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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

15 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Aaron Swartz.
Aaron Swartz. (Photo credit: gilly youner)
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English: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) - Boulder, Colorado. Architect I. M. Pei with landscaping by Dan Kiley. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig at the Creati...
Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig at the Creative Commons launch party in December 2002. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • 2012's 10 Big Moments for Chief Compliance Off ...
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. Originally Published in Corporate Counsel (Janua ...
  • National Whistleblowers Center's Work Highligh ...
    The Washington Post has published year-end articles that highlight three ongoing projects of the National Whistleblower Center. In an article published on December 26, "Top 10 stories in the federal workforce in 2012", The Washington Post cited the scandal involving FDA electronic spy ...
  • Congress Slams National Security Whistleblower ...
    Take Action! As part of a House/Senate Conference approved Tuesday, Congress passed an “Enhancement Act” for Department of Defense contractors.  These contractors already had a right to go to federal court and obtain a jury trial.  However, this new “Enhancement Ac ...
  • Special Holiday Offer
    This year, as you are deciding what to give your loved ones, friends, and colleagues for the holidays, why not choose to give something interesting and useful? One of the most powerful gifts you can give is knowledge. The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What's Right an ...
  • Congress Passes Magnitsky Act
              Sergei Magnitsky On December 6, 2012 Congress passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012. (Magnitsky Act). The law was inspi ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • How The FBI's Desire To Wiretap Every New Tech ...
    Here they go again. Every year or so we end up writing about the FBI's desire for better wiretapping capabilities for new technologies, such as Skype. Basically, the FBI argues that because "bad guys" might use those tools to communicate in secret, they need backdoors to make sure that they ca ...
  • Aaron Swartz Could Have Killed Someone, Robbed ...
    Among the many injustices in the Justice Department's pursuit of Aaron Swartz was the disproportionate punishment he was facing. Remember that he used an open network connection at MIT, which explicitly allowed free guest access, to download academic research papers that were available for free ...
  • Hollywood Accounting Strikes Again: Investors ...
    Ah, Hollywood copyright math. In the past, we've discussed a few instances of how massively profitable films use funny accounting tricks in order to avoid ever having to show an official profit, even as the studios themselves make out nicely. The key trick: the studios set up special subsidiar ...
  • CBS's Censorship Of CNET May Undermine A Diffe ...
    Last week, after the news came out that CBS had censored its subsidiary CNET, barring reporters there from reviewing Dish products (or any product of any company in litigation with CBS) or from awarding them the "best of CES" award that CNET reporters had already voted on, we wrote a post pointi ...
  • DOJ Responds To Megaupload's Accusations Of Mi ...
    We've discussed a few times now how Megaupload is arguing that key elements in the warrant used to criminally charge the company and its principles were misleading to the court. In particular, Megaupload has pointed out that part of the "evidence" for criminal conspiracy was that Megaupload kne ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Pregnancy, Coercion, and Responsibility
    I was reading about this abortion restricting bill in Michigan. While I realize that it is another attempt to regulate abortion out of existence under the guise of safety and regulations, something in that article struck me. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has approved a controversial package of a ...
  • Book Review – 33 Revolutions Per Minute
    33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day by Dorian Lynskey My rating: 4 of 5 stars The subtitle of this book is “A History of Protest Songs, From Billie Holiday to Green Day.” But it should really say that it is a history of (mostly) the U.S. [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Must listen talk by Ashanti Alston over on the AK Press site called Anarchism, Zapatismo & the Black Panthers. More cops and cab driver impersonators out raping women. Charming. Holy crap. 75% of West Virginia teens don’t use any birth control?! Can somebody rent a crop duster and drop ...
  • Victor Jara, Solitude, Justice, and the USA
    It looks like Victor Jara’s murderers have some small chance of being brought to justice. Jara, if you are unfamiliar, was a musician and activist in Chile during the dirty war. He was tortured and killed by Pinochet’s thugs. Now Chile is prosecuting his murderers and it turns out on ...
  • Nothing Should Last Forever
    This might be the creepiest thing I have ever read. Many engineers, including me, think that some time around 2050, we will be able to make very high quality links between the brains and machines. To such an extent that it will thereafter be possible (albeit expensive for some years) to arrange ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Humanity’s march towards self-destruction
    Chris Hedges writes: 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 intellectual knowle ...
  • The dishonorable smear of Chuck Hagel — a warr ...
    At Forbes, Doug Bandow writes about the ongoing no-holds-barred campaign to prevent Chuck Hagel being confirmed as the next secretary of defense: The overriding objection to him is that he is the living refutation of everything the War Party stands for. He fought in battle, understands the human ...
  • Jon Wiener: Ike’s dream, Obama’s reality
    It’s hard, so many decades later, to make my way back to my Cold War youth, that time when the history of humanity was, as LIFE magazine so classically put it, “The Epic of Man.”  But hey, that was the era when we still thought dinosaurs were lumbering beasts, an electric ...
  • Mali and the sandstorm of war
    Andy Morgan writes: The vastly conflicting accounts of victories, defeats, advances, retreats, casualties and captives that have come spewing forth from the mouths of the spokespersons on either side of the conflict in recent days illustrate the dire opacity of this conflict and the near impossi ...
  • Chastened U.S. takes cautious view of Mali con ...
    AFP reports: The United States has chosen to play a cautious supporting role to France’s military action against Islamist fighters in Mali, after Washington’s own attempt to build up the African nation’s army backfired badly. While the Pentagon promised transport planes, refuel ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Update on ‘Richard Windsor’ &#8211 ...
    CEI’s Chris Horner Says Agency Has ‘Gone Bunker’ Over Growing Richard Windsor Scandal By Brian McNicoll Washington, D.C., January 14, 2013 – At about 4:55 p.m. on Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency finally complied with a court order to deliver the … Continue reading →
  • Moronomics
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Reading my Sunday paper today, I find the following: Customers Can Sell Back Solar Power. The Los Angeles District of Water and Power will allow customers to sell back excess solar energy created on their … Continue reading →
  • Claim: Meteorite discovered with signs of life ...
    This looks to be a huge story, the first evidence of extraterrestrial life, if it holds up. I would remind readers that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence“. This needs to be confirmed by others in the science community before it … Continue reading →
  • Hansen and Karl to put on a “worse than ...
    From a press release, apparently the writer has no clue that the NASA GISS data is a derivative of the NOAA data, and thus the claim of “NASA and NOAA each independently produce a record of Earth’s surface temperatures…” is … Continue reading →
  • Has the Met Office committed fraud?
    Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The truth is out. No amount of hand-wringing or numerical prestidigitation on the part of the usual suspects can any longer conceal from the world the fact that global warming has been statistically … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

  • Frackophobia: fear that the age of hydrocarbon ...
    Renowned energy expert Robert Bryce: “Over the past six decades, the fracturing process has been used more than 1 million times on American oil and gas wells. If it were as dangerous as the anti-drilling/anti-hydraulic fracturing crowd claims, then hundreds, perhaps thousands, of water wells wo ...
  • Many “Green” policies trample on p ...
    One would think these paradigm shifts would alter environmentalist thinking and government programs designed to replace “disappearing” oil and gas with wind, solar and biofuel energy. But hell hath no fury like an environmentalist scorned. Any attempt to revise laws, regulations or subsidies is ...
  • “Epic” California freeze threatens ...
    California citrus growers were up all night trying to save their crops, yet the media sees California's "epic" freeze, along with deadly cold in the nations of the east as normal, while continuing to hype warm days as man-made.
  • A Florida wind energy company destroys a Canad ...
    Destroying a bald eagle nest to make way for collection of subsidies through wind turbines. WATCH NOW.
  • The carbon trading money tree
    When it appears easy to make a lot of money from something simple then in all probability something is wrong. The economic rules which govern the world usually dictate that it is not easy to make a lot of money with not much effort.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015
    Russia will launch a robotic lunar station in 2015, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday.
  • Future Shock: US Police Using ‘Crime-Predictio ...
    It seems like a scene from the sci-fi thriller Minority Report, but police in three US cities are already using or testing new technology for predicting crimes before they happen – and taking preemptive, concrete steps to prevent them, US media reported.
  • Russian Space Industry to Double Output by 202 ...
    An ongoing reform of Russia’s ailing space industry should double its output by 2020, according to a new state program published on Saturday.
  • Americans Less Healthy, Die Younger: Study
    Americans under the age of 50 are less healthy and die sooner than their peers in other developed countries due in part to disease and the prevalence of car accidents, gun violence and drug overdoses, according to a new study by a panel of US experts released Thursday.
  • First Samples Obtained from Sub-Glacial Antarc ...
    Russian researchers obtained the first sample of transparent ice from the water of a unique sub-glacial lake in Antarctica during drilling operations on Thursday, Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute reported.

Pruning Shears

  • Testing water and building community
    Last summer I wrote about the Sierra Club’s Water Sentinels program for testing water. Our town’s anti-fracking activists have been using it at their homes for a while now, but around the time of my post we also began free monthly water testing for the community. We are careful to ...
  • Best Music of 2012
    IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck.Links will be live for one week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me know and I’ll comply. You heartless, small-minded, ungenerous b******.Here are ...
  • Gun violence, public health and the missing piece
    The massacre in Newtown has once again opened up the discussion of firearms in America. We are getting the usual dumbassery about how this is a punishment from God or the fault of video games (which apparently are unavailable outside of the US) and the usual preemptive whining about how this is ...
  • "no one is there for you but you know who? You ...
    One of the under appreciated hazards of fracking is its effect on democracy. Fracking is a big, intrusive process - one that sucks up lots of water, creates enormous amounts of traffic and an ungodly amount of noise, etc. Setting aside the environmental dangers and health effects (!), the heav ...
  • Transcript: When fracking comes to town: Maria ...
    Video here.…now sits there with two contaminated wells up for sale. As you can imagine, there’s not a lot of customers for a contaminated farm. So it’s sitting there waiting to go into bankruptcy. Her husband’s in Africa serving in the military. Her horses - she has t ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Court Case Draws Monsanto Protesters to White ...
    WASHINGTON - An appeal by organic farmers to a court ruling last year turned into a wide-ranging protest this morning with speakers skewering Monsanto Co. for its policies and demanding labeling of genetically modified food.Click here to read this article
  • Hemp Legalization Effort Gathers Steam
    In the cannabis plant family, hemp is the good seed. Marijuana, the evil weed. Michael Bowman, a gregarious Colorado farmer who grows corn and wheat, has been working his contacts in Congress in an attempt to persuade lawmakers that hemp has been framed, unfairly lumped with the stuff people smo ...
  • Bush Era Organic Scandal Ends in 7.5 Million D ...
    What has been billed the largest scandal in the history of the organic industry has now resulted in a court settlement on behalf of consumers against Aurora Dairy, a giant factory farm operator with industrial-scale operations in Colorado and Texas.Click here to read this article
  • The Pro-GM Lobby's Seven Sins Against Science
    The role that genetically modified (GM) food should play in our food chain is a highly contested political issues. One interesting facet of the debate in the past year has been the pro-GM lobby's interest in staking the 'scientific high-ground'; simultaneously positioning itself as the voice of ...
  • City Sewage Sludge's Use, Impact Debated
    Terry Perry bent over and picked up a moist, thick, and black-as-coal handful of muck. "It's just like mud," said Mr. Perry, who for years has made a living selling the substance that looks like mud but is more than dirt and water.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Irans Civilian Nuclear Program: A Primer
    Often ignored in public discussions about Irans nuclear ambitions is that its interest in nuclear power and related medicinal use spans over 40 years. The American intelligence community has officially concluded Iran halted suspicious actions in 2003 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
  • Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate
    Understanding the sun-climate connection requires expertise in fields like plasma physics, solar activity, atmospheric chemistry and fluid dynamics, energetic particle physics, and history.Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation peaks around solar maximum. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...
  • Infiltration of Political Movements Is the Nor ...
    Infiltration is the Norm, not the Exception, of U.S. Political MovementsWhen the long history of political infiltration is reviewed, the Occupy Movement should be surprised if it is not infiltrated. Almost every movement in modern history has been inf Submitted by Wild Thang to US Politics &amp ...
  • Indigenous Ecuadorian Village Battles Oil Gian ...
    An indigenous community in the Ecuadorian rainforest says they "will die fighting to protect the rainforest" after they say they were swindled by an oil company into signing away rights to 70,000 hectares of one of the most biodiverse areas in the world. Submitted by Judy C. to Environment &nbs ...
  • The Unspoken Link Between Dispersants and Sic ...
    The federal government now considers human health an acceptable risk tradeoff for dispersant use. Many of the same chemicals in dispersants are also ingredients in diluents for tar sands and drilling fluids for hydraulic fracturing Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |  & ...

