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Sempra Generation Receives 2011 POWER Magazine Renewable Top Plant Award

Sacramento Bee

1, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra Generation's Copper Mountain Solar 1 has been named a Renewable Top Plant by POWER Magazine, ranking it among the top renewable power installations completed worldwide in the past year. Located in Boulder City, Nev., ...

FAA awards 8 key grants to catalyze renewable jet fuel

Biofuels Digest

The FAA hands out eight key grants to advance renewable jet fuels, to LanzaTech, Imperium, Virent, Honeywell's UOP, Velocys, among others. Why the shift over to alcohol-to-jet fuels? Will ATJ avoid the cost problems plaguing oilseed-based fuels? ...

Sparx plans to launch renewable energy fund

Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese asset manager Sparx Group aims to set up a fund that invests in infrastructure for renewable energy by next year, anticipating strong demand as the country shifts away from nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster. ...

Can private financing spur further adoption of renewable energy systems? Ask ...

Knovel

The US Department of Defense is one of the biggest users of renewable energy in the world, and it announced this week it is teaming with a California-based company in an effort to drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. ...

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Urban ecology site wins more funding

Columbia Daily Tribune

By Andrew Denney The Columbia Parks and Recreation Department has received a $20000 federal grant that will fund educational signs at an ecological restoration project near the MKT Trail. The grant was issued to Parks and Recreation through the federal ...

Wild burros wreak havoc on Texas ecology

USA Today

State officials say the burros are invasive and threaten the area's ecology. By Fred Covarrubias, for USA TODAY Cheyenne Rondeaux, 9, holds on to Penelope, a rescued burro, at Firelight South Ranch in Alpine, Texas. State officials say the burros are ...

BNSF fined $3000 for sodium hydroxide spill

Business Examiner (blog)

The Washington Department of Ecology is fining BNSF Railway $3000 for spilling 150 gallons of liquid sodium hydroxide in the environment in Pierce County. On Feb. 26, 2011, a BNSF freight train had an accident in which 13 rail cars derailed near ...

Group claims political meddling over grazing data in western US

Nature.com (blog)

More recently, ecologists have shown that a history of grazing can alter soil, harm native species, change how often wildfires burn and even how nutrients cycle (for example, see this paper in the Journal of Arid Environments). At the same time, ...

Water Power

water floods pollution

Water pump hack attack 'false alarm' linked to holiday

BBC News

Reports that foreigners hacked into the US water system and destroyed a pump have been dismissed as a false alarm. A water district contractor, Jim Mimlitz, has said he logged into the Illinois utility's control system while on holiday in Russia in ...

Republicans throw cold water on unemployment numbers

The Hill (blog)

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus threw cold water on the latest Labor Department figures on Friday, acknowleding it was positive news but claiming it failed to mask the damage Obama has inflicted on the nation's economy. ...

NJ Senate panel considers ban on fracking water

BusinessWeek

Fracking involves injecting large amounts of water, sand and chemicals into a well to crack surrounding shale thousands of feet underground, so trapped natural gas can flow into the well. Environmentalists fear the drilling could contaminate drinking ...

'Water for Elephants' lawsuit is dismissed

Los Angeles Times

Shortly after the Robert Pattinson-Reese Witherspoon film "Water for Elephants" hit theaters in April, a dark cloud appeared over the delicate period romance. A video purporting to show the film's elephant star, Tai, being trained with electric shock ...

Scoop - NZ

Handling the China-US Issue
Future historians will ask this simple but compelling question: how did a small trade-dependent nation on the fringe of the South Pacific ever sandwich itself between the two largest powers of the North Pacific? How did it wedge itself in the middle of the great geopolitical tension of the 21st ...
NATO - buffer zone in northern Syria
..the Western-Arab intervention in the Syrian crisis is in an advanced state of operational planning. It entails a buffer zone in northern Syria encompassing beleaguered towns, primarily Idlib, Rastan and Homs - but also Aleppo, Syria's largest city (2.5 million mostly Sunni and Kurdish inhabita ...
Bloomberg: Secret records of US bank bailout r ...
Bloomberg has won a lengthy Freedom of Inforn battle to get the details of a secretive, no-strings-attached multi-trillion-dollar payout from the Bush administration (continued by the Obama administration) to banks, the details of which were not available to Congress. The documents make it clear ...
Fisk: Anglo-Iranian History Dwarfs Sanctions
When the newly installed Ministry of Islamic Guidance asked Harvey Morris, Reuters' man in post-revolutionary Iran, for a history of his news agency, he asked his London office to send him a biography of Baron von Reuter – and was appalled to discover the founder of the world's greatest news age ...
US Fed saves Europe's banks
The interwoven banking and sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone has become so dangerous for the world that the US Federal Reserve has been forced to take emergency action, acting as global lender of last resort to shore up Europe's banking system. That it should have to do so as Germany and th ...

Independent - London

Hardline Islamists make Egypt gains
An ultra-conservative Islamist party plans to push for a stricter religious code in Egypt after claiming surprisingly strong gains in the first round of parliamentary elections, a spokesman said.
Last Iranian officials leave UK
The last Iranian diplomats were on their way out of the UK tonight as David Cameron again condemned the "appalling" attack on the UK's Tehran embassy that sparked their expulsion.
Fresh clashes in Syria 'civil war'
Hours of clashes across Syria killed at least four people today and wounded dozens more - including an 11-year-old girl who was struck by stray bullets that flew across the border into Lebanon, officials said.
Thousands in Belgium austerity demo
Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Belgium's capital to protest against new austerity measures brought on by Europe's financial crisis.
Joe Biden urges Turkey to impose new sanctions ...
US Vice President Joe Biden has called on Turkey to impose new sanctions against Iran, while praising Ankara for its role in pressuring Syria to stop its bloody crackdown on protesters.

Rogue Government.com

Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul. He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
China aims high with space program ambitions
As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn.
UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.

Innovation Canada

Innovative, naturally
For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
A very gourd idea
It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
Johne’s happens
Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
Gait crasher
For most people, walking is as natural as breathing. But for those with mobility issues, it can be extremely challenging, even impossible. That’s where University of New Brunswick (UNB) kinesiologist Vicky Chester comes in. Specializing in clinical gait analysis — the study of the mechanics of a ...
Better wine, one yeast cell at a time
Hennie J. J. van Vuuren is among the 30 percent of adults around the world who exhibit allergic reactions to young red wines — something that has inspired the University of British Columbia (UBC) wine biotechnologist to create a new yeast strain capable of eliminating the allergens altogether. “ ...

Signs of the times

SOTT FOCUS: On the First Day of Christmas, the ...
It's that time of year again, a time for forgetting all that's bad in the world and instead opening the little doors on an advent calendar and putting some tinsel up around the house.That is, of course, just one of the ways that the PTB use this 'festive season' is used to the max to keep us dis ...
When Governments Go Rogue
There are those today who would claim that the lifeblood of a nation is dependent upon the graces of its government. That government is the focal point of cultural growth, and that we as citizens should respect it as such. I would be more inclined to agree if the public did not so easily confu ...
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators
It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop. Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to be true are dead wrong. For the larger part of human history, for ...
General Strike Rocks Nation: Workers Across Br ...
Standing on a picket line in front of her work place at a world renowned heart-lung hospital in London wasn't Jeanette Anderson's first choice for how to spend her day. However, Anderson said protesting was her "only choice." Protesting as part of a nationwide general strike in the UK, Anderso ...
Defense and Aerospace Industry Pollutant Now F ...
Perchlorate is an environmental pollutant primarily associated with releases by defense contractors, military operations and aerospace programs, as it is a key ingredient in rocket fuel. It is now found in virtually all humans tested, and it is continually making its way up the food chain throu ...

The Galloping Beaver

MacKay and your tax dollars
He can't seem to control himself. And he has a difficult time with the truth. MacKay on 22 September this year: "I was in fact in Gander in July of 2010 on a personal visit with friends that I paid for. Three days into the visit I participated in a search and rescue demonstration with 103 squ ...
Cobb 2 . . .
Sometimes, life feels like that.
Why does Turkey count?
Well... to a hillbilly government led by a donkey... it doesn't. Campbell Clark lays it all out. Harper is way too shallow to work in the background. That takes finesse and the willingness to know how to wield the power from a second chair. And an awareness that extends beyond the horiz ...
Cons to Aboriginal communities: complain and w ...
CBC Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan, who announced the measures in question period Wednesday, told the House of Commons that "urgent health and safety issues" in the northern Ontario community needed immediate action. "The Government of Canada has informed the chief that we are placi ...
Happy Holidays . . .
WITH AMERICAN THANKSGIVING JUST PAST, we are into the Holiday Season. Here's Ron Cobb's take from 41 years ago.

Media Matters for America

Myths And Falsehoods About Judicial Nominee Ca ...
With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) having filed a motion to cut off a filibuster of the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, often called the second most important court in the country, Media Matters presents a rebuttal to myths and falseh ...
Fuzzy Numbers: Fox's Bolling Claims Obama Has ...
On his Fox Business show, Eric Bolling claimed that "President Obama has cut spending on the border in half." In reality, the Customs and Border Patrol budget has increased under Obama, the number of Border Patrol personnel has increased, and spending on immigration enforcement is greater under ...
Fox Regular Frank Luntz Advises GOP To Use Fox ...
Frequent Fox News guest and "word doctor" Frank Luntz has reportedly advised the Republican Governors Association on how to discuss taxes and the Occupy protests, using phrases like "government taking from the rich" and urging protesters to "occupy the White House." This language is nothing new ...
EXCLUSIVE: Daily Caller Promotes "Grossly Una ...
Tucker Carlson's news website The Daily Caller is clinging to a dubious study to push the discredited claim that women who have had abortions are at greater risk for developing breast cancer. Public health experts have long maintained that no such link exists.TheDC Points To Armenian Study ...
Fox Pushes AZ Efforts To Build Border Fence De ...
Over the last six months, Fox News has repeatedly hyped Arizona's efforts to raise private funds to build a fence along the state's border with Mexico. However, such a fence would cost millions of dollars per mile and its effectiveness at increasing border security is unproven.Arizona Created A ...

Global Research.ca

Libya and "The Arab Spring": Neoliberalism, "R ...
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Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Of ...
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War Criminals: Blair And Bush
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Why Moscow does not Trust Washington on Missi ...
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Developing a Casus Belli to Attack Iran: Is t ...
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TPM Cafe

The High Price of Nukes
The Return of 'The Right'
I surprise nobody by remarking what a difficult time this is for Israelis and Palestinians. In many ways, the sides are closer than ever to sensing what a modus vivendi feels like, as the institutions and economy of a Palestinian state gradually take shape, and the parameters of an initial ...
Mitt's Mythical Math on Health Care and Defense
All right -- I wasn't going to blog on the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving until someone tweeted me Igor Volsky's great piece at Think Progress eviscerating Mitt Romney's assertion that he would save money by cancelling the Obama health plan and use it to stave off reductions in the Pent ...
Sorting the Varieties of Republican Foreign Po ...
Democracy Arsenal and National Security Network head into tonight's CNN/Heritage/AEI candidate forum with an awesome array of analysis. A long way of saying where you can find great stuff as a viewer's guide for tonight. For my part, I'd only add a particular angle -- my diagnostic manual for th ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

A wave of demolitions as Israel targets the Jo ...
This morning at 7am the Israeli army entered the village of El Beida in the northern Jordan Valley with 10 military jeeps and one bulldozer. Israeli military proceeded towards Abu Tare ...
Anti-Arab laws and the appearance of democracy ...
The spate of anti-democratic bills recently introduced by the Israeli government has forced the issue onto the public agenda in Israel. This is so not because anti-democratic bills are ...
Israeli settlers harass released prisoners, th ...
When olive season came to the northern West Bank village of Tell, the Ramadan family could be found spreading tarps underneath trees and thwacking down the high-hanging fruits with stic ...
Gaza farmers keep working despite export ban ...
Farmers continue to grow produce in the Gaza Strip despite Israel's ban on exports, but productivity has plummeted. Israel bans all exports from Gaza aside from a few trucks of berries ...
Gaza faces 'waste crisis' due to ban on trucks ...
An environmental researcher warned Wednesday that a waste crisis is worsening in the Gaza Strip, as imports of trucks are being prevented as part of Israel's siege. Wael Safi said incre ...

Water - AlterNet

Can Ocean Farms Actually Be More Sustainable T ...
We know that big aquaculture operations can be a disaster, but small seaweed and shellfish operations offer a greener and cleaner solution.
Can Ocean Farms Actually Be More Sustainable T ...
We know that big aquaculture operations can be a disaster, but small seaweed and shellfish operations offer a greener and cleaner solution.
Josh Fox: Are We About to Witness the Liquidat ...
The "Gasland" filmmaker talks about the threats not just from fracking, but from oil, coal and any number of extreme energy extraction methods.
UK Secretly Helping Canada Push its Tar Sands ...
A European proposal would designate fuel from tar sands as resulting in 22 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than that from conventional fuels. But not if the UK has its way.
The Violence of the Free Market: Globalization ...
As the world faces the uphill battle of feeding its people in the coming years, neoliberalism and globalization only add insult to injury in the Philippines.

Public Citizen in Texas

Texas, Neither the Worst Run State Nor the Bes ...
For the second year, 24/7 Wall St. has reviewed data on financial, health, standard of living and government services by state to determine how well each state is managed. Based on this data, 24/7 Wall St. ranked the 50 states from the best to worst run. The best-run state is Wyoming. The worst- ...
Drought and coal-fired power plants don’t mix
According to the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), at the end of summer 2011, Texas had suffered the driest 10 months since record keeping began in 1895. Rivers, like the Brazos, actually dried up. And if that wasn’t enough, the dry weather came with brutal heat. So brutal, that seven cit ...
Polluters complain to Congress about new EPA r ...
According to the Associated Press, across the land, large and small polluters have regaled Republican-led congressional committees with dire predictions of plant closings and layoffs if the EPA succeeds with plans to further curb air and water pollution. But their message to financial regulators ...
Pipelines of Poison Sidestep Stalled State Dep ...
Foreign Pipeline Owners Find a Way to Get Around Federal Permit Process TransCanada is attempting to outsmart the State Department and bypass federal blocks by using two existing pipelines of poison after the State Department and President Obama delayed approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline permi ...
Federal Regulatory Accountability Act Puts the ...
In a state where regulatory issues are driven by ”crony capitalism” a has proposed federal bill could give industry a blank check here in Texas. The Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) (S. 1606/H.R. 3010) is a radical measure that would severely weaken laws that protect our health, ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Massive insect found in New Zealand
Nature lover Mark Moffett spent two days tracking down the largest ever specimen of the giant weta. The giant cricket-like species lives only on Littl...
Military dogs show signs of combat stress
Studies show that humans aren't the only sufferers of PTSD - canines are showing signs of it as well. It's easy to focus on the men and women who are ...
'Skin bones' helped dinosaurs survive
Some dinosaurs may have stored vital minerals in bones encased within their skin, it has been revealed. Known as osteoderms, these "skin bones" would ...
Ravens use 'hand' gestures
Scientists have discovered that ravens use their beaks to make hand-like gestures to one another. It is the first time animals other than primates hav...
Mars Rover to undergo complex landing
A nailbiting landing awaits the Curiosity Mars rover once it reaches its destination next year. Due to its large size and weight the car-sized Curiosi...

Grassroots

International Day of Solidarity with the Pales ...
palestine-boy_with_peace_signs.jpg The United Nations declared November 29 to be the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People some 63 years ago.read more
A Global Alliance Emerges in West Africa
mali-2011_women.jpg Selingué, Mali—Early morning on day one of the first peasant-organized international conference to stop land grabbing held in Nyéléni, Mali, delegates from more than 30 countries took their seats for the opening ceremony ...
It takes a village to produce new leaders
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Movements Unite in Mali, Confronting Powerful ...
Subheadline: “We are decolonizing Africa here” Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio: Salena Tramel is the former Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti at Grassroots ...

Climate

Energy Department Threatened by Cyber Attacks, ...
Source: The Hill The Energy Department is "routinely threatened with sophisticated cyber attacks" and has not taken the necessary steps to protect itself, according to a report made public Monday.
NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing Satellite
Source: AP After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change.
Global Warming: 'Melting Glaciers Can Cause Ma ...
Source: The Express Tribune Experts in Pakistan believe that the fast melting of glaciers combined with the heavy monsoon rains caused last year's massive floods that affected around 20 million people and destroyed 1.6 mil ...
Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...
Source: Wired News A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something tha's been difficult to do with empirical precision.
'Disasters' Strain FEMA's Resources
Source: USA Today The federal government is turning hundreds of relatively low-cost storms into federal disasters — draining billions of dollars in scarce FEMA aid and tying up millions more for years.

GreenBiz

Spending on Building Energy Efficiency to Boom ...
Pike Research predicts the building energy efficiency market to grow in value to $103.5 billion in 2017.
Patagonia's Conscientious Response to Black Fr ...
The outdoor retailer used a full-page ad in the New York Times this last weekend to offer a few wise words about sustainable consumption.
3 Obvious Ways Companies Can Flip the Switch a ...
Cutting energy use across the enterprise can be so simple, and so cost-effective that it's astounding there is still any of this low-hanging fruit waiting to be plucked. Here are eight case studies showing what's possible.
MGM Earns EPA Award for Food Recycling Program
The resort company earned a WasteWise Acheivement Award in part for its recycling of 8,722 tons of food in 2010 alone.
The CDP's Water Report Offers a New Paradigm f ...
The key findings of the first look at how global firms are managing water risk further highlights the risks that water pose to company operations, what the opportunities are for forward-thinking companies, and where the impacts will be felt first.

Duly Noted

Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground
Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.
India-Afghan strategic pact:the beginnings of ...
A strategic pact between India and Afghanistan has drawn muted response from Pakistan. If anything Islamabad has pressed on with peace moves with India.
Europe can’t put out the blaze
As Italy surpasses Greece as the biggest threat to the euro zone, European finance ministers meeting in Brussels struggle to put out the spreading flames.
Democracy and Chaos are both Greek
It's not exactly ???? (chaos) out there, but Greek Prime Ministers Papandreou's experiment in ?????????? (democracy) has sent the whole euro zone project into a new, risky phase.

Booman Tribune

Does Obama Have His Nader Now?
Rachel Maddow has been getting excited lately about the prospect of a third-party presidential campaign. Earlier this week she hosted Buddy Roemer, who declared that he'd really, really like to top the ticket of the Friedmanesque group Americans Elect. (Roemer, for what it's worth, has recently ...
Mic Check the Bully Pulpit
The Senate held a vote tonight. The Republicans acted like assholes again. The Senate clerk will post[ed] the roll call here sometime soon. The president issued a statement in reaction. Statement by the President Tonight, Senate Republicans chose to raise taxes on nearly 160 million h ...
Only in the Movies
After reading this Washington Post article, which is admittedly a bit of a fluff piece, I had a little fantasy. I imagined a meeting of senior foreign policy officials where Gary Locke received his instructions for his mission as Ambassador to China. Maybe it was a room with the president, the ...
Worst Person in the World
Here's a Quote of the Day: "I'm so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I'm frightened to death," said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist and one of the nation's foremost experts on crafting the perfect political message. "They're having an impact on what the American people think of cap ...
Getting Off on the Wrong Foot Already
BooMan responded to a story about GOP spinmeister Frank Luntz's efforts to craft anti-Occupy Wall Street talking points with a post titled "Worst Person in the World." Luntz is odious, and yet ... well, in comments, BooMan and I had this exchange: ME: He may be the worst person in the world, b ...

Environmental Graffiti

Exploring the Decaying Chambers of Florence's ...
Visiting an abandoned and decaying slaughterhouse is more than a little eerie, even in the middle of the day – but see for yourself. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
Essex County Environmental Center: Teaching Ch ...
The Essex County Environmental Center in New Jersey, USA has exhibits about the environment for young children and is made out of recycled materials. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
20 Incredible Snapshots of Water Splashes That ...
Twenty amazing images showing high-speed water photography at its very best! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
10 Beasts Locked in Brutal Combat
Ten surprising and powerful images of herbivores going head-to-head in same-species combat. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
Flood Damage, Precipitation and Policies in Ne ...
Flood damage is a problem in New Jersey, USA. It is easy to blame the damage on global warming, but local policies contribute the most to flood damage. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

China and the End of the Monroe Doctrine
Is a superpower confrontation over the Falkland islands a real possibility?
The Great $500 Billion Nuclear Debate of 2011
A disagreement is ongoing about what exactly should and shouldn't be included in the nuclear-weapons budget.
America vs China in Africa
By clinging to a paternalistic attitude and an antiquated Washington Consensus, the United States has opened up space for a broad Chinese role in Africa.
Food of the Gods
The politics and socioeconomics of chocolate and why it is still a guilty pleasure.
Turkey Not Only Sanctions, But Threatens, Syria
Turkey and Syria are no longer BFFs.

Global Elite

Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

Platini: Qatar 2022 should be held in winter
UEFA President Michel Platini says he is willing to rearrange European club competitions so World Cup is held in winter.
UN rights chief urges protection for Syrians
Navi Pillay wants country to be referred to the Hague-based ICC over Assad government's alleged crimes against humanity.
Merkel: Euro crisis will take years to solve
German chancellor reject quick-fix ideas to solve debt crisis, saying stricter regulations are needed.
Suu Kyi welcomes US engagement with Myanmar
Opposition leader, after meeting Clinton, says improved ties with US can help her country's democratisation.
Lawyer says Gbagbo treated 'brutally'
Legal representative for ex-Ivorian leader calls arrest of his client - facing war-crimes charges at ICC - "illegal".

Green Inc. - NYT

State Fracking Hearings Drew 6,000, N.Y. Says
More than 10,600 people submitted written comments on the controversial drilling method, the state Department of Environmental Conservation adds.
More on Coke's Role in a Shelved Bottle Ban
New documents highlight the role of the Coca-Cola Company in persuading the National Park Service director to scuttle a planned ban on plastic water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park.
How to Police Geoengineering?
Once an effort to deflect solar radiation from the Earth gets going, it will generate its own momentum, a report warns.
The Impact of Grazing? Don't Ask
An environmental group charges that the Interior Department prevented scientists from properly weighing the impact of grazing when studying change in western ecosystems.
Fukushima Meltdown Was More Severe Than Though ...
Computer simulations suggest how close the No 1. reactor's defenses came to being breached.

Dot Earth News

The Human Race (Between Potency and Self Aware ...
On the role of sanitation and energy in fostering progress on a finite planet.
A Better Room for an Argument?
New comment tools are introduced on The New York Times Web site.
Other Voices: Life on Planet 3.0
A climate scientist broadens his view and builds a new blog.
The 'Revkin' Collection in the Climate E-mail ...
I explore accusations related to my e-mail exchanges with climate scientists.
Straight Talk on Climate Progress in Californi ...
More analysis supports the need for intensified research on energy frontiers if ambitious greenhouse gas targets are to be met.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
#occupywallstreet makes total lol
Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...
Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...
Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...
Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's ...

Daily Censored

Teacher Quality and Accountability: A Failed D ...
“Value-added and other types of growth models are probably the most controversial issue in education today,” argues Matthew Di Carlo in his “What Value-Added Research Does And Does Not Show.” Di Carlo carefully examines, with ample evidence and a fair hand, the most recen ...
Jay Matthews of the Washington Post: Five reas ...
On November 27th, 2011 ‘education’ writer, Jay Matthews of the Washington Post, wrote a defense of for-profit colleges. One can only infer that his bosses, CEO Donny Graham and his sister Lally commanded Matthews to write the piece. This is how the paper works: journalists are tig ...
Revealed: The ‘secret’ app install ...
No one is naive enough to think that the ruling class in this country or elsewhere is set to allow Occupy ‘anything’ to get in the way of profits, control and authoritarianism, are they? Bush set the ground work for all the illegal spying, warrantless wiretaps, Patriot Act and the wh ...
The 1%’s “leaders” allow a million children to ...
Despite the investment to save a million children’s lives from preventable poverty being just 0.7% of our gross national income, despite that every historical case of ending poverty reduces population growth rates, and despite US promises to make that investment at global summits, the 1% “leader ...
A New Year’s Day Tradition That’s ...
by Peter Apanel As reported in the New York Times on November 28, 2011, the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is having to adjust to a dramatic decline in the sponsorship money needed to pay for all those very expensive, flower-covered floats. But there’s an interesting s ...

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A Main Street Fix to Wall Street's Failure
Building a policy agenda to deepen the jobs debate, our new report looks at the structural issues behind the economic crisis and how we can transition to a new economy based on Wall Street.
We Need a Flat Tax for Social Security
It could raise $100 billion and provide a solution to give retired people the raises they need.
Durban Diary: Repaying Climate Debt
We have to mobilize the political will of rich countries to share the wealth.
Durban Diary: What's on the Table?
Many countries -- especially the wealthiest ones -- are dragging their feet.
Durban Diary: UN Summit's Stormy Backdrop
Scientists are finding increasing evidence that climate change is behind the recent surge in extreme weather.

IntelNews

Analysis: How serious a blow did the CIA suffe ...
Late last month, the Central Intelligence Agency admitted that a number of its agents in Lebanon had been captured by Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group that controls large parts of the country. Neither Hezbollah nor the CIA have offered details of the arrests. Regardless, the incident has und ...
News you may have missed #640
Chinese defector says Canada right to worry about spying. More intel officials warn against airstrikes on Iran. GCHQ challenges code breakers via social networks.
German spy agency destroyed employee files of ...
Germany’s primary spy agency has admitted that it recently destroyed the personnel files of some of its employees who used to be members of Nazi-era organizations during World War II, before spying for West Germany in the postwar era.
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Russian woman accused of spying wins right to stay in UK. Zatuliveter espionage case reveals MI5 fears. How big is the threat from Russian spies?
Blast reported in Isfahan, site of major Irani ...
Iranian media are reporting a blast in the city of Isfahan, in central Iran, which is home to one of Iran’s most active nuclear facilities. News reports, including one from Iran’s state-operated FARS News Agency, say that the blast was heard across the city at 2:40 p.m. on Monday, and that an in ...

