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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, September 27, 2012

27 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

YANGON, MYANMAR - FEBRUARY 6: Burmese workers ...YANGON, MYANMAR - FEBRUARY 6: Burmese workers hammer away at a building under construction February 6, 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar. In the unreliable and volatile market of Burma many big investors have put all of their money in the real estate market as a building boom continues in Yangon. As the country opens up to the outside world and Suu Kyi begins her campaign ahead of April 1 by-elections, her decision to stand for a seat in parliament is the latest sign of dramatic political changes taking place in the country. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
YANGON, MYANMAR - FEBRUARY 4: Models swim in ...YANGON, MYANMAR - FEBRUARY 4: Models swim in the indoor pool at the Royal Yaw Min Gyi condominium complex on the opening day for public viewing February 4, 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar. In the unreliable and volatile market of Burma many big investors have put all of their money in the real estate market as a building boom continues in Yangon. As the country opens up to the outside world and Suu Kyi begins her campaign ahead of April 1 by-elections, her decision to stand for a seat in parliament is the latest sign of dramatic political changes taking place in the country. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
YANGON, MYANMAR - FEBRUARY 6: Burmese workers...YANGON, MYANMAR - FEBRUARY 6: Burmese workers climb on the scaffolding at a condominium complex under construction February 6, 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar. In the unreliable and volatile market of Burma many big investors have put all of their money in the real estate market as a building boom continues in Yangon. As the country opens up to the outside world and Suu Kyi begins her campaign ahead of April 1 by-elections, her decision to stand for a seat in parliament is the latest sign of dramatic political changes taking place in the country. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 23: Employees work at ...BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 23: Employees work at the 2011 Beijing Summertime Real Estate Trade Show at China World Trade Center on June 23, 2011 in Beijing, China. The five-day 2011 Beijing Summertime Real Estate Trade Show opened on Thursday. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Investors United (School of Real Estate Investing)Investors United (School of Real Estate Investing) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 09: A sales person lift...BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 09: A sales person lifts a sign to promote real estate sales at the 2010 Beijing Spring Real Estate Trade Fair on April 9, 2011 in Beijing, China. Property prices in big Chinese cities keep increasing and according to the National Development and Reform Commission, housing prices in 70 major Chinese cities rose 13.67 percent in 2010. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Center for Food Safety

  • “Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Cou ...
    By Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media uproar and consumer ...
  • Center for Food Safety Calls Dow, SOCC Backroo ...
    Today, Center for Food Safety issued a response to a joint statement by The Save Our Crop Coalition (SOCC) and Dow Chemical announcing SOCC has dropped its opposition to 2,4-D resistant “Agent Orange” crops. This backroom agreement was made prior to any approval of 2,4-D resistant crops by the U ...
  • Stanford Research on Organics Hits the Stats, ...
    By Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D, Organic Policy Coordinator, Center for Food Safety “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier than Conventional Alternatives?” Stanford University researchers attempted to answer this question in their recently released analysis of published literature on the health, nutrition ...
  • Environmental, Public Interest Groups Ready fo ...
    Longstanding violation of Endangered Species Act provisions highlights Sixty-Day Notice filing Today, the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and the Sierra Club, along with affected citizens from around the country, filed a Sixty-Day Notice letter with the Environmental Protection Agency ...
  • Oregon Court of Appeals Grants Stay, Canola Pl ...
    Groups and producers pleased with court ruling, damage to local growers temporarily averted The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) failed to provide adequate justification for a temporary rule issued earlier this month that would have allowed the un ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
  • Buying Property
    Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
  • IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
    IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
  • Real Estate Investing Myths
    Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Pensieve

  • Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?
    Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
  • O Ridiculous Fortune
    O fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
  • Where’s the switch?
    I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
  • Older and Wiser
    I had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
  • Disney-Pixar Pollution
    For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
    The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
  • Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
    We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
  • A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
    in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
  • Susya
    June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
  • My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
    Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • California proposes political campaigns disclo ...
    It’s silly season again in California. The California Fair Political Practices Committee wants political campaigns to document and report payments to bloggers and social media users if the person doing it paid by a campaign. This could well include campaign workers tweeting about their can ...
  • Romney campaign sucker punches Vermont media o ...
    Early Tuesday evening, Vermont Public Radio, (VPR) put out a story about the Romney campaign challenging absentee balloting in Vermont, and got it badly wrong. Other news operations repeated the story, getting it just as wrong in the Burlington Free Press, the Barre Times Argus, the BrattleboroR ...
  • Driverless cars and the coming glorious Orwell ...
    Driverless cars are perfect mechanisms for government control. After they become common such vehicles will no doubt be required to report to a central authority where they are going. The cars might even begin to question why someone would want to make a particular journey and then report it to t ...
  • The unfinished story of us
    Francisco Doa has a thoughtful piece at PandoDaily, which generally covers tech and startups in Silicon Valley, on how we as a country need to forget the exceptionalism stuff and get on with building something useful and important instead. This is a really excellent idea and it also sums up the ...
  • NOT SATIRE – Exxon plans oil drilling in USSR ...
    Exxon and USSR oil company Rosnoft plan to drill for oil in a USSR offshore nuclear dump, the Kara Sea, which was used for 25 years as a garbage can for radioactive waste.The two oil companies have avoided calls for the nuclear waste, estimated to consist of over 17,000 barrels of radioactive wa ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

  • Antarctic Experiences Record High Sea Ice Leve ...
    Just now, from the Earth’s unloved backside, just when you thought the “death spiral” of northern polar sea ice had taken full hold of the public’s mind, the stupid Antarctic hits a new ALL-TIME high sea ice area record. All time being defined as 34 ish years of course.  ...
  • Lewandowsky to Remove All Blog Based References
    Over the past few weeks I have had several communications with Dr. Lewandowsky regarding his wonderful contribution to science very appropriately titled: MOTIVATED REJECTION OF SCIENCE NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection o ...
  • The Healing Blog
    A new election is coming and thankfully nobody is claiming that they will lower the ocean level this time.  My taxes are still insanely high and as a business owner, I’m expecting to be hammered in a very impressive way by the non-paying public for my reprehensible misdeed of trying to mak ...
  • The Pragmatic Skeptic
    I read some of this earlier, and hadn’t intended to post on it but now that I’ve read the complete version of the interview, this is very much worth reading.   Anthony Watts gave an interview to PBS whereby he made  a very accurate case for what makes myself and others climate skepti ...
  • SKS Behind the Scenes – On Deaf Ears
    The below discussion was passed to me by email. It is apparently from the hacked SKS background discussions. I found it revealing to see the kind of thinking which went on behind the scenes during the release of the corrected Antarctic temperature trends. 2011-02-09 04:45:30 Antarctic Temperatur ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook launches Facebook Gifts for users to ...
    Facebook today officially launches Facebook Gifts in a limited test for U.S. users to buy products for their friends through the social network’s desktop or mobile versions. Gifts seems to follow the format used by Karma, a mobile gift-giving service … Continue reading →
  • Instagram tops Twitter in U.S. mobile engageme ...
    U.S. smartphone users visited Instagram more often and spent more time on the service than they did with Twitter’s mobile products in August, according to a ComScore study reported by AllThingsD. The Facebook-owned photo sharing app had an average of 7.3 … Continue reading →
  • Some page owners see decline in Likes as Faceb ...
    Some top Facebook pages lost tens of thousands of Likes today as a result of Facebook’s attempt to eliminate false accounts and improve site integrity. Last month the social network announced it would remove Likes obtained through malware, compromised accounts, deceived … Continue re ...
  • Bath & Body Works, Dove, Manetane Beauty and o ...
    Dove is this week’s top gainer for the People Talking About This metric among beauty and health pages. The page has seen significant growth over the last week, earning more than half a million additional engagements. The top 10 pages … Continue reading →
  • Facebook Groups get Dropbox integration for mo ...
    Facebook and Dropbox today announce the integration of the cloud storage service to allow users to easily share Dropbox files with people in their Facebook Groups. Now when users select “Add File” from the Groups publisher, they will have an … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Barbarians at the Gate: Terrorism, the US, and ...
    The shootings and bombings in Ingushetia and Dagestan this week rekindled a long-standing, brutal campaign of violence and terrorism in Russia’s Caucasus region – one that has seen more than its share of terror stretching back to the Chechen “rebellion” of the 1990s.  However, in examining the r ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Empire of Terror To know the history of your own nation, you must know the history of those whom your nation has oppressed. This episode takes a brief look at some of the stories of modern American imperialism in the post-World War II period, looking at Indonesia, Central America, and the ro ...
  • Podcast Show #94: Murders by Drones & the Horr ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Gareth Porter & Kevin Gosztola Peter B. Collins presents Journalist Gareth Porter and analyst Kevin Gosztola of FireDogLake. Porter offers two credible sources that contradict the White House assertions that civilian deaths from drone strikes are few to zero. ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Jerry Lee Lewis- “Hit the Road Jack” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick is for a special young lady who happens to love this song. Hit the Road Jack was written by American songwriter Percy Mayfield and became famous after it was recorded by Ray Charles. While the song ha ...
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • The Forgotten Namibian Genocide
    This documentary covers Germany’s use of genocide, concentration camps and ‘extermination’ policies in Africa – decades before World War Two and their use in Europe. A hundred years ago, three quarters of the Herero people of the German colony of Namibia were killed, many ...
  • Baldwin’s Nigger (1969)
  • The windows into your soul
  • “Apartheid never died in South Africa. I ...
    Excellent article by John Pilger The murder of 34 miners by the South African police, most of them shot in the back, puts paid to the illusion of post-apartheid democracy and illuminates the new worldwide apartheid of which South Africa is both an historic and contemporary model. In 1894, long b ...
  • The Evolution Conundrum
    I have been thinking about this proposition, the relationship between evolution and revolution since I read a recent comment by Amenta: “…This post is a reflection as to why my personal concepts center around an evolution rather than a revolution. The world is being revealed to an ex ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Freedom From Religion
    Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion are inextricably linked. To lose one is to lose the other and the result is a total loss of freedom on the way to theocracy. Reject all calls for destroying freedom of speech, despite their fevered pitch or violent character. Also -- Barack Obama afte ...
  • Police Harassment leads to injury: NYPD abuse ...
    Police injure a protester attempting to take a painting from her, than continue a campaign of harassment throughout the rest of the day in front of Trinity Chuch.
  • OWS Check Mates NYPD on S-17
    Due to police violence during the day OWS was able to take the streets and all the finanial district back from NYPD, dispite the number of arrest was small compared to the size of the group gathered in the district. In the end OWS owned the day!
  • A Crucible of Political Disenchantment: 'Dismi ...
    Despite all the cultural cues that we have internalized, one cannot consume, medicate, buy on credit, receive a promotion, vacation, vote, hope, affect a pose of hipster irony, tithe to the church of your choice, receive a hundred FaceBook friendship requests, hit the winning lottery number, sup ...
  • Why I Don't Watch TV
    Americans watch 4 to 6 hours of commercial entertainment every day. The country is a virtual factory farm of consumers. Here is how one writer accounts for his decision to commit the fundamental act of rebellion: hitting the off button.

Switchboard

  • Time to Save the Western Arctic Reserve of Alaska
    Chuck Clusen, Director, National Parks and Alaska Projects, Washington, DC Last month, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the Bureau of Land Management’s preferred alternative, the “B-2” alternative, for the first area ...
  • "We Want Meat without Drugs!"
    Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York If you happened to be in New York City’s Union Square this morning, you may have seen something unusual — “Joe the Pig”, decked out in a Hawaiian shirt, and a crowd of concerned consum ...
  • Protecting the First Gray Wolf in California i ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica Just after Christmas of last year, a 2½-year-old gray wolf designated "OR7" entered California, becoming the first wolf to inhabit our state since 1924. He dispersed from the Imnaha pack in northeas ...
  • Targeting Our Efforts to Reduce National Oil A ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Overdependence on oil, especially in transportation, remains a threat to America in spite of increasing vehicle fuel-efficiency and domestic production. As a country, we spend a ...
  • Fixing sprawl with baby steps, one parking lot ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   All credit to John Wirtz and his blog Xing Columbus for this one.  It seems such a modest concept, really, and one that should have been standard practice long ago:  ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • There Are Many Life And Death Issues
    Since I’m guessing that Glenn’s tweet is directed at me, I should clarify what I mean in my previous post.    When I said that the issues Friedersdorf focuses on are “pet issues,” I am certainly not suggesting that they are not important.  I certainly don’t believe ...
  • Film Genre Over Time
    Chris Blattman links to this very interesting image, charting film genres over time. As you can see, this charts some expected but interesting phenomena–the decline of westerns, the rise of pornography, the consistent production of comedy. There are a couple of problems here though. First, ...
  • Purity of Essence
    This post is going to sound like under-theorized musing not as some sort of rhetorical device, but because I’m sincerely puzzled by the following question (triggered, obviously, by the last several posts and the comments to them): Why does what any individual chooses to do with his or her ...
  • No One is Sweeping Dead Muslims Under the Rug
    A couple of commenters and links have basically said that in not taking drone killings of Pakistanis seriously enough (for them) in my post yesterday, that I am basically choosing which brown people matter and which don’t. Jim Henley especially does this, and in a particularly egregious wa ...
  • All American Presidential Elections Are Choice ...
    Obviously, I concur with pretty much everything in djw and Erik’s posts about the inexplicably celebrated Conor Friedersdorf essay in which he congratulates himself for being too good for the compromises of electoral politics.  (With, to be sure, some protesting-too-much about he’s n ...

