Sunday, March 17, 2013

17 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Energy News

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

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • AFB 2013: Doing better together
    Time flies and our Alternative Federal Budget is now in its 19th year.  Year after year it has shown that we can have a Canada where we all do better together. This year the AFB is more inclusive than ever with 27 chapters written by over 90 contributors each laying out progressive policy ideas ...
  • Women On Top, By The Numbers
    On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we ask: Are more women making it to the top in Canada? And what does that mean for the 100 per cent? The 2013 edition, by the numbers. (All data are most recently available statistics.) 1 out of 5: 21 per cent of the people in the top [...] Related ...
  • Why gender equality will make you rich and popular
    Closing the gender gap would transform the world we live in–for men, for women, for the better. Just imagine a world in which you have more time to spend doing the things you love, with the people you love. Imagine a world in which you have secure, decent work in an economy that is growing ...
  • Boost the Minimum Wage, Boost the Economy, fro ...
    A version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. (This version includes references to the debate plus charts and graphs from data specially tabulated from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey. The data don’t include the self-employed.) President Obama put the idea ...
  • Parliamentary reform idea: Get out of the House
    By Seth Klein and Shannon Daub [Note: Samara Canada has been gathering ideas for reforming Parliament. All the ideas they have collected are being posted on their blog, which you can find here. What follows is our contribution.] Here’s the big dilemma: Whatever reforms are made to Parliamentary ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • California may start huge water project before ...
    “One thing stood out in the pile of documents released Thursday detailing state plans to replumb California’s water hub: Construction could start on the massive project before water managers know whether it will work as intended. “The still-evolving proposal, backed by Gov. Jer ...
  • Will Plans for Massive Tunnels to Pipe Norther ...
    “The oil industry, represented by Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and former Chair of the Marine Life Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Task Force for the South Coast, is pushing for increased “fracking” in California. Fra ...
  • Construction of Disputed Turkish Dam Continues
    “About 1,450 workers are laboring around the clock to complete the Ilisu Dam, one of the most controversial public works projects in recent history, by the middle of next year. That would be exactly five years after European lenders pulled out of the €1.1 billion, or $1.5 billion, project ...
  • Activism and the Nexus: Shaping Policy
    Retrieved from GRIID.org Activism & the Nexus: Shaping Policy 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 MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbri ...
  • New Maps Provide Crucial Information For Water ...
    “For the first time, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have mapped long-term average evapotranspiration rates across the continental United States – a crucial tool for water managers and planners because of the huge role evapotranspiration plays in water availability. “Why are evapot ...

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

  • let’s scare the bejesus out of them
    … Without providing you and me full disclosure or transparency corporate owned health providers and insurance companies fill corporate owned mass media with their … let’s scare the bejesus out of them … do you actually believe they will ever provide honest answers to you and me ...
  • No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be ...
    … Partial stellar legacy of current exiled Catholic Pope Benedict XVI and tip of an gigantic iceberg facing a religion in turmoil with current reality … LA archdiocese settles 4 sex abuse cases for $10M 03-12-2013  •  AP The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will pay nearly $ ...
  • PREEMPTIVE
    … OK … what’s the big deal … we’re sanction preemptive deadly force … remember “W” Bush – alleged WMD – Iraq – “shock & awe” … it’s still nightly viewing on corporate media … DoD Plans to Use Preemptive Deadly Force on Hackers, Cyber Threats 03-10-2013  •  ...
  • Trust is like an eraser
    … make time to investigate for whom CDC actually speaks … as it damn sure it not you and me … try “big-pharma” and the AMA … throw in Mon$anto … More CDC Nonsense About the Flu Vaccine 03-12-2013  •  http://lewrockwell.com, by Edward Group The CDC just released its ...
  • is this really that difficult a notion tor eve ...
    … is this really that difficult a notion tor everyone to easily comprehend … Private Prisons: The More Americans They Put Behind Bars The More Money They Make 03-13-2013  •  Prison Planet How would you describe an industry that wants to put more Americans in prison and keep them ther ...

Popular Technology

  • The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
    During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
  • 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 ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare b ...
    Ringed with forested mountains forming the borders with Laos and Vietnam, the northeast corner of Cambodia has been an intriguing blank spot among my extensive travels through the country. Nestled up against this frontier is Virachey National Park, created in 1993. I began searching for a way to ...
  • Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaug ...
    Elephants are vanishing. The booming illegal ivory trade is decimating the world's largest land animal, but no place has been harder hit than the Congo basin and its forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis). The numbers are staggering: a single park in Gabon, Minkebe National Park, has seen 11,100 ...
  • Forests under fire: Australia's imperiled sout ...
    In the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, beyond the famed wineries in the shadow of the Margaret River, lies an ecosystem like no other, the South West ecoregion. This part of Australia has been identified as one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, home to rare endemic flora and faun ...
  • Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films ...
    Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos. This is the Amazon as one imagines it as a child: still full of wild things. In just four weeks at a single colpa (or ...
  • Extinction warning: racing to save the little ...
    Sometime in the late 1600s the world's last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath pass ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • More droughts and bush fires tipped for future
    Goodbye frosts, hello droughts and bush fires.That's among the less frightening ramifications that a rise of up to 3C in our average climate by the next century would hold for New Zealand, according to Victoria University climate...
  • Collapse of antibiotics 'colossal threat'
    One of New Zealand's top clinical microbiologists has joined the warning of Britain's chief doctor that the growing resistance to antibiotics poses catastrophic threats to human health and receives too little attention internationally."It...
  • Bad weather delaying return from space
    Bad weather is delaying the return of three astronauts from the International Space Station.The astronauts were scheduled to land in a Soyuz capsule in central Kazakhstan early Friday morning. But fog and freezing rain prevented...
  • Wildlife meeting gives 100s of species protection
    A 12-day global wildlife conference concluded after granting better protection to hundreds of threatened animal and plant species.More than 1,000 delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna...
  • Monarch butterflies drop ominously in Mexico
    The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 per cent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported.It was the third straight...

The Bovine

  • Talking raw milk to the legislators
    From Raw Milk Consumer.ca: “Call to Action – within Ontario Those of you in Ontario probably remember that past Premier Dalton McGuinty told Michael Schmidt, at the end of his hunger strike, that he could speak to caucus.  None of … Continue reading →
  • Liz Reitzig is a confessed criminal
    From Liz Reitzig, on LewRockwell.com “Not many people would look at me and see a confessed criminal. As a suburban mom with 5 small children, a minivan and a dog, it’s just not people’s first assumption about me. However, I … Continue reading →
  • Ron Paul and “Milk War” movie at M ...
    Here’s wheat they say about US Senator Ron Paul, who is speaking at the MNC conference in Ottawa this week: “Ron Paul was a Republican primary candidate in the last US election, where he built a huge following among young … Continue reading →
  • Where to find more raw milk news
    If you’re looking to keep tabs on what’s going down in the world of raw milk, you need to read more than just The Bovine, where we try to focus on the Canadian scene, and in particular, the Michael Schmidt … Continue reading →
  • Studies show kids who drink raw milk have a hi ...
    From Sarah at the Healthy Home Economist: “The Hygiene Hypothesis states that when children lack early exposure to infectious agents, parasites, and symbiotic microorganisms like normal gut flora such as would naturally occur in a rural or farm environment, they are much more likely &#8230 ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Contagion-Begging Actions; Expect Bank Runs Fo ...
    In Cyprus, a decision was made to screw savers with a 6.75% to 9.9% "Tax" on deposits. Supposedly this move was made to "avoid unsettling investors in larger countries and sparking a new round of market contagion." In reality, the action was mandated theft, imposed by EU officials to p ...
  • Cyprus Rapes Citizens with 6.75% to 9.9% "Tax" ...
    The hot news out of Cyprus today is the direct confiscation of depositor's money via an alleged tax on deposits of 6.75 percent on amounts less than 100,000 euros and 9.9 percent above that. The measures will raise 5.8 billion euros, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who leads the ...
  • EU Court Strikes Down Spain’s Eviction Law; Wa ...
    Inquiring minds note that EU Court Strikes Down Spain’s Eviction Law. Campaigners in Spain hailed a rare legal victory over the country’s banks and government when Europe’s highest court struck down a draconian foreclosure law that had come to symbolise the brutal fallout from the eurozone ...
  • Massive Ships 12-Miles Offshore to Provide Flo ...
    A company named Blueseed is a year away from offering entrepreneurs an inexpensive place, near Silicon Valley, in which to develop their products. "Blueseed will station a ship 12 nautical miles from the coast of San Francisco, in international waters. The location will allow startup entrep ...
  • Can We Fix What's Wrong With Banking?
    I was asked a few days ago by Zócalo Public Square, a not-for-profit daily Ideas Exchange, to contribute a brief comment to coincide with their upcoming event "Can We Fix What's Wrong With Banking?" I was specifically asked to address the question "should we have bailed out the banks?" Here ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Benny Goodman & His Orchestra – Sing, Sing, Sing This week the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick moves into the land of the big bands with Sing, Sing Sing by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra. The song was written and first played in 1936 by Louis Prima. This performance by Benny ...
  • Corbett Video Report Gladio Series: Who’s at t ...
    In this sixth part of the ongoing Sibel Edmonds Gladio B conversation, we ask the question: Who is at the top of the pyramid. We look beyond the usual suspects and follow the money back to the industries and lobbies whose existence depends on the perpetuation of boogeymen enemies. See Previous G ...
  • Podcast Show #107: Our Uphill Battle to Restor ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Rocky Anderson Rocky Anderson, 2012 presidential candidate of the Justice Party, joins us to discuss our failed 2-party system and the battle to restore the Constitution. Anderson, a former two-term mayor of Salt Lake City and the founder of High Road for Human Ri ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 14 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 20
    “The New Asia: Power and the Pivot” with Nile Bowie This week, Eric chats with independent journalist and photographer Nile Bowie about some of the major issues and conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region. Eric and Nile discuss the unrest and violence in the Sabah province of Malaysia and the polit ...

