25 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

English: Roland Few, Executive Director, National Capital Freenet, 2008 to date (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Mr. Amit Bando, Executive Director of the IPEEC (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

David Wish, Little Kids Rock founder and Executive Director (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jane Leu, Executive Director and founder of Upwardly Global (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Lucian Dunăreanu, the executive director of Be An Angel Romania (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Amit Sinha - Executive Director, Students for a Smarter Planet (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: ALI-ABA executive director, Julene Franki (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: A picture of Roy Speckhardt, Executive Director of the American Humanist Association. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The presdient and Executive Director of PEARL (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Karen J. Greenberg, the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

today at the river (Photo credit: Searocket)

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 21 December 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: devaluing animals and humans, Victorian counting device goes quantum, Apple under fire, and more
• Studio sessions show how Bengalese finch stays ...
  This songbird doesn't need technological aids to stay in tune – and it's smart enough to not worry when it hears notes that are too far off to be true
• Today on New Scientist: 20 December 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: curing congenital diseases in the womb, cosmic inflation in 2013, software to stop market crashes, and more
• Spider builds giant decoy of itself
  A naturalist trekking in Peru has spotted a spider that builds a huge decoy doppelganger out of leaves and dead insects
• Today on New Scientist: 19 December 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: revolutionary stem cell trial, the sceptic's guide to 3D printing, alien planets suited to life, and more

Tech Drive In

• Steam for Linux Beta is Now Open to Everyone!
  Nobody in their right minds would have imagined this an year ago. An officially supported Steam client for Linux? Are you kidding me? Well it just happened and the official Steam client for Linux is open to public. We should especially thank Microsoft for shooting its own feet with their new A ...
• Renowned Indie Game, Eufloria HD, Arrives Offi ...
  Eufloria HD should definitely be one the best games for Android in 2012. It is an incredibly addictive and stylish ambient strategy game. And like most other extremely popular games in Google Play Store,  Eufloria HD is criminally simple with almost zero learning curve involved.  ...
• A week with elementary OS Luna: Could this be ...
  It is not far-fetched to say, open source and its poster child, Linux, is going through a golden period. The emergence of internet has a lot to do with the popularisation of open source way of thinking. But in the world of Windows and Macs, what makes Linux tick? Redhat was the first to expl ...
• Desktop Zoom, Animations in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 ...
  Ever wondered what happened to all those mind numbing animations and effects in older Ubuntu releases running GNOME 2.x? We used to conduct Linux installation fests during our college days and showing off Compiz Fusion's capabilities was a major highlight during every such event. But with the ...
• Reditr Beta Arrives, DEB Package Makes Install ...
  Reditr is a multi-column Reddit client for desktops. It currently supports Ubuntu, Mac, Windows and Google Chrome platforms. When it was first announced few months back, it created a lot of excitement, especially among Linux folks. But the initial Reditr Alpha release disappointed quite a few. ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• As 13 states meet DHS REAL ID standards, remai ...
  Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) praised 13 states on Dec. 20 for complying with the standards for national driver’s licenses and identification cards outlined in the REAL ID Act of 2005. Brent Daggett, writing for End the Lie, noted that the R ...
• Killer Corn
  by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper Usually I like to discuss the pros and cons of a particular element of food storage. I like to weigh the benefit versus the cost of the conventional and organic varieties. There is one “food” that has become so toxic and so polluted that I will not have it [...]
• The Vaccination Conspiracy: Patricia Finn
  ROCKWELL: You know, it shows how important the whole vaccination program is to the regime. I remember some time ago hearing on NPR, one of the unlucky instances when I was listening to NPR, and they were saying, well, you know, we’ve known for a long time that hicks and rubes and stupid pe ...
• “2012 A-Z” – A Galaxial Even ...
  “2012 A-Z” – A Galaxial Event of Disneyesque Proportion – YouTube.
• On the Cusp of 12/21/12 or Whatever. Reflectio ...
  By Visible Well… tomorrow is the day; that long awaited day and today seems like any other day, before some ordinary day to follow. Yesterday I was sitting somewhere, I forget where and a flash of images came into my head. This happens to me a lot. Things come out of nowhere, which is actu ...

Veterans Today

• Ventura’s “Brain Invaders”
  Ventura takes on what we have all suspected for so many years, the government's use of advanced technologies, very real mind control
• US Politicians Show More Concern For Israel Th ...
  North Korea’s recent successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile has exposed a glaring lack of concern for America by US politicians. This lack ...
• Did the Age of Enlightenment Never Occur?
  Nahida Izzat: Did the Age of Enlightenment never occur? — Introduction by Gilad Atzmon —  The following is a must read expose by Nahida Izzat. ...
• Israel activates American 5th column for Sandy ...
  - The Veterans Today site counts Gush Shalom founder Uri Avnery and rabid anti-Israel activist Gilad Atzmon as writers.
• Who Were the Other Shooters?
  Like Oslo, Sandy Hook involved multiple shooters. The mainstream media calls for gun control are a mindless, knee-jerk reaction. Since a hostile intelligence agency was clearly involved how would gun control affect matters? Firstly, if the guns could not be acquired lawfully they would be sup ...

electric politics

• Three Truths and a Lie
  'Tis the season for... reflections on life. And death. Yet death often feels ominously dark, especially when a young person dies before their time. It's difficult, in such circumstances, to remember that darkness isn't all bad — indeed, there's reason to believe it may be a source of enlig ...
• Running Against the Grain (Part II)
  Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...
• Running Against the Grain (Part I)
  Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a nearly ...
• A National Disgrace
  If you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible — even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College — n ...
• Your Vote Matters
  Quite apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right To ...

PR News

• Mobile operator EE revamps agency roster
  EE has reviewed its UK agency support, extending the work of Nelson Bostock and ending its relationship with GolinHarris.
• Republic brings in DeVries Slam for music, fas ...
  High end retailer Republic has appointed DeVries Slam to promote its fusion of music and fashion.
• WPP's Kantar acquires US insights specialist A ...
  Kantar, WPP Group's wholly owned insight firm, has acquired US digital media specialist AdGooroo for an undisclosed sum.
• Publicis buys Rokkan Media
  PARIS: Publicis Groupe has acquired New York-based digital agency Rokkan Media.
• Tremor video hires O'Dowd as first corp comms ...
  NEW YORK: Tremor Video, a company that provides media and digital advertising services to publishers, marketers, and advertising and media agencies, has named Sally O'Dowd its first head of corporate communications.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The race tightens as Obama, Romney prepare for ...
  AUSA begins, What Ishmael Jones’ experience tells us about “No Easy Day,” Thanks for the cowbells, and more.
• Pakistan's Bid for Tolerance
  A tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
• Leaving Afghanistan
  Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Job Opportunity: Seasonal Park Interpreter, Al ...
  Position:  Seasonal Park Interpreter Organization:  Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation ...
• Job Opportunity: Project Manager, Clean Air St ...
  Position:  Project Manager Organization:  Clean Air Strategic Alliance ...
• Prairie Grasslands and Species at Risk Protected
  Government Sets High Bar for Suffield National Wildlife Area Alberta Wilderness Association 30 Nov 2012 The seven-group Suff ...
• Wild prairie grasslands or gas wells and pipel ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association For four years, we've been keeping you up-to-date on Suffield National Wildlife Area and this very question: What will it be, wild prairie grasslands or 1,275 new Cenovus gas wells and 220 kilometres of ...
• Call for Workshop Proposals: Earth Matters Con ...
  Organization:  Alberta Council for Environmental Education Initiative:  Earth Matters Conference ...

Stop NATO

• Afghanistan: U.S.’s Parthian Retreat
  Voice of Russia December 24, 2012 What next for Afghanistan after NATO’s scheduled pullout? Boris Pavlishev ==== “The Americans are actually not after stability or putting an end to terrorism in Afghanistan. They are after gaining a permanent strategic foothold in Southwest Asia. Providing ...
• Turkey Plays Israel-Egypt Balance In NATO
  Hurriyet Daily News December 25, 2012 Turkey plays Israel-Egypt balance in NATO ==== Turkey has convinced unnamed NATO members to lift their vetoes on NATO activities on a number of countries in the Middle East, the Caucasus and the Balkans. Among those, it appears Egypt has a more important rol ...
• William Cullen Bryant: Christmas In 1875
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== William Cullen Bryant Christmas In 1875 (Supposed to be written by a Spaniard) No trumpet-blast profaned The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No bloody streamlet stained Ear ...
• NATO’s Africa Medal: Dutch Submarine In ...
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization December 20, 2012 Netherlands Submarine Crew in River Thames Visit HNLMS Bruinvis crew awarded NATO medal for counter piracy mission HNLMS Bruinvis Yesterday, the crew of the Dutch submarine, HNLMS Bruinvis, were awarded NATO’s Africa medal for their work ...
• Pakistan: Defining Our War
  The Nation December 23, 2012 Defining our war Jalees Hazir ==== The problem with those eager to claim the US-led intervention in the region as our war is that they use the acts of terror perpetrated by militant groups as a justification to support the far more serious and barbaric strategy of te ...

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Intel Hub

• BP vs. The World: Who is Winning?
  By Joe Wright Activist Post December 24, 2012 The financial penalties levied against BP began as a landmark $4.5 billion settlement, topping the previous largest U.S. criminal penalty issued against Pfizer for marketing fraud. More than 2 1/2 years on, the BP oil spill is still ravaging the food ...
• Ron Paul Says NDAA is Reckless and Dangerous
  theintelhub.com | Mr. Speaker I rise to oppose what will be the final National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) I will face as a Member of the US House of Representatives.
• The New York Times Attacks the NRA
  Alan Murdock | There is no doubt that the Times is biased against human rights, with an entire column dedicated to “the epidemic of violence in the United States and explores the possible solutions.”
• Fear and Loathing in Paragould, Arkansas
  Mark Daniels | The novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based on two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson took with attorney and Chicano activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in March and April 1971.
• It’s Not a “Fiscal Cliff” … It’s the Descent I ...
  Washington's Blog | Indeed, the IMF has already performed a complete audit of the whole US financial system, something which they have only previously done to broke third world nations.

FRS

• Julian Assange: expect more exposure of govern ...
  Founder of whistleblowing website marks six months’ confinement in Ecuadorean embassy with bullish speech Conal Urquhart, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 December 2012 Julian Assange has said that WikiLeaks is preparing to publish 1m new secret government documents as he marked six months of r ...
• When did “the land of the free” become a “poli ...
  [The capitalist rulers of the USA have long claimed the country to be the fountain of democracy, brotherhood and freedom.  But along the way, the victims of the US’ rampant and violent growth have wondered "what in the world are they talking about?" When the colonists and later the pilgrims arri ...
• The Rape Poem
  By Marge Piercy This poem first appeared in “Red War Sticks” Feminist Alliance Against Rape Newsletter April/May 1975 There is no difference between being raped And being pushed down a flight of cement steps Except that the wounds also bleed inside. There is no difference between bei ...
• Pakistan: a Tribute to Dave Brubeck
  Sachal Studios’ Take Five Official Video Apr 4, 2011 Recorded at Sachal Studios, Lahore, Pakistan – the premiere of Take Five’s Official Video! Filed under: Culture, International, Internationalism, Media, Pakistan Tagged: cultural internationalism, dave brubeck, lahore pakista ...
• India: New Delhi police fire water cannon at r ...
  [In the capital of India, which the government has claimed is "the world's largest democracy," a brutal rape of a young woman has brought thousands of outraged protestors into the streets.  Rape is a common terror that women face in Delhi and throughout India.  What brought these massive protest ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• No Apocalypse Yet, but If the NRA Gets Its Way ...
  The NRA weighed in on the Sandy Hook school shooting, and the big answer? Aw, you guessed it. More guns. We don't need the Maya to bring about the end of the world, we're doing just fine on our own.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Dec 21, 2012
• Scott Brown's Defection on Assault Weapon Ban ...
  Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican who failed to win re-election, has come out against assault weapons and indicated that he supports a ban on such firearms. While Brown won't be around to vote on any such ban, his voice is valuable and courageous.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Dec 20, 2012
• Obama is Right -- Higher Tax Rates on the Rich ...
  People like myself are getting tired of hearing about this fiscal cliff deal being held up just because the GOP refuses to accept the Nov. 6 election results. Taxing the rich more isn't being done for fun, it's necessary.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Dec 06, 2012
• Sunset of Terror War: Too Little, Too Late
  In a pre-weekend address, general counsel to the Pentagon, Jeh Johnson, for the first time, uttered the sentiment that the “War on Terror,” which began on September 11, 2001, would, finally, be facing its long-awaited sunset.Contributor: D. Benjamin Satkowiak Published: Dec 03, 2012
• U.N. Palestinan Vote Argues for the Abolishmen ...
  The New York Times reports that the United Nations has voted to elevate the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank to the status of non member observing state. Hot Air suggests that this is to the detriment of peace in the Middle East.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Nov 30, 2012

