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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, January 6, 2013

6 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Map showing location of district in Andhra Pra...
Map showing location of district in Andhra Pradesh in India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: NH-5 Near Mangalagiri, Guntur Distric...
English: NH-5 Near Mangalagiri, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

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

  • As foreclosure crisis drags on, so does flawed ...
    A look at the government's response as the foreclosure crisis enters its seventh year. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: For the 1 percent, a fiscal g ...
    A by-the-numbers look at the so-called "fiscal cliff" deal approved at the 11th hour by Congress shows that the wealthy and corporate interests got some big breaks. read more
  • Transocean settlement deal a boost for Gulf re ...
    Most of the $1.4 billion in fines and penalties that Transocean has agreed to pay for its negligence in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster will be sent to the Gulf Coast region to fund environmental restoration work. read more
  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 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

  • Non-Muslim Caught With Explosives Used by Terr ...
    Poor wittle millionaires, nothing to do. Aaron Greene and his girlfriend Morgan Gliedman, have just been indicted in NY for what would be charges of “terrorism” if they were Mooooooooooooselims. “Greene and his live-in girlfriend, Dalton-grad Morgan Gliedman — both the children of Manhattan mill ...
  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world. But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes. The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost unbelievable amou ...
  • The Shotgun – A True Story of Gun Control
    by TheLasersShadow on January 5, 2013 You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down besid ...
  • Bilderberg Group Dominates Bloomberg Billionai ...
    By Andrew Puhanic The Globalist Report January 5, 2013 Bilderberg Group, an organization founded in 1954 by the global elite has once again dominated the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. So what is the Bilderberg Group? The Bilderberg Group is a secretive organisation who meets on a yearly basis to ...
  • GravityLight: lighting for a billion people
    GravityLight: lighting for a billion people – YouTube.

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Baptism Of Blood: NATO To Continue Providing G ...
    Xinhua News Agency January 5, 2013 Georgia pledges continued contribution to Afghan mission ==== The South Caucasus country so far has lost 19 soldiers in Afghanistan. The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, which has now turned into a NATO-led ISAF operation, has become the longest military conflict i ...
  • Patriot Missiles Near Syrian Border To Be Unde ...
    United States European Command January 4, 2013 U.S. Patriots, Troops Arrive in Turkey to Support NATO Deployment EUCOM Public Affairs Photograph: NATO STUTTGART, Germany: U.S. personnel and equipment began arriving at Incirlik Air Base today to support NATO’s Patriot battery deployment to Turkey ...
  • NATO Starts Deploying Interceptor Missiles To ...
    Sofia News Agency January 4, 2013 NATO Starts Deploying Patriot Missiles in Turkey Photograph: NATO NATO has started deploying Patriot missiles in Turkey Friday to defend against threats from neighbouring Syria, according to the US military’s European Command (Eucom). Approximately 400 US ...
  • Lithuanian Military Unit Begins Standby In NAT ...
    Baltic Course January 4, 2013 Lithuanian contingent began standby in NATO Response Force Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania ==== The NATO Response Force (NRF) is a highly ready and technologically advanced multinational NATO force, one of the core combat instruments of the Alliance. The NRF is made up ...
  • Hippolyte Taine on the inhuman travesty of war
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts ==== Hippolyte Taine 1870 I have just come back from Germany, where I have talked with many brave working-men. When I think of what it means for a man to be born into the world, nursed, brought up, instructed and equipped; when I t ...

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Intel Hub

  • GE and Citi Bank Get Huge Tax Breaks Out of Fi ...
    By Ben Swann Fox19 January 6, 2012 Reality Check continues to look at who got special deals in the fiscal cliff bill.
  • Mother, Should I Trust the Government?
    By James Quinn The Burning Platform January 6, 2013 Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Mother, do you think they’ll like this song? Mother, do you think they’ll try to break my balls? Ooh ah, Mother, should I build the wall? Mother, should I run for president? Mother, should I trust the ...
  • House Resolution Introduced to Remove Presiden ...
    Activist Post January 6, 2012 Is one member of Congress attempting to make Obama a dictator? Congressman José Serrano (D-NY) introduced House Joint Resolution 15 which would remove the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. H.J.Res.15 titled “Proposing an a ...
  • Hagel and the Israeli lobby
    UPI January 6, 2012 WASHINGTON — The vicious campaign to smear Chuck Hagel with an anti-Israel brush and deter U.S. President Barack Obama from nominating him to become the next defense secretary got rolling over year-end holidays. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee relied on the ...
  • Human Genes Engineered Into Experimental GMO R ...
    Natural News January 6, 2012 Unless the rice you buy is certified organic, or comes specifically from a farm that tests its rice crops for genetically modified (GM) traits, you could be eating rice tainted with actual human genes. The only known GMO with inbred human traits in cultivation today, ...

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

  • Mathematical Snow Art And Other Amazing Photos ...
    Including a gigantic airship, an abandoned Soviet theme park, and more Click to enter the gallery
  • 21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Wor ...
    That sort of painful, sort of bittersweet, sort of wistful feeling you get looking out the window or driving at night or listening to a far-off train whistle? There's a word for that in Japanese. Few of us use all--or even most--of the 3,000 English-language words available to us for describing ...
  • Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Inquisitiv ...
    Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: We have a winner! So, here are the rules: To answer, follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag #mysteryanimal. For example: Hey ...
  • Politics Is Most Important Factor For Climate ...
    Maybe we can all just agree on this one? An analysis in Nature has confirmed what we already knew: politicians need to hurry up if we're going to stop climate change. What's more, the longer they wait, the more it'll cost them--and taxpayers--to fight the problem. (Good thing everything has bee ...
  • Mathematical Snow Art And Other Amazing Photos ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

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

  • TorrentWorld: How LED TV Makers Co-Opt Piracy
    Pssst...is that a 720p or a 1080p? Here's one last story whose implications run in the billions and billions that involves home entertainment as we come to the end of the holiday season. (Oh, the sacrifices I have to endure alike watching a digitally enhanced Mariah Carey moping around in a Sant ...
  • PC Gone Mad: Women Drivers' Car Insurance in EU
    Contrary to hoary stereotypes about "women drivers," the truth is that they are safer drivers--at least in the EU. So much so that women have been charged commensurately lower premiums in EU nations for years. However, in a dubious case of political correctness, the EU has issued a directive aga ...
  • Falklands Referendum is Farce (But I Support UK)
    Oh, when will we ever be done with the firebrand red-haired woman from Argentina, Missus Kirchner?  Never will I more clearly support a blatantly specious argument for "democracy"*--make that *****--than here. At midyear 2012, the UK government announced plans to hold a Falklands referendum ...
  • 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 ...

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

E U Times

  • Obama Death Squads Fan Out Across America As R ...
    A grim Federal Security Forces (FSB) “urgent action” memorandum prepared for President Putin is warning that United States President Barack Obama has ordered at least 800 highly trained “death squad” units to disperse throughout his country in preparation for what Russian intelligence analysts a ...
  • 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Smokescreen Council Working for Deceitful Chur ...
    The CEO of the Council Which Should Not Exist, Francis Sullivan, is following in the footsteps of church officials by claiming, without basis, to speak for victims of the serial child sex offenders enabled and protected by his church. This week’s comments include a stated desire to be &#82 ...
  • Papists protect child rapists
    Papists protect rapists  by Voiceless Victim Papists protect their child rapists but won’t protect kids – like me. Papists pretend. What rapists? Who cares what those lies do to me. Papists revere holy rapists but won’t even listen to me Papists stand up for their rapists the o ...
  • 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 ...

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

We Know the Lies

  • Making a Killing... The Untold Story of Psycho ...
    This documentary provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. These drugs are not safe and have not been on the market long enough to provide sufficient long term studies regarding their effects. ~ Documentary read more
  • 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 ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Intense Flu 2012-2013
    Flu Map – United States Flu patients are flooding clinics. The CDC reports no sign of a peak for this year’s early and intense flu season in which the numbers are startlingly higher than recent past years. “I think we’re still accelerating,” said Tom Skinner, a CDC ...
  • Feinstein To Ban Hammers And Clubs?
    image source: BREITBART There are more people killed each year from hammers and clubs than there are from rifles. Will Senator Feinstein target these hammers and clubs as soon as she’s through gutting the 2nd Amendment? According to the FBI annual crime statistics, the number of murders co ...
  • Catalog Everything For Insurance
    Prepare for the unexpected by carefully making a catalog of all your keepsakes, especially for insurance purposes. Photograph and list your household valuables, along with estimates of their worth. With digital cameras today, it is very easy to snap photos and keep an electronic record of the th ...
  • 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 ...

Fast Company

  • How One Bike Can Put A Rural Village On The Pa ...
    The Cambodian Village Fund began as a simple gift of a bicycle to a village that had no transportation. But that bicycle ended up turning into much more. When Bill and Nancy Bamberger from San Diego first visited Cambodia as tourists in 2002, they were struck by its long history, the warmt ...
  • Jason Kilar, Pioneer Of Web Video, To Leave Hu ...
    Jason Kilar, CEO of streaming video service Hulu, has decided to depart the booming company after five years at the helm. SVP and CTO Rich Tom is departing, too. Check out our recent profile of Kilar and Hulu to learn more about his decision. Jason Kilar, CEO of streaming video service Hul ...
  • A Grown-Up Dorm For Russia’s Silicon Valley
    Moscow-based Atrium Studio envisioned an interconnected complex for the talent at Skolkovo. Skolkovo--officially, but infrequently, called the Scientific Centre for Development and Commercialization of New Technologies--is billed as Russia’s take on Silicon Valley. The “technop ...
  • Enjoy Your Nightmares! Shoe Soles Made Of Dent ...
    London designers Mariana Fantich and Dominic Young weave Savile Row fashions from human hair, glass eyeballs, and dentures. This certainly brings new meaning to the phrase “show your teeth.” Apex Predator, a collection of objects designed by six-year-old studio Fantich & Yo ...
  • Catmoji Is A Social Network For The Internet's ...
    The Pinterest-style "catmunity" is a cat-lady paradise of photos, videos, and GIFs. Cat ladies and men of the Internet: You no longer have to spend hours sifting through YouTube, Imgur, Lolcats, or Tumblr for your daily fix of kitty magic. Now, there's Catmoji, a Pinterest-style social net ...