bloody crossroads

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

Press TV

  • UK reaffirms plans to veto arms embargo
    British Foreign Secretary William Hague has hinted that the UK could bypass the arms embargo on Syria to supply weapons to militants fighting against the Syrian government.
  • Iran details rejection of rights charges
    A high-ranking Iranian human rights delegation has submitted a six-point statement to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in rejection of a recent report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran Ahmad Shaheed.
  • US soldier to undergo ‘sanity board’
    A US soldier charged with murder 16 civilians near his army post in Afghanistan is to undergo a medical review of his mental state at the time of the killings.
  • Death toll from protests in Egypt hits 48
    The death toll from recent protests in the Egyptian coastal city of Port Said has risen to 48, after a protester succumbed to his injuries in a hospital.
  • Ten killed in Basra car bomb explosion
    At least ten people have been killed and many others injured in a car bombing near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, local sources say.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

  • Ancient mummies had clogged arteries
    Many people think that life was better in the good old days - but what about the good old, old days back in ancient Egypt? According to research published this week by an international team of scienti...
  • Clock-a-doodle-doo
    Scientists in Japan have discovered that the dawn crowing of a rooster is controlled by their internal body clocks, not just by the rising of the sun.A crowing cock signals the imminent sunrise and th...
  • Water Dimers Detected
    Physicists from the Russian Academy of Sciences claim to have made the first detection of water dimers in realistic atmospheric conditions.Water vapour is the third most common gas in the Earth's atmo...
  • Mice given human cells get brain boost
    Mice given grafts of human brain cells showed enhanced cognitive abilities that could explain what underpins the evolution of human intelligence. What's surprising about this study is that the cell...
  • Flame retardant DNA
    A new type of flame-retardant coating for textiles has been developed from a most unlikely source. Researchers from Italy have used DNA, extracted from herring sperm, to fireproof samples of cotton, a...

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • European Commission Bankrolls Anti-Immigrant P ...
    This is the second of a two-part series on European funding enabling anti-migration operations in Greece.
  • Dairy Farming Needs a Shot of Modernity
    Mohammad Ali’s routine has not changed in over three decades. A small dairy farmer in the village of Aliabad, in the Narowal district of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, he wakes at sunrise and walks to the barn to milk his three cows manually, stopping only for a breakfast of unleavene ...
  • Officials Turn Blind Eye to Abuse of Asylum Se ...
    This is the first of a two-part series on European funding enabling anti-migration operations in Greece.
  • Food Policies Failing the World’s Hungry
    The world’s food security remains “vulnerable”, new data suggests, with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington think tank, says such numbers are “unacc ...
  • Catholics in Argentina Protest Church’s Compli ...
    Argentine archbishop Jorge Bergoglio was selected as pope at a time when the Roman Catholic Church in this South American country is facing a rebellion by priests and laypersons who reject the role of the church leadership during the 1976-1983 dictatorship and the lack of reparations for past om ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.S. Intel Chief Says Iran Isn’t Building Nuke ...
    Summary: In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reaffirmed what the U.S. intelligence community has been saying for years: Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not building a nuclear weapon and has no ...
  • The Case for Diplomacy With Iran
    Summary: Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett, Metropolitan Books, 496 pages You might not assume it from the title of Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett’s book but as it suggests, the United States, throu ...
  • Iraq: Memories Ignored & Lessons Unlearned
    Summary: With the recent clamor of rattling sabers by the same cast of characters a decade after the illegal invasion of Iraq, it seems undeniable that those who enabled war crimes in Iraq are eager to repeat themselves. source: Wide Asleep in Americaread more
  • “Room for Diplomacy?”—What Real Negotiation wi ...
    Summary: “Ambassador Khazae’s statement…really indicates the key here, and I think this has been the Iranian position for a long time. [The Iranians say] that they would welcome dialogue with the United States, that they would welcome an improvement in relations with the United States, but t ...
  • ‘Iran sanctions are immoral and illegal – and ...
    Summary: "No matter how you look at the sanctions, they are immoral and illegal – and cowardly. It would be naive to believe that their goal of these sanctions is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. I believe that there should be no mistake about the reality that sanctions are war ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Largest Structure in Observable Universe - ...
                     On the 50th Anniversary of the discovery of the quasar, we thanought it timely to do a weekend feature on the recent discovery oftThe largest known structure in the universe . The large quasar group (LQG -a portion shown above)) is so large that it would take a ...
  • The Discovery of a Monster Stellar Corpse (Wee ...
                     There are believed to be millions of neutron stars in the Milky Way. The most massive known to date -a stellar corpse twice as massive as our Sun, was discovered in 2010 by astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT). With all ...
  • The Weekend Image --A 100-Million Year Old Fos ...
                  This extraordinarily rare fossil is in a piece of amber that preserved a spellbinding event in remarkable detail. This spider inhabited the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar in the Early Cretaceous –almost certainly with dinosaurs wandering nearby. Researchers have found what th ...
  • One of Milky Way's Most Recent Supernovas Disc ...
                      Astronomers estimate that a supernova explosion occurs once or twice a century in the Milky Way and one per second in the observable universe. The expanding blast wave and hot stellar debris slowly dissipate over hundreds of thousands of years, eventually mixing with ...
  • Image of the Day: Mars' Mount Sharp -- Rising ...
        Mount Sharp, also called Aeolis Mons, in the center of Gale Crater rises more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the crater floor location of Curiosity. Lower slopes of Mount Sharp remain a destination for the Curiosity mission, though the rover will first spend many more weeks ar ...

Natural News

  • The disaster of manufactured consent in the Matrix
    (NaturalNews)This article may seem to be about abstract theory, but it isn't. It's about how populations are viewed by psychological-operations specialists. More importantly, it's about how people are led to accept substitutes for their own highest ideals. The substitutes look...
  • Lack of sleep causes unhealthy eating
    Missing a night of sleep causes you to eat more high-calorie foods the next day, even if you're already full, according to a study conducted by researchers from Uppsala University and published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology. "Bearing in mind that insufficient...
  • Antioxidant doubles liver transplant success rate
    The success of liver transplants and the survival of transplant patients can be dramatically improved by injecting livers with an antioxidant prior to surgery, according to a study conducted by researchers from Padova University in Italy and published in the journal...
  • Research backs an unconventional remedy for IB ...
    New research indicates that hypnosis may be effective at mitigating stubborn cases of "irritable bowel syndrome," a catch-all phrase used to describe moderate to severe abdominal pain that doesn't seem to be caused by something specific. Several studies since the...
  • Parents don't recognize when their kids are obese
    Most U.S. parents can't tell when their children are overweight or obese, according to a nationally representative survey conducted by researchers from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The poll was designed...

