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Monday, January 7, 2013

7 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Syrian rebels sidetracked by spoils of war
    In the chaotic economics of the war, everything has become a commodity. Abu Ismael's unit, for example, took a supply of diesel from a school compound, and every day his unit exchanges a few jerrycans of the precious liquid for bread. Because Abu Ismael has a supply of food and fuel his batta ...
  • Syrian gravediggers struggle to keep up
    Gravediggers at the cemetery in the northern Syrian town of Azaz no longer wait for bombs to fall before they break the ground. ..... Marble gravestones are now squeezed barely a few centimeters apart as workers try to fit as many bodies as possible into the cemetery, near a block of single-st ...
  • Union Jack may disappear from Fiji flag
    Plans for a new flag were announced by the country's leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who seized power in a military coup in 2006. Commodore Bainimarama told the nation in his New Year's Day address that a new constitution would be completed by the end of March. “The new, modern and en ...
  • Rashid: West's model of development is flawed
    Ahmed Rashid, one of the world's foremost experts on Afghanistan, once welcomed US intervention in the failed state. But in a SPIEGEL interview, the Pakistani journalist says the West's model for development is fundamentally flawed and must be changed.
  • Syrian bloodbath if al-Nusra, FSA, gain control ?
    “If the Free Syrian Army, if this [Syria’s militia group Jabhat] al-Nusra gang of death squads in particular should ever gain power over Syria or large parts of Syria, we would witness a colossal bloodbath that would certainly be the biggest in the current century,” Webster Griffin Tarpley told ...

Independent - London

  • Obama's choices to lead Pentagon and CIA run i ...
    Undeterred by storm warnings from Congress, President Barack Obama pushed ahead with his choice of the former US Senator Chuck Hagel as America's next Pentagon chief while nominating his anti-terror advisor, John Brennan, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).Related StoriesConfl ...
  • Clinton ready to rejoin diplomatic game
    Cheers and a standing ovation greeted the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, as she returned to work today after a month-long absence caused first by a stomach virus, then a fall and a concussion and finally a brief hospitalisation for a blot clot near her brain. Related StoriesConflict on ...
  • Google boss makes 'humanitarian visit' to Nort ...
    The Google chairman Eric Schmidt arrived in North Korea today saying he wanted a first-hand look at the country's economy and media.Related StoriesChaotic scenes as suspects in India gang rape case appear in courtBritish grandmother facing 15-year drug trafficking prison term in Bali 'feared fo ...
  • Berlusconi rules out bid for PM
    Silvio Berlusconi has announced he will not seek to return as Prime Minister under an alliance with the devolutionist Northern League after elections next month. He had been striving to seal the deal with his estranged former allies to strengthen the centre-right bloc. Related StoriesThe missing ...
  • More Aboriginal youths face jail
    For the crime of stealing a packet of hamburger buns, a magistrate sentenced 17-year-old Sam Davies to 12 months in juvenile detention, reinforcing a trend that, according to latest statistics, sees Aboriginal children jailed at 31 times the rate of their white counterparts.Related StoriesUp to ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Prison reform controversy: China may close not ...
    Beijing has announced it will halt China's widely criticized labor camp practices, state media reported, quoting China's chief of security. However, the announcement was removed shortly after it was made and was followed by a report promising reform. The ruling Communist Party will "stop the us ...
  • Bolivia slams US over 'irrefutable evidence' o ...
    Bolivia has "concrete evidence" that the US is plotting to destabilize the Latin American nation, Minister Juan Ramon Quintana said. Proof of US "harassment" of the Bolivian government will be handed over to President Obama, he added. The Bolivian government is "scrupulously following" US activ ...
  • Counterterror adviser to be named chief of C.I.A.
    President Obama will announce on Monday that John O. Brennan, his counterterrorism adviser and a career Central Intelligence Agency officer, is his choice to head the agency, two months after David H. Petraeus stepped down after admitting an extramarital affair, a spokesman for the National Secu ...
  • Fast-food robber suspect returns to eat, is nabbed
    Officials say a suspected robber of a suburban Detroit restaurant who apparently returned months later to get some food is under arrest after being recognized by employees. The Oakland County sheriff's department says workers at a McDonald's in Pontiac spotted the 40-year-old man Saturday in th ...
  • Massachusetts man attacked by bobcat in his garage
    A man in Massachusetts says all he heard was a hiss before a bobcat pounced on him in his own garage, sinking its teeth into his face and its claws in his back. Roger Mundell Jr. went into the garage in Brookfield on Sunday morning to fetch some tie-down straps for a friend when the animal atta ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Impact on their families?
    Corrupt cops sentenced to house arrest, not jail, because the ordeal of being investigated, tried, and convicted of corruption was difficult for them and their families? I don't know, perhaps if the convicted had owned-up to their crimes in the first place their families would not have been put ...
  • Ships, not.
    F-35, now ships. Go read The Sixth Estate for some thinking on the numbers behind the next Conservative military procurement scandaliciousness.
  • Pussy paranoia . . .
    UNLIKE STEVIE, it can be hard to tell what your cat may be up to, cats are subtle creatures. Matthew Inman's oeuvre is available at Amazon and elsewhere.
  • The final solution . . .
    GENOCIDE CAN BE CULTURAL, and NativeWritesNow is grateful to Christie Blatchford for the explanation, with a post, "Christie Blatchford is telling the truth".  Take a minute and check out how this is so.
  • Allied efforts . . .
    IDLE NO MORE: Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water. We must repair these violations, live the ...

Media Matters for America

  • Wisconsin State Journal Buries Health And Envi ...
    The Wisconsin State Journal failed to note specific health and environmental risks associated with taconite mining -- such as increased levels of mesothelioma among miners and groundwater contamination -- in an editorial and news story on a mining reform bill that conservative members of the leg ...
  • Media Ignore Past Spending Cuts In Reports On ...
    Following the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act, media figures have lamented that spending cuts were not included in the deal. However, experts believe that spending cuts made in 2011 should be included in assessing the latest deal, which shows budget cuts factor heavily into deficit r ...
  • Network News Shows Ignore House GOP Failure To ...
    The news shows of the major networks ABC, NBC, and CBS did not report on the need to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which expired after the House failed to reauthorize it by the close of the 112th Congress on Tuesday. The reauthorization of the law was blocked by House Republ ...
  • Fox, Right-Wing Media Defend Boehner's Decisio ...
    Fox and right-wing media figures defended Republican House Speaker John Boehner's decision to cancel a vote on an aid package for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Following sharp bipartisan criticism over that decision, Boehner agreed to a vote this week.Boehner Canceled Expected Vote On Sandy Aid C ...
  • Right-Wing Media Falsely Compare U.S. With Gre ...
    In an effort to push for federal spending cuts, right-wing media figures have repeatedly claimed that the U.S. is on the path to becoming Greece, which is facing a severe debt crisis. However, the comparison between the two countries is wholly misleading, and sharp spending cuts in Greece have e ...

Global Research.ca

  • Israel’s Persecution of Haneen Zoabi
    Like apartheid South Africa, Zionist-ruled Israel must face the contradiction between being a modern democracy respecting equal rights for all and a state favoring one group over others. The logic of the second route is ever-increasing repression, as the case…
  • Obama to Nominate Chuck Hagel for Defense Secr ...
    President Obama is expected to officially announce the nomination of former GOP Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel for his next Secretary of Defense at some point on Monday, as conservatives prepare for grueling hearings to block his nomination. Hagel has been…
  • Following the “Fiscal Cliff” Agree ...
    Following the agreement between Democrats and Republicans to avert the “fiscal cliff,” the two big business parties enter the new year with one item on their domestic agenda: cuts in health care, retirement and other programs on which millions of…
  • Obama’s Targeted Killing: Murdered witho ...
    On Wednesday, at the request of the Obama administration, US federal judge Colleen McMahon relied on expansive “national security” privileges to deny requests by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Times for government records related to the…
  • U.S. Government Using Terrorism Against the Am ...
    We’ve documented that – by any measure – America is the largest sponsor of terrorism in the world. But remember, terrorism is defined as: The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes. The American…

TPM Cafe

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

  • The Overlooked Threat to Our Nation's Drinking ...
    Wastewater from oil and gas drilling operations – disposed of deep underground – recently burbled to the surface in Oklahoma. It wasn’t a one-off. Similar contamination from so-called “injection wells” happened at seven locations across Oklahoma and at twelv ...
  • Keystone XL Pipeline: Sacrificing Public Healt ...
     This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.The massive exploitation of Alberta tar sands may be the biggest environmental crime in history and a new benchmark for sacrifice of public health to corporate profit.It's so much more than converting an area of ...
  • What Happens When Fracking Hits the Suburbs
    The corner of Goldenrod and Western streets, with its grid of modest homes, could be almost any suburb that went up in a hurry – except of course for the giant screeching oil rig tearing up the earth and making the pavement shudder underfoot.Fracking, the technology that open ...
  • Defense and Security Companies Are Planning to ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.The world's political leaders couldn't say they hadn't been warned. In the run up to the UN climate negotiations in early December in Qatar, it wasn't just the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, global accoun ...
  • Endangered Colorado: Is it Too Late to Save On ...
     The following excerpt is fromRiver Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado by Wade Davis, © 2013 Wade Davis. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington DC."Man always kills the things he loves, and so we the pioneers, have killed our wilderness. Some ...

