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Thursday, January 3, 2013

3 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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The Economic Collapse

  • 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will ...
    Do you believe that economic trouble is coming in 2013?  If so, you have a lot of company.  According to a brand new Gallup poll that was just released, 65 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be a year of "economic difficulty" while only 33 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be ...
  • The Good, The Bad And The Ugly From The Fiscal ...
    The fiscal cliff deal contains more bad news than it does good news.  Yes, the tax increases on the middle class could have been much worse, and we should be thankful that Congress at least did something for the middle class.  Unfortunately, they didn't do enough.  Every American worker is going ...
  • 50 Predictions For 2013
    Are you ready for a wild 2013?  It should be a very interesting year.  When the calendar flips over each January, lots of people make lots of lists.  They make lists of "resolutions", but most people never follow through on them.  They make lists of "predictions", but most of those predictions a ...
  • A Massive Electromagnetic Pulse Could Collapse ...
    What would you do if all the lights went out and they never came back on?  That is a question that the new NBC series "Revolution" asks, but most people have no idea that a similar thing could happen in real life at any moment.  A single gigantic electromagnetic pulse over the central United Sta ...
  • Happy New Year Middle Class: The Fiscal Cliff ...
    The middle class has quite a gift welcoming them as the calendar flips over to 2013.  Their payroll taxes are going to go up, their income taxes are going to go up, and approximately 28 million households are going to be hit with a huge, unexpected AMT tax bill on their 2012 earnings.  So happy ...

 

Scoop - NZ

  • Rashid: West's model of development is flawed
    Ahmed Rashid, one of the world's foremost experts on Afghanistan, once welcomed US intervention in the failed state. But in a SPIEGEL interview, the Pakistani journalist says the West's model for development is fundamentally flawed and must be changed.
  • Syrian bloodbath if al-Nusra, FSA, gain control ?
    “If the Free Syrian Army, if this [Syria’s militia group Jabhat] al-Nusra gang of death squads in particular should ever gain power over Syria or large parts of Syria, we would witness a colossal bloodbath that would certainly be the biggest in the current century,” Webster Griffin Tarpley told ...
  • Washington pushes US to edge of fiscal cliff
    "Something has gone terribly wrong when the biggest threat to the American economy is the American Congress," said Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Americans could see a bigger bite taken out of their paychecks starting on Tuesday as payroll and income tax cuts expire, while 2 ...
  • 2013: A critical year for Saudi regime
    “I think 2013 will prove to be a critical year for that country [Saudi Arabia] because we are seeing an accelerating wave of protest around the country,” Ali Al Ahmad said during an interview with Press TV on Saturday. Ahmad also said that demonstrations against the rule of the Al-Saud royal ...
  • Can the US think strategically about Iran, Chi ...
    .. one of the most important is the failure of American political and policy elites to define clear, reality-based goals and to relate the diplomatic, economic, and military means at Washington’s disposal to realizing them soberly and efficaciously. Defining such ends and relating the full rang ...

Independent - London

  • A tale of two Als: Why Al Gore sold out to Al ...
    In 2008, Al Gore, US Vice-President under Bill Clinton and climate change crusader, posed a question during a speech at an energy conference in Washington. Referring to renewable energy sources such as solar power, he asked: "What if we could use fuels that are not expensive, don't cause pollut ...
  • Google does not skew search results, US antitr ...
    US anti-trust regulators have ended a long running investigation into Google without bringing any major charges against the search engine giant, a move that is likely to disappoint rivals.
  • Delhi authorities charge five men over gang-ra ...
    The Delhi authorities today charged five men with murdering the 23-year-old physiotherapy student who died after being gang-raped on a bus in the city earlier this month. Related StoriesGoogle chairman Eric Schmidt to visit North KoreaUS drone strike kills top militant Mullah Nazir in PakistanC ...
  • 'The people of the Falklands are British' says ...
    David Cameron has rebuffed a renewed demand by Argentina to hand back the Falklands, insisting the islands’ residents had his “100 per cent backing” in their determination to remain British.Related StoriesMore than 100,000 sign US petition to deport Piers Morgan'Hand back the Falkland Islands' ...
  • Burmese government admits air strikes in north ...
    The Burmese government says it has used military jets to attack rebel fighters in northern Kachin state – its first admission of an intensification in the conflict that has raised doubts about the country’s reformist credentials.Related StoriesGoogle chairman Eric Schmidt to visit North KoreaUS ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • States have subsidized makers of assault rifle ...
    Taxpayers across the country are subsidizing the manufacturers of assault rifles used in multiple mass killings, including the massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. last month. A Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting examination of tax records sho ...
  • 1 in 24 drivers admit nodding off behind the wheel
    The study also found drowsy driving was more common in men and people ages 25 to 34. This could give you nightmares: 1 in 24 U.S. adults say they recently fell asleep while driving. And health officials think the number is probably higher. That's because some people don't realize it when they ...
  • Tending the body's microbial garden
    For a century, doctors have waged war against bacteria, using antibiotics as their weapons. But that relationship is changing as scientists become more familiar with the 100 trillion microbes that call us home - collectively known as the microbiome. "I would like to lose the language of warfare ...
  • Three women killed in Swiss village shooting
    Three women were shot and killed and two men were wounded before police in southern Switzerland disabled the gunman by shooting him in the chest, officials said Thursday. Police said the alleged assailant, an unemployed 33-year-old who had been treated for psychiatric problems in the past, was ...
  • Obama signs NDAA again, disappoints on Gitmo a ...
    For the second year in a row, the president signs into law a bill he purports to have major problems with This time last year, President Obama said that he had "serious reservations" about certain provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. But he signed it anyway. This year, the ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Ships, not.
    F-35, now ships. Go read The Sixth Estate for some thinking on the numbers behind the next Conservative military procurement scandaliciousness.
  • Pussy paranoia . . .
    UNLIKE STEVIE, it can be hard to tell what your cat may be up to, cats are subtle creatures. Matthew Inman's oeuvre is available at Amazon and elsewhere.
  • The final solution . . .
    GENOCIDE CAN BE CULTURAL, and NativeWritesNow is grateful to Christie Blatchford for the explanation, with a post, "Christie Blatchford is telling the truth".  Take a minute and check out how this is so.
  • Allied efforts . . .
    IDLE NO MORE: Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water. We must repair these violations, live the ...
  • Odious and disgusting . . .
    KUDOS TO MONTREAL SIMON: his post, "When the Cons Try to Cover Up Murder" is something you must read. Stevie will have much to answer for.

Media Matters for America

  • Media Ignore Past Spending Cuts In Reports On ...
    Following the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act, media figures have lamented that spending cuts were not included in the deal. However, experts believe that spending cuts made in 2011 should be included in assessing the latest deal, which shows budget cuts factor heavily into deficit r ...
  • Network News Shows Ignore House GOP Failure To ...
    The news shows of the major networks ABC, NBC, and CBS did not report on the need to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which expired after the House failed to reauthorize it by the close of the 112th Congress on Tuesday. The reauthorization of the law was blocked by House Republ ...
  • Fox, Right-Wing Media Defend Boehner's Decisio ...
    Fox and right-wing media figures defended Republican House Speaker John Boehner's decision to cancel a vote on an aid package for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Following sharp bipartisan criticism over that decision, Boehner agreed to a vote this week.Boehner Canceled Expected Vote On Sandy Aid C ...
  • Right-Wing Media Falsely Compare U.S. With Gre ...
    In an effort to push for federal spending cuts, right-wing media figures have repeatedly claimed that the U.S. is on the path to becoming Greece, which is facing a severe debt crisis. However, the comparison between the two countries is wholly misleading, and sharp spending cuts in Greece have e ...
  • Climate Change Misinformer Of The Year: Marc M ...
    ClimateDepot.com founder Marc Morano has been called "the Matt Drudge of climate denial," the "king of the skeptics," and "a central cell of the climate-denial machine," and he revels in these descriptions. Although he has no scientific expertise, he is adamant that manmade global warming is a " ...

