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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.

Monday, December 31, 2012

31 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Cairo sunset
Cairo sunset (Photo credit: selva)
Kamakhaya Temple, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Kamakhaya Temple, Guwahati, Assam, India. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Demonstration in support of the 'Free Gaza' fl...
Demonstration in support of the 'Free Gaza' flotilla (Photo credit: http://edo.medicks.net)

FRS

  • Hundreds Of Indigenous Women And Girls Were Mu ...
    By Farooque Chowdhury, Countercurrents.org 30 October, 2012 Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada . To many, it’s a baffling fact. Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. In Greece , migrants an ...
  • Philippines: Revolutionary forces making gain ...
    A victorious decade of People’s War in Mindanao Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris), Spokesperson, NDF-Mindanao December 26, 2012Together with all revolutionaries and the the people of Mindanao and the entire nation, the NDFP-Mindanao wishes to express its warmest congratulations and highest tribute to ...
  • Update on Tracking Police Murders: Every 36 Ho ...
    This episode of  Critical Insight we were joined by Kali Akuno of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement to discuss their 2012 report detailing the fact that every 36 hours (at least) a Black person is extra-judiciously executed by “Law Enforcement” within the United States. Please watch ...
  • India tea workers burn boss to death in Assam ...
    27 December 2012By Subir Bhaumik, BBC News,  Calcutta [Half of India's tea output comes from Assam's 800-odd tea estates] Hundreds of tea plantation workers have set alight their boss’s bungalow in north-east India, burning to death the owner and his wife, officials say. Angry workers surr ...
  • India tea workers burn boss to death in Assam ...
    27 December 2012By Subir Bhaumik, BBC News,  Calcutta [Half of India's tea output comes from Assam's 800-odd tea estates] Hundreds of tea plantation workers have set alight their boss’s bungalow in north-east India, burning to death the owner and his wife, officials say. Angry workers surr ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Norman Schwarzkopf: The Architect of America’s ...
    Norman Schwarzkopf, who died at the age of 78 from complications of pneumonia, was the architect of America’s greatest military victory since the end of the Second World War. But the aftermath of the Gulf War was messy, to say the least.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Dec 28, 2012
  • No Apocalypse Yet, but If the NRA Gets Its Way ...
    The NRA weighed in on the Sandy Hook school shooting, and the big answer? Aw, you guessed it. More guns. We don't need the Maya to bring about the end of the world, we're doing just fine on our own.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Dec 21, 2012
  • Fiscal Cliff 'Plan B' Bill Collapse Shows Inco ...
    House Speaker John Boehner’s attempt to appear “reasonable” in the face of President Obama’s intransigence over the fiscal cliff negotiations has ended in defeat and ignominy. He has handed Obama a political victory and the American people a tax increase.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: ...
  • Scott Brown's Defection on Assault Weapon Ban ...
    Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican who failed to win re-election, has come out against assault weapons and indicated that he supports a ban on such firearms. While Brown won't be around to vote on any such ban, his voice is valuable and courageous.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Dec 20, 2012
  • Rice Shows Maturity, Professionalism in Steppi ...
    Embattled UN Ambassador withdraws from Secretary of State consideration, saying that the battle for confirmation isn't worth it for the country.Contributor: Susan Graybeal Published: Dec 13, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Giant Panda Genome Holds Recipe For Powerful A ...
    Scientists have found the code for a powerful antibiotic within the giant panda genome, according to a story in the Telegraph. Pandas' immune systems naturally produce the small anti-bacterial protein, but their critically low numbers and almost invariable failure to breed in captivity rule the ...
  • How The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Made Kids Fat
    Kids in Fukushima are now the most overweight in Japan. Here's why. After a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011, causing major meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, local schools restricted outdoor activities and parents (understandably) want ...
  • Does Pot Use Cause Psychosis, Or Does Psychosi ...
    Reefer madness! Pot causes psychosis! Except maybe not. The link between teenagers smoking pot and psychosis is ripe for a correlation-causation debacle. Studies have indicated there's a relationship between psychotic symptoms and above-average marijuana use, but the reasons behind that correl ...
  • FYI: Why Do We Crave Greasy Food When We’re Hu ...
    In part, we’re really just going back to our caveman roots. The desire to eat high-fat foods after drinking too much is rooted in human’s earliest, humblest beginnings, some scientists say. “All mammals gravitate to eating the most energy-dense foods," David Levitsky, professor of human ecolog ...
  • Our Favorite Science Infographics Of 2012
    A roundup of the data visualizations and illustrations that best conveyed the year in science As an increasingly connected world generates ever-more data sets, and the tools to examine and analyze those data sets become easier to use, the fields of data visualization and illustration (called i ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Islamic EconFundamentalism: Egypt's FX Rationing
    Is sound money management a normative activity? I would tend to think so since depreciation, inflation and so on tend to have widespread negative effects on the population's well-being. However, it comes as no real surprise that the Egyptian central bank has taken what are arguably steps on the ...
  • Back in America: Is "Reshoring" Overblown?
    There's an interesting feature over at The Atlantic on how more American manufacturers are moving back to the United States since expected savings from moving more production to the likes of China didn't materialize. To be sure, the world economy has also changed since the offshore fad peaked (s ...
  • The Argentine Isolationist Grinch Who Stole Xmas
    In addition to cooking the books, Argentina appears stuck in an import substitution industrialization [ISI] time warp. I sure would love to sell bell-bottom pants there for the full retro flavour, but they are of course throwing impediments to all sorts of imports. As the blog's subtitle goes, I ...
  • South Korea as the Catholic Church's Asian Tiger
    Long lay the world in sin and error pining... The Roman Catholic Church is savvy enough to know that its game is for the most part up in Western Europe. Lip service to a "Catholic revival" in that part of the world aside, we all know a declining market when we see one. Its resources are not re ...
  • History Repeats Itself: Greek Crises 1832-1897
    Just as some folks spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E, certain nations have the reputation for it going a looooong way back. For a blog purporting to be the IPE Zone, you may have noticed that I have had very few posts on the EU project as of late and the myriad crises on its periphery. Honestly, I tired of th ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Happy New Year Middle Class: The Fiscal Cliff ...
    The middle class has quite a gift welcoming them as the calendar flips over to 2013.  Their payroll taxes are going to go up, their income taxes are going to go up, and approximately 28 million households are going to be hit with a huge, unexpected AMT tax bill on their 2012 earnings.  So happy ...
  • 16 Things About 2013 That Are Really Going To ...
    The beginning of the year has traditionally been a time of optimism when we all look forward to the exciting things that are going to happen over the next 12 months.  Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of things about 2013 that we already know are going to stink.  Taxes are going to go up, [...]
  • Government Dependents Outnumber Those With Pri ...
    America is rapidly becoming a nation of takers.  An increasing number of Americans expect the government to take care of them from the cradle to the grave, and they expect the government to dig into the pockets of others in order to pay for it all.  This philosophy can be very seductive, but wha ...
  • Say Goodbye To The Good Life
    Will this be the last normal holiday season that Americans ever experience?  To many Americans, such a notion would be absolutely inconceivable.  After all, in the affluent areas of the country restaurants and malls are absolutely packed.  Beautiful holiday decorations are seemingly everywhere t ...
  • Agenda 21 Is Being Rammed Down The Throats Of ...
    Have you ever heard of Agenda 21?  If not, don't feel bad, because most Americans haven't.  It is essentially a blueprint for a "sustainable world" that was introduced at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.  Since then, it has been adopted by more ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Obama signs law countering Iranian sway in Lat ...
    US President Barack Obama enacted a law on Friday targeting Iran’s alleged influence in Latin America. This comes as Washington already wages a “covert war” against Iran, according to researcher Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich. The act also calls on the Department of Homeland Security to bolster s ...
  • Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret ...
    A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [photo 2nd right] was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed ne ...
  • US Senate to Ban Hundreds of Semiautomatic Rif ...
    For anyone who may have thought Senator Feinstein and her colleagues in Congress were bluffing about coming firearms legislation that would restrict the sale, transfer and possession of certain firearms, think again. A summary of the proposed legislation has been made available, and it’s a whopp ...
  • US, Russia plunging into new Cold War
    Tit-for-tat moves between Russia and the US are plunging the two nations into a new Cold War, says Russia expert Stephen Cohen. Washington’s longtime policy towards Moscow is to blame for the growing tensions. The ‘reset’ in relations between the United States and Russia is dead, as the Obama ad ...
  • Most Britons Disagree with Foreign Aid – poll
    A new poll has found that only one in four people Britons support the coalition government’s international aid policy, with over 60 percent believing the money is being wasted, local media reported. The survey commissioned by Ipsos-Mori found that only 6 percent of people strongly disagreed with ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Papists protect child rapists
    Papists protect rapists  by Voiceless Victim Papists protect their child rapists but won’t protect kids – like me. Papists pretend. What rapists? Who cares what those lies do to me. Papists revere holy rapists but won’t even listen to me Papists stand up for their rapists the o ...
  • Untruth, Injustice and Denial of Healing Council
    One month after the announcement by the Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, of a national Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions, the Catholic Church in Australia announced its own body. The so-called Truth, Justice and Healing Council. Sounds like i ...
  • First Christmas in a country that gives a damn ...
    This year is the first Christmas that Australian victims of clergy child sexual abuse live in a country that no longer ignores our suffering, that recognises that what was done to us constitutes serious crimes that deserve investigation, and intends to do something about it. We are yet to see wh ...
  • Church Officials Still Investigating Their Own ...
    The Australian Catholic Church has announced it has received but is yet to release the report of its internal investigation into the role of three senior church officials in the coverup of child sexual abuse by the priest known only as Father F. The report, prepared by former Federal Court judge ...
  • Who is the victim here?
    The arrogant, entitled prince of a wealthy, influential monarchical religious institution which considers itself, and is treated, as above the laws of the land or The damaged, impoverished, abandoned child victims of serial rapists, whose suffering has been dismissed and whose pleas for help hav ...

