27 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: Official logo of National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) at Illinois Institute of Technology (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Beijing Municipal Center for Food Safety Monitoring Mobile Lab (2008-08) (Photo credit: xiaming)

How to understand and use the US Nutritional Fact Label (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Official logo of the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: food safety during commonwealth games (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: FDA poster warning against the use of the Hoxsey method. Product of the Food and Drug Administration (U.S. government agency). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Public News Service

• Report: Middle Class Families Have $100 Left E ...
  Report: Middle Class Families Have $100 Left Each Month PHOENIX - A sneak peek at the average middle-class household budget in Arizona shows about $100 left each month after covering regular expenses - at least, before the Christmas bills are due. The research from the Center for Responsible Le ...
• Immigration Reform for Farmworkers is on the T ...
  Immigration Reform for Farmworkers is on the Table this Holiday Season PHOENIX - As Americans reflect on holiday dinners and graze on the leftovers, immigration reform advocates are hoping citizens put the subject of immigration "on the table." An estimated 70,000 immigrant farmworkers are in A ...
• Report: Many Reasons to Howl about Buying Dogs ...
  Report: Many Reasons to Howl about Buying Dogs Online PHOENIX - The holidays often prompt people to add a cuddly new addition to the family, but if you buy a dog online, there's a good chance it came from a puppy mill. A report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare says more than 700,00 ...
• Doctors for Seniors May Soon Be in Short Supply
  Doctors for Seniors May Soon Be in Short Supply PHOENIX – Just over a week is left for the U.S. Congress to prevent a cut to reimbursements for doctors treating Medicare patients. The cuts stem from a formula Congress has used for 15 years to determine how much doctors are paid. ...(Read ...
• Economists: Not Really a "Cliff" If a Fiscal D ...
  Economists: Not Really a "Cliff" If a Fiscal Deal is Likely PHOENIX, Ariz. - The White House and Congressional Republicans are still talking about how to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff." Some economists say as long as a deal looks likely, it's more like a slope that would be easy to get back ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

• Gun Control Demands
  Liberals are in a froth over a new gun ban on semi-automatic rifles (fire once per trigger pull).  While these are powerful and dangerous weapons, I flatly don’t believe this new ban will have any impact at all on violent crime.  Like so many things from the unbiased media, I cannot see an ...
• IPCC – Full Speed Ahead
  Thanks to some very hard working bloggers and readers who care at WUWT, the IPCC second order draft has been released.   Steig 09 appears to be much less prominently referenced in the second order draft than in the zero order which is still too often.  I take it as an indication that some people ...
• Just a Little More Fair
  What will we do when the US runs out of money? A few months ago it seemed that the American public may actually grasp the size of the numerical problem, but the elections revealed that people in bulk are not capable of basic math. It only takes the most cursory of reviews to understand that [...]
• Camp 2012
  Another deer season gone, I didn’t get any.  This time I did see several doe and maybe a spike buck in the morning of the first day but it was too dark to tell. Camp is a special place and I have a few minutes so here are some of my favorite images and videos [...]
• Climategate Season!
  Gone hunting for invisible deer again. It is climategate season!! The week will probably end with nothing new (including deer-s) but the UK police managed to leak (publish) that nobody involved in Climategate could be prosecuted after three years. Hopefully, the boys/(manly girls) aren’t s ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook allows advertisers to customize headl ...
  Facebook will now let advertisers customize the headlines of their ads within the sidebar. This will be available via the API, Power Editor and self-serve ad tool. Previously ads for pages, apps and events had to...
• Smirnoff, Grey Goose and Pinnacle are top PTAT ...
  Smirnoff is this week’s top gainer for the People Talking About This metric among wine and spirit pages. The brand has received over 1.5 million engagements among its 30 different region-specific pages. However, this global total...
• Page posts and new recommendation modules appe ...
  Posts from music-related pages and new modules that recommend albums based on what users have listened to now appear in Facebook’s Music Feed. The social networked launched a music dashboard at f8 last year. This section...
• Bubble Safari Ocean, Causes, Instagram, Amazon ...
  Zynga’s Bubble Safari Ocean comes in at the No. 1 spot on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. The game, which is a follow-up to Bubble Safari, launched last week and...
• Facebook pushes Gifts ahead of holiday
  Facebook has been heavily promoting its Gifts feature in the final days before Christmas with banners above News Feed and sidebar modules suggesting friends to buy for. Starting Friday, users were prompted with notices on the...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers: US In ...
  Newly discovered FBI files show the agency was after the Occupy Movement back when it was just a gleam in its organizers' eyes. They also show the agency had a disturbing disregard for deadly threats against the movement, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
• Don't Tell My Neighbors About My Firearm: Gun ...
  This week's publication in the Journal News of the names and addresses of handgun permit holders in two New York counties has gun rights enthusiasts calling the news media what they are often called themselves: bullies.
• There Is no American Left
  Why are the only two choices in US politics--the responsible center-right and the barbarian nationalist extreme? It wasn't always this way.
• Throwing Social Security Beneficiaries Under t ...
  Obama tries to renege on no compromise on entitlement. He should never give in to people who want him to fail. The deficit is not related to entitlement benefits because payroll taxes are paid for Social Security and Medicare. The chained CPI for COLA makes the middle class and poor bear the bru ...
• Transition NYC Bioregion - Preparing Our Islan ...
  We are living in an age of unprecedented violent change with economic, social, and environmental crises. We need a positive implementable plan for the future.

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• It Will Have to be Senate Majorities That Elim ...
  Garrett Epps is correct that it’s not going to be the federal courts that eliminate or constrain the filibuster.   And while I yield to nobody in my disdain for the filibuster, I also agree that the argument that the filibuster is unconstitutional is fundamentally unserious on the merits. ...
• Next you’ll be telling me the widow of t ...
  Here’s a nifty variation on the law school scam, parasitical internet predator division: Firstlawjob.com provides the following services to its clients: How The Process Works I. Fill out the application. II. Submit payment [$89. An $110 savings from the regular price of $199] III. A career ...
• Ballistic Missiles Don’t Kill People, Pe ...
  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 ...
• Kennedy, Rehnquist, and the Construction of &# ...
  I wasn’t aware of this before reading Phillip Jenkins’s new Rehnquist bio, but here was Ted Kennedy’s opening statement at the Judiciary Committee hearings on William Rehnquist’s appointment as Chief Justice: Mainstream or too extreme? That is the question. By his own rec ...
• Pain Caucus Hack of the Day
  Ruth Marcus.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Oregon Passive House Aims For 90 Percent Energ ...
• San Antonio Retrofits 20,000 Street Lamps With ...
• Apple Designs A Wind Energy Storage Scheme
• Green Spaces Resurrect Habitable Bridge Concept
• World’s First Recycled-Aluminum Bike Turns Heads

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Appeals court finds for feds in work product i ...
  The government did not waive work product immunity for information used in consent decrees to help resolve $1 billion in environmental contamination, according to a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruling.
• Toyota settlement shines light on agency's pro ...
  In the wake of Toyota Motor Corp.'s estimated $1.3 billion settlement involving claims of unintended acceleration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration continues to push for a rule that would require manufacturers to install "black boxes" in all new cars to record accident data.
• Harvard Law offering first free online course
  Harvard Law School is accepting applications for its first online course via edX--a new online education venture between six leading universities.
• Stanford to start new religious liberty law clinic
  A new religious liberty law clinic at Stanford Law School, which administrators say is the first of its kind at a U.S. law school, was established with $1.6 million in seed funding from the Washington-based Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
• $1.3 billion settlement reached in Toyota acce ...
  Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle multi-district litigation over financial losses associated with acceleration problems reported in some Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Do We Really Want to Eat Genetically Modified ...
  To prevent such risks, AquaBounty told an FDA advisory committee it plans to grow the eggs at a facility on Prince Edward Island in Canada, where escapees could not survive.
• Egypt Approves New Constitution
  Oppositions particularly the Mursi's Leftist, liberal, secularist and Christian have launched a massive street protests upon hearing the disclosure of the results.
• 60 People Killed in Syrian Bakery Attack
  The United States urges the regime to capitalize on the Joint Special Representative's efforts in order to transition to a new government and end the brutal repression of the Syrian people.
• Donald Trump Hails Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, As ...
  Celebrity Scene spoke to Donald Trump, who also enjoys being in Las Vegas, and has his own property, Trump Towers, with his friend Carl Ikon.
• AU Troop Presence At Somali Stadium Postpones ...
  Somali Football Federation secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab said in a press statement that because of lack of facility his federation decided to postpone the regional tournament until next year.

environment 360

• Group Collecting DNA Codes of Endangered Speci ...
  The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), a global initiative assembling the “DNA barcodes” of the world’s endangered species, received $3 million from Google this month to create an online database organizers hope will emerge as a critical tool in the enforcement of inter ...
• Interview: What’s Damaging Marshes Along U.S. ...
  For centuries, salt marshes along the U.S. coast have been disappearing, with some experts estimating that 70 percent have been lost to development, rising seas, MBL Linda Deegan and other threats. One factor scientists always thought marshes could withstand was nutrient enrichment, such ...
• Changing Oceans May Be Adding to New England F ...
  As U.S. fishing regulators weigh stricter catch quotas to allow time for critical species to recover in the waters of New England, scientists say that changing ocean conditions may be a factor in historic fish declines, not just decades of overfishing. Warmer ocean temperatures and changing ecos ...
• ‘Peel-and-Stick’ Solar Cells Expand Potential ...
  Stanford University researchers say they have developed a “peel-and-stick” solar cell that can be attached to a variety of hard surfaces, an innovation they say could vastly expand the potential for solar Click to enlarge Chi Hwan Lee/Stanford School of Engineering “Peel- ...
• In Midwest, Bringing Back Native Prairies Yard ...
  Across the U.S. Midwest, homeowners are restoring their yards and former farmland to the native prairie that existed in pre-settlement days. The benefits can be substantial — maintenance that uses less water and no fertilizer, and an ecosystem that supports wildflowers and wildlife. BY REBEC ...

