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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, December 29, 2012

29 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Sidebar search returns for water and environment at bottom

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Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Shearer: Back-Story To The Back-Story
    Mr Shearer has always been a political paratrooper. In contrast to the party foot soldiers who slog their way through the Big Muddy of branch meetings, canvassing exercises, billboard construction and pamphlet deliveries, rising through the ranks to fight the good fight on policy committees or t ...
  • Second Great Depression Deepening Across Globe
    The CIA assumes a world unemployment rate of 9.1%. The United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) sets this rate at about 6% -- meaning about 200 million current jobless -- but at the same time concedes that in many developed countries - such as the United States and the nations of th ...
  • WP: The high cost of disengagement
    The United States has spent nearly $600 billion over the past 10 years putting combat forces into Afghanistan. Now it’s going to cost an additional $5.7 billion over the next year or two just to transfer or return most of the troops and equipment we shipped into that country, according to a new ...
  • Poll: Give Bain Compo !
    Most Kiwis support paying compensation to David Bain, even though Justice Minister Judith Collins says many New Zealanders will be upset at any taxpayer payment for the man once convicted of murdering his family. A Herald-DigiPoll summer survey found 74 per cent of those polled believe Mr Bai ...
  • Rodney Hide to Collins: We Want Justice
    I am among the many who had always thought David Bain guilty. .. But still, until a week ago, I would have said to anyone who asked that Bain was guilty. Not now. Not on the balance of probabilities. .. Collins' criticisms sparked my interest to read the reports. Previously, I had relied only on ...

Independent - London

  • Rape victim's death sparks lockdown in India
    Six men will appear in an Indian court on Thursday facing the prospect of the death penalty after they were charged with the murder of a woman whose gang rape sparked nationwide protests. India faced an ongoing security lockdown last night as it was riven by public anger and an anguished nation ...
  • France drops 75 per cent tax on the rich
    France's Constitutional Council yesterday rejected a 75 per cent upper income tax rate in a setback to the Socialist President, François Hollande's push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the public deficit. Related StoriesBidzina Ivanishvili: Country's richest man - and prime minister ...
  • Just one more day for US to seal 'fiscal cliff ...
    Frantic negotiations to find a way to protect the American economy from the worst effects of the looming "fiscal cliff" were under way in Washington DC last night, with Democratic and Republican leaders rushing to cobble together proposals that could be put before lawmakers as early as today.Re ...
  • Kidnappers kill 21 police in Paskistan
    Twenty-one policeman were lined up on a cricket pitch and shot dead by suspected Taliban militants in Pakistan late last night. Related StoriesVictim dies two weeks after gang-rape that outraged IndiaJapanese 115-year-old becomes oldest man in recorded historyIndia's chief auditor leads battle a ...
  • Six face death penalty for bus gang-rape after ...
    Indian police charged six men with murder today, hours after a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago died in a Singapore hospital.Related StoriesIndia gang-rape victim dies in hospitalIndia plans to name and shame sex offenders after brutal gang-rape vic ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Security video of killing of Hebron circus stu ...
    An Israeli security video recently leaked to the media shows that a Palestinian teenager who was killed at a checkpoint on December 12th was actually walking away from soldiers when he was shot in the back. The video shows absolutely no indication of the boy carrying any object that could be mis ...
  • Woman charged with hate crime and murder in Ne ...
    Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. New York - A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform into the path of a train because she has hated Muslims since Sept. 11 and thought he was one was charged Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors s ...
  • U.S. kills 12 civilians and destroys a community
    Anatomy of an air attack gone wrong Sanaa, Yemen - The villagers who rushed to the road, cutting through rocky fields in central Yemen, found the dead strewn around a burning sport utility vehicle. The bodies were dusted with white powder -- flour and sugar, the witnesses said -- that the victi ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: Agenda prevails over truth
    In the Western world truth no longer has any meaning. In its place stands agenda. Agenda is all important, because it is the way Washington achieves hegemony over the world and the American people. 9/11 was the "new Pearl Harbor" that the neoconservatives declared to be necessary for their plan ...
  • EPIC sues CIA for release of documents concern ...
    We've written several times before about domestic spying being performed by the government agencies, most of which is performed under the protective guise of "national security" as part of the "War on Terror." The end result tends to be diminished rights rather than something more positive, like ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The final solution . . .
    GENOCIDE CAN BE CULTURAL, and NativeWritesNow is grateful to Christie Blatchford for the explanation, with a post, "Christie Blatchford is telling the truth".  Take a minute and check out how this is so.
  • Allied efforts . . .
    IDLE NO MORE: Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water. We must repair these violations, live the ...
  • Odious and disgusting . . .
    KUDOS TO MONTREAL SIMON: his post, "When the Cons Try to Cover Up Murder" is something you must read. Stevie will have much to answer for.
  • A present . . .
    MACROPHAGES AND VIRUSES can kill cancer: According to George Dvorsky's article in io9, "Researchers create a ‘trojan-horse’ virus to eliminate cancer in mice". clinical trials on humans could start as early as next year
  • Glen Coulthard: "#idlenomore in historical con ...
    Very serious game.  With respect to the emergent #IdleNoMore movement, although many of the conditions that compelled the state to undertake the most expensive public inquiry in Canadian history are still in place, a couple of important ones are not. The first condition that appears to ...

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

  • We Had To Destroy [Fill in Country Name] In Or ...
    Article originally publish by Swans.org  and Global Research in April 2004 The classic Vietnam War statement by a US officer explaining the need to destroy a town in Vietnam in order to “save it” still resonates in left analyses, in…
  • Francia elige la vía de la austeridad
    A pesar de la elección del socialista François Hollande a la presidencia de la Republica, Francia, lejos de romper con el modelo neoliberal que ha llevado a una gran parte de Europa al desastre, ha elegido la vía de la…
  • El BCE y la Reserva Federal al servicio de los ...
    Serie « Bancos contra pueblos: los entresijos de una partida amañada». La primera parte de las serie lleva el título «2007-2012 : 6 años en que los bancos se tambalearon » y ha sido publicada el 17 de Diciembre de…
  • 2007-2012: 6 años en que los bancos se tambalearon
    Desde 2007-2008, los grandes bancos centrales (BCE, Banco de Inglaterra, Fed en los Estados Unidos, Banco de Suiza) dan prioridad absoluta a intentar evitar el hundimiento del sistema bancario privado. Contrariamente al discurso dominante, el riesgo principal que amenaza a…
  • La Dolce Vita de Yoani Sánchez en Cuba
    Contrariamente a lo que afirma, la disidente cubana Yoani Sánchez lleva un tren de vida inaccesible para la inmensa mayoría de los cubanos. A la lectura del blog de la disidente cubana Yoani Sánchez, uno no puede dejar de sentir…

TPM Cafe

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

  • UK slams Israel settlements, West Bank univers ...
    "British minister for the Middle East Alistair Burt on Wednesday condemned Israel's decision to issue approval for over 1,200 housing units in illegal settlements, a statement said. "Ar ...
  • Do not let settlers expel us from our home in ...
    Now more than ever we are aware of the double standard of the Israeli law that does not lend Palestinian refugees or their children a claim to property they owned before 1948, yet allow ...
  • After cease-fire, Palestinians still suffer un ...
    The Israeli onslaught against Gaza has been over for more than a month. After an eight-day nightmare shattered the dreams of children and families in Gaza, "calm" has returned. Palestinians, however, still live under occupation, in the view of Human Rights Watch and the United Nations' monitor o ...
  • Israeli post office says Palestinian cannot se ...
    B.M., 44, who works with an international aid agency and has a permit to cross into Israel, came Sunday to Jerusalem's main post office on Jaffa Road to send a package containing two bo ...
  • Israel providing settlers' illegal actions wit ...
    During the past week, Al-Haq's field documentation has revealed a continuing campaign of intimidation and violence by Israeli settlers, who carried out a number of attacks against Pales ...

