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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.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

22 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Stop NATO

  • Georgian Defense Chief Awards U.S. Military Tr ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia December 21, 2012 U.S. Advisor-Instructors Awarded Today Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Alasania has awarded American advisor-instructors. Sergeant Major Gregory Wright, 1st Sergeant Vincent Heller and Gunnery Sergeant Anthony Cuccurese were granted with the meda ...
  • Russian Foreign Minister: West Reprises Yugosl ...
    Itar-Tass December 22, 2012 Al-Assad overthrow not end war in Syria – Lavrov MOSCOW: Western special services predict that the overthrown of Bashar al-Assad will not end the war in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Saturday. “Western special services say the overt ...
  • Georg Brandes: War, uninterrupted series of ho ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Georg Brandes: An Appeal Against Wholesale Murder Georg Brandes: The World at War ==== Georg Brandes From The World at War (1917) Translated by Catherine D. Groth 1916 He who remarks how, on the sixteenth month of the war, ...
  • Christmas Present: U.S. Senate Votes $631 Bill ...
    Voice of Russia December 22, 2012 US Senate: a Christmas present Valentin Zorin The US Senate has unanimously approved a $631bln defense budget for 2013. The draft budget has evoked no objections from the White House. As he ran for president four years ago, Barack Obama promised to cut defense p ...
  • U.S. To Deploy Latest Battlecraft To New Asia- ...
    Today Online/Agencies December 21, 2012 US to deploy newest battle craft to its Asia-Pacific bases Move part of new military strategy to reinforce America’s influence in the volatile region ==== [T]he Pentagon will send P-8 submarine-hunting aircraft, cruise missiles, Virginia-class submar ...

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Intel Hub

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • No Apocalypse Yet, but If the NRA Gets Its Way ...
    The NRA weighed in on the Sandy Hook school shooting, and the big answer? Aw, you guessed it. More guns. We don't need the Maya to bring about the end of the world, we're doing just fine on our own.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Dec 21, 2012
  • Scott Brown's Defection on Assault Weapon Ban ...
    Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican who failed to win re-election, has come out against assault weapons and indicated that he supports a ban on such firearms. While Brown won't be around to vote on any such ban, his voice is valuable and courageous.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Dec 20, 2012
  • Rice Shows Maturity, Professionalism in Steppi ...
    Embattled UN Ambassador withdraws from Secretary of State consideration, saying that the battle for confirmation isn't worth it for the country.Contributor: Susan Graybeal Published: Dec 13, 2012
  • Obama is Right -- Higher Tax Rates on the Rich ...
    People like myself are getting tired of hearing about this fiscal cliff deal being held up just because the GOP refuses to accept the Nov. 6 election results. Taxing the rich more isn't being done for fun, it's necessary.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Dec 06, 2012
  • Sunset of Terror War: Too Little, Too Late
    In a pre-weekend address, general counsel to the Pentagon, Jeh Johnson, for the first time, uttered the sentiment that the “War on Terror,” which began on September 11, 2001, would, finally, be facing its long-awaited sunset.Contributor: D. Benjamin Satkowiak Published: Dec 03, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Images of the Week, Dec. 17-21, 2012
  • Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears, And More Amazi ...
    Plus: a river that flows through a volcano, an old-timey package mysteriously addressed to Indiana Jones, NASA's cartoonish new spacesuit and more. Click to launch the gallery.
  • Study: Online User Reviews Influence Us In Way ...
    Early exposure to glowing reviews about a product or service tend to stick in our minds and shape our opinions--even when later reviews are overwhelmingly negative. Nowadays, many of us rely on online user reviews, instead of expert opinions or the advice of family and friends, for help making ...
  • Ways The World Might Actually End [Infographic]
    And also, on the other hand, why the future might turn out pretty good Welp, here we all are still, the day after tomorrow. Or is today the day after the day after tomorrow? Either way, it's time to put the Mayan apocalypse behind us and start thinking about other ways the world might end. Tod ...
  • Male Peacocks Try To Attract Females While Alr ...
    Not very considerate, male peacocks! A study at Duke University sought to uncover the meaning behind the peacock's so-called "hoot dash" display. The hoot dash is a peculiar courtship move in which a male peacock emits a loud noise, something like the honk of a clown's horn, right before copula ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • History Repeats Itself: Greek Crises 1832-1897
    Just as some folks spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E, certain nations have the reputation for it going a looooong way back. For a blog purporting to be the IPE Zone, you may have noticed that I have had very few posts on the EU project as of late and the myriad crises on its periphery. Honestly, I tired of th ...
  • There's No Power Shift (or Western Decline Either)
    ...or so says our LSE IDEAS head honcho Michael Cox. To say I disagree with him is an understatement, but he of course deserves to be heard as one of it not the best-recognized scholars of US foreign policy in Britain. We have no "shop" opinions at LSE IDEAS, and I believe such diversity is welc ...
  • Park Geun-hye's Lump of Coal for Chaebol Haters
    When it comes to showing the West how things differ in Asian nations, I suppose nothing quite beats electing a military dictator's daughter to power via freely contested polls. But that of course is just what has transpired in prosperous South Korea. And General Park is a rather revered figure f ...
  • The Yen Also Falls: To Negative Nominal Rates?
    I am constantly befuddled by foreign exchange markets since they tend to display even more "irrational" behaviour than stock markets. Witness Japan and its currency. Beginning 1999 or so, Japan has conducted aggressive monetary easing via its zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) that entails [duh] n ...
  • Harming Schoolkids: US & China are Rather Alike
    There is an adage about people hating those who are so much like them because they cannot stand being reminded of their own failings. Think of a rooster that sees a mirror image of itself, raises its hackles and wants to fight it. Being the world's carbon emitters aside, nowhere is this adage tr ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 75 Economic Numbers From 2012 That Are Almost ...
    What a year 2012 has been!  The mainstream media continues to tell us what a "great job" the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of managing the economy, but meanwhile things just continue to get even worse for the poor and the middle class.  It is imperative that we educate t ...
  • 20 Signs That The U.S. Poverty Explosion Is Hi ...
    The mainstream media continues to insist that the economy is "getting better", but the poverty numbers for children and young people just continue to explode.  For example, did you know that the poverty rate for families with a head of household under the age of 30 is a whopping 37 percent?  Chi ...
  • What In The World Are Barack Obama And John Bo ...
    Barack Obama and John Boehner both seem absolutely determined to drive U.S. government finances off a cliff.  The mainstream media would have you believe that there are vast ideological differences between the two of them and that they are bitter enemies, but that is simply not the case.  Both o ...
  • 22 Stats That Prove That There Is Something Se ...
    When are we finally going to admit that we have a very serious problem with this generation of young men in America?  We have failed them so dramatically that it is hard to put it into words.  We have raised an entire generation of young males that don't know how to be men, and many [...]
  • Society Is Crumbling Right In Front Of Our Eye ...
    What in the world is happening to America?  I have written many articles about how society is crumbling right in front of our eyes, but now it is getting to the point where people are going to be afraid to go to school or go shopping at the mall.  Just consider what has happened over [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • 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 purpose of deterring crime. “Once I have stats an ...
  • EU to ban menthol cigarettes
    Flavoured cigarettes, including menthol, strawberry, or vanilla, are set to be banned in the European Union. The EU health commissioner also wants to make pictorial warnings occupy 75 per cent of the pack. ­The draft legislation on measures to curb smoking were unveiled on Wednesday. However, th ...
  • The snail helps regenerate human skin
    The snail helps regenerate human skin Recent research shows that snail saliva may have antioxidant and regenerative effects on human skin. According to a study by scientists at the Autonomous University of Madrid, snail saliva could be used in therapies to regenerate damaged skin tissues. Recent ...
  • Spain parliament approves harsh austerity measures
    The Spanish parliament has adopted a 39-billion-euro (52-billion-US dollar) austerity package as the debt-ridden eurozone country battles to reduce its budget deficit. On Thursday, the lawmakers voted for the cuts in the 2013 budget, which slashes spending for health care and education, and redu ...
  • Potentially habitable planet discovered orbiti ...
    Astronomers have discovered that the closest Sun-like star, Tau Ceti, is orbited by five planets, one of which is in the “habitable range”. If its existence is confirmed, the planet could be the closest potentially life-harboring world to our own. Tau Ceti, twelve light years away, belongs to th ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Church Officials Still Investigating Their Own ...
    The Australian Catholic Church has announced it has received but is yet to release the report of its internal investigation into the role of three senior church officials in the coverup of child sexual abuse by the priest known only as Father F. The report, prepared by former Federal Court judge ...
  • Who is the victim here?
    The arrogant, entitled prince of a wealthy, influential monarchical religious institution which considers itself, and is treated, as above the laws of the land or The damaged, impoverished, abandoned child victims of serial rapists, whose suffering has been dismissed and whose pleas for help hav ...
  • Why did you make us wait so long?
    The sheer joy of Monday’s announcement of a national Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions in Australia was not the only emotion bringing victims to tears this week. There was sadness at years of unnecessary suffering by victims who had begged and beg ...
  • Australian Prime Minister Announces National R ...
    I woke up today with no expectation that by late afternoon I would achieve an almost impossible dream. But finally victims of child sexual abuse throughout Australia are to be given a voice, to be given a chance of justice, to be able to use our painful experiences to prevent other children havi ...
  • Heartless Hart at it Again
    Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...

