7 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

President Barack Obama confers with Homeland Security adviser John Brennan at the conclusion of a hurricane preparedness meeting at FEMA headquarters in Washington Friday, May 29, 2009. At left is Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Map - labelled in English - showing the distribution of the various Gbe languages (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John O. Brennan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jesselyn Radack, Government Accountability Project (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Whistleblogger - GAP

• GAP's Radack Outlines Concerns Over Brennan as ...
  This past Monday, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack participated in a press conference to discuss John Brennan’s nomination to become the next CIA Director. Radack expressed concerns regarding Brennan’s involvement in troubling national security practices during t ...
• Whistleblowers Challenge NDAA 2012 Indefinite ...
  Democracy Now: Daniel Ellsberg – NDAA Indefinite Detention Provision is Part of “Systematic Assault on Constitution” Panel From Right: Michael Moore, Chris Hedges, Jesselyn Radack, Tom Drake, Daniel EllsbergA lawsuit challenging a provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) ...
• New Questions Surface on Mechanically Tenderiz ...
  ABC7 News (San Francisco): New Questions About Labeling Mechanically Tenderized Meat (VIDEO) This local investigative piece takes a look at the common meat industry practice of tenderizing meat by machine using needles or blades. Without labeling, this mechanically tenderized meat, unlike inta ...
• Whistleblower Tour Wrap-Up: Auburn University
  GAP returned to Auburn University and its School of Accountancy for the fourth stop on its 2012-2013 American Whistleblower Tour last Thursday (Jan. 31), bringing with us whistleblowers Frank Casey, who sought to expose Bernie Madoff’s $50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme with his Rampart Investments ...
• Assassination Rationales Then & Now – And How ...
  CIA Nominee John BrennanIn advance of Obama counterterrorism chief John Brennan's confirmation hearing (Thursday) to head the CIA, eleven senators are seeking – demanding – access to the secret legal memo(s) giving the legal rationale for targeted killing (assassination) of U.S. citizens. Meanw ...

UK Progressive

• The Real Debate Over American Citizenship
  by Robert Reich Sometimes we have a national conversation without realizing it. We talk about different aspects of the same larger issue without connecting the dots. That’s what’s happening now with regard to the meaning of American citizenship and the basic rights that come with it. On one side ...
• Haiti’s LGBTQ Accepting Vodou Societies
  Rev. Irene Monroe   As I celebrate Black History Month I’d like to recognize one of my indigenous West African ancestral religions that’s not homophobic—even if some of the practitioners are.   To the disbelief of many—it’s  Vodun.   Haitian Vodou is an ancestral folk ...
• Shadow War: Hezbollah’s Hand Seen In Bombing o ...
  by Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Bulgaria’s announcement today that investigators suspect Hezbollah in last summer’s terrorist bombing against Israeli tourists on the Bulgarian coast ratchets up a conflict between the West and Iran that is being waged in political, military and covert ...
• SCENT of the MIND – For God’s Sake
  by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall Most socialized creatures have an odor, taste or other identifying marker by which to recognize their own kind from others. The Beaver and the Civet Cat, for example, have scent glands that excrete an odor only accepted by others with the same odor. Most insect ...
• Will Democrats Sell Your Political Opinions to ...
  by Lois Beckett ProPublica For years, state Democratic parties have been gathering information about individual voters’ political leanings. They have noted down the opinions voters shared with canvassers — which candidates they said they supported or their positions on policy issues. Now, ...

NewsAlert

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• L.A. Unified Misspent Millions Marked For Scho ...
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JoNova

• Lewandowsky’s “research team&#8221 ...
  The fourth name on the new Lewandowsky paper is Mike Hubble-Marriott, from “Climate Realities Research, Melbourne”. What isn’t listed on the paper, is that Mike’s “climate research” is published under the anonymous moniker of Mike, on a site called WatchingThe ...
• How well did that 50 degree forecast work out ...
  You could almost be forgiven for wondering if the Bureau of Meteorology is a science unit or a PR agency. They seem professionally adept at getting headlines, but not so hot at predicting the weather. On Jan 7th the BOM models forecast 50 spanking hot degrees across hundreds of square kilometers ...
• Who actually took notice of the Kyoto Protocol ...
  Guest post by Anton Lang (TonyfromOz) (Thanks to ianl8888  for bringing this map from Tallbloke’s site to my attention) This is a map of projected coal fired power plants that have been approved for construction. The map tells us a lot about the Kyoto Protocol, and more specifically, just ...
• Hottest reefs on Earth make a nice home for co ...
  If Earth warms by 2 degrees The Great Barrier Reef is a goner, or maybe not. Tropical reefs are generally about 28C but even a one degree rise above normal temperatures can bleach corals. This latest paper by Hume et al, showed that some corals survive in the hottest reefs on  Earth which are in ...
• Wipeout poll. Labor down 6 percent. Polls swin ...
  In the last week, Australia was flooded or burned, Gillard called an election 9 months ahead, two of her highest ranking party members said they would quit, Gillard cut down a long serving senator to pop in her “captains pick” candidate, and one of her former party members was arrest ...

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

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2012 Blog

• Free Survivalist Book
  For the next few days this Kindle book is available for no charge at Amazon: How to Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag It is a pretty good light overview of what could ultimately be the most important part of all the prepping you do. However, I’ve not yet come across an awesome resource on thi ...
• The Mystery of the Purple Spheres
  Here are the pictures – and so far nobody knows what they are! They were found in an Arizona desert. Here are some possibilities: Darlene Buhrow, director of marketing for Tucson Botanical Gardens said that after speaking to a botanist learned that, if the spheres are naturally occurrin ...
• Galactic Center Collision Due Mid-2013
  Note: this is unlikely to affect us here on Earth, but you never know… …a gas cloud with three times Earth’s mass heading towards the usually placid supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The collision won’t be visible to the naked eye, but X-ray telescopes ...
• Return of the Earthquakes
  I recently mentioned how (in terms of earthquake activity) our planet had gone eerily quiet right at the end of the Mayan calendar. Well, seems like she was just storing them up for now: Austria – strongest quake (4.5)  in 13 years Hokkaido, Japan – 6.9 quake – fortunately no ...
• Secret Chamber Found at Machu Picchu
  This is really exciting… I haven’t been to many ancient sites (yet) – but when I do I always try to find secret entrances, even though I don’t expect a result. David Crespy, a French engineer, did just that at Machu Picchu, and he DID find a secret entrance. Many people w ...

Facing South

• Art Pope still funding climate disinformation
  Conservative mega-donor Art Pope has helped finance a movement to discredit mainstream climate science. Now North Carolina's budget director, he will help make important fiscal decisions for a state facing serious threats from climate change. read more
• In Walmart and fast food, unions scaling up a ...
  Attempts to unionize Walmart stores have been met with firings, outsourcing, and even closings. Now employees of the Arkansas-based retail giant are exercising their rights to redress grievances together -- whether or not a majority can be rallied to support the effort. read more
• Obama's flip-flops on money in politics: A bri ...
  Critics say the president's plan for a new nonprofit group to push his second-term agenda opens the door to influence by corporations and other big donors. read more
• INSTITUTE INDEX: States' rights wielded agains ...
  A by-the-numbers look at how claims of "states' rights" -- once used to defend racial segregation -- are being used to justify legislative assaults on the interests of economically struggling citizens in North Carolina, Mississippi and elsewhere across the South. read more
• Watchdogs dig up troubling questions about fed ...
  The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy fought the Obama administration in court to get it to disclose details about the $8.3 billion in loan guarantees it offered private companies to build two nuclear reactors at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle. Though heavily redacted, the documents they got sugg ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• Nasser parle des frères musulmans aux Égyptiens
• Iraqi Child Asks Tony Blair and George Bush: A ...
• GMOs: Changing the Human Genome One Meal at a Time
• Kerry Confronted: "When are enough people goin ...
• NATO in Syria: The Cost of a "New Libya"

Daily Tech

• Study: Workers Spend 60% or More of Day Web Su ...
  Establishing policies alone is not enough
• Sprint Still Bleeding Customers, Money; Looks ...
  Partial acquisition by Japanese carrier
• Amazon, Overstock Fight New York's Sales Tax Law
  A decision is expected in June
• Obama Admin. to Release Classified Memo Detail ...
  Classified document defines under what circumstances a death strike is warranted
• Microsoft Attacks Gmail with "Scroogled" Campaign
  The campaign tells email users that Google scans all sent and received emails for advertisement keywords

Oriental Review

• Israel Strikes Syria: First Act of «Endgame»?
  Speaking at the defense chiefs meeting in Munich, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak finally confirmed what the news agency had been raising ballyhoo about for the previous few days: the Israeli Air Force had launched a military operation against the legitimate government of Syria. It gave rise ...
• Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: Rising Menace
  The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) has become a concern in Eurasian region. In January 2013 alone, the members of the extremist organization confronted security forces in Afghanistan on two instances during operations in Burkah district of Baghlan province. A government official in Tajiksi ...
• The Sword of Stalingrad
  2nd February marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the toughest 200-day battle of the Second World War which turned Stalingrad into a landscape of apocalyptic ruins. The two hundred days and night of sheer hell that made up the Battle of Stalingrad altered the course ...
• Britamgate: Staging False Flag Attacks in Syria
  On January 22 a telling leak cropped up in the Internet. British defense contractor’s BRITAM server was hacked and megabytes of classified internal files of the firm were released to the public. Now the case is acquiring a Britamgate scale due to the publication on Prison Planet. What is the sto ...
• Britamgate: Staging False Flag Attacks in Syria
  On January 22 a telling leak cropped up in the Internet. British defense contractor’s BRITAM server was hacked and megabytes of classified internal files of the firm were released to the public. Now the case is acquiring a Britamgate scale due to the publication on Prison Planet. What is the sto ...

BlogHer

• Hillary Clinton's New Website: Sure Looks Pres ...
  Is she? Or isn't she? Hillary Clinton's new website, HillaryClintonOffice.com sure looks Presidential. The site, which was created on January 31 -- the day before she stepped down as Secretary of State -- doesn't mention "campaign", "2016" or "President", but look at the stately portrait of for ...
• Red Carpet Beauty Trend: Berry Lips
  Did anyone see how flawless Amber Riley’s makeup was on the red carpet at the SAG awards? Um, I did! Amber is one of my favorite celebrities to watch because her style and makeup are always on point. Now, I would be lying if I didn’t say my admiration for Amber is a little jaded because she has ...
• Taking Mommy Time Outs Will Ruin Your Children?
  I identify as an attachment parent. By identify, I mean I do some of the "required" things to relate to it. I'm sure some who practice it religiously would tell me I am not "attachment" enough, as that seems to be common when you cross over into these lands of extremes. This week, I opened up ...
• Do You Love Hating People on Facebook?
  Editor's Note: The (Not So) Special Mother has a great post about the feeling of social isolation that comes from overusing social media that segues into a familiar phenomenon with Facebook: it makes you hate people you used to like. People's status updates start getting under your skin, and ne ...
• A New Mom's Upside-Down Cake for Her Upside-Do ...
  Editor’s note: Melissa from Dash of East had her first baby a few months ago, and her life’s been topsy-turvy ever since. Just like many of us food lovers, she cooks her way through her feelings about being a stay-at-home mom, making this Blood Orange Upside-Down Polenta Cake in her cast-iron sk ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Risk of Pr ...
  A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obesity  An ...
• Kiwi Orange Coconut Flu Busting Smoothie
  There’s little that tastes better than a fresh fruit smoothie in the morning. They do wonders for the immune system and if you pack them with the right ingredients, they can supercharge your ability to not ... Related posts:Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection Acco ...
• Regular Aspirin Use Linked to Increased Risk o ...
  Regular aspirin use appears to be associated with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of blindness in older people, and it appears to be independent of a ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obe ...
• Cleaning products ‘linked to adult asthm ...
  People who work with cleaning products risk developing asthma, believe UK experts who have explored the link. Their study of more than 7,000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one ... Related posts:Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Earl ...
• Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
  Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...

