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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, January 13, 2013

13 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

English: The Centers for Disease Control and P...English: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Druid Hills CDP in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia as seen from Emory University (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Veterinary students from the United S...English: Veterinary students from the United States and Canada learn about veterinary contributions to public health at "Veterinary Student Day" at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on April 15, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Vaccine Awakening

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • JLR is rapidly becoming the jewel in the Tata ...
    While all around them car-makers are cutting jobs, Jaguar Land-Rover is bucking the trend. Since JLR was acquired by Tata in 2008 it has thrived and come through not only the the financial crisis but also shareholder criticism and employee apprehensions. JLR is rapidly becoming the jewel in the ...
  • Cosmological Principle may not hold
    And if the Cosmological Principle does not hold it means that the fundamental constants of the known Universe may no longer be so fundamental or so constant. This opens up the possibility that the physical constants may vary in different parts of the Universe. They may be a function of cosmologi ...
  • Noted in Passing 12th January 2013
    My intention is to make "Noted in Passing" a regular, weekly post but I am not sure if I will have the discipline to maintain it. I shall try to confine myself to 3 topic areas: "Science and Behaviour", "Engineering and Technology" and "Bad Science". I'm trying to avoid politics as a topic in it ...
  • Noted in Passing 12th January 2013
    My intention is to make "Noted in Passing" a regular, weekly post but I am not sure if I will have the discipline to maintain it. I shall try to confine myself to 3 topic areas: "Science and Behaviour", "Engineering and Technology" and "Bad Science". I'm trying to avoid politics as a topic in it ...
  • Climate change costs are not that critical com ...
    “When we consider the effects of climate change, we expect also that there will be a cost especially in poor countries, but it sums up to no great critical issue for the world. It is more important to get the poor countries to develop. I'm a little worried that “environmental thinking” leads to ...

Left Foot Forward

  • Anger at government reforms to Disability Livi ...
    On Wednesday, disability rights campaigners urged the Lords that the government’s proposed introduction of Personal Independence Payment, to replace the Disability Living Allowance, had serious flaws and requires significant changes. The website We Are Spartacus, which features the opinions of d ...
  • Comment: How the government’s reforms to ...
    Michael Higgs is a Law student at the University of Sheffield One of the basic tenets of any democratic society is ensuring that all classes have access to the legislature, executive and the judiciary. However, thanks to the government’s reforms to our legal services, some of the most vuln ...
  • Always on call: the problem of zero hour contracts
    Andrew Tromans is a History and Politics student at the University of Sheffield. For many people the notion of a 9-5 job, Saturdays and Sunday for leisure and even basic employment rights such as maternity leave are just not a reality.  I am not talking about night-workers or people working in t ...
  • US Politics Digest: Obama announces cabinet pi ...
    Obama rolls out cabinet nominations President Obama has announced his nominees for key cabinet vacancies, including secretary of defence, secretary of the treasury and director of the Central Intelligence Agency. At a White House press conference on Thursday, Obama unveiled White House chief of ...
  • “Somnishambles”: Skills Minister misses TV int ...
    Skills Minister Matthew Hancock has admitted that he was late for a Daybreak interview because he overslept. As skills minister he was going to discuss the government’s latest plans on how young unemployed people could be made more employable. Hancock tweeted an admission of his extended s ...

Consumerist

  • Anthropologie Apologizes For Using Racist Vint ...
    Here’s the thing, Anthropologie: If we’re going to shell out big bucks, say, $398 on an overpriced candlestick, we want it racism-free. The company recently had a bit of mud on its face for selling “one of a kind” candlesticks, one of which happened to feature not one, bu ...
  • Washington D.C.: Where People Watch Twice As M ...
    There must be something in the Potomac— According to a popular adult site, Washington D.C. has won the dubious title of America’s porn capital. D.C. residents reportedly watch almost twice as much online porn per capita as people living in the 50 states. It is a highly charged city, so who ...
  • Lenscrafters Not All That Great At Giving Me N ...
    Derek lives quite a distance from Lenscrafters, but he went there for his latest glasses because he always has. That’s fair enough. What he didn’t expect, though, was to find an understaffed shop that was seemingly unable to get his glasses right, and unable to even give him a call t ...
  • Bowling Alley Operators Deny Telling Gay Coupl ...
    Earlier this week, we told you of a Dallas Voice report about a gay couple who claimed they were asked to leave a bowling alley because they allegedly did not fit the alley’s definition of a family. The company that owns this venue says it has a very different version of events. According ...
  • Court: GameFly Is Right — Netflix Shouldn&#821 ...
    GameFly has once again scored a win in its years-long crusade to prove that the U.S. Postal Service is treating Netflix like the popular girl while it had to pay out the nose for similar treatment. A federal appeals court ruled today that Netflix had an unfair advantage because it didn’t h ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Tom Drake Salutes Bradley Manning: Daily Whist ...
    Politico: A Whistleblower Salutes Bradley Manning This op-ed by GAP client and NSA whistleblower Tom Drake calls Bradley Manning a victim of the Obama administration's war on intelligence whistleblowers, and salutes his bravery. Drake details his own prosecution for exposing the government's ...
  • Bradley Manning Trial Pushed Back Again: Daily ...
    Salon: Bradley Manning's Trial Pushed Back Again The same judge that called for Bradley Manning's sentence to be reduced by 112 days due to unlawful pretrial punishment has now ruled that Manning's trial will be delayed another three months – causing the soldier accused of passing information ...
  • Drake Talks Parallels Between His Prosecution ...
    FireDogLake: NSA Whistleblower Compares Case to CIA Officer Convicted of First Classified Leak (Video) Tom DrakeFireDogLake's Kevin Gosztola sits down with NSA whistleblower Tom Drake to discuss the parallels between his case and that of fellow GAP client and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou. ...
  • NYT Front-Pager on CIA Whistleblower John Kiri ...
    The New York Times has a front-page, top-of-the-fold article on my client, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou. [T]he irony of this whole thing is . . . he's going to be the only CIA officer to go to jail over torture, even though he publicly denounced torture. --Bruce Reidel, veteran CIA officer ...
  • More on Kiriakou; Obama's NDAA Signing Stateme ...
    HuffPost Live: CIA Officer to Prison In the wake of headline news about GAP client and CIA-Torture whistleblower John Kiriakou, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack appeared on both HuffPost Live and the Kojo Nnamdi Show to discuss Kiriakou's case and the Obama ad ...

UK Progressive

  • Everything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes
    by Cora Currier ProPublica You might have heard about the “kill list.” You’ve certainly heard about drones. But the details of the U.S. campaign against militants in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia — a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s national security approach – remain shrouded in s ...
  • Debt Ceiling and Guns: Using Presidential Auth ...
    by Robert Reich Anyone who thinks congressional Republicans will roll over on the debt ceiling or gun control or other pending hot-button issues hasn’t been paying attention. But the President can use certain tools that come with his office – responsibilities enshrined in the Constitution and in ...
  • Feds Release Nursing Home Inspections: Free of ...
    by Charles Ornstein ProPublica In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by ProPublica, the government has released unredacted write-ups of problems found during nursing home inspections around the country. We’re making them available today for anyone who wants to download the complete ...
  • Left and Right: Not Opposite Equals
    by Tina Dupuy Are the left and the right in this country pretty much the same except for ideology? Are liberals and conservatives basically two sides of the same coin? One side you have one opinion, the other side an opposing view. Are the parties in America symmetrical? Only the right wing will ...
  • British Food in the 1950s
    This one is for all my British friends, wishing everyone a great weekend after a hugely successful launch of our World View Show! • Pasta had not been invented. • Curry was a surname. • Olive oil was kept in the medicine cabinet • Spices came from the Middle East where they were used for [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • In Australia if you try to clear a firebreak o ...
    Maxwell Szulc As Greens blame coal miners and SUV drivers for contributing to firestorms that destroy houses, ponder that one man tried to reduce the risk of fires and cleared firebreaks on his property in WA in 2011 and is currently in jail for it, serving a 15 month sentence. Most of the clear ...
  • Skeptic win: UK Met Office quietly drops predi ...
    Joint Post: Jo Nova and James Doogue The UK Met Office are completely impartial about global warming, and delighted that things are not going to warm as fast as they thought. So to draw attention to the good news they waited to release it on the … quietest possible news-day of the year. Oh ...
  • Greens say deception, fraud “for the pla ...
    PR is more important than anything else to the Greens. When Johnathon Moylan fraudulently tricked investors, costing some of them thousands of dollars, Green leaders praise him for “drawing attention” to something. It’s as if stupid punters are so dumb and Green’s brains ...
  • American Geophysical Union – cheat, deci ...
    The American Geophysical Union – can it be saved? Seriously: the 2012 Convention included Mann, Gleick, Lewandowsky, Oreskes and Cook. If you are one of the 58,000 members, you could ask yourself if you want to be aligned to an organization that thinks “science” means sometime ...
  • Donna La Framboise – Secret Santa leak o ...
    BREAKING:All the files from Working Group II of AR5 are now available just as “ahem” the open-and-transparent-IPCC would want them. There are 661 files amongst 1 gigabyte of material. This includes their meeting in Japan, in Jan 2011 and a year later in San Francisco, and then Buenos ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Giant Sunspot on the Horizon
    AR1654 is getting bigger as it turns toward Earth. Not only is the chance of flares increasing, but also the chance of an Earth-directed eruption.This could be the sunspot that breaks the recent lengthy spell of calm space weather around our planet. It is all about potential. While a killer sol ...
  • More Cranial Deformations / Elongated Skulls i ...
    Today I saw a local lad with an earring that made a hole in his ear lobe the size of a 50c piece. But that is today – I doubt that 1000 years ago people would dare to be so different just to make a spectacle of themselves…. “Cranial deformation in Mesoamerican cultures was used to di ...
  • Pane Andov on Failed Predictions
    Pane Andov, from Macedonia, is well known for his extensive presentations within posts at various forums  – I was one of the moderators that let him get away with it, and I saw a presentation he gave in Melbourne a few years back. Like Geryl, he comes across as genuine, but he lacks a BS d ...
  • Shipping Containers As Faraday Cages?
    There’s a massive dilemma for preppers who wish to prepare for an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) from enemies or nature: Buy a Faraday Cage – very expensive, because none are made for the consumer market Build a Faraday Cage – and never know if you got it right until crunch time ...
  • Planet Earth Waking Up?
    Considering all the attention paid to Dec 21, 2012, it is almost ironic the lack of natural disasters. There hasn’t been a major earthquake in many weeks, and looks like the solar cycle has had an early and very weak peak. Or, is now the time to start fearing the worst? Tsunami warning af ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Confronting a deepening clima ...
    With new data out showing that 2012 was the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States, and with costs mounting due to droughts and other climate-related disasters, will political leaders finally take action to address the problem? read more
  • An action-packed 2013 in store for Southern labor
    The new year promises lots of action on the labor front -- and as always in the South, it comes with heavy baggage from the past. read more
  • Cabinet of Controversy: N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory’ ...
    The Koch brother from another mother overseeing the state budget. A man found guilty of assaulting children running the Department of Public Safety. A science skeptic chosen to protect the environment. What is Gov. Pat McCrory thinking? read more
  • VOICES: TVA board nominees confirmed, but what ...
    As the House wrestled with the fiscal cliff deal, the Senate approved nominees for the Tennessee Valley Authority's board. But conspicuously absent from the list that Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander sent for approval was Dr. Marilyn Brown -- the board's only sustainable energy expert. r ...
  • Home builders lobby weakens drywall legislation
    Federal lawmakers trumpeted last week's passage of the Drywall Safety Act of 2012. But thanks to the efforts of U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on behalf of the industry lobby, the bill doesn't actually set enforceable standards to prevent contaminated drywall from ending up in people's homes. ...

