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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, December 27, 2012

27 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Sidebar Search returns for water and environment at bottom

Opit's LinkFest! RSS on My Opera



Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Rodney Hide to Collins: We Want Justice
    I am among the many who had always thought David Bain guilty. .. But still, until a week ago, I would have said to anyone who asked that Bain was guilty. Not now. Not on the balance of probabilities. .. Collins' criticisms sparked my interest to read the reports. Previously, I had relied only on ...
  • Royal Pomp for World Peace
    One astute Muslim activist commented on the issue, saying, “I’m glad they spent all that money on Prince William’s royal wedding and the Diamond Jubilee. Every dollar, every pound, every euro they spend on royal celebrations is one less dollar or pound or euro they spend to kill people like me - ...
  • Bob Jones: Collins' arrogance in Bain case
    "there has never been a more disgraceful political action in the post-war years than the behaviour of the Justice Minister Judith Collins over the Bain compensation matter. Its breath-taking arrogance is without precedence." "The minister's role is to uphold justice, not dispense or twist it ...
  • Armenians Fleeing Anew as Syria Erupts
    At the newly opened Cilician School in this former Soviet republic, the textbooks are in Arabic, photocopied from a single set flown out of war-torn Syria. The curriculum is Syrian, the flag on the principal’s desk is Syrian, and the teachers and students are all Syrians. They are also ethnic ...
  • US GE Salmon Closer to FDA Approval
    Government regulators moved a big step closer on Friday to allowing the first genetically engineered animal — a fast-growing salmon — to enter the nation’s food supply. The Food and Drug Administration said it had concluded that the salmon would have “no significant impact” on the environment ...

Independent - London

  • Vladimir Putin to sign bill banning Americans ...
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will sign a controversial bill barring Americans from adopting Russian children, as the Kremlin’s children’s rights advocate recommended extending the ban to the rest of the world. Related StoriesProsecutors drop charges in Magnitsky killing to leave ...
  • Hundreds of thousands turn out to see Pakistan ...
    Five years after the assassination of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, her son and political heir has outlined his vision for the country in a speech his supporters claimed marked the launch of his own career in politics. Critics said it underscored the enduring presence of dyna ...
  • Iranian President sacks only woman cabinet min ...
    The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today dismissed his only female cabinet member, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, after she criticised her colleagues for failing to provide funds to import vital medicines. Related StoriesIsrael advances plans to build 942 new homes in east Jer ...
  • Mubarak moved from prison ward to army hospital
    Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak has been moved to an army hospital from his prison clinic.Related StoriesJacob Zuma: Former South African president Nelson Mandela 'much better'Strong 'yes' vote passes Egyptian constitutionMandela in 'good spirits' for Zuma visitConstitution will be gone ...
  • 'It's time to change. We must get these guns o ...
    At nine o'clock on the morning after Christmas, Kwame Baker was queuing outside the Memorial Sports Arena in South Los Angeles, waiting to hand over his shotgun to the Los Angeles Police Department. "I was given it, and I never use it. I don't even know how to," said Mr Baker, a 52-year-old dri ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • Kindness facilitates happiness and acceptance ...
    Children who make an effort to perform acts of kindness are happier and experience greater acceptance from their peers, suggests new research from the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Riverside. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, a professor in UBC's Faculty of Education, ...
  • Near a quarter of US female combatants report ...
    Almost half of all US women deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan say they were sexually harassed, while nearly one-quarter claim they were sexually assaulted. The findings shed light on the additional stress military women face when they work abroad. Research by the Department of Veterans Affairs sh ...
  • Regime-change planned for Malaysia?
    As the South-East Asian nation of Malaysia prepares for general elections, distrust of the political opposition and accusations of foreign interference have been major talking points in the political frequencies emanating from Kuala Lumpur. ­The United Malays National Organization (UMNO) l ...
  • Israel criminally detained 900 Palestinian chi ...
    Palestinian authorities are considering taking legal action against Israel over hundreds of Palestinian children being detained, with some reportedly maltreated. As a result of the United Nations General Assembly voting to upgrade the Palestinians' diplomatic status to a "non-member observer st ...
  • High voter turnout does not imply a healthy de ...
    George Will argues in his Washington Post column today that what he terms the Justice Department's "drive to federalize voter registration" is an unnecessarily complex answer to "the non-problem of people choosing not to vote," and that high voter turnout isn't all it's cracked up to be, citing ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Odious and disgusting . . .
    KUDOS TO MONTREAL SIMON: his post, "When the Cons Try to Cover Up Murder" is something you must read. Stevie will have much to answer for.
  • A present . . .
    MACROPHAGES AND VIRUSES can kill cancer: According to George Dvorsky's article in io9, "Researchers create a ‘trojan-horse’ virus to eliminate cancer in mice". clinical trials on humans could start as early as next year
  • Glen Coulthard: "#idlenomore in historical con ...
    Very serious game.  With respect to the emergent #IdleNoMore movement, although many of the conditions that compelled the state to undertake the most expensive public inquiry in Canadian history are still in place, a couple of important ones are not. The first condition that appears to ...
  • If Chief Spence dies...
    If Chief Theresa Spence dies, the nature of Aboriginal-Government relations will radically change. At present there's simply no reason the other than decency that the Harper government will entertain a meeting or reconsider Bill C-45. There is no decency in today's Conservatives. If Chief Sp ...
  • "Settler Canadians"
    Note to the #idlenomore uprising: "Settler Canadian" is a well-intended but divisive and couterproductive term. Some of you are engaging in arguments about who is more authentic as an Indigenous person and who is "allowed" to participate in the movement. This does three things. First, it  reprod ...

Media Matters for America

  • Climate Change Misinformer Of The Year: Marc M ...
    ClimateDepot.com founder Marc Morano has been called "the Matt Drudge of climate denial," the "king of the skeptics," and "a central cell of the climate-denial machine," and he revels in these descriptions. Although he has no scientific expertise, he is adamant that manmade global warming is a " ...
  • Tax Rates And The "Small Business" Zombie Lie
    Conservative media figures have long insisted that top marginal income tax rates effectively target small businesses. This "zombie lie" has sprung up throughout President Obama's first term as an argument against Democratic proposals to renew the Bush-era rates only for middle- an ...
  • Praise, Blame, Despair: Right-Wing Media Can't ...
    Right-wing media have inconsistently responded to House Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) failed attempt to pass his proposed "Plan B" to resolve the so-called "fiscal cliff" standoff, including praising conservative Republicans who opposed the measure, expressing regret that the measure didn't pass ...
  • Bill O'Reilly Covers The "War On Christmas" Mo ...
    For the second straight year, The O'Reilly Factor has devoted more than three times as much airtime to the manufactured "War on Christmas"  than to actual military conflicts.O'Reilly Factor Spent Much More Time On The Phony "War On Christmas" Than Actual Wars O'Reilly Again Covered The "Wa ...
  • Fox News Accuses Hillary Clinton Of Faking Con ...
    Fox News figures accused Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of faking an illness when she suffered a concussion after fainting due to dehydration. The State Department has criticized Fox News contributor John Bolton for engaging in "wild speculation based on no information."Clinton Suffers Concu ...

Global Research.ca

  • Iraq in the Wake of the 2003 Invasion: The Sca ...
    “Through a series of tragic events, contemporary Iraq has become an ideal place in which to test the thesis that severe insecurity leads to xenophobia.” Xenophobia, the fear of foreigners and strangers alike, has had an increasing influence on the…
  • US preparing for “Possible Military Inte ...
    A senior Israeli official says the United States is gearing up for a possible military intervention in Syria to prevent Syria’s alleged chemical weapons from being used against civilians or falling into wrong hands. Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe…
  • Workers’ Rights in South Africa: Does th ...
    This week’s elective conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa highlighted what has become an ever more apparent and painful reality to working people in that country and political observers around the world – the revolution…
  • Obama’s Grand Charade: Say No to the Sta ...
    Here we go again. President Obama is in round three of his ongoing efforts to cut our important social insurances, such as Social Security and Medicare. Whether he succeeds or not is up to us. We can create a stronger…
  • Sandy Hook Massacre: Learning from Endless War
    The backdrop of the Newtown massacre and similar slaughters across America is how frequently the U.S. government opts for violence to settle problems around the world, a message that might influence a troubled individual with access to a gun. Guns.…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • Defense and Security Companies Are Planning to ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.The world's political leaders couldn't say they hadn't been warned. In the run up to the UN climate negotiations in early December in Qatar, it wasn't just the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, global accoun ...
  • Endangered Colorado: Is it Too Late to Save On ...
     The following excerpt is fromRiver Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado by Wade Davis, © 2013 Wade Davis. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington DC."Man always kills the things he loves, and so we the pioneers, have killed our wilderness. Some ...
  • 5 Reasons Our Changing Climate Is More Dangero ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.This week the sane among us will scoff at those hoarding candles and food for another apocalypse that fails to materialize. We’ll laugh at the accounts of people readying their bunkers and at store shelves being ...
  • Oil and Gas Industry Prepare Smear Campaign Ag ...
    This story first appeared on DeSmog Blog.      Next month Focus Features releases Matt Damon’s new movie and the oil and gas industry is worried sick about it.The movie, Promised Land, is about a Pennsylvania farm town deciding whether to go forwa ...
  • Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry ...
    Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation's drinking water.In many cases, the Environmental Protection ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • New wind installations my pass new natural gas ...
    According to Bloomberg, with four days left in 2012, wind-turbine installations are expected to exceed natural gas-fueled power plants in the U.S. for the first time as wind farm developers race to complete projects before a renewable energy tax credit expires. New wind capacity reached 6,519 me ...
  • The Results Are In: Cleaner Air Does Save Lives
    Fine particles in the air (particularly those smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) cause a multitude of health problems, ranging from difficulty breathing and asthma to heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.  The question has been whether or not cleaning the ...
  • Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Dit ...
    The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has taken a step that any self-respecting supporter of renewable energy should do – ditched the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  This relationship looked a lot like the fabled one between the scorpion and tortoise. Despite member ...
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        $25 Advance Tickets ($35 at Door, please register in advance) (Tickets include live entertainment, all food and beverages) Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin Eco Network, Public Citizen, Design Build Live, USGBC-Central Texas Chapter, Center for Maximum Potential, Texas League of Con ...
  • Koch Brothers Exposed Screening with Progress ...
    Progress Texas is hosting a special screening of the documentary Koch Brothers Exposed at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar.  They have already sold out more than half the theater – be sure to reserve your seats now before they sell out! From director Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, WalMart: ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Russia designs new spaceship
    Russian rocket corporation Energia has completed the designs of a brand new manned spacecraft. Hot on the heels of NASA's new Orion spacecraft, Russia...
  • Did Jesus go to Japan ?
    Some believe that during the 'lost years' of his life Jesus traveled the world and spent time in Japan. There are many different theories to explain w...
  • Ice age predators didn't starve to death
    Scientists have determined that ice age predators were not wiped out due to a lack of food. Beasts such as saber-toothed cats and the American lion we...
  • Tau Ceti may be home to Earth-like world
    Our nearest single-star neighbour could be a promising place to look for a habitable planet like Earth. The Tau Ceti system is only 12 light years awa...
  • UK outlines zombie invasion defence plans
    The British government has revealed its planned response to a future zombie invasion threat. It is the second time that officials in the UK have provi...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Wind Farm Projects Looking Up in Maine, Despit ...
    (AP) Wind power generated in Maine is now producing nearly 500 megawatts, enough to supply the average needs of 175,000 households. However, it's still well short of the state's goal for wind generation by 2015. But new projects that ...
  • Russian Oil Pipeline to the Pacific Goes into ...
    (Deutsche Welle) Russia's East Asia oil pipeline has officially gone into service. The pipeline is a reflection of the country's shift from European to Asian markets. President Vladimir Putin commissioned the pipeline Tuesday with the ...
  • Enbridge Says Work on New Dilbit Pipeline Dela ...
    (AP) The operator of an oil pipeline that caused a large spill in Michigan expects it will be at least May before work begins to replace a 60-mile section of that pipeline in northern Indiana. Enbridge Energy had planned to finish the ...
  • Texas Man Takes Last Stand Against Keystone XL ...
    (NPR) An east Texas landowner was so determined to block the Keystone XL pipeline from coming through his forest that he took to his trees and built an elaborate network of treehouses eight stories above the ground. "It popped into my ...
  • 2012 Climate Change News That Made Headlines T ...
    (LiveScience) Global warming was hot news this year, literally. Perhaps the most unavoidable climate story of 2012 was the warmth that gripped much of the United States, and to a lesser degree, the planet, throughout the entire year. ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • Can't We Speak Well of the Dead?
    It's hard to get lower than concern trolling the literal accuracy of a eulogy. Maybe some ethics professor can chime in with a theory on the propriety of hyperbolic praise on the occasion of someone's death. A few days ago, the president delivered a eulogy at the funeral of Sen. Daniel Inouye ...
  • Boehner Plays Hot Potato
    House Speaker Boehner wants nothing to do with responsibility or accountability for negotiating a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. Obviously he has no control over his caucus. In situations like this one can lead one's party's members to accept that they have a duty to fashion a compr ...
  • Stuff About Polls
    I agree with Ed Kilgore that we cannot cover politics well if we simply ignore polls, and there's a good debate to be had about how best to aggregate polls. But Kilgore ignored the subject that most interests me. And that is the likelihood that Gallup and (particularly) Rasmussen polls were de ...
  • Whither the Cliff?
    I wish I could tell you that I have some idea about what is going to happen with the Fiscal Cliff, but I'm finding the whole subject impenetrable. None of the reporting is very helpful and it's hard to read beyond the posturing of the principals' public statements. One clue, however, I found i ...
  • The Hagel Thing Depresses Me
    If their intent really is to appoint Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense and to see him confirmed, the administration is doing a great job of rounding up support from a bipartisan swath of the Establishment. I don't like the idea, personally, although there are certainly many worse alternatives ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Endangered Moon Bears Find Home in China Sanctuary
    Two beautiful moon bears find a new home safe from the cruel practice of bile farming This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Fire Breathers Blazing a Trail in the City of ...
    Once a year, fire breathers from all over Europe gather at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to showcase their dazzling but potentially highly dangerous acts. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    A whole lot of cool linkage – from serious stuff, to lighter, more fun-filled matters... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Plunge Diving Cape Gannets As Seen from Beneat ...
    When Cape Gannets drop from the air at great speed and plunge dive beneath the waves to catch fish, they do so with spectacular beauty and grace – as these photos show. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Plunge Diving Cape Gannets As Seen from Beneat ...
    When Cape Gannets drop from the air at great speed and plunge dive beneath the waves to catch fish, they do so with spectacular beauty and grace – as these photos show. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Idle No More in Minneapolis: First indigenous ...
    On Wednesday, Dec 19th, indigenous and allies launched the first protest in the United States in solidarity with their kin further north in what is known today as Canada. Prime Minister Harper basically decreed a bunch of lakes critical to indigenous survival are no longer environmentally protec ...
  • Mordor Mayor Rybak makes moves to hide Minneap ...
    "It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." ~ Cryptographer/security guy Bruce Schneier (src) We all know the old motif - Feds staking out parking lots, reporting the license plates back to Hoover. Nowadays things are a little different - com ...
  • EXCLUSIVE MnDOT info cake: 2.97gb emails/docs ...
    After a long wait, on Nov 28 2012, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) released ~2.97 gigabytes of data from inside the development of a GPS-based vehicle tracking system intended to introduce a vehicle tax - which would entail a great deal of data constantly collected by the gove ...
  • A few more elements on the semi-suspended MN D ...
    Previously on hongpong.com: MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Evaluator BCA Investigation files (Nov 12 2012) -- MK Occupy Minnesota (May 3 2012) The training section of Minnesota's Drug Recognition Evaluator program continues to be suspended, after a 513-page Bureau of Criminal Apprehen ...
  • MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Eval ...
    By Dan Feidt -- hongpong.com -- MINNEAPOLIS -- NOV 12 2012 -- Law enforcement officers under a state training program called Drug Recognition Evaluators encouraged people in downtown Minneapolis, including Occupy Minnesota protesters at Peavey Plaza and other vulnerable and houseless people to p ...