Popsci - Science

• 9 Space Pictures That Look Like Santa, Rudolph ...
  Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the universe, not a star complex was stirring, not even Cygnus X! Merry Christmas from Popular Science. We're taking off a couple days to go spend time with our families. Enjoy these festive space pics in the meantime. Miss you already. Is that ...
• 9 Space Pictures That Look Like Santa, Rudolph ...
  Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the universe, not a star complex was stirring, not even Cygnus X.
• FYI: What Causes Motion Sickness, And How Do Y ...
  Ah, motion sickness. The bane of holiday travelers everywhere. Here's the science of it--and tips on how to beat it. Motion sickness is a mismatch between what your body and your brain is experiencing, says Dr. Sujana Chandrasekhar, director of New York Otology and ENT surgeon at the New York H ...
• Images of the Week, Dec. 17-21, 2012
• Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears, And More Amazi ...
  Plus: a river that flows through a volcano, an old-timey package mysteriously addressed to Indiana Jones, NASA's cartoonish new spacesuit and more. Click to launch the gallery.

Veterans Today

• Ventura’s “Brain Invaders”
  Ventura takes on what we have all suspected for so many years, the government's use of advanced technologies, very real mind control
• US Politicians Show More Concern For Israel Th ...
  North Korea’s recent successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile has exposed a glaring lack of concern for America by US politicians. This lack ...
• Did the Age of Enlightenment Never Occur?
  Nahida Izzat: Did the Age of Enlightenment never occur? — Introduction by Gilad Atzmon —  The following is a must read expose by Nahida Izzat. ...
• Israel activates American 5th column for Sandy ...
  - The Veterans Today site counts Gush Shalom founder Uri Avnery and rabid anti-Israel activist Gilad Atzmon as writers.
• Who Were the Other Shooters?
  Like Oslo, Sandy Hook involved multiple shooters. The mainstream media calls for gun control are a mindless, knee-jerk reaction. Since a hostile intelligence agency was clearly involved how would gun control affect matters? Firstly, if the guns could not be acquired lawfully they would be sup ...

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• The Argentine Isolationist Grinch Who Stole Xmas
  In addition to cooking the books, Argentina appears stuck in an import substitution industrialization [ISI] time warp. I sure would love to sell bell-bottom pants there for the full retro flavour, but they are of course throwing impediments to all sorts of imports. As the blog's subtitle goes, I ...
• South Korea as the Catholic Church's Asian Tiger
  Long lay the world in sin and error pining... The Roman Catholic Church is savvy enough to know that its game is for the most part up in Western Europe. Lip service to a "Catholic revival" in that part of the world aside, we all know a declining market when we see one. Its resources are not re ...
• History Repeats Itself: Greek Crises 1832-1897
  Just as some folks spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E, certain nations have the reputation for it going a looooong way back. For a blog purporting to be the IPE Zone, you may have noticed that I have had very few posts on the EU project as of late and the myriad crises on its periphery. Honestly, I tired of th ...
• There's No Power Shift (or Western Decline Either)
  ...or so says our LSE IDEAS head honcho Michael Cox. To say I disagree with him is an understatement, but he of course deserves to be heard as one of it not the best-recognized scholars of US foreign policy in Britain. We have no "shop" opinions at LSE IDEAS, and I believe such diversity is welc ...
• Park Geun-hye's Lump of Coal for Chaebol Haters
  When it comes to showing the West how things differ in Asian nations, I suppose nothing quite beats electing a military dictator's daughter to power via freely contested polls. But that of course is just what has transpired in prosperous South Korea. And General Park is a rather revered figure f ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Say Goodbye To The Good Life
  Will this be the last normal holiday season that Americans ever experience?  To many Americans, such a notion would be absolutely inconceivable.  After all, in the affluent areas of the country restaurants and malls are absolutely packed.  Beautiful holiday decorations are seemingly everywhere t ...
• Agenda 21 Is Being Rammed Down The Throats Of ...
  Have you ever heard of Agenda 21?  If not, don't feel bad, because most Americans haven't.  It is essentially a blueprint for a "sustainable world" that was introduced at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.  Since then, it has been adopted by more ...
• 75 Economic Numbers From 2012 That Are Almost ...
  What a year 2012 has been!  The mainstream media continues to tell us what a "great job" the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of managing the economy, but meanwhile things just continue to get even worse for the poor and the middle class.  It is imperative that we educate t ...
• 20 Signs That The U.S. Poverty Explosion Is Hi ...
  The mainstream media continues to insist that the economy is "getting better", but the poverty numbers for children and young people just continue to explode.  For example, did you know that the poverty rate for families with a head of household under the age of 30 is a whopping 37 percent?  Chi ...
• What In The World Are Barack Obama And John Bo ...
  Barack Obama and John Boehner both seem absolutely determined to drive U.S. government finances off a cliff.  The mainstream media would have you believe that there are vast ideological differences between the two of them and that they are bitter enemies, but that is simply not the case.  Both o ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• The Broken Teapot: A critical analysis of curr ...
  We all start life with our teapot intact and at some point a little crack starts and slowly grows, or maybe one day we slip and the whole thing ...
• Modern Slavery journal has new website
  Modern Slavery is a new journal for the abolition of all forms of enslavement, published as an independent, not-for-profit project of CAL Press....
• Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
  Despite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
• July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
• Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For Papers
  Jurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...

E U Times

• BP to pay USD7.8 bn to victims of Gulf of Mexi ...
  A US federal judge has approved a USD 7.8 billion settlement which sees the BP oil giant pay out USD 7.8 billion in compensation to people and businesses affected by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. US District Judge Carl Barbier gave his final verdict on Friday. The ruling covers nearl ...
• Syria militants use chemical weapons against S ...
  Armed rebels used chemical weapons in their attacks against the Syrian army in Reef (outskirts of) Damascus on Sunday. The terrorists used chemical weapons against the Syrian army forces in Darya district of Reef Damascus today. “The terrorists have already thrown three cube-shaped plastic ...
• Rand Paul slams NDAA as bill passes US Senate
  The controversial NDAA bill, which allows for the indefinite detention of US citizens, was approved by the Senate despite White House threats to veto the legislation. Republican Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has decried the law as an “abomination.” The libertarian Republican voiced his concerns to a ...
• London homeless rate rises by over two-fifths
  The number of rough sleepers on London’s streets has increased by more than two-fifths over the past year as many Britons are struggling to make ends meet within the country’s stagnate economy. The number of people classed as homeless and in need of emergency accommodation has soared 43 pe ...
• North Korea develops missiles capable of reach ...
  Pyongyang is developing missiles capable of reaching the US, South Korean officials have claimed. The allegations came as North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un called for the development of more powerful rockets after the successful launch of a satellite. The North’s launch of a three-stage Unha ...

Voiceless Victim

• First Christmas in a country that gives a damn ...
  This year is the first Christmas that Australian victims of clergy child sexual abuse live in a country that no longer ignores our suffering, that recognises that what was done to us constitutes serious crimes that deserve investigation, and intends to do something about it. We are yet to see wh ...
• Church Officials Still Investigating Their Own ...
  The Australian Catholic Church has announced it has received but is yet to release the report of its internal investigation into the role of three senior church officials in the coverup of child sexual abuse by the priest known only as Father F. The report, prepared by former Federal Court judge ...
• Who is the victim here?
  The arrogant, entitled prince of a wealthy, influential monarchical religious institution which considers itself, and is treated, as above the laws of the land or The damaged, impoverished, abandoned child victims of serial rapists, whose suffering has been dismissed and whose pleas for help hav ...
• Why did you make us wait so long?
  The sheer joy of Monday’s announcement of a national Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions in Australia was not the only emotion bringing victims to tears this week. There was sadness at years of unnecessary suffering by victims who had begged and beg ...
• Australian Prime Minister Announces National R ...
  I woke up today with no expectation that by late afternoon I would achieve an almost impossible dream. But finally victims of child sexual abuse throughout Australia are to be given a voice, to be given a chance of justice, to be able to use our painful experiences to prevent other children havi ...

WL Central

• 2012-12-22 Swedish military reportedly shuts d ...
  Earlier this month, the pro-WikiLeaks Swedish transparency websites Under Mattan and Corruptio were shut down by their web host, allegedly at the request of Sweden's armed forces. Without prior warning or explanation, the ISP Blog.com pulled the plug on Under Mattan (translation: "Under the Rug ...
• 2012-12-20 Statement by Julian Assange after S ...
  Thursday December 20th, 19:00 GMT (Not checked to delivery) Six months ago - 185 days ago - I entered this building. It has become my home, my office and my refuge. Thanks to the principled stance of the Ecuadorian government and the support of its people I am safe in this Embassy and safe to sp ...
• 2012-12-19 The people of the Freedom of the Pr ...
  Earlier this week, a group of high-profile journalists and free-speech activists announced the launch of the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), an initiative intended to thwart a two-year financial blockade against WikiLeaks and to fund-raise for similar nonprofit organizations. Designed to ...
• 2012-12-16 WikiLeaks declares war on banking b ...
  Press release from WikiLeaks and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Sunday 16th December, 23:00 GMT Today sees the launch of the Freedom of the Press Foundation − a new initiative inspired by the fight against the two-year-long extra-judicial financial embargo imposed on WikiLeaks by U.S. fina ...
• 2012-12-14 Julian Assange to give Christmas sp ...
  Sources have announced that on the evening of Thursday, December 20, 2012, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief and Australian Senate candidate Julian Assange will deliver a Christmas speech from the Ecuadorean embassy in London. The December 20 speech marks six months of Assange's stay at the embassy, whe ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Merry Christmas!
• Can Korea's New President Engage the North?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) She says she's willing to try
• Book Review: The Decline of Democracy
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Written by Joshua Kurlantzick. Yale University Press, 269 pp
• No Lone Wolves in Cyberspace
  • (http://twitter.com/share) As lone-wolf terrorists plot online, waiting for instructions, authorities follow the trails
• Must-Have Wine: Pyramid Valley - Biodynamic Pa ...
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Field of Fire Chardonnay 2010, North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

We Know the Lies

• The 5 Powerful Psychological Triggers Your Doc ...
  If you’ve ever been in a doctor’s office with a child, you know what I mean. Doctors are well known for applying psychological pressure to parents questioning vaccines. Maybe you’ve experienced this pressure? Here are five psychological triggers doctors use against you, the parent, and some o ...
• Why American Parents Are Unable To Discipline ...
  The ultimate reason why Americans are unable to discipline their children is that they have no authority over them. read more
• FEMA Pastors?... Beware... Clergy Rally Congre ...
  December 21st, marked the one week anniversary of the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., clergy members plan to mark it at the Washington National Cathedral.  ~ T. Steelman - Related articles read more
• What Was DHS Doing In Sandy Hook?
  What was DHS doing in Sandy Hook, CT, in the years prior to the recent Shady Hook shooting? According to the Department of Homeland Security’s website in Connecticut, Sandy Hook residents took part in specialized Department of Homeland Security HSEEP training drills over the two y ...
• Cops, Detectives, FBI Agents and U.S. Soldiers ...
  In the wake of the recent Sandy Hook shooting, I reached out to my contacts in law enforcement, military and (retired) FBI over the last three days, asking three simple questions... ~ Mike Adams read more

Tarpley

• The Second Great Depression Deepening Across t ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 24, 2012 In Charles Dickens’ celebrated short story A Christmas Carol (1843), the Malthusian miser and London stock exchange speculator Ebenezer Scrooge is told by the ghost of his deceased partner Jacob Marley that “it is required of every man that th ...
• Scenarios for Obamagate in the Second Term
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 16, 2012 The second Obama administration is now just a month away, reminding us of the century-old American tendency for second presidential terms to be troubled and often unsuccessful. Second terms are particularly vulnerable to scandal. At the same t ...
• NATO’s Syrian Death Squads Threaten to M ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Who Lost Libya, Who Lost Syria, Who Lost Egypt ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 12, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Bernanke Fed Must Pay for Post-Sandy Reconstru ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 10, 2012 The most effective way to finance the reconstruction of stricken areas in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and other states in the wake of the October 28-29 Superstorm Sandy is to mobilize Chairman Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve System ...