WL Central

  • 2012-12-20 Statement by Julian Assange after S ...
    Thursday December 20th, 19:00 GMT (Not checked to delivery) Six months ago - 185 days ago - I entered this building. It has become my home, my office and my refuge. Thanks to the principled stance of the Ecuadorian government and the support of its people I am safe in this Embassy and safe to sp ...
  • 2012-12-19 The people of the Freedom of the Pr ...
    Earlier this week, a group of high-profile journalists and free-speech activists announced the launch of the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), an initiative intended to thwart a two-year financial blockade against WikiLeaks and to fund-raise for similar nonprofit organizations. Designed to ...
  • 2012-12-16 WikiLeaks declares war on banking b ...
    Press release from WikiLeaks and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Sunday 16th December, 23:00 GMT Today sees the launch of the Freedom of the Press Foundation − a new initiative inspired by the fight against the two-year-long extra-judicial financial embargo imposed on WikiLeaks by U.S. fina ...
  • 2012-12-14 Julian Assange to give Christmas sp ...
    Sources have announced that on the evening of Thursday, December 20, 2012, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief and Australian Senate candidate Julian Assange will deliver a Christmas speech from the Ecuadorean embassy in London. The December 20 speech marks six months of Assange's stay at the embassy, whe ...
  • 2012-12-12 Assange confirms Senate run, announ ...
    Julian Assange has reportedly confirmed his candidacy for the Australian Senate in the 2013 federal election. The WikiLeaks editor-in-chief has also announced the imminent formation and registration of a WikiLeaks political party, which would promote government transparency and oppose recent ero ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • What Was DHS Doing In Sandy Hook?
    What was DHS doing in Sandy Hook, CT, in the years prior to the recent Shady Hook shooting? According to the Department of Homeland Security’s website in Connecticut, Sandy Hook residents took part in specialized Department of Homeland Security HSEEP training drills over the two y ...
  • Cops, Detectives, FBI Agents and U.S. Soldiers ...
    In the wake of the recent Sandy Hook shooting, I reached out to my contacts in law enforcement, military and (retired) FBI over the last three days, asking three simple questions... ~ Mike Adams read more
  • Sandy Hook Police Scanner Recordings
    Listen to 43:42 minutes of scanner recordings between CT State Police and Newtown Fire Department during Sandy Hook School 'shootings'. ~ Audio read more
  • The 'Next Target' Has Been Identified!
      With the nation in a state of confusion after the Sandy Hook 'shooting', those who wish to continue evil have identified the next target! ~ Josh Tolley Show - Audio read more
  • Agenda 21... Water As A Weapon - Public Exterm ...
    In August of 2004, quietly and without fanfare, an article was published on the Los Angeles Independent Media website revealing a plan by the U.S. government to depopulate the country via the water system. ~ Janet C. Phelan - Photos read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Tinder For Flame And Fire
    To build a fire, you need a source of spark or flame, tinder, kindling, and firewood. Tinder is very important in that it is the first step necessary to actually build a fire, and the quality of your tinder will determine your results. The right preparation is the most important consideration. T ...
  • Terrorist Nuclear Targets
    During the cold war, the general time period between 1945 and 1991, people believed that a massive exchange of nuclear weapons between the U.S. and U.S.S.R would occur. As we know, and fortunately, this did not happen. The potential nuclear conflict was between countries with reasonably rational ...
  • 2012 Numbers Too Crazy To Believe…
    The following are economic numbers from 2012 that are almost too crazy to believe… As we exit 2012 and enter 2013, let us not be distracted from the realities of the real economy. We need to have more discussion and conversation about it, which is the first step to coming up with solutions ...
  • Remember This About Life In Our Modern World
    We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, ...
  • 2013 Trends
    As we approach a new year, we wonder what it will bring, particularly the risks. A few thoughts include the following…   No doubt that the Federal Reserve will continue dumping more money into the system, even though they no longer call it Quantitative Easing. The Fed will do their be ...

Fast Company

  • Wine Bottles Become Graphic Motif In This SĂŁo ...
    Studio Arthur Casas creates a brick-and-mortar shop for an Internet wine retailer. Online retail is super convenient, but it doesn’t allow you to test out what you’re tossing in your virtual shopping cart. Clothes are sometimes best tried on in the comfort of your own home, but ...
  • A Mechanical Clock Tells Time With Numbers Com ...
    This prototype from Art. Lebedev Studio is a simple display with complex interior. Art. Lebedev Studio has almost 200 items listed under its site’s Industrial Design tab; the Moscow-based firm has produced or prototyped everything from figure skates to microwaves to “fuck the r ...
  • A Former Barracks Becomes A Vibrant Social Hub
    Clad in "protective" wooden shingles, Amsterdam’s Emma Architecten’s Pavilion Puur sits in the footprint of barracks from the turn of the last century. Over a century ago, the Netherlands Ministry of War built a series of batteries and flooded zones around the country’s c ...
  • MarsBling: Jewelry Based On The Mars Curiosity ...
    A new Etsy shop sells jewelry based on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. A new shop on Etsy is selling Mars rover-themed jewelry. MarsBling, run by Colorado-based science journalist Susanna Speier, sells pendant necklaces based on the martian rover. The jewelry line, according to Speier, tells ...
  • Ready For the PSY-an Apocalypse? “Gangnam” Pas ...
    It was bound to happen: the world-uniting "Gangnam Style" reached the zeitgeist-y billion-view milestone on 12/21/12 of all days. We know where one galloping horseman of the apocalypse is; whether the other three show up remains to be seen. In a fit of auspicious timing, the most-viewed Yo ...

Jadaliyya

  • Jadaliyya Page on Egypt's Constitutional Refer ...
    As debate over Egypt’s draft constitution proceeds, the editors would like to bring to your attention a page compiling Jadaliyya’s coverage of the lead-up to the constitutional referendum, as well as the political battles that have shaped the context in which the referendum is being convened. A ...
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  • من Ű§Ù„Ù‚Ű§Ù‡Ű±Ű© Ű§Ù„ŰŹÙ…ÙŠÙ„Ű© - Ű§Ù„ŰŹŰČŰĄ Ű§Ù„Ű±Ű§ŰšŰč
     "!ŰŹÙŠÙŠÙŠÙƒÙ‡! ŰŹÙŠÙŠÙŠÙƒÙ‡! ŰŹÙŠÙŠÙŠÙƒÙ‡" في يوم Ű”ŰŻŰ§Ù…Ű§ŰȘ Ù‚Ű”Ű± Ű§Ù„Ű„ŰȘŰ­Ű§ŰŻÙŠŰ©، Ù†ŰšŰ¶َ ŰČÙÙŠŰ±ُ Ű§Ù„Ù…ŰŻÙŠÙ†Ű© ÙˆŰŽÙ‡ÙŠÙ‚Ù‡Ű§ ŰŁÙƒŰ«Ű± من Ù…Ű±Ű©ٍ، ŰźÙ„Ű§Ù„ Ű§Ù„Ù„ÙŠÙ„Ű© Ű§Ù„ŰŻŰ§Ù…ÙŠŰ©، Űčلى Ù‡ŰŻÙŠŰ± Ű°Ű§Ùƒ Ű§Ù„Ù‡ŰȘŰ§Ù Ű§Ù„Ù‡Ű§ŰŻŰŠ Ű§Ù„Ù‡Ű§Ù…Űł ŰšŰ§Ù„ÙƒŰ§ŰŻ: "ŰŹÙŠÙŠÙŠÙƒÙ‡! ŰŹÙŠÙŠÙŠÙƒÙ‡! ŰŹÙŠÙŠÙŠÙƒÙ‡!" ÙƒŰ§Ù† Ű°Ű§Ùƒ Ù‡ŰŻÙŠŰ± Ù‡Ù…Űł ŰŹÙ…Ű§Űčي من Ù…ŰŹÙ…ÙˆŰčŰ©ٍ من ێۚۧۚ Ű§Ù„Ù…ŰȘŰžŰ§Ù‡Ű±ÙŠÙ†، ممن هم ŰšÙŠÙ† ŰłÙ† Ű§Ù„Űł ...
  • Say “Yes” to the Revolution
    Dear Mom and Dad, I hear you are going to vote “yes” on the draft constitution. But because I know you well, and I know you only stand up for what is right, I would like to tell you a short story and make a small request. The story took place on the eve of Hosni Mubarak's stepping down, when t ...
  • How Thomas Friedman Distorts Realities in Egyp ...
    In a recent New York Times op-ed, liberal icon Thomas Friedman asks if Egypt— currently in the midst street demonstrations, violent repression, and a referendum all surrounding a controversial constitution—will develop into a secular, democratic, modern state—in his words, "the next In ...

mediagazer

  • Talk radio host Dana Loesch files suit in St. ...
    Robert Patrick / St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Talk radio host Dana Loesch files suit in St. Louis against Breitbart.com  —  Conservative talk radio host and commentator Dana Loesch sued the owner of the conservative website Breitbart.com Friday, claiming that although her relationsh ...
  • The year responsive design starts to get weird ...
    Matt Waite / Nieman Journalism Lab: The year responsive design starts to get weird  —  Over the past year, the idea of responsive web design has taken hold in a growing number of newsrooms.  The Boston Globe launched a paywalled version of the Globe as a responsive experien ...
  • Getting It First or Getting It Right? (Margare ...
    Margaret Sullivan / New York Times: Getting It First or Getting It Right?  —  THE media critic Jack Shafer wrote recently that, in the age of Twitter, the public had better get used to a new fact of life: News stories, especially the early reports of breaking news events, are ve ...
  • Snow Fall: Finally an articulation for the dig ...
    Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: Snow Fall: Finally an articulation for the digerati of what a big, expensive newsroom can do  —  The Web is buzzing about the New York Times' epic , , ... let's just say multimedia extravaganza, “Snow Fall,” today.  Those of us who like ...
  • Appeals court sides with newspaper in labor fi ...
    Sam Hananel / Associated Press: Appeals court sides with newspaper in labor fight  —  WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court on Tuesday sided with the publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press in a long-running labor dispute between the newspaper and reporters who were fired a ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Shubhkamna Champions Tournament: Daniel C ...
    Noida: Sweden's Daniel Chopra continued his fine form as he maintained his two-shot lead over local favourites Shiv Kapur and Gaganjeet Bhullar after the second round of the Shubhkamna Champions Tournament, an event hosted by Jeev Milkha Singh, here today. Following up his eight-under 64 fro ...
  • Showbitz: Cheers for Anurag
    Cheers for Anurag Anurag Kashyap seems to be having a great end to his year with the news that his Gangs of Wasseypur will be screened in the Spotlight section of the Sundance Film Festival 2013 where he has been chosen as a Jury member of the World Cinema Dramatic section. The film has also ...
  • Ashton Kutcher Files To Divorce Estranged ...
    More than one year after they broke up, Ashton Kutcher has filed to officially end his marriage to Demi Moore - the "Two and a Half Men" star has finally started the divorce proceedings. Kutcher allegedly wanted to give Moore...
  • Sonakshi’s success trail
    Sonakshi Sinha’s face is doing all the talking. She’s glowing, she’s animated and she has a ready sense of humour. Clearly playing to the gallery of media persons surrounding her, ‘Shotgun’ Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter says, “Losing weight is the stor ...
  • 2 bombers target mobile phone firms in Ni ...
    KANO, Nigeria - Nigeria's army says twin suicide bombings targeted two major mobile phone facilities in this major northern Nigerian city, injuring one civilian. Army spokesman Capt. Iweha Ikedichi said the attacks on the switching stations of South Africa-based MTN Group Ltd. and Bharti Air ...

