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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, December 17, 2012

17 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

The Art of Watching (July 2012)
The Art of Watching (July 2012) (Photo credit: skippyjon)
English: Christian slavery in Barbary - The hi...
English: Christian slavery in Barbary - The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern. The forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome. The African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mount Whitney in California is the highest mou...
Mount Whitney in California is the highest mountain peak of the contiguous United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Lawrence Jarach and John Zerzan in di...
English: Lawrence Jarach and John Zerzan in discussion at the Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed booth, during the 2010 Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Logo of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, an...
Logo of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, an American publication which helped develop post-left anarchy thought (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Internat'l Political Economy

  • The Yen Also Falls: To Negative Nominal Rates?
    I am constantly befuddled by foreign exchange markets since they tend to display even more "irrational" behaviour than stock markets. Witness Japan and its currency. Beginning 1999 or so, Japan has conducted aggressive monetary easing via its zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) that entails [duh] n ...
  • Harming Schoolkids: US & China are Rather Alike
    There is an adage about people hating those who are so much like them because they cannot stand being reminded of their own failings. Think of a rooster that sees a mirror image of itself, raises its hackles and wants to fight it. Being the world's carbon emitters aside, nowhere is this adage tr ...
  • Google's Top Search Result for IPE is This Blog!
    To my surprise today, I entered "international political economy" into Google and lo and behold, the very site you're looking at has emerged as the top search result. While I've found that results do vary from country to country--don't ask me why, ask Google--IPE Zone is usually in the top five. ...
  • And the World's Best Finance Minister is...
    Cesar Purisima of the Philippines for 2012 according to Euromoney. It just goes to show you how far the United States has fallen in the opinion of those in the know that an American has not won this award since Bob Rubin back in 1996 (before being tarnished by all that Citi stuff during the glob ...
  • Michael Pettis Should Read More, Blog Less
    Skip the maths, will ya?I have in the past tied Michael Pettis to the whipping post for uncritically accepting Bernanke's self-serving notion of a "global savings glut" amidst falling levels of savings worldwide and a fantasyland assertion that the US household savings rate would hit double digi ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2012-12-16 WikiLeaks declares war on banking b ...
    Press release from WikiLeaks and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Sunday 16th December, 23:00 GMT Today sees the launch of the Freedom of the Press Foundation − a new initiative inspired by the fight against the two-year-long extra-judicial financial embargo imposed on WikiLeaks by U.S. fina ...
  • 2012-12-14 Julian Assange to give Christmas sp ...
    Sources have announced that on the evening of Thursday, December 20, 2012, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief and Australian Senate candidate Julian Assange will deliver a Christmas speech from the Ecuadorean embassy in London. The December 20 speech marks six months of Assange's stay at the embassy, whe ...
  • 2012-12-12 Assange confirms Senate run, announ ...
    Julian Assange has reportedly confirmed his candidacy for the Australian Senate in the 2013 federal election. The WikiLeaks editor-in-chief has also announced the imminent formation and registration of a WikiLeaks political party, which would promote government transparency and oppose recent ero ...
  • 2012-12-10 President Correa of Ecuador says as ...
    Ecuador's President Rafael Correa stated in an interview this month that his government would consider granting political asylum to Syrian head-of-state Bashar al Assad. President Assad is reportedly mulling asylum for himself, his family members, and close associates, in the event that he is fo ...
  • 2012-12-10 Now on DVD: "The WikiLeaks Tapes"
    Directed by teacher and citizen journalist Cathy Vogan, The WikiLeaks Tapes is a new, two-disc DVD of interviews with dozens of prominent personalities on the topic of WikiLeaks. Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, John Pilger, Christine Assange, Julian Morrow, Senator Scott Lundlam, and Mary Kostaki ...

U N News

  • Ban expresses deepest condolences to Connectic ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to the Governor of Connecticut in the United States to express his deepest condolences at the murders which took place on Friday at an elementary school there, according to his spokesperson.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into deat ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called for an investigation into the death of a Colombian journalist who died of injuries sustained while in custody.
  • Young Colombian woman named first winner of UN ...
    A 25-year-old Colombian woman has been selected as the winner of an inaugural United Nations prize recognizing contributions to social science research.
  • UN launches new initiative to eliminate choler ...
    The United Nations today announced a new initiative to help eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the two nations that make up the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
  • UN refugee agency and NGO appeal to United Sta ...
    The United Nations refugee agency and a global non-governmental organisation are jointly appealing to the United States Government to take further action to end the hardships facing stateless people in the North American country.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Gun-Town USA... 25 Years Murder Free
    According to The Judy Morris Report, the city of Kennesaw, Georgia in 1982 passed a law requiring that every household have at least one member that is armed and firearms proficient. ~ Video read more
  • Gun Ownership... Gun Facts and Charts Regardle ...
    The guiding gun control legislation in the United States is the Gun Control Act 1968 (this is Federal legislation only: each US state and territory enacts its own gun law)  The estimated total number of guns held by civilians in the United States is 270,000,000.  The rate of private ...
  • Gun Free Zones... Where Victims Go to Die
    The Batman Aurora, Colorado shooting this past summer was clearly the work of a mind controlled Manchurian candidate. It is obvious that many of these mass shootings follow the same pattern and cumulatively, they serve the same purpose of justifying the need for gun confiscation. ~ Dave Hodge ...
  • Alert... An 'Event' In DC Soon!... 'Large Loss ...
    John Moore starts off today’s show with a bombshell! A source of his with FEMA has informed him that there will soon be ‘an event’ in Washington DC with a large loss of life. John shares that this event will occur within 30 to 90 days and will be a contrived event. ~ Audio read more
  • False Flag Cyber-Attack Planned on Banks... Be ...
    McAfee Labs warns of a cyber-attack planned for the spring of 2013 that will steal millions of dollars from customer accounts. Thirty US banks have been named as a nameless, faceless band of “criminals” have released a Trojan virus that will remove digital currency from accounts at ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Will EMP Pulse Fry Anything Electronic NOT Plu ...
    I recently received the following question regarding EMP effects: “What will happen to vehicles with electronic ignitions, a Chevy with an ignition module, but they are not hooked to a battery, with no path for electricity to follow, can it do damage? There may not be power on the grid, bu ...
  • The Bill of Rights – Full Text
    The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties, the Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power. Amendment ...
  • Newtown CT Massacre
    Words cannot describe the tragedy of the Newtown CT massacre. Unfathomable grief for sure by the parents of those children. Predictably, the gun control advocates are politicizing the tragedy and debate is raging on the internet and elsewhere as people grapple for reasons and future prevention. ...
  • Ice Storm Survival Preparedness
    An Ice Storm is a unique weather phenomenon that immediately paralyzes a region, much more so than a major snow storm. An ice storm is so debilitating that you risk your survival and life simply by walking out your front door. Just prior to nearly any forecast of a major storm, people rush out t ...
  • Terrorist Cells Will Target Critical EHV Power ...
    WND.com has recently reported that Iran’s death squad is here. 10 terrorist cells, apparently ‘highly trained’ and ‘sophisticated’, are reportedly here and ready to attack critical infrastructure in the United States during 2013… “The source within the o ...

Fast Company

  • Targeted Facebook Ad Goes Horribly Wrong After ...
    Facebook user Peter Thoeny brings this to our attention. Unlike the Avis ad that ran next to the image of a man Fox incorrectly identified as the shooter of 26 people in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, this Facebook ad is supposed to be a bit smarter. The targeted ad takes into acc ...
  • Keeping Vaccines Colder Longer, To Get Them To ...
    Getting important drugs to people living without electricity can be impossible: many vaccines need to stay below a certain temperature to be effective. But a company called Nanoly is working on a special polymer that will keep vaccines working no matter the heat. According to the World Hea ...
  • 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week: Digital F ...
    2013 trend predictions and how to hire like a pro in this week's top 10. 1. 5 Trends That Will Shape Digital Services In 2013 Co.Design Design gurus forecast the 2013 digital trends. Read Full Story
  • Hacking The Factory Of A Legendary Furniture C ...
    Martino Gamper trains his eye on the classic couches of Moroso for the company’s 60th birthday. If you’re familiar with Italian designer Martino Gamper, you know he’s all about process. In 2007, he created 100 Chairs in 100 Days from abandoned chairs found around London. ...
  • Kickstarting: A Small Clock With A Minute Hand ...
    The Lithe clock may not be the easiest to read, but it’s certainly one of the most fun to watch. If the only thing you’re concerned with is knowing what time it is, it’s hard to argue with the utility of a digital timepiece. But often we sacrifice that legibility for styl ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt Media Roundup (December 17)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • Remembering Emad Effat
    It was exactly a year ago that Nashwa Abdel-Tawab, in a beige veil, red jacket and black long dress, was on the screens of every news channel across the country and the Arab world, the spouse of Emad Effat, a Muslim cleric who broke the walls of the all-but-state-controlled oldest Muslim univers ...
  • Malala, Abandoned to the Hawks of War
    On 10 December 2012, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari announced that his government and UNESCO were establishing the “Malala Fund for Girls’ Education,” and that Pakistan would contribute ten million dollars. This fund’s namesake, Malala Yousufzai, is a young activist for girls’ education. Sh ...
  • China Central Television Interview with Jadali ...
    In this interview with CCTV America  that aired on 16 December 2012, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Hesham Sallam argues that there is more to the conflict over Egypt's constitution than a spat between Islamists and secularists over the religious nature of the state and role of religion in public ...
  • Politics After Abdessalam Yassine
    Abdessalam Yassine has died. Founder and leader of the Jamaa Al Adl Wal Ihsane, Yassine - known to his followers as Sheikh Yassine - was perhaps the strongest figure in opposition to the power of the Moroccan monarchy. Yassine died early the morning of 13 December 2012, at the age of eighty-four ...

mediagazer

  • Amazon inks exclusive Prime Instant Video deal ...
    Paul Sawers / The Next Web: Amazon inks exclusive Prime Instant Video deal with Turner and Warner for two TNT series  —  Less than a week after Amazon announced that its Prime Instant Video service was arriving for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, the Internet giant has revealed i ...
  • 85% of U.S. magazine and newspaper publishers ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: 85% of U.S. magazine and newspaper publishers have an iPad app, survey says  —  A large annual survey of magazine and newspaper publishers finds that 90 percent have some sort of mobile presence — whether it's on a tablet, smartphone or e-r ...
  • Crowd Funding the Right to Know (The Huffingto ...
    The Huffington Post: Crowd Funding the Right to Know  —  “A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, an ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know.”& ...
  • Print in 2013: Newspapers cut costs and seek t ...
    Mark Sweney / Guardian: Print in 2013: Newspapers cut costs and seek tablets of salvation  —  Alexander Lebedev needs an investor, there's a new boss at Pearson, and the regional press faces further advertising woe  —  With Rupert Murdoch set to spin off his news ...
  • Mobile's Rude Awakening (Frédéri ...
    Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: Mobile's Rude Awakening  —  Mobile audiences are large and growing.  Great.  But their monetization is mostly a disaster.  The situation will be slow to improve, but the potential is still there — if the right co ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Controversial car wash at Bawtry Road, Se ...
    PLANS for a new car wash in Selby have been approved. Eight local residents objected to the planning application, which...
  • Luiz targeting titles to make up for Club ...
    The Brazil defender admits his sadness at Sunday's final defeat to Corinthians in Yokohama, but says he is now focusing on winning the league with Chelsea By Matt Hill...
  • City within city in Dubai
    This year, I will be completing 13 years of my stay in Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On December2, 2012, it was the UAE's National Day and the country celebrated its 41stanniversary. It was exactly on December 2, 1971, the United Arab Emirates was formed. Under the theme " ...
  • Early humans subsisted on plants: Study
    London: Our very early ancestors in central Africa subsisted on a diet of tropical grasses and sedges between three and 3.5 million years ago, says a new finding. An international team extracted information from the fossilized teeth of three Australopithecus bahrelghazali individuals -- the ...
  • UGANDA: Aid cuts threaten vital public se ...
    Donors cut 6 percent of the annual budget Deep-rooted corruption in the Office of the Prime Minister Northern recovery programmes likely to suffer KAMPALA, 17 December 2012 (IRIN) - Hundreds of millions of dollars in donor aid have been withheld from Uganda in recent months, threatening post ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Oil Still Leaking From Deepwater Horizon Site
    Yesterday BP and the Coast Guard took a stealthy cruise in the Gulf of Mexico to look for oil leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. That’s right, two and a half years after the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, oil is still leaking near the infamous Macondo well ...
  • Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council Takes Stand ...
    Bryde's whale chows down. ©Randy Morse  www.GoldenStateImages.com Precautionary approaches to fishery management for the ocean’s tiny fish are picking up steam across the US West Coast. California state wildlife advisors recently adopted the state’s first forage fish policy by a unanimo ...
  • DOE Gives $28 Million Boost to Offshore Wind
    The Department of Energy wants wind ©Oceana News yesterday that the Department of Energy had awarded $28 million to a range of innovative offshore wind projects around the country came as, dare we say it, a breath of fresh air? In total, seven projects will be receiving $4 million each. Thes ...
  • Q&A: Callum Roberts
    Callum Roberts is a professor of marine conservation at the University of York in England and author of the 2007 book “The Unnatural History of the Sea.” His second book, “The Ocean of Life”, was published this spring. Oceana asked Roberts about the new book and why we need a “New Deal” fo ...
  • The Dolphins of Robinson Crusoe Island
    Our team in Chile sent us this stunning picture today from just off the shore of Robinson Crusoe Island, part of the remote Juan Fernandez archipelago 400 miles West of mainland Chile. In 1704 Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk became marooned on the island, serving as the inspiration for Danie ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • News Desk: Secretary Clinton Suffers Concussio ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fainted and suffered a concussion after becoming dehydrated because of a stomach virus, the State Department said Saturday. “She has been recovering at home and will continue to be monitored regularly by her doctors. At their recommendation, she will cont ...
  • It’s Christmastime. Find Joy and Heal. [Obama' ...
    “I want to talk to the White House. I know that they can’t give me an answer tonight, but I want to know what they’re going to do. I need to know what they’re going to do.” – Rep. Carolyn McCarthy GOD HAD nothing to do with the Connecticut school massacre and religion wouldn’t have [...]
  • News Desk: 20 Children Shot Dead in Connecticu ...
    Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News CBS News is reporting that at least 27 people are dead, including 20 students, after a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School ...
  • We Can Use Torture Because We’re Exceptionally ...
    You remember the George W. Bush administration word play which turned “torture” into “enhanced interrogation.” Not that Bush was the first, or the last, to do such things, of course. Two things happened yesterday, related to this. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the CIA’s rendition ...
  • TOP STORY — Amb. Susan Rice Removes her Name f ...
    Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities,” Rice wrote in a letter to President Obama, ...

