6 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: Two people holding a banner of the organization Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. The text of the banner reads: "Hundreds of Architects & Engineers Demand a Real 9/11 Investigation." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Russia Today

• President Assad outlines political solution to ...
  Syria’s president has outlined a plan to end the country's conflict, starting with a halt to international support to “al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups.” The solution proposes a new constitution and government, as well... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Tax exile: President Putin gives Depardieu a R ...
  President Vladimir Putin has handed Gerard Depardieu a new Russian passport, officially making the French actor a citizen of Russia. The 64-year-old millionaire and bon vivant renounced his French citizenship to avoid... Read Full Article at RT.com
• India and Pakistan trade accusations as cross- ...
  Indian soldiers assaulted a Pakistani military outpost in Kashmir, killing one soldier, the Pakistani military has alleged. Indian officials claim Pakistani troops "initiated unprovoked firing,” shelling a civilian home... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Tasmanian bushfire causes massive destruction ...
  Police are searching for possible victims of bushfires which have swept across southern Tasmania, destroying dozens of houses and forcing over 1,000 people to flee. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Caught on tape: Egyptian ambassador slaps poli ...
  The Egyptian Ambassador to Cyprus has been caught on video slapping a police officer at Larnaca airport. The local authorities have taken the blame for the embarrassing incident, admitting to the ill-mannered behavior... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Who is ‘Idle No More’?
  Here is a short explanation of who is Idle No More? Idle No More: Hints of a Global Super-Movement
• In defense of China against US imperialism today
  China and Russia might have both been turned backwards towards capitalism by their own ‘communist parties’, but that is no reason today to let them remain undefended while under constant threats of direct military attack by Western Imperialism led by the Pentagon and Nato. And YES, t ...
• Broomfield Police play rough game of Cowboys a ...
  BROOMFIELD, COLO.- Fellow Occupy members and I joined in a “round dance” flash mob at a local mall on Wednesday night, as part of the growing IDLE NO MORE actions whose First Nations grievances include the despoiling of indigenous treaty lands by tar sands extraction and the XL pipel ...
• 14 cents
  Since cities like Colorado Springs are trying to make it illegal for anyone to ask for spare change on downtown streets and elsewhere, the State of Colorado in its infinite wisdom and kindness of the bosses has just now raised the minimum wage by 14 cents an hour! Whoopeee!!!!!! Now don’t ...
• The NYE Fiscal Cliff is a Buffalo Jump. Is you ...
  DENVER, COLORADO- The DC Kabuki Divas are amping up their New Years cliffhanger, the so-called Fiscal Cliff, to inaugurate domestic austerity measures meant to cement the widening income gap between the rich and everybody else. If it’s a cliff, it’s a buffalo jump off which the easil ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• 911 Free Fall Radio: Mark Basile and WTC Dust ...
  Mark Basile is a chemical engineer who has worked in the industry for thirty plus years and has been a pioneer of the 9/11 Truth movement when it comes to the hard evidence. He is also featured in the latest movie by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, "9/11 Explosive Evidence, Experts Spea ...
• Occupy Steubenville, 12/29/2012
  I’m happy to announce that the Occupy Steubenville protest was a huge success. Hundreds of people showed up, and we voiced our message loud and clear for all to hear. We got some pretty good coverage by WTRF. You might recognize the guy shown at minute 1:09. ;)  WTRF 7 News Sports Weather ...
• Attending Occupy Steubenville Tomorrow
  I’m going to be attending occupysteubenvilletomorrow. For those who can't attend, the live-stream will be here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oprollredroll. While there I'll shoot some footage and pictures, and upload those online as soon as I can. Peace. Free desktop streaming ap ...
• The latest viral from "liberal" Hollywood
  When a bunch of clueless celebrities get together to advance a political agenda it annoys me. I remember when I first watched Team America: World Police. While I found the movie hilarious, I didn't really like how it ridiculed anti-war celebrities. Now, 8 years later, South Park is pretty much m ...
• New Independent Study of WTC Dust - Please Donate
  Donate at: http://aneta.org/markbasile_org/donation/index.htm Proposal for Independent Study of the WTC Dust: http://www.markbasile.org/ See also: http://aneta.org/markbasile_org/study/index.htm http://nanothermite911.blogspot.com/

Fooducate

• Starbuck’s Evolution Fresh Juices – What’s Rea ...
• New “SKAM” Product Soon? Hormel (Spam) buys S ...
• Return of the Killer Grapefruit ?
• The Nutrition Lessons We Can All Learn from Dr ...
• 4 Ways to Make Your New Year Resolution Succeed

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

• The Obligatory, End of the Year Top 10 List
  Here's the stories the got the most attention in 2012 The Palast Investigative Fund was quite effective this year. Vulture funds were banned, election theft made national headlines, and we outed gov't profiteer posing as a candidate. Oh, and our little book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits hit ...
• The Anti-Clause: Reverend Billy's No-Click Chr ...
  By Greg Palast for Truthout.org [New York, December 18, 2012] Even for New York, this was WEIRD. There were a half dozen Santa Clauses on Second Avenue getting a sermon from a Midwestern preacher who looks like a cross between televangelist Jerry Falwell and a white-haired Elvis. The Santa Crew ...
• Before it's too late...Xmas/Xanuka Gifts from ...
  By Greg Palast The Mayans sure know how to take the fun out of Christmas. The world ends on December 21... but that still gives you time, if you act NOW, to make your year-end tax-deductible donation to the not-for-profit Palast Investigative Fund. And we'll get a 'Thank You Gift' out to you (or ...
• Don’t Touch that Snooze Button
  by Greg Palast Monday, December 10, 2012 By my initial calculation, 9.3 million Americans lost their vote on November 7 – purged from voter rolls, blocked at the polls, or had their “provisional” and absentee ballots thrown in the dumpster. Let's get to the bottom of this: In the next 90 days, w ...
• Sandy De-Filed Us! Please Donate to our Hurri ...
  A personal note from Greg Palast Damn that Sandy! She flooded our New York office. I am asking those of you who can, to make a tax-deductible donation and download my New York Times bestselling book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps or simply make a con ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Returning to Yesterday
  By Cathy Jameson While people are divulging their resolutions this week, I hear the making of solemn promises – to do better for themselves, to do better for others or to do better for the world. I make all kinds...
• Dachel Media Update: Autism Marriage Saver, Mo ...
  Jan 4, 2013, The New York Times: Autism Strains Yet Strengthens a Marriage Jan 3, 2013, WQOW Eau Claire, WI: School district adding teacher to focus on students with autism Jan 3, 2013, Daily Breeze (CA): Special education costs to...
• Weekly Wrap Up: Pb is Bad, But Mercury is Yummy?
  Mother Jones, Age of Autism, Lead, Mercury, Dan Olmsted
• The Recovery Room: Define “Autism Recovery”
  By Julie Obradovic In my inaugural post for this column, I think it’s important to first tackle the definition of “recovery”. What recovery looks like for one person may not be what it looks like to another. Can we all...
• Dachel Media Update: Judge's Orders, Prenatal ...
  Jan 2, 2012, Cincinnati.com: Judge orders therapy for autistic child Dec 28, 2012, New Parent: Should You Test Your Tot for Autism? Cincinnati.com “A federal judge ordered state officials on Wednesday to provide speech therapy and other care to an...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

• Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Cor ...
  The Corporation is today’s dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives. For over 3 ...
• CIA being sued over domestic spying collaborat ...
  RT – The CIA is being sued for withholding information about its cooperation on domestic spying as part of the New York Police Department’s counter-terrorism surveillance program. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a lawsuit at the end of December seeking the release of ...
• Hospital fires EIGHT veteran nurses because th ...
  Daily Mail – An Indiana hospital has fired eight employees, many of them veteran nurses, because they refused to take the flu vaccine. IU Health Goshen is just the latest hospital to force its employees to receive the jab and fire or discipline the ones who object. Read article
• UK government’s enthusiasm for GM not ma ...
  Guardian – Britain wants GM food to be grown commercially. After years of encouraging developing countries in Africa and elsewhere to grow them, but unable to allow its own farmers to do so, the environment secretary Owen Paterson has told a major conference that GM can secure countries&#8 ...
• FEATURE PAGE – Films & Documentaries
  Our archive contains over 25 hard hitting documentaries ranging from game theory to fluoridation, from big brother to 9/11. To challenge your perceptions CLICK HERE

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Southwestern willow flycatcher critical habita ...
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has once again revised critical habitat for the southwestern willow flycatcher, an endangered migratory bird that has been the subject of two decades of legal wrangling.
• Conservation groups buy 3,000 acres on Donner ...
  Ending a battle to preserve a historic piece of the Sierra Nevada crest, conservation groups recently finalized their purchase of the 3,000-acre Royal Gorge property on Donner Summit.
• Some Arctic seals now officially listed as thr ...
  First came the polar bear. Now, the federal government has added two other marine mammals to the list of creatures threatened with extinction because of vanishing sea ice in a warming Arctic.
• A few encouraging signs for Asia's endangered ...
  Make no mistake. Tigers have gone extinct in Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Singapore, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the islands of Bali and Java in Indonesia and possibly in Korea. 
• Climate change could cut Western water runoff ...
  Another climate change study is projecting declines in runoff in many parts of the West, a scenario that would put more pressure on the region’s water supplies.

water.org

• A safe drink of water
  Mrs. Rangamma and her family members used to drink water directly from the tap in front of the house that was then stored inside. However, the water was not safe for drinking as Mysore City Corporation is not using proper methods of water purification. Rangamma used to find a white layer of cont ...
• Summit on the Summit Begins
  Chevenee Reavis, Director of Strategic Initiatives, co-leads a team of safe water advocates and educators on an ambitious expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro in an effort to drive awareness of the global water crisis.
• 2012 Year End Conference Call
  Recorded: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 Duration: 34:36 Our co-founder and CEO, Gary White, shared his thoughts on this past year, major milestones reached, new partnerships, and innovations. He also discuss where the organization is headed in 2013. The conference call concluded with a ...
• Thank You for a Great 2012
  Thank you for all of your support in 2012. This year, you've been a true water champion – you've learned about the water crisis, inspired your families and friends, donated your voice, held fundraising events, and gotten to know some of the individuals we serve by reading and watching their stories.
• The Happiest Dance
  Having safe water to drink and for your daily chores makes life better and can bring joy to a life. Have fun with a joyful dance.

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

• The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
  The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• “Black hole for light” drastically improves ef ...
  Researchers at Princeton University led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou, have developed what is being called a “nanostructure sandwich” to trap light and improve the efficiency of organic solar cells by 175%. A layer of metal mesh ...
• India’s solar mission, phase 2
  An Indian worker cleans solar arrays during the inauguration of a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant near Gandhinagar, in 2011. The ground-mount photovoltaic power plant is the firs ...
• Energy’s Presence, Not Price, Changes Lives
     The Sustainable Energy for All initiative has rightfully united the world’s attention on a critical development issue – delivering universal energy access. r ...
• Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
  Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
• Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...
  Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more

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.