Modern Survivalism

• A Christmas Wish For You
  Here’s wishing all of our Modern Survival Blog Readers a Merry Christmas. It is a time for family and friends, so put aside the stresses of the modern world that you live in and spend some time relaxing and enjoying the company of those important to you. For those who are alone, remember t ...
• Winter Preps To Keep In Your Car
  As you travel in your car during the winter months, keep these important preparedness items in the vehicle at all times. Your survival may even depend on it. Even though we put on a jacket and/or other appropriate weather gear before we walk out the door and get into the car, it is not always [...]
• Tinder For Flame And Fire
  To build a fire, you need a source of spark or flame, tinder, kindling, and firewood. Tinder is very important in that it is the first step necessary to actually build a fire, and the quality of your tinder will determine your results. The right preparation is the most important consideration. T ...
• Terrorist Nuclear Targets
  During the cold war, the general time period between 1945 and 1991, people believed that a massive exchange of nuclear weapons between the U.S. and U.S.S.R would occur. As we know, and fortunately, this did not happen. The potential nuclear conflict was between countries with reasonably rational ...
• 2012 Numbers Too Crazy To Believe…
  The following are economic numbers from 2012 that are almost too crazy to believe… As we exit 2012 and enter 2013, let us not be distracted from the realities of the real economy. We need to have more discussion and conversation about it, which is the first step to coming up with solutions ...

Fast Company

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

Jadaliyya

• Why Chuck Hagel Is Irrelevant
  The latest non-scandal scandalizing the American commentariat is whether Barack Obama will be able to nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his new Secretary of Defense. The narrative is that the Zionist lobby is eager to scuttle Hagel’s nomination because he has uttered one too many ...
• ملف من الأرشيف: أحمد فؤاد نجم
  [”ملف من الأرشيف“ هي سلسة تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها بالعربية والإنجليزية بالتعاون مع جريدة ”السفير“ اللبنانية. الملفات ستكون لشخصيات أيقونية تركت أثراً عميقاً في الحقل السياسي والثقافي في العالم العربي.]       الإسم: أحمد فؤاد الشهرة: نجم إسم الأب: محمد عزت إسم الأم: ها ...
• صندوق الألم: جولان حاجي
  صندوق الألم (مقطع) لم تكنْ هناك، هذا الفجر، حين أطلَّ المرضى والركابُ والجنود برؤوسٍ صلعاء وحليقة مثل أكواخٍ معتمة في نوافذ بعيدة. ضبابٌ خفيف لم يمكثْ  طويلاً عبَرهُ الصبيُّ أمام بوّابةِ المستشفى حيث وجدَ مسدساً ملقى على العشب. لم تكن هناك. الآن، أنت قصةٌ تُروى في مكان ...
• Egypt Media Roundup (December 24)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
• Rampage School Shootings: Reframing the Discourse
  The most recent rampage school shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary (SHE), Newtown, Connecticut, that claimed the lives of twenty kindergarteners and six school staffers at the hands of another young white male, took the US and the world by a storm. As messages of sympathy poured down from world le ...

mediagazer

• ITV makes move into US cable market (Mark Swen ...
  Mark Sweney / Guardian: ITV makes move into US cable market  —  Broadcaster's value hits 108.6p following acquisition of 61.5% in Gurney Productions, a maker of US cable network shows  —  ITV's share price hit a high not seen in more than five years in early trad ...
• As newspapers drop wire services, will readers ...
  John Robinson / Media, disrupted: As newspapers drop wire services, will readers care?  —  On Sunday, Allen Johnson, editorial page editor of the News & Record and my friend, announced that the paper was dropping the New York Times News Service.  —  Today, I ...
• India rape protests widen as police shoot jour ...
  Samanth Subramanian / The National: India rape protests widen as police shoot journalist  —  NEW DELHI// On a day of protests against rape and sexual assault, police shot dead a journalist in the north-eastern state of Manipur and tear-gassed crowds in New Delhi.  Th.  ...
• Newsnight researcher: 'It felt like the BBC we ...
  Hannah Livingston / Guardian: Newsnight researcher: ‘It felt like the BBC were trying to rewrite history’  —  As one of the people on the investigating team for the report on Jimmy Savile, I knew when the BBC wasn't getting the story right  —  Two mon ...
• Wire cutters: Tribune Co. newspapers dropping ...
  Robert Feder / Time Out Chicago: Wire cutters: Tribune Co. newspapers dropping AP  —  The Chicago Tribune and six other newspapers owned by Tribune Co. are dropping the services of Associated Press, effective in early January.  —  In addition to the flagship Trib ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Khloe Kardashian worries about forgetting ...
  Khloe Kardashian finds it difficult to keep up with the Kardashian’s at Christmas. The X Factor host admitted she often worries she will forget a member of her large family when she is buying presents, saying “I dread Christmas shopping – I go nuts making sure I don’t forget anyone, it ...
• UN envoy worried after talks with Syria's ...
  Click photo to enlarge In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, right, meets with UN Arab League deputy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. The international envoy tasked with pushing to end Syria's civ ...
• Why China is the true game-changer betwee ...
  Earlier this month the US National Intelligence Council released its Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report - a document that comes out once per presidential administration - mapping out likely geopolitical trends over the next two decades or so. As usual, it's a must-read, offering c ...
• Mark Cuban Says Nokia's Lumia 920 'Crushe ...
  Marl Cuban at Business Insider's IGNITION conference in 2011. It's Becoming Abundantly Clear That Google Doesn't Want To Share Android Anymore Oh Geez, Now There's An Android Phone That's Almost As Big As Your Kindle Fire BII REPORT: The Massive Mobile Explosion In BRIC Countries Explained M ...
• Turkey lifts objection to NATO cooperatio ...
  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has given approval for Israel to participate in non-military NATO activities in 2013, withdrawing an earlier objection driven by an ongoing dispute between the former regional allies, a Turkish official said on Monday. Relations between Israel and what was once its ...

no frakking consensus

• Holiday Cheer (blog donation button)
  Please consider buying me a holiday cocktail if you think my IPCC-related journalism is important. A donation button is available for two weeks only.
• This Is Called Cheating (Part 2)
  Months before authors were even selected to write an upcoming IPCC report, its chairman was telling a live audience what conclusion that report would reach.
• Who is Hans Joachim Schellnhuber?
  The German government's chief climate advisor is the furthest thing from an objective, dispassionate scientist. He thinks using fossil fuels amounts to “a lifestyle of mass destruction” - and that the UN should be put in charge of trillions of dollars.
• This Is Called Cheating (Part 1)
  IPCC officials are telling Working Group 2 authors about scientific papers that haven't been written yet. These papers will appear in a special edition of a journal guest-edited by an activist scientist.
• IPCC Declares Its Intent to Circumvent Expert ...
  Hundreds of souls have volunteered to serve as IPCC expert reviewers. But the review process lacks integrity - and the system is being gamed.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

• 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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Interview with Hanadi Assoud
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• Stop Smart Meters Australia - Part 1
  Today's show features an interview with a representative of Stop Smart Meters Australia, an organisation which is opposing the introduction of electricity smart meters which are currently being rolled out in homes throughout Victoria. From the petition: Victorian Citizens are being forced to ...
• Chris Emery on recent film projects - Part 1
  The Crew of Free Mind Films, creators of "A Noble Lie". Clockwise from left: Austin Green, Holland Vandennieuwenhof, Chris Emery and James Lane. My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Chris Emery, co-producer of the award winning documentary "A Noble Lie", which exposes the US government' ...
• Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 2
  Part 2 of Halloween Special with Josh Jackson
• Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 1
  In tonight's show we bring you a menagerie of weirdness as we plough through the many bizarre themes which dominate the news on this Halloween night. We look at recent developments in the Julian Assange case, with a Parliamentary Briefing on the case now in progress. In the 2nd hour am joine ...

Beacon

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

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Taylor Marsh

• You’re a Crazy Gun Nut If… Piers Morgan Editio ...
  WHEN YOU have your own show you get your own platform. Sticking your neck out and speaking your mind against the horde is one of the most American of traits. It’s just very few people are willing to do it and incur the wrath of the wingnuts, as well as take the economic hit that [...]
• Wayne LaPierre on “Meet the Press,” What Ugly ...
  Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Well, I think he’s so extreme and so tone deaf that he actually helps the cause of us passing sensible gun legislation in the Congress. Look, he blames everything but guns: movies, the media, President Obama ...
• Gov. Christie: No Armed Guards for Kids, he Ca ...
  THE N.R.A. blew it again under the tutelage of Wayne Lapierre, who offered a ridiculous proposal on Friday for a fortress America, the education edition. Gov. Chris Christie walked away from this idea, because he’s not stupid and wants to protect everyone’s rights, including people w ...
• Ben Affleck on Kerry’s Senate Seat: “One Never ...
  RIGHT NOW Scott Brown is leading Democrats by a mile in Massachusetts, as a recent WBUR poll showed, also revealing holding Kerry’s seat after a placeholder is appointed against Brown will require a smart campaign by a good candidate. The closest Democrat to Brown in popularity is Martha C ...
• Queer Talk: Holiday Wish List and Reality Check
  Actually, this is just a holiday spin on an existing Queer Wish List, and it’s a truncated version only, with only a couple of items in current DC thinking and happenings. I think my overall wish, related to our Electeds, is simple: they will all miraculously begin acting like responsible, thoug ...