Hudson New York

  • Palestinians: The Third Intifada Has Begun
    By allowing Hamas to celebrate its 25th anniversary in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority leadership is paving the way for a third intifada against Israel. In fact, in the past few days, the third intifada has already begun, as violent clashes
  • Spain Threatens to Deport Filmmaker for Anti-I ...
    The Spanish government has warned a political refugee that he faces deportation for making a documentary critical of Islam. The move comes after Belgium raised its terror threat level to the second-highest ahead of the release of the film, originally
  • Disgruntled Protestants Issue Irenic Jerusalem ...
    Protestants from three continents met in Jerusalem during November 5-8, 1912, to initiate a Protestant Consultation on Israel and the Middle East (PCIME). They subsequently issued a Jerusalem Declaration calling upon their churches to refrain from
  • Al Jazeera's Plan
    Even as Mahmoud Abbas' minions were extracting the bones of Yasser Arafat from his grave, the Palestinian Authority upgraded its status at the United Nations to "Palestine" and was accepted as a non-member observer state by the UN General Assembly. The
  • Syrian Rebels in Control of Border Area with I ...
    Syrian rebels have taken control of the border with Israel, and are consolidating their presence in the area, according to Israeli defense sources. One source said that the rebels managed to oust the Syrian military from the area after months of battles,

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

  • Links for 2012-12-16 [del.icio.us]
    Jim Rogers : Conceivably, the world Economy is going to collapse sometime in the next decade Roubini : Unless we restore economic growth in five years time this will become financially, socially and politically unsustainable George Soros Predicts Global Economic Collapse. Save Lives , Keep Ci ...
  • Slavery By Consent ( Full Version)
    Slavery By Consent ( Full Version) Our... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
  • Trends Forecast For 2012 To 2016
    Trend Forecast For 2012 To 2016 : Here is what... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
  • Sandy Hook School Shooting A False Flag Attack ...
    The US does have a substantiated long history of... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
  • The World is Not Going to End on December 21st ...
    What better way to dupe a population: Manufacture... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Latin America Green News: Chile's LNG triples, ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. Please note that this will be the last Latin America Green News of 201 ...
  • Now That Polar Bears' Fate Lies with Europe, W ...
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Now that the world’s delegates have returned home from climate negotiations in Doha, many ministries are turning their attention to other international environmental agreements – ...
  • Fracking Fudged: Looking at Illinois Chamber o ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois The Illinois Chamber of Commerce yesterday released a pretty, remarkably rosy sounding report, speculating on the potential impacts that fracking might have on Illinois’ econ ...
  • Cleaning Up Power Plant Carbon Pollution Witho ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. This post written with Kate Sinding Last week NRDC released a groundbreaking report showing how the Obama Administration can use the Clean Air Act to take a big bite out of car ...
  • Solving the Carp Crisis: Moving from Courts to ...
    Meleah Geertsma, Staff Attorney, Midwest Program, Chicago, IL   Back in 2010, a group of Great Lakes states led by Michigan sued the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago t ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, December 13, 2012: James Island, South Carolina: An officer faces one count of leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death. The officer was charged for leaving … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, December 12, 2012: Raton, New Mexico: A police officer has resigned following a recent gathering at his home that allegedly involved underage drinking. http://ow.ly/g16G5 Oakland, California: A college instructor … Continue ...
  • Woman Tasered Outside Apple Store; Police Say ...
    More here.Woman Tasered Outside Apple Store; Police Say “Routine” Call is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, December 11, 2012: Charleston County, South Carolina: A lawsuit has been filed against the sheriff’s office and three deputies that alleges the use of excessive force in a traffic … Continue reading →National Pol ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, December 8 to Monday, December 10, 2012: Woodland Park, New Jersey: A suspended police officer has been indicted on charges of attempted aggravated sexual assault, attempted sexual assault, luring … Continue reading → ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: You can now gift apps in iOS ...
    You can now gift apps to others on Apple’s App Store in iOS 6, Google+ gets a bevy of new features, and The White House must provide an official response... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Maps for iOS is final ...
    Google has finally released a Maps app for iOS, Last.fm is killing off most of its Radio services, and John McAfee lands in the USA. It’s all in today’s Daily... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Internet Explorer vuln ...
    On today’s Daily Dose catch the latest in browser vulnerabilities, slot games, and filtered posts. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web.... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Android patent deals, ...
    Surface production ramps up, Amazon changes its shipping dates, Android deals abound, and Apple delays Microsoft’s plans. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google pulls Motorola out of ...
    Motorola Mobility is closing down its Korean operations, HBO gets a new CTO whose pedigree will encourage those looking for improved online offerings from the broadcaster, and Twitter makes an... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Is dirty gas killing clean coal?
    CSG fracking: destroying carbon capture & storage potential? Media release, December 17, 2012 “Fracking” to tap unconventional gas resources could destroy the much-hyped “clean coal” carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Earlier this year, Scientific American reported findings that ...
  • Solar research funding is just passing the buck
    December 13 2012 Martin Ferguson's announcement this morning for $83 million for solar energy research is a diversion from actually building large solar, according to Matthew Wright from the climate and energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “While Australia is limiting its large-scale sola ...
  • Why are we buying insurance from power companies?
    By Richard Keech Much has been said in the discussion about the introduction of smart meters. According to Michael West in the Sydney Morning Herald, “smart meters and ‘flexible pricing’ merely shift the business risk from the company to the consumer”. This entirely misses the point that shield ...
  • BZE 2011-12 Annual Report now available
    BZE's Annual Report for the financial year 2011-12 (and a bit beyond) is now available. You can download it here. A big well done to volunteers Liem and Robin for their work in putting it together! (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopp ...
  • High praise for Port Augusta solar hub plan at ...
    A PLAN to transform Port Augusta into a green energy hub has been lauded at the Civic Trust's annual Awards and Brickbats ceremony. However, the State Government's axing of heritage advisory services in its May Budget is the stand-out among this year's brickbats. The Civic Trust a public t ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Brazil sues to block unlicensed REDD deal betw ...
    Brazil's Attorney General Office has filed a lawsuit against an Irish company and an indigenous group for unlicensed sales of carbon credits generated from an reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) project, reports Reuters Point Carbon.
  • Some Amazon trees more than 8 million years old
    Some Amazon rainforest tree species are more than eight million years old found a genetic study published in the December 2012 edition of Ecology and Evolution.
  • Indonesian NGO voluntarily joins lawsuit as co ...
    An Indonesian environmental group has taken the unusual step of asking to be named as a co-defendant in a case brought against the Aceh government by a palm oil company over the governor's decision to cancel a controversial concession in a peat forest on the island of Sumatra.
  • Cutting through the rhetoric on palm oil produ ...
    Palm oil is widely acknowledged as one of the most important drivers of deforestation and forest diminishment in Southeast Asia. Conversion of forests and peatlands for oil palm plantations is both a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions and a major threat to biodiversity — one st ...
  • Rainforests teem with insects, most of which a ...
    Researchers in Panama have published the results of the most comprehensive survey of arthropods in a small area of tropical rainforest. At a high level, the findings surprise no one: the Panamanian rainforest is full of insects, spiders, and crustaceans. Yet the results also show how little is k ...

Sierra Express

  • University of Makeni (Unimak) and partners tra ...
    Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 17, 2012 — 76 paralegals from 5 non-governmental organisations have benefitted from several 3 day trainings facilitated by the University of Makeni since the start of 2012. With support from the the German Government through its implementing agency “German Intern ...
  • Parliament and President
    It was on the 17th of November that we all came together with a great decision to reelect President Ernest Bai Koroma and his Vice President for another five years of state governance. Following the election of this team, some, especially the main opposition SLPP, threatened to boycott state fun ...
  • Presidential address on State Opening of Parli ...
    Presidential Address delivered by His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma G.C.R.S.L. on the occasion of the State Opening of the First Session of the Fourth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone in the Chamber of Parliament Building, Tower Hill, Freetown, on Friday 14th December, 2012.   ...
  • Obituary of Mama Isata Jabbie Keita – May her ...
    The passing away of our dear mother, grand other, and loving family member of Madam Haja  Isata Jabbie Keita is announced.   Mama Isata passed away in the Inova Fairfax Hospital, Virginia, USA, on December 12, 2012 past Wednesday, after a long illness.  She was an octogenarian.   She is survived ...
  • OHTV ‘Future History Campaign’ in partnership ...
    A new television advert sees Britain elect its first Black Prime Minister and uncover that he was adopted as a child. The advertisement has been produced by culturally-diverse television brand OHTV as part of the global ‘Future History Campaign’ in partnership with Lambeth Council. The campaign ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • At Sandy Hook Memorial, Obama Showcases the Ma ...
    On Sunday night, speaking at a memorial service for the 26 victims of Adam Lanza's horrifying shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, President Obama provided a window onto the magical thinking of people who think such appalling crimes could be pr ...
  • Do Gun-Free Zones Work as Planned?
    In his USA Today column, Glenn Instapundit Reynolds channels William S. Burroughs to question the sagacity of gun-free zones: "After a shooting spree," author William Burroughs once said, "they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it." Burroughs continue ...
  • Damon Root on How Florida’s Property Rights Ab ...
    In January the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case of Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District. At issue is a legal battle dating back to 1994 where a Florida regulatory agency refused to permit the commercial development of a small piece of property unless t ...
  • Sheldon Richman on Right-to-Work Laws and the ...
    It’s not widely known, but an earlier generation of libertarians condemned so-called right-to-work laws as anti-market, says Sheldon Richman. The New Deal, rather than being anti-business and pro-labor, actually tamed labor by bringing “responsible” union leaders to t ...
  • Vid: A Great Year for Pot, Freedom, & Endi ...
    Reason TV talks with Rob Kampia, the head of the Marijuana Policy Project, about what happens next after victories for legal pot in Colorado and Washington state. Kampia explains how the ballot initiatives won and the surprising way he celebrated Election Night in Colorado. ...

Mercury Rising

  • Keystone XL’s Window Of Profitability Cl ...
    In a recent edition of the Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin newsletter, I saw the following statement: Canadian heavy oil actually traded under $50/barrel this week—less than half the price of Brent-priced international crude. It is by far the cheapest crude on the planet right now. (The industr ...
  • Better late than never: Protests against insta ...
    Jo Tuckman, The Guardian: A preliminary investigation by Mexico City’s human rights commission has found evidence of police brutality and arbitrary detentions during the violent protests during last Saturday’s [Dec. 1] inauguration of President Enrique Peña Nieto. The ongoing investi ...
  • The Rich Don’t Always Win
    I ran across a book with an engaging title: The Rich Don’t Always Win. It sounds like a good’un. Here’s the publisher’s synopsis: The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America’s political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe ...
  • The losers: the yakuza and Japan
    Foreign Policy has long been a bastion of conventional wisdom against the armies of common sense. But sometimes they produce something interesting. Such is the case with their article on the yakuza, Japan’s organized crime families. Jake Adelstein: The yakuza has its origins in federations ...
  • Irresistible force meets immovable object (Chi ...
    China violates airspace, claims Japan is intruding. Japan tipped to elect bellicose PM. What could go wrong?

