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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, January 7, 2013

7 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Bahrain-2 (Photo credit: didkovskaya)
East Channel Lighthouse and Pictured Rocks
East Channel Lighthouse and Pictured Rocks (Photo credit: James Marvin Phelps)
Mariah Carey during red carpet interviews at t...
Mariah Carey during red carpet interviews at the 82nd Academy Awards. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • TorrentWorld: How LED TV Makers Co-Opt Piracy
    Pssst...is that a 720p or a 1080p? Here's one last story whose implications run in the billions and billions that involves home entertainment as we come to the end of the holiday season. (Oh, the sacrifices I have to endure alike watching a digitally enhanced Mariah Carey moping around in a Sant ...
  • PC Gone Mad: Women Drivers' Car Insurance in EU
    Contrary to hoary stereotypes about "women drivers," the truth is that they are safer drivers--at least in the EU. So much so that women have been charged commensurately lower premiums in EU nations for years. However, in a dubious case of political correctness, the EU has issued a directive aga ...
  • Falklands Referendum is Farce (But I Support UK)
    Oh, when will we ever be done with the firebrand red-haired woman from Argentina, Missus Kirchner?  Never will I more clearly support a blatantly specious argument for "democracy"*--make that *****--than here. At midyear 2012, the UK government announced plans to hold a Falklands referendum ...
  • Racism and Turkey's EU Bid, Episode VLXVII
    In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man Now I've reached that age, I've tried to do all those things the best I can No matter how I try, I find my way into the same old jam  Good times, bad times, Turkey's had its share alike Led Zeppelin. When it comes to its pros ...
  • Gangnam Fail: A White Take on K-Wave's Success
    I am verily annoyed by an FT op-ed by neoconservative stalwart Christopher Caldwell that so happens to be the most-read article in the opinion section at the moment, so please indulge me in starting off the year with a critique. (This remains a blog, after all.) I do not need to reiterate how Am ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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

Voiceless Victim

  • Fire’s Too Good for These Devils
    As much of Australia prepares to face catastrophic bush fire conditions today, I hope everyone is safe from fires and comes through unscathed. That even includes the church’s carefully protected child rapists and those who sacrifice additional children to cover up their crimes. Fire is too ...
  • Smokescreen Council Working for Deceitful Chur ...
    The CEO of the Council Which Should Not Exist, Francis Sullivan, is following in the footsteps of church officials by claiming, without basis, to speak for victims of the serial child sex offenders enabled and protected by his church. This week’s comments include a stated desire to be &#82 ...
  • Papists protect child rapists
    Papists protect rapists  by Voiceless Victim Papists protect their child rapists but won’t protect kids – like me. Papists pretend. What rapists? Who cares what those lies do to me. Papists revere holy rapists but won’t even listen to me Papists stand up for their rapists the o ...
  • Untruth, Injustice and Denial of Healing Council
    One month after the announcement by the Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, of a national Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions, the Catholic Church in Australia announced its own body. The so-called Truth, Justice and Healing Council. Sounds like i ...
  • First Christmas in a country that gives a damn ...
    This year is the first Christmas that Australian victims of clergy child sexual abuse live in a country that no longer ignores our suffering, that recognises that what was done to us constitutes serious crimes that deserve investigation, and intends to do something about it. We are yet to see wh ...

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Making a Killing... The Untold Story of Psycho ...
    This documentary provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. These drugs are not safe and have not been on the market long enough to provide sufficient long term studies regarding their effects. ~ Documentary read more
  • Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
    We would like to thank our loyal readers and new visitors for another great alternative news year. We hope every one had a safe and wonderful Christmas... Best wishes for a safe, peaceful, healthy, enlightened and prosperous New Year... Stay awake and wake up those around you... HAPPY NEW YEAR 2 ...
  • If You Are On This List You May Be In Grave Da ...
    Over the weekend a mainstream media web site on the east coast published, presumably in the interest of public safety, a complete list of individuals and businesses that are licensed to carry or own handguns. ~ Mac Salvo read more
  • 10 Predictions for 2013
    This past year, 2012, was an eventful year. We had another Olympics, a U.S. presidential election, the warmest year on record, and lived through the Mayan apocalypse... read more
  • 'Deceased' Emilie Parker With Obama?... You De ...
    Illuminati hiding in plain sight? Is this the same girl wearing the same dress? Or is it her sister (between parents) already wearing the dress of the deceased? Obama and the children seem pretty cheerful considering Emilie was supposedly brutally murdered days before... Henry Makow - Video r ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Choosing a Hand Grain Mill
    How do I choose which hand grain mill to buy? There are quite a range of prices for various hand grain mills, and it may seem difficult to decide which one to choose, but you can narrow your choice by considering two basic questions… 1. Do you intend to grind/mill into flour for breads (ve ...
  • Intense Flu 2012-2013
    Flu Map – United States Flu patients are flooding clinics. The CDC reports no sign of a peak for this year’s early and intense flu season in which the numbers are startlingly higher than recent past years. “I think we’re still accelerating,” said Tom Skinner, a CDC ...
  • Feinstein To Ban Hammers And Clubs?
    image source: BREITBART There are more people killed each year from hammers and clubs than there are from rifles. Will Senator Feinstein target these hammers and clubs as soon as she’s through gutting the 2nd Amendment? According to the FBI annual crime statistics, the number of murders co ...
  • Catalog Everything For Insurance
    Prepare for the unexpected by carefully making a catalog of all your keepsakes, especially for insurance purposes. Photograph and list your household valuables, along with estimates of their worth. With digital cameras today, it is very easy to snap photos and keep an electronic record of the th ...
  • Carjacking: Victim or Avoidance
    What Is Carjacking? Carjacking is the crime of stealing a motor vehicle when the vehicle is occupied. Typically, the carjacker is armed, and the driver is forced out of the car with the threat of bodily injury. In other rarer cases, the driver is kidnapped under the assault by a weapon, or made ...

Fast Company

  • This Mind-Boggling Installation Breaks The Law ...
    Artist Matt Kenyon exploits a common optical illusion in Supermajor, a commentary on the oil industry’s abundance and waste. Ever heard of a “supermajor?” I hadn’t either. But if you grew up in an oil town or near the Gulf Coast, it’s probably a familiar term. ...
  • Magnificent Images Of A Perfect Snowfall On Th ...
    Miami photographer Michael Zimmerer photographs the post-snowstorm Midwest. My childhood memories of snow--in rural Alberta and Pennsylvania--are magical. My adult memories? Not so much. Living in a city has its perks, but trundling through a layer cake of ice, McDonald’s wrappers, a ...
  • Ouya's $45,000 Game Jam
    Kickstarter-funded Android gaming console Ouya is offering developers $45,000 in prizes to build games within 10 days. Android gaming console Ouya, which famously Kickstarted $2.5 million in under 24 hours, is taking a similarly disruptive approach to game creation. Ouya announced today th ...
  • 3 Companies That Could Change The Way We Use Water
    From pulling water from fog to saving fuel used to boil water, these companies are the finalists of a contest to change the way we use our most precious resource. It’s impossible to overstate the value of water. Without it, we’d be dead. And yet, 69% of Americans polled in a re ...
  • 40 Billion Downloads Put The App In Apple
    Apple reveals that 40 billion app downloads took place on iOS devices since the iPhone debuted in 2007. It may have been a very 'appy Christmas for smartphones and tablets of all stripes, but Apple's just announced some truly staggering statistics. Since the arrival of the iPhone in 2007 s ...

