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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 III

Opinio Juris

  • Recent Developments in Official Act Immunity
    by William S. Dodge [William S. Dodge is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. From August 2011 to July 2012, he served as Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State, where he work ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, January 7, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected peace talks with his enemies in a defiant speech that his opponents described as a renewed declaration of war. Foreign Affairs officials in the EU, UK and Turkey have responded sceptically and have called on Assad to ...
  • Whose Alleged Settlement is Bigger?
    by Eugene Kontorovich by Eugene Kontorovich [Eugene Kontorovich is Professor of Law at Northwestern Law. This post is cross-posted at The Volokh Conspiracy] In response to my post about Turkey’s settlements, Kevin Jon Heller argues that from the perspective of International Criminal Cour ...
  • Are Israel and Turkey’s Settlements Comparable?
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Eugene Kontorovich argues today at Volokh Conspiracy that Israel could minimize the likelihood of an ICC investigation into its transfer of Israeli civilians into the West Bank by emphasizing Turkey’s similar transfer of Turkish civilians into Nort ...
  • Events and Announcements: January 6, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Upcoming Events On January 10-11, 2013, The T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, in cooperation with the International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Municipality of ...

Public News Service

  • Trouble on the Horizon as Cancer Screenings De ...
    Trouble on the Horizon as Cancer Screenings Decline PHOENIX - The American Cancer Society, along with cancer experts across the country, has promoted cancer screenings as a way to cut cancer death rates, especially for breast, colon and prostate cancer. But over the last decade, the number of ...
  • Fiscal Cliff Deal Includes a Reprieve for Wind ...
    Fiscal Cliff Deal Includes a Reprieve for Wind Production Tax Credit PHOENIX - Among the provisions of this week's congressional agreement to avoid the "fiscal cliff" is one little-talked about measure which helps give some financial security to an industry employing nearly 1,000 Arizonans. The ...
  • Jail Break? FCC Moves on Prison Phone Call Gouging
    Jail Break? FCC Moves on Prison Phone Call Gouging PHOENIX, Ariz. - In a move announced at the very end of the year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken a step toward examining the high prices families pay to stay in touch by phone with loved ones behind bars. In announcing a N ...
  • Healthy, Family-Style Resolutions for the New Year
    Healthy, Family-Style Resolutions for the New Year PHOENIX - The New Year is upon us, and at least one expert suggests making resolutions for the occasion a "family affair." Clinical psychologist Dr. William Hansen says it's a good idea for parents and children to sit down together, to reflect o ...
  • Regrets about Holiday Spending? Change That No ...
    Regrets about Holiday Spending? Change That Now ... PHOENIX - Christmas is barely over, and some people are still out there shopping the post-holiday sales. While the flurry of holiday spending may be good for the economy, it can prove to be exactly the opposite for an individual or family strug ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Bubble Safari Ocean, Angry Birds Star Wars, Ye ...
    Zynga’s Bubble Safari Ocean takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top Facebook apps growing by monthly active users this week with 22 percent gain. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on...
  • New scam targets Facebook page owners
    A new scam targeting Facebook page owners uses Facebook messages and a fake verification page to obtain user logins and passwords. The phishing scam begins with a Facebook message from a “Security Team” profile that uses...
  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Dec. 31 and Jan. 4. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Dec. 31 Inside Mobile Apps’s...
  • Facebook roundup: Sponsored Stories settlement ...
    Facebook notifies class action suit members about settlement – Facebook began sending proposed settlement notices to users it believes are members of a class action lawsuit that entitles them to up to $10 in compensation. The...
  • Registration Now Open for Inside Social Apps S ...
    After a successful run in New York City, Inside Social Apps returns to San Francisco on June 6 and 7. Join industry-leading developers, marketers, investors, and analysts for two days of in-depth discussions on the hottest...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Billy Ocean– “Caribbean Queen” This week is the one year anniversary of the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick. It’s been really fun for me picking out the music. I hope you’ve enjoyed the choices of artists and songs over the past year. Tonight’s artist is British-based ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 11
    “Consensus and Collaboration: The Fiscal Cliff and the Privatization of the Postal Service” with Jamie Partridge In this week’s episode, Eric examines the “fiscal cliff” deal struck between Republicans and Democrats with particular attention to the more insidious aspects of the ...

Afro Spear

  • Sunday Inspirations
    ENGLISH TRANSLATION There’s no one, there’s no one like Jesus There’s no one, there’s no one like him never never …Continue reading »
  • sat’day riddymz
    Thanks to Sis. Deb for permission to post this. This is so beautiful and inspirational!
  • Africland Social Community
    Africland is a social networking community space for all African descendants, whether you are in Haiti, Colombia, Brazil, UK, Africa, USA, Jamaica, …Continue reading »
  • Afro-Futurism: The Evolution Continuum
    “When you teach your children, you teach your children’s children” Talmud As a father, someone who is involved in nurturing …Continue reading »
  • Christmas Riddymz

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Does Truth Have A Future In America?
    Truth-tellers are inconvenient. Major General Antonio Taguba was given the assignment of conducting the official inquiry into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. Instead of covering up the incidents as he was expected to do for his third star, he produced a professional and truthful report. It was Ta ...
  • State of Fear
    The combination of intimidation tactics by right-wing fringe groups, which speak in the language of violence and hate, with the state's massive intrusion into the personal affairs of the citizen is corporate fascism. And we are much farther down that road than many of us care to admit.
  • Our New Double-Standard for Justice
    Our judges seem to be as befuddled as the rest of us when it come to defining exactly what 'terrorism' is and is not -- and whenand how people should be punished for it. One of the judges in this case could only comment that, like porn, he kew it when he saw it. Shouldn't we have to have a tad ...
  • Plutocracy
    A history of analytical critiques of plutocracy.
  • Joe Biden: Dancing With the Sausage maker
    Joe Biden is a brilliant sausage maker when it comes to Mark Twain's famous metaphor. But the notion that bi-partisanship is missing in Congress is nonsense. Militarism, intelligence and surveillance and police are so bi-partisan they tend to be impregnable issues. Lovable Joe is dead-center in ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Oil and gas industry trying to stop citizens f ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. As I've blogged recently, Colorado is currently considering updating some of its oil and gas rules regarding setbacks from homes and schools, as well as rules for water testing and monitoring. T ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Conservative Mailing Lists: Better Than the Gl ...
    When you’re dedicated to running a perpetual con, it’s good to have a nearly endless, easily accessible supply of suckers: The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture. As Rick Perlstein explained in the Baffler, some of the largest conservative media org ...
  • The Court Backward And Forward
    I recent had a discussion with Amanda Marcotte about the Supreme Court and my articles looking at the past term and the term to come, which is available in convenient, portable podcast form.
  • Return of the Chip
    Well, this is good (and surprising) news: Oregon coach Chip Kelly has decided to turn down a chance to go to the NFL and instead will return to the Ducks, according to league sources. Kelly was intrigued with the Philadelphia Eagles‘ head coaching job but decided he wasn’t comfortabl ...
  • Gary Becker Is Making Sense
    I don’t always agree with conservertarians, but when I do, it generally involves drug decriminalization. In particular, it is indeed important to remember that merely decriminalizing possession doesn’t do much for the mass incarceration and violence caused by the War on (Some Classes ...
  • Rape Culture In India and Ohio
    The recent posts by E.J. Graff and Soraya Chemaly aren’t easy reading, but they’re certainly illuminating reading.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Five States Now Ban Shark Fins, How About This ...
    Chicago chefs created a group called Chicago Chefs for Choice to fight the ban and they succeeded.
  • Sandy Victims to Receive Flood Insurance Payments
    Langevin pressed House Republican leadership from the start of this week to allow a vote on a $60 billion package that passed the Senate last Friday with bipartisan support.
  • Somali NOC Congress Elects New Chief
    The new president Mr. Abdullahi Ahmed Tarabi who was the sole candidate for the post of Somali NOC presidency has been unanimously voted in favour of by the all 18 voters at the congress. They are 9 National federations including the football Federa
  • More States on Track to Implement The Health C ...
    Today's conditional approvals follow those previously granted to Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington to operate State-based Exchanges
  • Secretary Clinton Leaves NY Hospital After Blo ...
    He reports that Secretary Clinton and her family would like to express their appreciation for the excellent care she received from the doctors, nurses, and staff at New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center.

