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English: A village in South Sudan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Matt Weidner Blog

• Corruption And The Federal Government Killed A ...
  It is too late to do anything for Aaron Swartz, but the who used the powers granted to them by their office to hound him into a position where he was facing a ruinous trial, life in prison and the ignominy and shame of being a convicted felon; for an alleged crime that the supposed victims did n ...
• FORECLOSURE CRISIS WARNING! (Especially Pro-Se ...
  Over the last several years, the pace of foreclosure cases has ground to a halt.  To a certain extent this was due to the action and advocacy of attorneys and to pro se parties who filed pleadings and did what they could do to slow down the pace….. BUT THERead the Rest...
• OUTRAGE! (Of the day) The Billion Dollar Forec ...
  “You can be sure the Wall Street banks consider tax consequences in negotiations and the government should, too,” he said. “Any portion of a settlement that’s intended to be a penalty should include language clarifying it isn’t deductible. Otherwise, the government’s punishment will have less s ...
• The Federal Government Kills Another Peaceful ...
  "Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy," the statement reads. "It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney' ...
• BREAKTROUGH RULING: BORROWER HAS STANDING TO C ...
  A Michigan state court found that a debtor may oppose foreclosure on the basis that the assignment of the mortgage to the foreclosing party was in violation of the Pooling and Service Agreement and, therefore, ineffective. HSBC Bank, USA v. Young, No. 11-693 (Cir. Ct. Mich. Oct. 16, 2012). HSBCR ...

abelard - news

• a wonder of french road signing | the France z ...
  French idiosyncrasies of the road, and zealousness to instruct the driver!
• transfer payments; price and value | economics ...
  Helping understand the ins and outs of what affects the Gross Domestic Product.
• update on toll charges, february 2013 | motorw ...
  A new year and motorway tolls will go up again. Here is a round-up of what to expect.
• absolute zero is absolute, but can look like i ...
  Yet again, sub-absolute zero temperatures are magically reached by smoke and mirrors, or in this case gas and lasers.
• updated and expanded: other cathedral destruct ...
  Better details and illustrations of cathedrals battered, or even destroyed, during the French Revolution.

The Parallel Parliament

• Humanity Paired
  Tomorrow the next chapter of the adventure begins. Our life with south Sudan was irrevocably joined together, not by choice …Continue reading »
• Home, But Not Alone
  On Saturday we leave for our big excursion to the Republic of South Sudan.  We take a team of 16 …Continue reading »
• How Was 2012 For Women?
  My new Huffington Post piece on how women fared globally and in Canada in 2012. huff.to/UDkrBq Filed under: Citizenship, Politics, …Continue reading »
• Goodwill Hunting
  And on earth, peace to those of goodwill … Luke 2:14 Today I turn 62. A birthday is always a …Continue reading »
• The Things You Can’t Buy For Christmas
  We live in the most financially minded era in history; nothing previous compares to it. Somehow we have put ourselves …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

• Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
  Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
• Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
  Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...
• Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
  Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
• Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
  August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
• Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
  Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...

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

• The Year of Ethical Eating
  You may be surprised by which restaurants do not provide paid sick days. Hint: Five Guy Burgers and Fries, Maggiano’s Little Italy, McCormick & Schmicks, Morton’s & Ruth’s Chris Steak Houses, and Starbucks.
• Now, Not Later – We Need to Talk about the Far ...
  The farm bill extension that passed was written behind closed doors and serves a few powerful interests -- not the interests of the average citizen, public health, and the environment. We should be outraged.
• The CLF Week in Links: Food Safety, Shortages, ...
  This week in food—MRSA in milk, new food safety rules, Jane Brody's bizarro-world blogpost, strange doings at the NIH, still debating antibiotics in animal feed, trouble brewing Zambia, and more.
• The CLF Week in Links: New Year, New Energy
  Here are a few of the news items that are getting the most attention at the Center for a Livable Future.
• Cooking Climate-Friendly without a World-Class ...
  If it takes a professional chef to cook climate-friendly, we’re all doomed.

k2p blog

• Migration from India brought genes, tools and ...
  A new genome-wide study suggests that there was migration from India to Australia some 4,200 years ago during the Holocene and that they brought stone-tools and the ancestor of the dingo with them
• European Court of Auditors finds misuse of €5 ...
  Criticism by the European Court of Auditors has been levelled against subsidies for ostensibly energy-efficiency projects which have been misused by member states.
• UK PAC – Wind farm licences are “ ...
  The UK PAC calls the over-generous wind farm licences as shocking. The consumer will just have to pay higher prices.There is nothing wrong with wind power per se and it surely has a limited contribution to make. But it is just not commercial or practical for base-load power generation and no amo ...
• UK PAC – Wind farm licences are “ ...
  The UK PAC calls the over-generous wind farm licences as shocking. The consumer will just have to pay higher prices.There is nothing wrong with wind power per se and it surely has a limited contribution to make. But it is just not commercial or practical for base-load power generation and no amo ...
• 100 million expected at Maha Kumbh Mela starti ...
  It could be the largest ever gathering of humanity in one place as the Maha Kumbh Mela begins today at Sangam in Allahabad. The festival will continue for 55 days and is expected to attract over 70 million and perhaps upto 100 million people this year. It is a festival which has been going on fo ...

Left Foot Forward

• Opposition to Independence Enjoys 20% Lead
  New polling has indicated that the pro-union “Better Together” campaign now enjoys a 20% lead over the “Yes Scotland” campaign on the day that the House of Commons votes on allowing the Scottish Parliament to lead on the arrangements for a vote on independence. According to the poll carried out ...
• Comment: On Feminism and the Suzanne Moore Con ...
  In an article featured in a new anthology, then re-printed in the New Statesman, Suzanne Moore told her readers that “the desired body for women is that of “a Brazilian transsexual”.” What then came after was a bucket load of abuse, telling Moore that she was transphobic and not a re ...
• MPs and their Pay: Because they’re Worth it?
  Chris Olewicz is a post-graduate history student and writer studying at the University of Sheffield. When the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) published its report on pay and pension consultation earlier this month, newspapers inevitably picked up on the fact that a majority ...
• Cameron’s Gathering EU Storm
  The forthcoming speech by David Cameron, set to define the Conservative’s long-term attitude to EU membership, is due soon. Egged on by an anti-EU right wing cabal of the 2010 intake of Eurosceptic MPs, others fearing for their seats because of the recent bounce by the head bangers in UKIP, plus ...
• Government not doing enough to engage with loy ...
  A former Northern Ireland Secretary has criticised the Government for failing to do enough to engage with the loyalist community in Northern Ireland. Amidst on-going violence on the streets of Belfast over the decision by the City Council to fly the Union Jack only on certain days at the city ha ...

Consumerist

• US Airways Already Asked American To Get Marri ...
  While we’ve all been waiting, handkerchiefs at the ready, for the scene in which US Airways gets down on bended knee and asks poor, down-on-its-luck American Airlines for its hand in marriage, comes a report that the whole scene apparently went down — unsuccessfully — back in A ...
• Facebook’s Huge Announcement Is… A ...
  After days of building up hype about some big, mysterious announcement it would make today, Facebook finally revealed what was hidden behind door #2: The ability to search. So now you can search through your previous posts, updates, photos, like and whatever other ephemera you and your friends t ...
• Study Says Blueberries & Strawberries Might Cu ...
  Fruits and vegetables — we all know we’re supposed to eat a ton of them and thus, lead healthier lives. But it turns out that not all of those nutritious goodies from nature were created equal, at least when it comes to warding off heart disease in women. A new study suggests that eating m ...
• Old Spice Shaves Off .25 Ounces Of Deodorant, ...
  Christopher wrote to us with a tale of deodorant woe. Old Spice, part of Procter & Gamble, repackaged his favorite deodorant product, Old Spice Pure Sport, and skimmed a quarter of an ounce off the top while they were at it. Oh no they didn’t! And…well, actually, they didn’ ...
• Home Depot Uses My Credit Card Number To Track ...
  Once again, a major retailer seems to be crossing the line between offering seamless service and invasion of privacy, apparently using customers’ credit card numbers to look up their e-mail addresses in order to market to them. Consumerist reader A.C. recently purchased a drill at his loca ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• GAP Whistleblower Tour Stops at Franklin & Mar ...
  Lancaster Online: Whistleblowing Tour Stopping at F&M Local news coverage of GAP's American Whistleblower Tour stop at Franklin & Marshall College this Thursday, featuring prominent whistleblowers Rick Piltz (climate science) and Kenneth Kendrick (peanut/Salmonella). Washington Pos ...
• The NSA and BofA: Working Together for Us?
  The Washington Post reported on January 11 that the National Security Agency (NSA) is helping major US banks shore up their cybersecurity systems, in the wake of "a barrage of assaults" on the financial institutions' websites. American Banker picked up the story two days later: The banks are s ...
• 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. ...

