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2012 Blog

  • Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
    Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...
  • New Chambers at Teotihuacan
    What I love about archaeology is that new things are being unearthed all the time. And when you are someone like me who makes crazy declarations that “pyramids are bunkers”, then each time  a new subterranean chamber is opened, it could contain evidence that supports my position. A ...
  • Tunguska was a Meteorite
    For a long time Tunguska has been a mystery – was in a comet or a meteorite or something else (Tesla anyone?). To my knowledge, this is the first time the mystery has been solved using facts rather than speculation: An icy comet would evaporate on impact, which could explain the lack of a ...
  • Gourmet Spam in Space
    In Hawaii six people are living in a geodesic dome, experimenting with they types of food that astronauts can eat when they journey to Mars. NASA have five meat products that have a long shelf life, and it is not surprising that one of them is Spam. One of the the problems with long-distance spa ...
  • Mayan Pyramids Discovered in Chactun
    Incredibly, ancient cities are still being discovered, with large & intact buildings. Some jungles really are extremely impenetrable! Two weeks ago one was found in Cambodia, and now a Mayan city has been located in Mexico: The city was recently spotted in aerial photographs that had been sn ...

Facing South

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Snowden and the World’s No-fly Zones
    It took three weeks, till a high-ranked official of the United Nations, the commissary of human rights, Navi Pillay, made a commentary on the flight of Edward Snowden and his long-term seeking for asylum. She noticed publically that systematic violation of international law and human rights, how ...
  • Episode 13. Why London presented Hitler with V ...
    State frontiers are established by human beings and may be changed by human beings. Adolf Hitler.  Mein Kampf  Diplomacy, with all the conventions of its forms, recognizes only real facts. Charles de Gaulle All of Adolf Hitler’s actions, from the time he rose to power in 1933 until 1939, c ...
  • Snowden: Human Rights and Global Information S ...
    On July 12 fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden held a meeting with human rights representatives in the transit area of Moscow airport. Snowden told a small group of activists that he was reinstating a claim for asylum in Russia and asked for their support. In order to be guaranteed safety in R ...
  • Snowden honored by group of former intelligenc ...
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been honored with a prestigious truth-telling award by a group of former national security officials. Consortium News reports Snowden was awarded the Sam Adams Award by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a group of former CIA and other in ...
  • US Withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Reality
    With the year 2014 –scheduled for US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan – approaching nearer, the confusion regarding the form and even quantum, as also the ‘after-effects’ of US’ withdrawal, is increasing in the media reports. There are now the reported lurking doubts that US may not fulfill its comm ...

BlogHer

  • Personalized Portrait Applique
    You might remember my post on family portraits.  Not the kind where you go to the mall and have your picture taken.  I'm talking about the kind you have drawn by an artist.  I have one done yearly.  Lately I have started to add various caricatures  to the wall.  My ...
  • Surviving the Self-Sacrifice of Breastfeeding
    We all know that nursing a baby can be difficult. Perfecting the latch and figuring out how to hold the baby and making sure you're eating and drinking enough and on and on and on. I think once the technical "stuff" of breastfeeding gets figured out, there's a sort of zen period. And then... at ...
  • Surviving the Self-Sacrifice of Breastfeeding
    We all know that nursing a baby can be difficult. Perfecting the latch and figuring out how to hold the baby and making sure you're eating and drinking enough and on and on and on. I think once the technical "stuff" of breastfeeding gets figured out, there's a sort of zen period. And then... at ...
  • After Insurance & Sick Leave: A New Life at Wh ...
    While the "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" cliche may come in most handily and frequently in discussions of romantic relationships, rest assured that it works for health insurance, too. Other things you might miss once they're not there anymore include sick leave, paid time off, a ...
  • Tips for Talking with Kids About Cancer
    If we lived in a perfect world, I wouldn't have to share this post -- and no parent would ever have to talk to their child about cancer. Whether you or your partner or a grandparent or another loved one is facing a new cancer diagnosis, your child will have questions. My two sons were too small ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Toxic substances found in reserve
    The Environmental Protection Authority has been accused of covering up the discovery of some of the most poisonous substances on earth at levels well above health limits, alarming residents whose children use the tested area ... Related posts:Audit of the Federal Reserve Revea ...
  • Are Antibiotics On The Farm Risky Business?
    You’ve probably seen the labels on meat in the store: “Raised without antibiotics.” They’re a selling point for people who don’t like how many drugs are used on chickens, turkey, hogs and beef cattle. Activist groups, ... Related posts:Scientists: ...
  • In Argentina, Coca-Cola Tests Market For &#821 ...
    To escape Washington’s summer’s swelter, I’ve flown to Argentina and discovered that there’s one big surprise among the many things that set this part of the world apart at the moment. Yes, the steaks are great, the tangos ... Related posts:What Happens ...
  • Health risk as crops watered with effluent
    Fruit and vegetables grown in NSW are being watered with human effluent because some farmers think it makes good fertilizer, showing “negligent disregard” for public health, a parliamentary inquiry has found. Health authorities reminded the public ... Related posts ...
  • Jenny McCarthy’s ‘View’ Hiri ...
    The decision by “The View” to hire Jenny McCarthy as a co-host has raised angry cries of alarm from many different corners, due to McCarthy’s controversial views on vaccination and its link to autism. McCarthy has waged a ... Related posts:In Vaccines We Trus ...