Desert Research Institute

  • 2012 Tahoe Summit Report
    The Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
  • DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...
    The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.
  • DRI Works Toward Sustainability with Renewable ...
    Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
  • DRI attaining renewable energy power sources f ...
    Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
  • Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Back to the Land
    The lower 48 states just completed the hottest month on record, following the warmest 12-month period on record. The Midwest's farm economy has been left staggering. In our latest regional report card, we examine the implications for the region's legal profession — and took a side trip to W ...
  • Inside Washington
    A by-the-numbers look at law and lobbying in the nation's capital. • The Legal Times 150 • The Influence 50 • The Hill Hot List
  • Fired law librarian's suit against Southern Il ...
    A lawsuit filed against Southern Illinois University by a former law librarian who was "effectively terminated" in 2009 after allegedly threatening to "bash" a colleague with a crowbar has survived a motion to dismiss.
  • ACLU, warning of 'total surveillance state,' s ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is suing the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security seeking information about the government's use of automatic license plate readers.
  • Minnesota makes history in admitting foreign l ...
    For the first time in state history, the Minnesota Supreme Court has admitted to practice a graduate from a foreign law school without requiring her to pass the state's bar examination.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Self-Driving Vehicles Approved for California ...
    California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a law that will allow self-driving vehicles on the state’s public roadways by next year. While fully automated vehicle technology may be years away, the California law establishes safety and performance regulations for testing these cars next year — provide ...
  • Air Pollution in Europe Shortening Lives of Ur ...
    Air pollution in Europe is shortening lifespans by an average of eight months and by as much as two years in the most polluted cities and regions, according to a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). While the European Union has cut emissions of many harmful pollutants over the las ...
  • U.S. Fishing Catch Reached 17-Year High in 201 ...
    U.S. commercial fishermen landed more than 10.1 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 2011, a 17-year high attributed in part to policies aimed at rebuilding fisheries nationwide, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The annual catch was 22.6 p ...
  • Arctic Sea Ice Extent Reaches a Dramatic New Low
    As the summer melt season ends, Arctic sea ice extent has now fallen to an exceptionally low level, covering an area only half the size of the 1979 to 2000 average. The Click to enlarge NSIDC Arctic sea ice extent, Sept. 16 Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) repo ...
  • Most Coral Reefs At Risk Even if Warming Limit ...
    Most of the world’s coral reefs will likely be subject to long-term degradation even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius, and as much as one-third of coral reef systems will likely be vulnerable to threats even under the most optimistic climate projections, a new study says. In an ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Was Newton a scientist or a sorcerer?
    Often wrongly portrayed as a cold rationalist, Isaac Newton is one of history’s most compelling figures. It is true that he was capable of the most precise and logical thought it is possible for a human to achieve: his three years of obsessive work that gave birth to the Principia, containing hi ...
  • Sugar rush for cows as gummy worms replace cos ...
    Mike Yoder’s herd of dairy cattle are living the sweet life. With corn feed scarcer and costlier than ever, Yoder increasingly is looking for cheaper alternatives -- and this summer he found a good deal on ice cream sprinkles. "It’s a pretty colorful load," said Yoder, who operates about 450 dai ...
  • The Blazing Career and Mysterious Death of “th ...
    Sweden has had her share of memorable monarchs. In the 16th and 17th centuries, it seemed that every other ruler crowned in Stockholm was astonishing in one way or another. Gustav Vasa, Gustavus Adolphus, Queen Christina, Charles XI–between them, to the surprise of generations of students who ha ...
  • After Olympic involvement, Muse’s frontman Bel ...
    Muse’s Matt Bellamy has revealed that he no longer thinks the terrorist attacks which were carried out on the World Trade Center on September 11 were an "inside job". Previously, the frontman had claimed that there was "massive evidence" to support theories that US authorities had either allowed ...
  • Government allows private security firm to tra ...
    A prominent think-tank has claimed a new satellite system being introduced to track offenders in Scotland should be directly controlled by police and probation officers rather than private security firm G4S. The Future of Corrections report, due to be published by Policy Exchange today, said the ...

Russia Today

  • No referendum on Catalonian independence witho ...
    Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria says Catalonia cannot hold an independence referendum without first consulting the rest of the country. His warning follows a vote by the Catalan regional... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Fire, smoke grenades, clashes: Moscow derby go ...
    Twenty-six arrests, swarms of riot police, dense smoke obscuring locals' vision. It's not an anti-austerity protest in Athens – it’s Russian football fans rallying at a home match in Moscow, ultimately forcing the game... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Nuclear Iran same as nuclear-armed al-Qaeda': ...
    Iran might have enough enriched uranium to build nuclear weapon by next summer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared at the UN General Assembly. He urged the gathering to draw a "red line" for the Iranian... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab’s appeal trial ...
    Leading Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab’s appeal trial to a three year sentence resumes Thursday after his lawyers challenged the trial's fairness. Rajab will remain in detention, having been refused bail. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Strong quakes cause delayed worldwide tremors ...
    A massive earthquake that struck beneath the Indian Ocean in April went on to trigger a global wave of tremors. The discovery has revealed that one great tremor can reverberate throughout the world for days. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • El Paso County Clerk Wayne Williams wants vote ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS– A young voter registration activist, by admission soliciting only Mitt Romney supporters, was caught on video saying she worked for the El Paso County Clerk, mistakenly as it turns out. Local Dems have run with the story while Clerk & Recorder Wayne Williams and the ...
  • Spanish protesters offer funnier response to p ...
  • What’s kosher for the goose should be ha ...
    If Israel can threaten to attack Iran, without drawing the unanimous rebuke of the international community, then it follows Iran cannot be criticized for warning of its imperative to make a preemptive strike. Except that both would be illegal, the United States being the reigning serial aggresso ...
  • Student power triumphs in Quebec
  • What’s fueling Muslim riots? Success!
    Are Muslim anti-Western demonstrations raging against a defamatory video of dubious provenance? More likely it’s decades of war and drone-strikes. But after years of insurgency, IEDs, and suicide bombers, it takes storming a consulate to finally bag a high ranking US official. How should l ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The Good News and the Bad News
    The good news is that physicist Dr. Crockett Grabbe’s ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com. The book is 7 chapters long, roughly 113 pages in length, and delivers strong, responsible scientific evidence that the WTC buildings were brought down with expl ...
  • National Swindle of the World Trade Center now ...
    Dr. Crockett Grabbe's ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com for the Kindle. Purchase the ebook here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0098JOSJS Related info: Dr. Crockett Grabbe-National Swindle on the World Trade Center
  • Would 2Pac Have Been a 9/11 Truther?
    On this day in 1996 Tupac Amaru Shakur died from gunshot wounds he suffered 6 days prior. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time and I don't think he would have been a 9/11 debunker. RIP. Published on Apr 26, 2012 by Aware Awake Tupac Shakur breaks down the tru ...
  • 911 Truth and the Mainstream Media's Failure t ...
    The mainstream media has never been any good at explaining the nature of the War on Terror to the public. Their superficial, 'official talking-point' based stories almost always omit important documented facts that could provide real context to the 'war' and point to evidence showing that 911 wa ...
  • RECAP: Fake al-Qaeda> Anwar Al Awlaki PLUS Ada ...
    The following videos are posted in light of recent media reports about the death of the "international terrorist leader" Anwar Al Awlaki in Yemen. Please note that Al Awlaki was also reported dead, killed in 2009 by a US air strike. Dead or alive, names like Al Awlaki, Zarqawi, and others will ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

  • Amazon Indians in legal victory
    The Nanti are one of many isolated groups whose lands are targeted by oil companies.© SurvivalA small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching implications for indigenous land rights in the country. The Shipibo and Ese-eja Indians of Tres ...
  • Earth’s most threatened tribe demands help ‘ur ...
    The Awá tribe is one of the world’s few hunter-gatherer peoples. Their survival is now at risk.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Awá of Brazil, known as Earth’s most threatened tribe, have written to the country’s Justice Minister telling him to ‘evict invaders urgently’, as news emerges that their hun ...
  • Guilty: Australia’s Channel 7 censured over ‘r ...
    Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease.© Channel 7Australia’s Channel 7 network has been found guilty by the press regulator of serious violations of the bro ...
  • European poll shows overwhelming support for J ...
    Voters in the Italian poll overwhelmingly supported a buffer zone to ‘safeguard’ the Jarawa’s future.© SurvivalAn opinion poll in a leading European newspaper has shown overwhelming support for a buffer zone, to protect India’s Jarawa tribe from ‘human safaris’. Published in Italy’s most ...
  • Victory: Vedanta to close Orissa refinery
    The Dongria Kondh have fought a David and Goliath battle against Vedanta© Lewis Davids/SurvivalSupporters of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe are celebrating after controversial British mining company Vedanta Resources declared it will close its bauxite refinery in the state of Orissa, this December. ...

Greg Palast

  • Bad Habits: Nuns Nixed Over No Voter-ID
    With Supreme Court blessings, voter ID laws are taking the nation by storm, or storm troops. For The Progressive An excerpt from Greg Palast's brand new book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. Stop me if you heard this one. See, these ten nuns walk into ...
  • Tales from the Crypt of Democracy
    Pow! Zap! Full color investigative comics by Ted Rall: Tales from the Crypt of Democracy - Soul Crushing Political Terror. Out Today! This astonishing 48 page graphic exposé is wrapped inside the new eBook edition of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, the hot new book by Greg Palast with Bobby K ...
  • The Good, The Bad and the Ballot Bandits - The ...
  • Palast in San Fran, Santa Rosa, Portaland, Sea ...
    This weeks Billionaires & Ballot Bandits Tour stops. Bring you copy of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits - or get it there and I'll sign 'em. Please - bring your friends, spread the word and once you've read it - review it on Amazon, B&N and Goodreads. Monday, September 24 BERKELEY KPFA ...
  • The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: 2012
    by Greg Palast  I can't believe that I had to write the sequel. When I wrote The Best Democracy Money Can Buy after the 2000 swipe by Bush and his Ballot Bandits, I thought America would clean up its damn act and start counting ALL the votes. Boy, am I a schmuck. Just when you [...]

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]

Age of Autism

  • Parents Can Not Sue Vaccine Manufacturers for ...
    Managing Editor's Note: How many American parents know that if their child is harmed by the side effects of the medicine known as vaccination, they are not able to take the injury up with the person who encouraged (cajoled?) them...
  • Register For Fall Autism Research Institute Co ...
    The Fall 2012 ARI Conference is set for October 11-14th at the Hyatt Regency Orange County near Disneyland in Garden Grove, CA. The Autism Research Institute has negotiated a block of special discounted room rates of just $119 per night....
  • AofA Science Summary: Reversible blindness in ...
    Binocul Vis Strabolog Q Simms Romano. 2012;27(3):171-3. Reversible blindness in bilateral optic neruritis associated with nasal flu vaccine. Crawford C, Grazko MB, Raymond WR 4th, Rivers BA, Munson PD. Abstract BACKGROUND: Various case reports have shown possible associations between optic...
  • Popular Children’s Lunch Contains Hidden Dange ...
    Montpelier, VT, September 19th, 9 AM: Some children may be at greater risk from mercury in tuna than previously thought, finds a new study by the Mercury Policy Project (MPP). Tuna Surprise contains the first-ever test results of canned tuna...
  • Autism College News: Mighty is the Fear
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to our friend Chantal Sicile-Kira who allowed us to excerpt this post from Autism College. Life with Autism: Mighty is the Fear Two caregivers were arrested this past week in Valley Center (near San Diego,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Fresh protests in Japan-China island row
    Aljazeera – Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...
  • Washington State Makes It Harder to Opt Out of ...
    NY Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a cut above the r ...
  • Deaths reported in Pakistan drone attack
    Al Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven ...
  • Ivory Coast closes Ghana border after deadly a ...
    BBC – Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...
  • Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Tra ...
    A truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...
    One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
  • Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
    Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.  Th ...
  • Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
    As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...