Water - AlterNet

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

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas Breaks Another Wind Energy Record
    As we close in on the end of 2012 with a winter front keeping temperatures low, Texas achieved a new wind power integration record of 8.638 GW on Dec. 25 at 3:11 p.m according to the Texas grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Electricity from wind accounted for 25.71 ...
  • New wind installations my pass new natural gas ...
    According to Bloomberg, with four days left in 2012, wind-turbine installations are expected to exceed natural gas-fueled power plants in the U.S. for the first time as wind farm developers race to complete projects before a renewable energy tax credit expires. New wind capacity reached 6,519 me ...
  • The Results Are In: Cleaner Air Does Save Lives
    Fine particles in the air (particularly those smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) cause a multitude of health problems, ranging from difficulty breathing and asthma to heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.  The question has been whether or not cleaning the ...
  • Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Dit ...
    The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has taken a step that any self-respecting supporter of renewable energy should do – ditched the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  This relationship looked a lot like the fabled one between the scorpion and tortoise. Despite member ...
  • No title
        $25 Advance Tickets ($35 at Door, please register in advance) (Tickets include live entertainment, all food and beverages) Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin Eco Network, Public Citizen, Design Build Live, USGBC-Central Texas Chapter, Center for Maximum Potential, Texas League of Con ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

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

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Short Day Blues
    This time of year, with the short days, can be kind of depressing regardless of what is going on in the world, but I'm finding it hard to take the combination of evil stupidity we're being subjected to. When the response to 20 schoolchildren being butchered with a semiautomatic rifle is for peo ...
  • This Time, I'm Mad
    Growing up in bucolic Central New Jersey, I never experienced a hurricane or a tornado or a forest fire or an earthquake. We had some occasional flooding, but nothing like we began to see in the late 1990's. I once woke up to discover that a layer of Mount St. Helens' ash had dusted our cars, ...
  • Plain Truth
    While I am confident that none of this would be any better if John McCain or Mitt Romney had been elected president, I can't dispute anything that Glenn Greenwald said about the FISA reauthorization. He's right. Discuss
  • Most Republicans Oppose Sandy Relief
    It's interesting to see which Republican senators voted for disaster relief for the victims of Sandy. It's not hard to understand why David Vitter of Louisiana, Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and Richard Shelby of Alabama supported the relief. Their states have been ravaged by h ...
  • The Cliff, the Deal, and the Filibuster
    Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico says that he has whipped up 51 votes to change the filibuster rules at the beginning of the next Congress. That's interesting because the numbers must be pretty tight. Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, Carl Levin of Michigan, Ben Cardin of Maryland, and M ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Is my vibrator ruining my relationship?
    Not long ago, I informed my boyfriend that I had ordered a Hitachi Magic Wand to keep at his place in New Jersey. (Yes, Amazon sells them, and as of this writing, it's their bestselling toy). I thought he’d be excited, perhaps — or, at worst, simply amused. Instead, I could ...
  • “We live alongside tragedy, neglect, suffering”
    Four days after the 23-year-old woman, who died early this morning, was gang-raped in a Delhi bus, the headlines of the Deccan Herald read, "Minor Raped in City Shop." A 15-year-old girl in Bangalore (where I live) went to the corner shop (we all have one) and didn't come home. Her f ...
  • As clock ticks, US lawmakers seek fiscal cliff ...
    Story Image:  Demonstrators hit Capitol Hill in Washington on December 28, 2012. With the clock ticking toward a New Year's time bomb of huge tax increases and spending cuts, US lawmakers worked feverishly Saturday to keep America from tumbling off that so-called fiscaWith the clock ticki ...
  • Macedonian protesters call on government to resign
    Story Image:  Several thousand Macedonians protest in the capital Skopje on December 29, 2012, calling on the conservative government to step down amid a dire economic crisis in the former Yugoslav republic.Several thousand Macedonians protested in the capital Skopje on Saturday, calling ...
  • Slavoj Zizek: I am not the world’s hippest phi ...
    Almost 25 years ago, philosopher Slavoj Žižek broke through the intellectual cul-de-sac of Slovenian academia — making his mark on the English-speaking world with "The Sublime Object of Ideology" (1989), a wily fusing of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Frankfurt School idealism, an ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Who wiretapped Turkish Prime Minister’s office ...
    During a televised interview on December 21, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan revealed that four unauthorized wiretapping devices had been detected in his parliamentary office and government car. A subsequent report from the Office of the Prime Minister on December 25 said that one mo ...
  • Revealed: The CIA bodyguard unit that safeguar ...
    Increasingly, CIA case officers operating on counterterrorism assignments in the post-9/11 environment find themselves in warzones with a level of physical risk rarely encountered during the Cold War. CIA operations planners believe that case officers cannot properly run foreign assets while con ...
  • CIA helped senior Syrian defector escape to Wa ...
    American intelligence operatives helped facilitate the escape of a senior Syrian government official, who is now allegedly assisting the Central Intelligence Agency’s operations in Syria, according to a British newspaper.
  • News you may have missed #819 (UKUSA edition)
    Aussie spies' exemption from Freedom of Information laws to end? US spy agencies move towards single super-cloud. Canadian Army struggles with intelligence-gathering.
  • Fascinating profile of the Soviet KGB’s little ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | It is often suggested by intelligence researchers that one major difference between Western and Soviet modes of espionage during the Cold War was their degree of reliance on technology. It is generally accepted that Western espionage was far more ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Cold War Politics Heats Up
      Cold War Politics Heats Up   by Stephen Lendman   Previous articles discussed how Washington reinvented the "evil empire." On March 8, 1983, Ronald Reagan coined the term. He addressed the National Association of Evangelicals.   read more
  • Israel's Long Arm
      Israel's Long Arm   by Stephen Lendman   Right wing extremism defines it. So does institutionalized  persecution. More on both below.   On December 27, Netanyahu addressed an air force pilot graduation ceremony. He threatened Iran and Syria.    read more
  • Will Obama Have Hagel's Back, or Only Netanyahu's?
    The Larger Question of Chuck Hagel December 28, 2012 Editor Note: The up-in-the-air nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Defense Secretary has become a test of whether the Israel Lobby can still shoot down an American public servant who is deemed insufficiently passionate regarding Israel, a test t ...
  • Syria News - Dec 29
        Syrian opposition leader snubs Russian FM's overtures for talks - AFP Syria jihadists accuse US of keeping Assad in power, eye post-Assad Islamic rule - AFP  U.S.-Russia talks on Syria scheduled next month, UN envoy Brahimi will attend — reuters.com  Ban to chair high-lev ...
  • Bahraini State Terror
      Bahraini State Terror   by Stephen Lendman   Al-Khalifa despots run Bahrain. State terror is official policy. Washington supports it. Generous aid is provided. King Hamad remains a close US ally. Double standard hypocrisy defines America's foreign and domestic agenda.   rea ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

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

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Ecouterre’s Year in Shame — Vote for the Most ...
    From environmental crimes caused by toxic pollution to the mounting human cost of cheap fashion, 2012 featured some serious lowlights. Over at Ecouterre, we’ve rounded up seven stories we’d sooner forget ever happened, beginning with the factory fire in Bangladesh that claimed the li ...
  • Top 6 Inhabitat NYC Stories of 2012 – Vote for ...
    2012 was a crazy ride for New Yorkers, and we saw everything from the good (phone booths repurposed into miniature libraries) to the bad (Hurricane Sandy crippling our city) to the just plain ugly (a zombie pumpkin’s face). Scroll down to see the Inhabitat NYC stories that had our readers ...
  • How To Recycle This Year’s Holiday Cards Into ...
    It happens every year: After the holidays are over, you’re left with a huge stack of holiday cards and packaging. But instead of throwing them in the recycling bin, you can reuse both your holiday cards and gift wrap by turning them into next year’s gift tags. Read on to learn how to ...
  • Top 6 Most Popular Inhabitots Stories of 2012
    With 2013 only a couple days away, we’re taking a look back at Inhabitots‘s most popular stories of the year. 2012 was filled with great stories, and Inhabitots readers particularly enjoyed how-to’s, kids’ beds and controversial topics. From super cool recycled jar lava l ...
  • Top 9 Inhabitat Editors’ Favorite Stories of 2 ...
    We’re quickly making our way towards 2013, and as as we countdown these last few days of 2012, we here at Inhabitat are looking back at all the best green design and news stories from the past year. We saw a number of great strides achieved over 2012, proving that there are millions of peo ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Tri-Colo ...
    This composite image combines EIT images from three wavelengths (171Å, 195Å and 284Å) into one that reveals solar features unique to each wavelength. Since the EIT images come to us from the spacecraft in black and white, they are color-coded ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Galaxy H ...
    The spiral galaxy NGC 3627 is located about 30 million light years from Earth. This composite image includes X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope (red), and optical data from the Hubble ...
  • Birds May Get Emotional Over Birdsong
    Birds listening to birdsong may be experiencing an emotional response similar to humans listening to music, according to a study tracking neural activity in sparrows.
  • How Stellar Stylists Turn Astronomical Data In ...
    Cassiopeia A is a 330-year-old ball of red-hot gases and space dust. But with the right makeup and some expert attention, this former star can still look positively radiant. When it’s time for Cassiopeia’s close-up, NASA turns to data visualizers, ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Year
    Spiders that build their own dummies, dinosaurs cloaked in feathers, berries of the world's most intense color: Here are Wired Science's favorite images of 2012.

PakAlert

  • Sandy Hook: Huge Hoax and Anti-Gun “Psy Op”
    There are obvious signs that tell the difference between genuine and fabricated event. The recent shooting of police and firemen responding to a deliberately-set fire has all the signs of being a bona fide event: there is a single consistent narrative, one shooter has been clearly identified, an ...
  • US preparing for military invasion in Syria: I ...
    A senior Israeli official says the United States is gearing up for a possible military intervention in Syria to prevent Syria's alleged chemical weapons from being used against civilians or falling into wrong hands
  • CONFIRMED: Feinstein’s Gun Control Legislation ...
    Just as many Second Amendment advocates have anticipated, gun control legislation being proposed by Senator Feinstein has gone far beyond what has become known as "assault rifles". In fact the proposed law would ban almost every type of semiautomatic gun on the market including handguns and shot ...
  • First ‘Alien Earth’ Will Be Found in 2013, Exp ...
    The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted next year, an epic discovery that would cause humanity to reassess its place in the universe. While astronomers have found a number of exoplanets over the last few years that share one or two key traits with our own world — such ...
  • Pope Wants New World Order
    During a recent speech he made before the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome on December 3, Pope Benedict XVI, the current leader of the Roman Catholic Church, called for what can only be described as a unified world government, which he dubbed a "new evangelization of society" tha ...

