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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, December 29, 2012

29 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II


Facing South

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

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 →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Top 5 KickStarter-like Crowdfunding Alternativ ...
    Internet has become an hotbed of innovation. Crowdfunding is one such internet-inspired innovation which could revolutionize how we do business in the near future. It could really be the next big thing. Kickstarter.com is one such hugely popular crowdfunding venture that is creating ripples ac ...
  • Steam for Linux Beta is Now Open to Everyone!
    Nobody in their right minds would have imagined this an year ago. An officially supported Steam client for Linux? Are you kidding me? Well it just happened and the official Steam client for Linux is open to public. We should especially thank Microsoft for shooting its own feet with their new A ...
  • Renowned Indie Game, Eufloria HD, Arrives Offi ...
    Eufloria HD should definitely be one the best games for Android in 2012. It is an incredibly addictive and stylish ambient strategy game. And like most other extremely popular games in Google Play Store,  Eufloria HD is criminally simple with almost zero learning curve involved.  ...
  • A week with elementary OS Luna: Could this be ...
    It is not far-fetched to say, open source and its poster child, Linux, is going through a golden period. The emergence of internet has a lot to do with the popularisation of open source way of thinking. But in the world of Windows and Macs, what makes Linux tick? Redhat was the first to expl ...
  • Desktop Zoom, Animations in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 ...
    Ever wondered what happened to all those mind numbing animations and effects in older Ubuntu releases running GNOME 2.x? We used to conduct Linux installation fests during our college days and showing off Compiz Fusion's capabilities was a major highlight during every such event. But with the ...

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

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

Veterans Today

  • World War II Negative Stereotype has to be Stopped
    - Let us Put a Human Face on the Global War for Truth in History
  • Solving the Mystery of America’s Persist ...
    Two arguments are being debated by America’s establishment economists as the cause of the persistently high unemployment rate. Each argument has been offered in order to hide the real cause from the American people. It turns out that both arguments are supportive of America’s fascist agendas whi ...
  • Bahraini State Terror
    Al-Khalifa despots run Bahrain. State terror is official policy. Washington supports it. Generous aid is provided.
  • The Seven Stages of Relationship – Very ...
    In relationship, we must reach a place where being honest and being true to yourself is more important than the survival of the relationship ~ Love must evolve from emotional to conscious unconditional love and that transition doesn't happen painlessly
  • The Ugly Face of Religion
    In the US there is powerful well-funded circles of influential people and organizations with a mission to defame, demean and dehumanize Muslims and Islam.

electric politics

  • Constitutional Wrinkles
    Americans have been brainwashed into thinking we have the greatest system of government in the world. Arguably, however, much the opposite is true. In practical terms our system is neither democratic nor representative, when, that is, it works at all. But the Constitution has become America's ci ...
  • Three Truths and a Lie
    'Tis the season for... reflections on life. And death. Yet death often feels ominously dark, especially when a young person dies before their time. It's difficult, in such circumstances, to remember that darkness isn't all bad — indeed, there's reason to believe it may be a source of enlig ...
  • 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 ...

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Turkey Pushes NATO Integration Of Central Asia ...
    News.Az December 29, 2012 Ankara considers Azerbaijan’s active participation in NATO programs necessary   Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu proposed an initiative of correcting the NATO program the Partnership for Peace. “We consider it necessary for the Central Asian countries, Azerba ...
  • Asia-Pacific: Third Phase Of U.S. Post-Cold Wa ...
    People’s Daily December 28, 2012 China must and is able to withstand pressure By Ren Weidong ==== ince the end of the Cold War, the U.S. global strategy has gone through two major historical stages. In the first 10 years (in the 1990s), the strategic focus was on Eastern Europe. The main s ...
  • Georgia, U.S., EU/NATO In Confrontation With A ...
    Interfax December 28, 2012 Abkhaz diplomats act in secrecy because of Georgia’s, U.S.’, EU’s intrigues – foreign minister SUKHUMI: The Abkhaz Foreign Ministry has to conceal a lot from journalists so that Georgia as well as the U.S. and the European Union as its sponsors ...
  • Transdniester: Time To Stop Creating Precondit ...
    Itar-Tass December 28, 2012 Dniester Republic wants Russian peacekeepers to stay TIRASPOL: The Dniester Republic wants Russian peacekeepers to stay until a political settlement is finally reached, Yevgeny Shevchuk, the president of the unrecognized Dniester Republic, told journalists on Friday, ...
  • Romain Rolland: The collective insanity, the t ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Romain Rolland: A father’s plea against war Romain Rolland: Above The Battle Romain Rolland: America and the war against war Romain Rolland: Ara Pacis and Ave, Caesar, Morituri Te Salutant Romain Rolland: Message to America on ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Guns, Kids & FL ...
    CopBlock December 29, 2012 As Jeff Gray greeted his son exiting the school bus, he could tell something was up. Soon after, Jeff received a call from Colleen Hagan, who invited herself to his house. It was then that Jeff was told he was under investigation, due to a call made to the hotline for ...
  • Riots in Argentina: Nicolás Morás Reporting fr ...
    By Alan Furth C4SS December 29, 2012 Argentine libertarian activist and C4SS contributor Nicolás Morás wrote a blog post at Orden Voluntario describing his first-hand experience of a recent wave of riots and looting at his hometown, San Carlos de Bariloche, and reflects about the fundamental pol ...
  • Insider: Obama To Fully Engage Gun Owners with ...
    Infowars.com December 29, 2012 Alex talks with Doug Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network about information released by his high-level DHS contact concerning government gun confiscation and other important topics.
  • Feinstein’s Gun Control Bill Will Trigger The ...
    Brandon Smith | Revolution? Yes, it all sounds rather “extreme”, but the cold hard reality of our era is not going to comfort us with diplomacies and niceties, so honestly, why should I have to sugar coat anything?
  • Uphold the Sacred Cause of “Officer Safety”: D ...
    William Grigg | After Adam Lanza took four guns that belonged to his mother and used them to murder her and dozens of other people, we witnessed an entirely predictable – and repellently opportunistic –escalation of the war on individual gun ownership.

FRS

  • Rape As Weapon of Domination: The Clout of Cas ...
    By Ershad Abubacker,  Countercurrents.org, 27 December, 2012 More often than not, Arundhati Roy speaks unwelcome truths, truths that essentially do not go down well with the elite class. And hence she always gets dubbed as outspoken and is being criticized for that. She was recently in the headl ...
  • Rape As Weapon of Domination: The Clout of Cas ...
    By Ershad Abubacker,  Countercurrents.org, 27 December, 2012 More often than not, Arundhati Roy speaks unwelcome truths, truths that essentially do not go down well with the elite class. And hence she always gets dubbed as outspoken and is being criticized for that. She was recently in the headl ...
  • Julian Assange: expect more exposure of govern ...
    Founder of whistleblowing website marks six months’ confinement in Ecuadorean embassy with bullish speech Conal Urquhart, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 December 2012 Julian Assange has said that WikiLeaks is preparing to publish 1m new secret government documents as he marked six months of r ...
  • Julian Assange: expect more exposure of govern ...
    Founder of whistleblowing website marks six months’ confinement in Ecuadorean embassy with bullish speech Conal Urquhart, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 December 2012 Julian Assange has said that WikiLeaks is preparing to publish 1m new secret government documents as he marked six months of r ...
  • When did “the land of the free” become a “poli ...
    [The capitalist rulers of the USA have long claimed the country to be the fountain of democracy, brotherhood and freedom.  But along the way, the victims of the US’ rampant and violent growth have wondered "what in the world are they talking about?" When the colonists and later the pilgrims arri ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Greatest Science Photos Of The Year
  • The Greatest Science Photos Of The Year
    From an explosion on the sun to creatures from the depths of the ocean, we assemble our favorite pics from 2012. It's been a great year for science--Curiosity! The Higgs Boson!--and intrepid photographers have been there all along to document it. Narrowing our favorite photos down to just a do ...
  • Popular Science's Best Longreads Of 2012
    From a teenage nuclear genius to the most violent video game we've ever seen, here are the best works of longform journalism we published this year. The Battle Over Climate Science Climate scientists routinely face death threats, hate mail, nuisance lawsuits and political attacks. How much wo ...
  • 6 Unexpected Uses For Video Games From This Year
  • The Great Antarctic Search For Life Is Over (F ...
    The Lake Ellsworth drilling project was supposed to be a quick, high-tech hunt for microbes under the surface of Antarctica, but tech problems forced researchers to scrap it. The British Antarctic Survey above Lake Ellsworth was a Great White Hope for discovering never-before-seen life. Scient ...