water.org

  • Charlie Rose to discuss water crisis
    BREAKING: Co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon appear on Charlie Rose with first airing tonight, September 27th. Please check you local PBS listings for time in your area. Check back for link to watch online.
  • The Power of a Smile
    Why are these women smiling? You'd be smiling to if you and your family have access to clean drinking water and a toilet in your own home for the very first time.
  • Water Changes Lives: VIDEO
    Access to clean water or a safe toilet doesn't just make people healthier, it affords women time to learn a trade, and allows them to spend more time caring for their families. Change ten lives by taking our challenge, and you will be entered to win a trip to visit our work in the field!*
  • Change Ten Lives
    It seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.
  • Recognition for Impact in Social Innovation
    Gary White, Water.org CEO and Co-founder, has been honored by the Schwab Foundation as a 2012 Social Entrepreneur. Each year, the Foundation identifies the world’s leading social entrepreneurs from around the globe for its Social Entrepreneur award. Awardees are selected for implementing innovat ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • We don't want to focus too heavily on Har ...
    The hype surrounding off-spinner Harbhajan Singh's return to form notwithstanding, Australia captain George Bailey is least bothered as he said his team would not be focussing on any particular individual when it takes on India here tomorrow. "We don't want to focus too heavily on one bowler ...
  • Slum children learning for better lifesty ...
    The two-month training programme for students of 42 government primary schools of Ahmedabad, which began in August aims to improve quality of education and living in these educational institutes. These children are being trained in health & hygiene, sports, arts and education. Called Gandhia ...
  • EADS-BAE talks look set for extra time
    Nicosia: Talks on a tie-up between aerospace groups EADS and BAE Systems looked set for extra time on Thursday, after German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere and another source said negotiations had some way to go. “I think we need more time,” de Maiziere told journalists in N ...
  • UN Predicts 700,000 Syria Refugees
    The UN's refugee agency has warned that as many as 700,000 people could have fled Syria by the end of the year, a huge increase on its previous estimate. Some 294,000 refugees have already left Syria, and the UNHCR is appealing for money to help deal with the crisis. Most of the refugee ...
  • Katrina Kaif, the show stealer for Manish ...
    An endless wait, a harmless mishap, Bollywood in full attendance and the sizzling 'Sheila' (Katrina Kaif) on the ramp are some of the defining moments of the Manish Malhotra show on Day 4 at the Delhi Couture Week. 'Breaking' news at DCW: A sudden collapse of the chandelier into smithereens, ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • As Sea Levels Rise, Pacific Island Nations Cal ...
    Two small Pacific Island nations called on the United Nations this week to facilitate immediate action and a legally binding agreement to curb global warming, which has caused steadily rising ocean levels, immediately threatening the soon to be submerged states. ...
  • Environmental Groups Sue Canada Over Northern ...
    Canadian environmental groups joined together on Tuesday to sue the Canadian government over what they say is a failure to make good on legal obligations to protect endangered species by pursuing the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project. ...
  • ALEC's (Corporate) Love Affair with Fracking
    Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. Just one look at the cover of the brochure for this year's annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) reveals where some of the corporate bill mill's loyalties lie: with the “natural” gas industry. ...
  • Israel PM Draws Red Line (Literally) on Mythic ...
  • Senators Call for End to Arctic Drilling Push
    Several Democratic senators called on the Interior Department this week to put an end to Arctic drilling plans currently pursued by the Obama administration and big oil companies around the world.Arctic sea-ice (Photo: Jeremy Potter NOAA/OAR/OER) ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Is Coal Still King?
    India is poised to contend with China as the globe’s top consumer of coal, with 455 power plants preparing to come online, a prominent environmental research group has concluded. The coal plants in India’s pipeline — almost 100 more than China is preparing to build — would deliver 519,396 megawa ...
  • In order to control climate change, do we need ...
    Two recent publications highlight the challenges ahead in the multilateral process that continues to seek an equitable global approach to the issue of growing CO2 emissions. But comparing and contrasting them illustrates the contradictions that exist as negotiators attempt to maintain existing s ...
  • High-Priced Fuel Syndrome
    Governments and economists around the world have not figured out that what the world economy is suffering from, to varying degrees, is “high-priced fuel syndrome“.High-priced fuel syndrome has a number of symptoms:
  • Arctic Sea Ice At Its Lowest Ever
    According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), as of September 16 Arctic sea ice reached its seasonal minimum
  • How Far Has the Renewable Energy Industry Come ...
    The renewable energy industry has experienced numerous changes over the past 15 years. Here's a useful infographic that reflects the growth of the renewable energy industry, its contribution to the U.S. economy, and what the future could hold.

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  • Atonement: Not in Israel's Vocabulary
    by Stephen Lendman Yom Kippur is considered the holiest of Jewish holidays. It occurs on the 10th day of the month of Tishrei (Hebrew year 5773). September 17 marked the new year (Rosh HaShanah). Ten days of repentance began. They culminated on Yom Kippur. It's traditionally observed ...
  • Teaching Torture
    By Michael Collins Sometimes keeping up with our societal decline becomes a bit too much. For example: SPRINGTOWN, Texas — Like many schools in Texas, “spare the rod and spoil the child” might be considered the motto at Springtown High School. But when two teenage girls the ...
  • When "freedom of speech" translates into hate ...
    Kourosh Ziabari They see the offensive movie which has insulted one of the world's most ancient, venerated and popular religions in the light of their ambassador and other diplomatic staff being killed overseas. Of course such violence is not accepted, but the U.S. politicians and mass media ha ...
  • Agitate for Change
    by Stephen Lendman Sitting on the sidelines accomplishes nothing. Indifference isn't an option. Nothing important changes without public involvement and activism. "We the people" must show we mean it. Doug Dowd is an economic historian, economist, and political activist. At age 94, he's ...
  • Fatah Israeli Collaborators
    by Stephen Lendman Call it an open secret. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, unelected Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and like-minded Fatah officials collaborate with Israel's occupation harshness. At least since Oslo, they served Israel at the expense of their own people. Abbas is mor ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Analysis of Saskatchewan's Renewal of Labour L ...
    Unions in a Democratic Society: A Response to the Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, a new CCPA report by Christopher Schenk, critically reviews the contemplated changes to labour legislation proposed by the Saskatchewan government in their Consultation Pape ...
  • Ontario could be hard hit by new trade deal
    A trade deal between Canada and the EU that's being negotiated in Ottawa this week could have devastating effects on Ontario. The CCPA's new report, Straightjacket: CETA’s Constraining Effects on Ontario, details the ways in which the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could accel ...
  • Time for Ontario to go public with child care
    The Ontario government is in a consultation phase over how to modernize the province's child care system. Child care expert Martha Friendly and CCPA Ontario Director Trish Hennessy have co-authored a primer on child care in Ontario, making the case for the government to take leadership and commi ...
  • The New Saskatchewan or Oklahoma North?
    Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still recieve the full benefits o ...
  • How affordable is a university education in yo ...
    A new report from the CCPA’s Education Project tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordabil ...

World Wide Hippies

  • WWH/CJE Hippie Digest: GaneshFest – Emm ...
    GaneshFest brings music and yoga together for good cause If there are two things hippies love it’s yoga and music festivals. Both are about discovering your inner self and the all around pursuit of positive vibes. Which is why it was only a matter of time before the two collided to form th ...
  • Revolution 99% Updates: Main Stream Media; Let ...
    Occupy at One Year: A Success Already Commentators who declare the Occupy movement a failure underestimate the value of protest in a democracy and fail to acknowledge how the Occupy movement has already influenced public and political discourse. The Occupy movement is following the same trajecto ...
  • WWH/CJE Thursday News Briefs
    Brig. Gen. Sinclair charged with rape Months after his sudden removal from his post in Afghanistan, Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair has been charged with multiple violations of the military’s Uniform Code, ranging from wrongful sexual conduct to several rules violations. For our Newscast ...
  • Diggin’ Nimbin, Australia
    By Peace Freeborn - Nimbin, a small rural village in the sub-tropical Northern Rivers Region in New South Wales, Australia was shattered when changes in dairy industry regulation destroyed the towns economic base, leaving behind a ghost town and a few die-hard farmers in the hills. The early 197 ...
  • The Sexual Freedom of the New Woman
    Growing up in the 1970s, I was never taught to celebrate my sexual freedom. I was taught that sex was bad, only men liked it and not only did it hurt, but you risked getting pregnant. And if you had sex before marriage then you were damaged goods. When I was in second grade I [...]

FourWinds10

  • Industrial waste blamed as millions of fish di ...
    MILLIONS of dead fish have been found floating on the Minjiang River in southeast China's Fujian Province and it has started to stink. A cleanup has begun and authorities are investigating the cause and trying to find out whether there is any danger to drinking water. Local farmers suspect t ...
  • EPA finally acknowledges fracking dangers
    Dec. 14, 2011 (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency on December 7 released its first report linking fracking to water contamination. The report identified fracking as the source of poisons, including the carcinogen benzene, in the groundwater of a central Wyoming community.   So ...
  • Researchers discover massive methane 'fountain ...
    Dec. 22, 2011 (NaturalNews) When a Russian team recently stumbled upon a few methane "fountains" releasing large amounts of methane gas from shallow arctic waters directly into the atmosphere, they had no idea that there were hundreds, if not thousands, more. The UK's Daily Mail re ...
  • Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to Portect Badl ...
    Feb. 4, 2012 Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to protect Badlands National Park from coal pollution.   Scenic Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota is visited by nearly a million people each year,1 but the park's beautiful views are increasingly threatened by air pollution from ...
  • Judge Bars 17 Chevron Executives From Leaving ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Potential of Methanol
    Last week I received an email from John Bockris, a retired Distinguished Professor from Texas A&M University. I presume Professor Bockris had come across some of my writings on methanol, as that was the topic of his correspondence. I don’t think Professor Bockris realized that we had m ...
  • Ethanol Policy: How to Grow Production Sustain ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss potential improvements to U.S. ethanol policy. I explain the fundamental principles that guide my thoughts on energy policy, which primarily involve moving toward more sustainable and locally-sourced energy, but understanding the tra ...
  • Gasoline Prices Doubled Under Obama: True or F ...
    The Claim: President Obama Has Doubled Gasoline Prices During the Republican primaries, a number of candidates made a claim that at first glance seems improbable: That under President Obama, gasoline prices have doubled. A current advertising campaign by the American Energy Alliance repeats that ...
  • Mitigating the Long Recession; and CNG Vehicle ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first question is whether I believe that nuclear energy or hydraulic fracturing will offset the impacts of my “Long Recession” scenario. The second is about the EPA licensing requirements for comp ...
  • Responses to Thorium Reactor Story
    Following last week’s R-Squared Energy TV episode that discussed thorium nuclear reactors, there were a number of comments and emails from readers that added a lot of clarity to the discussion. I want to highlight some of those comments, because as I had indicated that was definitely outsi ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • HowStuffWorks "How Weather Works"
    Tags: 4sci, weather, worksby: Andy Losik
  • HowStuffWorks "Moon Phases"
    Comments:Nice chart and explanation of how the Moon Phases change. - Andy LosikTags: 4sci, moon, moon phases, phases, Astronomy, moonphases, solarsystem, howstuffworksby: Andy Losik
  • MY RESEARCH AND TOP 10 WEB 2.0 TOOLS IN XXI CE ...
    Comments:Top 10 Big #eLearning eNews for #backtoschool 2012 : GlogsterEDU , EdFuture, CLASS2GO , Stanford University, Google Course Builder , GTA , Google Teachers Accademy, Wiziq Academic , TedEd , TreeHouse, Dell , Dell Social Inovation , StudyHall .Follow https://twitter.com/web20education - ...
  • artisinteractive - Artisinteractive
    Comments:Great wiki resource site illustrating how technology can be used in the classroom.  In this case, art classroom.  - Dean MantzTags: interactive, elementary, art, technologyby: Dean Mantz
  • Apple and Android App for Music Educators | Sm ...
    Tags: apple, android, app, music, educators, inbox, smartmusicby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • 9 Healthy Herbs for Every Meal
    Snip, Snip! What's the quickest way to load your dinner down with antioxidants? Add oregano. Need more iron? Add lavender. If you’re not utilizing all the fresh herbs overflowing at farmers’ markets right now, you’re missing out nature’s real mirac ...
  • Why This Famous Musician Wants You to Eat Organic
    Jack Johnson has the laid-back vibe you'd expect of any folk-rock singer-songwriter who hails from the Aloha State of Hawaii. But when it comes to food, he doesn't mess around. "In Hawaii, 80 to 90 percent of our food is shipped in," he says. "Why are we shipping in so much food when we could b ...
  • The Easiest Way for Kids to Lose Weight?
    You would never give your child a birth control pill. But the food industry is feeding children something almost as damaging every time it packages food in a can. Bisphenol A, a chemical that was initially developed as a drug to aid in healthy pregnancy, is commonly used in the epoxy linings of ...
  • The Danger in Your Meat
    Unless you're eating organic meat, you're getting a mouthful of antibiotics with every burger, fried chicken wing, or turkey sandwich you eat. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates that 80 percent of the antibiotics used in this country are fed to farm animals or slipped into the ani ...
  • The Danger in Your Meat
    Unless you're eating organic meat, you're getting a mouthful of antibiotics with every burger, fried chicken wing, or turkey sandwich you eat. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates that 80 percent of the antibiotics used in this country are fed to farm animals or slipped into the ani ...

big think

  • DeTron to Release Super-Secure Cloud Computing Key
    What’s the Latest Development? Cloud computing relies on shared resources to manage data across a network. In order for that data to become encrypted, most cryptography schemes “rely on a public-key infrastructure and require a third party.” A new encryption algorithm, developed by Chine ...
  • Ecstasy Research Looks to Help Those Affected ...
    What’s the Latest Development? In England, new research is being done with MRI scanners and a not-so-new drug. David Nutt of Imperial College London is conducting trials on MDMA, the active ingredient of the party drug, ecstasy. David is a “former government adviser and one of the few UK ...
  • It's Time for Conservatives to Stop Whining Ab ...
    So says an outstanding young conservative public intellectual—Helen Rittelmeyer. It’s true enough that conservatives still do accuse the Democrats—or , more precisely, the liberals—of being moral relativists.  Rittelmeyer quotes Paul Ryan saying that the big problem of our time is moral ...
  • Bre Pettis on The Disruptive Future of 3D Printing
    We recently released our latest Deep Dive report which examines the dynamic web of cultural activity that makes up the Hackdesign Content Network. In Hackdesign, the new “maker movement” updates traditional DIY ideas of repair, often through open source technology and craftiness. The results are ...
  • Some Thoughts on the United Nations
    Bloomberg recently asked me a few questions about the evolving role and capacity of the United Nations.  With the 67th session of the UN General Assembly underway, I wanted to share my answers and ask folks how they’d respond. (1) Where does the UN fit in the 21st-century world? It remains a ...

