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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 III

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

  • IPCC – Full Speed Ahead
    Thanks to some very hard working bloggers and readers who care at WUWT, the IPCC second order draft has been released.   Steig 09 appears to be much less prominently referenced in the second order draft than in the zero order which is still too often.  I take it as an indication that some people ...
  • Just a Little More Fair
    What will we do when the US runs out of money? A few months ago it seemed that the American public may actually grasp the size of the numerical problem, but the elections revealed that people in bulk are not capable of basic math. It only takes the most cursory of reviews to understand that [...]
  • Camp 2012
    Another deer season gone, I didn’t get any.  This time I did see several doe and maybe a spike buck in the morning of the first day but it was too dark to tell. Camp is a special place and I have a few minutes so here are some of my favorite images and videos [...]
  • Climategate Season!
    Gone hunting for invisible deer again. It is climategate season!! The week will probably end with nothing new (including deer-s) but the UK police managed to leak (publish) that nobody involved in Climategate could be prosecuted after three years. Hopefully, the boys/(manly girls) aren’t s ...
  • Left Behind
    The media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to the left, the media reactions are universal.  Ignore it! This time they have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Dec. 10 and Dec.14. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Dec. 10 Writing it old-school with Handwrite MoMinis secures $6M … Continue reading →
  • Facebook roundup: cybersecurity, Android devel ...
    Facebook works with FBI to take down cyber-criminals – Facebook helped the Federal Bureau of Investigation bring down a cyber-criminal ring responsible for infecting more than 11 million computers with “Yahos” malware and causing more than $850 million in losses. … Contin ...
  • Facebook careers: revenue forecaster, patent c ...
    Facebook added 33 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the account management, HR, infrastructure and measurement teams. The company is also looking for a revenue forecasting analyst, patent counsel and an e-crime investigator, among … Continue rea ...
  • Facebook hires: Instagram safety lead, executi ...
    Facebook removed 29 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of business operations, account management, recruiting and more. The company appears to have filled a position for an Instagram Safety Lead, as well as an Executive … Continue reading & ...
  • Apparent Facebook bug shows users ads in diffe ...
    Many Facebook users are reporting that they’re seeing ads in different languages than the one they’ve set their accounts to. This seems to be a bug that has been around for most of December, if not longer. New Zealand reader … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    The Romantics- “What I Like About You” “What I Like About You” is a song written by Wally Palmar, Mike Skill and Jimmy Marinos of the American rock band The Romantics. It was featured on the band’s self-titled 1980 debut album. You’ve heard this song everywhere…at s ...
  • Video-My Interview with Top TV Journalist Abby ...
    In the Midst of Intense Pessimism – Causes for Optimistic Pauses I know lately I have said it many times, but I am going to say it again: We are surrounded by so many intense pessimism-inducing realities; perpetual wars-Iraq, Afghanistan, constant-droning of Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • My Latest In-Depth Interview: Smells Like Huma ...
    Truly Unplugged with Two Great Interviewers! Two weeks ago I had a nice long interview session with two great interviewers, Guy Evans & James Wilson, with a solid independent website called ‘Smells Like Human Spirit.’ By now you all know what I mean by ‘great interviewers,’ right? Those who ...
  • Podcast Show #102: The Imperialist Quest for A ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Award-winning author and geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya joins us to discuss Washington’s Plan for a “New Middle East” with Western-style “Democracy” as a requirement only for those Middle Eastern states which do not conform to ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Following up on the lastest mass shooting
    I am truly beside myself this time. I tried to ring a warning bell about this a decade ago. The disease has only gotten worse. But...you feel something different in the air across America tonight, don't you? People have had it and the outrage is loud and visible. I'm convinced the majority of ...
  • Islamofascist Killers Threaten Syria
    They're merciless cutthroat murderers. They commit grotesque atrocities. Torture, beheadings, and other monstrous savagery are all in a day's work.
  • Premeditated Israeli Violence
    A police state is governance by state terror over a controlled population. Palestinians understand well. They've experienced the worst kind of militarized persecution and repression for decades.
  • How to Criticize the Israeli Government
    The other day I tweeted an article that reported on a rather horrible story. It seems that the Israeli government gives African women drugs that keep them from reproducing.
  • Do We Really Want to do Something About Violen ...
    We can do something about violence that goes beyond hand-wringing and doesn't lead to a national lockdown. But it will require actually addressing underlying issues--do we really want progress and prosperity or are we convinced aggression and greed is the best we're capable of--and building the ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Grim News For Western Water, But Proven Soluti ...
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York The Interior Department earlier this week released a long-awaited study on future water supplies from the Colorado River Basin. The news was not good. The Colorado River Basin Water Supply and ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Chowdah!
    I present you the New England Chowder Compendium, consisting of chowder recipes going back to the 18th century. I recommend a LGM chowder cookoff. And of course:
  • Foreign Entanglements: Making Patton
    On the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements, Nick Sarantakes and I spoke about his latest book, Making Patton: It’s a very interesting work; we also draw out some implications for more modern war/foreign policy films, and wonder whether anyone will ever make “Petraeus.”
  • The Underlying Text of the Protocol of the Eld ...
    San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Bruce Jenkins has uncovered the true Jewish War on Christmas–David Stern saving us all from the hell of spending time with our families by making us watch NBA games. One of the most distasteful aspects of commissioner David Stern’s legacy &#82 ...
  • “So let us celebrate the falling bodies ...
    Toles pretty much says it all. I’ve never been able to track it down, but the perfect companion to it would be a cartoon that Brockington used to have on his office door in grad school. It showed an alternative history of the United States told through the lens of gun nuts with fantasies t ...
  • Time to arm the union thugs!
    The comment of the day goes to Sly: So I’m a teacher. According to conservative orthodoxy, I’m a parasite on the public’s dime who is only interested in indoctrinating the precious children of America into communism or atheism or whatever. I can’t be trusted to have any control over the curricul ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Too Big to Flood? Megacities Face Future of Ma ...
    As economic activity and populations continue to expand in coastal urban areas, particularly in Asia, hundreds of trillions of dollars of infrastructure, industrial and office buildings, and homes are increasingly at risk from intensifying storms and rising sea levels. BY BRUCE STUTZ
  • Car-Mounted Sensor Able to Pinpoint Sources of ...
    A U.S.-based company has developed a sophisticated sensing technology capable of detecting and pinpointing the source of even minor natural gas leaks from great Picarro VIDEO: Demonstration of the Picarro Surveyor distances, an innovation that could provide critical insights into the stil ...
  • U.S. Awards $28 Million to Offshore Wind Farm ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to provide $28 million in grants to seven proposed offshore wind projects, a financial commitment the Obama administration hopes will provide a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to gain a foothold in American waters. Each of the seven p ...
  • Interview: Creating Clouds in a Lab To Better ...
    At the CERN research laboratory in Switzerland, scientists are conducting experiments to help solve a key riddle: the role of clouds in future CERN Jasper Kirkby climate change. Leading that study is British physicist Jasper Kirkby, who oversees complex experiments in a large steel chambe ...
  • Large Cellulosic Biorefinery Will Convert Corn ...
    Chemical giant DuPont has started construction of a large-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Iowa capable of converting corn stalks and leaves into USDA Corn stover in bales a biofuel that could be used in place of fossil fuels at some power plants. The $200 million facility, which will ...

Red Ice Creations

  • U.S. overseeing mysterious construction projec ...
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to supervise construction of a five-story underground facility for an Israel Defense Forces complex, oddly named “Site 911,” at an Israeli Air Force base near Tel Aviv. Expected to take more than two years to build, at a cost of up to $100 million, the faci ...
  • DARPA working on sci-fi-style stabilizing foam ...
    DARPA’s Wound Stasis program launched in 2010 and is bearing impressive fruit. Wound stasis is meant to stanch internal bleeding and would be aided by a new foam that conforms to the victim’s abdominal cavity. Pre-clinical trials showed improved survival rates for lethal liver injuries that are ...
  • "Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday": Why did ...
    So confident are NASA that the apocalypse will not happen on December 21st that they have released a video 10 days ahead of schedule entitled ’Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday’. Outlining point by point each of the so called ’myths’ that surround the end of the Mayan calendar, astronomical and ...
  • Connecticut school shooting reportedly leaves ...
    Gunman said to be 20-year-old with ties to Newtown school. A shooting at a Connecticut elementary school has left 27 people dead, including 18 children, according to an official with knowledge of the attack, in what could be one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. The official spoke ...
  • Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt Knew
    [December 7, 2012] is the seventy-first anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, an act that brought us into World War II, pushed a reluctant America onto the world stage, and ushered in the age of empire. The official history of that event is that it was a "sneak attack" precipitated ...