One News Page

  • Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
    It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
    N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
    According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
    The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
  • Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
    Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • President Assad: Syria Is Impervious to Collapse
    ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes the full transcript of the speech by the Syrian President Bashar Assad delivered at the Opera House in Damascus on January 6, 2013. He has outlined a plan to end the two year long conflict devastating the country. We urgently commend you to read it carefully in full and ...
  • Syrian Endgame
    «Quick victory» in Middle East or Big Regional Fire? Many think the events in Syria are nearing the climax. The West and Israel are openly talking about the «endgame» soon to come. Any peace initiatives put forward by Bashar Assad are flatly refused from the start, like the one he came up with a ...
  • Keep Pentagon Out of India’s MoD
    ‘Military diplomacy’ sounds like an oxymoron. Diplomacy is about culture and finesse –graduated gratification of desire- military is about roughing it out and instant success. However, the phrase ‘military diplomacy’ is as frequently used as ‘cultural diplomacy’. While the latter “conjures up im ...
  • Torn Between “Good Al-Qaeda” and “Bad Al-Qaeda”
    “US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said the slimmed-down force would focus on preventing Al-Qaeda… from regaining a foothold in the war-shattered nation.” When Do We Fight Against Terrorists and When Do We Put Them On the American Payroll? The hypocritical foreign policy of Barack Obama is i ...
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski As a Mirror of American De ...
    Part I Is the glory of Gorbachev proving contagious? We are halfway through the time allotted by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his landmark book «The Grand Chessboard», when he predicted that U.S. dominance in the world would remain unchallenged for a period of thirty years. Now just 15 years on and in ...

BlogHer

  • http://www.blogher.com/video-its-almost-golden-globes-time-who-are-you-rooting
    Image via embedded videoAre you ready for the "most unpredictable night of television"? I'd mock NBC for calling it that (in the below video) but they're not entirely wrong... Personally I'm really looking forward to the cohosting one two punch of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, who have expertly work ...
  • A New Kind of Hoarder: Could This Be You?
    Editor's Note: Hoarders conjure up images of houses packed with junk. This kind of hoarding, the compulsive hoarding of things, can be a sign of a serious mental illness. But hoarding can also be a metaphor for the ways we work against our own happiness. It can happen when we hold on to intangib ...
  • There Is Power in the Dark Side of Chicken
    Editor’s note: Mike’s blog post for this recipe references two of my favorite things: Star Wars and chicken thighs. For this recipe, the Dad Cooks Dinner blogger adapted a recipe from California’s patron saint of local, seasonal cooking, Alice Waters, to the slow cooker.-- Jane I am a fan of th ...
  • Movie Or Stage? A Les Miserables Review by its ...
    Number one fan! Number one fan! Okay, maybe tied for Number One along with blogger friend Erika (who posted her review here), or my sister (who at one time talked about getting a 24601 tattoo), or hundreds of other nut-job mega-fans like myself.My history with Les Mis is long.  So long, ...
  • How to Take CAPTCHA Word Verification Off Your ...
    If you use a Google blog, you probably have a CAPTCHA option for helping control spam. If you turn it off, you'll have to deal with removing spam manually. If you don't get much spam, you might want to try living without it. Here are directions for how to do just that from Janssen at Everyday Re ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
    Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...
  • New Treatment Could Combat Deadly Chemical Agents
    An enzyme treatment which could neutralise the effects of lethal chemicals responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across the world has been developed by experts at the University of Sheffield. Organophosphorus agents ... Related posts:Coconut Oil Could Co ...
  • Tell FDA Not to Approve Genetically Engineered ...
    Target: Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Goal: To stop the FDA’s approval of genetically engineered salmon. The Food and Drug Administration has recently stated that genetically modified salmon is an unlikely environmental ... Related ...
  • New York County Bans BPA In Receipts
      In an effort to keep residents safer from potentially harmful contact with chemicals, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed the Safer Sales Slip Act into law on Jan. 3, banning bisphenol A from cash register ... Related posts:San Juan County bans the growing of G ...
  • The Easiest Guide to Safe Household Cleaners Y ...
    Save a Buck, Save the Planet, Save Your Health Store shelves are bursting with chemical cleaners for everything from stains to sinks to unpleasant odors (vegetable curry, the horror!). These days, “unpleasant” seems to mean any ... Related posts:Fukushima Fish Carrying 258 Time ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Jan. 11, 2013
    A massive dragline coal mining machine is moved form one mine to another near Blue Creek, Ala., in a Dec. 6, 2012 photo.  A temporary roadway is being built as the machine makes the 17-mile move.  (AP Photo/ AL.com, Frank Couch) This week saw a terrible coal-mine gas explosion that killed eight ...
  • UBB update: Don Blankenship is at it again
    It seems that having walked away from Massey Energy $12 million richer, former CEO Don Blankenship just won’t leave well enough alone — at least not as far as the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster is concerned. Over on his website, Blankenship has a collection of new “essays&#8221 ...
  • ‘Sensationalism’: Why doesn’ ...
    In this Oct. 16, 2000 photo, 250-million gallons of coal slurry floods Coldwater Fork, which was spilled after the bottom fell from a 72-acre retention pond upstream several days earlier in Martin County, near Inez, Ky., flooding 28 miles of two streams.  (AP Photo/Lexington Herald-Leader, David ...
  • Rockfeller: W.Va. losing moderate voice on coa ...
    Larry Messina over at The Associated Press has the big news: U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller will not seek a sixth term representing West Virginia. The 75-year-old Democrat has recently sparred with the state’s mining industry over the future of coal, and he has supported President Barack Obama, ...
  • Coming up: OSMRE to release key coal-dam study
    Photo of the Brushy Fork impoundment, by Vivian Stockman, with flight services provided by SouthWings. UPDATED: We’ve post a story on the Gazette’s website summarizing the OSM report: West Virginia regulators have not adequately examined the risk for coal-slurry impoundments across t ...

Daniel Miessler

  • How to Explain SQL Injection to Anyone
    There are many ways to explain SQL Injection, and the “best” way is clearly determined by who you’re talking to. For somewhat technical folks, I like my friend Steve’s explanation, I use the explanation below. Two Key Concepts SQL Injection is a computer security ...
  • Web Servers ad DDoS Weapons | Dark Reading
    “Web servers have become the weapon of choice for DDoS attacks,” says Marc Gaffan, co-founder and vice president of new business and marketing at Incapsula. “They have significantly more computing and networking capacity than a home PC and can cause havoc when used to launch DD ...
  • Routing Security Debate | IGP Blog
    In essence, what is now being debated in SIDR is whether routing – one of the last areas in which Internet operations is distributed and autonomous – will become rigidified and centralized by what one participant in the debate calls “slamming a hierarchical PKI into a distributed routing system. ...
  • Soda Linked to Depression
    The study, which was released on Tuesday and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology‘s annual meeting in March, involved 263,925 people between the ages of 50 and 71. Researchers tracked their consumption of beverages like soda, tea, coffee, and other soft drinks from 1995 t ...
  • Defeating iOS Jailbreak detection for Mobile A ...
    This blog is a cursory breakdown of defeating less advanced jailbreak detection code. There are several ways to employ jailbreak detection in a security conscious mobile  application. Many of easier-to-defeat methods involve checking the iOS file system to see if any jailbreak relevant files exi ...

