Fair Use Note

WARNING for European visitors: European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent. As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. Learn more about this notice and your responsibilities.

Thomas Paine

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

Monday, December 17, 2012

17 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Uther Pendragon, of the TV show Merlin, is a N...
Uther Pendragon, of the TV show Merlin, is a Neocon (Photo credit: KAZVorpal)
Syria
Syria (Photo credit: No Lands Too Foreign)
 Sidebar Search returns for water and environment at bottom
Opit's LinkFest! RSS at Opera Community

Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Syria: Sunni rebels burn Shiite mosque: video
    A video posted on the Internet shows Sunni Muslim rebels burning a Shiite mosque in north Syria - a sign that the country's civil war is spiralling into a sectarian conflict. Dozens of fighters dressed in camouflage gear with Sunni-style beards are shown in the footage congratulating and kiss ...
  • AEP: Europe clings to scorched-earth ideology.
    Like the generals of the First World War, Europe’s leaders seem determined to send wave after wave of their youth into the barbed wire of tight money, bank deleveraging, and fiscal austerity a l’outrance.
  • Syria: Obama Vs the NeoCons
    Just in case you were wondering if President Barack Obama is any different from, say, “President Mitt Romney” or some hypothetical “President Neocon,” the answer is: Yes. Proof: Syria. Just take a glimpse at the hysteria of the neoconservatives about what ought to be done in Syria.
  • 1860: 'Humanitarian' Intervention in Syria
    On 16 August 1860, a French expeditionary force landed in Beirut. According to Napoleon III, the French military were going to "restore order" in Syria, then an Ottoman province. Regarded today as the first example of "the right to intervene on humanitarian grounds", the military intervention ac ...
  • The One Chart About Oil's Future ..
    Hydraulic fracturing was first used in 1947. More than 30 years later in the early 1980s, building on government research, George Mitchell and his company Mitchell Energy and Development began pursuing natural gas in deep shale deposits. It took Mitchell 20 years of experimentation, government h ...

Independent - London

  • Teachers prepare to return to classes after ma ...
    Not long ago, officials here promoted their public schools at conventions and conferences across the state, printing newsletters detailing "the highlight of Newtown." Related StoriesThe harrowing details of how the Newtown massacre began"We are failing our children" Obama tells grief-stricken N ...
  • "We are failing our children", Obama tells gri ...
    As shaken locals continued to gather around memorials near the elementary school where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults on Friday, President Obama, speaking from a spartan stage set up at another school in this picturesque southern New England town, promised to use “whatever power” hi ...
  • "These tragedies must end", Obama tells grief- ...
    As shaken locals continued to gather around memorials near the elementary school where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults on Friday, President Obama, speaking from a spartan stage set up at another school in this picturesque southern New England town, promised to use “whatever power” hi ...
  • "These tragedies must end" Obama tells grief-s ...
    As shaken locals continued to gather around memorials near the elementary school where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults on Friday, President Obama, speaking from a spartan stage set up at another school in this picturesque southern New England town, promised to use “whatever power” hi ...
  • "We are failing our children" Obama tells grie ...
    As shaken locals continued to gather around memorials near the elementary school where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults on Friday, President Obama, speaking from a spartan stage set up at another school in this picturesque southern New England town, promised to use “whatever power” hi ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • The woes of an American drone operator
    Dreams in Infrared A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United States Air Force in New Mexico. He kills dozens of people. But then, one day, he realizes that he can't do it anymore. For more than fi ...
  • Just a rumor? Libor scandal grows as the fathe ...
    In the wake of the mass murders that took place in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec. 14, information on the shooter, and his family, is slowly being discovered by law enforcement other sources. One interesting connection to the tragedy that took place at the Sandy Hook school is that the father of Ad ...
  • Fireball plunges off Black Sea
    A big fireball plunged into a body of water near the Black Sea Tuesday last week in the city of Ordu in Turkey. Comments to the video are widely varied. Some people connect it to the Dec. 12 (12/12/12) supposed mysticism, some say it's a UFO, and others refer to other news reports that link the ...
  • Ex-police chief starts casino fight, dies of h ...
    Pittsburgh - The former Rankin Police chief died Friday after an apparent heart attack, while in police custody following an altercation with his estranged wife and her male companion. The altercation started Friday around 11:30 p.m. at the Meadows Racetrack in Washington County. Police say fo ...
  • Conservatives sweep to power in faltering Japan
    Tokyo - Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) surged back to power in an election on Sunday just three years after a devastating defeat, giving ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a chance to push his hawkish security agenda and radical economic recipe. Exit polls by television broadcast ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The Epigenetic Key . . .
    HOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR arises has been a mystery. According to an article by George Dvorsky in io9, "Scientists claim that homosexuality is not genetic — but it arises in the womb", as the endocrine system copes with operational life. Fascinating, click on the link to find out more. A team ...
  • Human behavior . . .
    HUMAN MOTIVATION is incredibly complex. Attempts to tweek with it are invariably mis-directed. Esther Inglis-Arkell's article at io9, "The lasting mystery of the Hawthorne Effect" is worthy of  attention. The Hawthorne Effect is cited by both business experts and psychology experts, but r ...
  • Right to work . . .
    RIGHT TO WORK got its start in Texas in the early 1940's. It's the malignant creation of a particularly odious American, Vance Muse. According to Mark Ames at Not Safe For Work Corporation, in an article "You Hate "Right To Work" Laws More Than You Know. Here's Why", Vance Muse was quite a piece ...
  • Disarm
    Nothing good ultimately comes from firearms.   Millions of human beings in the global South slaughter each other and innocents because of ready access of weapons and ammunition. People, ill and 'sane' in the global North kill each other in smaller numbers and intellectualise the debate ove ...
  • Great military men
    “He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man” said US General Norman Schwarzkopf on Saddam Hussein during the 1991 war, but he might has well have been describing the US military- ...

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

  • Crying in America, Dismissing the “Colla ...
    The U.S. Government on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the killing of three American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen earlier this year: alleged Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, his son Abdulrahman,…
  • Obama’s War on Syria and its Implication ...
    The Obama administration has already declared war on Syria, even if it isn’t “official” yet. Consider the facts, all of them acts of war: The U.S. now recognizes a group of Syrian exiles to be the official government of Syria;…
  • Islamofascist Killers Threaten Syria
    They’re merciless cutthroat murderers. They commit grotesque atrocities. Torture, beheadings, and other monstrous savagery are all in a day’s work. They’re Washington favorites. They’re recruited, heavily armed, trained, funded and directed in all US regional wars. Ronald ...
  • Geopolitical Dislocation and Worldwide Economi ...
    The current geopolitical dislocation, largely anticipated by LEAP/E2020 since February of 2009 (GEAB No. 32), has resulted in a global fragmentation than will accelerate over the course of next year, amidst global recession. The end of the leadership of traditional…
  • US-backed Free Syrian Army has “Crossed ...
    [T]his could set off a chain of events that may pull the Russian Federation directly into the conflict. If the lives of Russians are at risk Russia has the right to protect its citizens and to assist unaligned Ukraine if…

TPM Cafe

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

  • Oil and Gas Industry Prepare Smear Campaign Ag ...
    This story first appeared on DeSmog Blog.      Next month Focus Features releases Matt Damon’s new movie and the oil and gas industry is worried sick about it.The movie, Promised Land, is about a Pennsylvania farm town deciding whether to go forwa ...
  • Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry ...
    Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation's drinking water.In many cases, the Environmental Protection ...
  • Pack Your Bags: Ethical Traveler Shares 10 Bes ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Ready for a vacation — or just ready to start dreaming of one? Ethical Traveler, a nonprofit organization that is a project of Earth Island Institute, just released its annual list of the top places to hit if yo ...
  • Is it Time to Just Say No to Eating Beef?
    Like plastic bags, coal, and SUVs, beef has few friends in the environmental community. Most environmentalists would point to beef — in particular, beef cattle that spend their final days in confined feedlots — as being responsible for an array of ills — the greenhouse gas ...
  • Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Lea ...
    My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology. The songs ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • The Results Are In: Cleaner Air Does Save Lives
    Fine particles in the air (particularly those smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) cause a multitude of health problems, ranging from difficulty breathing and asthma to heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.  The question has been whether or not cleaning the ...
  • Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Dit ...
    The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has taken a step that any self-respecting supporter of renewable energy should do – ditched the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  This relationship looked a lot like the fabled one between the scorpion and tortoise. Despite member ...
  • No title
        $25 Advance Tickets ($35 at Door, please register in advance) (Tickets include live entertainment, all food and beverages) Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin Eco Network, Public Citizen, Design Build Live, USGBC-Central Texas Chapter, Center for Maximum Potential, Texas League of Con ...
  • Koch Brothers Exposed Screening with Progress ...
    Progress Texas is hosting a special screening of the documentary Koch Brothers Exposed at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar.  They have already sold out more than half the theater – be sure to reserve your seats now before they sell out! From director Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, WalMart: ...
  • New Sea Level Rise Study Indicates the Impacts ...
    In a new peer-reviewed scientific study, experts said satellite data show sea levels rose by 3.2 millimeters a year from 1993 to 2011 — 60 percent faster than the 2 mm annual rise projected by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for that period, however  the IPCC wa ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UFO hacker Gary McKinnon charges dropped
    Officials in Britain have opted to drop all charges after a legal battle lasting more than a decade. Asperger's Syndrome sufferer Gary McKinnon's extr...
  • Can bacteria survive on Mars ?
    Scientists have run an experiment to grow bacteria in conditions designed to simulate those on Mars. While the search for alien life is mostly concern...
  • Paralysed woman controls robotic arm
    Doctors have been stunned by the incredible level of control achieved through a mind-reading interface. Having lost the use of her own limbs more than...
  • Has Piltdown man mystery been 'solved' ?
    Scientists may have finally solved the mystery behind one of the most infamous hoaxes in palaeontology. The fossil remains of what became known as the...
  • Frogs in milk could lead to new antibiotics
    An old fashioned method for keeping milk from going sour could be the key to a medicinal breakthrough. Moscow State University scientists discovered t...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Area Burned by U.S. Wildfires Expected to Doub ...
    (Climate Central) Warmer and drier conditions in coming decades will likely cause the burned area from wildfires in the U.S. to double in size by 2050, according to new research based on satellite observations and computer modeling exp ...
  • In California, Scientists Get Glimpse at Sea L ...
    (North County Times) As waves lapped up a stretch of fresh, new sand at Cardiff State Beach this week, Scripps scientists armed with acoustic meters and a laser scanner took advantage of the year’s highest tides to study how water leve ...
  • Climate Change Pits Sioux Against Barges for S ...
    (Bloomberg) For the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose lands straddle the North and South Dakota border, river water means drinking supplies. For Illinois farmers, it's irrigation for their crops. Rivers also power hydro-electric plants ...
  • Texas Company's Challenge to Proposed EPA Gree ...
    (Houston Chronicle) A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a Houston developer's challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases from new power plants. The U.S. Court ...
  • Montana Governor: Oil and Gas Boom Could Fund ...
    (Reuters) Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, who been an advocate of the recent oil and gas boom that could upend U.S. energy policy, says he will keep spreading his message when he leaves office. Schweitzer, whose tenure as governor ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Simple Observation
    I was very moved by the president's speech in Newtown, Connecticut tonight. I'd like to post a video of the speech in its entirety once it is available. I agree with him. We can't say that the loss of our children is simply the price of freedom. We can't accept that we can't do any better. ...
  • Casual Observation
    I am going to take a mental health break from the news coverage of the Newtown Massacre by watching some football. However, I did watch Meet the Press this morning, and I noted that host David Gregory said that he had extended an invitation to 31 sitting U.S. Senators who he identified as "pro- ...
  • Keep Your Mentally Ill Son Away from Guns
    I found Liza Long's plea troubling less for the seriousness of her difficulties than for her willingness to preemptively classify her son as a potential mass murderer. Maybe he is, but most likely he isn't. And he probably won't appreciate it when he learns what his mother thinks of him. ...
  • Neoconservatism Does Not Equal Pro-Israel
    Until his name was floated as a possible Secretary of Defense, I had no idea that Chuck Hagel had strained relationships with the Israeli government and their lobbyists here in the United States. When I read the list of his supposed sins, the only thing that causes me any concern is his poor as ...
  • Serious Question
    Do you feel any differently about the politics of guns than you did 48 hours ago? Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Empty newsfeed.