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

• W.Va. records first coal-mining death of 2012
  Yesterday evening’s bad news came from right here in Kanawha County: One worker was killed and a second one injured Wednesday afternoon at a coal preparation plant in Kanawha County, federal officials said. The incident occurred at Patriot Coal subsidiary Midland Trail Energy’s Five ...
• Never again: Is W.Va. doing enough on mine safety?
  Yesterday afternoon, the Tomblin administration offered a defense of the pace of its work to implement last year’s “comprehensive mine safety bill. As we report in today’s Gazette: Amy Shuler Goodwin, communications director for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, said the administration ha ...
• Aracoma ruling: Bad news for MSHA
  West Virginia’s state Supreme Court just released a long-awaiting ruling that certainly complicates things for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. As we reported on the Gazette’s website: The state Supreme Court on Tuesday paved the way for the widows of two miners killed ...
• Taking ‘comprehensive’ out of mine ...
  We broke another story this morning on the Gazette’s website about how the Tomblin administration’s efforts at “comprehensive mine safety” reform are stalled. This one (following up on previous stories here and here), reports: Tomblin administration representatives are st ...
• Remembering Bob Gates
  The Gazette’s Dr. Paul Nyden reported in this morning’s paper this sad news: Robert F. “Bob” Gates Jr., a noted West Virginia filmmaker who focused on the impacts of mining on coalfield residents and the environment, died Saturday at the age of 69. Gates helped found the ...

Daniel Miessler

• Guns and Drones
  Sadly this is a serious question: Doesn’t the fact that the government just legalized the pinpoint assassination of Americans, using military drones, without any degree of transparency, lend support to the so-called “gun nuts” when they claim they need weapons to fight the g ...
• Landing a Plane if You’re Not a Pilot &# ...
  The biggest mistake most first timers do is to coming too slow and too low for landing. Make sure you are high and glide to the ground without the need to use the throttle (but use it if you need it). Do not fear the ground and start to flare only when you are 10 meters high (same height as a po ...
• The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper. From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, sim ...
• In Atlanta For a Week And a Half
  I am going to be in Atlanta for about a week and a half if anyone wants to get together. UFC tonight and Superbowl tomorrow. Related Posts:Being EfficientPath to true happiness ‘revealed’ | BBC NEWS…A-Week on FacebookThis is Why I’m For Carry LawsFacebook’s Rel ...
• The Power of Git Bisect
  For the uninitiated, here’s a run-down of what bisect does, in broad strokes: You run your tests, and realize “Oh, shit, it’s busted.” You know that it was working yesterday (or whenever). You run git bisect bad. (Answer “yes” to the prompt.) You do git checkout . ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

• UV/IR connection: link between God and His inverse
  Whether some people like it or not, science has demonstrated that reductionism works. The laws governing the evolution of increasingly complex – and, typically, geometrically larger – objects (laws that are increasingly vague, riddled with uncertainties, errors, and exceptions) may be reduced to ...
• Steve Hsu: Alice is Schrödinger's cat who may ...
  The black hole firewall saga continues. The original paper by AMPS has collected 35 citations according to SPIRES. Most of the recent 10 are papers that are primarily about issues that different than black hole firewalls. However, Stephen Hsu who is also a blogger (article about the topic) ...
• Lubošification of Scott Aaronson is underway
  In 2006, quantum computing guy Scott Aaronson declared that he was ready to write and defend any piece of nonsensical claim about quantum gravity or string theory if he gets paid for it. The highest bidder wins. Your humble correspondent was dissatisfied with this attitude for ethical reasons. ...
• Skeptical Swedish climatology
  Global warming only visible under a microscope As noted by Pierre Gosselin (via another blog), a prominent senior climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson whose publication and citation record is rather formidable has said something that you must have heard many times from your humble correspond ...
• Hendrik Antoon Lorentz: an anniversary
  Hendrik Antoon Lorentz died 85 years ago, on February 4th, 1928. He was born in Summer 1853, almost 160 years ago, to a wealthy nurseryman who re-married when Hendrik's mother died. Educated as a protestant, he was a natural freethinker and his career was fast as he was already the boss of physi ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Study suggests chicken pox vaccine responsible ...
  For the past several years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been actively promoting the shingles vaccine as the solution to what some experts say is a building shingles epidemic. But a new study published in the German medical journal Der… NaturalNews.com R ...
• Cellphone contract crackdown sought by watchdog
  Canada’s competition watchdog told the broadcast regulator how it would overhaul cellphone contracts, including doing away with hidden fees and misleading claims designed to make it harder to switch carriers and keep prices high. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: CAW closer to ...
• Why Reform Won’t Work
  Regardless of the need for reform, it isn’t going to happen for these structural reasons. by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds: The list of public/private institutions that desperately need structural reform is long: the Pentagon, healthcare (a.k.a. sickcare), Social Security, the complex m ...
• Hidden, deadly viral gene found in commercial ...
  Just a few months after a now-famous Italian study found that Monsanto’s NK603 genetically-modified (GM) corn causes serious organ damage and tumors in mammals, a report issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has uncovered that most GMOs in commercial use… NaturalNews.co ...
• Some Trader Has Made A Very Big Bet That Somet ...
  by Sam Ro, BusinessInsider: Stocks have been rallying relentlessly to post-crisis highs. Meanwhile, the volatility index (aka the VIX, aka the “fear index”) is near historic lows. But according to UBS’s Art Cashin, some options trader has made an enormous $ 11.25 million bet th ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• "Natural" Extracts Can Trigger Allergies
  By Johanna Congleton, EWG Senior Scientist   Allergies are an increasingly serious health issue for millions of Americans, especially children. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  estimates that the number of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• Senators Push for Action on Disease Clusters Bill
  By Jason Rano, EWG Director of Government AffairsTwo years ago, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) introduced the Strengthening Protections for Children and Communities... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Perfume for Babies? Seriously?
  By Nneka Leiba, Senior Analyst Fashion house Dolce & Gabbana is planning to market a perfume for babies.  Founder Stefano Gabbana dropped a broad hint when he posted an Instagram photo of a golden box with a cupid and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• BPA: Why I Became Best Friends with my Slow Cooker
  By Heather White, EWG Executive Director My slow cooker is battered and dinged, and I love it.  Fill it with filtered water and dried beans in the morning, set on low, and by dinnertime, I have a steaming pot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ot ...
• Study Links Hair Products to Early Puberty in ...
  By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow As a child, one of my least favorite activities was getting my hair styled. It required a lot of time and patience -- two things I had in short supply.  Being raised... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...

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

• Asked about Brooklyn College, Stringer refers ...
• 'Times' C.E.O. Mark Thompson promises a 'new s ...
• Cuomo is 'pleased' by the attention on MSNBC, ...
• 'Robert Moses in a skirt'
• Blue blood: The harsh logic behind the cutting ...

Views & News from Norway

• Breastfeeding advocate retires
  Norway’s internationally renowned obstetrician and breastfeeding advocate Dr Gro Nylander is retiring this week after a long career, but she’s not leaving without voicing her concerns. She fears a shift towards shorter maternity leave in Norway could lead to a drop in the number of w ...
• Norwegians boost their savings
  Norwegians have become better at saving more of their paychecks since the finance crisis hit in 2008. Household debt levels remain high, but Norwegians also now have an average of NOK 200,000 (around USD 35,000) in the bank, according to a new survey from the country’s biggest bank, DNB. T ...
• Woman’s remains sent to Mexico
  The remains of Julia Pastrana, who spent much of her life on display because of her unusual appearance before dying in 1860, were finally being sent home to her native Mexico this week after years of being stored at Norway’s institute for forensic medicine (Rettsmedisinskintitutt).  News b ...
• Bislett murder yields 18-year term
  A 31-year-old man was sentenced to 18 years in prison this week for the murder of computer games maker Einar Opsahl in Oslo’s Bislett district in June 2011. An appeals court likened the murder to a “pure execution.” Opsahl was shot at close range when police believe that he unw ...
• Job losses loom in Elverum
  Nearly 200 employees at pharmaceutical company Nycomed’s plant in Elverum, Hedmark County, may lose their jobs because Nycomed’s owner wants to move production to Germany and Poland, reported Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) this week. The 192 persons working for Nycomed in Elverum were ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• The Cynefin Permaculture Project (North Wales)
  If you want to make permaculture happen, then just start. This is the story of how one garden ended up providing work, food and fun for people in the community of Gwynedd, Wales. History It was autumn, March 2012, and unemployment was at an all time high in North Wales. I was a qualified permac ...
• Help the Manda Wilderness Project (Mozambique)
  Nelson Mandela once said that education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Help to change the world by changing one life — the Manda Wilderness Agricultural Project’s very own Assistant Manager and Agriculture Training Specialist, Hilda Cangoma. Your c ...
• BioIntensive Gardening Workshop and Food Secur ...
  Photo © Craig Mackintosh We at PRI Australia are excited to have Kay back for 2013! She will be teaching two of her highly sought after workshops — BioIntensive Gardening and Food Security & Seed Saving. Book on both courses, and get 20% off! BioIntensive Gardening Workshop (2 ...
• Edible Forest Gardens Author Dave Jacke is Com ...
  Milkwood are proud to announce Dave Jacke is coming to Australia in March to share his extensive knowledge in designing both urban and rural regenerative food, fiber and community systems, using forest ecologies as a model. This is a special chance to learn from a world leading permaculturalist ...
• A Complete Guide to Using Slugs as a Resource ...
  This article is for all those people out there who are under regular attack from the cursed slug. If you live in Great Britain or North Wales like I do, you know all to well about these little beasts. 2012 was a year of slug plagues for most gardeners in the UK due to the [...]