Information Liberation

  • The Sacred Cause of "Officer Safety"
    *It*s just about being safe.* Thus spoke Deputy Corry Bassett of the Lincoln County, Wyoming Sheriff*s Office as he struggled to justify handcuffing Robert Pierson during an August 11, 2011 traffic stop. Pierson, a Marine combat veteran, had b...
  • What Happened to Virtue?
    In the midst of the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon famously advised President Hoover to "liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate" instead of propping each industry up with tax dollars.* This liq...
  • The Militarization of Mayberry
    Flemington, New Jersey has all of 4,500 people. It hasn*t seen a murder in well over a decade. But it does have its own SWAT team. And now the town wants to buy assault rifles for its regular patrol cops, too. Here*s a photo of the SWAT team, t...
  • Texas cops destroy video evidence of colleague ...
    A Texas cop is on restricted duty after killing an unarmed man, while other officers are on the hook for trying to destroy documentary evidence of the event. A police officer in Texas shot an unarmed man before colleagues confiscated and deleted v...
  • Lawyer: Cop killed 'innocent man ... take resp ...
    BRIDGEPORT -- The lawyer for the family of a South Carolina man fatally shot in the back by a city police officer following a chase four years ago urged a Superior Court jury Tuesday to find the city responsible for the police officer's actions. "...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Getting The Government We Deserve
    I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
  • Violence An Inch Beneath The Surface
    What are we to make of this lot? A comically amateurish anti-Islam propaganda film, made by some bloke in America who claimed to be Jewish and have financial backing from the Jewish business community, but who in fact turned out … Continue reading →
  • The Rainbow Connection
    Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...
    Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
  • One More Five-Ring Circus
    The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Tracking with a purpose
    The Human Face of Big Data app for iOS and Android will anonymously track your behaviour and help scientists crowdsource a big picture of humanity over the coming days. The free app launches later today and will learn not only about yourself but also how you compare to others. You can compare an ...
  • Tracking with a purpose
    The Human Face of Big Data app for iOS and Android will anonymously track your behaviour and help scientists crowdsource a big picture of humanity over the coming days. The free app launches later today and will learn not only about yourself but also how you compare to others. You can compare an ...
  • The moral dilemma
    According to evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm, “our moral sense is a sophisticated defence mechanism that enables individuals to survive and thrive in groups. One of the biggest risks of group living is the possibility of being punished for our misdeeds by those around us. Bul ...
  • The moral dilemma
    According to evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm, “our moral sense is a sophisticated defence mechanism that enables individuals to survive and thrive in groups. One of the biggest risks of group living is the possibility of being punished for our misdeeds by those around us. Bul ...
  • The perfect app for vampires
    The Transylvania branch of the National Health Service has just launched a free app for iOS and Android devices that lets vampires target willing victims easier than ever before without all that late-night stalking and morphing into bats malarkey. The app lets victims donors search for a blood d ...

RFF Library

  • The Optimal Carbon Tax and Economic Growth
    Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies / by Armon Rezai, Frederick van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen http://bit.ly/RBYfav [Abstract] In a calibrated integrated assessment model we investigate the differential impact of additive and multiplicative damages from climate change for ...
  • Air Quality in Europe — 2012 report
    European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-quality-in-europe-2012 [Reuters] Air pollution is shortening lives by almost two years in parts of the European Union, the European Environmental Agency (EEA) said, strengthening the case for a tightening of emissions restrict ...
  • Interpreting Trade-related CO2 Emission Transfers
    Nature Climate Change / by Michael Jakob  & Robert Marschinski (Published online Sept. 24, 2012 ; doi:10.1038/nclimate1630) http://bit.ly/OVBHkl [From Agence France-Presse article] …’Typically in the West, we import goods whose production causes a lot of greenhouse-gas emissions ...
  • Energy Tax Incentives: Measuring Value Across ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41953.pdf [PEN-e posting] The 27 page report authored by Molly F. Sherlock provides, an analysis of the value of energy tax incentives relative to primary energy production levels. Relative to their share in overall energy productio ...
  • Climate Negotiations Open a Window: Key Implic ...
    Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Centers, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / This policy brief expands upon the Science article, “Climate Negotiators Create an Opportunity for Scholars” by Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins. http://bit.ly/R85dld [Abstract]  A key outcome ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • KI Nation Paddles 300 miles to Protect their W ...
    A team of paddlers from the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Indigenous Nation have canoed along their ancient trading river route from their remote fly-in community to Hudson's Bay to protect their watershed from unwanted mining. The trip began on Aug. 24 and concluded on Sept. 8. The KI ...
  • How to Speak Politician
    DECODING MIKE SAVAGE'S PLATFORM With a municipal election coming up and a long-serving mayor not re-offering, there is opportunity for change in HRM governance. So far, it seems like Mike Savage is leading the pack by a country mile an ...
  • Turning Around Turcot
    New Hope for Highways on a Human Scale in Montreal MONTREAL—After months of protests that captured the imagination of the world, things have quieted down on Montreal streets. But the impacts of the mobilizations, which began as a coll ...
  • Bedford Road "Redmen," It's Time for a Change
    ....seriously About a year ago a close friend of mine started up Bedford Road “Redmen”, It’s Time for a Change on facebook (please check it out, and like it if you haven’t already).The page immediately stirred up a l ...
  • Have a story to tell? Send in your pitches by ...
    Have a story to tell? Tell it to The Dominion and our many unique readers. We will pay two contributors for news features to be published in the next issue of The Dominion.  We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, including photo essays, info-graphics and video p ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Mitt Romney or "Class Struggle for Dummies"
    We thought Romney was secretly moderate, but it turns out that he’s secretly cruel, a social Darwinist just like his running mate. Maureen Dowd - New York Times What these comments definitely tell us, though, is what Mitt Romney, master consultant, feels his “clients” in the Republican donor b ...
  • 9/11... on the record
    ”fae ghosties & ghoulies & lang-legged beasties & things that go bump in the nicht...guid lord, deliver us” (traditional scottish prayer)David Seaton's News Links Today is the anniversary... a time to remember where you were, and what happened that day.September eleventh, 2001, at 9A ...
  • Democrats and the vanishing American middle class
    It seems that the Democrats have had the modicum of mother wit to make the middle class the framework and theme of their 2012 campaign. We know that the Democrats can't really walk the walk, but it is nice to hear somebody at least talk the talk for a change. For the sad truth is that the Am ...
  • Clint Eastwood and his contempt for America
    "This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama." @jabouie tweet re Eastwood's speech (ht Doonesbury)Clint Eastwood’s performance was the most decadent, self indulgent thing I have ever seen. Watching him wank for 12 minutes to wild ap ...
  • Mooned... with aplogies to Neil Armstrong
    Mother of tidesThe great white kiteFloats gently cross the breathless nightGiant leaps are soon forgotten. David Seaton

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Silicon Valley is Still Slightly Less Powerful ...
    One of the knocks on the digital ecosphere is that it doesn't really employ very many people. Facebook might be cool, but it doesn't do much for the real economy. Ezra Klein grabs my attention today with a suggestion that this might be about to change: Square, a company led by Twitter co-fo ...
  • Quote of the Day: Romney Is Ruining Things For ...
    Today's QOTD comes from Stephen Breitstone, co-head of the taxation and wealth preservation group at Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone LLP, commenting on one of the tax avoidance schemes that Mitt Romney used in the $100 million trust he set up for his children and grandchildren: I ...
  • Why You Should Always Account for Inflation: A ...
    Ryan Chittum points out a good example today of how misleading news reports can be when they fail to account for inflation. Here's a sentence from a recent Wall Street Journal piece on cell phones: Americans spent $116 more a year on telephone services in 2011 than they did in 2007, accordi ...
  • 4 Years After Meltdown, Wall Street Still Call ...
    The New York Times reports today that other countries are way ahead of us when it comes to regulation high-frequency trading. So why are we so far behind? There are "many" reasons, says the Times. Let's count them up: There are many explanations for the slower pace of reform in the United S ...
  • Today's Economic Rorschach Test
    Good news today! The economy was stronger than we thought in the first quarter: In accordance with usual practice, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is announcing the preliminary estimate of the upcoming annual benchmark revision to the establishment survey employment series....The preli ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 349: Creep By Association
    Topics: Politics sucks Gun control 2012 has been a great year for movies The Hobbit & Skyfall trailers Patrick Stewart back for X-Men? Porn in a Disney movie Phat asses in the gym Creep by association Worst wait ever Share with your friends:
  • IC 348: Random
    Topics: This show is more random than usual. We jump from continuing the Heaven conversation from last show to Comic Books to Monica Lewinsky (And Kev’s ridiculously funny Bill Clinton impersonation) to Rush Limbaugh’s absolutely ridiculous theory on Al Qaeda and President Obama. Sha ...
  • IC 347: 21st Century Heaven
    Topics: Redskins back? Baltimore ComicCon and real nerds You gotta workout if you are gonna wear a superhero costume WB/DC and making the Justice League Ex-OJ Simpson Prosecutor can’t let it go A Joe Paterno/Penn State scandal movie? President Obama got jokes Mitt Romney needs to be more B ...
  • IC 346: Complacent Ass Nigga #1
    Topics: Working for a job with no passion Being complacent is awesome Fuck School NBA 2k13 and the worst collector’s edition ever Marvel gets sued & tells the plaintiffs to go fuck themselves It’s just a movie, its not realistic The Democratic party has never been liberal You&#8 ...
  • IC 345: Black Unicorn
    Topics: Avengers tops $1.5 Billion Michael Bay tries to distance himself from the Ninja Turtles Script Your opinion represents the minority I know my opinion is fucked up, you don’t have to tell me Kev goes to the Red Light District in Amsterdam The RNC & DNC The media isn’t inf ...

Simple Climate

  • Warming cost estimates cheat our children
    Economic analysis of the social cost of carbon that treats future generations as less important is close to insanity, according to economist Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.
  • Could pollution be stopping warming’s impact o ...
    Considering both space and time in climate records shows predictions for how rainfall will change are wrong, say Michael Roderick and his teammates from Australian National University, Canberra, who speculate that atmospheric aerosols are to blame.
  • Sun loses grip on Earth’s temperature changes
    Patterns in the heat we feel stopped being caused by the Sun since the 1970s, mathematical tests done by Antonello Pasini from the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Rome and his teammates show, with greenhouse gases and other human influences likely to be drowning its influence out.
  • More bird flu over the horseshoe crabs’ nests?
    Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan
  • Finding nature’s part in Arctic ice loss puts ...
    With Arctic ice heading for reaching its smallest area yet, Jonny Day from the University of Reading, UK and his colleagues have found an ocean circulation pattern could be responsible for up to three-tenths of the ice loss since the 1970s – but that humans remain most responsible.

e!Science News

  • Nickelblock: An element's love-hate relationsh ...
    Anyone who owns an electronic device knows that lithium ion batteries could work better and last longer. Now, scientists examining battery materials on the nano-scale reveal how nickel forms a physical barrier that impedes the shuttling of lithium ions in the electrode, reducing how fast the mat ...
  • New clues about ancient water cycles shed ligh ...
    The deserts of Utah and Nevada have not always been dry. Between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, when large ice caps covered Canada during the last glacial cooling, valleys throughout the desert southwest filled with water to become large lakes, scientists have long surmised. At their maximum size, ...
  • UCSB scientists capture clues to sustainabili ...
    Thanks to studies of a fish that gives birth to live young and is not fished commercially, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that food availability is a critical limiting factor in the health of fish populations. read more
  • Now in Science: It's not too late for troubled ...
    A study published in Science magazine and co-authored by Bren School Sustainable Fisheries Group (SFG) researchers and their colleagues confirms suspicions that thousands of "data-poor" fisheries, representing some 80 percent of the world's fisheries, are in decline but could recover w ...
  • Peering to the edge of a black hole
    Using a continent-spanning telescope, an international team of astronomers has peered to the edge of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. For the first time, they have measured the black hole's "point of no return" -- the closest distance that matter can approach before bein ...

unEarthed

  • VIDEO: Sneak Preview of Matt Damon Fracking Film
    Premieres December 2012 Here’s the trailer for Promised Land, a feature film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon that depicts the effects of t ...
  • Critical Mass At 20
    A bike ride that changed how we think about cities and our planet In the USA, transportation is the second largest emitter of carbon dioxide pollution causing cl ...
  • Monday Reads: The Pacific Fisher & Socks Edition
    Who is the Pacific fisher, and why does he want your socks? The last, valiant moments of a bait-filled sock, doing his part for science. (Courtesy of SNAMP) D ...
  • House Passes Pro-Coal War On Health Bill
    On way out of town, House votes industry a free pass to pollute It's been a long two years with the 112th Congress. In that time, House leadership has often trie ...
  • Happy 98th To Living Legend Ken Hechler
    Still ferocious in the fight against mountaintop removal mining after all these years Ken Hechler, thank you and Happy Birthday!  (Photo courtesy of Ken Hechler) ...