no frakking consensus

  • This Is Called Cheating (Part 2)
    Months before authors were even selected to write an upcoming IPCC report, its chairman was telling a live audience what conclusion that report would reach.
  • Who is Hans Joachim Schellnhuber?
    The German government's chief climate advisor is the furthest thing from an objective, dispassionate scientist. He thinks using fossil fuels amounts to “a lifestyle of mass destruction” - and that the UN should be put in charge of trillions of dollars.
  • This Is Called Cheating (Part 1)
    IPCC officials are telling Working Group 2 authors about scientific papers that haven't been written yet. These papers will appear in a special edition of a journal guest-edited by an activist scientist.
  • IPCC Declares Its Intent to Circumvent Expert ...
    Hundreds of souls have volunteered to serve as IPCC expert reviewers. But the review process lacks integrity - and the system is being gamed.
  • The IPCC Leak: This is What Transparency Looks ...
    The IPCC describes itself as a completely transparent organization. If that is the case, the draft chapters of its upcoming report that were leaked on the Internet yesterday should be a non-issue.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
    www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restrictions ...
  • 12/13/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! – Does lowe ...
    corporatetax.procon.org – NEW ProCon.org Website! – Does lowering the federal corporate income tax rate result in employers creating more jobs? – Throughout US corporate tax history, Americans have debated whether or not lowering the rate results in job creation. Propone ...
  • 12/12/12 - UPDATED: Are social networking site ...
    socialnetworking.procon.org - Are social networking sites good for our society? - The 47% of Americans who use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have spent billions of minutes social networking in 2012. Our newly revamped Social Networking site has statistics from over 200 ...
  • 12/7/12 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear two ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - US Supreme Court agrees to hear two same-sex marriage cases.  One case challenges California's Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in the state. The other case challenges the federal Defense of Marriage Act's denial of benefits to gay ...
  • 12/6/12 - The first medical marijuana dispensa ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - The first medical marijuana dispensaries in Arizona and New Jersey opened on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Both states passed medical marijuana in 2010.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • The Future of Academic Impact
      LSE’s public policy group put on an excellent conference programme on 4 December at Beveridge Hall. The conference explored the themes:1) the Economic impact of academic research; 2) impact and the new digital paradigm; 3) next steps in assessing impact; 4) impact as a driver for Open Access. ...
  • LERU 10 – Open Horizons: A Revolution in Open ...
      Brussels on a cold morning, the sun reluctantly rising in the clear sky, and there’s science to be done. Sitting at a jaunty angle from the European Parliament is “possibly the best investment Bavaria ever made” (according to Gunnar Wiegand, Deputy Director at the Representation of the Free St ...
  • CODATA 2012
      On the understanding that we needed to be indoors for a conference, the Taipei weather was accordingly drizzly with rain. The CODATA 2012 International Conference began on Sunday 28th October running until Wednesday 31st October. With several keynotes, high level panel discussions, and 4 or 5 ...
  • Predistribution Strategies: Innovation, Financ ...
    I attended a Policy Network event on 3 December. It was part of their series on economic reform, and the launch of William Lazonick & Marian Mazzucato’s paper called The Risk-Reward Nexus. Committee Room 3 in the House of Lords was a wonderfully grandiose setting. The event was to centre on ...
  • Population dynamics in Nairobi’s Korogocho slum
    As part of our dissemination activities for the Royal Society ‘People and the planet’ report, Sir John Sulston FRS and I visited Nairobi for a series of meetings with policymakers and a public lecture at the University of Nairobi. While we were there, the African Population and Health Research C ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Harvard Dining Services Dishes Up Sustainable ...
    Sustainable Prince Edward Island mussels make a delicious dish for hungry men and women of Harvard. Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer for Harvard Gazette It looks like r’s aren’t the only things getting dropped at Harvard: Over the last few years, Harvard University Dining Service ...
  • NYC Seafood Fraud Report Making Waves
    What's on your plate? Source: wikimedia commons Spurred by Oceana’s seafood fraud report for New York City released last week, Sunday’s New York Times took a broader look at the widespread practice of food mislabeling. Oceana’s initial report, which was also covered in the Times, included a ...
  • French Polynesia and the Cook Islands Create W ...
    A sicklefin lemon shark breathes a little easier in the shark sanctuary of French Polynesia. Source: Wikimedia Commons With as many as a third of all shark species in the world facing some threat of extinction, the future of sharks has been in peril for some time now. This month, however, Fre ...
  • Victory! EU Moves Towards Overhaul of Fisherie ...
    Bottom trawler at Sant Carles de la RĂĄpita, Spain ©Oceana Today the Fisheries Committee of the EU parliament voted to radically reform its fisheries management policies, for the better. After 18 months of negotiations the body voted to put in place new measures that would effectively end over ...
  • Oil Still Leaking From Deepwater Horizon Site
    Yesterday BP and the Coast Guard took a stealthy cruise in the Gulf of Mexico to look for oil leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. That’s right, two and a half years after the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, oil is still leaking near the infamous Macondo well ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Ben Affleck on Kerry’s Senate Seat: “One Never ...
    RIGHT NOW Scott Brown is leading Democrats by a mile in Massachusetts, as a recent WBUR poll showed, also revealing holding Kerry’s seat after a placeholder is appointed against Brown will require a smart campaign by a good candidate. The closest Democrat to Brown in popularity is Martha C ...
  • Queer Talk: Holiday Wish List and Reality Check
    Actually, this is just a holiday spin on an existing Queer Wish List, and it’s a truncated version only, with only a couple of items in current DC thinking and happenings. I think my overall wish, related to our Electeds, is simple: they will all miraculously begin acting like responsible, thoug ...
  • Secretary Kerry
    With a little prodding, Sen. John Kerry once reluctantly showed me his childhood passport. It was tattooed with border crossing stamps from almost all the Western European countries. From 1951 to 1954, his father Richard Kerry, a career Foreign Service officer, worked as an attorney for what was ...
  • NRA’s LaPierre Calls for Congress to Fund Arme ...
    “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” – Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association CEO [Full Remarks] WHAT IF Adam Lanza had been confronted inside Sandy Hook Elementary School by armed security guards? That’s where the NRA began its d ...
  • Fools on the Hill
    Things were so bad for Speaker John Boehner Thursday night, support for his Plan B tax bill so diminished, the limits of his power with his own party laid bare, that he stood in front of the House Republican Conference and recited the Serenity Prayer. “God grant me the serenity to accept the thi ...

Hudson New York

  • Muslims Angry Over Spanish Citizenship for Jews
    The Spanish government has announced that it will grant automatic citizenship to Jews of Sephardic descent, whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in 1492. The measure has been welcomed by Jewish groups, who say the move is long overdue and that it
  • It's Official: Muslim Population of Britain Do ...
    The national census for England and Wales has come out, and, as usual, this once-a-decade event has had all of its most significant points overlooked. By any measure, what it reveals is a country undergoing seismic change. Over the course of a decade up
  • Converging toward Hamas
    There are many points of disagreement between Fatah and Hamas; so many that they fought an ugly civil war in 2007, leaving Hamas in control of Gaza and Fatah in control of the West Bank. It is a mistake, however, to conclude from their often violent
  • What Is Behind Salam Fayyad's Call for "Econom ...
    Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, this week called for an economic intifada against Israel. Fayyad, whose government is facing a severe financial crisis, wants Palestinians to boycott all Israeli goods in response to Israel's
  • "I Go to Sleep Fatah and Wake Up Hamas"
    Contrary to what many people think, there is no profound division between Fatah and Hamas. Palestinians often shuttle from one to the other; members of the same family belong to different groups. Jibril Rajoub, for example, is often interviewed by the