Hudson New York

• The Islamization of Germany in 2012
  Post-Christian Europe became noticeably more Islamized during 2012. As the rapidly growing Muslim population makes its presence felt in towns and cities across the continent, Islam is transforming the European way of life in ways unimaginable only a few
• Hamastine: A Present from the U.N. to Khaled M ...
  In a field near the Islamic University -- where PhD theses are written on topics such as "The role of the Muslim mother in preparing her sons to be shaheeds [martyrs] of the resistance" -- the Gaza Strip stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and
• Muslims Angry Over Spanish Citizenship for Jews
  The Spanish government has announced that it will grant automatic citizenship to Jews of Sephardic descent, whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in 1492. The measure has been welcomed by Jewish groups, who say the move is long overdue and that it
• It's Official: Muslim Population of Britain Do ...
  The national census for England and Wales has come out, and, as usual, this once-a-decade event has had all of its most significant points overlooked. By any measure, what it reveals is a country undergoing seismic change. Over the course of a decade up
• Converging toward Hamas
  There are many points of disagreement between Fatah and Hamas; so many that they fought an ugly civil war in 2007, leaving Hamas in control of Gaza and Fatah in control of the West Bank. It is a mistake, however, to conclude from their often violent

Urban Survival

• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like….
  …well, a half-day at the stock market for one thing.  While the nation get’s ready for a Christmas eve storm to show up, stock futures are down, although gold is up, as investors try to position themselves for what could … Continue reading →
• Coping: Merry Wire Transfers
  Before you smash your computer to bit for presenting heresy at this time of year, I should explain that I enjoy Christmas, but from a time management perspective and return on investment, the season makes as much sense as Enron. … Continue reading →
• Same Crap, Different Long Count
  Mini-crash due in the markets this morning, but let’s wade through this in some kind of order, whall we?  Although there may be a few hold-outs who think the world could still get around to ending today, a buddy down … Continue reading →
• Coping: Feedback for Tyler, TX Cops
  A number of readers responded to our story yesterday about how Tyler, TX police were putting reminders on windshields of Christmas shoppers who left freshly-purchased goods in sight while they went off to do more shopping.   Not a good … Continue reading →
• GDP Report
  Oh, sure, the market dropped a hundred Dow points yesterday (or you can call me a liar for rounding 1.01 points) but what’s the real state of the economy?  By now you should be over the pain of the housing … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Apocalypticism & Biblical Texts
  Dec 20 2012 - Apocalypticism & Biblical Texts... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Anatomy of the State | by Murray N. Rothbard
  Audio presentation of Murray N. Rothbard's essay,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Bleak Future : Pole Shift Updates & Magnetic A ...
  The climate is being modified and engineered by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Deport Piers Morgan and Russia Today TV for S ...
  Piers Morgan is a joke....when he asks questions... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
• Transhumanism : Hidden History and Agenda
  Academic researchers, Dr. Joseph P. Farrell and... [[ Please visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

• China moves to strengthen nuclear safety stand ...
  Alvin Lin, China Climate and Energy Policy Director, Beijing This post was co-written with my colleagues Jingjing Li, Jason Portner and Christine Xu. In China and other developing countries, increasing electricity demand and concern about pollution ...
• Christmas wish: stockings stuffed with transpo ...
  Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. Another "woe is me" article today in the Washington Post about how Virginia is strapped for cash to cover its transportation costs. State lawmakers gnash their teeth and howl about t ...
• Joan Mulhern: Clean Water Loses A Champion
  Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Joan Mulhern, my friend, a fellow clean water advocate, and a mentor, passed away on Tuesday.  I hope everyone will read the touching tribute that her Earthjustice colleague, Marty Hayden, wrote.&nb ...
• Even California Can Do More to Advance the Cle ...
  Lara Ettenson, Director, California Energy Efficiency Policy, San Francisco A new report released this week by the Legislative Analyst’s Office recommends that the California Legislature develop a comprehensive strategy for meeting the state&r ...
• New Coalition Celebrates One-Year Anniversary ...
  Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica A male wolf from Oregon's Wenaha pack. (Photo credit: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife) One year ago, a gray wolf from Oregon’s Imnaha pack, OR7, crossed over the state’s southern bord ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

• This summer, BBQ without cooking the planet
  For the summer holiday season, the first thing on everyone's mind is naturally how to minimise their carbon emissions. Well, maybe not the first thing on everyone's mind, but it is at least possible to have a barbie without contributing extra greenhouse emissions – and probably more convenient ...
• BZE Awards its Volunteers
  BZE relies on its dedicated and skilled volunteers for much of our research and public education initiatives. All our volunteers deserve an award! Today we are recognising those people that have excelled themselves in 2012. A big thank you to them and to all the people that have volunteered fo ...
• Hartcher should stop providing PR for the gas ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions statement, 20 December 2012 New South Wales Energy Minister Chris Hartcher recently said “If we are unable to access gas the lights will go out. It's as simple as that." (Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2012). The statement is clearly wrong, on many counts (see below). Why is ...
• Is dirty gas killing clean coal?
  CSG fracking: destroying carbon capture & storage potential? Media release, December 17, 2012 “Fracking” to tap unconventional gas resources could destroy the much-hyped “clean coal” carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Earlier this year, Scientific American reported findings that ...
• Solar research funding is just passing the buck
  December 13 2012 Martin Ferguson's announcement this morning for $83 million for solar energy research is a diversion from actually building large solar, according to Matthew Wright from the climate and energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “While Australia is limiting its large-scale sola ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Amazon rainforest failing to recover after dro ...
  The impact of a major drought in the Amazon rainforest in 2005 persisted far longer than previously believed, raising questions about the world's largest tropical forest to cope with the expected impacts of climate change, reports a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National ...
• Amazon deforestation obliterates soil biodiver ...
  Deforestation in the Amazon leads to a substantial loss in microbial biodiversity potentially reducing the ecological resilience of affected areas, report researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Our favorite nature photos of 2012
  In the course of reporting for Mongabay.com, I spent time in several countries in 2012, including Indonesia, Brazil, Madagascar, and Malaysia, among others. The following are some of my favorite nature pictures I took in the field. Overall I added more than 20,000 images to the site in 2012. For ...
• Photo: New spider species named after Obama
  One of 33 newly described species of trapdoor spiders is named after President Barack Obama, reports Wired.
• Norway to send Guyana $45m for maintaining low ...
  Norway will pay Guyana $45 million for maintaining its low deforestation rate under a climate partnership between the two countries.

Sierra Express

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

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Big year for changing of the guard
  The face of New Zealand business changed over 2012 with a series of senior appointments made to some of the country's top jobs.These include former World Bank managing director Graeme Wheeler who took over from Reserve Bank governor...
• Dairy prices up 1.1pc in overnight auction (+g ...
  Prices of dairy products rose in the final GlobalDairyTrade auction of the year, though whole milk powder, the biggest product by volume, fell for the fourth sale in a row,The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.1 per cent compared to...
• Brian Rudman: One sales pitch to kids that no ...
  You have to feel sorry for Fonterra. Even with a role model as wholesome as the All Black captain to announce it was offering free milk to all New Zealand schoolkids, this stellar act of generosity hardly made the news. Perhaps next...
• Fonterra share scheme wins seal of approval
  Fonterra's Trading Among Farmers (TAF) share trading scheme received its final, albeit retrospective, seal of approval at the annual meeting yesterday.When TAF was put to shareholders at a meeting in June, the first resolution,...
• Farmers to continue selling raw milk
  Farmers will be allowed to continue selling raw milk at the gate, Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson has announced.Consultation carried out by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) on possible changes to rules for raw drinking...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Why People Thought 'Bath Salts' Made Rudy Euge ...
  In a well-informed and revealing Playboy article, Frank Owen analyzes "a classic drug panic," explaining how and why Rudy Eugene's grisly assault on Ronald Poppo in Miami last May came to be blamed on "bath salts," a group of quasi-legal stimulants that Eugene, a.k.a. the Caus ...
• Kurt Loder Reviews Django Unchained
  With Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino has brought off a perfect marriage of style and history, says Kurt Loder. He has appropriated the universe of another beloved genre, the spaghetti western, and set within it an unsparing tale of American slavery. The movie is outrageously fun ...
• Steve Chapman on the Depressing State of Globa ...
  Meteorologists know seasons are predictable. In the weather world, spring is always followed by summer. But as Steve Chapman observes, the political world is different. Spring can proceed to summer, or it can lead to a sudden onset of winter. That was the case this year in places ran ...
• Ronald Bailey on How Half the Facts You Know A ...
  Dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Increased K-12 spending and lower pupil/teacher ratios boost public school student outcomes. Most of the DNA in the human genome is junk. Saccharin causes cancer and a high fiber diet prevents it. Stars cannot be bigger than 150 solar masses. In the past ...
• Brickbat: A Minor Crime
  Former Atlanta police officer Bernett Collins has pleaded guilty to sexual battery, distributing sexually explicit material to a minor and violating his oath of office. Collins met a 13-year-old girl when answering a call to her house. He then began texting her and eventually sendi ...

Mercury Rising

• Welcome, child of light!
  Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
• Memo To Social Security Scaremongers: Producti ...
  Oh, dear. Fareed Zakaria doesn’t understand (or is paid not to understand, in finest Upton Sinclair fashion) why we silly liberals don’t understand that Grandma must be put out on an ice floe so Pete Peterson can have a few more swimming pools: The American left has trained its sight ...
• The faces of addiction
  Chris Arnade visited Hunt’s Point, NY and got to know the street people. He produced a remarkable series titled Faces of Addiction, with photographs and brief stories of the people he met. (Via Julie Turkewitz, The Atlantic)
• Problem: not liking the truth. Solution: silen ...
  Via Barry Ritholtz, Arthur Kellerman and Frederick Rivara describe how the Republicans in Congress shut down research on the nature of gun violence: The nation might be in a better position to act if medical and public health researchers had continued to study these issues as diligently as some ...
• FOX’s Murdoch Tries Buying White House, ...
  An obviously horrified Carl Bernstein, writing for the UK’s Guardian newspaper (probably because no US media outside of Huffington Post or maybe MSNBC would touch it), on the incontrovertible evidence that Rupert Murdoch was trying to buy himself the US presidency via control of his intend ...

Reality Sandwich

• Reality Sandwich: Highlights from 2012
  The Reality Sandwich crew will be taking a post-apocalyptic vacation from Dec. 24 to Jan. 4. In the meantime, enjoy a selection of noteworthy articles from the past year. Happy holidays, and a happy new year!  Why Isn't Everyone Having Psychic Experiences All the Time? By Dr. Jim Car ...
• Contemplating the Multiverse
  This article on Space.com includes five theories that explore the possibility of universes that exist in addition to our own, also known as a multiverse. Scientists assume that space-time is flat and stretches out infinitely. If space-time continues to expand forever, then it must start repe ...
• Sex in the News
  The sex-positive Parent on children and guns, the new Arab manhood, parenthood's greyest generation and Scalia and same-sex marriage, in this week's sex in the news.read more
• The End of the Beginning
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• Say Know to Drugs
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Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

• "You All"
  As it's the season for giving, i'd like to take a moment to reflect & wish you all.......would go to hell. by "ally" As originally posted on: ally (blacflag) on Twitter December 18, 2012
• 'Think Tanks" and "Power"
  Think tanks service power not the people. by "Anti-Think Tanks" As originally posted on: Anti-Think Tanks (AntiThinkTanks) on Twitter December 5, 2012
• "A National Gov"
  To clarify: I dont want a different gov,a better gov, the system reorganised etc. I see no purpose for a national gov, end it. #Voluntaryism by "G(od) No relation" As originally posted on: G(od) No relation (Flaganatas) on Twitter December 5, 2012
• "A Corporation Owned by a Billionaire" and "Pr ...
  Professional sports turn millions of citizens into psychologically empty fans; fans of what exactly? A corporation owned by a billionaire? by "Anti-Pro-Sports" As originally posted on: Anti-Pro-Sports (AntiProSports) on Twitter December 15, 2012
• A Very Merry Christmas…
  Let’s all join together and send a full-throated and heartfelt Merry Christmas to Ashu M. G. Solo in Saskatoon – and nothing else. No other well wishes, just that: A Very Merry Christmas. This one is especially for you, Mr. Solo: See the story here: A Saskatoon man has complained to the city b ...

Press TV - Middle East

• US terror drones kill 5 in Yemen
  At least five people have been killed in two US assassination drone attacks in southern Yemen, Yemeni military officials say.
• Rebels say Syria used chemical weapons
  Militants fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad say the Syrian Army has used chemical weapons against them.
• Man sets self on fire in Saudi Arabia
  A man has reportedly set himself on fire in Saudi Arabia to express discontent over social and economic injustices in the country.
• Syria militants kill several civilians
  Militants fighting against the Syrian government have killed several civilians in the village of Maan in central Syria, Press TV reports.
• Bahraini police arrest protesters
  Bahraini police have arrested an unknown number of protesters amid ongoing demonstrations against the Al Khalifa regime, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

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• "Unhappy is the land that needs a hero,” Galil ...
  ““Unhappy is the land that needs a hero,” Galileo famously says in Bertold Brecht’s play about...
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• "f you care about children, health, poverty ...
  “f you care about children, health, poverty, farmers, food, hunger, or the economy, you...
• theniftyfifties:Waylon Jennings & Buddy Holl ...
  theniftyfifties: Waylon Jennings & Buddy Holly & someone giving the finger - Photo booth at New York’s Central Station on Jan 23 1959 - Buddy’s brand: Salem cigarettes. viathesweetestpsychopath:WITLOX’s Buddy Holly memorabilia

  IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Local Communities Stake Claim in Protecting Di ...
    From her half-built house, Ari Haryani takes a few steps to reach a freshly cemented path that snakes through the narrow, dusty walkways of this resettlement village. The path offers the 36-year-old a route to safety in case the nearby Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano, erupts. “It h ...
  • The ‘Flattening’ of Gaza
    On Nov. 17, four days into Israel’s eight-day assault on the Gaza Strip, deputy Israeli Prime Minister Eli Yishai publicly called for the Israeli army to “blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water”. The following day, Gilad Sharon, son of form ...
  • Fresh Air for the Rio Olympics
    Environmental authorities in this southeastern Brazilian city are installing more air quality control stations in the locations where competitions are to be held during the 2016 Olympic Games, so that air pollution will not hurt the athletes’ performance. The 16 new air quality monitoring statio ...
  • Q&A: Will the BRICS Bury IBSA?
    China’s presence in the leading developing nations alliance of Brazil, Russia, India and China has given the bloc an advantage that another developing nations club, India, Brazil and South Africa, has hitherto been lacking, according to Peter Draper, one of South Africa’s leading experts on inte ...
  • Africa Cashes in on Mineral Wealth
    Many of the fastest-growing countries in the world are in Africa, the poorest continent on the planet, but the potential for recently-discovered resources to generate broad-based inclusive development opportunities is massive and remains under-exploited. “I don’t believe that African natio ...