Fitwatch

  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
    Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...
    Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • “Lawless America”: Can police use ...
    By Warren Richey,csmonitor.com – The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether prosecutors can use an individual’s refusal to answer police questions as evidence of guilt at a subsequent trial if the silence came prior to being taken into police custody. While the high court has lon ...
  • Sunday Digest: INCREDIBLE PHOTOS FROM HISTORY
  • Locate To Speak Like Presidential Candidate Ba ...
    Our government’s popularity during his campaign period turned up along with unusual designer shoes that a majority of had great outcomes to his followers, the designers came back up with one styles of work of his handle plastered all across. Until these days, everyone see heritage perpetua ...
  • ‘The Unapologetic Hippie’ – ...
    To contact Phil or find out more: check out his website and blog For a copy of HUNGA DUNGA Phil Polizatto – Worldwide Hippies Bureau Chief – West Coast USA, is a graduate of The School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He was a feature writer for the overseas division of UPI ...
  • Revolution 99% Update: “Don’t drea ...
    Yoko Ono Takes Fight Against Gas Drilling to Albany ALBANY — For months they have been descending on Albany: farmers, environmentalists, latter-day hippies and placard-bearing parents. But on Friday, the forces against hydraulic fracturing, a method for drilling for natural gas, brought to Alban ...

reference frame

  • A projection of future drought one can't believe
    Rob Wile of Business Insider discussed a climate survey prepared by the U.S. Commerce Department (with some well-known alarmists in the team of authors). Among other things, he reprinted Figure 2.21 from that draft paper: It shows that the percentage of the territory of the Unite ...
  • Zeman vs Schwarzenberg
    The voting in the first direct Czech presidential elections ended 150 minutes ago but because 99% of voting districts have already been counted, it's clear who will continue to the second round in two weeks. Zeman (left) is officially a left-wing candidate, Schwarzenberg (right) is of ...
  • Looming dark matter announcements
    The LHC is enjoying its well-deserved two years' vacation. When it re-emerges in late 2014 or early 2015, it will be stronger than ever. The collisions will boast the center-of-mass energy of \(13\TeV\), well above \(8\TeV\) of 2012, so certain discoveries that were virtually impossible in 2012 ...
  • Polls: Choose your Czech president
    Let's try to organize presidential elections among the TRF readers. It's supposed to be fun, you may choose your winner for serious reasons as well as less serious ones. Please feel more than free to invite your friends to vote for your favorite candidate, too. The actual presidential elections ...
  • Gustáv Husák: 100 years
    Today, the last communist president of Czechoslovakia and Slovak communist Gustáv Husák would celebrate his 100th birthday. When I was a kid, this birthday – January 10th, 1913 – would be the most frequently celebrated one. It would be written down in all the calenders, too. Click the ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Malaysians gather in tens of thousands demandi ...
    Tens of thousands Malaysians have come out to protest in the country’s capital against the government calling for reforms and possible ouster of the ruling coalition. The rally comes before Malaysia’s general elections, which are due by mid-2013. According to local police, 80,000 peo ...
  • AFN leader steels for Round 2 of talks with PM
    The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, who persisted in meeting with the prime minister despite discouraging messages from other aboriginal leaders, is preparing for what’s expected to be a challenging leadup to more talks. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Atleo ...
  • Big International [Criminal] Bank & Economists ...
    by Christian Hill, Money News: According to a major bank, a pair of noted economists, and one controversial billionaire, 2013 will be a “year of terrible reckoning” for the stock market. JPMorgan just released its outlook for the first quarter. Surprisingly, this regularly bullish company has re ...
  • NHL, players’ association officially end lockout
    The NHL lockout is officially over after the league and players’ association finalized a memorandum of understanding regarding the new labour deal signed last weekend. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: NHL, players’ union reach tentative deal to end lockout Early Sunday ...
  • December 24, 2012 – White Hats Report #47.1
    Twas the night before Christmas (Updated)  Twas the night before Christmas and all through the land, The rats were all scurrying because Judgment Day is at hand; Their stockings were filled with big lumps of coal, It was their payment for trying to steal our soul; The children were nestled ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Parkinson's and Pesticides
    By Alex Formuzis, VP of Media Relations Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook often points out that many pesticides that were once liberally sprayed on food crops and considered perfectly safe turn out to be anything but - after... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
  • ChiTrib Finds Toxic Fire Retardant in Crib Mat ...
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst The Chicago Tribune reports it has detected cancer-causing chemicals known as chlorinated tris in 11 crib mattresses made in China and sold by Babies R Us, Foundations and Angeles brands. None of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  • Cleaning Never Tasted So Good
    By Samara Geller, EWG Research Fellow Olive oil and lemon juice,...sounds like a base for a fantastic vinaigrette, right? As a former professional chef, I always keep these simple ingredients stocked to create a variety of tasty sauces, dressings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • 10 Top Environmental Health Stories of 2012
    The top environmental health stories of 2012 were all about everyday hazards that are right in our backyards. They have to do with the unintended consequences of chemical pollution that could harm the health of our families, our neighbors,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Chemical Industry to Parents: Avoid Lead, Tail ...
    By Alex Formuzis and Sonya Lunder, MPH This is rich. The chemical industry has produced a new "health information" website titled Kids + Chemical Safety that mentions hardly any chemicals or any of the voluminous body of peer-reviewed research... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Roller-skiers call for safer paths
    The tragic death last week of a 12-year-old boy who was out roller-skiing with his father on a road in western Norway has set off calls for construction of more dedicated paved paths for the growing numbers of roller skiers. The calls join similar long-standing demands from cyclists and pedestri ...
  • Roller-skiers call for safer paths
    The tragic death last week of a 12-year-old boy who was out roller-skiing with his father on a road in western Norway has set off calls for construction of more dedicated paved paths for the growing numbers of roller skiers. The calls join similar long-standing demands from cyclists and pedestri ...
  • Many survivors of Utøya massacre both disappoi ...
    Many survivors of the 2011 massacre on the island of Utøya are disappointed that police aren’t taking any action against their own officers who failed to respond quickly enough to the shooting. A new study also shows that around half of those who were wounded or dodged the killer’s b ...
  • Many survivors of Utøya massacre both disappoi ...
    Many survivors of the 2011 massacre on the island of Utøya are disappointed that police aren’t taking any action against their own officers who failed to respond quickly enough to the shooting. A new study also shows that around half of those who were wounded or dodged the killer’s b ...
  • Wolf pair marking territory in Oslo
    Wildlife researchers had some sensational news for Oslo residents this week: They’re almost certain that a pair of wolves have been marking territory this winter in Oslo’s eastern forest known as Østmarka. A litter of pups may result later this spring. It would be the the first time ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • A World Without Water
    The World Bank believes in water privatisation like in the way that other people believe in Jesus, Muhammad or Buddha. The World Bank believes in water privatisation as a matter of theology. — Jim Schultz, Cochabamba Democracy Centre The law of supply and demand has been the basis of econ ...
  • Geoff Lawton on Permaculture for the Urban Env ...
    Geoff Lawton, Director of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, gives a positive talk on permaculture for the urban environment in an interview by the Los Angeles-based Institute of Urban Ecology.   Click play to hear the interview!
  • Put Your Questions to the Experts, Round 3: Ge ...
    This is the third installment in our popular Q&A series. In case you didn’t catch it on previous occasions, we added a new sub-forum titled ‘Put Your Questions to the Experts!‘, where our forum members put their questions to experienced permaculturists we’ll approac ...
  • New Weather, New Politics
    The extremes now hammering Australia leave old perspectives stranded. by George Monbiot Five children and their grandparents survived an inferno by spending three hours clinging to a jetty in the sea I wonder what Tony Abbott will say about the record heatwave now ravaging Australia. The o ...
  • Greeks Return to the Land
    Those who read Bad News, and Good News, for Greece and Greeks Reclaim the Land to Ease the Pain of Economic Austerity will want to follow up with this encouraging video. For the last several decades, modern society has been shaped by Big Business with a very narrow focus combined with an ...