Worldnews

• 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Rainfall, brain infection linked in sub-Sahara ...
  The amount of rainfall affects the number of infant infections leading to hydrocephalus in Uganda, according to a team of researchers who are the first to demonstrate that these brain infections are linked to climate.
• How To Regulate Geo-Engineering Efforts To Fig ...
  With policymakers and political leaders increasingly unable to combat global climate change, more scientists are considering the use of manual manipulation of the environment to slow warming's damage to the planet...
• Drowsy Drivers Pose Major Risks
  A new study of driving behavior across the country found that slightly more than 4 percent of adults admit to having fallen asleep at the wheel.
• TRANEXAMIC ACIDtablet [Prasco Laboratories]
  Updated Date: Jan 4, 2013 EST
• Drainage ditches can help clean up field runoff
  Vegetated drainage ditches can help capture pesticide and nutrient loads in field runoff, USDA scientists report. These ditches -- as common in the country as the fields they drain -- give farmers a low-cost alternative for managing agricultural pollutant

Common Dreams

• Idle No More Actions Target Bridges, Movement ...
  Idle No More protest in Hamilton (Twitter picture @BrittanyGogo) Idle No More continues its momentum with a series of demonstrations on Saturday including one that has shut down a US-Canadian bridge as the movement continues its demands for Indigenous sovereignty. ...
• Taliban Says 'War and Destruction' Will Contin ...
  As US military mulls how many thousands of troops will remain in Afghanistan after the 2014 "withdrawal" date, the Taliban issued a statement on Saturday saying that leaving even a single US soldier "means war and destruction" because conflict "in the region is directly ...
• Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to ...
  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.   If it mounts a vigorous campaign to fight Hagel ...
• Transocean Gets Off Easy With 'Wholly Inadequa ...
  Transocean Deepwater Inc. was handed a free pass by the U.S. read more
• Record Low Water Levels in Lake Huron, Lake Mi ...
  As the ongoing drought continues to push levels in the Mississippi River to historic lows, water levels in two of the Great Lakes are also succumbing to its effects. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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• Sarah Polley
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• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• A Look Ahead at Energy Policy and Politics in ...
  After a heated election that featured prominent fights over the direction of United States energy policy, a free TheEnergyCollective.com webinar on Wednesday, January 9th (12pm Eastern / 9am Pacific), will take a look ahead at energy policy and politics in the 113th Congress. Details and registr ...
• Fiscal "Deal" Energy Investments Form Foundati ...
  Millions of Americans breathed a sigh of relief this week following successful votes in the U.S. Congress to avoid the “fiscal cliff”. Within the energy sector, one of the fundamental issues at stake during the last months of budget wrangling was the fate of a suite of clean energy tax incentive ...
• General Motors Tripled Sales Of Chevy Volt In ...
  General Motors had a record-breaking year for fuel-efficient autos in 2012.The company became the first American auto manufacturer to sell more than one million vehicles with a 30-mpg fuel rating. And due to a surge in demand from Califorina, GM tripled sales of its electric model, the Chevy Volt.
• IEA: Unlocking the Potential for Energy Effici ...
  The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released their annual World Energy Outlook report (the Executive Summary is available here as a PDF). Spoiler alert: the outlook isn't so good.
• Why Does the U.S. Lack an Objective and Cohere ...
  The Federal Government has yet to approve a specific climate policy. Since the U.S. Senate rejected the 1997 Kyoto Protocol no Administration has formally proposed a climate policy to Congress. The Federal Government has, however, developed many non-climate energy regulations that have signifi ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Technology Servitude
  Joel S. Hirschhorn 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 hospitals, while sitting in toilets – everywhere. While c ...
• Another NNC Lendman Interview
  Stephen Lendman NNC's Iman Soleimani conducted this and earlier interviews. Each raised major world issues. NCC is one of Iran's largest media operations. It works collaboratively with major TV and News services. Questions and answers are below. Editing was done as needed. Final commen ...
• Netanyahu's Warning
  by Stephen Lendman Netanyahu represents lawless rogue leadership. He belongs in prison, not high office. Pre-election polls suggest he'll retain power. Israelis aren't smart enough to spurn him. Palestinian suffering will continue. The new year began like 2012 ended. More on that below. ...
• Year in Review: 2012 in U.S. Trade Reform
  Ian Fletcher Previously negotiated U.S. free trade agreements went into effect with Korea in March, Colombia in May, and Panama in October. President Obama continued to push for the unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership. He also continued to refuse to designate China a currency manipulator, des ...
• Fiscal Cliff Postmortems
  by Stephen Lendman Congressional profiles in courage are sorely lacking. Pretenders usually vote party line when asked or pressured. No House or Senate member explained what constituents most need to know. Fiscal cliff hype reflects doublespeak duplicity. Previous articles explained. ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Executive pay in Canada: Overcompensating?
  For Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs, the rewards start clocking in very early into the New Year.  By 1:18pm on January 2, the first official working day of the year, Canada’s top 100 CEOs will have already pocketed $45,448. It takes the average Canadian an entire year of full-time w ...
• Mapping Corporate Power in Saskatchewan
  "Mapping Corporate Power in Saskatchewan" traces the ties between the major corporate contributors to both the Saskatchewan Party and the New Democratic Party, and their links to other corporate interest and advocacy groups. The research demonstrates that Saskatchewan corporations have the netwo ...
• Ontario 2013: Toward a Post-Austerity Vision
  On January 9th, the CCPA's Ontario Office will be hosting an update on the province’s economy and a strategy session focusing on how to move toward a post-austerity vision. Ontario 2013: Toward a Post-Austerity Vision 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, January 9, 2013 (lunch included) Thomas Lounge, Oakham H ...
• Taxes: British Columbians are ready to talk
  Popular wisdom seems to be that you can't talk about raising taxes: people just won't stand for it. But today we released poll results that suggest something a little different. The majority of British Columbians not only feel that the wealthiest should be taxed more, but they are also willing t ...
• Taxes: British Columbians are ready to talk
  Popular wisdom seems to be that you can't talk about raising taxes: people just won't stand for it. But today we released poll results that suggest something a little different. The majority of British Columbians not only feel that the wealthiest should be taxed more, but they are also willing t ...

World Wide Hippies

• Everything is connected Can internet activism ...
  From .economist.com - When dozens of countries refused to sign a new global treaty on internet governance in late 2012, a wide range of activists rejoiced. They saw the treaty, crafted under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), as giving governments pernicious powers ...
• Late Stage Capitalism And The Shame Haunted Li ...
  By Phil Rockstroh- ”Memory believes before knowing remembers.” — William Faulkner In an era of corporate-state colonization of both landscape and mental real estate, when the face of one’s true oppressors is, more often than not, hidden from view, thus inflicting feelings ...
• NEXT PROP 37? NEW MEXICO LAW CALLS FOR MANDATO ...
  by Anthony Gucciardi,truththeory.com/ - Is this the next Prop 37, complete with a forthcoming wave of successful activism and education from concerned consumers? Unfortunately we know that Prop 37 failed due to not only irrefutable deceptionand lies from the Monsanto-funded ‘No on 37′ campaign, ...
• CJE Friday News Briefs
  The United States And New Zealand Secretly Tested ‘Tsunami Bombs’ Designed To Destroy Cities By Flooding Countries carried out covert tests of a device designed to use underwater explosions to trigger massive tidal waves Testing saw almost 4,000 bombs detonated in waters around New Caledonia and ...
• The Incredible Story of What Happened When Two ...
  By Joel Diaz,Huffpo - This past weekend I was a part of something incredible that happened in my community of Columbus, Ohio. After a fun night out in the Short North, my friend Ethan and I ventured down the street to a popular pizza truck called Mikey’s Late Night Slice. As a frequent lat ...

FourWinds10

• New York blasted with toxic influx of sewage a ...
  Nov. 10, 201 (NaturalNews) Embattled with several feet of flood waters in some areas, persistent power outages, and rot and decay throughout tattered streets, many areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy are also now suffering the consequences of a massive influ ...
• TV: Sucking and blowing from tank on troubled ...
  Jan. 4, 2013 Excerpts from Alaska Dispatch: Sean Churchfield, incident commander and operations manager for Royal Dutch Shell Alaska, offered few details on the overall condition of the Kulluk and had no update on the vessel’s hull. During Wednesday’s short press briefing, officials ...
• New evidence suggests BP knowingly downplayed ...
  Dec. 8, 2012 Thousands of previously unread emails will be presented to court in February 2013 BP claim they always provided full disclosure on worst oil spill in history, new information seems to show otherwise Documents that will be presented to court in February appear to show that BP knew ab ...
• Sydney's secret undersea scrapheap [AU]
• TV: 'Some beaches have essentially turned into ...
  June 23, 2012     Shoes swept up in tsunami land on Washington beaches KING5.com Seattle by LINDSAY CHAMBERLAIN June 22, 2012 at 1:44 PM A grim and personal reminder of the thousands of lives lost in last year’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan is drifting toward the West Coast &m ...

Crisis Maven

• The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
  The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
• The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
  The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
• Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
  As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
• Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
  As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
• Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
  Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• The Top 10 Energy Stories of 2012
  Happy New Year’s to readers everywhere! Last week we posted a poll listing 15 of the major energy stories of 2012. Readers voted, and the Top 10 are presented below with a short narrative describing the story. 1. Revolution in US oil and gas production continues The fracking revolution in ...
• Vote for the Top Energy Stories of 2012
  For the past several years, at year end I rank what I felt were the the major energy stories of the year. 2012 lacked a blockbuster energy story like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011, so I thought I would change things up a bit and just le ...
• Grading My Energy-Related Predictions for 2012
  In my list of Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2011, I made five predictions for 2012. Those predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline project will be approved (although ...
• An Oil Company Finds Itself On the Losing End ...
  When most people hear the term "fossil fuel subsidies" it conjures up images of governments giving their hard-earned tax dollars to already highly profitable oil companies. But a Brazilian subsidy is causing Petrobras to import gasoline and sell at 8% below cost.
• Hofmeister: US Could Tap into 1.6 Trillion Bar ...
  The surge in shale oil production shows that new technologies can convert formerly uneconomical oil resources into oil reserves, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that this could also be the case with kerogen.

Discovery Educator Network

• Little Alchemy
  Tags: alchemy, interactive, scienceby: Dean Mantz
• The Long-Term Effects Of Skipping Your Homewor ...
  Tags: reading, long-term, effects, skipping, homeworkby: John Evans
• Please Share,Tweet,Comment:Competition finalis ...
  Comments:Share and comment also my last blog post : Top 10 social media educational apps to unleash you ipad power http://bitly.com/Top10iPadCurationedapps - LUCIAN DUMATags: education, technology, web2.0, learning, tools, social, media, curationby: LUCIAN DUMA
• Why Aren’t We Talking More About iTunes U? - i ...
  Comments:"With so many schools adopting the use of iPads I find it strange that we aren’t hearing more about the incredible opportunities available in iTunes U. Well I suppose it isn’t that strange given that schools in the early stages of transitioning to an iPad platform are extremely busy an ...
• Emancipation Proclamation: Pictures, Videos, B ...
  Tags: emancipation, proclamation, pictures, videosby: Jackie Gerstein

Rodale News

• 4 Natural Remedies for Cold Sores
  Nothing can make you feel more untouchable than a cold sore. The herpes simplex type 1 virus, which affects just over half the U.S. population, can flare up at the most inopportune time in the most inopportune place—your face—practically screaming "I'M SICK!" The good news? Researcher ...
• The Best-Selling Foods of 2012
  Gluten-free? Low-fat? Sugar-free? Those claims don't hold a candle to "no GMOs," according to the Non-GMO Project, an independent organization that certifies conventional and organic foods as being free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), or crops that have been genetically alte ...
• The New Place to Find Cruelty-Free Eggs
  Buying eggs from a local farmer, or even a neighbor with a backyard flock, is the best way to get healthy, pastured, cruelty-free eggs. And what better way to know your eggs than meeting the actual chickens that laid them? The next best place to shop for them: Safeway grocery stores. The nation ...
• The Surprising Side Effect of a Winter Hike
  Go hiking, then come home and write the Great American Novel? Spending two days hiking in the Tetons might not turn you into William Faulkner, but research published in PLoS One suggests that a few days in a national park may make you more creative in other ways. The study followed 56 hikers o ...
• The Nickel Pincher: Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls
  Nothing says "special" quite like a basket of piping hot, fresh-from-the-oven…rolls that came from a can? Huh? Sure, canned breads might make dinner easier, since all you have to do is pop, separate, and bake. But homemade dinner rolls taste much better and can be made without all the ...

big think

• When Happiness is Immoral
  We’re told to have a positive attitude; that love conquers all; that anger is unhelpful and hate unneeded. Evangelists of optimism would drown us in their toothy smiles and keep us as drones on the front line of the happiness assault. This, however, is wrong. To take this approach is not ...
• Are all calories created equal?
  It's that time of year again.  My gym is chock full of New Year's resolutioners--hogging treadmills and filling up space in already tight Zumba classes, desperate to lose a few pounds in 2013.   We know that most of these people won't keep to their weight loss resolutions.  In a few week ...
• The Great Sugar Conspiracy
  Consider this scenario. Due to protectionist trade policies, you pay 41 percent more for sugar than the rest of the world, and yet you tend to consume it not as the kind of natural sugar that is found in breast milk, but in the form of processed sugars such as high-fructose corn syrup. You make ...
• Defending History as Higher Education
  I'm taking a break from talking about conservative diversity to think  more about justifying the content of liberal education these days. So here’s an account of chairs of departments of history attempting to justify why students should study and colleges and universities should fund the ...
• Why You'll Always Think Your Big Changes Are B ...
  Think about your favorite singer or band. What would you pay me today for a ticket to one of their concerts ten years from now? OK, now think about a different group—the one that was your favorite ten years ago. (If your answer to both questions is the same act, just take your Dylan bootlegs and ...