Russia Today

  • UK music industry threatens suit against Pirat ...
    BPI, a UK music industry association, has threatened court action against six members of the UK Pirate Party over copyright violations following their refusal to take down a Pirate Bay proxy website. The website has... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Treasure flight: Afghan’s baffling gold exodus
    Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, has reportedly seen travelers taking large quantities of gold out of the country, mostly to Dubai. Heroin money laundering and sanctions evasions by Iran are the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • UK fuel poverty: Pensioners, kids to suffer as ...
    Some 300,000 Brits had to choose between heat or food this Christmas season, while 9 million more are at risk of falling into 'fuel poverty' by 2016, a government advisory group has warned, calling on the PM for swift... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Global powers will keep pouring oil on the fir ...
    There is no compromise on Syria alone – the entire Middle East is at stake and all the world powers have their interests there, Hezbollah’s Ammar Al-Mussawi told RT. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Libya declares emergency law in southern regions
    Libya has temporarily shut down its borders with its southern neighbors and declared emergency law in seven southern regions citing mounting unrest there. This comes as Tripoli struggles to bring the entire country... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Gazette not only blocks story of local frackin ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.- This past Tuesday saw the largest demonstration yet against oil and gas drilling in Colorado Springs and the ugly practice of hydraulic fracturing. Several dozen fractivists allied with Colorado Springs Citizens for Community Rights (CSCCR) and Occupy were joined on the ...
  • Obama cried because the Connecticut schoolchil ...
    So, no, the twenty schoolchildren killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut were not Pakistani. That’s apparently what everyone is so upset about. I’m rather embarrassed how distraught Americans are about the Connecticut school shooting, considering equivalent child-massa ...
  • Obama cried because the Connecticut school sho ...
    So no, the twenty schoolchildren killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut were not Pakistani. That’s apparently what everyone is so upset about. I’m rather embarrassed how distraught Americans are about the Connecticut school shooting, considering equivalent ...
  • Humanitarian Left imperialism dissected well
    Now a great commentary dedicated to dissecting the war mongers of the fallen to the Right… ‘Left’. Article titled- Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End- Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
  • Together we all can beat the capitalist snakes ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dear 60 Minutes: Which Professional Diagnosed ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Just reading the transcript from 60 Minutes and saw the following below. Mark Tambascio is described as a Lanza family friend. There is no mention whether Lanza was formally diagnosed - it could have been a mother...
  • A Thank You to Congressman Posey for Autism He ...
    By Katie Wright Thank you to Congressmen Posey! I love the Sunshine State! Congressmen Posey asked the toughest questions of CDC and NIH representatives at the recent Congressional Oversight Autism Hearing. Posey and showed incredible leadership in his passionate advocacy...
  • Register For Autism One With Holiday Savings
    Registration is open at www.autismone.org!
  • Cell Door, Opened
    By Cathy Jameson Many parents have likened their child’s symptoms to having a feeling of being trapped in their own bodies. What about how that child feels about their environment which we structure and oversee as much as possible? Hyper-vigilance...
  • Dachel Media Update: Fox News' Siegel Implicat ...
    Dec 14, 2012 FOX News: How do you cope with tragedy? Like many Americans, I was stunned by the tragic events in Connecticut. On Friday, Fox News had their medical expert, Dr. Marc Siegel, talking about the school shootings. He...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Smelling a Corporate Rat – The Move to Suppres ...
    If the Seralini experiments are considered insufficient to demonstrate harm, then those carried out by Monsanto cannot prove safety. This is because, whatever its limitations, Seralini's study was conducted to generally higher scientific standards than the studies underlying GM food approvals.
  • New Farm Wars Graphic – Monsanto: Guilty as Ch ...
    Where we would all like to see Monsanto!
  • Farmer Takes Public Stand Against GMOs
    It's way past time for all of us to take a stand and declare our bodies, homes, gardens, farms, ranches, and all the earth GMO-FREE ZONES!
  • Pro-GMO Congress Critter Klobuchar Exposed!
    Evidently, Senator Klobuchar, your job is to shill for the biotech industry. But just in case I’m wrong on this, please show us the tests that you so heavily rely on that are conducted by the USDA, FDA and EPA on genetically modified food (GMOs). You can’t, Senator, because they don’t exist.
  • Prop 37′s biggest supporter was… Monsanto
    Monsanto and its allies have a time table. They believe they can accomplish, in a relatively short time, a fait accompli. There will be so many licensed GMO food crops and so many drifting genes, the very idea of ridding the world of GMO crops will be seen as impossible. In the meantime, they ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Draft of global warming report leaked online
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the most scrutinized of scientific bodies. Each report, each sentence and sometimes even a footnote can bring on a rousing online debate between scientists and the skeptics who love to bedevil them.
  • Climate change taken seriously by insurance in ...
    Paying out billions of dollars here and billions of dollars there has made the global insurance industry a believer in climate change, according to a new study that shows insurance companies are staunch advocates for reducing carbon emissions and minimizing the risk posed by increasingly severe ...
  • How do you wrap an iceberg?
    As part of a new study of future water shortages in the Colorado River Basin, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation solicited ideas on how to solve the looming gap between supply and demand.
  • Officials call for limits on use of super-toxi ...
    D-CON kills rats and mice, the label reads. And, according to state and federal officials, it can kill hawks, owls, eagles, foxes, bobcats, mountain lions and other non-targeted wildlife too.
  • Most of California's water footprint tied to f ...
    These days, there’s a lot of discussion of carbon footprints. A new study by the Pacific Institute focuses on another footprint, that of water.

water.org

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

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • “Black hole for light” drastically improves ef ...
    Researchers at Princeton University led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou, have developed what is being called a “nanostructure sandwich” to trap light and improve the efficiency of organic solar cells by 175%. A layer of metal mesh ...
  • India’s solar mission, phase 2
    An Indian worker cleans solar arrays during the inauguration of a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant near Gandhinagar, in 2011. The ground-mount photovoltaic power plant is the firs ...
  • Energy’s Presence, Not Price, Changes Lives
       The Sustainable Energy for All initiative has rightfully united the world’s attention on a critical development issue – delivering universal energy access. r ...
  • Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
    Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
  • Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
    Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Gun Control: A Diversion From Reality
    By Shawn Connors There’s not many advantages of growing old, but one of them is living through history instead of reading a revisionist version of it. During the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s mass shooting of innocent people were literally unheard of. We never experienced these atro ...
  • The Great Corporate Colony: Welcome to Canada ...
    By: Andrew Gavin Marshall Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird (left), Prime Minister Stephen Harper (centre), and Chinese Premier Web Jiabo (right). Photo by the Globe and Mail.The following is a sample from the first volume of The People’s Book Project, a crowd-funded initiative to p ...
  • Propaganda War on Syria Rages
    by Stephen Lendman Propaganda wars precede hot ones. Conflicts and other forms of violence are glorified in the name of peace. Doublespeak duplicity claim it. Wars are waged to prevent it. Ongoing ones assure more ahead. Unconscionable death counts rise. America, Israel, key NATO partners, an ...
  • Get ready for an escalation of the Tar Sands B ...
    from Kevin Zeese This is one of the most important resistance actions in the country and it's great to see it growing. The Blockade is preparing for more and larger actions with a training from January 3rd to 8thand they are asking people to join them.We hear from those who have attended that i ...
  • Canada-Syria: White dominions, brown colonies
    Eric Walberg France and Britain have begun to circle Syria like vultures (my apologies to vultures, who politely wait for their prey to die). They plan to save Syria from chemical bombs – a surreal replay of Suez 1956, where France and Britain cooked up a pretext to invade Egypt with the ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • WHO downplayed health effects of nuclear crisi ...
    From japantimes.co.jp - BERLIN — A German doctor and member of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicians’ group has criticized a World Health Organization report on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe for underestimating its impact on human health. In a research paper, Alex Rosen said the WHO r ...
  • Revolution 99% Updates: Onward the Struggle. B ...
     Protesters in Moscow Stage New Demonstration - Forcing a showdown with the government of PresidentVladimir V. Putin, leaders of the Russian political opposition took to the streets on Saturday afternoon for an unsanctioned demonstration in a symbolic square in Moscow that is home to the headqua ...
  • Lefty-Licious: Or Else What?
    From TPJ MAG - Relentlessly they had offered trenchant, scathing criticism of the blood-soaked, oil-drenched policies of the Bush administration.  They had done it for years.  It was understandable that they would become enthralled with the soaring liberal rhetoric of a young African-American Se ...
  • Hippie Digest: Willie Nelson On A “Roll& ...
    Willie Nelson, the Silver-Headed Stranger In your new book, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” you write about enjoying bumblebee fights in Texas as a child. What is that exactly? Abbott, where I grew up, is a small farm town, and you knew all the farmers. They would come in on weekends [...]
  • Chemtrails, Aerosol Geoengineering and Bioengi ...
    By Prof. James F. Tracy,globalresearch.ca - “The ultimate solution is a multiplication of leverage by citizens to the point where it simply cannot be denied”. -Clifford Carnicom The materials disbursed in stratospheric aerosol geoengineering operations contain a combination of ionizable metallic ...

FourWinds10

  • RUSSIA ISSUES APOCALYPTIC WARNING FOR OUS GULF ...
  • 'Its the worst weve ever seen': Hauls of shrim ...
    Oct. 18, 2012 Title: About 565,000 pounds of oiled material from Deepwater Horizon stirred up by Hurricane Isaac Source: Times-Picayune Author: Jeff Adelson Date: October 17, 2012 [...] While the uncovered tar has been a problem for the island’s tourism industry, the spill and the remainin ...
  • Feds: Oil in Gulf leaking from BPs containment ...
    Oct. 18, 2012 >> Updated Here: Oil Spill Expert: I remain skeptical they found source of BP crude in Gulf << Title: ROVs investigate possible sheen source Source: US Government Date: October 18, 2012 Remote operated vehicles deployed from the offshore construction vessel Skandi ...
  • Sewage Flows After Storm Expose Flaws in System
    Nov. 29, 2012 Uli Seit for The New York Times Workers this week replacing pumps at the Bay Park sewage-treatment plant in East Rockaway, N.Y., on Long Island, that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy. More Photos » EAST ROCKAWAY, N.
  • Extensive coal ash contamination found in US w ...
    Oct. 22, 2012 Recent data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that as many as 197 different sites across 37 states registered violations to federal drinking water statutes due to contamination from coal ash produced by power plants nearby. Coal ash impoundment sites, calle ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

  • Free Technology for Teachers: Video - How To C ...
    Tags: technology, how to, create, infographics, videoby: John Evans
  • Warning! Plagiarism Is On The Rise!
    Comments:"EasyBib, an information literacy platform that provides citation, note taking, and research tools have created this helpful infographic on plagiarism. “Plagiarism, source attribution and critical thinking are among some of the real problems that our educators and students face. We put ...
  • Watch NASA scientists rap and dance about thei ...
    Tags: nasa, scientists, rap, dance, careers, gangnam, styleby: John Evans
  • There Is No Lesson Plan For Tragedy – Teachers ...
    Comments:"How did I address this tragedy in class? I hugged every last child in my classroom as he/she left for the weekend and told them that they matter, that I love them, and that they make this world better by being in it. They left smiling, believing, and feeling validated. #partofthesoluti ...
  • The 20+ Apps To Know About In 2013 - Edudemic
    Comments:"Education got a lot more mobile in 2012 as in-school iPad initiatives, the iPhone 5 launch and online learning providers in general made classroom experiences more interesting—and don’t expect to see teaching head back to desktop PC’s in 2013. In fact, as MOOCs and hybrid programs cont ...