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Climate: Monthly heat records have increased f ...
    ShareThisClimate: Monthly heat records have increased fivefold 14 Jan 2013 Global warming has caused monthly records for heat to increase fivefold in frequency, according to a study by scientists in Germany and Spain, published on Monday. In parts of Europe, Africa and southern Asia, the frequ ...
  • NYPD plans to ask pharmacies to stock GPS pill ...
    ShareThisNYPD plans to ask pharmacies to stock GPS pill bottles to 'track thieves' 15 Jan 2013 The New York Police Department wants pharmacies in and around the city to fight prescription drug thefts by stocking pill bottles fitted with GPS tracking chips. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is ex ...
  • N.Y. state about to get first post-Newtown gun law
    ShareThisN.Y. state about to get first post-Newtown gun law 15 Jan 2013 Days after calling for an overhaul of gun control in New York following the Connecticut school shooting, Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked out a tough proposal on gun control with legislative leaders who promised to pass the most r ...
  • Duck hunters trigger brief scare at Plymouth n ...
    ShareThisDuck hunters trigger brief scare at Plymouth nuclear plant 14 Jan 2013 A pair of duck hunters caused a minor scare at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth early Saturday when security personnel at the plant heard gunfire coming from Cape Cod Bay, officials said today. Accordi ...
  • U.S. troops might be sent to Mali and surround ...
    ShareThisU.S. troops might be sent to Mali and surrounding countries - Defense officials --U.S. moves to bolster French military campaign in Mali 14 Jan 2013 The Obama administration is preparing to ferry hundreds of additional French troops to the North African country of Mali, bolstering a rap ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Rob Bowman Passed Away
    LTC Erik Kurilla (L) and SFC Rob Bowman after terrible car bomb in Mosul, Iraq (April 2005) 15 January 2013 The United States has lost a great Soldier and fine man to cancer.  Rob struggled with the disease for about 20 months before passing yesterday.  It is with great sorrow that ...
  • Exclusive Images from Fighting in Burma
    15 January 2013 These images came from Burma today.  There have been reports about peace breaking out in Burma, but reports to me from insiders indicate this is false. The message with these images says they were made in Laiza, seconds after a mortar attack by the Burma Army.  The ...
  • Tracking Training in South Africa
    07 January 2013
  • Note from a Wise Man
    07 January 2013 A note appeared on a private message board.  This private group includes many current and former generals, and just about anyone you see on television or in books as a national security specialist, ranging from CIA to all the top war correspondents, special operations types ...
  • Amber of War
    06 January 2013 A defense expert commenting on my dispatch “Stuck in the Mud” recommended the book Mud:  A Military History.  I completed reading the book.  The recommendation was solid. The subject became more interesting in Iraq.  Goo would sometimes rain from the skies ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • China reinforces border safety with Burma
    China says it has taken measures to reinforce border safety with conflict-torn Burma amid concern that the escalating violence in Kachin state is spilling over.
  • Red Cross head makes debut trip to Burma
    The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross arrived in Burma on Sunday to meet with President Thein Sein and other officials, the first-ever visit to the nation by an ICRC president
  • Three civilians killed in attacks on Kachin re ...
    Three civilians have been killed and another six injured after Burmese troops launched a series of mortar attacks into the heart of the Kachin rebel stronghold in Laiza on Monday morning
  • Bangkok protest to stop Kachin war
    Members of the Kachin ethnic group living in Thailand protested against the war in Kachin state in front of the Burmese embassy in Bangkok on Friday.
  • Mining ministry drops defamation lawsuit
    Burma’s ministry of mining has agreed to drop its defamation lawsuit against the Voice Weekly news journal, launched after they printed corruption allegations against the agency in March last year

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • Not Jewish Enough To Be An American.
    Israel is surrounded by enemies. With Israel having no other military friend in the world, an American Awakening, and an "American" Secretary of Defense, will spell disaster for Israel.
  • Aaron Swartz's Suspicious Death
    Lingering suspicions remain. Why would someone with so much to give end it all this way? He was one of the Internet generation's best and brightest.
  • FAIR v. Scoundrel Media Misreporting on Venezuela
    Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is a "national media watch group." It's an "anti-censorship organization."
  • Post-Iraq-War US Intel Chief Praised
    The November 2007 NIE landed like a dead fish on the White House doorstep, causing the neocons and other war hawks to challenge the unanimous judgment of all 16 intelligence agencies as naive. The drafters were pilloried with charges that they were soft on Iran and just trying to stop a war! But ...
  • Why Obama's Gamble on the Debt Ceiling Depends ...
    The 2012 election has shaken the GOP, as have the post-fiscal cliff polls. Yet, the Republican Party may not care what a majority of Americans thinks. The survival of most Republican members of Congress depends on primary victories, not general elections -- and their likely primary competitors a ...

Switchboard

  • The U.S. Department of Energy Retreats on Natu ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has just retreated on important new energy efficiency standards for natural gas furnaces that were scheduled to go into effect in May and would have saved Ame ...
  • House to Vote to Fund Sandy Relief
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC   The Congress is considering today (January 15, 2013) the Sandy Relief bill.  NRDC wrote the Congress to support the bill and oppose the amendments intended to tie the hands of local ...
  • Extreme Weather in 2012 Shattered Records and ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Last July, Rod Berning stood in the midst of withering corn stalks on his farm in western Kansas and told my colleagues, “The climate is changing. The storms aren’t coming as frequent as ...
  • The Extreme Weather Threat That's All Around Us
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC This is not a good time to be a climate change denier. After a record-breaking year of dangerous weather in 2012—following a destructive year in 2011—scientific reports are rol ...
  • NRDC Maps Record-Breaking 2012 Weather, In You ...
    Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York This fall, when Superstorm Sandy hit New York City, where I live, I was in San Francisco, at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Watching it all unfold on the news—- the f ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Standing Up To Rheeism
    Much credit to Seattle teachers at Garfield and Ballard High Schools for refusing to give a flawed standardized test to their students. Laura Clawson: The MAP appears to be a perfect storm of the problems with standardized testing: put in place through a corrupt, profit-driven process; with an u ...
  • Longing for the Days of Megan McArdle
    You thought McArdle was as low as The Atlantic could go? Oh no. Not even close. How about allowing Scientology to write a “Sponsor Content” that looks just like a news article but is in fact a self-written story about the awesomeness of Scientology leader David Miscavige? Wow. If thi ...
  • Labor’s Shift on Immigration
    Benjy Sarlin with a nice overview of how organized labor has shifted from a key anti-immigration force to one supporting immigration with great fervor. To be sure, there are a lot of individual unions, particularly in the building trades, that are not pro-immigration. But those unions are increa ...
  • He Speaks!
    The Sphinx has spoken: Justice Clarence Thomas broke his nearly seven-year silence at Supreme Court oral arguments Monday. But no one is sure exactly what he said. Thomas seemed to be making a light-hearted joke about lawyers trained at his alma mater Yale Law School, or its rival, Harvard. But ...
  • Bust out
    Following up on yesterday’s Boston Globe story regarding the situation at New England School of Law, here are some hard figures regarding exactly how this confidence scheme institution of higher learning is an almost completely taxpayer subsidized operation, on both the front end, in the f ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Kathryn Bywaters, Jan. 2013 Featured DRI Gradu ...
    Meet Kathryn Bywaters, an Environmental Science student working on her Ph.D. Her current work focuses on utilizing microalgae and cyanobacteria consortia as a potential source for biofuel production.
  • Gary Trubl, Dec. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate St ...
    Meet Gary Trubl, a student working towards his masters in Environmental Science and currently studying the biogeochemistry related to denitrification of Lake Vida, Antarctica.
  • Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...
    This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...
  • Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.
  • DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...
    DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • U.S. Chamber opposes proposed SEC disclosure r ...
    In a 30-page letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, a business coalition led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce laid out arguments against a rule that would require public companies to reveal political contributions made through third parties.
  • Hacking defendant's suicide spurs debate over ...
    Political activist Aaron Swartz was charged in 2011 in Boston federal district court with the unauthorized use of a university's networks to download millions of articles from the online archive JSTOR. His suicide last Friday instantly triggered a wave of criticism aimed at prosecutors' alleged ...
  • Law students benefit by connections with profe ...
    Want to do well in law school? Try some extra face time with professors and fellow students. A large-scale survey of law students found that those who interacted more with faculty members and classmates experienced benefits including keener critical and analytical thinking, writing and researc ...
  • High court won't hear bid to shield inmate fro ...
    A bid to sidestep federal custody and possibly the death penalty for a Rhode Island state prisoner failed when the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the case.
  • MIDSIZE MATTERS: Making hay from horse law
    The NLJ speaks with Elaine Fresch, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Selman Breitman, about how she established a practice founded on her love of horses and equine sports.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

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

Red Ice Creations

  • Who Killed Aaron Swartz?
    On January 11, 2013, according to indoctrination organs of the criminal Syndicate calling itself the US government (a Syndicate comprised, for the most part, of big bankers, generals, spooks and, below them, their puppets in the White House and gubernatorial mansions, Congress and state legislat ...
  • Anonymous Hacks MIT in Aaron Swartz’s Name
    The Internet is dealing with the suicide of gifted programmer and activist Aaron Swartz in a variety of ways — but Anonymous is responding with what it does best. Two of MIT’s sites have been hacked into memorials. Spelled out in typical red-on-black hacker script, the defacement requiem doesn’t ...
  • Incredible wall of sand whipped up by cyclone ...
    * Strong winds carried the sand from the Indian Ocean to the north-western town of Onslow * The region was already bracing itself for category-three cyclone when storm hit * It is the latest wild weather to strike the country after days of destructive bush fires in south-eastern Australia An eno ...
  • RFK children speak about assassination in Dallas
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasn’t solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship." Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, makes comments during the o ...
  • Extraordinary: New island rises from the sea ...
    When reading this article … I considered since many ecological reports have stated that water levels were rising … I thought of the possibility that this island had been there all along .. and a veil or cloaking barrier had just kept it from view … until now New island rises from the sea off Ger ...

Russia Today

  • Crucifix Battle: British Airways to pay 32,000 ...
    The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that British Airways violated an employee’s right to freedom of religion by firing her for wearing a crucifix at work. The Strasbourg court awarded the Coptic... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Need for speed: Swedish cleaning lady steals t ...
    In a massive joyriding accident, a young cleaning lady stole a train and crashed into a house in the suburbs of Sweden’s capital, and was then taken to hospital hours later with serious injuries. No one else was hurt in... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Russia rejoins Space Race with launching of ne ...
    Russia’s next unmanned mission to the Moon will be launched in 2015 – the Russian space agency has said that three lunar exploration missions will be launched in the next five years from a cosmodrome under construction... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Over 80 dead in two rocket explosions at Alepp ...
    At least 82 people have been killed and more than 160 injured in two rocket explosions at the University of Aleppo in Syria’s largest city on Tuesday, city officials reported. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Supreme Court orders arrest of Pakistani PM fo ...
    The Pakistani Supreme Court has called for the arrest of the Prime Minister over a corruption scandal. The news was met with elation by thousands of protesters in the capital, who called for the dissolution of... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Can Idle No More First Nations assert their so ...
    Here’s an idea for First Nations rattling their chains with IDLE NO MORE. Declare your sovereignty for real. “Sovereignty” has become a meaningless descriptor, now counting puppet states of Iraq and Afghanistan. How did we expect George W. Bush to explain what sovereignty meant ...
  • Zero Dark Thirty has critics protesting that t ...
    Protest torture, don’t protest Zero Dark Thirty’s depiction of torture as working, even if the public account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden holds that it did not. Who’s your source for that, the CIA? No doubt countless plenty were tortured elsewhere in the actual narrative. H ...
  • MIT drives Aaron Swartz to suicide, JSTOR only ...
    RSS pioneer and Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz, age 26, found hanged. Swartz was facing 35 years for hacking, aka liberating MIT research archives buried behind a pay-wall, often to the frustration of their own authors. You might think schools of higher learning are in favor of disseminating know ...
  • Who is ‘Idle No More’?
    Here is a short explanation of who is Idle No More? Idle No More: Hints of a Global Super-Movement
  • In defense of China against US imperialism today
    China and Russia might have both been turned backwards towards capitalism by their own ‘communist parties’, but that is no reason today to let them remain undefended while under constant threats of direct military attack by Western Imperialism led by the Pentagon and Nato. And YES, t ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • When Your Right You Don't Have to Worry About ...
    Spartans of Truth .... https://www.facebook.com/groups/183728944973010/ When I was in the second grade my teacher asked the entire class to raise their hands if they thought … "John ran." … was a sentence ... I proudly raised my hand because she had literally just got done telling us that it wa ...
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...
  • 9/11 Truth on Netflix
    If you are trying to introduce someone to the 9/11 truth movement that has Netflix, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, can be beamed onto their TV in seconds via their streaming service! Reviews from Netflix subscribers can be read here on the Neflix site. Many other great documentaries are ...
  • Why we KNOW the 911 Truth 'Debunkers' are Actu ...
    When dismissing or ignoring the key scientific evidence that proves the 911 attacks upon the World Trade Centre involved inside help most 'Debunkers' rest their case upon a few central fallacies - that the key evidence is not adequately proven or that the conspiracy material bein ...
  • 911 Free Fall Radio: Mark Basile and WTC Dust ...
    Mark Basile is a chemical engineer who has worked in the industry for thirty plus years and has been a pioneer of the 9/11 Truth movement when it comes to the hard evidence. He is also featured in the latest movie by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, "9/11 Explosive Evidence, Experts Spea ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • Bushman children arrested under renewed govern ...
    The recent arrests of children by paramilitary police are the latest sign of a renewed government crackdown in the CKGR. © SurvivalThree Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who h ...
  • Remembering Marcos Veron 10 years on
    Marcos Veron was killed 10 years ago for reclaiming his ancestral land.© Joaó Ripper/SurvivalGuarani Indians gathered today to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Marcos Veron, who was brutally murdered after leading his community back onto part of their ancestral land. The killing by a r ...
  • 'Human safari' row goes to India’s Supreme Court
    Months after the Supreme Court ordered a buffer zone around the Jarawa's Reserve, hundreds of tourists continue to travel along the Andaman Trunk Road every day.© Andaman Chronicle/ SurvivalSurvival has urged India’s Supreme Court to take immediate action against ‘human safaris’, exactly a ...
  • In pictures: The reindeer people under threat ...
    Tribal people rely on reindeer for food, transport, shelter and warmth.© Steve MorganEach year, the image of the reindeer finds its way onto cards, sweaters and into people’s imaginations, but to the world’s indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the animal is not just for Christmas. As news emerges ...
  • Indians sue Peru over broken promise to isolat ...
    The Nanti are one of several isolated tribes living inside the reserve who would be severely affected by the gas expansion plans© Survival InternationalPeru’s top indigenous organizations are taking on the government and powerful gas companies in an attempt to stop gas exploration that seriously ...

