22 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Ryan Firebee was a series of target drones/unmanned aerial vehicles. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

August 7, 2006 Pieces of a Hezbollah UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) that was taken down by the Israeli Air Force. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The NIRCam for the James Webb Space Telescope (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Israeli Occupation Archive

• New Jerusalem highway to cut Arab neighborhood ...
  Construction of highway through Beit Safafa is based on plans drawn up 22 years ago, although no detailed plan for the road was submitted and no permits for the bridges above it were issued,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Arab-Israeli politician Haneen Zoabi disqualif ...
  Jamal Zahalka: "Our problem is not that we are terrorists but rather that we are democrats in an environment that does not believe in democracy... We are tired of apologising for demanding full... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• UC Berkeley’s new chancellor endorses the fals ...
  A statement by a group of Columbia University professors in response to recent comments by the newly appointed chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, Nicholas Dirks, wherein he equated... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Israel approves plan for 2,600 new homes in Ea ...
  The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee green-lights construction in new neighborhood in Givat Hamatos, despite severe international criticism over project announced earlier this week... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Lia Tarachansky: Israeli army killing Palestin ...
  Last week, in one of the first actions of its kind, activists released the names of Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of a Palestinian protester. Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year-old demonstrator... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

• Study Probes Why and How Patientswith Lung C ...
  Dr. David Gerber, an oncologist and assistant professor of internal medicine, has used the electronic medical records data of more than 400 patients in a single-center study that is further exploring results from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) released in 2010.
• Xiao-Gang Wen and the 500 Phases of Matter
  Forget solid, liquid, and gas: there are in fact more than 500 phases of matter. In a major paper in today's issue of Science, Perimeter Faculty member Xiao-Gang Wen reveals a modern reclassification of all of them.
• Many Causes for Learning Lags in Tumor Disorder
  The causes of learning problems associated with an inherited brain tumor disorder are much more complex than scientists had anticipated, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report.
• Resources Available for Parents, Professionals ...
  The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) has developed two new resources to assist individuals, professionals and community leaders in the wake of tragedies, like the recent school shooting in Connecticut.
• New Free E-books Available about Two Famous NA ...
  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been providing astounding images of the universe since April 1990 and has led to remarkable discoveries. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the next-generation telescope that will peer even deeper into space and unveil even more mysteries. Both of these extrao ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Weekend Roundup: December 15-21. 2012
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Kristen Boon followed up on her discussion last week about changes towards more transparency and fairness in the UN’s Al Qaida sanctions regime. Craig Allen contributed a guest post on the ITLOS’ interim order for the release ...
• CIA Comments on Zero Dark Thirty
  by Deborah Pearlstein
• LJIL Symposium: A Response by Samantha Besson
  by Samantha Besson by Samantha Besson [Samantha Besson is a Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg and Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin] I would like to start by thanking Dov Jacobs and the Leiden Journal of International Law for organizing th ...
• LJIL Symposium: A Comment on Samantha Besson’s ...
  by Marko Milanovic by Marko Milanovic [Marko Milanovic is lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham School of Law.] It is a pleasure to participate in this discussion organized by the Leiden Journal of International Law and Opinio Juris, and to comment on Professor Besson’s interesting a ...
• LJIL Symposium: Response to Samantha Besson
  by Cedric Ryngaert by Cedric Ryngaert [Cedric Ryngaert is an Associate Professor at KU Leuven and the University of Utrecht] Samantha Besson has provided a fine normative account of the extraterritorial application of the ECHR. At the same time, she believes that this account may well offer a ...

Public News Service

• Doctors for Seniors May Soon Be in Short Supply
  Doctors for Seniors May Soon Be in Short Supply PHOENIX – Just over a week is left for the U.S. Congress to prevent a cut to reimbursements for doctors treating Medicare patients. The cuts stem from a formula Congress has used for 15 years to determine how much doctors are paid. ...(Read ...
• Economists: Not Really a "Cliff" If a Fiscal D ...
  Economists: Not Really a "Cliff" If a Fiscal Deal is Likely PHOENIX, Ariz. - The White House and Congressional Republicans are still talking about how to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff." Some economists say as long as a deal looks likely, it's more like a slope that would be easy to get back ...
• Take Time to Heal from Nation's Trauma
  Take Time to Heal from Nation's Trauma PHOENIX - Families in Arizona and around the nation may be having a tough time getting into the holiday spirit because of the school shooting in Connecticut. Doctors and psychologists say it's common for children to become anxious after such events, even w ...
• AZ-based Charity on List of 20 Worst
  AZ-based Charity on List of 20 Worst PHOENIX - Thousands of groups solicit for money in Arizona, so it's no easy task keeping tabs on them or figuring out which ones are legitimate. One way is to check a list compiled by the Oregon Attorney General's Office of organizations that spend the lowest ...
• Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for ...
  Wind Plus Solar Equals Power and Learning for Native American Schools PHOENIX – Three new wind turbines spin outside Leupp Schools on the Navajo Nation. On the roof, more than 10 kilowatts of solar panels have been installed. The additions help power the school while stimulating classroo ...

Center for Food Safety

• Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forwar ...
  400,000 public comments, 40 Members of Congress ignored; CFS calls proposed approval of first ever GE animal “premature and misguided” Center for Food Safety sharply criticized today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement releasing an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the contro ...
• Center for Food Safety, Save Our Seeds File Su ...
  Case pitting corporations against farmers set to impact the future of seed patents Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS)—two organizations dedicated to promoting safe, sustainable food and farming systems—challenged the agrochemical giant Monsanto and its restrictive “seed ...
• Groups Stand Up for Clean Water Act in West Vi ...
  Pollution of local waterways, public health at stake from farm lobby actions A coalition of local and national public interest organizations have asked a federal court for permission to participate in a legal action that will decide when Clean Water Act restrictions apply to the release of pollu ...
• Help CFS Defend Farmers Against GE Crops
  Farmers are at the front lines in the battle against genetically engineered (GE) crops. They are the ones that risk economic harm should their crops be contaminated by GE material.  For more than a decade, Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been representing farmers in court against chemical compa ...
• After Halt to Planting, Court Orders Eradicati ...
  Remedies Include Three-Year Monitoring Period to Track, Destroy Any Germinating GE Plants In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern United States.  The court also ordered steps t ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...
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• Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...
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• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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• The Vitamin D Briefing
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• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Newtown shooter as theologically evil
  A comment on a NY Times article about the Newtown shooter said, I’m a professor in a major US university and in many countries they would just assume the shooter was possessed and needed spiritual help, which is some Americans generally don’t understand.Like the violence of the drug ...
• 3D printing cookies
  Venturebeat has more on how 3D printing allows cookies to be made in most any design you want.
• Armed guards at schools is simply reacting to ...
  Security expert Bruce Schneier frequently says that our “solution” to security threats is simply to react to whatever the last threat was. Someone tried to turn their shoes into a bomb well then, make travelers take off their shoes at security checkpoints. This does little to make an ...
• Madness in the air in DC, says David Gergen
  David Gergen eloquently expresses what many of us have been thinking, that our country is going off the deep end and our supposed leaders appear incapable of governing. Our Congress may be the most incompetent and mindlessly partisan ever. Obama isn’t much better. They have accomplished li ...
• Meth – Before and After

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook roundup: search, mobile ads, FBX, Net ...
  Facebook is 2012′s top search term - For the fourth year in a row, Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the U.S., according to Experian. Facebook accounted for 4.13 percent of all searches, a 33 percent increase...
• Facebook careers: creative strategist, SMB ana ...
  Facebook added 17 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the recruiting, marketing, infrastructure, sales and other teams. New listings added to Facebook’s careers page: Software Engineer, Security Tools (London – Menlo...
• Facebook hires: privacy counsel, e-crime inves ...
  Facebook removed 18 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of corporate communications, legal, media solutions, business operations and more. Prior listings removed from Facebook’s careers page: Front End Application Engineer...
• Facebook releases standalone Poke app for iPho ...
  Facebook today released Poke, a standalone app for iPhone that allows users to use its famous Poke feature or send messages, photos or video to their friends for a designated period of time. Messages expire after a...
• Instagram releases new filter, gives Android a ...
  Instagram released new versions of its iOS and Android apps on Thursday, including a new filter, bug fixes and new translations. Instagram for Android now allows users to post their photos directly to a Facebook page...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  The Dell Vikings- “Come & Go with Me” This week the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick takes us back to 1956 with the Del-Vikings classic song Come and Go with Me. Written by C. E. Quick of the Del-Vikings it has been covered by Dion and the Beach Boys and was featured in the [...]
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• The Reality Principle -Episode 10
  “Capitalism in Crisis” with Richard Wolff This week, Eric sits down for an extended conversation with Richard Wolff, one of America’s leading economists and critics of the economic system. Prof. Wolff explains why his critique is of capitalism itself and not merely its contemporary manifes ...

Afro Spear

• Christmas Riddymz
• Byts and Bytes
  U Texas Professor Says Black Kids Don’t Succeed Because Most Are Raised by Women Homosexuality is “unAfrican” in pre-colonial history A Balanced Look at Female Genital “Mutilation” Black Pete exposes the Netherlands’ problem with race Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propagand ...
• “Obama, Sharpton and Black America’s Dow ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 As a conservative, President Barack Obama’s re-election was one of the most disappointing experiences of my life. As a black American, my sorrow was only amplified. Just look at President Obama’s economic track record. Look at the unemployment rate during Obama’s f ...
• “Life, Liberty and Happiness” by A ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 In an increasingly secular America — where moral absolutes have vanished — it is not surprising that same-sex marriage referendums recently passed in Maryland, Washington and Maine. After all, noted theologian N.T. Wright said, “by itself, human reason can no more ...
• “Jovan, Jason and Jumping to Conclusions ...
  Note: photo and link to Jason Whitlock article was added by administrator. Op-ed submission by Project 21 Jason Whitlock started it, and Jason Whitlock can end it. On December 1, the Fox Sports columnist penned a column about what happened earlier that morning when Jovan Belcher — the starting l ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• DSM-5 Could Bel Hazardous to Your Mental Health
  The 5th edition of the DSM - the "psychiatrists' Bible" - will be out in 2013. Practitioners who rely on it should remember the Hippocratic Oath: "Do no harm." Patients should beware unscientific labeling.
• The coming drone attack on America
  The Pentagon can now send a domestic drone to hover outside your apartment window, collecting footage of you and your family, if the secretary of Defense approves it. Or it may track you and your friends and pick up audio of your conversations, on your way, say, to protest or vote or talk to you ...
• America, We Have A Problem!
  America's problem goes far deeper than what some are advocating as a way to eliminate a pattern of 63 mass murders over the past 30 years. We in the U. S. seem unwilling or perhaps unable to transform our society from one represented by gun violence, poverty, diminished social mobility and a wi ...
• NRA says War Promoting TV is Teaching Kids the ...
  Parents watch the same war promoting and hero death glorifying entertainment and newscasts their children are exposed to, rarely demanding otherwise from corporations who lease the public airwaves - five Nazi media celebrities convicted at Nuremberg forgotten. No gun control in US militarily ...
• Rebel controlled Yarmouk Palestinian Camp empt ...
  During the morning of 12/19/12 the news got even worse regarding Souha. Someone from Reuters sent me a published photo showing her stuck on a bus at Maznaa for over 12 hours. According to one report she was forced to return to Damascus. Wherever Souha is she is hopefully someone is helping her.

