27 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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CASSE

• The Outlook for Steady State Economics in 2013
  Looking beyond Mayan myths, there's a sign of good things to come in 2013 and beyond: more and more people are joing the steady state cause.
• Aristotle in Connecticut
  Eric Zencey searches for deeper causes in the midst of grief and dismay over the most recent American shooting tragedy.
• Elect More Women: Prerequisite for a Sustainab ...
  With men controlling legislative bodies, we've arrived at a global crisis point (both environmentally and socially). It's time to try electing more women.
• Economics as “Unusual” in Australian Politics
  Senator Christine Milne drops some seeds of hope in the barren fields of the Australian political landscape.
• The Daly-Correa Tax: Background and Explanation
  Herman Daly has an unorthodox suggestion for curtailing carbon dioxide emissions: grant more power to OPEC.

The Talking Clock

• Every end is a new beginning...
  Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
• Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
  On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
• European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
  Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
• Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
  Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
• The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
  As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

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 ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 27 December 2012
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: prehistoric cinema, the world's hardest puzzle,2012 reviews, 2013 previews, and more
• Today on New Scientist: 21 December 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: devaluing animals and humans, Victorian counting device goes quantum, Apple under fire, and more
• Studio sessions show how Bengalese finch stays ...
  This songbird doesn't need technological aids to stay in tune – and it's smart enough to not worry when it hears notes that are too far off to be true
• Today on New Scientist: 20 December 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: curing congenital diseases in the womb, cosmic inflation in 2013, software to stop market crashes, and more
• Spider builds giant decoy of itself
  A naturalist trekking in Peru has spotted a spider that builds a huge decoy doppelganger out of leaves and dead insects

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• 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. ...

Veterans Today

• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Dece ...
  From the VA Community Living Center at Cheyenne, Wyo. to the Texas Veterans Health Care Systems, VA staff, volunteers and communities bring holiday cheer to America’s Veterans during the 2012 holiday season.
• Good Terrorists Versus Bad Terrorists in Syria
  By Ismail Salami Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy. In a somber political tone, R ...
• Stop Mass Killings Limit First Amendment Not S ...
  Any way you slice it, the real culprit in these massacres is THE MEDIA.
• Off-the-record New Year Conversation with Pres ...
  An off-the-record New Year conversation with President Obama — By Alan Hart — Q: Mr. President, I’d like to begin this conversation with a quote from a recent article by Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times. He wrote: “The only thing standing between Israel and national suicide a ...
• Round – Robin: Submission on “The ...
  By using the term Zionist, you cover up the greater crimes of all Jews — By Frederick Toben, John Kaminski and Others — John   1. UNFORTUNATELY – what you have gushed forth in this below verbal flourish and stinging analysis is CORRECT, but not only! 2. HOWEVER – some individual ...

electric politics

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

PR News

• IPO market to see no improvement in 2013: survey
  NEW YORK: Two-thirds of US transaction attorneys believe the IPO market will be flat in 2013 compared to 2012, according to a survey by KCSA Strategic Communications.
• Bolt PR begins work with retail, food companies
  IRVINE, CA: Bolt Public Relations has added three lifestyle brands to its client roster.
• Former Ruder Finn SVP Pray launches own firm
  BROOKLYN, NY: Andy Pray, former SVP of digital strategy at Ruder Finn, launched his own Brooklyn-based firm earlier this month, known as Praytell Strategy.
• Mobile operator EE revamps agency roster
  EE has reviewed its UK agency support, extending the work of Nelson Bostock and ending its relationship with GolinHarris.
• Republic brings in DeVries Slam for music, fas ...
  High end retailer Republic has appointed DeVries Slam to promote its fusion of music and fashion.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Co ...
  Alberta Prairie Conservation Forum Alberta Society of Professional Biologists 19 Feb 2013 (All day) - 22 Feb 2013 (All day) Purpose The& ...
• Job Opportunity: Seasonal Park Interpreter, Al ...
  Position:  Seasonal Park Interpreter Organization:  Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation ...
• Job Opportunity: Project Manager, Clean Air St ...
  Position:  Project Manager Organization:  Clean Air Strategic Alliance ...
• Prairie Grasslands and Species at Risk Protected
  Government Sets High Bar for Suffield National Wildlife Area Alberta Wilderness Association 30 Nov 2012 The seven-group Suff ...
• Wild prairie grasslands or gas wells and pipel ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association For four years, we've been keeping you up-to-date on Suffield National Wildlife Area and this very question: What will it be, wild prairie grasslands or 1,275 new Cenovus gas wells and 220 kilometres of ...

Stop NATO

• Turkey Seeks 117 Missiles From The U.S.
  Voice of Russia December 26, 2012 Turkey seeks 117 missiles from US Turkey has ordered 117 air-to-air Sidewinder missiles from the US amid a spiraling conflict in Syria, the Defense Department’s Security Cooperation Agency said Monday. The agency has issued a notice for the US Congress saying th ...
• Afghanistan: U.S. Launches Record Number Of De ...
  RT December 25, 2012 US sets records with number of drone strikes in Afghanistan this year The United States has carried out more drone strikes this year in Afghanistan than it has during its eight-year-long air war in Pakistan, launching 447 strikes and killing thousands while also reducing its ...
• Michel Corday: War sentiment is general dement ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Michel Corday: Blood! Blood! But there is still not enough. Michel Corday: The everlasting glorification of murder Michel Corday: Millions of men killed to cure a single hypochondriac Anatole France and Michel Corday: Threat of ...
• Kosovo: U.S. Builds Army, Prepares NATO Membership
  Stars and Stripes December 24, 2012 Kosovo aims to form military force and join NATO Steven Beardsley ==== “It is not absolutely clear if all allies are going to participate in those new tasks, but NATO as an alliance will do it,” then-NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told reporters ...
• Afghanistan: U.S.’s Parthian Retreat
  Voice of Russia December 24, 2012 What next for Afghanistan after NATO’s scheduled pullout? Boris Pavlishev ==== “The Americans are actually not after stability or putting an end to terrorism in Afghanistan. They are after gaining a permanent strategic foothold in Southwest Asia. Providing ...

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Intel Hub

• TSA Agent: ‘We Laugh at Your Nude Images ...
  RT | Former TSA Agent reveals that even though the agency guarantees that an officer will never encounter a passenger that he has just seen naked, this rule does get violated.
• Police State 2012: The FBI Will Apply The Term ...
  Washington's Blog | From the sprawling Surveillance and indefinite detention to the para-militarization of domestic police with an emerging fleet of drones, the War on Terror is being brought to U.S. soil.
• Alert: Firearm Confiscation Plan Announced For ...
  Infowars.com | US senators, state governors and others are testing the waters to see if they can sell a national confiscation buy back program.
• Piers Morgan: Time for an ‘Amendment to the Bible’
  Intel Hub Note: Simply put, Piers Morgan is a certified anti-American scum bag. By Eliana Johnson Mediaite December 27, 2012 CNN’s Piers Morgan, who has come under fire for his vocal support of gun control and his strident opposition to gun enthusiasts, one of whom he denounced on his show as an ...
• China to be Surrounded by US Stealth Jets by 2017
  theintelhub.com December 27, 2012 The United States’ presence in the Asia-Pacific is about to be much more impressive: by 2017, the US is expected to have all but surrounded China, its number one economic rival, with fleets of the most advanced stealth warplanes in the world. According to recent ...

FRS

• Rape As Weapon of Domination: The Clout of Cas ...
  By Ershad Abubacker,  Countercurrents.org, 27 December, 2012 More often than not, Arundhati Roy speaks unwelcome truths, truths that essentially do not go down well with the elite class. And hence she always gets dubbed as outspoken and is being criticized for that. She was recently in the headl ...
• Julian Assange: expect more exposure of govern ...
  Founder of whistleblowing website marks six months’ confinement in Ecuadorean embassy with bullish speech Conal Urquhart, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 December 2012 Julian Assange has said that WikiLeaks is preparing to publish 1m new secret government documents as he marked six months of r ...
• Julian Assange: expect more exposure of govern ...
  Founder of whistleblowing website marks six months’ confinement in Ecuadorean embassy with bullish speech Conal Urquhart, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 December 2012 Julian Assange has said that WikiLeaks is preparing to publish 1m new secret government documents as he marked six months of r ...
• When did “the land of the free” become a “poli ...
  [The capitalist rulers of the USA have long claimed the country to be the fountain of democracy, brotherhood and freedom.  But along the way, the victims of the US’ rampant and violent growth have wondered "what in the world are they talking about?" When the colonists and later the pilgrims arri ...
• When did “the land of the free” become a “poli ...
  [The capitalist rulers of the USA have long claimed the country to be the fountain of democracy, brotherhood and freedom.  But along the way, the victims of the US’ rampant and violent growth have wondered "what in the world are they talking about?" When the colonists and later the pilgrims arri ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• No Apocalypse Yet, but If the NRA Gets Its Way ...
  The NRA weighed in on the Sandy Hook school shooting, and the big answer? Aw, you guessed it. More guns. We don't need the Maya to bring about the end of the world, we're doing just fine on our own.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Dec 21, 2012
• Fiscal Cliff 'Plan B' Bill Collapse Shows Inco ...
  House Speaker John Boehner’s attempt to appear “reasonable” in the face of President Obama’s intransigence over the fiscal cliff negotiations has ended in defeat and ignominy. He has handed Obama a political victory and the American people a tax increase.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: ...
• Scott Brown's Defection on Assault Weapon Ban ...
  Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican who failed to win re-election, has come out against assault weapons and indicated that he supports a ban on such firearms. While Brown won't be around to vote on any such ban, his voice is valuable and courageous.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Dec 20, 2012
• Rice Shows Maturity, Professionalism in Steppi ...
  Embattled UN Ambassador withdraws from Secretary of State consideration, saying that the battle for confirmation isn't worth it for the country.Contributor: Susan Graybeal Published: Dec 13, 2012
• Obama is Right -- Higher Tax Rates on the Rich ...
  People like myself are getting tired of hearing about this fiscal cliff deal being held up just because the GOP refuses to accept the Nov. 6 election results. Taxing the rich more isn't being done for fun, it's necessary.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Dec 06, 2012

Popsci - Science

• Forensic Crime Labs Are A Mess. What Happened?
  The Justice Department is reviewing thousands of FBI cases for flawed forensic work that could've contributed to the conviction of innocent people. Even worse: This might be bigger than the FBI. Earlier this month, we wrote about Annie Dookhan, a forensic chemist at a Massachusetts-based crime ...
• 12 Incredible Works Of Astrophotography By Bra ...
  Breathtaking shots of the night sky over the mountains of the west coast. *GASP* (that was the sound of us taking a breath) Brad Goldpaint is one of our absolute favorite photographers--his work has been featured multiple times at NASA, and you may also have seen his work in National Geographic ...
• Brad Goldpaint's Astrophotography
• 15 Science and Technology News Bytes From 2013
  PopSci predicts the top news stories of the next year. Black Hole Chows Down A giant blob of gas headed directly for the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy could begin to drop into the abyss mid-year, blasting x-ray radiation into space in a brilliant display of light. Witness ...
• Global Warming Triggers Volcanic Eruptions, Sc ...
  Maybe you've heard that volcanic eruptions can affect climate, but new evidence suggests it happens the other way around, too. Here's an idea you've probably heard before: volcanic eruptions--the big, explosive Pinatubo kind--spew millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, and th ...