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • A Contrarian Spin on the Next Big Climate Report
    Extracting one sentence from a draft report, a climate skeptic asserts that an international body has decided that cosmic rays are a major cause of global warming. But he omits the report's surrounding context, which discredits the cosmic ray theory.
  • On Our Radar: Atlantic Panel Limits Catch of C ...
    The harvesting of the menhaden will be reduced by 20 percent. Some environmental groups had sought a reduction of as much as 50 percent.
  • E.P.A. Readies Stricter Soot Rule
    Acting under a court deadline, the agency is proposing a limit of 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air, a significant tightening from the previous standard of 15.
  • Q. and A.: Jeremy Irons and 'Trashed'
    As the film opens in the United States, its star reflects on consumerism, excess waste and environmental toxins -- and on ways to push back
  • Doctors Urge U.S. to Block Gas Export Terminals
    Until the health implications of fracking are understood, they argue, the administration should not approve the infrastructure that would allow the export of vast quantities of natural gas.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Iran accuses Israel of kidnapping former Deput ...
    Iran's Deputy Defense Minister has accused Israel of kidnapping his predecessor in 2006, while he was on an official visit trip to Turkey.
  • Litvinenko was working for UK, Spanish intelli ...
    A lawyer representing the family of a KGB defector to Britain, who died of poisoning in 2006, has told a court hearing in London that the late spy was working for British and Spanish intelligence at the time of his death.
  • Who leaked Iranian nuclear document that turne ...
    On November 27, the Associated Press published an alleged Iranian document which it said proved Iran was working on a nuclear bomb. However, an analysis of the document in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists concluded that it was either massively erroneous or a hoax. The question now is, who l ...
  • US Senate blocks Pentagon plan to launch new C ...
    Last week the United States Department of Defense flooded media outlets with press releases announcing the planned establishment of a new military intelligence organization that would rival the Central Intelligence Agency in both size and scope. Not so fast. The US Senate has just blocked the pl ...
  • News you may have missed #816
    Danish minister vows more control over spy agency. South Korea jails alleged North Korean assassin. US Pentagon to double the size of its worldwide spy network.

War is a Crime.org

  • Islamofascist Killers Threaten Syria
      Islamofascist Killers Threaten Syria   by Stephen Lendman   They're merciless cutthroat murderers. They commit grotesque atrocities. Torture, beheadings, and other monstrous savagery are all in a day's work.   They're Washington favorites. They're recruited, heavily armed, ...
  • Premeditated Israeli Violence
      Premeditated Israeli Violence   by Stephen Lendman   Merriam-Webster calls a police state "a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police i ...
  • Dear Mr. President, About Killing Children . . .
    President Barak Obama The White House Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama, Thank you for expressing your grief over the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Your eloquence touched me and, I am sure, most Americans as we try to come to terms with this latest tragedy. I was particularl ...
  • How to Criticize the Israeli Government
    The other day I tweeted an article that reported on a rather horrible story.  It seems that the Israeli government gives African women drugs that keep them from reproducing.  I think if this story had been about Canada, Korea, France, or Brazil people would have read it.  The conv ...
  • Israel Is Shooting Farmers for Trying to Farm: ...
    Connection to the Land Cannot Not Be Broken The struggle for land rights near the Gaza border By Joshua Brollier Gaza City-Yesterday in al-Faraheen, Gaza, Israeli Occupation Forces shot and wounded an unarmed 22 year old farmer, Mohammed Qdeih, from behind. Mohamed and nine others went out to th ...

Grist - News

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

Popular Bookmarks on Del.icio.us

Empty newsfeed.

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

Time - Top Stories

Digg Green

Empty newsfeed.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Sandy Hook Elem: 3 Shooters (A CLOSE LOOK) &#8 ...
    Sandy Hook Elem: 3 Shooters (A CLOSE LOOK) – YouTube.
  • Newtown school shooting story already being ch ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The national media is ablaze today with coverage of the tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT, where 27 people have reportedly been killed, including 18 children. As always, when violent shootings take place, honest journalists are forced ...
  • They Shoot Children, Don’t They?
    by Zen Gardner There’s no way an irate parent goes around shooting children, whatever cockamamie story line they come up with. I don’t care what they say. Something’s amiss and it’s almost always mind control that’s involved. Legislation and/or executive orders banning guns are just waiting to b ...
  • Don’t let your child see a psychiatrist. Ever.
    By John Rappoport If you have a child, don’t let him/her see a psychiatrist. Ever. Read Mike Adams’ new article about psychiatry. It’s one of the best I’ve ever read, and I’ve been researching this pseudoscience for 20 years. http://www.naturalnews.com/038322_DSM-5_psychiatry_false_diagnosis.htm ...
  • Nullifying Gun Free Zones is the Solution to S ...
    By The Watchdog Everywhere we see no guns allowed. No one is safe. Look at Chicago, New York and other major cities. The law abiding are forbidden to own a gun for self defense. The criminal whether it be a repeat offender or a politician. The innocent are more vulnerable than ever. It does not ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Empty newsfeed.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Leaked IPCC Report Used by Critics to Claim Gl ...
    On Thursday, a writer named Alec Rawls posted a leaked draft version of a portion of the upcoming Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and claimed that the report acknowledges “strong evidence for enhanced solar forcing.” He claimed that the IPCC& ...
  • Jane Goodall Warns Elephants Could Go Extinct ...
    Jane Goodall has issued a vehement plea for citizens everywhere to stop buying ivory as she fears African elephants will go extinct to fuel the illegal trade. Speaking with The Guardian after authorities seized 24 tons of illegal ivory in Malaysia last week, the world-renowned primatologist said ...
  • Engineers in Hong Kong Generate Electricity fr ...
    For decades in China, hydroelectricity has been used on a large scale to generate power. Now, engineers from the PolyU’s Department of Building Services Engineering and the Water Supplies Department (WSD) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government are working on using water ...
  • 21 Fab Green Gifts for the Home!
    Whether your loved ones live in apartments, lofts, or off-grid abodes, it’s always nice to give them sustainable gifts for that place they call home. We’ve rounded up 21 glorious gift ideas that range from a warm blanket to cozy up with on those especially chilly days to a top-of-the ...
  • 14 Great Gifts for Your Parents
    Though you may not always see eye to eye, the holidays are still a time to show your parents how much you love them. After all, you’d be nowhere without them (literally). It’s also a chance to introduce mom and dad to greener living with sustainable gifts they’ll love. We&#8217 ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Painted ...
    Astronomers using data from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, have made an impressive composite of the nebula Messier 17, also known as the Omega Nebula or the Swan Nebula. The painting-like image shows vast ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Galactic ...
    A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of the galaxy's ring of stars, revealing more ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Shooting ...
    This astronaut photograph, taken from the International Space Station while over China (approximately 400 kilometers to the northwest of Beijing), provides the unusual perspective of looking down on a meteor as it passes through the atmosphere. The image was taken ...
  • Higgs Hiccup: Contradictory Results Show Up at LHC
    Something slightly odd seems to be going on with the Higgs boson. Different measurements of its properties are showing two slightly different masses, according to scientists who presented their latest data on Dec. 13.
  • Mississippi River Faces Shipping Freeze as Wat ...
    Navigation has become treacherous on the Mississippi River as the worst U.S. drought in half a century brings water levels close to record lows.

PakAlert

  • Bloomberg Demands Obama Take “Executive Action ...
    New York mayor and noted gun-grabber Michael Bloomberg went on Meet the Press today and told Obama he should skirt Congress and the Constitution and take executive action against firearms owners in the United States. “It’s time for the president, I think, to stand up and lead and tell this co ...
  • Iran warns Patriot missiles in Turkey could le ...
    The planned deployment of NATO Patriot missiles along Turkey's border with Syria could lead to a "world war" that would threaten Europe as well, Iran's military chief of staff was quoted as saying on Saturday. Turkey asked NATO for the Patriot system, designed to intercept aircraft or missile ...
  • Chemtrails, Aerosol Geoengineering and Bioengi ...
    The materials disbursed in stratospheric aerosol geoengineering operations contain a combination of ionizable metallic salts, filaments, gel-type materials, and crystals. These are the longstanding and deeply interrogated observations of independent environmental research scientist Clifford Carn ...
  • Sandy Hook Reference In Batman: Dark Knight Ri ...
    After all the weird coincidences with the Colorado Movie Theater “incident” and Batman… Now check this out. In this movie scene from Dark Knight Rises, “Sandy Hook” is about the only legible text on the whole map, and a guy puts his fingers on it. Someone in another thread says the dialogue a ...
  • Two Shooters Were Caught Alive!
    The aftermath of the Newtown school massacre is beginning to resemble the 9-11 false flag. The local police dispatch tape carries a report that a teacher saw two shooters running away from the scene. (3.25) According to George Freund, "First officers in the school report the patsy dead. He ...