Andy Worthington

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

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

SPL Center

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

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  • France Overturns Progressive Tax on the Rich
    A tax measure introduced by France's socialist dominated government and recently elected President Francois Hollande, which would have placed a 75 per cent tax on incomes above $1.32 million, was overturned in the country's highest court Saturday. A challenge to the tax was placed b ...
  • Midnight Weddings Commence as Same-Sex Marriag ...
    Mainers celebrated around the state at the stroke of midnight Saturday, December 29, 2012, when a law legalizing the marriage of same-sex couples went into effect. Couples congregated at city hall in Portland, ME to be the first of many to be issued marriage licenses under the new law, as a larg ...
  • Hebron: Renovating an Embattled City
    Every day, Anas Maraka sees his family’s home, but can’t go inside. “It’s hardest for my grandfather,” said Maraka, referring to the house overlooking Shuhada Street, once the central marketplace in Hebron’s old city. ...
  • Rainforest Action Network's Rebecca Tarbotton, ...
    Leading environmentalist and human rights activist Rebecca Tarbotton, 39, executive director of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), has died while vacationing along the west coast of Mexico. According to RAN, Tarbotton died Wednesday on a beach while vacationing with her husband and friends. Th ...
  • 'Where Do the Children Play?' In Shadow of Fuk ...
    New research out of Japan suggests that children living in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear power plant are suffering unexpected consequences because ongoing fears of radiation are keeping the young indoors and out of shape. Since the power plant melted down in March of 2011, causing tens of ...

Lifehacker

  • Using Car Batteries as an Emergency Welder
    If you're ever driving through rough terrain and break an important part such as a drag link or tie rod, you may be stuck until help arrives. If you were unable to summon help you could weld the part together with heavy-gauge jumper cables, two automotive batteries, and a welding rod. M ...
  • DIY Machinable Wax for Your Lathe or Mill
    If you have a CNC machine, lathe, or mill and like to use plastic blocks for prototyping the material cost can add up quickly if you're prolific or make a lot of mistakes. Consider using machinable wax—a very hard wax that is reusable and won't gum up the cutting surfaces of the equi ...
  • Clean Up Broken Ornaments with Paper Towels an ...
    Every few years a Christmas ornament will break in my household when it's time to pack away the tree. When this happens, sweep the shards onto a wet paper towel and use a lint roller to pick up any tiny fragments of glass left behind. More »
  • Temporarily Bring a Broken Blender Back to Lif ...
    If your blender dies during a party you can get back to making margaritas in five minutes by opening up the blender, cutting off the drive mechanism from the blender drive shaft, and inserting the drive shaft into your drill's chuck. More »
  • GMD Smart Rotate Adds Screen Rotation Customiz ...
    Android: If you have a new Samsung Galaxy Note II (like I do) you probably enjoy Smart Rotation, a feature that rotates your display based on where the front-facing camera detects your face instead of using the accelerometer. Now any Android user can have this option with GMD Smart Rotate. ...

Water Privatization

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

Guardian

  • Damp spirits set to keep Britons at home on Ne ...
    Weather and the economy are the reason millions are likely to spend Monday night at home. But there's always Jools …Battered by rain and fearful of what the future may bring, millions of Britons are preparing to celebrate this New Year's Eve quietly at home.Some local authorities have cancelled ...
  • How Britain went from a drought to a deluge as ...
    It will take less than two inches of rain by the month's end to make 2012 the wettest year ever Click here for a graphic depicting UK rainfall in 2011 and 2012The view through the windows of the packed 11.55 London Paddington to Penzance train was of burst rivers and drowned fields.Those on boa ...
  • Electric car sales in UK expected to double in ...
    Cheaper models and an increase in charging points are likely to boost the market next yearSales of electric cars in Britain are expected to double in 2013 as cheaper models enter the market and the number of charging points increases.Numbers of fully electric cars are expected to rise from 3,000 ...
  • Tom Hooper: 'At 12, I swore I'd have my own fi ...
    In 2011 that film was Oscar winner The King's Speech. Now he is Oscar-tipped again for Les Misérables. Here the 'tough guy' director, who made his first film while still at school, talks about the epic he sees as a timeless 'anthem for the dispossessed'It was almost two years ago that I first me ...
  • Labour keeps lead over Tories and Ukip gains p ...
    Ed Miliband's party maintains 10% advantage, with Conservatives on 29% and Liberal Democrats on 8%Labour is heading into 2013 with a solid 10% point lead over the Conservatives, while Ukip continues to surge and now has more than half the level of support enjoyed by David Cameron's party, accord ...

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban kills 21 kidnapped Pakistani soldiers ...
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan– Taliban militants have shot dead 21 Pakistani soldiers who they had kidnapped in raids on two camps outside Peshawar in the troubled northwest of the country, officials said ...
  • 21 missing policemen believed to have been kid ...
    Twenty-one tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban were found shot dead in Pakistan's troubled northwest tribal region early Sunday, government officials said.Officials ...
  • Georgian Soldier Found Dead In Afghanistan
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  • Missing Georgian peacekeeper found dead in Afg ...
    TBILISI, December 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Georgy Kikadze, a serviceman from the Georgian peacekeeping corps in Afghanistan, who has been reported missing since December 19, was found dead on Saturday, ...
  • Taliban kill 21 security men in Pakistan
    The Taliban have killed 21 Pakistani security personnel whom they abducted a few days ago from a check post, a media report said Sunday. Their bodies, riddled with gun shot wounds, were found in ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • National Whistleblowers Center's Work Highligh ...
    The Washington Post has published year-end articles that highlight three ongoing projects of the National Whistleblower Center. In an article published on December 26, "Top 10 stories in the federal workforce in 2012", The Washington Post cited the scandal involving FDA electronic spy ...
  • Congress Slams National Security Whistleblower ...
    Take Action! As part of a House/Senate Conference approved Tuesday, Congress passed an “Enhancement Act” for Department of Defense contractors.  These contractors already had a right to go to federal court and obtain a jury trial.  However, this new “Enhancement Ac ...
  • Special Holiday Offer
    This year, as you are deciding what to give your loved ones, friends, and colleagues for the holidays, why not choose to give something interesting and useful? One of the most powerful gifts you can give is knowledge. The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What's Right an ...
  • Congress Passes Magnitsky Act
              Sergei Magnitsky On December 6, 2012 Congress passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012. (Magnitsky Act). The law was inspi ...
  • Record Recoveries under False Claims Act
      The Justice Department confirmed in a release issued on December 4 that it has been a record year for recoveries from the False Claims Act.  In fact 2012 garnered the DOJ the “largest annual recovery in Department history.” Most of the recoveries were from actions filed ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Innovation, Optimism And Opportunity: All Comi ...
    Over the past few years, we've had a bit of a "New Year's" tradition around here for my last "regular" post of the year. It started in 2008, in response to an email asking how I didn't go crazy with anger over all of the bad stuff we wrote about all the time. In response, I explained why I was ...
  • White House Responses To 'We The People' Petit ...
    The administration's goal of becoming the "most transparent" in history still needs a lot of improvement to get anywhere near the lofty goals announced during the (first) inauguration. One of the few steps in the right direction has been the "We the People" website, which allows anyone to po ...
  • SF Wireless ISP MonkeyBrains Tries To Crowdfun ...
    Well, this is amusing. San Francisco wireless ISP MonkeyBrains (who some friends use and love) has posted an IndieGogo crowdfunding project in which they're seeking $325,000,000 (yes, that's $325 million) to build a satellite to deliver internet access. The "tiers" are interesting. The lowest ...
  • Apparently, Congress Isn't Actually Interested ...
    Yes, we've already covered the rejection of key amendments in the FISA Amendments Act renewal, but that wasn't the only case of Congress ignoring the public's privacy concerns as they close out this session. Back in September, we noted that Senator Patrick Leahy, who has been working on muc ...
  • DailyDirt: Watching Our Weight...
    One of the most common new year's resolutions is to try to lose weight and stick to a diet in the coming year. It's an especially obvious resolution to make after eating way too much at family gatherings. Here are just a few links on the topic of eating too much and gaining more than a few extra ...

VacTruth

  • Study Shows This Amazingly Simple Act Reduces ...
    The big secret vaccine peddlers avoid like the plague is, one amazingly simple act reduced two diseases by 50% or more. The most vital point to remember: The decrease in morbidity of—or the rate of incidence of a disease—those affected by the diseases had nothing to do with vaccines!
  • 1,742 Reports of Adverse Events After Children ...
    Last week, VacTruth reported details a 1,271 page confidential document, regarding a six-in-one vaccine. This pharmaceutical company received a total of 1,742 reports of adverse events, including 503 serious adverse events, after children had received the this vaccine...
  • Protect Your Children – The American Aca ...
    We know that mercury is a toxin. We know that it was removed from most vaccines more than a decade ago. End of story, right? Wrong. The debate has resurfaced. If the AAP and the WHO have their way and can successfully influence the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), some vaccines will ...
  • Do You Know the 5 Powerful Psychological Trigg ...
    If you’ve ever been in a doctor’s office with a child, you know what I mean. Doctors are well known for applying psychological pressure to parents questioning vaccines. Maybe you’ve experienced this pressure? Here are five psychological triggers doctors use against you, the parent, and some of t ...
  • Announcing Vaccine Bombshell: Leaked Confident ...
    A confidential GlaxoSmithKline document recently leaked to the press exposed that within a two-year period, a total of 36 infants died after receiving the 6-in-1 vaccine, Infanrix Hexa.

