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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

19 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: Red fox. Public domain image from U.S...
English: Red fox. Public domain image from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
North America and Pelican Nebulae (narrowband)
North America and Pelican Nebulae (narrowband) (Photo credit: DJMcCrady)

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

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Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Obamacare Needs Clearer Guidelines About The H ...
    One of Obamacare’s major approaches to tackling skyrocketing health care costs is by encouraging a healthier citizenry through a combination of healthy-living incentives to doctors and patients and free preventative care services for Americans. Smoking cessation efforts have been a major p ...
  • 84 Percent Of Kickstarter’s Top Projects Are S ...
    I’m all for viable funding mechanisms for projects, artistic and otherwise, that couldn’t get greenlit through conventional means. But as a CNN Money analysis of the top fifty most-funded projects on Kickstarter has discovered, enthusiasm for an idea doesn’t remotely translate ...
  • Lead House Republican On Guns: No Gun Regulation
    Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) ruled out any support for new gun control legislation Tuesday afternoon. The legislator, who received an A rating from the National Rifle Association, told CQ Roll Call that “gun control is not going to be something that I would support.” Goodlatte chairs th ...
  • Defense Budget Advances With Watered-Down ‘Lic ...
    As expected, the defense budget bill has advanced out of conference with a watered-down version of Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) “license to bully” amendment, which protects anti-gay servicemembers from discipline. According to the Washington Blade, the new version of the “cons ...
  • 4 Key Tax Provisions That Expire At The End Of ...
    Most of the ink spilled over negotiations surrounding the so-called “fiscal cliff” — the year-end set of tax increases and spending cuts — has covered the impending demise of the Bush tax cuts. But several other important tax provisions will also expire, some with severe ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Obama Infatuation Syndrome
    Yeah, so he signed the NDAA (promising never to use it himself even though he's already done so). So he bails out Wall Street criminals with taxpayers' money while slashing aid to ordinary US Americans. So he kills US citizens and their teenaged children in "targeted assassinations.." So he okay ...
  • Human Rights
    Went to the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday. Up in the Institute for Contemporary Culture room there's an exhibit documenting the human rights crimes of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. A big part of the exhibit are the ID photos of new arrivals to the S-21 Prison. We read the bios of four of the im ...
  • Chief Spence's Hunger Strike
     Chief Spence of Attawapiskat must be on Day Seven of her hunger-strike in the shadow of Parliament Hill. The AFN is seeking to have Harper meet with regional and tribal council chiefs from across the country. Aside from a meeting between a handful of chiefs and Harper in his Langevin Blo ...
  • Bad Taste Post
    It's in bad taste, but my own visceral responses to the mass-shooting of elementary school kids in the USA yesterday have included the following: That the USA has to have a serious discussion with itself about the nature of a peculiarly US sickness that produces such a disproportionate amount o ...
  • Why We Hate Them ...
     I'm actually pretty damned busy these days but I just had to vent about this. Scum-bag harpercon lawyer, Arthur Hamilton, bloviates about how election results shouldn't be overturned by legal challenges: "Counting the votes on election night cannot simply mean that just decided who will b ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Health Canada proposes marijuana be treated li ...
    Health Canada has proposed that marijuana be treated more like other medicines, where its production and distribution can be commercialized.
  • Fans want Justin Bieber to apologize for mocki ...
    Fans and supporters of Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao want Canadian singer Justin Bieber to issue a public apology for mocking Manny Pacquiao in his Instagram post following Pacquiao's stunning knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez last Dec. 8.
  • Tim Hortons rewarding customers with 'random c ...
    Starting Tuesday until Saturday, Tim Hortons will be undergoing a "This One's On Us" campaign at many locations across Canada and the United States. When customers make their order, they will be randomly selected to receive a free order.
  • Is Olivia Chow the only one to beat Toronto Ma ...
    Councillor Adam Vaughan? No. Former Budget Chief Shelley Carroll? Nope. What about John Tory? Not quite. New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Olivia Chow? It seems she is the only one that can defeat Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in a mayoral race.
  • ETFO teachers hold Super Tuesday one-day strik ...
    Close to half of Ontario's teachers walked off the job on Tuesday over a contentious battle with Queen’s Park regarding Bill 115. The protests and rallies left hundreds of thousands of elementary and junior high school students out of the classroom.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Ships: The next great boondoggle
    Auditor General Michael Ferguson, who recently introduced a little reality to discussion of the planned F-35 procurement, is now turning his sights on the Harper government's "National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy".
  • Video: Catastrophic humanitarian consequences ...
    International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War has released a video detailing the humanitarian, medical, and environmental consequences of nuclear war and explaining why nuclear weapons must be eliminated.
  • No stealth fighters! Send your letter to the e ...
    Please write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Use our letter-writing plug-in on Ceasefire.ca; we have provided some suggested comments for your convenience.
  • More surveillance of Ceasefire.ca revealed
    Documents obtained by Postmedia News show that part of this has included a determined effort to track coverage and criticisms of the program . . .
  • Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free zone would be stepp ...
    Declaring the Arctic a zone free of nuclear weapons would be a stepping stone towards reaching Global Zero, argues Thomas Axworthy.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-29-12
    Today, Kevin explains how congressmen and government officials make a killing on making money from insider information! You won’t believe the net worth of some of these congressmen and congresswomen! Plus, Fred Van Liew gives you the facts behind electromagnetic chaos and how it is virtual ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-17-12
    Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life. Self Help: Grass Fed Meat & Poultry KT’s Daily Supplement Program Change Your DNA Vibration Health: How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet? Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 C ...
  • Brrrrr! It’s Cold Out There!
    It is cold out there! So, what can you do to warm up and avoid the huge heating bill at the same time?! There are things you can do to keep warm besides blasting the heater or wearing wool from head to toe. How to Stay Warm During the Cold Season Poor circulation may be [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-8-12
    Today, Kevin explains what the United States government would do if American citizens started to rebel! Plus, Dr. Betty Martini explains the DANGERS of Aspartame and why you need to avoid it at all costs! Health: Asparagus May Help Hangovers Wine Protects Skin from Radiation Government: An Army ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-7-12
    On this weekend’s edition of The Kevin Trudeau Show, Judge Andrew Napolitano stops by to expose why your freedoms are being forfeited by a government that is more protective of its own power than its constitutional promise to preserve your individual liberties. Click here to purchase his n ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Doomsday myth obscures plight of indigenous Mayans
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   At its peak, the Maya civilization had one of the richest cultures in the Americas. Today, ethnic Mayas in central America and Mexico suffer from discrimination, exploitation and poverty. In Guatemala, w ...
  • Keiser Report: Monetized Genocide (E381)
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMax Keiseryoutube.com In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert look at central banking monkeys performing cannonballs into the global dark pools, the backlash against quantitative easing and the Queen ticking orf th ...
  • Amazing Chi Energy “Iron Shirt” Demonstrations
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAmazing Chi Energy “Iron Shirt” Demonstrations By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com View the original article at Washingtons BlogCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • American Book of the Dead: City of Pain and Loss
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Beau Cephalus Protagonist and Love Interest: Eye knew love, and loved Love. Love, who had failed to complete her kid while splitting the prime infinitive (well before white tu ...
  • Dogs help Newtown residents cope with tragedy
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Lisa Peterson went straight to the dogs — therapy dogs, that is — when she returned home to Newtown from a business trip to Florida upon learning of the Sandy Hook school massacre. “I s ...

Dandelion Salad

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

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Liberman Resignation and Isra ...
    On Sunday, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Liberman stepped down from his post following charges arising from a 13-year investigation against him. 972 Magazine's Noam Sheizaf analyses... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • How an embroidered girl’s dress became a terro ...
    Addameer researcher: "Our lawyers can be found at military courts all the time. If they are dangerous - if we are dangerous to Israel's security - why don't they come to arrest us?" The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fif ...
  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the J ...
    International NGOs are working extensively in the Palestinian villages, towns and cities of Areas A and B, whilst Palestinians in Area C (including most of the Jordan Valley) are systematically... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Haneen Zoabi: If Balad is banned, Arabs won’t vote
    Haneen Zoabi: “Legally, they have no case. I never imagined myself to be in the middle of a war like this. I don’t think they will disqualify me. If so, and if Balad is disqualified, there will be no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israeli forces take over Jordan Valley in ‘Aus ...
    Since late October, major defence drills, including manoeuvres involving heavy tanks as well as air and missile training, have been taking place throughout the Jordan Valley as part of the joint... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, December 19, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Yesterday, in its second decision to date, the International Criminal Court acquitted Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui of the seven counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes against humanity he faced related to the conflict about ten years ago in the Democratic R ...
  • Small Steps: New Resolution Contains Some Imp ...
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon On December 17 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2083, which further details the listing / delisting criteria for the 1287 Al Qaida Sanctions regime.   This Resolution also extends the Ombudsperson’s mandate for another 30 months, guaranteei ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Syrian forces first surrounded a Palestinian camp in Damascus before then taking full control of it, a day after air raids killed at least 8 who were seeking shelter there inside a mosque. Israel has approved 1,500 more settlement homes in East Jerusalem, pr ...
  • China invokes UNCLOS in claiming sovereignty o ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’m gearing up for a Spring Semester teaching at Temple’s Tokyo campus.  As part of my preparations, I’ve begun to read-into some of the maritime boundary disputes between China and Japan that have caused so much friction between the two nati ...
  • IntLawGrrls Says Goodbye
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness I was saddened to read the announcement last week from Diane Amann — the indefatigable founder, editor, and voice of IntLawGrrls — that IntLawGrrls is closing its blog.  IntLawGrrls has been an amazing source of historical, topical and, at ti ...

