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Friday, December 7, 2012

7 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Social Justice in the Liberal State
Social Justice in the Liberal State (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: Photographs of Occupy Wall Street fro...
English: Photographs of Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park on Day 9, September 25. Wall Street remains closed to the public. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: The Very Rev. Bill Phipps, Canadian church leader and social justice activist. Shown here on September 14, 2001, at an interfaith prayer vigil following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Photo by Grant Neufeld. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • The Koch brothers did us a favour
    We sought to rise above the fray and just define what a good education looks like these days: What are the best schools in any county doing? What defines them? And we found four things: They invest in teaching as a career. They really prize having high-quality teachers in every single classroom. ...
  • Successful Rural Co-ops Vs Urban Tax Breaks
    From looking at the success of coops in rural America, you can see a pattern of latticework: members of one supplies-purchasing coop are often member of the another coop to take their produce to market, a mutually reinforcing system of deepening relationships and community resiliency. In the rec ...
  • Counter-revolution: First Egypt, Now Tunisia
    Several months after the world rejoiced following the 2011 Arab Spring took the world by storm, and replaced one dictator in the MENA region with what appears to be another now that the US-endorsed "democratically elected" Mursi is better known as Morsillini, having granted himself "temporary" d ...
  • Brazil Economy Surprisingly Weak
    Brazil's economy posted extremely disappointing growth in the third quarter, piling pressure on President Dilma Rousseff to make deeper structural reforms and adding to fears that big emerging markets are getting dragged into the stagnant morass of the global economy. The economy expanded jus ...
  • Brazil Economy Surprisingly Weak, Adds to Glob ...
    Brazil's economy posted extremely disappointing growth in the third quarter, piling pressure on President Dilma Rousseff to make deeper structural reforms and adding to fears that big emerging markets are getting dragged into the stagnant morass of the global economy. The economy expanded jus ...

Independent - London

  • Magnitsky affair row grows as Russia threatens ...
    Russia has threatened to unveil a list of American officials who are banned for alleged human rights abuses in the latest in a tit-for-tat row between the two powers.Related StoriesBerlusconi's threat to governmentBritish banks close to settling US money-laundering chargesA $628m brew-haa: Fran ...
  • Bangladesh factory lost safety licence before ...
    The garment factory in Bangladesh where a blaze left 112 workers dead had not been able to renew its fire certificate because of safety concerns.Related StoriesTsunami alert lifted after major earthquake off north-eastern JapanKyrgyzstan's 'prince' Maxim Bakiyev in the dock as US extradition bat ...
  • UN criticises 'dire' camps for Rohingya refugees
    Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims forced from their homes into refugee camps are living in a "dire" situation, the UN's senior humanitarian official says. Baroness Amos called on the Burmese government to act to end the ethnic violence and said all political leaders in the country should sup ...
  • Another fight at the opera as La Scala puts Ve ...
    The obligatory row ahead of opening night at La Scala, the most glittering event on the Italian social calendar, has this year assumed international dimensions.Related StoriesBerlusconi's threat to governmentBritish banks close to settling US money-laundering chargesA $628m brew-haa: Frances tax ...
  • Khaled Meshaal's return gives Palestinians new ...
    Khaled Meshaal, the political leader of Hamas, ended decades of exile, falling to his knees and kissing the ground as he arrived in Gaza on a visit which many Palestinians hope could help mend the rift with his political rivals in Fatah.Related StoriesFood shortages in Syria send prices soaring ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Foreign intervention to further endanger secur ...
    Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian lashed out at certain countries for supplying military aid to the Syrian rebels, and voiced Iran's steadfast opposition to foreign military intervention in Syria. Speaking on Thursday, Amir Abdollahian reaffir ...
  • Are Venus' Volcanoes Active? Clues Suggest Yes
    New evidence hints that Venus may be volcanically active, which has long been a controversial topic among scientists. Six years of observations by the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft have shown significant changes in the sulfur dioxide content of the planet's atmosphere over ti ...
  • USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 7.3 - 245km SE of K ...
    Event Time: 2012-12-07 18:18:24 UTC+10:00 at epicenter Location: 37.889°N 144.090°E depth=36.1km (22.4mi) Nearby Cities: 245km (152mi) SE of Kamaishi, Japan 245km (152mi) ESE of Ofunato, Japan 251km (156mi) ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan 251km (156mi) SE of Otsuchi, Japan 462km (287mi) ENE ...
  • UK braces for more snow as cold snap across Eu ...
    Overnight frosts will continue throughout next week, with increasingly wintry showers turning from sleet into snow The cold snap gripping Europe shows no sign of letting up as the UK braces for snow next week. Overnight frosts will continue throughout next week, with increasingly wintry shower ...
  • Heavy snow collapses walkway in Turkey
    Heavy snow in Turkey piled up on a pedestrian walkway causing it to collapse. Scott Pelley reports.

The Galloping Beaver

  • Remember the 6th of December
  • Land of the free . . .
    ACCORDING TO ZERO HEDGE'S George Washington, "Americans Have Less Access to Justice than Botswanans … And Are More Abused By Police than Kazakhstanis", America is now Amerika with State Security.
  • Genetic patents . . .
    MONSANTO'S MONSTROSITIES? Seems that Monsanto has been really pushy about patents, with the result that WIRED reports "Supreme Court to Rule on Patents for Self-Replicating Products", as people have resisted Monsanto's demands for payment because some of their patented seeds have spread to their ...
  • Syria squeeze
    NATO SAM batteries in Turkey, near enough to the border to knock down Syrian aircraft operating there, US talk about chemical weapon redlines, hints of troop deployments mean something is shifting in the West's approach to the Syrian government. No, I don't think it will be full on Iraq-type inv ...
  • Didn't see that coming...
    Watching events around the new Observer status granted to Palestine at the UN it struck that only real international ally the Israeli rightwing has is the Canadian government. Sure the US continues to provide the Israel material support, but the Obama administration is also frustrated by the pet ...

Media Matters for America

  • Columbus Dispatch Omits Key Facts On Drug Test ...
    The Columbus Dispatch published an article discussing a new proposal to drug test welfare beneficiaries, failing to point out that drug testing laws are expensive, medically unsound, and have previously been found unconstitutional. In addition, reports indicate that welfare recipients are n ...
  • Fox News Papers Over Obama's Proposed Spending ...
    Fox News covered up President Obama's willingness to compromise in the ongoing deficit negotiations, suggesting that he has put "nothing on the table" with regard to spending cuts. In fact, Obama has offered a proposal to Congress that includes $400 billion in savings to social insurance program ...
  • Fox Pushes Disability Benefits Myths
    Fox hyped the high number of people receiving federal disability benefit payments to push myths about the program and suggest many recipients are "moochers" and "takers." In fact, a majority of applicants are denied benefits, and experts agree the higher levels of disability recipients are a dir ...
  • Wall Street Journal Pushes Myths About Wage-Lo ...
    A Wall Street Journal editorial pushed a so-called "right-to-work" law for Michigan that the Journal claims will help fix the state's economy. But economic studies show that such laws lead to lower wages and benefits for all workers and don't boost employment in the states that have adopted them ...
  • WSJ Columnist Ignores Nature Of Obama's Opposi ...
    In noting President Obama's opposition to a Republican-promoted House bill allowing more skilled workers into the U.S., Wall Street Journal columnist Gordon Crovitz failed to mention the reason for Obama's opposition: The House bill eliminates a visa program for immigrants from countries with lo ...

Global Research.ca

  • Syria: EU Nobel Winners, Dodgy Deals, Clinton ...
    Marking abandonment of the last shred of pretense of observing the rule of law, the Nobel Peace Prize winning European Union Foreign Ministers are to meet with the leader of the Syrian insurgency in Brussels on Monday 10th December, according…
  • The Left in Government – A Strategic Project
    To Be in Office, But Not in Power The experiences from having had left political parties in government in Europe in the era of neoliberalism have not been very exciting, to put it mildly. The most recent experiences from such…
  • Middle East on the Boil
    Call it the curse of oil and gas. Countries with large and smaller reserves are affected. So are some with few or perhaps none. Living in a targeted neighborhood is challenging. Independent governments are most vulnerable. Reports suggest the worst…
  • Pollux: Subcritical Underground US Nuclear Exp ...
    On December 6, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) posted on their website that a day earlier it had conducted ‘Pollux,’ the U.S.’s 27th subcritical nuclear experiment since signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Pollux was a first-of-its-kind subcrit ...
  • NATO Attacked Afghan Health Clinic in Serious ...
    NATO forces raided a health clinic, detained people inside and used the building to house detained Afghan insurgents in breach of Geneva Conventions US-led NATO forces attacked a health clinic in Afghanistan, stormed the building, damaged equipment, detained those inside…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Catastrophe in the Making: Mining for Uranium ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We know many of our tragedies by name; in recent years we have met Andrew, Katrina, Ike, Irene, and most recently, Sandy. They defied our expectations — the lost lives, ruined homes, ransacked communities. Ther ...
  • Think Fracking Is Bad? The East Coast May Open ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We know many of our tragedies by name; in recent years we have met Andrew, Katrina, Ike, Irene, and most recently, Sandy. They defied our expectations — the lost lives, ruined homes, ransacked communities. There ...
  • Cows Dropping Dead, Farmers Getting Sick: How ...
    The following article first appeared in the Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for their email newsletters here.This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an investigative reporting nonprofit focusing on food, agricul ...
  • 4 Horrifying Dangers of Fracking
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.The good news is that a public health department— New York State’s Department of Health (DOH)— is finally undertaking an assessment of fracking’s likely health risks. The bad news is that it ...
  • The Top Fracking Threats to Health New York Mu ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.The good news is that a public health department— New York State’s Department of Health (DOH)— is finally undertaking an assessment of fracking’s likely health risks. The bad news is that it ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Dit ...
    The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has taken a step that any self-respecting supporter of renewable energy should do – ditched the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  This relationship looked a lot like the fabled one between the scorpion and tortoise. Despite member ...
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        $25 Advance Tickets ($35 at Door, please register in advance) (Tickets include live entertainment, all food and beverages) Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin Eco Network, Public Citizen, Design Build Live, USGBC-Central Texas Chapter, Center for Maximum Potential, Texas League of Con ...
  • Koch Brothers Exposed Screening with Progress ...
    Progress Texas is hosting a special screening of the documentary Koch Brothers Exposed at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar.  They have already sold out more than half the theater – be sure to reserve your seats now before they sell out! From director Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, WalMart: ...
  • New Sea Level Rise Study Indicates the Impacts ...
    In a new peer-reviewed scientific study, experts said satellite data show sea levels rose by 3.2 millimeters a year from 1993 to 2011 — 60 percent faster than the 2 mm annual rise projected by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for that period, however  the IPCC wa ...
  • Texas Renewables Conference 2012
    I want to alert you to a unique opportunity this December.  It’s a special conference and video-taping called Renewable Energy and The Unified Energy System. And it’s going to be at the Lost Pines Resort just outside of Austin on the way to Bastrop. Renewable Energy has truly come of age. Solar ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Australian PM announces end of the world
    Julia Gillard recorded a comical doomsday message to help promote Australia's Triple J radio show. Gillard's announcement left many people scratching ...
  • Couple sue over psychic police tips hoax
    A couple are suing over psychic information that suggested a massacre took pace on their property. In June 2011, a psychic contacted the police becaus...
  • Who will be first to return to the Moon ?
    Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmitt believes that private firms will soon take over from space agencies. One of the last men to walk on the Moon, Schmit...
  • Dogs taught how to drive
    Three rescue dogs in New Zealand have received training to teach them basic driving skills. The bizarre endeavor is part of a publicity stunt for the ...
  • Volvo developing 'crash-proof' cars
    Car manufacturer Volvo is aiming to build cars that can drive by themselves and avoid collisions. Self-driving cars have been on the table for a few y...

Grassroots

  • People Power versus Hydropower
    Subheadline:  Affected communities say mega-dams put profit over people, environment brazil-mab-demonstration.jpg A massive, very active social movement against the loss of ...
  • Indigenous Kaiowá in Brazil Pledge ‘Collective ...
    Leaders of the Guarani Kaiowá boldly announced that the entire community would rather die in their land defending from businesses and corporations. Their assertion is more than a war declaration. For us, the buyers of “clean energy,” their pronouncement is a jarring wake-up call that the “Green ...
  • SOFA’s Violence Against Women Campaign in Hait ...
    b_350_0_16777215_00___images_stories_women_2012-12-20_afiche_mujeres.jpg Although the January 2010 earthquake suspended the government’s work on a national strategy to combat violence against women, women’s organizations led by SOFA ...
  • Rehabilitating Haiti’s Central Plateau through ...
    mpp_november_2012_blog.jpg The Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) is one example of the amazing work peasant organizations are doing across rural communities in Haiti. In those communities, peasant organizations are working hard with limited ...
  • Who Fishes Matters
    Subheadline:  An interview with Niaz Dorry of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) who_fishes_matters_seafood_card-1.jpg I recently had a chance to interview Grassroot ...