Jadaliyya

  • رد فرقة الدام على مقال التقاليد والآلة المناه ...
    !" رد فرقة الـ"دام" على مقال: "التقاليد والآلة المناهضة للسياسة: "جرائم الشرف" تغوي فرقة الدام  الرد جاء من أعضاء الفرقة: تامر نفار وسهيل نفار ومحمود جريري (الدام). لقد كنا سعداء أن نجد على صفحات "جدلي ...
  • التقاليد والآلة المناهضة للسياسة: "جرائم الشرف ...
    إننا نكتب هذه المقالة كمشجّعات (خائبات الأمل) لفرقة الهيب هوب الفلسطينية الدام في وقت يذكرنا فيه الهجوم العنيف على غزة بالواقع القاسي للحياة والموت الذي يعيشه الفلسطينيون كل يوم، نساء ورجالاً. وهبت الدام عبر أغان مثل "مين إرهابي؟" و"إنولدت هون"، صوتاً سياسياً مثيراً لجيل ...
  • Tamerlane in Damascus
     In December of 1400, Timur left the rubble of Aleppo and Hama behind, making his way to the outskirts of the first city of Syria, Damascus. By this time an Egyptian army under the command of the Mamluk Sultan himself had arrived in Syria, engaging in several skirmishes with Timur’s forces. ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (January 7)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • Last week on Jadaliyya (Dec 31- Jan 6)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles.  Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Orientalist Feminism Rears its Head ...

mediagazer

  • Shop for ebooks at the grocery store, with new ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: Shop for ebooks at the grocery store, with new txtr/ReaderLink partnership  —  In an attempt to compete with Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Berlin-based ebook company txtr and U.S. print book distributor ReaderLink have partnered to sell ebooks t ...
  • Sony and BMG Are Said to Team Up on Bid for EM ...
    Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: Sony and BMG Are Said to Team Up on Bid for EMI  —  Sony and BMG, onetime partners in one of the music world's biggest mergers, are teaming up again on a bid to buy — and then divide between themselves — some of the recorded music assets ...
  • Freelance Writer Says He Was Stiffed By The Da ...
    Jim Romenesko: Freelance Writer Says He Was Stiffed By The Daily  —  On November 26, The Daily published freelancer Robert Johnson's story, “Iran's Speed Demons.”  —  One week later, Rupert Murdoch & Co. announced they were pulling the plug on the ...
  • Samsung will sponsor AP tweets during CES (And ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Samsung will sponsor AP tweets during CES  —  Electronics giant Samsung will provide content for tweets sent through AP's account during the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show electronics show in Las Vegas, the press cooperative says in a pres ...
  • BuzzFeed parties on with launch of Hollywood s ...
    Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: BuzzFeed parties on with launch of Hollywood site  —  Viral media beast BuzzFeed has already shaken up news coverage in New York and Washington.  Now, the site is taking its playbook to the west coast where it aspires to remake reporting on ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Berlusconi announces new alliance with the Nor ...
    MILAN - Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi announced a deal Monday with the Northern League — his fractious coalition partner in three governments — to jointly run in Italy's election next month, a move that could give fresh impetus to the center-right and extend the Berlusconi era. Wh ...
  • UN Chief Disappointed at Syrian Leader's Speech
    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expressing disappointment that Syrian President Bashar Assad has rejected the most important elements in a roadmap to end his country's 22-month conflict — a political transition and establishment of a transitional governing ...
  • Ancelotti slams PSG defence after Arras clash
    The Italian boss was satisfied with the cup win over the fifth division side, but has criticised his back line as he feels there is still room for improvement By Chris...
  • Marcelo back in training at Real Madrid
    The Selecao full-back has rejoined his team in preparation for the Copa del Rey clash against Celta Vigo having had a spell on the sidelines since October last year By Chris Kvesa More On : Real Madrid CF, Marcelo...
  • Whooping Cough Cases Set Record in New York in ...
    Whooping cough , medically known as pertussis, was an epidemic across the United States in 2012. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released its preliminary 2012 data on Thursday and reported 41,880 cases of the highly contagious respiratory illness. The total number of pertussis cases for Ne ...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 1/4/13 - Educators in over 3,500 schools in al ...
    www.procon.org - – Educators in over 3,500 schools in all 50 US states and 53 countries use ProCon.org. 756 elementary and middle schools, 1,821 high schools, and 983 colleges and universities use our free nonpartisan research to stimulate critical thinking. The newest international schools usin ...
  • 1/4/13 - How many people in the United States ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - How many people in the United States use medical marijuana? There are an estimated 1,029,315 patients in the 18 legal medical marijuana states and DC, as well as an estimated 2,421,069 medical marijuana users in the United States (based on an ave ...
  • 12/31/12 - Should the United States return to ...
    www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States return to a gold standard? - Proponents of the gold standard argue it provides long-term economic stability and growth, prevents inflation, and would reduce the size of government. Opponents argue a gold standard would creat ...
  • 12/31/12 - Critical Thinking Video Series #2: Milk
    www.procon.org - – Critical Thinking Video Series #2: Milk – Does milk help to build strong bones, or does it weaken them? Does it help you lose weight, or make you fat? Does it reduce cancer risk, or increase it? Does milk contain pus, or is that a myth? Explore both sides of the milk debate in ...
  • 12/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should Un ...
    www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - February 7, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Proponents of the embargo say that the economic sanctions and travel restricti ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

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

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Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: A New Congress, and We’re Still Ta ...
    DC has been very busy the last few weeks, and LGBT folks are among those who have been the focus of some of the busy-ness. A selective overview follows. DOMA House Republicans just can’t stop spending money to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. They aren’t representative of all Republicans, as ...
  • Matt Damon’s “Promised Land” no “China Syndrome”
    “Promised Land,” which was written by Matt Damon and the actor John Krasinski (with initial help from Dave Eggers), offers observations on something not often seen in movies—the contrasting morality between caring desperately about your work and simply doing it competently and collecting a paych ...
  • News Desk: John Brennan to be Nominated to Hea ...
    Mr. Brennan’s nomination will be announced at 1 p.m. along with that of Chuck Hagel, the former maverick Republican senator from Nebraska, whom the president has chosen for secretary of defense, said the spokesman, Thomas Vietor. [New York Times] CRITICIZED AND kept out of the directorship in Ob ...
  • News Desk: Hagel Nomination as Secretary of De ...
    The White House was calling senators’ offices Sunday to inform them Hagel’s nomination is imminent and to help build support for it, a source familiar with the nomination said. CNN reported Friday that the White House had told some senior members of Congress to expect the tapping of ...
  • Back to Work
    SECRETARY CLINTON is due back to work today. According to the department’s weekly schedule, Clinton is slated to attend a meeting with assistant secretaries of state at 9:15 a.m. ET Monday. On Tuesday she’ll meet with outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and National Security Advi ...