Information Liberation

• The Salmon Trap: An Analogy for People's Entra ...
  A salmon trap (also known as a pound net) is a setup for catching salmon as they return to their spawning places in the gravel beds of shallow inland streams. Such traps were used in Washington and Oregon until they were outlawed*by Oregon in 1926 an...
• The New Year's First Heist
  The high priests of the civic religion are very worried that people no longer seem to trust government. The law stands discredited. Once-hallowed institutions are under fire and losing status. People are openly loathing public officials. Movies, tele...
• Government Violence: The Missing Link in the G ...
  It didn*t take long for the tragedy of the Newtown, Connecticut shootings, which left 20 schoolchildren and six adults dead, to be co-opted by politicians and special interest groups alike, all eager to advance their ideas about how to prevent an...
• Maryland School Suspends 6-Year-Old for Making ...
  A 6-year-old elementary school student has been suspended for forming a gun with his hands, pointing it at a student and saying 'pow'. Administrators called the action a 'serious incident'....
• Russia: Land of Opportunity?
  Over several decades of employment, French actor Gerard Depardieu has paid more than one hundred million dollars in taxes. Several weeks ago, facing tax rates that would have cost him 75 percent of all earnings in excess of one million euros, Depardi...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Early Exit For 2012
  If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
• Early Exit For 2012
  If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
• The Liberals Have Taken Over California
  An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...
• The Liberals Have Taken Over California
  An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...
• A Necessity Disguised As A Virtue
  Events in Australia have overtaken my plans for two upcoming LibertyGibbert articles, one on Liberty and children, and the other on the Catholic Church. Yet the Gillard government’s announcement on Monday of a Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse … Continue reading ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 “ ...

RFF Library

• Joint Analysis of Stressors and Ecosystem Serv ...
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Jan. 1, 2013, v110 n1 p372-377) / by J. David Allan, et al. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/1/372.full.pdf+html [Abstract] With increasing pressure placed on natural systems by growing human populations, both scientists and resource managers need ...
• Improving Our Understanding of How Highway Con ...
  Transportation Research Board http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/168141.aspx TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C04 has released a prepublication, non-edited draft version of a report titled Improving our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Price Affect ...
• Provisional Assessment of Recent Studies on He ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/isa/recordisplay.cfm?deid=247132 EPA is announcing the availability of the final report, Provisional Assessment of Recent Studies on Health Effects of Particulate Matter Exposure. This report presents the findings of ...
• Valuation of Human Health: An Integrated Model ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment / by Shelby Gerking, Mark Dickie, Marcella Veronesi http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2012-07 [Abstract] This paper develops and applies an integrated model of human mortality and morbidity valuation that is consistent with princ ...
• The True Costs of Automobility : External Cost ...
  Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) for the Greens/European Free Allianace (EFA) in the European Parliament http://www.greens-efa.eu/fileadmin/dam/Documents/Studies/Costs_of_cars/The_true_costs_of_cars_EN.pdf [Green Car Congress] A recent study from Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dre ...

Scientific American - News

• Flesh-Eating Flies Map Forest Biodiversity
  The blowflies and flesh flies that settle on dead animals aren't just feasting on the carrion -- they're sampling their DNA. Scientists in Germany have now shown that this DNA persists for long enough to be sequenced, providing a quick and cost-effective snapshot of mammal diversity in o ...
• Quantum Gas Goes below Absolute Zero
  From Nature magazine [More]
• Meteorite Carries Ancient Water from Mars
  From Nature magazine [More]
• Safety Survey Reveals Lab Risks
  Scientists may have a false sense of security about the safety of their laboratories, according to early results from the first international survey of researchers’ workplace attitudes and practices. [More]
• U.S. Fiscal Deal Leaves Science Vulnerable
  Law-makers in Washington DC greeted the new year with a frantic deal meant to avert a fiscal crisis. But the bill that passed the Senate and the House in pre-dawn votes on 1 and 2 January keeps researchers on tenterhooks for at least another two months by delaying mandatory spending cuts that co ...

First Truths

• The Anarchist Lineage
   Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
• "Crisis of the State"
  From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
• "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
  Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
• "Integrated Geographies"
  From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
• Colbert on Atheists
  I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

• West Coast Idle No More - No Borders Here
  COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Hundreds of Idle No More participants joined forces at the Peace Arch Canada/US "border crossing" today. The three-hour sing, drum and dance was timed to coincide with "border" rallies by Idle No More across the continent. Oganizers stressed that the ...
• Inviting Ceremony into Revolution - #IdleNoMore
  The importance of making space for the spiritual in a revolutionary agenda K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – While the possibility exists for the Idle No More movement to overturn bil ...
• "You Now Have a Duty" - Idle No More at Broadw ...
  The Idle No More round dance on January 3rd 2013 started out with a rousing call for settlers to do join with indigenous people in the duty to protect the land and water w ...
• Idle No More: Saskatoon Flash Demo
  Roughly 500 people took part in an Idle No More flash demonstration in Saskatoon this evening. The rally included drumming and dancing in both ends of The Centre mall in east Saskatoon.  While most of the people were Aboriginal, a sig ...
• Idle No More in Egypt
  Patricia Stein, a Lakota from North Dakota, on hunger strike in solidarity with Chief Theresa Spence, and participating in #IdleNoMore from Cairo Patricia Stein @PygmySioux is a Lakota from North Dakota who is living in Cairo, Egypt. On Dec ...

David Seaton's News Links

• New Year's Re(v)olutions
  POTUS sits in Rosa Park's seat"It would be a good idea"Mahatma Gandhi, when asked his opinion of western civilization.Putting content into fine words would be the greatest of revolutions, now and always. Cynics today might be forgiven for thinking that the words of Jesus are often only used ...
• The "cliff"
  David Seaton's News Links This is the perfect occasion to resurrect one of my favorite rants, that political paralysis in America is not a byproduct of ideological struggle but the principal objective of the billionaire front, that in the interest of economy I call, the "Tea-Fox-Koch-Murdoch-Bec ...
• The Spanish Economic Crisis Explained
  David Seaton's News LinksIn case you are interested, this hour long documentary from the BBC gives a very workmanlike breakdown of how it all happened. Spain is the canary in the coal mine for the world's top economies, because of its large size and its fragility. The story carries lessons for e ...
• The Sandy Hook school massacre
  David Seaton's News Links I have little to add to everything written about this horrible massacre. I find myself especially moved by the heroism of the school teachers that died trying to protect the children in their care. There should be a statue of them in Washington and a wreath laid at its ...
• Global Civics: The ideas the Tea Party fears m ...
  David Seaton's News Links In my last post I wrote how the fear of a new wave of reform propelled by the problems and abuses arising from globalization.Global Civics is the idea-force that would make reform possible if it spread, not only possible, but inevitable. Any collective global action w ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Lead and Crime: I'll Be On the Melissa Harris- ...
  By the time you see this I should be on a plane to New York, where I'll be on the Melissa Harris-Perry show tomorrow on MSNBC talking about lead and crime. (Plus a few other topics.) One of the other guests on the lead panel will be Howard Mielke of Tulane University, who's been doing lead res ...
• Republicans Vote to Increase Cost of Medicare
  Conservative Republicans talk endlessly about reining in the cost of entitlement programs like Medicare, but when it comes to specifics they suddenly become camera shy. Now, though, it's gotten even worse. Not only are they unwilling to propose actual, concrete cost-cutting measures for Medica ...
• Quote of the Day: We Are Doomed to Financial B ...
  John Quiggin writes that he believes the study of macroeconomics went off the rails in 1958, when the Phillips curve was invented. He's not even very impressed with the success of the Taylor-rule style interest rate targeting that gave us the Great Moderation between the late 80s and 2008: ...
• Lead and Crime: A Correction
  Deborah Blum comments on my story about the link between lead and crime: In this latest story, [Drum] goes much farther in embracing lead as the primary cause of violent crime, so much farther that that it's worth asking whether leaded gasoline, as he asserts, does explain as much as 90 pe ...
• Friday Cat Blogging - 4 January 2013
  It's 2013, and that means the start of our cats and quilts series. But I think this is going to be harder than I thought. It's no problem to toss out a quilt and wait for Domino to curl up on it, but the problem is that this is pretty much all she does. So that means a lot of pictures of a sno ...

Insanity Report

• IC 371: The NWFO Bible
  Topic: Stupid Reality Shows #AvengersInitiative on Django How to deal with people who ignore the #AvengersInitiative The Bible is a terrible book Michael Bay Bible Translations The NWFO casts for The Bible movie Best Directors How good of a director is Ben Affleck? Overrated directors Share with ...
• IC 370: Conscious Rapper Syndrome
  Topic: Kriss’ new tablet Teaching your kids about computers & technology early Kriss spills the secret about working in the computer field Django was awesome Black “Intellectuals” vs Tarantino Spike Lee & the “Conscious Rapper Syndrome” Kriss explains what ...
• IC 369: Bulletproof Bookbags
  Topic: Kev’s job sucks Treating public servants horribly We are the problem No one really cares about mental health Twitter etiquette More guns won’t make you safer Gun control might be necessary but make a better argument Share with your friends:
• IC 368: Disasterbation in the Face of Tragedy
  Topic: White people saying the N-word Thirst traps on Twitter Batman is an Impossible White Man Disasterbation & the Connecticut shooting Teasing a few Impossible White Man criteria Share with your friends:
• IC 367: Losing Builds Character
  Topic: #InsanityCheck Kriss doesn’t care about starving kids in Africa The Internet is the home of the asshole Civilizing the Internet “Plot Holes” in the Dark Knight Rises Awesome week in trailers Losing a basketball game 107-2 Losing builds character Cuddling with no sex/Send ...

