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Monday, December 31, 2012

31 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

English: Unemployment rate in Europe (UE) and ...
English: Unemployment rate in Europe (UE) and United States - 1993-2009. Data from Portal Euro-Indicators on EU Commission website (Eurostat) - données mensuelles désaisonnalisées Français : Taux de chômage en Europe (UE) et Etats-Unis - 1993-2009. Données Portail Euro-Indicateurs sur le site de la Commission Européenne (Eurostat) - Monthly seasonnaly adjusted data }} (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Unemployment rate in Cleveland, OH MSA.
English: Unemployment rate in Cleveland, OH MSA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: This graph displays the latest data o...
English: This graph displays the latest data on the unemployment rate of Japan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Australia: Youth jobs dry up
    The 2012 How Young People Are Faring report found the number of teens in full-time work was down 26 per cent in 2012 at 198,000, compared with 270,000 employed in 2008. .... AMP chief economist Dr Shane Oliver said the problem might be even worse than the figures reported, as unemployment figu ...
  • New right-wing Japanese government installed
    Abe has not resiled .. from the aggressive nationalist policies that he promoted during the election campaign. He has already indicated that closer ties with the US will be central to his government’s policies and again declared on Wednesday that he would protect “the people’s lives, Japanese te ...
  • The Secular Idiot’s Guide to Syria’s Jihadists
    The proliferation of radical Islamist groups fighting in Syria is beginning to resemble the Jihadi Olympics in the words of one observer. (Me). They span the entire political spectrum, from extreme militant Salafist to Nihilist Al-Qaeda franchise. But to the untrained eye it’s difficult to tell ...
  • Shearer: Back-Story To The Back-Story
    Mr Shearer has always been a political paratrooper. In contrast to the party foot soldiers who slog their way through the Big Muddy of branch meetings, canvassing exercises, billboard construction and pamphlet deliveries, rising through the ranks to fight the good fight on policy committees or t ...
  • Second Great Depression Deepening Across Globe
    The CIA assumes a world unemployment rate of 9.1%. The United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) sets this rate at about 6% -- meaning about 200 million current jobless -- but at the same time concedes that in many developed countries - such as the United States and the nations of th ...

Independent - London

  • Clinton recovering well from blood clot in her ...
    Doctors expect Hillary Clinton to make a full recovery after the discovery of blood clot in her head after a concussion she suffered last month.Related StoriesFrom 'Thomas the Tank Engine' to 'King of the Railway': Mattel plans global push for franchiseTwo feared dead after being 'ejected' from ...
  • US poised to head over 'fiscal cliff' but deal ...
    The US looked poised to go over the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ last night - but a deal taking shape in Washington DC promised to swiftly rescue the country from economic disaster, with President Obama saying an agreement to protect middle class Americans from hefty tax hikes was finally in sight. ...
  • Number of crocodiles in Australian waters soars
    A record haul of man-eating saltwater crocodiles was removed from waterways in the "Top End" of Australia last year, confirming that numbers of the feared reptiles are ballooning.Related StoriesClose call for surfer as sharks force Australians out of the water
  • Chinese scholars warn of 'violent revolution' ...
    In a demonstration of the depth of disquiet at the Chinese government's repressive policies, 74 Chinese scholars have signed a public letter calling for widespread reforms. Related StoriesProtests continue as Delhi gang-rape victim is crematedIndian politicians call for castration of sex offende ...
  • Not that greatly exaggerated? When obituaries ...
    Pity old George. It was bad enough for the first President Bush to spend Christmas in hospital. To add insult to illness (bronchitis), a German news magazine published his obituary online a day after his family announced he was recovering. Der Spiegel swiftly pulled the article, which described ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Body found buried in concrete in Santa Fe Spri ...
    California - A man's body has been found in newly poured concrete inside a Santa Fe Springs business and a homicide suspect arrested following what authorities believe was a feud between the pair, police said Monday. The body was discovered Sunday at a heating and air conditioning business afte ...
  • More than 400 new laws take effect Tuesday in U.S.
    In 2013 in Illinois, motorcyclists will be able to "proceed through a red light if the light fails to change." In Kentucky, releasing feral or wild hogs into the wild will be prohibited. And in Florida, swamp buggies will not legally be considered motor vehicles. On Jan. 1, as crowds of people ...
  • New year to bring 876 new laws to California
    Homeowners behind on their mortgage payments and negotiating with their banks to find a way to work things out won't have to worry about getting a surprise foreclosure notice. Women will have expanded access to birth control, as registered nurses will be able to dispense contraceptives such as ...
  • North Carolina man, charged with theft of 100 ...
    A North Carolina man was charged Saturday night with the theft of 100 meteorites from a science education center. Police are still searching for a second suspect. Brian Koontz, 29, is being held at Transylvania County jail on charges of breaking and entering, larceny and injury to personal prop ...
  • Syrian Army confiscates Israeli weapons from t ...
    The Syrian army on Monday thwarted a massive attack by a large number of terrorists who were trying to enter Syria through the Jordanian border, and also confiscated Israeli-made missiles and weapons from the armed rebels. The army confiscated (from terrorists) Israeli-made LAV anti-tank missil ...

The Galloping Beaver

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

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

  • What are the Benefits of Going Off “The ...
    It was reported recently that Senator Harry Reid thinks that the fiscal cliff is coming, saying that Republicans would be to blame “if we go over the cliff, and it looks like that’s where we’re headed.”[1] The media has been…
  • Russian Warships Head For Syria
    Image: Tartus naval base in Southern Syria MOSCOW: The large landing ship Novocherkassk of the Russian Black Sea Fleet left the Novorossiysk naval base and is heading for the Syrian port of Tartus, a source from the General Staff of…
  • Towards “Somalization”? Syria Swin ...
    It is admittedly not hard to imagine how someone can predict a vision of hell in a country like Syria which has become a hornet’s nest of terrorism and which is tumbling into further chaos and bloodshed. Lakhdar Brahimi, who…
  • The Syrian Diary: Unimaginable Crimes Committe ...
    This exclusive documentary by Russian TV station, Rossiya 24, is a “must watch” as it gives a very good insight on the events that have been taking place in Syria since 2011. It shows how both the Syrian Army and…
  • Syria: Atrocities committed against Christians ...
    A nun sounded the alarm that the Syrian conflict was becoming sectarian when she said that a Christian man was beheaded by Syrian rebels in the northern town of Ras al-Ayn on the Turkish border, and his body was fed…