Global Research.ca

  • US Sponsored Sectarian Iraq Regime: Prime Mini ...
    by Ibrahim Ebeid A Confidant of Al Dawa Sectarian Party of Maliki said, that orders were issued from the so cold office of the commander in chief of the armed forces, to the commanders in Mosul, Samara and Almuthanna, to…
  • Latvia’s Economic Disaster Heralded as a Neoli ...
    A generation ago the Chicago Boys and their financial supporters applauded General Pinochet’s anti-labor Chile as a success story, thanks mainly to its transformation of their Social Security into Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) that almost universally were looted by…
  • The American People are the Big Losers In The ...
    The Big Winners:  Big Banks and Big Companies The “fiscal cliff” deal will raise taxes for 77% of the American public. It will add $4 trillion dollars to the deficit over the next 10 years. It will create a drag…
  • US, France deploy troops to Central African Re ...
    by Patrick O’Connor The US and France are deploying additional troops to the Central African Republic (CAR), as anti-government militias close on the capital, Bangui. The intervention is part of a wider ratcheting up of imperialist military operations across Africa,…
  • “Control of the Preferred Narrative&#822 ...
    Control of the preferred narrative is essential in today’s instant-news political culture. This has been particularly true since 9/11, as the United States government and the cooperative media have worked together to make sure that a series of enemies are…

TPM Cafe

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

  • What Happens When Fracking Hits the Suburbs
    The corner of Goldenrod and Western streets, with its grid of modest homes, could be almost any suburb that went up in a hurry – except of course for the giant screeching oil rig tearing up the earth and making the pavement shudder underfoot.Fracking, the technology that open ...
  • Defense and Security Companies Are Planning to ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.The world's political leaders couldn't say they hadn't been warned. In the run up to the UN climate negotiations in early December in Qatar, it wasn't just the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, global accoun ...
  • Endangered Colorado: Is it Too Late to Save On ...
     The following excerpt is fromRiver Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado by Wade Davis, © 2013 Wade Davis. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington DC."Man always kills the things he loves, and so we the pioneers, have killed our wilderness. Some ...
  • 5 Reasons Our Changing Climate Is More Dangero ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.This week the sane among us will scoff at those hoarding candles and food for another apocalypse that fails to materialize. We’ll laugh at the accounts of people readying their bunkers and at store shelves being ...
  • Oil and Gas Industry Prepare Smear Campaign Ag ...
    This story first appeared on DeSmog Blog.      Next month Focus Features releases Matt Damon’s new movie and the oil and gas industry is worried sick about it.The movie, Promised Land, is about a Pennsylvania farm town deciding whether to go forwa ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas Breaks Another Wind Energy Record
    As we close in on the end of 2012 with a winter front keeping temperatures low, Texas achieved a new wind power integration record of 8.638 GW on Dec. 25 at 3:11 p.m according to the Texas grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Electricity from wind accounted for 25.71 ...
  • New wind installations my pass new natural gas ...
    According to Bloomberg, with four days left in 2012, wind-turbine installations are expected to exceed natural gas-fueled power plants in the U.S. for the first time as wind farm developers race to complete projects before a renewable energy tax credit expires. New wind capacity reached 6,519 me ...
  • The Results Are In: Cleaner Air Does Save Lives
    Fine particles in the air (particularly those smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) cause a multitude of health problems, ranging from difficulty breathing and asthma to heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.  The question has been whether or not cleaning the ...
  • Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Dit ...
    The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has taken a step that any self-respecting supporter of renewable energy should do – ditched the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  This relationship looked a lot like the fabled one between the scorpion and tortoise. Despite member ...
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        $25 Advance Tickets ($35 at Door, please register in advance) (Tickets include live entertainment, all food and beverages) Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin Eco Network, Public Citizen, Design Build Live, USGBC-Central Texas Chapter, Center for Maximum Potential, Texas League of Con ...

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Climate

  • The Wind Industry Gets To Draw Another Breath
    (New York Times) In the last-minute tax maneuvering in Congress this week, wind power came out well. Wind not only got an extension of its tax credit in the federal budget compromise, but the rules were also restructured: while the ex ...
  • Climate Coverage Falls Further in 2012
    (The Daily Climate) Widespread drought, super-storm Sandy, and a melting ice cap failed to revive the media's interest in climate change in 2012, with worldwide coverage continuing its three-year slide, according to a media database ma ...
  • Under Pressure, Boehner Agrees to Hold Two Vot ...
    (The Hill) Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has agreed to hold two votes on Hurricane Sandy aid after coming under withering fire from New York and New Jersey Republicans.  The House will vote to provide $9 billion to shore up the N ...
  • Federal Minister Still Believes Enbridge's Nor ...
    (Postmedia News) OTTAWA — Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says he still believes the contentious Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline can be built, but recognizes the federal government has a substantial sales job ahead of ...
  • Seaway Oil Pipe Expansion at Cushing to Finish ...
    (Reuters) A major pipeline expansion that aims to ease the bottleneck at Cushing, Oklahoma that has depressed U.S. crude prices should pump at full rates from the end of next week, the backers of the project said on Wednesday ...

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Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    Believe it or not, today the Senate will swear in 20 women, an historic high. Sixteen of those women will be Democrats. They think that their relative lack of testosterone will make the Senate a less confrontational place. I'm not sure if they are being overly optimistic or not, but I am a fi ...
  • Wishful Thought
    I may be full of myself, but my sucks-to-awesome ratio is so far below Andrew Sullivan's that I ought to be able to do this and retire tomorrow. Discuss
  • No One Else Wanted to Be Speaker
    Steve Benen makes an observation: According to GOP leaders, policymakers need to replace the $1.2 trillion in automatic sequestration cuts with some other, comparable cuts, and need to come up with $1.5 trillion in cuts in order to raise the debt limit. Both will have to happen at around the ...
  • The Frogs are Dying
    Fair warning. This will be a bit of a rant. But first, some news (or at least news to some). The frogs are dying all over the world. In moist, mossy rooms, rows of glass aquariums bathed in eerie light shelter the last of the last of the frogs. It is a secure facility, for here reside the s ...
  • Simple Question
    Do you get the feeling that the Republicans in Congress aren't feeling a whole lot of urgency about getting the victims of Superstorm Sandy some relief? I hear that Boehner is going to get to it in a few days, perhaps with a small bill followed by a much bigger one a week or so later. But, you ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Swimmers Beneath the Waves Captured in Incredi ...
    Anyone who goes to the beach is familiar with the sight of people diving beneath the waves, but these photos give us a more unusual perspective. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Explosively Cool Chemistry Behind Fireworks
    Find out what's inside the boom and brilliant lights that make holiday festivities extra beautiful the world over... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Endangered Moon Bears Find Home in China Sanctuary
    Two beautiful moon bears find a new home safe from the cruel practice of bile farming This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Fire Breathers Blazing a Trail in the City of ...
    Once a year, fire breathers from all over Europe gather at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to showcase their dazzling but potentially highly dangerous acts. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    A whole lot of cool linkage – from serious stuff, to lighter, more fun-filled matters... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Top Chavez officials gather in Havana
    Story Image:  A woman stands near a poster of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, on January 2, 2013. Top Venezuelan officials have gathered in Cuba amid growing demands for news about cancer-stricken Chavez's condition, days before he is to be sworn in for anTop Venezuelan offic ...
  • US fines Transocean $1.4 bn over Gulf oil disaster
    Story Image:  An American flag lays in a slick of oil that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on July 4, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The United States hit drilling rig operator Transocean Deepwater with $1.4 billion in criminal aThe United States hi ...
  • Relief for Google as US ends monopoly probe
    Story Image:  Google headquarters in Mountain View, California on Septmeber 2, 2011. US regulators said Thursday they would not charge Google with illegal bias in Internet search, but won commitments from the tech titan to end its "most troubling" practices, officials US regulators closed ...
  • S. Korea confirms Google chairman's N. Korea visit
    Story Image:  Google chairman Eric Schmidt speaks at a press conference in Seoul, September 27, 2012. The US State Department criticized Thursday a trip by Schmidt and senior colleagues to visit North Korea's isolated totalitarian regime.South Korea confirmed Thursday that Google chairman ...
  • Gun deaths rampant after Sandy Hook massacre
    There have been more than 400 guns deaths since the Newtown massacre on December 14, according to a new interactive project between Slate.com and the anonymous twitter user @gundeaths.The two launched the project because, as Slate writes, there are few real-time ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Year in Review: The 10 Biggest Spy-Related Sto ...
    In anticipation of what 2013 may bring, we decided to take a look back to the year that just ended by compiling a list of what we think are the ten most important security- and intelligence-related developments of the past 12 months.
  • News you may have missed #821 (civil liberties ...
    French domestic spy chief cleared of snooping charges. FBI documents termed Occupy movement as 'terrorism'. Wiretapping by Russian spy agencies doubled in five years.
  • News you may have missed #820
    World's best known spy collector displays his home. Acting CIA director criticizes 'Zero Dark Thirty'. British police says MI6 expert 'killed himself'.
  • Soviets used civilian airliners to gather inte ...
    Soviet spy agencies routinely used civilian airplanes to collect aerial intelligence over Western military installations, according to newly declassified documents.
  • Who wiretapped Turkish Prime Minister’s office ...
    During a televised interview on December 21, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan revealed that four unauthorized wiretapping devices had been detected in his parliamentary office and government car. A subsequent report from the Office of the Prime Minister on December 25 said that one mo ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Jan 4
      At least 9 killed by Damascus car bomb - Yahoo! News Nusra Front reportedly leading Syrian rebels’ fight for key Damascus district Yarmouk - McClatchy Popular committees in Yarmouk call for demilitarization, say residents are suffering at the hands of militants - Maan News Agency Hamas, P ...
  • Video: Iranians Explain What "Crippling Sancti ...
  • America’s Political Dysfunction at Root is an ...
      By Dave Lindorff   I was asked earlier this week by an reporter for PressTV, the state television network in Iran, if I could explain why the US political system seemed to be so dysfunctional, with Congress and the President having created an artificial budget crisis 17 months ago, n ...
  • BAHRAIN GOVERNMENT SHUTS OUT THE WORLD
    More Than 200 Journalists, Observers, Aid Workers Kept Out Since February 2011 [Manama] Bahrain’s government stands accused of serious and ongoing human rights violations, and has made many commitments to reform. However, the Government is keeping out journalists, members of non-governmental or ...
  • Audio: Abdul Malik Mujahid Interviews David Sw ...
    http://radioislam.com Friday, December 21, 2012 Listen Topic: Review of 2012: Highlights for Peace & Justice Guest: David Swanson, Anti-War Activist & Author Host: Abdul Malik Mujahid read more