Threat Level

  • Crooks Spy on Casino Card Games With Hacked Se ...
    A high-roller and hacker accomplices made off with about $33 million after they gamed a casino in Australia by hacking its surveillance cameras and gaining an advantage in several rounds of high-stakes card games.
  • Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters ...
    Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday.
  • CIA Must End Silence on Drone Targeted Killing ...
    A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking CIA documents outlining its drone targeted killing program, ruling Friday that the agency's refusal to acknowledge the program and whether records exist about it contradicts public statements by top government officials, including ...
  • Reuters Employee Charged With Helping Anonymou ...
    An online social media editor for the Reuters news agency has been indicted for allegedly conspiring with members of Anonymous to hack another media organization's network.
  • Why Our Security Models Won’t Work
    Attackers generally benefit from new security technologies before defenders do. For the most part, though, society still wins because the bad guys simply can’t do enough damage to destroy the underlying social system. The question for us is: can society ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 10 Reasons Why Ronald Reagan Would Be Persona ...
    As most of the leading lights of the fractured Republican Party gather in Washington for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), organizer Al Cardenas is looking backwards for guidance in taking the GOP forward. Reflecting on Ronald Reagan's 1975 post-Watergate address to th ...
  • New Budget, New Name, Same Old Ryan Medicare R ...
    When Congressman Paul Ryan first rolled out his plan three years ago to replace Medicare with a voucher system, he acknowledged the inescapable conclusion that his massive cost-shifting to seniors constituted rationing. "Rationing happens today!" Ryan protested, "The question is who will do it? ...
  • Will Ryan's New GOP Budget Still Save Trillion ...
    This week, former GOP vice presidential nominee and current House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan will present the 2013 Republican budget proposal. Unlike his last plan which didn't balance the budget until 2038, this time Ryan insists he will hit break even in just 10 ten years. As Ezra K ...
  • GOP Abortion Foes Violate the Doctor-Patient R ...
    "The doctor-patient relationship." For two decades, Republicans have wielded that four-word talking point as a cudgel to bludgeon health care reform. In 1994, GOP strategist Bill Kristol warned that "the Clinton Plan is damaging to the quality of American medicine and to the relationship betwe ...
  • John Cornyn Becomes Rand Paul's Strangest Bedf ...
    Republican Senator Rand Paul's 13 hour filibuster this week produced no shortage of spectacle--and irony. Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, one of the few Democratic voices questioning the secrecy and legal basis surrounding President Obama's policy of drone strikes against U.S. citizens engaged in te ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Eggs & Cigarettes SImilar Linked To Atheroscle ...
    NutritionFacts.org recently shared the video below regarding some recent studies related to the health effects of egg consumption, with this intro line: “A similar exponential increase in carotid artery plaque buildup was found for smokers and egg eaters.” Before sharing the video, t ...
  • Vegan Google Searches Growing Strong (Animatio ...
    Vegetarian has long been something Americans were familiar with, even if it wasn’t nearly as widespread as it is today. Heck, even famous historical figures like Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Leonardo Da Vinci were vegetarian (of course, the diet became ...
  • Opera Of Power Plants (Video)
    Here’s one of my favorite videos ever. It’s an ad for ECOtricity, which is a clean energy utility company in the UK. Check it out and share it: (Those are coal and nuclear power plant towers coming down in the video.) Thanks to NewEnergyNews for sharing it recently and bringing it ba ...
  • Dirty Energy — Climate Reality (VIDEO)
    Dirty energy is changing our world. Global warming and climate change are threatening our society. But people are coming together to stop it. Dirty Energy — Climate Reality (VIDEO) was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from CleanTechnica, join thousands of others and subscribe ...
  • Life Deep Under The Oceanic Crust Is Supported ...
    The first direct evidence of life deep beneath the oceanic crust has now obtained by researchers. The oceanic crust covers about 60% of the globe, when you factor in depth and calculate total volume this means that this new ecosystem is the largest on the planet. And it is apparently home to a w ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • American Exceptionalism or Why We're Hated Thr ...
    Way back at the beginning of  President Obama's first year in office The Spoof, a parody news site and cheap knockoff of The Onion,ran a story in which he supposedly apologized to Mexico for supposed criminal acts by Mexican drug gangs against American citizens.  Yeah, I know, it does ...
  • Thoughts On Democrats Trying To Cut Social Sec ...
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  • What's That Smell?
  • White House Petition: entitlement
    At the White House petition site: We petition the Obama Administration to: We the white People of European descent seek our own month of race-specific recognition for the historical contributions We the white People of European descent seek our own month of race-specific recognition for the hist ...
  • Will's Elevated Style Reflects Sensibility of ...
    By @TedFrier Would that such a wonderful style be put to better use or its appealing elevation not at the same time reflect a sensibility of detachment and careless unconcern for the more immediate needs of its audience. That was my online reaction at the Washington Post to yesterday's column by ...

Care 2

  • Peter Dietrich, San Onofre Nuclear Plant Boss, ...
    The top executive overseeing the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant on the California coast received compensation valued at nearly $2 million last year, according to a regulatory filing released Friday. Submitted by Agnes N. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |  &nb ...
  • Pictured: Britain's fattest pig called Boris
    Britain's fattest pigs have been named today as Marjorie and Boris, a pair of Gloucester Old Spot/Large White pigs from Cornwall. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell President Obama: Clean up factory farms ! ...
    I urge you to clean up factory farms by enacting a strong water quality standard for these operations, and by restoring protections to our waterways under the Clean Water Act. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • When Did Healthy Food Become a Luxury Product?
    In an exclusive interview, the author of a book on how America eats describes the many, many barriers to a good-for-you diet. Submitted by Kit B. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • INTERVIEW-U.N. development chief flags failing ...
    * Clark says drugs should be tackled as public health threat * Latin American leaders asking nations to rethink policy (Updates with statement from UNDP to clarify Clark was not critizicing U.S.) Submitted by JL A. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • SOS at CPAC
    Sorry to not post with more frequency. I am helping support Special Operations Speaks, which has a booth at CPAC. I will take some photos and post more later today. SOS co-founder, retired Air Force Colonel Dick Brauer, is an old friend and colleague. We worked on counter terrorism exercises 20 ...
  • A New Pope, Do You Care?
    My question in the title is not intended to be snarky. It is genuine. With the selection of an Argentine of Italian lineage, the Catholic Church is acknowledging the power of the Church in South America. So, what do you think of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis I? Is this good, bad or neutral?
  • The Pathetic Lies of Barack Obama
    How do we know the man is delusional? You need only watch his interview with George Stephanopolous on ABC yesterday. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. So he don’t know nuthin’ about shutting down White House tours? Bull: The White House has canceled tours until fur ...
  • Bloomberg’s Sugar Jihad
    I suppose you have heard the news–a State Judge blocked Mayor Bloomberg from imposing a new law that would prohibit selling “sugary” drinks larger than 16 ounces in New York City. Mind you, as an advocate of Wheat Belly, I am sympathetic with Michael Bloomberg’s intent. W ...
  • Do You Know Margaret Sanger?
    Do you get misty eyed while touting the benefits of Planned Parenthood? Have you met or read some of the ravings of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger? Let me introduce you. She wrote a “interesting” piece almost 100 years ago-Birth Control and Racial Betterment. Why ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Terry Steele: The UMA, mountaintop removal and ...
    Terry Steele: The UMA, mountaintop removal and bad politics Charleston Gazette In the deep valleys and steep hills of Southern West Virginia, two tragedies have taken place over the last 20 years: The mountaintop removal that annihilates the mountains and health of coal communities and the decli ...
  • New study claims mountaintop removal dangerous ...
    New study claims mountaintop removal dangerous to communities WKYT A new study says that mountaintop removal can harm the people in those communities. The study is called "Personal and Family Health in Rural Areas of Kentucky With and Without Mountaintop Coal Mining. It is by Dr. Michael He ...
  • Standing Up for Clean Water When States Won't ...
    ScienceBlog.com Standing Up for Clean Water When States Won't Huffington Post This week the Sierra Club joined the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition in filing a series of legal actions to protect West Virginia waterways from mountaintop-removal-minin ...
  • Letter: End mountaintop removal coal mining - ...
    Letter: End mountaintop removal coal mining Knoxville News Sentinel Unfortunately, there continues to be an assault that is being committed against some of our mountain lands in Appalachia in the form of mountaintop removal coal mining. This practice involves blowing off the top portion of a mou ...
  • Court examining EPA's West Virginia mountain t ...
    Christian Science Monitor Court examining EPA's West Virginia mountain top removal permit veto WKYT ... Virginia mountain top removal permit veto. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - An appeals court is weighing whether the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority in its veto of permit ...

