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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

19 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • New Zealand Shamed By Collins' Actions
    Judith Collins' treatment of Canadian Justice Ian Binnie and his report is disgraceful and is seriously damaging to our international reputation. Her claim that the report is seriously flawed does not hold up to scrutiny and is purely a matter of opinion. Binnie himself had no issue with our ...
  • Surprising lessons on the youth job crisis
    You dive into the research and read the literature until your eyes bleed. After a while, you think you’ve got a handle on things. You head out into the world and start talking to people. They tell you things that prompt new questions. Certainties melt in the face of facts. And suddenly wha ...
  • Syria: Sunni rebels burn Shiite mosque: video
    A video posted on the Internet shows Sunni Muslim rebels burning a Shiite mosque in north Syria - a sign that the country's civil war is spiralling into a sectarian conflict. Dozens of fighters dressed in camouflage gear with Sunni-style beards are shown in the footage congratulating and kiss ...
  • AEP: Europe clings to scorched-earth ideology.
    Like the generals of the First World War, Europe’s leaders seem determined to send wave after wave of their youth into the barbed wire of tight money, bank deleveraging, and fiscal austerity a l’outrance.
  • Syria: Obama Vs the NeoCons
    Just in case you were wondering if President Barack Obama is any different from, say, “President Mitt Romney” or some hypothetical “President Neocon,” the answer is: Yes. Proof: Syria. Just take a glimpse at the hysteria of the neoconservatives about what ought to be done in Syria.

Independent - London

  • America's gender wars waged in the DIY store
    The latest chapter in America's gender wars is being waged in the aisles of a Home Depot in Fairfax, Virginia.Related StoriesUS students turn to energy drinks despite health fearsUS military blames many Afghan insider attacks on personal causesThousands descend upon Newtown to share griefRegula ...
  • Idea to trim US mail delivery prompts new hung ...
    As negotiations continue between the Senate and the House on a possible year-end deal to help the financially struggling US Postal Service, a small band of protesters launched its second hunger strike in six months on Tuesday.Related StoriesUS students turn to energy drinks despite health fears ...
  • China uses geology to challenge Japan on dispu ...
    After making its first aerial incursion into Japanese-controlled airspace near disputed islands, China compounded tensions with Japan by bolstering its territorial claims at the United Nations.Related StoriesMayan apocalypse prediction: China detains 100 people for spreading end of the world ru ...
  • Regular aspirin use may raise risk of age-rela ...
    Older adults who use aspirin regularly for 10 years or more may have an increased risk of developing an age-related eye disorder that can lead to vision loss, a study found.Related StoriesUS students turn to energy drinks despite health fearsUS military blames many Afghan insider attacks on per ...
  • Thousands descend upon Newtown to share grief
    This place of grief has become a place of pilgrimage, with people coming from all over New England and beyond to say a prayer, light a candle, lay a wreath or a teddy bear, or just stand quietly in solidarity with this heartbroken town.Related StoriesUS students turn to energy drinks despite he ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Fake? Golden eagle grabs child in Montreal Park
    A massive golden eagle circles a park before swooping down and appearing to grab a toddler with its claws and trying to fly off with him in an incredible video posted on YouTube. The clip shows the child's parent looking on in horror as the feathered beast, one of the world's deadliest birds of ...
  • What if children mattered no matter where they ...
    We do not live in a world that treats all life equally. Not even close. Human beings inevitably feel certain tragedies more deeply, based on proximity to the victims, national identity, the circumstances of death and so on. It is not surprising that there has been so much media attention paid t ...
  • We have become death
    "We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says ...
  • SWAT Cops to ask for IDs from everyone in Arka ...
    There isn't a lot to do in Paragould, Arkansas, but residents of the town of barely 25,000 seem to have no problem finding trouble. Now in order to curb the rising crime rate, the city is proposing heavily armed police patrol the streets on foot, RT reported. At a town hall meeting on Thursday ...
  • Thieves steal thousands in Christmas packages ...
    Thousands of dollars' worth of presents wrapped and ready to be sent to US servicemen stationed overseas were stolen from a California warehouse this week. The Move America Forward charity was preparing last minute holiday care packages to be mailed to troops in Afghanistan on Monday when it di ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Tannerite
    Newtown, CT.  The police department logged more than 50 gunfire complaints this year through July, double the number for all of 2011, records show. Some of the complaints raised another issue. Gun enthusiasts here, as elsewhere in the country, have taken to loading their targets wi ...
  • The Gun Problem
    Round about 1860 a monumental advance occured in firearms development. The metal cartridge was invented. Until then a round of small-arms ammunition consisted of a normally lead projectile, then some form of wadding, and a flammable or explosive powder ignited by a spark produced from a flint, b ...
  • The Epigenetic Key . . .
    HOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR arises has been a mystery. According to an article by George Dvorsky in io9, "Scientists claim that homosexuality is not genetic — but it arises in the womb", as the endocrine system copes with operational life. Fascinating, click on the link to find out more. A team ...
  • Human behavior . . .
    HUMAN MOTIVATION is incredibly complex. Attempts to tweek with it are invariably mis-directed. Esther Inglis-Arkell's article at io9, "The lasting mystery of the Hawthorne Effect" is worthy of  attention. The Hawthorne Effect is cited by both business experts and psychology experts, but r ...
  • Right to work . . .
    RIGHT TO WORK got its start in Texas in the early 1940's. It's the malignant creation of a particularly odious American, Vance Muse. According to Mark Ames at Not Safe For Work Corporation, in an article "You Hate "Right To Work" Laws More Than You Know. Here's Why", Vance Muse was quite a piece ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News Accuses Hillary Clinton Of Faking Con ...
    Fox News figures accused Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of faking an illness when she suffered a concussion after fainting due to dehydration. The State Department has criticized Fox News contributor John Bolton for engaging in "wild speculation based on no information."Clinton Suffers Concu ...
  • Who Is Gun Advocate John Lott?
    Gun researcher John Lott has made numerous media appearances in the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. to argue against the enactment of gun violence prevention measures. While Lott uses his media platform to push a multitude of statistics -- often from his own research -- he has been t ...
  • Fox News' Extreme Pro-Gun Rhetoric Vs. Rupert ...
    News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch's call for politicians to find the "courage" to ban automatic weapons in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school is sharply at odds with the extreme rhetoric often heard on Fox News. Indeed, Fox voices routinely demonize any call ...
  • Media Exaggerate NRA's Ability To Punish Polit ...
    Members of the media have been quick to push the myth that the National Rifle Association can remove politicians from office who support new gun violence prevention measures in the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The influence wielded by the NRA has been overblown by the ...
  • REPORT : TV News Coverage Of Budget Negotiatio ...
    In recent weeks, media outlets have focused heavily on current budget negotiations regarding automatic tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect on January 1, 2013 if an alternative agreement is not reached. But major television news outlets are inadequately reporting on year-end budget neg ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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

  • Voices from Gaza: enduring devastation (Al-Haq)
    In the aftermath of last month's Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, Al Haq's field researchers collected testimonies from some of those whose lives have been devastated by Israel's "Operation Pillar of Defense." In this short video three citizens of the Gaza Strip retell the events that led to ...
  • Israeli forces assault hunger-striker in court ...
    Israeli forces on Tuesday assaulted long-term hunger striker Samer al-Issawi during a court hearing, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society said. Guards from the Alnhacon unit be ...
  • Israel presses on with plans for 6,000 new set ...
    Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said the expansion of the Jerusalem-area settlements was a resumption of plans put on hold while Western powers tried to persuade Abbas to aband ...
  • A little bit of Bethlehem in San Francisco (IMEU)
    Every Christmas, Charlie Harb brings a little bit of Bethlehem (home to the Harbs for more than 700 years) to San Francisco for his wife and two children, 13-year-old Jiries and 10-year ...
  • Israeli army detains 16 in West Bank raids (M ...
    Israeli forces detained 16 Palestinians overnight Monday in raids across the West Bank, the army said. An Israeli military spokeswoman told Ma'an that 16 people were detained for "secur ...

Water - AlterNet

  • 5 Reasons Our Changing Climate Is More Dangero ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.This week the sane among us will scoff at those hoarding candles and food for another apocalypse that fails to materialize. We’ll laugh at the accounts of people readying their bunkers and at store shelves being ...
  • Oil and Gas Industry Prepare Smear Campaign Ag ...
    This story first appeared on DeSmog Blog.      Next month Focus Features releases Matt Damon’s new movie and the oil and gas industry is worried sick about it.The movie, Promised Land, is about a Pennsylvania farm town deciding whether to go forwa ...
  • Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry ...
    Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation's drinking water.In many cases, the Environmental Protection ...
  • Pack Your Bags: Ethical Traveler Shares 10 Bes ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Ready for a vacation — or just ready to start dreaming of one? Ethical Traveler, a nonprofit organization that is a project of Earth Island Institute, just released its annual list of the top places to hit if yo ...
  • Is it Time to Just Say No to Eating Beef?
    Like plastic bags, coal, and SUVs, beef has few friends in the environmental community. Most environmentalists would point to beef — in particular, beef cattle that spend their final days in confined feedlots — as being responsible for an array of ills — the greenhouse gas ...