Pointman's

  • The shape of things to come; Snailbats, HALsay ...
    Environmental alarmism is by now a well established phenomenon with nearly a four decade long history. In that time, we’ve been on the receiving end of doomsday predictions as diverse as holes in the ozone layer, overpopulation, resource wars, acid rain, a new ice age and the most successf ...
  • Another whopping leak from the IPCC.
    A substantial second leak, already nicknamed the Secret Santa leak, of further portions of the forthcoming IPCC AR5 has just occurred. There was a smaller leak of material last year, which was owned up to by the person who did it on their blog. While everyone is no doubt considering how on Earth ...
  • Credo.
    It seems to be a human need that we all have to have some sort of belief in a higher thing. Every culture that’s ever been, had some sort of belief system. I think it’s an unavoidable side effect of our unique consciousness. The people I’ve met, who ended up believing in absolu ...
  • Ladiees and Gennulmen, we have a winnah!
    It’s time to announce the winner of this year’s climate prat award and boy was the competition a doozie. Talk about a rush. It had everything; a bewildering variety of prats to choose from, agonies of indecision having to cull all the nominees down to finalists, rule changes when non ...
  • Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012), an appreciation.
    The Germans have a word we don’t have in English, and it really doesn’t translate very well because of that lack – Lebenskünstler. In a typical Teutonic fashion, they jammed together two words which each nearly expressed what they were after, and created a new word, which denot ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • This is Not Theoretical: Reflecting on a Recen ...
    Reposted from our friends at The Oyster Knife. This piece was written after guest contributor Nicky Gillies participated in the NOLA to Angola bike ride, a fundraiser for the Cornerstone Builders’ Bus Project, which helps people in Louisiana travel to visit their incarcerated loved ones.  ...
  • Our People Are Worth the Risks: A Southern Que ...
    Reprinted from the SONG website and from the Scholar & Feminist Online, a webjournal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women:  In the best parts of our tradition as LGBTQ people for liberation, we have resisted assimilation. We have held die-ins, we have risked our li ...
  • Post-Katrina, Funders and Foundations Failed N ...
    In December of 2006, New Orleans' social justice community came together to draft a letter addressed to foundations and funders, in response to the dismal response to the continuing post-Katrina crisis. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and other disasters still to come, the issues raised ...
  • Remember All the Children, Mr. President, By B ...
    Remember the 20 children who died in Newtown, Connecticut. Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli bombardments. Remember the 168 children who have been killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan since 2006. Remember the 231 children killed in Afghanistan in the first 6 ...
  • Crime Against Nature Law Back in Court
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Fill the Court For Oral Arguments In the Case To Overturn Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature Law! Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, 10:00 a.m Federal District Court, 500 Poydras Street Judge Feldman’s Court—Room C551 Many of y ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The signature on the new bills. Some of these characters are obscenely wealthy. Statistics: Posted by Krag — Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:54 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Jones Faked Bohemian Grove Video iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asLv5oqPfdsStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sun Jan 13, 2013 5:49 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Not 100% on Hart http://www.zionismbook.com/#about-the-book Almost everything you've been conditioned to believe about the making and sustaining of conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel is not true. It's not true that all the Palestinians who became refugees in 1948 left their hom ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Lew, who had served as Obama’s chief of staff, will replace Timothy Geithner, according to a source; Lew has close working relationships with Israeli envoy to the U.S. and Deputy FM Danny Ayalon and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz. ed note–so, in other words, a man is being made head of the US ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Very simple 3 part question that has not been answered, nor asked, by anyone in the media yet: Who was Adam Lanza's doctor, were any meds prescribed by said doctor, and what pharmacy filled them? I predict this will not be answered. Perhaps the more troubling question is 'Did Adam Lanza actual ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • California Solar Rebate Program Reaches 1-Giga ...
    California homeowners and businesses, taking advantage of a state rebate program that encourages the installation of solar panels, are now generating 1 gigawatt — or 1,000 megawatts — of electricity, roughly the equivalent of a nuclear power plant, state regulators say. Launched in 2 ...
  • Up to 50 Percent of Food Is Wasted Worldwide, ...
    As much as half of the food produced globally is wasted each year as a result of inefficient agricultural practices, inadequate storage facilities and transportation systems, and wasteful consumer habits, a new report says. While the world community produces about 4 billion metric tons of food a ...
  • Reviving Europe’s Biodiversity By Importing Ex ...
    Scientists are conducting intriguing — and counter-intuitive — experiments at several sites in Germany: Bringing back long-lost herbivores, such as water buffalo, to encourage the spread of native plants that have fared poorly in Europe’s human-dominated landscape. BY CHRISTIAN SCHWäGERL
  • U.S. Heat Record Was Shattered in 2012, NOAA ...
    Last year was by far the warmest year in U.S. history, with the average temperature in the contiguous states climbing a full degree higher than the previous high and Click to enlarge NOAA Annual climate records, 2012 every state recording above-average annual temperatures, according to ...
  • Using Fireflies As a Model, Scientists Boost E ...
    Drawing inspiration from the structure of a firefly, scientists say they have improved the efficiency of a light-emitting diode (LED) by 55 percent. While studying the insects, the researchers noticed that Nicolas AndréLED inspired by fireflies a pattern of sharp, jagged scales on the fireflies ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Canadian humour: Deadpan, or just dead?
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Vanity Fair devotes its January issue to celebrating comedic geniuses, and more than a handful of the spotlighted actors and writers have Canadian roots. But before all that celebrating begins, an essay by Bruce McCall ponders the dearth of Canadian comedy, and wonders w ...
  • I’m a racist. No really, I am.
    Things were not comfortable for German Jews in 1938, but nobody was interested in that story at that point. Just like how, in 2013, seemingly nobody is interested in the real story of Aboriginals in Canada ~~ By Jimmy Goatcher ~~ As I watched the video below, I thought about this idea that gets ...
  • A Modest Opinion – 2013: A Year In Preview
    Now that the hangovers are all done (or, if you’re like me you don’t get hungover . . . because you just keep on drinking), it’s time to see what 2013 has in store for us.  So, without further ado (I can feel the soberness creeping up), let’s get on to my Fourth Annual Year [.. ...
  • Idle No More and the racist backlash
    By Montreal Simon As the great rising continues, I see that a Global TV crew has been kicked out of Attawapiskat.  “A Global News crew was escorted off the Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario and threatened with arrest after trying to do a story on living conditions in the community.& ...
  • Of gazebos and Chief Spence
    By David@Sixthestate.net Under the circumstances, it’s actually a little surprising that it took this long. Through a convenient leak to the state broadcaster, presumably from the government, evidence has surfaced that hunger strike chief Theresa Spence’s Attawapiskat First Nation does a terribl ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Ishikawa given Masters invitation
    Golfer Ryo Ishikawa has accepted a special invitation to the Masters starting April 11, organizers announced Friday. The 21-year-old took home enough in PGA Tour earnings last year to secure his card for the 2013 season, but did not meet any of the criteria for automatic invitation to Augusta. ...
  • A signature mystery; "Last Hope"; CM of the week:
    The new Fuji TV drama series, "Biburia Koshodo no Jiken Techo" ("Biblia Antique Book Shop Case Notebook"; Mon., 9 p.m.) is based on a series of "light mystery novels," meaning stories where no one is killed. Ayame Goriki plays Shioriko, who runs the titular store located in an alley near Kita Ka ...
  • Rich doctors may be barred from tax relief
    The government and the Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition are thinking of excluding doctors who run their own clinics and earn ¥70 million or more a year from taking advantage of preferential tax treatment designed to help relatively small medical institutions, informed sources s ...
  • Abe vows to speed Tohoku recovery work
    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday vowed to speed up reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 2011 quake and tsunami as he inspected temporary housing for evacuees and disaster-hit firms in Miyagi Prefecture. "It is our duty to accelerate rehabilitation and reconstruction" in the Tohoku ...
  • Chudzinski anxious to get started with Browns
    The Browns have always been a part of Rob Chudzinski's life. Now, he's the man in charge. Chudzinski, who spent the past two seasons as Carolina's offensive coordinator, was introduced as the club's sixth fulltime coach on Friday, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the 44-year-old who as a k ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Selling out our natural resources
    In the beginning of December, the Harper government gave its approval to two takeover deals in the energy sector. Nexen is involved in offshore production operations around the world and in oil sands in western Canada. It will now be the property of CNOOC, a Chinese corporation. The second deal ...
  • What Does the Bank of Canada Do?
    The Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada have retained Odgers Berndtson to seek a new Governor, and have placed an ad in the Globe and Mail, the Economist and La Presse. The wording of the advertisement is questionable. First, it states that “the Bank of Canada is the pre-eminent macro-econo ...
  • Best Books of 2012
    Here are, in no particular order, my picks for the four best books of 2012 from a progressive economics perspective. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin. The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. (Verso). I suspect this book will become a classic. It is a rich and highly ...
  • Why the Income Inequality Deniers Are Wrong
    This article was published in an abridged form today in the National Post. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/21/armine-yalnizyan-sorry-andrew-coyne-but-income-inequality-is-a-real-problem/   I like this opening better so I posted it here. You couldn’t have made it through 2012 wi ...
  • Marc’s Letter from 2040
    The following comes from a short talk on a vision for a zero-carbon BC that I gave at a couple events this Fall. Many have asked for the text so I’ve posted it here, and we may try and turn it into a video. That said, I have been reluctant to do so up to [...] No related posts.