TPM Cafe

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

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

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Fisherman catches shark eating other shark
    A remarkable photo of a shark attempting to eat another shark has gone viral since appearing on-line. The picture was taken off Kaiteriteri Beach near...
  • Could pandas help us to tackle superbugs ?
    Scientists have discovered that Giant Pandas could be a rich new source of antibiotic medications. Efforts have been underway for years to save pandas...
  • Top science breakthroughs of 2012
    This year's achievements range from the discovery of the Higgs boson to Curiosity landing on Mars. 2012 has been a good year for scientific advancemen...
  • Japanese man is world's oldest person
    Jiroemon Kimura is officially the oldest living human being at an incredible 115 years of age. Born in 1897, Mr. Kimura has lived through more than a ...
  • Huge viking vessel to be shown at museum
    An enormous long boat uncovered in 1996 at Roskilde is the largest Viking vessel ever discovered. Dating back over 1,000 years and measuring 118ft lon...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Electric Car Sales in UK Expected to Double in ...
    (Guardian) Sales of electric cars in Britain are expected to double in 2013 as cheaper models enter the market and the number of charging points increases. Numbers of fully electric cars are expected to rise from 3,000 to 6,000, accor ...
  • Tokyo Electric Sued by U.S. Sailors Exposed to ...
    (Bloomberg) Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501), owner of the power plant which had the world’s biggest nuclear disaster since 1986, was sued by eight U.S. sailors claiming they were exposed to radiation and the utility lied about the dang ...
  • Shale Gas Revolution Spurs Wave of New U.S. St ...
    (Bloomberg) The U.S. shale-gas revolution, which has revitalized chemicals companies and prompted talk of domestic energy self-sufficiency, is attracting a wave of investment that may revive profits in the steel industry. read more
  • Mississippi Receding Faster Than Expected, Shi ...
    (Bloomberg) Water levels in the Mississippi River south of St. Louis are falling faster than anticipated, requiring more urgent action to keep the nation’s busiest waterway open, according to a group of shipping companies. Debra Colbe ...
  • Kinder Morgan Takes Its Case for a Pipeline to ...
    (Vancouver Sun) Five years ago, when Greg Toth was working on a Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project along the Alberta-B.C. border, the terms public engagement and consultation meant talking to a handful of landowners, holding ope ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Stirrings on Ledge of the Cliff
    Some things appear to be stirring in the negotiations over the fiscal cliff. The White House has announced that the president will address the nation at 1:30ET. Meanwhile, the administration has delivered their pre-deal spin to Greg Sargent (who dutifully reported it, albeit with some skeptici ...
  • What Obama is Doing
    Perhaps the administration's best argument for the deal that is being floated is that John Boehner is too budgetarily-illiterate and politically inept to actually press any advantage on the debt ceiling. The White House laughs off the GOPs theory that they can use the debt ceiling to extrac ...
  • And…We're Airborne
    John Boehner has parties to go to, my friends. This is New Year's Eve, his most holy holiday. Eric Cantor just announced that the House isn't waiting around to see whether or not the Senate can hash out a deal. They're going to start drinking as soon as it gets dark outside. I suggest that y ...
  • Happy New Year!!
    You can sort out the fiscal cliff for yourself. I'm going out. Have a wonderful evening and a Happy New Year!! Discuss
  • Last Wanker of the Year
    David 'Honey BoBo' Brooks made the following observations during his appearance on Meet the Press yesterday. MR. DAVID BROOKS (Columnist, New York Times): Yeah. Well, first, lets say whats happening in Washington right now is pathetic. When you think about what the revolutionary generation d ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Federal Homeland Security TSA VIPR Team & #Vik ...
    Things are a little strange at the Vikings/Packers Game today. A drone has been photographed hovering around the Metrodome fan plaza on the west side, and a Homeland Security / TSA "VIPR" team has been hanging around as well, indicating the federal government is shifting into "protecting" the ma ...
  • The Next Big Thing - Idle No More MN: Indigeno ...
    Many hundreds, perhaps a thousand or more, Natives and supporters joined up at the Mall of America on Dec. 29 in sympathy with those struggling against the Canadian government. Burned sage wafted out into the crowd as echoes of drums & cheers throbbed off the walls. Reportedly, many were in ...
  • Idle No More in Minneapolis: First indigenous ...
    On Wednesday, Dec 19th, indigenous and allies launched the first protest in the United States in solidarity with their kin further north in what is known today as Canada. Prime Minister Harper basically decreed a bunch of lakes critical to indigenous survival are no longer environmentally protec ...
  • Mordor Mayor Rybak makes moves to hide Minneap ...
    "It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." ~ Cryptographer/security guy Bruce Schneier (src) We all know the old motif - Feds staking out parking lots, reporting the license plates back to Hoover. Nowadays things are a little different - com ...
  • EXCLUSIVE MnDOT info cake: 2.97gb emails/docs ...
    After a long wait, on Nov 28 2012, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) released ~2.97 gigabytes of data from inside the development of a GPS-based vehicle tracking system intended to introduce a vehicle tax - which would entail a great deal of data constantly collected by the gove ...

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Despite emerging deal, US to miss fiscal cliff ...
    Story Image:  US President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations from the White House in Washington on December 31, 2012. US lawmakers missed their deadline to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" Monday but said they were near toUS lawmakers missed ...
  • US hits debt ceiling with 'cliff' still unresolved
    Story Image:  The US Treasury said the country would hit its debt ceiling Monday as expected, forcing it to take measures to keep funding the government while political leaders battle over the deficit.The US Treasury said the country would hit its debt ceiling Monday as expected, forcing ...
  • All my wasted New Year’s
    Like every other party girl, I was always in search of the perfect New Year's Eve. Four years ago, I rang it in at a club on the Lower East Side with my then-boyfriend. Champagne rained down on our heads at midnight as we stood on a dance floor spilling over with people and vodka. I had always ...
  • Sean Hannity lost half his TV audience after t ...
    Conservative mouthpiece Sean Hannity lost about half of his TV audience in the weeks after the election while his colleague Bill O'Reily's viewership only dropped by about a third, the Daily News reported:The Daily News:So what happened to Hannity? The going wisdom is that viewers who basked i ...
  • Dow rises for fourth straight year
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 7.3 percent in 2012, the fourth straight year in which the leading index maked gains. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that the index is up an impressive 100.15 percent since its great recession low in March 2009. After climbing i ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Soviets used civilian airliners to gather inte ...
    Soviet spy agencies routinely used civilian airplanes to collect aerial intelligence over Western military installations, according to newly declassified documents.
  • Who wiretapped Turkish Prime Minister’s office ...
    During a televised interview on December 21, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan revealed that four unauthorized wiretapping devices had been detected in his parliamentary office and government car. A subsequent report from the Office of the Prime Minister on December 25 said that one mo ...
  • Revealed: The CIA bodyguard unit that safeguar ...
    Increasingly, CIA case officers operating on counterterrorism assignments in the post-9/11 environment find themselves in warzones with a level of physical risk rarely encountered during the Cold War. CIA operations planners believe that case officers cannot properly run foreign assets while con ...
  • CIA helped senior Syrian defector escape to Wa ...
    American intelligence operatives helped facilitate the escape of a senior Syrian government official, who is now allegedly assisting the Central Intelligence Agency’s operations in Syria, according to a British newspaper.
  • Fascinating profile of the Soviet KGB’s little ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | It is often suggested by intelligence researchers that one major difference between Western and Soviet modes of espionage during the Cold War was their degree of reliance on technology. It is generally accepted that Western espionage was far more ...