Jadaliyya

  • Jadaliyya Monthly Edition (December 2012)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya during the month of October 2012. It also includes the most recent videos and the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our Monthly Edition series, and we now have a page dedicate ...
  • الهراء اللبناني مجدّداً
      كتابات نايلة تويني لا تمت للسياسة بصلة. هي أشبه بالهراء والأكاذيب التخويفية التي سمعناها منذ صغرنا، لاسيما في المجتمعات المسيحية المغلقة عن الفلسطينيين. مثل، اًن تقول إحدى الأساطير اللبنانية إن الفلسطينيين يريدون احتلال لبنان لتحويله إلى وطن بديل لهم، غير مدركين غباء هذه الكذبة ...
  • على من يستند حُكم الإخوان؟
    حظى الرئيس محمد مرسي بتأييد ١٣ مليون و٢٠٠ ألف مصري في جولة الانتخابات الرئاسية الثانية، بعد أن كان قد حصل على أصوات ٥ ملايين و٧٦٤ ألفاً، كان هو خيارهم الأول في الجولة الأولى. يميل البعض لتفسير توسع مؤيديه، الذي سمح له بالوصول للحكم وهو القيادي الإخواني بعد ٨٠ سنة من تأسيس الجماعة، على أسس م ...
  • NEWTON Author Nergis Ertürk Receives MLA First ...
    We are very happy to report that Nergis Ertürk, whose book Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey was featured in New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) in 2012, is the recipient of the Nineteenth Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. She will receive the award, together with th ...
  • Translation of Statements Made by Minister of ...
    The following is a translation of recent statements made by Minister of Electricity Gebran Bassile and MP Nayla Tueni regarding the Syrian and Palestinian populations that have fled violence and civil war in Syria to find refuge in Lebanon:    The [poor] Muslims are coming! The [poor ...

mediagazer

  • Dish Network, the Meanest Company in America ( ...
    Caleb Hannan / Business Week: Dish Network, the Meanest Company in America  —  For 2012, the website 24/7 Wall St. determined that the worst company to work for in America was the Dish Network (DISH), the Englewood (Colo.)-based company that provides satellite TV to more than 14 ...
  • Dinosaur alert: Irish newspapers desperately t ...
    Mathew Ingram / paidContent: Dinosaur alert: Irish newspapers desperately trying to charge for links  —  There's plenty of experimentation going on in the media business when it comes to finding new methods of monetizing content: leaky paywalls at the New York Times and others, ...
  • Exclusive: McChrystal was shocked by controver ...
    Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy: Exclusive: McChrystal was shocked by controversy over Rolling Stone article  —  Stanley McChrystal, the retired general and former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was shocked by the Rolling Stone article that led to his firing, he reveals in a so ...
  • Online outrage over Ohio rape case prompts cit ...
    CNN: Online outrage over Ohio rape case prompts city website  —  Steubenville, Ohio (CNN) — Amid social media pressure and allegations of a cover-up, leaders in Steubenville, Ohio, have launched a website to keep the community updated on a rape case that has consumed the s ...
  • Pelosi: Altered photograph was 'accurate histo ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Pelosi: Altered photograph was ‘accurate historical record’  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi defended her office's use of Photoshop to represent some female lawmakers who arrived late for a photo shoot. … Kenny Irby, Poynter's s ...

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

  • Pakistan accuses India of deadly cross-bo ...
    ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani military is accusing forces from neighboring India of crossing the boundary between the two sides' forces in Kashmir and attacking a Pakistani border post, killing a soldier. The military's public relations office said in a statement Sunday that another Pakistani so ...
  • Obama not to be trusted on immigration
    Now that we're in the new year, the nation's 52 million Latinos need to make a resolution — to never again trust President Obama when it comes to immigration. For one thing, Obama hasn't earned that trust. Judging from his legislative record in the Illinois state Senate and the U.S. Senate, ...
  • Pethouse Pet of the Week: Jan. 6
    By Ken Hoffman | January 4, 2013 Comments (0) E-mail Print Tweet Page 1 of 1 Name: Amos, as in "Famous" and "Moses." Birthdate: Oct. 3, 2009. Ethnicity: I'm a Chihuahua; my ancestors are from Old Mexico. I'm a shy little guy until we get to know each other. Turn-ons: Here's another decision ...
  • GM farming and crops: news and resources ...
    GM crops: bad weather could prompt farmers to favour GM use. Photograph: RESO/REX FEATURES Last week, the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, told farmers it was time to embrace the fantastic opportunities offered by GM crops and persuade the public of the benefits. Around the world, 11% o ...
  • Glittering gems with heart
    Paper Edition | Page: 8 (JP/Intan Tanjung) Not only luxurious, John Hardy jewelry is also filled with soul and purpose. The sky just turned crimson and as the day cooled down, the pathway to the Ganesha Gallery at the Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay was welcoming. At the gallery, a ...

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

  • 1/4/13 - Educators in over 3,500 schools in al ...
    www.procon.org - – Educators in over 3,500 schools in all 50 US states and 53 countries use ProCon.org. 756 elementary and middle schools, 1,821 high schools, and 983 colleges and universities use our free nonpartisan research to stimulate critical thinking. The newest international schools usin ...
  • 1/4/13 - How many people in the United States ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - How many people in the United States use medical marijuana? There are an estimated 1,029,315 patients in the 18 legal medical marijuana states and DC, as well as an estimated 2,421,069 medical marijuana users in the United States (based on an ave ...
  • 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 ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • 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

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

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

  • Unlike Dick Cheney, Joe Biden Exerts Real Power
    “I appreciate the vice president’s willingness to get this done for the country.” – Senator Mitch McConnell DICK OR JOE? It’s now no contest. Where Dick Cheney manipulated people and policy behind the scenes, getting his aide indicted and convicted of a felony and t ...
  • FEATURE — Tarantino’s Epic “Django Unchained” ...
    … 75 percent of everyone polled said it isn’t Congress’ or the president’s role to pressure Hollywood to make less-violent movies and TV shows. [...] Meanwhile, 68 percent of liberals say the NRA bears more blame than Hollywood, but 74 percent of conservatives blame Holly ...
  • News Desk: Barney Frank Wants to Be Interim Se ...
    Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “I’ve told the governor I would now like, frankly, to do that [serve as interim senator].” [Politico] GOV. PATRICK should do just that, appoint former Rep. Barney Frank to John Kerry’s seat until the special electi ...
  • Speaker, But No One’s Champion
    Boehner won a bare majority in a vote that saw nine Republicans vote for other GOP members, and several others who abstained from voting or voted “present.” Two years ago, Boehner won all 241 available GOP votes. [The Hill] NEXT FIGHT for Speaker Boehner is getting Republicans to rai ...
  • 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. ...

Hudson New York

  • Al-Jazeera's "Alternative Viewpoint" in Qatar' ...
    Al-Jazeera TV, located in and financed by Qatar, which just bought Current TV from former presidential candidate Al Gore for a reported $500 million, "is providing an alternative viewpoint on domestic news," according to Cathy Rasenberger, "a cable
  • European Court of Justice "Lacking Any Foundat ...
    Few people would ever label the hydra-like institutions of the European Union as transparent... or responsive to the desires of we mere voters. The EU has long been in the habit of ignoring the will of the peoples of Europe, if their will is not the same
  • 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

Urban Survival

  • Don’t Even TALK About ending QEI
    That’s Quantitative Easing (to) Infinity.  The futures for the precious metals were (how to politely say this?) in the crapper this morning with Gold down $40 on the futures earlier and silver down 4% as well.   What’s going on … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Friday at the WuJo
    This may not seem like a big deal, but there aren’t many explanations for what happened and none of them make sense.   So there I was having my coffee a few seconds ago and Zeus & I had our … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Trends & Forecasts

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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

  • Oil and gas industry trying to stop citizens f ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. As I've blogged recently, Colorado is currently considering updating some of its oil and gas rules regarding setbacks from homes and schools, as well as rules for water testing and monitoring. T ...
  • Bad News for Belugas: Cook Inlet Population Re ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center just released its annual survey of endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales—and the findings don’t bode well ...
  • Maryland is Taking Action to Prepare for Risin ...
    Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. As Hurricane Sandy vividly demonstrated in late October, coastal communities across the U.S. are increasingly vulnerable to flooding and storm surge as sea levels rise. Storm surge from more extr ...
  • How retrofitting a California suburb for walka ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   A terrific street redesign is assisting economic development in a southern California community that has suffered from changing economic conditions but is nevertheless se ...
  • New Year Brings Progress for Offshore Wind in ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York So far, 2013 is shaping up to be a good year for the launch of offshore wind in the United States.  Earlier this week, Congress extended important federal tax credits for the wind and offsh ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, January 3, 2013: Greer, South Carolina: A police officer has been suspended after authorities say he was arrested for public disorderly conduct. http://ow.ly/gvDP6 Fort Worth, Texas: A police officer … Continue reading &#85 ...
  • 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 ...