  My AntiWar

  • Christmas Brings Fear of Church Bombs in Nigeria
  • Russia, India Sign Weapons Deals Worth Billions
  • Indian Jews From ‘Lost Tribe’ Move ...
  • Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Indicted for Fraud
  • India Gang Rape Protests: PM Appeals for Calm

  CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Syria: The descent into Holy War
    Summary: It is one of the most horrifying videos of the war in Syria. It shows two men being beheaded by Syrian rebels, one of them by a child. He hacks with a machete at the neck of a middle-aged man who has been forced to lie in the street with his head on a concrete block. At the end of th ...
  • "Americans kill people": Michael Moore on Newt ...
    Summary: Michael Moore speaking just hours after the massacre on 14 December 2012 in which 28 people died, 20 of them children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut. He links the Sandy Hook killings with the US culture of violence that has it curre ...
  • Looking at Anti-Iran Propaganda
    Summary: USA Today cautioned recently that “War with Iran won’t be a quick affair.” A Pittsburgh newspaper plaintively wonders whether “War with Iran” is a “Necessity or Folly.” Talk of war is in the air. What many in this country don’t realize is that the U.S. is already engaged in a war ...
  • Pressure mounts on Obama to change tactics on Iran
    Summary: In a letter to the White House, Iran experts insisted diplomacy, not further sanctions, will have the best results. But US actions since then indicate more sticks than carrots. source: Christian Science Monitorread more
  • "We want to do everything we can to make sure ...
    Summary: Flynt Leverett, author of Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, discusses why Iran – contrary to popular belief – isn’t a nation composed of suicide-bombers and “Mad Mullahs;” the difficulty of debunking 33 years of anti-Iran pro ...

  The Daily Galaxy

  • "Some Regions of the Universe are Not Favorabl ...
                      "The answer may be that other regions of the Universe are not quite so favorable for life as we know it, and that the laws of physics we measure in our part of the Universe are merely ‘local by-laws', in which case it is no particular surprise to find life here," ...
  • Holiday Weekend Image: A Spectacular Masar
                     Astronomers have come to realize that the process of star formation, once thought to consist essentially of just the simple coalescence of material by gravity, occurs in a complex series of stages. As the gas and dust in giant molecular clouds comes together into star ...
  • Comment of the Day: Advanced ET Civilizations ...
                     "Even if there is only 1 intelligent civilization per galaxy where you have over 100 billion stars per galaxy with some galaxies sporting nearer to a trillion stars. There are over 100 billion galaxies in the visible universe, maybe more. So even assuming you have onl ...
  • Advanced ET Civilizations May Be Impossible to ...
                   The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations. As Enrico Fermi asked if the Universe is conducive to in ...
  • Supermassive Black Holes --Are They "Exit Door ...
                     Earlier this fall, an international team, led by researchers at MIT’s Haystack Observatory measured the radius of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy — the closest distance at which matter can approach before being irretrievably pulled into a black ho ...

  Natural News

  • Gun myths busted: Automatic weapons, buying gu ...
    People who don't own guns are wildly ignorant about them, and they're easily suckered into liberal media myths that willfully repeat total lies such as being able to "buy guns online" or the idea that you can easily buy "automatic weapons" or "assault rifles." These...
  • The gut-mind-emotion dance
    Through a recent conversation with my new colleague, Chiara Marrapodi, I learned a lot about the connection among the gut, mind and emotions. Chiara recently appeared as a guest on the November 21, 2012 episode of Mental Health Exposed. This article is based on Chiara's...
  • The Connecticut school shootings: Operation Chaos
    (NaturalNews)Jacob Roberts, the Oregon mall shooter, and the shooter(s) at the Connecticut elementary school, share a common trait: they committed irrational and inexplicable murders. This may seem like an obvious fact, but it holds the key to understanding what is going on. Y ...
  • Widely used heart drug increases risk of death
    A widely used heart drug actually increases the risk of death in patients with the very condition it is most commonly used to treat, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Kentucky and published in the European Heart Journal. Digoxin...
  • Sweet foods that can help cure constipation
    As the Western world continues to become more dependent on processed and unnatural foods, constipation and other bowel-related conditions are on the rise. Fortunately, constipation - the irregular or infrequent evacuation of the bowels due to intestinal obstruction ...

  Threat Level

  • John McAfee’s Last Stand
    On November 12, 2012, Belizean police announced that they were seeking John McAfee for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor. Six months earlier, I began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. This is the chronicle of that ...
  • Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — ...
    The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack Obama granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. While lawmakers were caving to special interests, however, they cut from the legislative ...
  • Net Neutrality, Data-Cap Legislation Lands in ...
    A proposal forbidding internet service providers from turning the data-cap meter off to grant a so-called internet fast lane to preferential online services was introduced Thursday in the Senate. The bill by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) comes a week after ...
  • Lawmaker Inching Toward Regulation of Violent ...
    Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) has taken Congress' first step in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre toward possibly regulating access to violent videogames. Calls for gun control immediately followed the elementary-school shooting Friday, so it was ...
  • Cosmo Strikes Again, Taking Over Another Westb ...
    It feels a little bit like hacker Groundhog Day. After hijacking a Westboro Baptist Church leader’s Twitter account on Monday, Wired has confirmed that the 15-year-old hacker known as Cosmo the God took over another account belonging to one of ...

  PERRspectives : Blog

  • A Wayne LaPierre Christmas
    Every Christmas brings the same frustrating question: what do you get the man who has everything? So it is with Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. After all, for two decades, the NRA has gotten almost everything it wanted, including an end to the na ...
  • Romney "Had No Desire" to Be President
    The Boston Globe this weekend offered a fascinating analysis of why Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election. But for all the impact of ground games, turnout models and campaign strategies, Mitt Romney lost not because he failed to define himself to the American people, but because he su ...
  • The Fiscal Cliffs of Dover
    If you have lingering doubts that economic growth--and not deficit reduction--should be the highest priority during the debate over the so-called "fiscal cliff," the Congressional Budget Office should put them to rest. The CBO forecast that the triple witching hour of expiring Bush tax cuts, th ...
  • Benghazi Fallout Recalls 9/11 Resignations
    As President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised in September, the State Department Accountability Review Board on Wednesday delivered its report on the Benghazi consulate assault which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The findings are sharply critica ...
  • Treasury Wins Big on GM Bailout
    Much to the delight of President Obama's conservative naysayers, Politico this morning reported that "the Treasury Department on Wednesday announced plans to sell, almost certainly at a loss, the government's remaining shares of Detroit-based automaker General Motors." Predictably, the right-wi ...

  Blackspot News Feed

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

  Consortium News

  • Israel Lobby Takes Aim Again
  • Iran Appears Ready for Nuke Deal
  • NRA Suggests a Police State
  • Comments About Comments
  • Kerry, a Strong Choice for Diplomacy

  TruthOut

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

  Planetsave

  • Fireball Meteorite That Hit The Earth In April ...
    The fireball meteorite that crashed into California’s Sierra foothills in the spring was one of the fastest, rarest meteorites known to have ever hit the Earth, and it apparently took a very eccentric orbit in order to hit us. These findings along with others will be published December 21s ...
  • Marijuana Farming Boom In Northern California ...
    The large-scale farming of marijuana in California thanks to the legalization of medical marijuana there is causing extensive damage to the environment, multiple new studies have found. Pushing many animals to the brink of extinction, damaging salmon runs and spawning grounds, siphoning rivers d ...
  • Asteroid Impact In 2040 By AG5 Unlikely, NASA ...
    Researchers from NASA have just announced that newly taken observations show that it is unlikely that asteroid 2011 AG5 will strike the the Earth on 2040. It had previously been thought the asteroid had at least a 0.2% chance of hitting the Earth in 2040. There are still some uncertainties about ...
  • Taking A Stand
      By Patrick O’Keeffe Miranda Gibson is a 31-year-old teacher who has spent the past year engaged in a remarkably courageous act. Miranda has been living on a platform which sits 60 meters above the floor of an ancient Tasmanian forest. The tree that she has called home since December 14, 2 ...
  • Hawaiian Islands Are Dissolving And Will Disap ...
    New research has revealed that in addition to the well known forces of soil erosion, the Hawaiian Islands are experiencing significant erosion due to the groundwater under the islands working to dissolve the island from within. Specifically, the mountains on Oahu will eventually be completely le ...

  Water Quality - WordPress

  • Michigan State Revolving Fund Program Changes
    A package of bills moving through the state legislature would create changes to the current SRF/SWQI
  • Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils: Bottled or Tap?
    If someone were to ask, “should I drink bottled water or tap water?”, the best response would have t
  • SoCal water board adopts runoff pollution rules
    LOS ANGELES (AP) – A water board has adopted sweeping rules to prevent runoff from polluting t
  • Report on the Operational and Economic Impacts ...
    Water Research Foundation http://bit.ly/Q2xPPl [Description] Hurricane Irene made landfall in North
  • Alternatives for Managing the Nation's Complex ...
    National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=14668 [From a Greenwire article b

  Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

  • Bahraini regime ‘terror stunt’ to step up repr ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV Oct 23, 2012
  • George McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul by Chr ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 21, 2012 Image by cliff1066™ via Fl
  • Obama Aides Launch Preemptive Attack on New Ir ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP Oct. 16, 2012 Image by David M.
  • The Internet Connection is Now Working Again by Lo
    Dandelion Salad Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr by Lo Oct. 23, 2012 The Internet connection is n
  • The Nobel Peace Prize for War by Michael Parenti
    Image by Nick Bygon via Flickr by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Bl

  Axis of Logic

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

  They Gave Us a Republic

  • NRA,, Tea Party Waging Un-Declared War on the ...
    By @TedFrier The Tea Party Republicans who mutinied against Speaker John Boehner rather than raise taxes on the wealthy even a little bit are cut from the very same radical cloth as the leadership of a National Rifle Association whose answer to gun violence is to give everyone a gun, including s ...
  • A Worm's Eye View: Fiscal Cliff Theater
    By @TomBales1 Been a while since I did a WEV and with the Republicans taking a quick break from their never ending efforts to find some excuse to unseat a sitting POTUS and heading off home for their holly jolly Christmas and leaving us old folks hanging by our fingernails over the edge of the ...
  • Our 21st Century "Radical Republicans"
    By @TedFrier You may think that the adjectives professor P.M. Carpenter uses to describe House Republicans are hysterical and hyperbolic: "crazies," "nihilistic," "crypto-fascist." But I defy you to call them untrue, for the truth is that you cannot fully understand contemporary American politi ...
  • When Children Pay for Our Sins
    By @TedFrier The deaths of 20 small children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut last week was sufficiently shocking to dislodge from my memory reminders of another appalling tragedy that horrified me when I was just a boy, and continues to haunt me still, when scores of ...
  • Obama Got a Free Play
    By @TedFrier I am not going to say the thought hadn't occurred to me that one reason President Obama seemed so willing to put chips on the table (raising the no-tax limit to $400,000, cuts to Social Security) was because he knew he had nothing to lose. So long as tax hikes were still in the mix ...