War is a Crime.org

Central Bank Intervention: Much Ado About Nothing
Central Bank Intervention: Much Ado About Nothing - by Stephen Lendman On November 30, the Fed, ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada and Swiss National Bank acted together to cut the rate on dollar liquidity swap arrangements by 50 basis points. Markets surged. ...
US/Pakistan's Toxic Alliance
US/Pakistan’s Toxic Alliance - by Stephen Lendman Partnering with America has a price. Pakistan's paid dearly. Post-9/11, it's been harmed economically, politically, and strategically. Has its military now had enough and want out? More on that below. At issue is the lat ...
The 61 Senators to Recall. Can Occupy Lead?
Occupy Wall Street is being forced to grow up. Gone are the commenters and bloggers who are against the issuing of clear demands because this "acknowledges a thoroughly corrupt system." Who say we must "create a participatory democracy" from scratch. Guess what? The major space ...
Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration As ...
By Bill Quigley CommonDreams.org read more
Here's How Your Senators Voted on Feinstein Am ...
YEAs ---45 Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bennet (D-CO) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Coons (D-DE) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN) Gillibrand (D-NY) Hagan (D-NC) Harkin (D-IA) Johnson ...

Grist - News

The most heartbreaking polar bear picture, ever
by Jess Zimmerman. I don't know if this guy is actually trying to push this icebreaker ship away from his home. Maybe he just thinks there's a free buffet if he can climb aboard. But in the context of the polar bears' plight, with their numbers dwindling due to climate chang ...
Energy-producing toilets kill two birds with o ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Leave it to MIT geeks to figure out how to solve one problem (the need for a sustainable energy source) by solving another (insufficient sanitation). Sanergy, a company founded by a group of MIT grads and newly funded by USAID, provides low-cost toilets to sanitation- ...
Cool map shows density at a glance
by Jess Zimmerman. The pixels on Fathom Information Design's Dencity map get smaller the more people they represent -- meaning that sparsely-populated areas are low-resolution, and densely-populated ones are sharp and bright. It illustrates both the positive and negative aspects of ...
Eating horses is legal now, and PETA loves it
by Jess Zimmerman. Hey, you can finally defrost that horse steak you've had in the freezer! The spending bill that Obama just signed included a provision lifting the ban on federal inspection of horses that are raised for food, a ban that has made it effectively illegal to slaughter ...
Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown more terrif ...
by Sarah Laskow. In a new report, Tokyo Electric Power company has revealed that the Fukushima meltdown probably did more damage and was more dangerous than anyone realized at the time. The report's based on a simulation, but that simulation indicated that the entire ration of fuel ins ...

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Can Ron Paul Win the Anti-Romney Primary?
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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
Hope, finally, for AIDS vaccine
Study rejects faster than light particle finding
An international team of scientists in Italy studying the same neutrino particles colleagues say appear to have travelled faster than light rejected the startling finding this weekend, saying their tests had shown it must be wrong.
High School Girls Design Fuel-Efficient Car [P ...
High school students from Granite Falls, Washington, spend time after school with their teacher, test-driving a homemade diesel-powered car they will use to compete in a national competition for fuel-efficient vehicles.
Shine a light instead of changing the battery
Pacemakers and other implanted medical devices require electric current to operate. Changing the battery requires an additional operation, which is an added stress on the patient. A Japanese team led by Eijiro Miyako at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ...

Invisible Opportunity

A Burning Man Snake Fest, at the Boy Scout Jam ...
By Les Visible Today we find ourselves on the Gotterdammerung of a very shaky ladder. It’s a dark brew, an insidious stew and the Witch(es) of Endor is/are in attendance. Burn baby, burn. You can expect fire, because when the aggregate of human desire, in a time of material darkness, reach ...
Eurozone debt crisis worsens as financial worl ...
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Allow me to begin this article with a single paragraph published yesterday on Yahoo Finance: “The world is watching Europe, waiting upon a solution. It’s not just the euro that’s at stake. If the euro fails, so too does the 27-nati ...
Is there a Penn State Climategate scandal?
By Ed Farnan Football at Penn State is a huge moneymaker, any threat to it, no matter how horrendous, would be swept under the rug, so it seems. From the President on down, a sort of pass the buck attitude hid the abuse that occurred under their watch. Abuse that if made public, would cripple [...]
A Transmission from the Kingdom of the Meat Pu ...
By Les Visible Well, the assault bots are at it again, they even came in white contamination suits, pre-contaminated with a resident, violence virus that managed to get out, so I guess the suits don’t work or, maybe it’s a one way deal. I’m thinking it’s a one way deal, l ...
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The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
The Creation
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In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

The Great Antidepressant Hypocrisy
Americaâ€™s ambivalent relationship with drugs and medication pushes us to ignore critical differences between drugs, while failing to appreciate useful similarities.
U.S. Governors Fight Back, Call on DEA to Pull ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee and Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire Wednesday called on the federal government to reschedule marijuana as a drug with accepted medical use.
Study: Legalizing Medical Pot Reduces Fatal Ca ...
Far from marijuana acting as a â€œgatewayâ€ to more dangerous drugs, as authorities often claim, researchers found that itâ€™s more commonly used as a substitute for alcohol.
Unjust Termination? How Supporting Marijuana D ...
Joe Miller worked as a probation officer for nearly three years before he was fired for adding his name to a Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) letter.
Newt Gingrich on the Drug War: Execute Mexican ...
Gingrich's position on the drug war is so extreme he wants to emulate Singapore, where corporal punishment for minor offenses and the death penalty for drugs are policy.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

Green-Roofed Serpentine Swiss Lake Resort has ...
Read the rest of Green-Roofed Serpentine Swiss Lake Resort has a See-Through Skin Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, Green Building, green building design, green roof, Swiss green building, translucent skin, transparent building skin, vegetated roof, wooden bu ...
Ginger Group Unveils Plan to Transform the Eif ...
A group of consultants in Paris has hatched a plan to turn the Eiffel Tower into a giant tree by covering it with 600,000 plants. Their dream is to literally plant the 324 meter tall aesthetic symbol of Paris with 12 tons of rubber tubing, and gradually add bags planted with greenery all over it ...
BIG Makes a Splash With Sweeping Wave-Shaped S ...
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Consumer Reports Finds Unsafe Levels of Arseni ...
An apple a day keeps the doctor away – but you may want to steer clear of apple juice, as a new study by Consumer Reports shows that many juice brands contain unsafe levels of arsenic. Although federal limits exist for the amount of arsenic allowable in bottled water, there are no such lim ...
Patrick Marold Visualizes the Wind With Thousa ...
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Pogue's Posts

Nook's Advertising Is Corrected
Barnes & Noble has eliminated all references to "HD" video and the new Nook on its Web site. But there's not a shred of doubt: The Nook Tablet's Netflix video looks a lot better than Amazon Fire's.
Nook's Specs Are Exaggerated, Again
Barnes & Noble says that the new Nook Color Tablet plays high-definition video. It is stretching the truth.
Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use ...
Somebody at Apple took the challenges of the disabled seriously enough to write a complete, elegant and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the physical barriers to using an app phone.
Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books
Amazon is giving away books, including New York Times bestsellers, for the Kindle if you're an Amazon Prime member. It is a delightful surprise to people who signed up for Prime.
An Android App's Answer to Siri
SpeakToIt for Android phones works as an alternative to Siri. Sort of. She's slow and a little bit mentally challenged. She's less convenient than Siri, less capable, less comprehending, less accurate, less useful, less polished, less classy, less human.

WIRED Magazine | Science

Environmental Gap Widens in Phoenix
It's not only economic inequality that's increased in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. In the last 40 years, environmental inequality has increased, too.
Genetically Engineered Neurons Light Up When F ...
In a scientific first that could help us better understand how signals travel in the brain, a researcher of natural sciences at Harvard has created neurons that light up as they fire.
SMARAGD Rocket Tests Data and High Speed Video
This is the data so far for publication related to the test of the SMARAGD rocket, designed by Peter Madsen. The double test was done Nov 26, 2011. This idea of creating and launching this rocket, which is a minor Copenhagen Suborbitals rocket compared to size and thrust of earlier engines, is ...
How a Collapsing Scientific Hypothesis Ended i ...
A long chain of events led not only to the collapse of a scientist's hypothesis, but it landed her in jail -- and brought death threats upon some of the researchers who debunked her ideas.
New Twist in the Search for Dark Matter
Sometimes it seems like dark matter is intentionally trying to drive physicists mad. New research using observations from dwarf galaxies has set a lower limit on the mass of dark matter particles. But the results directly contradict findings from several previous experiments, which observed dar ...

PakAlert

BUSTED: Secret app on millions of phones logs ...
An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users. In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley ...
Surviving After Apocalypse
Doomsday, Judgement Day, The Apocalypse by any name, probably means the same, the end of human civilization as we know it. You as a survivalist, a dedicated prepper, or just someone that made it through the devastation phase are now faced with the stark reality of the aftermath. Whether it is a ...
A Three-Step Plan to Save the Euro with Gold
History shows us that all fiat money (just paper, or base-metal coins; no precious metal ‘backing’) always fails by losing its purchasing power, usually due to excess creation of new money; this is called ‘monetary inflation’ (which leads to ‘price inflation’ because the currency becomes worth l ...
Things To Keep On You For Emergency
This begs the question, what do you (should you) have with you? What is it that you carry on your person, or always have with you – no matter where you are, that would help you in disaster? We often talk about the preps and supplies that we should have in order to be prepared for this or that ...
In Modern America, Questioning War Is Consider ...
According to the Department of Justice’s Inspector General (via AP), the FBI spied on an anti-war rally in Pittsburgh sponsored by a nonviolent anti-war and anti-discrimination group, pretending it was preventing terrorism: The FBI gave inaccurate information to Congress and the public wh ...

Andy Worthington

British MPs Write to Congress to Complain Abou ...
In Truthout today, four British MPs — Jeremy Corbyn, John Leech, Caroline Lucas and Michael Meacher — wrote an open letter to Congress seeking the return to the UK of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison. Mr. Aamer’s story is familiar to those of us who have lo ...
Misery for Nothing: 2 Million on Strike in the ...
As two million workers from 29 unions went on strike today, I paid a supportive visit to the Embankment in London, and watched as a huge procession of public sector workers came down Northumberland Avenue from Trafalgar Square and the Strand, having first convened in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. ...
As Judges Kill Off Habeas Corpus for the Guant ...
When it comes to Guantánamo, the prisoners held in the Bush administration’s experimental prison have mostly been abandoned by those who should have acted on their behalf in all three branches of government – the executive branch, Congress and the judiciary. In June 2004, for a brie ...
Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: Greeks Rise ...
As the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) delivered some “chilling words on the euro debt crisis” (as the Daily Telegraph described it), warning that policy makers around the world must “be prepared to face the worst,” and that the “euro a ...
N30 Strike: 2 Million UK Workers to Protest Ag ...
If you’re fed up with an “age of austerity” implemented by a Tory-led government of millionaires, driven by an ideological desire to crush the British state rather than tackling the root cause of the economic crisis — the unreformed, criminal working practices of the unre ...

Environment _ National Geographic

2011 Among Hottest Years, Marked by Extreme We ...
This year also marked by extremes—including floods, droughts, and the hottest year on record for Texas—a new report says.
Chilean Wind Farm Faces Turbulence Over Whales
A wind farm project on the Chilean island of Chiloé raises concerns over risk to the endangered great blue whale.
Sex With Humans Made Neanderthals Extinct?
Fleeing advancing ice, Neanderthals increasingly encountered modern humans—and may have interbred to the point of extinction, a new study suggests.
"Great Dying" Lasted 200,000 Years
Wildfires and disappearing oxygen helped kill off 90 percent of all life on Earth some 252 million years ago—and fast, a new study says.
With U.S. Natural Gas Booming, a Move to Send ...
Companies are making the first moves to parlay abundant U.S. natural gas into a global business, but many worry that U.S. consumers will be hurt.

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

SPL Center

White Supremacist David Duke to be Booted from ...
Ex-Klan leader David Duke is to be deported from Germany, where he was arrested last Friday while on his way to address a group of right-wing extremists. In a statement obtained by the Huffington Post, German authorities say that the globetrotting white supremacist is “obliged to leave German te ...
Kentucky Church: No Interracial Couples Welcome
The Bible commands us to love our neighbors, but members of a Kentucky evangelical church have set strict limits on that love: The Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church voted Sunday to bar interracial couples from becoming members or participating in worship services. Not everyone at the church agree ...
Confessed MLK Day Bomber Finds Pen Pal in Noto ...
Confessed domestic terrorist Kevin William Harpham, facing the likelihood of at least 27 years in prison, became pen pals with notorious racist Glenn Miller after his arrest last March. Harpham’s sentencing, which had been set for today in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash., was continued u ...
Ammo Company Fudges Facts and Taste to Sell It ...
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! When it comes to finding bargains for its subscribers, the team at WorldNetDaily, Joseph Farah’s conspiracy-mongering online publication, is never at a loss. Yesterday, in an E-mail titled “Gun Control Imminent – Stock Up Now!” they offered up a real swee ...
Sovereign Citizen Targets Supreme Court Chief ...
Anti-government sovereign citizens will file frivolous paperwork against anyone – even mailing their bogus legal documents to the home of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the director of the FBI. Those allegations are contained in a 17-page criminal complaint just filed in U.S. Di ...

change: org.

If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

Drinking the Radioactive Kool-Aid: Countries S ...
DURBAN - South Africa, the host of U.N. global climate talks, is faced with a conundrum -- it wants to wean itself off of coal-powered plants seen as primate culprits of greenhouse gas emissions and find a cleaner energy source. read more
Drinking the Radioactive Kool-Aid: Countries S ...
DURBAN - South Africa, the host of U.N. global climate talks, is faced with a conundrum -- it wants to wean itself off of coal-powered plants seen as primate culprits of greenhouse gas emissions and find a cleaner energy source. read more
Mass. Sues Banks Over Deceptive Foreclosure Pr ...
NEW YORK – Massachusetts sued five major banks Thursday over deceptive foreclosure practices, such as the "robo-signing" of documents, potentially undermining negotiations over the same issue between lenders and state prosecutors across the nation. ...
Mass. Sues Banks Over Deceptive Foreclosure Pr ...
NEW YORK – Massachusetts sued five major banks Thursday over deceptive foreclosure practices, such as the "robo-signing" of documents, potentially undermining negotiations over the same issue between lenders and state prosecutors across the nation. ...
Occupy Montreal Protesters Branded by Police
Some members of the Occupy Montreal movement are considering legal action against the Montreal police after they were branded without their consent. Police expelled the group of protesters from Victoria Square last Friday, as part of the group handcuffed themselves to the outdoor kitchen. " ...

Lifehacker

Don't Buy Anything in This Week's Open Thread ...
Between Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the aftermath you've been bombarded with during the past week or two, you're probably a little sick of all the deals and spending. Take a break from the holiday shopping in this week's open thread. M ...
Hack Your Gadgets and Home to Teach Yourself a ...
Learning a language at a later stage in your life is hard. Your time is at a premium, and your plate's already so full that taking on all that new information is a serious challenge. Here's how to passively attack a new language without much e ...
Amazon Is Adding a New "Flurry" of D ...
Amazon's not kidding when they say they want to continue the Cyber Monday party. The company announced they'll have new category-specific deals each day starting this Sunday, December 4, at www.amazon.com/flurrydeals. You'll also know in advan ...
Buy Wine Now to Lock in Pre-Holiday Bargains [ ...
With holiday parties, get-togethers, fancy dinners with friends and family, and all sorts of classy events on the horizon now that the holidays are in full swing, you might think that now isn't the best time to buy something as often-consumed ...
Check If Your Android Phone Has Carrier IQ, No ...
When we first covered Carrier IQ, the rootkit that can log everything you do on your phone, we detailed how to check and remove Carrier IQ on Android using an app from the developer who discovered the rootkit, but that method required rooting ...

Water Privatization

Pittsburgh mayor mulls privatization of PWSA
Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said Thursday that he and state Rep. Mike Turzai have discussed the possibility of privatizing the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, but the city is not actively looking to dump the embattled agency.
Italian-Canadians Can Help Stop Water Privatiz ...
Italian expatriates in Canada and around the world are encouraged to vote in an important referendum to block a water privatization plan in Italy. The multi-question referendum is scheduled for June 12 and 13.
Students push bottle ban, water issues
Members of Students for Sustainable Water and students in the Fairhaven class “Right to Water” are developing a referendum to ban bottled water on campus as part of a larger effort to spread awareness about the global water crisis.
Privatization questions
Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
Privatization questions
Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.

Guardian

Euro 2012 draw – live! | Paul Doyle
• Hit F5 for the latest or select the auto-refresh button below • Full coverage on our dedicated Euro 2012 site • Email your thoughts to paul.doyle@guardian.co.uk4.39pm: "I, like every other sane Englisher, want the worst possible draw for Team England," announces Danny Stracey via email. "I wan ...
University lecturer whose drugs killed teenage ...
Isobel Jones-Reilly, 15, overdosed after finding ecstasy belonging to Brian Dodgeon at party organised by his daughterA university lecturer who admitted possessing class-A drugs after a schoolgirl overdosed at his house has been spared jail.Isobel Jones-Reilly, 15, died in April after taking ecs ...
Northern Rock sale generates bumper executive ...
It looks as if long-term incentive plan will pay out early thanks to sale of the nationalised bank to Virgin MoneySenior executives of Northern Rock could be in line for bumper payouts following the sale of the nationalised lender to Virgin Money.The annual report for 2010 states that:"The compa ...
Nato plans push in eastern Afghanistan to quel ...
Exclusive: Isaf aims to reduce threat to Kabul by insurgent groups and has not ruled out cross-border raids into PakistanNato commanders are planning a substantial offensive in eastern Afghanistan aimed at insurgent groups based in Pakistan, involving an escalation of aerial attacks on insurgent ...
Unemployment falls to 8.6% as US adds 120,000 ...
Jobless figures lowest since March 2009 – but Republicans say rate is still too high and Obama's policies are not workingUnemployment in the US fell to 8.6% in November, its lowest level since March 2009, as private employers continued to add jobs at a healthy pace.The government's closely watch ...

McClatchey

Pakistan orders troops to return fire if attac ...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's top military commander has issued orders to the country's troops to return fire should they come under attack again from U.S.-led coalition forces in a move likely to increase tensions after last week's American-led raid on two border outposts that killed 24 Pakistan ...
Unemployment drops to 8.6 percent, lowest sinc ...
WASHINGTON — The jobless rate for November plunged unexpectedly to 8.6 percent and employers added 120,000 new jobs, the government said Friday in a report that also included substantial upward revisions.
In Florida, Bachmann tees off on rivals
MIAMI &mash; Michele Bachmann popped unexpectedly into South Florida on Thursday and started throwing haymakers at Republican presidential front-runners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
Latin and Caribbean leaders challenge US role ...
BOGOTA, Colombia — The hemisphere is throwing a party but not everyone's invited.
F-35 fighter program will feel impact of Penta ...
The stealth design of the F-35 joint strike fighter is supposed to make it nearly invisible to enemy radar, but the super high-tech combat aircraft may not be able to avoid the bull's-eye of Pentagon budget-cutters.

Afghanistan Sun

Acid attack on Afghan girl and family
Afghan: A 17-year-old Afghan girl and her family have been sprayed with acid, apparently after rejecting a marriage proposal, officials and the victims said Thursday.The girl, Mumtaz, was seriously ...
3 sisters in Afghanistan are victims of acid a ...
Los Angeles Times KABUL -- An Afghan teenag girl, together with two younger sisters, was the victim of an acid-throwing attack three days after her family declined a marriage proposal from an ...
Survey Finds Corruption Becoming Increasingly ...
Whether in the form of kickbacks, bribery of public officials, embezzlement, or tax evasion, political and public sector corruption has become increasingly entrenched in the past year, and has ...
The Senate Just Voted Against The Afghanistan ...
"Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that-- 1) the President of the United States should expedite the transition of the responsibility for military and security operations to the ...
War on drugs revealed as total hoax – US ...
NaturalNews Thursday, December 1, 2011 Afghanistan is, by far, the largest grower and exporter of opium in the world today, cultivating a 92 percent market share of the global opium trade. But ...

Futurismic

Long Term and Long Distance Thinking
Last month, I wrote about the government. I asserted that we need to get business interests out of government or we’ll keep making decisions based on next quarter’s profits instead of the health of the next decade. This month, I want to talk about a whole industry that seems to be falling victim ...
Demon’s Souls and the Meaning and Import of Vi ...
Bad is Good and Good is Bad The problem with video game writing is that it tends to be written by fans of video games. The corruption and stupidity of games journalism are not isolated quirks of the system but symptoms of a flawed approach to the medium. Fans, by their nature, approach th ...
The Grand Lie
Most of my day-to-day life is good to great. A little too much stress, a few challenges with weight and sleeplessness, but I’m living my dreams about writing and I’ve got a job that pays the bills and leaves a bit extra behind for electronics. I’m usually optimistic. At the core, I suppose I sti ...
The Shameful Joys of Deus Ex: Human Revolutions
Context, Dear Boy… Context Here is a common complaint: ‘One of the problems facing video game writing is a systemic failure to place games in their correct historical context’ What this generally means is that writers fail to open their reviews with a lengthy diatribe on the history ...
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
I’ve been writing here at Futurismic for well over five years, now. It feels like longer, somehow, but it also feels like I only just started. I’ve learned a lot of things, not least of which is the fact that, the more you learn, the more you realise remains to be learned. One of the ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

Occupy DC Occupies EPA
Activists from Occupy Washington DC on Freedom Plaza marched to the headquarters of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday. Billed as "Occupy EPA," the event called on the EPA to do its job to protect Americans from toxic pollution. The march had a decidedly pro-whistl ...
Dr. Coleman-Adebayo Discusses Her New Book on PBS
NWC's Board of Director member Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo was interviewed by Travis Smiley last night on PBS about her book NO FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at EPA. Watch Author Marsha Coleman-Adebayo on PBS. See more from TAVIS SMILEY.
Washington Times Covers Department of no-Justice
This week The Washington Times published a lament of Attorney General Eric Holder’s treatment of FBI whistleblowers based on a public complaint from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The article is aptly titled, “Grassley: Whistleblower Cases Stuck ‘in limbo’ Under Holder. ...
Grand Jury Report Sheds Light on McQueary's Wh ...
There has been much debate about whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. While the NWC takes no position on the outcome of the investigation, there are two facts that are important to note. First, McQueary’s initial report as a graduate assistant to his supervisor, Joe Paterno, wa ...
Jane Turner discusses McQueary's whistleblower ...
NWC's Jane Turner was interviewed today on MSNBC about the Penn State child abuse scandal and whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. Tune in to Honesty Without Fear tomorrow to hear Jane and Steve Kohn discuss this question in more detail. Visit msnbc.com for breaking ...

Science Express

Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

The Value Is In The Relationship, Not The MP3 File
We've written a few times now about the band Uniform Motion, who has been extremely transparent with their latest release, such as explaining how much they make from different streaming platforms. Andy Richard, from the band, has also been quite active over on our Step 2 platform, and recently ...
Spotify Finally Becomes A True Platform: Now L ...
Nearly two years ago, Spotify first hinted at its desire to set itself up as a platform that others could build things on top of. And it's finally become a reality. This could actually be quite cool. Just a couple months ago, we were pointing out that just "putting radio on the internet" isn' ...
DailyDirt: Train Your Brain
The human brain is a remarkable organ, but we've only really just started to study it. Scientists are scanning brains with intense magnetic fields and zapping skulls with electrical pulses -- and measuring some differences that could point to ways that'll help people understand how our minds wor ...
Government Representatives Using 'Cybersecurit ...
Well, Facebook no longer needs to be the scapegoat when it comes to harvesting your personal information and doing nefarious things with it. Now, thanks to the House of Representatives, you can look forward to "a broad swath of ISPs and other private entities" collecting your personal data and s ...
Alternative To PIPA/SOPA Proposed; Points Out ...
While the MPAA has been pretending that there are no alternatives beyond the insanity that is PIPA and SOPA, some in Congress have actually been hard at work on trying to think through the specific issues. And one key point has become clear: this isn't a law and order issue, but an internationa ...

VacTruth

8 Stories Indicating U.S. Parents Getting Savv ...
Parents are seeing the vast amounts of children being injured by vaccines. Below are 8 stories indicating parents are waking up and getting savvy to the damage vaccines are causing to children. Anti-vaccine movement grows in many states The News Tribune ...
Love Hormone Injections For Autistics?
Scientists have stated that when this hormone is injected into adults with autism, it improves their ability to recognize emotion in people's voices. Should we be giving this to our children?
How Can Vaccines Become Even MORE Unsafe?
How Can Vaccines Become Even MORE Unsafe? Are you ready for this? China is getting into the vaccine making business. Holy cow!
Are Too Many Vaccines Mandated in the USA?
Are there too many vaccines and vaccinations in the U.S.? Ask any medical student what he or she learned in medical school about vaccines and you will be greatly surprised.
Federal Health Agency Not Good at Vaccine Stat ...
In a recent article, influenza statistics are taken to task for glaring misinterpretation by none other than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC. So what else is new?