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Why First Nations Movement Is Our Best Chance ...
    “Before the passage of Bill C-45, 2.6 million rivers, lakes, and a good portion of Canada’s three ocean shorelines were protected under the Navigable Waters Act. Now, only eighty-seven are protected. That’s just the beginning of the problem, which seems not to have drawn much attention fro ...
  • Saudi Arabia Stakes a Claim on the Nile
    “Forty years ago, when the farming started, there was a staggering 120 cubic miles (500 cubic kilometers) of water beneath the Saudi desert, enough to fill Lake Erie. But in recent years, up to five cubic miles (20 cubic kilometers) has been pumped to the surface annually for use on the fa ...
  • US to become ‘net energy exporter’
    “Environmentalists and some analysts, however, caution that jubilant predictions from a country that consumes some 25 percent of the world’s oil will run into environmental constraints including global warming and a lack of fresh water. “There is no question that fresh water is ...
  • Chinese Mayor Apologizes for Drinking Water Co ...
    “The mayor of the Chinese city of Changzhi apologized for a delay in reporting a poisonous leak from a chemical plant that caused the cutoff of water to 1 million people, the state Xinhua News Agency said. The environmental authority in China’s northern Shanxi province didn’t receive a rep ...
  • Saudi Takes a Chunk of Nile Water to Feed its Cows
    “The cows raised at the Al Safi and Almarai farms live better than some humans in air-conditioned sheds and water misters that keep them cool. But feeding them with grain grown nearby has depleted 4/5th of the Kingdom’s ancient aquifer in the last 30 years. For milk. The farms are facing c ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • LAW MAKNG ARIZONA
    Process by which LAW is made in Arizona …    BEWARE OF “STRIKE-ALL” …. See below … What does "strike everything" mean and where can I find a list of all the strike everything amendments to bills? A “strike everything after the enacting clause” amendment (also referred to as a “ ...
  • PEOPLE SUMMARILY EXCLUDED
    … With all due respect to the authors how do “we” achieve authentic WATER SUSTAINABILITY when that sector primarily responsible to achieve this goal continues to be summarily excluded from all water discussion … yes … “we” – the people … Glennon and Culp: West must strive for water sustainabilit ...
  • DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
    … Without any doubt Buffet’s business acumen is vastly superior to mine of that I have no doubt … When one is part of the  “ruling-cabal” perspectives shared with us mere mortals can be vastly different … BUFFETT: ‘The Banks Will Not Get This Country In Trouble, I Guarantee It’ ...
  • DIPLOMACY
    … Who exactly is reputedly getting burned … ?   7 Theories Why Obama Keeps Getting Burned (Or Doesn’t!) Negotiating with Republicans By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Obama’s presidency still tends to divide progressives. READ MORE»       Filed under: Blogroll
  • NO “FREE PRESS”
    … How can you and I know and trust this information is reasonably accurate as we do not have a “free-press” …?   Sick By Choice? US Health Worse Than Nearly All Other Industrialized Countries   by Carey L. Biron … http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/10-0 WASHINGTON – U.S ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Paradigm shift needed to avert global environm ...
    Global strategist, trained educator, and international lecturer Daniel Rirdan set out to create a plan addressing the future of our planet. His book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse, published this year, does just that. "It has been a sixty hour a week routine," Rirdan told mongabay.com i ...
  • Mercury hurts birds and people: what we can le ...
    Birds aren't that different from people. We learn from our parents, just like zebra finches learn songs from their fathers. We are active and noisy during the day, like birds, and we can also be territorial. Also like birds, we try to attract mates through colorful displays and beautiful songs. ...
  • The year in rainforests
    2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical rainforest-related news stories for 2012. There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were undoubtedly overlooked in this review. If you feel there's somethi ...
  • Photos: the top new species discoveries in 2012
    Thousands of species were described for the first time by scientists in 2012. Some of these were 'cryptic species' that were identified after genetic analysis distinguished them from closely related species, while others were totally novel. Either way, here are some of the "new species" highligh ...
  • Our favorite nature photos of 2012
    In the course of reporting for Mongabay.com, I spent time in several countries in 2012, including Indonesia, Brazil, Madagascar, and Malaysia, among others. The following are some of my favorite nature pictures I took in the field. Overall I added more than 20,000 images to the site in 2012. For ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Liz Hanna: Heat's on to keep us comfortable
    Acclimatising to heat is a tough gig. Since 1970, central Australian regions have warmed 1.2C and as the world continues to get warmer, increasingly common and increasingly intense heat waves will make acclimatising even tougher.Our...
  • Armed mob hunt pythons in Florida
    An armed mob set out into the Florida Everglades on Saturday (US time) to flush out a scaly invader.It sounds like the second act of a science-fiction horror film, but, really, it's pretty much Florida's plan for dealing with an...
  • Rodney Hide: Ignorance almost made hungry monk ...
    I was hugely relieved to learn this New Year that we hadn't run out of bananas.It was predicted the world would be banana-less by now. Ten years ago this month New Scientist's cover proclaimed: "The world's favourite fruit is...
  • The eyes have it - research
    If you have blue eyes, this could make you a bit green.Men and women with brown eyes are seen as more trustworthy.But before blue-eyed boys and girls reach for coloured contact lenses, the results may simply be to do with the...
  • Last chance to protect 'last ocean'
    It lies 3500km away in one of the coldest and most remote corners of the planet, yet the Ross Sea has sat at the centre of one of the most hotly discussed environmental issues in years.And the last ocean, as it's known, will be...

The Bovine

  • Sixteen results of prohibition
    From the Chicago Boyz: When a law bans exchanges wanted by everyone directly involved a number of things happen: 1) The exchanges continue; 2) Prices of the banned items rise and wars to control turf begin; 3) New criminals are … Continue reading →
  • “Double indemnity”, with same char ...
    .From Heather Callaghan, on the Activist Post: “Last September, Alvin Schlangen and his many supporters witnessed a victory when three charges were dropped against him in Hennepin county, Minnesota thanks to jury nullification. But now he is facing six charges in Stearns county … Con ...
  • Feeding the future / the example of lead
    From Jamie Lincoln Kitman’s “The Secret History of Lead”,  in “The Nation”: “…when commercial interests ask us to sanction genetically modified food on the basis of their own scientific assurances, just as the merchants of lead once did.” “Th ...
  • LA County health enforcers go door to door dem ...
    Health Ranger Mike Adams has the story on Natural News: “In a bombshell revelation of the depth of the food police state that now exists in LA County, California, NaturalNews has learned that the LA County health department has unleashed … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt off to court this month
    We’ve gone a long time without much overt legal sparring in the Canadian raw milk and food rights scene. But that’s soon to change as raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt heads to court later this month to face charges of … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Trillion Dollar Coin Idea Dies Sudden Death; T ...
    At long last, a stupid, as well as illegal idea dies on the vine. Bloomberg reports Treasury, Fed Oppose Using Platinum Coin to Avoid Debt Limit The U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve oppose the idea of minting platinum coins as a way to avoid the U.S. debt ceiling, according to ...
  • France, the Hidden Zombie in Europe
    Via Google Translate from Spanish, GurusBlog asks and answers the question Is France the zombie hidden in Europe? Although still quite outside the focus of the media and investors as its risk premium relative to German bonds remains relatively low, for me, leaving aside the PIIGS, which ar ...
  • Making Social Security Actuarially Sound in a ...
    In Social Security Payouts Per Worker; Accrued Interest on Accrued Promises; Imagination I posted numerous charts showing the unsustainable nature of the system. First let's review the background, then I will address what can be done to make the system Actuarially Sound. Here is one ke ...
  • Yen Falls to Lowest Level Since 2010; Japan Pr ...
    Bank of Japan to Adopt 2% Inflation Target Bloomberg reports Yen Falls to Lowest Since 2010 on Stimulus The yen reached the weakest since June 2010 versus the dollar after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government said it will spend 10.3 trillion yen ($116 billion) in new stimul ...
  • Social Security Payouts Per Worker; Accrued In ...
    Inquiring minds are digging still further into social security trends and costs. Here is a chart from Tim Wallace in response to my post Social Security Trends: Beneficiaries, Total Costs, Number of Workers, Ratio of Workers to Beneficiaries. Social Security Burden on Non-Farm Workers ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Willie Dixon– “Can’t Quit You Baby” We start our second year of the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick with some serious blues. Willie Dixon’s performance of I Can’t Quit You Baby puts us in smokey club (well not these days) listening to a blues great. Dixon was an Americ ...
  • Podcast Show #103: The Rise of the Police Stat ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Stephen Lendman Author and analyst Stephen Lendman joins us to discuss the Obama Presidency, the rise of the Police State in the USA, the Two-Sides-of-The-Same-Coin party system, the sham election system and campaign financing, our ever-expanding perpetual wars, a ...
  • A Thousand Mile Journey: Reflections on Being ...
    “A thousand mile journey begins with a single step” – Ancient Chinese Proverb By Guy Evans It may be a New Year, but age-old problems and issues still plague our Western societies. While there are many that gravitate to fire-and-brimstone negativity, rejoicing in the idea that a total planetary ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Profits at China’s Largest Shipbuilder Likely ...
    China CSSC Holdings Ltd. (600150.SH), the listed arm of China’s largest shipbuilder, said Saturday its profit likely shrank by 95% to 100% year on year in 2012, as the result [...]
  • After Two Years, Somali Pirates Release Syrian ...
    MOGADISHU – Somali pirates have released three Syrian hostages held in captivity since 2010 without payment of any ransom, government officials said on Saturday. The three were part of the [...]
  • BP Seeks $3.4 Billion Reduction in Fines Relat ...
    BP Plc is seeking a reduction of as much as $3.4 billion in the fine it may have to pay for pollution caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil [...]
  • ENSCO: Drilling Deep for Value
    By Christopher C. Williams, Barron’s Oil and gas producers are scoring major finds farther offshore than ever before. That, and rising energy prices, are good news for companies like Ensco, [...]
  • Pirate Kingpin’s Retirement Announcement Press ...
    Is this guy kidding me with this press conference? Earlier this week we posted about a pirate “Kingpin” named Mohamed Abdi Hassan, aka ‘Afweyne’ (translated ‘Big Mouth’), who announced his official [...]

Press TV

  • ‘No Iran-US talks held on Afghanistan’
    An adviser to Iran Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani says no talks have taken place between Tehran and Washington over the planned 2014 US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
  • ‘Russia will not bow to US pressure’
    A US-based historian says Russia will not buckle under pressure from the United States to reconsider its policy on Syria.
  • UK’s EU strategy branded as dangerous
    British Labour leader Ed Miliband has criticized Number 10's Europe strategy as “incredibly dangerous,” ruling out a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU).
  • IRGC Navy stages tactical training drill
    The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has conducted military drills in southern Iran, as part of the tactical training for modern warfare initiatives.
  • ‘Cold weather kills 80 in Bangladesh’
    Cold weather has claimed the lives of at least 80 people in Bangladesh over the past weeks as the country suffers one of its coldest winters, the country’s Red Crescent Society says.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Print Economic Sanctions and Human Rights
    Summary: Multilateral and unilateral economic sanctions imposed on Iran are contrary to the following principle of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration begins with the preamble that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all membe ...
  • Iran Likely To Respond To Signs of US Goodwill
    Summary: True or not, Tehran's politicians and pundits are increasingly convinced that both senators Kerry and Hagel are genuinely interested in expanding the net of diplomacy with Iran and explore new venues for resolving the outstanding issues between US and Iran source: Middle East on-l ...
  • Syrian people must decide own fate: Iran forei ...
    Summary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the people in Syria must be allowed to determine their own fate, rejecting any foreign interference in the Arab country’s affairs. “The Syrians should determine their destiny on their own, and a prescription should not be offered from out ...
  • Hagel to rein in Israel on Iran strike: commen ...
    Summary: Chuck Hagel, the nominee for the next US defence secretary, will seek to rein in Israel over any attempt to carry out a unilateral strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, Israeli observers believe. Hagel's nomination by US President Barack Obama must still be confirmed by the US Se ...
  • Chuck Hagel’s views are mainstream
    Summary: A vociferous flock of Republicans in Congress, along with some of America’s most zealous right-wingers, have been hammering former GOP Senator Chuck Hagel, who President Obama nominated on Monday for secretary of defense. source: Daily Callerread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Largest Structure Universe Discovered --Qu ...
                     The largest known structure in the universe has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. The large quasar group (LQG -a portion shown above)) is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross it. Qua ...
  • Largest Spiral Galaxy in the Universe Confirme ...
                     The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest-known spiral, based on archival data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Expl ...
  • Image of the Day: Mystery Cloud at Milky Way' ...
                    The image above, taken with NASA's Spitzer infrared space telescope, shows the mysterious galactic cloud, seen as the black object on the left. The galactic center is the bright spot on the right. It's the mystery of the curiously dense cloud near the crowded galactic ce ...
  • "When Alligators Roamed the Arctic" --Big Glob ...
                       The dominant factors in the rise and fall of the diversity of life on Earth has been a point of debate for scientists nearly as long as they have studied the processes of evolution. In the 1970s, evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen began calling the case for bi ...
  • The 'New Physics' Model of Dark Energy Nixed
                   Last month, a group of European astronomers, using a massive radio telescope in Germany, made the most accurate measurement of the proton-to-electron mass ratio ever accomplished and found that there has been no change in the ratio to one part in 10 million at a time when ...