Climate

  • Japan Scientists Took Utility Money
    (AP) Influential scientists who help set Japan's radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world's top academic group on radiation safety. T ...
  • Enbridge Proceeding with $6.2B Pipeline Expansion
    (Houston Chronicle) BISMARCK, N.D. — Enbridge Corp. says it will proceed with a $6.2 billion program to increase pipeline capacity to open North Dakota and western Canada light oil production to expanded markets. The company says its ...
  • Colorado Won't Sue Longmont Over Fracking Ban, ...
    (Denver Business Journal) Colorado won't sue Longmont over a ballot initiative that bans hydraulic fracturing within city limits, but the state stands ready to support any oil and gas company that believes the ban on fracking constitut ...
  • Fracking Study Conflicts Prompt Head of Instit ...
    (Bloomberg Businessweek) University of Texas research that determined hydraulic fracturing for natural gas is safe was tainted by a conflict of interest involving the study’s lead investigator, an independent panel has concluded. Afte ...
  • Drought Revives Old Water Wars Among States th ...
    (AP) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The water wars are raging again in America’s heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River — to drink from their faucets, irrigate their crops a ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Thought for Pearl Harbor Day
    When you realize that the Pearl Harbor attacks took place 71 years ago, and that Bob Dole is 89 years old, it becomes clear that we don't have too much time left with our beloved World War Two veterans. I've always found that generation to be filled with very impressive people. Whether they ta ...
  • How to destroy the world's economy
    The answer: game the system so that wages remain low. This creates short term profits for corporations, since their expenses decline, but in the end without people to spend money on your products and services, i.e., without any demand for your "goods" pretty soon you end up with a depression. ...
  • In Boehner We Trust?
    The last time around, the president negotiated with John Boehner, too. And John Boehner couldn't sell their solution to his own caucus. So, why would we go through that again. At House Speaker John A. Boehners request, Senate leaders and Representative Nancy Pelosi have been excluded from ...
  • Comeuppance for Loudmouth CEO's
    It turns out that people hate rich assholes who threaten to cut back employees' hours so they can avoid taking responsibility for their health insurance. Who could have guessed that publicly ripping on ObamaCare would cause Olive Garden and Red Lobster to downgrade their quarterly profits outlo ...
  • Unified House Republicans?
    I am not sure that I am sharing the same universe with Jennifer Steinhauer of the New York Times. She says that Speaker Boehner has never enjoyed stronger or more unified support from his caucus than he has now. How can that be? At some point, John Boehner is going to ask his caucus to vote f ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Birth of a Painted Lady Butterfly in Pictures
    In these stunning photographs, we're treated to a close-up look at a Painted Lady butterfly as it emerges from its chrysalis. It's Mother Nature at her most magical. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Incredible Boulder-Strewn Landscapes
    Boulders of different shapes and sizes fill these seven stunning landscapes around the world... Incredible boulder-strewn scenes. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    From serious matters like dangerous prisons and extremely small people, to lighter issues like rip-off brands, rappers playing cops, and some tattoos it might do to remov This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Most Bizarre Cat Breeds on Earth
    Cats, a lot like people, come in all shapes and sizes. Here are ten of the more bizarre cat breeds – amazing variations found among one of our favorite types of pet. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Exploring the Remains of England's Top-Secret ...
    Scheduled for demolition and prowled by security, the abandoned Pystock jet engine testing facility makes for fascinating exploration. If you can get in, that is. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • EXCLUSIVE MnDOT info cake: 2.97gb emails/docs ...
    After a long wait, on Nov 28 2012, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) released ~2.97 gigabytes of data from inside the development of a GPS-based vehicle tracking system intended to introduce a vehicle tax - which would entail a great deal of data constantly collected by the gove ...
  • A few more elements on the semi-suspended MN D ...
    Previously on hongpong.com: MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Evaluator BCA Investigation files (Nov 12 2012) -- MK Occupy Minnesota (May 3 2012) The training section of Minnesota's Drug Recognition Evaluator program continues to be suspended, after a 513-page Bureau of Criminal Apprehen ...
  • MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Eval ...
    By Dan Feidt -- hongpong.com -- MINNEAPOLIS -- NOV 12 2012 -- Law enforcement officers under a state training program called Drug Recognition Evaluators encouraged people in downtown Minneapolis, including Occupy Minnesota protesters at Peavey Plaza and other vulnerable and houseless people to p ...
  • Occupy gets rolling in Sandy disaster relief; ...
    Via Occupy Sandy Relief NYC 4 hrs ago: https://www.facebook.com/OccupySandyReliefNyc?fref=ts >>> #NOT ANOTHER KATRINA <<< Contrary to what might be inferred by a media and government blackout - Rockaway IS. NOT. RECOVERING. We can't stress this enough. It looks li ...
  • Question Time: Jimmy Savile pedophile network ...
    "What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how mu ...

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...

Institute for Policy Studies

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War is a Crime.org

  • Bradley Manning, Shakar Aamer, Andy Worthingto ...
    by Debra Sweet,Director, The World Can't Wait Tuesday, we gave you a sense of how much World Can't Wait is appreciated for our role in sticking to principle, and supporting others who do. Today, I want to shout-out to some of the many who show courage and fortitude in the effort to show the ...
  • Déjà vu: crimes, thefts, and TSA “standards” - ...
    Yesterday we reported on the latest TSA theft. If it sounded familiar, in more ways than one, it isn’t just a case of déjà vu. The only thing more consistent than TSA thefts in recent years is the agency’s hollow statements about TSA worker integrity and agency standards. Read the rest at TSA News.
  • Middle East on the Boil
      Middle East on the Boil   by Stephen Lendman   Call it the curse of oil and gas. Countries with large and smaller reserves are affected. So are some with few or perhaps none. Living in a targeted neighborhood is challenging. Independent governments are most vulnerable.   re ...
  • Netanyahu's Israel
      Netanyahu's Israel   by Stephen Lendman   He's made Israel more unfit to live in than any of his predecessors. Palestinians have no rights whatever. Israeli Arabs have few. Most Jews are losing theirs incrementally.   Neoliberal harshness plans destroying Israel's safety ne ...
  • Video: End-the-Wars Vigil Held in Baltimore, M ...
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Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • ‘You should’ve served US better and died!’ Deb ...
    A debt collector, angered that a disabled US Army veteran was living off of disability payments, told him he “should have died” in war instead of “taking advantage of” other Americans. ­Minnesota-based debt collection agency Gurstel Chargo is now facing a lawsuit for verbally abusing ...
  • Droit de Seigneur in Last Gasp Country. Reflec ...
    By Visible It’s not necessary to link any one of the many, totally bullshit, Crass Media stories about Syria, supposedly arming missiles with chemical weapons to use on their own people. All this has come about because of the near total ownership of the Crass Media, by the ZioNAZI-Ogre and ...
  • Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale
    Tax the rich: An animated fairy tale, is narrated by Ed Asner, with animation by Mike Konopacki. Written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers. An 8 minute video about how we arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening economic inequality. ...
  • A real bailout plan that is 100% guaranteed to ...
    Dylan 11 Activist Post OK, so there has been a few dollars thrown in buckets to bailout the billionaires. What about giving the rest of us a real bailout, too? 1. I formally propose each citizen of the world present and future gets 1 million dollars. Tax free, interest free and with no obligatio ...
  • Nuclear Israel: The secret that is not
    Nuclear Israel: The secret that is not – YouTube.

Global Insights

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

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

Inhabitat

  • Learn How To Maximize Your South-Facing Window ...
    As I write this, I’m chewing on a spicy little arugula seedling that I grew from within the last couple of weeks. Considering that it’s -15C outside right now where I am, and there’s a good 3” of snow coating everything, I hadn’t expected to be chowing down on fresh greens unless I’d ...
  • Mysterious Underwater “Crop Circles” Discovere ...
    More than 70 percent of our planet is covered with water, yet the oceans are still the most mysterious parts of the world. Earlier this year, deep-sea photographer and diver Yoji Ookata discovered something he had never seen in his 50 years documenting the underwater world off the coast of Japan ...
  • HotTug: A Floating Hot Tub and an Electric Mot ...
    Read the rest of HotTug: A Floating Hot Tub and an Electric Motorboat All-in-One! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: green design, HotTug, hybrid boat, hybrid vehicles, nautical design, roterdam design, ship jacuzzi, Supergoed, water heat reuse, water vehicles, wood-fired ...
  • NASA Releases Amazing New Images of Earth at Night
    Scientists from NASA and NOAA just unveiled a series of breathtaking new images of our planet glowing at night. Thanks to high-res composite data acquired by a new sensor, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the floating Suomi NPP satellite, we can get “day-night band” image ...
  • WA Design’s Solar-Powered Stinson Beach House ...
    Read the rest of WA Design’s Solar-Powered Stinson Beach House Achieves Net-Zero Energy Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "solar energy", "sustainable architecture", green design, photovoltaic panels, Recycled Materials, salvaged materials, stinson beach house, Sus ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Pogue's Christmas Gadgets: The Zooka Bluetooth ...
    Carbon Audio's Zooka speaker is designed like a foot-long tube, made of hard silicone rubber. It pops onto the edge of a tablet or laptop and gives better sound than those devices' tiny speakers.
  • Pogue's Christmas Gadgets: Monopoly, the Zappe ...
    Here's the first entry in the first week of the first year of a new feature: David Pogue's 12 Gadgets of Christmas. Today's entry: Monopoly Zapped, a version of the game that lets an iPad or iPhone count the money.
  • Apple Rolls Out a Cleaner iTunes
    Apple has introduced the free iTunes 11 for download. It's still the front end for music, videos and iGadgets, and its features and personality are much the same. But the design has been overhauled - deeply, controversially, but, in general, successfully.
  • Laptop Buyers Should Pay Some Attention to the ...
    David Pogue says it's been a long, patient slot for Google to get here, but with year after year of careful tweaks and improvements - and a jaw-dropping $250 price - the Chromebook is finally ready for prime time.
  • You Can Stop Spreading That Facebook Notice Now
    An odd piece of boilerplate text about copyright that has been making the rounds on Facebook is not grounded in reality.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • How Maggots Heal Wounds
    Yes, maggots are creepy, crawly, and slimy. But that slime is a remarkable healing balm, used by battlefield surgeons for centuries to close wounds. Now, researchers say they've figured out how the fly larvae work their magic: They suppress our ...
  • What’s Inside: Southern Comfort Egg Nog
    Egg yolks Cholesterol-laden home recipes for nog call for six to 12 eggs per quart of milk. This version—which shows up in stores for the holidays—contains far fewer. Based on the total cholesterol content, we estimate that it has just ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Galactic ...
    Bright pink nebulae almost completely encircle a spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 922. The ring structure and the galaxy’s distorted spiral shape result from a smaller galaxy scoring a cosmic bullseye, hitting the centre ...
  • Golden Spike Company Unveils Plans to Fly Comm ...
    A private company named Golden Spike announced today that they have plans to fly manned crews to the moon and back for a price of $1.5 billion per flight.
  • Solving the Mystery of River Formation
    Look outside after a heavy rain and you may find a miniature Grand Canyon in your backyard, complete with a complex network of tributaries. The precise conditions that cause rivers of all sizes to form branches have long been a ...

PakAlert

  • Supreme Court of CA To Rule On Obama Eligibility
    Breaking news! Supreme Court of CA to rule whether Obama should be declared illegitimate for the U.S. Presidency due to his use of forged IDs and a fraudulently obtained CT Social Security number. Loss of 55 CA electoral votes will certainly mean new elections in the
  • Senate Unanimously Passes 2013 NDAA; Power to ...
    Just after 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, the Senate did it again. By a vote of 98-0 (two senators abstained) lawmakers in the upper chamber approved the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Not a single senator objected to the passage once again of a law that purports to permit the p ...
  • US, French Troops Prepare For Syria Invasion I ...
    The 8 day mini war between Israel and Gaza has come and gone and any attempts at provoking a wider regional conflict, one involving Iran (if indeed this was the intention), have failed. Which means the fallback plan - Syria - is back in play. And sure enough, as both the most recent naval map up ...
  • Big Brother: Your Television is Watching You
    Joining the ranks of private sector corporations assisting in the expansion of Big Brother surveillance in the US, Verizon has patented technology that turns a DVR into a personal spying tool to watch Americans in their own homes. Verizon is calling this endeavor FierceCable that is able to d ...
  • Top 11 musicians accused of Satanism
    Whenever anything has become popular, there have been devil-smellers there to accuse it of Satanism. It is a bit like how hipsters claim that everything popular sold out and how they knew about it “before it was cool”, except I suppose the devil-smeller would say “before they sold their souls ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of South East London At Night: Tunnels, ...
    South East London At Night: Tunnels, the River and the Surrey Canal, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike — and specifically as the last part of five photo sets recording various autumnal journeys around my home in Brockley, in south east ...
  • An Impossible Suicide at Guantánamo
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • Save Lewisham Hospital: Photos of the Protest ...
    Save Lewisham Hospital: The Protest and Sham Consultation on December 4, 2012, a set on Flickr. Yesterday evening, following on from the demonstration on November 24 that attracted 10,000 to 15,000 supporters, many hundreds of Lewisham residents converged on the Calabash Centre, on George Lane i ...
  • Photos: Early Morning Amongst the Graves of St ...
    Early Morning Amongst the Graves of St. Alfege Park, Greenwich, a set on Flickr. St. Alfege Park, in Greenwich, in south east London, is part of the former churchyard of St. Alfege Church, the 18th century church designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and built on the site of two previous churches dedic ...
  • The End of Decency: Tories to Make Disabled Pe ...
    What is wrong with the people of Britain? For two and a half years now, the Tory-led coalition government has been waging war on the most vulnerable members of society — the disabled — and hardly anyone seems to care. In order to cut the welfare bill, the government is paying a fortu ...