Simple Climate

• Climate limits room at the global dinner table
  With farming producing up to one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, and more people wanting more meat, agricultural research faces big challenges to avoid us having to make more difficult choices about what we eat.
• Warming brings home the value of a meal
  Research into how climate change affects agriculture, and therefore the food we eat, shows the challenges farmers face and the knock-on costs to the rest of us.
• 2012’s record events put climate in mind
  Wet summers and droughts, deadly storms, Arctic melting and Antarctic freezing. How do climate records in 2012 fit in with the broader picture of climate change?
• Can we trust climate models?
  I’ve asked scientists I’ve spoken to for blog entries and articles published this year why we use models, how we know they’re accurate, and how to understand their projections.
• CO2 casts off shackles to power up Atlantic hu ...
  Reductions in particulate pollution and increases in greenhouse gases are going to cooperate to give us more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic, finds NOAA’s Gabriel Vecchi

e!Science News

• Research update: Jumping droplets help heat tr ...
  Many industrial plants depend on water vapor condensing on metal plates: In power plants, the resulting water is then returned to a boiler to be vaporized again; in desalination plants, it yields a supply of clean water. The efficiency of such plants depends crucially on how easily droplets of w ...
• Waterfall-climbing fish use same mechanism to ...
  Going against the flow is always a challenge, but some waterfall-climbing fish have adapted to their extreme lifestyle by using the same set of muscles for both climbing and eating, according to research published January 4 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Richard Blob and colleagues from ...
• Photosynthesis: The last link in the chain
  For almost 30 years, researchers have sought to identify a particular enzyme that is involved in regulating electron transport during photosynthesis. A team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich has now found the missing link, which turns out to be an old acquaintance. read more
• A new way to study permafrost soil, above and ...
  What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It's part of a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world's soils and about twice as much ...
• Researchers seek longer battery life for elect ...
  Norfolk Southern Railway No. 999 is the first all-electric, battery-powered locomotive in the United States. But when one of the thousand lead-acid batteries that power it dies, the locomotive shuts down. To combat this problem, a team of Penn State researchers is developing more cost-effective ...

unEarthed

• Shell's Drill Rigs Requiring Extra Federal Att ...
  It’s time for Obama to halt dangerous, dirty, and misguided operations in the Arctic Ocean The conical drilling unit Kulluk sits aground 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, AK, on the shore ...
• Unplugged: No More Game of Hide-and-Seek for C ...
  Online shoppers should more easily find energy efficiency information If you are one of the millions of American consumers who shop or browse online for major ap ...
• Friday Finds: Facebook’s Climate Change Status
  Plus: Oregano immunity, recycling for couples, NorCal coastal protections Photo courtesy of Scott Beale (flickr) Climate change could flood Facebook, Google b ...
• The Poverty of Mountaintop Removal Mining
  Why this destructive practice is holding Appalachia back Satellite imagery of the massive Hobet mine. September 20, 2012. (NASA's Earth Observatory) Last mont ...
• Landmark Mercury Decision is Jackson’s Legacy
  But EPA must not leave the job half done During her four-year tenure as administrator of the EPA, Lisa Jackson was a true champion for public health and environmental justice. One of her greatest legacies is the Mercury and Air T ...

Brave New Climate

• Next Nukes – how U.S.-European cooperati ...
  As the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies, especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation nuclear. W ...
• 2012 BNC stats in review
  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. (Note: about mid-way through the year, the site closed WP comments and moved them to the BNC Forums – this led to a redirection of many pageviews to the new site). Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tour ...
• Energy White Paper is hazy on future vision fo ...
  The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a “clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of decarbonising o ...
• CSIRO Energy Future 2050 tool
  CSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...
• Objective analysis of nuclear and wind-solar o ...
  I’ve never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of my pocket and give my time freely, because I think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. But now, I’d like to ask you to give a little, t ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Worried About The Deficit?
  Maybe we could have some of the Americans that have 8 trillion dollars sitting in the tax havens pay some taxes? You know, the folks that are hoarding all the money their “investments” squeezed out of your family. Remember, for every dollar Mitt Romney pays in taxes, I pay $4, if you ...
• Poor? Sick? Have Republican Governor? You&#821 ...
  I just don’t understand why the millions of uninsured Americans who can’t afford to see a doctor don’t demand care. They could surround every capitol building in every state with a Republican Terrorist Governor and demand health care. Millions upon millions of Americans are one ...
• Are You Really A Republican? A Conservative?
  To be a Republican / Conservative these days, you must agree that the following is just fine: A small business owner who makes a fair living will pay taxes at a rate over 4 times as high as wealthy Americans. These small business owners pay both sides of wage withholding taxes soon to equal 15.3 ...
• Time To Leave Republicans
  This is a great time to tell all of your friends you have left the Republican Party. I mean who would want to be a Republican these days. The facts are simple. Today’s Republican Party stands for nothing but greed, and evil. They don’t respect women, hate minorities, and seem to only ...
• Today We Honor All Veterans
  No trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.

Appalachia Rising

• Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
  Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
• Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
  PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
• Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
  All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
• Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
  On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
• Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
  West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

• ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
  Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

+972

• Media misconceptions: A black and white conflict?
  In the second post of my three-part series about media and publishing, I examine some misconceptions about the Israeli-Palestinian ‘conflict.’ When my agent and I shopped my book about Israel’s migrant workers and African refugees around, we got a lot of those “We love it but it’s no ...
• Vote for Arab-Jewish parties, or don’t v ...
  Just as an American wouldn’t imagine voting for a party that does not accept blacks, progressive Israelis should only consider voting for parties that challenge the separation between Palestinian and Jews. This is a translation, with minor changes, of my weekly column for Time Out Tel Aviv ...
• Israel’s major parties support a non-dem ...
  No matter what their beliefs about Palestinians’ aims and desires, the policy of Israel’s leaders does not accord with their stated support for a two-state solution or for a democratic and Jewish state. Following up on my post regarding the two-state solution (and some of the comments to that po ...
• Abbas’ Fatah holds anniversary rally in ...
  Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement turned out for an anniversary rally in the Gaza Strip. It is the first such celebration that Hamas officials in Gaza have allowed since the two factions split nearly six years ago.   It was a sea of yellow ...
• Despite dissatisfaction, U.S. Jews won’t be ab ...
  It is true that many in the U.S. Jewish community are not happy with current Israeli policies. But in the face of countervailing trends, it is not clear this will change the community’s overall levels of attachment and support. By Brent E. Sasley In a recent op-ed in Haaretz, Bradley Burston arg ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Working together to learn more about Southern ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced a new international collaboration to share information on the rare Antarctic blue and killer whales.
• Australian Government condemns Japan's decisio ...
  The Australian Government is aware of reports that the Japanese whaling fleet has left Japan for the Southern Ocean.
• Funding to help plan for the impacts of climat ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today launched Stream 1 of the Regional Natural Resource Management Planning for Climate Change Fund, an important component of the Government's Clean Energy Future Plan.
• Ella Bay Integrated Resort Development approved
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has approved the Ella Bay Integrated Resort Development in far north Queensland.
• Connect with the World Indigenous Network
  Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today launched a website to connect Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities land and sea managers across the globe, creating a virtual meeting place to share traditional knowledge and experiences.

Matt Weidner Blog

• The TERRIFYING Corporate Fascist State- The FB ...
  It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police...
• Just How Corrupt Is The Federal Reserve? (Read ...
  I actually thought there was hope when the OCC took the decision about financial harm to the borrower away from the banks and lenders and gave it to Promontory. It was called the H test. But that was short lived when we were told the banks and lenders were being allowed to form review teams to ...
• BREAKING NEWS! ROLLING STONE: The US Governmen ...
  The terrifying reality of America is just how corrupt this nation has become.  They are reaching into every one of our pockets and stealing our children’s piggy banks to fund an evil conspiracy. The vast majority of Amerikans have no ability to comprehend the magnitude of the lies and theR ...
• The Head of FBI Goes to Work For Bank of Ameri ...
  You’ve heard about the Federal Bureau of Investigations working with the banks to infiltrate and target the Occupy political movement….haven’t you?  You really must read the link there to see just how scary this plot was/is.  Treating a political organization in the same manner ...
• WAR IS DECLARED ON FLORIDA CONSUMERS AND FOREC ...
  Once again, Representative Kathleen Passidomo has filed legislation that would gut important consumer rights and which undermines our state’s judicial system. GET READY TO FIGHT! GET READY TO BATTLE!  THE BANKSTERS ARE STRONG…THEY’RE UNDOUBTEDLY MAKING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AL ...

abelard - news

• updated and expanded: other cathedral destruct ...
  Better details and illustrations of cathedrals battered, or even destroyed, during the French Revolution.
• staying alive sung by darlene edwards, and oth ...
  What happens when American singers fool about musically.
• basic income guarantee | politics uk news at a ...
  The German government is coming closer to the universal income suggestion made by abelard almost ten years ago.
• 38,000 preview the new bridge at bordeaux | ar ...
  A special treat for the Bordelais and their neighbours, walking on a high-tech bridge across the Garonne River at Bordeaux.
• interview with a socialist voter | behaviour a ...
  Listen to the interviewer, like us: sympathetic, then incredulous, then outraged. Listen to the interviewee: sure, confident, 'innocent', and oh so hard done by.

The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
  Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
• Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
  Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
• Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
  Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
• What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
  In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
• Want to know about teens and social media from ...
  If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

• U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
  Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
• منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
  للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
• Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
• Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
  by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
• A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
  By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...

Center for a Livable Future

• The CLF Week in Links: New Year, New Energy
  Here are a few of the news items that are getting the most attention at the Center for a Livable Future.
• Cooking Climate-Friendly without a World-Class ...
  If it takes a professional chef to cook climate-friendly, we’re all doomed.
• Can’t Stand the Heat? Get Into the Kitchen
  Agriculture and the food system play a huge role in climate change – they’re far more important than most of us recognize. Because of that, choosing what to put on my table and on my own plate is a powerful act.
• Opa! Food For Thought Symposia at The Black Ol ...
  Black Olive owner Stelios Spiliadis and his family have been introducing Baltimore not only to their Greek culture, but also to their passion for health and wellness. Their hopes of inspiring real change through the power of good food have been spreading like wildfire.
• FDA Should Share Data about Livestock on Drugs
  It’s my hope that GAP’s lawsuit against FDA will finally compel the agency to break ties with drug companies and release the information that the public health community needs to monitor the use—and misuse—of antibiotics and other drugs in food animal production.

k2p blog

• A week of new cold records in Delhi – mu ...
  The minimum temperature in Delhi has been recorded at 1.9 degrees Celsius, which is five degrees below normal. This is the lowest minimum for January in the past five years. On Wednesday, the city witnessed the coldest day in 44 years.
• Indian politicians expose themselves in the wa ...
  The quality of the political leadership in India leaves much to be desired. What is clear is the medieval and feudal fantasy they live in. Women politicians included. Rape and murder and torture are all perfectly acceptable if inflicted on victims of the appropriate class or caste or sex or reli ...
• “White Pimpernel” cat arrested for ...
  A cat carrying a saw and a mobile phone was "detained" as it entered a prison gate in northeast Brazil, Brazilian media reported on Saturday.
• Noted in passing 5th January 2013
  A stunning gallery of wildlife pictures from Greenland. and other links Noted in Passing 5th January 2013.
• Over 1000 ships trapped by ice in China
  Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice.

Left Foot Forward

• Comment: The world in 2013
  Left Foot Forward's Carl Packman predicts the big worldwide developments of the year ahead.
• Idle No More – Canada’s indigenous citiz ...
  Claudia Tomlinson writes for Left Foot Forward on the relatively unknown, but no less unjust, treatment of indigenous peoples in Canada.
• Flag protesters have Scotland in their sights ...
  After sustained protests about the flying of the Union flag over Belfast City Hall, they are now threatening to spill over into Scotland.
• US Politics Digest: Boehner squeezes home as S ...
  The latest US politics news - including House Speaker John Boehner's stiff re-election vote, the GOP debt ceiling challenge plot post-fiscal cliff, and more.
• The labour market in 2013 – what’s ...
  Richard Exell looks at what the labour market has in store for 2013.