Public News Service

  • Take Time to Heal from Nation's Trauma
    Take Time to Heal from Nation's Trauma PHOENIX - Families in Arizona and around the nation may be having a tough time getting into the holiday spirit because of the school shooting in Connecticut. Doctors and psychologists say it's common for children to become anxious after such events, even w ...
  • AZ-based Charity on List of 20 Worst
    AZ-based Charity on List of 20 Worst PHOENIX - Thousands of groups solicit for money in Arizona, so it's no easy task keeping tabs on them or figuring out which ones are legitimate. One way is to check a list compiled by the Oregon Attorney General's Office of organizations that spend the lowest ...
  • Living With Cancer During the Holidays
    Living With Cancer During the Holidays PHOENIX - Dealing with cancer is difficult enough, but the fast pace of the holiday season can make it even more stressful. The American Cancer Society says there is "Hope for the Holidays." Spokeswoman Jill Ireland says they are there for patients and care ...
  • Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for ...
    Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for Native American Schools PHOENIX – Three new wind turbines spin outside Leupp Schools on the Navajo Nation. On the roof, more than 10 kilowatts of solar panels have been installed. The additions help power the school while stimulating classroo ...
  • Attorney: Uranium and Explosives on “Mos ...
    Attorney: Uranium and Explosives on “Most Dangerous Toys” List PHOENIX, Ariz. - A blowtorch, asbestos and uranium. Children's toys with those features or ingredients are on a new list of the "10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time" from the American Association for Justice (AAJ). ...(Rea ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook to remove attribution when pages post ...
    Facebook today let developers know that it will be removing attribution from page posts that are made through third-party applications like HootSuite. Previously, these page posts would appear in the feed and on pages’ Timelines with a “via [app name]”...
  • Platform industry hires: Adaptly, Offerpop
    Please note that due to recent changes in the way Linkedin displays hiring information we have have changed the format of our weekly new hires posts. Companies who want their new hires included in the post must contact us directly...
  • Instagram says it doesn’t intend to ‘sell’ use ...
    Instagram today responded to concerns raised by users and the press after it proposed updates to its terms of use and privacy policy on Monday. In a blog post from CEO Kevin Systrom, the company clarified it does not intend...
  • Facebook enables mobile app installs direct fr ...
    Facebook today announced changes to its mobile app install ad unit, including a way for iOS 6 users to download apps without leaving the social network. Developers also gained new tools for customizing their ad creative and seeing the results...
  • Facebook prepping new video ads that could aut ...
    Facebook is developing a new video ad unit that will autoplay within the mobile and desktop News Feed, according to a source familiar with the social network’s plans. AdAge first reported about the new product, based on information from industry … Continue reading →

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • The EyeOpener- Self-Issued Credit: A Monetary ...
    As the global economy continues to slow down, the world is being asked to focus on issues of so-called “sovereign debt,” “austerity,” “fiscal responsibility,” “belt tightening” and other such euphemisms for the grim reality that the public is now b ...
  • Washington Targets Syria & Iran
    US policies threaten both nations. Doing so imperils the region and beyond. Syria’s now in focus. Iran’s turn awaits. What’s likely should terrify everyone wanting America’s imperium defeated and peace restored. Doing so remains a distant dream. Potential worst of times l ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

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Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Story Notes For Television Producer Shonda Rhimes
    I love the connection between "Doyle Energy," the fictional oil company owned by character Hollis Doyle (Gregg Henry) and "Cytron," a fictional Internet security company that also secretly develops software unofficially used for electronic voting machines. To get a pipeline through the country, ...
  • When you care enough about yourself to think t ...
    Post Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASseD) may not happen to many people on December 22--certainly not as virulently as it has in the past.
  • Two Confounding Items in the News Regarding th ...
    A U.S. military official recently announced that the U.S. military sometimes deliberately targets children for killing. This is, of course, entirely different from a lone, crazed, gunman such as Adam Lanza deliberately executing twenty children in their elementary school.
  • Our Country Has a Problem
    Our Country has a problem and that is a culture of fear,poverty and stress brought on by over consumption which has led to an increase in a culture of violence and a strange passion and perhaps obsession with guns, leading to tragedy after tragedy. The question is how can we stop it or at least ...
  • The Myth of the Fiscal Cliff: Another False A ...
    The fiscal cliff. Is it going to cause an economic meltdown or is it an excuse to institute the Bush era tax cuts.

Switchboard

  • What Does $8 Billion in Oil Subsidies Buy?
    Franz Matzner, Associate Director of Government Affairs, Washington, D.C. The fiscal cliff is fast approaching — and there’s a relatively simple way for Congress to raise some needed revenues, help the environment and satisfy taxpayers:& ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Intimidation
    The worst mistake to make with regards to Erik’s battle with accumulated wingnuttery is this: If I’m careful, it won’t happen to me. Erik employed an emotional-but-common metaphor to describe his feelings about a major public figure in the wake of a tragedy; the response has am ...
  • The First Victory Over the Gun Nuts
    Rick “Further Evidence That You Should Avoid Governors Named ‘Rick’ Like the Plague” Snyder has taken Michigan well down the road to being Texas north, but in the wake of Newtown is apparently declining to proceed any further for the time being. Meanwhile, enjoy this roun ...
  • Night Life
    I am too tired to post anything coherently. With the death threats, it’s been a bit crazy. I can assure all of you that I will not be intimidated. I will also say that I think it’s time to spend some time with Ray Price. Also, I want to express my sincere appreciation for those [...]
  • While I’m Waiting For Zero Dark Thirty&# ...
    I’m sure I’ll be returning to these essays once the movie makes it to the provinces, but until then I will note that the debate has inspired some brilliant writing from Glenn Kenny and Manohla Dargis.  (I particularly endorse Glenn’s point about the “standard viewer&#8221 ...
  • On Metaphors and Violence
    The last couple of days have been a bit challenging for me. Being attacked by a David Horowitz wannabe for saying I wanted to see Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick has led to a world of fun, ranging from a meeting with the Rhode Island State Police last night to people inundating the Univer ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

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How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Health Conference Addresses Problems of Post-C ...
    WHTF, incidentally, has a very interesting history. According to WHTF founder member, Professor Judy Lewis, who is Director, Global Health Education and Professor, Departments of Community Medicine and Pediatrics,
  • Is It Time For A Strategic Shift?
    It is over 12 years since Irom Sharmila went on a fast for the removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Manipur - an unprecedented protest staged by a single individual anywhere in the world.
  • Five LeT Militants Killed in Sopore Encounter
    The forces of SOG Sopore, 22 RR and 179BN CRPF had launched a joint search operation last night in the area on a tip-off about the presence of militants in Saidpora village, a police spokesman said.
  • Hawaii Senator Daniel K. Inouye Dies At 88
    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Senator Inouye has inspired others to reach for the American dream.
  • Time to 'Go Now' with Inspirational Lifestyles ...
    Guided meditation is a way of quieting your mind and connecting with your inner self and your higher source. It is a tool to help you relax. Its like a mini retreat for your mind, body, emotions, and soul.

environment 360

  • Coal May Rival Oil As World’s Top Energy Sourc ...
    Coal could rival oil as the world’s largest energy source within five years as consumption continues to climb in most regions of the world, a trend that could have profound effects on the climate, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. While coal consumption is expected to decline in the U. ...
  • ‘Peak Farmland’ Reached as Yields Rise and Gro ...
    The amount of agricultural land needed to feed the world’s population has reached its peak as a result of improved crop yields and slower population growth, and as much as 10 percent of the land currently used for farming could be “restored to Nature” within 50 years, a team of experts says. In ...
  • Too Big to Flood? Megacities Face Future of Ma ...
    As economic activity and populations continue to expand in coastal urban areas, particularly in Asia, hundreds of trillions of dollars of infrastructure, industrial and office buildings, and homes are increasingly at risk from intensifying storms and rising sea levels. BY BRUCE STUTZ
  • Car-Mounted Sensor Able to Pinpoint Sources of ...
    A U.S.-based company has developed a sophisticated sensing technology capable of detecting and pinpointing the source of even minor natural gas leaks from great Picarro VIDEO: Demonstration of the Picarro Surveyor distances, an innovation that could provide critical insights into the stil ...
  • U.S. Awards $28 Million to Offshore Wind Farm ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to provide $28 million in grants to seven proposed offshore wind projects, a financial commitment the Obama administration hopes will provide a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to gain a foothold in American waters. Each of the seven p ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Astounding Discovery In Mexico: 13 Individuals ...
    Mexican experts found a cemetery a few thousand years old in the state of Sonora that has features never seen before in that region and extending the zone of influence of the Mesoamerican peoples, said archaeologists from the Institute National Anthropology and History (INAH). A mere 300 meters ...
  • Smart Guns with RFID? "Only the Owner Can Shoot"
    TriggerSmart Childproof RFID Chip Smart Gun A startup company in Ireland has patented a system that uses an RFID reader in the handle of a firearm to ’verify the identity of its owner’. Is this a good idea that keeps us safe, or increased involvement of RFID technology and control in daily lives ...
  • Quantum Entanglement Leaps Beyond Einstein --" ...
    In 1935, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen, commonly referred to as EPR, published a thought experiment designed to show that quantum mechanics, by itself, is not sufficient to describe reality. Using two entangled particles EPR tried to demonstrate that there must be some hidden ...
  • UFO hacker Gary McKinnon charges dropped
    Officials in Britain have opted to drop all charges after a legal battle lasting more than a decade. Asperger’s Syndrome sufferer Gary McKinnon’s extradition to the United States was ordered after he was caught hacking in to sensitive government computer systems in an effort to find information ...
  • Scotland’s Mysterious Dog Suicide Bridge
    There are some things in this world that are simply beyond explanation. Like the fact that in the past 50 years, about 50 dogs have jumped to their deaths from the exact same spot on the 100-year-old Overtoun Bridge in Milton, near Dumbarton, Scotland. In 2005, five dogs had jumped in a span of ...