UK Progressive

• Book Review: Many U.S. My Lai-Type Massacres i ...
  by Sherwood Ross Massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in Vietnam were not rare aberrations but everyday occurrences, an authoritative new book on the subject charges. Worse, the massacres were a result of  deliberate Pentagon policies handed down from the very top, often to build false “body co ...
• DOMA Meets DADT
  by Carl Matthes As the influence and legal premises for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) continue to weaken, surprisingly, what has developed is a “real life marriage” between these two outdated and discriminatory policies. Who knew that one of the consequences ...
• In US: More Preschoolers Than Cops Get Shot Dead
  By Charley James Most people rightly believe that being a police officer in the US is a seriously dangerous job. But when measured in terms of the risk of being shot and killed, it isn’t: More preschooler’s die every year from guns than do cops. According to a new report from the Chi ...
• The Madness of the US Gun Culture
  This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell My birth country has gone starkers! Friends across Europe ask the same question, ‘are there that many guns in the USA?’ My answer never varies; ‘there are more!’ Living in a Welsh village has advantages. My kids go to school without guards and metal d ...
• 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 ...

NewsAlert

• Here’s What Deregulation Looks Like in the Oba ...
  Reason
• Flashback: Alex Jones Attacks Chicago Politici ...
• Report: Walmart Forbids New Ammunition Orders
  Infowars reports:According to some customers, Walmart has forbidden store managers from re-ordering ammunition inventory until further notice, raising fears that the Obama administration’s gun control agenda is already being enacted via the back door.
• Limits on consumers’ Internet use fuel calls f ...
  The Hill
• Entitlement America: Who benefits?
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JoNova

• Australia – was hot and is hot. So what? ...
  The media are in overdrive, making out that “the extreme heat is the new normal” in Australia. The Great Australian Heatwave of January 2013 didn’t push the mercury above 50C at any weather station in Australia, yet it’s been 50C (122F) and hotter in many inland towns across Au ...
• 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 ...

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...

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2012 Blog

• Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene
  I’m generally not a fan of theories disguised as fiction, and not a fan of prophecy either (too much to wade through to find anything real, and too hard to determine you have found it). That’s two reasons why Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene is one of the many 2012-related books I failed ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• BP challenges official estimate of oil spilled ...
  The company is seeking to reduce its civil liabilities under the Clean Water Act by excluding the oil it salvaged from the total amount spilled in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Meanwhile, the court has approved a settlement for medical claims related to the spilled oil and dispersants use ...
• 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 ...

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

• Flying Towards War? Drone Race Signals Escalat ...
• US to Sell $1.2 Billion in Spy Drones to South ...
• 9/11 Revisited: The Unjustifiable Launch of En ...
• 9/11 Revisited: History, Consequences and Medi ...
• 9/11 Revisited: War, Justice and the Search fo ...

Daily Tech

• Nissan Leaf Base Model Price Drops by More Tha ...
  The drop in prices are mainly due to the fact that Nissan has moved Leaf production from Japan to Tennessee
• Report: Dell May be Going Private
  Dell is in buyout talks with two private-equity firms
• CES 2013 Wrap-up: Zalman Releases New Water Co ...
  Korean parts maker aims to increase unique flare in its lineup
• New Pill-Sized 3D Endoscope Searches for Cance ...
  Patients do not need to use anesthesia for the process, and it only takes a few minutes to complete
• Cadillac Unveils Production ELR Plug-in Hybrid ...
  The Voltec platform gets some fancy clothing

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

• Trendy Chevron Rugs Are Expensive - Why Not Ma ...
  [Editor's Note: Katy from Sweet Verbena is starting to furnish her apartment. Like many of us she just had a rude awakening about how much rugs costs. Even 'cheap' machine rugs are not that cheap. This crafty lady was not going to let something like expense come between her and a chic chevron ru ...
• BlogHer Entrepreneurs Is Back: This March 21-2 ...
  Today, we are thrilled to bring back a unique opportunity we first launched in 2011: The third annual BlogHer Entrepreneurs Conference will take place March 21-22, 2013 at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus Conference Center in Mountain View, CA. We thank our host sponsor Skype, ...
• Maple Roasted Chickpeas: A Sweet and Healthy Snack
  Since the new year has started, I've been trying (note the relative word) to eat healthier. I think we all go through this routine. Except when I started it last year, it lasted. Image: Courtesy of Jessiker Bakes It lasted all the way up to law school, and between January 1st and summer I had ...
• Obama Talks Debt Ceiling in 'Deadbeat Nation' ...
  In the last press conference of his first term, President Barack Obama this morning seemed to directly appeal to the female electorate, using terms like "deadbeat" to describe what would happen to the country should Congress not rate the debt ceiling. He also addressed concerns about the diversi ...
• 5 Tips to Stick With Your Morning Workout
  Editor’s Note: One of the hardest parts to working out is finding the time in your schedule to squeeze it in. The solution? Exercise in the morning, before the day’s madness begins. Here, morning workout veteran Amanda shares her secrets to sticking with it, from how to prepare the night before ...

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

• War on coal: Obama EPA delays coal-ash rules again
  We’re a few weeks removed now from the four-year anniversary of the terrible coal-ash disaster in East Tennessee, and here’s the word from Bloomberg BNA on the Obama administration’s for doing anything to avoid a repeat of that incident: The Environmental Protection Agency stil ...
• Gov. Tomblin, coal, and getting things ‘ ...
  In his inaugural address this afternoon, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin offered no real surprises on coal policy, with the possible exception of his promise that he would see to it that West Virginia’s coal production heads the opposite direction from what just about every industry forecast project ...
• EIA: Coal production down in 2012
  Here’s the latest out today from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration: U.S. coal production, down almost 7%, fell almost everywhere. Central Appalachia production decreased significantly, down 16%, followed by a 9% production decline in PRB. By contrast, ...
• West Virginia First: Beyond cheerleading for coal?
  Early this afternoon, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will be sworn in to serve a full term as West Virginia’s Governor. The inauguration and the start of a new term offer an opportunity to “Stay the Course” (the name taken by a Tomblin-supporting PAC that apparently thinks West Virginia ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Myth of Human Progress
  Chris Hedges’ Columns,Truthdig - Clive Hamilton in his “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change” describes a dark relief that comes from accepting that “catastrophic climate change is virtually certain.” This obliteration of “false hopes,” he says, requires an i ...
• CJE Tuesday News Briefs
  AR1654: A monster sunspot aiming our way WS – OMG! The sun is facing the earth? Like an enormous cannon that is slowly turning its barrel toward us, the latest giant sunspot region AR1654 is steadily moving into position to face Earth, loaded with plenty of magnetic energy to create M-clas ...
• Face Book F**kery!!!
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – I swear I am NOT some crazed conspiracy theorist. I don’t watch Jessie Ventura. I don’t have stock piles of freeze dried food. I am, though, beginning to seriously wonder about this Face Book message that only certain of us have been being threatened with. O ...
• Colonialism and the Green Economy: Villagers D ...
  By Daniel C Marotta and Jennifer Coute-Marotta , Truthout | Report - All names are fictitious as sources requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Anonymity and people’s  requests that no pictures be taken were prerequisites for attaining interviews.  No one wanted to go on reco ...
• Water grabbing occurring at ‘alarming ra ...
  By Cecilia Rosen,scidev.net – [BUENOS AIRES] Deals in which rich foreign corporations and countries buy or lease agricultural land abroad result in nearly half a trillion cubic metres of fresh water also being grabbed each year — often enough to grow sufficient food to abate undernourishme ...

reference frame

• Edge: What should we be worried about?
  Giddings on crisis in physics, firewalls Edge.org asked their annual question to 151 or 152 scholars, What should we be worried about? I suppose that the word "should" was highlighted in order to prevent the respondents from giving an easy answer to the opposite question, what we should ...
• Diverse forms of energy
  TBBT: The latest episode The Bakersfield Expedition of the Big Bang Theory attracted the record 20.0 million U.S. viewers. That's quite a number. The episode showed the boys in sci-fi costumes going to a Comic Con and the girls accidentally plunging into a boy-like argument about sci-fi topics. ...
• 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Oprah Winfrey says Lance Armstrong admits drug use
  Oprah Winfrey has confirmed that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong came clean to her in an exclusive interview to be aired this week about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Lance Armstrong tells Oprah Winfrey he used drugs: source Lance Armstr ...
• Keiser Report: Whore-der of JP Morgan (E393)
  from Russia Today: Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the fact that markets don’t kill economies, banksters kill economies. They also discuss JP Morgan’s copper ETF in London and Blythe Masters, the well known hoar-der of commodities. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser talk ...
• Lance Armstrong tells Oprah Winfrey he used dr ...
  Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey during an interview Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Lance Armstrong to lose 7 Tour de France titles ...
• John Embry – Silver Will Soar Hundreds Of Doll ...
  from KingWorldNews: Today John Embry told King World News there is now a shortage of physical silver and the price is headed hundreds of dollar higher than current levels. Here is what Embry, who is chief investment strategist at Sprott Asset Management, had to say: “I don’t think the action in ...
• FEMA Is Preparing For A Massive Earthquake Alo ...
  FortTerraNova.org Get A Survival Bunker With Fort Terra Nova or Join Our Underground Community. FEMA Is Preparing For A Massive Earthquake Along The New Madrid Fault Lines. FEMA requested 140 million body bags and thousands of MRE’s. The big quake is coming. Stuff They Don’t Want You ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

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

• Jodie Foster, now unquestionably out (except, ...
• Bill Thompson's million-dollar filing, Simcha ...
• After subway-push killings (and Lhota's resign ...
• When Lautenberg's age met Booker's ambition: A ...
• Obama: Gun-control scares are good for the gun ...