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...

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IntelNews

  • Revealed: The CIA bodyguard unit that safeguar ...
    Increasingly, CIA case officers operating on counterterrorism assignments in the post-9/11 environment find themselves in warzones with a level of physical risk rarely encountered during the Cold War. CIA operations planners believe that case officers cannot properly run foreign assets while con ...
  • CIA helped senior Syrian defector escape to Wa ...
    American intelligence operatives helped facilitate the escape of a senior Syrian government official, who is now allegedly assisting the Central Intelligence Agency’s operations in Syria, according to a British newspaper.
  • News you may have missed #819 (UKUSA edition)
    Aussie spies' exemption from Freedom of Information laws to end? US spy agencies move towards single super-cloud. Canadian Army struggles with intelligence-gathering.
  • Fascinating profile of the Soviet KGB’s little ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | It is often suggested by intelligence researchers that one major difference between Western and Soviet modes of espionage during the Cold War was their degree of reliance on technology. It is generally accepted that Western espionage was far more ...
  • US wants immunity for Pakistanis implicated in ...
    The United States government has argued in court that current and former officials of Pakistan’s intelligence service should be immune from prosecution in connection with the 2008 Mumbai attacks. At least 166 people, including 6 Americans, were killed and scores more were injured when members of ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Former cop finds racism, sexism welcome at TSA
      A former New Jersey cop who, colleagues said, routinely disparaged blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Indians, and women found a hearty embrace by the TSA at his local airport. Former Edison, NJ police sergeant Alex Glinsky retired last year on the taxpayers’ dime ($84,000 a year) after having spen ...
  • Capitalism and Mental Illness: Back to the Future?
      By Charles M. Young A 21st century psychotherapist steps into a time machine and comes out in Atlanta in 1855. Having no other marketable skills, he hangs out a shingle and promises new remedies for mental illness. A well-dressed gentleman knocks on the door and inquires if the psychot ...
  • Netanyahu/Lieberman Coalition
      Netanyahu/Lieberman Coalition   by Stephen Lendman   On January 22, Israeli parliamentary elections will be held. Netanyahu/Lieberman's Likud/Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) looks likely to win.   Both men are world class thugs. They represent the worst of ideological ex ...
  • Chavez Struggles to Recover
      Chavez Struggles to Recover   by Stephen Lendman   A previous article said major surgery for any reason is daunting. Four times for the same illness in 18 months present special challenges.   Chavez struggles to recover. He hopes he's cancer free. He's undergoing difficult ...
  • Gaza’s Only Fisherwoman Continues to Sail
    By Joshua Brollier “The problems started for me at eighteen,” Madleen Kulab said quietly, sitting just meters from the shore of the Mediterranean. “The police and port authorities did not want me to sail as a woman.” Though Madleen has emerged from this recent challenge, receiving a permanent pe ...

Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny
    James Smith, Contributor Activist Post “‎Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address: Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867 The events in Newton, CT has led to a cacophony of cries b ...
  • One in 12 in military has clogged heart arteries
    Just over one in 12 U.S. service members who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had plaque buildup in the arteries around their hearts – an early sign of heart disease, according to a new study. None of them had been diagnosed with heart disease before deployment, researchers said. &#82 ...
  • Popular radio host announces ‘vaccine bu ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) To all the doctors out there who have even the slightest concerns about the safety of the vaccines they routinely administer to young children, now is your opportunity to come clean and turn those vaccines in for good. Radio host and natural health a ...
  • Iran ‘fends off new Stuxnet cyber attack ...
    A power plant and other industries in southern Iran have been targeted by the Stuxnet computer worm, an Iranian civil defence official says. But the cyber attack has been successfully rebuffed and prevented from spreading, Iranian media report. Iran’s nuclear enrichment efforts were hit ha ...
  • Mezuzahs in ’911′ Deep Secret Bunk ...
    By Chana Ya’ar First Publish: 12/24/2012, 11:47 PM American media has just discovered its government is helping Israel build a “secret” underground bunker. “Site 911” will be equipped with aluminum-encased mezuzot. The tender for the construction project – a “Request for Proposals” in U.S. ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

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Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • Top 7 Ecouterre Eco Fashion Stories of 2012 – ...
    The world of eco-fashion world really impressed us this year with amazing, innovative creations and some mind-boggling stories! From an extreme minimalist who owns only 16 items to a real-life Harry Potter-esque invisibility cloak to newly unearthed lingerie from the 15th century, 2012 was defin ...
  • Inhabitat’s Top Clean Energy Stories of 2012 – ...
    2012 was a banner year for renewable energy that saw scientists and engineers pushing the envelope towards ever more efficient and sustainable ways of producing power. Entire nations reaped the benefits of photovoltaics during record production periods while upstart innovators brought alternativ ...
  • Top 6 Furniture and Interior Stories of 2012 – ...
    Turning your abode into a green sanctuary has never been easier, thanks to the amazing eco furnishings being put out by creatives across the globe. 2012 proved yet again that taking a sustainable approach is not just passing a fad, but the core of any good design. From a playful NYC apartment in ...
  • Inhabitat’s Top 6 DIY Stories of 2012 – Vote f ...
    Just as we predicted back 2011, 2012 saw even more people rolling up their sleeves and embracing DIY culture, and we’re honored that so many of you came to Inhabitat as a resource for some of these projects. Tutorials and how-tos were some of our most popular stories of the year, and judgi ...
  • Relax on a Private Ecological Reserve in Mexic ...
    Read the rest of Relax on a Private Ecological Reserve in Mexico at Eco-Luxe Resort Cuixmala Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Cuixmala Resort, eco design, eco luxury, eco luxury travel, eco resorts mexico, eco-travel, ecological reserves Mexico, green design, Pacific Co ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Hollows ...
    In the well-documented case of Eminescu's hollows, the image above provides some new insight. Though the majority of the hollows are located on and directly around the central peak, if you look closely you'll see that there are small hollows ...
  • Mountains of Madness: Scientists Poised to Dri ...
    What might lurk beneath Antarctica’s 5 million square miles of ice was the subject of speculation by sci-fi writers in the 1930s. One of the icy products this subgenre of Antarctic Goth horror spawned is HP Lovecraft’s novella, The Mountains ...
  • The Year’s Most Audacious Private Space Explor ...
    2012 was a banner year for bold, and sometimes wild, announcements by private space companies. From moon landings to asteroid mining, we take a look at all the new players and tell you how plausible their schemes are.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Really H ...
    This unique image shows AB7, one of the highest excitation nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs), two satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. AB7 is a binary star, consisting of one WR-star — highly evolved massive star - and ...
  • Spiders, Planets and a Boson: Wired Science’s ...
    This year, our list of most popular stories was dominated by 2012's most famous robot, a long-sought subatomic particle, 10 billion exoplanets and an amazing new spider species.