Russia Today

  • Adequate or faulty? Russian lawmakers vote for ...
    A fierce debate is raging in Russia as the country’s Lower House of Parliament readies a ban on US citizens adopting Russian children. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • UK Muslims slam ‘discriminatory’ gay marriage ...
    A bill proposed by the UK government allows gay marriages, but explicitly forbids the Church of England and the Church in Wales from blessing same-sex couples. British Muslims have criticized the proposition, demanding... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Instagram sex rumors spark Swedish teen riot
    At least 27 people have been arrested as angry Swedish teens filled the streets of Gothenburg to protest the scandalous content of an anonymous Instagram account that spread sexual rumours about local teenagers. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Britons pay £136 million a year on phone calls ...
    Not only does the UK’s tax agency skim your salary, but if you disagree with any of the bills it sends, you will have to call a premium phone line – and then hope they pick up. Auditors say the agency wasted £136m... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Parts for Patriot missile batteries arrive in ...
    Parts for the Patriot surface-to-air missile batteries Ankara requested from NATO have started to arrive in Turkey. They were accompanied by 39 German technicians, who will maintain the system. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • The Anti-Clause: Reverend Billy's No-Click Chr ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout.org [New York, December 18, 2012] Even for New York, this was WEIRD. There were a half dozen Santa Clauses on Second Avenue getting a sermon from a Midwestern preacher who looks like a cross between televangelist Jerry Falwell and a white-haired Elvis. The Santa Crew ...
  • Before it's too late...Xmas/Xanuka Gifts from ...
    By Greg Palast The Mayans sure know how to take the fun out of Christmas. The world ends on December 21... but that still gives you time, if you act NOW, to make your year-end tax-deductible donation to the not-for-profit Palast Investigative Fund. And we'll get a 'Thank You Gift' out to you (or ...
  • Don’t Touch that Snooze Button
    by Greg Palast Monday, December 10, 2012 By my initial calculation, 9.3 million Americans lost their vote on November 7 – purged from voter rolls, blocked at the polls, or had their “provisional” and absentee ballots thrown in the dumpster. Let's get to the bottom of this: In the next 90 days, w ...
  • Sandy De-Filed Us! Please Donate to our Hurri ...
    A personal note from Greg Palast Damn that Sandy! She flooded our New York office. I am asking those of you who can, to make a tax-deductible donation and download my New York Times bestselling book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps or simply make a con ...
  • Greg Palast at Los Angeles GreenFestival This ...
    Greg Palast will be the featured speaker at this Sunday's GreenFestival in Los Angeles. The presentation will be: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits A post-Election Analysis When and Where: Sunday, November 18, 2012  3 PM Main Stage Los Angeles Convention Center SOUTH KENTIA HALL 1201 South Figue ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Pharmagunddon: School Shooters and Psych Meds
    By Teresa Conrick Here at Age of Autism, we have been sharing with our readers the realities of the increasing numbers of children being diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. With that comes many topics, including vaccine injury and regression,...
  • CBS Radio Covers Newtown Shooter: Kim Staglian ...
    Yesterday I was on CBS 880 - their flagship am station out of New York talking about Adam Lanza and the massacre in Newtown - just 10 miles from my home. You can read and find an audio link to...
  • Fox News On Autism and Adam Lanza: Rebecca Est ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to EBCALA's Rebecca Estepp and Autism Action Network's John Gilmore for appearing on Fox News yesterday to discuss the Newtown shooting and Asperger's. I would suggest to Fox News that they change their caption -...
  • American Academy of Pediatricians Wants to Kee ...
    No, this is not a report from The Onion. America's Pediatric Union is fighting to keep mercury in vaccines sent around the Globe. The American Academy of Pediatrics has endorsed the World Health Organization's stance that thimerosal -- a mercury-based...
  • Dear 60 Minutes: Which Professional Diagnosed ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Just reading the transcript from 60 Minutes and saw the following below. Mark Tambascio is described as a Lanza family friend. There is no mention whether Lanza was formally diagnosed - it could have been a mother...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • U.S. scraps 'otter-free zone' in Southern Cali ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to allow sea otters to roam freely down the Southern California coastline, abandoning its program to relocate the voracious shellfish eaters from waters reserved for fishermen.
  • Pollution limits proposed for Malibu Lagoon an ...
    Even though nearly half of the Malibu Creek watershed is undeveloped open space, the creek and its mouth, Malibu Lagoon, are far from pristine.
  • Brain tumors in raccoons linked to newly disco ...
    An eerie new disease is cropping up among raccoons in Northern California and Oregon: brain tumors that may be linked to a previously unidentified virus discovered by a team led by UC Davis veterinarians and researchers.
  • Draft of global warming report leaked online
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the most scrutinized of scientific bodies. Each report, each sentence and sometimes even a footnote can bring on a rousing online debate between scientists and the skeptics who love to bedevil them.
  • Climate change taken seriously by insurance in ...
    Paying out billions of dollars here and billions of dollars there has made the global insurance industry a believer in climate change, according to a new study that shows insurance companies are staunch advocates for reducing carbon emissions and minimizing the risk posed by increasingly severe ...

water.org

  • Give a Gift, Get a Gift
    From now until December 31st, when you make a Water.org gift to a friend using Facebook Gifts, we'll send you a free 24oz. CamelBak Podium water bottle.
  • A mother’s dream come true
    In her lifetime, Rajamma wanted to see her daughter get a good education. However, for a family living in the slums of Bangalore, this was an almost unattainable goal.
  • CNN Big Stars, Big Giving
    Co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon appear on CNN’s holiday special.
  • A community's bright future
    Since childhood, Jacque helped her mother collect water from wherever they could scavenge it near their village in the Central Plateau of Haiti. Children often got ill with diarrhea from drinking water collected from open and unprotected water sources.
  • Leveraging the collective online voice
    To further the work of causes around the world, Water.org has open sourced it's "donate your voice" technology that allows non-profits to effectively organize and execute viral online campaigns.

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • Health Conference Addresses Problems of Post-C ...
    WHTF, incidentally, has a very interesting history. According to WHTF founder member, Professor Judy Lewis, who is Director, Global Health Education and Professor, Departments of Community Medicine and Pediatrics,
  • Is It Time For A Strategic Shift?
    It is over 12 years since Irom Sharmila went on a fast for the removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Manipur - an unprecedented protest staged by a single individual anywhere in the world.
  • Five LeT Militants Killed in Sopore Encounter
    The forces of SOG Sopore, 22 RR and 179BN CRPF had launched a joint search operation last night in the area on a tip-off about the presence of militants in Saidpora village, a police spokesman said.
  • Hawaii Senator Daniel K. Inouye Dies At 88
    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Senator Inouye has inspired others to reach for the American dream.
  • Time to 'Go Now' with Inspirational Lifestyles ...
    Guided meditation is a way of quieting your mind and connecting with your inner self and your higher source. It is a tool to help you relax. Its like a mini retreat for your mind, body, emotions, and soul.

Worldnews

  • 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...

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MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Washington Targets Syria and Iran
    by Stephen Lendman US policies threaten both nations. Doing so imperils the region and beyond. Syria's now in focus. Iran's turn awaits. What's likely should terrify everyone wanting America's imperium defeated and peace restored. Doing so remains a distant dream. Potential worst of times loo ...
  • Tortured in Sinai, Imprisoned in Israel
    by Stephen Lendman A new Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) report is titled "Tortured in Sinai, Jailed in Israel." More on it below. Separate and unequal defines longstanding Israeli policy. Arabs aren't wanted. Neither are non-Jewish immigrants or asylum seeker. Discriminatory law ...
  • Islamofascist Killers Threaten Syria
    by Stephen Lendman They're merciless cutthroat murderers. They commit grotesque atrocities. Torture, beheadings, and other monstrous savagery are all in a day's work. They're Washington favorites. They're recruited, heavily armed, trained, funded and directed in all US regional wars. Ronald Re ...
  • The First Casualty of War is Truth; Gallipoli, ...
    By Gary G. Kohls, MD “We're not made by God to mass kill one another, and that's backed up by the Gospels. Lying and war are always associated. Pay attention to the war-makers when they try to defend their current war. If they’re moving their lips they're lying.” -- quote from ...
  • Holocaust not Hope
    By Gilad Atzmon This week, a new Jewish ‘progressive’ text has been published which you simply must read and circulate around - not because it’s any good, quite the opposite, it is, as usual, just a window into a tribal psychosis and a glimpse into morbid, Jewish, progressive ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Beyond Political Torture, Bradley Manning case ...
    Robert Scheer Washington Post - Keep an American soldier locked up naked in a cage and driven half-mad while deprived of all basic rights, and you will be instantly condemned as a barbaric terrorist. Unless the jailer is an authorized agent of the U.S. government, in which case even treatment ap ...
  • Reverend Billy Is the Anti-Claus With Message ...
    By Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed - Even for New York, this was WEIRD.  There were a half-dozen Santa Clauses on Second Avenue getting a sermon from a Midwestern preacher who looked like a cross between televangelist Jerry Falwell and a white-haired Elvis. The Santa crew and their mini-skirt ...
  • Peace Chaplain
    From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from peace activists in the USA, Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan. A seminarian contributed this chapter about learning to love her enemies. Because of her activism, she prefers to remai ...
  • Keystone XL Tree Protesters Call It Quits Afte ...
    By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News – Activists say their tree blockade may soon be over as construction on the Texas property wraps up. But their efforts to stop the pipeline are not. Activists who had hoped to block the southern leg of the Keystone XL in Texas by occupying trees in the ...
  • New press freedom group is launched to block U ...
    guardian.co.uk Series: Glenn Greenwald on security and liberty - Nothing is more vital than enabling true transparency and adversarial journalism, and preventing further assaults on them Several weeks ago, I wrote about the steps taken by the US government to pressure large corporations to choke ...

FourWinds10

  • New evidence suggests BP knowingly downplayed ...
    Dec. 8, 2012 Thousands of previously unread emails will be presented to court in February 2013 BP claim they always provided full disclosure on worst oil spill in history, new information seems to show otherwise Documents that will be presented to court in February appear to show that BP knew ab ...
  • Sydney's secret undersea scrapheap [AU]
  • TV: 'Some beaches have essentially turned into ...
    June 23, 2012     Shoes swept up in tsunami land on Washington beaches KING5.com Seattle by LINDSAY CHAMBERLAIN June 22, 2012 at 1:44 PM A grim and personal reminder of the thousands of lives lost in last year’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan is drifting toward the West Coast &m ...
  • GMO Farming, Glyphosate Significant Causes of ...
    June 29, 2012 Water pollution and air pollution has been and continues to be a serious issue in many nations. Both of these pollution types are successfully bringing down the health of not only humans, but also animals, plant life, and the ecosystem as a whole. While the causes of water pollutio ...
  • Amazon of Europe Threatened by a Straightening
    BELGRADE, Jun 30 2012 (IPS) - Wildlife is being increasingly threatened around the Danube river, the “Amazon of Europe”. The need for profit is taking over from the need to protect natural resources along the river. Austria and Croatia are engaged in a major project to tame the Danub ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Grading My Energy-Related Predictions for 2012
    In my list of Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2011, I made five predictions for 2012. Those predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline project will be approved (although ...
  • An Oil Company Finds Itself On the Losing End ...
    When most people hear the term "fossil fuel subsidies" it conjures up images of governments giving their hard-earned tax dollars to already highly profitable oil companies. But a Brazilian subsidy is causing Petrobras to import gasoline and sell at 8% below cost.
  • Hofmeister: US Could Tap into 1.6 Trillion Bar ...
    The surge in shale oil production shows that new technologies can convert formerly uneconomical oil resources into oil reserves, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that this could also be the case with kerogen.
  • Hofmeister: Treat Climate Change as a Waste Ma ...
    John Hofmeister outlines his ideas for what would constitute a sound plan of attack on climate change.
  • President Obama Has Little Impact on Oil and G ...
    Following President Obama's reelection, a number of fossil fuel stocks sold off based on the belief that Obama's policies would prove harmful to the fossil fuel industry. But will the President manage to push through tough new regulations that raise the cost of production for fossil fuel companies?