Andy Worthington

  • Quarterly Fundraiser: End of Week Appeal for S ...
    Please support my work! My thanks to the ten friends and supporters who have made donations to help to support my ongoing work as an independent journalist, investigator and commentator, working primarily to close the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, through humanizing ...
  • Andy Worthington and David Remes Discuss Guant ...
    Last week, I took part in a panel discussion organized by Revolution Truth, along with David Remes, the attorney for a number of Guantánamo prisoners, which was presented by the activist Tangerine Bolen, with her co-host Pamela Sue Taylor. The show, entitled, “GTMO, The Rule of Law and the ...
  • Blue Skies and Golden Light: Photos of the Riv ...
    Blue Skies and Golden Light: The River Thames in September, a set on Flickr. After my recent five-part series of photo sets from south east London — my home turf — in November, I promised to publish some photos from September, from the huge archive of photos I’ve been building ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: Please Support My ...
    Please support my work! It’s the third day of my quarterly fundraiser, in which I ask you, my friends and supporters, to help support my work as an independent journalist, researcher and activist — primarily on Guantánamo, and America’s embrace of torture and indefinite detenti ...
  • Save Lewisham Hospital: Last Chance to Respond ...
    For Lewisham residents, and residents of any other boroughs in south east London who are concerned about the future of the NHS, Thursday December 13, 2012 — tomorrow, as I write this — is a very important day. By midnight tomorrow, anyone wishing to respond officially to the disgrace ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

Empty newsfeed.

Common Dreams -News

  • Massacre Muzzles Pro-Gun Lawmakers
    As the tears and promises for action from some politicians flow following events in Connecticut, some of the nation's most powerful men and women have gone strangely silent when it comes to discussing their long-held positions on gun violence and gun control. As Glenn Greenwald tweeted: ...
  • Massacre Muzzles Pro-Gun Lawmakers
    As the tears and promises for action from some politicians flow following events in Connecticut, some of the nation's most powerful men and women have gone strangely silent when it comes to discussing their long-held positions on gun violence and gun control. As Glenn Greenwald tweeted: ...
  • DOJ Lawyers: Drone Targets Receive 'Due Proces ...
    In a little noticed filing at week's end, the US government made its first legal response to a challenge made by civil liberties groups about the Obama administration's secretive "Kill List" program by urging a federal court to dismiss the case, arguing that the courts should n ...
  • DOJ Lawyers: Drone Targets Receive 'Due Proces ...
    In a little noticed filing at week's end, the US government made its first legal response to a challenge made by civil liberties groups about the Obama administration's secretive "Kill List" program by urging a federal court to dismiss the case, arguing that the courts should n ...
  • Names of Victims Killed at Sandy Hook Elementa ...
    (Photo: Michael Appleton / New York Times)Connecticut State Police on Saturday released names of the victims from Friday's shooting massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. According to the police all the children killed at the school were between the ages of 5 and 7. Among t ...

Lifehacker

  • Adding Booze to Breakfast Dishes Can Help Reli ...
    Culinary weblog Chow reports that adding a bit of liquor to your maple syrup can help take the edge off a hangover following the "hair of the dog" school of thought. More »
  • Hack an Etch a Sketch Into a Temperature Data ...
    Here's an electronics project that may not have a huge amount of practical applications but definitely has a wow factor for educational use. More »
  • "How can I make running outside in cold weathe ...
    How can I make running outside in cold weather more bearable? Any suggestions for keeping my dog warm in her own bed when the thermostat is at 65F? Does anyone know a good Google Android app for Google Tasks? I'm building a website. Is there any advantage to using a one-stop place or is i ...
  • Clean Your Dryer's Moisture-Sensing Electrodes ...
    If the automatic setting on your dryer doesn't seem to get your clothes as dry as it did when new it could have a malfunction or more likely the two electrodes that act as moisture sensors and control the automatic cycle may have a film of dryer sheet residue covering the electrodes and si ...
  • Find Financial Role Models for Your Kids
    Parents want their children to grow up financially savvy enough to avoid debt, properly allocate their funds, and save for a rainy day. The parents themselves are the largest role models in most areas of life but it is valuable to point out athletes, musicians, or others your kids admire w ...

Water Privatization

  • NPC-PSALM Amending Angat Sale Agreements
    To comply with the ruling of the Supreme Court, state-run firms National Power Corporation and Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) are currently amending some provisions of the Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) as well as the Operation & Maintenance Agreement (OMA) pr ...
  • Transportation forecast
    Who to know, what to watch and the numbers that define the problems.
  • Water Privatization in Russia: More Than a Dro ...
    Without water, humans can only live for a few days. Yet only about 1 percent of the earth's water is suitable for human consumption. Rising GDP brings increases in demand for food production, including meat, which demands the greatest amount of water. Treating water is therefore a key utility.
  • NRG Expert shares its latest collection of wat ...
    Max Krangle, Managing Director of NRG expert is pleased to share the recently released collection of water and waste market research reports.London, UK (PRWEB UK) 12 December 2012 The world’s population is averaging a growth rate of around 1.1% annually. This is putting pressure on the world’s w ...
  • UVM hails bottled water ban
    BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- An arch made with 2,000 empty plastic water bottles in the student center at the University of Vermont was dedicated Wednesday as a monument to the school’s decision to end the sale of bottled water on the Burlington campus.

Guardian

  • Eurozone crisis live: China warns of difficult ...
    Senior official at Chinese sovereign wealth fund says he isn't optimistic about the eurozone's prospectsGraeme Wearden
  • Hugo Chávez allies triumph in Venezuela poll
    President's allies steamroller opposition in vote widely seen on referendum on whether Chávismo can survive Chávez Allies of the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, have steamrollered the opposition in gubernatorial elections, winning 20 of 23 states.The only good news for the opposition was the ...
  • Afghan bomb blast kills 10 girls
    Ten girls aged nine to 13 killed and two seriously injured as they gathered firewood outside their village in eastern AfghanistanTen girls were killed when a bomb or landmine exploded as they were gathering firewood outside their village in eastern Afghanistan, an official said.Police said they ...
  • Obama's Newtown speech - full text
    President addresses mourners at an interfaith vigil saying the nation has not done enough to protect its children from attacksTo all the families, first responders, to the community of Newtown, clergy, guests, scripture tells us, "Do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, inwardly ...
  • Obama: 'We can't tolerate this anymore, these ...
    President issues strongest call for change in gun policy of any political leader in a generation saying carnage must endBarack Obama delivered the most impassioned speech of his presidency on Sunday night, addressing the grieving families of Newtown, Connecticut with words of comfort while deliv ...

McClatchey

  • The new normal? Millions wait for Congress to act
    Congress is trying to wrap up its 2012 session, with the fates of help for storm victims, farmers, the military, jobless workers and others uncertain. Such routine matters traditionally aren?t…Click to Continue »
  • Man accused of assaulting Dakota Meyer says a ...
    The 18-year-old farm worker charged with assaulting Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer claims he never touched the high-profile Marine veteran and puts the blame on an unidentified young woman.Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Obama missed an opportunity with S ...
    Well, isnt this another fine mess? Weve gotten to the point that hard-liners on both sides are starting to say, Jump! let the fiscal cliff happen. You wonder what…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Heroes are rare indeed
    It is the unspoken dread that must lurk in the imagination of nearly everyone who has traveled the underground rail system of one of the worlds great cities: the fear…Click to Continue »
  • A divided Egypt cast first votes on its consti ...
    Polarized Egyptians voted Saturday on whether to accept a controversial, Islamist-backed constitution that, while expected to pass, only hardened divisions between those who believe ratifying the document will bring stability…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Blast hits US compound in Afghan capital
    KABUL, Afghanistan -; A car bomb exploded outside of a compound housing a U.S. military contractor in the Afghan capital Monday, blowing apart an exterior wall and wounding dozens inside, company ...
  • Exploding bomb or landmine kills ten young gir ...
    An exploding bomb or landmine killed ten young girls as they were gathering firewood outside their village in eastern Afghanistan this morning, an official ...
  • Afghan tycoons fear banks help kidnap gangs
    By Reuters KABUL -- Afghan construction magnate Haji Asadullah Ghaznawi was dragged from his office with a gun to his head and locked up in a slaughterhouse for almost three weeks.Ghaznawi was later ...
  • Ten Afghan girls killed in a land mine blast
    At least 10 young girls have been killed and two others injured after a land mine exploded in eastern Afghanistan. Authorities in Nangarhar province said the girls were collecting firewood when one ...
  • Blast hits US firm in Afghanistan
    A large explosion has taken place inside a US military contractor's compound on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghan police have said.It is not immediately clear if anyone was killed or wounded in the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    With only one exception, this week's top comments are of the short-and-punchy variety—so in that spirit, let's dive right in. On the Insightful side, first place goes to a comment on our post about how obsolete metrics are a bigger problem than piracy. Fogbugzd responded to one line in par ...
  • Ross Pruden's Favorites Of The Week: Hand Me T ...
    This week, Techdirt had a good crop of articles about enablers and gatekeepers. First up is the amazing story of 72 year old music legend Lester Chambers and how his newest chapter is currently being written on Kickstarter. As you may recall, Lester Chambers got screwed by the music industry: ...
  • The Complex Joys Of Music In The Age Of Digita ...
    A recent issue of The New Yorker had a fine essay by Mike Spies about the joys of discovering and listening to music. But its overall tone is rather melancholic: We seem to have created an environment in which wonderful music, newly discovered, is difficult to treasure. For treasures, as the ...
  • NYTimes Columnist Proves That Among Billions O ...
    Recently, among the "oversharers" online, I saw a few people link to a column by NYTimes' columnist Roger Cohen, using one of the hackiest of all the "old curmudgeon" hack columns around: bitching about the banal stuff people talk about on Twitter. It's been done hundreds of times, and it's mos ...
  • Who Signed The ITU WCIT Treaty... And Who Didn't
    We already noted this morning that the US, a bunch of European countries, and a sprinkling of other nations around the globe have refused to sign the new ITR agreement put together at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), even as ITU officials congratulate themse ...

VacTruth

  • Announcing Vaccine Bombshell: Leaked Confident ...
    A confidential GlaxoSmithKline document recently leaked to the press exposed that within a two-year period, a total of 36 infants died after receiving the 6-in-1 vaccine, Infanrix Hexa.
  • Congressional Hearing on Autism—From the Aweso ...
    We know that the NIH and CDC have fallen way short in recognizing, let alone fixing, this autism epidemic. They’ve proven that time and time again. But Congress is listening. They understand that autism is an emergency, that it’s not genetic, that something is terribly wrong...
  • Who Says There is No Money in Making Vaccines? ...
    In 2011, the US Federal government awarded 6 pharmaceutical corporations over 5.7 Billion to manufacture vaccines children’s vaccines alone.
  • 4,250% Increase in Fetal Deaths Reported to VA ...
    Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS) fetal death reports by 4,250 percent in pregnant women.
  • Brainwashed Police Prosecute Parents to Protec ...
    Retired Sergeant Christopher Savage confirms police are writing off cases of vaccine injury as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. and Shaken Baby Syndrome.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Obama’s approach to killing children
    Der Spiegel: For more than five years, Brandon Bryant worked in an oblong, windowless container about the size of a trailer, where the air-conditioning was kept at 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit) and, for security reasons, the door couldn’t be opened. Bryant and his coworkers sa ...
  • Tom Engelhardt: Supersizing secrecy
    How the U.S. intelligence community came out of the shadowsBy Tom Engelhardt Weren’t those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game?  Governments went down in Guatemala and Iran thanks to you.  In distant Indonesia, Laos, and Vietnam, what a role you played!&#160 ...
  • Video: Planning for the Syrian endgame
  • Syrian jets hit Palestinian refugee camp
  • Group aims to be a conduit for WikiLeaks donations
    The New York Times reports: A group advocating a more transparent government has formed a nonprofit organization called the Freedom of the Press Foundation to serve as a conduit for donations to organizations like WikiLeaks. The goal is to insulate those groups’ fund-raising efforts from politic ...