BroadSnark

Occupy, Unions, NGOs and the Perils of DC Activism
I moseyed over to Occupy K Street last night for the general assembly and the action committee meeting. Not much to say about the GA – except maybe to mention that there was a serious shortage of women. Of the two that spoke, one offered to take notes and the other was reporting back from ...
Things You Might Have Missed
I’m going to kick off with the lulzy item. That would be this manboobz post on us women with our slutty clothes. I can’t even hate these people. They are too funny. I thought this post about buy nothing day was really interesting. While I understand the anti-materialist sentiments, t ...
What Choices?
A couple months ago, the Positive Force book club read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. One of the book club members thought that Alexander had gone too far in comparing the drug war to Jim Crow. He pointed out that it is far different to be discriminated against based on some accide ...
No Mascots
Things You Might Have Missed
I thought this article about the connection between authoritarianism and sexism/racism was really interesting. It would make such a difference if pop culture showed racism in the complicated ways that it actually plays out. This piece on racism in Sons of Anarchy is worth a read. I don’t k ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Dr. Hans Blix Tells EIR There Is No Basis for ...
EIR News Service press release.
LaRouche: To Stop World War III Obama Must Be ...
EIR News Service press release.
Toward a Bill of Impeachment of Barack Hussein ...
By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 11, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 44
Dubna Conference Endorses Global Glass-Steagall
Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 11, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 44
Russian Conference Hears LaRouche, Calls for G ...
By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 11, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 44

War in Context

Occupy economics
Econ4 economists’ statement in support of Occupy Wall Street: We are economists who oppose ideological cleansing in the economics profession. Equally we oppose political cleansing in the vital debate over the causes and consequences of our current economic crisis. We support the efforts of ...
Inside Story – Is political Islam replacing Ar ...
UN says Syria on brink of ‘civil war’
Do the Middle East’s revolutions have a unifyi ...
Marc Lynch writes: “Why does every nation on Earth move to change their conditions except for us? Why do we always submit to the batons of the rulers and their repression? How long will Arabs wait for foreign saviors?” That is how the inflammatory Al Jazeera talk-show host Faisal al- ...
In Israel, concerns about stifling of dissent
The Washington Post reports: The writing was on the walls. Death threats, spray-painted in red letters, covered the stairwell leading to the apartment of Hagit Ofran, an activist who monitors Israeli building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for the anti-settlement group Peace Now. “Hagit Ofr ...

Watts Up With That?

Linking an ancient CO2 drop to the Antarctic I ...
From Purdue University , another “just in time for Durban” press release. When you see phrases like “the mother of all tipping points” and you know this is overhyped control knob science. Drop in carbon dioxide levels led to polar … Continue reading →
NCAR’s Dr. Kevin Treberth’s ugly i ...
And to think I almost wasted my time going to visit Dr. Trenberth at NCAR this fall. This is mind blowing intolerance in professional discourse. Here’s the email, bold mine. email 3946 date: Thu Dec 9 08:28:11 2004 from: Phil … Continue reading →
What Didn’t Kyoto Do?
There has been some discussion over the years regarding Tom Wigley’s 1998 estimate that even if Kyoto were to be 100% successful in meeting its targets, it would only have reduced temperatures by an estimated 0.05 degrees Celsius by 2050. … Continue reading →
Climate scientist loses court case – ord ...
Excerpt from Pierre Goseelin’s NoTricksZone: Der Spiegel today has a story on IPCC bigwig and ultra-alarmist Stefan Rahmstorf, who is also a lead scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and elite member of the Hockey Team. For … Continue reading →
Steve McIntyre on the Bolt report
Andrew Bolt interview with Steve McIntyre from the Climate Audit blog, who exposed the infamous “hockey stick”, talking about the leaked emails that expose the warming scare. Watch below:

treehugger

Old Hubcaps are Repurposed into Gorgeous Metal ...
Hubcaps from old cars from the 1930’s through to the 1970’s find new life.
Documentary Takes Aim at Belo Monte Dam
There's a war of sorts underway in the Brazilian Amazon, and the stakes are high.
Tar Sands Crude Spills Into Denver's Water Supply
"High levels of benzene and volatile organic compounds at the nearby Denver Metro Wastewater plant made closure of a technical services building necessary and have forced employees to wear respirators."
Global Population Density at a Glance (Infogra ...
This map does a really good job of simply conveying worldwide population density.
Crematorium to Generate Energy from Burned Corpses
It gives a whole new meaning to 'people power'.

Biosingularity

‘Super’ mouse evolves resistance t ...
German and Spanish mice have rapidly evolved the trait by breeding with an Algerian species from which they have been separate for over a million years. The researchers say this type of gene transfer is highly unusual and normally found in plants and bacteria. The Current Biology report says thi ...
New Blood Thinner Prevents Strokes in Heart Pa ...
The newly approved drug Xarelto appears to prevent strokes at least as well as the standard treatment warfarin in people who have a heart condition that puts them at high risk for blood clots, a study shows. Xarelto was approved by the FDA in July to prevent dangerous blood clots in people havin ...
Red Meat, Processed Meat Linked to Diabetes Risk
Red meat, particularly processed red meats like bacon, sausage, and hot dogs, may increase a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The more processed or unprocessed red meat a person eats, the greater the risk, according to a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Type 2 ...
Intestinal protein may have role in ADHD, othe ...
A biochemical pathway long associated with diarrhea and intestinal function may provide a new therapeutic target for treating ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) other neuropsychiatric disorders, according to a team of scientists from China and the United States reporting Aug. 11 in ...
Stanford engineers redefine how the brain plan ...
New measurement technologies and techniques provide researchers more complete look at neurological activity In 1991, Carl Lewis was both the fastest man on earth and a profound long jumper, perhaps the greatest track-and-field star of all time in the prime of his career. On June 14th of that yea ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Christmas trees across the globe
The famous Norwegian Christmas tree was lit in London’s Trafalgar Square on Thursday. The 20-meter-tall tree is an annual gift to the UK from Oslo and all Norwegians as a token of thanks for British support during World War II.
Three new Moscow Metro stations unveiled in so ...
Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin unveiled three new metro stations in the southeast of Moscow on Friday morning.
Russian gays plead for letup in Kremlin crackdown
Russia’s LGBT community on Friday called for an end to what they see as an ongoing crackdown spearheaded by the ruling United Russia party.
S.Ossetian president: no repressions against o ...
President Eduard Kokoity of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia said on Friday there would be no crackdown on opposition rallies led by former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva.
Europe’s largest skating rink opens in Moscow’ ...
At 15,000 square meters in size, the ice rink that opened in Moscow’s Gorky Park on December 1 is Europe’s largest.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

China completes over 30 pct of its space navig ...
China has launched its 10th navigation satellite into orbit as part of a project to develop its own global satellite navigation system, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
Russia’s Glonass-M satellite put into orbit
Russia launches last Glonass-M satellite of 2011
A Russian Soyuz carrier rocket with a Glonass-M navigation satellite on board was launched from the Plesetsk space center on Monday, Russian Space Forces spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin said.
Glonass-M satellite prepared for Monday's launch
Staff of the Plesetsk space center in Russia's northwest have prepared a Soyuz carrier rocket with a Glonass-M navigation satellite for Monday's launch.
China, Japan ink energy conservation agreements
China and Japan agreed on Saturday to join hands on 51 projects in energy conservation and environment protection, Xinhua reported.

Pruning Shears

2012 will be more about actual problems than p ...
It’s funny that professional left now describes those who have been too critical of Democrats. To the extent that such a thing - a well funded, fully staffed and perennially active infrastructure presuming to be a liberal standard bearer - exists, it is the province of the think tanks (Ce ...
Occupy Charlottesville: Background and What's Next
This is my first post on this site. As background information, I’m finishing up my JD at UVA Law in Charlottesville, and so most of what I can cover from an on the ground angle for the time being is in Cville, or occasionally around VA or the DC area. Charlottesville is a fairly liberal ci ...
Public Happiness and Occupy Wall Street
In a recent Rolling Stone article, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the OWS Protests,” Matt Taibbi offers a revised estimate of Occupy Wall Street, now in its third month. He argues that contrary to those on the right and left who want Occupiers to find a message ...
Weekend Wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. We killed a couple of Brits too.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Cpl. Zachary C. Reiff, 22, of Preston, IA.Army Pvt. Jackie L. ...
The Occupy movement and reclaiming the First A ...
We seem to have happily gotten past the point of Occupy critics plaintively asking what the occupiers want and demanding that Occupy release some, well, demands. Instead the pundit class seems to have concluded that it was all a bit of fun but it’s time for those people to move on so we c ...

Organic Consumers.org

Monsanto to Stand Trial for Child's Death and ...
It has been almost nine years since the death of the Paraguayan child Silvino Talavera, and Monsanto Company has yet to acknowledge that it has anything to do with it.Click here to read this article
Thanks to Nurses Union and Occupy Wall Street, ...
"There's the idea of taxing financial transactions, which have exploded in recent decades. The economic value of all this trading is dubious at best. In fact, there's considerable evidence suggesting that too much trading is going on."Click here to read this article
Coal Study Names Top 20 'Climate Killer' Banks
Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC are among the top banks that have lent billions of euros to the coal sector - despite their much-vaunted environmental credentials, a new investigation has found.Click here to read this article
It Takes People Power to Make Clear That Corpo ...
In the Nov. 8 elections, the national media gave extensive coverage to a proposed "personhood amendment" to Mississippi's state constitution. This was an extremist anti-abortion ballot initiative to declare that a person's life begins not at birth, but at the very instant that a sperm meets the ...
GMO Ingredients in Organic Baby Food?
Patents for Martek Biosciences' Life'sDHA and Life'sARA reveal that they are produced through the use of genetic engineering. Hundreds of grocery items, including many certified "USDA Organic" infant formulas, baby foods and dairy products, contain Life'sDHA and Life'sARA. Here's the evidence th ...

Center for a Livable Future

USDA People’s Garden Grant Awarded to Baltimor ...
The $60,000 award will be divided among existing community organizations within Cherry Hill, who will partner to plant community and school gardens, and deliver education programs that promote gardening and healthy eating.
Voicing Concerns Over Antimicrobial Use in Foo ...
Also contributing to this post is Patrick Baron, CLF Doctoral Fellow and PhD student in Environmental Health Sciences. For the first time in 13 years, the Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance* (ITFAR) heard from the public on antimicrobial resistance. We presented a strong argument ...
Canning the Cans in Food Drives
What concerns me most, as a doctoral student researching environmental contaminants in the food system, is all of the BPA that has leached from those epoxy resin can linings into the food. Is it okay that we are feeding food-insecure people with consumables that we would not put on our own table ...
EBT at Farmers’ Markets: A Win for Everyone
Providing EBT at farmers’ markets may very well be a victory in the making for local and regional farmers, local economies, and SNAP participants alike.
Visualizer Shows Farm Bill Spending
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has launched the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer, an innovative web-based application that allows visual analysis of Farm Bill spending since the 2008 Farm Bill.

Investigate - Breaking News

Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader
Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader. Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader
Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio
Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio. The contents of a viral email released this afternoon...Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio
Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver ...
Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver schemes. Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver schemes
NZ First hits nearly 4% in polls, leader revea ...
NZ First hits nearly 4% in polls, leader reveals plans. NZ First hits nearly 4% in polls, leader reveals plans...
Turkey votes for early Christmas
Turkey votes for early Christmas. Turkey votes for early Christmas

My Care2 Picks

The Electric Car Paradox : Can We Switch to El ...
The simple answer is no - and the complicated answer is also no. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Propaganda for punishing 'the enemy'
Collected stories on the history of Iran, relations with the U.S.. nuclear technology, the NPT and how Iran is restrained from abridging it ( while others claim it should,IAEA is defunded and overworked,etc. history of Middle East nonproliferation failure Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
SOPA is a threat to American Internet leadersh ...
The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) a bill now before the House Judiciary Committee is a threat to Americas ability to lead the Internet, and must be defeated before it has a chance to damage Americas ability to generate jobs and economic growth. Submitted by Dan W. to US Politics & Gov&#39 ...
How SOPA would affect you (In depth) | Privacy ...
Texas Rep Lamar Smith probably never anticipated the fierce world-wide public outrage that SOPA provoked over the last week. Such intense opposition to Internet-related law hasn't been seen since the 2003 battle for copy-protection technology in PCs. Submitted by Dan W. to US Politics & Gov& ...
The Gulf Oil Spill: the Other Shoe Dropping
Heres the real story of the BP oil spill. It unfolds like a murder mystery. But its realand were all the victims. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

British MPs Write to Congress to Complain Abou ...
British MPs Write to Congress to Complain About Guant�namo and to Demand the Release of Shaker Aamer :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]In... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American ...
Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window � Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties UnionWhile... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Latest Mideast News: Israel Attempts to Foil P ...
Latest Mideast News: Israel Attempts to Foil Palestinian Initiative for Self-Generating Energy: Ramallah, November 27, 2011 (WAFA) - The Israeli decision demanding Palestinians in the west bank to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Europeans hold 60 ‘Boycott Israel’ actions in ...
Europeans hold 60 ‘Boycott Israel’ actions in 10 countries - International Middle East Media Center: In a European Day of Action under the banner ‘Take Apartheid off the Menu’, human rights activists... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Gerald and Maas Suppressed News: November 26, 2011
Gerald and Maas Suppressed NewsKuala Lumpur: in a trial attended by jurists from throughout the world the war crimes trial of George W. Bush and Tony Blair before a people's court has concluded with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

Passage of S.1867: Our enemy is within
I have to wonder if at some point if other countries will band together and declare the US a terrorist organization, guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes, human rights violations and a threat to world peace.
Major Organic Seed Company Owned By Pro-GMO Group!
One of the largest organic seed producers is owned by a company that supports GMOs. Does anyone see a conflict of interest? Does anyone think there might be a problem?
One Straw Revolution in Farming
Japanese Permaculture Legend: Masanobu Fukuoka shows how to farm naturally, without modern agricultural methods.
How Food Affects Genes
Most relevant to the new findings of Zhang’s team is an experiment in gene therapy using a precursor of miRNA. It turned out to have so many off-target effects that it killed more than 150 of the experimental mice.
The Age of Transitions Full Documentary
This is a must-see video. Newt Gingrich just happens to endorse transhumanism at around the 6 minute mark.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

Obama lawyers: Citizens targeted if at war with US
ShareThisObama lawyers: Citizens targeted if at war with US 01 Nov 2011 U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets when they take up arms with 'al-Qaida,' top national security lawyers in the Obama regime said Thursday. The lawyers were asked at a national security conference about the CIA ki ...
Unions claim win in mass UK strike
ShareThisUnions claim win in mass UK strike 01 Dec 2011 British unions claimed that up to two million public sector workers went on strike over changes to their pensions after the government responded to slashed growth forecasts with fresh spending cuts. In what unions called the biggest walkout ...
Over two million UK public sector workers strike
ShareThisOver two million UK public sector workers strike By Julie Hyland 01 Dec 2011 Over two million public sector workers took part yesterday in a 24-hour strike against the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government's attack on their pensions. The largest national walk-out for more than 30 yea ...
Occupy UC Davis protesters adopt resolution ca ...
ShareThisOccupy UC Davis protesters adopt resolution calling for break with Democratic Party By David Brown 01 Dec 2011 On Tuesday evening, the general assembly of Occupy UC Davis passed a resolution denouncing the attack on Davis students, calling for a break with the Democratic Party and the c ...
Hundreds remain jailed after Occupy LA raid
ShareThisHundreds remain jailed after Occupy LA raid 01 Dec 2011 About 240 people remained in jail Thursday night after an LAPD operation to clear the Occupy L.A. encampment around City Hall in Downtown Los Angeles, police said. On Thursday, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office filed criminal ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

VRM: The Flu Report
The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
Article continued from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respirator ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

Afghanistan & Mexico
Mission in Afghanistan with 4-4 Cav 02 December 2011 A groundswell continues within the Dustoff community to have Red Crosses removed from MEDEVAC helicopters in Afghanistan. There is much behind the scenes work on this. We’ve also set up a private forum to exchange information and ...
Watching You
01 December 2011 ComputerWorld recently interviewed me about smartphone security. My work happens in dangerous places where a working knowledge of phone security is essential. The reality is that if you have a cell phone, many people can track you. Please read: November 30, 2011 - 11 ...
CRS: Afghanistan Casualties - Military and Civ ...
01 December 2011 To view this report click here.
Death by Smartphone
30 November 2011 Recently I published a small piece about smartphone security called Pocket Spies. A security writer at ComputerWorld read Pocket Spies and contacted me for an interview. This is not my field, but that I have built awareness due to the dangers of my profession.&nbs ...
Beautiful Combat Camera on Auction
The Canon Mark III 1ds is one of the finest cameras in the world. Mine has seen combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, and has been used around the world from Nepal, to the Philippines and elsewhere. The photos from this Mark III 1ds have appeared in my two most recent books, and countless oth ...

The Killing Train

The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
[This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
An interview for occupy Toronto
Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...
The Housing Crisis in Haiti
There are at least 595,000 Haitians living in camps around Port au Prince (1). President Martelly has a program, called 16-6, which proposes to resettle residents of 6 large camps in 16 neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince. In total, if the program succeeds, it will touch 5000 families, or 4% of the ...

treehugger

Old Hubcaps are Repurposed into Gorgeous Metal ...
Hubcaps from old cars from the 1930’s through to the 1970’s find new life.
Documentary Takes Aim at Belo Monte Dam
There's a war of sorts underway in the Brazilian Amazon, and the stakes are high.
Tar Sands Crude Spills Into Denver's Water Supply
"High levels of benzene and volatile organic compounds at the nearby Denver Metro Wastewater plant made closure of a technical services building necessary and have forced employees to wear respirators."
Global Population Density at a Glance (Infogra ...
This map does a really good job of simply conveying worldwide population density.
Crematorium to Generate Energy from Burned Corpses
It gives a whole new meaning to 'people power'.

Democratic Voice of Burma

World Bank, IMF to enter Burma: US
International lenders get the nod from Hillary Clinton to return to Burma after a two-decade absence as reward for reforms
Clinton departs Burma, offers $1.2m in aid
First tangible sign of US support for new Burmese government announced as Secretary Clinton departs Rangoon following visit
Aid push to stem Kachin refugee crisis
Groups to travel from Rangoon and Mandalay to support aid effort as Hillary Clinton urges government to allow access to refugees
Clinton greets Suu Kyi with letter from Obama
Two of the world's most famous women hold in-depth talks at Suu Kyi's lakeside home in Rangoon on final day of historic visit
US moots increase in aid to Burma
Clinton will also seek to reinstate an ambassador and press the government to allow US troops to search for remains of WW2 pilots

Telegraph - Climate Change

Durban Climate Change Conference: Redbush tea ...
Redbush tea could be the latest victim of climate change without drastic action, farmers and scientists have warned.
Attenborough says people have lost all touch w ...
Sir David Attenborough, the television wildlife presenter, has warned that people in towns and cities are putting the planet at risk because they are losing touch with the "realities of the natural world".
Durban Climate Change Conference: US refusal t ...
US refusal to negotiate legally-binding carbon emissions cuts risks derailing a UN summit convened to tackle climate change, environmental groups have warned in a letter to Hillary Clinton.
Durban Climate Change Conference: 13 of world' ...
Arctic ice levels were this year the thinnest they have ever been, scientists have warned.
Lord Lawson accuses Sir David Attenborough of ...
Lord Lawson says Frozen Planet 'prefers sensation to objectivity'.

National Geographic | Environment

2011 Among Hottest Years, Marked by Extreme We ...
This year also marked by extremes—including floods, droughts, and the hottest year on record for Texas—a new report says.
Chilean Wind Farm Faces Turbulence Over Whales
A wind farm project on the Chilean island of Chiloé raises concerns over risk to the endangered great blue whale.
Sex With Humans Made Neanderthals Extinct?
Fleeing advancing ice, Neanderthals increasingly encountered modern humans—and may have interbred to the point of extinction, a new study suggests.
"Great Dying" Lasted 200,000 Years
Wildfires and disappearing oxygen helped kill off 90 percent of all life on Earth some 252 million years ago—and fast, a new study says.
With U.S. Natural Gas Booming, a Move to Send ...
Companies are making the first moves to parlay abundant U.S. natural gas into a global business, but many worry that U.S. consumers will be hurt.

Jurist - Legal Research

UN rights chief: more than 4,000 dead in Syria ...
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] stated on Thursday that the death toll in Syria during the eight-month uprising [JURIST news archive] has surpassed 4,000 [video and transcript]. Pillay recommended that the UN Security Council [official website] take ...
183 countries ranked in annual corruption index
[JURIST] Transparency International (TI) [advocacy website] Thursday released its 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) [report, PDF; press release], again showing some governments failing to protect citizens from corruption, be it abuse of public resources, bribery or secretive decision-makin ...
ICC deputy prosecutor to be recommended as nex ...
[JURIST] Fatou Bensouda [official profile] of the Gambia, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website], will be formally recommended Thursday to succeed Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] when his nine-year term expires next year. Liechtenste ...
Tobacco company challenges new Australia cigar ...
[JURIST] British American Tobacco (BAT) [corporate website] brought legal action in Australia's High Court [official website] on Thursday in response [press release] to the country's new tobacco packaging laws. Two weeks ago, Parliament [official website] enacted the Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill ...
Tunisia military court convicts former preside ...
[JURIST] A Tunisian military court on Wednesday convicted former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali [BBC profile] in absentia on torture charges. Ben Ali and eight others were found guilty [Reuters report] of the torture of 17 military generals in connection with a 1991 coup attempt. Ben Ali was ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

A Hot Flash in the Cold War With Pakistan
A NATO attack kills 24 Pakistani soldiers and Pakistan responds by closing U.S. supply routes into Afghanistan. Is the relationship between Washington and Islamabad about to disintegrate? The relationship between Pakistan and the United States is, for both sides, like a raw nerve that keeps g ...
Mitt Romney Ramps Up Attacks on Obama
Judging by his latest barrage of criticism, the former Massachusetts governor is already running against the president -- sort of First there was the television advertisement in New Hampshire, which received widespread condemnation from the media elite for taking President Obama's wor ...
Newt's Gift to Obama: A GOP Immigration Rift
With his "humane" argument, the former House speaker has put the president's chief rival, Mitt Romney, in a difficult spot MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: The Return of Imperial Newt Did Gingrich Walk Into an Immigration Minefield? Presidential Debate Timeline Duri ...
Why Did Perry Get Into the Race, Really?
Republican consultants at loose ends and looking for work sold the Texas governor a bill of goods about his prospects So I have this theory about why Gov. Rick Perry decided to run for president, despite what appeared to be his instincts telling him that the job just wasn't for him. There ca ...
Will Nuclear Watchdog Report Change U.S. Polic ...
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran may still be working toward a bomb Iran's Head of Atomic Energy Organization Abbasi-Davani speaks at the 55th IAEA General Conference in Vienna / Reuters The Obama administration insists that a major new U.N. report on Iran's nuclear prog ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

Dagan’s First TV Interview
Ilana Dayan has the first interview former Mossad director Meir Dagan has ever given to Israeli TV. For many Israelis, it must be a bit like hearing Marcel Marceau speak the first word of his career, as Dagan has a reputation for being exceedingly laconic and unwilling to speak publicly or to t ...
Israel and Iran: Why War?
All I can say to you readers is: I hope you don’t get sick of this. I don’t know how you could, but it’s possible some of you would prefer to be ogling Lady Gaga’s latest outfit. The drama playing itself out in the Middle East and other capitals around the world is endle ...
Transparency International: Israel Among Most ...
After a slew of public corruption trials and scandals, a recent survey by Transparency International found that Israel had dropped to its lowest ranking ever in an survey of corruption among the world’s nations. It ranked 36th of 183 (down from #30 two years ago). Among western nations ...
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: Israel Disagrees San ...
Pro-Israel uber-hawks in Congress like to say there isn’t an ounce of daylight between the positions of the U.S. and Israel whenever an Israeli PM comes to Washington. But that’s apparently not the case regarding our respective views of Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff M ...
Israeli Intelligence All But Takes Credit for ...
Sheera Frenkel, reporting in the Times of London has gotten several high-level Israeli intelligence officials to go on record confirming yesterday’s explosion at Isfahan’s uranium enrichment facility was sabotage, and not an accident as Iran initially reported (later it withdrew this ...

If Americans Knew

The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...

David J. Gregory

What side are you on?
As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
(661) 449-9342 The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to ar ...
" Flip Flopped"
Dear Editor, The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number". How can flying ...

Unsuitable Blog

Strikes vs Royal Weddings
There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
Ready the Fire Extinguishers: The Coca-Cola Ol ...
The Olympic torch relay does not have an auspicious history. The modern torch relay, as a symbol of local pride enmeshed in the Olympic ideal, was introduced in 1936 to herald the opening of the Berlin Olympics. It was nothing less than a propaganda exercise to show the world the superiority of ...
Greenloons: Ecotourism is the New Blindfold
Now that the Unsuitablog is taking a more occasional view of ethical hypocrisy (short for, “I really don’t have the time for all this!”) it takes a very special email or advert to make it to the blog. Most of them end up in my junk folder, but some of them sneak into my inbox, ...
Moving Planet Just Moved!
Symbolic action sucks! Have a look at the other side of Moving Planet and the environmental mainstream at www.moving-planet.com

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

LocalWiki Launches First Pilot, Announces Majo ...
Hey friends! We've got two extremely exciting announcements for you. Our first focus community, serving Denton, Texas, has launched. And we're making the first major release of the new LocalWiki software today! The LocalWiki project is an ambitious effort to create community-owned, li ...
Public Media Should Mind the Developer Gap
Early on in PRX's history we faced a critical decision. Do we outsource the development and maintenance of our main web application, or take the plunge and bring all coding in-house and become a technology-driven company? We took the plunge, and since then have grown an award-winning tech tea ...
Can Ushahidi Rely on Crowdsourced Verifications?
During the aftermath of the Chilean earthquake last year, the Ushahidi-Chile team received two reports -- one through the platform, the other via Twitter -- that indicated an English-speaking foreigner was trapped under a building in Santiago. "Please send help," the report read. "i am burie ...
Mobile Phones Are Key to a Free Newspaper in M ...
MobileActive recently posted a call for guest posts on its site. A version of this guest post, which was written by Janet Gunter, originally appeared on MobileActive.org's Mobile Media Toolkit blog. MobileActive chose to highlight this piece because it demonstrates how a free newspaper in Mozamb ...
#DontBreakTheInternet: How The Web Became a Po ...
Good ideas aren't enough. They need champions and constant vigilance, or Congress will take them from you. Many problems arise when your country's legislature is consistently more responsive to its donors than its constituents. One of these problems is that simple good ideas can't just be lef ...