Red Ice Creations

• A Twinkling Christmas Tree, Powered by…an Elec ...
  Electric eels have to navigate the dark, murky streams and ponds where they live in South America. (Or, in Sparky’s case, his large tank.) The slender, snake-like fish have tiny eyes that are not very effective in low-light conditions. So, to wayfind, electric eels, true to their name, rely on t ...
• Buried Christian Empire Casts New Light on Ear ...
  Archeologists are studying the ruins of a buried Christian empire in the highlands of Yemen. The sites have sparked a number of questions about the early history of Islam. Was there once a church in Mecca? The commandment "Make yourself no graven image" has long been strictly followed in the Ara ...
• The Spirit of Christmas and the End to All War ...
  The Christmas Truce of 1914 was an initiative of the soldiers on both sides; it was a mark of human solidarity and fraternity against the political and military architects of World War I. The Spirit of Christmas in December 1914 prevailed: “In the front lines, the fraternisation of Christmas Eve ...
• New kind of magnetism discovered: ’Quantum Spi ...
  Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind of magnetic behavior, adding to the two previously known states of magnetism. Ferromagnetism -- the simple magnetism of a bar magnet or compass needle - ...
• Secret Dowsers and Government
  One of the strangest skills and talents allegedly possessed by humans is water-divining, or dowsing as it is more popularly known. Although the ability of the dowser to locate water by non-conventional means is looked on with suspicion and skepticism in some quarters, for many it is an age-old t ...

Russia Today

• Satellite Wars: China unveils ‘cheaper’ answer ...
  China’s rapidly-expanding rival to GPS, called BeiDou, has become available to customers across Asia-Pacific for the first time. It aims to claim a fifth of the satellite services market in the region in just three... Read Full Article at RT.com
• RT recalls 2012: Assange’s ordeal
  In 2012 Julian Assange was fighting against extradition in the UK courts. He lost and ended up in the Ecuadorian embassy: granted asylum, but unable to leave. Yet he managed to host his own show on RT, write a book and... Read Full Article at RT.com
• New Japanese government to reconsider zero-nuc ...
  Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s cabinet is set to unveil the new energy policy early next month by dismantling plans to eliminate nuclear power in the country by 2040. The pro-business Liberal Democratic Party-led government... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Prominent Muslim cleric brutally murdered in N ...
  Police are investigating the murder of a prominent Muslim cleric in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. The local religious leader’s deputy was shot six times, including a ‘proof round’ to the head. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Man-made tornadoes may produce green energy (P ...
  Massive man-made twisters reaching to the skies from cyclopean structures on the ground may be the future of suburban landscape. A Canadian firm is developing the technology to use the tornadoes to produce electricity –... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Gun Control for weapons makers not users, for ...
  I’m really not big on this call for gun control, mostly because it means to further restrict individual liberties, and especially because the outcry is a media induced hysteria of disreputable provenance, aimed at America’s violence junkies instead of its dealers. Really? Is Going Po ...
• Let’s all celebrate Mithra’s birthday!
  I get to feeling kind of Puritanical at this time of year…. so ‘Why didn’t Puritans like Christmas? ….They had several reasons, including the fact that it did not originate as a Christian holiday.’ ‘The upper classes in ancient Rome celebrated Dec. 25 as the b ...
• Gazette not only blocks story of local frackin ...
  COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.- This past Tuesday saw the largest demonstration yet against oil and gas drilling in Colorado Springs and the ugly practice of hydraulic fracturing. Several dozen fractivists allied with Colorado Springs Citizens for Community Rights (CSCCR) and Occupy were joined on the ...
• Obama cried because the Connecticut schoolchil ...
  So, no, the twenty schoolchildren killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut were not Pakistani. That’s apparently what everyone is so upset about. I’m rather embarrassed how distraught Americans are about the Connecticut school shooting, considering equivalent child-massa ...
• Obama cried because the Connecticut school sho ...
  So no, the twenty schoolchildren killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut were not Pakistani. That’s apparently what everyone is so upset about. I’m rather embarrassed how distraught Americans are about the Connecticut school shooting, considering equivalent ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• The latest viral from "liberal" Hollywood
  When a bunch of clueless celebrities get together to advance a political agenda it annoys me. I remember when I first watched Team America: World Police. While I found the movie hilarious, I didn't really like how it ridiculed anti-war celebrities. Now, 8 years later, South Park is pretty much m ...
• New Independent Study of WTC Dust - Please Donate
  Donate at: http://aneta.org/markbasile_org/donation/index.htm Proposal for Independent Study of the WTC Dust: http://www.markbasile.org/ See also: http://aneta.org/markbasile_org/study/index.htm http://nanothermite911.blogspot.com/
• 911review.com: Independent Study to Either Con ...
  911review.com: NEW 2012 Update: Call for an Independent Study to Either Confirm or Refute The [2009] Paper Donations needed to fund analytical work.   Info on study here: http://911review.com/ About Jim Hoffman Jim Hoffman who has a background in software engineering, mechanical ...
• Tell President Obama and Congress--​Jobs Not Wars
  http://www.peace-action.org 12/11/2012 On Election Day, we sent a message. Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. End the wars and reinvest in our communities.  The wars and tax breaks for the rich and corporations got us into this mess. Move the money from wars and weapons to f ...
• 9/11 Free Fall 12/6/12-- 9/11 Experiments, Ric ...
  Rick Shaddock is a 9/11 Truth activist and he is the webmaster of several 9/11 Truth related sites. Currently he is working on a PhD in an education research project to see if there is a correlation between critical thinking ability, and scores on a survey about "Truther" related topics. In this ...

Fooducate

• Why is the FDA Hiding Information about Antibi ...
• Dasani Drops. Flavor Enhancer. Health Reducer
• Merry Christmas!
• Santa’s New Diet!
• FDA to White House: Green Light on GMO Salmon

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Update: Deny Autistic Guns, Lose ...
  Dec 26, 2012, Beaumount (TX) Enterprise: Some should not be able to use guns Dec 26, 2012, Silver City (NM) Sun-News: With autism's definition set to change, Asperger's patients could lose services Beaumount Enterprise “The shooter in Connecticut last week...
• Prevenar 13 Pneumococcal Vaccine Damned in B ...
  This press release about the safety and efficacy of Pfizer’s pneumococcal vaccine Prevenar 13 - used in US as well as European vaccine schedules - was extensively reported in the Belgian media on Saturday. The report is based on leaked...
• We Suggest You Make a Year End Donation To The ...
  The end of the year is a time to express our gratitude to the groups who have help our loved ones (and our general dislike of taxes) by making donations to charitable organizations. We hope you will consider donating to...
• Dachel Media Update: Autism, Violence, Suicide ...
  Dec 23, 2012, Buffalo Grove (IL) Daily Herald: Parents struggle to control Buffalo Grove 12-year-old’s violence Dec 22, 2012, News On Six—Tulsa, OK: Mother Writes Book After Autistic Son Commits Suicide At Walmart Dec 21, 2012 CBS Minneapolis: Redefinition Of...
• Merry Christmas
  Merry Christmas from all of us at Age of Autism. A "friend of ours" sent us this photo of her handsome son and a certain jolly old elf. May the love and peace of the season touch your family -...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• Rent-to-own PCs surreptitiously captured users ...
  ARStechnica – Seven rent-to-own companies and a software developer have settled federal charges that they used spyware to monitor the locations, passwords, and other intimate details of more than 420,000 customers who leased computers. The software, known as PC Rental Agent, was developed ...
• Egypt’s contentious Islamist constitutio ...
  Reuters – President Mohamed Mursi admitted on Wednesday that Egypt’s economy faces serious problems after he enacted a new, bitterly contested constitution that is supposed to help end political unrest and allow him to focus on the financial crisis. Read article
• Revealed: NSA targeting domestic computer syst ...
  CNET – Newly released files show a secret National Security Agency program is targeting the computerized systems that control utilities to discover security vulnerabilities, which can be used to defend the United States or disrupt the infrastructure of other nations. The NSA’s so-cal ...
• New “Potentially Deadly” Superbug ...
  MD – A new, potentially deadly strain of MRSA superbug has been found in British milk for the first time, revealing that the bacteria are spreading through the UK livestock population. The new strain of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), known as ST398, is resistant to ant ...
• U.S. retailers see holiday sales weakest since ...
  Industry Leaders – Despite huge lines recorded on Black Friday, the U.S. retailers understood that Americans were not so keen on opening their wallets during the 2012 holiday shopping season. Cautiousness of American customers resulted in the worst holiday shopping season since 2008 when t ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• A few encouraging signs for Asia's endangered ...
  Make no mistake. Tigers have gone extinct in Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Singapore, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the islands of Bali and Java in Indonesia and possibly in Korea. 
• Climate change could cut Western water runoff ...
  Another climate change study is projecting declines in runoff in many parts of the West, a scenario that would put more pressure on the region’s water supplies.
• Study links disease, poverty and biodiversity
  Poverty and disease often come together. That much is well understood.
• Kerry expected to elevate climate change as se ...
  Secretary of State nominee John Kerry, with 20 years of concern about climate change, is expected to push the issue to center stage as a slow-motion crisis in need of a global solution.
• EPA issues air pollution standards for boilers ...
  After a decade of legal and regulatory fights, the Environmental Protection Agency has finalized how it will crack down on highly toxic pollution from industrial boilers and cement plants.

water.org

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

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Do We Really Want to Eat Genetically Modified ...
  To prevent such risks, AquaBounty told an FDA advisory committee it plans to grow the eggs at a facility on Prince Edward Island in Canada, where escapees could not survive.
• Egypt Approves New Constitution
  Oppositions particularly the Mursi's Leftist, liberal, secularist and Christian have launched a massive street protests upon hearing the disclosure of the results.
• 60 People Killed in Syrian Bakery Attack
  The United States urges the regime to capitalize on the Joint Special Representative's efforts in order to transition to a new government and end the brutal repression of the Syrian people.
• Donald Trump Hails Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, As ...
  Celebrity Scene spoke to Donald Trump, who also enjoys being in Las Vegas, and has his own property, Trump Towers, with his friend Carl Ikon.
• AU Troop Presence At Somali Stadium Postpones ...
  Somali Football Federation secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab said in a press statement that because of lack of facility his federation decided to postpone the regional tournament until next year.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• ALCOHOL (Isopropyl Alcohol) Swab [Rite Aid Cor ...
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• Georgia’s Hunger Games
  When the economy crashed in 2008, millions of Americans lost their jobs. Applications for food stamps soared. So did attendance at emergency food providers—soup kitchens and food pantries—that help the estimated 50 million people, working and non-working, who can't afford enough gro ...
• The Numbers Behind Some of 2012's Biggest Tech ...
  From Facebook to shale oil to MOOCs, the numbers told the tale. A few of the top technology stories of 2012 stand out for the big numbers they generated. Here are some of the events and trends that were especially dramatic in scale.
• Heart Disease in Military Shows Steep Drop Sin ...
  A new study shows that the rate of American service members with signs of coronary artery disease has declined sharply, falling to roughly 1 in 10 military personnel today from from about 8 in 10 during the Korean War.