Rodale News

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

big think

  • Famous Museum Opens Branch In Small Mining Town
    What's the Latest Development? The world-famous Louvre museum has just opened a branch in a place few French would expect: the tiny town of Lens, about 200 kilometers north of Paris. Since 2004, the town's government has done everything it could to convince the townspeople of the benefit ...
  • On the Tragedy in Newtown
    I hate having to write posts like this, but it's too huge a story to ignore. Less than two weeks before Christmas, America is again reeling from a mass killing - one of several this year, but the worst in a while - at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Not counting the ... ...
  • Can We Win the Race Against the Machines?
    What's the Big Idea? The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and fragile recoveries. And yet, it would be a mistake to think we are right now simply experiencing the pai ...
  • Video: My Dating and Relationships Panel at Sk ...
    As I mentioned earlier, I took part in a discussion panel at Skepticon V last month, How Should Rationalists Approach Relationships and Marriage? The video of that panel is now available online, so if you'd like to see it, enjoy: Thanks to Jesse Galef for inviting me to participa ...
  • How Individual Morals Are Formed by Communities
    What's the Latest Development? Despite the legal emphasis our society places on individual responsibility, moral codes are actually formed by entire communities, says science writer Michael Shermer. Despite the convictions we hold of our own moral correctness, we are easily brought under ...

Information Liberation

  • How the State Will Die
    Google bought YouTube in 2006 at the height of the infringement hysteria. The new owners got busy trying to get the platform up to legal standards and avoid billions in pending lawsuits. It seems that users had been posting a vast amount of copyright...
  • TSA Calls Bomb Specialist On Wheelchair Bound ...
    The TSA continues to keep Americans safe from terrorists, once again thwarting a dangerous threat, this time from a wheelchair bound twelve-year-old girl with a genetic bone disorder. Video of young Shelbi Walser crying her eyes out was shot ...
  • Michigan Cops Ponder Detroit Marijuana Legaliz ...
    Voters in Detroit overwhelmingly approved legalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults on private property in last month's elections, but according to Michigan Live, local law enforcement agencies are either uncertain what to do ...
  • ITU Boss In Denial: Claims Success, Misreprese ...
    The ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is now over... and it played out almost exactly as many had predicted. After going back on explicit promises that the treaty would (a) not be about the internet and (b) would only...
  • George Will's False Choice on War and Drones
    Failure to distinguish between the private person and state action is always a recipe for muddled thinking. This is especially so in regard to the conduct of war. Though it can occur between any cluster of persons, war is characteristically seen as a...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Homeopathy is nothing
    The reason that homeopathy is so perfect as a form of quackery is because it is quite literally nothing. On second thoughts, I suppose that it’s not exactly nothing. It is, after all, water or whatever other diluent that homeopaths use (usually ethanol). However, thanks to some basic laws of phy ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Assessment of Undiscovered Petroleum Resources ...
    US Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5147/ The US Arctic Alaska Petroleum Province holds mean estimates of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources of nearly 30 billion barrels of oil, about 179 trillion cubic feet of nonassociated gas, and 40 trillion cubic feet ...
  • Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study
    Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation’s Upper Colorado and Lower Colorado Regions http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/programs/crbstudy.html [Website] http://on.doi.gov/128qG2u [DOI Press Release] [Green Car Congress] A newly released study—authorized by Congress and jointly funded and pr ...
  • Ozone-depleting Substances 2011 – Summary
    European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/ozone-depleting-substances-2011-summary Aggregated data reported by companies on the production, import, export, destruction and use of ozone-depleting substances in the European Union. Filed under: Energy and Climate Tagged: Air ...
  • Water Resources in Europe in the Context of Vu ...
    European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/water-resources-and-vulnerability This report describes how the natural cycle of water availability is continuously coming under threat from a variety of different pressures like droughts and water scarcity, pollution, and flood r ...
  • CO2 Emissions Performance of Car Manufacturers ...
    European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/co2-emissions-performance-of-car Starting from 2012, a specific binding CO2 target is calculated for each manufacturer every year based on the average mass of its fleet. For evaluating the progress of manufacturers towards their t ...

Scientific American - News

  • Do You Accept the Science of Climate Change? [ ...
    Editor's Note: Excerpted from A Newer World--Politics, Money, Technology, and What's Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis , by William F. Hewitt. With permission from the publisher, University of New Hampshire Press. Copyright © William F. Hewitt, 2012. (University of N ...
  • Shifty Sightings: Hubble Images Reveal 7 of th ...
    The title of most distant known galaxy has bounced around a bit in the past few years, as various teams of researchers have laid claim to progressively more remote objects in the early universe. Now a group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope has tentatively identified a new record ...
  • Environmental Regulator Launches New Effort to ...
    Spurred by mounting scientific evidence, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is initiating a new effort to examine whether low doses of hormone-mimicking chemicals are harming human health and whether chemical testing should be overhauled. [More]
  • Warmer Winters Threaten Smaller Ski Areas
    HANCOCK, Mass. – The scene is something no ski resort operator wants to see early in the season: Sunlight glaring off the sloppy snow pooling like dirty mashed potatoes at the base of the high-speed six-person chairlift.  [More]
  • Engineers Hunt for Ways to Cool Computing
    A laptop computer can double as an effective portable knee-warmer -- pleasant in a cold office. But a bigger desktop machine needs a fan. A data center as large as those used by Google needs a high-volume flow of cooling water. And with cutting-edge supercomputers, the trick is to keep them from ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • On the Ongoing Insurrection at Notre-Dame-des- ...
      From Antidev Going at the ZAD (as in « Zone Autonome à Défendre », or « Autonomous Zone to Defend ») amounts literally to be getting lost in the middle of nowhere, to arrive on a war front, to the cornerstone of a conflict between two worlds; between ...
  • WATCH: Hidden Stories of Canada's Immigration ...
    Today, the provisions of Bill C-31 came into effect. Officially known as the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act, it has also been dubbed the "Refugee Exclusion Act" by refugee and migrant rights supportes ...
  • Vers de réelles alternatives à la prostitution ...
    Julie Bindel et Claudia Bouchard La Concertation des luttes contre l’exploitation sexuelle (CLES) a organisé, le 28 novembre 2012, la journée « Vers de réelles alternatives à la prostitution pour les femmes » ave ...
  • VIDÉO: Maille à Part, insoumise
    The Montreal yarn-bombing collective Maille à Part struck again recently, with another colorful and throught provoking action. This time, they covered fence posts and strung the word "insoumise" (insubmissive*) between the ...
  • Organize to Win: A Pan-Canadian Coalition to d ...
    Indigenous, Quebec, Canadian activists launch proposal against corporate right-wing agenda   Port Elgin Coalition Proposal   Organize to Win This November, 80 activists and representatives from across Canada met in Port Elgin, Ont ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Did the Fed's Announcement on Wednesday Work?
    On Wednesday, the Fed unexpectedly announced that it would maintain low interest rates at least until unemployment had dropped below 6.5 percent, and that it would tolerate inflation of up to 2.5 percent in order to get there. This was more aggressive forward guidance than it had ever given be ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 14 December 2012
    Domino climbed into this box the other day, and Marian thought it would be funny to put up a pair of mice to keep an eye on her. I'm not sure Domino ever noticed, though. Perhaps we should have rolled them in catnip first.
  • Quote of the Day: Obama's Non-Answer Answer Ab ...
    From President Barack Obama, on enforcing federal drug laws in Colorado and Washington, where voters have made marijuana use legal: We've got bigger fish to fry....It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it' ...
  • Zero Dark Thirty: An Update
    I still haven't seen Zero Dark Thirty, so I should probably continue to maintain a discreet silence on the question of whether it suggests that CIA torture of al-Qaeda prisoners provided one of the clues that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Still, Andrew Sullivan, whatever else you can ...
  • Bobby Jindal's Smart Play on Contraceptives
    Today brings some evidence that Bobby Jindal is a smart guy. In the Wall Street Journal, he writes that contraceptives should be available over the counter: Let's ask the question: Why do women have to go see a doctor before they buy birth control? There are two answers. First, because big ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 368: Disasterbation in the Face of Tragedy
    Topic: White people saying the N-word Thirst traps on Twitter Batman is an Impossible White Man Disasterbation & the Connecticut shooting Teasing a few Impossible White Man criteria Share with your friends:
  • IC 367: Losing Builds Character
    Topic: #InsanityCheck Kriss doesn’t care about starving kids in Africa The Internet is the home of the asshole Civilizing the Internet “Plot Holes” in the Dark Knight Rises Awesome week in trailers Losing a basketball game 107-2 Losing builds character Cuddling with no sex/Send ...
  • IC 366: Race is What They Asking Me
    Topic: Pac died in Vegas. Again Mayweather vs Pacquiao What is an Impossible White Man movie? Why Cory Booker’s stunt doesn’t help Sean Fury Guns don’t cause domestic violence Share with your friends:
  • IC 365: Cory Booker – The White Hipster On a ...
    Topic: Kriss & Kev’s next scheme Cory Booker is struggling on Food Stamps Great Moments in White Privilege The NY Post Photographer & being a ain’t shit Human Being Movie News Share with your friends:
  • IC 364: Live From the Police Standoff
    Topics: Twitter makes me realize I don’t like most people Not telling kids about Santa Lying to kids Cops aren’t bad people Dr. James MacArthur and his live streamed standoff with police Police brutality isn’t right….but I understand Star Wars Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Can we trust climate models?
    I’ve asked scientists I’ve spoken to for blog entries and articles published this year why we use models, how we know they’re accurate, and how to understand their projections.
  • CO2 casts off shackles to power up Atlantic hu ...
    Reductions in particulate pollution and increases in greenhouse gases are going to cooperate to give us more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic, finds NOAA’s Gabriel Vecchi
  • Space agencies pinpoint polar ice sheet damage
    Greenland and Antarctica lost over 4 trillion tonnes of ice from 1992-2011 - equivalent to 11 mm of sea level rise, the giant Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE) has shown by bringing together over 50 years’ worth of satellite data .
  • Carbon conundrum could push firmer emission action
    Climate models might be wrong in assuming plants and soil will absorb more CO2 as the world warms, meaning that more aggressive action might be needed to keep climate change at ‘safe levels’, finds Paul Higgins from the American Meteorological Society
  • Australians overestimate climate change rejection
    Actual opinions on climate change in Australia are very different from what people estimate, thanks mainly to our tendency to think more people agree with us than really do, but possibly also to how the issue has been debated, shows a survey run by Zoe Leviston from CSIRO.

