3 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Desmond Tutu 2007 at the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag in Cologne 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

CASSE

• The Visible Hand: Manipulating Market Prices b ...
  Just how efficient are are market prices when they put the future of all species, including humans, at risk?
• The Outlook for Steady State Economics in 2013
  Looking beyond Mayan myths, there's a sign of good things to come in 2013 and beyond: more and more people are joing the steady state cause.
• Aristotle in Connecticut
  Eric Zencey searches for deeper causes in the midst of grief and dismay over the most recent American shooting tragedy.
• Elect More Women: Prerequisite for a Sustainab ...
  With men controlling legislative bodies, we've arrived at a global crisis point (both environmentally and socially). It's time to try electing more women.
• Economics as “Unusual” in Australian Politics
  Senator Christine Milne drops some seeds of hope in the barren fields of the Australian political landscape.

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

• 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 3 January 2013
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: gastrophysics, polar research tech, 50 words for snow, cannibal insect sex, and more
• Male lynxes duel to the death
  Male lynxes in northern Sweden are so desperate for territories, they are willing to fight to the death to get them
• Today on New Scientist: 2 January 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: reviews of 2012, previews of 2013, holiday science aplenty, hurricane Sandy's aftermath, and more
• Shell oil rig runs aground in Arctic
  In another setback for Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, one of its two drilling rigs has grounded on an Alaskan island
• Today on New Scientist: 28 December 2012
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: superstorm Sandy's climate change lessons, US Christmas storms explained, flea circus, and more

Tech Drive In

• Wait is Over, Canonical Previews Amazing new U ...
  The countdown has ended. The wait is finally over. Unlike almost everyone out there predicted, the countdown had nothing to do with Ubuntu for Android project, it's about the new Ubuntu OS for smartphones project Canonical wanted to talk about. And from the initial looks, this new OS for sma ...
• Top 5 KickStarter-like Crowdfunding Alternativ ...
  Internet has become an hotbed of innovation. Crowdfunding is one such internet-inspired innovation which could revolutionize how we do business in the near future. It could really be the next big thing. Kickstarter.com is one such hugely popular crowdfunding venture that is creating ripples ac ...
• Steam for Linux Beta is Now Open to Everyone!
  Nobody in their right minds would have imagined this an year ago. An officially supported Steam client for Linux? Are you kidding me? Well it just happened and the official Steam client for Linux is open to public. We should especially thank Microsoft for shooting its own feet with their new A ...
• Renowned Indie Game, Eufloria HD, Arrives Offi ...
  Eufloria HD should definitely be one the best games for Android in 2012. It is an incredibly addictive and stylish ambient strategy game. And like most other extremely popular games in Google Play Store,  Eufloria HD is criminally simple with almost zero learning curve involved.  ...
• A week with elementary OS Luna: Could this be ...
  It is not far-fetched to say, open source and its poster child, Linux, is going through a golden period. The emergence of internet has a lot to do with the popularisation of open source way of thinking. But in the world of Windows and Macs, what makes Linux tick? Redhat was the first to expl ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• 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
  coughlin1 – YouTube.

Veterans Today

• THE THIRD FORCE
  IS THERE A MYSTERIOUS AND SUPERIOR THIRD FORCE THAT IS COVERTLY MANIPULATING THE WORLD THROUGH A SMALL NUMBER OF SUPER-ELITES WHO RUN THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL NATIONS ? Is this THIRD FORCE non-human or alien and are the major world powers being separately controlled by this entity in diff ...
• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Janu ...
  Below is a blog post from Military Pathways, written by Dr. Steven L. Sayers, a psychologist and director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Coaching Into Care program.
• Vets face confusion using GI Bill at state schools
  In choosing to serve her country in uniform, Hayleigh Lynn Perez knowingly accepted a nomadic life.
• VA’s disability claims backlog tops 900,000
  The Veterans Affairs Department’s disability claims backlog edged above the 900,000 mark this week, with 608,365 67.6 percent stuck in the system more than 125 days.
• Netanyahu’s Warning
  Israelis aren't smart enough to spurn him. Palestinian suffering will continue. The new year began like 2012 ended. More on that below.

electric politics

• Constitutional Wrinkles
  Americans have been brainwashed into thinking we have the greatest system of government in the world. Arguably, however, much the opposite is true. In practical terms our system is neither democratic nor representative, when, that is, it works at all. But the Constitution has become America's ci ...
• Three Truths and a Lie
  'Tis the season for... reflections on life. And death. Yet death often feels ominously dark, especially when a young person dies before their time. It's difficult, in such circumstances, to remember that darkness isn't all bad — indeed, there's reason to believe it may be a source of enlig ...
• Running Against the Grain (Part II)
  Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...
• Running Against the Grain (Part I)
  Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a nearly ...
• A National Disgrace
  If you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible — even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College — n ...

PR News

• Brighter Group brought in for Iceland tourism ...
  Promote Iceland, the Icelandic tourism board, has brought in travel specialist Brighter Group as its retained agency to boost visitors to the country.
• Esprit appoints Exposure as UK agency of record
  Fashion brand Esprit has appointed Exposure to handle its UK press and publicity.
• ZenithOptimedia hires Hipperson to succeed Boyle
  ZenithOptimedia has appointed Tim Hipperson, the outgoing chief executive of digital and direct agency G2 Joshua, as its new CEO. He will replace Gerry Boyle, who will become global managing partner and UK chairman.
• ICCO appoints new leaders for global expansion
  LONDON: The UK's PRCA has assumed oversight of the International Communications Consultancy Organization with the aim of helping it expand its global services.
• Lippe Taylor hired by Freeman Beauty, Built
  NEW YORK: Lippe Taylor has expanded its client roster with two consumer accounts: Freeman Beauty and Built.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The race tightens as Obama, Romney prepare for ...
  AUSA begins, What Ishmael Jones’ experience tells us about “No Easy Day,” Thanks for the cowbells, and more.
• Pakistan's Bid for Tolerance
  A tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
• Leaving Afghanistan
  Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• ICYMI: Wildlands Advocate Vol. 20 No. 6
  Alberta Wilderness Association In case you missed it over the holidays, the latest issue of the Alberta Wilderness Association's Wild Lands Advocate is online.  Features A Last Look at AWA's 2012 Priorities What Ex ...
• Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Co ...
  Alberta Prairie Conservation Forum Alberta Society of Professional Biologists 19 Feb 2013 (All day) - 22 Feb 2013 (All day) Purpose The& ...
• Job Opportunity: Seasonal Park Interpreter, Al ...
  Position:  Seasonal Park Interpreter Organization:  Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation ...
• Job Opportunity: Project Manager, Clean Air St ...
  Position:  Project Manager Organization:  Clean Air Strategic Alliance ...
• Prairie Grasslands and Species at Risk Protected
  Government Sets High Bar for Suffield National Wildlife Area Alberta Wilderness Association 30 Nov 2012 The seven-group Suff ...

Stop NATO

• Afghanistan: U.S. To Keep As Many As 20,000 Tr ...
  Stars and Stripes January 3, 2013 Gen. Allen offers troop level options for post-2014 Afghanistan WASHINGTON: The top American commander in Afghanistan has submitted military options to the Pentagon that would keep 6,000 to 20,000 U.S. troops in the country after 2014, The New York Times reporte ...
• Obama Signs Bill For $633 Billion War Budget
  Xinhua News Agency January 3, 2012 Obama signs defense authorization act WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act of the 2013 fiscal year, the White House said on Thursday. According to the White House, Obama signed the bill while vacationing in H ...
• Michel Corday: War, the most brutal heritage o ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Michel Corday: Blood! Blood! But there is still not enough. Michel Corday: The everlasting glorification of murder Michel Corday: In war fathers bury their sons Michel Corday: War sentiment is general dementia, barbarous and ne ...
• Foreign Military Intervention in Syria: Red Li ...
  Fars News Agency January 2, 2013 Foreign Military Intervention in Syria: Red Line for Russia The Novocherkassk landing ship TEHRAN: Russia opposes any development in Syria which occurs as a result of foreign military intervention and doesn’t want to come out of the Syrian scene empty-hande ...
• 2013: U.S. Continues Drone Carnage In Pakistan
  Xinhua News Agency January 3, 2013 5 killed in U.S. drone strike in NW Pakistan Predator drone firing Hellfire missile ISLAMABAD: At least five people were killed in a U.S. drone strike launched in the wee hours of Thursday in Pakistan’s northwest tribal area of South Waziristan, reported ...

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Intel Hub

• FBI Background Checks Set New Record As 2nd Am ...
  By Alex Thomas theintelhub.com January 3, 2012 Over the past few weeks since the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that left over 20 children dead we have seen an unprecedented amount of calls for gun control. Whether it be from President Obama, the corporate controlled media, or Se ...
• One Year Emergency Food Supply Giveaway!
  MyPatriotSupply.com | My Patriot Supply, a Sponsor of TheIntelHub, is proud to announce our January - One Year Emergency Food Supply giveaway!
• Why We Need Gun Control
  Servando Gonzalez | Using the 9/11 events as a pretext, George W. Bush declared the War on Terror — a convenient substitute for the defunct Cold War —, pushed the PATRIOT act, which allowed for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the aberration named the Transportation S ...
• Weeducated: Talk Radio Based on Weed
  Kristie Austin | 2013 is off to a nice high start in Washington and Colorado where both states have made marijuana legal for recreation use.
• The San Antonio Theater Shooting the National ...
  By Bob Adelmann New American January3, 2012 At approximately 9:25 p.m. on Sunday night, December 16, just two days after the horrific shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Jesus Manuel Garcia, age 19, entered the China Garden restaurant across the mall from the Santikos Mayan Palace 14 theater comp ...

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• 8 Men Out: Who Voted Against the Fiscal Cliff ...
  The vote against the deal by a few was bipartisan, was about future statewide elections in 2014 and 2016, as well as a possible presidential contest between a few of the dissenting votes, including Rubio, Paul and Carper.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Jan 01, 2013
• Obama was Wrong to End the Pay Freeze on Congress
  With all the belt-tightening that ordinary Americans face, especially if the U.S. goes over the fiscal cliff, why are those least deserving of a pay raise getting one?Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Dec 31, 2012
• Norman Schwarzkopf: The Architect of America’s ...
  Norman Schwarzkopf, who died at the age of 78 from complications of pneumonia, was the architect of America’s greatest military victory since the end of the Second World War. But the aftermath of the Gulf War was messy, to say the least.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Dec 28, 2012
• No Apocalypse Yet, but If the NRA Gets Its Way ...
  The NRA weighed in on the Sandy Hook school shooting, and the big answer? Aw, you guessed it. More guns. We don't need the Maya to bring about the end of the world, we're doing just fine on our own.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Dec 21, 2012
• Fiscal Cliff 'Plan B' Bill Collapse Shows Inco ...
  House Speaker John Boehner’s attempt to appear “reasonable” in the face of President Obama’s intransigence over the fiscal cliff negotiations has ended in defeat and ignominy. He has handed Obama a political victory and the American people a tax increase.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: ...

Popsci - Science

• Electrical Current Can Unlock The Seriously Go ...
  Or, how to get high on electrodes. Trying to get high but don’t want to go through the hassle of conducting monetary transactions with some friend of a friend who may or may not be giving you what you think you asked for? Try tapping the opiate-like painkillers that you already own. University ...
• Food Coloring Goes Under The Microscope In Thi ...
  Biochemist and experimental photographer Linden Gledhill coaxed some common food dyes into crystal and then turned them into art. If you truly are what you eat you should definitely eat more Tartrazine Yellow and Allura Red, because man are they ever beautiful. Food colorings like these often ...
• 2013 Prediction: Stem Cells Sidestep Controversy
  New techniques will circumvent ethical concerns, and maybe lead us to the medical holy grail. Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used to be measured in decades. But big changes arrive faster and faster these days. ...
• Babies Pick Up On Language Before They're Even ...
  A new study shows how newborns can tell the difference between their native language and a foreign one. Research suggests we pick up on the nuts and bolts of speech six months after birth. But a new study suggests newborns have already learned parts of a language, can distinguish between their ...
• Crystalline Chemistry: Food Coloring Under The ...

Veterans Today

• THE THIRD FORCE
  IS THERE A MYSTERIOUS AND SUPERIOR THIRD FORCE THAT IS COVERTLY MANIPULATING THE WORLD THROUGH A SMALL NUMBER OF SUPER-ELITES WHO RUN THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL NATIONS ? Is this THIRD FORCE non-human or alien and are the major world powers being separately controlled by this entity in diff ...
• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Janu ...
  Below is a blog post from Military Pathways, written by Dr. Steven L. Sayers, a psychologist and director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Coaching Into Care program.
• Vets face confusion using GI Bill at state schools
  In choosing to serve her country in uniform, Hayleigh Lynn Perez knowingly accepted a nomadic life.
• VA’s disability claims backlog tops 900,000
  The Veterans Affairs Department’s disability claims backlog edged above the 900,000 mark this week, with 608,365 67.6 percent stuck in the system more than 125 days.
• Netanyahu’s Warning
  Israelis aren't smart enough to spurn him. Palestinian suffering will continue. The new year began like 2012 ended. More on that below.