Hudson New York

  • Supporting our Own Demise: Part 1
    For hundreds of years, London has mostly been a welcoming home for extremists who wished to destroy the very freedoms the city afforded them. It was here that 19th century nihilists such as Bakunin and Nechayev freely disseminated their violent ideas. In
  • Al-Jazeera's "Alternative Viewpoint" in Qatar' ...
    Al-Jazeera TV, located in and financed by Qatar, which just bought Current TV from former presidential candidate Al Gore for a reported $500 million, "is providing an alternative viewpoint on domestic news," according to Cathy Rasenberger, "a cable
  • European Court of Justice "Lacking Any Foundat ...
    Few people would ever label the hydra-like institutions of the European Union as transparent... or responsive to the desires of we mere voters. The EU has long been in the habit of ignoring the will of the peoples of Europe, if their will is not the same
  • The Palestinian Authority's Inconvenient Truths
    The truth sometimes hurts; that is why the Palestinian Authority has been working hard to prevent the outside world from hearing about many occurrences that reflect negatively on its leaders or people. In recent years, the Palestinian Authority
  • UK Textbook Wipes Israel Off the Map
    Ahmadinejad promised it. Now British textbooks are doing it. Israel has been wiped off the map by Garnet Education, an English-language teaching company in Britain, whose educational textbook 'Skills in English Writing Level 1', aimed at foreign students

Urban Survival

  • Busy Times at the WH HR Offices
    You talk about overtime, there’s so much shuffling going on in Washington it’s like Musical Chairs has gone mainstream.  For one, Chuck Hagel is headed for the SecDef job.  The nomination of Hagel may be tougher than the John Kerry … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Messages in the Media
    Have to hand it to reader Natasha this morning…this is a rather disturbing thought for this early in the week:   “George:     Have you ever wondered if our corporate overlords are simply shoving what they plan to do in … Continue reading →
  • Don’t Even TALK About ending QEI
    That’s Quantitative Easing (to) Infinity.  The futures for the precious metals were (how to politely say this?) in the crapper this morning with Gold down $40 on the futures earlier and silver down 4% as well.   What’s going on … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Friday at the WuJo
    This may not seem like a big deal, but there aren’t many explanations for what happened and none of them make sense.   So there I was having my coffee a few seconds ago and Zeus & I had our … Continue reading →
  • Nice Rally, But Can It Hold?
    First thing into my head this morning as I headed toward the bathroom (at 4:27 AM) was “Let’s begin this morning’s column with ‘Good morning my little Biscotti...’ since we are one-another’s accompaniment with coffee.  Excuse me if I refer … Continu ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • National Debt Made Easy
    Money is a Physical Manifestation of an Abstract... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Jonathan Cahn "the Harbinger " Prophecy 2013 ,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    This is about the coming war in America. We are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Links for 2013-01-06 [del.icio.us]
    Peter Schiff - Congress Avoids the Cliff by Selling Us Down the River The Government is Coming After The Truth Movement Global Warming, Chemtrails, Comets & Asteroids Illuminati Corporate Logos Newark NJ Mayor: $1,000 to turn in your gun owning neighbors. “We Will Give You Cash!&rd ...
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    American policemen are being recruited based on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Will The U.S. Lead In The Upcoming Make-Or-Bre ...
    David Lennett, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. and Beijing Key members of Congress recently sent an important message to the State Department regarding the final negotiations on a global mercury treaty beginning on January 13. &nbsp ...
  • Backing Away from the Climate Cliff
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. The long run up to the fiscal cliff is finally, and thankfully, over. Now, it’s time for the president to address an even more serious cliff: the climate change cliff&mda ...
  • Reasons to be Thankful for 2012 and Ready for ...
    Victoria Rome, Deputy Director, California Advocacy, San Francisco and Sacramento The arrival of a new year is cause for reflection on the past and renewed commitment to the future.  As we look back at 2012, California has much to be proud of i ...
  • The power of "creative placemaking"
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   A little-known but very interesting government agency, the National Endowment for the Arts, is quietly leveraging small amounts of financial assistance to make a big ...
  • Our Children's Future is Our Present Responsib ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Today, nearly 70 environmental and health organizations sent a letter to President Obama asking him to step up and be a strong climate leader. The deepening climate crisis is wi ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, January 4, 2013 Sevier County, Utah: A highway patrol trooper was arrested and jailed on allegations he had sexually abused a young female relative over the last 8 years. … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct Ne ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, January 3, 2013: Greer, South Carolina: A police officer has been suspended after authorities say he was arrested for public disorderly conduct. http://ow.ly/gvDP6 Fort Worth, Texas: A police officer … Continue reading &#85 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    *Note* I was out of the office Monday, December 31, so there were no stories tweeted/recapped that day. This recap reflects the weekend, and the Holiday. Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, December 29, 2012 … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
  • Trooper of the Year
    From the New York Times: Ms. Steed pulled over Julie Tapia for speeding as she was driving home. Ms. Tapia was giving a ride to her ex-husband, who had been drinking, but Ms. Tapia herself does not drink, the suit … Continue reading →Trooper of the Year is a post from PoliceMisconduc ...
  • Federal Agents Riding to the Rescue to Protect Us
    From the Wall Street Journal: Peter Gleason was a psychiatrist who devoted much of his professional life to caring for what government officials call “underserved populations.” He would have been thrilled to learn that on Dec. 3 in New York, … Continue reading →Federal Ag ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple’s 40 billion App ...
    Apple announces 40 billion total App Store downloads from 500 million active accounts, Yahoo Mail users suffer widespread hacking, and it may be possible to send encrypted messages via the... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: The FTC closes its Google pr ...
    Google is all but cleared by the FTC, Spotify stops users from purchasing music downloads (for now, at least), and Facebook quietly launched a Pages Manager app for Android. It’s... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Rovio downloads, BuzzF ...
    Rovio’s astounding festive season downloads, BuzzFeed funding and Current TV becomes Al Jazeera America, it’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Intel’s TV proje ...
    Ubuntu is coming to a smartphone near you, Intel’s audacious TV project is on the rocks, and Facebooks valuation is back north of $60 billion. You can catch The Daily... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Instagram’s advertisin ...
    Instagram rolls its advertising Terms of Service back to their original form, Facebook tries tackling message spam by taking payments for some messages, and Gangnam Style is the first YouTube... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Mercury hurts birds and people: what we can le ...
    Birds aren't that different from people. We learn from our parents, just like zebra finches learn songs from their fathers. We are active and noisy during the day, like birds, and we can also be territorial. Also like birds, we try to attract mates through colorful displays and beautiful songs. ...
  • Picture gallery of the day: Day geckos
    Day geckos are the jewels of the gecko family.
  • Between Two Worlds: Tears for the Unheeded Wis ...
    It was September 1990 and I was flying, blissfully high on a sea of books, their rich smells, colors and textures heady like incense, in Blackwell’s Bookshop on Broad Street, Oxford. I had been thrilled just to arrive in Oxford a week before, fresh from the forests of northeastern Tasmania ...
  • Animals of the Masai Mara - book review
    Animals of the Masai Mara is the first illustrated guidebook to the Masai Mara region along the Kenya and Tanzania border. This is the world famous region of wildebeest migrations, large felines, towering African elephants, fascinating cultures, and great flora and fauna diversity. This is the g ...
  • Photo: Bluefin tuna sells for record $1.76 mil ...
    A bluefin tuna sold for a record $1.76 million at an auction in Tokyo, Japan Saturday, reports the Associated Press.

