes, word has it the LIE named “right to work” is headed here to my state. We have a very PRO business republican governor in Corbett and seeing as he has already given cart blanche to the Fracking industry, even going so far as to open up school campuses an ...
  • Ghosts of Indigenous activism past, present, f ...
    #IdleNoMore’s transformative potential BY HAYDEN KING,,mediaindigena.com - Earlier this week, from Goose Bay to Yellowknife, thousands of Nehiyaw, Dene, Metis peoples (joined by Canadians supportive of them) gathered in front of provincial legislatures, constituency and Aboriginal Affairs office ...
  • Hey Guess What? It’s Not Always About Y ...
    by Linda Wolf,WWH/CJE – Recently, I saw several internet postings lashing back and forth, bitching and complaining how they had been wronged. All the posts went on for long detailed paragraphs. What so and so said and did. How so and so is pissed because… Scrolling down, I found the ...
  • How Many People Will Die if We Raise the Medic ...
    By Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. You can follow him at http://www.twitter.com/matthewstoller. In September, 2009, Rep. Alan Grayson got on the floor of the House of Representatives and said that the Republican health care plan – leaving 44 million uninsured – was killing peo ...

FourWinds10

  • Louisiana sinkhole, bubbles, 1000s quakes link ...
    Aug. 14, 2012 University seismologist sheds light on mystery sinkhole and related rights abuses. Gas bubbles, 1000s of recent quakes and giant sinkhole ‘quite possibly’ have same source: oil and gas industry environmental modifications On Monday, as officials warned an explosion is p ...
  • EPA Requiring $85M in Upgrades to Industrial P ...
    Aug. 19, 2012 Read: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/epa-requiring-85m-upgrades-industrial-plants-cut-haze-montana This is complete nonsense!* Haze is not caused solely in MT. You would have to clean up the entire world also and we know that ain't gonna happen.   A good start would be to ...
  • Chemist: Residents near sinkhole already repor ...
    Aug. 23, 2012 COMMENT:  As the severity of this disaster increases, conversely to that, there will be less and less reporting, until finally the entire area will be cordoned off by the military, not unlike the aftermath of the Hurricane Andrew in Florida. If the people in that are ...
  • SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS FACE 6 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ...
    nOV. 13, 2012 San Diegans could face 6 years in prison and fines of $100,000 dollars a day for washing their car in the driveway or failing to pick up dog poop under new EPA-mandated environmental regulations related to water quality. Although residents of the city are forced to drink toxic wast ...
  • DESTROYING PRECIOUS LAND FOR GAS

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • An Oil Company Finds Itself On the Losing End ...
    When most people hear the term "fossil fuel subsidies" it conjures up images of governments giving their hard-earned tax dollars to already highly profitable oil companies. But a Brazilian subsidy is causing Petrobras to import gasoline and sell at 8% below cost.
  • Hofmeister: US Could Tap into 1.6 Trillion Bar ...
    The surge in shale oil production shows that new technologies can convert formerly uneconomical oil resources into oil reserves, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that this could also be the case with kerogen.
  • Hofmeister: Treat Climate Change as a Waste Ma ...
    John Hofmeister outlines his ideas for what would constitute a sound plan of attack on climate change.
  • President Obama Has Little Impact on Oil and G ...
    Following President Obama's reelection, a number of fossil fuel stocks sold off based on the belief that Obama's policies would prove harmful to the fossil fuel industry. But will the President manage to push through tough new regulations that raise the cost of production for fossil fuel companies?
  • What Happens After the Long Recession?
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question from a reader about what happens as The Long Recession plays out. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumerenergyreport [dot] com or leave the question after this post (at the original source). ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Quest to Detox Sports Drinks
    If news of chemical flame retardants in Gatorade and certain sodas makes you want to spit your drink out, know that there's a 15-year-old going to bat to clean up the soft drink industry. The New York Times recently ran the story of Sarah Kavanagh, a Mississippi teen who started a Change.org p ...
  • EPA to Study Chemical Safety in a Way That Act ...
    When you shampoo your hair in the morning, you aren't grabbing a jar of synthetic fragrance chemicals and scrubbing your hair clean. Likewise, you aren't chasing your daily apple with a shot of pesticides. Yet that's how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently determines "safe& ...
  • Do You Live in a Winter Farmer's Market Hotspot?
    Certain parts of the country are turning into winter wonderlands, at least as far as locavores are concerned. According to new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data, listings for 2012 winter farmer's markets jumped 52 percent compared to 2011, highlighting a continuing trend in the sustain ...
  • The Tiniest Food Threat?
    What are nanoparticles? If you've never heard of the term, you're not alone—although the strange thing is you're probably already eating them. Extremely tiny—approximately 1/100,000th the width of a strand of human hair—nanoparticles are microscopic versions of materials. The issue is these mi ...
  • How to Green Your Next Family Vacation
    Eco-tours that cater to environmentally friendly travelers are great, but what about making your trip to New York City or Grandma's house greener? Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to make eco-friendly choices on your next family vacation, most of which are easy and affordable. Save Fuel ...

big think

  • How to Take Ai Weiwei With You Wherever You Go
    During the height of the Cultural Revolution in China, leader Mao Zedong wanted his thoughts spread to every corner of the country. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (aka, “The Little Red Book”) found its way into the pockets and consciousness of every Chinese citizen. Mao’s oppressive, all ...
  • NASA: Why the World Didn't End Yesterday
    How confident are scientists that world won't end on December 21? Here's a Neil deGrasse Tyson tweet from several weeks ago: Tyson is not alone. NASA scientists are also so confident, in fact, that they released a video explaining why the world "didn't end yesterday" 10 days in a ...
  • Inflatable Solar-Powered Lamp Brings Light To ...
    What's the Latest Development? Now available for $15.99 at New York-based startup MPowerd's Web site is Luci, a four-ounce lamp that consists of a solar panel, a lithium-ion battery, and a ring of LED lights all encased in a flexible container. After the battery is charged, the lamp can ...
  • Solar Cell Fabrics Could Make Charging Phones ...
    What's the Latest Development? Penn State professor John Badding and an international team of scientists have combined glass optical fibers with the semiconductor materials found in typical photovoltaics to create a solar cell that, in shape and width, is thinner than a human hair. Their ...
  • Why Did the US kill 'Adnan al-Qadhi?
    US officials continue to maintain as they have publicly for some time that in Yemen the US is only targeting the top 10-15 leaders of AQAP, whom it believes are actively plotting against the US and US interests in Yemen. However, in order to kill these 10-15 individuals the US has carrie ...

Information Liberation

  • George Will's False Choice on War and Drones
    Failure to distinguish between the private person and state action is always a recipe for muddled thinking. This is especially so in regard to the conduct of war. Though it can occur between any cluster of persons, war is characteristically seen as a...
  • Highway Robbery, Cajun Style
    In Louisiana, the practice of civil asset forfeiture includes a system in which the loot is divvied up among courts, prosecutors, and police. This enhances the perverse incentives for officers to devise rationales to stop and search automobiles. It a...
  • Painting by the Numbers
    Times are tough on Main Street. Still, cheap money flows to the top 1%, wherever they live. For example, the fall season for the art market has been solid. Foreign buyers can*t get enough unique pieces for their collections. The auction house Sotheby...
  • University police fire officer after video of ...
    The University of Kentucky - Lexington Police Department on Wednesday terminated the officer involved in a raid of a student's dorm room following a Campus Reform investigation of a viral YouTube video of the incident. University of Kentucky Polic...
  • VIDEO: Woman Brutally Tased By Police For Tryi ...
    A Chinese woman living in Massachusetts was tased repeatedly by police at a mall after store owners called police when she attempted to buy more than one iPhone as gifts for her family. WMUR news reports that 44-year-old Xiaojie Li was visiting th...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
  • The Liberals Have Taken Over California
    An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...
  • A Necessity Disguised As A Virtue
    Events in Australia have overtaken my plans for two upcoming LibertyGibbert articles, one on Liberty and children, and the other on the Catholic Church. Yet the Gillard government’s announcement on Monday of a Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse … Continue reading ...
  • America On A Collision Course With Reality
    After Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year. If the American electorate are daft enough to re-elect the man who has racked up … Continue reading →
  • The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...
    I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Deceived Wisdom Special Offer
    UPDATE, December 6: I’ve reduced the price of the DRM-free download for Sciencebase readers and twitter followers. Now, just £6.99 for the PDF, ePub or mobi versions which you can use on any e-reader, PC or mobile device without having to worry about device licensing restrictions or other ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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, ...