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 ...
• Great cities celebrate the season
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC     Tokyo (by Gideon Davidson) As I have written before, it is impossible to have a great community without great public spaces - appealing and accommodating streets, side ...
• 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Shorter Iowa Supreme Court: If A Fifty Year-Ol ...
  This is the set of facts that the Iowa Supreme Court did not see as constituting sex discrimination: During the last six months or so of Nelson’s employment, Dr. Knight and Nelson started texting each other on both work and personal matters outside the workplace. Neither objected to the other’s ...
• Call The Authorities!!!!!
  OMG, someone alert the authorities. Dr. Erik Loomis of the University of Rhode Island has Buster Keaton’s head on a stick. He is responsible for the murder of said actor. Nevermind the fact that Keaton died in 1966, nearly a decade before Loomis was born. His heads on sticks metaphor has g ...
• Angersphere
  I have to say that Wonkette really delivers the best piece on the recent insanity: On the internet, this sort of comment is pretty much what you call “mild.” However, Erik Loomis is not merely an academic; he is also a blogger at Lawyers, Guns & Money, and so he is someone whose comments ge ...
• It Can’t Get Stupider, But It Can Get Lazier
  Charlotte Allen would like to inform her critics that her logical and factual errors are central to her point. The only interesting thing about Allen’s response is that apparently Erik’s name has already reached the status as being, in the context of conservative blogs, a cliche whos ...
• What if
  “when Adam Lanza started shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday, he’d been confronted by qualified armed security?” asked Wayne LaPierre earlier today? We don’t know, to be honest.  But we do know that on April 20, 1999, a “uniformed community reso ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• EU Plays Robin Hood, Takes From Polluters, Giv ...
• Low-Energy House Of Bamboo Blends Into Belgian ...
• Utilities Offer NY Businesses On-Bill Financin ...
• Peel And Stick Solar Is The Latest In Flexible PV
• Can Green Buildings Help Us Survive The Next ‘ ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• The Year in Review
  The battle over Obamacare dominated the high court. Meanwhile, federal regulators won -- and lost -- big in 2012, and vacancies continue to multiply on the federal bench.
• Patent office floats idea of small-claims process
  Lawyers and intellectual property groups are generally bullish on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's idea for a small-claims process for patent disputes.
• Non-J.D. candidates easing the strain on law s ...
• Judicial campaign spending for TV ads breaks r ...
  Candidates for state supreme courts across the country spent a record-breaking $29.7 million on television advertising this year, according to a study released by the Brennan Center for Justice.
• New deans appointed at Hofstra, Willamette
  Willamette University College of Law has tapped Curtis Bridgeman as its next dean. The Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law has promoted Eric Lane to its top administrative post.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Is Our Universe Tidally Engaged With Another U ...
  Developed by HRH Crown Prince Mensur Omerbashich of Bosnia, hyperresonance theory states all matter orbits and oscillates in tune regardless of scale or energy
• Film Producer Ronnie Banerjee Living His Dreams
  Speaking to him in Las Vegas, Ronnie says, I'm a huge film buff and to be working with certain people that I grew up watching in the movies is totally out of this world.
• Four Russians Killed in UNMISS Helicopter Attack
  The US calls on the Government of South Sudan to fully investigate the incident, hold those responsible to account, and take steps to ensure that UN staff are protected from incidents like this in the future.
• Rwandan Ex-Minister Convicted for Genocide
  According to Ms. Nuland, there are still nine ICTR fugitives at-large, including three high level fugitives who will be prosecuted by the residual mechanism of the ICTR upon capture: Felicien Kabuga, Protais Mpiranya, and Augustin Bizimana.
• Updated Rule for Pathogens in Drinking Water R ...
  The Revised Total Coliform Rule ensures that all of the approximately 155,000 public water systems in the United States, which provide drinking water to more than 310 million people, take steps to prevent exposure to pathogens like E. coli. Pathogen

environment 360

• Changing Oceans May Be Adding to New England F ...
  As U.S. fishing regulators weigh stricter catch quotas to allow time for critical species to recover in the waters of New England, scientists say that changing ocean conditions may be a factor in historic fish declines, not just decades of overfishing. Warmer ocean temperatures and changing ecos ...
• ‘Peel-and-Stick’ Solar Cells Expand Potential ...
  Stanford University researchers say they have developed a “peel-and-stick” solar cell that can be attached to a variety of hard surfaces, an innovation they say could vastly expand the potential for solar Click to enlarge Chi Hwan Lee/Stanford School of Engineering “Peel- ...
• In Midwest, Bringing Back Native Prairies Yard ...
  Across the U.S. Midwest, homeowners are restoring their yards and former farmland to the native prairie that existed in pre-settlement days. The benefits can be substantial — maintenance that uses less water and no fertilizer, and an ecosystem that supports wildflowers and wildlife. BY REBEC ...
• Climate Already Altering U.S. Ecosystems and B ...
  Climate change is causing plant and animal species across the U.S. to shift their geographic ranges and life events — from flowering to migration — are being transformed at a faster rate than observed even a few years ago, a new analysis by 60 scientists says. According to the report, “Climate C ...
• Coal May Rival Oil As World’s Top Energy Sourc ...
  Coal could rival oil as the world’s largest energy source within five years as consumption continues to climb in most regions of the world, a trend that could have profound effects on the climate, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. While coal consumption is expected to decline in the U. ...

Red Ice Creations

• The Great Filter theory suggests humans have a ...
  It’s difficult to not be pessimistic when considering humanity’s future prospects. Many people would agree that it’s more likely than not that we’ll eventually do ourselves in. And in fact, some astrobiologists theorize that all advanced civilizations hit the same insurmountable developmental wa ...
• Mystery animal attacking livestock, removing ears
  A community of farmers in Shelby County have been terrorized over the past few weeks by a mystery animal. The creature has been attacking, but not eating, livestock such as goats and calves. Kevin Cox, a farmer in the area, had already had one animal fall victim to an attack and he said his dogs ...
• Danish historian finds unknown Andersen fairy tale
  For years, the somber fairy tale about a lonely candle who wanted to be lit dwelt in oblivion at the bottom of a box in Denmark’s National Archives. Its recent discovery has sent ripples through the literary world because it is believed to be one of the first tales ever written by Hans Christian ...
• Elephants survive deadly Siberian cold by drin ...
  Circus trainers in Russia claim two of their elephants were saved from the deadly Siberian cold by vodka. Emergency ministry spokesman Alexander Davydov said Friday that the elephants were in a trailer that caught fire Thursday outside the city of Novosibirsk, forcing trainers to take them out i ...
• Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Disco ...
  A spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon. Believed to be a new species in the genus Cyclosa, the arachnid crafts the larger spider from leaves, debris and dead insects. Though Cyclosa includes other sculpting arachnids, thi ...

Russia Today

• Doomsday paranoia triggers private asteroid hunt
  The Mayan doomsday may have passed without incident, but it's too early to relax. Astronomers have found a large asteroid heading this way. However one private firm thinks it knows how to save us. Read Full Article at RT.com
• ‘I don't care what the UN says!’ Netanyahu vow ...
  The Israeli prime minister has vowed to continue building settlements in the “Israeli capital of Jerusalem,” defying near-unanimous international criticism of the illegal activity in retaliation for Palestine's upgraded... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Bahrain Shiite majority demands transitional g ...
  A number of Shiite rallies have been held across Bahrain as thousands of protesters demanded a transition government and the ousting of the prime minister who has been running the island since 1974. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Terminal velocity: China tests world's longest ...
  China has set a new record by successfully testing the longest high-speed rail line in the world, capable of covering 700 kilometers in only two and a half hours. Read Full Article at RT.com
• The West ‘prays’ Russia and China will continu ...
  The West has “no appetite” for a military intervention in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday. At the same time, Moscow’s intelligence shows the Arab country’s chemical arsenal is “so far”... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

• 911review.com: Independent Study to Either Con ...
  911review.com: NEW 2012 Update: Call for an Independent Study to Either Confirm or Refute The [2009] Paper Donations needed to fund analytical work.   Info on study here: http://911review.com/ About Jim Hoffman Jim Hoffman who has a background in software engineering, mechanical ...
• Tell President Obama and Congress--​Jobs Not Wars
  http://www.peace-action.org 12/11/2012 On Election Day, we sent a message. Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. End the wars and reinvest in our communities.  The wars and tax breaks for the rich and corporations got us into this mess. Move the money from wars and weapons to f ...
• 9/11 Free Fall 12/6/12-- 9/11 Experiments, Ric ...
  Rick Shaddock is a 9/11 Truth activist and he is the webmaster of several 9/11 Truth related sites. Currently he is working on a PhD in an education research project to see if there is a correlation between critical thinking ability, and scores on a survey about "Truther" related topics. In this ...
• Fund Raiser for New Objective Study of WTC Dust
  Here is a new blog I put together to promote the fund raiser for Chemical Engineer Mark Basile to conduct a new nano-thermite study. Please give it a look and help promote it if you like it. http://nanothermite911.blogspot.com/
• Prison for a poem?
  Imprisoned poet Muhammad al-AjamiSend a letter to the Emir of Qatar, tell him to free Ajami!Submit a haiku to be read at the Embassy of Qatar on December 19th! http://CodePink.org December 10, 2012 On November 29, 2012, Qatari poet Muhammad al-Ajami was handed a life sentence for “insultin ...

Fooducate

• Coming Soon: Improved Labeling for Fruit Roll-Ups
• 10 Hot n’ Healthy Holiday Tips
• Eating Healthy During the Holidays?
• For the First Time in Human History: Obesity B ...
• Here’s What You Need to Know about Oils and th ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• No Increase in Criminal Convictions in Hans As ...
  J Autism Dev Disord. 2010 Jun;40(6):774-80. doi: 10.1007/s10803-009-0917-y. No increase in criminal convictions in Hans Asperger's original cohort. Hippler K, Viding E, Klicpera C, Happé F. Source Department of Clinical and Applied Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. kathrin.hippl ...
• Patterns In Chaos: Child Psychiatry, Violence ...
  By Andrew J. Wakefield Patterns in chaos: understanding acts of “senseless” violence (also available at The Academic Integrity Fund site. At the Royal Free Hospital, London, in 1996 my gastroenterology colleagues and I were reliably informed by our attending child...
• Dachel Media Update: A Child Remembered, Nevad ...
  Dec 20, 2012, BaltimoreRavens.com: Ravens Honor Newtown's Joey--Big Ravens fan Josephine Gay, 7, was one of the 20 children killed in Newtown, Conn. Dec 20, 2012, CBS8 Las Vegas: Nevada Requires CCSD to Provide Autism Services Dec 19, 2012, Newswise:...
• The Recovery Room
  By Julie Obradovic I haven’t written a lot this year. Frankly, I haven’t had a whole lot of time. Between grad school, a new full time teaching position, and a family to take care of, writing has had to take...
• Dachel Media Update: Autism & Seizures Up, Gen ...
  Dec 20, 2012, US News: Genes Linked to Autism Seem to Have Strong Tendency to Mutate Dec 19, 2012, The Chicago Tribune: What to do if someone has a seizure Dec 19, 2012, The Stir: I Vaccinated My Baby: Was...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• Libor Hearings, School Shootings and Disinfo, ...
  Propaganda does not require evidence to prove itself. It simply utilizes the ignorant masses that believe what they see and tend to repeat the lie as fact to their friends, family, [and] repost to message boards, comment threads, social media sites, which prop up the lie until the truth no longe ...
• Smelling a Corporate Rat – The Move to Suppres ...
  If the Seralini experiments are considered insufficient to demonstrate harm, then those carried out by Monsanto cannot prove safety. This is because, whatever its limitations, Seralini's study was conducted to generally higher scientific standards than the studies underlying GM food approvals.
• New Farm Wars Graphic – Monsanto: Guilty as Ch ...
  Where we would all like to see Monsanto!
• Farmer Takes Public Stand Against GMOs
  It's way past time for all of us to take a stand and declare our bodies, homes, gardens, farms, ranches, and all the earth GMO-FREE ZONES!
• Pro-GMO Congress Critter Klobuchar Exposed!
  Evidently, Senator Klobuchar, your job is to shill for the biotech industry. But just in case I’m wrong on this, please show us the tests that you so heavily rely on that are conducted by the USDA, FDA and EPA on genetically modified food (GMOs). You can’t, Senator, because they don’t exist.

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• EPA issues air pollution standards for boilers ...
  After a decade of legal and regulatory fights, the Environmental Protection Agency has finalized how it will crack down on highly toxic pollution from industrial boilers and cement plants.
• Eastern Sierra peak will be named Mt. Andrea L ...
  A 12,240-foot Eastern Sierra peak will be named after the late Andrea Lawrence, the Olympic ski champion and mountain conservationist.
• Infill housing development rises in Los Angele ...
  A new report on residential construction places the Los Angeles region in some surprising company.
• UC Irvine's desert research center awarded fun ...
  Field scientists and students who rough it in UC Irvine’s Steele/Burnand Anza Borrego Desert Research Center in eastern San Diego County will soon be settling into a new laboratory, apartment building and dormitory thanks to $2.8 million in Proposition 84 funds awarded by the California Wi ...
• Obama administration announces drilling plan f ...
  The Obama administration on Wednesday announced its plan t o allow oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the first time a blueprint has been drawn up for the entire 23-million acre block on Alaska’s North Slope.

water.org

• 2012 Year End Conference Call
  Recorded: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 Duration: 34:36 Our co-founder and CEO, Gary White, shared his thoughts on this past year, major milestones reached, new partnerships, and innovations. He also discuss where the organization is headed in 2013. The conference call concluded with a ...
• Thank You for a Great 2012
  Thank you for all of your support in 2012. This year, you've been a true water champion – you've learned about the water crisis, inspired your families and friends, donated your voice, held fundraising events, and gotten to know some of the individuals we serve by reading and watching their stories.
• The Happiest Dance
  Having safe water to drink and for your daily chores makes life better and can bring joy to a life. Have fun with a joyful dance.
• Give a Gift, Get a Gift
  From now until December 31st, when you make a Water.org gift to a friend using Facebook Gifts, we'll send you a free 24oz. CamelBak Podium water bottle.
• A mother’s dream come true
  In her lifetime, Rajamma wanted to see her daughter get a good education. However, for a family living in the slums of Bangalore, this was an almost unattainable goal.