e!Science News

  • Kidney failure under the microscope
    Better targeted treatments for 20 per cent of renal failure patients are on the horizon following a key discovery about the role of white blood cells in kidney inflammation. read more
  • Chinese scientists discover evidence of giant ...
    A research team, led by Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and BGI, has successfully reconstructed a continuous population history of the giant panda from its origin to the present. The findings suggested whereas global changes in climate were the primary drivers in panda popula ...
  • Toward a new model of the cell
    urning 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 tha ...
  • A drug used to treat HIV might defuse deadly s ...
    A new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers suggests that an existing HIV drug called maraviroc could be a potential therapy for Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious and deadly pathogen linked to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations each year. Their study is published online this week i ...
  • Carriers of gene variant appear less likely to ...
    Scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University have discovered a new gene mechanism that appears to regulate triglyceride levels. This pathway may protect carriers of a gene variant against cardiovascular disease, especially among those wit ...

unEarthed

  • Victories Over Fossil Fuels Strengthen Our Resolve
    Earthjustice set to make 2013 the year to powerfully engage climate change Earthjustice has just won two major victories over fossil fuels that strengthen our re ...
  • EPA Releases Rule Slashing Soot Pollution
    Rule will save up to thousands of lives Soot is composed of tiny microscopic particles that penetrate deep within the lungs often triggering respiratory harm and even premature death. (Chri ...
  • Big Day For Little Fish
    First-ever coastwide limits set on menhaden catch in the Atlantic Menhaden catch from a purse-seine net are pumped into a carrier vessel. (NOAA) On Friday, th ...
  • Big News In Fight Against Florida Slime
    EPA will step in to regulate 100,000 miles of Florida's waters We’re happy to report that our long fight to clean up the green slime that’s been plaguing Florida waterways for years hit a major turning point on Nov ...
  • Mercury in Fish, A Growing Problem
    Earthjustice seeks better labeling of seafood to protect consumers A new report has some not-so-great news for those who love to eat fish. Mercury is turning up in fish from all over the world – and coal is one of the main c ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Israeli election polls: Netanyahu is losing su ...
    All center and left parties combined are polling fewer seats than in the current Knesset.  A little over a month is left until the Knesset elections, and polls are being published more and more frequently, including six polls published just this weekend. We have updated five of them on our Poll ...
  • Far-right party’s campaign ad banned for ...
    If a campaign ad inciting against Arab citizens of Israel is deemed illegitimate, then why not the party responsible for it, or any of the myriad Knesset members who have also engaged in similar forms of incitement as well, whether against Africans, Palestinians, the LGBT community or Israeli le ...
  • Could E1 be the trigger that sparks a new roun ...
    Israeli intentions to build in E1 have material and significant significance that could turn into a trigger for a new uprising. It’s time for a new path. By Jamie Levin and Craig D. Smith A good number of pundits have recently heralded the demise of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Pa ...
  • Lieberman’s resignation: A small step ba ...
    Israel’s foreign minister will soon be able to put his legal troubles behind him. He will then renew his quest for the premiership from a much more favorable position. Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, announced yesterday (Friday) that he will resign from his cabinet posi ...
  • Under siege: One Bedouin family’s struggle to ...
    In its refusal to make compromises on zoning restrictions for an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Galilee, Israel demonstrates that its preferred demographic balance is higher on the list of state priorities than the protection of the welfare of its citizens. By Paul Karolyi In the early 1950 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • New Indigenous Ranger Jobs for the NT
    Sixteen new Indigenous ranger positions are being funded in the Northern Territory to protect and conserve Australia's precious environment. .
  • New Antarctic ice core project
    Environment Minister, Tony Burke today announced a major new Australian-led project in Antarctica to advance the search for the scientific 'holy grail' of the million-year ice core, a frozen record of how our planet has evolved and changed and a guide to what might be in store.
  • Environment Minister visits Australian Antarct ...
    Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today left for Antarctica to gain first-hand experience of the continent and to meet the men and women whose work is critical to the success of the Australian Antarctic program.
  • Funding to support Tasmanian Forests Agreement
    The Federal and Tasmanian Governments today announced $102 million to support the Tasmanian Forests Agreement that will provide certainty for Tasmania's forestry industry, support local jobs and communities and protect the state's iconic forests.
  • Murray Darling to benefit from water efficienc ...
    The Gillard Government is supporting more than 300 irrigators across the southern Murray-Darling Basin to improve their irrigation efficiency and return more water to the environment.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Banking Crimes- LIBOR, Fraudclosure and Money ...
    In what world would a gang of criminal masterminds be permitted to meet in boardrooms all across this world and plan ways to steal billions….actually steal those billions….and walk away completely unscathed?  Why the answer of course is….IN THIS WORLD! The LIBOR scandal is just ...
  • How Much is Fannie/Freddie Costing Taxpayers? ...
    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are charted by Congress as government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to provide liquidity in the mortgage market and promote homeownership for underserved groups and locations. They purchase mortgages, guarantee them, and package them in mortgagebacked securities (MBSs), ...
  • Do Our Nation’s Courts and Corrupt Governments ...
    Do Our Nation’s Courts and Corrupt Governments Have a Moral Responsibility to Confirm Foreclosure and Banking Crimes? In 2009, the Florida Supreme Court’s Task Force on Residential Foreclosures published its comprehensive report wherein it predicted that the wave of foreclosures sweeping across ...
  • This CASE IS DISMISSED! Driving A Stake Into T ...
    THE COURT: A rehearing of a what? 5 MR. WEIDNER: Final order of dismissal that 6 was entered in 2011; that’s the important point to 7 understand, is this case was dismissed in October 8 2011. So, jurisdictionally, that’s where we 9 appear. There’s a very narrow needle to thread ...
  • Request to Take Judicial Notice….The Lor ...
    The sad and terrifying reality is that courts all across this nation will continue to ignore the crimes committed by banks as they work on behalf of their masters to take property from Americans and throw them into the street.  For years, “our” government at all levels conspired with ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizen Gifts – Protection
    We’ve all been through enough these past few days to understand what happens when a community that perceived itself to …Continue reading »
  • Christmas in Connecticut
    What would Christmas be without a child? Would it fill us with such wonder, such pathos, such hope? Doubtful. According …Continue reading »
  • Citizen Gifts – Reclaiming Community
    What do you do as you watch your community literally being washed away? We saw some of it in New …Continue reading »
  • Citizen Gifts – Daring
    With democracy in varying degrees of turbulence globally, and with the opportunity for citizens to make their mark, the next …Continue reading »
  • The Age of Monochrome
    So, the Christmas lights at the Parliament buildings are blue and orange this year. Gone are the historic red bulbs …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Wow! “Scientific study” reveals th ...
    Crunch a little data (why only Olympic medalists and not all Olympic participants?), do some elementary statistics and come up with something profoundly obvious and it passes for "science". It took no less than six authors!!
  • 10 young schoolgirls killed by landmine
    Ten young girls were killed when a landmine exploded Monday while they were collecting firewood in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.
  • New UC logo flushed away
    It was a "contemporary logo" designed by an in-house University of California team and started being used about 6 months ago. There have been many objections but the "flushing toilet" image is the most memorable!!
  • Nash Papyrus, Newton’s notebooks, Kalpas ...
    The Nash Papyrus -- one of the oldest known manuscripts containing text from the Hebrew Bible -- has become one of the latest treasures of humanity to join Isaac Newton's notebooks, the Nuremberg Chronicle and other rare texts as part of the Cambridge Digital Library.
  • A “right” to bear arms must be con ...
    In the US it is self-evident that the "right to bear arms" is not sufficiently circumscribed. In spite of its implied "freedom to kill" it is fanatically defended to the point of absurdity. The latest tragedy at Sandy Hook is part of a long history of school shootings in the US but the almost ...