WL Central

  • 2012-12-28 Julian Assange essay wins "Russian ...
    This month, Russian Pioneer magazine reportedly awarded WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange the "Grand Prix" in the publication's second annual literary competition. Assange received the prize for his essay "Washington vs. Mankind" Winners were said to receive bicycles and bottles of cogna ...
  • 2012-12-28 Assange leads in online vote for Pe ...
    Julian Assange is currently the lead contender in an online voting contest for the Pericles Prize. Votes for the WikiLeaks leader and others have been cast in answer to the question "Who of all politicians was most sincere in his fight for social progress in 2012?" In the "Global" category, Assa ...
  • 2012-12-26 More pro-WikiLeaks Swedish organiza ...
    On Monday Torrent Freak reported that, after three years of service to the organization, PayPal has frozen the funds of PRQ, an ISP founded by The Pirate Bay’s Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm. Earlier this month, sources also reported the suspension of the Twitter account of Anonymous Sweden ...
  • 2012-12-24 Several WikiLeaks movies in product ...
    Following on the heels of Underground: The Julian Assange Story - a 2012 biopic on the WikiLeaks founder's teen years - several major Hollywood studios are in various stages of planning or producing feature films about Assange and his organization. One full-length feature, tentatively titled The ...
  • 2012-12-22 Swedish military reportedly shuts d ...
    Earlier this month, the pro-WikiLeaks Swedish transparency websites Under Mattan and Corruptio were shut down by their web host, allegedly at the request of Sweden's armed forces. Without prior warning or explanation, the ISP Blog.com pulled the plug on Under Mattan (translation: "Under the Rug ...

U N News

  • Renowned US doctor appointed to support UN eff ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed renowned United States physician Paul Farmer to help galvanize support to eliminate cholera in Haiti, where the disease has already claimed over 7,750 lives.
  • Secretary-General returns to renovated, eco-fr ...
    Returning to his usual office for the first time since the United Nations Headquarters' major restoration project began almost five years ago, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed excitement for the "historic" and eco-friendly renovations which have revamped the 60-year old Secretariat ...
  • Ban expresses deepest condolences to Connectic ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to the Governor of Connecticut in the United States to express his deepest condolences at the murders which took place on Friday at an elementary school there, according to his spokesperson.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into deat ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called for an investigation into the death of a Colombian journalist who died of injuries sustained while in custody.
  • Young Colombian woman named first winner of UN ...
    A 25-year-old Colombian woman has been selected as the winner of an inaugural United Nations prize recognizing contributions to social science research.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • If You Are On This List You May Be In Grave Da ...
    Over the weekend a mainstream media web site on the east coast published, presumably in the interest of public safety, a complete list of individuals and businesses that are licensed to carry or own handguns. ~ Mac Salvo read more
  • 10 Predictions for 2013
    This past year, 2012, was an eventful year. We had another Olympics, a U.S. presidential election, the warmest year on record, and lived through the Mayan apocalypse... read more
  • 'Deceased' Emilie Parker With Obama?... You De ...
    Illuminati hiding in plain sight? Is this the same girl wearing the same dress? Or is it her sister (between parents) already wearing the dress of the deceased? Obama and the children seem pretty cheerful considering Emilie was supposedly brutally murdered days before... Henry Makow - Video r ...
  • Designer Snow Storms... Geoengineered Snow Sto ...
    Many of the snow events occurring around the US, even at this time of year, are amazingly still occurring at above freezing temperatures. Some are at temperatures of 10 degrees or more above freezing. How is this possible? ~ Dane Wigington read more
  • The 5 Powerful Psychological Triggers Your Doc ...
    If you’ve ever been in a doctor’s office with a child, you know what I mean. Doctors are well known for applying psychological pressure to parents questioning vaccines. Maybe you’ve experienced this pressure? Here are five psychological triggers doctors use against you, the parent, and some o ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Stress and Survival
    STRESS Stress is defined simply as ‘reaction to pressure’. Unexpected or unanticipated events, or overload situations that develop can put a strain on our ability to cope and make us feel out of control. It is this feeling of not being in charge of a particular situation that we label as stress. ...
  • Wind Chill Frostbite Chart
    What is Wind Chill Temperature? It is the temperature it “feels like” outside and is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin caused by the effects of wind and cold. As the wind increases, the body is cooled at a faster rate causing the skin temperature to drop. Wind Chill does not [...]
  • COLD Weather Survival: Clothing, Dry, Layers
    One of the most difficult survival situations is a cold weather scenario. Every time you venture into the cold, you are pitting yourself against the elements. With a little knowledge of the environment, proper plans, and appropriate equipment, you can overcome the elements. As you remove one or ...
  • Sunrise Sunset
    The following tools are for finding sunrise-sunset time and direction, and hours of daylight, all based on a geographical location latitude-longitude and date-time of year. Knowing this information (or where to find it) can prove very useful for many different applications. I hope that some of y ...
  • The Attempt To Disarm The American
    Given the rapid move by the government to disarm Americans, SENATE TO GO FOR HANDGUNS… FEINSTEIN BILL WILL REQUIRE ‘GRANDFATHERED WEAPONS BE REGISTERED’; CALLS FOR OWNERS TO BE FINGERPRINTED… The following guest post by Chris Parrett is timely and relevant to the question ...

Fast Company

  • An Ingenious Kids’ Seat That Encourages Intera ...
    Tokyo-based h220430” designed the Owl Chair with a little help from a class full of kindergartners. When Tokyo-based design firm h220430” was commissioned by a Japanese kindergarten to come up with a chair for its tiny students, director Satoshi Itasaka wanted to make a playful ...
  • New Levels: Where The Internet Meets Pop Art
    John Chae creates spectacular works that straddle art history and millennial meme, but even he has no idea what to call them. I see Escher. Isometrics. Cubism. Anime. Pop art. I see the Internet and I see art history. I see videogames and I see why “videogames” makes such a vap ...
  • Moovit Wants To Fix Your Nightmare Commute
    Most public transit apps can tell you where and when a bus or train should arrive. Moovit wants to become the Waze of transit: crowd-sourced, real-time data on the best routes. It’s 5:30 p.m. on a Saturday in midtown Manhattan. You’re a dozen blocks away from dinner, and while ...
  • Using Digital Fab, Harvard Rebuilds A Piece Of ...
    Scientists at the Semitic Museum are using a CNC router to re-create a statue destroyed 3,000 years ago. When the Assyrians sacked the ancient Iraqi city of Nuzi (near modern-day Kirkuk), they did what all good invaders do: smashed temples, burned houses, and ruined great works of art. Mor ...
  • The Top Dogs Of 2012: The Best In Canine Creat ...
    From driving cars to being shamed, dogs had their day in 2012. While recognizing that in life, you see what you want to see, even the dog fans among us couldn’t escape the fact that 2012 was the year of the canine in advertising and pop culture in general. Cats may be the once and fo ...

Jadaliyya

  • Tadween Publishing Roundup: News and Analysis ...
    [The following is a roundup of the latest news and analyses from the publishing world that relates to pedagogy and knowledge production. It was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more updates, follow Tadween Publishing on Facebook& ...
  • Revolution’s Cost
    He told me to get off at the last kiosk on the highway that connects East with West Cairo. After the driver dropped me off, there was no one to be seen in the area. I walked down the concrete stairs by the side of the road. The stairs led me into the pit of this neighborhood named after a villag ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (December 31)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing: Israeli Settlers to ...
    On Monday 31 December 2012, Israeli forces will evict the Shamasneh family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah. The family of ten, including six children, have  lived in the home since 1963. Ayoub Shamasneh, the family elder, recently appealed to the international solidarity community to stand ...
  • Supporting Rula Quawas and Academic Freedom: A ...
    On 2 September 2012, Professor Rula Quawas was removed from her position as the Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Jordan under nebulous circumstances. In a letter addressed to the president of the university, the president of the Middle East Studies Associat ...

mediagazer

  • Netflix Is Down: Company Says Only DVD Website ...
    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Netflix Is Down: Company Says Only DVD Website Affected  —  Following its lengthy Christmas Eve outage, Netflix has again gone down today, according to a message posted on the Netflix website, dozens of reports from users on Twitter, and other third-par ...
  • Tribune Co. names News Corp-heavy board amid r ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: Tribune Co. names News Corp-heavy board amid rumors of Murdoch buy  —  The Tribune Company has emerged from bankruptcy and named a new board of directors heavy on Hollywood-based News Corp types, fuelling speculation that Rupert Murdoch is moving closer t ...
  • Times Reporter in China Is Forced to Leave Ove ...
    New York Times: Times Reporter in China Is Forced to Leave Over Visa Issue  —  BEIJING — A correspondent for The New York Times was forced to leave mainland China on Monday after the authorities declined to issue him a visa for 2013 by year's end.  —  Chris ...
  • 'Journal News' advertisers face boycott over g ...
    Mackenzie Weinger / Politico: ‘Journal News’ advertisers face boycott over gun map  —  The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association is calling for a nationwide boycott of the advertisers of the suburban New York newspaper that published online maps revealing nam ...
  • China expels journalist after Wen revelations ...
    John Garnaut / Sydney Morning Herald: China expels journalist after Wen revelations  —  John Garnaut is The Age and Sydney Morning Herald's China correspondent.  —  AN AUSTRALIAN journalist with The New York Times has been expelled from China in an apparent act o ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Arsenal contract rebel Walcott excited about S ...
    The 23-year-old forward has been in superb form of late in a more central striking position, and admits he is looking forward to the upcoming game against his former...
  • Benefits of Ragi
    Millet or Ragi as commonly known is regularly used in the South kitchens. It's in fact the staple diet in many villages across South India. People down South draw their strength heavily through consumption of Ragi...
  • Gooseberries for good health
    India offers a great deal of native fruits. One among them is the gooseberry. Popularly used for pickles, this fruit has many...
  • Benefits of cumin seeds
    Cumin seeds not only add taste to food but also are very beneficial for body. Also known as jeera, these cumin seeds have been extensively used in culinary preparations in the Indian subcontinent since ages. -...
  • Are you getting enough fruits?
    Fruits are delicious, juicy, fun to eat and healthy ingredients for great desserts; but are you getting enough fruits in your daily diet? We use a lot of skin care products that boast of properties and vitamins from fruits, but why do we still select creams over natural fruits? Let's take...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 12/31/12 - Should the United States return to ...
    www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States return to a gold standard? - Proponents of the gold standard argue it provides long-term economic stability and growth, prevents inflation, and would reduce the size of government. Opponents argue a gold standard would creat ...
  • 12/31/12 - Critical Thinking Video Series #2: Milk
    www.procon.org - – Critical Thinking Video Series #2: Milk – Does milk help to build strong bones, or does it weaken them? Does it help you lose weight, or make you fat? Does it reduce cancer risk, or increase it? Does milk contain pus, or is that a myth? Explore both sides of the milk debate in ...
  • 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
    www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restricti ...
  • 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
    www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restricti ...
  • 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
    www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restrictions ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Rochelle Macredie on the Sandy Hook massacre - ...
    My guest tonight is Rochelle Macredie, LLB, BSc, who joins us to expose discrepencies, anomalies and disinformation in the coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Rochelle's incisive intellect dissects many confusing strands of this story in an attempt to penetrate through the propaganda t ...
  • Restore Australia! - Part 1
    On today's show in the second hour we welcome Mike Holt of Restore Australia. Restore Australia’s goal is to amend Section 128 of our Constitution to give all Australian voters, as well as the Parliament, the right to initiate a referendum to amend the Constitution. Why should we do th ...
  • Australia - the new capital of the New World O ...
    Today I'm joined in studio by Damon Crowe for a general discussion about the quality of life in Australia and the way in which our society has been swallowed up by the forces of international homogenisation and enslavement. We look at the cost of living, sky rocketing property prices, and the ...
  • Radiation expert Don Maisch on the health risk ...
    Today we are joined in the first hour by Dr. Don Maisch, the founder of EMFacts Consultancy, which has produced a wide range of reports and papers dealing with various health issues related to human exposure to electromagnetic radiation. From the website: This website was established in 1 ...
  • Interview with Hanadi Assoud
      SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-14", width: 550, height: 400 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://www.truthnews.com.au/slideshowpro/images.php?album=14" } }); ...