Greg Palast

  • Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It's the oil. And it's the Koch Brothers – and it's the ketchup. [As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, ...
  • 'The Assassination of Hugo Chavez' Download th ...
    Over the years many things have been said about Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez but rarely has the true story of the man Pat Robertson called "a dangerous enemy" been told - that's what I've done in The Assassination of Hugo Chavez. Since the main stream media has decided that Chavez is "a rui ...
  • The Obligatory, End of the Year Top 10 List
    Here's the stories the got the most attention in 2012 The Palast Investigative Fund was quite effective this year. Vulture funds were banned, election theft made national headlines, and we outed gov't profiteer posing as a candidate. Oh, and our little book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits hit ...
  • The Anti-Clause: Reverend Billy's No-Click Chr ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout.org [New York, December 18, 2012] Even for New York, this was WEIRD. There were a half dozen Santa Clauses on Second Avenue getting a sermon from a Midwestern preacher who looks like a cross between televangelist Jerry Falwell and a white-haired Elvis. The Santa Crew ...
  • Before it's too late...Xmas/Xanuka Gifts from ...
    By Greg Palast The Mayans sure know how to take the fun out of Christmas. The world ends on December 21... but that still gives you time, if you act NOW, to make your year-end tax-deductible donation to the not-for-profit Palast Investigative Fund. And we'll get a 'Thank You Gift' out to you (or ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • Age of Autism Contest: HandySpeech App Develop ...
    Necessity and LOVE appear to be the "brothers" of invention in this app we're giving away. 12 year old Eric Zeiberg of CT created "HandySpeech," an app that converts writing into speech. We have 2 codes for this app to...
  • Breaking News: US Vaccine Court Awards Million ...
    By David Kirby The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as "vaccine court," has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for "pain and suffering" and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens...
  • Autism and Medication Hell
    By Natalie Palumbo I am 18, a senior in high school, and the only sibling of an older brother with low-verbal autism. I recently read an article in which Dr. Hyla Class discussed certain neurological drugs, their troubling side effects,...
  • Part 2: Frau Koma's Second Coming: Mass Murder ...
    Part 2, Profectus (Part 1 is here.) "No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's..." "And?" "No...
  • If Autism Experts Were In Charge of Flu Epidemic
    Managing Editor's Note: Imagine if Susan Hyman, Nancy Minshew and Paul Offit turned their "talents" to the flu..... Here's Katie Wright's take on the idea. By Katie Wright Don't Be Selfish! Get a Flu Shot! You know I don't think...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Obama takes stand on debt at press conference
    Aljazeera – President Barack Obama has spoken about raising the US borrowing limit at a surprise news conference at the White House. The US economy is “poised for a good year as long as Washington politics don’t interfere”, said Obama on Monday in a speech that focused on ...
  • Barack Obama warns of ‘haywire’ ma ...
    Telegraph – In a political broadside delivered at a surprise press conference at the White House on Monday, Mr Obama said he would not negotiate with Republicans over raising the $16.4 trillion debt limit, accusing them of risking “blowing up” the US economy because of their “absolutist” p ...
  • Under-the-tongue therapy may reduce allergic r ...
    WP – THE Question Might gradual exposure to peanuts make people who cannot tolerate them less likely to have an allergic reaction? THIS STUDY involved 40 people, 12 to 37 years old, with a peanut allergy diagnosis but no history of life-threatening reactions. Before the study began, their ...
  • UK: Law which made it illegal to call a police ...
    Telegraph – Home secretary Theresa May said the Government will accept a House of Lords amendment to remove the word ‘insulting’ from Section 5 of the Public Order Act. The amendment had been promoted in the House of Lords by Lord Dear, a former HM Inspector of Constabulary. Six year ...
  • Have you checked out our Editorials & Op-Ed ar ...
    Over 40 hard hitting articles that examine the world from a different angle. CLICK HERE TO READ

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • NASA to launch new Landsat earth observation s ...
    NASA is preparing to launch the eighth observation satellite in the Landsat remote sensing program that has chronicled changes in the Earth’s land cover for four decades.
  • Low rates of extinction made California a hot ...
    California plant life is unusually rich and diverse. The state has more than 5,500 native plant species, more than any other state. Roughly 40% of them are found nowhere else.
  • Great white sharks may warrant listing as 'thr ...
    State fish and wildlife officials, although deeply skeptical about low numbers of great white sharks off the Pacific Coast, determined that there was sufficient scientific information to warrant a full review on whether the feared, toothy creature should be listed as threatened with extinction.
  • Activist formerly opposed to GMOs explains his ...
    It’s not often that you hear someone stand up in front of a microphone and tell the world they have been wrong about a high-profile issue. But that’s exactly what Mark Lynas did last week at the Oxford Farming Conference in Oxford, England, when he renounced his long-held belief ...
  • Elusive giant squid caught on video for the fi ...
    For centuries the giant squid has been the stuff of legend, but now, for the first time ever, scientists have collected footage of a giant squid, ( Architeuthis), in its natural habitat, thousands of feet below the ocean's surface. 

water.org

  • Rainwater Harvesting
    Tabitha is a 28 year old primary school graduate living within Rongai town. She lives on a 1-acre farm with her husband’s family and their 4 year old daughter. The family’s semi-permanent (corrugated sheet metal walled) bungalow houses 5 adults and 2 children, which is connected to the electrici ...
  • How far would you go?
    SUMMIT ON THE SUMMIT is an initiative designed to drive awareness and change to the global clean water crisis while engaging a community around the issue. By taking cultural influencers, educators and high profile individuals to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, SUMMIT joins the movement to bring clea ...
  • A safe drink of water
    Mrs. Rangamma and her family members used to drink water directly from the tap in front of the house that was then stored inside. However, the water was not safe for drinking as Mysore City Corporation is not using proper methods of water purification. Rangamma used to find a white layer of cont ...
  • Summit on the Summit Begins
    Chevenee Reavis, Director of Strategic Initiatives, co-leads a team of safe water advocates and educators on an ambitious expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro in an effort to drive awareness of the global water crisis.
  • 2012 Year End Conference Call
    Recorded: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 Duration: 34:36 Our co-founder and CEO, Gary White, shared his thoughts on this past year, major milestones reached, new partnerships, and innovations. He also discuss where the organization is headed in 2013. The conference call concluded with a ...

Cryptogon

  • Germany Repatriating Gold
    Via: Deutsche Welle: The “Handelsblatt” newspaper has said Germany’s central bank is planning to deposit more gold reserves at home in Frankfurt. It will reportedly withdraw part of the bullions currently stored at various facilities abroad. Germany’s business daily &#822 ...
  • Be All That You Can Be… At Walmart
    .mil should really talk this one up during the recruitment process. Via: Reuters: Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT), the world’s largest retailer, said it plans to hire more than 100,000 veterans in the United States over the next five years, a move supported by First Lady Michelle Obama. Most of ...
  • Number of Working Poor Families Grows as Wealt ...
    Via: Reuters: The number of U.S. families struggling with poverty despite parents being employed continued to grow in 2011 as more people returned to work but mostly at lower-paying service jobs, an analysis released on Tuesday shows. More working parents have taken jobs as cashiers, maids, wait ...
  • Biden: White House Readies 19 Executive Action ...
    Via: Politico: The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting ...
  • Mexico: Armed Civilians Patrol Two Towns in So ...
    Via: AP: Several hundred civilians have taken up arms in two towns in a southwestern Mexico state and are arresting people suspected of crimes and imposing a curfew, leading authorities to promise to reinforce security forces in the area. People wearing ski masks or bandanas and carrying small a ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Goldman Sachs And The Big Hedge Funds Are Push ...
    As stocks have risen in recent years, the big hedge funds and the "too big to fail" banks have used borrowed money to make absolutely enormous profits.  But when you use debt to potentially multiply your profits, you also create the possibility that your losses will be multiplied if the markets ...
  • The Federal Reserve Shows Barack Obama Who The ...
    Barack Obama has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency during his time in the White House, but there is one institution that he simply will not mess with.  There is one organization that is considered to be so sacred in Washington D.C. that Obama will not dare utter a single negative wor ...
  • The Federal Government Hands Out Money To 128 ...
    The number of Americans receiving money directly from the federal government has grown from 94 million in the year 2000 to over 128 million today.  A shocking new research paper by Patrick Tyrrell and William W. Beach contains that statistic and a whole bunch of other very revealing numbers.  Ac ...
  • Can America Survive If Americans No Longer Agr ...
    What does America stand for?  That question is a lot more complicated than you might think.  Our Founding Fathers established a Republic that was based on a set of shared values that were embodied in the text of the U.S. Constitution.  But today, many of our politicians openly disregard the Cons ...
  • By The Numbers: 20 Facts About The Collapse Of ...
    The economic implosion of Europe is accelerating.  Even while the mainstream media continues to proclaim that the financial crisis in Europe has been "averted", the economic statistics that are coming out of Europe just continue to get worse.  Manufacturing activity in Europe has been contractin ...

Desertification

  • Grow your own food at home (Willem Van Cotthem)
    MY LATEST VIDEO REGROWING SPRING ONIONS AT HOME http://youtu.be/uCkDmpW2fWA It’s easy to regrow spring onions (green onions) from their basal parts.  This simple experiment shows the importance of the length of the basal part cut off for a swift regrowth.  … Continue reading →
  • New ways to fight desertification (Google / MFA)
    Read at : Google Alerts http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/InnovativeIsrael/Fighting-desertification-13-Jan-2013.htm In search of new ways to fight desertification By Patricia Golan Nearly 47 percent of the earth’s land area is drylands, and this percentage is growing due to poor farming practices, defor ...
  • Flooding and desertification in Niger (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97221/NIGER-Under-water-again NIGER: Under water again Around 800 Nigerien families have been relocated from areas along the River Niger as water levels during annual flooding are expected to rise above normal and last until February. The river is … ...
  • Turning Egypt’s deserts into fields (IRI ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97215/Briefing-Turning-Egypt-apos-s-deserts-into-fields Briefing: Turning Egypt’s deserts into fields Political tension in Egypt in the aftermath of the revolution which began nearly two years ago, has hit tourism, led to high food prices, and cause ...
  • A Farmer’s Market in Dead Dry Qatar (Green Pro ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/01/a-farmers-market-in-dead-dry-qatar/ by Tafline Laylin It’s strange that a farmer’s market should make news, but when it’s in Qatar, one of the driest and least food secure nations on earth, a farmer’s market is a big deal. So … Continue reading ...

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backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • In memory of Cameron Minshull
    cameron minshull.jpg Greater Manchester Hazards Centre and Families Against Corporate Killers statement on the death of Cameron Minshull, 16, at an engineering company in Bury, Thursday 10th January 2 ...
  • Tinley Park five accept non-cooperating plea b ...
    l.jpg From Anti-racist action - On January 4, 2013 all members of the Tinley Park Five accepted a non-cooperating plea bargain in which they each plead guilty to three felony counts of Armed Violence ...
  • Pakistani truckers on strike, blockading NATO ...
    91pakistani.jpg Truckers delivering NATO supplies to isolated coalition ground troops in Afghanistan have gone on strike, in protest against lower pay, poor security, and corrupt customs officials who ...
  • Never Surrender: Kerry Cunneen subpoenaed to t ...
    ciarraipressphoto1.png From the Seattle Free Press: Portland anarchist Kerry Cunneen has announced their refusal to cooperate with the grand jury investigating the May Day attack on the Nakamura feder ...
  • Irish Anarchist Review- Crisis of Consciousnes ...
    IAR6Cover280.jpg Welcome to the sixth instalment of the Irish Anarchist Review, produced by the Workers Solidarity Movement. In this magazine we look to explore ideas about the world around us, how th ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Sandy “Hoax”???? – These Que ...
    Amazing is the only word for this.  There is a company that calls themselves “Crisis Actors”.  They operate out of Denver Colorado.    Their website is:  http://crisisactors.org/  Their “job” is to provide SKILLED ACTORS to simulate mass shootings and other “terror& ...
  • The UFO Connection to Gorbachev and Putin? Ama ...
    Ever wondered what really happened concerning the “Soviet Union” and it’s supposed conversion to capitalism? Have you ever wondered why Gorbachev suddenly becomes a member of the mysterious and occult “Presidio” of Northern California? Have you ever wondered exactly ...
  • This Video Says it All.
    Listen up Piers Morgan and all you other bleeding liberals  – your lies and propaganda are now exposed.  Banning Guns does NOT decrease violent crimes.  Just the opposite, actually. Morgan – please go back to Jolly Old England, and leave us rebellious colonists alone!    
  • How Did We Ever Survive??
                    How did we ever survive without Bike Helmets and the Book of Mormon?? The Native American culture had NO CONCEPT of coins or “money” – whether it was the Mayan, Aztec, Iroquois, Apache or the Incan culture.  Their economy ...
  • The Literal Throne of Satan – The Book o ...
    The Date was 95 AD (or CE if you prefer.)  The Place was a small island south of Greece named Patmos.   There, a beloved Apostle of Jesus Christ named John received a vision of the resurrected Jesus Christ.  John “the Revelator” memorialized his vision in writing, and directed it pri ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Benton Rehab Flooring-Custom Floor Patch
    Although it is not impossible to find Lumber to match a floor built in the late 1800s.  The Owner of the Property decided to Jazz it up and incorporate a design into the floor. Part 14-Custom Flooring Patch Hardwood Floor Repair-Benton Rehab Original Flooring Material-Douglas Fir Wood Flooring P ...
  • From: EcoWatch Top News of the Day
    Interesting news about the Unified front to continue the fight against Global Warming and Climate Change:  Coal, Fracking, XL Pipeline, Climate Change, President Obama, Clean Water, Monsanto Genetically modified Seeds, US Farmers,    Tuesday, January 8, 2013 Top News of the Day Pr ...
  • Ways to make your bathroom greener
    How much time do we spend in the bathroom each day? The mornings are probably the most busy bathroom times in any house, followed closely by right before bed. But do you know the burden your bathroom can put on your house’s overall carbon footprint? By Diane Kuehl Most people probably don& ...
  • ICE Dam Prevention
    Ice Dam Prevention for Homes and Business is a simple process to correct and prevent.  Scotts Contracting recommends installing a Ridge Vent and Soffit Vents to prevent Ice Dams. “I feel that Ridge Vents-when coupled with Soffit Vents are one of the Greatest Energy Efficient ...
  • What Caused the Ice in my Attic
    Why is there ICE in my Attic and where did it come from? ICE DAMS ARE CREATED WHEN THE HOT MOIST AIR RISES FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING. As the Hot Moist Air Rises into the Attic and meets the Roof Framing System.  Condensation Occurs on the Cold Framing Members consisting of: Rafters, Roof ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Low Power FM: Reclaiming the Airwaves
    Demo of Low Power FM transmitter One for Our Side US activists fed up with the distortions and overt censorship of the corporate media, finally have the opportunity to start their own Low Power FM (LPFM) stations. Under new FCC rules issued last November, the window for nonprofit organizati ...
  • Teacher Layoffs Make Way for School Privatization
    As he begins his second term, Obama’s school privatization agenda is chugging along at full steam. Citing the Department of Labor’s monthly employment report, the World Socialist Website reveals that 11,000 public school teachers were laid off in December 2012. This brings tota ...
  • Sign Petition for Palestine Right of Return
    On January 5, Ali Abunimah’s Electronic Intifada reposted a January 1, 2013 petition launched by Jews for the Palestinian Right of Return. The text accompanying the petition is profoundly moving. It also makes the following important points: 1. As a result of systematic ethnic cleansing, ...
  • Fiscal Cliff Bill: 100s of Billions in Corpora ...
    The corporate media isn’t telling you about the billions in corporate tax breaks in the Fiscal Cliff Bill Obama signed this week. The mainstream media also failed to mention the corporate CEOs who had to be placated to get this deal off the ground. In his Naked Capitalism article e ...
  • Georgetown Law Professor Wants to Abolish Cons ...
      In a December 30thNew York Times OpEd, Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman calls to abolish the U.S. Constitution. He refers to its provisions as “archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil.” In his piece, he argues that blind obedience to the Constitution ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Milhous, in Three Acts
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore ACT I: Nixon’s the One Every good Catholic blamed Lyndon Johnson for Kennedy’s death. Not that he had anything to do with the actual assassination (though there were those who believed he did). But we all kne ...
  • Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Supporting ...
    From The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: Almost from the beginning, Kissinger had secretly had all his telephone calls, including those with the President, monitored and transcribed... Nixon was often on the phone with Kissinger for fifteen minutes or longer. The President was r ...
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...
    Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Criticizing Democ ...
    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Se ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About the War on Women on ...
    From @MMFlint "McCaskill, Warren, Stabenaw, Klobuchar, Baldwin Senate victories = Declare a War on Women, prepare to lose. #legitimate" "RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, how the f*** are all these women winning?! They don't even wear TIES." "RT @KailiJoy: Magic lady parts not only detect rape s ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Climate Scientists: Honest Brokers or Aligned ...
    For all the attention that science communication research has deservedly received, what is still missing from this discussion is careful analysis, understanding and application of normative and ethical principles to how experts and their organizations can effectively engage the public and policy ...
  • Draft Climate Change Assessment Warns Of 9°-15 ...
    The assessment, put together by dozens of the country’s top climate experts, makes clear that if we stay anywhere near our current emissions path, we are headed towards a devastating 9°F to 15°F warming over most of the United States (this century), with ever-worsening extreme weather, heat wave ...
  • Has Climate Change Stopped?
    In a report released just before Christmas, the UK Met Office lowered its decadal forecast for the expected average global temperature. This was a noticeable change from previous forecasts and was the result of a new climate model being put into use. On the one hand we are seeing an increase in ...
  • Oil’s Divisive Influence in Iraq
    It has long been speculated that oil can be a driver for civil conflict, and one needs to look no further for evidence than the sectarian power politics that is threatening the possible devolution of the Iraqi state. The recent announcement by the government that Iraq is seeking to build a 1 mil ...
  • What Will Limits on Soot Pollution Mean for En ...
    Last week, the EPA created a new standard that will limit the amount of soot produced from manufacturers, power plants, diesel engines, and other polluters. he cost to implement this would range from $53 million to $350 million, but estimates have also shown that it will save up to 40,000 lives, ...