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Consumerist

  • Best Buy Founder Gets A Little More Time To Fi ...
    Just yesterday it seemed Best Buy founder Howard Schulze would have a stressful weekend, as he was supposed to come with an offer, any offer, to buy his company back by Sunday. But it seems he’s been issued a bit of a reprieve, as the electronics retailer said today that it will give Schul ...
  • Hotel Claims Overzealous Employee Posted Sign ...
    Earlier today, we told you about the Texas hotel that offered guests up to $5 if they posted positive reviews on any number of popular travel sites. A rep for the hotel has since responded to say that this was a case of an overzealous employee acting on their own. In an e-mail to Consumerist, a ...
  • How Do You Fly 1 Million Miles In A Year? Ask ...
    So you say you want to fly a million miles in one year? Easy-peasy lemon squeezy! Just hop on about 400 flights to far-flung destinations and you can match the feat of a Chicago man who’s clocked in a million miles on United Airlines in just a single year. If you’re flying for busine ...
  • Customer Tries, Fails To Convince Internet Tha ...
    It’s one thing if a company or one of its employees goes out of their way to insult you, say by mocking your weight or calling you an “ugly itch” from “Ghettohood USA.” But it’s not cool to claim that a company insulted you when it just did exactly what you as ...
  • Here’s Another Reason To Avoid Giving Gi ...
    By this point, we’ve probably all given or received gift cards during the holidays. But most consumers don’t know how easy it is for scammers to steal value from these cards, and what a pain in the butt in can be to get that money back. See, around this time of year, scam artists are ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Global Fund Retaliates Against Its Inspector G ...
    The Global Fund Retaliates Against Its Inspector General This blog post by GAP Executive & International Director Bea Edwards details the highly questionable firing by the Global Fund – a "public-private partnership and international financing institution" dedicated to fighting disease wo ...
  • The Global Fund Retaliates Against Its Inspect ...
    On November 15, the Global Fund fired John Parsons, its Inspector General (IG). Because the IG is the official responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct and corruption, as well as whistleblower disclosures, he must be able to function independently of management, and firing him doe ...
  • Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Continues Making I ...
    Speigel International: Did Deutsche Bank Fraudulently Hide Huge Losses? An excellent summary of the concerns brought forth by GAP client and whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi, the former Risk Analyst at Deutsche Bank who publicly came forward last week with his allegations that the financial insti ...
  • Bradley Manning = Guardian's Person of the Yea ...
    The Guardian (UK): Guardian Person of the Year – Voters Choose Bradley Manning Summary: Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks, was voted The Guardian’s Person of the Year by readers. Manning spoke publicly for the first time earlier this month ...
  • Investigative Series on Beef Industry Safety C ...
    Kansas City Star: Building Bigger Cattle - An Industry Overdose Summary: The Kansas City Star is doing a three-part series on the beef industry, with yesterday's front-page story highlighting the safety risk of unlabeled mechanically tenderized beef. Today's installmen ...

UK Progressive

  • With a Heavy Heart
    This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell All weekend long, I’d look at my three young children and cry. I would go online and trolls there insult each other and fight over gun rights, the second amendment and all I can try to do is see the faces… then I cry again. As [...]
  • Op-Ed: More Than 30 Top U.S. Officials Guilty ...
    by Sherwood Ross   More than 30 top U.S. officials, including presidents G.W. Bush and Obama, are guilty of war crimes or crimes against peace and humanity “legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany,” the distinguished American international law authority Franci ...
  • Why is Washington Obsessing About the Deficit ...
    by Robert Reich It was the centerpiece of the President’s reelection campaign. Every time Republicans complained about trillion-dollar deficits, he and other Democrats would talk jobs. That’s what Americans care about — jobs with good wages. And that’s part of why Obama and the Democrats were vi ...
  • Note To GOP: Stop Yammering About The Deficit ...
    by Charley James Washington’s paralyzed debate drags on over a fictitious crisis involving the national budget, deficit and debt. Republicans are trying ferociously to hang on to the obscenely low tax rates paid by the party’s wealthy benefactors and corporate puppeteers. So, newspap ...
  • Karl Rove’s Dark Money Group Promised IRS It W ...
    by Kim Barker ProPublica In a confidential 2010 filing, Crossroads GPS — the dark money group that spent more than $70 million from anonymous donors on the 2012 election — told the Internal Revenue Service that its efforts would focus on public education, research and shaping legislation and pol ...

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JoNova

  • Alec Rawls responds to Steven Sherwood: &#8220 ...
    The IPCC are now adding citations of critics (so they can’t be accused of ignoring them completely), but they bury the importance of those studies under glorious graphic art, ponderous bureacrat-speak, and contradictory conclusions. When skeptics point out that the IPCC admit (in a hidden ...
  • Unthreaded weekend
    Anything but the IPCC right? Rating: 6.3/10 (4 votes cast) Rating: 6.3/10 (4 votes cast)
  • Draft IPCC report leaked (the evidence is so o ...
    What was the point of keeping the IPCC draft secret? The point is so the IPCC can control both the content and the PR. The IPCC wants a free kick, and they get one if the world doesn’t see how they arrive at the conclusion, and if critics can’t specifically point to errors or flaws u ...
  • The IPCC was not right. Frame & Stone ignore m ...
    Professor David Frame and Dr Daithi Stone have produced a paper claiming the IPCC predictions in 1990 were successful and seem accurate. Those who read the actual FAR report and check the predictions against the data know that this is not so. They ignore the main IPCC predictions (the prominent ...
  • The IPCC was wrong. (Matthew England and the A ...
    This is a rare unequivocal case of overreach. Prof Matthew England proves he is either willing to lie “for the cause”, or he doesn’t know what he is talking about, or both. Sarah Clark at the ABC didn’t do five minutes research on the story to check the facts or ask infor ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • What Will Happen to My 2012 Sites?
    Either way, doomsday or not doomsday, there won’t be any use for my 2012 sites once the fuss dies down. Aside from the forum, they don’t cost much to host, so they’ll definitely remain online – if only for archival purposes. Here are my plans for each, subject to change: ...
  • How Will I Know If Disaster Strikes?
    The short answer: for anything except for power grids going down, watch TV, listen the radio, monitor internet services. And if the power grid goes down – you will most likely notice. Unless you are asleep… If your bedside clock radio has backup batteries, remove them so that you mig ...
  • Warning Signs Ignored – Just Like The Solar St ...
    Hurricane Katrina – many indicators that it would happen one day, local government failed to prepare Fukushima - An in-house study in 2008 pointed out that there was an immediate need to improve the protection of the power station from flooding by seawater. This study mentioned the possibi ...
  • Time Zones & The End Of The World
    So, the world is ending next week. Sounds like something setting an alarm for. Whereas the media is very good at telling us (in local time) when an international sporting event or solar eclipse will be happening, the Mayan Doomsday date is not getting that treatment. Because it’s just a bi ...
  • Shift of the Ages: Watch it for free
    Possibly the best documentary for telling the modern day Mayan perspectives of 2012, Shift of the Ages is available to be viewed for free until Dec 21: http://www.shiftoftheages.com/watch-now/ (free registration required…) The film, shot over the course of seven years and in more than six ...

Facing South

  • The recession takes a heavy toll on children - ...
    The economic downturn is pushing more U.S. children into poverty, and it's no longer a problem limited mostly to Southern states. read more
  • VOICES: Yes, voter suppression is controversial
    What does it say about the current state of North Carolina politics that not only is voter suppression legislation expected to pass early in the 2013 legislative session but that the head of Raleigh's leading conservative think tank doesn't even believe it's controversial? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Is the South's energy future ...
    This week the federal government took big steps toward building a commercial offshore wind industry in the Southeast -- but its future could be threatened by the expiration of a key tax credit. read more
  • The racist roots of 'right to work' laws
    Today's Right-to-Work movement can trace its origins to the Jim Crow and Red Scare South. read more
  • Out of the Bangladesh tragedy may come global ...
    The fire that killed 112 workers last month in a Bangladesh garment factory has sparked protests and brought scrutiny to retailers including Arkansas-based Walmart, which is embroiled in labor unrest back home. read more

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Oriental Review

  • Episodes 10. Who Organised Famine in the USSR ...
    The theory of Holodomor is being reactivated in the media every time Ukraine is about to make another step back to Russia. Just to recall to those who are not aware of that tragedy, in 1932-1933 there was a severe famine throughout USSR that claimed unprecedented number of lifes (according to so ...
  • Michael Prysner: ‘The Real Terrorist Was ...
    ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the fragment of one of the most powerful anti-war speeches done by the former Corporal of the US Army in Iraq Michael Prysner at the 2008 Winter Soldier in Maryland. It is still relevant and sounding as ever.  “I tried hard to be proud of my service, but all I c ...
  • Banning Nuke Tests
    On December 5, 2012 the Nevada National Security Site was struck by another US nuclear test. As the Nation of Change described it: ‘…there was little public fanfare, less national media coverage, and only a smattering of international protest suggesting that the test violated the spirit of the 1 ...
  • US Military Intelligence: Reforming Against China
    After the «terrorist attack» on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, the U.S. special services are taking on a heavy burden of responsibility. Whatever guise the real organizers and perpetrators of the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center took does not matter, the task for the s ...
  • They Are Supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria
    The Syrian national state and its armed forces are continuing to fiercely resist the global war targeting them. And while they are deploying all efforts and capabilities to provide the requirements of economic steadfastness and overcome the consequences of the terrorism and armed rebellion carri ...

