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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 III


Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: Instagram, Poke, New Year’s ...
    Instagram hit with lawsuit after proposed policy changes – A class action lawsuit was filed against Instagram last Friday over breach of contract and other claims related to its proposed terms of service change. The lawsuit, filed in...
  • Fun Run, WhatsApp, Viber, Flickr and more on t ...
    Mobile arcade game Fun Run led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 144 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the...
  • Facebook removes options to filter friends by ...
    Some Facebook users have been disappointed to discover that they can no longer filter their friends list by current city or other identifiers besides name. When Facebook rolled out its redesigned friends page last month, it...
  • Facebook stock drops after NY Post botches Ins ...
    Facebook shares fell 2.9 percent this morning following a report from the New York Post that Instagram had lost about a quarter of its daily active users. The stock started to recover as outlets began to poke...
  • The Year in Facebook Acquisitions 2012
    Facebook bought or “acqui-hired” more than a dozen companies this year, including Instagram, the largest acquisition in the company’s history. Like last year, bringing on mobile talent was clearly a focus for the social network in...

Truthout - Tweets

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Bob Dylan – “All Along The Watch Tower” For the last Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick for 2012, we have Bob Dylan performing his All Along the Watchtower. The song first appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding. Covered by many, the only other version of the song that’s close ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Top 8 Dumbest Responses After the Sandy Hook E ...
    We don't want to "ban" all guns. But we'd have no problem with severe safety regulations and oversight on the manufacture, purchase and use of guns, just as we have in effect for the manufacture, purchase and use of automobiles. Seat belt requirements don't prevent everyone from dying in cars, b ...
  • Explainer: How Poor Timing Buries Important News
    Timing is everything in the news business. That's why those seeking maximum impact typically seek to make announcements when people are paying attention and when there's little competing news. A lot of those rules went out the window with the arrival of the 24-hour cable news cycle and the subse ...
  • A Person Called Nobody
    Bennett accuses Netanyahu of supporting the Two-State Solution (which nobody in Israel and the world believes) and Netanyahu attacks Bennett for announcing that he, as a soldier -- a major in the reserves -- would disobey an order to "remove a Jew from his home" The "home" in question being, of ...
  • Did The CIA Sabotage Cuba's Water Supply?
    In spite all of the impressive and commendable accomplishments of Fidel's Revolution like the free education, healthcare, longevity, voting (even when there is only one candidate nominated for every single high post in the government), etc., Cubans still have no water.
  • I am ok son, it is only Tuesday and Wednesday
    He says T&W is a name of a disease that doctors all over the world could not treat and the people prone to it are those who are 70 years old or older.

Switchboard

  • Another risk to landowners: liens for an oil a ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. There is a scathing new report out from Reuters about the finances of Chesapeake Energy Corporation. Chesapeake is being sued by landowners and contractors. The article outlines Chesapeake's financia ...
  • Oil and gas industry takes a toll on local hea ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. In addition to the environmental impacts of oil and gas production, including dangerous air and water contamination and destruction of wildlife habitat, NRDC is concerned about other impacts to commu ...
  • Bike Sharing Coming to Downtown Los Angeles in ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica When my wife and I were in Paris a few years ago, we were blown away by the city’s super-convenient Velib bike share system. With a swipe of a credit card, tourists and locals can rent a bike from ...
  • "Promised Land" powerfully highlights what's a ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City I was fortunate to have the chance last week to attend an early screening of "Promised Land," the compelling new fracking movie starring Matt Damon, Frances MacDormand and John Krasinski and dir ...
  • New data from EIA shed light on residential en ...
    Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC Houses in America (and the people, machines, and devices in them….) use a lot of energy, year in and year out.  The massive quantity of energy used is often expressed i ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Lazy Saturday
    Another lazy link roundup: The USS Constitution defeated HMS Java 200 years ago today.  Follow the action at @1812now. Mickey Mouse is bad at committing suicide. Looking forward to Django Unchained. Tarantino on John Ford is worth the read. How has the UN failed Congo? The legal ins and outs of ...
  • Potemkin Filibuster Reform
    For your convenience, I’ll highlight what makes the proposed McCain/Levin filibuster “reform” (sic) worse than useless: — Redundant filibusters, like the filibuster on the motion to proceed, and the multiple filibusters on conference reports, would be eliminated. — If the minor ...
  • Dehli Agony
    If you haven’t been following, this unbearably horrible story has come to a tragic conclusion.  We can only hope that this will provide activists with momentum and focus for demanding significant legal and social change.
  • National Security And Civil Liberties
    Corey Robin’s essay in the new Jacobin is quite brilliant.    There’s a lot that could (and will) be said about it, but I have initial responses/amplifications on three points. First of all, it’s almost certainly correct to say that national security “has…provided t ...
  • Ask the experts
    Which NFL team had the worst draft last spring? The consensus among draft experts was: the Seattle Seahawks. I’ve only seen the Seahawks a couple of times this year, but a friend breaks it down like this: Seahawks 2012 draft: -1/15: Bruce Irvin (DE, WVU) -2/47: Bobby Wagner (LB, Utah State ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

