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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

19 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

English: Cover of the book Take Control of You...
English: Cover of the book Take Control of Your Health by dr. Mercola. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Annals of Botany
Annals of Botany (Photo credit: AJC1)
Schematic of the acquisition of antibiotic res...
Schematic of the acquisition of antibiotic resistance. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A bull giraffe in natural environment, South A...
A bull giraffe in natural environment, South Africa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Montreal
Montreal (Photo credit: Kristian20)
SOY ESTROGEN EVIL DANGER is a MYTH by MERCOLA ...
SOY ESTROGEN EVIL DANGER is a MYTH by MERCOLA WESTON PRICE - Non-Vegan Beef Steak has Female Synovex-S Estradiol Hormone Implants Unhealthy for Pregnancy (Photo credit: AncestralHealthSymposium)
Parti Québécois
Parti Québécois (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • FDA Sued for Withholding Data on Antibiotic Us ...
    By Dr. Mercola The United States uses nearly 30 million pounds of antibiotics annually in food production. Livestock antibiotic use accounts for 80 percent of the total antibiotics sold in the US, and unnecessary use of antibiotics in food animals (cows, pigs, chickens, and turkeys) is a majo ...
  • Environmental Toxins Causing Early Puberty in ...
    By Dr. Mercola Reaching puberty is a rite of passage that we've all been through, but children are now reaching it earlier than ever before, and while precocious puberty in girls has received most of the attention, we now know the trend applies to boys as well. In the 19th century, the ons ...
  • More Independent Voices Speak Up on Fluoridation
    By Dr. Mercola Since 2010, more than 75 U.S. and Canadian communities have voted to end water fluoridation – an outdated practice that amounts to a form of compulsory "mass medication" for entire city populations. Most recently, in Kirkland Lake, a community of 9,000 in Northeastern Ontario, ...
  • General Mills Gets a Taste of the Backlash Aft ...
    By Dr. Mercola Organic foods are required by U.S. federal law to be produced in ways that promote ecological sustainability, without common toxic and genetically engineered ingredients.  But organic products are increasingly being forced to compete with products that are labeled as "na ...
  • Importance of Magnesium is Far Greater than Pr ...
    By Dr. Mercola You don't hear much about magnesium, yet an estimated 80 percent of Americans are deficient in this important mineral and the health consequences of deficiency are significant. One reason could be because magnesium, like vitamin D, serves so many functions it's hard to corral. ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • In pictures: The reindeer people under threat ...
    Tribal people rely on reindeer for food, transport, shelter and warmth.© Steve MorganEach year, the image of the reindeer finds its way onto cards, sweaters and into people’s imaginations, but to the world’s indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the animal is not just for Christmas. As news emerges ...
  • Indians sue Peru over broken promise to isolat ...
    The Nanti are one of several isolated tribes living inside the reserve who would be severely affected by the gas expansion plans© Survival InternationalPeru’s top indigenous organizations are taking on the government and powerful gas companies in an attempt to stop gas exploration that seriously ...
  • South American tribe labelled backward by BBC ...
    Marr’s TV series re-enacts Ibore and Parojnai’s (pictured) first contact in 1998.© SurvivalA South American tribe whose way of life was labelled backward in a major BBC TV series has hit back at the programme. The moment in 1998 when members of the Ayoreo tribe in Paraguay first made contact wi ...
  • Bushmen beaten, suffocated and buried alive fo ...
    Kebonyeng Kepese has been arrested and beaten for hunting to feed his family. © Survival Paramilitary police have severely beaten two Bushmen, burying one in a shallow grave, after accusing them of hunting without permits in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Nkemetse Motsok ...
  • Siberian Evenk indigenous organization under a ...
    Evenk boy with reindeer© Raipon/SurvivalMasked gunmen have raided the offices of a Siberian tribal community in Russia, kidnapping two men and taking them to undisclosed locations. After weeks of silence, one of the hostages managed to phone his relatives. He said he had been beaten and threate ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Renowned Indie Game, Eufloria HD, Arrives Offi ...
    Eufloria HD should definitely be one the best games for Android in 2012. It is an incredibly addictive and stylish ambient strategy game. And like most other extremely popular games in Google Play Store,  Eufloria HD is criminally simple with almost zero learning curve involved.  ...
  • A week with elementary OS Luna: Could this be ...
    It is not far-fetched to say, open source and its poster child, Linux, is going through a golden period. The emergence of internet has a lot to do with the popularisation of open source way of thinking. But in the world of Windows and Macs, what makes Linux tick? Redhat was the first to expl ...
  • Desktop Zoom, Animations in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 ...
    Ever wondered what happened to all those mind numbing animations and effects in older Ubuntu releases running GNOME 2.x? We used to conduct Linux installation fests during our college days and showing off Compiz Fusion's capabilities was a major highlight during every such event. But with the ...
  • Reditr Beta Arrives, DEB Package Makes Install ...
    Reditr is a multi-column Reddit client for desktops. It currently supports Ubuntu, Mac, Windows and Google Chrome platforms. When it was first announced few months back, it created a lot of excitement, especially among Linux folks. But the initial Reditr Alpha release disappointed quite a few. ...
  • New Official Gmail App for Android Arrives wit ...
    The wait is finally over. Official Gmail for Android app now supports pinch-to-zoom action. This was perhaps one of the most requested feature by users of Gmail app. Apart from that, the new app also brings in features such as swipe to delete/archive action, attaching of photos and videos from ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Lieberman plays his EU Holocaust Card
    - Israel's Racist Foreign Minister pretends to be anti-holocaust, when he is really pro-holocaust...for Palestinians
  • Random acts of…clarity
    As I was driving home, I saw lots of flags at half-staff. Public buildings, installation and so on. I thought that this habit of flying the colors at half-staff for any tragedy was a relatively new phenomonon but couldn't think of a more appropriate gesture after things like New Town. Then I lea ...
  • Bolivarianism Wins Big
    For millions in Venezuela, the region and beyond, Chavez is bigger than life. He's heroic.
  • “Jewish superiority” – or et ...
    "To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."- Voltaire
  • Ed Asner,Vietnam Veteran, War and Wall
    Interview with Ed Asner about the Vietnam Vet, and the Vietnam Wall and new Education Center.

electric politics

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

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S. Seeks World Supremacy With Advanced Weapo ...
    RT December 18, 2012 US seeks ‘world supremacy’ through advanced weapons – Security Chief Robert Bridge ==== Patrushev explained that Russia, which has seen success in developing state-of-the-art technology, had not given enough attention to that field of research. As new weaponry appears, ...
  • First NATO Missiles, Troops Arrive In Turkey
    Voice of Russia December 19, 2012 Patriot missiles arrive in Turkey Patriot interceptor missiles being deployed near Russian border in Morag, Poland in 2010 The first parts of Patriot air defence missile systems have been delivered to Turkey, The Turkish Weekly reports. According to the newspape ...
  • U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership ...
    Trend News Agency December 18, 2012 Meetings in Washington under U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership framework N. Kirtskhalia Secretary of State Clinton speaks at U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership omnibus meeting in October 2010 Tbilisi: A meeting of the Economic, Energy an ...
  • Controlled Chaos: After Middle East, U.S. To T ...
    Voice of Russia December 18, 2012 Controlled chaos theory – practical application Nikita Sorokin ==== Whoever becomes the next target in this large-scale ‘reconstruction’, the US has already managed to split the Arab world. But controlled chaos is insatiable. As militant Senator John McCai ...
  • Aldous Huxley: Absurdity of talking about the ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Aldous Huxley: All devote themselves methodically and scientifically to general massacre and wholesale destruction Aldous Huxley: Rhetorical devices used to conceal fundamental absurdity and monstrosity of war ==== Aldous Huxle ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

  • Superhumans, Supercities and Supercomputers: U ...
    RT December 18, 2012 Things are about to get a little weird. This according to the National Intelligence Council, at least, a US-based coalition of spy agencies that has just released its predictions for what’s in store for the Earth in 2030. The NIC released on Monday “Global Trends 2030: Alter ...
  • The Shootings, The Globalists and Gun Control: ...
    By Carolyn Hamlett beyondthephysical.blogspot.ca December 18, 2012 The globalists know that an educated society armed with all the facts and the ability to rationally think and reason as individuals is a well armed society that is not easily overtaken. The globalists also know that such a societ ...
  • Martial Law in One City: The Case of Paragould ...
    William Grigg | “The fear is what’s given us the reason to do this,” insisted Todd Stovall, the head functionary of the paramilitary occupation force afflicting Paragould, Arkansas, as he announced that the city would be placed under martial law for the supposed purpose of deterring crime.
  • SPLC Begins New Propaganda Campaign Against Li ...
    JG Vibes | In the past the SPLC has been known to attack so called “conspiracy” and patriot groups as well as citizen militias, none of which are proponents of aggressive force.
  • Is the End of the World Coming This Friday?
    By Aaron Dykes Infowars.com December 18, 2012 RELATED: 10 Reasons Why It’s Not The End of the World As We Know It Are we living in the end times? For years, the fast approaching end of the Mayan calendar, calculated to end Friday, December 21, 2012 during the winter solstice has been hyped as an ...