Urban Survival

  • Same Crap, Different Long Count
    Mini-crash due in the markets this morning, but let’s wade through this in some kind of order, whall we?  Although there may be a few hold-outs who think the world could still get around to ending today, a buddy down … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Feedback for Tyler, TX Cops
    A number of readers responded to our story yesterday about how Tyler, TX police were putting reminders on windshields of Christmas shoppers who left freshly-purchased goods in sight while they went off to do more shopping.   Not a good … Continue reading →
  • GDP Report
    Oh, sure, the market dropped a hundred Dow points yesterday (or you can call me a liar for rounding 1.01 points) but what’s the real state of the economy?  By now you should be over the pain of the housing … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Last Day on Earth
    Almost predictably, the inbox is overflowing with last minute predictions about who can be the more dire.  I, however, am not.  That’s because we live life like it could end at any moment – and in point of fact it … Continue reading →
  • The Wednesday Morning Reader Note
    As happens every Wednesday, I tell you about what’s up for subscribers to our premium site www.peoplenomics.com this morning: How the World REALLY Ends With only two days to go and with some help from my consigliere who lives up … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • A War is Coming that will Kill 2.3 Billion Hum ...
    Founder of End Time Ministries, Rev. Irvin... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
  • The Great Deception: Obama and the Coming War
    A must see for all truthers, Christians and... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
  • Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura - Manimal
    "Some" people are putting the same sourced video... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
  • Links for 2012-12-21 [del.icio.us]
    Roubini : Everyday in America there is a Newtown massacre Roubini : Everyday in America there is a Newtown massacre WORLD NOT ENDING 12-21-2012! 05-15-2015 last chance! WORLD NOT ENDING 12-21-2012! 05-15-2015 last chance! Marc Faber :I look at Gold as a Honest Currency and not as a Commodity ...
  • David Icke on The Alex Jones Show (December 21 ...
    David Icke is a one man wrecking machine against... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Joan Mulhern: Clean Water Loses A Champion
    Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Joan Mulhern, my friend, a fellow clean water advocate, and a mentor, passed away on Tuesday.  I hope everyone will read the touching tribute that her Earthjustice colleague, Marty Hayden, wrote.&nb ...
  • Even California Can Do More to Advance the Cle ...
    Lara Ettenson, Director, California Energy Efficiency Policy, San Francisco A new report released this week by the Legislative Analyst’s Office recommends that the California Legislature develop a comprehensive strategy for meeting the state&r ...
  • New Coalition Celebrates One-Year Anniversary ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica A male wolf from Oregon's Wenaha pack. (Photo credit: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife) One year ago, a gray wolf from Oregon’s Imnaha pack, OR7, crossed over the state’s southern bord ...
  • Dynamic Ridesharing: Turning Empty Seats Into ...
    Lucian Go, Transportation Program Assistant, San Francisco With much of New York City’s public transit system crippled by flooding and debris due to Superstorm Sandy this past October, Mayor Bloomberg mandated high-occupancy vehicle (HOV 3) la ...
  • Polar Bears Have Friend in John Kerry
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Today President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry to be Secretary of State.  Senator Kerry has a long and a distinguished record of protecting our environment, no place more consistent ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, December 20, 2012: Lexington, Kentucky: A University of Kentucky officer has been fired after a student posted a video of officers entering his room and searching it. ow.ly/ggG1J Chicago, … Continue reading →National P ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, December 19, 2012: Little Rock, Arkansas: An officer faces a third-degree battery charge stemming from a domestic incident. ow.ly/geBHT Naples, Florida: An officer was arrested by deputies for driving … Continue reading &#8 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    *Note* I was out of the office Monday, so this recap includes an extra day. Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, December 15 to Tuesday, December 18, 2012: Chicago, Illinois: An officer and his family … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFee ...
  • ‘A slap on the wrist’
    From the Washington Post: IF A WITNESS hadn’t shot video of two Prince George’s County police officers savagely beating John McKenna, a University of Maryland student, after a March 2010 men’s basketball game, that would probably have been the end … Continue reading &#859 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, December 14, 2012: Update: Washington Township, New Jersey: An officer is facing 13 criminal charges in connection to an arrest. The charges include official misconduct, submitting a false report, … Continue reading →Nat ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Instagram’s advertisin ...
    Instagram rolls its advertising Terms of Service back to their original form, Facebook tries tackling message spam by taking payments for some messages, and Gangnam Style is the first YouTube... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook’s priva ...
    Facebook sharpens up its privacy tools, Google finally sells its Motorola Home division and the Snapjoy of photographs has been acquired by Dropbox. All this and more in today’s Daily... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Free speech, Redbox go ...
    On today’s Daily Dose, Steven Sinofsky heads to Harvard, and RIM proves that juice remains in the legs of its Blackberry brand. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Twitter’s 200 mi ...
    Twitter announces 200 million monthly active users, Samsung drops some of its European injunction requests against Apple and Google helps to unwrap more of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It’s all... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Twitter lets some user ...
    Twitter has started letting a small percentage of users download an archive of all their tweets, the Apple App Store’s growth is slowing according to Appsfire, and Twitter and Nielsen... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • This summer, BBQ without cooking the planet
    For the summer holiday season, the first thing on everyone's mind is naturally how to minimise their carbon emissions. Well, maybe not the first thing on everyone's mind, but it is at least possible to have a barbie without contributing extra greenhouse emissions – and probably more convenient ...
  • BZE Awards its Volunteers
    BZE relies on its dedicated and skilled volunteers for much of our research and public education initiatives. All our volunteers deserve an award! Today we are recognising those people that have excelled themselves in 2012. A big thank you to them and to all the people that have volunteered fo ...
  • Hartcher should stop providing PR for the gas ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions statement, 20 December 2012 New South Wales Energy Minister Chris Hartcher recently said “If we are unable to access gas the lights will go out. It's as simple as that." (Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2012). The statement is clearly wrong, on many counts (see below). Why is ...
  • Solar research funding is just passing the buck
    December 13 2012 Martin Ferguson's announcement this morning for $83 million for solar energy research is a diversion from actually building large solar, according to Matthew Wright from the climate and energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “While Australia is limiting its large-scale sola ...
  • Why are we buying insurance from power companies?
    By Richard Keech Much has been said in the discussion about the introduction of smart meters. According to Michael West in the Sydney Morning Herald, “smart meters and ‘flexible pricing’ merely shift the business risk from the company to the consumer”. This entirely misses the point that shield ...

Monga Bay ( News )

Sierra Express

  • Minkailu Bah’s Retention Unacceptable
    It is an open secret that the Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Minkailu Bah (in photo) is one of the most criticized ministers of President Koroma’s first government. His regime has been described by many educational authorities as an excellent failure evidenced by the catalogue of ...
  • The Begging Industry Booms
    My observation is that Sierra Leone is now enjoying a booming begging  industry; beggars have mushroomed, they have become iniquitous, they are here, there and everywhere; on the streets and even the high offices. Many Sierra Leoneans have taken begging as an occupation from which they are deriv ...
  • President Koroma to replace education Minister
    A cross section of educational authorities have made a clarion call on His Excellency the President Ernest Bai Koroma to replace the Education Minister, Dr Minkailu Bah (in photo) Giving reasons for their clarion call during an extensive interview conducted by this medium, the agitated education ...
  • Professor Parrot With Joseph Milton Lebbie
    Void Votes Form New Party – Sierra Leone is indeed a country of political wonders. This is the first country where void votes defeat political parties in elections. Yes, professor parrot has calculated the results of the 2012 polls and has come to the realization that the void votes took t ...
  • Airtel Money partners with Ecobank
    Airtel on Wednesday 19th December partnered with Ecobank on Airtel Money.  Corporate Affairs Manager June Rose Johnson welcomed everyone by saying that Airtel and Ecobank are trying to take mobile phone into business. She further said that one only needs to get account in Ecobank and make Airtel ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason TV Replay: Grandma Got Indefinitely Det ...
    As Americans get ready to travel for the holidays, here is a look back at last year's Christmas-themed Remy-ReasonTV collaboration.  Here is the original text from the Dec 19, 2011 video: In seasons past, Grandma only had to worry about getting run over by a reindeer. ...
  • J.D. Tuccille on How Defiance Makes Gun Contro ...
    J.D. Tuccille, Managing Editor of 24/7 News, says he doubts he ever would have gone to the black market to purchase an illegal assault weapon if it wasn’t for New York’s annoyingly restrictive gun control laws. Like millions of people around the world, when faced with barriers to th ...
  • Video: Check out Reason's New LA Headquarters!
    "Check out Reason's New LA Headquarters!" is the latest offering from ReasonTV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more ReasonTV clips. View this article.
  • Baylen Linnekin on Ending the Food Protectioni ...
    Recently a San Francisco neighborhood merchants' group, the Valencia Corridor Merchants Association, announced it would seek a temporary ban on new restaurants in the up-and-coming neighborhood. "As a merchants association, it's our job to protect the restaurants already on the corri ...
  • Study Says Community Reinvestment Act Induced ...
    'twas Wall Street greed what done it, some folks say, when it comes to explaining the spectacular housing meltdown of recent years, which had its roots in a great many astonishingly risky loans. Other folks suggest that the federal government just may have played something of a role ...

Mercury Rising

  • Privatized presidency
    It could have been so much fun. And now most of the media won’t even touch it. Carl Bernstein, The Guardian: So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch’s ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack Am ...
  • Privatized presidency
    It could have been so much fun. And now most of the media won’t even touch it. Carl Bernstein, The Guardian: So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch’s ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack Am ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Lady Lightfoot crossed the Rainbow Bridge two years ago today. I was fortunate to have her in my life for 14 of her 16 years. She was unaccountably fond of me, and always behaved with impeccable manners and dignity. She was a CAT.
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Lady Lightfoot crossed the Rainbow Bridge two years ago today. I was fortunate to have her in my life for 14 of her 16 years. She was unaccountably fond of me, and always behaved with impeccable manners and dignity. She was a CAT.
  • I’m asking for input
    I keep hearing that Robert Bork’s book, The Antitrust Paradox (TAP) is terribly important. For example: Robert Bork is the single most important person in antitrust in America…. In 1960, he was concerned the socialists would take over the country through antitrust. Antitrust then was ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Contemplating the Multiverse
    This article on Space.com includes five theories that explore the possibility of universes that exist in addition to our own, also known as a multiverse. Scientists assume that space-time is flat and stretches out infinitely. If space-time continues to expand forever, then it must start repe ...
  • Sex in the News
    The sex-positive Parent on children and guns, the new Arab manhood, parenthood's greyest generation and Scalia and same-sex marriage, in this week's sex in the news.read more
  • The End of the Beginning
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  • Say Know to Drugs
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  • Astrology and the Renaissance in Film
      Hollywood has taken a cue from the cosmic weather. The newly released films and upcoming offerings have been shifting consciousness and reflecting the archetypal evolution unfolding at this critical turn of the ages. Here are some thoughts on why film is such an important and magical ex ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • "You All"
    As it's the season for giving, i'd like to take a moment to reflect & wish you all.......would go to hell. by "ally" As originally posted on: ally (blacflag) on Twitter December 18, 2012
  • A Very Merry Christmas…
    Let’s all join together and send a full-throated and heartfelt Merry Christmas to Ashu M. G. Solo in Saskatoon – and nothing else. No other well wishes, just that: A Very Merry Christmas. This one is especially for you, Mr. Solo: See the story here: A Saskatoon man has complained to the city b ...
  • You Have to Register Your Car, But Not Your Gun
    Stephen Harper abolished Canada's long gun registry, considering it an infringement on gun rights. Harper wants to follow the American model it seems - where there are lax restrictions on gun ownership and purchase. However, is that the model we want in Canada? Gun violence is a serious proble ...
  • Adam Lanza:Tragic shooting in Connecticut
    In the United States, while there is more violent crime in the city, there are more mass shootings - including school shootings - in the suburbs. Gun violence is a problem across the board in the United States, no one - rich or poor - is immune. What happened in Connecticut is a tragedy - young ...
  • "The Govmint" and "a Country"
    The following tweets were originally posted by "G(od) No Relation" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/Flaganatas), respectively, on December 5, 2012 and December 12, 2012. They have been edited in terms of formatting. Crime may indeed be the way forward, crime against the govmin ...