Live News Wire

  • Best Xbox Games on 360
    With all the hype in advertising for video games today, it is hard to know how the games features really hold up to the fancy phrases and images in the ads. That’s why you need the experience of an unbiased, expert who is a fellow consumer like you! I’ll give you the best of the [...]
  • Pick Six Lotto and Mega Millions Are New Jerse ...
    New Jersey Lottery offers many terminal-based games for the residents of the state to play (Terminal-based games are the ones you buy from the lottery machine where the numbers are drawn, as opposed to instant scratch games where you know immediately if you’re a winner). But with all the g ...
  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • Politics and power plants
    Gazette photo by Kenny Kemp That’s Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall, shown in the photo above. He’s offering some comments to the state Public Service Commission in support of Appalachian Power’s controversial proposal to acquire more ownership of two coal-fired power ...
  • Corps seeks comments on Blair Mountain mining
    In this June 6, 2011 photo, this historical marker along W.Va. Route 17 in Blair, W.Va., is the only visible sign of the 1921 battle here between thousands of armed, unionizing coal miners and the thousands of law enforcement officers and security guards hired to defeat them. At least 16 men die ...
  • Should W.Va. fight old battles, or look to the ...
    Well, I see that the coal industry and its supporters are more intent than ever in trying to continue the strategy that failed for them during last year’s presidential election: Making the troubles in our nation’s coalfields all about some cooked-up notion of an Obama administration ...
  • Friday roundup, July 12, 2013
    In this Nov. 30, 2010 file photo, flames burn from a ventilation shaft above the Pike River mine which has fatally trapped 29 miners and contractors in Greymouth, New Zealand. A New Zealand judge Friday, July 5, 2013 ordered the coal mining company Pike River Coal to pay compensation to the fami ...
  • ‘What’s going on?’
    Yesterday’s release of the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training report on the November 2012 death of CONSOL Energy miner Markel Koon in a coal-slurry impoundment offered some frightening details of what happened — and also raised some serious questions ab ...

Daniel Miessler

  • How Not To Get Killed Like Trayvon Martin
    When someone follows you or otherwise does something you might think is annoying/rude/racist (but isn’t threatening to your physical safety), don’t walk up to them, punch them in the face, mount them, and beat the crap out of them. If you are someone who commonly does this when peopl ...
  • A Simple Answer to the Question of Whether Gun ...
    As expected, gun advocates believe guns make us more safe, and those against guns think they make us less so. Interestingly, both groups seem to have data to support their positions. I’ll say first of all that there isn’t an overwhelming amount of quality on the topic data because th ...
  • McDonalds’ Suggested Budget for Employees
    Yeah– now, when I first saw that, I assumed that the top line was for a part-time McDonald’s employee. Then I got out my calculator– that is actually what you would make if you were working full-time at McDonald’s. 1,105 dollars a month.via McDonalds’ suggested budget for employees shows just ho ...
  • Does Being Wealthy Make You a Bad Person?
    Definitely worth a watch.Related Posts:On Failure and SuccessBike ParkourNASA’s “We Are The Explorers” TrailerStellar Dance RoutineHomebuilt Solar Death RayKirk Pitches CommodoreThe Onion Obliterates the “Idea Guy”Dinesh D’Souza Doing a Movie About ObamaModern ...
  • Performance at Various Ages
    I’ve long thought about how one’s performance, both mental and physical, changes with age. The common narrative is that it simply deteriorates, but I think that’s a bit simplistic. We all know, or at least know of, people in their 60s who run mental and physical circles around ...