Natural News

  • Parents are more likely to put fussy babies in ...
    Mothers of fussy or active babies are significantly more likely to use television to distract their infants, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and published in the journal Pediatrics. The study was funded...
  • Six ways to manage labor pain naturally
    Pregnancy is a very exiting time for most women but the labor and delivery process can bring much anticipation. Maternal worry and discomfort lengthen labor and can contribute to fetal distress. There are many natural ways to help relieve pain and shorten the overall...
  • America is raising a generation of deluded nar ...
    The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines narcissism as the act of "egocentrism," where a person is full of love for self. What's more, several experts think that, because of what are being hailed as advances in media and technology, we are raising a country of narcissistic...
  • Expensive, useless breast cancer screenings pu ...
    Medicare spends more than a billion dollars every year on a variety of breast cancer screenings, especially mammography. There must be a good medical reason for these tests, right? Not according to researchers at Yale School of Medicine. In a study just published online...
  • Supplements for flu prevention
    The pharmaceutical industry would have us believe that the only means of preventing the flu is to get a flu shot. This could not be further from the truth. Flu vaccines are dangerous and ineffective. And there are excellent ways for you to boost your immune system and...

Threat Level

  • Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26
    We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss. But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn't just a sentiment; it's literally ...
  • Judge Halts California Internet Sex-Offender Law
    A federal judge late Friday blocked enforcement of a California voter-approved measure that would have dramatically curtailed the online, First Amendment rights of registered sex offenders. Proposition 35, which passed with 81 percent of the vote in November, would have ...
  • Student Appeals Suspension for Refusing to Wea ...
    A Texas high school student on Friday asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court’s order upholding her school suspension for refusing to wear around her neck an RFID-chip student ID she claims is the “Mark of the ...
  • Obama OKs Netflix-to-Facebook Sharing as E-Mai ...
    President Barack Obama signed legislation Thursday granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. It's great news for those wanting to flood their Facebook feeds with whatever time-suck they're watching. But ...
  • The Next Big Security Issue: The Internet of T ...
    Internet of Things has been a magic meme, the theme we’ve been hearing all week at CES, the oft-heralded prediction that may have finally arrived in 2013. But … with great opportunity comes great responsibility. Along with its conveniences, the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Slavery Returns as Pro-Gun Talking Point
    Now for a few words of unsolicited advice for my conservative friends. First, when the film Lincoln is dominating box offices and the Oscar nominations, think very hard before you use slavery as an analogy for anything. Second, make up your mind whether slavery was good or bad, a big deal or a ...
  • Polls Show GOP Duping Americans on Debt Ceilin ...
    During their rare moments of candor, Republicans leaders agree with President Obama that failing to raise the U.S. debt ceiling would be "catastrophic." Two years ago, Speaker John Boehner acknowledged "that would be a financial disaster, not only for our country but for the worldwide economy." ...
  • Introducing the $1 Trillion Ronald Reagan Plat ...
    As part of their never-ending campaign to canonize President Ronald Reagan, conservatives three years ago proposed replacing Ulysses S. Grant on the 50 dollar bill with the likeness of the Gipper. But while his hagiographers mercifully failed in that quest, a new and altogether fitting denomina ...
  • Current GOP Leaders Gave Bush "Clean" Bills to ...
    As McClatchy and the New York Times among others have documented, Senators and Representatives in the minority party have often voted against debt ceiling increases. Whether motivated by opposition to larger spending or tax legislation, or as a symbolic vote to embarrass the president and his C ...
  • Hagel Foes Graham and McCain Praised James "F* ...
    The Republican opposed the Iraq surge and favored regional negotiations with Iran and Syria. The GOP luminary has cautioned against pre-emptive strikes on Tehran's nuclear facilities. He publicly criticized Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank. He advised the presidential campaigns of ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • NASA Says Asteroid Apophis Impact In 2036 Unli ...
    The asteroid Apophis is extremely unlikely to impact the Earth in 2036, according to researchers at NASA. The newly refined projections of the asteroid’s fly-by in 2036 were possible thanks to new data that was just obtained during the fly-by that occurred on January 9, 2013. Only very rec ...
  • Biggest Structure In The Universe Found, Large ...
    The largest known structure in the universe has just been discovered, and is so large that it completely violates a number of widely-accepted theories. It’s a large quasar group (LQG), that’s so enormous that it would take someone traveling at the speed of light at least four billion ...
  • Bengali Forests Are Rapidly Disappearing, Rese ...
    The rapid deforestation the Sundarbans Mangroves is expected to intensify as human development in the area continues and climate change worsens, according to a new report from the Zoological Society of London. This is will result in the extinction of a great many plants and animals, including th ...
  • Microbes Found Living In Mars-Like Environment ...
    In a new and very interesting finding, an environment on the Earth that is a very close analog to ones found on Mars has been shown to harbor microbial life. The Río Tinto salt deposits in Spain are apparently the home to a variety of different species of microorganisms. Jupiter’s moon Eur ...
  • Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the ...
    At 1600 times the distance between the Milky Way and our nearest galactic neighbor (the Andromeda Galaxy), the super cluster of quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) spans 4 billion light years along its widest dimension (i.e., it would take light 4 billion years to traverse its widest dimension ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • It's Time to Regain Our Democracy
    By @TedFrier Ezra Klein, the Washington Post's resident policy wonk, agrees with me that the impending fight between President Obama and Republicans over the debt ceiling is not, at the end of the day, about policy. Back on December 5th, I was one of those reckless liberals who thought President ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Hi -- this is Chevy, I'm helping mom with the Newswrap tonight since her internet connection is being weird. She has Facebook and Gmail access only, and last night an old story got past us because Mom couldn't load the original from Facebook. Tonight I am double checking the links, bu ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC A thousand apologies for the sparse and intermittent content. It is my modem and router and it is no longer under warranty. I am limping along with gmail and Facebook and the Graceland University website. I have no idea why they will load and the blogs won't, but that's the case. I ju ...
  • Obama's Do-Nothing Congress
  • Rick Scott Cooking the Books -- Again
    By @TedFrier Looks like Florida Governor Rick Scott is up to his old tricks. Earlier this week Scott told reporters in Washington that he's leaning toward opposing the administration's plan to expand Medicaid service in the states because expansion would cost about $63 billion over the next deca ...

Care 2

  • 5 Unbelievable Hotels Made of Natural Materials
    One look at some of these impressive hotels made of natural materials and you'll be booking that reservation faster than we can say eco-adventure time! Submitted by J.L. A. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Homeless dog in Texas burned in warehouse fire ...
    A dog, thought to have been abandoned, narrowly survived a devastating warehouse fire in Houston, Texas.PLEASE SHARE/NETWORK THIS,HE NEEDS US..DONATE IF YOU CAN,BUT PLEASE SHARE--TY. Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Archaeologists baffled by eight-ton, 2,000-yea ...
    A giant stone animal has been found at an excavation site in Chengdu, southwestern China, baffling archaeologists as to what it may be. The mysterious rock beast was unearthed in the capital of Sichuan province today and is thought to be 2,000 years old Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & ...
  • Tell California: Say No to Fracking ! PLEASE S ...
    Please use the form below to ask the California Department of Conservation, which is charged with overseeing oil and gas drilling, to impose a ban on fracking in California before irrevocable damage is done to our state and the natural resources we all Submitted by Cher C. to Environment   ...
  • Commend Ethiopian Clinic for Providing Free Ca ...
    Ethiopia is home to more than 6 million donkeys and while the animal is greatly appreciated, they are also often maltreated. Donkeys are extremely valuable to Ethiopian farmers, and are a main form of transportation in rural communities. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note ...

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No Quarter

  • Obama’s inauguration will be smaller (open thread)
    I am not surprised that the attendance at the inauguration for President Obama is receiving far less attendance than his first inauguration, as reported article at Fox News’s article, “Obama’s second inauguration a small affair, though city expects businesses to profit.” ...
  • Disturbing Economic News
    A major move in terms of job losses is underway and spells big trouble for an already anemic economy. Check out these news blurbs: American Express Co. set plans to cut 5,400 jobs in its biggest retrenchment in a decade, as it pares back a travel business that has been hammered by the rise of [...]
  • Hey Obama, Where Da White Women At?
    The air of hypocrisy hangs heavy over the White House. And I do mean WHITE House. Yes, we may have a pseudo black President, but he is definitely in touch with his white roots. How else to explain his selection for top jobs in his Administration–State, DOD, CIA and Treasury–all going ...
  • John Brennan Must Be Stopped
    Lest I be accused of being reflexively anti-Obama, let me note for the record that I endorse his choice of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense and could give a shit about John Kerry as Secretary of State. But, when it comes to naming John Brennan to head the CIA, this is a proposal that [...]
  • Waiters Are Getting Stiffed
    In today’s Los Angeles Times’ article, “Revenge of the 1%: Stiffing waiters“: CAPTION: “Friend got this as a tip. I’d be livid.” (Photo via imgur) Yesterday, L.A. reporters said, that they had little to report about the details of the note above. The Lai ...