environment 360

  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill Fails to Face Coas ...
    As part of the sorely-needed aid package to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, Congress is also considering spending billions on ill-advised and environmentally damaging beach and coastal rebuilding projects that ignore the looming threats of rising seas and intensifying storms. BY ROB YOUNG
  • New Experiments Yield Insights into State of P ...
    A team of U.S. researchers recently deployed a suite of technologies in the Arctic tundra that they say will provide a better understanding of the carbon contained in permafrost soils and how much is likely to be released as the planet warms. At an experimental plot near Barrow, Alaska, scientis ...
  • Starbucks Targets Reduction in Paper Waste wit ...
    Starbucks, the world’s largest chain of coffee shops, this week started selling $1 reusable plastic cups at its stores StarbucksA reusable plastic cup in the U.S. and Canada, an initiative the company hopes will drastically reduce the amount of paper waste that ends up in landfills. The company ...
  • Methane Leak Data Highlights Concerns About Na ...
    A pair of ongoing studies show unexpectedly high methane leakage from some oil and gas fields in the U.S., findings that underscore concerns that the climate benefits of the natural gas boom may be overstated. Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder say new data indicates that as ...
  • U.S. Wind Tax Credit Extended in ‘Fiscal Cliff ...
    The last-minute tax deal brokered by U.S. lawmakers to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff” included a one-year extension of the wind energy tax credit, a subsidy that industry officials say is critical for the growth of the wind energy sector. The bill, which now awaits President Obama’s signatur ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Ireland copyright battle: Newspapers demand $4 ...
    The body representing Ireland’s main newspapers is demanding a minimum of $400 for third parties to directly link their articles, sparking an unprecedented copyright row which strikes at the very heart of sharing... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Berlusconi seeking Italian economy minister po ...
    Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Monday he has reached an agreement with the Northern League, a regionalist political party, to run in the February elections. If elected, Berlusconi said he wants to... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Prison reform controversy: China may close not ...
    Beijing has announced it will halt China's widely criticized labor camp practices, state media reported, quoting China's chief of security. However, the announcement was removed shortly after it was made and was... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Bahrain jails anti-regime activists, overturns ...
    A top Bahraini court has overturned an appeal by 13 anti-regime activists on their sentences for protesting in 2011. The ruling could lead to further unrest by majority Shiite Muslim groups pushing for democracy in the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Bolivia slams US over 'irrefutable evidence' o ...
    Bolivia has “concrete evidence” that the US is plotting to destabilize the Latin American nation, Minister Juan Ramon Quintana said. Proof of US “harassment” of the Bolivian government will be handed over to President... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Why we KNOW the 911 Truth 'Debunkers' are Actu ...
    When dismissing or ignoring the key scientific evidence that proves the 911 attacks upon the World Trade Centre involved inside help most 'Debunkers' rest their case upon a few central fallacies - that the key evidence is not adequately proven or that the conspiracy material bein ...
  • 911 Free Fall Radio: Mark Basile and WTC Dust ...
    Mark Basile is a chemical engineer who has worked in the industry for thirty plus years and has been a pioneer of the 9/11 Truth movement when it comes to the hard evidence. He is also featured in the latest movie by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, "9/11 Explosive Evidence, Experts Spea ...
  • Occupy Steubenville, 12/29/2012
    I’m happy to announce that the Occupy Steubenville protest was a huge success. Hundreds of people showed up, and we voiced our message loud and clear for all to hear. We got some pretty good coverage by WTRF. You might recognize the guy shown at minute 1:09. ;)  WTRF 7 News Sports Weather ...
  • Attending Occupy Steubenville Tomorrow
    I’m going to be attending occupysteubenvilletomorrow. For those who can't attend, the live-stream will be here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oprollredroll. While there I'll shoot some footage and pictures, and upload those online as soon as I can. Peace. Free desktop streaming ap ...
  • The latest viral from "liberal" Hollywood
    When a bunch of clueless celebrities get together to advance a political agenda it annoys me. I remember when I first watched Team America: World Police. While I found the movie hilarious, I didn't really like how it ridiculed anti-war celebrities. Now, 8 years later, South Park is pretty much m ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Genevra Pittman on Chelation and Autism
    By Anne Dachel An interesting story by Reuters medical reporter Genevra Pittman came out on Dec 21, 2012. The message was clear from the title: Chelation doesn't help kids with autism: study. Chelation is a big topic in the autism...
  • Newly developed same-Nested PCR Method May Hel ...
    Troy, Montana (BusinessWire) – SaneVax Inc. announces the development of a new PCR methodology described in “Detection of human papillomavirus L1 gene DNA fragments in post-mortem blood and spleen after Gardasil® vaccination – A case report,” authored by Dr. Sin...
  • Returning to Yesterday
    By Cathy Jameson While people are divulging their resolutions this week, I hear the making of solemn promises – to do better for themselves, to do better for others or to do better for the world. I make all kinds...
  • Dachel Media Update: Autism Marriage Saver, Mo ...
    Jan 4, 2013, The New York Times: Autism Strains Yet Strengthens a Marriage Jan 3, 2013, WQOW Eau Claire, WI: School district adding teacher to focus on students with autism Jan 3, 2013, Daily Breeze (CA): Special education costs to...
  • Weekly Wrap Up: Pb is Bad, But Mercury is Yummy?
    Mother Jones, Age of Autism, Lead, Mercury, Dan Olmsted

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • We are seeking volunteers – Would you li ...
    Our new website is now here. In anticipation we are currently looking for additional category editors to join our team. It takes only around 10 minutes a day. Interested?  CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE
  • Gunmen fire on police in Belfast as flag dispu ...
    Guardian – Riots have broken out in Belfast after police came under gun attack for the first time in the continuing violent loyalist flag dispute. A taxi was hijacked and there are reports that a bus was set on fire just hours after shots were fired at police lines along the Newtownards Ro ...
  • Central African rebels seize one more town
    Al Jazeera – Rebels in the Central African Republic have taken the southern town of Alindao around 100km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a government spokesman has confirmed. The military advance on Saturday came after the UN Security Council called on rebels to halt ...
  • Toxic medicine
    The Economist – “THERE are no poisons, only poisonous doses.” Thus did Paracelsus, the greatest of the alchemists, encapsulate an important piece of medical wisdom. In fact, that is only half the story, for many materials which are toxic at high doses, when used sparingly and directed at s ...
  • Rothschild demands action from Bumi director
    Telegraph – Financier Nat Rothschild has told Bumi’s senior independent director Sir Julian Horn-Smith he must take action over the alleged financial misdemeanours at the coal miner or consider quitting the board. Mr Rothschild, who created Bumi in June 2010 via an ill-fated $3bn (£1.9bn) ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

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

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • Five States Now Ban Shark Fins, How About This ...
    Chicago chefs created a group called Chicago Chefs for Choice to fight the ban and they succeeded.
  • Sandy Victims to Receive Flood Insurance Payments
    Langevin pressed House Republican leadership from the start of this week to allow a vote on a $60 billion package that passed the Senate last Friday with bipartisan support.
  • Somali NOC Congress Elects New Chief
    The new president Mr. Abdullahi Ahmed Tarabi who was the sole candidate for the post of Somali NOC presidency has been unanimously voted in favour of by the all 18 voters at the congress. They are 9 National federations including the football Federa
  • More States on Track to Implement The Health C ...
    Today's conditional approvals follow those previously granted to Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington to operate State-based Exchanges
  • Secretary Clinton Leaves NY Hospital After Blo ...
    He reports that Secretary Clinton and her family would like to express their appreciation for the excellent care she received from the doctors, nurses, and staff at New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • ACETAMINOPHEN, DIPHENHYDRAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE, ...
    Updated Date: Jan 4, 2013 EST
  • Treating Stable Flies In Pastures
    U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are developing strategies to help livestock producers control stable flies, the most damaging arthropod pests of cattle in the United States. An economic impact assessment by scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Agroecosystem Mana ...
  • New Study Documents The Natural Relationship B ...
    By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present (almost 400 parts per million) were systematically ...
  • Nurse was so incompetent she gave dialysis pat ...
    Juleth McKenzie (pictured), who worked in Bradford, was hauled in front of the Nursing and Midwifery Council after she gave a dialysis patient a drink of Lucozade instead of a glucose drip. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
  • Rainfall, brain infection linked in sub-Sahara ...
    The amount of rainfall affects the number of infant infections leading to hydrocephalus in Uganda, according to a team of researchers who are the first to demonstrate that these brain infections are linked to climate.