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Is Our Universe Tidally Engaged With Another U ...
  Developed by HRH Crown Prince Mensur Omerbashich of Bosnia, hyperresonance theory states all matter orbits and oscillates in tune regardless of scale or energy
• Film Producer Ronnie Banerjee Living His Dreams
  Speaking to him in Las Vegas, Ronnie says, I'm a huge film buff and to be working with certain people that I grew up watching in the movies is totally out of this world.
• Four Russians Killed in UNMISS Helicopter Attack
  The US calls on the Government of South Sudan to fully investigate the incident, hold those responsible to account, and take steps to ensure that UN staff are protected from incidents like this in the future.
• Rwandan Ex-Minister Convicted for Genocide
  According to Ms. Nuland, there are still nine ICTR fugitives at-large, including three high level fugitives who will be prosecuted by the residual mechanism of the ICTR upon capture: Felicien Kabuga, Protais Mpiranya, and Augustin Bizimana.
• Updated Rule for Pathogens in Drinking Water R ...
  The Revised Total Coliform Rule ensures that all of the approximately 155,000 public water systems in the United States, which provide drinking water to more than 310 million people, take steps to prevent exposure to pathogens like E. coli. Pathogen

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• BLADDER KIDNEY MERIDIAN FORMULA (Cinnamic Acid ...
  Updated Date: Dec 21, 2012 EST
• PRAVASTATIN SODIUMtablet [Teva Pharmaceuticals ...
  Updated Date: Dec 13, 2012 EST
• £80m grant for Thalidomide survivors
  An £80 million grant is to be paid to the surviving Thalidomide victims in England over the next 10 years, the government announced today. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
• SALICYLIC ACIDlotion [Trinity Pharmaceuticals, ...
  Updated Date: Dec 19, 2012 EST
• Magnetic Resonance Neurography

Common Dreams

• Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Set to OK 'F ...
  The US Food and Drug Administration said Friday that a genetically modified salmon that grows twice as fast as normal salmon is 'unlikely' to harm the environment, clearing the way for the first approval of a scientifically engineered animal for human consumption. The environmental asses ...
• 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 ...
• Wikileaks' Assange: One Million Documents Unde ...
  Appearing on the first floor balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London Thursday night, Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange delivered a speech to both mark his sixth month anniversary under the protection of the Correa go and announced that his group's work—desphit his ongoing strug ...
• NRA Slammed for Push for Guns in Every School
  The NRA on Friday broke its week of silence following the Newtown, Connecticut massacre to offer a "self-serving tirade" that offered one solution to school shootings--more guns in schools. The group's CEO and executive vice president Wayne LaPierre stated at a press conference tha ...
• 'Extraordinary': Three Weeks Later, Keystone B ...
  Nearly three weeks after they were arrested on misdemeanor charges, activists who barricaded themselves inside a portion of pipe to protest the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline remain in a Texas jail, each held on $65,000 bail. Mathew Almonte and Glen Collins were arrested Dec. 3 in Wino ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

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Energy Collective

• NRC Chairman Writes about Enhancing Safety aft ...
  "On reflection, I can’t help but be reminded of the important role the NRC performs for the nation; the work we have underway to further enhance reactor safety; and the renewed importance of ensuring no accident like this happens in the United States. I want to be sure that we continue to t ...
• Climate Story Of The Year: Extreme Weather fro ...
  This year brought staggering weather extremes, record loss of Arctic ice and a growing body of scientific analysis linking the two. Those extremes, plus Superstorm Sandy, raised public concern about the immediate threat posed by climate change, providing a palpable debunking of the (mistaken) be ...
• Even California Can Do More to Advance the Cle ...
  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’s energy efficiency and alternative energy goals. Included in the report are recommendations for the state to specify its energy e ...
• Solar Crowdfunding in California: Part 3, San ...
  The SF Energy Co-op has found a way to make the benefits of green energy available to anyone, through the power of collective investment and organization. As Wynns puts it, “Say it costs $20K to put solar on your roof, but you can’t do that, for whatever reason. So you go to your neighbor and sa ...
• European Commission Holds Firm, Rejects Daimle ...
  Good news today from Brussels, as the European Community holds firm and rejects last-minute pressure from by Daimler, maker of Mercedes-Benz, to block the introduction of a climate-friendly refrigerant in car air conditioners. As I’ve written here and here, the world auto industry is on the ver ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• BDS Breakthrough
  by Stephen Lendman The Global BDS (Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions) movement is one of the most important initiatives challenging Israeli lawlessness, occupation harshness, apartheid, and viciousness. In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created it to continue u ...
• The Climate Deal Sham: Only Sharing can Break ...
  by Adam Parsons The recent climate talks in Doha were held as if in an alternative reality to distressing developments across the world. But there still remains hope and optimism because there is no possibility of preventing runaway climate change without global sharing and justice. 17th Dec ...
• Obama/Boehner Two-Step
  by Stephen Lendman Previous articles explained fiscal cliff duplicity in detail. At issue is destroying America's social contract. Both parties agreed early in Obama's first term. They plan killing it incrementally by a 1,000 cuts. Class war rages. Private wealth and power are pitted aga ...
• Palestinian Hunger Striking Steadfastness
  by Stephen Lendman Palestinians are denied justice. Thousands are lawlessly arrested. They're brutalized in Israel's gulag. Prisoners committed no crimes. Israel persecutes them for not being Jews. Praying to the wrong God is criminalized. Hunger strikers defy Israeli lawlessness. Absti ...
• Obama’s Crocodile Tears and Madeleine Al ...
  by chycho Like most, sorrow has been the dominant emotion that I have been feeling regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Two other emotions have overcome me as well, that of anger and disgust. Anger that Obama, the architect for the normalization of assassinations and the o ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• In a “Lawless America”- Iowa Supre ...
  I guess, beauty is in the eye of the employer! - But if the boss is butt ugly. Can that be used against the company during collective bargaining? (Reuters) – The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday that employers in the state can legally fire workers they find too attractive. In a unanimous ...
• From Child Sex Slave to Activist: Berkeley Wom ...
  By Stephanie Chuang and Liza Meak ,.nbcbayarea.com - Human trafficking is a crime that’s hard to track and some experts say harder to stop. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services calls it the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, but one Bay Area woman is on a personal ...
• Anti-Homeless Hate Crimes Detailed In New Repo ...
  By Saki Knafo,huffingtonpost.com - In Seattle last September, a young man shot four homeless people, killing one. A few months earlier, In Kittanning, Penn., authorities reported that two young men beat a homeless man with a tire iron “just for fun.” A new report by an organization t ...
• Where’s The Men’s Movement When Yo ...
  From angryharry.com - Yes indeed. Where is the men’s movement when you need it? Well, of course, it is growing all the time. But because most of the men involved with the movement are far too busy trying to be polite and inoffensive towards those who walk all over them, progress does remai ...
• CJE Saturday News Briefs
  Four Pacific Northwest ports headed for possible labor clash WS – The use of the military against longshore workers comes when the U.S. has chided governments around the world for unleashing the armed forces against their own citizens. (Reuters) – Nearly 3,000 union dock workers at f ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

• How Texting Is Changing Your Grammar - Edudemic
  Comments:"From OMG to LOL, there’s no denying that texting has changed the way we communicate with each other. Look no further than the fact that you don’t need clarification of what OMG or LOL means as proof that our written communication is evolving. Though acronyms aren’t a new part of our l ...
• Phenology Visualization Tool | USA National Ph ...
  Tags: visualization, tool, usa, phenology, googlemaps, interactive, plants, animals, lifecyclesby: Dean Mantz
• A Must Have Pinterest Cheat Sheet for Teachers ...
  Tags: Pinterest, guide, cheat, sheet, teachersby: John Evans
• Top Scientific Discoveries of 2012 | Wired Sci ...
  Tags: wired, science, discoveries, 2012by: John Evans
• 5 Mobile Apps to Ignite the Genius Within - Ge ...
  Tags: mobile, apps, ignite, geniusby: John Evans

Rodale News

• The New Place to Find Cruelty-Free Eggs
  Buying eggs from a local farmer, or even a neighbor with a backyard flock, is the best way to get healthy, pastured, cruelty-free eggs. And what better way to know your eggs than meeting the actual chickens that laid them? The next best place to shop for them: Safeway grocery stores. The nation ...
• The Surprising Side Effect of a Winter Hike
  Go hiking, then come home and write the Great American Novel? Spending two days hiking in the Tetons might not turn you into William Faulkner, but research published in PLoS One suggests that a few days in a national park may make you more creative in other ways. The study followed 56 hikers o ...
• The Nickel Pincher: Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls
  Nothing says "special" quite like a basket of piping hot, fresh-from-the-oven…rolls that came from a can? Huh? Sure, canned breads might make dinner easier, since all you have to do is pop, separate, and bake. But homemade dinner rolls taste much better and can be made without all the ...
• What Factory Farms Are Doing to Fish
  What to do with animal poop? It's a question that plagues organic and factory farmers alike, and in areas with lots of factory farms (also called concentrated animal-feeding operations, or CAFOs), animal manure is accused of adding high levels of nitrogen and phosphorous to nearby waterways, ro ...
• How to Sniff Out Seafood Fraud
  When you order beef from a butcher and he hands you chicken, you know something's screwy. But if you order flounder at a restaurant, would you be able to tell if your waiter brought you tilapia? Maybe, maybe not. Yet, it happens every day, and seafood lovers across the U.S. are being scammed i ...

big think

• Can Electricity Regenerate Lost Limbs and Dama ...
  What's the Latest Development? Michael Levin, director of Tufts University's Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, believes that by better understanding our bodies as hosts of electric current, we might be able to regenerate lost organs and limbs. "He thinks that the key to ...
• With Economic Growth Comes a Heavier, Less-Hea ...
  What's the Latest Development? The world, not just the United States, is getting much heavier, resulting in serious public health concerns and posing larger questions about the effects of a wide economic girth. If current trends continue, half of American adults will be overweight by 203 ...
• Your Guide on How to Immunize Yourself Against ...
  “In 800 newspaper bylines I can count on fingers and toes the ones that were actually true” - the words of Richard Peppiatt, British tabloid defector, speaking last week at a series of talks on Bad Journalism at the Centre for Inquiry. According to Peppiat, the articles he wrote were a “fi ...
• Improv 101: The Key to Thinking Fearlessly
  What's the Big Idea? We're often at a disadvantage when it comes to problem-solving because we think too fast, and our analytic brains shut off new ideas before they have even emerged. Improvisation, on the other hand, creates "a set of experiences that allow you to fine-tune and hone al ...
• With John Kerry, a quieter e-diplomacy on the ...
  As widely expected after Ambassador Susan Rice’s withdrawal from consideration, President Barack Obama has nominated Senator John Kerry as his new Secretary of State to succeed Hillary Clinton. A new era for a quieter e-diplomacy? Possibly quieter but certainly not less visible, or innovative ...

Information Liberation

• Arizona Police Officer Caught Hiding Evidence ...
  A Tempe, Arizona police officer caught hiding evidence in his garage and lying about it will get to keep his job thanks to a ruling by Tempe police chief Tom Ryff. Via CBS 5: TEMPE, AZ (CBS5) - An internal investigation revealed a Tempe offic...
• Scratch A "Liberal," Find A Fascist: The Case ...
  Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a bottomless fountain of foolishness, has proposed a measure that would permit governors to deploy National Guard troops to provide "security" at government-run schools. *Is it not part of the natio...
• American Children and Foreign Children
  If there is a more emotionally painful experience than a parent's losing a child, I can't imagine what it would be. The emotional wound is raw and goes down to the deepest recesses of a person's heart and soul. And as we see with the Connecticut ...
• I Fear the Government and the Obedient Sheeple ...
  I do not intend to write something here to convince the emotionally hysterical gun-control crowd to abandon their fantasy of removing guns from the world. They live in a fairyland and there appears to be no way to change their minds. Nor am ...
• Vanishing Data on Tax Migration
  Oh so quietly, the Obama Administration has removed embarrassing data from the public eye. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) no longer provides information on tax migration within the U.S. There was no announcement from either the IRS or the Census ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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
• Deceived Wisdom anywhere
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RFF Library

• An Exploratory Study of Air Quality near Natur ...
  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (in press, November 9, 2012) by Theo Colborn, Kim Schultz, Lucille Herrick, and Carol Kwiatkowski http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/chemicals.air.php [this site also has a 25 min. video of a presentation by Colburn on health and air quality effects of natura ...
• Macroeconomic Impacts of LNG Exports from the ...
  National Economic Research Associates for US DOE http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/gasregulation/reports/nera_lng_report.pdf [Oil and Gas Journal] Increased natural gas exports would broadly benefit the US economy, a Dec. 3 report commissioned by the US Department of Energy concluded. “Moreo ...
• American’s New Energy Future: The Unconvention ...
  IHS Global Insight (registration required for download) http://press.ihs.com/press-release/energy-power/new-state-state-study-measures-economic-benefits-unconventional-oil-and-g The IHS State-level Report on the economic impact of unconventional oil and gas indicates that unconventional activity ...
• Future of America’s Forests and Rangelands: Fo ...
  US Forest Service http://www.fs.fed.us/research/publications/gtr/gtr_wo87.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Tiffany Stecker, sub. req'd] American landscapes in 2060 will be much barer than today, a report from the U.S. Forest Service says, as urbanization depletes forests and rangelands of the ...
• “Discussion Draft” of California Hydraulic Fra ...
  California Dept. of Conservation http://www.conservation.ca.gov/Index/Pages/Index.aspx [NBC Bay Area] For the first time in state history, California will now regulate and track the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking.” The state’s new re ...