Cutting Edge News

Iran's Nukes - If Israel Strikes Iran: What Ha ...
To a surprising degree, financial analysts are now beginning to price the cost to the world economy of an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Far from the political arena, these economists and analysts are taking a common-sense approach to a potential Israeli strike and asking just how ...
Israel and Palestine - Israeli Economy Strong ...
Israelis have always envisioned a day when they would have peace with their neighbors and enjoy normal commercial relations that would be a boon to both Israel and the Arab states. Unfortunately, the Arab states initiated an economic boycott in 1945 and most still refuse to engage in any trade w ...
Military on Edge - Are We Entering Another Int ...
“A nation that does not prepare for all forms of war should then renounce the use of war in national policy. A people that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender.”– T.R. Fehrenbach, in his classic study of the Korean War, This Kind of War: A Study in Unprepar ...
US and Pakistan - Pakistan, Russia, and the Th ...
Days after the Pakistanis closed their borders to the passage of fuel and supplies for the NATO-led war effort in Afghanistan, for very different reasons the Russians threatened to close the alternative Russia-controlled Northern Distribution Network (NDN). The dual threats are significant even ...
The Edge of Terrorism - It’s the Ideology, Stupid
Today, it would be fair to say that U.S. counterterrorism efforts are tactically strong. We are well-positioned to tap the right phones, carry out surveillance of the right targets, and as a result we have a truly remarkable track record of preventing attacks (though some, like the shoe bomber, ...

High Country News

A ski town contributes mightily to paleontology
The fossils found near Colorado's Snowmass Village have a lot to teach us: not just about mastodons and mammoths, but also about the climate and ecosystem that existed tens of thousands of years ago.
A frantic lion meets the border wall
The U.S.-Mexico border wall does nothing to stop either drugs or illegal immigrants, but it sure can frustrate roaming wildlife, including mountain lions.
The end is near -- the end of 2011
People should be less worried about the allegedly dire predictions of the Mayan Calendar, and concentrate on making the next year better, since we’re all on earth for a limited time anyway.
Hunting deer on a mountain bike
Two friends go on a fossil-fuel-free deer hunt using mountain bikes.
Farm incubators help would-be farmers succeed ...
Viva Farms is a "farm incubator" in Washington's Skagit Valley, helping aspiring cash-poor farmers like Nelida Martinez start and successfully operate their own businesses.

CounterCurrents

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Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
By William Hicks Continuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
By Barry Grey US payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
A State For Jews
By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
Israelis Rush For Second Passports
By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The ma ...
Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rheto ...

Yid With Lid

Saudis Say Letting Women Drive Will Lead to La ...
This comes from the "You just can't make this stuff up" department. Besides being the world's largest supplier of Oil, the "moderate" Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is also the only country on earth that does not allow women to drive. Just to put that ban in perspective, even in the repressive co ...
Was The 3/5 Compromise an Indication The Found ...
Many in the progressive world, believe that our founding fathers were racist. As their evidence they point to Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution: “ Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included withi ...
Egyptian Election Outcome is Worse Than Expected
By Barry Rubin Since last February I have predicted that the Muslim Brotherhood would win elections in Egypt. People have thought me very pessimistic. Now the votes are starting to come in, and … it’s much worse than I thought. My prediction that the Brotherhood and the other Islamists woul ...
Was Speech Meant For CAIR Mistakenly Given by ...
Somebody screwed up! It just has to be the case. Yesterday, Jack Rosen the head of the AJC, a major Jewish Organization in the US, hosted a fundraiser for President Obama at his home in NYC. The fundraiser was attended by thirty Democratic supporters of the Jewish faith. President Obama sh ...
Iran Sabotaged!! The Covert War Against Iran's ...
Started, the Clone Wars have-Jedi Master Yoda It has now become abundantly clear, a covert war against the Iranian nuclear weapons program has reached a new stage. First Iranian nuclear scientists were sent "swimming with the fishes," then there was the cyber-warfare attacks such as the ...

The Real Agenda

Gene Patenting Causes People to Be Company-Own ...
by Mike Barrett Activist Post December 2, 2011 While science and technology continue to exceed new levels never before reached by humankind, the chance of the human race becoming more of a scientific research project increases along with it. Over the past 30 years, over 40,000 patents were creat ...
DNA Evolution Consciousness Shift
by Sol Luckman Potentiation.net Are you aware that a Shift in human consciousness is occurring even as you read these words that employs celestial triggers such as supernovas and Earth’s alignment with Galactic Center in the years leading up to 2012 to trigger the evolution of our species? ...
Guia do George Orwell para Acompanhar as Notícias
Tradução Luis Miranda Russia Today 1 de Dezembro 2011 A mídia ocidental falsifica as notícias e fazê-lo usando eufemismos, meias-verdades e mentiras no melhor estilo (pior) do romance de George Orwell 1984. Nós todos vivemos no mundo irreal de “novalíngua” que a elite do poder global ...
Chinese General Threatens “Third World War” To ...
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, December 1, 2011 A military General from the Chinese National Defense University says that China should not hesitate to protect Iran, even if it means launching world war three, as more US warships are dispatched to the region amidst heightening tensions ...
Guía de George Orwell para seguir las Noticias
Traducción Luis Miranda Russia Today 01 de diciembre 2011 Los medios de comunicación occidentales falsifican las noticias y lo hacen recurriendo a eufemismos, medias verdades y mentiras en el mejor (peor) estilo de la novela de George Orwell 1984. Todos vivimos en el mundo irreal de la “ne ...

Wind Watch

Belle Creek moves forward with appeal in wind case
At a specially scheduled meeting Monday night, the Belle Creek Town Board voted to appeal the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission’s decision to allow a 78-megawatt wind farm in Goodhue County. Citizens stuffed themselves into available chairs and crowded in the back of the Belle Creek Town Hal ...
Couple settle with wind farm operators over &# ...
A couple have settled a High Court damages action against the owners and operators of a wind farm they say drove them from their farmhouse home with its ”unbearable” noise. A judge was told today the terms of the settlement agreed by tenant farmers Sarah Jane and Julian Davis were st ...
Belle Creek Township to challenge wind project ...
GOODHUE — Monday’s decision by the Belle Creek Town Board to file a legal appeal against the AWA Goodhue wind project could extend the battle over renewable energy in Goodhue County by another year. National Wind, the project developer, applied for a site permit with the Minnesota Public U ...
Chilean wind farm faces turbulence over whales
Off the northwest coast of Isla Grande de Chiloé in southern Chile (map), cold-temperate waters influenced by the west wind drift pound against the South American continent. This flow, also known as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, causes nutrient-rich water to collide with land, generating a ...
How many dead eagles?
LANDER — Wind farms and golden eagles seem have trouble coexisting. But conservationists, biologists and energy companies agree: No one really knows what harm wind farms cause to golden eagles and their numbers. The available data, science and policy haven’t caught up with the pace o ...

Tippers News

Three men helped starve kids, court tol
Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note- ...
About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

Indefinite Detention and the Free Society
The free market, and the free society in general, cannot be understood without also understanding their indispensable political, legal, and moral conditions.
Two Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street
If you want a peaceful, prosperous, and pleasant world, work to encourage commerce and limit the State.
Poor School Districts Get Short End of Stick
“Loopholes in federal education law have allowed districts to funnel more state and local money to wealthy schools at the expense of their low-income counterparts, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Education Department.” (Washington Times) Does anyone really think t ...
Fed Joins Other Central Banks in Monetary Easing
“The Federal Reserve and other major central banks moved on Wednesday to help foreign banks more easily borrow and lend money, seeking to forestall a breakdown of global financial markets and giving Europe more time to wrestle with its debts. The latest round of interventions by central ba ...
Elizabeth Warren’s Non Sequitur
Elizabeth Warren, who’s running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, made quite a splash on the Internet with remarks to supporters in which she said: There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved ...

Teaching Online Journalism

Classroom helpers for j-school
In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...
10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...
Getting that first job in journalism
Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...
5,000 followers on Twitter
Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism. Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media ...
6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in ...

Facing South

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The story of a Deep South labor town and the s ...
A Mississippi town where poultry-plant workers recently voted to unionize was the site of an earlier labor struggle involving an unlikely hero. A Mississippi town where poultry-pla ...
INSTITUTE INDEX: The political assault on repr ...
At the same time Planned Parenthood faces a sweeping probe by House Republicans, states have passed an unprecedented number of laws seeking to restrict women's access to legal abortions. ...
Injured war contractors sue over health care, ...
The $2 billion suit claims that private contractors including Houston-based KBR and their insurers routinely lied, cheated and threatened injured workers while ignoring a federal law requiring their c ...
Black Belt Power: African-Americans come back ...
After a decades-long exodus from the South, Census data shows African-Americans are returning to the region. What does it mean for the future of Southern politics? After a decades-lo ...

Worldpress - Africa

Congo: Holding Its Breath
Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are expected to be deeply flawed, and a number of situations could lead to further violence and unrest in the war-torn country.
Progress in Sierra Leone, but Not for the Youth
President Koroma has improved electricity supply, healthcare and roads in Sierra Leone, but the country's young people have not received the education or opportunities they need.
Land Grabs and the World Bank
Farmers in developing countries are seeing their land taken from them and sold off to investors, and the World Bank is playing a hand in the deals.
Childbirth in Developing Countries
Maternal deaths occur at a rate 300 times higher in developing countries than in the developed world. International health initiatives are working to address the problem.
Tunisia First to Govern in Era of Transition
Tunisian's election of its Constituent Assembly represents the first step in the Arab Spring's transitioning from revolution to democratization.

Telegraph UK - oil

The owl who flew 2,000 miles - but finally arr ...
Exhausted and a hundred miles from land, a migrating owl made a wise move - he landed on a North Sea gas rig.
Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollut ...
Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollution by J Henry Fair.
New Zealand: oil leaks and cargo topples off s ...
Fears stricken cargo ship may break up and cause environmental disaster.
Oil leak from container ship Rena is New Zeala ...
Oil leak from container ship is New Zealand's worst maritime disaster.
Libya: the minister, the Tory donor and a cont ...
An oil firm whose chief executive has bankrolled the Conservatives won exclusive rights to trade with Libyan rebels during the conflict, following secret talks involving the British Government.

Ian Welsh

Public opinion is irrelevant
When Occupy started, there were polls that showed the public supported it. Later, polls showed that support had dropped and a majority no longer supported Occupy. In the first case progressives were pleased, in the second upset. I didn’t care either time. Repeat after me: Public opinion ...
Public opinion is irrelevant
When Occupy started, there were polls that showed the public supported it. Later, polls showed that support had dropped and a majority no longer supported Occupy. In the first case progressives were pleased, in the second upset. I didn’t care either time. Repeat after me: Public opinion ...
What’s happening in Europe is what matters: ru ...
The oligarchs have taken down two governments in the past two weeks – Italy and Greece. The idea that the Mario Monti, the new PM of Italy, is something wonderful, is deranged. Note that once again, neither an election nor a referendum was allowed. If you want to save the Euro and some f ...
What’s happening in Europe is what matte ...
The oligarchs have taken down two governments in the past two weeks – Italy and Greece. The idea that the Mario Monti, the new PM of Italy, is something wonderful, is deranged. Note that once again, neither an election nor a referendum was allowed. If you want to save the Euro and some f ...
The Occupy Education Continues
A huge coordinated attack in multiple cities occurred last night, in which even journalists were thrown in jail. Many protestors are being denied access to lawyers. Bloomberg and the police are in direct violation of a court order to allow protestors back into the park. In other words, the law ...

Media Consortium

The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

'Report card' documents the Arctic's new normal
The Arctic has entered a new era. The region has shifted to conditions of warmer air and water, less ice cover on the sea and more vegetation growing on land, says an international team of scientists in this year's Arctic Report Card from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N ...
Dutch psychology fraudster issues first retra ...
Diederik Stapel, the Dutch social psychologist who admitted to faking data in numerous published papers, has retracted a 2011 study published in the journal Science, which concluded that disorderly environments leads to discrimination. It is the first of what are likely to add up to dozens of re ...
Stem cell research supported in Horizon 2020
The German federal research minister, Annette Schavan, has welcomed plans from the European Commission to continue to fund stem cell research in the Horizon 2020 research funding programme which will run from 2014-2020. Schavan’s statement came in response to the publication of the Commissions’ ...
Group claims political meddling over grazing d ...
The whistle-blower group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has filed a scientific integrity complaint against the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) because, it says, the agency is excluding grazing data from an ambitious ecological study for political reasons (see their p ...
Could crowd sourcing provide the next genetics ...
Posted on behalf of Zoë Corbyn. A wealth of extra free genetic data could be at scientists' fingertips if a new website allowing the public to make their test results available gets enough traction. OpenSNP provides a way for people who have had tests carried out by direct-to-consumer gen ...

new geography

Is Suburbia Doomed? Not So Fast.
This past weekend the New York Times devoted two big op-eds to the decline of the suburb. In one, new urban theorist Chris Leinberger said that Americans were increasingly abandoning “fringe suburbs” for dense, transit-oriented urban areas. In the other, UC Berkeley professor Louise Mozingo ...
Will You Still House Me When I'm 64?
In the song by the Beatles, the worry was about being fed and needed at 64. Things have changed. If the Beatles wrote those lyrics today, the worry instead might be about housing. Australia’s aging population is an inevitability. As our replacement rate falls (we’re having fewer children ...
The Evolving Urban Form: Delhi
It has been a time of ups and downs for Delhi, which has emerged as the largest urban area (area of continuous urban development) in India. By a quirk in the Census of India definitions, an urban area (urban agglomeration) may not cross a state or territorial boundary. As a result, Delhi con ...
Good Morning, Vietnam
While many experts are pronouncing the demise of the American era and the rise of China, other East Asian nations complicate the picture. As America continues to participate and extend its influence in the dynamic Asian market, there may be no more suitable ally than its old antagonist, ...
Mass Transit: Could Raising Fares Increase Rid ...
Conventional wisdom dictates that keeping transit fares as low as possible will promote high ridership levels. That isn't entirely incorrect. Holding all else constant, raising fares would have a negative impact on ridership. But allowing the market to set transit fares, when coupled with a num ...

GM Watch

EPA seeks information on resistance in GM plants
EPA Seeks Information on Resistance in Genetically Engineered Plants Beyond Pesticides, December 2 2011 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=6408 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened a pesticide docket for information and reviews relevant to insect resistance ma ...
Monsanto corn may be failing in 4 states-EPA
NOTE: Among the points of interest here is the fact that Monsanto uses Bt resistance to push more complex and expensive GM seeds as the solution to resistance. But the EPA is saying this is asking for trouble. EXTRACTS: Farmers with root damage in their fields should consider changing practices ...
Bayer targets non-GMO wheat traits
1.Bayer CropScience targets non-GMO wheat traits 2.Greenpeace delight after baker shuns GM wheat NOTE: See also: Non-GM biotech is the future http://bit.ly/3HjktZ --- --- 1.Bayer CropScience targets non-GMO wheat traits Charlie Dunmore Reuters, November 29 2011 [shortened] http://www.reuters.co ...
Bayer targets non-GMO wheat traits
1.Bayer CropScience targets non-GMO wheat traits 2.Greenpeace delight after baker shuns GM wheat NOTE: See also: Non-GM biotech is the future http://bit.ly/3HjktZ --- --- 1.Bayer CropScience targets non-GMO wheat traits Charlie Dunmore Reuters, November 29 2011 [shortened] http://www.reuters.co ...
France maintains opposition to GM crops
NOTE: See also: France maintains opposition to Monsanto GM crops: Sarkozy http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/france-maintains-opposition-to-monsanto-gm-crops-sarkozy_191897.html --- --- French GMO crops unlikely in 2012 despite end of ban Sybille de La Hamaide Reuters, 29 November 2011 ...

spiked

The IPCC exposed: political to its core
A new book demolishes the neutral, scientific façade of the UN’s climate change body and reveals its real, debate-ending purpose.
Football can’t be reduced to number-crun ...
Moneyball shows how statistics helped to change baseball. But maths won’t deliver football silverware.
A kitschy homage to Americana
America on a Plate took a refreshingly positive look at two of America’s most demonised totems: roads and food.
The hypocrisy of Occupy Wall Street
By asserting a First Amendment ‘right to occupy’, the occupiers seem to want one rule for themselves and another for everyone else.
Herman Cain: the culture of intrigue-mongering ...
Why are anti-Republicans more fascinated by Herman McCain's alleged sexual impropriety than his political ignorance?

Cryptogon

UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles ...
Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no app ...
Who—and What—Are Behind the &#8220 ...
I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...

The Economic Collapse

Have You Heard About The 16 Trillion Dollar Ba ...
What you are about to read should absolutely astound you. During the last financial crisis, the Federal Reserve secretly conducted the biggest bailout in the history of the world, and the Fed fought in court for several years to keep it a secret. Do you remember the TARP bailou ...
What Have The Central Banks Of The World Done Now?
The central banks of the world are acting as if it is 2008 all over again. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the central bankers are pulling out all the stops. The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the ...
Tens Of Millions Of American Families Are Livi ...
Have you ever been so poor that you had to live in your car? Have you ever been so low on funds that the only place you could afford to live was a rat-infested motel? Have you ever spent a night living in a tent city or sleeping in the streets? If not, you should [...]
22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collap ...
Will 2012 be the year that we see an economic collapse in Europe? Before you dismiss the title of this article as "alarmist", read the facts listed in the rest of this article first. Over the past several months, there has been an astonishing loss of confidence in the European ...
Black Friday Violence Worse Than Ever As Ameri ...
We all knew that this was coming, didn't we? Each year Black Friday violence just seems to get worse and worse. What does it say about American consumers when they are willing to fight like crazed animals just to save a few bucks on cheap plastic crap made in China? Not that r ...

Desertification

Global Warming at UN (Google / People’s ...
Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://peoplesworld.org/un-summit-talks-global-warming/ UN summit talks global warming by: Blake Deppe In its yearly briefing to the UN climate summit, the World Meteorological Organization said that 2011 is, so far, the … Continu ...
WeForest projects
Read at : WeForest Newsletter – December 1st 2011 Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu and I visiting his projects on Oct 17 in Cape Town. (Marie-Noelle Keijzer, CEO) We are exploring opportunities to plant medicinal trees in the South African Townships. … Continue reading →
DESIRE and land degradation (IISD)
Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List News from the DESIRE Project on achieving SLM and zero net growth of land degradation On behalf of the DESIRE Project I would like to draw your attention to our leaflet “The … Continue reading →
Traditional Knowledge to Combat Desertificatio ...
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://lab.tkwb.org/atlas/data/chronology/TRADITIONAL%20KNOWLEDGE%20FOR%20A%20NEW%20TECHNOLOGICAL%20PARADIGM/photographical%20inventory.htm INVENTORY OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION T R A D I T I O N A L – K N O W L E D G E ...
Desertification in Zimbabwe (Google / The Hera ...
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.herald.co.zw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28163:zim-on-the-brink-of-desertification&catid=38:local-news&Itemid=131 Zim on the brink of desertification Herald Reporters ZIMBABWE is on the brink of desertific ...

The Paper Trail

K Street, Wall Street line up behind Sen. Scot ...
Sen. Scott Brown’s campaign and his political action committee are hustling for millions of dollars from K Street lobbyists and Wall Street interests to keep the Massachusetts seat of iconic Democrat Edward M. Kennedy in Republican hands. Whether the freshman senator can win re-election in the p ...
FEC deadlocks on Super PAC ad coordination wit ...
The Federal Election Commission deadlocked 3-3 Thursday on whether wheel-heeled Super PACs like American Crossroads can coordinate advertising with candidates.
Is Michael Jackson's doctor disqualified from ...
The Obama Administration is disputing claims by two Republican senators that Michael Jackson’s physician mistakenly remained eligible to bill Medicare long after being convicted for his role in the singer’s 2009 death. But the lawmakers aren’t backing down.Sens.
ANALYSIS: Are insurers influencing health refo ...
The Obama Administration will be making some important decisions over the coming weeks that will determine to a large extent whether consumers or health insurers will be the biggest beneficiaries of health care reform.When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act last year, it included a controve ...
New scrutiny of worker safety excludes some ch ...
Worries about fires, explosions and chemical releases prompted the federal agency in charge of workplace safety on Wednesday to expand a special inspection program focusing on the nation’s chemical plants.

backofthebook.ca

G20: The morons who came in from the cold
By Alison@Creekside The JIG is up. An RCMP "joint intelligence group" -- comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police -- infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call "one of the largest domestic intelligence o ...
Death in Vancouver, bluster on Twitter
By Frank Moher A young woman died of a drug overdose in Vancouver yesterday. Her name was Ashley. She became one of the approximately 120 people who will die of drug overdoses in Vancouver this year. She happened to be at the Occupy Vancouver encampment when she died. Or perhaps it wasn ...
Three simple words that can save a life
By Montreal Simon About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash. All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the body ...
Minister Oliver goes oil drumming
By Alison@Creekside While in Washington oildrumming up K-XL support with US senators on tuesday, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plumped for the Keystone XL pipeline in his keynote address to the 4th Annual United States Energy Association (USEA) Energy Supply Forum. Here is the qu ...
Letter to Steve Jobs
by Eric Pettifor Dear Mr. Jobs: I write to you on the occasion of your death to congratulate you on making a difference. As more of a technology visionary and businessman than a true geek (that was your erstwhile partner Steve Wozniak, or "Woz"), you may not recall that this was ...

libcom

The Atlanta Solidarity Network Continues Winni ...
ASOL keeps up it's perfect record with another victory! A few weeks ago, ASOL received a phone call from “N.” - a part-time employee of Key Lime Pie Hair Salon. She expressed, over the voicemail, that she had heard of ASOL from a ...
N30 strike: live updates
n30strike[1].jpg Updates and accounts of the massive November 30 strike against cuts, particularly of public sector pensions. Please post your news and accounts of your day below. ...
Italy: austerity is violence on the bodies of ...
occupypatriarchycollage.jpg In Rome, activist women responded to the #occupypatriarchy call ut initiated by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The group, composed of students, precarious workers and mig ...
Italy NO TAV: more protests planned for December
donne-no-tav2-300x199.jpg More initiatives and protests being planned by the Italian NO TAV movement against a high speed rail line being built in the Susa Valley (Piedmont). On ...
Wage theft victory in South London
hartley.jpg A pub worker and South London SF have together won 6 weeks in stolen wages after a campaign of direct action and threatening pickets of a London pub. Laura was employed by ‘The Hartley’ pu ...

Free Range International

EFP’s
During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home. The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines. EFP’s were a big prob ...
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
Much has transpired since my visit to Zaranj last month. I learned just this morning that the Surge apparently did not work and we are now, according to our esteemed Secretary of State, switching tactics too. The new counterinsurgency tactic will be “Fight, Talk, Build” and if you ...
Sanctuary Denied?
Last week I received and heads up from Mullah John that General Allen and Ambassador Crocker were on 60 Minutes and was able to watch the show on AFN. The one thing I noticed when watching General Allen was the emotion clearly evident as he discussed the truck bomb has had asked the Pakistani m ...
Free Ranging Balochistan
I’m back in my compound after attending a bunch of ceremonies in Zaranj marking the end of our efforts in Nimroz Province. When we flew in last week the skies were dark and it rained that night. The next morning was clear as a bell making for excellent photography and perfect weather for ...
Diplomacy 101
I am in the middle of an interesting few days as we finish up our projects, some of the larger ones with official ceremonies. Those of you who follow Michael Yon on facebook know where I am and what we have been up to. What is interesting to watch is Michael, myself and our friend [...]

The Story Behind the Story

Freedman’s 1954 Letter to Fellow “ ...
This lengthy letter, written back in 1954, is absolutely vital in understanding the “Big Lie” – and uncovering the “Synagogue of Satan” – the “Hidden Hand” controlling world events today. Facts are indeed FACTS – and The Truth Shall Set Us ...
The ACLU Get One Right
Every so often, even the ACLU lines up correctly. This is one such instance: http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senators-demand-military-lock-american-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being/ Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being R ...
“Newt” Gingrich Surges in New Hamp ...
Americans seem to either have a very short memory, or they are being hypnotized. Over the weekend, key “polls” reported Newt Gingrich actually leading the GOP field for the 2012 Presidential nomination. Perhaps “Illuminati Appointment” is more appropriate. Never mind tha ...
Dr. Sowell Comments on OWS — SHORT AND S ...
Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public ...
Pedophilia a Doctrine of the Kaballah and the ...
Thanks to studying a number of obscure books on the Kaballah and the Talmud, I can say with 100% assurance that pedophilia and child sexual abuse is most definitely a mainstay of certain Khazarian Rabbis and Talmudists in America and Israel. This, along with RITUAL MURDER is their deep, dark se ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Life in a carbon neutral world…
There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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Green Spring Cleaning!
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Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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Getting real about energy production & reduction
Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.
Rt. Hon. John Turner (Former PM and Liberal Le ...
Canada's 17th Prime Minister and former leader of the Liberal Party joins Peter to talk about his legacy and the challenges facing his party today.
Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.

Scotts Contracting

Recycling is not just for Cans
Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property. The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...
Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety-
Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety Guest Post by: Ms Sally Davison When it comes to sustainable home construction and renovation, fire safety should also be a concern. Preventing fires is a green practice in itself, because fires present a serious threat to the environment in terms of e ...
CSP-design with Heat Recovery Unit for added E ...
UPDATE: Concentrated Solar Power Design with Added Heat Recovery Unit Seeking Assistance to bring this design to market. Please use Contact Form Below and Scotty, Scotts Contracting will reply to your message ASAP. Updated Concentrated Solar Power Photovoltaic Design with Added Automatic Heat ...
Repair It-Don’t Replace It-Concrete Steps
Repairing Concrete Steps instead of Replacing-Job Notes, Suggestions, and Hints. Whether it is downturn of economy or people choosing to save money, many of my clients are choosing to “Repair rather than Replace” the materials used in the construction of their home or business. If yo ...
Poll-How can I help you Save Money on your Win ...
POll-How can I help you Save Money on your Winter-Time Heating Bills? [contact-form] [/contact-form] Related articles Reduce your heating bill this winter (moneysaversdirect.com) CAD Detail Heat and Cold Loss-2×4 Wall (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Fall Weatherization Services Offer (scottsco ...