Fitwatch

  • Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
    Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • New miraculous ways how F-theory achieves gaug ...
    F-theory phenomenomenology has been described in dozens of TRF articles, e.g. these. Initiated by Vafa et al. less than a decade ago, this formally 12-dimensional approach to particle physics combines some of the fanciest higher-dimensional stringy geometric methods with those of braneworl ...
  • Exothermic double-disk dark matter
    This blog entry is about a very similar topic as the previous one; the paper released today also tries to incorporate the hints from the dark matter direct search experiments, both positive and negative ones. However, in their Exothermic Double-Disk Dark Matter, Matthew McCullough of MIT an ...
  • Light Dirac neutralino dark matter
    As the TRF readers are regularly reminded (see especially dark matter wars), an increasing number of direct dark matter search experiments indicate that there exists a very light particle of dark matter, \(7\)-\(10\GeV\), that may have been detected underground. Its cross section with a nucleon, ...
  • Origin of the name Motl
    When I was a baby, my father would often say that we come a French aristocratic dynasty de Motl – for some time, I tended to buy it ;-). Much later, I knew about the Yiddish (extreme Jewish dialect of German) novel Motl der Operator and people would conjecture that I must have some Jewish roots ...
  • Bohmian mechanics, a ludicrous caricature of N ...
    Some people can't get used to the fact that classical physics in the most general sense – a class of theories that identify Nature with the objectively well-defined values of certain (classical) degrees of freedom that are observable in principle and that evolve according to some (classical) equ ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Steven Fletcher blindsided by dump from Harper ...
    Manitoba MP Steven Fletcher didn’t see his dump from cabinet coming but says he now has more freedom to speak his mind and work on issues he cares about. He says he remains a loyal Conservative and hopes to be back in cabinet one day. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my [...] ...
  • The Social Gold Mine
    by Jan Skoyles, TheRealAsset.co.uk So at the start of the day the gold price was looking pretty strong, and then the markets got nervous over Bernanke’s testimony. Will the price of gold ever break through $ 1,300? Not for a while thinks the brilliant Ed Steer. Hal (@gold_tracker) – the lines in ...
  • Magnotta video leads to arrest for corrupting ...
    The “Corrupting morals” section of Canada’s criminal code is seldom used by police but that’s the charge Mark Marek, owner of the website Best Gore, now faces for posting the infamous Luka Magnotta video more than a year ago. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my ...
  • Californians sign petition to repeal the Bill ...
    by J. D. Heyes, Natural News: The Bill of Rights – the original 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution – are considered the cornerstones of our nation’s founding. When they were adopted at the time, the Bill of Rights were considered radical and revolutionary, devolving power f ...
  • California wildfire forces thousands to flee
    People flee from thousands of homes as a wildfire pushes toward Southern California mountain communities. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: California wildfire triples in size A fast-moving wildfire 80 kilometres northwest of Los A ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Vikernes: ‘Wanted weapons for food’
    Norwegian terror suspect Kristian “Varg” Vikernes has denied all allegations that he and his French wife acquired four 22-calibre rifles as part of plans to mount a terrorist attack. He told police that they rather simply wanted to be able to hunt for their own food. The weapons were ...
  • Norway beats Germany
    Norway’s national women’s football team was jubilant Wednesday night after beating the powerhouse German team 1-0 in the European Championships playing out in Sweden. The victory means Norway won its group and moves on to the quarter-finals early next week. “It was wonderful to ...
  • Woman jailed for reporting rape
    A Norwegian woman who reported to police in Dubai that she’d been raped while on a business trip in the fast-growing Gulf city ended up being jailed herself. Her sentence is longer than her convicted rapist’s. The 25-year-old’s trip to Dubai in March turned into a nightmare aft ...
  • Support grows for fugitive Snowden
    Support is growing in Norway for fugitive American Edward Snowden, who set off an international controversy after releasing information about the US’ global surveillance programs. This week Snowden also was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, for his efforts to reveal violations of human ri ...
  • ‘Greven’ lost his black metal fans
    Kristian “Varg” Vikernes was once known as “Greven” (The Count) of Norway’s renowned black metal music community, but critics say he ended up alienating most of his Norwegian fans. Vikernes, now a right-wing terror suspect in France, still has followers in Europe, t ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Naturalists Who Are Terrified of Nature
    A radical challenge to British conservation and its bizarre priorities. by George Monbiot Male capercaillie I’m writing this on the train home, after visiting two places in the north of England celebrated for their “wildness”. One of them is Ennerdale in the Lake District, now officially kn ...
  • Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course w ...
    Click for larger view Find out more, and book here!
  • Advanced Cell Grazing – Permaculture Livestock ...
    by Nick Burtner Cell grazing is not a new option when it comes to large animal management. However, brewing at Zaytuna Farm is a dynamic and advanced cell moving method that combines age old and newly discovered techniques and strategies. It has been said before, and most of us permaculturists ...
  • Hangzhou Permaculture (China)
    As I stepped out of the taxi on a dark country road somewhere in China, Thomas Somner greeted me with an impressive fact. “This land used to have a large Taoist temple here before it was completely destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. The people in the village say that there are [...]
  • Growing a Wild Garden
    The following is adapted and extracted from the book – The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka (1978). Upon investigatiion, my garden seemed to have just as many insects as in the surrounding fields, which had been sprayed countless times with [...]

Pointman's

  • Know your enemy: the environmental regulator.
    If you work in an industry and gain a reputation for being one of the more knowledgeable people knocking around in it, you’ll eventually be asked to attend external meetings to discuss things like standards or simply to represent the particular sector you are working in. They’re usua ...
  • The pause.
    There’s a book called Puckoon by the wildly erratic comedy writer Spike Milligan. It concerns the travails suffered by a fictional village of the same name, as the boundary commission draws the border between Northern Ireland and the new Republic of Eire in the aftermath of the War of Inde ...
  • Know your enemy : the alarmist scientist.
    I’d like to preface this piece by saying there are a number of scientists doing significant work in the field of climate science whom I deeply respect. They have all along raised the balanced doubts about the supposedly “settled” science and I’ve no doubt taken some easil ...
  • Know your enemy : the climate activist.
    In the context of this series of articles about getting to know the opposition, I think it’s important at an early stage to get a realistic view of what we’re actually dealing with when it comes down to this particular category, because so many of the people who fall into the other c ...
  • An interesting thing happened on the way to th ...
    An interesting thing happened on the way to the theatre blog tonight. That’s the sort of prologue or connective phrase a stand-up comedian will use to move his set onto a bit of topical comedy about something, which if accurate and well observed, is always the best kind. It was Saturday an ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • “This Day, We Use Our Energy for Revolution”
    Reprinted from our friends at Women With A Vision: This past Sunday, WWAV gathered with friends, allies and fellow organizers in a Solidarity Rally for Trayvon Martin. We want to personally thank everyone who came out so that we could raise our voices in unison.  This is the beauty of New ...
  • Open Letter From Curtis Muhammad on Upcoming C ...
    Below we are reposting an open letter from civil rights movement veteran Curtis Muhammad, a founder of People's Hurricane Relief Fund and the International School for Bottom-Up Organizing, among many other projects and initiatives. Dear friends and comrades, We are fast approaching the time fo ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Issues LGBTQ Pol ...
    From a press release from BreakOUT! After organizing for over two years, BreakOUT! members enjoyed a victory today in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) with the issuing of Policy 402, dealing with the treatment of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questio ...
  • Victory! Sex Workers Removed From Louisiana Se ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Louisiana to Remove Hundreds of Individuals Unconstitutionally Placed on Sex Offender Registry Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a ...
  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Verbs, nouns, grammar
    Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Craig Isherwood outlines plans for a Cyprus st ...
    Craig Isherwood is the National Secretary of the Citizen's Electoral Council (CEC). The CEC recently launched a petition to the Commonwealth Parliament, calling for immediate legislation to enact a Glass-Steagall-style banking separation in Australia, to protect deposits and essential banking se ...
  • The psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks
    As the psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks steps up I want to offer my perspective on some aspects of the situation. Firstly, we have to recognise that in situations where the powers that be are powerless to directly control outcomes, they often resort to indirect means, specifically: ...
  • The pale shadow of democracy
    In today's show we cover the bizarre turn of events in Australian politics which has seen the return of Kevin Rudd as the nation's Prime Minister. Is this democracy in action, or is it just the pale shadow of democracy? We also share some clips from ABC's coverage of the Edward Snowden story w ...
  • Is surveillance a tool of political oppression ...
    National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland. Is privacy an inalienable right? Is there a real expectation of privacy in a world where all communication is mediated by technology which can be easily hacked and intercepted by those with the time, money and inclin ...
  • Brian Monk on the lies, injustices and public ...
    My 2nd hour guest in today's show is Brian Monk, a farmer from Queensland who has become a vocal and passionate critic of the Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry in Australia. Brian is a member of the Lock the Gate Alliance, whose mission statement we present below: The mission of the Lock the G ...