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

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Taliban kills 21 kidnapped Pakistani soldiers
    Taliban militants have shot dead 21 Pakistani soldiers whom they had kidnapped earlier during an assault on two camps in the volatile northwest of the country. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Broken-up Britain? UK epidemic of separated fa ...
    Research by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows that the UK has one of the highest rates of family breakdown in the western world and that only 69% of children live with their mother... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Preliminary reports point to pilot error as ma ...
    Pilot’s error is being named as the preliminary cause of the Vnukovo airport TU-204 jet crash, the Investigative Committee said. Four people died and four others were critically injured after the plane crash-landed,... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • €12mn goes astray in Greek tourism scam
    Greece has launched a probe into the national tourist organization to account for 12 million euro lost due to “irregularities.” It is the latest in a series of corruption scandals to hit debt-stricken Greece during the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Four dead as passenger jet crashes into highwa ...
    A passenger jet crashed after making a hard landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. At least four people were killed and four critically injured, says the Interior Ministry. Officials believe the cause could be pilot error. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • City of Colorado Springs fails to completely o ...
  • The Police- The ruling class’s army agai ...
    One of the most irritating parts of the Right Wing infiltration of the US Occupy Movement was their constant lecturing to other Occupy Movement participants that police should supposedly all be considered just another part of the ’99%’. This was a dishonest lie though. The police are ...
  • The Wall Street Journal today makes it officia ...
    Who controls the Chinese Communist Party? According to the print addition of the WSJ today (online addition only available to subscribers), multi billionaires make up a gigantic block of the highest officials inside the supposedly ‘communist’ Chinese Communist Party. It seems that th ...
  • Gun ownership does nothing to protect Freedom ...
    The biggest lie of the Right Wingers in our country is that their gun ownership somehow is protecting Freedom and Liberty. Of course, this lie is straight corollary with the dullard jingoist notion that US governmental militarism and the bloated US military are supposedly together protecting &#8 ...
  • Gun Control for weapons makers not users, for ...
    I’m really not big on this call for gun control, mostly because it means to further restrict individual liberties, and especially because the outcry is a media induced hysteria of disreputable provenance, aimed at America’s violence junkies instead of its dealers. Really? Is Going Po ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Attending Occupy Steubenville Tomorrow
    I’m going to be attending occupysteubenvilletomorrow. For those who can't attend, the live-stream will be here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oprollredroll. While there I'll shoot some footage and pictures, and upload those online as soon as I can. Peace. Free desktop streaming ap ...
  • The latest viral from "liberal" Hollywood
    When a bunch of clueless celebrities get together to advance a political agenda it annoys me. I remember when I first watched Team America: World Police. While I found the movie hilarious, I didn't really like how it ridiculed anti-war celebrities. Now, 8 years later, South Park is pretty much m ...
  • New Independent Study of WTC Dust - Please Donate
    Donate at: http://aneta.org/markbasile_org/donation/index.htm Proposal for Independent Study of the WTC Dust: http://www.markbasile.org/ See also: http://aneta.org/markbasile_org/study/index.htm http://nanothermite911.blogspot.com/
  • 911review.com: Independent Study to Either Con ...
    911review.com: NEW 2012 Update: Call for an Independent Study to Either Confirm or Refute The [2009] Paper Donations needed to fund analytical work.   Info on study here: http://911review.com/ About Jim Hoffman Jim Hoffman who has a background in software engineering, mechanical ...
  • Tell President Obama and Congress--​Jobs Not Wars
    http://www.peace-action.org 12/11/2012 On Election Day, we sent a message. Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. End the wars and reinvest in our communities.  The wars and tax breaks for the rich and corporations got us into this mess. Move the money from wars and weapons to f ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Update: WaPo Pharma Drug Ties and ...
    Dec 26, 2012, Washington Post: Antidepressants to treat grief? Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes Washington Post: Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes Washington Post reporter Peter Whoriskey did an impressive job looking into...
  • Weekly Wrap Up: Gravely Concerned
    By Dan Olmsted I hate to beat a dead horse, but when the supposedly dead horse is the fact that – contrary to the American Academy of Pediatricians-- mercury in vaccines causes autism, I'm afraid I'm going to have to...
  • The British Dimension - the WHO Mercury Cover- ...
    By John Stone The World Health Organization’s policy on thimerosal and vaccines was confirmed in June 2002 on the basis of known to be false and flawed data in a British study sanctioned by the US Centers for Disease Control,...
  • Dachel Media Update: Deny Autistic Guns, Lose ...
    Dec 26, 2012, Beaumount (TX) Enterprise: Some should not be able to use guns Dec 26, 2012, Silver City (NM) Sun-News: With autism's definition set to change, Asperger's patients could lose services Beaumount Enterprise “The shooter in Connecticut last week...
  • Prevenar 13 Pneumococcal Vaccine Damned in B ...
    This press release about the safety and efficacy of Pfizer’s pneumococcal vaccine Prevenar 13 - used in US as well as European vaccine schedules - was extensively reported in the Belgian media on Saturday. The report is based on leaked...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Suicide bomber targets Nato base in Afghanistan
    Guardian – A suicide bomber driving a minibus full of explosives has attacked a base in eastern Afghanistan used by Nato troops and CIA operatives, killing three Afghan civilians and a security guard and injuring at least seven others. The attacker struck when his vehicle was detained at a ...
  • Paypal accused in €960m lawsuit
    Connexion – A French software engineer has demanded €960million in damages from Paypal after accusing it of stealing his idea for a secure online payment system. José Montet lodged his claim with the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris, saying that Paypal’s success – and its €1.5billion b ...
  • China’s satellite navigation network sta ...
    Today Online – A Chinese satellite navigation network, created to compete with America’s Global Positioning System (GPS), has started offering services to Asian users outside the country. Starting yesterday, the Beidou system is offering services such as positioning, navigation, time ...
  • Big Brother’s Creepiest Toys
  • Senate extends warrantless wiretapping under FISA
    RT – The Senate agreed on Friday to approve an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, legislation that allows the NSA and other US intelligence agencies to wiretap conversations involving foreign citizens without obtaining a warrant. Despite growing opposition to one of th ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

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

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Benefits and Limitations of iPhone Apps D ...
    The iPhone has reached the heights of fame post the launch of iPhone 5 and iOS 6. Even users with iPhone 4 have started upgrading their operating system to iOS 6 for their iPhone to be in sync with the technology. The latest iOS, iOS 6 comes loaded with more than two hundred new features whi ...
  • Watch Human Right Watch – A Tribute to Pr ...
    This week we learned that Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expelled from its ranks top U.N. official Professor Richard Falk. The juicy details have been kindly supplied by Israeli Hasbara outlet UN Watch blog.“We commend Human Rights Watch and its director Kenneth Roth for doing the right ...
  • More mobile devices activated on Christma ...
    We just wanted to get a quick note about a new report that came out yesterday from Flurry Analytics which states that Christmas 2012 was a record day for mobile device activations. Apparently, more iOS and Android devices were activated on December 25 than any other day in...
  • China tightens the screws on public Inter ...
    China has approved new rules that require Internet users nationwide to provide real-name identification, state media reported on Friday, as the government increases its already tight online grip. The National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s legislature, adopted the measures at a meeti ...
  • Miley Cyrus: ‘I think I have obsessed wit ...
    It's no secret that Miley Cyrus is a dog lover and there is no doubt that she loves her dogs, but is she “obsessed” with dogs? Cyrus has three dogs, Mary Jane, Floyd and Happy. She has shared more photos of herself locking lips with them than photos of herself with future husband, The...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • An Email from Santa Claus to Climate Skeptics
    A few Christmases ago, I published this email from Santa, which arrived on the night before the night before Christmas. Readers had so much fun with it, it's become an annual tradition. Enjoy!
  • 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 ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Patriarchy, the Social Order and the Delhi Gan ...
    Prakash Kona The twenty-three year old victim of brutal gang-rape on a New Delhi bus finally succumbed in a Singapore hospital following a period of physical and mental devastation – a devastation that needs a different kind of imagination for it to be properly understood. The first thin ...
  • Netanyahu/Lieberman Coalition
    by Stephen Lendman On January 22, Israeli parliamentary elections will be held. Netanyahu/Lieberman's Likud/Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) looks likely to win. Both men are world class thugs. They represent the worst of ideological extremism. They're hardcore racists. They want uncha ...
  • OWS Activists Called Domestic Terrorists
    by Stephen Lendman US history is littered with repressive laws. Constitutional protections and civil liberties have been targeted. The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts restricted First Amendment freedoms. So did the 1917 Espionage Act, 1919 anti-communist Palmer raids, 1934 Special Committee ...
  • Piling on Syria
    by Stephen Lendman Western-recruited Islamofascist killers are US favorites. They committed mass murder and horrific atrocities since last year. Washington, other Western countries, and regional rogues arm, fund, train, direct, and encourage them. On December 21, Russia Today interviewed ...
  • Watch Human Right Watch – A Tribute to P ...
    By Gilad Atzmon This week we learned that Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expelled from its ranks top U.N. official Professor Richard Falk. The juicy details have been kindly supplied by Israeli Hasbara outlet UN Watch blog.“We commend Human Rights Watch and its director Kenneth Roth for do ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • The Lost History And Unintended Consequences O ...
    BY MARYN MCKENNA,wired.com – There are things in your life that are so ubiquitous, you never stop to consider them. Traffic signals. Magnets. For me, chicken nuggets. They seem to be everywhere: every fast-food chain, every kids’ menu, every supermarket freezer aisle. I don’t particularly ...
  • Cannabis Time Capsule: “Anti-symbol Hipp ...
    By William Breathes,blogs.westword.com/ – In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis in Colorado, we came across some amazing old news stories in local papers about marijuana arrests and more. We’ll share the most memorable of them in our quasi-regular feature, Colo ...
  • Femen’s Neocolonial Feminism Keeping You ...
    By: Sara M. Salem,english.al-akhbar.com/ - In November 2011, Egyptian blogger Alia al-Mahdi sent shockwaves through the online Middle Eastern community after she uploaded a naked picture of herself. Al-Mahdi claimed that she was challenging Egyptian patriarchal structures in general, and the neg ...
  • Bob Marley Week
    Musician of the Week: Bob Marley From thepatrioticvanguard.com - Nesta Robert Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981), more widely and commonly known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands ...
  • Facebook Panics: Reactivates Political Critics ...
    By Washington’s Blog,.globalresearch.ca - Outcry Leads Facebook to Back Off Away from Overt Censorship  (Operant Word Overt ) Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. But after we – and others – slam ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