Beacon

  • 2012 in Review: Oceana's Top Five Victories
    Sharks, like this great white, won several major victories in 2012. Source: Wikimedia Commons   As 2013 rapidly approaches, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year at Oceana. Thanks to your support, we were able to achieve more than a dozen major victories for the oceans ...
  • Chile Becomes First Country in World to Protec ...
    Coral formations in Juan Fernandez archipelago lie among Chilean seamounts As you enjoy those last holiday cookies before the New Year comes with its resolutions, we’d love to share one final present for you to enjoy: we are thrilled to announce that last week, the country of Chile became the ...
  • Harvard Dining Services Dishes Up Sustainable ...
    Sustainable Prince Edward Island mussels make a delicious dish for hungry men and women of Harvard. Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer for Harvard Gazette It looks like r’s aren’t the only things getting dropped at Harvard: Over the last few years, Harvard University Dining Service ...
  • NYC Seafood Fraud Report Making Waves
    What's on your plate? Source: wikimedia commons Spurred by Oceana’s seafood fraud report for New York City released last week, Sunday’s New York Times took a broader look at the widespread practice of food mislabeling. Oceana’s initial report, which was also covered in the Times, included a ...
  • French Polynesia and the Cook Islands Create W ...
    A sicklefin lemon shark breathes a little easier in the shark sanctuary of French Polynesia. Source: Wikimedia Commons With as many as a third of all shark species in the world facing some threat of extinction, the future of sharks has been in peril for some time now. This month, however, Fre ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Predicting the Future with President Obama, Ha ...
    “…cutting programs that are really important to seniors, students and so forth. That has to be part of the mix…” – President Barack Obama [on Meet the Press] AND THERE it is, close to the same thing floated in the summer of 2011 made explicit at the end of 2012. Eve ...
  • Goodbye to All That
    SANDY TAUGHT us a lot this year, that is if you didn’t already get the problem. Lesson one: climate change is real. But what will be done on climate change is not encouraging, if past is indeed prologue. President Obama has another chance in his second term. Few allies exist in the right-w ...
  • News Desk: Secretary Hillary Clinton Hospitali ...
    THE REPORT comes from the Associated Press: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. Clinton’s doctors discovered the clot Sunday while performing ...
  • Why President Obama and Democrats Shouldn’t Be ...
    Everyone is confused about the Fiscal Cliffhanger. Obama is struggling to make a deal to prolong most of the Bush-era tax cuts. The Republicans are holding back. Yet if a deal is reached, the federal government and the long-term purpose of the Democratic Party are both likely to be ruined for ye ...
  • A Personal Thanks to Subscribers and the Impor ...
    ALL THE donations investing in the work here at TM make a difference. New media ventures are kept alive through the people who invest in this brave new world of writing and journalism, which began percolating in the mid ’90s. I’m proud to say I was one of the few and one of the first ...

Hudson New York

  • What Do Abbas's Latest Threats Really Mean?
    Mahmoud Abbas has once again threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority which he heads in the West Bank. This time he chose to make his new old threat in an interview with the daily Haaretz. "If there is no progress [in the peace process] even
  • The "IgNobel" Policy of the European Union on ...
    Although the Nobel Prize for Peace, which was awarded to the European Union, the economic and political amalgamation of 27 European states, on December 10, 2012, can be proud of some of its successes -- peace has certainly been kept after centuries of
  • Israel Redefines Victory in the New Middle East
    Israel is redefining its concept of military victory in a Middle East dominated by terrorist organizations turned quasi-state actors. Once, decisive, unmistakable victories, accompanied by conquests of territory that had been used to stage attacks
  • Egyptian Cleric Threatens Egypt's Copts with G ...
    Islamic leaders continue to portray the popular protests against President Morsi and his recently passed Sharia-heavy constitution as products of Egypt's Christians. Recently, Muslim Brotherhood leader Safwat Hegazy said in an open rally, as captured on
  • How to Use American Influence
    Colonial powers – France, Britain, Belgium and Russia, in particular – believed there was no substitute for their own armies and officials to ensure that their colonies stayed in line. Instead of colonial occupation forces, the U.S. takes its money,

Urban Survival

  • The Cliff: Principles or Conspiracy?
    Depending on where you clicked on the web, or emails, this weekend, there seem to be two predominate theories of what’s going on with the nation’s “fiscal cliff.”  One school of thought figures the cliff is part of a huge … Continue reading →
  • Coping: "Jottled" by Ivan of WuJo
    As we wrap up 2012 with our last WuJo notes, this one from reader Ivan is just too good not to share:   “Hi  George,   In case you haven’t come across this study in England of Wu events, you might … Continue reading →
  • Markets: Limbo at De Nile
    Back to the shores of that mighty river than runs through society with prodigous currents and subtle eddies as we note the Dow lost only 18 points and change yesterday but seems set this morning to drop about 70- at … Continue reading →
  • Coping: A New Crazy Theory
    A week or so back, I told you that I would “out” what may be the ‘big secret’ of Universe…and no better time than this morning.  So….from the beginning:   I’m sure you have been following the line of inquiry … Continue reading →
  • It’s on: The Blame Game
    With no resolution or compromise in sight, we’re already reading stories about how each side is blaming the other for the nation going over the fiscal cliff.  Veep Joe Biden points to the irresponsible congress, and if you pop the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • The Brits Warn The Americans : Do not Give Up ...
    Free men own guns... Slaves don't.Freedom Belongs... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Max Igan on Veritas Show , Recorded Dec 20, 2012
    Our world is the drunk and on drugs happy funtime... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • The Road to WW3 : Syria Iran & Israel
    U.S. WWIII Plan: Syria, Iran & Israel In World... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Martial Law in America Before Memorial Day Acc ...
    This Video segment features Dr Bill Deagle and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Links for 2012-12-30 [del.icio.us]
    Jim Rogers Video Interview ~ The 12 Banks of Death Roubini ‏: If a currency is weaker another is stronger Roubini ‏: If a currency is weaker another is stronger Nouriel Roubini : QE Wars as proxies for Currency Wars in 2013 Ask the Questions and Live the Answers ~ Max Igan 10 Weird We ...

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • The best of 2012 in green community solutions: ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   As we look back on the year that was, let’s honor some of the outstanding issues and accomplishments for community sustainability that came to light during the year.&nbs ...
  • 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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Policing in Prince George’s County, Maryland
    From the Washington Post: Other Maryland students were roughed up and badly injured by the police after the basketball game. At least three were knocked unconscious; two of them required medical care. Nine students (in addition to Mr. McKenna) received … Continue reading →Policing in ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, December 27, 2012: Update: Des Moines, Iowa: An officer was given five more years prison on top of the twenty months in prison he was already sentenced to. The … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Da ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct racked for Saturday, December 22 to Wednesday, December 26, 2012: Hollywood, Florida: A trooper has filed suit against other officers. She says they accessed her personal information and intimidated her after she … Continue reading →Nationa ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, December 12, 2012: Oviedo, Florida: A police officer has resigned from the force after being accused of stalking a woman. An internal investigation found the officer violated several department … Continue reading →Nation ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, December 20, 2012: Lexington, Kentucky: A University of Kentucky officer has been fired after a student posted a video of officers entering his room and searching it. ow.ly/ggG1J Chicago, … Continue reading →National P ...

Total Collapse

  • Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret ...
    A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [photo 2nd left]was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed near ...
  • Russian Warships Return From Gaza
    Russian warships are returning from the coast of Gaza to their home ports in the Black Sea, the country’s Defense Ministry reported Saturday. The combat ships include the missile cruiser Moskva, the patrol ship Smetliviy, large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov. They were heading off Somal ...
  • Iranian Warships Dock Again in Sudan
    Two Iranian navy warships arrived Saturday morning in Port Sudan, in the second such visit to Sudan within two months, eyewitnesses and officials said. “These visits by Iranian navy warships to Sudan come in the framework of routine exercises by navy forces of friendly nations,” Col. ...
  • Egypt’s President Morsi to allow military to a ...
    A decree authorising the armed forces to arrest civilians — a right previously reserved for police officers alone — will soon be issued by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, reported state-owned Al-Ahram daily Friday. The decree would be in effect until a constitution is approved and parliamentar ...
  • US planned one big nuclear blast for mankind
    The US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War. In an exclusive interview with The Observer, Dr Leonard Reiffel, 73, the physicist who fronted the project in the late Fifties at the US military-back ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • The year in rainforests
    2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical rainforest-related news stories for 2012. There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were undoubtedly overlooked in this review. If you feel there's somethi ...
  • Becky Tarbotton, head of the Rainforest Action ...
    Rebecca Tarbotton, the executive director of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) died Wednesday. She was 39. Tarbotton died in rough surf off a beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where she was vacationing with her husband and friends. Tarbotton was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on July, 30, ...
  • Photos: the top new species discoveries in 2012
    Thousands of species were described for the first time by scientists in 2012. Some of these were 'cryptic species' that were identified after genetic analysis distinguished them from closely related species, while others were totally novel. Either way, here are some of the "new species" highligh ...
  • Paper giant breaks pledge to end rainforest lo ...
    Pulp and paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) continues to destroy large areas of rainforests and peatlands despite a commitment to end natural forest logging by 2009, says a new report issued by a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups. The Eyes on the Forest r ...
  • Making the connection: environmentalism as a f ...
    Passing values from one generation to the next is a central theme for most families. For career conservationists, Chip and Jill Isenhart, passing along a passion for the environment to their children took more than just lectures, and their efforts offer insights into furthering the cause of g ...