Memeorandum

  • U.S. Cancels Part of Missile Defense That Russ ...
    New York Times: U.S. Cancels Part of Missile Defense That Russia Opposed  —  MOSCOW — The United States has effectively canceled the final phase of a Europe-based missile defense system that was fiercely opposed by Russia and cited repeatedly by the Kremlin as a major obst ...
  • Cops: Pa. Guard Shot Finger Trying to Remove W ...
    Joe Mandak / Talking Points Memo: Cops: Pa. Guard Shot Finger Trying to Remove Wedding Ring During Fight  —  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal prison guard has been charged with shooting his own finger in a drunken attempt to remove his wedding ring during an argument with his w ...
  • In Jerusalem, Jewish Apartments in Arab Neighb ...
    Jodi Rudoren / New York Times: In Jerusalem, Jewish Apartments in Arab Neighborhoods Complicate Issue  —  JERUSALEM — The Muslim call to prayer resounds through the traffic circle in the Palestinian enclave of Ras al-Amud, through the taxi stand where waiting drivers sip s ...
  • 'The GOP of Old' - "The GOP of old has grown s ...
    William Kristol / Weekly Standard: ‘The GOP of Old’  —  “The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered,” Kentucky senator Rand Paul said Thursday to the Conservative Political Action Conference.  “I don't think we need to name any names here, ...
  • Growing Number Of States Eye Bills To Defy Fed ...
    Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr / CNSNews: Growing Number Of States Eye Bills To Defy Federal Gun Laws  —  Shortly after voters in Colorado and Washington State approved measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana, President Obama told Barbara Walters that his Justice De ...

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China Dialogue

  • 环保部长任&#2162 ...
    中国新的环境部长任命令人失望，并导致公众怀疑中国新领导层治理污染的决心。中 ...
  • “两会”热议 ...
    香港限制中国大陆游客购买婴幼儿奶粉，引起中国母亲们的不满。中国奶粉连续不断 ...
  • 签订新条约&#3302 ...
    一个国际律师网络希望各国提供资金，帮助那些因气候变化被迫背井离乡的人。荒凉 ...
  • 签订新条约&#3302 ...
    一个国际律师网络希望各国提供资金，帮助那些因气候变化被迫背井离乡的人。荒凉 ...
  • 中国两会：&#2783 ...
    刚刚召开的中国两会会场内外，无处不见雾霾治理的热议。此前各地召开地方两会时 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Sarah Palin: CPAC's Favorite Loser
    She was a diaster on a national ticket, abandoned her state office halfway through her term and bombed on Fox News, the network of such intellectual giants as Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson. But here at Conservative Political Action Conference, Sarah Palin reigns supreme.Onto the CPAC stage ...
  • Why the Biggest Debt We Owe Has Nothing to Do ...
    The following article first appeared inthe Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for theiremail newsletters here.On the heels of 40,000 people taking to the streets of DC in the largest climate change mobilization in US history, the pressure on President Obama is building to ...
  • Why Does Anyone Still Take Paul Ryan Seriously?
    Zipping across the land with a nice internet connection, so a good time to reflect a bit (looking down on clouds from above broadens the perspective a bit, I find).So, I’m doing a radio interview last night, and moderately impressed with myself for being able to speak coherently about ...
  • Is Pope Francis a Fraud?
    It’s easy — maybe too easy — for people with progressive political views to dismiss the Roman Catholic Church as a vile anachronism, a nightmarish patriarchy of aging pedophiles, woman-haters, homophobes and/or closet cases that can offer nothing of value to the contempor ...
  • 9 Terrible Republican Proposed State Laws
    If you think that irresponsible and outright ridiculous bills only come out of Washington, D.C., think again. Ever since the big GOP wave election in 2010, state legislatures across the country have been racing to pass offensive, unconstitutional, and just outright bizarre laws. Other states ...

Threat Level

  • Crooks Spy on Casino Card Games With Hacked Se ...
    A high-roller and hacker accomplices made off with about $33 million after they gamed a casino in Australia by hacking its surveillance cameras and gaining an advantage in several rounds of high-stakes card games.
  • Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters ...
    Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday.
  • CIA Must End Silence on Drone Targeted Killing ...
    A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking CIA documents outlining its drone targeted killing program, ruling Friday that the agency's refusal to acknowledge the program and whether records exist about it contradicts public statements by top government officials, including ...
  • Reuters Employee Charged With Helping Anonymou ...
    An online social media editor for the Reuters news agency has been indicted for allegedly conspiring with members of Anonymous to hack another media organization's network.
  • Why Our Security Models Won’t Work
    Attackers generally benefit from new security technologies before defenders do. For the most part, though, society still wins because the bad guys simply can’t do enough damage to destroy the underlying social system. The question for us is: can society ...

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 ...
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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 ...

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AutoblogGreen

  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...
  • Geneva: Belumbury Dany and Lallo Concept are e ...
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Electric Ask the representatives at the Belumbury booth at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and they won't tell you how much the Dany quadricycle - available in both electric and gasoline versions - actually costs. Instead, they say that if you option the heck out of ...
  • Geneva: Mitsubishi debuts Concept CA-MiEV, a n ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi is stretching the electric jellybean. For years, the i-MiEV was regular presence at Mitsubishi's auto show booths around the world, and the car rightfully earned its nickname because of its rounded shape. ...
  • Video: Toyota sizzle reel gives better look at ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Toyota, Design/Style, Electric Toyota is taking the tiny tandem Tango to Tron town. In a teaser video for the new i-Road, debuting at the Geneva Motor Show next week, we catch a light-bike-like glimpse of Toyota's quirky tandem-seat concept. We still don't know much ...
  • Official: Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing de ...
    Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Take the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell, stretch it and take off the wheels then make it float and you've basically got the just-unveiled Cigarette AMG Electric Drive Concept. Powered by an all-electric powertrain that offers 2,2 ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | Talking ’b ...
    By Visible As a result of the novels I write, I have made a serious study of sexual psychopaths and their connections to governments, established religions, law enforcement, mass media and the entertainment world. The connections are there and can be found by anyone taking the trouble to look in ...
  • Witness to Rachel Corrie’s Death Respond ...
    By ROBERT MACKEY On March 16, 2003, after Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, fellow activists from the International Solidarity Movement tried in vain to save her life.International Solidarity Movement/Associated PressOn March 16 ...
  • “Jews” Are Not Descendants of Abraham
    By Texe Marrs “I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan.” — (Revelation 2:9) “And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land…” — (Genesis 12:7) Who should possess the land of Israel? Christian evangel ...
  • New ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Gives Monsanto P ...
    Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society Waking Times There truly is no rest for the wicked, and Monsanto is at war once again against health conscious consumers with the latest ‘Monsanto Protection Act‘, managing to sneak wording into the latest Senate legislation that would give them blanket immunit ...
  • Study: Iraq War Cost 190K Lives, $2.2 Trillion
    The U.S.-led war in Iraq claimed 190,000 lives and will cost the U.S. government at least $2.2 trillion, according to the findings of a project at Brown University released Thursday. The Costs of War report, released ahead of the 10th anniversary of the war on March 20, said that the financial c ...

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

  • About China’s real estate bubble
    Summary: Facing a new powerful rival presents a hegemon with choices. We can improve our game, reform, revitalize to meet the challenge. Or take refuge in fantasy, ignoring our weaknesses and exaggerating those of our rival. America has chosen door #2. Here we peer through the propaganda fog, se ...
  • Can we see China through our veil of propaganda?
    Summary: Our newspapers coverage of the world consists to a large extent of propaganda. Nations appear as either allies, enemies, and wilderness. And rivals are often portrayed as enemies, no matter ow much spin or outright fabrication required. Here we look at China, attempting to see through t ...
  • The military takes us back to the future. To V ...
    Summary: Now that our most recent wars are ending, we have an opportunity to learn. Will we? Making clear insights more difficult, our war machines has already started preparing us for new wars: threat inflation plus cheap/easy solutions. After 9-11 we bought such stories about Iraq and Afghanis ...
  • Profits in the New America: lobbyists drill fo ...
    Summary:  One common element between the old and new America is the fantastic return to lobbying. Nothing pays like buying a congressman. Drilling for profits into the US Treasury! The difference is scale: in the New America the opportunities for great profit are less than before — while t ...
  • Why are we surprised that we supported militia ...
    Summary:  The recent story about militia in Iraq is rich in lessons for us. Not about the futile lost war. But about us and our ability to see and understand the world. A hot story from The Guardian, 6 March 2013 — based on an investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic: After the Pentago ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: 15,000-Pixel-Wid ...
    This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows Mount Sharp in raw color as recorded by the camera (see below for full image). Raw color shows the scene's colors as they would look ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hubble Spies Bea ...
    Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. These dense, opaque dust clouds - known as "globules" - are silhouetted against nearby bright stars in the busy star-forming region, IC ...
  • Extinct Species We Wish Science Would Bring Ba ...
    Twelve-foot-tall birds, carnivorous kangaroos, 20-foot-long predatory reptiles and giant ground sloths used to roam the world. What if they could again? Here's our list of amazing extinct animals we'd like to see science bring back to life.
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Window Into Jupi ...
    The dark hot spot in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a window deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. All around it are layers of higher clouds, with colors indicating which layer of the atmosphere the clouds are in. The ...
  • Hundreds of Starving Baby Sea Lions Wash Ashor ...
    Since January, hundreds of starving, dehydrated sea lion pups have stranded themselves on Southern California beaches. Rescue centers in the area are inundated. Scientists have no idea what's going on.