Veterans Today

• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Dece ...
  From the VA Community Living Center at Cheyenne, Wyo. to the Texas Veterans Health Care Systems, VA staff, volunteers and communities bring holiday cheer to America’s Veterans during the 2012 holiday season.
• Good Terrorists Versus Bad Terrorists in Syria
  By Ismail Salami Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy. In a somber political tone, R ...
• Stop Mass Killings Limit First Amendment Not S ...
  Any way you slice it, the real culprit in these massacres is THE MEDIA.
• Off-the-record New Year Conversation with Pres ...
  An off-the-record New Year conversation with President Obama — By Alan Hart — Q: Mr. President, I’d like to begin this conversation with a quote from a recent article by Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times. He wrote: “The only thing standing between Israel and national suicide a ...
• Round – Robin: Submission on “The ...
  By using the term Zionist, you cover up the greater crimes of all Jews — By Frederick Toben, John Kaminski and Others — John   1. UNFORTUNATELY – what you have gushed forth in this below verbal flourish and stinging analysis is CORRECT, but not only! 2. HOWEVER – some individual ...

War is Business

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

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

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2012-12-26 More pro-WikiLeaks Swedish organiza ...
  On Monday Torrent Freak reported that, after three years of service to the organization, PayPal has frozen the funds of PRQ, an ISP founded by The Pirate Bay’s Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm. Earlier this month, sources also reported the suspension of the Twitter account of Anonymous Sweden ...
• 2012-12-24 Several WikiLeaks movies in product ...
  Following on the heels of Underground: The Julian Assange Story - a 2012 biopic on the WikiLeaks founder's teen years - several major Hollywood studios are in various stages of planning or producing feature films about Assange and his organization. One full-length feature, tentatively titled The ...
• 2012-12-22 Swedish military reportedly shuts d ...
  Earlier this month, the pro-WikiLeaks Swedish transparency websites Under Mattan and Corruptio were shut down by their web host, allegedly at the request of Sweden's armed forces. Without prior warning or explanation, the ISP Blog.com pulled the plug on Under Mattan (translation: "Under the Rug ...
• 2012-12-19 The people of the Freedom of the Pr ...
  Earlier this week, a group of high-profile journalists and free-speech activists announced the launch of the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), an initiative intended to thwart a two-year financial blockade against WikiLeaks and to fund-raise for similar nonprofit organizations. Designed to ...
• 2012-12-16 WikiLeaks declares war on banking b ...
  Press release from WikiLeaks and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Sunday 16th December, 23:00 GMT Today sees the launch of the Freedom of the Press Foundation − a new initiative inspired by the fight against the two-year-long extra-judicial financial embargo imposed on WikiLeaks by U.S. fina ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

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

We Know the Lies

• If You Are On This List You May Be In Grave Da ...
  Over the weekend a mainstream media web site on the east coast published, presumably in the interest of public safety, a complete list of individuals and businesses that are licensed to carry or own handguns. ~ Mac Salvo read more
• 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... read more
• 'Deceased' Emilie Parker With Obama?... You De ...
  Illuminati hiding in plain sight? Is this the same girl wearing the same dress? Or is it her sister (between parents) already wearing the dress of the deceased? Obama and the children seem pretty cheerful considering Emilie was supposedly brutally murdered days before... Henry Makow - Video r ...
• Designer Snow Storms... Geoengineered Snow Sto ...
  Many of the snow events occurring around the US, even at this time of year, are amazingly still occurring at above freezing temperatures. Some are at temperatures of 10 degrees or more above freezing. How is this possible? ~ Dane Wigington read more
• The 5 Powerful Psychological Triggers Your Doc ...
  If you’ve ever been in a doctor’s office with a child, you know what I mean. Doctors are well known for applying psychological pressure to parents questioning vaccines. Maybe you’ve experienced this pressure? Here are five psychological triggers doctors use against you, the parent, and some o ...

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

• The Attempt To Disarm The American
  Given the rapid move by the government to disarm Americans, SENATE TO GO FOR HANDGUNS… FEINSTEIN BILL WILL REQUIRE ‘GRANDFATHERED WEAPONS BE REGISTERED’; CALLS FOR OWNERS TO BE FINGERPRINTED… The following guest post by Chris Parrett is timely and relevant to the question ...
• Topographic Map Contour
  A topographic map is a two-dimensional representation of the three-dimensional surface of the land. A topographic map enables you to visualize the hills and valleys of the land itself, and provides specific details as to the elevation of the surface. Topography is the shape of the land surface, ...
• A Christmas Wish For You
  Here’s wishing all of our Modern Survival Blog Readers a Merry Christmas. It is a time for family and friends, so put aside the stresses of the modern world that you live in and spend some time relaxing and enjoying the company of those important to you. For those who are alone, remember t ...
• Winter Preps To Keep In Your Car
  As you travel in your car during the winter months, keep these important preparedness items in the vehicle at all times. Your survival may even depend on it. Even though we put on a jacket and/or other appropriate weather gear before we walk out the door and get into the car, it is not always [...]
• Tinder For Flame And Fire
  To build a fire, you need a source of spark or flame, tinder, kindling, and firewood. Tinder is very important in that it is the first step necessary to actually build a fire, and the quality of your tinder will determine your results. The right preparation is the most important consideration. T ...

Fast Company

• A Record Made Of Ice That Actually Plays
  The Shout Out Louds produced ten limited edition kits that make functional albums out of frozen water. Platinum and gold records are a big deal in the music biz, but what about one made entirely of ice? It had been three years since Swedish indie rockers Shout Out Louds released their last ...
• Contemporary Illustrators Reimagine Herman Mil ...
  Damn you, subpar Internet ads. These contemporary posters celebrating Herman Miller chairs hearken back to days when graphic design greats like John Massey reigned in the advertising world. Herman Miller has patronized some of the greatest designers of the past century: Isamu Noguchi, the ...
• The Best Infographics Of 2012
  The quest to visualize the data around us certainly didn’t slow down in 2012, but the year did see a refreshing number of new approaches and applications. Here are our 29 favorite projects of 2012. It stands to reason that we saw more infographics this year than any before in history ...
• 16 Of The Year’s Best Ideas In UI Design
  From a concept that would allow you to drag files from your phone to computer to a to-do list that isn’t a drag, here are the most promising designs that connect the physical and digital worlds. Half the world hasn’t even realized it yet, but we’re facing one of the great ...
• 2012 Gave Facebook A Lesson In Mobile
  Facebook didn't launch its first mobile-only advertising product until June. Since then, it has built one of the biggest mobile advertising businesses in the world. Facebook had 425 million mobile users, but no significant mobile revenue, when it filed for its IPO in February. Mobile users ...

Jadaliyya

• Maghreb Media Roundup (December 27)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadaliyya.c ...
• قطر والفلسطينيون
  سواء من حيث التوقيت أو من حيث الجوهر، فإنه من الصعب تفسير زيارة أمير قطر الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني إلى غزة في تشرين أول/أكتوبر 2012 بشكل مبسط. وكما هو الحال عادة عندما يتعلق الأمر بالسياسة في فلسطين، فقد تبلورت بشكل سريع العديد من التفسيرات والتأويلات. وبالتالي، فإما أن قطر كانت تسعى لضمان دعم ...
• Syria Media Roundup (December 27)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
• عن الفن الإسلامي
  قبل عامين، نظم معهد العالم العربي في باريس، معرض الفن الاسلامي، كسابقة احتضنت لأول مرة في العاصمة الفرنسية، من قبل إدراة المعهد التي ترى بوجوب تعريف الناس على هذا الفن، الذي اشتهر كإرث قائم بحد ذاته، وليس كحركات مستقلة أو متتابعة. 471 عملا بأحجام، وتكاوين وتشكيلات مختلفة تراوحت بين الخزف والزجاج ...
• اقتصاد مصر بين المُفْلِسين والمُفَلِّسين
  هذه المرة تجيء نذر إفلاس مصر من كل صوب وحدب. بدأ الأمر بتصريحات من وزير الصناعة والتجارة عن صعود متوقع فى عجز الموازنة ربما يؤدي «إلى عدم القدرة على سداد الرواتب إذا لم يتم التعامل معه». ثم يقول الأمين العام لجبهة الإنقاذ المعارضة محمد البرادعي بالنص وهو يدعو الرئيس لوقف الاستفتاء على الدستور وإ ...

mediagazer

• In Retaliation for Map of Gun Permit Holders, ...
  Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: In Retaliation for Map of Gun Permit Holders, Blogger Lists Names and Addresses of Newspaper Staff  —  In response to the controversy surrounding the interactive map of local gun permit holders published by a Lower Hudson Valley newspaper, one blogger ...
• More than 3.5 million page views for New York ...
  Jim Romenesko: More than 3.5 million page views for New York Times' ‘Snow Fall’ feature  —  New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson tells her staff that the paper's “Snow Fall” interactive feature received around 2.9 million visits for more than 3.5 ...
• Gun owner: Newspaper 'put me on the same level ...
  Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Gun owner: Newspaper ‘put me on the same level as a sex offender’  —  Veronica Hash resides on an eight-acre spread in Dutchess County, N.Y. She is a registered to own a handgun — something that visitors to the Web site of the Jou ...
• Patch partners with Starbucks on 'Come Togethe ...
  Jim Romenesko: Patch partners with Starbucks on ‘Come Together’ initiative  —  Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced Wednesday that baristas in his D.C.-area stores will write “Come Together” on cups to encourage compromise “to solve the tremendous ...
• One In Four Americans Owns A Tablet, Overtakin ...
  Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: One In Four Americans Owns A Tablet, Overtaking E-Readers, As Printed Book Consumption Continues To Decline: Pew  —  We're still waiting to hear from specific companies like Amazon with their latest (non-)numbers on how well their Kindle line of devic ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• UN Syria Envoy to Hold Moscow Talks
  MOSCOW, December 27 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti) – The UN and Arab League’s envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is due to visit Moscow on December 29, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, as talks continue to try to end the violence in the Middle East country. But Foreign Ministry spoke ...
• Putin Says He Will Sign Law Barring U.S. ...
  MOSCOW – President Vladimir V. Putin said Thursday that he would sign into a law a ban on adoptions of Russian children by American citizens, retaliating against an American law that punishes Russians accused of violating human rights and dealing a potentially grave setback to bilatera ...
• Clarke breaks Ponting's Australian record
  December 27, 2012 -- Updated 1318 GMT (2118 HKT) Michael Clarke celebrates as he reaches his century during day two of the second Test against Sri Lanka in Melbourne. (CNN) -- Michael Clarke has big cricketing shoes to fill following the retirement of Ricky Ponting, but the Australia captain ...
• German FinMin says worst of euro debt cri ...
  BERLIN - Germany's finance minister says the worst of euro area's debt crisis appears to be over after three years of worries over Greece and other members of the group of 17 European Union countries that use the single currency. Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was quoted Thursday as tel ...
• Grey's Anatomy actor Dempsey wants to buy ...
  Patrick Dempsey, the actor who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd in the TV show "Grey's Anatomy," wants to buy struggling Seattle coffee chain Tully's Coffee Corp. The Seattle Times reports Dempsey is leading a group of investors that wants to buy Tully's, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protec ...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Australia - the new capital of the New World O ...
  Today I'm joined in studio by Damon Crowe for a general discussion about the quality of life in Australia and the way in which our society has been swallowed up by the forces of international homogenisation and enslavement. We look at the cost of living, sky rocketing property prices, and the ...
• Radiation expert Don Maisch on the health risk ...
  Today we are joined in the first hour by Dr. Don Maisch, the founder of EMFacts Consultancy, which has produced a wide range of reports and papers dealing with various health issues related to human exposure to electromagnetic radiation. From the website: This website was established in 1 ...
• Interview with Hanadi Assoud
    SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-14", width: 550, height: 400 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://www.truthnews.com.au/slideshowpro/images.php?album=14" } }); ...
• Stop Smart Meters Australia - Part 1
  Today's show features an interview with a representative of Stop Smart Meters Australia, an organisation which is opposing the introduction of electricity smart meters which are currently being rolled out in homes throughout Victoria. From the petition: Victorian Citizens are being forced to ...
• Chris Emery on recent film projects - Part 1
  The Crew of Free Mind Films, creators of "A Noble Lie". Clockwise from left: Austin Green, Holland Vandennieuwenhof, Chris Emery and James Lane. My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Chris Emery, co-producer of the award winning documentary "A Noble Lie", which exposes the US government' ...