Veterans Today

  • World War II Negative Stereotype has to be Stopped
    - Let us Put a Human Face on the Global War for Truth in History
  • Solving the Mystery of America’s Persist ...
    Two arguments are being debated by America’s establishment economists as the cause of the persistently high unemployment rate. Each argument has been offered in order to hide the real cause from the American people. It turns out that both arguments are supportive of America’s fascist agendas whi ...
  • Bahraini State Terror
    Al-Khalifa despots run Bahrain. State terror is official policy. Washington supports it. Generous aid is provided.
  • The Seven Stages of Relationship – Very ...
    In relationship, we must reach a place where being honest and being true to yourself is more important than the survival of the relationship ~ Love must evolve from emotional to conscious unconditional love and that transition doesn't happen painlessly
  • The Ugly Face of Religion
    In the US there is powerful well-funded circles of influential people and organizations with a mission to defame, demean and dehumanize Muslims and Islam.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • The Argentine Isolationist Grinch Who Stole Xmas
    In addition to cooking the books, Argentina appears stuck in an import substitution industrialization [ISI] time warp. I sure would love to sell bell-bottom pants there for the full retro flavour, but they are of course throwing impediments to all sorts of imports. As the blog's subtitle goes, I ...
  • South Korea as the Catholic Church's Asian Tiger
    Long lay the world in sin and error pining... The Roman Catholic Church is savvy enough to know that its game is for the most part up in Western Europe. Lip service to a "Catholic revival" in that part of the world aside, we all know a declining market when we see one. Its resources are not re ...
  • History Repeats Itself: Greek Crises 1832-1897
    Just as some folks spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E, certain nations have the reputation for it going a looooong way back. For a blog purporting to be the IPE Zone, you may have noticed that I have had very few posts on the EU project as of late and the myriad crises on its periphery. Honestly, I tired of th ...
  • There's No Power Shift (or Western Decline Either)
    ...or so says our LSE IDEAS head honcho Michael Cox. To say I disagree with him is an understatement, but he of course deserves to be heard as one of it not the best-recognized scholars of US foreign policy in Britain. We have no "shop" opinions at LSE IDEAS, and I believe such diversity is welc ...
  • Park Geun-hye's Lump of Coal for Chaebol Haters
    When it comes to showing the West how things differ in Asian nations, I suppose nothing quite beats electing a military dictator's daughter to power via freely contested polls. But that of course is just what has transpired in prosperous South Korea. And General Park is a rather revered figure f ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • COLD Weather Survival: Clothing, Dry, Layers
    One of the most difficult survival situations is a cold weather scenario. Every time you venture into the cold, you are pitting yourself against the elements. With a little knowledge of the environment, proper plans, and appropriate equipment, you can overcome the elements. As you remove one or ...
  • Sunrise Sunset
    The following tools are for finding sunrise-sunset time and direction, and hours of daylight, all based on a geographical location latitude-longitude and date-time of year. Knowing this information (or where to find it) can prove very useful for many different applications. I hope that some of y ...
  • The Attempt To Disarm The American
    Given the rapid move by the government to disarm Americans, SENATE TO GO FOR HANDGUNS… FEINSTEIN BILL WILL REQUIRE ‘GRANDFATHERED WEAPONS BE REGISTERED’; CALLS FOR OWNERS TO BE FINGERPRINTED… The following guest post by Chris Parrett is timely and relevant to the question ...
  • Topographic Map Contour
    A topographic map is a two-dimensional representation of the three-dimensional surface of the land. A topographic map enables you to visualize the hills and valleys of the land itself, and provides specific details as to the elevation of the surface. Topography is the shape of the land surface, ...
  • A Christmas Wish For You
    Here’s wishing all of our Modern Survival Blog Readers a Merry Christmas. It is a time for family and friends, so put aside the stresses of the modern world that you live in and spend some time relaxing and enjoying the company of those important to you. For those who are alone, remember t ...

Fast Company

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

Jadaliyya

  • Baghdad: Mirages and Melancholia
    It is well known that preeminent figures of early modernism, such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, designed architectural proposals for Baghdad around the middle of the 20th century. Many may be surprised however to discover that several other important international architects were also ...
  • My Father is Still a Communist
    My Father is Still a Communist. Dir. Ahmad Ghossein, (Lebanon, 2011, 32’) The transient circulations of bodies for labor constitutes a hidden history of the late-20th century world, with an accumulation of yet unspoken stories of abuse and struggle, exploitation and protest, inscribed in the le ...
  • Sons of Beaches: How Alexandria's Ideological ...
    A Salafist Muslim intellectual, overlooking an Alexandrian beach last summer, tells me over coffee: “The cosmopolitanism of our city [Alexandria] may look like it has died, but the skeletal structure of cosmopolitanism is still there. It is this structure that underpins the spread and acceptance ...
  • Behind the Bahraini Revolution: An Interview w ...
    [The following is an interview conducted with Maryam Al-Khawaja, the acting president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the deputy director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights. She is currently in self-imposed exile in Denmark due to safety and security reasons, but remains closely conn ...
  • أربع قصائد
                  ثلاث زنابق ثلاث زنابق، أم ثلاث أمّهات؟ . . . ثلاث زنابق: الأولى تفتّحت كأن بتلاتها البيضاء تتضرّعُ تسألُ إلهاً ما عن أولادها الثانية انحنتْ يكاد ظهرها ينكسرُ إذ تبحثُ في الأرض عن ميسمها الثالثة مازالت تخبّ ...

mediagazer

  • Former Times editor William Rees-Mogg dies (Ro ...
    Robert Mendick / Telegraph: Former Times editor William Rees-Mogg dies  —  Lord Rees-Mogg, one of the most influential figures in journalism over the past half a century, has died at the age of 84.  —  Lord Rees-Mogg  —  William Rees-Mogg was a fo ...
  • New York newspaper to list more gun permit hol ...
    Noreen O'Donnell / Reuters: New York newspaper to list more gun permit holders after uproar  —  (Reuters) - A suburban New York newspaper that sparked an uproar among gun enthusiasts by publishing names and addresses of residents holding pistol permits is now planning to publish ...
  • Suddenly, Samsung And Others Are Trying To Mak ...
    Steve Kovach / Business Insider: Suddenly, Samsung And Others Are Trying To Make An Apple TV Before Apple Can  —  Three years ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a keynote presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show where he showed off a Slate PC, the company's interpretatio ...
  • How looking beyond UK may save British newspap ...
    Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: How looking beyond UK may save British newspapers  —  With British titles deriving up to 55% of readers from abroad, the temptation to expand internationally for growth is compelling  —  For most of the half century since the Guardian left ...
  • 'Snow Fall' Tells a Story About an Avalanche a ...
    Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal: ‘Snow Fall’ Tells a Story About an Avalanche and a Newspaper's Digital Progress  —  With its spectacular graphics and photography, and its beautifully written narrative, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek& ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
    www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restricti ...
  • 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
    www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restrictions ...
  • 12/13/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! – Does lowe ...
    corporatetax.procon.org – NEW ProCon.org Website! – Does lowering the federal corporate income tax rate result in employers creating more jobs? – Throughout US corporate tax history, Americans have debated whether or not lowering the rate results in job creation. Propone ...
  • 12/12/12 - UPDATED: Are social networking site ...
    socialnetworking.procon.org - Are social networking sites good for our society? - The 47% of Americans who use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have spent billions of minutes social networking in 2012. Our newly revamped Social Networking site has statistics from over 200 ...
  • 12/7/12 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear two ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - US Supreme Court agrees to hear two same-sex marriage cases.  One case challenges California's Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in the state. The other case challenges the federal Defense of Marriage Act's denial of benefits to gay ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Chile Becomes First Country in World to Protec ...
    Coral formations in Juan Fernandez archipelago lie among Chilean seamounts As you enjoy those last holiday cookies before the New Year comes with its resolutions, we’d love to share one final present for you to enjoy: we are thrilled to announce that last week, the country of Chile became the ...
  • Harvard Dining Services Dishes Up Sustainable ...
    Sustainable Prince Edward Island mussels make a delicious dish for hungry men and women of Harvard. Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer for Harvard Gazette It looks like r’s aren’t the only things getting dropped at Harvard: Over the last few years, Harvard University Dining Service ...
  • NYC Seafood Fraud Report Making Waves
    What's on your plate? Source: wikimedia commons Spurred by Oceana’s seafood fraud report for New York City released last week, Sunday’s New York Times took a broader look at the widespread practice of food mislabeling. Oceana’s initial report, which was also covered in the Times, included a ...
  • French Polynesia and the Cook Islands Create W ...
    A sicklefin lemon shark breathes a little easier in the shark sanctuary of French Polynesia. Source: Wikimedia Commons With as many as a third of all shark species in the world facing some threat of extinction, the future of sharks has been in peril for some time now. This month, however, Fre ...
  • Victory! EU Moves Towards Overhaul of Fisherie ...
    Bottom trawler at Sant Carles de la Rápita, Spain ©Oceana Today the Fisheries Committee of the EU parliament voted to radically reform its fisheries management policies, for the better. After 18 months of negotiations the body voted to put in place new measures that would effectively end over ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • A Personal Thanks to Subscribers and the Impor ...
    ALL THE donations investing in the work here at TM make a difference. New media ventures are kept alive through the people who invest in this brave new world of writing and journalism, which began percolating in the mid ’90s. I’m proud to say I was one of the few and one of the first ...
  • News Desk: Gang-Raped Young Woman Dies in Sing ...
    THE DEATH penalty has been proven it is isn’t a deterrent, but for a crime as heinous as the barbaric gang-rape of an innocent young woman, it’s fitting. “To all of you who have expressed your anger publicly, I want to assure you that your voice has been heard. Today all Indian ...
  • Matt Damon in Playboy: “No Matter How Hard You ...
    NO SUCK ups, please. Your party and political position exist for your own amusement or delusion. You can’t impact a thing. Unless you’re a member of the Tea Party, that much maligned and mocked political entity that continues to send shudders through our government and populace. They ...
  • Ad of the Year: PlayStation
    HAD TO save this one for saying so long to 2012. …and no, that’s not what you think it is. Thumbs are important, too, you know, especially for gamers. But, oh, that physique. It makes my mind wander… TM Note: Thanks ever so to Buzzfeed (and Ben Smith), a site that almost always ...
  • Boehner Opens House on Sunday, Hoyer Invokes C ...
    SHOCKING! SHOCKING, I say. Speaker Boehner is bringing back the House on Sunday, because Republicans are looking really small in this and at the bottom everyone knows middle class tax cuts will pass at some point and they might as well appear in the game. But, yes, I still believe a deal will ge ...