Watts Up With That?

  • A rebuttal to Steven Sherwood and the solar fo ...
    Teaming up with Jo Nova to answer The Team down under: “Professor Sherwood is inverting the scientific method” Guest post by Alec Rawls My leak of the draft IPCC report emphasized the chapter 7 admission of strong evidence for solar … Continue reading →
  • Notes From Skull Island – why climate sk ...
    If our side were well funded and well organized, as warmists charge, it would have the following 22 characteristics–which it doesn’t. Guest post by Roger Knights Along with falsely claiming to be a Nobel Prize Recipient, climate “hockey stick’ promoter … Continue re ...
  • Hypocritical psychology professor Lewandowsky: ...
    From Tom Nelson, it was too good not to repost, especially when Lewandowsky hands out moral lessons while being immoral himself with his labeling skeptics as “moon landing deniers” with a gussed up survey and statistical slight of hand that … Continue reading →
  • WUWT spawns a free to read climate sci-fi novel
    People send me stuff. This time is a novel about climate change. – Anthony CAGW as self-organising narrative, referencing previous posts on fiction, and offering a free downloadable novelette By Andy West I’m a long-term WUWT reader, but extremely rare … Continue reading →
  • Another IPCC AR5 reviewer speaks out: no trend ...
    New global water vapor findings contradict second draft of IPCC Assessment Report 5 (AR5) Guest post by Forrest M. Mims III I was an “expert reviewer” for the first and second order drafts of the 2013 Intergovernmental Report on Climate … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • ‘Burden of Disease’ study shows a world living ...
    The health of most of the planet’s population is rapidly coming to resemble that of the United States, where death in childhood is rare, too much food is a bigger problem than too little, and life is long and often darkened by disability. High blood pressure is now the leading “risk factor” for ...
  • DARPA’s Wound Stasis Technology Could Sa ...
  • A Drug Used to Treat HIV Might Defuse Deadly S ...
    A new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers suggests that an existing HIV drug called maraviroc could be a potential therapy for Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious and deadly pathogen linked to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations each year. Their study is published online this week i ...
  • New antidepressant acts very rapidly and is lo ...
    A first-of-its-kind antidepressant drug discovered by a Northwestern University professor and now tested on adults who have failed other antidepressant therapies has been shown to alleviate symptoms within hours, have good safety and produce positive effects that last for about seven days from a ...
  • Making a Flu Vaccine Without the Virus
    A new vaccine strategy could make flu shots cheaper, safer, and easier to produce. Using synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) instead of proteins purified from viruses, German scientists have shown they can protect mice, ferrets, and pigs against influenza. “This is a very interesting new approa ...

CFACT

  • Lord Monckton on what happened when he took th ...
    Lord Monckton on Canada's Sun TV recounts the reaction he received when he took the floor of the UN climate conference in Qatar to explain that the world has not warmed for 16 years.
  • 500 police bust Deutsche Bank over €300 millio ...
    Five hundred German police and tax inspectors raided offices and residences connected with Deutsche Bank in Berlin, Frankfurt and Dusselforf, Wednesday over allegations of conspiracy involving over €300 million in carbon trading tax fraud. While a few profiteers will amass carbon trading fort ...
  • Time to laugh away the shale gas scare
    Energy prices are high, economies are reeling and people need relief -- Along comes the shale gas revolution at just the right time. 'What's that,' asks the radicals? 'Plentiful, safe, affordable, domestically produced energy? Can't have that. If there are no valid reasons to say no to sh ...
  • Government eyes crippling climate-control measures
    CFACT in the Washington Times: EPA is ready to unleash its first wave of carbon-dioxide regulations. Congress wants to tax hydrocarbons and carbon-dioxide. The UN is trying to devise a new treaty to regulate energy at the international level. Even one of these actions would send shock waves t ...
  • End the wind Production Tax Credit
    MARY KAY BARTON If people wonder why the world is in the sad shape it is in, they need look no further than the neighbors stuck living within the massive footprints of dysfunctional wind factories. Sadly however, politicians, corrupt crony-corporatists and people getting wind scam royalties a ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Shootings at US Schools
    Incidents involving firearms at educational institutions
  • Soldiers Fight Online Battles
    The Russian Army has started using the Kombat tactical simulator. Watch this RIA Novosti video in which a motorized rifle unit destroys enemy forces online.
  • Potanin Elected Norilsk Nickel Chief to End Sh ...
    Norilsk Nickel’s board has elected billionaire Vladimir Potanin as its new CEO in a deal expected to put an end to a long-standing feud between the company’s core shareholders, a source familiar with the outcome of the board meeting said on Monday.
  • Duma to Consider US Adoptions Ban
    The lower house of the Russian parliament is likely to endorse an amendment banning the adoption of Russian children into US families, Deputy Speaker Sergei Neverov said on Monday.
  • Cyprus Probes Russian Money Laundering Allegations
    Cyprus confirmed on Monday that it had launched a probe into the possible laundering of funds stolen in Russia.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Payback Time! Boycott the Brands that Helped K ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Dr. Oz Flip Flops as High-Profile Attacks on O ...
    "So you're being told organic food is no more nutritious than conventional and it's not worth your extra money. Well I'm here to say that it is worth the investment. Why do I say that? Pesticides." - - Dr. Oz, Oct. 19, 2012 Less than two months after telling millions of TV viewers that organic ...
  • Crowds Gather in Downtown Seattle to Celebra ...
    Washington state made more history on December 6 when it became the first American state to officially legalize the recreational use of marijuana. As reported by Reuters, Initiative 502 became law at the stroke of midnight that day, prompting hundreds of excited Washingtonians to gather at the d ...
  • Revealed: What the Beef Industry Pumps Into Yo ...
    A common industry practice puts consumers at higher risks for eating food contaminated by deadly pathogens -- and that's just the tip of the iceberg.Click here to read this article
  • After Laundering $800 Million in Drug Money, H ...
    The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda. Despite evidence of wrongdoing, the U.S. Department of Justice has allowed the bank to avoid prosecution and pay a $1.9 billion fine. No top HSBC officials wil ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Environment: New study shows dispersant makes ...
    Small grazers at the base of the food chain most directly affected, raising the question of whether the benefits of using dispersant are enough to offset the negative effects. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Retrospective : Greenhouse Gas
    A look back at older thoughts on an ongoing political football Continues in the next post http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-december-more-on-ghgs.html Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Extreme Weather Report
    125 International Scientists Rebuke UN for Climate Claims in Open Letter: 'Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused extreme weather of past few years. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • War on Wikileaks : Why It Is Illegal
    Charging Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit espionage would effectively be setting a precedent with a charge that more accurately could be characterized as conspiracy to commit journalism. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Rancher Loses Livestock Due To GMO Corn
    The Food Nation Radio Network conducted an exclusive interview this week with Jerry Rosman, an Iowa pig and cattle rancher who lost his entire operation due to GMO corn that he says made his livestock sterile. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |&n ...

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Smelling a Corporate Rat – The Move to Suppres ...
    If the Seralini experiments are considered insufficient to demonstrate harm, then those carried out by Monsanto cannot prove safety. This is because, whatever its limitations, Seralini's study was conducted to generally higher scientific standards than the studies underlying GM food approvals.
  • New Farm Wars Graphic – Monsanto: Guilty as Ch ...
    Where we would all like to see Monsanto!
  • Farmer Takes Public Stand Against GMOs
    It's way past time for all of us to take a stand and declare our bodies, homes, gardens, farms, ranches, and all the earth GMO-FREE ZONES!
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Mine blast kills 10 girls in eastern Afghanistan
    ShareThisMine blast kills 10 girls in eastern Afghanistan 17 Dec 2012 At least ten girls have been killed in a landmine explosion as they were collecting firewood in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. According to Chaparhar district governor Mohammad Sediq Dawlatzai, the blast took plac ...
  • Huge explosion hits area near NATO base in Kabul
    ShareThisHuge explosion hits area near NATO base in Kabul 17 Dec 2012 A large explosion has struck an area near a NATO base in the Afghan capital city of Kabul in the latest attack on foreign forces in the Asian country.
  • Man Fires Some 50 Shots at Calif. Mall Parking Lot
    ShareThisMan Fires Some 50 Shots at Calif. Mall Parking Lot 17 Dec 2012 A man who fired about 50 shots in the parking lot of a crowded Southern California shopping mall, sending shoppers sprinting for safety, was cooperative when officers took him into custody, authorities said Sunday. Witnesses ...
  • Israeli soldiers assault two Reuters cameramen
    ShareThisIsraeli soldiers assault two Reuters cameramen 13 Dec 2012 Israeli soldiers punched two Reuters cameramen and forced them to strip in the street, before letting off a tear gas canister in front of them, leaving one of them needing hospital treatment. Israel's military said on Thursday i ...
  • Obama to visit grief-stricken Newtown as press ...
    ShareThisObama to visit grief-stricken Newtown as pressure grows to take action on gun controls --Democrat[ic] lawmakers have shied away from discussing gun control in recent years, fearful of incurring the wrath of the National Rifle Association (NRA) 16 Dec 2012 As President Obama prepared to ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burmese officials make new mine protest arrests
    Burmese authorities on Friday said they had made a fresh round of arrests over a spate of protests demanding apologies for a police crackdown on a rally at a Chinese-backed copper mine last month
  • Ethnic nationalities alliance to hold off with ...
    The United Nationalities Federal Council will hold off from sitting down with the government’s Union-level Peace Making Work Committee until next year
  • Sweden asks India to clarify arms presence in ...
    Sweden asked India on Thursday to clarify how Swedish-made weapons wound up in Burma in breach of EU sanctions, after it was revealed the Indian army had purchased the arms
  • No progress without engagement on Burma’ ...
    While Thein Sein says he plans to sign the International Atomic Energy Agency Additional Protocol, the government still needs to be transparent and cooperative with the agency
  • Sugarcane nomads
    Words and Photos by Brennan O’Connor During Thailand’s dry season, hundreds of undocumented Burmese migrant workers cross the Thai/Burma border to harvest sugarcane that will be converted into bio-fuel at one of the country’s only processing plants in Mae Sot. Most of the migrants co ...

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Empty newsfeed.