Views & News from Norway

• Bankrupt bookstores get new owner
  Notabene, one of Norway’s largest chains of bookstores, is being formally taken over by a new company that’s wholly owned by DNB, the country’s biggest bank and Notabene’s major creditor. The chain filed for bankruptcy last week, six years after its founders sold a majori ...
• New grocery deal hikes price fears
  Consumer advocates are sounding the alarms over a deal announced Monday between the long-troubled ICA grocery store chain in Norway and Norway’s most powerful grocery retailer, NorgesGruppen. ICA plans to turn over portions of its purchasing and distribution operations to NorgesGruppen, gi ...
• Support grows for refugee children facing depo ...
  Thousands of Norwegians took to the streets around the country over the weekend, to protest the government’s so-far unwavering demand that children of parents who have had their asylum applications rejected be returned to their parents’ homeland. For the government, it’s a matt ...
• Ticket sales brisk for cheaper ski jumping
  Skiing officials learned a tough lesson last year, when they jacked up ticket prices for the annual World Cup ski jumping event at the still-new Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, and ended up with the smallest crowd in years. Now they’ve brought prices back down and sales are brisk. “Pr ...
• Football squad ‘well-disciplined’
  Norway’s national football team was being praised on Monday for being disciplined with a good defense, after playing the second of two exhibition matches in Africa over the weekend. The Norwegians met Zambia’s championship squad on the African continent, with the match ending undecid ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Let Nature Speak – Learning from Ants
  We all love seeing nature at work. Although we’ve done immense damage to natural systems worldwide, the earth’s beauty still seems boundless, as is the spectacular complexity of the creatures that inhabit it. But beyond its beauty lies something arguably more valuable — les ...
• Fernglade Farm – Mid Summer (January) 2013 Update
  What a difference six weeks has made to the food forest here! The change in climate between cool and wet to hot and dry happened in less than a week during early October and since that time there has been no significant rainfall. The rain probably won’t fall here now until about April ...
• MittiCool – Clay Refrigerator
  Most of you will be familiar with the pot-in-pot refrigerator by now. Well, today we’ll revisit this concept by taking a look at the ‘MittiCool’ refrigerator, a possible ‘upgrade’ that also uses evaporative cooling through the use of clay, but which looks a little ...
• Field Notes From Amazonia
  by Noah Sabich, Eco-Ola The placement of your feet on the wooden boards is essential; frequent use and infrequent maintenance have rendered the steep stairwell a treacherous walkway down to the docks. This is the port of Iquitos, Peru. It is a central location that gives access to the tributari ...
• Greening the Desert Internship 2012 – Greener ...
  Our one month long internship at the Greening the Desert Project (the ‘Sequel site’) just ended. Ten students arriving from seven different countries were part of the first internship to take place at the project site in the Dead Sea Valley in Jordan. This will be a journey throug ...

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 ...
  Keep this attitude in mind with J-Tribe human part stealers (warning extremely violent): iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_CwCRp_sA iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGtnNPZxn-kStatistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:11 am
• Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
  J-Ripoffs unlimited.... --CSR ---------------------------------------- The Neoliberal Financial Skim January 14, 2013 The perfection of the Neoliberal order is a parasitic financial sector protected by the Central Bank and State. If the Status Quo is ultimately a distribution system ...
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  Obama: `Israel Doesn't Know What Its Best Interests Are' By Jeffrey Goldberg Jan 14, 2013 5:30 PM CT Shortly after the United Nations General Assembly voted in late November to upgrade the status of the Palestinians, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced tha ...
• Survival & Defence • Re: Individual and Sm ...
  MK, what would you recommend to one of your northern neighbours? If you mean in terms of weapons, get a good quality 30-06 or .308 bolt action hunting rifle and 200 rounds. Synthetic stock is desirable. Make sure it has good adjustable iron sights (a square front sight post and rear peep si ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I want to wish a welcome to all of the people from Dr. Tracy's Memory Hole who have found TIU. http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/01/12/do ... rs-killed/ Please feel free to register and post, and enjoy the other information that you find here. LindseyStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Mon Jan 1 ...

TVNZ

• Explosions kill 52 at Syrian university
  Two explosions tore through one of Syria's biggest universities on the first day of student exams.
• Obama ready to gamble in gun control debate
  US President Barack Obama appears ready to gamble in the debate over gun control.
• Armstrong comments on doping were not as expec ...
  Oprah Winfrey says Lance Armstrong "did not come clean in the way I expected".
• Train carrying army recruits derails in Egypt, ...
  A military train carrying young recruits has derailed in a Cairo suburb, killing 19 people and injuring 107.
• Obama to unveil gun-control proposals this week
  US President Barack Obama says he will announce a plan this week to pursue gun legislation.

environment 360

• Tidal Energy Can Meet 20 Percent Of UK Electri ...
  UK officials are underestimating the vast energy potential of marine tides, a renewable and reliable energy source that could meet 20 percent of the nation’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries electricity needs, according to a new report. Writing in the journal Philosophical Transactions of t ...
• Should Polluting Nations Be Liable for Climate ...
  An international agreement to study how to redress developing nations for damages from climate change illustrates how ineffective climate diplomacy has been over the last two decades. But this move may pave the way for future court suits against polluting countries and companies. BY FRED P ...
• 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

oldephartte/Diigo

• Climate Dialogue
  Tags: blog environment climate dialogue
• Reef Relief Founders
  Tags: blog environment reef
• Stuart H. Smith attorney: fighting oil, chemic ...
  Tags: oil chemical water radiation pollution
• This Crowded Skin
  Tags: blog politics environment curiosity
• Welcome to the International Climate Science C ...
  Tags: science climate analysis

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

• Alabama White Supremacist Charged For Plot To ...
  White Supremacist terrorist Derek Shrout arrested for plot to kill Black Students.
• Turkey: Investigation Into Allegations of US S ...
  Local media in Adana, Turkey have reported that US soldiers were behind damage to a mosque inside NATO Incirlik Airbase.
• Another French mosque suffers far-right graffi ...
  Mosque in Normandy attacked with anti-Islam/Muslim slogans.
• Uri Avnery: Welcome, Chuck
  Attack of the neocon warmongers demystified.
• Allen West Helping Raise Funds For Islam, What ...
  Do you want to buy one of the shortest Congressional Letters ever written in US History!?

Energy News

• Photo: Gases seen bubbling up to surface of g ...
• First layer for cover at Fukushima Unit 4 (PHOTO)
• AP: 40 children hospitalized after gas leak at ...
• Gundersen: U.S. gov’t to allow highly radioact ...
• Study: 88% of cesium in radioactive ash might ...