RFF Library

  • Water and Shale Gas Development: Leveraging th ...
    Accenture http://bit.ly/VEOAMq [From an Energy Wire article by Gayathri Vaidyanathan] Water availability could be a serious roadblock for nations with large shale resources and incentives to tap them, such as China, South Africa and Argentina, according to a report by consulting firm Accenture&# ...
  • Look Before the LNG Leap: Why Policymakers and ...
    Sierra Club / by Craig Segall www.sierraclub.org/naturalgas/…/LOOK-BEFORE-YOU-LEAP.pdf [InsideEPA.com] …In a report released Nov. 29, the [Sierra Club] reiterates calls it has made in administrative proceedings before DOE for a full [environmental impact study] under NEPA to assess t ...
  • RGGI’s Past and Future: Emissions Trends and P ...
    Environment Northeast (ENE) http://www.env-ne.org/public/resources/ENE_RGGI_Past__Future_121210.pdf Summary of Key Findings: 2012 emissions are projected at 91,017,970 tons or 45% below the RGGI cap.  Electricity prices across the region have decreased by 10% since RGGI’s launch. Electric sector ...
  • Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds
    National Intelligence Council http://1.usa.gov/SLMxYG [New York Times] A new intelligence assessment of global trends projects that China will outstrip the United States as the leading economic power before 2030, but that America will remain an indispensable world leader, bolstered in part by an ...
  • Mineral Resources: Mineral Volume, Value, and ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-45R [From Summary] In summary, there were nearly 70 different types of leasable minerals extracted from federal lands and waters in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, but their volume cannot be aggregated because they use different ...

Scientific American - News

  • Shifty Sightings: Hubble Images Reveal 7 of th ...
    The title of most distant known galaxy has bounced around a bit in the past few years, as various teams of researchers have laid claim to progressively more remote objects in the early universe. Now a group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope has tentatively identified a new record ...
  • Environmental Regulator Launches New Effort to ...
    Spurred by mounting scientific evidence, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is initiating a new effort to examine whether low doses of hormone-mimicking chemicals are harming human health and whether chemical testing should be overhauled. [More]
  • Warmer Winters Threaten Smaller Ski Areas
    HANCOCK, Mass. – The scene is something no ski resort operator wants to see early in the season: Sunlight glaring off the sloppy snow pooling like dirty mashed potatoes at the base of the high-speed six-person chairlift.  [More]
  • Engineers Hunt for Ways to Cool Computing
    A laptop computer can double as an effective portable knee-warmer -- pleasant in a cold office. But a bigger desktop machine needs a fan. A data center as large as those used by Google needs a high-volume flow of cooling water. And with cutting-edge supercomputers, the trick is to keep them from ...
  • Blood Clots Are Ready for Their Close-Up [Slid ...
    A blood clot is one of the final steps in a complex process with which the human body seals a rupture in an injured blood vessel. Clotting involves interactions between millions of blood cells, microscopic cell fragments called platelets, and various proteins. First, platelets rush to the site o ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Pornifying violence against women
    A panel discussion On December 1st 2012, Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter held their annual Montreal Massacre Memorial event at the Vancouver Public Library. This event remembers the 14 women who were murdered on December ...
  • Theatre of the Oppressed in Montreal
    A discussion with Michael Simkin and Aurore Fauret about the theatre, it's philosophy and the upcoming "funshop" Every Friday night for the past three months at Coop Sur Genereux a steady group of individuals have been meetin ...
  • Nova Scotia Missing Persons Act Raises Privacy ...
    New Legislation Rushed Through Without Much Discussion K'jupuktuk (Halifax) -- On December 3, Nova Scotia's provincial Justice Minister Ross Landry introduced the Missing Per ...
  • Small Town, Big Screen
    Campbellford residents establish co-operative to save theatre CAMPBELLFORD, ONTARIO—The private movie theatre had been hanging on by a thread for some time, and many other smal ...
  • Small Town, Big Screen
    Campbellford residents establish co-operative to save theatre CAMPBELLFORD, ONTARIO—The private movie theatre had been hanging on by a thread for some time, and many other smal ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Global Civics: The ideas the Tea Party fears m ...
    David Seaton's News Links In my last post I wrote how the fear of a new wave of reform propelled by the problems and abuses arising from globalization.Global Civics is the idea-force that would make reform possible if it spread, not only possible, but inevitable. Any collective global action w ...
  • What the Tea Party billionaires are really afr ...
    David Seaton's News Links Before starting off on the Tea Party's craziness, I would like you to examine some images from two nearly identical tragedies that occurred over a hundred years and several thousand miles apart. Later in the post I hope to make a connection between these twin horrors an ...
  • Susan Rice
    David Seaton's News Links In diplomacy the core question is often this: What do I want to get and what do I have to give to get it? Certitudes and bluntness get you only so far. It is less a question of what you know than how curious you are about what you do not." Roger Cohen on Susan Rice - ...
  • Palestine at the UN
    David Seaton's News Links  Some commentators have said the UN vote, which, by a massive majority, gave Palestine observer status is meaningless... Meaningless? Now, for starters, we finally are not talking about a stateless "PLO" or the "Palestinian people", we are talking about "Palestine" ...
  • The American religious + economic right fractures
    David Seaton's News LinksLosing the election seems to have really shaken the American conservative movement deeply and the most significant long term effect, that I perceive, is watching some important, born again, wooly-evangelicals slowly morphing into what, in Europe, would be classified as C ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Susan Rice Bows Out
    Susan Rice is now the latest victim of the baying hyenas in the modern Republican Party: U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from the list of candidates for secretary of state Thursday afternoon, ending a weeks-long fight with Republicans over statements she made on television tal ...
  • The Great Political Mystery of Social Security ...
    Here's a brief little bit of musing about Social Security that occurs to me once in a while. It's a question for conservatives: what do you think will happen if we don't agree to some kind of deal to make Social Security solvent? Let's game this out. Right now, the trustees say the trust fund ...
  • What Do Republicans Want? All We Have to do is ...
    From Atrios, here is the short version of what Republicans really want: Yes I repeat myself. Endlessly. But this is all about enacting an elite consensus policy which involves kicking the poors and olds, funneling ever more money to Defense and Finance, and cuttings taxes on rich people. ...
  • Quote of the Day: The A-hole Factor
    From spokeswoman Leslie Shedd, passing along what her boss, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, said was the real reason that three tea-party conservatives were recently booted from their committee assignments: It had to do with their inability to work with other members, which some people might refer ...
  • Better Filibuster Reform, Please
    Greg Sargent spoke recently with Senator Jeff Merkley, who says that filibuster reform is in trouble: “Filibuster reform has more momentum than it has had in a generation,” Merkley said. “But it’s not a sure thing, because there are great concerns over changing the ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 367: Losing Builds Character
    Topic: #InsanityCheck Kriss doesn’t care about starving kids in Africa The Internet is the home of the asshole Civilizing the Internet “Plot Holes” in the Dark Knight Rises Awesome week in trailers Losing a basketball game 107-2 Losing builds character Cuddling with no sex/Send ...
  • IC 366: Race is What They Asking Me
    Topic: Pac died in Vegas. Again Mayweather vs Pacquiao What is an Impossible White Man movie? Why Cory Booker’s stunt doesn’t help Sean Fury Guns don’t cause domestic violence Share with your friends:
  • IC 365: Cory Booker – The White Hipster On a ...
    Topic: Kriss & Kev’s next scheme Cory Booker is struggling on Food Stamps Great Moments in White Privilege The NY Post Photographer & being a ain’t shit Human Being Movie News Share with your friends:
  • IC 364: Live From the Police Standoff
    Topics: Twitter makes me realize I don’t like most people Not telling kids about Santa Lying to kids Cops aren’t bad people Dr. James MacArthur and his live streamed standoff with police Police brutality isn’t right….but I understand Star Wars Share with your friends:
  • IC 363: Don’t Be Stupid
    Topics: Team building exercises Work sucks Its not them its me Kids are soft these days The Karate Kid Taking a stupid position Obama should offer Romney a job Chris Brown needs to man up Not everything is about race The difference between Chris Brown and Charlie Sheen R Kelly is a pedophile, st ...