War is a Crime.org

  • The Gatekeepers: Exposing Israel's Dark Side
      The Gatekeepers: Exposing Israel's Dark Side   by Stephen Lendman   Dror Moreh is one of Israel's leading cinematographers. Last October, his documentary featuring candid dialogues with former Shin Bet heads debuted in New York.    In early 2013, other Western venues w ...
  • Only One Good Way to Brake Before Going Over t ...
    As the final scene of Thelma and Louise seems to be playing out on this last day of the year, it might be a good time to recall the dramatic end of that movie. It's true that some think the fiscal cliff is real while others say it's just a mirage. Some in the U.S. want to just "keep goin'" as T ...
  • Responsible Fiscal Cliff Resolution
      Responsible Fiscal Cliff Resolution   by Stephen Lendman   Responsible governance isn't rocket science. Nor is effective economic policy. Fiscal cliff resolution is as simple as doing the right thing. Both parties spurn doing so.   December 31 is a nominal deadline. Effecti ...
  • Rare Israeli Justice
      Rare Israeli Justice   by Stephen Lendman   Instances indeed are rare. An important one deserves mention. In mid-July 2010, Knesset members stripped MK Hanin Zuabi of key parliamentary rights and privileges.    They did so for participating in the May 2010 Freedom Flot ...
  • Nonviolent Drone Protester Arrested in Tucson
    JOHN HEID ARRESTED AT DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, HOME OF ACTIVE COMBAT PREDATOR DRONE UNIT On the morning of the Feast of Holy Innocents, December 28, about 15 peace activists gathered outside the gates of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona to commemorate and grieve the contempor ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Why Has The Bilderberg Group Convened in Rome?
    The Globalist Report – by Andrew Puhanic, Published on Friday, November 16th, 2012 NOT even six month since the last Bilderberg Group meeting, the Globalists of the Bilderberg Group have called an emergency meeting in the city of Rome. The infamous Bilderberg Group usually meets every year to di ...
  • San Antonio Theater Shooting
    by # 1 NWO Hatr Nox and Friends – by Hardnox On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the CT shooting, a man went to a restaurant in San Antonio to kill his X-girlfriend. After he shot her, most of the people in the restaurant fled next door to a theater. The gunman followed [...]
  • Mass Media
    Jane Akre spent 20 years as a network and local TV reporter for news and mass media operations throughout the country. She and her husband, investigative reporter Steve Wilson, were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for their struggle with mass media ownership related here. By February 199 ...
  • US Govt Murdered More Children At Waco, Texas ...
    The terrorists within the US government LONG AGO lost the moral high ground. They slaughter children every day, whether in Pakistan or Afghanistan with drones and guns or whether in Waco, Texas with bullets and fire, the terrorists in the US government MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR CRIMES U ...
  • ‘Gun control’ + US unlawful wars killed 100 mi ...
    By: Carl Herman Documentations of government-dictated gun control/confiscation show ~70 million deaths in the 20th Century (and here). Regarding US government history to use its own guns in unlawful murders, documentations show up to 30 million US government victims from unlawful armed war attac ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Utilities Rush to Complete Turbines as Wind En ...
    Wind turbine photo from Shutterstock United States energy companies are clamoring to install last minute wind turbines before the federal tax credit incentive expires at the stroke of midnight tonight. The government incentive subsidy awards roughly 2.2 cents for every kilowatt hour produced ove ...
  • Silicon Valley at Significant Risk of Sea Leve ...
    Silicon Valley office building photo from Shutterstock Even the Internet is not immune to the effects of climate change. Many of the world’s most famous tech giants, such as Facebook, Oracle, Google, Intel, and LinkedIn are at risk of flooding due to rising seas. A recent piece by Scientif ...
  • XMS MissileToe: Recycled Christmas Tree Rocket ...
    We’ve shared lots of great ways to compost, recycle or reuse your old Christmas tree – but blasting it off into space never crossed our mind. Two DIY’ers have decided to “reuse” their Christmas tree by turning it into a rocket and launching it skyward. The already shedding tree was s ...
  • Tony’s Organic Farm Has a New Shipping Contain ...
    Read the rest of Tony’s Organic Farm Has a New Shipping Container Visitor Center in Shanghai Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Cargotecture, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, organic farm, playze, shanghai, sh ...
  • Liquid’s Peer-to-Peer Bike Share Program Makes ...
    Visiting a city or live in a place that doesn’t have a bike share program yet? Don’t fret – Liquid is a new peer-to-peer bike rental marketplace that makes it easy to borrow a bike from individuals or bike rental shops. Like other peer-to-peer networks, Liquid isn’t just ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

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

PakAlert

  • Council on Foreign Relations Plan for Global G ...
    It is incredible that mention of a one-world government in many circles is still considered to be conspiracy talk. Fortunately, the global political awakening that arch-globalist Zbigniew Brzezinski has referred to is forcing ever-increasing justifications for their use of globalist language. ...
  • Over 20 SEALs Who Killed Osama Bin Laden Now Dead
    Over 20 navy seals are now dead who killed bin laden, coincedence? Yeah.. right. There STILL isnt any evidence at all that we even killed him. My guess is that he was already dead and has been dead for years. The Osama Bin Lden shown in the videos at the abbotabad compound is a double. A f ...
  • Gun Control: San Francisco And Oakland Crowds ...
    William Bigelow | breitbart In San Francisco and Oakland on Saturday, citizens brought their guns to sell to the police in return for cash. Every volunteer who returned a gun was $200 richer walking away. The line was so long in San Francisco that there was no cash left after lunchtime and ...
  • Secret Human Testing Revealed in Declassified ...
    It is always a challenge attempting to describe how sick and power mad are some of the elite who have taken up positions within the military-industrial-scientific complex. However, it is becoming easier, as more of their past demented actions are coming to light with such a preponderance of evid ...
  • End of 2012 and the Unleashing of Evil
    It’s almost 2013 and the globalist monkeys of terror are moving as fast as they can to oppress humanity, individual freedom, the Constitution and human rights. Politicians everywhere are moving their feet as fast as they can to undermine the Constitution. Those committed to a lifetime of slavery ...

Andy Worthington

  • End the Tory Butchers’ Assault on the Di ...
    Please sign the “War on Welfare” petition now to call for an end the Tory-led government’s assault on the disabled! Since the Tories came to power two years and seven months ago, with the assistance of the Liberal Democrats, they have reshaped the political landscape in the UK ...
  • A Winter Wonderland: Photos of the Scottish Hi ...
    A Winter Wonderland: The Scottish Highlands in Perthshire, a set on Flickr. From Dunkeld, in Perthshire, in Scotland, beside the A9 (the major route through northern Scotland), the A822, a mixture of former drovers’ routes and military roads, heads west, and then south, for around 16 miles ...
  • Photos: Christmas in London, 2012
    Christmas in London, 2012, a set on Flickr. Best wishes for the holiday season to those following my work, or to anyone who has just stumbled across it. This is a selection of Christmas-themed photos that I’ve taken over the last month during my journeys around London, as part of my ongoin ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Urgent Need to ...
    As the 11th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay approaches (on January 11, 2013), I wanted to make sure that I made available an interview I undertook recently with the respected progressive radio host Peter B. Collins, in San Francisco. Peter&# ...
  • Memories of Summer: Photos of the Thames Festi ...
    Memories of Summer: The Thames Festival on London’s South Bank, a set on Flickr. Sunday September 9, 2012 was the final day of the weekend-long Thames Festival, established in 1997, and run by the Thames Festival Trust, which regularly attracts tens of thousands of visitors, and did so aga ...

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

SPL Center

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

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Common Dreams -News

  • 'World's Worst Poker Player': Obama Readies Gi ...
    UPDATE 2:50 PM: As rumors of a 'deal' continue, a new Paul Krugman post on Obama's 'dealmaking': read more
  • Shell Oil Rig Adrift in Alaskan Arctic
    Once again highlighting the risks of drilling in far-off and freezing seas, officials are struggling to secure an unmanned Royal Dutch Shell oil drilling rig set adrift in the waters south of Kodiak Island. Pointing out the danger of exploratory drilling in remote locations, senior counsel with ...
  • Philadelphia's Charter School Expansion Crushi ...
    Charter school expansion in Philadelphia has 37 public schools—nearly one in six—slated for the chopping block come June, and has sparked outrage in local communities. Critics of the mass school closures plan argue that it will take students away from their own communities, that ther ...
  • Democracy Denied: Michigan Gov. Signs Replacem ...
    (Photo: Peace Education Center)Michigan Gov. read more
  • Idle No More Protest Halts Trains, 2,500 Passe ...
    More than a dozen Idle No More protesters blocked trains in Ontario for hours Sunday evening in support of Northern Ontario First Nations Chief Theresa Spence, who on Monday began her 21st day of a hunger strike to back her demand for a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. ...

Lifehacker

  • Most Popular Long Form Features of 2012
    We thrive on bringing you small tips, tricks, and downloads to enhance your daily life, but sometimes we like to dig our heels into a project and go a little deeper, too. Here are our best longform features—whether how-to guides, explainers, or otherwise—of the year 2012. More ...
  • How to Survive the Perils of New Year's Eve
    New Year's Eve might be the best party night of the year, but it can also be the most stressful, from losing your phone to the far more perilous drive home. Here are a few things you can do now to stay safe and sane this New Year's. More »
  • The Lava Lamp Workspace
    A great workspace is rarely more than good, clean organization and a few personal touches. Such is the case with Ryan Nicholson's perfectly tidy desk that finds its personality in wall-mounted records and a Mathmos "Astro" Lava Lamp. Those little touches give it a retro feel, but take the ...
  • To Increase Productivity, Remember the "Two C's"
    Are you often left scratching your head after a long day wondering, "what did I even get done today?" You're not alone. As designer and writer Josh Long explains, you can get rid of this feeling by upping two things in your daily life: constraints and concentration.
  • Use Your AAA Card for Discounts on Medication
    If you're a AAA subscriber, you get more benefits than just roadside assistance. According to pharmacist and redditor redheadhappy, you can get discounts on medication as well: More »