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • What Factory Farms Are Doing to Fish
    What to do with animal poop? It's a question that plagues organic and factory farmers alike, and in areas with lots of factory farms (also called concentrated animal-feeding operations, or CAFOs), animal manure is accused of adding high levels of nitrogen and phosphorous to nearby waterways, ro ...
  • France Bans BPA in Food Packaging
    Safer canned food is on its way to France. The French parliament recently voted to ban the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from food packaging, making it the first country in the world to do so. BPA is used in the epoxy linings of metal food cans, in certain types of plastic and as a c ...
  • The Quest to Detox Sports Drinks
    If news of chemical flame retardants in Gatorade and certain sodas makes you want to spit your drink out, know that there's a 15-year-old going to bat to clean up the soft drink industry. The New York Times recently ran the story of Sarah Kavanagh, a Mississippi teen who started a Change.org p ...
  • EPA to Study Chemical Safety in a Way That Act ...
    When you shampoo your hair in the morning, you aren't grabbing a jar of synthetic fragrance chemicals and scrubbing your hair clean. Likewise, you aren't chasing your daily apple with a shot of pesticides. Yet that's how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently determines "safe& ...
  • Do You Live in a Winter Farmer's Market Hotspot?
    Certain parts of the country are turning into winter wonderlands, at least as far as locavores are concerned. According to new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data, listings for 2012 winter farmer's markets jumped 52 percent compared to 2011, highlighting a continuing trend in the sustain ...

big think

  • Atheists in Music & Art
    [Editor's Note: This is a guest post by AJ Johnson. Raised Baptist in the Bible Belt, she became an atheist after learning about evolution and the immoral verses in the Bible. She's a former development director of American Atheists and currently serves on the board of Recovering from Religion a ...
  • The Science of Creativity in 2013: Looking Bac ...
    In 1950, the American psychologist Joy P. Guilford delivered a lecture to the American Psychological Association (APA) calling for a scientific focus on creativity. Psychology knew little about creativity at the time. Years earlier, during WWII, the Air Force commissioned Guilford, then a ... R ...
  • Quick Read: The Heroics of the Late Daniel Ino ...
    There's a lot one can say about Daniel Inouye, the late U.S. Senator from Hawaii. Senator Inouye continuously served Hawaii in the U.S. Congress from the time of its statehood to the time of his death yesterday. He was the second-longest serving U.S. Senator in history and the highest ranking As ...
  • Volunteers Wanted For Anonymous Internet Netwo ...
    What's the Latest Development? The Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that grew from a US Naval Laboratory research effort in the mid-1990s, is looking for users who are willing to let their computers serve as "nodes" in a network that allows completely anonymous Internet surfing. Cur ...
  • Coming Soon To Your Facebook News Feed: Video Ads
    What's the Latest Development? According to several advertising industry sources, Facebook is preparing to launch a new feature in the first half of 2013 that will allow them to display video ads on users' news feeds in the desktop version of the software as well as in their tablet and m ...

Information Liberation

  • Those Government Gun-Free Zones
    It's no big surprise. A gun massacre brings out the gun-control crowd, which loudly demands that gun control be imposed on the American people, as if that would have prevented the massacre in Connecticut. It's really a shame to have to trot out t...
  • Martial Law in One City: The Case of Paragould ...
    "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 pur...
  • SWAT cops to ask for IDs from everyone in Arka ...
    There isn't a lot to do in Paragould, Arkansas, but residents of the town of barely 25,000 seem to have no problem finding trouble. Now in order to curb the rising crime rate, the city is proposing heavily armed police patrol the streets on foot. ...
  • Merely Being Arrested Can Ruin Your Life
    "You never have a `right' to resist arrest," insists Des Moines-based attorney Harley Erbe (who is wrong, of course). There are two reasons why Mundanes must immediately submit to "commands" issued by the state's costumed enforcers, Erbe explains: ...
  • U.S. Gov't Asks Federal Judge to Dismiss Cases ...
    As Americans mourn the deaths of 20 children and 6 adults in the Newtown, CT tragedy - and the gun control debate has reached a fever pitch - autonomous killing systems are being funded by American taxpayers, and drone strikes continue to kill an inc...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Estimating Risk to California Energy Infrastru ...
    Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for the California Energy Commission (CEC) http://www.osti.gov/bridge/purl.cover.jsp?purl=/1026811/1026811.PDF [From Press Release] Looking at a range of future climate scenarios, Larry Dale, an economist at Berkeley Lab, found that California may need as much as 30 ...
  • Controlling Air Emissions from Outer Continent ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42123.pdf [From Summary] Air emissions from outer continental shelf (OCS) operations are subject to different regulatory programs, depending on the location of the operation. The Department of the Interior (DOI) has jurisdiction ove ...
  • Emergency Assistance for Agricultural Land Reh ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42854.pdf The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers several permanently authorized programs to help producers recover from natural disasters. Most of these programs offer financial assistance to producers for a loss in t ...
  • Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Eco ...
    Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment US Geological Survey http://downloads.usgcrp.gov/NCA/Activities/Biodiversity-Ecosystems-and-Ecosystem-Services-Technical-Input.pdf [From Press Release] Plant and animal species are shifting their geographic ranges and the timing of their li ...
  • Constructing Change: Accelerating Energy Effic ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/international/india-constructingchange.asp [From NRDC Press Release] …a new report shows that prioritizing energy-efficient building construction in India’s booming cities will help India meet its enormous energy needs, improve energy s ...

Scientific American - News

  • Research Beagles Released as Pets
    Seventy beagle puppies originally intended for pharmacology research were released to adoptive families in India on Saturday, several weeks after activists alerted the Indian government that the animals had been falsely described as “pets” by the contract research organization seekin ...
  • Farmers in Nepal Use Urine to Boost Crop Yields
    SOTANG, Nepal – A two-day’s walk from the nearest road, over the hills and valleys below Mount Everest, farmer Budhiman Tamang loads a basket of cabbages to take to the weekly market. His cabbages are double the average local size, and since cabbages are sold by the kilo, they double ...
  • First Road Map of Human Sex-Cell Development
    The causes of infertility, which affects around 10% of couples, are often unknown, but may in some cases result from the body's inability to produce viable gametes -- also known as sperm and egg cells. The first study of the development of such 'germ cells' from humans could help sci ...
  • Hormones from Livestock Operations May Skew Fi ...
    Baby fish exposed to hormone-laden manure from Indiana farms were much more likely to be male than those raised in uncontaminated water, according to new research. [More]
  • Do You Accept the Science of Climate Change? [ ...
    Editor's Note: Excerpted from A Newer World--Politics, Money, Technology, and What's Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis , by William F. Hewitt. With permission from the publisher, University of New Hampshire Press. Copyright © William F. Hewitt, 2012. (University of N ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Funeral Procession for Rainier Women's Treatme ...
    DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE - More than 200 supporters of women's addiction programs at the Rainier Hotel took to the Vancouver streets today in a Right to Recovery Walk. They were protesting the end of funding for the on-site treatment program at the hotel, managed by the Portland ...
  • Cher Canada, c’est le temps! C’est à notre gén ...
    Aujourd’hui nous sommes le 16 décembre 2012 et la Chef Theresa Spence fait une grève de la faim depuis six jours. Contrairement à ce que certains médias rapportent, celle-ci ne fait pas une grève de la faim seulement pour protester contre le projet de loi C-45 ou même pour protester contre ...
  • Toad: Onkwehonwe Land Defender
    In the context of the inspiring fight for Native rights in the Idle No More movement, we especially need to support land defenders targeted by anti-Native rights activist ...
  • Eastern Door — Idle No More
    Anti-C-45 rally draws hundreds to the streets of Halifax K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) — Buoyed on by the thunderous drums of the Eastern Eagles, hundreds of Mi'kma'ki's original peoples and their allies marched through the str ...
  • On the Ongoing Insurrection at Notre-Dame-des- ...
      From Antidev Going at the ZAD (as in « Zone Autonome à Défendre », or « Autonomous Zone to Defend ») amounts literally to be getting lost in the middle of nowhere, to arrive on a war front, to the cornerstone of a conflict between two worlds; between ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Sandy Hook school massacre
    David Seaton's News Links I have little to add to everything written about this horrible massacre. I find myself especially moved by the heroism of the school teachers that died trying to protect the children in their care. There should be a statue of them in Washington and a wreath laid at its ...
  • Global Civics: The ideas the Tea Party fears m ...
    David Seaton's News Links In my last post I wrote how the fear of a new wave of reform propelled by the problems and abuses arising from globalization.Global Civics is the idea-force that would make reform possible if it spread, not only possible, but inevitable. Any collective global action w ...
  • What the Tea Party billionaires are really afr ...
    David Seaton's News Links Before starting off on the Tea Party's craziness, I would like you to examine some images from two nearly identical tragedies that occurred over a hundred years and several thousand miles apart. Later in the post I hope to make a connection between these twin horrors an ...
  • Susan Rice
    David Seaton's News Links In diplomacy the core question is often this: What do I want to get and what do I have to give to get it? Certitudes and bluntness get you only so far. It is less a question of what you know than how curious you are about what you do not." Roger Cohen on Susan Rice - ...
  • Palestine at the UN
    David Seaton's News Links  Some commentators have said the UN vote, which, by a massive majority, gave Palestine observer status is meaningless... Meaningless? Now, for starters, we finally are not talking about a stateless "PLO" or the "Palestinian people", we are talking about "Palestine" ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Know Your Gun Terminology!
    One of the more annoying features of the gun control debate is the frequent mockery from gun rights folks toward anyone who doesn't have a deep technical understanding of how firearms operate. After all, how much do you need to know to figure out whether you think dangerous weapons ought to be ...
  • The Latest From the Fever Swamp: Concussiongate
    Hillary Clinton is widely viewed as the frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic nomination if she decides to run, and that's prompted a lot of people to wonder how the right wing would react to a Hillary campaign. Have they learned to respect her over the past four years, or would it be Whitewater ...
  • Michigan Governor Latest to Shoot Himself in t ...
    In 2010, Republicans swept the table, electing a whole slew of new governors and state legislators. Since then, however, they've seemed bound and determined to use their newfound power to make themselves as unpopular as possible. This month's case study is Michigan governor Rick Snyder, who wa ...
  • Can a State Require You to Insure Your Guns?
    Paul Waldman: If you say, "I want a gun," the rest of us can say, OK, you have that right. But guns pose a potentially lethal danger, so that means we need a special set of rules to deal with them. After all, we do this already. If you want a car, you can't just get one. First, you have to ...
  • Yacht Owners Go Galt in Newport Beach
    Would you like to hear a story about rich people in America today? It's a small one, but it says a lot in a nutshell. It takes place just down the road from me in Newport Harbor, which, it turns out, needs renovation: The city's five-year plan for the harbor calls for $29 million in long-o ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Analysis of Marcellus flowback finds high leve ...
    Brine water that flows back from gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region after hydraulic fracturing is many times more salty than seawater, with high contents of various elements, including radium and barium. The chemistry is consistent with brines formed during the Paleozoic era, a study by an ...
  • Birdsong bluster may dupe strange females, but ...
    Male birds use their song to dupe females they have just met by pretending they are in excellent physical condition. read more
  • Ants aquaplaning on a pitcher plant
    An insect-trapping pitcher plant in Venezuela uses its downward pointing hairs to create a 'water slide' on which insects slip to their death, new research reveals. The research was published December 19, in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. read more
  • Penn metamaterials experts show a way to reduc ...
    The field of metamaterials involves augmenting materials with specially designed patterns, enabling those materials to manipulate electromagnetic waves and fields in previously impossible ways. Now, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have come up with a theory for moving this phenom ...
  • Ozone levels have sizeable impact on worker pr ...
    Researchers in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health assessed the impact of pollution on agricultural worker productivity using daily variations in ozone levels. Their results show that ozone, even at levels below current air-quality standar ...