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Atoms reach record low temperature
    Scientists have found a way to achieve temperatures lower than the coldest temperature possible. Absolute zero is minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, the...
  • Wikipedia removes 'Bicholim war' hoax
    A Wikipedia entry about a conflict between Portugal and India's Maratha Empire turned out to be a hoax. The on-line encyclopedia has now removed the a...
  • Astronomers estimate 100 billion planets
    Recent discoveries have indicated the likelihood that our own galaxy is teeming with planets. Astronomers at Caltech have concluded that finding plane...
  • Roman shipwreck reveals further secrets
    The shipwreck in which the famous Antikythera mechanism was found may contain more of the devices. Discovered in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism is an...
  • Can goosebumps reveal when you are lying ?
    Researchers have been investigating whether goosebumps could be used as a natural lie detector. Goosebumps are something that we commonly associate wi...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Wash. State Gov. Gregoire Emerges as Top Conte ...
    (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) President Obama is about to nominate outgoing Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire as the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a very private prediction from a very senior source in ...
  • GE and Citi Join Californian Solar Gold Rush
    (BusinessGreen) California's solar industry has received its second major boost of the year, after EDF Renewable Energy announced it had sold a majority stake in its 143MW Catalina Solar project to a group of high-profile investors, in ...
  • U.S. ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal Gives Canadian Renewa ...
    (The Globe and Mail) Some Canadian renewable energy companies with activities in the United States will be among those benefiting from U.S. “fiscal cliff” legislation that extended crucial tax credits for wind energy and biodiesel prod ...
  • Exports of U.S. Gas May Fall Short of High Hopes
    (New York Times) Only five years ago, several giant natural gas import terminals were built to satisfy the energy needs of a country hungry for fuels. But the billion-dollar terminals were obsolete even before the concrete was dry as a ...
  • Senators Call for Coal Export Royalty Probe
    (The Hill) The leaders of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee want to investigate claims that mining firms are dodging government royalty payments on coal excavated from federal and tribal lands. Chairman Ron W ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Boehner's Plan is Reckless and Irresponsible
    It looks like Speaker Boehner doesn't plan on actually letting the country default on its debts. Yet, he doesn't plan on extending the debt ceiling, either. At least, he doesn't plan on extending it for more than a month or two at a time. I ask Mr. Boehner if he will take the debt-ceiling ...
  • Unleash OFA
    Any pundit who falls for the OMG!! The President is being partisan gambit who isn't being explicably paid to fall for it, is a moron. As if the Republicans cared when the Tea Party started being political... Discuss
  • It's Divide and Conquer or Doom
    Chris Cillizza is concerned about the possibility that it may no longer be possible for the politicians in Washington to work out some grand compromise on anything of consequence to the country. I agree that it is a problem and I acknowledge that Cillizza puts most of the blame for it on the Re ...
  • The Crack-Up of the GOP: No Way Out
    The Washington Post reports that there are divisions within the Republican Party about whether or not they can effectively use a threat to destroy the country's credit rating and cause a global recession to extract spending cuts from the Democrats. If they did it before, why not do it again? ...
  • Hilarity!
    Hilarity ensues when Ann Althouse has difficulty understanding the meaning of "granular" when applied to interpreting voter file data. Specifically, she was trying to understand the following: If theres one conclusion thats going to come out of this process, its that we have to be much more ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    From funny school test answers and adrenaline-fueled weddings, to serious food safety scandals and murdered Christian martyrs... Five cool top ten lists. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Swimmers Beneath the Waves Captured in Incredi ...
    Anyone who goes to the beach is familiar with the sight of people diving beneath the waves, but these photos give us a more unusual perspective. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Explosively Cool Chemistry Behind Fireworks
    Find out what's inside the boom and brilliant lights that make holiday festivities extra beautiful the world over... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Endangered Moon Bears Find Home in China Sanctuary
    Two beautiful moon bears find a new home safe from the cruel practice of bile farming This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Fire Breathers Blazing a Trail in the City of ...
    Once a year, fire breathers from all over Europe gather at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to showcase their dazzling but potentially highly dangerous acts. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Overweight-only gym helps members relate
    DALLAS (AP) — Downsize Fitness is an exclusive health club, evocative of the nation's trendiest gyms. But there's a strict requirement to join: You must be 50 pounds or more overweight.The chain wants its members to feel comfortable while exercising, so there are no mirrors inside and t ...
  • The fight Obama is picking
    It looks like President Obama is about to spark a nomination fight by selecting Chuck Hagel for Defense secretary. The question is how serious the fight will be – a half-hearted effort by a handful of John McCain/Lindsey Graham-types or a full-fledged partisan war with the potential to ...
  • The conservative movement is still an elaborat ...
    The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture. As Rick Perlstein explained in the Baffler, some of the largest conservative media organs are essentially massive email lists of suckers rented to snake oil salesmen. The con isn't limited to a couple of newsletters and ...
  • Richardson, Google chief arrive in North Korea
    Story Image:  Google Executive Chairman Eric Schimidt at Beijing International airport on January 7, 2013. Schmidt and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson arrived Monday in North Korea, where a US citizen is being held awaiting trial, for what the politician cal Former New Mexico ...
  • Richardson, Google chief arrive in North Korea
    Story Image:  Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (centre) speaks to the media at Beijing International airport on January 7, 2013, ahead of his trip to North Korea. Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and Google chairman Eric Schmidt have arrived in PyonFormer New Mexico go ...

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IntelNews

  • Analysis: Will 2013 Be the Year of the Unmanne ...
    As United States President Barack Obama prepares to enter his fifth year in office, one may be excused for thinking that his administration’s response to insurgency warfare essentially boils down to one thing: the joystick. This is the means by which Washington’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fl ...
  • Revealed: German neo-Nazi who helped Palestini ...
    A German far-right militant, whose animosity against Jews led him to aid Palestinians kill Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich massacre, says he was later recruited by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Year in Review: The 10 Biggest Spy-Related Sto ...
    In anticipation of what 2013 may bring, we decided to take a look back to the year that just ended by compiling a list of what we think are the ten most important security- and intelligence-related developments of the past 12 months.
  • News you may have missed #821 (civil liberties ...
    French domestic spy chief cleared of snooping charges. FBI documents termed Occupy movement as 'terrorism'. Wiretapping by Russian spy agencies doubled in five years.
  • News you may have missed #820
    World's best known spy collector displays his home. Acting CIA director criticizes 'Zero Dark Thirty'. British police says MI6 expert 'killed himself'.

War is a Crime.org

  • In Kabul, Widows and Orphans Move Up
    By Kathy Kelly Kabul --Yesterday, four young Afghan Peace Volunteer members, Zainab, Umalbanin, Abdulhai, and Ali, guided Martha and me along narrow, primitive roads and crumbling stairs, ascending a mountain slope on the outskirts of Kabul.  The icy, rutted roads twisted and turned.  ...
  • Guatemalans Resist Invasion of North American ...
    By Helen Jaccard and Gerry Condon In November we traveled to Guatemala to study Spanish and learn about the lives of the indigenous Maya people.  Guatemala is an amazingly beautiful country, with countless mountains and valleys, and 22 volcanoes, the most in Central America. The people are ...
  • Joe Biden: Dancing With the Sausage Maker
        By John Grant Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.              -- Mark Twain read more
  • Hagel Questioned by a Serious Reporter
    Communications director for the Institute for Public Accuracy, Sam Husseini said today: "With the Hagel nomination, former 'anti-war' candidate Barack Obama continues to appoint individuals to top foreign policy positions who voted for or otherwise backed the invasion of Iraq. This includes Joe ...
  • Showdown at San Onofre
    By Harvey Wasserman   Two stricken California reactors may soon redefine a global movement aimed at eradicating nuclear power.   They sit in a seismic zone vulnerable to tsunamis.  Faulty steam generators have forced them shut for nearly a year.   A powerful “No Nukes” movem ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

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

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Peru Moves to Protect Fossils from Dakar Rally ...
    Peru’s government is taking steps to protect one of the world’s largest fossil deposits from being damaged by the 2013 Dakar Rally. The Culture Ministry said they’re marking all access points to the Ocucaje desert to help prevent potential damage to the existing fossil site. Home to fossils of w ...
  • Germany Reaches a New High in 2012 With Record ...
    Solar power is booming in Germany, and 2012 has proven to be a record-breaking year for the country’s already-impressive solar power generation. As part of the plan to eliminate nuclear energy and replace it with renewable energy by 2022, Germany has invested heavily in solar power, breaki ...
  • Francesca Pastine Carves Artforum Magazines to ...
    Read the rest of Francesca Pastine Carves Artforum Magazines to Make Amazing Sculptural Topographies Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: artforum, artforum excavation series, California College of the Arts, francesca pastine, issue, magazine, publication, San Francisco, to ...
  • A Prototype of the AbleNook Rapidly Deployable ...
    Read the rest of A Prototype of the AbleNook Rapidly Deployable Emergency Modular Living Unit is Now Complete Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", able nook, ablenook, Disaster-proof design, eco design, emergency shelter, green architecture, Gree ...
  • Florentijn Hofman’s Five-Story-Tall Rubber Duc ...
    Read the rest of Florentijn Hofman’s Five-Story-Tall Rubber Duck Floats Its Way Into Sydney Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: aukland, australia, bathtub, Brazil, darling harbor, florentijn hofman, Installation, Japan, New Zealand, osaka, PVC, rubber duck, sao paol ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Your Android Phone Could Help Scientists Predi ...
    Atmospheric scientists are working with an app developer to take air pressure information that is already being collected from thousands of Android phones and feed it into sophisticated new climate models. If they get enough buy-in from Android owners, you ...
  • Keeping the Standard Kilogram From Gaining Wei ...
    After more than a century, the international prototype kilogram – a cylindrical chunk of metal stored in a French vault – doesn't weigh the same as its 40 replicas, distributed worldwide and used to standardize mass measurements. Suspecting that gunk ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Beautifu ...
    The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. It is located about 4,000 light-years away, towards the Scorpius constellation (the Scorpion). The nebula is the swansong of a dying solar-like star lying ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Colorful ...
    Galileo false-color image of the Mare Tranquillitatis and Mare Serenitatis areas of the Moon. The picture was made from four exposures taken during Galileo's second Earth/Moon flyby. The colors are enhanced to highlight compositional differences.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Prominen ...
    A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on Dec. 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the flow of plasma, but without sufficient force to overcome the sun’s gravity much of the plasma fell back into the ...