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

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Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

• Some advice to the Egyptian opposition
  Khalid Amayreh The Egyptian opposition has acquired an image of being anti-Islam. It must correct this image before taking part in upcoming parliamentary elections. For the sake of maintaining its credibility, or what has remained of it, the Egyptian opposition needs to engage in some deep sou ...
• Human Rights Get Short Shrift in Israel
  by Stephen Lendman The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) assesses human rights in Israel annually. It's 2012 report is "bleak." It's true in virtually every category assessed. Netanyahu and dominant Knesset hardliners spurn human and civil rights. They do so for Palestinians ...
• The People Must Lead the Way to Save the Planet
  By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Dysfunction of government, corruption of U.S. elected officials shows itself on climate change “The American way of life is not up for negotiation. Period.” President George Bush, 1992, first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro With the re-election ...
• Scrambling for Africa's Resources
  by Stephen Lendman It's more than about oil, stupid. It's for vast African riches. Resource/mineral wars define America's agenda. On December 15, 2006, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) was authorized. On February 6, 2007, it was announced. On October 1, 2007, it was estab ...
• Political Grinches Stealing Christmas From Pal ...
  Franklin P. Lamb Church of Notre Dame, Damascus. Church officials in Damascus advanced the hour of last night’s traditional Christmas Eve midnight service to 6 pm because few Damascenes’ venture out past sunset these days. The reasons include ubiquitous checkpoints, security fears ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• Snow
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – Yes, it’s a bit late for a white Christmas but it’s falling now, along with freezing rain. At least, here in the burgh we haven’t had to deal with a tornado- yet! I would have bet heavy that we would never see a tornado here but I would have lost big [...]
• Dear CJE; A slave at five years old – Sc ...
  Dear friends at CJE, India is stalling the toughest child labour law in its history…because politicians say it’s not a ‘priority’! But the majority of MPs support it and all they need is a massive public push to bring it to a vote. Let´s raise our voices for India´s children. Sign now: The ...
• Photos: the top new species discoveries in 2012
  Rhett A. Butler and Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com 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 nov ...
• Being A Food Activist In A World Driven By Tra ...
  From agriculturesociety.com/ - Do you wonder about where your food comes from? Are you frustrated by the current system managing our food supply? Do you find that obtaining food from a reputable, healthy source seems difficult and you desire to make a change? Most importantly: Do you believe eve ...
• United States Political Prisoners: Another Ana ...
  by WILL POTTER,greenisthenewred.com - On the day after Christmas, it is likely that another anarchist will be imprisoned for refusing to talk about their political beliefs and their friends before a federal grand jury in Seattle. Maddy Pfeiffer, 23, appeared at a contempt hearing last week and w ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Vote for the Top Energy Stories of 2012
  For the past several years, at year end I rank what I felt were the the major energy stories of the year. 2012 lacked a blockbuster energy story like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011, so I thought I would change things up a bit and just le ...
• Grading My Energy-Related Predictions for 2012
  In my list of Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2011, I made five predictions for 2012. Those predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline project will be approved (although ...
• An Oil Company Finds Itself On the Losing End ...
  When most people hear the term "fossil fuel subsidies" it conjures up images of governments giving their hard-earned tax dollars to already highly profitable oil companies. But a Brazilian subsidy is causing Petrobras to import gasoline and sell at 8% below cost.
• Hofmeister: US Could Tap into 1.6 Trillion Bar ...
  The surge in shale oil production shows that new technologies can convert formerly uneconomical oil resources into oil reserves, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that this could also be the case with kerogen.
• Hofmeister: Treat Climate Change as a Waste Ma ...
  John Hofmeister outlines his ideas for what would constitute a sound plan of attack on climate change.

Discovery Educator Network

• @LucianeCurator wish you all a Blessed Christm ...
  Comments:wish you all a Blessed Christmas and offer you a #Curation #ChristmasTree I, Duma Cornel Lucian am happy finalist in Ipad eLearning Competition by eFrontLearning https://bit.ly/LucianeCuratorpleaseyoutoshareandrtcurationguestarticle and please help me to win a Ipad reading my article : ...
• Lessons and Solutions Learned When Creating Pr ...
  Tags: lessons, solutions, creating, presentations, ipad, classby: John Evans
• Sesame Workshop wants to improve iPad apps for ...
  Comments:"Sesame Workshop's Best Practices Guide for Children's App Development is now available for download. In addition to insight from the organization's more than 40 years of children's media testing, the paper, highlighted on Monday by All Things D, includes more than 50 touchscreen studie ...
• The 20 Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2012 | Tec ...
  Comments:"The apps we selected were either released or significantly updated between January 1 and December 21 of this year. Titles that debuted on iOS or Android in 2012 that were previously available on another platform are eligible for inclusion. All of our selections were sourced, ranked and ...
• $10 iPad App Setup | My Hullabaloo
  Comments:"One question I seem to get a lot about the iPad is what apps do I recommend that are free. I am hearing from a lot of teachers that they have no way to add paid apps and thus are stuck trying to find free apps. My experience is that many free apps stink. They have many adds, require in ...

Rodale News

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

big think

• Solar Cells You Can Stick On Objects
  What's the Latest Development? Researchers at Stanford University have created a solar cell that works like a sticker: It's peeled off a backing and applied to an object. Lead researcher Xiaolin Zheng and her team created the cell by adding thin layers of nickel and plastic to a standard ...
• Unlocking Your Car With Your Smartphone
  What's the Latest Development? Hyundai has begun previewing its Connectivity Concept technology by demonstrating how future drivers will be able to open, start, and customize their cars using smartphones. No app is involved; the phone is simply waved over an embedded Near-Field Communica ...
• Three Poets, One Epitaph: Hardy, Yeats, Frost ...
  Part 1 of this essay appeared yesterday. Part 3 (of 3) will appear tomorrow. Where Thomas Hardy seems to me primarily a pessimist, W. B. Yeats is an ironist. A comparison between “Channel Firing” and any of Yeats’s best political poems—“Easter, 1916,” for example—will show the difference ...
• Uncle Sam Wants You...To Design Super-Black Ma ...
  What's the Latest Development? The US Army is looking for proposals from businesses that can create materials and coatings described as "super-black": something that will absorb almost all light. The program is being run at one of the Pentagon's primary weapons experimentation centers, b ...
• Television Commercials Chosen Just For You
  What's the Latest Development? Gracenote, a company best known for its work with music cataloging, is about to release a new service that replaces standard television commercials -- those that are aired to all viewers regardless of whether they would actually be interested in the product ...

Information Liberation

• Female Trooper Who Pulled Over Speeding Cop Fe ...
  The female highway patrol trooper who made headlines for pulling over and arresting a speeding cop says she fears for her life as a result of stalking and harassment from fellow police officers. Via The Sun Sentinel: The Florida Highway Patrol tr...
• Prosecution as Persecution: The Carol Asher Case
  "Hi, my name is Larry Wasden," explained the short, stocky man, flashing a politician's practiced smile and extending a hand. "I'm the Attorney General." "Mr. Wasden, my name is Will Grigg," I replied, shaking his hand. "Several years ago you trie...
• A Politician's Promise
  The sure sign of a halfwit is someone who believes a politician's promise. They can be observed at candidate rallies with their faces beaming and their hands grasping tightly to a cardboard sign. In bars and restaurants they speak endlessly on how th...
• EMT cleared in May Day clash claims SPD office ...
  A Seattle woman who lost her job and home after she was wrongly charged with attacking a police officer now claims officers lied in an effort to cover up excessive force during last spring's May Day demonstration. Maria Morales was among the fir...
• Hazel Crest Cops Shoot, Kill Dog During Search ...
  HAZEL CREST, Ill. (CBS) * 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 the life of their beloved pet. ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• End of the World
  Well, the sleeping Americans problem don’t know it yet, but the end of the world hasn’t happened as Australians and others who have already entered the day Winter Solstice will attest. Google celebrates with a piece of the Mayan Calendar. Of course, why anyone would trust the “ ...
• Dead-tree stocking fillers
  A couple of arrivals on my desk for review worth a look. John Rentoul has been running the Questions To Which The Answer Is No! Awards for several years now. Celebrating the journalistic skill of basing an entire article on a fantastically far-fetched question-based headline and only admitting t ...
• Dead-tree stocking fillers
  A couple of arrivals on my desk for review worth a look. John Rentoul has been running the Questions To Which The Answer Is No! Awards for several years now. Celebrating the journalistic skill of basing an entire article on a fantastically far-fetched question-based headline and only admitting t ...
• Deceived Wisdom anywhere
     Deceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDeceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
• Deceived Wisdom anywhere
     Deceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDeceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog

RFF Library

• Study of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fr ...
  US EPA http://www.epa.gov/hfstudy/pdfs/hf-report20121214.pdf [PeakOil.com] The Environmental Protection Agency released a progress report Friday that reiterated its support for increasing natural gas development in the United States. “As the administration and EPA has made clear, natural gas has ...
• Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Wetlands: Impacts a ...
  World Bank / by Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and Benoit Laplante http://bit.ly/UNlRWP Scientific evidence indicates that global warming could well lead to a sea-level rise of 1 meter or more in the 21st century. In a new working paper, Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and Benoit Laplan ...
• Emissions Trading with Offset Markets and Free ...
  World Bank / by Knut Einar Rosendahl and Jon Strand http://bit.ly/R944M3 This paper studies interactions between a “policy bloc’s” emissions quota market and an offset market where emissions offsets can be purchased from a non-policy “fringe” of countries (such as f ...
• Making Markets: Unpacking Design and Governanc ...
  OECD / by Andrew Prag, Gregory Briner, and Christina Hood http://www.oecd.org/env/climatechange/%282012%294%20-%20Market%20Mechanisms_AE%20%282%29.pdf [From Executive Summary] This paper identifies the key design elements of market mechanisms and examines the governance structures and decision-m ...
• Energy and Climate Policy: Bending the Technol ...
  OECD (This book is available to RFFers through OECD iLibrary; if prompted for a password, look on the library’s landing page — left side) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/energy-and-climate-policy_9789264174573-en Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving envir ...