Scientific American - News

• Remembering Ramanujan: India Celebrates Its Fa ...
  December 22, 2012, marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. An intuitive mathematical genius, Ramanujan's discoveries have influenced several areas of mathematics, but he is probably most famous for his contributions to number theory ...
• Black Hole Firewalls Confound Theoretical Phys ...
  From Simons Science News ( find original story here ). [More]
• Could Climate Change Boost Toxic Algal Blooms ...
  In 1799 about a hundred Aleut hunters working for a Russian-American trading group died in Alaska’s Peril Strait only two hours after eating black mussels collected there. Those who survived did so because they threw up after desperately consuming gunpowder, tobacco and alcohol to purge to ...
• Fractals, Chaos and Other Mathematical Visions ...
  The symbolic language of mathematics can be beautiful--but even more striking are some of the patterns and forms that arise from the visual representation of math . [More]
• Magnetism Confirmed to Control the Flow of Heat
  The strange world of quantum mechanics just got a little stranger with the discovery that a magnetic field can control the flow of heat from one body to another. First predicted nearly 50 years ago, the effect might some day form the basis of a new generation of electronic devices that use heat ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• First Nations Protest Harper in Ottawa #IdleNo ...
  Ottawa – Treacherous slush from the s ...
• 21 décembre : Des milliers de zapatistes manif ...
  Près de 50 000 zapatistes: l'action qui aurait réunit le plus de zapatistes depuis 1994 Ce 21 décembre des dizaines de milliers d'indigènes Mayas Zapatistes sont descendus ...
• Idle No More Marches in Montreal
  Over 200 people marched through Montreal today as part of the Idle No More movement. Participants spoke out against the impact on environmental protections in current federal legislation. They also spoke in particular against plans to privatize First Nations land which will allow it to be sold o ...
• Idle No More Prince Albert 21/12/12
  Video by Frances Buchan. Text by Debbie Mihalicz. PRINCE ALBERT, SASKATCHEWAN—About 400 people took part in a peaceful Idle No More walk through downtown Prince Albe ...
• #manifencours #IdleNoMore Montréal MANIFESTATI ...
  *photos Montréal 21 décembre 2012 - #manifencours IdleNoMore Montréal: http://blogocram.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/montreal-21-decembre-2012-mani... http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogocram/sets/72157632307691958/show/ https://www.fa ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• If You Want to Regulate Guns, Talk About Guns. ...
  Twitter conversation of the day: @jackshafer: If you're spending your precious 140 on calling Wayne LaPierre nuts, he's winning. @joshscacco: Agreed. NRA wasn't pushing a policy proposal as much as a narrative change from gun control. Misdirection at its best. Keep this firmly in mind. ...
• How to Deal With Sneaky American Editors
  Andrew Sullivan links today to a short piece by Tim Parks in the New York Review of Books about the process of Americanizing a book that "explores the Italian national character through an account of thirty years’ commuting and traveling on the country’s rail network." He was frust ...
• End of the World Cat Blogging - 21 December 2012
  When Domino heard that the world would be ending today, she hopped into a shiny new shopping bag to ride out the storm. Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to put my camera into video mode when she did it. It turned out that hopping in was pretty easy, but hopping out was a wee bi ...
• Let Us Now Bury Our Heads in the Sand
  In 1995, when Congress's Office of Technology Assessment insisted on preparing reports that were occasionally inconvenient for Republicans, Newt Gingrich knew what to do: he eliminated the office. In 2005, when an annual government report showed an increase in global terrorism, George Bush kne ...
• A Non-Gun-Owner's Guide to Guns
  A few days ago I asked Adam Weinstein to help our nation's beleaguered press corps and provide them with a short, simple primer on guns and gun terminology. Today he comes through with "A Non-Gun-Owner's Guide to Guns." Check it out if you want to be able to talk about guns without instantly inc ...

Insanity Report

• IC 369: Bulletproof Bookbags
  Topic: Kev’s job sucks Treating public servants horribly We are the problem No one really cares about mental health Twitter etiquette More guns won’t make you safer Gun control might be necessary but make a better argument Share with your friends:
• IC 368: Disasterbation in the Face of Tragedy
  Topic: White people saying the N-word Thirst traps on Twitter Batman is an Impossible White Man Disasterbation & the Connecticut shooting Teasing a few Impossible White Man criteria Share with your friends:
• IC 367: Losing Builds Character
  Topic: #InsanityCheck Kriss doesn’t care about starving kids in Africa The Internet is the home of the asshole Civilizing the Internet “Plot Holes” in the Dark Knight Rises Awesome week in trailers Losing a basketball game 107-2 Losing builds character Cuddling with no sex/Send ...
• IC 366: Race is What They Asking Me
  Topic: Pac died in Vegas. Again Mayweather vs Pacquiao What is an Impossible White Man movie? Why Cory Booker’s stunt doesn’t help Sean Fury Guns don’t cause domestic violence Share with your friends:
• IC 365: Cory Booker – The White Hipster On a ...
  Topic: Kriss & Kev’s next scheme Cory Booker is struggling on Food Stamps Great Moments in White Privilege The NY Post Photographer & being a ain’t shit Human Being Movie News Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• 2012’s record events put climate in mind
  Wet summers and droughts, deadly storms, Arctic melting and Antarctic freezing. How do climate records in 2012 fit in with the broader picture of climate change?
• Can we trust climate models?
  I’ve asked scientists I’ve spoken to for blog entries and articles published this year why we use models, how we know they’re accurate, and how to understand their projections.
• CO2 casts off shackles to power up Atlantic hu ...
  Reductions in particulate pollution and increases in greenhouse gases are going to cooperate to give us more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic, finds NOAA’s Gabriel Vecchi
• Space agencies pinpoint polar ice sheet damage
  Greenland and Antarctica lost over 4 trillion tonnes of ice from 1992-2011 - equivalent to 11 mm of sea level rise, the giant Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE) has shown by bringing together over 50 years’ worth of satellite data .
• Carbon conundrum could push firmer emission action
  Climate models might be wrong in assuming plants and soil will absorb more CO2 as the world warms, meaning that more aggressive action might be needed to keep climate change at ‘safe levels’, finds Paul Higgins from the American Meteorological Society

e!Science News

• Ups and downs of biodiversity after mass extin ...
  The climate after the largest mass extinction so far 252 million years ago was cool, later very warm and then cool again. Thanks to the cooler temperatures, the diversity of marine fauna ballooned, as paleontologists from the University of Zurich have reconstructed. The warmer climate, coupled w ...
• Physicists take photonic topological insulator ...
  Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a simulation that for the first time emulates key properties of electronic topological insulators. read more
• Eighth Landsat satellite arrives at launch site
  An oversized semi-trailer truck carrying NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in preparation for launch. This NASA and U.S. Geological Survey mission will continue a 40-year record of measuring change on the plane ...
• Discovery of Africa moth species important for ...
  In the rain forests of the Congo, where mammals and birds are hunted to near-extinction, an impenetrable sound of buzzing insects blankets the atmosphere. read more
• Not all gamers are low scorers on friendships, ...
  Not all video game players are destined for lives filled with failing relationships and dwindling friendships, according to Penn State researchers, who say that a lot depends on the role of the game-playing activity in the gamer's life. read more

unEarthed

• Strong Start To Protecting Key Alaska Habitat
  Salazar announces National Petroleum Reserve conservation measures Caribou in the western Arctic, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) Secretary o ...
• "Chasing Ice" Shows Unsettling Effects of Clim ...
  Move depicts phtographer's quest for disappearing "insanely ridiculous" ice Last month, a movie premiered with a graphic visual of climate change& ...
• In Memoriam: Joan Mulhern
  A fighter for all who suffered environmental injustice Joan was a tireless advocate for the underdog in every situation. She will be greatly missed. Earthjust ...
• Warning To Parents About Kids' Exposure To Pes ...
  Pediatrics group urges heath professionals to take the lead The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling on the government, schools, parents and medical professionals to take concerted action to protect children from pesticides. ...
• Silencing The Wolf
  'Culture war' killing ends storied life of alpha female 832F, leading the pack. (Courtesy of the Yellowstone Wolf Project) She never had a real name ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• WATCH Bibi’s latest lie: ‘I didn’t ...
  Benjamin Netanyahu kicked off his campaign this weekend with interviews to the major TV channels. In the following segment, taken from the interview aired this evening on Channel 1, he tells reporter Ayala Hasson that he did not vote in favor of the disengagement plan from Gaza, when in fact he ...
• Settlement round-up: Thousands new homes plann ...
  A breakdown of the myriad of settlement plans being aggressively pursued in recent weeks. By Hagit Ofran and Lior Amihai The past few weeks may have been confusing for those who try to keep track of Israeli settlement activity. So many plans and approvals, some of which are lethal for the two-st ...
• Union seeks to organize truckers to challenge ...
  The solitary work of a trucker entails long hours, poor pay and dangerous conditions. One trade union is attempting to organize drivers in a sector which is crucial to the Israeli economy. By Alon Aviram Haifa – At the largest of Israel’s seaports, heavy haulage trucks operate day and nigh ...
• Blogger interrogated, asked to give up army source
  The Israeli blogger ‘Eishton‘ has been questioned by civilian and military police in an attempt to make him reveal a whistleblower who supplied him with unclassified military documents. His interrogation has attracted media attention to the anonymous blogger and his writing. Eishton ...
• Israeli settlement plans should shake up Ameri ...
  E1 should be a serious wake-up call for American policymakers, Michael Cohen argues below. If the controversial building project in the West Bank goes forward, he writes, it’s time to start saying what everyone in Washington knows – the two-state solution will die and the U.S. risks ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Funding to help plan for the impacts of climat ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today launched Stream 1 of the Regional Natural Resource Management Planning for Climate Change Fund, an important component of the Government's Clean Energy Future Plan.
• Ella Bay Integrated Resort Development approved
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has approved the Ella Bay Integrated Resort Development in far north Queensland.
• Connect with the World Indigenous Network
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today launched a website to connect Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities land and sea managers across the globe, creating a virtual meeting place to share traditional knowledge and experiences.
• Major study into future management of Lake Albert
  The future management of water quality in Lake Albert and Narrung Narrows in South Australia will be the subject of a major investigation funded by the Australian and South Australian governments.
• New Indigenous Ranger Jobs for the NT
  Sixteen new Indigenous ranger positions are being funded in the Northern Territory to protect and conserve Australia's precious environment. .