Beacon

• Chile Becomes First Country in World to Protec ...
  Coral formations in Juan Fernandez archipelago lie among Chilean seamounts As you enjoy those last holiday cookies before the New Year comes with its resolutions, we’d love to share one final present for you to enjoy: we are thrilled to announce that last week, the country of Chile became the ...
• Harvard Dining Services Dishes Up Sustainable ...
  Sustainable Prince Edward Island mussels make a delicious dish for hungry men and women of Harvard. Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer for Harvard Gazette It looks like r’s aren’t the only things getting dropped at Harvard: Over the last few years, Harvard University Dining Service ...
• NYC Seafood Fraud Report Making Waves
  What's on your plate? Source: wikimedia commons Spurred by Oceana’s seafood fraud report for New York City released last week, Sunday’s New York Times took a broader look at the widespread practice of food mislabeling. Oceana’s initial report, which was also covered in the Times, included a ...
• French Polynesia and the Cook Islands Create W ...
  A sicklefin lemon shark breathes a little easier in the shark sanctuary of French Polynesia. Source: Wikimedia Commons With as many as a third of all shark species in the world facing some threat of extinction, the future of sharks has been in peril for some time now. This month, however, Fre ...
• Victory! EU Moves Towards Overhaul of Fisherie ...
  Bottom trawler at Sant Carles de la Rápita, Spain ©Oceana Today the Fisheries Committee of the EU parliament voted to radically reform its fisheries management policies, for the better. After 18 months of negotiations the body voted to put in place new measures that would effectively end over ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

• US Deploying Troops to 35 African Nations
  The headline for this story, at Current is Growing The Empire. US Deploying Troops To 35 African Countries. Of course the DC spin is that this is all about “training” troops of these nations. No doubt training will occur. Maybe that will be all. Maybe it’s just another start. From NPR: An Army b ...
• Culture Behind Brutally Gang-Raped Young Woman ...
  “The patient condition remains extremely critical as before,” said Dr. Kelvin Loh, CEO of Mount Elizabeth Hospital. “Prior to coming to Singapore, she had three abdominal surgeries and cardiac arrests in India. Currently, we have a multidisciplinary team of specialists who are ...
• Obama, Pelosi Deserve to Lose on End of Year G ...
  Hopes of a grand-bargain — to shave trillions of dollars off the deficit by cutting entitlement programs and raising revenue — are shattered. – Fiscal cliff deal increasingly unlikely NOBODY SHOULD think this is the end of the maneuvering by President Obama and Democrats to “reform&# ...
• Biggest Losers for 2012: Republicans
  Nothing on taxes. Nothing on gun control. Nothing on climate change. Nothing on gay marriage. Nothing on immigration reform (or an incremental, piece-by-piece approach, which will result in nothing). It’s a very odd situation when the losing party is the party refusing to negotiate. It may be ho ...
• For Our Soldiers and Their Families (War Dogs ...
  THIS ONE goes out to our soldiers, but also their amazing families who celebrate so often without their mom, dad, sister or brother at home. Woof! for Rebecca’s war dogs, too. The Pasta Bolognese with Pappardelle, made with spicy turkey sausage (from Whole Foods) and ground turkey instead ...

Hudson New York

• How to Use American Influence
  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,
• The Redacted Iraqi Jews
  The recent Conference of Religions and Sects in Sulaymaniyah, organized under the supervision of Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, was an important milestone: The first such conference to take place in Iraq that seriously covered the defense of religions
• Why Arabs Hate And Kill Palestinians
  More than 800 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds others injured since the beginning of the crisis in Syria nearly two years ago. In the past two weeks, thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus after
• "Privatizing" Kosovo: The Madeleine Albright Way
  The Balkan states of Albania and Kosovo are, without doubt, the most pro-American Muslim-majority countries in the world. According to a new census including religious affiliation – the first since 1930 – Albania now counts 57% of its total population of
• The Islamization of Germany in 2012
  Post-Christian Europe became noticeably more Islamized during 2012. As the rapidly growing Muslim population makes its presence felt in towns and cities across the continent, Islam is transforming the European way of life in ways unimaginable only a few

Urban Survival

• It’s on: The Blame Game
  With no resolution or compromise in sight, we’re already reading stories about how each side is blaming the other for the nation going over the fiscal cliff.  Veep Joe Biden points to the irresponsible congress, and if you pop the … Continue reading →
• Coping: Thursday at the WuJo
  Only a few days left for the WuJO reports of 2012 before we turn over a new leaf on the calendar. So in keeping with things, here’s a head-scratcher to get’cha going this morning.  Comes a reader named Ken:   … Continue reading →
• Merry Christmas–and other Headlines
  US markets are closed until tomorrow morning, but I thought since I was up, I’d pop a short update this morning despite the day; my work ethic is both a curse and blessing, though I expect the couch potato types … Continue reading →
• Coping: With MMT Success
  If you’re been a reader for any length of time, you may be using the Miracle Money Technique taught to us by our consulting retired astrologer…and I figured this morning would be a fine time to relate a recent success … Continue reading →
• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like….
  …well, a half-day at the stock market for one thing.  While the nation get’s ready for a Christmas eve storm to show up, stock futures are down, although gold is up, as investors try to position themselves for what could … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• DAVID ICKE - THE GREATEST SPEECH FOR HUMANITY ...
  Great message...we all need to do what is RIGHT... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Sandy Hook Shooting - Gun Control Hoax - (Full)
  Sandy Hook Gun Control Hoax - (3rd attempt to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Secret Docs Reveal FBI "Counterterrorism" Moni ...
  secret documents reveal the FBI monitored Occupy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• The Angel Wars By Steve Quayle
  Guest host John B. Wells (email) welcomed author... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• World War III | Prophecy in the News
  Iran will be hit before April 2013. Someone in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

• Can the good work of Kansas City's Green Impac ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Three years ago, Kansas City’s metropolitan planning organization, the Mid America Regional Council, designated a disinvested urban district of some 150 blocks as a &ldq ...
• The BLM makes the case for banning pits, but d ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. 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 in ...
• China moves to strengthen nuclear safety stand ...
  Alvin Lin, China Climate and Energy Policy Director, Beijing This post was co-written with my colleagues Jingjing Li, Jason Portner and Christine Xu. In China and other developing countries, increasing electricity demand and concern about pollution ...
• Christmas wish: stockings stuffed with transpo ...
  Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. Another "woe is me" article today in the Washington Post about how Virginia is strapped for cash to cover its transportation costs. State lawmakers gnash their teeth and howl about t ...
• Joan Mulhern: Clean Water Loses A Champion
  Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Joan Mulhern, my friend, a fellow clean water advocate, and a mentor, passed away on Tuesday.  I hope everyone will read the touching tribute that her Earthjustice colleague, Marty Hayden, wrote.&nb ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct racked for Saturday, December 22 to Wednesday, December 26, 2012: Hollywood, Florida: A trooper has filed suit against other officers. She says they accessed her personal information and intimidated her after she … Continue reading →Nationa ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, December 12, 2012: Oviedo, Florida: A police officer has resigned from the force after being accused of stalking a woman. An internal investigation found the officer violated several department … Continue reading →Nation ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, December 20, 2012: Lexington, Kentucky: A University of Kentucky officer has been fired after a student posted a video of officers entering his room and searching it. ow.ly/ggG1J Chicago, … Continue reading →National P ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, December 19, 2012: Little Rock, Arkansas: An officer faces a third-degree battery charge stemming from a domestic incident. ow.ly/geBHT Naples, Florida: An officer was arrested by deputies for driving … Continue reading &#8 ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  *Note* I was out of the office Monday, so this recap includes an extra day. Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, December 15 to Tuesday, December 18, 2012: Chicago, Illinois: An officer and his family … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFee ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

• Photos: the top new species discoveries in 2012
  Thousands of species were described for the first time by scientists in 2012. Some of these were 'cryptic species' that were identified after genetic analysis distinguished them from closely related species, while others were totally novel. Either way, here are some of the "new species" highligh ...
• Paper giant breaks pledge to end rainforest lo ...
  Pulp and paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) continues to destroy large areas of rainforests and peatlands despite a commitment to end natural forest logging by 2009, says a new report issued by a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups. The Eyes on the Forest r ...
• Making the connection: environmentalism as a f ...
  Passing values from one generation to the next is a central theme for most families. For career conservationists, Chip and Jill Isenhart, passing along a passion for the environment to their children took more than just lectures, and their efforts offer insights into furthering the cause of g ...
• Pictures: Christmas-colored animals
  There are a surprising number of Christmas-colored animals. Below is a small set of red-and-green creatures photographed by Rhett A. Butler during his reporting travels.
• Amazon rainforest failing to recover after dro ...
  The impact of a major drought in the Amazon rainforest in 2005 persisted far longer than previously believed, raising questions about the world's largest tropical forest to cope with the expected impacts of climate change, reports a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National ...