BroadSnark

  • Stuff You Read 2012
    I feel like I hardly posted at all this year. But it turns I actually managed to spew stuff out. You even read some of it. So the top 10 for 2012 are: Beware of Strange Men on Airplanes Is the Media Liberal Dear Reformists, You’re Welcome My Uterus Hates Elections Confessions of a Former [...]
  • 2012 – Damn
    When I was fourteen a schoolmate of mine hung himself, my father had a stroke, my family lost our business, and the IRS came after us. When I was twenty-six, my father died (something I may finally be ready to write about). Those were by far the two hardest years of my life. 2012 is [...]
  • Thanks NRA
    On Friday, Wayne LaPierre of the NRA held a press conference about the school shooting in Sandy Hook. Naturally, his suggestion was to put armed guards or police in every school. The liberal internets were immediately abuzz slamming one of their favorite bad guys. But nobody seemed to be mention ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you pay attention to nothing else in this post, please read this piece on how the government created residential segregation in our cities. De facto my ass. Red Emma’s in Baltimore is expanding. Please help. Is giving homeless people cigarettes an ethical dilemma or are Swedish health g ...
  • Really, Laura, Really?!
    I had no intention of writing anything about the school shooting in Connecticut. Maybe Pablo Neruda could have found words to talk about something like that, but it is beyond my capacity. I understand the desire for people to ask how it could happen and how we can prevent it from happening again ...

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War in Context

  • Searching for truth in a post-green world
    Paul Kingsnorth writes: Etymology can be interesting. Scythe, originally rendered sithe, is an Old English word, indicating that the tool has been in use in these islands for at least a thousand years. But archaeology pushes that date much further out; Roman scythes have been found with blades n ...
  • Senate to intel agencies: We don’t need to kno ...
    Adam Serwer reports: There’s nothing like a debate over warrantless wiretapping to clarify how the two parties really feel about government. On Friday, the Senate voted to reauthorize the government’s warrantless surveillance program, with hawkish Democrats joining with Republicans t ...
  • Video: Does capitalism work?
  • Palestine governed by the status quo
    Joseph Dana writes: Amid a sea of green Hamas flags in the centre of Nablus, Abdul Rahim Rabaiya expressed satisfaction that Hamas had returned to the West Bank after a five-year absence. A modest schoolteacher, Rabaiya passionately argued that the Palestinian street needs Hamas to force change ...
  • Israel eases Gaza blockade following truce deal
    AFP/MENA: Israel is easing its blockade of Gaza to allow construction materials and other goods into the enclave under the terms of a truce deal mediated by Egypt. The decision allows private companies and individuals to import construction materials that were previously restricted exclusively t ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Modern Piracy
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, folks have been bugging me about my autobiography. Dunno what to say except that writing about my life is a long and slow task, partly because of the variety in my life, partly because … Continue reading →
  • The political superstorm that devastated New York
    Incompetence, stupidity, diversion, blame shifting, and false solutions to imaginary problems Guest post by Paul Driessen “Superstorm” Sandy killed more than 100 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, and left millions without food, water, electricity, sanitation or shelter for &#8 ...
  • Dana Nuccitelli’s holiday trick for sobe ...
    Guest post by Alec Rawls When he argues that a reduction in forcing will cause cooling Dana Nuccitelli is not actually talking about drinking. He is talking about the solar forcing of global temperature, but the drinking analogy is a handy … Continue reading →
  • An open letter challenging the EPA on CO2 regu ...
    In the Washington Examiner today, there is this: Op-Ed: EPA’s carbon regs not based on sound science. It is published by Joe D’Aleo on behalf of a number of people.  A longer more complete version of the essay is below, … Continue reading →
  • Awe, shucks …
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Wintertime was magic when I was a kid. When the snow came, it transformed our world. It turned the forest that surrounded our ranch into an infinity of marvels, mysteries and delights. We could track … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

  • Water water everywhere — and a whole lot ...
    “At current melt rates, the Greenland ice sheet would take about 13,000 years to melt completely, which would result in a global sea level rise of more than 21 feet (6.5 meters).”
  • EPA’s Lisa Jackson resigns
    Lisa Jackson, who presided over the promulgation of an explosive growth of regulations at EPA announced today that she is stepping down.
  • Peace, Joy, Love, Freedom!
    Everyone at CFACT wishes all our friends the most joyous of holidays!
  • Radar shows Santa approaching North America!
    Kids to bed! NORAD radar shows Santa has crossed the ocean and is approaching North America. Track Santa's sleigh on radar LIVE!
  • The new robber barons
    The new robber barons are not content with only taxes and debt. They are using other people's hard-earned money to finance wind, solar, biofuel and other schemes that reward crony capitalist campaign contributors.while locking up centuries of vital energy resources.

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Curiosity Mars rover mission
  • Curiosity Rover Takes Detailed Self-Portrait o ...
    A series of photos taken by NASA’s Curiosity and combined into a single composite picture offer a rare, detailed glimpse of the rover patrolling the surface of Mars on a rocky terrain with its target destination—Mount Sharp—in the background.
  • Russia Launches $70 Bln Space Program for 2013 ...
    Russia will spend 2.1 trillion rubles (about $70 billion) under a state program for the development of the national space industry in 2013-2020, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
  • Russia Designs New Spaceship
    Russian space rocket corporation Energia has completed the technical design of a new manned spacecraft whose flight tests are due to begin in 2017, Energia President Vitaly Lopota said on Wednesday.
  • Russia May Join ExoMars Project in Q1 2013 – R ...
    The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) could sign a long-anticipated agreement on Russia’s participation in a Mars research project in the first quarter of 2013, Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said.

Pruning Shears

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

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Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Aliens Cause Global Warming
    Lecture by Michael Crichton : the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy. Even to a child, the contrast was clear between the world of politics-a world of hate and danger, of irrational beliefs and fears- and science Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cu ...
  • Atomic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
    The Deepwater Horizon spill also released dangerous amounts of radioactive material A waste byproduct known as produced water is also simultaneously discharged with oil and gases. 3 categories of toxins : organic, inorganic,radioactive Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |  ...
  • Water Wars
    Some updates on threats to water in the ocean and the aquifer Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Environment: New study shows dispersant makes ...
    Small grazers at the base of the food chain most directly affected, raising the question of whether the benefits of using dispersant are enough to offset the negative effects. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Retrospective : Greenhouse Gas
    A look back at older thoughts on an ongoing political football Continues in the next post http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-december-more-on-ghgs.html Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • GOP Proposal to Raise Medicare Eligibility Age ...
    ShareThisGOP Proposal to Raise Medicare Eligibility Age, Cut $1Trillion From Program [Obama's thinking, 'When can I sign?'] 28 Dec 2012 A pair of GOP senators, confident Congress will head off the tax hikes set to kick in within days, are already turning their attention to 'entitlements' and the ...
  • Woman Accused of Hate-Crime Murder in Subway Push
    ShareThisWoman Accused of Hate-Crime Murder in Subway Push 30 Dec 2012 A 31-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday and charged with a hate crime in connection with the death of a man who was pushed onto the tracks of an elevated subway station in Queens and crushed by an oncoming train. ...
  • CIA's Global Secret Security Force Created Aft ...
    ShareThisCIA's Global Secret Security Force Created After 9/11 Emerges From the Shadows 26 Dec 2012 The CIA's ability to fend off a second attack [in Benghazi] that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency's defensive arsenal: a secret security force created after the Sept. 1 ...
  • Congress, federal workers to get raise
    ShareThisCongress, federal workers to get raise 28 Dec 2012 Members of Congress will be getting a small pay increase next year. Under an executive order issued by President Obama on Thursday, members of Congress will join federal workers in seeing their pay rise by 0.5 percent after March 27. C ...
  • Baby You Can Drive My Car
    ShareThisBaby You Can Drive My Car 26 Dec 2012 The notorious car photographed leaving the scene of the Sandy Hook school shooting does NOT belong to Adam Lanza or his mother. The audio from the police radio contains the vehicle registration request and reply. The car is registered to Christopher ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Some Thoughts About The Kingdom of Thailand
    With Former Prime Minister Abhisit. 29 December 2012 On Christmas Eve, ThaiPBS television interviewed me in Bangkok.  The interview is scheduled to air on 31 December at 9:40PM Thailand time.  Our interview will be online here. Ms. Nattha Komolvadhin of ThaiPBS requested this inter ...
  • Benghazi Report
    20 December 2012
  • Wolfpack 105 – Start point
    18 December 2012 All tracking begins with a start point.  Start points can be found in many ways. The Israelis create track traps in soft soil that are impossible to cross without leaving spoor.  Israeli forces make heavy use of trackers. Zoologists create similar track traps when ...
  • Wolfpack 104 –Jungle Man Art vs. GI Science
    Butterflies on suspected elephant dung: many signs are obvious. 10 December 2012 The British learned that employing local trackers can be disastrous.  Indigenous folks can be immensely talented at local tracking because they are tuned intimately to their biowebs.  Problems start fro ...
  • CAUTION to Military Public Affairs
    08 December 2012 US Navy image with GPS data embedded Military photographers sometimes forget to turn off the camera GPS.  The Navy caption for this electric image is found on Flickr: Lightning flashes near USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Nov. 19, 2012) ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Govt to allow daily newspapers from April
    Burma will allow private newspapers to publish daily from April 1, ending a decades-old ban in a further easing of the country's draconian censorship regime, the government said Friday
  • Four Thais jailed over deaths of 54 Burma migrants
    Four people smugglers were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison by a Thai court after 54 illegal workers from Burma suffocated to death inside a seafood container, an official said Friday
  • Arakanese party warned over inflammatory pictures
    The government has threatened legal action against the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party for publishing pictures of the woman whose rape and murder sparked sectarian violence in June
  • Govt probes deadly plane crash-landing
    Burma was on Wednesday investigating the cause of an air accident that left two people dead and 11 injured when a passenger jet packed with foreign tourists crash-landed and caught fire
  • New Karen leadership signals party shift
    The Karen National Union has elected pragmatic new leaders for key party positions at its 15th quadrennial congress, which analysts say will speed up peace negotiations with the central government