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

SPL Center

  • More Links Between Alaska Serial Killer and Ra ...
    Confessed serial killer Israel Keyes committed suicide in an Alaska jail cell last weekend by slitting his wrist with a disposable razor and strangling himself with a sheet tied between his neck and extended foot, authorities say. Before killing himself, the 34-year-old man, who was exposed to C ...
  • Suspected ‘Sovereign’ Arrested in North Dakota ...
    A kidnapping suspect with suspected extremist connections and a history of assaulting police was arrested Wednesday after attempting to hijack a tractor-trailer rig at a truck stop in Bismarck, N.D. Mitchell L. Walck, wanted for shooting at an Idaho state trooper last weekend and later kidnappin ...
  • Four Anarchists Sentenced in Cleveland Bridge ...
    Four young self-described anarchists caught planning to blow up an Ohio bridge in an FBI sting operation have received sentences ranging from six to 11½ years in federal prison. Anthony M. Hayne, 35, of Cleveland, the first to plead guilty and the last of the four to be sentenced, received a six ...
  • Hatewatch Exclusive: Alaska Serial Killer Expo ...
    A confessed serial killer and bank robber who took his own life in an Alaska jail cell on Sunday was exposed to the racist and anti-Semitic beliefs of Christian Identity theology during his childhood in a rural corner of Washington state, Hatewatch has learned. Israel Keyes, 34, now linked to at ...
  • Suspected ‘Sovereign Citizen’ on Run After Sho ...
    A nationwide manhunt is under way for an antigovernment fugitive who shot at an Idaho State Police officer over the weekend before kidnapping a woman and taking her from Idaho to Montana. Mitchell Lee Walck, who served prison time in Montana for assaulting a police officer, released the 62-year- ...

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  • US Positions Navy Warships Off North Korea in ...
    The US is moving four Navy ships off the coast of North Korea after reports that the North Korean government will launch a ballistic missile sometime between December 10 and 22. The US is also warning North Korea to cancel the launch—the country's second this year following a failed la ...
  • Climate Justice Advocates Slam Doha's Emerging ...
    With terms like "sluggish" "tough-going" and "extremely sour" used to describe the tone and progress of the UN climate talks in Doha on Friday, the hope for an agreement that could actually meet the ever-escalating challenges of global warming caused by human pollut ...
  • Iran Nuclear Accord 'Unlikely' Without Easing ...
    WASHINGTON - Iran is unlikely to agree to curb its nuclear program unless the U.S. and its Western allies are prepared to ease tough economic sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic over the past decade, according to a major new report signed by more than three dozen former top U.S. forei ...
  • Climate Skeptic Sen. Inhofe Makes Surprise App ...
    As the COP18 climate conference winds down and the world waits for international negotiators to reach agreement, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) made a surprising appearance via satellite to contribute his long-refuted climate skepticism to the talks. ...
  • Protests Erupt at Michigan Capitol After Right ...
    Michigan's Republican-dominated legislature on Thursday passed conservative, anti-worker, anti-women measures--controversial right-to-work legislation and a conscience clause that allows health care providers to deny services--sparking outrage and protests from Democrats and union members an ...

Lifehacker

  • Remains of the Day: Google Apps Accounts No Lo ...
    Google Apps accounts are streamlined, Rumors say Microsoft is rushing the Surface RT tablet to other retail outlets, getting the new 27-inch iMac could take a while, and Samsung announces a hefty update for the Galaxy SIII. More »
  • Learn to Properly Julienne an Onion and Keep Y ...
    We've shared countless ways to cut onions without crying in the past, but if you're tired of using silly tricks—or they don't work for you—reader mavery81230 shows us that better knife skills can negate the problem altogether. More »
  • What do you do to a computer to get it ready t ...
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even ...
  • "Inspiration Is Like Food Poisoning"
    "Inspiration isn't something you can schedule, harness, or control. Inspiration is more like food poisoning: it sprays out uncontrollablly when you need it the least." - The Oatmeal More »
  • How To Weed Out a Good Contractor From the Bad
    As we've gone over before, there are some jobs that you probably should not DIY. Everybody's gotta call a pro sometime. But do your due diligence before you let a contractor get to work. The experts at Stack Exchange tell you how. More »

Water Privatization

  • UVM hails bottled water ban
    BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- An arch made with 2,000 empty plastic water bottles in the student center at the University of Vermont was dedicated Wednesday as a monument to the school’s decision to end the sale of bottled water on the Burlington campus.
  • Saudi- Water company unveils strategy to save ...
    (MENAFN - Arab News) The National Water Company has announced its new Treated Sewage Effluent (TSE) initiative. "The TSE initiative is essentially designed to address the challenges of water ...
  • Water company unveils strategy to save resources
    Loay Al-Musallam, CEO of National Water Company, addresses a symposium in Jeddah on Wednesday. (AN photo)
  • Treated sewage effluent initiative aims to eas ...
    The National Water Company has announced its new Treated Sewage Effluent (TSE) initiative. “The TSE initiative is essentially designed to address the challenges of water shortages across Saudi Arabia, protect the natural groundwater resources, reduce wastewater discharge in the valleys, and deve ...
  • U of Vt. celebrates bottled water ban
    BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — An arch made with 2,000 empty plastic water bottles in the student center at the University of Vermont was dedicated Wednesday as a monument to the school's decision to end the sale of bottled water on the Burlington campus.

Guardian

  • US supreme court takes up gay marriage cases – ...
    The supreme court has decided to take on cases related to the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 in California. Follow the decisions liveAdam Gabbatt
  • Julian Assange: the fugitive
    Julian Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy for six months. In a rare interview, we ask the WikiLeaks founder about reports of illness, paranoia – and if he'll ever come outThe Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge looks rather lavish from the street, but inside it's not much bigger ...
  • David Cameron faces Tory revolt over vote on s ...
    Gay marriage compromise allows faith ceremonies, but churches, mosques and synagogues 'free to refuse'David Cameron is facing a backlash from traditional Conservatives after he confirmed plans to allow churches and religious organisations to host same-sex weddings.Opponents of gay marriage claim ...
  • Royal hospital nurse who took hoax call from D ...
    Australian radio presenters taken off air after suspected suicide of mother-of-twoA nurse at the private hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge has been found dead in a suspected suicide three days after being duped by two Australian radio presenters in a hoax call.The body of Jacin ...
  • Starbucks row over tax and staff contracts cou ...
    Predicton based on research by Gary Davies, professor of corporate reputation at Manchester Business SchoolIt has left a bitter taste that not even the strongest after-coffee mint could shift and the reputational crisis engulfing Starbucks over allegations of tax avoidance and removal of staff s ...

McClatchey

  • In Egypt’s battle over Morsi’s p ...
    Adel Amer, 44, said he was one of those who beat protesters at a fierce and ultimately deadly standoff Wednesday in front of Egypt?s presidential palace between supporters and opponents…Click to Continue »
  • Speaker Boehner hints he could accept higher t ...
    House Speaker John Boehner on Friday wouldn?t rule out higher income-tax rates as part of an agreement to avert the coming ?fiscal cliff,? but he also said no such movement…Click to Continue »
  • 'Snow' turtles stranded in Cape Cod’s col ...
    Call them snow-birds of the four-flippered variety. The Coast Guard on Friday airlifted to Florida 35 endangered sea turtles that got caught up in cold water off Cape Cod, Mass.,Click to Continue »
  • Supreme Court will review gay marriage cases
    The Supreme Court on Friday turned to gay marriage in a big way, by agreeing to review both a California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage and a federal law…Click to Continue »
  • Kansas readies for impact of fiscal cliff
    If the mixture of spending cuts and tax increases known as the fiscal cliff kicks in just after New Years Day, Kansas doctors would scramble to replace lost income, researchers…Click to Continue »

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Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Congress Passes Magnitsky Act
              Sergei Magnitsky On December 6, 2012 Congress passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012. (Magnitsky Act). The law was inspi ...
  • Record Recoveries under False Claims Act
      The Justice Department confirmed in a release issued on December 4 that it has been a record year for recoveries from the False Claims Act.  In fact 2012 garnered the DOJ the “largest annual recovery in Department history.” Most of the recoveries were from actions filed ...
  • NWC Files Amicus Brief on IRS Whistleblower Pr ...
    On November 5, 2012, the National Whistleblower Center filed a briefing paper/amicus brief with the Internal Revenue Service addressing key questions of law governing the IRS Whistleblower program. The brief, linked here, addresses the issue of "collected proceeds" under the IRS w ...
  • Federal Whistleblower Protection Enhancement A ...
    President Barack Obama signed into law today the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). Whistleblower attorneys working pro bono with the NWC played an instrumental role in passing this Act. NWC’s Executive Director Stephen Kohn testified before the Senate Homeland Security Commi ...
  • Perspectives from the NWC Founders
    DC cable television aired this timeless interview with NWC founders Stephen Kohn, Michael Kohn, and David Colapinto:

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • VCs Successfully Fund Lawsuit Against Best Buy ...
    I recently heard a story of yet another startup which had been hit by a bogus patent troll lawsuit. As always, it would be cheaper to just settle the lawsuit than to fight it in court, even though they knew that they would win. In this case, the CEO said he was going to fight it anyway because ...
  • DailyDirt: Foods Going Out Of Style...
    Food scarcity is a real problem in many parts of the world, but in affluent nations, there are different kinds of food limitations. Not being able to find a "cooler ranch" flavored snack and having to settle for "original flavor" is definitely a first world problem. Here are just a few examples ...
  • John Steele's Property Caretaker Intervenes In ...
    Remember the comedy routine that really was a copyright troll court hearing involving notorious copyright troll lawyer John Steele and a bunch of lawyers who all denied representing the plaintiff? We hoped that people would take that transcript and turn it into a movie, and now, apparently, we ...
  • Appeals Court Holds Firm: The Government Canno ...
    There's more bad news on the Fourth Amendment front as the appeals court reviewing a lawsuit filed against the US government for illegally spying on American citizens has declined to rehear the Al-Haramain case. A federal appeals court is refusing to reconsider its August ruling in which ...
  • Press Parrots Cybersecurity FUD From Former NS ...
    Not this again. Nearly three years ago, we wrote about the growing hype around "cyberwar" in the US government -- much of it being pushed by one Michael McConnell. News reports love to cover McConnell's fear-mongering about how the internet is at risk. He used to always talk about "cyberwar" ...

VacTruth

  • Congressional Hearing on Autism—From the Aweso ...
    We know that the NIH and CDC have fallen way short in recognizing, let alone fixing, this autism epidemic. They’ve proven that time and time again. But Congress is listening. They understand that autism is an emergency, that it’s not genetic, that something is terribly wrong...
  • Who Says There is No Money in Making Vaccines? ...
    In 2011, the US Federal government awarded 6 pharmaceutical corporations over 5.7 Billion to manufacture vaccines children’s vaccines alone.
  • 4,250% Increase in Fetal Deaths Reported to VA ...
    Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS) fetal death reports by 4,250 percent in pregnant women.
  • Brainwashed Police Prosecute Parents to Protec ...
    Retired Sergeant Christopher Savage confirms police are writing off cases of vaccine injury as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. and Shaken Baby Syndrome.
  • Bill Gates Funding Drone Technology to Deliver ...
    When it comes to money and imagination, Bill Gates seems to have an endless supply of both. One of his latest financial donations is funding unmanned aerial vehicles to quickly and inexpensively deliver vaccines.