Sierra Express

  • Congratulations to Nanette Thomas: Sierra Leon ...
    Texas USA, December 29, 2012 – Dear Nanette Thomas: I am happy to add my voice to the chorus of congratulations on your award for being Activist of the Year 2012 in my motherland, Sierra Leone.  Under your wise, fearless, and strong-hearted leadership in the execution of your duty as a sec ...
  • Emmerson and Timaya Music Concert review
    Thursday 27th December 2012 saw the Biggest Music Concert  of 2012 held at the National Stadium.  Fans from all over Sierra Leone  attended the Sierra Leonean Legend Emmerson and the Nigerian Superstar  Timaya’s 3 in 1 Album launch. The show ended at approximately 5:30 am the following morning. ...
  • British National Awarded MBE for outstanding w ...
    Miriam Mason –Sesay, the Country Director of EducAid Sierra Leone and a UK national has been awarded an MBE for her exceptional services to education and to charitable work in Sierra Leone. For over a decade Miriam has been central to developing the provision of education in Sierra Leone after t ...
  • The New Energy Future in Sierra Leone
    The most daunting and critical challenges our nation faces today is the energy sector, which is the engine of economic growth for any modern society. The government of President Koroma, almost five years later, has not sufficiently delivered the expanded coverage needed to increase access to ele ...
  • As guard-killer suspect still at large … relat ...
    Residents of the Freetown municipality were awakened by the euphoria last week when the still desperate and uncompromising relatives of the deceased guard in the August 2012 murder incident in which traditional ritual rite proposed to subject Adams Sesay (in photo) to the harsh realities of life ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Senate Report on Benghazi: Plenty of Blame to ...
    As noted on Reason 24/7 earlier today, the Senate Homeland Security Committee has released a report on failures surrounding the terrorist attack in Benghazi on September 11th.  The committee concluded that although there may not have been specific warnings about the 9/11 atta ...
  • Scathing Benghazi Report, Bogus Spending Cuts, ...
    The State Department, the Defense Department and the Obama administration as a whole get a thorough reaming in a Senate report on the Benghazi fiasco. Expect major repercussions— I'm kidding, of course. Nothing will happen. Increasingly euro-skeptical Britain could be offered s ...
  • Ira Stoll on a Tax Cuts Who-Did-It?
    The chief of detectives shoved his hands into the pockets of his trenchcoat and tugged at the brim of his fedora. “We’ve got a murder on our hands, gentlemen.” “Aw man, on New Year’s Eve? Who’s the stiff?” asked the sidekick character. “Some guy named Cuts. Bush Tax Cuts. He died ri ...
  • As Ron Paul Leaves Congress, "Outside of Washi ...
    The Hearst newspapers profile Ron Paul as his long political career ends. They lard it with a fair amount of completely point-missing stuff about "numbers of bills he passed" as a legislator and, in this author's estimation, ahem, grossly understate the importance of the mind-chang ...
  • Calif. Prop. 13 Discussion Shows How Easy it I ...
    Thanks to California’s incoming Democratic supermajority, Sacramento leaders are taking a closer look at Proposition 13, the well-known ballot initiative the limits property tax increases. California has some of the highest taxes in the nation. It tops in sales taxes, income taxes ...

Mercury Rising

  • Whales Got Legs! (AKA Yet Another Blow To Crea ...
    One of the things the creationists like to wave around as “proof” of creationism is the idea that whales couldn’t have evolved from land mammals because there’s no evidence of hind legs on them or their ancestors. Except that there is, as Stephen Jay Gould pointed out man ...
  • Whales Got Legs! (AKA Yet Another Blow To Crea ...
    One of the things the creationists like to wave around as “proof” of creationism is the idea that whales couldn’t have evolved from land mammals because there’s no evidence of hind legs on them or their ancestors. Except that there is, as Stephen Jay Gould pointed out man ...
  • Who Is Professor Laura Hollis?
    I wanted to go back to Charles’ piece on what turns out to be a Townhall column by one Laura Hollis, a professor of some sort at Notre Dame — and more interestingly, a former director of the “Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies”. Fee fie fo fum, methinks I smell the ...
  • Who Is Professor Laura Hollis?
    I wanted to go back to Charles’ piece on what turns out to be a Townhall column by one Laura Hollis, a professor of some sort at Notre Dame — and more interestingly, a former director of the “Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies”. Fee fie fo fum, methinks I smell the ...
  • We accept your surrender
    The following is one of the more recent right-wing salvos circulating the Net (my emphases in color; crossposted to DK): Post-Mortem Laura Hollis, Nov 08, 2012 Laura Hollis is: Current: Associate Professional Specialist and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at University of Notre Dame. [Note ...

Reality Sandwich

  • 2013: The Space Between Stories
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  • Reality Sandwich: Highlights from 2012
    The Reality Sandwich crew will be taking a post-apocalyptic vacation from Dec. 24 to Jan. 4. In the meantime, enjoy a selection of noteworthy articles from the past year. Happy holidays, and a happy new year!  Why Isn't Everyone Having Psychic Experiences All the Time? By Dr. Jim Car ...
  • Contemplating the Multiverse
    This article on Space.com includes five theories that explore the possibility of universes that exist in addition to our own, also known as a multiverse. Scientists assume that space-time is flat and stretches out infinitely. If space-time continues to expand forever, then it must start repe ...
  • Sex in the News
    The sex-positive Parent on children and guns, the new Arab manhood, parenthood's greyest generation and Scalia and same-sex marriage, in this week's sex in the news.read more
  • Say Know to Drugs
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Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • On the Fifth Day of Cronyism . . . : The System
    The Constancy of Crony Capitalism Corporations double dip at taxpayers’ expense. by Veronique de Rugy As originally posted on: Reason.com October 15, 2012 In his 1986 memoir The Triumph of Politics, former Reagan administration budget director David Stockman wrote: “I had long insisted, ...
  • Sun News’ David Akin outs the Press Gallery bu ...
    In a fascinating piece on Brian Lilley’s show Byline (see here), David Akin gives us his insight into how the media pack mentality works in Ottawa and how some within the Press Gallery actively pressure fellow journos: “…you get a lot of bullies in the [media] pack…&#8221 ...
  • On the Fourth Day of Cronyism . . . : The System
    LAMBRO: Obama’s dirty clean-energy deals Most green loans went to president’s cronies by Donald Lambro As originally posted: The Washington Times December 26, 2012 Have you seen the latest development in President Obama’s waste-ridden, clean-energy program that’s now under federal invest ...
  • Sarnia police officer joins in First Nation ra ...
    At least now we know why the Sarnia Police won’t enforce the court injunction against this Ontario First Nation railroad blockade.
  • Postal workers of the world unite!
    Denis Lemelin, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), recently released a letter to Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence who is on a hunger strike on Ottawa's Victoria Island. The letter goes way beyond support for Chief Spence, and expresses barely concealed contempt f ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • 2013, year of Palestinian state: Abbas
    Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has pledged that 2013 would be the year for the Palestinian independence.
  • Saudis hold funeral for protester
    Thousands of people in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia have held a funeral for the teenage protester who was shot dead by the Riyadh regime forces during a demonstration in the oil-rich Eastern Province.
  • ‘Israel has major income inequality’
    Israel is among the five members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that have the highest rate of income inequality, a report says.
  • Death toll in Iraq attacks hits 22
    Nearly two dozen people have been killed and over 80 others wounded in a wave of attacks in several cities and towns in Iraq, police and medical sources say.
  • Militants blow up gas pipeline in Syria
    Militants fighting against the Syrian government have reportedly blown up a section of a gas pipeline in eastern Syria.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