PakAlert

  • House Resolution Introduced to Remove Presiden ...
    Is one member of Congress attempting to make Obama a dictator? Congressman José Serrano (D-NY) introduced House Joint Resolution 15 which would remove the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. H.J.Res.15 titled "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution o ...
  • Obama’s Secret Plan To Reclassify Your Guns
    President Obama, congressional Democrats and even some Republicans plan to push new gun-control legislation in the 113th Congress, but defenders of the Second Amendment fear Obama is poised to enact the restrictions through the Executive Branch if Congress is not cooperative. John M. Snyder h ...
  • Bilderberg Group Dominates Bloomberg Billionai ...
    Bilderberg Group, an organisation founded in 1954 by the global elite has once again dominated the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. So what is the Bilderberg Group? The Bilderberg Group is a secretive organisation who meets on a yearly basis to discuss political and economic issues that pertain ...
  • The Syria Endgame: Strategic Stage in the Pent ...
    Since the kindling of the conflict inside Syria in 2011, it was recognized, by friend and foe alike, that the events in that country were tied to a game plan that ultimately targets Iran, Syria’s number one ally. [1] De-linking Syria from Iran and unhinging the Resistance Bloc that Damascus and ...
  • 60 Facts That Prove The American Middle Class ...
    The middle class in the United States is being systematically destroyed, and nobody is doing much of anything to stop it. Our incomes are shrinking, our share of the income pie is at an all-time low, our jobs are being sent overseas, debt burdens have soared to unprecedented heights and million ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos: Deptford and Rotherhithe on New Year&# ...
    Deptford and Rotherhithe on New Year’s Day, a set on Flickr. On New Year’s Day, from 11.30pm until 1am on the morning of January 2, I decided to take a bike ride around my neighbourhood, in part because I’m almost permanently enthusiastic about cycling and taking photos at nigh ...
  • Canada’s Shameful and Unending Disdain f ...
    Three months ago, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen seized as a child and held and abused by the US government in Guantánamo for ten years, was returned to Canada, where he now languishes in a maximum-security prison. Technically, the Canadian government is entitled to imprison him for another fi ...
  • Photos of Greenwich on the Last Day of the Year
    Greenwich on the Last Day of the Year, a set on Flickr. Some of my regular readers will have realised that, although I like cycling and photographing London in all weather, and that I am thoroughly enjoying experiencing the seasons first-hand, I am particularly fascinated by the city at night. I ...
  • Join Me in Washington D.C. on January 11, 2013 ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • End the Tory Butchers’ Assault on the Di ...
    Please sign the “War on Welfare” petition now to call for an end the Tory-led government’s assault on the disabled! Since the Tories came to power two years and seven months ago, with the assistance of the Liberal Democrats, they have reshaped the political landscape in the UK ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Teen White Supremacist Arrested for Planned Bo ...
    Authorities in Alabama may have averted another school massacre by arresting a 17-year-old white supremacist who allegedly was building homemade bombs to target African-American students at his school. The teen, identified by authorities as Derek Shrout, was to appear in court in Seale, Ala., to ...
  • Anti-Racists Sentenced in Restaurant Attack on ...
    Five Indiana men, all members of an anti-racist group, will serve between 3½ and 6 years in prison after striking plea deals for their roles in an armed attack on a group of white supremacists last May in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. The guilty pleas came Friday on the eve of a trial for [...]
  • Member of Mississippi Gang that Hunted Black P ...
    A sixth man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges related to the June 2011 racially motivated killing in Jackson, Miss., of a black man assaulted and run over with a pickup truck by a gang of white youths. That brutal murder was captured on surveillance video and broadcast nationally. ...
  • Far Right in Frenzy Over Possibility of Gun Le ...
    Whether the massacre of 20 Connecticut first-graders and six educators by a madman armed with an assault rifle in December will lead to meaningful gun control legislation is far from certain. But nearly three weeks after the Dec. 14 bloodbath, the American far right – from elements of the Tea Pa ...
  • Stormfront Radio Going Off Air?
    Don Black, the founder of Stormfront, the oldest and largest white nationalist forum, is apparently trying to figure out what to do with his and his son Derek’s radio show, “The Derek Black Show.” In a recent Stormfront thread, Black noted that as of January 20, 2013, the ownership of south Flor ...

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Common Dreams -News

  • Tar Sands Blockaders Take Over TransCanada Off ...
    Developing... Members of the Tar Sands Blockade have staged a mass action in the Houston offices of the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada. Tar Sands Blockaders take over TransCanada offices in Houston. (Photo: via Twitpic) ...
  • Study: Trees Grown for Biofuel Damage Ozone
    Fast-growing trees cultivated to produce biofuel are contributing to, not mitigating against, the looming catastrophe of climate change according to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change. Biofuels are often pushed by their advocates as a more friendly alternative to fossil fuel, but c ...
  • Charter School Moguls Scam State Out of Millions
    In the latest incident of charter school fraud, the state of Oregon is going after a pair of charter school con men who reportedly scammed the state out of $17 million. The Oregonian is reporting that Tim King and Norm Donohoe, who ran a chain of taxpayer-funded charter schools under the guise o ...
  • 'Idle No More' Prepares for Global Day of Action
    (Idle No More / Roger Misquadis)With worldwide support growing for Canada's First Nations' Idle No More protest movement, protest organizers around the world are preparing this week for a Global Day of Action scheduled for Friday, January 11th. ...
  • New Study: Meter Rise in Oceans Would Create C ...
    Melting ice, such as at this glacier at Neko Harbor in the Antarctic, is contributing to sea level rises. (Photo: Alamy)A new assessment of expected sea level rise due this century reveals that leading scientists believe the cause for alarm is much greater than previously thought and concludes ...

Lifehacker

  • Ink Is a Quick Loading, Simple Sketchpad for F ...
    iOS: When you want to quickly sketch out or write down an idea, speed is important, and you don't want to fumble around with menus. Ink is an iPhone and iPad app that opens instantly to a blank page so you can quickly jot down your idea and move on with your day. More »
  • How Web Sites Vary Prices Based on Your Inform ...
    It's likely no surprise that online retailers can change prices depending on your location, browser history, and operating system. But what's really going on here? Let's take a look at the tactics retailers use to dish out different prices to you, and how you can check to see if it's happe ...
  • Use a Little Sugar for Beautifully Browned, Pe ...
    Frying fish isn't that difficult to do, but it's also easy to screw up if you're not paying attention, so the folks at America's Test Kitchen have a few simple tips to help you get perfectly cooked, perfectly browned fish in no time. The trick? Start with a little sugar. More »
  • Fitsby Puts Real Money on the Line to Make Sur ...
    Android: If you need a little motivation to make it to the gym, you could always think about your health—or, with Fitsby, you can think about the money your friends will wave in your face if you skip out on your workouts. The app lets you wager with friends that you'll work out regul ...
  • Craigslist Adds Maps for Sales Listings, Yard ...
    Craigslist has expanded its new maps feature—which it rolled out a few months ago to help apartment hunters find a new place—to include yard sales and flea markets, and other sales listings that are highly location dependent, like garage sales and moving sales. More »

Water Privatization

  • Time To Steel Yourselves For This Year's F ...
    Higher water and sewer rates, parking fees and cigarette taxes. Everyone's paying in 2013. [ more › ]
  • Barcelona Water Privatization Deal Faces Legal ...
    Acciona SA (ANA) and Brazilian partner BTG Pactual said they are preparing legal action after the Catalan regional government accepted an appeal against a 1 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) contract to privatize Barcelona’s water supply.
  • Huge task for privatization fund by March
    The state privatizations fund (TAIPED) will have to start one sell-off project per week from the start of the new year, as the new agreement signed by the government and its creditors provides for 10 privatization projects to begin within the first quarter of 2013, a particularly demanding targe ...
  • Govt to turn over Angat power plant to Korean ...
    The government will turn over to the winning Korean bidder the operations of the Angat power plant early next year.
  • Mayor says lease of water system maintains control
    Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi said leasing Hazleton's water system might reduce a looming tax increase while allowing city residents to maintain some control of a natural resource. Like his predecessor, Lou Barletta, Yannuzzi thinks money could flow into the cit

Guardian

  • Nick Clegg joins protests over 'shirkers' tag
    Tory rhetoric on welfare criticised and Lib Dems accused of indiscipline on day of coalition relaunchConservative efforts to single out the "undeserving" poor were attacked by Nick Clegg on Monday as a high-profile attempt to relaunch the coalition instead saw growing faultlines emerge over welf ...
  • Lord Strathclyde resigns as leader of the Hous ...
    Veteran minister insists departure is unconnected to midterm report but reveals tensions that remain within coalitionThe Conservative leader of the House of Lords resigned on Monday just hours before a major relaunch of the government, and has revealed publicly some of the high-level tensions th ...
  • Aurora shooting suspect 'was out of it' after ...
    James Holmes, accused of killing 12 people in Colorado cinema, was not showing normal emotions, says arresting officerThe man accused of shooting dead 12 people inside a Colorado cinema was relaxed but "out of it" in the moments after the massacre, a court has heard .James Holmes, who is alleged ...
  • Fake mission to Mars leaves astronauts spaced out
    Trip to Mars in pretend spaceship on Moscow industrial estate affects sleep, activity levels and motivation of six-man crewAs the cheerless skies and grim economy sap all will to return to work, take heart that even on a trip to Mars, it is hard to get out of bed in the morning.The drudge of int ...
  • Spitfire crash-lands at airport
    Pilot unhurt after second world war plane's undercarriage collapses during touchdown at East Midlands airportA second world war Spitfire has crash-landed at an airport.The aeroplane was coming in to land at East Midlands airport, where it is based, when the undercarriage collapsed as it touched ...

McClatchey

  • If debt ceiling deal fails, U.S. could delay t ...
    Absent an early deal to raise the nations debt ceiling, the federal government could run out of ways to pay creditors and Social Security recipients by mid-February, earlier than expected,Click to Continue »
  • California’s Bradley Blackwell may bene ...
    A Northern California man who was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being convicted of felony murder committed when he was 17 might gain his freedom eventually, under…Click to Continue »
  • Civil war still rages in Nuba Mountains, thwar ...
    Four months ago, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was widely praised for helping to orchestrate an agreement between Sudan and South Sudan that everyone said would help halt the…Click to Continue »
  • Lexington, Kentucky, mayor says pension costs ...
    For every $5 the city of Lexington spends, $1 goes to its public pension obligations, proof that "our pension costs have spiraled out of control," Mayor Jim Gray said at…Click to Continue »
  • Kentucky expert sees 'health care crisis' in A ...
    Lingering stigma and a lack of resources will compound the growing impact of Alzheimer's disease as baby boomers enter retirement. And Linda J. Van Eldik, director of Lexington's Sanders-Brown Center…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Confusing Value And Price, Choir Demands &poun ...
    If you asked most people what a single track is worth, most would answer with the going market price, which ranges from ~$0.79-$1.29. This is what the market has shown, for the most part, that it will bear. You veer too far away from the high end of that range and you'll find most people will o ...
  • Danish Court Orders Spanish Site Blocked Becau ...
    Daft trademarking stories are common enough, but it's always fun to come across new variations on the theme. Netzpolitik points us to this story from Denmark, where a Spanish-owned property site called HomelifeSpain.com ran into trouble because the word "home" was trademarked in Denmark by the ...
  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Another short week, but this time no shortage of votes! We've got lots of high-scoring comments that racked up points in both categories, starting with a clear winner that took first place in both the Funny and Insightful categories. The comment comes from our post about Sony's new plan to comba ...
  • Techdirt 2012: The Numbers.
    For the last couple years, we've done a post soon after the new year looking at some of "the numbers" from the past year. Here are the reports from 2010 and 2011. With this being another short week, we figured it might make more sense to use the Saturday slot we normally reserve for a communit ...
  • Disney Freaks Out Over Patents That May Mean I ...
    While lots of folks have been declaring the 3D movie obsession dead for a while now, the studios still love 3D movies. In this age where they're looking for ways to create formulaic premium experiences that get people to go out to the theaters, they seem to have jumped on the 3D bandwagon full ...