Sierra Express

• SS4 Not the Solution
  The introduction of Senior Secondary School Level 4 (SSS4) has been accompanied by mass resentment among school pupils in Sierra Leone. Professor Gbamanja Commission recommended one extra year to the already SSS3 class as a way of solving the problem of mass failure in especially public examinat ...
• Kono Killings…Another Display of Police Unprof ...
  The establishment of mining companies in Sierra Leone has been accompanied by a wave of violent protests, often resulting in deaths and injuries and it appears that the SLP responsible for protecting the lives of citizens are now the very ones destroying such lives. Sometime ago, unprofessional ...
• Sierra Rutile increases rate of land rehabilit ...
  Sierra Leonean mining company Sierra Rutile is ahead of schedule with its programme to restore all mined-out land in its area of operations to a usable state, reporting that it has rehabilitated 142 hectares of land this year – an area equivalent to 175 football pitches, and 300% more than last ...
• NASSIT – Season’s Greetings
  The Board of Trustees, Management and Staff of the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), our National Pension Scheme that provides financial security to all employees in Sierra Leone, based on social insurance principles, wish His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of t ...
• RightsWay accuses IG of Sierra Leone Police of ...
  RightsWay is asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Inspector General of Police and senior Police Officers for alleged crimes against humanity. The human rights group RightsWay today expressed bitter disappointment that the Government has again delayed its determination of ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Rock stars of NZ business world
  This has been another testing year for New Zealand businesses as they rock along the decade of "grumpy growth" that Finance Minister Bill English has signposted. It's not been plain-sailing by any means for the five "business heroes"...
• Liam Dann: Another year over, better to come
  And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?Sorry about that. I just can't get the line out of my head and it is silly season, all right? As a young business reporter I once did the full Twas the Night Before Christmas as...
• Big year for changing of the guard
  The face of New Zealand business changed over 2012 with a series of senior appointments made to some of the country's top jobs.These include former World Bank managing director Graeme Wheeler who took over from Reserve Bank governor...
• Dairy prices up 1.1pc in overnight auction (+g ...
  Prices of dairy products rose in the final GlobalDairyTrade auction of the year, though whole milk powder, the biggest product by volume, fell for the fourth sale in a row,The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.1 per cent compared to...
• Brian Rudman: One sales pitch to kids that no ...
  You have to feel sorry for Fonterra. Even with a role model as wholesome as the All Black captain to announce it was offering free milk to all New Zealand schoolkids, this stellar act of generosity hardly made the news. Perhaps next...

Hit & Run | Reason

• How Has Heightened Gun Control Worked in Austr ...
  Via RealClearPolitics comes this Wall Street Journal piece by historian Joyce Lee Malcolm. She notes that both Australia and the United Kingdom have had tight restrictions on legal gun ownership for decades but have still experienced mass shootings. In the wake of a particularly gr ...
• Scott Shackford Interviews NFL Punter Chris Kluwe
  Minnesota Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe has garnered media attention for his support for gay rights, his love of video games, and his outspoken nature. A self-described libertarian, Kluwe chatted with Reason 24/7 Associate Editor Scott Shackford about political labels, Ayn Rand, empathy ...
• Reid Says Fiscal Cliff Plan is in GOP’s Court, ...
  Sen. Harry Reid has said that it is up to the Republicans to come up with a fiscal cliff plan that the president can sign.  Consumer confidence is down, thanks in large part to the fiscal cliff fiasco.  LA officials have collected 2037 firearms in their po ...
• The Problem with Secret Drone War
  Foreign Policy presents an “air attack gone wrong”: Quoting unnamed Yemeni officials, local and international media initially described the victims of the Sept. 2 airstrike in al-Bayda governorate as al Qaeda militants. After relatives of the victims threatened to bring the c ...
• Vid: I, Tomato: Morning Star's Radical Approac ...
  Watch the video above or click the link below for the full story and downloadable links. View this article.

Mercury Rising

• Ashley Judd Has Mitch McConnell Pee-His-Pants ...
  This is hilarious. Ashley Judd hasn’t even come close to openly stating she’d like to run against Mitch McConnell, yet the fact that she is within four points of him in two separate polls — one of them a Republican internal poll — has him panicking a full two years before ...
• The FreedomWorks Implosion: Big Money Beats Ha ...
  I’m cueing up the Warren Zevon for this story on FreedomWorks: [On the day after Labor Day, 2012] Richard K. Armey, the group’s chairman and a former House majority leader, walked into the group’s Capitol Hill offices with his wife, Susan, and an aide holstering a handgun at his waist. The ...
• Oregano As A Replacement For Antibiotics? Live ...
  This sounds interesting: The smell of oregano wafting from Scott Sechler’s office is so strong that anyone visiting Bell & Evans these days could be forgiven for wondering whether Mr. Sechler has forsaken the production of chicken and gone into pizza. [...] Off and on over the last three yea ...
• Welcome, child of light!
  Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
• Memo To Social Security Scaremongers: Producti ...
  Oh, dear. Fareed Zakaria doesn’t understand (or is paid not to understand, in finest Upton Sinclair fashion) why we silly liberals don’t understand that Grandma must be put out on an ice floe so Pete Peterson can have a few more swimming pools: The American left has trained its sight ...

Reality Sandwich

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

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

Blogging Canadians

• Sarnia police officer joins in First Nation ra ...
  At least now we know why the Sarnia Police won’t enforce the court injunction against this Ontario First Nation railroad blockade.
• Postal workers of the world unite!
  Denis Lemelin, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), recently released a letter to Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence who is on a hunger strike on Ottawa's Victoria Island. The letter goes way beyond support for Chief Spence, and expresses barely concealed contempt f ...
• Why is Stephen Harper so intent on making Chie ...
• Journey With Christian Louboutin Shoes
  Have you ever heard about Christian Louboutin shoes? In case you are not, I’ve to say that, you might be out in the fashion. It could possibly be the leader of high heeled shoes that are loved by so many … Continue reading →
• On the Third Day of Cronyism . . . : The System
  LEE: China’s state-owned billionaires Vast majority of newly mega-rich are party members by John Lee As originally posted: The Washington Times September 22, 2011 The most important and lucrative sectors of the economy were reserved for the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to compete among ...

Press TV - Middle East

• Car bombing kills 4 near Damascus
  At least four people have been killed and tens of others injured in a car bombing carried out near the Syrian capital, Damascus, reports say.
• Iran envoy, Brahimi meet in Syria
  Iran’s Ambassador to Damascus Mohammad-Reza Raouf-Sheibani and UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi have met and held talks in the Syrian capital.
• Moscow denies Russia-US plan on Syria
  Russia says its stance toward Syria has not changed, denying the existence of any plan with the US that would see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad out of power in 2014.
• Israel PM secretly met Jordan king
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan’s King Abdullah II have held a secret meeting over Syria, a report says.
• Israel deploys troops to Egypt border
  The Israeli military has announced the deployment of a third brigade along the Egyptian border.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

• "Of the roughly 875 million firearms worldwide ...
  “Of the roughly 875 million firearms worldwide, law enforcement holdings account for some 25...
• "f you care about children, health, poverty ...
  “f you care about children, health, poverty, farmers, food, hunger, or the economy, you...
• "Somebody living in a slum and very poor like ...
  “Somebody living in a slum and very poor like I am must make a choice. I can’t use 10 Kenya...
• The United Nations’ news agency, IRIN, reports ...
  The United Nations’ news agency, IRIN, reports that Turkey is officially housing more than 144,000 Syrians in 14 refugee camps along its southern border.  As many as 100,000 more currently “choose to live outside the camps,” often to work in Turkey’s informal economy, according to local NGOs.  ...
• pulitzerfieldnotes:From Pulitzer Center gran ...
  pulitzerfieldnotes: From Pulitzer Center grantee Sean Gallagher’s Tumblr gallagher-photo: Amorous Tianjin…Who said the Chinese were reserved?! 13th Nov, 2012. Read his reporting and see more of his photos here.

  IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Indigenous Chileans Still Fighting Pinochet-Er ...
    The Coastal Highway is meant to connect one end of Chile’s long, narrow territory to the other, running north to south as close to the Pacific Ocean as possible.
  • Amazon Regional Alliance to Confront the Clima ...
    “When someone in Peru sneezes, someone in Brazil catches a cold. When a barrel of oil is produced in Ecuador, a neighbouring country ends up buying it,” says prominent environmentalist Yolanda Kakabadse. Everything that happens in Latin American countries is closely connected, as if they were vi ...
  • Increasing Uganda’s Cotton and Coffee Pr ...
    Cotton was once one of Uganda’s key cash crops but a collapse in world prices in the 1980s led to a slump in the market and production. However, cotton production doubled in the 2010/2011 season and brought in 48 million dollars in export earnings. Uganda remains Africa’s biggest cof ...
  • The Rise of Uganda’s Tobacco Production
    Over the years with the demise of cotton production, tobacco has become one of Uganda’s key exports. Six years after British American Tobacco set up regional headquarters in this East African nation, it has become a key tobacco producer for the company. Agriculture is the backbone of Ugand ...
  • Iceland Tackles ‘Invisible’ Trafficking
    For 18 months, a Chinese immigrant named Xing Haiou slept on a massage table in a windowless room in Reykjavik after completing his 12-hour workday. Brought to Iceland by his distant relative, Lina Jia, Haiou received no wages between June 2002 and December 2003, although Jia paid his parents a ...

  My AntiWar

  • Syrian Military Police Chief Defects to Rebels
  • China Tightening Controls on Internet
  • Egypt Fears Run on Its Banks as It Imposes Lim ...
  • South Sudan Accuses Sudan of Air Attack, Killing 5
  • Iran President Sacks Cabinet’s Sole Woman

  CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • International Law and the Iran Impasse
    Summary: On any given day, provided her paper of choice still features international coverage, the average American newspaper reader can expect to be treated to one or two articles on attempts to halt advances in Iran’s nuclear program. These articles might cover efforts to levy fresh sanctio ...
  • Iran Slams Canada's Move to Delist MKO
    Summary: The Iranian Foreign Ministry has censured Canada’s move to delist the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its blacklist of terrorist organizations. “While the international community and the world’s public opinion consider terrorism as one of the main challenges to the world an ...
  • Syria: The descent into Holy War
    Summary: It is one of the most horrifying videos of the war in Syria. It shows two men being beheaded by Syrian rebels, one of them by a child. He hacks with a machete at the neck of a middle-aged man who has been forced to lie in the street with his head on a concrete block. At the end of th ...
  • "Americans kill people": Michael Moore on Newt ...
    Summary: Michael Moore speaking just hours after the massacre on 14 December 2012 in which 28 people died, 20 of them children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut. He links the Sandy Hook killings with the US culture of violence that has it curre ...
  • Looking at Anti-Iran Propaganda
    Summary: USA Today cautioned recently that “War with Iran won’t be a quick affair.” A Pittsburgh newspaper plaintively wonders whether “War with Iran” is a “Necessity or Folly.” Talk of war is in the air. What many in this country don’t realize is that the U.S. is already engaged in a war ...