unEarthed

  • Warning To Parents About Kids' Exposure To Pes ...
    Pediatrics group urges heath professionals to take the lead The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling on the government, schools, parents and medical professionals to take concerted action to protect children from pesticides. ...
  • Silencing The Wolf
    'Culture war' killing ends storied life of alpha female 832F, leading the pack. (Courtesy of the Yellowstone Wolf Project) She never had a real name ...
  • Poisoning The Well
    California urged to ban super toxic rat poison that kills unsuspecting wildlife A photo of P-25. Credit: National Park Service She was one of 26 mountain lio ...
  • Congressional 'Think Tank' Exposes Flaws of Co ...
    S.3512 fails to ensure protection of public health, safety CRS found that S.3512's and H.R.2273's weaknesses are “unprecedented” in environmental law. ...
  • Washington Post Highlights Toxic Fish in Anaco ...
    Need for cleanup dire as residents continually consume toxic fish The Pepco Benning Road Power Plant towers over the river. PCB waste allegedly comes from the plant and has ended up in the ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Knesset polls: Likud slightly down, settler pa ...
    Two new election polls came out yesterday, both telling roughly the same story: the Likud-Beitenu party is losing some voters to the National Religious Party and to Otzma Le’Israel, an extreme faction led by former Kahane man Michael Ben-Ari. Both parties are identified with the settler mo ...
  • Testimony: Soldier fired directly at Bil&#8217 ...
    New light is shed on the shooting death of non-violent demonstrator Bassem Abu Rahme in Bil’in in 2009: A soldier who served in the same brigade as the shooter testifies how the incident was perceived by other soldiers. The testimony strengthens the claim that the shot was fired against ar ...
  • Cut off from communities, Palestinian families ...
    The separation barrier has isolated two families living near Bethlehem from their communities. While they are on the Jerusalem side of the barrier, they are also banned from most of the city. The courts and the state have little sympathy. By Ehud Uziel “Nu, when is this case going to end? ...
  • The Freedom Bus: Taking resistance on tour in ...
    In September, a troupe of performers from the West Bank and Israel held a nine-day tour throughout the West Bank, promoting cultural resistance and staging innovative performance styles in an attempt to unify disparate Palestinian realities. By Marta Fortunato Al-Hadidiya, Jordan Valley, 12 Dece ...
  • E1 is not a ‘land without a people’
    A recent New York Times article ran under the misleading headline, “West Bank Land, Empty but Full of Meaning”, referring to the E1 area where the Israeli government recently announced new settlement building in spite of international opposition. Strangely, the photo appearing in the ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Federal Bankruptcy Judge Warns Consumers- Don& ...
    I very much encourage everyone swimming in these fraudclosure waters to read the recent article that appeared in the St. Petersburg Times.  It is especially critical that members of The Bar and Officers of the court read the words of this federal judge carefully to understand both what the words ...
  • Why Doesn’t America Mourn For All The Mu ...
    The President of the United States of America is on prime time network television to chide Americans for the recent child slayings, but the number of innocents killed there pales in comparison to the hundreds/thousands that are killed in our name by this President in his on going drone campaign. ...
  • Banking Crimes- LIBOR, Fraudclosure and Money ...
    In what world would a gang of criminal masterminds be permitted to meet in boardrooms all across this world and plan ways to steal billions….actually steal those billions….and walk away completely unscathed?  Why the answer of course is….IN THIS WORLD! The LIBOR scandal is just ...
  • How Much is Fannie/Freddie Costing Taxpayers? ...
    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are charted by Congress as government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to provide liquidity in the mortgage market and promote homeownership for underserved groups and locations. They purchase mortgages, guarantee them, and package them in mortgagebacked securities (MBSs), ...
  • Do Our Nation’s Courts and Corrupt Governments ...
    Do Our Nation’s Courts and Corrupt Governments Have a Moral Responsibility to Confirm Foreclosure and Banking Crimes? In 2009, the Florida Supreme Court’s Task Force on Residential Foreclosures published its comprehensive report wherein it predicted that the wave of foreclosures sweeping across ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizen Gifts – Innovation
    Difficult economic times have a tendency to get communities to pull into themselves. No light appears at the end of …Continue reading »
  • Citizen Gifts – Protection
    We’ve all been through enough these past few days to understand what happens when a community that perceived itself to …Continue reading »
  • Christmas in Connecticut
    What would Christmas be without a child? Would it fill us with such wonder, such pathos, such hope? Doubtful. According …Continue reading »
  • Citizen Gifts – Reclaiming Community
    What do you do as you watch your community literally being washed away? We saw some of it in New …Continue reading »
  • Citizen Gifts – Daring
    With democracy in varying degrees of turbulence globally, and with the opportunity for citizens to make their mark, the next …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Can’t Stand the Heat? Get Into the Kitchen
    Agriculture and the food system play a huge role in climate change – they’re far more important than most of us recognize. Because of that, choosing what to put on my table and on my own plate is a powerful act.
  • Opa! Food For Thought Symposia at The Black Ol ...
    Black Olive owner Stelios Spiliadis and his family have been introducing Baltimore not only to their Greek culture, but also to their passion for health and wellness. Their hopes of inspiring real change through the power of good food have been spreading like wildfire.
  • FDA Should Share Data about Livestock on Drugs
    It’s my hope that GAP’s lawsuit against FDA will finally compel the agency to break ties with drug companies and release the information that the public health community needs to monitor the use—and misuse—of antibiotics and other drugs in food animal production.
  • Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun: Nutrient Trading a ...
    "My first objection to this kind of program is semantics. Let's call it what it is: pollution trading. Excess nutrient pollutants in the bay lead to public health problems, just as other pollutants do."
  • Government Accountability Project Sues FDA for ...
    The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is suing FDA for data on antibiotic sales. If we want more data, we have to sleuth it out of the agency ourselves.

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  • Coal consumption growing inexorably — bu ...
    Coal’s share of the global energy mix continues to rise, and by 2017 coal will come close to surpassing oil as the world’s top energy source". And yet global temperatures have not risen for 16 years and continue to decline.
  • Wow! “Scientific study” reveals th ...
    Crunch a little data (why only Olympic medalists and not all Olympic participants?), do some elementary statistics and come up with something profoundly obvious and it passes for "science". It took no less than six authors!!
  • 10 young schoolgirls killed by landmine
    Ten young girls were killed when a landmine exploded Monday while they were collecting firewood in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.
  • New UC logo flushed away
    It was a "contemporary logo" designed by an in-house University of California team and started being used about 6 months ago. There have been many objections but the "flushing toilet" image is the most memorable!!
  • Nash Papyrus, Newton’s notebooks, Kalpas ...
    The Nash Papyrus -- one of the oldest known manuscripts containing text from the Hebrew Bible -- has become one of the latest treasures of humanity to join Isaac Newton's notebooks, the Nuremberg Chronicle and other rare texts as part of the Cambridge Digital Library.

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Consumerist

  • After Backlash, Instagram Backpedals A Bit On ...
    Yesterday, the folks at Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service, announced upcoming changes to its terms of service that raised concerns about privacy and content-ownership. With some users already talking about deleting their accounts, Instagram has issued a maybe-we-didn’t-th ...
  • Oh, Sweet: Canadian Police Arrest 3 In $20M Ma ...
    You think you can pilfer $20 million worth of the global strategic maple syrup reserve and just get away with it, you’ve got another think coming. There are a lot of pancakes and waffles that are well served by the sweet stuff and Canadian police are taking the job of rounding up those res ...
  • Remember That The Gift You Packed Might Not Ma ...
    With Christmas a week away, we figured it was time to remind everyone who plans on traveling with gifts in their bags that the TSA might have to undo your handiwork at the airport. Wrapped boxes are allowed to be brought on planes, but just like anything that goes through airport security, these ...
  • Report: Amazon Preparing To Debut Its Own Smar ...
    Amazon already has big box stores scrambling to compete with its massive online business, and now it seems the company might be gearing up to terrify smartphone makers with its own device. A new report claims the retailer will be debuting a device sometime in the middle of next year. It’ll ...
  • Is American Airlines Misleading Passengers Int ...
    If you go online to choose your seat for a flight you’ve already booked only to find that all the remaining seats are premium offerings that require an extra fee, you might think, “Ugh, I should have checked in earlier so I wouldn’t have to pay.” But if you’re flyin ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • New IRS Whistleblower Rules May Limit Some Rew ...
    Reuters: New U.S. IRS Whistleblower Rules May Limit Some Rewards – Lawyers The IRS is proposing new rules related to its whistleblower rewards program which would lessen the ability of whistleblowers to report tax cheats and collect a percentage of the recovery. This action comes at a time wh ...
  • New Reports Contain Statistics Regarding Whist ...
    In November, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued two reports that contain information about the whistleblower protection records of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). In part, these reports are responsive to a spring 2012 GAP petition that urged the Department to include these da ...
  • Alabama School Board Considers Whistleblower H ...
    Gadsden Times (AL): State School Board Eyes Grievance Policy, Whistleblower Hot Line The Alabama School Board is considering creating a statewide whistleblower hotline for the reporting of "suspected ethics and financial wrongdoing." The Board supervises K-12 schools and two-year college faci ...
  • Global Fund Retaliates Against Its Inspector G ...
    The Global Fund Retaliates Against Its Inspector General This blog post by GAP Executive & International Director Bea Edwards details the highly questionable firing by the Global Fund – a "public-private partnership and international financing institution" dedicated to fighting disease wo ...
  • The Global Fund Retaliates Against Its Inspect ...
    On November 15, the Global Fund fired John Parsons, its Inspector General (IG). Because the IG is the official responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct and corruption, as well as whistleblower disclosures, he must be able to function independently of management, and firing him doe ...