The View From Abroad

Washington Should Follow Laissez-Faire
If I didn't know better I'd swear Washington is out to destroy Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the ...
NATO's invasion of Libya was about corporatism, not the safety of the Libyan people.
Why Was al-Awlaki Denied His Constitutional Ri ...
Everyone understands that Anwar al-Awlaki was denied his constitutional rights as an American citizen. The question is, why?
A Return to the Gold Standard is a Must
The gold standard is not only constitutional, it is necessary to cure what's ailing our economy.
Revisionism is Alive and Well
In the final analysis, Ronald Reagan was a big government liberal.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Is the Success of Israel's Attack on Osirak a ...
Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's Osirak reactor may have actually accelerated Iraq's nuclear-weapons program.
Chinese Tunnels: And We're Worried About Iran' ...
China's nuclear tunnels are exponentially more alarming than Iran's underground uranium enrichment facilities.
China and the End of the Monroe Doctrine
Is a superpower confrontation over the Falkland islands a real possibility?
The Great $500 Billion Nuclear Debate of 2011
A disagreement is ongoing about what exactly should and shouldn't be included in the nuclear-weapons budget.
Turkey Not Only Sanctions, But Threatens, Syria
Turkey and Syria are no longer BFFs.

Law.com

Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

Iran on the Warpath
BERLIN – While Europe remains preoccupied with its own slow-motion crisis, and other global powers continue to be mesmerized by the bizarre spectacle of European officials’ myriad efforts to rescue the euro (and thus the global financial system), clouds of war are massing over Iran once more. r ...
حمله به سفارت، با کدام انگیزه و کدام نتیجه؟
حمله به سفارت بریتانیا موجی از پیامدهای ناگوار برای ایران دارد. پیامدهایی که رهبران ایران پیشاپیش به آن‌ها واقف بودند. این حمله با چه انگیزه‌ای طراحی شد و چرا عواقب آن به جان خریده می‌شود؟ نظر تحلیلگران در این باره.
اعتراض بيش از 50 هزار کارگر وبيش از 30 شرکت مج ...
اصلاحيه پيشنهادی قانون کار با اعتراض کارگران گروه صنعتی ايران خودروروبرو شده است کارگران ايران خودرو طی نامه به وزارت کار اعتراض خودرو رانسيت به اين اصلاحيه اعلام کرده اند متن نامه کارگران گروه صنعتی ايران خودرو يه وزارت کار از کارگران مجموعه گروه صنعتی ايران خودروبه وزارات کار با سلام read more
Britain to expel all Iranian diplomats
Britain has ordered the immediate closure of Iran's embassy in London and closed its own embassy in Tehran after it was stormed by protesters. "The Iranian charge [d'affaires] in London is being informed now that we require the immediate closure of the Iranian embassy in London and that all Iran ...
Britain pulls embassy staff out of Iran: sources
(Reuters) - Britain has evacuated all its diplomatic staff from Iran, Western diplomatic sources told Reuters on Wednesday, a day after protesters stormed and ransacked its embassy and a residential compound. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

Paying the Piper
(This is the last of four posts debunking the myths we are told about the global economic crisis.) The Solution to the $100 Trillion Global Debt There seems to be broad agreement among both classical corporate economists and latter day non-corporate ones that the $100 trillion global debt is s ...
The Deadly Sin of Monetization
President Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 (this is the 3rd of four posts debunking the myths we are told about the global economic system) In New Zealand, the spotlight the Occupy movement has thrown on the global banking system has revived the monetization debate in a way that isn’t happening in ...
Guess Who’s Printing Money?
(This is the second of four posts debunking the myths we are told about the global economic crisis.) The government finances its $15 trillion debt by selling US Treasury Bonds. As of November 2011, China is no longer the largest holder of US Treasury Bonds. The US taxpayer (via the Federal Reser ...
Fairy Tale Economics
Unpacking the Lies About the Global Economic Crisis The only way I know to make sense of the global economic crisis is to assume, until proven otherwise, that everything Obama, Wall Street and the corporate media tell us is a lie. The economy Obama, US Treasury Secretary Tim G ...
What Defines Class Orientation?
(My 4th and last post about the ability of OWS to expand into the traditional working class) Why Do Some Kids Develop a Sense of Privilege? I have always found class orientation to center around the presence or absence of a sense of privilege. By privilege, I mean an inherent belief common to th ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

Convicted Felon Dennis Levine on the Only Way ...
In 1986 Dennis Levine, then a managing director at Drexel Burnham Lambert, pleaded guilty to insider trading. The federal investigation into his crimes later led to convictions of many others, including Ivan Boesky and Michael Milkin. In Ron Suskind's book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington ...
How the Librarians Beat Rupert Murdoch
From the introduction to Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore I'm lucky, I guess, that I even get to write these words you are reading. Not just because I get to live in the most wonderfulest country in the whole wide world, but because after 9/11, my former publisher, Regan Books (a divi ...
From 'The Revolutionary,' by Walter Russell Me ...
Link to original article in full ... The [Bush senior administration] official pointed out fatwas from Osama that cited the effects of sanctions on Iraqi children and the presence of U. S. troops as a sacrilege that justified his jihad. In a real sense, September 11 was part of the cost of ...
#OccupyAmerica
Anchorage, AK (VIDEO) | Birmingham, AL (VIDEO) | Phoenix, AZ | Prescott, AZ (VIDEO) | Tucson, AZ | Berkeley, CA; Protesters target Bank of America | Camarillo, CA | Fresno, CA; 100 rally downtown (VIDEO) | Long Beach, CA | Los Angeles, CA; 10 arrested trying to cash over-sized check made out to ...
Top Wall Street Banker: 'Obama Mostly Wanted t ...
On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfe ...

Salon

The bailout that worked
U.S. automakers registered another very strong month in November -- the best showing for the industry in over two years. Chrysler reported whopping year-on-year sales growth of 45 percent; Ford, 13 percent; and GM, 7 percent. Unemployment in Michigan, not uncoincidentally, is now a full 2 points ...
Why liberals aid the 1 percent
Most people view Wall Street as less a geographical location than a kind of metaphor, like “the Beltway” and the “Rust Belt.” But it is an actual street, and the firms that surround it—and are spread across Manhattan—employ millions of fine, hardworking people.I make that point by way of pleadin ...
GOP message man “frightened to death&#82 ...
Pollster Frank Luntz, arguably the most important message maker in the conservative movement, says he is scared of the Occupy movement because protesters are "having an impact on what the American people think of 'capitalism,'" according to an account of a session he hosted at the Republican Go ...
“The Daily Show” ponders Egyptian ...
Less than a year after ousting dictator Hosni Mubarak at the dawn of the Arab Spring, Egyptians went to the voting booth this week to take their first steps toward a representative government. While the resulting elections certainly weren't perfect, the progress from an authoritarian regime to a ...
Amazon, the tax bully
WASHINGTON, DC-- Paul Misener, the vice president for global public policy at Amazon.com, appeared before members of Congress Wednesday to urge it to pass a proposed bill that would require online retailers — including Amazon itself — to collect state sales tax on the goods they sell through the ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Work together to fight bullying
Two bills aimed at fighting bullying in schools give Ontario’s minority Liberal government a chance to show it can work with the opposition on an important issue.
Toronto’s fire department needs to get fired up
Toronto fire services takes longer than departments in other cities to get to a fire. And they refused to talk about it until pressured.
Stop the blame game
The search for people to blame on the Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario is not the way forward.
Border deal needs scrutiny
The Beyond the Border deal Canada and the U.S. have worked out behind closed doors could have benefitted from more public input.
Back to the futurum
For Roman Catholics who never got the chance to flunk Latin class, the new Mass is gonna be a stretch.

Energy Collective

A Tale of Two Cleantech Companies: My Presenta ...
Today I presented "A Tale of Two Cleantech Companies: A case study of what leads to a successful exit or a stunning failure" at the IMPACT 2011 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic in Philadelphia, PA. I told the stories of Solyndra and CPower and how the failed and succeeded. Here are my sli ...
What Could COP 17 in Durban Achieve?
As delegates start negotiations in Durban, the major issues of the Kyoto Protocol and a “Roadmap to 2020” are dominating the news wires. The big picture story is very important, but in the meantime nations need to use this meeting to make real progress in a number of smaller but important areas.
How I Would Decide the Keystone XL Pipeline Issue
The following is a lengthy essay explaining why I would approve the Keystone pipeline despite finding myself on the side of those concerned over the negative environmental impact of tar sands development. I will debunk much of the misinformation going on in the pipeline debate and ultimately lay ...
Waste Management Uses Landfill Gas To Collect ...
Earth’s natural resources grow increasingly more limited every day, but humanity’s consumption guarantees an abundance of one unlikely “resource.” A typical American throws out about four pounds of trash per day, or more than 240 million tons every year. Most of that garbage winds up in landfill ...
Reducing Nuclear Operational & Capital Costs B ...
I received a link from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to a fascinating video about their recent efforts to develop CoSecTM, a new resin technology that is more effective at capturing cobalt-60. Most of the radiation doses that nuclear workers receive come from this single isotope.& ...

EU Times

Russia warns West over Iran tensions
Russia has warned Western countries over exacerbating tensions with Iran, stressing that such a move would be “fraught with severe consequences.” “We speak out categorically against cranking up a spiral of tension and confrontation on issues linked with Iran. We believe that this … i ...
Republican Jewish Coalition Bars Ron Paul From ...
On Wednesday, Dec. 7, the Republican Jewish Coalition will host a presidential-candidates forum featuring Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum. Not invited is the GOP candidate currently polling around third in New Hampshire and s ...
Belgians protest austerity measures
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Belgian capital, Brussels, in protest to austerity measures proposed by the country’s incoming government. On Friday, Belgians marched in central Brussels to voice their opposition to cuts the incoming government says are necessa ...
Obama Regime Warns All Americans
In one of the most stunning reversals of human rights in modern history the Federal Security Service (FSB) is reporting today that the Obama regime has issued a blunt warning to all American citizens that, in essence, states that any one of these once free people who dare to oppose their governm ...
Ron Paul calls Gingrich a ‘serial hypocrite’ i ...
As Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich rises through the poll, Texas Congressman Ron Paul is trying to take the competition down a notch with a campaign video that labels the former House speaker as a serious hypocrite. The Ron Paul campaign has released a two-and-a-half-minute clip co ...

Stonecipher News

Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
Natural Acne Remedies
There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

Zawahiri claims al Qaeda is holding US citizen ...
In addition to announcing the death of senior al Qaeda leader Atiyah And al Rahman today, Ayman al Zawahiri claimed that al Qaeda is holding Warren Weinstein, an American citizen and former USAID employee who was kidnapped in Lahore four months ago
Texas A&M Coach Mike Sherman Fired
Texas A&M has fired men’s football head coach after the Aggies ended the season with a .500 record (6-6)
GM, Chrysler, and Ford Carry Momentum with Str ...
Is the economy really that sour? Judging from sales of domestic makes, it isn’t. Each of the American Big Three—Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors—reported strong gains in November. Ford and Chrysler even reported sales to be close to their pre-economic meltdown levels for the first time in yea ...
U.S. and Europeans clash over Syria strategy a ...
On Monday, Susan Rice , the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters in New York that a U.N. report detailing atrocities by Syrian security forces underscored the need for the U.N. Security Council to take action to stop a campaign of repression that has left more than 4,000 dead, ...
Senator Al Franken Demands Carrier IQ Explain ...
Today U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) called on Carrier IQ to reveal exactly what the software records, whether it's being transmitted to Carrier IQ or any third party and if the data is protected against security threats. Because if it's not, the safety and privacy of American consumers is at r ...

Groklaw

SOPA on the ropes? Bipartisan alternative to ' ...
Here's the plan, according to a draft seen by Ars Technica: online piracy from overseas sites will be taken away from the Attorney General and moved out of the courts. Instead, power will be vested in the International Trade Commission ... The government won't bring cases, either; rightsholders ...
Google confirms no affiliation with Carrier IQ
While Verizon has claimed that Carrier IQ isn't installed on their devices, Apple, RIM, Nokia, Windows Mobile, and most Android devices do indeed show evidence of the tracking software. Do SlashGear readers own any of the aforementioned smartphone devices? Which ones? Have you found the Carrier ...
Munger Tolless Merger-Buster Joins DOJ Team
The Justice Department confirmed on Tuesday that it's hired Glenn Pomerantz, an experienced litigator, to bolster its trial team for its antitrust case against AT&T's $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA. Pomerantz (pictured), a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & ...
The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix - The ...
In 1956, AT&T had agreed to a U.S government consent decree that prevented the company from selling products not directly related to telephones and telecommunications, in return for its legal monopoly status in running the country's long-distance phone service. So Unix could not be sold as a ...
PC-friendly version of Android released
Android developers have released a version of 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich that is compatible with "x86" chips. That is, Android can run on chips by Intel and AMD, the ones found in most personal computers, from netbooks and laptops to desktop towers. 9to5Google spotted a message board posting about ...

WideShut

November 21, 2011, WideShut Webcast
Keelan discusses the arrest of Gaddafi's son, the Euro Crisis, Global Warming alarmism, Monsanto and more.
Flu Jab Secrecy: 11/07/2011 WideShut Webcast
This week: The secrecy surrounding the seasonal flu jab and its contents, and Miliband jumps on Occupy.
Israel Poised To Strike Iran
Despite no evidence that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, Israel is poised to launch an attack and the West is ready to go along with it.
Euro Crisis, China, Occupy: 10/31/2011 WideShu ...
Keelan discusses the EU crisis, China & the New World Order, the latest from Occupy and more.
Freed Libya Adopts Sharia Law, Gaddafi Loyalis ...
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Politics in the Zeros

Is $6 billion “mother water company” … under w ...
OC Register runs the numbers on the behemoth Metropolitan Water Company of Southern California and finds those danged unfunded pension liabilities (which do not have to appear on balance sheets now but will soon) may make a big difference in MWC’s supposed financial health.
Iowa cellulosic ethanol getting closer to comm ...
The POET biofuel facility in Emmetsburg, IO received 61,000 “bone-dry tons of corn cobs and high cut material” to convert into biofuel this harvest season. This is the left-overs from harvesting and processing corn and thus was not grown solely to create biofuel. Farmers now have e ...
Who is Ten Bears?
As Bob has so graciously invited me to post here… Please allow me to introduce myself: Logger, Hippie, Biker. VFW. Fourth Generation Oregon. Single Parent, Proud Grand-Parent, Master of Science, Gnostic. The High Desert is my Home, I’ll never be “Homeless”. What a long, strange trip it’s b ...
Making it in the Political Blogosphere. Book R ...
The World’s Top Political Bloggers Share the Secrets to Success, by Tanni Haas Tanni Haas interviews twenty top bloggers, and ranks their interviews by readership. HuffPo is first, followed by Political Wire, then FireDogLake. This ranking makes sense, even if I have a slight quibble with it. S ...
Fed gave banks billions in secret. Eurozone crisis
Secret Fed loans gave banks $13 billion undisclosed to Congress The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required emergency loans of a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

Further thoughts on Syria, Turkey, and democracy
This Monday, Nov. 28, I'll be speaking at a 2pm symposium in Washington DC on the topic "The Future of Syria: Political Turmoil and Prospects of Democracy". It is organized by SETA-DC, the Washington DC branch of the Ankara-based SETA (Foundation for Economic, Political and Social Research.) Als ...
Palestine 1948 at the University of Virginia
On Saturday, I was delighted to attend the first two sessions of a half-day conference held at the University of Virginia on the topic '1948 in Palestine.' The main speakers at those sessions were Susan Akram of Boston University Law School and Rochelle Davis of Georgetown University. Both tho ...
Making sense of Syria
I have so many questions swirling around my head about what's been happening in Syria. One is why the AK government in Turkey didn't take my great advice and play a leadership role in trying to broker a serious, negotiated transition to democracy in Syria, but instead has been giving ever strong ...
World history at warp speed
So the Arab world is not the only place where history has been speeding up a lot in recent months and years... (Whatever happened to Mr. Frank 'End of History' Fukuyama? We don't hear a lot from him these days, do we?) This week, the Mediterranean Basin has seen three very significant gathering ...
The Arab Spring at Nine Months
What a whirlwind nine months it's been for the Arab world. As I wrote at a much earlier point in this phenomenon called the 'Arab Spring', it is as if some tremor in the long-frozen tectonic plates of the region's political geography had suddenly burst through all those plates, freeing up waves ...

frogblog

General debate, December 2, 2011
A broken promise by National before a Governme ...
Here’s the National Party’s Minister of Conservation, in response to Green MP Kevin Hague’s question in Parliament a couple of months ago: Kevin Hague: Does the Minister agree with the resource consent commissioners when they said “it is abundantly clear that large scale mining is poised t ...
Fiddling in Durban: COP 17 and the minor issue ...
The NZ election is out of the way and we are all suddenly busy in Wellington setting ourselves up for the 50th Parliament. Asset sales, tax reform, benefits, superannuation, debt, the privacy of a public cup of tea – have riveted us for the past month or so – straight after the rugby. In the [...]
Spectacular Green success in the Māori electorates
One of the great 2011 electoral success stories for the Green Party has been in the Māori electorates. In all seven Māori electorates the Greens' share of the party vote has at least doubled and in two, Waiariki and Te Tai Hauāuru, has more than tripled.
Where the Greens are tops
Here is the list of booths where the Green Party came first. We won the Party Vote in at least 24 places around the country. I have excluded very small booths like Arthurs Pass (we won with 19 votes) and Okiwi (10 was enough for first place). In fact I’ve excluded any booth where under [...]

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...
America's Descent to Depravity
The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...
The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
Disintegrating Economic Recovery
The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

The Worst Drug Fraud in History? Do You Still ...
By Dr. Mercola Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has preliminarily agreed to a $3 billion settlement over the sales and marketing practices of several of its drugs, including the diabetes drug Avandia. This represents the largest federal drug-company settlement to date, surpassing the $2.3 billion p ...
This Vitamin D Supplement Mistake Raises Your ...
By Dr. Mercola Drisdol and Calcitriol are synthetic forms of vitamin D2; the form of vitamin D typically prescribed by doctors. But this is not the type produced by your body in response to sun or safe tanning bed exposure. A recent meta-analysis by the Cochrane Database looked at morta ...
I Use This When I Fly To Protect Myself From R ...
By Dr. Mercola Astaxanthin—one of about 700 different carotenoids—is now believed to be the most powerful antioxidant found in nature. In terms of supplements, it's definitely one of the most beneficial I've ever learned about. Astaxanthin is derived from the microalgae Haematoccous pluvia ...
49 Sudden Deaths, 213 Permanent Disabilities - ...
By Dr. Mercola During a Republican debate in Tampa, Florida, presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) alleged that campaign contributions from drug company Merck—the maker of Gardasil—played "a pivotal role in Rick Perry's 2007 executive order that mandated teenage girls ...
Take Heed - Nearly Every Processed Food You Ea ...
By Dr. Mercola In Europe genetically modified foods and ingredients have to be labeled. In the United States, they do not. But the truth is, if and when GM labeling is finally required in the United States, you're going to see changes to the majority of food labels in your supermarket, as ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

Brazilian gunmen brandish tribal hit list in w ...
Guarani leader Nísio Gomes was murdered by gunmen. © Survival © Survival Gunmen in Brazil are brazenly intimidating indigenous communities with a hit list of prominent leaders, following the high profile murder of Nísio Gomes last month. Reportedly employed by powerful landowners in Mato G ...
Crackdown fears peak in West Papua 50 years af ...
Pro-independence protesters march in t-shirts bearing the 'Morning Star' flag © West Papua Media/Survival Pro-independence Papuans are planning widespread rallies this Thursday to mark 50 years since they first raised their symbolic ‘Morning Star’ flag. A climate of fear surrounds ...
The world's original scientists' observations ...
The Innu of northeast Canada say climate change has affected wildlife © Dominick Tyler/Survival As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival calls for the ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples to be heeded in global decisions concerning climate change. Fro ...
Filipino tribe protest as billionaire agrees t ...
Palawan planting upland rice in the Philippines. © Dario Novellino Members of a Filipino tribe are protesting after the country’s second richest businessman agreed to enter a joint mining venture on the island of Palawan. The agreement signed between Lucio Tan’s MacroAsia Corporation and C ...
New uncontacted pictures validate Brazil’s Yan ...
New picture of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil © Hutukara/Survival Survival has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the biggest forested indigenous territory in the world. Survival International, ...

Montreal Gazette

Attawapiskat isn't helped by the blame game
Liberal leader Bob Rae worked up a righteous lather when he rose in the Commons this week to denounce the horrifically squalid living conditions on the Attawapiskat First Nations reserve as a disgrace to the country's reputation. And, of course, as being entirely the fault of the Harper government.
From Legault, stale air with gusts of common sense
François Legault and his Coalition Avenir Québec advertise themselves as a fresh wind blowing through the cobwebbed halls of Quebec politics.
Change begins with small steps
Those who know me would not call me an activist. Prior to living in Montreal, I had never participated in a street protest. In southern Alberta, where I come from, voting by ballot rarely results in a change in government; so why would voting with your feet, or participating in a street demonstr ...
A lot rides on schools teaching our children t ...
Three years ago, Quebec youngsters scored at or near the top in mathematics, reading and science in a first-ever cross-country test of more than 30,000 Grade 8 students.
SQ expansion comes at a price for Montrealers
Montrealers will learn on Wednesday, when Montreal's budget is unveiled, how much more they will be paying in municipal taxes next year.

Food World Order

12/1 binge & purge: probe, trap, addict
nestle 'sure' child labour occurs in supply chain, allows probe* major organic seed company owned by pro-gmo group* food production must cut fossil-fuel dependence, fao says* 'energy smart' agriculture needed to escape fossil fuel trap* family says in-flight meal killed flier* con ...
food banks face peanut butter shortage for the ...
as peanut prices soar, supply goes down from time: Peanut butter may be too expensive for impoverished families this Christmas. Happy holidays, America! The miracle staple that saves the starving and goes ever so well with jelly is in short supply. A spell of hot weather in Texas and Geo ...
new united nation reports says 'food strains p ...
70% more food needed to feed the world by 2050* from upi: Land degradation and shortages of farmland and water resources means feeding the global population by 2050 is daunting, a U.N. report concludes. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, in a new report, said agricultural produc ...
citing medical neglect, state grabs 200lb ohio ...
out of frying pan, into foster system fire from sandusky register: An Ohio third-grader who weighs more than 200 pounds has been taken from his family and placed into foster care after county social workers said his mother wasn't doing enough to control his weight. The Plain Dealer reports tha ...
dna barcoding catches food fraudsters, identif ...
from ctv: Scientists have discovered a range of new uses for a Canadian technology that can be used to peer into 30,000-year-old permafrost, detect phoney herbal medicines and catch invasive species before they sneak across borders. Researchers from around the world are fingerprinting most of th ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

Have You Heard About The 16 Trillion Dollar Ba ...
What you are about to read should absolutely astound you. During the last financial crisis, the Federal Reserve secretly conducted the biggest bailout in the history of the world, and the Fed fought in court for several years to keep it a secret. Do you remember the TARP bailou ...
What Have The Central Banks Of The World Done Now?
The central banks of the world are acting as if it is 2008 all over again. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the central bankers are pulling out all the stops. The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the ...
Tens Of Millions Of American Families Are Livi ...
Have you ever been so poor that you had to live in your car? Have you ever been so low on funds that the only place you could afford to live was a rat-infested motel? Have you ever spent a night living in a tent city or sleeping in the streets? If not, you should [...]
22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collap ...
Will 2012 be the year that we see an economic collapse in Europe? Before you dismiss the title of this article as "alarmist", read the facts listed in the rest of this article first. Over the past several months, there has been an astonishing loss of confidence in the European ...
Black Friday Violence Worse Than Ever As Ameri ...
We all knew that this was coming, didn't we? Each year Black Friday violence just seems to get worse and worse. What does it say about American consumers when they are willing to fight like crazed animals just to save a few bucks on cheap plastic crap made in China? Not that r ...

CASSE

A Mindful Path to a Steady State Economy
Rick Heller explains how to substitute mindfulness for greed in the transition to a new economy.
Ten Turkeys for Thanksgiving
Brent Blackwelder urges you to carve up a Golden Fleece Turkey or two.
Wealth, Illth, and Net Welfare
Good and bads, wealth and illth -- economic growth produces them all. But how big are the bads and how damaging is the illth?
Presenting the Economic Policy of the Occupy M ...
Occupiers need to unite around a macroeconomic goal -- and the right goal is a steady state economy.
The Tyranny of Comfort
America is about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not the pursuit of comfort.

The Talking Clock

The unlawful killing of Princess Diana: Did 'H ...
As the better read amongst you know, an inquest jury - on hearing months of evidence into the circumstances surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - ruled that our Princess was the victim of 'unlawful killing'. While those unidentified culprits in and on 'pursuing vehicles' still e ...
The Luhnatics are running the village
Within forty-eight hours of learning that Chris Huhne and his part-time pals of the socialist Conservative Party are giving away £1billion of our money to "help Africa fight climate change" (rebranded from 'man made global warming' after a lack of warming and some sexed up science dossiers)... ...
When MSM hit-pieces backfire: Hundreds descend ...
Oh dear. The Daily Mail really has become the Daily Fail. While we quite often like reading some of their articles, when they get things wrong and misjudge their audience... it's shit and fan time. And so it was that, on the day the Daily Mail took it's cue from The Sun and attempted to ge ...
Thatcher and the sick minds of 'the left'
In a curious twist of fate today, the Daily Mail reveals that there are plans for a state funeral honour for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - news that comes on the same day as plainly wrong rumours of her passing have circulated. The rumours, which achieved some traction on some soc ...
Watch out, that darn "racist" Christmas is about
Good grief. What kind of people do we have living in this country, when something as simple and as beautiful as this... is subjected to a debate about 'racism' on YouTube: Seriously, I kid you not. Head over to YouTube and look through the comments yourself. A touching Christmas advert f ...