Simple Climate

  • CO2 casts off shackles to power up Atlantic hu ...
    Reductions in particulate pollution and increases in greenhouse gases are going to cooperate to give us more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic, finds NOAA’s Gabriel Vecchi
  • Space agencies pinpoint polar ice sheet damage
    Greenland and Antarctica lost over 4 trillion tonnes of ice from 1992-2011 - equivalent to 11 mm of sea level rise, the giant Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE) has shown by bringing together over 50 years’ worth of satellite data .
  • Carbon conundrum could push firmer emission action
    Climate models might be wrong in assuming plants and soil will absorb more CO2 as the world warms, meaning that more aggressive action might be needed to keep climate change at ‘safe levels’, finds Paul Higgins from the American Meteorological Society
  • Australians overestimate climate change rejection
    Actual opinions on climate change in Australia are very different from what people estimate, thanks mainly to our tendency to think more people agree with us than really do, but possibly also to how the issue has been debated, shows a survey run by Zoe Leviston from CSIRO.
  • Monsoon instability raises food questions for ...
    An unstable balance between dry and wet monsoon rain seasons could become important for farming in South Asia as the world warms into the 22nd century, find Jacob Schewe and Anders Levermann from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

e!Science News

  • McMaster researchers find age not factor in im ...
    Our immune system does not shut down with age, says a new study led by McMaster University researchers. read more
  • 3 new species of venomous primate identified b ...
    A venomous primate with two tongues would seem safe from the pet trade, but the big-eyed, teddy-bear face of the slow loris (Nycticebus sp.) has made them a target for illegal pet poachers throughout the animal's range in southeastern Asia and nearby islands. A University of Missouri doctoral st ...
  • Wearable technology can monitor rehabilitation
    Wearable technology is not only for sports and fashion enthusiasts; it can also be used to monitor and aid clinical rehabilitation, according to new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BioMedical Engineering OnLine. read more
  • Data on financial crime is not credible
    The UK Government and police efforts to tackle financial crime -- from business fraud to tax evasion -- are hampered by a lack of accurate data about the nature and extent of offending, according to new research. read more
  • Warming climate unlikely to cause extinction o ...
    New genetic analysis has revealed that many Amazon tree species are likely to survive human-made climate warming in the coming century, contrary to previous findings that temperature increases would cause them to die out. read more

unEarthed

  • Big News In Fight Against Florida Slime
    EPA will step in to regulate 100,000 miles of Florida's waters We’re happy to report that our long fight to clean up the green slime that’s been plaguing Florida waterways for years hit a major turning point on Nov ...
  • Mercury in Fish, A Growing Problem
    Earthjustice seeks better labeling of seafood to protect consumers A new report has some not-so-great news for those who love to eat fish. Mercury is turning up in fish from all over the world – and coal is one of the main c ...
  • W. Virginia Factory Farm Seeks Right To Pollute
    Earthjustice and allies fight back Chicken manure and other pollutants end up in protected creeks, rivers and streams. (USDA) Recently the EPA ordered an indu ...
  • Friday Finds: Fido’s Chemical Body Burden
    Your dog’s favorite chew toy may be loaded with more than just slobber Credit: TheGiantVermin (flickr) Your favorite four-legged companion may get a dose of t ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Low-Income and Communities of Col ...
    Disproportionate burden of coal plant emissions placed on such communities The results of a comprehensive study investigating the impacts of living near 378 coal ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Time To Leave Republicans
    This is a great time to tell all of your friends you have left the Republican Party. I mean who would want to be a Republican these days. The facts are simple. Today’s Republican Party stands for nothing but greed, and evil. They don’t respect women, hate minorities, and seem to only ...
  • Today We Honor All Veterans
    No trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.
  • Tax Debate Time – Fiscal Cliff – T ...
    Just remember to start all conversations with the fact that the richest 200 families in America have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined. The Republicans will fight tooth and nail to keep these wealthy folks from being taxed more, even though they make most of the money, and own almost ev ...
  • Get The Tar And Feathers
    If anyone sees Grover, grab him. It is tar and feather time. America’s wealthy have so much money, they could pay a little (or lot) more in taxes. Sorry Grover. We could balance the budget without cutting one single program that helps struggling Americans. We could tax America’s weal ...
  • Pshewwwwww
    Great night for Dems. Now for the house in 2014.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Young Israeli boy, non-citizen mother arrested ...
    We wrote in January [Hebrew] about Supreme Court Justice Yoram Denzinger permitting the deportation of an Israeli boy and his Polish mother. Yesterday at 5 a.m., the mother and her son were arrested ahead of their deportation. This time again, Justice Denzinger refused to get involved. The boy w ...
  • Why was 17-year-old Muhammad killed?
    A Palestinian teen was on his way to the bakery to buy a cake for his birthday party. A border policewoman who shot him to death claims he held a toy gun to another soldier’s head.  By Noam R. Muhammad Ziad Awad Salaymah from Hebron celebrated his 17th birthday yesterday. His mother sent h ...
  • A week in photos: December 6-12
    Mustafa Tamimi is remembered in Nabi Saleh and Tel Aviv, where thousands marched for human rights; actions for animal and housing rights; an eye on settlement expansion; and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week.                  
  • Resource: Israeli Elections and Palestinian Pa ...
    Who are the leading Arab candidates in the upcoming Knesset elections? Who is trying to ban them from running, and how? How did such attempts end in previous elections? How many Palestinian citizens can vote in the Knesset elections, and how many are expected to vote? A Q&A by the human righ ...
  • A matter of choice: Why optimism is integral t ...
    Often times pessimism is caused by choosing to remain a spectator, and pretending to remain powerless instead of taking responsibility and deciding to act according to what one believes. But what does this mean, and how do you do it? By Tom Pessah In a recent +972 post, Noam Sheizaf wrote that “ ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Environment Minister visits Australian Antarct ...
    Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today left for Antarctica to gain first-hand experience of the continent and to meet the men and women whose work is critical to the success of the Australian Antarctic program.
  • Funding to support Tasmanian Forests Agreement
    The Federal and Tasmanian Governments today announced $102 million to support the Tasmanian Forests Agreement that will provide certainty for Tasmania's forestry industry, support local jobs and communities and protect the state's iconic forests.
  • Murray Darling to benefit from water efficienc ...
    The Gillard Government is supporting more than 300 irrigators across the southern Murray-Darling Basin to improve their irrigation efficiency and return more water to the environment.
  • National Biodiversity Investment Prospectus la ...
    Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today released the Gillard Government's first national biodiversity investment prospectus: One Land - Many Stories: Prospectus of Investment 2013-14.
  • Product Stewardship Advisory Group Announced
    Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today announced the establishment of a Product Stewardship Advisory Group to support the Gillard Government's work on reducing the environmental, health and safety impacts of manufactured goods.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • ZERVAS V. WELLS- WOW! JUST LISTEN TO THIS&#82 ...
    If the trust does not give Wells Fargo the right to litigate….THEN THEY ARE OUT OF COURT Wow….this really is extraordinary.  This is a great panel of appellate court judges….just listen to them tear into this case…piece by piece.  Importantly, they tear into a key issue t ...
  • PLEAD GUILTY OF MAIL FRAUD, WIRE FRAUD IN CONN ...
    Sigh…. Millions of documents that are forged or false were used to prosecute cases in courtrooms all across this country.  But what are the consequences for homeowners?  Well, I tried (repeatedly) to raise the issue of an improper Docx LLC assignment in a case….brought it all the way ...
  • PRO SE WARRIOR DEMIO V. BANK OF AMERICA- WATCH ...
    This link will take you to excellent arguments made by a homeowner in the 2nd DCA….. DEMIO V. BANK OF AMERICA   Scridb filter
  • The Servicers(Banks/Debt Collectors) DO NOT OW ...
    Consider carefully the following nugget: The mortgage loan originator, seller, or servicer; any service bureau; or any other party providing services in connection with servicing a mortgage loan for, or delivering a mortgage loan to, Fannie Mae will have no right to possession of these documents ...
  • Why is Fraudclosure Not A FrontPage Story? (H ...
    Yawn.  I can tell you why….but here’s the story: On November 20th 2012 I told you about a guilty plea  taken by Lorraine Brown, the founder of DOCX (later known at LPS), in federal court in Florida. The press release for that plea did not come out until after 5 PM on the Tuesday befo ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizen Gifts – Reclaiming Community
    What do you do as you watch your community literally being washed away? We saw some of it in New …Continue reading »
  • Citizen Gifts – Daring
    With democracy in varying degrees of turbulence globally, and with the opportunity for citizens to make their mark, the next …Continue reading »
  • The Age of Monochrome
    So, the Christmas lights at the Parliament buildings are blue and orange this year. Gone are the historic red bulbs …Continue reading »
  • A Climate for Change
    I’ve had the fortune to have spent some quality time with some Nobel Prize winners in recent years – most …Continue reading »
  • At Our Front Door
    Sometimes good news can be wrapped up in negative packages. For years now citizen action groups have been attempting to …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
  • Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
  • Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
    by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
  • A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
    By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Opa! Food For Thought Symposia at The Black Ol ...
    Black Olive owner Stelios Spiliadis and his family have been introducing Baltimore not only to their Greek culture, but also to their passion for health and wellness. Their hopes of inspiring real change through the power of good food have been spreading like wildfire.
  • FDA Should Share Data about Livestock on Drugs
    It’s my hope that GAP’s lawsuit against FDA will finally compel the agency to break ties with drug companies and release the information that the public health community needs to monitor the use—and misuse—of antibiotics and other drugs in food animal production.
  • Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun: Nutrient Trading a ...
    "My first objection to this kind of program is semantics. Let's call it what it is: pollution trading. Excess nutrient pollutants in the bay lead to public health problems, just as other pollutants do."
  • Government Accountability Project Sues FDA for ...
    The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is suing FDA for data on antibiotic sales. If we want more data, we have to sleuth it out of the agency ourselves.
  • What We’re Reading: HIGH STEAKS Strikes at Hea ...
    In High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat, author Eleanor Boyle addresses these reasons and many more for why America should steer away from industrial meat production in both its policy priorities and consumption habits.

k2p blog

  • Prolonging problems to keep selling the solutions?
    Once a "commercial" solution to a "problem" has been "found" there is a tendency to keep the problem alive long after it is no longer a problem - just to keep the sales of a "commercial solution" alive.
  • With malice aforethought
    For all the apologists for Mel Greig and Michael Christian and their radio station: The humiliation was intended. The laughs were obtained as intended. With malice aforethought!
  • With malice aforethought
    For all the apologists for Mel Greig and Michael Christian and their radio station: The humiliation was intended. The laughs were obtained as intended. With malice aforethought!
  • A short hiatus in warmer climes
    Blogging will be very light for a week as I travel on assignment to somewhat warmer climes.
  • A short hiatus in warmer climes
    Blogging will be very light for a week as I travel on assignment to somewhat warmer climes.