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Scan Of Mummy Reveals Pharaoh Died With His Th ...
    CT scans show how Rameses III--the last "great" king of Egypt--went to his tomb. The end of the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses III's reign was never meant to be a mystery for the ages. The Egyptians left behind a number of detailed historical documents that clearly lay out some basic details: In the ...
  • Why Wild Animals Are Moving Into Cities, And W ...
    Global warming and environmental destruction are driving coyotes, bears and mountain lions out of their habitats, but that's only part of the reason why so many animals call the city home. It’s been a while since he tried to count them all, but Stan Gehrt estimates that more than 2,000 coyotes ...
  • A Spider Builds Fake Spiders To Psych Out Pred ...
    It might be a completely new species--a very tricky new species. Don't be fooled: this isn't a real spider. It's a fabrication! A lie! It's a decoy spider built from twigs, leaves, debris, dead insects, and whatever stuff nightmares are made of. Researchers discovered the insect in (where else ...
  • Bacteria May Have Been Responsible For World's ...
    Most of the world's ocean species died--and lots of land-based ones, too--and it might have been the fault of a microbe. Add this to the murderous microbe highlight reel--a single strain of bacteria could have worsened the Great Dying event 250 million years ago, producing prodigious methane an ...
  • How To Work Off Your Holiday Dinner [Infographic]
    Just how many hours of Wii Fit Bowling does it take to burn one (conservatively portioned) meal? Today's infographic is actually called, "How to work off your Christmas dinner," but, as we all know, overeating at every justifiable opportunity is more of a human tradition than a religious one, an ...

Veterans Today

  • Lieberman plays his EU Holocaust Card
    - Israel's Racist Foreign Minister pretends to be anti-holocaust, when he is really pro-holocaust...for Palestinians
  • Random acts of…clarity
    As I was driving home, I saw lots of flags at half-staff. Public buildings, installation and so on. I thought that this habit of flying the colors at half-staff for any tragedy was a relatively new phenomonon but couldn't think of a more appropriate gesture after things like New Town. Then I lea ...
  • Bolivarianism Wins Big
    For millions in Venezuela, the region and beyond, Chavez is bigger than life. He's heroic.
  • “Jewish superiority” – or et ...
    "To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."- Voltaire
  • Ed Asner,Vietnam Veteran, War and Wall
    Interview with Ed Asner about the Vietnam Vet, and the Vietnam Wall and new Education Center.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

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

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Secretary-General returns to renovated, eco-fr ...
    Returning to his usual office for the first time since the United Nations Headquarters' major restoration project began almost five years ago, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed excitement for the "historic" and eco-friendly renovations which have revamped the 60-year old Secretariat ...
  • Ban expresses deepest condolences to Connectic ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to the Governor of Connecticut in the United States to express his deepest condolences at the murders which took place on Friday at an elementary school there, according to his spokesperson.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into deat ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called for an investigation into the death of a Colombian journalist who died of injuries sustained while in custody.
  • Young Colombian woman named first winner of UN ...
    A 25-year-old Colombian woman has been selected as the winner of an inaugural United Nations prize recognizing contributions to social science research.
  • UN launches new initiative to eliminate choler ...
    The United Nations today announced a new initiative to help eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the two nations that make up the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Life on the Brink
    LIFE ON THE BRINK  Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation Edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist University of Georgia Press, December 2012 About the book Life on the Brink aspires to reignite a robust discussion of population issues among environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, ...
  • Wild Utah Project needs your help!
    HERE’S WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing West-wide for years. They have just gone live with their first video, Dance for Survival: Protecting the Sage-Grouse and a fundraising chall ...
  • Sea Shepherd sheds some light on the recent Sh ...
    Posted by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is simply smok ...
  • Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...
    (September 4, 2012)  The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy.  PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
  • Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...
    Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • 'It Does Not Look Good For Gun Owners'... Stew ...
    Pete Santilli  speaks with Sheriff Richard Mack in the first hour who gives an in-depth interview about what we can expect to happen after the 'death' of 20 first grade students, and six adults in Fridays mass shooting at a elementary school in Connecticut.  ~ Audio read more
  • The Drugging Of Our Children
    Despite the dangers, many school systems actually work with government agencies to force parents to drug their children, threatening those who refuse with the prospect of having their children taken from the home unless they cooperate. ~ Gary Null, Ph D - Full length Documentary read more
  • Facebook Suspends Users Account For Questionin ...
    Despite the fact that the mainstream media got key facts wrong in early reporting... Facebook is suspending user accounts that question the official narrative behind the Sandy Hook school massacre... ~ Paul Joseph Watson read more
  • Proof... 22 Stats Indicating There Is Somethin ...
    When are we finally going to admit that we have a very serious problem with this generation of young men in America? ~ Michael Snyder read more
  • Peter Lanza Father Of Adam Lanza is a FICTION?
    So is the LIEbor scandal... Stop falling for their distractions and scams. Those who are our elected officials are not who they say they are...  They are actors, and I challenge you to go find the paperwork that each elected officials has to fill out to run for office. ~ Ed Chiarini - Relat ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Are You In The Wrong Job?
    Survival isn’t just about disaster, preparedness, or the end-of-the-world doom and gloom… today’s modern survival can be as important as having the right job. Ask yourself this: “Are you in the wrong job?”, and be honest with yourself. Trust me… having the rig ...
  • 22 Troubling Statistics Of Young Men In America
    I found the following list of statistics over on TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com, which I excerpted and would like to share here on our website as food for thought. We live in a constantly evolving society in which grand changes occur over time to our young people as to who they are, and how they be ...
  • Safety Tips For Driving In The Fog
    Here are a few safety tips for ‘modern survival’ while driving in the fog. No doubt that most of us have encountered this sometimes frightening situation where the fog can get so thick that you can barely see cars in front of you. I recall several instances while I was living in Cali ...
  • Will EMP Pulse Fry Anything Electronic NOT Plu ...
    I recently received the following question regarding EMP effects: “What will happen to vehicles with electronic ignitions, a Chevy with an ignition module, but they are not hooked to a battery, with no path for electricity to follow, can it do damage? There may not be power on the grid, bu ...
  • The Bill of Rights – Full Text
    The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties, the Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power. Amendment ...

Fast Company

  • Giving Madrid A Makeover, With Op-Art Christma ...
    Architect Teresa Sapey gives Madrid a Mod makeover with hundreds of LED-lit circles. How has your city prepared for the holidays? By throwing up a few thinning acrylic wreaths? By slapping on a few dreidel decals? Well, that’s not how they roll in Madrid. Each year, the city spends m ...
  • Wild Textiles Blend Photoshop With Rococo Excess
    Ukrainian designer Masha Reva preserves the age-old tradition of collecting interesting images found online. There’s nothing pretty about an unorganized Photoshop file (especially if you’ve been working on it all night). But alongside Ukrainian designer Masha Reva’s dense ...
  • Tom Cruise Billboard Gets Inevitable Makeover
    Tom Cruise’s December action flick, "Jack Reacher," has a title that invites reinterpretation. Seeing its poster culture-jammed, though, is somehow even funnier than you might dare expect. Whether Lee Child was aware of the phrase "reacharound" prior to naming the lead character in h ...
  • Drive-By Thermal Imaging Delivers Home Efficie ...
    Want to find out home much heat your house is leaking? The trucks from Sagewell might already know. If you knew how much heat was exiting your house, and where it was emerging from, you might do something to plug the gaps. That’s the proposition of a startup that’s heat-mapping ...
  • Are You a Royal Tenenbaum? A Suzy Bishop? This ...
    A new infographic from Flavorwire reveals, via flowchart, which Wes Anderson character you favor. (You 're kind of a Mrs. Fox, with traces of Steve Zissou.) As we’ve mentioned before, life can sometimes feel like a Wes Anderson movie. However, now there’s a new method for deter ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt’s Draft Constitution in Focus: Labor Rig ...
    [The following video is part of a series of clips produced by the Mosireen collective to promote greater awareness around the draft constitution currently under consideration in national referendum in Egypt. The full series can be accessed by clicking here.] In response to a government-sponsore ...
  • الطائفة الشرطية وحكومة الرئيس مرسي: تحالف يقوم ...
    عادت القوات المسلحة للظهور على الساحة السياسية، ولم يكن ظهورها هذه المرة فقط للإدلاء بالبيانات التي تحاول شرح أسباب اصرار بعض ضباط القوات الجوية على إيقاظ سكان المدن من النوم مبكراً عن طريق التحليق المنخفض بالمقاتلات فوق الأحياء السكنية، أو تبرير آخر انتهاك تورط فيه أفراد الجيش (على غرار البيان ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 18)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • مي وملح في إضراب الأسرى
    لعله إذ يقول: (كما لم اعلق على مظاهرتكم وتجمعكم، فلتتركوني اسمع "عبري" كما أريد!) ، رداً على تلك الصبية التي طلبت منه على الاقل أن يحترم المظاهرة المناصرة لإضراب الأسرى في سجون الصهاينة، بما أنه لن يشارك، وذلك أثناء مروره بسيارته التي تصدح منها ألحان وأغان عبرية، في أحد أحياء مدينة ا ...
  • Memory Wars and the Messiness of History: An I ...
    [Dr. James (Jim) House is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds. His research interests have focused on the history and memory of the Algerian War of Independence along with antiracism in France. His monograph, "Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory," wh ...