Facing South

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The story of a Deep South labor town and the s ...
A Mississippi town where poultry-plant workers recently voted to unionize was the site of an earlier labor struggle involving an unlikely hero. A Mississippi town where poultry-pla ...
INSTITUTE INDEX: The political assault on repr ...
At the same time Planned Parenthood faces a sweeping probe by House Republicans, states have passed an unprecedented number of laws seeking to restrict women's access to legal abortions. ...
Injured war contractors sue over health care, ...
The $2 billion suit claims that private contractors including Houston-based KBR and their insurers routinely lied, cheated and threatened injured workers while ignoring a federal law requiring their c ...
Black Belt Power: African-Americans come back ...
After a decades-long exodus from the South, Census data shows African-Americans are returning to the region. What does it mean for the future of Southern politics? After a decades-lo ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Flerovium and livermorium may join periodic table
The heaviest confirmed elements in the periodic table, 114 and 116, may be named for the institutions that forged them
Today on New Scientist: 1 December 2011
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: chill out with the world's coldest insect and Durban summit must accept degrees of responsibility
Teeny lizards reveal how vertebrates grow
A glimpse inside a lizard egg reveals an anole in the making in these macroscopic photos
Today on New Scientist: 30 November 2011
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: muscle-based gene therapy beats HIV and online sex advertising crackdown could endanger women
Today on New Scientist: 29 November 2011
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: gesturing ravens and spitting on iPhones

Tech Drive In

SwipePad: A Must Have App for Every Android Device
SwipePad is a simple application that lets you launch any app with a single swipe action from within any other app. Upon being recommended by a friend of mine, SwipePad was one of those applications I installed immediately after receiving my first Android phone. Since then, SwipePad has become ...
"Android Started Before iPhone": How True is That?
How much Apple's founder Steve Jobs hated Android is evident from his last conversations with his biographer, Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs claimed that Android was a rip-off of Apple's iOS and that he will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong, to destroy And ...
20 Most Highly Rated Applications to Install f ...
Many long-term Ubuntu users(including me) overlook at the fact that, there are plenty of good quality applications available free of cost in Ubuntu Software Center already. If you look at our reviews of applications here, a good number of them require adding and updating third party repositori ...
3 Interesting Ubuntu Unity Mobile Mockups
User created ideas and concepts have always been an hallmark of popular Linux based distors like Ubuntu. We have featured such awesome works by loyal users, ranging from awe inspiring Ubuntu Unity mockups to professional looking LibreOffice mockups. Shuttleworth, ...
5 Things I Would Like to See Improved in Ubunt ...
Ubuntu Software Center had a complete makeover recently. But I have to admit, even with all those changes, it still feels unfinished. In our earlier Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot review, we did shared our concern with the unfinished nature of Ubuntu Software Center and had promised a more elabor ...

Case About Bird Flu

“THE FOURTH EMPIRE” – DOWNLO ...
“Europe is at economic war, and Germany is winning,” Anatole Kaletsky wrote in The Times last week. When most people think of war, they think of soldiers, weapons and equipment. But finance is also a method of conquering nations. Ordinary people in the USA, UK andEurope are now being impoverish ...
“THE FOURTH EMPIRE”: POLITICAL THR ...
Stay tuned to this blog for „The Fourth Empire“, a contemporary political thriller which will be available from next week. Set in Switzerland, it describes a meeting of the global elite who are planning to set up a new world order, This thriller drops the reader straight into a meeting of the el ...
GERMAN LAWMAKERS WARN OF WAR IN EUROZONE IF EU ...
*CAMERON AND MERKEL AGREE TO EU POWER GRAB OVER NATIONAL BUDGETS AS PART OF “STABILITY UNION” *NO MORE TAXATION WITH REPRESENTATION PLANNED FOR THE EUROZONE *BANKER TECHNOCRATS TO REPLACE ELECTED GOVERNMENTS *GERMAN LAWMAKERS WARN OF WAR IF CENTRALISATION OF POWER IN THE EUROZONE CO ...
GREEK REFERENDUM GIVES HOPE TO EUROZONE
The decision by the Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou to call a national referendum on the country’s next EU bail-out package has won praise across the eurozone, fanning the flames for freedom even in the dark depths of oppressed Germany. German SPD chief Frank-Walter Steinmeier called it ...
IS THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT GENUINE?
* WHY I WILL NOT BE JOINING THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT * MY EXPERIENCES DURING THE SWINE FLU VACCINATION CAMPAIGN AND WHY THEY ACT AS A WARNING ABOUT THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT *POTENTIAL TRAPS OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT FACEBOOK SITES HAVE BEEN LITTLE DISCUSSED * FOCUS ON SOUND MONEY AND RE-ADOPT ...

Invisible Opportunity

A Burning Man Snake Fest, at the Boy Scout Jam ...
By Les Visible Today we find ourselves on the Gotterdammerung of a very shaky ladder. It’s a dark brew, an insidious stew and the Witch(es) of Endor is/are in attendance. Burn baby, burn. You can expect fire, because when the aggregate of human desire, in a time of material darkness, reach ...
Eurozone debt crisis worsens as financial worl ...
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Allow me to begin this article with a single paragraph published yesterday on Yahoo Finance: “The world is watching Europe, waiting upon a solution. It’s not just the euro that’s at stake. If the euro fails, so too does the 27-nati ...
Is there a Penn State Climategate scandal?
By Ed Farnan Football at Penn State is a huge moneymaker, any threat to it, no matter how horrendous, would be swept under the rug, so it seems. From the President on down, a sort of pass the buck attitude hid the abuse that occurred under their watch. Abuse that if made public, would cripple [...]
A Transmission from the Kingdom of the Meat Pu ...
By Les Visible Well, the assault bots are at it again, they even came in white contamination suits, pre-contaminated with a resident, violence virus that managed to get out, so I guess the suits don’t work or, maybe it’s a one way deal. I’m thinking it’s a one way deal, l ...
US Ambassador: US was merciful to Pollard by n ...

Veterans Today

Book Review of My Life, My Hell This Grunt&#82 ...
Combat post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect anyone. Just ask Dan R. Vaughn, Jr., a Vietnam veteran and combat survivor.
Funders Behind NYPD’s Mysterious Private ‘Coun ...
The rent- a-cop industry is doing well! Five foundations gave a total of $112,000 to the NYPD Counter-Terrorism Foundation. By Eli Clifton and Ali Gharib / Think Progress
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
Raytheon Network Centric Systems, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded a $67,407,373 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-5202) for design agent and engineering support services in support of the Cooperative Engagement Capabilities (CEC) Program.
U.S. Expanding Drone Bases To Assassinate Suspects
Forecasting a future of robotic warfare in which perverted science is put at the service of its Empire, the U.S. has built 60 bases around the world for its unmanned, remotely controlled killer drone warplanes. And more bases are under construction.
The Senate And The Afghanistan War
The Senate just voted against the Afghanistan war. Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly.

electric politics

Seeking Economic Truth
John Maynard Keynes understood that economics describes human beings, a fact that modern mainstream economics — the applied theory of "rational expectations" — effectively assumes away. Keynes' biographer, Lord Robert Skidelsky, reminds us that our economic priorities should extend b ...
Accelerated Ideas
When a retired four star Admiral provides support for nuclear arms control and a few other commendable things, the proper interrogatory is "yes." Or "yes, Sir." A gentleman with a friendly disposition and a cautious but lightning fast mind, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (Ret.) reasonably assesses the ...
Codebreaker
In celebration of Veterans Day, here's a question: What if the U.S. had lost the battle of Midway? Mercifully, we'll never know. But the U.S. victory could not have happened without the codebreaking skill and the unflinching courage — a relentless determination to be heard — of Joe R ...
Made in America
Since elected officials don't seem so interested, around the country local groups are organizing to promote the reindustrialization of America. One of these is SFMade. Robin McRoskey Azevedo is on the board of SFMade and is also President and owner of the McRoskey Mattress Company of San Francis ...
The Illusion of Free Markets
Let's take the long view. We're unconsciously mired in unexamined 18th century beliefs that color our perceptions in unexpected — and exceedingly harmful — ways. Take one, for example: as Dr. Bernard Harcourt suggests, our notion of a "free market" is the direct intellectual descenda ...

PR News

Organizations turn to social for HIV/AIDS awar ...
WASHINGTON: Nonprofit and governmental organizations are winding up social media-heavy campaigns to promote HIV/AIDS awareness during the week of World AIDS Day.
Target engages fans with online magazine
MINNEAPOLIS: Target is leveraging its newly launched A Bullseye View online magazine to engage consumers throughout the holiday season.
Star Group hires Albertini as managing partner
PHILADELPHIA: The Star Group has selected Steve Albertini as the agency's managing partner of strategic initiatives.
Publicis acquires Poland's Ciszewski PR
PARIS: Publicis Groupe has acquired Polish agency Ciszewski Public Relations, which specializes in technology and financial communications, as well as consumer and sports marketing.
Cronin joins 'USA Today' as marketing VP
MCLEAN, VA: USA Today has hired Bill Cronin as VP of marketing.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

Leaving Afghanistan
Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
Raging at Rawalpindi
American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
Crazy Like a Fox
In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
Addicted to Contractors
The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Occupy the Climate: Global Day for Climate Action
Occupy Edmonton 3 Dec 2011 - 13:00 Right now the Canadian government is in Durban, South Africa trying to block any progress on an International response to the growing climate cris ...
Habitat focus needed for Alberta's caribou
Alberta Wilderness Association 25 Nov 2011 Parks Canada’s newly-announced Southern Mountain Caribou Conservation Strategy, including a captive breeding and reintroduction prog ...
Last chance for Canada's most endangered species?
Environmental groups petition Minister Kent for emergency sage-grouse protection Alberta Wilderness Association 24 Nov 2011 ...
Saving the Greater sage-grouse from extinction
Ecojustice Posted to the Ecojustice website on November 23: This morning, Ecojustice filed a petition to federal Environment Minister Peter Kent, calling on him to help protect the Greater sage-grouse, an endangered bird on th ...
Federal government must prevent extinction of ...
Ecojustice 23 Nov 2011 VANCOUVER — An international coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal environment minister to take Canada’s endangered Grea ...

Stop NATO

Stop NATO news: December 2, 2011
==== Russia: U.S.-NATO Missile Plans Upsets Global Balance Of Power Netherlands: NATO Trains European, Mideast, Asian, Caucasus Partners Pakistani Military Chief Gives Order To Retaliate Against NATO Attacks Chinese Diplomats Condemn NATO Attack, Offer Pakistan Condolences NATO’s Angels Of ...
Attila József: War stirs its withering alarms, ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Attila József March 1937 Translated by Edwin Morgan Soft rain is drifting like a smoke across the tender fuzz of wheat. As soon as the first stork appears winter shrivels in retreat. Spring comes, tunnelling a path mined with exploding ...
Judy Dyble and Jackie McAuley: People at war, ...
==== Musical selections Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts ==== Trader Horne (1970)
Stop NATO news: December 1, 2011
==== Pakistan: Nationwide Protests Against NATO Attack Continue Vietnam-Style Exit: Russia Could Deliver Death Blow To NATO 224 Iranian MPs Condemn NATO Attack On Pakistan NATO Reports Fresh Clash With Pakistani Military Pakistan: Tribal Elders, Civil Society Back Government Against NATO West&#8 ...
Rubén Darío: You think the future is wherever ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Rubén Darío To Roosevelt (1904) Translated by Lysander Kemp The voice that would reach you, Hunter, must speak in Biblical tones, or in the poetry of Walt Whitman. You are primitive and modern, simple and complex; you are one part Georg ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

Have You Heard About The 16 Trillion Dollar Ba ...
The Economic Collapse Blog December 2, 2011 What you are about to read should absolutely astound you. During the last financial crisis, the Federal Reserve secretly conducted the biggest bailout in the history of the world, and the Fed fought in court for several years to keep it a secret. Do y ...
Republican Jewish Coalition Bars Ron Paul From ...
Reason.com By Matt Welch December 2, 2011 On Wednesday, Dec. 7, the Republican Jewish Coalition will host a presidential-candidates forum featuring Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum. Not invited is the GOP candidate currently p ...
Special World Aids Day Radio Broadcast – ...
The Intel Hub November 1, 2011 Tonight at 8pm EST 5 pacific The Bob Tuskin Radio Show will be broadcasting a very special World Aids Day broadcast. This broadcast will cover the very important and touchy topic of what actually causes AIDS and how we can combat it! Listen to the broadcast here To ...
The Rockefeller World, Council on Foreign Rela ...
The Intel Hub By Andrew Gavin Marshall – Contributing Writer December 1, 2011 The following is a sneak peak from a chapter in Marshall’s upcoming book funded through The People’s Book Project. It is quite apparent in the history of America from the late 19th century and into the 20th centu ...
HIV Test Fraud Liberation Day
By Liam Scheff for the Robert Scott Bell Show and Natural News December 1, 2011 It may come as a shock to realize that if everyone in the world who was supposed to be HIV positive, suddenly no longer cared about this designation, and returned the diagnosis and red ribbon to the doctor or clinici ...

FRS

The Indian State’s Murder of Kishanji&#8 ...
Kishanji: not just another ‘martyr’ November 28, 2011 by Saroj Giri, Sanhati Kishanji is not just a fighter against oppression, a brave and courageous soul. He presided over something unique in the history of resistance movement in the country – and maybe he was not even so aware of it. Several ...
India: Mass Democratic and Revolutionary organ ...
JOINT PRESS RELEASE – DELHI / 30.11.2011 We strongly condemn the brutal and cold-blooded murder of Mallojula Koteshwara Rao alias Kishanji by the security forces in the Burisole forest area of West Bengal. Now it is very much clear from various sources that the Maoist leader Kishanji was ...
Indian Maoist Party: “Condemn the State ...
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) CENTRAL COMMITTEE Press Release: November 25, 2011 Condemn the brutal murder of Comrade Mallojula Koteswara Rao, the beloved leader of the oppressed masses, the leader of Indian revolution and CPI (Maoist) Politburo member! Observe protest week from November 2 ...
Saboteurs blow up Egypt gas pipeline to Jordan ...
[Since those who attacked the Egypt-Israel gas pipeline have not been identified, there is no way to determine what their objectives may be. But the attack clearly does have the effect of focusing the issue of Egypt's relations with Israel, and raises the questions: Rebuild the pipeline? Who ...
Indian Express: Kishenji’s Death not mou ...
Kishenji was ‘contact’ of Nepal Maoists By Yubaraj Ghimire Kishenji was apparently the main contact person with the Nepali Maoists, but the ruling Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (UCPN-M) has preferred not to publicly mourn his death. A senior Maoist leader, who did not wish to be named ...

Ken O'Keefe

Igniting & Uniting – Working with Occupy ...
Have just got off the phone with Occupy Movement representatives including OMC (Occupy Marines), we are officially working together. Have had contact with Anonymous recently and the same is true. I will work with any and all who are serious about showing the powers that be that their time is run ...
Dale Farm (a video poem) Read by the Heretic
As I look over Dale Farm today I see the inevitable world envisioned by the 1% A toxic, scarred, inhospitable landscape, a terrestrial hell suitable for Satan himself.
FOR THE RECORD – INTERNATIONAL NOTICE &# ...
WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with Allegiance, I have absolutely no Allegiance to the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with Residence, I maintain no Residence in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with paying taxes, I pay no ...
Slander vs. Sanity – Pathological Liars ...
UPDATE - For the idiots who bought the lies and slander of Catherine Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald), Saeb Shaath, Jez Cuthbert, Cath Jenkins, Allison Hubbard (aka Vera Lynn), Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja), Mary Rizzo, Mary Shepherd, Miri Wood, Jo Ann Westcott and court jes ...
Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters &#8 ...
Here it is, please share this film and support the more than 90 families facing eviction in any way you can. TJP, Ken Produced, Directed and Edited by Ken O’Keefe Contact for Dale Farm Residents Association dale.farm@btinternet.com T: +44 7888 699256 or +44 1206 523528 Contact for D ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

Police GPS Use Violates Fourth Amendment
The Supreme Court recently heard the case United States v. Antoine Jones, which will decide whether police can place GPS devices on a suspect's vehicle. In my opinion, this violates the Fourth Amendment.Contributor: Floyd Saunders Published: Nov 11, 2011
Walmart Black Friday Gives 3 Times to Save
Walmart has released their coveted 2011 Black Friday ad and as a surprise to many, Walmart is offering three times to save big. I'm going for the 12 a.m electronics sale!Contributor: Ruqaiyya Noor Published: Nov 11, 2011
11/11/11 Prompts Close of Egyptian Pyramid - i ...
The largest pyramid of Giza, known as the pyramid of Khufu, or Cheops, was closed for Friday 11/11/11 due to speculation about ritual ceremonies to occur there. What is the conspiracy behind the number 11?Contributor: Ruqaiyya Noor Published: Nov 11, 2011
10 Years of the iPod: A Personal Retrospective
Why I loved it and why I wish I still had it.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Nov 10, 2011
When 'Ethical,' 'Right' Conflict
An employee of Three Rivers Mental Health Solutions in Montana was fired when she reported alleged child pornography to employees, making 'right' and 'ethical' two completely different things.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Nov 09, 2011

Popsci - Science

Researchers Entangle Two Millimeter-Sized Diam ...
Quantum entanglement, the spooky action at a distance that promises to be so useful for things like high-powered computing and security, is generally considered a function of the tiny world. It’s easy — OK, not easy, but relatively practical nowadays — to take two particles or two microscopic th ...
Clear of Solar Pollution, Voyager Glimpses Sta ...
Another feat for the long-distance travelers Like city lights blinding the night sky, the sun blocks out a lot of the signals from our galactic neighborhood. Our star and its magnetic fields shield the planets from cosmic rays and the interstellar wind — by and large a good thing, but it’s some ...
Croatian Crazyscience Magazine Galaksija Shows ...
We recently came across a goldmine of retro covers from issues of Yugoslavian science magazine Galaksija. We grabbed the best from Flickr user Yugodrom, who's compiled an excellent collection of the covers from the seventies and eighties. Our Croatian is a little rusty, so we could only guess (w ...
Gallery: Galaksija Magazine's Balkan Futurism
Japanese Scientists Make A Crab Transparent
In the latest issue of Soft Matter, a team of biochemists from Kyoto University show off their latest creation: a crab shell that came from a normal crab, but which has been made as clear as glass. The hapless crustacean's chitinous exoskeleton was treated with hydrochloric acid, lye, and ethyl ...

Veterans Today

Book Review of My Life, My Hell This Grunt&#82 ...
Combat post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect anyone. Just ask Dan R. Vaughn, Jr., a Vietnam veteran and combat survivor.
Funders Behind NYPD’s Mysterious Private ‘Coun ...
The rent- a-cop industry is doing well! Five foundations gave a total of $112,000 to the NYPD Counter-Terrorism Foundation. By Eli Clifton and Ali Gharib / Think Progress
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
Raytheon Network Centric Systems, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded a $67,407,373 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-5202) for design agent and engineering support services in support of the Cooperative Engagement Capabilities (CEC) Program.
U.S. Expanding Drone Bases To Assassinate Suspects
Forecasting a future of robotic warfare in which perverted science is put at the service of its Empire, the U.S. has built 60 bases around the world for its unmanned, remotely controlled killer drone warplanes. And more bases are under construction.
The Senate And The Afghanistan War
The Senate just voted against the Afghanistan war. Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly.

War is Business

Federal Prosecutors Bust Defense Official For ...
New details in a corruption case involving a former civilian official at the U.S. Army Special Operations Command now sitting in federal prison.
A Reminder That The Post-9/11 Decade Wasn&#821 ...
Since 9/11, FLIR Systems' revenues have increased sixfold, to $1.4 billion last year. And consider FLIR’s profitability: from a $29 million loss in 2000 to a $56 million profit last year.
Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...
If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News

Hudson's Weather & Climate

A stormy end to November
The pattern of weather that is now establishing itself, dominated by westerly winds, is common across the UK in winter. Vigorous depressions are likely to develop in the coming days, and the strength of the wind is likely to catch the headlines. This weekend looks particularly stormy, with wi ...
End in sight to extraordinary November weather
It is turning out to be a remarkable November, with mean temperatures way above what would normally be expected at this time of the year. If temperatures were to remain at these elevated levels then it would become the mildest November ever recorded on the Central England Temperature (CET) mea ...
Is the solar sector facing collapse?
The recent proposal by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to halve the Feed in Tariff (FIT) available for solar installations registered after the middle of next month has sent shock waves through the industry. Already two energy giants, British Gas and EON, have stopped new ap ...
Satellite global temperatures fall sharply in ...
The latest global temperature anomaly for October has been released and according to the UAH measure it's fallen sharply to +0.114C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.367C above the 1961-1990 ...
Autumn warmth continues
November has started where October left off, with mild temperatures expected over the next few days as southerly winds continue. Provisional figures show October has been the 8th warmest since 1910 across the UK. The month will be remembered for the heat during the first weekend, when Yorkshi ...

Internat'l Political Economy

EU Freezing Over: UK Adopting Euro, Turks Joining
Even while commentators as mainstream as the FT's Wolfgang Munchau are already counting the days towards EU breakup and the Economist ponders its inevitability, we have some interesting countervailing forces at work. They're something to think about if you've tried totting up the trillions upon ...
Attn World: Eurozone Will End on 7 December
This assertion may brand Wolfgang Munchau a genius or a laughingstock for life on the level of Francis "End of History" Fukuyama or the Dow Jones 36,000 jokesters, but for what it's worth, the German commentator is definitely going all-in: I have yet to be convinced that the European Council is ...
Mitt Romney & the Republicans' Sinophobic Turn
Obama the candidate in 2008: What we need to do is to just be better bargainers and say, 'Look, here's the bottom line: You guys keep on manipulating your currency; we are going to start shutting off access to some of our markets,' Romney the candidate in 2011: We can't just sit back and let Ch ...
Marx Revisited: Overproduction & Inevitable Crises
I am teaching Marxist perspectives in International Political Economy class this week in the usual sequence of tackling it together with liberalism and mercantilism/realism. In other words, the three main perspectives in the discipline. Those with just a passing familiarity with Marxist theory p ...
All the Way to Reno: UK Gilts Outdo German Bunds
Humming...all the way to Reno You've dusted the non-believers And challenged the laws of chance Now, sweet--you're so sugar sweet You may as well have had 'kick me' Fastened on your sleeve Reno, Nevada of REM song fame is a popular gambling destination for Northern California residents alike so ...

Economic Collapse Blog

Have You Heard About The 16 Trillion Dollar Ba ...
What you are about to read should absolutely astound you. During the last financial crisis, the Federal Reserve secretly conducted the biggest bailout in the history of the world, and the Fed fought in court for several years to keep it a secret. Do you remember the TARP bailou ...
What Have The Central Banks Of The World Done Now?
The central banks of the world are acting as if it is 2008 all over again. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the central bankers are pulling out all the stops. The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the ...
Tens Of Millions Of American Families Are Livi ...
Have you ever been so poor that you had to live in your car? Have you ever been so low on funds that the only place you could afford to live was a rat-infested motel? Have you ever spent a night living in a tent city or sleeping in the streets? If not, you should [...]
22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collap ...
Will 2012 be the year that we see an economic collapse in Europe? Before you dismiss the title of this article as "alarmist", read the facts listed in the rest of this article first. Over the past several months, there has been an astonishing loss of confidence in the European ...
Black Friday Violence Worse Than Ever As Ameri ...
We all knew that this was coming, didn't we? Each year Black Friday violence just seems to get worse and worse. What does it say about American consumers when they are willing to fight like crazed animals just to save a few bucks on cheap plastic crap made in China? Not that r ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

Radical Online Magazine Launched: The Precarious
When we set out to launch the online magazine The Precarious, we saw so many of us ...
October 2011 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin online
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full p...
New Issue of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers ...
June last saw another massive Pride in Dublin with approximately 25,000 people taking part. While Pride has very much become more of a social an...
November issue of Freedom anarchist newspaper out
Freedom newspaper, the only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK, has recently changed to a monthly publication, giving us the opport...
Want to get your zine, pamphlet, or poster out ...
Welcome to Olympia SDS, we've been throwing down since 2006, played a pivotal role in Port Militarization Resistance, and occupied the offices o...

E U Times

Russia warns West over Iran tensions
Russia has warned Western countries over exacerbating tensions with Iran, stressing that such a move would be “fraught with severe consequences.” “We speak out categorically against cranking up a spiral of tension and confrontation on issues linked with Iran. We believe that this … i ...
Republican Jewish Coalition Bars Ron Paul From ...
On Wednesday, Dec. 7, the Republican Jewish Coalition will host a presidential-candidates forum featuring Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum. Not invited is the GOP candidate currently polling around third in New Hampshire and s ...
Belgians protest austerity measures
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Belgian capital, Brussels, in protest to austerity measures proposed by the country’s incoming government. On Friday, Belgians marched in central Brussels to voice their opposition to cuts the incoming government says are necessa ...
Obama Regime Warns All Americans
In one of the most stunning reversals of human rights in modern history the Federal Security Service (FSB) is reporting today that the Obama regime has issued a blunt warning to all American citizens that, in essence, states that any one of these once free people who dare to oppose their governm ...
Ron Paul calls Gingrich a ‘serial hypocrite’ i ...
As Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich rises through the poll, Texas Congressman Ron Paul is trying to take the competition down a notch with a campaign video that labels the former House speaker as a serious hypocrite. The Ron Paul campaign has released a two-and-a-half-minute clip co ...