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Consumerist

  • Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
    Here are seven of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for usability in a Consumerist post or just plain neatness. Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registere ...
  • Cathay Pacific Flight Attendants Threaten To W ...
    No booze, food or even smiles — Cathay Pacific passengers could be in for a chilly reception from flight attendants this holiday season. Cabin staff are threatening to withhold all of the above as well as action that could potentially cause flight delays, all because of a pay dispute, its union ...
  • Restaurant Owner Posts Completely Reasonable R ...
    No, that isn’t a sarcastic headline. After being lambasted by readers’ comments on his recently opened eatery, a Washington, D.C., restaurateur did what some of his foodie kin could not — issued a restrained, thoughtful and apologetic response. Earlier this week, the D.C. blog ...
  • Forget The Whistle: NYC Taxi & Limousine Commi ...
    You can use an app to order a pizza, another to refill your prescriptions and there’s probably one out there that will just tell you you’re pretty, so why not an app to hail a cab? In New York City, the issue of taxi-hailing apps has been a hot issue, as the apps go against rules tha ...
  • Some For-Profit Colleges Taking “Unlimit ...
    A number of recent studies have cast a negative light on the for-profit college industry. A disproportionate number of students are not graduating or unable to find jobs that pay enough to allow them to repay their student loans. With so many people concerned that these schools might be debt tra ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • The Global Fund Retaliates Against Its Inspect ...
    On November 15, the Global Fund fired John Parsons, its Inspector General (IG). Because the IG is the official responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct and corruption, as well as whistleblower disclosures, he must be able to function independently of management, and firing him doe ...
  • Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Continues Making I ...
    Speigel International: Did Deutsche Bank Fraudulently Hide Huge Losses? An excellent summary of the concerns brought forth by GAP client and whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi, the former Risk Analyst at Deutsche Bank who publicly came forward last week with his allegations that the financial insti ...
  • Bradley Manning = Guardian's Person of the Yea ...
    The Guardian (UK): Guardian Person of the Year – Voters Choose Bradley Manning Summary: Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks, was voted The Guardian’s Person of the Year by readers. Manning spoke publicly for the first time earlier this month ...
  • Investigative Series on Beef Industry Safety C ...
    Kansas City Star: Building Bigger Cattle - An Industry Overdose Summary: The Kansas City Star is doing a three-part series on the beef industry, with yesterday's front-page story highlighting the safety risk of unlabeled mechanically tenderized beef. Today's installmen ...
  • Best Manning Articles in NY Times are Those Cr ...
    To her credit, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has another great piece today criticizing the "paper of public record" for not being at the Bradley Manning torture hearing.  She wrote a similar piece last week that was equally poignant.But the excuses she offers are neither cr ...

UK Progressive

  • The GOP’s Crippling Fascination With Neo-Hooverism
    By Charley James The Federal Reserve attracted a lot of attention Wednesday when it declared it won’t raise interest rates until unemployment drops below 6.5% – and then only if the long-term outlook for inflation showed it might be ticking upward. Far less media notice was given to the Fe ...
  • Gay Rights: What the Supreme Court’s Decision ...
    by Carl Matthes For those of us who grew up when homosexuality was a crime, the United States Supreme Court deciding to take up the Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) cases for review is astonishing. Unfortunately, the result may be far from satisfying for those of us who are directly ...
  • Mr Good Car’s 12th Annual Christmas Letter – F ...
    by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall [Mr. Good Car is a 16 year-old, Ford Windstar (271,120 miles), he still works for God.] Sometimes being a car has advantages. This past year, the election drama and the politicking coming over my radio were sickening. Occasionally, Pastor Britt got so disgusted ...
  • Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation’s drinking water. In man ...
  • We’ve Been Here Before
    by Kyle Scott We’ve been here before. And by here I mean a place of government gridlock where if the defining issue goes unresolved would seem to bring the nation to its knees. The debate over the fiscal cliff is nothing new. In fact, we have been here many times and each time we repeat [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Draft IPCC report leaked (the evidence is so o ...
    What was the point of keeping the IPCC draft secret? The point is so the IPCC can control both the content and the PR. The IPCC wants a free kick, and they get one if the world doesn’t see how they arrive at the conclusion, and if critics can’t specifically point to errors or flaws u ...
  • The IPCC was not right. Frame & Stone ignore m ...
    Professor David Frame and Dr Daithi Stone have produced a paper claiming the IPCC predictions in 1990 were successful and seem accurate. Those who read the actual FAR report and check the predictions against the data know that this is not so. They ignore the main IPCC predictions (the prominent ...
  • The IPCC was wrong. (Matthew England and the A ...
    This is a rare unequivocal case of overreach. Prof Matthew England proves he is either willing to lie “for the cause”, or he doesn’t know what he is talking about, or both. Sarah Clark at the ABC didn’t do five minutes research on the story to check the facts or ask infor ...
  • Are sea-levels rising? Nils Axel-Morner docume ...
    We’ve all heard the dire prophesies: Rising seas will reshape the world’s coastlines, a one meter rise will inundate 7000 sq mi of dry land, and cost over $100 billion in the United States alone. Worse, we thought things were bad before, but now it’s even rising faster than we ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    Let ‘er rip (this time with comments turned on). Jo Rating: 9.2/10 (9 votes cast) Rating: 9.2/10 (9 votes cast)

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • University of Oxford: 2012 Survey
    Not many surveys have been made regarding our topic, and probably none this academic: This research is being conducted through the University of Oxford and is interested in the beliefs concerning what has become known as the “2012 movement”. Although this movement has great interest  ...
  • Mystic Mayan Power Cloak
    I suspect this will be my last post that covers the lighter side of doomsday. Obviously the site selling the cloaks is for “entertainment purposes only”, so don’t think this is a product you can buy. Wearing the Invisible Mystic Mayan Power Cloak™ gives you guaranteed immunity ...
  • Vatican Astronomer: No End of World
    I sometimes wish we had 67 words to describe the end of the world… then perhaps discussions wouldn’t be comparing apples with oranges. Father Jose Gabriel Funes is the chief astronomer from the Vatican: It was “not even worth discussing the scientific basis of these claims,&# ...
  • 2012: The Mystery Finally Solved
    I’m not the best at this game. It took me over a decade to work out the most likely reason for the existence of the Long Count calendar, and although I mention it a lot in passing I’m not sure if I have actually announced my discovery. And I just realized I should be putting it on th ...
  • Cities At Risk of Super Cyclones
    There are two parts to this story from Cosmos Magazine: “A black swan is a surprise with huge impact,” she said yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California. “For this study, we defined [it] as an event which cannot reasonably be anticip ...

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 ...

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US Military Intelligence: Reforming Against China
    After the «terrorist attack» on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, the U.S. special services are taking on a heavy burden of responsibility. Whatever guise the real organizers and perpetrators of the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center took does not matter, the task for the s ...
  • They Are Supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria
    The Syrian national state and its armed forces are continuing to fiercely resist the global war targeting them. And while they are deploying all efforts and capabilities to provide the requirements of economic steadfastness and overcome the consequences of the terrorism and armed rebellion carri ...
  • Israel’s Operation in Gaza and Anti-Iranian Ca ...
    A strange war Debates are still raging in both the Israeli and the regional media as to why it was necessary to expend so much energy and resources on operation Pillar of Cloud and mobilize 75,000 reservists (7.5 times more than during Operation Cast Lead, the Israel Defense Forces’s last operat ...
  • Security Dilemma in the Middle East
    The ongoing conflict in the Middle East is a case of security dilemma in which parties to the conflict misperceive each other’s positions and craft policies which further contributes to tension in the region. On 29 November 2012 the Palestinian Authority received overwhelming support in the Unit ...
  • French Colonisers Have Not Accepted The Loss O ...
    A photograph taken in 1941, when Syria was still under the rule of French colonisers, has recently been circulating on social networking sites. In the worn black and white photograph, French General Georges Catroux is walking next to an elderly man with cunning eyes, Nur-Eddin al-Khatib. More th ...