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

big think

  • Study: Black and White Frame Spurs Black-and-W ...
    Trial lawyers who advise male defendants to dress in dark suits and white shirts might think twice about that notion after a look at this study, soon to appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The experimenters found that people asked to weigh moral dilemmas that were printed in ...
  • You Are One Step Closer to Eating GMO Salmon
    What's the Latest Development? The FDA have released preliminary documents declaring that genetically modified salmon are safe to eat and environmentally harmless. Now the public has 60 days, as of December 27, to comment on the publication before the FDA begins making its final decision ...
  • Scientists Capture Images of Viruses at the Na ...
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers at Virginia Tech have created a way to directly image biological structures, such as viruses, at nanometer-resolutions in their natural habitats. "The technique uses two silicon-nitride microchips with windows etched in their centers and pressin ...
  • How Exercise Made Humanity Smarter
    What's the Latest Development? Relative to other mammals, the size of the human brain is about three times larger than would be expected, given our body mass. A new theory is emerging which suggests that exercise may be to thank for that. Similar to humans, mammals like dogs and rats hav ...
  • 2013 Will Be the Year of Genetics and Brain-Co ...
    What's the Latest Development? Gene-based medical treatments are edging closer to reality as the cost of sequencing an entire person's genetic code nears the $1,000 mark. Once below that price, sequencing procedures will be considered ripe for public consumption. Still, there remains one ...

Information Liberation

  • Obsessed by Megalomania
    The following interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe first appeared in the German weekly Junge Freiheit on November 2, 2012, and was conducted by Moritz Schwarz. It has been translated here into English by Robert Groezinger. Are taxes nothing...
  • Female Trooper Who Pulled Over Speeding Cop Fe ...
    The female highway patrol trooper who made headlines for pulling over and arresting a speeding cop says she fears for her life as a result of stalking and harassment from fellow police officers. Via The Sun Sentinel: The Florida Highway Patrol tr...
  • Prosecution as Persecution: The Carol Asher Case
    "Hi, my name is Larry Wasden," explained the short, stocky man, flashing a politician's practiced smile and extending a hand. "I'm the Attorney General." "Mr. Wasden, my name is Will Grigg," I replied, shaking his hand. "Several years ago you trie...
  • A Politician's Promise
    The sure sign of a halfwit is someone who believes a politician's promise. They can be observed at candidate rallies with their faces beaming and their hands grasping tightly to a cardboard sign. In bars and restaurants they speak endlessly on how th...
  • EMT cleared in May Day clash claims SPD office ...
    A Seattle woman who lost her job and home after she was wrongly charged with attacking a police officer now claims officers lied in an effort to cover up excessive force during last spring's May Day demonstration. Maria Morales was among the fir...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