mediagazer

  • Pakastani teen blogger Malala Yousafzai is Tim ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Pakastani teen blogger Malala Yousafzai is Time's runner-up for Person of the Year  —  The Taliban “wanted to silence” Malala Yousafzai when they shot her and several classmates on Oct. 9, Aryn Baker writes.  “Instead, they amplif ...
  • First look: The Foreign Affairs redesign (Dyla ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: First look: The Foreign Affairs redesign  —  Foreign Affairs, the 90-year-old magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations, is getting a makeover.  As part of an effort to expand its appeal beyond the foreign policy establishment, every iss ...
  • DuPont awards bring focus to dangers of report ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: DuPont awards bring focus to dangers of reporting from war-torn Syria  —  Two reported series about the war in Syria will receive Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards during a ceremony at Columbia University's Low Memorial Library next month.  &md ...
  • BBC Inquiry Blames Rigid Management for Mishan ...
    New York Times: BBC Inquiry Blames Rigid Management for Mishandling Sex Abuse Scandal  —  LONDON — A report into the sexual abuse crisis that has shaken the British Broadcasting Corporation was strongly critical on Wednesday of the editorial and management decisions that l ...
  • Digital Media's Citizen Kane (Jennifer Hicks/F ...
    Jennifer Hicks / Forbes: Digital Media's Citizen Kane  —  Out of the London tech scene comes a 28-year-old journalist/entrepreneur surrounded by controversy whereever he goes.  Whether it was the publishing of his private dispute between himself and the tech editor of The G ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Swann says series win in India perfect 'l ...
    Tweet London, Dec 19(ANI): England off spinner Graeme Swann believes their historic Test series win in India has given the team the perfect launch pad ahead of the Ashes series next year. Swann said winning in India after such a long span was a special achievement for the team and winning th ...
  • More than 40% of Washington-area resident ...
    An annual AAA travel survey released Tuesday found that more than 40 percent of the residents in the Washington region plan to travel over the holidays, The Washington Post reported. The one thing that people staying here can count on is that traffic will be a mess. “During Christmas and New ...
  • Berlusconi Says Italy May Be Forced to Le ...
    Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday Italy would be forced to leave the euro zone unless the European Central Bank gets more powers to ensure lower borrowing costs. Berlusconi, who announced this month he will again lead...
  • Wheat, rice output stagnating: Scientists
    Tweet Washington, Dec 19 (IANS) A wilting Green Revolution is adversely affecting grain output in China and India, warn US and Canadian scientists, adding that output of crops meant to feed animals or provide car fuel seems to be getting priority. The scientists found that the output of whea ...
  • Copper futures decline 0.27 pc on global ...
    NEW DELHI: Copper prices declined by 0.27 per cent to Rs 445.40 per kg in futures trade amid a weak trend in the global markets and profit-booking...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Interview with Hanadi Assoud
      SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-14", width: 550, height: 400 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://www.truthnews.com.au/slideshowpro/images.php?album=14" } }); ...
  • Stop Smart Meters Australia - Part 1
    Today's show features an interview with a representative of Stop Smart Meters Australia, an organisation which is opposing the introduction of electricity smart meters which are currently being rolled out in homes throughout Victoria. From the petition: Victorian Citizens are being forced to ...
  • Chris Emery on recent film projects - Part 1
    The Crew of Free Mind Films, creators of "A Noble Lie". Clockwise from left: Austin Green, Holland Vandennieuwenhof, Chris Emery and James Lane. My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Chris Emery, co-producer of the award winning documentary "A Noble Lie", which exposes the US government' ...
  • Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 2
    Part 2 of Halloween Special with Josh Jackson
  • Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 1
    In tonight's show we bring you a menagerie of weirdness as we plough through the many bizarre themes which dominate the news on this Halloween night. We look at recent developments in the Julian Assange case, with a Parliamentary Briefing on the case now in progress. In the 2nd hour am joine ...

Beacon

  • Victory! EU Moves Towards Overhaul of Fisherie ...
    Bottom trawler at Sant Carles de la Rápita, Spain ©Oceana Today the Fisheries Committee of the EU parliament voted to radically reform its fisheries management policies, for the better. After 18 months of negotiations the body voted to put in place new measures that would effectively end over ...
  • Oil Still Leaking From Deepwater Horizon Site
    Yesterday BP and the Coast Guard took a stealthy cruise in the Gulf of Mexico to look for oil leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. That’s right, two and a half years after the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, oil is still leaking near the infamous Macondo well ...
  • Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council Takes Stand ...
    Bryde's whale chows down. ©Randy Morse  www.GoldenStateImages.com Precautionary approaches to fishery management for the ocean’s tiny fish are picking up steam across the US West Coast. California state wildlife advisors recently adopted the state’s first forage fish policy by a unanimo ...
  • DOE Gives $28 Million Boost to Offshore Wind
    The Department of Energy wants wind ©Oceana News yesterday that the Department of Energy had awarded $28 million to a range of innovative offshore wind projects around the country came as, dare we say it, a breath of fresh air? In total, seven projects will be receiving $4 million each. Thes ...
  • Q&A: Callum Roberts
    Callum Roberts is a professor of marine conservation at the University of York in England and author of the 2007 book “The Unnatural History of the Sea.” His second book, “The Ocean of Life”, was published this spring. Oceana asked Roberts about the new book and why we need a “New Deal” fo ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • President Obama’s House Poodle, Nancy Pelosi, ...
    “Yes, I do… I believe the President has shown great leadership in what he put forth…” Pelosi, adding, “Yes, the Democrats will stick with the president — and maybe not every single one of them.” [Huffington Post] WHAT WILL the rest of the congressional D ...
  • Freedom of the Press Foundation Launched to ‘B ...
    Glenn Greewald writes, about the new Freedom of the Press Foundation, at The Guardian (emphasis added throughout post): Nothing is more vital than enabling true transparency and adversarial journalism, and preventing further assaults on them. Greenwald is a member of the Board of Directors of th ...
  • Poll: 60% of Americans Oppose what Obama is Pr ...
    Most Americans oppose slashing spending on Medicaid and the military, as well as raising the age for Medicare eligibility and slowing the increase of Social Security benefits, all of which appear to be on the table in negotiations. Majorities call each of these items “unacceptable.” – Poll ...
  • Adam Lanza’s “Prepper” Mother Warned Former Ba ...
    A man who says he once babysat for Newtown, Conn., gunman Adam Lanza says he recalls Lanza’s mother warning him never to turn his back on the boy – not even to go to the bathroom. [CBS News] ANYONE HAVING a child in the house who is this mentally unstable and dangerous, but also owns ...
  • What Civic Conscience Means for Businesses and ...
    There are, however, actions that we as a firm can take. Accordingly, we have determined to immediately engage in a formal process to sell our investment in Freedom Group. We will retain a financial advisor to design and execute a process to sell our interests in Freedom Group, and we will then r ...