BroadSnark

  • Ted Leo Benefit Show for Bradley Manning
    I have disappeared again, mostly hiding in a case of vodka. But I have also been helping to put together the benefit show this Saturday. If you are in the area, come out. Also, there is a protest out at Ft. Meade on Tuesday. The FB event is here.
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Took this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town. Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more about putti ...
  • Book Review – The Occupy Handbook
    The Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning wr ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Follow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
  • Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...
    By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • End the war on terror and save billions
    Fareed Zacharia writes: As we debate whether the two parties can ever come together and get things done, here’s something President Obama could probably do by himself that would be a signal accomplishment of his presidency: End the war on terror. Or, more realistically, start planning and prepar ...
  • Syrian military officers: ‘There’s no one left ...
    Reporting for the Daily Star, Marlin Dick describes a phone conversation, claimed to be between two Syrian military officers — a conversation that was recorded presumably without the awareness of either party and then posted on YouTube. Dick acknowledges that the authenticity of the record ...
  • Obama’s blurred line on chemical weapons
    The New York Times reports: When President Obama first warned Syria’s leader, President Bashar al-Assad, that even making moves toward using chemical weapons would cross a “red line” that might force the United States to drop its reluctance to intervene in the country’s civil war, Mr. Obama took ...
  • U.S. trains rebel brigades to secure chemical ...
    Syria Deeply reports: The US and its allies have hired contractors to train some Syrian rebel brigades in chemical weapons security, Syria Deeply has exclusively learned from four diplomats, including one US official. The sources asked to remain anonymous, as they deal directly with developments ...
  • Assad is not suicidal
    Joshua Landis writes: Assad is unlikely to use chemical weapons at this time. He must know that as soon as he uses them, he will have written his death warrant. I do not think he is suicidal or about to pursue a “Samson option” as some have suggested. The Alawite community of 2.5 million that [...]

Watts Up With That?

  • Friday Funny – Do Ha Ha
      When in Doha, do as the Dohans do. The graphed data was taken from here BTW, there are still Josh 2013 calendars available   Tagged: Doha
  • Monckton on his smashing the U.N. wall of sile ...
    From Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Doha, Qatar I have been a bad boy. At the U.N. climate conference in Doha, I addressed a plenary session of national negotiating delegates though only accredited as an observer. One just couldn’t resist. … Continue reading →
  • New study shows: climate models still struggle ...
    How cold will a winter be in two years?  How well are the most important climate models able to predict the weather conditions for the coming year or even the next decade? The Potsdam scientists Dr. Dörthe Handorf and Prof. … Continue reading →
  • A problem: nearly one third of CO2 emissions ...
    Guest post by Tom Fuller The physics behind the theory of global warming are solid. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, we’re emitting industrial levels of it, with China now in the lead for emissions. A significant portion remains in the … Continue reading →
  • Is green energy a fad that has run its course?
    So, How’s Your Green Energy Stock Doing? Guest post By Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times Is green energy a fad that has run its course? The investment community seems to think so. RENIXX® World, the Renewable Energy … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Making a Flu Vaccine Without the Virus
    A new vaccine strategy could make flu shots cheaper, safer, and easier to produce. Using synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) instead of proteins purified from viruses, German scientists have shown they can protect mice, ferrets, and pigs against influenza. “This is a very interesting new approa ...
  • Newly discovered effects of vitamin D on cancer
    Vitamin D slows the progression of cells from premalignant to malignant states, keeping their proliferation in check A team of researchers at McGill University have discovered a molecular basis for the potential cancer preventive effects of vitamin D. The team, led by McGill professors John Whit ...
  • Terminator arm is worlds most advanced prosthe ...
  • Inadequate cellular rest may explain effects o ...
    Ss aging inevitable? What factors make older tissues in the human body less able to maintain and repair themselves, as in the weakening and shrinkage of aging muscles in humans? A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators and collaborators at King’s College London d ...
  • Too Much Alcohol Cuts Brain Neuron Formation
    Drinking a couple of glasses of wine each day has generally been considered a good way to promote cardiovascular and brain health.  But a new Rutgers University study indicates that there is a fine line between moderate and binge drinking – a risky behavior that can decrease the making of adult ...

CFACT

  • Chanting for climate
    Want to chant for climate? Forests? The environment? It's cheaper than subsidies, wind turbines and redistribution and just as effective. Watch now.
  • Behind the scenes at COP 18
    The COP 18 chieftains have instituted a “paperless” policy, depriving delegates of daily programs and copies of negotiating documents that keep them relatively informed. And while this policy has allegedly “saved” 217 trees as of yesterday (I know this because the U.N. keeps a running tally prom ...
  • Triple threat: UN, EPA and Congress
    The triple threat to our energy, economy, jobs, living standards, health and welfare is justified by assertions that the actions will stabilize Earth’s climate and prevent a litany of global warming horrors. We need to educate the public and start the debate before our fate is sealed for us.
  • Extreme weather debunked
    There would be extreme weather if humans lived on Earth or not. With an arguable less than one degree Celsius of total warming, with no warming for the last 16 years, claims that human prosperity are causing extreme weather events are propaganda -- nothing more. Climate Depot's Extreme Weat ...
  • Release: Call to suspend climate treaty negoti ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CFACT held a press conference today calling on the UN to suspend all efforts to create a new global warming treaty.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Main News of December 07
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • Morsi Opponents Break Through To Cairo Preside ...
    Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s opponents on Friday evening broke through wire barriers outside Morsi’s palace in the capital Cairo as some people tried to climb the gate after security guards withdrew forces, regional media reported.
  • US Marks 25 Years Since Historic March for Sov ...
    Jews across the United States this week are commemorating the 25th anniversary of a historic march on Washington lobbying the Soviet Union to allow its Jewish citizens to emigrate.
  • Rotting Whale Stinks Up US Coast Near Celebrit ...
    A rotting whale carcass that washed ashore in the US state of California this week just a stone’s throw from the multimillion-dollar Malibu homes of some of Hollywood’s richest and most famous stars is creating a stink between the various government agencies in the area over just who’s responsib ...
  • Russian State Lottery Searching for $2.8 Milli ...
    Russian state-run lottery Gosloto said on Friday that the winner of an 87-million ruble (2.8 million) jackpot has still not come forward but has 180 days to claim his prize.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Science in Dire Straits - Report
    Russian science is in crisis, mainly due to underfunding and the lack of a coherent national development strategy, according to a report from the Russian Science Promotion Association (RSPA), a non-governmental organization that advocates on behalf of science.
  • Khrunichev Completes Nauka Space Station Module
    Russia's Khrunichev space company has completed assembly of the Nauka ("Science") multirole laboratory module for the International Space Station, Khrunichev said on Friday.
  • American & Russian Prepare for Yearlong Space ...
    American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko acknowledged during a joint news conference Wednesday that their upcoming yearlong mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will be challenging, but will help advance scientific knowledge for possible future trips ...
  • Putin Urges CIS Countries to Join Glonass
    Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to join Glonass, Russia's global positioning system.
  • NASA’s Curiosity Finds Complex Chemistry On Mars
    NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has employed its full set of tools to analyze Martian soil and discovered water, sulfur and chlorine-containing substances, as well as other ingredients, within it.

Pruning Shears

  • "no one is there for you but you know who? You ...
    One of the under appreciated hazards of fracking is its effect on democracy. Fracking is a big, intrusive process - one that sucks up lots of water, creates enormous amounts of traffic and an ungodly amount of noise, etc. Setting aside the environmental dangers and health effects (!), the heav ...
  • Transcript: When fracking comes to town: Maria ...
    Video here.…now sits there with two contaminated wells up for sale. As you can imagine, there’s not a lot of customers for a contaminated farm. So it’s sitting there waiting to go into bankruptcy. Her husband’s in Africa serving in the military. Her horses - she has t ...
  • Reasons to support Corrente fund raising week
    Corrente is having its fund raiser; please stop by and throw some money into the hat if you can.Corrente is an important site for liberals to support because of what it is and what it does. Here’s what it is: an old school blog. While political blogs existed before 2000, they weren&#8217 ...
  • Trafficking and the new civil liberties debate
    Civil liberties are more often than not difficult to stand up for in practice. In theory everyone is in favor of them, but the only times they make it into national debate is when they are under attack. When times are good policy makers and the public don’t seem to give much thought to r ...
  • Third party laziness, 2012 edition
    Kevin Gosztola’s post on safe voting strategies quotes historian Howard Zinn’s claim that “we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls.” But Zinn veers ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic Consumers Association Statement On Cal ...
    The OCA Continues to Monitor Prop 37 Election Results, Has Not Ruled Out a ChallengeClick here to read this article
  • How to Build a Grassroots Power Base
    Millions of Americans are eager, even desperate, for a political movement that truly challenges the power of Wall Street and the Pentagon. But accommodation has been habit-forming for many left-leaning organizations, which are increasingly taking their cues from the party establishment: deferrin ...
  • The Invisible Nuclear Threat Within Non-Organi ...
    There is a profound misunderstanding in the mass market today about the value of certified organic food. The question is not whether the 50% higher or more you pay at the register for an organic product is really worth the added vitamin, mineral and phytonutrient content you receive.Click here ...
  • "Labeling It Ourselves": With Real Food Calcul ...
    As the defeat of Prop 37 is mourned in California and throughout the food movement, students are actually enacting it, continuing the hard work for food chain transparency that they started well before the Prop 37 battle entered the mainstream.Click here to read this article
  • Liberals and Progressives Happy but Not Elated ...
    Many Americans sighed with relief the day after the 2012 election that they had beaten back a powerful right-wing assault. There was little enthusiasm about what we had achieved in retaining Obama, but much joy that for the moment the most reactionary forces in American life were held at bay. Li ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Government Accountability Project Sues FDA for ...
    The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is suing FDA for data on antibiotic sales. If we want more data, we have to sleuth it out of the agency ourselves.
  • What We’re Reading: HIGH STEAKS Strikes at Hea ...
    In High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat, author Eleanor Boyle addresses these reasons and many more for why America should steer away from industrial meat production in both its policy priorities and consumption habits.
  • Improved Agriculture—It’s About Energy, Soil, ...
    How can farms become more resilient? Self-sufficient? Energy-efficient? The answer to all these questions is “ecological agriculture.”
  • FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...
    Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
  • Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...
    If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.

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My Care2 Picks

  • Rancher Loses Livestock Due To GMO Corn
    The Food Nation Radio Network conducted an exclusive interview this week with Jerry Rosman, an Iowa pig and cattle rancher who lost his entire operation due to GMO corn that he says made his livestock sterile. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |&n ...
  • Thank You for being a Virtuous Citizen!
    We, the virtuous self-governors of the world are truth seekers and believe in ourselves, our talents and abilities to create a world of abundance without tyranny and oppression. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 28-Gate: BBC Crisis Deepens in Exposure of Rig ...
    The BBC sank further into crisis today after new evidence ties two recent pedophile scandals to a secret climate advisory panel that rigged reporting on global warming for six years. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • A Box Filled With Love
    Mom started the care packages. She sent them to my brothers when they left home to join the military, to us girls when we moved away to other cities and towns, to friends who were going through tough times and to complete strangers who faced a particular Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat &n ...
  • U.S. uses al Qaeda to Advance Its Military Adv ...
    Israeli spy chief says Tel Aviv supports regime change in Syria, amid ongoing efforts by the anti-Syria governments to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Supreme Court to hear gay marriage cases
    ShareThisSupreme Court to hear gay marriage cases 07 Dec 2012 The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will take up same-sex marriage, hearing both a case stemming from California's Proposition 8 voter-approved ban on gay marriage and a case from New York challenging the constitutionality o ...
  • Earthquake and Tsunami Again Hit Northeast Japan
    ShareThisEarthquake and Tsunami Again Hit Northeast Japan 07 Dec 2012 n echos of the March 11th disaster of 2011, a one meter-high tsunami hit northeast Japan on Friday, after a powerful undersea quake struck off the coast which was still in the process of recovering from the aforementioned d ...
  • NRSC Spent Big on Todd Akin Race After Claimin ...
    ShareThisNRSC Spent Big on Todd Akin Race After Claiming to Abandon Him 07 Dec 2012 The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent $760,000 to the Missouri Republican Party in the first days of November, which was used to give the embattled Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) a last-minute campaign boost, ...
  • 'Sex for student fees' man unmasked to be IT c ...
    ShareThis'Sex for student fees' man unmasked to be IT consultant 'with top-level MoD security clearance' --'Assessor' for SponsoraScholar.co.uk Mark Lancaster worked on massive overhaul of the British military computer network 06 Dec 2012 The man revealed by The Independent to be running a websi ...
  • Hillary Clinton greeted by two bombs for North ...
    ShareThisHillary Clinton greeted by two bombs for Northern Ireland visit 07 Dec 2012 A second explosive device has been found amid rising sectarian tensions in advance of Hillary Clinton's visit to Northern Ireland today. Just hours after police intercepted a device which they believe was abo ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • VIDEO: Firefight While Waiting for MEDEVAC
    07 December 2012 This video apparently was made by a helmet cam.   It shows normal combat in Afghanistan.  Similar scenes have unfolded thousands of times during the war.  This underlines why so many people are serious about removing the red crosses from Dustoff MEDEVAC heli ...
  • Giduck Dismissal Order
    04 December 2012
  • Wolf Pack 103: Sole Mates
    REMEMBER THIS PRINT. The terrain in Afghanistan is great for tracking: prints are often sharp and clear, and quarry is frequently channelized. During a mission with British forces, this print pinged my senses so I made the photograph in the morning light. Soldiers found many bombs nearby, and we ...
  • Coalition Combat Forces in Afghanistan: Afghan ...
    01 December 2012
  • WolfPack 102: Sensors
    This sensor was hidden in the middle of an Afghan village on 31 July 2011. It was positioned to spy over a dirt road intersection about 10-20 meters away. US casualties were occurring in this village. Six hours before this photograph was taken, perhaps a couple of hundred meters away, Brice Scot ...