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  • Young Oklahoma mother; age 18, penniless, stra ...
    Young Oklahoma mother; age 18, penniless, stranded in Imperial Valley, Callifornia: ca. 03/1937
  • Activists chant slogans during a protest in Pa ...
    Activists chant slogans during a protest in Patna, capital of Bihar, India, Dec. 29, 2012. Grief-stricken Indian students took to the streets Saturday in the hundred to express anger at the death in Singapore of the 23-year-old medical student who was gang raped and brutalized. © [e]stringer/X ...
  • An Afghan child carries winter relief supply d ...
    An Afghan child carries winter relief supply during a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) distribution in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 27, 2012. That same day, according to the New York Times, a 3-year-old boy named Janan, who lived in Kabul’s refuge camps, fell ill due to exposu ...
  • Second Cambodian land rights activist Bopha se ...
    Second Cambodian land rights activist Bopha sentenced to three years Phnom penh, Cambodia. 27th December 2012 — Protester Nget Khun, 72, clashes with riot police after finding out Yorn Bopha was sentenced to three years in jail.  Land rights activist Yorn Bopha, her husband and brothers were co ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • The Mindlessness of War in Afghanistan
    War has ripped apart a majority of families in Afghanistan. Those who were lucky migrated to the West. 'Uncle' Ismail’s family, however, lies buried in a graveyard in Nangarhar. This is his testimony**
  • Between Drought and Floods – A Year of E ...
    Wild elephants are usually the primary attraction in the remote shrub jungles of Udawalawe, about 180 kilometres southeast of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo. But this Christmas season, the massive Udawalawe dam stole the limelight from the lumbering beasts. By the end of December, heavy rains had b ...
  • Bicycles No Longer Mere Recreation in Argentin ...
    A programme launched in Buenos Aires three years ago to encourage the use of bicycles has already brought results: the use of this environment-friendly means of transport has increased fivefold in the Argentine capital. “Buenos Aires, mejor en bici” (Buenos Aires, Better by Bike) is ...
  • Thai-EU FTA Raises Alarm for People With AIDS
    Days before leaders of the European Union (EU) arrived in Norway to collect this year’s Nobel Peace prize, Thai public health activists sent a letter to the northern powerhouse, warning that the EU’s 2012 accolades face a credibility test in this Southeast Asian country. They had in mind the fat ...
  • Bolivia Takes the Leap into the Big Pond of Me ...
    To go down fighting in the Andean Community (CAN), with a combined market of 92 million consumers, or move up to the big leagues of Mercosur, with 275 million? This was the dilemma faced by Bolivia’s foreign trade strategists when it came to pursuing full membership in the bloc formed by its nei ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The New York Times plays dumb about Iran's 20% ...
    Summary: Sanger and Risen over at the New York Times say that Iran's conversion of some of its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium to reactor fuel rods, thus precluding its use for weapons, may be some sort of calculated message to the West that Iran is willing to make a deal. Never mind that I ...
  • The War Party and the Israel Lobby Wish for Wa ...
    Summary: As we begin 2013, the War Party and its ally, the Israel lobby, are pushing hard to make sure that they get their wish for the New Year, namely, a devastating war with Iran. To them, it is not enough that the illegal unilateral sanctions that the United States and its allies have imp ...
  • The Case For Legal Challenge of EU's Sanctions ...
    Summary: Despite appearances to the contrary, a valid legal case can be presented in the European courts that would challenge the legality of European Union's sanctions on Iran. Such a legal challenge may or may not prove successful in convincing the courts that a judicial review of the EU' ...
  • International Law and the Iran Impasse
    Summary: On any given day, provided her paper of choice still features international coverage, the average American newspaper reader can expect to be treated to one or two articles on attempts to halt advances in Iran’s nuclear program. These articles might cover efforts to levy fresh sanctio ...
  • Iran Slams Canada's Move to Delist MKO
    Summary: The Iranian Foreign Ministry has censured Canada’s move to delist the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its blacklist of terrorist organizations. “While the international community and the world’s public opinion consider terrorism as one of the main challenges to the world an ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Comment of the Day: "The Unknown Unknowns of t ...
                     "I've long suspected that the rise of spacefaring intelligent life is so unlikely that we will never encounter another within our causal lightcone. In a universe of infinite size (as ours seems to be) the weak anthropic principle has an infinitely powerful ability to ...
  • "90% of Distant Galaxies in Universe Undetecte ...
                                The European Space Agency’s Herschel space telescope has discovered that previously unseen distant galaxies are responsible for a cosmic fog of infrared radiation. The galaxies are some of the faintest and furthest objects seen by Herschel, and open a new wi ...
  • "DNA Nucleotides Were Present Before Origin of ...
                                     Scientists are close to demonstrating that the building blocks of DNA can form spontaneously from chemicals thought to be present on the early Earth. If they succeed, their research implies that DNA could have predated the birth of life. “The story ma ...
  • "Advanced ET Technology May Exist on a 'Third ...
                     World renowned experts from physicist Sir Martin Rees of Cambridge University to astrobiologist Paul Davis of Arizona State have asked that if we were to encounter alien technology far superior to our own, would we even realize what it was. A technology a million o ...
  • "Pillars of Creation" --A Galactic Artifact Va ...
                   In early 2007, scientists using the Spitzer discovered evidence that potentially indicates the famed three Pillars of Creation photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 in the Eagle Nebula were destroyed by a nearby supernova explosion about 6,000 years ...

Natural News

  • 20 dark predictions for 2013, the year of oppr ...
    2013 will go down in history as the year of global insanity. The Earth isn't going crazy, but many of the people who inhabit it certainly are. Madness is about to be unleashed on many fronts: economic, social, political, financial and more. In the near future, you will...
  • Top Natural News health stories of the 2012 - ...
    On Friday, I sat down with David Ortiz of InfoWars Nightly News to talk about the biggest health stories of 2012. The video, below, shows the full conversation which covers: • The FDA's approval of GM salmon and the issue of genetic pollution • Big Pharma...
  • Sexting: Researchers attempting to label teen ...
    Teen sexting - when teenagers text nude photos of themselves to each other - is coming into the crosshairs of psychiatry. Soon these hormone driven youth will be candidates for big pharma's ever expanding roundup of humankind. Sexting is a problem. Surveys vary, but...
  • Intestinal flora shown to fight disease such a ...
    As we approach the winter months, more and more people will come down with all types of illness. Chances are you have already seen people coming down with colds and possibly even the flu. And similar to most people, maybe you are fearful because you don't want to become...
  • Gun control is racism
    They try to put themselves on a pedestal, using language of the apologist sprinkled with faux outrage, when they equate gun ownership and general support for the Second Amendment to racism. But the truth of the matter is, the real racists are those calling for gun control...

Threat Level

  • Senate Approves Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
    The Senate on Friday reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the President George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
  • From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Ye ...
    From gun-toting, on-the-lam tech giants to flying drones and internet uprisings, these are the privacy and security stories that dominated Threat Level in 2012.
  • Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles
    Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers and even ...
  • John McAfee’s Last Stand
    On November 12, 2012, Belizean police announced that they were seeking John McAfee for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor. Six months earlier, I began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. This is the chronicle of that ...
  • Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — ...
    The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack Obama granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. While lawmakers were caving to special interests, however, they cut from the legislative ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The National Debt? Republicans Built That
    As President Obama and Congressional leaders negotiate in Washington, the American people need to keep a couple of things in mind about the looming "fiscal cliff." For starters, the issue is not that the national debt will go up (which roughly half of those in one poll believe to be the case), ...
  • U.S. Conservatives Cheer as French Court Nixes ...
    France has been a bogeyman of the American right for years. Mitt Romney, after all, made enmity towards Paris' "big government, big taxation, welfare state" a talking point of his campaign. For his part, John McCain joked that the French "remind me of an aging movie actress in the 1940s who is ...
  • 25 Republicans Can End the Fiscal Cliff Stand-Off
    Following his meeting with Congressional leaders Friday, President Obama declared he was "modestly optimistic" a deal could be reached to avoid the January 1st "fiscal cliff." But if Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell can't come to an agr ...
  • Hagel Foe McCain Backed James Baker as Middle ...
    Having succeeded in his smear campaign against UN Ambassador Susan Rice, John McCain has launched a second pre-emptive strike against another would-be Obama cabinet member, former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. But this time McCain's petty payback against a GOP colleague who supported ...
  • This Just In: Social Security Still Not a Driv ...
    As Washington's stalemated debate over avoiding the so-called "fiscal cliff" continues to fester, Social Security is once again in the cross-hairs of would-be deficit hawks across the political spectrum. This week, the New York Times profiled Maya MacGuineas, who "has spent years warning about ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Mars Rover Curiosity Takes Best Portrait Yet, ...
    The Mars rover Curiosity has taken what is arguable its best self-portrait yet. The panorama shows Curiosity with its eventual destination in the background, the enormous Mount Sharp. The panorama is a stitched together collage of dozens of different high-def color images taken between October 3 ...
  • 2012: A Year of Technological Breakthroughs an ...
    It’s been an incredible year for scientific and technological ‘firsts’, advances and breakthroughs…and an entirely credible year (if one was paying attention) of environmental/ecological warnings and forebodings (but with a few encouraging signs). Any year’s end rev ...
  • First Truly Earth-Like Exoplanet Likely To Be ...
    2013 will be the year that the first extremely Earth-like exoplanet will be found, researchers in the field are predicting. Such a finding could uproot some entrenched ideas about the Earth, and the life on it, being unique. There have been quite a few exoplanets discovered in the last couple of ...
  • Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peaking Early Thursd ...
    The Quadrantids meteor shower will be peaking in the early morning hours on Thursday January 3, 2013. It’s expected to be a great show this year, with a maximum rate of around 80 meteors an hour. But it could go much higher, up to more than 200. There is also expected to be some light inte ...
  • Super Comet Shining Brighter Than The Moon Wil ...
    A ‘super’ comet shining brighter than the full moon is expected to pass by the Earth towards the end of 2013, researchers are predicting. The newly discovered comet, comet ISON, is predicted to pass within 1.2 million miles from the center of the sun on Nov. 28, 2013, according to as ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Sweetening the pot...
    By @BGinKC You all know by now that I hate doing fundraisers and asking for money, and that when possible I sweeten the pot. Say hello to "possible." I'm pleased to announce that if you donate $35.00 or more to this site, you will get in return a signed and personalized copy of the latest CD by ...
  • The Corruption of DC Elites Who Think Both Sid ...
    By @TedFrier Howard Kurtz is a big reason Republicans and Democrats have yet to reach an agreement in the misnamed "deficit reduction" talks which, as Paul Krugman constantly reminds us, are a problem precisely because they would reduce the deficit too much too fast if we hurtle over that "fisca ...
  • Monday Morning Quad Shot
    By@BGinKC * An arrest -- and hate crime charges -- for the woman who shoved a commuter in front of the Number 7 train. A 31-year-old Queens woman is in custody and charged with murder as a hate crime because she selected her victim for his ethnicity, saying she "hates" Muslims and Hindus ever si ...
  • As 'Fiscal Cliff' Nears, Let's Review Republic ...
    While cleaning out some of my stuff, preparing to relocate for a new job, I came upon a 2003 publication from Citizens for Tax Justice that casts some interesting background on the so-called predicament in which the federal government now finds itself. Want to guess which political party, when i ...
  • He doth protest too much, methinks
    Well, this is interesting: December 28, 2012 Journalist makes Missouri Scout end-of-year list Yokley to cover state Legislature for The Joplin Globe ....Yokley said he does not think of himself so much as a blogger, but as a journalist. In a recent interview, Yokley said: "Whenever I think 'bl ...