PakAlert

  • 10 Predictions for 2013
    This past year, 2012, was an eventful year. We had another Olympics, a U.S. presidential election, the warmest year on record, and lived through the Mayan apocalypse. However, many things did not occur that many of the trend seers predicted, especially dramatic events that made the boldest predi ...
  • Glenn Beck: Obama destined for prison?
    As many news sites and pundits break down the biggest stories of 2012, one story too big to miss has been resurrected by the website TeaParty.org, a story at least one national pundit believes could send Barack Obama to prison. The tea-party site posted a Glenn Beck video from October in whic ...
  • If You Are On This List You May Be In Grave Danger
    An interactive map showing the names and addresses of all handgun permit holders in New York's Westchester and Rockland counties has infuriated many readers since it was posted on mainstream media web site
  • Who Were the Other Shooters?
    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 supplied. Sec ...
  • School Obama’s Daughters Attend Has 11 Armed G ...
    Some interesting news has broken in the wake of the latest push for gun control by President Obama and Senate Democrats: Obama sends his kids to a school where armed guards are used as a matter of fact

Andy Worthington

  • Photos: Christmas in London, 2012
    Christmas in London, 2012, a set on Flickr. Best wishes for the holiday season to those following my work, or to anyone who has just stumbled across it. This is a selection of Christmas-themed photos that I’ve taken over the last month during my journeys around London, as part of my ongoin ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Urgent Need to ...
    As the 11th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay approaches (on January 11, 2013), I wanted to make sure that I made available an interview I undertook recently with the respected progressive radio host Peter B. Collins, in San Francisco. Peter&# ...
  • Memories of Summer: Photos of the Thames Festi ...
    Memories of Summer: The Thames Festival on London’s South Bank, a set on Flickr. Sunday September 9, 2012 was the final day of the weekend-long Thames Festival, established in 1997, and run by the Thames Festival Trust, which regularly attracts tens of thousands of visitors, and did so aga ...
  • Torture, Torture Everywhere
    For those of us who have been arguing for years that senior officials and lawyers in the Bush administration must be held accountable for the torture program they introduced and used in their “war on terror,” last week was a very interesting week indeed, as developments took place in ...
  • Free Shaker Aamer: Last British Resident in Gu ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Stormfront Radio Going Off Air?
    Don Black, the founder of Stormfront, the oldest and largest white nationalist forum, is apparently trying to figure out what to do with his and his son Derek’s radio show, “The Derek Black Show.” In a recent Stormfront thread, Black noted that as of January 20, 2013, the ownership of south Flor ...
  • ‘Moorish’ Bank Robber Caught After Daring Jail ...
    Joseph Banks, the most prolific bank robber in Chicago history, who became one of the city’s most daring escape artists when he and another inmate broke out of a federal high-rise jail by scaling down 15 stories on a rope made of bed sheets, was back in court today after being captured lat ...
  • Mosque Arsonist Pleads Guilty, Implicates Fox ...
    An Indiana man who pleaded guilty yesterday to setting an Ohio mosque on fire told a judge he was motivated by media accounts – specifically those on Fox News – suggesting Muslims were threatening Americans and were in control of parts of the federal government. Details made public at the plea h ...
  • Imprisoned FLDS ‘Prophet’ Predicts the End of ...
    Last year at this time, self-described prophet Warren Jeffs was predicting the end of the world. According to eight revelations he issued from a jail cell at the beginning of December 2011, divine vengeance was slated to fall upon a nation “fully ripening in iniquity.” Earthquakes were to rock A ...
  • Derek Black: Have Stormfront Founder’s Son’s P ...
    There was a time, not so long ago, when Lamb and Lynx Gaede, daughters of an infamous Montana neo-Nazi, were considered the next big thing in the white supremacist movement. They were blonde, blue-eyed teenagers given to swastikas and Hitler worship, and they formed a white-power musical group c ...

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Common Dreams -News

  • Winter Storm Euclid Punctuates Year of Extreme ...
    Winter storm Euclid continues its assault on the US today as it pounds New England with heavy snow while scientists caution that monumental snowfalls are a sign of things to come. On Christmas Day a massive swath of the country experienced weather so extreme it will likely go down in history as ...
  • Amid All the Death and Destruction, Is There A ...
    There is no single use for unmanned aerial drones that could supplant all the damage they've caused in the hands of the US military and its intelligence services. The death and destruction caused by the Pentagon and CIA's armed drones in recent years has sparked outrage in countries arou ...
  • EPA Chief's Resignation Imperils Obama's Alrea ...
    Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced Thursday morning that she will be stepping down after four years with the Obama administration, leaving the position open to a wide array of potential candidates. read more
  • Egyptian Opposition Blasts Newly Signed Consit ...
    Opponents of Egypts controversial new constitution—signed into law Wednesday by President Mohamed Morsi—have pledged to protest again on January 25, two years after the uprising that brought down former President Hosni Mubarak. ...
  • Thousands in Los Angeles Exchange Guns-for-Gro ...
    Thousands of people lined up on Wednesday in Los Angeles to take part in a guns-for-groceries exchange program that was called in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting. Spurned by the tragic Dec. 14 killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a number of cities have joined this ...

Lifehacker

  • Remains of the Day: Amazon Instant Video is No ...
    Amazon Instant Video gets a Google TV app, the Galaxy Note is getting the Premium Suite treatment, a Dropbox for Teams quirk could affect your personal account, and Samsung's mobile messaging app get's an update. More »
  • Best DVD Ripping Tool?
    If you're about to get on a plane, have an HTPC and don't love the idea of changing physical discs, or just want to declutter, the idea of ripping your DVDs probably sounds good, assuming you don't do it already. Ripping your movies saves space, lets you take your movies with you and play ...
  • Are you slow to return messages?
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even ...
  • Create a Budget for Hobbies Based on Accomplis ...
    Reader Molly has an interesting approach to budgeting: instead of just setting aside money for recreation, she only allows herself that money after she accomplishes other goals and chores—not unlike the allowance you got when you were a kid. More »
  • How to Tackle Three of the Toughest Interview ...
    You got the job interview. You prepared by studying the company and thinking about your interview answers. Now what? What separates candidates who get job offers from everyone else? It turns out that interviews are not merely about answering the interviewer's questions. Interviewing is a s ...

Water Privatization

  • Huge task for privatization fund by March
    The state privatizations fund (TAIPED) will have to start one sell-off project per week from the start of the new year, as the new agreement signed by the government and its creditors provides for 10 privatization projects to begin within the first quarter of 2013, a particularly demanding targe ...
  • Govt to turn over Angat power plant to Korean ...
    The government will turn over to the winning Korean bidder the operations of the Angat power plant early next year.
  • Mayor says lease of water system maintains control
    Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi said leasing Hazleton's water system might reduce a looming tax increase while allowing city residents to maintain some control of a natural resource. Like his predecessor, Lou Barletta, Yannuzzi thinks money could flow into the cit
  • Ledesma: Privatization behind DCWD ineptitude?
    THE Davao City Water District will go down toward the year end as the worst agency in the city that is ill-prepared and most inutile in time of disaster. That normal water supply is going to resume about three months from when disaster struck its main distribution line in Bankerohan Bridge is ju ...
  • Privatization behind DCWD ineptitude?
    THE Davao City Water District will go down toward the year end as the worst agency in the city that is ill-prepared and most inutile in time of disaster. That normal water supply is going to resume about three months from when disaster struck its main distribution line in Bankerohan Bridge is ju ...

Guardian

  • Obama calls leaders for Friday talks in effort ...
    Boehner reconvenes House of Representatives on Sunday evening as Harry Reid says deadline will probably be missedBarack Obama will meet congressional leaders on Friday as members of the House of Representatives prepare to return to Washington for a last-ditch attempt to head off the year-end fis ...
  • David Cameron's moves could make EU fall apart ...
    President of European council says plan to repatriate British powers could damage the single marketDavid Cameron's quest to find a new deal for Britain in Europe by clawing back powers from Brussels could cause the European Union to fall apart quickly and inflict immense damage on the single mar ...
  • Syrian rebels sidetracked by scramble for spoi ...
    Looting, feuds and divided loyalties threaten to destroy unity of fighters as war enters new phaseIt wasn't the government that killed the Syrian rebel commander Abu Jameel. It was the fight for his loot. The motive for his murder lay in a great warehouse in Aleppo which his unit had captured a ...
  • 2012 poised to become wettest year on record in UK
    More downpours and 80mph winds forecast for this weekend, with 1.8in of rain needed to break recordForecasters are warning of a stormy end to 2012, with the year set to become the wettest on record in the UK.The Environment Agency warned of more misery as a barrage of rain sweeps in, with the we ...
  • Fukushima radiation fears are linked to increa ...
    Almost two years after nuclear disaster, Japanese education ministry report suggests children are still kept indoorsLingering fears of radiation have turned children from Fukushima into the most obese in Japan, according to a government study, as parents and schools continue to restrict the amou ...

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan rejects Taliban truce offer
    Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik Thursday termed as "unacceptable" a conditional truce offer by the Taliban and said militant groups cannot dictate the state, media reports said. The ...
  • Afghan troops in mortar training
    Members of the Afghan National Army have "graduated" from a training course run by a Scottish battalion. The Afghan soldiers, known as "warriors", spent three weeks being trained ...
  • Striving to change the lives of Afghan women
    , one is struck by the courage of Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai (then 11) and her father, Ziauddin, as they oppose the Taliban's "scorched girls' schools" policy. Today, the ...
  • Taliban say suicide bomber targeted U.S. compa ...
    Afghanistan's Taliban movement claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Kabul on Monday which targeted a U.S. contracting company and killed two Afghan civilians, underscoring security ...
  • Taliban Sympathizer In Police Force Helps Kill ...
    Afghan officials say a police officer loyal to the Taliban helped a group of Taliban fighters sneak into a remote police post and kill at least three other police officers. The Taliban raid ...

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Congress Slams National Security Whistleblower ...
    Take Action! As part of a House/Senate Conference approved Tuesday, Congress passed an “Enhancement Act” for Department of Defense contractors.  These contractors already had a right to go to federal court and obtain a jury trial.  However, this new “Enhancement Ac ...
  • Special Holiday Offer
    This year, as you are deciding what to give your loved ones, friends, and colleagues for the holidays, why not choose to give something interesting and useful? One of the most powerful gifts you can give is knowledge. The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What's Right an ...
  • Congress Passes Magnitsky Act
              Sergei Magnitsky On December 6, 2012 Congress passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012. (Magnitsky Act). The law was inspi ...
  • Record Recoveries under False Claims Act
      The Justice Department confirmed in a release issued on December 4 that it has been a record year for recoveries from the False Claims Act.  In fact 2012 garnered the DOJ the “largest annual recovery in Department history.” Most of the recoveries were from actions filed ...
  • NWC Files Amicus Brief on IRS Whistleblower Pr ...
    On November 5, 2012, the National Whistleblower Center filed a briefing paper/amicus brief with the Internal Revenue Service addressing key questions of law governing the IRS Whistleblower program. The brief, linked here, addresses the issue of "collected proceeds" under the IRS w ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • Will The RIAA Need To Start Worrying About 3D ...
    We've been predicting for a while now that 3D printing is an area of disruption that is going to lead to legal disputes. Our expectations were that as tangible goods makers were disrupted in the same manner as content producers, it was only a matter of time. But what if 3D printing continued t ...
  • Another Lawsuit Filed For Google Autocomplete ...
    Another day, another lawsuit filed against Google for defamation-via-search-results. And, yet again, it's being filed in a country that has proven amenable towards plaintiffs who somehow feel a search algorithm has the power to defame. This time the plaintiff is Guy Hingston, an Austral ...
  • Senate Finally Holds Weak 'Debate' On FISA Ame ...
    While some in the Senate tried to skip over debate of the likely unconstitutional FISA Amendments Act, the Senate finally held a rushed and scripted "debate" today, which did very little to actually explore the issues (and the Senate Chamber was mostly empty during the "debate"). Senators Ron W ...
  • 'War Z' Game Producer Lists Non-Existent Featu ...
    As has been discussed here many times, screwing up in public is rarely pleasant, but if the one screwing up takes fast, direct action to respond to the problem and handles complaints with the right blend of contrition and forthrightness, damage will remain minimal. Not only that, but considering ...
  • You Only Live Once, So Why Not Demand Payment ...
    The singer Drake has, at times, been good about not being an IP absolutist, blasting his own label (Universal Music) for taking down the music he was leaking. However, it appears that he's not above demanding money for ideas he didn't come up with. According to Mashable, Drake has been tweetin ...