The Killing Train

  • Partition talk
    When Belgium realized in the 1950s that, given that France and Britain were losing their African colonies, it would no longer be able to hold on to Congo, it set about trying to guarantee continued control over the strategic aspects of the economy, especially the mines. At first, it sponsored it ...
  • Podcast on the DRC
    I was on Kudakwashe Cayenne's radio program, Heart of Africa, yesterday, along with Maurice Carney from Friends of the Congo. Here's the podcast.
  • Sources on teaching
    I've been gradually collecting sources on teaching without realizing it. Teaching instruction can come from some unlikely places (the likely places are Alfie Kohn, John Holt, Carol Dweck, Paolo Freire...). Here are some of mine: read more
  • How Criminals Communicate - thoughts for above ...
    Just finished reading Diego Gambetta's "Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate" (Princeton University Press 2009). One of Gambetta's contentions is that criminals face more extreme versions of the same problems people face in above-ground life. I read it thinking about the connection ...
  • Goma falls to Rwanda
    Rebels, called the M23, have taken Goma, the main city of North Kivu, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s eastern provinces. Their plan is to march to Bukavu, the main city of South Kivu, and from there, they say, across the massive country to Kinshasa, the Congo's capital. A geogra ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • State mouthpiece preemptively blasts Al Jazeer ...
    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sought to discredit an Al Jazeera documentary that will air this weekend in a report published in both editions of the New Light of Myanmar
  • International praise and grassroots realities
    Although President Thein Sein has been awarded several prizes from international organisations for instituting reforms, the draconian laws that were used to persecute activists are still on the books while the government continues to harass and arrest protestors
  • UN demands access to displaced in conflict zones
    The UN's humanitarian chief has called on Burma to stop blocking aid to thousands of people displaced by conflict with northern ethnic rebels, raising concerns over welfare as winter draws in
  • Commission sidelines gov’t in crackdown invest ...
    Independent experts will investigate what type of devices and tactics were used against protestors during a police crackdown at Latpadaung Copper Mine last week, said Aung San Suu Kyi.
  • US officials meet monks, protesters behind mon ...
    Three US State Department officials met with Buddhist monks at Mandalay’s Masoeyein Monastery yesterday to discuss sectarian tensions in Arakan state and last week’s crackdown at the Latpadaung Copper Mine

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Adelson Doubles Down on GOP, Will Spend $200-M ...
    Early in the presidential campaign, before anyone had made this prediction, when such a sum seemed preposterous, I said Sheldon Adelson would spend $100-million during the 2012 race.  I was right. The Wall Street Journal just published a curious interview with Sheldon Adelson in which he both ap ...
  • As Perertz Abandons Labor Party, Israeli Polit ...
    Nothing illustrates the political bankruptcy of the Israeli political center better than this image of Tzipi Livni, founder of the Ha-Tenuah Party holding hands with her freshest catch, Amir Peretz, former Labor defense minister and second highest vote-getter in the recent Labor primary. The ima ...
  • Israel Used Depleted Uranium Munitions During ...
    I’m beginning to read reports from Gaza that indicate that the IDF may’ve used depleted uranium munitions during its recent assault.  A local journalist writes in Electronic Intifada about the grotesque forms of some of the victims’ wounds.  He (incorrectly, I believe) associat ...
  • David Brotsky’s Romance With Guns, Violence an ...
    A year ago or so I exposed the identity of the founder of the Jewish Internet Defense Force (Wikipedia article).  David Brotsky, aged 37, lives in Dallas, TX (and appears to have lots of ties to New York).  He is a film production and location manager by day.  His credits include some of the bet ...
  • U.S. to Build $100-Million Underground Bunker ...
    Walter Pincus reported in the Washington Post that the U.S. taxpayer is footing the bill for $500-million worth of projects on behalf of the IDF, as specified in the Wye Agreement.  Already, that’s paid for facilities for Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal.  The latest project will be ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Poderopedia Uses Public Data to Take on Powerf ...
    The last months for the Poderopedia team have been full of learning, making mistakes, correcting them, and learning again in a never-ending iteration process. In the beginning of November, we started our private beta testing with friends and family, fixing bugs and updating the platform in o ...
  • Pop Up Archive Breathes New (Media) Life into ...
    When we talk about the changing face of media on the web, archiving isn't generally the first subject to come up. As we were beginning Pop Up Archive, we grappled with the fact that it's hard to show the vibrant, innovative side of archiving. Historically, archives have been hands-off; this was ...
  • Highlights from the Mozilla Festival in London
    This post was written by Miranda Mulligan, executive director of the Knight News Innovation Lab, and originally appeared on the the Knight Lab blog. A significant portion of the Knight Lab team was fortunate enough to join the Mozilla Festival in London, November 9-12. This incredible event, ...
  • Meograph: The Future of Storytelling is 4D (wi ...
    Meograph, new storytelling startup that launched in July, gives online journalists and storytellers an added dimension that too often has been missing: context. With Meograph, you can create what co-founder and CEO Misha Leybovich calls "4D storytelling" through a simple interface that lets u ...
  • MapBox: The Secret to Making USA Today's Elect ...
    MapBox worked with USA Today to build their election night maps that tracked results as they came in from across the country. USA Today's primary goals for their digital-mapping content was it should have multiple forms of embeddable maps for the home page, articles and landing pages, it should ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Healthcare on Edge - Raising Medicare Eligibil ...
    The nation's fiscal problems are mainly the result of the rapid growth in spending on entitlement programs. In 1972, the federal government spent 4.4 percent of the nation's gross domestic product on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. By 2011, spending on these three programs had jumped to ...
  • The Race for Natural Gas - Gazprom Says South ...
    Russia's Gazprom says construction will begin this week on the underwater section of its South Stream pipeline, which will carry natural gas beneath the Black Sea and into the European Union. But is this really the case?Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller announced last month that the final investment de ...
  • Nature on Edge - Manila Rhino Horn Bust Shows ...
    Authorities in the Philippines recently seized a consignment of rhino horn, which they believe was being shipped through Manila to China. Many environmentalists say the find highlights how adept crime syndicates are at exploiting new routes to smuggle endangered wildlife from Africa into Asia, a ...
  • The Race for Solar - Silver Nanocubes Make Sup ...
    Microscopic metallic cubes could unleash the enormous potential of metamaterials to absorb light, leading to more efficient and cost-effective large-area absorbers for sensors or solar cells, Duke University researchers have found.Metamaterials are man-made materials that have properties often a ...
  • The Arab Winter of Rage - Darkness Prevails Th ...
    Sadness prevails in the Middle East over the turn that the Arab Spring is taking. The most significant image is that of young people these days peacefully besieging Mohamed Morsi's presidential palace in Heliopolis.After nearly two years we are still at the starting point, faced with a fresh att ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Unions Protest Right To Work Vote -Michael Moo ...
    As discussed here earlier in the week,  the home of the labor movement, Michigan was about to become a "right to work state".  Yesterday, the Michigan House and Senate each passed bills to give private and public sector workers the right to avoid paying union dues in an organi ...
  • Newsbusted: Washington D.C. Creating a "Prosti ...
    Prostitutes — out of sight, out of mind. At least that’s what the government of Zurich, Switzerland, is hoping for. That’s why they’ve created drive-in sex boxes, which will accommodate around 30 working prostitutes. The boxes are a move to begin regulating the sex trade in the city, where offic ...
  • Speaker Boehner's Theatre of the Absurd
    While earning my B.A. at SUNY Albany, I learned that Theatre of the Absurd is a style of Drama, which expresses the belief that human existence is meaningless, and therefore all communication breaks down. Logical plot construction and argument gives way to irrational and ...
  • Will NY Federal Judge Overturn GM Bailout?
    Judges hate when litigants hide things from them, especially bankruptcy judges. Judge Robert E. Gerber is a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York. Gerber oversaw the GM managed bankruptcy (bailout) and is now hearing a lawsuit which may overturn a big part of the t ...
  • The Difference Between Christmas And Chanukah ...
    Most Jews do not understand Christmas...and most Christians don't get Hanukkah... so I thought it  is time to explain. From now on if anyone asks you what the difference is between Christmas and Chanukah you will know what and how to answer! 1.  Christmas is one day, same day ...

The Real Agenda

  • Another open air experiment on Americans
    Hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes set to be released into the Florida Keys MAIL ONLINE | NOVEMBER 7, 2012 Hundreds of thousands of  genetically modified mosquitoes are awaiting federal approval for release into  the Florida Keys as part of an experiment aimed at reduc ...
  • Conflict in Syria is an example of War 2.0
    Another case of Slam Dunk, Yellow Cake, WMDs. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 7, 2012 Nothing makes a better case for war than fear. There is not a better way to create fear than with allegories and hyperbole that remind people about past painful events, even though such e ...
  • Welcome to Obamanation: Land of Redistribution
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 6, 2012 The Robyn Hood economy is about the kick off its latest plan to bring about ‘social justice’ and ‘equality’. With zero concern for reelection and lots of promises to fulfill, Robyn Hood Obama is set to carry o ...
  • Is the Kyoto Protocol Dead?
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 6, 2012 Not likely. Even if the Doha Climate Summit fails to consolidate the validity of the accord signed by countries back in 1997, it is expected that climate alarmists keep the core of the plan with or without the Protocol itself. The Ky ...
  • The Immorality Crisis not lack of Transparency ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 5, 2012 The European Union countries most affected by the global economic and financial collapse are also some of the most corrupt. But the highest levels of immorality and corruption are not seen at the national level, but on the internatio ...

Wind Watch

  • Honolulu Fire Department defends actions at Ka ...
    Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt. Terry Seelig was quick to counter [Xtreme Power CEO Alan] Gotcher's assertion that firefighters failed to act in the best interest of the wind farm. He said the flames, toxic chemicals and unstable nature of the burning warehouse made it unsafe to use wat ...
  • Wind farms: Why it’s time to alter course
    EDITOR’S NOTE In the debate about wind farm development in Northumberland I have sat on the fence for too long. Once I had taken the decision to investigate the subject, my aim was to listen to the arguments for and against, then present readers with a balanced picture of this controversial issu ...
  • Residents protest wind turbines as Gov. Patric ...
    FLORIDA — While a crowd gathered Monday to hear Gov. Deval Patrick and other officials celebrate the Hoosac Wind Project, about half a dozen people were just steps away protesting the 19 wind turbines scheduled to be turned on by year’s end. Among them was town resident Michael Fairneny, w ...
  • State lacks strategy on alternative energy, re ...
    California’s push to add wind and solar energy to its existing power grid could saddle ratepayers with soaring electrical bills and despoil the state’s environmental resources unless officials act soon, according to a report released Monday by a government watchdog agency. Although i ...
  • Blade breaks on wind turbine near Armstrong
    ARMSTRONG — The firm that operates the recently built California Ridge Wind Farm in Vermilion and Champaign counties said it is looking into how a wind turbine’s blade broke on Tuesday night. Chicago-based Invenergy LLC released a statement Wednesday, saying that one of the wind farm’s 134 turbi ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Most-viewed posts in 2012
    According to my WordPress stats, these are the posts with the most pageviews in the past 12 months: Best social media tools for journalists (5,669) Timelines in journalism: A closer look (4,365) A few words about digital audio recorders (3,626) How to shoot video interviews (3,465) 10 Rul ...
  • Now in Portuguese and Chinese: Reporter’s Guid ...
    A new translation of this guide is now available, thanks to the efforts of Alessandra de Falco, a journalism professor at Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei in Brazil. She uses the guide in her classes. Em Português: Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency (PDF; 1 MB) Also, I neglec ...
  • Election 2012 maps: Showing data
    This was the first U.S. presidential election in the post-Flash era. In 2008, data maps were made with Flash. Now the online mapmakers have moved on to other technologies, largely using JavaScript. Here are three examples, with a full view and a zoom of each: WNYC Radio, New York: LA Times ...
  • 5 examples of interesting data presentations
    What do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.) Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.) Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...
  • What should be in a “visual journalism” course?
    One meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism. There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism” is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...