Sierra Express

  • Vacancy – Management Accountant [Budgeting & R ...
    WE ARE HIRING TALENTED PEOPLE TO JOIN THE TEAM Position & Vacancy: Management Accountant [Budgeting & Reporting] Department: Finance Location: Mine Site, Lunsar Key Areas of Responsibilities: Managing the monthly reporting process; Providing an accurate, timeous and relevant financial/co ...
  • Koroma Cabinet & the Youths: A Source of Pride ...
    On this date (January 6th) in 1999, Sierra Leone civil war reached pogroms when youths high on drugs and youthful former soldiers angry over the ill-thought executions of 24 soldiers, attacked Freetown. It was a day of horrors untold. When things settled down and peace eventually slowly returned ...
  • Kei Kamara voted Sierra Leonean player of the ...
    Sporting Kansas City striker Kei Ansu Kamara has been voted the Sierra Leonean Player of The Year 2012 by viewers of sierraleonefootball.com website rewarding him for his outstanding performance for both club and country. The announcement was made by living football legend Mohamed Kallon on a li ...
  • “Be Self-disciplined”…President Koroma urges S ...
    Freetown: His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma (in photo) on Friday, 4th January 2013, called on Sierra Leoneans from across the board to inculcate and develop the culture of self-discipline, if the country was to move forward. The President made the declaration while addressing representatives ...
  • Playhouse Foundation donates Le 130 million sc ...
    As part of its continued commitment to improve the educational sector in Kono District, the Playhouse Foundation in partnership with the Tullow Oil Foundation has commenced the distribution of double school desks and benches to school in remote areas within the district in December 2012.  Phase ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Crunch time alarm sounded
    Financial institutions may struggle to be ready for new anti-money-laundering laws if they haven't yet begun preparations, a legal expert warns.PricewaterhouseCoopers advisory partner Eric Lucas said that when Australia introduced...
  • Increased dairy farming investment in pipeline
    Investment in New Zealand dairy farming will step up this year after the sector attracted strong interest in 2012, according to dairy farm syndication specialist MyFarm.MyFarm said the industry was entering a positive cycle in 2013...
  • Rock stars of NZ business world
    This has been another testing year for New Zealand businesses as they rock along the decade of "grumpy growth" that Finance Minister Bill English has signposted. It's not been plain-sailing by any means for the five "business heroes"...
  • Liam Dann: Another year over, better to come
    And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?Sorry about that. I just can't get the line out of my head and it is silly season, all right? As a young business reporter I once did the full Twas the Night Before Christmas as...
  • Big year for changing of the guard
    The face of New Zealand business changed over 2012 with a series of senior appointments made to some of the country's top jobs.These include former World Bank managing director Graeme Wheeler who took over from Reserve Bank governor...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Fracking Amazing: US Carbon Emissions Lower th ...
    Instapundit points to this bit of happy news culled from John Hanger, a Democrat who is running for governonr of Pennsylvania, where has been secretary of the state department of the environment and a commissioner of the public utility commission: US energy related carbon emission ...
  • A.M. Links: Obama to Select Hagel for Defense, ...
    President Obama is expected to announce Chuck Hagel as his next nominee for Secretary of Defense and John Brennan as his next choice for CIA director. The State Department says Hillary Clinton is healthy enough and ready to testify about the 9/11 Benghazi terrorist attack. She ...
  • Steve Chapman on Washington's Fiscal Evasion
    When it comes to serious, lasting budget constraints, our leaders in Washington have the escape talents of Houdini. The ominous approach of the fiscal cliff put Democrats in a position to extract a lot more revenue and Republicans to force real spending cuts. Yet as Steve Chapman ob ...
  • Brickbat: Criminally Insane
    A patient walked away without permission from the Graylands Mental Hospital in Australia, so staff alerted the police. A few days later, cops brought a man matching the patient's description back the hospital, where he was given anti-psychotic drugs. Only after the man had an adver ...
  • Yaël Ossowski on How Disney Cashes In on Corpo ...
    Generations of children and adults worldwide have grown up on Walt Disney comics and movies featuring Mickey Mouse and thousands of other characters, visited the sprawling and magical theme parks in Florida and California, and played with toys and games brandishing the familiar Disne ...

Mercury Rising

  • Social Security Lie #1: “Its Creators Di ...
    Spurred on by this excellent MyFDL piece, which cites this deceitful New York Times Op-Ed piece, I have decided to address what may be the most pernicious lie told about Social Security — namely, that it wasn’t originally designed to take the aging of America’s population into ...
  • US Productivity Goes Up, Corporate Profits Go ...
    What’s wrong with this picture? Everything: The red line is productivity, the green line is real median family income. The time period spans from 1947 to 2011. Notice that while the red line has kept marching upward at roughly the same rate from beginning to end, the green line — whi ...
  • US Productivity Goes Up, Corporate Profits Go ...
    What’s wrong with this picture? Everything: The red line is productivity, the green line is real median family income. The time period spans from 1947 to 2011. Notice that while the red line has kept marching upward at roughly the same rate from beginning to end, the green line — whi ...
  • Steve Minn’s In Trouble Again
    Persons familiar with the history of Minneapolis over the past twenty years are likely familiar with the name of Steve Minn. Minn is a prominent local developer, former Minneapolis city councilmember under the banner of the Reform Party (what is now called the Independence Party), and longtime b ...
  • Steve Minn’s In Trouble Again
    Persons familiar with the history of Minneapolis over the past twenty years are likely familiar with the name of Steve Minn. Minn is a prominent local developer, former Minneapolis city councilmember under the banner of the Reform Party (what is now called the Independence Party), and longtime b ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Unplug the River: The Shamanic Path to Materia ...
    Join Itzhak Beery for the live, interactive video course "The Shamanic Path to Spiritual Abundence: Indigenous Techniques for Entering the Flow of Life." Learn from acknowledged masters of ancient wisdom traditions how to invite spiritual abundance into your life by identifying and rem ...
  • Go With the Flow
      Learn from acknowledged masters of ancient wisdom traditions how to invite spiritual abundance into your life by identifying and removing the blockages that limit you.  read more
  • Sex in the News
    Was Jesus gay, an ex-Olympian turns to escorting, sex in video games, Chelsea Clinton on marriage quality, and more in this week's Sex in the News.read more
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Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • Finale: "The Government / #Bankster / Corporat ...
    the biggest #mafia in the world is the government/#bankster/corporate/military cartel. by J.S. Kim As originally posted on: Gold&SilverRealMoney (smartknowledgeu) on Twitter August 9, 2012
  • On the Twelfth Day of Cronyism . . . : The System
    The following tweets were originally posted by "Anti War" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/_AntiWar_), variously, on October 17, 2012; December 9, 2012; December 10, 2012; December 11, 2012; December 13, 2012; December 14, 2012; December 15, 2012; December 16, 2012; December 17, ...
  • On the Eleventh Day of Cronyism . . . : "The P ...
    WAR IS BUSINESS. by "Ann Arky" As originally posted on: annarky's blog. December 24, 2012 In times of "austerity" our "democratic" governments still spend a whopping slice of your money and my money in killing people across the globe. We in the UK are the world's fourth largest spender on ...
  • Liberal leadership – a beauty pageant?
    If Justin Bieber were a nobody and you’d met him in the street or at a bar, you might be inclined, provided he’s your type, to ask him, “Wanna hang out sometime?”, or, more awkwardly, “For you, I’d change the alphabet and put U and I next to each other.” (Yeah, good luck with that.) But Justin ...
  • On the Tenth Day of Cronyism . . . : "Academic ...
    The following tweets were originally posted by "Anti-Academics" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/AntiAcademics), variously, on November 24, 2012; December 16, 2012; December 17, 2012; December 18, 2012; December 19, 2012; December 20, 2012; December 21, 2012; December 22, 2012; ...

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CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • "Ideally, the 66,000 American troops would alr ...
    “Ideally, the 66,000 American troops would already be leaving, and all of them would be out as...
  • "This is a dark, dark tunnel. There is no good ...
    “This is a dark, dark tunnel. There is no good ending to this. Assad believes he is...
  • randomhouse:“Do not read, as children do, t ...
    randomhouse: “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”                                                                             ―Gustave Flaubert
  • fotojournalismus:Blue sky is seen over a bla ...
    fotojournalismus: Blue sky is seen over a blanket of fog enveloping the skyline of Chicago, as photographed from an airplane window November 21, 2012. [Credit : Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]
  • bookshelfporn:Tea House & Library by Archi- ...
    bookshelfporn: Tea House & Library by Archi-Union, Shanghai Concrete walls twist up through the interior of this tea house and library that architects Archi-Union have constructed in the backyard of their studio. 