Hudson New York

  • Israel Redefines Victory in the New Middle East
    Israel is redefining its concept of military victory in a Middle East dominated by terrorist organizations turned quasi-state actors. Once, decisive, unmistakable victories, accompanied by conquests of territory that had been used to stage attacks
  • Egyptian Cleric Threatens Egypt's Copts with G ...
    Islamic leaders continue to portray the popular protests against President Morsi and his recently passed Sharia-heavy constitution as products of Egypt's Christians. Recently, Muslim Brotherhood leader Safwat Hegazy said in an open rally, as captured on
  • How to Use American Influence
    Colonial powers – France, Britain, Belgium and Russia, in particular – believed there was no substitute for their own armies and officials to ensure that their colonies stayed in line. Instead of colonial occupation forces, the U.S. takes its money,
  • The Redacted Iraqi Jews
    The recent Conference of Religions and Sects in Sulaymaniyah, organized under the supervision of Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, was an important milestone: The first such conference to take place in Iraq that seriously covered the defense of religions
  • Why Arabs Hate And Kill Palestinians
    More than 800 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds others injured since the beginning of the crisis in Syria nearly two years ago. In the past two weeks, thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus after

Urban Survival

  • Markets: Limbo at De Nile
    Back to the shores of that mighty river than runs through society with prodigous currents and subtle eddies as we note the Dow lost only 18 points and change yesterday but seems set this morning to drop about 70- at … Continue reading →
  • Coping: A New Crazy Theory
    A week or so back, I told you that I would “out” what may be the ‘big secret’ of Universe…and no better time than this morning.  So….from the beginning:   I’m sure you have been following the line of inquiry … Continue reading →
  • It’s on: The Blame Game
    With no resolution or compromise in sight, we’re already reading stories about how each side is blaming the other for the nation going over the fiscal cliff.  Veep Joe Biden points to the irresponsible congress, and if you pop the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Thursday at the WuJo
    Only a few days left for the WuJO reports of 2012 before we turn over a new leaf on the calendar. So in keeping with things, here’s a head-scratcher to get’cha going this morning.  Comes a reader named Ken:   … Continue reading →
  • Merry Christmas–and other Headlines
    US markets are closed until tomorrow morning, but I thought since I was up, I’d pop a short update this morning despite the day; my work ethic is both a curse and blessing, though I expect the couch potato types … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

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

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Russian Warships Return From Gaza
    Russian warships are returning from the coast of Gaza to their home ports in the Black Sea, the country’s Defense Ministry reported Saturday. The combat ships include the missile cruiser Moskva, the patrol ship Smetliviy, large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov. They were heading off Somal ...
  • Iranian Warships Dock Again in Sudan
    Two Iranian navy warships arrived Saturday morning in Port Sudan, in the second such visit to Sudan within two months, eyewitnesses and officials said. “These visits by Iranian navy warships to Sudan come in the framework of routine exercises by navy forces of friendly nations,” Col. ...
  • Egypt’s President Morsi to allow military to a ...
    A decree authorising the armed forces to arrest civilians — a right previously reserved for police officers alone — will soon be issued by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, reported state-owned Al-Ahram daily Friday. The decree would be in effect until a constitution is approved and parliamentar ...
  • US planned one big nuclear blast for mankind
    The US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War. In an exclusive interview with The Observer, Dr Leonard Reiffel, 73, the physicist who fronted the project in the late Fifties at the US military-back ...
  • U.S. warships moving to monitor North Korea’s ...
    The United States is shifting warships into position to track and possibly defend against a planned North Korean rocket launch while urging Pyongyang to cancel its second such attempt this year, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command said on Thursday. Admiral Samuel Locklear, who commands U.S. for ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Becky Tarbotton, head of the Rainforest Action ...
    Rebecca Tarbotton, the executive director of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) died Wednesday. She was 39. Tarbotton died in rough surf off a beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where she was vacationing with her husband and friends. Tarbotton was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on July, 30, ...
  • Photos: the top new species discoveries in 2012
    Thousands of species were described for the first time by scientists in 2012. Some of these were 'cryptic species' that were identified after genetic analysis distinguished them from closely related species, while others were totally novel. Either way, here are some of the "new species" highligh ...
  • Paper giant breaks pledge to end rainforest lo ...
    Pulp and paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) continues to destroy large areas of rainforests and peatlands despite a commitment to end natural forest logging by 2009, says a new report issued by a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups. The Eyes on the Forest r ...
  • Making the connection: environmentalism as a f ...
    Passing values from one generation to the next is a central theme for most families. For career conservationists, Chip and Jill Isenhart, passing along a passion for the environment to their children took more than just lectures, and their efforts offer insights into furthering the cause of g ...
  • Pictures: Christmas-colored animals
    There are a surprising number of Christmas-colored animals. Below is a small set of red-and-green creatures photographed by Rhett A. Butler during his reporting travels.

Sierra Express

  • Public Notice on Waste Management and Disposal
    Following the re-election of His Excellency the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, specific issues have been identified as a national concern that need to be addressed immediately.  These issues include; waste management/garbage disposal, improve road safety and decongestion of city streets. In t ...
  • Provided Youths are Prepared
    His Excellency the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma has pronounced his commitment to provide job opportunities for youths. This commitment stood prominently in his recent address to his second parliament and many well-meaning Sierra Leoneans, and especially the youths ...
  • Time for work and no time for politics – part one
    By now the above caption should have been digested by all Sierra Leoneans and we should be ready to move forward in progress of developing our country. These are  words of wisdom coming from president of Sierra Leone Dr. Ernest  Bai .Koroma after his reelection as president of Sierra Leone for a ...
  • “We will do more in our Agenda for Prosperity” ...
    Makeni, Northern Province, Sierra Leone, 22nd December, 2012; His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has reiterated his commitment to continue to strengthen local councils all across the nation, irrespective of which political party controls them. He made this statement during his inauguration of t ...
  • Alim Kamara – ‘Reciting Live’ Hip-hop event
    Rapper Alim Kamara is a maverick on stage, passionate and energetic, he consistently delivers memorable performances. On the 31st January 2013 he will be showcasing a live band hip-hop performance titled ‘Reciting Live’ hosted by Miller’s Jazz Lounge. In July 2012 Alim launched his first hip-hop ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Big Boi’s Post-Election Racist Moment: “I Vote ...
    The setup: New York City’s Hot 97 has a segment called “Everyday Racism” where different guests recount an experience of racism in their every day lives. The rapper Big Boi (one half of the Outkast duo) was on the show last month, and explained how a white woman came up to him at th ...
  • Eric Boehm on Organized Labor vs. Liquor Store ...
    Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) is leading the charge to privatize the state’s liquor store system. In opposition stands the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776, which counts about 3,000 state liquor store employees among its members. Reporting ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on the Biggest Food Policy Suc ...
    There’s no shortage of bad news when it comes to the issue of food freedom, be it crackdowns on small food producers, the spread of bad regulations, or the publication of yet another questionable food research study. But as Baylen Linnekin observes, this year also had its share of go ...
  • Boy, Not Making Bombs, Arrested for Having Thi ...
    The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is publicizing an interesting little story out of Galloway Township in New Jersey: When a 16-year-old New Jersey boy doodled in his notebook on Tuesday, December 18, he probably didn’t expect to be arrested by the end of the day. However, when ...
  • Record High—74 Percent—Oppose Handgun Ban, 51 ...
    In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newton, Connecticut, Gallup finds Americans want stricter gun laws but a record number oppose gun bans. Some may have expected increased support for gun bans; however, Americans are not convinced that taking away private o ...