Reality Sandwich

  • Corals and Gobies: A Symbiotic Love Story
    Coral reefs are threatened across the world's oceans by seaweed. Scientists and ecologists have found a natural protection mechanism within the biology of the corals themselves. A study posted in the journal of Science has shown that a certain species of coral, Acropora nasuta, releases a ...
  • Sex in the News
    Mormons and homosexuality, nice guys commit rape too, Sage Smith, Sex Nerd Sandra, 50 Shades of American University, and more in this week's sex in the news. read more
  • Sexedelic: Tantric Healing Through Psychedelics
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  • Reality Sandwich Reviews, December 14, 2012
    In this edition of Reality Sandwich Reviews:   Life of Pi  Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss Chasing Ice  How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Lincoln  God: A Story of Revelation The Adventurous Heart: Figures and Capriccios Samsara  A Hologram for the King &n ...
  • Life on Mars?
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Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • The United States of America (USA) and "Tyranny"
    The Right to Secede by Joseph Sobran As originally posted on: SOBRAN'S September 30, 1999 How can the federal government be prevented from usurping powers that the Constitution doesn’t grant to it? It’s an alarming fact that few Americans ask this question anymore. Our ultimate defense a ...
  • Democracy and "Government"
    Elections and The State by Kent McManigal As originally posted on: Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog November 11, 2012 Government. It's not the drunk at the throttle that's the problem. He controls less than you believe. It's that the locomotive was designed to self-destruct- an ...
  • Disbarred Manitoba Lawyer Robert Fisher
    The following disciplinary notice has been edited in terms of formatting. THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA NOTICE OF DISBARMENT TAKE NOTICE that by resolution of a Panel of the Discipline Committee of The Law Society of Manitoba, ROBERT LEWIS FISHER was fou ...
  • "The Oppressive State"
    @VicPopuli Preserving a free State is an obligation. Keeping/bearing arms to fulfill obligation is a right. Secede from the oppressive State by Bryan Runnels As originally posted on: Bryan Runnels (scythewieldor) on Twitter December 7, 2012
  • "Your President"

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CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Zuma Seeks ANC Leadership at Party Summit
    Jacob Zuma, the South African president, has acknowledged that corruption and violence have marred the image of the African National Congress (ANC) under his watch, but called on members to again support him to be the party’s leader. The ANC, once a liberation movement that started a centu ...
  • South-South Political Alliances Yet to Influen ...
    Politicians in the leading developing nations have been active in boosting mutual ties, as one way of counterbalancing the influence of the developed world. But the economic success of the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and the India, Brazil, and South Africa groupings will depen ...
  • Remittances Soothe the Scourge of Militancy
    Fifty-nine-year-old Sherdil Shah, a resident of South Waziristan – a hotbed of militancy in northern Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) – used to run a modest grain shop that fetched enough money to keep his family of 10 well-fed and looked after. That is, until a 2006 army op ...
  • Detained at the Eastern Border – Part 1
    A recent hunger strike, involving over 70 migrants detained in heavily guarded centers across Poland, is forcing the country to face its new responsibilities as a migration hub within the European Union. Poland currently has six detention centres, which host ‘irregular migrants’, or foreigners c ...
  • Occupation Can’t Stifle Innovation
    Afnan Hamad stands proudly in front of a booth at the Ramallah Cultural Palace exhibition hall, three plastic bottles filled with discoloured liquid on the table in front of her. “We designed a device to convert plastic waste into gasoline, kerosene and diesel fuel,” explains the 23-year-old che ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran hysteria a cover for Israeli bomb - ex-Ir ...
    Summary: The present-day furor over Iran's uranium enrichment program has provided cover for the Jewish state's own illicit nuclear weapons program, which predates the Islamic republic, former top Iranian diplomat and scholar Seyed Hossein Mousavian told RT. source: Russia Todayread more
  • Who is in the driving seat as we reach the end ...
    Summary: The intention of the British, US and French governments is clear: to use the fears about chemical weapons to move from secret intervention to no fly zones, air strikes and possible incursions. source: STWCread more
  • U.N. agency reports progress in Iran nuclear talks
    Summary: Talks between the U.N atomic agency and Iran are expected to lead to a deal next month on how to conduct an investigation into Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, the chief U.N. inspector said after returning from Tehran on Friday. source: Reutersread more
  • Iranian Bomb Graph Appears Adapted from One on ...
    Summary: WASHINGTON, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) - The suspect graph of a nuclear explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons yields appears to have been adapted from a very similar graph in a scholarly journ ...
  • US Officially Recognizes the unrepresentative ...
    Summary: The Coalition is supposed to be made up of Syrian dissidents and opposition groups from across the spectrum. But it is largely another exile group without strong roots inside the country, and vehemently rejected by the armed rebel groups fighting the Assad regime on the ground in Syr ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Quantum Entanglement Leaps Beyond Einstein --" ...
                            In 1935, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen, commonly referred to as EPR, published a thought experiment designed to show that quantum mechanics, by itself, is not sufficient to describe reality. Using two entangled particles EPR tried to demonst ...
  • Did Comets Deliver Amino Acids Needed for the ...
                                 In early 2012, Jennifer G. Blank, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at the NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., set out to check whether amino acids could remain intact after a comet's descent through Ear ...
  • Weird Physics of Black Hole Jets --Some Exceed ...
                   Astronomers examining the properties of black hole jets compared 54 gamma-ray bursts with 234 active galaxies classified as blazars and quasars. Surprisingly, the power and brightness of the jets share striking similarities despite a wide range of black hole mass, age and ...
  • Three-Mile-Long Asteroid Toutatis Tumbled By T ...
                    Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid that made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 12, 2012. The radar data im ...
  • From the 'X-Files': NASA Releases Mayan Apocal ...
                 

Natural News

  • Obama seems poised to declare military dictato ...
    In yet another masterful bit of presidential theater, Obama took to the airwaves Sunday night to declare his "love" for children and then to ask, "Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?" This...
  • Restaurant dish washing has no effect on conta ...
    Current dish washing practices in restaurants are completely inadequate for preventing the spread of one the most common agents of foodborne illness, according to a study conducted by researchers from Ohio State University and published in the journal PLoS ONE. "We...
  • Iron supplementation helps low-birth-weight babies
    Researchers in Sweden believe they have found a way to help low birth weight newborns: iron supplementation. According to scientists from Umea University, the largest in northern Scandinavia, supplemental iron could boost brain development and help prevent behavioral...
  • New Yorkers duped with mislabeled fish - Learn ...
    According to a new study carried out by the ocean conservation group Oceana, nearly 40 percent of the seafood sold in New York's restaurants and grocery stores is mislabeled, with cheap fish being often substituted for more expensive varieties. What's worse is that some...
  • Vitamin K may be the key to osteoporosis preve ...
    Vitamin K - a nutrient associated with green, leafy vegetables - may play a critical role in bone health and the prevention of osteoporosis, according to a study conducted by researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York...

Threat Level

  • State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in ‘Catch- ...
    A federal judge said Friday the Obama administration has pinned him in an inescapable, paradoxical situation when it comes to whether he should dismiss a lawsuit accusing the government of siphoning Americans' electronic communications from telecoms and funneling them to ...
  • Internet Safe From Globalized Censorship as UN ...
    The doomsday predictions that the internet would become a centralized, globalized tool for governments to suppress and eavesdrop on speech didn't come to fruition Friday, after a two-week secret meeting between world governments failed to reach a consensus.
  • Opinion: Why We Need to Keep Sex Offenders Online
    In its zeal to restrict free speech online for some, Prop. 35 actually restricts free speech for all. The harder battle is convincing the hearts and minds of those who aren’t on the California sex offender registry to understand the ...
  • America Demands: Obama, Build Us a Death Star
    A petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets ...
  • State Secrets Front and Center in Dragnet Surv ...
    A federal judge on Friday is to hold the first hearing following an appellate court's decision reinstating allegations the government is siphoning Americans' communications from telecoms to the National Security Agency without warrants. The new judge on the case, U.S. ...

PERRspectives : Blog

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

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Missing Polar Weather Systems Paint Different ...
    Never let it be said that size matters. Small but physically intense storms at the poles could make a huge difference in climate predictions according to new research, but the problem is they are missing from most current climate models. The research from the University of East Anglia and the Un ...
  • Toutatis, Three Mile Long Asteroid That Just P ...
    The large three-mile-long asteroid, Toutatis, that just passed by the Earth on December 12th, 2012, was imaged using radio data that was caught by NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna. The radar data images were compiled into a short movie that you can see here. “The images that make up ...
  • New Insomnia Fighting Lights On The Internatio ...
    A new lighting system is being built to help fight insomnia on the International Space Station by utilizing high-tech light-emitting diodes, replacing the fluorescent bulbs thar are currently in use. Something that remains somewhat unknown to the general republic is driving this change, around h ...
  • Venomous Primates, Three New Species Of Loris ...
    Three new species of slow loris have been discovered in Borneo. They had previously been grouped with other species, but research has found them to be separate species, and thus much more vulnerable to extinction. A loris is a type of venomous primate that has two tongues. With their large eyes ...
  • Cyclone Evan Devastates Samoa, Moves on to Fiji
    NASA announced the birth of Tropical Storm Evan on the 12th of December maybe not knowing just how damaging this storm would end up being. The Samoan government has declared a state of disaster after now-Cyclone Evan ravaged the small South Pacific nation, leaving an unknown death toll and massi ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • THIS Time I Won't Forget
    By @TomBales1 I'm going to apologize in advance for some of the language I'll be using in this rant.  Usually I try to make it at least clean enough for my grandkids to read (although I'm probably delusional if I think there are many or any words I use that they don't hear every day anyway ...
  • When Conservatives Play God
    By @TedFrier Former Democratic Chairman Howard Dean wondered aloud the other day whether Republicans even believe in democracy. Dean said he had his doubts after listening to Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter (whose company was paid more than $3,000 by the Romney campaign) state matte ...
  • Little Dick Syndrome + NRA = Tragedy
    Nobody needs me to tell them that yesterday was none of the blackest days in American history.  I'm sure that all of us are having to come to terms with this latest illustration of what America has become and is becoming.  The first numbing realization that yes, it had happened again a ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Today was one of those days where I vacillated between seeing-red rage and profound grief. I am at my breaking point. As of 12/14/12, I am never again voting for any politician who has the endorsement of or a high rating from the NRA. By my sights, that is a reason to withhold a vote, ...
  • This is America - December 14, 2012
    This evening, along North Commercial in Harrisonville, Missouri.

Care 2

  • Victory: Dozens of Beagle Puppies Saved From C ...
    The puppies were rescued this morning by India's People for Animals and Blue Cross Chennai and are being adopted out to loving homes. Submitted by Ruth McD to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in ...
    When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid politicizing the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for dont talk about reforming our gun control laws. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |  & ...
  • NRA-led gun lobby wields powerful influence ov ...
    The gun issue is so incendiary and fear of the NRA so great that the ATF plan languished for months at the Justice Department, according to some senior law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity but would not provide details. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture ...
  • "Body slamming piglets to death humane," pork ...
    Scenes show workers euthanizing a piglet by swinging it into a metal post and kicking and slapping a pig that is having trouble getting up. Pork industry experts say most of what is seen in the hidden camera investigation is widely accepted practice. Submitted by Johan Maltesson to Animals &nb ...
  • Remove Maharashtra minister Fauzia Khan's for ...
    TAKE ACTION - Why animal abuse promoter Fauzia Khan enjoying Minister position in Maharashtra?, the UN affiliated OIPA in India and PFA Haryana asked her to step down at once - Abhishek Kadyan / Sukanya Kadyan Submitted by Kadyan Naresh to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &nbs ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Can We Fix Mental Illness?
    I hate politicians who embrace the banal as the solution for problems that are beyond solution. They should be chained together and tossed into the ocean (hopefully inside a bag weighted with cement blocks). There are those nitwits who insist that all we need is more gun laws. We need, they pont ...
  • Wreckers of the Arab Spring
    John Batchelor wrote: “The reversal of fortune in the Arab Spring appears to be a surprise to the Obama administration as Cairo now reveals the wolf in wolf’s togs of the Moslem Brotherhood.” I spoke Eric Trager, Malcolm Hoenlein, Sebastian Gorka in re the Morsi declaration tha ...
  • HK2 Open Thread * Ravi Shankar
    I cracked up when I saw this headline at the UK Telegraph: “In truth, Ravi Shankar couldn’t stand the hippies“: The rock audiences who came to pay homage he haughtily dismissed in his autobiography as “these strange young weirdos”; while his appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock ...
  • Newtown CT School Shooting Open Thread
    This is so mindless and senseless. It is one thing to be angry with your parent. When that anger inspires you to shoot your mother and her class of kindergarteners, that is totally insane. There is no “explanation” for this. I cannot begin to imagine the horror and nightmare that is ...
  • Rice Pulls Plug on Herself
    Damn. Am I disappointed. I was so hoping that Rice would stick it out and replace Hillary. Why? Susan Rice, while a smart, accomplished person, is as smooth as sandpaper toliet tissue in a cactus outhouse. She would have been a disaster at State. Sadly, she has now taken herself out of considera ...

Futurismic

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

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Mountaintop Removal

  • Explosives company faced scrutiny before Louis ...
    Explosives company faced scrutiny before Louisiana evacuation The Daily Advertiser The company also came under scrutiny in West Virginia where it was using an old military explosive called tetryl in mountaintop removal mining for Catenary Coal Co. in 2006 and 2007, according to documents reviewe ...
  • Vernon Haltom: Faith and coal don't mix - Op-E ...
    Vernon Haltom: Faith and coal don't mix - Op-Ed Commentaries - The ... Charleston Gazette He and the majority of West Virginia's politicians rely not on the sciences that tell us that wet slurry dams collapse and mountaintop removal dust harms our health, but rather on faith. Faith that ...
  • Wayne Bledsoe: The Lonetones deserve plenty of ...
    Wayne Bledsoe: The Lonetones deserve plenty of company on their musical ... Knoxville.com "Stirrin' Up the Dust" is a powerful indictment of mountain-top removal mining. And "Top Hat" is a sweet acknowledgment of the impact of the late former Lonetones member Phil Pollard ...
  • Top ten environmental wins of 2012 » peopleswo ...
    Top ten environmental wins of 2012 » peoplesworld People's World Kentucky metal/bluegrass band Panopticon released an album decrying mountaintop removal and the abuse of workers in the coal industry. And musicians including Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and The Who performed ...
  • Opinion: Fracking is a threat to health and we ...
    Opinion: Fracking is a threat to health and well-being CNN International Each new wave of more extreme extraction methods, be it tar sands, deep water drilling or mountain top removal, brings a new level of destruction to the area concerned. In the UK, gas production from the North Sea is in ter ...