UK Progressive

  • Remember the Children
    by Robert Reich America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect our children from deranged people wielding semi-automatic guns. We’re not protecting them from poverty. The rate of child poverty keeps rising – even faster t ...
  • The Best Reporting on Guns in America
    by Blair Hickman, Suevon Lee and Cora Currier ProPublica Update: With Friday’s shooting in Newtown, Conn., this article, first published July 24, 2012, unfortunately seems relevant again. In the wake of last week’s shooting in Aurora, Colo., we’ve taken a step back and laid out ...
  • 2013 Will See Arrival of 787 Dreamliners and A ...
    by BTNews.com Perhaps in a bid to upstage future OneWorld partner airline Qatar, early last week British Airways revealed layouts for the Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 fleets it is starting to receive during 2013. In a well publicised event several days later the Doha-based carrier unveiled the rea ...
  • Cheat Sheet: BofA Supplied Default Answers for ...
    by Paul Kiel ProPublica The Independent Foreclosure Review is the government’s main effort to compensate homeowners for harm they suffered at the hands of banks — and, as its name indicates, it’s supposed to be independent. But until recently, that was hardly the case with Bank of Am ...
  • Pelosi’s Fiscal-Cliff Ace in the Hole
    by Brent Budowsky In my latest column, “Les GOP Misérables,” I wrote that the GOP obsession with pursuing losing issues — cutting Medicare and Social Security –has led to recent defeats and will lead to more. The right might love it when Republicans say Obama “does not need the left,” but on Soc ...

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JoNova

  • Cherry-picking sea level rises in Perth (a cit ...
    “Gale Force” cherries coming your way… Two weeks ago, it was all over the news. The ocean near Perth (where I live) was rising at the terrifying rate of 9-10mm per year since 1993, which was, shockingly, “three times the global average”. (Since Perth is flatter than ...
  • Maurice Newman fights back: No slur is too vic ...
    When Robyn Williams recently equated skeptics to paedophiles on the ABC “Science” Show the skeptic-most-targeted was Maurice Newman, former chairman of the ABC itself. Newman responds to these deplorable and unscientific insults in today’s Australian and throws down the challen ...
  • Unleashed: Monckton releases his AR5 reviewer ...
    Because the AR5 report is now leaked into the public domain, Christopher Monckton has released his AR5 review comments on the Lord Monckton Foundation site. Notably, Monckton does his absolute best to help the IPCC operate as a useful honest public service. In the most statesman-like manner, Mon ...
  • Alec Rawls responds to Steven Sherwood: &#8220 ...
    The IPCC are now adding citations of critics (so they can’t be accused of ignoring them completely), but they bury the importance of those studies under glorious graphic art, ponderous bureacrat-speak, and contradictory conclusions. When skeptics point out that the IPCC admit (in a hidden ...
  • Unthreaded weekend
    Anything but the IPCC right? Rating: 6.3/10 (4 votes cast) Rating: 6.3/10 (4 votes cast)

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • El Pais: Robert Bast Interview Translated
    Courtesy of Google Translate is an interview from last night with El Pais, Spain’s #1 newspaper. Obviously the translation isn’t great, so it is for entertainment purposes only. I love the headline “I believe in the Mayan prophecy when I’m in the shower” One of t ...
  • 2012 Scenarios That Can’t (or probably won’t) ...
    Regardless of their original feasibility, the following are just not going to bother us significantly or any differently this year because we’d see them coming already: Nibiru / Planet X Peak Oil Global Warming Killer Comet (excluding dark comets) Asteroid Rise of the Machines (like in Th ...
  • First-Hand Account: True Modern SHTF Event
    The event is the Bosnian wars of the mid 90s. I’m posting a copy in full to make sure it gets read by as many people as possible. As he says towards the end, this scenario can happen from natural disasters as easily as man-made ones. Please share – I consider this to be required read ...
  • New Evidence for Super-Massive Solar Storms
    Until now the largest recorded solar storm has been the Carrington Event of 1859. Scientific discussions of solar storm risks typically refer to this event. What they often neglect to mention is that we have only been observing solar storms since just before that date. The frequency of these mas ...
  • What Will Happen to My 2012 Sites?
    Either way, doomsday or not doomsday, there won’t be any use for my 2012 sites once the fuss dies down. Aside from the forum, they don’t cost much to host, so they’ll definitely remain online – if only for archival purposes. Here are my plans for each, subject to change: ...

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

One News Page

  • Delhi gang-rape accused Ram Singh not remorsef ...
    As the investigation and interrogation in the Delhi gang-rape case continue, more shocking details are emerging. Reported by Zee News 54 minutes ago
  • Special Tribunals for all districts after inte ...
    The government today said that it will take a decision on creation of Special Tribunals in all 640 districts in the country after thorough examination.Replying to supplementaries in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of state for Home, Mullappally Ramachandran said, this needs to be examined ... Reporte ...
  • Exclusive interview! Ahmed Patel, Sonia's trus ...
    Ahmed Patel, the most powerful man in the Congress party after the Gandhis, speaks to Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt in a rare and exclusive interview. Reported by Rediff.com 58 minutes ago
  • Expenditure limit for Assam panchayat poll can ...
    The Assam State Election Commission has fixed the maximum limit of expenditure to be incurred by any candidate contesting the upcoming panchayat polls in the state. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
  • Gujarat polls: Gandhinagar set to remain Modidham
    The exit poll predicts that BJP will get 53-63 seats out of the 87 seats that went for polls in the first phase on 13 December. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago

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Oriental Review

  • NATO Turns Up Heat in Syria Psy-War
    NATO tells tales of recently launched “Scud missiles” to retroactively justify Patriot missile deployment months in the making. In a recent bid to psychologically break Syria’s government and military leadership, producing long sought-after defections, US-led NATO has decided t ...
  • Syria: Rebels Could Resort to Chemical Weapons ...
    Multiple reports have appeared recently revealing that the US and its allies attack against Syria is imminent. A new propaganda story is getting more and more coverage today. According to unconfirmed reports, citing Western intelligence agencies, Syrian technicians are already loading artillery ...
  • Episodes 10. Who Organised Famine in the USSR ...
    The theory of Holodomor is being reactivated in the media every time Ukraine is about to make another step back to Russia. Just to recall to those who are not aware of that tragedy, in 1932-1933 there was a severe famine throughout USSR that claimed unprecedented number of lifes (according to so ...
  • Michael Prysner: ‘The Real Terrorist Was ...
    ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the fragment of one of the most powerful anti-war speeches done by the former Corporal of the US Army in Iraq Michael Prysner at the 2008 Winter Soldier in Maryland. It is still relevant and sounding as ever.  “I tried hard to be proud of my service, but all I c ...
  • Banning Nuke Tests
    On December 5, 2012 the Nevada National Security Site was struck by another US nuclear test. As the Nation of Change described it: ‘…there was little public fanfare, less national media coverage, and only a smattering of international protest suggesting that the test violated the spirit of the 1 ...

BlogHer

  • Second Guessing and Reading Between the Lines
    Intuition is very keen and very wise. Reading between the lines at work is a crucial skill. I like the personal touch to this post about the art of second guessing something. Yesterday was probably my most stressful day at work. I felt others conveying strong messages and reinforcing an u ...
  • Lego Snow Globes
    Tons of blogs have DIY snow globes.  I was excited to try this with the kiddos, but wanted to bring a fresh spin to the project for readers.  I came up with the idea for them to be Lego-centered.  We went to our local Lego shop and they all picked out the minifigure of their choic ...
  • Sandy Hook and School Prayer: The Good Old Day ...
    Have you heard that the Good Old Days were perfect? Nothing bad ever happened back then. People respected others and all was peaceful. News flash! The Good Old Days never happened. I've had this discussion with many people who claimed they did, and while I have respect for them and their exper ...
  • All The Rapidly Multiplying Mobile Photo Editors
    Remember when everyone was crazy for Instagram because it had filters and could do clever stuff to the photos you took with your mobile device? We've had Instagram on our minds here at BlogHer for quite some time. For example: Using Tilt-Shift Focus with Instagram, Adding a Watermark to your Ins ...
  • Giving Them the Gift They Need
    Dear Boys, I was REALLY temped to give you (and me) the wrong gifts this Holiday. It wasn't on purpose, it was just how the season moved me. I think you'll be pleased that I changed my mind. Happy Holidays! The Orange Rhino* ‘Tis the season for giving, or so the saying goes. Sadly, it mor ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • 10 Medical Conditions That Share Symptoms With ...
    According to Health Central expert Eileen Bailey, getting an accurate ADD/ADHD diagnosis can be difficult at any time, but the fact that the disorder shares symptoms with other health conditions can make it even harder. Autism/Aspergers Syndrome People ...
  • Big Pharma Culture: Olsen Twins Designer Bag L ...
    What’s more trendy than Ritalin, Celebrex, and Zoloft? In our Big Pharma culture where pharmaceutical drugs are not just the norm but fully embraced as badges to display to the public, Mary Kate and Ashley ...
  • Careful out There, Guys: Male Pedestrians More ...
    New research shows that male pedestrians who are struck by cars are more than twice as likely to die from their injuries as their female counterparts. That’s after controlling for age and taking into account ...
  • Oil Dispersants Make Spills 52 Times More Toxi ...
    While oil spills can cause severe environmental damage to the organisms living in the affected waters, the consequences of using oil dispersants to rectify the spill can make the situation even worse, according to a ...
  • I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother
    Liza Long In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness. Three days before 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

  • Looking to Science for Answers to Gun Control ...
    Yes, this looks like it’s going to be one of those moments where science cannot provide you a clear-cut, absolute answer. The issue is that studying the impact of gun laws on violent crime isn’t really the single, simple question that it appears to be. Instead, we’re talking ...
  • This Essay Might Improve Your Life
    Confused, you say, “How does any of that fucking matter when my (wife/husband/best friend/parent) is lying here bleeding! I need somebody who knows how to operate on bullet wounds! Can you do that or not?!?” Now the man becomes agitated — why are you being shallow and selfish? ...
  • Samsung Exec Uses Apple Ecosystem Because It&# ...
    “At work I’m using Samsung devices; Apple at home, mainly because all of my systems and files are done that way. That’s sticky, you know?” Young Sohn is one of the only president-level executives who is based outside of Korea, and his job centers around overseeing innovation in both the U.S. an ...
  • Precision Dice in Aluminum, Titanium, and Tungsten
    This girl is über. Related Posts:Neal Stephenson Making a Sword-fighting GameTouchFire: A Screen-top Keyboard for iPadFun With PythonThe Happy Secret to Better Work | TED‪Java Trailer
  • Ray Kurzweil Gets Hired by Google to Head Up M ...
    Famed inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil announced this afternoon that he has been hired by search engine giant Google as a director of engineering focused on machine learning and language processing. via techcrunch.com This should make the Bay Area Less Wrong meetups m ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Beyond Political Torture, Bradley Manning case ...
    Robert Scheer Washington Post - Keep an American soldier locked up naked in a cage and driven half-mad while deprived of all basic rights, and you will be instantly condemned as a barbaric terrorist. Unless the jailer is an authorized agent of the U.S. government, in which case even treatment ap ...
  • Reverend Billy Is the Anti-Claus With Message ...
    By Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed - Even for New York, this was WEIRD.  There were a half-dozen Santa Clauses on Second Avenue getting a sermon from a Midwestern preacher who looked like a cross between televangelist Jerry Falwell and a white-haired Elvis. The Santa crew and their mini-skirt ...
  • Peace Chaplain
    From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from peace activists in the USA, Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan. A seminarian contributed this chapter about learning to love her enemies. Because of her activism, she prefers to remai ...
  • Keystone XL Tree Protesters Call It Quits Afte ...
    By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News – Activists say their tree blockade may soon be over as construction on the Texas property wraps up. But their efforts to stop the pipeline are not. Activists who had hoped to block the southern leg of the Keystone XL in Texas by occupying trees in the ...
  • New press freedom group is launched to block U ...
    guardian.co.uk Series: Glenn Greenwald on security and liberty - Nothing is more vital than enabling true transparency and adversarial journalism, and preventing further assaults on them Several weeks ago, I wrote about the steps taken by the US government to pressure large corporations to choke ...