Voiceless Victim

Translating Church-speak
The Catholic Church hierarchy used to be able to manipulate and hoodwink their local populace by speaking, writing, singing, praying and conducting business in Latin. A simple but very effective means to disempower a local populace, especially when coupled with the impossibility of any but the r ...
State Gives Church A Beginners Lesson In Morality
The recent revelations that football coaching staff and their supervisors at Penn State University have been up to the Catholic Church’s old tricks has devastated victims of Catholic Church enabled child rape as much as the community directly affected by the crimes and their repercussions. ...
Catholics Sit On Hands While Kids Are Raped Bu ...
Catholic spokespersons, including the repulsive child rape apologist Bill Donohue, have called Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon obscene for an off the cuff reference to the Paedophile Protector in Chief, Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Pope Benedict XVI. She called His Greediness a nazi. Determi ...
8 Simple Actions to Change Pope From Liar to L ...
The Catholic hierarchy, from Pope on down, are liars. They pretend, and regularly claim, to be “doing everything possible” to help victims of their widespread and systematic child rape and other abuses, to protect children and to bring offenders to justice. In reality they are doing ...
Pope responsible for crimes against humanity
Last week the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) lodged documents with the International Criminal Court in The Hague detailing the widespread and systematic campaign of sexual violence and exploitation of many, many thousands of children worldwide by the Catholic Church. I am on ...

WL Central

2011-11-30 #OccupyLA - Day 60: The Eviction
TweetOccupy Los Angeles was raided last night by the LAPD. By the time of the General Assembly at 7:30pm everyone knew that the promised eviction of the encampment around Los Angeles City Hall was coming that night.. Even during the GA and after city cops circulated among the occupiers and their ...
2011-11-26 #WikiLeaks News: WikiLeaks to enter ...
Tweet I believe that there are extreme "public interest" grounds, given that the case is entirely political. (…) This is a very important issue, not just for me personally because Julian is my son, but for the future of democracy. - Christine Assange This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a ...
Occupy Movement, Birth of the Ordinary Hero #OWS
TweetOccupy Wall Street (OWS) began in September and quickly spread, becoming a unifying force worldwide. This movement was initially ignored and ridiculed by the US corporate media. Yet as it grew, it became harder to ignore. Repeated police brutality against peaceful protesters has pulled the ...
2011-11-25 Help Stop the Eviction of Occupy Lo ...
TweetMayor Villaraigosa & Police Chief Charlie Beck announced today at a afternoon press conference that the LAPD would forcefully throw Occupy Los Angeles off of the park areas surrounding Los Angeles City Hall Monday, November 28th at 12:01am. This move is being made although there have be ...
2011-11-25 #WikiLeaks News: Cardin bill would ...
Tweet At the heart of the problem with the European arrest warrant is the inability or unwillingness of Europe's judges to prevent injustice. - Fair Trials International This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of informa ...

U N News

Latin American poverty levels fall to lowest i ...
Poverty rates in Latin America have dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years, according to a new United Nations report which highlights public spending levels as one of the key factors that has allowed the continent to continue to grow despite the global economic crisis.
Almost two years after earthquake, Haiti shows ...
Almost two years after the devastating earthquake that killed over 200,000 people, Haiti is showing remarkable signs of progress, a United Nations official said today, stressing that reconstruction efforts need to be put into context to assess their effectiveness.
UN, MTV and award-winning band launch campaign ...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) launched a joint campaign with MTV Latin America, the television network Tr3s and rock band Calle 13 to raise awareness about human trafficking and exploitation of youth in Hispanic communities.
UN rights chief hails Brazil's truth commissio ...
The United Nations human rights chief today hailed the creation of Brazil's truth commission as an important first step towards promoting healing and investigating the violations that took place during the political repression of 1946 to 1988.
Migiro praises Uruguay for joining UN campaign ...
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has commended Uruguay for joining the United Nations campaign that seeks to end violence against women by raising awareness and generating political will to implement measures to stem the scourge.

Conspiracy Reality TV

The Magic Weed
Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
Blood Coltan
Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

Save the Great Arctic Refuge Wilderness! Aroun ...
Today, the National Wilderness Preservation System has 757 Wilderness Area units totaling 109,512,959 acres. Each Wilderness Area has great worth, but some stand out. Among those, the Wilderness Area that to me is the Flagship of the National Wilderness Preservation System is the Arctic Nation ...
The Wolf is Back!
Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Shark”
(NOTE: Slowly, too slowly, as in glacially slowly—wait: glacially doesn’t work for slowly anymore, does it? Not with self-crafted curse of greenhouse gases, it doesn’t. Well, nonetheless, I have been working on a memoir called “Wildeor: My Wild Life” now and then, when I find a littl ...
Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Few Th ...
Lisa Hymas, senior editor at Grist, features an excellent series on human overpopulation. Look for her nicely done summary of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, “Stop the ‘man swarm,’ save the wild world” appearing in Grist’s “7 Billion” series. “A F ...
Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman “ ...
From an earlier “Campfire,” Rewilding the East: Early landscape architect and regional planner Benton MacKaye, who also was a founder of The Wilderness Society in 1935, called for a foot-trail along the highline of the Appalachians in the early 1920s. After reading an article by Aldo ...

Asia Sentinel

China's Mengniu Dairy Recovers
• (http://twitter.com/share) Three years after one of China’s worst food scandals, a major dairy company returns to Hong Kong
Indians, Indonesians Meet in the Art World
• (http://twitter.com/share) Jogja Biennale mixes art and religiosity
South Korea's Baby Mill
• (http://twitter.com/share) Despite a faltering birth rate, Korea still exports more adoptees than any other country
China In India's Missile Range
• (http://twitter.com/share) New Delhi risks upsetting Asia’s delicate weapons balance
Politically Sensitive Indonesian Trial Halts i ...
• (http://twitter.com/share) Democratic Party former treasurer Nazaruddin loudly objects to charges

We Know the Lies

A L E R T !... Feds Getting Ready to do ANTHRA ...
The biggest medical scandal in U.S. history… and it hasn’t even happened yet! The feds are getting ready to pump children and possibly babies full of the anthrax vaccine — despite the fact that this same vaccine has already been linked to nerve damage, autoimmune disorders and even DEA ...
Eugenics - Depopulation and Henry Kissinger
“Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.”... Dr. Henry Kissinger ~ Leuren Moret read more
Judge Napolitano... What If...
Judge Napalitano questions whether our constitution means anything anymore... A MUST SEE VIDEO read more
AGENDA 21... HUD Announces 2011 SUSTAINABLE CO ...
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced the recipients of the 2011 Sustainable Communities Grants, totaling nearly $96 million. Twenty-seven communities and organizations will receive Community Challenge grants and 29 regional areas wi ...
S.1867... Would They Really Do It?... If Order ...
S.1867 The end of Liberty Many of us have wondered if directed to; would our own military turn on us? It appears that this is the plan and has been all along, yet the question remains……would they actually do it if ordered to? ~ Marti Oakley read more

Tarpley

To Defend British Pensions, Impose a 1% City o ...
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV November 30, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
US-UK Financier Elite in Finance Collapse, War ...
Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars November 29, 2011 [download audio]
No Civil War in Syria, but a Killing Spree by ...
Webster G. Tarpley on the Kevin Barrett Show The Kevin Barrett Show November 28, 2011 [download audio]
The Anatomy of the NATO-CIA Destabilization of ...
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net November 27, 2011 This interview was taped on Thursday, November 21, 2011 [download video]
Tarpley Brings Greetings from Western Anti-NAT ...
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net November 24, 2011 This demonstration was held at the Hijaz Railway Station in Damascus on Sunday, November 20. It was also addressed by a Russian delegation, and by French blogger Marc George of Media Libre.

Modern Survivalism

China Will Not Hesitate WW-III To Protect Iran
Major General Zhang Zhaozhong from the Chinese National Defense University said China will not hesitate to protect Iran even if with a third World War, and that not hesitating to fight a third World War would be entirely for domestic political needs. The Chinese Communist Party Foreign Mi ...
New US Ground Water Map Reveals Severity
New maps of groundwater and soil moisture produced by NASA are currently showing unusually low groundwater storage levels in Texas. The map color blue shows wetter-than-normal ground water conditions and a yellow-to-red color spectrum shows drier-than-normal conditions. The latest groundwater ma ...
Surviving After Apocalypse
Guest post: by ‘Be informed’ Doomsday, Judgement Day, The Apocalypse by any name, probably means the same, the end of human civilization as we know it. You as a survivalist, a dedicated prepper, or just someone that made it through the devastation phase are now faced with the stark r ...
Things To Keep On You For Emergency
The most useful survival tool is the one that you have with you when you need to survive. This begs the question, what do you (should you) have with you? What is it that you carry on your person, or always have with you – no matter where you are, that would help you in [...]
7 Equipment Ideas For Home Without Power
Guest post: by Ted K. Long ago and far away, I lived without electricity for several years. Water quality was also questionable at times so I had to be aware of my treatment system at all times. Since this was many years ago, much has changed in way of equipment. Here are my ideas regarding [...]

Fast Company

YouTube's Radical Redesign Positions Google To ...
Goodbye cute cat videos, hello cash cow. If browsing YouTube for funny videos is part of your Friday (or Monday, or Tuesday, or ... you get the point) morning routine then you'll already have had a surprise: Gone is YouTube's old cluttered image, with ill-defined boxes of widgets that seemingly ...
As Job Dissatisfaction Heats Up, Don't Let You ...
If the surveys are correct, 2012 could go down in history as the year of corporate musical chairs. The results of recent studies conducted by Gallup, Mercer, and Right Management are alarming. Despite--or perhaps because of--the economic turmoil, discontent among workers remains high. Right Mana ...
Zynga Targets $1 Billion IPO, Groupon Investig ...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day."Androidland" Store Touches Down In Melbourne. Google, Austrialia telecom company Telstra, and handset makers have teamed up to create "Androidland," an Android-themed fun park in a section of the Telstra store in Melbourne. A ...
Why Girls Don't Want Careers In Tech
This week I was lucky enough collect an award at Red Magazine's Hot Women Awards 2011, which celebrates successful women in industry. What made the experience all the more rewarding was being able to spend some time with a group of women at the top of their fields. We even got to shake hands ...
Google, Nokia, Ericsson And Navigation's Next ...
Remember the last time you visited a new office building, airport, or university campus and were lost the moment you stepped away from the main doors? That's a problem that buildings like large hospitals try to fix with color-coded lines painted on the floor, complex signage systems, and other t ...

Jadaliyya

How Are Seat Winners Determined in the Egyptia ...
The new system in Egypt’s 2011 elections may seem overwhelming to those trying to figure out how the winners will be calculated. The introduction of the list system and calculations using the ‘highest remainder’ method has been a cause for confusion. Also, in the individual system, voter ...
مقاضاة أنصار المقاطعة
في البدء، أوجّه تحيّة عرفان وتقدير إلى سماح إدريس ومركز 'عائدون' وجميع القوى اللبنانيّة المناهضة للتطبيع والمؤيّدة لمقاطعة إسرائيل. إنهم الوجه المشرق للبنان الذي يتبنّى سلاحَ المقاطعة كشكل رئيس من أشكال المقاومة المدنيّة السلميّة، لا تضامناً مع الشعب الفلسطينيّ فقط، بل أيضاً نضالاً ضدّ ا ...
Brotherhood's FJP Secures Forty Percent of the ...
Initial results for the first stage of parliamentary polling show the Muslim Brotherhood's FJP receiving forty percent of the vote, followed by Salafist parties and the liberal Egyptian Bloc. Leaders of Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) announced on Thursday that thei ...
BREAKING: Heavy Voter Turnout Postpones Egypt ...
[For unofficial preliminary results of the most recent round of elections, click here.] The SEC says it is still counting votes; will announce results for the first post Mubarak parliamentary elections one day late The Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) has announced that the results ...
Early Results Show Islamists Dominating Egypt' ...
After the promise of a new dawn rising in Egypt, the projected success of Islamists in parliamentary elections has given many pause for thought on how this will reflect on the country. The preliminary results from the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary have realised the rife speculati ...

mediagazer

Journalist On Being Sexual 'Prey' In Egypt (Mi ...
Michel Martin / NPR: Journalist On Being Sexual ‘Prey’ In Egypt … While covering protests in Cairo last week, Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy was detained by local security forces. She says she was beaten and sexually assaulted. She recalls her experien ...
Study: Mag Industry Hops On Action Code Trend, ...
TJ Raphael / Folio: Study: Mag Industry Hops On Action Code Trend, Engages Consumers — In total, 1,155 action codes were printed during Q3, according to a new study. — With the proliferation of smart phone technology, magazines have had a variety of options t ...
Battle in Seattle: 'Indie' West Seattle Blog v ...
Tom Grubisich / Street Fight: Battle in Seattle: ‘Indie’ West Seattle Blog vs. Corporate KOMO — Seattle is arguably the most hyperlocalized metro region in the country, with more than 100 community sites in and around city. But one community is the crucible f ...
Regional Mag Publisher Looks to Resuscitate Lo ...
Stefanie Botelho / Folio: Regional Mag Publisher Looks to Resuscitate Local Newspaper Business with Weekly Offering — Chapel Hill Magazine to debut The Weekly in February 2012. — Dan Shannon, publisher of North Carolina city titles Chapel Hill and Durham Maga ...
Ofcom reverses decision to revoke licence of I ...
Patrick Foster / Guardian: Ofcom reverses decision to revoke licence of Iran's Press TV — Foreign Office denies government intervened in decision to switch penalty to £100,000 fine as tensions rose with republic — Ofcom has reversed its decision to revo ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

Blooming in red! Jennifer Garner shows of ...
She may be pregnant with her third child, but Jennifer Garner's thoughts were today focussed on her first born offspring. The 39-year-old actress picked up a last minute gift for her daughter Violet, who turned six-years-old today. Jennifer strolled through Brentwood Country Mart, Los Angele ...
Signs of hope in Myanmar, Suu Kyi tells C ...
Aung San Suu Kyi voiced guarded hope Friday that democracy will come to Myanmar as the opposition leader warmly welcomed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the home that was her prison for years. In scenes unthinkable before Myanmar's recent reforms, Suu Kyi took Clinton by the arm and es ...
AC Milan's Massimiliano Allegri set for c ...
The Rossoneri coach insists that there have been no hitches in his negotiations with the club over a new deal and that he hopes to remain at the helm for another three years Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Genoa £45.00 Draw £34.00 Milan £18.30 Bet: & ...
Newfound 'red galaxies' may be missing li ...
Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): Four red galaxies, uncovered 13 billion light-years away from Earth may be the missing link in the evolution of our galaxy. It took the revealing power of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to discover not one, but four remarkably red galaxies. And while astronomers can ...
Samsung Galaxy Y to be unveiled this week
London, Dec 2 (ANI): Samsung's latest venture, Galaxy Y will be unveiled in the local market this week. The smartphone, which comes at an affordable price, is essentially meant for the young...

no frakking consensus

Inside the IPCC: the Climategate E-Mails
Newly released e-mails shed an unkind light on internal IPCC politics.
Pachauri’s Rhetoric vs Reality
The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has systematically misled us regarding the quality and kind of material his organization consults.
Pachauri Interviewed by Pretend Journalist
The UK's Guardian newspaper has published a fawning article about IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri. But the article is pure propaganda. It was written by the Natural Resources Defense Council - a green lobby group that fancies itself "the Earth's best defense."
Rajendra Pachauri – The Little Man Who T ...
Some IPCC personnel aren't chosen for their impressive track records. Not even close.
News & Reviews
At the end of 2011 Treehugger.com continues to portray IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri as a saint.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

12/01/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates' Views ...
2012election.procon.org - NEW: Read 10 Republican candidates' and Barack Obama's responses to the question - "Is the Tea Party movement good for America?"
12/01/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates' Views ...
2012election.procon.org - NEW: Read 10 Republican candidates' and Barack Obama's responses to the question - "Is the Occupy Wall Street movement good for America?"
12/01/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates' Views ...
2012election.procon.org - NEW: Read 10 Republican candidates' and Barack Obama's responses to the question - "Should an affair outside of marriage disqualify a candidate for public office?"
12/01/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates' Views ...
2012election.procon.org - NEW: Read 10 Republican candidates' and Barack Obama's responses to the question - "Should gay marriage be legal?"
12/01/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates' Views ...
2012election.procon.org - NEW: Read 10 Republican candidates' and Barack Obama's responses to the question - "Should the US continue to build a physical barrier, such as a fence, along the US-Mexico border?"

Truth About Our World

Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...
Max Keiser: Time to Get The Hell Out of the US
Hidden No Longer: Genocide in Canada, Past and ...
BOOK: http://hiddennolonger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/No-Longer-Hidden-1.pdf The stories, documentation and other evidence in this book are based in part on the living testimonies of nearly three hundred survivors of thirty eight separate Indian residential or hospitals across Canada. The ...

Gyrovague's Raves

The Generals Have No Clothes
Islamabad’s generals have been sponsoring the deaths of Americans for years, and yet Obama does nothing. Why? KAPIL KOMIREDDI Pakistan is indignant about the killing of 25 of its troops in a NATO air raid on Saturday. The circumstances that led to the assault are still unknown, but Washing ...
Alice
A new exhibition reminds us of Alice In Wonderland’s enduring influence on visual art. But its impact extends much further. Why do Lewis Carroll’s books still have such a hold on us? Richard Jenkyns Nyima 438 (2009) by the Swiss artist Annelies Štrba. This Alice in Wonderland-inspired painting w ...
America’s Superman
Nietzsche has appealed to Americans on the right and left for over a century. They have looked past his dark reputation to remake the German philosopher in their own image Adam Kirsch Many American politicians could find support for their ideas in Nietzsche. A Tea Party Republican might choose T ...
Nudge thyself
Economists have more to learn from the natural sciences if they are to claim a realistic model of human behaviour Stephen Cave You’ve come to a canteen for lunch: at one end of the counter, you see juicy fat burgers sizzling on a grill and, at the other end, healthy-looking salads. After a littl ...
Why Foxconn’s iPad Deal is Wrong for Brazil
Brasilia’s Unhealthy Obsession With High-End Technology Ronaldo Lemos On October 13, after months of erratic negotiations, Brasilia finally reached an agreement with Foxconn, the largest global manufacturer of electronic components, to build iPads in Brazil. Production is now set to begin ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

An African science base: what would it take fo ...
From Richard Kirby, Marine Institute Research Fellow, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth A couple of weeks ago, I chaired an inspirational panel discussion at the Royal Society involving an audience of the leaders of most of the African science academies and a panel comprising 6 early care ...
7 billion: can we count on it?
FROM ROBERT STIFF IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On 31st October 2011 the world population is projected to reach a landmark 7 billion people, according to UN estimates. A great deal of debate has surrounded the importance of this figure and what it means for the planet and its many inhabitants. Th ...
Research careers – opening the discussion
FROM LAURA DAWSON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Wednesday 26 October, the Royal Society’s President, Paul Nurse, and the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, hosted a roundtable discussion on research careers. The aim of the meeting was to start a discussion on the issues tha ...
UK – world leader. But can it last?
FROM LAURA DAWSON, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Hot on the heels of last week’s 2011 National SET statistics (our friends at the Campaign for Science and Engineering and RCUK have already offered their highlights), today sees the launch of the BIS commissioned report, ‘International Comparative Perform ...
Costs and Benefits of Open Data – Professor An ...
FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE During the latest evidence session for the Science as a Public Enterprise project, we had the opportunity to speak to some leading experts working on open data in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, and e-Research. Dr. Anthony Holloway, Dr. Sarah ...

NAU Resistance

Paving The Way For A North American Union
By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
U.S. Halts Inspection Of Buses And Trains Ente ...
“An organism which cannot control its borders — whether economic or physical – is not sovereign“ By: NAURESISTANCE A recent CTV News/The Associated Press article dated 28th October 2011, reports on a radical policy shift being implemented along the Canada-U.S. border. This announce ...
The Sovereignty Strategy To Regain Control Of ...
Essentially, we must engage in a strategy which will move our political process from a "Representative" to a Popular Democracy - a sovereignty strategy which will move power from the parties and the vested interests, to the people.
Canada Pursues U.S.-Style Security and Foreign ...
"While in the past Canada has exercised a more independent foreign policy, in many ways, it has now succumbed to the imperialistic aspirations of the U.S. and NATO"- Dana Gabriel
THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF SOVEREIGNTY
"An organism which cannot control its borders -- whether economic or physical -- is not sovereign"

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

Kim Bax gets a Supreme Court injunction
Kim Bax, webmaster of Women for Schapelle, is reporting that she has received a Supreme Court injunction, which threatens her with severe consequences if she mentions certain "serious allegations" about the Seven Network. These allegations are connected to the disclosures found at the Expendable ...
Son of Climategate
After two years, the climategate scandal has erupted once again, with a new tranche of embarrassing emails from the world's top climate researchers now spreading virally across the net. The release of these emails seems timed to overshadow the upcomng Durban conference in the same way the previo ...
The “communitarian” world view (fo ...
On tonight's show we take a look at a recent article by Naomi Klein titled "Capitalism vs. the Climate". In a key passage, Klein states the following: "Those with strong 'egalitarian' and 'communitarian' worldviews (marked by an inclination toward collective action and social justice, concern ...
Lizzy Phelan: “The war on Libya is a war ...
Back in the UK, after several months spent in Libya covering NATO war crimes and uncovering mainstream media lies, freelance journalist Lizzie Phelan continues to fight for truth and justice on behalf of the Libyan people. Her testimony below is a gripping example of her commitment. Lizzie ...
Interview with Joanne Nova
Tonight we welcome Joanne Nova to the show. Joanne is one of Australia's most articulate and outspoken climate sceptics. Her website is an international hub for informed discussion on questions of climate, carbon trading and the economy. Joanne's husband, Dr. David Evans, is a mathematician ...

Beacon

Another Gift Idea for the Oceans
In addition to our adorable ocean animal adoptions, here’s one more gift idea that is sure to please anyone on your list this holiday season. When you purchase the new Come Together Tee from Nautica (Modeled here by Cheyne Oglesby, guest blogger, ocean lover and surfer!), 100% of your purchas ...
Thursday Trivia: Sharksucker
Sharksuckers hitch a ride with a nurse shark. [Image via Wikimedia Commons.] Imagine a fish with a suction cup on the top of its head – that’s basically what a sharksucker, or remora, is. This fish isn’t a very strong swimmer, so to get around it hitches a ride with a shark, large fish, whale ...
‘Tis the Season to Adopt for the Oceans
It’s almost December, and that means it’s time to start thinking about holiday gifts. But don’t panic! No matter how long your list is, we’ve got you covered. At our adoption center, you can find gifts that will bring smiles to the faces of your friends and loved ones. Each adoption supports ...
Marine Monday: Stalked Jellyfish
A stalked jellyfish. [Image via Wikimedia Commons.] You’ve probably seen pictures of jellyfish floating gently through the water, but did you know that some jellyfish spend most of their lives in one spot? Stalked jellyfish, which are funnel shaped, with eight legs joined by membranes surrou ...
New Study: Climate Change Threatens Global Fis ...
As world leaders prepare for international climate change negotiations next week in Durban, South Africa, a new study out this week depicts the widespread threats that climate change presents for marine fisheries. The bottom line? Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are presenting very ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

The de Havilland DH 108 “Swallow”.
The de Havilland DH 108 was a British tailless swept wing experimental plane developed during World War II. John Carver Meadows Frost developed this prototype that looked remarkably like the German Me-163 Comet rocket powered interceptor. It had anti spin parachutes in the wings and leadi ...
Attila, According To History Books.
Attila, King of the Huns born in approximately 406 AD. Twenty-two years later a second barbarian king was born, Genseric, and he was the next charismatic leader of the Vandals. Both rose to power in their bands and both led tens of thousands to the gates of Rome and shook the Roman Empire ...
Korean War Political Cartoons
The Collins & Company Hartford Engineers Machete.
My Dad always had this machete that I kept after he died. We lived on the edge of the woods and believe it or not, kudzu would creep in and took over the yard. Dad actually needed a machete. He didn’t do any jungle fighting overseas. He did his jungle fighting in our backyard. [...]
NASA UFOs

Taylor Marsh

Dean Baker: ‘At this rate, it will take close ...
From Dean Baker, at CEPR, Center for Economic and Policy Research: Declining Labor Force Participation Leads to Sharp Drop in Unemployment The Labor Department reported a decline of 315,000 people in the labor market in October. This was the main factor driving a drop of 0.4 percentage points in ...
“Radical reform will originate only from ordin ...
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. In this Two Parties, Too Few Options series post, thoughts from a couple of people about where our political system is today, then another look at Americans Elect, which I’ve mentioned before. First, William Greider, ...
Apple’s Siri, Obama’s ‘Present,’ Mitt’s Flips
Petition to Apple: Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics in California? Apple: Stop promoting anti-choice extremists. If a user asks for family planning services, they should be directed to a group that offers full services, like Planned Parenthood–not to a hard-right clinic with an extre ...
Gandhi, Frank Luntz and Occupying
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I’ll get to Gandhi’s words in a bit, but first, the suggestions of Frank Luntz to the question: “How can Republicans do a better job of talking about Occupy Wall Street?” It’s worth a few minutes, in part, for enterta ...
The 2012 Free-for-all Begins
Pres. Obama’s approval ratings show he’s the most vulnerable incumbent president in modern times. But you’ll excuse me if I demur on any prospects of Republicans taking Pennsylvania, which never happens in presidential elections. However, a new element in the mix is finally flo ...