Consumerist

• Staffers & Experts Explain Why Walmart Can&#82 ...
  Yesterday we told you about the Walmart customer who didn’t understand why his local Walmart refused to change the oil in his 2012 Fiat 500. He was simply told it was because the car wasn’t in “the book.” We asked if anyone could shine some light on this issue — and ...
• China Smacks Samsung & LG With $35 Million Fin ...
  Price-fixin — it isn’t just for book publishers anymore (not that it ever really was unique to that industry, but you get the point): China fined Samsung and LG Displays a total of $35 million charging that the companies fixed the prices of LCD panels that were then sold to TV manufacturer ...
• Couple Says AllState Low-Balled Them On Sandy ...
  A Staten Island couple is already having more than a rough go of it after their house was devastated during Hurricane Sandy. But as they’re trying to pick up the pieces, they say their insurance company, AllState, is not only low-balling their claim, but had the nerve to use their home in ...
• Hurry Up And Get These Best Buy Year-End Deals ...
  If you’re tired of looking for bargains and want to spend the full retail price on electronics, we have found a great sale for you! In spite of the fact that 2012 ended on Monday night, Best Buy’s website is still promoting Year-End Deals on the homepage. Consumerist reader Jerry not ...
• Such A Thing As A Pot Vending Machine Exists, ...
  Now that Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana for recreational use, businesses are clamoring to get a piece of the action, and coming up with some entertaining ways to do it. For example, a pot vending machine already exists for medical use, so why not introduce the same kind of devi ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• SEC Publishes Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Report: ...
  CNBC: Guess Which State Has a Really Surprising Number of Whistleblowers The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a report on the first full year of the Dodd-Frank whistleblower law, which created financial incentives and legal protection for whistleblowers who expose fraud, ...
• John Cusack Leads Talk on WikiLeaks and Whistl ...
  Image by David SifryHuffington Post: John Cusack – What is an Assange? Actor John Cusack, now on the board of the newly launched Freedom of the Press Foundation, moderates a discussion about WikiLeaks' impact on transparency and the comparison of Julian Assange to Pentagon Papers whistleblowe ...
• John Cusack Leads Talk on WikiLeaks and Whistl ...
  Image by David SifryHuffington Post: John Cusack – What is an Assange? Actor John Cusack, now on the board of the newly launched Freedom of the Press Foundation, moderates a discussion about WikiLeaks' impact on transparency and the comparison of Julian Assange to Pentagon Papers whistleblowe ...
• Dismay Over Renewal of Government Surveillance ...
  The Guardian: Activists Voice Dismay as Senate Renews Government Surveillance Measure On Friday, the US Senate voted in favor of extending the FISA Amendments Act, which authorizes the government's warrantless surveillance program. Civil rights campaigners voiced dismay over the vote, as wel ...
• Dismay Over Renewal of Government Surveillance ...
  The Guardian: Activists Voice Dismay as Senate Renews Government Surveillance Measure On Friday, the US Senate voted in favor of extending the FISA Amendments Act, which authorizes the government's warrantless surveillance program. Civil rights campaigners voiced dismay over the vote, as wel ...

UK Progressive

• The Assault Weapons Ban is a Red Herring
  by Tina Dupuy The philosophy behind the quackery known as homeopathic medicine is that “like cures like.” As in: have a burn, apply a hot compress. This widely-panned pseudoscience (oh man, am I going to get letters) in its 300 years of existence has a history of being debunked, going away and t ...
• Watchdogs to IRS: Reject Rove Group’s Tax Appl ...
  by Justin Elliott ProPublica Two watchdog groups are calling on the IRS to reject Crossroads GPS’ request to be recognized as a social welfare nonprofit. Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center, nonpartisan outfits that favor tighter campaign finance regulations, wrote a letter to the tax age ...
• Chinese Capitalism & The Climate
  by Robert Hunziker China’s three-decade-old conversion to state capitalism has radically transformed the country. As a result, more than one-half of China’s population now lives in an urban setting versus 26% in 1990, and China has 19 mega cities each with over 10 million population. This vast u ...
• LGBT Victories: “Breathtaking Leap Forward”
  by Carl Matthes The fight for equality by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Americans has been bolstered by astonishing victories in America’s 2012 elections. “This wasn’t incremental progress. This was a breathtaking leap forward,” said Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Gay & Les ...
• Al Gore and Al-Jazeera
  by Brent Budowsky On the matters of quality television, Al Gore and Current TV, I think of the great movie line from Marlon Brando: “I could have been a contender.” Gore could have been. In the end, he was not. We now learn that Gore and Co. sold Current TV to Al-Jazeera. Gore with Current ...

NewsAlert

• (Ad) Learn What the Socialists Aren't Teaching ...
  Liberty Classroom teaches you what the socialists don't want you to know. After all, most public school teachers want socialism (their salaries come from your tax dollars). Click on the link and get a real education that you missed for dirt cheap. Paul Krugman despises some of the material here. ...
• Al Gore Is Good at Rent-Seeking (and Microsoft ...
  The Wall Street Journal
• White House Looks to Big Business To Sell New ...
  The Washington Post reports:To sell such changes, the White House is developing strategies to work around the National Rifle Association that one source said could include rallying support from Wal-Mart and other gun retailers for measures that would benefit their businesses. The Obama regime: h ...
• World-Wide Birthrate Decline
  The Weekly Standard
• In a Bastion of Limited Government, Renewing a ...
  The New York Times

JoNova

• Weekend Unthreaded
  … Rating: 7.8/10 (8 votes cast) Rating: 7.8/10 (8 votes cast)
• Al Gore gives Big-Oil-Government a TV Channel ...
  Imagine the hyperventilating headlines: Global warming denier sells TV channel to Arab Oil organisation, pockets $100 million in oil funds. More proof that giant corporate interests pull the strings on the public debate, and that carbon dioxide causes storms, tidal waves, asteroids, and alien at ...
• Two million years of climate change made us wh ...
  Bradshaw Art, Kimberley, Australia. This distinctive style of painting disappeared 7,000 years ago.  |  Photo TimJN1 Two million years of climate change has made us human — in a ying meets yang contradiction, while climate change destroyed cultures and groups,  without it, we would no ...
• Unthreaded
  Jan 2 or 3 (depending on where you are). Rating: 5.5/10 (2 votes cast) Rating: 5.5/10 (2 votes cast)
• Welcome to a Kyoto-free-world: Best use was to ...
  Goodbye to the Kyoto protocol. How well did those ambitious plans work out?  The government solution that aimed to reduce CO2 emissions by 5% achieved a 58% increase instead. Welcome to Case-Study #224 in Government failure. Kyoto climate change treaty sputters to a sorry end “The controve ...

ReNew America

• Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
• From preserving liberty to destroying it
  (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
• Building the free-market case against big business
  (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
• New hope for life worldwide
  (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
• Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
  (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

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2012 Blog

• Shipping Containers As Faraday Cages?
  There’s a massive dilemma for preppers who wish to prepare for an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) from enemies or nature: Buy a Faraday Cage – very expensive, because none are made for the consumer market Build a Faraday Cage – and never know if you got it right until crunch time ...
• Planet Earth Waking Up?
  Considering all the attention paid to Dec 21, 2012, it is almost ironic the lack of natural disasters. There hasn’t been a major earthquake in many weeks, and looks like the solar cycle has had an early and very weak peak. Or, is now the time to start fearing the worst? Tsunami warning af ...
• Peter Gersten Didn’t Jump on Dec 21
  Of course we are grateful that the fateful Dec 21, 2012 day wasn’t (as far as I can tell) marked by a single pointless death. The downside is that Peter Gersten has good cause for being embarrassed. Back in 2011 I reported on his crazy plans for a Sedona death leap: Most of you will think ...
• Patrick Geryl Stayed at Home
  Patrick Geryl became quite famous in his home country (Belgium), had a best selling book in Poland and frequently appeared in the media worldwide telling people that, according to his calculations, doomsday would certainly occur on Dec 21, 2012. I placed a pair of his articles on this website be ...
• Playboy in South Africa Features 2012 Forum Me ...
  This is the very same article that appeared in USA editions of Playboy a few years ago, but because it was just before the doom date we got the cover: I figure this is the first and only time an article that quotes me has a naked woman promoting it. You can read about me and three other 2012 Fo ...

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

One News Page

• Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
  It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
  N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
  According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
• Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
  The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
• Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
  Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

• 9/11 Revisited: The Unjustifiable Launch of En ...
• 9/11 Revisited: History, Consequences and Medi ...
• 9/11 Revisited: War, Justice and the Search fo ...
• Drone Warrior: Outrage Over Children Killed in ...
• Focus on Iran: History, Geopolitics and Media Bias

Daily Tech

• Immune Cells Reprogrammed to Fight Cancer, Inf ...
  Tests showed that the new T-cells had unlimited lifespans and longer telomeres, which are caps on the ends of their chromosomes that protect them from aging
• 1/4/2013 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
• Alta Develops Solar Charger for Soliders, Cuts ...
  New solar mats will also soon be targeted at the consumer market
• MSI Announces Windows 8-Powered Slider S20 Ult ...
  The Slider S20 will make its way to consumers in Q1 2013 for $1,199.99 USD
• HTC CEO Tells Investors That the Worst is "Pro ...
  Company promises to try to be more innovative to keep up with Apple and Samsung

Oriental Review

• Torn Between “Good Al-Qaeda” and “Bad Al-Qaeda”
  “US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said the slimmed-down force would focus on preventing Al-Qaeda… from regaining a foothold in the war-shattered nation.” When Do We Fight Against Terrorists and When Do We Put Them On the American Payroll? The hypocritical foreign policy of Barack Obama is i ...
• Zbigniew Brzezinski As a Mirror of American De ...
  Part I Is the glory of Gorbachev proving contagious? We are halfway through the time allotted by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his landmark book «The Grand Chessboard», when he predicted that U.S. dominance in the world would remain unchallenged for a period of thirty years. Now just 15 years on and in ...
• Zbigniew Brzezinski As a Mirror of American De ...
  A thirty-year plan accomplished in fifteen years The year 2012, among other things, was marked by a publication of fundamental importance in terms of understanding the processes occurring in the world and the U.S.: the book by Zbigniew Brzezinski «Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Glob ...
• Afghanistan Under U.S. Occupation
  There is nothing new in the opinion that has long been expressed regarding the similarity of the military action waged in Afghanistan, after the Soviet army entered the country on December 25, 1979, with the war waged by the U.S. Army in Vietnam. However this opinion leads us away from the truth ...
• Syria Will Resist Even After Assad
  A Los-Angeles Times article begins with this sentence: “Now that a consensus is forming that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s days are numbered, diplomats and Middle East experts….” Aside from the psychological warfare value of mainstream Western media’s “days are numbered” mantra, this now hackn ...

BlogHer

• Downton Abbey Returns To The US For Season Thr ...
  [Editor's Note: Barely 24 hours remain before season three of Masterpiece's Downton Abbey returns to the US and I for one am cramming in an effort to finish season two and be ready to get swept up in the wave of everyone's famous cultural phenomenon. Hopefully you didn't procrastinate as badly a ...
• A Brown Rice Bowl Brimming With Fresh Veggies ...
  Editor’s note: Now that it’s a few days into the new year, I might finally be ready for healthful meals made with produce and other nutritious ingredients, like this vegetable-filled rice bowl from Alex and Sonja of A Couple Cooks. But it's not all brown rice and veggies -- an oozy fried egg on ...
• A Brown Rice Bowl Brimming With Fresh Veggies ...
  Editor’s note: Now that it’s a few days into the new year, I might finally be ready for healthful meals made with produce and other nutritious ingredients, like this vegetable-filled rice bowl from Alex and Sonja of A Couple Cooks. But it's not all brown rice and veggies -- an oozy fried egg on ...
• YouTube and Video Takedowns
  Gena from Create Video Notebook explains a bit about YouTube's Terms of Service that you might not be aware of. She explains how a number of videos were taken off the site over the holidays. Gena writes, Over the 2012 holidays hundreds of YouTube users found that their videos have been deleted, ...
• YouTube and Video Takedowns
  Gena from Create Video Notebook explains a bit about YouTube's Terms of Service that you might not be aware of. She explains how a number of videos were taken off the site over the holidays. Gena writes, Over the 2012 holidays hundreds of YouTube users found that their videos have been deleted, ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Washington Judges Set to Hear Case on Water Fl ...
  This Monday three appeals court justices in Tacoma, Washington will hear cases for and against fluoridation of the public water supply. Those in opposition to water fluoridation point out that those in support claim fluoridated water is promoted ... Related posts:Water Fluorida ...
• Vitamin B6 and B2 Reduce Colon Cancer Risk By ...
  Increased intakes of vitamin B6 and riboflavin (B2) are associated with a 20% reduction in the risk of colorectal cancer, says a new study. However, data from 88,045 post-menopausal women indicated that folate intakes during the ... Related posts:Study Links Dietary Glycemic Lo ...
• 16 Healthiest Foods Ever
  Talk about inspiration! I could plan days of menus just looking at this poster for inspiration and shopping lists! The trick to a healthy lifestyle is enjoying real food that is delicious, and moving your ... Related posts:Cancer Fighting Foods – 4 Anti-Cancer Foods Share Could ...
• Saturated Fat Tied to Sinking Sperm Counts in ...
  Saturated fats, like those found in rich cheeses and meats, may do more than weigh men down after a meal – a new study also links them to dwindling sperm counts. Researchers found that young Danish ... Related posts:Obese Brain May Thwart Weight Loss: Diets High in Satura ...
• Billions Paid Out for Surgical Errors
  Surgical “never events” — such as leaving a sponge in a patient — cost healthcare professionals a minimum of $1.3 billion in malpractice payouts from 1990 to 2010, researchers found. In an analysis of such surgical ... Related posts:Anemia Drugs Made Bil ...