  The Daily Galaxy

  • December 27, 2004 --The Day Planet Earth Survi ...
                 It came suddenly from the distant reaches of the Constellation Sagittarius, some 50,000 light years away. For a brief instant, a couple of tenths of a second, on December 27, 2004, an invisible burst of energy the equivalent of half a million years of sunlight shone ...
  • Image of the Day: Inside the Shadow of Saturn
                       "Of all the many glorious images we have received from Saturn, none are more strikingly unusual than those taken from Saturn's shadow," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini's imaging team lead based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. NASA's Cassini space ...
  • Quantum Entanglement is Creating New Classific ...
                                     In a major paper in Science, Perimeter Faculty member Xiao-Gang Wen reveals a modern reclassification of all 500 phases of matter. Using modern mathematics, Wen and collaborators reveal a new system which can, at last, successfully classify symmetry-pr ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 240,000!
                                             Join the 240,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governme ...
  • "Alien Edens" ----Evolutionary Biologist Richa ...
                     It's no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us. But, as Dawkins emphasizes, that does not mean that stars exists in order to make us."It is just that without ...

  Natural News

  • Tyranny red alert: Traitorous Senator Feinstei ...
    Friends, patriots and all who believe in freedom: Tyranny has run amok in the U.S. Senate, and a new effort is being led by the traitorous anti-American Senator Dianne Feinstein to criminalize nearly all gun owners in America. Details of a Hitler-style plan for gun...
  • The Bill of Rights is not negotiable - SHARE t ...
    There is a destructive, delusional meme spreading like a virus among many misguided Americans. It pushes the idea that government can pick and choose which rights codified in the Bill of Rights it wishes to recognize or discard on any given day. This delusion is predicated...
  • Another lawsuit follows E. coli infection
    It's not meat or spinach this time; a petting zoo is now under fire for being the cause of a recent E. coli outbreak. To add to the already uncommon and arguably alarming circumstances, the lawsuit is being driven by the condition of an 18-month-old child. Last month...
  • The Vagus nerve: Your friend in weight loss an ...
    It's no secret that a healthy nervous system is important for well-being and longevity. The spinal nerves are responsible for controlling most of the muscles in your torso, arms, and legs, along with bowel, bladder, and reproductive functions. The cranial nerves reside...
  • Better romantic partners make better parents, ...
    The same set of interpersonal skills that make a person a good romantic partner also make them a good parent, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Bristol and published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, a journal of the Society...

  Threat Level

  • From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Ye ...
    From gun-toting, on-the-lam tech giants to flying drones and internet uprisings, these are the privacy and security stories that dominated Threat Level in 2012.
  • Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles
    Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers and even ...
  • John McAfee’s Last Stand
    On November 12, 2012, Belizean police announced that they were seeking John McAfee for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor. Six months earlier, I began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. This is the chronicle of that ...
  • Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — ...
    The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack Obama granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. While lawmakers were caving to special interests, however, they cut from the legislative ...
  • Net Neutrality, Data-Cap Legislation Lands in ...
    A proposal forbidding internet service providers from turning the data-cap meter off to grant a so-called internet fast lane to preferential online services was introduced Thursday in the Senate. The bill by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) comes a week after ...

  PERRspectives : Blog

  • Hagel Foe McCain Backed James Baker as Middle ...
    Having succeeded in his smear campaign against UN Ambassador Susan Rice, John McCain has launched a second pre-emptive strike against another would-be Obama cabinet member, former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. But this time McCain's petty payback against a GOP colleague who supported ...
  • This Just In: Social Security Still Not a Driv ...
    As Washington's stalemated debate over avoiding the so-called "fiscal cliff" continues to fester, Social Security is once again in the cross-hairs of would-be deficit hawks across the political spectrum. This week, the New York Times profiled Maya MacGuineas, who "has spent years warning about ...
  • A Wayne LaPierre Christmas
    Every Christmas brings the same frustrating question: what do you get the man who has everything? So it is with Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. After all, for two decades, the NRA has gotten almost everything it wanted, including an end to the na ...
  • Romney "Had No Desire" to Be President
    The Boston Globe this weekend offered a fascinating analysis of why Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election. But for all the impact of ground games, turnout models and campaign strategies, Mitt Romney lost not because he failed to define himself to the American people, but because he su ...
  • The Fiscal Cliffs of Dover
    If you have lingering doubts that economic growth--and not deficit reduction--should be the highest priority during the debate over the so-called "fiscal cliff," the Congressional Budget Office should put them to rest. The CBO forecast that the triple witching hour of expiring Bush tax cuts, th ...

  Blackspot News Feed

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

  Consortium News

  • The Price of Revolutionary Illusions
  • Learning from Endless War
  • America’s Frontier Mentality
  • Israel Lobby Takes Aim Again
  • Iran Appears Ready for Nuke Deal

  TruthOut

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

  Planetsave

  • Saber-Toothed Cats And American Lions Didn’t D ...
    American lions and saber-toothed cats didn’t die out from starvation as had been previously theorized, new research has revealed. In the years directly before they died out in North America they were apparently eating very well the research has shown. “That is the conclusion of the l ...
  • Deforestation In The Amazon Is Wiping Out Micr ...
    New research has revealed something very important that has mostly gone unoticed, There is a enormous loss of microbial diversity and communities occurring in the Amazon being as a result of deforestation. This is an extremely finding, and an area of research that has mostly gone uninvestigated. ...
  • How to Make Conservatives Care More About the ...
    For most liberals and progressives, simply hearing or reading about environmental destruction/pollution, the scientific consensus on global warming, the loss of biodiversity and diminishing resources and ‘quality of life’ standards is enough to persuade us to take action to protect t ...
  • Lifting Livestock’s Long Shadow
      Robert Goodland, whose great work we’ve featured in the past, recently passed along an article he wrote for Nature Climate Change (published in the January 2013 issue and online on 21 December 2012). With many thanks for his continual work to improve our world and protect us from un ...
  • economz: Visualizing Your Carbon Foodprint
      Everyday, multiple times a day, you make an important choice that will determine your personal carbon footprint. It’s not necessarily the car you drive or even the fuel you burn (although these are important sources as well) — rather, it is the food you choose to consume. When it comes to ...

  Water Quality - WordPress

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

  Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

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

  Axis of Logic

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

  They Gave Us a Republic

  • Just Do It & Get It The Hell Over With
    By @TomBales1  If Henry Blodget writing for Business Insider is correct, the Republicans are ready to raise taxes on the whole country by allowing the country to go over the fiscal cliff. Good.  And once we've done that would everyone please refrain from ever using the term "fiscal cli ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC What really sucks is that @DavidGregory having the clip for a visual aid inside the beltway where such clips are illegal, will get far more attention than the purple-faced, foam-flecked, "MORE GUNS!!!" rant of Wayne LaPierre, the numero-uno gun-whore at the NRA. "Worse than it looks," ...
  • Orange Julius' Merry Christmas To Jobless Amer ...
    The best Christmas gift I could have gotten from whatever gods may be came to me on Christmas Eve. I got a job offer, after just over five months of unemployment. I happily accepted. Not everyone out there is so fortunate, and there but for the grace of God go I. On Saturday, December 29, federa ...
  • Can we talk about gun control yet?
    By @BGinKC On February 23, 2004 Mary Seymour, my former colleague in emergency medicine in this town, was one of the first responders to a call involving a house fire in south Kansas City. As soon as she was out of the bus, a sniper opened fire. Two bullets broke four ribs, collapsed her right l ...
  • NOW it's Christmas
    By @BGinKC Now that Ms. Love has had her say, you may commence with your regularly scheduled holiday merriment and festivities.

  Care 2

  • OP-ED: Homes for the homeless: a sma ...
    Despite a recent rise in poverty, homelessness is down. One reason? Providing a residence for the homeless creates enough self-respect for them to deal with underlying issues. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Counterfeit medicine from Asia threatens lives ...
    Malaria is one of the diseases affected by unscrupulous traders in fake and substandard drugs Submitted by J.L. A. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Ca ...
    A new campaign for indigenous rights and environmental justice is spreading across Canada. The "Idle No More" movement began as a series of protests against a controversial government budget bill but has since expanded into a nationwide movement for polit Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environme ...
  • Oldest Zoo Gorilla, Colo, Celebrates Birthday ...
    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The first gorilla born in a zoo is turning 56 and celebrating her birthday with some special treats at her central Ohio home. Submitted by BarbCat SunshineLady to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Frank Luntz, GOP Pollster: The NRA Isn't Liste ...
    Frank Luntz, a top Republican strategist and pollster, said Wednesday that the National Rifle Association's recent calls for armed guards to be stationed at every school in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. massacre suggested the organization isn't listening Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & ...

  Smirking Chimp

  • Smirking Chimp is 12 years old today!
  • The Price of Revolutionary Illusions
  • Capitalism and Mental Illness: Back to the Future?
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or “Moral Injury”
  • Cartoon for December 27th, 2012: Grief Counsel ...

  Paul Krugman

  • Future Inequality, According to the CBO
    They could be very, very wrong.
  • Futurism and Policy
    The long-term matters, but what do we know?
  • Is Growth Over?
    Worth thinking about.
  • Protecting Freedom(Works)
    Why not a libertarian solution?
  • Capital-biased Technological Progress: An Exam ...
    Of scribes and servers.

  No Quarter

  • Obama and Hillary Helping Destabilize the Midd ...
    Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton created the chaos that defines the present state of the Middle East, but their insane policies certainly have exacerbated the situation. We should not blame the President and the Secretary of State for unsettling matters there. That “honor” be ...
  • “Mexico frees former US soldier jailed over sh ...
    Jon Hammar was released around December 21st, according to the Examiner: Initially, it seemed as though Jon Hammar would have to remain in prison until a trial scheduled for Jan. 17. The Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhán, stated in a reply to Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen’s f ...
  • The Irreverent Side of Christmas (open thread ...
    It seems a bit crass to put this below Larry’s nice Christmas greeting to all of you. But the photo below the fold cracked me up. First, here’s an image of the decorations put up by a woman named Sarah Childs in New Orleans, as well as part of a news article about what happened [...]
  • Our Government Is A Joke!
    America awakes this morning to the realization that our federal government is collectively unwilling and/or unable to tend to the people’s business. Many in America might like to point fingers at one side of the aisle or the other. Many others would bemoan the general lack of real leadersh ...
  • Merry Christmas
    Slow news days and not much to write about. Just wanted to say thanks to all who take time to stop by and read and comment. I pray we survive the coming year. Barack Obama’s self-absorbed, egotistical obsession is not leadership and puts this country at great risk. He is presiding over the ...