BlogHer

  • Stopping the Crafty Christmas Cash Drain
    I don’t know about you, but for me the holiday hemorrhaging has begun. Every year I fall for the same thing. I tell myself that I can save money by hand-making my gifts, and in actuality I could, but I never do. Hand-making gifts for people on your list can easily cost more than buying the same ...
  • The Ugly Side of Feminism and Rape
    Some time around 2008 or so, I seriously began to wonder if I should still call myself a feminist. I'd identified as a feminist for well over half my life at that point, but I wasn't super thrilled with things that I was reading by feminists. A lot of it stemmed from the primary, during which ...
  • Robbie Parker, Dad of Sandy Hook Victim, Emili ...
    Scott and I watched the CBS Special on the Sandy Hook Massacre on television last night after the kids went to bed. We have not talked to the boys yet. We didn't have the facts. We are still wrestling with what to say and to whom. Some of the advice I have heard is that for children five years o ...
  • Robbie Parker, Dad of Sandy Hook Victim, Emili ...
    Scott and I watched the CBS Special on the Sandy Hook Massacre on television last night after the kids went to bed. We have not talked to the boys yet. We didn't have the facts. We are still wrestling with what to say and to whom. Some of the advice I have heard is that for children five years o ...
  • Ruffled Christmas Tree Onesie
    [Editor's Note: I'm a big fan of kids in themed outfits. Yes, I have lost count of how many holiday shirts my kids own. Somehow on adults holiday wear seems silly (tacky Christmas sweater party anyone?), but on kids it is adorable. I adore this ruffled tree onesie from Making Home Base. I'm thin ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother
    Liza Long In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness. Three days before 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on ...
  • Victoria Soto – An Angel Shielding First ...
            Victoria Soto, a first grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary, will be remembered as a brave woman and hero as she shielded her class with her own body during the shooting. According to News Times, Victoria Soto ...
  • GMO Giant Hires Retired Cops to Hunt Down Farmers
    GMO giants DuPont have contracted dozens of retired law enforcement officers to begin patrolling farms in the US next year to spot any potential intellectual property theft. DuPont Co, the second-largest seed country in the world, ...
  • Probiotics Improve Symptoms of the Common Cold
    If you have kids at university, a daily dose of probiotics may be just what they need to ward off the worst effects of winter colds. College students are notoriously sleep-deprived, live in close quarters and ...
  • People Living Longer but Not Healthier Lives
    WASHINGTON — Americans are living longer thanks to advances in medical care, but have a lower quality of life with the proliferation of chronic disease and preventable illness, a report found. While deaths from cancer and ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • EPA to tighten soot standards
    Here’s the initial report (at least the first one I saw) from the Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency will tighten the nation’s soot standardsby 20 percent Friday, a move that will force communities across the country to improve air quality by the end of the decade while m ...
  • Court upholds Stover conviction in UBB case
    In a March 15, 2011 photo, Massey Energy Security Chief Hughie Elbert Stover, center, and his wife, left, are swamped by members of the media as they leave the Federal courthouse in Beckley  (AP Photo/The Register-Herald, F. Brian Ferguson). Word is just in this morning that the 4th U.S. Circuit ...
  • Still no proximity detection rules from MSHA
    That’s the photo that the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration distributed today, as part of its “fatalgram” about the Nov. 30 death of 27-year-old coal-mine electrician Steven O’Dell in another senseless mobile equipment accident in one of our nation’s underg ...
  • CONSOL miner update: Body found in dozer
    Here’s the latest word from CONSOL Energy, issued this morning: Dive and rescue teams completed a series of pipe dives over the weekend that helped to more clearly define the exact position and location of the bulldozer in the Robinson Run Preparation Plant impoundment. With this new infor ...
  • Friday roundup, Dec. 7, 2012
    In this Sept. 11, 2012 photo, a four-wheel-drive car follows a large mining truck as it makes its way to the top of a Boggabri coal mine near Gunnedah, Australia, 450 kilometers (280 miles) northwest of Sydney. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) Over at The Associated Press, Vicki Smith this week had a nic ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Samsung Exec Uses Apple Ecosystem Because It&# ...
    “At work I’m using Samsung devices; Apple at home, mainly because all of my systems and files are done that way. That’s sticky, you know?” Young Sohn is one of the only president-level executives who is based outside of Korea, and his job centers around overseeing innovation in both the U.S. an ...
  • Precision Dice in Aluminum, Titanium, and Tungsten
    This girl is über. Related Posts:Neal Stephenson Making a Sword-fighting GameTouchFire: A Screen-top Keyboard for iPadFun With PythonThe Happy Secret to Better Work | TED‪Java Trailer
  • Ray Kurzweil Gets Hired by Google to Head Up M ...
    Famed inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil announced this afternoon that he has been hired by search engine giant Google as a director of engineering focused on machine learning and language processing. via techcrunch.com This should make the Bay Area Less Wrong meetups m ...
  • Automatic Voter Registration | Reuters
    REACHING ‘EVERY ELIGIBLE VOTER’Holder said the current system was needlessly complex and riddled with mistakes, resulting in 60 million adult U.S. citizens not being eligible to cast a ballot in the 2008 presidential election because they had not filed the right paperwork.By coordina ...
  • Mental Illness is the Problem
    I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me. A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books. His 7 and 9 year old siblings knew the safety plan—they ran to the car and ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • WHO downplayed health effects of nuclear crisi ...
    From japantimes.co.jp - BERLIN — A German doctor and member of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicians’ group has criticized a World Health Organization report on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe for underestimating its impact on human health. In a research paper, Alex Rosen said the WHO r ...
  • Revolution 99% Updates: Onward the Struggle. B ...
     Protesters in Moscow Stage New Demonstration - Forcing a showdown with the government of PresidentVladimir V. Putin, leaders of the Russian political opposition took to the streets on Saturday afternoon for an unsanctioned demonstration in a symbolic square in Moscow that is home to the headqua ...
  • Lefty-Licious: Or Else What?
    From TPJ MAG - Relentlessly they had offered trenchant, scathing criticism of the blood-soaked, oil-drenched policies of the Bush administration.  They had done it for years.  It was understandable that they would become enthralled with the soaring liberal rhetoric of a young African-American Se ...
  • Hippie Digest: Willie Nelson On A “Roll& ...
    Willie Nelson, the Silver-Headed Stranger In your new book, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” you write about enjoying bumblebee fights in Texas as a child. What is that exactly? Abbott, where I grew up, is a small farm town, and you knew all the farmers. They would come in on weekends [...]
  • Chemtrails, Aerosol Geoengineering and Bioengi ...
    By Prof. James F. Tracy,globalresearch.ca - “The ultimate solution is a multiplication of leverage by citizens to the point where it simply cannot be denied”. -Clifford Carnicom The materials disbursed in stratospheric aerosol geoengineering operations contain a combination of ionizable metallic ...

reference frame

  • Exorcising Maxwell's daemons
    And the lowest allowed power consumption of PCs In our discussions about information and heat, James Gallagher said some of the usual wrong things about irreversibility – for example, he believes that the proof of the H-theorem is invalid because of the molecular chaos assumption (this assu ...
  • Taxes: Depardieu, Delon escape Hollande
    Today, the Japanese voters ended a ludicrous 3-year-long experiment with the left-wing politicians at the top that began in 2009, after decades of right-wing governments that were able to rebuild Japan after the loss in the world war and bring its economy to the #2 spot. Shinzo Abe of the L ...
  • Ordering ambiguities and renormalization ambig ...
    Greta asked: I have been told that \[ [\hat x^2,\hat p^2]=2i\hbar (\hat x\hat p+\hat p\hat x) \] illustrates ordering ambiguity. What does that mean? I tried googling but to no avail. Thank you. LM: The ordering ambiguity is the statement – or the "probl ...
  • Information and heat
    When they're rather young, children learn about hot and cold things. They learn to say "heiss" when their tongue gets burned a little bit and "brrr" when they're freezing. Much like our ancestors, the Monkey Americans, little kids learn that they may heat objects up by fire; and they may cool th ...
  • IPCC AR5 not acknowledging cosmoclimatology
    In a few years, the IPCC climate panel plans to release the fifth assessment report, AR5. Alec Rawls (firstname at lastname dot org) has leaked the current draft (he thinks it's 100% legal to do so) and he, much like other skeptics, seemed to be enthusiastic about the IPCC's finally admitting th ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Japan’s right-wing Liberals elected in landsli ...
    Japan’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in a landslide election victory Sunday after three years in opposition, exit polls showed, signalling a rightward shift in the government that could further heighten tensions with rival China. CBC | Top Stories News Re ...
  • SPLC Demonizes ‘Anarcho-Capitalists’ and ‘Volu ...
    SLPC names Doug Casey, Porter Stansberry, G. Edward Griffin, Lew Rockwell, Alex Jones, and others in latest anti-patriot “Hate Watch” attack. from Activist Post: The Southern Poverty Law Center fashions itself as a a think tank that identifies rightwing extremists. In the recent past ...
  • A Three Sided War
    Everyone is always on about how WWIII will be the US, Israel, EU, and the GCC countries against Russia, China, Iran, and Syria, but people are forgetting that WWIII could end up being… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Iran to strengthen naval presence ove ...
  • Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know Numerology Y ...
    This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know – Numerology Do numbers have some sort of intangible, mystical properties? What... Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know DMT YouTube Video Rating: 0 / 5 This post is courtesy of... Stuf ...
  • Top Iranian commander foreshadows World War
    NATO missiles on the Turkish-Syrian border are a prelude to World War, warns Iranâs top general. Following the remarks, the countryâs leader, President Ahmadinejad, reportedly… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Patriot missiles in Turkey threaten world war ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Mayor sentenced, resigns his post
    UPDATED: Rune Øygard, a once popular and powerful Norwegian mayor with ties to the highest levels of the Labour Party, was sentenced to four years in jail on Monday and resigned his mayor’s post as soon as the lengthy court ruling against him was read. A court in Lillehammer found him guil ...
  • Tunnel fire disrupts train schedules
    Tens of thousands of Oslo-area commuters had to find alternative ways of getting to work on Monday after a fire in the main railroad tunnel under Oslo forced its closure on Sunday. The fire also halted all train traffic through Oslo, disrupting service on both local and long-distance routes. &#8 ...
  • Snow stranded trains, closed roads
    State meteorologists had warned of more severe weather disruptions in southwestern Norway over the weekend and they were right. Emergency crews were still trying to clear enormous mounds of snow off roads and railroad tracks on Sunday, after some areas were hit by more record-breaking winter sto ...
  • Museum caught in painting dispute
    A valuable painting by French artist Henri Matisse, now claimed to have been stolen by the Nazis during World War II, has been hanging on the walls of one of  Norway’s leading art museums, the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, for decades. Now the Henie Onstad Art Centre finds itself caught in con ...
  • Police braced for weekend demonstrations
    Police were bracing for both a protest march against Islam in downtown Oslo on Saturday and a counter-protest march against racism at the same time. Police called on participants to remain calm and resist provocation. One march was being organized by the anti-Islam Norwegian Defense League and S ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Growing Your Own: Beginners and Balcony Gardeners
    Here are a few useful tips to growing your own fresh organic food when you are low on space, time and gardening know-how. If you love the idea of a food forest but are seriously lacking in space and knowledge, you might consider starting out with a few pots of green leafy vegetables and herbs. ...
  • Gravity Powered Lights
    Lighting in much of the ‘developing’ world is provided via expensive and polluting kerosene. Kerosene lamps are dangerous, require constant replenishment, and come with significant negative health impacts. So, for the potential benefit of millions of people, London based designers, ...
  • Verge’s Grad Interview Series: Trailer
    by Rob Avis The Grad Video series tells the stories of 10 graduates from our Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) courses, documenting what they’ve done with the knowledge, skills and inspiration they acquired from the course. Two film makers set out to find these graduates and catch the ...
  • World Nuclear Electricity Generation Down 5 Pe ...
    by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built. In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and ...
  • Permaculture Meets Mozambique
    In an isolated corner of northern Mozambique great things are being done. A demonstration farm run by the Manda Wilderness Agricultural Project, an offshoot of a local trust organization and set in the picturesque region of Manda Wilderness, is held together by the efforts by five local staff an ...