Tikun Olam

  • IDF Police Interrogate, Gag Blogger, Demand Wh ...
    Before beginning this post, I want to note that there is a great deal we don’t know about this case thanks to the Israeli police’s pressure on the victim to maintain silence.  But here, I’ll say what I know and then speculate about what I don’t know when I think there&#82 ...
  • Lieberman Resigns…for Now
    Yesterday, the State prosecutor announced he would indict Avigdor Lieberman for the relatively minor crime of “breach of trust” for seeking to obtain information about the status of legal proceedings against him from an Israeli diplomat.  The prosecutor refused to indict Lieberman on ...
  • CIA, MI6 Guilty in Two Extraordinary Rendition ...
    Two European cases involving the CIA and extraordinary rendition put the case of Dirar Abusisi in the spotlight today.  The European Court of Human Rights found Macedonia guilty of collaborating with the CIA in the case of Khaled al Masri, who was kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. in Afghanista ...
  • Israeli Cyber-War, Hackers and the “Fire Next ...
    God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time! –African-American spiritual Over the past few years, my blogging and freelance journalism has exposed Israeli national security secrets.  I’ve revealed that Israel’s intelligence services along with those of Ukraine and Jor ...
  • Spain Offers Citizenship to Jews Exiled by Inq ...
    In November, the Spanish government made what at the time seemed a remarkable offer to restore citizenship to any Jew tracing his or her heritage back to those who were expelled during the Spanish Inquisition in 1492.  It was a brave, courageous act of expiation by Spain for a national crime.  I ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • U.N. Opens Up Funding Data on Its Development ...
    The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently opened up data on more than 6,000 development projects implemented in 177 countries around the world last year. This is a huge win for openness and transparency in international development and project funding, and marks a release of fundi ...
  • Poderopedia Launches Public Beta with Crowdsou ...
    That's right: The world did not end when we launched Poderopedia's Public Beta this Wednesday at 12:12 p.m. in the Chile time zone. So please come in, check out the menu, and grab a bite of our editorial and crowdsourced data journalism website that uses public data, semantic web technology, a ...
  • Follow the Money: A Spending Stories Guide for ...
    History is littered with awards and accolades for those tenacious journalists who have dutifully discovered money that was spent on something it shouldn't have been. Evidence of spending is often the ultimate proof of wrongdoing. These stories have ranged from presidential campaigns spending mon ...
  • An Exit Interview with PANDA Project's Brian B ...
    This is the first in a series of Q&As with Knight News Challenge winners who've wrapped up their projects. Brian Boyer, currently the news applications editor at NPR, is the project manager of PANDA Project, a Knight News Challenge winner in 2011. I recently interviewed Boyer about the pr ...
  • Poderopedia Uses Public Data to Take on Powerf ...
    The last months for the Poderopedia team have been full of learning, making mistakes, correcting them, and learning again in a never-ending iteration process. In the beginning of November, we started our private beta testing with friends and family, fixing bugs and updating the platform in o ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Jewry on Edge - Alas Denmark
    Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful. And the Danes have a wonderful history of civic virtue, not least during the Holocaust. As the United States Holocaust Memo ...
  • The Iranian Threat - Iran Warns Turkey Against ...
    The chief of staff of Iran's armed forces warned Turkey on Saturday over its plans to deploy U.S.-made Patriot missiles, saying the move was part of a Western plot to "create a world war"."The Patriot (missiles) are threatening. Each one of them is a black dot on the map, (setting the stage) to ...
  • China On Edge - Labor Data Show That China Is ...
    China “may haveâ€� overinvested to the tune of 12-20% of gross domestic product (GDP) between 2007 and 2011 – this is the diplomatically worded conclusion of a working paper released last week by the IMF.  This week’s Geo-Graphic backs it up.As our figure above shows, the share of the ...
  • Oil Addiction - Three Takeaways From Thee Rece ...
    OPEC ministers met in Vienna on Wednesday to discuss the current oil market outlook and make a decision about future production levels, as well as to select a new secretary general. After deliberating, the group opted not to alter the current production ceiling of 30 million barrels per day (tho ...
  • China Rising - Beijing Testing Tokyo
    Early this morning, East China Sea time, China sent a small reconnaissance plane into Japanese airspace over the Senkaku Islands. Too small to register on Japan’s air defense radar, but large enough to make a point, this propeller jet assigned to the Chinese Marine Surveillance Agency was perf ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Domino's Pizza Founder Sues Govt Over Obamacare
    I think I have a new favorite pizza joint: The founder of Domino's Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the health care law. Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception isn't health care but a "gravely immoral" practice. He file ...
  • Repeat After Me: Gun Control is NOT the Answer
    by: Matt Vespa The tragedy in Newton, CT should shake us all to our very core.  Of the 26 who were killed yesterday, 20 of them were children. It's evil.  It's grotesque.  And I'm sure many mothers and fathers were holding their children ...
  • Dear God, How Did You Let This Happen????
    Dear God, Please excuse this letter and questioning.  I mean you no disrespect.  It's just that I don't get it. I do not question your wisdom, omnipotence, or even the fact that you love all of your creations--especially Mankind.  But I also know greater men than me ques ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama Request-Work One Day For Fre ...
    Inauguration day is a month away and plans for Barack Obama's second inauguration are close to being completed. This time the ceremony will be larger than the first, although the ritual hanging of Republicans suggested by Harry Belafonte will not happen. With the economy still in near recession ...
  • Will the NJDC Oppose Terrorism Loving, Israel- ...
    Now that the election is over Barack Obama no longer has to appeal to supporters of Israel or haters of terrorism--so he is about to appoint former Senator Chuck Hagel to replace Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense. Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is likely to be President Barack Obama's ...

The Real Agenda

  • Macedonia convicted of aiding CIA with torture ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 14, 2012 On Thursday Macedonia became the first European country to be found guilty for collaborating with the U.S. in the so-called secret CIA flights and for hosting secret CIA torture sites. The Strasbourg Court said the country was guilt ...
  • Spanish public debt reaches 77.4% of GDP
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 14, 2012 Government debt in Spain grew another 1.55% in the third quarter with respect to the second quarter to reach 817.164 million euros, or the equivalent to 77.4% of GDP. This is the highest level ever since the cork popped out of the c ...
  • EU Ministers agree on framework to create New ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 13, 2012 Ministers of Economy and Finance of the European Union reached an agreement early Thursday on the  legal framework that will allow Europe to create a single banking supervisor. The pact is the first step towards joining the euro zon ...
  • Operações Militares e Especiais dos EUA: Qual ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 13 DEZEMBRO, 2012 Bem como os interesses públicos e privados se uniram nos últimos 20 anos, assim aconteceu com as operações terroristas da agência mais corrupta que existe — a CIA — e o Departamento de Defesa dos Estados Unidos. Dadas a ...
  • Operaciones Militares y Especiales Estadounide ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 13 DICIEMBRE, 2012 Al igual que los intereses públicos y privados se han fusionado en los últimos veinte años, también lo han hecho las operaciones de la agencia terrorista más corrupta que existe — la CIA — y las del Departamento de Def ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • The recession takes a heavy toll on children - ...
    The economic downturn is pushing more U.S. children into poverty, and it's no longer a problem limited mostly to Southern states. read more
  • VOICES: Yes, voter suppression is controversial
    What does it say about the current state of North Carolina politics that not only is voter suppression legislation expected to pass early in the 2013 legislative session but that the head of Raleigh's leading conservative think tank doesn't even believe it's controversial? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Is the South's energy future ...
    This week the federal government took big steps toward building a commercial offshore wind industry in the Southeast -- but its future could be threatened by the expiration of a key tax credit. read more
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

Empty newsfeed.

new geography

  • Want to See Better US-Chinese Relations? Ameri ...
    While it is still fashionable for politicians in both China and the United States to prove their domestic leadership credentials by taking tough stances against their nation’s chief economic rival, the results of recent Pew surveys conducted in the two countries suggest that this type ...
  • The Gun Control Debate That Went MIA
    Intellectually -- despite the events in Newtown, Connecticut -- I can appreciate that the “right to bear arms” is a fundamental constitutional guarantee, inherited from both the Glorious (1688) and American revolutions. I still wonder, though, whether it applies to a society in which most people ...
  • Aging America: The Cities That Are Graying The ...
    Notwithstanding plastic surgery, health improvements and other modern biological enhancements, we are all getting older, and the country is too. Today roughly 18.5% of the U.S. population is over 60, compared to 16.3% a decade ago; by 2020 that percentage is expected to rise to 22.2%, and by 205 ...
  • Entrepreneurial Software Developers and the Ap ...
    The New York Times continued its excellent iEconomy series with an article on the job prospects for app developers. The lengthy piece gives a few snippets of labor market data for software developers and touches on the work of economist Michael Mandel in measuring the “App Economy.&rdq ...
  • Hong Kong’s Decentralizing Commuting Patterns
    Hong Kong is a city of superlatives. Hong Kong has at least twice the population density of any other urban area in the more developed world, at 67,000 per square mile or 25,900 per square kilometer. The Hong Kong skyline is rated the world's best by both emporis.com (a building database) an ...

GM Watch

  • Monsanto gets its way in ag bill
    EXTRACT: These riders are an effort to end run Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution. Corporate collusion with government is not new, but this takes it to a new level. By allowing corporations to subvert the Constitution, Congress is saying that corporate influence and profits are more imp ...
  • Monsanto gets its way in ag bill
    EXTRACT: These riders are an effort to end run Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution. Corporate collusion with government is not new, but this takes it to a new level. By allowing corporations to subvert the Constitution, Congress is saying that corporate influence and profits are more imp ...
  • Roundup harms beneficial gut bacteria - study
    NOTE: Below is the abstract of a new study by scientists at Leipzig University which found that Roundup herbicide, based on the chemical glyphosate, negatively impacted the gastrointestinal bacteria of poultry in vitro. The researchers found that highly pathogenic bacteria resisted Roundup, wher ...
  • Roundup harms beneficial gut bacteria - study
    NOTE: Below is the abstract of a new study by scientists at Leipzig University which found that Roundup herbicide, based on the chemical glyphosate, negatively impacted the gastrointestinal bacteria of poultry in vitro. The researchers found that highly pathogenic bacteria resisted Roundup, wher ...
  • GM scientists found guilty of fraud and cover up
    1.Indian scientists found guilty of marketing contaminated GM cotton seeds 2.Incompetence of GM scientists and regulators exposed --- --- 1.Indian scientists found guilty of marketing contaminated GM cotton seeds Dinesh C Sharma India Today, December 14 2012 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/i ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Society Is Crumbling Right In Front Of Our Eye ...
    What in the world is happening to America?  I have written many articles about how society is crumbling right in front of our eyes, but now it is getting to the point where people are going to be afraid to go to school or go shopping at the mall.  Just consider what has happened over [...]
  • We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business ...
    Historically, small businesses have been the primary engine of new job creation in the United States.  If the economy was getting healthy, we would expect to see the number of jobs at new businesses rise.  Instead, we are witnessing just the opposite.  We are told that the economy is supposed to ...
  • 55 Reasons Why California Is The Worst State I ...
    Why in the world would anyone want to live in the state of California at this point?  The entire state is rapidly becoming a bright, shining example of everything that is wrong with America.  It is so sad to watch our most populated state implode right in front of our eyes.  Like millions of Ame ...
  • Sorry Protesters: Your Jobs Are Being Sent To ...
    Did you see the huge crowds of protesters that flooded the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday?  They were there to protest two bills there were being considered by the state legislature that would limit the power of unions in the state.  Michigan lawmakers approved the bills and this absolutely infuria ...
  • 15 Signs That The Economy Is Rapidly Getting W ...
    How can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is "improving" when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated?  According to numbers that were just released, the number of Americans on food stamps rose by more than 600,000 in a ...