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

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • CKUT's Off the Hour: Montréal joins in on the ...
    The audio originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Tuesday, December 25th, 17h-18h. In Montréal, activists don’t tend to be idle for long. So it was surprising when, as the Idle No More movement spread across Canada, Québec stayed silent for almost two weeks. Finally, last Friday, De ...
  • Harsha Walia on Immigrants in Support of Idle ...
    Harsha Walia of the migrant justice group No One Is Illegal Vancouver speaks about the Immigrants In Support of Idle No More initiative, and touches on the links between migrant justice and indigenous sovereignty struggles, plus the upcoming border blockade actions set to take place on January 5 ...
  • Idle No More map: Events Spreading across Cana ...
    View interactive map below Spread through social media and fuelled by both the current and historic treatment of First Nation communities ...
  • IDLE NO MORE -VAG Dec 23 Vancouver Rally
    Please go to the youtube channel for many video from each Idle No More action here in Coast Salish Territories.     #IDLENOMORE Another large rally held on unced ...
  • Idle No More - Mi'kma'ki
    Highway slowdowns, mall round dances and seeking out potential allies. With speeches by Kevin Christmas and Emmett Peters ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The "cliff"
    David Seaton's News Links This is the perfect occasion to resurrect one of my favorite rants, that political paralysis in America is not a byproduct of ideological struggle but the principal objective of the billionaire front, that in the interest of economy I call, the "Tea-Fox-Koch-Murdoch-Bec ...
  • The Spanish Economic Crisis Explained
    David Seaton's News LinksIn case you are interested, this hour long documentary from the BBC gives a very workmanlike breakdown of how it all happened. Spain is the canary in the coal mine for the world's top economies, because of its large size and its fragility. The story carries lessons for e ...
  • The Sandy Hook school massacre
    David Seaton's News Links I have little to add to everything written about this horrible massacre. I find myself especially moved by the heroism of the school teachers that died trying to protect the children in their care. There should be a statue of them in Washington and a wreath laid at its ...
  • Global Civics: The ideas the Tea Party fears m ...
    David Seaton's News Links In my last post I wrote how the fear of a new wave of reform propelled by the problems and abuses arising from globalization.Global Civics is the idea-force that would make reform possible if it spread, not only possible, but inevitable. Any collective global action w ...
  • What the Tea Party billionaires are really afr ...
    David Seaton's News Links Before starting off on the Tea Party's craziness, I would like you to examine some images from two nearly identical tragedies that occurred over a hundred years and several thousand miles apart. Later in the post I hope to make a connection between these twin horrors an ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • More Guns, Fewer Deaths? Not So Fast.
    Doug Mataconis writes about California's drop in gun-related injuries over the past decade despite the fact that gun sales have nearly doubled during that time: There are several reasons that gun related deaths an injuries have fallen, of course, not the least of them being a nationwide dr ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 28 December 2012
    Here it is: your final bit of catblogging before we start our Cats & Quilts series in 2013. Marian got me a fisheye lens attachment for my iPhone for Christmas, so last night I experimented taking some distorted iPhone pictures of Domino that could be turned into a Christmas ornament image ...
  • The Year in Wonkitude
    Ezra Klein and the Wonkblog crew handed out their second annual Wonky awards today, "where we recognize outstanding achievements — and spectacular disasters — in policy wonkery." It's a surprisingly good list! By that, of course, I mean that I mostly agree with their picks, which i ...
  • Starbucks CEO Should Leave His Baristas Alone
    Paul Krugman, like a lot of liberals, is annoyed with Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks: By all accounts, he’s a good guy, with genuinely generous instincts. But in his message to employees, urging them to write “come together” on coffee cups, he gets the nature of the ...
  • Warrantless Wiretapping Approved Yet Again, Th ...
    I didn't watch yesterday's Senate debate over the reauthorization of the 2008 FISA Amendments, but my Twitter feed suggested that it was a grim affair. A few senators tried to introduce amendments that would have provided a tiny bit of oversight of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program&mda ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 370: Conscious Rapper Syndrome
    Topic: Kriss’ new tablet Teaching your kids about computers & technology early Kriss spills the secret about working in the computer field Django was awesome Black “Intellectuals” vs Tarantino Spike Lee & the “Conscious Rapper Syndrome” Kriss explains what ...
  • IC 369: Bulletproof Bookbags
    Topic: Kev’s job sucks Treating public servants horribly We are the problem No one really cares about mental health Twitter etiquette More guns won’t make you safer Gun control might be necessary but make a better argument Share with your friends:
  • IC 368: Disasterbation in the Face of Tragedy
    Topic: White people saying the N-word Thirst traps on Twitter Batman is an Impossible White Man Disasterbation & the Connecticut shooting Teasing a few Impossible White Man criteria Share with your friends:
  • IC 367: Losing Builds Character
    Topic: #InsanityCheck Kriss doesn’t care about starving kids in Africa The Internet is the home of the asshole Civilizing the Internet “Plot Holes” in the Dark Knight Rises Awesome week in trailers Losing a basketball game 107-2 Losing builds character Cuddling with no sex/Send ...
  • IC 366: Race is What They Asking Me
    Topic: Pac died in Vegas. Again Mayweather vs Pacquiao What is an Impossible White Man movie? Why Cory Booker’s stunt doesn’t help Sean Fury Guns don’t cause domestic violence Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Warming brings home the value of a meal
    Research into how climate change affects agriculture, and therefore the food we eat, shows the challenges farmers face and the knock-on costs to the rest of us.
  • 2012’s record events put climate in mind
    Wet summers and droughts, deadly storms, Arctic melting and Antarctic freezing. How do climate records in 2012 fit in with the broader picture of climate change?
  • Can we trust climate models?
    I’ve asked scientists I’ve spoken to for blog entries and articles published this year why we use models, how we know they’re accurate, and how to understand their projections.
  • CO2 casts off shackles to power up Atlantic hu ...
    Reductions in particulate pollution and increases in greenhouse gases are going to cooperate to give us more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic, finds NOAA’s Gabriel Vecchi
  • Space agencies pinpoint polar ice sheet damage
    Greenland and Antarctica lost over 4 trillion tonnes of ice from 1992-2011 - equivalent to 11 mm of sea level rise, the giant Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE) has shown by bringing together over 50 years’ worth of satellite data .

e!Science News

  • Groundbreaking air-cleaner saves polluting ind ...
    Industries across Europe are threatened with shutdown as European Union emission rules for Volatile Organic Compounds are tightened. Now an air cleaning invention from the University of Copenhagen has proven its ability to remove these compounds. And in the process they have helped a business in ...
  • An image gallery gift from NASA's Swift
    Of the three telescopes carried by NASA's Swift satellite, only one captures cosmic light at energies similar to those seen by the human eye. Although small by the standards of ground-based observatories, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) plays a critical role in rapidly pinpointing t ...
  • Kindness key to happiness and acceptance for c ...
    Children who make an effort to perform acts of kindness are happier and experience greater acceptance from their peers, suggests new research from the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Riverside. read more
  • Disease burden links ecology to economic growth
    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 between tropical and temperate countries. The burden of these d ...
  • Trying to halt hepatitis C's molecular hijacking
    Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have figured out intimate details of how the hepatitis C virus takes over an invaded cell, a breakthrough that could point to way for new treatments for the virus. read more

unEarthed

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

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Poor? Sick? Have Republican Governor? You&#821 ...
    I just don’t understand why the millions of uninsured Americans who can’t afford to see a doctor don’t demand care. They could surround every capitol building in every state with a Republican Terrorist Governor and demand health care. Millions upon millions of Americans are one ...
  • Are You Really A Republican? A Conservative?
    To be a Republican / Conservative these days, you must agree that the following is just fine: A small business owner who makes a fair living will pay taxes at a rate over 4 times as high as wealthy Americans. These small business owners pay both sides of wage withholding taxes soon to equal 15.3 ...
  • Time To Leave Republicans
    This is a great time to tell all of your friends you have left the Republican Party. I mean who would want to be a Republican these days. The facts are simple. Today’s Republican Party stands for nothing but greed, and evil. They don’t respect women, hate minorities, and seem to only ...
  • Today We Honor All Veterans
    No trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.
  • Tax Debate Time – Fiscal Cliff – T ...
    Just remember to start all conversations with the fact that the richest 200 families in America have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined. The Republicans will fight tooth and nail to keep these wealthy folks from being taxed more, even though they make most of the money, and own almost ev ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • To be a peace broker, U.S. must reasses its po ...
    The appointment of Senator John Kerry as the next U.S. Secretary of State could represent a new opportunity for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. But for efforts to be successful, the U.S. will have to reconsider its message that settlement construction is a matter of negotiation. By Loren ...
  • Netanyahu’s post-election coalition migh ...
    Netanyahu will continue to serve as prime minister after the upcoming elections, but putting together a governing coalition will have significant long-term implications. The headline result of the upcoming elections in Israel, as Noam Sheizaf has thoroughly documented, is not in doubt. Benjamin ...
  • +972 People of the Year: Bloggers’ picks
    Featured prominently in headlines from the region this year were hunger strikers, refugees, threats of war, actual war, demolitions and elections. +972 bloggers pick the people who, for them, defined 2012. Khader Adnan, Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker Although the hunger strike of Khader ...
  • Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah days away ...
    On December 31, as Americans celebrate New Year’s Eve and Israelis lift a glass to “Sylvester,” a Palestinian family will be evicted from their East Jerusalem home to make way for Jewish settlers. The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that the Shamasneh family must leave the house they have bee ...
  • Meretz’s peace plan: A challenge to libe ...
    The party’s new proposal effectively says the unsayable: that on the occupation, Israel is wrong and the Arabs are right. There so many people out there, in Israel and overseas, who know that this country has gone wrong and that Netanyahu and the right are leading it to hell. Yet they end ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • BOMBSHELL! Florida Judge Finds US Bank in Cont ...
    At some point in time (maybe) judges in courtrooms across this nation will stand up and start taking notice of the tyranny that is being perpetrated in courtrooms all across this country.  Good judges will take a look at the scales of justice and begin to shift the balance so that there is some ...
  • An EXCLUSIVE Discount Offer on Foreclosure Sem ...
    I will be presenting an exciting and information packed seminar which covers the latest topics in foreclosure defense nationwide. Use promo code FDMW50 for $50/off when you register. I will be distributing hundreds of pages of the latest motions, pleadings and discovery…..what you will fin ...
  • BOMBSHELL BANKRUPTCY ORDER! Must read for all ...
    1997, the Debtor has owned the Property, known as Sagamore, the Art Hotel, located at 1671 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. On or about March 24, 2006, the Debtor refinanced the Property with Arbor Commercial Mortgage, LLC, as evidenced by the Loan Documents, in the principal amount of $31, ...
  • What If (When) Just ONE of the Conspiracy Theo ...
    The internet is alive with conspiracy theories about everything.  Those long white streaks in the sky are not harmless water vapor contrails…they are part of a government and industry sponsored scientific experiment of unknown origin and goals.  The government was involved or aware in some ...
  • Don’t Believe Chemtrails Are Real? List ...
    This is quite disturbing….how much are they keeping from us? Army testing story This is an incredible video documentary….. What In The World Are They Spraying? Scridb filter