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • 101 detained in China over doomsday rumors
    Police in China have detained over 100 individuals for spreading rumors about the end of the world. The arrests were carried out across eight province...
  • Police officer reports UFO sighting
    A policeman has reported seeing a UFO moving at supersonic speeds while he was off duty in Birmingham. The object was described as a "light with a blu...
  • Panama rainforest home to 25,000 species
    The San Lorenzo forest is estimated to be home to as many as 6,000 species of insect per acre of trees. The largest ever survey of insects, spiders an...
  • UFO hacker Gary McKinnon charges dropped
    Officials in Britain have opted to drop all charges after a legal battle lasting more than a decade. Asperger's Syndrome sufferer Gary McKinnon's extr...
  • Can bacteria survive on Mars ?
    Scientists have run an experiment to grow bacteria in conditions designed to simulate those on Mars. While the search for alien life is mostly concern...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Britain Sets Five-Year Plan to Spur Solar, Bio ...
    (Reuters) Britain set out a 5-year plan on Tuesday to unlock the solar and biomass investment needed to achieve the country's 2020 green energy targets. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) sought to give investors the c ...
  • San Francisco Suburb Votes for Low-Carbon Comm ...
    (SustainableBusiness.com) If California has any hope of becoming a low-carbon economy, it must starting thinking urban rather than suburban. And that's what the city of Newark voted to do, in approving a "trend setting" pedestrian comm ...
  • Defense Bill Preserves Military Biofuels Program
    (The Hill) A House-Senate deal on defense legislation omits a GOP-backed plan to thwart military purchases of biofuels. The Senate already had stripped restrictive language from its version of the defense authorization bill last month ...
  • U.S. Boosts Import Duties on Chinese Wind-Ene ...
    (Bloomberg) Ratcheting up trade tensions with China, the U.S. increased import duties on wind towers produced by Chengxi Shipyard Co. and CS Wind Corp. as economic talks between the two nations opened in Washington. The Commerce Depar ...
  • Climate Change Already Playing Out in West, Re ...
    (Deseret News) SALT LAKE CITY  — A new report says the effects of climate change are already being felt in bug-infested forests of the Intermountain West, in reduced flows of the Colorado River basin and in the amount of snow that ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • My Priorities
    Any fiscal deal should do the following: 1) force the Republicans to violate their Norquist pledge. 2) make the Republicans give up their ability to threaten our credit rating by threatening to default on our debts. 3. make the Republicans vote for classic Keynesian stimulus spending. ...
  • Tragedy Makes Some People Stupid
    The massacre in Connecticut is making some people say some really stupid things. You can't stop gun-weilding mass murderers by training elementary school children to bum-rush them. You can't explain the white male profile of spree-shooters by arguing that white men feel unneeded in modern soci ...
  • Bright Idea
    We should appropriate some money for a national Museum of Stupid where we can keep our memories of these years alive for posterity. Discuss
  • Irrefutable Observation
    If your reaction to the Newtown Massacre was to go buy more guns and ammo, you are a sociopath. Discuss
  • Email Congress Re: Social Security
    This is the email I just sent to my Congressional representatives in Congress (I'm in New York's 28th Congressional District so my Congresswoman is Louise Slaughter and my Senators are Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer). In it I ask them to oppose any deal which changes Social Security in an ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    A whole lot of cool linkage – from serious stuff, to lighter, more fun-filled matters... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Plunge Diving Cape Gannets As Seen from Beneat ...
    When Cape Gannets drop from the air at great speed and plunge dive beneath the waves to catch fish, they do so with spectacular beauty and grace – as these photos show. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Fabulous Silk of Golden Orb-Weaver Spiders
    Find out about the amazing golden-orb weaver, which spins silk five times stronger than steel, uses chemicals to repel ants, and can even capture and eat birds! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • From Artist to Führer: The Paintings of Young ...
    In his own mind, Adolf Hitler wasn't just the leader of the Third Reich but also an artistic genius. As for how accurate he was in this assessment, judge for yourself. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Disaster Tourism at the Chernobyl Nuclear Acci ...
    A first-hand account of disaster tourism sees guest writer Adrienne Erin on a trip to explore the abandoned city of Pripyat, site of the Chernobyl nuclear Accident. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar: A Global Coal Boom
    In five years it will come close to surpassing oil globally, the International Energy Agency says. The exception regionally is the United States, where a glut of natural gas is pushing coal out, it adds.
  • Come January, Another Try on Nuclear Waste
    Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the incoming chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, may take on the nuclear waste fees that are being charged to utilities despite federal inaction on that waste.
  • An Odometer Moment on a Warming Planet
    It's 333 and counting: that's how many consecutive months global temperatures have topped the 20th-century average.
  • On Our Radar: Navigating a Parched Mississippi
    Barge operators plan to blast treacherous rock formations so that traffic can proceed along the drought-plagued river.
  • What's Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change ...
    What's the counterpoint to "Drill, baby, drill"? In the emerging field of meme science, researchers try to figure out what language and ideas resonate when it comes to the warming of the planet.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #817 (assassinations ...
    British PM apologizes in killing of IRA lawyer. Behind the plot to kill Afghanistan’s spy chief. How Mossad bid to kill Hamas leader ended in fiasco.
  • Jailed US spy gave Israel information on Pakis ...
    An American intelligence analyst, who was jailed in 1987 for spying for Israel, gave his spy handlers information on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, according to declassified documents.
  • Iran accuses Israel of kidnapping former Deput ...
    Iran's Deputy Defense Minister has accused Israel of kidnapping his predecessor in 2006, while he was on an official visit trip to Turkey.
  • Litvinenko was working for UK, Spanish intelli ...
    A lawyer representing the family of a KGB defector to Britain, who died of poisoning in 2006, has told a court hearing in London that the late spy was working for British and Spanish intelligence at the time of his death.
  • Who leaked Iranian nuclear document that turne ...
    On November 27, the Associated Press published an alleged Iranian document which it said proved Iran was working on a nuclear bomb. However, an analysis of the document in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists concluded that it was either massively erroneous or a hoax. The question now is, who l ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Dec 19
      Battles rage in Damascus refugee area between rebels and Palestinian fighters backing the Syrian regime - Al Jazeera English Over 95 percent of Palestinians in Yarmouk flee Syria fighting - Al Akhbar English Yarmouk, Syria: Humanitarian needs rising as residents flee fighting, seek safety ...
  • Court rules peace activists can sue the U.S. m ...
    National Lawyers Guild December 18, 2012 Nathan Tempey Communications Coordinator communications@nlg.org (212) 679-5100, ext. 15 New York Guild lawyer hails historic decision In a potentially precedent-setting decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a Guild lawyer’s cha ...
  • Audio: Utah Phillips Reads Bertolt Brecht on t ...
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  • Spelunker in Chief
    Will Obama cave? How deeply will Obama cave?  Why did Obama cave again?  Were you hoping Obama would change his caving ways?  President Barack Obama, one begins to understand, must be our spelunker in chief. read more
  • Life in Prison for a Poem
    A poet has been sentenced to life in prison for reciting a poem. Share this action on Facebook Share this action on Twitter Qatari poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami’s crime consisted of reciting a poem extolling the courage and values of the popular uprisings in Tunisia. For t ...

Grist - News

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

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  • No Evidence Nibiru Exists, Hiding Behind Sun U ...
    by Nick Allen, Los Angeles, Malcolm Moore in Beijing and Tom Parfitt in Moscow December, 2012 Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year “Long Count” Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in s ...
  • The world ends in just four days; no need to k ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The world will come to an end in just four days, and that’s a huge relief because it means we can all finally stop flossing. I doubt your dental health is going to dramatically change before 12/21/12. You can also stop taking out the trash and ...
  • Columbine Coverup Laid Bare PART 01 – Yo ...
    Columbine Coverup Laid Bare PART 01 – YouTube.
  • When is Child Murder Wrong?
    by Henry Shivley The communists this week will ramp up their efforts to begin gun confiscations in the US. The propaganda put forth is beginning to become obscene as each child allegedly shot in the Connecticut elementary school is being brought into every living room via the brainwashing box fo ...
  • IPCC climate fraud evidence leaked 9 months in ...
    The IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s) 5th Assessment Report due for release in September of 2013, has now been leaked publicly over 9 months in advance in advance on an internet publication called “Stop Green Suicide“. One of the reports 800 expert reviewers, a man by the name ...

Global Insights

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

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

Inhabitat

  • Tiered Green Roofs Crown the Landmark Bobigny ...
    Read the rest of Tiered Green Roofs Crown the Landmark Bobigny School in France Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Bobigny, Bobigny School in France, Daylighting, eco design, education, green design, green roof, Mikou Design Studio, pixelated facade, sustainable design, U ...
  • 1.9 Million Worms Chomp Down Airport Waste in ...
    The Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina has deployed 1.9 million worms to turn a boatload of organic waste into fertilizer. Every day the airport housekeeping department headed by Bob Lucas processes 2.5 tons of waste, including plastic, clothing, aluminum and food tossed o ...
  • Alpine House: Expansive Urban Redevelopment in ...
    The rejuvenation of a former light industrial site in North London by Jaysam Developments and Design ACB has been green-lit, with construction set to commence in spring 2013. The mixed-use office, residential and live/work development has received substantial attention for both its scale and sus ...
  • INTERVIEW: We Talk to Futurist Melissa Sterry ...
    Last week we reported on the groundbreaking new media platform Earth 2 Hub which aims to create a space for the world’s most creative artists, designers, scientists, and storytellers to explore and share their solutions to the numerous problems facing earth and its inhabitants. To shed mor ...
  • How Do We End Our “Fast Fashion” Addiction? An ...
    Elizabeth L. Cline has spent over three years researching the American fast-fashion industry. The result? Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, the insightful story of how we became dependent on fast fashion and built our disposable wardrobes.  Click ahead to check out our inte ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Top Scientific Discoveries of 2012
    There were many really big moments in science this year. From finding a long, long sought subatomic particle to pushing the limits of extraterrestrial exploration to righting an ethical wrong, science took some major steps that will have a lasting ...
  • 5 Exoplanets May Orbit Nearby Sun-Like Star Ta ...
    A nearby sun-like star called Tau Ceti may contain a system of five planets, including one that orbits at the right distance to have life.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Planetar ...
    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the holiday season with a striking image of the planetary nebula NGC 5189. The intricate structure of the stellar eruption looks like a giant and brightly coloured ribbon in space.
  • Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Disco ...
    A spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon. Believed to be a new species in the genus Cyclosa, the arachnid crafts the larger spider from leaves, debris, and ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Tectonic ...
    On Oct. 5, 2008, just after coming within 25 kilometers (15.6 miles) of the surface of Enceladus, NASA's Cassini captured this stunning mosaic as the spacecraft sped away from this geologically active moon of Saturn.