Hudson New York

  • UK: Free Press Under Threat
    Within Europe, British newspapers have fought hard to be free. In the early 19th Century, Napoleon -- unable to trust his own newspapers, used as propaganda pieces, to provide him with accurate news -- was forced to read the British newspapers to find
  • Egypt's Christians: Caught in the Middle
    While the conflict in Egypt has largely been portrayed as a conflict between secular Egyptians -- or "moderate Muslims" who oppose full-blown Sharia -- and Islamists, led by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, who want a Taliban-style Sharia to
  • Islam: Fastest-Growing Religion in Britain
    Islam is the fastest-growing religion in England and Wales, according to new census data that the British government says "describes the defining characteristics of the population, who we are, how we live and what we do." The latest tranche of data from
  • Egypt's Islamists Sexually Assaulting Women
    It is a tough time in Egypt for the non-Islamists in general and for women in particular -- all thanks to the Western tolerance for Islamists' hijacking the Arab revolutions. The Muslim Brotherhood [MB] will apparently stop at nothing to achieve their
  • Palestinians: The Third Intifada Has Begun
    By allowing Hamas to celebrate its 25th anniversary in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority leadership is paving the way for a third intifada against Israel. In fact, in the past few days, the third intifada has already begun, as violent clashes

Urban Survival

  • Our Monthly Port Check
    Here we go again…time for our monthly tour of the West Coast ports which are often a pretty good ‘truth detector’ as to what’s going on in the real economy.   The Port of Long beach had a screamer of … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Answers for Dave
    Speaking of reader Dave, he sent along a longish email which may be of general interest:   “Hi, I am a subscriber who turned 70 this year and have several items but I know you are busy so I have … Continue reading →
  • Land of Wrong Answers
    We postulated for Peoplenomics readers a while back that as the USA (and rest of world) continue plunging deeper into economic chaos that we would expect to see more business models built on dividing people, polarizing them, and then extracting … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Miracle Money Technique No ‘Tric ...
    A while back I mentioned – and in fact gave a lot of very specific direction courtesy of our consulting astrologer(ette) who taught me the technique.  It’s all laid out over here, if you were in Madagascar that morning.   … Continue reading →
  • Life on the Ragged Edge
    The very first peek at the market this morning showed the futures were up a tad…but after seeing the Dow bleed off 74 points Thursday, and the S&P losing 9, Peoplenomics readers will appreciate why in my personal trading system … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

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    Donald Trump ~ Fall of America & Fall of the dollar & Economic collapse Donald Trump ~ Fall of America & Fall of the dollar & Economic collapse American Economic Collapse Started! American Economic Collapse Started! Where not to be when The Dollar Collapses! fiat currency Th ...
  • Alex Jones ~ The World is Not Ending Our Secon ...
    US society is broken...let the gun lovers have... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
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    Authority on Nostradamus and prophetic... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
  • The Government Can Read your Emails without a ...
    The 4th Amendment was rendered meaningless long... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
  • Emergency Alert ~ Obama Wants Your Guns NOW !
    Treason, running drugs and guns, murder stealing... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Over a dozen groups join NRDC in calling on NY ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Earlier today, NRDC, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on behalf of the Waterkeeper Alliance, and a dozen other national and statewide groups sent a letter to the Cuomo Administration calling on it to open the on-go ...
  • Better Air Quality In Hong Kong
    David Pettit, Director, Southern California Air Program, Santa Monica, CA In early December of 2012 I attended the Better Air Quality conference in Hong Kong along with my colleagues Barbara Finamore and Rich Kassel.  I had never been to Hong K ...
  • Oil Industry Says We Can't Get Off Oil, Indepe ...
    Max Baumhefner, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco If California is to reduce its pollution to a level climate science makes clear is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, it must address the transportation sector, which acco ...
  • Week of 12/14: Cleaner energy policy, carbon p ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke was a guest on MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes” in a series of segments (first, second, and third) on American energy policy, emphasizing that the Clean Air Act allows ...
  • Legalize Solar
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Several news headlines came out last week showing continued growth of solar energy in the U.S.: "Residential solar systems reach an all-time high in Q3 2012" "Solar City Corp. IP ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • ‘A slap on the wrist’
    From the Washington Post: IF A WITNESS hadn’t shot video of two Prince George’s County police officers savagely beating John McKenna, a University of Maryland student, after a March 2010 men’s basketball game, that would probably have been the end … Continue reading &#859 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, December 14, 2012: Update: Washington Township, New Jersey: An officer is facing 13 criminal charges in connection to an arrest. The charges include official misconduct, submitting a false report, … Continue reading →Nat ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, December 13, 2012: James Island, South Carolina: An officer faces one count of leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death. The officer was charged for leaving … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, December 12, 2012: Raton, New Mexico: A police officer has resigned following a recent gathering at his home that allegedly involved underage drinking. http://ow.ly/g16G5 Oakland, California: A college instructor … Continue ...
  • Woman Tasered Outside Apple Store; Police Say ...
    More here.Woman Tasered Outside Apple Store; Police Say “Routine” Call is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Twitter’s 200 mi ...
    Twitter announces 200 million monthly active users, Samsung drops some of its European injunction requests against Apple and Google helps to unwrap more of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It’s all... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Twitter lets some user ...
    Twitter has started letting a small percentage of users download an archive of all their tweets, the Apple App Store’s growth is slowing according to Appsfire, and Twitter and Nielsen... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: You can now gift apps in iOS ...
    You can now gift apps to others on Apple’s App Store in iOS 6, Google+ gets a bevy of new features, and The White House must provide an official response... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Maps for iOS is final ...
    Google has finally released a Maps app for iOS, Last.fm is killing off most of its Radio services, and John McAfee lands in the USA. It’s all in today’s Daily... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Internet Explorer vuln ...
    On today’s Daily Dose catch the latest in browser vulnerabilities, slot games, and filtered posts. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web.... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Congo ranger ambushed and killed defending wil ...
    Atamato Madrandele, Chief Warden of Upemba National Park, was ambushed and killed December 16, 2012 by Mai Mai militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, reports the Upemba Conservation Project.
  • Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2012
    Below is a quick review of some of the biggest environmental stories of 2012. The 'top stories' are listed in no particular order. Climate change, overpopulation, consumption, and ecological destruction is pushing planet Earth toward a tipping point according to a major study in Nature released ...
  • 2 small companies recognized for tropical fore ...
    Two Latin American companies have won the WWF Switzerland Tropical Forest Challenge, a competition that aims to highlight and support for-profit entities that have a positive impact on conserving tropical forests.
  • Pictures: 126 new species discovered in Greate ...
    Some 126 new species were described in Asia'a Mekong region last year, notes a new report published by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
  • Indonesia's big REDD+ project announcement "pr ...
    The Indonesian government's announcement at climate talks in Doha that it had approved the country's forest conservation project under its Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program was premature, argues a new report from an Indonesian environmental group.

Sierra Express

  • Millenium Challenge Account Selection – Sierra ...
    Washington, D.C., 12 December  2012 – Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the United States of America, H.E Bockari Stevens accompanied by Head of Chancery Mrs. Isha Sillah last Friday met with senior executives of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) at their 14th Street office in Wa ...
  • Need for an inclusive cabinet – rejoinder
    Do we really understand the circumstances under which such is formed? Rejoinder from: Anthony Kamara (Sr), Canada After a General Election, people always offer this suggestion for an inclusive cabinet.  The idea itself is sane and receptive to many minds.  But I want to offer a free lecture on p ...
  • African Republic: UN envoy signs agreements on ...
    12 December 2012 – A senior United Nations official today concluded a visit to the Central African Republic (CAR) – her first mission abroad since her appointment – with the announcement of two agreements on conflict-related sexual violence with stakeholders in the country’s peace process. (Phot ...
  • Need for an Inclusive Cabinet
    Equitable distribution of cabinet positions can foster national peace and unity and consequently strengthen our hard won democracy. Inversely, a biased sharing of cabinet posts can be a recipe for discontentment. Therefore, as we anxiously await the official pronouncement of President Ernest Bai ...
  • Hon. Alhaji Dr. Dumbuya – thank you for your s ...
    The Honorable Alhaji Dr. Dumbuya in collaboration with family, friends and the All People’s Congress party affiliates hosted a thank you event on Sunday 9th December 2012, in recognition of all the hard work including moral and financial contributions made during his campaign and successfu ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy prices up 1.1pc in overnight auction (+g ...
    Prices of dairy products rose in the final GlobalDairyTrade auction of the year, though whole milk powder, the biggest product by volume, fell for the fourth sale in a row,The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.1 per cent compared to...
  • Brian Rudman: One sales pitch to kids that no ...
    You have to feel sorry for Fonterra. Even with a role model as wholesome as the All Black captain to announce it was offering free milk to all New Zealand schoolkids, this stellar act of generosity hardly made the news. Perhaps next...
  • Fonterra share scheme wins seal of approval
    Fonterra's Trading Among Farmers (TAF) share trading scheme received its final, albeit retrospective, seal of approval at the annual meeting yesterday.When TAF was put to shareholders at a meeting in June, the first resolution,...
  • Farmers to continue selling raw milk
    Farmers will be allowed to continue selling raw milk at the gate, Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson has announced.Consultation carried out by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) on possible changes to rules for raw drinking...
  • Fonterra boosts forecast payout
    Fonterra has revised its forecast payout range for the 2012/13 season to $5.90-$6 per kg of milksolids, up 25c per kg compared with the previous forecast, reflecting a recovery in dairy prices that has taken place since May.The...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • President Obama’s War Report: War on Terror in ...
    President Obama’s latest war powers report to Congress provides the most recent round-up of officially acknowledged U.S. military operations around the world. As in the last war powers report, the war on terror remains worldwide and indefinite, with the bulk of forces engaged in A ...
  • Shikha Dalmia on How Big Labor Will Fight Mich ...
    It seemed to happen in a flash. A cradle of the U.S. labor movement became the 24th state to adopt right-to-work laws, when Republican Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed legislation last week banning mandatory union dues. The unions barely had time to muster one big protest in t ...
  • Surging UKIP is Not Libertarian, Despite What ...
    The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) is at its highest ever poll rating, thanks in large part to a fall in support for the Conservatives. UKIP is now polling at 9 percent, a 3 percent increase from last month. The Conservatives have seen a 4 percent fall in approval. UKIP, ...
  • Ronald Bailey on Meaningful Action to Prevent ...
    Who are school shooters? A Safe School Initiative study reported that out of 37 incidents, all of the perpetrators were male, ranging in ages 11 to 21. Three quarters of them were white and most were living with at least one biological parent. Over 40 percent were doing well in scho ...
  • White House Rejects Yet Another Boehner Propos ...
    House Speaker John Boehner's proposal for a "back-up" tax bill got a thumbs-down from the White House even as the president defended his proposal to raise the threshold on those supposedly necessary tax hikes. Honestly, they're just screwing around, now. House Democrats have a ...