Mercury Rising

  • We accept your surrender
    The following is one of the more recent right-wing salvos circulating the Net: Post-Mortem Laura Hollis, Nov 08, 2012 Laura Hollis is: Current: Associate Professional Specialist and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at University of Notre Dame. [Note: ND Law lists Hollis as an Assistant prof ...
  • The wheels of justice
    Some of you may know Victor Jara, a Chilean musician who was swept up in the Pinochet mass arrests and executed. The legend is that, while interned at the Chile sports stadium (now Victor Jara Stadium), he encouraged resistance by playing his guitar. When his captors smashed his fingers and told ...
  • Policemen are your friends
    This is a story that was buried in the Christmas data dump. It seems that the FBI has overstepped the boundaries of what can be considered apolitical law enforcement. Again. DemocracyNow: MARA VERHEYDEN-HILLIARD: Well, the documents, as you stated, show that the FBI and American intelligence age ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • For the archives: the decline in productivity
    I linked the following Fed Letter by Fabina and Wright in comments below and wanted to promote it to a post. In this Chicago Fed Letter, we describe the recent behavior of productivity in the United States and in other advanced economies around the world. We show that there has been a dramatic r ...

Reality Sandwich

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

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • US terror drone kills 3 in central Yemen
    A US assassination drone attack has killed three people in Yemen’s al-Bayda’ province as Washington continues its assassination operations overseas.
  • ‘Bahrain brutal ally of US, Saudis’
    Saudi Arabia and the US are supporting the Al Khalifa regime to preserve their own interests, even if the cost is the lives and rights of the people of Bahrain, an activist says.
  • RSF urges Bahrain to release activists
    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned Al Khalifa regime of Bahrain for arresting Sayed Yousif Al-Muhafda, urging the immediate release of the human right activist.
  • Syrian army kills militants in Homs
    Syrian government forces have killed several foreign-sponsored militants fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad in the western city of Homs.
  • Britain warns Israel over WB university
    The British foreign office has warned Israel against authorizing the establishment of its first university in the occupied settlement of Ariel, saying it will prove an obstacle to peace in the region.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • globalpost:“Now the Syrian people have nothi ...
    globalpost: “Now the Syrian people have nothing to lose,” National Coalition leader Mouaz al-Khatib told Reuters today. “They handled their problems by themselves. They no longer need international forces to protect them. The international community has been in a slumber, silent and late ...
  • globalpost:GlobalPost asked its editors and ...
    globalpost: GlobalPost asked its editors and correspondents to nominate their “person of the year.” Some of the people on this list were inspiring, some notorious, some entertaining and some powerful.  Check out the full list: People of the year 2012 (PHOTOS)
  • Rural Women Are Leading the Way – Will the Wor ...
    Rural Women Are Leading the Way – Will the World Follow? “Agriculture currently provides a livelihood for roughly 1.3 billion smallholder farmers and landless workers, of which nearly half – close to 560 million – are women,” according to a new article by IPS. “A vast majority of these women ar ...
  • UNDER YOUR BOOTSOLES
    UNDER YOUR BOOTSOLES: bombmagazine: A poignant vision of our country from the great American...
  • “Joey lives in Kentucky with his parents and o ...
    “Joey lives in Kentucky with his parents and older sister. He is 11 years old. He regularly accompanies his father on hunts. He owns two shotguns and a crossbow and made his first kill—a deer—at the age of seven. He is hoping to use his crossbow during the next hunting season as he has become t ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

    • Thai-EU FTA Raises Alarm for People With AIDS
      Days before leaders of the European Union (EU) arrived in Norway to collect this year’s Nobel Peace prize, Thai public health activists sent a letter to the northern powerhouse, warning that the EU’s 2012 accolades face a credibility test in this Southeast Asian country. They had in mind the fat ...
    • Bolivia Takes the Leap into the Big Pond of Me ...
      To go down fighting in the Andean Community (CAN), with a combined market of 92 million consumers, or move up to the big leagues of Mercosur, with 275 million? This was the dilemma faced by Bolivia’s foreign trade strategists when it came to pursuing full membership in the bloc formed by its nei ...
    • Renovating an Embattled City
      Every day, Anas Maraka sees his family’s home, but can’t go inside. “It’s hardest for my grandfather,” said Maraka, referring to the house overlooking Shuhada Street, once the central marketplace in Hebron’s old city. While he never lived there himself, Maraka explained that being so close – and ...
    • Reviving Family Farming in Angola, Carrot by C ...
      “We never used to eat carrots, but now we like them,” said Rebeca Soba, admiring her vegetable garden, an island of diversity in the midst of a vast sugarcane plantation. Vegetable gardening has been introduced at the Capanda Agroindustrial Pole (PAC) as a source of income for local ...
    • Prisons in Mexico on Verge of Collapse
      Edgar Torres Castillo, 21, has spent two years in the prison of Gómez Palacio, in the Lagunera district between the northern Mexican states of Durango and Coahuila – an arid zone known as one of the most dangerous parts of the country. Amparo Castillo, the mother of Edgar, who was sentenced to e ...

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • The Case For Legal Challenge of EU's Sanctions ...
      Summary: Despite appearances to the contrary, a valid legal case can be presented in the European courts that would challenge the legality of European Union's sanctions on Iran. Such a legal challenge may or may not prove successful in convincing the courts that a judicial review of the EU' ...
    • International Law and the Iran Impasse
      Summary: On any given day, provided her paper of choice still features international coverage, the average American newspaper reader can expect to be treated to one or two articles on attempts to halt advances in Iran’s nuclear program. These articles might cover efforts to levy fresh sanctio ...
    • Iran Slams Canada's Move to Delist MKO
      Summary: The Iranian Foreign Ministry has censured Canada’s move to delist the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its blacklist of terrorist organizations. “While the international community and the world’s public opinion consider terrorism as one of the main challenges to the world an ...
    • Syria: The descent into Holy War
      Summary: It is one of the most horrifying videos of the war in Syria. It shows two men being beheaded by Syrian rebels, one of them by a child. He hacks with a machete at the neck of a middle-aged man who has been forced to lie in the street with his head on a concrete block. At the end of th ...
    • "Americans kill people": Michael Moore on Newt ...
      Summary: Michael Moore speaking just hours after the massacre on 14 December 2012 in which 28 people died, 20 of them children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut. He links the Sandy Hook killings with the US culture of violence that has it curre ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • The 'Galaxy' Comment of the Day: Evolutionary ...
                     "It has been said that intelligence is of little long term use to sentient species. I believe that is wrong. Intelligence is a great way to get a species to spread to multiple worlds, furthering the survival of the species. Seeds of life spend a lot of time drifting in th ...
    • "No Jupiter, No Advanced Life? " ('2012 Most P ...
                         What are the implications of a star systems missing a massive gas giant such as our Solar Systems'Jupiter --it could imply conditions of massive bombardment from comets and asteeoids that would prevent the development of advanced life. The artist's ...
    • Colossal Black Hole Equal to 17 Billion Suns D ...
                      A group of astronomers led by Remco van den Bosch from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) have discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution. The Hubble image above shows the small, flattened disk galaxy NGC ...
    • EcoAlert: 100-Million-Year-Old Antarctica 'Gre ...
                                     The chance discovery of a 100 million year old fossil forest on an island east of New Zealand has unlocked new insights on ancient life close to the South Pole revealing large trees in their original living position, early flowering plants, seed cones and ...
    • The Primordial Star at the Edge of the Milky W ...
                        A primordial star at the outer edges of our Milky Way galaxy upsets current theories of star formation in the universe. The star simply shouldn't exist since it lacks the materials astronomers have long thought necessary for low-mass stars to form, scientists s ...

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    • Porcupine quills could hold key to improved hy ...
      If you have ever had a dog or other pet get snagged by them, then you already know how difficult it can be to remove porcupine quills from skin and tissue. But a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says the mechanism by...
    • New Year's Revolution: Connecting the Dots
      As a longtime writer and activist campaigning for decades on food and farming issues, most recently Prop 37, the California Ballot Initiative to label genetically engineered foods, I am reminded daily of the allure, indeed the addictive pleasure, of single-issue organizing...
    • Pot gets legalized in Washington as more canna ...
      In a U.S. premiere, the use of marijuana for recreational purposes has been legalized in the states of Washington and Colorado. Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Seattle to celebrate the event, but not everyone is happy with the change. The new law sparked controversy...
    • Gluten intolerance may cause additional food a ...
      Many people with a gluten intolerance or allergy are baffled when they adopt a gluten-free lifestyle and still experience symptoms of food allergies, symptoms that may have initially gone away once gluten was out of their diet. Sometimes people attribute these feelings...
    • Mainstream media actively trying to get gun ow ...
      Fallout from the publication of the names and addresses of some New York handgun permit holders by a local newspaper continues to grow, as shock has turned to outrage amid calls for legal action against the paper's editors. As we reported earlier, The Journal News...