Pointman's

• Is being Green left-wing or right-wing?
  I’m the son of a blue-collar upbringing and consequently a blue-collar view of the world. In many of the ways that really matter, I still am. It does give you a realistic outlook on life, which makes you wary of all politicians, irrespective of what their nominal politics might happen to b ...
• A Tale of Two Davids.
  I’m a people person, who likes talking with people, because each one is a new voyage of discovery. When it comes to media people, the one-way direction of the relationship is a bit too passive for my taste. They talk at me and I listen to them talking and although I take in the words  ...
• On climate science and all those leaks.
  Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of substantial leaks of sensitive material from deep within the very heart of climate science. In each case, it’s been fairly obvious that the person doing it works in the field and is relatively senior, if only because they have access to ...
• On climate science and all those leaks.
  Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of substantial leaks of sensitive material from deep within the very heart of climate science. In each case, it’s been fairly obvious that the person doing it works in the field and is relatively senior, if only because they have access to ...
• The shape of things to come; Snailbats, HALsay ...
  Environmental alarmism is by now a well established phenomenon with nearly a four decade long history. In that time, we’ve been on the receiving end of doomsday predictions as diverse as holes in the ozone layer, overpopulation, resource wars, acid rain, a new ice age and the most successf ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Idle No More Comes to the Gulf Coast, By Cherr ...
  Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Last Sunday, January 20, I had the pleasure of seeing a short-term dream materialize, when over 100 folks traveled from every Gulf state to attend a gathering organized by Idle No More – Gulf Coast, of which I am proudly a part. Idle No More is the ...
• How NOT to be a Gentrifier With Your Theater: ...
  New Orleans has seen a recent theatre resurgence. Below is a critical perspective on this wave of new theatre from educator and writer Catherine Michna, reprinted from her local blog catherinemichna.wordpress.com. I spent this past weekend at the Network of Ensemble Theater’s MicroFest in New O ...
• Women With A Vision, Recovering From Arson, Pu ...
  Women With A Vision, a community-based non-profit founded by a grassroots collective of African-American women in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color, has just made a downpayment on a building in Midcity New Orleans. The Vision House will enable the organization to co ...
• Turning Problems Into Parades, By Nick Slie
  This weekend is MicroFest USA: New Orleans: RENEW. The event is a celebration of the renaissance that has taken place in New Orleans' performance and social justice fields since Hurricane Katrina.  Part festival, part think-tank, part community tour, and part dance party, the all-local prog ...
• This is Not Theoretical: Reflecting on a Recen ...
  Reposted from our friends at The Oyster Knife. This piece was written after guest contributor Nicky Gillies participated in the NOLA to Angola bike ride, a fundraiser for the Cornerstone Builders’ Bus Project, which helps people in Louisiana travel to visit their incarcerated loved ones.  ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  More evidence of fakery: Blue/green screen bleed over into sandy hook shots. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjhVs5DHReM http://sandyhooktruth.wordpress.com/201 ... k-footage/ Evidence of Compositing/ Chroma Key in Sandy Hook Footage Posted on February 4, 2013 by lynne0312 To begin, I ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Who ever made the vids, keep his day jobStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:33 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Very interesting viewpoint. My POV is a little simpler, however, and perhaps you'll consider it. I think that Las Vegas simply made a phone call to their man in the basement of the SuperDome and told him to hit the switch, freezing the game and betting for a while, and giving San Francisco a c ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Yet another video, except this one was made A MONTH before the game, pointing out numerical "coincidences" in regards to the date of SB 47 (2-3-2013). Worth the 22 minute watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3t2KgzXCPEStatistics: Posted by SavageChrist — Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:10 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Along with SB 47 being the watched event in the history of tell-a-vision (or Talmud Vision to others) according to Nielsen ratings, there are also the following below. From iamray71 @ Youtube: "47 is a big number for these morons. That is the year that the aliens punched through, Crowley ...

TVNZ

• US VP urges Democrats to back tougher gun laws
  US Vice President Joe Biden has urged fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to back tougher gun laws.
• Irish PM called on to apologise for Magdalene ...
  Irish PM Enda Kenny has been criticised for not issuing an official state apology to ex-Magdalene Laundries inmates.
• US postal service to end Saturday delivery
  The US Postal Service plans to drop Saturday delivery of first-class mail in August to cut costs.
• Syria opposition demands all women prisoners freed
  The Syrian opposition leader says the government needs to release all female prisoners by the end of the week.
• Nine dead in Solomon Islands, fears for missing
  Nine people have been confirmed dead after a metre-high tsunami hit the Solomon Islands.  

environment 360

• Wind Energy Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuel Power ...
  Unsubsidized wind power is now cheaper than electricity produced from new coal- and natural gas-fired power stations in Australia, according to an analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The study said that electricity can be supplied from a new wind farm at a cost of 80 Australian dollars per ...
• Probing Impact of Warming On the World's Food ...
  One of the few potential advantages attributed to soaring carbon dioxide levels has been enhanced crop growth. But in an interview with Yale Environment 360, botanist Stephen Long talks about his research showing why rising temperatures and an increase in agricultural pests may offset any future ...
• More than 11,000 Elephants Killed In Gabon Par ...
  Poachers have slaughtered more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon’s Minkebe National Park rainforest since 2004, according to a new study by Gabon’s government and two leading conservation groups. The study said that in the past 9 years, two-thirds of the forest elephants in Minkebe — about 11,100 a ...
• Will Bold Steps Be Needed toSave Beleaguered P ...
  In a paper released this week, the world’s leading polar bear scientists say the time has come to consider drastic measures to save these iconic animals, including supplemental feeding by humans during ice-free periods and relocating more southerly populations to the High Arctic. BY ED STRUZIK
• Sea Urchins Offer a Clue To New Way to Capture ...
  British researchers have discovered that sea urchins use nickel particles on their exoskeletons to effectively capture CO2 and turn it into a solid form, an intriguing finding that could offer an inexpensive way to capture and store carbon from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Scientists from New ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• GM Education - citizens concerned about GM. Ma ...
  Tags: education science evidence GMOs
• Global Network - Keep Space for Peace!
  Tags: space peace orbital platform weapons
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
  Tags: peace foundation
• Photo and image hosting, free photo galleries, ...
  Tags: photobucket Photos Images hosting photography editing Videos ...
• Fluoride: Protected Pollutant or Panacea?
  Tags: panacea fluoride poison

backofthebook

• RIM’s — er, Blackberry’s &#8 ...
  By Mark Evans While the new and much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 has finally launched, there’s another story that I think is as compelling: the public relations campaign that has happened over the past six months that let RIM arrive at yesterday’s launch with the wind in its sails. The PR work has ...
• BC throws a film party — for India
  \\\|\\\ Tags:  Bollywood, British Columbia, film, India, Ontario, Quebec Del.icio.us Facebook TweetThis Digg StumbleUpon ...
• Sun News might just get its way
  By David@sixthestate.net I don’t think there’s really any need for a detailed analysis of the following: Sun News Network, the right-wing, free-market, anti-government “news” channel set up by Quebecor and some former Harper staffers is losing money and wants the government to mandate a special ...
• The NHL is back, but I won’t be
  By Montreal Simon A couple of my friends came over this evening to watch the Habs-Leafs game on my big screen TV. And they were surprised to find out that I hadn’t been planning to watch it, until they turned up. And that I wasn’t the least bit excited that the season had finally sta ...
• An Idle proposal to Canadian journalists: STFU
  By Frank Moher Kevin Newman’s interview with Chief Theresa Spence, aired today on CTV’s “Question Period,” illustrated pretty neatly in its first few minutes all that’s been wrong with mainstream coverage of Spence’s fast, and of Idle No More. Newman began by ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• Max Blumenthal: The Former Terror Suspect Lead ...
  Dov Hikind, proud Kahanist, suspected terrorist, and pro-Settler/Judaization of East Jerusalem.
• Pamela Geller advocates banning Islam, demolis ...
  Over at Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller has posted a response to the latest "Muslim patrol" video to appear on YouTube.
• What If They Were Muslim?: Zionists and Islamo ...
  Zionists & Islamophobes threaten Brooklyn College.
• Fourth mosque targeted in France last weekend
  Another mosque targeted in France.
• NYPD Muslim spying operation takes ‘secu ...
  The NYPD Muslim surveillance op., under the direction of an ex-CIA operative, deployed undercover officers & informants in mosques, schools, restaurants, & bodegas throughout the city to spy on the daily lives of thousands of Americans.

Energy News

• Mayor: “We would end up dying, polluted to rad ...
• Video: Japan expert reveals Fukushima coverup ...
• Kaku on CBS: “This is a game changer… we may h ...
• AP: U.S. Senator wants probe after reading con ...
• Photos: ‘Protection’ to be installed over No. ...

Japan Times

• Microsoft to release pro version of tablet
  Microsoft says the pro version of its Surface tablet will be available to purchase Feb. 9 in the U.S. and Canada. Unlike the previous version that launched in October, the Surface Windows 8 Pro will use the full version of Windows 8, which is compatible with programs that run on earlier versions ...
• Shooting on Texas campus hurts three
  A fight between two people led to a shooting at a Texas community college Tuesday that left three people injured. The gunfire on the Lone Star College System campus about 30 km north of downtown Houston sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lockdown, officials said. ...
• Japan bids to build S. Africa rail link
  Japan joined Germany, China and France Tuesday in bidding to build a 157 billion rand (¥1.6 trillion) high-speed rail link between South Africa’s eastern port city of Durban and Johannesburg, the country’s commercial hub. Funding models include partnerships between g ...
• Royal ‘slur’ nets Thai editor 10 years
  A prominent Thai labor rights activist and magazine editor was sentenced to a decade in prison Wednesday for violating much-debated laws designed to protect Thailand’s royal family. The verdict came despite repeated calls by rights groups to free Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, who has been jai ...
• Rail linkup to ease metro commute
  Railways in Tokyo announced Tuesday a new timetable set to come into effect March 16 when the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line are to be connected. According to Tokyu Corp. and Tokyo Metro Co., Tokyo’s Ikebukuro will be linked with Yokohama in 38 minutes at the fastest ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Saskatchewan riding boundaries roil MPs
  Tease the day: Opposition crying foul of alleged Conservative gerrymandering
• The House considers the future of the PBO
  The House of Commons will spend the day debating the following NDP motion, tabled...
• For the record: Our formerly live blog featuri ...
  In case you missed it, here’s how Carney’s appearance played on Twitter: ... Read Carney’s
• It’s not always about tau proteins
  Colby Cosh on the slow and public decline of Paul Gascoigne
• Transcript: Mark Carney explains himself in 45 ...
  Question 1: How has your experience prepared you for role of Governor of the Bank of England?

Making It Count - CCPA

• Repeat After Me: Ontario is not Greece
  The Fraser Institute has a new report warning Ontario could become the next Greece or California because of the size of its debt. Of course we know Ontario is not Greece or California, and such comparisons are disingenuous. But it is possible that Ontario could find itself in a similar mess if i ...
• Atlantic Canada’s story of inequality
  Statistics Canada released new data yesterday on high income trends in Canada with nary a mention of the Atlantic Provinces. From a Canadian comparative perspective, the data told a story that was more striking for most of the rest of the country and in particular, Alberta, Ontario, BC and Quebe ...
• It’s Time for an Equality Premier
  Imagine if Ontario’s incoming Premier – lauded for breaking the inequality barrier on two counts – decided to parlay her victory into a post-austerity focus on solutions to income inequality. Now that would be truly groundbreaking. And it couldn’t come at a better time. Brand new data from Stati ...
• A Tale of Two Telecoms or Actions Speak Louder ...
  Where does the Saskatchewan government stand on the privatization of provincial Crown corporations? You’d be hard pressed to come up with a definitive answer after the government’s partial privatization of Information Services Corporation (ISC), the introduction of new private liquor ...
• Our Way or the Norway
  One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons and amongst provinces. Norway has been very effective in distributing oil wealth amongst it regions and its population. Its level of income inequ ...