PakAlert

  • Judge to force girl to have ‘mark of the Beast?’
    A ruling is expected in days from a federal court in the case of a student in Texas facing possible expulsion over her decision to contest a mandatory “spychip” implemented by her school district, a system she and her family call “the mark of the Beast” spoken of in the Bible. The Rutherford ...
  • Microsoft Japan “Convinces” TV Station To Remo ...
    According to the second largest newspaper in Japan, Microsoft mogul Bill Gates “expressed annoyance over a Japanese TV program that spread rumors he was “conspiring to control the world population” through his efforts to promote vaccinations.” Apparently, Gates’ annoyance in regards to these ...
  • Two Mass Shootings Connected To Libor Scandal?
    Three days after the horrific mass shooting news swept through the media and social outlets, trending on Twitter, and breaking the hearts of millions, new information concerning the Newtown, Connecticut shootings on Dec.14., and the Aurora theater shootings have revealed a haunting connection be ...
  • Facebook Suspends Account For Questioning Offi ...
    Facebook is suspending user accounts that question the official narrative behind the Sandy Hook school massacre, following a warning by Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance that “misinformation” posted on social media sites could result in prosecution
  • Ke$ha I Was FORCED To Sing ‘Die Young’ Lyrics: ...
    Ke$ha has just -- shockingly -- come out and said she never wanted to sing the controversial lyrics in "Die Young" -- even though she's listed as one of the writers of the song. TMZ broke the story ... Ke$ha's hit song has been yanked from a huge number of radio playlists since the Sandy Hook ...

Andy Worthington

  • Top of the World: Photos of Nunhead Allotments ...
    Top of the World: Nunhead Allotments, and the View from the Hill-Top Reservoir, a set on Flickr. The photos in this set — the 67th in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike — were taken on September 8, 2012, a lovely Sunny Saturday, and are the second of five se ...
  • Wake Up to the Injustice of Britain’s Ho ...
    Modern Britain is gripped by a cold-heartedness created by a sense of entitlement — not the entitlement to meagre benefits that is so shamefully touted by the Tory leaders of the coalition government as an excuse for hateful attacks on the welfare state, but the entitlement of those like D ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: End of Week Appeal for S ...
    Please support my work! My thanks to the ten friends and supporters who have made donations to help to support my ongoing work as an independent journalist, investigator and commentator, working primarily to close the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, through humanizing ...
  • Andy Worthington and David Remes Discuss Guant ...
    Last week, I took part in a panel discussion organized by Revolution Truth, along with David Remes, the attorney for a number of Guantánamo prisoners, which was presented by the activist Tangerine Bolen, with her co-host Pamela Sue Taylor. The show, entitled, “GTMO, The Rule of Law and the ...
  • Blue Skies and Golden Light: Photos of the Riv ...
    Blue Skies and Golden Light: The River Thames in September, a set on Flickr. After my recent five-part series of photo sets from south east London — my home turf — in November, I promised to publish some photos from September, from the huge archive of photos I’ve been building ...

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

SPL Center

  • Derek Black: Have Stormfront Founder’s Son’s P ...
    There was a time, not so long ago, when Lamb and Lynx Gaede, daughters of an infamous Montana neo-Nazi, were considered the next big thing in the white supremacist movement. They were blonde, blue-eyed teenagers given to swastikas and Hitler worship, and they formed a white-power musical group c ...
  • New Jersey Neo-Nazis Arrested in Assaults on M ...
    Federal authorities in New Jersey are ending 2012 with the arrests of two accused white supremacists who allegedly went on a hate-filled assault spree last New Year’s Eve. Christopher Ising, 31, a reported member of the Atlantic City Skins from Waretown, N.J., was arrested today by FBI agents on ...
  • Anti-Muslim Legislative Aide in Alaska Quits i ...
    A legislative aide in the Alaska State Legislature has resigned after an ethics panel recommended that she be fired for ethical violations and conflicts of interest involving her boosting of a hard-line anti-Islamic organization. Karen Sawyer, who worked for two Republican legislators over the p ...
  • Three Elderly Mennonite Women Attacked in ‘Hei ...
    Three Mennonite sisters, ranging in age from 84 to 90, remained hospitalized in Lancaster County, Penn., after being assaulted in their home in what authorities describe as a “heinous” and “unfathomable” hate crime. The alleged perpetrator, 22-year-old Dereck Taylor Holt, was arrested Saturday, ...
  • Idaho Suspected ‘Sovereign’ Arrested After Nat ...
    A kidnapping suspect with suspected extremist connections and a history of assaulting police was arrested Wednesday after attempting to hijack a tractor-trailer rig at a truck stop in Bismarck, N.D. Mitchell L. Walck, wanted for shooting at an Idaho state trooper last weekend and later kidnappin ...

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  • Neo-Cons, Israel Lobby Mobilize to Pre-empt Ob ...
    WASHINGTON - Neo-conservatives and leaders of the powerful Israel lobby are mobilising their forces in what looks like an all-out campaign to pre-empt the nomination by President Barack Obama of an outspoken former Republican senator and decorated Vietnam War hero to replace Leon Panetta as secr ...
  • Gun Lobby Speaks: We Need More Guns, Especiall ...
    As a nation mourns and as funerals continue for the child victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut last week, gun industry lobbyists and their political affiliates are emerging from 'the rock they've been hiding under' since Friday to deliver their solut ...
  • Obama's Deficit Proposal: Cut Social Security ...
    Lame duck "tweaking" Social Security. (Photo: DonkeyHotey via flickr)"Chained CPI", a major piece of President Obama's latest proposal in the budget deficit talks regarding how Social Security benefits are calculated really means, as progressives point out today, is a re ...
  • To NRA: 'Shame, Shame, Shame'; To Congress: 'N ...
  • Corporate-Occupied Governmnet: A 'Redistributi ...
    The income inequality gap has vastly expanded over the past 20 years thanks largely in part to federal policies, which have decreased large chunks of revenue through unprecedented tax cuts for the wealthy and redistributed what's left of that revenue away from public services and federally m ...

Lifehacker

  • The Most Popular Explainers of 2012
    We're pretty well-known for our how-tos here at Lifehacker, but from time to time we also like to break down complicated subjects and just explain how things work—and maybe offer a little info on how to use that information. Here are our best explainers from 2012. More »
  • Remains of the Day: Instagram Responds to User ...
    Instagram addresses its community, Apple releases an iOS 6 patch, the App Store gets better integration for Facebook's iOS app, and Facebook is prepping video ads. More »
  • Rename Bluetooth Devices on Your Jailbroken iPhone
    iOS (Jailbroken): When selecting a Bluetooth device in iOS, a pre-defined named is saved on your phone and there's no way to change it directly from your device. This is annoying if you have a few wireless speakers, for example, but don't know which speaker is in which room because they al ...
  • Do you consider your employer a friend?
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even ...
  • Empty Reminds You to Empty Your Mac's Trash
    OS X: It's easy to run out of disk space when you're not paying attention, and often times it's because you don't empty the trash. Empty is an app that reminds you when your trash gets excessively full. You can just set a warning limit and it'll let you know. More »

Water Privatization

  • Saudi- Infrastructure projects face funding ch ...
    (MENAFN - Arab News) A few years ago, the Kingdom moved toward the privatization of several state-owned companies and offered (listed) them in the financial markets. But it took a strategic turn in ...
  • Infrastructure projects face funding challenges
    A few years ago, the Kingdom moved toward the privatization of several state-owned companies and offered (listed) them in the financial markets.
  • NPC-PSALM Amending Angat Sale Agreements
    To comply with the ruling of the Supreme Court, state-run firms National Power Corporation and Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) are currently amending some provisions of the Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) as well as the Operation & Maintenance Agreement (OMA) pr ...
  • Transportation forecast
    Who to know, what to watch and the numbers that define the problems.
  • Water Privatization in Russia: More Than a Dro ...
    Without water, humans can only live for a few days. Yet only about 1 percent of the earth's water is suitable for human consumption. Rising GDP brings increases in demand for food production, including meat, which demands the greatest amount of water. Treating water is therefore a key utility.