EU Times

  • Urban birds alter songs to be heard over traff ...
    Many urban dwelling birds alter their song’s tune from the low-frequency to a high pitch to be heard far better in big cities’ noise pollution, new study says. Many species have developed divergent strategies for dealing with the numerous unfavorable environmental conditions in cities such as li ...
  • Britain preparing for new Falklands War
    A series of military options are being considered by UK defense chiefs as tension mounts between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands, a report by the Sunday Telegraph claims. Extra troops, warships and Typhoon combat aircraft could be dispatched to the islands if needed, ahead of the ...
  • New York State Now Leading Crusade Against Sec ...
    The U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, met Wednesday at the White House in Washington with victims and groups demanding more restrictive legislation on weapons. While in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo, took advantage of the discourse on state of the State to announce an agenda to ban assault weapo ...
  • France: US, UK providing support for Mali inte ...
    France’s foreign minister says the US and Britain are providing support for the French-led military intervention in Mali amid clashes in the West African country. Laurent Fabius made the announcement on Sunday, saying “We have the support of the Americans for communications and trans ...
  • Hundreds of thousands protest against gay marr ...
    Several hundred thousand demonstrators filled the streets of Paris during a protest against President Francois Hollande’s plans to legalize gay marriage later this year. The proposed law would allow same-sex couples to adopt children. The protesters, many of whom travelled from outside the capit ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Hottest Celebrity Couples At The 2013 Golden G ...
    Photo credit:  Getty Images The Golden Globes wasn't just a night for the best actors to be honored for their work! It was also an opportunity for some of the hottest couples in Hollywood to have a wonderful date night! Some of our favorite twosomes showed up on the red carpet looking amazing , ...
  • Facebook holding special event tomorrow, spurs ...
    Tweet Facebook is holding an Apple-esque special event tomorrow, complete with mysterious “Come see what we’re building” tag lines and rumors that run the gamut from a full on Facebook phone, either built on Android or as some new, budget smart-ish phone to let emerging markets share all their ...
  • Reports of 'weak' iPhone 5 demand don't tell w ...
    When it comes to Apple, tea-leaf reading is always in season. If you believe the Wall Street Journal , which cites the seemingly ubiquitous—and perenially anonymous—“sources familiar with the situation,” Apple has halved component orders for the iPhone 5, less than a month out of its holiday qu ...
  • Reports of weak iPhone 5 demand briefly send A ...
    As we reported earlier today , news broke on Sunday that Apple has apparently reduced its orders for key iPhone 5 components by half. The decision was supposedly made based on weak demand for the phone, but as we pointed out, the move could very well be part of Apple's plan to move to a six-mon ...
  • Justice Clarence Thomas Broke His Silence In C ...
    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sent shock waves through the justice system when he broke his silence in court today – a first since February 2006 according to the Washington AP : The argument transcript only records a few words. It quotes Thomas as saying, “Well, he did not…” Several jus ...

Groklaw

  • Prosecutor of Aaron Swartz Linked To Another S ...
    Now it appears that Swartz's line prosecutor, Assistant United States Attorney Stephen Heymann was connected to a prior suicide of a defendant in a similar case. In 2008, Jonathan James killed himself while being pursued by Heymann in a criminal hacker case. Heymann then moved on to Swartz who a ...
  • I've signed the White House petition asking fo ...
    Eric Goldman ‏@ericgoldman I signed a @whitehouse petition asking for CFAA reform. We should rethink online trespass to chattels--I'll blog soon [PJ: I removed the truncated address and put in the real one. If you take the truncated address and search for it in Google, it shows you noth ...
  • Warner Music Sued for Millions by George Gersh ...
    The heirs of composer George Gershwin have filed a lawsuit that seeks at least $15 million from Warner Bros. Music for the underpayment of royalties and other accounting discrepancies. - Hollywood Reporter
  • Chancery Dismisses Pro Se Complaint with Aplomb
    In Kelly v. Fuqi International, Inc. [PDF], C.A. No. 6797-VCG (Del. Ch. Jan. 2, 2013), the Court of Chancery dismissed a pro se complaint with patience, careful and extended reasoning as well as aplomb, despite ad hominem attacks that traduced opposing counsel, and cast aspersions on the legal s ...
  • Swartz suicide shines light on federal anti-ha ...
    In court documents, prosecutors alleged that while a Fellow at Harvard University's Safra Center for Ethics between Sept. 2010 and Jan 2011, Swartz registered for guest access on MITs network using a fictitious name and temporary email address...."What has happened over the years is that the CFA ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Robot band plays Blitzkrieg Bop
    Now they just need to add a slam pit of robots. Hey, I wonder if robots can stage dive??? And of course they need a robot with the “Gabba Gabba Hey” sign too.:)
  • MIT refused to support keeping Aaron Swartz ou ...
    MIT cries crocodile tears about how deeply tragic the death of Aaron Swartz is. They vow a thorough investigation of themselves before of course finding themselves mostly blameless because after all who could have predicted such an outcome. That their actions allow MIT to keep sucking on the fe ...
  • Deconstructing Anderson Cooper and his defense ...
    Adam Curry and John Dvorak, in their No Agenda podcast #478, deconstruct Anderson Cooper sliming those who question the official story at Sandy Hook as indicative of how, at crucial times, our mass media often closes ranks and defends the official line from DC. Their primary point is that Coope ...
  • Lawrence Lessig on Aaron Swartz death by gover ...
    Lawrence Lessig says Aaron Swartz was his mentor, not the other way around and that his fight is now our fight to continue and carry on. When I decided in 2006 to give up the work I was doing on internet policy and copyright reform, Aaron Swartz — the Internet turned social activist found [...]
  • Justice for Aaron Swartz. Protest Carmen Ortiz ...
    I’m so sorry that what’s-his-name is dead but my political ambitions are very important to me. Aaron Swartz is dead. Federal Attorney Carmen Ortiz engaged in stomach-turning prosecutorial overreach. MIT could have pulled back but deliberately choose not to. Both share responsibility ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Meryl Nass on Vacci ...
    By Dr. Mercola The average person in the United States and, for that matter, most of the world has been convinced – or a better term might be “manipulated” – that there is an overwhelming benefit received from vaccines. Most people accept the recommendation to vaccin ...
  • Threats to Your Water Supply Abound -- The Dev ...
    By Dr. Mercola Polluted drinking water is a significant health threat that is sorely underreported and oft-ignored. A recent article in the Star Tribune1 highlights the very real struggle to access clean drinking water right here in the United States. "Debbie Carlson can laugh at the iro ...
  • Aspirin Use Linked to Macular Degeneration
    By Dr. Mercola Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the deterioration of your macula (the region in your eye that controls acute vision), which typically occurs later in life. AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the United States, as it can destroy your central vision, which is ne ...
  • Confirmed—Fructose Can Increase Your Hunger an ...
    By Dr. Mercola People everywhere are finally waking up to the indisputable fact that all sugars are not created equal when it comes to the physical end results they create. Scientists using newer functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tests have now shown that fructose, a sugar foun ...
  • Revised Protocol for Detoxifying Your Body fro ...
    By Dr. Mercola It is likely you are accumulating mercury and other heavy metals at a disturbing rate. This is occurring at a time when your body is already bombarded with multiple chemical assaults, making it harder to keep its natural detoxification system working smoothly and efficiently ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Bushman children arrested under renewed govern ...
    The recent arrests of children by paramilitary police are the latest sign of a renewed government crackdown in the CKGR. © SurvivalThree Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who h ...
  • Remembering Marcos Veron 10 years on
    Marcos Veron was killed 10 years ago for reclaiming his ancestral land.© Joaó Ripper/SurvivalGuarani Indians gathered today to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Marcos Veron, who was brutally murdered after leading his community back onto part of their ancestral land. The killing by a r ...
  • 'Human safari' row goes to India’s Supreme Court
    Months after the Supreme Court ordered a buffer zone around the Jarawa's Reserve, hundreds of tourists continue to travel along the Andaman Trunk Road every day.© Andaman Chronicle/ SurvivalSurvival has urged India’s Supreme Court to take immediate action against ‘human safaris’, exactly a ...
  • In pictures: The reindeer people under threat ...
    Tribal people rely on reindeer for food, transport, shelter and warmth.© Steve MorganEach year, the image of the reindeer finds its way onto cards, sweaters and into people’s imaginations, but to the world’s indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the animal is not just for Christmas. As news emerges ...
  • Indians sue Peru over broken promise to isolat ...
    The Nanti are one of several isolated tribes living inside the reserve who would be severely affected by the gas expansion plans© Survival InternationalPeru’s top indigenous organizations are taking on the government and powerful gas companies in an attempt to stop gas exploration that seriously ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Junk food linked to #asthma and #eczema in chi ...
    from telegraph.co.uk: The high saturated fat levels in food such as burgers lower children's immune systems, it is believed. A research project involving more than 50 countries found that teenagers who ate junk food three times a week or more were 39 per cent more like ...
  • City works on code change for controversial ve ...
    from clickorlando.com: ORLANDO, Fla. - The city of Orlando says it's trying to work with the couple whose front yard vegetable garden has sparked controversy nationwide by passing new regulations that would require changes to their garden, a move that would affect several others in College Pa ...
  • #Video: New Govt Mandated Lightbulbs A Major H ...
    from brasschecktv.com: Remember when the Congress decided to outlaw normal US-made light bulbs in favor of mercury-containing "green" ones made only in China? If dropped and broken, these bulbs require someone in a hazmat suit to clean up. Well, apparently, that's not all. They cast a light that ...
  • #Video: Anti-Depressants Help Create Killers
    from brasschecktv.com: It's not the guns. It's not violent video games. The unifying factor behind virtually every school shooting? Anti-depressant drugs - and there's a near total blackout on this subject in the news.
  • #Video: The Shocking Truth About 'Fortified' a ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Ever see a food label that said "enriched" or "fortified?" Sounds good, right? Maybe not. Here's what "enriched" means in the world of industrial food production.

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Goldman Sachs And The Big Hedge Funds Are Push ...
    As stocks have risen in recent years, the big hedge funds and the "too big to fail" banks have used borrowed money to make absolutely enormous profits.  But when you use debt to potentially multiply your profits, you also create the possibility that your losses will be multiplied if the markets ...
  • The Federal Reserve Shows Barack Obama Who The ...
    Barack Obama has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency during his time in the White House, but there is one institution that he simply will not mess with.  There is one organization that is considered to be so sacred in Washington D.C. that Obama will not dare utter a single negative wor ...
  • The Federal Government Hands Out Money To 128 ...
    The number of Americans receiving money directly from the federal government has grown from 94 million in the year 2000 to over 128 million today.  A shocking new research paper by Patrick Tyrrell and William W. Beach contains that statistic and a whole bunch of other very revealing numbers.  Ac ...
  • Can America Survive If Americans No Longer Agr ...
    What does America stand for?  That question is a lot more complicated than you might think.  Our Founding Fathers established a Republic that was based on a set of shared values that were embodied in the text of the U.S. Constitution.  But today, many of our politicians openly disregard the Cons ...
  • By The Numbers: 20 Facts About The Collapse Of ...
    The economic implosion of Europe is accelerating.  Even while the mainstream media continues to proclaim that the financial crisis in Europe has been "averted", the economic statistics that are coming out of Europe just continue to get worse.  Manufacturing activity in Europe has been contractin ...

CASSE

  • Confessions of a Closet Football Fan
    by Brian Czech If you’re an American or just familiar with the American scene, you know what’s brewing. We’re not talking about the inauguration, sequestration, or Secretary of State nomination. No, something much bigger. We’re into the NFL playoffs and the biggest sporti ...
  • Enough: the Central Concept in Economics
    In his foreword to the book, Enough Is Enough, Herman Daly contemplates the role of sufficiency in obtaining "the good life."
  • The Visible Hand: Manipulating Market Prices b ...
    Just how efficient are are market prices when they put the future of all species, including humans, at risk?
  • The Outlook for Steady State Economics in 2013
    Looking beyond Mayan myths, there's a sign of good things to come in 2013 and beyond: more and more people are joing the steady state cause.
  • Aristotle in Connecticut
    Eric Zencey searches for deeper causes in the midst of grief and dismay over the most recent American shooting tragedy.