Memeorandum

  • New Calls for Gun Limits (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal: New Calls for Gun Limits  —  Several lawmakers Sunday called for reintroducing a ban on assault weapons in the wake of Friday's deadly school rampage.  President Barack Obama is also likely to propose gun-policy changes, according to two administration ...
  • 4 Reasons Why Boehner's Latest Tax Offer Is A ...
    Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress: 4 Reasons Why Boehner's Latest Tax Offer Is A Bad Deal  —  Politico reported yesterday that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has proposed a tax increase in income in excess of $1 million as part of the ongoing negotiations to avert the so-ca ...
  • Do We Have the Courage to Stop This? - IN the ...
    Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times: Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?  —  IN the harrowing aftermath of the school shooting in Connecticut, one thought wells in my mind: Why can't we regulate guns as seriously as we do cars?  —  The fundamental reason kids a ...
  • Gérard Depardieu says he will give up F ...
    Guardian: Gérard Depardieu says he will give up French passport over tax rises  —  Actor attacks French government for punishing talent as he moves to Belgium  —  Gérard Depardieu has said he is handing back his French passport and social security c ...
  • Nikki Haley to announce Jim DeMint's successor ...
    Associated Press: Nikki Haley to announce Jim DeMint's successor  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is announcing a replacement for U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint.  —  Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey says Haley will make the announcement at noon Monday a ...

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China Dialogue

  • 中国最大钢&#3808 ...
    中国最大的尾矿库之一——包钢尾矿库，正在形成巨大的环境隐患。它富集资源，但&# ...
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    有机磷农药如今是世界上使用最广泛的杀虫剂，但研究证实，少量接触有机磷农药可 ...
  • 负责任的股&#1999 ...
    2008年金融危机使得金融业声名扫地。而全社会对投资的社会责任和生态责任的诉求再&#27 ...
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    汇丰银行气候变化卓越中心主任 尼克•罗宾斯为我们开出了他的可持续投资推荐书&#21 ...
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    候鸟栖息地大片消亡，迁徙的鸟类又被成批猎杀，人类成为这些鸟儿的生存天敌。谁 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • My X-Rated Sex-Ed Class
    The model, naked from the waist down, looked at the man sitting next to me in the front row and smiled. “You’re in the splash zone,” she said. Without missing a beat, he took off his leather jacket, draped it over the back of his chair, and then made the international hand ...
  • 12 Cool Holiday Traditions That Aren't About G ...
    After an autumn of Bible-based gay bashing, and Religious Right candidates with “rape Tourette’s,” and End Times aficionados gunning for Armageddon rather than peace in the Middle East, some nontheists may be finding it a little tough to feel warm and chirpy about the birt ...
  • Meet Five CEOs Who Prove That Lower Corporate ...
    Corporate tax rates must be lowered in order to create economic growth: this is a key argument made by CEOs and their political allies while they push for a fiscal cliff deal. That was in the Bowles-Simpson plan, and members of Fix the Debt are pushing for that too, along with a territorial ta ...
  • 5 Unhinged Right-Wing Responses to Connecticut ...
    This article has been updated.Before the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School took place, two things were predictable:that another mass killing was inevitable, given the increase in their frequency over the past year, and the fact that no measures had been taken to prevent themthat right-w ...
  • 6 Ways to Replace Violence With a Culture of C ...
    The Newtown tragedy compels Americans to consider the ways that both our society and our attitudes contribute to creating a more violent society. Much has been written about gun control, but we also need a focus on the widespread attitudes and beliefs that contribute to violence and how we can ...

Threat Level

  • State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in ‘Catch- ...
    A federal judge said Friday the Obama administration has pinned him in an inescapable, paradoxical situation when it comes to whether he should dismiss a lawsuit accusing the government of siphoning Americans' electronic communications from telecoms and funneling them to ...
  • Internet Safe From Globalized Censorship as UN ...
    The doomsday predictions that the internet would become a centralized, globalized tool for governments to suppress and eavesdrop on speech didn't come to fruition Friday, after a two-week secret meeting between world governments failed to reach a consensus.
  • Opinion: Why We Need to Keep Sex Offenders Online
    In its zeal to restrict free speech online for some, Prop. 35 actually restricts free speech for all. The harder battle is convincing the hearts and minds of those who aren’t on the California sex offender registry to understand the ...
  • America Demands: Obama, Build Us a Death Star
    A petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets ...
  • State Secrets Front and Center in Dragnet Surv ...
    A federal judge on Friday is to hold the first hearing following an appellate court's decision reinstating allegations the government is siphoning Americans' communications from telecoms to the National Security Agency without warrants. The new judge on the case, U.S. ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Norovirus Link to Wyoming Golden Corral Confirmed
    Early last week, the Casper-Natrona County Health Department reported that it was investigating several reports of intestinal illnesses.  They announced that they were also coordinating efforts with the Epidemiology Section... Continue Reading
  • Canadian Meat Recalls Expands Due to E. coli I ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Cardinal Meat Specialists Ltd. are warning the public not to consume the Cardinal Select brand Prime Rib Beef Burgers described below because this... Continue Reading
  • Pennsylvania Raw Milk Cows Being Tested for Sa ...
    The Chester County Health Department has been informed of an increase of severe gastro enteric symptoms among persons who drank raw milk supplied by Kimberton Farms Dairy. Kimberton Whole Foods,... Continue Reading
  • Dairy Linked to Past Outbreaks and Recalls Sue ...
    According to Mateusz Perkowski of the Capital Press, Organic Pastures Dairy Co. of Fresno, California is suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for allegedly ignoring its request to... Continue Reading
  • Farmstead recalls Vegetables, Meat and Cheese ...
    Inspectors initiated an investigation after receiving a tip The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) advises consumers that they should not eat certain products produced by Farmstead Inc. of 186... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Saturday, December 15th at 8-10 am ET.
  • The Trials of Bradley Manning
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Pfc. Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own defense, in a preliminary hearing of his court-martial. Manning is the alleged source of the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history. He was an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, ...
  • VIDEO: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Cli ...
    As Venezuela says President Hugo Chávez has undergone successful cancer surgery in Cuba, after disclosing that his cancer had returned, we revisit a 2009 interview in which he discusses climate change and President Obama. Democracy Now! ’s Amy Goodman spoke with Chávez at the 2009 Unit ...
  • "Harvest of Empire" by Democracy Now!'s Juan G ...
    Curators at Smithsonian have included Democracy Now! co-host Juan González’s book, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America on their holiday gift guide for history lovers. This comes as the film based on his book has won an award for the best use of archival footage at the ...
  • A Carbon Tsunami in Doha
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan DOHA , Qatar—The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Delegates, press, dignitaries and the legions of low-paid, foreign ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama Newtown Speech: President Addresses Vigi ...
    Huff Post Posted: 12/16/2012 10:44 pm EST | Updated: 12/16/2012 11:03 pm EST President Obama spoke at a prayer vigil in Newton, Connecticut on Sunday in honor of the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Below, read Obama’s full remarks as provided by the White Hous ...
  • In Loving Memory- Sandy Hook Victims (Photos)
  • President Obama’s Election Night Speech
    The New York Times Published: November 7, 2012 President Obama spoke in Chicago on Tuesday night after winning re-election. Transcript: Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. (Cheers, applause ...
  • Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...
    PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn Univ ...
  • President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...
    The President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!

Solari

  • Quote Du Jour
    “Part of mass mind control is defining for people what they can feel in a given situation. Left to their own devices, people feel all sorts of things. But because television is the sticky substance that binds the collective together, it becomes the counselor and teacher. It tells people ho ...
  • Lesta Frank: Peace in 2012
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  • Ella Fitzgerald: Have Yourself a Merry Little ...
    Related Reading: Ella Fitzgerald on Wikipedia
  • Fiscal Cliff with Catherine Austin Fitts ~ Coa ...
    Fiscal Cliff Monday December 10, 2012 Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts offered analysis and commentary regarding the current ‘fiscal cliff’ that the United States is facing. If Congress doesn’t act, the Bush era tax cuts, and the payroll tax decrease will end on Janua ...
  • The Ultimate in Tax and Debt Collection
    By RT.com The next generation of military drones, unveiled by a leading US manufacturer, will not just carry a limited supply of rockets – but will likely be fitted with an ultra-light laser, capable of repeatedly destroying objects at the speed of light. “It would give us an unlimited magazine ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Sideways News

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Fabius Maximus

  • Yet another mass killing in America. Watch the ...
    Summary:  After the latest mass killing, our Right-wing goes crazy again, displaying our nation’s broken OODA  loop for all the world to see.  On a hopeful note, perhaps each of these episodes brings us closer to realizing our madness — the first step to reform. Comments The “h ...
  • Bin Laden won, with our assistance. Our applau ...
    Summary:  The real story told by “Zero Dark Thirty” is the historic victory of bin Laden, and the price he paid for it. Americans demonstrate this by their ignorant, enthusiastic applause for darkness of The New America, and their eager acceptance of the lies lovingly told by the fil ...
  • The ice caps are melting! Only massive governm ...
    Summary: Earlier this week we showed an example of crude propaganda about climate change (much like the dying children in “How to Cut Carbon Emissions“). Today we look at an example of excellent climate propaganda, and speculate about the wider significance of these matters. . Scienc ...
  • BRIC building: the future of Brazil, Russia, I ...
    Summary: Today we have a follow-up by Paul Schulte to Does corruption limit China’s growth, or pose a threat to its existence? He looks at the leading emerging nations, comparing them to the US and UK at similar point in their evolution to greatness. . Guest Post by Paul Schulte Institutional In ...
  • Lessons the Left can learn from the Right when ...
    Summary:  A trick of propagandists is giving rebuttals to theories held only by a few extremists, and ignoring the far stronger theories held by thoughtful opponents. That gives the illusion of strength while marginalizing opponents. It works only when your side dominate the media.  Which neithe ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • The WCIT Wraps Up Without American Support; Th ...
    The World Conference on International Telecommunications wrapped up today. And guess what? Just as I predicted the UN is not taking over the Internet.  In fact the word “Internet” never even made into the final text–only in an appendix. Those warning of a UN internet takeover a ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Predicting Future Wars, ...
    Remarks by Secretary Leon Panetta at Ali Salem Air Base, December 12, 2012. “The war of the future is going to involve cyber war.  That’s a reality.  We will do that; others will do that.” (3PA: Actually, this assertion is not “a reality,” it is a prediction. As I have pointed out elsewher ...
  • Top of the Morning: Susan Rice Drops Out of Se ...
    Top stories from the DAWNS Digest mobile app. Susan Rice Drops Out of Running for Secretary of State, Explains Why in Op-Ed The UN Ambassador asked President Obama to no longer consider her for Secretary of State, saying that  a nomination battle could distract from other important priorities. S ...
  • Chuck Hagel Would Be an Asset to Obama’s Natio ...
    “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” That’ ...
  • Afghanistan Weekly Reader: Officials Evade U.S ...
    Two U.S. government reports released this week paint a grim picture of security and anti-corruption efforts in Afghanistan. An investigation by the U.S. agency that oversees Afghanistan reconstruction found that Afghan officials are resisting efforts to track the billions of dollars in cash f ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • A National Gun Policy: Here Is Where We Start.
    Flickr/Sari Dennise "Non-Violence" a k a "The Knotted Gun" by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, given to the United Nations by the government of Luxembourg in 1988 In the wake of Friday’s gruesome tragedy, in which a presumably mentally ill shooter killed 26 Americans in an elementary sc ...
  • A History of Violence
    In the wake of Friday's mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the latest in a year filled with massacres occuring at distressingly regular intervals, President Barack Obama called for "meaningful action" and said in a vigil in the small, quiet town on Sunday, "Can we say that we’re truly doing ...
  • Gun Control, No Longer the Dems' Electoral Kry ...
    The most notable thing to come out of President Obama’s speech last night—eulogizing the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut—was his unambiguous commitment to pursuing new gun regulations in the coming weeks. Granted, he didn’t use the word “gun,” but the implications were clear: If there’s even on ...
  • Obama, Crying
    While plenty of people criticized President Barack Obama’s speech yesterday—“I react not as a President, but as anybody else would—as a parent"—I was less bothered by what he said than I was relieved by what he did: choke up, take a minute to gather himself and, through the rest of the press co ...
  • Why Obama Needs to Be More than a Parent Today
    When an event like today's mass shooting in Newtown happens, there are words we hear over and over, like "unbelievable" and "unthinkable," as people struggle to find a way to describe the horror of what has occurred. But the truth is that what happened today isn't unthinkable at all. In fact, n ...