Hudson New York

Secular Syria's Opportunistic Use of Islam
While the UN Security Council has finally condemned "the widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the Syrian authorities," -- stressing that the only solution to the current crisis in Syria is through "an inclusive
Britain: Islam In, Christianity Out
A Christian worker in Britain has filed a lawsuit after losing her job when she exposed a campaign of systematic harassment by fundamentalist Muslims. In a landmark legal case, Nohad Halawi, a former employee at London's Heathrow Airport, is suing her
Lebanon: Hezbollah Digs In
Hezbollah is the Shiite outpost of Iran on the Mediterranean, largely supplied through Syria, Iran's ally, while training and on-the-ground-assistance is supplied by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC]. While parts of Lebanon –- a
Saudi Riot Police Kill Shiite Civilians
Since February, Saudi authorities have cracked down on protests in Qatif and Al-Ahsa in the oil-producing Eastern Province, in which protesters demanded an end of the long-lasting discrimination against Shia and the release of nine prisoners who have
Are We Tempting Tyrants?
Because the United States was strong, it has only rarely been attacked. Pearl Harbor was attacked only after US defense spending had been cut 70% for over a decade. North Korea invaded the Republic of Korea in 1950 only after Congress had refused to

Urban Survival

Never Bet Against the Fed
(Stephenville, TX) Every once in a while they actually do something – and it’s not the first time that I have had a good position – and prospects of making a dime, burned to ashes by a “surprise” Fed action. … Continue reading →
Coping: With American “Quiet” Oil Boom
(Stephenville, TX) We almost made in home to Palestine, TX last night, but after taking off from Tucson, AZ, landing in Las Cruces, NM for fuel and again in Big Spring, TX, it was getting too late to shoot an … Continue reading →
Passing Out (Economic) Stars
(Palm Springs, CA) Since we’re in a hurry to get out of town this morning I’m going to simply pass our “stars” which seems a way to quickly cover a lot of ground. For example, although I don’t agree with … Continue reading →
Halfway ‘Round America–Homeward
(Palm Springs, CA) Assuming we haven’t had rain accumulate in our fuel tanks, the tires haven’t lost air, the oil’s good, and all the other things that go into the checklist that makes up an aircraft pre-flight, Elaine and I … Continue reading →
The “Time Remaining Till War” Problem
(Tacoma, WA) As we make our way back to the ranch this week, it’s with sincere regret that we leave. Family, friends, and especially time spent with Clif who expects to have the next web bot run out by mid … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Links for 2011-12-01 [del.icio.us]
Bob Chapman - The FED started QE3 - The Power Hour - Nov 28, 2011 | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog Bob Chapman - The FED started QE3 - The Power Hour - Nov 28, 2011 | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog Bob Chapman - The FED started QE3 - The Power Hour - Nov 28, 201 ...
Bank Run , Bank Holiday & Economic Martial Law ...
Gerald Celente - Brian Sussman - KSFO morning... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
Fight the NWO with Global Non Compliance
Fight the New World Order with Global Non... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
Links for 2011-11-30 [del.icio.us]
Gold Prices Soar on Liquidity Boost | GOLD and SILVER MARKET Gold Prices Soar on Liquidity Boost | GOLD and SILVER MARKET Gold Prices Soar on Liquidity Boost Bob Chapman - The Financial Survival - 30 Nov 2011 | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog Bob Chapman - The Financial ...
Gerald Celente - The Lew Rockwell show - 29 No ...
Gerald Celente : I lost my positions I lost six... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

THE BILDERBERG GROUP
Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a small and select group of people that control the world. When you are first confronted with this prospect your initial thoughts may be to dismiss this claim as another one of those conspiracy theories; but if you probe further, you are likely ...
DEAD AND STILL DYING
I’m dying slowly. Each day I can feel my end slowly approaching, and I will never know when that end truly is. All I know is that there is one. One day the essence I call life will cease to exist, and even now it slowly fades away before my eyes. It is difficult to hide [...]
SEXUAL INCOMPATIBILITY – By: Femi Job
The topic being addressed is a very controversial topic for adults. I ask that you tell the kids to go to their rooms, and if you are a kid, you need to leave this page. Let us wait for about 2 minutes before we read on (to allow the kids to leave this page). While [...]
FLASH FICTION: ‘Dutiful Husband’ & ...
Elsie had been in a bad mood all week. Geoff had noticed, so he thought he would do the dutiful husband thing. On Friday he left work unusually early, and bought a huge bouquet of red roses. As he came out of the flower shop and crossed the road, he saw the man with [...]
WHY DO ROYAL FAMILIES EXIST?
What does a family need to do to become royal? I mean, aren’t they just an expensive welfare family? Let’s face it, I would be in a royal family too if the rest of society was paying for my upkeep. Don’t worry about it, ill buy a crown and put some jewels on it, ill [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

World AIDS day in Boston
The Massachusetts Aids Action Committee has a full listing ot World AIDS Day events. We'll be reporting from this one: AIDS @ 30 International Symposium 9am-3pm Location: Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115 To commemorate t ...
Is Kendall Square getting too hip? MIT adds t ...
Yet more new restaurants are likely to draw even more annoying posers with their jaunty scarves and Apple products. But, we still have the Soviet-style Volpe building. The Globe has a story on MIT's plans for Kendall Square, which describe MIT's backyard as "urban desert, with unused spaces and ...
NYTimes: Profile and video interview w/ Harvar ...
Carl Zimmer writes: As a young professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he pored over transcripts of children's speech, looking for telling patterns in the mistakes they made as they mastered verbs. Out of this research, he proposed that our brains contain two separate systems th ...
At UMass Amherst, skulls tell the tale of evol ...
UMass Amherst news office has a release on a study looking at bats skulls: "This study conducted during the International Year of the Bat offers a clear example of how the evolution of new traits, in this case a skull with a new shape, allowed animals to use new resources and eventually, to r ...
Can science help cooks evolve? Gastronomy gets ...
That great scientific debate - how to cook a turkey - came to Harvard last week in honor of Thanksgiving. Using math, not a cookbook, Harvard physicist David Weitz introduced the week's "Cooking and Science" lecture by explaining how to calculate the cooking time for a bird. But, guest speake ...

NRDC Switchboard

This Week in Whales: North Atlantic Right Whal ...
Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica News in the world of whales this week and from last week (or close to it). The endangered North Atlantic right whal ...
San Francisco Steps Up to Address Air Pollutio ...
Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco As San Francisco prepares for the America’s Cup 34 yacht races over the next few years, much criticism has been raised over environmental and community impacts of this massive event. With the ...
Will Southern California's SB 375 Plan Pivot t ...
Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco Clearly someone’s been paying attention. Southern California’s first Sustainable Communities Strategy under SB 375--officially released today by unanimous Regional Cou ...
NRDC in the News 12/1: Oil Sands Report, Ship ...
NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Susan Casey-Lefkowitz was quoted in a Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch piece about NRDC’s newly released “Pipeline and Tanker Trouble” report, which explains the dangers of using Al ...
Selling Electricity & Selling Efficiency: many ...
Dylan Sullivan, Energy Advocate, Chicago This post is co-authored by Dylan Sullivan and Mathias Bell of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and cross-posted on RMI's "Outlet" blog. The utilities in Ohio will tell you that they're nothing like the energy ...

Injustice Everywhere

National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 32 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, the first day of December, 2011: Southwest City MO cop was found guilty of manslaughter for shooting a man in the head from behind following a police chase, he claimed he opened fi ...
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, November 30, 2011: New York NY cop found to have acted recklessly in a police commission hearing over the fatal shooting of Sean Bell on his wedding day. Though the police commiss ...
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, November 29, 2011: Niagara Co NY deputies accused of excessive force on business owner who refused to show ID at false burglary call [1] bit.ly/s25SZj Michigan State trooper charged ...
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, November 28, 2011: San Jose CA police sergeant allegedly murdered his wife before fatally shooting himself in murder-suicide incident [0] bit.ly/vH31I1 Seymour IN cop accused of usin ...
Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 11-19 ...
Here are the 11(13) reports tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of November 26 to 27, 2011: Sarasota FL settles suit for $40k to man in videotaped excessive force case that led to officer & chief resigning [0] http://bit.ly/u26Fkc Fullerton CA police dept&#82 ...

Total Collapse

Turkey: War on Syria an option
Amid already deadly violence in Syria, Turkey has raised the prospect of military option in its southern neighbor, while Russia has called on ‘warmongering’ countries to show restraint over the matter. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Turkey’s Kanal 24 on Tuesday t ...
BREAKING NEWS: Iran embassy attacked in Swiss ...
Press TV reports: Iran’s embassy in the Swiss capital city of Bern has been targeted by incendiary devices in what seems to be an organized campaign against Iran’s diplomatic missions in Europe.
BREAKING NEWS: EU agrees co-ordinated withdraw ...
Iran may lose all posted EU ambassadors as European countries begin recalling their embassy staff from the country. According to French FM Alain Juppe, Europe will act in a response to the attacks on the British diplomatic missions in Tehran. Britain and France have already recalled their ambass ...
Obama Issues Ron Paul “Kill Order” As Russia P ...
The Federal Security Service (FSB) is reporting today that the “secret letter” sent to Prime Minister Putin by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda contains a warning that United States President Barack Obama has issued an executive-level “kill order” against US Congressman Ron Paul over fears ...
Twister hits Wales
The hardy souls who take a caravan holiday in North Wales at this time of year are well used to wet and windy weather. But even they weren’t prepared for the 80mph tornado that ripped through their holiday park, throwing one mobile home 50ft. Holidaymakers ran for shelter as the twister hit the ...

Daily Dose

Stay on top of your online purchases with Deli ...
If you are a compulsive online shopper, you probably get a lot of emails from eBay sellers and online stores informing you about the shipping status of your latest purchases....
Syrian authorities ban the use of iPhones
Syrian authorities have banned the use of iPhones in the country, restricting the use of the device by activists to document government violence, Lebanese website Al Nashara reports. Activists within...
This woman had an Effin nightmare setting her ...
Facebook works hard to ensure that its users are not exposed to questionable content or references to swearing on profiles, but a woman based in the village of Effin (not...
Apple gets one-week extension on Samsung table ...
Apple won a crucial victory in Australia today when a high court honoured its request to extend the recently overturned ban on sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in the...
Meet the record-setting bug with a 7-inch wingspan
I’m not really a bug guy, but this is one of those that would freak out just about anyone, whether they are or not. According to the article in The...

Beyond Zero Emissions

CSG Needs a Long, Hard Look
Matthew Wright, November 24: The contentious issue of coal seam gas has become a federal government concern in the dying days of the 2011 parliamentary sitting year. To gain the backing of independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor for the minerals resource rent tax, the Labor government ...
Trophies and Titles - BZE awarded for climate ...
The determination and enthusiasm of Beyond Zero Emissions and its members has been acknowledged with two prestigious awards over the last month. The honours build on BZE's momentum leading into 2012 with the anticipated launch of the visionary Zero Carbon Australia plans for the buildings and tr ...
WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a false ...
Media Release 18 Nov 11 WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a falsehood in relation to BZE. WorleyParsons state in their media release dated 10 November 2011: "Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) engaged Worley Parsons to prepare a report to analyse the life cycle GHG emissions for Australian gas co ...
Serious About Solar
Sophie McCallum of The Transcontinental reports, November 16: Alinta Energy is seriously exploring the idea of converting its Port Augusta power stations into solar thermal facilities. Solar thermal was first proposed by renewable energy advocates, Beyond Zero Emissions and has already gained ...
Take Action - Support a Zero Carbon Australia
Take action now 2011 has been a big year for Beyond Zero Emissions. Thousand's have heard us speak in audiences across Australia where they are hearing about our 100 percent renewable plan, we are working on zero emissions plans for transport, land use and buildings. Our ground-breaking ...

Monga Bay ( News )

Royal Society offers free special issue on rai ...
For one month the Royal Society is offering a special theme issue of its Philosophical Transaction B journal on rainforest conservation for free. Entitled 'The future of Southeast Asian rainforests in a changing landscape and climate', the issue looks largely at studies conducted in Malaysian Bo ...
Community mapping of African rainforests could ...
A new initiative to place community mapping of central African rainforests online could prove key to local rights in the region, says the UK-based NGO Rainforest Foundation. Working with forest communities in five African countries, Rainforest Foundation has helped create digital maps of local f ...
Smelly frogs may be key to fighting antibiotic ...
Foul smelling frogs may save lives, according to new research in the Journal of Proteome Research. Examining nine species of Chinese frogs, known as "odorous" frogs for their off-putting smell, researchers have discovered an astounding variety of antimicrobial peptides, or put simply bacteria-ki ...
Eat like an orangutan to save rainforests
One doesn't have to be a scientist or a government official to help save the world's vanishing rainforests, one can also be a chef. World-renowned chef Andre Chiang has added a new item to his menu called Orangutan Salad, reports the Wall Street Journal, which he hopes will raise awareness for t ...
Global forest cover lower than previously esti ...
Global forest cover, as well as forest loss, is lower than previously estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), according to a new satellite-based assessment that replaces the self-reporting system previously used by the U.N. agency.

Sierra Express

Young People taking the lead to deliver World ...
On 1st December 2011, over 200 young Sierra Leonean volunteers trained by Restless Development will be leading World Aids Day sensitization activities in both rural and urban communities across Sierra Leone. Using Restless Development’s signature informal style which incorporates drama, role pla ...
Gola Forest upgraded to a national park
The Government of Sierra Leone wishes to inform the General Public and the International Community that on the 3rd December, 2011, H.E the President, Dr. Ernest Bai will officially declare the Gola Rainforest as a National Park. Government has always recognized the Gola Rainforest as one of the ...
Sierra Leone dispute threatens Fifa ban
Sierra Leone could face a ban from international football, imposed by the game’s world governing body FIFA, in a dispute over government interference. The country’s football league was postponed by the sports ministry last week following a crisis meeting convened by the government, a ...
ALL OUT set for Sierra Leone tour in December
Sierra Leone’s finest music group ALL OUT, based in the United States, are coming to town this December, 2011. The group that sings Swagga Like Us, Facebook Lover, Make Salone, etc., are the crown holder of the 2011 SLMTV Best New Group Award. Their hit single ‘Make Salone’ has become a hit in ...
Ericsson & Sony Ericsson partner to run compet ...
Ericsson (http://www.ericsson.com) in partnership with Sony Ericsson has announced plans to run a regional competition for application developers on the Android platform. The competition titled ‘Apps forAfrica’ is to run under the aegis of the 2012 Ericsson Application Awards (EAA 2012) – ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

Heavyweight joins Fonterra auction
Fonterra's twice-monthly online dairy auction has landed its third supplier in Australian heavyweight Murray Goulburn Co-operative.Murray Goulburn will start offering lactose products in April on the GlobalDairyTrade sales platform,...
Commodity prices extend decline for sixth mont ...
New Zealand commodity prices fell for a sixth month in November, led by declines in the price of butter, cheese and aluminium.The ANZ Commodity Price index fell 1 per cent to 284.6 last month, though a sharp fall in the New Zealand...
Dairy futures trading hits 10,000 mark
Trading in NZX dairy futures passed the 10,000-lot mark today for the first time since its inception.The exchange says the milestone means the market is well on the way towards reaching critical mass.Futures markets allow buyers...
No to Chinese Crafar sale, says Fay poll
Polling for the Michael Fay-led consortium trying to buy the Crafar dairy farms shows an "overwhelming desire for the government to stop in and stop the sale" to the would-be Chinese buyer, Pengxin International.However,...
Asparagus growing under threat
Asparagus could become unaffordable and hard to come by within just a few years if the expansion of dairy farms continues at its present rate.The antioxidant-rich superfood was down to $2.50 a bunch at most grocery stores last week,...

The Bovine

How ’bout those moms — raw milk fr ...
From Farm Food Freedom KY “Some mothers take their role as parents very seriously, and their focus on local, nutrient-dense foods has been growing in popularity . They invest hours of time preparing special allergy-friendly meals for their children, labor tirelessly growing and preserving ...
Different strokes for different folks — ...
From David E. Gumpert writing on “Food Safety News”: “Though Peanut Corp of America has been cited for responsibility in nine deaths and more than 700 illnesses from Salmonella in its peanut butter, its president, Stewart Parnell, has remained seemingly … Continue reading ...
Modern milk war and food freedom
From Top Secret Writers.com: “Currently sold legally in 30 states (1), raw milk is the subject of tremendous controversy and is one of the only foods that cannot be legally sold across state lines. Recent news of E.coli being found … Continue reading →
New Toronto food coop wants more of the food m ...
From Catherine Porter on The Star.ca “Hey Occupy Toronto foodies: Instead of holing up inside the basement of a city-owned building on Queen West, you should come to the basement of the Community Health Centre in Parkdale. Here, something truly … Continue reading →
Harper ends wheat board monopoly
From The Canadian Press: “OTTAWA – The Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on western wheat and barley, a mainstay of Prairie agriculture for generations, is over. Killing it has been on the Tory wish list for years, up there with tough-on-crime … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

Has Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Lost His Mind?
The question of the day is "Has Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Lost His Mind?" The reason I ask stems from his post on The Telegraph You are all wrong, printing money can halt Europe's crisis This will enrage many readers — especially the "Austrian" internet vigilantes — but I have to say it. A ...
Incredibly Anemic Performance of Chinese Stock ...
Every day I watch the relative performance of various equity markets. Since April, the Shanghai index has been the last to rally and the first to go down. $SSEC Shanghai Composite Index click on chart for sharper image On recent news China Cuts Bank Reserve Ratios by .5 Percent ...
Crude Futures Have Risen Significantly, So Why ...
West Texas Intermediate Crude is back above $100 from a plunge to $76 at the beginning of October. Brent is $112. So why are gasoline prices lagging the rally in crude? Reader Tim Wallace writes Hello Mish I am now paying $3.15 for gasoline here in North Carolina while the price of o ...
EU Bank Writedowns to Exclude Pre-2013 Debt; F ...
EU officials have hatched a plan to make banks and bondholders take losses for risks, not now of course, but after 2013. In the meantime, taxpayers will shoulder 100% of the losses for bank lending stupidity. On this confidence inspiring news, European bonds rallied sharply. Bloomberg repor ...
China Manufacturing PMI Plunges to 32-Month Lo ...
Equity markets soared on central bank manipulations and various rumors the past few days. However, neither rumors nor trivial actions (which is all that happened) can save the global economy. Yesterday stocks rallied on news China Cuts Bank Reserve Ratios by .5 Percentage Points and Central ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

The Rockefeller World, Council on Foreign Rela ...
‘The Ultimate Networking & Socializing institution among the American elite’ By Andrew Gavin Marshall The following is a sneak peak from a chapter in Andrew Gavin Marshall’s upcoming book funded through The People’s Book Project. It is quite apparent in the history of America from the late 1 ...
BFP Report: Meet the Department of Homeland Se ...
Let’s See Who is Watching DHS Mega Fusion Center Yesterday I came across an article on DHS plans to create its own internal fusion center so that its many agencies can aggregate the data they have and make it searchable from a central location. Let’s read a few excerpts from this typical half-he ...
BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
BFP Nightly Quote “The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen….At the head of this octopus are the Rockef ...
BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
BFP Nightly Quote “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nation will accept the New World Order.” – David Rockefeller (UN Business Conference, Sept. 14, 1994) International Newsworthy Pakistan to Boycott Talks on Afghanist ...
The EyeOpener- Pipeline Politics & the Rewirin ...
Covert Military Tension & the Ultimate Endgame of Western Interests in Eurasia Pipeline politics have entered the North American consciousness over the last several months, with the proposed Keystone Pipeline connecting the Alberta Oil Sands to the United States becoming a contentious polit ...

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 →
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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 →

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Marad Unveils New Ship Designs
The U.S. Maritime Administration today released a report detailing new designs for shipping vessels specifically engineered for America’s Marine Highways. Marad says the production of the efficient and environmentally-friendly vessels [...]
Rolls-Royce Inks Petrobas Contracts
Rolls-Royce said today it has been awarded new contracts worth potentially $650 million by Petrobras to support production activities offshore Brazil. The contracts Rolls-Royce will supply Petrobras with thirty-two RB211 [...]
Dockwise Strikes COOEC Newbuild Deal
Dockwise said today the company has reached an agreement with China’s Offshore Oil Engineering Co. (COOEC) to act as manager of COOEC’s new build type 1 marine transportation vessel. The [...]
Norway Regulator: “Very Serious Shortcomings” ...
By Katarina Gustafsson and Alexis Flynn BP PLC’s (BP) efforts to monitor and respond to sudden pollution releases such as oil spills in the Norwegian Sea suffer from “very serious [...]
World’s Oldest Warship, HMS Victory, to Underg ...
Portsmouth, United Kingdom: HMS Victory, the oldest commissioned warship in the world, will undergo an extensive restoration at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as part of a £16 million contract with BAE [...]

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The four ways to defend religion
Sam Harris A year or so ago, I was exposed to prominent atheist Sam Harris' outline of the three basic ways in which religion is commonly defended. It seemed like a reasonable classification at the time, but I was hesitant to immediately agree that it was a complete classification. Since then ...
Canada and Mexico to Join U.S. in NAFTA of the ...
by Dana Gabriel, BeYourOwnLeader Dec 1, 2011 At the recent APEC meetings, Canada and Mexico announced their interest in joining the U.S., along with other countries already engaged in negotiations to establish what has been referred to as the NAFTA of the Pacific. The leaders of the nine countri ...
What is Stephen Harper hiding?
It’s no secret that Stephen Harper’s government is the most secretive in the history of Canada, but what are they hiding? http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Maher+Harper+obsession+fostering+paranoia+paralysis+public+service/5792000/story.html
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Hai @UN You got owned by TeaMp0isoN pastebin.com/FEcE9WzJ Any comments? #OpCensorThis #OpRobinHood by "Anonymous Mind" As originally posted on: Anonymous Mind (anonhive) on Twitter November 29, 2011
Emphasizing neutrality with respect to the pro ...
Deficit neutral bills are a stalwart tool of the savvy politician. They allow for the sidestepping of the often raucous and partisan debates about the size of government and the size of deficits. With deficit neutral bills, there is a sense to which the policy can be considered on its own merits ...

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Eight Yemenis killed in Taizz clashes
At least eight people have been killed in clashes between forces loyal to Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh and opposition tribesmen in the southern city of Taizz, medics say.
10 killed, 25 injured in Iraq bombing
At least ten people have been killed and 25 others injured in a bomb explosion in the Iraqi town of Khalis, north of the capital city of Baghdad.
Bahraini workers protest dismissals
Hundreds of fired Bahraini workers have held a demonstration outside the Ministry of Labor to protest their dismissals, Press TV reports.
Amnesty reports on Saudi repression
Amnesty International has said the last nine months has seen a new wave of repression in Saudi Arabia as Riyadh has been clamping down on peaceful protesters and reformists.
Turkey: War on Syria 'an option'
Amid already deadly violence in Syria, Turkey has raised the prospect of military option in its southern neighbor, while Russia has called on 'warmongering' countries to show restraint over the matter.

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What Is So Scary About Occupy Wall Street?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So states ...
Enough With the Sleazy Reality Shows!
I just don’t understand the fascination with Teen Moms, Hoarders, the Housewives, Jersey Shore and the myriad other sleazy reality shows on TV. The supreme franchise, however, has got to be those Kardashians. Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy reality shows where people ...
What’s Your Story?
I ran onto the bus just as the driver was about to shut the doors. I reached into my jacket pocket and pull out my Metro Card, only to find out there was not enough money on it to pay my fare. Sigh. I looked at the driver, and gave him the please don’t embarrass [...]
Network Like a Pro
I recently attended an SPS Career Services workshop and networking seminar lead by career expert Arlene Newman. Newman is the President of Career Bound Success and has an extensive background in Human Resources across multiple industries. Newman emphasized the importance of networking in career ...
Satire and Humor?
With all the mayhem that’s been going on in Washington, D.C. and across the United States, you’d think politicos would use some measure of wisdom. I’ve been reading articles, watching news reports and tweeting stories, which I feel has some semblance, contrary to all the madne ...

Dissident Voice

The Choice for Progressives
The Zeitgeist of revolution. There are uprisings against the old order in Arab countries; some appear to be indigenous uprisings (for example, Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain); others appear to have imperialist hands behind them (most notably in Libya). Iceland in 2009, and this year, Europeans in G ...
The Senate and the Afghanistan War
The Senate just voted against the Afghanistan war. Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Good The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted by voice vote to pass an amendment that concludes thus: “Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that— 1) the President of the United States sh ...
Callous and Cruel to the Vulnerable and the Poor
George Osborne, the British Chancellor’s autumn statement may be many things, but fair and just it is not. Some of the poorest members of our society, public workers, who do valuable work that distinguishes a caring society from one that is not, are to carry a heavy load for dire economic condi ...
Notes on a Global Occupation
The dominance of neoliberal policies has made our world a crony capitalist dystopia. Wall Street connected legislators give multi-trillion dollar bailouts to big banks and corporations as war-profiteers continue to reap benefits of both a “War on Terror” and “War on Drugs” costing trillions more ...
Sleep Eating: A New Gift from Big Pharma for t ...
Does anyone remember the drug Tiger Woods allegedly cavorted with his consorts on? The same drug former Rhode Island Representative Patrick Kennedy crashed his car on when he drove to Capitol Hill to “vote” at 2:45 AM? Well, Ambien is back with a new name for a new type of insomnia t ...

Destructionist

‘Indefinite Detention’ Occupied America: Senat ...
I don’t know if you’re all getting this through your heads yet, but Senate Bill 1867 –the National Defense Authorization Act– would openly “legalize” the U.S. government’s detainment and murder of OWS protesters and the assassination of talk show hosts, bloggers, journalists and anyone who holds ...
Assange on mass surveillance: ‘You are all scr ...
RT December 2, 2011 The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has begun releasing sensational information on the multi billion dollar global spying industry. The database contains hundreds of documents shining a light on the methods being used by secret services all over the world. Here’s the ...
Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps
Dan Goodin The Register November 30, 2011 An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users. In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Ec ...
Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps
Dan Goodin The Register November 30, 2011 An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users. In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Ec ...
Police in LA, Philly raid Occupy camps
Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia stormed Occupy Wall Street encampments under darkness Wednesday to arrest or drive out some of the longest-lasting protesters since crackdowns ended similar occupations across the country. Dozens of officers in riot gear flooded down the steps of Los Ang ...

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