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

• DWP seeks truce in water wars as L.A. Aqueduct ...
  “The region’s economy and wildlife have struggled in a stunning landscape of snowcapped peaks, cascading streams and sage plains dotted with alfalfa fields and cattle ranches, and flanked by lava flows and dormant volcanoes. At dry Owens Lake, the focus of an agonizingly complex and ...
• PAYA: The Untold Story of the LA-Owens Valley ...
  “Jenna Cavelle, an adventurer, blogger and journalist, photographer, and now conservation and resource studies researcher at Berkeley, is making a film about the Paiute’s use of water in Owens Valley.  From her bio at Peakwater.org (which she co-founded): Jenna works with members of the Pa ...
• Cry me a river, build me an aqueduct, and…
  “Hydro-librium signifies the balance of water, an ironic caption depicting the not so equated water dispute between the Owens Valley and city of Los Angeles. As Los Angeles began to flourish as a result of purchasing water rights from the Owens Valley, the playa began to pay the price for ...
• Joining A Global Nexus Conversation
    by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy This year Abu Dhabi made history, simultaneously hosting the 6th World Energy Future Summit and the in ...
• Evaporation from California Irrigation Adds En ...
  “California’s Central Valley is an agricultural machine. The valley, which accounts for one-sixth of irrigated lands in the United States, produced crops worth $US 21 billion in 2007, according to the most recent U.S. Census of Agriculture, a comprehensive analysis of U.S. agricultural pro ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• Whole Food$ Screw$ worker$
  How Whole Foods and the Biggest Organic Foods Distributor Are Screwing Workers   Saturday, 02 February 2013 14:14By Ronnie Cummins and Dave Murphy, AlterNet | Op-Ed  “The union is like having herpes. It doesn’t kill you, but it’s unpleasant and inconvenient, and it stops a lot o ...
• … McCain’s answer “papers please” …
  … McCain’s answer “papers please” …   McCain and Schumer Move to Force Americans to Use Biometric ID for Employment ]2-01-2013  •  http://www.prisonplanet.com “I’m for it,” McCain told a Politico Playbook breakfast earlier this week when asked if he supports “a super Social Security ...
• … trickles down from the top …
  … trickles down from the top …   Do as We Say, Congress Says, Then Does What It Wants Friday, 01 February 2013 09:55By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica  When CBS News reported in 2011 that members of Congress weren’t prohibited from insider trading, Congress moved swiftly. President Obama ...
• A simple … Yes or No … will suffice
  …. Hey … “dishonest” John McCain … you were quick to badger Hagel at your dog & pony show confirmation hearing … how about a simple answer to Hilary’s question … Were you and your GOP buddies lying to the American public about 9-11 then or not … a simple Y ...
• but “white” America SHALL only use potable (dr ...
  … OK … got it … sewage snow is acceptable to make  snow on Native American holy sites like the SnowBowl … but “white” America SHALL only use potable (drinking) water snow for its events … hypocrisy … This year, Flagstaff’s Dew Downtown event will use fre ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• The beginning of the end of deforestation in I ...
  Asia Pulp & Paper, a forestry giant that has been widely criticized for its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflict in Indonesia, today announced a zero deforestation policy that could have a dramatic impact on efforts to slow the Southeast Asian nation's high rate ...
• Paradigm shift needed to avert global environm ...
  Global strategist, trained educator, and international lecturer Daniel Rirdan set out to create a plan addressing the future of our planet. His book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse, published this year, does just that. "It has been a sixty hour a week routine," Rirdan told mongabay.com i ...
• In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant AP ...
  Over the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhou ...
• Genetics discover new lion subspecies in squal ...
  They languished behind bars in squalid conditions, their very survival in jeopardy. Outside, an international team of advocates strove to bring worldwide attention to their plight. With modern genetics, the experts sought to prove what they had long believed: that these individuals were special. ...
• Asian bear farming: breaking the cycle of expl ...
  In the forests of Asia, bears are being captured. These captives will be sent to bear farms, most unregulated and illegal, where they will be kept alive in a small cage, locked away for life. Their bodies will be used as renewable natural resources, from which profit will be made through the ext ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Scientists to scour quake-hit suburbs for data
  Teams of scientists will scour the quake-shattered eastern suburbs of Christchurch over the next fortnight to gather vital information to improve earthquake hazard and risk assessments in New Zealand.Scientists from the University...
• National Science Challenge panel announced
  A panel of 11 researchers and young scientists has been appointed to identify the biggest science challenges facing the country.The panel will be chaired by the Prime Minister's chief science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman.Science...
• LanzaTech praised by Forbes
  New Zealand-founded biotech company LanzaTech has been included in a Forbes Top 100 list of America's most promising privately held companies.The clean energy and renewable chemicals technology company was ranked 48th and was the...
• Tech Universe: Thursday 7 February
  FINGER PRINTS: When Liam was born in South Africa he had no fingers on his ri
• Iranian president joins space race
  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he's ready "to be the first man in space" under Iran's ambitious program that aims to send a human being into orbit by 2020."Our youth are determined to send a man into space within the next four,...

The Bovine

• War on milk, from the Minnesota front
  By Emily Sohn, from the Minn Post: “Around nine o’clock on a cold Wednesday morning in early March 2011, Alvin Schlangen pulled his white delivery van into a parking lot between a snow-covered athletic field and a vegetarian housing co-op … Continue reading →
• Michael Schmidt, on the CFIA’s investiga ...
  14 inches and counting. The waking of the angry giant….. How the CFIA is wasting unlimited resources funded by taxpayers in the sheep-napping investigation. It is fascinating how apparently a very simple act of civil disobedience has unleashed an investigation … Continue reading →
• “Everyone is a farmer”, says embat ...
  From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker has been under a virtual embargo the last several months because of his state’s prohibition on raising so-called “feral” pigs–essentially any pigs that Big Ag doesn’t want to … Continue reading ...
• Windsor councillors vote to remove fluoride fr ...
  From Doug Schmidt in the Windsor Star: “Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has … Continue reading →
• New film “Milk” airing tonight on ...
  “Milk”,  the third documentary film in which raw milk and food rights activist Michael Schmidt has figured prominently, airs tonight at 8 pm on CBC’s Documentary channel.  See trailer below: From the cbc.ca promo page for the film: “Milk: The … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Illusions of Stabilization
  In Germany Rebounds but ... I noted a recovery "of sorts" in Germany, a contraction in France at the steepest rate in four years, and a record decrease in services employment in Italy. Thus, it should be no surprise to see the Markit Eurozone Composite PMI® shows national divergence hits re ...
• Germany Rebounds but ... France Economic Implo ...
  A quick look at economic data from Markit shows a recovery of sorts in Germany (it will not last) and a contraction in France at the steepest rate in four years. Meanwhile, Italy saw a PMI survey-record decrease in services employment in January. France - Sharpest Contraction in Four Years ...
• Boehner Opposes Delay in Spending Cuts Without ...
  Government Executive reports House passes balanced budget bill. The House on Wednesday passed legislation that directs President Obama to submit a balanced budget plan to Congress this spring. The Require a Plan Act (H.R. 444) compels Obama to submit a supplemental budget by April 1 i ...
• Currency Wars Heat Up: Hollande Proposes targe ...
  With the Yen sinking to new lows nearly every day, and with French President Francois Hollande now in the act of pleading for a lower euro, it's time to step back and review the currency war madness of the past couple of weeks. There is plenty of madness to review. Hollande Calls for End o ...
• Making the Case for 100% Automation with Zero% ...
  In regards to robots taking the place of humans, I can make a case that in some easily-defined setups, that 100% automation combined with 0% efficiency would be the best possible outcome. Care to take a stab at that seemingly-impossible concept before reading further? The idea stems fr ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  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 ...
• Podcast Show #105: Who is the New John Yoo?
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Jesselyn Radack Jesselyn Radack joins us to talk about the case of CIA officer John Kiriakou and his decision to plead to a lesser charge, and the abuse of the Espionage Act and persecution-prosecution of government whistleblowers by President Obama. Ms. Radack sh ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
  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 ...

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

• Advanfort Maritime Security Firm Approved by P ...
  Panama City, Panama — The AdvanFort Company was officially approved today by the Panama Maritime Authority (PMA) to conduct counter piracy operations aboard vessels flying the Panama flag. “We at [...]
• Ancylus and Net 1 Deliver Hybrid Communication ...
  Swedish broadband satellite provider Ancylus AB and Net1 have announced a strategic partnership to offer the Scandinavian and the Nordic maritime market a cost-effective “hybrid” solution to internet access at [...]
• Lifeboat Washes Ashore in Australia After Two ...
  A 29-person lifeboat belonging to the former MS Olivia bulk carrier has washed ashore in southern Australian, nearly 2 years – and about 5,000 miles – after the vessel wrecked [...]
• USS Guardian Salvage Could Take Months – REPORT
  The operation to remove the grounded USS Guardian from a reef in the Philippines may take months, the state-run Philippines News Agency reported Wednesday. According to the PNA report, Philippine [...]
• Faulty Bolts Force Drilling Contractors to Sus ...
  By Jim Efstathiou Jr. Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Drilling regulators directed offshore operators to halt work on some oil and gas wells in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico after discovering [...]

Press TV

• Spain’s Iberia workers to go on strike
  Labor unions at Spanish national airline Iberia say they will go on a 15-day strike.
• Power crisis worsens in blockaded Gaza
  The power crisis in the Gaza Strip has been growing due to the Israeli blockade that leaves the coastal enclave short of the fuel required to run its generators, Press TV reports.
• Budget fears force US to cut PG fleet
  Potential deep budget cuts have forced the US military to reduce its aircraft carrier presence in the Persian Gulf from two carriers to one, Pentagon officials say.
• 2 Shias get jail terms for Qatif demos
  Two Shia Muslims have been sentenced to prison on charges of attending demonstrations in the eastern Saudi city of Qatif.
• ‘DRC, M23 rebels sign preliminary deal’
  The M23 rebels and the government of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have inked a “preliminary” peace deal after the failure of a 2009 agreement, a Ugandan mediator says.

SciDev.net

• Deadly Striga weed spreading across Eastern Africa
  African researchers are testing a range of solutions to contain the spread of a crop-destroying weed Striga, which appears fuelled by climate change.
• Chinese scientists develop cheap e-notebook fo ...
  A portable e-notebook that blind people can use to write and translate Braille and make voice memos could go on sale in China later this year.
• Climate change could impact wave height, says ...
  Over the twenty-first century, wave height could fluctuate by up to 30 centimetres and severely affect fisheries in the global South, say scientists.
• Nepal to stimulate fish breeding for food security
  Using Norwegian fish breeding technology Nepal hopes to boost food security and provide livelihoods.
• Kenya's top university opens up its research
  The University of Nairobi launches free online research repository designed to make its academic output more visible and to boost collaboration.

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 ...

More Sources

• Angelbabe 43
• Addicting Info
• Ecology : Myths and Frauds
• ISA
• Scribd
• Medicine Hunter
• Modern Slavery : Libertarian Critique of Civilization
• Prometheus
  climate science
• Tyranny Watch
• The Coming Crisis

• IPS - Inter Press Services

• Bulgarian Charge of Hezbollah Bombing Was an “ ...
  Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov’s dramatic announcement Tuesday on the Bulgarian investigation of the July 2012 terror bombing of an Israeli tourist bus was initially reported by Western news media as suggesting clear evidence of Hezbollah’s responsibility for the killings. But mor ...
• Golan Heights Braces for More Fighting
  After Israeli war planes reportedly bombed targets in Syrian territory last week, individuals and groups in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights are quietly preparing for the possibility of escalating violence between Syria and Israel. “We can feel that the presence of the Israeli army in the Gola ...
• “Drone” a Dirty Word in the U.N. L ...
  The “drone”, one of the eminently controversial lethal weapons deployed by the United States in its war against terrorism, is obviously a dirty word in the U.N. lexicon. So when Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous was asked about U.N. plans to use drones ...
• Tunisia PM to Dissolve Government Amid Crisis
  Tunisia’s prime minister has said that he will dissolve the Islamist-led government and form a national unity administration, following the killing of prominent secular ...
• Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement “Inadequate”
  Environmentalists are warning that a meeting of environment ministers that took place Monday in Sweden has agreed on a weak and inadequate response plan ...