Water Privatization

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

Guardian

  • Archbishop hails volunteers in his final New Y ...
    Rowan Williams compared volunteers from the churches and other faith groups to the 'Games Makers' of the 2012 Olympics The archbishop of Canterbury will on Tuesday insist that religion is not an "old-fashioned embarrassment" but instead a "wellspring of energy" as he pays tribute to the army of ...
  • UK needs its own Michelle Obama to tackle obes ...
    NHS and government should follow American example to stem rising tide of obesity, says Royal College of PhysiciansHigh-profile leadership, perhaps by a member of the royal family who could take on a similar role to that played by Michelle Obama in the US, is needed to solve the obesity crisis in ...
  • Liver charity calls for early screening
    British Liver Trust wants doctors to test at-risk patients after random examinations show one in four have early damageThe government should introduce early screening for liver disease across the country, to stem the rising tide of death and damage caused mostly by heavy drinking, a charity says ...
  • Obama says fiscal cliff deal is 'within sight' ...
    • President says deal is close but 'grand bargain' failed • Senate likely to vote late on Monday • Tax deal agreed but talks on spending cuts will go onThe White House and Congress were close to reaching a deal Monday to resolve the fiscal cliff crisis that threatens the fragile US economic rec ...
  • Hollande refuses to back down on French super-tax
    President tells France 'we will still ask more of those who have the most' after court rules proposed 75% rate unconstitutionalFrançois Hollande on Monday vowed to press on with his super-tax on the rich, despite a damning decision by France's top court to throw it out as unconstitutional. But i ...

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan Releases More Afghan Taliban Prisoners
    Pakistan has released eight Afghan Taliban prisoners, including the minister of justice during the Taliban's rule of Afghanistan in the late 1990's. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement ...
  • North Florida private killed in Afghanistan
    A Florida soldier who was on his first deployment to Afghanistan was killed this weekend in an explosion, the Pentagon said Monday.Army Pfc. Markie T. Sims, 20, of Citra, north of Ocala, died ...
  • Marion County soldier killed in Afghanistan
    A 20-year-old Army soldier from Citra in Marion County died Saturday during combat in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. Markie Sims was killed by an improvised explosive ...
  • Pakistan frees four Afghan Taliban leaders
    Pakistan has freed four senior Taliban leaders, including a former justice minister, at the request of the Afghan government. Ex-Taliban justice minister Mullah Nuroddin Turabi was among those ...
  • Long road ahead for Afghan women
    In Afghanistan, this year’s observance of International Human Rights Day, December 10, began with the murder of a rights advocate. An unknown gunman shot and killed Najia Sediqi, acting head ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of 2012 On T ...
    As we did last year, I'm going to use today to do a post on the comments that you, the community, voted as the funniest and most insightful comments in the year 2012. Normally the weekly lists include some "editor's choice" comments, but that doesn't make much sense on the yearly list, so inste ...
  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    With only three days of posts, and plenty of readers no doubt busy with their holiday plans, it's no surprise that the voting was a little slow this week. But, while there are no record-breakers in terms of numbers, there are still lots of fantastic comments for our last weekly roundup of the ye ...
  • Innovation, Optimism And Opportunity: All Comi ...
    Over the past few years, we've had a bit of a "New Year's" tradition around here for my last "regular" post of the year. It started in 2008, in response to an email asking how I didn't go crazy with anger over all of the bad stuff we wrote about all the time. In response, I explained why I was ...
  • White House Responses To 'We The People' Petit ...
    The administration's goal of becoming the "most transparent" in history still needs a lot of improvement to get anywhere near the lofty goals announced during the (first) inauguration. One of the few steps in the right direction has been the "We the People" website, which allows anyone to po ...
  • SF Wireless ISP MonkeyBrains Tries To Crowdfun ...
    Well, this is amusing. San Francisco wireless ISP MonkeyBrains (who some friends use and love) has posted an IndieGogo crowdfunding project in which they're seeking $325,000,000 (yes, that's $325 million) to build a satellite to deliver internet access. The "tiers" are interesting. The lowest ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

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War in Context

  • Some of the best best photos of 2012
    Each of the photos below comes from a “best of…” collection. Click on each picture to see the source.
  • Let’s give up on the Constitution
    Constitutional law professor, Louis Michael Seidman, writes: As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all ...
  • On early warning signs of rapid change
    George Sugihara writes: At a closed meeting held in Boston in October 2009, the room was packed with high-flyers in foreign policy and finance: Henry Kissinger, Paul Volcker, Andy Haldane, and Joseph Stiglitz, among others, as well as representatives of sovereign wealth funds, pensions, and endo ...
  • Capitalism and the good life
    Gary Gutting asks: Is capitalism an enemy of the good life? Marxists and other radicals think so. Toward the end of How Much Is Enough?, Robert and Edward Skidelsky (an economist father and his philosopher son) quote one such thinker: Working men have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to ...
  • Peace envoy warns of escalating toll as 400 Sy ...
    The Washington Post reports: The Syrian civil war could claim 100,000 more lives over the next year if the government and the rebels fighting it do not negotiate a settlement, the international peace mediator warned Sunday. “What is happening in Syria is bad, very, very bad,” said Lakhdar Brahim ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Over-insuring the gullible: The Hartford offer ...
    UPDATE: graph of damage losses including 2012 posted below. It says all that needs to be said. This ad is running in rotation at the NYT today, and it needs an application of Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.’s handy bullshit button. … Continue reading →
  • 2012 Truth Teller of the Year
    From  Brian Sussman As a guy who has dedicated a significant part of his life to uncovering environmental scams, naming this year’s Truth Teller is a no-brainer for me.  The winner is the man who just brought down the head … Continue reading →
  • The Gleick effect – proving there is no ...
    Guest Post by Joe Bast In a December 28 post, blogger Greg Laden, a self-described “biological anthropologist and science communicator,” ranked The Heartland Institute’s efforts to expose global warming alarmism as one of the “top climate stories of 2012”. I … Continue reading →
  • WUWT year in review – 2012
    WordPress.com  generated this report for me automatically for viewing on my dashboard – I’m sharing it because you the readers deserve credit. Crunchy numbers 8 million people saw The Hobbit on its opening weekend. This blog was viewed about 36,000,000 … Continue reading →
  • Masters, McKibben, and droughting Thomases
    Every once in awhile you see something in the “it’s worse than we thought” meme that deserves some clarification for those that want to look at all the data, rather than those who want to push gloom and doom. A … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

  • 20 great CFACT moments of 2012
    In 2012, it seemed CFACT went everywhere, worked flat out and hardly took a breather. Our research was thorough, our spokesmen drove the radicals to distraction, our Collegians kept expanding and it seemed like Climate Depot's Marc Morano lived on television. We aired our 5,000th Just the Fact ...
  • Water water everywhere — and a whole lot ...
    “At current melt rates, the Greenland ice sheet would take about 13,000 years to melt completely, which would result in a global sea level rise of more than 21 feet (6.5 meters).”
  • EPA’s Lisa Jackson resigns
    Lisa Jackson, who presided over the promulgation of an explosive growth of regulations at EPA announced today that she is stepping down.
  • Peace, Joy, Love, Freedom!
    Everyone at CFACT wishes all our friends the most joyous of holidays!
  • Radar shows Santa approaching North America!
    Kids to bed! NORAD radar shows Santa has crossed the ocean and is approaching North America. Track Santa's sleigh on radar LIVE!