Guardian

  • Eurozone crisis live: Greek public sector work ...
    Latest anti-austerity protest comes after six-notch credit rating upgrade underlines that 'Grexit' is no longer a pressing danger to the euro areaGraeme Wearden
  • Dale Farm Travellers face eviction again
    Basildon council votes to remove families, many with children, who remain camped next to former Travellers siteTravellers living at the side of the road by the former Dale Farm site are set to be evicted for a second time, after Basildon council in Essex voted to take "direct action" to remove t ...
  • Eighth man arrested in Savile sex abuse inquiry
    Operation Yewtree detectives arrest a man in his 70s in London on suspicion of sexual offencesDetectives investigating the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal have arrested a man in his 70s, police have said.The man, from London, was held at 6.30am on Wednesday on suspicion of sexual offences and tak ...
  • Syria conflict: New rebel leader makes plea fo ...
    Follow live updates after Syria's newly elected rebel leader claimed Assad could be toppled in a month if anti-government forces were supplied with anti-aircraft weaponsMatthew Weaver
  • Met police investigate claim of 'pleb' row con ...
    No 10 asks police to 'get to bottom' of allegation that police officer fabricated evidence against chief whipScotland Yard has said it is considering the possibility there was a conspiracy to fabricate evidence against the former chief whip Andrew Mitchell, insisting its inquiry would go "where ...

McClatchey

  • Gun makers fret as gun control consensus gains ...
    Manufacturers of the popular AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the type of weapon used last week in the Newtown, Conn., killings, girded for the worst Tuesday as gun control moved to the…Click to Continue »
  • 2 million will lose jobless benefit if Congres ...
    Ever since she lost her graphic design job at a printing company in April, Dorothy Winn of Fresno, Calif., has been looking for that elusive ?next job? and wondering how…Click to Continue »
  • Paula Broadwell cleared in email probe
    No charges of cyber-stalking will be brought against Paula Broadwell for sending emails characterized as harassing to a Florida woman, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Muldrow in Tampa. But…Click to Continue »
  • Yemeni’s death in Guantánamo still u ...
    Navy investigators are still investigating the suicide of a Yemeni prisoner who was found dead of an overdose complicated by acute pneumonia, a military spokesman said Tuesday.Click to Continue »
  • New details could undermine witness in Chandra ...
    Newly obtained information potentially undermines a prosecution witness used to convict an illegal Salvadoran immigrant of killing former intern Chandra Levy, an unusual court hearing revealed Tuesday.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • A.M. UPDATE Whitehouse man dies in Afghanistan ...
    WHITEHOUSE MAN DIES IN AFGHANISTAN We're sad to report that a former Whitehouse High School student was killed last week serving in Afghanistan. Texas Army National Guard Staff Sergeant Nelson ...
  • Pak airport attack raises questions about high ...
    Referring to the recent brazen attack at the Peshawar airport, an editorial in a Pakistani daily has said that the fact that a band of heavily armed Taliban militants was able to make their way into ...
  • UN makes it easier for blacklisted Taliban mil ...
    The United Nations Security Council has made it easier for blacklisted Taliban militants to get an exemption to travel outside of Afghanistan for peace and reconciliation talks. According to The ...
  • Pakistan Afghanistan reach deal on Taliban lea ...
    Pakistan and Afghanistan have reached a deal for the release of senior Taliban leaders, including the outfit's former deputy chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, according to Afghan official sources. ...
  • NATO pullout could hit Afghan development says ...
    Afghanistan might have trouble keeping hard-earned development gains due to looming security challenges when NATO military forces withdraw in 2014, according to a World Bank audit. The review said ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Mesa County Police Have Been Using Drones For ...
    The march towards drones becoming a common tool for domestic law enforcement agencies seems inevitable and some people aren't happy about it. We've already covered the backlash against one artist who satarized New York City's drone program. San Diego, for their part, valiantly refused to honor a ...
  • Why Google Should Encrypt Our Email
    Julian Sanchez has put forth an interesting and compelling proposal: if Google really wanted to take a stand in favor of user privacy, it should encrypt all our emails. Google is in an ideal position to overcome these difficulties, and finally make strong e-mail encryption a mass phenomenon. ...
  • Prenda Law Accused Of Trying To Start Over Aga ...
    We've written a few times about Prenda Law and John Steele lately -- including some of the trouble that Prenda is running into for doing things like being accused of fraud on the court after a crazy hearing in which Prenda denied being associated with the case, despite hiring lawyers and having ...
  • DailyDirt: Genetically Modified To Fit Our Mod ...
    Biotech hasn't quite advanced as far as some science fiction stories might depict, but a few amazing genetically-modified organisms look like they're just around the corner, with scientists making biofuels or reviving dinosaurs in the near future. While we should be careful messing with Mother N ...
  • Instagram: 'Wait, Wait! That's Not What We Meant!'
    So, as the deluge of hate towards Instagram got louder and louder concerning its terms of service change, the company has now come out and said that it will change the terms and, of course, that it never meant them to be read the way people were interpreting them, and that it plans to adjust the ...

VacTruth

  • Do You Know the 5 Powerful Psychological Trigg ...
    If you’ve ever been in a doctor’s office with a child, you know what I mean. Doctors are well known for applying psychological pressure to parents questioning vaccines. Maybe you’ve experienced this pressure? Here are five psychological triggers doctors use against you, the parent, and some of t ...
  • Announcing Vaccine Bombshell: Leaked Confident ...
    A confidential GlaxoSmithKline document recently leaked to the press exposed that within a two-year period, a total of 36 infants died after receiving the 6-in-1 vaccine, Infanrix Hexa.
  • Congressional Hearing on Autism—From the Aweso ...
    We know that the NIH and CDC have fallen way short in recognizing, let alone fixing, this autism epidemic. They’ve proven that time and time again. But Congress is listening. They understand that autism is an emergency, that it’s not genetic, that something is terribly wrong...
  • Who Says There is No Money in Making Vaccines? ...
    In 2011, the US Federal government awarded 6 pharmaceutical corporations over 5.7 Billion to manufacture vaccines children’s vaccines alone.
  • 4,250% Increase in Fetal Deaths Reported to VA ...
    Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS) fetal death reports by 4,250 percent in pregnant women.

BroadSnark

  • Shut Up, Be Perfect
    This weekend I got into an argument about music. The person I was arguing with was blasting gangsta rap for glorifying behavior that was ruining their own communities. He even went so far as to say that the music, and everything it stood for, was causing racism. I went a little apoplectic. I may ...
  • Ted Leo Benefit Show for Bradley Manning
    I have disappeared again, mostly hiding in a case of vodka. But I have also been helping to put together the benefit show this Saturday. If you are in the area, come out. Also, there is a protest out at Ft. Meade on Tuesday. The FB event is here.
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Took this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town. Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more about putti ...
  • Book Review – The Occupy Handbook
    The Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning wr ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Follow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...

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Watts Up With That?

  • Why doesn’t the AR5 SOD’s climate ...
    This article is a detailed complement to Matt Ridley’s Op-Ed today in the Wall Street Journal: Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change Evidence points to a further rise of just 1°C by 2100. The net effect on the planet … Continue reading →
  • Labeling People ‘Climate Change Deniers& ...
    Guest post by Dr. Tim Ball A common fallback position when losing an argument is to assault your adversary personally. Known as ad hominem, it involves “attacking an opponent’s motives or character rather than the policy or position they maintain.” … Continue reading →
  • The Mayan End of the World Prediction and Clim ...
    Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times The Mayan calendar is about to end, and with it, the world. People love nothing more than an apocalypse. Meteor collisions, alien invasions, super volcanoes, nuclear winter, and global … Continue reading →
  • The Tuesday Titter – Mannte’s Inferno
    Heh, I saw this last night, and I made a screencap early on but decided not to comment about it. But since Tom Nelson has put it out there, I thought maybe I should bring attention to it now. Dr. … Continue reading →
  • Dr. David Whitehouse on the AR5 figure 1.4
    Dr. David Whitehouse of the GWPF expounds on the “prime statistic of global warming” graph and its failure, as first reported here. The Leaked AR5 Report And Global Temperature Whatever one’s view about the leaking of the draft IPCC AR5 … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • DARPA’s Wound Stasis Technology Could Sa ...
  • A Drug Used to Treat HIV Might Defuse Deadly S ...
    A new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers suggests that an existing HIV drug called maraviroc could be a potential therapy for Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious and deadly pathogen linked to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations each year. Their study is published online this week i ...
  • New antidepressant acts very rapidly and is lo ...
    A first-of-its-kind antidepressant drug discovered by a Northwestern University professor and now tested on adults who have failed other antidepressant therapies has been shown to alleviate symptoms within hours, have good safety and produce positive effects that last for about seven days from a ...
  • Making a Flu Vaccine Without the Virus
    A new vaccine strategy could make flu shots cheaper, safer, and easier to produce. Using synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) instead of proteins purified from viruses, German scientists have shown they can protect mice, ferrets, and pigs against influenza. “This is a very interesting new approa ...
  • Newly discovered effects of vitamin D on cancer
    Vitamin D slows the progression of cells from premalignant to malignant states, keeping their proliferation in check A team of researchers at McGill University have discovered a molecular basis for the potential cancer preventive effects of vitamin D. The team, led by McGill professors John Whit ...