My AntiWar

• US Announces Yet More Sanctions in ‘Econ ...
• Iran Offers Sinking Egypt a ‘Big Credit ...
• Feinstein Won’t Allow Anyone to Testify ...
• US Drone Strikes Kill Five in North Waziristan
• Taliban Dismiss London Peace Talks

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Sanctions imposed on Bank Saderat Iran annulle ...
  Summary: The [EU] General Court today annulled the asset freeze imposed on Bank Saderat Iran, a bank part-owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The judgment followed closely on the heels of the Court's annulment last week of the sanctions imposed on the Iranian Bank Mellat. The Council's pra ...
• Munich conference breaks Iran-US ice
  Summary: CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Iran and the United States are on the verge of a historical opportunity to repair their frozen relations and thus reverse the spiral of conflict spiral that for years has dominated their interactions. It is the right thing to do and at the right time, given ...
• "Iranian Mothers for Peace" Alert the World on ...
  Summary: "Iranian Mothers for Peace," in an open letter of January 2013 to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, and Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Heath Organization, have alerted the responsible world bodies and human rights organizations to the critical shortage ...
• Hagel Hearings Showcase Pro-Israel Agenda
  Summary: If former Defence Secretary-designate Sen. Chuck Hagel’s lacklustre performance at his confirmation hearing Thursday heartened neo-conservatives and other hawks opposed to his nomination, those who argued that the Israel lobby has been exerting too great an influence on U.S. foreign ...
• The U.S. needs a completely different approach ...
  Summary: As Washington and its great power partners prepare for more nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Obama administration and policy elites across the political spectrum talk as if America is basically in control of the situation. Sanctions, we are told, are inflicting ever-rising hardshi ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Image of the Day: The Giant Star Zeta Puppis - ...
                  Massive stars like Zeta Puppis are relatively rare, but play a very important role in recycling materials in the Universe. They burn their nuclear fuel much more rapidly than stars like the Sun, living only for millions of years before exploding as a supernova and return ...
• "Life We Find Will be Much Older and More Evol ...
                 “We thought we would have to search vast distances to find an Earth-like planet. Now we realize another Earth is probably in our own backyard, waiting to be spotted,” said Courtney Dressing of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Six percent of red-dwarf ...
• Strange 'Ist-of-Its-Kind' Galaxy --"Reveals Cl ...
                A unique galaxy, dubbed Speca by its discoverers, holds clues to the evolution of galaxies billions of years ago.  The galaxy has a combination of characteristics never seen before, giving astronomers a tantalizing peek at processes they believe played key roles in the g ...
• Jupiter's Dissolving Core Sheds Light on Alien ...
                 In March of 2012, scientists unlocked evidence that Jupiter's core has been dissolving, and the implications reach far outside of our solar system. This new data may help to explain a puzzling discovery of a strange exo-planet.  The planet, CoRoT-20b, was announced in F ...
• Image of the Day: Hyper-Active Black Hole at ...
                  Galaxy Messier 106, located a little over 20 million light-years away, is one of the brightest and nearest spiral galaxies to our own. Despite its appearance, which looks much like countless other galaxies, it has a supermassive black hole, but this one is particularly ...

Natural News

• Yet more evidence emerges that our universe is ...
  There's a lot of buzz in the news about a new scientific study that statistically supports the idea that our known universe is actually a grand computer simulation. This is mainstream science, and the idea isn't a whacky as you might first suppose. I've actually written...
• Why you should let your children make up their ...
  Children feel more negative toward parents who try to exercise control over their games, according to a study published in the journal Parenting: Science and Practice. Even more importantly, the researchers noted, such controlling behavior can stifle children's creative...
• Smaller snacks can make you feel just as full
  You might be eating nearly twice as much as you need to simply due to too large of a portion size, according to a study conducted by researchers from Cornell University and published in the journal Food, Quality and Preference. "This research supports the notion that...
• Don Miguel Ruiz on Mental Health Exposed
  Best selling author and spiritual teacher Don Miguel Ruiz joins Mike Bundrant for a 60-minute episode of Mental Health Exposed. Don Miguel Ruiz, bestselling author of The Four Agreements, shares his latest insights for Natural News Radio listeners. On the February...
• How to get fit in just 90 minutes per week
  A workout technique known as interval training can help you get in shape in a fraction of the weekly time investment required by more conventional workout techniques, according to a study conducted by researchers from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), the University...

Threat Level

• Secret Surveillance Court Gets New Presiding Judge
  Perhaps the only thing we know about the ongoings of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- other than it granting the government unfettered spy powers -- is that it's getting a new presiding judge. The 11-judge court was set ...
• Mobile-Phone Towers Survive Latest iOS Jailbre ...
  Thank God the nation's mobile-phone towers are still operating, despite more than 1.7 million downloads of the latest iOS jailbreaking software -- evasiOn -- which was released days ago. While trying to prevent federal regulators from legalizing jailbreaking, Apple had ...
• Genetic Privacy Front and Center at Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court later this month will hear a major genetic-privacy case testing whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for serious crimes. The case has wide-ranging implications, because at least 27 states and the federal government have ...
• Vulnerability Lets Hackers Control Building Lo ...
  A critical vulnerability discovered in an industrial control system used widely by the military, hospitals and others would allow attackers to remotely control access systems, elevators, electricity and boiler systems, video surveillance cameras, alarms and other critical building facilities, sa ...
• Wireless Carriers Leave Millions of Android Ph ...
  There are millions of vulnerable Android phones in the hands of consumers today because wireless phone carriers and phone hardware makers refuse to transmit existing software security fixes to phones in a timely manner, according to a security researcher.

PERRspectives : Blog

• Yoo Too, President Obama?
  Back in December 2005, John Yoo was asked if any law or treaty could prevent the President of the United States from torturing someone, "including by crushing the testicles of the person's child." Yoo, then head of President Bush's Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, responded ...
• GOP is Taking "the Matter with Kansas" Nationa ...
  In his 2005 book What's the Matter with Kansas, Thomas Frank provided a case study in how conservatives in his home state successfully used social issues to get working class Americans to consistently vote against their economic self-interest. But that formula failed spectacularly in 2012, as R ...
• Groundhog Day for Republicans Blocking Consume ...
  ThinkProgress explained on Saturday: In a letter sent to President Obama on Friday, 43 Republican senators committed to refusing approval of any nominee to head the consumer watchdog until the bureau underwent significant reform. Lawmakers signing on to the letter included Senate Minority Leade ...
• GOP Splits Even as Illegal Immigration Plummets
  After its shell-lacking in November, the Republican Party is now splitting in two over the issue of immigration reform. On one side are the cynical, convinced the GOP must change its stand not out of principle or basic humanity but simply because of, as John McCain put it, "elections, elections ...
• On the Wrong Side of Everything, McCain Attack ...
  As a quick glance at his record shows, no American political figure has been as consistently and catastrophically wrong on matters of national security than John McCain. (Worse still, McCain's out-of-control temper and erratic judgment led many of his Republican colleagues like Thad Cochran to ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

• A Chance to Debate the ‘War on Terror’
• Drone Memo Puts Brennan on Spot
• How Secrecy Corrodes Democracy
• Requiem for Cambodia’s Crafty King
• Guardrail Design Raises Concerns

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Earth-Like Planets Only 13 Light-Years Away, N ...
  Earth-like planets may be as close as just 13 light-years away, orbiting around red dwarf stars, new research suggests. By utilizing data that was obtained by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), have discovered that about 6% ...
• NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity Captures Image Of ...
  A recent image taken by NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, shows a shiny, metallic, somewhat strange looking object protruding out of a rock. The image was taken on January 30, 2013, by Curiosity’s Mastcam. At first glance it appears to be a piece of iron, that hasn’t been oxidized, ...
• Indoor Plants: Health Benefits And A Decorativ ...
  Plants are inexpensive, beautiful, and beneficial additions to any home. They are inexpensive, aesthetic, and usually easy to transport. Caring for them usually isn’t too difficult. Here is why you need them in your home: Environmental Benefits There are definite environmental benefits to adding ...
• Onion: “We Raise All Our Beef Humanely On Open ...
  I’ve always thought the idea of humane meat was absurd. It baffles me that people can even consider that term logical. For sure, I’d prefer that animals be raised in as good of conditions as possible. But the point that they are raised to be slaughtered makes the whole process inhuma ...
• Intelligent LED Light Bulbs
  “There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures” – James Thurber With all due respect to the proverb, there is only one kind of light bulb – that which gives more light, consumes less energy, emits less heat without any radiation, and can be “laid to rest” af ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Setting up a friend's tank...
  The new position of the tank provides an alcove to hide a work station in behind… A short time
• 10 Gallon molly tank
  The kids wanted a tank of their own and I had no idea what to dowith our little 10 gallon tank so I
• water quality
  The water has always been a mystery to people. It attracted by its simplicity and mystery. There is
• Low Water on Lake Huron Reveals Shipwreck
  The historic low water levels on the Great Lakes have opened up sights that have not been seen in ov
• Industry files motions to strike witness state ...
  *If you would like to listen to live audio of the COGCC Rulemaking hearings click here, then click o

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• West Moves In For Syrian Endgame and War On Ir ...
  Image by Eman Jueid for Aslan Media via Flickr by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad
• Exclusive: The Destructive Elements of Jewish ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube c
• Chris Hedges with Jeremiah Wright on Poverty i ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 3, 2012 Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr L
• Katrina, All Over Again by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig December 3, 2012 Image by Vix Walker via Fl
• US Plans Political Genocide in Palestine by Fi ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV Dec. 2, 2012

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC This has been a long time coming. Beginning in August the postal service will stop delivering regular mail on Saturdays and only deliver packages. In the age of direct deposit and automated payments, it's time to make that adjustment. Good, and I don't care why. The Navy is pulling on ...
• No Reagan To Save Republicans From Themselves ...
  By @TedFrier In Republican mythology, Ronald Reagan was just Barry Goldwater with a smiley face.   To the right wing true believer, Reagan and Goldwater were ideological bedfellows, their ideas about government being the problem not the solution cut from the same cloth, which was delightful ...
• It would make perfect sense if you had the ins ...
  ...or were Mitt Romney (r). From Blue Girl, August 23, 2006: Talent Abdicates Responsibility to Troops While Ike Skelton (D-MO 4th) is holding the Bush administration responsible and asking the tough questions from his seat on the House Armed Services Committee, Senator Jim Talent (R-W's Back Po ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC It's not just the number of guns out there, it's that so many of them are owned by idiots, morons and dumbasses. Like the dumbass who left her pink pistol where a 3-year-old and 7-year-old could find it and mistake it for a toy. Now the 3-year-old is dead. A "close, personal constitue ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC @GovernorPerry wants Californians to relocate to Texas -- and hey, most Californians would gladly bid a hasty adieu to the people in California who aren't horrified at the very thought of living in Texas. So win-win! I knew I hadn't lived a good enough life for Tagg - the "shoot from ...

Care 2

• Stop deadly monkey transports by Air France ! ...
  Where the sky is at its best"- this is an advertising slogan by Air France. As one of the largest carriers of primates worldwide Air France makes the sky but rather a frightening and dangerous place. The airline flies monkeys 'one way' to experimental Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nb ...
• #InaugurateDemocracy from CA to DC: Reportback ...
  we are inaugurating democracy in 2013organizing our extensive people power directly to restore and protect our democracy so that we may create the just and sustainable future that we deserve. Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Yes! Lets declare a global sanctuary in the Ar ...
  Sign the petition by February 11th and come with us to the North Pole. We will plant your name and a Flag for the Future on the bottom of the ocean at the top of the world. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Save Wallace's Hawk - Eagle ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
  This species is suspected to be undergoing a rapid population decline owing to the widespread and on-going loss of lowland forest, which qualifies it as Vulnerable. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Keep the poaching crisis a top priority at the ...
  Secretary Kerry is assuming leadership of the State Department at one of the most critical times in recent history for elephants, rhinos, and tigers Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• How Secrecy Corrodes Democracy
• They Talk Deficits Instead Of Jobs ... It's Co ...
• Video: Digital Divide Creates 'Two Americas'
• "Beasts of the Southern Wild": Learning how to ...
• Drones: The Ultimate Stalkers

Paul Krugman

• The Human Disaster
  The casualties of a weak economy are legion.
• The Undecade
  John Boehner's faulty memory.
• Things Serious People Believe
  For no good reason.
• The Non-Decisive Decade
  The numbers keep refusing to justify panic.
• Stimulating Happiness, Revisited
  Money matters, but unemployment is the real killer.