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Nuclear Town Zoo Celebrates 'Year of the Snake'
    A zoo in the closed nuclear town of Seversk, near Tomsk in Siberia, is marking the New Year by unveiling the latest additions to its reptile exhibit, four strikingly colored snakes.
  • Curiosity Mars rover mission
  • Curiosity Rover Takes Detailed Self-Portrait o ...
    A series of photos taken by NASA’s Curiosity and combined into a single composite picture offer a rare, detailed glimpse of the rover patrolling the surface of Mars on a rocky terrain with its target destination—Mount Sharp—in the background.
  • Russia Launches $70 Bln Space Program for 2013 ...
    Russia will spend 2.1 trillion rubles (about $70 billion) under a state program for the development of the national space industry in 2013-2020, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
  • Russia Designs New Spaceship
    Russian space rocket corporation Energia has completed the technical design of a new manned spacecraft whose flight tests are due to begin in 2017, Energia President Vitaly Lopota said on Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

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

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Center for a Livable Future

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

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My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S. likely to fall off 'fiscal cliff' at midnight
    ShareThisU.S. likely to fall off 'fiscal cliff' at midnight 31 Dec 2012 The U.S. House of Representatives will miss tonight's midnight deadline that lawmakers had set for voting to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff." House Republicans notified lawmakers that the chamber will vote this evenin ...
  • White House, Senate GOP leaders reach tentativ ...
    ShareThisWhite House, Senate GOP leaders reach tentative deal on 'fiscal crisis,' sources say [No surprises here, since this White House, GOP, and Wall Street have *always* been on the same page, despite media assertions to the contrary.] 31 Dec 2012 White House and Senate Republican negotiators ...
  • Clinton Has Blood Clot Between Brain and Skull
    ShareThisClinton Has Blood Clot Between Brain and Skull 31 Dec 2012 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is suffering from a blood clot located between her brain and her skull, behind her right ear, her physicians said Monday, describing the location of the clot for the first time since she was ...
  • Palestinian health official: Swine flu outbrea ...
    ShareThisPalestinian health official: Swine flu outbreak kills 9 people, infects hundreds 31 Dec 2012 A Palestinian health official says an outbreak swine flu has killed nine people. Deputy Health Minister Asad Ramlawi also said Monday more than 225 people have been infected by the H1N1 influen ...
  • 9 Palestinians died of H1N1 virus over 2 weeks ...
    ShareThis9 Palestinians died of H1N1 virus over 2 weeks: medics 30 Dec 2012 Nine Palestinians have died of H1N1 virus in the West Bank over the last two weeks, Palestinian officials confirmed Saturday. Asaad Al-Ramlawi, Director of Primary Health Care in the Ministry of Health, told Xinhua that ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Army steps up air offensive against Kachin rebels
    The Burmese army has deployed military helicopters and jet fighters in a series of coordinated air attacks against Kachin rebels less than 16 kilometres away from their headquarters in Laiza, local sources say
  • Govt to allow daily newspapers from April
    Burma will allow private newspapers to publish daily from April 1, ending a decades-old ban in a further easing of the country's draconian censorship regime, the government said Friday
  • Four Thais jailed over deaths of 54 Burma migrants
    Four people smugglers were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison by a Thai court after 54 illegal workers from Burma suffocated to death inside a seafood container, an official said Friday
  • Arakanese party warned over inflammatory pictures
    The government has threatened legal action against the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party for publishing pictures of the woman whose rape and murder sparked sectarian violence in June
  • Govt probes deadly plane crash-landing
    Burma was on Wednesday investigating the cause of an air accident that left two people dead and 11 injured when a passenger jet packed with foreign tourists crash-landed and caught fire

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

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COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Support Tikun Olam: 2012 Year-End Appeal
    Support Tikun Olam Every year I write this post asking for readers to step forward and support the efforts I put into this blog to light a fire under Israel’s Occupation regime and hold it accountable for its deeds and misdeeds. In the past year, the most important expose I published was t ...
  • Chuck Hagel, Knifed in the Back by the Lobby
    As I wrote a few days ago when many were whispering that Chuck Hagel’s chances of becoming secretary of defense had died, what does it matter whether it’s the Israel lobby or the Jewish lobby?  When you get a knife in the back, it doesn’t matter who’s putting the shiv int ...
  • Meir Javedanfar: Iran “Analyst” as Pro-Israel ...
    The impasse between Iran and the west has produced a bumper crop of Iranian opportunists who’ve latched onto a western gravy train as analysts, media commentators, political consultants, and think tank pundits. As opposed to genuine independent analysts with their own sources and expertise ...
  • Israel’s Creeping Criminalization of Democrati ...
    A few days ago, Amira Hass wrote a story in Haaretz about a Shabak interrogation of Israeli peace activist, Kobi Snitz.  Snitz is a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute and a member of a pro-BDS group in Israel called Boycott from Within (he also belongs to Anarchists Against the Wall) .  Sni ...
  • A People’s Christmas
    This may be the only time in the history of this blog that you’ll see a post devoted to Christmas.  But you’ll soon see there is no religious content in this post, unless you find a commitment to peace and justice to be religious (many do). Enjoy tonight some appropriate Christmas mu ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Media on Edge - I Resign--Here's Why
    Ladies and Gentlemen of the BBG Board of Governors:The first rule of journalism is never bury the lead. So here it is: I hereby resign as President and Chief Executive Officer of RFE/RL, Inc., effective as of the close of business on January 25, 2013. I submit this resignation with a heavy heart ...
  • India's Dark Edge - India Cancels New Years Ce ...
    Many across India canceled festive New Year's Eve celebrations Monday out of respect for the young woman who died days earlier from injuries suffered during a brutal gang rape. The unidentified victim, a 23-year-old student, died Saturday from severe internal injuries that her assailants caused ...
  • The New Egypt - Egypt "On the Verge of Bankruptcy"
    "The country is on the verge of bankruptcy," Egyptian opposition leader and Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei told the newspaper al-Arabiya Dec. 23. Unable to reduce subsidies that account for most of a budget deficit that now exceeds 14 percent of GDP, and unwilling to raises taxes, it seems mos ...
  • Inside Latin America - Latin America's Moment ...
    Looking back at the past year, many of the posts on Latin America’s Moment touch on the region’s economic development, and its trade and investment ties with the rest of the world. Here is a recap of some of the main themes.Overall, 2012 was a year of economic optimism for most Latin America ...
  • Islam's War on Christianity - The Carnage of C ...
    Author Lela Gilbert, a Christian who lived for years in Israel, spoke for many of Israel's supporters when she said she finds the international community's attacks on the Jewish State "puzzling, especially when atrocities are taking place every day in Syria" and elsewhere in the Middle East. In ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • GOOD NEWS: Piers Morgan Says He Will Leave US ...
    Just a week ago,  an intrepid American filed a petition on "Whitehouse.com" asking President Obama to deport CNNs Piers Morgan for his obnoxious  stance on the Second Amendment that petition has over 94K signatures as of Sunday night. A few days British citizens have filed a petition ...
  • No Matter What Happens With Cliff--$1 Trillion ...
    What ever results from the fiscal cliff negotiations, whether everyone gets a tax increase or just the progressive's hated rich, there is a one trillion dollar tax increase scheduled to hit on January 1, The five major Obamacare taxes taking effect on January are as follows: The Senior ...
  • COUNTDOWN: Readers' Top Stories of 2012: #20-11
    Below is the continuation of your top 50-stories of 2012...Numbers 20--11:   #20 Barbra Streisand Suffering From Massive Brain Injury September 19, 2012 Being offline during the Rosh Hashana holiday there was plenty of reading to catch up on beginning with sundown last ...
  • Report: Obama to Offer Tax Increase For People ...
    Get the Countdown Creator Pro widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) At 3PM today (only three days, 9 hours before we go over the cliff) President Obama will be siting down with congressional leaders from each party and according to Bloo ...
  • Naive Thomas Friedman Asks The Terrorists to " ...
    By Barry Rubin The entertainment director on the ship of fools that constitutes so much mainstream analysis of the Middle East—I refer, of course, to Thomas Friedman—has produced a wonderful paragraph that beautifully characterizes the problem, exquisitely expressing a ...