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Dont Let Caribou Disap ...
    Urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to prioritize biodiversity over corporate interests. Sign the petition to save the woodland caribou today. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell Tufts-Cummings Veterinary School : Decla ...
    The article describes declawing as a relatively simple procedure with slight risks. This is recklessly untrue. In fact, declawing is among the most agonizing procedures a cat can undergo, and can lead to chronic pain and disability, says vet Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals  |&nbsp ...
  • TAKE ACITON NOW! Ensure Stronger Protec ...
    Currently, the U.S. Congress is considering a bill that would extend AWA rights to these three species. The bill would require labs to give rats, mice, and birds the same attention they give beagles, chimps, and other lab animals Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-i ...
  • EcoCamp Patagonias Green Energy
    EcoCamp Patagonia is Patagonia and Chiles first fully sustainable hotel. Located in the heart of Torres del Paine National Park, the ISO14001 certified EcoCamp houses guests on Patagonia hiking tours in its 25 sustainable geodesic domes Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |  &nb ...
  • Sourcing eco-friendly furniture
    It is easy to define whether or not most items are green, but there are some areas where it can become a little vague, especially when someone is trying to sell you something and describe it as green as its main selling point. In this day and age, Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  | ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Demand a Plan–Tell Hollywood Celebs to Fuck Off
    The self-righteous bullshit from Hollywood is so deep and so fetid that it would curdle salt. These assholes are in a weeping frenzy over the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. Yes, that was an awful thing. But these obtuse clowns are apparently completely devoid of irony. Enjoy: Demand a plan? ...
  • December 28, 2012 Unclassified Benghazi, to Be ...
    I recently spoke to Joe Kernan, of CNBC “Kudlow Report,” [see video below] re the unclassified report on the Benghazi tragedy, and I aimed to be clear that the State Department is not at fault (about nine minutes into the lengthy segment). The Benghazi mission was and continues to be ...
  • Fiscal Cliff Pork
    Think the Democrats are worried about America? Think again. They are only thinking about themselves and feeding their clients at the pork barrel. Received the following from a friend who was privy to a briefing by some Democrat lobbyists in the last couple of days: I just spent an hour on a conf ...
  • Reasons Mitt Romney Cited Following the Election
    Jonathan Martin and Glenn Thrush recently wrote an e-books available at Amazon: “The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: the 34 days that decided the election: Playbook 2012. Here are some excerpts from the recently published e-book: The fourth and final eBook in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 se ...
  • Obama and Hillary Helping Destabilize the Midd ...
    Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton created the chaos that defines the present state of the Middle East, but their insane policies certainly have exacerbated the situation. We should not blame the President and the Secretary of State for unsettling matters there. That “honor” be ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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Mountaintop Removal

  • State mine safety director appointed - State J ...
    State mine safety director appointed State Journal One company says they will never add another mountaintop removal project to their to-do list. Others want to build export terminals to meet demands overseas. It's been a strange year to follow coal. One company says they will never add anoth ...
  • No. 1: Storm-related power outages trigger fru ...
    No. 1: Storm-related power outages trigger frustration in 2012 State Journal One company says they will never add another mountaintop removal project to their to-do list. Others want to build export terminals to meet demands overseas. It's been a strange year to follow coal. One company says ...
  • Protest Tactics in a Warming World - In These ...
    Protest Tactics in a Warming World In These Times “Bank of America is foreclosing on people wholesale, but they're also funding mountaintop removal mining.” But while this broadening of the movement—through which environmental issues are also viewed as social justice and economic issues—has ...
  • Central Appalachian coals future murky going i ...
    Central Appalachian coals future murky going into 2013 CoalGuru.com One company said that they will never add another mountaintop removal project to their to do list. Others want to build export terminals to meet demands overseas. Folks who follow the industry also hear mixed messages. Coal dema ...
  • A look at the events that shaped 2012 - Beckle ...
    A look at the events that shaped 2012 Beckley Register-Herald 24 - Federal judge rules U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority last year in revoking water pollution permits that another agency had issued for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal sites. 25 - G ...

Memeorandum

  • Firework displays kick off 2013 (BBC)
    BBC: Firework displays kick off 2013  —  Spectacular fireworks displays welcomed in the new year in New Zealand, Australia and North Korea  —  Celebrations are being held around the world to mark the new year, with the city of Auckland in New Zealand holding the ...
  • Finally, a "fiscal cliff" breakthrough (CBS News)
    CBS News: Finally, a “fiscal cliff” breakthrough  —  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says any potential deal will have to include a tax hike on the upper 2 percent of income earners.  But Geithner says the biggest obstacle is Republicans who refuse to budge. ...
  • Why the White House thinks it's winning the 'f ...
    Ezra Klein / Wonkblog: Why the White House thinks it's winning the ‘fiscal cliff’  —  Consider the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations from the White House's perspective.  —  The specifics of the potential McConnell-Biden deal are fluid, but the bottom ...
  • 2012 - The Year In Healthcare Charts (Dan Munr ...
    Dan Munro / Forbes: 2012 - The Year In Healthcare Charts  —  There were a few charts that made the radar this year.  In some cases, the data is older than 2012, but all too often, the data hasn't really changed or improved with age.  —  First up is our Natio ...
  • Farm bill fate still up in the air (David Roge ...
    David Rogers / Politico: Farm bill fate still up in the air  —  No crying over spilled milk for John Boehner.  —  For all the dire headlines, the House speaker seems settled into a waiting game on any farm bill extension, betting that a tax deal in the Senate wil ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, South Indian Ocean
    Monday, December 31, 2012 08:50:07 UTC Monday, December 31, 2012 02:50:07 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.80 km (6.09 mi)
  • M 5.0, Chiapas, Mexico
    Monday, December 31, 2012 01:15:18 UTC Sunday, December 30, 2012 07:15:18 PM at epicenterDepth: 113.90 km (70.77 mi)
  • M 5.2, central Peru
    Sunday, December 30, 2012 20:49:29 UTC Sunday, December 30, 2012 03:49:29 PM at epicenterDepth: 41.50 km (25.79 mi)
  • M 5.2, offshore Chiapas, Mexico
    Sunday, December 30, 2012 12:21:23 UTC Sunday, December 30, 2012 06:21:23 AM at epicenterDepth: 35.50 km (22.06 mi)
  • M 5.1, Molucca Sea
    Sunday, December 30, 2012 11:33:41 UTC Sunday, December 30, 2012 07:33:41 PM at epicenterDepth: 58.60 km (36.41 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 美国基础设&#2604 ...
    缓慢的网速、煎熬的航班旅行、摇摇欲坠的电网：世界上第一套真正现代化的基础设 ...
  • 保护环境从&#2304 ...
    与中国的情况一样，英美两国的儿童也在逐渐远离自然。现在的孩子有一半时间坐在 ...
  • 大气污染防&#2783 ...
    在空前的公众关注中，中国迎来了应对大气污染的一个重要机遇。赵立建、徐楠对中 ...
  • 美国拆坝运&#2116 ...
    亚洲的水电支持者用到处建坝的美国作为推进争议项目的例证。但实际上，美国如今 ...
  • 俄中输气管&#3694 ...
    继去年十二月初两国官员在莫斯科谈判之后，中俄有望在一个月之内敲定一项全长2600&#20 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Paul Krugman Slams Starbucks CEO's Naive Fix f ...
    There’s no deal yet in broken Washington that would avert the tax increases and fiscal cuts coming our way on January 1. And the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, knows why: “both sides” have yet to “come together.” The misleading nature of Schultz’s ...
  • Korea's Pop Music Explosion Is Fueling a Plast ...
    IT’S NO SECRET K-pop has spiked in popularity in recent years. According to Korea JoongAng Daily USA, by 2010, over 900 K-pop videos on YouTube by South Korea’s top three media companies had received over 500 million hits from Asia alone. (This was long before Psy ...
  • Foreign Policy Mag's 'Top 100 Global Thinkers' ...
     A few years back, Foreign Policy magazine began compiling annual lists of "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Aside from some worthy exceptions, the lists are populated by individuals whose dearth of intellectual qualifications tends to render the whole ...
  • New Outrageous Lie from NRA: Gun Silencers Pro ...
     A gruesome holiday season exercise: Think of some firearms and accessories that might have added to the body counts of Aurora and Newtown. More starkly, imagine the means by which coming Auroras and Newtowns will be made more deadly.The exercise starts with a militarized baseline, as bo ...
  • Decoding the Political Buzzwords of 2012
    As the year draws to a close, we checked in with linguist Geoffrey Nunberg to get his analysis of the top political buzzwords of 2012.Lauren Feeney: What political words struck you as particularly interesting this year? Geoffrey Nunberg:Like all campaigns, this one generated a bunch of n ...