Mercury Rising

  • Something to really celebrate
    Richard Engel, NBC correspondent, and his crew were freed. Brian Stelter and Sebnem Arsu, NYT: Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, and three of his crew members were freed on Monday after five days in captivity in Syria, the news organization said on Tuesday. … The ...
  • All you need to know about the finance/economi ...
    Gavin Kostick as presented by John McHale explains the different schools of modern finance/economic theory (via Krugman): [Scene: A spacious drawing room in Frankfurt. A patient is strapped to a table. M Drachet in attendance, plus admirers] M Drachet: Our diagnosis for this fellow is an excess ...
  • All you need to know about the finance/economi ...
    Gavin Kostick as presented by John McHale explains the different schools of modern finance/economic theory (via Krugman): [Scene: A spacious drawing room in Frankfurt. A patient is strapped to a table. M Drachet in attendance, plus admirers] M Drachet: Our diagnosis for this fellow is an excess ...
  • Keystone XL’s Window Of Profitability Cl ...
    In a recent edition of the Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin newsletter, I saw the following statement: Canadian heavy oil actually traded under $50/barrel this week—less than half the price of Brent-priced international crude. It is by far the cheapest crude on the planet right now. (The industr ...
  • Keystone XL’s Window Of Profitability Cl ...
    In a recent edition of the Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin newsletter, I saw the following statement: Canadian heavy oil actually traded under $50/barrel this week—less than half the price of Brent-priced international crude. It is by far the cheapest crude on the planet right now. (The industr ...

Reality Sandwich

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  • Help the Xingu Tribe
    [Action Alert] • The Belo Monte Dam project aims to destroy a significant piece of the Amazon rain forest, and displace the Xingu tribal community. The dam is being constructed so that the river bed can be mined for gold using gigantic floating platforms that will drill and suck the riverbed ...
  • An Interview with John Trudell
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  • End Times Radio
    Catch "2012: The End of Time," on BBC Radio 4, tonight at 8pm GMT, produced by Phil Pegum and featuring Daniel Pinchbeck. The video in the link will be live after the program is broadcast. read more
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Desertification

  • OP-ED: A Universal Climate Change Agreement Is ...
    The results of the United Nations climate change conference that closed in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 8 show once again that the international negotiations are moving steadily in the right direction, but alarmingly slow. At the heart of these negotiations is nothing less than the most challenging energ ...
  • Critics Brand Climate Talks Another Lost Oppor ...
    Rich countries came to the U.N. climate talks in Doha intent on delaying needed action on climate change for another three years and a still to be hammered out new global treaty. This delay will be extraordinarily expensive and risky. Every year that fossil fuel emissions fail to decline adds to ...
  • Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts ...
    The United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without financial commitments between 2013 and 2015. “This an incredibly weak deal,” said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a coalit ...
  • A Hotter World Is a Hungry World
    Food prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18, scientists and activists say. Carbon emissions are already disrupting the world&# ...
  • An Empty Table at Doha Climate Talks
    United Nations climate talks are on the edge of collapse Thursday, according to a coalition of civil society and representatives from half of the world’s countries. Once again, rich industrialised nations are putting nothing on the table in terms of increased emissions cuts and financial s ...

Blogging Canadians

  • A Very Merry Christmas…
    Let’s all join together and send a full-throated and heartfelt Merry Christmas to Ashu M. G. Solo in Saskatoon – and nothing else. No other well wishes, just that: A Very Merry Christmas. This one is especially for you, Mr. Solo: See the story here: A Saskatoon man has complained to the city b ...
  • The United States of America (USA) and "Tyranny"
    The Right to Secede by Joseph Sobran As originally posted on: SOBRAN'S September 30, 1999 How can the federal government be prevented from usurping powers that the Constitution doesn’t grant to it? It’s an alarming fact that few Americans ask this question anymore. Our ultimate defense a ...
  • Democracy and "Government"
    Elections and The State by Kent McManigal As originally posted on: Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog November 11, 2012 Government. It's not the drunk at the throttle that's the problem. He controls less than you believe. It's that the locomotive was designed to self-destruct- an ...
  • Disbarred Manitoba Lawyer Robert Fisher
    The following disciplinary notice has been edited in terms of formatting. THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA NOTICE OF DISBARMENT TAKE NOTICE that by resolution of a Panel of the Discipline Committee of The Law Society of Manitoba, ROBERT LEWIS FISHER was fou ...
  • "The Oppressive State"
    @VicPopuli Preserving a free State is an obligation. Keeping/bearing arms to fulfill obligation is a right. Secede from the oppressive State by Bryan Runnels As originally posted on: Bryan Runnels (scythewieldor) on Twitter December 7, 2012

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CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
    In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
  • I am a marathoner.
    Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...
  • A Post-Sandy Report from Far Rockaway
    Hello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]
  • Five Questions for SPS Veterans
    To all of the veterans, active troops, and military families in the SPS community, we thank you! Returning home and making higher education a goal is not always easy.  We asked alum Armando Vega, and current student Enrique Diaz to share some of their thoughts on being student veterans. 1. What ...
  • American Red Cross Volunteer
    Hello friends, Some of you know already that I volunteered at a Red Cross shelter on Long Island as part of the disaster relief efforts after the Hurricane Sandy (Monday, 10/29/2012). I’d like to share some of these experiences with you. You would hardly believe the pace of work at these p ...

Dissident Voice

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

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Community Water Management Stuck in Legal Limbo*
    Legal recognition is being sought for community-based water services, which supply this vital resource to some 2,500 rural communities in Mexico.
  • Curbing Tanzania’s “Land Grabbing Race”
    From January 2013, Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can “lease” for agricultural use. The decision follows both local and international criticism that major investors are grabbing large chunks of land here, often displacing smal ...
  • A Third Intifada on the Horizon?
    A new Palestinian group called the National Union Battalions (NUB), comprising Palestinians from across the political spectrum, has called for a third Palestinian uprising or Intifada. Simultaneously, Israeli intelligence is warning that conditions on the ground in the West Bank are ripe for ano ...
  • BRICS Tracking Where the Money Flows
    The five leading developing nations grouped in the BRICS alliance – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – are planning to intensify efforts to collect accurate trade data, so they can get a better picture of trade flows. The exercise will help with economic planning, and will give impr ...
  • Neo-Cons, Israel Lobby Mobilise to Pre-empt Ob ...
    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 secretary of defe ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • "We want to do everything we can to make sure ...
    Summary: Flynt Leverett, author of Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, discusses why Iran – contrary to popular belief – isn’t a nation composed of suicide-bombers and “Mad Mullahs;” the difficulty of debunking 33 years of anti-Iran pro ...
  • Pro-Israeli lobby worried about Hagel's nomina ...
    Summary: It is sort of fun watching the nervousness of the pro-Israeli lobby over the potentional nomination of Chuck Hagel as Obama's Secretary of Defense. There is speculation that he may not be willing to do "what is necessary to stop Iran" as Jonathan Tobin puts it over at Commentary. And ...
  • Hagel, Kerry, and Obama’s Second Term
    Summary: The Obama administration’s central foreign policy goal of maintaining global hegemony through unaccountable aggression and imperial policies the world over will proceed in the second term. Hagel or no Hagel. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Iran nuclear talks produce a litmus test
    Summary: The planned modality to be signed next January is a litmus test and it won't be too long before we know if the IAEA has achieved a breakthrough in asserting its independence, rather than a pawn of Western powers. source: Asia Timesread more
  • Iran Pushes Election Plan to End Syrian Civil War
    Summary: The Iranian government has unveiled its “six point plan” during the opening of a new conference on the Syrian Civil War, urging both sides to back a plan to end fighting and hold snap presidential elections. source: antiwar.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Organic Building Blocks Found Everywhere in t ...
                   Recent discoveries in vast interstellar dust clouds permeating the universe and in nebula have revealed hints of organic matter that could be created naturally by stars, according to researchers in a 2011 study at the University of Hong Kong. The discovery team  obs ...
  • CERN's Research Confirms Existence of Higgs Bo ...
                     The latest research findings from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN show that the CMS and ATLAS experiments are now reporting that the significance of their observation of the Higgs-like particle is standing close to the 7 sigma level, well beyond the 5 required ...
  • Scientists Trace Fossils to Map Prehistoric Eq ...
                     A team of researchers have discovered where the equator was "precisely located" 450 million years ago, which is an important breakthrough for paleontologists and planetary scientists, as well as private and public mineral resource companies. Jisuo Jin and Phil McCausl ...
  • Swarms of Tiny Futuristic Robots to Create "Li ...
                           University of Colorado Boulder professor Nikolaus Correll and his computer science research team, have developed a basic robotic building block, which he hopes to reproduce in large quantities to develop increasingly complex systems. Recently the team created a ...
  • Did a Massive Supernova Explosion Trigger the ...
                    A new study published by University of Chicago researchers challenges the notion that the force of an exploding star prompted the formation of the solar system. In this study, published online last month in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, authors Haolan Tang and Nic ...