Live News Wire

• Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
  Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
• Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
  The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
• Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
  Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
• “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
  At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
• Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
  The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Jan. 4, 2013
  Afghan porters put a sack of coal donated by the United Nation’s refugee agency (UNHCR), in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Around 440 Afghan returnees and the most vulnerable families who are at risk in the cold winter weather received winter relief assistance distributed by ...
• Rep. David McKinley on EPA chief’s depar ...
  When I wrote yesterday about West Virginia political leaders and their response to the departure of Obama EPA chief Lisa Jackson, I noted that Rep. Shelley Moore Capito looked pretty silly when she compared the administration’s regulatory efforts to “a punitive imperialistic hammer.& ...
• W.Va.’s coal politics: New year, but sam ...
  As we ease into the New Year, there’s always hope that we can all change and improve — that goes for West Virginia’s political and business leaders, too. It’s sometimes had to have much hope of that, though … take the silly reactions last week when Lisa P. Jackson, ...
• The Sago Mine Disaster, Jan. 2, 2006
  It was 7 years ago this morning that an explosion ripped through International Coal Group’s Sago Mine in Upshur County, W.Va. Twelve miners died and another barely got out alive. Miner Randal McCloy Jr. survived, and the miners killed were: Tom Anderson, Terry Helms, Marty Bennett, Martin Toler, ...
• Merry Christmas from Coal Tattoo

Daniel Miessler

• Sam Harris on Guns
  According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, 47 percent of all murders in the U.S. are committed with handguns. Again, only 3 percent are committed with rifles (of any type). Twice as many murderers (6 percent) use nothing but their bare hands. Thirteen percent use knives. Although a semi-automa ...
• A Guy Talking About Life
  Related Posts:A Talk on Parenting You Should SeeHow to Handle BullyingAtheists and ChristmasObama Cries as He Thanks His TeamOn Failure and Success
• Don’t Upload Your Malware Samples to Vir ...
  Without further ado, the #1 Malware Analysis Protip is STOP uploading your files to VT. Start with a hash search. If nothing was found then chances are it is custom malware targeted to just a few people; handle with care. The longer the attacker thinks their payload is not detected, the long ...
• A Talk on Parenting You Should See
  Related Posts:How to Handle BullyingAtheists and ChristmasObama Cries as He Thanks His TeamBike ParkourOn Failure and Success
• 2012 Site Stats
  2012 was a good year for the site. Related Posts:Mobile Visitor Data: November 2012Obama Gaining GroundNew Cisco Switch For the HouseOur Earth’s Timeline, Scaled to One YearOS X Easter Egg Reveals LoTR Calendar

Fitwatch

• Vauxhall Squat Raids
  These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
• New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
  Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
• Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
  Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
• Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
  Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
• Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...
  Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Everything is connected Can internet activism ...
  From .economist.com - When dozens of countries refused to sign a new global treaty on internet governance in late 2012, a wide range of activists rejoiced. They saw the treaty, crafted under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), as giving governments pernicious powers ...
• Late Stage Capitalism And The Shame Haunted Li ...
  By Phil Rockstroh- ”Memory believes before knowing remembers.” — William Faulkner In an era of corporate-state colonization of both landscape and mental real estate, when the face of one’s true oppressors is, more often than not, hidden from view, thus inflicting feelings ...
• NEXT PROP 37? NEW MEXICO LAW CALLS FOR MANDATO ...
  by Anthony Gucciardi,truththeory.com/ - Is this the next Prop 37, complete with a forthcoming wave of successful activism and education from concerned consumers? Unfortunately we know that Prop 37 failed due to not only irrefutable deceptionand lies from the Monsanto-funded ‘No on 37′ campaign, ...
• CJE Friday News Briefs
  The United States And New Zealand Secretly Tested ‘Tsunami Bombs’ Designed To Destroy Cities By Flooding Countries carried out covert tests of a device designed to use underwater explosions to trigger massive tidal waves Testing saw almost 4,000 bombs detonated in waters around New Caledonia and ...
• The Incredible Story of What Happened When Two ...
  By Joel Diaz,Huffpo - This past weekend I was a part of something incredible that happened in my community of Columbus, Ohio. After a fun night out in the Short North, my friend Ethan and I ventured down the street to a popular pizza truck called Mikey’s Late Night Slice. As a frequent lat ...

reference frame

• Czech presidential candidates: test your English
  In one week, Czechia will vote its new president who will replace Prof Klaus (who's been the Czech president for 10 years) in March in the first direct presidential election ever. The two candidates who are expected to pass to the second round, Mr Miloš Zeman and Mr Jan Fischer, were facing ...
• LHC: discovering grand unification
  ...aside from supersymmetry... Apologies if the title was too dramatic. Supersymmetry and its possible looming discovery at the LHC has been discussed many times. But let's look at a different portion of modern model building in particle physics, Grand Unification. Grand Unified Theories (G ...
• Theory of something: QM has reached limits
  Several people have asked me about the following press release that was published a few days ago and that was reprinted at various servers such as one that belongs to San Francisco Chronicle: Theory of Something Reveals Why Quantum Mechanics has Reached its Limits: Mass is Outside of Particles ...
• The world as seen by the LHC protons
  Off-topic paragraph: Today, we celebrate 370 years from the birth of Isaac Newton, arguably the brightest scientist ever. He was born on January 4th, 1643 (New System: it's December 25th, 1642, in the Old System). He was the founder of classical physics (and, in fact, physics in the modern sense ...
• Al Jazeera buys TV from Al Gore et al.
  There's been lots of interesting science news – for example, Neil Armstrong has apparently lied to us when he was saying that he invented the "one small step for man" line on the Moon. He had been thinking about it for quite some time, his brother recently told the BBC, and he was even collectin ...

Tatumba 2.0

• NHL, NHLPA meeting with mediator in marathon s ...
  U.S. federal mediator Scot Beckenbaugh convinced the NHL and NHLPA to resume face-to-face discussions on Saturday afternoon and the talks ended up continuing well into Sunday morning. In fact, they were still going strong at 3 a.m. ET — roughly 14 hours after the session began at a midtown Manha ...
• Are Multinationals Good Citizens?
  by Anthony Wile, The Daily Bell: Business Insider has published an interesting article, “Why The World’s Most Sustainable Company Publishes CO2 Emissions Next To Its Earnings.” It’s part of a sponsored “Future of Business” series, which examines how “cut ...
• What Cell Phone Companies Know That they Don’t ...
  Protection Against Cell Phone Radiation : www.emfnews.org Cell Phone Radiation Shield : www.emfnews.org In 1993, Larry King had a guest on his show named David Reynard of Tampa, FL. During the show Mr. Reynard unleashed a bombshell that ignited one of the most shocking controversies in televisio ...
• Idle No More protests target rail, bridges, ro ...
  The Idle No More protest movement continues to gain steam after Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced he would meet with a delegation of First Nations leaders, including Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, who is now on day 26 of a hunger strike. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: H ...
• Silver Forecast for 2013 and Beyond with Steve Roy
  from ema2trade: Hello everyone, this is Steve Roy, with the Equity Management Academy, where our focus is managing wealth, through education.  Today is Friday, January 4th of 2013. This is OUR forecast for Silver prices for 2013 and beyond. This analysis uses our own proprietary indicators, ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

• Cleaning Never Tasted So Good
  By Samara Geller, EWG Research Fellow Olive oil and lemon juice,...sounds like a base for a fantastic vinaigrette, right? As a former professional chef, I always keep these simple ingredients stocked to create a variety of tasty sauces, dressings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• 10 Top Environmental Health Stories of 2012
  The top environmental health stories of 2012 were all about everyday hazards that are right in our backyards. They have to do with the unintended consequences of chemical pollution that could harm the health of our families, our neighbors,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
• Chemical Industry to Parents: Avoid Lead, Tail ...
  By Alex Formuzis and Sonya Lunder, MPH This is rich. The chemical industry has produced a new "health information" website titled Kids + Chemical Safety that mentions hardly any chemicals or any of the voluminous body of peer-reviewed research... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Just How "Green" is Walgreens?
  By Sarah Swanke, EWG General Research Intern Attention Bargain Shoppers: Walgreens now sells a line of healthy home products called Ology!  These new products are advertised as free of toxic chemicals, including ammonia, chlorine bleach, di- and... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• How EWG Grades Cleaning Products in its New Gu ...
  By David Andrews Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist It's that time of year again, when students everywhere try to figure out how well they need to do on the final exam to get an A for the term. Or maybe... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ...

Quick Hits

• More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
  The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
• Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
  MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
• Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
• Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
  Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
• Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
  The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

• Kurson's 'Observer' meant to appeal to 'Staten ...
• Carrion hires daughter and Schoen, Christie an ...
• '56 Up,' the latest in Michael Apted's series, ...
• Congress passes $9 billion in Sandy aid, with ...
• A Council candidate's racist email, and a response

Views & News from Norway

• More avalanche warnings posted
  Avalanche experts were warning of more dangerous conditions in the mountains over the weekend, following the death of a 32-year-old Swedish climber who was buried by snow and ice in Hemsedal on Thursday. Fresh snow on steep mountainsides in southern Norway simply isn’t stable. “The w ...
• Rash of new regulations takes effect
  Every Norwegian government over the past decade has vowed to simplify the country’s highly regulated society, but nearly 200 new rules and changes in the law went into effect on January 1. Some are actually aimed at streamlining the regulatory framework, but a top government official admit ...
• ‘Christian schools OK, not Muslim schools’
  Norway’s conservative Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) wants to make it easier to establish private schools in the country, but not those that would appeal to Muslim students. “It must be allowed to consider the need for integration when screening applications,” Frp&#82 ...
• ‘Kon-Tiki’ makers fend off pirates
  The new Norwegian feature film Kon-Tiki, which topped lists of the most-seen films in Norwegian cinemas in 2012, came out on DVD and BluRay last month and quickly became available on The Pirate Bay and other file-sharing websites. The film’s makers are in despair, and trying to halt the pr ...
• Health authorities ignite new anti-smoking cam ...
  Nearly half-a-million Norwegians have stopped smoking since 1995, but health authorities still aren’t satisfied. They launched yet another anti-smoking campaign this week, aimed at encouraging even more Norwegians to stump out their cigarettes for good. Strict laws against smoking in publi ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• PRI’s January PDC Update – Two Places Now Avai ...
  Unforeseen circumstances for two of our booked students mean that two places have now become available on our January 7th PDC course. The booking link is open again here or you can contact Bonnie at education(at)permaculturenews.org or phone +61 (0)419 741 358 to reserve a place. This Permacult ...
• Concentric Rings of Change
  As you’ll have noticed, I’ve been using this time of year (when people are, hopefully, doing family- and/or outdoor-oriented activities, rather than sitting in front of a computer) to take a break from putting articles up on the site. I’m still keeping somewhat busy though, ...
• Success in Tough Times (France)
  by Steve Hanson 2012 is our eighth year of small scale farming in France and has seen us move from income dependence to financial security and independence. Looking back over the last eight years at our mistakes and our successes in getting to this point demonstrates the value of an integrated ...
• The Gift of the Maya
  As we approach the winter solstice and the end of one long count and the beginning of another, our understanding of the Mayan world is rapidly being transformed by new knowledge. The traditional Mayan narrative in western literature is perhaps best exemplified by the writings of Jared Diamo ...
• Local Spotlight: But Don’t We Need Economic Gr ...
  Farmers planting nitrogen fixing trees on their farms As a group challenging the growth paradigm, one of the most common questions that we hear is, ‘But don’t we need economic growth to lift the poor out of poverty?’. While growth has been successful to this end in certain ways, there are also ...