Threat Level

  • Senate Approves Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
    The Senate on Friday reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the President George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
  • From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Ye ...
    From gun-toting, on-the-lam tech giants to flying drones and internet uprisings, these are the privacy and security stories that dominated Threat Level in 2012.
  • Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles
    Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers and even ...
  • John McAfee’s Last Stand
    On November 12, 2012, Belizean police announced that they were seeking John McAfee for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor. Six months earlier, I began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. This is the chronicle of that ...
  • Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — ...
    The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack Obama granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. While lawmakers were caving to special interests, however, they cut from the legislative ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Listeria Recall – Cold Smoked Salmon
    Einstein Bros. issued a recall Monday of a smoked salmon product that the Lakewood, Colo.-based bagel chain sells, saying its supplier notified it of a potential bacteria threat in the... Continue Reading
  • Largest Salmonella Outbreak in Washington 2012 ...
    At least 120 people were suspected to have fallen ill in a Salmonella Virchow outbreak tied to the On the Border restaurant in Vancouver, Washington.  That case count included 43... Continue Reading
  • Why US Food Safety is Important – Salmonella C ...
    261 Ill, 3 Deaths, 94 Hospitalizations in 24 States CDC collaborated with public health officials in many states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multi-state... Continue Reading
  • Why Import Food Safety is Important – Salmonel ...
    127 infected with Salmonella Braenderup and 16 with Salmonella Worthington On August 29, 2012 the CDC announced that local, state and federal agencies were conducting an investigation into the source... Continue Reading
  • Are Punitive Damages Warranted in the Sunland ...
    Most states that allow for punitive damages provide that punitive damages may be awarded if defendant’s conduct is found to be so willful and wanton as to evidence conscious disregard... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Leading Environmentalist Rebecca Tarbotton of ...
    Leading environmentalist and human rights champion Rebecca "Becky" Tarbotton, executive director of the organization Rainforest Action Network ( RAN ), has died at the age of 39. According to RAN , Tarbotton died Wednesday on a beach in Mexico while vacationing with her husband an ...
  • Pull the Global Trigger on Gun Control
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan While the final funerals for the victims of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre have been held, gun violence continues apace, most notably with the Christmas Eve murder of two volunteer firefighters in rural Webster, N.Y., at the hands of an ex-convict who ...
  • Juan González Honored For 25 Years of Muckraki ...
    The New York Daily News has published a series of articles highlighting the work of columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. "It is hard to believe that 25 years have passed since Juan walked past the landmark globe in the landmark News Building on E. 42nd St. and took a desk in ...
  • VIDEO: "NRA Killing Our Kids" - CODEPINK Disru ...
    CODEPINK protesters interrupted the National Rifle Association’s press conference on Friday as the group held its first press conference since the Newtown massacre. During comments made by NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, one protester held up a banner reading, “The NRA is killing our kids ...
  • Lessons from New Town, AUS for Newtown, USA: W ...
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The initial shock of the latest semiautomatic weapon-fueled massacre has passed, but the grief only grows. Now the funerals occur with a daily drumbeat. It will take not 27, but 28 funerals, as the Newtown, Connecticut, shooter, Adam Lanza, took his own li ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • 2012 Annual Wrap Up – January 3
    Happy New Year! It’s that time of year to assess – what happened in 2012? And what are the major trends for 2013? Our poster for 2013 celebrates our theme for this new year – Coming Clean. Throughout the developed world, extraordinary increases in the money supply, fiscal stim ...
  • London Fireworks 2012
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  • Settlement Expected on Past Abuses in Home Loans
    By Jessica Silver-Greenberg Banking regulators are close to a $10 billion settlement with 14 banks that would end the government’s efforts to hold lenders responsible for foreclosure abuses like faulty paperwork and excessive fees that may have led to evictions, according to people with knowledg ...
  • Best Space Photos of the Year 2012
    [click on the image for a larger version] By Adam Mann This year has seen some amazing space photos, including gloriously shining dust in the Orion nebula, Saturn wreathed in rings and accompanied by its moon Titan, spectacular shots of Earth’s Arctic region, and an artful dust devil on Mars. H ...
  • Dealers Tighten Treasuries Grip as New Fed QE3 ...
    [click on the image for a larger version] By Cordell Eddings The world’s biggest bond dealers are growing more reluctant to give up their record holdings of Treasuries, providing support for a rally in the world’s most- liquid debt market that is entering its fourth year. Goldman Sachs Group I ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Sideways News

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Fabius Maximus

  • Looking back at 2012 – how accurate were ...
    Summary:  Year-end is a time to look back at one’s forecasts, and look forward to what might happen next year.  Today we do the former, looking at the predictions for 2012 made here last December. “Always in motion is the future.” — Yoda, Jedi-Knight Here are the predictions fo ...
  • What can we learn from visits to the FM websit ...
    Summary: Here’s another year-end reflection on lessons learned from the comments in the FM website.  Here we look at some of the communities that comprise the greater Internet, and the qualities which make it unique. Thanks to the magic of Google, websites occasionally get visits from spec ...
  • Lessons learned during 2012 from comments on t ...
    Summary:  In 2012 the FM website had 375 posts and 8,700 comments.  I’ve learned much from writing these posts, and just as much from reading and responding to the lessons.  Here are some of those that you might find of use, another in a year-end series of posts looking at 2012. Contents P ...
  • Most-read posts on the FM website in 2012
    Here are the posts you, our readers, found most interesting in 2012.  Don’t recognize some?  You might find them worth reading. Did any of them make an impression on you?  How do they read months later?  Tell us in the comments! Japan can again become the land of the rising sun. We should ...
  • Suggestions for your daily info diet. You are ...
    Summary:  Here are my favorite sources of information.  You might find some of them of use.  In the comments post your favorite sources of information. Contents Economics Military Affairs Online magazines for a general audience Politics and Geopolitics Science General News agencies — my fa ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • Afghanistan War Costs: the Year in Review
    2012 saw some important milestones in the Afghanistan war. The last of the surge troops left Afghanistan in September. U.S. and Afghan officials met twice to discuss post-2014 plans. The international community emphasized its continued commitment to Afghanistan by pledging billions in economic a ...
  • The “War On Terror” Remains a War on the Fourt ...
    Serwer: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is meant to allow the government to spy on suspected foreign agents abroad, but it is written in such a manner that it allows the government to snoop on conversations involving American citizens, as long as at least one end of the conversation in ...
  • National Security and Civil Liberties meet Sec ...
    Corey Robin’s Jacobin essay is getting a lot of attention, including from Jon Western at the Duck and Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns & Money. I don’t think that it detracts from Robin’s essay to note that the argument he’s making is long-standing in international-rela ...
  • Planning to Be Shocked
    One of the most repeated, and most dubious, axioms about strategy is the notion that being proactive is wiser than being reactive, and that reactivity is something we should be allergic to. In the words of Britain’s foreign secretary William Hague, ‘the nation that is purely reactive ...
  • What the Attacks on Hagel Tell Us
    AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, delivers remarks at the Brookings Institution on U.S. foreign policy and the 2008 presidential campaign. Back in 1998, Chuck Hagel, who had been Senator from Nebraska for two years, made news by criticizing the tact ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • 2012's War on Women
    For the ladies, the year’s sound track could have been a strangled gasp, followed by snorting and laughing out loud. The attacks on women’s health, on contraception, on abortion, on the definition of rape—it was all so over the top that very early on it seemed that the Republicans were determin ...
  • SCOTUS in 2012: It Coulda Been Worse
    Flickr/Rick Reinhard U. S. Supreme Court rules to uphold the Affordable Care Act, June 28, 2012. The Supreme Court's most recent year will be remembered primarily for one blockbuster case: NFIB v. Sebelius, in which the Court narrowly upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable ...
  • What the Attacks on Hagel Tell Us
    AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, delivers remarks at the Brookings Institution on U.S. foreign policy and the 2008 presidential campaign. Back in 1998, Chuck Hagel, who had been Senator from Nebraska for two years, made news by critic ...
  • What Happens to a DREAM Deferred?
    At first, it looked like 2012 would be another terrible year for immigration reform advocates. Mitt Romney won the Republican presidential primary by adopting a xenophobic, right-wing platform, advocating for policies against immigrants so terrible they led to self-deportation. Meanwhile Barack ...
  • States of Play
    If you’d forgotten just how much state legislatures impact citizens’ day-to-day lives, 2012 was a year full of reminders. From unions to health care to basic civil rights, states have a tremendous amount of power in shaping public policy. That’s no secret to groups like the American Legislative ...