Pointman's

  • Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012), an appreciation.
    The Germans have a word we don’t have in English, and it really doesn’t translate very well because of that lack – Lebenskünstler. In a typical Teutonic fashion, they jammed together two words which each nearly expressed what they were after, and created a new word, which denot ...
  • Just how far are you prepared to go to feel go ...
    I believe the acid test of any political system or indeed any society, is how much compassion it has for its own people, who’re simply going through some travails or deeply in trouble. That very same test applies to such everyday organisations as a business enterprise and right down to an ...
  • How tropical storm Sandy became a Frankenstorm ...
    Infowar uses propaganda, which is directed at a population to give them a worldview which accords with your own political beliefs. There are a lot of propaganda techniques; disinformation, censorship, misrepresentation, character assassination, lies, intimidation and the rewriting of history, to ...
  • How tropical storm Sandy became a Frankenstorm ...
    Infowar uses propaganda, which is directed at a population to give them a worldview which accords with your own political beliefs. There are a lot of propaganda techniques; disinformation, censorship, misrepresentation, character assassination, lies, intimidation and the rewriting of history, to ...
  • The real doh! about Doha.
    Well, here we are again. It’s November and that time of year for the annual international conference on figuring out ways of saving us all from global warming. Since the last one was called COP17, this one rather unsurprisingly is called COP18. Incidentally, COP stands for Conference of the Part ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Mark Dice's real name is apparently Mark Shouldice. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gySkz-c32FgStatistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:46 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    And even if he was jеwish (which he's not), why does it matter? It doesn't. Seriously, a jеw is not behind every killing that happens. Not everything's a conspiracy. This is all typical Alex Jonestein bullshit paranoia thinking that's infected so many people. "Something bad happened, gov ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Wimpy wrote: Frankdialogue said: Just as an aside, for 'internet Jew hunters' Lanza is a commonly used Italian name: Philadelphia's Mario Lanza, a favorite son, was an operatic tenor and movie actor, and in no way a Jew, being Italian/Sicilian Catholic...Marrano Jews took names of various natio ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Frankdialogue said: Just as an aside, for 'internet Jew hunters' Lanza is a commonly used Italian name: Philadelphia's Mario Lanza, a favorite son, was an operatic tenor and movie actor, and in no way a Jew, being Italian/Sicilian Catholic...Marrano Jews took names of various nations where the ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_fI0hm1dqY Police scanner picked up an officer stating he had a shooter down.Statistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:15 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Too Big to Flood? Megacities Face Future of Ma ...
    As economic activity and populations continue to expand in coastal urban areas, particularly in Asia, hundreds of trillions of dollars of infrastructure, industrial and office buildings, and homes are increasingly at risk from intensifying storms and rising sea levels. BY BRUCE STUTZ
  • Car-Mounted Sensor Able to Pinpoint Sources of ...
    A U.S.-based company has developed a sophisticated sensing technology capable of detecting and pinpointing the source of even minor natural gas leaks from great Picarro VIDEO: Demonstration of the Picarro Surveyor distances, an innovation that could provide critical insights into the stil ...
  • U.S. Awards $28 Million to Offshore Wind Farm ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to provide $28 million in grants to seven proposed offshore wind projects, a financial commitment the Obama administration hopes will provide a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to gain a foothold in American waters. Each of the seven p ...
  • Interview: Creating Clouds in a Lab To Better ...
    At the CERN research laboratory in Switzerland, scientists are conducting experiments to help solve a key riddle: the role of clouds in future CERN Jasper Kirkby climate change. Leading that study is British physicist Jasper Kirkby, who oversees complex experiments in a large steel chambe ...
  • Large Cellulosic Biorefinery Will Convert Corn ...
    Chemical giant DuPont has started construction of a large-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Iowa capable of converting corn stalks and leaves into USDA Corn stover in bales a biofuel that could be used in place of fossil fuels at some power plants. The $200 million facility, which will ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Gary Bettman’s new NHL — the No Ho ...
    By Mark Leiren-Young I’ve figured out Gary Bettman’s grand master plan for the NHL. He’s decided to run it without players. No players means no games. No games means no overhead, no pesky salaries, no arena rentals, no worrying whether superstars get concussed, no superstars, and, best of all, n ...
  • Jill Wiznoski and the small town journalists
    By Frank Moher J-Source.ca has a melancholy wrap-up story on the case of Jill Wiznoski and the displeased MP  — melancholy because I expect this is the last we’ll hear of a matter that should have received a lot more national press attention than it did. Wiznoski, you will remember, ...
  • Robocalls: So where were we?
    By Alison@Creekside Three days before polls opened in the last federal election, Elections Canada officials were using the word “scam” to describe election irregularities, making this statement from the EC commish throwing in the towel two weeks after the election even before any inv ...
  • Artists for the rainforest — and reality
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Art is at the forefront of a raging energy debate in Canada. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline – you know, the one that would travel 1,000 kilometres from Alberta to British Columbia’s coast, delivering oil to be pumped into tankers taller than monuments, destination: ...
  • Nexen: China nationalizes Canada’s oil sands
    By David@Sixthestate.net Well, try that on for size. Let me be clear, says Stephen Harper: “Canadians have not spent years reducing the ownership of sectors of the economy by our own governments, only to see them bought and controlled by foreign governments instead. It is not an outcome any resp ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • LDP aware voters just punished DPJ
    The Liberal Democratic Party's overwhelming victory Sunday means hawkish Shinzo Abe is going to be prime minister again. But the election did not turn out this way because the LDP or Abe are particularly popular, but rather because the Democratic Party of Japan is so unpopular, and the real te ...
  • Hawkish Abe wants to change Constitution
    Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe, the presumptive next prime minister, is a conservative hawk who openly proposes revising the war-renouncing Constitution to bolster Japan's military capabilities. Abe became Japan's youngest postwar prime minister in September 2006, at age 52. After ...
  • Zero nuclear goal looks vulnerable
    The recently compiled energy strategy aimed at phasing out nuclear power by the 2030s is likely to be revised under the next government, expected to be led by the Liberal Democratic Party, which has been critical of the push to completely abandon atomic energy despite the Fukushima No. 1 reactor ...
  • Phoenix stretch win streak to seven; Susanoo M ...
    This season, the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix were expected to be one of the Western Conference's elite teams after four banner campaigns in the bj-league's Eastern Conference. That hasn't changed. In fact, the former Eastern powerhouse squad is still improving — a scary thought for i ...
  • Nyman catches big break to win World Cup downhill
    It was about time some good fortune fell Steven Nyman's way. The American skier's once promising career was derailed for the past five years by a list of injuries longer than most athletes in a sport known for blown knees and ugly crashes.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Marc’s Letter from 2040
    The following comes from a short talk on a vision for a zero-carbon BC that I gave at a couple events this Fall. Many have asked for the text so I’ve posted it here, and we may try and turn it into a video. That said, I have been reluctant to do so up to [...] No related posts.
  • Harper’s prisons: Québec’s point of view
    On this past 5 December, we learnt on the front page of the daily Devoir that college-level instruction provided to inmates was now in jeopardy because of the federal cuts in Flaherty’s last budget. At Collège Marie-Victorin in Montréal, these cuts could bring an end to forty years of inmate ins ...
  • Shale gas: “Chapter 11” steps in
    Both in Québec and in the United States, public authorities have legislated to protect populations from shale gas industry-related risks. These precautions could however come up against controversial NAFTA provisions within the infamous chapter 11 regarding investor protection. In the States, th ...
  • Implementing Budget 2012: No Rest for Women
    The current government’s economic policies, being rolled out in a series of omnibus bills and ‘administrative changes,’ come at a high price to women. These policies do not create jobs in industries where women work; these policies increase the tax burden on working women while decreasing their ...
  • Québec’s Budget: the only option available
    Some present the new PQ government’s first budget as a necessary first step before truly plunging into more liberal measures. In fact, it was out of obligation, they say, that the new Finance Minister, Nicolas Marceau, presented a budget so unexciting, in keeping with its PLQ predecessors. And y ...