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The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Low energy prices with shale gas leading to sh ...
    High energy costs are emerging as an issue in Europe that is prompting debate, including questioning of the Continent’s clean energy initiatives. Over the next few years the lead that the US has developed over the rest of the world in the exploitation of shale gas will cause European companies t ...
  • Low energy prices with shale gas leading to sh ...
    High energy costs are emerging as an issue in Europe that is prompting debate, including questioning of the Continent’s clean energy initiatives. Over the next few years the lead that the US has developed over the rest of the world in the exploitation of shale gas will cause European companies t ...
  • Commonsense returns as Japan “reviews&#8 ...
    The alarmist, anti-nuclear hysteria after Fukushima seems to discount that it was the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami which killed around 18,000 people (15,878 dead with 2,713 missing). There may be some indirect deaths which can and will eventually be attributed to the nuclear plant acciden ...
  • Commonsense returns as Japan “reviews&#8 ...
    The alarmist, anti-nuclear hysteria after Fukushima seems to discount that it was the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami which killed around 18,000 people (15,878 dead with 2,713 missing). There may be some indirect deaths which can and will eventually be attributed to the nuclear plant acciden ...
  • The first 200 year old human has already been born
    How old would we like to be? Half of the children born in Sweden in 2012 will live to be 104 years old. It is quite likely that there is a child already born somewhere who will live to be more than 200 years old.

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Consumerist

  • FCC Makes Changes To Improve Availability Of I ...
    For more than a decade, the FCC has been approving individual applications from companies to provide in-flight Internet access. But this burdensome process will soon be cut in half thanks to new rules issued by the Commission. Until now, each company that wished to supply ESAA (Earth Stations Ab ...
  • NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg Blames Uptick In C ...
    At any given moment, the streets of New York City are like a veritable sea, teeming with fish (people) tempting thieves with their pockets full of shiny, new electronic gadgets. And that preponderance of highly-coveted technology, including Apple’s popular iPhones and iPads, is why the cit ...
  • Hyundai Testing Functionality That Would Let Y ...
    Don’t know about you, but if I’m going out somewhere, I often need to pad my schedule for the inevitable 3-minute hunt for either my keys and my phone (both of which were right here a second ago). Now the folks at Hyundai want to make it so people like me will only have to lose one d ...
  • JanSport Boasts Lifetime Warranty, Actually Me ...
    Did you have a Jansport backpack back when you were in school? Jason has had his for about 14 years, and it was looking pretty beat up. He decided to put the bags’ lifetime warranty to the test, so he packed it up in a pizza box (no, really) and sent it to Jansportland. What he got back wa ...
  • The End Of A Gaming Era: Sony Says The Last Pl ...
    As someone who can still remember the unbridled glee that greeted whichever new gaming system arrived  in our household of three brothers and one sister who wanted to be a part of it all, it just feels right to note the final journey of Sony’s Playstation 2. The company says the very last ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

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

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JoNova

  • The Age — “Sceptics Weather the St ...
    Cartoonist John Spooner gets away with saying in text what no one else has said before in The Age: that the skeptics are clawing their way ahead, and winning. The tide has shifted. Some excerpts: WELL, so much for the 2012 apocalypse. If the ancient Mayans ever knew anything about the future, th ...
  • Parncutt Death Threat: Uni of Graz “shoc ...
    Christopher Monckton and many other skeptics have been writing to Prof Richard Parncutt who had posted a dissertation telling us “logically” influential climate skeptics should be executed. (His words recorded at Webcite). Below, Monckton points out it is a hate-crime, and he will be ...
  • Full UnCut video now available – “ ...
    Thanks to Frank Brus, at least one camera is now on YouTube in full, with sound. Many thanks to other skeptics who volunteered with other helpful suggestions and ideas: to J.J., Ruth, Jim, and Raymond. Thanks to Steve for info about bit-torrent (at least we don’t have to go there this time ...
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    Best wishes Jo Rating: 10.0/10 (12 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (12 votes cast)
  • Death threats anyone? Austrian Prof: global wa ...
    Richard Parncutt Richard Parncutt,  Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria, reckons people like Watts, Tallbloke, Singer, Michaels, Monckton, McIntyre and me (there are too many to list) should be executed. He’s gone full barking mad, and though he says these are h ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • Where are the earthquakes? volcanoes? solar st ...
    It is almost ironic, and there’s a tiny part of me wondering if the ancient Maya predicted Dec 21, 2012 as the most un-eventful date to give us. Yes, there are some winter storms in the USA/Europe. But these aren’t exactly unexpected. What is unusual is the lack of: earthquakes - acc ...
  • Give It Another 6 Months (at least)
    When the darkest of days is suddenly thrust upon us and the crucible of tests is brought to bear on every soul; we will have no where to turn but to the light or to the course of our dark imaginings and to what we have erected upon the altar of our own human hearts and then, in those most solemn ...
  • Shifting To Our Safe Spot – For Good
    As if the End Of The World (and associated hullabaloo) wasn’t stressful enough, we are moving out of the city, to spend a couple of years (at least) at our safe spot. Just a few days from now. Yep, while juggling media appearances I was packing boxes. I wonder how this past week would rate ...
  • So… I Braved Live TV, After The World Didn’t End
    http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/1d3a3439-4e0e-3aab-99bb-90a7192c68d7/doomsdayers-bunker-down-from-embarrassment/ A few points: I phoned them prior and asked to cancel the interview – I had literally been up all night and wasn’t exactly on the ball – not surprising ...
  • Have Some Faith / Don’t Worry
    The key takeaway is this: After 5000 years the Mayans made a prediction. Arguably they were not as skilled as modern science. But that doesn’t invalidate their predictions, and after such a length of time, being a few days out is OK. “2012″ is a great excuse to prepare – ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Maharashtra govt retreats, won’t film New Year ...
    You can plan to let your hair down this New Year’s eve at pubs, restaurants and hotels because the government said on Saturday it will not film dos at venues that have taken the necessary permissions. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago
  • Gang rape victim's body flown home to grieving ...
    The body of a gang rape victim was being flown back to New Delhi on Sunday after her death from sickening injuries in a Singapore hospital triggered a mass outpouring of grief and anger in India. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago
  • 5.8-quake hits Pakistan
    Islamabad, Dec 30 (IANS) A 5.8-magnitude quake struck Pakistan Saturday night but there was no immediate report of damage or casualty, the Met officials said. The quake occurred around 11 p.m Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Global media focuses on 'alarming trend’ in India
    The brutal gang rape rape and death of Nirbhaya has mobilised saturated global media attention on the plight of women in India and the contradictions that co-exist in the emerging economic power. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
  • Distraught family hopes for better safety for ...
    According to those present in Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital, her parents and two brothers were distraught after the tragic news was broken to them, with her father repeatedly saying that he wanted some good to come out of her death. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago