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: The FTC closes its Google pr ...
    Google is all but cleared by the FTC, Spotify stops users from purchasing music downloads (for now, at least), and Facebook quietly launched a Pages Manager app for Android. It’s... Keep reading →
  • 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 →

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 )

  • Photo: Bluefin tuna sells for record $1.76 mil ...
    A bluefin tuna sold for a record $1.76 million at an auction in Tokyo, Japan Saturday, reports the Associated Press.
  • Scientists work to discover watermelon's lost ...
    A hard, white, and bitter watermelon has plant geneticists licking their lips with anticipation. The size of tennis balls, wild watermelons grow natively in southern and western Africa. Geneticists cracked open this small relative to the juicy, summertime treat to extract ancient genetic materia ...
  • 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 ...
  • Arctic oil rig runs aground
    On Monday night, an oil drilling rig owned by Dutch Royal Shell ran aground on Sitkalidak Island in southern Alaska, prompting fears of an oil spill. As of yesterday no oil was seen leaking from the rig according to the Coast Guard, but efforts to secure the rig have floundered due to extreme we ...

Sierra Express

  • Corruption and frustration at Queen Elizabeth ...
    Dear Mr President, as Sierra Leoneans we respect the choice the people made in choosing you as president for another 5 years and also appreciate the work you have done so far in the development of our country that we all love. But there is a still lot of work to be done to attract [...]
  • Government Urged To Prioritize Water Supply
    The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Network (WASH-NET), a Non-Governmental Organization promoting water, sanitation and hygiene-related issues in the country, has described water as a tool demanding effective change. According to the organization, the change must be felt in communities, work place ...
  • President Koroma Warns Against Lawlessness
    President Ernest Bai Koroma spent his Christmas and New Year holidays in Makeni and Kabala where he issued a stern warning to lawbreakers whilst addressing a group of illustrious Sierra Leoneans at a dinner held in Makeni and the Awards Ceremony organized by the Koinadugu APC Support Group.  (Ph ...
  • ABC secretariat post-election educational campaign
    The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat will organise a one month nationwide post-election educational campaign from the 5th January to 5th February 2013, in Kenema the regional headquarter town of the East, Bo the regional headquarter town of the South, Makeni the regional head ...
  • SLRTA Commissions Vehicle Fitness Center & Equ ...
    The Chairman of the Board of the Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA), Professor Harry Turay on Friday 4TH January, 2013 commissioned the modern Vehicle Examination Center, Multi-Purpose Tow Trucks and Wheel Clamps at a ceremony held at the SLRTA Compound Kissy Road in Freetown. Profess ...

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

  • White House Won't Comment on Clemency Petition ...
    If you signed the petition you already know. In an email sent yesterday to 29,536 signatories calling for a presidential pardon of Chris Williams, the Montana medical marijuana provider who faced at least 80 years in prison, the White House explains it “can’t comment.”    ...
  • Frank Dikötter on Communism in Eastern Europe
    In Iron Curtain, Frank Dikötter reports, Anne Applebaum shows how Stalin and his agents set out to destroy every form of freedom in Eastern Europe after World War II yet failed to create a new Homo sovieticus. "Human beings do not acquire 'totalitarian personalities' with ease," she ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on How Menu-Labeling Laws Harm ...
    The Food and Drug Administration moved closer this week to implementing a proposed menu-labeling rule requiring certain restaurants and food sellers to list calorie counts and other information on their menus. As it’s now constructed, the rule would apply not just to chain restaurant ...
  • Outgoing Czech President Vaclav Klaus Pardons ...
    Almost one third of Czech prisoners have been granted amnesty by outgoing president Vaclav Klaus. The pardons will not affect prisoners serving sentences longer than 10 years. Mr. Klaus defended the move saying, “This is a gesture aimed at giving a fresh chance to those citizens who ...
  • Are Stimulus Multipliers Higher During Times o ...
    One of the arguments for additional fiscal stimulus over the past few years is that, sure, multipliers for deficit-financed stimulus are typically low enough that it's not worth doing. But when the economy is sluggish, like it is now, the multiplier effect grows larger, and the payof ...

Mercury Rising

  • US Productivity Goes Up, Corporate Profits Go ...
    What’s wrong with this picture? Everything: The red line is productivity, the green line is real median family income. The time period spans from 1947 to 2011. Notice that while the red line has kept marching upward at roughly the same rate from beginning to end, the green line — whi ...
  • Steve Minn’s In Trouble Again
    Persons familiar with the history of Minneapolis over the past twenty years are likely familiar with the name of Steve Minn. Minn is a prominent local developer, former Minneapolis city councilmember under the banner of the Reform Party (what is now called the Independence Party), and longtime b ...
  • Steve Minn’s In Trouble Again
    Persons familiar with the history of Minneapolis over the past twenty years are likely familiar with the name of Steve Minn. Minn is a prominent local developer, former Minneapolis city councilmember under the banner of the Reform Party (what is now called the Independence Party), and longtime b ...
  • Requiem for a flyweight
    Robert Parry, Consortium: Al Gore’s soon-to-be-defunct Current TV should serve as a case study for American progressives on how not to construct a media outlet. It was a failure in nearly all respects, with possibly its only lasting contribution the fact that its sale to Al Jazeera may finally g ...
  • Requiem for a flyweight
    Robert Parry, Consortium: Al Gore’s soon-to-be-defunct Current TV should serve as a case study for American progressives on how not to construct a media outlet. It was a failure in nearly all respects, with possibly its only lasting contribution the fact that its sale to Al Jazeera may finally g ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Go With the Flow
      Learn from acknowledged masters of ancient wisdom traditions how to invite spiritual abundance into your life by identifying and removing the blockages that limit you.  read more
  • Sex in the News
    Was Jesus gay, an ex-Olympian turns to escorting, sex in video games, Chelsea Clinton on marriage quality, and more in this week's Sex in the News.read more
  • Kerouac's Lost Movie
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  • 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

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • On the Twelfth Day of Cronyism . . . : The System
    The following tweets were originally posted by "Anti War" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/_AntiWar_), variously, on October 17, 2012; December 9, 2012; December 10, 2012; December 11, 2012; December 13, 2012; December 14, 2012; December 15, 2012; December 16, 2012; December 17, ...
  • On the Eleventh Day of Cronyism . . . : "The P ...
    WAR IS BUSINESS. by "Ann Arky" As originally posted on: annarky's blog. December 24, 2012 In times of "austerity" our "democratic" governments still spend a whopping slice of your money and my money in killing people across the globe. We in the UK are the world's fourth largest spender on ...
  • Liberal leadership – a beauty pageant?
    If Justin Bieber were a nobody and you’d met him in the street or at a bar, you might be inclined, provided he’s your type, to ask him, “Wanna hang out sometime?”, or, more awkwardly, “For you, I’d change the alphabet and put U and I next to each other.” (Yeah, good luck with that.) But Justin ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • 'Qaeda chief's brother nabbed in Syria'
    The brother of al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri has reportedly been arrested by Syrian military forces in the city of Dara'a, southwest of the capital Damascus.
  • ‘Russian ships near Syria to deter West'
    Russian warships are being deployed off the Syrian coast in the Mediterranean Sea to deter any military intervention by the Western states in the Arab country, a report says.
  • ‘Syria progressing toward stability’
    Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdullahian says the situation on the ground in Syria has been progressing from critical to stable.
  • Turkey holds plane with 1.5 tons of gold
    Turkey has held a cargo plane carrying 1.5 tons of gold from Ghana to Dubai, reportedly for its failure to present necessary documents.
  • Authorized settler violence on rise in WB
    Analysts say the recent surge in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians are in line with Tel Aviv's expansion of illegal settlements on occupied territories, Press TV reports.

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

  • Ferry, West 23rd Street, Manhattan. (December ...
    Ferry, West 23rd Street, Manhattan. (December 23, 1935)
  • In many societies, marriage is a celebrated in ...
    In many societies, marriage is a celebrated institution signifying a union between two adults and the beginning of their future together. Unfortunately, millions of girls still suffer from a vastly different marriage experience every year. Worldwide, many brides are still children, not even tee ...
  • pulitzercenter:Tomorrow is the International ...
    A tear from a child bride. Image by Stephanie Sinclair, Yemen. Kausi Chaudhary is hugged by her sister, Sibitri, as her parents negotiate selling her to a family as a kamlari. Image by Carlos Avila Gonzalez. Nepal, 2009. Nujood Ali was 10 when she fled her abusive, much older husband an ...
  • jamiatt:Brain exploding.What a book.  What ...
    jamiatt: Brain exploding. What a book.  What a writer.  Damn.
  • pulitzercenter:Fifteen thousand Haitians fi ...
    pulitzercenter: Fifteen thousand Haitians filed a suit against the UN demanding cholera reparations.  That was seven months ago, and the case stil sits idle.  What can they do now? Above, Aristide Mojes survived cholera. The medical certificate he has received will be filed with thousands of ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • OP-ED: The Arab Spring at Two: What Lessons Sh ...
    As the Arab Spring enters its third year, new Arab democracies and the international community should reflect on several critical lessons from the past two years. Thinking about these lessons and learning from history, no matter how recent, could help us understand the trajectory for the next st ...
  • New Feminism Tears Down Walls in Brazil
    Anarkia Boladona has turned the streets of Brazil into billboards against domestic violence. As a self-titled feminist political graffiti artist, she represents a new trend in women’s rights that seeks less academic and more daring and popular avenues of expression. As the interview begins, Bola ...
  • OP-ED: Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of ...
    Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we unequivocally learned that the fossil fuel energy that powers our societies is destroying them. Accepting this reality is the biggest challenge of the brand new year. Re-engineering our societies and lifestyles to prosper on green a ...
  • Paediatricians for a Healthy Environment
    A group of Argentine paediatricians has been combining work on environmental protection and child health for more than 10 years. It appears a basic principle to apply, but the task is turning out to be increasingly challenging and complex. “We can’t clean up a river, or give a family ...
  • Mystical Islam Deters Fundamentalism
    Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, has found a deterrent to Islamic fundamentalists: they dress conservatively, sport short beards and Islamic caps and emulate the ways of the Prophet Muhammad. But unlike the fundamentalists, and a seething underground of militan ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to ...
    Summary: WASHINGTON, Jan 5 2013 (IPS) - With President Barack Obama reportedly primed to nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon early next week, the powerful Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), faces a major dilemma. source: ...
  • The Case Against Kerry
    Summary: President Obama’s selection of John Kerry as the next secretary of state sends the wrong signal to America’s allies and adversaries alike. Kerry’s record in the United States Senate, where he currently chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, has included spurious attacks on the Inte ...
  • How to Talk to Iran
    Summary: IF there are any two words in Persian that President Obama should learn, they are “maslahat” and “aberu.” Maslahat is often translated as expediency, or self-interest. Aberu means face — as in, saving face. In the nearly 34 years since the Islamic revolution in Iran, expediency has b ...
  • The Imagined, ‘Sinister’ Iranian Threat in Lat ...
    Summary: Never mind that crazed, armed to the teeth, homegrown American terrorists are killing children and terrorizing whole cities. It is the Iranian menace that we are meant to fear according to the new law. When compounded with the other imagined threats of Hezbollah and Hamas, all with s ...
  • 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 Daily Galaxy