VacTruth

  • Minimum of 40 Children Paralyzed After New Men ...
    On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit. According to one newspaper, out of five hundred children who received a new meningitis vaccine, at least 40 of them have become paralyzed.
  • Documents Show Merck Paid This Popular Website ...
    Have you ever wondered how some websites come to promote vaccines? Well, here’s the answer: Pharmaceutical companies pay enormous amounts of money for websites to promote vaccines.
  • “Do you think it will come to jail time ...
    This mother has a child injured by vaccines. She wants to know what will happen if she doesn't vaccinate...
  • Study Shows This Amazingly Simple Act Reduces ...
    The big secret vaccine peddlers avoid like the plague is, one amazingly simple act reduced two diseases by 50% or more. The most vital point to remember: The decrease in morbidity of—or the rate of incidence of a disease—those affected by the diseases had nothing to do with vaccines!
  • 1,742 Reports of Adverse Events After Children ...
    Last week, VacTruth reported details a 1,271 page confidential document, regarding a six-in-one vaccine. This pharmaceutical company received a total of 1,742 reports of adverse events, including 503 serious adverse events, after children had received the this vaccine...

BroadSnark

  • Victor Jara, Solitude, Justice, and the USA
    It looks like Victor Jara’s murderers have some small chance of being brought to justice. Jara, if you are unfamiliar, was a musician and activist in Chile during the dirty war. He was tortured and killed by Pinochet’s thugs. Now Chile is prosecuting his murderers and it turns out on ...
  • Nothing Should Last Forever
    This might be the creepiest thing I have ever read. Many engineers, including me, think that some time around 2050, we will be able to make very high quality links between the brains and machines. To such an extent that it will thereafter be possible (albeit expensive for some years) to arrange ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    HRW has a new report out called Sex Workers at Risk. If you don’t have time to read the whole report, skim through some of the testimonies. How cops treat sex workers and trans people is disgusting. Of course cops treat a lot of other people like shit too as this kickass kid managed to [...]
  • Stuff You Read 2012
    I feel like I hardly posted at all this year. But it turns I actually managed to spew stuff out. You even read some of it. So the top 10 for 2012 are: Beware of Strange Men on Airplanes Is the Media Liberal Dear Reformists, You’re Welcome My Uterus Hates Elections Confessions of a Former [...]
  • 2012 – Damn
    When I was fourteen a schoolmate of mine hung himself, my father had a stroke, my family lost our business, and the IRS came after us. When I was twenty-six, my father died (something I may finally be ready to write about). Those were by far the two hardest years of my life. 2012 is [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Hagel’s uncommon honesty
    It is widely reported that President Obama will nominate former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense today. Peter Beinart writes: Hagel says in public what others only say in private. In his 2005 book, The Much Too Promised Land, former Clinton administration Middle East hand Aar ...
  • Brennan to become Central Assassination Agency ...
    It looks like the CIA’s decade-long shift from being an intelligence agency to becoming an assassination agency is soon to become irreversible as President Obama’s chief assassin takes over. The New York Times reports: President Obama will announce on Monday that John O. Brennan, his ...
  • Assad offers only more of the same — mukhabara ...
    Hassan Hassan writes: The world still blinks every time that Bashar Al Assad speaks, as if it has not learnt anything from 21 months of violence. In his speech yesterday – his ninth since the uprising began – the dictator offered a plan that would include a lengthy, complicated proce ...
  • Are the Arab monarchies next?
    Hicham Ben Abdallah El Alaoui writes: The Arab Spring is not an outcome, it is a process. For those countries at the forefront of regional transformation, the fundamental question is can democracy become institutionalised? Though progress has been uneven and the outcomes of many state-society st ...
  • British fascist leader gets jailed in the U.K. ...
    What happens when someone tries to enter the U.S. using someone else’s passport? That’s what the leader of the neo-fascist English Defense League did and he got caught because his fingerprints didn’t match those associated with the passport he was using — a passport lent ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Announcing the first ever CONUS yearly average ...
    Pursuant to our previous story showing issues with diverging data and claims over time, NCDC has updated the Climate Reference Network Data for December 2012. I’m still waiting on the NCDC State of the Climate report to come in with … Continue reading →
  • Does NOAA’s National Climatic Data Cente ...
    Glaring inconsistencies found between State of the Climate (SOTC) reports sent to the press and public and the “official” climate database record for the United States. Using NCDC’s own data, July 2012 can no longer be claimed to be the … Continue reading →
  • Notes on calendars, travel, and two important ...
    CALENDARS: First, I want to thank everyone who ordered the 2013 Josh Skeptic Calendar. I especially want to thank Dr. Michael Mann, whose hilarious conspiracy theory outburst sold more calendars than Josh or I ever could have hoped to. Like … Continue reading →
  • Crowdsourcing a Temperature Trend Analysis
    (Image Credit: WoodForTrees.com) By Werner Brozek, edited and with introduction by WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Your help is needed in building a regular temperature trend analysis for WUWT. With much attention being focused on how much warming, or lack … Continue reading →
  • The logical case against climate panic
    How the profiteers who market Thermageddon offend against the principles of formal logic Guest post by Monckton of Brenchley LOGIC is the heartbeat of all true learning – the soul of the Classics, the Sciences and Religion. Once everyone studied … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

CFACT

  • Are IPI and EPA plotting cap-and-trade for tra ...
    IPI Executive Director Michael Livermore demands that the EPA “make a finding” that transportation emissions might endanger public welfare, “propose a cap-and-trade system” for transportation fuels, find that aircraft fuels “endanger” public health, “propose a joint rulemaking with the Federal ...
  • Keystone XL update: The jobs pipeline remains ...
    Former AFL-CIO executive Mark Ayres: "The Keystone Pipeline represents the prospect for 20,000 immediate jobs, and as many as 500,000 indirect jobs [just in the U.S.] via a strong economic multiplier effect."
  • Biotech salmon: food fish for the masses
    Society’s real problem is to feed that peak population without destroying the world’s wild fisheries, eroding all its cropland and plowing down most of its wildlife habitat to produce our food in the meantime.
  • FrackNation tv promo
    WATCH NOW. Fun new promo spot for FrackNation. Catch the premiere January 22 at 9PM on AXS.tv.
  • Fiscal cliff deal extends wind production tax ...
    The fiscal cliff deal passed first by the Senate, now by the House and headed to the President includes extension of the wind energy production tax credit for one year. America needs sound energy production and sound budget policy in 2013. Extending the production tax credit for wind energy on ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Medvedev Approves Medical Science Development Plan
    Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved a development strategy for the medical sciences in Russia through 2025, a press release posted on the government website Friday says.
  • For Sale: NASA Space Shuttle Stuff
    Now that the US space shuttle program is defunct, NASA is leasing and selling some of its facilities and equipment at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to private companies and entrepreneurs.
  • Facebook Red-Faced As Copycat App Flops
    Just weeks after its launch, Facebook's self-destructing photo-sharing application, Poke, has seemingly fallen from grace with young mobile users still flocking to the SnapChat app that Poke was meant to smother, industry experts say.
  • New Year’s Resolution? There’s an App for That ...
    For some, New Year’s resolutions barely make it past New Year’s Day. But for those with a little more grit, there is a new slew of mobile apps and interactive websites – including some offering financial incentives – designed to help them stick to their goals.
  • US Study: Fructose Intake May Be Linked to Obesity
    Scientists have found consumption of fructose, a sugar used in foods and beverages commonly consumed in the United States, may cause overeating, offering more evidence of a direct link between the quality of Americans’ diet and the obesity epidemic in the United States.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Proper Diet & Exercise Can Help Reverse Diabetes
    It has taken decades, but medical professionals are finally starting to give diet and exercise for the prevention and reversal of type 2 diabetes some well-deserved attention.Click here to read this article
  • Family Farmers to Travel to Washington, D.C. t ...
    Dozens of family farmers, plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al v. Monsanto, will travel from across America to Washington, D.C. next week to take on Monsanto and demand the right to farm. Click here to read this article
  • Time Is Not on Our Side
    When it came to climate change in 2012, the operative word was "hot" (with "record" a close second). The continental U.S. broiled. Drought struck with a passion and, as the year ended, showed no sign of going away any time soon. Water levels on the Mississippi River fell so perilously low as ...
  • Meet Anthony Ingraffea - From Industry Insider ...
    Why, exactly, is high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing such a devastating industry? How best to describe its singularity-its vastness, its difference from other industries and its threat to the planet?Click here to read this article
  • Campaign to Label GM Foods Moves To Washington ...
    More than enough signatures were filed in Washington State, 24 hours before today's deadline, to send an initiative to the Legislature that would require the labeling of genetically engineered foods sold at retail.Click here to read this article