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Chuck Hagel, Knifed in the Back by the Lobby
    As I wrote a few days ago when many were whispering that Chuck Hagel’s chances of becoming secretary of defense had died, what does it matter whether it’s the Israel lobby or the Jewish lobby?  When you get a knife in the back, it doesn’t matter who’s putting the shiv int ...
  • Meir Javedanfar: Iran “Analyst” as Pro-Israel ...
    The impasse between Iran and the west has produced a bumper crop of Iranian opportunists who’ve latched onto a western gravy train as analysts, media commentators, political consultants, and think tank pundits. As opposed to genuine independent analysts with their own sources and expertise ...
  • Israel’s Creeping Criminalization of Democrati ...
    A few days ago, Amira Hass wrote a story in Haaretz about a Shabak interrogation of Israeli peace activist, Kobi Snitz.  Snitz is a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute and a member of a pro-BDS group in Israel called Boycott from Within (he also belongs to Anarchists Against the Wall) .  Sni ...
  • A People’s Christmas
    This may be the only time in the history of this blog that you’ll see a post devoted to Christmas.  But you’ll soon see there is no religious content in this post, unless you find a commitment to peace and justice to be religious (many do). Enjoy tonight some appropriate Christmas mu ...
  • Ariel Becomes Israel’s New University of Occup ...
    The Israeli government, after debating for five years, has approved the application of Ariel College to be a full national university.  The College (which I will in future call the University of Occupation), is located in the settlement town of Ariel.  Every Israeli university objected strenuous ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • India on Edge - India’s Protests Become a So ...
    2012 has been a rough year for India’s government. It began with a series of protests led by an anti-corruption activist, who went on hunger strikes to protest foot-dragging by the government in passing a new anti-corruption law. Then, as a reminder of one of the worst scandals in recent memor ...
  • Broken Farming - Harvest Deficit Reductions Fr ...
    Finding common ground in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations will be hard for Republicans and Democrats. But there's one place they should be able to agree: farm subsidies.Today's farm subsidies mainly make the rich richer and protect them from the economic risks that average Americans face every da ...
  • The Edge of Photography - The Eyes Have It: Th ...
    Manvelyan, 36, is an Armenian photographer who's attracting quite a bit of attention for his sumptuous macro images of the human eye. The photos, which reveal intricate contours and ridges and complex weblike structures, don't so much resemble eyes as they do images of extraterrestrial worlds ta ...
  • The Congo on Edge - Armed DRC Militias Plague ...
    Thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at extreme risk of sexual violence, kidnapping and being forced to join armed militias, according to aid agencies. The recent upsurge in conflict in the eastern part of the country has led to many families being separated as the ...
  • The Edge of Science - Significant Scientific B ...
    The observation of an elusive sub-atomic particle, known as the Higgs boson, has been heralded by the journal Science as the most important scientific discovery of 2012. This particle, which was first hypothesized more than 40 years ago, holds the key to explaining how other elementary particles ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Report: Obama to Offer Tax Increase For People ...
    Get the Countdown Creator Pro widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) At 3PM today (only three days, 9 hours before we go over the cliff) President Obama will be siting down with congressional leaders from each party and according to Bloo ...
  • Naive Thomas Friedman Asks The Terrorists to " ...
    By Barry Rubin The entertainment director on the ship of fools that constitutes so much mainstream analysis of the Middle East—I refer, of course, to Thomas Friedman—has produced a wonderful paragraph that beautifully characterizes the problem, exquisitely expressing a ...
  • COUNTDOWN: Readers' Top Stories of 2012: #30-21
    Its been a crazy year...some days there were 2-3 major stories/year, on others there was nothing. This being a presidential year there were a ton of campaign stories, and readers of this site got to see a behind the scenes look at the second presidential debate. I started out the year writi ...
  • I Have Been Publicly Slandered By President Obama
    I just received this email from the president: Friend -- Because of you, I'll be taking the oath of office again on January 21st. Why the heck is he blaming Me?? I fought like hell to prevent a second Obama term....and now he slanders me like that.  So I clicked on the link ...
  • House Coming Back on Sunday Will Convene at 6: ...
    The House GOP caucus had a conference call this afternoon which almost all House Republicans dialed into. Members were told by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) that the House of Representatives will be "gaveled" into order at 6:30pm and members should “plan on being in town through the follow ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.S. teachers take up arms to prevent mass sho ...
    AFP | DECEMBER 28, 2012 Several US states are considering allowing school teachers to carry weapons, and educators, determined not to allow a repeat of the Newtown massacre, are flocking to training sessions. As gun control advocates try to outlaw military-style assault weapons and high-cap ...
  • 1,742 new reasons to avoid Infanrix Hexa vacci ...
    By CHRISTINA ENGLAND | VACTRUTH | DECEMBER 28, 2012 Last week, VacTruth reported details of the 1,271 page confidential GlaxoSmithKline document, regarding their six-in-one vaccine. More confidential papers have recently been leaked to the press. The Belgian website Initiative Citoyeen ...
  • When Firearms are Confiscated, Innocents are B ...
    JPFO | DECEMBER 27, 2012 In the history of the 20th Century, there were zero wars between what we would term “democratic” countries. The wars that killed so many millions involved either (1) non-democratic vs. democratic countries, or (2) non-democratic vs. nondemocratic countri ...
  • U.S. FDA calling for Genetically Modified Salm ...
    By ANTHONY GUCCIARDI | NATURAL SOCIETY | DECEMBER 27, 2012 While you were likely resting or enjoying time with friends and family over the Christmas break, the United States Food and Drug Administration was hard at work ramming through genetically modified salmon towards the final acce ...
  • Mercury is not out of vaccines and neither are ...
    By JENNIFER HUTCHINSON | VACTRUTH | DECEMBER 26, 2012 We know that mercury is a toxin. We know that it was removed from most vaccines more than a decade ago. End of story, right? Wrong. The debate has resurfaced. If the AAP and the WHO have their way and can successfully influence the ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbines’ lifespan far shorter than ...
    Scotland’s landscape could be blighted by the rotting remains of a failed regeneration of windfarms, according to a scathing new report. A study commissioned by the Renewable Energy Foundation has found that the economic life of onshore wind turbines could be far less than that predicted b ...
  • Lyme has been “ignored,” “marginalized” by sta ...
    CHAUMONT — Lyme officials said the town has been “ignored” and “marginalized” by both BP Wind Energy, developer of the proposed Cape Vincent Wind Farm, and the state. Although there will be no wind turbines in the town under the developer’s latest proposal, BP still would need to run a transmiss ...
  • Wind debate moves to a new chapter: Noise
    Some days there is no discernible noise coming from the wind turbines behind Steve and LuAnn Therrien’s house in Sheffield. Other days, they say, the turbines create a constant roar that wakes them up in the night, makes them sick to their stomachs or their heads, drives up his blood pressure an ...
  • Birds of prey: Hen harrier found dead on windfarm
    The potential impact of turbines on birds of prey was thrust into the spotlight yesterday after a hen harrier was found dead on a windfarm. RSPB Scotland said the adult male was discovered at the Griffin windfarm near Aberfeldy in Perthshire. A second bird was found with a badly-injured wing on ...
  • County will appeal wind ruling
    Windmills are not whirling along the southern shores of prince Edward County yet. Late Thursday afternoon, the Ministry of Environment The Ministry of Environment issued an approval for Gilead Power’s nine-turbine Ostrander Point Project in Prince Edward County, but there will be at least one ap ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • The Evolving Urban Form: Bangkok
    Since 2000, the Bangkok region has experienced annual population growth 2.5 times the rate of growth from 1980 to 2000. By 2010, the Bangkok region – which includes the provincial level city of Bangkok and the provinces of Samat Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Nakhon Patho ...
  • Is America's Future Progressive?
    Progressives may be a lot less religious  than conservatives, but these days they have reason to think that Providence– or Gaia — has taken on a bluish hue. From the solid re-election of President Obama, to a host of demographic and social trends, the progressives seem poised to achieve wha ...
  • Urban Housing: A Master Plan for the Few
    How we, as a nation, find bounty and beauty in the future depends upon how we react to two trends emerging from the recent difficult period in American urbanism. The first of these trends is the increasing lack of affordability in mainstream urban America, with the costs of maintaining a middle ...
  • America the Mostly Beautiful
    In the fall of 2010, as part of a book project, ex-newspaperman Bill Steigerwald retraced the route John Steinbeck took in 1960 and turned into his classic “Travels With Charley.” Steigerwald drove 11,276 miles in 43 days from Long Island to the top of Maine to Seattle to San Fra ...
  • Central Banking's Hogwarts Syndrome
    Central banks—the US Federal Reserve is one—come with the mystique of Oz. While the Fed fiercely denies that it is powerful enough to cure recessions with a click of the heels, there are those who believe it's true. If, however, you look behind the velvet curtains and columned lobbies, you wil ...