Facing South

  • Just how extreme is North Carolina's new Lt. G ...
    A proponent of abolishing the minimum wage and corporate income taxes, Dan Forest is quite likely the most conservative statewide elected official in North Carolina. But his work with a nonprofit that criticizes retailer Sears for promoting pornography by showing photos of women in lingerie cros ...
  • BP engulfed in lawsuit over 40-day Texas flare
    Two weeks before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 workers and spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP was spewing a different kind of pollution -- leading to a $500 billion lawsuit that has received far less attention. read more
  • Moving South: New data shows Southern region a ...
    Especially since the Great Recession, people in the U.S. aren't moving as much as they used to. But new Census data shows that for those who do move, the South is the most popular destination. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Duke Energy merger settlement ...
    The N.C. Utilities Commission and attorney general have settled their probes into Duke Energy's controversial $32 billion merger with Progress Energy. But a watchdog group calls the settlements a "sell-out of the public" and says it will continue to fight the merger in court. read more
  • Should Congress name a Southern post office af ...
    U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms died in 2008 without ever disavowing his support for racial segregation, which is why some are protesting a bill to name a post office after him in his hometown of Raleigh, N.C. But there's something apropos about the proposal, as Helms pioneered the use of the postal servi ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Interview available for listening
    My interview on Virtually Speaking is now up. If you missed it and would like to listen, it can be found here. We talked about kindness in public policy and about the economics and politics of global warming.
  • Interview available for listening
    My interview on Virtually Speaking is now up. If you missed it and would like to listen, it can be found here. We talked about kindness in public policy and about the economics and politics of global warming.
  • Interview tonight at 9pm EST
    I’ll be talking with Virtually Speaking’s Jay Ackroyd tonight at 9pm EST.  Current plan is to discuss kindness as the base prescription for policy and then talk about the implications of Bill McKibben’s 3 numbers on global warming, but if past episodes are any guide we’ll ...
  • Interview tonight at 9pm EST
    I’ll be talking with Virtually Speaking’s Jay Ackroyd tonight at 9pm EST.  Current plan is to discuss kindness as the base prescription for policy and then talk about the implications of Bill McKibben’s 3 numbers on global warming, but if past episodes are any guide we’ll ...
  • Default to Kindness
    If there is one policy point I’d like to make it isn’t a policy point, it’s an ethical one: default to kindness. Or try kindness first. In policy terms, the kind thing to do is usually the right thing to do.  I’d go so far as to say, almost always. Treating prisoners with ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Obama’s Energy Dilemma: Back Energy-Fueled Gro ...
    Talk all you want about the fiscal cliff, but more important still will be how the Obama administration deals with a potential growth-inducing energy boom. With America about to join the ranks of major natural gas exporters and with the nation’s rising oil production reducing imports, ...
  • What Is a Global City?
    We hear a lot of talk these days about so-called “global cities.” But what is a global city? Saskia Sassen literally wrote the book on global cities back in 2001 (though her global cities work dates back well over a decade prior to that book). She gave a definition that has long struck with ...
  • Separation of Church and Urban Planning
    Recently, the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) published research that directly challenged prevailing views in urban planning. In an article entitled Growing Cities Sustainably, Marcial H. Echenique, and Anthony J. Hargreaves from Cambridge University, Gordon Mitchell (Uni ...
  • The Blue-State Suicide Pact
    With their enthusiastic backing of President Obama and the Democratic Party on Election Day, the bluest parts of America may have embraced a program utterly at odds with their economic self-interest. The almost uniform support of blue states’ congressional representatives for the adminis ...
  • No Reservations Cleveland
    There is a new video out marketing Cleveland and a new slogan: “Downtown Cleveland: It’s here”. Now, I struggle with critiquing it. One the one hand, I get its energy and optimism: the energy in Downtown is palpable, real—there is a bit of a youth movement to the core—and ...

GM Watch

  • China sacks officials involved in GM rice test
    1.China sacks officials involved in GM rice test 2.China sacks three officials for GMO rice test EXTRACT: The research team had informed parents of the tested children about the experiment but withheld the truth that GM rice would be used. (item 1) --- --- 1.China sacks officials involved in GM ...
  • The growing doubt over GM crops
    NEWS FROM INDIA 1.The growing doubt over GM crops 2.Small farmers prove Bt cotton has better alternatives 3.The farmers of Vidarbha invite you to a screening of 'Cotton for my shroud' NOTE: More on the film "Cotton for my shroud" http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article3328007.e ...
  • Long march against Monsanto in Costa Rica
    NOTE: The "March in Defense of our Corn" involving over 30 Costa Rican organizations began in Matambu, home of the Chorotega corn, in Guanacaste on November 26. The marchers are warning Costa Rican communities about Monsanto's intention to plant GM corn in the Central American state. According ...
  • Illegal GM sugar beet plantings
    Illegal GM sugar beet plantings spur GMO-free initiative in Oregon Non-GMO Report, November 1 2012 http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/november2012/illegalgmsugarbeetsoregon.php *Biotech company violated USDA isolation requirements for GM sugar beet crops in Southern Oregon; USDA does nothing ...
  • Independent science in jeopardy
    Independent science in jeopardy Vandana Shiva The Asian Age, December 5 2012 http://www.asianage.com/columnists/independent-science-jeopardy-374 If citizens don't have the right to know and scientists don't have the freedom to speak the truth, we are creating societies that are dangerous — for ...

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Cryptogon

  • AP’s Dangerous Iran Hoax
    Via: Guardian: Although it was intuitively obvious that the graph trumpeted by AP as scary and incriminating of Iran’s nuclear program was actually a farce, there is now new, overwhelming, very compelling scientific evidence that is the case. Whether as victim or recklessly culpable partic ...
  • Australian Government Admits to Accessing Peop ...
    I wonder what happens when their targets/citizens run persistent VPNs located in other countries? Via: Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIAN law enforcement and government agencies have sharply increased their access without warrant to vast quantities of private telephone and internet data, promptin ...
  • DOE ‘Manhattan Project’ to Build N ...
    There’s just one problem with this analogy. The Manhattan Project cost about $25.8 billion (in 2012 dollars). This DOE effort is $120 million over five years. That’s a noise level allocation of resources compared to The Manhattan Project. Of course, if you need a façade to role out s ...
  • The New Zealand Film Being Passed Off As North ...
    Really quick, to let people know to please stop submitting this: Propaganda is a pisstake by New Zealand filmmaker Slavko Martinov. The artifice of the hoax was what grabbed the attention of mainstream media with this thing. Here are some films that cover similar topics (and aren’t hoaxes) ...
  • DOJ Drops Monsanto Antitrust Investigation
    Via: Mother Jones: There’s an age-old tradition in Washington of making unpopular announcements when no one’s listening—like, you know, the days leading up to Thanksgiving. That’s when the Obama administration sneaked a tasty dish to the genetically modified seed/pesticide indu ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That Taxes A ...
    Every year average Americans pay dozens of different types of taxes, and yet many of our politicians are very open about the fact that they want to raise rates even higher and invent even more ways to bleed us all dry.  Someday historians will look back and be absolutely amazed at how stupid we ...
  • From Good Jobs To Bad Jobs To No Jobs – ...
    There was a time in America when virtually anyone that wanted a job could go out and get one and the United States boasted the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world.  Sadly, those days are long gone.  Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of [...]
  • The Coming Derivatives Panic That Will Destroy ...
    When financial markets in the United States crash, so does the U.S. economy.  Just remember what happened back in 2008.  The financial markets crashed, the credit markets froze up, and suddenly the economy went into cardiac arrest.  Well, there are very few things that could cause the financial ...
  • Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend Your Family
    Do you think that is an alarmist headline?  Well, I am not the one saying this.  Law enforcement authorities all over the country are telling citizens that they can no longer deal with all the crime and that people need to lock their doors and prepare to defend their families.  Just recently, th ...
  • Wake Up! 11 Facts That Show That Europe Is Hea ...
    Europe is not just heading into another recession.  The truth is that Europe is heading into a full-blown depression.  The economy of the EU is actually larger than the U.S. economy, and we are watching it melt down right in front of our eyes.  Things just continue to get worse in Europe, and ye ...

Desertification

  • More than 100.000 people saw it. Did you ?
    It is my sincere conviction that we can help the poor hungry people and malnourished children to healthy food at home without spending money, in particular in the desertified areas and the deserts. Therefore, I made a short video about … Continue reading →
  • The First World Problems
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  • Sauvez des familles entières de la famine sans ...
    Lu et vu : http://sos-stress.com/sauvez-des-familles-entieres-de-la-famine-sans-debourser-un-centime/ VIDEOS : Sauvez des familles entières de la famine sans débourser un centime – 1e partie http://youtu.be/TzDpCB6hcVA Sauvez des familles entières de la famine – 2e partie http://yout ...
  • Soil is the Core of Civilization! (Google Aler ...
    Read at : http://awakenoasis.com/tag/desertification/ Only 10-12% of the earth’s surface is available to use. We need to maintain the soil’s natural capacity to renewal. It took the earth thousands of years to create this lovely soil that gives us life! It takes … Continue reading &# ...
  • Collective efforts must to offset desertificat ...
    Read at : http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/national/04-Dec-2012/collective-efforts-must-to-offset-desertification Waqas A Khan | CHUNIAN – on the right bank of River Chenab in the middle of Thal Desert exists the small village of Khew in Tehsil Man ...

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backofthebook.ca

  • Canadian tech needs more brash, less nice
    By Mark Evans Canadians are, by and large, nice and polite. Unfortunately, we’ve made this approach part of our business and entrepreneurial landscape as well. While we may be confident, we’re not bold, cocky or aggressive. South of the border, entrepreneurs are a different breed. They tru ...
  • A Modest Opinion — Obama and the Robo-ap ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Well, we went and did it. Or rather, the Americans did. (You wouldn’t know it if you were to speak to any Canadians, but apparently we don’t actually have a say in the American election.) That’s right, America re-elected President Obama in stunning numbers. (Well, stunning num ...
  • Elections Canada casts a wider net, finally
    By David@Sixthestate.net The Council of Canadians has posted a new series of documents in relation to their robocall litigation. As you can see, they are attempting to get an affidavit from an Elections Canada investigator, and Elections Canada is attempting to avoid this. More intriguingly, tho ...
  • John Baird: Big in Palau
    By Montreal Simon I didn’t think it was possible that John Baird could shame this country further. Make us look more like stooges, oddballs, or just plain weird eh? But somehow he managed. From the CBC: “Canada is temporarily recalling its heads of mission to Israel and the West Bank ...
  • BlackBerry 10: RIM’s comeback device
    By Mark Evans Research in Motion has thousands of employees but, in some respects, it’s a startup whose prospects hinge on the much-anticipated introduction of the BlackBerry 10 on Jan. 30th. With negative sentiment surrounding Canada’s flagship technology company slowly starting to dissipate as ...