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Wage Dumping Hits Switzerland
    The Swiss parliament has decided to tackle wage dumping in the construction sector. With the introduction of chain liability, general contractors can soon be held accountable for labour agreement violations by their subcontractors. Eight euros per hour instead of 27.5 euros guaranteed by the col ...
  • Cubans See Internet as Crucial to Future Devel ...
    The Cuban government’s economic reforms must consider the myriad opportunities offered by the Internet, a key platform of the dominant economic model on the planet, according to interviews with both experts and average people. “It is not an option for our future development, it’s an impera ...
  • Yemeni Women Struggle to Step Forward
    Yemeni women have played an integral role in the protests against ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year regime last year. But despite the country’s upcoming political ‘National Dialogue’ – brokered by Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and intended to bring together a cross-secti ...
  • Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to ...
    With President Barack Obama reportedly primed to nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon early next week, the powerful Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), faces a major dilemma. If it mounts a vigorous campaign to fight Hagel’s conf ...
  • OP-ED: The Arab Spring at Two: What Lessons Sh ...
    As the Arab Spring enters its third year, new Arab democracies and the international community should reflect on several critical lessons from the past two years. Thinking about these lessons and learning from history, no matter how recent, could help us understand the trajectory for the next st ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran Nuke Deal Within Sight
    Summary: A resolution to the Iranian nuclear dispute is within reach, with Iran ready to accept limits on its program and many in the West willing to ease sanctions. But the real question remains whether chest-thumping politicians and pundits will let a deal go through, writes ex-CIA analyst ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Gravest Threat to World Peace
    Summary: Reporting on the final U.S. presidential campaign debate, on foreign policy, The Wall Street Journal observed that "the only country mentioned more (than Israel) was Iran, which is seen by most nations in the Middle East as the gravest security threat to the region." source: Alter ...
  • Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to ...
    Summary: WASHINGTON, Jan 5 2013 (IPS) - With President Barack Obama reportedly primed to nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon early next week, the powerful Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), faces a major dilemma. source: ...
  • The Case Against Kerry
    Summary: President Obama’s selection of John Kerry as the next secretary of state sends the wrong signal to America’s allies and adversaries alike. Kerry’s record in the United States Senate, where he currently chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, has included spurious attacks on the Inte ...
  • How to Talk to Iran
    Summary: IF there are any two words in Persian that President Obama should learn, they are “maslahat” and “aberu.” Maslahat is often translated as expediency, or self-interest. Aberu means face — as in, saving face. In the nearly 34 years since the Islamic revolution in Iran, expediency has b ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: Vesta's Spectacular Impact C ...
                   Vesta, a protoplanet the size of Arizonz, has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enormous craters in the southern hemisphere. The images (above) were obtained during Dawn's year-long visit to Vesta ...
  • Fifteen New Planets Discovered in Habitable Zo ...
                    Fifteen new planets have been discovered orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars by volunteers from the Oxford University-led Zooniverse project, adding to the 19 similar planets already discovered in habitable zones, where the temperature is neither too hot nor t ...
  • Hyper-Violent Worlds of the Milky Way's Binar ...
                      Planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions, more so than if they had stellar companions with tighter orbits around them. Unlike the Sun, many stars are members of binary star systems – where two stars orbit on ...
  • 'Comment of the Day': "Life is Everywhere. Int ...
                    "Life is everywhere. Intelligence is everywhere. Why do we consider we are worth talking to? Do we consider the worms and grubs that feed in a pile of waste by a roadside to be worth communicating with? Do we send diplomatic expeditions to establish communications with ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 240,000!
                                             Join the 243,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governme ...

Natural News

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

Threat Level

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

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Hagel Foes Graham and McCain Praised James "F* ...
    The Republican opposed the Iraq surge and favored regional negotiations with Iran and Syria. The GOP luminary has cautioned against pre-emptive strikes on Tehran's nuclear facilities. He publicly criticized Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank. He advised the presidential campaigns of ...
  • A Modest Proposal: The Trent Lott Super Storm ...
    On Friday, 67 House Republicans voted against $9 billion in funding to replenish FEMA's flood insurance program in the wake of super storm Sandy. Among those naysayers were five Gulf State Congressmen including Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo, whose 4th District was one of the most extensively ...
  • "Both Sides Do It" Must Die!
    For each of the last 38 years, Lake Superior State University has published its "List of Words to be Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness." But missing from the dozen terms and phrases including "double down" and "spoiler alert" sentenced to the school's ...
  • GOP Extortionists Admit Not Raising Debt Ceili ...
    With the fiscal cliff averted, Congressional Republicans are turning to their next--and more important--hostage. Without draconian spending cuts, they promise, the GOP will block any increase in the debt ceiling of the United States. In response, President Obama said, "I will not have another ...
  • House GOP Budget Would Require $6 Trillion Deb ...
    If nothing else, the right-wing temper tantrum over Tuesday's "fiscal cliff" agreement is rich with irony. After all, the "crisis" was never really about deficit reduction (which the expiration of the Bush tax cuts would have handled quite nicely) but the very real danger of slashing the nation ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Sea Levels Could Rise Substantially More Than ...
    The seas of the world could rise substantially more in the future than has been previously predicted in IPCC reports. This is primarily because the the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are likely going to melt considerably more than was previously estimated by the IPCC, new research from the U ...
  • China Planning To Perform Another Test Of Thei ...
    China appears to be getting ready to do further testing of its anti-satellite weaponry. The last test that they performed, the destruction of an old weather satellite, was very controversial because of the huge quantity of new space junk that it created. Space junk poses a significant risk to sp ...
  • Temperature ‘Below’ Absolute Zero Achieved
    A temperature ‘below’ absolute zero has been achieved by physicists at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching. “On the absolute temperature scale, which is used by physicists and is also called the Kelvin scale, it is ...
  • Strange Dark Carbon Material On Vesta Likely B ...
    Vesta, one of the few remaining protoplanets in the solar system, is effectively a window into the early days of the solar system. This is primarily due to its relatively short period of geologic activity and its ‘frozen’ place in time since then. It was only imaged and studied in de ...
  • 100 Billion Planets In The Galaxy, Or More, St ...
    The Milky Way contains, at the very minimum, at least 100 billion planets, a new study from Caltech has concluded. That alone sounds like an enormous number, but when you consider that the Milky Way is just one of countless galaxies, the number of planets in the Universe must be nearly unfathoma ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