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Oriental Review

  • Afghanistan Under U.S. Occupation
    There is nothing new in the opinion that has long been expressed regarding the similarity of the military action waged in Afghanistan, after the Soviet army entered the country on December 25, 1979, with the war waged by the U.S. Army in Vietnam. However this opinion leads us away from the truth ...
  • Syria Will Resist Even After Assad
    A Los-Angeles Times article begins with this sentence: “Now that a consensus is forming that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s days are numbered, diplomats and Middle East experts….” Aside from the psychological warfare value of mainstream Western media’s “days are numbered” mantra, this now hackn ...
  • Germany Rediscovers Its Imperialist Drive
    Has Germany finally gotten over its war guilt? It would seem so, with the imminent deployment of 400 Bundeswehr troops in Turkey to help install and operate NATO Patriot missile systems in that country. The historic move of German troops being sent to a foreign territory in full combat mode foll ...
  • For Whom the Syrian Bell Tolls
    The top geopolitical tragedy in 2012 is bound to remain the top geopolitical tragedy in 2013: the rape of Syria. Just as once in a while I go back to my favorite Hemingway passages, lately I’ve been going back to some footage I shot years ago of the Aleppo souk – the most extraordina ...
  • The Gold and “Judgement Day”
    It’s a long time US grassroots and Congress members started to doubt there was anything left in the US official gold storage, and even if there was, it had anything to do with gold. There has been a flow of world media publications in 2012 presenting irrefutable evidence the world market was flo ...

BlogHer

  • Setting Reading Goals for 2013
    With every new year I like to think back on my previous reading year and try to figure out what worked for me and what did not. Did I read all the books I wanted to read? Of course not, I never do. But how many of the books I read were ones I really wanted to read? Did I have a good reading year ...
  • I'm Sexy and I Know It
    Data Scientist - The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century? The Harvard Business Review (HBR) set off a fire storm of analysis when it published its article on The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.  Of course people flocked to the article because of the word “sexy” in the title, and who wouldn’t? ...
  • Delicious Appetizer Bites for Your New Year's ...
    A fabulous New Year's Party must include sumptuous appetizers. While I was assembling this collection to serve at a New Year's party, I kept in mind a couple of things: Your guests will be dressed too snazzy to get dirty, so no messy wings or cheesy dip. Heavy mingling will probably happen, ...
  • Feminine Style for Very Special Occasions
    Forget the gender wars and embrace your best feature: femininity. From the top of your head to the tip of your toes, get girled out -- because when you're all woman, your confidence soars and people will smell it a mile away. I'm dusting off my copy of The Bombshell Manual of Style for this one. ...
  • Dressing for the Office (Nursing Mom Style)
    [Editor's Note: Dressing for work (even business casual) can be a challenge for the nursing mother. Here's a personal look at how to work with style when you're back at work and still nursing. - Paula G] Working With Style {Nursing Mom Edition} I’m excited to share my first Working with Style! ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

  • The Best Business Growth Posts of 2012 | ...
    Top 10 Blog Posts of 2012 Founders, teach your employees statistics Your Startup’s Top 3 Priorities: Distribution, Monetization & Engagement Your Startup’s 10 Most Important Metrics All great managers are alike Six-step framework to make strategic decisions The trinity of product d ...
  • How to Find Lost Items
    The Twelve Principles My method is based on what I call the Twelve Principles—a set of precepts designed to lead you directly to any lost object. Like a bloodhound! The Twelve Principles are:  1. Don’t Look for It  2. It’s Not Lost—You Are  3. Remember the Three C’s ...
  • Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2012
    Yesterday we told you about the biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2012. But now we turn our attention to those developments that make us realize just how futuristic things are quickly becoming. And the past year provided no shortage of futureshock. We watched a cyborg compete at the Olympic Ga ...
  • Reading in 2013
    I’m going to read a considerable number of books in 2013. Like, 50. Related Posts:The 2013 BMW 5-Series Gets a Power BoostOne of the Worst Things You Can Say in 2013Time Spent Not Reading Books is Time WastedMen Don’t Read | The Rogue ColumnistWhy read books if we can’t remember wha ...
  • Node.js: Resolving ‘Cannot fiind module& ...
    Simple fix for a lot of node.js “Cannot find module” problems: First, install with the -g option which makes it available globally. npm install yourmodule -g Then link it. npm link yourmodule Then, in your code, just do: var thing = require(‘yourmodule’) ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • The Lost History And Unintended Consequences O ...
    BY MARYN MCKENNA,wired.com – There are things in your life that are so ubiquitous, you never stop to consider them. Traffic signals. Magnets. For me, chicken nuggets. They seem to be everywhere: every fast-food chain, every kids’ menu, every supermarket freezer aisle. I don’t particularly ...
  • Cannabis Time Capsule: “Anti-symbol Hipp ...
    By William Breathes,blogs.westword.com/ – In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis in Colorado, we came across some amazing old news stories in local papers about marijuana arrests and more. We’ll share the most memorable of them in our quasi-regular feature, Colo ...
  • Femen’s Neocolonial Feminism Keeping You ...
    By: Sara M. Salem,english.al-akhbar.com/ - In November 2011, Egyptian blogger Alia al-Mahdi sent shockwaves through the online Middle Eastern community after she uploaded a naked picture of herself. Al-Mahdi claimed that she was challenging Egyptian patriarchal structures in general, and the neg ...
  • Bob Marley Week
    Musician of the Week: Bob Marley From thepatrioticvanguard.com - Nesta Robert Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981), more widely and commonly known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands ...
  • Facebook Panics: Reactivates Political Critics ...
    By Washington’s Blog,.globalresearch.ca - Outcry Leads Facebook to Back Off Away from Overt Censorship  (Operant Word Overt ) Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. But after we – and others – slam ...