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
    In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...
  • Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
    In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
  • I am a marathoner.
    Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...
  • A Post-Sandy Report from Far Rockaway
    Hello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]
  • Five Questions for SPS Veterans
    To all of the veterans, active troops, and military families in the SPS community, we thank you! Returning home and making higher education a goal is not always easy.  We asked alum Armando Vega, and current student Enrique Diaz to share some of their thoughts on being student veterans. 1. What ...

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • pulitzercenter:“And Mt. Ararat – located ju ...
    pulitzercenter: “And Mt. Ararat – located just across a closed border in Turkey – is ever-present, dominating the skyline in Yerevan and beyond, a constant reminder of the longing for Western Armenia and of what has been lost in genocide. No longer a part of any Armenia, it is an open wound a ...
  • Rope store, South Street and James Slip, Manha ...
    Rope store, South Street and James Slip, Manhattan. (February 05, 1936)
  • planetbillard:Tehran, Iran
    planetbillard: Tehran, Iran
  • "It seems to me that media critics often focus ...
    “It seems to me that media critics often focus on the year’s underreported or even...
  • Public Reactions: The March on the Pentagon: 1 ...
    Public Reactions: The March on the Pentagon: 10/21/1967 (NARA)

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • India Looks to Diverse Strategy on Disability
    Twenty-year-old Reshma, hailing from the village of Aryanad in the Thiruvananthapuram district of the South Indian state of Kerala, was forced to drop out of school early as a result of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Her parents had just about given up hope on their daughter’s future when ...
  • Bedouin Seek Democracy in Israel
    As campaign posters pop up around Israel ahead of the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections, Bedouin citizens of the state are still reeling after being denied the chance to elect their own local council representatives. Legal rights activists say the move represents the limits of democracy ...
  • Africa’s Mobile Health Revolution
    A nurse working in a remote clinic in Mueda, a small town in northern Mozambique’s Makonde Plateau, receives a shipment of vaccines from the national health department. Using special software on her mobile phone, she sends out a mass text message to alert mothers in the area about the availabili ...
  • Sen. John Kerry Chosen for U.S. Secretary of State
    U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Massachusetts Senator John Kerry on Friday to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, calling him “the perfect choice to guide American diplomacy in the years ahead”. But Obama offered no hints as to whom he will pick for the rest of his n ...
  • Q&A: “It’s Time to Wage War on Hom ...
    Rebecca Hanser interviews South African pop star YVONNE CHAKA CHAKA

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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

The Daily Galaxy

  • Supermassive Black Holes --Are They "Exit Door ...
                     Earlier this fall, an international team, led by researchers at MIT’s Haystack Observatory measured the radius of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy — the closest distance at which matter can approach before being irretrievably pulled into a black ho ...
  • Swarms of Tiny Galaxies Found Bursting with St ...
                     In2011, using its infrared vision to peer nine billion years back in time, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope uncovered an extraordinary population of tiny, young galaxies that are vibrant with star formation. The galaxies are churning out stars at such a rate ...
  • New Mars Research: A Large Portion of Ancient ...
      A new study co-authored by the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that clay minerals, rocks that usually form when water is present for long periods of time, cover a larger portion of Mars than previously thought. In fact, Assistant Professor James Wray and the research team ...
  • Genetic Phenomenon Found that Creates Differen ...
                      MIT biologists have found that alternative splicing of messenger RNA accounts for much of the differences seen between species. When genes were first discovered, the canonical view was that each gene encodes a unique protein. However, biologists later found that segm ...
  • EcoAlert: Strong Link Between Climate Change a ...
                     It has long been known that volcanic activity can cause short-term variations in climate. Now, researchers at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany), together with colleagues from Harvard University have found evidence that the reverse process a ...

Natural News

  • Reason versus delusion: Why we need armed defe ...
    I'm not a member of the NRA, but when an organization states such a powerful, obvious truth that can help save lives, I am obliged to recognize the wisdom of it even if I'm not personally a member of that group. Yesterday, the NRA called for defending our nation's schoolchildren...
  • The Budwig protocol - Underrated and overlooke ...
    Cancer therapy is a controversial subject, both for traditional medicine and alternative therapists, particularly because no universal treatment, one that works equally well for everyone, has yet been found. However, an array of alternative and experimental cancer recovery...
  • Fighting fatigue
    (NaturalNews)Probably the most common complaint of people today is fatigue. This is not a disease per se, but rather a major symptom of many disturbances. Unfortunately, fatigue must be dealt with generally as the single most presenting disorder, without much else to help in diagnosis...
  • Four easy home remedies for chronic indigestion
    Indigestion has many aspects, from simply feeling bloated and too full to full blown IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) or IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). The latter includes both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Basic eating habits can prevent simple indigestion...
  • Study shows how to throw away negative thoughts
    In the midst of all the insecurities humanity is facing these days the question begs to be asked: 'How do we avoid thinking of all this negativity?' It would seem that it is almost impossible to avoid negative thinking; however, according to a recent study, there is...

Threat Level

  • Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — ...
    The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack Obama granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. While lawmakers were caving to special interests, however, they cut from the legislative ...
  • Net Neutrality, Data-Cap Legislation Lands in ...
    A proposal forbidding internet service providers from turning the data-cap meter off to grant a so-called internet fast lane to preferential online services was introduced Thursday in the Senate. The bill by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) comes a week after ...
  • Lawmaker Inching Toward Regulation of Violent ...
    Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) has taken Congress' first step in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre toward possibly regulating access to violent videogames. Calls for gun control immediately followed the elementary-school shooting Friday, so it was ...
  • Cosmo Strikes Again, Taking Over Another Westb ...
    It feels a little bit like hacker Groundhog Day. After hijacking a Westboro Baptist Church leader’s Twitter account on Monday, Wired has confirmed that the 15-year-old hacker known as Cosmo the God took over another account belonging to one of ...
  • Introducing the ‘State Secrets’ Drinking Game
    We reported Friday of a three-hour hearing in San Francisco federal court in which the Justice Department repeatedly invoked the state secrets privilege and demanded U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White dismiss a lawsuit accusing the government of siphoning Americans' electronic ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Fiscal Cliffs of Dover
    If you have lingering doubts that economic growth--and not deficit reduction--should be the highest priority during the debate over the so-called "fiscal cliff," the Congressional Budget Office should put them to rest. The CBO forecast that the triple witching hour of expiring Bush tax cuts, th ...
  • Benghazi Fallout Recalls 9/11 Resignations
    As President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised in September, the State Department Accountability Review Board on Wednesday delivered its report on the Benghazi consulate assault which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The findings are sharply critica ...
  • Treasury Wins Big on GM Bailout
    Much to the delight of President Obama's conservative naysayers, Politico this morning reported that "the Treasury Department on Wednesday announced plans to sell, almost certainly at a loss, the government's remaining shares of Detroit-based automaker General Motors." Predictably, the right-wi ...
  • "None of Your Civil Liberties Matter Much Afte ...
    As the Obama administration and Congress ponder their responses to the slaughter in Newtown, Connecticut, one of the central tensions in the American system of government is once again coming to the fore. That is, the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution's Bill of Rights are neither absolute ...
  • Eight Years Too Late, Rice Is Out at State
    Last week, UN Ambassador Susan Rice took herself out of the running to become the next Secretary of State, apparently clearing the way for Senator John Kerry. But whether or not Rice was the best choice--or even President Obama's first choice--for the position is largely beside the point. Hist ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Christmas Wishes Sent To Monsanto Claus
    My previous Monsanto Claus cartoons: Monsanto Claus 2009: Ho Ho Oh No! (original title, eh?) Monsanto Claus 2010: A RoundUp-Resistant Christmas Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon page… Christmas Wishes Sent To Monsanto Claus was originally posted on: PlanetSaveC ...
  • Black Piranha And Extinct Megapiranha Have The ...
    The most powerful bite of any fish known to have to ever existed is the amazonian black piranha and the extinct ‘megapiranha’, when body mass is taken into account, new research has found. The new research has found that the highly specialized jaw structure of the piranha allows them ...
  • Hawaiian Islands Being Dissolved From Within B ...
    Soil erosion is often considered to be the primary cause of land and mountain loss on islands, but new research has found that on Oahu the mountains are being dissolved and destroyed by groundwater. Eventually the mountains Koolau and Waianae on Oahu will be dissolved until the island becomes a ...
  • Ursids Meteor Shower Peaking Tonight December ...
    The Ursids meteor shower is peaking this year on Saturday December 22, 2012. The annual meteor shower usually peaks right around the winter solstice. Meteors should be visible for the next few nights if you can’t watch them tonight. The Ursids are typically the most visible in the more nor ...
  • Greenland Winds Affect Ocean Circulation in No ...
    A new climate diagnostic tool has revealed gale-force winds whipping around the Greenland coast are driving ocean circulation by affecting ocean waters, deep sea currents and sea ice behaviour. “We now have a more complete understanding of the complexity of the climate system,” says Moore, a pro ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • A Worm's Eye View: Fiscal Cliff Theater
    By @TomBales1 Been a while since I did a WEV and with the Republicans taking a quick break from their never ending efforts to find some excuse to unseat a sitting POTUS and heading off home for their holly jolly Christmas and leaving us old folks hanging by our fingernails over the edge of the ...
  • Our 21st Century "Radical Republicans"
    By @TedFrier You may think that the adjectives professor P.M. Carpenter uses to describe House Republicans are hysterical and hyperbolic: "crazies," "nihilistic," "crypto-fascist." But I defy you to call them untrue, for the truth is that you cannot fully understand contemporary American politi ...
  • When Children Pay for Our Sins
    By @TedFrier The deaths of 20 small children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut last week was sufficiently shocking to dislodge from my memory reminders of another appalling tragedy that horrified me when I was just a boy, and continues to haunt me still, when scores of ...
  • Obama Got a Free Play
    By @TedFrier I am not going to say the thought hadn't occurred to me that one reason President Obama seemed so willing to put chips on the table (raising the no-tax limit to $400,000, cuts to Social Security) was because he knew he had nothing to lose. So long as tax hikes were still in the mix ...
  • Breaking It Down On Gun Violence
    By @TomBales1 Here's another thought provoking graphic from Mansur Gidfar at Upworthy that illustrates the consequences of allowing a culture of hate to rule the country (The commentary is mine).  If it doesn't make you stop and think then I suspect you're one of those that have stock in t ...