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

Care 2

  • 5 Effective Green Cleaning Products You Can Ma ...
    Residential cleaning products are notoriously toxic and unnecessarily expensive. Families can save the environment and their budget by making these simple yet effective cleaning products from home and reduce indoor pollution and exposure to potentially Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &n ...
  • Save the Snow Leopard from Extinction ! PLEASE ...
    The endangered Snow leopard is a semi-large cat living in the snowy mountains of Central Asia. Experts have estimated that there are between 4,000 and 6,000 snow leopards left in the wild, making them one of Asias most endangered mammals. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Not ...
  • Tell H&M to stop doing business with companies ...
    Every year, more than a million men, women, and children in Uzbekistan are forced by their government to work in the state-run industry harvesting cotton. Activists who speak out are tortured and detained. Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Migrant workers face 'severe exploitation' in ...
    Amnesty International report calls for urgent action to tackle 'widespread' abuse of migrants in the food sector. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell President Obama to Sign the Mine Ban Trea ...
    The Mine Ban Treaty, the ICBL's signature success, counts 160 countries as party to its terms. The United States is not one of them, keeping company with other hold-outs such as Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and China. Submitted by Nancy C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   N ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • John Brennan to CIA?
    I don’t even have to write anything new about the disaster that is John Brennan. What I wrote more than four years ago is still true. This guy is dangerous to our nation. Senators need to probe him on Benghazi. The talking points that Susan Rice relied on most likely have his fingerprints ...
  • John Boehner is getting it from both sides (Op ...
    Who’d want his job? John Boehner has an emotional moment after being re-elected as House speaker. The New York Post columnist John Podhoretz writes that [conservatives "have gone wild" and that conservatives are "turning on other conservatives" and have accused each other "of impurity and corrup ...
  • Let’s Hear it for the Girl!!
    With apologies to Deniece Williams and FOOTLOOSE, but a song is appropriate for the wife of Donnie Hermann, a Georgia mother with two little girls who came face-to-face with a convicted criminal who broke into her home the other day. WSBTV.com has the story: The woman was working in an upstairs ...
  • Syrian Civil War, Year 3
    The Obama White House backs the Islamists and their sponsors. … (read more below the fold) : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : The new year 2013 begins the third calendar year of the Syrian Civil War, and it [...]
  • While Obama Is in Paradise, We are Lost (open ...
    The second he could get out of Dodge, Barack Obama flew back to Hawaii to resume his vacation. President Obama is residing at a stunning home at Paradise Point in Oahu while every American worries about the precipitous tax hikes, including “a new ‘Obamacare”’ tax of 38%. BELOW ...

Futurismic

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

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Mountaintop Removal

  • Environmentalist's death inspires look at gree ...
    Environmentalist's death inspires look at green stories worldwide National Catholic Reporter (blog) The divestment project got under way two years ago, when a dozen Swarthmore students saw for themselves the effects of mountaintop removal in Appalachia. When they returned to their campus, th ...
  • Astronauts take a picture of Appalachian Mount ...
    The Courier-Journal (blog) Astronauts take a picture of Appalachian Mountains The Courier-Journal (blog) And the heavy human footprint on the Appalachians is much, much newer, really just a couple hundred years of European settlement, with the big mountaintop removal mining impacts really being ...
  • May Day! May Day! Space Ship Earth's In Big Tr ...
    May Day! May Day! Space Ship Earth's In Big Trouble U.S. Politics Today --Rejection of a plan to dump toxic pollution into Eastern U.S. waterways from West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal coal mining operation. --A deal with automakers to double fuel efficiency by 2025, standards ...
  • Home, straw home - Tiffin Advertiser Tribune
    Tiffin Advertiser Tribune Home, straw home Tiffin Advertiser Tribune "I lived in mountain-top removal mining country in West Virginia," she said. "It's knowing my life is not adding to the suffering of those mountain people. That's sort of my motivation for doing this.&quo ...
  • Rob Sisson: Building a greener future for the ...
    Washington Times Rob Sisson: Building a greener future for the GOP Washington Times Whether that is rendering a bucolic Appalachian valley uninhabitable through mountain top removal or through climate change or health costs caused by asthma and other illnesses, a significant portion of the costs ...

Memeorandum

  • Nat Geo Producer: John Wilkes Booth 'Could Be ...
    Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews: Nat Geo Producer: John Wilkes Booth ‘Could Be the Poster Child for the Tea Party’  —  (CNSNews.com) - Executive Producer Erik Jendresen of National Geographic Channel's upcoming television movie “Killing Lincoln,” said John ...
  • First Thoughts: Hagel - a man without a party ...
    First Read: First Thoughts: Hagel — a man without a party  —  Chuck Hagel — a man without a party... And a man who has a tough confirmation fight ahead... The nut of the Hagel fight, and why Obama is sticking with him... Kerry-Hagel-Brennan — a Team of Loyalist ...
  • D.C. charter schools expel students at far hig ...
    Emma Brown / Washington Post: D.C. charter schools expel students at far higher rates than traditional public schools  —  Video: An analysis of documents by The Washington Post shows the District's charter schools expel dramatically more students than its traditional public scho ...
  • Old Media's Stalwarts Persevered in 2012 (Davi ...
    David Carr / New York Times: Old Media's Stalwarts Persevered in 2012  —  Everyone knows that traditional media companies are dead in the water, overwhelmed by ad skipping, cord cutting and audience flight.  We know that because Chicken Littles (like me) have been saying it ...
  • Reidism alert: Katrina "nothing in comparison" ...
    Jon.Ralston / Ralston Reports: Reidism alert: Katrina “nothing in comparison” to Sandy  —  So Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the floor Friday, which, of course, was picked up by FOX and other conservative outlets.  —  A Reid spokeswoman tol ...

Energy & Environment News

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    Saturday, January 5, 2013 17:42:22 UTC Saturday, January 5, 2013 09:42:22 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 为领导解决&#2013 ...
    城市交通规划管理专家何东全担心，新一代领导人的“轻车简从”作风可能会让城市&# ...
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AlterNet Top Stories

  • Mexican Restaurant Makes Employees Wear Racist ...
    A Mexican restaurant in Columbia, South Carolina is being criticized for its racist T-shirts showing a wooden trap using tacos as bait with the caption “HOW TO CATCH AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT”.As the Palmetto Public Record notes, a South Carolina reporter snapped a pho ...
  • How the Chuck Hagel Brawl Exposes Neocons and ...
    Ever since Susan Rice’s botched nomination, it seems to be open season on President Obama’s top cabinet picks for a second term. As Russ Baker explained here, the substance-free fight over Ms. Rice revealed much more about her accusers and Washington than it did a ...
  • 20 Percent of Americans Don't Believe in God-- ...
    The new, 113th Congress that was sworn in last week may be more religiously diverse than any other session, but the body as a whole is more committed to religion than the U.S. population. New data analysis released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life bears this out. When the new Con ...
  • How a Paranoid Schizophrenic Got a Gun -- And ...
    Brooklyn resident Michael Jourdan’s telephone rang around 1:30am last Friday morning. The caller asked if he was Peter Jourdan’s father; the man had found Jourdan’s phone and wanted to return it.Michael Jourdan wasn’t surprised. How many times would his son lose hi ...
  • When Will Obama Act on Catastrophic Climate Ch ...
    To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.Change usually happens very slowly, even once all the serious people have decided there’s a problem. That’s because, in a country as big as the United States, pu ...