    Threat Level

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

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • U.S. Conservatives Cheer as French Court Nixes ...
      France has been a bogeyman of the American right for years. Mitt Romney, after all, made enmity towards Paris' "big government, big taxation, welfare state" a talking point of his campaign. For his part, John McCain joked that the French "remind me of an aging movie actress in the 1940s who is ...
    • 25 Republicans Can End the Fiscal Cliff Stand-Off
      Following his meeting with Congressional leaders Friday, President Obama declared he was "modestly optimistic" a deal could be reached to avoid the January 1st "fiscal cliff." But if Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell can't come to an agr ...
    • Hagel Foe McCain Backed James Baker as Middle ...
      Having succeeded in his smear campaign against UN Ambassador Susan Rice, John McCain has launched a second pre-emptive strike against another would-be Obama cabinet member, former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. But this time McCain's petty payback against a GOP colleague who supported ...
    • This Just In: Social Security Still Not a Driv ...
      As Washington's stalemated debate over avoiding the so-called "fiscal cliff" continues to fester, Social Security is once again in the cross-hairs of would-be deficit hawks across the political spectrum. This week, the New York Times profiled Maya MacGuineas, who "has spent years warning about ...
    • A Wayne LaPierre Christmas
      Every Christmas brings the same frustrating question: what do you get the man who has everything? So it is with Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. After all, for two decades, the NRA has gotten almost everything it wanted, including an end to the na ...

    Blackspot News Feed

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

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    TruthOut

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

    Planetsave

    • Doctors Neal Barnard & John McDougall TED Talk ...
        Sister site Eat Drink Better recently shared some tremendous TED* talks by Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. John McDougall. There are plenty of interesting facts presented, but they are so well presented by the two doctors that I’m just going to send you straight there. Here’s the Dr. ...
    • The Eco-Impact Of Smoking
        Smoking is a bad habit from every angle. Besides slowly killing you even while it bleeds your wallet dry, complaints of everything from the effects of secondhand smoke to discarded cigarette butts on sidewalks showcase some of the more obvious effects that public smoking has on the people ...
    • Nettles Species That Lives In Caves Discovered
      Several new species of nettles have been discovered growing in the extreme low-light environment of caves in South West China. Nettles, also known as stinging nettles, are a very diverse and widespread group of plants that have many culinary and medicinal uses. Nettles have a rich history of use ...
    • Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peaks January 3rd 2013
      The Quadrantids meteor shower will be peaking in the very early morning hours of January 3, 2013. The meteor shower, named after an extinct constellation, are expected to reach a peak rate of around 80 meteors an hour. There will be some moon light present though, so that will cut down somewhat ...
    • Nano Medicine Advance: 3D ‘Molecule Printer’ P ...
      Rapid prototyping software and 3D printing technology has made amazing leaps forward in recent years, enabling quick manufacturing of everything from hand-drawn furniture to skin grafts. The technology allows unprecedented specificity and “personalization” of the manufacturing proces ...

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    Axis of Logic

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

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • The Nightowl Newswrap
      By @BGinKC The day in gun violence. A desperate man who got hold of a gun and managed to shoot three police officers in a "violent struggle" in a police station in New Jersey is dead, shot to death by police. If you were wondering how the ex-con who shot four volunteer firefighters was able to ...
    • GOP Needs "Big Tent" to House Those Leaving It
      By @TedFrier When Republicans talk about a "Big Tent" nowadays it's not to welcome newcomers into a broad-minded party but to shelter refugees who've either been pushed out or fled (like me) rather than take part in a party intent on making itself over into a leaner, if meaner, political machine ...
    • The Nightowl Newswrap
      By @BGinKC It's obvious @SpeakerBoehner is too much a coward to stand up to the terrorist, tea-party faction of his own party. Now he's completely abandoned his responsibility to govern because he's afraid of the radical right-wing revolutionaries in his caucus. Ditto Mitch McConnell As the trig ...
    • Just Do It & Get It The Hell Over With
      By @TomBales1  If Henry Blodget writing for Business Insider is correct, the Republicans are ready to raise taxes on the whole country by allowing the country to go over the fiscal cliff. Good.  And once we've done that would everyone please refrain from ever using the term "fiscal cli ...
    • The Nightowl Newswrap
      By @BGinKC What really sucks is that @DavidGregory having the clip for a visual aid inside the beltway where such clips are illegal, will get far more attention than the purple-faced, foam-flecked, "MORE GUNS!!!" rant of Wayne LaPierre, the numero-uno gun-whore at the NRA. "Worse than it looks," ...

    Care 2

    • Al Qaeda Disbands; Says Job of Destroying U.S. ...
      As terrorists, every now and then you have to step back and admire when someone else has beaten you at your own game, he said. This is one of those times. ***HUMOR*** Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • I'm on my Way - BBC Wolves/Phil Collins
      Tried hard to find a video on this since Wolves are in so much threat, this has the BBC logo in the middle. Sorry~ Couldn't find another one set to this music I wanted. "I'm on my way" Guys, we have to keep fighting for them, or on my way OUT! Submitted by Mm M. to Offbeat  |  &nbs ...
    • BABY CUBS Set to Elephant Walk
      This is a TIME OUT for sure! Not going to ask you if you enjoyed this, but going to ask HOW MUCH DID YOU ENJOY THIS???? To all of you, I want to say Thank you so much for all you do for our creatures to SAVE them & our Environment! Submitted by Mm M. to Offbeat  |   Note-it! ...
    • ACTION ALERT: Don't Kill Wolves and Bears Ove ...
      Dozens of wolves, lynx and brown bears are being killed in legalized hunts to protect reindeer herds destined to be made into expensive pate. The pate, which comes in cans labeled "relative of Rudolf," will be sold for over $30 in a posh London store Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |&nb ...
    • Time Person of the Year 2012:
      …they had well and truly captured the Higgs. … they had nailed the particle that gives other fundamental particles their mass … completed the so-called standard model of physics, the grand framework that ties together the universes three great forces… Submitted by Lynn Squance to Science & ...

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    No Quarter

    • Reasons Mitt Romney Cited Following the Election
      Jonathan Martin and Glenn Thrush recently wrote an e-books available at Amazon: “The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: the 34 days that decided the election: Playbook 2012. Here are some excerpts from the recently published e-book: The fourth and final eBook in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 se ...
    • Obama and Hillary Helping Destabilize the Midd ...
      Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton created the chaos that defines the present state of the Middle East, but their insane policies certainly have exacerbated the situation. We should not blame the President and the Secretary of State for unsettling matters there. That “honor” be ...
    • “Mexico frees former US soldier jailed over sh ...
      Jon Hammar was released around December 21st, according to the Examiner: Initially, it seemed as though Jon Hammar would have to remain in prison until a trial scheduled for Jan. 17. The Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhán, stated in a reply to Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen’s f ...
    • The Irreverent Side of Christmas (open thread ...
      It seems a bit crass to put this below Larry’s nice Christmas greeting to all of you. But the photo below the fold cracked me up. First, here’s an image of the decorations put up by a woman named Sarah Childs in New Orleans, as well as part of a news article about what happened [...]
    • Our Government Is A Joke!
      America awakes this morning to the realization that our federal government is collectively unwilling and/or unable to tend to the people’s business. Many in America might like to point fingers at one side of the aisle or the other. Many others would bemoan the general lack of real leadersh ...

    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 ...

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    Mountaintop Removal

    • No. 3: GOP makes gains in WV politics - State ...
      No. 3: GOP makes gains in WV politics State Journal After being driven to bankruptcy, environmental groups were able to use cleanup obligations to pressure a major mountaintop removal practitioner to give up mountaintop removal mining. After being driven to bankruptcy, environmental groups were ...
    • Leading Environmentalist Rebecca Tarbotton of ...
      Democracy Now (blog) Leading Environmentalist Rebecca Tarbotton of Rainforest Action Network Dies ... Democracy Now (blog) Tarbotton told her: "Bank of America is the lead financier of mountaintop-removal mining, which is a practice of mining which is really the worst of the worst mining th ...
    • Inhofe Sees Senate Deference on Next EPA Chief ...
      NBCNews.com Inhofe Sees Senate Deference on Next EPA Chief Roll Call At the EPA, she oversaw a suite of sweeping regulations to control greenhouse gases and other power plant emissions, as well as a crackdown on pollution from mountaintop removal mining. In doing so, she was the public face of w ...
    • Jackson resignation prompts speculation on WV ...
      Jackson resignation prompts speculation on WV future - Business, Government ... State Journal Additional protections against mountaintop removal effects were also established under administration. Michael Brune, director of the Sierra Club, issued a statement that mirrored many in the environmen ...
    • Obama, Congressional Leaders to Meet on Fiscal ...
      Obama, Congressional Leaders to Meet on Fiscal Cliff as Deadline Looms Democracy Now Jackson departs after a four-year tenure that saw advances in the regulation of environmentally harmful practices such as mountaintop removal and the emissions of harmful chemicals from industrial plants. But it ...