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Pharmagedon: Mass Shootings! What makes our ki ...
    By Editor First 39-45 vaccine doses by the time you are 6 years old. And now add the recent in-utero shot to the fetus-the flu shot with mercury. The epidemic of ADHD, ADD, OCD, Bipolar, Autism, encephalitis, narcolepsy is caused by the inordinate amount of vaccinations that are forced on childr ...
  • Drugs The Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and N ...
    ForbiddenKnowledgeTV Alexandra Bruce December 17, 2012 As Senator Feinstein prepares to introduce a gun control bill in 2013, any reporter seeking to discover what medications were being taken by the alleged shooter in the Newtown massacre will find that they cannot get this information, by law. ...
  • Is There An Alternative to Toxic-Jab Vaccinations?
    Catherine J. Frompovich, Contributor Activist Post Vaccines and vaccinations need to be examined for various reasons by everyone, I think. First and foremost, all vaccines contain chemicals and neurotoxins that should not be injected into infants or adults, e.g., formaldehyde—an EPA-declared car ...
  • One in four US hackers ‘is an FBI inform ...
    One in four US hackers ‘is an FBI informer’ – The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service ...
  • Fr. Coughlin on the Bankers
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Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Transocean Pleads Guilty to Gulf Oil Spill and ...
    The US Department of Justice announced today that Swiss company Transocean Ltd, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank in 2010, has agreed to pay $1.4 billion for the oil spill that spewed millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Under the settlement, the  ...
  • Birdhouse Roof Tile: Cozy Nesting Site For Bir ...
    Looking to find some feathery housemates or find a cool new accent for your home? The Birdhouse roof tile created by Klaas Kuiken is an excellent way to bring a little nature back into your life. Built atop a standard roof tile, a basket below the tiny house can be used for nesting and accessed ...
  • Next-Gen 3D ‘Sponge’ Battery Could Recharge in ...
    We like to boast about how ‘smart’ our mobile devices and computers have become – but why are we still powering them with dumb batteries? Amy Prieto, a chemistry professor at Colorado State University, started a company that is created a three-dimensional battery with a core of ...
  • Green Design Predictions for 2013
    Bill McKibben Environmentalist, Green Journalist, President and Co-Founder of 350.org I think there’s actually a chance 2013 will be a significant year in climate history — the year when the planet’s leaders actually ran out of excuses for their inaction. We’re seeing record te ...
  • Concord, Mass. Becomes the First US City to Ba ...
    Cities across the country have already worked towards banning plastic bags, and now Concord, Massachusetts has become one of the very first communities to ditch the single-use plastic bottle. The result of a three-year effort by local activists and an effective Ban the Bottle campaign, the new b ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • New Mars Meteorite Contains 10 Times More Wate ...
    Scientists have identified a never-before-seen type of meteorite from Mars that has 10 times more water and far more oxygen in it than any previous Martian sample.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Vesta Cr ...
    This composite-color view from NASA's Dawn mission shows Cornelia Crater, streaked with dark materials, on the giant asteroid Vesta. The data were obtained by Dawn's framing camera during the mission's high-altitude mapping orbit, about 420 miles (680 kilometers) above the ...
  • NASA Considers Capturing an Asteroid, Setting ...
    NASA is reportedly considering capturing an asteroid to put in a high orbit around the moon. Details remain sketchy but the plan could be fully realized in as little as six to ten years.
  • School Design May Affect a Child’s Grades
    A study of school design has discovered that school layouts can influence a child's development by as much as 25 percent -- positively or negatively -- over the course of an academic year.
  • Visionary Images: The Lost Fractals of Benoît ...
    Many people know Benoît Mandelbrot from the computer screensavers of a pre-LCD era. Others have a deeper understanding of his mathematics, the repeating geometries that earned him the sobriquet Father of Fractals. Less appreciated, though, is the process underlying his ...

PakAlert

  • Obama Would Call on Military to Disarm America ...
    The blueprint for how Americans would be disarmed during a declared civil emergency is contained in an Army manual that outlines a plan to confiscate firearms to prevent them falling into the hands of rioters or dissidents
  • 50 Predictions For 2013
    Are you ready for a wild 2013? It should be a very interesting year. When the calendar flips over each January, lots of people make lots of lists. They make lists of "resolutions", but most people never follow through on them. They make lists of "predictions", but most of those predictions a ...
  • Top 10 conspiracies of 2012
    Everyone loves a good top 10 list and since Tuesday represents the first day of 2013, among all the other top 10 lists you may have seen over the last few days, someone needs to take a look back at the conspiracies that made the most impact throughout the 13th year of the millennium. Although ...
  • White House wins fight to keep drone killings ...
    A federal judge issued a 75-page ruling on Wednesday that declares that the US Justice Department does not have a legal obligation to explain the rationale behind killing Americans with targeted drone strikes. United States District Court Judge Colleen McMahon wrote in her finding this week t ...
  • Belgian Environmental Study Corroborates Exist ...
    Even as the mainstream media and a television-obsessed American public refuse to admit the existence of chemtrails and government-sponsored weather modification programs, the evidence continues to mount with ever-increasing speed that not only do these programs exist, but they are also effective ...

Andy Worthington

  • Join Me in Washington D.C. on January 11, 2013 ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • End the Tory Butchers’ Assault on the Di ...
    Please sign the “War on Welfare” petition now to call for an end the Tory-led government’s assault on the disabled! Since the Tories came to power two years and seven months ago, with the assistance of the Liberal Democrats, they have reshaped the political landscape in the UK ...
  • A Winter Wonderland: Photos of the Scottish Hi ...
    A Winter Wonderland: The Scottish Highlands in Perthshire, a set on Flickr. From Dunkeld, in Perthshire, in Scotland, beside the A9 (the major route through northern Scotland), the A822, a mixture of former drovers’ routes and military roads, heads west, and then south, for around 16 miles ...
  • Photos: Christmas in London, 2012
    Christmas in London, 2012, a set on Flickr. Best wishes for the holiday season to those following my work, or to anyone who has just stumbled across it. This is a selection of Christmas-themed photos that I’ve taken over the last month during my journeys around London, as part of my ongoin ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Urgent Need to ...
    As the 11th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay approaches (on January 11, 2013), I wanted to make sure that I made available an interview I undertook recently with the respected progressive radio host Peter B. Collins, in San Francisco. Peter&# ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

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Common Dreams -News

  • Tar Sands Activists' Lives on the Line: Back i ...
    Banner deployed as blockaders engage in their latest action in Diboll, TX (Tar Sands Blockade via Flickr / Creative Commons license)Activists from the group Tars Sands Blockade have once again put themselves in harm's way to prevent land clearing for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipel ...
  • 'An Accident Waiting to Happen': As Rail Incre ...
    As oil production in the Bakken area of North Dakota and Montana skyrockets, rail companies are capitalizing on pipeline gaps and reaping profits by transporting the crude while environmental watchdogs call the practice "an accident waiting to happen." ...
  • Montana Judge Orders Wolf Killing to Resume Ne ...
    Wolf hunting and trapping will resume near Yellowstone National Park after a Montana judge blocked the state from shutting down the practice after a brutal hunting season that saw the death of several wolves collared for research. State officials closed the gray wolf season on Dec. 10 after wild ...
  • In Fight Against Privatized Water, Bottles Ban ...
    Concord, Massachusetts became the first town in the nation to ban the sale of plastic water bottles as a new bylaw went into effect Tuesday, following years of campaigning by local activists. read more
  • 'Alarmingly High Methane Emissions' from Natur ...
    New research on "alarmingly high methane emissions" brings further environmental scrutiny to natural gas extraction including fracking, and illustrates how the boom in the industry may well be a plan for climate disaster. read more

Lifehacker

  • Plex Updates its Windows 8 App, Web Client, an ...
    Plex, one of our favorite streaming media centers just put out a bevy of updates for three of its services. More »
  • How to Tap Into Your Memory and Start "Unworrying"
    Most of us spend a lot of time worrying about money, health, work, family, and more. What if there was a way to use your own memory to stop worrying (or at least stop worrying so much)? Writer Nick Jehlen explains how. More »
  • Search Answer: What's the Connection Between T ...
    Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution—using whatever search technology and methodology fits th ...
  • Teach Siri to Correctly Recognize and Pronounc ...
    Siri isn't the brightest bulb in the box and she often misunderstands unusual words and names. Fortunately, you can teach her how to speak properly by adding phonetic pronunciations to your contacts. More »
  • Have You Ever Turned Down a Job Offer?
    Jobs can be hard to find these days and many of us are thankful when any job offer comes along. Sometimes, for various reasons, those offers just may not cut it. We've talked more than once about how to decide whether to accept a job offer. We've also shared advice on salary negotiations, ...