Brave New Climate

  • Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...
    The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on ...
  • 21st century nuclear… for beginners
    SACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
  • Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
    This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
  • Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costs
    This the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
  • Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...
    This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
  • Buying Property
    Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
  • IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
    IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
  • Real Estate Investing Myths
    Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Mitt It’s A Trap
    I wonder if Mitt understands the fact that every time he opens his mouth about taxes, he is twisting the knife he and his wealthy friends have in every American’s back. Almost every single American wants the rich to pay a greater share of our country’s bills. Most Americans understan ...
  • What Is Going On In The Polls?
    Most of the visitors to this website, and myself, understand what the difference is between Republicans and Democrats. Even though I am pleased with the movement in the polls in the favor of Democrats, I don’t know exactly what is causing the increased popularity of the Dems. Are people wa ...
  • Koch Brothers Wealth Was 32 Billion Now 62 Billion
    Since president Obama was inaugurated the wealth of the Koch Brothers has grown from 32 billion dollars to 62 billion dollars. And they want him out? What is wrong with Charles, and David. I mean besides the fact that they would kill your family if it was profitable of course.
  • Wrong Ken – Medicare Is Here To Stay
    Yesterday on Up With Chris Hayes Ken Williams made this statement about Medicare “It’s a stupid program, it’s going away anyway, it’s totally financially unsustainable, anybody that can do math can tell you that. It’s a question of whether it goes away in 10 years, ...
  • It’s Not Mitt It’s All Republicans
    More Americans are beginning to realize exactly what the Republican Party stands for. Most Americans want to ignore politics. They don’t want to talk about politics. Now that an election is getting closer some voice deep inside of them is telling them they have to pay attention at least a ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Bibi’s ACME bomb at UNGA inspires Israel ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (or should I say Bib E. Coyote?) had a lot of people worldwide holding their stomachs with laughter as he held his Looney Tune ACME bomb above the UNGA podium. The Israeli meme artists, as usual, were quick to respond. Here are a few (I may update as the creativ ...
  • Bibi and the bomb: Buffoonery or clever tactic ...
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his much-anticipated speech at the United Nations General Assembly today. He started off by leaning casually on the podium and surveying the people in the hall. At one point he punctuated his speech with the idiomatic expression, “Yeah, right!” ...
  • Canadian woman gets 3 months in IDF jail for d ...
    This has to be one of the strangest, dumbest stories I have unfortunately been following lately. Yana Gurlik, a 30-year-old expat came to Israel for a family wedding last month, and was told on arrival that there were some problems with her status, according to the army. At the airport she was a ...
  • World Bank report obscures nature of Palestini ...
    Why does Prime Minister Fayyad wish to ‘improve’ the Paris Protocols, despite the severe limitations that it imposes on the PA’s ability to choose their own economic regime and adopt trade policies?  By Neve Gordon Triggered by gas-price increases, tens of thousands of Palestin ...
  • A week in photos: September 20-26

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Heritage grant to share footprints of convict ...
    The yards of the Cascades Female Factory will be filled with the footprints of the convict buildings that housed the women who were once held and worked there, as part of a conservation and interpretation project funded by the Gillard Labor Government's Your Community Heritage program.
  • Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 2012
    Australia today welcomes more than 300 delegates from among the 50 Antarctic nations to Hobart for the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
  • $469 million for NSW to deliver major rural wa ...
    Federal Water Minister Tony Burke has approved $469 million in funding to support four major projects that will return an average of 80 billion litres of water to the system each year as part of the Basin-wide commitment to infrastructure projects.
  • Review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity
    The Australian Government has released the independent review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity to respond to future extreme weather and natural disaster events and to provide seasonal forecasting services.
  • Meeting with the Queensland Government
    The meeting with Deputy Premier Seeney and Minister Powell today was productive and is hopefully the first step in resolving the differences which have unfolded between the Commonwealth and Queensland over the past fortnight.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Thomas Wonders Why The Adults Wont Stand up an ...
      Scridb filter
  • Major Global Shakeup…Russia Suspends Use ...
    A little off the (well) beaten track of foreclosures and the economy, but consider the far reaching impact of a global food shortage….and confirmation that American technology…distributed by an American company…contributed to an increased risk of cancer. Well, that’s the ...
  • BOMBSHELL- SECRET OBAMA SPEECH ACCIDENTALLY LE ...
    The inadvertent release of a secret speech by the White House reveals the true depth of collusion and corruption between the US Government, the banks and Wall Street. They don’t want you to read it because the speech reveals…in chilling and terrifying detail….just how deep the ...
  • VOTE YES TO RETAIN ALL FLORIDA SUPREME COURT J ...
    It’s understandable why Gov. Rick Scott and his Republican allies have no love for the courts. After all, their batting average is pretty low in trying to overturn laws they don’t like and defending their own extreme lawmaking. But the state Republican Party’s unprecedented cal ...
  • Max Gardner Foreclosure Boot Camp!
    Max Gardner’s Bankruptcy Boot Camp is presenting our most complete Foreclosure & Mortgage Litigation Boot Camp yet for attorneys representing homeowners fighting foreclosure in state and bankruptcy courts.   Max and his handpicked panel of experts and insiders will address the essential issu ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • How To Lose One’s Voice
    The following is my recent Huffington Post piece on the loss of Canada’s international voice. The direct link can be …Continue reading »
  • Living In A Post-Political World
      We have lived as a species in times of kings and despots and decided we had experienced enough. The majority …Continue reading »
  • A Dance For the Generations
    Today’s the big day, as I head in shortly for the six-hour operation to have half of my stomach removed. …Continue reading »
  • Dog Gone
    Sometimes, big things in our lives come in threes. That was my experience in the last couple of weeks. First …Continue reading »
  • How Politics Changes Us (3)
    It set us back for a minute. The email message had come in from someone in the riding that I …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
    Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
  • Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
    August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
  • Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
    Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
  • Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
    Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
  • The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?
    Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...

2020 Science

  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
  • Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
    Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Good of WikiLeaks
    Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
  • Race War in Arizona
    Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
  • Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
  • Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
    Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC)     Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
  • Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
    Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)     Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

  • A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
    By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
  • The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...
    “On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
  • The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
    [Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • Reflections from the Heart: Celebrating Two Y ...
    Today marks the official two-year anniversary of the Healthy Monday program launch at the Franciscan Center, an emergency food assistance and outreach agency in Baltimore City.
  • Oyster Town: 1800 to Now
    Maryland has had a long, rich history of harvesting its Chesapeake Bay oysters.
  • Rally Calls for Farm Bill Now
    Congress’ inability to pass a new five-year farm bill has only compounded the difficulties faced by farmers and ranchers.
  • Swine Flu Update: H3N2v Now Spreading Among Humans
    To reduce the probability of an influenza pandemic, we should reconsider the industrial model by which the majority of food animals in this country are produced.
  • Policy expert Mark Winne has watched food move ...
    Long-time food policy expert Mark Winne has seen this nation’s food movement follow a path that mirrors his own professional journey. More and more advocates are delving into policy to get support for the hands-on projects that were their first forays into food issues. As a result of this shift ...

k2p blog

  • Siemens boycotts Ryanair
    The German industrial group Siemens, with 400,000 employees worldwide, has decided for a global boycott of Ryanair.
  • Tornadoes and forest fires drastically down &# ...
    Even the IPCC agrees that there is no anthropogenic or natural climate change signal apparent in extreme weather events (tornadoes, floods, draughts, forest fires or tropical storms). Weather is not climate.
  • Opposition to shale gas and cheap US coal only ...
    While shale gas is giving lower energy prices and lower emissions in the US, cheap US coals and opposition to shale gas in Europe is giving an increased use of coal - and higher emissions.
  • Why Barron’s Facebook valuation of $15 p ...
    Barron's valuation of $15 for Facebook shares which would be 35 times earnings is certainly no level for me to enter - especially when the future earnings are still so much in doubt. At half that vale at around $8 per share (around 18 times earnings) I could be persuaded to invest - though still ...
  • Arrogant and overbearing political correctness ...
    An arrogant young man presumes that his world-view shall prevail and takes it upon himself to be a censor by removing all copies of Tintin from the shelves of the 10-13 year old library of Stockholm's Culture Centre. Behrang Meri failed to impress on the radio today and I cannot help feeling tha ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Internet Privacy Advocates To FTC: Maybe Check ...
    After the world caught wind of Facebook’s sassy new partnership with data mining company Datalogix, we figured it would only be a matter of time before the public protestations started. The advocates over at the Electronic Privacy Information Center have teamed up with the Center for Digit ...
  • Consumer Reports Thinks Justin Bieber’s ...
    Teen pop sensation/hair farm Justin Bieber received a chrome-plated Fisker Karma as an 18th birthday gift from his manager, and has been caught a few times in the kind of traffic violations you’d expect from an 18-year-old with a very fast luxury vehicle. Leonardo DiCaprio apparently owns ...
  • American Airlines Tells Pilots To Please Stop ...
    Like the mom who catches you putting the thermometer against a hot light bulb, the powers that be at beleaguered commercial carrier American Airlines say they are not fooled by the recent rash of pilots calling in “sick” and want them to put and end to the disruption before this mess ...
  • 5 Major Rental Car Companies Agree To Stop Ren ...
    You know what’s a scary thought? Renting a vehicle from a car rental company and then finding out that it’s part of a recall, but was never brought in for the necessary repairs. Then there you are, driving a potentially dangerous vehicle. We’re kind of surprised it took this lo ...
  • Ice Cream Company Learns That Not All Muslims ...
    A 100-year-old Montana ice cream company is getting to know what it’s like to be hated by the Internet after it told a Muslim customer from Wyoming that it doesn’t deliver to Pakistan. The brouhaha began late last week, when a man from Sheridan, WY, asked on the ice cream company&#82 ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Practice What You Preach: Obama Preaches Free ...
    President Obama gave an eloquent speech to the UN yesterday. Obama spoke about democracy, freedom on the First Amendment: Our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech. Here in the United States, countless publications provoke offense. Like me, the majority of Americans ...
  • In Misconduct Investigations, Gov Relies on Co ...
    The New York Times: Under Investigation, and Doing the Investigation Summary: This article details how, once accused of wrongdoing, most companies will hire a law firm to investigate the claims and make a report. Interestingly, government investigators frequently use these reports for their ow ...
  • An Insider's Perspective on USDA's Problematic ...
    An Insider's Perspective on USDA's Problematic Poultry Rule Summary: A retired USDA poultry inspector, and grandmother of eight, speaks out against the agency's flawed poultry inspection proposal (known as HIMP) that she believes will compromise public health and hurt workers. "If the general ...
  • What Do a Retired Catholic Bishop, UAE Comment ...
    What do a retired Catholic Bishop, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and a United Arab Emirates' newspaper commentator have in common? They are all critical of the government's unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers. Yesterday, I wrote about a signific ...
  • Did Siemens & Argentina Hire Thugs to Beat Whi ...
    Miami New Times: Argentinean Government, Siemens Hired Goons to Rough Up Whistleblower, Miami Lawsuit Claims Summary: According to a whistleblower suit recently filed in Miami, electronics company Siemens AG and the Argentinean government conspired to retaliate against a whistleblower who expo ...