Beacon

  • Ecological Redemption, Underwater Gardens, and ...
    Bren Smith – Stony Creek, CT.  After more than a decade of witnessing damaging and destructive fishing practices as a commercial fisherman from Gloucester, MA to Alaska’s Bering Sea, Bren started the innovative Thimble Island Oyster Company in order to become a restorative ocean fa ...
  • Dr. Seuss, Bits of Plastic, and Silver Linings ...
    Angela Pozzi – Bandon, OR.   Angela is the founder, director and lead artist of the Washed Ashore Project: Art to Save the Sea, a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting plastic debris from local beaches and using it to build incredible sculptures of ocean creatures. Angela ...
  • From the Peak of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Coas ...
    Leah Meth – New Haven, CT.  Leah, a Masters student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, spearheaded the youth-driven Shark Stanley Campaign, which advocated for the passage of  shark and manta ray protections at the Convention on International Trade in Endanger ...
  • Abandoned Lobsters, Immortal Nets, and John De ...
    Kurt Lieber – Huntington Beach, CA.  A longtime ocean advocate and diver, Kurt founded the Ocean Defenders Alliance in 2002 to clean up abandoned and discarded fishing gear from California’s coastal waters. If not removed, this ghost gear can snare and kill sea birds, fish, and marine m ...
  • Satellite Tags, Pearl Jam, and Fighting Shark ...
    Dr. Neil Hammerschlag – Miami, FL.  Neil is the Director of the University of Miami’s R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program, which gives high school students, especially those from underserved populations, the opportunity to gain hands-on experience through “full immersion” shark rese ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Last Week’s Job Numbers and the Perils of Punditry
    Last week, Statistics Canada released an article on changing labour market conditions for young workers since the 1980s and its monthly Labour Force Survey for June. Thursday’s article found that, compared to the early 1980s, employment outcomes have improved for Canadian women between 25 and 34 ...
  • FINA: Are we ever ever ever getting back together?
    What happened Finance Committee? I remember, back when we first met, you asked me for my pre-budget submission and I gave it to you. You cared about my priorities. You asked me over for the Finance Committee’s Pre-Budget consultations. We talked. I felt like you really heard me. We made plans to ...
  • Is the housing crisis over? Not in the resourc ...
    In Québec, the coming of the new millennium coincided with a crisis in rental housing. From 2000 to 2003, each Canada Day, families ended up homeless, unable to find housing. The crisis situation eventually gave way to times of shortage (2004-2012). They seem to be coming to a close this year. F ...
  • The Great Wall Ties Chairman Calvert’s Five-Ye ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released my policy brief (PDF) on Saskatchewan employment growth. It is covered on the front pages of today’s Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon StarPhoenix business sections. The press release follows: Premier Wall’s Employment Record Lags Calvert a ...
  • Is Québec more corrupt than the rest of Canada?
    My colleague Marie Léger-St-Jean recounted the drama of corruption in Québec in her last blog post. The classic characters took the stage one after the other: puppets, harlequins, Artful Dodgers, Pierrots, and happier clowns. While her post was published yesterday, a new pathetic act was added : ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • The Fracker’s Quest: More Water
    “Hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) has recast the U.S.’s energy future, but it’s also shining a light on fragile water supplies, which could crimp the industry’s growth. The pinch is especially strong on shale energy producers and state regulators who are scrambling to find ways to keep ...
  • The World Bank is bringing back big, bad dams
    “Following a trend set by new financiers from China and Brazil, the World Bank now wants to return to supporting mega-dams that aim to transform whole regions. In March, it argued that such projects could “catalyse very large-scale benefits to improve access to infrastructure service ...
  • Water Works
    “The project, called Growing Vine Street, began as a small, grassroots effort among residents and property owners to turn their stretch of a former industrial neighborhood into an urban watershed. Twenty years later, it is a big part of the answer to the largest single source of pollution ...
  • Water Transfer Project Brings Pollution to Nor ...
    “Shandong Province fish farmers saw their livelihood evaporate in June as their lake water blackened and emitted a putrid stench. Over a hundred of these fishermen lost a total of over US$8 million as several hundred pounds of fish died in the polluted waters. “There may be some fish in ot ...
  • Karuma Villagers Want Dam Halted
    “After winning the contract for the construction of Karuma hydropower project, Chinese firm Sinohydro promised to start work within two weeks. However, this might not be possible, following fresh wrangles that threaten to delay the project. Besides compensation wrangles, a rival Chinese co ...