VacTruth

  • 1,742 Reports of Adverse Events After Children ...
    Last week, VacTruth reported details a 1,271 page confidential document, regarding a six-in-one vaccine. This pharmaceutical company received a total of 1,742 reports of adverse events, including 503 serious adverse events, after children had received the this vaccine...
  • Protect Your Children – The American Aca ...
    We know that mercury is a toxin. We know that it was removed from most vaccines more than a decade ago. End of story, right? Wrong. The debate has resurfaced. If the AAP and the WHO have their way and can successfully influence the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), some vaccines will ...
  • Do You Know the 5 Powerful Psychological Trigg ...
    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 of t ...
  • Announcing Vaccine Bombshell: Leaked Confident ...
    A confidential GlaxoSmithKline document recently leaked to the press exposed that within a two-year period, a total of 36 infants died after receiving the 6-in-1 vaccine, Infanrix Hexa.
  • Congressional Hearing on Autism—From the Aweso ...
    We know that the NIH and CDC have fallen way short in recognizing, let alone fixing, this autism epidemic. They’ve proven that time and time again. But Congress is listening. They understand that autism is an emergency, that it’s not genetic, that something is terribly wrong...

BroadSnark

  • 2012 – Damn
    When I was fourteen a schoolmate of mine hung himself, my father had a stroke, my family lost our business, and the IRS came after us. When I was twenty-six, my father died (something I may finally be ready to write about). Those were by far the two hardest years of my life. 2012 is [...]
  • Thanks NRA
    On Friday, Wayne LaPierre of the NRA held a press conference about the school shooting in Sandy Hook. Naturally, his suggestion was to put armed guards or police in every school. The liberal internets were immediately abuzz slamming one of their favorite bad guys. But nobody seemed to be mention ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you pay attention to nothing else in this post, please read this piece on how the government created residential segregation in our cities. De facto my ass. Red Emma’s in Baltimore is expanding. Please help. Is giving homeless people cigarettes an ethical dilemma or are Swedish health g ...
  • Really, Laura, Really?!
    I had no intention of writing anything about the school shooting in Connecticut. Maybe Pablo Neruda could have found words to talk about something like that, but it is beyond my capacity. I understand the desire for people to ask how it could happen and how we can prevent it from happening again ...
  • Shut Up, Be Perfect
    This weekend I got into an argument about music. The person I was arguing with was blasting gangsta rap for glorifying behavior that was ruining their own communities. He even went so far as to say that the music, and everything it stood for, was causing racism. I went a little apoplectic. I may ...

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War in Context

  • Obama Administration seeks to strengthen Ruper ...
    Matt Stoller writes: Earlier this year, Obama Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed relaxing media ownership rules to allow Rupert Murdoch to buy the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. It’s not something you’ll see discussed much, because Republicans like the ...
  • Yes, it’s the Jewish Lobby and it consists of ...
    M.J. Rosenberg writes: The neoconservatives’ battle to sink the potential nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel has again raised the issue of the power of the Israel lobby. And it should. Hagel, as a respected former senator would be sailing to an easy confirmation, if not for the power of th ...
  • The CIA’s secret army
    The Washington Post reports: The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Department facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability to fend off a second attack that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency’s defensive arsenal: a s ...
  • Video: Which stories did the media ignore thi ...
  • How India is turning into China — and not in a ...
    Pankaj Mishra writes: China is shakily authoritarian while India is a stable democracy—indeed, the world’s largest. So goes the cliché, and it is true, up to a point. But there is a growing resemblance between the two countries. A decade after we were told that China and India were “flattening” ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Now she’ll have more time to spend with ...
    Lisa P. Jackson of E.P.A. to Step Down – NYTimes.com Ms. Jackson has said that she used the second account because her public e-mail address was widely known and that her e-mail alias — “Richard Windsor” — derived from the … Continue reading →
  • Record Arctic Storm Melted Sea Ice
    Image Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center IUP Bremen From Live Science: Months before Hurricane Sandy hurled the Atlantic Ocean into houses and cities along the East Coast, another record-breaking cyclone battered North America, helping push this year’s Arctic … Continue readin ...
  • Antarctic warming courtesy of Mr. Fix-it
    Just a little something he threw together Guest Post by David Middleton First the breath-taking headlines… Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica, New York Times (WUWT commentary) West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate, BBC West Antarctica warming much … Cont ...
  • Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution
         Versus      Image Credit: Wikipedia                                 Image Credit: Anne Knock From Live Science: At Olduvai Gorge, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now find the landscape once fluctuated rapidly, likely guiding early human &#82 ...
  • Burt Rutan on Innovation
    WUWT readers may recall that aviation pioneer Burt Rutan gave an engaged and interesting presentation on WUWT.TV last month. He’s now added to his online presence with a new video lecture. Burt writes today: Last month I presented my lecture … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis
    Finding ways to diagnose cancer earlier could greatly improve the chances of survival for many patients. One way to do this is to look for specific proteins secreted by cancer cells, which circulate in the bloodstream. However, the quantity of these biomarkers is so low that detecting them has p ...
  • In search of better antidepressants
    A new study from researchers at MIT and Stanford University pinpoints brain cells that appear to be critically involved in depression, offering a possible target for new, more effective antidepressants. By stimulating these cells to deliver dopamine to other parts of the brain, the researchers w ...
  • Transgenic fish wins US regulatory backing
    The first genetically engineered GE animal for human consumption — a fast-growing salmon — has come a step closer to the dinner table, with a piece of paperwork posted online today by the US Food and Drug Administration FDA.The FDA’s draft environmental assessment concludes that the fish poses n ...
  • ‘Burden of Disease’ study shows a world living ...
    The health of most of the planet’s population is rapidly coming to resemble that of the United States, where death in childhood is rare, too much food is a bigger problem than too little, and life is long and often darkened by disability. High blood pressure is now the leading “risk factor” for ...
  • DARPA’s Wound Stasis Technology Could Sa ...

CFACT

  • EPA’s Lisa Jackson resigns
    Lisa Jackson, who presided over the promulgation of an explosive growth of regulations at EPA announced today that she is stepping down.
  • Peace, Joy, Love, Freedom!
    Everyone at CFACT wishes all our friends the most joyous of holidays!
  • Radar shows Santa approaching North America!
    Kids to bed! NORAD radar shows Santa has crossed the ocean and is approaching North America. Track Santa's sleigh on radar LIVE!
  • The new robber barons
    The new robber barons are not content with only taxes and debt. They are using other people's hard-earned money to finance wind, solar, biofuel and other schemes that reward crony capitalist campaign contributors.while locking up centuries of vital energy resources.
  • Shroompocalypse Now!
    The end of the world just got serious. On the eve of the winter solstice, as the Mayan calendar ran out, the NY Times reported that yields of the world's most fabulous fungus, the black diamond itself, the $1,200 per pound Périgord truffle is in decline and it’s your fault!

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russia to Triple State Defense Order by 2015
    Russia will gradually increase the annual amount of the state defense order to 2.8 trillion rubles (about $92 billion) by 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.
  • Facebook Founder’s Sister Complains of Privacy ...
    Randi Zuckerberg, the older sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is crying foul after a family photo she posted on her private Facebook timeline was publically shared, an ironic turn of events that illustrates even the family of Facebook’s founder can be confused by the sites privacy sett ...
  • Icicle Kills Woman in St. Petersburg
    A woman was killed by an icicle that fell from the roof of a building in Russia’s northwestern city of St. Petersburg, a spokeswoman for local emergencies services reported on Thursday.
  • Number of Drug Addicts in Russia Nears 9 Million
    Almost 9 million Russians regularly take illicit drugs, Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said on Thursday.
  • U.S. Thrashes Germany at Junior World Champs
    The United States sauntered to an 8-0 drubbing of Germany on Thursday to start its junior world hockey championships campaign in style.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia Launches $70 Bln Space Program for 2013 ...
    Russia will spend 2.1 trillion rubles (about $70 billion) under a state program for the development of the national space industry in 2013-2020, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
  • Russia Designs New Spaceship
    Russian space rocket corporation Energia has completed the technical design of a new manned spacecraft whose flight tests are due to begin in 2017, Energia President Vitaly Lopota said on Wednesday.
  • Russia May Join ExoMars Project in Q1 2013 – R ...
    The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) could sign a long-anticipated agreement on Russia’s participation in a Mars research project in the first quarter of 2013, Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said.
  • Turbopump Bearing Blamed For Failed Russian Co ...
    Russian space agency Roscosmos experts say the destruction of a bearing inside the turbopump of the Briz-M upper stage's engine is the most likely reason for the initial failure of Russia’s Yamal-402 satellite to reach its designated orbit, the Kommersant business daily reported on Tuesday.
  • ‘Frankenfish’ Salmon Swim Toward US Tables
    A genetically modified salmon that grows twice as fast as ordinary salmon in the wild is migrating ever closer to dinner plates in the United States.

Pruning Shears

  • Best Music of 2012
    IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck.Links will be live for one week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me know and I’ll comply. You heartless, small-minded, ungenerous b******.Here are ...
  • Gun violence, public health and the missing piece
    The massacre in Newtown has once again opened up the discussion of firearms in America. We are getting the usual dumbassery about how this is a punishment from God or the fault of video games (which apparently are unavailable outside of the US) and the usual preemptive whining about how this is ...
  • "no one is there for you but you know who? You ...
    One of the under appreciated hazards of fracking is its effect on democracy. Fracking is a big, intrusive process - one that sucks up lots of water, creates enormous amounts of traffic and an ungodly amount of noise, etc. Setting aside the environmental dangers and health effects (!), the heav ...
  • Transcript: When fracking comes to town: Maria ...
    Video here.…now sits there with two contaminated wells up for sale. As you can imagine, there’s not a lot of customers for a contaminated farm. So it’s sitting there waiting to go into bankruptcy. Her husband’s in Africa serving in the military. Her horses - she has t ...
  • Reasons to support Corrente fund raising week
    Corrente is having its fund raiser; please stop by and throw some money into the hat if you can.Corrente is an important site for liberals to support because of what it is and what it does. Here’s what it is: an old school blog. While political blogs existed before 2000, they weren&#8217 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • New Year's Revolution: Connecting the Dots
    As a longtime writer and activist campaigning for decades on food and farming issues, most recently Prop 37, the California Ballot Initiative to label genetically engineered foods, I am reminded daily of the allure, indeed the addictive pleasure, of single-issue organizing.Click here to read thi ...
  • Ballot-Measure Democracy a Notable Success in ...
    This being the season of giving, it's worth looking back at some special gifts from November's election that received little acknowledgement at the time.Click here to read this article
  • Will 2013 Be the Year?
    Dear Organic Consumer, Every year this time I look at the state of America's food, farming and climate. Then I look for inspiration as I reach out to ask you to support our work. This year, my inspiration is you. Click here to read this article
  • Japan Tops List of Healthiest Countries
    The United States spends $2.7 trillion annually -- TWICE the amount per person as most other industrialized nations - on health care. With this level of spending, you might think Americans would be among the healthiest people on the planet unfortunately, that isn't the case.Click here to read ...
  • Health Dangers of Flame Retardants
    The U.S. implemented fire safety standards in the 1970s that over time have led to more and more products adopting the use of toxic flame-retardant chemicals (polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs) to meet the stringent regulations.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Aliens Cause Global Warming
    Lecture by Michael Crichton : the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy. Even to a child, the contrast was clear between the world of politics-a world of hate and danger, of irrational beliefs and fears- and science Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cu ...
  • Atomic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
    The Deepwater Horizon spill also released dangerous amounts of radioactive material A waste byproduct known as produced water is also simultaneously discharged with oil and gases. 3 categories of toxins : organic, inorganic,radioactive Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |  ...
  • Environment: New study shows dispersant makes ...
    Small grazers at the base of the food chain most directly affected, raising the question of whether the benefits of using dispersant are enough to offset the negative effects. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Retrospective : Greenhouse Gas
    A look back at older thoughts on an ongoing political football Continues in the next post http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-december-more-on-ghgs.html Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Extreme Weather Report
    125 International Scientists Rebuke UN for Climate Claims in Open Letter: 'Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused extreme weather of past few years. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • A Letter of Thanks to Organic Farmers
    Whether you are a famous farmer like Joel Salatin of Virginia or The Barefoot Farmer of Tennessee, or you’re just trying to feed your family and a few friends with real food, you are healing the world! And your hard work does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.
  • Libor Hearings, School Shootings and Disinfo, ...
    Propaganda does not require evidence to prove itself. It simply utilizes the ignorant masses that believe what they see and tend to repeat the lie as fact to their friends, family, [and] repost to message boards, comment threads, social media sites, which prop up the lie until the truth no longe ...
  • Smelling a Corporate Rat – The Move to Suppres ...
    If the Seralini experiments are considered insufficient to demonstrate harm, then those carried out by Monsanto cannot prove safety. This is because, whatever its limitations, Seralini's study was conducted to generally higher scientific standards than the studies underlying GM food approvals.
  • New Farm Wars Graphic – Monsanto: Guilty as Ch ...
    Where we would all like to see Monsanto!
  • Farmer Takes Public Stand Against GMOs
    It's way past time for all of us to take a stand and declare our bodies, homes, gardens, farms, ranches, and all the earth GMO-FREE ZONES!