libcom

  • Exploitation in Split: University Students Tri ...
    img1121cr.jpg Croatian students struggling for their wages. A group of about 40 university students from Split employed through the Student Employment Service spent their summer ...
  • Police places pressure on relatives and friend ...
    Antifascists Alexey Sutuga and Alexey Olesinov have already been in the"Butyrka" prison in Moscow for more than half a year. Investigator Y. Egorov, who is conducting the investigation, is expected to modify the criminal case into a more seriou ...
  • Monti’s government “democratic and sober” resp ...
    roma 14 nov1.jpg The demonstrations that took place all over Italy on 14th November as part of a European Day of Action against austerity are already setting the pace of the new management of public o ...
  • Russia: police search Kirov anti-fascists' hom ...
    At six in the morning of November 27, a series of searches at homes of eight members of anarchist group Autonomous Actions were carried out in the Russian city of Kirov by police officers who were accompanied by operatives of the anti-extremism E Centre. ...
  • Education workers’ strike sabotaged by the uni ...
    Workers in education sector in Slovakia have started an indefinite strike on Monday 26th, 2012. However, the education workers' union put the strike on hold on Wednesday, because they entered negotiations with the government. There are no results yet a ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Fat Lady Doesn’t Sing Until Monday, ...
    Just because an event has never before happened, doesn’t mean it won’t ever occur.   The November “elections” are a month old, and yet the presidential “race” is not “official” under U.S. Law until the first Monday after the 2nd Wednesday of Decemb ...
  • Death Ray = Deuterium Laser = SDI (Strategic D ...
    I authored the following document in May of 2010 – and posted it on this blog.   Download the original PDF file by clicking here: MIRACL ILLUMINATION!! The article prompted a visit from U.S. Air Force “investigators” – who simply wanted me to tell them who was leaking inf ...
  • Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)
    What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...
  • Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)
    What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...
  • Important Update on Hurricane Sandy – th ...
    I just received this incredible, “smoking gun” document from a trusted source in Washington who understands the subject and how it is controlled by Israel and the “Jews”: WeatherModificationReport 1966 This was authored by NASA Director, Homer E. Newell, a deeply Zionist ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • Fake or Real Xmas Trees- Green or Not
    Have you ever wondered are the Real X-mas trees you buy green or is it better to use a Plastic Tree? What’s Greener: Real or Artificial Christmas Trees? Photo: Shutterstock Have you ever wondered if it’s more eco-friendly to buy a real or an artificial Christmas tree? Even the most w ...
  • How To Save Money And Make Your Business Susta ...
    For businesses large and small, there is a continuing quest to make operations more eco-friendly and sustainable as part of the growing clamour to be a leader in social responsibility. In many cases, running a more sustainable operation means that there are also significant money savings to be m ...
  • Small Business Saturday
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog SBA Region 7 SBA News Shop Small Business Saturday – November 24, 2012 By Karen Mills In between the Black Friday sales and the Cyber Monday deals is Small Business ...
  • 1st Floor Weatherization-Benton Project
    3 MAIN ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES TAKEN ON THE BENTON PROJECT R22 Insulation installed in 2×6 Wall Framing Members Vapor and Air Filtration Barrier Additional HVAC Cold Air Return Duct R22 Batt Type Insulation-Friction Fit- Johns Mansfield No Itch Insulation Water and Air Barrier The Above ...
  • Residents Meet About Nuclear Waste In West Lak ...
    Reblogged from FOX2now.com – St. Louis News & Weather from KTVI Television FOX2: BRIDGETON, MO. (KTVI) – A group of north St. Louis county residents met Tuesday night to discuss what they believe is a radioactive hazard in their midst.  It is a story that has its roots in the Manhattan Proje ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Ron Paul on Ending the Tragedy in Gaza
    Retiring Congressman Ron Paul, former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, comes done on the same side as many progressives on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. A recent post on his website, reiterates comments he made when was president about Gaza being nothing but a va ...
  • Republican Donors: the Big Losers in 2012
    Karl Rove: in big trouble with Republican donors According to the Center for Media and Democracy PR Watch , a lot of Republican donors are extremely unhappy with Republican strategist Karl Rove, credited for Bush’s election victories in 2000 and 2004, for his mismanagement of his Sup ...
  • The Fiscal Cliff: Why We Should Go Ahead and Jump
    photo credit motherjones.com In a recent broadcast, Thom Hartmann makes a compelling argument why Democrats should allow Congress to jump of the “fiscal cliff” and allow the automatic tax and spending cuts to take place on December 31st (when the Bush tax cuts expire and automat ...
  • A New Zealand View on Black Friday
    Security guards break up Black Friday fight in Kentucky (AP photo) Stuff.co.nz compares America’s Black Friday to “something you might see might see amid a humanitarian crisis, a war or in the aftermath of a natural disaster.” They link to a video which originally appeared ...
  • Washington County Bans GMOs
    Washington's idyllic San Juan islands While some anti-GMO legislation like Prop 37 was shot down via a deceptive “No” campaign that received massive corporate funding, San Juan County in Washington State thumbed their nose at Monsanto et al by passing Initiative Measure No. 2012-4 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Italian scientists take first DNA image
    Italian researchers expect to observe individual DNA molecules through a silicon pillars technique performed to observe the seven wires of the chain. Previously, the interpretation of the images required very complex mathematical calculations. Scientists at the University of Genoa have taken dir ...
  • Doomsday Prepper raided by police, FBI, SWAT a ...
    A “doomsday prepper” in a rural area of Maryland became a target for police and the FBI after he told an undercover cop that he was “very irritated” about Barack Obama’s re-election, sparking an investigation that eventually led to 46-year-old Terry Porter being thr ...
  • UK Churches to hold gay weddings as Cameron un ...
    Gay weddings will be held in churches under radical plans to be unveiled by David Cameron, it emerged today. The Prime Minister is to defy opposition from more than 100 Tory backbenchers to back religious groups hosting same-sex weddings. He will stop short of forcing groups which are against th ...
  • US Senate approves Magnitsky Act, ties it to C ...
    The US Senate has passed by an overwhelming majority a new bill normalizing trading relations with the Russian Federation, while at the same time criticizing its former adversary’s human rights record. In response, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia would take similar, reci ...
  • Tsunami hits Japan after Massive 7.3 Earthquake
    A one-meter tsunami wave has hit Japan following a strong earthquake measuring 7.3 that struck off the northeast coast, Japanese media say. The wave hit the city of Ishinomaki at 6:00 p.m. local time (0900 GMT) on Friday, the same area which was badly hit by the devastating quake and tsunami tha ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Krauthammer labels the presidentâs fiscal-clif ...
    Charles Krauthammer ‘s latest column takes aim at President Obama’s approach to the negotiations over the federal fiscal cliff. This is entirely about politics. Itâs Phase Two of the 2012 campaign. The election returned him to office. The fiscal-cliff negotiations are designed to break the Repu ...
  • Butch Jones Accepts Tennessee Head Coaching Po ...
    At this point, I no longer care.Butch Jones will be the new Tennessee Vols coach. UT holding a press conference at 2:30— Bruce Feldman (@BFeldmanCBS) December 7, 2012Amazing 48-hr turn for Butch Jones: TUES night he was torn between UC & CU jobs & then ends up backing into UT gig.— Bruc ...
  • Why Jim DeMint Will Be More Powerful Outside S ...
    Steve Kornacki : "What DeMint has apparently figured out is that in today's Republican universe there's less of a relationship than ever between holding office and holding power. This is what the rise of insular conservative media has done. News is interpreted, talking points are developed and ...
  • Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady welcome baby girl
    Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images file Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen in New York in May. By Alexis L. Loinaz, Eonline Gisele Bundchen is a model mama twice over! The supermodel and hubby Tom Brady welcomed their second child on Wednesday, a baby girl named Vivian Lake. The 32-year-old Brazilia ...
  • Hamas Leader returns to Gaza after 45 years
    The leader of the Islamist Palestinian terrorist group Hamas arrived on Gaza Strip soil Friday, ending 45 years of exile from the Palestinian territories. Khaled Meshaal had not visited the Palestinian territories since leaving the Israeli-occupied West Bank after the 1967 Six-Day War. He kisse ...

Groklaw

  • Leaked: ITU's secret Internet surveillance sta ...
    The ITU standardization effort has been conducted in secret, without public scrutiny. Now, Asher Wolf writes, I publicly asked (via Twitter) if anyone could give me access to documents relating to the ITU's DPI recommendations, now endorsed by the U.N. The ITU's senior communications office ...
  • Financial Globalization and the Rise of IPOs O ...
    In the paper, Financial Globalization and the Rise of IPOs Outside the U.S., which was recently made publicly available on SSRN, my co-authors (Craige Doidge and George Karolyi) and I document dramatic changes in the IPO landscape around the world over the past two decades. U.S. IPOs have become ...
  • Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes pa ...
    Trash-talking, whether it's on the basketball court or on online forums, has a bad habit of blowing up when you can't back it up. So when Microsoft decided to launch a win a free Windows Phone Twitter campaign with "Do you have an Android malware horror story? Reply with #DroidRage with your be ...
  • Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
    One of the major advantages of free software is that the community protects users from malicious software. Now Ubuntu GNU/Linux has become a counterexample. What should we do?... Ubuntu, a widely used and influential GNU/Linux distribution, has installed surveillance code. When the user searches ...
  • Marc Randazza wins UDRP against woman he sued ...
    Cox tried to argue that she was just exercising free speech by registering the domains to criticize Randazza. But the panel didn't buy it: "In any event, for purposes of the Policy the Panel finds the Respondent's intention, as reflected by the record, was never to solely provide, through h ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Schedule Tweets with Buffer and Tweriod
    Buffer lets you schedule tweets according to a schedule that you set, allowing your tweets to appear at an optimal time. Tweets at night generally get much less attention than tweets in the morning. With Buffer, you can schedule tweets at night to appear the next morning. This is a snap with the ...
  • Once is coincidence
  • Climate Change? US and Canada talk a good gam ...
    In East Texas, members of the Tar Sands Blockade started their eleventh week of opposition to construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline with a new act of civil disobedience against the onrush of global warming, sealing themselves inside a mile-long segment of the pipeline itself.In Doha, Qatar, o ...
  • Steve Earle – Thinking About Burning The Walma ...
    Sung at an event opposing a Walmart in Chinatown in LA.
  • US gives $700+ million to foreign olive oil, h ...
    This is crazy. American olive oil producers are being forced to compete against subsidized olive oil from Morocco , with the subsidies coming from our very own State Department, who said the subsidies wouldn’t hurt US agriculture. Central Valley farmers in California deeply disagree and wa ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Superannuation funds caught out on cluster bombs
    In 2008 New Zealand hosted the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions.  This was the largest disarmament meeting ever convened in New Zealand.  On its closing day 82 Countries committed to negotiating a treaty banning these weapons. Cluster bombs are weapons that can go on killing long after ...
  • Is it all in their heads?
    After hearing around 100 submissions over 4 days on the latest welfare reform bill (see my summary of the first day of hearings here), some pretty strong themes have developed. The most obvious theme is opposition. Quite overwhelming opposition. For many reasons. I hope this is a sign that incre ...
  • Ōtautahi/Christchurch teachers vote to strike ...
    Yesterday I attended the industrial action meeting held by primary school teachers of Christchurch. The meeting was held in the vast Riding for the Disabled Arena at the Canterbury Agricultural Show Grounds and more than 1000 teachers attended the event. Many schools were represented and teacher ...
  • Good policy, making lives easier.
    We love good news here at the Greens. And this is just plain old good news. The Department of Internal Affairs have made a quiet change to allow intersex and trans people the choice of using the international symbol ‘X’ on their passports without having to go through the complex and intrusive pr ...
  • Discontent over this loss of democracy
    On Tuesday I was on the steps of Parliament with Christchurch based MPs from Labour and NZ First to deliver an open letter  to the Prime Minister from seven Christchurch groups and the Wizard of New Zealand seeking a restoration of democracy in Canterbury. We investigated the decision making aro ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How Drug Company Money is Undermining Science
    By Dr. Mercola When it comes to making health care decisions, which can deeply impact your life, you need access to truthful, unbiased information and science, or at least access to a physician who does. Yet true, independent research -- the foundation upon which the modern medical system is ...
  • Why Taking Antibiotics During Pregnancy is a B ...
    By Dr. Mercola According to recent research1 from Denmark, children whose mothers took antibiotics during their pregnancy were more likely to develop asthma, compared to those whose mother did not take antibiotics. Taking other risk factors into account, the researchers estimated that childre ...
  • Smart Grid Funding Misspent on Obsolete Techno ...
    Download Smart Grid Quadrilogue - Part 1 Audio Transcript Smart Grid Quadrilogue- Part 1 Download Smart Grid Quadrilogue - Part 2 Audio Transcript Smart Grid Quadrilogue- Part 2 ...
  • Too Little Sleep May Fuel Insulin Resistance
    By Dr. Mercola If you're sleep deprived for a night or two (or more), you expect to feel groggy and irritable. But losing sleep impacts your body on a far deeper level, too, increasing your risk of obesity and chronic diseases like diabetes. New research has shed some light onto why sleep ...
  • Artificial Sweeteners Cause Greater Weight Gai ...
    By Dr. Mercola Are you using artificial sweeteners and opting for low-cal "diet" foods in an effort to control of your weight? If so, you may be surprised to learn that research has repeatedly shown that artificial no- or low-calorie sweeteners are anything but good news for weight loss... C ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Thousands join rally of defiance as Vedanta mi ...
    Thousands marched to voice their continued opposition to plans to mine the Niyamgiri Hills.© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalA rally of defiance was held at the foothills of India’s Niyamgiri Hills on Thursday, by thousands of tribal men and women, including the Dongria Kondh, who turned out to voice thei ...
  • Naked truth of Earth’s most threatened tribe l ...
    Stickers with the demand ‘Brazil: Save the Awá’, will be used during Survival's worldwide protest.© SurvivalSurvival will hold a worldwide demonstration on December 10 to urge Brazil, on Human Rights Day, to save Earth’s most threatened tribe. A woman in Brazilian carnival costume will lea ...
  • Christmas crisis for Canada’s iconic reindeer herd
    Tribes all around the world, such as Russia’s Nenets, depend on reindeer for their survival. © Steve MorganA reindeer herd which was once the largest in the world has shrunk to a fraction of its former size, official surveys have revealed. Canada’s George River Herd once numbered 8-900,000, but ...
  • Russian indigenous peoples’ organization order ...
    A Khanty man in Siberia© Jon SpaullAn organization representing indigenous peoples in Russia has been ordered to close, in the country’s latest crackdown on NGOs. The Ministry of Justice said it was suspending RAIPON (Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North) for six months b ...
  • Brazilian Indians' water 'poisoned' in bitter ...
    Guarani Indians of Ypo’i community in Brazil.© MPFA community of Brazilian Indians say their main source of water has been poisoned by one of the state’s most controversial ranches. The Guarani from Ypo’i community in Mato Grosso do Sul state used a mobile phone to film the contamination, which ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Poll confirms sovereignist movement ...
    The separatist movement’s problem is not so much that it is divided into partisan factions , but that most Quebecers aren’t interested in what it’s peddling.
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.