The Real Agenda

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

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • A New Year for the South
    Be part of a growing voice for change in the South -- join us with a year-end gift to Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies today! read more
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Demography as Destiny: The Vital American Family
    Recent reports of America’s sagging birthrate ‑ the lowest since the 1920s, by some measures ‑ have sparked a much-needed debate about the future of the American family. Unfortunately, this discussion, like so much else in our society, is devolving into yet another political squabble ...
  • “Livability” vs. Livability: The Pitfalls of W ...
    livability: (livable) fit or suitable to live in or with; “livable conditions”. “Livability” has been a buzz word in city development for some time, and for good reason, as who doesn’t want livability, outside the zombie cohort? Things get hairy, though, when & ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Bangkok
    Since 2000, the Bangkok region has experienced annual population growth 2.5 times the rate of growth from 1980 to 2000. By 2010, the Bangkok region – which includes the provincial level city of Bangkok and the provinces of Samat Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Nakhon Patho ...
  • Is America's Future Progressive?
    Progressives may be a lot less religious  than conservatives, but these days they have reason to think that Providence– or Gaia — has taken on a bluish hue. From the solid re-election of President Obama, to a host of demographic and social trends, the progressives seem poised to achieve wha ...
  • Urban Housing: A Master Plan for the Few
    How we, as a nation, find bounty and beauty in the future depends upon how we react to two trends emerging from the recent difficult period in American urbanism. The first of these trends is the increasing lack of affordability in mainstream urban America, with the costs of maintaining a middle ...

GM Watch

  • Biotech's 10 biggest PR disasters of 2012
    The 10 biggest GMO PR disasters of 2012 2012 was the year the lights came up on the biotech industry. Its claims, its tactics and its products all came under scrutiny and some of its biggest PR fairytales bit the dust. Here are some prime examples. 1. Fleeing Europe: The biotech bubble needs t ...
  • South Australia won't "jeopardise" state with ...
    SA won't "jeopardise" state with GM crops Peter Hemphill Weekly Times, December 18 2012 http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2012/12/18/553774_latest-news.html SOUTH Australia has stared down the Federal Government over its ban on genetically modified crops. The Federal Government had aske ...
  • Stay on the cutting edge of the new biopolitics
    1.Genes, Cells, and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose - Review 2.Communications for a New Biopolitics 3.Biopolitical News of the Year 2012 4.Complete Video Now Online for Eugenics in California 5.Support the Center for Genetics and Society NOTE: Stay on the cutting edge of the new biopoliti ...
  • Take action over GM animal feed
    A new study provides yet another reason to avoid animal products, such as meat, dairy, and eggs produced with GM feed, and to take action to make supermarkets respect their customers' wishes. The new study by scientists at Leipzig University was published earlier this month. As you can see from ...
  • Engineering wild species
    1.Modified-Salmon Fight Showcases Risks, Rewards of Engineering Wild Species 2.In Major Shift, USDA Clears Way for Modified Bluegrass NOTE: Item 1 is from 2 years ago but required reading on the GM salmon debate. We've couped it with another piece by Paul Voosen on genetically engineered bluegr ...

spiked

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

Cryptogon

  • China Is Turning Its ISPs Into Internet Police
    Via: ExtremeTech: Scary new legislation that was recently approved will effectively turn China’s ISPs into the internet police. Now, ISPs will be forced to delete content deemed illegal and file a report with the government. This troubling legislation requires individuals to register with ISPs u ...
  • DHS VIPR Team and Possible DHS Drone at Footba ...
    Via: HongPong: Things are a little strange at the Vikings/Packers Game today. A drone has been photographed hovering around the Metrodome fan plaza on the west side, and a Homeland Security / TSA “VIPR” team has been hanging around as well, indicating the federal government is shifti ...
  • Lego Investing
    I found this hilarious because I actually do this in a small way. I buy Lego sets for my sons that they won’t be ready to use for years; sets that I know will be discontinued, and that I wouldn’t want to have to acquire later on the auction sites. I’m guessing that I’m no ...
  • Author’s Advance Payment for Graphic Nov ...
    Via: War Is Boring: Tim Hamilton, artist of the Eisner-nominated adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, had his advance payment for the upcoming graphic novel ARMY OF GOD, a non-fiction telling of Joseph Kony’s activities in the Congo, seized by the OFAC under suspicion that the money was ...
  • Safe Green Tea?
    I spent some time trying to find out if it was possible to buy green tea from Japan that was definitely fallout free. It took a while, but I eventually found o-cha.com. They have a number of teas that have been tested for radiation and they provide the laboratory reports on the website. I have [...]

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

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

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • Chief Spence and the hypocrisy of The Globe
    By David@Sixthestate.net I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised to read this weekend that The Globe & Mail has officially joined Postmedia’s Christie Blatchford in denouncing the ongoing hunger strike in Ottawa by Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence as an act not just of protest but of ...
  • Chief Spence and the Prime Minister’s pride
    By Montreal Simon I didn’t want to blog on Christmas. I just wanted to enjoy the day. But I couldn’t get these two contrasting images out of my mind. Chief Theresa Spence slowly starving to death. While Stephen Harper, with a weird look on his face, plays cribbage. And the Idle No Mo ...
  • Boxing Day: Our gift to The States
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Boxing Day was traditionally the day servants took off to spend time with their families and received gift boxes from their employers (or so one of the explanations goes). Nowadays, Boxing Day is better known as the Day to Buy Honking Big Electronics and Other Self-Indul ...
  • Idle No More: The overnight YouTube roundup
    The Idle No More movement approached critical mass yesterday, as tens of thousands of First Nations people and their supporters rallied across Canada, and as far afield as New Mexico and Ukraine. Many of the peaceful protests, featuring round dances and drumming, struck at the very heart of the ...
  • New F-35 figures don’t fly either
    By David@Sixthestate.net I have to say, it’s pretty depressing that not one of the many, many professional journalists in Canada is literate enough to read a government report. To their credit, some are trying. But they also had a whole press briefing slash lock-up slash sleazy play-time with th ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • 2012 in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 32,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 7 Film Festivals Click here to see the com ...
  • Frost on Roof or Lack of Frost is a sure sign...
    Reblogged from Scotts Contracting: On the Frosty Mornings when you are outside your house scraping your cars windshield to prepare for your drive to work. Take a look at the Roof of your Home. -Lack of Frost or Snow on your Roof is a sure indication that it was melted by the Heat as it [...]
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Room Addition Esti ...
    GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE ROOM ADDITION ESTIMATE FOR ADDING A 2ND FLOOR DORMER ONTO AN EXISTING BUILDING. Rough Estimate on projected costs to add a 2nd Floor Room Addition to an existing 1 story building in St Louis. Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Frank Lloyd Wrigh ...
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Room Addition Esti ...
    GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE ROOM ADDITION ESTIMATE FOR ADDING A 2ND FLOOR DORMER ONTO AN EXISTING BUILDING. Rough Estimate on projected costs to add a 2nd Floor Room Addition to an existing 1 story building in St Louis. Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy Frank Lloyd Wrigh ...
  • CAD Designs for Adding a 2nd Story Addition on ...
    CAD Options Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting Designed by Scotty-Scotts Contracting-Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired 2nd Floor Room Addition-Additional Green Features: Photovoltaic Solar System- Passive Solar Design for Natural Day-lighting thru a bank of windows on the West Wall. Designed by Sco ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Women Who Set Fire to Their Boss - Part II
    Assam tea pluckers (This is the second of two posts regarding the recent industrial dispute on a tea plantation in India in which 1,000 tea workers set fire to their employer’s bungalow, killing both him and his wife.) Why Weren’t MKB Tea Pluckers in the Union? Chah Mazdoor Sangha ...
  • The (Female) Tea Workers Who Set Fire to Their ...
    photo credit France24.com (This is the first of two posts regarding the recent industrial dispute on a tea plantation in India in which 1,000 tea workers set fire to their employer’s bungalow, killing both him and his wife.) “We all came and attacked the bungalow and set it on fi ...
  • Oxfam Challenges Negative African Stereotypes
    Starving child covered in flies It appears a lot of people are as sick to death as I am of the World Vision and Tear Fund TV ads featuring starving, fly-infested African children. The International Business Times has an interesting article about a study the international aid organization ...
  • Vice-and-Virtue Police Patolling Aleppo
    Revolutionary Military Council (Aleppo) According to alakhbar English, the so-called Revolutionary Military Council, having declared an independent Islamic state in Syria’s largest city Aleppo, has banned women from driving. They have also made prayer compulsory, as well as creating a ...
  • Was the Sandy Hook Massacre a Failed Rebellion?
    Going Postal by Mark Ames The best analysis I’ve read about the root cause of the rage massacre in Connecticut last week comes from Michael Rechenwald, founder of Citizens for Legitimate Government in Seeking Definitive Causes and Solution for Rage Massacres. Rechenwald agrees with Ma ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