Desertification

  • World needs to do more against desertification ...
    Read at : http://www.modernghana.com/news/349635/1/world-needs-to-do-more-against-desertification-alg.html World needs to do more against desertification: Algeria By AFP ALGIERS (AFP) – The world needs to do more to combat desertification, which threatens close to a third of the planet&#82 ...
  • No title
    Read at : Google Alert http://www.smore.com/3b4v-what-s-wrong-with-desertification What’s Wrong With Desertification? by Kiersten Nunes The Desertification Problem in Algeria Desertification in Algeria has been a problem for nearly 40 years. It can happen when there is inappropriate agricu ...
  • Please reflect on this (Willem Van Cotthem)
    HOW TO GROW PLANTS IN THE DRYLANDS ? WHAT ABOUT FOOD CROPS TO COMBAT HUNGER ? Be aware of the fact that a plant doesn’t EAT the soil; it only DRINKS the solution of some chemicals in the soil, without … Continue reading →
  • EO NEDERLAND HELPT – ZADEN VOOR VOEDSEL ...
    VIDEO at : http://youtu.be/4v_DTOdFcWk Het laatste deel van de EO-uitzending op Nederland 2 (Aflevering 322/Georgië 3 van 23 februari 2012) waarin vooral de actie “Zaden voor Voedsel” op een sublieme wijze belicht werd.
  • REFORESTATION WITH CONTAINERS (Willem Van Cotthem)
    VIDEO at : http://youtu.be/txiYPde2sgM Instead of using polybags for growing saplings, we grow young trees in plastic bottles.  After cutting off the bottom part of the bottle, thus setting the young roots free,  we plant the sapling with the remaining … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

Empty newsfeed.

backofthebook.ca

  • Gary Bettman’s new NHL — the No Ho ...
    By Mark Leiren-Young I’ve figured out Gary Bettman’s grand master plan for the NHL. He’s decided to run it without players. No players means no games. No games means no overhead, no pesky salaries, no arena rentals, no worrying whether superstars get concussed, no superstars, and, best of all, n ...
  • Jill Wiznoski and the small town journalists
    By Frank Moher J-Source.ca has a melancholy wrap-up story on the case of Jill Wiznoski and the displeased MP  — melancholy because I expect this is the last we’ll hear of a matter that should have received a lot more national press attention than it did. Wiznoski, you will remember, ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • 4 Family Investment Property Rehab Constructio ...
    Table of Contents for the Green Build Rehab of a 4 Family Investment Property in St Louis General Contractor on Project: Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy  How we  brought the Old Western – Old South St Louis Architecture- Decor and Feel into a Modern Day Apartment- Benton Gut ...
  • At Least Three Missouri Babies Born on 12/12/12
    Reblogged from CBS St. Louis: ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Congratulations to at least three Missouri Couples who had babies on yesterday’s special date: 12/12/12. Mehlville couple Kelly and Elias Ford gave birth to a son.  Elias Ford Junior was born by C-section at St. Anthony’s Medical Cente ...
  • How Alternative Renewable Energy Helps Fuel th ...
    How Alternative Renewable Energy Helps Fuel the Economy and Create Green Jobs Alternative energy is here to stay. With new advances in energy comes new industries, and with that comes new jobs. Simply put, lots of jobs are created every month in the green industry. With incentives from the gover ...
  • PSC approves $260 million Ameren rate increase ...
     More than $100 million of the rate increase will go to pay for higher fuel costs, much of it for coal hauled by rail to Missouri power plants from sprawling mines in Wyoming. PSC approves $260 million Ameren rate increase 8 Print Email Ameren headquarters in St. Louis. Photo courtesy of Am ...
  • Water Main Repair-Benton Rehab
    If your Water Main is leaking it can cost you Thousands of Dollars over the year. Safety First-when there are open holes in a sidewalk A leaking water main can cost a building owner thousands in water bills in St Louis and can cause damage to the Rock Foundation Walls and Footings- which will al ...

The View From Abroad

Empty newsfeed.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Young Americans Abandon Corporate Media
    Average Fox News viewer According to the December 12 Washington’s Blog, the average Fox News viewer is 65, the average CNN viewer 63 and the average MSNBC viewer 59. In 2010 The Pew Research Center’s biennial consumption survey revealed the average age of a regular evening news vie ...
  • Cops Tase Chinese Woman for Buying Too Many iPhone
    As activists warned when cops were first authorized to carry tasers, police aren’t restricting their use to situations in which their own lives are at risk. They are using them sadistically, punitively and unconstitutionally when civilians fail to obediently comply with their orders. ...
  • Update on Secret "Free" Trade Treaty
    photo credit LiveNews (This is a follow-up of two previous posts on the secret “free” trade treaty the Obama administration is negotiation: Will the RCEP kill the TPP and Why You Never Hear of Either One and Will China Kill the TPP?) The Auckland round of Transpacific Partnership ...
  • Former Reagan Official Questions bin Laden's R ...
    Two very different bin Laden clones (Veterans Today) Paul Craig Roberts isn’t your garden variety conspiracy nut. We’re talking about a former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business ...
  • Will China Kill the TPP (the "classified" free ...
    Anti-TPP protest in Auckland (TV3News)   (This is the second of two posts about a “classified” free trade treaty called the Transpacific Partnership and a Chinese-friendly alternative the Regional Comprehensive Economic plan. As I outlined in my last post  Will the RC ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • The European Oil Refining Crisis
  • Bullish On America
  • Cartoon of the Week: "Blind Faith of Climate C ...
    Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Horsey had a cartoon and column in the L. A. Times this week, “Blind faith of climate change deniers endangers us all.” Here’s an excerpt: "Great harm is what comes from denying scientific facts about 21st century issues. That is the concern of the secon ...
  • New Canadian Electric Scooter Has Style and a ...
    Amego, a seller of electric vehicles such as electric bicycles and electric scooters, recently introduced in Canada a new stylish scooter that is easy on both the miles you can travel as well as the wallet. Dubbed the E-Breeze it retails for $1,150 CAD, or around $1,165 US.
  • Researchers Study Electric Car Impacts on the Grid
    As more electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids hit the streets, one of the challenges will be managing the power grid requirements for these cars when they are having their batteries recharged at all hours. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame recently announced they are “attempting to dev ...

EU Times

  • Hungarian MP detained for burning Israeli flag
    Hungarian police have briefly arrested a parliamentarian for torching an Israeli flag during an anti-Zionist protest in the capital Budapest. The incident took place on Friday when dozens of Hungarians held a demonstration near the Foreign Ministry to protest Israeli’s regime’s atrocities agains ...
  • Smart TVs can spy on their owners
    Viewers, beware: while you’re watching TV, your TV might be watching you back. A security firm discovered that Samsung’s Smart TV can give hackers access to the device’s built-in camera and microphones, allowing them to watch everything you do. The Malta-based firm ReVuln posted a video showing ...
  • Soviet-style disintegration awaits US: Gorbachev
    The last head of state of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, has warned the US of an imminent Soviet-like collapse if Washington persists with its hegemonic policies. Speaking at a Thursday conference on the future of the Middle East and the Black Sea region in the Turkish c ...
  • Mozilla rallies for opposition against secret ...
    Add another name to the list of critics concerned with attempts to rewrite the International Telecommunication Union to give governments control of the Internet: Silicon Valley’s Mozilla now officially opposes the ITU. Mozilla, the makers of the highly successful Firefox Web browser for Macs, PC ...
  • Hope for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
    Scientists reprogram urine cells to generate neurons: Chinese scientists claim to have succeeded in reprogramming cells from human urine into brain cells (neural progenitor), in a study that may contribute to future advances in the treatment of degenerative illnesses like Alzheimer’s and P ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Sports personality of the year: well done Brad ...
    Congratulations to Bradley Wiggins â but I'm not so sure about congratulating the BBC. I hesitate to criticise any aspect of Sport Personality of the Year 2012. It was fantastic to see the Olympics and Paralympics athletes again: what a wonderful summer it was, and how fitting that the wonderfu ...
  • Golden Nuggets: 49ers 41, Patriots 34; Colin K ...
    I'm still stunned, sitting here, halfway across the world. I was so overwhelmed when we went up 31-3. I thought we'd just demolished the consensus best team in the league. Then to watch the Patriots come back to tie it. So many clutch plays by so many players, it's hard to single them out. We w ...
  • Kate Middleton back on board in green McQueen
    After a fortnight of severe morning sickness Kate Middleton was back and beaming as she made her first official public debut since announcing her pregnancy. The Duchess of Cambridge made an unexpected television appearance, taking part in the BBC's annual Sports Personality of the Year awards . ...
  • Discovered Samsung Exynos exploit opens door t ...
    It isn’t that often we get to write about an exploit that is both awesome and horrible at the same time, but today we’re doing just that. A user over at the XDA Developers Forum has gone searching through Samsung Exynos kernels and has found one whopper of an exploit. This exploits affects a nu ...
  • Ben Roethlisberger criticizes Todd Haley on la ...
    Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger certainly defends his teammates, and takes losses on himself far more often than pushing it onto someone else. Is he perhaps being a bit too cavalier in his defense of his offensive line? "I thought they did a great job," he said. "It's tough to lose lett ...