Scientific American - News

• Getting into Shapes: From Hyperbolic Geometry ...
  From Simons Science News ( find original story here ). [More]
• Monkey Brain Area Keeps Count of Kindnesses
  Monkeys might not be known for their generosity, but when they do seem to act selflessly, a specific area in their brains keeps track of these kindnesses. [More]
• Finless Porpoises in Peril
  Fishing, pollution and other human activities along the Yangtze River in China are driving yet another species of freshwater cetacean to the brink of extinction. That is the conclusion of a six-week survey of the river’s middle and lower stretches by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ ...
• Scientific American Staff Picks: 10 Apps for ...
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• Is the Amazon Rainforest Drying Out?
  TARAPOTO, Peru--For tropical ecologist Gregory Asner, flying over the Peruvian Amazon from the town of Tarapoto is like traveling back in time. Modern houses, rice paddies and oil palm plantations give way to steep, forested mountains and then to green, unbroken forest that curves toward the h ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Harsha Walia on Immigrants in Support of Idle ...
  Harsha Walia of the migrant justice group No One Is Illegal Vancouver speaks about the Immigrants In Support of Idle No More initiative, and touches on the links between migrant justice and indigenous sovereignty struggles, plus the upcoming border blockade actions set to take place on January 5 ...
• Idle No More map: Events Spreading across Cana ...
  View interactive map below Spread through social media and fuelled by both the current and historic treatment of First Nation communities ...
• IDLE NO MORE -VAG Dec 23 Vancouver Rally
  Please go to the youtube channel for many video from each Idle No More action here in Coast Salish Territories.     #IDLENOMORE Another large rally held on unced ...
• Idle No More - Mi'kma'ki
  Highway slowdowns, mall round dances and seeking out potential allies. With speeches by Kevin Christmas and Emmett Peters ...
• Coast Salish #IdleNoMore Rallies Against Land Grab
  COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Idle No More continued to build momentum today with more than 600 supporters at a boisterous downtown Vancouver rally against Bill C-45. The rally featured First Nations leaders from across the continent  and a pledge to continue building the movement against the Ha ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The Spanish Economic Crisis Explained
  David Seaton's News LinksIn case you are interested, this hour long documentary from the BBC gives a very workmanlike breakdown of how it all happened. Spain is the canary in the coal mine for the world's top economies, because of its large size and its fragility. The story carries lessons for e ...
• The Sandy Hook school massacre
  David Seaton's News Links I have little to add to everything written about this horrible massacre. I find myself especially moved by the heroism of the school teachers that died trying to protect the children in their care. There should be a statue of them in Washington and a wreath laid at its ...
• Global Civics: The ideas the Tea Party fears m ...
  David Seaton's News Links In my last post I wrote how the fear of a new wave of reform propelled by the problems and abuses arising from globalization.Global Civics is the idea-force that would make reform possible if it spread, not only possible, but inevitable. Any collective global action w ...
• What the Tea Party billionaires are really afr ...
  David Seaton's News Links Before starting off on the Tea Party's craziness, I would like you to examine some images from two nearly identical tragedies that occurred over a hundred years and several thousand miles apart. Later in the post I hope to make a connection between these twin horrors an ...
• Susan Rice
  David Seaton's News Links In diplomacy the core question is often this: What do I want to get and what do I have to give to get it? Certitudes and bluntness get you only so far. It is less a question of what you know than how curious you are about what you do not." Roger Cohen on Susan Rice - ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• The Whole Six Yards
  Have you always wondered where the phrase "the whole nine yards" comes from? You're not alone. "For decades," says Jennifer Schuessler of the New York Times, "the answer to that question has been the Bigfoot of word origins." And that's true. Back before I knew this was a controversy, I simpl ...
• Quote of the Day: The Problem With Economics
  From Matt Yglesias, talking about the current state of macroeconomic theorizing: It's far too easy for people with the relevant skills to demonstrate just about anything. Technically, of course, this is true of just about any field. I've seen plenty of sophisticated debunkings of Einste ...
• A Question From the Staff of the Mother Jones ...
  Browsing through the sports section this morning, I came across this sentence: UCLA brings plenty of offense to the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl on Thursday night in San Diego.... I've been wondering for a while how it is that newspapers got bullied into using the full, sponsored ...
• Republicans Now 100 Percent AWOL From Fiscal C ...
  John Boehner gave up on fiscal cliff negotiations after he was unable to get House Republicans to agree to any proposal at all, even one that he himself had crafted. The fate of the Republic, he said, was now in the Senate's hands. So how is Mitch McConnell handling things? An aide said We ...
• The Great Republican Recession of 2013 is Now ...
  After the failure of his fiscal cliff negotiations with the White House, followed by his humiliating inability to get even his ridiculous "Plan B" proposal approved by House Republicans, John Boehner gave up and punted the whole thing over to the president and the Senate. Why? Matt Yglesias sa ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Strange behavior: New study exposes living cel ...
  One approach to understanding components in living organisms is to attempt to create them artificially, using principles of chemistry, engineering and genetics. A suite of powerful techniques -- collectively referred to as synthetic biology -- have been used to produce self-replicating molecules ...
• 2 new species of orchid found in Cuba
  Researchers from the University of Vigo, in collaboration with the Environmental Services Unit at the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park (Cuba), have discovered two new species of Caribbean orchid. read more
• Penn team developing new class of malaria drug ...
  Calpain, a calcium-regulated enzyme, is essential to a host of cellular processes, but can cause severe problems in its overactivated state. It has been implicated as a factor in muscular dystrophy, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. As such, finding and exploiting calpai ...
• The first genome sequence of Chinese plum prov ...
  A Chinese research team, led by Beijing Forestry University, BGI, Beijing Lin Fu Ke Yuan Flowers Co., Ltd, and other institutes, has completed the first genomic sequence of Prunus mume, known as mei. This work is extremely important for the deeper understanding of Rosaceae evolution and provides ...
• Stowers study hints that stem cells prepare fo ...
  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 ...

unEarthed

• Earthjustice Thankful For EPA Chief Lisa Jackson
  America was well-served by her staunch efforts Lisa P. Jackson has announced that she will be stepping down from her position in January 2013. Earthjustice is ...
• The Top 10 unEarthed Stories of 2012
  Readers were most inspired by stories of the wild Blog posts about Earth's magnificent places and creatures were the most popular themes for unEarthed readers in 2012. By far the most-read post concerned Arctic drilling, followed b ...
• EPA Grants Deathly Delay Of Cement Rule
  Health of thousands put on hold by weak agency action “…my son's school would be named in a USA Today report as being in the upper 1 percent of the most toxic schools in the nation—the same school I butted heads with cement plant e ...
• Strong Start To Protecting Key Alaska Habitat
  Salazar announces National Petroleum Reserve conservation measures Caribou in the western Arctic, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) Secretary o ...
• "Chasing Ice" Shows Unsettling Effects of Clim ...
  Move depicts phtographer's quest for disappearing "insanely ridiculous" ice Last month, a movie premiered with a graphic visual of climate change& ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Are You Really A Republican? A Conservative?
  To be a Republican / Conservative these days, you must agree that the following is just fine: A small business owner who makes a fair living will pay taxes at a rate over 4 times as high as wealthy Americans. These small business owners pay both sides of wage withholding taxes soon to equal 15.3 ...
• Time To Leave Republicans
  This is a great time to tell all of your friends you have left the Republican Party. I mean who would want to be a Republican these days. The facts are simple. Today’s Republican Party stands for nothing but greed, and evil. They don’t respect women, hate minorities, and seem to only ...
• Today We Honor All Veterans
  No trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.
• Tax Debate Time – Fiscal Cliff – T ...
  Just remember to start all conversations with the fact that the richest 200 families in America have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined. The Republicans will fight tooth and nail to keep these wealthy folks from being taxed more, even though they make most of the money, and own almost ev ...
• Get The Tar And Feathers
  If anyone sees Grover, grab him. It is tar and feather time. America’s wealthy have so much money, they could pay a little (or lot) more in taxes. Sorry Grover. We could balance the budget without cutting one single program that helps struggling Americans. We could tax America’s weal ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• +972 People of the Year: Bloggers’ picks
  Featured prominently in headlines from the region this year were hunger strikers, refugees, threats of war, actual war, demolitions and elections. +972 bloggers pick the people who, for them, defined 2012. Khader Adnan, Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker Although the hunger strike of Khader ...
• Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah days away ...
  On December 31, as Americans celebrate New Year’s Eve and Israelis lift a glass to “Sylvester,” a Palestinian family will be evicted from their East Jerusalem home to make way for Jewish settlers. The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that the Shamasneh family must leave the house they have bee ...
• Meretz’s peace plan: A challenge to libe ...
  The party’s new proposal effectively says the unsayable: that on the occupation, Israel is wrong and the Arabs are right. There so many people out there, in Israel and overseas, who know that this country has gone wrong and that Netanyahu and the right are leading it to hell. Yet they end ...
• E1 doesn’t matter: One-state reality is here
  Those who think that E1 is the nail in the coffin of the two-state ‘solution’ are willfully blind to the fact that a one-state outcome is already on the ground and that the Zionist militias started building it before there ever was an Israel. I know this is a little late. The big bro ...
• A week in photos: December 20-26
  ‘Tis the season for a winter wonderland at weekly demonstrations, shepherds tending their flocks visited by an unheavenly host, ‘no room at the inn’ for African immigrants, five hunger strikers, and a partridge in a pear tree.               &# ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Funding to help plan for the impacts of climat ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today launched Stream 1 of the Regional Natural Resource Management Planning for Climate Change Fund, an important component of the Government's Clean Energy Future Plan.
• Ella Bay Integrated Resort Development approved
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has approved the Ella Bay Integrated Resort Development in far north Queensland.
• Connect with the World Indigenous Network
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today launched a website to connect Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities land and sea managers across the globe, creating a virtual meeting place to share traditional knowledge and experiences.
• Major study into future management of Lake Albert
  The future management of water quality in Lake Albert and Narrung Narrows in South Australia will be the subject of a major investigation funded by the Australian and South Australian governments.
• Environment Minister Approves Shree Minerals N ...
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today approved Shree Mineral's Nelson Bay River Magnetite and Hematite Mine in north-west region of Tasmania with 29 strict conditions.