Pointman's

• Credo.
  It seems to be a human need that we all have to have some sort of belief in a higher thing. Every culture that’s ever been, had some sort of belief system. I think it’s an unavoidable side effect of our unique consciousness. The people I’ve met, who ended up believing in absolu ...
• Ladiees and Gennulmen, we have a winnah!
  It’s time to announce the winner of this year’s climate prat award and boy was the competition a doozie. Talk about a rush. It had everything; a bewildering variety of prats to choose from, agonies of indecision having to cull all the nominees down to finalists, rule changes when non ...
• Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012), an appreciation.
  The Germans have a word we don’t have in English, and it really doesn’t translate very well because of that lack – Lebenskünstler. In a typical Teutonic fashion, they jammed together two words which each nearly expressed what they were after, and created a new word, which denot ...
• Just how far are you prepared to go to feel go ...
  I believe the acid test of any political system or indeed any society, is how much compassion it has for its own people, who’re simply going through some travails or deeply in trouble. That very same test applies to such everyday organisations as a business enterprise and right down to an ...
• How tropical storm Sandy became a Frankenstorm ...
  Infowar uses propaganda, which is directed at a population to give them a worldview which accords with your own political beliefs. There are a lot of propaganda techniques; disinformation, censorship, misrepresentation, character assassination, lies, intimidation and the rewriting of history, to ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• JavaScript Console in Chrome
  For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
• Typography for the Web
  In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
• Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
  There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
• Baby Steps in Data Journalism
  This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
• The best video export options
  How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Our People Are Worth the Risks: A Southern Que ...
  Reprinted from the SONG website and from the Scholar & Feminist Online, a webjournal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women:  In the best parts of our tradition as LGBTQ people for liberation, we have resisted assimilation. We have held die-ins, we have risked our li ...
• Post-Katrina, Funders and Foundations Failed N ...
  In December of 2006, New Orleans' social justice community came together to draft a letter addressed to foundations and funders, in response to the dismal response to the continuing post-Katrina crisis. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and other disasters still to come, the issues raised ...
• Remember All the Children, Mr. President, By B ...
  Remember the 20 children who died in Newtown, Connecticut. Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli bombardments. Remember the 168 children who have been killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan since 2006. Remember the 231 children killed in Afghanistan in the first 6 ...
• Crime Against Nature Law Back in Court
  From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Fill the Court For Oral Arguments In the Case To Overturn Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature Law! Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, 10:00 a.m Federal District Court, 500 Poydras Street Judge Feldman’s Court—Room C551 Many of y ...
• "I'm The Miracle": The Story of Exoneree Derri ...
  From our friends at Resurrection After Exoneration: “I’m number 119,” proclaims the man sitting beside my desk. His smile is broad and sincere, gold teeth glistening in the artificial light of the office. “Damon Thibodeaux is number 141, you know, the one who got out of Angola a couple weeks ...

Information Underground

• Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
  FrankDialogue wrote: It's interesting: Google now routinely filters queries with the word 'Jew' in them: Last night I did a search about a specific website owner, and I prefaced my search with 'Jew website owner so & so'...I get back (especially on cell phone searches) 'Offensive search resu ...
• Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
  This Mexican Jew was involved with the Rockefeller foundation: ------- Arturo Rosenblueth Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns (October 2, 1900 – September 20, 1970) was a Mexican researcher, physician and physiologist, who is known as one of the pioneers of cybernetics. Biography Rosenblueth was bo ...
• Social Engineering • Re: Dunblane and Sandy Ho ...
  Yes, the blog cited goes way over the top blaming the Catholic Church in some overly-broad way, and tastelessly describing things with little understanding. I am glad that you rebut the untrue and slanderous elements of what is being said, as well as the sloppy logic used. I am not into bashin ...
• Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
  Norber Weiner -- typical Talmudic-Maimonides Jew creating a Jew "Golem" automaton in Gentile society. The Financial Markets today are the "Rabbi's Golem" run by idiot J-Tribers at corrupt Hedge Funds. The global financial markets are run by J-Tribe "Golem" alg ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Christopher Marlowe wrote: According to Michael K's articles above, if it is true that Lanza had suffered some kind of abuse then that could still be another straw for this kid to lose it. ZERO proof of Lanza being abused. That sort of allegation doesn't even rise to the level of "red herr ...

TVNZ

• Indian troops kill Pakistani soldier
  Indian troops have raided a Pakistani military post, killing one soldier and injuring another.
• Boy killed at holiday parade in southern Spain
  A six-year-old boy has been killed in an accident at a traditional festive parade in Malaga.
• Indian rape victim's father says he wants her ...
  The father of an Indian woman who died after a brutal gang rape says she can be an inspiration to other victims.
• Assad to make rare speech as Syrian rebels dra ...
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will deliver a rare speech today about the uprising against his rule.
• Motive unclear in latest Aurora shootings
  A gunman who barricaded himself inside a townhouse after killing three people was shot to death by police in Aurora, Colorado.

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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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

backofthebook

• Spence hunger strike victory?
  By David@Sixthestate.net As I predicted, the Harper government has seized upon the olive branch extended by the Assembly of First Nations earlier this week to hold a summit later this month as a way to extricate itself from the Theresa Spence hunger strike. Also as I predicted, Harper claims tha ...
• Chief Spence and the hypocrisy of The Globe
  By David@Sixthestate.net I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised to read this weekend that The Globe & Mail has officially joined Postmedia’s Christie Blatchford in denouncing the ongoing hunger strike in Ottawa by Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence as an act not just of protest but of ...
• Chief Spence and the Prime Minister’s pride
  By Montreal Simon I didn’t want to blog on Christmas. I just wanted to enjoy the day. But I couldn’t get these two contrasting images out of my mind. Chief Theresa Spence slowly starving to death. While Stephen Harper, with a weird look on his face, plays cribbage. And the Idle No Mo ...
• Boxing Day: Our gift to The States
  By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Boxing Day was traditionally the day servants took off to spend time with their families and received gift boxes from their employers (or so one of the explanations goes). Nowadays, Boxing Day is better known as the Day to Buy Honking Big Electronics and Other Self-Indul ...
• Idle No More: The overnight YouTube roundup
  The Idle No More movement approached critical mass yesterday, as tens of thousands of First Nations people and their supporters rallied across Canada, and as far afield as New Mexico and Ukraine. Many of the peaceful protests, featuring round dances and drumming, struck at the very heart of the ...

Daily Beast

• Where Does the GOP Go From Here?
  To cap off today's series on proposals for a stronger, better GOP, here's a quote from Rod Dreher, a writer for The American Conservative (and a must read for people who want to understand the strongest arguments put forth by theological conservatives.) Dreher:
• Some Conservative Pundits Tout Moderation Afte ...
  Kristol, Hannity urge GOP rethinking
• More Fallout at the BBC
  The BBC is investigating why a report about abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile, one of its former stars, was scuppered.
• Chris Hayes is a Type?
  The host of Up With Chris Hayes has unknowingly seduced famed singer Cher. Very impressive!
• Don't Let a Good Thing Pass Us By
  Jeffrey Leonard has a fascinating article in the Washington Monthly regarding the future of our electrical grid. He seems cautiously optimistic about natural gas as a replacement for dirtier forms of carbon such as coal and gasoline, but there's a hangup. Without major upgrades to our elect ...

Loonwatch

• Valentino’s Ghost: Why We Hate Them
  A new PBS documentary reveals how films and other media have shaped an anti-Muslim narrative.
• Wajahat Ali: Death by Brown Skin
  The Islamophobes contaminate civil society with their toxic ideological fuel.
• Beware: Human-Hating Liberals and Islamic Extr ...
  Jamie Glazov pushing same myths that inspired terrorist Anders Breivik.
• The Myth of the Murderous Muslim
  Islamophobia promotes a "racialised view of Islam" - the actions of the few represent the "intentions" of the whole.
• Belen Fernandez: Reviving the Cold War
  Iran is lurking along the southern fringes of the US, necessitating Obama to "address the growing hostile presence"

Energy News

• Co-Star of Fukushima Film: “I think my phone i ...
• Fukushima Film: Stores were looted on 3/11, ev ...
• NHK: Radiation levels increasing at Fukushima ...
• Official to Man Surviving on a Slice of Bread: ...
• A Nun’s Warning: “I just came back from Japan ...

Japan Times

• Complex tales of censorship in 20th-century Japan
  Censorship in Japan has long been hot-button topic for everyone from journalists reporting on the latest police porn crackdown to academics delving into wartime controls on artistic expression, but as Kirsten Cather notes in "The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan" — her fluently written, ...
• New Tigers outfielder Fukudome eager for new o ...
  Kosuke Fukudome was re-introduced to the media on Saturday as the Central League's Hanshin Tigers unveiled their biggest offseason signing. The 35-year-old outfielder met the media after signing a three-year deal that will pay him ¥150 million next year with additional performance-based i ...
• Japan scrambles F-15 fighter jets after Chines ...
  The Air Self-Defense Force scrambled F-15 fighter jets after a Chinese aircraft on Saturday approached the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the Defense Ministry reported. However, the Y-12 propeller plane, operated by China's State Oceanic Administration, did not intrude into Japanese ai ...
• Frederik Schodt: manga ambassador to the world
  The bad news is that right now, Japan is not really on a lot of people's radar screens. It is for a lot of anime and manga fans, but I have to say that the Japanese presence, in the U.S., where I live, just doesn't cast as much of a shadow as it used to. China has really taken up a lot of people ...
• Frederik Schodt: manga ambassador to the world
  Did you have any favorites? I started reading works by Osamu Tezuka, Leiji Matsmoto and Fujio Akatsuka. I loved Akatsuka's gag comic strips, like "Tensai Bakabon (Genius Bakabon)." I was just a huge fan.