  Care 2

  • Equality Now Calls for Continued Action to End ...
    On 13 December 2012, the Kyrgyz Parliament approved a bill aimed at strengthening legislation on bride kidnapping. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cats Help Decorate The Christmas Tree : Video ...
    Cute Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Commend Animal Shelter for Showing Compassion ...
    Recently, an 18-year-old dog was heartlessly abandoned by her owner at an animal shelter in Florida. This dog, now called Friday, has been taken in by the Tri-County Humane Society in Boca Raton. Although Friday is now in the care of loving volunteers a Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  | ...
  • President Obama -- We Need Stronger Rules for ...
    Send your letter today -- Tell President Obama to protect our communities from natural gas drilling and pass strong rules for drilling on public lands. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Save Vietnams Bear Sanctuary! ...
    The Vietnam Bear Rescue Center is located in Vietnams Tam Dao National Park and houses over 100 endangered bears. These bears have mainly been rescued from Vietnams illegal bile-farming industry, a practice which includes caging the bears and then Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |&nbsp ...

  Smirking Chimp

  • NRA Suggests a Police State
  • The Liberal Scrooges
  • Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, 2013 as Year Zero for ...
  • Egypt's Revolution Stumbles
  • Doing Time for Peace

  Paul Krugman

  • The Fed and Interest Rates
    No, it's not hiding the reality.
  • Bond Vigilantes and the Power of Three
    No way to get us to the Greek outcome.
  • Sunday Morning Music: Winter Wonderland
    The sound of my homeland.
  • Guess Who Still Believes in Invisible Vigilantes
    Barack, say it ain't so.
  • Maya and the Vigilantes
    Fearing a repeat of an event that wasn't.

  No Quarter

  • Merry Christmas
    Slow news days and not much to write about. Just wanted to say thanks to all who take time to stop by and read and comment. I pray we survive the coming year. Barack Obama’s self-absorbed, egotistical obsession is not leadership and puts this country at great risk. He is presiding over the ...
  • Why No Mass School Shootings in Israel?
    When Israeli school children were massacred in May 1970 on the road to Moshav Avivim, near Israel’s border with Lebanon, it was the handiwork of the Palestinian terrorist group, the PFLP-GC (i.e., the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command). So, of course Israe ...
  • “How do we talk to our kids about Newtown shoo ...
    The Hartford Courier reports: President Obama called for new proposals for reducing gun violence during an address Wednesday. He appointed Vice President Joseph Biden to head an inter-agency panel to come up with “a set of concrete proposals by January that I intend to push without delay,& ...
  • “Formal Reprimand Issued To Flatulent Federal ...
    The subtitle of The Smoking Gun is: Man’s gas blamed for creating “intolerable” workplace In a December 10 letter accusing him of “conduct unbecoming a federal officer,” the Social Security Administration employee was informed that his “uncontrollable flatulence” had created an ...
  • Zero Dark Fairy Tale (and open thread)
    I spoke with Eli Lake, Malcolm Hoenlein,and Reza Khalili with regard to the Middle East minefield, and what is to be done with the predator state of Iran. The new Hollywood version of what is to be done, “Zero Dark Thirty,” presents the horse opera scenario of how to win a war. Find ...

  Futurismic

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

  Therapy News

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  Mountaintop Removal

  • Old WV coal camp's residents don't have to mov ...
    Old WV coal camp's residents don't have to move State Journal After being driven to bankruptcy, environmental groups were able to use cleanup obligations to pressure a major mountaintop removal practitioner to give up mountaintop removal mining. After being driven to bankruptcy, environm ...
  • No. 8: Patriot files bankruptcy, gives up moun ...
    No. 8: Patriot files bankruptcy, gives up mountaintop removal State Journal 8: Patriot files bankruptcy, gives up mountaintop removal - Business, Government Legal News from throughout WV. Member Center: Create Account|; Log In; Manage Account|; Log Out. SITE SEARCH WEB SEARCH BY Google. Home &mi ...
  • The Sky's the Limit - Huffington Post
    The Sky's the Limit Huffington Post You could map North America that way now and see, when you added up the struggles against drilling in the Arctic, fracking, mountaintop removal, and the various other depredations of big coal and big oil, that remarkable things are already being done. and ...
  • Divestment Proponents: Our Math Is Sound - Huf ...
    Divestment Proponents: Our Math Is Sound Huffington Post Swarthmore students began campaigning for fossil fuel divestment as a way to work in solidarity with impacted communities on the front lines of coal extraction, such as those affected by mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia and hy ...
  • Joan Mulhern, envionmental activist at Earthju ...
    Joan Mulhern, envionmental activist at Earthjustice, dies at 51 Washington Post She fought repeated attempts by Congress to limit the scope of the Clean Water Act and battled coal companies and government officials over mountaintop-removal coal mining, in which mountains are blasted away to crea ...

  Memeorandum

  • In Which Greg Mankiw Pretends to Be Puzzled... ...
    J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong: In Which Greg Mankiw Pretends to Be Puzzled...  But I don't think that he is.  —  I think Greg Mankiw knows why people think that helping George W. Bush create long-term structural deficits in 2003 was a bad thing to do.  —  ...
  • Celebrating the Prince of Peace in the Land of ...
    Michael Moore / The Huffington Post: Celebrating the Prince of Peace in the Land of Guns … Gun Control , Michael Moore , National Rifle Association , Newtown Elementary School Shooting , Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting , Gun Violence , Guns , Michael Moore Newtown , Nra , Sandy Hoo ...
  • Bond Vigilantes and the Power of Three (Paul K ...
    Paul Krugman: Bond Vigilantes and the Power of Three  —  Matthew Yglesias picks up on a point I've tried to make at some length recently: the popular story about how an attack by bond vigilantes can cause an interest rate spike and turn America into Greece, Greece I tell you, is ...
  • Instagram furor triggers first class action la ...
    Dan Levine / Reuters: Instagram furor triggers first class action lawsuit  —  (Reuters) - Facebook's Instagram photo sharing service has been hit with what appears to be the first civil lawsuit to result from changed service terms that prompted howls of protest last week.  ...
  • Perfecting Our Union - The president of the Un ...
    Barack Obama / The Atlantic Online: Perfecting Our Union  —  The president of the United States reflects on what Abraham Lincoln means to him, and to America.  —  Abraham Lincoln, photographed by Alexander Gardner on February 5, 1865, in Washington, D.C. While Ga ...

  Energy & Environment News

  • New York City’s Effort to Track Energy Efficie ...
    New York’s largest buildings — just 2 percent of its roughly one million buildings — account for 45 percent of the energy expended, according to a new government report.
  • California Manufacturers Weigh Costs of New Gr ...
    Beginning Jan. 1, companies in California will begin to pay for greenhouse gas emissions, which trap heat and contribute to global warming.
  • Green Blog: Food vs. Fuel in 2013
    With cellulosic biofuel production almost nonexistent, soybean-based biodiesel and sugar-cane ethanol might have to make up the difference to meet a government quota.
  • Green Blog: Protected Tigers, Burning Bright
    Tigers are on the rebound in some protected areas of India and Thailand, although much work is still needed to ensure the survival of the species.
  • Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Parched Southwest
    Global warming will lead to a steady drop in surface moisture in the southwestern United States, with broad social and ecological consequences, researchers predict.

  5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, west of Macquarie Island
    Monday, December 24, 2012 23:24:50 UTC Tuesday, December 25, 2012 09:24:50 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.1, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia
    Monday, December 24, 2012 12:58:19 UTC Monday, December 24, 2012 08:58:19 PM at epicenterDepth: 21.60 km (13.42 mi)
  • M 5.2, offshore Atacama, Chile
    Monday, December 24, 2012 12:12:37 UTC Monday, December 24, 2012 09:12:37 AM at epicenterDepth: 32.40 km (20.13 mi)
  • M 5.2, near the east coast of the Kamchatka Pe ...
    Monday, December 24, 2012 07:54:09 UTC Monday, December 24, 2012 07:54:09 PM at epicenterDepth: 14.20 km (8.82 mi)
  • M 5.5, Black Sea, offshore Georgia
    Sunday, December 23, 2012 13:31:39 UTC Sunday, December 23, 2012 05:31:39 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

  China Dialogue

  • 大气污染防&#2783 ...
    在空前的公众关注中，中国迎来了应对大气污染的一个重要机遇。赵立建、徐楠对中 ...
  • 美国拆坝运&#2116 ...
    亚洲的水电支持者用到处建坝的美国作为推进争议项目的例证。但实际上，美国如今 ...
  • 俄中输气管&#3694 ...
    继去年十二月初两国官员在莫斯科谈判之后，中俄有望在一个月之内敲定一项全长2600&#20 ...
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  AlterNet Top Stories

  • Two US Firefighters Shot Dead in Arson 'Trap'
     A convicted felon on Monday shot dead two firefighters and wounded two others after luring them to a blaze that police said he had apparently set as a trap in a small town in New York state. The 62-year-old shooter -- who was found guilty of manslaughter and was jailed for 17 years ...
  • The Philosophy of Sex
     The problem isn’t that we’re thinking too much about sex, it’s that we’re thinking about it in all the wrong ways. That’s the argument of philosopher Alain de Botton in his latest digestible treatise, “How to Think More About Sex,”&# ...
  • Atheists vs. Christians: Inside One of America ...
    Legend has it that the atheist Damon Vix led the charge that stopped the California beach city of Santa Monica from erecting and enabling life-sized Christian nativity scenes that crowded out the seaside views of an increasing demographic of locals and tourists. Vix has made plenty of enemies ...
  • The 7 Worst Things About McDonald's
    McDonald’s has become synonymous with food that’s terrible for you, low-wage jobs and overzealous marketing to children. Largely that’s because ofMcDonald’s scale; the company serves more customers each day than the entire population of Great Britain, and it h ...
  • 260 School Children Killed in Chicago in 3 Yea ...
    Like President Obama and many others across the country, I too wiped away tears as I watched the horrifying news coverage of the tragic shootings in Newton, Conn. I immediately called my children who were still in school. I sat watching the television trying to fathom how I would respond if I ...

  Threat Level

  • John McAfee’s Last Stand
    On November 12, 2012, Belizean police announced that they were seeking John McAfee for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor. Six months earlier, I began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. This is the chronicle of that ...
  • Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — ...
    The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack Obama granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. While lawmakers were caving to special interests, however, they cut from the legislative ...
  • Net Neutrality, Data-Cap Legislation Lands in ...
    A proposal forbidding internet service providers from turning the data-cap meter off to grant a so-called internet fast lane to preferential online services was introduced Thursday in the Senate. The bill by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) comes a week after ...
  • Lawmaker Inching Toward Regulation of Violent ...
    Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) has taken Congress' first step in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre toward possibly regulating access to violent videogames. Calls for gun control immediately followed the elementary-school shooting Friday, so it was ...
  • Cosmo Strikes Again, Taking Over Another Westb ...
    It feels a little bit like hacker Groundhog Day. After hijacking a Westboro Baptist Church leader’s Twitter account on Monday, Wired has confirmed that the 15-year-old hacker known as Cosmo the God took over another account belonging to one of ...