UK Progressive

  • Absurd Effort to Repackage Romney as a Compass ...
    Mitt Says His Heart “Aches” For You — Convinced? “My heart aches for the people I’ve seen,” Mitt Romney said, on the second day of his Ohio bus tour. He’s now telling stories of economic hardship among the people he’s met. Up until now, Romney’s stories on the campaign trail ha ...
  • Why Mitt Romney is Losing
    by Brent Budowsky History may well record that Barack Obama and Democrats won the 2012 elections, and Mitt Romney and Republicans lost the 2012 elections, in the period that began with Bill Clinton’s speech to the Democratic convention and ended with the leak of Mitt Romney’s private ...
  • Two Major Views Why Romney is Losing and the S ...
    by Robert Reich I’ve spent the past few days debating right-wingers — among them, Grover Norquist and Ann Coulter. This isn’t my idea of fun. I do it because apparently many Americans find these people persuasive, and it seems important to try to show why they’re profoundly wrong. There are two ...
  • A Moving Day at UWC’s Atlantic College
    By Denis G. Campbell Three miles from my home sits Atlantic College, part of UWC (United World Colleges) network of 12 schools around the globe. Their task is to deliver “a challenging and transformational education to 7,500 students each year” from countries around the world. Located in a forme ...
  • Bill Clinton to Treasury
    by Brent Budowsky My advice to President Obama: Announce that if he is reelected he will appoint former President Bill Clinton as interim Treasury secretary or an equivalent role, for a limited tenure, beginning the day after the election, to advance a bipartisan plan to create large-scale new j ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Sunny days are here… a breakthrough
    It poured today in Perth, but I’m a happy girl. Finally, after days of trying*, we’ve got the data, the images, the drafts, the styles, the plugins, and all 922 posts that generated 120492 comments. We’ve got a new account. … Continue reading →
  • I needed a holiday
    It’s not exactly what I had in mind, but right now happens to be a very good time for one. I haven’t had much of a break since November 2009 (See the archives).. Apologies again for the non-standard service, and … Continue reading →
  • still not there yet…
    Sorry for further delays, but it may be another day or two before the site is fixed. I am having interesting conversations though. This is an excellent networking opp (a chance to get-to-know-your-local and not-so-local skeptic). It could turn out … Continue reading →
  • Massive Eltanin Meteor 2.5 million years ago s ...
    From the file of “Things that would really be catastrophic”. Did a meteor have a role in a major shift in Earth’s Climate? The start of the Quaternary period (2.588 million years ago, where the Pliocene became Pleistocene) coincides with evidence of a mega tsunami in the South ...
  • McIntyre v Lewandowsky — Can we call in ...
    The Lewandowsky view is Drilling into noise. The McIntyre response: Lewandowsky’s Fake Correlation My favourite Lewandowsky line is: “We cannot get into the details here…” McIntyre can and does in gory depth. He posts the equations, the code, the tables, everything. He graphs t ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
  • Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
    John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
  • TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
    Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

  • Steal A Bunker
    I’ve advocated this in my book (see SafeSpots.info), but I only highlighted a few choice examples of underground properties that would make great survival bunkers. The best is somewhere nearby, somewhere you can get to. So here’s a web site that lists 700 or so underground structures ...
  • C/2012 S1 (ISON) in 2013
    The experts say they need to study newly discovered comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) more, so it might be a while before I found out… but this could be the return of Comet Caesar (astronomers – feel free to tell me if it couldn’t possibly be). If so, I cannot imagine a more beautiful and ...
  • Revolution (TV): A Disappointment
    The premise was both interesting and extremely timely: a world without electricity*. The TV series could have gone in any extreme direction, but unfortunately it seems to be going nowhere. The lack of electricity is not meaningful in the slightest. On the positive side: interesting characters ...
  • Tarot and 2012: Scary Connection
    2012 keeps on surprising me. I thought I’d seen and heard every angle there could be by now, and this one took me totally by surprise. I’m not new to Tarot – twenty years ago I was giving readings and wearing a Crowley deck Death (above) t-shirt. And I’m not new to the nu ...
  • Lapka Environment Monitor
    Years ago I imagined I’d be spending Dec 25 deep in a bunker, surrounded by monitoring equipment, and a periscope. I want to safe, but I also want to know what it happening. Now I expect to be at my safe spot (but not in a bunker), and using online resources to monitor the world. But if th ...

Facing South

  • Report: Extending insurance coverage could red ...
    Under the Affordable Care Act, racial and ethnic differentials in health insurance coverage are poised to shrink due to the extension of coverage to hundreds of thousands of individuals and families, particularly through the Medicaid expansion. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The reality behind Romney's t ...
    In a speech to wealthy donors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said 47 percent of Americans "pay no income tax," are "dependent upon government," and "will vote for the president no matter what." A look at the numbers behind those claims. read more
  • University of Virginia prevails against climat ...
    A Virginia circuit court judge rules that the school does not have to turn over former professor Michael Mann's e-mails to the American Tradition Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded think tank that works to discredit climate scientists. The case is now expected to move on to the state Supreme Court. ...
  • Art Pope translates dollars into influence at UNC
    Conservative donor Art Pope has given millions to North Carolina's public universities, often to have his offers rejected over political controversies. Now he has a seat at the table in deciding the UNC system's future. read more
  • Preaching Koch Brothers gospel on public education
    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his administration's school leaders have come perilously close to sounding like one of those Mississippi legislators back in 1985 who dealt with a statewide teachers' strike by giving them a pay raise -- but at the cost of a provision that prevented them from ever ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Anti-American Autumn Follows the Arab Spring
    The brutal assassination of the American Ambassador Chris Stevens and three US diplomats in Benghazi, the cradle of anti-Qaddafi uprising in Libya, suggests an extremely improvident foreign policy of the United States in recent years. The commentators and experts are busy seeking a triggering mo ...
  • Episode 8. The Great Odd War (I)
    In previous articles we have looked in detail at the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 and the shrewd diplomatic game played by the British government during the hot summer of 1914 designed to draw Germany and Russia into ...
  • Pashtun Awakening: Defeat The Taliban By Chang ...
    Pakistan has systemically weakened Afghanistan by undermining the sacred tribal structure of the Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group, by attempting to replace it with the extremist ideology and practices of the Taliban – a process we refer to as “de-Pashtunization”. The only way to stop ...
  • US Economy Sustained by Export of Dollars and Wars
    For those who feel that 13 is an unlucky number, the belief was vindicated on September 13, considering that a new liquidity injection – a massive infusion of freshly printed and essentially worthless money into the global economy – was announced in the US on the day. Federal Reserve chairman Be ...
  • Taliban Perspectives on Reconciliation
    One of the most important events related to the war in Afghanistan to occur over the past few weeks was the publication of a report by a group of British experts concerning an inclination towards compromise among the Taliban. The authors interviewed several informed sources to prepare a report a ...

BlogHer

  • Don’t Starve: Learn To Cook
    I consider myself a fairly decent cook. I mean, I'm not getting super fancy on anything. But Joey and I are always fed and almost always happy with what I make. More importantly (in my opinion), I'm pretty capable at taking a bunch of random ingredients and throwing together an entree and a few ...
  • How to Write an Emergency Note to Your Child
    [Editor's Note: Apparently there is a growing trend for schools to ask parents to write a letter to give to their child in case of an emergency. Kind of a "this may be the last thing your child ever reads from you." But no pressure, right? Swistle recently went through the agony of trying to dec ...
  • Be Happy and Achieve More in Your Business
    In a recent presentation by best selling author and NCAA Division I tennis champion, Roger Crawford, he asked the audience of business owners and executives, “Are you listening to your own head trash?” He explained that anxiety is focused on negative outcomes and it eliminates the possibili ...
  • Kathy Sierra on Pixie Dust and Real Goals
    Hugh MacLeod from Gaping Void may have sprinkled a little pixie dust on Kathy Sierra to get her to write this guest post for his blog. Whatever magic he used, we're happy to see Kathy speaking out on business, social media, gamification, and making a product a success. We’re always searching for ...
  • Link Arms with Another Mom Today
    [Editor's Note: I always hate going someplace new as a mom. A moms' group, a new school, one of my kids' friend's houses. I feel awkward and walk into the room on edge, on guard. Rachel at Finding Joy just wrote a beautiful post about how we need to be aware of other mothers walking into rooms w ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Prescription Painkillers Kill More Americans T ...
    According to a new report from Brandeis University, prescription painkillers — opioid or narcotic pain relievers like Vicodin (hydrocodone), OxyContin (oxycodone), Opana (oxymorphone), and methadone — are now responsible for more fatal overdoses in the U.S. ...
  • Birth Control Pills Affect Women’s Taste ...
    This year 2.25 million Americans will get married—and a million will get divorced. Could birth control be to blame for some of these breakups? Recent research suggests that the contraceptive pill—which prevents women from ovulating ...
  • New SARS-Like Virus Found, Man Critically Ill ...
    A Qatari man struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly SARS infection and the common cold is critically ill in hospital in Britain, the World Health Organisation said on Monday. The U.N. ...
  • Feds May Acknowledge Ground Zero Cancer Link
    The federal government may formally acknowledge that Ground Zero first responders and residents of the surrounding neighborhoods could have gotten cancer as a result of their exposure to toxic dust following the Sept. 11 terror ...
  • Common Cat Parasite Linked to Personality Chan ...
    The cat parasite linked to an increase in suicide attempts in infected woman can also cause changes in personality and behavior, according to research. Toxoplasma gondii, or T. gondii, is a protozoa that typically infects cats, but can make ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Sept. 21, 2012
    A conveyor belt that takes coal from the storage pile at Consumer Energy’s B.C. Cobb Plant in Muskegon on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. Before the coal will be burned it will be ground into a talcum powder consistency.  This increases the surface area and burning speed of the coal. (AP Photo/T ...
  • Coal is changing, so when will W.Va. catch up?
    In their announcement earlier this week of a “strategic repositioning plan,” Alpha Natural Resources officials spoke some real truths about what’s happening with the coal industry in general and the Appalachian region’s coalfields in particular. Kevin Crutchfield, Alpha&# ...
  • Alpha announces ‘strategic repositioning ...
    Here’s the announcement just out early this morning from Alpha Natural Resources: Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR), a leading U.S.-based coal supplier, today outlined plans to reshape its portfolio of operations to meet the evolving demands of a changing global coal market. By early 201 ...
  • Sen. Rockefeller to Patriot Coal CEO: Strippin ...
    In this Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., gestures during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Finally, another of our state’s elected officials has stepped forward to exp ...
  • Friday roundup, Sept. 14, 2012
    In this image made out of film “Comrade Kim Goes Flying” released by Another Dimension of An Idea/Koryo Group, Comrade Kim Yong Mi played by Han Jong Sim smiles as she wears a coal miner’s helmet. It’s a classic tale of a small town girl who follows her dreams to the big ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Poll: Favorite Linux Distro For Servers
    What is your favorite server Linux distro? Related ContentDISQUS vs. IntenseDebate [POLL]What’s Your Favorite Mobile Platform?Does My Site Seem Faster To You?Commenting Systems: Facebook Comments vs. DISQUSThe Starcraft 2 Debate
  • President Obama Refuses to Ban Blasphemy
    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/09/26/president-obama-to-un… Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentDid Republicans deliberately crash the US economy? | The GuardianPresident, British PM Table TennisObama is Just a PresidentPresident ...
  • First Thoughts on the iPhone 5
    So it’s been about four days or so and here are my first thoughts on the iPhone 5. It’s basically an iPhone. But it’s the iPhone we should have had a long time ago. It’s the iPhone perfected. I used it all day yesterday and ended up with a 20% charge after 21 hours– ...
  • A Flower at the Apple Store
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content4S FlowerFlower at COIT TowerA Grey Wolf in the Apple StoreStudent FailFlowers and Stone
  • Why I’m Camping for the iPhone 5
    When things are roughly similar, I value form over function. It’s that simple. Elegance, beauty, and design are all magnifiers of experience for me, and my daily device is the place where this matters most. But I also see the other side. Google Now is overwhelmingly superior to Siri. Googl ...

Fitwatch

  • Extremism cop covered up at Hillsborough
    This man, Norman Bettison headed up the liaison unit responsible for orchestrating the lies and black propaganda that was the police response to the deaths of 96 people at Hillsborough. Attempting to cover up the police's role in causing the tragedy, the liaison unit perpetuated false stories of ...
  • Police Liaison Officers – the new FIT
    Police Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...
  • Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...
    The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
  • Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...
    The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
  • Welcome to the Future, Today.
    For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • WWH/CJE Hippie Digest: GaneshFest – Emm ...
    GaneshFest brings music and yoga together for good cause If there are two things hippies love it’s yoga and music festivals. Both are about discovering your inner self and the all around pursuit of positive vibes. Which is why it was only a matter of time before the two collided to form th ...
  • Revolution 99% Updates: Main Stream Media; Let ...
    Occupy at One Year: A Success Already Commentators who declare the Occupy movement a failure underestimate the value of protest in a democracy and fail to acknowledge how the Occupy movement has already influenced public and political discourse. The Occupy movement is following the same trajecto ...
  • WWH/CJE Thursday News Briefs
    Brig. Gen. Sinclair charged with rape Months after his sudden removal from his post in Afghanistan, Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair has been charged with multiple violations of the military’s Uniform Code, ranging from wrongful sexual conduct to several rules violations. For our Newscast ...
  • Diggin’ Nimbin, Australia
    By Peace Freeborn - Nimbin, a small rural village in the sub-tropical Northern Rivers Region in New South Wales, Australia was shattered when changes in dairy industry regulation destroyed the towns economic base, leaving behind a ghost town and a few die-hard farmers in the hills. The early 197 ...
  • The Sexual Freedom of the New Woman
    Growing up in the 1970s, I was never taught to celebrate my sexual freedom. I was taught that sex was bad, only men liked it and not only did it hurt, but you risked getting pregnant. And if you had sex before marriage then you were damaged goods. When I was in second grade I [...]