Threat Level

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

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

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

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

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Fabius Maximus

  • An optimistic & successful (so far) forecast b ...
    Summary:  We’ve looked at plenty of false (or at least temporarily not proven) forecasts by American experts about wars and climate. The rule seems to be that political correctness is rewarded, irrespective of accuracy. Today we see the opposite, accurate forecasts by an eminent scientists ...
  • Checking up on past forecasts about climate ch ...
    Summary:  While we quake in fear at the stream of apocalyptic forecasts fed us by the news media, let’s look back at two previous forecasts about rising sea levels and melting sea ice. Perhaps we’d get better forecasts from our experts if we more often held them accountable for them. ...
  • Update about global temperatures. Watch our wo ...
    Summary:  The news media writes frequently about global warming, but how well informed are we. Test for yourselves.  At your local pub ask the bar how much the world has warmed during the 34 year-long satellite record (ie, the best record).  The result, which appears below (in red) will surprise ...
  • Let’s watch a great nation’s wealt ...
    Summary:   Part of our year-end national festivities should be looking at the deterioration of the Federal government’s finances. Especially since the resolution of the fiscal cliff follies shows that neither party in fact cares.  There are few deficit fighters, mostly arsonists.  As for s ...
  • 2012: the year people began to realize the rob ...
    Summary:  The FM website strives to show readers visions of the future. Sometimes we succeed, like with the robot revolution.  Two years ago we alerted readers of its arrival, reviewing fifty years of warnings.  Now its splash has attracted the attention of economists and journalists. Today we l ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • The Incipient Republican Foreign Policy Re-Think
    The Republican establishment is getting all introspective on foreign policy, particularly in response to two major pieces by Danielle Pletka and Dan Drezner. Along with the rest of the GOP, the party's foreign policy brain trust is wrestling with the question of what went wrong last November. ...
  • Yes, We Have A (Defense) Spending Problem
    Last year, in 2012, the U.S. government spent about $841 billion on security—a figure that includes defense, intelligence, war appropriations, and foreign aid. At the same time, the government collected about $1.1 trillion in individual income taxes. (And about $2.4 trillion in revenues overall ...
  • Chuck Hagel: A Defense Secretary Who Knows Pri ...
    President Obama has just announced the nomination of Senator Chuck Hagel, the chairman of the Atlantic Council, to be the 24th Secretary of Defense.   Hagel is my boss' boss, so my endorsement will carry even less weight than it normally might. But his credentials for the job don't require emb ...
  • Why Chuck Hagel Supports the United Nations
    If Chuck Hagel is confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense, we can expect in the Pentagon chief a strong supporter of the United Nations and international cooperation. The former Nebraska Senator has some fairly nuanced and developed views about the proper role of the United Nations in global ...
  • The Question Torture Apologists Can't Answer
    There may not be much point in trying to relitigate the torture question from the Bush years, but every once in a while that era's torture apologists come back around to make their case, and there is one vital question I've never heard any of them answer: How do the defender's of "enhanced inter ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Yep, Republicans Plan to Use the Debt Ceiling ...
    It seems I was mistaken about the GOP’s stance toward raising the debt ceiling: Top Republicans won’t walk away from using the limit as leverage for cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Here is what Mitch McConnell had to say on Meet the Press yesterday: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ...
  • Barney Frank Walks Back on Hagel
    World Economic Forum / Flickr Republicans straining to present opposition to Chuck Hagel as bipartisan had a small assist from retired Massachusetts lawmaker Barney Frank last week, who because of Hagel’s 1998 criticism of Ambassador James Hormel—he called him “openly, aggressively gay” ...
  • The Question Torture Apologists Can't Answer
    There may not be much point in trying to relitigate the torture question from the Bush years, but every once in a while that era's torture apologists come back around to make their case, and there is one vital question I've never heard any of them answer: How do the defender's of "enhanced inte ...
  • Calling McConnell’s Bluff
      The budget deal that just averted the supposed fiscal cliff was only a warm up. The next fiscal cliff is the $110 billion in automatic budget cuts (sequesters) that last week’s budget deal deferred only until March. But, as long as we are using topographic metaphors, this is less a cliff than ...
  • Republicans' 40 Days in the Desert
    AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Members of the 113th Congress, many accompanied by family members, take the oath of office in the House of Representatives. There’s no way to spin the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis as anything other than ridiculous, but it’s easy to understand the mentality ...

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The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Grounded Drill Rig Freed, but Shell's Reputati ...
    In response to news that Shell's grounded drill rig Kulluk is being towed away from where it was grounded on Dec. 31, Greenpeace Arctic campaigner Ben Ayliffe made the following statement: read more
  • Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumk ...
    The economy added 155,000 net new jobs in December, sufficient to keep the official unemployment rate steady at 7.8 percent, but not enough to make a dent in long-term unemployment. Deep problems remain in our economy and labor market—under-employment remains at 14.4 percent, wages are bar ...
  • Statement from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumk ...
    The economy added 155,000 net new jobs in December, sufficient to keep the official unemployment rate steady at 7.8 percent, but not enough to make a dent in long-term unemployment. Deep problems remain in our economy and labor market—under-employment remains at 14.4 percent, wages are bar ...
  • EWG Calls For Broader Reform on Chemical Safety
    Environmental Working Group called today’s release of draft risk assessments of five chemicals found in paint strippers, fire retardants, degreasers, fragrances and other consumer products a positive step by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but EWG emphasized that the agency&rsquo ...
  • EWG Calls For Broader Reform on Chemical Safety
    Environmental Working Group called today’s release of draft risk assessments of five chemicals found in paint strippers, fire retardants, degreasers, fragrances and other consumer products a positive step by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but EWG emphasized that the agency&rsquo ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Constructing a New Democracy in Tyrannical Mic ...
    Shea Howell The anti-democratic efforts by the right wing republican legislature in Lansing are putting Michigan in the national spotlight.read more
  • Showdown at San Onofre and a Resurgent 'No Nuk ...
    Harvey Wasserman Two stricken California reactors may soon redefine a global movement aimed at eradicating nuclear power. Protesters march near the San Onofre nuclear plant last year on the one-year anniversary of the Japanese nuclear accid ...
  • Who Should Pay for the Costs of Climate Change?
    David Morris Who should pay the costs of climate disasters? In light of the current debate in the United States about federal assistance to Hurricane Sandy victims and the recent debate at the recent Doha Climate Conference about internatio ...
  • GOP Threat: Cut Social Security and Medicare o ...
    Roger Hickey Here we go again.read more
  • The Hoax of Entitlement Reform
    Robert Reich It has become accepted economic wisdom, uttered with deadpan certainty by policy pundits and budget scolds on both sides of the aisle, that the only way to get control over America’s looming deficits is to “reform e ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Jack Nicholson, a murder and water rights
    A couple of days after Christmas, the federal Bureau of Land Management approved a plan to carry billions of gallons of water from rural Nevada counties near the Utah border to Las Vegas by way of a 263-mile pipeline.
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    What: Mountain State Fair. When: Friday through Sept. 19. Open 9 a.m.-midnight Friday-Saturday and Sept. 18, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Sundays, 3-11 p.m. Sept. 13-16 and 9 a.m.-1 a.m. Sept. 17.
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    BARTOW | A Sarasota legislator has proposed eliminating one of Polk County's two seats on the Southwest Florida Water Management District governing board.
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    State poised to revoke Salinas River water rights; county preps for fight.