PakAlert

  • Bill Gates: ‘Some days I wish we had a system ...
    Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the wealthiest American, said on “some days” he wishes the U.S. political system were like England’s, so that President Barack Obama could have “slightly more power.”
  • 10 Secrets of the Vatican Exposed
    Vatican City may have fewer than 1,000 citizens and spans only 110 acres, but it also has a multimillion-dollar budget and an unbelievably complex history. Understanding how it all works requires parsing through centuries of religious texts. Is the Vatican confusing and mysterious? Is the pope C ...
  • Obama’s Endgame: War with Iran?
    Will launching a catastrophic military offensive against the Islamic Republic of Iran be the defining moment of US President Obama’s two-term presidency? Against all common sense and uncommon wisdom, it looks increasingly possible that Barack Obama, the Democratic leader who once-upon-a-campa ...
  • Palin calls Obama a liar in speech to conserva ...
    Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, called President Barack Obama a liar and urged her party to stand by conservative values, rousing the crowd at a conservative conference on Saturday. "Barack Obama promised the most transparent administration ever. Barack Obama, you ...
  • Detroit Symbolizes America’s Decline
    America's economy is sick. It's getting sicker. Coverup and denial conceal reality. Census data say record numbers of US counties are dying. It's over one in three. It reflects population shifts and Depression conditions. America's decline gets little attention. Since 1981, 42 US municip ...

Andy Worthington

  • Born in Lewisham: Photos of the Protest to Sav ...
    Born in Lewisham: The Protest to Save Lewisham Hospital, March 16, 2013, a set on Flickr. On March 16, 2013, the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign organised a protest and publicity event, entitled, “Born in Lewisham,” outside the endangered hospital — serving a population of 270, ...
  • Video: On Guantánamo Hunger Strike, Andy Worth ...
    Yesterday, I spoke to RT about the ongoing hunger strike at Guantánamo, which involves over a hundred of the remaining 166 prisoners. I first discussed it last week in an article entitled, “A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo,” which, I’m glad to note, was very widely read. The ...
  • While Tyrants Sleep: Photos of Canary Wharf at ...
    While Tyrants Sleep: Canary Wharf at Night, a set on Flickr. On November 14, 2012, as I explained in my previous photo set, “Curious Insomnia: A Journey through Deptford and Millwall to Canary Wharf at Night,” I decided, at 1am, to cycle from my home in Brockley, in south east London ...
  • Why Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Should Be Tried in Fed ...
    If you have the time, please look at “Abu Ghaith and All Terror Suspects Should Be Tried in Federal Courts,” an article I wrote that was published yesterday as part of US News & World Report’s “Debate Club.” In the article, I support the decision to prosecute al ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: Seeking $2000 to S ...
    Please support my work! Every three months, I ask you, my friends and supporters, to help me to carry on being an independent investigative journalist, commentator and activist — primarily on Guantánamo and the so-called “war on terror” — by donating to support my work. T ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Can drinking green tea or coffee cut stroke risk?
    Probably not. A recent study from Japan was much hyped in the media earlier this week but as NHS Choices points out, the researchers themselves offered a number of limitations to their study: The information on illness, green tea and coffee consumption was all self-reported, which introduces the ...
  • Whatever happened to acid rain?
    There’s a cute video montage currently doing the rounds in which a re-working of the Billy Joel song “We didn’t start the fire” reminisces about growing up in the 1970s and the 1980s and cites the countless games, toys, TV shows and other cultural references we had during ...
  • Ante-papal smoke signals
    Philip Ball, writing on the BBC Future site discusses the carcinogens and poisons pumped into the Roman air every time the cardinals vote on a new Pope… But, he also reckons the The Vatican is missing a trick by being unimaginatively monochrome. “Why stop at a mere two-colour signall ...
  • Animated rock art
    Some of the world’s oldest engravings of the human form – prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps – have been brought to life. PITOTI is an innovative research project that applies insights from the new technologies of computer graphics to prehistoric pictures, specifically ...
  • World Book Day Confusion
    It hadn’t occurred to me that there might be more than one World Book Day. Apparently (thanks Bob O’Hara) we Brits celebrate and promote literacy on 7th March to get around school holidays, which is why yesterday all the kids trotting up to school were dressed as characters from thei ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Early Season Wildfires Signal "Bad Omen" for D ...
    Two wildfires that erupted in northern Colorado on Friday continue to blaze in the region, signaling an early start to the wildfire season in the drought-stricken western United States. Burning about 75 miles northwest of Denver, the fires have been stoked by strong, erratic winds and "unse ...
  • Steubenville Teens Pronounced Guilty of Sexual ...
    A judge announced Sunday that two Steubenville, Ohio high school football players have been found guilty of sexual assault in a highly-publicized trial that drew questions of a community's complicity in this criminal act. 17-year-old Trent Mays and 16-year-old Ma’lik Richmond were pron ...
  • Record Radiation Found in Fukushima Fish
    The port of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant where the highly radioactive fish was caught. (Photo: Asahi Shimbun)A fish with record levels of radioactive cesium was caught in the waters outside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, officials announced Friday. ...
  • US Government Seeks to Dictate Global Rules fo ...
    As other countries race to build up drone warfare programs ending the 'monopoly' that the Obama administration has held over the highly controversial method of targeted killing, the US government is reportedly dictating how the international community will run their own covert and illega ...
  • Parents of British man killed by US drone blam ...
    The parents of a British-born man killed by a US drone strike after being stripped of his UK citizenship have spoken out for the first time – to say they will never forgive the British Government for his death. Mohamed Sakr was born and brought up in London before he was targeted and kille ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • SMC Eyed As K- Water Partner
    Angat plant winning bidder Korea Water Resources Corporation (K- Water ) is reportedly negotiating with the energy group of San Miguel Corporation (SMC) to become its local partner in the hydropower generation venture.
  • Africa: In Africa, Corruption Dirties the Water
    [IRIN]Nairobi -Collusion among government officials, unscrupulous water vendors and large farm owners results in diverted water supply lines, misappropriated funds, and failure to implement laws on protecting water sources from encroachment and pollution. These are just some of the ways corrupti ...
  • Lehigh County Authority out of running for All ...
    Lehigh County commissioners scuttle LCA opportunity to bid on Allentown privatization plan. With a 5-4 vote that could be seen as a rebuke of Allentown's plan to raise money for its pension obligations by leasing its water and sewer systems, the Lehigh County commissioners Wednesday night pulled ...
  • Water now too costly for thirsty poor
    Who could have ever ever imagined that water , freely accessed decades ago, is now sold like a beverage and that a small-sized bottle (330 ml) of this natural resource would now cost about P10, or around 2.2 percent of the minimum daily wage of P456?
  • Whitehall on record opposing Allentown's priva ...
    Whitehall Township Commissioners have changed course and are now on record opposing Allentown's proposal to lease its water and sewer systems.

Guardian

  • Two Steubenville football players found guilty ...
    Teen boys face at least a year's detention in juvenile jail in case that roiled close-knit community amid allegations of a cover-upTwo members of the high school football team that is the pride of Steubenville were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that bitterly ...
  • British father and son die on French Alps hiki ...
    French police say man may have fallen as he tried to rescue 12-year-old boy near Mont BlancA British man and his 12-year-old son have been killed on a hiking trip in the French Alps.The 48-year-old man called for help at 2pm local time on Saturday after his son fell down a cliff near Mont Blanc, ...
  • Archbishop of Canterbury tells how father's al ...
    Justin Welby says experience was 'shaping as to one's views of what human beings are like', and he now watches his drinkingJustin Welby, the new archbishop of Canterbury, has spoken of how his father's alcoholism and "volatile, unpredictable" personality have affected him and formed his own appr ...
  • Inquest to open into death of prisoner jailed ...
    Foster family say courts should have considered James Best's history of mental and physical problemsThe inquest into the death of a prisoner jailed for stealing a gingerbread man during the riots in 2011 opens in London on Monday. The man had a history of mental illness and physical problems, wh ...
  • Leveson reforms: No 10 remains hopeful of cros ...
    Tory leadership appears to be moving away from hardline stance before House of Commons vote on MondayDowning Street remains hopeful of a cross-party deal on the Leveson press reforms over the next 24 hours that would avoid a damaging House of Commons defeat for David Cameron, George Osborne has ...