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Dry weather returns to UK following 2nd wettes ...
  2012 averaged across the UK was the second wettest on record in data which stretches back to 1910, falling short of a new record by only 6.6mm. In total 1330.7mm fell last year, compared with the average of 1154mm. A new record has been set across England and Wales with 1205mm of rain. And ...
• How the Arctic may be impacting UK summers
  We may have to get used to wet summers like we've seen recently across the UK, according Dr Edward Hanna from Sheffield University in an interview which you can see on Inside Out and Look North tonight. According to Dr Hanna and an international team of scientists, melting summer Arctic ice ma ...
• The Beast from the East is slain
  The cold easterly which a large majority of computer models were predicting to develop this week has failed to materialise, with a much more unsettled weather pattern expected to return from the Atlantic during tomorrow. Last week, 80% of the ECMWF model solutions wanted an easterly 'blocking' ...
• The Beast from the East is lurking
  There is now growing consensus between most weather computer models that cold air from the east is likely to spread across Britain next week. If so, it will be the first time since March that high pressure has properly dominated our weather, and will end a long sequence of at times record brea ...
• 2012 on course to be in wettest top 10
  Only two thirds of average rainfall needs to fall across the UK in December for 2012 to end up in the top ten wettest years on record, according to Met Office data which was first collated over a hundred years ago in 1910. Should this be the case, it would also mean that nearly half of the yea ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Racism and Turkey's EU Bid, Episode VLXVII
  In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man Now I've reached that age, I've tried to do all those things the best I can No matter how I try, I find my way into the same old jam  Good times, bad times, Turkey's had its share alike Led Zeppelin. When it comes to its pros ...
• Gangnam Fail: A White Take on K-Wave's Success
  I am verily annoyed by an FT op-ed by neoconservative stalwart Christopher Caldwell that so happens to be the most-read article in the opinion section at the moment, so please indulge me in starting off the year with a critique. (This remains a blog, after all.) I do not need to reiterate how Am ...
• Fake Diploma? Be Ecuador's Next CenBank Chief!
  Ah, Ecuador...the archetypal banana republic. For a country that supposedly loathes the United States via its leader Rafael Correa and his assorted (dubious) leftist stylings, it is pitiful that Ecuador has no real monetary policy of its own since it has adopted the US dollar as its currency. Ca ...
• Islamic EconFundamentalism: Egypt's FX Rationing
  Is sound money management a normative activity? I would tend to think so since depreciation, inflation and so on tend to have widespread negative effects on the population's well-being. However, it comes as no real surprise that the Egyptian central bank has taken what are arguably steps on the ...
• Back in America: Is "Reshoring" Overblown?
  There's an interesting feature over at The Atlantic on how more American manufacturers are moving back to the United States since expected savings from moving more production to the likes of China didn't materialize. To be sure, the world economy has also changed since the offshore fad peaked (s ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• The Broken Teapot: A critical analysis of curr ...
  We all start life with our teapot intact and at some point a little crack starts and slowly grows, or maybe one day we slip and the whole thing ...
• Modern Slavery journal has new website
  Modern Slavery is a new journal for the abolition of all forms of enslavement, published as an independent, not-for-profit project of CAL Press....
• Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
  Despite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
• July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
• Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For Papers
  Jurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

• Papists protect child rapists
  Papists protect rapists  by Voiceless Victim Papists protect their child rapists but won’t protect kids – like me. Papists pretend. What rapists? Who cares what those lies do to me. Papists revere holy rapists but won’t even listen to me Papists stand up for their rapists the o ...
• Untruth, Injustice and Denial of Healing Council
  One month after the announcement by the Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, of a national Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions, the Catholic Church in Australia announced its own body. The so-called Truth, Justice and Healing Council. Sounds like i ...
• First Christmas in a country that gives a damn ...
  This year is the first Christmas that Australian victims of clergy child sexual abuse live in a country that no longer ignores our suffering, that recognises that what was done to us constitutes serious crimes that deserve investigation, and intends to do something about it. We are yet to see wh ...
• Church Officials Still Investigating Their Own ...
  The Australian Catholic Church has announced it has received but is yet to release the report of its internal investigation into the role of three senior church officials in the coverup of child sexual abuse by the priest known only as Father F. The report, prepared by former Federal Court judge ...
• Who is the victim here?
  The arrogant, entitled prince of a wealthy, influential monarchical religious institution which considers itself, and is treated, as above the laws of the land or The damaged, impoverished, abandoned child victims of serial rapists, whose suffering has been dismissed and whose pleas for help hav ...

WL Central

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

U N News

• Renowned US doctor appointed to support UN eff ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed renowned United States physician Paul Farmer to help galvanize support to eliminate cholera in Haiti, where the disease has already claimed over 7,750 lives.
• Secretary-General returns to renovated, eco-fr ...
  Returning to his usual office for the first time since the United Nations Headquarters' major restoration project began almost five years ago, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed excitement for the "historic" and eco-friendly renovations which have revamped the 60-year old Secretariat ...
• Ban expresses deepest condolences to Connectic ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to the Governor of Connecticut in the United States to express his deepest condolences at the murders which took place on Friday at an elementary school there, according to his spokesperson.
• UNESCO chief calls for investigation into deat ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called for an investigation into the death of a Colombian journalist who died of injuries sustained while in custody.
• Young Colombian woman named first winner of UN ...
  A 25-year-old Colombian woman has been selected as the winner of an inaugural United Nations prize recognizing contributions to social science research.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Malaysian Businessman Continues Attacks on Premier
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Prime Minister Najib, his wife and UMNO leaders remain silent in the face of charges
• Southeast Asia by 2030
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The strategic trends say the more things change the more they'll stay the same
• Could the Senkaku/Daoyus Drag Asia into a War?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Probably not. But there will be plenty of sturm und drang
• China Turns the Soft Power on Taiwan
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Mainland's tunes rock Taipei - for a night
• Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Taming of the Press
  • (http://twitter.com/share) OB Markers: My Straits Times Story, by Cheong Yip Seng, former Editor-in-Chief of the Singapore Press Holdings, published by Straits Times Press.

We Know the Lies

• Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
  We would like to thank our loyal readers and new visitors for another great alternative news year. We hope every one had a safe and wonderful Christmas... Best wishes for a safe, peaceful, healthy, enlightened and prosperous New Year... Stay awake and wake up those around you... HAPPY NEW YEAR 2 ...
• If You Are On This List You May Be In Grave Da ...
  Over the weekend a mainstream media web site on the east coast published, presumably in the interest of public safety, a complete list of individuals and businesses that are licensed to carry or own handguns. ~ Mac Salvo read more
• 10 Predictions for 2013
  This past year, 2012, was an eventful year. We had another Olympics, a U.S. presidential election, the warmest year on record, and lived through the Mayan apocalypse... read more
• 'Deceased' Emilie Parker With Obama?... You De ...
  Illuminati hiding in plain sight? Is this the same girl wearing the same dress? Or is it her sister (between parents) already wearing the dress of the deceased? Obama and the children seem pretty cheerful considering Emilie was supposedly brutally murdered days before... Henry Makow - Video r ...
• Designer Snow Storms... Geoengineered Snow Sto ...
  Many of the snow events occurring around the US, even at this time of year, are amazingly still occurring at above freezing temperatures. Some are at temperatures of 10 degrees or more above freezing. How is this possible? ~ Dane Wigington read more

Tarpley

• Boehner Blocks Sandy Funds for NY-NJ-Connectic ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com January 2, 2013 [download audio]
• Obama Still Seeking Killer Cuts in Safety Net; ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on INN World Report Radio with Vox I.N.N. World Report December 27, 2012 [download audio]
• The Second Great Depression Deepening Across t ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 24, 2012 In Charles Dickens’ celebrated short story A Christmas Carol (1843), the Malthusian miser and London stock exchange speculator Ebenezer Scrooge is told by the ghost of his deceased partner Jacob Marley that “it is required of every man that th ...
• Scenarios for Obamagate in the Second Term
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 16, 2012 The second Obama administration is now just a month away, reminding us of the century-old American tendency for second presidential terms to be troubled and often unsuccessful. Second terms are particularly vulnerable to scandal. At the same t ...
• NATO’s Syrian Death Squads Threaten to M ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 15, 2012 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• Carjacking: Victim or Avoidance
  What Is Carjacking? Carjacking is the crime of stealing a motor vehicle when the vehicle is occupied. Typically, the carjacker is armed, and the driver is forced out of the car with the threat of bodily injury. In other rarer cases, the driver is kidnapped under the assault by a weapon, or made ...
• Advantages and Disadvantages to Urban Chicken ...
  Guest post: by Robert Rowe, a contributing author to multiple prepper/survivalist sites and forums.   Not long ago, and after much resistance and debate, the city in which I live passed a chicken ordinance allowing for the possession of chickens within the city limits. This was welcome news ...
• 2013: Will Debt Lead To World War?
  2013 is here, and so are the predictions. While scanning other sites, listening to interviews, and reading the opinions of others in the alternative media, it seems that during 2013 and the few years that follow, we may be facing more of the same… but worse. One thing’s for certain, ...
• Stress and Survival
  STRESS Stress is defined simply as ‘reaction to pressure’. Unexpected or unanticipated events, or overload situations that develop can put a strain on our ability to cope and make us feel out of control. It is this feeling of not being in charge of a particular situation that we label as stress. ...
• Wind Chill Frostbite Chart
  What is Wind Chill Temperature? It is the temperature it “feels like” outside and is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin caused by the effects of wind and cold. As the wind increases, the body is cooled at a faster rate causing the skin temperature to drop. Wind Chill does not [...]

Fast Company

• An Art Installation That Turns Swimming Goldfi ...
  How long till they figure out "Mary Had A Little Lamb"? If you’re looking for a pet that doesn’t make any racket, a goldfish is a pretty safe bet. Unless your goldfish plays an instrument. Which is more or less the idea behind Hong Kong–based artist Henry Chu’s late ...
• Watch: A Sci-Fi-Worthy Run Tracker From Nike
  Stale running charts get reimagined with a dose of sci-fi glamour. Nike has some of the best exercise interfaces around, yet when you’re putting in several miles a week and tracking your progress accordingly, anything can get stale. That’s why MvsW, an interactive campaign by N ...
• Kickstarting: A Flat-Pack Lamp Inspired By Mod ...
  Calen Knauf’s clever Flight Lamp weighs in at a slight but sturdy 1.5 pounds. Vancouver-based designer Calen Knauf was given the following constraints in a class during design school: create something using aircraft ply, that incorporates tension into its construction, and flat-packs ...
• A Smart Watch With A Face Of Flickering Fireflies
  Ori Takemura’s KeiKei concept adds some backyard magic to the dull world of connected watches. We’ve coveted smart watches ever since since Dick Tracy first started talking into the sleeve of his yellow overcoat, and unlike flying cars or personal jetpacks, the connected watch ...
• An Amber Alert For Social Media Helps Find Mis ...
  Canada’s Most Valuable Social Network connects people online to the latest information about kidnapped children, so that the word can spread as quickly as possible, helping to widen the search. I’ve written before about digital translations of the old strategy of putting a miss ...

Jadaliyya

• Maghreb Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (December ...
  [This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Maghreb. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Maghreb-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical a ...
• Jadaliyya's Maghreb Page Echoes in France
  Paris-based weekly newspaper, Courrier International, has translated and featured a couple pieces from Jadaliyya's Maghreb Page. They include an interview with Moroccan-born artist, Lalla Essaydi, conducted by Maghreb Page co-editor, Samia Errazzouki, and an overview of the current situation in ...
• Syria Media Roundup (January 3)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
• Top 50 Most Read: Jadaliyya 2012
  Let's Talk About Sex How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East Sexual Harassment Video that Led to Removal of Rula Quawas as Dean at the University of Jordan Egyptian Elections: Preliminary Results [UPDATED] "من المآسي المضاعفة للنزوح:فتيات سوريات للزواج "ب ...
• Jordanian Elections
                       

mediagazer

• Al Jazeera's new channel struggles for U.S. di ...
  Reuters: Al Jazeera's new channel struggles for U.S. distribution  —  (Reuters) - Al Jazeera's announced plans to establish a new U.S. cable news channel via the purchase of Current TV isn't even 48 hours old and already it finds itself in a vicious battle to retain distribution ...
• The E-Reader Revolution: Over Just as It Has B ...
  Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: The E-Reader Revolution: Over Just as It Has Begun?  —  The e-reader era just arrived, but now it may be ending.  —  Dedicated devices for reading e-books have been a hot category for the past half-dozen years, but the shrink ...
• Journalism Is Personal - You probably read thi ...
  Ann Friedman: Journalism Is Personal  —  You probably read this post at Gawker, in which Hamilton Nolan aims to put the fear of Cronkite into the aspiring Thought Catalog contributors of America.  You probably also read that Andrew Sullivan is striking out on his own, hopin ...
• Questions Linger for Hosts After Sale of Curre ...
  Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Questions Linger for Hosts After Sale of Current TV  —  Eliot Spitzer, Jennifer Granholm, Joy Behar and the other hosts on Current TV have no idea what comes next.  —  On Wednesday, their television home was sold to Al Jazeera, whic ...
• China, the American Press, and the State Depar ...
  Evan Osnos / The New Yorker Blog: China, the American Press, and the State Department  —  It's time for the State Department to take up the matter of American reporters in China, and Chinese reporters in America.  —  The work of the American press in China has be ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Sissoko back in Mali squad for Nations Cu ...
  BAMAKO, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Hard-tackling Momo Sissoko is set to return to Mali's national team three years after he last played international football after being named on Thursday in a provisional squad for this month's African Nations Cup. Coach Patrice Carteron unveiled a strong line-up of ...
• AC Milan confirm sale of Alexandre Pato t ...
  AC Milan is reported to have agreed to the sale of young striker Alexandre Pato according to Radio Bandeirantes on Jan. 3, 2013. The youngster was once believed the future of the Red Devils attack but his future has been blurred in the past 18...
• Clinton open to testifying on Benghazi at ...
  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton remains open to testifying before Congress about security failures in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. “She has said that she i ...
• Azarenka wins in Brisbane
  Photos BRISBANE, Australia - (AP) -- Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka opened her 2013 season with a 6-3, 6-3 win Wednesday over to join No. 3 Serena Williams and fourth-seeded Angelique in the Brisbane International quarterfinals. American Sloane Stephens had a 6-3, 6-4 win over Sweden's to set ...
• Manmohan for approaching complex issues t ...
  Debate over nuclear energy and genetically modified food has come to the fore again, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday saying such “complex” issues should be approached through a structured debate and analysis, than being driven by faith or fear. “Complex issue ...