Matt Weidner Blog

• BOMBSHELL BANKRUPTCY ORDER! Must read for all ...
  1997, the Debtor has owned the Property, known as Sagamore, the Art Hotel, located at 1671 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. On or about March 24, 2006, the Debtor refinanced the Property with Arbor Commercial Mortgage, LLC, as evidenced by the Loan Documents, in the principal amount of $31, ...
• What If (When) Just ONE of the Conspiracy Theo ...
  The internet is alive with conspiracy theories about everything.  Those long white streaks in the sky are not harmless water vapor contrails…they are part of a government and industry sponsored scientific experiment of unknown origin and goals.  The government was involved or aware in some ...
• Don’t Believe Chemtrails Are Real? List ...
  This is quite disturbing….how much are they keeping from us? Army testing story This is an incredible video documentary….. What In The World Are They Spraying? Scridb filter
• If Bank of America (Chase, Wells, Citi) Does N ...
  The term “servicer” is a fabricated term, a frankenstein legal term that has no legal meaning.  It was made up by the banks and Wall Street cartels….for far too long, courts have let them get away with it.  But our friend, the angel of foreclosure defense April Charney shares t ...
• Protecting the Integrity of Land and Title Rec ...
  We were a nation built on laws….on land that was built on honest land records and a court system grounded on the Rule of Law….but that’s distant memory… Welcome to Landtegrity.com. This creators of Landtegrity and its sponsors have dedicated the site to one purpose. Audit ...

abelard - news

• incredible muslims | world of fundamentalism n ...
  The tug of the modern world versus traditional methods of social control -in the realm of employment.
• skidelsky: how much is enough? | economics new ...
  A citizen's wage would solve a lot of problems with people not being able to work and being paid by the State. An idea opposed by the Left.
• scotch murder rate higher than 10 usa states | ...
  And do the Scots have more guns than Americans? Maybe something else causes high murder rates.
• west antarctica also warming faster that globa ...
  Environmental change continues to happen despite being denied.
• osborne is a good accountant and a good tactic ...
  Can George Osborne stand his ground over Treasury rebellion against universal credits?

The Parallel Parliament

• Goodwill Hunting
  And on earth, peace to those of goodwill … Luke 2:14 Today I turn 62. A birthday is always a …Continue reading »
• The Things You Can’t Buy For Christmas
  We live in the most financially minded era in history; nothing previous compares to it. Somehow we have put ourselves …Continue reading »
• Citizen Gifts – Innovation
  Difficult economic times have a tendency to get communities to pull into themselves. No light appears at the end of …Continue reading »
• Citizen Gifts – Protection
  We’ve all been through enough these past few days to understand what happens when a community that perceived itself to …Continue reading »
• Christmas in Connecticut
  What would Christmas be without a child? Would it fill us with such wonder, such pathos, such hope? Doubtful. According …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• Commonsense returns as Japan “reviews&#8 ...
  The alarmist, anti-nuclear hysteria after Fukushima seems to discount that it was the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami which killed around 18,000 people (15,878 dead with 2,713 missing). There may be some indirect deaths which can and will eventually be attributed to the nuclear plant acciden ...
• The first 200 year old human has already been born
  How old would we like to be? Half of the children born in Sweden in 2012 will live to be 104 years old. It is quite likely that there is a child already born somewhere who will live to be more than 200 years old.
• US going over the fiscal cliff is probably bes ...
  No doubt I have a simplistic view but the best thing in the long-term for the world economy would be for the US to start reducing its public debt. The problem is that even if the US did not avoid the fiscal cliff the US public debt would continue to grow - if a little more slowly than as at pres ...
• Narendra Modi could be the next Prime Minister ...
  If Narendra Modi can succeed in getting some support from the Muslims across India - and this is not implausible - and if he can gain the support of the urban middle-class - which is already happening - the regional party leaders will also back him and the rest of their sheep will fall in line. ...
• SpaceX’s “Grasshopper” succe ...
  Grasshopper, SpaceX’s vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (VTVL), rose 131 feet (40 meters), hovered and landed safely on the pad using closed loop thrust vector and throttle control. The total test duration was 29 seconds.

Left Foot Forward

• Ten funniest vids of 2012: 5: Nick Clegg&#8217 ...
  Ten funniest vids of 2012: 5: Nick Clegg says sorry.
• Ten funniest vids of 2012: 6: Gillard, Gillard ...
  Ten funniest vids of 2012: 6: Australian prime minister Julia Gillard tearing strips of opposition leader Tony Abbott, labelling him a "misogynist".
• Ten funniest vids of 2012: 7: ‘You gotta ...
  Ten funniest vids of 2012: 7: Clint Eastwood being a real man and showing an empty chair who's boss.
• Merry Christmas! Here are the best reads of 2012
  Merry Christmas all! With the new year approaching fast, IPPR director Nick Pearce rounds up the best reads of 2012.
• Ten funniest vids of 2012: 8: “Horses an ...
  Ten funniest vids of 2012: 8: President Obama's “horses and bayonets” riposte to one of Mitt Romney's more idiotic comments during the TV debates.

Consumerist

• DirecTV To Raise Rates By 4.5% Starting In Feb ...
  You are all familiar with the now-common vitriolic disputes between cable/satellite providers and broadcasters every time a contract comes up for renewal. Most of these fights end with both sides shaking hands and smiling — because it’s the consumer who gets screwed in the end. Just ...
• Gamestop Sells Porn-Filled Nintendo 3DS To San ...
  A Denver-area family bought a refurbished Nintendo 3DS as a special Christmas gift for their 5-year-old son, but instead got an educational toy. That is to say that the device had been pre-loaded with porn by its previous owner. Now the family is upset and describe the youngster as “trauma ...
• Should Sellers’ Friends & Family Be Allo ...
  For years, eBay forbid friends, family and employees of a seller from bidding on that seller’s items out of concern about “shill bidding,” i.e., that they would increase the price with no intention of buying. Then during the summer, eBay quietly changed that policy to make it m ...
• Even Randi Zuckerberg Is Confused When It Come ...
  Even though Facebook rolled out new privacy control tools to its U.S. users that ostensibly should make it easier for users to figure out what they’re sharing with which people, it seems things are still complicated enough to confused Mark Zuckerberg’s very own sister, Randi Zuckerbe ...
• Rite-Aid Sells Your Favorite Celebrity Colons ...
  Have you ever been ogling Usher, or Faith Hill, or Beyonce, Halle Berry, Celine Dion, or Britney Spears and thought, “I would just love to have some of this celebrity’s colon, but I simply can’t afford it”? Well, you might want to check out this offering from Rite-Aid. Co ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

• Al Sharpton Promotes His Own Upcoming Anti-NRA ...
  Mediate
• More young voters register unaffiliated
  The San Francisco Chronicle reports:Young adults in California flexed their muscle in the voting booth in 2012, registering in record numbers and increasingly choosing "no party preference" to the two major political parties, a new study shows. Hope and change!
• Saudi Arabia Issues Warning: US Debt Burden Ha ...
  Gateway Pundit
• Obama Backer: John Rogers calls state of diver ...
  Crain's Chicago Business reports:In a recent appearance in New York, John W. Rogers Jr., the founder and CEO of Ariel Investments LLC, was blunt: “The state of diversity in the finance industry is appalling. Ninety-nine percent of leaders talk a big game, but in places like Chicago, we have gone ...
• Is America's Future Progressive?
  Joel Kotkin

JoNova

• Full UnCut video now available – “ ...
  Thanks to Frank Brus, at least one camera is now on YouTube in full, with sound. Many thanks to other skeptics who volunteered with other helpful suggestions and ideas: to J.J., Ruth, Jim, and Raymond. Thanks to Steve for info about bit-torrent (at least we don’t have to go there this time ...
• Merry Christmas
  Best wishes Jo Rating: 10.0/10 (12 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (12 votes cast)
• Death threats anyone? Austrian Prof: global wa ...
  Richard Parncutt Richard Parncutt,  Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria, reckons people like Watts, Tallbloke, Singer, Michaels, Monckton, McIntyre and me (there are too many to list) should be executed. He’s gone full barking mad, and though he says these are h ...
• ABC Doco “UnCut”: Evans, Nova, Min ...
  Finally two hours of entertainment unlike any you’ve seen on TV The Media IS the Problem – Part I When the Smith and Nasht came to our house (on behalf of the ABC) to take footage for the “I can change your mind” documentary, David and I asked fellow skeptic and camera-m ...
• Weekend Unthreaded
  Do come back and visit, I do have something very interesting to release this weekend. – Jo Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• Shifting To Our Safe Spot – For Good
  As if the End Of The World (and associated hullabaloo) wasn’t stressful enough, we are moving out of the city, to spend a couple of years (at least) at our safe spot. Just a few days from now. Yep, while juggling media appearances I was packing boxes. I wonder how this past week would rate ...
• So… I Braved Live TV, After The World Didn’t End
  http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/1d3a3439-4e0e-3aab-99bb-90a7192c68d7/doomsdayers-bunker-down-from-embarrassment/ A few points: I phoned them prior and asked to cancel the interview – I had literally been up all night and wasn’t exactly on the ball – not surprising ...
• Have Some Faith / Don’t Worry
  The key takeaway is this: After 5000 years the Mayans made a prediction. Arguably they were not as skilled as modern science. But that doesn’t invalidate their predictions, and after such a length of time, being a few days out is OK. “2012″ is a great excuse to prepare – ...
• Contacting Rob for Last Minute Help/Advice
  I’ll be on these for the next 6+ hours, for updates and questions: Twitter: @2012er Skype: rob_bast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Robert-Bast/8226613874 Email: survive @ gmail dot com If you have my phone number, please don’t phone, I’m still doing plenty of media in ...
• How Accurate Did Mayans Expect Prophecy To Be?
  I find it absolutely extraordinary that out of millions of pages written about 2012, very few have discussed the most logical questions: Why did they choose Dec 21, 2012 as the end date of the Long Count? What was the reason for the start date? What did the Maya believe happened at the end of t ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• After setbacks, Russia boosts space spending
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The country that oversaw the launch of the world's first artificial satellite hopes to regain some of its former glory with a big boost in space spending announced by Russia on Thursday after a series of failures. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a plan to spend 2.1 ... ...
• Samjhauta blast accused plotted Geelani attack
  Even though the Hindu terror module responsible for several blasts from Samjhauta Express to Malegaon was allegedly stitched up under the aegis of organizations such as Abhinav Bharat, Jai Maa Vande Mataram and support from certain RSS functionaries to avenge Hindu deaths in terror attacks, the ...
• Probe report on Vadra land deals today?
  Amid speculations that UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra may get clean chit in land deals in Haryana, a high empowered committee of state government has prepared its probe report. Sources said the committee might submit its report on Friday or Monday. Reported by IndiaTimes ...
• Narendra Modi keeps away from Nitish Kumar at NDC
  If Nitish Kumar feared that being accosted by Narendra Modi at the NDC meeting would make bad PR for him, the Gujarat strongman was not interested. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago
• Jayalalitha storms out of NDC meet over time limit
  Jayalalitha was the first to speak after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and took umbrage at a 10-minute buzzer being sounded when she was not even halfway through her speech. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago

Global Research TV

• 9/11 Revisited: The Unjustifiable Launch of En ...
• 9/11 Revisited: History, Consequences and Medi ...
• 9/11 Revisited: War, Justice and the Search fo ...
• Drone Warrior: Outrage Over Children Killed in ...
• Focus on Iran: History, Geopolitics and Media Bias

Daily Tech

• Foxconn Getting Its Act Together on Employee W ...
  Its starting with more comfortable seating and new classes
• Study: Human Evolution Forced by Chaotic Landscape
  Adversity breeds strength -- and perhaps human intelligence
• Gun Store Links Removed from EA's "Medal of Ho ...
  Recent shootings were the cause for removing the links
• 12/27/2012 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday
• China's Turns on World's Longest High Speed Ra ...
  U.S. is left in the dust as China blazes ahead with $1T USD rail bid

Oriental Review

• Syria Will Resist Even After Assad
  A Los-Angeles Times article begins with this sentence: “Now that a consensus is forming that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s days are numbered, diplomats and Middle East experts….” Aside from the psychological warfare value of mainstream Western media’s “days are numbered” mantra, this now hackn ...
• Germany Rediscovers Its Imperialist Drive
  Has Germany finally gotten over its war guilt? It would seem so, with the imminent deployment of 400 Bundeswehr troops in Turkey to help install and operate NATO Patriot missile systems in that country. The historic move of German troops being sent to a foreign territory in full combat mode foll ...
• For Whom the Syrian Bell Tolls
  The top geopolitical tragedy in 2012 is bound to remain the top geopolitical tragedy in 2013: the rape of Syria. Just as once in a while I go back to my favorite Hemingway passages, lately I’ve been going back to some footage I shot years ago of the Aleppo souk – the most extraordina ...
• The Gold and “Judgement Day”
  It’s a long time US grassroots and Congress members started to doubt there was anything left in the US official gold storage, and even if there was, it had anything to do with gold. There has been a flow of world media publications in 2012 presenting irrefutable evidence the world market was flo ...
• Arab Turmoil and the Viability of Nation States
  Protesting has been one of the most important trends of the past year. Alexander Knyazev, regional programmes coordinator for the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies, has been reflecting on the changes in the global geopolitical paradigm – a shift from a global game to the formation of r ...

BlogHer

• New Year's Eve Buckwheat Noodles with Mochi
  At the stroke of midnight in Japan, gigantic temple bells reverberate in every neighborhood on the last day of the year. During my time in Tokyo, the sound struck an awe-filled sense of the sacred. Simple fare was served for supper. Visit NinjaBaking.com for the recipe and details of The Ninja ...
• Giving New Life To Old Lipsticks
  Some folks are just more resourceful than others. Thankfully, those people blog. This post offers a step-by-step guide on how to revamp those old lipsticks and save them from the trash bucket: "5. Melt it either gently on the double boiler, or in the microwave (be careful not to overheat your li ...
• Have You Played with Your Kids Today?
  [Editor's Note: Maybe you're like me and you have some extra time off this week due to the holidays. If so, I encourage you to play more with your kids and not just veg in front of the Internet at large. Lisa at One Thankful Mom explains why in a very interesting post about play and brains and ...
• The Top 2012 Food Blogger Trends That Need to Go
  As January approaches, it's a time for new beginnings, new journeys and changes in our lives. It's also the time to take stock of the previous year and jettison the old, the mundane, the things that are holding us back or that clog up our lives. And you know what? As food bloggers, we can apply ...
• Five New Year's Eve Style Inspirations
   Please don’t tell me that you are planning to spend another New Year’s Eve wrapped up under your blankets with your furry friend Snookums by your side. Between the economy, divisive elections, and national tragedies, there is no denying that 2012 was a super difficult year (well, at least it wa ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Billions Paid Out for Surgical Errors
  Surgical “never events” — such as leaving a sponge in a patient — cost healthcare professionals a minimum of $1.3 billion in malpractice payouts from 1990 to 2010, researchers found. In an analysis of such surgical ... Related posts:Anemia Drugs Made Bil ...
• Top Healing Foods That Stop Ovarian Cancer in ...
  Ovarian cancer is one of the most deadly diseases out there. It is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women — an astounding 14,000 out of 23,000 diagnosed each year, die. Ovarian ... Related posts:Cancer Fighting Foods – 4 Anti-Cancer Foods Share Could it ...
• Inflammatory Marker Tied to Depression
  Elevated levels of proinflammatory C-reactive protein (CRP) had significant associations with psychological stress and depression, a large population-based study showed. The odds for antidepressant use, antidepressant prescriptions, and hospitalization with depression increased b ...
• Why Did Russia Ban The Use Of Microwave Ovens?
  Consumers are dying today in part because they continue to eat dead foods that are killed in the microwave. They take a perfectly healthy piece of raw food, loaded with vitamins and natural medicines, then ... Related posts:Russia Suspends Import and Use of American GM Corn Aft ...
• 10 Medical Conditions That Share Symptoms With ...
  According to Health Central expert Eileen Bailey, getting an accurate ADD/ADHD diagnosis can be difficult at any time, but the fact that the disorder shares symptoms with other health conditions can make it even harder. Autism/Aspergers Syndrome People ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

• Noam Chomsky speaks personally about work, lea ...
  http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/work_learning_a… Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Posts:One of the Few Paintings That Speaks to MeJudge Napolitano Speaks Stunning/Obvious Political TruthWell-Being Index Documents Heart Att ...
• Smart People on Free Will
  I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer’s words: ‘Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,’ accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of ...
• Clueless in 2012
  I’m trying to figure out if it’s ok to look down on others for being ignorant of how the world works. More specifically, I’m trying to figure out what the criteria are, since I know I’m ok with being elitist in this way. I just don’t know where the bar is. For ...
• Movies on Christmas
  I think Susan and I will probably see at least a couple of movies tomorrow: LeMis and Django. And maybe the Tom Cruise flick as well. It’s just us, no family, and most people will be occupied. Seems like a good use of a day to me. That and a buffet-style meal somewhere in the city. ...
• This is an Epic Paragraph
  So start with an interesting hypothetical: does everybody need to work anymore?  I understand work from an ethical/character perspective, this is not here my point.  Since we no longer need e.g. manufacturing jobs– cheaper elsewhere or with robots– since those labor cos ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Snow
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – Yes, it’s a bit late for a white Christmas but it’s falling now, along with freezing rain. At least, here in the burgh we haven’t had to deal with a tornado- yet! I would have bet heavy that we would never see a tornado here but I would have lost big [...]
• Dear CJE; A slave at five years old – Sc ...
  Dear friends at CJE, India is stalling the toughest child labour law in its history…because politicians say it’s not a ‘priority’! But the majority of MPs support it and all they need is a massive public push to bring it to a vote. Let´s raise our voices for India´s children. Sign now: The ...
• Photos: the top new species discoveries in 2012
  Rhett A. Butler and Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com 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 nov ...
• Being A Food Activist In A World Driven By Tra ...
  From agriculturesociety.com/ - Do you wonder about where your food comes from? Are you frustrated by the current system managing our food supply? Do you find that obtaining food from a reputable, healthy source seems difficult and you desire to make a change? Most importantly: Do you believe eve ...
• United States Political Prisoners: Another Ana ...
  by WILL POTTER,greenisthenewred.com - On the day after Christmas, it is likely that another anarchist will be imprisoned for refusing to talk about their political beliefs and their friends before a federal grand jury in Seattle. Maddy Pfeiffer, 23, appeared at a contempt hearing last week and w ...

reference frame

• Amplitudes, permutations, Grassmannians
  Back in July, I mentioned some new highly intriguing results by a group of physicists and mathematicians including Nima Arkani-Hamed and others: Permutations join twistor minirevolution That report echoed a talk at Strings 2012. Finally, the paper is out. One of the 263 figures in ...
• Christmas rumor: \(105\GeV\) dimuon excess at ...
  I hope that the TRF readers are enjoying their Christmas, their Saturnalia, their Hanukkah, or at least their first days after the winter solstice (except for TRF readers in Islamic countries where all such pagan holidays are banned: those readers are wished to survive instead). We ha ...
• Obama gives medal to Drell, Gates, Mazur
  I hate honors but this list is kind of interesting. Barack Obama gave the National Medal of Science to 12 scientists and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to 11 technologists and innovators: Obama names 23 scientists and innovators as medal winners (Cosmic Log) The scientists i ...
• SciAm, firewalls, and deterioration of the phy ...
  Jennifer Ouellette wrote a nice piece on black hole firewalls for the Simons Foundation and for Scientific American: Black Hole Firewalls Confound Theoretical Physicists (via Synch). Well, more precisely, it's nice and informative if you assume that her task was to uncritically promote the v ...
• Subir Sachdev on AdS/CMT
  Yes, it's the date of another major failed end of the world ;-) My ex-colleague and fellow superhero, condensed matter physicist Subir Sachdev wrote a neat article for a mostly bad magazine called Scientific American, Strange and Stringy It does a good job in explaining one skill of str ...