    Memeorandum

    • Obama urging state lawmakers to legalize gay m ...
      Lynn Sweet: Obama urging state lawmakers to legalize gay marriage in Illinois: Sun-Times exclusive  —  WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is urging the Illinois General Assembly to legalize gay marriage in his home state as lawmakers are poised to take up the measure as ear ...
    • Deport me? If America won't change its crazy g ...
      Piers Morgan / Daily Mail: Deport me?  If America won't change its crazy gun laws... I may deport myself says Piers Morgan  —  I have fired guns only once in my life, on a stag party to the Czech capital Prague a few years ago when part of the itinerary included a trip to a ...
    • A Digital Milestone in 2012: 100,000,000 Video ...
      Colleen Curtis / White House.gov Blog: A Digital Milestone in 2012: 100,000,000 Video Views  —  Earlier this month, we reached a milestone with the news that our videos have been viewed more than 100,000,000 (that's one hundred million!) times since we launched the official Whit ...
    • Dick Armey Defends His $8 Million Deal to Leav ...
      Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS: Dick Armey Defends His $8 Million Deal to Leave FreedomWorks  —  Former House majority leader Dick Armey says he took an $8 million consulting deal in return for leaving the conservative organization FreedomWorks because the group was “dishones ...
    • Laws Are for Little People (Mark Steyn/Nationa ...
      Mark Steyn / National Review: Laws Are for Little People  —  A week ago on NBC's Meet the Press, David Gregory brandished on screen a high-capacity magazine.  To most media experts, a “high-capacity magazine” means an ad-stuffed double issue of Vanity Fair with ...

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    China Dialogue

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

    AlterNet Top Stories

    • Is it California's Turn to Legalize Marijuana?
      When news broke on the evening of November 6 that Colorado had become the first state to legalize cannabis for adults 21 and older, patrons at the trendy Casselman's Bar & Venue in Denver erupted in cheers before they hugged each other and cried. Onstage, organizers and friends of the Cam ...
    • High School Student Arrested for Doodling?
      This month in our Orwellian nightmares come true, a 16-year-old high schooler in Egg Harbor City, NJ, was arrested after doodling in his notebook what may have been either weapons or a magic hand with flames coming off it, or perhaps something else.Concerned by the boy&#x2 ...
    • 'Rooftop Revolution': Why It's Time to Join th ...
      The following is an excerpt fromRooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy -- and Planet -- from Dirty Energy. Copyright © 2012 by Danny Kennedy. Reprinted with permission of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, CA.There’s an epic struggle afoot for the he ...
    • Could a Black Director Have Made 'Django'?
      For two reasons, Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” was all but guaranteed to ignite a conversation about race in America.First and foremost, the film dares to break a major taboo. Specifically, as the New York Times critic A.O. Scott put it, ...
    • Young Woman Gang-Raped in India Dies
      SINGAPORE (AFP) – Indian gang-rape victim has died Saturday in Singapore after suffering severe organ failure, the hospital treating her said, in a case that sparked widespread street protests over violence against women.Authorities in India have been preparing for the possibility her ...

    Threat Level

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

    Equality Trust

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

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

    Marler Blog

    • Why US Food Safety is Important – Salmonella C ...
      261 Ill, 3 Deaths, 94 Hospitalizations in 24 States CDC collaborated with public health officials in many states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multi-state... Continue Reading
    • Why Import Food Safety is Important – Salmonel ...
      127 infected with Salmonella Braenderup and 16 with Salmonella Worthington On August 29, 2012 the CDC announced that local, state and federal agencies were conducting an investigation into the source... Continue Reading
    • Are Punitive Damages Warranted in the Sunland ...
      Most states that allow for punitive damages provide that punitive damages may be awarded if defendant’s conduct is found to be so willful and wanton as to evidence conscious disregard... Continue Reading
    • Settlements Reached in Salmonella Tuna Scrape ...
      Over the last month we reached confidential settlements for victims of one of the largest Salmonella outbreaks of 2012. Local, state, the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration... Continue Reading
    • Listeria and Cheese Do Not Mix
      In 2012 the CDC collaborated with public health and regulatory officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes... Continue Reading

    AutoblogGreen

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

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    Camera Obscura

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

    Democracy Now!

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

    Suzie-Q

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

    Solari

    • Chilling Economic Report Strikes Fear Into CEO ...
      Over an early-morning coffee with the chief executive of a FTSE 100 business last week, talk turned to the outlook for 2013. Where I had expected some guarded optimism, instead I heard a chilling analysis. The CEO said he had been reading a new paper from Boston Consulting Group headed “Ending ...
    • The Goldberg Variations
      About the Golberg Variations About Andras Schiff
    • Jon Rappoport on “Covert Engineering of ...
      “Omission is the greatest form of lie.” ~George Orwell By Catherine Austin Fitts Jon Rappoport’s special for the Solari Report this month is a real treat. As soon as Jon recorded “Covert Engineering of Information,” I listened to it in my car on a long drive. The s ...
    • Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
      As the specter of federal gun control legislation in 2013 rises, the debate is being defined primarily by fiction, rather than fact. For those interested in shifting the debate to fact, including serious statistics and analysis of the impact of gun ownership and governmental policies related to ...
    • Happy Christmas from Holland
      Dear people, speakers, team members and supporters of Globalbem. I want to wish you all on behalf of Globalbem a happy Christmas and a wonderful 2013 and lets hope we are all going to be a witness that finally breakthrough energy technology will be a reality for everybody. We [...]

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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    Fabius Maximus

    • Most-read posts on the FM website in 2012
      Here are the posts you, our readers, found most interesting in 2012.  Don’t recognize some?  You might find them worth reading. Did any of them make an impression on you?  How do they read months later?  Tell us in the comments! Japan can again become the land of the rising sun. We should ...
    • Suggestions for your daily info diet. You are ...
      Summary:  Here are my favorite sources of information.  You might find some of them of use.  In the comments post your favorite sources of information. Contents Economics Military Affairs Online magazines for a general audience Politics and Geopolitics Science General News agencies — my fa ...
    • Realism about the fiscal cliff
      Summary:  The fiscal cliff dominates the news.  What will happen if we fall off it. How we can avoid it, preferably by easy painless solutions.  Here we peel back the consensus wisdom to see what lies beneath. . Contents It’s not important It’s important About the GOP in-fighting For ...
    • The seas are rising, and have been over ten th ...
      Summary: The world has been warming for the past two centuries, and the oceans have been rising for over ten millenia. The urgent task of climate scientists is to determine if these trends will accelerate, and if so by how much and when. Here we look at the history of rising seas, and what the [...]
    • As we finish a dark 2012, what will we see in ...
      Summary:  It’s the time of year to look back on our deeds of the past year, and contemplate what we’ll do in the next. In the past American could think of bold exploration ventures (from Lewis & Clark to Apollo), great projects of domestic infrastructure (from the Erie Canal to t ...

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    The Progressive Realist

    • National Security and Civil Liberties meet Sec ...
      Corey Robin’s Jacobin essay is getting a lot of attention, including from Jon Western at the Duck and Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns & Money. I don’t think that it detracts from Robin’s essay to note that the argument he’s making is long-standing in international-rela ...
    • Planning to Be Shocked
      One of the most repeated, and most dubious, axioms about strategy is the notion that being proactive is wiser than being reactive, and that reactivity is something we should be allergic to. In the words of Britain’s foreign secretary William Hague, ‘the nation that is purely reactive ...
    • What the Attacks on Hagel Tell Us
      AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, delivers remarks at the Brookings Institution on U.S. foreign policy and the 2008 presidential campaign. Back in 1998, Chuck Hagel, who had been Senator from Nebraska for two years, made news by criticizing the tact ...
    • Timor Leste: A 2012 Success Story
      Peter Yeo, President of the Better World Campaign, shines the spotlight on a little appreciated success story of 2012: the end of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Timor Leste. Yeo first visited Timor Leste as a congressional staffer in the early 2000s, when violence gripped the country. He recalls ...
    • National Security and Civil Liberties
      Corey Robin’s essay in the new Jacobin is quite brilliant.  There’s a lot that could (and will) be said about it, but I have initial responses/amplifications on three points. read more

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • SCOTUS in 2012: It Coulda Been Worse
      Flickr/Rick Reinhard U. S. Supreme Court rules to uphold the Affordable Care Act, June 28, 2012. The Supreme Court's most recent year will be remembered primarily for one blockbuster case: NFIB v. Sebelius, in which the Court narrowly upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable ...
    • What the Attacks on Hagel Tell Us
      AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, delivers remarks at the Brookings Institution on U.S. foreign policy and the 2008 presidential campaign. Back in 1998, Chuck Hagel, who had been Senator from Nebraska for two years, made news by critic ...
    • What Happens to a DREAM Deferred?
      At first, it looked like 2012 would be another terrible year for immigration reform advocates. Mitt Romney won the Republican presidential primary by adopting a xenophobic, right-wing platform, advocating for policies against immigrants so terrible they led to self-deportation. Meanwhile Barack ...
    • States of Play
      If you’d forgotten just how much state legislatures impact citizens’ day-to-day lives, 2012 was a year full of reminders. From unions to health care to basic civil rights, states have a tremendous amount of power in shaping public policy. That’s no secret to groups like the American Legislative ...
    • A Cleared Bill of Health
      Flickr/Robert F. W. Whitlock There have been few more consequential years in the history of health care in America than 2012. This year saw disasters averted, new problems identified, and hope triumphing over despair. The biggest health-care news in 2012 was the dramatic and surprising ...