no frakking consensus

• Happy New Year!
  The German translation of my book is now in bookstores, readers of this blog are generous souls, and a troubling examination of free speech on university campuses sheds light on the climate debate.
• Holiday Cheer (blog donation button)
  Please consider buying me a holiday cocktail if you think my IPCC-related journalism is important. A donation button is available for two weeks only.
• This Is Called Cheating (Part 2)
  Months before authors were even selected to write an upcoming IPCC report, its chairman was telling a live audience what conclusion that report would reach.
• Who is Hans Joachim Schellnhuber?
  The German government's chief climate advisor is the furthest thing from an objective, dispassionate scientist. He thinks using fossil fuels amounts to “a lifestyle of mass destruction” - and that the UN should be put in charge of trillions of dollars.
• This Is Called Cheating (Part 1)
  IPCC officials are telling Working Group 2 authors about scientific papers that haven't been written yet. These papers will appear in a special edition of a journal guest-edited by an activist scientist.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 12/31/12 - Should the United States return to ...
  www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States return to a gold standard? - Proponents of the gold standard argue it provides long-term economic stability and growth, prevents inflation, and would reduce the size of government. Opponents argue a gold standard would creat ...
• 12/31/12 - Critical Thinking Video Series #2: Milk
  www.procon.org - – Critical Thinking Video Series #2: Milk – Does milk help to build strong bones, or does it weaken them? Does it help you lose weight, or make you fat? Does it reduce cancer risk, or increase it? Does milk contain pus, or is that a myth? Explore both sides of the milk debate in ...
• 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
  www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restricti ...
• 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
  www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restricti ...
• 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
  www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restrictions ...

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

• The Future of Academic Impact
    LSE’s public policy group put on an excellent conference programme on 4 December at Beveridge Hall. The conference explored the themes:1) the Economic impact of academic research; 2) impact and the new digital paradigm; 3) next steps in assessing impact; 4) impact as a driver for Open Access. ...
• LERU 10 – Open Horizons: A Revolution in Open ...
    Brussels on a cold morning, the sun reluctantly rising in the clear sky, and there’s science to be done. Sitting at a jaunty angle from the European Parliament is “possibly the best investment Bavaria ever made” (according to Gunnar Wiegand, Deputy Director at the Representation of the Free St ...
• CODATA 2012
    On the understanding that we needed to be indoors for a conference, the Taipei weather was accordingly drizzly with rain. The CODATA 2012 International Conference began on Sunday 28th October running until Wednesday 31st October. With several keynotes, high level panel discussions, and 4 or 5 ...
• Predistribution Strategies: Innovation, Financ ...
  I attended a Policy Network event on 3 December. It was part of their series on economic reform, and the launch of William Lazonick & Marian Mazzucato’s paper called The Risk-Reward Nexus. Committee Room 3 in the House of Lords was a wonderfully grandiose setting. The event was to centre on ...
• Population dynamics in Nairobi’s Korogocho slum
  As part of our dissemination activities for the Royal Society ‘People and the planet’ report, Sir John Sulston FRS and I visited Nairobi for a series of meetings with policymakers and a public lecture at the University of Nairobi. While we were there, the African Population and Health Research C ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Rochelle Macredie on the Sandy Hook massacre - ...
  My guest tonight is Rochelle Macredie, LLB, BSc, who joins us to expose discrepencies, anomalies and disinformation in the coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Rochelle's incisive intellect dissects many confusing strands of this story in an attempt to penetrate through the propaganda t ...
• Restore Australia! - Part 1
  On today's show in the second hour we welcome Mike Holt of Restore Australia. Restore Australia’s goal is to amend Section 128 of our Constitution to give all Australian voters, as well as the Parliament, the right to initiate a referendum to amend the Constitution. Why should we do th ...
• Australia - the new capital of the New World O ...
  Today I'm joined in studio by Damon Crowe for a general discussion about the quality of life in Australia and the way in which our society has been swallowed up by the forces of international homogenisation and enslavement. We look at the cost of living, sky rocketing property prices, and the ...
• Radiation expert Don Maisch on the health risk ...
  Today we are joined in the first hour by Dr. Don Maisch, the founder of EMFacts Consultancy, which has produced a wide range of reports and papers dealing with various health issues related to human exposure to electromagnetic radiation. From the website: This website was established in 1 ...
• Interview with Hanadi Assoud
    SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-14", width: 550, height: 400 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://www.truthnews.com.au/slideshowpro/images.php?album=14" } }); ...

Beacon

• Victory! Congress Extends Tax Credit for Offsh ...
  Coming soon to a coast near you. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Congress has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons this holiday season, but news out of the Capitol this week could not be better for the nation’s burgeoning offshore wind industry. As part of the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ de ...
• 2012 in Review: Oceana's Top Five Victories
  Sharks, like this great white, won several major victories in 2012. Source: Wikimedia Commons   As 2013 rapidly approaches, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year at Oceana. Thanks to your support, we were able to achieve more than a dozen major victories for the oceans ...
• Chile Becomes First Country in World to Protec ...
  Coral formations in Juan Fernandez archipelago lie among Chilean seamounts As you enjoy those last holiday cookies before the New Year comes with its resolutions, we’d love to share one final present for you to enjoy: we are thrilled to announce that last week, the country of Chile became the ...
• Harvard Dining Services Dishes Up Sustainable ...
  Sustainable Prince Edward Island mussels make a delicious dish for hungry men and women of Harvard. Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer for Harvard Gazette It looks like r’s aren’t the only things getting dropped at Harvard: Over the last few years, Harvard University Dining Service ...
• NYC Seafood Fraud Report Making Waves
  What's on your plate? Source: wikimedia commons Spurred by Oceana’s seafood fraud report for New York City released last week, Sunday’s New York Times took a broader look at the widespread practice of food mislabeling. Oceana’s initial report, which was also covered in the Times, included a ...

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Taylor Marsh

• Top Story — History is Made as 20 Female Senat ...
  THE 113th Congress was sworn in with 20 female senators, Republicans and Democrats, which makes history. “I think that until we get to 50, we still have to fight because it’s still a problem,” Boxer said. “I think this class as you look around, Republicans and Democrats. ...
• News Desk: Al Jazeera Buys Al Gore’s Current TV
  AL GORE has finally succeeded with Current TV by selling it, for a rumored very healthy profit. Al Jazeera on Wednesday announced a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore, a former vice president, and his business partners seven years ago. Al Jazeer ...
• Feature — Worst Performance in a Musical: Russ ...
  To love another person is to see the face of God. [from Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables"] IT’S TREMENDOUS to read that “Les Misérables” is doing well at the box office. It’s a tough musical in all respects, some say it’s also great. Hugh Jackman’s spellbinding, ...
• President Obama’s “Whining” Statement Attached ...
  OSAMA bin Laden is dead, but politicians continue to allow the blood thirsty terrorist to strangle our democratic republic from the grave. President Obama signing the NDAA, which codifies indefinite detention into the American fabric, is a capitulation to the right and all that’s unholy ab ...
• House Republicans Scuttle Violence Against Wom ...
  THE REPUBLICAN war on women keeps on giving. From Huffington Post: Despite a late-stage intervention by Vice President Joe Biden, House Republican leaders failed to advance the Senate’s 2012 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, an embattled bill that would have extended domes ...

Hudson New York

• The Palestinian Authority's Inconvenient Truths
  The truth sometimes hurts; that is why the Palestinian Authority has been working hard to prevent the outside world from hearing about many occurrences that reflect negatively on its leaders or people. In recent years, the Palestinian Authority
• UK Textbook Wipes Israel Off the Map
  Ahmadinejad promised it. Now British textbooks are doing it. Israel has been wiped off the map by Garnet Education, an English-language teaching company in Britain, whose educational textbook 'Skills in English Writing Level 1', aimed at foreign students
• The Islamization of France in 2012
  Opinion surveys show that to voters in France -- home to an estimated 6.5 million Muslims, the largest Muslim population in the European Union -- Islam and the question of Muslim immigration have emerged in 2012 as a top-ranked public concern. The
• What Do Abbas's Latest Threats Really Mean?
  Mahmoud Abbas has once again threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority which he heads in the West Bank. This time he chose to make his new old threat in an interview with the daily Haaretz. "If there is no progress [in the peace process] even
• The "IgNobel" Policy of the European Union on ...
  Although the Nobel Prize for Peace, which was awarded to the European Union, the economic and political amalgamation of 27 European states, on December 10, 2012, can be proud of some of its successes -- peace has certainly been kept after centuries of

Urban Survival

• Nice Rally, But Can It Hold?
  First thing into my head this morning as I headed toward the bathroom (at 4:27 AM) was “Let’s begin this morning’s column with ‘Good morning my little Biscotti...’ since we are one-another’s accompaniment with coffee.  Excuse me if I refer … Continu ...
• Coping: With Hate Mail
  Up to my kiester this week in real work (year end tax filings and work, work, work) so I have the phone set on ‘ignore’.  Nevertheless, when I dared question the procedure used by the Senate to get the cliff-avoidance … Continue reading →
• A Follow Up Note on the Budget Bill
  Several people wrote in this morning correcting me that the bill passed by the House last night had indeed originated in the House.  Therefore, they figure, it should be legal. However, in my comments this morning I refer to a … Continue reading →
• The Wednesday Reader Note
  Peoplenomics this morning bemoans the end of Constitutional rule of America.  You know that the Constitution requires that all spending measures must originate in the House?  You know this one didn’t, right?  So for Peoplenomics subscribers today:   Budget Bill … ...
• Bait & Cliff: Kabuki Rolls
  This morning there’s no end of headlines, like the Washington Post story that “Obama, Senate Republics reach agreement on ‘fiscal cliff’“.  If you read down into the story a ways, something should pop out at you: This only kicks the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Letter from A Marine to Dianne Feinstein goes ...
  No ma’am’: Letter from U.S. Marine to Dianne... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Gun Control - Watch What Happens When Guns Are ...
  The results of Australia's Gun Ban: Armed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• David Icke - Conscious or Programmed Zombie? T ...
  The first basic freedom we have is the freedom... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Ron Paul ~ 31 Forbidden Questions the Governme ...
  Ron Paul has some questions for the Federal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Rev. Douglas James Cottrell Prophecies for The ...
  Rev. Douglas James Cottrell PhD: Amazing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