  Equality Trust

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

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

  Marler Blog

  • A Baker’s Dozen of Food Poisoning Outbreaks of ...
    Thanks to CSPI, the CDC and Marler Clark Epidemiologist, Patti Waller, for bringing us all the latest outbreaks: 1.  Outbreak of E. coli O157 linked to Wegmans brand Organic Spinach... Continue Reading
  • To Lauren
    Lauren Beth Rudolph died on December 28, 1992 in her mother’s arms due to complications of an E. coli O157:H7 infection – Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. She was only 6 years,... Continue Reading
  • Cardinal Meat Specialists E. coli Outbreak Foc ...
    To date five people have been reported ill linked to this product. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) continues to investigate ingredients used in burgers produced at Cardinal Meat Specialists... Continue Reading
  • Consent Decree Entered Against Sunland
    U.S. District Judge William P. Johnson of the District of New Mexico has signed a consent decree imposing requirements on Sunland Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of peanut products linked... Continue Reading
  • Marler Clark retained by family of man killed ...
    My phone rang last week sometime after this likely award-winning article was published: The Star found that Robert Danell, a 62-year-old man with Down syndrome, died after he and one... Continue Reading

  AutoblogGreen

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

  Rafe's Radar

  • Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computers
    PointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
  • First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...
    CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
  • Groupiter makes workflow as simple as Dropbox
    Tiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
  • Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...
    New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
  • Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...
    New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...

  Camera Obscura

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

  Democracy Now!

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

  Suzie-Q

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

  Solari

  • In Hoc Anno Domini
    Vermont Royster’s Christmas message has been republished by The Wall Street Journal every Christmas since its first publication in 1949. As I can not think of a more beautiful way to celebrate the birth and life of Christ, it is reprinted here in its entirety, as it was in 2007, 2008, 200 ...
  • Christmas with J.S.Bach
  • We are Celebrating for Christmas!
    Dearest Friends and Allies Everywhere: The Solari office will be closed from December 22 – January 1. We will be posting the next Jon Rappoport special on December 27th and the blog post for the Solari annual wrap up on December 31st. Make sure to mark your calendars for the wrap up on [...]
  • What a Coincidence!
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Now let’s get this straight. On December 11th, the Department of Justice announces that HSBC is paying a $1.92 billion settlement for money laundering. However, no officers of HSBC are being indicted or penalized. Everyone skates. Now, HSBC is the custodian for th ...
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  Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

  AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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  Fabius Maximus

  • Good news for Christmas
    Summary:  For Christmas we take one of our occasional breaks from our steady stream of bad news to deliver some good news.  Regular service will resume tomorrow.  Best wishes for a Merry Christmas to you all! Contents A special post about Christmas A video about Christmas history of America&#821 ...
  • Looking back at 2012 – What was the bigg ...
    Summary:  It’s too easy to let the years blur by.  To help us remember and cherish 2012, post in the comments your favorite quotes from the 2012 news — and what 2012 event had the greatest long-term importance. It’s a challenge to our readers!  This could be interesting, but is ...
  • The intelligence community’s meritocracy ...
    Summary:  A combination of events has provide a window into the operation of the CIA. We can glimpse the way its people think, their values, and how it promotes. This is a follow-up to yesterday’s sad post; today’s provides equally dark news. . Content Introducing Alfreda Frances Bik ...
  • Justice still lives. It’s found a new ho ...
    Summary:  The European Court of Human Rights shows America that the love of justice still lives there, finding Macedonia guilty of the crime of cooperating with CIA crimes.  Slowly what was a city on a hill (Matthew 5:14) sinks into the mud.  Slowly our global leadership erodes, leaving just ano ...
  • News from the front lines of the battle to cre ...
    Summary:   One of the biggest stories of our time is the evolution of the America-that-once-was into The New America.  It’s so slow to be easily missed, especially since it’s a melody the news media cannot hear.  And those they look to for advice, the courtiers of the Versailles-on-t ...

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  The Progressive Realist

  • Wasteful Afghan War Strategy Persists
    The U.S. is looking to shift its military strategy in Afghanistan, moving from a combat role to training and advising the Afghan security forces. The Wall Street Journal reports that the shift could be implemented next year. Despite being billed as a changed strategy, this move is really just a ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Leaving Afghani ...
    DOD Decision Makers Need Additional Analyses to Determine Costs and Benefits of Returning Excess Equipment, Government Accountability Office, December 19, 2012. In June 2011, the United States announced plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The remaining U.S. forces will work ...
  • 4 Big Challenges for Secretary of State John Kerry
    It’s official: John Kerry has been nominated to become the next Secretary of State. Here are four great challenges facing the incoming Secy State. 1). It’s all About the $Billions. One of the great structural challenges of American foreign policy is the underfunding of diplomacy and ...
  • Top of the Morning: GAVI Suspends Sierra Leone ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. GAVI Suspends Funding to Sierra Leone Over Misuse The Gates-backed Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunizations is halting $6 million in payments..”The leaked letter from the GAVI Alliance dated Nov. 15 2012 and addressed to Sierra Leone’s health min ...
  • How the USA Prevented a Rush to War In Mali
    The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing a multinational force to intervene in northern Mali. What is not included in the resolution is as significant as what made it past negotiations. For several weeks the French have been pushing for an agressive resolution that woul ...

  TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Our Most-Trafficked Pieces in 2012
    My So-Called Ex-Gay Life A deep look at the fringe movement that just lost its only shred of scientific support Ten Arguments Gun Advocates Make, and Why They're Wrong A guide to the debate we'll be having, or at least we ought to have The Coming Obama Landslide  How Paul Ryan makes a big wi ...
  • For Unions, It Was a Very Bad Year
    AP Photo/Detroit News, Dale G. Young Pro-union demonstrators crowd the Capitol Rotunda in Lansing, Michigan to protest "right to work" legislation being considered by the Republican-controlled legislature. American labor can begin the new year with thanks that 2012 is over. Not th ...
  • Every Time, It's Personal
    Eight years is a long time in politics, but you may remember that way back in 2004, Republicans considered John Kerry a wimpy, flip-flopping elitist who had faked his war injuries and betrayed America by coming back from Vietnam and criticizing the war. But today Barack Obama nominated Kerry to ...
  • A Level Playing Field for a New America
    This piece is part of the Prospect's series on progressives' strategy over the next 40 years. To read the introduction, click here. A New America is rising. By 2050, people of color in the United States will comprise approximately 50 percent of the population. This shift in racial composition, ...
  • Obama Appoints Scott Brown as Senator from Mas ...
    Flickr/U.S Embassy Kabul Afghanistan Senator John Kerry and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzain in Kabul in 2009. The Washington Post reports that President Obama has nominated Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next Secretary of State. This doesn’t come as a surprise; he ...

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  Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
    Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
  • Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
    A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
  • Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
    A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
  • Celebrating the fall of a dictator
    Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
  • A tweet that explains everything
    The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

  The BiPartisan Report

  • Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
  • Nihilism 1 American People Nil
  • Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
  • Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
  • Those holier than thou Conservatives

  Sciencebase

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

  Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

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

  Common Dreams-Views

  • As Chief Spence Starves, Canadians Awaken from ...
    Naomi Klein I woke up just past midnight with a bolt. My six-month-old son was crying. He has a cold – the second of his short life–and his blocked nose frightens him. I was about to get up when he started snoring again. I, on t ...
  • Idle No More: Women Rising to Lead When it's N ...
    Chief Theresa Spence is now on Day 13 of her hunger strike. Too weak to leave the teepee she is living in on Victoria Island, a mere stone's throw from Parliament, she called for a round dance yesterday at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, Prime Minister Harper's residence. Image: Aaron Paquett ...
  • When Prophecy Fails
    Paul Krugman Back in the 1950s three social psychologists joined a cult that was predicting the imminent end of the world. Their purpose was to observe the cultists’ response when the world did not, in fact, end on schedule. What they ...
  • 'Frankenfish' Approval Could Open Floodgates f ...
    Steve Connor An American license to permit the commercial development and sale of genetically modified salmon could open the door on a new era of GM animals designed for human consumption, although at present there are few signs they are wa ...
  • Compassion, Not Anger, Is Best Response to San ...
    Izzeldin Abuelaish Like countless other people, I was shocked and mesmerised by the murders at Sandy Hook school. So many innocent souls and committed teachers who risked their lives to protect their six- and seven-year-old pupils.read more

  Newshoggers - AfPak

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  Water Wars

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

  WordPress | Economics

  • Evaluating Behavioral Economics
    Stigler (1965) says economic theories should be judged by three criteria: congruence with reality, g
  • “To stay or not to stay, that is the question” ...
    “To stay or not to stay, that is the question” – Should Ireland exit the Euro? – MBA ess
  • We'll Probably Fare Better than Jerusalem AD 70
    We’ll Probably Fare Better than Jerusalem AD 70. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Fo
  • “To stay or not to stay, that is the question” ...
      “To stay or not to stay, that is the question”   Abstract To stay or not to stay? We ask this ques
  • Adam Smith on poverty
    Servants, labourers and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great poli

  Electronic Intifada

  • Politics of Palestine's everyday captured in s ...
    Asa Winstanley 24 December 2012 Two Meters of This Land is inspired by a Mahmoud Darwish poem.
  • Israel denies Bedouins right to elect represen ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Negev 24 December 2012 As campaign fever grips Israel, many of its Palestinian citizens are angry at being disenfranchised.
  • UK lawsuit challenges college union's right to ...
    Asa Winstanley London 21 December 2012 Academic is suing his own union to undermine Palestine solidarity.
  • We will remain rooted here, says defiant fathe ...
    Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 19 December 2012 Ibrahim Ashour and his family had temporarily returned to Gaza when Israeli bombs killed eight-year-old Muhammad.
  • Gaza fisherman jailed for serving Hamas coffee
    Eva Bartlett Gaza City 18 December 2012 A restaurant worker who served officials in the Gaza administration has been abducted at sea.

  The Wonk Room

  • Murdered Woman’s Family Sues For Greater Onlin ...
    On December 12, 2012, the family of shooting victim Jitka Vesel sued the online gun market Armslist.com for the wrongful death of their loved one, who had been shot about 12 times in a parking lot in Illinois, by a gunman who had illegally obtained his weapon on the website. Vesel’s brothe ...
  • Poll Finds Republicans Have Much Worse Outlook ...
    With the new year approaching, Republicans are not feeling as enthusiastic about 2013 as their Democratic counterparts, a new Washington Post-ABC poll finds. Perhaps due to the sweeping Democratic and progressive victories across the country in November, only 25 percent of Republicans feel perso ...
  • Longtime Criminal Set A Trap To Murder Firefig ...
    The Webster, New York man who fired on firefighters responding to a blaze, killing two, is a felon convicted of manslaughter, according to local police. Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering told a press conference this morning that the suspect was William Spengler, who served roughly 18 years o ...
  • GOP Rep: NRA Plan To Put Guns In Schools Would ...
    Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) blasted National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre’s plan to put armed guards in school, worrying that it would lead to “an Orwellian police state in America.” Paul, a libertarian most famous for his numerous presidentia ...
  • The Holiday Pride: December 24, 2012
    The ThinkProgress team is off this week, but the Pride is here to keep you updated on LGBT stories until we resume our full posting schedule after New Year’s. - Wisconsin domestic partnerships ruled constitutional. A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that the state’s same-sex domesti ...

  thwap's schoolyard

  • Idle No More
      What harper has to realize is that while he's sitting in his comfortable house on Sussex Drive, enjoying the fruits of his stolen majority government, basking in the adulation of idiots and the tepid applause of his corporate paymasters, is that for other people, the end results of his ...
  • If harper Kills Chief Spence
    Is it possible? Is harper so debased that he'd actually let Chief Spence die rather than agree to a meeting between First Nations leaders, himself and the Crown? Personally, I don't think so (although the overall lack of media attention to this gripping story might try to make it possible for ha ...
  • The Reason for the Season
    Howl-lay-lou-yah!
  • harper
    harper doesn't believe in anything. harper doesn't understand what democracy is. harper is not a capitalist. harper doesn't care about Jewish people or anti-Semitism except in so far as exploiting Israel might lead to votes. harper isn't a Christian (except through inertia). harper doesn't care ...
  • Does stephen harper want Chief Theresa Spence ...
    She is on DAY TEN of a hunger-strike to try to get that racist piece-of-shit to agree to a substantive meeting between Native leaders the Crown's representative and himself. Does the asshole want to see her suffer permanent organ damage? To die??? I wouldn't be surprised if the turd has some d ...

  on Government Oversight

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  Digital Journal

  • Hagfish slime provides new source of fibers
    The eel-like hagfish, which oozes out slime, might be the source of superior new fibers for parachutes, packaging and possibly clothing, according to a new study.
  • Former professional baseball player Ryan Freel ...
    Ryan Freel, a former Major League Basbeall player who played for several teams over his career which spanned from 2001 until 2009, has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
  • The 'IKEA Monkey' to spend Christmas in animal ...
    The well-dressed 'IKEA Monkey', seen ambling around the Toronto IKEA parking lot earlier in December, won't be spending Christmas with his family. Despite his owner's best efforts, he will remain behind bars.
  • Canadian church official in child porn charges
    Sixty-five year old William Kokesch, deacon of a church in Beaconsfield, Canada, has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.
  • Women's groups criticize Toronto hospital's Ga ...
    This hilarious parody was made by Toronto medical residents studying obstetrics and gynecology at Sunnybrook Hospital's maternity ward. Unfortunately, one women's group took offense and it was removed from the official hospital site.