Tatumba 2.0

• the perfect storm
  AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Palestine Defended on The BBC (a rare moment) Owen Jones puts the record straight regarding Israels share of... This is what a US strike on Iran would look like….. I was sent this link from another member who stumbled... ...
• Obama, congressional leaders to meet as ‘fisca ...
  U.S. President Barack Obama has asked congressional leaders to convene tomorrow at the White House for last-minute talks on a “fiscal cliff” deal that avoids automatic tax increases and broad spending cuts, the Senate’s top Republican says. CBC | Top Stories News Relate ...
• Obama, congressional leaders to meet as ‘fisca ...
  U.S. President Barack Obama has asked congressional leaders to convene tomorrow at the White House for last-minute talks on a “fiscal cliff” deal that avoids automatic tax increases and broad spending cuts, the Senate’s top Republican says. CBC | Top Stories News Relate ...
• Best WeAreChange Confrontations of 2012
  from WeAreChange: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Markets Holding Ahead of Jobs Report – Market Wrap-Up Nov 7 2012 from CrushTheStreet: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver,. ...
• Mysterious itch cells found
  A mysterious source of itchiness has been found. Certain nerve cells are specialized to detect itchy sensations, and those receptors don’t detect painful sensations, according to a new study. The finding, published Dec. 23 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, helps resolve a long-standing d ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• J.R. Smith and Jason Kidd fill the void, heroi ...
• The Knicks' off-season is catching up with them
• Right now, no size fits the Nets
• Streets of Your Town: this week's concerts, wi ...
• A team, and a time, for Scott Hairston

Views & News from Norway

• Bjørgen ‘getting over’ heart ailment
  Norway’s national cross-country skiing coach has admitted that Marit Bjørgen, the champion skier who was hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat just before Christmas, was initially “crushed” by the news that she couldn’t compete in the Tour de Ski that begins this weeken ...
• Warmer weather due over weekend
  Skiers and other winter sports fans in southeastern Norway were being advised to get outside and enjoy the snow while they can. A warmer weather front was moving in from the west, with meteorologists predicting rain over the weekend in the south, and another storm farther north. Norway’s h ...
• Many weapons in Norwegian homes
  Norwegians can be quick to criticize what they consider to be liberal weapons laws in other countries, not least the US, but a new survey confirms that Norway itself ranks high among countries with the most weapons per capita in civilian hands. Norwegians, it seems, have among the highest prolif ...
• Christmas shopping set new record
  It seems to happen every year: Christmas shoppers in Norway broke new spending records again during the run-up to the holidays and also set a new record for use of their debit- and credit cards. This year the amounts involved were enormous. There are only around 5 million people living in Norway ...
• Holiday baking tradition intact
  Among various surveys that have been conducted in Norway recently was one that questioned Norwegians about their Christmas cookie habits during the holiday season. Baking has long been a strong tradition in the country, and apparently still is. Fully 59 percent of women and 40 percent of men que ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Success in Tough Times (France)
  by Steve Hanson 2012 is our eighth year of small scale farming in France and has seen us move from income dependence to financial security and independence. Looking back over the last eight years at our mistakes and our successes in getting to this point demonstrates the value of an integrated ...
• The Gift of the Maya
  As we approach the winter solstice and the end of one long count and the beginning of another, our understanding of the Mayan world is rapidly being transformed by new knowledge. The traditional Mayan narrative in western literature is perhaps best exemplified by the writings of Jared Diamo ...
• Local Spotlight: But Don’t We Need Economic Gr ...
  Farmers planting nitrogen fixing trees on their farms As a group challenging the growth paradigm, one of the most common questions that we hear is, ‘But don’t we need economic growth to lift the poor out of poverty?’. While growth has been successful to this end in certain ways, there are also ...
• Permaculture Forest Garden, Badagry, Lagos Sta ...
  Since 2011 the Adunni Susanne Wenger Foundation in Nigeria, in Cooperation with the German NGO SONED Brandenburg e.V., built up the Environmental Education Centre called Permaculture Forest Garden at Gberefu Island, in Badagry, Lagos State. Beside the sustainability of the local environment, the ...
• Expanding Dust Bowls Worsening Food Prospects ...
  by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Encroaching Gobi desert When most people hear the term “dust bowl,” they think of the American heartland in the 1930s, when a homesteading wheat bonanza led to the plowing up of the Great Plains’ native grassland, culminating in the gr ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Our People Are Worth the Risks: A Southern Que ...
  Reprinted from the SONG website and from the Scholar & Feminist Online, a webjournal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women:  In the best parts of our tradition as LGBTQ people for liberation, we have resisted assimilation. We have held die-ins, we have risked our li ...
• Post-Katrina, Funders and Foundations Failed N ...
  In December of 2006, New Orleans' social justice community came together to draft a letter addressed to foundations and funders, in response to the dismal response to the continuing post-Katrina crisis. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and other disasters still to come, the issues raised ...
• Remember All the Children, Mr. President, By B ...
  Remember the 20 children who died in Newtown, Connecticut. Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli bombardments. Remember the 168 children who have been killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan since 2006. Remember the 231 children killed in Afghanistan in the first 6 ...
• Crime Against Nature Law Back in Court
  From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Fill the Court For Oral Arguments In the Case To Overturn Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature Law! Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, 10:00 a.m Federal District Court, 500 Poydras Street Judge Feldman’s Court—Room C551 Many of y ...
• "I'm The Miracle": The Story of Exoneree Derri ...
  From our friends at Resurrection After Exoneration: “I’m number 119,” proclaims the man sitting beside my desk. His smile is broad and sincere, gold teeth glistening in the artificial light of the office. “Damon Thibodeaux is number 141, you know, the one who got out of Angola a couple weeks ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  What an awesome speech! iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkeJLYprAQ8Statistics: Posted by MikeWB — Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:17 am
• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  Hollywood insider Tila Tequila says Alex Jones is working for the other side. Tila going to reveal emails between her and Jones prior to Fatboy cancelling her interview. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVSCWdxYVkStatistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Wed Dec 26, 2012 11:21 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  "Parker allegedly moved his family from Utah to Connecticut eight months ago after accepting a job as a physician's assistant in the newborn unit at Danbury Hospital. http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/16/us/connec ... ie-parker/ "Parker allegedly has only a short history in CT. He allegedly ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  the site I looked up the teacher's licenses was here: http://sdeportal.ct.gov/CECSFOI/FOILookup.aspx I have captured all the images, but when I post them on TIU they are oversized and the relevant information is not within the url. When I shrink them down, the words are out of focus.Statistics: ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Krag wrote: The area newspaper (Danbury) today is saying that popular sentiment is calling for the razing of the school because it is sacred ground due to the killing: http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/ ... 145303.php NEWTOWN -- "The days when school bells summoned students to Sandy ...

TVNZ

• Key players in scramble to avoid US 'fiscal cliff'
  The outcome of the "fiscal cliff" debate will be decided in four days.
• Italian priest blames women for 'encouraging' ...
  An Italian priest has sparked outrage after claiming messy and provocative women were partly to blame for violence.
• Threat of Cyclone Freda hitting Solomon Islands
  Weather forecasters say there is a high chance a tropical depression in the South Pacific will develop into a cyclone later today.
• New India rape protests continue
  Police thwarted an attempt by activists today to rekindle mass protests in New Delhi.
• New Delhi rape protests continue
  Police thwarted an attempt by activists today to rekindle mass protests in New Delhi.

environment 360

• Group Collecting DNA Codes of Endangered Speci ...
  The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), a global initiative assembling the “DNA barcodes” of the world’s endangered species, received $3 million from Google this month to create an online database organizers hope will emerge as a critical tool in the enforcement of inter ...
• Interview: What’s Damaging Marshes Along U.S. ...
  For centuries, salt marshes along the U.S. coast have been disappearing, with some experts estimating that 70 percent have been lost to development, rising seas, MBL Linda Deegan and other threats. One factor scientists always thought marshes could withstand was nutrient enrichment, such ...
• Changing Oceans May Be Adding to New England F ...
  As U.S. fishing regulators weigh stricter catch quotas to allow time for critical species to recover in the waters of New England, scientists say that changing ocean conditions may be a factor in historic fish declines, not just decades of overfishing. Warmer ocean temperatures and changing ecos ...
• ‘Peel-and-Stick’ Solar Cells Expand Potential ...
  Stanford University researchers say they have developed a “peel-and-stick” solar cell that can be attached to a variety of hard surfaces, an innovation they say could vastly expand the potential for solar Click to enlarge Chi Hwan Lee/Stanford School of Engineering “Peel- ...
• In Midwest, Bringing Back Native Prairies Yard ...
  Across the U.S. Midwest, homeowners are restoring their yards and former farmland to the native prairie that existed in pre-settlement days. The benefits can be substantial — maintenance that uses less water and no fertilizer, and an ecosystem that supports wildflowers and wildlife. BY REBEC ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Climate Dialogue
  Tags: blog environment climate dialogue
• Reef Relief Founders
  Tags: blog environment reef
• Stuart H. Smith attorney: fighting oil, chemic ...
  Tags: oil chemical water radiation pollution
• This Crowded Skin
  Tags: blog politics environment curiosity
• Welcome to the International Climate Science C ...
  Tags: science climate analysis

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• Attack on Thurnby Lodge Mosque in Leicester; P ...
  More intimidation from the serial harassers of the Thornby Lodge Mosque in Leicester.
• Belen Fernandez: France’s Le Pen Battles ...
  Le Pen lays the blame for France's retreat from its position as "one of the richest countries" on "immigration".
• Dakar Mosque Decked in Christmas Lights as Mos ...
  Not something you hear much about from the fevered black and white writings of the Islamophobe brigades.
• Settlers Attack Monastery of Notre-Dame de Sep ...
  Israeli settlers attack Church, setting fire to entrance and spray painting offensive anti-Christian graffiti.
• Christmas 2012: The Flowering of Middle Easter ...
  Juan Cole's sober assessment of the potentialities and dangers faced by Christians in the Middle East.

Energy News

• Legal Expert in Tokyo: Fukushima “perpetrators ...
• Top blogs feature Fukushima news reports to en ...
• New flyover of giant sinkhole shows large area ...
• Company Officials: Giant sinkhole has released ...
• Report: Worker says Fukushima Dai-ni “might be ...

Japan Times

• Hold the McFilms, pass the cinematic cassoulet
  It always puzzles me that people turn to the Food page curious to find out about off-the-beaten-track joints that serve up a savory cassoulet or artisan shōchū or whatever, yet so many come to the film page expecting a review of this week's McBurger. Guess what? Tasted pretty much like ...
• In the name of sincerity and love, this list i ...
  I've been thinking about you. About what you want from life, from relationships, from the movies. This list isn't about me, it's about you. Your needs, your dreams, all that jazz. This may seem like a hodgepodge selection of titles with no connecting thread, but believe me, these films reflect t ...
• Instead of visiting one shrine, visit seven
  A fun thing I like to do at New Year's is to go on a walking tour of seven shrines and temples in Tokyo. The hike is called the shichifukujin meguri (pilgrimage to Seven Lucky Gods), and there are a number of such pilgrimage options available across the nation. Each of the participating premises ...
• Mourners bid farewell to Kabuki master Kanzaburo
  Mourners gathered Thursday at a Tokyo temple to bid farewell to Nakamura Kanzaburo, the late kabuki master whose talent as an actor and producer helped broaden the popularity of the traditional Japanese performing art. The funeral for Kanzaburo, who died Dec. 5 at age 57 after a battle with ca ...
• Abe Cabinet signals big changes ahead
  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet got down to work Thursday dismantling various policies of the previous administration, including the zero-nuclear target, and musing on a review of the 1993 Kono Statement, an apology for the coercion of women into sexual slavery during the war. Industry min ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• The Maclean’s Photo Daily 5
  Best photos from the past 24 hours
• Senate leader calls House speaker a dictator
  Reid's no stranger to the D-word
• NRA president undeterred on gun reform
  David Keene opposes publication of gun permit holders
• The hunger artist
  Colby Cosh asks some questions of Theresa Spence
• Ed Broadbent crusades against inequality
  But how many times can he pose the same question without offering new ideas?