reference frame

  • Energy from man-made tornadoes
    Peter Thiel, a favorite venture capitalist of mine, just paid $300,000 to Louis Michaud, a Canadian inventor on the picture below who plans to build artificial tornadoes – the so-called [atmospheric] vortex engines: Wikipedia, Michaud's web – that may supply us with lots of energy. Th ...
  • Hawking, Nurse, Rees, lords demand Alan Turing ...
    The Atlantic and others reveal that Stephen Hawking along with Paul Nurse, Martin Rees, and many lords I don't know wrote a petition to David Cameron in which they urge the leader to formally rehabilitate a British hero and top computer scientist, Alan Turing, who was born 100 years ago. Ev ...
  • Anti-string delusions and political correctness
    A science babe working for the Huffington Post left-wing website recorded a video interview with Mark Jackson who is now in Paris: The title matches the first sentence of the interview and it is annoying. Well, the title is: 'Superstring Theory Is A Bit Controversial,' ...
  • Victor Hess, Joseph Henry: anniversaries
    Victor Franz Hess (24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was born to a royal forester in Waldstein Castle, Styria (South Austria proper). He attended various local schools and was interested in radiation. His key work was done between 1911-1913. Hess wanted to show that, as expected, the radiati ...
  • Exorcising Maxwell's daemons
    And the lowest allowed power consumption of PCs In our discussions about information and heat, James Gallagher said some of the usual wrong things about irreversibility – for example, he believes that the proof of the H-theorem is invalid because of the molecular chaos assumption (this assu ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • LIST of School Shootings While Shooter On Psyc ...
    Like I have been saying all along. These loons were all on Psychotropic Drugs courtesy of Big Pharma. Guns aren’t the problem. LIST of School Shootings While Shooter On Psychotropic Big Pharma Meds Poison 2008-02-15 Illinois ** 6 Dead: 15 Wounded: Perpetrator Was in Withdrawal from Med &#3 ...
  • REAL? Hidden Human History A MUST WATCH NOW! G ...
    http://thespiritscience.net original “more info”: License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) http://youtube.com/TheSpiritScience Today we bring you something special! Before you lies the entire collection of the Human History story which was previously spread acros ...
  • GOA’s Larry Pratt DESTROYS CNN’s Piers Morgan ...
    Gun Owner’s of America Larry Pratt DESTROYS CNN’s Piers Morgan on CT Shooting Video Rating: 5 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You’Ve Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong John Lott shows how liberals bury pro-gun facts out o ...
  • Vancouver police apologize for not catching Pi ...
    Vancouver police Chief Jim Chu has apologized for the force’s failure to capture serial killer Robert Pickton sooner. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Pickton inquiry slams ‘blatant failures’ by police The missing women inquiry into serial killer Robert Pickton ha ...
  • Weather Forecast for December 21st. Hot with a ...
    Related posts: NYC bracing for more heavy weather The U.S. National Weather Service predicted Sunday that a Nor’easter... Weather Control as a Global Weapon with Author Bob Fletcher On the Wednesday, April 4 edition of the Alex Jones... Over 50% chance for Iran conflict in coming year ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Seven arrested in major heroin bust
    Police in Oslo have seized 24 kilos of heroin and arrested seven persons, two of whom are suspected of being couriers in an organized drug-smuggling ring. All are now in prison after the biggest drug bust in Norway in nearly a decade. “I can confirm a considerable seizure,” Einar Aas ...
  • Hetland gets hero’s welcome
    Norwegian swimmer Aleksander Hetland was greeted with hugs, flowers, flags and cake when he returned to Norway after winning a world championship victory in Istanbul over the weekend. His own thoughts, he said, went to his late teammate and fellow champ Alexander Dale Oen. “On the winners& ...
  • Handball girls home with silver
    Norway’s women’s handball team finally proved they aren’t unbeatable, arriving home with silver after placing second in the European Championships over the weekend. Better known as “the handball girls,” they lost to Montenegro, which itself took revenge after losing ...
  • ‘Christmas is the new Easter’
    Norwegians are heading for the mountains or traveling elsewhere this Christmas in droves generally only seen during the country’s long, traditional Easter holidays. The reasons are clear: A cluster of official holidays next week, and Norwegians able to afford making the most of them. Norwa ...
  • Weekend demonstration drew few
    An anti-Islamic demonstration that got a lot attention from Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) before it occurred failed to attract many participants on Saturday. Police were out in full force, though, and outnumbered the demonstrators. Only around 40 persons showed up to protest Islamic immigration i ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Line in the Sand (Video)
    We often only begin to understand the importance of nutrient- and water-cycling when they don’t — when they don’t cycle, that is. When ecosystems fail, when the hydrological cycle gets broken, when soils degrade faster than they build, the consequence is desertification. Al ...
  • Revisiting Packaging
    I’m not sure there is a real cure against the insanity that consumerism has reached, but what I’m sure of (well, almost) is that we can be a little smarter (and conscious) in dealing with packaging the goods we don’t always need. Granted, I wish people would buy less in the ...
  • PRI’s January PDC Booked Out!
    Photo © Craig Mackintosh Our January 7th Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course is now booked to capacity. By the end of this course there will be 30 knowledge-filled permaculture graduates ready to take on their own backyards or the world — whichever they choose! If you misse ...
  • PRI Store Specials and Shipping
    I am continuing to ship orders up to midday Friday 21st and will re-open on the 7th of January. If you are in Australia and order before this time you will receive your order in time for Christmas. The following specials have been extended until then and are great last minute Christmas suggestio ...
  • Growing Your Own: Beginners and Balcony Gardeners
    Here are a few useful tips to growing your own fresh organic food when you are low on space, time and gardening know-how. If you love the idea of a food forest but are seriously lacking in space and knowledge, you might consider starting out with a few pots of green leafy vegetables and herbs. ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Post-Katrina, Funders and Foundations Failed N ...
    In December of 2006, New Orleans' social justice community came together to draft a letter addressed to foundations and funders, in response to the dismal response to the continuing post-Katrina crisis. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and other disasters still to come, the issues raised ...
  • Remember All the Children, Mr. President, By B ...
    Remember the 20 children who died in Newtown, Connecticut. Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli bombardments. Remember the 168 children who have been killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan since 2006. Remember the 231 children killed in Afghanistan in the first 6 ...
  • Crime Against Nature Law Back in Court
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Fill the Court For Oral Arguments In the Case To Overturn Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature Law! Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, 10:00 a.m Federal District Court, 500 Poydras Street Judge Feldman’s Court—Room C551 Many of y ...
  • "I'm The Miracle": The Story of Exoneree Derri ...
    From our friends at Resurrection After Exoneration: “I’m number 119,” proclaims the man sitting beside my desk. His smile is broad and sincere, gold teeth glistening in the artificial light of the office. “Damon Thibodeaux is number 141, you know, the one who got out of Angola a couple weeks ...
  • Documentary Planned on United Houma Nation's " ...
    Reposted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Indian Santa is a short documentary about, as the name suggests, Indian Santa. The tradition was started in 1985 when Hurricane Juan devastated the Houma Indian communities along the Gulf Coast. The Houma families received little help after the st ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.d ... ed-as.htmlStatistics: Posted by ada — Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:00 am
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • T ...
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/33559953/An-I ... ica-Part-1 http://www.scribd.com/doc/33560420/An-I ... ica-Part-2Statistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:59 am
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: Jewish Control o ...
    Russia Ousts Meddling US NGOs, Fake Protests Peter Out Alexey Navalny US-funded "activist" Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Activist Post Saturday, December 15 saw a disappointing show for Western-backed protesters in Moscow - with estimates of only a few hundred showing up. Led by ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Hypocrite Alex Jones as fake as Obama when crying http://fitzinfo.wordpress.com/2012/12/1 ... en-crying/Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:36 am
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    All J-Tribe, all the time... --CSR ----------- The Invisible Government, Revealed The intelligence community is a state within a state (via TomDispatch.com). By Tom Engelhardt • December 17, 2012 Weren’t those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game? Governments went do ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Coal May Rival Oil As World’s Top Energy Sourc ...
    Coal could rival oil as the world’s largest energy source within five years as consumption continues to climb in most regions of the world, a trend that could have profound effects on the climate, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. While coal consumption is expected to decline in the U. ...
  • ‘Peak Farmland’ Reached as Yields Rise and Gro ...
    The amount of agricultural land needed to feed the world’s population has reached its peak as a result of improved crop yields and slower population growth, and as much as 10 percent of the land currently used for farming could be “restored to Nature” within 50 years, a team of experts says. In ...
  • Too Big to Flood? Megacities Face Future of Ma ...
    As economic activity and populations continue to expand in coastal urban areas, particularly in Asia, hundreds of trillions of dollars of infrastructure, industrial and office buildings, and homes are increasingly at risk from intensifying storms and rising sea levels. BY BRUCE STUTZ
  • Car-Mounted Sensor Able to Pinpoint Sources of ...
    A U.S.-based company has developed a sophisticated sensing technology capable of detecting and pinpointing the source of even minor natural gas leaks from great Picarro VIDEO: Demonstration of the Picarro Surveyor distances, an innovation that could provide critical insights into the stil ...
  • U.S. Awards $28 Million to Offshore Wind Farm ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to provide $28 million in grants to seven proposed offshore wind projects, a financial commitment the Obama administration hopes will provide a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to gain a foothold in American waters. Each of the seven p ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Next time, the children could be Canadian
    By Montreal Simon I was glad to see Obama visit the latest community in America to be shattered by gun violence. And I was happy to hear him say this. “We can’t tolerate this any more. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.” So maybe all the poor little chil ...
  • Gary Bettman’s new NHL — the No Ho ...
    By Mark Leiren-Young I’ve figured out Gary Bettman’s grand master plan for the NHL. He’s decided to run it without players. No players means no games. No games means no overhead, no pesky salaries, no arena rentals, no worrying whether superstars get concussed, no superstars, and, best of all, n ...
  • Jill Wiznoski and the small town journalists
    By Frank Moher J-Source.ca has a melancholy wrap-up story on the case of Jill Wiznoski and the displeased MP  — melancholy because I expect this is the last we’ll hear of a matter that should have received a lot more national press attention than it did. Wiznoski, you will remember, ...
  • Robocalls: So where were we?
    By Alison@Creekside Three days before polls opened in the last federal election, Elections Canada officials were using the word “scam” to describe election irregularities, making this statement from the EC commish throwing in the towel two weeks after the election even before any inv ...
  • Artists for the rainforest — and reality
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Art is at the forefront of a raging energy debate in Canada. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline – you know, the one that would travel 1,000 kilometres from Alberta to British Columbia’s coast, delivering oil to be pumped into tankers taller than monuments, destination: ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Abe tells Keidanren of budget goals
    Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe met Tuesday with senior members of Keidanren, the nation's largest business lobby, saying that his new government intends to compile a large extra budget to tackle deflation. In his first talks with Keidanren since it became clear he will be the next ...
  • Japan's new ruling party to start tax reform t ...
    The Liberal Democratic Party's own Tax System Research Commission will begin discussions on tax reform for fiscal 2013 later this week, LDP sources said Tuesday. The LDP plans to finish work by late January on establishing guidelines for reform to be agreed on next fiscal year, which starts Ap ...
  • Toyo Ink to pay millions in false U.S. duties case
    A Japanese producer of violet coloring for inks and plastics is paying more than $45 million (about ¥3.78 billion) to settle allegations it falsely described where the products were made to avoid U.S. import duties on Chinese and Indian makers, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday. ...
  • Does Abe win signal a Volcker moment?
    Shinzo Abe was chief Cabinet secretary in 2006 when he backed the Bank of Japan's interest rate hike, a move that the prime minister-in-waiting, who is growing increasingly intolerant of the nation's chronic deflation, now says was a mistake. Abe, whose Liberal Democratic Party swept to victor ...
  • Japanese rightwinger to be jailed for Korea ha ...
    The Osaka District Court sentenced a nationalist to a year in prison Tuesday over a hate campaign against a pharmaceutical firm which had a South Korean actress as its public face. Hitoshi Nishimura, 44, and three other men barged into the headquarters of Rohto Pharmaceutical in the city of Os ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...
  • Kucinich: Throw out the NDAA, End the Wars and ...
    Washington D.C. (December 13, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement on the NDAA: “Today, this House will send the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to conference. Contrary to its title, the bill does not provide for the protection of the Amer ...
  • Congressional Committee Debates Drone Policy
    The House Judiciary Committee today conducted an overdue discussion about the United States policy of using drones to target and kill American citizens and others overseas. The policy has come under criticism for killing innocent civilians and inciting radicalization. The Committee discussed H. ...
  • American Academy of Pediatricians Endorses Cel ...
    Washington D.C. (December 13, 2012) – The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) which represents “60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, and young ...