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

  • …YOU THINK…?
    …YOU THINK…?   Eric Holder: ‘Stand your ground’ laws create ‘dangerous conflict’ 07-16-2013  •  AP Speaking at the NAACP’s annual convention in Orlando, Holder said the time had come “to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and ...
  • “we” elected them
          …YES … our state legislators are accountable and responsible to provide adequate funding for Child Protective Services (CPS) … but … “we” (that’s’ you and me) are solely accountable and responsible for electing theme in the first place… Filed under: Blogroll
  • Oh, yea, there’s been a “coup d&#8 ...
    WOW… Oh … YES … time for us to demand full disclosure and transparency on all the tentacles of our American-military-industrial-corporate-congressional-complex … Oh, yea, there’s been a “coup d’etat” and we allowed it…   It’s Time for Americans to Admit That We’ve Had a Coup d’e ...
  • What don’t you get “dissent”
    …What don’t you get “dissent” is not tolerated by government or its regulatory agencies … “we” do not place value in dissent or freedom of speech and “we” are losing our voice…     Chris Hedges | Locking Out the Voices of Dissent: Arrests Demonstrate Restrictions on Right of Assem ...
  • Were APS truly a “public service” ...
    …Were APS truly a “public service” organization would they be as focu$ed on the bottom line …$$$… their true owner Pinnacle West Capital Corporation … is only interested in bottom line … $$$ … and likely with the makeup of our Az Corporate Commission they will get what they ask… Filed unde ...

Popular Technology

  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...
  • Cook's 97% Consensus Study Game Plan Revealed
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Introduction to TCP" (2012-01-19) John Cook layed out the game plan for the 97% consensus study, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on ...
  • The Statistical Destruction of the 97% Consensus
    Dr. Richard Tol has been tweeting a statistical destruction of the "97% consensus" study, Cook et al. (2013) by educating co-author Dana Nuccitelli as to why his "sample" is not representative. "In his defense, [Dana] has had limited exposure to stats at uni" - Richard Tol Including "glob ...
  • Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
    Table of Contents: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preface 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Debunked - References - Reports World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) - References - Reports Conspiracy Theory Videos Debunked Debates Books Peer-Reviewed Papers ...
  • 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Paper ...
    The paper, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature' searched the Web of Science for the phrases "global warming" and "global climate change" then categorizing these results to their alleged level of endorsement of AGW. These res ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Scientists build app to automatically identify ...
    New technology makes it possible to automatically identify species by their vocalizations. The platform, detailed in the current issue of the journal PeerJ, has been used at sites in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica to identify frogs, insects, birds, and monkeys. Many of the animals identified by the ...
  • Stand up paddleboarding in the Amazon for cons ...
    This week an international team is setting off on a unique journey, aiming to be the first to descend the Amazon River using inflatable Stand Up Paddle boards. The group, led by Dr. Mika Peck, a conservation biologist from the University of Sussex with years of work in Ecuador and Colombia, incl ...
  • The Egyptian Vulture on the Balkans – a ...
    “They look like humans: have bare skin, wrinkles, hairdos… Maybe that’s why many people don’t like them,” says Dr. Stoyan Nikolov from the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds about Egyptian vultures. Poisoned, electrocuted, shot, these rare and magnificent ...
  • 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 ...
  • Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, env ...
    In a patch of rainforest in northern Sumatra, a 28-year-old in a jeans and tall rubber boots snubs out out his cigarette and pulls a headlamp over his short black hair. Standing under a tarp, he flicks the light on and leans over the entrance of a narrow shaft lined with wooden planks that he an ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • New type of big-nosed dinosaur unearthed
    Researchers in Utah say they have discovered a new type of big-nosed, horned-faced dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago when the North American continent was split in two.The discovery of the creature, named "Nasutoceratops...
  • Lab success: Chromosome for Down's is switched off
    Gene scientists say that in lab-dish cells, they had found a way to switch off the rogue chromosome that causes Down's syndrome.The breakthrough opens up the tantalising goal of therapy for Down's, they said, cautioning that years...
  • NZ scientists in Alzheimer's breakthrough
    Auckland neuro-scientists have made important discoveries in how Alzheimer's and Parkinson's may affect the brain, work which has prompted preliminary experiments with drugs they hope could help people who have the diseases.The...
  • Another blue planet - with dark side
    We are not alone. Scientists have discovered a second blue planet in the Universe, although this one is decidedly inhospitable and unlikely to support life.Planet HD 189733b lies about 63 light years beyond our Solar System in the...
  • Scientist warns biosecurity at risk from new t ...
    A prominent agricultural scientist says New Zealand deserves only a half-mark for its biosecurity efforts - and warns that new free-trade agreements and increased tourism could pose a threat at the border.Former AgResearch manager...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk legislation vetoed in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Any politician worth his or her salt is good at charades–you know, the game where you pretend you are something that you’re not. Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has given a masterful … Continue reading →
  • Science-based public policy being eroded in th ...
    From Carrie Saxifrage, in the Vancouver Observer: “Dr. Katie Gibbs has seen her colleagues at the University of Ottawa biology department realize that if anybody in Canada can stand up to the attacks on science, it’s the scientists themselves. Last … Continue reading →
  • GMO scientist turned anti-GMO activist
    From Ken Roseboro, on NewHope360.com “The “conversion” of for­mer anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas to GMO promoter has gar­nered huge media atten­tion, but Thierry Vrain, Ph.D., a for­mer genetic engineer who speaks out against the risks of genetically engi­neered foods, has far … Contin ...
  • Michigan demands destruction of 70 “fera ...
    by David Michael, BSc, MSc, PEng “On this Independence Day we should be celebrating freedom and thankful for those who died, were injured and served in the military over the decades to keep the freedom we have. This is the … Continue reading →
  • Salmon Confidential Movie & Review; CFIA Block ...
    Edited and Compiled by Raoul Bedi, BASc A film by Twyla Roscovich This article compilation is dedicated to ‘Salmons Are Sacred‘ www.salmonaresacred.org  , all its friends and supporters, and to Dr.Fred and Molly Kibenge . Sections A and B provide some background … Continue read ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Expect What the Economists Don't
    EU officials and economists believe that Europe can export its way to health. It cannot. As a whole, the 17 nation block runs a net trade surplus. With China slowing, with emerging markets looking anemic at best, and with a weak Japanese Yen making Japanese exports such as cars relativ ...
  • Greece Bans Protests During Schäuble Visit; Co ...
    The Greek economy is in total shambles. Unemployment is 26.9% and youth unemployment is 57.5%. Round after round of bond haircuts have not done a thing for the economy. Der Spiegel now reports Greece on the Brink: Athens May Need 10 Billion More According to a report by German daily ...
  • Jewel Food Store Amazing Software Glitch; Purp ...
    Tuesday evening I purchased groceries at a local Jewel food store. Hormel Cure 81 hams were allegedly on sale for $3.99 a pound. The sticker price said $5.99 a pound. I asked cashier "Kim", the checkout clerk, and was told discounts were automatic, that I no longer needed to enter my ...
  • Former US Senator Gordon Humphrey Thanks Snowd ...
    A tip of the hat goes to former two-term GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire who thanked Edward Snowden for exposing a "massive violation of the United States Constitution". Humphrey served in the United States Senate for twelve years as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee ...
  • Germany Election "Far From Over", Merkel Coali ...
    A couple days ago Bloomberg reported Polls Indicate Merkel’s Coalition Is Likely to Win Election. CDU/CSU will get 40 percent of votes, coalition partner FDP 6.5 percent, according to a poll conducted by Institut fuer Demoskopie Allensbach on behalf of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagsze ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 17, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Egypt: From Revolution to Counter-Revolution In the two and a half years since the uprising began, Egypt has undergone not only a continuation of the Revolution, but an institutional counter-revolution from within Egyptian society, most dramatically witnessed with the ouster of Morsi two weeks a ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 16, ...
    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 EyeOpener Report- How to Boycott Big Tech
    There are people who are still hoping that some Congressional committee or some brave Senator or some court case will somehow put an end to the total surveillance madness that has been carefully built into the very source code of the software and operating systems and internet services which bil ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice Offers More Detail ...
    A Rogue NSA with Leverage & the Power of Blackmail Peter B. Collins interviews NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice on the wiretapping of Senator Feinstein’s offices, homes and family, and how NSA used other surveillance methods on Feinstein. Mr. Tice responds to questions about evidence for his disc ...