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Japan's new government to restart nuclear reac ...
    ShareThisJapan's new government to restart nuclear reactors - Nikkei 27 Dec 2012 Japan's idled nuclear reactors will gradually be restarted under the newly-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the units receive the all-clear from the country's Nuclear Regulation Authority, the Nikkei reported ...
  • Sandy Hook Hoaxer Busted By Federal Agents
    ShareThisSandy Hook Hoaxer Busted By Federal Agents 26 Dec 2012 A convicted felon who traveled to Newtown, Connecticut and masqueraded as the uncle of Sandy Hook Elementary School [alleged] gunman Adam Lanza has been arrested on a federal probation violation charge, The Smoking Gun has learned. ...
  • Nuclear safety watchdog criticises Sellafield' ...
    ShareThisNuclear safety watchdog criticises Sellafield's emergency readiness --Report finds errors by fire officers during practice exercise could have led to 'prolonged release of radioactive material off-site' 26 Dec 2012 A damning report by safety experts has revealed that staff at Britain ...
  • Feds want more data on possible tube wear at a ...
    ShareThisFeds want more data on possible tube wear at ailing California nuclear power plant 26 Dec 2012 Federal regulators Wednesday pressed the operator of the San Onofre nuclear power plant for more analysis on its damaged steam generators, as the government considers when, or if, one of the ...
  • New MRSA superbug strain found in UK milk supply
    ShareThisNew MRSA superbug strain found in UK milk supply --Research reveals that antibiotic-resistant organisms are gaining a hold on dairy industry 26 Dec 2012 A new strain of MRSA has been found in British milk, indicating that the superbug is spreading through the livestock population and p ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...
  • VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
    ‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Benghazi Report
    20 December 2012
  • Wolfpack 105 – Start point
    18 December 2012 All tracking begins with a start point.  Start points can be found in many ways. The Israelis create track traps in soft soil that are impossible to cross without leaving spoor.  Israeli forces make heavy use of trackers. Zoologists create similar track traps when ...
  • Wolfpack 104 –Jungle Man Art vs. GI Science
    Butterflies on suspected elephant dung: many signs are obvious. 10 December 2012 The British learned that employing local trackers can be disastrous.  Indigenous folks can be immensely talented at local tracking because they are tuned intimately to their biowebs.  Problems start fro ...
  • CAUTION to Military Public Affairs
    08 December 2012 US Navy image with GPS data embedded Military photographers sometimes forget to turn off the camera GPS.  The Navy caption for this electric image is found on Flickr: Lightning flashes near USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Nov. 19, 2012) ...
  • VIDEO: Firefight While Waiting for MEDEVAC
    07 December 2012 This video apparently was made by a helmet cam.   It shows normal combat in Afghanistan.  Similar scenes have unfolded thousands of times during the war.  This underlines why so many people are serious about removing the red crosses from Dustoff MEDEVAC heli ...

The Killing Train

  • Duets for Abdelrazik
    I'm listening to Duets for Abdelrazik, which my friend Stefan Christoff sent to me as an early holiday present. It's mellow music considering that it is the story of the thoroughly appalling mistreatment of someone by an appalling system. read more
  • Global Research Podcast on the DRC
    A podcast interview with me on the DRC on global research.ca, conducted by Michael Welch.
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship (the short version)
    December 19, 2012 Socialist Project Bullet article summarizing Haiti's New Dictatorship What constitutes a dictatorship? Haiti had an election in 2006, which the popular candidate won. It had an election in 2011, which had one of the lowest turnouts in recent history and which was subject to all ...
  • Mark Twain's Killing Train
    Every time I give someone my email address, or tell them the title of my blog, I get a raised eyebrow or a shocked look. Now, telling people the title of my first book has the same effect. For that reason, I've set up this blog to have "Why Killing Train?" and an explanation about the new book v ...
  • Partition talk
    When Belgium realized in the 1950s that, given that France and Britain were losing their African colonies, it would no longer be able to hold on to Congo, it set about trying to guarantee continued control over the strategic aspects of the economy, especially the mines. At first, it sponsored it ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Arakanese party warned over inflammatory pictures
    The government has threatened legal action against the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party for publishing pictures of the woman whose rape and murder sparked sectarian violence in June
  • Govt probes deadly plane crash-landing
    Burma was on Wednesday investigating the cause of an air accident that left two people dead and 11 injured when a passenger jet packed with foreign tourists crash-landed and caught fire
  • New Karen leadership signals party shift
    The Karen National Union has elected pragmatic new leaders for key party positions at its 15th quadrennial congress, which analysts say will speed up peace negotiations with the central government
  • Two dead, 11 hurt in plane crash landing
    A Burma plane carrying 65 passengers including foreign tourists crash-landed in eastern Shan state on Tuesday, leaving two people dead and 11 others injured, the airline and officials said
  • Thein Sein visits grave of Burma’s last king
    President Thein Sein on Saturday became the first of Burma's leaders to visit the tomb of his country's last king, who was exiled to India more than a century ago

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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Tikun Olam

  • Meir Javedanfar: Iran “Analyst” as Pro-Israel ...
    The impasse between Iran and the west has produced a bumper crop of Iranian opportunists who’ve latched onto a western gravy train as analysts, media commentators, political consultants, and think tank pundits. As opposed to genuine independent analysts with their own sources and expertise ...
  • Israel’s Creeping Criminalization of Democrati ...
    A few days ago, Amira Hass wrote a story in Haaretz about a Shabak interrogation of Israeli peace activist, Kobi Snitz.  Snitz is a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute and a member of a pro-BDS group in Israel called Boycott from Within (he also belongs to Anarchists Against the Wall) .  Sni ...
  • A People’s Christmas
    This may be the only time in the history of this blog that you’ll see a post devoted to Christmas.  But you’ll soon see there is no religious content in this post, unless you find a commitment to peace and justice to be religious (many do). Enjoy tonight some appropriate Christmas mu ...
  • Ariel Becomes Israel’s New University of Occup ...
    The Israeli government, after debating for five years, has approved the application of Ariel College to be a full national university.  The College (which I will in future call the University of Occupation), is located in the settlement town of Ariel.  Every Israeli university objected strenuous ...
  • Ayalon Spills Guts to Police, Prosecutor Consi ...
    I’m not sure which saying is more appropriate for this post: there’s (no) honor among thieves; or hell hath no fury like a woman (or politician) scorned. The Dynamic Duo of Avigdor Lieberman and Danny Ayalon, instead of being like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, appear more like ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Are You a Hacker Who Likes Poderopedia? Help U ...
    A week after Poderopedia launched its public beta, the response it's been getting has been huge. So far, close to 800 users have registered on the website; it's receiving an average of 26 new facts and connections per day; there are request to create local Poderopedia chapters from people in Por ...
  • An Open Call for Ideas: How Would You Use Open ...
    With the new year just a week away, it's the time of year when you might be thinking about the calenders you use and wondering how they could work better for you. Just over a month ago, the OpenSpending team floated the idea of an open spending calendar. The idea was to monitor some key ...
  • MapBox: Open Data Should be Open, Free and Acc ...
    Earlier this month MapBox launched MapBox Satellite -- an aerial imagery basemap of the world created entirely from public domain open data. Here are a few examples of the maps we made with this public imagery. Brawley, California | MapBox Satellite Lago O'Higgins, Chile | MapBox Satel ...
  • U.N. Opens Up Funding Data on Its Development ...
    The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently opened up data on more than 6,000 development projects implemented in 177 countries around the world last year. This is a huge win for openness and transparency in international development and project funding, and marks a release of fundi ...
  • Poderopedia Launches Public Beta with Crowdsou ...
    That's right: The world did not end when we launched Poderopedia's Public Beta this Wednesday at 12:12 p.m. in the Chile time zone. So please come in, check out the menu, and grab a bite of our editorial and crowdsourced data journalism website that uses public data, semantic web technology, a ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Germany on Edge - The Islamization of Germany ...
    Opinion polls consistently show that growing numbers of ordinary German citizens are worried about the consequences of decades of multicultural policies, as well the emergence of a parallel legal system based on Islamic Sharia law.Post-Christian Europe became noticeably more Islamized during 201 ...
  • The Arab Winter of Rage - How to Use American ...
    Colonial powers – France, Britain, Belgium and Russia, in particular – believed there was no substitute for their own armies and officials to ensure that their colonies stayed in line. Instead of colonial occupation forces, the U.S. takes its money, arms, training and agenda abroad. It is a ...
  • Benghazigate - The Benghazi Report and the Dip ...
    On Dec. 18, the U.S. State Department's Accountability Review Board released an unclassified version of its investigation into the Sept. 12 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack, so the re ...
  • The Efge of Space - Space Turbulence Detected
    Imagine riding in an airplane as the plane is jolted back and forth by gusts of wind that you can’t prove exist but are there nonetheless. Similar turbulence exists in space, and a research team led by the University of Iowa reports to have directly measured it for the first time in the labora ...
  • The Darkest Edge - Are Violent Games Linked to ...
    As video game images become increasingly more realistic and graphic, policy makers are debating if there is a link between the violence depicted in those games and violence in real life. A 20-year-old gunman's shooting spree at a school in the northeastern United States this month has reinv ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • I Have Been Publicly Slandered By President Obama
    I just received this email from the president: Friend -- Because of you, I'll be taking the oath of office again on January 21st. Why the heck is he blaming Me?? I fought like hell to prevent a second Obama term....and now he slanders me like that.  So I clicked on the link ...
  • House Coming Back on Sunday Will Convene at 6: ...
    The House GOP caucus had a conference call this afternoon which almost all House Republicans dialed into. Members were told by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) that the House of Representatives will be "gaveled" into order at 6:30pm and members should “plan on being in town through the follow ...
  • Breaking..Obama Sends Proposal to Senate GOP
    Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) Just posted this on his Facebook page: Heading back to dc. Just learned that the Pres. reached out to Senate GOP leadership with a proposal. It is the first such proposal to be put forth. Eager to see what it is. Hope it is serious. I spoke to the Minority Lead ...
  • Harry Reid Gives Up On Fiscal Cliff Deal But O ...
    Get the Countdown Creator Pro widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) So the key questions becomes what is the proper etiquette for going over the fiscal cliff, do you put your hands up and scream like when riding a roller coaster or do you ...
  • BREAKING: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson resigns
    The news just crossed the wire that Lisa Jackson, EPA administrator and possibly the most anti-business member of the Obama administration has resigned: Environmental Protection Agency Administration Lisa Jackson says she's stepping down after nearly four years on the job. Jackson announc ...