Japan Times

• Chinese media test their limits
  Recent protest, including strikes by some reporters, against Chinese authorities' heavy censorship of new year articles by the Southern Weekly, a Guangdong newspaper known for its hard-hitting investigations, points to Chinese people's strong desire for freedom of speech and expression. The pr ...
• Somali pair admit trying to hijack ship
  In the first case prosecuted under Japan's 2009 antipiracy law, two Somali men pleaded guilty Tuesday in Tokyo District Court to charges of boarding and attempting to hijack a Bahamas-registered tanker operated by a Japanese shipping company. The ship, sailing in the Indian Ocean off Oman, cam ...
• BOJ head says economy will stay weak
  Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa said Tuesday that the economy remains weak as the central bank prepares to decide whether to add to stimulus for the fourth time in five months. "Exports and production are decreasing as the global slowdown continues," Shirakawa told a meeting of BOJ branch ...
• White paper chronicles rise of ramen worldwide
  Ramen's rise to global prominence has taken many forms: Japanese noodle shops debuting to great acclaim overseas, from Sydney to Honolulu to London; the proliferation of English-language ramen blogs; international chefs incorporating elements of the dish into their cuisine. Now, the worldwide ...
• Frenchwoman fired for leaving Japan during nuc ...
  A Frenchwoman dismissed by NHK filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the public broadcaster, claiming her radio announcer contract was unjustly terminated after she temporarily fled Japan at the start of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in March 2011. Emmanuelle Bodin, who had w ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Detroit auto show: Return of the trucks
  After three years of smaller cars, Americans just like to drive trucks
• Marlene Giersdorf: The new face of EI reform
  A single mother in Montague, Prince Edward Island has apparently been denied EI benefits...
• Jodie Foster, Honey Boo Boo and Rebecca Black
  Alana Thompson has earned her privacy, too bad the adults in her life don't realize it
• Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing ...
  The five nominees for the Writers' Trust best political book of 2012
• Introducing the Canadian Screen Awards, and th ...
  The Genies and Geminis merge to celebrate Canadian talent

Making It Count - CCPA

• The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples — T ...
    As an ordinary Canadian I feel deeply that this wonderful country is at a crucial, and very fragile, juncture in its history. One of the major reasons for this fragility is the deep sense of alienation and frustration felt by, I believe, the vast majority of Canadian Indians, Inuit and Mé ...
• What’s next for BC’s carbon tax?
  An oped of mine was published by the Vancouver Sun today: What’s next for BC’s carbon tax? Marc Lee Climate change forced its way onto the political agenda in 2012, as Hurricane Sandy ripped through the northeast United Stages just days before the election. And while action remains frustratingly ...
• Dangerous Cavities: Kids need preventative ora ...
  Oral health coverage for kids, particularly kids from lower-income families, is something that the CCPA and others have been advocating for.  It is an area just outside of the present universal provincial health care coverage. However, when things go wrong it rapidly becomes something that healt ...
• 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 ...

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

• Who wants them
  … One could ask where else could they get a job … who would want them …? Janet Napolitano and Tom Vilsack say they’re staying in Obama’s Cabinet By Scott Wilson, Published: January 14 Two more members of President Obama’s Cabinet have announced their intention to remain in t ...
• Who wants them
  … One could ask where else could they get a job … who would want them …? Janet Napolitano and Tom Vilsack say they’re staying in Obama’s Cabinet By Scott Wilson, Published: January 14 Two more members of President Obama’s Cabinet have announced their intention to remain in t ...
• Lance admits
  … Lance admits … does anyone really give a damn …?   Lance Armstrong Admitted Doping During Interview, Confirms Oprah   By JIM VERTUNO and JIM LITKE 01/15/13 10:36 AM ET EST …http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/oprah-lance-armstrong-interview-doping_n_2478581.html?utm_hp_ref=daily ...
• Az. state legislature
  ARIZONA STATE LEGISLATURE  INFORMATION WHICH YOU MAY FIND USEFUL All agendas and calendars, and basically everything else at the Capitol, are subject to change at any time and without prior notice.  Call ahead to confirm the schedule before travelling to the Capitol for a specific meet ...
• Connecting dots
  … Connecting the dots … do you concur … America’s $2.3 Trillion Dollar Foreign Aid is Mostly a Defense Contractor Subsidy Source: http://judymorrisreport.blogspot.com Here’s a ‘Connecting the Dots Moment’ for Americans to ponder:  It’s a well documented fact that Congress wiped out the ...

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 )

• In the kingdom of the black panther
  The black panther has a mythical aura: Rudyard Kipling chose the animal for one of his heroes in the Jungle Book, in the 1970s it became the symbol of an African-American socialist party, while comic guru Stan Lee selected the stunning feline for his first black superhero. But the real black pan ...
• 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 ...

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

• The low risk from raw milk
  From the Canadian raw milk consumer advocacy group: “The unfortunate truth is that, no matter what we eat, all food has some inherent risk.  The question is of course, comparative risk.  At a conservative estimate, there are at least 10 … Continue reading →
• Life, liberty and the pursuit of raw milk
  From Mike Hixenbaugh, at HamptonRoads.com: “It’s a scorching summer morning, and David Crane is standing with arms stretched wide in the middle of a pasture. He steps cautiously toward a stubborn cow, cajoling her to move out of the heat … Continue reading →
• 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 ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Iran Removes Euro and Dollar From Trade Exchan ...
  Inquiring minds note that Iran removes euro and dollar from its trade exchanges. Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Shamseddin Hosseini said Monday that Iran would no longer use euro and dollar in its trade exchanges according to a decision made by the government's economic working-g ...
• Obama "No Ransom For Crashing Economy"; Republ ...
  I am pleased to report the debt-limit charade is progressing in order, right on cue, perhaps slightly ahead of schedule. In Trillion Dollar Coin Idea Dies Sudden Death; Treasury, Fed Oppose Using Platinum Coin; Republican Strategy I proposed this seven-stage sequence of events. Politic ...
• Consumers Cut Back on Toilet Paper, Pampers, H ...
  For some reason, many people are surprised to see a drop in their first paycheck of the year.  Yet, everyone should have known the payroll tax deduction was supposed end January 1, 2013. Perhaps people put faith in the notion that when it comes to politics, "temporary" typically means ...
• Interactive Map: Job Gains and Losses in the R ...
  Inquiring minds are investigating job creation and losses during the economic recovery. Data for following Tableau Software interactive map is courtesy of Economic Modeling Specialists. The interactive map below may take a while to load. Please give it time on a slow connection. Map ...
• Global PC Shipments Decline 6.4%; Best Buy Sal ...
  Holiday sales of electronics and toys plunged this past Christmas season. Also of note, JPMorgan lowered its annualized 4th quarter GDP estimates down to .8% from 1.5%. Nonetheless, analysts see a silver lining to the data. They always do. Toys R Us Sales Decline 4.5% MSN Money report ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Aaron Swartz’s Suspicious Death
  “Does Aaron’s manifesto sound like someone planning suicide?” Media scoundrels stopped short of truth and full disclosure. The Wall Street Journal headlined “An Internet Activist Commits Suicide.” New York’s medical examiner announced death by “hang(ing) himself in ...
• 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 ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- Episode 9: The R ...
  Ryan Dawson Presents Mahdi Nazemroaya Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is an analysts and award-winning author of the book The Globalization of NATO. He was on the ground in Libya reporting live for multiple media outlets as NATO conducted its merciless bombing of that country’s civilians and infrastruct ...
• Jamiol Presents

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

• Singapore Jack-Up Rig is Back on 3 Legs After ...
  Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard announced today they have successfully righted the jack-up drilling rig which tipped over on December 3rd of last year. The operation to right the rig was [...]
• Maersk Line: Asia-Europe Container Shipping Un ...
  Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest container line, said the industry needs to raise prices by as much as $500 a box on Asia [...]
• China Shipbuilders Chart New Course
  The ultimate goal of Chinese shipbuilders is to expand into specialized ships of higher value such as drill ships and semisubmersibles where South Korean shipbuilders have a clear edge. Unlike [...]
• Military Sealift Command Extends Charter for A ...
  101-meter catamaran will continue to support the operations of the United States Marine Corps’ Third Marine Expeditionary Force The United States Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) has extended the charter [...]
• Abu Dhabi’s TAQA Shuts Down North Sea Producti ...
  DUBAI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (TAQA) confirmed the shutdown of one of its platforms in the UK North Sea, after discovering oil within a platform leg, [...]

Press TV

• Kashmiris slam Shia killings in Pakistan
  Thousands of people in the Indian-administered Kashmir have demonstrated to voice their anger over the killings of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, Press TV reports.
• Saudi clerics against women in council
  Dozens of Saudi clerics have staged a protest against King Abdullah's decision to appoint women to the Shura Council, a body that advises the government on new laws.
• Chavez recovery “favorable”: VP
  Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro has said President Hugo Chavez has made progress in recovering from the cancer operation.
• France seeks to extend Mali stay
  The French president says his country’s military forces will not leave Mali before defeating the rebel forces.
• UK’s Clegg warns of uncertainty over EU
  British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has warned his boss David Cameron against a prolonged debate on the UK’s relationship with the European Union (EU).

SciDev.net

• Iranian fungi show promise in cleaning up oil ...
  Fungi collected from oil-contaminated sites may help mop up pollution from oil spills, research in Iran shows.
• Trials planned for pain-free, low-cost vaccine ...
  Following a successful test in Papua New Guinea, the needle-less Nanopatch vaccine delivery device may soon be ready for clinical trials.
• Ecuador issues compulsory license for drug aga ...
  Ecuador has authorised the development of a generic drug against HIV/AIDS, which will cost 75 per cent less than the patented version.
• Should deep-sea mining go ahead in Papua New G ...
  Financial disagreement has halted a controversial deep-sea mining project but deeper issues lie with the environment, Prime Sarmiento reports.
• Top tech breakthroughs of 2012
  Potato batteries, wind-powered mine detectors, smart waterpumps… SciDev.Net revisits some of the best inventions of 2012.