McClatchey

  • 100th Tibetan self-immolation reported in a pr ...
    An account released on Wednesday of an ethnic Tibetan man in western China lighting himself on fire earlier this month, calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama before…Click to Continue »
  • Agencies warn Congress not to use humanitarian ...
    Humanitarian groups are lobbying hard against a proposal by several U.S. senators that would turn over the delivery of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to a Syrian opposition council…Click to Continue »
  • Democrats offer long-shot bill to meet Obama&# ...
    Democrats in Congress wasted no time in taking up President Barack Obama?s challenge Tuesday night that lawmakers take a "market-based" approach to addressing climate change, even if their effort has…Click to Continue »
  • Panetta: Congress hurting itself and U.S. imag ...
    The world is nervously watching a dysfunctional Congress and wondering ?whether or not we can rise to the challenges? that face the United States, outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta…Click to Continue »
  • GOP’s complaints about looming spending ...
    Republicans forced the budget crisis that helped create the pending across-the-board cuts in the first place. And Republicans provided crucial votes for the 2011 deal that ended that impasse, an…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pak Taliban other militant outfits behind MQM ...
    Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Raza Haider in Karachi was part of a plan hatched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other banned outfits to destabilise the country. Haider was gunned down in the financial capital al ...
  • The Real Cost Of Our Wars In Iraq And Afghanis ...
    Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan Coyer, who served with the U.S. Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia March 11, ...
  • Khalifa Foundation sends aid to Afghanistan
    WAM Abu Dhabi, Mar 17th, 2013 (WAM) -- The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Humanitarian Foundation has dispatched in coordination with the UAE Embassy in Afghanistan four trucks to Helmand Province to the poor and needy families in various areas in Afghanistan. The move comes within the programme ...
  • Army member gets 5 years for Afghan scam
    Afghanistan . Tonya Long, a 13-year Army veteran, pleaded guilty to stealing at least $1 million in cash payments meant for Afghan drivers of trucks delivering supplies to U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, the Los Angeles Times reported. During a hearing on March 4, prosecutors said Long wou ...
  • U.S. copter down in Afghanistan 1 killed
    One American died this weekend when a U.S. military helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's Kanduhar province, coalition officials said. The International Security Assistance Force said the OH-58 Kiowa went down early Saturday for reasons that were still under investigation. An official at IS ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • MSPB Urged to Retroactively Apply WEPA
    Today the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. At issue is whether the new definition of a protected disclosure set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act w ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final Rules, indiv ...
  • January 2013 Decisions of the Administrative R ...
    The USDOL/OALJ Reporter has published case summaries and case links for cases decided in January 2013 by the Administrative Review Board.  The decisions are found at http://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/ARB/REFERENCES/Caselists/01_2013.HTM
  • OSHA Announces Interim Rule on Whistleblower P ...
    Last Friday, OSHA published an interim final rule, and invited public comment on whistleblower protections for reporting violations of Affordable Care Act's health insurance reforms.  The Affordable Care Act contains various provisions to make health insurance more affordabl ...
  • IRS On Verge Of Crippling Whistleblower Program
    Whistleblower Advocates Submit Extensive Comment  in Response to Proposed IRS Regulations Yesterday, the National Whistleblower Center ("NWC"), the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense and Education Fund ("Fund"), Bradley Birkenfeld, Scott Rosen, and Gene Ross jointly ...

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

  • Marvin Ammori's Favorite Techdirt Posts of the ...
    With so many good posts this week, it's hard to select only a handful of favorites. Here are some stories that captured my attention. I chose an overall favorite and then one per day. They're all worth reading. For those who don't know me, I'm a lawyer. I recently released a book called "O ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Little Devices That Help You Out
    For this week's "Awesome Stuff" post I wasn't necessarily planning a "theme," but it seemed to mostly work out as one anyway: it's about three "little" devices that enable you to do more, but changing the way we deal with information in one way or another. This is a pretty exciting space in gen ...
  • No, The Death Of Google Reader Doesn't Mean 'F ...
    With the imminent death of Google Reader, I've seen a number of people whose opinions I respect quite a bit, say something about how "this shows why paying for software is important," or, alternatively "why free software isn't a good idea." One of many examples of this is Dave Winer's statement ...
  • Prenda Law Tries To Close The Barn Door After ...
    Ken White blogs at Popehat. He's a litigator and criminal defense attorney at Brown White & Newhouse LLP in Los Angeles. His views are his alone, not those of his firm. My prior coverage of the Prenda Law saga is here. Yesterday, March 14, as Judge Wright was busy issuing a new O ...
  • Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Goo ...
    Another day in which Google makes a move that leaves me scratching my head about what it's thinking. It has decided to remove Adblock Plus from the Google Play store arguing that it interferes "with another service or product in an unauthorized manner." Obviously, some will argue that of cours ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Has Obama forgotten everything?
    Gideon Levy writes: Barack Obama has decided to punish the Israelis: He is talking to them as if they were ignoramuses. The U.S. president has also decided to punish himself: He is betraying his principles, those that have won him international acclaim and the Nobel Peace Prize. There’s no ...
  • Obama’s secrecy fixation
    Glenn Greenwald writes: When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, his pledges of openness and transparency were not ancillary to his campaign but central to it. He repeatedly denounced the Bush administration as “one of the most secretive administrations in our nation’s history&#8 ...
  • Federal judge finds national security letters ...
    Wired: Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge in California ruled in a decision released Friday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered the government to stop issuing so-called NSLs ...
  • The Free Syrian Army doesn’t exist
    Aron Lund writes: Is the FSA losing influence in Syria? How many people are in the FSA? Is the FSA receiving enough guns from the West, or too many? Will the FSA participate in elections after the fall of Bahar el-Assad? What is the ideology of the FSA? What’s the FSA’s view of Israel? Is [...]
  • Video: Where is the Syrian conflict heading?

Watts Up With That?

  • Last day to vote in the Bloggies
    If you have not voted for your favorite blog yet, now is the time. Sunday, March 17  10:00 PM EDT   Voting closes. Overview and voting instructions here
  • Obama By-Passes Gas
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach President Obama continues his Global War on Cheap Energy™, this time under the guise of avoiding “spikes” in gasoline (petrol) prices.  He wants to pass gas without regrets and move post-haste to electricity and biofuels, … Continue reading →
  • McIntyre finds the Marcott ‘trick&#8217 ...
    Steve McIntyre has made what I can only describe as a stunning discovery as to why there is a sharp uptick in the main Marcott et al graph being touted by the media from its publication in Science. It seems … Continue reading →
  • Marcott’s uptick – a result of pro ...
    Shades of upside down Tiljander. McIntyre is delving further into the Marcott proxy issue and it looks almost certain now there’s a statistical processing error (selection bias). Steve McIntyre writes: In the graphic below, I’ve plotted Marcott’s NHX reconstruction against … Continue ...
  • NOAA’s Ever-Changing Definition of La Niña Years
    There have been two changes in NOAA’s Oceanic NINO Index over the past year—not one—in addition to their monthly updates. NOAA redefined their Oceanic NINO Index (ONI) last year. Prior to the change, they had used their ERSST.v3b-based NINO3.4 sea … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Brain Researchers Can Detect Who We Are Thinki ...
    Scientists scanning the human brain can now tell whom a person is thinking of, the first time researchers have been able to identify what people are imagining from imaging technologies. Work to visualize thought is starting to pile up successes. Recently, scientists have used brain scans to deco ...
  • Eating Too Much Salt May Trigger MS Or Another ...
    High salt intake isn’t just a concern for those with high blood pressure or heart disease anymore. Three new studies, published together in the journal Nature, are raising the alarm that eating too much salt may put you at risk for a host of autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis and ...
  • 3D printing breakthrough with human embryonic ...
    A team of researchers from Scotland has used a novel 3D printing technique to arrange human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for the very first time. It is hoped that this breakthrough, which has been published today, 5 February, in the journal Biofabrication, will allow three-dimensional tissues an ...
  • Calcium Supplements May Raise Mens Death Risk ...
    Men taking calcium supplements may be running a nearly 20 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests.Both men and women take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss. In this study of calcium intake, the risk of dying from heart disease was higher for men b ...
  • Researchers unveil first artificial enzyme cre ...
    There’s a wobbly new biochemical structure in Burckhard Seelig’s lab at the University of Minnesota that may resemble what enzymes looked like billions of years ago, when life on earth began to evolve – long before they became ingredients for new and improved products, from detergents to foods a ...