BlogHer

  • BlogHer PRO: The Conference in Tweets!
    BlogHer PRO is officially on record! The conference in San Fransisco today was an informative, inspirational day -- and our attendees were busy tweeting what was being said. I followed along to bring you some of the highlights from each panel. I encourage you to not only check out the tweets, bu ...
  • Pet Care: Injuries and Health Insurance
    Who says animals can't be creative? If you've got pets, then you already know the many ways that beasties can hurt themselves unknowingly. In a recent conversation with Rob Jackson, CEO of Healthy Paws Pet Insurance, we discussed some common - and not so common - injury claims that he sees on hi ...
  • Helping Kids Process Grief
    [Editor's Note: Our boys were young in 2010, the year we refer to as The Year of Lots of Death. Sadly, 2011 was no better for us and as such, our boys have had a lot of practice at processing grief as a child. Theresa's recent post at Red Oak Road is one that I have bookmarked now for future ref ...
  • Susan Rice Withdraws Bid to be Secretary of State
    Susan Rice took her self out of the running to replace Hillary Clinton as the next Secretary of State, saying the partisan politics surrounding her potential nomination is not worth the trade-off. Rice, the current Ambassador to the United Nations, submitted her withdrawal in a letter to Preside ...
  • 8 Great Books To Give To Your Favorite Foodies
    No matter how much time I spend looking up recipes online, I'm still happiest when I'm curled up in my favorite chair, flipping through a hard-copy cookbook for just the right recipe to make next. Cookbooks and food books are great gifts for anyone who loves spending time in the kitchen. Here ar ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • GMO Giant Hires Retired Cops to Hunt Down Farmers
    GMO giants DuPont have contracted dozens of retired law enforcement officers to begin patrolling farms in the US next year to spot any potential intellectual property theft. DuPont Co, the second-largest seed country in the world, ...
  • Probiotics Improve Symptoms of the Common Cold
    If you have kids at university, a daily dose of probiotics may be just what they need to ward off the worst effects of winter colds. College students are notoriously sleep-deprived, live in close quarters and ...
  • People Living Longer but Not Healthier Lives
    WASHINGTON — Americans are living longer thanks to advances in medical care, but have a lower quality of life with the proliferation of chronic disease and preventable illness, a report found. While deaths from cancer and ...
  • Pomegranates Reduce Plaque In Arteries By 30% ...
      Arteriosclerosis Arteriosclerosis is a disease in which cholesterol and other fat in your blood slowly begins to attach to the walls of your arteries. Over time, your arteries begin to build up with plaque and harden. ...
  • Cancer-Causing Flame Retardants Remain in Home ...
     Chemicals designed to slow household fires continue to be found in worrying quantities in US homes, long after some of them have been banned because of suspected links to cancer and other conditions. The most controversial chemicals ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Still no proximity detection rules from MSHA
    That’s the photo that the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration distributed today, as part of its “fatalgram” about the Nov. 30 death of 27-year-old coal-mine electrician Steven O’Dell in another senseless mobile equipment accident in one of our nation’s underg ...
  • CONSOL miner update: Body found in dozer
    Here’s the latest word from CONSOL Energy, issued this morning: Dive and rescue teams completed a series of pipe dives over the weekend that helped to more clearly define the exact position and location of the bulldozer in the Robinson Run Preparation Plant impoundment. With this new infor ...
  • Friday roundup, Dec. 7, 2012
    In this Sept. 11, 2012 photo, a four-wheel-drive car follows a large mining truck as it makes its way to the top of a Boggabri coal mine near Gunnedah, Australia, 450 kilometers (280 miles) northwest of Sydney. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) Over at The Associated Press, Vicki Smith this week had a nic ...
  • Update on recovery at CONSOL impoundment
    WVDEP photo Updates just came in from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration and CONSOL Energy on their efforts to recovery the body of a United Mine Workers miner missing since last Friday following the collapse of a coal-waste embankment at the company’s Robinson Run mining compl ...
  • ‘Accidents occur’: Do coal miners ...
    The bad news started early last Friday: A 27-year-old coal miner was crushed to death between two pieces of mining equipment deep inside an Alpha Natural Resources underground mine in Greenbrier County.  Steven O’Dell of Mount Nebo left behind a wife who is expecting their first child late ...

Daniel Miessler

  • You’re Being Cross-site Tracked Online
    I’ve learned that there is a “website intelligence” network that tracks form submissions across their customer network.  So, if a visitors fills out a form on Site A with their name and email, Site B knows their name and email too as soon as they land on the site. via 42floors.com Don&#8 ...
  • Background Electric Hum Validates Recordings
    It is a technique known as Electric Network Frequency (ENF) analysis, and it is helping forensic scientists to separate genuine, unedited recordings from those that have been tampered with. Dr Harrison said: “We can extract [the hum] and compare it with the database – if it is a con ...
  • Reading Hitchens Improves My Writing
    But only temporarily. During the short period after reading Hitchens, say a couple of hours, or perhaps a few days, I am able to think (and write) much more clearly. It’s as if seeing it done properly leads your brain along a cleared path, but as time goes on the leaves once again cover ...
  • Asking Siri For Permission To Know Where Your ...
    I wrote just now about how you can find your close friends’ physical location using Siri. One piece of the current functionality that’s missing is being able to get the temporary location of people you’re not super close with–say some friendish people you’re meet ...
  • You Can Ask Siri Where Your Friends Are
    I was thinking today that it’d be nifty if one could ask Siri where a particular friend is, like: Where is Ken Swain? …and have it come back with his location on a map. So I made the tweet above and got back a reply from @josephjaramillo saying that this is already p ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • CJE Friday News Briefs
    Quake of 6.1 magnitude strikes off California A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck 142 kilometers (88 miles) southwest of the coast of California at 1036 GMT, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Friday.     Senate committee approves report on CIA interrogations, revives torture debate ...
  • A Wednesday Abortion – Viewpoint from th ...
    Written by Alex vande Bruinhorst,reformedprolifer.com - Sunday night, quarter after eleven. I’m almost sleeping when the familiar chime of a text message startles me awake. Who is texting me late on a Sunday evening, I wonder. It’s one of my friends, letting me know that she is meeti ...
  • Here It Comes (Slouching towards Bethlehem and ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – Yes, word has it the LIE named “right to work” is headed here to my state. We have a very PRO business republican governor in Corbett and seeing as he has already given cart blanche to the Fracking industry, even going so far as to open up school campuses an ...
  • Ghosts of Indigenous activism past, present, f ...
    #IdleNoMore’s transformative potential BY HAYDEN KING,,mediaindigena.com - Earlier this week, from Goose Bay to Yellowknife, thousands of Nehiyaw, Dene, Metis peoples (joined by Canadians supportive of them) gathered in front of provincial legislatures, constituency and Aboriginal Affairs office ...
  • Hey Guess What? It’s Not Always About Y ...
    by Linda Wolf,WWH/CJE – Recently, I saw several internet postings lashing back and forth, bitching and complaining how they had been wronged. All the posts went on for long detailed paragraphs. What so and so said and did. How so and so is pissed because… Scrolling down, I found the ...