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • 11 years later, Gitmo injustice continues
    Mary Shaw January 11, 2013, will mark the 11th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. In 2009, just two days after taking office, President Obama issued an executive order calling for the Guantanamo prison to be closed within a ...
  • Technology Servitude
    Joel S. Hirschhorn Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high tech devices, while driving, while walking, while shopping, while in groups of friends, while in restaurants, while waiting in doctor offices and hospitals, while sitting in toilets – everywhere. While c ...
  • Another NNC Lendman Interview
    Stephen Lendman NNC's Iman Soleimani conducted this and earlier interviews. Each raised major world issues. NCC is one of Iran's largest media operations. It works collaboratively with major TV and News services. Questions and answers are below. Editing was done as needed. Final commen ...
  • Netanyahu's Warning
    by Stephen Lendman Netanyahu represents lawless rogue leadership. He belongs in prison, not high office. Pre-election polls suggest he'll retain power. Israelis aren't smart enough to spurn him. Palestinian suffering will continue. The new year began like 2012 ended. More on that below. ...
  • Year in Review: 2012 in U.S. Trade Reform
    Ian Fletcher Previously negotiated U.S. free trade agreements went into effect with Korea in March, Colombia in May, and Panama in October. President Obama continued to push for the unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership. He also continued to refuse to designate China a currency manipulator, des ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Kennedy’s Shot Against Pot
    by Ken Gage,WWH/CJE – I like the former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy. He’s done a lot of good here in the U.S., particularly with his organization One Mind for Research, working to improve the fields of mental health, brain injuries and neurological disorders. But some ...
  • “Poor in America” – Can You Define It?
    By Milva Matseva,CJE - Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, August 2011. Kaylynn Bolghrin opens her fridge only to realize there is practically no space to put a single box of burritos. The space is so stuffed even the freezer cannot accommodate anything. “We live very poor,” she told me a month ago. “He ...
  • Enemies of the State: Blowing the Whistle on S ...
    29C3 Panel: Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, William Binney on whistleblowing
  • Illegal Occupation of Iraq: US-UK Crimes again ...
    By Felicity Arbuthnot,globalresearch. -  The Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon., William Hague, M.P., And: To Whom it May Concern, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London SW1. Greetings, In the light of the fact that it transpires that twenty seven Foreign Office lawyers concluded unanimously that  ...
  • RINF Video: US & European Orwellian Surveillan ...
    RINF News reports that Germany is now considering adopting a new level of Orwellian surveillance similar to the UK, while the United States installs spy technology on buses and subways to record private conversations. Read More: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/bonn-bomb-triggers-ca ...

FourWinds10

  • Bubble trouble: 50ft tsunami of foam sweeps th ...
    Sept. 29, 2012   Wall of bubbles sparked panic in China's Guangdong province as it swept along a river Suds are thought to have been created when a chemical was swept into the river by heavy rainfall Officials in Xintang said the mass of foam was 'harmless' This wall of foam spa ...
  • UNGRIP Declaring Our Inherent Independence
    Dec. 10, 2012 Extremely powerful. Please pass it on. This is a template for taking action, abiding by conscious awareness of our inherent rights as sovereign human beings. – Zen VIEW HERE http://www.
  • Coast Guard: 4-mile stretch of oil has appeare ...
    Oct. 4, 2012 Title: Oil sheen mysteriously appears off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast Source: CNN Author: AnneClaire Stapleton Contributing Date: 2:57 PM EDT, Thu October 4, 2012 An oil sheen about four miles long has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the worst oil spill in U.S. hist ...
  • New York blasted with toxic influx of sewage a ...
    Nov. 10, 201 (NaturalNews) Embattled with several feet of flood waters in some areas, persistent power outages, and rot and decay throughout tattered streets, many areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy are also now suffering the consequences of a massive influ ...
  • TV: Sucking and blowing from tank on troubled ...
    Jan. 4, 2013 Excerpts from Alaska Dispatch: Sean Churchfield, incident commander and operations manager for Royal Dutch Shell Alaska, offered few details on the overall condition of the Kulluk and had no update on the vessel’s hull. During Wednesday’s short press briefing, officials ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • A Look at DuPont Biofuel’s Work on Cellulosic ...
    Robert Rapier interviewed Mr. Jan Koninckx, global director of biofuels for DuPont Industrial Biosciences regarding DuPont's efforts in 2nd generation biofuels. DuPont is currently engaged in two major projects to commercialize advanced biofuels.
  • The Top 10 Energy Stories of 2012
    Happy New Year’s to readers everywhere! Last week we posted a poll listing 15 of the major energy stories of 2012. Readers voted, and the Top 10 are presented below with a short narrative describing the story. 1. Revolution in US oil and gas production continues The fracking revolution in ...
  • Vote for the Top Energy Stories of 2012
    For the past several years, at year end I rank what I felt were the the major energy stories of the year. 2012 lacked a blockbuster energy story like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011, so I thought I would change things up a bit and just le ...
  • Grading My Energy-Related Predictions for 2012
    In my list of Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2011, I made five predictions for 2012. Those predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline project will be approved (although ...
  • An Oil Company Finds Itself On the Losing End ...
    When most people hear the term "fossil fuel subsidies" it conjures up images of governments giving their hard-earned tax dollars to already highly profitable oil companies. But a Brazilian subsidy is causing Petrobras to import gasoline and sell at 8% below cost.

Discovery Educator Network

  • Elizabeth English: Why So Many Schools Remain ...
    Comments:"Educational leaders have to have the courage to reinvent our schools for real this time. And our teachers must be teachers of children as well as teachers of their subject area. This means possessing pedagogical knowledge -- the tools in the tool belt to design a lesson for the student ...
  • Little Alchemy
    Tags: alchemy, interactive, scienceby: Dean Mantz
  • The Long-Term Effects Of Skipping Your Homewor ...
    Tags: reading, long-term, effects, skipping, homeworkby: John Evans
  • Please Share,Tweet,Comment:Competition finalis ...
    Comments:Share and comment also my last blog post : Top 10 social media educational apps to unleash you ipad power http://bitly.com/Top10iPadCurationedapps - LUCIAN DUMATags: education, technology, web2.0, learning, tools, social, media, curationby: LUCIAN DUMA
  • Why Aren’t We Talking More About iTunes U? - i ...
    Comments:"With so many schools adopting the use of iPads I find it strange that we aren’t hearing more about the incredible opportunities available in iTunes U. Well I suppose it isn’t that strange given that schools in the early stages of transitioning to an iPad platform are extremely busy an ...

Rodale News

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

big think

  • Big Think's Guide to Thinking and Doing Bigger ...
    Five years ago today, Big Think first launched to the public. What a five years it's been! We've had some of the world's most influential, significant, radical thinkers through our doors. And these doors have changed several times over. My business partner Victoria Brown and I began this proje ...
  • Common Misconceptions About Intelligence V: E ...
    Education does not increase your intelligence.  It’s the other way around. A subcategory of the last common misconception about intelligence (“Genes don’t determine intelligence, only the environment does”) is that you can become more intelligent, by reading more books, attending better ...
  • 593 - Greenland by Way of a Drainpipe: Acciden ...
    It was this map of Greenland that triggered this post. I say map, but I mean hole in a drainpipe.  This picture was sent in by Ruland Kolen, who was struck by this hole’s accidental resemblance to the shape of the world’s largest island: “Both Greenland and this hole look like a ...
  • What the Rest of Us Can Learn From Psychopaths
    What's the Latest Development? When University of Oxford research psychologist Kevin Dutton toured England's most dangerous psychiatric hospital, he was looking to better understand how psychopaths would deal with real-life problems given their tendency toward ruthlessness, charm, focus, ...
  • The SEARCH Engine of Love: How Long Do You Nee ...
    How long does it take to know that you’ve found The One—or someone who you might want to see for a second date? I found the answer to this and other existential questions in the Sky Mall catalog on a flight home, sandwiched amid ads for Big Foot garden statuary and anxiety-reduction blan ...

Information Liberation

  • Academia and Imbecility
    In a recent LRC article, economist William Anderson dissects the leftist progressive mindset within the modern-day academic community. University professors, along with their colleagues of sophisticated thinking in the press, display an affinity for ...
  • Illinois Firefighters Stand Idle While Man Drowns
    A Champaign, Illinois man drowned Jan. 1 in a mall pond as increasingly angry observers demanded a rescue, at least 13 minutes after the local fire department arrived at the scene. The man, Kenneth Brown, 20, slipped under the freezing water 1...
  • Gangs or Cops -- Or Do I Repeat Myself?
    Denver Police Officer Eric Sellers once choked an innocent pedestrian into unconsciousness while two other officers refused to intervene. This was an act of summary "street justice" imposed as a penalty for "contempt of cop": The victim, a volunteer ...
  • Akron Officer Accused of Breaking Schoolgirl's Arm
    A mother is challenging the school assignment of an Akron police officer accused of fracturing her daughter*s arm while physically restraining the eighth-grade girl. The incident was recorded on a security camera at Jennings middle school. The v...
  • Baltimore City Officer Fatally Shoots Family P ...
    BALTIMORE (WJZ)*A Baltimore City family is outraged after they say a Baltimore City cop shot and killed their beloved dog. Rochelle Ritchie has more on why the dog became the target of police. The family says police were chasing a suspect throu...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 2012 a busy year, some highlights
    My wife told me that publishing this would be like sending out one of those braggardly “family newsletters” to one’s friends, but I wanted to round off the blog for 2012 by posting a few memories from the year…is that so bad? I even blogged about not posting it. Anyway, i ...
  • 2012 a busy year, some highlights
    My wife told me that publishing this would be like sending out one of those braggardly “family newsletters” to one’s friends, but I wanted to round off the blog for 2012 by posting a few memories from the year…is that so bad? I even blogged about not posting it. Anyway, i ...
  • Facebook boosts self esteem, leads to snacking
    That’s an approximation of the tabloid headlines. But, as ever, NHS Choices offers a more solid critique of various bits of research into the effects of online social networking on our psyche. “Overall, social networking improves self-esteem, particularly when the person has a greate ...
  • Facebook boosts self esteem, leads to snacking
    That’s an approximation of the tabloid headlines. But, as ever, NHS Choices offers a more solid critique of various bits of research into the effects of online social networking on our psyche. “Overall, social networking improves self-esteem, particularly when the person has a greate ...
  • End of the World
    Well, the sleeping Americans problem don’t know it yet, but the end of the world hasn’t happened as Australians and others who have already entered the day Winter Solstice will attest. Google celebrates with a piece of the Mayan Calendar. Of course, why anyone would trust the “ ...