Water Privatization

  • Barcelona Water Privatization Deal Faces Legal ...
    Acciona SA (ANA) and Brazilian partner BTG Pactual said they are preparing legal action after the Catalan regional government accepted an appeal against a 1 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) contract to privatize Barcelona’s water supply.
  • Huge task for privatization fund by March
    The state privatizations fund (TAIPED) will have to start one sell-off project per week from the start of the new year, as the new agreement signed by the government and its creditors provides for 10 privatization projects to begin within the first quarter of 2013, a particularly demanding targe ...
  • Govt to turn over Angat power plant to Korean ...
    The government will turn over to the winning Korean bidder the operations of the Angat power plant early next year.
  • Mayor says lease of water system maintains control
    Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi said leasing Hazleton's water system might reduce a looming tax increase while allowing city residents to maintain some control of a natural resource. Like his predecessor, Lou Barletta, Yannuzzi thinks money could flow into the cit
  • Ledesma: Privatization behind DCWD ineptitude?
    THE Davao City Water District will go down toward the year end as the worst agency in the city that is ill-prepared and most inutile in time of disaster. That normal water supply is going to resume about three months from when disaster struck its main distribution line in Bankerohan Bridge is ju ...

Guardian

  • Malala Yousafzai's father appointed to diploma ...
    Father of campaigner shot by Taliban to become education attache while his daughter recovers in a Birmingham hospitalThe family of the 15-year-old Pakistani girl being treated in Britain after being shot in the head by the Taliban will be able to stay in the country for up to five years after he ...
  • More households to pay council tax as benefits ...
    Councils weigh up how to implement new support system that will mean bills for many, now exempted, low-income familiesTwo-thirds of local authorities in England are from April planning to demand council tax payments from working-age households which are currently exempt, according to new researc ...
  • Basque party linked to Eta declares its own di ...
    Batasuna, banned in Spain a decade ago, says it will disband and back separatist coalitionA Basque political party which for years allegedly acted as a front for the armed separatist group Eta has declared its own dissolution, marking another step towards a definitive end to violent separatism i ...
  • Rig owner pays $1.4bn to settle over Deepwater
    Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, settles over criminal and civil chargesTransocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig at the centre of BP's Gulf of Mexico blowout, has reached a $1.4bn settlement with the Department of Justice to settle criminal and civil charges.The Swiss-based ...
  • Suspected al-Qaida terrorist extradited from B ...
    Abid Naseer, originally from Pakistan, is accused of plotting attacks on Manchester shopping centres and New York subwayA suspected al-Qaida terrorist accused of plotting attacks on Manchester and the New York subway has been extradited to the United States.Abid Naseer, 26, had originally come t ...

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Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Megaupload Tells Court That DOJ Deliberately M ...
    Lawyers for Megaupload have filed a motion with the court handling the US side of the prosecution against the company, arguing that the original warrants were defective due to blatant misrepresentations by the government. As you may recall, in the case involving Kyle Goodwin, a Megaupload user ...
  • Razer Updates Synapse Software With Better 'Of ...
    A couple of months ago, we brought you the unlikely story of a mouse that required an internet connection to fully function. Razer, for whatever reason, had sold itself on the idea that cloud-based storage was preferable for configuration setups and user profiles, rather than simply storing thes ...
  • How Neutral Can Kazakh-Language Wikipedians Be?
    Although there has been some sniping about the quality of Wikipedia's entries from time to time, we generally take it for granted that when key articles are missing they will get written, and that if they are unbalanced, they will gradually get better -- all thanks to the open, collaborative edi ...
  • Pakistan Briefly Raises Youtube Banhammer; Rei ...
    Pakistan's love/hate relationship with the internet seems to be mostly "hate" these days. Over the past couple of years, the Pakistani government has done as much as it can to cripple local access to the web, including seeking a nationwide web filtering system that would block off access to ...
  • DailyDirt: Get A Little Bit Older And A Little ...
    As our planetary odometer rolls over yet again (and we thankfully didn't cease to exist after December 21st), lots of folks are coming up with new resolutions for happier, healthier lives... but what about just longer lives? Here are just a few links on extending our lifespans indefinitely. ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    HRW has a new report out called Sex Workers at Risk. If you don’t have time to read the whole report, skim through some of the testimonies. How cops treat sex workers and trans people is disgusting. Of course cops treat a lot of other people like shit too as this kickass kid managed to [...]
  • Stuff You Read 2012
    I feel like I hardly posted at all this year. But it turns I actually managed to spew stuff out. You even read some of it. So the top 10 for 2012 are: Beware of Strange Men on Airplanes Is the Media Liberal Dear Reformists, You’re Welcome My Uterus Hates Elections Confessions of a Former [...]
  • 2012 – Damn
    When I was fourteen a schoolmate of mine hung himself, my father had a stroke, my family lost our business, and the IRS came after us. When I was twenty-six, my father died (something I may finally be ready to write about). Those were by far the two hardest years of my life. 2012 is [...]
  • Thanks NRA
    On Friday, Wayne LaPierre of the NRA held a press conference about the school shooting in Sandy Hook. Naturally, his suggestion was to put armed guards or police in every school. The liberal internets were immediately abuzz slamming one of their favorite bad guys. But nobody seemed to be mention ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you pay attention to nothing else in this post, please read this piece on how the government created residential segregation in our cities. De facto my ass. Red Emma’s in Baltimore is expanding. Please help. Is giving homeless people cigarettes an ethical dilemma or are Swedish health g ...

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War in Context

  • The GOP’s anti-Muslim wing is in retreat
    Tim Murphy and Adam Serwer report: Over the last four years, a die-hard cadre of activists and their allies in Congress have dragged the Republican Party into a fever swamp of Islamophobia and barely-concealed anti-Muslim bigotry. In their paranoid scenario, Islamic Shariah law is creeping into ...
  • Time Warner Cable drops Current TV upon sale t ...
    The launch of Al Jazeera America following AJ’s acquisition of Current TV is good news for Americans who currently depend on the meager offerings from the cable news channels. Time Warner Cable might have no corporate affiliation with Time Warner, owner of CNN, but its hard not to assume t ...
  • Video: Does spying on Americans protect the U.S.?
  • New guns for a new year: American anthropology ...
    Jason Antrosio writes: Lynyrd Skynyrd had gun violence figured out in 1975: Hand guns are made for killin’ Ain’t no good for nothin’ else And if you like your whiskey You might even shoot yourself So why don’t we dump ‘em people To the bottom of the sea Before some fool come around here Wa ...
  • Assad could hang on till 2014
    The Guardian: Bashar al-Assad is likely to stay in power until 2014, according to Syrian watcher Joshua Landis, director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Many pundits predict that the Assad regime is nearing collapse and it is difficult to find any who think A ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climate Craziness of the Week: The Weather Cha ...
    No, really, they must have been on crack when they came up with this one. I have no other explanation that works. First a primer. What is “Space Weather”?  Wikipedia (agreed not the best source but humor me, at least … Continue reading →
  • UAH Global Temperature Report: 2012 was 9th wa ...
    By Phillip Gentry, UAH Globally, 2012 was ninth warmest of the past 34 years; In the U.S., 2012 sets a new record high temperature Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade December temperatures (preliminary) Global composite … Continue reading →
  • AGW Bombshell? A new paper shows statistical t ...
    From the journal Earth System Dynamics billed as “An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union” comes this paper which suggests that the posited AGW forcing effects simply isn’t statistically significant in the observations, but other natural forcings &# ...
  • Nigel Lawson Wins Climate Policy Bet
    From the GWPF Oliver Letwin, David Cameron’s chief policy adviser, has conceded defeat in a £100 climate policy bet with Nigel Lawson which they had agreed four and a half years ago. Towards the end of a climate debate between … Continue reading →
  • Paleo sea level and CO2
    From the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) New study documents the natural relationship between CO2 concentrations and sea level By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National … Con ...

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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

  • Fiscal cliff deal extends wind production tax ...
    The fiscal cliff deal passed first by the Senate, now by the House and headed to the President includes extension of the wind energy production tax credit for one year. America needs sound energy production and sound budget policy in 2013. Extending the production tax credit for wind energy on ...
  • The political superstorm that devastated New York
    “Superstorm” Sandy killed more than 100 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, and left millions without food, water, electricity, sanitation or shelter for days or even weeks. Our thoughts and prayers remain focused on its victims, many of whom are still grieving as they struggle ...
  • 20 great CFACT moments of 2012
    In 2012, it seemed CFACT went everywhere, worked flat out and hardly took a breather. Our research was thorough, our spokesmen drove the radicals to distraction, our Collegians kept expanding and it seemed like Climate Depot's Marc Morano lived on television. We aired our 5,000th Just the Fact ...
  • Water water everywhere — and a whole lot ...
    “At current melt rates, the Greenland ice sheet would take about 13,000 years to melt completely, which would result in a global sea level rise of more than 21 feet (6.5 meters).”
  • EPA’s Lisa Jackson resigns
    Lisa Jackson, who presided over the promulgation of an explosive growth of regulations at EPA announced today that she is stepping down.