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

  • Mali’s Lush Wetlands Drained by Foreign Agribu ...
    “Nearly two million Malians live on the delta. “Everything here depends on the water,” said the mayor. “But”—and here he paused gravely, pushed his glasses down an elegant nose, and began waving a long finger—”the government is taking our water. They are givin ...
  • Colorado River Water Report Released In Vegas
    “LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rising demand and falling supply have water managers in the arid West projecting that the Colorado River won’t be able to meet the demands over the next 50 years of a population of 40 million people and growing. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday issued wha ...
  • Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry ...
    “Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation’s drinking water. In many cases, the Environmental ...
  • Global water crisis: Seen from the first Himal ...
    “In the Nepalese Himalayas in 2009, I trekked into the Langtang Valley, just short of the Tibetan border, and to a village of empty plywood cabins. The arrival of the summer monsoon season had chased the trekkers away. “Just uphill was a Buddhist temple and, behind it, a wrinkled sea ...
  • The children risking their lives on the way to ...
    “Children in Indonesia are risking their lives everyday just to get to school. They use an aqueduct, suspended hundreds of metres above the ground as a shortcut, even though it was not built for people to walk on. It is meant to transport water, but the wooden structure links Suro Village ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • JUST FOLLOW WALL STREET $$$
    … Ever ask yourself why they are in denial … Duh … you really think corporate wants you and me to heal ourselves … guess again … just follow the $$$ …   The Feds Are in Denial About Marijuana   Read the Article at BuzzFlash Filed under: Blogroll
  • snow ball’s chance in hell
    … With Republican OBSTRUCTIONISTS in charge of the House of Representatives … Az Rep Grijalva’s TAX on Oil – Gas – Minerals taken from OUR federal land has about as much of a chance to pass and become law as a snow ball’s chance in hell … Filed under: Blogroll
  • we still believe what we are told
    … Interesting declining water in the Colorado River basin still is not sufficient for Arizona to consider enacting STATE-WIDE water conservation measures … … Arizona continues to entertain new mining ventures requiring copious amounts of water … … And we still believe what we are told by CAP and ...
  • Harm done
    …This just might be something ADEQ chooses to evaluate when it considers the blanket approvals it generously grant to the MINE$ ..   Harm done   Drilling spills reaching Colorado groundwater Oil and gas have contaminated groundwater in 17 percent of the 2,078 spills and slow releases t ...
  • If you really have to ask
    … If you really have to ask … quickly put on a dunce cap … The Government, Corporations or the People — Who Should Control the Internet? This question is at the center of debates this week at the World Conference on International Telecommunications. December 14, 2012  |  Who ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt sees legal case over sheep &#8 ...
    David E. Gumpert has the scoop on what’s going down with Michael Schmidt: “The legal situation confronting Michael Schmidt could hardly look more ominous. He faces four counts of conspiracy, in connection with the disappearance last April of 31 rare … Continue reading →
  • Backlash against western food — U.S. por ...
    From Pakalert Press: “On December 7, 2012 Russia’s Federal Agency for Agricultural Control, Rosselhohznadzor, banned the imports of meat containing ractopamine. This is a food additive that allows to reduce the content of fat in beef and pork. The drug … Continue reading →
  • Organic agriculture is the road to happiness i ...
    From Eliza Barclay, at National Public Radio: “The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan drew international attention a few years back for saying gross national happiness should trump gross domestic product when measuring a nation’s progress. If you’re going to prioritize … Co ...
  • “Milk trial by jury” – video ...
    From Marianne Else.  Note: Performance starts at 1:05 in video clip 5 Milk Trial by Jury  Gordon Brunet — The Learned Judge, Donna Ellen Trifunovich — Plaintiff — Dairy Farmers of Ontario, Mitch Smolkin — Michael Schmidt — Defendant, Ronald … Continue reading ...
  • Bogus “data” from government agencies
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Media people love juicy data suggesting an untended-to crisis, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has the perfect juicy data for anyone wanting to write about the supposed crisis in … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • What Can be Automated, Will be Automated: Vide ...
    The days of getting carpal tunnel syndrome from cutting meat are now over, at least as measured by a meat processing plant in Greece, shown in the video below. The video starts out a bit slow, but is rather fascinating once it gets going. I played it until the end. Eventually a single pers ...
  • Spotlight on Japan: Return of 'Abenomics', Mor ...
    The Japanese election hands former prime minister Shinzo Abe a chance for redemption according to The Guardian. Japan's voters appear to have short memories. Shinzo Abe, who is assured of becoming prime minister after his party's resounding victory in Sunday's election, last led the countr ...
  • Is Boehner Capitulating on Tax Hike Boost? Bla ...
    House speaker John Boehner made an incremental move in Obama's direction in regards to tax hikes. Specifically, Boehner offered to raise income tax rates on households earning more than $1 million a year in exchange for containing the cost of federal entitlement programs. Discussion ar ...
  • Pro-Union Activist Threatens the Michigan Gove ...
    Courtesy of the Weekly Standard, please check out the following union thuggery: Pro-Union Activist Threatens the Michigan Governor: 'We'll Be at Your Daughter's Soccer Game' A speaker at a protest against Michigan's right-to-work legislation said that Republican governor Rick Snyder will " ...
  • EU Car Sales Drop 14th Consecutive Month; Car ...
    Car sales are up in the UK, but down 10% on average in the EU. Overall sales, including the UK, are down for the 14th consecutive month. From Google Translate Car sales plunge another 10% in Europe and UK only grows. In the markets of the European Union, in November, with the same com ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    The Romantics- “What I Like About You” “What I Like About You” is a song written by Wally Palmar, Mike Skill and Jimmy Marinos of the American rock band The Romantics. It was featured on the band’s self-titled 1980 debut album. You’ve heard this song everywhere…at s ...
  • Video-My Interview with Top TV Journalist Abby ...
    In the Midst of Intense Pessimism – Causes for Optimistic Pauses I know lately I have said it many times, but I am going to say it again: We are surrounded by so many intense pessimism-inducing realities; perpetual wars-Iraq, Afghanistan, constant-droning of Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • My Latest In-Depth Interview: Smells Like Huma ...
    Truly Unplugged with Two Great Interviewers! Two weeks ago I had a nice long interview session with two great interviewers, Guy Evans & James Wilson, with a solid independent website called ‘Smells Like Human Spirit.’ By now you all know what I mean by ‘great interviewers,’ right? Those who ...
  • Podcast Show #102: The Imperialist Quest for A ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Award-winning author and geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya joins us to discuss Washington’s Plan for a “New Middle East” with Western-style “Democracy” as a requirement only for those Middle Eastern states which do not conform to ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Maritime Monday for December 17th, 2012: Port ...
    original: Riversway Docklands, Preston En Route to Manchester Preston: Official Guide and Industrial Handbook; c. 1960 Published by J. Burrow & Co. Ltd., Cheltenham & Gloucester Preston Docks; location map [...]
  • VOS Sailor Disabled Offshore Scotland, Daring ...
    At approximately 0500 hrs local time on Saturday, the offshore support vessel VOS Sailor suffered damage and was disabled in severe weather conditions in the Balmoral Field off Aberdeen, UK. [...]
  • USCG and Government Authorities Respond to Fue ...
    NEW YORK – The Coast Guard continues its response to a fuel spill which occurred at 11:22 p.m. last night at Mays Ship Repair near Mariner’s Harbor, Staten Island, New [...]
  • 20 Iraqi Migrants Drown Off Greece
    ATHENS – A small boat carrying migrants hoping to get to Greece sank near the eastern island of Lesvos early on Saturday, drowning 20 people, Greek police said. The boat had set off from [...]
  • Court Orders Release of Argentine Tall Ship, A ...
    By Alex Cuadros and Jonathan J. Levin The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ordered Ghana to immediately release Argentine naval ship ARA Libertad, which the African country had detained [...]

Press TV

  • Bomb blast kills 16 in NW Pakistan
    At least 16 people have been killed and 70 others wounded in a car bomb explosion in northwestern Pakistan, Press TV reports.
  • UK crime & high costs annoying rich
    Almost a quarter of Britain’s millionaires are considering emigration in the next two years as they are concerned about crime and high living costs, a survey has revealed.
  • Kenya grenade attacks leave 6 injured
    At least six people have been wounded in a series of explosions that hit the predominantly Somali district of Eastleigh in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials says.
  • Rebels led Syria massacre, not gov’t
    A British media report has revealed that anti-Syrian government rebels are responsible for the feared massacre of hundreds of civilians in the town of Aqrab rather than the government forces.
  • Blast hits area near NATO base in Kabul
    A large explosion has struck an area near a NATO base in the Afghan capital city of Kabul in the latest attack on foreign forces in the Asian country.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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