GM Watch

  • Stay on the cutting edge of the new biopolitics
    1.Genes, Cells, and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose - Review 2.Communications for a New Biopolitics 3.Biopolitical News of the Year 2012 4.Complete Video Now Online for Eugenics in California 5.Support the Center for Genetics and Society NOTE: Stay on the cutting edge of the new biopoliti ...
  • Take action over GM animal feed
    A new study provides yet another reason to avoid animal products, such as meat, dairy, and eggs produced with GM feed, and to take action to make supermarkets respect their customers' wishes. The new study by scientists at Leipzig University was published earlier this month. As you can see from ...
  • Engineering wild species
    1.Modified-Salmon Fight Showcases Risks, Rewards of Engineering Wild Species 2.In Major Shift, USDA Clears Way for Modified Bluegrass NOTE: Item 1 is from 2 years ago but required reading on the GM salmon debate. We've couped it with another piece by Paul Voosen on genetically engineered bluegr ...
  • GM salmon could soon run wild
    EXTRACT: Intrexon, which is offering to buy the rest of AquaBounty, is providing it with a $500,000 loan. Intrexon is working on synthetic biology, which is sort of a souped-up form of genetic engineering. It is not clear yet how it plans to apply that technology to AquaBounty’s fish. (item 2) - ...
  • GM salmon step closer to our dining table
    EXTRACTS: Critics say... the FDA has relied on outdated science and substandard methods for assessing the new fish. "We are deeply concerned that the potential of these fish to cause allergic reactions has not been adequately researched," said Michael Hansen, a scientist at the Consumers Union. ...

spiked

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

Cryptogon

  • Facebook Paid £2.9 Million Tax on £840 Million ...
    Via: Guardian: Facebook has become the latest multinational to come under the spotlight for its tax affairs after figures revealed it paid just £2.9m in tax on profits of more than more than £800m. Filings for Facebook Ireland, through which all of the social network’s profits outside the ...
  • Anonymous Drone Photos Lead to Indictment for ...
    Via: Slashdot: In January of this year, we posted news of a major pollution site in Texas that was the subject of some anonymous amateur sleuths with drones, who used their UAVs to document the release of a “river of blood” (pig blood, that is) into the Trinity River as it flows thro ...
  • Computer Crime Groups Thoroughly Infiltrated b ...
    Via: Guardian: The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established ...
  • Warrantless Wiretaps? Congress Votes Yes
    Via: Ars Technica: US Senators from both parties overwhelmingly approved a bill this morning that will authorize warrantless wiretaps, throughout 2013 and for four years beyond that. Supporters of the bill, including Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Diane Feinstein (D-CA), insisted it should be passed ...
  • U.S. Soldier Suicides Outnumber Combat Deaths ...
    Via: CBS: American soldier suicides continue to outnumber combat-related deaths in 2012, and the trajectory for soldier suicides continues to get worse. Statistics released by the Department of the Army show that through November potentially 303 active-duty, Reserve and National Guard soldiers c ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 16 Things About 2013 That Are Really Going To ...
    The beginning of the year has traditionally been a time of optimism when we all look forward to the exciting things that are going to happen over the next 12 months.  Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of things about 2013 that we already know are going to stink.  Taxes are going to go up, [...]
  • Government Dependents Outnumber Those With Pri ...
    America is rapidly becoming a nation of takers.  An increasing number of Americans expect the government to take care of them from the cradle to the grave, and they expect the government to dig into the pockets of others in order to pay for it all.  This philosophy can be very seductive, but wha ...
  • Say Goodbye To The Good Life
    Will this be the last normal holiday season that Americans ever experience?  To many Americans, such a notion would be absolutely inconceivable.  After all, in the affluent areas of the country restaurants and malls are absolutely packed.  Beautiful holiday decorations are seemingly everywhere t ...
  • Agenda 21 Is Being Rammed Down The Throats Of ...
    Have you ever heard of Agenda 21?  If not, don't feel bad, because most Americans haven't.  It is essentially a blueprint for a "sustainable world" that was introduced at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.  Since then, it has been adopted by more ...
  • 75 Economic Numbers From 2012 That Are Almost ...
    What a year 2012 has been!  The mainstream media continues to tell us what a "great job" the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of managing the economy, but meanwhile things just continue to get even worse for the poor and the middle class.  It is imperative that we educate t ...

Desertification

  • Climate change, Desertification, and Migration ...
    Read at : http://www.towardsrecognition.org/2012/04/5173/ Climate change, Desertification, and Migration: Connecting the dots Posted by Kayly Ober While climate change and desertification can often go hand in hand, each one able to exacerbate the other, the role these two factors play … Co ...
  • Rainfall variability, food security and migrat ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/examining-how-rainfall-variability-food-security-and-migration-interact/ Examining how rainfall variability, food security and migration interact by Carol Smith The world faces a serious water crisis, warned former heads of government and experts recently in ...
  • How millions of farmers are advancing agricult ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/how-millions-of-farmers-are-advancing-agriculture-for-themselves/ by Jonathan Latham The world record yield for paddy rice production is not held by an agricultural research station or by a large-scale farmer from the United States, but by a farmer in the sta ...
  • Drought mitigation by groundwater mapping (New ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=2813 Farmers in the Horn of Africa will be cushioned from the adverse effects of drought as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) commenced mapping of drought-resilient groundwater resources in the re ...
  • More crop per drop (New Agriculturist)
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=2831 ‘More crop per drop’ developer wins 2012 World Food Prize Described as the man who made the desert bloom, Dr. Daniel Hillel, an Israeli-American researcher, has been awarded the 2012 World Food Prize for developing and &#82 ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • A Profitless Market Socialism?
    anarchistshop.jpg Seth Ackerman makes a decent proposal for market socialism but is wrong in claiming it will end profit-seeking behavior. I will examine why and look for ways to improve on it. ...
  • Communique from the Mexico Anarchist Black Cross
    abc2.gif In recent days, following the events of the demonstrations on December 1st for the presidential inauguration of Enrique Peña Nieto, during which the police forces, both of the Federal [nation ...
  • From Bristol with Love radio show #30 - Census ...
    FBWLSTICKER3.jpg For anyone who needs a smile at christmas listen here
  • Anti-fascists of Kazan, Russia need solidarity!
    Our friend Oleg is threatened with 5 years in prison, as he is facing charges according to statutes 213 (hooliganism) and 116 parts 2a, 2b (battery) of Russian criminal codex. This is already second such case against Oleg, first time he was charged 3 years ...
  • USI-AIT hospital workers strike in Florence
    547014_449003295160537_694289372_n.jpg On 12 December 2012, the workers at Careggi hospital in Florence went on strike against the proposal by the company, made unilaterally and signed by the mainstre ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Forbidden Archeology: The Incredible Proof of ...
    This has to be one of the greatest stories of all time.   Here is the short, “condensed version” for your consideration. The story begins back in 1978.  A self-proclaimed amateur archeologist by the name of Ron Wyatt is walking with an Israeli citizen outside his hotel located near t ...
  • Rima Laibow, Master of the “Craft” ...
    Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stranger, we now have “Dr.” Psycho-shrink Rima Laibow declaring in a PUBLIC VIDEO that “she is Sandy-Hook Shooter Adam Lanza’s Doctor”.  Not only that, Laibow the wacko tells you with a straight face that she “he ...
  • Rima Laibow, Master of the “Craft” ...
    Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stranger, we now have “Dr.” Psycho-shrink Rima Laibow declaring in a PUBLIC VIDEO that “she is Sandy-Hook Shooter Adam Lanza’s Doctor”.  Not only that, Laibow the wacko tells you with a straight face that she “he ...
  • The Innocent Face of Sandy Hook Massacre &#821 ...
    Today, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 there will be a very public memorial service for 6 year old Emilie here in my home town of Ogden, Utah.  Emilie, a precocious and PRECIOUS blue-eyed, blonde sweetheart gunned down with 19 other classmates in Newtown, Ct. last Friday has become the face of the Sandy ...
  • The Innocent Face of Sandy Hook Massacre &#821 ...
    Today, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 there will be a very public memorial service for 6 year old Emilie here in my home town of Ogden, Utah.  Emilie, a precocious and PRECIOUS blue-eyed, blonde sweetheart gunned down with 19 other classmates in Newtown, Ct. last Friday has become the face of the Sandy ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Frost on Roof or Lack of Frost is a sure sign...
    Reblogged from Scotts Contracting: On the Frosty Mornings when you are outside your house scraping your cars windshield to prepare for your drive to work. Take a look at the Roof of your Home. -Lack of Frost or Snow on your Roof is a sure indication that it was melted by the Heat as it [...]
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Room Addition Esti ...
    GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE ROOM ADDITION ESTIMATE FOR ADDING A 2ND FLOOR DORMER ONTO AN EXISTING BUILDING. Rough Estimate on projected costs to add a 2nd Floor Room Addition to an existing 1 story building in St Louis. Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Frank Lloyd Wrigh ...
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Room Addition Esti ...
    GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE ROOM ADDITION ESTIMATE FOR ADDING A 2ND FLOOR DORMER ONTO AN EXISTING BUILDING. Rough Estimate on projected costs to add a 2nd Floor Room Addition to an existing 1 story building in St Louis. Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Frank Lloyd Wrigh ...
  • CAD Designs for Adding a 2nd Story Addition on ...
    CAD Options Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting-Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired 2nd Floor Room Addition-Additional Green Features: Photovoltaic Solar System- Passive Solar Design for Natural Day-lighting thru a bank of windows on the West Wall. Designed by Sco ...
  • CAD Designs for Adding a 2nd Story Addition on ...
    CAD Options Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting-Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired 2nd Floor Room Addition-Additional Green Features: Photovoltaic Solar System- Passive Solar Design for Natural Day-lighting thru a bank of windows on the West Wall. Designed by Sco ...