Groklaw

  • Smith on Design Patents
    When I began writing Patently-O in 2004, design patents were largely thought of as akin to a pre-ball Cinderella: In rags, forlorn, and quite pitiful. Things have changed. Design patents are more valuable than ever and their trajectory continues to rise. Matthew A. Smith (Foley) recently put t ...
  • Is Google Abusing Its Market Power? Former Leg ...
    Years ago, two lawyers saw Microsoft's fast grip on the PC software market as anticompetitive. Today, they disagree on whether Google is a similar force in search. [PJ: Lauren Weinstein on his Google + page writes: "Any objective analysis of the facts clearly indicates that the answer to this q ...
  • Patent applications
    China's patent office received more applications than any other country's in 2011, according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, a UN body which follows 125 patent offices. China received 526,412 applications, exceeding those to America and Japan. Globally filings rose by 7.8% last ...
  • Google+ Chief Grounded From Twitter By Larry Page
    Posted by timothy on Sunday December 16, @10:31AM from the you've-been-very-bad dept. theodp writes: "Vic Gundotra, formerly Sr. VP of Social (and now, of Engineering) at Google, and head of the company's social networking service Google+, hasn't posted anything on his Twitter account since July ...
  • Report on Justice Elena Kagan's talk at 6th an ...
    Echoing her prior remarks denying that the Supreme Court is politicized, last night Justice Kagan tried to dispel the myth of a deadlocked Court controlled by Justice Kennedy: Kagan also discussed her colleagues, saying that a lot of persuasion happens on most cases, despite "the stereotyp ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Court of Awesome
    Andy Carling “on a modern scourge that is threatening to bring us all down.” Silicon Valley hipster clones perkily trying to start the Next Big Thing.Imagine a cross between real life and Instagram and you get the picture. One eager soul announced “We’re looking for the next An ...
  • LumiGrow LED grow light.
    The LumiGrow LED grow light is easy to set up and install and puts out no heat.It can even change the color of the light to maximize plant growth. It’s expensive, like all LEDs, but the energy savings on this glow light is supposed to pay for itself in 12-18 months.The price [...]
  • Newtown. A Methodical Massacre: Horror And Heroics
    The Hartford Courant, the paper of record in Connecticut, provides a detailed timeline of the ghastly Newtown massacre. Be warned, this is grim stuff.Methodical indeedTwo law enforcement sources said the hard drive had been removed from Lanza’s computer and broken in pieces. They said that ...
  • Vermont ‘leaders’ run away from debate on Burl ...
    But wait, isn’t there less noise when wearing ear protection? Yet Burlington area residents won’t have that luxury, will they? “Gov. Peter Shumlin and Vermont National Air Guard Brigadier Gen. Steve Cray wait to hear F-35 fighter jet” at Eglin AFB in FL. Vermont Public Ra ...
  • What’s okay

TVNZ - Top Stories

Empty newsfeed.

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • The Parliamentary week that was, 11 December, ...
    Parliament has been very busy trying to pass quite a few pieces of relatively uncontentious legislation over the last couple of weeks. Select committees have also been very busy. Wednesday 12th December was the last day that the House sat for the year, which means the various parties made their ...
  • ICT discussion paper – faster internet, ...
    The Green Party has launched a package of proposed initiatives to help grow the ICT sector. Government investment in a second internet cable system, supported by smarter government procurement policies, will lead a step-change in the ICT economy, growing exports and creating green jobs. The ICT ...
  • Government panders to food industry
    The Minister of Food Safety has just released her Advisory Group on front of pack labelling’s final report. The report is disappointing and its proposed labelling scheme will do little or nothing to improve our high rates of diet related diseases, which are highest in disadvantaged groups. There ...
  • General debate, December 15, 2012
  • Salisbury School
    The Green Party is pleased that Salisbury school for girls with learning disabilities is to remain open for at least another year. We are not attacking other schools or their capacity to keep young people safe from abuse. We are also not the champions of residential schools as a long term model ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Importance of Magnesium is Far Greater than Pr ...
    By Dr. Mercola You don't hear much about magnesium, yet an estimated 80 percent of Americans are deficient in this important mineral and the health consequences of deficiency are significant. One reason could be because magnesium, like vitamin D, serves so many functions it's hard to corral. ...
  • “American Gut” - One of the Most Important Hea ...
    By Dr. Mercola In association with the Human Food Project1, University of Colorado researchers and other scientists and collaborators around the world2 are launching what I believe might be one of the most important natural health projects of this century. The project, known as “American Gu ...
  • What You Need to Know About Vitamin K2, D and ...
    By Dr. Mercola Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin most well known for the important role it plays in blood clotting. However, many do not realize that there are different kinds of vitamin K, and they are completely different. The health benefits of vitamin K2 go far beyond blood clotting, w ...
  • Turn Ordinary Vegetables into Superfoods With ...
    By Dr. Mercola Caroline Barringer is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), and an expert in the preparation of the foods prescribed in Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride's Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Nutritional Program. I first met Caroline at the November 2011 Weston Price Wise Tradi ...
  • Belly Fat Bad for Men's Bones
    By Dr. Mercola Most people are aware that carrying excess weight increases your risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes, but few realize that it may also harm your bones. And, it turns out, where you carry the fat matters, with excess belly fat being among the worst types of fat for bo ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Father-daughter duo have the world’s first bra ...
    from stratrisks.com: It should be fairly obvious why, all technological considerations aside, there has been much more research into letting machines extract our thoughts, rather than insert them. Mind reading is a scary-enough concept all on its own — but mindwriting? It calls to mind the hac ...
  • Top 10 Packaged Foods You Shouldn't Buy
    from mercola.com: Grist Magazine started me off on this list by providing the first five packaged foods that are completely unnecessary, as making them at home is not only simple, but far healthier and more inexpensive. I added five more to Jane Mountain's list, for a total of 10.  Canned ...
  • #Video: The Botany Of Desire
    from therealfoodchannel.com: If you liked this afternoon's short clip, you might like the whole film. "The Botany of Desire" How plants shape human life and history.
  • #Video: The Crazy Flower Business Is Not Rational
    from realecontv.com: Not only is business not always rational, but a case can be made that most transactions are irrational. Just one example of many... People have done and continue to do crazy things to get flowers. Tulips, weed and just plain old garden-variety flowers.
  • #Video: What's a Food Industry to Do?
    from Activistpost.com:

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Society Is Crumbling Right In Front Of Our Eye ...
    What in the world is happening to America?  I have written many articles about how society is crumbling right in front of our eyes, but now it is getting to the point where people are going to be afraid to go to school or go shopping at the mall.  Just consider what has happened over [...]
  • We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business ...
    Historically, small businesses have been the primary engine of new job creation in the United States.  If the economy was getting healthy, we would expect to see the number of jobs at new businesses rise.  Instead, we are witnessing just the opposite.  We are told that the economy is supposed to ...
  • 55 Reasons Why California Is The Worst State I ...
    Why in the world would anyone want to live in the state of California at this point?  The entire state is rapidly becoming a bright, shining example of everything that is wrong with America.  It is so sad to watch our most populated state implode right in front of our eyes.  Like millions of Ame ...
  • Sorry Protesters: Your Jobs Are Being Sent To ...
    Did you see the huge crowds of protesters that flooded the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday?  They were there to protest two bills there were being considered by the state legislature that would limit the power of unions in the state.  Michigan lawmakers approved the bills and this absolutely infuria ...
  • 15 Signs That The Economy Is Rapidly Getting W ...
    How can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is "improving" when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated?  According to numbers that were just released, the number of Americans on food stamps rose by more than 600,000 in a ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • The recession takes a heavy toll on children - ...
    The economic downturn is pushing more U.S. children into poverty, and it's no longer a problem limited mostly to Southern states. read more
  • VOICES: Yes, voter suppression is controversial
    What does it say about the current state of North Carolina politics that not only is voter suppression legislation expected to pass early in the 2013 legislative session but that the head of Raleigh's leading conservative think tank doesn't even believe it's controversial? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Is the South's energy future ...
    This week the federal government took big steps toward building a commercial offshore wind industry in the Southeast -- but its future could be threatened by the expiration of a key tax credit. read more
  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • A week with elementary OS Luna: Could this be ...
    It is not far-fetched to say, open source and its poster child, Linux, is going through a golden period. The emergence of internet has a lot to do with the popularisation of open source way of thinking. But in the world of Windows and Macs, what makes Linux tick? Redhat was the first to expl ...
  • Desktop Zoom, Animations in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 ...
    Ever wondered what happened to all those mind numbing animations and effects in older Ubuntu releases running GNOME 2.x? We used to conduct Linux installation fests during our college days and showing off Compiz Fusion's capabilities was a major highlight during every such event. But with the ...
  • Reditr Beta Arrives, DEB Package Makes Install ...
    Reditr is a multi-column Reddit client for desktops. It currently supports Ubuntu, Mac, Windows and Google Chrome platforms. When it was first announced few months back, it created a lot of excitement, especially among Linux folks. But the initial Reditr Alpha release disappointed quite a few. ...
  • New Official Gmail App for Android Arrives wit ...
    The wait is finally over. Official Gmail for Android app now supports pinch-to-zoom action. This was perhaps one of the most requested feature by users of Gmail app. Apart from that, the new app also brings in features such as swipe to delete/archive action, attaching of photos and videos from ...
  • Google Play Store Revenues Spiking, Japan Over ...
    More Android growth stories. Google Play Store is growing in numbers. Nearly 900,000 apps and games are already in there and have been downloaded more than 25 billion times. But what about the revenues? App Annie has some interesting statistics.  Google Play Store Reven ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Sandy Hook Elem: 3 Shooters (A CLOSE LOOK) &#8 ...
    Sandy Hook Elem: 3 Shooters (A CLOSE LOOK) – YouTube.
  • Newtown school shooting story already being ch ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The national media is ablaze today with coverage of the tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT, where 27 people have reportedly been killed, including 18 children. As always, when violent shootings take place, honest journalists are forced ...
  • They Shoot Children, Don’t They?
    by Zen Gardner There’s no way an irate parent goes around shooting children, whatever cockamamie story line they come up with. I don’t care what they say. Something’s amiss and it’s almost always mind control that’s involved. Legislation and/or executive orders banning guns are just waiting to b ...
  • Don’t let your child see a psychiatrist. Ever.
    By John Rappoport If you have a child, don’t let him/her see a psychiatrist. Ever. Read Mike Adams’ new article about psychiatry. It’s one of the best I’ve ever read, and I’ve been researching this pseudoscience for 20 years. http://www.naturalnews.com/038322_DSM-5_psychiatry_false_diagnosis.htm ...
  • Nullifying Gun Free Zones is the Solution to S ...
    By The Watchdog Everywhere we see no guns allowed. No one is safe. Look at Chicago, New York and other major cities. The law abiding are forbidden to own a gun for self defense. The criminal whether it be a repeat offender or a politician. The innocent are more vulnerable than ever. It does not ...

Veterans Today

  • Holocaust not Hope
    Our past belongs to us and as we progress, we will always revisit, revise and rewrite it. This form of activity is inherent to human nature.
  • Hey, Krampus, gotta second for a buddy? Got a ...
    While looking for some pictures to tie this piece together, I discovered this – The Greek Christmas Goblins not to be confused with Krampus. ...
  • Can American leaders lead?
    Can American leaders lead? — By Alan Hart — The longer version of the headline question is this: Given the corruption of the American ...
  • CIA’s brand of Taliban now come with tattoos
    Muslim men, especially those who claim to be doing jihad, are not supposed to have such paintings on them since they cause problems for offering regular prayers.
  • America – The Killing Fields Never Stop
    We declared war on the world because 3,000 of our citizens were murdered in cold blood by terrorists, costing us couple of trillion dollars and we killed directly and indirectly over a million and destroyed two countries in the process.