Natural News

  • Exclusive: Cops, detectives, FBI agents, U.S. ...
    In the wake of the recent Sandy Hook shooting, I reached out to my contacts in law enforcement, military and (retired) FBI over the last three days, asking three simple questions: #1) Do you think Obama will use executive orders to demand nationwide gun confiscation...
  • Sandy Hook, Dark Knight Rises, Aurora, Skull & ...
    (NaturalNews)The confirmed discovery that at 1hr:58 of the Dark Knight Rises, Commissioner Gordon is pointing to the words "Sandy Hook" on a map of the Gotham area has caused a storm of interest. As it should---since 27 people were just killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary Scho ...
  • Individual organs capable of independent immun ...
    Individual organs may possess innate, individual immune systems separate from the body's larger immune system, suggests a study conducted by researchers from The Rockefeller University, Harvard Medical School and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute. To date...
  • Grapefruit and prescription drugs make a deadl ...
    For many people, a glass of grapefruit juice at breakfast is as cemented into their daily routine as the steaming mug of morning coffee. Unfortunately; however, research from a Canadian institute has been recently released, and for some grapefruit lovers, the new information...
  • Talented musician zapped to death by cell phon ...
    Violinist Michael Nield, tragically committed suicide because of an allergy to cell phone radiation. Nield, 36, was an educated man, a graduate of Oxford, and a victim of what could be called an allergy or extreme sensitivity to the radiation which emits from all cell...

Threat Level

  • Judge OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Data in Landma ...
    Federal prosecutors may introduce cell-site data obtained without a warrant in the retrial of a District of Columbia drug dealer who was the subject of one of the Supreme Court's biggest electronic privacy decisions in decades. The decision is a ...
  • Cosmo the God Hijacks Twitter Account of Hatef ...
    The 15-year-old hacker known as Cosmo the God was behind the takeover of a Westboro Baptist Church member’s Twitter feed, a source with direct knowledge of the attack confirmed to Wired on Monday. Cosmo gained access to the @DearShirley Twitter account ...
  • Scarlett Johansson Hacker Gets 10 Years
    A Florida man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges in connection to hacking the e-mail accounts of actress Scarlett Johansson and dozens of other celebrities. Christopher Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville, Florida, had hijacked ...
  • Broadcasters Demand Dish Network Stop Commerci ...
    Claiming a major threat to its business model, broadcasters are urging a federal appeals court to order Dish Network to shutter its DVR service because it allows the automatic skipping of commercials, breaching copyright law and retransmission agreements.
  • State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in ‘Catch- ...
    A federal judge said Friday the Obama administration has pinned him in an inescapable, paradoxical situation when it comes to whether he should dismiss a lawsuit accusing the government of siphoning Americans' electronic communications from telecoms and funneling them to ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • "None of Your Civil Liberties Matter Much Afte ...
    As the Obama administration and Congress ponder their responses to the slaughter in Newtown, Connecticut, one of the central tensions in the American system of government is once again coming to the fore. That is, the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution's Bill of Rights are neither absolute ...
  • Eight Years Too Late, Rice Is Out at State
    Last week, UN Ambassador Susan Rice took herself out of the running to become the next Secretary of State, apparently clearing the way for Senator John Kerry. But whether or not Rice was the best choice--or even President Obama's first choice--for the position is largely beside the point. Hist ...
  • Texas Cuts to Family Planning Triple State Exp ...
    When a federal judge ruled in August that Texas can withhold millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics, Governor Rick Perry proclaimed it a "win for Texas women." As it turns out, Perry's crusade against Planned Parenthood isn't a win for either the women of ...
  • Lindsey Graham Promises Global "Financial Coll ...
    It's bad enough that obstructionist Republicans in Congress have shattered the record for filibusters, blocked President Obama's judicial at an unprecedented rate and stonewalled economy-boosting legislation like the American Jobs Act. Now for the second time in as many years, extortionist GOP ...
  • CBS Misleads Small Businesses about Fiscal Cliff
    Among the very worst practices of American broadcast news is the "focus group of one." That is, reporters casually substitute the tale of a single person, company or community for actual analysis of a complex issue. And so it was Sunday, when CBS Evening News profiled Rod Hudson of Quicksilver ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Solar Wind, Space Turbulence Measured For The ...
    Researchers from the University of Iowa have directly measured space turbulence in the lab for the first time. “Turbulence is not restricted to environments here on Earth, but also arises pervasively throughout the solar system and beyond, driving chaotic motions in the ionized gas, or pla ...
  • Extreme Changes Predicted For The U.S. East Co ...
    The eastern part of the United States is expected to experience everything from extreme drought to enormous hurricanes in the near future as a result of climate change, a new study from the University of Tennessee confirms. “Joshua Fu, a civil and environmental engineering professor, and Y ...
  • Zeta Ophiuchi, Giant Star Imaged As It Creates ...
    An incredible infrared image of the giant star, Zeta Ophiuchi, has been captured as it moves through space making waves in the interstellar dust. The image was captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The researchers think that the star very likely once had a companion star that was lar ...
  • Keystone Pipeline Blockade Update: 80 Days In ...
      Protests against the Keystone Pipeline — and other new fossil fuel pipelines (i.e., Enbridge) — continue across North America and are increasing in scope. From Canada to the southern United States, people are organizing a variety of protests, locally and on a nationwide basis. ...
  • Hatred Of Gays Trumps Hatred Of Big Gov
    More gay craziness from the Right From PlanetSave: Mass Bird & Fish Deaths Due to Gay Marriage! Problem Solved You can also get a hard copy of this cartoon in the current issue of Yes! Magazine. Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon page… Hatred Of Gays Trumps ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Discovery fires Nugent The Discovery Channel has cancelled the popular American Guns reality show, and while they were at it they made it perfectly clear that they won't be making another episode of the Gun Country special that was hosted by nutjob Ted Nugent. In fact, that deranged l ...
  • I've Heard This Song Before
    By @TomBales1 Like Peter Noone used to sing... "Second verse, same as the first". Once again I had Mr. Obama's back during the campaign and through the election.  And once again before we've even made it to Inauguration Day there are people around him talking about concessions to the gutle ...
  • It's a fine line
    By @BGinKC It's a fine line between being prepared and being crazy. I am the former but not the later, as evidenced by the fact that I won't shoot you if you call me the latter. But I am prepared - not for anarchy and the fall of the government, but for power outages, mostly. I keep bottled wate ...
  • The Something for Nothing Crowd
    By @TedFrier These two stories about America's 1% are related. First, from this story on fiscal cliff negotiations from Andrew Sullivan at Daily Beast: This morning, we have a true insight into why this country's fiscal standing is so perilous: because of the GOP. News late last night seemed to ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Daniel Inouye, 88 It's with a heavy heart I bid "aloha" to the most Senior member of the Senate. Daniel Inouye passed away Monday afternoon at Walter Reed Medical Center after being admitted last week for respiratory distress. He lost an arm fighting in Italy in WW II and was awarded ...