Futurismic

  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Bunkers needed for explosives after evacuation ...
    Bunkers needed for explosives after evacuation Alexandria Town Talk The company also came under scrutiny in West Virginia where it was using an old military explosive called tetryl in mountaintop removal mining for Catenary Coal Co. in 2006 and 2007, according to documents reviewed by AP. A Febr ...
  • • Natural gas fracking merits honest discussio ...
    • Natural gas fracking merits honest discussion, writer says Times-Mail (subscription) McGraw acknowledges that while shale drilling and fracking are terribly disruptive, dirty and obnoxious, they're not nearly as bad as the mountaintop removal involved in contemporary coal mining, which he ...
  • Rockefeller to retire after 5 terms - Williams ...
    Rockefeller to retire after 5 terms Williamson Daily News Mining advocates accuse Rockefeller of abandoning them as Obama ramped up scrutiny of Appalachian mountaintop-removal mining operations. “I know the coal companies are going after me. … I can live with that, because I know that I am fight ...
  • Silas House to speak at 'I Love Mountains' ral ...
    Silas House to speak at 'I Love Mountains' rally in Frankfort Lexington Herald Leader Steve Beshear, urging him to end mountaintop-removal mining, and the other will be for a KFTC grassroots leader to show appreciation for those working to oppose the mining method. The event be the eight ...
  • Our Bay: Patuxent Riverkeeper moves - CapitalG ...
    Our Bay: Patuxent Riverkeeper moves CapitalGazette.com And on April 16, the groups will screen “The Last Mountain,” about mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. For information, contact info@paxriverkeeper.org. © 2013 CapitalGazette.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be p ...

Memeorandum

  • Gun debate opponents gear up for fight; Sens. ...
    Chris Wallace / Fox News: Gun debate opponents gear up for fight; Sens. Blumenthal, Ayotte on president's picks for his new national security team  —  Special Guests: Neera Tanden, Larry Pratt, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Sen. Richard Blumenthal  —  The following is a rus ...
  • Candy Crowley On Lack Of Diversity In Obama Wh ...
    Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs: Candy Crowley On Lack Of Diversity In Obama White House: ‘Does It Matter?’  —  It really has been amazing to watch Obama's media cover for the lack of diversity in his cabinet picks.  —  A fine example of this hy ...
  • Aaron Swartz, American hero (Tim Lee/Washingto ...
    Tim Lee / Washington Post: Aaron Swartz, American hero  —  Paul Graham, the founder of angel investing firm Y Combinator, has mentored generations of Silicon Valley whiz kids.  In an essay about hackers and the role they've played driving technology forward, he wrote that & ...
  • Old Foes Lead Charge Against Chuck Hagel (Jim ...
    Jim Rutenberg / New York Times: Old Foes Lead Charge Against Chuck Hagel  —  In the bitter debate that led up to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska said that some of his fellow Republicans, in their zest for war, lacked the perspective of vete ...
  • NRA President: Americans Are Buying Firearms B ...
    Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress: NRA President: Americans Are Buying Firearms Because They Fear Obama  —  Gun sales skyrocketed at the end of 2012 after the tragic shootings in Newtown, Connecticut.  The FBI conductedmore than 2 million criminal background checks ahe ...

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    近在咫尺的猪场给后童垄村带来了严重的健康问题，但在修建前没有任何人征求过村 ...
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    城市交通规划管理专家何东全担心，新一代领导人的“轻车简从”作风可能会让城市&# ...
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AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Suprising Unknown History of the NRA
    For nearly a century after, its founding in 1871, the National Rifle Association was America’s foremost pro-gun control organization. It was not until 1977 when the NRA that Americans know today emerged, after paranoid libertarians who equated owning a gun with the epitome of freedom a ...
  • Anti-Gay Zealot Guilty of Child Pornography Af ...
    This article was originally published by The Southern Poverty Law Center.
A New Hampshire lawyer who works with a virulently anti-gay Christian-right organization has been found guilty of child pornography charges after videotaping her own daughter having sex with two men on multiple o ...
  • The Shady Inside Deals That Are Protecting Gol ...
    In economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s book, End This Depression Now!, there’s a chapter titled “The Second Gilded Age” in which he describes the extraordinary rise in wealth and power of the very rich during this era of unregulated greed. Since R ...
  • Will Obama Cave on Social Security?
    A top official at the nation’s largest union federation slammed a Social Security cut proposal that’s been floated by President Obama, but stopped short of calling it a deal-breaker in the next round of budget wars.“We remain strongly opposed” to chained CPI, AFL-C ...
  • Aaron Swartz, Online Activist and Reddit Cofou ...
    This article has been updated.When he was all of 14, Aaron Swartz co-authored the first specification of RSS, the code now ubiquitous across the internet that allows for the syndication of content.He went on to lead a storied life of innovation, co-founding the wildly popular Web syndication ...

Threat Level

  • Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26
    We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss. But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn't just a sentiment; it's literally ...
  • Judge Halts California Internet Sex-Offender Law
    A federal judge late Friday blocked enforcement of a California voter-approved measure that would have dramatically curtailed the online, First Amendment rights of registered sex offenders. Proposition 35, which passed with 81 percent of the vote in November, would have ...
  • Student Appeals Suspension for Refusing to Wea ...
    A Texas high school student on Friday asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court’s order upholding her school suspension for refusing to wear around her neck an RFID-chip student ID she claims is the “Mark of the ...
  • Obama OKs Netflix-to-Facebook Sharing as E-Mai ...
    President Barack Obama signed legislation Thursday granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. It's great news for those wanting to flood their Facebook feeds with whatever time-suck they're watching. But ...
  • The Next Big Security Issue: The Internet of T ...
    Internet of Things has been a magic meme, the theme we’ve been hearing all week at CES, the oft-heralded prediction that may have finally arrived in 2013. But … with great opportunity comes great responsibility. Along with its conveniences, the ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • A Nationwide E. coli Outbreak with a Minnesota ...
    In December 2009 the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) uploaded results of molecular testing by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) of an E. coli O157:H7 isolate cultured from a patient... Continue Reading
  • California Lettuce is link to Taco Bell and KF ...
    The Public Health Agency of Canada’s announced this evening a foodborne illness investigation indicating that the most probable cause of the E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in the Maritimes and Ontario... Continue Reading
  • Taco Bell & KFC Link to Lettuce E. coli Outbre ...
    According to press reports, Canadian Food Inspection Agency is recalling the lettuce believed to be at the center of the outbreak.  The source of the lettuce has not been announced. ... Continue Reading
  • Is there a Ohio Canada E. coli Leafy Green Con ...
    There are reports that fresh produce, likely lettuce, is now suspected to be the source of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 15 people (as many as... Continue Reading
  • Improving food safety in the US
    I had an opportunity to be on Inside Story Americas on Aljazeera yesterday. Here is the link. Here is one of my quotes: “I think our government and industry has a... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – Civil disobedience is ...
    Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and ...
  • The Shocking Lack of Evidence Supporting Flu V ...
      Sayer Ji, Contributor Activist Post With the flu season ramping up, many are looking to vaccination as a “preventive” approach. Those who abstain are often accused of being uneducated, or worse, socially irresponsible. Nothing could be further from the truth. As it presently s ...
  • Five Reasons Why I’ll Never Get a Flu Shot
    If you’re looking for a deeply scientific treatise on the flu shot, this isn’t it. I’m not a chemist, a physician or someone with an advanced degree in biology. I’m just a mom with an internet connection. I’m a person who has researched and compiled an assortment of worrisome facts that point in ...
  • JFK assassination: Robert Kennedy speaks out a ...
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasn’t solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a ‘shoddy piece of craftsmanship.’ Kennedy and his sister, Rory, spoke ab ...
  • Reuters Spins Flu Story
    Janet C. PhelanActivist PostIn an article entitled, “Flu reaches epidemic level in U.S., says CDC”, reporter Sharon Begley pumps up alarm concerning the virulent and epidemic nature of the current flu sweeping the country. However, the report admits it lacks documentation of the very ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Why comments have been turned off on the FM we ...
    Summary:  The FM website has turned off its comments.  Please comment on our posts at the FM Facebook page.  Here we discuss why. Websites deal with comments in many ways.   Some do not have comments (eg, Instapundit, Lawfare, and James Fallows at the Atlantic).  Some are heavily moderated (eg, ...
  • But Hitler confiscated guns, leaving Germans h ...
    Summary: When Americans demand accuracy from their reliable sources, reform will become possible for America. The Left cannot correct the Right on this flaw, nor vice versa. So long as we (Left and Right) accept lies from our friends and fellow partisans, then our leaders will lead us by lies. S ...
  • We want heroes, not leaders. When that changes ...
    Summary:  Before we can find solutions, or even slow the fall of the Republic, we need accurate diagnosis of what ails us.  Facile answers point to evildoers, or flaws in the Constitution. Fix them and our awesomeness will be rewarded. But America’s weakness lies elsewhere, and can be seen ...
  • “The right to shoot tyrants, not deer”
    Summary:  As the 21st century unwinds, the nature and extent of American exceptionalism becomes ever clearer.  Exceptionally mad, and growing more so. Today we look at yet another example. (1)  From America’s daily purveyor of conservative propaganda “The right to shoot tyrants, not ...
  • Do our leaders say “Apres moi, le deluge ...
    Summary:  Today Chet Richards looks a recent Stratfor post about the crisis of the middle class, and from there explores some of the challenges facing 21st century America. . George Friedman, Founder and CEO of Stratfor, is always worth reading for the same reason that, say, James Kilpatrick was ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Cracks i ...
    ESA’s Mars Express has observed the southern part of a partially buried approx. 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin. The images, near to where Ladon Valles enters this large impact region reveal a variety of features, most notably the double ...
  • Listen Live to Whale Songs From Hawaii
    The gurgles, whistles and squeaks of humpback whales singing off Hawaii's island shores can now be heard live, courtesy of underwater microphones placed near Puako, Hawaii by the Jupiter Research Foundation.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: The Star ...
    This is a near-infrared, colour-coded composite image of a sky field in the southwestern part of the galactic star-forming region Messier 17. In this image, young and heavily obscured stars are recognized by their red colour. Bluer objects are either ...
  • This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Lookin ...
    An online petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures last month, a threshold obliging the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of ...
  • Doomed Spacecraft Captures Awesome Close-Up Vi ...
    Three days before the moon-orbiting Ebb spacecraft collided with a lunar mountain, its on-board cameras captured some striking images of the pockmarked moon's northern hemisphere -- from just six miles up. On Jan. 10, NASA released what look like scenes ...