reference frame

  • Fifty years after Silent Spring
    Conservationism or environmentalism as an ideology has its roots in Nazi Germany and one could probably go even further. But the Western environmentalism in the form we are familiar with today was born exactly 50 years when Rachel Carson began to release her book Silent Spring. It's such ...
  • Experimenters, SUSY, frustrations, and anthrop ...
    High-energy phenomenologists and experimenters may be entering a psychological stage that was predictable – and that, in fact, many of us including your humble correspondent were predicting. The LHC is a great machine that works very well and pushes many frontiers but it's not a "miracle mach ...
  • Albert Einstein 1911-12, 1922-23
    Several events related to Albert Einstein's life occurred in recent days and months. If you consider yourself a sort of Einstein fan, you may let me mention some of them. First, you may finally buy Einstein's brain for $9.99 (or $13.99 now?), no strings or hair attached. See Google ...
  • Street View: Antarctica, deep ocean, Alps, Mar ...
    If you haven't played with Google Maps for some time, you may want to try some of the wonderful links below. Note that the Street View always allows you to "drag" and change your point of view – or press \(\langle\) and \(\rangle\) arrows on the photograph itself and walk a little bit further ...
  • Witten's new trilogy on RNS diagrams
    Witten is such a big guy in physics that I will probably not attempt to write a single article attempting to cover all his important contributions to physics, something I did and I plan with other inaugural Milner Prize winners. Instead, we may talk about specific new papers. I have alre ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Israeli PM to set red line on Iran at UN
    According to , Net and YAHOO! will set a red line for Iranian nuclear activities. Lets hope for the best, but wait for the worst. AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Iran: Israel seeks Iran war to put lid on 9/11. Strap yourselves in and prepare for some SUPER propa ...
  • Quebec police officer dies in patrol-car crash
    A 23-year-old provincial police officer responding to an emergency call north of Montreal died after her patrol car swerved and crashed Wednesday evening. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Quebec Liberals complain to police over robocalls The Quebec Liberal Party is alleging its oppon ...
  • Lawyer’s Suicide Linked To Murdered Judge
    Breaking NewsSuicide Victim Identity Revealed And Links to Murder   Private investigators have now identified that Eric Noel (shown in photo on left) to be the Canadian Department of Justice lawyer who ”allegedly” committed suicide several week ...
  • Lawyer’s Suicide Linked To Murdered Judge
    Breaking NewsSuicide Victim Identity Revealed And Links to Murder   Private investigators have now identified that Eric Noel (shown in photo on left) to be the Canadian Department of Justice lawyer who ”allegedly” committed suicide several week ...
  • Life in Prison for Filming Police: Michael All ...
    On the Wednesday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with Michael Allison, a 41-year-old backyard mechanic from southeastern Illinois, who faces up to 75 years in prison for the crime of recording the police. Allison ran afoul of officialdom in Robinson, Illinois, after filing a lawsuit a ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Getting Arsenic out of Your (and Your Kids') Diet
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Research Analyst and Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • FDA Warns Leading Cosmetics Maker on Anti-Agin ...
    By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently (Sept. 7) warned Lancôme to stop making grand claims for several of its anti-aging products -- claims that would require the agency to approve them... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  • Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve You ...
    By Ken Cook President, The Environmental Working Group Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
  • EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning: How did we do it?
    By Rebecca Sutton, Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist What's in those bottles on top of my washing machine and under my sink? We've been asked that question thousands of times - especially by fans of EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database, who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the ...
    By Jason Rano, Director of Government AffairsIt's fair to say that I'm not a beach person.  My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles.  I have nightmarish memories of being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Message to our readers
    This website keeps growing, thanks to all of you, but we need to warn you that our traffic growth and, not least, the ever-growing volume of stories in our archives are causing some growing pains. We need your help in easing them. A few weeks ago, we began experiencing some aggravating technical ...
  • Women still want to rule at home
    Most Norwegian couples now share equal responsibility for child care, with a new study showing that the vast majority of fathers in Norway take an active role in their children’s lives. Women, however, still take care of most other domestic chores – because they want that responsibil ...
  • No soft start for new foreign minister
    Espen Barth Eide, who suddenly took over as Norway’s new foreign minister on Friday, really had to hit the ground running. He was already boarding a jet over the weekend, flying off to New York to oversee the opening of the United Nations and launch a marathon session of meetings with othe ...
  • Legal group calls for Norway’s withdrawal from ...
    An independent organization that offers legal aid to women in Norway is proposing withdrawal from the international au pair system that brings many young foreign women to Norway under the premise of cultural exchange. The organization (Juridisk rådgivning for kvinner, JURK) fears that too many e ...
  • Airlines getting back on schedule after fuelin ...
    Airlines serving Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen were getting back on schedule Wednesday morning after problems with the airport’s fueling facility caused major disruption late Tuesday afternoon and evening. Some flights still had to be cancelled, though. “Traffic is returnin ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Radical Simplicity and the Middle-Class – Expl ...
    by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne. One of many ‘Hoovervilles’ during the Great Depression 1. Introduction How would the ordinary middle-class consumer – I shoul ...
  • Grow Gigantic Vegetables By Harnessing the Soi ...
    This is a very cool video on fungal dominated humus and enormous vegetables. Besides a humungous pumpkin, you’ll also get to see microorganisms at work, at 400x magnification.
  • Full Planet, Empty Plates – The New Geopolitic ...
    Editor’s Note: It’s a pity this article is devoid of real holistic solutions, but I put it up as the data is important to know and appreciate. by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute “The U.S. Great Drought of 2012 has raised corn prices to the highest level in history. The world ...
  • Designing Edible Food Forests Course – Occiden ...
    Food forest designed by Doug Gosling of OAEC, featuring loquat, pineapple guava, tree collards, passionfruit, and more. Note coquito palm in background. What: Designing Edible Food Forests Course Where: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Occidental CA When: Nov 2 – 4, 2012 Who: ...
  • Toronto Balconies Photo Competition – Guest Ju ...
    The Annual Toronto Balconies Bloom competition — the 2012 Edible Garden Container Photo Contest — ends on September 30, 2012. This year, I’m a guest judge — a kind of armchair judge. by Cecilia Macaulay If you have a lovely photo to inspire the gardeners of Canada with, ...

Pointman's

  • The creeping betrayal of democracy in Australia.
    For various reasons, I’ve travelled a lot and had the opportunity to meet and get to know, people from many different countries and cultures. It’s one of the pleasures of life and if you’re a gregarious person, which I am, you find out about each other. Like you and I, they all ...
  • The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...
    Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...
  • An assessment of current alarmist propaganda.
    It’s been obvious for some time, that the science behind the most alarming claims about the effects of any putative global warming, is not only unsustainable but indefensible. We still of course get the occasional paper, trying to resurrect an old scare, which has already been demolished, ...
  • Time to cull the prat nominations.
    I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...
  • The repair man.
    He repaired people. He used a little bit of human insight but mostly patience and kindness. He was good at it, so all the bad cases nobody wanted to touch or didn’t quite know how to handle, were referred to him in the end and he patched them up. Mostly, he got the ugly sex … Re ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Local Artists Truth Universal and Mos Def Amon ...
    From a press release from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: In 2012 the police kill a Black man, woman, or child every 36 hours! In July, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee (MXSC), issued “Every 36 Hours: Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Bl ...
  • Neither Candidate: Fifteen Issues this Electio ...
    Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes. Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads. Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison. Neither candidate has called for arrest ...
  • ‘We All Count’ Campaign To Combat Historic Lev ...
    From a press release from Project South: More than 30 million people will be discouraged or prevented from voting in this election. “This is the highest number since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. We know that many of those people are African-Americans, LGBT people, people displaced b ...
  • Aramark Uses Hurricane Isaac to Loot the City ...
    From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: On August 29, Hurricane Isaac swept through New Orleans and surrounding areas with raging winds and torrential rains causing widespread flooding and epic power outages that lasted in some cases as long as a week. Businesses and schools were closed for up ...
  • Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...
    This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...

Information Underground

  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: Psychopath Netan ...
    Netanyhooo & his jewish Zionist lobbyists in this country are expecting the US to jump when he calls. We have fallen under the Jew Zionist influence for to long. Their control & influence in our government has to be fought. They control too many parts of this country. Especially the co ...
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    Cultural Diversity: Counseling in South Africa By Maye Musk MS MS RD Posted Jul 13, 2004, 13:48 nutrition@mayemusk.com I am a Canadian born Registered Dietitian, and was in private practice in South Africa for 20 years. This was before moving to Canada and the U.S., where I continued my work ...
  • Philosophy • Re: Hitler to Chancellor Bruening ...
    interesting read. now where are the churchill bruening letters? do you have copies?Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:32 am
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    At Home With Elon Musk: The (Soon-to-Be) Bachelor Billionaire Forbes Life Elon Musksee photos Robert Trachetenberg Click for full photo gallery: Forbes Life Elon Musk This story appears in the April issue of ForbesLife magazine. It’s Thursday morning in Bel Air, California, and Elon Musk, h ...
  • Philosophy • Hitler to Chancellor Bruening 1931
    Background: This is a mass pamphlet issued by the Nazis early after the release of one of a series of emergency decrees authorized by Reich President Hindenburg on 1 December 1931. At the time, Chancellor Bruening was governing without a parliamentary majority, instead being dependent on the su ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Self-Driving Vehicles Approved for California ...
    California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a law that will allow self-driving vehicles on the state’s public roadways by next year. While fully automated vehicle technology may be years away, the California law establishes safety and performance regulations for testing these cars next year — provide ...
  • Air Pollution in Europe Shortening Lives of Ur ...
    Air pollution in Europe is shortening lifespans by an average of eight months and by as much as two years in the most polluted cities and regions, according to a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). While the European Union has cut emissions of many harmful pollutants over the las ...
  • U.S. Fishing Catch Reached 17-Year High in 201 ...
    U.S. commercial fishermen landed more than 10.1 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 2011, a 17-year high attributed in part to policies aimed at rebuilding fisheries nationwide, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The annual catch was 22.6 p ...
  • Arctic Sea Ice Extent Reaches a Dramatic New Low
    As the summer melt season ends, Arctic sea ice extent has now fallen to an exceptionally low level, covering an area only half the size of the 1979 to 2000 average. The Click to enlarge NSIDC Arctic sea ice extent, Sept. 16 Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) repo ...
  • Most Coral Reefs At Risk Even if Warming Limit ...
    Most of the world’s coral reefs will likely be subject to long-term degradation even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius, and as much as one-third of coral reef systems will likely be vulnerable to threats even under the most optimistic climate projections, a new study says. In an ...

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backofthebook

  • Wente apologists dig press in deeper
    By David@Sixthestate.net Seriously. This is starting to get absolutely ridiculous. I’m gratified to see the National Post and the Toronto Star jumping on the Margaret Wente plagiarism bandwagon. But there are still people referring to this as though it was an isolated incident, and there are eve ...
  • Oh good, I can wear my Rona Ambrose button again
    By Montreal Simon About five years ago I made this button of Rona Ambrose. So I’m glad to see that my confidence in her was fully justified. From The Globe: “Canada’s minister for the status of women joined nine other Conservative cabinet ministers and dozens of backbenchers in votin ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher’s Gui ...
    By Nathaniel Moher All right, with the world literally falling apart in front of my eyes (not your eyes however, as I assume none of you watch the news), I can only come to two conclusions. One: No one has followed through on my last three guides to saving the world, and two: the Mayans [...]
  • TV the way Lucy likes it
    Sit-coms have never exactly flourished on Canadian TV, but the success of YTV’s “Mr. Young” may be about to change that ~~ By Emily Olesen ~~ Sitting in the Mr. Young audience is like watching a live action cartoon. Props from past episodes adorn the walls of the studio, includ ...
  • Warp speed is possible . . . if we don’t ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net You may remember, as I do, how quickly even the most fervent anti-science hyper-skeptics went into fits of excitement over the announced discovery of the Higgs boson earlier this summer. I doubt any of them could tell you what a Higgs boson is, beyond the fact that some ...