CFACT

  • Stop subsidizing the slaughter!
    The tax credit for wind must stop. Not just for debt, fiscal cliff and economic reasons. Wind turbines disrupt and destroy wild habitats. They butcher birds and bats that are vital to ecological diversity and agriculture.
  • The PTC should be SOL
    National Journal: The U.S. has a $16 trillion national debt that is growing nearly exponentially. Precious federal dollars ought not be wasted to promote production of high-cost energy. Let the wind production tax credit expire with the old year.
  • FrackNation Premieres January 22nd
    FrackNation is a feature documentary that will tell the truth about fracking for natural gas.
  • FRACKNATION Premieres January 22nd
    FrackNation is a feature documentary that will tell the truth about fracking for natural gas.
  • The Political Market
    The new draft for a EU tobacco directive is due in time for christmas. Seldom has the political, and lobbying game been so obvious, and ridiculous. Smokers are already harassed in most of the Union. The argument being both paternalistic and the so-called "Environmental Tobacco Smoke", or Seco ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • New Crew Blasts Off to Space Station
    International Space Station Expedition 34 blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
  • Watch the ‘Mayan Apocalypse’ Live Online
    If you’re one of the people across the globe worried about Friday’s so-called “Mayan apocalypse” and what some say will be the end of the world, you can keep watch over the heavens online for impending signs of doomsday.
  • NASA Has Bright Idea for Lighting System on In ...
    NASA is planning to help combat astronaut insomnia aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with a new lighting system in the US section that will switch colors depending on the time of day, in hopes of reducing the dependency for sleep medications.
  • NASA to Intentionally Crash Twin Probes into Moon
    Two NASA moon probes, designed to help scientists learn more about the internal structure and composition of the moon, will be intentionally crashed into a mountain near the moon's North Pole on Monday, the United States space agency said.
  • Space Station's Orbit Raised Ahead of Crew Arrival
    The International Space Station’s orbit has been increased by almost 2.5 kilometers in a test of the station’s new emergency debris avoidance system, Mission Control told RIA Novosti.

Pruning Shears

  • Gun violence, public health and the missing piece
    The massacre in Newtown has once again opened up the discussion of firearms in America. We are getting the usual dumbassery about how this is a punishment from God or the fault of video games (which apparently are unavailable outside of the US) and the usual preemptive whining about how this is ...
  • "no one is there for you but you know who? You ...
    One of the under appreciated hazards of fracking is its effect on democracy. Fracking is a big, intrusive process - one that sucks up lots of water, creates enormous amounts of traffic and an ungodly amount of noise, etc. Setting aside the environmental dangers and health effects (!), the heav ...
  • Transcript: When fracking comes to town: Maria ...
    Video here.…now sits there with two contaminated wells up for sale. As you can imagine, there’s not a lot of customers for a contaminated farm. So it’s sitting there waiting to go into bankruptcy. Her husband’s in Africa serving in the military. Her horses - she has t ...
  • Reasons to support Corrente fund raising week
    Corrente is having its fund raiser; please stop by and throw some money into the hat if you can.Corrente is an important site for liberals to support because of what it is and what it does. Here’s what it is: an old school blog. While political blogs existed before 2000, they weren&#8217 ...
  • Trafficking and the new civil liberties debate
    Civil liberties are more often than not difficult to stand up for in practice. In theory everyone is in favor of them, but the only times they make it into national debate is when they are under attack. When times are good policy makers and the public don’t seem to give much thought to r ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Payback Time! Boycott the Brands that Helped K ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Pepsico's 'Naked Juice' to Feel the Pain After ...
    Naked Juice is the next company to feel the hurt, after their parent company, Pepsico, contributed $2.5 million against Proposition 37, the ballot initiative for mandatory GMO labeling in the recent elections. Click here to read this article
  • How the Food Movement Is Gaining Strength
    From rural farms to urban dinner plates, from grocery store shelves to state ballot boxes, ever more people are finding their voices and taking action. Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto Gets Its Way in Ag Bill
    "The Farmers Assurance Provision" is the title of a rider, Section 733, inserted into the House of Representatives 2013 Agriculture Appropriations Bill. Somehow, as a farmer, I don't feel the least bit assured.Click here to read this article
  • How to Easily and Inexpensively Ferment Your O ...
    Caroline has been involved with nutrition for about 20 years, and is now one of Dr. McBride's chief training partners, helping people understand the food preparation process, which relies heavily on fermented and traditionally-prepared whole foods.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Can’t Stand the Heat? Get Into the Kitchen
    Agriculture and the food system play a huge role in climate change – they’re far more important than most of us recognize. Because of that, choosing what to put on my table and on my own plate is a powerful act.
  • 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.

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My Care2 Picks

  • Water Wars
    Some updates on threats to water in the ocean and the aquifer Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Environment: New study shows dispersant makes ...
    Small grazers at the base of the food chain most directly affected, raising the question of whether the benefits of using dispersant are enough to offset the negative effects. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Retrospective : Greenhouse Gas
    A look back at older thoughts on an ongoing political football Continues in the next post http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-december-more-on-ghgs.html Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Extreme Weather Report
    125 International Scientists Rebuke UN for Climate Claims in Open Letter: 'Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused extreme weather of past few years. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • War on Wikileaks : Why It Is Illegal
    Charging Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit espionage would effectively be setting a precedent with a charge that more accurately could be characterized as conspiracy to commit journalism. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 'So, just read the card?' 'Yeah, just read the ...
    ShareThis'So, just read the card?' 'Yeah, just read the card.' --Sandy Hook mind-blower: Newtown shooting victim's father, Robbie Parker, is seen laughing just before his on-camera interview, as he inquires about whether or not he should just 'read the card.' (As in... cue card?) 'Yeah, just rea ...
  • 2 western Pa. districts arming police at schools
    ShareThis2 western Pa. districts arming police at schools 17 Dec 2012 A western Pennsylvania school district whose board voted to eventually arm its school police instead got a court order over the weekend so officers in each of its schools could carry guns Monday in the wake of last week's scho ...
  • UBS pays $1.5 bln to settle Libor rigging in Japan
    ShareThisUBS pays $1.5 bln to settle Libor rigging in Japan 19 Dec 2012 UBS said it will pay 1.4 billion Swiss francs ($1.53 billion) and admit wrongdoing at its Japanese arm to settle a wide-ranging, multi-regulator probe into how the Swiss bank's traders manipulated yen Libor and euroyen contr ...
  • Moscow fires warning shot across bow of US nav ...
    ShareThisMoscow fires warning shot across bow of US naval-based ABM 17 Dec 2012 A top Russian official says a US missile defense system near Russia's border is strategically destabilizing and may prompt an arms race. Speaking on the threat of mobile, naval-based elements of the US missile defen ...
  • Last French combat troops leave Afghanistan, o ...
    ShareThisLast French combat troops leave Afghanistan, official says 15 Dec 2012 France flew its last combat troops out of Afghanistan on Saturday, two years before allied nations in the 100,000-strong NATO mission led by the United States are due to recall their fighting forces. Around 200 so ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Wolfpack 105 – Start point
    18 December 2012 All tracking begins with a start point.  Start points can be found in many ways. The Israelis create track traps in soft soil that are impossible to cross without leaving spoor.  Israeli forces make heavy use of trackers. Zoologists create similar track traps when ...
  • Wolfpack 104 –Jungle Man Art vs. GI Science
    Butterflies on suspected elephant dung: many signs are obvious. 10 December 2012 The British learned that employing local trackers can be disastrous.  Indigenous folks can be immensely talented at local tracking because they are tuned intimately to their biowebs.  Problems start fro ...
  • CAUTION to Military Public Affairs
    08 December 2012 US Navy image with GPS data embedded Military photographers sometimes forget to turn off the camera GPS.  The Navy caption for this electric image is found on Flickr: Lightning flashes near USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Nov. 19, 2012) ...
  • VIDEO: Firefight While Waiting for MEDEVAC
    07 December 2012 This video apparently was made by a helmet cam.   It shows normal combat in Afghanistan.  Similar scenes have unfolded thousands of times during the war.  This underlines why so many people are serious about removing the red crosses from Dustoff MEDEVAC heli ...
  • Giduck Dismissal Order
    04 December 2012

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Protesters set up new camps near controversial ...
    Government authorities in Sagain division’s Monywa district have warned locals to shut down new rally camps set up last week to protest against the expansion of the Latpadaung Copper Mining Project
  • US Ambassador leads fact-finding mission in Kachin
    American diplomats led by US Ambassador to Burma Derek Mitchell met with Kachin state officials and civil society groups as the Burmese military intensifies their dry season offensive against the Kachin Independence Army
  • Benedict Rogers: ‘It’s a change of atmosphere ...
    Following a year that saw the release of hundreds of political prisoners, the signing of several ceasefire deals with armed groups and the outbreak of violence in Arakan state, DVB’s David Stout sat down with Christian Solidarity Worldwide’s Benedict Rogers to discuss the reform process in Burma ...
  • Jason Mraz concert to end human trafficking
    Grammy award-winning singer Jaosn Mraz performed in Rangoon's People's Park on Sunday in front of thousands. The concert was organised by MTV EXIT to raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking.
  • Thein Sein courts wary investors on ambitious ...
    Burma sought Monday to drum up investment in a stalled multi-billion-dollar seaport project at the heart of the former junta-ruled country's efforts to revive its impoverished economy