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• NO LIMIT AS $$$ IS AN ILLUSION
  … Actually there is NO  limit as $$$ is an illusion …   U.S. will hit debt limit on Dec. 31, Treasury Department says 12-26-2012  •  Washington Post The U.S. government will hit the $16.4 trillion federal debt limit on Monday and turn to “extraordinary measures” to continue b ...
• MANUFACTURING TERRORISM
  …CIA & FBI do not feel they are answerable to you and me they answer and take direction from America’s military-industrial-congressional-corporate-complex… Documents Show Mass FBI Infiltration Of OWS, Movement Treated As Criminal, Terrorist Threat 12-27-2012  •  http://www.mintpres ...
• CAN’T CUT OIL.GA$ PROFIT$
  … Hey … we can’t cut oil/gas profit$ … EPA allows uranium mining that pumps toxic waste into Wyoming drinking water 12-26-2012  •  Rawstory As dry as this land may be, underground, vast reservoirs hold billions of gallons of water suitable for drinking. Yet every day injection wells pu ...
• SUGGESTING WHAT
  … Just what might this be suggesting ….? Guns may kill 12,000 per year, but Hospitals kill 195,000. 12-24-2012  •  http://www.dailypaul.com, by JoshArizona  There are only 690,000 doctors in the United States, and between 150-200 million gun owners in the United States, is it not ...
• SELLING US THE SIZZLE
  … Like Madison Ave has gotten us to react to the sizzle not the steak … the Rothschilds created a $$$ mirage and we have reacted to it …   How The Rothschilds Created Modern Finance And A Vast Fortune That Has Lasted For Centuries 12-24-2012  •  http://www.businessinsider.com, Luc ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• 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 ...
• Our favorite nature photos of 2012
  In the course of reporting for Mongabay.com, I spent time in several countries in 2012, including Indonesia, Brazil, Madagascar, and Malaysia, among others. The following are some of my favorite nature pictures I took in the field. Overall I added more than 20,000 images to the site in 2012. For ...
• Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2012
  Below is a quick review of some of the biggest environmental stories of 2012. The 'top stories' are listed in no particular order. Climate change, overpopulation, consumption, and ecological destruction is pushing planet Earth toward a tipping point according to a major study in Nature released ...
• Uncontacted tribes still exist, but extinction ...
  The world is more interconnected than ever. Globally, there are six billion cell phone subscribers and 900 million Facebook users. Nearly 32 million people follow Lady Gaga on Twitter. Given this content it may seem hard to believe that there remain people who have never had contact with the out ...
• Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack o ...
  Ahead of the 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar a variety of reports warned that the world was running out of time to avoid dangerous climate change, and that there was a widening gap between what nations have pledged to do and what the science dem ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Experts call off search for life in Antarctic lake
  British scientists have called off the hunt for exotic life in an ice-bound Antarctic lake after their mission was hit by a technical hitch.Researchers with the British Antarctic Survey had hoped to drill into Lake Ellsworth, which...
• Antarctica warming at triple speed
  Temperatures in the western part of Antarctica are rising almost twice as fast as previously believed, adding to fears that continued thaws are causing sea levels to rise, according to comprehensive research published this week.In...
• GM fish closer to being served up
  A genetically modified salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first GM animal in the world to be declared safe to eat, after America's food-safety watchdog ruled it posed no major health or environmental...
• Five events that defined the year
  1 Opening ceremony of London 2012Kenneth Branagh, actor Three weeks before the ceremony and the [Olympic Stadium] was packed with thousands of people all doing things impressively. We climbed on to the hill that I'd eve
• Academic celebrated after death
  A gifted academic who grew up in Karori has died suddenly in London, devastating her family.Dr Amanda (Mandy) Jane Rohloff, 30, died on December 7 and her body was returned home to Wellington on Christmas Eve.It's not yet clear...

The Bovine

• CFIA vs PEI fish scientist, over salmon
  From Denis Calnan in the Toronto Star: CHARLOTTETOWN—There’s something fishy going on in Prince Edward Island. A professor at Atlantic Veterinary College says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is trying to discredit his work after tests he conducted showed a … Continue reading →
• DATCP vs Herschberger and his faith
  You’d think the Vernon Herschberger raw milk case was going to be the trial of the decade the way the prosecutors are pulling out all the stops to stack the deck in their favour with pre-trial maneuverings. But now a … Continue reading →
• Michael Schmidt conducts Handel’s Messia ...
  From the Thornhill performance of Handel’s Messiah: There was a capacity crowd at the Christian Community Church last Saturday Dec. 17th for the presentation of Handel’s Messiah, conducted by Michael Schmidt and presented by Symphony in the Barn. It was … Continue reading →
• Raw milk farmer seeking to save sheep?
  From Chris Clark at SouthwesternOntario.ca: “Neither raw milk nor rare sheep make Michael Schmidt sick. Bureaucracy does. The Durham-area dairy farmer has long been a vocal advocate for raw milk, and has battled tirelessly to legalize the sale of unpasteurized … Continue reading →
• Report on the raw milk underground
  Video below from Rachel Simone James. Story from Pacific Network TV. “Amid the rhetoric and sharply drawn battle lines in the controversy over raw milk, it can be difficult to parse out the facts without getting mired in scientific jargon.  … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Social Trap in Spain: Mortgage Nightmare; Why ...
  Looking for a synopsis of the problems facing Spain? A summary of bullet points I gathered from the Spiegel article Evictions Become Focus of Spanish Crisis shows just how hopeless the situation is. There were a record number of evictions in 2012, foreclosures are expected to increase in ...
• Michael Pettis on China Reforms, Ponzi Schemes ...
  Here are portions of a email from Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets on the unsustainable nature of China's growth, Ponzi schemes in wealth management programs, and the implications of China's rebalancing efforts. By permission ... As analysts wrack their minds over specific debt prob ...
• US Hits Debt Ceiling Limit on December 31; Gei ...
  On December 31 the US will once again hit the debt limit and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is working on an emergency plan to deal with the situation. Here's the kicker. If the Fiscal Cliff hits (which it likely will), the increased tax revenue and spending cuts would automatically buy t ...
• Mad, Mad World; Japan Prime Minister Unveils " ...
  The Keynesian and Monetarist clowns in Japan are going all out in Japan with pledges to ignore debt caps and implement "bold monetary policy". Please consider Japan signals rise in borrowing. Japan’s new finance minister has signalled that the government will borrow to boost the strug ...
• Good News for Consumers: Holiday Sales Barely ...
  I am always suspicious of early holiday season reports of glowing sales around Thanksgiving and especially Black Friday. Then, right after Christmas I always wonder if retailers lowball estimates so they can beat-the-street on same-store-sales reports. That said, because of the souring econ ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• New York Harbor Oil Terminals Expected to Oper ...
  Oil terminals in the New York Harbor are expected to operate through a dock workers strike scheduled for later this week, traders and sources close to port operations said on [...]
• Matson Expands South Pacific Network, Buys Ass ...
  Matson, Inc. (NYSE: MATX), the leading U.S. carrier in the Pacific, announced this week that it has struck a deal to acquire the primary assets of Reef Shipping, a South [...]
• Top 10 Maritime Videos of 2012
  With 2012 coming to a end, here is a look at gCaptain’s picks for the Top 10 Maritime Videos of 2012 as chosen by gCaptain editors based on number of [...]
• If You Don’t Like Heavy Surf Compilations, Don ...
  Let’s get real though, who doesn’t like heavy surf videos? I guess technically we should try to stay impartial when it comes to contests, and content for that matter, but [...]
• Looming Port Strike Deadline Puts Pressure on ...
  By Brooke Sutherland President Barack Obama is facing pressure to intervene and prevent a strike that would gridlock eastern U.S. ports and risk damaging industries from retail to manufacturing. Federal [...]

Press TV

• Four policemen killed in S Afghanistan
  Four Afghan policemen have been killed and four others injured in an attack carried out by Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s southern province of Uruzgan, Press TV reports.
• 'Gay marriage is a minority issue’
  A High Court judge has criticized the British government for focusing on the “minority issue” of gay marriage instead of a “crisis of family breakdown” in the society.
• London Tube drivers stage strike
  London Underground drivers have gone on strike on Boxing Day, the day following Christmas Day, for the third consecutive year, causing significant disruption on the Tube network in the capital.
• ‘Yemeni regime conceals US drone hits’
  US officials have finally acknowledged responsibility for a September assassination drone attack in Yemen that killed civilians, including women and children, after futile attempts by the Yemeni government to falsely claim blame in a bid to cover-up the American involvement.
• IRIB reporter freed from Azeri prison
  A local correspondent of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in Baku has been released from an Azeri prison after an unjust 10-month term.

SciDev.net

• Climate data 'has helped African farmers boost ...
  A knowledge-exchange programme has helped to protect African people from extreme weather and increase harvests, an initiative has found
• Philippines to launch 100,000 eco-friendly 'e- ...
  A US$400 million project is set to replace the Philippines' tricycle taxi system with greener battery-run models.
• China–South-East Asia science ties 'could bene ...
  Research collaboration between China and South-East Asian nations could boost international ties and growth, says OECD report.
• Asia-Pacific Analysis: The growth of stem-cell ...
  Research into stem cells is taking place across South-East Asia, but proven disease treatments are currently out of reach, says Crispin Maslog.
• Rising emissions may double sweet potato size
  Higher levels of carbon dioxide may lead to larger size of this key crop, finds a study, but questions remain over nutritional changes.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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I notice the 'food safety' references coming out of Zemanta. I'm blessed if I know how food grown in monoculture using poisons,;in soil exhausted of nutrients; and run through a processing system which depletes then further depletes  nutrients; in the name of food safety is going to sustain life - let alone with GMO content poisoning the digestive tract.

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