Care 2

  • Help the polar bears ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
    Although the polar bear population is in trouble because of climate changes , it is outrageous that the trade of their skin or other parts continue to be authorized international level Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell the White House: Stop a Delisting Catastr ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is deliberating the proposed removal of nearly all Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states, with the possible exception of the Mexican gray wolf. This delisting would be a conservation Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&n ...
  • Ban declawing cats in Canada ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    More than 20 countries in Europe and Great Britian have already banned declawing cats. Please help to get Canada on this list. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DWTS....MOVE IT!!!
    This is for all of you guys and gals that have put off things for the Holidays and haven't done a thing...Thus, MOVE IT MOVE IT!!! Submitted by Mm M. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
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    Because the federal government refuses to follow its own endangered species law. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Why No Mass School Shootings in Israel?
    When Israeli school children were massacred in May 1970 on the road to Moshav Avivim, near Israel’s border with Lebanon, it was the handiwork of the Palestinian terrorist group, the PFLP-GC (i.e., the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command). So, of course Israe ...
  • “How do we talk to our kids about Newtown shoo ...
    The Hartford Courier reports: President Obama called for new proposals for reducing gun violence during an address Wednesday. He appointed Vice President Joseph Biden to head an inter-agency panel to come up with “a set of concrete proposals by January that I intend to push without delay,& ...
  • “Formal Reprimand Issued To Flatulent Federal ...
    The subtitle of The Smoking Gun is: Man’s gas blamed for creating “intolerable” workplace In a December 10 letter accusing him of “conduct unbecoming a federal officer,” the Social Security Administration employee was informed that his “uncontrollable flatulence” had created an ...
  • Zero Dark Fairy Tale (and open thread)
    I spoke with Eli Lake, Malcolm Hoenlein,and Reza Khalili with regard to the Middle East minefield, and what is to be done with the predator state of Iran. The new Hollywood version of what is to be done, “Zero Dark Thirty,” presents the horse opera scenario of how to win a war. Find ...
  • Zero Dark Fairy Tale
    Spoke to Eli Lake, Malcolm Hoenlein, Reza Khalili, with regard to the Middle East minefield, and what is to be done with the predator state of Iran. The new Hollywood version of what is to be done, “Zero Dark Thirty,” presents the horse opera scenario of how to win a war. Find the bo ...

Futurismic

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

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Mountaintop Removal

  • DEQ worried about increased coal mining in Can ...
    DEQ worried about increased coal mining in Canada Seattle Post Intelligencer Most of the Canadian mining takes place by open pit or mountaintop removal methods. Runoff from the explosives used in that mining has added lots of nitrogen and phosphorus to the water system. Sexton said the levels ar ...
  • Joan Mulhern: Clean Water Loses A Champion - N ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Joan Mulhern: Clean Water Loses A Champion Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) As many people have noted, including her friends at the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Joan was extra-tireless (please permit the oxymoron – if you knew Joan, I thin ...
  • Scientists More Outspoken on Exteme Weather-Cl ...
    KQED QUEST (blog) Scientists More Outspoken on Exteme Weather-Climate Links KQED QUEST (blog) Tar sands, tar shale, fracking, mountaintop removal. It's crazy because our children are going to have to figure out a way to suck that CO2 back out of the atmosphere, or they're going to get pr ...
  • The Apocalypse Is Coming, and I Can't Wait - H ...
    The Apocalypse Is Coming, and I Can't Wait Huffington Post Stevens' song "All the Trees of the Field" anticipates the day when nature itself -- now plagued by global warming and deforestation and mountain-top removal and, as we've seen in recent days, violent mental illness ...
  • Linda Connor enters a door Wyeth opened - San ...
    San Francisco Chronicle Linda Connor enters a door Wyeth opened San Francisco Chronicle The high formal impact of Light's pictures merely postpones their discovery of an ugly convergence between American dreams of homes as castles and the ecological nightmares of strip mining and mountaintop ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama to attend Inouye funeral in Hawaii (Alic ...
    Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill: Obama to attend Inouye funeral in Hawaii  —  President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral service for the late Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) in Honolulu on Sunday, the White House announced on Saturday.  —  Inou ...
  • HOUSE REPUBLICANS CIRCULATE PLAN TO OUST BOEHN ...
    Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM: HOUSE REPUBLICANS CIRCULATE PLAN TO OUST BOEHNER FROM SPEAKERSHIP  —  Several conservative House Republican members are contemplating a plan to unseat Speaker John Boehner from his position on January 3, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.&nbsp ...
  • The N.R.A. Crawls From Its Hidey Hole (New Yor ...
    New York Times: The N.R.A. Crawls From Its Hidey Hole  —  Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, would have been better advised to remain wherever he had been hiding after the Newtown, Conn., massacre, rather than appear at a news confere ...
  • D.C. house inspires 168 bids in red-hot real e ...
    Annys Shin / Washington Post: D.C. house inspires 168 bids in red-hot real estate market  —  It didn't look like a house anyone would pay $400,000 extra for.  —  Several walls inside the gray townhouse with blue trim were streaked with water stains.  The fir ...
  • CAIR Leader Mimics Hamas in Calling for Israel ...
    Joe Kaufman / Front Page Magazine: CAIR Leader Mimics Hamas in Calling for Israel's Destruction  —  The slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” can be heard regularly from the shores of the Gaza Strip, emanating from members of terrorist groups, ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Babuyan Islands region, Philippines
    Saturday, December 22, 2012 18:07:17 UTC Sunday, December 23, 2012 02:07:17 AM at epicenterDepth: 29.00 km (18.02 mi)
  • M 5.5, Myanmar
    Saturday, December 22, 2012 16:41:44 UTC Saturday, December 22, 2012 11:11:44 PM at epicenterDepth: 126.60 km (78.67 mi)
  • M 5.1, Kuril Islands
    Saturday, December 22, 2012 04:42:37 UTC Saturday, December 22, 2012 03:42:37 PM at epicenterDepth: 117.20 km (72.82 mi)
  • M 5.2, northern Sumatra, Indonesia
    Saturday, December 22, 2012 03:50:03 UTC Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:50:03 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 6.8, Vanuatu
    Friday, December 21, 2012 22:28:09 UTC Saturday, December 22, 2012 09:28:09 AM at epicenterDepth: 207.90 km (129.18 mi)

China Dialogue

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AlterNet Top Stories

  • Mosque Arsonist: Fox News Made Me Do It!
    An Indiana man who pleaded guilty yesterday to setting an Ohio mosque on fire told a judge he was motivated by media accounts – specifically those on Fox News – suggesting Muslims were threatening Americans and were in control of parts of the federal government.Details made ...
  • Jesus, Christmas And Palestinian Genocide: Hum ...
    On Christmas Day this year the World will again celebrate the birth of Jesus but needs to loudly and publicly proclaim the truth that Jesus was a Palestinian. Goodhearted and honest Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Jews, Animists, Agnostics and Atheists would all agree th ...
  • Obama Will Ride to the Rescue ... for Republicans
    The Republicans have put themselves in a holy mess with this Plan B debacle. They now have less than zero leverage. They are a national laughingstock. A majority of the country now thinks they are"too extreme." They just got walloped in the election. And with the tax cuts set to expire the la ...
  • Trading Sex for a "F--cking Happy Meal?" Mom C ...
     Carla walked into my office with despair in her eyes. I was surprised. Carla has been doing well in her four months out of prison; she got off drugs, regained custody of her kids, and even enrolled in a local community college. Without much prodding she admitted to me that she had ...
  • The Real Rationale for the 2nd Amendment, That ...
     Right-wing resistance to meaningful gun control is driven, in part, by a false notion that America’s Founders adopted the Second Amendment because they wanted an armed population that could battle the U.S. government. The opposite is the truth, but many Americans seem to hav ...