RFF Library

  • A Regulator’s Privacy Guide to Third-Par ...
    State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network’s (SEE Action) Customer Information and Behavior Working Group for the the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability http://energy.gov/oe/articles/regulators-privacy-guide-third-party-data-access-energy-efficiency-now-available … ...
  • Opportunities and Obstacles in Large-Scale Bio ...
    National Research Council http://bit.ly/UBgw64 Based on a one-day public workshop held in Washington, DC, Opportunities and Obstacles in Large-Scale Biomass Utilization: The Role of the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Communities: A Workshop Summary explores the current state of biomass utiliz ...
  • Joint Analysis of Stressors and Ecosystem Serv ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Jan. 1, 2013, v110 n1 p372-377) / by J. David Allan, et al. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/1/372.full.pdf+html [Abstract] With increasing pressure placed on natural systems by growing human populations, both scientists and resource managers need ...
  • Improving Our Understanding of How Highway Con ...
    Transportation Research Board http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/168141.aspx TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C04 has released a prepublication, non-edited draft version of a report titled Improving our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Price Affect ...
  • Provisional Assessment of Recent Studies on He ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/isa/recordisplay.cfm?deid=247132 EPA is announcing the availability of the final report, Provisional Assessment of Recent Studies on Health Effects of Particulate Matter Exposure. This report presents the findings of ...

Scientific American - News

  • Breaking the Mold: Could Additive Manufacturin ...
    The U.S. wants back into the manufacturing game , but the industry has had to weigh this desire to create new jobs and stimulate the economy against the reality of competing against lower operating costs elsewhere in the world. Whereas traditional assembly-line work may never return stateside i ...
  • Flesh-Eating Flies Map Forest Biodiversity
    The blowflies and flesh flies that settle on dead animals aren't just feasting on the carrion -- they're sampling their DNA. Scientists in Germany have now shown that this DNA persists for long enough to be sequenced, providing a quick and cost-effective snapshot of mammal diversity in o ...
  • Quantum Gas Goes below Absolute Zero
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • Meteorite Carries Ancient Water from Mars
    From Nature magazine [More]
  • Safety Survey Reveals Lab Risks
    Scientists may have a false sense of security about the safety of their laboratories, according to early results from the first international survey of researchers’ workplace attitudes and practices. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • An open letter to peaceful protesters
    There is an important distinction between ‘peaceful’ and ‘legal.’ That’s not to say that one is better than the other, or that legal is bad and peaceful is good, it is simply emphasizing that the two are not t ...
  • Akwesasne Idle No More March Across Internatio ...
    Idle No More crosses the International Bridge between the US and Canada on January 5th 2012. Watch more videos on the Etudiant Militant youtube channel.   ...
  • Aamjiwnaang activists hit Chemical Valley righ ...
    On December 21st 2012, members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation organized a blockade of the CN St. Clair Industrial Spur rail line at Williams Road. Thi ...
  • West Coast Idle No More - No Borders Here
    COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Hundreds of Idle No More participants joined forces at the Peace Arch Canada/US "border crossing" today. The three-hour sing, drum and dance was timed to coincide with "border" rallies by Idle No More across the continent. Oganizers stressed that the ...
  • Inviting Ceremony into Revolution - #IdleNoMore
    The importance of making space for the spiritual in a revolutionary agenda K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – While the possibility exists for the Idle No More movement to overturn bil ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Today in Orwellianism: Torture Isn't Torture i ...
    From CIA veteran Jose Rodriguez, explaining why the CIA's torture program wasn't really torture: Detainees were given the opportunity to cooperate. If they resisted and were believed to hold critical information, they might receive — with Washington’s approval — some of t ...
  • Getting a Republican to Implement Democratic D ...
    So it looks like Obama is going to nominate Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense after all. Andrew Sullivan says his core qualification is that he was a clear-eyed critic of the Iraq war even though he initially supported it: Unlike so many of the lemmings and partisans of Washington DC, Ha ...
  • The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin is Horrible, Law ...
    Paul Krugman thinks President Obama should starting thinking about minting a $1 trillion platinum coin to get around the debt ceiling: It’s easy to make sententious remarks to the effect that we shouldn’t look for gimmicks, we should sit down like serious people and deal with o ...
  • Lead and Crime: I'll Be On the Melissa Harris- ...
    By the time you see this I should be on a plane to New York, where I'll be on the Melissa Harris-Perry show tomorrow on MSNBC talking about lead and crime. (Plus a few other topics.) One of the other guests on the lead panel will be Howard Mielke of Tulane University, who's been doing lead res ...
  • Republicans Vote to Increase Cost of Medicare
    Conservative Republicans talk endlessly about reining in the cost of entitlement programs like Medicare, but when it comes to specifics they suddenly become camera shy. Now, though, it's gotten even worse. Not only are they unwilling to propose actual, concrete cost-cutting measures for Medica ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 372: 2013 Pet Peeves
    Topic: First show of 2013 and Kriss & Kev are joined by Karen from The Black Guy Who Tips. They discuss their Pet Peeves that they aren’t putting up with in 2013. Share with your friends:
  • IC 371: The NWFO Bible
    Topic: Stupid Reality Shows #AvengersInitiative on Django How to deal with people who ignore the #AvengersInitiative The Bible is a terrible book Michael Bay Bible Translations The NWFO casts for The Bible movie Best Directors How good of a director is Ben Affleck? Overrated directors Share with ...
  • IC 370: Conscious Rapper Syndrome
    Topic: Kriss’ new tablet Teaching your kids about computers & technology early Kriss spills the secret about working in the computer field Django was awesome Black “Intellectuals” vs Tarantino Spike Lee & the “Conscious Rapper Syndrome” Kriss explains what ...
  • IC 369: Bulletproof Bookbags
    Topic: Kev’s job sucks Treating public servants horribly We are the problem No one really cares about mental health Twitter etiquette More guns won’t make you safer Gun control might be necessary but make a better argument Share with your friends:
  • IC 368: Disasterbation in the Face of Tragedy
    Topic: White people saying the N-word Thirst traps on Twitter Batman is an Impossible White Man Disasterbation & the Connecticut shooting Teasing a few Impossible White Man criteria Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • 3-D color X-Ray imaging radically improved for ...
    Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a camera that can be used to take powerful three dimensional colour X-ray images, in near real-time, without the need for a synchrotron X-ray source. read more
  • Living cells behave like fluid-filled sponges
    Animal cells behave like fluid-filled sponges in response to being mechanically deformed according to new research published January 7 in Nature Materials. read more
  • 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. read more
  • 15 new planets hint at 'traffic jam' of moons ...
    Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website, part of the Oxford University-led Zooniverse project, have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars. read more
  • All in the family: A genetic link between epil ...
    New research reveals a shared genetic susceptibility to epilepsy and migraine. Findings published in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), indicate that having a strong family history of seizure disorders increases the chance of having migraine with aura (MA). ...

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Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • WATCH: Ultra-right Israeli MKs mock Arabs in A ...
    This has got to be one of the more disgusting videos I’ve seen. The Otzma LeYisrael party, headed by ultra-right wing MKs Aryeh Eldad and Kahanist Michael Ben-Ari have posted their first campaign video to be shown on Israeli TV on YouTube (according to Ben-Ari’s Facebook page). The televised ele ...
  • WATCH: Soldier uses live ammunition on unarmed ...
    This footage was taken by B’Tselem during a protest against Israel’s Pillar of Defense operation against Gaza (November 19, 2012). The protesters – Palestinian high-school boys from Tuqu’, in the West Bank – are seen chanting and occasionally throwing stones at sold ...
  • Israeli elections round-up: Image of the next ...
    Recent attempts to form an ‘anti-Bibi’ bloc among the centrist parties may very well drive right-wing voters back to the prime minister’s hands. One outcome of the unusually short election cycle that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu imposed on the Israeli political system – in ...
  • Construction of Gush Etzion separation fence d ...
    Six months after the Ministry of Defense announced plans to resume construction of the fence in Gush Etzion, the IDF informed settler leaders that construction will not be resumed until the route is reevaluated by government. The Gush Etzion settlement bloc just south of Bethlehem is the locatio ...
  • Media misconceptions: A black and white conflict?
    In the second post of my three-part series about media and publishing, I examine some misconceptions about the Israeli-Palestinian ‘conflict.’ When my agent and I shopped my book about Israel’s migrant workers and African refugees around, we got a lot of those “We love it but it’s no ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • JP MORGAN HEAD JAMIE DIMON HECKLED….THE ...
    This video should serve as an inspiration to consumers worldwide.  The banks and Wall Street have gutted the world economy, and have paid no price!   A MUST WATCH VIDEO JP DIMON HECKLED   Scridb filter
  • URGENT! SEND IN YOUR COMPLAINTS TO THE NATIONA ...
    The regulators continue to pass sweetheart deals then loudly proclaim that they receive few complaints. IT’S OUR FAULT FOR NOT SUBMITTING COMPLAINTS AND MAKING OUR VOICES HEARD! Do your part, log in and leave complaints here: http://www.mortgageoversight.com and go to the Report  Client/Co ...
  • NYTIMES- LAPDOG REGULATORS CAVE, THE BANKS&#82 ...
    A $10 billion settlement to resolve claims of foreclosure abuses by 14 major lenders is expected to be announced as early as Monday, several people with knowledge of the discussions said on Sunday. The settlement comes after weeks of negotiations between federal regulators and the banks, and cov ...
  • Two Widowed Spouses Apppeal, Reverse Mortgage ...
    Two widowed spouses of homeowners with reverse-mortgage contracts faced foreclosure by mortgage lenders after their spouses died. They brought suit against the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, alleging that HUD’s regulation defining the conditions under which it woul ...
  • FORECLOSURE FILINGS WILL INCREASE! The Banks C ...
    The largest US banks are close to a $10bn settlement with regulators to resolve claims that they broke rules when seizing the homes of customers who defaulted on their mortgages. People involved in the talks said on Sunday evening that agreement was close on the size and scope of the settleme ...