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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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Netanyahu Suffers From Being Too Popular
  “We feel like we finally live a normal life in a normal country,” marvelled a popular radio host. Normalcy – this rare appreciation by Israelis of the privilege to indulge in small talk about the stormy weather that’s wreaked the whole region – is so abnormal here. They’re reeling from the worst ...
• Morphine Kills Pain but its Price Kills Patients
  It took Gily Ncube’s daughters two weeks to sell enough chickens to raise the 18 dollars needed to buy the morphine tablets their mother takes every four hours. In a country where unemployment is estimated at 70 percent, 18 dollars for a bottle of 60 tablets of 10 milligrammes (mg) each is a ste ...
• People Pay for Research Against Migrants
  This is the second of a two-part report on extraordinary measures the EU is taking to keep unwanted migrants out.
• Mexico’s Gun Problems Go Beyond Drug Wars
  A lot of attention goes to the U.S.-made weapons in the hands of criminal groups in this Latin American country. But there is little talk of another problem: the large number of light weapons in the hands of civilians. The Mexican Constitution establishes the people’s right to “own guns in ...
• Treaty “Insufficient” to Reduce Global Mercury ...
  Even as government negotiators from around the world prepare to gather next week for a final round of talks on a new international treaty limiting the use of mercury, scientists and activists are warning that the draft treaty is both too weak and too limited in scope to have a major impact. “Bas ...

My AntiWar

• Uganda Army Apologizes Over Killer Soldier&#82 ...
• Somalia Govt ‘Uninformed’ of Frenc ...
• Police Car Attacked in Libya’s Benghazi, ...
• Azeris Say Armenians Fleeing Syria Resettled i ...
• NATO Official Presents Post-Afghanistan Priorities

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• The Age of the Siege: Nazi Military Tactics Re ...
  Summary: Sieges now extend to entire countries, they have become the torture before the destruction. And they are not counted in long days, but in long years. Iran thirty three years, Iraq thirteen-plus years. Ironically the disparity in the deaths in Iraq resultant from that siege, mirror ne ...
• The Guardian admits Iran sanctions are criminal
  Summary: The Guardian features an article today titled "Iran unable to get life-saving drugs due to international sanctions" by Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan, which exposes the criminal nature of Western sanctions on Iran. source: CASMIIread more
• Hollywood Demonizes Iran Again
  Summary: Comparing Not Without My Daughter with Argo through critical lenses simply alerts us to a frozen time, as if in the twenty year separating the two movies, commonly focusing on Americans' escape from Iran, Hollywood has learned nothing new, still immersed in its ideological wheel of s ...
• 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Massive 'Supply' Clouds of Star-Building Gases ...
                 Galaxies have a voracious appetite for fuel — in this case, fresh gas — but astronomers have had difficulty finding the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies. Now, scientists have provided direct empirical evidence for these gas flows using new observations fro ...
• Cosmic Reservoir Surrounding a Monster Black H ...
                 In 2011, two teams of astronomers discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 ...
• "Black Holes Create their Host Galaxies" --An ...
                   The answer may have been found to the question of whether a galaxy or its black hole comes first -one of the most debated subjects in astrophysics today. A recent study suggests that supermassive black holes can trigger the formation of stars, thus 'building' t ...
• A Moment of Zen --Stars Orbiting Milky Way's S ...
                  
• 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 ...

Natural News

• O war! Thou son of hell - As America stands on ...
  Those who live in artificial cities, plugged into the fabricated media and hypnotized by television are unable to see it, but America stands today on the verge of war. Not war for an enemy in some far-off land, but war with an enemy that has cleverly occupied our soil...
• What government fears most: blacks and whites ...
  In 1969, William Kunstler, the famous radical-left lawyer, gave a speech in Oakland, California, to the black community. In his concluding remarks, he reminded the audience that the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was the full name of the Panthers. Kunstler,...
• Natural methods help treat cancer-related fatigue
  People who have been through cancer and its treatment experience difficulty with their recovery as they have to deal with severe, unbearable fatigue. Cancer fatigue is much different from the ordinary exhaustion which people feel after a busy day. With cancer fatigue...
• Six amazing foods for cleansing your colon nat ...
  Gastrointestinal problems are prolific in today's society, and this is largely due to the fact that the modern food supply is greatly lacking in the nutrients required for healthy digestion (not to mention a widespread overload of toxins from vaccines, pharmaceuticals...
• Phytochemicals against prostate cancer
  Recent research on prostate cancer continues to highlight the importance of fruit and vegetable consumption in men's health. Flavonoids, a group of phytochemicals that abound in plant-based foods, could easily be considered one of nature's most powerful cures. These...

Threat Level

• Megaupload’s Entrapment Claim Is ‘Baseless,’ F ...
  Megaupload’s contention that the authorities entrapped the now-shuttered file-sharing service is “baseless,” the government said in a new court filing.
• Prosecutor Dismisses Charges Against Aaron Swartz
  Monday morning the government filed one last motion in United States of America v. Aaron Swartz. “Pursuant to FRCP [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] 48(a), the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen M. Ortiz, hereby dismisses the ...
• The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors
  The FBI’s been warning that its surveillance capabilities are “going dark,” because internet communications technologies are getting too difficult to intercept with current law enforcement tools. So the FBI wants a more wiretap-friendly internet, and legislation to mandate it will ...
• Cybersleuths Uncover 5-Year Spy Operation Targ ...
  An advanced and well-orchestrated computer spy operation that targeted diplomats and governments for at least five years has been uncovered by security researchers in Russia. Focused on targets in Eastern Europe, the campaign appears to be aimed at gathering classified ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• GOP Pretends Past Debt Ceiling No Votes Equal ...
  One day after New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman described Republican brinksmanship on the debt ceiling as "hostage-taking," President Obama used his Monday press conference declared, "They will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American e ...
• 100,000 Cops
  In the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school bloodbath last month, National Rifle Association vice president Wayne LaPierre summed up his group's Hobbesian vision for America this way, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." He then proceeded to propose a m ...
• Hagel Flashback: Corker, GOP Senators Question ...
  This weekend, Republicans led by Senator John McCain stepped up their withering criticism of President Obama's nominee for Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel. In a new line of attack, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker questioned Hagel's "overall temperament." As it turns out, Corker's choice of words w ...
• 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." ...

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

• America’s War for Reality
• Parry Book Deals Coming to an End
• Thank You to Our Readers
• Post-Iraq-War US Intel Chief Praised
• Hugo Chavez’s Lasting Legacy

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

• Large Solar Eruption, CME Will Cause Strong No ...
  A very large solar eruption just occurred on January 13, 2013, in the early morning hours. The Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, is very likely to trigger a strong Northern Lights display this week, researchers from NASA say. But not powerful enough to cause problems for satellites o ...
• Eastern European Tree Rings Reveal Climate Var ...
  Adding to the growing evidence that ‘things are not as they once were’, a new dendrochronological study has found that socio-cultural disruptions in Eastern Europe during the past millennium coincided with periods of decreased temperature, and recent temperature in the region is warm ...
• Monthly Heat Records Have Increased By A Facto ...
  That temperature records are being broken at an all-time high is probably not ground breaking news to anyone who has been paying a modicum of attention to the news lately. However the rate at which we have been breaking records is frighteningly distressing. According to new research, monthly tem ...
• Will Arctic And sub-Arctic Mammals Survive Cli ...
  Climate changes poses a problem for many species of animal on our planet. As environments shift, animals will need to follow their preferred climate. New research points out that the current rate of climate change up until 2080 will actually benefit most mammals that currently live in northern E ...
• Comet ISON And Comet PANSTARRS Expected To Be ...
  Comet ISON, predicted to be brighter than a full-moon, and Comet PANSTARRS should combine to make 2013 the best year for observing comets in a very long time, maybe even a century or more. In addition to the comets, 2013 is also expected to be a fantastic year for watching meteor showers. Comet ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• U Of M Hosts Red River Basin Water Quality Forum
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota is hosting a
• Federal fisheries officials stalling on talks ...
  OTTAWA - The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has no formal plans to consult with stakeholders on
• Voices from the gaspatch: Thomas Thompson – Part 2
  Guest post by Thomas Thompson, Rifle landowner. Thomas is holding a public meeting, “Life in the Gas
• Lake Level Report - Water Quality
  WATER QUALITY A section from the Lake Level Monitoring report contained in Staff Report from the Dec
• Clean Water in Rivers and Streams
  Keri Handaly talks about the US Clean Water Act and requirements of municipalities to reduce water p