Buzzflash

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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 2012 a busy year, some highlights
    My wife told me that publishing this would be like sending out one of those braggardly “family newsletters” to one’s friends, but I wanted to round off the blog for 2012 by posting a few memories from the year…is that so bad? I even blogged about not posting it. Anyway, i ...
  • Facebook boosts self esteem, leads to snacking
    That’s an approximation of the tabloid headlines. But, as ever, NHS Choices offers a more solid critique of various bits of research into the effects of online social networking on our psyche. “Overall, social networking improves self-esteem, particularly when the person has a greate ...
  • End of the World
    Well, the sleeping Americans problem don’t know it yet, but the end of the world hasn’t happened as Australians and others who have already entered the day Winter Solstice will attest. Google celebrates with a piece of the Mayan Calendar. Of course, why anyone would trust the “ ...
  • Dead-tree stocking fillers
    A couple of arrivals on my desk for review worth a look. John Rentoul has been running the Questions To Which The Answer Is No! Awards for several years now. Celebrating the journalistic skill of basing an entire article on a fantastically far-fetched question-based headline and only admitting t ...
  • Deceived Wisdom anywhere
       Deceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDeceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Senate Reauthorizes Warrantless Wiretapping
    The Senate today reauthorized the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, an unconstitutional spying bill that violates the Fourth Amendment and gives vast, unchecked surveillance authority to the government. The FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act (H.R. 5949), passed on a 73-23 vote, authorizes the Na ...
  • Senate Reauthorizes Warrantless Wiretapping
    The Senate today reauthorized the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, an unconstitutional spying bill that violates the Fourth Amendment and gives vast, unchecked surveillance authority to the government. The FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act (H.R. 5949), passed on a 73-23 vote, authorizes the Na ...
  • San Onofre: Edison’s Experimental Restart Sche ...
    Southern California Edison’s experimental plan to start up one of the crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors and run it at reduced power may violate terms of the plant’s operating license, potentially triggering a formal license amendment proceeding. read more
  • San Onofre: Edison’s Experimental Restart Sche ...
    Southern California Edison’s experimental plan to start up one of the crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors and run it at reduced power may violate terms of the plant’s operating license, potentially triggering a formal license amendment proceeding. read more
  • Environmental Protection Agency Administrator ...
    Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced that she will be stepping down from her role after the State of the Union address. Under Jackson’s leadership, the EPA established: *Landmark Protections from Toxic Mercury *Historic Fuel Efficiency Stand ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Story of the Year: It’s Global Warming, Stupid
    Stefanie Penn Spear My favorite headline of 2012 was “It’s Global Warming, Stupid,” which appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek on Nov. 1, just days after Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast.read more
  • The Financial Elite's War Against the US Economy
    Michael Hudson Today’s economic warfare is not the kind waged a century ago between labor and its industrial employers. Finance has moved to capture the economy at large, industry and mining, public infrastructure (via privatization) ...
  • In Praise of Environmentalist Becky Tarbotton, ...
    Tina Gerhardt "We need to remember that the work of our time is bigger than climate change. We need to be setting our sights higher and deeper. What we're really talking about, if we're honest with ourselves, is transforming e ...
  • Putting It In Drive: What's Next for Idle No More
    Daniel Wilson Across the country, in shopping malls and in the streets, thousands are rallying and round-dancing and serving notice that they will be Idle No More (INM). Messages of support from around the world have given rise to compariso ...
  • Gun Control and Arms Control
    Lawrence Wittner In a number of ways, gun control issues are remarkably similar to arms control issues. (Photo: Getty Images)read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • VIDEO: Jimmy Fallon and Tom Cruise Have a Wate ...
    Tom Cruise and Jimmy Fallon are waging war Check out TVGuide.com's Top Moments of the Year On Tuesday's Late Night, Fallon challenged Cruise to one of his Water Wars, in which the player who loses a hand of the classic card game War gets doused with a glass of water. It was a close, wet ...
  • Springfield Mulls Water Restrictions As Drough ...
    Abnormally low precipitation this year has parched the Mississippi and Missouri River basins, reigniting regional "water wars" where resources are spread thin across irrigation, recreation and navigation. In Springfield officials are preparing to instate strict water restrictions if la ...
  • The Water Wars and Urban Sprawl of 2030
    # thefuture The year 2030 is only 17 short years away. (Wow. I can remember when it was 25 years away.) What will the world be like in 2030? According to a new " Global Trends " report from the US National Intelligence office—a deeply researched report provocative in its predictions wh ...
  • Drought revives old water wars among river states
    The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.      Officials from more than 30 states have written President Barack Obama urging him to interv ...
  • The President to receive letters about the low ...
    The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Texas Will End Funding For Planned Parenthood ...
    For most of 2012, Texas officials have been working hard to strip funding from the Planned Parenthood clinics in their state. Those officials advanced their anti-choice agenda on Monday, when a visiting judge ruled that Texas may deny funding from Planned Parenthood affiliates in the new year si ...
  • Intelligence Bill Won’t Include Measure Mandat ...
    A measure requiring the office of the Director of National Intelligence to report to Congress on the consequences of a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities will not be included in the FY2013 Intelligence Authorization Act. The House voted in May to include the amendment calling for ...
  • Same-Sex Weddings Will Begin At Midnight Tonig ...
    When the clock strikes midnight tonight, it will mark more than simply the start of a new year for some couples in Maryland — it’s also when Maryland’s new marriage equality law officially takes effect. Some same-sex weddings are already planned for the first moments of 2013. S ...
  • Modest Steps Could Add Up To Big Success For C ...
    by Noah Ginsberg, via the American Council on Renewable Energy Looking back at 2012, one thing is certain in the sea of the year’s uncertainty; renewable energy experienced significant growth. The U.S. solar industry grew at a rate of 13.2%.  A global oversupply of solar panels lowered prices fo ...
  • Senate Panel Faults State Department And Penta ...
    A bipartisan Senate Homeland Security report to be released today has found that the State and Defense Departments share blame for the security failures that resulted in the death of 5 Americans after an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya back in September. An independent rev ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Dear Canadian Racists: SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
    Seriously. I'm nauseous from the stench of your hypocrisy, selfishness, ignorance, stupidity, whining and lying. Just can it! From the stooges in charge of our corporate media, to our illegitimate regime of morons, thugs, frauds, religious freaks and self-hating closet-cases, all the way down t ...
  • "Idle No More" - the racists strike back
     They've been going at it from Day One actually. I've seen all sorts of trolls on the mainstream media comments sections blathering on about the $90 million that Chief Spence supposedly has stashed in a Cayman Islands bank account. That's been known to be complete bullshit for around a year ...
  • Parliament
    I don't know what to say so I think I'll post Thomas Mulcair's speech in the House of Commons in response to Bill C-45. Here's a noteworthy excerpt:  In response to a question, the hon. member for Saint Boniface asked us earlier if we were aware of the global recession. I would remind the ...
  • There are a LOT of First Nations People in Can ...
    It's a consequence of our racist justice system. All I'm saying is that in the months before the general amnesty for First Nations prisoners, that it'll be fun to think of how they'll respond to their new fellow prisoners from the Conservative Party of Canada.
  • Idle No More
      What harper has to realize is that while he's sitting in his comfortable house on Sussex Drive, enjoying the fruits of his stolen majority government, basking in the adulation of idiots and the tepid applause of his corporate paymasters, is that for other people, the end results of his ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Photo Essay: Wildlife of the Canadian Rockies
    Living in Calgary, Alberta Canada gives one a new appreciation of nature and wildlife. There are many places for locals, visitors, photography enthusiasts, and professionals to take photos of wildlife in this visually rich spectacular region of Canada.
  • Photo Essay — People at work
    People at work have always fascinated me. Hands occupied by something they work with and the artists with their magical objects they make music with. Their eyesight almost always off from the camera's lens.
  • Drinking and driving on New Year’s Eve could b ...
    Each year thousands of lives are lost in the United States and Canada to incidents of drunk driving. New Year’s Eve is a special event where there is a huge influx in the number of drunk drivers on the roads. Learn how you can prevent drunk driving.
  • Air Farce does Canadian PM Stephen Harper 'Gan ...
    The Canadian comedy group Air Farce has produced a parody of the ever-parodied "Gangnam Style" starring Craig Lauzon as Stephen Harper.
  • Wikimedia Foundation enjoys record 2012 fundraiser
    Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the online, free encyclopedia announced on December 27 that it had raised a record $25 million in record time during its 2012 fundraiser.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-8-12
    Today, Kevin explains what the United States government would do if American citizens started to rebel! Plus, Dr. Betty Martini explains the DANGERS of Aspartame and why you need to avoid it at all costs! Health: Asparagus May Help Hangovers Wine Protects Skin from Radiation Government: An Army ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-29-12
    Today, Kevin explains why most people will not be successful in network marketing.  Plus, Princess stops by the show to reveal secrets “Kevin” doesn’t want you to know about! Self Help: Maximize Your Downline Success Training Lose A Pound A Day! Government: Wisconsin Fight: Bill Limiting Unions ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-21-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-28-12
    Today, Kevin explains how diet foods are specifically designed to make you fat and how America is slowly being sold to the highest bidder. Self Help: Shed Pounds Fast Have Dinner With KT Daily Life Essentials Hear The Whole Interview: Andrew Wakefield Erich von Däniken Health: Reporter Suffers S ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-24-12
    Today, Kevin explains why you should not be donating your hard-earned money to large charities and for disaster relief. Plus, Kevin reveals where to find the best quality products in your area! Self Help: Protect Yourself From Meat Glue Shine A Little Light On Me Health: 9 Salads Calorically Wor ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Dried squash holds guillotined French king’s b ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Two centuries after the French people beheaded Louis XVI and dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood, scientists believe they have authenticated the remains of one such rag kept as a revolutionary souven ...
  • Is This Really a Police State?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIs This Really a Police State? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Guest post by investigative historian Eric Zuesse, author ” most recently ” of Theyre Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economi ...
  • Mexico City tries out cash-for-guns program
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   MEXICO CITY ” Fed up with rampant crime, a Mexico City district is pressing locals to swap personal firearms for bikes, tablet computers and even cash, in a desperate bid to get guns off the street ...
  • Press TV: Is the Queen Knighting Rascals?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPress TV: Is the Queen Knighting Rascals? By Veterans TodayMonday, December 31st, 2012 View the original about Press TV: Is the Queen Knighting Rascals? at Veterans TodayCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • MI woman released after 11 days in jail for cu ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The Michigan woman released from jail on Friday after being incarcerated for 11 days for cursing inside a county court told WOOD-TV her legal troubles aren’t over. “It wasn’t necessary, ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Senator Tom Harkin: No Deal Is Better Than Thi ...
    Dandelion Salad By Kay Steiger Raw Story Dec. 31, 2012 [...] “Well I just think that’s grossly unfair. Grossly unfair,” Harkin continued. He pointed out that those who make $250,000 or more a year are the top 2 percent of income earners in America. By moving the tax cuts to $400,000, Harkin said ...
  • Gaza Uncut: Another Year of War and Siege
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews·Dec 31, 2012 Four years ago, Palestinians in Gaza ended the year in a similar way. Following a cease-fire after the last war in November, Israel violated terms of the truce numerous times and on a daily basis. Gaza also remains under Israeli siege, making life more di ...
  • The Idol Smasher by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig December 31, 2012 Ishmael Reed has spent the last five decades smashing idols—idols of race, idols of capitalism, celebrity idols and the idols of national virtue and greatness. His essays, novels, poems, plays, songs and cartoons routinel ...
  • Corporate Canada: The New United States by Tri ...
    by Tristan A. Shaw Guest Writer Dandelion Salad British Columbia, Canada December 26, 2012 It seems necessary to remind fellow Canadians that our country was not always a malfeasant, blood-thirsty, islamophobic, imperialist-driven state whose actions are now protested across the third-world. The ...
  • Bahrain: The Forgotten Uprising
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews·Dec 27, 2012 Reese Erlich: The uprising against monarchy grows more intense, mostly ignored by Western media. *** Bahrain: The Forgotten Uprising TheRealNews·Dec 27, 2012 Courtesy: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting see Bahrain is being sucked into a downward spiral ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Great La ...
    The existence of oceans or lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan was predicted more than 20 years ago. But with a dense haze preventing a closer look it has not been possible to confirm their presence. Until the ...
  • Wired Science’s Top Image Galleries of the Year
    Many of our most popular posts are image galleries, and this year our readers favorite collections included microscope photos, doomsday scenarios, auroras and lots of images of Earth from space. Here are are your favorites.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Hidden F ...
    This VISTA image shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Tri-Colo ...
    This composite image combines EIT images from three wavelengths (171Å, 195Å and 284Å) into one that reveals solar features unique to each wavelength. Since the EIT images come to us from the spacecraft in black and white, they are color-coded ...
  • The Most Amazing Science Images of the Year
    Spiders that build their own dummies, dinosaurs cloaked in feathers, berries of the world's most intense color: Here are Wired Science's favorite images of 2012.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Think tank: Israel’s poor international image ...
    Study finds that Israel's advocacy effort has become one of the world's most efficient and productive, but Israel nevertheless suffers from an image problem - which is rather a product of the Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • EU court rejects NGO Monitor petition to relea ...
    The right-wing group, which tracks the activity of left-wing organizations in Israel, has been trying to obtain the documents for 10 years; court throws out suit, says information may be used to harm... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: The terror lurking in a Christm ...
    A recent report in the Haaretz newspaper, on an Israeli Jew who grows Christmas trees commercially, noted in passing: “hotels – under threat of losing kashrut [Kosher] certificates – are prohibited... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Adalah: The 2013 Israeli Elections and Arab-Pa ...
    Adalah document covering Israeli election rules and party or individual disqualifications. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Balad: Knesset Elections Committee disqualifie ...
    MK Haneen Zoabi called the decision “anti-democratic and illegitimate”, a form of political revenge that reflected the tyranny of the majority. “No one will determine for the Arab minority who... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

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