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The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Pro-fracking health report suppressed by New Y ...
    A document from Governor Cuomo’s Administration assessing the health impacts of hydro fracking, written in early 2012, says the gas drilling process is likely safe if proper precautions are taken by the governor’s environmental agency. But the report has been suppressed presumably because the co ...
  • A week of new cold records in Delhi – mu ...
    The minimum temperature in Delhi has been recorded at 1.9 degrees Celsius, which is five degrees below normal. This is the lowest minimum for January in the past five years. On Wednesday, the city witnessed the coldest day in 44 years.
  • A week of new cold records in Delhi – mu ...
    The minimum temperature in Delhi has been recorded at 1.9 degrees Celsius, which is five degrees below normal. This is the lowest minimum for January in the past five years. On Wednesday, the city witnessed the coldest day in 44 years.
  • Indian politicians expose themselves in the wa ...
    The quality of the political leadership in India leaves much to be desired. What is clear is the medieval and feudal fantasy they live in. Women politicians included. Rape and murder and torture are all perfectly acceptable if inflicted on victims of the appropriate class or caste or sex or reli ...
  • Indian politicians expose themselves in the wa ...
    The quality of the political leadership in India leaves much to be desired. What is clear is the medieval and feudal fantasy they live in. Women politicians included. Rape and murder and torture are all perfectly acceptable if inflicted on victims of the appropriate class or caste or sex or reli ...

Left Foot Forward

  • Cameron told the big society is “effecti ...
    Today, Cameron’s flagship policy, the big society, has suffered a serious blow; a leading charity figure has described it as being “effectively dead”. Sir Stephen Bubb, head of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, damned the big society agenda as a result of spending c ...
  • Comment: 2013 – ever changing dynamism i ...
    Peter Lesniak is an independent foreign affairs analyst, concentrating on the Middle East and North Africa. Having previously worked in parliament with the  All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues he currently works in the LibDem International Office. Peter is also a Director of Communi ...
  • Welfare reforms are not well fair for the regions
    A housing association in Wales has warned that the Government’s Bedroom Tax will hit many tenants “like a hurricane”. Under the Welfare Reform Act, passed last year, the new tax will, from April 2013 see  the level of benefit that people can access cut if they are considered to have a spare bedr ...
  • A letter to the President of Argentina
    Mrs President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, You started your letter by noting the date Britain asked a detachment of Argentine troops to leave the Falkland Islands that had previously been settled by us. Let me offer you another date: In 1580 Buenos Aires was re-founded by the Spanish after th ...
  • Comment: Fairness in 2013
    With 'fairness' representing a significant trend in last year's political rhetoric and debate, Richard Bassford looks at whether this will continue into 2013.

Consumerist

  • Grocery Shrink Ray Hits Feta Cheese, Shrinks P ...
    When Drew went to buy a package of Athenos feta cheese, he noticed something strange. ” Athenos not only did away with the recently ‘new’ flip top on their feta cheese, replacing it with a decidedly cheaper container, they also removed two entire ounces from the package,” ...
  • Staffers & Experts Explain Why Walmart Can&#82 ...
    Yesterday we told you about the Walmart customer who didn’t understand why his local Walmart refused to change the oil in his 2012 Fiat 500. He was simply told it was because the car wasn’t in “the book.” We asked if anyone could shine some light on this issue — and ...
  • China Smacks Samsung & LG With $35 Million Fin ...
    Price-fixin — it isn’t just for book publishers anymore (not that it ever really was unique to that industry, but you get the point): China fined Samsung and LG Displays a total of $35 million charging that the companies fixed the prices of LCD panels that were then sold to TV manufacturer ...
  • Couple Says AllState Low-Balled Them On Sandy ...
    A Staten Island couple is already having more than a rough go of it after their house was devastated during Hurricane Sandy. But as they’re trying to pick up the pieces, they say their insurance company, AllState, is not only low-balling their claim, but had the nerve to use their home in ...
  • Hurry Up And Get These Best Buy Year-End Deals ...
    If you’re tired of looking for bargains and want to spend the full retail price on electronics, we have found a great sale for you! In spite of the fact that 2012 ended on Monday night, Best Buy’s website is still promoting Year-End Deals on the homepage. Consumerist reader Jerry not ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Reply to the Inter-American Development Bank’s ...
    The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has released a response to GAP’s recent review of its whistleblower policy. We appreciate the time devoted by IDB officials to evaluating GAP’s analysis. We found some of its feedback to be useful and have, accordingly, released an updated version of our ...
  • CIA/Torture Whistleblower Facing Prison Time: ...
    The New York Times: Ex-Officer is First From C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak John Kiriakou This front-page, above-the-fold, extensive article from yesterday's New York Times provides much of the backstory of CIA/torture whistleblower and GAP client John Kiriakou, who recently pled guilty to v ...
  • SEC Publishes Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Report: ...
    CNBC: Guess Which State Has a Really Surprising Number of Whistleblowers The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a report on the first full year of the Dodd-Frank whistleblower law, which created financial incentives and legal protection for whistleblowers who expose fraud, ...
  • John Cusack Leads Talk on WikiLeaks and Whistl ...
    Image by David SifryHuffington Post: John Cusack – What is an Assange? Actor John Cusack, now on the board of the newly launched Freedom of the Press Foundation, moderates a discussion about WikiLeaks' impact on transparency and the comparison of Julian Assange to Pentagon Papers whistleblowe ...
  • John Cusack Leads Talk on WikiLeaks and Whistl ...
    Image by David SifryHuffington Post: John Cusack – What is an Assange? Actor John Cusack, now on the board of the newly launched Freedom of the Press Foundation, moderates a discussion about WikiLeaks' impact on transparency and the comparison of Julian Assange to Pentagon Papers whistleblowe ...

UK Progressive

  • Gore v. Morris: How Dick Morris’s Insult to Je ...
    by Brent Budowsky In his latest epistle, Dick Morris opines against Al Gore and Joel Hyatt regarding the sale of Current TV to Al-Jazeera. I will ignore the Morris charge as being unworthy of serious response from serious people. Morris in fact insults the intelligence of Jewish voters, whom he ...
  • Meet the New Boss… Same as the Old Boss… Yup-W ...
    This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell I did not get my New Year’s wish for sanity in Washington, DC. Crazy continues to drive the bus and I am getting tired of having to explain to the rest of the globe how the governance system continues to fail to work in the USA. [...]
  • Op-Ed: Iran’s Best Response To Israeli or U.S. ...
    by Sherwood Ross If Iran militarily resists  an American/Israeli attack, it may well suffer the same tragic fate as Viet Nam, which lost some 2 million civilians to U.S. deprivations  Not only does the U.S. possess some of the most fiendish weapons ever devised, such as nuclear-tipped artillery ...
  • Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?
    by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn Special to ProPublica This story was co-published with Foreign Policy. Accra is a city of choking red dust where almost no rain falls for three months at a time and clothes hung out on a line dry in 15 minutes. So the new five-star Mövenpick hotel affords a haven of sor ...
  • The Assault Weapons Ban is a Red Herring
    by Tina Dupuy The philosophy behind the quackery known as homeopathic medicine is that “like cures like.” As in: have a burn, apply a hot compress. This widely-panned pseudoscience (oh man, am I going to get letters) in its 300 years of existence has a history of being debunked, going away and t ...