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Benghazi Attack and The NATO Cover-up by Finia ...
  Image by Jacob Anikulapo via Flickr In case you missed this or would like to re-read it as Libya is
• The Liberal Class Is A Corpse by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 12, 2012 Image by spo0nman via Fli
• Gareth Porter: Will the US Negotiate State to ...
  Image by World Can’t Wait via Flickr Updated: added another video report and article Nov. 12,
• Michael Hudson: Lower wages and Grab-it-a-zation
  with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com November 9, 2012 Image
• Bahrain is being sucked into a downward spiral ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV Nov. 10, 2012

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC Bring it, Bitch. Impeach him because you idiotic goons love guns more than you hate closets full of bullet-riddled dead six year olds. Rep. Steve Stockman, an inbred Texas cretin and a living warning about what results when first cousins marry, is beside himself at the prospect of the ...
• Platinum Coin No Silver Bullet
  By @TedFrier On Sunday, Kevin Drum at Mother Jones echoed my concern that resolving the debt ceiling standoff with silly expedients such as the minting of trillion dollar platinum coins, sets a precedent for craziness that will badly hurt us in the end. A banana republic is a nominal democracy u ...
• Monday Morning Quad Shot
  By @BGinKC Happy Monday, y'all...Hope your week is off to a better start than my dog's week. He is having to deal with a cat in his space...my youngest has allergies and she's seven months pregnant, so they bought new furniture and are de-dandering the house and I took the cat until the baby pro ...
• Echoes of Civil War in DeMint's Attack on Poli ...
  By @TedFrier Every student of American history knows that one of the leading indicators of the Civil War was the collapse of national parties and the two-party system. The polarization of American politics over the issue of slavery, and the inability of the major parties to contain their most e ...
• 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 ...

Care 2

• TAKE ACTION NOW! Protect America's Wolves!
  President Obama and his Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, a Colorado rancher, have adopted unjust and heartless "tea party" policies towards America's wolves. And the U.S. Congress is equally guilty in this ecological and ethical injustice. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |  &n ...
• Mexsicko City Turns a Corner in Its Clean Air ...
  This megacity of more than 20 million rang in the New Year with a pleasant revelation: the region registered 248 days in 2012 in which the air quality considered good. Submitted by J.L. A. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Take Action! Help Schnute and Maxi go to a San ...
  For over 20 years, Schnute and Maxi have suffered in a bear pit. Write to the responsible district mayor Dr. Hanke and request the relocation of Schnute and Maxi. Letter is in German. Submitted by Nicole W. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Giant panda cub makes debut in San Diego - Har ...
  Americas newest surviving giant panda, Xiao Liwu, (pronounced zhai lee-woo, which means little gift), made his public debut Thursday at the San Diego Zoo.* Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT
  The New Years Day vote in Congress that brought a temporary truce to the fiscal wars showed the Republicans to be far more divided than the Democrats, and the division broke along regional lines Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

• Murder by Prosecutor: Time to Roll Back Excess ...
• The Return of Right-Wing Insurrectionism (This ...
• Aaron Swartz Was Gifted and Brave. Too Bad He ...
• Adjust Social Security For Inflation That Hurt ...
• Aaron Swartz, a Spark in Life and Death

Paul Krugman

• All Your Base Are Belong To Us, Continued (Sti ...
  Think about the coin and what happens next.
• All Our Base Are Belong To Us (Wonkish)
  Think currency, not reserves.
• On the Unbearable Self-Indulgence of Centrist ...
  Things Serious people believe for no reason.
• Notes on Japanese Numbers (Boring)
  Employment, interest rates, and that kind of stuff.
• By George
  My head heads for the teevee studio again.

No Quarter

• Obama weighs 19 executive actions on gun contr ...
  The Pentagon has maintained been granting around half of the standard separation pay amount for “troops who were honorably discharged for being open about their sexual orientation …” The photograph was produced by T. Ortega Gaines for the Associated Press. In an Aug. 22, 2011, ...
• Barack Obama Condemns Barack Obama As Unpatriotic
  Man, is this a case of Pot Calling Kettle Black? Barack Obama hangs himself with his own words. Here he is pontificating back in 2008: The debt was only 9 trillion dollars back then and Barry was having a conniption fit about the profligacy of George W. Bush. Then Obama got his hands on the [...]
• Obama’s Demands and Rejections (open thread)
  Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com As you may have seen today, President Obama finally held his FIRST press conference, five days before his inauguration on January 19th. You may have read my earlier post, “Obama’s Inauguration Will Be Smaller” (below the fold, read a ...
• “A Shocking Death, a Financial Lesson and Help ...
  Chanel Reynolds with her stepdaughter Lyric, 16, and son Gabriel, 9. Her husband, their father, died in 2009. The title of the New York News story is “A Shocking Death, a Financial Lesson and Help for Others.” The story tells about Chanel Reynolds’ husband who was struck by a v ...
• 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.” ...

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

• BEAM: Go tell it on the overly mined mountain ...
  BEAM: Go tell it on the overly mined mountain Newsandtribune Don't know much about mountaintop removal, also called MTR? Neither did I. According to panel member Anne Caudill — who for more than a decade has been an advocate for Appalachia — MTR started when companies tried to obtain ridgeli ...
• Around town - Marietta Times
  Around town Marietta Times The video concerns mountain top removal. The meeting is open to the public. For information: Caroline Putnam: 373-4510. Free martial arts training for students. The Right Path for Washington County is partnering with Bigley Studio in Marietta and ... and more &ra ...
• Rockefeller won't seek re-election - Akron Leg ...
  Akron Legal News Rockefeller won't seek re-election Akron Legal News Mining advocates accuse Rockefeller of abandoning them as Obama has ramped up scrutiny of Appalachian mountaintop-removal mining operations. "I know the coal companies are going after me. ... I can live with that, beca ...
• Tomblin Takes The Oath Again - Wheeling Intell ...
  Wheeling Intelligencer Tomblin Takes The Oath Again Wheeling Intelligencer The EPA has repeatedly sparred with the mining industry over Clean Water Act-related permits, particularly for mountaintop removal mining operations. The governor also addressed increased economic growth despite a lagging ...
• Tomblin takes oath of office again - Houston C ...
  Tomblin takes oath of office again Houston Chronicle The EPA has repeatedly sparred with the mining industry over Clean Water Act-related permits, particularly for mountaintop removal mining operations. Tomblin vowed to pursue improvements in education and spoke about the passage of laws aimed a ...

Memeorandum

• Scientists: Backing Keystone pipeline would 'u ...
  Ben Geman / The Hill: Scientists: Backing Keystone pipeline would ‘undermine’ Obama's climate legacy  —  A group of prominent climate scientists say President Obama's legacy is on the line as he mulls whether to approve the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.  &mdas ...
• Kentucky sheriff says he won't enforce new gun ...
  Jack Brammer / Lexington Herald-Leader: Kentucky sheriff says he won't enforce new gun laws he considers unconstitutional  —  FRANKFORT, KY. — An Eastern Kentucky sheriff said Saturday that he will not enforce any new gun control laws that he considers unconstitutional.&nb ...
• New York Has Gun Deal, With Focus on Mental Il ...
  New York Times: New York Has Gun Deal, With Focus on Mental Ills  —  ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders tentatively agreed on Monday on a broad package of changes to gun laws that would expand the state's ban on assault weapons and would include new meas ...
• 5 ways the debt crisis could play out (Politico)
  Politico: 5 ways the debt crisis could play out  —  If you thought the fiscal cliff was bad, just wait for the triple threat.  —  The White House and Congress are facing three critical deadlines — the country hits its debt limit as early as mid-February, $1 ...
• What Obama's Missing in Afghanistan (Michael H ...
  Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com: What Obama's Missing in Afghanistan  —  More than troops, the president needs a strategy in the region—and a diplomat.  —  President Obama greets U.S. troops at a mess hall at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, March 28, 20 ...