PakAlert

  • How the Controllers Use Religion, Money, Polit ...
    PL Chang | Energy Fanatics This article is my most controversial article because it contains “forbidden knowledge” and evidence proving that the Controllers have infiltrated and distorted most systems in the world, including the religious, political, educational, and financial system. If yo ...
  • The Shocking Lack of Evidence Supporting Flu V ...
    With the flu season ramping up, many are looking to vaccination as a “preventive” approach. Those who abstain are often accused of being uneducated, or worse, socially irresponsible. Nothing could be further from the truth. As it presently stands, it is not sound medical science, but prim ...
  • China Newspaper Says To ‘Prepare For The Worst ...
    The J-10 fighter (click pictures to expand) After repeatedly flying surveillance aircraft into disputed airspace with Japan, which made Tokyo scramble F-15s in response, China sent fighters of its own on Thursday into the East China Sea. A Friday press release out of China confirms the in ...
  • White House Denies Secession Petitions, Cites ...
    Director of Public Engagement for the White House, Jon Carson, finally responded to secession petitions on the White House website. Instead of addressing each of the state petitions, of which there where several that met the 25,000 signature response level, he responded to an anti-secession p ...
  • How to End the ‘Gun Debate’ Forever
    Violence is driven by socioeconomic and cultural factors, not the mere presence of firearms. The statistics clearly show this, and the very same statistics manipulated by so-called "gun control advocates" irrefutably contradicts their agenda's premise when put into proper context. Worse yet, the ...

Andy Worthington

  • Close Guantánamo: Photos of Protestors outside ...
    Close Guantánamo: Protestors outside the Supreme Court on the 11th Anniversary of the Opening of the Prison, a set on Flickr. These photos are from the protest in Washington D.C. on January 11, 2013 to mark the 11th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantána ...
  • Eleven Years of Guantánamo: End This Scandal Now!
    Eleven years ago, on January 11, 2002, the Bush administration proudly presented to the world one of its major responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 — a prison on the grounds of the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, designed to hold hundreds of men and boys seized i ...
  • A Message from Omar Deghayes on the 11th Anniv ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • Please Write to the Forgotten Prisoners in Gua ...
    Friday January 11 is the 11th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, an ongoing legal black hole, and an experimental prison for holding Muslim men and boys without rights, and subjecting them to torture and other ...
  • Eleven Years of Guantánamo: Andy Worthington V ...
    Contact me from 10am Eastern Time on January 9 (until January 16) on 347-581-2677. It’s over 24 hours since I arrived in the US, with the support of Witness Against Torture, World Can’t Wait and Close Guantánamo, for a series of events to mark the 11th anniversary of the opening of t ...

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Sciencebase

  • Shake it like a Polaroid picture
    Hilarious round up of the #overlyhonestmethods hashtag meme on twitter from Mark Lorch: “It all started with a neuropharmacologist researcher and blogger called Leigh when she tweeted "incubation lasted three days because this is how long the undergrad forgot the experiment in the frid ...
  • Spectral lines
    Dicarbonyl didact – NMR spectroscopy has been used to investigate dicarbonyl sugars formed inside the human body from the natural breakdown of the simple sugar, glucose. The implications for understanding the link with diabetes are discussed. Biochemist Anthony Serianni and postdoctoral re ...
  • Musical emotion detector
    Music recommendation systems have been around for a while, last.fm, Pandora, Spotify, Peter Gabriel’s “The Filter” and more recently they have been extended into the social domain, just like it was in the days before mp3s and Napster when we used to make mix tapes for each othe ...
  • 2012 a busy year, some highlights
    My wife told me that publishing this would be like sending out one of those braggardly “family newsletters” to one’s friends, but I wanted to round off the blog for 2012 by posting a few memories from the year…is that so bad? I even blogged about not posting it. Anyway, i ...
  • Facebook boosts self esteem, leads to snacking
    That’s an approximation of the tabloid headlines. But, as ever, NHS Choices offers a more solid critique of various bits of research into the effects of online social networking on our psyche. “Overall, social networking improves self-esteem, particularly when the person has a greate ...

Common Dreams -News

Lifehacker

  • Five Best Desktop Media Servers
    Getting your music and movies from one computer to another computer across the house or across the world has never been easier. There are tons of apps designed to make the process simple and painless so you can watch movies on your smartphone when you're out, or just listen to the music o ...
  • Divide Weekly Meal Ingredients Into Bins to Sa ...
    If you plan your meals in advance every week, you should consider grouping the nonperishable ingredients for each meal into a storage bin—you'll not only have everything ready to go when it's time to cook but you can also quickly identify any missing items you may need to pick up. M ...
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  • Mini-Aquaponics Setup Made from Ikea Parts
    If you've ever wanted to try Aquaponics, growing fish, plants, and bacteria in a nearly-closed loop ecological system, you can get your feet wet by building a basic system using Ikea Antonius frame and wire baskets, two plastic bins, PVC pipe, and a submersible water pump. More &#1 ...

Water Privatization

  • Our menacing infrastructure
    "Expressway tunnels as well as other infrastructure throughout Japan are nearing the crisis stage," warns a university professor who is a member of an advisory body for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Among the repercussions of the Dec. 2 ceiling collapse i ...
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    Clankingly dull Canadian drama set in Ecuador and Toronto tells straightforward tale of water privatization
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  • Predictable 'A Dark Truth' does hurt
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Guardian

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    Alice Pyne, who suffered from Hodgkin's lymphoma, gained fame through a blog documenting her quest to fulfil her dreamsA teenage cancer sufferer who gained nationwide fame after writing a "bucket list" of dreams has died.Alice Pyne, 17, from Ulverston, Cumbria, managed to complete most of her li ...
  • Manchester United v Liverpool - live! | Jacob ...
    Minute-by-minute report: Can Manchester United extend their championship lead at Liverpool's expense? Find out with Jacob SteinbergJacob Steinberg
  • British eight-year-old girl shot dead in Jamaica
    South London schoolgirl Imani Green shot dead in a cafe on holiday during what police believe was a revenge attackAn eight-year-old British girl has been shot dead while on a family holiday in Jamaica.Imani Green, from Balham in south London, was with relatives in a cafe in the north coast town ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: It all starts with 26 acts
    Thursday, Mae Suramek grabbed a cup of coffee at Berea Coffee & Tea and left an extra $4 to pay for the next customer's order.Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: The NRA, guns and 'evil fame'
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  • Commentary: Everglades python hunt could use a ...
    If were serious about sending forth an army of gun-toting, beer-drinking, redneck snake-hunters to wade into the Everglades and eradicate the python hordes, were going to need more than a…Click to Continue »
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    The Federal Aviation Administrations review of Boeings 787 Dreamliner could involve fresh scrutiny of a supplier that has furnished several of the planes key components, including faulty electrical panels and…Click to Continue »

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Futurismic

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    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 ...
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    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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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    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

  • Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying ...
    A few years back, we had an interesting discussion over whether or not distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) could be seen as a valid form of protest -- the modern equivalent of a "sit-in." There are significant similarities between a DDoS and a sit-in. And, we've seen at least one lawy ...
  • Details Of Various Six Strikes Plans Revealed; ...
    Ah, unintended consequences. TorrentFreak has been doing a fantastic job sussing out the details of how various ISPs are going to implement the infamous "six strikes" plan. Earlier, it had found that AT&T's plan was to block access to frequently visited websites, while the fourth strike w ...
  • Nokia Running A Man In The Middle Attack To De ...
    This is a bit crazy. After a security researcher pointed out that Nokia's Xpress Browser is basically running a giant man in the middle attack on any encrypted HTTPS data you transmit, the company played the whole situation down by saying, effectively, sure, that's what we do, but it's not like ...
  • DailyDirt: Preserving Food For Posterity
    Modern civilization wouldn't be where it is today without the means to store food for long periods of time. Before refrigerators, food spoilage was a daily concern for just about everyone. Now, we can keep leftovers in a fridge for far too long -- and forget about it until some really furry mold ...
  • Hulu Continues To Wobble Along That Fine Line ...
    If one were to make a short list of the top great ideas that were implimented horribly, unbelievably wrong, Hulu would have to be somewhere between The View and the United Nations (I'll let you decide what goes where, exactly). Hulu was the once promising entertainment venture that has ugly- ...

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