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • For Sale: NASA Space Shuttle Stuff
    Now that the US space shuttle program is defunct, NASA is leasing and selling some of its facilities and equipment at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to private companies and entrepreneurs.
  • Facebook Red-Faced As Copycat App Flops
    Just weeks after its launch, Facebook's self-destructing photo-sharing application, Poke, has seemingly fallen from grace with young mobile users still flocking to the SnapChat app that Poke was meant to smother, industry experts say.
  • New Year’s Resolution? There’s an App for That ...
    For some, New Year’s resolutions barely make it past New Year’s Day. But for those with a little more grit, there is a new slew of mobile apps and interactive websites – including some offering financial incentives – designed to help them stick to their goals.
  • US Study: Fructose Intake May Be Linked to Obesity
    Scientists have found consumption of fructose, a sugar used in foods and beverages commonly consumed in the United States, may cause overeating, offering more evidence of a direct link between the quality of Americans’ diet and the obesity epidemic in the United States.
  • Nuclear Town Zoo Celebrates 'Year of the Snake'
    A zoo in the closed nuclear town of Seversk, near Tomsk in Siberia, is marking the New Year by unveiling the latest additions to its reptile exhibit, four strikingly colored snakes.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Action Alert: Boycott BOCA and all Kraft Brands
    Click here to read this article
  • GMO Food Fight: Round Two 2013
    On November 6, in the wake of one of the most expensive and scurrilous smear campaigns in history, six million voters scared the hell out of Monsanto and Big Food Inc. by coming within a razor’s edge of passing the first statewide mandatory labeling law for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). ...
  • 6 Reasons GMO Labeling Will Pass in Washington ...
    Initial polling shows that Washington voters will likely pass a ballot initiative, no matter how much money the biotech industry and large food corporations put into an anti-labeling campaign. Click here to read this article
  • It’s Time to Stop Spinning Our Wheels
    In 1988, hundreds of scientists and policy-makers met in Toronto for a major international conference on climate change. They were sufficiently alarmed by the accumulated evidence for human-caused global warming that they issued a release stating,"Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontroll ...
  • Frack Fights Heating Up Nationwide
    Fracking fights across the country are heating up this week. Governor Andrew Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has issued proposed regulations for fracking in New York, even though their promised environmental review and their limited public health review has not been comple ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

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My Care2 Picks

  • U.S. Navy sailors sue over exposure to Fukushi ...
    officials had to reposition the massive aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan after it passed under the massive plume of airborne radiation from TEPCO Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Meet the Weeds That Monsanto Can't Beat
    When Monsanto revolutionized agriculture with a line of genetically engineered seeds, the promise was that the technology would lower herbicide usebecause farmers would have to spray less.In fact, as Washington State University researcher Chuch Benbrook Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |& ...
  • Aliens Cause Global Warming
    Lecture by Michael Crichton : the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy. Even to a child, the contrast was clear between the world of politics-a world of hate and danger, of irrational beliefs and fears- and science Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cu ...
  • Atomic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
    The Deepwater Horizon spill also released dangerous amounts of radioactive material A waste byproduct known as produced water is also simultaneously discharged with oil and gases. 3 categories of toxins : organic, inorganic,radioactive Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |  ...
  • Water Wars
    Some updates on threats to water in the ocean and the aquifer Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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

  • The Non-Logic of Fluoridating Water
    Fluoride is a compound that is added to most drinking water in the United States and some other countries. It can even be found in your food and other products such as toothpaste and dental floss. Now, why is fluoride added to the water? Let’s have a look at the alleged “logic”...
  • Just Say No to GMO Hemp!
    GMO Hemp - A good plant gone bad...
  • It’s 2013!
    Greetings from Farm Wars!
  • A Letter of Thanks to Organic Farmers
    Whether you are a famous farmer like Joel Salatin of Virginia or The Barefoot Farmer of Tennessee, or you’re just trying to feed your family and a few friends with real food, you are healing the world! And your hard work does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.
  • Libor Hearings, School Shootings and Disinfo, ...
    Propaganda does not require evidence to prove itself. It simply utilizes the ignorant masses that believe what they see and tend to repeat the lie as fact to their friends, family, [and] repost to message boards, comment threads, social media sites, which prop up the lie until the truth no longe ...

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Rendition gets ongoing embrace from Obama admi ...
    ShareThisRendition gets ongoing embrace from Obama administration 02 Jan 2013 The three European men with Somali roots were arrested on a murky pretext in August as they passed through the small African country of Djibouti. But the reason soon became clear when they were visited in their jail ce ...
  • Boehner Re-Elected Speaker Despite Dissent
    ShareThisBoehner Re-Elected Speaker Despite Dissent 04 Jan 2013 Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio was re-elected speaker of the House on Thursday despite some unrest among Republicans about his handling of the fiscal negotiations with the White House and his decision to call off a vote o ...
  • Boehner reelected as House speaker
    ShareThisBoehner reelected as House speaker 03 Jan 2013 House Speaker John A. Boehner narrowly won reelection Thursday to a second term overseeing a chamber that has proved difficult for him to manage, surviving a rebellion from the most conservative wing of his GOP caucus. The vote followed s ...
  • President Obama signs 'fiscal cliff' bill
    ShareThisPresident Obama signs 'fiscal cliff' bill 02 Jan 2013 President Barack Obama has signed a bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans, while preserving tax cuts for most American households. The bill, which averts a looming [Wall Street-Obusha-GOP-created] 'fiscal cliff' that h ...
  • United States and New Zealand conducted secret ...
    ShareThisUnited States and New Zealand conducted secret 'tsunami bomb' tests designed to destroy coastal cities --3,700 bombs were exploded during tests 01 Jan 2012 The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of a "tsunami bomb" designed to destroy coastal cities by using underwater ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Americans Never Give Up Your Guns
    03 January 2013 This interesting piece was published 27 December 2012 on a Russian blog. Reprinted here with permission: By Stanislav Mishin Americans Never Give Up Your Guns By Stanislav Mishin These days, there are few few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degen ...
  • Advancing Sniper Rifles
    02 January 2013 The day draws closer when a General will be in the Pentagon, 8,000 miles away from battle, and he will signal a sniper to kill or not to kill.  Taking it a step more, nothing will prevent the trigger-puller from being separated from the rifleman.  The General in the Pe ...
  • Some Thoughts About The Kingdom of Thailand
    With Former Prime Minister Abhisit. 29 December 2012 On Christmas Eve, ThaiPBS television interviewed me in Bangkok.  The interview is scheduled to air on 31 December at 9:40PM Thailand time.  Our interview will be online here. Ms. Nattha Komolvadhin of ThaiPBS requested this inter ...
  • Benghazi Report
    20 December 2012
  • Wolfpack 105 – Start point
    18 December 2012 All tracking begins with a start point.  Start points can be found in many ways. The Israelis create track traps in soft soil that are impossible to cross without leaving spoor.  Israeli forces make heavy use of trackers. Zoologists create similar track traps when ...

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

  • Four gold mine protestors sentenced to jail
    Four Burmese gold mine workers, who were arrested for leading a march to Naypidaw in November, were sentenced to six months imprisonment on Thursday for protesting without permission and instigating public unrest
  • Karen leaders vow to press govt on ethnic conf ...
    A group of leaders from the Karen National Union left for Naypidaw on Thursday for a meeting with President Thein Sein, where they say they will press the government on the escalating Kachin conflict
  • 73 refugees deported to Burma
    Thai officials say the 73 refugees found in waters off Phuket in Thailand, will be repatriated to Burma.
  • Graffiti artists in Rangoon
    Graffiti art in Rangoon is on the rise. During Obama's visit in November a painting was done to welcome the president to the country. But in December Rangoon authorities announced a ban on any paintings in urban areas.
  • International community condemns Kachin airstrikes
    The UN Secretary-General and US government have urged the Burma army to stop air raids against ethnic rebels in Kachin state, and seek a fair and lasting solution to the conflict