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Iran: Evidence Proves Mossad Kidnapped Asgari, ...
    On the sixth anniversary of the kidnapping and disappearance of Iranian Gen. Ali Reza Asgari, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general said: “We have a lot of evidence proving that members of the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) have kidnapped Asgari from Turkey and transferred him to Israel, ...
  • IDF Police Interrogate, Gag Blogger, Demand Wh ...
    Before beginning this post, I want to note that there is a great deal we don’t know about this case thanks to the Israeli police’s pressure on the victim to maintain silence.  But here, I’ll say what I know and then speculate about what I don’t know when I think there&#82 ...
  • Lieberman Resigns…for Now
    Yesterday, the State prosecutor announced he would indict Avigdor Lieberman for the relatively minor crime of “breach of trust” for seeking to obtain information about the status of legal proceedings against him from an Israeli diplomat.  The prosecutor refused to indict Lieberman on ...
  • CIA, MI6 Guilty in Two Extraordinary Rendition ...
    Two European cases involving the CIA and extraordinary rendition put the case of Dirar Abusisi in the spotlight today.  The European Court of Human Rights found Macedonia guilty of collaborating with the CIA in the case of Khaled al Masri, who was kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. in Afghanista ...
  • Israeli Cyber-War, Hackers and the “Fire Next ...
    God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time! –African-American spiritual Over the past few years, my blogging and freelance journalism has exposed Israeli national security secrets.  I’ve revealed that Israel’s intelligence services along with those of Ukraine and Jor ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Arab Winter of Rage - Syria: From the Arab ...
    In Syria, what began as an Arab Spring, eager for greater dignity, work and freedom, has slipped out of hand to become a regional and international conflict in which Saudi Arabia and Qatar are fighting against Iran , Turkey and Israel against Syria, Russia and China against the United States and ...
  • Film Review - Sinister: A Jump-Out-Of-Your-Sea ...
    Sinister? Definitely. As a reviewer who rarely really jumps at films (after all, ‘it’s only a movie’!), I will confess to jumping any number of times during Sinister - even at the last image. Not only the jumping, but frequent peculiar feelings of spine-tingling. It was the succession of t ...
  • Mexico on Edge - The Growing Presence of Hezbo ...
    A day after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s inauguration, opposition leaders met with the new leader to sign the “Pact for Mexico�, a bipartisan agreement to increase economic cooperation and improve the stability in a country notorious for its violent drug war and devastating corr ...
  • Broken Government - A Congressional Food Fight ...
    There’s a battle of the sandwiches going on in Congress. At issue is the shape of the safety net program for America’s farmers. On one side: peanut butter, the favorite sandwich spread of American childhood. On the other side is the upstart, hummus, a Middle Eastern spread made with chick pe ...
  • Edge of Space - Commercial Space Travel Makes ...
    With NASA's retired shuttles mothballed in museums, 2012 saw a new kind of spacecraft blaze its own path toward the International Space Station. In May, the Dragon space capsule — developed, owned and operated by California-based SpaceX — was launched from atop a Falcon-9 rocket, becoming th ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • BREAKING State Dept. Report On Benghazi Issued ...
    An independent panel charged with investigating the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has concluded that systematic management failures at the State Department led to inadequate security that left the diplomatic mission vulnerable. Despi ...
  • NRA Announces Friday Presser-Shows More Class ...
    The NRA Issued This Press Release today which demonstrated they have much more class than the mainstream media which screamed about gun control before the bodies of the Sandy Hook victims were even cold: The National Rifle Association of America is made up of four million moms and dads, son ...
  • Eric Holder's Gun Found at Mexican Beauty Quee ...
    The beautiful Maria Susana Flores Gamez, was gunned down on November 23rd in a shootout between Mexican Drug Cartels and government soldiers, apparently the Drug Lords were using her as a human shield.  An automatic rifle had been found near her body after the shootout. Authorities ...
  • Sandy Hook Massacre Blamed On The Jooooooooooose!
    According to David Duke and some American guests on Iran's Press TV last Friday's horrific shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary school was the Jews fault. You cant make this up.  The former Grand Wizzinator of the KKK blamed the shooting on the culture of violence created by Jew-Contro ...
  • Boehner Tells House GOP-Prepare for Plan B
    Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News Speaker Boehner warned the House Republican Caucus that should the end of the year approach without a deal on the fiscal cliff ...

The Real Agenda

  • Conservatives celebrate first anniversary of C ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 18, 2012 The Canadian government confirmed today with a one sentence declaration that the country is no longer part of the Kyoto Protocol, a move labeled by the opposition as a “disgrace”. Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto ...
  • Barack Obama at the head of anti-Second Amendm ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 18, 2012 Barack Obama has pledged to lead a new national crackdown on firearms, with some prohibitions, greater legal controls and a new approach to personal safety that requires a profound transformation of the dominant culture in the Unite ...
  • Fake progressives and liberals wage open war o ...
    Others call for murdering gun owners and taking all guns from the hands of the people. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 17, 2012 Coinciding with the visit of Barack Obama to Newtown to join the vigil for the 27 victims of the massacre of Sandy Hook, several Democratic Party ...
  • U.S. amasses troops and missiles on Turkish bo ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 17, 2012 As tension escalates in Syria, the U.S. defense secretary, Leon Panetta, signed the order to send two Patriot missile batteries to Turkey, along with more than 400 U.S. soldiers. “The purpose of this display is to show that th ...
  • 36 infants dead after receiving GlaxoSmithKlin ...
    By CHRISTINA ENGLAND | VACTRUTH | DECEMBER 17, 2012 A confidential GlaxoSmithKline document recently leaked to the press exposed that within a two-year period, a total of 36 infants died after receiving the 6-in-1 vaccine, Infanrix Hexa. [1] According to the website Initiative Citoyenn ...

Wind Watch

  • Power to the people? Windham wants bigger publ ...
    WINDHAM — After months spent fighting a potential wind-power project, officials from the town of Windham have a few thoughts on energy generation in Vermont. Their conclusion: The public has been pushed aside in a permitting process that increasingly is weighted toward big developers. A Wi ...
  • Environmentalists criticize federally backed T ...
    The Texas offshore wind project that won a major federal grant this week is part of a massive wind farm plan that has drawn opposition from Gulf Coast environmentalists. Austin-based Baryonyx Corporation has floated a proposal to erect 300 turbines in state waters near South Padre Island, raisin ...
  • Judge dismisses Litchfield wind turbine lawsuit
    A Herkimer County Supreme Court judge last week dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Litchfield wind turbine law. While town law bans industrial turbines, smaller, domestic powered turbines — 120 feet or less at 50 kilowatts — are permitted. The complaint filed by several Litchfield residents cha ...
  • Anti-wind group getting organized
    Opponents of proposed wind farms in the Newfound Lake region are getting organized. They hope that they’re forming the foundation of a state-wide anti-wind effort. Newfound Lake Wind Watch has changed its name to New Hampshire Wind Watch: it has a new website, work committees, petitions and lett ...
  • Lights, blade shadows disturb residences in Oc ...
    Ocotillo Express Wind, built on 12,500 acres of public, formerly protected federal Bureau of Land Management property, is now filled by dozens of towering wind turbines. Each massive turbine flashes red lights all night long. During the day, long blade shadows whirl across the desert sands, so t ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Private equity firm selling NC maker of assaul ...
    Cerberus Capital Management has announced plans to sell its ownership of the Freedom Group of Madison, N.C., the maker of the Bushmaster X-15 used to kill most of the 26 victims at Sandy Hook elementary school. read more
  • Hostess workers take on private equity pirates
    Managers bankrupted Irving, Texas-based Hostess and then -- when bakery workers struck, refusing another round of concessions -- blamed the workers for the company's decision to liquidate. What can workers do when a private-equity firm is driving a company into the ground? read more
  • The reality of the U.S. violence epidemic beyo ...
    The shocking massacre of 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut last week has led to calls for policy changes to curb gun violence. But in order to confront the problem honestly, we need to remember that the most likely victim of the U.S. violence epidemic ...
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • The Rise of Management Consultants
    The always-entertaining Freakonomics podcast last week devoted a full episode to the emergence of management consulting firms in the U.S. The podcast got our attention right away when Stephen Dubner rattled off labor market statistics — something that always piques our interest — for managem ...
  • Alleviating World Poverty: A Progress Report
    p>There has been a substantial reduction in both the extreme poverty rate and the number of people living in extreme poverty since the early 1980s, according to information from the World Bank poverty database. The World Bank maintains data on developing world nations, which include both low ...
  • Want to See Better US-Chinese Relations? Ameri ...
    While it is still fashionable for politicians in both China and the United States to prove their domestic leadership credentials by taking tough stances against their nation’s chief economic rival, the results of recent Pew surveys conducted in the two countries suggest that this type ...
  • The Gun Control Debate That Went MIA
    Intellectually -- despite the events in Newtown, Connecticut -- I can appreciate that the “right to bear arms” is a fundamental constitutional guarantee, inherited from both the Glorious (1688) and American revolutions. I still wonder, though, whether it applies to a society in which most people ...
  • Aging America: The Cities That Are Graying The ...
    Notwithstanding plastic surgery, health improvements and other modern biological enhancements, we are all getting older, and the country is too. Today roughly 18.5% of the U.S. population is over 60, compared to 16.3% a decade ago; by 2020 that percentage is expected to rise to 22.2%, and by 205 ...