  Futurismic

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

  Therapy News

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  Mountaintop Removal

  • The sky's the limit: The demanding gifts of 20 ...
    Aljazeera.com The sky's the limit: The demanding gifts of 2012 Aljazeera.com You could map North America that way now and see, when you added up the struggles against drilling in the Arctic, fracking, mountaintop removal, and the various other depredations of big coal and big oil, that remar ...
  • Pa. company extends Shell cracker plant option ...
    Pa. company extends Shell cracker plant option State Journal After being driven to bankruptcy, environmental groups were able to use cleanup obligations to pressure a major mountaintop removal practitioner to give up mountaintop removal mining. After being driven to bankruptcy, environmental gro ...
  • 2013 is Year Zero for Climate Change - The Nation.
    2013 is Year Zero for Climate Change The Nation. You could map North America that way now and see, when you added up the struggles against drilling in the Arctic, fracking, mountaintop removal, and the various other depredations of big coal and big oil, that remarkable things are already being d ...
  • No. 6: Century Aluminum's Jackson County Saga ...
    No. 6: Century Aluminum's Jackson County Saga Drew Scrutiny State Journal After being driven to bankruptcy, environmental groups were able to use cleanup obligations to pressure a major mountaintop removal practitioner to give up mountaintop removal mining. After being driven to bankruptcy, ...
  • Joan Mulhern | Environmentalist, 51 - Philadel ...
    Joan Mulhern | Environmentalist, 51 Philadelphia Inquirer She fought repeated attempts by Congress to limit the scope of the Clean Water Act and battled coal companies and government officials over mountaintop-removal coal mining, in which mountains are blasted away to create strip mines. " ...

  Memeorandum

  • Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, coalition forces lead ...
    Associated Press: Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, coalition forces leader during Persian Gulf War, dies  —  When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1991 to punish it for allegedly stealing Iraqi oil reserves, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf commanded Operation Desert Storm, the coalition of s ...
  • The Year the Dreams Died (Victor Davis Hanson/ ...
    Victor Davis Hanson / National Review: The Year the Dreams Died  —  Barack Obama in 2008 won an election on an upbeat message of change amid hopes that the first black president would mark a redemptive moment in American history.  Four years later, the fantasies are gone.&n ...
  • Exclusive: Clinton returning to work next week ...
    Josh Rogin / Josh Rogin's blog: Exclusive: Clinton returning to work next week  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will return to the State Department next week after three weeks of recovery from a stomach virus and a related concussion, The Cable has confirmed.  — ...
  • Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies (CNN)
    CNN: Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies  —  Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf died Thursday.  He was 78.  —  (CNN) — Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded coalition forces during the Gulf War, died Thursday, a U.S. official said.  He was ...
  • New Hawaii senator pledges to tackle climate c ...
    Zack Colman / The Hill: New Hawaii senator pledges to tackle climate change  —  The replacement for the late Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye (D) said Wednesday that climate change is at the top of his legislative agenda.  —  “For me, personally, I believe global ...

  Energy & Environment News

  • Wind Farm Developers Race Against End of Tax C ...
    A federal subsidy for new installations will not apply to anything that goes online after Dec. 31, so the industry is rushing to complete projects now — and it expects to do little thereafter.
  • Green Blog: A Price Tag for the Gowanus Cleanup
    The E.P.A. estimates that it will cost $467 million to $504 million and last until 2020.
  • Dot Earth: The Unfulfilled Promise of 'Promise ...
    A feature film on fracking misses the real drama in gas country.
  • Green Blog: Capturing Climate Change Digitally
    Using two Webcams, scientists discover a high correlation between canopy hue and carbon dioxide uptake in an English forest. As the seasons shift with global warming, they will be able to chart changes in uptake.
  • Green Blog: E.P.A. Chief to Step Down
    White House and E.P.A. officials say that Lisa P. Jackson's decision to leave government was her own.

  5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
    Thursday, December 27, 2012 16:33:59 UTC Thursday, December 27, 2012 03:33:59 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.50 km (5.90 mi)
  • M 5.3, Tonga
    Thursday, December 27, 2012 09:42:02 UTC Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:42:02 PM at epicenterDepth: 39.70 km (24.67 mi)
  • M 5.3, North Atlantic Ocean
    Thursday, December 27, 2012 05:36:12 UTC Thursday, December 27, 2012 01:36:12 AM at epicenterDepth: 14.00 km (8.70 mi)
  • M 5.1, offshore Maule, Chile
    Thursday, December 27, 2012 00:37:10 UTC Wednesday, December 26, 2012 09:37:10 PM at epicenterDepth: 22.20 km (13.79 mi)
  • M 5.5, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
    Wednesday, December 26, 2012 23:01:57 UTC Wednesday, December 26, 2012 01:01:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 13.20 km (8.20 mi)

  China Dialogue

  • 美国基础设&#2604 ...
    缓慢的网速、煎熬的航班旅行、摇摇欲坠的电网：世界上第一套真正现代化的基础设 ...
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    与中国的情况一样，英美两国的儿童也在逐渐远离自然。现在的孩子有一半时间坐在 ...
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    在空前的公众关注中，中国迎来了应对大气污染的一个重要机遇。赵立建、徐楠对中 ...
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    亚洲的水电支持者用到处建坝的美国作为推进争议项目的例证。但实际上，美国如今 ...
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    继去年十二月初两国官员在莫斯科谈判之后，中俄有望在一个月之内敲定一项全长2600&#20 ...

  AlterNet Top Stories

  • Don't Cut Social Security -- Double It
    This article originally appeared at The Atlantic.As the nation tiptoes closer to the fiscal cliff, a frightening number of leaders on both sides of the political aisle seem ready to push poor, beleaguered Social Security over the edge. Not only would that be a huge mistake for the nation's fu ...
  • The FBI vs. Occupy: Secret Docs Reveal "Counte ...
     JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We begin with a look at newly revealed documents that show the FBI monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement from its earliest days last year. Internal government records show Occupy was treated as a potential terrorism threat when organizing firs ...
  • D.C. Cops Take Aim At NBC's David Gregory; Gun ...
    During his contentious interview with the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre on Sunday, December 23, Meet the Press host David Gregory performed a public service. Asking if the NRA CEO and executive vice president would support a federal ban on the sort of high-capacity magazine used ...
  • Matt Taibbi on the Biggest Wall Street Scandal ...
    Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has skewered his fair share of financial faux pas and corporate bigwigs throughout 2012. Yet his prize for the Biggest Wall Street Story of the Year goes to the massive—but little understood—Libor scandal.“If it’s true that the 16 bigges ...
  • AlterNet Comics: Jen Sorensen on Drone Warfare ...
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  Threat Level

  • From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Ye ...
    From gun-toting, on-the-lam tech giants to flying drones and internet uprisings, these are the privacy and security stories that dominated Threat Level in 2012.
  • Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles
    Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers and even ...
  • John McAfee’s Last Stand
    On November 12, 2012, Belizean police announced that they were seeking John McAfee for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor. Six months earlier, I began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. This is the chronicle of that ...
  • Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — ...
    The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack Obama granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. While lawmakers were caving to special interests, however, they cut from the legislative ...
  • Net Neutrality, Data-Cap Legislation Lands in ...
    A proposal forbidding internet service providers from turning the data-cap meter off to grant a so-called internet fast lane to preferential online services was introduced Thursday in the Senate. The bill by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) comes a week after ...

  Equality Trust

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

  PDA AMERICA

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

  Marler Blog

  • Another Salad Mystery Revealed
    Over the years we have investigated, and pieced together, several leafy green outbreaks that are never publicly announced despite being the cause of severe illness.  Here is an outbreak from... Continue Reading
  • MRSA ST398 found in British Raw Milk
    British News reports a new strain of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been found in British milk.  The new strain, MRSA ST398, has been identified in seven samples of bulk... Continue Reading
  • Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Marler ...
    Wishing you all, and your friends and family, the very best.
  • Settlements Reached in E. coli and Campylobact ...
    Late last week we reached yet another (actually two) settlement(s) in (a) raw milk outbreak(s) – one, an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak and the other a Campylobacter outbreak. In 2012... Continue Reading
  • A Baker’s Dozen of Food Poisoning Outbreaks of ...
    Thanks to CSPI, the CDC and Marler Clark Epidemiologist, Patti Waller, for bringing us all the latest outbreaks: 1.  Outbreak of E. coli O157 linked to Wegmans brand Organic Spinach... Continue Reading

  AutoblogGreen

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

  Rafe's Radar

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

  Camera Obscura

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

  Democracy Now!

  • Pull the Global Trigger on Gun Control
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan While the final funerals for the victims of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre have been held, gun violence continues apace, most notably with the Christmas Eve murder of two volunteer firefighters in rural Webster, N.Y., at the hands of an ex-convict who ...
  • Juan González Honored For 25 Years of Muckraki ...
    The New York Daily News has published a series of articles highlighting the work of columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. "It is hard to believe that 25 years have passed since Juan walked past the landmark globe in the landmark News Building on E. 42nd St. and took a desk in ...
  • VIDEO: "NRA Killing Our Kids" - CODEPINK Disru ...
    CODEPINK protesters interrupted the National Rifle Association’s press conference on Friday as the group held its first press conference since the Newtown massacre. During comments made by NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, one protester held up a banner reading, “The NRA is killing our kids ...
  • Lessons from New Town, AUS for Newtown, USA: W ...
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The initial shock of the latest semiautomatic weapon-fueled massacre has passed, but the grief only grows. Now the funerals occur with a daily drumbeat. It will take not 27, but 28 funerals, as the Newtown, Connecticut, shooter, Adam Lanza, took his own li ...
  • VIDEO: New "Kochtopus" Graphic Maps the Influe ...
    The author of a new report on U.S. carbon billionaires gives Democracy Now! a tour of the Kochtopus — a map of the empire of Charles and David Koch. The Kochs run oil refineries and control thousands of miles of pipeline, giving them a massive personal stake in the fossil fuel industry. ...

  Suzie-Q

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

  Solari

  • Jon Rappoport on “Covert Engineering of ...
    “Omission is the greatest form of lie.” ~George Orwell By Catherine Austin Fitts Jon Rappoport’s special for the Solari Report this month is a real treat. As soon as Jon recorded “Covert Engineering of Information,” I listened to it in my car on a long drive. The s ...
  • Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
    As the specter of federal gun control legislation in 2013 rises, the debate is being defined primarily by fiction, rather than fact. For those interested in shifting the debate to fact, including serious statistics and analysis of the impact of gun ownership and governmental policies related to ...
  • Happy Christmas from Holland
    Dear people, speakers, team members and supporters of Globalbem. I want to wish you all on behalf of Globalbem a happy Christmas and a wonderful 2013 and lets hope we are all going to be a witness that finally breakthrough energy technology will be a reality for everybody. We [...]
  • Quote du Jour
    “Here’s what a guy told me when I was just up and about working on a crew – You can’t be counted on, you can’t be counted in.” - Andrew Vachss
  • Missing You, Georgie…
    YouTube (14 Oct 11) Related Reading: Happy Birthday with Georgie! (24 Dec 10) Celebrating the Life of Georgie LaRue (27 Dec 10) Georgie Anna Branham LaRue: April 15, 1927-December 26, 2010 (27 Dec 10) We Ask Your Prayers (4 [...]

  Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

  AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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  Fabius Maximus

  • The seas are rising, and have been over ten th ...
    Summary: The world has been warming for the past two centuries, and the oceans have been rising for over ten millenia. The urgent task of climate scientists is to determine if these trends will accelerate, and if so by how much and when. Here we look at the history of rising seas, and what the [...]
  • As we finish a dark 2012, what will we see in ...
    Summary:  It’s the time of year to look back on our deeds of the past year, and contemplate what we’ll do in the next. In the past American could think of bold exploration ventures (from Lewis & Clark to Apollo), great projects of domestic infrastructure (from the Erie Canal to t ...
  • Good news for Christmas
    Summary:  For Christmas we take one of our occasional breaks from our steady stream of bad news to deliver some good news.  Regular service will resume tomorrow.  Best wishes for a Merry Christmas to you all! Contents A special post about Christmas A video about Christmas history of America&#821 ...
  • Looking back at 2012 – What was the bigg ...
    Summary:  It’s too easy to let the years blur by.  To help us remember and cherish 2012, post in the comments your favorite quotes from the 2012 news — and what 2012 event had the greatest long-term importance. It’s a challenge to our readers!  This could be interesting, but is ...
  • The intelligence community’s meritocracy ...
    Summary:  A combination of events has provide a window into the operation of the CIA. We can glimpse the way its people think, their values, and how it promotes. This is a follow-up to yesterday’s sad post; today’s provides equally dark news. . Content Introducing Alfreda Frances Bik ...

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  The Progressive Realist

  • Ballistic Missiles Don’t Kill People, People K ...
    Over at the Diplomat, I share my “meh” about ballistic missile proliferation: Cooperation between North Korea and Iran has become a great concern, especially with the relative success of North Korea’s latest launch. Syrian missile use has raised fears that Assad’s government might ta ...
  • 13 Stories that Will Drive the Global Agenda i ...
    Want to know what people, places and things will be driving the global agenda in 2013? The UN Dispatch team has you covered.  This is a listicle for the discerning, global set.  Add your own ideas and insights in the comments. 1. A Perilous Election in Kenya Elections in fragile democracies som ...
  • America’s Failing Drone War in Yemen
    In February, Eric Schmitt wrote in the New York Times about the Obama administration’s emerging Yemen strategy, whereby U.S. and Yemeni intelligence and military officials would “work together to kill or capture about two dozen of al Qaeda’s most dangerous operatives, who are focused on attackin ...
  • DC Roundup, Part 2: Rothkopf, Walt, Glickman, ...
    Reuters As part of the roundup of perspectives on Senator Chuck Hagel's potential nomination as Secretary of Defense, I have received the responses noted below. Here at The Atlantic is an earlier installment of views that included David Frum, Bing West, Ari Melber, Robert Dreyfuss, Hattie B ...
  • DC Roundup: Arguments for and Against Chuck Ha ...
    I have gathered some more views on Chuck Hagel's potential -- and challenged -- nomination to serve as President Obama's Secretary of Defense. Politico's Mike Allen is calling the nomination "toast" after Senator Chuck Schumer refused to say he would vote in favor of him. Remember that Senator S ...

  TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • What Happens to a DREAM Deferred?
    At first, it looked like 2012 would be another terrible year for immigration reform advocates. Mitt Romney won the Republican presidential primary by adopting a xenophobic, right-wing platform, advocating for policies against immigrants so terrible they led to self-deportation. Meanwhile Barack ...
  • States of Play
    If you’d forgotten just how much state legislatures impact citizens’ day-to-day lives, 2012 was a year full of reminders. From unions to health care to basic civil rights, states have a tremendous amount of power in shaping public policy. That’s no secret to groups like the American Legislative ...
  • A Cleared Bill of Health
    Flickr/Robert F. W. Whitlock There have been few more consequential years in the history of health care in America than 2012. This year saw disasters averted, new problems identified, and hope triumphing over despair. The biggest health-care news in 2012 was the dramatic and surprising ...
  • The NRA's War of All Against All
    It's quite salutary that Wayne LaPierre and the National Rifle Association are getting so much attention, because the truth is that most Americans aren't familiar with their rhetoric and the reality they inhabit. If you didn't know too much about LaPierre but tuned in to see him on Meet the Pre ...
  • Our Most-Trafficked Pieces in 2012
    My So-Called Ex-Gay Life A deep look at the fringe movement that just lost its only shred of scientific support Ten Arguments Gun Advocates Make, and Why They're Wrong A guide to the debate we'll be having, or at least we ought to have The Coming Obama Landslide  How Paul Ryan makes a big wi ...

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  Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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

  The BiPartisan Report

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

  Sciencebase

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

  Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Environmental Protection Agency Administrator ...
    Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced that she will be stepping down from her role after the State of the Union address. Under Jackson’s leadership, the EPA established: *Landmark Protections from Toxic Mercury *Historic Fuel Efficiency Stand ...
  • Lisa Jackson: A Fierce, Tireless Champion of o ...
    The following is a statement from Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, on the announced resignation of Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: “There has been no fiercer champion of our health and our environment than Lisa Jac ...
  • Time for Plan C: Big Corporations Should Pay F ...
    Several business organizations released a joint statement saying it’s “time for Plan C: big corporations now dodging billions in taxes should pay their fair share. Forget Plan B tax breaks for those making $999,999 a year [and] cuts to Social Security.” Instead, they call on Co ...
  • Time for Plan C: Big Corporations Should Pay F ...
    Several business organizations released a joint statement saying it’s “time for Plan C: big corporations now dodging billions in taxes should pay their fair share. Forget Plan B tax breaks for those making $999,999 a year [and] cuts to Social Security.” Instead, they call on Co ...
  • FDA Moves Towards Approval of First Geneticall ...
    “Today, despite insufficient testing and widespread opposition, AquaBounty’s genetically engineered (GE) salmon took the final step towards becoming the first FDA-approved genetically engineered (GE) food animal. Today the Food and Drug Administration released its draft Environmental ...

  Common Dreams-Views

  • Washington Post Pushes Mayan End of the World ...
    Dean Baker Yes, the Washington Post is getting very worried that it will have egg all over its face if January 1 comes with no budget deal and we don't get its promised recession.read more
  • Obama Should Grant Amnesty to Immigrants
    Antonia Montes Before the end of the year, presidents often consider grants of pardon and amnesty. This year, Pres. Obama should grant amnesty to the 11 million undocumented immigrants in America, excluding those guilty of heinous crimes li ...
  • How Big Business Poisons Academic Research
    Wenonah Hauter In 1862, the federal government created the land-grant university system to produce critical agricultural research. Since then, America has relied on these schools to inform and guide independent scientific advances in areas ...
  • How Big Business Poisons Academic Research
    Wenonah Hauter In 1862, the federal government created the land-grant university system to produce critical agricultural research. Since then, America has relied on these schools to inform and guide independent scientific advances in areas ...
  • Are We Approaching the Twilight of the Labor M ...
    David Macaray By now, most people realize that private sector union membership in the U.S. stands at about 7-percent, which means that 93-percent of all private sector jobs are non-union. Which makes those accusations of unions of being &ld ...

  Newshoggers - AfPak

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  Water Wars

  • VIDEO: Jimmy Fallon and Tom Cruise Have a Wate ...
    Tom Cruise and Jimmy Fallon are waging war Check out TVGuide.com's Top Moments of the Year On Tuesday's Late Night, Fallon challenged Cruise to one of his Water Wars, in which the player who loses a hand of the classic card game War gets doused with a glass of water. It was a close, wet ...
  • The Water Wars and Urban Sprawl of 2030
    # thefuture The year 2030 is only 17 short years away. (Wow. I can remember when it was 25 years away.) What will the world be like in 2030? According to a new " Global Trends " report from the US National Intelligence office—a deeply researched report provocative in its predictions wh ...
  • Drought revives old water wars among river states
    The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.      Officials from more than 30 states have written President Barack Obama urging him to interv ...
  • The President to receive letters about the low ...
    The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.
  • Drought revives water war
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River - to drink from their faucets, irrigate their crops and float the barges that carry billions of dollars of agricult ...

  WordPress | Economics

  • #6: The Writer
    It was a normal day at the park, aside from the chilly air, of course.  She had been coming to Bryan
  • The Legend of Nigger Charley - YouTube
    1972. I’m not affiliated with the producers of this movie, or anything else like that. via The
  • How to re-establish economics as a realist and ...
    Economics – and especially mainstream neoclassical economics – has as a science lost imm
  • RSA Animate - The Internet in Society
    RSA Animate – The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
  • GEITHNER WARNS U.S. MAY HIT DEBT CEILING MONDAY
    by WARNER TODD HUSTON 26 Dec 2012 Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is warning Congress that the U

  Electronic Intifada

  • How Israel's supporters are attempting to shut ...
    Asa Winstanley London 27 December 2012 Lawsuit an indicator of the desperation of those who wish to undermine the Israel boycott movement.
  • Thousands remain without water, power one mont ...
    Eva Bartlett Gaza City 26 December 2012 More than $1 billion worth of damage was caused by Israeli offensive in November.
  • Politics of Palestine's everyday captured in s ...
    Asa Winstanley 24 December 2012 Two Meters of This Land is inspired by a Mahmoud Darwish poem.
  • Israel denies Bedouins right to elect represen ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Negev 24 December 2012 As campaign fever grips Israel, many of its Palestinian citizens are angry at being disenfranchised.
  • UK lawsuit challenges college union's right to ...
    Asa Winstanley London 21 December 2012 Academic is suing his own union to undermine Palestine solidarity.

