Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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Southeastern Africa & Madagascar: Generalized ...Southeastern Africa & Madagascar: Generalized Climate Zones\GPW v3 Population Density (Photo credit: SEDACMaps)
 All Things Considered - NPR


American Water Intelligence
Saneago concession for 4 towns

Arklow WWTP
BBC

Facebook adds support for hashtags
Facebook is adding support for clickable hashtags to help users keep track of popular topics on the network, a move experts say may boost ad sales.  

Japan tests 4K TV over the internet
Blog of Rights - ACLU

CBC
CBC correspondents released from detention in Turkey

Canada soccer body issues sanctions for Quebec's turban ban 
CNET

Facebook's Parse now powering 100,000 apps
CNN
English-only at Whole Foods?
Ruben Navarrette wonders if the trendy organic supermarket company has an "English-only" policy.  

NSA spying scares the world
CTV
Environment Canada lifts tornado warning for Edmonton
Environment Canada has lifted its tornado warning for Edmonton. Several other nearby communities are still under a tornado watch.  

Quebec Soccer Federation sticking with turban ban, despite CSA suspension
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
BC's water: time to stop giving it away for free

History and Drama of a Prairie Commons
 
Carbon Farmers of Australia
I'm a PC and the carbon tax was my idea

Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
China and U.S. Agree to Cooperate to Reduce Powerful Greenhouse Gas

ChannelNewsAsia
South Korea leaves key rate unchanged at 2.5%

Ex-SCDF chief Peter Lim gets 6 months' jail
Circle of Blue water news
The Stream, June 12: India Learns Water Management Tips from Israel

Common Dreams
America's Worst Charities


CounterPunch’s Top Stories
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Is there a Left in America today? There is, of course, a Left ideology, a Left of the mind,...
RUTH FOWLER
Angelina Jolie, scion of Hollywood beauty, has gone under the knife for medical, rather than cosmetic reasons and...
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Two weeks ago my restorative slumber was rudely aborted by the shattering opening chords of “Search and Destroy”...
PATRICK COCKBURN
In the aftermath of the First World War, Britain and France famously created the modern Middle East by...
SHAMUS COOKE
The tempo of events in Syria has accelerated in recent weeks. The government forces have scored significant battlefield victories...
JP SOTTILE
Bill Maher is a funny guy. But he’s not very reflective. That’s because, quite ironically, he’s fallen into the War...
FRAN QUIGLEY
In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists...
MELVIN A. GOODMAN
When congressional Republicans complete manipulating the Benghazi tragedy, it will be time for the virtually silent Senate intelligence...
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained...
The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League

ADL Spies

by JEFFREY BLANKFORT
“[T]he Anti-Defamation League for many years has maintained a very important, confidential investigative coverage of Arab activities and propaganda….Our information, in addition to being essential for our own operations, has been of great value and service to both the United States State Department and the Israeli government. All data have been made available to both countries with full knowledge to each that we were the source.”
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June 12, 2013
JEFFREY BLANKFORT
ADL Spies
ZOLTAN GROSSMAN
Unlikely Alliances
KEN KLIPPENSTEIN
Greenwald Botches NSA Leak
LAWRENCE S. WITTNER
Corporate Welfare or Education?
MYLES B. HOEING
Miss Nixon Yet?
June 11, 2013
June 10, 2013
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Another Phony Jobs Report

Daily Bell
Worthless Constitution

Progressive Thom Hartmann Calls for Disbanding of Homeland Security Is it Enough
Daily Galaxy
"Saturn Can Vibrate Like a Bell" --Creating Spirals in the Ancient Rings"Saturn Can Vibrate Like a Bell" --Creating Spirals in the Ancient Rings
New Unknown Type of Star DiscoveredNew Unknown Type of Star Discovered
"Mars is Not a Dead Planet" --Meteorite and Glaciation Evidence Point to Profound Climate Change Cycles"Mars is Not a Dead Planet" --Meteorite and Glaciation Evidence Point to Profound Climate Change Cycles
The "Ocean Moon" --Future Missions to Explore Jupiter's EuropaThe "Ocean Moon" --Future Missions to Explore Jupiter's Europa
"Anapole Dark Matter" --New Theory Explains Why Dark Matter Has Escaped Detection"Anapole Dark Matter" --New Theory Explains Why Dark Matter Has Escaped Detection

Daily Kos

International leaders demand answers about NSA spying
Democracy Now!
Medgar Evers' Murder, 50 Years Later: Widow Myrlie Evers-Williams Remembers "A Man for All Time"
Discovery
Building Blocks of Life Found in Galactic Cloud
Astrochemists have detected two complex molecules in interstellar space, which may provide more clues as to where life's first complex...  

Quiz Reveals Likelihood You'll Be Dead By 2023
Fark
This is why you must have your permission slips filled out before you can go on a field trip [Sad]

After every wedding, there is a good friend or two who will disappear from your life forever--and that's really okay [Interesting]
Food and Water Watch
Rotten Tomatoes: Walmart’s Latest Produce Initiative
food consumer
Insulin-like growth factor IEc linked to prostate cancer

Alabama Firm Recalls Beef Jerky Products Due to Misbranding and Undeclared Allergen
Force Change
Require Product Labels that Assess Environmental Impact

Guardian UK
Edward Snowden vows to fight anticipated US extradition request
NSA whistleblower says he is not in Hong Kong to 'hide from justice' and alleges US hacked hundreds of targets in ChinaThe NSA whistleblower Edward...  
 Surgeons can opt out of NHS tables rating their performance
NHS England concedes that consultants can legally refuse to hand over performance dataThe value of the NHS league table for surgeons has been cast...  