GM Watch

  • Probe nails scientists in GM crop scandal
    1.Indian research council in GM crop scandal 2.Probe nails scientists in GM cotton scandal --- --- 1.Indian research council in GM crop scandal Farming News (UK), 17 December 2012 http://www.farming.co.uk/news/article/7685 A committee set up to investigate a scandal surrounding India's first pu ...
  • Probe nails scientists in GM crop scandal
    1.Indian research council in GM crop scandal 2.Probe nails scientists in GM cotton scandal --- --- 1.Indian research council in GM crop scandal Farming News (UK), 17 December 2012 http://www.farming.co.uk/news/article/7685 A committee set up to investigate a scandal surrounding India's first pu ...
  • Appeals Court backs whistleblower in GM virus case
    NOTE: from SynBioWatch: Microbiologist Becky McClain, infected by a genetically engineered virus in a Pfizer lab, became the first whistleblower in the nation to try to shed light on the threats of biotechnology to workers and the public. Now, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ...
  • Appeals Court backs whistleblower in GM virus case
    NOTE: from SynBioWatch: Microbiologist Becky McClain, infected by a genetically engineered virus in a Pfizer lab, became the first whistleblower in the nation to try to shed light on the threats of biotechnology to workers and the public. Now, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ...
  • 'Frankenstein food' a good thing? It's all gre ...
    "Frankenstein food" a good thing? It's all great GM lies Joanna Blythman Daily Mail, 17 December 2012 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249687/Frankenstein-foods-good-thing-Its-great-GM-lies.html There is no doubt that it was a declaration of the Government’s colours on genetically modif ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • What In The World Are Barack Obama And John Bo ...
    Barack Obama and John Boehner both seem absolutely determined to drive U.S. government finances off a cliff.  The mainstream media would have you believe that there are vast ideological differences between the two of them and that they are bitter enemies, but that is simply not the case.  Both o ...
  • 22 Stats That Prove That There Is Something Se ...
    When are we finally going to admit that we have a very serious problem with this generation of young men in America?  We have failed them so dramatically that it is hard to put it into words.  We have raised an entire generation of young males that don't know how to be men, and many [...]
  • Society Is Crumbling Right In Front Of Our Eye ...
    What in the world is happening to America?  I have written many articles about how society is crumbling right in front of our eyes, but now it is getting to the point where people are going to be afraid to go to school or go shopping at the mall.  Just consider what has happened over [...]
  • We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business ...
    Historically, small businesses have been the primary engine of new job creation in the United States.  If the economy was getting healthy, we would expect to see the number of jobs at new businesses rise.  Instead, we are witnessing just the opposite.  We are told that the economy is supposed to ...
  • 55 Reasons Why California Is The Worst State I ...
    Why in the world would anyone want to live in the state of California at this point?  The entire state is rapidly becoming a bright, shining example of everything that is wrong with America.  It is so sad to watch our most populated state implode right in front of our eyes.  Like millions of Ame ...

Desertification

  • Agricultural research ‘key to easing cli ...
    Read at : http://www.scidev.net/fr/agriculture-and-environment/desert-science/news/la-recherche-agricole-serait-la-cl-de-l-att-nuation-des-effets-des-changements-c.html Rasha Dewedar [CAIRO] Agricultural research should be a strategic priority of the UN’s efforts to lessen the impacts of c ...
  • Water Harvesting (SEMIDE / EMWIS)
    Read at : http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/news/2012/12/water-harvesting-sub-saharan-africa Water Harvesting in Sub-Saharan Africa Tim Hardwick Senior Commissioning Editor Earthscan/Routledge http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415537865/ Edited by William Critchley and John Gowing Agric ...
  • Groundwater beneath Arabian deserts (SEMIDE / ...
    Read at : http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/news/2012/12/nasa-maps-groundwater-beneath-arabian-deserts NASA maps groundwater beneath Arabian deserts NASA scientist Essam Heggy is turning radar sounding technology developed to search for water on Mars towards Earth in an effort to map desert grou ...
  • Small holders and agricultural investments (IIED)
    Read at : http://www.iied.org/ensuring-small-holders-arent-squeezed-out-agricultural-investments?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duesouth+%28IIED+Blog%29 Ensuring small holders aren’t squeezed out of agricultural investments Tipping the Balance, a new joi ...
  • Investing in sustainable productivity (IIED)
    Read at : http://www.iied.org/investing-sustainable-productivity-could-secure-redd-schemes-long-term?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duesouth+%28IIED+Blog%29 Investing in sustainable productivity could secure REDD+ schemes long term Isilda Nhantumbo Investing i ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • Next time, the children could be Canadian
    By Montreal Simon I was glad to see Obama visit the latest community in America to be shattered by gun violence. And I was happy to hear him say this. “We can’t tolerate this any more. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.” So maybe all the poor little chil ...
  • 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: ...

libcom

  • New short films on Belarusian anarchist politi ...
    Two new short films with English subtitles dedicated to Belarusian anarchist political prisoners have been released as part of the Belarusian series "Chronicles of the times of courts", one is dedicated to Ihar Alinevich and the other to Mikalaj ...
  • Fired workers taken to court for blogging abou ...
    riskypopcorn.jpg Solidarity with the Workers of Natais popcorn factory in France! Exposed to hazardous substances, forced to work on precarious conditions, the workers tried to fight back. On Thursday ...
  • Education workers’ strike in Slovakia after tw ...
    hesla_get_rich_die_striking.png This is a very rough and hardly exhaustive summary of recent two weeks of strike in education sector in Slovakia. The strike is still on despite being put on hold by it ...
  • Exploitation in Split: University Students Tri ...
    img1121cr.jpg Croatian students struggling for their wages. A group of about 40 university students from Split employed through the Student Employment Service spent their summer ...
  • Police places pressure on relatives and friend ...
    Antifascists Alexey Sutuga and Alexey Olesinov have already been in the"Butyrka" prison in Moscow for more than half a year. Investigator Y. Egorov, who is conducting the investigation, is expected to modify the criminal case into a more seriou ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Is Global Trade on the Verge of Collapse
    No Comments photo credit Zero Hedge Man the Lifeboats – She’s Going Down! Picking up on a December 12th post by Tyler Durden at  Zero Hedge, Mac Slavo at Blacklisted News warns that a 8.2% overnight drop in th ...
  • Young Americans Abandon Corporate Media
    Average Fox News viewer According to the December 12 Washington’s Blog, the average Fox News viewer is 65, the average CNN viewer 63 and the average MSNBC viewer 59. In 2010 The Pew Research Center’s biennial consumption survey revealed the average age of a regular evening news vie ...
  • Cops Tase Chinese Woman for Buying Too Many iPhone
    As activists warned when cops were first authorized to carry tasers, police aren’t restricting their use to situations in which their own lives are at risk. They are using them sadistically, punitively and unconstitutionally when civilians fail to obediently comply with their orders. ...
  • Update on Secret "Free" Trade Treaty
    photo credit LiveNews (This is a follow-up of two previous posts on the secret “free” trade treaty the Obama administration is negotiation: Will the RCEP kill the TPP and Why You Never Hear of Either One and Will China Kill the TPP?) The Auckland round of Transpacific Partnership ...
  • Former Reagan Official Questions bin Laden's R ...
    Two very different bin Laden clones (Veterans Today) Paul Craig Roberts isn’t your garden variety conspiracy nut. We’re talking about a former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Protecting the Grid Against Solar Storms
    Numerous studies by accredited groups, such as the Congressional Electromagnetic Pulse Commission, the National Academy of Sciences, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have concluded that solar storms and resulting geomagnetic disturbance are a critical threat to the reliability of ele ...
  • Can We Link Emissions Trading Programs To Adva ...
    Despite some modest steps forward, the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha was a reminder of the slow-paced nature of international negotiations. Annual conferences like these aim to achieve international agreement on reducing the man-made emissions causing climate change, but 20 years after th ...
  • Export Natural Gas to Accelerate Our Clean Ene ...
  • Let Them Eat Solar Panels
    Imagine the United States sending low-calorie food aid to Ethiopia in response to the global obesity epidemic. Absurd, right? Even if global waistline trends are worrisome, Ethiopians didn't create the problem. Such a policy would be futile since it would have no noticeable impact on the global ...
  • Cleantech Venture Investing: On the Deathbed ...
    Two weeks ago, I sat on a panel of eminent (that is, other than myself) cleantech venture capitalists at the New England Venture Summit to discuss our sector as we approach the end of 2012.The basic theme being explored was whether we should be optimistic or pessimistic about the current state o ...