reference frame

  • A schizophrenic Higgs mass?
    Some readers have asked me what I think about the updated ATLAS, CMS Higgs results that were released today. I would say that they are as un-new as possible. The details will be discussed momentarily. But at the beginning, let's say that it's not shocking that we don't get any game-changing ...
  • U.N. vaguely votes to vaguely censor the Internet
    ITU has made the first vote of the U.N. countries on whether or not the governments want to make the Internet more regulated and censored. If you click at the link, you will see that the answer is a worrisome "Yes". How was the outcome determined? It was determined according to the "temper ...
  • Doomsday in 9 days
    It's 12/12/12, 12:12:12 pm now, the Pope tweeted for the first time 12+12+12 minutes ago, and many people are worried about the doom that arrives in 9 days from now. NASA even recorded a special 6-minute monologue by astronomer David Morrison that tries to disagree with the fearful pr ...
  • Bjørn Lomborg moves to Prague
    I was told about a fun interview last night on the Czech Public TV Channel called ČT24 (a news channel of a sort). Click at the screenshot below to watch the 6-minute video: Transcript (autom. EN) The host asks about the Kyoto protocol (extended through 2020 in Doha, but covering ...
  • Yuri Milner adds some winners
    According to The New York Times and others, Yuri Milner has found a few more physicists to get millions of dollars. A visualization of the big money – although Milner is so far giving away less than the U.S. debt. ;-) When the inaugural prize was given away, I said that Stephen H ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Exercises of strategic nuclear forces complete ...
    Large-scale exercises of the Strategic Nuclear Forces under the command of President Vladimir Putin have completed in Russia, the presidentâs press-secretary Dmitri Peskov reports…. AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Large Scale Nuclear Drill in Russia Comp ...
  • Four people set on fire during assault in Nort ...
    Denver police say four people were set afire during an assault in North Denver Thursday night. The incident happened in the 4300 block of Lipan Street shortly before 7:30 p.m. Police spokesman Raquel Lopez said two black males knocked on an apartment door and when a woman answered, she was spray ...
  • Detention centres no place for migrant childre ...
    The federal government is being urged to stop using immigration detention centres to house migrant families, as research shows the children suffer lasting trauma. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Mystery surrounds death of 3 Quebec children The father of three young children found ...
  • War Crimes Wishlist, Wyden Taps Out, Obama v. ...
    from corbettreport: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: ALERT ~ Our World is Unraveling from crabbydogtrix: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver,... The TSA Meets Independent Me ...
  • Japan scrambles fighters after Chinese patrol ...
    The JASDF launched F-15J fighters, and an E-2C Hawkeye after a Chinese patrol plane was sighted in airspace over islands both countries claim. The Senkaku Islands, also known as… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: China prepares for a possible war with Japa ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Just How "Green" is Walgreens?
    By Sarah Swanke, EWG General Research Intern Attention Bargain Shoppers: Walgreens now sells a line of healthy home products called Ology!  These new products are advertised as free of toxic chemicals, including ammonia, chlorine bleach, di- and... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • How EWG Grades Cleaning Products in its New Gu ...
    By David Andrews Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist It's that time of year again, when students everywhere try to figure out how well they need to do on the final exam to get an A for the term. Or maybe... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ...
  • Nation's Pediatricians Warn Against Pesticides ...
    By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations The American Academy of Pediatrics has taken the unprecedented step of issuing a policy statement that calls on the government, schools, parents and medical professionals to take concerted action to protect... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Cooking Through Winter's Bitter Bounty
    By Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist When the weather turns, the days get shorter and it's time to get out the winter clothes, it's also high season for the Brassicaceae, or mustard family, on your family's dinner table.   The Brassica... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • EWG Seeks Answers About Loophole in Proposed N ...
    By Thomas Cluderay, EWG Assistant General Counsel EWG is requesting records from New York officials to shed light on a potentially glaring loophole in the state's draft plan for regulating high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the event that Gov. Andrew... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Brutal reality for football coaches
    Few jobs in Norway, or just about anywhere, have as little job security as those tied to coaching professional football. Jan Jönsson of the Rosenborg football club in Trondheim is just the latest in a string of confident, high-profile men who’ve literally been kicked out of the game. Wildl ...
  • Munch celebrated amidst quarreling
    Norway’s most famous artist, Edvard Munch, would have turned 149 years old on Wednesday. He’ll be the subject of a local jubilee for the next 12 months, in the run-up to his 150th birthday, despite disappointing funding for it and Oslo politicians’ failure to agree on a new mus ...
  • Record snowfall hits southwest
    Residents of Rogaland County on Norway’s southwest coast were digging their way out of a major snowstorm during the night that severely disrupted traffic in the air and on the ground, and left them tackling record-high snowdrifts. Now they’re bracing, along with the rest of southern ...
  • New pest attacks salmon
    An amoeba from Tasmania has found its way to fish farms off the southwestern coast of Norway, setting off concerns that it can cause disease and death among salmon like it already has at Irish and Scottish fish farms. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported last week that the amoeba has shown ...
  • Convicted terrorist unhappy in prison
    The young Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 persons in twin attacks last week has written a 27-page complaint about his prison conditions. Anders Behring Breivik has access to three separate cells, but claims the high-security measures to which he’s subjected will drive him to suicide. New ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Permaculture Meets Mozambique
    In an isolated corner of northern Mozambique great things are being done. A demonstration farm run by the Manda Wilderness Agricultural Project, an offshoot of a local trust organization and set in the picturesque region of Manda Wilderness, is held together by the efforts by five local staff an ...
  • The Gift of Death
    Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it. by George Monbiot There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a “hilario ...
  • Medieval Spanish Ghost Town Becomes Self-Suffi ...
    It’s a utopian fantasy — discover a ghost town and rebuild it in line with your ideals — but in Spain where there are nearly 3000 abandoned villages (most dating back to the Middle Ages), some big dreamers have spent the past 3 decades doing just that. There are now a few do ...
  • Letters from Ladakh – Culture Demolition in Fa ...
    Editor’s Preamble: Despite the title, I’m no longer in Ladakh. Indeed, it was way back in August 2009 when I was there, so this article has been a long time coming (thanks to work on the WPN keeping me too busy, amongst other things!). I keep the ‘Letters from…’ par ...
  • Cleaning House the Permaculture Way
    In permaculture design we look at the inputs and outputs of various components, and try to connect things to each other so that the supply from one thing meets the demand of another. We can grow our own food, and thus meet the nutritional needs of the family, and the organic waste is looped [...]

Pointman's

  • Just how far are you prepared to go to feel go ...
    I believe the acid test of any political system or indeed any society, is how much compassion it has for its own people, who’re simply going through some travails or deeply in trouble. That very same test applies to such everyday organisations as a business enterprise and right down to an ...
  • How tropical storm Sandy became a Frankenstorm ...
    Infowar uses propaganda, which is directed at a population to give them a worldview which accords with your own political beliefs. There are a lot of propaganda techniques; disinformation, censorship, misrepresentation, character assassination, lies, intimidation and the rewriting of history, to ...
  • How tropical storm Sandy became a Frankenstorm ...
    Infowar uses propaganda, which is directed at a population to give them a worldview which accords with your own political beliefs. There are a lot of propaganda techniques; disinformation, censorship, misrepresentation, character assassination, lies, intimidation and the rewriting of history, to ...
  • The real doh! about Doha.
    Well, here we are again. It’s November and that time of year for the annual international conference on figuring out ways of saving us all from global warming. Since the last one was called COP17, this one rather unsurprisingly is called COP18. Incidentally, COP stands for Conference of the Part ...
  • Some direct questions for the BBC that it&#821 ...
    The revelations of the last couple of weeks, have shone a bright light into some dark corners of the BBC and what’s been exposed, while very disturbing and quite frankly seamy, comes as no surprise to those of us who’ve long entertained doubts on its supposed impartiality, integrity  ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Crime Against Nature Law Back in Court
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Fill the Court For Oral Arguments In the Case To Overturn Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature Law! Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, 10:00 a.m Federal District Court, 500 Poydras Street Judge Feldman’s Court—Room C551 Many of y ...
  • "I'm The Miracle": The Story of Exoneree Derri ...
    From our friends at Resurrection After Exoneration: “I’m number 119,” proclaims the man sitting beside my desk. His smile is broad and sincere, gold teeth glistening in the artificial light of the office. “Damon Thibodeaux is number 141, you know, the one who got out of Angola a couple weeks ...
  • Documentary Planned on United Houma Nation's " ...
    Reposted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Indian Santa is a short documentary about, as the name suggests, Indian Santa. The tradition was started in 1985 when Hurricane Juan devastated the Houma Indian communities along the Gulf Coast. The Houma families received little help after the st ...
  • Hundreds in New Orleans Protest Israeli Killin ...
    In one of the larger protests New Orleans has seen in recent years, nearly two hundred demonstrators marched through New Orleans' French Quarter on Saturday, November 17, to protest the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The next day, a mostly student crowd of about 40 held a candlelight vigil at Tula ...
  • African Americans for Justice in the Middle Ea ...
    The initial signers of this petition include former People's Hurricane Relief Fund director Kali Akuno, and writer and scholar Robin D.G. Kelley. To see the original petition, click here. African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa (AAJMENA) strongly condemns Israeli agg ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: Former TIU troll ZionCrimeFactory has been assassinating Dawson's character on his blog. Apparently you are a defacto Jew if you do not convert to Nazism. No need to convert to Nazism but a reworking of history and a perception regarding the suffering of Germans woul ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Former TIU troll ZionCrimeFactory has been assassinating Dawson's character on his blog. Apparently you are a defacto Jew if you do not convert to Nazism.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:29 am
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Stratfor chief executive George Friedman Photo: AP Stratfor: executive boasted of 'trusted former CIA cronies' By Alex Spillius, Diplomatic Correspondent9:08PM GMT 28 Feb 2012 Fred Burton, vice president of intelligence at the Texas firm, also informed members of staff that he had a copy of ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Detailed explanation of AJ's connections to Stratfor and Tripwire: http://www.gagnauga.is/index.php?Fl=Greinar&ID=229Statistics: Posted by MikeWB — Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:39 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    by Dean Henderson Published: Jun. 01, 2011 – deanhenderson.wordpress.com The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, B ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • U.S. Awards $28 Million to Offshore Wind Farm ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to provide $28 million in grants to seven proposed offshore wind projects, a financial commitment the Obama administration hopes will provide a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to gain a foothold in American waters. Each of the seven p ...
  • Interview: Creating Clouds in a Lab To Better ...
    At the CERN research laboratory in Switzerland, scientists are conducting experiments to help solve a key riddle: the role of clouds in future CERN Jasper Kirkby climate change. Leading that study is British physicist Jasper Kirkby, who oversees complex experiments in a large steel chambe ...
  • Large Cellulosic Biorefinery Will Convert Corn ...
    Chemical giant DuPont has started construction of a large-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Iowa capable of converting corn stalks and leaves into USDA Corn stover in bales a biofuel that could be used in place of fossil fuels at some power plants. The $200 million facility, which will ...
  • NASA Visualization Captures Record Year for Wi ...
    This year has been an unusually severe one for wildfires in the U.S., with more than 9.1 million acres of land burned through the end of November, federal officials say. The total affected area, which is depicted in a new NASA map, is already the third-largest since records were first kept in 19 ...
  • Doha Talks Preserve Kyoto, But Achieve Few Mea ...
    As the latest round of global climate talks ended over the weekend in Doha, Qatar, delegates approved a weakened extension of the Kyoto Protocol, as expected, but obtained no commitments from major emitting nations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While nearly 200 nations agreed to extend t ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