Daily Beast

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Japan Times

  • Peninsula Tokyo's breast cancer awareness camp ...
    Every October, The Peninsula Tokyo holds its annual campaign, Peninsula in Pink, to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Throughout the month, the hotel will have signature pink-themed promotions. For example, the hotel will donate ¥400 from the sale of each Peninsula in Pink restaurant ...
  • "Hideo Nagai Solo Exhibition: Painkiller ..."
    In 2001, Hideo Nagai surprised the world with a giant sculpture of a half-naked wrestler who was stretched out like a plank between two walls and appeared to be writhing in pain at his gravity-defying feat. The scale and visual impact of the sculpture was an example of what later became his main ...
  • The fabric of Okinawa design
    With the typical "white box" museum, everything depends on the contents of the exhibition, but with the Mingeikan (The Japan Folk Crafts Museum), the museum itself is very much part of the experience. This is clear from the moment you slide open the entrance door and take off your shoes to shuff ...
  • Fighters widen Pacific League lead
    Taiwan international Yang Dai-kang broke a 2-2 tie with a two-run, seventh-inning single as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters defeated the Chiba Lotte Marines 5-2 at Sapporo Dome on Wednesday. The victory, combined with the Seibu Lions' 3-2 loss to the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, increased th ...
  • Welfare recipients at record high
    The government said Wednesday the number of welfare recipients came to 2.115 million in June, setting a record high for the second consecutive month. The number of households on welfare also came to a record 1.543 million, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Three Cheers for the Fraser Institute!
    At times, the Fraser Institute produces such helpful material. I hope they make their well-heeled funders, such as the multi billionaire Koch brothers, proud. However, I’m sure the Kochs are more concerned missteps by their progeny Mitt and Ryan are derailing their chance to buy the US pre ...
  • Happy Crashiversary! Are you better off now t ...
    Four years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, it’s time to take stock of things by asking a stock political question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Where you stand on the answer depends on where you sit. Many people, businesses and communities are still struggling to regain ...
  • The “New” Saskatchewan: Oklahoma North?
    Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still receive the full benefits of unio ...
  • There’s Nothing Inevitable About Eduflation
    It might have been my imagination (or perhaps wishful thinking), but in the midst of this year’s back-to-school media coverage, the issue of student debt seemed a little more prominent than usual. At least two surveys identified high levels of debt ($28k on average), and the stress—more than tha ...
  • Electoral campaign in Québec: three parties, t ...
    The elections in Québec are finally behind us. We know the results, the suspense is over. The point of this blog post is neither to weigh out its outcome or the degree of satisfaction or despair which its conclusion generates. It was however a very interesting campaign when one stops to think of ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • South Africa Lifts Fracking Moratorium; Citize ...
    “The decision to end the moratorium in South Africa, which may have the fifth largest supply of natural gas in the world, has ignited another phase of opposition to fracking, as citizens demand more research and public education. The Karoo, an arid farming region in the Eastern Cape of the ...
  • Arctic sea ice melts to lowest level on record
    “The extent of ice probably hit its low point on September 16, when it covered 1.32 million square miles (3.42 million square km) of the Arctic Ocean, the smallest amount since satellite records began 33 years ago. Changing weather conditions could further shrink the extent, the center sai ...
  • Deluge of water protests hit India
    “Flooded farmers in central India have submerged themselves neck-deep in water – some for as long as 17 days – to protest a state government’s dam project that has inundated their lands. The concept of demonstration by submersion appears to be spreading in India. Hundreds ...
  • India’s water crisis’ cheap soluti ...
    “Where will India get its water from in the coming years? The water challenge is already grave and could get graver. By 2050, for instance, it is estimated that demand would go up to 1,180 million cubic metres, 1.65 times the current levels, a situation that would be made worse by fast dwi ...
  • ‘Big flush’ ordered amid Zimbabwe ...
    “The Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo has ordered its residents to flush toilets at the same time once a week to prevent blockages during frequent periods of water rationing, the mayor said on Saturday. “Bulawayo’s chronic water shortages force the city authorities to order rationin ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Statement to FirstEnergy and NRC at T ...
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today held a hearing in Painesville, Ohio to examine the performance of FirstEnergy’s nuclear operations. Top NRC officials heard from representatives of FirstEnergy’s three nuclear power plants. Congressman Kucinich submitted a statement for the record at ...
  • Kucinich Asks SEC to Probe Peabody Deal
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to fully “investigate any and all agreements” related to the Peabody State Energy Campus (PSEC) in southern Illinois. See the full letter here. Peabody Energy Corporation persuaded nine regional power ...
  • Kucinich Marks 31st International Day of Peace
    Washington D.C. (September 21, 2012) – On the 31st anniversary of the International Day of Peace, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for reflection and a shared commitment to peace. ...
  • The “Surge” is Over. The War is Not
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement following the announcement that the “surge” in Afghanistan has ended. In 2009, 33,000 additional troops were deployed to Afghanistan. Today, troop deployment levels have returned to the pre-“surge” levels. Sixty-eight thou ...
  • International Monetary Experts Meet in Chicago
    Today a panel of international monetary policy experts gather in Chicago at an event sponsored by the American Monetary Institute (AMI) to discuss major changes in U.S. monetary policy proposed by United States Congressman Dennis Kucinich.  The meeting is occurring on the one year anniversa ...

Authentically Wired

  • Why … Hello … you’re next &# ...
    … Why … Hello … you’re next … Why Does the Government So Desperately Want Indefinite Detention for Terror Suspects?   Last year, when Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with its contentious passages endorsing the mandatory military detention of terror suspects, t ...
  • What you thought a court would hold government ...
    … What you thought a court would hold government liable and accountable … hell no … only corporate can do that … Army Corps not liable for Katrina damage: court 09-26-2012  •  Reuters A U.S. appeals court has reversed itself and found that the Army Corps of Engineers cannot be held lia ...
  • WOW … THAT’S JUST TOO G.D. BAD
    … Time for your best shit eating grin at your next government mandated photo … Why New Jersey Banned Smiling In Driver’s Licenses   Geoffrey Ingersoll | Sep. 24, 2012, 6:08 AM … Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-jersey-bans-smiling-in-licenses-2012-9#ixzz27b ...
  • must be summarily declared a menace
    … Hell yes he is … corporate owned government cannot control him and therefore he must be summarily declared a menace to their power structure … next question … The Sovereign Man is the Real Prisoner 09-25-2012  •  batr.org/solitary According to establishment officials, the concept of ...
  • Likely your phone is “surveyed” ro ...
    Likely your phone is “surveyed” routinely at numerous locations by various entities government and corporate …  If You Were At Occupy Wall Street, Your Phone Was Probably Surveyed 09-25-2012  •  http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll Surveyed, as in, if it wasn’t ...

Popular Technology

  • Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...
  • Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe Romm
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress, "Just got this email from Joe Romm: Y ...
  • Skeptical Science: The Partnership with Al Gore
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly posted, "This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's Climate ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pics ...
  • Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of lef ...
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Political Compass" frequent Skeptical Science commentators and moderators took a political quiz revealing (much to their surprise) they all share t ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...
    Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
  • Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
    A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
  • WWF: Asia Pulp & Paper misleads public about i ...
    Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to mislead the public about its role in destroying rainforests and critical tiger habitat across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups including WWF-Indonesia. The report, t ...
  • The dark side of new species discovery
    Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
  • Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...
    For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Ship continues Sir Peter Blake's ocean work
    The ship on which Sir Peter Blake was killed has been used to map up to one million new species of microscopic sea life, promising new revelations about the marine ecosystem that could revolutionise our understanding of climate change's...
  • Nazis' stolen statue's cosmic link
    A thousand-year-old Buddhist statue taken from Tibet in 1938 by an SS team seeking the roots of Hitler's Aryan doctrine was carved from a meteorite, scientists have reported.In a paper published in an academic journal, German and...
  • Now you can download Einstein's brain
    The brain that revolutionized physics now can be downloaded as an app for US$9.99. But it won't help you win at Angry Birds.While Albert Einstein's genius isn't included, an exclusive iPad application launched today promises to...
  • Space shuttle Endeavour home after final flight
    The US space shuttle Endeavour took its final flight on Friday (local time), making a spectacular series of flypasts over California before landing in Los Angeles where it will retire near its birthplace.Riding piggyback on a specially...
  • SpeechJammer gadget among Ig Nobel prize winners
    For anyone who's ever been tired of listening to someone drone on and on and on, two Japanese researchers have the answer.The SpeechJammer, a device that disrupts a person's speech by repeating his or her own voice at a delay of...

The Bovine

  • ADHD drugs linked to suicide in kids
    From David Bruser and Andrew Bailey on The Star.com: “Adverse Reaction Report No. 324764 Submitted by: Health Professional Date: 2009 Location: Canada Patient: Male Age: 15 years old Suspect Drug: Strattera Side Effect: Completed Suicide This is just one of nearly … Continue reading ...
  • Montana Jones coverage in local paper
    From John Campbell, in the Northumberland News: TRENT HILLS – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) showed up again at Wholearth Farmstudio last Saturday to collect four more sheep it suspects could have scrapie. Montana Jones said a cavalcade of … Continue reading →
  • FDA as a tool of the pharma industry
    Here on the Bovine we don’t usually cover the supplements scene. But often, in the raw milk controversy, one does hear claims that the FDA is acting as a proxy for industrial interests that want to see raw milk stamped … Continue reading →
  • Mitt Romney promoting GMOs for Americans while ...
    From Tom Philpott, on Mother Jones: “Mitt Romney hasn’t divulged many details about what kind of agriculture policy he’d pursue as president (sound familiar?). But all signs suggest that he’d follow the agribiz party line. As Wayne Barrett showed in a recent Nation piece  ...
  • Call for government inspected roadkill?
    The Smithsonian on banned foods: “Once upon a time, Americans went blind from homemade moonshine, and meatpacking plants produced something more mystery meatloaf than pasture-raised. The ever evolving dance of food safety and regulation marches on, this time to protect us from…Wisconsin da ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Durable Goods Orders Ex-Transportation "Unexpe ...
    "Unexpected" weakness and downward revisions are hallmarks of the beginnings of recessions. And so it it with durable goods. Economists had forecast a gain, instead there was a 1.6% drop. Moreover July was revised lower as well. Bloomberg reports Orders for U.S. Goods Excluding Transportat ...
  • Reader from Netherlands Says Last Election Not ...
    European nannycrats breathed a sigh of relief following the re-election of Dutch Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte on September 12. The results “will likely inject a little more confidence into parts of the European political elite” as they step up efforts to contain the debt crisis, David ...
  • French Unemployment Tops 3 Million, First Time ...
    Given the disastrous mess in Southern Europe, compounded by the election of socialist Francois Hollande (together with his extremely foolish tax hike policies), France Set to Implode was a very easy call to make. The evidence is strongly pointing in that direction. Please consider French un ...
  • Is China Burning? Shanghai Stock Index Breaks ...
    Today the Shanghai stock index, $SSEC, dipped below the 2000 level for the first time since 2009. Stockcharts does not have intraday charts of ADRs so here are a couple of charts from yesterday to consider. $SSEC Daily Chart The following monthly chart puts things in better ...
  • Firebombs, Teargas, Riots Near Greek Parliamen ...
    Once again things are out of control in Greece. A general strike is underway, and schools, hospitals, and transit are affected. Firebombs and teargas have hit Athens as Greek citizens are protest the latest round of austerity measures. Please consider Greek Strike Sees Violence as Police Us ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Anti-Empire Report: The United States & It ...
    There is No Moral Factor Built into the DNA of US Foreign Policy By William Blum Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s … Libya 2011 … Syria 2012 … In military conflicts in each of these countries the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its as ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet- “Take Five” This week’s the “Soothing the Beast” BFP/Jamiol music pick takes form in the jazz piece Take Five written by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. It is without a doubt the quartet’s most popular song. It has been in ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 9 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Understanding Social Movements No matter your specific ideological stance, beliefs, hopes, passions or activism, there is a need to better our understanding of each other and different social movements, a need to adopt a more adaptive and accepting discourse and method of communication, not desi ...
  • Turkey: NATO’s Neo-Ottoman Spearhead in the Mi ...
    Turkey already has troops in Syria and has threatened military action to protect the site they guard. A 1921 agreement between Ottoman Turkey and France (the Treaty of Ankara), the latter at the time the colonial administrator of Syria, guaranteed Turkey the right to station military personnel a ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Damen Shipyards Supplies Shoalbuster Tugs to A ...
    Damen Shipyards Group announced today they will be supplying Dutch maritime services provider Acta Marine with four Shoalbuster anchor handling tugs. Three of the anchor handling tugs will be supplied from Damen [...]
  • Noble Energy Signs 3-Year Contract for the Atw ...
    Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) announced today that it has signed a 3-year contract, at a day rate of $584,000, for the Atwood Advantage, a DNV-classed, Marshall Islands-flagged, deep water drillship currently [...]
  • Lost In Prison – A Captain’s Search For Freedo ...
    nclosed by steel walls and surrounded by men (often wearing bright orange jumpsuits!) mariners have long joked that “Going to sea is like going to prison with the added chance [...]
  • Platform Fire Injures Three in U.S. Gulf
    A fire at a Gulf of Mexico platform owned by W&T Offshore Inc. (WTI) injured three people, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday. The fire at the platform about 40 miles offshore New [...]
  • Pier Collapses at Great Lakes Steel Mill
    A pier in Burns Harbor, Indiana collapsed on Tuesday during the offloading of bulk carrier, the USCG reports. The USCG says that they received a report at approximately 6 a.m. on [...]

Press TV

  • 13 PKK members killed in SE Turkey
    Two Turkish soldiers and 13 members of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in Ankara's latest military operation against the group in the country's southeast.
  • Germany takes Press TV off air again
    A court in Germany has taken Press TV off a satellite platform despite two previous rulings issued in favor of the alternative English-language news network.
  • New anti-blasphemy demos held in Iran
    Large groups of foreign students studying in Iran and Iranian lawyers have staged separate demonstrations in front of the UN Office in the capital city, Tehran, to protest against the West’s recent anti-Islam acts.
  • AI condemns ‘shocking' US prison cells
    The human rights group Amnesty International (AI) has called on the United States to end the "shocking" treatment of prisoners in the state of California.
  • ‘Sudan, S. Sudan deal ends long conflict’
    South Sudanese President Salva Kiir says that the recent border security agreement reached between the two Sudans will end long-time conflict between the two countries.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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