The Real Agenda

  • When Firearms are Confiscated, Innocents are B ...
    JPFO | DECEMBER 27, 2012 In the history of the 20th Century, there were zero wars between what we would term “democratic” countries. The wars that killed so many millions involved either (1) non-democratic vs. democratic countries, or (2) non-democratic vs. nondemocratic countri ...
  • U.S. FDA calling for Genetically Modified Salm ...
    By ANTHONY GUCCIARDI | NATURAL SOCIETY | DECEMBER 27, 2012 While you were likely resting or enjoying time with friends and family over the Christmas break, the United States Food and Drug Administration was hard at work ramming through genetically modified salmon towards the final acce ...
  • Mercury is not out of vaccines and neither are ...
    By JENNIFER HUTCHINSON | VACTRUTH | DECEMBER 26, 2012 We know that mercury is a toxin. We know that it was removed from most vaccines more than a decade ago. End of story, right? Wrong. The debate has resurfaced. If the AAP and the WHO have their way and can successfully influence the ...
  • Nutrition Scrooges: Codex Alimentarius Committ ...
    SLEUTH JOURNAL | DECEMBER 26, 2012 The Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) just finished meeting all last week (December 3-7) in Bad Soden, a small German city near Frankfurt am Main. Nearly 300 delegates were in attendance, comprised of government func ...
  • Ladies and Gentleman: The Second Amendment
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 24, 2012 Before any serious discussion about the Second Amendment can begin, it is necessary to make sure those discussing its validity, definition and application really understand why it was written and how it applies to modern society. To ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind debate moves to a new chapter: Noise
    Some days there is no discernible noise coming from the wind turbines behind Steve and LuAnn Therrien’s house in Sheffield. Other days, they say, the turbines create a constant roar that wakes them up in the night, makes them sick to their stomachs or their heads, drives up his blood pressure an ...
  • Birds of prey: Hen harrier found dead on windfarm
    The potential impact of turbines on birds of prey was thrust into the spotlight yesterday after a hen harrier was found dead on a windfarm. RSPB Scotland said the adult male was discovered at the Griffin windfarm near Aberfeldy in Perthshire. A second bird was found with a badly-injured wing on ...
  • County will appeal wind ruling
    Windmills are not whirling along the southern shores of prince Edward County yet. Late Thursday afternoon, the Ministry of Environment The Ministry of Environment issued an approval for Gilead Power’s nine-turbine Ostrander Point Project in Prince Edward County, but there will be at least one ap ...
  • Bowers Mountain anti-wind group preps for DEP ...
    CARROLL PLANTATION, Maine – Gary Campbell feels good about his chances. The president of the Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed, Campbell said he hopes that First Wind’s second application to build an industrial wind site atop Bowers Mountain will get rejected like ...
  • Green-energy mandates will hit Pennsylvania&#8 ...
    A state mandate that requires electric providers to use more renewable and alternative sources in coming years will drive up the cost of electricity for all Pennsylvanians by $16 billion over the next eight years, according to a new study. Worse, the costs will fall hardest on the state’s lowest ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Teaching programming to journalists
    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been preparing a syllabus for an upper-level undergraduate journalism course that I will begin teaching in January. I’ve been learning Python and starting to learn about jQuery. I’ve got some advantages: I learned HTML in ...
  • Most-viewed posts in 2012
    According to my WordPress stats, these are the posts with the most pageviews in the past 12 months: Best social media tools for journalists (5,669) Timelines in journalism: A closer look (4,365) A few words about digital audio recorders (3,626) How to shoot video interviews (3,465) 10 Rul ...
  • Now in Portuguese and Chinese: Reporter’s Guid ...
    A new translation of this guide is now available, thanks to the efforts of Alessandra de Falco, a journalism professor at Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei in Brazil. She uses the guide in her classes. Em Português: Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency (PDF; 1 MB) Also, I neglec ...
  • Election 2012 maps: Showing data
    This was the first U.S. presidential election in the post-Flash era. In 2008, data maps were made with Flash. Now the online mapmakers have moved on to other technologies, largely using JavaScript. Here are three examples, with a full view and a zoom of each: WNYC Radio, New York: LA Times ...
  • 5 examples of interesting data presentations
    What do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.) Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.) Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Christ-mas
    Christmas is named after Jesus.  What have you done to Jesus this year? 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I [...]
  • Christ-mas
    Christmas is named after Jesus.  What have you done to Jesus this year? 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I [...]
  • On Killing Sprees
    I’ve waited a bit to weigh in on this, but I think it’s time. The two most important things to understand are that gun control would reduce harm significantly, and that gun control is a palliative for a sick culture.  The US does have more guns than anyone else, but countries like Fi ...
  • On Killing Sprees
    I’ve waited a bit to weigh in on this, but I think it’s time. The two most important things to understand are that gun control would reduce harm significantly, and that gun control is a palliative for a sick culture.  The US does have more guns than anyone else, but countries like Fi ...
  • The Reagan Play
    The Reagan play, in the last period of high oil prices was this: crush the economy and bring new sources of hydrocarbons online. This is also Obama’s play: fracking and  other unconventional hydrocarbon sources are being ramped up massively, while austerity crushes resource demand.  China ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Is America's Future Progressive?
    Progressives may be a lot less religious  than conservatives, but these days they have reason to think that Providence– or Gaia — has taken on a bluish hue. From the solid re-election of President Obama, to a host of demographic and social trends, the progressives seem poised to achieve wha ...
  • Urban Housing: A Master Plan for the Few
    How we, as a nation, find bounty and beauty in the future depends upon how we react to two trends emerging from the recent difficult period in American urbanism. The first of these trends is the increasing lack of affordability in mainstream urban America, with the costs of maintaining a middle ...
  • America the Mostly Beautiful
    In the fall of 2010, as part of a book project, ex-newspaperman Bill Steigerwald retraced the route John Steinbeck took in 1960 and turned into his classic “Travels With Charley.” Steigerwald drove 11,276 miles in 43 days from Long Island to the top of Maine to Seattle to San Fra ...
  • Central Banking's Hogwarts Syndrome
    Central banks—the US Federal Reserve is one—come with the mystique of Oz. While the Fed fiercely denies that it is powerful enough to cure recessions with a click of the heels, there are those who believe it's true. If, however, you look behind the velvet curtains and columned lobbies, you wil ...
  • America’s Baby Boom And Baby Bust Cities
    At this most familial time of the year, as recent events make us hold our children even closer, we might want to consider what kinds of environments are most conducive to having offspring. Alarm bells are beginning to ring in policy circles over the decline of the U.S. birth rate to a re ...

GM Watch

  • GM salmon step closer to our dining table
    EXTRACTS: Critics say... the FDA has relied on outdated science and substandard methods for assessing the new fish. "We are deeply concerned that the potential of these fish to cause allergic reactions has not been adequately researched," said Michael Hansen, a scientist at the Consumers Union. ...
  • GM salmon step closer to our dining table
    EXTRACTS: Critics say... the FDA has relied on outdated science and substandard methods for assessing the new fish. "We are deeply concerned that the potential of these fish to cause allergic reactions has not been adequately researched," said Michael Hansen, a scientist at the Consumers Union. ...
  • Who will pay for failed GM crops?
    Who will pay for failed GM crops? Annie Zaidi DNA, December 23 2012 http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/report_who-will-pay-for-failed-gm-crops_1780764 Mumbai: There have been some interesting developments in the tweaked food department. Maharashtra has admitted that cotton yield is likely to redu ...
  • Who will pay for failed GM crops?
    Who will pay for failed GM crops? Annie Zaidi DNA, December 23 2012 http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/report_who-will-pay-for-failed-gm-crops_1780764 Mumbai: There have been some interesting developments in the tweaked food department. Maharashtra has admitted that cotton yield is likely to redu ...
  • Deadly GM food
    EXTRACT: Companies aim to maximise profit for shareholders. Any safety requirements are secondary concerns. In a democracy, we... expect our elected officials to take care of these concerns on our behalf. But how can they when governments and regulatory bodies have virtually become mouthpieces o ...

spiked

  • What’s left of press freedom?
    The founder of Hacked Off’s book reveals how radical lobbyists wrote the illiberal script for the Leveson Inquiry.
  • From the freewheelin’ Sixties to the fea ...
    Everyone talks about the impact, whether good or bad, of the tumultuous Sixties - but two in-depth books about that decade say and reveal more than most.
  • Are we witnessing the decline and fall of men?
    Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men shouldn’t be read as a cast-iron prediction of a newly gendered future, but rather as the raiser of important questions about the crisis of masculinity.
  • Why learning can’t be bought
    In a fascinating examination of the consumerised state of higher education, Joanna Williams sheds light where other analyses have emitted only heat.
  • A braindead approach to free will
    As Wired for Culture demonstrates, the greatest intellectual threats posed to freedom and autonomy today are those put up by evolutionary biologists and psychologists

Cryptogon

  • AP’s Dangerous Iran Hoax
    Via: Guardian: Although it was intuitively obvious that the graph trumpeted by AP as scary and incriminating of Iran’s nuclear program was actually a farce, there is now new, overwhelming, very compelling scientific evidence that is the case. Whether as victim or recklessly culpable partic ...
  • Australian Government Admits to Accessing Peop ...
    I wonder what happens when their targets/citizens run persistent VPNs located in other countries? Via: Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIAN law enforcement and government agencies have sharply increased their access without warrant to vast quantities of private telephone and internet data, promptin ...
  • DOE ‘Manhattan Project’ to Build N ...
    There’s just one problem with this analogy. The Manhattan Project cost about $25.8 billion (in 2012 dollars). This DOE effort is $120 million over five years. That’s a noise level allocation of resources compared to The Manhattan Project. Of course, if you need a façade to role out s ...
  • The New Zealand Film Being Passed Off As North ...
    Really quick, to let people know to please stop submitting this: Propaganda is a pisstake by New Zealand filmmaker Slavko Martinov. The artifice of the hoax was what grabbed the attention of mainstream media with this thing. Here are some films that cover similar topics (and aren’t hoaxes) ...
  • DOJ Drops Monsanto Antitrust Investigation
    Via: Mother Jones: There’s an age-old tradition in Washington of making unpopular announcements when no one’s listening—like, you know, the days leading up to Thanksgiving. That’s when the Obama administration sneaked a tasty dish to the genetically modified seed/pesticide indu ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Government Dependents Outnumber Those With Pri ...
    America is rapidly becoming a nation of takers.  An increasing number of Americans expect the government to take care of them from the cradle to the grave, and they expect the government to dig into the pockets of others in order to pay for it all.  This philosophy can be very seductive, but wha ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Instead of raising awareness about hunger, hel ...
    The sentence above came to my mind after reading the article announced below.  I know that, for some years already, we have been drawing attention to the possibilities for offering hungry people a chance to grow fresh food in a … Continue reading →
  • Conference on desertification / Restoration of ...
    Read at : http://www.landscapeinstitute.org/london/news/article.php?item=475 With climate change affecting landscape this might appeal to many, from students to those with projects in UAE and drought-laden areas. University of Greenwich 8 January 2013 This one‐day conference has been organised a ...
  • River basin desertification in Tibet (Google / ...
    Read at : http://chinatibet.people.com.cn/8072356.html Tibet to combat river basin desertification Tibet is to build 4 dams along the part of the Lhasa River within the city as a palliative to desertification at some of the drainage areas, according to the … Continue reading →
  • More attention to desertification in Nigeria ( ...
    Read at : Google Alerts http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/fg-pay-more-attention-desertification-jibunoh FG to pay more attention to desertification — Jibunoh Founder of the Fight Against Desert Encroachment (FADE) has urged the Federal Government to start implementing the Great Green Wo ...
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY 2013 (Willem Van C ...
    My sincere best wishes and season’s greetings to you all. May 2013 bring more fresh food to all the malnourished children, hopefully because the developed world shares a bit of its wealth to offer a sustainable kitchen garden in containers … Continue reading →