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

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NRDC Switchboard

• Fiscal "Deal" Energy Investments Form Foundati ...
  Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City Millions of Americans breathed a sigh of relief this week following successful votes in the U.S. Congress to avoid the “fiscal cliff”.    Within the ener ...
• Latest Shell Debacle in Alaska Part of a Large ...
  Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Shell Oil’s string of failures in its Arctic Ocean drilling attempts continued into the New Year. One of the company's drill rigs ran aground near Alaska’s Kodiak Island with 150,000 gal ...
• Even Kids Get It: End Mountaintop Removal Now
  Melissa Waage, Campaign Director, Washington, DC Today our friends at Appalachian Voices present kids in Appalachia explaining why mountaintop removal mining is a disaster for people and the environment. (Blowing up mountain ...
• Starting the New Year With Good News: Califor ...
  Melissa Lin Perrella, Staff Attorney, Southern California Air Project, Santa Monica Just as the holiday season was kicking-in to high gear, California scored a victory in the courtroom that will clean our air and save lives.  On December 19, 20 ...
• Pebble Mine: 2012 Was a Very Bad Year for the ...
  Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA If you’re the Pebble Limited Partnership (“PLP”), you have to be relieved to see 2012 fade into history.  According to PLP, 2012 was to be a year of gathering ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  *Note* I was out of the office Monday, December 31, so there were no stories tweeted/recapped that day. This recap reflects the weekend, and the Holiday. Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, December 29, 2012 … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
• Trooper of the Year
  From the New York Times: Ms. Steed pulled over Julie Tapia for speeding as she was driving home. Ms. Tapia was giving a ride to her ex-husband, who had been drinking, but Ms. Tapia herself does not drink, the suit … Continue reading →Trooper of the Year is a post from PoliceMisconduc ...
• Federal Agents Riding to the Rescue to Protect Us
  From the Wall Street Journal: Peter Gleason was a psychiatrist who devoted much of his professional life to caring for what government officials call “underserved populations.” He would have been thrilled to learn that on Dec. 3 in New York, … Continue reading →Federal Ag ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, December 28, 2012: Detroit Lakes, Minnesota: A police officer has been charged in district court with reckless discharge of a firearm, a gross misdemeanor. ow.ly/gptC3 New Orleans, Louisiana: A … Continue reading →Nation ...
• Woman: ‘There should be other tactics for such ...
  From the Salt Lake Tribune: Eventually, Eric Hill proved his identity to the officers, and they took him out of handcuffs, the couple said. But the couple said the officers never further identified themselves or explained why they had come … Continue reading →Woman: ‘There shou ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose: Rovio downloads, BuzzF ...
  Rovio’s astounding festive season downloads, BuzzFeed funding and Current TV becomes Al Jazeera America, it’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Intel’s TV proje ...
  Ubuntu is coming to a smartphone near you, Intel’s audacious TV project is on the rocks, and Facebooks valuation is back north of $60 billion. You can catch The Daily... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Instagram’s advertisin ...
  Instagram rolls its advertising Terms of Service back to their original form, Facebook tries tackling message spam by taking payments for some messages, and Gangnam Style is the first YouTube... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook’s priva ...
  Facebook sharpens up its privacy tools, Google finally sells its Motorola Home division and the Snapjoy of photographs has been acquired by Dropbox. All this and more in today’s Daily... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Free speech, Redbox go ...
  On today’s Daily Dose, Steven Sinofsky heads to Harvard, and RIM proves that juice remains in the legs of its Blackberry brand. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

• An avalanche of decline: snow leopard populati ...
  The trading of big cat pelts is nothing new, but recent demand for snow leopard pelts and taxidermy mounts has added a new commodity to the illegal trade in wildlife products, according to the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Traditionally, the market for large cat products has centered ...
• Scientists: bizarre mammal could still roam Au ...
  The continent of Australia is home to a wide variety of wonderfully weird mammals—kangaroos, wombats, and koalas among many others. But the re-discovery of a specimen over a hundred years old raises new hopes that Australia could harbor another wonderful mammal. Examining museum specimens ...
• Mountain pine beetle threatening high-altitude ...
  In the western U.S., few trees generally grow in higher altitudes than the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis). Providing shelter and food for bears, squirrels and birds, the whitebark pine ecosystems also help regulate water flow from snowmelt. But, according to a new study in the Proceedings of ...
• Fires burn over a third more land than estimated
  Scientists currently detect fires around the world using moderate resolution satellite imagery, however a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that this tool misses many of the world's smaller fires, which add up.
• Biochar: a brief history and developing future
  Biochar - charcoal produced from pyrolysis of biomass - has received tremendous attention and support in recent years, and championed as one of the potentially most useful techniques for soil restoration and carbon sequestration in the modern era. Although a multitude of initiatives in biochar r ...

Sierra Express

• Missing person – can you help?
  Freetown, Sierra Leone – JAKO has been missing for over two weeks.  He is a resident of New England Ville, Freetown.  JACKO, my cousin, is autistic and does not speak.  I am desperate to find him. If you have seen him lately or have any idea as to his present location, please call on 079666038 [...]
• Historic farewell BBQ party in Sydney, Australia
  A barbecue (BBQ) get-together was organized to bid farewell to a Sierra Leonean journalist, Dan Parkinson Jnr., who was here in Sydney on a two-year postgraduate study. The Association of Sierra Leone Journalists in Exile (ASALJIE), in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Community Council in Aus ...
• Pademba Road prisoners entertained
  For the first time in history – on New Year’s Day 2013 at Pademba Road Prison in Freetown Sierra Leone, Papay Zua, Daddy Rhymes, Fantacee and Dynce perform to prisoners When we heard about this we immediately had to get in touch with one of the Artists to write up on this as this is the fi ...
• The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is ...
  In the days of yore, impunity and euphemism used to be a worrying challenge for the Anti- Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone.  This is no more the case. In the last few years, we have seen the independence of the Anti-Corruption Commission bearing fruit.  Now, hardly anybody will siphon off m ...
• Thanks for Sympathy
  Ambrose Thomas (son of Nanette Thomas) died on Wednesday 21st November 2012 in Garland Texas USA,  buried on 11th December 2012 in Freetown Sierra Leone.  (Photo: The late Mr. Ambrose Thomas) The mother, sister, and brother of the late Mr. Ambrose Thomas, B.A. (Environmental Sciences) M.A. (Publ ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Rock stars of NZ business world
  This has been another testing year for New Zealand businesses as they rock along the decade of "grumpy growth" that Finance Minister Bill English has signposted. It's not been plain-sailing by any means for the five "business heroes"...
• Liam Dann: Another year over, better to come
  And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?Sorry about that. I just can't get the line out of my head and it is silly season, all right? As a young business reporter I once did the full Twas the Night Before Christmas as...
• Big year for changing of the guard
  The face of New Zealand business changed over 2012 with a series of senior appointments made to some of the country's top jobs.These include former World Bank managing director Graeme Wheeler who took over from Reserve Bank governor...
• Dairy prices up 1.1pc in overnight auction (+g ...
  Prices of dairy products rose in the final GlobalDairyTrade auction of the year, though whole milk powder, the biggest product by volume, fell for the fourth sale in a row,The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.1 per cent compared to...
• Brian Rudman: One sales pitch to kids that no ...
  You have to feel sorry for Fonterra. Even with a role model as wholesome as the All Black captain to announce it was offering free milk to all New Zealand schoolkids, this stellar act of generosity hardly made the news. Perhaps next...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Credit Agencies Want the U.S. To Try Harder, P ...
  Credit agencies Moody's and Standard and Poor's say the U.S. government needs to work a little harder to get its financial house in order. Despite predictions of doom for the hapless Speaker of the House, John Boehner was re-elected with only nine defections from the ranks. Co ...
• Gene Healy Lists the Five Worst Op-Eds of 2012
  For three years running, Gene Healy has closed the Old Year with a seasonal burst of bile, his annual Five Worst Op-Eds column. As before, this year's malicious listicle rewards bad arguments and bad writing, with extra points for warped values. View this article.
• Mali isn't the Only African Country with a Mus ...
  International forces with American support are preparing to intervene in Mali, where Al Qaeda-linked militants have taken control of the north. The African-led mission will be made up of 3,300 African troops who will be tasked with assisting the Malian military in their attempts ...
• “Disposition Matrix” Sketched Out on How U.S. ...
  As noted on Reason 24/7, a federal judge has summarily dismissed FOIA requests by the New York Times and the ACLU for the legal justification used by the White House to order the killing of U.S. citizens. While officialdom is relatively silent on the workings of America’s drone war ...
• Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker, But Loses Am ...
  In the forthcoming March issue of Reason, I interview four Republican Congressmen--three new, one second-termer--with libertarian-leaning bonafides and the endorsement of Ron Paul. They are Justin Amash (Mich.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Ted Yoho (Fla.) and Kerry Bentivolio (Mich.) A prev ...

Mercury Rising

• Thursday Morning News Roundup: Robots, Solar, ...
  – William Lazonick: If robots really stole jobs as Paul Krugman thinks, Japan’s unemployment rate (currently at 4.1%, which is just over half of ours at 7.7%) would be much higher than ours. Don’t blame robots, blame greedy CEOs and boards of directors. – Siemens has inst ...
• The Year of the Water Snake: A year of investi ...
  From Wikipedia. Work by William Nutt. My last year’s predictions for the markets were not particularly good: I see the same two paths open before us that there were last year. On one path, the Chinese allow their currency to float and the consumer economy to take root. The Germans stop try ...
• Maddow Rising. The Eclipse of FOX
  Via Ritholtz, this cheering news from David Wagner, The Atlantic Wire: After prophesying a landslide win for Mitt Romney, Fox News has seen its ratings decline a lot more than usual since the election — and Sean Hannity’s viewers in particular keep disappearing, while Rachel Maddow’s ...
• Surprise! States With More Public Works Have H ...
  There’s a Bloomberg video link which I found quite interesting. It’s to a video where the most and least miserable states were ranked. And guess what? The most miserable ones are in that place of the country where (aside from roads built by convicts) there is no great tradition of pu ...
• Whales Got Legs! (AKA Yet Another Blow To Crea ...
  One of the things the creationists like to wave around as “proof” of creationism is the idea that whales couldn’t have evolved from land mammals because there’s no evidence of hind legs on them or their ancestors. Except that there is, as Stephen Jay Gould pointed out man ...

Reality Sandwich

• The Event of a Thread
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• Overcoming Cynicism
  This article is excerpted from Dark Pool of Light: Reality and Consciousness (The Convergence of Physical, Philosophical, Psychological, Psychospiritual, and Psychic Views), Volume Two: Consciousness in the Psychospiritual and Psychic Ranges, recently published by North Atlantic Books. read more
• Coming Home, Broke Wide Open
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• This Week in Psychedelics
    Ayahuasca saturates global consciousness, a US Senator suggests amending federal marijuana laws, and the "Hobbit" film suggests a positive view of drugs in this week's psychedelic news.   read more
• The Sandy Hook Horror: Will It Wake Us Up From ...
  The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of innocent, beautiful children and their heroic adult protectors has touched something really deep within the sacred heart of humanity; it feels as if a tipping point has been reached. read more

Desertification

• OP-ED: A Universal Climate Change Agreement Is ...
  The results of the United Nations climate change conference that closed in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 8 show once again that the international negotiations are moving steadily in the right direction, but alarmingly slow. At the heart of these negotiations is nothing less than the most challenging energ ...
• Critics Brand Climate Talks Another Lost Oppor ...
  Rich countries came to the U.N. climate talks in Doha intent on delaying needed action on climate change for another three years and a still to be hammered out new global treaty. This delay will be extraordinarily expensive and risky. Every year that fossil fuel emissions fail to decline adds to ...
• Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts ...
  The United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without financial commitments between 2013 and 2015. “This an incredibly weak deal,” said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a coalit ...
• A Hotter World Is a Hungry World
  Food prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18, scientists and activists say. Carbon emissions are already disrupting the world&# ...
• An Empty Table at Doha Climate Talks
  United Nations climate talks are on the edge of collapse Thursday, according to a coalition of civil society and representatives from half of the world’s countries. Once again, rich industrialised nations are putting nothing on the table in terms of increased emissions cuts and financial s ...

Blogging Canadians

• Liberal leadership – a beauty pageant?
  If Justin Bieber were a nobody and you’d met him in the street or at a bar, you might be inclined, provided he’s your type, to ask him, “Wanna hang out sometime?”, or, more awkwardly, “For you, I’d change the alphabet and put U and I next to each other.” (Yeah, good luck with that.) But Justin ...
• On the Tenth Day of Cronyism . . . : "Academic ...
  The following tweets were originally posted by "Anti-Academics" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/AntiAcademics), variously, on November 24, 2012; December 16, 2012; December 17, 2012; December 18, 2012; December 19, 2012; December 20, 2012; December 21, 2012; December 22, 2012; ...
• Intermezzo: The United States Congress
  Deranged Woman Pushes Congress into Path of Oncoming Subway Car As originally posted on: Carbolic Smoke Ball January 2, 2013 WASHINGTON, D.C. – A deranged woman confessed to pushing the United States Congress in front of an oncoming subway at the Capitol South Station last night. Rosacea L ...
• Happy Muslim New Year!
  If you live in France you may have gone car shopping today. In a story ignored by the MSM, Islamists set fire to over 1000 autos. That's a great way to ring in the new year! Allah must be proud. http://t.co/dgFTl1cv
• 2012: The 'Ooops' moment
  My favourite: Poor Rick Perry as his 'Oops'ended his candidacy.

Press TV - Middle East

• Saudis rally anew against ruling family
  Saudis have staged fresh protest against the ruling Al Saud family as anti-regime protests gather steam in the kingdom, Press TV reports.
• Casualties feared after Damascus attack
  An unknown number of people are feared dead after a car bomb attack targeted a gas station in Damascus.
• Turkey court jails 40 for ‘PKK ties’
  Turkish court has sentenced 40 people to jail for suspected ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
• Israel installs cameras near Lebanon
  Israelis troops have installed several surveillance cameras along the fence that separates Lebanon and Israel.
• Israeli troops, Palestinians clash in WB
  Israeli military forces have conducted an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, sparking clashes with Palestinian residents.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
  In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...
• Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
  In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
• I am a marathoner.
  Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...
• A Post-Sandy Report from Far Rockaway
  Hello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]
• Five Questions for SPS Veterans
  To all of the veterans, active troops, and military families in the SPS community, we thank you! Returning home and making higher education a goal is not always easy.  We asked alum Armando Vega, and current student Enrique Diaz to share some of their thoughts on being student veterans. 1. What ...