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

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Andy Reid Fired By Eagles
    After 14 years, the Philadelphia Eagles and Andy Reid are going their separate ways . According to Sports Illustrated , Reid came to the Eagles in 1999 and helped bring the team to the playoffs the following year. Reid would make the playoffs with the Eagles 9 times during his career. He has th ...
  • Lovie Smith Fired: Chicago Bears Get Rid Of Co ...
    Andy Reid isn’t the only coach to get axed at the end of a disappointing season . The Chicago Bears announced today that they were firing head coach Lovie Smith after 9 seasons. Smith and the Bears started 2012 with a 7-1 record but still failed to make the playoffs. According to ESPN , the Bea ...
  • Chiefs fire Crennel, make no move on GM Pioli
    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) â The Kansas City Chiefs fired coach Romeo Crennel on Monday, but made no move on embattled general manager Scott Pioli despite a 2-14 season marked by blowout losses, fan rebellion and a murder-suicide involving one of their players. Crennel was fired after one full seaso ...
  • Video: Hillary Clinton hospitalized with a blo ...
    Rumors circulating well, however. The focus on Hillary Clinton’s health took a strange turn yesterday, when the State Department announced that the outgoing Secretary of State had become an inpatient at New York Presbyterian Hospital, after a routine follow-up to her concussion revealed that sh ...
  • Browns Fire Head Coach Pat Shurmur and GM Tom ...
    In the worst kept secret of ‘Black Monday’ around the NFL, the Cleveland Browns have canned head coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Tom Heckert . The futures of Shurmur and Heckert came into question as soon as Jimmy Haslam purchased the Browns from Randy Lerner during the preseason. Haslam ...

Groklaw

  • Recorder Roundtable - Outstanding Motions (videos)
    Judges from state and federal courts discuss do's and don'ts of motion practice. - The Recorder, Law.com
  • Douglas Cawley of McKool Smith (video)
    Douglas Cawley, principal of McKool Smith in Dallas and a patent lawyer, tells how he works to make jurors comfortable with the idea of large verdicts. - Reversed and Remanded, Law.com
  • Why Smart Glasses Might Not Make You Smarter
    IEEE Spectrum: You've also been sounding the alarm about McVeillance, one-sided surveillance by powerful corporate entities that simultaneously forbid people from using their own cameras. Does Google Glass (and similar products) have the potential to counterbalance this? Steve Mann: I think so. ...
  • 2013: Installing Linux on Windows 8 PC is stil ...
    First, by far the easiest way to get Linux running on a Windows 8 PC is to disable Secure Boot. That has two problems. First, it leaves you open to rootkits, which are a real security threat. The other difficulty with it is that while most major original equipment manufacturers (OEM)s have not ...
  • Apples leadership spurs industry-wide changes ...
    Apple's efforts to reform the labor practices of its Chinese suppliers is having a noticeable impact, according to a recent New York Times report. While the changes may be happening slower than some labor advocates would like, Apple's attempts to improve worker safety, curb excessive overtime, ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Occupy activist arrested with explosives, weapons
    Police found seven grams of HMTD, a powerful explosive, and weapons.The privileged daughter of a prominent city doctor, and her boyfriend — a Harvard grad and Occupy Wall Street activist — have been busted for allegedly having a cache of weapons and a bombmaking explosive in their Greenwich Vill ...
  • Woo-hoo, and it’s off the cliff we go into 2013!
    Worst Congress ever!No Rule of Law for the 1%!Climate change!I am just so looking forward to 2013. How about you?
  • Big banks and law enforcement worked together ...
    Probable anarchist being very scary indeedSome are mystified by the concerted government / business attack against Occupy. I wasn’t mystified at all as I was politically active in 1960′s counter-culture and protests. We were monitored then, we are monitored now. Deal with it. It goes ...
  • Let Fury Have The Hour – trailer
    Now in limited release Let Fury have The Hour is a definite must-see.LetFuryHaveTheHour.comRough, raw and unapologetically inspirational, LET FURY HAVE THE HOUR is a charged journey into the heart of the creative counter-culture in 2012. In a time of global challenges, big questions and by-the-n ...
  • Income inequality in Connecticut
    Promoted from a comment about income inequality in Connecticut by Ross to Childhood hunger rising in Connecticut, a prosperous state (and linking to the video.)Actually CT has some of the highest income inequality in the country. There are a lot of the country’s most “prosperous&#822 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

  • Four important reads on Syria
    The first two are excellent, on-the-ground reporting from Aleppo, by the seasoned, native Arabic speaker Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Dec 27 and Dec 28. The second two are from the Carnegie Endowment: This thoughtful Dec 24 piece by Yezid Sayegh: Can the National Coalition Lead Syria?; and this very well ...
  • Crunch time for funding G. Porter's book on Iran!
    Hi, everyone! We have just six days to go in our online fundraiser for Gareth Porter's very important planned book Manufactured Crisis: The Secret History of the Iranian Nuclear Scare. We've just topped getting pledges for 2/3 of the $10,000 we need for this. Can you do anything to help us get ...
  • Palestine and the Arab Spring
    Plenty of western commentators have asserted that the attention that participants in the Arab Spring have been paying to governance issues in their own countries means that somehow they no longer really care about Palestine. (A few people, most notably As'ad Abou-Khalil, have challenged that as ...
  • Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?
    Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with ...
  • Notes on Israeli threats of launching a 'Dahiy ...
    1. Some prominent Israelis are calling for a 'Dahiyeh' operation against Gaza. I just watched this clip from a news/discussion program on Israel's Channel 2. In it, "military analyst" Roni Daniel openly calls for the implementation of a "Dahiyeh" operation ("like in Beirut"), against Gaza. Dahi ...

frogblog

  • General debate, January 1, 2013
    Happy New Year!
  • What is New Zealand’s best beach?
    Summer in Aotearoa means sun, sand, BBQs and beaches. But the beaches we love are under threat from deep sea oil drilling. Vote for your favourite beach to find out more.
  • General debate, December 22, 2012
  • The final word on bank profits
    The Report of the Finance & Expenditure Committee on the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Statement for December 2012 is now public and contains the following gem on bank profitability late in 2012 (from page 9): Recent data released by the Reserve Bank updated information it had provided to u ...
  • Where rivers meet the sea – two North Auckland ...
    The murky green water at the Matakana Wharf looked rather less inviting than the array of delicious artisan produce at the nearby Matakana Market. But we were paddling, not swimming, and the Auckland Council’s most recent (2011) monitoring rates the river as having “good” water quality, rather t ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Two "Forbidden Foods" That Can Give You Instan ...
    By Dr. Mercola Does your health food repertoire consist of salads, baked chicken and broccoli? Are you looking for a way to add some excitement to your meals while maximizing their nutritional punch?  There's absolutely no need to be bored when eating healthy, but many believe ...
  • Change Your Life by Changing Your Body Language
    By Dr. Mercola Nearly everyone is influenced by “nonverbals” — feelings and messages that are emoted by body language. From the expression on your face to the way you sit, stand, or walk, your body language is telling someone how to measure you up — and that includes yourself. Amy Cuddy is ...
  • Why Cholesterol is Essential for Optimal Healt ...
    By Dr. Mercola There's some serious confusion about cholesterol, and whether high cholesterol levels are responsible for heart disease. Chris Masterjohn, who recently received his PhD in nutritional sciences from the University of Connecticut, has published five peer-reviewed papers on vita ...
  • New Discoveries About How Gut Bacteria Can Hav ...
    By Dr. Mercola Your body is loaded with bacteria, of both good and bad varieties. In fact, about 100 trillion bacteria live inside you, which is more than 10 times the number of cells you have in your body! The ideal balance between these bacteria is about 85 percent "good" and ...
  • Study Proves Pesticide Exposure Linked to Bumb ...
    By Dr. Mercola Serious honey bee die-offs have been occurring around the world for the past decade, which is an alarming trend considering one of every three bites of food you eat depends on the good graces of the honey bee. They pollinate at least 130 different crops in the United States ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • A New Year for the South
    Be part of a growing voice for change in the South -- join us with a year-end gift to Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies today! read more
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why Has The Bilderberg Group Convened in Rome?
    The Globalist Report – by Andrew Puhanic, Published on Friday, November 16th, 2012 NOT even six month since the last Bilderberg Group meeting, the Globalists of the Bilderberg Group have called an emergency meeting in the city of Rome. The infamous Bilderberg Group usually meets every year to di ...
  • San Antonio Theater Shooting
    by # 1 NWO Hatr Nox and Friends – by Hardnox On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the CT shooting, a man went to a restaurant in San Antonio to kill his X-girlfriend. After he shot her, most of the people in the restaurant fled next door to a theater. The gunman followed [...]
  • Mass Media
    Jane Akre spent 20 years as a network and local TV reporter for news and mass media operations throughout the country. She and her husband, investigative reporter Steve Wilson, were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for their struggle with mass media ownership related here. By February 199 ...
  • US Govt Murdered More Children At Waco, Texas ...
    The terrorists within the US government LONG AGO lost the moral high ground. They slaughter children every day, whether in Pakistan or Afghanistan with drones and guns or whether in Waco, Texas with bullets and fire, the terrorists in the US government MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR CRIMES U ...
  • ‘Gun control’ + US unlawful wars killed 100 mi ...
    By: Carl Herman Documentations of government-dictated gun control/confiscation show ~70 million deaths in the 20th Century (and here). Regarding US government history to use its own guns in unlawful murders, documentations show up to 30 million US government victims from unlawful armed war attac ...