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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Saving EducationAnd the Planet
    The suggestion that teachers should also be preparing students to address our growing ecological crises might seem ridiculous at best. But what if doing so could boost student achievement? Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Predator Defense Introduces the Film :"The Imp ...
    Explainswhy wolves can't be successfully managed by state wildlife agencies: Agency methods ignore core biology: how wolves hunt and breed, but their funding depends on hunting/ trapping fees. In fact, current wolf management may result in Wolf's demise. Submitted by Michael M. to Animals &nbsp ...
  • U.S. Navy sailors sue over exposure to Fukushi ...
    officials had to reposition the massive aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan after it passed under the massive plume of airborne radiation from TEPCO Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Meet the Weeds That Monsanto Can't Beat
    When Monsanto revolutionized agriculture with a line of genetically engineered seeds, the promise was that the technology would lower herbicide usebecause farmers would have to spray less.In fact, as Washington State University researcher Chuch Benbrook Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |& ...
  • Aliens Cause Global Warming
    Lecture by Michael Crichton : the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy. Even to a child, the contrast was clear between the world of politics-a world of hate and danger, of irrational beliefs and fears- and science Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cu ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Nuclear Security Helicopters Testing Radiation ...
    ShareThisNuclear Security Helicopters Testing Radiation Levels Above DC Area 05 Jan 2013 Helicopters have been conducting radiation tests above portions of the Washington, D.C. area using remote gamma radiation sensing technology. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been fl ...
  • New York Jets Safety Strips For Anti-Fur Ad
    ShareThisWarning: Graphic imagery and video at source: New York Jets Safety Strips For Anti-Fur Ad 06 Jan 2013 Former New England Patriot Safety (and brand new New York Jet Safety) Bret Lockett is very buff -- and very naked -- in an ad that puts his chiseled physique to work in the struggle to ...
  • Bush-Era Wiretapping Case Killed Before Reachi ...
    ShareThisBush-Era Wiretapping Case Killed Before Reaching Supreme Court 03 Jan 2013 A federal appeals court's August ruling in which it said the federal government may spy on Americans' communications without warrants and without fear of being sued won't be appealed to the Supreme Court, atto ...
  • Obama signs Pentagon bill maintaining Guantana ...
    ShareThisObama signs Pentagon bill maintaining Guantanamo and military detention 05 Jan 2013 For the second year in a row, President Barack Obama has signed into law a Pentagon funding bill that allows for the indefinite military detention of anyone, including American citizens, without charge ...
  • EPA agrees to look into town's radiation concerns
    ShareThisEPA agrees to look into town's radiation concerns 06 Jan 2013 Federal environmental officials will investigate concerns about radiation levels in a northwestern Indiana community after residents and activists raised concern. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notified local ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Tracking Training in South Africa
    07 January 2013
  • Note from a Wise Man
    07 January 2013 A note appeared on a private message board.  This private group includes many current and former generals, and just about anyone you see on television or in books as a national security specialist, ranging from CIA to all the top war correspondents, special operations types ...
  • Amber of War
    06 January 2013 A defense expert commenting on my dispatch “Stuck in the Mud” recommended the book Mud:  A Military History.  I completed reading the book.  The recommendation was solid. The subject became more interesting in Iraq.  Goo would sometimes rain from the skies ...
  • Medevac Crews Increase En-Route Patient Care
    Army UH-60 MEDEVAC Black Hawk (Photo by Sgt. Daniel Schroeder, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs) 05 January 2013 Army.mil/News by Capt. Richard Barker KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- During the course of the last several months, two Medevac companies in Task Force Hammerhead, Company C, 3 ...
  • Americans Never Give Up Your Guns
    03 January 2013 This interesting piece was published 27 December 2012 on a Russian blog. Reprinted here with permission: By Stanislav Mishin Americans Never Give Up Your Guns By Stanislav Mishin These days, there are few few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degen ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Displaced Kachin terrified as shells hit centr ...
    The Burmese army launched a series of mortar attacks against the Kachin rebel headquarters in Laiza on Sunday, prompting panic and fear among the 15,000 displaced people living in camps nearby, according to local sources
  • NLD spokesperson defends alleged rape of ‘Musl ...
    A spokesperson for the National League for Democracy has defended one of their members accused of drugging and raping a 15-year-old girl in a statement that highlights that both he and the alleged victim are Muslims
  • UK team to dig for missing spitfires
    Members of a British team are getting ready to fly to Burma to search for MK14 Spitfires - believed to have been buried at the end of World War II.
  • Suu Kyi says Kachin peace ‘up to governm ...
    Burma's democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday said she would not step in to help end worsening conflict between the army and ethnic Kachin rebels without government approval
  • Govt says Kachin air strikes ‘self-defen ...
    Burma said Friday that air strikes targeting ethnic minority rebels in the northern state of Kachin were in self-defence, vowing "maximum restraint" in the face of growing international concern

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Jewish Foundations Support Islamophobia at Hom ...
    Most Jewish foundations support the equivalent of Bubbeh’s chicken soup: Israel, synagogues, youth groups, Jewish education, Jewish studies programs, etc.  But over the past ten years or so, as the ideological battle within Israel has intensified with a rightward nationalist drift, a numbe ...
  • NYPD Arrests Suspect in Subway Murder, Hate Cr ...
    New York police arrested a 31 year-old woman suspected of murdering a man in Queens by pushing him in the path of an oncoming subway train a few days ago.  Though she fled the scene, she was found and taken into custody today thanks to video footage of her that was aired.  The statements she [...]
  • Egypt Arrests Israeli Activist Traveling to Gaza
    Last summer, after leaving IDF service, Andrei Pshenichnikov, age 24, underwent a radical political conversion.  He began working with anti-Occupation groups and decided to renounce his Israeli citizenship.  Further, he actually moved to the Deheisha refugee camp outside Bethlehem and took up jo ...
  • Support Tikun Olam: 2012 Year-End Appeal
    Support Tikun Olam Every year I write this post asking for readers to step forward and support the efforts I put into this blog to light a fire under Israel’s Occupation regime and hold it accountable for its deeds and misdeeds. In the past year, the most important expose I published was t ...
  • Chuck Hagel, Knifed in the Back by the Lobby
    As I wrote a few days ago when many were whispering that Chuck Hagel’s chances of becoming secretary of defense had died, what does it matter whether it’s the Israel lobby or the Jewish lobby?  When you get a knife in the back, it doesn’t matter who’s putting the shiv int ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Innovative Journalism Projects from 2012 That ...
    This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. While the Knight Lab spent last week looking back at 2012, what we're really excited about is 2013 and beyond. Nieman Journalism Lab has a whole series on what to look for ...
  • A Look Behind Designing The State Decoded
    Over the last few months, I've been working on a standard website design to bundle with The State Decoded. That's the project funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create a standard, installable platform to display laws online. The project started as a Virginia-only site, for w ...
  • Balloon Mapping From the Ground Up: Public Lab ...
    Public Lab's balloon- and kite-based mapping approach is a new way to take aerial images from the ground. However, there are some considerations and things that can be learned from a few map stories. Each map project has distinct characteristics in its time, place, and local atmospheric cond ...
  • Are You a Hacker Who Likes Poderopedia? Help U ...
    A week after Poderopedia launched its public beta, the response it's been getting has been huge. So far, close to 800 users have registered on the website; it's receiving an average of 26 new facts and connections per day; there are request to create local Poderopedia chapters from people in Por ...
  • An Open Call for Ideas: How Would You Use Open ...
    With the new year just a week away, it's the time of year when you might be thinking about the calenders you use and wondering how they could work better for you. Just over a month ago, the OpenSpending team floated the idea of an open spending calendar. The idea was to monitor some key ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Obama's Second Term - Democrats Seek up to $1 ...
    Democrats say they want to raise as much as $1 trillion in new revenues through tax reform later this year to balance Republican demands to slash mandatory spending. Democratic leaders have had little time to craft a new position for their party since passing a tax deal Tuesday that will raise $ ...
  • Obama's Second Term - Taxing the Wealthy
    Democrats always seem to be in search of new ways to get revenue, especially from the rich. One idea being floated around recently which a few European countries have is a tax on wealth, or assets. According to Daniel Altman in the New York Times “the real menace for our long-term prosperity i ...
  • The New Egypt - Morsi Expands Brotherhood Infl ...
    Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi has expanded the number of Muslim Brotherhood ministers in his Cabinet as part of a reshuffle aimed at improving the government's handling of an economic crisis. Ten Egyptian ministers were sworn in on Sunday, three of them members of  Morsi's Muslim ...
  • India's Darkest Edge - Indian Rape Hearing Clo ...
    The court proceedings of five of the six suspects in a brutal gang rape in the Indian capital will be closed to the public. The magistrate hearing the case, Namrita Aggarwal, made the announcement Monday shortly after the suspects arrived at the fast-track court hearing in New Delhi.  She s ...
  • After the Holocaust - Bursting Taittinger's Bubble
    It took 50 years after the war ended for President Chirac to issue an apology for France's actions against the Jews during the Vichy government and the German occupation. As we are witnessing today, anti-Jewish sentiments have not disappeared. The current role of the French press in France's gro ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Random (and Possibly Sick) Thoughts About This ...
    During this past week there have been many questions/comments about the news going through my mind which were much too short to expand into a post. I thought it would be entertaining to put them all together in a post as a little change of pace. Some are serious, others are nearly serious and on ...
  • Newsbusted: Sean Penn Says He's Never Been Lov ...
    Sean Penn has had a long career as  an actor, screenwriter and film director and hater of anything American.  He is also known for his marriages to pop icon Madonna and actress Robin Wright. Sadly the movie star feels very unloved. In a  special report in today's Newsbusted Anchor ...
  • Chuck Hagel: "Let The JOOOOOOOSE Pay For it!"
    There has been much push-back from the proponents of Chuck Hagel's appointment as defense secretary intimating that his opponents were trying to slime a good man with false charges of Antisemitism.  Some are saying the "neo-cons" (another way of saying Joooooooooooose) are ...
  • It's A Miracle! The Washington Post "Gets it!"
    By Barry Rubin It must be a new year. The Washington Post has an editorial explaining that Israeli settlements are not the main problem in the Middle East. The Post editorial is amazing since such sanity is so rare. It begins: “Two mistaken but widely held notions regarding ...
  • Tim Geithner Leaving Tres.: Wants To Start Pre ...
    According to a few news sources Treasury Secretary Turbo Tax Tim Geithner plans to leave the administration at the end of January no matter what the status of the debt ceiling negotiations. After giving in to Obama’s previous entreaties to stay as long as needed, Geithner has indicated to W ...

The Real Agenda

  • NATO begins shipment of Patriot Missiles to Turkey
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 7, 2012 A first group of U.S. soldiers has arrived in Turkey on Friday to work on the deployment of Patriot missile defense system that Turkey had asked NATO for to defend against a supposed imminent Syrian missile attack, said the U.S. Europ ...
  • Obama extends illegal spying of citizens and f ...
    The measure also enables the government to continue spying on foreigners with American ties By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 7, 2013 Barack Obama started 2013 receiving criticism from activists for human rights supporters in the U.S. after extending two controversial measure ...
  • At least 40 Children Paralyzed After Receiving ...
    By CHRISTINA ENGLAND | VACTRUTH | JANUARY 7, 2013 On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, located in northern Chad, Africa. According to the newspaper La Voix, out of five hundred children who received the new meningitis vaccine MenAfriVac, at least ...
  • American taxpayers officially screwed under &# ...
    Those earning $30,000 will pay more taxes than others earning $100,000 – $500,000 By HAYLEY PETERSON | MAIL ONLINE | JANUARY 4, 2012 Middle-class workers will take a bigger hit to their income proportionately than those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 under the new fiscal c ...
  • Venezuela tries to keep it together without Chavez
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 4, 2012 Venezuela’s acting President, Nicolás Maduro, returned to his country Thursday after visiting Cuba, where Hugo Chavez was admitted last month to have surgery. Maduro continued the government’s official policy of not reveal ...