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

• at 8th Street and Greene Street, to East, Manh ...
  at 8th Street and Greene Street, to East, Manhattan (04/13/39)
• isaboutwords:José Vasconcelos Library, Mexi ...
  isaboutwords: José Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City, Mexico.
• It was bound to happen one of these days.  I w ...
  It was bound to happen one of these days.  I was taking one of my periodic strolls through The Strand’s outdoor bargain book carts and there it was — my first book, The Complex.  Oh, the ignominy!  Out on the street, asking price $2.  Since I’ve long since overcome the shame of shameless pr ...
• A nine year old newsgirl. She sold later than ...
  A nine year old newsgirl. She sold later than 8 P.M. sometimes. Been selling two years. Hartford, Conn.: 03/06/1909 (NARA)
• kateoplis:In 1971, the tiny Himalayan kingd ...
  kateoplis: In 1971, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan introduced a model of measuring prosperity not by GDP but through Gross National Happiness (GNH), a system of governance based on four pillars: equitable social development, cultural preservation, conservation of the environment, and pr ...

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• Q&A: Global Ban Another Tool in the Fight Agai ...
  Julia Kallas interviews ALVILDA JABLONKO, activist against Female Genital Mutilation
• Controversial Anti-TB Drug Approved in U.S.
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the sector’s primary regulator, has given accelerated approval to a controversial new drug for use by patients suffering from forms of tuberculosis that have proven resistant to other medicines. While the drug, known as bedaquiline and to be sold unde ...
• What is China’s Policy Driver in Central Asia?
  China is increasingly active in Central Asia, building pipelines and infrastructure projects, as well as expanding its diplomatic and cultural presence in the region. At the same time, Beijing is shoring up its control over Xinjiang, the restive province that borders formerly Soviet Central Asia ...
• Is Tashkent Cooking Its HIV/AIDS Statistics?
  Uzbekistan is facing a public health time bomb, experts are warning. Authorities contend they are making gains in the battle to contain the spread of HIV/AIDS, but independent specialists say such claims are built on twisted figures and deceptive methodology. At a late-November speech to mark Wo ...
• CAR Rebels Halt Advance on Capital
  Rebels in Central African Republic have said they have halted their advance on the capital, Bangui, and would participate in dialogue, as head of regional African forces warned them against making further moves. The announcement on Wednesday gave only a limited reprieve for President Francois Bo ...

My AntiWar

• Gen. Allen Presents Options for US Troops in A ...
• How Alternet and Salon Fell for ‘Gang Ra ...
• Suicide Car Bomber Kills 20 Shi’ite Pilg ...
• UK Prime Minister Rebuffs Argentina Over Falklands
• Bulgaria: 1 Suspect in Bomb Attack on Israeli ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Meir Javedanfar: Iran ‘Analyst’ as Pro-Israel ...
  Summary: 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 exp ...
• The New York Times plays dumb about Iran's 20% ...
  Summary: Sanger and Risen over at the New York Times say that Iran's conversion of some of its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium to reactor fuel rods, thus precluding its use for weapons, may be some sort of calculated message to the West that Iran is willing to make a deal. Never mind that I ...
• The War Party and the Israel Lobby Wish for Wa ...
  Summary: As we begin 2013, the War Party and its ally, the Israel lobby, are pushing hard to make sure that they get their wish for the New Year, namely, a devastating war with Iran. To them, it is not enough that the illegal unilateral sanctions that the United States and its allies have imp ...
• The Case For Legal Challenge of EU's Sanctions ...
  Summary: Despite appearances to the contrary, a valid legal case can be presented in the European courts that would challenge the legality of European Union's sanctions on Iran. Such a legal challenge may or may not prove successful in convincing the courts that a judicial review of the EU' ...
• International Law and the Iran Impasse
  Summary: On any given day, provided her paper of choice still features international coverage, the average American newspaper reader can expect to be treated to one or two articles on attempts to halt advances in Iran’s nuclear program. These articles might cover efforts to levy fresh sanctio ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Gigantic Disc of Dwarf Galaxies Discovered Orb ...
                   A newly discovered form of circle dancing is perplexing astronomers; not due to its complex choreography, but because it's unclear why the dancers – dwarf galaxies – are dancing in a ring around the much larger Andromeda Galaxy. The finding presents a challenge to our ...
• "100 Billion!" New Kepler Mission 'Rosetta-Sto ...
                 "I usually try not to call things 'Rosetta stones,' but this is as close to a Rosetta stone as anything I've seen," says John Johnson, assistant professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech. "It's like unlocking a language that we're trying to understand—the language of ...
• Image of the Day: Milky Way's Core Source of M ...
                    "Monster" outflows of charged particles from the center of our Galaxy, stretching more than halfway across the sky, have been detected and mapped with Australia's CSIRO's 64-m Parkes radio telescope. The outflows were were detected by astronomers from Australia, the ...
• "The Universe Began With a 'Big Chill' --Not B ...
                  The start of the Universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang but more like water freezing into ice, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University that could our revolutionized our understanding of the nature of th ...
• Dark Matter --Could It Play a Role in Creating ...
                 Dark matter makes up the majority of mass in our universe. However, we cannot directly measure the stuff as it doesn't interact with electromagnetic radiation (i.e. it doesn't emit or reflect any light), but we can indirectly observe its presence. In the Hubble Space T ...

Natural News

• Norovirus Cruise: Outbreak sickens passengers ...
  400 passengers and crew aboard two Christmas cruise ships sailing in the Caribbean have been sickened by what health officials believe is the winter vomiting bug, or Norovirus. According to federal health authorities, the first outbreak occurred a few days before Christmas...
• Neurofeedback corrects health problems without ...
  Through a technique known as "neurofeedback," people can learn to train their own brain activity in order to produce concrete health benefits - often better than more invasive interventions. In one recent study, researchers from University College London used neurofeedback...
• How television takes your guns
  Somebody has to write about these things. Since I've worked as a reporter for 30 years, I know enough about how the game is rigged. I'm talking about the big mass tragedies. Sandy Hook, the Aurora theater, Hurricane Sandy, Katrina. Many of the interviews wit ...
• Chinese adult children legally forced to visit ...
  On December 28, 2012 Chinese national legislation was amended so that adult children are now required to visit their elderly parents otherwise they could be subject to legal ramifications. It has been reported that in China elderly parents are often neglected and even...
• BPA damages cell pathways; accumulates in feta ...
  Two recently published studies have added to the evidence that bisphenol A (BPA) is a highly toxic chemical that poses a serious risk to human health. BPA is an industrial chemical used in everything from food and beverage cans to CDs, thermal paper (like that used...

Threat Level

• Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
  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 ...
• ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Ruling Lets Feds Keep Mu ...
  The President Barack Obama administration does not have to disclose the legal basis for its drone targeted killing program of Americans, according to a Wednesday decision the judge likened to "Alice in Wonderland."
• 6 States Bar Employers From Demanding Facebook ...
  California and Illinois on Tuesday joined four others in becoming the union's only states barring employers from demanding that employees fork over their social-media passwords.
• Senate Approves Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
  The Senate on Friday reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the President George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
• From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Ye ...
  From gun-toting, on-the-lam tech giants to flying drones and internet uprisings, these are the privacy and security stories that dominated Threat Level in 2012.

PERRspectives : Blog

• GOP Extortionists Admit Not Raising Debt Ceili ...
  With the fiscal cliff averted, Congressional Republicans are turning to their next--and more important--hostage. Without draconian spending cuts, they promise, the GOP will block any increase in the debt ceiling of the United States. In response, President Obama said, "I will not have another ...
• House GOP Budget Would Require $6 Trillion Deb ...
  If nothing else, the right-wing temper tantrum over Tuesday's "fiscal cliff" agreement is rich with irony. After all, the "crisis" was never really about deficit reduction (which the expiration of the Bush tax cuts would have handled quite nicely) but the very real danger of slashing the nation ...
• The National Debt? Republicans Built That
  As President Obama and Congressional leaders negotiate in Washington, the American people need to keep a couple of things in mind about the looming "fiscal cliff." For starters, the issue is not that the national debt will go up (which roughly half of those in one poll believe to be the case), ...
• U.S. Conservatives Cheer as French Court Nixes ...
  France has been a bogeyman of the American right for years. Mitt Romney, after all, made enmity towards Paris' "big government, big taxation, welfare state" a talking point of his campaign. For his part, John McCain joked that the French "remind me of an aging movie actress in the 1940s who is ...
• 25 Republicans Can End the Fiscal Cliff Stand-Off
  Following his meeting with Congressional leaders Friday, President Obama declared he was "modestly optimistic" a deal could be reached to avoid the January 1st "fiscal cliff." But if Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell can't come to an agr ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

• Should Afghanistan Be Partitioned?
• Strategic Threat of Climate Change
• What Hagel Could Give Obama
• Consortiumnews’ Fund Drive Extended
• A 2012 Look-Back at Consortiumnews

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• 21MW Maui Wind Farm Goes Online
    Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and BP Wind Energy have announced that the 21MW Auwahi wind farm is now fully operational. Construction of this wind park took nine months to complete, and it consists of eight turbines mounted on the southeast ridge of Maui’s Haleakala volcano. This wind ...
• Car2go Comes To London!
    Time to set-off from the banal pattern of cab sharing and travelling, particularly in London! Daimler and Europcar, with their Car2go service, have risen above the crowd, launching their avant-garde concept of carsharing in London (also known as a car club here). The carsharing service gi ...
• Galactic Geysers Of A Titanic Scale Powered By ...
  Extraordinarily large jets of charged particles exploding from the center of the Milky Way at supersonic speeds were somewhat recently discovered. And now, researchers think that they know what is causing them, “the phenomenon is driven by many generations of stars forming and exploding in ...
• Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight, Early ...
  Tonight, around 2am January 3, 2013, the first major meteor shower of the year will occur, the Quadrantids. Those watching should expect to see up to 40 or so meteors an hour, though the dimmer ones will washed out somewhat by moonlight. The moon will be in its ‘waning gibbous’ phase ...
• Ringed And Bearded Ice Seal Populations Listed ...
  Four subspecies of ringed seals and two distinct population segments of bearded seals have now been listed under the Endangered Species Act. To be specific, the Beringia and Okhotsk populations of bearded seals have now been listed as threatened, along with the Arctic, Okhotsk, and Baltic subspe ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Environment Minister Peter Kent asked Manitoba ...
  OTTAWA—Environment Minister Peter Kent says a federally funded research facility that studies water
• November 2012 monitoring
  November 4 – a beautiful day. During the morning monitoring it was in barely 70 (cool air, war
• The 40th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act
  An article published on the Scientific American website discusses issues that still remain to be add
• Surfrider Foundation & Swell; grassroots e ...
  The Surfrider Foundation is a grassroots non-profit environmental organization that works to protect
• How does an aquifer work?
  Here is a fun video of a model of the Texas Edwards aquifer, along with demonstrations of recharge a

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• West’s ‘Scramble for Africa’ terror pretext in ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV Oct. 24, 2012
• Lethal Hypocrisies—of Haunting Lily Pads by Br ...
  By Branford Perry Review of Gaither Stewart’s book, Lily Pad Roll: Journey to the Outposts of the Em
• Chris Hedges: Everything Emanates From Corpora ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 26, 2012 Image by occupyreno_media via Fli
• Michael Parenti, Savvina Chowdhury, Sarah Rega ...
  Image by PaulSteinJC via Flickr with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti
• Bahraini regime ‘terror stunt’ to step up repr ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV Oct 23, 2012

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• Don't let the door hit ya where evolution split ya
  By @BGinKC The worst Congress in the history of the republic just ended, and not a moment too soon, and as it slouches out of town, it takes with it the political career of many a miscreant dumbass who was an embarrassment to the nation and a cancer on the body politic. The war criminal Allen We ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC There has to be a way for us godless librulz to have fun with this...Glenn Beck is so bereft at the reelection of Barack Obama that he has informed his staff that anyone who so much as mentions the President's name will be fired. "This is in effect. Anyone who brings him up - unless i ...
• The Political Year in Pictures - 2012 - part 3
  Previously: The Political Year in Pictures - 2012 - part 1 (December 31, 2012) The Political Year in Pictures - 2012 - part 2 (December 31, 2012) At the annual Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa on September 16, 2012. Harkin Steak Fry 2012 - photos (September 16, 2012) Harkin Steak Fry 2012 - ...
• The Political Year in Pictures - 2012 - part 2
  Previously: The Political Year in Pictures - 2012 - part 1 (December 31, 2012) Cass County Prosecutor and 4th Congressional District candidate Teresa Hensley (D) in the parade in Belton, Missouri on June 16, 2012. A parade in Belton, Missouri (June 16, 2012) Ed Martin (r): We were sitting aroun ...
• The Political Year in Pictures - 2012 - part 1
  Over the course of the last year we covered a number of government and political events in Missouri (and elsewhere), in the process taking thousands of photographs. Most of them didn't make it into the blog. Some of the things we saw and heard made us smile, made us think, made us gasp, made us ...