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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 ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Top 5 Fast, Lightwieght and Free Android Launchers
    First, we introduced you to a chosen collection of 6 awesome launchers for Android. Then we featured 3 more launchers tailor-made for Android 4.0 ICS+ operating system. Since then, a lot of our readers have been asking for more lightweight alternatives to the ones we already featured. SPB Shel ...
  • Ubuntu Phone OS Demo at CES 2013: Showcases Ca ...
    Yet another video is up showcasing several new features of Ubuntu Phone OS. While the first video, demoed by Mark Shuttleworth himself, illustrated how slick the OS has become since it was announced, the second video here features default Camera and Photo apps, Facebook integration and brill ...
  • Mark Shuttleworth Demos Ubuntu for Phones at C ...
    Ubuntu for Phones was announced with much fanfare just a few days ago. While the OS is still in pre-alpha state, there are already videos of the same running on various hardware. Initial videos showed how a pre-alpha software looks like, very buggy and quite unusable, so to speak. But this lat ...
  • Steam Box is Coming this Year, Will be Based O ...
    Valve is into hardware aggressively and there were plenty of rumors circling around about the imminent announcement of official Valve gaming console. Valve is betting big on Linux and this became very clear when they released official Steam for Linux client. Even an year ago, nobody was e ...
  • Wait is Over, Canonical Previews Amazing new U ...
    The countdown has ended. The wait is finally over. Unlike almost everyone out there predicted, the countdown had nothing to do with Ubuntu for Android project, it's about the new Ubuntu OS for smartphones project Canonical wanted to talk about. And from the initial looks, this new OS for sma ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Airborne Toxins: The Direct Cause of Gulf War ...
    It is staggering the type and amount of different illnesses Gulf War Veterans have but the VA will not recognize or grant disability because no direct link can be established.
  • JPost: IDF shoots, kills Palestinian youth in ...
    The IDF opened fire on a Palestinian youth who it said attempted to cross into Israel from the West Bank on Tuesday morning. The youth later died at a Ramallah hospital.
  • Times of Israel: Hagel’s ‘refreshi ...
    The nomination fight over former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel has split the Washington establishment into shrill camps.
  • Perfect Storm Sets Over Islamabad
    It will be premature to coin “Pakistan Spring”, but it has all the potential not to be much different. Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan is under siege. Hold on, it isn’t the Indians from across the fence or the war loving Taliban.
  • Aaron Swartz’s Suspicious Death
    Media scoundrels stopped short of truth and full disclosure. The Wall Street Journal headlined "An Internet Activist Commits Suicide."

electric politics

  • Speaking Truth
    These days, the only reasonable thing to say to Power is, "Here's the arrest warrant, please come quietly." But Speaking Truth, that's a different story. We speak truth to affirm and reaffirm who and what we are, what the reality of the world is, and why it is the way it is. Not an easy task &md ...
  • Counting Electors
    If the Republican Party were to adopt a scorched earth policy — counting electors one way in certain swing states and another way in solid red states — they could conceivably lock in a Republican presidential win for the next several election cycles. As a practical matter it would no ...
  • Constitutional Wrinkles
    Americans have been brainwashed into thinking we have the greatest system of government in the world. Arguably, however, much the opposite is true. In practical terms our system is neither democratic nor representative, when, that is, it works at all. But the Constitution has become America's ci ...
  • Three Truths and a Lie
    'Tis the season for... reflections on life. And death. Yet death often feels ominously dark, especially when a young person dies before their time. It's difficult, in such circumstances, to remember that darkness isn't all bad — indeed, there's reason to believe it may be a source of enlig ...
  • Running Against the Grain (Part II)
    Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Watershed Ambassador Breakfast
    Red Deer River Watershed Alliance 18 Jan 2013 - 07:30 - 20:45 Flow into the new year with a hot buffet breakfast and a presentation on monitoring Alberta's biodiversity! Jim H ...
  • Earthbag Building Presentation
    ReThink Red Deer 16 Jan 2013 - 18:30 - 21:00 ReThink Red Deer is back at it in the new year with a great presentation on natural building! Evonne and Robert Smulders, owners of Sa ...
  • AWA Tuesday Talk: Greater Sage-grouse Partnership
    Alberta Wilderness Association 29 Jan 2013 - 19:00 with Cliff Wallis, Sean Nichols, and Wonnita Andrus Join us for the first talk of the New Year as we discuss the critically enda ...
  • ICYMI: Wildlands Advocate Vol. 20 No. 6
    Alberta Wilderness Association In case you missed it over the holidays, the latest issue of the Alberta Wilderness Association's Wild Lands Advocate is online.  Features A Last Look at AWA's 2012 Priorities What Ex ...
  • Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Co ...
    Alberta Prairie Conservation Forum Alberta Society of Professional Biologists 19 Feb 2013 (All day) - 22 Feb 2013 (All day) Purpose The& ...

Stop NATO

  • Russia Says Japan’s Statement On Kurils ...
    Voice of Russia January 14, 2013 Moscow says Tokyo`s Kurils statement ‘unacceptable’ Tokyo’s statement that it doubts Russia’s sovereignty over the disputed southern Kuril islands in the Pacific Ocean is ‘unacceptable’, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said. Earlier, ...
  • Michel Corday: War is irreparable loss for the ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts ==== Michel Corday From The Paris Front (1934) Translator not identified 1917 - My whole soul revolts when I hear our patriots refer in glowing terms to “an interesting day – we’ve only lost two thousand, but we&# ...
  • U.S. Military To Become More Deeply Involved I ...
    Stars and Stripes January 14, 2013 U.S. military could be drawn into Mali fight By Leo Shane III Mali: U.S. Africa Command’s New War? Malian and U.S. special forces troops in Mali in 2010 during Operation Flintlock WASHINGTON: The U.S. military could be drawn into the intensifying fight in the A ...
  • Kurt Tucholsky: Murder in disguise
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Kurt Tucholsky: The Trench Kurt Tucholsky: The White Spots ==== Kurt Tucholsky A Minor Incident (1921) Translated by Harry Zohn The stocking weaver and the farmer’s son had climbed at night from one field ditch into anoth ...
  • Sweden: Active And Effective NATO Partner In T ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization January 14, 2013 Sweden: one of NATO’s most active and effective partners Sweden is a high capability partner, which has provided valuable support to NATO-led operations…It currently has forces deployed in Kosovo and Afghanistan, and has agreed in princip ...

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Intel Hub

  • NY State Senate OKs Gun Ban, No Grandfather Clause
    By Kimberly Paxton theintelhub.com January 15, 2013 Yesterday, the New York State Senate passed a law prohibiting assault rifles and limiting magazines to 7 rounds. The law will go in front of the State Assembly today, where it is expected to pass easily. Notably, the bill contains no grandfathe ...
  • Here They Come: Criminals Now Using Gun Owner ...
    By The Daily Sheeple theintelhub.com January 15, 2013 When the Journal News created an interactive map exposing gun owners in two New York counties, residents who believed their right to bear arms was a private matter were shocked. Judge Jeanine Pirro, whose name was published on the map along w ...
  • Goldman Sachs And The Big Hedge Funds Are Push ...
    By Michael Snyder The Economic Collapse Blog January 15, 2013 As stocks have risen in recent years, the big hedge funds and the “too big to fail” banks have used borrowed money to make absolutely enormous profits. But when you use debt to potentially multiply your profits, you also create the po ...
  • Advocates of Freedom and Privacy That Hate Fac ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com January 15, 2013 This week the death of Aaron Swartz has been a primary focus in my research, and one of the interesting things that I have learned along the way is that he isn’t the first revolutionary tech genius to die in an alleged suicide over the past few years. ...
  • Robert Kennedy Discusses His Suspicion of a Co ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com January 15, 2013 For decades the JFK assassination has been heavily debated, and like many controversial events in US history, there has never been a legitimate investigation into what actually happened. Yet, despite this controversy the official government story is w ...

FRS

  • Hundreds Of Indigenous Women And Girls Were Mu ...
    By Farooque Chowdhury, Countercurrents.org 30 October, 2012 Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada . To many, it’s a baffling fact. Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. In Greece , migrants an ...
  • Hundreds Of Indigenous Women And Girls Were Mu ...
    By Farooque Chowdhury, Countercurrents.org 30 October, 2012 Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada . To many, it’s a baffling fact. Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. In Greece , migrants an ...
  • Philippines: Revolutionary forces making gain ...
    A victorious decade of People’s War in Mindanao Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris), Spokesperson, NDF-Mindanao December 26, 2012Together with all revolutionaries and the the people of Mindanao and the entire nation, the NDFP-Mindanao wishes to express its warmest congratulations and highest tribute to ...
  • Philippines: Revolutionary forces making gain ...
    A victorious decade of People’s War in Mindanao Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris), Spokesperson, NDF-Mindanao December 26, 2012Together with all revolutionaries and the the people of Mindanao and the entire nation, the NDFP-Mindanao wishes to express its warmest congratulations and highest tribute to ...
  • Update on Tracking Police Murders: Every 36 Ho ...
    This episode of  Critical Insight we were joined by Kali Akuno of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement to discuss their 2012 report detailing the fact that every 36 hours (at least) a Black person is extra-judiciously executed by “Law Enforcement” within the United States. Please watch ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Cracking the Nut: Time for Gun Owners' Insurance
    A retired Navy commander may have come up with a very effective way to reign in our gun problem.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jan 11, 2013
  • Dismayingly, the Sandy Hook Elementary Conspir ...
    Proving that nothing can happen that does not attract the attention of conspiracy nuts, the Daily Caller reports that two fringe academics have announced that the official version of the Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre is not the correct one.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 10, 2013
  • The Debt Ceiling is Political Dynamite -- the ...
    It is wrong for congressional Republicans to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in deficit reduction negotiations. Their refusal to approve a debt ceiling increase with Democrats will spell doom for them in 2014.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 08, 2013
  • Obama Takes Great Risks in Nominating Chuck Ha ...
    It appears that President Obama is intent on nominating former Sen. Chuck Hagel to become his next Secretary of Defense, according to the Washington Post. The question arises concerning why he would do such a thing.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 07, 2013
  • Voiced Outrage by Christie, Cuomo, King Gets S ...
    Chris Christie said in a press conference that he joined the people of his state in feeling betrayed by the House for not voting on the Hurricane Sandy Relief. He joined other politicians in his outrage, prompting a quick House reconsideration...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Jan 04, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • Equal Rights For Women Everywhere Could Save C ...
    Humanely lowering birth rates via societal female empowerment is the key to preventing a total collapse, Stanford population biologists claim. Population biologists Paul R. and Anne Ehrlich have been beating the overcrowding drum for nearly five decades, claiming that the human population’s mush ...
  • Will This Fish Transform Medicine?
    Why the tiny zebrafish is becoming many researchers’ favorite animal The animal facility on the bottom floor of a drab building at Duke University is uncomfortably warm and smells a bit like raw seafood. That’s not surprising given what’s down there. The space holds a few thousand plastic fish ...
  • Whoever Kills The Most Burmese Pythons In Flor ...
    A mass animal-hunting contest that actually, well, makes sense. This weekend, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission kicked off the 2013 Python Challenge in Davie, Florida, a smallish city near Fort Lauderdale. The Python Challenge registers python hunters and gives cash prizes to those who c ...
  • A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman
    Corn is a grain, knucklehead. Paleo Diet Flowchart infographic Keeping up with the eating habits of our cave-dwelling ancestors can be tough. Luckily someone has slapped together a handy flowchart for you to reference if you've hopped on the latest diet-craze bandwagon, the Paleo diet. B ...
  • Mississippi River May Soon Be Unnavigable, Des ...
    The Army Corps of Engineers is nearly out of options for keeping a section of the upper Mississippi River flowing. Rain or shine, the battle of the Mississippi rages on. The vital shipping lane that supports middle-American economies from the Upper-Midwest to New Orleans is once again in dire s ...

Veterans Today

  • Airborne Toxins: The Direct Cause of Gulf War ...
    It is staggering the type and amount of different illnesses Gulf War Veterans have but the VA will not recognize or grant disability because no direct link can be established.
  • JPost: IDF shoots, kills Palestinian youth in ...
    The IDF opened fire on a Palestinian youth who it said attempted to cross into Israel from the West Bank on Tuesday morning. The youth later died at a Ramallah hospital.
  • Times of Israel: Hagel’s ‘refreshi ...
    The nomination fight over former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel has split the Washington establishment into shrill camps.
  • Perfect Storm Sets Over Islamabad
    It will be premature to coin “Pakistan Spring”, but it has all the potential not to be much different. Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan is under siege. Hold on, it isn’t the Indians from across the fence or the war loving Taliban.
  • Aaron Swartz’s Suspicious Death
    Media scoundrels stopped short of truth and full disclosure. The Wall Street Journal headlined "An Internet Activist Commits Suicide."