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JoNova

  • ABC uses taxpayer money to hide how it uses ta ...
    Assume for a moment that the ABC was a dedicated team working to serve the public, getting fair rates of pay. Then imagine Australians asked the ABC what salaries they paid their “celebrities”. The ABC team would be happy to provide that list, and surely it could be done in one worki ...
  • To get politics out of science, scientists nee ...
    Since when was science “political?” Answer: It’s not, but the institutions and bureaucrats who pretend to be scientists are. In the past, partisan scientists would at least try to hide that and keep up the dispassionate persona that marks a seeker of the truth. Now some scienti ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    … Rating: 7.8/10 (8 votes cast) Rating: 7.8/10 (8 votes cast)
  • Al Gore gives Big-Oil-Government a TV Channel ...
    Imagine the hyperventilating headlines: Global warming denier sells TV channel to Arab Oil organisation, pockets $100 million in oil funds. More proof that giant corporate interests pull the strings on the public debate, and that carbon dioxide causes storms, tidal waves, asteroids, and alien at ...
  • Two million years of climate change made us wh ...
    Bradshaw Art, Kimberley, Australia. This distinctive style of painting disappeared 7,000 years ago.  |  Photo TimJN1 Two million years of climate change has made us human — in a ying meets yang contradiction, while climate change destroyed cultures and groups,  without it, we would no ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

Empty newsfeed.

2012 Blog

  • Pane Andov on Failed Predictions
    Pane Andov, from Macedonia, is well known for his extensive presentations within posts at various forums  – I was one of the moderators that let him get away with it, and I saw a presentation he gave in Melbourne a few years back. Like Geryl, he comes across as genuine, but he lacks a BS d ...
  • Shipping Containers As Faraday Cages?
    There’s a massive dilemma for preppers who wish to prepare for an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) from enemies or nature: Buy a Faraday Cage – very expensive, because none are made for the consumer market Build a Faraday Cage – and never know if you got it right until crunch time ...
  • Planet Earth Waking Up?
    Considering all the attention paid to Dec 21, 2012, it is almost ironic the lack of natural disasters. There hasn’t been a major earthquake in many weeks, and looks like the solar cycle has had an early and very weak peak. Or, is now the time to start fearing the worst? Tsunami warning af ...
  • Peter Gersten Didn’t Jump on Dec 21
    Of course we are grateful that the fateful Dec 21, 2012 day wasn’t (as far as I can tell) marked by a single pointless death. The downside is that Peter Gersten has good cause for being embarrassed. Back in 2011 I reported on his crazy plans for a Sedona death leap: Most of you will think ...
  • Patrick Geryl Stayed at Home
    Patrick Geryl became quite famous in his home country (Belgium), had a best selling book in Poland and frequently appeared in the media worldwide telling people that, according to his calculations, doomsday would certainly occur on Dec 21, 2012. I placed a pair of his articles on this website be ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Thai Black Pepper Garlic Tofu from FatFree Veg ...
    After she fell in love with the dish at a local Thai restaurant, Susan from FatFree Vegan Kitchen re-created this Thai Black Pepper and Garlic Tofu at home. For tofu fans who don't mind a little heat, this sounds like a perfect Meatless Monday dinner. Susan makes hers lower in fat than the resta ...
  • When a Chance Encounter Restores Your Faith in ...
    That damn teddy bear nearly ruined my morning. Sitting front and center inside the doors of Old Navy, it proudly flaunted its blue scarf and beckoned to be cuddled. It was at least as big as my two-year-old son so, naturally, he just had to have it. “Honey, we aren’t getting a teddy bear today, ...
  • What Makes a Facebook Page Successful?
    Not all Facebook pages are created equally. I follow a handful of restaurants, businesses, non-profits, and museums. I also follow blogs, authors, and random artists. I've been trying to figure out why I connect with some and not others. This is what I've discovered. I follow a weather team ...
  • Which Downton Abbey Character Relationship Is ...
    At last the long wait is over. By the time you read this post, all the Downton Abbey fans will have had a chance to watch the first episode of Season Three on PBS, Sunday night at 9PM. Downton Abbey is the highest rated and most successful series in the history of the long running Masterpiece Th ...
  • Vegan Chickpea Stew for the Cook with Toddler
    Editor’s Note: There’s nothing I like better on a wintry evening than a big bowl of stew. This Quick Chickpea Stew from Alyssa at Everyday Maven is livened up with bulgur and the exotic Middle Eastern spice blend za’atar. But even more intriguing is that Alyssa says all her recipes can be execut ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

  • Armed Hate Crime Victim Doesn’t Draw Wea ...
    Earlier this week, a 24-year-old Tampa-area resident named Cameron Mohammed was walking with his girlfriend into Walmart at around 3 a.m. when the two were approached from behind by a 25-year-old named Daniel Quinnell. Quinnell allegedly yelled racial epithets at the two, then fired 20 shots at ...
  • Realtime iOS Filesystem Monitoring | Secu ...
    For the longest time a big struggle with doing mobile application assessments on iOS has been monitoring applications as they drop files to the file system. There were definitely ways to do this but they involved taking snapshots of the application directory with tools like m ...
  • Word of the Day: Minarchism
    Minarchism (also known as minimal statism) is a libertarian capitalist political philosophy. It is variously defined by sources. In the strictest sense, it holds that states ought to exist (as opposed to anarchy), that their only legitimate function is the protection of individuals from aggressi ...
  • What America Needs
    I am participating in a series of quality political discussions on Facebook (gasp), and I wanted to replicate here a comment I just made in a thread about “what went wrong” with our country. – It’s true that it’s gotten bad. It’s true we’re in a ba ...
  • Sam Harris on Guns
    According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, 47 percent of all murders in the U.S. are committed with handguns. Again, only 3 percent are committed with rifles (of any type). Twice as many murderers (6 percent) use nothing but their bare hands. Thirteen percent use knives. Although a semi-automa ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Illegal Occupation of Iraq: US-UK Crimes again ...
    By Felicity Arbuthnot,globalresearch. -  The Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon., William Hague, M.P., And: To Whom it May Concern, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London SW1. Greetings, In the light of the fact that it transpires that twenty seven Foreign Office lawyers concluded unanimously that  ...
  • RINF Video: US & European Orwellian Surveillan ...
    RINF News reports that Germany is now considering adopting a new level of Orwellian surveillance similar to the UK, while the United States installs spy technology on buses and subways to record private conversations. Read More: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/bonn-bomb-triggers-ca ...
  • Everything is connected Can internet activism ...
    From .economist.com - When dozens of countries refused to sign a new global treaty on internet governance in late 2012, a wide range of activists rejoiced. They saw the treaty, crafted under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), as giving governments pernicious powers ...
  • Late Stage Capitalism And The Shame Haunted Li ...
    By Phil Rockstroh- ”Memory believes before knowing remembers.” — William Faulkner In an era of corporate-state colonization of both landscape and mental real estate, when the face of one’s true oppressors is, more often than not, hidden from view, thus inflicting feelings ...
  • NEXT PROP 37? NEW MEXICO LAW CALLS FOR MANDATO ...
    by Anthony Gucciardi,truththeory.com/ - Is this the next Prop 37, complete with a forthcoming wave of successful activism and education from concerned consumers? Unfortunately we know that Prop 37 failed due to not only irrefutable deceptionand lies from the Monsanto-funded ‘No on 37′ campaign, ...