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The (Female) Tea Workers Who Set Fire to Their ...
    photo credit France24.com (This is the first of two posts regarding the recent industrial dispute on a tea plantation in India in which 1,000 tea workers set fire to their employer’s bungalow, killing both him and his wife.) “We all came and attacked the bungalow and set it on fi ...
  • Oxfam Challenges Negative African Stereotypes
    Starving child covered in flies It appears a lot of people are as sick to death as I am of the World Vision and Tear Fund TV ads featuring starving, fly-infested African children. The International Business Times has an interesting article about a study the international aid organization ...
  • Vice-and-Virtue Police Patolling Aleppo
    Revolutionary Military Council (Aleppo) According to alakhbar English, the so-called Revolutionary Military Council, having declared an independent Islamic state in Syria’s largest city Aleppo, has banned women from driving. They have also made prayer compulsory, as well as creating a ...
  • Was the Sandy Hook Massacre a Failed Rebellion?
    Going Postal by Mark Ames The best analysis I’ve read about the root cause of the rage massacre in Connecticut last week comes from Michael Rechenwald, founder of Citizens for Legitimate Government in Seeking Definitive Causes and Solution for Rage Massacres. Rechenwald agrees with Ma ...
  • What Price Transparency?
    Daniel Ellsberg “When all who are honestly mistaken hear the truth, they will either quit being mistaken or cease being honest.” ~Anonymous~ Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has a recent article in the Huffington Post about a new group he has started with journalists Glenn Gr ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • An Email from Santa Claus to Climate Skeptics
    A few Christmases ago, I published this email from Santa, which arrived on the night before the night before Christmas. Readers had so much fun with it, it's become an annual tradition. Enjoy!
  • Electric cars becoming a reality?
    Shortly before Christmas a colleague of mine photographed a busy electric charging point in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Hooked up to the charging point are a Chevy Volt (Opel Ampera in the EU) and a Fisker Karma. Many such charging poles have appeared in London in recent years but I have yet to se ...
  • West Antarctica Warming Three Times Faster Tha ...
    In a finding that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western part of the continent’s ice sheet is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought.
  • 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?!”
  • Super Bowl XLVII: Playing Offense on Clean Energy
    For those of us seeking to engage the public in the work of building a clean-energy future, sporting events offer a unique opportunity to reach the public. This year, for example, C2ES has teamed up with Entergy Corporation and the New Orleans Super Bowl XLVII Host Committee to launch a fun, env ...

EU Times

  • Is Your Food Being Hit with a ‘Healthy’ Dose o ...
    We already know the U.S. government doesn’t care enough about us to tell us whether we are eating genetically modified organisms—they’ve maintained their right to keep that fact from us, knowing that if we are armed with the knowledge, we might take down the huge GMO industry with the power of o ...
  • Gang-raped Indian girl commits suicide after p ...
    An Indian teenager who fell victim to a gang rape has committed suicide, a police official says. Inspector General Paramjit Singh Gill said on Thursday that the 17-year-old girl had been “running from pillar to post to get her case registered” but officers failed to register a rape complaint. “O ...
  • Whitney Houston was killed by drug dealers, in ...
    A private investigator hired by a client who did not believe the official report into Whitney Houston’s death claims a drug overdose wasn’t the cause of the superstar’s death. According to Paul Huebl, drug dealers killed the Grammy-winning singer. ­“I have evidence that points to Whitney being a ...
  • 16 die in US northeast winter storm
    A powerful winter storm has pounded the US northeast, bringing heavy snow and strong winds across several states and killing several people. The storm, which has claimed some 16 lives so far, hit the northeast on Thursday after it wreaked havoc on a region stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to t ...
  • US scientist shows on microscope how beautiful ...
    We are often told that every snowflake is different – but the naked eye is simply not advanced enough to appreciate the world’s favourite form of precipitation. But even without a white Christmas this year, we are able to fully explore the complexity of the water molecules that make ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Kanye West Wears âYeti Maskâ During Atlantic C ...
    Kanye West sported what many websites are calling a “Yeti mask” during a recent concert in Atlantic City. The rapper also donned a mask made out of diamonds during the show. According to Neon Limelight , the first night of Kanye West’s three-night stay at the Revel Resort in Atlantic City inclu ...
  • Michelle Malkin, Right Wing firebrand and offi ...
    Courtesy of Mediaite : Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin stopped by Fox & Friends Saturday morning to agree with her Republican colleague Charles Krauthammer about the âinternal civil warâ within the GOP. Malkin called it âobviousâ that President Obamaâs strategy was to âdrive a wedg ...
  • Wizards vs. Bulls: Washington looks for back-t ...
    The Bulls have maintained a solid record despite the absence of Derrick Rose. Can the Wizards stop them on the second night of a back-to-back. The Wizards will try for a rare back-to-back sweep when they take on the Chicago Bulls . I have a feeling this game will be a blowout loss, but I'm prep ...
  • NBA standings 2012: Warriors still steady, Kin ...
    The Golden State Warriors are in the thick of the Western Conference playoff race while the Sacramento Kings are celebrating finally winning their 10th game of the season. The Bay Area teams are living different lives and it is reflected in their respective places in the conference standings. T ...
  • ITC judge recommends ban on Samsung devices in ...
    On Friday the ITC filed a redacted version of a remedy suggested by ITC Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender, in which he recommended a ban be enforced against Samsung products that were found to infringe upon four Apple patents. The judge also recommended that Samsung post a bond for 88 perc ...

Groklaw

  • Global Patent Chaos Creates Unwinnable Game fo ...
    The problem is what to do to fix the problem. Clearly patent laws need to be reformed, but that would require a functional Congress, which is clearly lacking. And, yes, I know they passed a new patent reform law this year. You see how well it worked out. It would also take a patent office effic ...
  • Sony's PlayStation 2 finally goes gentle into ...
    Though it hasn't made much news in the last few years, Sony's PlayStation 2 game console has stuck around-despite the fact that we've been hearing about the replacement for its replacement. Today, Sony drove the final nail into the console's coffin. Famitsu reports that Sony has stopped shipping ...
  • ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: Were Not The In ...
    Any notice scheme requires ISPs to store data which ties their customers to alleged infringements which of course has privacy implications. Over in the United States there have been concerns that the information gathered as part of "six strikes" could be used for more than just warnings. Sure en ...
  • Tim OReillys Key to Creating the Next Big Thing
    O'Reilly: Apple. They're clearly on the wrong path. They file patent suits that claim that nobody else can make a device with multitouch. But they didn't invent multitouch. They just pushed the ball forward and applied it to the phone. Now they want to say, "OK, we got value from someone else, b ...
  • Harvard Law Offering First Free Online Course
    Harvard Law School is accepting applications for its first online course via edX, an online education venture founded six months ago. The 12-week copyright course begins on January 28 and will be open to 500 students. Applications for a spot in the free class, taught by the director of Harvard's ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Oil over people in Texas – Keystone Pipeline g ...
    tarsandsblockade.orgMichael Bishop was ready for his day in court against TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline, which is under construction in East Texas and approaching his homestead. The only trouble was – the court wasn’t ready.By the time TransCanada attorneys and Bishop, the former Marine repres ...
  • Subway pushing murder to be charged as hate crime
    Erika Menendez says she pushed the blameless Sunando Sen into the path of an oncoming subway in New York City because “because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.”It could be she’s just nuts and this is what th ...
  • A Rule Is To Break: A Child’s Guide to Anarchy
    From Publishers Weekly. “Many children’s books encourage self-expression and free thought; few take those ideas as far as this collaboration from Seven and Christy, the duo behind The Ocean Story (2011). “The opposite of rules is anarchy!” opens the book as a blue-haired ...
  • The War on Drugs has become an absurdity
    As I learned recently, the practice of medicine is one of the unlikely casualties.In September, my wife began having abdominal pains. Her GP sent her to the GI specialist, who suspected Crohn’s Disease but found nothing. (Apparently Crohn’s is a very popular diagnosis these days.) Th ...
  • Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion may be viable ...
    Recent research in Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, which uses differences in water temperatures between deeper and shallower water to power heat pumps, may have determined a way to do it in an environmentally friendly way. This could lead to grid-scale OTEC. Let’s hope so.