    Buzzflash

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    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

    • End of the World
      Well, the sleeping Americans problem don’t know it yet, but the end of the world hasn’t happened as Australians and others who have already entered the day Winter Solstice will attest. Google celebrates with a piece of the Mayan Calendar. Of course, why anyone would trust the “ ...
    • Dead-tree stocking fillers
      A couple of arrivals on my desk for review worth a look. John Rentoul has been running the Questions To Which The Answer Is No! Awards for several years now. Celebrating the journalistic skill of basing an entire article on a fantastically far-fetched question-based headline and only admitting t ...
    • Deceived Wisdom anywhere
         Deceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDeceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
    • Legal guidelines on social media
      Lawyer and blogger Jack of Kent has published an interesting article discussing the preliminary guidelines on how prosecutors under English law should approach social media. To my mind, I assume that a prosecution would be appropriate if a tweet, Facebook update or other public posting breaks th ...
    • Deceived Wisdom about wine
      In my book, one of the myths I debunk is that surrounding the etiquette of removing the cork from a bottle of red wine to allow the wine to “breathe”. It’s clearly nonsense as the air-liquid interface is too small to have any significant effect. There are some claims that aerat ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

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

    Common Dreams-Views

    • Deja-vu All Over Again: A Chance to Lead
      Philip Caper About a year ago, facing a budgetary shortfall, the Maine legislature had a knock-down, drag out fight over Governor LePage’s proposal to attempt to save $250 million by throwing 65,000 Maine residents off MaineCare.read more
    • Longshoremen’s Strike Averted as Public, Media ...
      David Macaray On December 28, a potential strike by the ILA (International Longshoremen’s Association), representing East Coast dockworkers, was averted when union negotiators agreed to extend the contract for another month and contin ...
    • Longshoremen’s Strike Averted as Public, Media ...
      David Macaray On December 28, a potential strike by the ILA (International Longshoremen’s Association), representing East Coast dockworkers, was averted when union negotiators agreed to extend the contract for another month and contin ...
    • Make Civic Engagement a Priority in the New Year
      Ralph Nader Many people view the New Year as a time for resolutions -- losing weight, exercising more, staying in better touch with friends, taking up a new hobby. Here's something you don't often hear of when considering New Year&# ...
    • Make Civic Engagement a Priority in the New Year
      Ralph Nader Many people view the New Year as a time for resolutions -- losing weight, exercising more, staying in better touch with friends, taking up a new hobby. Here's something you don't often hear of when considering New Year&# ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

    • VIDEO: Jimmy Fallon and Tom Cruise Have a Wate ...
      Tom Cruise and Jimmy Fallon are waging war Check out TVGuide.com's Top Moments of the Year On Tuesday's Late Night, Fallon challenged Cruise to one of his Water Wars, in which the player who loses a hand of the classic card game War gets doused with a glass of water. It was a close, wet ...
    • The Water Wars and Urban Sprawl of 2030
      # thefuture The year 2030 is only 17 short years away. (Wow. I can remember when it was 25 years away.) What will the world be like in 2030? According to a new " Global Trends " report from the US National Intelligence office—a deeply researched report provocative in its predictions wh ...
    • Drought revives old water wars among river states
      The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.      Officials from more than 30 states have written President Barack Obama urging him to interv ...
    • The President to receive letters about the low ...
      The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.
    • Drought revives water war
      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 and float the barges that carry billions of dollars of agricult ...

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    The Wonk Room

    • Editor’s Choice: Five Important U.S. Energy St ...
      The presidential and congressional elections dominated the American news cycle in 2012. And although climate change took a backseat during the campaign, energy played a surprisingly prominent role. The news cycle was dominated by energy: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made fossil ...
    • Open Thread Plus Cartoon Of The Week
      Opine away! Via Skeptical Science
    • GOP Senators Want To Take Debt Ceiling Hostage ...
      Two Republican senators want to use the threat of an economic meltdown to raise the retirement age and cut Medicare. Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) introduced a plan today that would raise the federal debt limit by $1 trillion in exchange for $1 trillion in cuts to Medicare, ...
    • UPDATED: Opponents Of Filibuster Reform Offer ...
      For weeks, Democratic senators have been crafting a filibuster reform package that, if it resembles the reforms embraced by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), will include reforms that prevent the minority from imposing hours of needless delay every time a new nominee is confirmed, and which wil ...
    • Banks Paid Nearly $11 Billion In Fines In 2012
      Major banks this year paid $10.7 billion in fines for a host of transgressions, including money laundering and foreclosure fraud. As CNN Money noted, “Slightly more than half of the fines were related to improper mortgage practices.” However, those fines won’t put much of a den ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • "Idle No More" - the racists strike back
       They've been going at it from Day One actually. I've seen all sorts of trolls on the mainstream media comments sections blathering on about the $90 million that Chief Spence supposedly has stashed in a Cayman Islands bank account. That's been known to be complete bullshit for around a year ...
    • Parliament
      I don't know what to say so I think I'll post Thomas Mulcair's speech in the House of Commons in response to Bill C-45. Here's a noteworthy excerpt:  In response to a question, the hon. member for Saint Boniface asked us earlier if we were aware of the global recession. I would remind the ...
    • There are a LOT of First Nations People in Can ...
      It's a consequence of our racist justice system. All I'm saying is that in the months before the general amnesty for First Nations prisoners, that it'll be fun to think of how they'll respond to their new fellow prisoners from the Conservative Party of Canada.
    • Idle No More
        What harper has to realize is that while he's sitting in his comfortable house on Sussex Drive, enjoying the fruits of his stolen majority government, basking in the adulation of idiots and the tepid applause of his corporate paymasters, is that for other people, the end results of his ...
    • If harper Kills Chief Spence
      Is it possible? Is harper so debased that he'd actually let Chief Spence die rather than agree to a meeting between First Nations leaders, himself and the Crown? Personally, I don't think so (although the overall lack of media attention to this gripping story might try to make it possible for ha ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Helmut Oberlander stripped of Canadian citizen ...
      Ukrainian born Helmut Oberlander, 88, has been stripped of the Canadian citizenship he acquired in 1960 for a second time, over allegations of his membership in the Nazi Einsatzkommando killing squad.
    • Man disappointed over lack of skaters at free ...
      A man is disappointed that the free public skating rink he created on his property is lacking visitors. All frozen, smoothed and ready for skating, few people have come to enjoy the free rink.
    • Justin Bieber writes 2 new songs for acoustic ...
      After learning that Justin Bieber was recording acoustic versions of tracks off of his studio album, 'Believe', most fans surmised the album 'Believe Acoustic' will have only songs from that record on it. However, Bieber has revealed that's not the case.
    • Photo Essay: Our outdoor cats
      Stray cats are common in our small village in rural Manitoba. Their numbers vary. Many succumb to the harsh winters, are captured in traps, or suffer various other misfortunes.
    • NHL renews hope of 2012-13 hockey season with ...
      A new offer from the NHL to the NHLPA on Fri., Dec. 28 has renewed hope that the league will indeed have a 2012-13 season. The proposal, which comes after a near two weeks of virtual silence in the negotiations, was some 300 pages in length.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

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

    Ceasefire.ca

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-21-12
      Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-28-12
      Today, Kevin explains how diet foods are specifically designed to make you fat and how America is slowly being sold to the highest bidder. Self Help: Shed Pounds Fast Have Dinner With KT Daily Life Essentials Hear The Whole Interview: Andrew Wakefield Erich von Däniken Health: Reporter Suffers S ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-24-12
      Today, Kevin explains why you should not be donating your hard-earned money to large charities and for disaster relief. Plus, Kevin reveals where to find the best quality products in your area! Self Help: Protect Yourself From Meat Glue Shine A Little Light On Me Health: 9 Salads Calorically Wor ...
    • It’s Almost Over…
      The holiday season is finally almost over, so let’s start the de-stressing process…. Ice cream seems like a quick fix, but you’re better off making some wise stress-busting diet choices such as: Eating oatmeal, which provides more of all the B-Vitamins (except for pantothenic a ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-4-12
      Today, Kevin reveals the details behind the government’s plan to drive up oil prices and crash currencies. Plus, the Freeze Dry Guy stops by to help prepare you for any disaster! Self Help: Loss Weight Safe & Fast Survival Food Filter For Emergencies Daily Life Essentials Free Money Health: ...