Matt Weidner Blog

• If Bank of America (Chase, Wells, Citi) Does N ...
  The term “servicer” is a fabricated term, a frankenstein legal term that has no legal meaning.  It was made up by the banks and Wall Street cartels….for far too long, courts have let them get away with it.  But our friend, the angel of foreclosure defense April Charney shares t ...
• Protecting the Integrity of Land and Title Rec ...
  We were a nation built on laws….on land that was built on honest land records and a court system grounded on the Rule of Law….but that’s distant memory… Welcome to Landtegrity.com. This creators of Landtegrity and its sponsors have dedicated the site to one purpose. Audit ...
• MUST READ! GLENN HUBBARD- The Banking Cartel&# ...
  First some background from Rolling Stone: Karma is a bitch. Just ask Glenn Hubbard. A few months ago, the Dean of Columbia’s business school was a leading economic advisor to Mitt Romney and a rumored (perhaps even consensus) candidate for the Treasury Secretary job. Now Romney’s out ...
• A Foreclosure Trial In Miami- I ENCOURAGE EVER ...
  What’s happening down there in Miami in foreclosure courtrooms is a sad reflection on our entire nation’s judicial system.  For lawyers and officers of the court that swore an oath to protect both our clients, the Rule of Law and The Constitution, we must all recognize that we have a ...
• Foreclosure Courtrooms…Tyranny v. Due Pr ...
  The reports that continue to come out of foreclosure courtrooms in Miami are becoming more and more disturbing.  This nation’s claim to liberty and the Rule of Law has become quite tenuous over the last several years, with the federal government especially running wildly out of control. Bu ...

abelard - news

• will you be getting a babygro for christmas? | ...
  After grunge, a new tasteless fashion craze is, apparently hitting the living rooms, and even the streets.
• strong, durable, cheap - the cardboard bike | ...
  Inspired by a cardboard boat, an elegant solution to cheap, ecologic transport.
• short review: a book by a muslim apologist | b ...
  When a good-hearted academic writes a book on Islam, they do not easily keep objectivity, as in this case.
• education - connecticut murderer | behaviour a ...
  Guns have always been part of American society (and others as well). The running amok of usually younger shooters is a very recent phenomenon. abelard gives some suggestions as to why.
• four short reviews: the reconquista in spain, ...
  A variety of books that helped enrich abelard's short document on the Reconquista of Spain and France from the 700-year Muslim invasion.

The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Cooking Climate-Friendly without a World-Class ...
  If it takes a professional chef to cook climate-friendly, we’re all doomed.
• Can’t Stand the Heat? Get Into the Kitchen
  Agriculture and the food system play a huge role in climate change – they’re far more important than most of us recognize. Because of that, choosing what to put on my table and on my own plate is a powerful act.
• Opa! Food For Thought Symposia at The Black Ol ...
  Black Olive owner Stelios Spiliadis and his family have been introducing Baltimore not only to their Greek culture, but also to their passion for health and wellness. Their hopes of inspiring real change through the power of good food have been spreading like wildfire.
• FDA Should Share Data about Livestock on Drugs
  It’s my hope that GAP’s lawsuit against FDA will finally compel the agency to break ties with drug companies and release the information that the public health community needs to monitor the use—and misuse—of antibiotics and other drugs in food animal production.
• Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun: Nutrient Trading a ...
  "My first objection to this kind of program is semantics. Let's call it what it is: pollution trading. Excess nutrient pollutants in the bay lead to public health problems, just as other pollutants do."

k2p blog

• The sun at solstice 12.12 CET on 21.12.2012
  The shortest day of the year has come and gone and the countdown to summer (in the Northern Hemisphere) has begun.
• NRA – “The only thing that stops a ...
  The NRA went on the offensive on Friday, arguing that schools should have armed guards saying "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun".
• “Serious scientific misconduct” bu ...
  The National University of Singapore is not going to win any prizes for transparency. It is perfectly understandable that they would like that the massive "serious scientific misconduct" by Alirio Menendez had never occurred but they would seem still be in a state of denial when they refuse to ...
• End of the World postponed to 2nd October 2027 ...
  The End of the World expected for today 21st December 2012 has been postponed by the Powers That Be.and will now take place on 2nd October 2027.
• Wind farm performance declines by a third in j ...
  This study of UK on-shore plants and Danish on-shore and off-shore plants shows that first, wind farms age rapidly with on-shore plants declining in performance by about one-third in 10 years and off-shore plants declining by over 60% in 10 years, and the economic life of a wind farm is, at best ...

Left Foot Forward

• Ten funniest vids of 2012: 10: Ed Miliband &#8 ...
  Over the Christmas and New Year break, we're looking back at 2012 via the funniest videos of the year, starting off with the Ed Miliband "One Nation" megamix.
• Merry Christmas from LFF!
  We'd like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic 2013!
• “Blood on your hands”: Sick NRA pl ...
  After a week of silence, the NRA gave its response to the Newtown massacre today - with a call for guns, guns and more guns. Gun control? Not a word of it.
• The government is in denial over the impact of ...
  The government claims disability organisations support its welfare reform agenda and say disabled people are protected from cuts. These 2 myths need debunking.
• Olympic legacy? What legacy? Yet another Gove ...
  Michael Gove was attacked by Labour today for “actively damaging school sport” for the delay in the unveiling of a new £100 million school sport policy.

Consumerist

• Current & Former GameStop Employees Chime In O ...
  We told you earlier about GameStop customer Robert, who was told he could buy a copy of a newly released video game — but only if he paid $5 toward a pre-order for a different game. Since then, several current and former GameStop employees have written in with their perspectives. For insta ...
• Food Companies Have Figured Out How To Market ...
  If you’re suddenly hearing things from your kids like, “Mommy, can I please have a [insert food item child has never, ever asked for before]?” just look at the piece of electronic gadgetry in your child’s hands. Food marketers have wised up to the fact that kids these day ...
• DOJ Seeking Injunction Against Peanut Butter P ...
  For the Department of Justice, it’s not enough that the country’s largest organic peanut butter plant, the one linked to this fall’s salmonella outbreak, has been temporarily shuttered. Now the DOJ wants to put the heavy smackdown on Sunland in New Mexico by seeking a permanent ...
• ‘Children Are Just Plain Scared Of Santa ...
  Disappointed because your children became hysterical once they were seated on Santa’s lap and the cameras came out? In this post, you will learn how to prevent Santa meltdowns. One winter, Brandon was unemployed and ended up working at the local mall, seated in the Santa throne. So if you ...
• This Verizon CSR Really Wants You To Know How ...
  For those consumers who expect to get a grumpy, unhelpful customer service rep, it’s always a nice surprise when the CSR in pleasant, professional and willing to work with you to resolve your issue. We don’t often hear cases of CSRs gushing about cooperative customers, but we’r ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Federal Contractor Whistleblower Provisions In ...
  12 Million Affected, Six Times More than Federal Employees (Washington, DC) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is praising the inclusion of "best practice" whistleblower protection rights for federal government contractors in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDA ...
• Internal Document Shows World Bank's Mahmoud M ...
  Mahmoud Mohieldin, Image Courtesy of the World Economic ForumAccording to an internal document sent from World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on December 18, Mahmoud Mohieldin – Egypt’s former Minister of Investment during the deposed Hosni Mubarak regime – has apparently been demoted from his post ...
• Assange, in Embassy for 6 Months, Gives Christ ...
  Happy holidays from GAP! This is the last Daily Whistleblower News until 2013. The New York Times: Assange Addresses Dozens in London Julian Assange, Image Courtesy of bbwbryant Julian Assange, marking six months being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, spoke to supporters in ...
• GAP Files Amicus Curiae in Hedges v. Obama
  Undefined Terms Translate to Possible Indefinite Detention for Intelligence Whistleblowers (Washington, DC) – This past Monday, Dec. 17, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) filed an amicus curiae brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in the case of Hedges ...
• Kentucky Goes After Mining Whistleblower: Dail ...
  Kentucky.com: Kentucky Officials Seek to Punish Miner Who Reported Safety Violations A miner in Kentucky who exposed dangerous practices at an underground coal mine – leading to the conviction of the company and supervisors responsible – now faces a complaint against him for taking part in th ...

UK Progressive

• Wishing You and Yours a Happy Holiday…
  Thanks for being a part of this great election season ride. We’re taking a much needed holiday break after this election. We’ll be back on January 3rd with a major announcement about a new strategic partnership and programme for 2013 and beyond. We wish all of our loyal readers and c ...
• TSA to Commission Independent Study of X-Ray B ...
  by Michael Grabell ProPublica Following months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study the health effects of the agency’s X-ray body scanners. But it is unclear if the academy will conduct i ...
• Young White Men in Crisis
  Rev. Irene Monroe The most recent massacre, the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, took the lives of 6 and 7 year-olds. It has shaken our nation to its core. The enormity of this devastation is incalculable. There are the small coffins of the victims killed during a hol ...
• Boehner’s Failure and the GOP’s Disgrace
  by Robert Reich Remarkably, John Boehner couldn’t get enough House Republicans to vote in favor of his proposal to keep the Bush tax cuts in place on the first million dollars of everyone’s income and apply the old Clinton rates only to dollars over and above a million. What? Even Grover Norquis ...
• Pardon Attorney Misrepresented Facts to White ...
  by Dafna Linzer ProPublica The U.S. Pardon Attorney failed to accurately share key information with the White House regarding a federal inmate seeking a commutation, the Justice Department’s Inspector-General concluded today in a detailed 20-page report. The findings determined that in ove ...

NewsAlert

• Scratch a 'Liberal,' Find a Fascist: The Case ...
  William Norman Grigg
• GM is alive and taxpayers got ripped off
  The Washington Examiner
• Gang rape protesters clash with Indian police
  USA Today reports:Police in India's capital used tear gas and water cannons Saturday to push back thousands of people who tried to march to the presidential mansion to protest the gang rape and brutal beating of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus.
• Applying The Pareto Principle to Tax Collection
  Chicago Daily Observer
• New tax increases in California stir debate ab ...
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JoNova

• Weekend Unthreaded
  Do come back and visit, I do have something very interesting to release this weekend. – Jo Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
• It’s a deadly cold Russian winter: minus ...
  Photo: Telegraph  REUTERS/Marian Striltsiv Spare a thought for people in Russia. Its the coldest winter since 1938. Temperatures may hit -25 in Moscow this weekend. They have already hit -50C in Siberia. Twenty-one people froze to death in one day. (See the Telegraph photo gallery) Down to -50C: ...
• Ficklestein strikes again — Here’s ...
  Let me see if I’ve got this straight — the Australian Press Council manages media standards in Australia, but isn’t doing it well enough according to Mr Finklestein (and fellow regulators), who want it overhauled. They want newspapers to be regulated so they can be as trusted a ...
• Cherry-picking sea level rises in Perth (a cit ...
  “Gale Force” cherries coming your way… Two weeks ago, it was all over the news. The ocean near Perth (where I live) was rising at the terrifying rate of 9-10mm per year since 1993, which was, shockingly, “three times the global average”. (Since Perth is flatter than ...
• Maurice Newman fights back: No slur is too vic ...
  When Robyn Williams recently equated skeptics to paedophiles on the ABC “Science” Show the skeptic-most-targeted was Maurice Newman, former chairman of the ABC itself. Newman responds to these deplorable and unscientific insults in today’s Australian and throws down the challen ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

• So… I Braved Live TV, After The World Didn’t End
  http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/1d3a3439-4e0e-3aab-99bb-90a7192c68d7/doomsdayers-bunker-down-from-embarrassment/ A few points: I phoned them prior and asked to cancel the interview – I had literally been up all night and wasn’t exactly on the ball – not surprising ...
• Have Some Faith / Don’t Worry
  The key takeaway is this: After 5000 years the Mayans made a prediction. Arguably they were not as skilled as modern science. But that doesn’t invalidate their predictions, and after such a length of time, being a few days out is OK. “2012″ is a great excuse to prepare – ...
• Contacting Rob for Last Minute Help/Advice
  I’ll be on these for the next 6+ hours, for updates and questions: Twitter: @2012er Skype: rob_bast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Robert-Bast/8226613874 Email: survive @ gmail dot com If you have my phone number, please don’t phone, I’m still doing plenty of media in ...
• How Accurate Did Mayans Expect Prophecy To Be?
  I find it absolutely extraordinary that out of millions of pages written about 2012, very few have discussed the most logical questions: Why did they choose Dec 21, 2012 as the end date of the Long Count? What was the reason for the start date? What did the Maya believe happened at the end of t ...
• Sun Extremely Quiet: No Solar Storm??
  Ordinarily more sun spots means more solar storms. Get some sunspots combining and a major storm is possible. But right now it looks like there won’t even be a minor X -Class flare. NASA rates the odds at just 1%. The following is the latest Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Geophysical Activity Repor ...

Facing South

• Art Pope's path to power
  Wealthy Republican donor Art Pope has been building influence and clout for years in North Carolina. Now he finds himself with his hands on the levers of power. read more
• How dark money helped Republicans hold the Hou ...
  The GOP control of the House came despite more votes for Democrats. How did that happen? Republicans used dark money to control redistricting in many states, as the experience of North Carolina illustrates. read more
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The big money behind Big Gun
  There are growing calls for better gun regulation in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre. But what are gun-control advocates up against when they take on the National Rifle Association? read more
• Four years after Tennessee tragedy, politician ...
  Dec. 22 marks four years since a coal ash impoundment collapsed at a TVA power plant in Tennessee, inundating a community and two rivers. As EPA drags its feet over issuing federal coal ash rules, politicians backed by industry interests are maneuvering to block the agency's ability to protect p ...
• Longshoremen shut down S.C. shipping terminal ...
  Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association honored a picket line at the Port of Charleston that was protesting the arrival of a ship bearing Walmart clothing made at a Bangladesh factory where over 100 workers died in a November fire. Dozens of truck drivers and other workers also t ...