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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Alchemist chemistry news roundup
    The Alchemist muses on materials and their potential this week as well as thinking beyond oil. There are also analytical developments that could help with monitoring difficult to access tumors and a new tiered approach to determining whether new chemicals will be potentially harmful endocrine di ...
  • Slo-Mo Slinkies
    I’ve mentioned this bizarre-seeming effect in which a Slinky seems to defy gravity. It doesn’t, of course, it just takes a finite time for the “fact” that the top is no longer supported to reach the bottom and the whole spring to hit the deck. Researcher discusses it in t ...
  • Does smarter mean happier?
    If you’re smarter than other people it won’t make you personally happier but the brightest nations score high on measures of happiness compared to countries with lower intellectual ranking, according to a study by Ruut Veenhoven of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands an ...
  • Hyperemesis gravidarum
    Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy that is different from the more common nausea and vomiting known as morning sickness. The term hyperemesis meaning “excessive vomiting” from the Greek hyper meaning above and beyond and emesis, vomiting, ...
  • Slave to the circadian rhythm
    Writing in JACS recently, chemists at Yale University have reported details of the active site in the pigment molecule melanopsin. Melanopsin is present in the eye, but is not involved in vision. Instead it responds to light that enters the eye and reaches neurones (ganglions) deep within the re ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Newtown Gun Group Opposed Even Mildest Gun Vio ...
    The National Shooting Sports Foundation, headquartered in Newtown, Connecticut just three miles from the Sandy Hook Elementary School has a long history of extremist positions on guns. It has opposed even the mildest policies designed to protect people from lead poisoning and to fund the confisc ...
  • Statement from Brady Campaign President Dan Gr ...
    From Dan Gross, the Brady Campaign President:read more
  • Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough
    We can only imagine the scale of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Newtown, Connecticut as reports continue to emerge about the massacre committed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. There are many parents, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, and others who will now never see their loved ones ...
  • Florida Panther Deaths in 2012 Hit Record High
    The deaths of two endangered Florida panthers struck on roads this week brings the number of known deaths this year to 26, the highest on record. The deaths highlight the urgent need to protect habitat for the panther’s South Florida breeding population, as well as the importance of reintr ...
  • Florida Panther Deaths in 2012 Hit Record High
    The deaths of two endangered Florida panthers struck on roads this week brings the number of known deaths this year to 26, the highest on record. The deaths highlight the urgent need to protect habitat for the panther’s South Florida breeding population, as well as the importance of reintr ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Remember All the Children, Mr. President
    Bill Quigley Remember the 20 children who died in Newton Connecticut. Parishioners pay their respects to the victims of an elementary school shooting while arriving for mass at St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 16. (Photo: Emm ...
  • The Price of Our Freedom
    George Lakoff Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom? — Barack Obama, Newtown Address, December 16, 2012read more
  • Building a Nonviolent Culture After Newtown
    Ken Butigan The December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. that left 28 people dead — including 20 children — has sent shock waves through our society. It penetrated the elaborate defenses that we as individ ...
  • The Visible Government
    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!  And ...
  • Just a Few Miles from Newtown
    Michael Winship We’re spending a holiday season weekend at the home of friends in a small Connecticut town just a few miles up the road from Newtown. Returning from the local store, our friend Emily tells us that the talk there this m ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Police Interrupt Peaceful LGBT Protest In Vatican
    A small group of protesters attempted to enter St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Benedict was giving his weekly address. The protesters carried signs with messages like “Marriage for All,” “Homophobia = death,” and “Talk About Love.” Un ...
  • Meet Sen. Tim Scott: The Tea Party Lawmaker Wh ...
    Tim Scott is America’s newest senator today after getting tapped by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) to fill the vacancy left by former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). DeMint announced this month that he was leaving the Senate to head up the Heritage Foundation, an arch-conservative think tank ...
  • Boehner Promises Not To Take The Economy Hosta ...
    Over the weekend, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) reportedly offered to allow tax rates to increase on income in excess of $1 million as part of negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” For several reasons, Boehner’s offer is little more than a joke. Boehner als ...
  • Five Things Every Elected Official Should Know ...
    President Obama hinted strongly last night that he would back legislation to reduce the epidemic of gun violence in this country, and several lawmakers are already planning to introduce gun regulations in order to reduce the likelihood that another horrific mass killing happens again. Whatever n ...
  • CNN Anchor Destroys Gun Advocate’s Call To Abo ...
    The debate on gun control has been re-inflamed by the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT on Friday. President Obama has signaled that he may consider new legislation to prevent more attacks. Most gun rights advocates, however, have either stayed silent or insisted that the t ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Chief Spence's Hunger Strike
     Chief Spence of Attawapiskat must be on Day Seven of her hunger-strike in the shadow of Parliament Hill. The AFN is seeking to have Harper meet with regional and tribal council chiefs from across the country. Aside from a meeting between a handful of chiefs and Harper in his Langevin Blo ...
  • Bad Taste Post
    It's in bad taste, but my own visceral responses to the mass-shooting of elementary school kids in the USA yesterday have included the following: That the USA has to have a serious discussion with itself about the nature of a peculiarly US sickness that produces such a disproportionate amount o ...
  • Why We Hate Them ...
     I'm actually pretty damned busy these days but I just had to vent about this. Scum-bag harpercon lawyer, Arthur Hamilton, bloviates about how election results shouldn't be overturned by legal challenges: "Counting the votes on election night cannot simply mean that just decided who will b ...
  • Peter Van Loan
    I sometimes like to post my reflections of yesterday's news. Peter Van Loan made headlines recently for waddling across the floor of the House of Commons Chamber to wag his finger in the face of NDP House Leader Nate Cullen, chastising him for having raised a procedural challenge during voting o ...
  • Unions Should Defy Bullshit Law From Illegitim ...
    Big deal. The election fraud party passed a hypocritical bill forcing unions to disclose everything about their spending, supposedly because union dues are tax exempt. It's harassment, pure and simple. It's also the work of a lawless bunch of thugs and thieves. To hell with 'em. The labour mo ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Photo Essay: Corrigan School of Irish Dance
    This photo essay is going to be three things: A partially told photo story, a little instruction on how to shoot and present a photo story and lastly it's going to be NOT being an entry in the Photo Essay Contest. I'm bowing out.
  • Junk It- Television's Trash Crew
    Have you ever watched a reality shows that feature some type of room or building that needs renovated? Have you ever wondered where all of their old décor, furniture, construction waste, or even their just plain trash goes?
  • One man's vision — Straight to the homeless of ...
    Seven years ago one man saw a need on the streets of Toronto concerning the homeless and decided that he should do something about it.
  • Justin Bieber TV character: Hollywood set to m ...
    He's been everywhere and done most everything at 18 - or so it seems - so maybe it is time to make Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber the subject of a TV sitcom. That's what ABC reportedly has in the works and Bieber himself is looking to be a part of it.
  • Link between breast cancer and diabetes
    A new study suggest that postmenopausal women who survive breast cancer are at increased risk for developing diabetes. The study recommends that women who have had breast cancer should be screened for the disease more closely.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-7-12
    On this weekend’s edition of The Kevin Trudeau Show, Judge Andrew Napolitano stops by to expose why your freedoms are being forfeited by a government that is more protective of its own power than its constitutional promise to preserve your individual liberties. Click here to purchase his n ...
  • It’s That Time of Year Again…
    ‘Tis the season for sunburns! Here are some natural remedies that may help alleviate your pain! Aromatherapy: Spray the affected area with lavender and chamomile. To prevent blistering, also massage two to three drops of lavender oil directly into the affected area. Herbs: Apply cool aloe ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-14-12
    Today, Kevin explains why the government doesn’t want you to know about certain technologies that are currently being produced and how the end of organic products in America is near. Plus, find out how to eliminate herpes, HPV, and other viruses that are lurking within your body when Dr. Ray Lal ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-21-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-28-12
    Today, Kevin explains how diet foods are specifically designed to make you fat and how America is slowly being sold to the highest bidder. Self Help: Shed Pounds Fast Have Dinner With KT Daily Life Essentials Hear The Whole Interview: Andrew Wakefield Erich von Däniken Health: Reporter Suffers S ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupie ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIsraeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories 2000-2010 By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com   By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the webs ...
  • Chuck Hagel: An Unconventional Realist
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comChuck Hagel: An Unconventional Realist – Why the Israel lobby hates him ” and why we need him at DoD Antiwar.comJustin Raimondo The knives are out: “Send us Hagel and we will make sure every American kn ...
  • Obama at prayer vigil: ‘Newtown, you are not a ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Sunday night, President Barack Obama addressed the citizens and first responders of Newtown Connecticut at a prayer vigil held at Newtown High School. “We gather here in memory of 20 beautiful chil ...
  • The Great Social Security Robbery
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy James Petras The leaders of both major parties, Congress, the White House, the editorial writers, journalists of all the principle newspapers and most academic economists clai ...
  • 20 dead children? US reneged poverty promises ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com20 dead children? US reneged poverty promises kill 20,000 children daily By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com US political leadership has reneged on every promise to save the lives of helpless children, resulting in the dea ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The Great Corporate Colony: Welcome to Canada ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Dec. 17, 2012 The following is a sample from the first volume of The People’s Book Project, a crowd-funded initiative to produce a series of books studying the ideas, institutions, and individuals of power an ...
  • Egypt’s New Pharaoh by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig December 17, 2012 When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile on Feb. 1, 1979, he set out to destroy the secular opposition forces, including the Communist Party of Iran, which had been instrumental in bringin ...
  • Ch. 13: Saboteur, An Interview with a Domestic ...
    by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad December 13, 2012 Saboteur An interview with a domestic insurgent From the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Published by Trine Day I first met the man we’ll call Trucker in 1970 at a rally against the Vietnam ...
  • In Memory Of A People With A Land by Soraya Boyd
    by Soraya Boyd Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Facilitate Global December 14, 2012 A wailing poignancy tearing at the very heart of a much troubled core Drenched in a blood soaked landscape incessantly scarred by murderous lore Powerfully bearing witness to insatiably violent gratuitous gore No-whe ...
  • Western Smoke-and-Mirrors Terrorism by Finian ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV December 13, 2012 Barack Obama, America’s Conjurer-in-Chief, is trying to entertain the world with a new smoke-and-mirrors trick, with the announcement that his government is recognizing the Syrian National Co ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • How an embroidered girl’s dress became a terro ...
    Addameer researcher: "Our lawyers can be found at military courts all the time. If they are dangerous - if we are dangerous to Israel's security - why don't they come to arrest us?" The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fif ...
  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the J ...
    International NGOs are working extensively in the Palestinian villages, towns and cities of Areas A and B, whilst Palestinians in Area C (including most of the Jordan Valley) are systematically... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Haneen Zoabi: If Balad is banned, Arabs won’t vote
    Haneen Zoabi: “Legally, they have no case. I never imagined myself to be in the middle of a war like this. I don’t think they will disqualify me. If so, and if Balad is disqualified, there will be no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israeli forces take over Jordan Valley in ‘Aus ...
    Since late October, major defence drills, including manoeuvres involving heavy tanks as well as air and missile training, have been taking place throughout the Jordan Valley as part of the joint... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Preserving or looting Palestinian books in Jer ...
    The National Library in Jerusalem houses more than 8,000 volumes in Arabic which once belonged to Palestinians who fled the country or were forced out in 1948. Were these books collected for the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Ophthalmologists Warn: Flying Champagne Corks ...
    Warm bottles of champagne and improper cork-removal techniques cause serious, potentially blinding eye injuries each year, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Champagne bottles contain pressure as high as 90 pounds per square inch - more than the pressure found inside a typical c ...
  • Ordinary Heart Cells Become "Biological Pacema ...
    Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of highly specialized pacemaker cells by injecting a single gene (Tbx18)-a major step forward in the decade-long search for a biological therapy to correct erratic and failing heartbeats.
  • Toward a New Model of the Cell
    Turning vast amounts of genomic data into meaningful information about the cell is the great challenge of bioinformatics, with major implications for human biology and medicine. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues have proposed a new method th ...
  • First Study of Climate Effects of Arctic Hurri ...
    Arctic hurricanes, complete with a central "eye," extreme low barometric pressure and towering waves, can sink small ships. Now climate scientists report the first conclusive evidence that these storms, known as polar lows, play a key role in driving ocean water circulation and climate.
  • Family Scholars Propose National Agenda to Rev ...
    A team of family scholars today released "The President's Marriage Agenda for the Forgotten Sixty Percent" to tackle the striking yet little-discussed decline in marriage among "Middle America" - the nearly 60 percent of Americans who have completed high school, but do not have a four-year colle ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 17th, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm  at the worsening violence in Syria, including the reported mass killing of Alawites and alleged firing of long-range missiles on Syrian territory. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea celebrated its 30-y ...
  • Events and Announcements: December 16, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University College of Law; the Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School; the Center for International and ...
  • Law of the Sea Tribunal Resoundingly Affirms t ...
    by Craig Allen [Craig H. Allen is the Judson Falknor Professor of Law at the University of Washington in Seattle.] On December 15, 2012, one phase of the dispute between the Argentine Republic and the Republic of Ghana over the “seizure” of the Argentine frigate ARA Libertad while in a Ghanaia ...
  • Weekend Roundup: December 8-14, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, a guest post by David Bethlehem, following up on a post by Julian Ku last week, offered three more legal bases for the legality of an intervention in Syria. Also continuing on some of last week’s themes, Kevin Jon Heller wrote how ...
  • The UN Security Council Set to Renew Ombudsper ...
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon A big item on the Security Council’s agenda this month is reconsideration of the mandate of the Ombudsperson and Monitoring Regime for Al Qaida Sanctions, pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1267 and 1989.  Of particular interest are measures proposed by Li ...

Public News Service

  • Living With Cancer During the Holidays
    Living With Cancer During the Holidays PHOENIX - Dealing with cancer is difficult enough, but the fast pace of the holiday season can make it even more stressful. The American Cancer Society says there is "Hope for the Holidays." Spokeswoman Jill Ireland says they are there for patients and care ...
  • Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for ...
    Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for Native American Schools PHOENIX – Three new wind turbines spin outside Leupp Schools on the Navajo Nation. On the roof, more than 10 kilowatts of solar panels have been installed. The additions help power the school while stimulating classroo ...
  • Attorney: Uranium and Explosives on “Mos ...
    Attorney: Uranium and Explosives on “Most Dangerous Toys” List PHOENIX, Ariz. - A blowtorch, asbestos and uranium. Children's toys with those features or ingredients are on a new list of the "10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time" from the American Association for Justice (AAJ). ...(Rea ...
  • New Study Questions Wisdom of "Right-to-Work" Laws
    New Study Questions Wisdom of "Right-to-Work" Laws PHOENIX – Supporters of “right-to-work” laws in Arizona and the ones just passed in Michigan say that by limiting the power of unions, they will attract businesses to their states. But a new study from the Economic Policy Insti ...
  • Be Careful How You Give to Disaster Relief
    Be Careful How You Give to Disaster Relief PHOENIX - Wildfires charred the West and Superstorm Sandy clobbered the East this year. Consumer advocates encourage holiday disaster relief donations, but they also caution that some homework is in order. The Federal Trade Commission ranks Arizona sixt ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
  • Buying Property
    Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...

  • IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Zuma Seeks ANC Leadership at Party Summit
    Jacob Zuma, the South African president, has acknowledged that corruption and violence have marred the image of the African National Congress (ANC) under his watch, but called on members to again support him to be the party’s leader. The ANC, once a liberation movement that started a centu ...
  • South-South Political Alliances Yet to Influen ...
    Politicians in the leading developing nations have been active in boosting mutual ties, as one way of counterbalancing the influence of the developed world. But the economic success of the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and the India, Brazil, and South Africa groupings will depen ...
  • Remittances Soothe the Scourge of Militancy
    Fifty-nine-year-old Sherdil Shah, a resident of South Waziristan – a hotbed of militancy in northern Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) – used to run a modest grain shop that fetched enough money to keep his family of 10 well-fed and looked after. That is, until a 2006 army op ...
  • Detained at the Eastern Border – Part 1
    A recent hunger strike, involving over 70 migrants detained in heavily guarded centers across Poland, is forcing the country to face its new responsibilities as a migration hub within the European Union. Poland currently has six detention centres, which host ‘irregular migrants’, or foreigners c ...
  • Occupation Can’t Stifle Innovation
    Afnan Hamad stands proudly in front of a booth at the Ramallah Cultural Palace exhibition hall, three plastic bottles filled with discoloured liquid on the table in front of her. “We designed a device to convert plastic waste into gasoline, kerosene and diesel fuel,” explains the 23-year-old che ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran hysteria a cover for Israeli bomb - ex-Ir ...
    Summary: The present-day furor over Iran's uranium enrichment program has provided cover for the Jewish state's own illicit nuclear weapons program, which predates the Islamic republic, former top Iranian diplomat and scholar Seyed Hossein Mousavian told RT. source: Russia Todayread more
  • Who is in the driving seat as we reach the end ...
    Summary: The intention of the British, US and French governments is clear: to use the fears about chemical weapons to move from secret intervention to no fly zones, air strikes and possible incursions. source: STWCread more
  • U.N. agency reports progress in Iran nuclear talks
    Summary: Talks between the U.N atomic agency and Iran are expected to lead to a deal next month on how to conduct an investigation into Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, the chief U.N. inspector said after returning from Tehran on Friday. source: Reutersread more
  • Iranian Bomb Graph Appears Adapted from One on ...
    Summary: WASHINGTON, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) - The suspect graph of a nuclear explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons yields appears to have been adapted from a very similar graph in a scholarly journ ...
  • US Officially Recognizes the unrepresentative ...
    Summary: The Coalition is supposed to be made up of Syrian dissidents and opposition groups from across the spectrum. But it is largely another exile group without strong roots inside the country, and vehemently rejected by the armed rebel groups fighting the Assad regime on the ground in Syr ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Quantum Entanglement Leaps Beyond Einstein --" ...
                            In 1935, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen, commonly referred to as EPR, published a thought experiment designed to show that quantum mechanics, by itself, is not sufficient to describe reality. Using two entangled particles EPR tried to demonst ...
  • Did Comets Deliver Amino Acids Needed for the ...
                                 In early 2012, Jennifer G. Blank, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at the NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., set out to check whether amino acids could remain intact after a comet's descent through Ear ...
  • Weird Physics of Black Hole Jets --Some Exceed ...
                   Astronomers examining the properties of black hole jets compared 54 gamma-ray bursts with 234 active galaxies classified as blazars and quasars. Surprisingly, the power and brightness of the jets share striking similarities despite a wide range of black hole mass, age and ...
  • Three-Mile-Long Asteroid Toutatis Tumbled By T ...
                    Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid that made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 12, 2012. The radar data im ...
  • From the 'X-Files': NASA Releases Mayan Apocal ...
                 

Natural News

  • Obama seems poised to declare military dictato ...
    In yet another masterful bit of presidential theater, Obama took to the airwaves Sunday night to declare his "love" for children and then to ask, "Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?" This...
  • Restaurant dish washing has no effect on conta ...
    Current dish washing practices in restaurants are completely inadequate for preventing the spread of one the most common agents of foodborne illness, according to a study conducted by researchers from Ohio State University and published in the journal PLoS ONE. "We...
  • Iron supplementation helps low-birth-weight babies
    Researchers in Sweden believe they have found a way to help low birth weight newborns: iron supplementation. According to scientists from Umea University, the largest in northern Scandinavia, supplemental iron could boost brain development and help prevent behavioral...
  • New Yorkers duped with mislabeled fish - Learn ...
    According to a new study carried out by the ocean conservation group Oceana, nearly 40 percent of the seafood sold in New York's restaurants and grocery stores is mislabeled, with cheap fish being often substituted for more expensive varieties. What's worse is that some...
  • Vitamin K may be the key to osteoporosis preve ...
    Vitamin K - a nutrient associated with green, leafy vegetables - may play a critical role in bone health and the prevention of osteoporosis, according to a study conducted by researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York...

Threat Level

  • State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in ‘Catch- ...
    A federal judge said Friday the Obama administration has pinned him in an inescapable, paradoxical situation when it comes to whether he should dismiss a lawsuit accusing the government of siphoning Americans' electronic communications from telecoms and funneling them to ...
  • Internet Safe From Globalized Censorship as UN ...
    The doomsday predictions that the internet would become a centralized, globalized tool for governments to suppress and eavesdrop on speech didn't come to fruition Friday, after a two-week secret meeting between world governments failed to reach a consensus.
  • Opinion: Why We Need to Keep Sex Offenders Online
    In its zeal to restrict free speech online for some, Prop. 35 actually restricts free speech for all. The harder battle is convincing the hearts and minds of those who aren’t on the California sex offender registry to understand the ...
  • America Demands: Obama, Build Us a Death Star
    A petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets ...
  • State Secrets Front and Center in Dragnet Surv ...
    A federal judge on Friday is to hold the first hearing following an appellate court's decision reinstating allegations the government is siphoning Americans' communications from telecoms to the National Security Agency without warrants. The new judge on the case, U.S. ...

PERRspectives : Blog

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

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Missing Polar Weather Systems Paint Different ...
    Never let it be said that size matters. Small but physically intense storms at the poles could make a huge difference in climate predictions according to new research, but the problem is they are missing from most current climate models. The research from the University of East Anglia and the Un ...
  • Toutatis, Three Mile Long Asteroid That Just P ...
    The large three-mile-long asteroid, Toutatis, that just passed by the Earth on December 12th, 2012, was imaged using radio data that was caught by NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna. The radar data images were compiled into a short movie that you can see here. “The images that make up ...
  • New Insomnia Fighting Lights On The Internatio ...
    A new lighting system is being built to help fight insomnia on the International Space Station by utilizing high-tech light-emitting diodes, replacing the fluorescent bulbs thar are currently in use. Something that remains somewhat unknown to the general republic is driving this change, around h ...
  • Venomous Primates, Three New Species Of Loris ...
    Three new species of slow loris have been discovered in Borneo. They had previously been grouped with other species, but research has found them to be separate species, and thus much more vulnerable to extinction. A loris is a type of venomous primate that has two tongues. With their large eyes ...
  • Cyclone Evan Devastates Samoa, Moves on to Fiji
    NASA announced the birth of Tropical Storm Evan on the 12th of December maybe not knowing just how damaging this storm would end up being. The Samoan government has declared a state of disaster after now-Cyclone Evan ravaged the small South Pacific nation, leaving an unknown death toll and massi ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • THIS Time I Won't Forget
    By @TomBales1 I'm going to apologize in advance for some of the language I'll be using in this rant.  Usually I try to make it at least clean enough for my grandkids to read (although I'm probably delusional if I think there are many or any words I use that they don't hear every day anyway ...
  • When Conservatives Play God
    By @TedFrier Former Democratic Chairman Howard Dean wondered aloud the other day whether Republicans even believe in democracy. Dean said he had his doubts after listening to Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter (whose company was paid more than $3,000 by the Romney campaign) state matte ...
  • Little Dick Syndrome + NRA = Tragedy
    Nobody needs me to tell them that yesterday was none of the blackest days in American history.  I'm sure that all of us are having to come to terms with this latest illustration of what America has become and is becoming.  The first numbing realization that yes, it had happened again a ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Today was one of those days where I vacillated between seeing-red rage and profound grief. I am at my breaking point. As of 12/14/12, I am never again voting for any politician who has the endorsement of or a high rating from the NRA. By my sights, that is a reason to withhold a vote, ...
  • This is America - December 14, 2012
    This evening, along North Commercial in Harrisonville, Missouri.

Care 2

  • Victory: Dozens of Beagle Puppies Saved From C ...
    The puppies were rescued this morning by India's People for Animals and Blue Cross Chennai and are being adopted out to loving homes. Submitted by Ruth McD to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in ...
    When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid politicizing the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for dont talk about reforming our gun control laws. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |  & ...
  • NRA-led gun lobby wields powerful influence ov ...
    The gun issue is so incendiary and fear of the NRA so great that the ATF plan languished for months at the Justice Department, according to some senior law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity but would not provide details. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture ...
  • "Body slamming piglets to death humane," pork ...
    Scenes show workers euthanizing a piglet by swinging it into a metal post and kicking and slapping a pig that is having trouble getting up. Pork industry experts say most of what is seen in the hidden camera investigation is widely accepted practice. Submitted by Johan Maltesson to Animals &nb ...
  • Remove Maharashtra minister Fauzia Khan's for ...
    TAKE ACTION - Why animal abuse promoter Fauzia Khan enjoying Minister position in Maharashtra?, the UN affiliated OIPA in India and PFA Haryana asked her to step down at once - Abhishek Kadyan / Sukanya Kadyan Submitted by Kadyan Naresh to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &nbs ...

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No Quarter

  • Can We Fix Mental Illness?
    I hate politicians who embrace the banal as the solution for problems that are beyond solution. They should be chained together and tossed into the ocean (hopefully inside a bag weighted with cement blocks). There are those nitwits who insist that all we need is more gun laws. We need, they pont ...
  • Wreckers of the Arab Spring
    John Batchelor wrote: “The reversal of fortune in the Arab Spring appears to be a surprise to the Obama administration as Cairo now reveals the wolf in wolf’s togs of the Moslem Brotherhood.” I spoke Eric Trager, Malcolm Hoenlein, Sebastian Gorka in re the Morsi declaration tha ...
  • HK2 Open Thread * Ravi Shankar
    I cracked up when I saw this headline at the UK Telegraph: “In truth, Ravi Shankar couldn’t stand the hippies“: The rock audiences who came to pay homage he haughtily dismissed in his autobiography as “these strange young weirdos”; while his appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock ...
  • Newtown CT School Shooting Open Thread
    This is so mindless and senseless. It is one thing to be angry with your parent. When that anger inspires you to shoot your mother and her class of kindergarteners, that is totally insane. There is no “explanation” for this. I cannot begin to imagine the horror and nightmare that is ...
  • Rice Pulls Plug on Herself
    Damn. Am I disappointed. I was so hoping that Rice would stick it out and replace Hillary. Why? Susan Rice, while a smart, accomplished person, is as smooth as sandpaper toliet tissue in a cactus outhouse. She would have been a disaster at State. Sadly, she has now taken herself out of considera ...

Futurismic

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

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Mountaintop Removal

  • Explosives company faced scrutiny before Louis ...
    Explosives company faced scrutiny before Louisiana evacuation The Daily Advertiser The company also came under scrutiny in West Virginia where it was using an old military explosive called tetryl in mountaintop removal mining for Catenary Coal Co. in 2006 and 2007, according to documents reviewe ...
  • Vernon Haltom: Faith and coal don't mix - Op-E ...
    Vernon Haltom: Faith and coal don't mix - Op-Ed Commentaries - The ... Charleston Gazette He and the majority of West Virginia's politicians rely not on the sciences that tell us that wet slurry dams collapse and mountaintop removal dust harms our health, but rather on faith. Faith that ...
  • Wayne Bledsoe: The Lonetones deserve plenty of ...
    Wayne Bledsoe: The Lonetones deserve plenty of company on their musical ... Knoxville.com "Stirrin' Up the Dust" is a powerful indictment of mountain-top removal mining. And "Top Hat" is a sweet acknowledgment of the impact of the late former Lonetones member Phil Pollard ...
  • Top ten environmental wins of 2012 » peopleswo ...
    Top ten environmental wins of 2012 » peoplesworld People's World Kentucky metal/bluegrass band Panopticon released an album decrying mountaintop removal and the abuse of workers in the coal industry. And musicians including Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and The Who performed ...
  • Opinion: Fracking is a threat to health and we ...
    Opinion: Fracking is a threat to health and well-being CNN International Each new wave of more extreme extraction methods, be it tar sands, deep water drilling or mountain top removal, brings a new level of destruction to the area concerned. In the UK, gas production from the North Sea is in ter ...