No Quarter

• Do You Want Obama To Have Permission to Kill You?
  I do not shed a tear for the deceased terrorist and American citizen, Anwar Al Awlaki, but his case certainly raises some very interesting and controversial issues. Does the President have the right to execute an American citizen without due process? Well, if the President is George W. Bush the ...
• Hagel Confirmation Hearing: My Historic View
  (NOTE FROM LARRY JOHNSON–The following is a contribution from my friend, Len Colodny. Len is the author of some fascinating books on Watergate. Definitely worth your time. I do not agree with everything he writes below, but he makes a logical case.)   Chuck Hagel’s going over at the h ...
• Hump Day Open Thread
  I bet that you think it’s hilarious that Jay Carney has claimed that there is broad support in the business community for immigration reform. It is reflective of the growing consensus across the country on the need to move forward with immigration reform. It’s a matter of fairness to ...
• “She’s a Pistol” – Gun Sales Skyrocket
  President Barack Obama, according to Fox News’s article, is trying to undercut the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the gun control debate. Meanwhile, McClatchy has reported that the sale of guns has hit “a record high” since his re-election. After Obama was elected in 2008, ...
• “Why Ron Paul’s Twitter Is Getting A Little Mo ...
  CAPTION: Yes, Ron Paul, some veterans with PTSD go to the gun range for therapy. Ron Paul, a former representative in Texas, has also written “racist or homophobic passages,” according to sources via Fox News. “Chris Kyle’s death seems to confirm that ‘he who lives by the ...

Futurismic

• Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
  *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
• Hope for a Global Spring?
  Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
• The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
  I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
• Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
  So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
• The Future Always Wins
  Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Talladega National Forest listed among top 10 ...
  Talladega National Forest listed among top 10 most endangered places by ... al.com (blog) ... the Alligator River Wildlife area and the Cape Fear basin in North Carolina, creeks and rivers in Tennessee and South Carolina threatened by development, the Appalachian Mountains targeted for mountaint ...
• Southside Virginia listed as one of the top te ...
  Hcpress Southside Virginia listed as one of the top ten endangered places in the Southeast WDBJ7 The Top 10 Endangered Places list therefore includes four urgent priority projects for SELC's Clean Energy Program: fracking in Alabama's Talladega National Forest, coal ash pollution in Sout ...
• Courthouse Creek among top endangered areas - ...
  Courthouse Creek among top endangered areas Asheville Citizen-Times Virginia and Tennessee's Mountains: Mountaintop removal continues to threaten forests, streams, wildlife, and communities across Southern Appalachia, including a new project masquerading as a highway called the Coalfields Ex ...
• Anti-strip-mining activists to rally in Frankf ...
  Anti-strip-mining activists to rally in Frankfort WKYT (AP) - Citizens and environmental activists will descend on Frankfort next week to call for an end to the practice of mountaintop removal mining. They call it "I Love Mountains Day," and it annually attracts hundreds of people to t ...
• OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Advice tumbles forth - The H ...
  OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Advice tumbles forth The Hill (blog) “Mountaintop removal coal mining destroys entire ecosystems and contaminates the water supplies in mining communities, making people sick and jeopardizing their safety,” Yarmuth said in a Wednesday statement. Please send tips and comments to ...

Memeorandum

• City considers ban on Styrofoam cups and conta ...
  Sally Goldenberg / New York Post: City considers ban on Styrofoam cups and containers  —  Mike's ban plan  —  First he dictated the size of our cups — now he wants to ban what they're made of.  —  The Bloomberg administration is considering ...
• Fired LAPD Officer, Obama Lover and Committed ...
  Crimefile / CRIME, GUNS, AND VIDEOTAPE: Fired LAPD Officer, Obama Lover and Committed Gun Control Advocate is Being Sought In Revenge Killings!  —  Christopher Dorner Fugitive Killer 6 feet, 270 lbs  —  Los Angeles, CA—A bitter former cop, Chris Dornerhas ...
• Democrats Seek to Stave Off $1 Trillion in Cut ...
  New York Times: Democrats Seek to Stave Off $1 Trillion in Cuts  —  WASHINGTON — With at least one million jobs on the line, Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they were closing in on legislation to temporarily head off nearly $1 trillion in cuts that were already affectin ...
• U.S. Increases Pressure of Economic War on Teh ...
  New York Times: U.S. Increases Pressure of Economic War on Tehran  —  TEHRAN — All over this city of 12 million people, high-rises are under construction, local engineers and Chinese contractors are rushing to finish a multilevel highway, and the streets are lined with bil ...
• Bruce Braley will run for Harkin's Senate seat ...
  Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register: Bruce Braley will run for Harkin's Senate seat  —  (AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Mike Burley)  —  U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley intends to run for the U.S. Senate seat that fellow Democrat Tom Harkin will leave open in 2014, his ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green Blog: A Climate Proposal: Bundling Consu ...
  To promote sustainable practices, a new nonprofit corporation proposes to help people team up when buying standard services.
• Green Blog: RGGI Proposes Tighter Emissions Cap
  The 2014 regional limit for carbon dioxide emissions would be 45 percent lower, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative says.
• Green Blog: On Our Radar: What Happened to All ...
  Citing a sharp decline in the animal's numbers, Minnesota officials ban moose hunting,
• National Briefing | Rockies: Colorado: Contest ...
  Facing a public outcry, federal officials announced Wednesday that they would not put thousands of acres of public lands in Colorado’s North Fork Valley up for bid at auction this month for oil and gas drilling.
• Japan Spends Heavily to Keep Whaling Industry ...
  The report challenges assertions by the Japanese government that whaling is a tradition with wide support among Japanese consumers.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Santa Cruz Islands
  Thursday, February 7, 2013 15:05:11 UTC Friday, February 8, 2013 02:05:11 AM at epicenterDepth: 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.0, Santa Cruz Islands region
  Thursday, February 7, 2013 14:05:56 UTC Friday, February 8, 2013 01:05:56 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)
• M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
  Thursday, February 7, 2013 12:36:49 UTC Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:36:49 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.20 km (6.34 mi)
• M 6.1, Santa Cruz Islands region
  Thursday, February 7, 2013 08:03:41 UTC Thursday, February 7, 2013 07:03:41 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.1, Tonga
  Thursday, February 7, 2013 07:19:51 UTC Thursday, February 7, 2013 09:19:51 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• 中国并非核&#3000 ...
  核能只有具备与其它能源竞争的能力，才能继续生存。但即使有中国这个大市场，这 ...
• 中国食品安&#2084 ...
  不断变化的膳食结构、食品安全和用水问题给新一代领导人带来了巨大的挑战。2013年1&#2 ...
• 终结非法犀&#2927 ...
  一项新的研究表明，在非法犀牛贸易这个问题上，中国非但不是个大麻烦，反而可能 ...
• 中国新能源&#6530 ...
  中国新能源行业正处在最困难的时刻。从寂寂无名到风光无限，再到哀鸿遍野，仅仅 ...
• 10年回顾：从&#29 ...
  在国家层面的“环保风暴”逐渐销声匿迹之时，民众参与的环境社会运动走上前台。&# ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• The Sex Addiction Myth
   Here comes the latest entrant to the contentious debate over sex addiction — and, boy, is it a sassy one. The paper, unambiguously titled “Inventing Sex: The Short History of Sex Addiction,” begins with the following quote from … an episode of “Louie&#822 ...
• 12 Months of Misinformation: Explaining Fox Ne ...
  Fox News’ credibility hit a record low this year, according to new Public Policy Polling (PPP) research released Wednesday. In a press release, PPP put Fox’s abysmal year into context:Just like its actual ratings, Fox News has hit a record low in the four years that we've been d ...
• Watch: Jon Stewart Rips Apart Obama's Drone Policy
  On his show last night, Jon Stewart took on the Obama administration’s authoritarian justification for assassinating U.S. citizens, as detailed in a memo released to NBC this week.Stewart ripped apart the memo’s Orwellian rendering of the word “imminent,” which sets ...
• Why Republicans Should Support Marijuana Reform
  Democrats in Congress may be taking the lead on marijuana reform, but Colorado Rep. Jared Polis, the Democrat who introduced a bill this week that would make the federal government treat marijuana the way it treats alcohol, says Republicans should see a lot to like in his bill.First ...
• '60s Icon Paul Krassner Reveals His Early History
  When abortion was illegal, women had no choice but to seek out back-alley butchers for what should have been a medical procedure in a sterile environment. If there was a botched surgery and the victim went to a hospital, the police were called and they wouldn’t allow the doctor to prov ...

Threat Level

• Secret Surveillance Court Gets New Presiding Judge
  Perhaps the only thing we know about the ongoings of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- other than it granting the government unfettered spy powers -- is that it's getting a new presiding judge. The 11-judge court was set ...
• Mobile-Phone Towers Survive Latest iOS Jailbre ...
  Thank God the nation's mobile-phone towers are still operating, despite more than 1.7 million downloads of the latest iOS jailbreaking software -- evasiOn -- which was released days ago. While trying to prevent federal regulators from legalizing jailbreaking, Apple had ...
• Genetic Privacy Front and Center at Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court later this month will hear a major genetic-privacy case testing whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for serious crimes. The case has wide-ranging implications, because at least 27 states and the federal government have ...
• Vulnerability Lets Hackers Control Building Lo ...
  A critical vulnerability discovered in an industrial control system used widely by the military, hospitals and others would allow attackers to remotely control access systems, elevators, electricity and boiler systems, video surveillance cameras, alarms and other critical building facilities, sa ...
• Wireless Carriers Leave Millions of Android Ph ...
  There are millions of vulnerable Android phones in the hands of consumers today because wireless phone carriers and phone hardware makers refuse to transmit existing software security fixes to phones in a timely manner, according to a security researcher.

Equality Trust

• UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
  The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
• The Spirit Level Documentary Film
  We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
• Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
• We work in partnership with One Society
  Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
• Among Equals: read our newsletter
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• 2006 was a Very Bad Year for E. coli and Leafy ...
  This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary... Continue Reading
• You can get Salmonella Food Poisoning even at ...
  In the summer of 2002 I received a phone call one morning from a fellow who had been up all night with diarrhea and vomiting.  He had learned too that... Continue Reading
• Marler Goes International from Home this Week
  Living on the Pacific Rim and watching from my office the container ships glide into dock, makes you acutely aware of the global nature of our food supply.  Tomorrow I... Continue Reading
• Why Paying Attention to Who Your Suppliers is ...
  This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary... Continue Reading
• Hepatitis A Vaccines are Bad for Business
  Mine anyway. Let’s be honest: as an attorney who makes a substantial portion of his living by filing lawsuits against restaurants, it’s not in my financial interest to have the... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Courtney Stodden Confesses "I'm Grateful That ...
  We were able to snag some exclusive time from the "New Hollywood Starlet," as she prepares to unveil her highly anticipated music video for "Reality" at Eleven on Saturday night, February 9.
• GUNNAR Optiks Locks Down Eyewear Patents
  GUNNAR Optiks, the leading manufacturer of eyewear to protect against Computer Vision Syndrome has secured several patents to protect their product line.
• Companies Concerned About Social Legal Risks
  New research reveals that companies are still concerned by the legal risk posed by social media
• Microsoft Takes Aim at Google Gmail With Scroo ...
  Microsoft takes on Google Gmail with its email ads and privacy campaign Scroogled.com from Outlook.com
• Samsung Accelerates Smart School Solutions wit ...
  Samsung Launches Ed Tech Initiative for the USA

Time - Top Stories

• Slain Sniper Chris Kyle: Killer, Healer, Victim
  Slain Sniper Chris Kyle: Killer, Healer, Victim
• Viewpoint: Higher Education Must Be Part of Im ...
  Viewpoint: Higher Education Must Be Part of Immigration Reform
• Dell's Decline: The Shrinking Need for Customi ...
  Dell's Decline: The Shrinking Need for Customized PCs
• Study: How Well You Sleep is Closely Tied to Y ...
  Poor sleeping habits can lead to overeating, but the can unhealthy diets keep you up at night?
• Suspected L.A. Gunman Calls Killing Spree 'Las ...
  Suspected L.A. Gunman Calls Killing Spree 'Last Resort'

Invisible Opportunity

• The Cancer Report (Full Version) – YouTube
  The Cancer Report (Full Version).flv – YouTube.
• Yet more evidence emerges that our universe is ...
  by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) There’s a lot of buzz in the news about a new scientific study that statistically supports the idea that our known universe is actually a grand computer simulation. This is mainstream science, and the idea isn’t a whacky as you might fir ...
• Hidden, deadly viral gene found in commercial ...
  by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) Just a few months after a now-famous Italian study found that Monsanto’s NK603 genetically-modified (GM) corn causes serious organ damage and tumors in mammals, a report issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has uncovered that m ...
• Sandy Hook: Law Enforcement Officials Now Admi ...
  By Shepard Ambellas theintelhub.com February 6, 2013 NEWTOWN — New information has now been brought forth by Connecticut State Attorney Stephen Sedensky, suggesting that records pertaining to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have been sealed to possibly hide the identity of witnesses fr ...
• Sandy Hook Super Hoax Government Involved Plz ...
  Sandy Hook Super Hoax Government Involved Plz Share – YouTube.