EU Times

  • Hunger Games “Experiment” Said Behind Connecti ...
    An new report prepared by the Federal Security Services (FSB) circulating in the Kremlin today on the horrific Connecticut Massacre is suggesting that these deaths may have been associated with the production of a video game based on the popular book Hunger Games which is about a post-apocalypti ...
  • Boat sinks off Greek island, 20 illegal immigr ...
    At least 20 bodies have been retrieved following an incident where a small boat carrying illegal immigrants traveling to Greece capsized near the eastern island of Lesvos. Officials say the National Greek Coast Guard has found the bodies at sea and is searching for survivors. The boat reportedly ...
  • Boat arrivals in Australia may reach 30,000 in ...
    Immigration Minister Chris Bowen insists Australia’s tough asylum seeker policies are discouraging Sri Lankans from getting on boats despite a warning that boat arrivals could total 30,000 in 2013. The minister’s comments came as refugee advocate Paris Aristotle warned asylum seeker ...
  • US Senate bill to make Europe less energy depe ...
    The US seeks to lift limitations on its LNG deliveries to Europe and strengthen competition in European energy markets. It’s to break the EU’s dependence on Russian gas, as “the Russians overplayed their hand”, says US Senator Richard G. Lugar. “In the past, Moscow showed itself quick to use ene ...
  • German economy not immune to EU financial cris ...
    Member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council Erkki Liikanen warns that the worsening financial condition in the eurozone may endanger the ‘German economy’. “Economic developments are causing us concern. No country is immune to the effects of the (EU) debt crisis. Not even the Germ ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • U.N. Suspends Polio Campaign In Pakistan After ...
    The New York Times reports : The United Nations suspended all polio-related field activities in Pakistan on Wednesday after more attacks on public health workers attempting to immunize children. Two people were killed and another wounded around the northwestern city of Peshawar. The shootings ...
  • iScape 2.0 for iOS â Smart Landscape Design: S ...
    Home Revivals today announces iScape 2.0 for iOS, an update to its professional landscaping app that lets users take and alter photos of areas they want to landscape, creating their imagined design before beginning the work. The newest update to the iScape application features a redesigned user ...
  • Andrew Mitchell's political resurrection is coming
    Andrew Mitchell has more friends on the backbenches this morning than he did in October, it seems. One told me "In a witch hunt, I'm always on the side of the witches". We are told that Thrasher recognises that it might be too much to hope to get his job back as Chief Whip, but
  • How Apple Can Slow Samsung Down
    Tom Keating at TMC reported today that Samsung is beating virtually everyone at virtually everything. He discusses how they have become the dominant TV maker but this isn’t such big news at this point. What is interesting is the company replaced Nokia as the number one producer of cellphones – ...
  • Benghazi Video Spun To Refute Organized Attack
    From an easily duped Wall Street Journal : Surveillance Cameras Show Attackers Kicking In Doors By ADAM ENTOUS and SIOBHAN GORMAN | December 18, 2012 Surveillance cameras recorded more than 100 hours of video footage of the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission and a nearby CIA base i ...

Groklaw

  • The Art of Voir Dire
    Professor Paul Zwier, Emory School of Law. - YouTube
  • Depositions: What to Wear and How to Prepare
    Attorney Melissa Fuller of Levy - von Beck & Associates describes the deposition process and how to prepare [to] be deposed. - YouTube
  • Depositions - Four Rules Of Answering Questions
    Here are four simple rules of answering deposition questions - whether your case involves a truck wreck, suing an abusive debt collector, or suing a mortgage company that is wrongfully foreclosing on you. - John Watts, YouTube
  • Raspberry Pi now has an app store (and yes, it ...
    In this day and age, all major platforms must have an app store. And thus today, the Raspberry Pi Foundation unveiled the Pi Store to act as the one-stop shop for users of the tiny computer. The Pi Store, built in collaboration with IndieCity and Velocix, runs as an X application on the Debian- ...
  • Microsoft Scrutinized by EU Privacy Watchdogs ...
    Microsoft Corp.'s policy changes for its Internet products including Hotmail and Bing are being formally examined by European data protection regulators for potential privacy issues. Updates to Microsoft's services agreement, which took effect Oct. 19, are being formally reviewed, EU privacy reg ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Incarcerating mentally ill people is expensive ...
    In Dade County, 97 mostly schizophrenic people were the prime users of their mental services and justice system. It was a revolving door. Incarcerating mentally ill minor offenders is counter-productive and absurdly expensive.“Over a five-year period, these 97 individuals were arrested alm ...
  • Let gun lovers lead the charge on gun control
    Far better if that effort were led by someone like NRA favorite Sen. Joe Manchin of “wild and wonderful” West Virginia, who told Joe Scarborough: “I don’t know anyone in the sporting or hunting arena that goes out with an assault rifle. I don’t know anyone that needs 30 rounds in a c ...
  • NRA statement. “Make sure this never happens a ...
    From the NRA website12/18/2012The National Rifle Association of America is made up of four million moms and dads, sons and daughters – and we were shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders in Newtown.Out of respect for the families, and as a matter ...
  • California workers’ compensation articles, wri ...
    My friend Bob Havens has useful and informative articles about the often confusing world of California workers’ compensation. He’s been a workers’ comp lawyer for thirty years and knows the field well.Full disclosure: I built the website for him (in WordPress!) However, his art ...
  • Mental illness. Helping them is easier than wh ...
    We’ve had a horrific example of what happens when mental illness and guns get mixed together. However, most mentally ill don’t hurt others.From my friend Elizabeth Bishop on FacebookThis country needs to have a serious discussion about mental illness. Prior to living in southern Utah ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

  • All we want for Christmas is good education le ...
    The appointment of the very competent Peter Hughes as acting head of the Education Ministry is a welcome present for families this Christmas. But only if it heralds wider change in the Ministry and a new Minister as well. My heart bleeds for the families of Christchurch who are ending another ye ...
  • ICT Initiatives Launch
    On Monday we launched 3 brand new ICT initiatives in a proposal that has had overwhelmingly positive feedback from across the NZ ICT industry, media and social media. We want to see ICT boom in NZ. It is a jobs-rich sector and it employs many more New Zealanders than mining, its jobs are highly- ...
  • Working across the House for strong consumer p ...
    I was very pleased to be able to support the Consumer Law Reform Bill when it came up for its second reading last week. I know that many others are interested in the changes that the bill will make so I have posted the speech I gave in the house below. The main win for [...]
  • The Parliamentary week that was, 11 December, ...
    Parliament has been very busy trying to pass quite a few pieces of relatively uncontentious legislation over the last couple of weeks. Select committees have also been very busy. Wednesday 12th December was the last day that the House sat for the year, which means the various parties made their ...
  • ICT discussion paper – faster internet, ...
    The Green Party has launched a package of proposed initiatives to help grow the ICT sector. Government investment in a second internet cable system, supported by smarter government procurement policies, will lead a step-change in the ICT economy, growing exports and creating green jobs. The ICT ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

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    renewable recyclingconservation
    Mitsui's Renewable Projects in Canada Get C$795 Million Loans
    Bloomberg
    Mitsui's Renewable Projects in Canada Get C$795 Million Loans. By Chisaki Watanabe - 2012-12-17T11:36:45Z. Mitsui & Co. (8031) has acquired a 30 percent stake in GDF Suez (GSZ) Canada Inc.'s wind and solar power projects in Canada, the Japanese...
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    KSA, UAE to lead MENArenewable energy drive
    Saudi Gazette
    JEDDAH – Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the new entrants from the MENA region to Ernst & Young'sRenewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices (CAI), which scores 40 countries across the globe on the attractiveness of their renewable energy markets, ...
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    Renewable Energy Cornwall - Cornish fuel bills set to increase by £600 per year
    This is Cornwall
    "Cornish businesses and householders should seriously consider investing now inrenewable sources of energy such as solar power to protect themselves from fuel prices that look set to spiral out of control." Current average energy bills are £1000 and ...
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    The grid of 2030: all renewable, 90 percent of the time
    Ars Technica
    But is it cost-effective to do so? A new study from the University of Delaware finds that renewableenergy sources can, with the help of storage, power a large regional grid for up to 99.9 percent of the time using current technology. By 2030, the cost ...
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    In pictures: Celebrating world'secology
    BBC News
    In pictures: Celebrating world'secology. Cape lappet moth caterpillar aggregation Winning images from the British EcologicalSociety's photography competition are to be shown at the society's annual meeting at Birmingham University from 17-20 December ...
    USA: Ecology Pleased with District Court Decision
    Dredging Today
    A judge in the U.S. District Court in Yakima today issued a ruling that Canadian mining and smelting company Teck Metals Ltd. is liable under United States environmental law for contaminating the Columbia River with millions of tons of smelting waste.
    All Saints Students Visit Lake Catholic For Ecology Lesson - Mentor, OH Patch
    Patch.com
    The students of All Saints of St. John Vianney had never seen anything like Lake Catholic High School's vivarium. The room is one part biology laboratory, one part botanical garden and one part museum with a little bit of shop class sprinkled in. The ...
    Christian Ecology – An imperative for our times
    Independent Catholic News
    Last Friday evening Catholic writer and journalist Ellen Teague addressed an ecumenical audience in Cheltenham on the theme of 'Christian ecology?' An imperative for our times! Speaking in The Old Priory, adjacent to St Gregory's Church, she laid out ...
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    Corps to drain water from Carlyle Lake to aid Mississippi River
    Chicago Tribune
    LOUIS - - Amid strong concerns about the declining level of the already low Mississippi River, the Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from an Illinois lake to add to the flow of the Mississippi. Corps of Engineers officials on Saturday began ...
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    Why Netflix got into hot water - Fortune Management
    Fortune
    It might seem like the Netflix case is very different from an insider trading case. But selective disclosure and insider trading are birds of a feather. FORTUNE -- We've certainly witnessed a bonanza of insider investigations and trials involving ...
    In the Maldives, It's Water, WaterEverywhere
    Newsweek
    it is difficult, perhaps, to form an idea of a nation that consists of 26 atolls spread north-south across a vast expanse of ocean. The Maldives, moreover, have positioned themselves at the pinnacle of the luxury tourist market by subtracting from ...
    Slip-sliding away at Midwesternwater parks
    USA TODAY
    Wilderness Territory boasts four indoor water parks, including Wild West (top left), which spans 70,000 square feet that features bumper boats and a four-story interactive play feature. (Photo: GoEscape) ...
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