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

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

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • New Discoveries About How Gut Bacteria Can Hav ...
    By Dr. Mercola Your body is loaded with bacteria, of both good and bad varieties. In fact, about 100 trillion bacteria live inside you, which is more than 10 times the number of cells you have in your body! The ideal balance between these bacteria is about 85 percent "good" and ...
  • Study Proves Pesticide Exposure Linked to Bumb ...
    By Dr. Mercola Serious honey bee die-offs have been occurring around the world for the past decade, which is an alarming trend considering one of every three bites of food you eat depends on the good graces of the honey bee. They pollinate at least 130 different crops in the United States ...
  • What Country Tops the List of Healthiest Count ...
    By Dr. Mercola The United States spends $2.7 trillion annually -- TWICE the amount per person as most other industrialized nations – on health care. With this level of spending, you might think Americans would be among the healthiest people on the planet … unfortunately, that isn't the case. ...
  • Link Between Flame Retardants and Neurodevelop ...
    By Dr. Mercola The U.S. implemented fire safety standards in the 1970s that over time have led to more and more products adopting the use of toxic flame-retardant chemicals (polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs) to meet the stringent regulations. PBDEs, which are similar in chemical ...
  • Popular Weight Loss Drug May Cause Permanent L ...
    By Dr. Mercola The weight loss drug orlistat (known as Xenical by prescription and Alli, available over-the-counter) is one of the most popular on the market. Alli is even known to flaunt the fact that it’s approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its advertisements, us ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: If 2013 is to be a year of reform, ...
    Generally speaking, 2012 might be said to have been the year of red squares and brown envelopes. Both were symbolic of things going badly in Montreal.
  • Editorial: Poll confirms sovereignist movement ...
    The separatist movement’s problem is not so much that it is divided into partisan factions , but that most Quebecers aren’t interested in what it’s peddling.
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.

Food World Order

  • #Video: Food Fraud - The Vitamin Water Deception
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Few industries engage in as much as blatant, over-the-top fraud as the food industry. And it's all sanctioned by the government and justified by lawyers. The truth about one of the most popular beverages of the last ten years. What's really in Vitamin Water? It turns ...
  • #Video: #Frankenfish One Step Closer To Market
    from therealfoodchannel.com: During the Christmas 2012 holiday, the FDA quietly moved the genetically modified salmon called "frankenfish" one step closer to market. The Food and Drug Administration released draft documents that assessed the environmental risks posed by AquAdvantage salmon, whic ...
  • #Video: United Nations Source of Haiti's Deadl ...
    Create The Problem, Then Solve It from brasschecktv.com: With much fan fare, the UN recently announced a program to "rid Haiti of cholera." Just one problem, until UN troops infected with the disease came to Haiti recently, there was no cholera reported there.
  • #Video: Brominated Vegetable Oil Found In Citr ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Why is a chemical used as fire retardant found in the mother's milk of American women?
  • Father-daughter duo have the world’s first bra ...
    from stratrisks.com: It should be fairly obvious why, all technological considerations aside, there has been much more research into letting machines extract our thoughts, rather than insert them. Mind reading is a scary-enough concept all on its own — but mindwriting? It calls to mind the hac ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 16 Things About 2013 That Are Really Going To ...
    The beginning of the year has traditionally been a time of optimism when we all look forward to the exciting things that are going to happen over the next 12 months.  Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of things about 2013 that we already know are going to stink.  Taxes are going to go up, [...]
  • Government Dependents Outnumber Those With Pri ...
    America is rapidly becoming a nation of takers.  An increasing number of Americans expect the government to take care of them from the cradle to the grave, and they expect the government to dig into the pockets of others in order to pay for it all.  This philosophy can be very seductive, but wha ...
  • Say Goodbye To The Good Life
    Will this be the last normal holiday season that Americans ever experience?  To many Americans, such a notion would be absolutely inconceivable.  After all, in the affluent areas of the country restaurants and malls are absolutely packed.  Beautiful holiday decorations are seemingly everywhere t ...
  • Agenda 21 Is Being Rammed Down The Throats Of ...
    Have you ever heard of Agenda 21?  If not, don't feel bad, because most Americans haven't.  It is essentially a blueprint for a "sustainable world" that was introduced at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.  Since then, it has been adopted by more ...
  • 75 Economic Numbers From 2012 That Are Almost ...
    What a year 2012 has been!  The mainstream media continues to tell us what a "great job" the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of managing the economy, but meanwhile things just continue to get even worse for the poor and the middle class.  It is imperative that we educate t ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

    TO DO

    renewable recyclingconservation
    Vermont utility seeks renewableenergy moratorium
    Barre Montpelier Times Argus
    The board of Vermont Electric Cooperative approved a resolution Thursday seeking a two-year moratorium and formation of a statewide panel that includes customers to develop arenewable energy transition plan. About a dozen opponents of wind energy ...
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    U.K. Says Solar Power Crucial to Meeting Renewable-Energy Goals
    Bloomberg
    The U.K., which had the wettest summer in 100 years, added solar power to a list of technologies deemed crucial to meetingrenewable-energy and carbon-reduction targets. Solar photovoltaic power is on a list of nine technologies, which also includes ...
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    Sun shines on renewable energy as economic force
    AME Info
    As the global energy demand continues to rise, and governments invest further inrenewable sources, the sustainable energy industry is emerging as an economic powerhouse. It is not just the development of alternative energy sources, like solar, wind, ...
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    Javier Sanso, Yacht Racer, Is Using 100 Percent RenewableEnergy In The ...
    Huffington Post
    I'm not a Kennedy—I don't sail. I get seasick in anything more challenging than a kiddie pool. And yet I'm fascinating by the Vendée Globe, a round-the-world solo yachting race now underway, with the competitors currently battling it out at the ...
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    HUMAN HABITAT

    ecology water energy
    Disease Burden Links Ecology to Economic Growth
    Science Daily (press release)
    Dec. 27, 2012 — A new study, published Dec. 27 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, finds that vector-borne and parasitic diseases have substantial effects on economic development across the globe, and are major drivers of differences in income ...
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    Clallam County, Ecology provide guidance, plan workshop to help building ...
    Access Washington
    OLYMPIA - Beginning Tuesday, Jan.2, 2013 — the effective date of the new Dungeness water management rule — the Washington Department ofEcology (Ecology) and Clallam County are offering guidance to building permit applicants on how to obtain ...
    Ecology backs EPA that dairies likely source of pollution
    Capital Press (subscription)
    Veterinarian pharmaceuticals, ionic signatures and nitrate concentrations along with hydrogeologic information all indicate dairies are contributing to groundwater contamination in the Lower Yakima Valley, the state Department of Ecology says ...
    Ecology fines Quincy mineral company for pollution
    The Wenatchee World Online
    QUINCY — The state Department of Ecology has fined Imerys Minerals California Inc. of Quincy $120,000 for emitting more air partical pollution than is allowed by its permit. The company has agreed to pay a $60,000 fine and another $60,000 to help the ...
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    WATER POWER

    water floods pollution
    Bridgewater water main break cleared, all lanes open on Route 202
    NJ.com
    BRIDGEWATER — It took more than six hours to clear a watermain break that backed up traffic along Route 202 during rush hour Friday evening, according to the state Department of Transportation. At about 3:33 p.m. Friday, a water main break on Route ...
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    Rep. Bob Gibbs touts watertransportation's efficiency, safety and cost ...
    Plain Dealer
    As chair of the House Subcommittee on WaterResources and Environment (part of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure) he recently held a hearing on the soundness of the country's inland waterway system, which includes the Ohio River.
    SF copper thief jailed for watertheft
    San Francisco Chronicle
    Back in July, they said, he used pliers to open a neighbor's spigot in the 4200 block of 24th Street in Noe Valley - McGuire's utilities had been shut off - before filling up plastic containers with water. When a police officer responded, McGuire ...
    Water main break at Mason and Bader
    Fox11online.com
    GREEN BAY - Utility crews on the scene of a water main break on Green Bay's east side say it could be several more hours before they are able to stop the water flow. That information is coming from a FOX 11 photographer, who was on the scene this ...
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