CFACT

  • Who Released The Climategate Emails And Why
    Unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by “Climategate”, I’m referring here to the thousands of leaked email communications between prominent international researchers within the U.K.’s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit ...
  • Climategate 3.0 “Mr. FOIA’s” ...
    Read Mr. FOIA's message. Climategate 3.0 is set to rock the global warming establishment. 220,000 encrypted emails which document what goes on behind the scenes at team global warming are suddenly decrypted and free for the public to view. What they reveal is not pretty. How unsettling. ...
  • Obama’s misguided carbon tax plans
    The only thing that will happen if carbon taxes are inflicted on our economy is that American jobs, economic growth, living standards, health, welfare, dreams and lives will be sacrificed for nothing.
  • Greens work to still wind, darken solar power ...
    Absolutely no energy options are immune from environmental challenges.... A 2011 U.S. Chamber of Commerce report titled “Project/No Project” found 140 renewable projects that had stalled, stopped, or been outright killed due to “Not in My Back Yard” (NIMBY) environmental activism and a system t ...
  • Questions for Obama’s Interior, Energy and EPA ...
    The President’s outgoing Energy and Interior Secretaries and EPA Administrator were all highly controversial, divisive figures.. The nominees to replace them have all been called “team players,” in an administration that has been decidedly anti-hydrocarbon and pro-renewable energy. They all hav ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Sara Brightman’s Space Trip Under Question – R ...
    Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and NASA may opt against sending music star Sarah Brightman to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015, Russian agency’s head Vladimir Popovkin said on Saturday.
  • ISS Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
    The Soyuz TMA-06M manned spacecraft touched down on Saturday ending its three-and-a-half hour voyage to bring three International Space Station (ISS) crew members to Earth after 142 days in orbit.
  • Space Station Crew Departs to Earth
    The Soyuz TMA-06M manned spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday, beginning its voyage to bring three ISS crew members back to Earth, the Mission Control said.
  • Space Station Crew to Land Saturday
    A Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft with three crewmembers from the International Space Station (ISS) is due to land on Saturday at 7:06 a.m. Moscow time (3:06 a.m. GMT) 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia said on Friday.
  • Crew Departure from Space Station Postponed
    Unfavorable weather conditions have forced the Russian space agency Roscosmos to postpone the return of three Expedition 34 crewmembers - Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Yevgeny Tarelkin, and NASA astronaut Kevin Ford - from the International Space Station (ISS) by one day, space officials sai ...

Pruning Shears

  • Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz and the value of pr ...
    The sharp exchange between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced somewhat typical partisan reactions: conservatives thought Cruz had the better of the exchange; liberals, Feinstein. There was a definite gender angle as well though. A num ...
  • Making sense of the news in a new media world
    Years ago there was a criminal case where a crooked cop planted evidence against the suspect even though prosecutors already had a pretty tight case against him. One observer described the police officer’s actions as “framing a guilty man,” and I’ve found that to be a us ...
  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...
  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...
  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Argentina's Bad Seeds
    The country's soya industry is booming, but what is the impact on Argentinians and their land?Click here to read this article
  • Restaurant Horror Show: How Servers Are Abused
    Almost 10 percent of the U.S. workforce is in the restaurant industry. Why is it legal to treat them so poorly? Click here to read this article
  • Whole Foods to Require Labeling of GMO Foods
    Grocery giant Whole Foods Market will require all foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) sold in its U.S. and Canadian stores to be labeled as such by 2018. This puts the company in the position of being the first grocery chain in the United States to set a deadline for GMO lab ...
  • Will Antibiotic Resistance Put an End to Facto ...
    In the fetid atmosphere of factory farms, animals are crammed together in such close confinement they have barely room to move. Poultry spend their entire growth cycles on beds of excrement. Pigs, cattle and calves are reared on slatted floors. Their feces fall beneath them into manure pits. Amm ...
  • How Big Food Uses Junk Science, Deceptive Mark ...
    There is an entire industry out there that exists solely for the purpose of carefully engineering what can only be described as intentional junk food addiction. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • The CLF Week in Links: Rotting Pigs, Airport F ...
    Do ads cause obesity? Here’s a well-written critique of cross-sectional studies of factors associated with obesity that are interpreted to imply causation. To quote, “For every 10 percent increase in food advertisements, the odds of being obese increased by 5 percent.” The author correctly warns ...
  • Immigration Reform, Agriculture and Public Health
    A group of industrial food animal production and processing companies have formed “The Food Manufacturers Immigration Coalition” to encourage comprehensive immigration reform.
  • Links: Rice, Farmers, Drought, and the Fiscal ...
    Women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms. But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women’s low social standing have frustrated these women’s rise out of poverty and hunger.
  • The Art and Science of Grocery Shopping on a B ...
    Not surprisingly, people were most concerned about being able to provide sufficient quantity of food for their families and still stay within their budget. In other words, keeping hunger at bay was the Number One concern.
  • Mislabeled Seafood: More than Overpaying for F ...
    Many people are interested in the study because consumers are being duped by fraudulent fish, but other impacts of mislabeled seafood are far more worrisome. Certain fish carry advisories, especially for pregnant women and young children, to limit or avoid due to contamination of heavy metals or ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Deadly Bacteria Found in Gulf Coast Tar Balls
    new study, conducted by scientists at Auburn University, confirmed the presence of a bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus. in concentrations 100x that in surrounding waters ( see comments ) blogged oldephartte.blogspot.com/2013/03/15-march-igoogle.html Submitted by John Farnham to Environment &nbs ...
  • NORML: Looking Back at 40-Year Crusade to End ...
    As long as any government can arbitrarily decide which drugs are legal and which aren't, then anyone behind bars for a nonviolent drug offense is a political prisoner. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • CIA evidence exposes greatest climate change error
    Climate modeling changes its basics Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cholesterol : Friend, not Enemy
    how fake science pushes drugs to treat a non-existent problem and perverts healthcare Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Genes from GMO Food Do Wind Up in People
    He may have been disappointed with vegan response to his lifestyle at Care2, but CowBoss still has valuable intel Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Food Should Be Made With Love – That’s Real Su ...
    It’s time for a revolution of the personal kind. There is nothing more effective than changing one’s own life by rejecting the artificial and digging in to create a real, honest, down to earth, local living lifestyle. It’s time to put love back on the dinner plate.
  • The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
    We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die. They get to pick and choose who the throwaway people are. The expendables. The ones who hold no worth in their eyes. Through some sort of arbitrary judgment – one lives, ...
  • Monsanto and the FDA: 2 crime families working ...
    Imagine this. A killer is put on trial, and the jury, in a surprise verdict, finds him not guilty. Afterwards, reporters interview this killer. He says, “The jury freed me. It’s up to them. They decide. That’s what justice is all about.” Then the press moves along to members of the jury, who say ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    You drench your fields with it in the fall. You kill anything growing. And you drench the fields again in the spring, before you plant. Then, just as you’re going to plant, you hit the fields a third time with the poison. This is in addition to all the sprayings with Roundup, which is toxic, too ...
  • They Want To Tag Us Before They Bag Us
    My advice is to all Americans is to immediately work towards becoming self-sufficient to such a degree that it appears to others that your life depends on it, because it does.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Air Force Trainer Gets 4 Years for Raping Trainee
    ShareThisAir Force Trainer Gets 4 Years for Raping Trainee 17 Mar 2013 A military judge has sentenced an Air Force instructor to four years in prison for raping a female trainee at the South Texas base where he worked. Lt. Col. Matthew Van Dalen also sentenced Staff Sgt. Eddy Soto to a dishon ...
  • 'Iranian cmdrs. authorized to launch immediate ...
    ShareThis'Iranian cmdrs. authorized to launch immediate counterattack' 16 Mar 2013 The Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces says the country's commanders have been given authorization to respond immediately to enemy attacks. "Our commanders have received authorization to immediately r ...
  • British activist convicted for yelling at PM d ...
    ShareThisBritish activist convicted for yelling at PM during anti-cuts protest 17 Mar 2013 British activist Bethan Tichborne has been found guilty of a public order offence for telling British Prime Minister David Cameron he had "blood in his hands" during protests against cutting disabled be ...
  • Nuclear boss wants to cut family fuel aid
    ShareThisNuclear boss wants to cut family fuel aid --Chief of French company poised to build reactors in Britain also argues against European subsidies for renewable energy 17 Mar 2013 The boss of a company set to build two nuclear reactors in Somerset has been demanding cuts to renewable energy ...
  • BP asks judge to halt 'fictitious' and 'absurd ...
    ShareThisBP asks judge to halt 'fictitious' and 'absurd' Deepwater oil spill payouts --Oil giant asks New Orleans judge to temporarily halt payouts and says it could be 'irreparably harmed' by billions in costs 16 Mar 2013 BP launched an appeal against "fictitious" and "absurd" oil spill compen ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Under Attack
    13 March 2013 Our website sustains repeated attacks and is frequently offline. We must upgrade the website which requires direct reader support. Please see this, and dig deep! We need it. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-michaelyon-online-com-alive
  • Senate Investigation - Pat Tillman
    12 March 2013
  • FBR: Kachin Update
    FBR Report: Kachin Update – Photo set two; Attacks Against the Kachin are Sporadic but Displacement is Constant Kachin State, Burma 8 March, 2013 One of five camps for displaced Kachin that was visited on this trip Kachin girl in high mountain hiding place Kachin pastor points to Bur ...
  • White Letter 1-13
    05 March 2013
  • Chris Kyle, Navy SEAL Murdered: Some Thoughts
    04 February 2013 News of Chris Kyle’s shooting has reached around the world.  Many people are asking for my thoughts, and so this morning I write these words in response. Chris was credited with killing about 160 enemy combatants in Iraq. He is called the most deadly sniper in US history. ...