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backofthebook.ca

  • Chief Spence and the Prime Minister’s pride
    By Montreal Simon I didn’t want to blog on Christmas. I just wanted to enjoy the day. But I couldn’t get these two contrasting images out of my mind. Chief Theresa Spence slowly starving to death. While Stephen Harper, with a weird look on his face, plays cribbage. And the Idle No Mo ...
  • Boxing Day: Our gift to The States
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Boxing Day was traditionally the day servants took off to spend time with their families and received gift boxes from their employers (or so one of the explanations goes). Nowadays, Boxing Day is better known as the Day to Buy Honking Big Electronics and Other Self-Indul ...
  • Idle No More: The overnight YouTube roundup
    The Idle No More movement approached critical mass yesterday, as tens of thousands of First Nations people and their supporters rallied across Canada, and as far afield as New Mexico and Ukraine. Many of the peaceful protests, featuring round dances and drumming, struck at the very heart of the ...
  • New F-35 figures don’t fly either
    By David@Sixthestate.net I have to say, it’s pretty depressing that not one of the many, many professional journalists in Canada is literate enough to read a government report. To their credit, some are trying. But they also had a whole press briefing slash lock-up slash sleazy play-time with th ...
  • Next time, the children could be Canadian
    By Montreal Simon I was glad to see Obama visit the latest community in America to be shattered by gun violence. And I was happy to hear him say this. “We can’t tolerate this any more. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.” So maybe all the poor little chil ...

libcom

  • Anti-fascists of Kazan, Russia need solidarity!
    Our friend Oleg is threatened with 5 years in prison, as he is facing charges according to statutes 213 (hooliganism) and 116 parts 2a, 2b (battery) of Russian criminal codex. This is already second such case against Oleg, first time he was charged 3 years ...
  • USI-AIT hospital workers strike in Florence
    547014_449003295160537_694289372_n.jpg On 12 December 2012, the workers at Careggi hospital in Florence went on strike against the proposal by the company, made unilaterally and signed by the mainstre ...
  • Report from Right to Work Less Protest
    crowd.jpg Report From Right To Work for Less Protest in Michigan 12-11-12 by David, First of May Anarchist Alliance member Excerpt: "I started the day feeling pessimistic about ...
  • New short films on Belarusian anarchist politi ...
    Two new short films with English subtitles dedicated to Belarusian anarchist political prisoners have been released as part of the Belarusian series "Chronicles of the times of courts", one is dedicated to Ihar Alinevich and the other to Mikalaj ...
  • Fired workers taken to court for blogging abou ...
    riskypopcorn.jpg Solidarity with the Workers of Natais popcorn factory in France! Exposed to hazardous substances, forced to work on precarious conditions, the workers tried to fight back. On Thursday ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Rima Laibow, Master of the “Craft” ...
    Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stranger, we now have “Dr.” Psycho-shrink Rima Laibow declaring in a PUBLIC VIDEO that “she is Sandy-Hook Shooter Adam Lanza’s Doctor”.  Not only that, Laibow the wacko tells you with a straight face that she “he ...
  • Rima Laibow, Master of the “Craft” ...
    Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stranger, we now have “Dr.” Psycho-shrink Rima Laibow declaring in a PUBLIC VIDEO that “she is Sandy-Hook Shooter Adam Lanza’s Doctor”.  Not only that, Laibow the wacko tells you with a straight face that she “he ...
  • The Innocent Face of Sandy Hook Massacre &#821 ...
    Today, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 there will be a very public memorial service for 6 year old Emilie here in my home town of Ogden, Utah.  Emilie, a precocious and PRECIOUS blue-eyed, blonde sweetheart gunned down with 19 other classmates in Newtown, Ct. last Friday has become the face of the Sandy ...
  • The Innocent Face of Sandy Hook Massacre &#821 ...
    Today, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 there will be a very public memorial service for 6 year old Emilie here in my home town of Ogden, Utah.  Emilie, a precocious and PRECIOUS blue-eyed, blonde sweetheart gunned down with 19 other classmates in Newtown, Ct. last Friday has become the face of the Sandy ...
  • So-Called “Junk” DNA Explains &#82 ...
    Genetic researchers have long ignored the majority of the human DNA strand, calling it “Junk” simply because it doesn’t relate to the color of your skin or eyes – and because it doesn’t dissect proteins.  The fact is, the “Junk” DNA makes up over 90% of ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Room Addition Esti ...
    GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE ROOM ADDITION ESTIMATE FOR ADDING A 2ND FLOOR DORMER ONTO AN EXISTING BUILDING. Rough Estimate on projected costs to add a 2nd Floor Room Addition to an existing 1 story building in St Louis. Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Frank Lloyd Wrigh ...
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Room Addition Esti ...
    GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE ROOM ADDITION ESTIMATE FOR ADDING A 2ND FLOOR DORMER ONTO AN EXISTING BUILDING. Rough Estimate on projected costs to add a 2nd Floor Room Addition to an existing 1 story building in St Louis. Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Frank Lloyd Wrigh ...
  • CAD Designs for Adding a 2nd Story Addition on ...
    CAD Options Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting-Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired 2nd Floor Room Addition-Additional Green Features: Photovoltaic Solar System- Passive Solar Design for Natural Day-lighting thru a bank of windows on the West Wall. Designed by Sco ...
  • CAD Designs for Adding a 2nd Story Addition on ...
    CAD Options Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting-Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired 2nd Floor Room Addition-Additional Green Features: Photovoltaic Solar System- Passive Solar Design for Natural Day-lighting thru a bank of windows on the West Wall. Designed by Sco ...
  • 4 Family Investment Property Rehab Constructio ...
    Table of Contents for the Green Build Rehab of a 4 Family Investment Property in St Louis General Contractor on Project: Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy  How we  brought the Old Western – Old South St Louis Architecture- Decor and Feel into a Modern Day Apartment- Benton Gut ...

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Oxfam Challenges Negative African Stereotypes
    Starving child covered in flies It appears a lot of people are as sick to death as I am of the World Vision and Tear Fund TV ads featuring starving, fly-infested African children. The International Business Times has an interesting article about a study the international aid organization ...
  • Vice-and-Virtue Police Patolling Aleppo
    Revolutionary Military Council (Aleppo) According to alakhbar English, the so-called Revolutionary Military Council, having declared an independent Islamic state in Syria’s largest city Aleppo, has banned women from driving. They have also made prayer compulsory, as well as creating a ...
  • Was the Sandy Hook Massacre a Failed Rebellion?
    Going Postal by Mark Ames The best analysis I’ve read about the root cause of the rage massacre in Connecticut last week comes from Michael Rechenwald, founder of Citizens for Legitimate Government in Seeking Definitive Causes and Solution for Rage Massacres. Rechenwald agrees with Ma ...
  • What Price Transparency?
    Daniel Ellsberg “When all who are honestly mistaken hear the truth, they will either quit being mistaken or cease being honest.” ~Anonymous~ Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has a recent article in the Huffington Post about a new group he has started with journalists Glenn Gr ...
  • Is Global Trade on the Verge of Collapse
    No Comments photo credit Zero Hedge Man the Lifeboats – She’s Going Down! Picking up on a December 12th post by Tyler Durden at  Zero Hedge, Mac Slavo at Blacklisted News warns that a 8.2% overnight drop in th ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...
    Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Criticizing Democ ...
    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Se ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About the War on Women on ...
    From @MMFlint "McCaskill, Warren, Stabenaw, Klobuchar, Baldwin Senate victories = Declare a War on Women, prepare to lose. #legitimate" "RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, how the f*** are all these women winning?! They don't even wear TIES." "RT @KailiJoy: Magic lady parts not only detect rape s ...
  • GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quite
    By Walt De Vries From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...
  • OCTOBER 9, 2002, TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S. Gov ...
    From Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn: In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative Italian Prime Minister Sil ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • An Email from Santa Claus to Climate Skeptics
    A few Christmases ago, I published this email from Santa, which arrived on the night before the night before Christmas. Readers had so much fun with it, it's become an annual tradition. Enjoy!
  • Subsidies for Nuclear Power: Is It Really A Tax?
    Podcast Episode 115 - Download the mp3 file Play the PodcastMy first reaction was “Wow! Did I just read that correctly?!”
  • Crises Erupt as Glacial Retreat Threatens Wate ...
    The dramatic, profound impacts of global warming are increasingly becoming apparent, particularly as regards vital freshwater supplies. Glaciers around the world are in retreat, threatening the sustainability of populations across entire regions—a process that has been under way for decades.
  • BC Offshore Wind Signs Up Siemens, and Hopes
    Late last week, NaiKun Wind Energy Group announced a preferred supplier deal with the Canadian arm of Siemens. The deal would put to work the Germany-based energy giant’s new 4-MW turbine – an upgrade on the widely used SWT-3.6 – that Siemens is now promoting after installing a prototype in Denmark.
  • The BLM Makes the Case for Banning Waste Pits, ...
    The BLM recently issued a new Instruction Memorandum to its field offices. This IM establishes policy for reducing preventable wildlife mortality, increasing protection of livestock, and increasing human health and safety around oil and gas facilities.

EU Times

  • Russia says next-gen spacecraft design ready
    Russia’s halting attempts to build a next generation spacecraft have received a boost after a leading constructor announced that it has completed the design of a new prototype. But seasoned space watchers await specifics before popping their corks. ­“We have finished the design of the new spaces ...
  • Hawaiian Islands may disappear in future
    Researchers have claimed that some parts of the Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific that are currently dissolving by groundwater might disappear in future. The study indicates that the Hawaiian Islands are now experiencing significant erosion while the groundwater under the islands is dissolvi ...
  • Bad financial score now ‘the dating equivalent ...
    Asking for a date’s credit score has apparently eclipsed more traditional check-list questions like a good job and shared interests. According to the New York Times, websites like Creditscoredating.com state that ‘Good Credit Is Sexy,’ and marriage counselors and dating site ex ...
  • Scientists discover black holes weighing 40 bi ...
    It turns out that the largest black holes may be even bigger than scientists previously thought. New research from NASA shows there are some real monsters out there, weighing the equivalent masses of 10 to 40 billion suns. ­Scientists refer to them as ‘ultramassive’ black holes, not to confuse t ...
  • US moves to sell South Korea spy drones
    The administration of US President Barack Obama has notified the Congress of a possible sale of advanced spy drones to South Korea. The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement dated Monday and distributed on Tuesday that the South Korean government had requested ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Reggie Wayne And Robert Mathis Named To Pro Bowl
    Last night the NFL announced the squads for the 2012 Pro Bowl squads, in other words naming the players who will appear in a game with pretty much no meaning. That said, it is still an honor for most of the players recognized as pro bowlers. This year, the Indianapolis Colts have two pro bowler ...
  • Newspapers and guns: If data is available, sho ...
    Tension around issues of gun ownership, gun-control legislation and other firearms-related topics has been at a fever pitch ever since the recent mass shooting of elementary-school children in Connecticut — but one small-town newspaper in New York state touched off a particularly harsh firestor ...
  • Harry Reid: Fiscal Cliff Looks Inevitable Due ...
    The fiscal cliff will soon be reached thanks to a Republican “dictatorship” in the House of Representatives, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Thursday. Reid took the Senate floor to express his anger that Republicans didn’t seem interested in ending the standoff that has taken negotiat ...
  • Matt Damon Says He Is Done With Washington Pol ...
    Matt Damon stated during an interview with Playboy magazine that he is done with Washington politics and feels that the game is rigged. The actor is currently doing the media circuit to promote the release of his new movie Promised Land . The flick takes on the controversial and highly politica ...
  • Reid's charge, Boehner's abdication: Obama sho ...
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made an extraordinary statement this morning correctly taking House Republicans and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to task for what is one of the great abdications of responsibility in modern government. Reid is right, but these charges and counter-char ...