reference frame

  • Dine-Haber symposium in Santa Cruz
    Between Friday and Sunday, particle physicists organized a spectacular symposium in Santa Cruz to celebrate the 60th birthdays of Michael Dine (left) and Howard Haber (right). The website of the symposium shows that the program was impressive and included speakers such as Gross, Seibe ...
  • Irrational hysteria about Klaus' amnesty
    At the end of his last New Year address as the Czech president, Václav Klaus offered a "shocker" and declared a partial amnesty that has freed about 1/3 of the prisoners. A wave of hysterical criticism has emerged and it is still strengthening. I conjecture that the passionate critics (a group t ...
  • Czech presidential candidates: test your English
    In one week, Czechia will vote its new president who will replace Prof Klaus (who's been the Czech president for 10 years) in March in the first direct presidential election ever. The two candidates who are expected to pass to the second round, Mr Miloš Zeman and Mr Jan Fischer, were facing ...
  • LHC: discovering grand unification
    ...aside from supersymmetry... Apologies if the title was too dramatic. Supersymmetry and its possible looming discovery at the LHC has been discussed many times. But let's look at a different portion of modern model building in particle physics, Grand Unification. Grand Unified Theories (G ...
  • Theory of something: QM has reached limits
    Several people have asked me about the following press release that was published a few days ago and that was reprinted at various servers such as one that belongs to San Francisco Chronicle: Theory of Something Reveals Why Quantum Mechanics has Reached its Limits: Mass is Outside of Particles ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • India gang-rape account: ‘Police argued amongs ...
    The companion of the woman who died after being brutally gang-raped on a New Delhi bus tells TV that police “wasted time” arguing jurisdiction while he pleaded for an ambulance and clothes. Shocking details of the attack come as protests continue. The man, who has not been named due ...
  • Gerald Celente w/ Lew Rockwell: The Gun Grab & ...
    from RonPaulCC2012 : SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Gerald Celente: The Lesser of Two Evils, is Evil from Trendsjournal: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver,... Gerald Cel ...
  • Syria’s al-Assad defiant in rare public speech
    A defiant Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rallied a chanting and cheering crowd Sunday to fight the uprising against his authoritarian rule, dismissing any chance of dialogue with “murderous criminals” that he blames for nearly two years of violence that has left 60,000 dead. CBC &# ...
  • Idiotic Liberals, Obama & Criminals in Congres ...
    from DailyMail.co.uk: A would-be burglar was looking to cash in, but instead found himself in a world of pain when a Georgia mother who refused to be victimized shot him multiple times in the face and neck. The Loganville woman, who was not identified, was in the home with her 9-year-old twins o ...
  • Hollow earth – Teorie duté Země – Stuff they d ...
    Video Rating: 0 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Hollow earth… Stuff they don’t want you to know!!!.mp4 Real Eyes Realize Real Lies In certain parts of the... Dempsey: I dont want to be complicit in Iran strike Good for you General. I believe there ar ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • ChiTrib Finds Toxic Fire Retardant in Crib Mat ...
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst The Chicago Tribune reports it has detected cancer-causing chemicals known as chlorinated tris in 11 crib mattresses made in China and sold by Babies R Us, Foundations and Angeles brands. None of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  • Cleaning Never Tasted So Good
    By Samara Geller, EWG Research Fellow Olive oil and lemon juice,...sounds like a base for a fantastic vinaigrette, right? As a former professional chef, I always keep these simple ingredients stocked to create a variety of tasty sauces, dressings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • 10 Top Environmental Health Stories of 2012
    The top environmental health stories of 2012 were all about everyday hazards that are right in our backyards. They have to do with the unintended consequences of chemical pollution that could harm the health of our families, our neighbors,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Chemical Industry to Parents: Avoid Lead, Tail ...
    By Alex Formuzis and Sonya Lunder, MPH This is rich. The chemical industry has produced a new "health information" website titled Kids + Chemical Safety that mentions hardly any chemicals or any of the voluminous body of peer-reviewed research... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • Just How "Green" is Walgreens?
    By Sarah Swanke, EWG General Research Intern Attention Bargain Shoppers: Walgreens now sells a line of healthy home products called Ology!  These new products are advertised as free of toxic chemicals, including ammonia, chlorine bleach, di- and... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

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

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Shifting Baseline (TED video)
    The more I learn about permaculture, the more I learn about the potential for not only stability in our food and water systems, but abundance. When I see the sharp difference between the future that permaculture offers and the future of scarcity that our current path seems to lead to, I have ...
  • Food MythBusters – Do We Really Need Industria ...
    Further Reading: A Farm for the Future (BBC video) The Rodale Institute’s 30-Year Farming Systems Trial Report Biodiverse Systems are More Productive The Food Crisis: “A Perfect Storm” – and How to Turn the Tide Orchestrating Famine – a Must-Read Backgrounder o ...
  • Annus Horribilis
    2012 was the worst year for the environment in living memory. by George Monbiot It was the year of living dangerously. In 2012 governments turned their backs on the living planet, demonstrating that no chronic problem, however grave, will take priority over an immediate concern, however trivial ...
  • Permaculture Design Course on Gberefu Island, ...
    The second Permaculture Design Course takes place in April 2013 in the homeland of the Yoruba people in Badagry and Osogbo, Nigeria. In the mythology of the Yoruba, Osun is the goddess of fertility. She is a wife of Sango, the god of thunder and fire. Sangodare Ayala is an important priest o ...
  • Financial Permaculture Course (January 21-25, ...
    Announcing the 2013 Financial Permaculture & Local Business Summit. Earth Learning, the South Dade Economic Development Council, the Financial Permaculture Institute, and Miami Dade College will host community investment/financial experts, permaculture designers and sustainability entreprene ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Notice that the article in question about pederast John Castaldo describes itself as a "THEORY", although the proper word for it might be closer to "informed guess." I think it would be more accurate to call it a completely fabricated FANTASY. There is no attempt to counte ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    This is nothing but an organization geared to blackmailing, bribing, and threatening officials and others to do exactly what israHell wants, when that cess-pool wants it. How is it that SOME politician has not just come-out and said what desperately needs to be said? Are ALL of them currently ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    This is a great document. It is the transcript of a 1992 telephone call in which the president of AIPAC brags about how AIPAC keeps Congress and the White House giving the Israeli government whatever it wants. David Steiner is the AIPAC president; Hain Katz is the caller. This is how AIPAC opera ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Notice that the article in question about pederast John Castaldo describes itself as a "THEORY", although the proper word for it might be closer to "informed guess." There is no attempt to counterfeit debate here. What we have is some credible proof that Lanza, as a young b ...
  • The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: L ...
    I am currently in-the-process of adding all of my narrations to my site, but for those who want to hear them now, they are all available here at TIU. http://www.theinfounderground.com/archives/ll/ Enjoy! LindseyStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:34 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill Fails to Face Coas ...
    As part of the sorely-needed aid package to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, Congress is also considering spending billions on ill-advised and environmentally damaging beach and coastal rebuilding projects that ignore the looming threats of rising seas and intensifying storms. BY ROB YOUNG
  • New Experiments Yield Insights into State of P ...
    A team of U.S. researchers recently deployed a suite of technologies in the Arctic tundra that they say will provide a better understanding of the carbon contained in permafrost soils and how much is likely to be released as the planet warms. At an experimental plot near Barrow, Alaska, scientis ...
  • Starbucks Targets Reduction in Paper Waste wit ...
    Starbucks, the world’s largest chain of coffee shops, this week started selling $1 reusable plastic cups at its stores StarbucksA reusable plastic cup in the U.S. and Canada, an initiative the company hopes will drastically reduce the amount of paper waste that ends up in landfills. The company ...
  • Methane Leak Data Highlights Concerns About Na ...
    A pair of ongoing studies show unexpectedly high methane leakage from some oil and gas fields in the U.S., findings that underscore concerns that the climate benefits of the natural gas boom may be overstated. Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder say new data indicates that as ...
  • U.S. Wind Tax Credit Extended in ‘Fiscal Cliff ...
    The last-minute tax deal brokered by U.S. lawmakers to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff” included a one-year extension of the wind energy tax credit, a subsidy that industry officials say is critical for the growth of the wind energy sector. The bill, which now awaits President Obama’s signatur ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Razing skyscrapers from the inside
    Strolling around central Tokyo, many marvel at the skyscrapers going up and wonder what the new buildings will look like and who their tenants will be. On the other hand, very few really pay attention to the buildings that are coming down.
  • Team helps typhoon-hit Mindanao
    A team of health workers from the Japanese Red Cross Society is leading a basic medical care unit that opened last Thursday in an area of Mindanao Island wrecked by a violent typhoon in December. Set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the town of Baganga in Davao Oriental Pr ...
  • Business lobbies urge deregulation, quick budg ...
    The nation's business leaders Monday urged the new government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to pull the country out of its economic doldrums and deregulate more to boost foreign investment in Japan. They also called for an early declaration of Japan's intent to join the Trans-Pacific Partnershi ...
  • Size of extra budget may test ¥12 trillion
    The economy-boosting extra budget being formulated for fiscal 2012 may be worth around ¥12 trillion — including more than ¥4 trillion for public works projects, sources said Monday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is close to cementing the size of the supplementary budge ...
  • Tokyo: What will you remember most about 2012?
    Tomomi MoritaWaitress, 21 (Japanese)I attended my coming of age ceremony, which was a big event for me, even though I actually turned 20 the year before. I wore a kimono, and after the ceremony near where I live I went to Senso-ji in Asakusa, met up with all my classmates from school and did wha ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • What Does the Bank of Canada Do?
    The Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada have retained Odgers Berndtson to seek a new Governor, and have placed an ad in the Globe and Mail, the Economist and La Presse. The wording of the advertisement is questionable. First, it states that “the Bank of Canada is the pre-eminent macro-econo ...
  • Best Books of 2012
    Here are, in no particular order, my picks for the four best books of 2012 from a progressive economics perspective. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin. The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. (Verso). I suspect this book will become a classic. It is a rich and highly ...
  • Why the Income Inequality Deniers Are Wrong
    This article was published in an abridged form today in the National Post. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/21/armine-yalnizyan-sorry-andrew-coyne-but-income-inequality-is-a-real-problem/   I like this opening better so I posted it here. You couldn’t have made it through 2012 wi ...
  • Marc’s Letter from 2040
    The following comes from a short talk on a vision for a zero-carbon BC that I gave at a couple events this Fall. Many have asked for the text so I’ve posted it here, and we may try and turn it into a video. That said, I have been reluctant to do so up to [...] No related posts.
  • Harper’s prisons: Québec’s point of view
    On this past 5 December, we learnt on the front page of the daily Devoir that college-level instruction provided to inmates was now in jeopardy because of the federal cuts in Flaherty’s last budget. At Collège Marie-Victorin in Montréal, these cuts could bring an end to forty years of inmate ins ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • US to become ‘net energy exporter’
    “Environmentalists and some analysts, however, caution that jubilant predictions from a country that consumes some 25 percent of the world’s oil will run into environmental constraints including global warming and a lack of fresh water. “There is no question that fresh water is ...
  • Chinese Mayor Apologizes for Drinking Water Co ...
    “The mayor of the Chinese city of Changzhi apologized for a delay in reporting a poisonous leak from a chemical plant that caused the cutoff of water to 1 million people, the state Xinhua News Agency said. The environmental authority in China’s northern Shanxi province didn’t receive a rep ...
  • Saudi Takes a Chunk of Nile Water to Feed its Cows
    “The cows raised at the Al Safi and Almarai farms live better than some humans in air-conditioned sheds and water misters that keep them cool. But feeding them with grain grown nearby has depleted 4/5th of the Kingdom’s ancient aquifer in the last 30 years. For milk. The farms are facing c ...
  • Record Low Water Levels in Lake Huron, Lake Mi ...
    “Preliminary figures from the US Army Corps of Engineers show Lakes Michigan and Huron, considered a joint body of water, had record low water levels in December. The lakes’ water ended the month at 576.15 feet above sea level, just under the record 576.2 feet set in 1964. And data r ...
  • Is Fracking Safe? Debate on Controversial Natu ...
    “The controversial use of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” that is behind the country’s natural gas boom has come under scrutiny in the new Hollywood drama, “Promised Land,” and met stiff resistance in New York state, where a four-year moratorium against the pro ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • STOP THE PRESS
    … Oh… my … God … … Stop the Press … … Big Surprise … …Shocking … …Thank You Laurie Roberts I needed a good laugh today Filed under: Blogroll
  • THE CRAZIES ARE BACK
    … like our President Hilary galvanizes that sector of Americans who are now unable to think for themselves having been thoroughly and categorically brainwashed by corporate American education … The Right-Wing Clinton Crazies Are Back Again January 3, 2013 … http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-polit ...
  • YEA … IT’S WRONG
    … One might quarrel the poll conducted was “unscientific” … OK .. but the results appear to send a rather strong message that SRP could find a much more publicly acceptable way to spend ONE MILLION DOLLAR$ … perhaps SRP could assist its rate payers with a lower unit cost for electricity or water ...
  • YES IT’S PORK
    … It’s called pork barrel politic$ … it’s part of the game… Wonkblog: The 10 weirdest parts of the ‘cliff’ deal http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/02/from-nascar-to-rum-the-10-weirdest-parts-of-the-fiscal-cliff-deal/?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics The fine print includes e ...
  • SLOW INTERNET
    … Why because corporate can get away with it and we pay more so their bottom line increa$e$ … What you think Congre$$ will stop them … or the FCC … what are you smoking …     US Internet Users Pay More for Slower Service   Read the Article at Bloomberg Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Study: Billions of Earth-size planets in Milky Way
    Astronomers estimate one in six stars in our Milky Way galaxy has a planet the size of Earth orbiting it. That translates to at least 17 billion Earth-size planets.It doesn't mean these planets are all habitable, but it's an encouraging...
  • Key to unlocking quake secrets
    Predicting earthquakes remains a concept beyond the realms of even the best science - but recently discovered rumblings deep beneath New Zealand's most threatening fault line have yielded some exciting possibilities.This year a...
  • Shark's baffling 13,300km voyage
    New Zealand scientists are baffled by the 13,300km migration of a mako shark tagged in a landmark study.The shark, a 1.8-metre mako named Carol, has been tracked by Niwa scientists using a satellite tagging device. The tag was attached...
  • Mental disorders in for shake up
    Children's tantrums, hoarding and skin picking - psychiatrists will soon be looking at these and more in a new light when their official what's what of mental disorders gets a makeover in May.In compiling the long-awaited fifth...
  • Patients write fears away
    A group of patients having major operations will be asked to write about their deepest, most troubling thoughts to see if this helps their surgical wounds heal faster.There is a growing body of evidence that surgical wounds heal...