Threat Level

  • Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — ...
    The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack Obama granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. While lawmakers were caving to special interests, however, they cut from the legislative ...
  • Net Neutrality, Data-Cap Legislation Lands in ...
    A proposal forbidding internet service providers from turning the data-cap meter off to grant a so-called internet fast lane to preferential online services was introduced Thursday in the Senate. The bill by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) comes a week after ...
  • Lawmaker Inching Toward Regulation of Violent ...
    Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) has taken Congress' first step in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre toward possibly regulating access to violent videogames. Calls for gun control immediately followed the elementary-school shooting Friday, so it was ...
  • Cosmo Strikes Again, Taking Over Another Westb ...
    It feels a little bit like hacker Groundhog Day. After hijacking a Westboro Baptist Church leader’s Twitter account on Monday, Wired has confirmed that the 15-year-old hacker known as Cosmo the God took over another account belonging to one of ...
  • Introducing the ‘State Secrets’ Drinking Game
    We reported Friday of a three-hour hearing in San Francisco federal court in which the Justice Department repeatedly invoked the state secrets privilege and demanded U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White dismiss a lawsuit accusing the government of siphoning Americans' electronic ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • To Lauren
    Lauren Beth Rudolph died on December 28, 1992 in her mother’s arms due to complications of an E. coli O157:H7 infection – Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. She was only 6 years,... Continue Reading
  • Cardinal Meat Specialists E. coli Outbreak Foc ...
    To date five people have been reported ill linked to this product. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) continues to investigate ingredients used in burgers produced at Cardinal Meat Specialists... Continue Reading
  • Consent Decree Entered Against Sunland
    U.S. District Judge William P. Johnson of the District of New Mexico has signed a consent decree imposing requirements on Sunland Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of peanut products linked... Continue Reading
  • Marler Clark retained by family of man killed ...
    My phone rang last week sometime after this likely award-winning article was published: The Star found that Robert Danell, a 62-year-old man with Down syndrome, died after he and one... Continue Reading
  • 5 E. coli illnesses linked to now recalled ham ...
    The same strain of E. coli O157:H that was isolated from five patients in Alberta and Ontario was also found in Butcher’s Choice brand Garlic Peppercorn beef burgers, according to... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • VIDEO: "NRA Killing Our Kids" - CODEPINK Disru ...
    CODEPINK protesters interrupted the National Rifle Association’s press conference on Friday as the group held its first press conference since the Newtown massacre. During comments made by NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, one protester held up a banner reading, “The NRA is killing our kids ...
  • Lessons from New Town, AUS for Newtown, USA: W ...
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The initial shock of the latest semiautomatic weapon-fueled massacre has passed, but the grief only grows. Now the funerals occur with a daily drumbeat. It will take not 27, but 28 funerals, as the Newtown, Connecticut, shooter, Adam Lanza, took his own li ...
  • VIDEO: New "Kochtopus" Graphic Maps the Influe ...
    The author of a new report on U.S. carbon billionaires gives Democracy Now! a tour of the Kochtopus — a map of the empire of Charles and David Koch. The Kochs run oil refineries and control thousands of miles of pipeline, giving them a massive personal stake in the fossil fuel industry. ...
  • VIDEO: Watch Amy Goodman on MSNBC on Gun Contr ...
    Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman spoke Saturday on Up With Chris Hayes about the national the role played by mental illness in attacks like the mass shooting Friday in Newtown, Connecticut and what society might endeavor to do differently to avoid these types of horrific attacks in the futur ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Saturday, December 15th at 8-10 am ET.

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • Christmas with J.S.Bach
  • We are Celebrating for Christmas!
    Dearest Friends and Allies Everywhere: The Solari office will be closed from December 22 – January 1. We will be posting the next Jon Rappoport special on December 27th and the blog post for the Solari annual wrap up on December 31st. Make sure to mark your calendars for the wrap up on [...]
  • What a Coincidence!
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Now let’s get this straight. On December 11th, the Department of Justice announces that HSBC is paying a $1.92 billion settlement for money laundering. However, no officers of HSBC are being indicted or penalized. Everyone skates. Now, HSBC is the custodian for th ...
  • John Seymour – The Complete Book of Self ...
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  • Discovery of Higgs Boson Rated Year’s To ...
    By Robert Booth From landing the Curiosity rover on Mars after a 350m-mile journey, to the discovery of the world’s most wanted sub-atomic particle, the top 10 scientific achievements of 2012 have been nominated by the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, gi ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Sideways News

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Fabius Maximus

  • Is 4GW dead?
    Venezuela as an Exporter of 4th Generation Warfare Instability By Dr. Max G. Manwaring Strategic Studies Institute 19 December 2012 While we write clever pieces of sophistry proving that there is no such thing as 4GW, our less discerning opponents go right on applying it. And calling it by name. ...
  • IPCC says “It is likely that the sea lev ...
    Summary:  Today we look at a weakness in the latest IPCC report, that illustrates a larger problem in the climate sciences. A follow-up to The IPCC sees the pause in global warming! and The IPCC gets better. Climate alarmists freak-out. Contents A weakness of the IPCC’s process This shows ...
  • The ultimate 21st Century cage match: Titanic ...
    Summary:  Today GI Wilson writes about the great game of the 21st century — the US government vs. our 4GW foes.  Once called “low intensity war”, our foes have taught us the ability of sustained 4GW produces only a series of expensive defeats for foreign armies (no matter how p ...
  • The IPCC gets better. Climate alarmists freak ...
    Summary: The IPCC is the only organization of its kind today, and so the best that we have to deal with the critical problem of climate change. The leaked draft of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) shows that they’re improving in response to criticism. Here we look at a prominent su ...
  • The IPCC sees the pause in global warming!
    Summary:  Today we look at one of the many interesting graphics from the leaked draft of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), this one showing the pause in global warming. And at the various responses of scientists to this data. . Contents A powerful graphic Three responses to this da ...

Open Your Eyes News

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The Progressive Realist

  • 4 Big Challenges for Secretary of State John Kerry
    It’s official: John Kerry has been nominated to become the next Secretary of State. Here are four great challenges facing the incoming Secy State. 1). It’s all About the $Billions. One of the great structural challenges of American foreign policy is the underfunding of diplomacy and ...
  • Top of the Morning: GAVI Suspends Sierra Leone ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. GAVI Suspends Funding to Sierra Leone Over Misuse The Gates-backed Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunizations is halting $6 million in payments..”The leaked letter from the GAVI Alliance dated Nov. 15 2012 and addressed to Sierra Leone’s health min ...
  • How the USA Prevented a Rush to War In Mali
    The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing a multinational force to intervene in northern Mali. What is not included in the resolution is as significant as what made it past negotiations. For several weeks the French have been pushing for an agressive resolution that woul ...
  • Chuck Hagel, Israel and Honest Debate
    Atlantic Council chairman Chuck Hagel has been widely reported to be President Obama's choice for secretary of defense. Given that he's my boss' boss, I've refrained from commentary on his merits for the job.  But silence in the face of slander is too often taken as admission. Running the defe ...
  • The Hagel Watch: Former U.S. Ambassadors to Is ...
    This could be an encouraging sign. A refresher: - As part of the pre-formal-nomination "mentioning" process, former Senator Chuck Hagel (right) a Republican from Nebraska, has emerged as a contender to succeed Leon Panetta as secretary of defense; - William Kristol and various neocon ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Every Time, It's Personal
    Eight years is a long time in politics, but you may remember that way back in 2004, Republicans considered John Kerry a wimpy, flip-flopping elitist who had faked his war injuries and betrayed America by coming back from Vietnam and criticizing the war. But today Barack Obama nominated Kerry to ...
  • A Level Playing Field for a New America
    This piece is part of the Prospect's series on progressives' strategy over the next 40 years. To read the introduction, click here. A New America is rising. By 2050, people of color in the United States will comprise approximately 50 percent of the population. This shift in racial composition, ...
  • Obama Appoints Scott Brown as Senator from Mas ...
    Flickr/U.S Embassy Kabul Afghanistan Senator John Kerry and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzain in Kabul in 2009. The Washington Post reports that President Obama has nominated Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next Secretary of State. This doesn’t come as a surprise; he ...
  • Condemned Love
    Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Amour, featuring Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant Don’t be fooled by the possibility of a kinder, gentler Michael Haneke. It would be easy to let down your guard given the title of his latest, gruelingly good film, Amour, and the relea ...
  • Don't Count Boehner Out Just Yet
    AP Photo/John Duricka Representative John Boehner holds up a copy of the Constitution on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, May 7, 1992, as Senator Don Nickles looks on.  The side of John Boehner we understand most is the one that offers a distant sense of comfort—the one who'll ...