Memeorandum

  • New Calls for Gun Limits (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal: New Calls for Gun Limits  —  Several lawmakers Sunday called for reintroducing a ban on assault weapons in the wake of Friday's deadly school rampage.  President Barack Obama is also likely to propose gun-policy changes, according to two administration ...
  • 4 Reasons Why Boehner's Latest Tax Offer Is A ...
    Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress: 4 Reasons Why Boehner's Latest Tax Offer Is A Bad Deal  —  Politico reported yesterday that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has proposed a tax increase in income in excess of $1 million as part of the ongoing negotiations to avert the so-ca ...
  • Do We Have the Courage to Stop This? - IN the ...
    Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times: Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?  —  IN the harrowing aftermath of the school shooting in Connecticut, one thought wells in my mind: Why can't we regulate guns as seriously as we do cars?  —  The fundamental reason kids a ...
  • Gérard Depardieu says he will give up F ...
    Guardian: Gérard Depardieu says he will give up French passport over tax rises  —  Actor attacks French government for punishing talent as he moves to Belgium  —  Gérard Depardieu has said he is handing back his French passport and social security c ...
  • Nikki Haley to announce Jim DeMint's successor ...
    Associated Press: Nikki Haley to announce Jim DeMint's successor  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is announcing a replacement for U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint.  —  Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey says Haley will make the announcement at noon Monday a ...

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    中国最大的尾矿库之一——包钢尾矿库，正在形成巨大的环境隐患。它富集资源，但&# ...
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    有机磷农药如今是世界上使用最广泛的杀虫剂，但研究证实，少量接触有机磷农药可 ...
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    2008年金融危机使得金融业声名扫地。而全社会对投资的社会责任和生态责任的诉求再&#27 ...
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    汇丰银行气候变化卓越中心主任 尼克•罗宾斯为我们开出了他的可持续投资推荐书&#21 ...
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    候鸟栖息地大片消亡，迁徙的鸟类又被成批猎杀，人类成为这些鸟儿的生存天敌。谁 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • My X-Rated Sex-Ed Class
    The model, naked from the waist down, looked at the man sitting next to me in the front row and smiled. “You’re in the splash zone,” she said. Without missing a beat, he took off his leather jacket, draped it over the back of his chair, and then made the international hand ...
  • 12 Cool Holiday Traditions That Aren't About G ...
    After an autumn of Bible-based gay bashing, and Religious Right candidates with “rape Tourette’s,” and End Times aficionados gunning for Armageddon rather than peace in the Middle East, some nontheists may be finding it a little tough to feel warm and chirpy about the birt ...
  • Meet Five CEOs Who Prove That Lower Corporate ...
    Corporate tax rates must be lowered in order to create economic growth: this is a key argument made by CEOs and their political allies while they push for a fiscal cliff deal. That was in the Bowles-Simpson plan, and members of Fix the Debt are pushing for that too, along with a territorial ta ...
  • 5 Unhinged Right-Wing Responses to Connecticut ...
    This article has been updated.Before the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School took place, two things were predictable:that another mass killing was inevitable, given the increase in their frequency over the past year, and the fact that no measures had been taken to prevent themthat right-w ...
  • 6 Ways to Replace Violence With a Culture of C ...
    The Newtown tragedy compels Americans to consider the ways that both our society and our attitudes contribute to creating a more violent society. Much has been written about gun control, but we also need a focus on the widespread attitudes and beliefs that contribute to violence and how we can ...

Threat Level

  • State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in ‘Catch- ...
    A federal judge said Friday the Obama administration has pinned him in an inescapable, paradoxical situation when it comes to whether he should dismiss a lawsuit accusing the government of siphoning Americans' electronic communications from telecoms and funneling them to ...
  • Internet Safe From Globalized Censorship as UN ...
    The doomsday predictions that the internet would become a centralized, globalized tool for governments to suppress and eavesdrop on speech didn't come to fruition Friday, after a two-week secret meeting between world governments failed to reach a consensus.
  • Opinion: Why We Need to Keep Sex Offenders Online
    In its zeal to restrict free speech online for some, Prop. 35 actually restricts free speech for all. The harder battle is convincing the hearts and minds of those who aren’t on the California sex offender registry to understand the ...
  • America Demands: Obama, Build Us a Death Star
    A petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets ...
  • State Secrets Front and Center in Dragnet Surv ...
    A federal judge on Friday is to hold the first hearing following an appellate court's decision reinstating allegations the government is siphoning Americans' communications from telecoms to the National Security Agency without warrants. The new judge on the case, U.S. ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Norovirus Link to Wyoming Golden Corral Confirmed
    Early last week, the Casper-Natrona County Health Department reported that it was investigating several reports of intestinal illnesses.  They announced that they were also coordinating efforts with the Epidemiology Section... Continue Reading
  • Canadian Meat Recalls Expands Due to E. coli I ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Cardinal Meat Specialists Ltd. are warning the public not to consume the Cardinal Select brand Prime Rib Beef Burgers described below because this... Continue Reading
  • Pennsylvania Raw Milk Cows Being Tested for Sa ...
    The Chester County Health Department has been informed of an increase of severe gastro enteric symptoms among persons who drank raw milk supplied by Kimberton Farms Dairy. Kimberton Whole Foods,... Continue Reading
  • Dairy Linked to Past Outbreaks and Recalls Sue ...
    According to Mateusz Perkowski of the Capital Press, Organic Pastures Dairy Co. of Fresno, California is suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for allegedly ignoring its request to... Continue Reading
  • Farmstead recalls Vegetables, Meat and Cheese ...
    Inspectors initiated an investigation after receiving a tip The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) advises consumers that they should not eat certain products produced by Farmstead Inc. of 186... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Saturday, December 15th at 8-10 am ET.
  • The Trials of Bradley Manning
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Pfc. Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own defense, in a preliminary hearing of his court-martial. Manning is the alleged source of the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history. He was an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, ...
  • VIDEO: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Cli ...
    As Venezuela says President Hugo Chávez has undergone successful cancer surgery in Cuba, after disclosing that his cancer had returned, we revisit a 2009 interview in which he discusses climate change and President Obama. Democracy Now! ’s Amy Goodman spoke with Chávez at the 2009 Unit ...
  • "Harvest of Empire" by Democracy Now!'s Juan G ...
    Curators at Smithsonian have included Democracy Now! co-host Juan González’s book, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America on their holiday gift guide for history lovers. This comes as the film based on his book has won an award for the best use of archival footage at the ...
  • A Carbon Tsunami in Doha
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan DOHA , Qatar—The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Delegates, press, dignitaries and the legions of low-paid, foreign ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama Newtown Speech: President Addresses Vigi ...
    Huff Post Posted: 12/16/2012 10:44 pm EST | Updated: 12/16/2012 11:03 pm EST President Obama spoke at a prayer vigil in Newton, Connecticut on Sunday in honor of the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Below, read Obama’s full remarks as provided by the White Hous ...
  • In Loving Memory- Sandy Hook Victims (Photos)
  • President Obama’s Election Night Speech
    The New York Times Published: November 7, 2012 President Obama spoke in Chicago on Tuesday night after winning re-election. Transcript: Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. (Cheers, applause ...
  • Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...
    PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn Univ ...
  • President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...
    The President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!

Solari

  • Quote Du Jour
    “Part of mass mind control is defining for people what they can feel in a given situation. Left to their own devices, people feel all sorts of things. But because television is the sticky substance that binds the collective together, it becomes the counselor and teacher. It tells people ho ...
  • Lesta Frank: Peace in 2012
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  • Ella Fitzgerald: Have Yourself a Merry Little ...
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  • Fiscal Cliff with Catherine Austin Fitts ~ Coa ...
    Fiscal Cliff Monday December 10, 2012 Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts offered analysis and commentary regarding the current ‘fiscal cliff’ that the United States is facing. If Congress doesn’t act, the Bush era tax cuts, and the payroll tax decrease will end on Janua ...
  • The Ultimate in Tax and Debt Collection
    By RT.com The next generation of military drones, unveiled by a leading US manufacturer, will not just carry a limited supply of rockets – but will likely be fitted with an ultra-light laser, capable of repeatedly destroying objects at the speed of light. “It would give us an unlimited magazine ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Fabius Maximus

  • Yet another mass killing in America. Watch the ...
    Summary:  After the latest mass killing, our Right-wing goes crazy again, displaying our nation’s broken OODA  loop for all the world to see.  On a hopeful note, perhaps each of these episodes brings us closer to realizing our madness — the first step to reform. Comments The “h ...
  • Bin Laden won, with our assistance. Our applau ...
    Summary:  The real story told by “Zero Dark Thirty” is the historic victory of bin Laden, and the price he paid for it. Americans demonstrate this by their ignorant, enthusiastic applause for darkness of The New America, and their eager acceptance of the lies lovingly told by the fil ...
  • The ice caps are melting! Only massive governm ...
    Summary: Earlier this week we showed an example of crude propaganda about climate change (much like the dying children in “How to Cut Carbon Emissions“). Today we look at an example of excellent climate propaganda, and speculate about the wider significance of these matters. . Scienc ...
  • BRIC building: the future of Brazil, Russia, I ...
    Summary: Today we have a follow-up by Paul Schulte to Does corruption limit China’s growth, or pose a threat to its existence? He looks at the leading emerging nations, comparing them to the US and UK at similar point in their evolution to greatness. . Guest Post by Paul Schulte Institutional In ...
  • Lessons the Left can learn from the Right when ...
    Summary:  A trick of propagandists is giving rebuttals to theories held only by a few extremists, and ignoring the far stronger theories held by thoughtful opponents. That gives the illusion of strength while marginalizing opponents. It works only when your side dominate the media.  Which neithe ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • The WCIT Wraps Up Without American Support; Th ...
    The World Conference on International Telecommunications wrapped up today. And guess what? Just as I predicted the UN is not taking over the Internet.  In fact the word “Internet” never even made into the final text–only in an appendix. Those warning of a UN internet takeover a ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Predicting Future Wars, ...
    Remarks by Secretary Leon Panetta at Ali Salem Air Base, December 12, 2012. “The war of the future is going to involve cyber war.  That’s a reality.  We will do that; others will do that.” (3PA: Actually, this assertion is not “a reality,” it is a prediction. As I have pointed out elsewher ...
  • Top of the Morning: Susan Rice Drops Out of Se ...
    Top stories from the DAWNS Digest mobile app. Susan Rice Drops Out of Running for Secretary of State, Explains Why in Op-Ed The UN Ambassador asked President Obama to no longer consider her for Secretary of State, saying that  a nomination battle could distract from other important priorities. S ...
  • Chuck Hagel Would Be an Asset to Obama’s Natio ...
    “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” That’ ...
  • Afghanistan Weekly Reader: Officials Evade U.S ...
    Two U.S. government reports released this week paint a grim picture of security and anti-corruption efforts in Afghanistan. An investigation by the U.S. agency that oversees Afghanistan reconstruction found that Afghan officials are resisting efforts to track the billions of dollars in cash f ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • A National Gun Policy: Here Is Where We Start.
    Flickr/Sari Dennise "Non-Violence" a k a "The Knotted Gun" by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, given to the United Nations by the government of Luxembourg in 1988 In the wake of Friday’s gruesome tragedy, in which a presumably mentally ill shooter killed 26 Americans in an elementary sc ...
  • A History of Violence
    In the wake of Friday's mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the latest in a year filled with massacres occuring at distressingly regular intervals, President Barack Obama called for "meaningful action" and said in a vigil in the small, quiet town on Sunday, "Can we say that we’re truly doing ...
  • Gun Control, No Longer the Dems' Electoral Kry ...
    The most notable thing to come out of President Obama’s speech last night—eulogizing the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut—was his unambiguous commitment to pursuing new gun regulations in the coming weeks. Granted, he didn’t use the word “gun,” but the implications were clear: If there’s even on ...
  • Obama, Crying
    While plenty of people criticized President Barack Obama’s speech yesterday—“I react not as a President, but as anybody else would—as a parent"—I was less bothered by what he said than I was relieved by what he did: choke up, take a minute to gather himself and, through the rest of the press co ...
  • Why Obama Needs to Be More than a Parent Today
    When an event like today's mass shooting in Newtown happens, there are words we hear over and over, like "unbelievable" and "unthinkable," as people struggle to find a way to describe the horror of what has occurred. But the truth is that what happened today isn't unthinkable at all. In fact, n ...