Care 2

• So Can We Focus On Jobs NOW?
  Congress and the media paid homage to the agenda of the billionaires and Wall Street, with the manufactured fiscal cliff PR campaign frenzy that just ended. So now can we get back to the countrys priorities? Can we talk about jobs now? Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |& ...
• The Bernie Buzz - Bernie Sanders on What Comes ...
  At 2 a.m. on Jan. 1, the Senate passed a congressional version of a New Years resolution. This was not good legislation, Bernie said. Unfortunately, the alternative of not passing the bill would have been much worse. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-i ...
• Feds Sacrifice Tomorrow's Water to Mine Uraniu ...
  Every day injection wells pump more than 200,000 gallons of toxic and radioactive waste from uranium mining into Wyoming aquifers. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Abandoned, sick puppy found frozen to ground i ...
  Animal control officials made a pitiful discovery in Henderson, Ky. on Wednesday. A puppy was found beneath a trailer in 19 degree weather. In fact, it was so cold that the abandoned pup's mouth was frozen closed and his body was partially frozen Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals ...
• More Proof That History Isnt Made Up Solely Of ...
  Weve come a long way, baby and still have so much further yet to go. A time line of all those "minorities" and "others" though a time line of history. Submitted by Kit B. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• The Battle for 2014 Begins on Day One in the S ...
• Welcome to America, Al Jazeera!
• So Can We Focus On Jobs NOW?
• Dirty Harriet
• The U.S. Intelligence Community's New Year's Wish

Paul Krugman

• Debt in a Time of Zero
  Not everything is a free lunch, even now.
• Latvia, Once Again
  Still not a wonderful success story.
• That Bad Ceiling Feeling
  Small change, but a deeply discouraging precedent.
• Perspective on the Deal
  The problem is now where Obama ended up but how he got there.
• Conceder In Chief?
  Not as bad a deal as some reports, but setting up the next crisis.

No Quarter

• Obama’s Vacation: $4 Million (open thread)
  In the past, presidents like Ronald Reagan stayed at his own ranch in California. However, President Obama prefers to rent lavish rented estates where he grew up in Hawaii. He plays golf and spends time with his wife and daughters Sasha and Malia. He also plays golf and works out at the nearby M ...
• Yes, Chris Christie is a Fat Blowhard
  I too am fed up. But, unlike Chris Christie, I know when to stop shoveling food into my puss. Yes, I am pissed at Chris Christie. The Chris Christie tantrum today over the refusal of Congress to shell out more of our taxpayer funds to the clowns in Jersey and New York who chose of [...]
• People believe the NRA is a terrorist organization
  I was astonished to learn that police officers are having to protect children, teachers and others, on top of handling the disaster at Sandy Hook. Larry Johnson recently wrote about the shootings in Newton at “Demand a Plan–Tell Hollywood Celebs to Fuck Off“: These assholes are in a ...
• Happy New Year All! (HK2′s Open Thread)
  From “Anderson Cooper: Psy surprise was weirdest NYE moment“: The video above shows Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin celebrating New Years Eve at Times Square. By the way, Larry Johnson recently reported about what the Democrats did in his post, “Fiscal Cliff Pork“: Thin ...
• Demand a Plan–Tell Hollywood Celebs to Fuck Off
  The self-righteous bullshit from Hollywood is so deep and so fetid that it would curdle salt. These assholes are in a weeping frenzy over the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. Yes, that was an awful thing. But these obtuse clowns are apparently completely devoid of irony. Enjoy: Demand a plan? ...

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 ...

Therapy News

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Mountaintop Removal

• New video has children calling for an end to m ...
  New video has children calling for an end to mountaintop removal mining The Courier-Journal (blog) The group Appalachian Voices this morning released its new video titled, “No more excuses, end mountaintop removal.” See it above. The video has children explaining how mountaintop coal mining is d ...
• Farewell, Lisa Jackson! What's Next for the EP ...
  New York Post Farewell, Lisa Jackson! What's Next for the EPA? Care2.com (blog) She also initiated a sweeping agency review of the impact of mountaintop removal in states like West Virginia and Kentucky, a practice that dumps raw mining waste into wetlands and streams. Jackson, the nation&#3 ...
• Rebecca Tarbotton, Environmental Activist, Die ...
  New York Times Rebecca Tarbotton, Environmental Activist, Dies at 39 New York Times Rebecca Tarbotton, an environmental activist who helped persuade big banks to stop financing mountaintop removal mining and who helped persuade Disney to reduce its use of paper made from trees cut down in rain f ...
• Jackson stood up for all of us - Politico
  Politico Jackson stood up for all of us Politico She took action to protect miles of Appalachian streams from the ravages of mountaintop-removal coal mining. And she worked to defend some of our most vulnerable citizens, including low-income children, seniors and people of color, who have long l ...
• Nighthawks, and other poignant finds along a r ...
  Nighthawks, and other poignant finds along a remote ridgeline Monadnock Ledger Transcript In inland New Hampshire, big winds blow only on our ridgelines, and more often than not our ridgelines are remote and offer refuge for wildlife. Updrafts along ridgelines also attract migrating hawks that r ...

Memeorandum

• Boehner's battle for speaker (Politico)
  Politico: Boehner's battle for speaker  —  John Boehner won reelection to a second term as House speaker on Thursday, but it wasn't easy.  —  In an unusually suspenseful roll-call vote of the new House of Representatives, Boehner garnered 220 votes, but 12 Republ ...
• Gabby Giffords to Visit Newtown Friday (Bob Co ...
  Bob Connors / nbcconnecticut.com: Gabby Giffords to Visit Newtown Friday  —  The former U.S. Rep. from Arizona will hold a private meeting at a home in Newtown.  —  Former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords will visit Newtown on Friday.  —  Former ...
• Obama signs defense bill, notes regrets (Josh ...
  Josh Gerstein / Politico: Obama signs defense bill, notes regrets  —  President Barack Obama signed a major defense bill Wednesday, notwithstanding public veto threats the White House issued with regard to earlier versions of the legislation.  —  Obama issued a w ...
• Giffords to visit victims in Newtown (Justin S ...
  Justin Sink / The Hill: Giffords to visit victims in Newtown  —  Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) plans to meet with victims of the Sandy Hook shootings on Friday in Newtown, Conn., nearly two years to the day after she survived an assassination attempt.  —&nbs ...
• NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama Despite Guantana ...
  Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post: NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama Despite Guantanamo Veto Threat, Indefinite Detention Provisions … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Video, National Defense Authorization Act, National Defense Authorization Act 2013, Guantanamo Obama, ...

Energy & Environment News

• Deepwater Horizon Owner Settles With U.S. Over ...
  Transocean, the driller whose floating oil rig blew out in 2010 to cause a massive oil spill, agreed to a resolution of the federal government’s civil and criminal claims.
• Shell Oil Rig Aground off Alaska Is Not Leakin ...
  Officials said on Thursday that the electrical systems of the vessel were out but that its roughly 150,000 gallons of diesel fuel and lubricants were intact.
• Congress Extends Incentives for Biodiesel Industry
  The fiscal package passed this week included a retroactive reinstatement of a dollar-a-gallon credit going back to January 2012, when it lapsed.
• Green Blog: Transocean to Pay $1.4 Billion in ...
  The federal court settlement addresses both civil and criminal penalties.
• Green Blog: Next-Generation Environmental Acti ...
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• M 5.4, Kepulauan Obi, Indonesia
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• M 5.2, Balleny Islands region
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• M 5.0, South Indian Ocean
  Monday, December 31, 2012 08:50:07 UTC Monday, December 31, 2012 02:50:07 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.80 km (6.09 mi)

China Dialogue

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AlterNet Top Stories

• The Right-Wing Clinton Crazies Are Back Again
  At least most of them aren't snickering about the blood clot.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was recently hospitalized after doctors found a blood clot in her head, a condition that ABC News reported was "potentially 'life-threatening.'" The hospitalization came in the ...
• Chris Christie, Spare Us Your Anti-GOP Theatri ...
  Spare me, Chris Christie. The New Jersey governor delighted political reporters with his theatrical excoriation of the Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives after Speaker John Boehner refused to allow a bill funding aid for people affected by Hurricane Sandy to ...
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• Exhibit A in How an Islamophobic Meme Can Spre ...
  Editor's note: On January 2, AlterNet was one of several outlets that published what turned out to be an article based on a false report. We would like to apologize to our readers for the error.On January 2nd, the story of a Saudi Sheikh issuing a fatwa that condoned 'intercour ...

Threat Level

• Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
  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 ...
• ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Ruling Lets Feds Keep Mu ...
  The President Barack Obama administration does not have to disclose the legal basis for its drone targeted killing program of Americans, according to a Wednesday decision the judge likened to "Alice in Wonderland."
• 6 States Bar Employers From Demanding Facebook ...
  California and Illinois on Tuesday joined four others in becoming the union's only states barring employers from demanding that employees fork over their social-media passwords.
• Senate Approves Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
  The Senate on Friday reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the President George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
• From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Ye ...
  From gun-toting, on-the-lam tech giants to flying drones and internet uprisings, these are the privacy and security stories that dominated Threat Level in 2012.

Equality Trust

• UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
  The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• The Microbiological Data Program is Officially ...
  Helena Bottemiller of Food Safety News reports that the Microbiological Data Program (MDP), which used to conduct 80 percent of all federal produce testing for pathogens like Salmonella and Listeria,... Continue Reading
• Cantaloupe Farm Implicated in 261 Ill, 3 Death ...
  A few weeks ago, Mr. Chamberlain of Chamberlain Farms Indiana received a not too friendly letter from Mr. Bass of the FDA.  In part the letter outlined again the results... Continue Reading
• “Humanoid Simulated Vomiting System” – Norovir ...
  Norovirus Outbreaks on rise on both sides of the Atlantic. The BBC reports that ‘Vomiting Larry’ is busy being sick over and over again in an experiment to test just... Continue Reading
• Listeria Recall – Cold Smoked Salmon
  Einstein Bros. issued a recall Monday of a smoked salmon product that the Lakewood, Colo.-based bagel chain sells, saying its supplier notified it of a potential bacteria threat in the... Continue Reading
• Largest Salmonella Outbreak in Washington 2012 ...
  At least 120 people were suspected to have fallen ill in a Salmonella Virchow outbreak tied to the On the Border restaurant in Vancouver, Washington.  That case count included 43... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

• Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computers
  PointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
• First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...
  CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
• Groupiter makes workflow as simple as Dropbox
  Tiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
• Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...
  New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
• Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...
  New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...

Camera Obscura

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• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

• Obama’s New Year’s Resolution: Protect the Sta ...
  By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Amidst the White House and congressional theatrics surrounding the so-called fiscal-cliff negotiations, a number of bills were signed into law by President Barack Obama that renew some of the worst excesses of the Bush years. Largely ignored by the media, ...
• Leading Environmentalist Rebecca Tarbotton of ...
  Leading environmentalist and human rights champion Rebecca "Becky" Tarbotton, executive director of the organization Rainforest Action Network ( RAN ), has died at the age of 39. According to RAN , Tarbotton died Wednesday on a beach in Mexico while vacationing with her husband an ...
• Pull the Global Trigger on Gun Control
  By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan While the final funerals for the victims of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre have been held, gun violence continues apace, most notably with the Christmas Eve murder of two volunteer firefighters in rural Webster, N.Y., at the hands of an ex-convict who ...
• Juan González Honored For 25 Years of Muckraki ...
  The New York Daily News has published a series of articles highlighting the work of columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. "It is hard to believe that 25 years have passed since Juan walked past the landmark globe in the landmark News Building on E. 42nd St. and took a desk in ...
• VIDEO: "NRA Killing Our Kids" - CODEPINK Disru ...
  CODEPINK protesters interrupted the National Rifle Association’s press conference on Friday as the group held its first press conference since the Newtown massacre. During comments made by NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, one protester held up a banner reading, “The NRA is killing our kids ...

Suzie-Q

• Obama Newtown Speech: President Addresses Vigi ...
  Huff Post Posted: 12/16/2012 10:44 pm EST | Updated: 12/16/2012 11:03 pm EST President Obama spoke at a prayer vigil in Newton, Connecticut on Sunday in honor of the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Below, read Obama’s full remarks as provided by the White Hous ...
• In Loving Memory- Sandy Hook Victims (Photos)
• President Obama’s Election Night Speech
  The New York Times Published: November 7, 2012 President Obama spoke in Chicago on Tuesday night after winning re-election. Transcript: Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. (Cheers, applause ...
• Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...
  PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn Univ ...
• President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...
  The President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!