One News Page

• Fasting ‘Save Ganga’ activist Swami Poornanad ...
  ‘Save Ganga’ activist Swami Poornanad Sarswati, on an indefinite fast since December 10, was arrested on Saturday from Haridwar’s Matrisadan ashram for attempt to commit suicide. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
• Spurned youth stabs girl in college, kills self
  A spurned college student stabbed his classmate eight to 10 times on the staircase of the Chetana College of Commerce at Bandra East, where the two studied, before classes began on Saturday. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
• Rs 150 crore bullet-proof office ready for Nar ...
  Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi would shift to his newly-built office in Gandhinagar unofficially dubbed as the ‘North Block’ after ‘kamurtas’ or the inauspicious period ends in mid-January. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
• State govt announces flats for 78 of 132 evictees
  However, Hakim announced that the state government will give flats to 78 families under the schemes for urban poor, in the project area, while the total number of families in the area is 132. Reported by Indian Express 3 hours ago
• Village in Veerappan country says no to caste ...
  Many Oorali households in Kalithimbam, which doesn’t have electricity or other modern facilities, have daughter-in-laws from other communities other than the Oorali tribe. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Going After Guns: Confronting Violence in America
• More Lessons From the Fukushima Daiichi Accident
• US Boots in Bulgaria? Foreign Troops are Threa ...
• 9/11 Revisited: The Death of Democracy
• Farmer to Farmer: The Truth About GM Crops

Daily Tech

• Nokia, RIM Kiss & Make Up
  RIM and Nokia have entered a new patent license agreement that will settle all existing patent lawsuits between the two
• Look Out Intel; Samsung Test 14 nm FinFETs
  Qualcomm and other Samsung clients could get a boost from novel power-saving gate design
• RIM Q3 Results: Smaller Loss Than Expected, Fi ...
  An increase in cash shot RIM's shares up 7.6 percent after closing in the U.S. on Thursday to $15.20
• UK Copyright Reform Will Significantly Affect ...
  Reform will make it legal to copy CDs to your iPod
• Quick Note: "Gangnam Style" Becomes First YouT ...
  "Oppa Gangnam Style!"

Oriental Review

• Arab Turmoil and the Viability of Nation States
  Protesting has been one of the most important trends of the past year. Alexander Knyazev, regional programmes coordinator for the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies, has been reflecting on the changes in the global geopolitical paradigm – a shift from a global game to the formation of r ...
• Apocalypse Cancelled
  The situation around Syria has been eased the last days. The Americans are withdrawing the USS Eisenhower and USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Groups from the Eastern Mediterranean. President Obama expects this step would ‘ease the tension in the region’. What kind of tension has happened to be a m ...
• NATO Turns Up Heat in Syria Psy-War
  NATO tells tales of recently launched “Scud missiles” to retroactively justify Patriot missile deployment months in the making. In a recent bid to psychologically break Syria’s government and military leadership, producing long sought-after defections, US-led NATO has decided t ...
• Syria: Rebels Could Resort to Chemical Weapons ...
  Multiple reports have appeared recently revealing that the US and its allies attack against Syria is imminent. A new propaganda story is getting more and more coverage today. According to unconfirmed reports, citing Western intelligence agencies, Syrian technicians are already loading artillery ...
• Episodes 10. Who Organised Famine in the USSR ...
  The theory of Holodomor is being reactivated in the media every time Ukraine is about to make another step back to Russia. Just to recall to those who are not aware of that tragedy, in 1932-1933 there was a severe famine throughout USSR that claimed unprecedented number of lifes (according to so ...

BlogHer

• The Light and Refreshing Skinny DragonBerry Ru ...
  [Editor's Note: If you're looking for a cocktail that clocks in at fewer calories, this is a great choice. It's fruity and refreshing, but light, as well. It's a great option for a holiday gathering! --Genie] Skinny DragonBerry Rum Twist This Skinny DragonBerry Rum Twist is my favorite cocktai ...
• The Power of Storytelling
  As the end of the year approaches I find myself thinking a lot about stories -- the stories I've told, the stories I've read, and the stories that all of you have shared with us. As I reflect on all the stories that I connected to in 2012, and wonder what stories I'll hear in 2013, I keep coming ...
• Mike and Ike and M&M Candy Lightbulbs
  These candy lightbulbs look almost too good to be true, but upon closer inspection, they don't just look great, they're awfully simple to put together! They're a really cute idea for decorating a holiday table. --Genie] Quick and easy M&M and Mike and Ike Christmas Lights You can put y ...
• Adding Circular Bokeh To Photos in GIMP
  GIMP is an open source photo editor (as in free) that does about the same things as Photoshop. This article from sommerfugl design explains how to use GIMP to blur certain areas of a photo for an artistic effect using technique called bokeh. Josefina with Bokeh by carlosluis via Flickr When m ...
• 10 Things to Know When You're Trying to Get Pr ...
  So you're trying to get pregnant, eh? I'm happy to kick off THE REST OF YOUR LIFE by offering unwanted advice! You're so welcome! Credit Image: Barsen on Flickr It's Harder Than You Thought According to an Italian study, female fertility peaks before 27, and by "peaking," they mean "50% chanc ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Dec. 21, 2012
  This Sept. 11, 2012 photo shows a Whitehaven Coal mine outside Narrabri, Australia near Gunnedah, 450 kilometers (280 miles) northwest of Sydney.  (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) There was some big news out of Kentucky this week, with American Electric Power’s announcement that it is going to clos ...
• C.A. Phillips to retire from W.Va. mine safety ...
  It’s just been confirmed that C.A. Phillips, director of the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training, plans to retire effective Dec. 31. C.A. has been director of the agency since August 2011, and had served as acting director for nearly a year before that. He spe ...
• Judge won’t delay UBB superintendent sen ...
  Gary May, left, of Bloomingrose, W.V., former superintendent of Upper Big Branch Mine, where an explosion killed 29 workers, walks with his defense attorney, Tim Carrico, at the Beckley Federal Courthouse in Beckley W. Va., Thursday March 29, 2012.  (AP Photo/Rick Barbero) Vicki Smith over at Th ...
• Coal decline: Don’t be confused by new I ...
  This undated image provided by Ambre Energy shows coal mining equipment at work in the Decker coal mine located near Decker, Mont.  (AP Photo/Ambre Energy) There seems to be some confusion out there about the future of the coal industry, based on this week’s report from the International E ...
• EPA to tighten soot standards
  Here’s the initial report (at least the first one I saw) from the Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency will tighten the nation’s soot standardsby 20 percent Friday, a move that will force communities across the country to improve air quality by the end of the decade while m ...

Daniel Miessler

• Obama Owes Us a Number of Explanations
  Barack Obama in Boston Globe questionnaire on Executive Power: Q: Does the Constitution permit a president to detain US citizens without charges as unlawful enemy combatants? A: No. I reject the Bush Administration’s claim that the President has plenary authority under the Constitution to ...
• They Say You Get What You Pay For
  Cities and states have seen their budgets decimated during the Great Recession, as revenue plunged due to dropping home prices and high unemployment. They had to make some desperate choices to save funds, including laying off scores of public safety workers (or even turning off their streetlight ...
• The Only Two New Years Resolutions You Need
  I generally think New Years Resolutions are silly. If something is important enough to be done, it’s important enough to be started when you think about it. The notion of waiting until a certain point is admitting a grave problem: you don’t have the self-discipline to do the things ...
• The NRA Prevents Gun Research | Boing Boing
  The Centers for Disease Control funds research into the causes of death in the United States, including firearms — or at least it used to. In 1996, after various studies funded by the agency found that guns can be dangerous, the gun lobby mobilized to punish the agency. First, Republicans tried ...
• Generalists Aren’t
  Reading through Drucker’s Effective Executive, I came across this passage which I think is a much better definition: The only meaningful definition of a “generalist” is a specialist who can relate his own small area to the universe of knowledge. Peter Drucker In other words, a genera ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• In a “Lawless America”- Iowa Supre ...
  I guess, beauty is in the eye of the employer! - But if the boss is butt ugly. Can that be used against the company during collective bargaining? (Reuters) – The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday that employers in the state can legally fire workers they find too attractive. In a unanimous ...
• From Child Sex Slave to Activist: Berkeley Wom ...
  By Stephanie Chuang and Liza Meak ,.nbcbayarea.com - Human trafficking is a crime that’s hard to track and some experts say harder to stop. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services calls it the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, but one Bay Area woman is on a personal ...
• Anti-Homeless Hate Crimes Detailed In New Repo ...
  By Saki Knafo,huffingtonpost.com - In Seattle last September, a young man shot four homeless people, killing one. A few months earlier, In Kittanning, Penn., authorities reported that two young men beat a homeless man with a tire iron “just for fun.” A new report by an organization t ...
• Where’s The Men’s Movement When Yo ...
  From angryharry.com - Yes indeed. Where is the men’s movement when you need it? Well, of course, it is growing all the time. But because most of the men involved with the movement are far too busy trying to be polite and inoffensive towards those who walk all over them, progress does remai ...
• CJE Saturday News Briefs
  Four Pacific Northwest ports headed for possible labor clash WS – The use of the military against longshore workers comes when the U.S. has chided governments around the world for unleashing the armed forces against their own citizens. (Reuters) – Nearly 3,000 union dock workers at f ...

reference frame

• SciAm, firewalls, and deterioration of the phy ...
  Jennifer Ouellette wrote a nice piece on black hole firewalls for the Simons Foundation and for Scientific American: Black Hole Firewalls Confound Theoretical Physicists (via Synch). Well, more precisely, it's nice and informative if you assume that her task was to uncritically promote the v ...
• Subir Sachdev on AdS/CMT
  Yes, it's the date of another major failed end of the world ;-) My ex-colleague and fellow superhero, condensed matter physicist Subir Sachdev wrote a neat article for a mostly bad magazine called Scientific American, Strange and Stringy It does a good job in explaining one skill of str ...
• Czechia opposes harsh anti-smoking EU policies
  European health commissioner Tonio Borg (Malta) – who has been in this job just for one month – is behind the latest insanely harsh EU proposals to fight against the smokers. See e.g. The Guardian. Horror-like pictures – such as the Australian graphics above – could become mandatory a ...
• Energy from man-made tornadoes
  Peter Thiel, a favorite venture capitalist of mine, just paid $300,000 to Louis Michaud, a Canadian inventor on the picture below who plans to build artificial tornadoes – the so-called [atmospheric] vortex engines: Wikipedia, Michaud's web – that may supply us with lots of energy. Th ...
• Hawking, Nurse, Rees, lords demand Alan Turing ...
  The Atlantic and others reveal that Stephen Hawking along with Paul Nurse, Martin Rees, and many lords I don't know wrote a petition to David Cameron in which they urge the leader to formally rehabilitate a British hero and top computer scientist, Alan Turing, who was born 100 years ago. Ev ...

Tatumba 2.0

• I am Adam Lanza’s Doctor
  “I am a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist. I did my psychiatric residency at Lincoln Hospital and, along with my child psychology residency, also at St. Luke’s Hospital of Columbia University. I have worked with Autistic people of all ages, the Asberger’s Syndrome people ...
• Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know Aspartame Yo ...
  This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know Anonymous YouTube Video Rating: 0 / 5 This post is courtesy of... Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know Facebook YouTube Video Rating: 0 / 5 This post is courtesy of... Stuff They Don’t ...
• Egypt votes on divisive constitution as vice-p ...
  Egyptians are again voting on a contentious draft constitution as President Mohammed Morsi faces more bleeding from his administration with the resignation of at least one high-ranking official. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: New Egypt protest call as Morsi sticks to constitution ...
• McDonald’s serving up ‘restructured meat techn ...
  by J. D. Heyes, Natural News: Well, it’s that time of year again when McDonald’s rolls out its venerable McRib sandwich. Tens of millions of Americans will purchase one – or, judging by the nation’s ever-widening belt line, several – but most will do so without know ...
• Israeli army killing Palestinian protestors wi ...
  Last week, in one of the first actions of its kind, activists released the names of Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of a Palestinian protester. Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year-old demonstrator from the village of Nabi Saleh, was killed when a soldier shot a tear gas canister at his face in De ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• 10 Top Environmental Health Stories of 2012
  The top environmental health stories of 2012 were all about everyday hazards that are right in our backyards. They have to do with the unintended consequences of chemical pollution that could harm the health of our families, our neighbors,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
• Chemical Industry to Parents: Avoid Lead, Tail ...
  By Alex Formuzis and Sonya Lunder, MPH This is rich. The chemical industry has produced a new "health information" website titled Kids + Chemical Safety that mentions hardly any chemicals or any of the voluminous body of peer-reviewed research... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Just How "Green" is Walgreens?
  By Sarah Swanke, EWG General Research Intern Attention Bargain Shoppers: Walgreens now sells a line of healthy home products called Ology!  These new products are advertised as free of toxic chemicals, including ammonia, chlorine bleach, di- and... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• How EWG Grades Cleaning Products in its New Gu ...
  By David Andrews Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist It's that time of year again, when students everywhere try to figure out how well they need to do on the final exam to get an A for the term. Or maybe... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ...
• Nation's Pediatricians Warn Against Pesticides ...
  By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations The American Academy of Pediatrics has taken the unprecedented step of issuing a policy statement that calls on the government, schools, parents and medical professionals to take concerted action to protect... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Sandy bill escapes the Senate 'unscathed,' and ...
• Chuck Schumer was 'very unpleasantly surprised ...
• A guard in every school, and a bundle for ever ...
• Two city councilmen who think the N.R.A.'s sch ...
• Quinn on the merits of Cuomo's gun proposal, a ...