The Bovine

  • Is organic food more nutritious?
    Special to The Bovine, from Gary Wilson: In order to determine if organic food is nutritious, it is first necessary to decide how to judge nutrition. Is nutrient content sufficient to judge the nutritional value of a food? Some examples … Continue reading →
  • When the rubber hits the road with those new F ...
    From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “Nearly three years ago, I asked in a blog post on the then-proposed new national food safety regulations a question I thought sounded provocative, but was likely far-fetched: “How does the idea of … Continue reading →
  • New Mexico bill calls for GMO labeling
    From Anthony Gucciardi at The Intel Hub: “Is this the next Prop 37, complete with a forthcoming wave of successful activism and education from concerned consumers? Unfortunately we know that Prop 37 failed due to not only irrefutable deception and lies from the … Continue reading →
  • CFIA’s mighty enforcement powers
    A past president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) provides an overview of the agency’s remarkable powers.  From Ronald Doerring, on “Food Law”: “A Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) inspector stopped at a farm and talked with the old farmer: … Conti ...
  • Biodynamics and sacred agriculture
    From Gayl Creutzberg on the Biodynamics blog: “…I had a very personal experience at the Biodynamic Conference. Although I have gathered with BD farmers for over 10 years, I had never been able to capture the undercurrent, the pulse, the energy, or … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Humanoid Robots Play Music
    Perhaps giving away my age, I have never heard of the band "Motorhead" nor have I heard of their song "Ace of Spades". I have now. Popular Science reports Humanoid Robots Play Motorhead's Ace of Spades. I love robots. I love Motorhead. And so it stands to reason that I would love rob ...
  • Startling Look at Employment Demographics by A ...
    Last month I posted a chart showing employment by age group. Here is an update as of Friday's job release. Employment Demographics by Age Group click on chart for sharper image Note that 100% of the job growth since the recession is in age group 55 and over. Last mon ...
  • Obama's Chance to Do Something Right: Nominate ...
    The Financial Time reports Hagel nomination expected this week. US President Barack Obama is poised to nominate Chuck Hagel as secretary of defence, setting the stage for a tough nomination fight focusing on the former Republican senator’s views on Israel and Iran. The announcement by ...
  • The Bears' Prayer
    Given the Chicago Bears were put out of their misery last week, missing the playoffs I offer this prayer for 2013 Our Papabear Who art in heaven Hallas be thy name We're havin’ no fun Cause we sure play dumb At home as we do away Give us this season Coach Lovie’s Leavin’ An ...
  • Ron Paul on Military Spending, the Fiscal Clif ...
    Here is a post on Facebook a couple days ago that is worth a read in entirety. I will post the entire article along with a few thoughts. We Are Already Over the Fiscal Cliff by Ron Paul Despite claims that the Administration and Congress saved America from the fiscal cliff with an early ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • OSG Tanker Allides With San Francisco Bay Bridge
    Breaking News… A double-hulled oil tanker owned by Overseas Shipholding Group sustained damage, but is not believed to be leaking oil after alliding with the San Francisco Bay Bridge Monday morning. Mindy [...]
  • Emergency Deepening Buys Time on Mississippi River
    By Brian Wingfield Emergency work to deepen the Mississippi River shipping channel will avert a shutdown of barge traffic this month, lawmakers said as operators began increasing their cargo loads on the [...]
  • Millionaire’s Private Navy Ready to Take on So ...
    A new British private navy is soon being plying the Indian Ocean in help of the fight against Somali pirates. The UK’s Sunday Times reported yesterday the new navy, founded [...]
  • De Poli Tankers Upgrades Fleet Communications ...
    Marlink bundles WaveCall Ku-band, Inmarsat FleetBroadband and XChange for seamless communications and full control on board De Poli Tankers Marlink has completed a series of new VSAT installations aboard De [...]
  • Capital Product Partners Swaps Pair of VLCCs f ...
    ATHENS, Greece – Capital Product Partners L.P. (NASDAQ: CPLP) today announced that it acquired from Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. (CMTC) two post panamax container vessels, the M/V Archimidis and [...]

Press TV

  • Terror drone kills 5 in North Waziristan
    An airstrike carried out by US assassination drones has killed five people and injured several others in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area, which borders Afghanistan.
  • UK media downplay Assad’s peace plan
    From reactions to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s speech to the nation on Sunday, January 6, it appears that nothing might appease the Syrians’ foreign foes and their domestic stooges, but the toppling of the popular government of Bashar.
  • Obama nominates Pentagon, CIA chiefs
    US President Barack Obama has nominated former senator Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and tapped his chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Inteligence Agency (CIA).
  • Kashmiris mark ‘Sopore Massacre’
    People in Northern Kashmir have marked the 20th anniversary of the alleged Sopore Massacre of more than 50 Kashmiri civilians by Indian forces in 1993, Press TV reports.
  • ‘Syria crisis aims to protect Israel’
    Iran’s Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi says plots hatched to escalate Syria crisis are aimed at ensuring security of the Israeli regime.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
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