reference frame

  • Richard Dawkins vs Peter Higgs
    The reverse fundamentalist vs the peaceful atheist Two days ago, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, and other mostly British outlets amplified an amusing yet potentially serious battle between two famous scientists, Richard Dawkins and Peter Higgs: Battle of the professors: Richard Dawkins bra ...
  • Amplitudes, permutations, Grassmannians
    Back in July, I mentioned some new highly intriguing results by a group of physicists and mathematicians including Nima Arkani-Hamed and others: Permutations join twistor minirevolution That report echoed a talk at Strings 2012. Finally, the paper is out. One of the 263 figures in ...
  • Christmas rumor: \(105\GeV\) dimuon excess at ...
    I hope that the TRF readers are enjoying their Christmas, their Saturnalia, their Hanukkah, or at least their first days after the winter solstice (except for TRF readers in Islamic countries where all such pagan holidays are banned: those readers are wished to survive instead). We ha ...
  • Obama gives medal to Drell, Gates, Mazur
    I hate honors but this list is kind of interesting. Barack Obama gave the National Medal of Science to 12 scientists and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to 11 technologists and innovators: Obama names 23 scientists and innovators as medal winners (Cosmic Log) The scientists i ...
  • SciAm, firewalls, and deterioration of the phy ...
    Jennifer Ouellette wrote a nice piece on black hole firewalls for the Simons Foundation and for Scientific American: Black Hole Firewalls Confound Theoretical Physicists (via Synch). Well, more precisely, it's nice and informative if you assume that her task was to uncritically promote the v ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Atlantic Canadians brace for second winter wallop
    With another blast of winter weather headed for Atlantic Canada, people are being urged to prepare for a lot of snow throughout the Maritimes and wind gusts of up to 140 km/h in Newfoundland. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Canadian winter will ‘feel tougher’ this time ...
  • Do We Have a Golden Future in 2013?
    from silver investor.com: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Despite Choppiness, Gold To Have Massive Breakout In 2013 from KingWorldNews: With continued volatility in gold and silver, today... 2013 – Finan ...
  • Russia saying Cold War 2 now on.
    It looks as if we are heading for a conflict between Russia and NATO faster than I said it would, but now Russia are standing up to NATO really strong, see the link below. I really… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Russia and NATO relations frosty. It is ...
  • Senate leaders rush to assemble deal to avoid ...
    U.S. Senate leaders are trying to assemble a last-ditch agreement to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly delay steep spending cuts after weeks of post-election gridlock, a day after President Barack Obama pressed top lawmakers to cut a deal. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts ...
  • Mercy! Isn’t a Late Day Selloff Illegal?
    by Mike Shedlock, Global Economic Analysis: I hope you are as outraged as I am by this late-day stock market action. Since when is a late day selloff legal? And for an entire hour with six consecutive red candles! And in the month of December too! What happened to my Santa Rally? I demand a [... ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Our most-read stories in 2012
    It’s been another fast year in the news in Norway, and we published more than a thousand articles during the course of 2012. After browsing through our ever-growing archive, and compiling some traffic statistics, we’ve come up with what we thought was most interesting, and what attra ...
  • Norway still in knots over knitting
    Knitting has cast off its old-fashioned image to become as hot as, well, the warm garments it creates. Wool creations now grace the catwalks, Norwegian-style knitwear is trendy around the world and knitting books topped bestseller lists this Christmas. A younger, hipper crowd is casting on, and ...
  • Holiday images from Norway
    Norwegians’ dreams of a White Christmas came true over most of the country during the recent holiday period, and it became a bit extreme in some areas. We’ve compiled a few images to share the various moods as Norway headed into the New Year. It snowed during most of the main Christm ...
  • Dogs detect the scent of money
    In what may be a sign of Norway’s increasing affluence, Norwegian customs officials are now using dogs to sniff out cash smugglers. The dogs are specially trained to detect the scent of money, and are bringing in substantial revenues to Customs, as well as uncovering organized crime networ ...
  • Bjørgen ‘getting over’ heart ailment
    Norway’s national cross-country skiing coach has admitted that Marit Bjørgen, the champion skier who was hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat just before Christmas, was initially “crushed” by the news that she couldn’t compete in the Tour de Ski that begins this weeken ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Because I have so many things that I am doing, it is not possible for me to put this mini-book here in-full today, but I will work on it continuously through-out the day and will finish as soon as I can. Having to re-live all of this as it was happening really is amazing because it all began al ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    interesting how the MSM completely ignored this shooting: San Antonio Theater Shooting http://hardnoxandfriends.wordpress.com/ ... -shooting/ by Hardnox on December 28, 2012 On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the CT shooting, a man went to a restaurant in San Antonio to kill his X-g ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    okay, so here's the page of the september clues forum on the sandy hook show that had the photo: http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1521 Now, if you scroll down to the second post, there's a photo of a woman wearing a nametag "Alicia"--isn't that strange? Unless, maybe s ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Krag- thanks for the info on the lawsuit--not sure what to make of it yet, but it's VERY interesting, especially since I'm kind of leaning in the direction that this was staged or part of a drill. Can't help but wonder what the kid heard on the intercom. First thing that came to me was whether s ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Good luck and I hope your health improves with that regimen. I like Gandhi's concept and practice of "health" because he deals with the topic in a systemic and rigorous manner. His "Health Guide" is available online: http://www.scribd.com/doc/12790500/Guid ... tma-Gandhi ...

TVNZ

environment 360

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

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Landscaping the doors of perception in Japan
    Although the term zen-tei (Zen garden) exists in Japanese, its usage is a largely Western one, first coined by the American garden scholar Lorraine Kuck in the 1930s. In the work of designer Shunmyo Masuno, a fully ordained Buddhist priest, we encounter landscapes that endorse Daisetz T. Suzuki' ...
  • Mainali: 15 years in jail equals ¥68 million
    Govinda Prasad Mainali of Nepal, who was acquitted last month after wrongfully spending 15 years in jail for the 1997 murder of a Tokyo woman, is seeking some ¥68 million in compensation from the government for his time spent behind bars. Mainali, 46, who was freed and deported in June wh ...
  • Fenninger tops Maze in giant slalom
    Anna Fenninger of Austria had two near-perfect runs to win a World Cup giant slalom on Friday, while second-place Tina Maze of Slovenia extended her lead in the overall standings. In difficult conditions because of snowfall, Fenninger posted the fastest time in both runs on the Panorama course ...
  • Ex-England cricket captain Greig dies
    Flamboyant former England cricket captain and television commentator Tony Greig died Saturday at the age of 66 from a heart attack as he battled lung cancer. The South African-born Greig had only recently been diagnosed with cancer, and suffered cardiac arrest at his Sydney home, dying shortly ...
  • Is juggernaut Japan being driven to destructio ...
    Ryotaro Shiba, the great author of historical novels, was a student of Mongolian at Osaka University of Foreign Languages when, at the end of 1943, he was drafted into the army. Then aged 20, he received a "provisional graduation qualification" (the actual certificate was issued the following ye ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • BEE TALES
    … After we have allowed Mon$anto to KILL all the bees will we be satisfied … and what … hope there is new technology to perform the herculean task of the bees … Bee Tales   This is one more kick at this cat. The attempt to avoid the reality continues and will not end [...]
  • YES … GAME IS RIGGED
    … YES… the game of politics is rigged because we allow it to be … and only we can change that reality … Matt Damon gives up on politics…‘Game is rigged’ 12-28-2012  •  http://www.politico.com …  http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/125288-2012-12-28-matt-damon-gives-up- ...
  • LOW PRIORITY
    … Our one shared biosphere is a LOW priority because that’s the way “we” want it … but we have been educated to point and wag our finger and blame others … want answers … look in any mirror … EPA Chief to Step Down, With Climate Still Low Priority   John M. Broder, The [...]
  • IT’S ALL JAPAN’S FAULT
    … American hubris knows no equal what is Japan guilty of … purchasing American/GE mfr nuclear reactors … what Japan caused the tsunami which devastated their country … what Japan was unprepared for the force of this tsunami … Hey, just how prepared was the USA under “W” Bush when Hurricane Katri ...
  • NO LIMIT AS $$$ IS AN ILLUSION
    … Actually there is NO  limit as $$$ is an illusion …   U.S. will hit debt limit on Dec. 31, Treasury Department says 12-26-2012  •  Washington Post The U.S. government will hit the $16.4 trillion federal debt limit on Monday and turn to “extraordinary measures” to continue b ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Photos: the top new species discoveries in 2012
    Thousands of species were described for the first time by scientists in 2012. Some of these were 'cryptic species' that were identified after genetic analysis distinguished them from closely related species, while others were totally novel. Either way, here are some of the "new species" highligh ...
  • Our favorite nature photos of 2012
    In the course of reporting for Mongabay.com, I spent time in several countries in 2012, including Indonesia, Brazil, Madagascar, and Malaysia, among others. The following are some of my favorite nature pictures I took in the field. Overall I added more than 20,000 images to the site in 2012. For ...
  • Uncontacted tribes still exist, but extinction ...
    The world is more interconnected than ever. Globally, there are six billion cell phone subscribers and 900 million Facebook users. Nearly 32 million people follow Lady Gaga on Twitter. Given this content it may seem hard to believe that there remain people who have never had contact with the out ...
  • Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack o ...
    Ahead of the 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar a variety of reports warned that the world was running out of time to avoid dangerous climate change, and that there was a widening gap between what nations have pledged to do and what the science dem ...
  • Asia Pulp & Paper hires top U.S. lobbyist to h ...
    Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has hired a top U.S. official to help it work through trade and environmental issues. In November, APP announced it had retained Stuart Eizenstat of Covington & Burling, a U.S.-based law firm, to help 'ensure APP’s trade and sustainability ...