  • Alien Biochemistries --Astrobiologists Anticip ...
                   In his famous lecture, "Life in the Universe," Stephen Hawking observed that what we normally think of as 'life' is based on chains of carbon atoms, with a few other atoms, such as nitrogen or phosphorous. We can imagine  that one might have life with some other che ...
  • The Weekend Image: Milky Way's Omega Centauri ...
                     The giant cluster Omega Centauri, which hosts millions of stars and may be the remains of a small galaxy. Omega Centauri (also known as NGC 5139) is the largest, brightest and most massive of our galaxy's 150 or so globular star clusters. Packing some 10 million stars ...
  • Mars 'Curiosity' Explores "Snake River" Area o ...
                                              After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River," a thin curving line of darker rock cutting through flatter rocks and jutting ab ...
  • Black Holes "Should Glow with a Ring of Light" ...
                      Stephen Hawking's great discovery was that the mysterious regions in space we call black holes radiate heat through quantum effects. Hawking has said that "black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the smaller they are, the more ...
  • Einstein's E=MC2 May Breakdown in Outer Space
                     University of Arizona physicist Andrei Lebed has stirred the physics community with an intriguing idea yet to be tested experimentally: The world's most iconic equation, Albert Einstein's E=mc2, may be correct or not depending on where you are in space. With the ...

Natural News

  • The essence of disease
    The natural healing approach to curing health related issues is always in the direction of self-cleansing, self-repairing, and positive health. This philosophy maintains that even acute disease is a manifestation of the body's efforts in the direction of self-cure. Disease...
  • Colloidal gold: The great rejuvenator of mind ...
    Many health-conscious individuals are familiar with colloidal silver, and the scientific research into its anti-bacterial and germicidal properties speaks for itself. Less popular and understood, however, is colloidal gold. Colloidal gold is a tasteless colloid made...
  • Fasting may help children with epilepsy
    Since ancient times, fasting has consistently been regarded as an important part of treating various diseases, including epilepsy. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have investigated the effects of fasting in conjunction with the ketogenic diet (high fat, low carbohydrate...
  • Top 10 new year's resolutions for psychiatrists
    Your friendly neighborhood psychiatrist is not above making new year's resolutions. After all, he needs to improve himself just like the rest of us. Here are the likely top ten! 1. Try not to commit suicideResearch suggests psychiatrists have a higher suicide...
  • Yet another study finds gulf spill 'cleanup' c ...
    Just days after the publication of a study finding that chemical dispersants meant to clean up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico actually made the oil more toxic, a study in Environmental Science & Technology reveals that the dispersants failed...

Threat Level

  • Man Arrested for Flipping Off Cop Gets Day in ...
    A federal appeals court is reinstating a civil rights lawsuit brought by a New York man arrested for disorderly conduct after being arrested for flipping off a police officer in traffic. There's no law against directing to police what might ...
  • Study Says Yahoo, Google Help Fund Pirate Sites
    Google and Yahoo were among the top advertising networks servicing the most ads on pirate sites, according to a new study unveiled Thursday. The analysis by the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California found that Pasadena, California-based ...
  • Record 5-Year Prison Term Handed to Convicted ...
    The leader of the in-theater camcording gang known as the IMAGiNE Group was handed a 60-month prison term Thursday in what is the nation's longest sentence in a file-sharing case.
  • Bush-Era Wiretapping Case Killed Before Reachi ...
    A federal appeals court’s August ruling in which it said the federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued won’t be appealed to the Supreme Court, attorneys in the case said Thursday.
  • Google Discovers Fraudulent Digital Certificat ...
    Santa wasn't the only one sneaking around on Christmas Eve this year. Google says that someone was caught trying to use an unauthorized digital certificate issued in its name in an attempt to impersonate Google.com for a man-in-the-middle attack.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • A Modest Proposal: The Trent Lott Super Storm ...
    On Friday, 67 House Republicans voted against $9 billion in funding to replenish FEMA's flood insurance program in the wake of super storm Sandy. Among those naysayers were five Gulf State Congressmen including Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo, whose 4th District was one of the most extensively ...
  • "Both Sides Do It" Must Die!
    For each of the last 38 years, Lake Superior State University has published its "List of Words to be Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness." But missing from the dozen terms and phrases including "double down" and "spoiler alert" sentenced to the school's ...
  • 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), ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Temperature ‘Below’ Absolute Zero Achieved
    A temperature ‘below’ absolute zero has been achieved by physicists at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching. “On the absolute temperature scale, which is used by physicists and is also called the Kelvin scale, it is ...
  • Strange Dark Carbon Material On Vesta Likely B ...
    Vesta, one of the few remaining protoplanets in the solar system, is effectively a window into the early days of the solar system. This is primarily due to its relatively short period of geologic activity and its ‘frozen’ place in time since then. It was only imaged and studied in de ...
  • 100 Billion Planets In The Galaxy, Or More, St ...
    The Milky Way contains, at the very minimum, at least 100 billion planets, a new study from Caltech has concluded. That alone sounds like an enormous number, but when you consider that the Milky Way is just one of countless galaxies, the number of planets in the Universe must be nearly unfathoma ...
  • Dinosaur Feathers Used For Attracting Mates, R ...
    New research is strongly supporting the theory that many species of dinosaurs used their feathers for sexual display, in a similar way to what modern peacocks do. The new evidence comes from an analysis done on fossilized dinosaur tail bones by researchers from the University of Alberta. “ ...
  • Parkinson’s Disease Strongly Linked To Pestici ...
    There has been a lot of research done in recent years that has exposed a strong link between pesticide exposure and the development of Parkinson’s disease. And now new research has added to that, showing that a pesticide discontinued from use in the U.S. ten years ago, benomyl, is still ha ...

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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

  • Republicans Not Accountable to Public
    By @TedFrier One of the important lessons I took away from Crane Brinton's classic work on the "anatomy" of revolutions was that regime change does not always announce itself with shots heard around the world on a New England village green or by peasants storming royal fortresses. Rather, the in ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC @MicheleBachmann can stop pretending she gives a damn about the debt or the deficit. We learned during the "fiscal cliff" legislation debate in the House that the vanity votes congressional republicans held on repealing Obamacare have cost us, the taxpayers, over $50 million. Yet craz ...
  • Family Values? Orange Julius To Harry Reid: 'G ...
    The past couple of months haven't been good ones for Weeper of the House John "Orange Julius" Boehner. His party lost the presidential election, and he couldn't even deliver his own caucus for "Plan B" to solve the so-called fiscal cliff predicament. Then, last Friday afternoon, according to wit ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Republicans in Revolt!!! I figure I'll say it since the M$M won't...Boehner held onto his gavel in spite of the open revolt against him amid his caucus. Several registered their disgust with votes against him and others didn't vote at all. He was reelected on the first ballot, but by ...
  • If There Must Be War Let It Begin Here
    By @TedFrier If you doubt the Republican Party's response to Hurricane Sandy, or the school massacre at Sandy Hook, or the serial fiscal cliff/debt ceiling crises are not linked, then you just have not been paying attention. Politics is impelled far more by underlying attitudes and psychology th ...