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Met Office scale back global warming forecast
    A new global temperature forecast published by the Met Office, through to 2017, has scaled back projections of the amount of warming they expect compared with previous estimates. The new projection can be seen below with more details on the Met Office website. I have written several times ...
  • Dry weather returns to UK following 2nd wettes ...
    2012 averaged across the UK was the second wettest on record in data which stretches back to 1910, falling short of a new record by only 6.6mm. In total 1330.7mm fell last year, compared with the average of 1154mm. A new record has been set across England and Wales with 1205mm of rain. And ...
  • How the Arctic may be impacting UK summers
  • The Beast from the East is slain
    The cold easterly which a large majority of computer models were predicting to develop this week has failed to materialise, with a much more unsettled weather pattern expected to return from the Atlantic during tomorrow. Last week, 80% of the ECMWF model solutions wanted an easterly 'blocking' ...
  • The Beast from the East is lurking
    There is now growing consensus between most weather computer models that cold air from the east is likely to spread across Britain next week. If so, it will be the first time since March that high pressure has properly dominated our weather, and will end a long sequence of at times record brea ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Trash for Treasure: CenBanks Swapping $ for RMB
    The old saying goes "one man's trash may be another man's treasure." To be sure, there are any number of countries around the world that would welcome even dollar foreign exchange reserve assets. Think of Egypt. The happy-sad fact though is that, in part because of international currency war bei ...
  • How Broke is Greece? It Drops Volleyball Tourneys
    Blues legend Buddy Guy has a song entitled "Too Broke to Spend the Night" from his comeback album Damn Right I've Got the Blues. I think Greek officialdom may be singing a similar tune right about now in sporting terms. In 2004 it famously hosted--rather unprofitably, too--the world's foremost g ...
  • End of an Outsourcing Era: 787 Nightmareliner
    There is a justifiably very well-cited article in Review of International Political Economy by Gary Gereffi, John Humphrey and Timothy Sturgeon concerning "The Global Governance of Global Value Chains." (I think it's required reading for anyone with an interest in the field; simple as that.) Her ...
  • Odd Arne Westad on Frosty China-Japan Relations
    LSE IDEAS is such a hive of activity nowadays I don't even manage to keep up with what the boss is up to. (Of course he isn't "odd"; it's a Norwegian name!) A few weeks ago I featured his well-received book about China's history of reaching out to the rest of the world since 1750. Fluent in Mand ...
  • Nuke to Thrill: Rekindling Japan's Fission Passion
    The taste of love is sweet  When hearts like ours meet  I fell for you like a child  Oh, but the fire went wild... [The chart above is from Nuclear Tourist.] The return to the status quo ante of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership in Japan unsurprisingly means the comeback ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Goldman Sachs And The Big Hedge Funds Are Push ...
    As stocks have risen in recent years, the big hedge funds and the "too big to fail" banks have used borrowed money to make absolutely enormous profits.  But when you use debt to potentially multiply your profits, you also create the possibility that your losses will be multiplied if the markets ...
  • The Federal Reserve Shows Barack Obama Who The ...
    Barack Obama has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency during his time in the White House, but there is one institution that he simply will not mess with.  There is one organization that is considered to be so sacred in Washington D.C. that Obama will not dare utter a single negative wor ...
  • The Federal Government Hands Out Money To 128 ...
    The number of Americans receiving money directly from the federal government has grown from 94 million in the year 2000 to over 128 million today.  A shocking new research paper by Patrick Tyrrell and William W. Beach contains that statistic and a whole bunch of other very revealing numbers.  Ac ...
  • Can America Survive If Americans No Longer Agr ...
    What does America stand for?  That question is a lot more complicated than you might think.  Our Founding Fathers established a Republic that was based on a set of shared values that were embodied in the text of the U.S. Constitution.  But today, many of our politicians openly disregard the Cons ...
  • By The Numbers: 20 Facts About The Collapse Of ...
    The economic implosion of Europe is accelerating.  Even while the mainstream media continues to proclaim that the financial crisis in Europe has been "averted", the economic statistics that are coming out of Europe just continue to get worse.  Manufacturing activity in Europe has been contractin ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Urban birds alter songs to be heard over traff ...
    Many urban dwelling birds alter their song’s tune from the low-frequency to a high pitch to be heard far better in big cities’ noise pollution, new study says. Many species have developed divergent strategies for dealing with the numerous unfavorable environmental conditions in cities such as li ...
  • Britain preparing for new Falklands War
    A series of military options are being considered by UK defense chiefs as tension mounts between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands, a report by the Sunday Telegraph claims. Extra troops, warships and Typhoon combat aircraft could be dispatched to the islands if needed, ahead of the ...
  • New York State Now Leading Crusade Against Sec ...
    The U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, met Wednesday at the White House in Washington with victims and groups demanding more restrictive legislation on weapons. While in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo, took advantage of the discourse on state of the State to announce an agenda to ban assault weapo ...
  • France: US, UK providing support for Mali inte ...
    France’s foreign minister says the US and Britain are providing support for the French-led military intervention in Mali amid clashes in the West African country. Laurent Fabius made the announcement on Sunday, saying “We have the support of the Americans for communications and trans ...
  • Hundreds of thousands protest against gay marr ...
    Several hundred thousand demonstrators filled the streets of Paris during a protest against President Francois Hollande’s plans to legalize gay marriage later this year. The proposed law would allow same-sex couples to adopt children. The protesters, many of whom travelled from outside the capit ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    It was encouraging to learn today that German researchers working with catholic officials to produce the latest, supposedly independent, supposedly research based support for Vatican lies about endemic child rape by catholic religious have had enough and pulled the plug on the project. Read the ...
  • Fire’s Too Good for These Devils
    As much of Australia prepares to face catastrophic bush fire conditions today, I hope everyone is safe from fires and comes through unscathed. That even includes the church’s carefully protected child rapists and those who sacrifice additional children to cover up their crimes. Fire is too ...
  • Smokescreen Council Working for Deceitful Chur ...
    The CEO of the Council Which Should Not Exist, Francis Sullivan, is following in the footsteps of church officials by claiming, without basis, to speak for victims of the serial child sex offenders enabled and protected by his church. This week’s comments include a stated desire to be &#82 ...
  • Papists protect child rapists
    Papists protect rapists  by Voiceless Victim Papists protect their child rapists but won’t protect kids – like me. Papists pretend. What rapists? Who cares what those lies do to me. Papists revere holy rapists but won’t even listen to me Papists stand up for their rapists the o ...

WL Central

  • Inside the Hourglass, A World Rising Anew
    With economic and military force, in the last decades the United States has attained sole superpower status in the world. The legacy of the US empire carries a dark history: genocide of natives, slavery of blacks and criminalizing immigrants from the South. None can deny that much of US hegemon ...
  • 2012-12-28 Julian Assange essay wins "Russian ...
    This month, Russian Pioneer magazine reportedly awarded WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange the "Grand Prix" in the publication's second annual literary competition. Assange received the prize for his essay "Washington vs. Mankind" Winners were said to receive bicycles and bottles of cogna ...
  • 2012-12-28 Assange leads in online vote for Pe ...
    Julian Assange is currently the lead contender in an online voting contest for the Pericles Prize. Votes for the WikiLeaks leader and others have been cast in answer to the question "Who of all politicians was most sincere in his fight for social progress in 2012?" In the "Global" category, Assa ...
  • 2012-12-26 More pro-WikiLeaks Swedish organiza ...
    On Monday Torrent Freak reported that, after three years of service to the organization, PayPal has frozen the funds of PRQ, an ISP founded by The Pirate Bay's Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm. Earlier this month, sources also reported the suspension of the Twitter account of Anonymous Sweden ...
  • 2012-12-24 Several WikiLeaks movies in product ...
    Following on the heels of Underground: The Julian Assange Story - a 2012 biopic on the WikiLeaks founder's teen years - several major Hollywood studios are in various stages of planning or producing feature films about Assange and his organization. One full-length feature, tentatively titled The ...

U N News

  • UNESCO recognizes Brazilian friar&#39s contrib ...
    The United Nations has recognized a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto, with a leading international prize for his &#8220exceptional contribution&#8221 to building a universal culture of peace, social justice and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Marking third anniversary of earthquake, Ban c ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to continue its support for Haiti as he marked the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck the Caribbean country, while praising the progress achieved so far.
  • Haiti: UN-backed survey finds progress for chi ...
    Almost three years after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, preliminary results of a new United Nations-backed national household survey show substantial progress for children there in the education, nutrition, health and sanitation sectors since 2006.
  • Canadian authorities must start meaningful dia ...
    A United Nations independent expert today urged the Canadian Government to establish a meaningful dialogue with the country's aboriginal leaders in light of recent protests.
  • Renowned US doctor appointed to support UN eff ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed renowned United States physician Paul Farmer to help galvanize support to eliminate cholera in Haiti, where the disease has already claimed over 7,750 lives.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Sandy Hook 'Actors'?... Remarkable Resemblanc ...
    At issue is whether professional “crisis actors” are going beyond mere simulation of mass casualty events (what the Denver-based group VisionBox Crisis Actors say they do) to actually impersonate real-life people caught in the news of recent massacres, notably the Sandy Hook Elementary School ...
  • Outcome Based Education... The Social Engineer ...
    Outcome Based Education is not education. It is social engineering which uses behaviour modification and values clarification to control the level of knowledge acquired and change attitudes, behaviours, beliefs and values. Achievement level for every student is held constant, while the time tak ...
  • What Does 'HomeLand Security' Even Mean...?
    According to the Congressional Research Service, ten years after the September 11 attacks the US government still lacks a concise definition for "homeland security." So what does "homeland security" actually entail? ~ Video read more
  • Have ObamaCare IRS Raids Already Begun?
    Have Nazi gestapo’s arrived in America disguised as United States federal agents and the IRS? This video will enrage absolutely any small business owner in America and anyone else who cares a lick about America, for that matter. “If people are not outraged, they need to be!” “This is not Ame ...
  • EPA To Outlaw Many Wood Burning Stoves!
    Our ever so helpful government has decided that your wood burning stove is now a danger to the world. In another attempt to outlaw the off grid lifestyle, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the same agency that was recently caught using drones to spy on Americans, is now going after h ...

Tarpley

  • Syria: Meddling Thani Royals of Qatar Grow Des ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 14, 2013 [download video] [download audio] An analyst says the fact that Russia has stood firmly against the US drive to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power has made Washington unable in imposing its will regarding the issue. The commen ...
  • Obama’s Drone Gang vs. Neocon Battalions
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 14, 2013 Military intrigues swirl around Obama at start of second term: The drone gang confronts the gulf of Tonkin cabal. The moment when any colonial power begins to downsize its empire or pull back from foreign aggression generally brings with it th ...
  • Syriac-Aramean Church Peace Program for Syria ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 11, 2013 Recorded on January 5, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
  • Republican Austerity Fanatics in New Drive for ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 7, 2013 Tarpley at a demonstration promoted by the United Front Against Austerity (UFAA) at the US Capitol, December 31, 2012, as Obama and the Congress prepared a Satan Sandwich of capital gains and estate tax cuts to benefit Wall Street finance oligar ...
  • The Key to Peace in Syria: Expel the NATO-back ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 5, 2013 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • Post Collapse Survival
    Survival following a collapse or disaster is impossible to fully prepare for. It is impossible to accurately quantify and list. There is no single formula that will fit. The reason for this of course is that the unknowns are too many regarding the disaster or collapse scenario as well as the pre ...
  • Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians
    Most of us instinctively know that government has ballooned well beyond its means. Most of us also know that the business of politics is very big business. After all, how is it that politicians spend millions upon millions of dollars to become seated in government that officially pays them a fra ...
  • What Type Of Terrorist Events Might Involve Ra ...
    Possible terrorist events that could could involve radiation include the following. Introducing radioactive material into the food or water supply Using explosives (like dynamite) to scatter radioactive materials (called a ‘dirty bomb’) Bombing or destroying a nuclear facility Explod ...
  • How Many, Like Mark Levin, Are “So Frust ...
    The following 14 minute segment of Mark Levin’s radio program likely reflects the feelings of many law abiding good Americans while the Lilliputians of government continue to tighten the chains of liberty and freedom. The onslaught and rush for more gun control following the Sandy Hook sho ...
  • GOFoods
    We would like to welcome an additional sponsor who you may be interested in… particularly if you are looking for Non-Gmo foods… Message: Government and religious organizations have urged people to prepare for future times of need by storing extra food and water. With the recent downt ...

Fast Company

  • Nadav Kander’s Nudes Challenge Our Perception ...
    Acclaimed photographer Nadav Kander’s latest exhibition, "Bodies – 6 Women, 1 Man," lays bare the human body in all its glory. The human body is a wonder of diversity. You wouldn’t know it from perusing your local magazine rack, though. In his latest exhibition, Nadav Kan ...
  • A Transparent Trash Bag For Garbage That Isn’t ...
    If you need to get rid of some of your stuff, but would rather have others take it than have it go the landfill, just slip it in a Goedzak so passersby can see what’s available before the garbage truck comes. People are lazy. So lazy, in fact, many can’t be bothered to donate t ...
  • Male Pop Culture Icons Pound It For a Bromanti ...
    "I Know That Feel, Bro" is a meme that’s been newly invigorated by depictions involving star-crossed characters from your favorite movies and shows. Men were once raised to believe that society preferred the strong, silent type; that they were to remain stoic at all times, keeping co ...
  • Kickstarting: A Fuelband That Could Name Your ...
    A new startup attempts to crack the code on smarter fitness sensors that can pinpoint your exact exercise, automatically. Everyone who owns a Nike+ Fuelband knows a leisurely walk to the store can score you more fuel than breaking a sweat on an elliptical. And heaven forbid you ride a bike ...
  • 5 Tips For Exporting Your Creative Culture Fro ...
    San Francisco’s Goodby, Silverstein & Partners opens an office in New York. The new shop’s founding partners Nancy Reyes and Christian Haas discuss the principles that will guide the expansion. One of advertising’s top creative agencies announced last week that it was ...