Care 2

  • Golden retrievers sent to comfort Newtown surv ...
    A Lutheran charity group has sent about 10 golden retrievers to comfort the survivors of Friday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Lutheran Church Charities in Addison, Ill., sent the dogs on an 800-mile journey to respond t Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals ...
  • Scrooge on steroids at UNFI
    "LESS THAN two weeks before Christmas, United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) has fired 72 workers at its Auburn, Wash., distribution center.Steve Leigh reports on a struggle against union-busting by Washington Teamsters." Submitted by Brian M. to Business  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • ACTION ALERT: LET CONGRESS KNOW: HANDS OFF OUR ...
    "Congress could reach a deal on the national budget crisis soon. But if Big Oil and Big Coal get their way, funding for some of our most important environmental programs could get slashed, all while dirty energy companies keep getting unfair tax breaks." Submitted by Brian M. to Environment &nb ...
  • Can We Finally Disarm the NRA?
    Only if voters are willing to square off against a gun lobby that has almost never been challenged. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Montana's first-ever wolf trapping season open ...
    Montana's first wolf trapping season begins Saturday, and more than 2,400 people statewide have been certified to participate."We are clearly aiming to reduce the wolf population in Montana," *cries* Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • The Mothers Cry Help
    Assault weapons are a cannard. They really are irrelevant to the trauma of repeated mass killings by deranged white kids. We had the spectacular primal scream of Liza Long, whose article, “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother,” has gone viral. Now there is Deborah Gordon. She actually is a ...
  • John Kerry for Secretary of State? (Open Thread)
    From the post, “Uncertain Hagel and Kerry” by John Batchelor (written December 15th and revised in light of recent news). – Bronwyn John Kerry in the Scott Brown Seat. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, National Security Adviser Tom Donlion, Sen. John Ke ...
  • Can We Fix Mental Illness?
    I hate politicians who embrace the banal as the solution for problems that are beyond solution. They should be chained together and tossed into the ocean (hopefully inside a bag weighted with cement blocks). There are those nitwits who insist that all we need is more gun laws. We need, they pont ...
  • Wreckers of the Arab Spring
    John Batchelor wrote: “The reversal of fortune in the Arab Spring appears to be a surprise to the Obama administration as Cairo now reveals the wolf in wolf’s togs of the Moslem Brotherhood.” I spoke Eric Trager, Malcolm Hoenlein, Sebastian Gorka in re the Morsi declaration tha ...
  • HK2 Open Thread * Ravi Shankar
    I cracked up when I saw this headline at the UK Telegraph: “In truth, Ravi Shankar couldn’t stand the hippies“: The rock audiences who came to pay homage he haughtily dismissed in his autobiography as “these strange young weirdos”; while his appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock ...

Futurismic

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

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Mountaintop Removal

  • Canada mining expansion prompts fears of pollu ...
    Canada mining expansion prompts fears of pollution flowing into Montana The Missoulian Most of the Canadian mining takes place by open pit or mountaintop removal methods. Runoff from the explosives used in that mining has added lots of nitrogen and phosphorus to the water system. Sexton said the ...
  • Save Energy and Don't Trash That Can - KCET (blog)
    Save Energy and Don't Trash That Can KCET (blog) The people protesting against mountain top removal mining. The guy on the streetcorner pulling aluminum cans out of the trash. Wait, what? We mainly think about energy use when we're the ones using the energy directly: turning light switch ...
  • The solar-powered bike-car thingy we've all be ...
    Scientific American (blog) The solar-powered bike-car thingy we've all been waiting for Scientific American (blog) ... I don't know, an OrganoEcoloSocioEconoGreenoPod, and it's designed in Delft and assembled in Korea and by the time you've shipped it to your city you might just ...
  • Explosives company faced scrutiny before Louis ...
    Explosives company faced scrutiny before Louisiana evacuation The Daily Advertiser The company also came under scrutiny in West Virginia where it was using an old military explosive called tetryl in mountaintop removal mining for Catenary Coal Co. in 2006 and 2007, according to documents reviewe ...
  • Vernon Haltom: Faith and coal don't mix - Op-E ...
    Vernon Haltom: Faith and coal don't mix - Op-Ed Commentaries - The ... Charleston Gazette He and the majority of West Virginia's politicians rely not on the sciences that tell us that wet slurry dams collapse and mountaintop removal dust harms our health, but rather on faith. Faith that ...

Memeorandum

  • Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change (Matt ...
    Matt Ridley / 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 may actually be beneficial.  —  Forget the Doha climate jamboree that ended earlier this ...
  • The Choice - In 1782 an expatriate French aris ...
    Richard Stengel / TIME: The Choice  —  In 1782 an expatriate French aristocrat named J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur who lived in New York's Hudson Valley published a book in London called Letters from an American Farmer.  The third letter was titled “What Is ...
  • Benghazi report could tarnish Clinton's legacy ...
    Julian Pecquet / The Hill: Benghazi report could tarnish Clinton's legacy  —  The Benghazi report released Tuesday night bemoans “systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies” in Hillary Clinton's State Department that could come back to haunt her sho ...
  • Quoting Rush Limbaugh Verbatim Is the Easiest ...
    Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online: Quoting Rush Limbaugh Verbatim Is the Easiest Way to Discredit Him  —  His broadcasts since the Newtown shooting are an apt illustration of his self-contradiction and lack of intellectual integrity.  —  Reuters  &mda ...
  • Boehner: Raising Medicare age can wait until n ...
    Sam Baker / The Hill: Boehner: Raising Medicare age can wait until next year  —  Congress doesn't need to raise the Medicare eligibility age this year, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday.  —  Raising the eligibility age from 65 to 67 was on the tabl ...

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China Dialogue

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    有机磷农药如今是世界上使用最广泛的杀虫剂，但研究证实，少量接触有机磷农药可 ...
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    2008年金融危机使得金融业声名扫地。而全社会对投资的社会责任和生态责任的诉求再&#27 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • America, the Sort of Country Your Mother Broug ...
     To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.On New Year's Eve 2003, Khaled el-Masri, an unemployed car salesman from Germany on vacation in Macedonia, was removed from a bus and kidnapped by the CIA due t ...
  • Unionized Teachers, So Vilified By the Right, ...
     Friday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., teachers and school staff were the first first responders. Teachers got their students into bathrooms and closets, teachers kept their students calm, and some teachers lost their lives. Principal Dawn Hochsprung ...
  • Is Obama Throwing Seniors Off a Cliff?
    This morning brings news of a possible deal on the horizon, concerning the “fiscal cliff.” Obama would get the an extension of the Bush tax cuts for households with incomes under $400,000 (not $250,000, which was his goal), a two-year debt limit reprieve, the eliminatio ...
  • Libertarian Suggests Children Should be Traine ...
     In an attempt to distract from an emerging debate over how much to strengthen gun laws, Newsweek and Daily Beast special correspondent Megan McArdle called for people, even children, to be trained to "gang rush" active shooters. The Department of Homeland Security, however ...
  • Wall Street Giant Dumps Gun Maker
    Move over, National Rifle Association: another powerful player is (literally) invested in the gun industry--so much so that they’re helping to block reform. Wall Street private equity firms are the latest roadblock gun safety advocates have to go up against. The New York Times’ ...