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

• Obama repeals Magna Carta, asserting powers ou ...
  Summary:  The Republic  is at war against an adaptive foe that seeks its destruction. Not al Qaeda, which might no longer exist in meaning form, but internal foes seeking its overthrow. That they’re moving incrementally, small steps slowly growing larger with each success, only masks the b ...
• One graph that says much about America, and ou ...
  Summary:  Today we have a graphic that tells us much about both the recovery and the trends shaping the New America — growth in food stamps vs. jobs.  What forces drive these contrasting trends, and how will they help reshape America? . Below we see the US recovery in one graphic, from the ...
• How do our leaders see us? Don the shoes of th ...
  Summary:  The long series of posts about the evolution of The New America has examined our gullibility, our eagerness to believe what we’re told, and how that affects our politics. Today marks a change in focus, shifting to look at how we have changed.  How do our ruling elites see us, the ...
• What about the past and future effects of the ...
  Summary:  Yesterday we examined the condition of the US economy. Today we look at a major driver of our prosperity, and what might be its long-term effects. . Contents How we got here What do we have to show from 5 years of massive stimulus? Why continue the stimulus? Putting the stimulus in per ...
• A status report on the US economy. What lies a ...
  Summary: Today we again look at the US economy. What’s happening? What does it tell us about the future? . Recent US economic data is confused far more than usual.  For several months we have seen contradictory economic statistics (more so than usual).  The economic signals different drast ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

• How to Deflect Killer Asteroids With Spray Paint
  A fresh paint job might be all that’s needed to prevent a giant asteroid from raining destruction upon our planet. Though strange-sounding, the strategy would make use of a real-world phenomenon known as the Yarkovsky effect, named for the Russian engineer ...
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Pretty V ...
  This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow. Adrift in Orion's stellar nursery and still in its formative years, variable star LL Orionis produces a wind more energetic than the ...
• Live Chat: Are We Doing Science the Right Way?
  As much as they love research, many scientists lament the state of their profession these days. Is the push to publish ruining scientific discovery? Is science really self-correcting? Does peer review work? Are labs the right size? Does the quest ...
• In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge
  All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.
• Feeding the Final Frontier: 3-D Printers Could ...
  One day in the future, astronauts on a long-term deep-space mission might have the ability to use 3-D printers to make delicious, nutritious meals. With the 3-D printing revolution taking over design, engineering, and products, perhaps the final frontier includes ...

PakAlert

• DHS Are Militarizing Local Police to Create Fe ...
  In 2011 the consolidation of police departments to regional agencies became commonplace as budget cuts and funding was blamed for the cause of this merging of local forces into one encompassing police enforcement apparatus. Under the creation of the Unified Police Department (UPD) in Salt Lak ...
• Hip-Hop and the Politics of Social Engineering ...
  One particular story during President Obama’s inauguration did not make headlines in the main stream media. Rapper Lupe Fiasco was performing live at the StartUp RockOn concert to celebrate the re-election of President Barack H. Obama on January 21st at the Hamilton in Washington D.C. Lupe ...
• Welfare, food stamp recipients could soon be r ...
  For at least the past 15 years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been actively trying to develop new ways to decrease fraud in the federal food stamp program, which currently covers nearly 50 million Americans and adds more than 10,000 new enrollees to its ranks every single day, ac ...
• The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
  The old world order (ancien régime), along with 16 million people, died during the Great European War which began on June 28, 1914 when the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated by a Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, in Sarajevo. (Today he would be called a ter ...
• Sandy Hook: Law Enforcement Officials Now Admi ...
  NEWTOWN — New information has now been brought forth by Connecticut State Attorney Stephen Sedensky, suggesting that records pertaining to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have been sealed to possibly hide the identity of witnesses from multiple shooter suspects and that they should not ...

Andy Worthington

• Photos: Mostly Camberwell, At Night
  Mostly Camberwell, At Night, a set on Flickr. Recently, I’ve been posting a variety of photos from my visit to the US in January, to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 11th anniversary of the opening of the prison (see here, here, here and here), my more recent visit to Brighton ...
• Guantánamo and Shaker Aamer: Andy Worthington ...
  Listen here to my show with Omar Deghayes on Radio Free Brighton. And please sign the petition calling for the release of Shaker Aamer. Last week, when I visited Brighton to take part in “Freedom from Torture,” an event organised by the University of Sussex Amnesty International Soci ...
• An Englishman in New York: Photos of a Walk fr ...
  An Englishman in New York: A Walk from Brooklyn to Manhattan, a set on Flickr. Last month, when I visited the US to campaign for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay on the 11th anniversary of its opening, I took part in events in Washington D.C. and McLean, Virginia from January 10 to [...]
• Defend London’s NHS: Join the Week of Ac ...
  From February 9 to 16, a coalition of Londoners from all points of the compass are uniting for a Week of Action in defence of London’s NHS services — and in particular, a number of endangered A&E Departments. Defend London’s NHS describes itself as “a non-partisan, re ...
• Photos of Brighton: The Sea and the Storm
  Brighton: The Sea and the Storm, a set on Flickr. This photo set is the second of three sets taken in Brighton during my visit from January 29-30, 2013 to take part in “Freedom from Torture,” an event about Guantánamo organised by the University of Sussex Amnesty International Society, featuring ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Supersonic ping pong ball
  What happens when a ping pong ball moving at supersonic speed hits a bat? This video, which is dripping college degrees, explains the physics and shows a few test shots. NO amount of wrist action can defeat supersonic… Do not try this at home. I’m talking to you “King Julian&#8 ...
• Evernote Penultimate now free
  Evernote has made its hand-writing app for iPad free as of now. Always keen to grab any worthwhile freebies, I took a look and was quite surprised and pleased to see what they are using as a demonstration screenshot: Evernote Penultimate now free is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogEvernote ...
• End-of-January Kindle Sale
  UPDATE: 2013-01-31 Amazon UK has the Kindle version of my book – Deceived Wisdom – at a knock-down price of just 99p today. Remember there are Kindle apps for most mobile devices and computers, so you don’t need an actual Kindle to take advantage of the offer. You don’t n ...
• DCD, dicyandiamide, 2-cyanoguanidine
  2-Cyanoguanidine, also known as DCD (dicyandiamide) is a nitrile derived from guanidine used as a curative agent for epoxy resins in packaging. Since 2004, it has been used in New Zealand by farmers hoping to lower the environmental impact of livestock by reducing the rate at which soil microbes ...
• Fossil perspective on economic growth
  A paper from a researcher at Fukushima University caught my eye recently. Not least because it was from that university, but also because the city was in the news again because of proposals to plant a wind farm off the coast there. Moreover, the paper is about how fossil fuels drive economic gro ...

Common Dreams -News

• Chris Dorner's Facebook Manifesto
  From: Christopher Jordan Dorner /7648 To: America Subj: Last resort Regarding CF# 07-004281 I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and shocking actions in the last coup ...
• TransCanada CEO Meeting With State Dept. Official
  The CEO of the company behind the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is meeting with a senior State Department official "behind closed doors," The Hill reports on Thursday. According to the article, TransCanada's Russ Girling's meeting on Thursday will be with Kerri-Ann Jones, Assi ...
• Justice Dept. Argues Appeal of NDAA Ruling
  The ability of the U.S. government to jail people without charge or trial is back in court. A group of reporters, scholars and activists — including Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges — are suing the Obama administration over the controversial provision in the National Defense Authorizati ...
• Tunisia in 'State of Siege' Following Oppositi ...
  (Photo: Anis Mili/Reuters)One day after the "shocking" killing of opposition leader Shokri Belaid, Tunisia remains in a "state of siege" as labor leaders call for a general strike and continued street demonstrations against the government spark deep internal rifts. ...
• Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement 'Totally Inad ...
  Environmentalists are warning that a meeting of environment ministers that took place Monday in Sweden has agreed on a weak and inadequate response plan in case of an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. read more

Lifehacker

• Modify a Bike Light to Turn Off Automatically ...
  It's easy to forget to turn off a bike light (or any other safety lights you use), and when you forget, the battery goes dead pretty quick. Blogger Miceuz was fed up with killing their battery, so they modified the light to turn off automatically. More »
• Docracy Tracks Changes In Terms of Service and ...
  Few people bother to read an entire privacy policy or terms of service for every service they use. Even less bother with the changes services make to those terms over time. Docracy Terms of Service Tracker is a webapp that tracks when words change so you can keep up to date without reading ...
• These Beautiful Electronics Pinout Diagrams Ma ...
  When you're first getting started learning how to make your own electronics with the likes of Arduino, the process, pins, and everything else is a little confusing. Arduino forum member Romano d'Ezzelino wanted to make things a little easier, so they designed a simple pinout sheet to track ...
• Have You Ever "Taken a Break" from Facebook or ...
  We all know sites like Facebook and Twitter can be a pain, particularly when it comes to privacy. We're wondering if you've ever taken a break from social media. More »
• RunKeeper Updates with a New Look, Workout Rem ...
  Android: RunKeeper, your favorite smartphone running app, just got a major update to version 3.0 with a complete visual redesign, better audio cues, workout reminders, and other great features. More »

Water Privatization

• Frost & Sullivan: Rapid Urbanization in Brazil ...
  SAO PAULO, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The consistent expansion of Brazil's urban population has spawned a parallel demand for potable water; the country is expected to require 570.0 cubic meters per ...
• Jacksonville continues perfect record of no wa ...
  Jacksonville’s Water Works Utility continued its perfect record in 2012 by committing no violations of its operating permit, according to Water Commission President Jim Peacock.
• Liquor Privatization Latest
  The governor's plan to privatize beer and wine sales probably won't mean more booze at local convenience stores.
• Natural gas suspected in Mexico oil company blast
  A water-heating system may have leaked natural gas into a tunnel beneath the headquarters of Mexico's national oil company for more than seven months before it was accidentally detonated by a maintenance ...
• Court: OK to end oyster company lease
  Court: OK to end oyster company lease The company, which operates California's only oyster cannery, argued that Salazar's decision was based on distorted scientific findings alleging water pollution and harm to marine habitat, would idle 31 employees, and would cost the company and the c ...