Solari

• NY Times: Trashing the Constitution for Fun an ...
  By Jon Rappoport It doesn’t surprise me that the NY Times has decided the Constitution is merely a reference document now. The paper’s loyal readership, what’s left of it, lives huddled on the upper east side of New York, behind their hundred-million-dollar front doors, where wealth must be prot ...
• Quote Du Jour
  “When you put your faith in the people who are trying to kill you, then things can only get worse.” - Solari Report team member
• HUD Unveils Massive Integration Plan
  By Housing Affairs Letter HUD intends to submit a new rule proposal in April targeting massive desegregation of each of the nation’s more than 74,000 census tracts. The plan, modeled on HUD’s Westchester County, NY low-income housing mandate, will require that each census tract conta ...
• Liked the Fiscal Cliff? You’ll Love Thes ...
  By Market Watch So, the fiscal cliff brawl is finished. Washington is breathing easy, right? Wrong. Three more budget-related battles are looming just over the horizon, meaning lawmakers and the White House – not to mention the markets — are already buckling up for the next bumpy ride. Con ...
• Proposed Exchange Merger Brings Renewed Calls ...
  By Dina ElBoghdady The proposed merger of a leading commodities exchange and the world’s most famous stock market raises a burning question for Washington: Does it make sense to have two U.S. regulators watching one gigantic exchange company? Some policymakers and market experts say no. Continu ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Times Scare
  ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
  BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
  Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Sideways News

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Fabius Maximus

• 2012: the year people began to realize the rob ...
  Summary:  The FM website strives to show readers visions of the future. Sometimes we succeed, like with the robot revolution.  Two years ago we alerted readers of its arrival, reviewing fifty years of warnings.  Now its splash has attracted the attention of economists and journalists. Today we l ...
• How can we save the world from climate change?
  Summary: Today we continue our year-end speculations. Here we look at the steps necessary to save the world from the effects of CO2-caused climate change. The often-hysterical tone of much commentary about shockwaves — low probability, high impact scenarios — makes me wonder about th ...
• From the archives: sobering words from a great ...
  Summary:  As we start the New Year, these words from the past can inspire us today — as they inspired their audience 45 years ago.  Inspiration might be the most valuable support we need in 2012. . Dr. Martin Luther King “Where Do We Go From Here?” Excerpt from his speech to the Southern C ...
• From the archives for your New Year’s Ev ...
  Summary:  As we start a new year we can gain courage by looking at the good aspects of our past and the glimmers of good fortune that lie in our future.  These things are conjured by our myths from the dry pages of history for our eyes to see. . Morpheus speaking to the people [...]
• Looking back at 2012 – how accurate were ...
  Summary:  Year-end is a time to look back at one’s forecasts, and look forward to what might happen next year.  Today we do the former, looking at the predictions for 2012 made here last December. “Always in motion is the future.” — Yoda, Jedi-Knight Here are the predictions fo ...

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The Progressive Realist

• New START Almost Goes Over the Cliff
  By Tom Z. Collina and Daryl G. Kimball In all the last minute drama about whether the nation would fall off the ‘fiscal cliff,’ it went largely unnoticed that the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) almost took the plunge as well. The fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorizat ...
• How the Fiscal Cliff Deal Will Affect Foreign ...
  The deal is done. But what does it mean for the funding of American foreign policy priorities? The fiscal cliff deal reached at the 11th hour calls for an income tax hike on people earning more than $400,000 and delays a series of dramatic budget cuts known as “sequestration” until M ...
• Syria 2013: Will The Poison Pill of Sectariani ...
  At the dawn of the New Year President Bashar al-Assad and his regime remain committed to pursuing a corrosively destructive sectarian survival strategy, one enjoying a critical assist from an increasingly radicalized and politically directionless armed opposition.  Left to their own devices—as b ...
• ISO: American Grand Strategy
  The first decade of the 21st century was a heady time for foreign-policy wonks. Why? Because their world was awash with Great Debates about Grand StrategyTM. Now things seem much less exciting. Perhaps that’s because, despite the best efforts of the usual suspects, the partisan debate no l ...
• Top of the Morning: Myanmar Launches Airstrike ...
  Top stories from the global news aggregation service, DAWNS Digest.  Myanmar Launches Airstrikes on Rebels A worrying escalation in one of Myanmar’s lingering civil conflicts. “Myanmar’s military acknowledged launching airstrikes against ethnic Kachin rebels in the north and said it captur ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Viva Boehner
  The last month has not been good to John Boehner. His attempt to circumvent President Obama and gain leverage over congressional Democrats with a “Plan B” on the fiscal cliff was foiled by House Republicans, and when it came time to pass the deal crafted by the Senate, he had to rely on Democra ...
• Boehner Opens 113th Congress with Sad Posturing
  John Boehner has held on to his job as Speaker of the House for now, mostly because no one ran against him. That may be because none of his Republican colleagues wants that nightmare of a job, or it may be because they want it, but just think biding their time a little longer is the best play. ...
• New Congress, Same Republicans
  The new Congress was sworn in today, which was cause for various writers to note the abysmal performance of the last Congress. Here’s Ezra Klein, for example, on the many, many failures of the 112th: What’s the record of the 112th Congress? Well, it almost shut down the government and almost br ...
• Call it Trafficking
  Last week, in a horrifying move, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill to ban American citizens from adopting Russian children—ironically enough, in retaliation for U.S. efforts to punish Russian violations of human rights. It's ironic because thousands of Russian children (and childre ...
• We Need More Tax Brackets
  Income taxes have gone up for the first time in 20 years, but as the Huffington Post reports, only 1 percent of taxpayers are affected: Forget the 1 percent, the fiscal cliff deal is all about the .7 percent. That’s the slice of Americans who will be affected by Congress’ new definition of “wea ...

Buzzflash

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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• 2012 a busy year, some highlights
  My wife told me that publishing this would be like sending out one of those braggardly “family newsletters” to one’s friends, but I wanted to round off the blog for 2012 by posting a few memories from the year…is that so bad? I even blogged about not posting it. Anyway, i ...
• Facebook boosts self esteem, leads to snacking
  That’s an approximation of the tabloid headlines. But, as ever, NHS Choices offers a more solid critique of various bits of research into the effects of online social networking on our psyche. “Overall, social networking improves self-esteem, particularly when the person has a greate ...
• End of the World
  Well, the sleeping Americans problem don’t know it yet, but the end of the world hasn’t happened as Australians and others who have already entered the day Winter Solstice will attest. Google celebrates with a piece of the Mayan Calendar. Of course, why anyone would trust the “ ...
• Dead-tree stocking fillers
  A couple of arrivals on my desk for review worth a look. John Rentoul has been running the Questions To Which The Answer Is No! Awards for several years now. Celebrating the journalistic skill of basing an entire article on a fantastically far-fetched question-based headline and only admitting t ...
• Deceived Wisdom anywhere
     Deceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDeceived Wisdom anywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• NDAA Prevents Closing Guantanamo, Could Lead t ...
  President Obama has signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which jeopardizes his ability to meet his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay during his presidency. The law also contains a troubling provision compelling the military to accommodate the conscience, moral prin ...
• Statement from Freedom to Marry on GOP Move fo ...
  House Republicans have included language in the Opening Day Rules Package authorizing the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) to continue paying outside counsel to defend the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, which discriminates against legally married same-sex couples. Marc Solomon, nationa ...
• 'The Last Straw'—After Shell's Latest Failure, ...
  On Monday, Royal Dutch Shell Oil drilling ship Kulluk ran aground near Kodiak Island, Alaska – the latest in a long list of failures by Shell in the company’s much-hyped but continuously failed attempt to drill in the Arctic. Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the ...
• NOAA Declines to Probe Vast Underestimate of B ...
  The federal agency responsible for misrepresenting estimates for the 2010 BP Gulf oil spill will not investigate the errors, even though numbers presented to the public and decision-makers were less than half the true flow rate, according to documents posted today by Public Employees for Environ ...
• Rights Group Condemns President Obama for Sign ...
  In response to President Obama’s signing of the controversial 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Why Not Have a Hearing on Civilian Drone Casua ...
  Marcy Wheeler Yesterday, I suggested that Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger’s certainty that public accounts of drone casualties are overstated may say more about our failed intelligence oversight than it does about the number of ci ...
• Some Cluster Bombs More Newsworthy Than Others
  Peter Hart Most people would probably agree that cluster bombs are hideous weapons–deadly, indiscriminate, and likely to kill or injure civilians.(Photo: Amnesty International)read more
• 'Fix the Debt' Readies Its Trojan Horse for Ne ...
  Sarah Anderson Scott Klinger Over the last three months, the Fix the Debt campaign, led by more than 100 big company CEOs, has unleashed a firestorm of ads, blanketing political news web sites and ...
• Idle No More: Hints of a Global Super-Movement
  Jacob Devaney What started as a murmur in early October from First Nations People in Canada in response to Bill C45 has become a movement that echoes the sentiments of people all over the world, a battle cry of love for the planet, "Id ...
• Natural Gas Fables and Energy Independence Myths
  Gwynne Dyer Which of the following statements is true? The United States now has a 100-year supply of natural gas, thanks to the miracle of shale gas. By 2017 it will once again be the world’s biggest oil producer. By 2035 it will be ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• This Is The War That Never Ends
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• Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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• The Costs of War
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• NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?
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• Water Wars
  State poised to revoke Salinas River water rights; county preps for fight.
• Top Niles Stories Of 2012
  Water wars, battles over term limits, and the resignation of a village manager were just some of the stories dominating Niles headlines in 2012.
• Dan Walters: California's water wars break ...
  Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink?
• VIDEO: Jimmy Fallon and Tom Cruise Have a Wate ...
  Tom Cruise and Jimmy Fallon are waging war Check out TVGuide.com's Top Moments of the Year On Tuesday's Late Night, Fallon challenged Cruise to one of his Water Wars, in which the player who loses a hand of the classic card game War gets doused with a glass of water. It was a close, wet ...

WordPress | Economics

• Top 20 Master in Economics!
  The recently released Best Masters.com ranking rates Nova SBE’s Master in Economics as the 20t
• Obama's Identity Crisis
  There is more than a financial crisis still going on in Washington; now there is an identity crisis
• Clarifying "Capitalism"
  As I continue to read articles written by Distributists, some matters relative to critiques of Moder
• Swan Dive of 2013 Economy
  H/T BATR Hold your breath, the race to the bottom is ready to escalate. The consequence of the corpo
• OPEC nation says "jump", Matt Damon says "how ...
  Matt Damon wrote, produced, and starred in the movie “Promised Land” that is not kind to

Electronic Intifada

• Jordan Valley families expelled from Israeli " ...
  2 January 2013 It’s too dangerous to return, say Palestinians forced out of their homes.
• Gaza refugee camps portrayed as vibrant and vu ...
  Sarah Irving 2 January 2013 Work from all of historic Palestine is displayed at a London exhibition.
• "Ghost town" brought back to life in Hebron
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Hebron 31 December 2012 Despite constant harassment from Israeli soldiers and settlers, Palestinians have made good progress restoring the old city.
• West Bank reconstructed at London's Nour Festival
  Lauren Pyott 29 December 2012 A musical exploration of Israel’s 2002 Operation Defensive Shield was one of the highlights of a recent festival.
• How The New York Times erases Israel's crimes
  Robert Ross 29 December 2012 Given the omissions in three recent Times articles, it’s no wonder so many Americans are in the dark when it comes to Israel.

The Wonk Room

• Illinois Conservative Faith Leaders Demand Rig ...
  A coalition of conservative Illinois religious leaders has written a letter to state lawmakers opposing marriage equality. Driven by the Catholic Conference of Illinois, the small coalition also includes the Mormon Church, the Lutheran Church Missoui Synod, the Anglican Church, and The Council o ...
• John Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker
  In a closer-than-usual vote, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) was elected to a second term as Speaker of the House on Thursday. Eight members of the Republican majority cast protest votes for others including Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), former Rep. Allen West (R-FL), and former Comptroller Gener ...
• Deal To Avert The Fiscal Cliff Doesn’t Do Enou ...
  Our guest blogger is Julia Gordon, Director for Housing Finance and Policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. As part of this week’s deal to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff,” Congress extended a little-known tax provision that says homeowners don’t have to pay tax on ...
• Connecticut Newspaper Places Gun Show Ad Next ...
  A local Connecticut newspaper, the Stamford Advocate, has published an advertisement for a gun show next to an article about the reopening of Sandy Hook Elementary School. The article details the resumption of classes for the Newtown, CT students following the death of twenty of their classmates ...
• Credit Cards Are Just As ‘Deadly’ As Firearms, ...
  Republicans in the New Hampshire House of Representatives are fuming after Democrats passed a bill to ban lawmakers from carrying concealed weapons into the chamber, and are arguing that items like pens and credit cards could be considered deadly as well. For decades state law forbid guns from e ...

thwap's schoolyard

• An Answer to harperscum Critics of Chief Spence
  Making my rounds of the mainstream news online I notice that harperscum trolls have all been trained to parrot the lie that Chief Spence was given $90 million to provide housing for her community of 2,000 people and yadda-yadda-yadda, These disgusting cretins insinuate that Chief Spence's hunger ...
• New Year's petty bile
   I read Dr. Dawg's posts pretty much everyday. Still like the way the dude thinks. But I read the comments section too, for a laff. K-Z is still there. Babbling his vile, racist stupidities. Peter 1 is still a pompous, evil fraud. How happy I am that I've chosen not to engage with that hu ...
• Dear Canadian Racists: SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
  Seriously. I'm nauseous from the stench of your hypocrisy, selfishness, ignorance, stupidity, whining and lying. Just can it! From the stooges in charge of our corporate media, to our illegitimate regime of morons, thugs, frauds, religious freaks and self-hating closet-cases, all the way down t ...
• "Idle No More" - the racists strike back
   They've been going at it from Day One actually. I've seen all sorts of trolls on the mainstream media comments sections blathering on about the $90 million that Chief Spence supposedly has stashed in a Cayman Islands bank account. That's been known to be complete bullshit for around a year ...
• Parliament
  I don't know what to say so I think I'll post Thomas Mulcair's speech in the House of Commons in response to Bill C-45. Here's a noteworthy excerpt:  In response to a question, the hon. member for Saint Boniface asked us earlier if we were aware of the global recession. I would remind the ...