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 →

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Press TV

  • Syria confiscates militant weapons
    Syrian forces have confiscated weapons belonging to foreign-backed Takfiri militants in Latakia Province.
  • Mandela health ‘steadily improving’
    South Africa’s presidency says Nelson Mandela’s health condition is “steadily improving” as the country celebrates the anti-apartheid legend’s 95th birthday.
  • Taliban kill eight Afghan workers
    Police in Afghanistan say Taliban militants have killed eight Afghan workers while they were en route to a US base south of the capital, Kabul.
  • Germany leads attacks on far-right group
    German prosecutors say police have attacked several buildings in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands in search of evidence of intended terrorist assaults by the ‘Werewolf Squad’ far-right group.
  • Taliban seeks ‘damage control’ on Malala
    In what has been deemed as an attempt at “damage control,” a Pakistani Taliban leader has written a letter to Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, claiming he was “shocked” when the schoolgirl was shot in the head last year by the militant group.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Learning to Lead, Remembering to Follow
    From yratlarge We awoke to another beautiful day in Rwanda: birds singing, perfect temperatures and the promise of another rich day at work with the K.I.E. students. The day lived up to its promise. Chris and Helen led a session examining the speed at which things move in “real time” versus the ...
  • Microsoft Excel© for HIM Professionals
    The webinar Maximizing Microsoft Excel© for HIM Professionals: Transforming Data Into Actionable Information presented by Michael Gera, was recorded on June 18, 2013 in conjunction with the CUNY School of Professional Studies online degree in Health Information Management. You can access the pre ...
  • Domestic Violence 19 Years Later
    19 years ago a mother was butchered to death in her walkway as her children slept upstairs. Not far from where she laid dying was her friend, also butchered, after attempting to do a good deed. Small personal touches like a bath that had been run or a cup of ice cream melting on a […]
  • ePortfolio Student Showcase Now Live!
    SPS is delighted to present our 2012/2013 ePortfolio Student Showcase! The showcase, which is hosted on an SPS ePortfolio site, highlights student work in individual courses, programs, and capstone projects at both the bachelors and masters level. ePortfolio provides a window into our students&# ...
  • Paula’s Pound of Flesh
    Paula Deen is in the news again and, no, it’s not because people discovered that frying food in massive amounts of butter is not healthy. This time she was fired her contract was not renewed by Food Network because she did not perjure herself. Ok, so it wasn’t exactly for not perjuring her ...

Dissident Voice

  • Banking on Influence With Bank of America
    This July, Bank of America was expecting to report an earnings increase of 32% from last year. The Washington Business Journal declared the bank among the top 10 “most improved brands” of the year. Bank of America is the second-largest bank in the United States following JPMorgan Chase. So why d ...
  • Raghead the Fiendly Neighborhood Terrorist: Th ...
    Riddle of The Sphinx: What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening? Answer: Man — after crawling to safety, running for cover, then finally getting hit (just a matter of time; odds are against him; the House always wins…)
  • UK Foreign Secretary Supports Prosecution of W ...
    On July 16, Foreign Secretary William Hague answered questions in the British Parliament from the Foreign Affairs Committee on Developments on UK Foreign Policy. Ann Clwyd (Labour, Cynon Valley) whose cheerleading and misleading for the invasion of Iraq and whose numerous visits to Iraqi Kurdist ...
  • On Leaks and Pseudo-Reality
    Those enchanted by pseudo-reality must have been at the edge of their seats as they watched ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, a Hollywood account of how US SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden on May 1, 2011. But a recently leaked report shows that the ‘riveting’ Hollywood account of the ‘greatest manhunt of ...
  • Riled Over Zimmerman
    An intelligent, self-interested observer of this case, who happens to live in Florida, would not be wrong to do as George Zimmerman did – buy a gun, master the finer points of Florida self-defense law, and then wait. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, July 14, 2013 Deliberations in the law court ...