Wind Watch

  • The roar over wind turbines
    Doreen Reilly said her family can’t sleep at night because the wind turbine less than 1,000 feet away sounds like a “jet liner hovering” over her Kingston home. During the day, Reilly said, she gets headaches because the spinning blades from the 400-foot-tall structure cause sunlight to flash li ...
  • Study suggests wind turbines’ low-freque ...
    When it comes to wind farms, it may be the sound you can’t hear that drives you to distraction, according to a report released this week that is pitting environmental groups against one another. The study of noise levels around the Shirley Wind Farm in Brown County detected largely inaudib ...
  • Jacque: Study finds ‘dangerous levels&#8 ...
    A Public Service Commission study has found what one Wisconsin lawmaker classifies as “dangerous levels” of wind turbine-generated low frequency noise or infrasound at the Shirley Wind Project. Rep. Andre Jacque, R-De Pere, has called on the Public Service Commission to issue an emergency rule t ...
  • Bill seeks to ban wind projects
    MONTPELIER — Opponents of ridgeline wind development will introduce a bill in the Senate next month that seeks a temporary ban on the installation of turbines on Vermont’s mountaintops. A similar legislative maneuver during the last session never gained traction. But lawmakers pushing the three- ...
  • Wind turbines’ lifespan far shorter than ...
    Scotland’s landscape could be blighted by the rotting remains of a failed regeneration of windfarms, according to a scathing new report. A study commissioned by the Renewable Energy Foundation has found that the economic life of onshore wind turbines could be far less than that predicted b ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • What people search for online
    When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
  • Should you get a master’s in journalism?
    To answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as well as an investment of your time and your money. Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, has addressed t ...
  • Required reading: How open source makes you better
    In this blog post (Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust), Dan Schultz of The Boston Globe describes what amounts to one of the big reasons why news websites are not as successful as they could be. If you borrow code then you are more likely to be familiar with what the rest of the world is doing. I ...
  • Teaching programming to journalists
    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been preparing a syllabus for an upper-level undergraduate journalism course that I will begin teaching in January. I’ve been learning Python and starting to learn about jQuery. I’ve got some advantages: I learned HTML in ...
  • Most-viewed posts in 2012
    According to my WordPress stats, these are the posts with the most pageviews in the past 12 months: Best social media tools for journalists (5,669) Timelines in journalism: A closer look (4,365) A few words about digital audio recorders (3,626) How to shoot video interviews (3,465) 10 Rul ...

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • California's Poor Long-term Prognosis
    California's current economic recovery may be uneven at best, but things certainly look better now than the pits-of-hell period in 2008. A cautiously optimistic New York Times piece proclaimed "signs of resurgence," and there was even heady talk in Sacramento of eventually sighti ...
  • The Drive-It-Yourself Taxi: A Smooth Ride?
    Despite a corporate sponsor that paid handsomely for the naming rights, Londoners stubbornly refer to our bikesharing system as ‘Boris Bikes’, in a nod to our colourful Mayor, Boris Johnson. But what will we call our new drive-it-yourself taxis? My suggestion: ‘Boris Cabs’ – and they are now a ...
  • California’s Blue Utopia
    The Progressive wing of the Democrat Party sits at the left end of their spectrum. JFK’s liberal positions would be regarded as moderate today. Progressives have a unique vision of what a blue state utopia would look like that begins with clean air, clean water, and green energy. Over ...
  • New Geography's Most Popular Pieces of 2012
    Here’s a list of the most popular pieces from 2012 here at NewGeography, our fourth full calendar year. Thanks for reading and happy 2013. 10. The Cities Where a Paycheck Stretches the Furthest In this piece from July, Joel Kotkin looks at average pay in U.S. metropolitan areas adjust ...
  • Demography as Destiny: The Vital American Family
    Recent reports of America’s sagging birthrate ‑ the lowest since the 1920s, by some measures ‑ have sparked a much-needed debate about the future of the American family. Unfortunately, this discussion, like so much else in our society, is devolving into yet another political squabble ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Cryptogon

  • Christopher Tolkien on the Evisceration of His ...
    Via: WorldCrunch: Christopher Tolkien gave his first ever press interview with Le Monde, shedding light on his father’s vision and sharing his own deep dismay with Hobbit director Peter Jackson. … This commercial galaxy is now worth several billion dollars — most of which does ...
  • Intraoperative Recall: The Perplexing Phenomen ...
    Via: The Atlantic: While subduing consciousness is the most urgent aspect of Tononi’s work, he is especially animated when discussing consciousness in its fullest, brightest state. In his office in Madison, he described a hypothetical device called a “qualiascope” that could visualize consciousn ...
  • Professor Jorge L. Duarte on Yildiz Magnet Motor
    Via: PESN: In the past, many inventors have claimed the possibility of building permanent magnet motors that could operate in a self-sustainable way. However, due to one or another reason, to date, no one has succeeded in bringing forward this alleged performance to the open public. The situatio ...
  • California Now Officially Tolerates Some Homem ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Granola makers, homemade vinegar producers, and other foodies in California have cause to rejoice today. As of Jan. 1, a new state law allows people who make food at home to sell it to restaurants and grocery stores. Leave it to California to upend decades of public health consen ...
  • ‘Can a $1 Trillion Coin End Debt Ceiling ...
    There’s a lot of laughter about this, but the proposal is not altogether different from what the U.S. is doing already in slow motion. The key difference between simply minting trillion dollar coins and the way the debt scam is currently done is as follows: If the U.S. Government prints x ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Large Cities All Over America Are Degenerating ...
    Large U.S. cities that the rest of the world used to look at in envy are now being transformed into gang-infested hellholes with skyrocketing crime rates.  Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis, New Orleans and Oakland were once bustling with economic activity, but as industry ...
  • 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will ...
    Do you believe that economic trouble is coming in 2013?  If so, you have a lot of company.  According to a brand new Gallup poll that was just released, 65 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be a year of "economic difficulty" while only 33 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be ...
  • The Good, The Bad And The Ugly From The Fiscal ...
    The fiscal cliff deal contains more bad news than it does good news.  Yes, the tax increases on the middle class could have been much worse, and we should be thankful that Congress at least did something for the middle class.  Unfortunately, they didn't do enough.  Every American worker is going ...
  • 50 Predictions For 2013
    Are you ready for a wild 2013?  It should be a very interesting year.  When the calendar flips over each January, lots of people make lots of lists.  They make lists of "resolutions", but most people never follow through on them.  They make lists of "predictions", but most of those predictions a ...
  • A Massive Electromagnetic Pulse Could Collapse ...
    What would you do if all the lights went out and they never came back on?  That is a question that the new NBC series "Revolution" asks, but most people have no idea that a similar thing could happen in real life at any moment.  A single gigantic electromagnetic pulse over the central United Sta ...

Desertification

  • Food Gardens Found With Google Earth (Science ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130103151513.htm Finding Chicago’s Food Gardens With Google Earth Urban agriculture is promoted as a strategy for dealing with food insecurity, stimulating economic development, and combating diet-related health problems in cities. How ...
  • Ethanol, drought and the price of corn (New Ag ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/developments/devItem.php?a=2846 For the past three years, America’s Midwest has experienced serious drought and recent reports suggest that similar weather patterns will continue to hamper agricultural growth throughout the region. The resulting spike in ...
  • New geopolitics of food security (New Agricult ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/book/review.php?a=2865 Full planet, empty plates – The new geopolitics of food security By Lester R. Brown Published by W.W.Norton Website: http://www.wwnorton.com 2012, 144pp, ISBN 978 0 393 34415 8 (Pb), US$16.95 “World agriculture is now facing ...
  • Nile Water to Feed Saudi Cows (Green Prophet)
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/01/saudi-nile-water-for-cows/ Saudi- Arabia : Nile Water to Feed its Cows by Tafline Laylin Land grabs are old news, but National Geographic has taken a closer look at Saudi’s African interests in particular and the resulting story is … Continue r ...
  • Man Is the Main Cause of Desertification (Goog ...
    Read at : http://www.antiessays.com/free-essays/382005.html “Man Is the Main Cause of Desertification’ Evaluate This Statement Essay Below is a free essay on “”Man Is the Main Cause of Desertification’ Evaluate This Statement” from Anti Essays, your source for ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • In Our Lovely Deseret! Undeniable Facts that M ...
    1.  Early Mormons are today euphemistically called “pioneers”.  Actually, they were an extremely zealous group of expatriates led by money-grubbing charlatans and frauds who left the U.S. primarily to establish a new nation/state.  In a letter to U.S. President James Polk, Mormon &#8 ...
  • Osama bin Laden: The Cat with Nine Lie-ves
    The date was the day after Christmas, Dec. 26, 2001.   I personally remember it quite well. America was still reeling from the Israeli False-Flag Attacks of Sept. 11. The “Patriot Bill” had just been passed, and U.S. Troops were on the ground in Afghanistan fighting with the “N ...
  • Just a Shotgun? Just a SHOTGUN? Read and Sha ...
    Just a Shotgun! You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and p ...
  • Forbidden Archeology – Coverups and Inte ...
    The “Smithsonian” Institute is a veritable black hole for the majority of major archeological finds that would expose esoteric TRUTH.    Why keep the people ignorant?   Quite simple, really – TRUTH is knowledge, and thus TRUTH is POWER.  Those who wish to maintain their control ...
  • NeoTame – Aspartame on Steroids!
    Neo (New) Tame (lacking in spirit or initiative; meek or submissive) -  That FITS, doesn’t it?   NewTame, in case you don’t know, is an excito-toxin that I, as a nutritional researcher, have found to be virtually impossible to trace how it is manufactured, and exactly who has patente ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • What Caused the Ice in my Attic
    Why is there ICE in my Attic and where did it come from? ICE DAMS ARE CREATED WHEN THE HOT MOIST AIR RISES FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING. As the Hot Moist Air Rises into the Attic and meets the Roof Framing System.  Condensation Occurs on the Cold Framing Members consisting of: Rafters, Roof ...
  • What Caused the Ice in my Attic
    Why is there ICE in my Attic and where did it come from? ICE DAMS ARE CREATED WHEN THE HOT MOIST AIR RISES FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING. As the Hot Moist Air Rises into the Attic and meets the Roof Framing System.  Condensation Occurs on the Cold Framing Members consisting of: Rafters, Roof ...
  • 2012 in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 32,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 7 Film Festivals Click here to see the com ...
  • 2012 in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 32,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 7 Film Festivals Click here to see the com ...
  • Frost on Roof or Lack of Frost is a sure sign...
    Reblogged from Scotts Contracting: On the Frosty Mornings when you are outside your house scraping your cars windshield to prepare for your drive to work. Take a look at the Roof of your Home. -Lack of Frost or Snow on your Roof is a sure indication that it was melted by the Heat as it [...]