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

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Tikun Olam

  • NYPD Arrests Suspect in Subway Murder, Hate Cr ...
    New York police arrested a 31 year-old woman suspected of murdering a man in Queens by pushing him in the path of an oncoming subway train a few days ago.  Though she fled the scene, she was found and taken into custody today thanks to video footage of her that was aired.  The statements she [...]
  • Egypt Arrests Israeli Activist Traveling to Gaza
    Last summer, after leaving IDF service, Andrei Pshenichnikov, age 24, underwent a radical political conversion.  He began working with anti-Occupation groups and decided to renounce his Israeli citizenship.  Further, he actually moved to the Deheisha refugee camp outside Bethlehem and took up jo ...
  • Support Tikun Olam: 2012 Year-End Appeal
    Support Tikun Olam Every year I write this post asking for readers to step forward and support the efforts I put into this blog to light a fire under Israel’s Occupation regime and hold it accountable for its deeds and misdeeds. In the past year, the most important expose I published was t ...
  • Chuck Hagel, Knifed in the Back by the Lobby
    As I wrote a few days ago when many were whispering that Chuck Hagel’s chances of becoming secretary of defense had died, what does it matter whether it’s the Israel lobby or the Jewish lobby?  When you get a knife in the back, it doesn’t matter who’s putting the shiv int ...
  • Meir Javedanfar: Iran “Analyst” as Pro-Israel ...
    The impasse between Iran and the west has produced a bumper crop of Iranian opportunists who’ve latched onto a western gravy train as analysts, media commentators, political consultants, and think tank pundits. As opposed to genuine independent analysts with their own sources and expertise ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • A Look Behind Designing The State Decoded
    Over the last few months, I've been working on a standard website design to bundle with The State Decoded. That's the project funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create a standard, installable platform to display laws online. The project started as a Virginia-only site, for w ...
  • Balloon Mapping From the Ground Up: Public Lab ...
    Public Lab's balloon- and kite-based mapping approach is a new way to take aerial images from the ground. However, there are some considerations and things that can be learned from a few map stories. Each map project has distinct characteristics in its time, place, and local atmospheric cond ...
  • Are You a Hacker Who Likes Poderopedia? Help U ...
    A week after Poderopedia launched its public beta, the response it's been getting has been huge. So far, close to 800 users have registered on the website; it's receiving an average of 26 new facts and connections per day; there are request to create local Poderopedia chapters from people in Por ...
  • An Open Call for Ideas: How Would You Use Open ...
    With the new year just a week away, it's the time of year when you might be thinking about the calenders you use and wondering how they could work better for you. Just over a month ago, the OpenSpending team floated the idea of an open spending calendar. The idea was to monitor some key ...
  • MapBox: Open Data Should be Open, Free and Acc ...
    Earlier this month MapBox launched MapBox Satellite -- an aerial imagery basemap of the world created entirely from public domain open data. Here are a few examples of the maps we made with this public imagery. Brawley, California | MapBox Satellite Lago O'Higgins, Chile | MapBox Satel ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Where Are The Palestinian Arab Refugees From, ...
    I recently read a headline: “SYRIA -Islamist Rebel Faction Captures Base in Aleppo�. It mentions, “Syrian warplanes blasted a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus�. My questions are: where are the Palestinian Arab refugees from, why are they “refugees� and who is supporting them?Th ...
  • The Media on Edge - Al Gore Sells Current TV t ...
    On the matters of quality television, Al Gore and Current TV, I think of the great movie line from Marlon Brando: "I could have been a contender.� Gore could have been. In the end, he was not.We now learn that Gore and Co. sold Current TV to Al-Jazeera. Gore with Current TV could have made lan ...
  • The Dangerous Roads of Mexico - The Blood of t ...
    As 2012 drew to a close, violence was down from previous months and years in the northern Mexican urban centers of Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juarez. But in several rural zones of Chihuahua state, drug-related mayhem is on the rise. A major flashpoint is in the Sierra Tarahumara, the mountainous ...
  • Broken Business - Barnes & Noble Took a Major ...
    Troubled Barnes & Noble today reported holiday sales for the nine-week holiday period ending December 29, 2012. The numbers for the faltering bookseller were down, once again, even as Amazon sales zoomed. According to MarketWatch, the embattled retrailer suffered "revenues of $1.2 billion, d ...
  • India's Darkest Edge - Sexual Violence in India
    Shocked by a brutal rape case that has gripped the country, India is going through some soul-searching about its shameful mistreatment of women. Riot police lined the streets of Delhi the past few days to calm protesters who gathered in outrage as the body of the 23 year-old rape victim returned ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted Anchor Jodie Miller REFUSES To Test ...
    While Congress is waiting for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to recover enough to testify about what led up to and happened during the September 11th attack on the US Mission in Benghazi, Libya---another potential witness has caused a bit of an uproar.  Newsbusted anchor Jodie Miller ha ...
  • The 20 Most Annoying Liberals of 2012 (10th An ...
    My friend John Hawkins, the grand poo-bah of Right Wing News has unleashed The 10th Annual “20 Most Annoying Liberals  (2012 Edition), I don't know how he was able to pare it down to 20,  I was disappointed none of my relatives were on it (but then again John's never been to my house o ...
  • Great Britain an "Apartheid State," Continues ...
    Cristina Kirchner the President of Argentina has called on the Prime Minister of Great Britain, David Cameron to end the occupation of the Malvinas (the British call them the Falklands) and return them to Argentina. The letter was also sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and say: “On ...
  • It's Time For a New Speaker of the House
    While critical of Speaker Boehner I have been reluctant to call for his ouster on these pages giving greater consideration to whether the GOP has someone replace him and/or do we really need additional party disunity right now?  However after the final weekend of the 112th Congres ...
  • Obama's Foreign Policy Error: The "Friend" Who ...
    By Barry Rubin The expression, “With friends like you who needs enemies?” is an apt summary of a major problem for U.S. foreign policy during Obama's second term. Here’s the issue: a number of supposed allies of the United States don’t act as friends. In fact, they are major ...

The Real Agenda

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

Wind Watch

  • Bill seeks to ban wind projects
    MONTPELIER — Opponents of ridgeline wind development will introduce a bill in the Senate next month that seeks a temporary ban on the installation of turbines on Vermont’s mountaintops. A similar legislative maneuver during the last session never gained traction. But lawmakers pushing the three- ...
  • Wind turbines’ lifespan far shorter than ...
    Scotland’s landscape could be blighted by the rotting remains of a failed regeneration of windfarms, according to a scathing new report. A study commissioned by the Renewable Energy Foundation has found that the economic life of onshore wind turbines could be far less than that predicted b ...
  • Lyme has been “ignored,” “marginalized” by sta ...
    CHAUMONT — Lyme officials said the town has been “ignored” and “marginalized” by both BP Wind Energy, developer of the proposed Cape Vincent Wind Farm, and the state. Although there will be no wind turbines in the town under the developer’s latest proposal, BP still would need to run a transmiss ...
  • Wind debate moves to a new chapter: Noise
    Some days there is no discernible noise coming from the wind turbines behind Steve and LuAnn Therrien’s house in Sheffield. Other days, they say, the turbines create a constant roar that wakes them up in the night, makes them sick to their stomachs or their heads, drives up his blood pressure an ...
  • Birds of prey: Hen harrier found dead on windfarm
    The potential impact of turbines on birds of prey was thrust into the spotlight yesterday after a hen harrier was found dead on a windfarm. RSPB Scotland said the adult male was discovered at the Griffin windfarm near Aberfeldy in Perthshire. A second bird was found with a badly-injured wing on ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • VOICES: Medicaid misinformation multiplies
    One of the biggest decisions facing North Carolina's new legislature and governor is whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to cover more than 500,000 low-income people. Much of the opposition to expansion is more about ideology than anything else, a visceral reaction to a law ...
  • NC governor-elect vows immediate action to beg ...
    Speaking today at the N.C. Bankers Association's 2013 Economic Forecast Forum, incoming Republican Gov. Pat McCrory said he would waste no time in joining with Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia to begin negotiating with the federal government to drill offshore for gas and oil. read more
  • Congress waves green flag for NASCAR tax break
    A little-noticed loophole in the fiscal cliff bill gives NASCAR a multi-million dollar tax break. Do they need it? read more
  • Mr. Sam's 'chintzy' treatment of workers comes ...
    Walmart founder Sam Walton admitted in his autobiography that he was too "chintzy" to pay his employees well, and the corporate culture he created is taking a heavy toll on workers in the retail supply chain. Will consumers consider the people who make the products they buy? read more
  • A New Year for the South
    Be part of a growing voice for change in the South -- join us with a year-end gift to Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies today! read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • To know what to do is not enough
    For the past year I’ve been writing a book on prosperity, by which I mean widespread affluence. It’s been slow going, not because I don’t believe I know the general technical requirements of prosperity (I do, if I didn’t, I shouldn’t be wasting anyone’s time, ...
  • Christ-mas
    Christmas is named after Jesus.  What have you done to Jesus this year? 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I [...]
  • Christ-mas
    Christmas is named after Jesus.  What have you done to Jesus this year? 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I [...]
  • On Killing Sprees
    I’ve waited a bit to weigh in on this, but I think it’s time. The two most important things to understand are that gun control would reduce harm significantly, and that gun control is a palliative for a sick culture.  The US does have more guns than anyone else, but countries like Fi ...
  • On Killing Sprees
    I’ve waited a bit to weigh in on this, but I think it’s time. The two most important things to understand are that gun control would reduce harm significantly, and that gun control is a palliative for a sick culture.  The US does have more guns than anyone else, but countries like Fi ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • New Geography's Most Popular Pieces of 2012
    Here’s a list of the most popular pieces from 2012 here at NewGeography, our fourth full calendar year. Thanks for reading and happy 2013. 10. The Cities Where a Paycheck Stretches the Furthest In this piece from July, Joel Kotkin looks at average pay in U.S. metropolitan areas adjust ...
  • Demography as Destiny: The Vital American Family
    Recent reports of America’s sagging birthrate ‑ the lowest since the 1920s, by some measures ‑ have sparked a much-needed debate about the future of the American family. Unfortunately, this discussion, like so much else in our society, is devolving into yet another political squabble ...
  • “Livability” vs. Livability: The Pitfalls of W ...
    livability: (livable) fit or suitable to live in or with; “livable conditions”. “Livability” has been a buzz word in city development for some time, and for good reason, as who doesn’t want livability, outside the zombie cohort? Things get hairy, though, when & ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Bangkok
    Since 2000, the Bangkok region has experienced annual population growth 2.5 times the rate of growth from 1980 to 2000. By 2010, the Bangkok region – which includes the provincial level city of Bangkok and the provinces of Samat Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Nakhon Patho ...
  • Is America's Future Progressive?
    Progressives may be a lot less religious  than conservatives, but these days they have reason to think that Providence– or Gaia — has taken on a bluish hue. From the solid re-election of President Obama, to a host of demographic and social trends, the progressives seem poised to achieve wha ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Cryptogon

  • Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
    Via: Wired: In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos and bookmakers overseas is being charged with promoting gambling in New York because authorities say his software was used by others for illegal betting in that state. ...
  • Military Must Prep Now for ‘Mutant’ Future
    Via: Wired: The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin calls “mutant powers.” Greater strength and endurance. Superior cognition. Better teamwork. Fearlessness. But ...
  • Why Did a Train Carrying Biofuel Cross the Bor ...
    Via: Oil Price: This enabled Bioversal to accumulate over 12 million RINs from the 24 trips, worth between 50 cents and $1 each, which they can then sell on to oil companies that haven’t met the EPA’s renewable fuel requirements. Research Credit: HPLovecraft666
  • Mississippi River Nears Historic Lows, Shippin ...
    Via: Reuters: The drought-drained Mississippi River will rise slightly later this week between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois, but later continue its decline toward historic lows, according to a National Weather Service forecast. Low water, due to the worst U.S. drought since 1956, has already im ...
  • Former Icelandic Bank Executives Jailed for Fraud
    Nine months isn’t much, unless you consider that U.S. executives involved with these rackets got taxpayer funded bonuses instead of prison sentences. Via: Reuters: Two former executives at an Icelandic bank which collapsed in the 2008 financial meltdown were sentenced to jail on Friday for ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will ...
    Do you believe that economic trouble is coming in 2013?  If so, you have a lot of company.  According to a brand new Gallup poll that was just released, 65 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be a year of "economic difficulty" while only 33 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be ...
  • The Good, The Bad And The Ugly From The Fiscal ...
    The fiscal cliff deal contains more bad news than it does good news.  Yes, the tax increases on the middle class could have been much worse, and we should be thankful that Congress at least did something for the middle class.  Unfortunately, they didn't do enough.  Every American worker is going ...
  • 50 Predictions For 2013
    Are you ready for a wild 2013?  It should be a very interesting year.  When the calendar flips over each January, lots of people make lots of lists.  They make lists of "resolutions", but most people never follow through on them.  They make lists of "predictions", but most of those predictions a ...
  • A Massive Electromagnetic Pulse Could Collapse ...
    What would you do if all the lights went out and they never came back on?  That is a question that the new NBC series "Revolution" asks, but most people have no idea that a similar thing could happen in real life at any moment.  A single gigantic electromagnetic pulse over the central United Sta ...
  • Happy New Year Middle Class: The Fiscal Cliff ...
    The middle class has quite a gift welcoming them as the calendar flips over to 2013.  Their payroll taxes are going to go up, their income taxes are going to go up, and approximately 28 million households are going to be hit with a huge, unexpected AMT tax bill on their 2012 earnings.  So happy ...

Desertification

  • Man Is the Main Cause of Desertification (Goog ...
    Read at : http://www.antiessays.com/free-essays/382005.html “Man Is the Main Cause of Desertification’ Evaluate This Statement Essay Below is a free essay on “”Man Is the Main Cause of Desertification’ Evaluate This Statement” from Anti Essays, your source for ...
  • Development practice in transition (Faming Ma ...
    Read at : http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/global/from-desertification-to-vibrant-communities/development-3.0-development-practice-in-transition Development 3.0: Development practice in transition Written by Todd Crane , Stephen Sherwood , Cees Leeuwis Following over a half-century o ...
  • Rejuvenated landscape, rejuvenated lives (Far ...
    Read at : http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/global/from-desertification-to-vibrant-communities/kaluchi-thakarwadi-rejuvenated-landscape-rejuvenated-lives Written by Watershed Organisation Trust Kaluchi Thakarwadi is a small, remote settlement in the district of Ahmednagar, in Maharash ...
  • Evidence of success (Farming Matters)
    Read at : http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/global/from-desertification-to-vibrant-communities/interview-chris-reij Working as a sustainable land management specialist at the Centre for International Cooperation of the Free University in Amsterdam, and as a Senior Fellow at the World ...
  • Pakistan : Daunting land desertification requi ...
    Read at : Google Alerts http://www.technologytimes.pk/2012/12/31/daunting-land-desertification-requires-renewed-commitment/ STAFF REPORT IBD: Sustainable use of land and depleting water re- sources is critical for sustainable socio-economic and environmental uplift, particularly food security an ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Benefit envy without benefit - Junge Linke
    benefits.jpg Junge Linke discuss the government's mobilisation of benefits envy as part of its assault on living standards. The government is undertaking a massive impoveris ...
  • A Profitless Market Socialism?
    anarchistshop.jpg Seth Ackerman makes a decent proposal for market socialism but is wrong in claiming it will end profit-seeking behavior. I will examine why and look for ways to improve on it. ...
  • Communique from the Mexico Anarchist Black Cross
    abc2.gif In recent days, following the events of the demonstrations on December 1st for the presidential inauguration of Enrique Peña Nieto, during which the police forces, both of the Federal [nation ...
  • From Bristol with Love radio show #30 - Census ...
    FBWLSTICKER3.jpg For anyone who needs a smile at christmas listen here
  • Anti-fascists of Kazan, Russia need solidarity!
    Our friend Oleg is threatened with 5 years in prison, as he is facing charges according to statutes 213 (hooliganism) and 116 parts 2a, 2b (battery) of Russian criminal codex. This is already second such case against Oleg, first time he was charged 3 years ...

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

  • NeoTame – Aspartame on Steroids!
    Neo (New) Tame (lacking in spirit or initiative; meek or submissive) -  That FITS, doesn’t it?   NewTame, in case you don’t know, is an excito-toxin that I, as a nutritional researcher, have found to be virtually impossible to trace how it is manufactured, and exactly who has patente ...
  • The Hidden Secret of Jack the Ripper – a ...
    I am unable to find the original author of this piece which was forwarded to me.  I have researched and enlarged on the original composite document, however. A. True Ott   Who was Jack The Ripper? Aaron Kosminski A Polish Jew from the Bolshevik “Pale of Settlement”  Who Emigrate ...
  • Top Ten Killers
    Amazing stat chart.   The Agenda of “Big Brother” is clearly not about public Safety and Protection.  No, the Agenda is about CONTROL of the People – aka as “Tyranny”.   Hey Ms. Feinstein et. al. in the fascist halls of “Congress” – do you and your ...
  • Update On Last Post – WND is Part of the ...
    World Net Daily (WND) is clearly a pro-Israel Zionist front that leads the way in attacking Obama by mixing truth with Israeli-lies and provocative propaganda.  Make no mistake, Obama is indeed a fraud who is ineligible to be President because he is NOT a natural-born American citizen.   However ...
  • Zionist Agenda – Assassinate Obama like ...
    Let me be clear – I have historically not been a fan of Dr. David Duke.   His ties to the KKK and white supremacist hate groups in his younger years have been well documented – and as a result, much of his anti-Jewish rhetoric lacked credibility to me personally – at least in m ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 2012 in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 32,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 7 Film Festivals Click here to see the com ...
  • 2012 in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 32,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 7 Film Festivals Click here to see the com ...
  • Frost on Roof or Lack of Frost is a sure sign...
    Reblogged from Scotts Contracting: On the Frosty Mornings when you are outside your house scraping your cars windshield to prepare for your drive to work. Take a look at the Roof of your Home. -Lack of Frost or Snow on your Roof is a sure indication that it was melted by the Heat as it [...]