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Sources

Newswise

  • Black Students at Primarily White Universities ...
    Black students who attend predominantly white universities struggle to acclimate to what they perceive as a different culture from their own, where they feel a lack of intercultural understanding, a new study finds. The study, "Understanding the African-American Student Experience in Higher Educ ...
  • Where Will the New York City FC Call Home? Vil ...
  • "Molecular Postal System" Used in Quest to Dev ...
    As an expert in molecular genetics, Colin E. Bishop, Ph.D.'s, usual role at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine is to apply the techniques of genetics and developmental biology to the regeneration of human organs.
  • New Evidence for Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs
    University of Adelaide research has shown new evidence that dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as commonly believed.
  • NYU Langone Medical Center's Tip Sheet to the ...
    Experts from the Comprehensive Center on Brain Aging at NYU Langone Medical Center will present new research at the 2013 Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's disease to be held in Boston, MA from July 13th through 18th, 2013. From basic discovery to clinical applicatio ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Insuring Ghana’s Smallholder Farmers Against t ...
    Smallholder farmer Suleman Mustapha Simbia, 40, is pleased with the introduction of an insurance initiative called the Ghana Agriculture Insurance Programme. The programme is being implemented in this West African nation to help farmers who had been suffering from loss of income as a result of t ...
  • Ethiopia’s Opposition Rises Again
    Since the violent quashing of political protests after the ruling party won Ethiopia’s 2005 elections, this East African nation has seen little in the way of political dissent. That is, until the last few months. Since June, the country has witnessed mass protests in three of its major cities. D ...
  • Egypt May Not go the Algeria Way
    The ouster of Egypt’s first freely elected president by the military has led some to warn of a possible Algeria-style civil war. Local analysts, however, dismiss the likelihood of the “Algeria scenario” occurring in Egypt. “For one, Egypt’s Islamist current is much ...
  • Latin America’s Migration Policies Fall Short
    Several years after the start of the economic crisis in the United States and Europe, which led to a shift in migration patterns, Latin America still lacks a more inclusive view of the phenomenon of people seeking a better life abroad. This is seen as a critical factor to be discussed at the Reg ...
  • U.S. Government-Funded News Comes Home
    Following the amendment of a long-standing U.S. law, people in this country will now be exposed to news which is produced by the U.S. government. On Jul. 2, a change to the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act, came into effect, reversing a ban on the ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Roots of the Egyptian Coup—and What Comes Next
    Summary: In this interview, Abdullah al-Arian—an exceptional young historian of the modern Middle East who is, among other things, a trenchant student of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood also offers sharp comments about the impact of the coup on Egypt’s posture vis-à-vis Gaza—and sobering obse ...
  • Mainstream U.S. Media & A Tale of Two Coups
    Summary: The military coup that removed Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, on Wednesday July 3, 2013, after serving only a single year in office, will have far reaching implications in the months, years, and decades to come. Following the announcement that Morsi h ...
  • Ban on Iranian media violates human rights: Pr ...
    Summary: Press TV News Director Hamid Reza Emadi says a wave of attacks launched by international satellite companies against Iranian channels violates human rights and freedom of speech. source: PressTVread more
  • Why the United States Can’t Have an Effective ...
    Summary: Earlier this month, Real News Network broadcast a two-part interview that Gareth Porter, the wonderful journalist and historian, did with us. The interview focuses on our book, Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, but also del ...
  • Former US general James Cartwright named in St ...
    Summary: A retired US general, James Cartwright, is the target of a Justice Department investigation into the leaking of secret information about the Stuxnet virus attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing unidentified legal sources. source: The Gu ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 275,000!
                   Join the 275,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations ...
  • Image of the Day: "A Galaxy So Ancient It Shou ...
      Astronomers using the Herschel Space Telescope discovered a distant galaxy that challenges the current theories of galaxy evolution. Seen when the Universe was less than a billion years old, it is forming stars at a much faster rate than should be possible according to existing predi ...
  • CalTech Scientists Discover Evidence of a Vast ...
                       "Scientists have long hypothesized that the northern lowlands of Mars are a dried-up ocean bottom, but no one yet has found the smoking gun," says Mike Lamb, an assistant professor of geology at Caltech and a coauthor of the paper describing the results. Although the ...
  • A Moment of Awe: A Massive Galaxy Merger 11 Bi ...
                   Before its mission ended on June 18th, The Herschel Space Observatory spotted a massive galaxy in the process of forming, providing astronomers with a key missing link in the formation of the most massive galaxies we see around us today. Galaxies come in two main ...
  • Hubble Researcher Discovers New Moon of Neptune
                   NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune. This brings the number of known satellites circling the giant planet to 14. The object is estimated to be no more than 12 miles across, making it the smallest known moo ...