Groklaw

  • Youre Out of Order! Dealing with the Costs of ...
    The difficulty for new lawyers is not only recognizing that they should stand up for themselves but also properly calibrating their response. "If I'm a young lawyer dealing with a particularly difficult opponent whom I think is trying to intimidate me, I may be tough back," explains Smaby of th ...
  • University wins record $1.17 billion verdict a ...
    A Pittsburgh jury found that hard drive control chips made by Marvell Semiconductor infringe two patents owned by Carnegie Mellon University. Following a four-week trial in federal court, nine jurors unanimously held that Marvell should have to pay $1,169,140,271 in damages-the full sum that ...
  • A valuable lesson from Randi Zuckerberg: Onlin ...
    As detailed by BuzzFeed, the problem started late Christmas evening, when Vox Media staffer Callie Schweitzer shared a funny photo on Twitter of the Zuckerberg family using the social network's new Poke feature - an app that allows users to send messages or photos that self-destruct after a cert ...
  • Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers, rese ...
    A year-long examination of cybersecurity by The Washington Post has found that health care is among the most vulnerable industries in the country, in part because it lags behind in addressing known problems....The University of Chicago medical center operated an unsecure Dropbox site for new res ...
  • Google Muscles in on Microsofts Turf
    Google is muscling in on Microsoft 's turf as it wins over more business customers with its cloud-based software. In the past year Google Apps has notched up a big string of wins, including at the Swiss drug maker Hoffmann-La Roche, where over 80,000 employees use the package, and at the Interio ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Saltwater algae viable for biofuels
    “What this means is that you can use ocean water to grow the algae that will be used to produce biofuels.”“And once you can use ocean water, you are no longer limited by the constraints associated with fresh water. Ocean water is simply not a limited resource on this planet,&#8 ...
  • Meaning of the fiscal cliff: “We were all lyin ...
    Congress and Obama now must face the consequences of the budgetary agreement they made in 2011 even as they had no intention of honoring. So it’s off the fiscal cliff we go. They kicked the can down the road for 2 years and now, surprise, must honor it. The economy may go off a [...]
  • California marijuana farms trash and poison th ...
    California marijuana farms siphon large amounts of water from streams and rivers endangering salmon and other fish, clear-cut wide areas, poison the area and water with pesticides, deliberately kill predators and animals that might eat the crops, and in general make a devastating mess and trash ...
  • Operation Fast and Furious gun found after dru ...
    The ATF is linked to two guns found after a drug cartel gunfight in Sinaloa, Mexico. One disappeared during Operation Fast and Furious; the other was bought by a supervisor of the operation.The supervisor had no comment which is not surprising since Senators have called for an investigation. The ...
  • Shipping containers to be used in first US mul ...
    Shipping containers will be used in a luxury multifamily home build; the site of construction is located in Detroit and will start in early 2013. Recycling 93 Shipping containers, this project is thought to be the first in the US and the hope is to easily replicate the build. [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

  • Crunch time for funding G. Porter's book on Iran!
    Hi, everyone! We have just six days to go in our online fundraiser for Gareth Porter's very important planned book Manufactured Crisis: The Secret History of the Iranian Nuclear Scare. We've just topped getting pledges for 2/3 of the $10,000 we need for this. Can you do anything to help us get ...
  • Palestine and the Arab Spring
    Plenty of western commentators have asserted that the attention that participants in the Arab Spring have been paying to governance issues in their own countries means that somehow they no longer really care about Palestine. (A few people, most notably As'ad Abou-Khalil, have challenged that as ...
  • Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?
    Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with ...
  • Notes on Israeli threats of launching a 'Dahiy ...
    1. Some prominent Israelis are calling for a 'Dahiyeh' operation against Gaza. I just watched this clip from a news/discussion program on Israel's Channel 2. In it, "military analyst" Roni Daniel openly calls for the implementation of a "Dahiyeh" operation ("like in Beirut"), against Gaza. Dahi ...
  • Fundraiser for key new book on Iran-- please help!
    As some JWN readers know, twelve days ago I launched an online fundraising campaign to support the writing and publication of one of my company's most important books for 2013, a book by award-winning investigative reporter Gareth Porter that exposes how the U.S. and Israel have "manufactured" t ...

frogblog

  • What is New Zealand’s best beach?
    Summer in Aotearoa means sun, sand, BBQs and beaches. But the beaches we love are under threat from deep sea oil drilling. Vote for your favourite beach to find out more.
  • General debate, December 22, 2012
  • The final word on bank profits
    The Report of the Finance & Expenditure Committee on the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Statement for December 2012 is now public and contains the following gem on bank profitability late in 2012 (from page 9): Recent data released by the Reserve Bank updated information it had provided to u ...
  • Where rivers meet the sea – two North Auckland ...
    The murky green water at the Matakana Wharf looked rather less inviting than the array of delicious artisan produce at the nearby Matakana Market. But we were paddling, not swimming, and the Auckland Council’s most recent (2011) monitoring rates the river as having “good” water quality, rather t ...
  • Education Minister missing in inaction
    Education Minister Missing in inaction  Its not every day that the highest profile public servant, the chief executive of one of our biggest Government departments, stands down, a  week before Christmas, and after a year in which her department was almost never out of the spotlight, for all the ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • What Country Tops the List of Healthiest Count ...
    By Dr. Mercola The United States spends $2.7 trillion annually -- TWICE the amount per person as most other industrialized nations – on health care. With this level of spending, you might think Americans would be among the healthiest people on the planet … unfortunately, that isn't the case. ...
  • Link Between Flame Retardants and Neurodevelop ...
    By Dr. Mercola The U.S. implemented fire safety standards in the 1970s that over time have led to more and more products adopting the use of toxic flame-retardant chemicals (polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs) to meet the stringent regulations. PBDEs, which are similar in chemical ...
  • Popular Weight Loss Drug May Cause Permanent L ...
    By Dr. Mercola The weight loss drug orlistat (known as Xenical by prescription and Alli, available over-the-counter) is one of the most popular on the market. Alli is even known to flaunt the fact that it’s approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its advertisements, us ...
  • The Canadian Cancer Society and Neutrogena: Pa ...
    By Dr. Mercola Cosmetics giant Neutrogena, whose parent company Johnson & Johnson has allowed the use of potentially cancer-causing chemicals in their products (and only announced in August 2012 that they would be removing them by the end of 2015), has taken on an unlikely new partner ...
  • From All of Us, to All of You - A Very Merry C ...
    By Dr. Mercola This holiday season, I want to thank you for your continued support throughout the years and update you on some of the progress we made in 2012. It's been a year of many significant achievements, thanks to your support and your efforts in helping spread the message, and educate ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • #Video: #Frankenfish One Step Closer To Market
    from therealfoodchannel.com: During the Christmas 2012 holiday, the FDA quietly moved the genetically modified salmon called "frankenfish" one step closer to market. The Food and Drug Administration released draft documents that assessed the environmental risks posed by AquAdvantage salmon, whic ...
  • #Video: United Nations Source of Haiti's Deadl ...
    Create The Problem, Then Solve It from brasschecktv.com: With much fan fare, the UN recently announced a program to "rid Haiti of cholera." Just one problem, until UN troops infected with the disease came to Haiti recently, there was no cholera reported there.
  • #Video: Brominated Vegetable Oil Found In Citr ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Why is a chemical used as fire retardant found in the mother's milk of American women?
  • Father-daughter duo have the world’s first bra ...
    from stratrisks.com: It should be fairly obvious why, all technological considerations aside, there has been much more research into letting machines extract our thoughts, rather than insert them. Mind reading is a scary-enough concept all on its own — but mindwriting? It calls to mind the hac ...
  • Top 10 Packaged Foods You Shouldn't Buy
    from mercola.com: Grist Magazine started me off on this list by providing the first five packaged foods that are completely unnecessary, as making them at home is not only simple, but far healthier and more inexpensive. I added five more to Jane Mountain's list, for a total of 10.  Canned ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Government Dependents Outnumber Those With Pri ...
    America is rapidly becoming a nation of takers.  An increasing number of Americans expect the government to take care of them from the cradle to the grave, and they expect the government to dig into the pockets of others in order to pay for it all.  This philosophy can be very seductive, but wha ...
  • 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 ...

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    Gamesa to Supply 3 Turbines for Renewable Energy Project
    Bloomberg
    Renewable Energy's Burnthouse Farm in Cambridgeshire will use Gamesa's two-megawatt G80 turbines and be completed by mid-2013, the Jersey, Channel Islands-based developer said today in a statement. The purchase price wasn't disclosed. To contact ...
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    Renewable Energy: Still Breaking Wind
    Power Line (blog)
    The federal budget is not the only thing looking at dropping off a fiscal cliff. One of the loose ends caught in the whole mess is the renewal of the “production tax credit” (PTC) for wind power, a supposedly “temporary” measure to help the industry ...
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    DailyFinance
    A leader in the growing industry of advanced biofuels and renewable energy. The Obama administration is a big proponent of alternative fuel sources and RFS2 and other government programs should drive demand further for the company's products.
    New York sets aside $250 million for renewable energy projects
    The Business Review
    The funding will be administered by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority through the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard, and is targeted to electric generation projects that use wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass or other ...
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    Ecology finalizes Rayonier site cleanup study
    Peninsula Daily
    PORT ANGELES — A study in the works since 2008 that will allow the cleanup of the former mill site owned by Rayonier Inc. to move forward has been finalized by the state Department of Ecology. Ecology officials released the final version of the Port ...
    U.S. Ecology: Rising Earnings Estimates
    Seeking Alpha
    US Ecology, Inc. (ECOL) has delivered 9 straight quarters of positive earnings surprises, and has been a consistent payer of dividends since 2005. On October 29, the waste management and recycling services provider raised its fiscal 2012 earnings ...
    Ecology releases Port Angeles Harbor pollution study reports
    Access Washington
    OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has issued final versions of two reports and a response to recent public comments on results of a large-scale sediment sampling study in Port Angeles Harbor. Ecology began the study in 2008 as ...
    Ecology scholars survey Eungella for rare plants, insects
    Mackay Daily Mercury
    Reeforest Adventure tours run day tours from Mackay and Airlie Beach. The tours, such as to Eungella National Park, Cape Hillsborough National Park, Nebo and the Mackay City, have been running in the area since the 1990's. Contributed. A GROUP of ...
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    Glen Cove gets $230000 state grant for water system
    Newsday (subscription)
    The city has five wells, but only four are currently running, and engineering studies have shown seven wells are needed to satisfy future demands for drinking water, irrigation and firefighting, he said. The fifth well has... Content Preview This ...
    Wendell Cox: Ruling risks interstate water pacts
    OCRegister
    Herrmann is Oklahoma's refusal to allow Texas to draw water to which it is entitled under the Red River Compact. The Compact was freely negotiated among Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana and then enacted into federal law as an interstate ...
    Boston police officer honored for heroism in saving woman from icy water in ...
    Boston.com
    Officer Edward Norton was recognized today for rescuing a woman drowning in frigid Boston Harbor last week. A Boston police officer was honored today for jumping into the cold waters of Boston Harbor on Friday afternoon to save a woman. At police ...
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    Ancient Marine Reptiles Swam in Rivers Too
    New York Times
    Published: December 24, 2012. Mosasaurs were large, ancient relatives of monitor lizards. They were common during the Late Cretaceous period, 66 million to 100 million years ago, and were found near shallow marine areas in salt water. Enlarge This ...
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