  • CIA ‘tortured and sodomised’ terro ...
    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 historic judgment released on Thursday.
  • SPLC: FBI: Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Remain Rela ...
    Hate crimes against perceived Muslims, which jumped up 50% in 2010 largely as a result of anti-Muslim propagandizing, remained at relatively high levels last year, according to 2011 hate crime statistics released by the FBI.
  • Houston: Dead Pig Left In Front of Mosque
    A disturbing discovery was made outside of a Houston area mosque and now Islamic community leaders are calling it a hate crime. A dead pig was left in front of the mosque Tuesday in Cypress.
  • Fox News Reignites Islamophobic Campaign Again ...
    Fox News is again trying to drum up “controversy” around the Park51 Islamic community center in Manhattan.
  • Bachmann Compares Letter From Muslim Advocacy ...
    Bachmann suggested that Americans read Islamic study materials to learn about Muslims’ supposed plot to conquer Western civilization, comparing the tactic to reading Adolf Hitler’s infamous book, Mein Kampf.

Energy News

Japan Times

  • U.S. Marine gets four years for molesting woma ...
    The Naha District Court sentenced a U.S. Marine to four years in prison Thursday for molesting and assaulting a woman in Okinawa in August. The court handed down the sentence to Cpl. Iian Tarver, 21, from Camp Zukeran, in line with prosecutors' demands.
  • Plan for replacement market at new Tsukiji sit ...
    Tokyo's Chuo Ward and local merchants have unveiled their plan to create a new marketplace near the site of the soon-to-be-relocated Tsukiji fish market. The aging fish market is set to be transferred to the Toyosu district in Koto Ward by the end of fiscal 2014. Locals in Chuo Ward are hoping ...
  • Sharp unveils high-resolution '4K' TV
    Struggling Sharp Corp. on Thursday unveiled a new line of 60-inch high-end TVs it plans to launch in February at an eye-popping price of ¥2.5 million each. The ICC Purios line will feature Sharp's latest liquid crystal displays, which boast a resolution four times greater than those in it ...
  • Nissan battery plant in Tennessee starts full ...
    Nissan Motor Co. said Wednesday that full-scale operations have begun at its plant for lithium-ion batteries in Smyrna, Tennessee. The move is part of Nissan's effort to boost sales of its Leaf electric vehicle in the United States. It also plans to produce the Leaf, currently made only in Jap ...
  • Murofushi, Olympic teammates honored at JAAF A ...
    The 2012 track and field season witnessed so many fresh-faced youngsters come into the spotlight, especially at the London Summer Olympics. But after the fall, it was a well-known, household name that represented in the year's end.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Harper’s prisons: Québec’s point of view
    On this past 5 December, we learnt on the front page of the daily Devoir that college-level instruction provided to inmates was now in jeopardy because of the federal cuts in Flaherty’s last budget. At Collège Marie-Victorin in Montréal, these cuts could bring an end to forty years of inmate ins ...
  • Shale gas: “Chapter 11” steps in
    Both in Québec and in the United States, public authorities have legislated to protect populations from shale gas industry-related risks. These precautions could however come up against controversial NAFTA provisions within the infamous chapter 11 regarding investor protection. In the States, th ...
  • Implementing Budget 2012: No Rest for Women
    The current government’s economic policies, being rolled out in a series of omnibus bills and ‘administrative changes,’ come at a high price to women. These policies do not create jobs in industries where women work; these policies increase the tax burden on working women while decreasing their ...
  • Québec’s Budget: the only option available
    Some present the new PQ government’s first budget as a necessary first step before truly plunging into more liberal measures. In fact, it was out of obligation, they say, that the new Finance Minister, Nicolas Marceau, presented a budget so unexciting, in keeping with its PLQ predecessors. And y ...
  • Twenty years of talk about climate change
    Doha, Qatar — The 18th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is now underway in Doha, Qatar. This year’s president is His Excellency Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiya, chair of Qatar’s Administrative Control and Transparency Authority. A ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Global water crisis: Seen from the first Himal ...
    “In the Nepalese Himalayas in 2009, I trekked into the Langtang Valley, just short of the Tibetan border, and to a village of empty plywood cabins. The arrival of the summer monsoon season had chased the trekkers away. “Just uphill was a Buddhist temple and, behind it, a wrinkled sea ...
  • The children risking their lives on the way to ...
    “Children in Indonesia are risking their lives everyday just to get to school. They use an aqueduct, suspended hundreds of metres above the ground as a shortcut, even though it was not built for people to walk on. It is meant to transport water, but the wooden structure links Suro Village ...
  • California air board says DWP must control dry ...
    “The California Air Resources Board has ruled that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is solely responsible for controlling the choking dust storms that arise from the dry Owens Lake bed. The board said the DWP must take additional air pollution control measures on 2.9 square mi ...
  • Drought No Obstacle to Record Income for U.S. ...
    “Even after the worst drought in a half century shriveled crops from Ohio to Nebraska, U.S. farmers are having their most-profitable year ever because of record- high prices and insurance claims. Farmer income probably will jump 6.9 percent to $144 billion, exceeding the government’s Augus ...
  • Loophole Lets Toxic Oil Water Flow Over Indian ...
    “These operations have the federal government’s permission to dump wastewater on the land — so much that it creates streams that flow into natural creeks and rivers. And this water contains toxic chemicals, including known carcinogens and radioactive material, according to documents ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Throw out the NDAA, End the Wars and ...
    Washington D.C. (December 13, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement on the NDAA: “Today, this House will send the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to conference. Contrary to its title, the bill does not provide for the protection of the Amer ...
  • 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. ...
  • American Academy of Pediatricians Endorses Cel ...
    Washington D.C. (December 13, 2012) – The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) which represents “60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, and young ...
  • Free Nasrin Sotoudeh: Resolution Calls on Iran ...
    Representatives Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Mike Michaud (D-ME), John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), André Carson (D-IN) and James Moran (D-VA) have introduced H. Res. 828, legislation that would call on the government of Iran to release Nasrin Sotoudeh, and all prisoners of conscience from Evin prison. Ms. So ...
  • Critical Vote Alert: House Judiciary to Vote o ...
    Washington D.C. (December 12, 2012) – The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote tomorrow on H. Res. 819, a Resolution of Inquiry, introduced by Congressman Kucinich (D-OH), to finally compel the Administration to release its legal justification for drones strikes which targets American c ...