  End Homelessness | Change.org

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

  Ceasefire.ca

  • Give the gift of peace – send an eCard!
    Make a donation to Ceasefire.ca on behalf of a friend or family member, and send them this eCard.
  • Ships: The next great boondoggle
    Auditor General Michael Ferguson, who recently introduced a little reality to discussion of the planned F-35 procurement, is now turning his sights on the Harper government's "National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy".
  • Video: Catastrophic humanitarian consequences ...
    International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War has released a video detailing the humanitarian, medical, and environmental consequences of nuclear war and explaining why nuclear weapons must be eliminated.
  • No stealth fighters! Send your letter to the e ...
    Please write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Use our letter-writing plug-in on Ceasefire.ca; we have provided some suggested comments for your convenience.
  • More surveillance of Ceasefire.ca revealed
    Documents obtained by Postmedia News show that part of this has included a determined effort to track coverage and criticisms of the program . . .

  Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-11-12
    Today, Kevin reveals the REAL reason why the government is sending over billions of dollars in aid to countries all around the world. Plus, pet expert, Dr. Geoffrey Broderick, stops by the show to explain how you can turn your pet’s health around and even double its lifespan! Self Help: Viral De ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-15-12
    Today, Kevin explains how the media, internet, television, movies, magazines and newspapers are ALL misleading you. Plus, find out why, in life, it’s not about the mistakes you’ve made, but the lessons you’ve learned. Self Help: You Become What You Think About Most Of The Time Success Is A Decis ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-18-12
    Today, Kevin explains exactly why he is predicting a collapse in the American government. Then the star of Ancient Aliens and publisher of Legendary Times Magazine, Giorgio Tsoukalos, stops by to go over the facts and evidence of extraterrestrial life on Earth. Self Help: Revolutionary Supplemen ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-1-12
    Today, Kevin reveals how the government is ‘helping’ the economy by letting you get sick and why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Self Help: Avoid Skin Cancer Safe Sunscreen Get Rid Of Gut Bacteria The Good Stuff Health: EPA Still Evades Zonolite Warnings Toxin From R ...
  • MAJOR LEGAL UPDATE!
    Cato Institute backs Kevin Trudeau in Supreme Court case! Click here to read all about it: http://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/Trudeau.pdf  

  Armies of Liberation

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

  Dark Politricks

  • NHL lockout hits 100th day with no end in sight
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   National Hockey League players and club owners reached the 100th day of the league’s shutdown over money issues Monday with no talks planned and shrinking hope to salvage even a shortened season. O ...
  • Ragghead the Friendly Neighborhood Terrorist: ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Bill Purkayastha View the original article at dissidentvoice.orgCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • Federal court puts temporary block on Georgia ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A U.S. federal court in Georgia has temporarily suspended a state law banning nearly all abortions after the 20-week mark in a pregnancy, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement Monday. &# ...
  • Did the Age of Enlightenment Never Occur?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDid the Age of Enlightenment Never Occur? By Gilad AtzmonMonday, December 24th, 2012 Nahida Izzat: Did the Age of Enlightenment never occur? View the original about Did the Age of Enlightenment Never Occur? at Veterans T ...
  • General Motors recalls 119,000 trucks over hoo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com General Motors will recall 119,000 US vehicles because some of them may be missing a backup hood latch, the US automaker said in regulatory filings. GM did not say whe’ther it was aware of any accident ...

  Dandelion Salad

  • Anne-Marie O’Reilly (Campaign Against Ar ...
    Dandelion Salad by Anne-Marie O’Reilly Right Livelihood Award Foundation Archive www.rightlivelihood.org 7 December 2012 Mister Deputy Speaker, Honourable Members of Parliament, Your excellencies, Fellow laureates, Dear friends, Thank you It is a great honour to accept the Right Livelihood ...
  • Peace On Earth–Classic Christmas Cartoon ...
    Dandelion Salad Tommy Cherry·Dec 1, 2009 Peace on Earth is a one-reel 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals. Two young squirrels ask their grandfather on Christmas Eve who the “men” are in the lyric &# ...
  • US Postal Workers On Week-long Hunger Strike
    Dandelion Salad PressTVGlobalNews·Dec 23, 2012 Six days starving to save six-day delivery. That’s the message of a group of former and current postal workers who went on an emergency hunger strike on the National Mall as well as walking through the halls of Congress and to the White House ...
  • Law of Value 10: Price and Value by Brendan M. ...
    Dandelion Salad brendanmcooney·Dec 23, 2012 [Here’s a yo-yo. Let’s say it took an hour to make, parts and everything. And here’s a bag of high-fructose jelly beans. Let’s say they took 20 minutes to make. What if they both sold for $5, despite having different labor contents? Wouldn’t this be a ...
  • NDAA–The Final Battle by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig December 24, 2012 Over the past year I and other plaintiffs including Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg have pressed a lawsuit in the federal courts to nullify Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This egregi ...

  Your New Reality

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

  Wired - Science

  • New Form of Quantum Computation Promises Showd ...
    You've heard the hype a hundred times: Physicists hope to someday build a whiz-bang quantum computer that can solve problems that would overwhelm an ordinary computer. Now, four separate teams have taken a step toward achieving such "quantum speed-up" by ...
  • Mission of the Year: Best of Curiosity Rover’s ...
    After an acrobatic plunge through the Martian atmosphere, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity touched down safely in Gale Crater. Immediately, the rover began shooting photos, beaming them back to scientists and engineers waiting eagerly on Earth. Here, we've gathered some of ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Colorful ...
    Colorful Large Magellanic Cloud In commemoration of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100,000th orbit in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot ...
  • The Revolution in Prenatal Medicine
    Candace Weiss didn’t know she had a family history of birth defects until she got pregnant with her daughter. That’s when she learned that her grandmother, at the age of 42, had given birth to a baby with Down syndrome. ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Hourglas ...
    This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an intricate pattern of "etchings" in its walls. A planetary nebula is the glowing relic of a dying, Sun-like star.

  Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: The terror lurking in a Christm ...
    A recent report in the Haaretz newspaper, on an Israeli Jew who grows Christmas trees commercially, noted in passing: “hotels – under threat of losing kashrut [Kosher] certificates – are prohibited... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Adalah: The 2013 Israeli Elections and Arab-Pa ...
    Adalah document covering Israeli election rules and party or individual disqualifications. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Balad: Knesset Elections Committee disqualifie ...
    MK Haneen Zoabi called the decision “anti-democratic and illegitimate”, a form of political revenge that reflected the tyranny of the majority. “No one will determine for the Arab minority who... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • 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, ...

  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

  • Eyes May Provide a Look into Multiple Sclerosi ...
    New research suggests that thinning of a layer of the retina in the eyes may show how fast multiple sclerosis (MS) is progressing in people with the disease. The study is published in the January 1, 2013, online issue of Neurology(r), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
  • Biologists Identify Proteins Vital to Chromoso ...
    NYU biologists have identified how a vital protein is loaded by others into the centromere, the part of the chromosome that plays a significant role in cell division. Their findings shed new light on genome replication and may offer insights into the factors behind the production of abnormal num ...
  • Enzyme Accelerates Malignant Stem Cell Cloning ...
    An international team, headed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has identified a key enzyme in the reprogramming process that promotes malignant stem cell cloning and the growth of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a cancer of the blood and marrow that e ...
  • Gene Variants Affect Pain Susceptibility in Ch ...
    At least two common gene variants are linked to "clinically meaningful" differences in pain scores in children after major surgery, reports a study in the January issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).
  • Survey Shows That Nearly 1 in 3 Children with ...
    Nearly a third of children diagnosed with food allergies who participated in a recent study are bullied, according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Almost eight percent of children in the U.S. are allergic to foods such as peanuts, tree-nuts, milk, eggs, and shellfish.

  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

  • Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui: reflections on the ICC’ ...
    by Jelia Sane [Jelia Sane is studying for the English Bar at City University, London. She holds an LLM in Public International Law from University College London and has previously interned at the ICC, the Centre for Justice and International Law, and the Extraordinary Cham ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 24, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Four more nominations for the post of WTO Director-General have been received in the past few days: Herminio Blanco (Mexico), Ahmad Hindawi (Jordan), Amina Mohamed (Kenya) and Tim Groser (New Zealand). Russia’s Foreign Minister has stated that the Syri ...
  • Events and Announcements: December 23, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Upcoming Events The ABA Section of International Law presents the 3rd Annual ”Live from L,” The Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State Thursday, January 10th, 2013 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM US Eastern Time entitled: “Internati ...
  • Could Palestine Self-Refer Only the Situation ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In the comments to my first post on the ICC and retroactive jurisdiction, Johnboy4546 suggested that the Palestinians might self-refer only the situation in the West Bank to the Court.  Such a referral would have two clear advantages for the Palestinians ...
  • 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 ...

  Public News Service

  • Report: Many Reasons to Howl about Buying Dogs ...
    Report: Many Reasons to Howl about Buying Dogs Online PHOENIX - The holidays often prompt people to add a cuddly new addition to the family, but if you buy a dog online, there's a good chance it came from a puppy mill. A report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare says more than 700,00 ...
  • 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 ...
  • AZ-based Charity on List of 20 Worst
    AZ-based Charity on List of 20 Worst PHOENIX - Thousands of groups solicit for money in Arizona, so it's no easy task keeping tabs on them or figuring out which ones are legitimate. One way is to check a list compiled by the Oregon Attorney General's Office of organizations that spend the lowest ...
  • Living With Cancer During the Holidays
    Living With Cancer During the Holidays PHOENIX - Dealing with cancer is difficult enough, but the fast pace of the holiday season can make it even more stressful. The American Cancer Society says there is "Hope for the Holidays." Spokeswoman Jill Ireland says they are there for patients and care ...

  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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  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

  • “I’ve seen all the lone gunmen I can stand”
    Dear America, could we get through Christmas Day without another deranged gunman killing people? Here’s hoping…
  • Dickies – Silent Night
    Edinburgh, Dec. 2012
  • NRA
  • Christmas in Jail, The Youngsters
  • Did Adam Lanza methodically plan the Newtown M ...
    Asperger Syndrome may have played a part in Adam Lanza and the Newtown Massacre but perhaps not in the way some might think.People with Aspergers have tremendous focus and can zero in on a topic to the exclusion of everything else, sometimes for weeks or months. A friend with an 8 yo son [...]

  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

  • Gun Control Demands
    Liberals are in a froth over a new gun ban on semi-automatic rifles (fire once per trigger pull).  While these are powerful and dangerous weapons, I flatly don’t believe this new ban will have any impact at all on violent crime.  Like so many things from the unbiased media, I cannot see an ...
  • 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 ...

  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 pushes Gifts ahead of holiday
    Facebook has been heavily promoting its Gifts feature in the final days before Christmas with banners above News Feed and sidebar modules suggesting friends to buy for. Starting Friday, users were prompted with notices on the...
  • Too close for missiles, Facebook switches to g ...
    Facebook’s new Poke app seems in many ways like a departure for the company. While most of Facebook’s products are meant to preserve memories and save interactions, communications in Poke disappear after a few seconds. Facebook...
  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Dec. 17 and Dec.21. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Dec. 17 Google Maps returns to...
  • 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...

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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 ...

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