Jadaliyya

  • ملف من الأرشيف: نزيهة الدليمي
    [”ملف من الأرشيف“ هي سلسة تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها بالعربية والإنجليزية بالتعاون مع جريدة ”السفير“ اللبنانية. الملفات لشخصيات أيقونية تركت أثراً عميقاً في الحقل السياسي والثقافي في العالم العربي.] الإسم: نزيهة الشهرة: الدليمي اسم الأب: جودت تاريخ الولادة: 1923 تاريخ الوفاة: 2007 الجنس ...
  • On the Margins Media Roundup (January)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Mali, South Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the On the Margins Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusi ...
  • سراويل الكويز برعاية الإخوان
    فى الأسبوع الماضي زار وفد مصري رسمي واشنطن للتفاوض مع إسرائيل والولايات المتحدة على توسيع إتفاق الكويز وتقليل نسبة المكون الإسرائيلى فى صادراته المصرية لأمريكا. في نفس الوقت تقريباً، كان نشطاء فلسطينيون يضعون اللمسات الأخيرة لخطة إنشاء أول قرية فلسطينية على أراضٍ خصصتها إسرائيل اغتصاباً للمستوطن ...
  • باقة ورد للأحياء
    شعر باقةُ وردٍ للأحياء الأمواتُ لا يمارسون الكلام  يحترفونَ الصمتَ والغياب  وإن أغراهم ذات حياة كلام ما  خرجوا خفيفين كالظلال  ينتعلون قبورهم  بخفة الشبح  يتبادلون شاياً بارداً  يضعونَ الوردَ  على أرواحِ أحيائهم ويرحلون  صداقة ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 15)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...

mediagazer

  • Part two: Warning signs (Chicago Tribune)
    Chicago Tribune: Part two: Warning signs  —  As pressure built to make a deal, an army of bankers and Tribune Co.'s top executives saw red flags but forged ahead — with huge fees and other payments as incentives  —  When Bank of America credit officer Dan P ...
  • Al Jazeera America: Will they watch? (Dylan By ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: Al Jazeera America: Will they watch?  —  In a matter of weeks, a new television channel called Al Jazeera America will launch with the hopes of achieving the impossible: convincing Americans that they should break from their regularly scheduled programmin ...
  • Part one: Zell's big gamble (Chicago Tribune)
    Chicago Tribune: Part one: Zell's big gamble  —  In the summer of 2007, a complicated deal to buy Tribune Co. and take it private reflected all the dangers of an easy-money era when caution was pushed aside  —  Aside from the business suit he was wearing, which h ...
  • The Atlantic backtracks and removes controvers ...
    Jon Russell / The Next Web: The Atlantic backtracks and removes controversial Scientology advertorial  —  The Atlantic has U-turned on its controversial paid-for feature article from the Church of Scientology.  The publication had sparked a debate on media ethics and busine ...
  • In battle for listeners, Audiobooks.com switch ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: In battle for listeners, Audiobooks.com switches to Audible's pay-by-the-book model  —  When Audiobooks.com launched last January, the company had high hopes for a cloud-based streaming service that would let users listen to unlimited audiobooks ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Mahindra to start exporting XUV5OO to Lat ...
    NEW DELHI: Auto major Mahindra & Mahindra today said it will start export of its sports utility vehicle XUV5OO to Latin America by September this year, besides expanding its base in Africa. The company has also ramped up production capacities of XUV5OO, compact SUV Quanto and its subsidiary ...
  • Mali insurgents counter French airstrikes
    PARIS -- Despite intensive airstrikes by French warplanes, Islamist fighters Monday overran a strategic village and military post in central Mali, offering an indication that the war against extremists who have carved out a jihadist state in the nation's north could be a long and diffic ...
  • 'Working with Mother Earth'
    DID YOU know that the word "sugar" comes from a Sanskrit word "sharkara" meaning gritty material? Sugar dates back thousands of years and was once a commodity flaunted by nobility to show off their wealth and power. Today sugar cane is grown in more than 120 countries and used in millions of ...
  • Ministers' failure to act on plastic bag ...
    Environment minister Richard Benyon promised the government would make a decision in 2012 on a bag charge in England Plastic pollution in Manila Bay, the Philippines. Over half of English adults think a 5p charge is not unreasonable for plastic bag use, and 75% would cut down use if a charge ...
  • Gay marriage: the debate in the Republic ...
    In the Republic of Ireland, same-sex couples can enter a civil partnership, but now the debate has moved on to whether or not they should be permitted to marry. New laws to allow gay marriage are expected to be introduced in England and Wales before the next election in 2015. There are no pl ...

no frakking consensus

  • Climate Change Morality
    Climate change is, indeed, a moral issue. Because the green plan for fighting it amounts to a war against the poor.
  • Gutting Democracy to Save the Planet
    According to the editors of a prestigious magazine, Obama should pull a fast one. Even though he barely mentioned climate change on the campaign trail, they think it should now be his foremost concern.
  • Searchable Secret Santa
    Simon Barnett has created a wonderful analysis tool for the new IPCC data.
  • Cogs in the Climate Machine
    The scientists who write IPCC reports have so little authority that changing the word "systems" to "ecosystems" involves multiple layers of bureaucracy.
  • Are a Third of IPCC Review Editors MIA?
    IPCC review editors were supposed to file a report last September. A third of them apparently didn't bother.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 1/11/13 - 20 Highest and Lowest Radiation Cell ...
    cellphones.procon.org  - 20 Highest and Lowest Radiation Cell Phones - The RIM Blackberry Curve has the highest SAR level (1.58) and the Samsung Galaxy Note has the lowest level (0.19). See the levels for the 20 highest and 20 lowest radiation phones, all Apple iPhones, and find the level f ...
  • 1/9/13 - Climate Change Made 2012 the Hottest ...
    climatechange.procon.org - Climate Change Made 2012 the Hottest Year in Continental United States Since 1895, NOAA Reports
  • 1/9/13 - Would financial motivations encourage ...
    euthanasia.procon.org  - Would financial motivations encourage insurance companies, health care providers, and patients to seek euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide if those options were legally available? Read new pro and con arguments from physicians, medical organizations, and advoc ...
  • 1/4/13 - Educators in over 3,500 schools in al ...
    www.procon.org - – Educators in over 3,500 schools in all 50 US states and 53 countries use ProCon.org. 756 elementary and middle schools, 1,821 high schools, and 983 colleges and universities use our free nonpartisan research to stimulate critical thinking. The newest international schools usin ...
  • 1/4/13 - How many people in the United States ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - How many people in the United States use medical marijuana? There are an estimated 1,029,315 patients in the 18 legal medical marijuana states and DC, as well as an estimated 2,421,069 medical marijuana users in the United States (based on an ave ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Post-revolutionary science
    Last year’s Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt’s first free presidential election made headlines around the world. There have been differing perspectives on what a Muslim Brotherhood victory might mean for science. For example, it was recently reported in Nature that some Egyptian scientists we ...
  • The Future of Academic Impact
      LSE’s public policy group put on an excellent conference programme on 4 December at Beveridge Hall. The conference explored the themes:1) the Economic impact of academic research; 2) impact and the new digital paradigm; 3) next steps in assessing impact; 4) impact as a driver for Open Access. ...
  • LERU 10 – Open Horizons: A Revolution in Open ...
      Brussels on a cold morning, the sun reluctantly rising in the clear sky, and there’s science to be done. Sitting at a jaunty angle from the European Parliament is “possibly the best investment Bavaria ever made” (according to Gunnar Wiegand, Deputy Director at the Representation of the Free St ...
  • CODATA 2012
      On the understanding that we needed to be indoors for a conference, the Taipei weather was accordingly drizzly with rain. The CODATA 2012 International Conference began on Sunday 28th October running until Wednesday 31st October. With several keynotes, high level panel discussions, and 4 or 5 ...
  • Predistribution Strategies: Innovation, Financ ...
    I attended a Policy Network event on 3 December. It was part of their series on economic reform, and the launch of William Lazonick & Marian Mazzucato’s paper called The Risk-Reward Nexus. Committee Room 3 in the House of Lords was a wonderfully grandiose setting. The event was to centre on ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Lies and cover-ups by the Australian national ...
    Today, in the second hour, we welcome journalist Chris Graham to the show. Chris is the founding editor of the National Indigenous Times and the recipient of the prestigious Walkley Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs reporting. In the course of our interview Chris documents a range of ...
  • The pharmacracy exposed, with Thomas Szasz - P ...
    In the second hour of today's show we bring you some audio clips from the late Dr. Thomas Szasz, pyschiatrist, philosopher and intellectual giant of the modern era. Szasz was well known for his critique of biochemical reductionism in psychiatry, but it is interesting to note that he was also a ...
  • Rochelle Macredie on the Sandy Hook massacre - ...
    My guest tonight is Rochelle Macredie, LLB, BSc, who joins us to expose discrepencies, anomalies and disinformation in the coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Rochelle's incisive intellect dissects many confusing strands of this story in an attempt to penetrate through the propaganda t ...
  • Restore Australia! - Part 1
    On today's show in the second hour we welcome Mike Holt of Restore Australia. Restore Australia’s goal is to amend Section 128 of our Constitution to give all Australian voters, as well as the Parliament, the right to initiate a referendum to amend the Constitution. Why should we do th ...
  • Australia - the new capital of the New World O ...
    Today I'm joined in studio by Damon Crowe for a general discussion about the quality of life in Australia and the way in which our society has been swallowed up by the forces of international homogenisation and enslavement. We look at the cost of living, sky rocketing property prices, and the ...

Beacon

  • High-Tech Robot Seeks Out Right Whales
    Chief scientist Mark Baumgartner secures glider (with its wings removed) after it was recovered Dec. 4 from its three-week mission. Photo by Nadine Lysiak, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place over the weekend, but one new hig ...
  • Chile's Seamounts Up Close
    Take a dive and witness one of the most remote but ecologically diverse habitats in the world: the seamounts off of Chile. Seamounts are underwater mountain ranges where nutrient-rich water from the depths comes up to the surface and fuels an explosion of colorful marine life. In these coral ...
  • Save the Whales: Threats Old and New
    Once a rallying cry of environmentalists and ocean lovers, the call to “Save the Whales!” has seemingly died down in recent years.  At the 2010 meeting of the International Whaling Commission, the 88 member countries even discussed lifting the ban on commercial whaling.  Though whali ...
  • The Real-Life Kraken, Caught on Tape
    After a decade-long hunt almost as obsessive as Captain Ahab’s search for Moby Dick, a team of researchers and journalists from Japan’s National Science Museum, the Discovery Channel, and Japanese broadcaster NHK have captured video of the mysterious giant squid in its natural habitat, about 9 m ...
  • Stampede!
    Whale watchers off of Dana Point, California were treated to an exhilarating sight this weekend, witnessing a spectacular if unusual phenomenon: the so-called dolphin stampede. All at once a massive pod of 1,000 dolphins turned the waters around Capt. Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari boat white, ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • News Desk: Sen. Schumer Encourages Colleagues ...
    “Based on several key assurances provided by Senator Hagel,” Mr. Schumer said in a prepared statement, “I am currently prepared to vote for his confirmation. I encourage my Senate colleagues who have shared my previous concerns to also support him.” Mr. Schumer is likely to have influence over m ...
  • The Daily Show: Investigative Journalism Alive ...
    The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook SPENDING THOUSANDS of dollars on fancy graphics and big salaries for infotainment hosts is what is replacing investigative journalism. “The Daily Show” take ...
  • Oprah on Lance Armstrong Confession: “Entire I ...
    “The entire interview was difficult,” Winfrey said Tuesday on “CBS This Morning.” [...] Winfrey went on to explain that while Armstrong “did not come clean in the manner that I expected” and that it was “surprising to me … my team, all of us in the ...
  • New York Times: Obama to Announce 19 Separate ...
    THE POWER of the presidency is about to be exercised by Barack Obama. He’ll collide with right wing extremists in the Congress on gun safety, as well as the N.R.A., which still compose a minority of the American people. It will depend on the American majority in favor of gun safety to get ...
  • Daily Chart of Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook
    From Upworthy.com, the The Daily Chart Of Gun Deaths That Can’t Stop Growing. Check It Out Now While It Still Fits On Your Computer.

Hudson New York

  • The "Victimology" Subterfuge
    Islamists, who have, like many others, found ways of influencing Western democracies, have refined one process in particular, called al Taqiyya [dissimulation], sanctioned to promote Islam to "unbelievers" or "infidels," if and when considered necessary.
  • Palestinians: Fatah's Armed Gangs Are Back
    After keeping a low profile for the past few years, Fatah's armed gangs have resurfaced in the West Bank. The reappearance of the masked gunmen could only mean one of two things: either the Palestinian Authority is really losing control, or that it is
  • Syria's Chemical Weapons
    In recent days, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ended speculation over whether thousands of American troops might be sent to Syria to prevent deadly chemical weapons from falling into the wrong hands, and he publicly rejected contingency plans drawn up
  • Many of the Worst Anti-Semites Are European
    A few days ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the leading Jewish human rights organizations today, published its "Top 10" list of the world's worst anti-Semitic/anti-Israel slurs. The usual suspects are named and in the top spots : Mahmoud
  • Cyprus: Russia's Next Lunch?
    Cyprus's banks are on the brink of collapse. As a result of a crisis that began in Greece, and as one of the 17 European countries that use the euro as their currency, Cyprus, a victim of the euro's domino effect, is being dragged down by the eurocrisis,

Urban Survival

  • Data Roulette
    “Step right up – come on in to Ure’s House of Failed Fortunes.  Spin the Big Wheel and see what Lady Longwave Luck has posted at the BLS website!”   “The Producer Price Index for finished goods declined 0.2 percent … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Losing the Freedom to Connect
    Curious things are afoot lately, where the line between “We the People” and officials in government seem to be thinning to the point where it’s no long commonly thought to be “We” – with governance self-arising.  Instead, we’re moving closer … ...
  • 90-120 Days from a Bond Collapse?
    I trust you’ve looked at this chart of the 10-year US government bond and have concluded – as I have – that the 10-year bond is running out of room to decline?   So as an adherent to the Long … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Talk Among Time Monks
    The most interesting parts of the weekend were not the longest, nor were they particularly surprising.  Yet they will likely hold the longest impacts over the long term, I think.   First one with was Clif…who’s up to his ears … Continue reading →
  • So, Do We Get New All-Time Highs?
    The big news in financial markets this morning  – and it’s not much – is the new Balance of Trade figures and it’s hardly what anyone in their right mind would call exciting:   “The U.S. Census Bureau and the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • A Polar Bear Camps Out in London: Will Prime M ...
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Today in London's Sloane Square, a lovely life-sized statue of a polar bear by artist Adam Binder was unveiled by Stanley Johnson, the father of London's Mayor Boris Johnson, and an author a ...
  • EPA Finally Comes Clean on Dirty Soot Politics
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. A remarkable confession and verdict in the world of pollution and politics happened quietly last month, noticed only by a few insiders. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency admit ...
  • New York still has much work to do on fracking
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City On Friday, NRDC and its coalition partners submitted detailed comments on the Cuomo Administration’s revised draft rules for proposed fracking in the state, revealed last month, as the 30-day opport ...
  • Using Nature's Defenses to Protect New York fr ...
    Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. In the annual State of the State address this week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a slew of initiatives aimed at better preparing the state for more extreme weather and storm events like Hu ...
  • An affordable housing enclave that fits in, st ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   A group of civic and architectural partners in Little Rock has developed a great concept for improving a declining neighborhood, incrementally increasing density, and applying ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, January 11, 2013: Update: Creve Coeur, Missouri: An officer has left his job in the wake of his arrest for allegedly beating, choking and kicking two high school students … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct Ne ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, January 10, 2013: Winston Salem, North Carolina: A police officer was arrested and charged a second time with assaulting his girlfriend. He has been accused of pushing and threatening … Continue reading →National Poli ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, January 9, 2013: Pauls Valley, Oklahoma: A pregnant woman, Jamie Lynn Russell, who went to the hospital, has died after police took her to jail. “Jamie was seeking help; … Continue reading →National Police Misco ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, January 8, 2013: Seneca County, Ohio: An officer was arrested, fired, and sentenced to 6 months in prison for stealing from the village while he was in office. ow.ly/gDJYv … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
  • Disorderly Deputy Arrests Orderly Man With Vid ...
    From TwinCities.com: He had been filming from about 30 feet away, he said. Henderson said deputies gave him no warning before Muellner took his camera. The deputy wrote on the citation, “While handling a medical/check the welfare (call), (Henderson) was … Continue reading →Diso ...