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Sciencebase

  • Alchemist chemistry news roundup
    The Alchemist muses on materials and their potential this week as well as thinking beyond oil. There are also analytical developments that could help with monitoring difficult to access tumors and a new tiered approach to determining whether new chemicals will be potentially harmful endocrine di ...
  • Slo-Mo Slinkies
    I’ve mentioned this bizarre-seeming effect in which a Slinky seems to defy gravity. It doesn’t, of course, it just takes a finite time for the “fact” that the top is no longer supported to reach the bottom and the whole spring to hit the deck. Researcher discusses it in t ...
  • Does smarter mean happier?
    If you’re smarter than other people it won’t make you personally happier but the brightest nations score high on measures of happiness compared to countries with lower intellectual ranking, according to a study by Ruut Veenhoven of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands an ...
  • Hyperemesis gravidarum
    Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy that is different from the more common nausea and vomiting known as morning sickness. The term hyperemesis meaning “excessive vomiting” from the Greek hyper meaning above and beyond and emesis, vomiting, ...
  • Slave to the circadian rhythm
    Writing in JACS recently, chemists at Yale University have reported details of the active site in the pigment molecule melanopsin. Melanopsin is present in the eye, but is not involved in vision. Instead it responds to light that enters the eye and reaches neurones (ganglions) deep within the re ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Newtown Gun Group Opposed Even Mildest Gun Vio ...
    The National Shooting Sports Foundation, headquartered in Newtown, Connecticut just three miles from the Sandy Hook Elementary School has a long history of extremist positions on guns. It has opposed even the mildest policies designed to protect people from lead poisoning and to fund the confisc ...
  • Statement from Brady Campaign President Dan Gr ...
    From Dan Gross, the Brady Campaign President:read more
  • Thoughts and Prayers Are Not Enough
    We can only imagine the scale of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Newtown, Connecticut as reports continue to emerge about the massacre committed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. There are many parents, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, and others who will now never see their loved ones ...
  • Florida Panther Deaths in 2012 Hit Record High
    The deaths of two endangered Florida panthers struck on roads this week brings the number of known deaths this year to 26, the highest on record. The deaths highlight the urgent need to protect habitat for the panther’s South Florida breeding population, as well as the importance of reintr ...
  • Florida Panther Deaths in 2012 Hit Record High
    The deaths of two endangered Florida panthers struck on roads this week brings the number of known deaths this year to 26, the highest on record. The deaths highlight the urgent need to protect habitat for the panther’s South Florida breeding population, as well as the importance of reintr ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Remember All the Children, Mr. President
    Bill Quigley Remember the 20 children who died in Newton Connecticut. Parishioners pay their respects to the victims of an elementary school shooting while arriving for mass at St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 16. (Photo: Emm ...
  • The Price of Our Freedom
    George Lakoff Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom? — Barack Obama, Newtown Address, December 16, 2012read more
  • Building a Nonviolent Culture After Newtown
    Ken Butigan The December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. that left 28 people dead — including 20 children — has sent shock waves through our society. It penetrated the elaborate defenses that we as individ ...
  • The Visible Government
    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!  And ...
  • Just a Few Miles from Newtown
    Michael Winship We’re spending a holiday season weekend at the home of friends in a small Connecticut town just a few miles up the road from Newtown. Returning from the local store, our friend Emily tells us that the talk there this m ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Police Interrupt Peaceful LGBT Protest In Vatican
    A small group of protesters attempted to enter St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Benedict was giving his weekly address. The protesters carried signs with messages like “Marriage for All,” “Homophobia = death,” and “Talk About Love.” Un ...
  • Meet Sen. Tim Scott: The Tea Party Lawmaker Wh ...
    Tim Scott is America’s newest senator today after getting tapped by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) to fill the vacancy left by former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). DeMint announced this month that he was leaving the Senate to head up the Heritage Foundation, an arch-conservative think tank ...
  • Boehner Promises Not To Take The Economy Hosta ...
    Over the weekend, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) reportedly offered to allow tax rates to increase on income in excess of $1 million as part of negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” For several reasons, Boehner’s offer is little more than a joke. Boehner als ...
  • Five Things Every Elected Official Should Know ...
    President Obama hinted strongly last night that he would back legislation to reduce the epidemic of gun violence in this country, and several lawmakers are already planning to introduce gun regulations in order to reduce the likelihood that another horrific mass killing happens again. Whatever n ...
  • CNN Anchor Destroys Gun Advocate’s Call To Abo ...
    The debate on gun control has been re-inflamed by the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT on Friday. President Obama has signaled that he may consider new legislation to prevent more attacks. Most gun rights advocates, however, have either stayed silent or insisted that the t ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Chief Spence's Hunger Strike
     Chief Spence of Attawapiskat must be on Day Seven of her hunger-strike in the shadow of Parliament Hill. The AFN is seeking to have Harper meet with regional and tribal council chiefs from across the country. Aside from a meeting between a handful of chiefs and Harper in his Langevin Blo ...
  • Bad Taste Post
    It's in bad taste, but my own visceral responses to the mass-shooting of elementary school kids in the USA yesterday have included the following: That the USA has to have a serious discussion with itself about the nature of a peculiarly US sickness that produces such a disproportionate amount o ...
  • Why We Hate Them ...
     I'm actually pretty damned busy these days but I just had to vent about this. Scum-bag harpercon lawyer, Arthur Hamilton, bloviates about how election results shouldn't be overturned by legal challenges: "Counting the votes on election night cannot simply mean that just decided who will b ...
  • Peter Van Loan
    I sometimes like to post my reflections of yesterday's news. Peter Van Loan made headlines recently for waddling across the floor of the House of Commons Chamber to wag his finger in the face of NDP House Leader Nate Cullen, chastising him for having raised a procedural challenge during voting o ...
  • Unions Should Defy Bullshit Law From Illegitim ...
    Big deal. The election fraud party passed a hypocritical bill forcing unions to disclose everything about their spending, supposedly because union dues are tax exempt. It's harassment, pure and simple. It's also the work of a lawless bunch of thugs and thieves. To hell with 'em. The labour mo ...

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Digital Journal

  • Photo Essay: Corrigan School of Irish Dance
    This photo essay is going to be three things: A partially told photo story, a little instruction on how to shoot and present a photo story and lastly it's going to be NOT being an entry in the Photo Essay Contest. I'm bowing out.
  • Junk It- Television's Trash Crew
    Have you ever watched a reality shows that feature some type of room or building that needs renovated? Have you ever wondered where all of their old décor, furniture, construction waste, or even their just plain trash goes?
  • One man's vision — Straight to the homeless of ...
    Seven years ago one man saw a need on the streets of Toronto concerning the homeless and decided that he should do something about it.
  • Justin Bieber TV character: Hollywood set to m ...
    He's been everywhere and done most everything at 18 - or so it seems - so maybe it is time to make Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber the subject of a TV sitcom. That's what ABC reportedly has in the works and Bieber himself is looking to be a part of it.
  • Link between breast cancer and diabetes
    A new study suggest that postmenopausal women who survive breast cancer are at increased risk for developing diabetes. The study recommends that women who have had breast cancer should be screened for the disease more closely.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

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Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-7-12
    On this weekend’s edition of The Kevin Trudeau Show, Judge Andrew Napolitano stops by to expose why your freedoms are being forfeited by a government that is more protective of its own power than its constitutional promise to preserve your individual liberties. Click here to purchase his n ...
  • It’s That Time of Year Again…
    ‘Tis the season for sunburns! Here are some natural remedies that may help alleviate your pain! Aromatherapy: Spray the affected area with lavender and chamomile. To prevent blistering, also massage two to three drops of lavender oil directly into the affected area. Herbs: Apply cool aloe ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-14-12
    Today, Kevin explains why the government doesn’t want you to know about certain technologies that are currently being produced and how the end of organic products in America is near. Plus, find out how to eliminate herpes, HPV, and other viruses that are lurking within your body when Dr. Ray Lal ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-21-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-28-12
    Today, Kevin explains how diet foods are specifically designed to make you fat and how America is slowly being sold to the highest bidder. Self Help: Shed Pounds Fast Have Dinner With KT Daily Life Essentials Hear The Whole Interview: Andrew Wakefield Erich von Däniken Health: Reporter Suffers S ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupie ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIsraeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories 2000-2010 By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com   By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the webs ...
  • Chuck Hagel: An Unconventional Realist
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comChuck Hagel: An Unconventional Realist – Why the Israel lobby hates him ” and why we need him at DoD Antiwar.comJustin Raimondo The knives are out: “Send us Hagel and we will make sure every American kn ...
  • Obama at prayer vigil: ‘Newtown, you are not a ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Sunday night, President Barack Obama addressed the citizens and first responders of Newtown Connecticut at a prayer vigil held at Newtown High School. “We gather here in memory of 20 beautiful chil ...
  • The Great Social Security Robbery
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy James Petras The leaders of both major parties, Congress, the White House, the editorial writers, journalists of all the principle newspapers and most academic economists clai ...
  • 20 dead children? US reneged poverty promises ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com20 dead children? US reneged poverty promises kill 20,000 children daily By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com US political leadership has reneged on every promise to save the lives of helpless children, resulting in the dea ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The Great Corporate Colony: Welcome to Canada ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Dec. 17, 2012 The following is a sample from the first volume of The People’s Book Project, a crowd-funded initiative to produce a series of books studying the ideas, institutions, and individuals of power an ...
  • Egypt’s New Pharaoh by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig December 17, 2012 When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile on Feb. 1, 1979, he set out to destroy the secular opposition forces, including the Communist Party of Iran, which had been instrumental in bringin ...
  • Ch. 13: Saboteur, An Interview with a Domestic ...
    by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad December 13, 2012 Saboteur An interview with a domestic insurgent From the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Published by Trine Day I first met the man we’ll call Trucker in 1970 at a rally against the Vietnam ...
  • In Memory Of A People With A Land by Soraya Boyd
    by Soraya Boyd Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Facilitate Global December 14, 2012 A wailing poignancy tearing at the very heart of a much troubled core Drenched in a blood soaked landscape incessantly scarred by murderous lore Powerfully bearing witness to insatiably violent gratuitous gore No-whe ...
  • Western Smoke-and-Mirrors Terrorism by Finian ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV December 13, 2012 Barack Obama, America’s Conjurer-in-Chief, is trying to entertain the world with a new smoke-and-mirrors trick, with the announcement that his government is recognizing the Syrian National Co ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • How an embroidered girl’s dress became a terro ...
    Addameer researcher: "Our lawyers can be found at military courts all the time. If they are dangerous - if we are dangerous to Israel's security - why don't they come to arrest us?" The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fif ...
  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the J ...
    International NGOs are working extensively in the Palestinian villages, towns and cities of Areas A and B, whilst Palestinians in Area C (including most of the Jordan Valley) are systematically... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Haneen Zoabi: If Balad is banned, Arabs won’t vote
    Haneen Zoabi: “Legally, they have no case. I never imagined myself to be in the middle of a war like this. I don’t think they will disqualify me. If so, and if Balad is disqualified, there will be no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israeli forces take over Jordan Valley in ‘Aus ...
    Since late October, major defence drills, including manoeuvres involving heavy tanks as well as air and missile training, have been taking place throughout the Jordan Valley as part of the joint... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Preserving or looting Palestinian books in Jer ...
    The National Library in Jerusalem houses more than 8,000 volumes in Arabic which once belonged to Palestinians who fled the country or were forced out in 1948. Were these books collected for the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Ophthalmologists Warn: Flying Champagne Corks ...
    Warm bottles of champagne and improper cork-removal techniques cause serious, potentially blinding eye injuries each year, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Champagne bottles contain pressure as high as 90 pounds per square inch - more than the pressure found inside a typical c ...
  • Ordinary Heart Cells Become "Biological Pacema ...
    Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of highly specialized pacemaker cells by injecting a single gene (Tbx18)-a major step forward in the decade-long search for a biological therapy to correct erratic and failing heartbeats.
  • Toward a New Model of the Cell
    Turning vast amounts of genomic data into meaningful information about the cell is the great challenge of bioinformatics, with major implications for human biology and medicine. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues have proposed a new method th ...
  • First Study of Climate Effects of Arctic Hurri ...
    Arctic hurricanes, complete with a central "eye," extreme low barometric pressure and towering waves, can sink small ships. Now climate scientists report the first conclusive evidence that these storms, known as polar lows, play a key role in driving ocean water circulation and climate.
  • Family Scholars Propose National Agenda to Rev ...
    A team of family scholars today released "The President's Marriage Agenda for the Forgotten Sixty Percent" to tackle the striking yet little-discussed decline in marriage among "Middle America" - the nearly 60 percent of Americans who have completed high school, but do not have a four-year colle ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 17th, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm  at the worsening violence in Syria, including the reported mass killing of Alawites and alleged firing of long-range missiles on Syrian territory. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea celebrated its 30-y ...
  • Events and Announcements: December 16, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University College of Law; the Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School; the Center for International and ...
  • Law of the Sea Tribunal Resoundingly Affirms t ...
    by Craig Allen [Craig H. Allen is the Judson Falknor Professor of Law at the University of Washington in Seattle.] On December 15, 2012, one phase of the dispute between the Argentine Republic and the Republic of Ghana over the “seizure” of the Argentine frigate ARA Libertad while in a Ghanaia ...
  • Weekend Roundup: December 8-14, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, a guest post by David Bethlehem, following up on a post by Julian Ku last week, offered three more legal bases for the legality of an intervention in Syria. Also continuing on some of last week’s themes, Kevin Jon Heller wrote how ...
  • The UN Security Council Set to Renew Ombudsper ...
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon A big item on the Security Council’s agenda this month is reconsideration of the mandate of the Ombudsperson and Monitoring Regime for Al Qaida Sanctions, pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1267 and 1989.  Of particular interest are measures proposed by Li ...

Public News Service

  • Living With Cancer During the Holidays
    Living With Cancer During the Holidays PHOENIX - Dealing with cancer is difficult enough, but the fast pace of the holiday season can make it even more stressful. The American Cancer Society says there is "Hope for the Holidays." Spokeswoman Jill Ireland says they are there for patients and care ...
  • Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for ...
    Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for Native American Schools PHOENIX – Three new wind turbines spin outside Leupp Schools on the Navajo Nation. On the roof, more than 10 kilowatts of solar panels have been installed. The additions help power the school while stimulating classroo ...
  • Attorney: Uranium and Explosives on “Mos ...
    Attorney: Uranium and Explosives on “Most Dangerous Toys” List PHOENIX, Ariz. - A blowtorch, asbestos and uranium. Children's toys with those features or ingredients are on a new list of the "10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time" from the American Association for Justice (AAJ). ...(Rea ...
  • New Study Questions Wisdom of "Right-to-Work" Laws
    New Study Questions Wisdom of "Right-to-Work" Laws PHOENIX – Supporters of “right-to-work” laws in Arizona and the ones just passed in Michigan say that by limiting the power of unions, they will attract businesses to their states. But a new study from the Economic Policy Insti ...
  • Be Careful How You Give to Disaster Relief
    Be Careful How You Give to Disaster Relief PHOENIX - Wildfires charred the West and Superstorm Sandy clobbered the East this year. Consumer advocates encourage holiday disaster relief donations, but they also caution that some homework is in order. The Federal Trade Commission ranks Arizona sixt ...

Center for Food Safety

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

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  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
  • Buying Property
    Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...

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