on Government Oversight

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Digital Journal

• Ontario dog rescue co. owner sought for cruelt ...
  A woman who is known to operate a dog rescue company is being sought by Toronto Police in connection to an animal cruelty case.
• Carolyn A. Brent: A Caregiver's story of money ...
  Are caregivers across the globe the unsung heroes of daily life? Those who are unable to care of themselves completely depend on caregivers, who dedicate most of their lives to the well-being and welfare of the disabled, sick, children and elderly.
• Ontario teachers can't legally strike until 2014
  When children go back to school in Ontario it will not be business as usual, said Sam Hammond, Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario president this morning, after Education Minister Laurel Broten imposed contracts using Bill 115 on teachers Thursda
• Calgary man charged in cheque-kiting scheme
  It is alleged the 32-year-old transferred $250,000 between Calgary banks by using several stolen and forged cheques and false identification.
• Video: 'Final Fantasy XI Online - Seekers Of A ...
  The trailer for the latest expansion pack to "Final Fantasy XI Online" is available. This expansion pack is called "Seekers of Adoulin" which is due for release in late March.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
  Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
• Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
  This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
• Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
  What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
• LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
  Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
• Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
  Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

• MacKay mulls Mali mission
  Defence Minister Peter MacKay has floated the possibility that Canadian troops may be sent to help to train troops in Mali.
• Take our 2-minute member survey for 2013!
  Answer this short survey about Ceasefire.ca, leave your comment about your priorities for 2013, and read what others are saying.
• Give the gift of peace – send an eCard!
  Make a donation to Ceasefire.ca on behalf of a friend or family member, and send them this eCard.
• Ships: The next great boondoggle
  Auditor General Michael Ferguson, who recently introduced a little reality to discussion of the planned F-35 procurement, is now turning his sights on the Harper government's "National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy".
• Video: Catastrophic humanitarian consequences ...
  International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War has released a video detailing the humanitarian, medical, and environmental consequences of nuclear war and explaining why nuclear weapons must be eliminated.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
  Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...
• KT’s Holiday Gift Ideas
  The holiday season is upon us and they can be the most wonderful time of the year and the most difficult when trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, for yourself and others. So, this holiday, let’s help each other out by giving gifts that will help someone eat healthier, be healthier, and ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-10-12
  Today, Kevin reveals how he was able to build his financial empire and gives you tips on how to do the same! Self Help: Flood Your System With Nutrition Lose Weight Safely Become Financially Set Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast Follow Kev ...
• Traveling This Holiday Season? Here Are Some S ...
  Well, the holiday season is here and you know what that means… travel. If you’re traveling a lot this holiday season to see family, friends or just to relax, you need to take the extra precautions to keep yourself from getting sick. Here are my suggestions to protect yourself before ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-25-12
  Today, Kevin proves that majority of the studies done around the world are complete scams! Plus, get the latest scoop on natural ways to cure and prevent diseases. Self Help: Get Rid Of Candida Change The Way You Think What’s In Your Water? Kill Viruses Naturally Health: Low Vitamin D Leve ...

Armies of Liberation

• Hadi appoints new SCER
  On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
• High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
  High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
• State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
  Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
• Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
  Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
• Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
  Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

• Resisting Racism and Militarism in 2013
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy David Swanson January 21st will be an odd day in the United States. We’ll honor Martin Luther King Jr. and bestow another 4-year regime on the man who, in his Nobel peac ...
• How Government Grows
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHow Government Grows Antiwar.comPhilip Giraldi Playwright Neil Simon once joked that there are only two universal truths ” the law of gravity and that everyone loves Italian food. He might have, in a moment of more ...
• Neil Armstrong’s brother: ‘One small step’ scr ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Neil Armstrong’s Brother: “One Small Step” Scripted (via NewsLook) A recent interview with the late astronaut’s brother reveals that Armstrong’s famous words might have been pen ...
• The Iranians Are Coming
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Ramzy Baroud Reading the text of a bill that was recently signed into law by US President Barack Obama would instill fear in the hearts of ordinary Americans. Apparently, barb ...
• Cantor’s revolt exposes Republican rift in fig ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A Republican civil war, which has simmered under the surface since the party’s defeat in last November’s presidential election, has now burst firmly into the open and pitted party leaders aga ...

Dandelion Salad

• Statement by the President on H.R. 4310 + Obam ...
  Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 03, 2013 Statement by the President on H.R. 4310 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT Today I have signed into law H.R. 4310, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013.&#8 ...
• Dennis Kucinich Gives his Final Floor Speech o ...
  Dandelion Salad by Dennis Kucinich Washington, D.C. Jan. 2, 2013 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for a new politics in his final speech on the House floor of the 112th Congress.  The video can be seen here.  The text follows: “I want to begin by thanking my wife Elizabeth, ...
• New Year’s Concert 2013: Vienna Philharmonic: ...
  Dandelion Salad Happy New Year! Love, Lo mkd12345678·Jan 1, 2013 This is a video of an another great performance of Johann’s Strauss Waltzer | An der schönen blauen donau | On the blue Danube performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker | Vienna Philharmonic on the 2013 Neujahrsko ...
• Senator Tom Harkin: No Deal Is Better Than Thi ...
  Dandelion Salad By Kay Steiger Raw Story Dec. 31, 2012 [...] “Well I just think that’s grossly unfair. Grossly unfair,” Harkin continued. He pointed out that those who make $250,000 or more a year are the top 2 percent of income earners in America. By moving the tax cuts to $400,000, Harkin said ...
• Gaza Uncut: Another Year of War and Siege
  Dandelion Salad TheRealNews·Dec 31, 2012 Four years ago, Palestinians in Gaza ended the year in a similar way. Following a cease-fire after the last war in November, Israel violated terms of the truce numerous times and on a daily basis. Gaza also remains under Israeli siege, making life more di ...

Your New Reality

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  Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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  Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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  This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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  Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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  Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Construction in Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond ...
  According to Ir Amim, 6,932 units were approved for future construction in 2012, compared to 1,772 homes in 2011 and 569 in 2010. The largest building plans were approved for Gilo, Har Homa and Givat... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Palestinian owners barred from Jordan Valley l ...
  Dror Etkes: "Once again we face an Israeli policy that takes advantage of every opportunity and every pseudo-security excuse to continue exploiting and banishing Palestinian residents of the West... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• State bars Westerners living in West Bank from ...
  Israel recently renewed restrictions on the freedom of movement of foreigners nationals who live and work in the West Bank that prohibit them from entering East Jerusalem or Israel. The changes were... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Think tank: Israel’s poor international image ...
  Study finds that Israel's advocacy effort has become one of the world's most efficient and productive, but Israel nevertheless suffers from an image problem - which is rather a product of the Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• EU court rejects NGO Monitor petition to relea ...
  The right-wing group, which tracks the activity of left-wing organizations in Israel, has been trying to obtain the documents for 10 years; court throws out suit, says information may be used to harm... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• China Unveils Yi Long UAV
  China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
• Airshow China 2012
• Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
  Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
• Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
  Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
• Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
  Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

• Jeffrey Borenstein Named Brain & Behavior Rese ...
  The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD/Nat. Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression), a leading international nonprofit supporter of mental health research, named psychiatrist Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., Acting President & Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation.
• Your Brain on Big Bird
  Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math. The novel use of brain imaging during everyday activities like watching TV, say the scientists, opens t ...
• Researchers Find New Molecule to Target in Pan ...
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida have identified a new target to improve treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cancer, which accounts for more than 95 percent of pancreatic cancer cases.
• #Oil Spill Expert Available from @uofnh for Co ...
• Top Four Reasons Why Diets Fail
  Only twenty percent of people will lose weight and keep it off this year, despite research that two-thirds of Americans admit to being on a diet. Here are the top four reasons where dieters go wrong, according to Jessica Bartfield, MD, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care.

Natural Health News

• The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
  Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
• 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
  A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
• NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
  A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
• Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
  A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
• Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
  If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• Extra Virginity
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson (Plainly I’m not above a risqué title to shamelessly drive web traffic but I’m afraid this post is all about fraud in the international extra virgin olive oil trade.)  I’m an unsophisticated but enthusiastic aficionado of extra virgin o ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, January 3, 2013
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey According to the UN, the death toll of the Syrian conflict now exceeds 60,000. A US drone strike has killed Mullah Nazir, a Pakistani Taliban commander. The IMF has stated that the US “fiscal cliff” deal is not enough to bring the economy back on ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Thousands have protested in Hong Kong to demand the resignation of the China-backed chief executive and democratic leadership elections. Seven charity workers have been killed by gunmen in Pakistan when they visited a community centre that serves as a school ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, January 1, 2013
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The UN Security Council has placed sanctions on two rebel groups, Democratic Republic of the Congo’s M23 and Rwanda’s FDLR, for alleged war crimes in the DRC’s eastern region. North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, in a rare speech, has called for an e ...
• Legality Is Not Morality
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The most common reaction to my post on Newtown and the drone program has been to point out that there is a difference between killing in peacetime and killing during war — that we are both legally and morally more willing to accept the loss of inno ...

Public News Service

• Jail Break? FCC Moves on Prison Phone Call Gouging
  Jail Break? FCC Moves on Prison Phone Call Gouging PHOENIX, Ariz. - In a move announced at the very end of the year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken a step toward examining the high prices families pay to stay in touch by phone with loved ones behind bars. In announcing a N ...
• Healthy, Family-Style Resolutions for the New Year
  Healthy, Family-Style Resolutions for the New Year PHOENIX - The New Year is upon us, and at least one expert suggests making resolutions for the occasion a "family affair." Clinical psychologist Dr. William Hansen says it's a good idea for parents and children to sit down together, to reflect o ...
• Regrets about Holiday Spending? Change That No ...
  Regrets about Holiday Spending? Change That Now ... PHOENIX - Christmas is barely over, and some people are still out there shopping the post-holiday sales. While the flurry of holiday spending may be good for the economy, it can prove to be exactly the opposite for an individual or family strug ...
• Out with the Old: Recycling Cell Phones, Lapto ...
  Out with the Old: Recycling Cell Phones, Laptops, TVs... PHOENIX - “Out with the old, in with the new” takes on a whole new meaning when the topic is electronic gear. A new national certification program ensures that recyclers properly dispose of items such as laptops, televisions a ...
• Report: Middle Class Families Have $100 Left E ...
  Report: Middle Class Families Have $100 Left Each Month PHOENIX - A sneak peek at the average middle-class household budget in Arizona shows about $100 left each month after covering regular expenses - at least, before the Christmas bills are due. The research from the Center for Responsible Le ...

Center for Food Safety

• Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forwar ...
  400,000 public comments, 40 Members of Congress ignored; CFS calls proposed approval of first ever GE animal “premature and misguided” Center for Food Safety sharply criticized today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement releasing an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the contro ...
• Center for Food Safety, Save Our Seeds File Su ...
  Case pitting corporations against farmers set to impact the future of seed patents Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS)—two organizations dedicated to promoting safe, sustainable food and farming systems—challenged the agrochemical giant Monsanto and its restrictive “seed ...
• Groups Stand Up for Clean Water Act in West Vi ...
  Pollution of local waterways, public health at stake from farm lobby actions A coalition of local and national public interest organizations have asked a federal court for permission to participate in a legal action that will decide when Clean Water Act restrictions apply to the release of pollu ...
• Help CFS Defend Farmers Against GE Crops
  Farmers are at the front lines in the battle against genetically engineered (GE) crops. They are the ones that risk economic harm should their crops be contaminated by GE material.  For more than a decade, Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been representing farmers in court against chemical compa ...
• After Halt to Planting, Court Orders Eradicati ...
  Remedies Include Three-Year Monitoring Period to Track, Destroy Any Germinating GE Plants In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern United States.  The court also ordered steps t ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Woodlands Water Heater
  Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
• CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
  Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
• The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
  Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
• House Hopping
  House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
• Buying Property
  Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...

Pensieve

• Another Civil Coup in Honduras?
  In 2009, the Honduran congress and supreme court perpetrated a messy coup against president Manuel Zelaya. Yesterday President Lobo and the Honduran congress have perpetrated an “institutional” coup against the supreme court, sacking 4 out of its 5 members. This was in retaliation fo ...
• Fractal Reality
  We inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...
• Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?
  Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
• O Ridiculous Fortune
  O fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
• Where’s the switch?
  I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...

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• Kangaroo cull
  Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
• Environmental News 01/06/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
• Green Capital Australia
  Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
• Environmental News 31/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
• Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
  Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

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