Energy & Environment News

• Dot Earth Blog: Draft Federal Report Sees Big ...
  A new draft federal report on climate change foresees enormous impacts across the United States should greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.
• Green Blog: An Alarm in the Offing on Climate ...
  A draft report from a federal committee warns that if humanity fails to get a handle on emissions, climate change is likely to accelerate and threaten human welfare in many ways.
• An Offshore Wind Power Line Moves Ahead
  The Atlantic Wind Connection plans to announce the first portion of a 189-mile wind power transmission line under the seabed.
• Dot Earth Blog: Charting a Post-Pollution Path ...
  Facing epic smog, China charts a shift from coal to gas for Beijing, and beyond.
• China Lets Media Report on Air Pollution Crisis
  The wide coverage of Beijing’s air, which has been rated “hazardous” or even worse since last week, was the most open display of coverage on the issue in recent memory.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Izu Islands, Japan region
  Tuesday, January 15, 2013 02:58:14 UTC Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:58:14 AM at epicenterDepth: 43.70 km (27.15 mi)
• M 5.4, Southeastern Alaska
  Monday, January 14, 2013 14:55:53 UTC Monday, January 14, 2013 05:55:53 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.5, Tarapaca, Chile
  Sunday, January 13, 2013 21:23:27 UTC Sunday, January 13, 2013 06:23:27 PM at epicenterDepth: 83.70 km (52.01 mi)
• M 5.3, near the south coast of New Guinea, Pap ...
  Sunday, January 13, 2013 17:53:47 UTC Monday, January 14, 2013 03:53:47 AM at epicenterDepth: 33.70 km (20.94 mi)
• M 5.4, Gulf of California
  Sunday, January 13, 2013 17:50:16 UTC Sunday, January 13, 2013 10:50:16 AM at epicenterDepth: 6.20 km (3.85 mi)

China Dialogue

• 中国最脏的&#2608 ...
  当大半个中国迎来有史以来最“脏”的日子，中国已不存在环境安全的孤岛。北京空&# ...
• 中国贷款或&#2355 ...
  国际河流组织政策主管白好德认为，水坝和灌溉项目将引发“伤亡惨重且旷日持久的& ...
• 冰川与大坝&#2004 ...
  一边是融化的冰川，一边是新建的大坝。川北黑水镇的人们正在努力适应着变化环境 ...
• 中国猪肉需&#2771 ...
  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 ...
• 蓝天之路的&#2603 ...
  去年，多达60个城市开始了PM2.5的监测和发布，信息公开之后，马军指出下一步则应该是& ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Why I'm So Angry About Jodie Foster's Coming-O ...
  So Jodie Foster finally admitted that she's gay (though she never actually said the word) at the Golden Globes, and of course her worst nightmare -- a bazillion pieces like this one, dissecting her private life and proselytizing about her bizarre speech -- is coming true. Well, too f***ing ba ...
• 5 Celebrities Who Shill For Pathetic Junk Food ...
  This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Super Bowl season is upon us, and with that time of year comes a slew of new celebrity endorsements on our TV sets and billboards. Last year around this time AlterNet published an article about celebrities with endors ...
• 10 Things You Need to Know About Slavery (That ...
   The following piece first appeared on Colorlines. Much hullabaloo has been made recently about slavery as entertainment in movies like “Django Unchained.” But lost in the discussion is slavery as history, and the simple fact that it was an economic system wh ...
• Aaron Swartz on the Fight for Internet Freedom
  Cyber activist and computer programmer Aaron Swartz took his life on Friday at the age of 26. We air an address of Swartz’s from last May where he speaks about the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, orSOPA — a campaign he helped lead. "[SOPA] will have yet another ...
• Did Porn Warp Me Forever?
  It was the era of Kazaa and we knew no better. Among my group of male friends at my austere private elementary school, watching, discussing and even sharing pornography became a sexual outlet. With the ease of downloading, we would burn CDs and swap them in school with “clever” ...

Threat Level

• Megaupload’s Entrapment Claim Is ‘Baseless,’ F ...
  Megaupload’s contention that the authorities entrapped the now-shuttered file-sharing service is “baseless,” the government said in a new court filing.
• Prosecutor Dismisses Charges Against Aaron Swartz
  Monday morning the government filed one last motion in United States of America v. Aaron Swartz. “Pursuant to FRCP [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] 48(a), the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen M. Ortiz, hereby dismisses the ...
• The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors
  The FBI’s been warning that its surveillance capabilities are “going dark,” because internet communications technologies are getting too difficult to intercept with current law enforcement tools. So the FBI wants a more wiretap-friendly internet, and legislation to mandate it will ...
• Cybersleuths Uncover 5-Year Spy Operation Targ ...
  An advanced and well-orchestrated computer spy operation that targeted diplomats and governments for at least five years has been uncovered by security researchers in Russia. Focused on targets in Eastern Europe, the campaign appears to be aimed at gathering classified ...
• 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 ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Another Raw Milk E. coli Outbreak Brewing in M ...
  The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has become aware of several cases of diarrheal illness from northwest Missouri, possibly caused by Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC), including one... Continue Reading
• California Canada Leafy Green E. coli O157:H7 ...
  Last Friday the Public Health Agency of Canada (CFIA) announced 26 E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario linked to shredded lettuce distributed by FreshPoint Inc.... Continue Reading
• 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
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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 ...

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

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Time - Top Stories

• The Blind Girl vs. Putin: A Plea for Russia's ...
  Apart from healthy orphans, Moscow's new law prohibits children who need medical help unavailable in Russia from being adopted by Americans
• Pediatricians Need to Be More Aware of Alterna ...
  Pediatricians Need to Be More Aware of Alternative Medicine Use Among Children
• Halperin: Obama Uses Bully Pulpit to His Advantage
  Halperin: Obama Uses Bully Pulpit to His Advantage
• Aaron Swartz's Suicide Prompts Review at MIT
  Aaron Swartz's Suicide Prompts Review at MIT
• AP Source: Armstrong Tells Oprah He Doped
  AP Source: Armstrong Tells Oprah He Doped

Invisible Opportunity

• Federal Court Admits Hepatitis B Vaccine Cause ...
  By Elizabeth Renter theintelhub.com January 14, 2013 This article originally appeared on Natural Society In our society today, newborns are injected with loads of chemicals nearly as soon as they enter the world. In the name of “prevention”, we give them vaccines that we aren’t even sure are saf ...
• Obama wants to test anthrax vaccine on children
  ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) Advancing Honest and Ethical Medical Research http://www.ahrp.org FYI / Action A public meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has been scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, January 14-15, to be held at the University o ...
• Nonsense: In the Face of the Fiscal Cliff, Oba ...
  Bert Atkinson Jr. December 28, 2012 3:39 pm What’s that? You haven’t received a raise at work during this economy even though you are …doing your job? Not the case for the guys in the bubble known as Washington. Via the Weekly Standard: President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the ...
• Shock: NYTimes Shuts Environmental Desk – Glob ...
  It’s Death of Little Nell time again in the field of climate “science.” The New York Times – aka Pravda – has announced the closure of its Environment Desk. Rumours that the entire environment team, headed by Andy Revkin, have volunteered to be recycled into compost and spread on the lawn of the ...
• Sandy Hook AR-15 Hoax? Still No School Surveil ...
  By Mike Adams Natural News January 14, 2013 Here at Natural News, we have a reputation for asking intelligent questions about things that don’t add up. There are a lot of mysteries out there, and they deserve to be explored and questioned: Why is there still mercury in vaccines? Why did the WTC ...

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

• Let’s look at the Second Amendment, cutt ...
  Summary:  It’s the great oddity of the US that we order our society based on exegesis of an 18th century document, written in grammar no longer used with words whose meaning has often radically changed.  Instead of justice or logic, our judges have become like the mandarins of Imperial Chi ...
• Guns do not make us safer. Why is this not ob ...
  Summary:  Public policy in America has become a debate about myths, as our broken OODA loops degrade our ability to see and reason — and we become more easily influenced by propaganda. That’s a natural response by our elites; a sensible person doesn’t attempt to reason with she ...
• 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 ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

• HD Space Camera Will Provide Live Astronaut’s ...
  A Canadian company plans to one-up Google Earth by streaming video footage straight from the International Space Station to the web with a top time delay of just a few hours.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Crashing ...
  The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a spectacular pair of galaxies engaged in a celestial dance of cat and mouse or, in this case, mouse and mouse. Located 300 million light-years ...
• Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Replacement to Fly in ...
  Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has begun the process of designing and building a replacement for its ageing Soyuz rocket and space capsule system, with the aim of putting it into operation by 2020.
• When Corn Costs Soar, Let Cows Eat Cake
  Better Than Human John McAfee’s Last Stand Why BioShock Infinite’s Creator Won’t Settle for Success Milk is nice, but it’s better with Oreos. Turns out cows agree. And lately farmers have been more than happy to indulge them. Corn crops ...
• The Worst Scientific Mistakes, Missteps and Mi ...