Authentically Wired

  • WHICH ONE IS GOING TO BLINK
    …. APPROACHING THE MYTHICAL FISCAL CLIFF WHICH ONE IS GOING TO BLINK … WONDER WHAT THE ODDS ARE IN VEGAS Filed under: Blogroll
  • has become too-big-to-prosecute.
    … As I recall the notion of too big to fail did not work out all the well for the Empire … think it will really work long term for the bankseter$ …   Too Big to Jail: Big Banks Can Finance Terrorists and Walk Away Scot-Free   HSBC receives get-out-of-jail-free card in a real-life [...]
  • choosing NOT to blindly accept
    … I suggest the vaccination rates lag because parents and teachers are corporate propaganda promoted by “big-pharma” – the AMA – World Health Organization (WHO) – and other Eugenic promoters … Filed under: Blogroll
  • so stop being a wimp
    … When we choose to elect individuals who are not beholding to Mon$anto and “big-pharma” this will change but not before … so stop being a wimp …   A recent federal court decision declares that Big Pharma sales reps have "free speech," but nutritional supplement companies do not: ht ...
  • Feds Let Industry Pollute
    … A perfect example is ADEQ permit for the “in situ” mine in Superior, Arizona  which like “fracking” will shatter the earth creating fractures permitting millions of gallons of pollutants to be pumped into “mother-earth” to extract copper … but you and I get to drink the pollutant residual ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Uncontacted tribes still exist, but extinction ...
    The world is more interconnected than ever. Globally, there are six billion cell phone subscribers and 900 million Facebook users. Nearly 32 million people follow Lady Gaga on Twitter. Given this content is may seem hard to believe that there remain people who have never had contact with the out ...
  • Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack o ...
    Ahead of the 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar a variety of reports warned that the world was running out of time to avoid dangerous climate change, and that there was a widening gap between what nations have pledged to do and what the science dem ...
  • Asia Pulp & Paper hires top U.S. lobbyist to h ...
    Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has hired a top U.S. official to help it work through trade and environmental issues. In November, APP announced it had retained Stuart Eizenstat of Covington & Burling, a U.S.-based law firm, to help 'ensure APP’s trade and sustainability ...
  • Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainfor ...
    The average annual rate of deforestation across Amazon rainforest countries dropped sharply in the second half of the 2000s, reports a comprehensive new assessment of the region's forest cover and drivers of deforestation. While the drop in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has been widely r ...
  • Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle ove ...
    The city of Parauapebas, Brazil is booming: built over the remains of the Amazon rainforest, the metropolis has grown 75-fold in less than 25 years, from 2,000 people upwards of 150,000. But little time for urban planning and both a spatial and mental distance from the federal government has cre ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Deciphering the Christmas tree DNA code
    To millions of people, the Christmas tree is a cheerful sight. To scientists who decipher the DNA codes of plants and animals, it's a monster.We're talking about the conifer, the umbrella term for cone-bearing trees like the spruce,...
  • New Zealander of the Year Finalist: Peter Stewart
    "Can you make a small explosion?," the photographer asked."I can do a fireball," the teacher replied, a gleam in his eye.Perfect. Science teacher Peter Stewart hurried off to find the appropriate ingredients, returning to set...
  • Top-secret mini shuttle sent to space
    A top-secret mini-space shuttle has blasted off from Cape Canaveral.The Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft Tuesday aboard an Atlas V rocket.It's the second flight for this original X-37B spaceplane. It circled the planet...
  • British chemist calls for helium balloon ban
    A British chemist believes helium balloons should be banned to save the scarce resource. Dr Peter Worthers of Cambridge University says there will be "a serious problem" in the coming decades if the gas continues to be wasted in...
  • Toxic end to dream island holiday
    As soon as she took a bite of the fish caught and prepared for her by some Fijian locals, Amanda Austrin knew something was wrong.The coral trout, cooked on a white sand beach in banana leaves over an open fire, was a kind gesture...

The Bovine

  • Organic agriculture is the road to happiness i ...
    From Eliza Barclay, at National Public Radio: “The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan drew international attention a few years back for saying gross national happiness should trump gross domestic product when measuring a nation’s progress. If you’re going to prioritize … Co ...
  • “Milk trial by jury” – video ...
    From Marianne Else.  Note: Performance starts at 1:05 in video clip 5 Milk Trial by Jury  Gordon Brunet — The Learned Judge, Donna Ellen Trifunovich — Plaintiff — Dairy Farmers of Ontario, Mitch Smolkin — Michael Schmidt — Defendant, Ronald … Continue reading ...
  • Bogus “data” from government agencies
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Media people love juicy data suggesting an untended-to crisis, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has the perfect juicy data for anyone wanting to write about the supposed crisis in … Continue reading →
  • Bogus “data” from government agencies
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Media people love juicy data suggesting an untended-to crisis, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has the perfect juicy data for anyone wanting to write about the supposed crisis in … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt’s “Symphony in the ...
    Ontario’s legendary raw milk crusader also makes music in his spare time.  This Saturday Dec. 15, Michael’s Symphony in the Barn will perform Handel’s Messiah with the Saugeen Chamber Choir and Orchestra at the Christian Community Church, 901 Rutherford Rd, … Continue rea ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI Improves in ...
    The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI™ report shows Operating conditions continue to improve in December. Key points Flash China Manufacturing PMI™ at 50.9 (50.5 in November). Fourteen-month high. Flash China Manufacturing Output Index at 50.5 (51.3 in November). Two-month low. ...
  • EU Punts on Creating Timetable for Fiscal and ...
    Those looking for a step in the right direction today can find it in the Financial Times Live Blog which announces "EU drops timetable for creating eurozone fiscal and banking union". EU heads of state and government have started gathering in Brussels even though their summit isn’t scheduled to ...
  • Small Business Owners Cut Capital Expenditures ...
    According to the latest Gallup survey, Small-Business Owners Pull Back Capital Spending Plans. Moreover, net capital spending by small businesses declined over the last year as well. Here is the question Gallup asked "Over the next 12 months, do you expect the amount of money your company a ...
  • Socialists Denounce French Actors Leaving Fran ...
    According to Socialist newspapers and politicians “to pay a tax is an act of solidarity, a patriotic act.” Those leaving France because of its uncompetitive tax rate see things differently. Please consider Socialists Denounce Gérard Depardieu for Leaving France Gérard Depardieu, one o ...
  • Crazy Incentives in Welfare System; The Welfar ...
    It's better to receive median welfare than median income according to a US Senate budget committee report Total Welfare Spending Equates To $168 Per Day For Every Household In Poverty. Based on data from the Congressional Research Service, cumulative spending on means-tested federal ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 9
    “Rejecting Compromise, Committing to Action” Presenting David Swanson This week Eric has the pleasure of having an in-depth conversation with blogger, author, and activist David Swanson. David and Eric discuss the mythology of the fiscal cliff and the propaganda and lies of both major parties. A ...
  • The New American Magazine’s William Jasper Rev ...
    I am truly grateful to Mr. Jasper and the New American Magazine for writing and publishing this very well-written and assessed review of my book. This review is written by a journalist and author who knows and truly understands the saga of government whistleblowers. Several years ago, in the ear ...
  • Unmasking the Brotherhood: Syria, Egypt, and B ...
    The most powerful weapons of the Western ruling class in the Muslim world The complexities of the Arab Spring and the struggle for political freedom throughout the Arab world should not obscure what has now become an absolutely essential understanding for all anti-imperialists: the Muslim Brothe ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Key Coast Guard Bill Clears Senate, Heads for ...
    Washington, DC – A bill to institute reforms for the U.S. Coast Guard, reduce regulatory burdens on small business, and uphold the Coast Guard’s ability to carry out its missions [...]
  • HR Recommendation Refloated in Charleston Harbor
    A 441-foot Liberian-flagged freighter that ran aground in Charleston Harbor Tuesday after losing propulsion has been refloated, the Coast Guard says. No damage or pollution was reported after the vessel, [...]
  • Brazil Ports Starved of Investment and Buried ...
    By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA – Brazil’s ports are among the slowest and most costly in the world due poor infrastructure, high taxes, excessive red-tape and deficient road and rail access, [...]
  • International Tribunal to Rule on Argentine Ta ...
    BUENOS AIRES–The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will deliver its ruling Saturday on a demand by Argentina that Ghana immediately release an Argentine navy training vessel seized [...]
  • American Commercial Lines Chooses CAT C280s to ...
    American Commercial Lines (ACL) has selected Cat® C280 marine engines for repowering six of their towboats. Bill Foster, ACL Vice President Boat Maintenance, commented, “We are making significant investments in [...]

Press TV

  • 'Severe CIA interrogations ineffective’
    A US Senate committee has approved a long-awaited voluminous report that concludes harsh interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) failed to obtain major intelligence achievements, officials say.
  • Iraq blast kills 2 Iranians, injures 20
    At least two Iranians have been killed and 20 others wounded in four roadside bombs in the Iraqi city of Samarra, north of the capital, Baghdad.
  • Eurozone faces deeper recession in Q4
    New figures show that recession deepened in the eurozone in the fourth quarter of 2012.
  • 'US arms sales to cover Israel weakness'
    An Iranian lawmaker says Israel’s plan to get munitions worth $647 million from the US to renew the stock spent in the Gaza war shows Tel Aviv spares no effort to cover its military weaknesses.
  • IAEA: Progress made in talks with Iran
    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says progress was made in Thursday’s talks between the agency and Iran in the capital Tehran.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

  • On Cable News, ‘Torture’ Is a Dirty Word TVNe ...
    On Cable News, ‘Torture’ Is a Dirty Word TVNewser reports on a survey of media coverage by the organization “Covering Torture  that suggests “cable news channels are far more likely to avoid the word torture in their coverage of world events, and instead use less offensive euphemisms for the p ...
  • "What we need is a truly transformative develo ...
    “What we need is a truly transformative development agenda that can drive change on systemic...
  • IRIN: The beginnings of transitional justice i ...
    IRIN: The beginnings of transitional justice in Syria The United Nations’ news agency, IRIN, reports that there are now several initiatives — from the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry into human rights violations in Syria to the Center for Documentation of Violations in Sy ...
  • War Widows Struggle in a ‘Man’s World’ | Inter ...
    War Widows Struggle in a ‘Man’s World’ | Inter Press Service Amantha Perera begins: “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 hi ...
  • "The real problem is not that there are no gui ...
    “The real problem is not that there are no guidelines written down—though the administration...
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