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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • End of the World
    Well, the sleeping Americans problem don’t know it yet, but the end of the world hasn’t happened as Australians and others who have already entered the day Winter Solstice will attest. Google celebrates with a piece of the Mayan Calendar. Of course, why anyone would trust the “ ...
  • Dead-tree stocking fillers
    A couple of arrivals on my desk for review worth a look. John Rentoul has been running the Questions To Which The Answer Is No! Awards for several years now. Celebrating the journalistic skill of basing an entire article on a fantastically far-fetched question-based headline and only admitting t ...
  • Deceived Wisdom anywhere
       Deceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDeceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
  • Legal guidelines on social media
    Lawyer and blogger Jack of Kent has published an interesting article discussing the preliminary guidelines on how prosecutors under English law should approach social media. To my mind, I assume that a prosecution would be appropriate if a tweet, Facebook update or other public posting breaks th ...
  • Deceived Wisdom about wine
    In my book, one of the myths I debunk is that surrounding the etiquette of removing the cork from a bottle of red wine to allow the wine to “breathe”. It’s clearly nonsense as the air-liquid interface is too small to have any significant effect. There are some claims that aerat ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Time for Plan C: Big Corporations Should Pay F ...
    Several business organizations released a joint statement saying it’s “time for Plan C: big corporations now dodging billions in taxes should pay their fair share. Forget Plan B tax breaks for those making $999,999 a year [and] cuts to Social Security.” Instead, they call on Co ...
  • Time for Plan C: Big Corporations Should Pay F ...
    Several business organizations released a joint statement saying it’s “time for Plan C: big corporations now dodging billions in taxes should pay their fair share. Forget Plan B tax breaks for those making $999,999 a year [and] cuts to Social Security.” Instead, they call on Co ...
  • FDA Moves Towards Approval of First Geneticall ...
    “Today, despite insufficient testing and widespread opposition, AquaBounty’s genetically engineered (GE) salmon took the final step towards becoming the first FDA-approved genetically engineered (GE) food animal. Today the Food and Drug Administration released its draft Environmental ...
  • FDA Moves Towards Approval of First Geneticall ...
    “Today, despite insufficient testing and widespread opposition, AquaBounty’s genetically engineered (GE) salmon took the final step towards becoming the first FDA-approved genetically engineered (GE) food animal. Today the Food and Drug Administration released its draft Environmental ...
  • 50,000 Endangered Species Condoms to Be Handed ...
    The Center for Biological Diversity is distributing 50,000 free Endangered Species Condoms for holiday and New Year’s Eve celebrations around the country. More than 600 volunteer distributors will hand out the condoms at events in all 50 states.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Tec-9’s for Teachers? Arming Educators Gets a ...
    Jesse Hagopian Chalk in one hand and a handgun in the other. As a high school history teacher with a Masters in Education, I never imagined some politicians and other cultural “leaders” would be urging me to add “special f ...
  • The Commercialization of Family
    Ralph Nader Family is the foundation of our American society. In many ways, the family unit is one of the last bastions of decency holding out against encroaching corporate commoditization -- the corporations can sell food, medicine, clothi ...
  • Banks and Persons
    Christopher Brauchli My object all-sublime, I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime. — Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado It was just an unfortunate coincidence that the reports were almost juxtaposed-the reports ...
  • Despite Exemptions, Police and Firefighters Sh ...
    Michelle Chen Michigan’s new right-to-work law has has struck a savage blow to America’s labor movement in its heartland. Unions across the state have thronged to Lansing to oppose the attack, which makes union members ...
  • The Right’s Second Amendment Lies
    Robert Parry Right-wing resistance to meaningful gun control is driven, in part, by a false notion that America’s Founders adopted the Second Amendment because they wanted an armed population that could battle the U.S. government ...

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

  • Confucius, Keynes And Christ: The Role And Opp ...
    Max Wei, via Climate Access It is often argued that we have an ethical obligation to combat climate change for two related reasons: (1) we must not cause serious harm to future generations, and (2) we have an ethical duty to preserve the natural environment based on notions of stewardship or to ...
  • Senators Say NRA’s Press Conference Meant To S ...
    The senate’s leading proponents of gun safety rejected the National Rifle Association’s push for more firearms in schools in the aftermath of the Newtown shooting, calling the announcement a ploy to distract from the ongoing debate about limiting assault weapons and high capacity mag ...
  • Connecticut School Officials Blast NRA’s React ...
    Teachers, school superintendents, mayors and police chiefs in Connecticut are rejecting the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) response to the shooting in Newtown, describing the gun lobby’s proposal to equip schools with armed guards and more guns as too simplistic, shameful, and op ...
  • Climate Progress And Christmas Cartoon
    Opine away! Note: Climate Progress will largely be on vacation this coming week at Walt Disney World and points North. So we will mostly be running cross-posts and favorite CP posts (and some more open threads for those who want to post news). Suggestions are welcome.
  • The 12 Most Memorable Images Of 2012
    As we reflect on the year that was, here are the 12 most memorable images of 2012: 1. The Obamas’ victory hug: 2. Former Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) workout photoshoot for TIME: 3. Hurricane Sandy tears through New Jersey: 4. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary Sch ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • harper
    harper doesn't believe in anything. harper doesn't understand what democracy is. harper is not a capitalist. harper doesn't care about Jewish people or anti-Semitism except in so far as exploiting Israel might lead to votes. harper isn't a Christian (except through inertia). harper doesn't care ...
  • Does stephen harper want Chief Theresa Spence ...
    She is on DAY TEN of a hunger-strike to try to get that racist piece-of-shit to agree to a substantive meeting between Native leaders the Crown's representative and himself. Does the asshole want to see her suffer permanent organ damage? To die??? I wouldn't be surprised if the turd has some d ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Eliminating a culture of fear would reduce chi ...
    When you Google children killed by guns worldwide articles quickly appear and they all have one location in common, the United States.
  • Illegal HIV kits on sale in the U.K.
    In the U.K., as with many other countries, it is illegal to sell HIV home testing kits that offer on-the-spot results. However, a report has shown that many such kits are in fact on sale.
  • Hard-partying Demi Moore said to be in distres ...
    Reports are surfacing saying that Demi Moore, believed to have gone to rehab for substance abuse and an eating disorder early this year, may need help again. Her three daughters are keeping their distance, or so a source claims, until she stops partying.
  • The Child of Scrooge – What kids should do wit ...
    Although a lot of children believe Santa Claus's presents were paid with money grown on trees, 'tis the season to teach your child how to be grateful at Christmas. This means helping your child learn what to do with holiday cash: save, donate and more.
  • Mall Santa shares over 30 years of experience ...
    Every year for Christmas, Vince Ciccheli steps into the shoes of the busiest man during the holiday season, to work as a mall Santa. It’s a role that’s brought with it many fond, heart filled memories, he says.

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

  • Give the gift of peace – send an eCard!
    Make a donation to Ceasefire.ca on behalf of a friend or family member, and send them this eCard.
  • 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 . . .

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-20-12
    Find out why the mainstream media news anchors are nothing more than actors and puppets! PLUS, Dr. Marc Sorenson joins the show and explains where you can get your Vitamin D3 and why it is so essential to your health and your body! Health: Chocolate Better Than Aspirin For Heart Attacks Orange J ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-1-12
    Today, Kevin gives you an inside look into what is really wrong with America and what you can do to fix it! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting You! Sunscreen May Actually Accelerate Cancer Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling We ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-27-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
  • KT’s Holiday Gift Ideas
    The holiday season is upon us and they can be the most wonderful time of the year and the most difficult when trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, for yourself and others. So, this holiday, let’s help each other out by giving gifts that will help someone eat healthier, be healthier, and ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...

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

  • Ahmadinejad: Iran fighting ‘smart economic war’
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Iran is engaged in a “smart economic war” with Western powers whose sanctions against its nuclear programme are hurting some Iranians, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday. “T ...
  • You Can Read It in the Funny Papers
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Ron Jacobs When I lived in Berkeley, California during the 1970s and 1980s, I probably spent more money at Comics & Comix on Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue than at any ...
  • Keiser Report: Crazyflation (E383 ft. Peter Sc ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMax Keiseryoutube.com In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert look at the the central bank revolution that will end in disaster with Japan leading the way after voters have demanded even more aggression with the na ...
  • The Lie that Prosecuting Bank Fraud Will Desta ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Lie that Prosecuting Bank Fraud Will Destabilize the Economy Is What Is REALLY Destroying the Economy By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Failing to Prosecute White Collar Crime Guarantees a Weak and Unstable Econo ...
  • Tajikistan orders Twitter ban
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Tajikistan has ordered local Internet providers to block Twitter, one of more than 100 sites including popular Russian-language social networks starting next week, an industry representative told AFP Sat ...

Dandelion Salad

  • US Cities Struggling Post-Hurricane Sandy + D- ...
    Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish·Dec 21, 2012 Nearly two months after Hurricane Sandy entire neighbourhoods are still covered in rubble, homes are infested with mold and hundreds of families remain without water or power. What’s the biggest problem? Guests: Aria Doe, Klaus Jacob, Joel Kupf ...
  • Fiscal Cliff: Let’s Call Their Bluff by Ellen ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com December 20, 2012 The “fiscal cliff” has all the earmarks of a false flag operation, full of sound and fury, intended to extort concessions from opponents.  Neil Irwin of the Washington Post calls it “a self-induced austerity crisis.”  ...
  • Psychological Warfare in Palestine–Gaza& ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews·Dec 22, 2012 UNICEF report indicates vast majority of Gaza’s children are struggling to cope with war trauma and PTSD. This is the first of a two part series on the psychological toll the war and siege has taken on Gaza’s most vulnerable population. TRNN e ...
  • Scrooge (1935) and Scrooge (1970)
    Dandelion Salad LuckyStrike502·Dec 24, 2008 Seymour Hicks plays the title role in the first sound version of the Dickens classic about the miser who’s visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. This British import is notable for being the only adaptation of this story with an invisible Marl ...
  • The Stimulator: So Now What?
    Dandelion Salad http://submedia.tv/stimulator stimulator·Dec 20, 201 This week: 1. Daniel McGowan is out of jail! 2. Peña Nieto learns English. 3. Early start for the end of their world 4. #IdleNoMore 5. Duraz Youth Movement 6. Michu MC 7. The Project of our lives see Ch. 13: Saboteur, An Interv ...

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 ...
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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
  • 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

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Canyon D ...
    Hydrae Chasma is a deep, circular depression on Mars approximately 50 kilometers across, situated between Juventae Chasma to the north and the large canyon system Valles Marineris to the south. The Chasma has steep walls flanked by numerous landslides and ...
  • 29 Years of Beautiful, Inspiring and Important ...
    The longest-operating Earth observing satellite is ending its mission after nearly 29 years, more than 150,000 orbits and 2.5 million images. Landsat 5 outlived its planned 3-year operation almost 10 times over, saving the continuity of the Landsat mission. Landsat ...
  • 33 New Species of Trapdoor Spider Discovered
    Just in time for the holidays, a new study has delivered 33 new species of trapdoor spider. The additional arachnids more than quintuple the members in the genus Aptostichus, boosting the described total from seven species to 40.
  • Who Wore It Better: Spacesuits From NASA vs. t ...
    NASA recently unveiled a prototype spacesuit, the Z-1, to be used by astronauts in deep-space missions. Everyone with eyeballs immediately noticed the similarity between the agency's idea and the character of Buzz Lightyear from Pixar's Toy Story movies. Here, we ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Star Mak ...
    The giant star Zeta Ophiuchi is having a "shocking" effect on the surrounding dust clouds in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Stellar winds flowing out from this fast-moving star are making ripples in the dust as it ...

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