Care 2

  • Argentina presses claim to Falkland Islands, a ...
    Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is once again calling on the UK to hand back the Falkland Islands -- known in Argentina as Las Malvinas -- accusing Britain of blatant colonialism. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Demand More Severe Punishment f ...
    Eighteen people were recently arrested as part of a dog fighting operation in Churubusco, Indiana. After receiving a tip, the Whitley Country Sheriffs Department obtained a search warrant and raided the home of Edward Smith, where they found blood, Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • Stone Age Hunters Manipulated Environment for ...
    Extraordinary evidence showing that Stone Age people were more than just hunters has been found at a threatened archaeological site on the Severn Estuary. Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Zimbabwe: Four White Rhinos Poached On New Yea ...
    Four white rhinos were on New Year's Day poached at Thertford Estate in Mazowe. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Don't Sell Out Hawaii's Sea Turtles!
    Ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue its efforts to protect the honu! Submitted by Agnes W. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Syrian Civil War, Year 3
    The Obama White House backs the Islamists and their sponsors. … (read more below the fold) : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : The new year 2013 begins the third calendar year of the Syrian Civil War, and it [...]
  • While Obama Is in Paradise, We are Lost (open ...
    The second he could get out of Dodge, Barack Obama flew back to Hawaii to resume his vacation. President Obama is residing at a stunning home at Paradise Point in Oahu while every American worries about the precipitous tax hikes, including “a new ‘Obamacare”’ tax of 38%. BELOW ...
  • “Al Gore cashes in on Current TV”
    Al Gore sold Current TV to Al Jazeera for $500 million. I don’t about you, but I have never seen that channel and don’t know a single person who ever has. Guess what: Al gets $100 million out of this deal. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com It is interesting that this deal p ...
  • CIA Director on the Hook
    Mike Morrell, the acting CIA Director, may have been a good analyst but the boy does not have a clue about navigating the shark filled waters of Washington. AP has the story: Lawmakers accused the CIA of misleading the makers of the Osama bin Laden raid film “Zero Dark Thirty” by all ...
  • Open Thread
    Last night, I watched both Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteran. As I watched, I took notes of some of the figures that Hannity and guests cited, including the following. As I listened to the programs last night, I took notes on the income, investment, and Obamacare tax increases. Here are some o ...

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 ...

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Mountaintop Removal

  • Cleaner Potomac benefits W.Va. - Martinsburg J ...
    Cleaner Potomac benefits W.Va. Martinsburg Journal 9 in southern West Virginia because of mountaintop removal mining). This is history repeating itself for in the decades preceding the 1960s the Potomac River was so heavily polluted that President Johnson stated that it was a "national disg ...
  • Notable deaths around the nation and world as ...
    Notable deaths around the nation and world as of Jan. 6, 2013 OregonLive.com (blog) Rebecca Tarbotton, 39, of Oakland, Calif., an environmental activist who helped persuade big banks to stop financing mountaintop removal mining, died Dec. 26. The native of British Columbia most recently was exec ...
  • Fiscal "Deal" Energy Investments Form Foundati ...
    Fiscal "Deal" Energy Investments Form Foundation for Clean Energy Future Energy Collective The associated coal mining would further decimate our natural heritage through increased mountaintop removal, water contamination, air pollution, and biodiversity loss. Ultimately, what is most i ...
  • Rebecca Tarbotton, the activist who brought Di ...
    The Guardian (blog) Rebecca Tarbotton, the activist who brought Disney to heel The Guardian (blog) ... direct action, negotiation, and consumer pressure – a trademark RAN trifecta – Becky helped push the country's top eight banks, including Bank of America and Wells Fargo, to limit their fin ...
  • GOP rep compares EPA chief's departure to Gadh ...
    GOP rep compares EPA chief's departure to Gadhafi's fall The Hill (blog) ... and consumer products, and he has floated an alternative plan. McKinley also sponsored bills that would curb EPA's power to block mountaintop-removal mining projects and scuttle carbon emissions standards fo ...

Memeorandum

  • Health Insurers Raise Some Rates by Double Dig ...
    Reed Abelson / New York Times: Health Insurers Raise Some Rates by Double Digits  —  Health insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration ...
  • John Boehner Meets Two New Gay Congressional S ...
    Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed: John Boehner Meets Two New Gay Congressional Spouses  —  At the swearing-in ceremonies Thursday for Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney and Mark Pocan, House Speaker John Boehner met their spouses, “Congressional Spouse” pins and all.  —&n ...
  • White House weighs broad gun-control agenda in ...
    Philip Rucker / Washington Post: White House weighs broad gun-control agenda in wake of Newtown shootings  —  The White House is weighing a far broader and more comprehensive approach to curbing the nation's gun violence than simply reinstating an expired ban on assault weapons ...
  • Pregnancy Centers Gain Influence in Anti-Abort ...
    Pam Belluck / New York Times: Pregnancy Centers Gain Influence in Anti-Abortion Arena  —  WACO, Tex. — With free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, along with diapers, parenting classes and even temporary housing, pregnancy centers are playing an increasingly influential rol ...
  • Republican Congressman Insults Nancy Pelosi's ...
    Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress: Republican Congressman Insults Nancy Pelosi's Appearance: 'There's No Facelift With John Boehner'  —  An outspoken Republican congressman castigated House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's looks during a radio interview Friday.  —  Spe ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.4, Halmahera, Indonesia
    Sunday, January 6, 2013 11:08:32 UTC Sunday, January 6, 2013 08:08:32 PM at epicenterDepth: 149.90 km (93.14 mi)
  • M 5.1, Mauritius - Reunion region
    Saturday, January 5, 2013 17:42:22 UTC Saturday, January 5, 2013 09:42:22 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.1, Southeastern Alaska
    Saturday, January 5, 2013 12:28:30 UTC Saturday, January 5, 2013 03:28:30 AM at epicenterDepth: 9.80 km (6.09 mi)
  • M 7.5, Southeastern Alaska
    Saturday, January 5, 2013 08:58:19 UTC Friday, January 4, 2013 11:58:19 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.80 km (6.09 mi)
  • M 5.4, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
    Saturday, January 5, 2013 04:11:53 UTC Saturday, January 5, 2013 01:11:53 PM at epicenterDepth: 39.10 km (24.30 mi)

China Dialogue

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    一座座水电工程叠加在中国最重要的河流——长江上，这里正在成为鱼类的坟墓。刘&# ...
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    生物仿生的广阔潜力不仅创造了一个价值数十亿美元的产业，更能帮助我们加深对生 ...
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    过去5年中国大规模群体性骚乱，大部分与环境维权有关。因环境污染导致的伤害与&#24656 ...
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    德巴拉蒂•古哈-萨皮尔在接受中外对话采访时表示，随着洪水引发疟疾、血吸虫病等& ...
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    德巴拉蒂•古哈-萨皮尔在接受中外对话采访时表示，随着洪水引发疟疾、血吸虫病等& ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Parting With a TV Show Is Such Sweet Sorrow
    In the most recent episode of “30 Rock” — there are only two more remaining in the series — Kenneth Parcell and Tracy Jordan discuss the reason behind Kenneth’s childlike love of television.  Tracy guesses: “Despite cellphones, iPads and computer ...
  • Bill Moyers: We’d All Be Packing Heat If the N ...
    From BillMoyers.com:We wrote and spoke about guns just a few days before Christmas, following the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. So did Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association. His now infamous, “no questions” press conference was the most stunning, co ...
  • Right-Wingers Who Think They Got 'Rolled' by O ...
    I thought that by this point, I was beyond the capacity to be shocked by the delusions held by the American Right. But my jaw dropped when I read that a number of high-profile conservatives are outraged about the fiscal slope deal, and believe they have been “rolled” by Oba ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Gravest Threat to World Peace
    Reporting on the final U.S. presidential campaign debate, on foreign policy, The Wall Street Journal observed that "the only country mentioned more (than Israel) was Iran, which is seen by most nations in the Middle East as the gravest security threat to the region."The two candidates agreed ...
  • How a Bit of Satire Earned Me Round-the-Clock ...
     I think I hit a nerve.A couple of weeks ago I wrote a thoughtful, well-reasoned column suggesting ways to cut down on gun violence in our ever more violent society. It proposed, among other things:Repealing the Second Amendment and with it the right to buy assault weapons at will.Declar ...

Threat Level

  • Man Arrested for Flipping Off Cop Gets Day in ...
    A federal appeals court is reinstating a civil rights lawsuit brought by a New York man arrested for disorderly conduct after being arrested for flipping off a police officer in traffic. There's no law against directing to police what might ...
  • Study Says Yahoo, Google Help Fund Pirate Sites
    Google and Yahoo were among the top advertising networks servicing the most ads on pirate sites, according to a new study unveiled Thursday. The analysis by the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California found that Pasadena, California-based ...
  • Record 5-Year Prison Term Handed to Convicted ...
    The leader of the in-theater camcording gang known as the IMAGiNE Group was handed a 60-month prison term Thursday in what is the nation's longest sentence in a file-sharing case.
  • Bush-Era Wiretapping Case Killed Before Reachi ...
    A federal appeals court’s August ruling in which it said the federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued won’t be appealed to the Supreme Court, attorneys in the case said Thursday.
  • Google Discovers Fraudulent Digital Certificat ...
    Santa wasn't the only one sneaking around on Christmas Eve this year. Google says that someone was caught trying to use an unauthorized digital certificate issued in its name in an attempt to impersonate Google.com for a man-in-the-middle attack.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • The Real Reasons FSMA Rules are Important
    All of us in food safety are gushing over the new FDA FSMA rules.  Lets not forget why the rules, and adequate funding, are important. Linda Rivera Abby Fenstermaker Stephanie... Continue Reading
  • A Bit(e) of Light Reading on the FSMA Rules
    OK, folks, its time for participatory democracy.  There are a lot of pages to read and time to comment.  Here are the summaries: SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... Continue Reading
  • Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Rules wil ...
    FDA announcement on preventing foodborne illness and improving produce safety WHAT: A media call hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to announce the next steps in implementing the... Continue Reading
  • Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Rules wil ...
    Rumor has it (email from The Nature Conservancy) that the FDA will release their long awaited proposed rules for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) tomorrow and it will be... Continue Reading
  • 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

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

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

  • Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sa ...
    Photo Credit: Christian Hansen “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way” ~ Babe Ruth By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday, I talk to you from Tennessee. Franklin will join from the Eastern seaboard where he is enjoying a break  from the responsibilities of being a farm ...
  • Handel – Water Music
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  • Top Ten “Killers” in the U.S.
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  • 2012 Annual Wrap Up – January 3
    Happy New Year! It’s that time of year to assess – what happened in 2012? And what are the major trends for 2013? Our poster for 2013 celebrates our theme for this new year – Coming Clean. Throughout the developed world, extraordinary increases in the money supply, fiscal stim ...
  • 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 ...