The Killing Train

  • Hugo Chavez, Presente
    I only started paying attention to Hugo Chavez and Venezuela at the time of the 2002 coup. At the time, I was deeply engaged with the Canada Colombia Solidarity Campaign. Friends I was making were on the run, living underground, trying to work in a context of disappearances and massacres, assass ...
  • My lecture at Jamia on Aid Politics and Foreig ...
    The Jamia Journal did a nice little report and audio recording of my lecture on Feb 25/13 in the Poli Sci Department of Jamia Millia Islamia, here in Delhi. You can see it here.
  • Can 1.7 Billion Dollars Imagine Wrong?
    21 February, 2013 Countercurrents.org A review of Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (Penguin Books 2009) If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? It's a daunting task to critique a book by a billionaire. JK Galbraith once wrote that conventional wisdom has it that wea ...
  • Canada and the Palestine Question, by Dan Free ...
    Dan Freeman-Maloy, whose blog is notesonhypocrisy.com, has collected several significant pieces of research on Canada and the Palestine Question and published them as a single PDF (Aaron Swartz would be proud). He has also done a major talk on the same issue, that elucidates some of the main poi ...
  • The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space
    First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I'll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross t ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • How Christian are the Republicans? A Sunday Se ...
    When he says, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone," Jesus gives clear indication that the punitive righteousness that pervades today's Republican Party is NOT the spirit that should animate the human community. It is that punitive spirit in the crowd, not how the adulteress they wan ...
  • The Three Poisons of Human Suffering
    The Buddha's approach to understanding suffering and it's antidotes
  • Questions Persist After Guilty Verdicts in Ste ...
    A verdict was handed down Sunday in the case of "Jane Doe", a teen who was allegedly gang raoed during a series of wild parties in August. Two defendants were found guilty of rape, in this case, the use of their fingers to violate a sixteen year old who was not in a position to give consent.
  • The Ides of Yahoo!
    The shortcomings of Yahoo! are outlined as its new CEO Marissa Mayer attempts to take charge of this innovative high-tech firm in a very heavy-handed and counterproductive manner. She is heading for a fall, which will be bad for her, and bad for Yahoo as well.
  • The Dangers of Feminine Empowerment
    This is a meditation on the dangers of yin, or feminine empowerment. To tap into the mystic Feminine is to turn our conditioned minds on their ears. Thus the Tao Te Ching, as well as Christ, tell us to be newborn and thus free of ourselves. To be newborn is to be unconditioned. Our becoming ...

Switchboard

  • India Green News: Budgeting for Energy Needs, ...
    Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York March 1-15, 2013  India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India. Energy Government mulling club of nations to pro ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile studies solar ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. March 8-15, 2013 Chile The Chilean Solar Energy Research Center&mdash ...
  • Pope Francis and Climate Change; Si Se Puede!
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC With a puff of white smoke, the world was greeted this week with the announcement of a new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine Cardinal now known as Pope Francis, named after the patron ...
  • Global Nuclear Reactor Database Developed by NRDC
    Jordan Weaver, Project Scientist and Science Center Fellow, Washington, D.C. Today NRDC’s Nuclear Program is releasing their web-based nuclear energy analysis tool: the Global Nuclear Reactor Database. We developed this reactor database as mea ...
  • Fuel Economy Continues to Rise: EPA Report
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City New cars and trucks are poised to set new records in fuel efficiency according to the latest Fuel Economy Trends report from the EPA. When all the data is crunched, EPA expects the model year 2012 avera ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Lazy Sunday Linkage
    Some Sunday links for your pleasure: Hagel cancels phase IV of European missile defense program. Sure to win him lots of friends with the right people. Some interesting thoughts on specific weapon systems that might change the equation in Syria. The Chinese may project the J-31 as a carrier airc ...
  • Rand Paul, Principled Champion of Civil Liberties
    Well, unless women count as people. …and, on a related point, Epps: “By diverting attention to a hypothetical drone strike on Jane Fonda, Paul has created the 2013 version of the 2009 “death panels.” No matter how many liberal columnists he wowed, he has done a disservice ...
  • Guilty In Steubenville
    The equivalent of a guilty verdict, given the overwhelming evidence, shouldn’t be a sign of progress, but in a sense it is. The rape culture was in evidence throughout the trial: Throughout this trial, the two defendants and a parade of friends who wound up mostly testifying against the de ...
  • The Academic Future
    With MOOCs, the future is clearly what happened to the French Department at Southeastern Louisiana University. Fire all the tenure track professors, replace them with adjuncts, and continue offering the minor (or major as the case may be). Dare the professors to do something about it. Of course ...
  • The Racists & The Shoe-Shine Boy
    I’m still waiting for reputable conservatives to repudiate Scott Terry’s statements, but I understand if they’re reluctant because I couldn’t prove that the Scott Terry whose reading list I linked to is the same Scott Terry from CPAC. Now I can: Many of you are visiting t ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI tasked as technical lead to implement Reno ...
    This morning a team of IBM experts from around the world, who have been leading Reno’s Smarter Cities Challenge for the last three weeks, presented their recommendations to the region’s political, educational and business leadership.
  • Noah Fraser, Mar. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate S ...
    Meet Noah Fraser, a Ph.D student in hydrologic sciences. His current area of study involves utilizing high resolution datasets of ephemeral streams to analyze flooding in non-instrumented river basins across the Southwestern U.S.
  • Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Majority Leader highli ...
    Senator Reid discusses the success of DRI's GreenPower Program and its K-12 teacher training workshops specifically.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Accountability…Too Late?
    This video with Jude Stiles giving testimony of what her family has dealt with since 2010 at a hearing for the Pennsylvania DEP accountability standards. Her husband is now deceased and she and her children are very sick due to the contamination of there well water from gas drilling. At one poin ...
  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Obama Unveils New Actions To Combat Climate Ch ...
    Making good on his promise to fight climate change more aggressively in his second term, President Obama is unveiling two major initiatives to reduce the U.S.’s reliance on fossil fuels, including a new $2 billion Energy Security Trust to fund the next generation of green vehicles, as well as n ...
  • U.S. Grants Will Promote Small-Scale, Modular ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week announced a new series of cost-sharing grants to promote the development of small-scale, factory-made nuclear reactors, an emerging energy source that Obama administration officials say could help replace the coal-fired plants expected to cease opera ...
  • Into the Heart of Ecuador’s Yasuni
    Few places on earth harbor as much biodiversity as Ecuador’s Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, which sits atop vast deposits of oil and now faces intense development pressure. In a Yale Environment 360 video, filmmaker Ryan Killackey travels to the heart of Yasuni with scientists inventorying its stunni ...
  • New Desalination Process Slashes Costs of Prod ...
    Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest military contractors, has developed a process that company officials say significantly reduces the amount of energy needed to desalinate water, an innovation that could help communities worldwide tackle the growing threat of water scarcity. According t ...
  • Interview: An Advocate for Environmental Justi ...
    Matthew Tejada brings on-the-ground experience to his new job as director of the Office of Environmental Justice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Tejada, 33, took over his EPA post Matthew Tejada this month after leading Air Alliance Houston,

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