Threat Level

  • Judge OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Data in Landma ...
    Federal prosecutors may introduce cell-site data obtained without a warrant in the retrial of a District of Columbia drug dealer who was the subject of one of the Supreme Court's biggest electronic privacy decisions in decades. The decision is a ...
  • Cosmo the God Hijacks Twitter Account of Hatef ...
    The 15-year-old hacker known as Cosmo the God was behind the takeover of a Westboro Baptist Church member’s Twitter feed, a source with direct knowledge of the attack confirmed to Wired on Monday. Cosmo gained access to the @DearShirley Twitter account ...
  • Scarlett Johansson Hacker Gets 10 Years
    A Florida man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges in connection to hacking the e-mail accounts of actress Scarlett Johansson and dozens of other celebrities. Christopher Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville, Florida, had hijacked ...
  • Broadcasters Demand Dish Network Stop Commerci ...
    Claiming a major threat to its business model, broadcasters are urging a federal appeals court to order Dish Network to shutter its DVR service because it allows the automatic skipping of commercials, breaching copyright law and retransmission agreements.
  • State Secrets Defense Corners Judge in ‘Catch- ...
    A federal judge said Friday the Obama administration has pinned him in an inescapable, paradoxical situation when it comes to whether he should dismiss a lawsuit accusing the government of siphoning Americans' electronic communications from telecoms and funneling them to ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • 5 E. coli illnesses linked to now recalled ham ...
    The same strain of E. coli O157:H that was isolated from five patients in Alberta and Ontario was also found in Butcher’s Choice brand Garlic Peppercorn beef burgers, according to... Continue Reading
  • Norovirus Link to Wyoming Golden Corral Confirmed
    Early last week, the Casper-Natrona County Health Department reported that it was investigating several reports of intestinal illnesses.  They announced that they were also coordinating efforts with the Epidemiology Section... Continue Reading
  • Canadian Meat Recalls Expands Due to E. coli I ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Cardinal Meat Specialists Ltd. are warning the public not to consume the Cardinal Select brand Prime Rib Beef Burgers described below because this... Continue Reading
  • Pennsylvania Raw Milk Cows Being Tested for Sa ...
    The Chester County Health Department has been informed of an increase of severe gastro enteric symptoms among persons who drank raw milk supplied by Kimberton Farms Dairy. Kimberton Whole Foods,... Continue Reading
  • Dairy Linked to Past Outbreaks and Recalls Sue ...
    According to Mateusz Perkowski of the Capital Press, Organic Pastures Dairy Co. of Fresno, California is suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for allegedly ignoring its request to... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • VIDEO: New "Kochtopus" Graphic Maps the Influe ...
    The author of a new report on U.S. carbon billionaires gives Democracy Now! a tour of the Kochtopus — a map of the empire of Charles and David Koch. The Kochs run oil refineries and control thousands of miles of pipeline, giving them a massive personal stake in the fossil fuel industry. ...
  • VIDEO: Watch Amy Goodman on MSNBC on Gun Contr ...
    Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman spoke Saturday on Up With Chris Hayes about the national the role played by mental illness in attacks like the mass shooting Friday in Newtown, Connecticut and what society might endeavor to do differently to avoid these types of horrific attacks in the futur ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Saturday, December 15th at 8-10 am ET.
  • The Trials of Bradley Manning
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Pfc. Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own defense, in a preliminary hearing of his court-martial. Manning is the alleged source of the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history. He was an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, ...
  • VIDEO: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Cli ...
    As Venezuela says President Hugo Chávez has undergone successful cancer surgery in Cuba, after disclosing that his cancer had returned, we revisit a 2009 interview in which he discusses climate change and President Obama. Democracy Now! ’s Amy Goodman spoke with Chávez at the 2009 Unit ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • This Bird Loves Ray Charles!
    YouTube [CAF Note: The news is just too ugly this week. I grew up in West Philadelphia. When the neighborhood experienced a beat down, we would take a break and dance. So I am reviving this post from May 2010. Shake a leg!]
  • Precious Metals Market Report – December 13
    And when they [wise men] were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.  ~ Matthew 2:1 By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday, [...]
  • Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War ...
    By Matt Taibbi If you’ve ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you’ve ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or “drug paraphernalia” in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a messag ...
  • The Corbett Report – 3D Printing
    Ever dream of a future free from the shackles of mindless mass-produced consumerism? A future of complete freedom, instantaneous manufacturing, and self-designed made-to-order one-of-a-kind goods? With additive manufacturing, that future is now. Join us today on The Corbett Report as we explore ...
  • Maps of the 2012 US Presidential Election Results
    Here is a map of US counties, again colored red and blue to indicate Republican and Democratic majorities respectively: Now the effects we saw at the state level are even more pronounced: the red areas appear overwhelmingly in the majority, an appearance again at odds with the actual results of ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Fabius Maximus

  • The IPCC sees the pause in global warming!
    Summary:  Today we look at one of the many interesting graphics from the leaked draft of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), this one showing the pause in global warming. And at the various responses of scientists to this data. . Contents A powerful graphic Three responses to this da ...
  • Yet another mass killing in America. Watch the ...
    Summary:  After the latest mass killing, our Right-wing goes crazy again, displaying our nation’s broken OODA  loop for all the world to see.  On a hopeful note, perhaps each of these episodes brings us closer to realizing our madness — the first step to reform. Comments The “h ...
  • Bin Laden won, with our assistance. Our applau ...
    Summary:  The real story told by “Zero Dark Thirty” is the historic victory of bin Laden, and the price he paid for it. Americans demonstrate this by their ignorant, enthusiastic applause for darkness of The New America, and their eager acceptance of the lies lovingly told by the fil ...
  • The ice caps are melting! Only massive governm ...
    Summary: Earlier this week we showed an example of crude propaganda about climate change (much like the dying children in “How to Cut Carbon Emissions“). Today we look at an example of excellent climate propaganda, and speculate about the wider significance of these matters. . Scienc ...
  • BRIC building: the future of Brazil, Russia, I ...
    Summary: Today we have a follow-up by Paul Schulte to Does corruption limit China’s growth, or pose a threat to its existence? He looks at the leading emerging nations, comparing them to the US and UK at similar point in their evolution to greatness. . Guest Post by Paul Schulte Institutional In ...

Open Your Eyes News

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The Progressive Realist

  • When Assad Dropped the Façade
    AP Photo/Gurinder Osan Syrian President Bashar al-Assad  In 1994, Bashar al-Assad was appointed chairman of the Syrian Computer Society. It was the only official title he would hold before landing the country’s top job, president, in 2000, but the appointment seemed to speak volumes about the di ...
  • An Attack Against Polio Workers Is a Crime Aga ...
    This happened today: Five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers have been shot dead in a string of co-ordinated attacks – four within 20 minutes across Karachi. The fifth woman was shot and wounded in the city of Peshawar in the north-west and later died of her injuries. A UN-backed ...
  • John Kerry, the Most Progressive Pick for the ...
    The optics of Susan Rice’s withdrawal from consideration for Secretary of State are disheartening. Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post and Representative Marcia Fudge of Ohio attributed racism and sexism to the campaign against Rice, with Marcus writing that “the attack had something to do with R ...
  • Top of the Morning: 5 Polio Workers Killed in ...
    Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service — DAWNS Digest. 5 Pakistani Polio Workers Assassinated A series of well coordinated attacks targeted women working to end polio. “Gunmen killed five Pakistani women working on a U.N.-backed polio vaccination campaign in two differ ...
  • Just $2.3 Billion Is What We Need to Defeat Ma ...
    Humanity has made impressive gains against Malaria in the past 12 years, but unless funding is scaled up we will never rid endemic regions from the disease. That’s the one sentence summary of the World Health Organization’s 2012 World Malaria Report, out today, which warns that a loo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Chairman Summers? Let’s Hope Not
    AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers addresses a press conference after attending the Group of Seven finance ministers in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2000. He’s back. Larry Summers is running hard to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal ...
  • Whither NRA?
    There are some serious, perhaps insurmountable obstacles to any new gun-safety measures being passed through Congress. Specifically, the House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans, and nearly all of them have been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. Those endorsements didn't ...
  • The Uses and Limits of Knowledge About Guns
    We're about to start the portion of this debate where we begin discussing specific actions the government might take to address gun violence. And as we do, particularly when it comes to those measures that concern the guns themselves (as opposed to measures focused on the people who can get the ...
  • Leverage Technology
      Any strategy going forward must lead to the next set of big ideas about how to reinvent America in order to thrive in our 21st-century world. How do we transform our economy? Our society? How do we govern ourselves, given the new realities of the world around us? How do we operate when everyt ...
  • When Assad Dropped the Façade
    AP Photo/Gurinder Osan Syrian President Bashar al-Assad  In 1994, Bashar al-Assad was appointed chairman of the Syrian Computer Society. It was the only official title he would hold before landing the country’s top job, president, in 2000, but the appointment seemed to speak volu ...

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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Legal guidelines on social media
    Lawyer and blogger Jack of Kent has published an interesting article discussing the preliminary guidelines on how prosecutors under English law should approach social media. To my mind, I assume that a prosecution would be appropriate if a tweet, Facebook update or other public posting breaks th ...
  • Deceived Wisdom about wine
    In my book, one of the myths I debunk is that surrounding the etiquette of removing the cork from a bottle of red wine to allow the wine to “breathe”. It’s clearly nonsense as the air-liquid interface is too small to have any significant effect. There are some claims that aerat ...
  • Labradors, dirty socks and mustard
    A conversation on Facebook where I highlighted Freeny’s model of the internal organs of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, reminded me of an incident with our pet labrador that happened a couple of years ago. She ate a pair of my wife’s dirty socks, thrown off in curled up form after a lon ...
  • Breaking scandal at the BBC
    This is a disgrace. Octagonal snow flake (actually a snow crystal) on BBC’s 2012 Christmas ident. Snowflakes abide by hexagonal symmetry of due to crystal packing characteristics of water molecules in ice. As they would know if they’d read Deceived Wisdom. Hasn’t there been eno ...
  • Homeopathy is nothing
    The reason that homeopathy is so perfect as a form of quackery is because it is quite literally nothing. On second thoughts, I suppose that it’s not exactly nothing. It is, after all, water or whatever other diluent that homeopaths use (usually ethanol). However, thanks to some basic laws of phy ...

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