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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Fabius Maximus

  • Checking up on past forecasts about climate ch ...
    Summary:  While we quake in fear at the stream of apocalyptic forecasts fed us by the news media, let’s look back at two previous forecasts about rising sea levels and melting sea ice. Perhaps we’d get better forecasts from our experts if we more often held them accountable for them. ...
  • Update about global temperatures. Watch our wo ...
    Summary:  The news media writes frequently about global warming, but how well informed are we. Test for yourselves.  At your local pub ask the bar how much the world has warmed during the 34 year-long satellite record (ie, the best record).  The result, which appears below (in red) will surprise ...
  • Let’s watch a great nation’s wealt ...
    Summary:   Part of our year-end national festivities should be looking at the deterioration of the Federal government’s finances. Especially since the resolution of the fiscal cliff follies shows that neither party in fact cares.  There are few deficit fighters, mostly arsonists.  As for s ...
  • 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 ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • Today's Sobering Reading on the Afghanistan Di ...
    Over the decades I've often quoted the analyses and judgments of Franklin "Chuck" Spinney. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was part of an influential group of defense analysts (along with John Boyd, Pierre Sprey, Tom Amlie, Tom Christie, and others) whose work I described in Natio ...
  • What Next for Venezuela?
    My colleague, Javier Corrales, has an excellent summary of the internal political dynamics in Venezuela on the news yesterday of President Hugo Chavez’s deteriorating health condition. Corrales reports that the “Venezuelan government is busy preparing for the re-inauguration of the ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Targeted Killings, Rend ...
    Iona Craig and Nico Hines, “Saudi Jets Join America’s Secret War in Yemen,” The Times, January 4, 2013. The Times has learnt that up to 228 people were killed last year by covert attacks in Yemen, including Saudi airstrikes. “Some of the so-called drone missions are actually Saudi Air Forc ...
  • Mali: After the Intervention Is Over
    A coherent, well-orchestrated plan for disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of rebel forces and extremists must accompany any intervention in Mali. Despite the recent UN Security Council resolution authorizing a military intervention in Mali, the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya ...
  • Top of the Morning: Shi’ite Pilgrims Targeted ...
    Top stories from the DAWNS Digest global news app.  Worrying Signs of Human Rights Abuses in Central African Republic With rebels controlling much of the country and conflict with the government heightened, human rights abuses are a growing concern. “In a statement, the RONGDH network of rights ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • It's Worse than the Status Quo
    In the midst of dealing with the fiscal cliff, Congress passed a one-year extension of the farm bill that eliminated funding for almost every even vaguely innovative agriculture policy and kept in place expensive and outdated subsidies that benefit big agribusiness. From the perspective of anyo ...
  • A Long-Term Fiscal Slope
    Liberals felt rightfully disgruntled with the president's capitulations during fiscal-cliff negotiations. Obama abandoned his hard-line stance that tax rates must be increased on incomes over $250,000. Instead the deal made the Bush tax cuts permanent for the vast majority of the country, with ...
  • Retreat of the Welfare State?
    Pete Souza / White House In two excellent posts, Elias Isquith at his blog, and Ned Resnikoff at MSNBC argue that the broader welfare state—and not just entitlements—is in a state of retreat, and that this has been helped along by liberals in and outside of Washington, who have accepted ...
  • Purity Culture Is Rape Culture
    AP Photo/ Dar Yasin Indian women offer prayers for a gang rape victim at Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi. Her intestines were removed because the six men used a rusty metal rod during the “rape.” That fact—the rusty metal rod—is what’s haunted me about the violent incident th ...
  • The Final Tally
    Scout Tufankjian for Obama for America It’s been almost two months, but we now have an official tally for the 2012 presidential election. In the end, President Obama won 65.9 million votes—or 51.1 percent—to Mitt Romney’s 60.9 million votes, or 47.2 percent of the vote. It’s a significa ...

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The BiPartisan Report

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

  • Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumk ...
    The economy added 155,000 net new jobs in December, sufficient to keep the official unemployment rate steady at 7.8 percent, but not enough to make a dent in long-term unemployment. Deep problems remain in our economy and labor market—under-employment remains at 14.4 percent, wages are bar ...
  • Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumk ...
    The economy added 155,000 net new jobs in December, sufficient to keep the official unemployment rate steady at 7.8 percent, but not enough to make a dent in long-term unemployment. Deep problems remain in our economy and labor market—under-employment remains at 14.4 percent, wages are bar ...
  • EWG Calls For Broader Reform on Chemical Safety
    Environmental Working Group called today’s release of draft risk assessments of five chemicals found in paint strippers, fire retardants, degreasers, fragrances and other consumer products a positive step by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but EWG emphasized that the agency&rsquo ...
  • EWG Calls For Broader Reform on Chemical Safety
    Environmental Working Group called today’s release of draft risk assessments of five chemicals found in paint strippers, fire retardants, degreasers, fragrances and other consumer products a positive step by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but EWG emphasized that the agency&rsquo ...
  • Federal Court Rules in Favor of Clean Air
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today released a ruling requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement stronger requirements to clean up particulate matter, also known as “soot,“ one of the deadliest forms of air pollution. Rejecting EP ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • It’s Official: Iran’s Presence in the Region a ...
    Alex Main While Congress struggled to approve legislation to avert the much-hyped “fiscal cliff”, a bill addressing “Iran’s growing hostile presence and activity in the Western Hemisphere” quietly and smoothly ...
  • Think Media Consolidation Is Good for Journali ...
    Josh Stearns The Federal Communications Commission is pushing a plan to gut its 30-year-old newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership ban. This proposal would allow one company to own a local paper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations ...
  • Remembering Guatemala
    Frida Berrigan In 1995, I was on a bus in Guatemala. It was crowded. Not rush-hour-A-train-in-NYC crowded. No, this was inhaling-the-air-the-person-next-to-you-just-exhaled crowded. Whole-families-to-a-seat crowded. Crushed together so clos ...
  • Philosophy and Football
    Christopher Brauchli The toe bone’s connected to the foot bone, The foot bone’s connected to the anklebone The anklebone’s connected to the leg bone, Now shake dem skeleton bones! — Children’s songread more
  • Save Social Security: Paul Krugman for Treasur ...
    Robert Naiman Many American liberals and economic populists are on guard in the wake of the fiscal cliff deal between Congress and the President on taxes and revenue, because what Washington expects to negotiate in the next two months is cu ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Polk Could Lose Seat on Swiftmud Board
    BARTOW | A Sarasota legislator has proposed eliminating one of Polk County's two seats on the Southwest Florida Water Management District governing board.
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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?

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Syrian Internet Goes Offline As Assad Delivers ...
    Reports indicate that 78 percent of routed networks in Syria went offline this morning, effectively causing a nationwide outage, at the same time Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave his first televised speech since June. In the speech Assad called Syrian rebels terrorists, “enemies of th ...
  • Citing Shrinking Sea Ice, Feds List Several Ar ...
    by Bob Berwyn, via Summit County Citizens Voice Recognizing that the best available science suggests a significant loss of Arctic sea ice in the next few decades, federal biologists last week finalized Endangered Species Act protection for two species of ice-dependent seals. NOAA will list as th ...
  • Alabama Lawmaker To Introduce Bill Arming Teac ...
    An Alabama lawmaker plans to introduce a bill to arm teachers and principals next week, despite the opposition of school administrators. State Rep. Kerry Rich’s (R) proposal would “allow superintendents to recommend certain principals and teachers to have guns at school” but do ...
  • Conservatives Open New Congress With Unconstit ...
    The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution expressly provides that nearly anyone born in the United States is a citizen, regardless of the immigration status of their parents. Yet, despite the Constitution’s clear command, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) wants to ignore our founding document and ...
  • Gun Show Held Near Sandy Hook Outrages Residents
    Connecticut residents are outraged that a gun show will take place this weekend just 40 miles from Newtown, where 26 people were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School just weeks ago. The East Coast Firearms Show is being advertised as the “best of the best of vendors, offeri ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Awesome Canadian
     I'm not even going copy and paste the anonymous comments from mainstream websites about Chief Spence and "Idle No More." We all know the drill. They say that there is NO racism in Canada. The problems that the First Nations suffer (poverty, alcoholism, suicide, homelessness, high incarcera ...
  • An Interesting Story
    This story is filed November 27th, 2012. In rural areas, a common corruption allegation is that the relatives or friends of powerful militia commanders are thrown into classrooms to collect a teacher's salary -- despite being unqualified to teach. There's NATO "nation-building" for you! ...
  • 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 ...