  The Wonk Room

  • New Hawaii Senator: Climate Change The ‘Most U ...
    Hawaii Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz (D), who was yesterday named to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D), wants to tackle an issue that has largely disappeared from Washington’s political agenda in recent years: climate change. Speaking briefly after being named to ...
  • Arizona Attorney-General Calls For Arming Scho ...
    Merging an environment of state budget cuts with calls for heavily arming schools, Arizona Attorney-General Tom Horne has suggested arming school principals or “another designee.” On Friday, the National Rifle Association in a press conference called for there to be armed police offi ...
  • Supreme Court Rejects Hobby Lobby Attempt To B ...
    The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will not block an Obamacare mandate that employers must provide insurance coverage for contraception. Hobby Lobby, a craft chain, was seeking an emergency injunction against the mandate after both a federal and district judge ruled against it. While Hobby Lobb ...
  • McConnell Demands Spending Cuts To Offset Unem ...
    House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) yesterday punted negotiations over how to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff” back to the Senate, but in that chamber, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is now demanding spending cuts to pay for an extension to the federal unemployment insurance ...
  • West Antarctica Warming Three Times Faster Tha ...
    This is a repost of a National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) news release (plus links and excerpts from other recent studies at the end). BOULDER—In a finding that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western p ...

  thwap's schoolyard

  • Parliament
    I don't know what to say so I think I'll post Thomas Mulcair's speech in the House of Commons in response to Bill C-45. Here's a noteworthy excerpt:  In response to a question, the hon. member for Saint Boniface asked us earlier if we were aware of the global recession. I would remind the ...
  • There are a LOT of First Nations People in Can ...
    It's a consequence of our racist justice system. All I'm saying is that in the months before the general amnesty for First Nations prisoners, that it'll be fun to think of how they'll respond to their new fellow prisoners from the Conservative Party of Canada.
  • Idle No More
      What harper has to realize is that while he's sitting in his comfortable house on Sussex Drive, enjoying the fruits of his stolen majority government, basking in the adulation of idiots and the tepid applause of his corporate paymasters, is that for other people, the end results of his ...
  • If harper Kills Chief Spence
    Is it possible? Is harper so debased that he'd actually let Chief Spence die rather than agree to a meeting between First Nations leaders, himself and the Crown? Personally, I don't think so (although the overall lack of media attention to this gripping story might try to make it possible for ha ...
  • The Reason for the Season
    Howl-lay-lou-yah!

  on Government Oversight

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  Digital Journal

  • Libel lawsuit against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford d ...
    A $6 million defamation lawsuit against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford by Boardwalk Pub owner George Foulidis has been dismissed by Justice John Macdonald on Thursday. Ford said in a statement he welcomed the decision.
  • Silent victims: Violence and the sex industry
    Going to work every day when you are part of the sex industry comes with risks. The biggest risk is becoming a victim of violence.
  • Browser extension can turn nasty YouTube comme ...
    Not everyone is in a joyous mood during the Christmas season, which may seem apparent by checking out the YouTube comments section. To remedy that, a new browser extension called YuleTube can filter out the nasty remarks with festive ones.
  • Hollywood exec to Internet, media: 'Tweets are ...
    Donald Trump. Rupert Murdoch. Piers Morgan. Pat Martin. What do these four men have in common? They tweeted a lot over the past year, but is it news? According to one anonymous Hollywood executive, it's "not news, people."
  • Day 104 of NHL lockout arrives and still no CB ...
    If you are still bothering to read about the NHL lockout you might be interested in knowing there's nothing to report. Or is there? While the two sides haven't had meaningful contact in over a week, there are dates upcoming that mean something.

  End Homelessness | Change.org

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

  Ceasefire.ca

  • Take our 2-minute member survey for 2013!
    Answer this short survey about Ceasefire.ca, leave your comment about your priorities for 2013, and read what others are saying.
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    Make a donation to Ceasefire.ca on behalf of a friend or family member, and send them this eCard.
  • Ships: The next great boondoggle
    Auditor General Michael Ferguson, who recently introduced a little reality to discussion of the planned F-35 procurement, is now turning his sights on the Harper government's "National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy".
  • Video: Catastrophic humanitarian consequences ...
    International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War has released a video detailing the humanitarian, medical, and environmental consequences of nuclear war and explaining why nuclear weapons must be eliminated.
  • No stealth fighters! Send your letter to the e ...
    Please write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Use our letter-writing plug-in on Ceasefire.ca; we have provided some suggested comments for your convenience.

  Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-21-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-28-12
    Today, Kevin explains how diet foods are specifically designed to make you fat and how America is slowly being sold to the highest bidder. Self Help: Shed Pounds Fast Have Dinner With KT Daily Life Essentials Hear The Whole Interview: Andrew Wakefield Erich von Däniken Health: Reporter Suffers S ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-24-12
    Today, Kevin explains why you should not be donating your hard-earned money to large charities and for disaster relief. Plus, Kevin reveals where to find the best quality products in your area! Self Help: Protect Yourself From Meat Glue Shine A Little Light On Me Health: 9 Salads Calorically Wor ...
  • It’s Almost Over…
    The holiday season is finally almost over, so let’s start the de-stressing process…. Ice cream seems like a quick fix, but you’re better off making some wise stress-busting diet choices such as: Eating oatmeal, which provides more of all the B-Vitamins (except for pantothenic a ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-4-12
    Today, Kevin reveals the details behind the government’s plan to drive up oil prices and crash currencies. Plus, the Freeze Dry Guy stops by to help prepare you for any disaster! Self Help: Loss Weight Safe & Fast Survival Food Filter For Emergencies Daily Life Essentials Free Money Health: ...

  Armies of Liberation

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

  Dark Politricks

  • White House Set to Ignore Piers Morgan Petition
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comObama administration failed to respond to dozens of secession petitions Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Prison Planet.com December 27, 2012 Given the fact that the Obama administration has failed to respond to dozen ...
  • Russia puts dead lawyer Magnitsky on trial
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Russia on Thursday opened a fraud trial against Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer whose prison death in 2009 led to the biggest US-Russia row in years, despite protests by the defence it was illegal to try a de ...
  • Mark Steyn sounds off on CNN’s Piers Morgan
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJeff Poor The Daily Caller Dec 27, 2012 Filling in for Rush Limbaugh on his Wednesday show, National Review columnist Mark Steyn reacted to all the unfolding drama related to CNNs Piers Morgan and his anti-gun stance inc ...
  • Hazel Crest Cops Shoot, Kill Dog During Search ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCBS Chicago Dec 27, 2012 The search for a fugitive might have taken a tragic turn; Kenneth Conley escaped from the federal jail in downtown Chicago last week, and one suburban family said the search for Conley claimed th ...
  • Higgs boson theorist criticizes Richard Dawkin ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Higgs boson theorist says he agrees with those who find Dawkins’ approach to dealing with believers ‘embarrassing’ As public disagreements go, few can have boasted such heavy-hitting an ...

  Dandelion Salad

  • Mickey Huff: Which Key Stories Did the US Medi ...
    Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish·Dec 27, 2012 There are stories that have enormous consequences on the lives of Americans but are regularly under-reported or misrepresented by the mainstream media. Project Censored, the US media watchdog group, has released their annual report examining the shor ...
  • Rocket Kirchner: Kierkegaard Reconsidered
    “… in spite of or in defiance of the whole of existence he wills to be himself with it, to take it along, almost defying his torment. For to hope in the possibility of help, not to speak of help by virtue of the absurd, that for God all things are possible – no, that he [...]
  • Message of the Day: Merry Christmas
    Dandelion Salad A Daily Spiritual Seed Shalom Place December 25, 2012 Message of the Day In the case of the virgin birth the power of the Highest was implanted immaterially in the undefiled body and took the Virgin’s purity as the material for the flesh, employing it as the contribution of ...
  • Anne-Marie O’Reilly (Campaign Against Ar ...
    Dandelion Salad by Anne-Marie O’Reilly Right Livelihood Award Foundation Archive www.rightlivelihood.org 7 December 2012 Mister Deputy Speaker, Honourable Members of Parliament, Your excellencies, Fellow laureates, Dear friends, Thank you It is a great honour to accept the Right Livelihood ...
  • Peace On Earth–Classic Christmas Cartoon ...
    Dandelion Salad Tommy Cherry·Dec 1, 2009 Peace on Earth is a one-reel 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals. Two young squirrels ask their grandfather on Christmas Eve who the “men” are in the lyric &# ...

  Your New Reality

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

  Wired - Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: 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.

  Israeli Occupation Archive

  • EU court rejects NGO Monitor petition to relea ...
    The right-wing group, which tracks the activity of left-wing organizations in Israel, has been trying to obtain the documents for 10 years; court throws out suit, says information may be used to harm... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: The terror lurking in a Christm ...
    A recent report in the Haaretz newspaper, on an Israeli Jew who grows Christmas trees commercially, noted in passing: “hotels – under threat of losing kashrut [Kosher] certificates – are prohibited... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Adalah: The 2013 Israeli Elections and Arab-Pa ...
    Adalah document covering Israeli election rules and party or individual disqualifications. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Balad: Knesset Elections Committee disqualifie ...
    MK Haneen Zoabi called the decision “anti-democratic and illegitimate”, a form of political revenge that reflected the tyranny of the majority. “No one will determine for the Arab minority who... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • New Jerusalem highway to cut Arab neighborhood ...
    Construction of highway through Beit Safafa is based on plans drawn up 22 years ago, although no detailed plan for the road was submitted and no permits for the bridges above it were issued,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

  Ria Novosti - Military

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

  NewsWise

  • Cholesterol Drug Shows Promise in Fighting Eff ...
    Researchers have discovered that adding lovastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, to traditional antimalarial treatment decreases neuroinflammation and protects against cognitive impairment in a mouse model of cerebral malaria.
  • Losing Weight Is Like Playing the Piano - Prac ...
    The National Weight Control Registry documents the habits of 4,000 Americans who have successfully lost weight and kept it off. Loyola physician, Jessica Bartfield, shares the secret tips to help keep those weight-loss New Year's resolutions once and for all.
  • Rush University Medical Center Scientists Home ...
    Researchers at Rush University Medical Center, in collaboration with researchers at Northwestern University, have identified a molecular mechanism central to the development of osteoarthritis (OA) pain, a finding that could have major implications for future treatment of this often-debilitating ...
  • Transplant Patient to Highlight Need for Organ ...
    Kevin Riepl arrived at Cedars-Sinai in October 2010, suffering from sudden heart failure that left him fighting for his life. Surgeons swiftly installed a heart pump and later transplanted a new heart, saving his life and turning him into an unexpected ambassador for organ donation. Now he is pr ...
  • Investigators' Study Hints That Stem Cells Pre ...
    Unlike less versatile muscle or nerve cells, embryonic stem cells are by definition equipped to assume any cellular role. Scientists call this flexibility "pluripotency," meaning that as an organism develops, stem cells must be ready at a moment's notice to activate highly diverse gene expressio ...

  Natural Health News

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

  Climategate

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

  Opinio Juris

  • Besides the Year-End Reviews, How About Lookin ...
    by Chris Borgen 'Tis the season for year-in-reviews, for taking stock or where we've been. 'Tis also the season for making resolutions about what we want to do in the coming year. (And a week from now will be the season for breaking those resolutions.) But in the midst of the backward glances ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, December 27, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Commander of Syria’s Military Policy has announced his defection from the regime over YouTube. Meanwhile, Special Envoy Brahimi will travel to Russia on Saturday for talks on the situation in Syria, after Syrian representatives had discussions at t ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, December 26, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Israel has approved 1200 additional settlement units around Jerusalem, and with the election looming in less than a month, pressure is reportedly building on PM Netanyahu to drop the two state solution. Turkey is hopeful that progress will be made on its EU ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, December 25, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Human Rights Watch has accused Palestinian military units in Gaza of violating laws of war by firing rockets into populated areas of Israel. At least five people were killed in two drone strikes in south Yemen in what security and local officials said were a ...
  • Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui: reflections on the ICC’ ...
    by Jelia Sane [Jelia Sane is studying for the English Bar at City University, London. She holds an LLM in Public International Law from University College London and has previously interned at the ICC, the Centre for Justice and International Law, and the Extraordinary Cham ...