Veterans Today

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 ...

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Stop NATO

  • Several Russian Military Vessels Headed To Syr ...
    Itar-Tass December 30, 2012 Russian large landing ship heads for Syrian Tartus The Novocherkassk MOSCOW: The large landing ship Novocherkassk of the Russian Black Sea Fleet left the Novorossiysk naval base and is heading for the Syrian port of Tartus, a source from the General Staff of the Russi ...
  • Afghanistan: NATO Air Strike Victims Seek Comp ...
    Pajhwok Afghan News December 30, 2012 Kunduz survivors seek compensation: lawyer KUNDUZ CITY: Relatives of those killed and wounded in a September 2009 NATO airstrike in northern Kunduz province have sought $4.4 million in compensation from the perpetrators, a lawyer for the survivors said, a cl ...
  • Kurt Tucholsky: The Trench
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Kurt Tucholsky: The White Spots ==== Kurt Tucholsky The Trench (1926) Translated by Karl F. Ross Mother, why have you brought up your fellow, taught and tended him for twenty years, waited anxiously to hear his “hello,&#8 ...
  • U.S. Trains Georgia’s Future Officer Corps
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia December 29, 2012 Meeting with Georgian Students of U.S. Military Institutions The defence minister of Georgia met with eight Georgian students who study at various military educational institutions in the USA. Irakli Alasania got acquainted with learning condition ...
  • Randolph Bourne: Willing war means willing all ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war *** Randolph Bourne: The War and the Intellectuals Randolph Bourne: War and the State ==== Randolph Bourne A War Diary (1917) Time brings a better adjustment to the war. There had been so m ...

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Intel Hub

  • New Study Predicts the End of Christianity in ...
    By Andrew Puhanic theintelhub.com December 31, 2012 A new study published by the Institute for the Study of Civil Society has revealed that Christianity is in serious danger of being wiped out in its biblical heartland because of Islamic oppression and extremism. According to the author of the s ...
  • Feinstein’s Gun Control Bill Will Trigge ...
    By Brandon Smith theintelhub.com December 31, 2012 Contributed by Alt-Market All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party – Mao Tse Tung After a shooting spree, they always want to ...
  • Preppers, Patriots and Pirates
    Sartre | Now that the prospects of a second Obama administration are hitting home, the pace of a rapid deterioration are confronting all thinking Americans. The radical transformation that is centrally planned for the economy and authoritarianism administrated by the statists that are part ...
  • Photos: TSA VIPR Team w/ Drone spotted at NFL ...
    Hong Pong | A drone has been photographed hovering around the Metrodome fan plaza on the west side, and a Homeland Security / TSA "VIPR" team has been hanging around as well, indicating the federal government is shifting into "protecting" the major Spectacles at taxpayer expense.
  • Tri-Command Merges U.S. – Canada Militar ...
    Dana Gabriel | Recently, the U.S. and Canada signed two new agreements that will expand bilateral military training, security and defense operations in the region.

    TO DO

    renewable recyclingconservation
    Iberdrola Sells French Renewable-Energy Unit
    Wall Street Journal
    Iberdrola SA agreed to sell its French renewable-energy unit for up to €400 million euros ($528.7 million) to a group of investors led by General Electric Co., as the Spanish power company continues its push to cut debt. GE will buy 40% of Iberdrola ...
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    Renewable Energy Winning Mind Share If Not Market Share
    Forbes
    Renewable energy has not yet won the battle for market share over fossil fuels but it appears to be doing well when it comes to mind share, according to a survey by Dow Jones' Factiva service. Factiva counted the mentions of various forms of green ...
    Environment minister to axerenewable content requirement for home heating oil
    Victoria Times Colonist
    Environment Minister Peter Kent said Monday he plans to amend the Renewable Fuels Regulations in the new year to make the current exemption for home-heating oil permanent nationwide. That will likely be good news for consumers, since it costs more to...
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    Iowa Renewable Fuel Official Getting Ready For Legislative Session
    WNAX
    Iowa Renewable Fuel Executive Director Monte Shaw says that's one discussion they'll be monitoring and seeing what opportunities there are forrenewable fuels. Shaw says most ag interests understand the need for rural infrastructure upgrades but ...
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    HUMAN HABITAT

    ecology water energy
    Ecology Sets New Requirements for Stericycle
    Centralia Chronicle
    Citing concern about mercury, heavy metals and pharmaceuticals pollution, the state Department ofEcology now will require medical waste treatment company Stericycle to double treat refuse created at its Morton facility. Specifically, Stericycle must ...
    Please do not close Weis EcologyCenter in Ringwood
    NorthJersey.com
    I was greatly saddened to read via email dated Dec. 11, 2012 from the Weis Ecology Center that the N.J. Audubon Society (NJAS) has announced that it will close Weis permanently on Dec. 31, 2012. My family and I are members of NJAS and frequent ...
    Song inspired by ecology
    China.org.cn
    With lyrics by Wang Pingjiu and music by Ding Yu, the song is dedicated to the motherland and inspired by the blueprint for construction of ecologicalcivilization proposed by the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Alu Azhuo was ...
    Disease Burden Links Ecology to Economic Growth
    Science Daily (press release)
    Dec. 27, 2012 — A new study, published Dec. 27 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, finds that vector-borne and parasitic diseases have substantial effects on economic development across the globe, and are major drivers of differences in income ...
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    WATER POWER

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    Fabric of Life Meets Water
    Wall Street Journal
    "There's not much wall space," says Mr. Walsh, 76, a chemical engineer and chief executive of Waltron LLC, a maker of water-analysis devices based in Whitehouse, N.J. He can only hang about five of the artworks at any given time, he says, so he rotates ...
    New MSC ship to feature longestwater slide at sea
    USA TODAY
    The new MSC Preziosa, hoping to make a big splash with kids, will feature what the company is calling the longest water slide at sea. The Doremi Castle Aqua Park will include a pathway of waterfeatures with sprays, fountains,water pistols and an ...
    Eye-Openers: Meet the Mondaviwater witch
    San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
    Stacy Finz pens a great piece on how Marc Mondavi — a member of the Mondavi wine royalty — finds water in his vineyards in a slightly wacky way: “He's a bona fide water witch – someone who can find groundwater without the use of science. It's also ...
    Not to be a Scrooge, but ...
    Chicago Tribune
    For decades, nonprofit organizations including churches and hospitals got free water from the city of Chicago. Turning on the spigot didn't cost them. Except, the water wasn't really free. Chicago's paying watercustomers subsidized the "freebie" by ...
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