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Georgetown Law Professor Wants to Abolish Cons ...
      In a December 30thNew York Times OpEd, Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman calls to abolish the U.S. Constitution. He refers to its provisions as “archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil.” In his piece, he argues that blind obedience to the Constitution ...
  • Oliver Stone Blasts Obama's Empire
    Academy award winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kusnick have co-authored a new Showtime Series and book entitled The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the chapter on Obama with interviewer Abby Martin. According to Stone and Kusnick, their book (and series) ...
  • When Facebook Deactivates Your Account
    Professor Peter Dale Scott Peter Dale Scott, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and one of the most esteemed researchers of the murky JFK assassination and CIA involvement in cocaine trafficking, recently had his Facebook account inactivated, along with a eighteen other activists who either ...
  • The Women Who Set Fire to Their Boss - Part II
    Assam tea pluckers (This is the second of two posts regarding the recent industrial dispute on a tea plantation in India in which 1,000 tea workers set fire to their employer’s bungalow, killing both him and his wife.) Why Weren’t MKB Tea Pluckers in the Union? Chah Mazdoor Sangha ...
  • The (Female) Tea Workers Who Set Fire to Their ...
    photo credit France24.com (This is the first of two posts regarding the recent industrial dispute on a tea plantation in India in which 1,000 tea workers set fire to their employer’s bungalow, killing both him and his wife.) “We all came and attacked the bungalow and set it on fi ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Supporting ...
    From The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: Almost from the beginning, Kissinger had secretly had all his telephone calls, including those with the President, monitored and transcribed... Nixon was often on the phone with Kissinger for fifteen minutes or longer. The President was r ...
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...
    Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Criticizing Democ ...
    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Se ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About the War on Women on ...
    From @MMFlint "McCaskill, Warren, Stabenaw, Klobuchar, Baldwin Senate victories = Declare a War on Women, prepare to lose. #legitimate" "RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, how the f*** are all these women winning?! They don't even wear TIES." "RT @KailiJoy: Magic lady parts not only detect rape s ...
  • GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quite
    By Walt De Vries From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Scientagonism: The Problem of Antagonistic Sci ...
    A recent column by Daniel Sarewitz in Nature on bridging the "partisan divide" with respect to public perception of science inspired some spirited debate over on my twitter feed yesterday. The short version goes something like this: scientists are often perceived as being in the thrall ...
  • A Revolution in Radiation Protection?
    Dr. Wade Allison, author of Radiation and Reason, recently shared a short paper titled A revolution in radiation protection that would lead to safer and cheaper nuclear power. He described it as “reference light”, explaining that his intended audience for this work is not the journal-reading aca ...
  • Energy Issues Hit the Big Screen
    Last night I attended the pre-screening of Matt Damon's newest flick "Promised Land."  The film is about natural gas fracking and centres around an energy company land negotiator who is sent into a community where a new shale gas formation has been discovered to sign contracts with the land ...
  • How Do Americans View Environmental Issues?
    A recently released report by VeraQuest Inc.
  • Energy Priorities of the Irish EU Presidency [ ...

EU Times

  • Obama Death Squads Fan Out Across America As R ...
    A grim Federal Security Forces (FSB) “urgent action” memorandum prepared for President Putin is warning that United States President Barack Obama has ordered at least 800 highly trained “death squad” units to disperse throughout his country in preparation for what Russian intelligence analysts a ...
  • Obama Warned To Prepare For Hillary Clinton Death
    A startling Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Obama was informed by White House medical personal shortly after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s [photo top right] return to the United States that her health prognosis was “grim” a ...
  • Obama signs law countering Iranian sway in Lat ...
    US President Barack Obama enacted a law on Friday targeting Iran’s alleged influence in Latin America. This comes as Washington already wages a “covert war” against Iran, according to researcher Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich. The act also calls on the Department of Homeland Security to bolster s ...
  • Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret ...
    A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [photo 2nd right] was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed ne ...
  • US Senate to Ban Hundreds of Semiautomatic Rif ...
    For anyone who may have thought Senator Feinstein and her colleagues in Congress were bluffing about coming firearms legislation that would restrict the sale, transfer and possession of certain firearms, think again. A summary of the proposed legislation has been made available, and it’s a whopp ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Apple App Store hits 40 billion downloads
    According to an official Apple press release , the company has announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone from the App Store. This figure includes unique downloads only, excluding any re-downloads and updates. The release states that: Cu ...
  • Assad Says He Will Remain in Power
    At the Los Angeles Times, " Syria President Bashar Assad makes clear he won't step down ": BEIRUT â Ignoring mounting casualties and dwindling support, Syrian President Bashar Assad made clear to the world Sunday in his first public address in half a year that he has no intention of relinquishi ...
  • HTC Profit Slumps as Competition Intensifies
    HTC Corp.’s net profit fell for the fifth consecutive quarter to its lowest level since 2006, and analysts expect the first quarter to remain challenging as competition in the smartphone market intensifies. The Taiwanese smartphone maker, which first started selling HTC-branded phones in 2006 a ...
  • Obama to Nominate Radical John Brennan as CIA ...
    President Obama will nominate White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan for CIA director today. This is the same official who insists on reaching out to “moderate” elements of the Hezbollah terror group. John Brennan also believes that 20% recidivism rate for Gitmo detainees is not that ...
  • Lenovo shows off enormous 27-inch âtable table ...
    Forget the battle between 7-inch and 10-inch tablets  â  Lenovo’s  ( 0992 ) got something much bigger in mind. Per AllThingsD , Lenovo will show off its 27-inch IdeaCentre Horizon at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, a gigantic full HD multi-touch display that runs Windows 8 and f ...

Groklaw

  • Why Mark Shuttleworth thinks Ubuntu on phones ...
    Here are Shuttleworth's comments:... "At the high end we have the great fortune to be coming to market late, in the sense that Moore's Law has given us at least seven or eight generations of performance improvements since Android came to market and we've been able to take advantage of that. It's ...
  • The government leaves Google alonewhat it mean ...
    Is it a good thing that regulators won't be messing with Google? On balance, yes. Corporations that amass too much power are worth worrying about, and need to be watched-by governments, by non-profits, by journalists and by citizens at large. But at the end of the day, the insistence that Google ...
  • Democracy and Disdain
    The Supreme Court's 2011 Term illustrates the consequences of dismissing democratic politics and democratic engagement in the ar- ticulation of constitutional values. The problem is not fundamentally that the Court overrides the choices of the people or their elected rep- resentatives. Indeed, s ...
  • Apple Tops 50% Of The U.S. Smartphone Market
    Apple iPhones is taking market share back from Android, accounting for 53.3% of U.S. smartphone sales for the 12-week period ending November 25, according to the market research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. - Eric Savitz, Forbes
  • Why Touch Screens Will Not Take Over
    When Windows 7 came out, offering a touch mode for the first time, I spent a few weeks living with a couple of touch-screen PCs. It was a miserable experience. Part of the problem was that the targets-buttons, scroll bars and menus that were originally designed for a tiny arrow cursor-were too s ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Judge demanded “shredded vagina” as proof of r ...
    By the stated logic of a California judge in 2008, no woman is raped unless she can demonstrate that her “vagina was shredded by the rape” (full text below). The California prosecutor in the case pretty much agreed with the judge, even though they were both misstating California law at the time ...
  • G-Form iPhone case protects it in 100,000 foot ...
    It functioned perfectly after crash landing and wasn’t even scratched.
  • Drive By Truckers – Drag The Lake Charlie
    A deeply twisted tale indeed from one of my favorite bands. Drag the lake, Charlie Charlie, drag the lake Lester didn’t come home last night And Wanda’s all irate Better keep your fingers crossed And hope we find him drowned Wanda’s gonna come and kill us all If he shows up in ...
  • One hundred billion planets in our galaxy alone
    Credit: Wikimedia Commons Our galaxy has about one hundred billion stars. A new Caltech study estimates our galaxy has one hundred billion planets. A reasonable “guesstimate” is there are hundreds of billions of galaxies. The biggest galaxy known has one hundred trillion stars. Dr. A ...
  • Op-ed on gun control shows we’re mostly just s ...
    Wikimedia Commons Univ of Georgia college student Walker Smith asks for reasoned and effective gun control and mental health policies. Read the comments and understand why this is unlikely to happen. The comments are mostly a flamefest with gun owners mocking him as a useless hippie. This is wha ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

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

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How to Stop Wasting Food
    By Dr. Mercola That old bunch of carrots or pot of soup that sat for too long in your fridge, then ended up in your trash, doesn’t seem like much. But when translated over an entire year, and expanded globally, the problem of food waste transforms into one of epic proportions. Unfortuna ...
  • Diabetes Remission Possible with Diet, Exercise
    By Dr. Mercola It has taken decades, but medical professionals are finally starting to give diet and exercise for the prevention and reversal of type 2 diabetes some well-deserved attention. "... the new study can give people with the disease hope that through lifestyle changes, they ...
  • What You Need to Know About the Different Form ...
    Download Interview Transcript By Dr. Mercola Dr. Christopher Shade, a former organic farmer, received his PhD from the University of Illinois. His education included the study of metal-ligand interaction in the environment, and for a long time, he specialized in environmental- and a ...
  • Decluttering in the New Year
    By Dr. Mercola The start of a new year marks the perfect time to give your home and office a clutter makeover, purging it of the excess papers, files, knick knacks and other “stuff” that not only takes up space in your physical environment, but also in your mind. Clutter is an often-unrecogn ...
  • How Vitamin D Can Help Slash Your Risk of 7 Di ...
    By Dr. Mercola When it comes to vitamin D research, there seems to be no end to the good news. No matter what ailment is being evaluated, vitamin D churns out positive results. Below, I'll review seven recent findings from the medical literature. Keep in mind that while these studies looked ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Large Cities All Over America Are Degenerating ...
    Large U.S. cities that the rest of the world used to look at in envy are now being transformed into gang-infested hellholes with skyrocketing crime rates.  Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis, New Orleans and Oakland were once bustling with economic activity, but as industry ...
  • 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will ...
    Do you believe that economic trouble is coming in 2013?  If so, you have a lot of company.  According to a brand new Gallup poll that was just released, 65 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be a year of "economic difficulty" while only 33 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be ...
  • The Good, The Bad And The Ugly From The Fiscal ...
    The fiscal cliff deal contains more bad news than it does good news.  Yes, the tax increases on the middle class could have been much worse, and we should be thankful that Congress at least did something for the middle class.  Unfortunately, they didn't do enough.  Every American worker is going ...
  • 50 Predictions For 2013
    Are you ready for a wild 2013?  It should be a very interesting year.  When the calendar flips over each January, lots of people make lots of lists.  They make lists of "resolutions", but most people never follow through on them.  They make lists of "predictions", but most of those predictions a ...
  • A Massive Electromagnetic Pulse Could Collapse ...
    What would you do if all the lights went out and they never came back on?  That is a question that the new NBC series "Revolution" asks, but most people have no idea that a similar thing could happen in real life at any moment.  A single gigantic electromagnetic pulse over the central United Sta ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • As foreclosure crisis drags on, so does flawed ...
    A look at the government's response as the foreclosure crisis enters its seventh year. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: For the 1 percent, a fiscal g ...
    A by-the-numbers look at the so-called "fiscal cliff" deal approved at the 11th hour by Congress shows that the wealthy and corporate interests got some big breaks. read more
  • Transocean settlement deal a boost for Gulf re ...
    Most of the $1.4 billion in fines and penalties that Transocean has agreed to pay for its negligence in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster will be sent to the Gulf Coast region to fund environmental restoration work. read more
  • VOICES: Medicaid misinformation multiplies
    One of the biggest decisions facing North Carolina's new legislature and governor is whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to cover more than 500,000 low-income people. Much of the opposition to expansion is more about ideology than anything else, a visceral reaction to a law ...
  • NC governor-elect vows immediate action to beg ...
    Speaking today at the N.C. Bankers Association's 2013 Economic Forecast Forum, incoming Republican Gov. Pat McCrory said he would waste no time in joining with Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia to begin negotiating with the federal government to drill offshore for gas and oil. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