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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.
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  • 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: 9-15-12
    Today, Kevin gives you a story from the ‘Obama was wrong’ file and gives you a few tips on how to make a good first impression when applying for a job. Self Help: Change The Way You Think Health: Low Salt Diet Actually Increases Your Risk Of Heart Attack Government: Local Ice Cream Makers Face [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-22-12
    Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life. Self Help: Grass Fed Meat & Poultry KT’s Daily Supplement Program Change Your DNA Vibration Health: How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet? Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 C ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-5-13
    Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino! Self Help: Learn The Secrets ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-6-12
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that the economy is getting worse and that your standard of living is deteriorating! Plus, the creator of the Resolve mineral detox, Dr. Ray Lala, stops by to explain how his mineral detox can virtually cure you from any viral infection, including herpes an ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-13-12
    Today, Kevin explains how illegal aliens are hurting America’s economy and what the government should do about it. Plus, find out how well Dr. Theresa Dale’s colon cleanse really works! Self Help: A Weight Loss Program That Works! Take A Stand With Kevin Trudeau! Health: “Top 7 Diets” According ...

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

  • 12 Killed, 53 Wounded in Iraq Attacks
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com12 Killed, 53 Wounded in Iraq Attacks Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis Claiming to be at a location in Babil province, the former vice president under Saddam Hussein, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, issued a statement supporting the ...
  • Google chairman Schmidt and ex-Gov. Richardson ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and Google chairman Eric Schmidt will head to North Korea next week on a “private humanitarian mission,” Richardson’s office said. Richardson, ...
  • Bosnian sisters re-unite after 72 years thru s ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Two Bosnian sisters who lost track of each other almost 72 years ago met for the first time with the help of Facebook although they lived only 200 kilometres (125 miles) apart, local media reported Satur ...
  • Political Football over Disaster Relief
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Ellen Hodgson Brown In a shameless display of putting politics before human needs, Congress began 2013 still scrapping over a $60 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill fully nin ...
  • Italian lit teacher becomes celebrity death Tw ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope Benedict XVI — Italian Tommasso Debenedetti has killed them all in fake tweets aimed at exposing shoddy journalism that have earned him global notoriety. Th ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Michael Ratner: Obama Orders Assassinations wi ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews·Jan 5, 2013 Michael Ratner: Obama continues model of Presidential fiat, Congressional fiat, no due process, no trials, and indefinite detention. see Statement by the President on H.R. 4310 + Obama Signs NDAA 2013 + Kucinich: Indefinite Detention Part of Push to Shred  ...
  • In Valiant Fortitude by Soraya Boyd
    by Soraya Boyd Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Facilitate Global December 30, 2012 Unlawfully pincered between harsh collective punishment and base military aggression The tear bedabbled faces of innocent children in constant lacrimation Afforded no respite cling desperately to their progenitor for ...
  • Technology Servitude by Joel S. Hirschhorn
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org January 5, 2013 Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high tech devices, while driving, while walking, while shopping, while in groups of friends, while in restaurants, while waiting in doctor offices and ...
  • Political Football Over Disaster Relief: Most ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com January 4, 2013 In a shameless display of putting politics before human needs, Congress began 2013 still scrapping over a $60 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill fully nine weeks after the disaster hit. And if the Katrina experience is ...
  • Blowing the Whistle on Obama’s America
    Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish·Jan 5, 2013 On the campaign trail four years ago, US presidential candidate Barack Obama shared his views on whistleblowers. He said: “Often the best source of information about waste, fraud and abuse in government is a government employee committed to publ ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    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.
  • No title
    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 ...
  • No title
    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

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Beautifu ...
    The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. It is located about 4,000 light-years away, towards the Scorpius constellation (the Scorpion). The nebula is the swansong of a dying solar-like star lying ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Colorful ...
    Galileo false-color image of the Mare Tranquillitatis and Mare Serenitatis areas of the Moon. The picture was made from four exposures taken during Galileo's second Earth/Moon flyby. The colors are enhanced to highlight compositional differences.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Prominen ...
    A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on Dec. 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the flow of plasma, but without sufficient force to overcome the sun’s gravity much of the plasma fell back into the ...
  • Dinosaurs May Have Shaken Their Tail Feathers ...
    A new study suggests that oviraptors -- feathered but flightless dinosaurs -- may have shaken their tail feathers during courtship displays.
  • Quantum Gas Temperature Drops Below Absolute Zero
    Physicists have created a quantum gas capable of reaching temperatures below absolute zero, paving the way for future quantum inventions.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • US Jewish leaders express ‘concern’ about impe ...
    American Jewish leaders have expressed “concern” about the impending entry of the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera network to the US television market, citing its record of anti-Israeli coverage and support... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Hanin Zuabi: Not here to be loved
    Haneen Zoabi: “I am treated as though I am not part of this place. The Jews came to this land and did not want to integrate, fit in, get to know the natives and the language of the place and its... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Computer Scientists Find Vulnerabilities in Ci ...
    Columbia Engineering researchers have found vulnerabilities in Cisco VoIP telephones, recently demonstrating how they can insert malicious code into a Cisco VoIP phone (any of the 14 Cisco Unified IP Phone models) and start eavesdropping on private conversations--not just on the phone but also i ...
  • Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School Ophth ...
    Reza Dana, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc. of Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, was awarded the Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Senior Scientific Investigator Award in the amount of $150,000 to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.
  • IISD Concerned Over U.S. Tax Credit for Biodie ...
    IISD's reaction to the revived tax incentive for biodiesel production as part of the U.S. year-end fiscal package.
  • January 2013 Story Tips
    Many of the nation's foremost authorities on cyber security will gather in Oak Ridge Jan. 8-12 for the inaugural Cyber Sciences Laboratory workshop. Scientists are using an instrument at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor to discover how a key binding protein protects our ...
  • How Prostate Cancer Therapies Compare by Cost ...
    The most comprehensive retrospective study ever conducted comparing how the major types of prostate cancer treatments stack up to each other in terms of saving lives and cost effectiveness is reported this week by a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

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

  • New Essay at SSRN on the Role of the Internati ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The essay is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication, which is being edited by Cesare Romano, Karen Alter, and Yuval Shany and should be published by OUP this year.  Here is the abstract: The role of the international prosecutor ...
  • Holiday Roundup: December 22, 2012 – January 4 ...
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Over the holidays here at Opinio Juris, the comments section of Kevin’s post on the distinction between the legality and the morality of drone strikes was a hive of activity. The post itself was a follow-up to a first post in which Kevin applied a comparativ ...
  • South China Sea dispute: what is the Role of I ...
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon The Senkaku / Diaoyu islands, a series of rocky, uninhabited outcrops, are being claimed by Japan, China, and Taiwan, amongst others, both for historical reasons, and because of their potential value in anchoring sovereignty over natural resources like oil.   So ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, January 4, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey A “senior Al-Qaeda figure” was killed in Yemen via a US drone strike yesterday, along with two others. For more on the SDNY’s decision granting summary judgement to the US government about the FOIA suit we covered yesterday, Bloomberg cover ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • Fiscal Cliff Deal Includes a Reprieve for Wind ...
    Fiscal Cliff Deal Includes a Reprieve for Wind Production Tax Credit PHOENIX - Among the provisions of this week's congressional agreement to avoid the "fiscal cliff" is one little-talked about measure which helps give some financial security to an industry employing nearly 1,000 Arizonans. The ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

Green Times

  • 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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
  • Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
    Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
  • How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
    We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
  • Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...
    …but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Bushbama
  • Portabee 3D printer under $500, could be a gam ...
    The Portabee is the first conveniently portable 3D printer in the world. It is easily collapsible in a matter of seconds and fits into a laptop bag. Inhabitat says it’s “portable, robust, and affordable.”
  • Renewable energy tax credits anger House neand ...
    Daryll Issa, chair of a House oversight committee is grumpy that the renewable energy tax credits, which were extended until the end of 2013 when the budget bill passed, pulled a fast move on energy neanderthals like himself. The credits that expired at the end of 2012 include renewable energy p ...
  • Elio – 84 mpg trike for $6800
    Elio is buying an old GM plant in Liuisiana and plans to build their super trike. The Elio trike will apparently be available with either a manual or automatic transmission and have some creature comforts like airbags, air conditioning and ABS brakes. That’s much more than most motorcycle ...
  • Frank Lloyd Wright house on a private island
    Entrepreneur Joseph Massaro bought a private island on a lake in New York state in 1996 and spent ten years constructing a home that had been custom designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the island but never built, using the original blueprints — the result is extraordinary Massaro says the ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012
    Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying&#822 ...
  • Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...
    What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012!     The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
  • More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...
    What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted  / regulated.  By the time regular folks find out it will ...
  • “The Great Culling” Official Water ...
    Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
  • Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...
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The Air Vent

  • Common Sense on Government Spending
    Tom Fuller and I have always had a cordial relationship despite the fact that his politics are Pelosi-left.   He left a comment on the last thread in relation to taxes and the deficit which depicts exactly how the left-wing media is trying to portray our current debt situation.   While he is ref ...
  • Two Sides of the Laffer
    Happy New Year readers.   2013! I still owe everyone some commentary on Steig’s 3rd (or is it the 4th) victory lap.   I have spent several hours on the new Antarctic doom paper, hopefully I will have some time shortly to write on that.  In the meantime, we are awaiting some movement on the ...
  • Gun Control Demands
    Liberals are in a froth over a new gun ban on semi-automatic rifles (fire once per trigger pull).  While these are powerful and dangerous weapons, I flatly don’t believe this new ban will have any impact at all on violent crime.  Like so many things from the unbiased media, I cannot see an ...
  • IPCC – Full Speed Ahead
    Thanks to some very hard working bloggers and readers who care at WUWT, the IPCC second order draft has been released.   Steig 09 appears to be much less prominently referenced in the second order draft than in the zero order which is still too often.  I take it as an indication that some people ...
  • Just a Little More Fair
    What will we do when the US runs out of money? A few months ago it seemed that the American public may actually grasp the size of the numerical problem, but the elections revealed that people in bulk are not capable of basic math. It only takes the most cursory of reviews to understand that [...]