Science - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

  • Why the Vernon Herschberger raw milk case is i ...
    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “I’ve been devoting a considerable amount of time and energy to reporting on the sometimes tedious ins and outs of the upcoming trial of Vernon Hershberger. Why? What makes this case … Continue reading →
  • New Zealand farmers to sell raw milk
    From the Canadian Raw Milk Consumer Advocacy Group: “A total of 1685 submissions were received on the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI’s) discussion paper: Proposals for continuing to legally provide for farm gate sales of raw drinking milk (discussion paper). … Continue reading →
  • CFIA vs PEI fish scientist, over salmon
    From Denis Calnan in the Toronto Star: CHARLOTTETOWN—There’s something fishy going on in Prince Edward Island. A professor at Atlantic Veterinary College says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is trying to discredit his work after tests he conducted showed a … Continue reading →
  • DATCP vs Herschberger and his faith
    You’d think the Vernon Herschberger raw milk case was going to be the trial of the decade the way the prosecutors are pulling out all the stops to stack the deck in their favour with pre-trial maneuverings. But now a … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt conducts Handel’s Messia ...
    From the Thornhill performance of Handel’s Messiah: There was a capacity crowd at the Christian Community Church last Saturday Dec. 17th for the presentation of Handel’s Messiah, conducted by Michael Schmidt and presented by Symphony in the Barn. It was … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Obama Issues Executive Order Granting Pay Rais ...
    Congress has done such a beautiful job handling the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling that president Obama felt it mandatory to issue an Executive Order Giving Biden, Congress Pay Raises President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay freeze on federal employees, in effect givin ...
  • Mercy! Isn’t a Late Day Selloff Illegal?
    I hope you are as outraged as I am by this late-day stock market action. S&P 500 Futures 10-Minute Chart Since when is a late day selloff legal? And for an entire hour with six consecutive red candles! And in the month of December too! What happened to my Santa Rally? I ...
  • European PMI Retail Sales Collapse: Near-Recor ...
    Inquiring minds are noting the expected (at least in this corner) collapse in European retail sales as measured by PMI indices in Italy, France, and Germany, the three largest Eurozone economies. Earlier today I took a look at France. For details, please see France Economic Implosion Underw ...
  • Four Strikes Is An Out; Obama Proposes Last Mi ...
    The one thing I am always afraid of in budget negotiations is that virtually nothing is done, or worse yet, something counterproductive is done. Obama's latest Fiscal Cliff "Mini-Deal" Proposal is exactly the kind of counterproductive nonsense I am talking about. Assuming the above Atl ...
  • France Economic Implosion Underway; French Ret ...
    Inquiring minds are noting the expected (at least in this corner) collapse in European retail sales as measured by PMI indices. The spotlight for this post is France, the second largest Eurozone economy following Germany. The Markit France Retail PMI® shows French retail sales fall for ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Bob Dylan – “All Along The Watch Tower” For the last Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick for 2012, we have Bob Dylan performing his All Along the Watchtower. The song first appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding. Covered by many, the only other version of the song that’s close ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • MV Aiviq Breaks Down in Alaska While Towing Sh ...
    The USCG said Friday that it is coordinating a response with Royal Dutch Shell representatives after the company’s brand new $200 million AHTS, the MV Aiviq, experienced multiple engine failures [...]
  • USACE Fighting to Keep Mississippi River Open
    The drought-hit Mississippi River will stay open to commerce a few days longer than expected following the release of water from a lake in southern Illinois, a group of shippers [...]
  • Oasis Order Provides a Welcomed Jolt to French ...
    By Mimosa Spencer and Nadya Masidlover PARIS–A contract worth more than 1 billion euros (1.33 billion dollars) to build a 5,400-passenger cruise ship for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) won [...]
  • Top 10 Incident Photos of 2012
    2012 was a crazy year with a lot of incident photos. Here are gCaptain’s picks for Top 10 Maritime Incident Photos of 2012: 1. Costa Concordia 2. MV Rena Breaks [...]
  • Port Strike on HOLD: Dockworkers and Employers ...
    By Brooke Sutherland Dockworkers and their employers reached a tentative agreement on royalty payments, averting a strike that would have shut down eastern U.S. ports for the first time in [...]

Press TV

  • Bonacic signs contract to coach Mes
    Croatian coach Luka Bonacic has signed a contract to return to the pitches of Iran to steer the Mes football team in the Iranian Professional League (IPL).
  • Britain to close consulate in Basra
    The UK’s consulate in southern Iraqi port city of Basra will close its offices soon as part of the coalition government’s austerity drive to reduce spending, local media reported.
  • Taliban kills 21 Pakistani troops
    Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants have killed 21 Pakistani paramilitary troops who were kidnapped on Thursday in northwestern Pakistan, officials say.
  • US terror drone kills 3 in central Yemen
    A US assassination drone attack has killed three people in Yemen’s al-Bayda’ province as Washington continues its assassination operations overseas.
  • Britain's internal politics roundup 2012
    The year 2012 was marked by growing difficulties between the ruling coalition in the UK, two years after they came to power in a general election that produced a hung parliament in May 2010.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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