Universities face more complaints since rise in tuition fees
Hayride

Interesting Interpretation Of History At The DNC’s Website
Inside Facebook
Facebook’s latest Android update allows users to control privacy on posted stories
Facebook users have made it clear that they want more control over their privacy. The company’s investors said that repeatedly during...  

How to get attention through Facebook’s mobile ads — blue hair?
Ireland
Two calls to fire station not received, court told
Two alert calls to Greystones Fire Station by Bray Fire Station requesting assistance to deal with a fatal fire were not received, a trial has hea  
Majority want Government to go further with abortion legislation
 
Lifehacker
Slow Browsers, Auto-Updating Apps, and Sick Children

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LobeLog

PRISMatic Global Surveillance
Southern Baptists Condemn Policy Shift On Gay Boy Scouts

U.S. Olympic Skater's Sabotage Gets Day In 'Court'

ATLANTA - Doctors should consider giving a daily AIDS drug to another high risk group to help prevent infections — people who shoot heroin, methamphetamines or other injection drugs, U.S. health officials said Wednesday. A similar recommendation is ...
The Alberta government has taken the extraordinary step of firing the health superboard that makes day-to-day decisions regarding operations at the province's hospitals and clinics after board members refused, even when asked by the Health Minister, ...
A mystery woman who visited the Aberdeen Centre Mall in Richmond, B.C., on Saturday didn't buy anything, but she didn't leave empty-handed. The woman's went into labour outside an optical store, and delivered a baby boy. "That was a very unique, ...
Transgender Nova Scotians are facing tough choices after a recent decision by the province's health minister not to fund sex reassignment surgery. 'Imagine waking up everyday and you're just like 'Ugh, this is not right ... I don't even understand myself' ...
Take the news that 23 women died while taking the popular birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin. It is certainly disturbing. Still, it is important to ask questions to understand that number better: 23 out of how many? Over what time period? Yes, these women were ...
Nostalgia Swells for Mandela Era - Wall Street Journal
JOHANNESBURG—With their former president in the hospital and their nation's economic promise unfulfilled, South Africans are suffering from a powerful moment of Nelson Mandela nostalgia. On Wednesday, President Jacob Zuma elicited rare ...
The Saskatoon Health Region is no longer allowing its midwives to offer home birth to women who've previously had a Caesarean section. The health region said it's a preventative measure, which took effect two weeks ago, to keep women and their babies ...
Re: MLA wants wheelchair fee stopped, June 7. This monthly fee for seniors who use wheelchairs at long-term care homes is the tip of the iceberg regarding our supposedly universal health car

memeorandum
Marco Rubio crafting tougher amendment on gov't benefits for immigrants (David M. Drucker/Washington Examiner)

MetroMetro
Games Inbox: E3, PS4 and Microsoft
The E3 is still attracting lots of comments (Picture: AFP/Getty Images) This year’s E3 is still attracting plenty of comments while one reader...  

Google ‘should be investigated by the taxman’ say MPs
Mobile Texas Politics
Senate panel votes to close loophole in capital murder law
Seeking to plug a loophole in state law that leaves no punishment for 17-year-olds who ...  

NRC

13-050: NRC Seeks Public Comment on Foreign Ownership of Nuclear Power Plants Public Meeting June 19 in Rockville, Md.
New Scientist
Astrophile: The runt of the galactic litter

Big Brother needs a data privacy policy
News.com.Au
Gillard meets the Governator
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has met with "Governator" Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Hollywood star begins his Australian tour.
Best Jobs finalists arrive Down Under

Steroids nabbed in airport searches

Gillard 'is free to debate abortion'

Holden needs your cash to keep going
News24
Mandela co-accused remembers
As Nelson Mandela spent a fifth day in hospital, one of his comrades recalled the day exactly 49 years ago when they were sentenced to life...  

Obama Conspiracy Theories
Reed Hayes: expert enigma

Open Channel
Secret court won't object to release of opinion on illegal surveillance
By Michael IsikoffNBC News National Investigative CorrespondentIn a rare public ruling by the nation’s most secretive judicial body...  
Open Secrets
Pro-Plan B Groups' Pro-Obama Investments Seeming Well-Placed

Outlook
PECAN Group
The War on Sleep

Payvand Iran News
Photos: Election Campaign In The Streets Of Tehran

Pesticide Action Network

Philippines News
Philippines recommends charges against coast guards in Taiwanese fishermans death
 
Political MoJo > Mother Jones
Corn on "Hardball": The Rise of Paranoia Over US Surveillance
Politics Security Secrecy
National Security FISA Secrecy: Hiding from the American People

Psychology Today
Dare To Be Yourself

The Fame Game

Register

Science

Science@NASA
Dry Ice "Snowboards" on Mars
Asteroid Moon Movie
 
Science Daily
Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics

Shaleshock Media
Students debate LPG facility in Schuyler County Legislative Chambers

PVR Partners Chapin Glycol Dehydration Station Lawsuit Filing WBRE 6 6 13
SPACE
Trove of Black Holes Discovered in Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda has more known black holes than any galaxy besides the Milky Way.  

Some Mars Gullies May Be Carved by Dry Ice 'Sleds'
Star Online

TED
9 documentaries that you need to see this year

TechDirt

Tech Republic
SolutionBase: Enforce system policies with the Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer

This Week in Science
From Dust Grains to Planets

Trend.Az
Obama names woman to be second-in-command at CIA
The White House said Wednesday US President Barack Obama has named the top legal adviser to the National Security Council to be deputy director of...  

USA Today

Unexplained Mysteries
Plane damaged by mystery object over China
Tiny sub to search for life on Europa ?
 
Web MD
Restless Legs Syndrome Tied to Earlier Death Risk
Older men with condition have 39 percent increase in mortality, study suggests  

White House
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts

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