Food World Order

  • Turn in Your Guns, Get a Free Flu Shot
    from cryptogon.com: WORCESTER — Flu shots instead of gunshots. People can get free flu shots Saturday and next Saturday, even if they don’t turn in a gun at the city’s annual Goods for Guns buyback program. City residents, or residents of any other community, may bring their unwanted weapon ...
  • TriHealth fires 150 employees for not getting ...
    from wlwt.com: One of Cincinnati’s largest employers fired approximately 150 employees Wednesday for failing to get a required flu shot. TriHealth offered all of its 10,800 employees free flu shots. Employees had a month to get the flu shot. The deadline was Nov. 16. Employees who did not get ...
  • New Study Reveals Alarming Data: GMO Foods May ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Controversy rages about the safety of genetically modified foods. Monsanto says there is no need to test these engineered foods. What is the other side of the story? Can genetic modifications to foods affect human cells? Here are compelling research results from the ...
  • Are Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather” Claims And Tacti ...
    from drtimball.com: Fraud is defined as “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.” Did Al Gore campaign to deceive the world about the role of human produced CO2 causing world ending global warming and climate change. He profited through carbon credits b ...
  • Opium Cultivation Rose This Year in Afghanista ...
    from nytimes.com: Opium poppy cultivation rose substantially in 2012 in an “alarming” trend, despite a major opium eradication effort by Afghan governors, United Nations officials said Tuesday as they released the organization’s 2012 opium survey, which was undertaken with the Afghan Ministry ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That Taxes A ...
    Every year average Americans pay dozens of different types of taxes, and yet many of our politicians are very open about the fact that they want to raise rates even higher and invent even more ways to bleed us all dry.  Someday historians will look back and be absolutely amazed at how stupid we ...
  • From Good Jobs To Bad Jobs To No Jobs – ...
    There was a time in America when virtually anyone that wanted a job could go out and get one and the United States boasted the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world.  Sadly, those days are long gone.  Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of [...]
  • The Coming Derivatives Panic That Will Destroy ...
    When financial markets in the United States crash, so does the U.S. economy.  Just remember what happened back in 2008.  The financial markets crashed, the credit markets froze up, and suddenly the economy went into cardiac arrest.  Well, there are very few things that could cause the financial ...
  • Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend Your Family
    Do you think that is an alarmist headline?  Well, I am not the one saying this.  Law enforcement authorities all over the country are telling citizens that they can no longer deal with all the crime and that people need to lock their doors and prepare to defend their families.  Just recently, th ...
  • Wake Up! 11 Facts That Show That Europe Is Hea ...
    Europe is not just heading into another recession.  The truth is that Europe is heading into a full-blown depression.  The economy of the EU is actually larger than the U.S. economy, and we are watching it melt down right in front of our eyes.  Things just continue to get worse in Europe, and ye ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • Just how extreme is North Carolina's new Lt. G ...
    A proponent of abolishing the minimum wage and corporate income taxes, Dan Forest is quite likely the most conservative statewide elected official in North Carolina. But his work with a nonprofit that criticizes retailer Sears for promoting pornography by showing photos of women in lingerie cros ...
  • BP engulfed in lawsuit over 40-day Texas flare
    Two weeks before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 workers and spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP was spewing a different kind of pollution -- leading to a $500 billion lawsuit that has received far less attention. read more
  • Moving South: New data shows Southern region a ...
    Especially since the Great Recession, people in the U.S. aren't moving as much as they used to. But new Census data shows that for those who do move, the South is the most popular destination. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Duke Energy merger settlement ...
    The N.C. Utilities Commission and attorney general have settled their probes into Duke Energy's controversial $32 billion merger with Progress Energy. But a watchdog group calls the settlements a "sell-out of the public" and says it will continue to fight the merger in court. read more
  • Should Congress name a Southern post office af ...
    U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms died in 2008 without ever disavowing his support for racial segregation, which is why some are protesting a bill to name a post office after him in his hometown of Raleigh, N.C. But there's something apropos about the proposal, as Helms pioneered the use of the postal servi ...

CenterLine

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

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Tech Drive In

  • Reditr Beta Arrives, DEB Package Makes Install ...
    Reditr is a multi-column Reddit client for desktops. It currently supports Ubuntu, Mac, Windows and Google Chrome platforms. When it was first announced few months back, it created a lot of excitement, especially among Linux folks. But the initial Reditr Alpha release disappointed quite a few. ...
  • New Official Gmail App for Android Arrives wit ...
    The wait is finally over. Official Gmail for Android app now supports pinch-to-zoom action. This was perhaps one of the most requested feature by users of Gmail app. Apart from that, the new app also brings in features such as swipe to delete/archive action, attaching of photos and videos from ...
  • Google Play Store Revenues Spiking, Japan Over ...
    More Android growth stories. Google Play Store is growing in numbers. Nearly 900,000 apps and games are already in there and have been downloaded more than 25 billion times. But what about the revenues? App Annie has some interesting statistics.  Google Play Store Reven ...
  • 30 Must Have Android Games for 2012
    Android is surging, their remains no questions about it. Android is a proven platform now and that is particularly showing in the burgeoning apps market. Google Play Store is now home to nearly 900,000 applications and games. More than 25 billion apps and games have already been downloaded fro ...
  • How to Get Netflix Working with Ubuntu 12.04/1 ...
    Yes you read it just right. Netflix now works with Ubuntu. And no, there's no official Netflix support for Linux yet. Thanks to the hard work done by Erich Hoover and guys at iheartubuntu, Netflix has been made to work under Ubuntu using Wine and there is now a PPA to install the whole hac ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • ‘You should’ve served US better and died!’ Deb ...
    A debt collector, angered that a disabled US Army veteran was living off of disability payments, told him he “should have died” in war instead of “taking advantage of” other Americans. ­Minnesota-based debt collection agency Gurstel Chargo is now facing a lawsuit for verbally abusing ...
  • Droit de Seigneur in Last Gasp Country. Reflec ...
    By Visible It’s not necessary to link any one of the many, totally bullshit, Crass Media stories about Syria, supposedly arming missiles with chemical weapons to use on their own people. All this has come about because of the near total ownership of the Crass Media, by the ZioNAZI-Ogre and ...
  • Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale
    Tax the rich: An animated fairy tale, is narrated by Ed Asner, with animation by Mike Konopacki. Written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers. An 8 minute video about how we arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening economic inequality. ...
  • A real bailout plan that is 100% guaranteed to ...
    Dylan 11 Activist Post OK, so there has been a few dollars thrown in buckets to bailout the billionaires. What about giving the rest of us a real bailout, too? 1. I formally propose each citizen of the world present and future gets 1 million dollars. Tax free, interest free and with no obligatio ...
  • Nuclear Israel: The secret that is not
    Nuclear Israel: The secret that is not – YouTube.

Veterans Today

  • Zionist fingerprints all over U.S. led Iran sa ...
    - It is time for Americans to use the sanctions weapon on the real enemy of America, the militant Zionists of Israel and their supporters
  • VA Seeks to Expand TBI Benefits
    The Department of Veterans Affairs is publishing a proposed regulation in the Federal Register that would change its rules to add five diagnosable illnesses which are secondary to service-connected Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
  • VA Official Visits Santa Monica to Address Hom ...
    Dr. Tommy Sowers is a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer and was the 2010 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in Missouri’s 8th congressional district before being sworn in on Aug. 20, 2012 as assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs for the Departme ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Dece ...
    On December 6, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta held a joint press event to discuss ongoing points of collaboration between the two agencies.
  • No Consequences (Again) for Israel’s Hateful C ...
    Earlier this week, in a sham show of ‘get tough’ diplomacy, UK foreign minister Alistair Burt announced that the Israeli ambassador had been formally summoned to the Foreign Office following Israel’s decisions to build 3,000 new housing units in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, unfreez ...

electric politics

  • Running Against the Grain (Part II)
    Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...
  • Running Against the Grain (Part I)
    Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a nearly ...
  • A National Disgrace
    If you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible — even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College — n ...
  • Your Vote Matters
    Quite apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right To ...
  • For the Love of Music
    In our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture — even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...

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Stop NATO

  • Sweden: NATO’s Unofficial 29th Member
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations December 6, 2012 Lieutenant General Anders Silwer visits Brunssum ==== Sweden is not only participating in ISAF, it has also taken part in the operations Unified Protector [Libya], SFOR and KFOR. Sweden has indicated an interest to be ...
  • Anatole France: The ethics of war
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Anatole France: Education and War Anatole France on Émile Zola, military terrorism and world peace Anatole France on Victor Hugo: People to substitute justice and peace for war and bloodshed Anatole France on war Anatole France ...
  • Russia Keeps Black Sea Fleet Ships In Mediterr ...
    Itar-Tass December 7, 2012 Return of Black Sea Fleet ships to base postponed – General Staff MOSCOW: The return of Russian Black Sea Fleet ships from their Mediterranean cruise has been suspended until further instructions from the General Staff, a sources at the General Staff has told Itar-Tass ...
  • West’s Syrian Chemical Weapons Canard: P ...
    Xinhua News Agency December 7, 2012 News Analysis: Talks of Syrian chemical weapons: prelude for intervention or further pressure on Damascus? ==== “The real concern is that the U.S. may have other plans; to provide the terrorist groups with such weaponries…to justify any foreign int ...
  • Hillary Clinton: Thwarting “Re-Sovietiza ...
    Voice of Russia December 7, 2012 Hillary Clinton: thwarting re-Sovietization or imposing Americanization? Boris Volkhonsky ==== “We are trying to figure out effective ways to slow down or prevent it.” Indeed, they are. For that, the US has launched full-scale wars in close vicinity t ...

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    Koch Brothers Fund Bogus Studies to Kill Renewable Energy
    Huffington Post
    Did Muller's conclusions prod the Kochs to reconsider their hardline position against wind, solar and other renewable energy--our best bet, besides energy efficiency, to combat global warming? Hardly. Koch's minions merely stepped up their ongoing...
    AGRIBUSINESS: RenewableIndustry Responds to Anti-Dumping Investigation
    WHOTV.com
    Growth Energy and theRenewable Fuels Association say they are continuing to cooperate with the Commission's investigation; both groups are troubled by the news that the Commission is recommending a 9.6% anti-dumping duty to its Member States.
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    Annual investment in Scottishrenewable energy projects is on course to outstrip £1bn ($1.6bn) for the first time, according to new analysis by industry body Scottish Renewables. Related Stories. Scotland's 100%renewables target is 'achievable ...
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    Commentary: How Wisconsin regulators 'tax' renewable energy
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    Starting next January, the price of purchasing renewable energy voluntarily through monthly utility bills will spike to all-time highs, thanks to recent decisions rendered by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) on two popular “green ...
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    Why US Ecology's Earnings May Not Be So Hot
    DailyFinance
    Over the past 12 months, USEcology generated $21.0 million cash while it booked net income of $26.2 million. That means it turned 13.1% of its revenue into FCF. That sounds pretty impressive. However, FCF is less than net income. Ideally, we'd like to ...
    Ecology Department hosts meeting in Raymond about Japanese eelgrass
    Chinook Observer
    OLYMPIA — The state Department of Ecology (Ecology) is holding an informational public meeting about developing a new water quality permit for commercial shellfish growers to treat non-native Japanese eelgrass that has colonized their commercial clam ...
    Ecology finds no source of minor Snake River sheen
    San Francisco Chronicle
    (AP) — The Washington state Department of Ecology says its spill responders have been unable to locate the source of an oil sheen reported on the Snake River near Lower Granite Dam in southeast Washington. Ecologyworkers removed absorbent boom ...
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    UPDATE 2-Mississippi water low, but enough for river barges-US
    Reuters
    WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Fall rains and dredging will keep barge traffic moving on the middle Mississippi River through mid-December despite low waterlevels caused by a drought covering 60 percent of the continental United States, the government ...
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    TEXT-Fitch affirms Rand Waterat 'AA+(zaf)', outlook is stable
    Reuters
    Dec 7 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Rand Water's National Long-term rating at 'AA+(zaf)' and assigned national senior unsecured rating at 'AA+(zaf)'. The agency also affirmed the South African state-owned bulk water utility's National Short-term rating ...
    Karnataka releases Cauvery waterto Tamil Nadu
    New York Daily News
    Bangalore, Dec 7 — Bowing to the Supreme Court's directive, Karnataka has begun releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, thus avoiding contempt of court. Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar thereafter flew to New Delhi Friday morning to meet Prime ...
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    Netflix in Hot Water Over Facebook Post
    New York Times (blog)
    NETFLIX IN HOT WATEROVER FACEBOOK POST | The Internet age has presented new challenges for defining what is “fair disclosure.” Netflix and its chief executive, Reed Hastings, have been warned by regulators about a 43-word post that Mr. Hastings ...
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