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: Sponsored Stories settlement ...
    Facebook notifies class action suit members about settlement – Facebook began sending proposed settlement notices to users it believes are members of a class action lawsuit that entitles them to up to $10 in compensation. The...
  • Registration Now Open for Inside Social Apps S ...
    After a successful run in New York City, Inside Social Apps returns to San Francisco on June 6 and 7. Join industry-leading developers, marketers, investors, and analysts for two days of in-depth discussions on the hottest...
  • Facebook career postings: revenue analyst, rec ...
    Facebook added 19 job listings to its careers page this week, including a number of positions focused on HR and recruiting. The company is also looking for client partners to focus on different regions and verticals, as well...
  • Facebook hires: data protection counsel, icon ...
    Facebook removed nearly two dozen job listings from its careers page since Dec. 14, likely after making hires in the areas of HR, recruiting, client management and analytics. Among the notable roles that appear to have been filled...
  • BO.LT, Circle, Tango, MyFitnessPal, more on th ...
    Page tab customization app Static HTML… [Ninth Tab] led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 153 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Billy Ocean– “Caribbean Queen” This week is the one year anniversary of the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick. It’s been really fun for me picking out the music. I hope you’ve enjoyed the choices of artists and songs over the past year. Tonight’s artist is British-based ...
  • We the Outsourcing Nation
    From Outsourcing our Community Responsibilities to our Elderlies, Children & Beyond This morning, while listening to a podcast show and after hearing a brief comment on the dangers facing our elderly care with all this ‘fiscal cliff’ nonsense, I started reflecting on one of the macro issues ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

Afro Spear

  • sat’day riddymz
    Thanks to Sis. Deb for permission to post this. This is so beautiful and inspirational!
  • Africland Social Community
    Africland is a social networking community space for all African descendants, whether you are in Haiti, Colombia, Brazil, UK, Africa, USA, Jamaica, …Continue reading »
  • Afro-Futurism: The Evolution Continuum
    “When you teach your children, you teach your children’s children” Talmud As a father, someone who is involved in nurturing …Continue reading »
  • Christmas Riddymz
  • Byts and Bytes
    U Texas Professor Says Black Kids Don’t Succeed Because Most Are Raised by Women Homosexuality is “unAfrican” in pre-colonial history A Balanced Look at Female Genital “Mutilation” Black Pete exposes the Netherlands’ problem with race Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propagand ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Marketing Violence
    a plea for a multi-faceted approach to lessening gun violence and creating positive support for families.
  • Buried Truth: Uncovering The Keystone XL Pipel ...
    TransCanada's efforts to justify their private foreign corporation having the right to bisect the US with an unknown toxic, oily, high-pressure mixture, via KXL, started over seven years ago. TransCanada began making claims about the supposed direct financial benefits of KXL, and tar sands oil, ...
  • The Narrative of No Escape
    The 'Global War on Terror' is more unconventional than most people give it credit for. It is not a war, but a state of permanent warfare being fought in our name, underwritten with our tax money, and which will claim untold lives on all sides. What it is, is a story that has engulfed our world, ...
  • Bolivariansm in Venezuela
    With or without Chavez, it's institutionalized. It greatly improved the lives of most Venezuelans. It's become part of the national culture. It won't wane and die.
  • PA Recognizes Palestinian Statehood
    Mahmoud Abbas is a longtime Israeli collaborator. It took him 24 years to acknowledge it. More on that below.

Switchboard

  • Oil and gas industry trying to stop citizens f ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. As I've blogged recently, Colorado is currently considering updating some of its oil and gas rules regarding setbacks from homes and schools, as well as rules for water testing and monitoring. T ...
  • Bad News for Belugas: Cook Inlet Population Re ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center just released its annual survey of endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales—and the findings don’t bode well ...
  • Maryland is Taking Action to Prepare for Risin ...
    Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. As Hurricane Sandy vividly demonstrated in late October, coastal communities across the U.S. are increasingly vulnerable to flooding and storm surge as sea levels rise. Storm surge from more extr ...
  • Victory for Renewable Energy in Fiscal Cliff Deal
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Some 37,000 wind energy jobs hung in the balance when the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) expired on Tuesday. But in its last-minute deal to avert the fiscal cliff, Congress included a sho ...
  • How retrofitting a California suburb for walka ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   A terrific street redesign is assisting economic development in a southern California community that has suffered from changing economic conditions but is nevertheless se ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “I’d like to see something more ro ...
    I’m not sure why, but the fact that this weekend saw the release of yet another pointless remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre struck me as a particularly striking example of Hollywood creative bankruptcy.   And yet, when the market rewards it, what can you do?
  • Vengeance for the Ostfriesland?
    I’ve heard of inter-service conflict, but… In 1987, while flying off the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, a Lt. j.g. Timothy W. Dorsey fired a missile at an Air Force F-4 reconnaissance jet piloted by then-Lt. Ross. He and his backseat officer ejected as the F-4 plunged into the sea. A ...
  • NFL Wildcard Round
    Bengals (+4) over Texans: I wouldn’t read all that much into Houston’s late slump in itself. But I do think that the improved play of the Bengals is meaningful, since their defense has gotten better as it’s gotten healthier. The teams ended up as nearly even in point differenti ...
  • Back to basics
    Since there seems to be some interest in it, I’d like to clarify a few things about what exactly my position is on various weight and health-related matters. (1) Obesity does correlate with some increased health risks, and to a largely unknown extent, has a causal role in some of those inc ...
  • Steroids Moralizing and Cooperstown
    This gets it right. Tyler Kepner’s piece a couple months ago about drug warrior sportswriters contained a very revealing quote: “In each of those areas, players who used steroids fail the test — period,” Scott Miller, of CBSSports.com, said in an e-mail. “I know it isn’t the Hall of Choirb ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

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How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Sandy Victims to Receive Flood Insurance Payments
    Langevin pressed House Republican leadership from the start of this week to allow a vote on a $60 billion package that passed the Senate last Friday with bipartisan support.
  • Somali NOC Congress Elects New Chief
    The new president Mr. Abdullahi Ahmed Tarabi who was the sole candidate for the post of Somali NOC presidency has been unanimously voted in favour of by the all 18 voters at the congress. They are 9 National federations including the football Federa
  • More States on Track to Implement The Health C ...
    Today's conditional approvals follow those previously granted to Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington to operate State-based Exchanges
  • Secretary Clinton Leaves NY Hospital After Blo ...
    He reports that Secretary Clinton and her family would like to express their appreciation for the excellent care she received from the doctors, nurses, and staff at New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center.
  • TV Viewers Generally Avoid Commercials- Unless ...
    T.V. Viewers generally avoid commercials, yet commercials starring comic Jim Meskimen seem to be an exception. His current Old Navy spot is racking up the viewers, reports Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel.

environment 360

  • Starbucks Targets Reduction in Paper Waste wit ...
    Starbucks, the world’s largest chain of coffee shops, this week started selling $1 reusable plastic cups at its stores StarbucksA reusable plastic cup in the U.S. and Canada, an initiative the company hopes will drastically reduce the amount of paper waste that ends up in landfills. The company ...
  • Methane Leak Data Highlights Concerns About Na ...
    A pair of ongoing studies show unexpectedly high methane leakage from some oil and gas fields in the U.S., findings that underscore concerns that the climate benefits of the natural gas boom may be overstated. Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder say new data indicates that as ...
  • U.S. Wind Tax Credit Extended in ‘Fiscal Cliff ...
    The last-minute tax deal brokered by U.S. lawmakers to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff” included a one-year extension of the wind energy tax credit, a subsidy that industry officials say is critical for the growth of the wind energy sector. The bill, which now awaits President Obama’s signatur ...
  • In U.S., the Lure of Export May Further Fuel N ...
    As the United States experiences a glut of natural gas, a host of facilities are being proposed that would convert gas to a liquid and export it. But before embracing a gas export boom, the nation should carefully weigh the implications for both the economy and the environment. BY SHAUN GOHO
  • Network of Smartphone-Based Sensors Monitor Ai ...
    Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a network of smartphone-based air pollution monitors that allow individuals to track UCSDCitiSense device pollution levels in real time and feed a central database of air quality trends citywide throughout the day. The so-ca ...

Red Ice Creations

  • ’Tsunami bomb’ tested off New Zealand coast
    The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of a "tsunami bomb" designed to destroy coastal cities by using underwater blasts to trigger massive tidal waves. The tests were carried out in waters around New Caledonia and Auckland during the Second World War and showed that the weapon ...
  • Abraham Lincoln Created The Secret Service The ...
    On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. He’d die the next morning. But also on April 14, 1865, Lincoln signed into law a piece of legislation which created the Secret Service — the law enforcement agency charged with defending the President from, among o ...
  • The Pluto Switch: Mystery Google Device Appear ...
    Photos of the mystery computing device appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily read the name printed on the long, thin piece of hardware. “Pluto Switch,” the label said. The images were posted b ...
  • Newborns Know Their Native Tongue, Study Finds
    Just hours after they’re born, babies seem to be able to tell the difference between sounds in their native tongue and a foreign one, according to a new study that suggests language learning begins in utero. "The mother has first dibs on influencing the child’s brain," researcher Patricia Kuhl, ...
  • What’s in a name? Quite a lot, if you live in ...
    Recent decades have ushered in an era of creative baby names – at least in Hollywood. But not every country embraces such unique labels. In the first case of its kind, a 15-year-old girl in Iceland is suing the state for the right to use her name. Blaer Bjarkardottir’s first name is not on the o ...

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