PakAlert

• Sandy Hook AR-15 Hoax? Still No School Surveil ...
  Here at Natural News, we have a reputation for asking intelligent questions about things that don't add up. There are a lot of mysteries out there, and they deserve to be explored and questioned: Why is there still mercury in vaccines? Why did the WTC 7 building implode and fall when no airplane ...
• Revolution or WWIII? The Petrodollar Scam
  When the present gun control dance concludes, America could soon be doing a waltz with a different partner, World War III, as the globalists completely condition us to be absolutely submissive to their desires. If we surrender our guns and capitulate to the globalists, tens of millions of Americ ...
• Rand Paul on Gun Executive Order Threat: Obama ...
  As Barack Obama signaled that he would use executive orders to help carry out his gun control agenda, Senator Rand Paul slammed the president for acting like a “king,” usurping the Constitution, and running roughshod over Congress
• Prominent rifle manufacturer killed in mysteri ...
  What you are about to read is astonishing. I'm not even sure what's the right conclusion to draw from it. But here's what we know so far: John Noveske is one of the most celebrated battle rifle manufacturers in America. His rifles, found at www.NoveskeRifleworks.com are widely recognized as s ...
• Obama Announces Possible Use of Executive Acti ...
  The proverbial hammer has now been dropped on the American people as a no holds barred event could ensue with millions of armed citizens and constitutionalists alike. President Obama has announced that he essentially intends to use executive order to enact gun control measures in America overrid ...

Andy Worthington

• Video: Andy Worthington Tells President Obama ...
  “Andy Worthington rips President Obama for failing to close Guantánamo” is the heading that the Baltimore-based filmmaker Bill Hughes gave to his video of my speech outside the White House in Washington D.C. on Friday January 11, on the 11th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo. ...
• 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 ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Parkinson’s treatment might trigger creativity
  According to a press release on Eurekalert: “Parkinson’s experts across the world have been reporting a remarkable phenomenon — many patients treated with drugs to increase the activity of dopamine in the brain as a therapy for motor symptoms such as tremors and muscle rigidity are d ...
• Zen habits
  This makes sense. A Zen approach to coping with forum trolls, angry commenters and their ilk: “I do not engage in confrontations with anyone, in-person or online. This is a waste of time and energy. If I have caused harm, I apologize and fix the situation. However, if someone simply doesn’ ...
• Hubble Space Telescope on the iPad
  “Soar through the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope, exploring discoveries from dark energy to colliding galaxies. This highly interactive eBook features video, image galleries and more to reveal the record of scientific breakthroughs behind Hubble’s stunning images of the cosmos.   ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

• Chicago Takes the Lead in Assault Weapon Dives ...
  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today that Chicago would take the first step in firearm divestment by examining all city pension funds for investments in assault weapons manufacturers and sellers. Speaking at a gun violence event at the Center for American Progress, Emanuel said he would &l ...
• Western Sanctions Spark Health Crisis for Mill ...
  Western sanctions against Iran mean a looming health crisis for ordinary citizens of the country, recent reporting shows. Though life-saving medicines are not directly blacklisted in sanctions targeted at the country's purported nuclear weapons program, Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan ...
• Anonymous Hacks MIT Calling for Systemic Reforms
  In response to what has been described as prosecutorial bullying, inflated sentences, "grotesque miscarriage of justice" and subsequent tragedy of Aaron Swartz's suicide, the hacker collective Anonymous broke into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website over the weekend a ...
• Flu Outbreak + No Paid Sick Days, No Healthcar ...
  The flu outbreak sweeping the nation is putting the spotlight on how the lack of paid sick days and lack of national healthcare put public health further at risk. If you have the flu, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Flu.gov site: "you should stay home a ...
• Report: Waiting to Act on Climate Change Would ...
  With increasing temperatures and extreme weather proving that climate change is well underway, a leading scientist reports that failing to take action before 2020 will increase the costs of addressing it by $5 trillion. read more

Lifehacker

• XYplorer, the Awesome Alternative File Browser ...
  Windows: Windows Explorer is far from the most advanced file browser out there, and Windows has a ton of other options. One of the best, XYplorer, is available for free today only, down from its usual price of $30. More »
• How Can I Microwave Food Without Ruining It?
  Dear Lifehacker, More »
• What Book Has Helped Shape Who You Are Today?
  One of the best things about books is their ability to really help define you as a person. If you had to choose just one book that shaped who you are today (whether you read it as a kid or just last week), what would it be? More »
• Quickly Multiply Big Numbers the Japanese Way
  Japanese kids learn to multiply with a completely different method than the one kids in the US do. The Japanese math voodoo/magic is more of a visual technique where you draw lines and count the intersections. More »
• The Best of Quora Ebook Offers Over 100 Expert ...
  Q&A site Quora is rewarding its top writers with a welcome package that includes a t-shirt and a Best of Quora 2010-2012 book. You don't have to be a Quora top writer, though, to read that book yourself, since this 400-page tome is now available as a free PDF download for everyone. More&# ...

Water Privatization

• India Trip to Examine Issues in Child Survival ...
  Back in October, I opened my email to find an interesting invitation for me to apply for a trip to India as part of a special International Reporting Project bloggers' trip focusing on child survival and related issues of health and development. The trip described in full [More]
• Analysis: There's much to be learned about ...
  Today's first public conversation about Gov. Tom Corbett's plan to turn over the $3.5-billion Pennsylvania Lottery’s operation to Camelot Global Services PA, LLC, will likely last much longer than the four hours listed on the Senate Finance Committee agenda.
• 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 ...
• A Dark Truth: Like a TV movie – before TV was ...
  Clankingly dull Canadian drama set in Ecuador and Toronto tells straightforward tale of water privatization
• A Dark Truth: Canadian caper speechifies too much
  Clankingly dull drama set in Ecuador and Toronto plays like a TV movie – from the days when TV wasn’t worth watching

Guardian

• Massereene barracks murder conviction quashed
  Belfast court rules verdict unsafe on Brian Shivers, only man convicted over Real IRA murders of two British soldiers in AntrimThe only man convicted of killing two soldiers at a military base in Northern Ireland just hours before their redeployment to Afghanistan has had his conviction quashed. ...
• Statistics cast doubt on coalition's '500,000 ...
  Labour accuses government of 'fiddling figures' after ONS data shows 105,000 of total on mostly unpaid back-to-work schemesGovernment claims to have created an additional 500,000 jobs in the past year have been called into question after it was revealed that one in five of the people involved ar ...
• Goldman Sachs backs down from delayed bonus ta ...
  Bank decides not to proceed with scheme which would have allowed top staff to avoid 50% rate, as Mervyn King says bankers seeking to avoid tax is 'depressing'Goldman Sachs has backed down from proposals to defer bonuses to allow its top bankers to avoid the highest rate of tax in the face of cri ...
• Lance Armstrong 'comes clean' over doping in O ...
  • Winfrey: 'He did not come clean in the manner I had expected' • Interview to be broadcast over two nights instead of oneOprah Winfrey has confirmed that after years of furious denials and threats Lance Armstrong finally "came clean" over his doping past during their two-and-a-half hour intervi ...
• Guardian News & Media to launch digital Austra ...
  Katharine Viner, the Guardian's deputy editor, to lead digital venture which is backed by internet entrepreneur Graeme WoodThe Guardian is to launch a digital edition in Australia, backed by internet entrepreneur and philanthropist Graeme Wood.Katharine Viner, the Guardian's deputy editor, will ...

McClatchey

• Balancing Act: What you don't know about workp ...
  The holidays are over, your boss is still a jerk, and now you're deciding whether to set him straight about how to treat you in 2013.Click to Continue »
• College graduates' salaries up in 2012
  The new year is bringing good news for newly minted college graduates.Click to Continue »
• The selling of an inauguration: Prices run fro ...
  The taxpayers will pick up the tab ? as they do every four years -- for the official swearing-in ceremony, a luncheon with Congress and extra security. The rest comes…Click to Continue »
• Online ammunition sales drawing scrutiny
  Legislation to regulate online purchases of ammunition and high-capacity magazines is bringing new attention to a growing cyberspace ammo market thats operated with little government oversight.Click to Continue »
• Obama to Congress: Raise debt ceiling without ...
  President Barack Obama urged Congress on Monday to lift the nations debt ceiling without spending cuts, warning of dire consequences to the economy if lawmakers again push deliberations to the…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• Karzai assures 'more secure' Afghanistan after ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai has stressed Afghanistan will be "more secure and better place" after the US forces withdraw from the war-torn country that he said needed American aid, ...
• Qatar aims for 2014 Afghan peace
  Doha - Qatar aims to see a peace process in Afghanistan by the time NATO combat operations end in 2014, Qatar's prime minister said on Tuesday as the Afghan Taliban movement prepared to open an ...
• Afghan officials want withdrawal of U.S. polic ...
  Afghan Local Police listen to a speech during a ceremony presenting new uniforms at Gizab village of Uruzgan province south west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 24, 2011. (AP/Kamran Jebreili) ...
• Afghan massacre suspect to be arraigned Thursday
  Defense attorneys for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales mined contradictory statements from Afghan villagers over the past three nights to suggest that more than one American soldier could have been involved ...
• US plays down Afghan threat to Central Asia
  ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan -- A senior U.S. diplomat has played down concerns among Central Asian governments that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could foment regional instability.Assistant ...

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 ...

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