Total Collapse

  • Russian Navy to Get over 50 Warships by 2016
    The Russian navy will receive more than 50 new warships by 2016, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. In the coming three years, 18 surface warships, 30 special-purpose and counter-subversion vessels as well as six multi-purpose strategic submarines will be put into service, the ministry said in ...
  • Obama Warned To Prepare For Hillary Clinton Death
    A startling Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Obama was informed by White House medical personal shortly after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s return to the United States that her health prognosis was “grim” as her likelihood o ...
  • Russian Navy to hold biggest war games in decades
    The four major Russian Navy fleets will hold a joint exercise in late January in the Mediterranean and Black seas. It will be the biggest such event in decades. Commands for the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea and Pacific fleets have been preparing for the exercises since December of last year, the ...
  • Hillary Clinton in hospital amid speculation o ...
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s admittance to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Monday, Dec, 31 – with a blood clot caused by concussion – gave wings to a cloud of rumor and conspiracy theories surrounding her state of health. The hospital, where Saudi King Abdullah was also ...
  • Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret ...
    A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [photo 2nd left]was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed near ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Global PC shipments fall (th ...
    The tablet market appears to be having a negative affect on worldwide shipments of traditional PCs, Obvious Corporation’s curated discussion platform Branch opens to all, and Eric Schmidt stops by... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Java, Best Buy, and th ...
    Java gets whacked, Groupon goes payments on Android, Best Buy has a flat holiday season, and TwitPic’s dude is back. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Amazon AutoRip gives you MP3 ...
    Amazon launches AutoRip, giving US customers MP3 copies of CDs they’ve bought, Nokia fares surprisingly well in Q4 2012, and Digg’s new owners are bullish about its future. It’s all... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: WSJ says Apple plans a cheap ...
    Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper iPhone according to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft will transition Messenger users to Skype in March, and LinkedIn passes 200 million users. It’s... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Ford lets developers loose o ...
    Ford launches a Developer Network for SYNC-enabled cars, Samsung reveals 60″+ TVs, and Apple’s Tim Cook is in China for high-powered meetings. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...
  • This summer, BBQ without cooking the planet
    For the summer holiday season, the first thing on everyone's mind is naturally how to minimise their carbon emissions. Well, maybe not the first thing on everyone's mind, but it is at least possible to have a barbie without contributing extra greenhouse emissions – and probably more convenient ...
  • BZE Awards its Volunteers
    BZE relies on its dedicated and skilled volunteers for much of our research and public education initiatives. All our volunteers deserve an award! Today we are recognising those people that have excelled themselves in 2012. A big thank you to them and to all the people that have volunteered fo ...
  • Hartcher should stop providing PR for the gas ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions statement, 20 December 2012 New South Wales Energy Minister Chris Hartcher recently said “If we are unable to access gas the lights will go out. It's as simple as that." (Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2012). The statement is clearly wrong, on many counts (see below). Why is ...
  • Is dirty gas killing clean coal?
    CSG fracking: destroying carbon capture & storage potential? Media release, December 17, 2012 “Fracking” to tap unconventional gas resources could destroy the much-hyped “clean coal” carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Earlier this year, Scientific American reported findings that ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • 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 ...
  • Saving manta rays from the fin trade
    Tens of millions of sharks and rays are killed each year to meet demand for shark fin, a delicacy across East Asia. But while the plight of sharks has gained prominence in international environmental circles in recent years, the decline in rays has received considerably less attention. A new fil ...
  • Saving the Arabian leopard, the world's smalle ...
    Today most people are more likely to associate Yemen with warfare and bizarre terrorism plots rather than wildlife. But Yemen is home to a surprising diversity of animals, including a population of the world's smallest leopard: The Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr). Native to the Arabian Pe ...
  • Malaysian candidate pledges to drop controvers ...
    Malaysia's current opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, has pledged to cancel the controversial Baram Dam in Sarawak if upcoming general elections sweep him into the office of Prime Minister. Ibrahim made the announcement while visiting the state of Sarawak, located on the island of Borneo, over th ...
  • Climate change already pummeling U.S. accordin ...
    Climate change is on the march across the U.S. according to a new draft report written by U.S. government scientists with input from 240 experts. It documents increasing and worsening extreme weather, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification among other impacts. Released Friday for public revi ...

Sierra Express

  • Hon Moijue Kaikai – A Failed Attempt to Discre ...
    Quite recently; a little over a week ago to be precise, President Koroma announced his first set of men and women who would constitute his next Cabinet.  In the list of these appointments was Honorable Moijue Kaikai who was appointed Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs; aft ...
  • African Minerals supports Lokomasama Chiefdom ...
    The people of Robegn Village in the Lokomasama Chiefdom, Port Loko District are currently in desperate need of support from the government and humanitarian organization. Not until the intervention of African Minerals Company, over three hundred people (including women and children) were spending ...
  • Floods: Stemming the tide in West Africa
    Every year West African citizens experience heavy downpours, which often result in flooding. The floods in turn bring death, destruction to property and crops and outbreaks of disease. In 2012, the situation worsened dramatically. And the United Nations warns that climate change, increasing urba ...
  • New HIV infections are falling dramatically in ...
    Africa is pulling out all the stops in its race to curb the AIDS pandemic by 2015, a deadline set by UN member states. From making anti-retroviral drug therapy (ART) readily available to the masses, to increasing consistent, correct condom use and voluntary medical male circumcision, everything ...
  • Attempt to discredit APC UK/NI Branch
    The attention of the Leadership of the All People’s Congress (APC) United Kingdom/Northern Ireland Branch has been drawn to the disturbing news in which a group of individuals attempted to discredit the executive of the Branch. This follows a meeting organised by the said group at the Meth ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Crafar Farms animal abuse trial postponed
    A trial involving five parties linked to the running of Crafar Farms who face hundreds of charges between them of animal abuse has been postponed. The trial was to start today in the Rotorua District Court but has been put off for...
  • This year looking good for beef, dairy
    The signs are mildly positive for the dairy and beef sectors this year, but the outlook for sheep farmers does not look quite so rosy, agricultural economists said.Farmers across the board will face the likelihood of a rising New...
  • Chinese firm plans $210m milk plant in NZ
    Yashili International Holdings, which manufactures and distributes infant milk formula products in China, is the latest Chinese company looking to invest in New Zealand, with plans to build a 1.1 billion yuan ($210 million) processing...
  • Gisborne Milk Co-op survival bid fail
    Gisborne Milk Co-op, the 66-year-old Bay of Plenty dairy supplier in liquidation, has lost a last-ditch bid to get back shares and supply arrangements with Fonterra Cooperative Group.In the High Court in Auckland, Justice Rebecca...
  • Crunch time alarm sounded
    Financial institutions may struggle to be ready for new anti-money-laundering laws if they haven't yet begun preparations, a legal expert warns.PricewaterhouseCoopers advisory partner Eric Lucas said that when Australia introduced...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Sen. Ron Wyden Would Kind of Like to Know What ...
    Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sits on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and therefore would have some legislative oversight over what our Central Intelligence Agency is doing. Or so you might think. Wyden, last seen trying (and failing) to get the National Security Admin ...
  • FLASHBACK: Watch Eric Holder Tell Congress Tha ...
    In June of 2012 Attorney General Eric Holder was asked by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) why the Obama administration had gone back on its campaign pledge not to crack down on medical marijuana. In response, Holder told Nadler that his question was "inconsistent with these little things ...
  • Nick Gillespie on Obama, Jon Stewart, Sandy Ho ...
    Vice President Joe Biden is making gun-control recommendations, President Barack Obama is pushing the need for "common-sense" gun control, and Daily Show host Jon Stewart is making heartfelt and sardonically witty pleas to do something in the wake of December's Sandy Hook school ...
  • Gene Healy on No Labels' Cloying Earnestness
    No Labels, the ostensibly post-partisan group founded in 2010 to promote "a new politics of problem solving," launched a press offensive this week, writes Gene Healy. According to the group's newly minted national leaders, Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-W.Va.) and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman ...
  • Wife of California Medical Marijuana Grower Be ...
    In an interview with Barbara Walters, Pres. Obama said he wouldn't be going after pot smokers in Colorado or Washington because he had "bigger fish to fry." Molly Davies, whose husband Matt Davies is facing 10 years in federal prison for supplying medical marijuana in compliance wi ...

Mercury Rising

  • Colin Powell Strongly Endorses Hagel: Take THA ...
    Yet another person whose judgement counts for something has come out in Chuck Hagel’s corner: Colin Powell said Sunday that Chuck Hagel would be confirmed secretary of defense, offering a ringing endorsement of the decorated war hero and former Republican senator from Nebraska. The former ...
  • There’s never enough Bachmania
    Via Kaili Joy Gray at DK, Salon’s Alex Seitz-Wald: Over a year after she dropped out, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has refused to pay five staffers from her failed presidential bid, according to a former top campaign official. Peter Waldron, her controversial former national field coor ...
  • Another sacrifice to Pluto
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh2dFngFsg&feature=player_embedded#! (Video via UnaSpenser, DK) Via Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money, lawyer Larry Lessig tells the tragic tale of a young, infinitely-talented, public-spirited man brought to suicide by malicious prosecution, under th ...
  • Main Objections To #MintTheCoin Political, Not ...
    Well, that settles that: The U.S. Treasury Department will not mint a high-value platinum coin to avert the debt ceiling, according to an official statement from the Obama administration obtained by the Huffington Post on Saturday. “Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believe ...
  • Scott Horton puts names to the dysfunction in ...
    (Photograph of David Margolis from Joe Palazzolo, Main Justice) (Photograph of Lt. Col. Ronald L. Rodgers from Dafna Linzner, ProPublica) Everytime there’s a broken system, there are people inside it, breaking it. If they can be named, confronted, and (ideally) ejected, the system can be f ...

Reality Sandwich

  • World's First 3D Photobooth
    The Eye of Gyre, an art exhibition space in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood, recently introduced the world’s first 3D photo booth. It is appropriately named the 3D Shashin-Kan, which literally translates to ‘3D Picture Space.' read more
  • Eliminating Waste and Creating Community
    Urban farming is on the rise across the country, and one of its most fascinating forms is aquaponics, which combines hydroponics, a growing method that uses water instead of soil, and aquaculture, seafood farming.  read more
  • J. R. R. Tolkien and the Intensified Trajector ...
      The following in excerpted from Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience, published by Inner Traditions.   Have you believed in jaguars? Have you believed that, when dying, you will turn into a jaguar? --Eighteenth-century interrogatory
 of Franciscan fr ...
  • Sex in the News
      The House GOP and the Violence Against Women Act, six geeky sex toys and six myths about STI's, the devil loves anal, and more in this week's sex in the news.  read more
  • A Species Recovering from Amnesia: A Talk with ...
    Few writers can match Graham Hancock's influence as the author of several breakthrough books of alternative history, including Fingerprints of the Gods, Underworld, and Supernatural. His work has been instrumental in challenging institutional thinking about humanity's lost past, whil ...

Desertification

  • OP-ED: Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of ...
    Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we unequivocally learned that the fossil fuel energy that powers our societies is destroying them. Accepting this reality is the biggest challenge of the brand new year. Re-engineering our societies and lifestyles to prosper on green a ...
  • OP-ED: A Universal Climate Change Agreement Is ...
    The results of the United Nations climate change conference that closed in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 8 show once again that the international negotiations are moving steadily in the right direction, but alarmingly slow. At the heart of these negotiations is nothing less than the most challenging energ ...
  • Critics Brand Climate Talks Another Lost Oppor ...
    Rich countries came to the U.N. climate talks in Doha intent on delaying needed action on climate change for another three years and a still to be hammered out new global treaty. This delay will be extraordinarily expensive and risky. Every year that fossil fuel emissions fail to decline adds to ...
  • Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts ...
    The United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without financial commitments between 2013 and 2015. “This an incredibly weak deal,” said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a coalit ...
  • A Hotter World Is a Hungry World
    Food prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18, scientists and activists say. Carbon emissions are already disrupting the world&# ...

Blogging Canadians

  • "Your Friend" and Facebook, Inc.
    The Ultimate Facebook Prank: How To "Kill" Your Friends on Facebook by Faking Their Deaths by Osas Obaiza As originally posted on: WonderHowTo January 4, 2013 It only takes a minute for something well intentioned to turn into something sinister. Facebook created 'memorial pages' as way fo ...
  • Finale: "The Government / #Bankster / Corporat ...
    the biggest #mafia in the world is the government/#bankster/corporate/military cartel. by J.S. Kim As originally posted on: Gold&SilverRealMoney (smartknowledgeu) on Twitter August 9, 2012
  • On the Twelfth Day of Cronyism . . . : The System
    The following tweets were originally posted by "Anti War" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/_AntiWar_), variously, on October 17, 2012; December 9, 2012; December 10, 2012; December 11, 2012; December 13, 2012; December 14, 2012; December 15, 2012; December 16, 2012; December 17, ...
  • On the Eleventh Day of Cronyism . . . : "The P ...
    WAR IS BUSINESS. by "Ann Arky" As originally posted on: annarky's blog. December 24, 2012 In times of "austerity" our "democratic" governments still spend a whopping slice of your money and my money in killing people across the globe. We in the UK are the world's fourth largest spender on ...
  • Liberal leadership – a beauty pageant?
    If Justin Bieber were a nobody and you’d met him in the street or at a bar, you might be inclined, provided he’s your type, to ask him, “Wanna hang out sometime?”, or, more awkwardly, “For you, I’d change the alphabet and put U and I next to each other.” (Yeah, good luck with that.) But Justin ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • 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.
  • Blasts hit Aleppo University, 80 killed
    At least 80 people have been killed and dozens of others injured after two explosions took place in and around Aleppo University in Syria’s second largest city, Press TV reports.
  • Russia opposes referring Syria to ICC
    Russia has voiced strong opposition to referring Syria crisis to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as ill-timed and counterproductive.
  • Iraqi MP killed in Anbar bomb attack
    An Iraqi lawmaker and five others, including three of his bodyguards, have been killed in a bomb attack in the western province of Anbar.
  • Palestinian teen shot dead in West Bank
    A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by Israeli military forces in the northern West Bank, Palestinian medical and security sources say.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • On The Day My Life Changed Forever
    Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]
  • MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
    In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...
  • Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
    In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
  • I am a marathoner.
    Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...
  • A Post-Sandy Report from Far Rockaway
    Hello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]

Dissident Voice

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

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