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The Wonk Room

  • California Man Cites Corporate Personhood To P ...
    A California driver who snuck into a carpool lane that requires two or more passengers in a vehicle claims he should not have to pay his ticket because “he had corporate incorporation papers in his car at the time and, he says, the state vehicle code views corporations as persons—therefore ...
  • Rhode Island Coalition Of Religious Leaders En ...
    Though Catholic leaders continue to attack same-sex marriage in Rhode Island, a group of over 100 religious leaders from 13 different denominations throughout the state has come together to support equality. The interfaith group outlines the following tenets in their endorsement of the freedom t ...
  • Why Democrats Are Right To Push For More Reven ...
    Fresh off the deal to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff,” Congressional Democrats are gearing up for the next round of budget negotiations. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said yesterday that the fiscal cliff deal was “not enough on the revenue side,” with the c ...
  • After Forcing Women To Drop Their Doctors, Tex ...
    When Texas intentionally dismantled its women’s health program by refusing to fund Planned Parenthood — the largest women’s health group in the country — the state was essentially telling poor women they would need to find new doctors. Thousands of Texan women are now sea ...
  • Hagel Gets Key Endorsements After Nomination
    Soon after President Obama announced this afternoon that he nominated former Republican senator Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, both Republicans themselves, offered support for he move. “Th ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Have I Got Your Number Then, harperscum trolls?
    So, let's see if we're clear here. Chief Spence of Attawapiskat is corrupt. That's why here reserve has been crying out for years and years, for a goddamned school and for houses for people whose homes are mold-infested hellholes? Becaubse for years and years she's been corrupt? And now her very ...
  • How's That Elections Canada Investigation Going?
    With all the excitement surrounding "Idle No More" and Chief Spence's hunger-strike, the passing of 2012 and the complete failure of Elections Canada to have completed its investigation into the 2011 election law violations slipped my mind. Until today. So, ... um, .... yep. Massive violations ...
  • The Awesome Canadian
     I'm not even going copy and paste the anonymous comments from mainstream websites about Chief Spence and "Idle No More." We all know the drill. They say that there is NO racism in Canada. The problems that the First Nations suffer (poverty, alcoholism, suicide, homelessness, high incarcera ...
  • An Interesting Story
    This story is filed November 27th, 2012. In rural areas, a common corruption allegation is that the relatives or friends of powerful militia commanders are thrown into classrooms to collect a teacher's salary -- despite being unqualified to teach. There's NATO "nation-building" for you! ...
  • An Answer to harperscum Critics of Chief Spence
    Making my rounds of the mainstream news online I notice that harperscum trolls have all been trained to parrot the lie that Chief Spence was given $90 million to provide housing for her community of 2,000 people and yadda-yadda-yadda, These disgusting cretins insinuate that Chief Spence's hunger ...

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-24-12
    Today, Kevin explains why you should not be donating your hard-earned money to large charities and for disaster relief. Plus, Kevin reveals where to find the best quality products in your area! Self Help: Protect Yourself From Meat Glue Shine A Little Light On Me Health: 9 Salads Calorically Wor ...
  • It’s Almost Over…
    The holiday season is finally almost over, so let’s start the de-stressing process…. Ice cream seems like a quick fix, but you’re better off making some wise stress-busting diet choices such as: Eating oatmeal, which provides more of all the B-Vitamins (except for pantothenic a ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-11-12
    Today, Kevin reveals the REAL reason why the government is sending over billions of dollars in aid to countries all around the world. Plus, pet expert, Dr. Geoffrey Broderick, stops by the show to explain how you can turn your pet’s health around and even double its lifespan! Self Help: Viral De ...
  • 15 Ways To Beat Stress This Holiday Season
    The holidays are officially upon us and that means stress levels are rising to an all time high! Here are some helpful and essential tips to lower your stress levels and allow you to have a relaxing and more importantly, fun, holiday season! 1. Emphasize an organic, whole foods diet with plenty ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-15-12
    Today, Kevin explains how the media, internet, television, movies, magazines and newspapers are ALL misleading you. Plus, find out why, in life, it’s not about the mistakes you’ve made, but the lessons you’ve learned. Self Help: You Become What You Think About Most Of The Time Success Is A Decis ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Bank of America Freezes Gun Manufacturer’s Account
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comGregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr. CNS News January 7, 2013 Bank of America has reportedly frozen the account of gun manufacturer American Spirit Arms, according to its owner, Joe Sirochman. In a Facebook post dated December 29, ...
  • The Syria Endgame: Strategic Stage in the Pent ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Syria Endgame: Strategic Stage in the Pentagons Covert War on Iran By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com   Guest post by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya. Mr. Nazemroaya is an award-winning author, sociologist and geopol ...
  • Statistics Prove: More Guns, Less Crime
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comInconvenient facts the gun control lobby cannot answer Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com January 7, 2013 Despite the onslaught of media propaganda in support of the Obama administration’s anti-second amendment a ...
  • Satire: ‘Chick-fil-A Foundation’ trades homose ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A satirical group calling itself the “Chick-fil-A Foundation” is showing how easy it is to get a free chicken sandwich by simply renouncing homosexuality. In a video posted on Sunday, John, R ...
  • Stop the Press: 0.000125 % of the Jews are Eth ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comStop the Press: 0.000125 % of the Jews are Ethical and Universalists By Gilad AtzmonMonday, January 7th, 2013 View the original about Stop the Press: 0.000125 % of the Jews are Ethical and Universalists at Veterans Today ...

Dandelion Salad

  • State of Fear by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig January 7, 2013 Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is ...
  • Corporate Culture and Global Empire: Food Cris ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com January 7, 2013 Corporate power is immense. The world’s largest corporation is Royal Dutch Shell, surpassed in wealth only by the 24 largest countries on earth. Of the 150 largest economic entities in the wor ...
  • Out of Season by Lesley Docksey
    by Lesley Docksey Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Jan. 2, 2013 What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. –William Henry Davies Each year that passes I become more despairing over the lack of action to contain climate change, a despair echoed by George Monbiot.  T ...
  • The Arab Slave Trade In Foreign Workers Is Ali ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV January 2, 2013 Recent legal moves by the governments of Ethiopia, Indonesia and the Philippines to protect their nationals working in the Persian Gulf Arab states point to this harrowing fact: the Arab slave ...
  • Chris Williams: Hurricane Sandy’s Brutal ...
    Dandelion Salad http://www.haymarketbooks.org/event/3663 Southern Connecticut State University December 4, 2012 No longer is the impact of climate change a question of if, but rather a question of when. The New York Times says storms like Sandy could become a yearly event. Featured Speaker: Chri ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Moshé Machover: Israel-Gaza – why did Israel d ...
    The success or failure of Israel's onslaught on Gaza can only be judged against the operation’s aims. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Vote for G4S in the worst company of the year ...
    G4S is up for the Public Eye People’s Award 2013, the ‘name and shame’ award no company wants to win. G4S, the world’s largest private military and security company, is complicit in Israel’s... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • US Jewish leaders express ‘concern’ about impe ...
    American Jewish leaders have expressed “concern” about the impending entry of the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera network to the US television market, citing its record of anti-Israeli coverage and support... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Hanin Zuabi: Not here to be loved
    Haneen Zoabi: “I am treated as though I am not part of this place. The Jews came to this land and did not want to integrate, fit in, get to know the natives and the language of the place and its... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Construction in Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond ...
    According to Ir Amim, 6,932 units were approved for future construction in 2012, compared to 1,772 homes in 2011 and 569 in 2010. The largest building plans were approved for Gilo, Har Homa and Givat... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Beautiful Minds: Two Cornell Alums and a Corne ...
    Cornell University alumni Theodore Kim and Jeremy Selan; and Cornell professor Doug James, have won two separate Academy Awards in 2013 for technical achievement, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Their work became impressive special effects in films like "Avatar", "Monsters ...
  • Key Research From the 2013 Genitourinary Cance ...
    Three key studies from the 2013 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium will be featured in an embargoed presscast for reporters on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, from 12:00-1:30 PM (EST). These important studies will focus on the latest advances being made in the screening and management of several genit ...
  • Sublingual Immunotherapy Shows Promise as Trea ...
    Daily doses of a liquid containing peanut powder, in gradually increasing amounts, enabled patients with peanut allergy to safely consume peanut in amounts at least 10 times greater than their baseline.
  • Conference Will Address 'Big Questions' of Fre ...
    Leading neuroscientists, social psychologists and philosophers will present research results that are continuing to emerge from a $4.4 million project funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
  • Dark Matter Made Visible Before the Final Cut
    Research findings from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine are shining a light on an important regulatory role performed by the so-called dark matter, or "junk DNA," within each of our genes.

Natural Health News

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

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