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.
    read more
  • 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

  • Oliver Stone Blasts Obama's Empire
    Academy award winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kusnick have co-authored a new Showtime Series and book entitled The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the chapter on Obama with interviewer Abby Martin. According to Stone and Kusnick, their book (and series) ...
  • When Facebook Deactivates Your Account
    Professor Peter Dale Scott Peter Dale Scott, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and one of the most esteemed researchers of the murky JFK assassination and CIA involvement in cocaine trafficking, recently had his Facebook account inactivated, along with a eighteen other activists who either ...
  • The Women Who Set Fire to Their Boss - Part II
    Assam tea pluckers (This is the second of two posts regarding the recent industrial dispute on a tea plantation in India in which 1,000 tea workers set fire to their employer’s bungalow, killing both him and his wife.) Why Weren’t MKB Tea Pluckers in the Union? Chah Mazdoor Sangha ...
  • The (Female) Tea Workers Who Set Fire to Their ...
    photo credit France24.com (This is the first of two posts regarding the recent industrial dispute on a tea plantation in India in which 1,000 tea workers set fire to their employer’s bungalow, killing both him and his wife.) “We all came and attacked the bungalow and set it on fi ...
  • Oxfam Challenges Negative African Stereotypes
    Starving child covered in flies It appears a lot of people are as sick to death as I am of the World Vision and Tear Fund TV ads featuring starving, fly-infested African children. The International Business Times has an interesting article about a study the international aid organization ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 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 ...
  • GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quite
    By Walt De Vries From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...

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

  • Why Does the U.S. Lack an Objective and Cohere ...
    The Federal Government has yet to approve a specific climate policy. Since the U.S. Senate rejected the 1997 Kyoto Protocol no Administration has formally proposed a climate policy to Congress. The Federal Government has, however, developed many non-climate energy regulations that have signifi ...
  • Renewables for the 100%
    I’m a big fan of bringing solar to the 75% -- that is, those of us who can’t get solar on our own rooftops. In the solar equation, with leases putting panels within reach of more Americans, solar is no longer an elite luxury that only the 1% can afford. But for most of us, it’s still o ...
  • Bridge To Nowhere? NOAA Confirms High Methane ...
    Photo by Walter Disney
  • Biofuels A Winner In Fiscal Cliff Deal, Too
    The wind power industry wasn’t the only renewable energy winner in the fiscal cliff deal that cleared Congress late Tuesday – the legislation also showered taxpayer largess on the producers of various categories of biofuels.
  • EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Leaves a Legacy ...
    Lisa Jackson recently announced she will be resigning from her post as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her dedicated leadership will be missed, but she leaves behind an extraordinary legacy that will improve the lives of millions of Americans.City dwellers across the nation ...

EU Times

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

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Will Kanye West Fall Prey To The Kardashian Curse?
    Recently, we learned that Kim Kardashian , star of Keeping Up With The Kardashians is pregnant with Kanye Westâs baby . Does that spell bad news for Westâs popularity? Could he be next in line to suffer the Kardashian curse? Keep reading for more details. According to the Huffington Post, the j ...
  • Facebook Rolls Out VoIP In Canada on iOS!
    Today, Facebook apparently began testing of true voice-over-IP (VoIP) calling from its iOS app for all Facebook users in Canada. If you have an iPhone and are in Canada, you can update to the latest version of the Facebook Messenger app and start making free phone calls to your friends on Facebook
  • Casper Smart Allegedly Holding Off On Marrying ...
    Casper Smart wonât be putting a ring on Jennifer Lopezâs finger until he is financially secure, is source claims area accurate. Rumors about a pending marriage between the singer and her âbest friendâ appear to be false, or at least a bit premature. Smart is supposedly excited about marrying JL ...
  • LG rumored to intro 5.5-inch Optimus G2 at CES
    Grab your salt, Digitimes is back with another Android rumor. The site is today reporting that LG will introduce a 5.5-inch Optimus G2 at CES next week. Details are pretty scarce at this point however the device will reportedly employ the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Prime MSM8974 chip.  Sounds ...
  • John Boehner Re-Elected As Speaker Of The House
    Representative John Boehner (R-OH) has been re-elected as the Speaker of the House, though the vote wasn’t without a semblance of drama. Boehner saw his hold over Republicans diminish slightly when nine of them voted for another candidate instead. Nancy Pelosi also saw re-election as the House ...

Groklaw

  • FTC Press release re Google settlement
    Under a settlement reached with the FTC, Google will meet its prior commitments to allow competitors access - on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms - to patents on critical standardized technologies needed to make popular devices such as smart phones, laptop and tablet computers, and ...
  • Google Wins! FTC Settles, Says Google Isn't Ab ...
    Below, we have the official press release. The biggest news is that Google has not abused its power as the dominant search engine. In the release, the FTC says, "regarding the specific allegations that the company biased its search results to hurt competition, the evidence collected to date did ...
  • Microsoft Shouts Antitrust Over YouTube Snub
    A Microsoft executive has called Google out on the fact that Windows Phone users cannot enjoy a full YouTube experience the way Android and iOS users can. Dave Heiner, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Microsoft, wrote a post about the fact that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC ...
  • Google's executive chairman plans North Korea trip
    Google Inc's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, one of the highest-profile leaders of the U.S. technology industry, will travel to North Korea on a private trip this year, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. - Reuters
  • Microsoft lashes out at Googles decision to sp ...
    Dave Heiner, vice president and deputy general counsel for Microsoft (MSFT), took aim at Google (GOOG) and the company's unwillingness to develop for Windows Phone 8 in a blog post on Wednesday. Heiner claims that, "Google continues to prevent Microsoft from offering consumers a fully featured Y ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Scotland renewable energy – Best response to c ...
    Juan Cole departs from his usual topic of the Middle East to give credit where huge credit is due. Scotland is well on its way to powering itself entirely on renewable energy. They are showing the world that this can be done. Scotland renewable energy is primarily hydro and wind. However tidal ...
  • Matternet – delivery systems using networks of ...
    Matternet We take it for granted today that you can put data out on the Internet and it will sort of magically move to anywhere else on the planet. What if there were a Matternet that could do the same thing with physical objects? Sounds like FedEx, perhaps, but what if this worked even [...]
  • Middle East and North Africa teeter on the brink
    Middle East, North Africa (MENA) When the boot comes off the neck of the populace, the results sometimes are not at all what the original peaceful protesters envisioned and hoped for. Egypt is now increasingly hard-line Islamist (say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss) and Syria may wel ...
  • Christie goes postal on GOP leaders
    Via The Big Picture
  • Boehner and Teapublicans are yappy chihuahuas, ...
    The fearsome Teapublican threat Ever notice how chihuahuas bark and yap at you wanting to show how tough they are then run out of the room if you stomp your foot at them? Boehner and the Teapublicans are the same. They make a great and feisty show of being aggro yet when threatened, fold [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

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

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Probiotics Might Lessen Infant Skin Problems
    By Dr. Mercola Beneficial bacteria such as those found in fermented foods and probiotics thrive in your intestines to preform a magnificent symbiotic relationship with you, improving not only your overall health but even your skin. Signals from these gut microorganisms are known to interact ...
  • Save Your Bacon! Sizzling Bits about Nitrites, ...
    By Dr. Mercola Just to be clear, although I have cautioned against the consumption of pork, I am NOT anti-pork (or anti-bacon). My concern about pork is that you are cautious about the source of the pork you consume—just as you should be cautious about the source of your beef, eggs and poultr ...
  • Amgen Agrees to Pay $762 Million in Drug Marke ...
    By Dr. Mercola In recent years, drug companies have paid out billions in fines to settle various federal, state and civil lawsuits. Among the charges, promoting drugs illegally for off label use is common, even when it puts patients lives at risk. It's been said that imposing fines – e ...
  • Confirmed – Your Digestive System Dictates Whe ...
    By Dr. Mercola More and more, science is finding that teeny tiny creatures living in your gut are there for a definite purpose. Known as your microbiome, about 100 trillion of these cells populate your body, particularly your intestines and other parts of your digestive system. In fact, 90 ...
  • Can You Name the Top Health Stories of 2012?
    By Dr. Mercola Welcome to a new year! If 2013 is anything like 2012, we're in for a wealth of valuable breakthroughs that can help you and your family live healthier, happier, and longer lives. We discussed many downright revolutionary topics during this past year, from the remarkable healt ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • #Video: Brazilian Farmers Fight Back
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Is Monsanto invulnerable? Some might think that. But 5 million small farmers in Brazil have a different opinion.
  • 2013 Food Trend: A Healthy State of Mind!
    from houstonpress.com: Many companies and corporations have posted their predictions for the food trends of 2013. Of course, many of these lists include goofy trends like cake-pop push-pops (which sounds fun), but the common theme among a majority of all the predicted food trend lists of 2013 is ...
  • #Video: Food Fraud - The Vitamin Water Deception
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Few industries engage in as much as blatant, over-the-top fraud as the food industry. And it's all sanctioned by the government and justified by lawyers. The truth about one of the most popular beverages of the last ten years. What's really in Vitamin Water? It turns ...
  • #Video: #Frankenfish One Step Closer To Market
    from therealfoodchannel.com: During the Christmas 2012 holiday, the FDA quietly moved the genetically modified salmon called "frankenfish" one step closer to market. The Food and Drug Administration released draft documents that assessed the environmental risks posed by AquAdvantage salmon, whic ...
  • #Video: United Nations Source of Haiti's Deadl ...
    Create The Problem, Then Solve It from brasschecktv.com: With much fan fare, the UN recently announced a program to "rid Haiti of cholera." Just one problem, until UN troops infected with the disease came to Haiti recently, there was no cholera reported there.

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
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