Guardian

• Mark Carney signals Bank of England economic p ...
  Incoming Bank of England governor tells MPs he has discussed altering framework with George OsborneMark Carney, the Canadian headhunted by George Osborne to run the Bank of England, has told MPs he expects to undertake a thorough review of the UK's economic policy regime when he arrives at Threa ...
• Eurozone crisis live: Incoming governor Mark C ...
  Carney questioned by MPs, while EU leaders head to Brussels for another bout of budget negotiationsJosephine Moulds
• Dale Cregan trial: 'police officers were murde ...
  Prosecutor Nicholas Clarke QC tells Preston crown court how Cregan lured two unarmed woman officers to their deathTwo unarmed women police officers were shot dead in a hail of bullets after a gunman lured them to a spurious burglary, a court has heard.PC Fiona Bone, 32, and PC Nicola Hughes, 23, ...
• Tunisian government 'dissolved' after oppositi ...
  Follow live updates as Tunisia's Islamist-led coalition responds to popular fury at critic's deathJon Henley
• Gove statement on GCSE U-turn: Politics live blog
  Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including Michael Gove's statement on abandoning plans to replace GCSEs with an English Baccalaureate certificate (EBC)Andrew Sparrow

McClatchey

• Rep. Jim Clyburn touted for transportation sec ...
  The head of the Congressional Black Caucus is urging President Barack Obama to nominate House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn of Columbia to become the next U.S. secretary of transportation.Click to Continue »
• Karl Rove super PAC takes aim at actress Ashle ...
  The conservative Super PAC American Crossroads released an advertisement Wednesday on YouTube that mocks the political stances of actress Ashley Judd, who is considering a run for U.S. Senate next…Click to Continue »
• U.S. penalizes British bank for LIBOR market-f ...
  U.S. and British regulators announced a $612 million settlement Wednesday with Royal Bank of Scotland, with the global bank acknowledging that it had manipulated key benchmark interest rates to benefit…Click to Continue »
• Obama agrees to let Congress see secret legal ...
  President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered the Justice Department to share with Congress a classified memo that explains the legal rationale that justifies the targeted killing of Americans suspected of…Click to Continue »
• Obama picks REI chief Sally Jewell to lead Int ...
  Sally Jewell, a conservation advocate who?s the head of the outdoor gear and clothing retailer Recreational Equipment Inc., is President Barack Obama?s choice to be the secretary of the interior.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghanistan Taliban Shot Down US Helicopter
  A US Army helicopter has crashed amid fighting in eastern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has confirmed. The Taliban has taken responsibility for downing the OH-58 ...
• $3.9B spent on Afghanistan bribery in 2012 U.N ...
  Kabul The cost of corruption in Afghanistan rose sharply last year to $3.9 billion, and half of all Afghans bribed public officials for services, the U.N. said Thursday. The findings came despite ...
• Afghanistan NATO Helicopter Crashes In Eastern ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO helicopter crashed Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, but no crew members were seriously injured, officials said. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed the ...
• NATO helicopter crashes in eastern Afghanistan ...
  KABUL - A NATO helicopter crashed Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, but no crew members were seriously injured, officials said. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed the helicopter was shot ...
• UN Cost of Afghan corruption rose sharply last ...
  Afghan boys warm their hands over a brick factory fire during a cold day in the outskirt of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 04, 2013. Kabul has been experiencing below freezing ...

Futurismic

• Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
  *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
• Hope for a Global Spring?
  Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
• The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
  I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
• Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
  So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
• The Future Always Wins
  Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh introduces whistl ...
  Yesterday, District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced the "False Claims Act of 2013," which will amend the D.C. False Claims Act to permit whistleblowers to bring tax-related fraud claims. If enacted into law, the bill would permit whistleblowers to seek a qui tam or ...
• DOJ Considers Long Overdue FBI Whistleblower R ...
  Yesterday, the Department of Justice held a listening session with representatives of the National Whistleblowers Center, American Civil Liberties Union, Government Accountability Project and Project on Government Oversight to discuss needed improvements in the DOJ regulations that implement the ...
• Whistleblower Scores Victory Over Justice Depa ...
  On January 15, 2013 U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland issued a key ruling in support of Justice Department whistleblower Richard G. Convertino in his longstanding Privacy Act lawsuit against the DOJ. The Court ordered the Detroit Free Press to produce all documents related to how ...
• OSHA Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Retirement Hom ...
  On January 10, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in federal court against S.E.M. Villa II Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates S.E.M. Terrace, a retirement facility in Milford Ohio. The lawsuit claims that S.E.M. Villa violated the whistleblower provisions of the Occ ...
• BNSF Railway Co. Agrees to Revise Personnel Po ...
  In a January 15, 2013 press release, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that OSHA and BNSF Railway Co. had reached an agreement for the company to revise personnel policies that violate the whistleblowers provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act and discourage employees from reporting w ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Another Terrible Idea From Russia: Using White ...
  Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of bad tech ideas coming out of Russia, including content monitoring, banning children from using WiFi, anti-piracy laws requiring takedowns in 24 hours and -- of course -- site blocking. But such blacklists are too permissive for some Russians: o ...
• Patent Troll Says It Owns Podcasting; Sues Ada ...
  We've written a few times about a patent trolling operation called Personal Audio. Like so many patent trolling companies, whose actually behind it is something of a mystery, but it does have an empty office in East Texas that no one ever goes to. It sued Apple and others claiming that it held ...
• Here's A Taste Of What Publishers Will Do If F ...
  As Techdirt reported a few months back, the Supreme Court Justices seem rightly concerned about the "parade of horribles" -- things that would happen if the decision in the Wiley v. Kirtsaeng copyright case over whether or not you have the right to resell a foreign-made product you bought were a ...
• Court Says Pfizer May Be Liable For Side Effec ...
  An interesting case in the Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a man who developed a movement disorder (tardive dyskinesia) after taking a generic version of the drug Reglan can sue Pfizer, the maker of Reglan, even though it did not make the actual generic he had taken (he took generics from b ...
• Why Using Creative Commons Licensed Materials ...
  Creative Commons recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, with well-deserved praise for its work flooding in from around the world. There's no doubt it has played an important role in raising people's awareness of the problems with copyright, and in offering some alternative licenses that ame ...

VacTruth

• 8 Damn Good Reasons Not to Get the Flu Shot
  Every year the mainstream media war drum beats for you to get vaccinated against the flu. Here are 8 damn good reasons not to get the flu vaccine.
• African Children Still Paralyzed After Vaccine ...
  It has now been officially confirmed that in December 2012, 38 children were hospitalized after receiving the meningitis vaccine, "experts" are trying to say that the children’s condition is psychological.
• Vaccination – A Very Personal Decision. Are Yo ...
  You are about to become a parent. Soon your baby will be injected with neurotoxins and other preservatives, and their immune system will be challenged to its core. If you aren’t lucky, you may experience what other parents in your situation have experienced: a vaccine-injured child...
• Court Awards $969,474.91 for MMR Vaccine Causi ...
  According to a document filed on December 13, 2012, a California boy was $969,474.91 for injuries caused by the MMR vaccine.
• What Vaccines Should I Avoid?
  "I am expecting my son to be born in April. I am very skeptical of anything that is related to vaccinations..."

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...
• Trans Issues are Core Issues
  A few weeks ago, a piece by Suzanne Moore called Seeing red: The power of female anger started a bit of a shitstorm. Moore was looking to get women riled up and she succeeded – just not the women she was aiming for. Trans women were furious at her comment that women are angry with themselv ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...
• Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
  According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...
• Schools Teach Shame and Bullying
  I came across this news story yesterday. Some school official told a girl’s mother that, if her daughter wanted to end the harassment she was subjected to, she should get a breast reduction. Because, you know, how dare you have a body that might make people think of sex. And then there is ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Now Return to the Subject of Our Constitution: ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5
• Bibi Netanyahu’s Humiliating Defeat
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5
• Russian Military Prepares for Growing War Danger
  By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5
• The Lid Is Off: Appeals Court Slams Obama for ...
  By Edward Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5
• Unanimous Endorsement: Rep. Jones Calls for Su ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5

War in Context

• Obama will allow lawmakers to see secret memo ...
  The New York Times reports: The White House on Wednesday directed the Justice Department to release to the two Congressional Intelligence Committees classified documents discussing the legal justification for killing, by drone strikes and other means, American citizens abroad who are considered ...
• The CIA’s secret drone base in Saudi Arabia
  On April 29, 2003, two days before George Bush’s famous “mission accomplished” speech declaring the end to major combat operations in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld announced that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Saudi Arabia. The presence of these troops in the Islamic kingdom was o ...
• How drones are fueling hatred of America
  The New York Times reports: Late last August, a 40-year-old cleric named Salem Ahmed bin Ali Jaber stood up to deliver a speech denouncing Al Qaeda in a village mosque in far eastern Yemen. It was a brave gesture by a father of seven who commanded great respect in the community, and it did not [...]
• Tunisian government dissolved after opposition ...
  Reuters reports: Tunisia’s ruling Islamists dissolved the government on Wednesday and promised rapid elections in a bid to calm the biggest street protests since the revolution two years ago, sparked by the killing of an opposition leader. The prime minister’s announcement that an in ...
• The myth of the ‘developed’ world
  It’s easy for those of us living in so-called developed states to survey the turmoil across much of the developing or under-developed world and take a certain amount of comfort in our uneventful lives. We might not consciously harbor conceits about the superiority of Western Civilization b ...

Watts Up With That?

• Life After Energy: What if fossil fuels disapp ...
  There is an anti-human TV program on the History Channel called Life After People, which portrays the aftermath of the imaginary scenario where all people on Earth suddenly vanished in a rapture-like event tomorrow. I’ve often seen it flipping channels, … Continue reading →
• Chris Mooney’s Chartsmanship in the Serv ...
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I came across this beautiful example of chartsmanship today in a Chris Mooney post of raw, pure, visceral alarmism, it’s a gem. It’s from the Mother Jones website and comes with the lovely headline “Humans … Continue reading →
• Citizen driven PressureNet offers real time ba ...
  Smartphones, tablets help UW researchers improve storm forecasts By Hannah Hickey The next advance in weather forecasting may not come from a new satellite or supercomputer, but from a device in your pocket. University of Washington atmospheric scientists are using … Continue reading →
• Lewandowsky’s latest smear paper gets pu ...
  Readers may recall these two recent WUWT stories: More shameless conspiracy theory from the ‘Skeptical Science’ smear quest team Lewandowsky’s bear-baiting behavior Tonight I’m pleased to report, that one skeptic who stood up and complained about Lewandowsky’s libelous claims, has &# ...
• ATI’s FOI request to the University of A ...
  Chris Horner writes in with this news, I had to chuckle at some of the language UofA used in the reply, seen below, as if Malcolm Hughes and Jonathan Overpeck had to sit in the scribe room on hard wooden … Continue reading →

treehugger

• Home Automation Hacks Using Siri and Raspberry Pi
  Control lights, the television, the thermostat, even security alarms and cameras using these cheap tricks.
• UNEP & TreeHugger Launch Blogging Contest for ...
  Once again, we're proud to partner with the United Nations Environment Programme to help fight food waste and bring attention to World Environment Day.
• Scientists Us 3D Printed Tags to Track Big Fish
  Tuna, swordfish, marlins, sharks... these threatened species are about to benefit from 3D printing!
• Temporary Shipping Container City Built in Ams ...
  O+A use shipping containers the way they were meant to be used
• At Free Geek, Computer Repair Paves the Path t ...
  Free Geek is a non-profit reuse organization. Its mission: provide access to computers, the internet, education, and job skills to the local community.

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