Views & News from Norway

• Wealthy Bergen heir under probe
  One of Norway’s wealthiest and most philanthropic families hasn’t had a very merry run-up to the Christmas holidays this year. Frederik Wilhelm Mohn, third-generation owner of the family-run Bergen-based international firm Frank Mohn AS, was reported to the state police’s white ...
• Supreme Court deals major blow to refugee fami ...
  Norway’s highest court rejected an appeal on Friday from two refugee families seeking to stay in Norway with their children. The ruling is expected to have consequences for around 450 other children in Norway whose parents are deemed illegal aliens. Friday’s ruling means that nine-ye ...
• Norway set for cold, white Christmas
  Most Norwegians were settling into what amounts to at least a five-day weekend beginning on Saturday, and many were cheered by forecasts of a traditional white Christmas over most of the country. State meteorologists warned it would likely be very cold, though, also in the southern parts of the ...
• Film fans traveled to Christmas Star
  Norway has an abundance of Christmas-related holiday traditions, not least regarding seasonal entertainment. This year Norwegians have been flocking to local cinemas to see a new version of the holiday classic Reisen til julestjernen (Journey To The Christmas Star), even though reviews were mixe ...
• Fog lifts, easing holiday flight delays
  Airlines serving Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen were taking off mostly on schedule Friday morning, following widespread delays caused by a frosty fog that settled over the airport just as the holiday travel rush was setting in. Passengers were urged, though, to brace for crowds and more ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• The Gift of the Maya
  As we approach the winter solstice and the end of one long count and the beginning of another, our understanding of the Mayan world is rapidly being transformed by new knowledge. The traditional Mayan narrative in western literature is perhaps best exemplified by the writings of Jared Diamo ...
• Local Spotlight: But Don’t We Need Economic Gr ...
  Farmers planting nitrogen fixing trees on their farms As a group challenging the growth paradigm, one of the most common questions that we hear is, ‘But don’t we need economic growth to lift the poor out of poverty?’. While growth has been successful to this end in certain ways, there are also ...
• Permaculture Forest Garden, Badagry, Lagos Sta ...
  Since 2011 the Adunni Susanne Wenger Foundation in Nigeria, in Cooperation with the German NGO SONED Brandenburg e.V., built up the Environmental Education Centre called Permaculture Forest Garden at Gberefu Island, in Badagry, Lagos State. Beside the sustainability of the local environment, the ...
• Expanding Dust Bowls Worsening Food Prospects ...
  by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Encroaching Gobi desert When most people hear the term “dust bowl,” they think of the American heartland in the 1930s, when a homesteading wheat bonanza led to the plowing up of the Great Plains’ native grassland, culminating in the gr ...
• Thoughts on Vocational Training Centers for Ec ...
  John D. Liu I’m often asked “What can I do to help?” to restore the Earth. Over the years I’ve struggled with the answer. Sometimes I feel like it is unfair to ask me what someone else should do because even if I told them what I thought they probably wouldn’t do ...

Pointman's

• Ladiees and Gennulmen, we have a winnah!
  It’s time to announce the winner of this year’s climate prat award and boy was the competition a doozie. Talk about a rush. It had everything; a bewildering variety of prats to choose from, agonies of indecision having to cull all the nominees down to finalists, rule changes when non ...
• Ladiees and Gennulmen, we have a winnah!
  It’s time to announce the winner of this year’s climate prat award and boy was the competition a doozie. Talk about a rush. It had everything; a bewildering variety of prats to choose from, agonies of indecision having to cull all the nominees down to finalists, rule changes when non ...
• Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012), an appreciation.
  The Germans have a word we don’t have in English, and it really doesn’t translate very well because of that lack – Lebenskünstler. In a typical Teutonic fashion, they jammed together two words which each nearly expressed what they were after, and created a new word, which denot ...
• Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012), an appreciation.
  The Germans have a word we don’t have in English, and it really doesn’t translate very well because of that lack – Lebenskünstler. In a typical Teutonic fashion, they jammed together two words which each nearly expressed what they were after, and created a new word, which denot ...
• Just how far are you prepared to go to feel go ...
  I believe the acid test of any political system or indeed any society, is how much compassion it has for its own people, who’re simply going through some travails or deeply in trouble. That very same test applies to such everyday organisations as a business enterprise and right down to an ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  Let me say at the outset, although the Kaballist who wrote this mentions Christians and Muslims throughout this piece, Christians do not believe in any physical temple, or any physical 'New Jerusalem', whatever this 'rabbi' may spew...That being said, this excerpt and it's parent website offers ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  "As Jews, we prefer to wait for the real thing, according to G-d's promises..." Statistics: Posted by FrankDialogue — Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:31 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I was at a CT coin show today where one of the show dealers, an NRA instructor said his phone was ringing off the hook with gun owners needing specific competent instruction. No one at the coin show was skeptical of the official version, so at least there are some people trying to raise questio ...
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  Santilli has made Judy Wood's microwave-directed-energy-weapon-did-the-World-Trade-Centre his pet project. Shillish no? True or not, doesn't this distract from the Jewish engineering of 9/11?Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:15 pm
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  This reminds me of the movie Wag the Dog. Perhaps the movie was made by or about Milchan. I first learned of The Lone Gunmen episode foreshadowing 9/11 from Judas Goat Jones. Surprise, surprise, Jonesy didn't mention a thing about Milchan. He even interviewed one of the actors, Dean Haglund. St ...

TVNZ

• Egyptian voters set to pass new constitution
  Polls have closed in the final phase of a referendum on an Islamist-backed constitution.
• Obama starts Hawaiian vacation
  President Obama is taking a very brief break from ongoing "fiscal cliff" talks.
• 'World's oldest person' dies at 124
  An Israeli woman who claimed to be the world's oldest person has died at the age of 124.
• Prince William to spend Christmas with in-laws
  Prince William and his pregnant wife Kate will spend Christmas Day with her parents.
• Prosecutors consider charges over royal hoax call
  Australian DJs may face prosecution for a royal hoax call which preceded a nurse's death.

environment 360

• Changing Oceans May Be Adding to New England F ...
  As U.S. fishing regulators weigh stricter catch quotas to allow time for critical species to recover in the waters of New England, scientists say that changing ocean conditions may be a factor in historic fish declines, not just decades of overfishing. Warmer ocean temperatures and changing ecos ...
• ‘Peel-and-Stick’ Solar Cells Expand Potential ...
  Stanford University researchers say they have developed a “peel-and-stick” solar cell that can be attached to a variety of hard surfaces, an innovation they say could vastly expand the potential for solar Click to enlarge Chi Hwan Lee/Stanford School of Engineering “Peel- ...
• In Midwest, Bringing Back Native Prairies Yard ...
  Across the U.S. Midwest, homeowners are restoring their yards and former farmland to the native prairie that existed in pre-settlement days. The benefits can be substantial — maintenance that uses less water and no fertilizer, and an ecosystem that supports wildflowers and wildlife. BY REBEC ...
• Climate Already Altering U.S. Ecosystems and B ...
  Climate change is causing plant and animal species across the U.S. to shift their geographic ranges and life events — from flowering to migration — are being transformed at a faster rate than observed even a few years ago, a new analysis by 60 scientists says. According to the report, “Climate C ...
• Coal May Rival Oil As World’s Top Energy Sourc ...
  Coal could rival oil as the world’s largest energy source within five years as consumption continues to climb in most regions of the world, a trend that could have profound effects on the climate, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. While coal consumption is expected to decline in the U. ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Stuart H. Smith attorney: fighting oil, chemic ...
  Tags: oil chemical water radiation pollution
• This Crowded Skin
  Tags: blog politics environment curiosity
• Welcome to the International Climate Science C ...
  Tags: science climate analysis
• Liberty Classroom | The history and economics ...
  Tags: liberty classroom history economics
• poorrichard's blog
  Tags: blog survivalism news nwo history education

backofthebook

• Idle No More: The overnight YouTube roundup
  The Idle No More movement approached critical mass yesterday, as tens of thousands of First Nations people and their supporters rallied across Canada, and as far afield as New Mexico and Ukraine. Many of the peaceful protests, featuring round dances and drumming, struck at the very heart of the ...
• New F-35 figures don’t fly either
  By David@Sixthestate.net I have to say, it’s pretty depressing that not one of the many, many professional journalists in Canada is literate enough to read a government report. To their credit, some are trying. But they also had a whole press briefing slash lock-up slash sleazy play-time with th ...
• Next time, the children could be Canadian
  By Montreal Simon I was glad to see Obama visit the latest community in America to be shattered by gun violence. And I was happy to hear him say this. “We can’t tolerate this any more. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.” So maybe all the poor little chil ...
• Gary Bettman’s new NHL — the No Ho ...
  By Mark Leiren-Young I’ve figured out Gary Bettman’s grand master plan for the NHL. He’s decided to run it without players. No players means no games. No games means no overhead, no pesky salaries, no arena rentals, no worrying whether superstars get concussed, no superstars, and, best of all, n ...
• Jill Wiznoski and the small town journalists
  By Frank Moher J-Source.ca has a melancholy wrap-up story on the case of Jill Wiznoski and the displeased MP  — melancholy because I expect this is the last we’ll hear of a matter that should have received a lot more national press attention than it did. Wiznoski, you will remember, ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• The roots of global anti-Americanism
  Revelations of Korean rapper Psy's anti-American past are emblematic of a global resentment caused by US militarism.
• British Freedom Party Flounders
  BFP, the EDL's "political wing" has been de-registered.
• Philly security firm sued over Muslim head scarf
  The EEOC is suing ABM Security Services, which provides guards for the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, for religious discrimination.
• HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child ...
  More on the double standards of our justice system.
• Muslims in East End hold Xmas party—for their ...
  200 children and their families join Santa for Christmas to remember in the East End.

Energy News

• Report: Freaky mutant bugs found — Likely a fi ...
• Plutonium found in 3/11 disaster debris
• Death toll estimate from Chernobyl now around ...
• AP: People flee Japan nuclear disaster — Some ...
• Gundersen: Damage to Fukushima Unit 3 fuel rac ...

Japan Times

• Kagawa ready to return to training
  Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa will return to full-blown training next week, manager Alex Ferguson said on Friday. "Kagawa takes training with the first team on Monday," Ferguson said ahead of United's Premier League game at Swansea on Sunday.
• Bills pledge to stay in Buffalo
  The Buffalo Bills aren't going anywhere any time soon, and the team's CEO, Russ Brandon, guaranteed it Friday. "Guaranteed," Brandon said at a hastily called news conference, announcing the Bills had agreed to sign a new 10-year lease with the state and county to continue playing at Ralph Wils ...
• How to care for the children when we're at odd ...
  Perhaps this column should begin with a disclaimer like those found on CDs and DVDs that are intended to help protect kids from obscenity — Parental Advisory: Explicit Content. I wonder about this because it might not be healthy for our children to know how little their society cares abo ...
• Award-winning Hakuba inn offers a warm and bes ...
  A report published this year by a national association of ryōkan (traditional inn) owners notes that one of the most common problems facing its several thousand members is a dearth of suitable successors — meaning there will be no one in line to run them when the current operators ...
• View from the oppressor's side
  Jennifer Rubin's Washington Post blog that was published in The Japan Times on Dec. 7, under the headline "Paucity of 'no' votes reflects a cowardly profile," reflects the grumbling of someone who sees the world through the gunport peepholes of a superpower's mighty fortress. Her complaint again ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• ‘This is our inheritance’
  The prepared text of Justin Trudeau’s speech to the Reviving the Islamic Spirit conference ...
• This is the week that was
  Aaron Wherry sums up 7 days in 3 paragraphs and 43 links
• Harper on the F-35
  From the Prime Minister’s interview with Global, Mr. Harper’s explanation of the F-35 procurement....
• What’s underneath the no comment?
  The Globe hears that the Finance Minister is concerned about Mark Carney’s dealings with...
• Food: more expensive because supplies are low?
  In part two of our series on food prices, Andrew Hepburn looks at wheat stocks

Making It Count - CCPA

• Why the Income Inequality Deniers Are Wrong
  This article was published in an abridged form today in the National Post. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/21/armine-yalnizyan-sorry-andrew-coyne-but-income-inequality-is-a-real-problem/   I like this opening better so I posted it here. You couldn’t have made it through 2012 wi ...
• Marc’s Letter from 2040
  The following comes from a short talk on a vision for a zero-carbon BC that I gave at a couple events this Fall. Many have asked for the text so I’ve posted it here, and we may try and turn it into a video. That said, I have been reluctant to do so up to [...] No related posts.
• Harper’s prisons: Québec’s point of view
  On this past 5 December, we learnt on the front page of the daily Devoir that college-level instruction provided to inmates was now in jeopardy because of the federal cuts in Flaherty’s last budget. At Collège Marie-Victorin in Montréal, these cuts could bring an end to forty years of inmate ins ...
• Shale gas: “Chapter 11” steps in
  Both in Québec and in the United States, public authorities have legislated to protect populations from shale gas industry-related risks. These precautions could however come up against controversial NAFTA provisions within the infamous chapter 11 regarding investor protection. In the States, th ...
• Implementing Budget 2012: No Rest for Women
  The current government’s economic policies, being rolled out in a series of omnibus bills and ‘administrative changes,’ come at a high price to women. These policies do not create jobs in industries where women work; these policies increase the tax burden on working women while decreasing their ...