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S.’s Duplicitous Policy Toward Syria
    China Daily December 14, 2012 US two-faced toward Syria ==== [T]he recognition of the Syrian opposition group might be only one step in the US and its Western allies’ maneuvering for regime change in Syria. NATO’s decision to deploy Patriot missiles in Turkey last week was seen as a ...
  • Michel Corday: Millions of men killed to cure ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Michel Corday: The everlasting glorification of murder Michel Corday: Blood! Blood! But there is still not enough. Anatole France and Michel Corday: Threat of annihilation in gigantic Armageddon Anatole France and Michel Corday ...
  • NATO Missiles In Turkey: West Risks World Conflict
    RT December 16, 2012     NATO missiles on Turkish-Syrian border foreshadows ‘World War’ – top Iranian commander A battery of the American Patriot air defense missiles deployed at the Polish town of Morag, some 60 km from the border on Russia’s Kaliningrad Region ...
  • Western-Backed Syrian Rebels Have Crossed The Line
    Voice of Russia December 15, 2012 Western-backed Free Syrian Army has crossed the line John Robles ==== [T]his could set off a chain of events that may pull the Russian Federation directly into the conflict. If the lives of Russians are at risk Russia has the right to protect its citizens and to ...
  • Growing Presence of Extremists Sends Chills Do ...
    Xinhua News Agency December 15, 2012 Growing presence of extremists in Syria sends chills down Syrians’ spines ==== Watching what happened in Iraq over the past 10 years, what is going on in Yemen now and on top of that the footage that emerges on a daily basis from places in Syria that wi ...

Before It's News

Empty newsfeed.

Intel Hub

  • Drone Operator asks “Did we Just Kill a Kid”, ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com December 17, 2012 Drone warfare is a disturbing practice on many levels, but one of the most troubling things about this is it allows people to be completely detached from the violence that they are participating in. However, recently a story has emerged about one of ...
  • 9/11 Truthers Adopt a Stretch of Highway in Mi ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com December 17, 2012 Sometimes the most effective activism comes from creative ideas that consider not only the message itself,  but how the message may be received by those hearing the message. The silent war that is being waged between the global ruling class and every ...
  • Military Escalation, Dangerous Crossroads: Rus ...
    By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research December 17,2012 On December 14, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed a Pentagon order to deploy 400 US missile troops to Turkey.  According to Washington, the security of Turkey, NATO’s heavyweight, is threatened.  US military personnel will to be de ...
  • Report: Congress To Move Against Guns: “It Wil ...
    By Mac Slavo SHTFPlan.com December 17, 2012 Amid heated debates about what to do in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shooting which took the lives of 20 children and six adults, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) is prepared to take action on the first day Congress meets after their current b ...
  • Society Is Crumbling Right In Front Of Our Eye ...
    By Michael Snyder theintelhub.com December 17, 2012 What in the world is happening to America?  I have written many articles about how society is crumbling right in front of our eyes, but now it is getting to the point where people are going to be afraid to go to school or go shopping at the [...]

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Rice Shows Maturity, Professionalism in Steppi ...
    Embattled UN Ambassador withdraws from Secretary of State consideration, saying that the battle for confirmation isn't worth it for the country.Contributor: Susan Graybeal Published: Dec 13, 2012
  • Obama is Right -- Higher Tax Rates on the Rich ...
    People like myself are getting tired of hearing about this fiscal cliff deal being held up just because the GOP refuses to accept the Nov. 6 election results. Taxing the rich more isn't being done for fun, it's necessary.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Dec 06, 2012
  • Sunset of Terror War: Too Little, Too Late
    In a pre-weekend address, general counsel to the Pentagon, Jeh Johnson, for the first time, uttered the sentiment that the “War on Terror,” which began on September 11, 2001, would, finally, be facing its long-awaited sunset.Contributor: D. Benjamin Satkowiak Published: Dec 03, 2012
  • U.N. Palestinan Vote Argues for the Abolishmen ...
    The New York Times reports that the United Nations has voted to elevate the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank to the status of non member observing state. Hot Air suggests that this is to the detriment of peace in the Middle East.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Nov 30, 2012
  • Grover Norquist Anti-Tax Crusade is Slowly Ending
    Grover Norquist, behind-the-scenes anti-tax puppeteer, is losing ground now that people know about him.Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Nov 20, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • What The Research Says About "Rampage Violence"
    Studies of "rampage violence" have only been around for about a decade, but researchers are still working hard to understand and prevent it. Here's the current state of the field. It's only been about a decade since psychological research has begun looking at what's increasingly being called "ra ...
  • This Week In The Future: Fish On Land, Wolves ...
    In the future, the great Pixel Wolves Of The Sky will look down below on the mutated fish. The wolves will be hungry but also weirded out. Want to win this mutational Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're @PopSci) and retweet our This Week in t ...
  • A Nest Made For People And Other Amazing Photo ...
    Including surreal pictures of food, a rarely seen "singing" dog, and more Click to enter the gallery
  • How Do Rampage Killings Affect Our Opinions On ...
    During his tearful address to the nation today, President Obama said we need to take "meaningful action to prevent tragedies" like the one that left 20 children and 7 adults dead in a Connecticut elementary school this morning. And on Twitter, the public's grief-mingled outrage is being directe ...
  • A Nest For Humans And Other Amazing Photos Fro ...

Veterans Today

  • Holocaust not Hope
    Our past belongs to us and as we progress, we will always revisit, revise and rewrite it. This form of activity is inherent to human nature.
  • Hey, Krampus, gotta second for a buddy? Got a ...
    While looking for some pictures to tie this piece together, I discovered this – The Greek Christmas Goblins not to be confused with Krampus. ...
  • Can American leaders lead?
    Can American leaders lead? — By Alan Hart — The longer version of the headline question is this: Given the corruption of the American ...
  • CIA’s brand of Taliban now come with tattoos
    Muslim men, especially those who claim to be doing jihad, are not supposed to have such paintings on them since they cause problems for offering regular prayers.
  • America – The Killing Fields Never Stop
    We declared war on the world because 3,000 of our citizens were murdered in cold blood by terrorists, costing us couple of trillion dollars and we killed directly and indirectly over a million and destroyed two countries in the process.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • How the Arctic may be impacting UK summers
    We may have to get used to wet summers like we've seen recently across the UK, according Dr Edward Hanna from Sheffield University in an interview which you can see on Inside Out and Look North tonight. According to Dr Hanna and an international team of scientists, melting summer Arctic ice ma ...
  • The Beast from the East is slain
    The cold easterly which a large majority of computer models were predicting to develop this week has failed to materialise, with a much more unsettled weather pattern expected to return from the Atlantic during tomorrow. Last week, 80% of the ECMWF model solutions wanted an easterly 'blocking' ...
  • The Beast from the East is lurking
    There is now growing consensus between most weather computer models that cold air from the east is likely to spread across Britain next week. If so, it will be the first time since March that high pressure has properly dominated our weather, and will end a long sequence of at times record brea ...
  • 2012 on course to be in wettest top 10
    Only two thirds of average rainfall needs to fall across the UK in December for 2012 to end up in the top ten wettest years on record, according to Met Office data which was first collated over a hundred years ago in 1910. Should this be the case, it would also mean that nearly half of the yea ...
  • Cold to follow latest deluge
    A welcome change to drier but colder weather is likely as we head through this week following heavy rainfall since Saturday night which is once again testing flood defences across the county. November is continuing a remarkable run of wet weather, becoming the 8th successive month where rainfa ...

    TO DO

    renewable recyclingconservation
    Mitsui's Renewable Projects in Canada Get C$795 Million Loans
    Bloomberg
    Mitsui's Renewable Projects in Canada Get C$795 Million Loans. By Chisaki Watanabe - 2012-12-17T11:36:45Z. Mitsui & Co. (8031) has acquired a 30 percent stake in GDF Suez (GSZ) Canada Inc.'s wind and solar power projects in Canada, the Japanese...
    Related Articles »
    KSA, UAE to lead MENArenewable energy drive
    Saudi Gazette
    JEDDAH – Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the new entrants from the MENA region to Ernst & Young'sRenewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices (CAI), which scores 40 countries across the globe on the attractiveness of their renewable energy markets, ...
    Related Articles »
    Renewable Energy Cornwall - Cornish fuel bills set to increase by £600 per year
    This is Cornwall
    "Cornish businesses and householders should seriously consider investing now inrenewable sources of energy such as solar power to protect themselves from fuel prices that look set to spiral out of control." Current average energy bills are £1000 and ...
    Related Articles »
    The grid of 2030: all renewable, 90 percent of the time
    Ars Technica
    But is it cost-effective to do so? A new study from the University of Delaware finds that renewableenergy sources can, with the help of storage, power a large regional grid for up to 99.9 percent of the time using current technology. By 2030, the cost ...
    Related Articles »
    powered by

    HUMAN HABITAT

    ecology water energy
    In pictures: Celebrating world'secology
    BBC News
    In pictures: Celebrating world'secology. Cape lappet moth caterpillar aggregation Winning images from the British EcologicalSociety's photography competition are to be shown at the society's annual meeting at Birmingham University from 17-20 December ...
    USA: Ecology Pleased with District Court Decision
    Dredging Today
    A judge in the U.S. District Court in Yakima today issued a ruling that Canadian mining and smelting company Teck Metals Ltd. is liable under United States environmental law for contaminating the Columbia River with millions of tons of smelting waste.
    All Saints Students Visit Lake Catholic For Ecology Lesson - Mentor, OH Patch
    Patch.com
    The students of All Saints of St. John Vianney had never seen anything like Lake Catholic High School's vivarium. The room is one part biology laboratory, one part botanical garden and one part museum with a little bit of shop class sprinkled in. The ...
    Christian Ecology – An imperative for our times
    Independent Catholic News
    Last Friday evening Catholic writer and journalist Ellen Teague addressed an ecumenical audience in Cheltenham on the theme of 'Christian ecology?' An imperative for our times! Speaking in The Old Priory, adjacent to St Gregory's Church, she laid out ...
    powered by

    WATER POWER

    water floods pollution
    Corps to drain water from Carlyle Lake to aid Mississippi River
    Chicago Tribune
    LOUIS - - Amid strong concerns about the declining level of the already low Mississippi River, the Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from an Illinois lake to add to the flow of the Mississippi. Corps of Engineers officials on Saturday began ...
    Related Articles »
    Why Netflix got into hot water - Fortune Management
    Fortune
    It might seem like the Netflix case is very different from an insider trading case. But selective disclosure and insider trading are birds of a feather. FORTUNE -- We've certainly witnessed a bonanza of insider investigations and trials involving ...
    In the Maldives, It's Water, WaterEverywhere
    Newsweek
    it is difficult, perhaps, to form an idea of a nation that consists of 26 atolls spread north-south across a vast expanse of ocean. The Maldives, moreover, have positioned themselves at the pinnacle of the luxury tourist market by subtracting from ...
    Slip-sliding away at Midwesternwater parks
    USA TODAY
    Wilderness Territory boasts four indoor water parks, including Wild West (top left), which spans 70,000 square feet that features bumper boats and a four-story interactive play feature. (Photo: GoEscape) ...
    powered by

Related articles

Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted by opit at 9:27 AM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)