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• Maclean’s Interactive: Map charts the sp ...
  Show and Tell: Visual blogger Amanda Shendruk maps the events behind the headlines
• The truth about superbugs and antibiotics
  There's good news (the problem is fixable) and bad (a dry drug pipeline)
• Maybe software patents can be fixed
  The United States Patent and Trademark Office extends an olive branch to the tech community
• How obnoxious is too obnoxious for a TV character?
  Big Bang Theory's Sheldon means no harm, but he's still a jerk
• Must reads on the first weekend of 2013
  Our latest book reviews, from modern art to Louisa May Alcott's mom, plus the week's bestsellers

Making It Count - CCPA

• Best Books of 2012
  Here are, in no particular order, my picks for the four best books of 2012 from a progressive economics perspective. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin. The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. (Verso). I suspect this book will become a classic. It is a rich and highly ...
• Why the Income Inequality Deniers Are Wrong
  This article was published in an abridged form today in the National Post. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/21/armine-yalnizyan-sorry-andrew-coyne-but-income-inequality-is-a-real-problem/   I like this opening better so I posted it here. You couldn’t have made it through 2012 wi ...
• Marc’s Letter from 2040
  The following comes from a short talk on a vision for a zero-carbon BC that I gave at a couple events this Fall. Many have asked for the text so I’ve posted it here, and we may try and turn it into a video. That said, I have been reluctant to do so up to [...] No related posts.
• Harper’s prisons: Québec’s point of view
  On this past 5 December, we learnt on the front page of the daily Devoir that college-level instruction provided to inmates was now in jeopardy because of the federal cuts in Flaherty’s last budget. At Collège Marie-Victorin in Montréal, these cuts could bring an end to forty years of inmate ins ...
• Shale gas: “Chapter 11” steps in
  Both in Québec and in the United States, public authorities have legislated to protect populations from shale gas industry-related risks. These precautions could however come up against controversial NAFTA provisions within the infamous chapter 11 regarding investor protection. In the States, th ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

• Record Low Water Levels in Lake Huron, Lake Mi ...
  “Preliminary figures from the US Army Corps of Engineers show Lakes Michigan and Huron, considered a joint body of water, had record low water levels in December. The lakes’ water ended the month at 576.15 feet above sea level, just under the record 576.2 feet set in 1964. And data r ...
• Is Fracking Safe? Debate on Controversial Natu ...
  “The controversial use of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” that is behind the country’s natural gas boom has come under scrutiny in the new Hollywood drama, “Promised Land,” and met stiff resistance in New York state, where a four-year moratorium against the pro ...
• As Water Level Falls, Concerns About Mississip ...
  “With a gauge at the tricky section of the Mississippi River near Thebes, Ill., already registering a remarkably low water level — and projections that it will fall further in coming days and weeks — trade groups are warning that barge traffic through that part of the river may have to hal ...
• As the World Warms, the Future of Skiing Looks ...
  “As polar bears watch their winter ice recede farther and farther from boggy Arctic shores each year, skiers may notice a similar trend occurring in the high mountain ranges that have long been their wintertime playgrounds. Here, in areas historically buried in many feet of snow each winte ...
• Defense and Security Companies Are Planning to ...
  “It is not just the coercive industries that are positioning themselves to profit from fears about the future. The commodities upon which life depends are being woven into new security narratives based on fears about scarcity, overpopulation and inequality. Increasing importance is attache ...

D. Kucinich

• The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
• Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
• Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
• Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
• Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
  Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

• AND ARIZONA CALLS THIS PROGRESS
  … And still our Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and her legion of minions in our state legislature continue to support SB1070 … … And Arizona calls this progress… Filed under: Blogroll
• PEJORATIVE
  … Apparently neither political party personnel is capable of addressing the other in other than in a pejorative manner … how does this help to facilitate the spirit of compromise …?     The GOP Clown Car Crashes, Again   Under the stress of their incoherence, the Republican caucus ...
• PRETEND MOTHER NATURE DID IT
  … Let’s pretend that “mother nature” cause the damage to Japan …?   What’s next on America’s list to promote liberty and justice for all …   Researcher: U.S. Tested and Perfected a "Tsunami Bomb"     The blasts from a series of these tsunami bombs can create wave ...
• TRADE HEADACHE FOR STOMACH ACHE
  … At best we traded a headache for a stomach ache and merely postponed the more terrifying discussion surrounding social security … Medicare … other so-called entitlements  … and defense spending … … I find it most interesting that when programs benefit you and me they are snidely labeled … ...
• ANOTHER ARIZONA PRETEND GAME
  … Another game of PRETEND we actually provide full disclosure and transparency to “WE” – the people – regulators and engineers behind closed doors without our participation declare your water is safe … … Let’s forget at best they may test in a protocol they sanction (again without our participat ...

Popular Technology

• Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
  Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
• The Truth about Skeptical Science
  Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
• 2016: Obama's America
  2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
• The Truth About "Jon Stewart"
  "Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
• Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• The year in rainforests
  2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical rainforest-related news stories for 2012. There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were undoubtedly overlooked in this review. If you feel there's somethi ...
• Photos: the top new species discoveries in 2012
  Thousands of species were described for the first time by scientists in 2012. Some of these were 'cryptic species' that were identified after genetic analysis distinguished them from closely related species, while others were totally novel. Either way, here are some of the "new species" highligh ...
• Our favorite nature photos of 2012
  In the course of reporting for Mongabay.com, I spent time in several countries in 2012, including Indonesia, Brazil, Madagascar, and Malaysia, among others. The following are some of my favorite nature pictures I took in the field. Overall I added more than 20,000 images to the site in 2012. For ...
• Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2012
  Below is a quick review of some of the biggest environmental stories of 2012. The 'top stories' are listed in no particular order. Climate change, overpopulation, consumption, and ecological destruction is pushing planet Earth toward a tipping point according to a major study in Nature released ...
• Uncontacted tribes still exist, but extinction ...
  The world is more interconnected than ever. Globally, there are six billion cell phone subscribers and 900 million Facebook users. Nearly 32 million people follow Lady Gaga on Twitter. Given this content it may seem hard to believe that there remain people who have never had contact with the out ...

Science - NZ Herald

• First hand transplant holds new hope
  The former pub landlord who became the first man in Britain to receive a transplanted hand hopes he might one day use it to hold hands with his grandson.Mark Cahill, 51, suffered for 20 years with gout which led to complete paralysis...
• Martian rock from Sahara unlike others
  Scientists are abuzz about a coal-coloured rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert: A year-long analysis revealed it's quite different from other Martian meteorites.Not only is it older than most, it also contains more water....
• Bananas dying out - a bunch of bull?
  In 10 years, it was said 10 years ago, we might have no bananas."Bananas could split for good," the BBC declared in 2003, citing a Belgian scientist who urged swift action to create new types of bananas.By now, the ubiquitous...
• Meteorite may yield Martian secrets
  A fist-sized meteorite nicknamed Black Beauty could provide vital clues about the evolution of Mars from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state, Nasa says.Discovered in Morocco's Sahara Desert in 2011,...
• Antidepressants off the hook as baby death ris ...
  The use of antidepressants during pregnancy is not linked to a higher overall risk of stillbirth and death in newborns, a study says, confounding a long-held opposing view of such drugs.The Swedish study of more than 1.6 million...

The Bovine

• New Mexico bill calls for GMO labeling
  From Anthony Gucciardi at The Intel Hub: “Is this the next Prop 37, complete with a forthcoming wave of successful activism and education from concerned consumers? Unfortunately we know that Prop 37 failed due to not only irrefutable deception and lies from the … Continue reading →
• CFIA’s mighty enforcement powers
  A past president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) provides an overview of the agency’s remarkable powers.  From Ronald Doerring, on “Food Law”: “A Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) inspector stopped at a farm and talked with the old farmer: … Conti ...
• Biodynamics and sacred agriculture
  From Gayl Creutzberg on the Biodynamics blog: “…I had a very personal experience at the Biodynamic Conference. Although I have gathered with BD farmers for over 10 years, I had never been able to capture the undercurrent, the pulse, the energy, or … Continue reading →
• “Farmageddon” now on Netflix Canada
  Just watched Kristin Canty’s recent film about raw milk and food rights, featuring a lot of the same issues and persons that have been a part of the stories on this blog.  Interesting too, that early on in the film … Continue reading →
• “Farmageddon” now on Netflix Canada
  Just watched Kristin Canty’s recent film about raw milk and food rights, featuring a lot of the same issues and persons that have been a part of the stories on this blog.  Interesting too, that early on in the film … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Ron Paul on Military Spending, the Fiscal Clif ...
  Here is a post on Facebook a couple days ago that is worth a read in entirety. I will post the entire article along with a few thoughts. We Are Already Over the Fiscal Cliff by Ron Paul Despite claims that the Administration and Congress saved America from the fiscal cliff with an early ...
• Lauren Lyster Moves to Yahoo Finance
  Yesterday I heard rumors that Capital Account, hosted by Lauren Lyster had been cancelled. Some websites had posted that. Actually, the show was not cancelled. Rather, Lauren accepted an offer to work for Yahoo!Finance in New York. Because of her incredible talent, I knew it was only ...
• US ETF Inflows Hit A Record $188B In 2012; Con ...
  Index Universe reports US ETF Inflows Hit A Record $188B In 2012 Investors poured a record $188 billion into U.S.-listed ETFs in 2012, eclipsing a previous record of more than $175 billion in 2008, as a variety of asset classes shined—including domestic as well as international equities, ...
• Establishment Survey +155,000 Jobs; Household ...
  Initial Reaction The establishment survey report of +155,000 jobs was about what most expected. However, beneath the surface, this report looks weak. The household survey shows a gain of a mere 28,000 jobs. The unemployment rate stayed the same although the number of people unemp ...
• Nikkei Soars as Yen Sinks to 30-Month Low
  Inquiring minds note the Nikkei is up 293 points (2.8%) to 10,688 as the Japanese 30-Year Yield is Highest Since 2011. Thirty-year yields climbed to levels unseen since December 2011, tilting the so-called yield curve to the steepest level in 17 months. Japan’s newly installed Prime Minist ...

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 ...

bloody crossroads

• Is Obama a Fraud?
  The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
• The Tyranny of American Healthcare
  For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

• Kulluk Tow Planned [UPDATE] – VIDEO
  The Kulluk incident’s Unified Command on Saturday gave the go-ahead to Shell to remove the grounded drilling rig near Sitkalidak Island in Alaska. In a statement, the Unified Command said it [...]
• Shell: The Plan Was Always to Move the Kulluk ...
  Editor’s Note: Shell’s statement comes on the heals of new information that emerged yesterday that Shell’s decision to move the Kulluk was motivated by a desire to avoid as much as [...]
• Idiots Launch Fast Rescue Craft
  Here’s what happens when you launch a fast rescue craft while disregarding almost every possible safety or written procedure.
• Single Bluefin Tuna Fetches $1.76 Million at J ...
  Kiyomura K.K., a Tokyo-based sushi chain, paid a record 155.4 million yen ($1.76 million) to outbid an affiliate of a Hong Kong-based rival for a tuna it said would be [...]
• 1,000 Ships Locked in Ice off China
  Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice, official media said at the weekend. [...]

Press TV

• '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.
• Twin blasts hit Afghan meeting
  Twin bomb explosions have hit a meeting of tribal elders in southern Afghanistan, causing an unknown number of casualties, local officials said.
• Iran FM due in Egypt for Syria talks
  Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi will pay an official visit to Egypt to hold talks with Egyptian officials on bilateral relations and the regional developments.
• Iran urges expansion of ties with Benin
  Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has praised relations between Iran and Benin and called for effective consultations with the West African country.
• UK families face heating or food choice
  Soaring energy bills in Britain have forced one in four mothers to turn off the heating in order to afford food for their children, a new survey has found.

SciDev.net

• India's new S&T policy banks on the private s ...
  India's newly launched science, technology and innovation policy banks on private sector participation.
• Africa Analysis: Filling climate data gaps is ...
  Africa's ever-improving climate change data need to be put to better use if they are to help farmers and avert disasters, says Linda Nordling.
• Idea for supply chains of flying drones takes off
  Start-up companies are demonstrating unmanned aerial vehicles that can deliver small payloads such as medical supplies to remote areas.
• Building support for locally relevant climate tech
  Climate Innovation Centers can promote clean technologies but need backing with a coordinated effort, says policy specialist Ambuj Sagar.
• Science and development highlights of 2012
  The Rio+20 summit, cutting-edge science, high-tech solutions and other highlights from around the developing world.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

• The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
  The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
• Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
  The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
• Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
  More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
• Presentation to the National Economists Club
  Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
• Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
  The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

• Robotic router
  Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
• Flexible batteries
  One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
• Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
  Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
• Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
  A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
• Nanoparticles poison soil
  Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...

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