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

• California issues proposed rules for ‘fr ...
  “The proposed rules, released Tuesday, would require energy companies to disclose for the first time the chemicals they inject deep into the ground to break apart rock and release oil. They also would have to reveal the location of the wells where they use the procedure. Though fracking ha ...
• Congo-Kinshasa: UNEP Launches Pioneering Water ...
  “UNEP has initiated a water scheme in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that aims to protect the Lukaya river basin that supplies almost 380,000 Kinshasa residents with safe drinking water. The project builds on the recommendations of UNEP’s Post Conflict Environmental Ass ...
• Thailand must say ‘no’
  “At risk are the livelihoods of 60 million Lao, Thai, Cambodian and Vietnamese villagers who depend on the world’s greatest inland fisheries, which is what the lower Mekong River is today. At risk is the very viability of the Mekong River Commission (MRC), with its laudable goal of m ...
• Mali’s Lush Wetlands Drained by Foreign Agribu ...
  “Nearly two million Malians live on the delta. “Everything here depends on the water,” said the mayor. “But”—and here he paused gravely, pushed his glasses down an elegant nose, and began waving a long finger—”the government is taking our water. They are givin ...
• Colorado River Water Report Released In Vegas
  “LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rising demand and falling supply have water managers in the arid West projecting that the Colorado River won’t be able to meet the demands over the next 50 years of a population of 40 million people and growing. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday issued wha ...

D. Kucinich

• The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
• Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
• Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
• Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
• Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
  Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

• we’re home to “nut-jobs”
  …What do you expect we’re home to “nut-jobs” … Az Gov Jan Brewer … America’s self-proclaimed “toughest” Sheriff Joe Arpaio … “hit and run” State AG Tom Horne … I don’t give a dam if the voters approved it 3 times I don’t like it Maricopa County AG … and yea, they want guns in [...]
• it’s reputedly for our own protection
  … While not specifically prohibited by the Posse Comitatus act is it in our long term best interest to have our military in our homes … schools … even if it’s reputedly for our own protection …   Boxer proposes letting governors use National Guard troops to increase school security 12-20-20 ...
• Water Is Invaluable
           It is a fairly clever PR tactic that plays on two meanings of the word value: importance and monetary worth. The idea seems to be to convince the public to pay more for water service by tying water’s importance to its price.   Water Is Invalu ...
• no more debt
    What If All the World’s Debt Just Went Away 12-20-2012  •  Common Dreams Just for fun, imagine if all debt were wiped away when the Mayan Calendar ends this Friday…     What if All of the World’s Debt Just Went Away Joe Brewer, Cognitive Policy Works: Imagine if ...
• off the front page
  … but just as quickly as “guns” are off the front page and on the back burner they will return … … they are part of America’s military-industrial-corporate-congressional-complex … Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2012
  Below is a quick review of some of the biggest environmental stories of 2012. The 'top stories' are listed in no particular order. Climate change, overpopulation, consumption, and ecological destruction is pushing planet Earth toward a tipping point according to a major study in Nature released ...
• Uncontacted tribes still exist, but extinction ...
  The world is more interconnected than ever. Globally, there are six billion cell phone subscribers and 900 million Facebook users. Nearly 32 million people follow Lady Gaga on Twitter. Given this content is may seem hard to believe that there remain people who have never had contact with the out ...
• Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack o ...
  Ahead of the 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar a variety of reports warned that the world was running out of time to avoid dangerous climate change, and that there was a widening gap between what nations have pledged to do and what the science dem ...
• Asia Pulp & Paper hires top U.S. lobbyist to h ...
  Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has hired a top U.S. official to help it work through trade and environmental issues. In November, APP announced it had retained Stuart Eizenstat of Covington & Burling, a U.S.-based law firm, to help 'ensure APP’s trade and sustainability ...
• Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainfor ...
  The average annual rate of deforestation across Amazon rainforest countries dropped sharply in the second half of the 2000s, reports a comprehensive new assessment of the region's forest cover and drivers of deforestation. While the drop in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has been widely r ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Ten big ideas for 2013
  1. Let there be light Isaac Newton would be thrilled. London designers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves have come up with a light that uses gravity to generate enough po
• Gwynne Dyer: Friend or foe, that is the question
  The singularity is a term invented by science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge in 1993 to describe the moment when human beings cease to be the most intelligent creatures on the planet. The threat, in his view, came not from very clever...
• Canterbury professor first Kiwi to receive Ein ...
  A Canterbury University astrophysicist has become the first New Zealander to be awarded the Einstein Medal.Emeritus Professor Roy Kerr will be awarded the medal by the Albert Einstein Society in Switzerland for his 1963 discovery...
• Zain Ali: Space for all in religious debate
  Religious faith undoubtedly has the power to inspire, although in many cases it seems to inspire irrational acts of hatred and violence. So it is no surprise that Sir Bob Jones has recently taken aim at God and religion. Sir Bob,...
• From TV shows to our courtrooms
  Images from a murder scene are beamed straight to a laboratory, and jurors are given a virtual "tour" of a scene, allowing them to get up close to bloodstains and other evidence.Crime scene testing reveals fingerprints on surfaces...

The Bovine

• Report on the raw milk underground
  Video below from Rachel Simone James. Story from Pacific Network TV. “Amid the rhetoric and sharply drawn battle lines in the controversy over raw milk, it can be difficult to parse out the facts without getting mired in scientific jargon.  … Continue reading →
• Further details on the Michael Schmidt sheep-n ...
  From Scott Dunn in the Owen Sound Sun Times: “DURHAM - Canada Food Inspection Agency officers seized electronic devices and stored data from raw milk activist Michael Schmidt’s Glencolton Farms Thursday as part of a federal investigation into the illegal removal of … Continue reading ...
• Michael Schmidt sees legal case over sheep &#8 ...
  David E. Gumpert has the scoop on what’s going down with Michael Schmidt: “The legal situation confronting Michael Schmidt could hardly look more ominous. He faces four counts of conspiracy, in connection with the disappearance last April of 31 rare … Continue reading →
• Backlash against western food — U.S. por ...
  From Pakalert Press: “On December 7, 2012 Russia’s Federal Agency for Agricultural Control, Rosselhohznadzor, banned the imports of meat containing ractopamine. This is a food additive that allows to reduce the content of fat in beef and pork. The drug … Continue reading →
• Organic agriculture is the road to happiness i ...
  From Eliza Barclay, at National Public Radio: “The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan drew international attention a few years back for saying gross national happiness should trump gross domestic product when measuring a nation’s progress. If you’re going to prioritize … Co ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Boogeymen and Fake Reforms
  Earlier today I received an email from Jonathan Ingram at the Illinois Policy Institute that I wish to share. The email is regarding the sorry state of Illinois Pensions. Dear Mish Illinois has a long history of fake reforms – legislative proposals that promise to solve the great polic ...
• Fiscal Cliff Jackasses Complain Shoppers Are S ...
  It was bound to happen. Analysts are bitching the fiscal cliff is holding back retail spending. Please consider "Fiscal cliff" spooks shoppers in last lap of holiday race. Fears about imminent tax hikes and cuts in government spending are taking a toll on U.S. shoppers and could depri ...
• Fed Truncates Non-Performing Loan Data Series; ...
  Reader Wendy pinged me with a question I have no answer for: What happened to the Fed data series on non-performing loans?  Here is the link:  Assets at Banks whose ALLL exceeds their Nonperforming Loans (LLRNPT). Reader Wendy writes ... The original series showed how b ...
• Merkel's Hypocritical, Undeserved Self-Praise; ...
  Praise from German chancellor Angela Merkel is typically hard to come by. However, Merkel is freely distributing praise these days, to the person least-deserving, herself. As the eurozone marches down the "Road to Shared Liability" Germans are largely unaware of the Hidden Risks of the Euro ...
• Congressional Spending Problem in Easy to Unde ...
  Since 2000, how much has your average hourly wage gone up? If you are in the upper crust, the answer may be staggering. If not, perhaps the following chart more closely resembles your experience. Average Hourly Earnings 2000-2012 Just the Facts Ma'am The average hour ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• The Reality Principle -Episode 10
  “Capitalism in Crisis” with Richard Wolff This week, Eric sits down for an extended conversation with Richard Wolff, one of America’s leading economists and critics of the economic system. Prof. Wolff explains why his critique is of capitalism itself and not merely its contemporary manifes ...
• Agenda Driven News
  “Americans have been well armed for several centuries, but “gun violence” is new. Why?” I have known for a long time that US news is agenda-driven. Tonight (December 18) I was made aware of the extent to which agenda-driven US news drives the news of the rest of the world. For reasons unbeknowns ...
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Shipyard Video of The Day – Heavy Lift Time-La ...
  Ahhh, two of our favorite things… heavy lift and timelapse! On December 14, 2012 the 900 ton deckhouse for the U.S. Navy’s future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) destroyer was lifted [...]
• “Common Sense” Coast Guard Bill Signed Into Law
  Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012 (H.R. 2838) Signed Into Law by President Obama House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Release: Washington, DC – Legislation to provide the U.S. [...]
• Steve Jobs’ Superyacht Impounded in Amsterdam ...
  AMSTERDAM – A superyacht built for Apple Inc’s late co-founder Steve Jobs has been impounded in Amsterdam because of a dispute over an unpaid bill to designer Philippe Starck, a [...]
• Diana Shipping Purchases New Japanese-Built Ka ...
  ATHENS, GREECE – Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and operation of dry bulk vessels, announced that on December 20, 2012 it signed, [...]
• Staten Island Ferry to Be Converted to LNG
  At least one Staten Island ferry will be converted to clean-burning liquefied natural gas (LNG), at which point it is expected the first ferry in North America to use LNG [...]

Press TV

• Iranian MPs heading to Myanmar
  A senior Iranian legislator says a parliamentary delegation will visit Myanmar in early 2013 to study the situation of the ethnic Rohingya Muslims and violence against the minority in the Southeast Asian country.
• Politicos squabble on edge of fiscal cliff
  Republicans and Democrats continue trading accusations as the United States faces a fiscal crisis.
• Egypt central bank chief didn’t resign
  The Egyptian cabinet has denied reports that the governor of the Central Bank of Egypt has resigned.
• Rich, poor divide grows in Germany
  A recent report says that the number of people at risk of poverty has reached a record high in Germany.
• Slovenians hold anti-austerity protest
  Thousands of Slovenians have taken to the streets in the capital Ljubljana to express their anger over new austerity measures imposed by the government.

SciDev.net

• Conference ends with rift over telecom treaty
  More than 50 nations have refused to sign an international telecommunications treaty due to divisions over whether it should include reference to the Internet.
• Use innovation to ease inequality in poorer na ...
  Spreading the use of science and new technology can help deprived groups in developing nations and boost growth, says OECD report.
• Weather model gives four-month dengue outbreak ...
  Deadly dengue outbreaks could be forecast up to eight times earlier than is currently the case, claim scientists in Singapore.
• Hurricanes ‘can benefit coastal wetlands’
  Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike carried sediments to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico that will benefit their composition and density, says a study
• USAID will continue its push for science
  As the Obama administration begins a second term, USAID's Alex Dehgan describes how the agency will build on its science-for-development agenda.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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