Authentically Wired

  • Marijuana in vending machines by tomorrow
    … It’s OK if corporate owned MINES and TIMBER companies and without any cost freely rape our forests … but growing marijuana in our forest and not paying for it is a crime … if “big-pharma” and the AMA can figure out a way to make a profit … Marijuana would be in vending machines [...]
  • rightfully originates in Arizona
    … I live in Arizona and I wonder how did Az Gov Jan Brewer allow Michigan to enact STUPID legislation which rightfully originates in Arizona… Not Just Union-Busting: Other Things Michigan Did in the Lame Duck We’ve heard a lot about the union-busting bill that passed in Michigan earlier thi ...
  • you go to prison … they go toe Monte Carlo
    You Can Go to Prison for Pot, While Big Banks Get Away With Laundering Drug Cartel Cash Matt Taibbi, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!…  READ MORE» The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to a ...
  • hate leads to suffering
    … It would indeed be wise for us to recall our embracing of fear following 9-11 ushering in the tentacles of the Patriot Act … as a result we sanction American drones viciously killing unarmed civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq …  dramatized we watch as a mentally unstable man thoughtless ki ...
  • On three now
    … OK … On three now … show  “big surprise” …!   Oil and Gas Industry Prepare Smear Campaign Against New Matt Damon Flick "Promised Land"       December 13, 2012  …| http://www.alternet.org/fracking/oil-and-gas-industry-prepare-smear-campaign-against-new ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Canterbury professor first Kiwi to receive Ein ...
    A Canterbury University astrophysicist has become the first New Zealander to be awarded the Einstein Medal.Emeritus Professor Roy Kerr will be awarded the medal by the Albert Einstein Society in Switzerland for his 1963 discovery...
  • Zain Ali: Space for all in religious debate
    Religious faith undoubtedly has the power to inspire, although in many cases it seems to inspire irrational acts of hatred and violence. So it is no surprise that Sir Bob Jones has recently taken aim at God and religion. Sir Bob,...
  • From TV shows to our courtrooms
    Images from a murder scene are beamed straight to a laboratory, and jurors are given a virtual "tour" of a scene, allowing them to get up close to bloodstains and other evidence.Crime scene testing reveals fingerprints on surfaces...
  • Robot solves cube mystery
    A Christchurch teenager has won a prestigious science award for creating and programming a robot to do in a few minutes what would frustrate most of us for a lifetime.James Watson, 17, built the robot "George" and taught it via...
  • Deciphering the Christmas tree DNA code
    To millions of people, the Christmas tree is a cheerful sight. To scientists who decipher the DNA codes of plants and animals, it's a monster.We're talking about the conifer, the umbrella term for cone-bearing trees like the spruce,...

The Bovine

  • Further details on the Michael Schmidt sheep-n ...
    From Scott Dunn in the Owen Sound Sun Times: “DURHAM - Canada Food Inspection Agency officers seized electronic devices and stored data from raw milk activist Michael Schmidt’s Glencolton Farms Thursday as part of a federal investigation into the illegal removal of … Continue reading ...
  • Michael Schmidt sees legal case over sheep &#8 ...
    David E. Gumpert has the scoop on what’s going down with Michael Schmidt: “The legal situation confronting Michael Schmidt could hardly look more ominous. He faces four counts of conspiracy, in connection with the disappearance last April of 31 rare … Continue reading →
  • Backlash against western food — U.S. por ...
    From Pakalert Press: “On December 7, 2012 Russia’s Federal Agency for Agricultural Control, Rosselhohznadzor, banned the imports of meat containing ractopamine. This is a food additive that allows to reduce the content of fat in beef and pork. The drug … Continue reading →
  • Organic agriculture is the road to happiness i ...
    From Eliza Barclay, at National Public Radio: “The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan drew international attention a few years back for saying gross national happiness should trump gross domestic product when measuring a nation’s progress. If you’re going to prioritize … Co ...
  • “Milk trial by jury” – video ...
    From Marianne Else.  Note: Performance starts at 1:05 in video clip 5 Milk Trial by Jury  Gordon Brunet — The Learned Judge, Donna Ellen Trifunovich — Plaintiff — Dairy Farmers of Ontario, Mitch Smolkin — Michael Schmidt — Defendant, Ronald … Continue reading ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Kyle Bass on the End of the Debt Supercycle an ...
    Late last month, Kyle Bass, managing partner of Hayman Capital, shared his thoughts in a video at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business Investing Conference with Professor Ken Eades. It is a fantastic interview that echoes many of the things I have been saying about Japan for ...
  • Nikkei Rises Above 10,000; Yen Drops to Weakes ...
    In a pair of related ideas, the Yen is sinking and the Japanese stock market is on a tear. Today the Nikkei crossed the 10,000 mark once again. Yen Futures Daily Chart click on chart for sharper image Nikkei Futures Daily Chart Yen Drops to Weakest Level Since Apr ...
  • Boehner Floats Fiscal Cliff "Plan B"; Obama Of ...
    Boehner Floats Fiscal Cliff "Plan B" Both house speaker John Boehner and president Obama have given ground in the "fiscal cliff" drama. The sides are still fall apart but concessions now are steady. The fact there is ongoing movement makes a deal possible.  Will we get there? Can ...
  • Normalized Unemployment Rates; Cyclical vs. Se ...
    Many have heard of normalized P/E ratios based on 10-year earnings averages and the concept of reversion to the mean. To the best of my knowledge no one has attempted to normalize unemployment rates based on demographic trends, although some have attempted unemployment normalizations based ...
  • Calpers Seeks Exemption From Bankruptcy Laws, ...
    Nearly every day there is another disgusting story regarding the outright parasitic behavior of public unions in California. Today I have a pair of recent articles to present. The first is entitled Californian’s $609,000 Check Shows True Retirement Cost. That article is part of a stu ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • The EyeOpener- Self-Issued Credit: A Monetary ...
    As the global economy continues to slow down, the world is being asked to focus on issues of so-called “sovereign debt,” “austerity,” “fiscal responsibility,” “belt tightening” and other such euphemisms for the grim reality that the public is now b ...
  • Washington Targets Syria & Iran
    US policies threaten both nations. Doing so imperils the region and beyond. Syria’s now in focus. Iran’s turn awaits. What’s likely should terrify everyone wanting America’s imperium defeated and peace restored. Doing so remains a distant dream. Potential worst of times l ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • US: Britain will be weaker without EU
    The White House has warned that Britain’s break up from the European Union (EU) could weaken its position on the world stage.
  • Militant groups clash in Syria’s Homs
    Two foreign-backed militant groups in Syria have clashed over the spoils of fighting against the Syrian army near the western city of Homs.
  • US taxpayer money lost in Afghan war
    About 13 million dollars of US funds sourced from American taxpayer money to upgrade a power infrastructure project in Afghanistan is “sitting unused in storage” due to a lack of a clear installation plan, a report says.
  • ‘Taliban enter Syria through Turkey’
    The leader of the Turkish Democratic Party says 10,000 Taliban militants have been using a camp in Turkey to infiltrate into Syria via the two countries’ common border.
  • UK,US rap Israel ‘provocative’ plans
    British Foreign Secretary William Hague and US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland have condemned the Zionist regime’s plans to construct more illegal housing units in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the West Bank.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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