    Armies of Liberation

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

    Dark Politricks

    • Convicted rapists put to death by hanging in Iran
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Iran on Saturday hanged an Afghan drug trafficker and four Iranians, three of them convicted of rape, local media reported. The 27-year-old Afghan from Herat, identified only by his initials MM, was sent to ...
    • India gang rape: six men charged with murder
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Indian police have charged six men with murder, hours after a woman who was gang-raped and thrown from a moving bus in Delhi nearly two weeks ago died in a Singapore hospital. Police spokesman Rajan Bhag ...
    • California gun sales jump; gun injuries, death ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPhillip Reese Sacramento Bee December 29, 2012 Gun deaths and injuries have dropped sharply in California, even as the number of guns sold in the state has risen, according to new state data. Dealers sold 600,000 guns in ...
    • Sorry, Santa Isn’t Real … and Neither Is “Free ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSorry, Santa Isn’t Real … and Neither Is “Free” Money By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com It’s Time to Create a Grown-Up Economy Liberal economist Dean Baker writes: Just as little kids ha ...
    • Missing Los Angeles toddler found months later ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A 17-month-old girl was found in Kentucky by University of Kentucky police officers after being abducted from Los Angeles in October. According to Lexington’s WKYT, Alouette Day-Moreno-Baltierra is ...

    Dandelion Salad

    • Noam Chomsky: Work, Learning and Freedom by Mi ...
      Dandelion Salad Noam Chomsky interviewed by Michael Kasenbacher New Left Project December 24, 2012 In this often personal interview, renowned linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky outlines a libertarian perspective on work and education, arguing that freedom is the root of creativity a ...
    • The Belligerent Occupier by Soraya Boyd
      by Soraya Boyd Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Facilitate Global December 29, 2012 With breathtaking magnitude, resolute in forefending responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity A darkly glib inhabits the psychic scape of a ruinously polished occupier seeking pseudo security Justify ...
    • What Jesus Said About Suffering
      Dandelion Salad Day of Discovery Why would a good God allow you to suffer and abandon you in the midst of your pain? In “What Jesus Said About Suffering,” you’ll travel to Israel with Mart De Haan and hear from biblical scholars as they discuss the “whys” of suffering. Examine the wo ...
    • America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff by Micha ...
      by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com December 28, 2012 How today’s fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I’s economic misunderstandings When World War I broke out in August 1914, economists on both sides forecast that hostilities could not last more ...
    • Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff: Capitalism=Can ...
      with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 29, 2012 Inside Story Americas – Has capitalism proven its durability? AlJazeeraEnglish·Dec 29, 2012 As unemployment in the US decreases and large companies expand their profit margins, we ask if the capitalist system has proven it ...

    Your New Reality

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

    Wired - Science

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

    Israeli Occupation Archive

    • EU court rejects NGO Monitor petition to relea ...
      The right-wing group, which tracks the activity of left-wing organizations in Israel, has been trying to obtain the documents for 10 years; court throws out suit, says information may be used to harm... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
    • Jonathan Cook: The terror lurking in a Christm ...
      A recent report in the Haaretz newspaper, on an Israeli Jew who grows Christmas trees commercially, noted in passing: “hotels – under threat of losing kashrut [Kosher] certificates – are prohibited... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
    • Adalah: The 2013 Israeli Elections and Arab-Pa ...
      Adalah document covering Israeli election rules and party or individual disqualifications. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
    • Balad: Knesset Elections Committee disqualifie ...
      MK Haneen Zoabi called the decision “anti-democratic and illegitimate”, a form of political revenge that reflected the tyranny of the majority. “No one will determine for the Arab minority who... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
    • New Jerusalem highway to cut Arab neighborhood ...
      Construction of highway through Beit Safafa is based on plans drawn up 22 years ago, although no detailed plan for the road was submitted and no permits for the bridges above it were issued,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

    Ria Novosti - Military

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

    NewsWise

    • Supercomputers, Materials and Bears: ORNL Mark ...
      The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory regained the lead in high-performance computing, enjoyed record-setting recognition for its research and became a showpiece for renewable energy technology during 2012.
    • Hospital Videos Top 100,000 Views on YouTube
      More than 100,000 viewers have now watched Loyola University Health System videos on YouTube's LoyolaHealth channel.
    • Study Shows Early Cognitive Problems Among Tho ...
      People who study or treat Alzheimer's disease and its earliest clinical stage, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), have focused attention on the obvious short-term memory problems. But a new study suggests that people on the road to Alzheimer's may actually have problems early on in processing sema ...
    • 2012 Marked Ten Years of Extraordinary Work
      Ten years ago in 2002, Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth performed its first kidney transplant with a surgical team led by Marlon Levy, MD, surgical director, transplantation, Baylor All Saints.
    • Genetics Society of America's GENETICS Journal ...
      These are the selected highlights for the January 2013 issue of the Genetics Society of America's journal, GENETICS. The January issue is available online at www.genetics.org/content/current. Please credit GENETICS, Vol. 193, January 2013, Copyright (c) 2013.

    Natural Health News

    • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
      Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
    • 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
      A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
    • NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
      A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
    • Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
      A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
    • Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
      If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

    Climategate

    • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
      Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
    • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
      ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
    • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
      What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
    • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
      A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
    • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
      USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

    Opinio Juris

    • In 2013, I Resolve to Post a Lot … But Only Ab ...
      by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Kidding!  Happy New Year to everyone!  Chris’s post below made me want to add that I have a goal in 2013, which is to post lots more.  2012 was family-intensive, but things are looking good for 2013, and my resolution is to post much more than I ha ...
    • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, December 28, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The US and the UN have raised security alerts in the Central African Republic and the US has now decided to close its embassy in response to the security risks posed by the rebels advancing to the capital. A spokesperson for the new Japanese government has r ...
    • Besides the Year-End Reviews, How About Lookin ...
      by Chris Borgen 'Tis the season for year-in-reviews, for taking stock or where we've been. 'Tis also the season for making resolutions about what we want to do in the coming year. (And a week from now will be the season for breaking those resolutions.) But in the midst of the backward glances ...
    • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, December 27, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Commander of Syria’s Military Policy has announced his defection from the regime over YouTube. Meanwhile, Special Envoy Brahimi will travel to Russia on Saturday for talks on the situation in Syria, after Syrian representatives had discussions at t ...
    • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, December 26, 2012
      by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Israel has approved 1200 additional settlement units around Jerusalem, and with the election looming in less than a month, pressure is reportedly building on PM Netanyahu to drop the two state solution. Turkey is hopeful that progress will be made on its EU ...

    Public News Service

    • Out with the Old: Recycling Cell Phones, Lapto ...
      Out with the Old: Recycling Cell Phones, Laptops, TVs... PHOENIX - “Out with the old, in with the new” takes on a whole new meaning when the topic is electronic gear. A new national certification program ensures that recyclers properly dispose of items such as laptops, televisions a ...
    • Report: Middle Class Families Have $100 Left E ...
      Report: Middle Class Families Have $100 Left Each Month PHOENIX - A sneak peek at the average middle-class household budget in Arizona shows about $100 left each month after covering regular expenses - at least, before the Christmas bills are due. The research from the Center for Responsible Le ...
    • Immigration Reform for Farmworkers is on the T ...
      Immigration Reform for Farmworkers is on the Table this Holiday Season PHOENIX - As Americans reflect on holiday dinners and graze on the leftovers, immigration reform advocates are hoping citizens put the subject of immigration "on the table." An estimated 70,000 immigrant farmworkers are in A ...
    • Report: Many Reasons to Howl about Buying Dogs ...
      Report: Many Reasons to Howl about Buying Dogs Online PHOENIX - The holidays often prompt people to add a cuddly new addition to the family, but if you buy a dog online, there's a good chance it came from a puppy mill. A report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare says more than 700,00 ...
    • Doctors for Seniors May Soon Be in Short Supply
      Doctors for Seniors May Soon Be in Short Supply PHOENIX – Just over a week is left for the U.S. Congress to prevent a cut to reimbursements for doctors treating Medicare patients. The cuts stem from a formula Congress has used for 15 years to determine how much doctors are paid. ...(Read ...

    Center for Food Safety

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

    Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

    Pensieve

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

    Green Times

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

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