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

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • Counting Electors
    If the Republican Party were to adopt a scorched earth policy — counting electors one way in certain swing states and another way in solid red states — they could conceivably lock in a Republican presidential win for the next several election cycles. As a practical matter it would no ...
  • Constitutional Wrinkles
    Americans have been brainwashed into thinking we have the greatest system of government in the world. Arguably, however, much the opposite is true. In practical terms our system is neither democratic nor representative, when, that is, it works at all. But the Constitution has become America's ci ...
  • Three Truths and a Lie
    'Tis the season for... reflections on life. And death. Yet death often feels ominously dark, especially when a young person dies before their time. It's difficult, in such circumstances, to remember that darkness isn't all bad — indeed, there's reason to believe it may be a source of enlig ...
  • Running Against the Grain (Part II)
    Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...
  • Running Against the Grain (Part I)
    Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a nearly ...

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Stop NATO

  • Bolivia, Ecuador Accuse U.S. Of Destabilizatio ...
    RT January 7, 2013 Bolivia slams US over ‘irrefutable evidence’ of meddling Bolivia has “concrete evidence” that the US is plotting to destabilize the Latin American nation, Minister Juan Ramon Quintana said. Proof of US “harassment” of the Bolivian government will be handed over to ...
  • Burnt Beyond Recognition: U.S. Drone Strike Ki ...
    Xinhua News Agency January 6, 2013 16 killed in U.S. drone strike in NW Pakistan ISLAMABAD: At least 16 people were killed and seven others injured when U.S drones fired a number of missiles at different targets in Pakistan’s northwest tribal area of South Waziristan on Sunday, reported lo ...
  • Upton Sinclair: How wars start, how they can b ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Upton Sinclair From Expect No Peace (1938) We have a great number of peace societies in America, and in my part of the country they eat many dinners and listen to many speeches full of ...
  • Baptism Of Blood: NATO To Continue Providing G ...
    Xinhua News Agency January 5, 2013 Georgia pledges continued contribution to Afghan mission ==== The South Caucasus country so far has lost 19 soldiers in Afghanistan. The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, which has now turned into a NATO-led ISAF operation, has become the longest military conflict i ...
  • Patriot Missiles Near Syrian Border To Be Unde ...
    United States European Command January 4, 2013 U.S. Patriots, Troops Arrive in Turkey to Support NATO Deployment EUCOM Public Affairs Photograph: NATO STUTTGART, Germany: U.S. personnel and equipment began arriving at Incirlik Air Base today to support NATO’s Patriot battery deployment to Turkey ...

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Intel Hub

  • Illinois Democrats Back Down On Gun Grab
    Paul Joseph Watson | A draconian gun ban in Illinois that could have set the stage for a nationwide assault on second amendment rights has failed, with lawmakers indicating that new gun control legislation is unlikely to make an appearance in the final days of the lame duck session.
  • Report: Rocket Launchers Turned in to LAPD are ...
    Frank Drover | In late December, Chief Charlie Beck of the Los Angeles Police Department made national headlines when his department reported that their city’s gun buy-back program yielded two military grade rocket launchers.
  • U.S. Government Using Terrorism Against the Am ...
    Washington's Blog | We’ve documented that – by any measure – America is the largest sponsor of terrorism in the world.
  • After Sandy Hook: How Psychiatrists Will Becom ...
    John Rappoport | Obama, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, stated that mental-health services must be made more available, presumably to stave off future killers.
  • Patient Prescription Drug Records May be Used ...
    Mike Adams | All Americans who have been prescribed psychiatric medications could be denied their constitutional rights under gun control legislation expected to be introduced into the Senate.

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Billions And Billions: Our Galaxy Has At Least ...
    There is also a cornucopia of comets. Comfortably a few years into their mission, scientists working with the Kepler Space Telescope are now getting deep into statistics. Like pollsters drawing conclusions from a small sample of voters, they’re confident the few thousand planets and planet cand ...
  • Clever Measures: Three Projects That Reimagine ...
    New ways to keep time, count bees, and spot energy leaks in your home ANALOG BIKE CLOCK
  • Do Natural Disasters Breed Health Epidemics?
    A deadly outbreak of cholera followed the 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti three years ago this week. Jonathan Katz, the only American reporter stationed in Haiti at the time, explains what caused the outbreak--and why it was anything but inevitable. Few post-disaster myths have a stronger hol ...
  • 2013 Prediction: Asia Takes Two Routes To Space
    China and India have different ambitions in space, but missions from both countries will help us better understand the cosmos. Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used to be measured in decades. But big changes arr ...
  • Mathematical Snow Art And Other Amazing Photos ...
    Including a gigantic airship, an abandoned Soviet theme park, and more Click to enter the gallery

Veterans Today

  • America, Pakistan and the Game of Shadows at D ...
    From theory to practicality, it seems that there isn’t a different between the way souls deal, or the states. Looking closely, it gets obvious ...
  • Statist Philosophy the Scourge of Christianity
    The normal condition of man ruling over men resorts to the practice of coercive force. Statism so aptly reflects this system of compliance. When ...
  • The Despicable Washington “Pest”
    Other than Jeff Stein, a genuinely funny guy, the idea of actually touching a "Washington Post" without gloves and a mask is not recommended, not for humans at least.
  • The scoundrels are at it again and we keep re- ...
    WE THE PEOPLE never learn. We swallowed the snake oil on taxing the rich and are about to be sucked into another money wasting, pork-ladened Congressional effort to help Hurricane Sandy victims while screwing the rest of America. More than half what is about to be spent doesn't help the victims.
  • Historical Revisionism – the Irreversibl ...
    - During Doug Collin's four years as a prisoner of war, he made no fewer than ten escape attempts. I’ve been told he succeeded with seven.

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    DOE set to award 4 renewable energy contracts
    Inquirer.net
    The Department of Energy is set to award four new renewable energy service contracts that will allow two energy firms to explore and develop prospective geothermal blocks in Luzon. For signing and awarding are contracts for the Negron-Cuadrado ...
    Three wind turbines bring Gloucester renewable energy
    Boston.com (blog)
    Gloucester has become the first community north of Boston with three turbines, taking advantage of an average daily wind speed of nearly 16 miles per hour. “It's a statement about choosing our own destiny and becoming independent from oil,” said Mayor ...
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    'Nutty professor' develops creative renewable energy source. Posted: Sunday, January 6, 2013 2:12 PM EST. (CNN) - He's called the "nutty professor" by one of his sons, but inventor Peter Dearman has developed a renewable energy source in his garage.
    Carbon tax would level playing field for renewable energy
    Boston Globe
    Phil Flynn, an energy commodities trader, suggests that renewable energy technologies are obsolete, and that “if they can't compete, maybe they shouldn't” (“Fracking may hold key to energy independence,” On the Hot Seat, Money & Careers, Dec. 30).
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    Human Habitat

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    Permit to increase US Ecology hazardous waste site in Robstown to be ...
    Corpus Christi Caller Times
    Caller-Times file A US Ecology-Robstown employee unloads barrels for use as part of the facility's recycling operation in 2009. The company has applied to amend its existing permit to allow it to enlarge its landfill and remove limitations on operating ...
    Ecology seeking January king tide photos
    Access Washington
    Ecology seeking January king tide photos. OLYMPIA – In December 2012, winter's naturally occurring higher-than-usual tides coincided with a winter storm, pushing marine waters into streets, parking lots and even some homes in Washington's coastal areas.
    Ecology adopts SEPA rule changes
    Access Washington
    OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has adopted a new rule that increases the flexible thresholds local governments may adopt to exempt certain minor new construction projects from review under the State Environmental Policy Act ...
    Dark Ecology | Paul Kingsnorth | Orion Magazine
    The Wildlife News
    In an essay titled “Dark Ecology” that appears in the latest issue of Orion Magazine, writer Paul Kingsnorth delves into his own thoughts about our increasingly technological society and how we are finding ourselves and the natural environment set on a ...
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    water floods pollution
    Water main break damages Clairmont Road near DeKalb Peachtree Airport
    Atlanta Journal Constitution
    Monday morning commuters using Clairmont Road past the Dekalb Peachtree Airport should be prepared for slow going after a major water main break over the weekend damaged a two-block stretch of the road and sidewalks. The main broke early Saturday ...
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    Water utility warns of chlorine taste, smell in tap water
    The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
    New Jersey American Water has announced a change in the water treatment process for its water customers in Somerset and five other counties as part of its annual pipeline maintenance program. The water utility will change the water treatment from a ...
    Got water? Hard to know in Mexico City.
    Christian Science Monitor
    There was no announcement, no time to fill the washing machine with water to divvy out for cleaning dishes, flushing toilets, or taking a meager bath with a pot of water heated on the stove. With 20 million-plus inhabitants in the metropolitan area ...
    EPA's Fracking Study May Dodge Water Contamination Frequency Issue
    Huffington Post
    PITTSBURGH (AP) — An ongoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study on natural gas drilling and its potential for groundwater contamination has gotten tentative praise so far from both industry and environmental groups. Glenn Paulson, the EPA's ...
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