Natural News

  • DOJ spent taxpayer money fomenting racial divi ...
    It may sound like the stuff of conspiracy theories, but when you look at the history of blatant activism practiced by many of the top members of the Obama administration - including the president himself (Mr. Community Organizer) and his attorney general, Eric "I won't...
  • Naturally slow aging, increase mental awarenes ...
    Giving yourself a daily self-massage with aromatherapy massage oils is a deeply healing and deeply enjoyable practice that activates the body's inner pharmacy and slows the aging process. This ancient holistic tradition from India is known as Abhyanga or Ayurvedic massage...
  • Research: Gardening fights depression naturally
    It makes sense that cultivating a garden of any type can help one's state of mind, even preventing or resolving issues of depression. Focusing on nourishing plant life takes one's attention to nature and away from negative "stinkin' thinkin'" that fosters depression...
  • Nutrition is the basis for happiness
    Happiness comes easy for some, but for many it's a daily struggle. Some carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, while others see beauty in all things. Unhappy people deal with internal strife, fears, early-life trauma, genetic predispositions, major injuries...
  • Seven undeniable reasons to eat avocado every day
    Calories and fats are considered by most, based on outmoded disinformation, to be the bane of good looks and good health. Now the word is out on how calorie counting is overrated and fats are good for you, even necessary for vital organs and optimum health. You may...

Threat Level

  • License Plate Readers Track You for Profit
    As license-plate readers proliferate, law enforcement and private business are pooling surveillance data in light of a hodgepodge of conflicting guidelines on how long they may retain the data, which is often being marketed for profit, according to a report ...    
  • Snowden’s Contingency: ‘Dead Man’s Switch’ Bor ...
    The strategy employed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to discourage a CIA hit job has been likened to a tactic employed by the U.S. and Russian governments during the Cold War.    
  • Spygate Lawsuit Accuses NSA of Unconstitutiona ...
    A broad coalition of groups supporting everything from religion, drugs, digital rights to guns and the environment sued the National Security Agency today, demanding a federal judge immediately halt what they are calling an "unconstitutional program of dragnet electronic surveillance" ... & ...
  • Makers of War
    Once ordinary workers, the arms makers of Aleppo now use their desperate creativity to supply fellow rebels with the machinery of death.    
  • Yahoo’s ID Land Rush Begins Today With Updated ...
    Yahoo is set to recycle unused YahooIDs today, as well as the email addresses associated with them. The company is implementing some new security measures to try to prevent instances of identity fraud with a new email header that attempts ...    

PERRspectives : Blog

  • To Attack Obamacare, Republicans Forget the Le ...
    Last week, former Bush Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt offered a very instructive look back at the rollout of the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. In what the Washington Post's health care reporter Sarah Kliff praised as a "great piece," Leavitt recounted the techn ...
  • How Conservatives Learned to Love John McCain ...
    The Senate Tuesday reached agreement on a deal paving the way for seven Obama nominees to be confirmed without Democrats resorting to the so-called "nuclear option" ending the 60 vote supermajority required by a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave credit where he thought it was d ...
  • CNN Crossfire's Newt Gingrich Calls Zimmerman ...
    This fall, CNN will exhume the rotting corpse of its Crossfire program originally killed by Jon Stewart. Three weeks ago, the network offered Piers Morgan's viewers a sneak peak of Crossfire's new four-person panel with Newt Gingrich--a man who believes marriage is an institution between one ma ...
  • The Great Nullification Crisis of 2017
    BFor most Americans now living, those long-ago events were as unthinkable as they were forgotten. In Little Rock, Arkansas (1957), Oxford, Mississippi (1962), and Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1963), Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy dispatched federal troops to enforce the law of the land in the face of ...
  • Rick Perry to Visit First GOP Primary State of ...
    A quick glance at their travel schedules tells you all you need to know about which Republicans are already reading running hard to win the White House in 2016. Having already visited South Carolina, Texas Senator Ted Cruz will headline an August 23 GOP fundraiser in New Hampshire as part of a ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

  • Electric Car Charging Leaps Forward, As Volvo ...
    One of the most unique electric car charging designs from a major manufacturer was unveiled this week by Volvo. The major car company revealed a new portable electric car charging pavilion that fits in the car’s trunk. The unit consists of a flexible mesh structure held in place by bendabl ...
  • Winged Spider Hoax — Scientists Didn’t Discove ...
    A winged spider? The idea almost sounds like a joke — spiders are only very, very distantly related to any animals possessing wings — but apparently belief in the existence of such a winged spider has spread across the internet in recent months as the result of an image which recentl ...
  • Great White Sharks Rely On Energy Stored In Th ...
    Great white sharks rely on fat/oil stores in their huge livers for energy during their non-stop long-distance journeys — some over distances of more than 2,500 miles, new research from Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium has found. The fact that great white sharks don’t ...
  • Top Bike-Sharing Programs Infographic
    Reposted from Bikocity: Obviously, we’re big fans of bikes here. I realized several years ago that the common line and piece of advice “stop to smell the roses” matched bicycle transportation excellently. You see and smell and appreciate so much more on bike than in a car. I&#8 ...
  • Obesity Research Breakthrough
    Reposted from Examiner.com: Most of us have never heard of ghrelin (pronounced GRELL-in). The hormone has made headline news because a study published [this week] has explained how it interacts with FTO (fat mass and obesity-associated protein), the gene that researchers first linked to obesity ...

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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

  • Fear a License to Kill
    By @TedFrier Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, or so say conservatives who use the absolute sovereignty of individual outlook to justify a pernicious belief in such perverse ideas that global warming is a hoax, that Saddam Hussein really did have weapons of mass destruction and that Pre ...
  • Can we stop talking about Zimmerman now? No? Pt. 2
    Argh! Here our so-called Black leadership go again! This isn't just about race.  This is about gun control, the Tea Party idiots who don't want to pay taxes, and everybody being afraid or angry at everybody else.  We can't be a country of diversity when we are constantly at each other' ...
  • Where you live determines your health
    Suddenly, we are discovering that if you're Black, your health is worse than anyone else.  What is new is that this doesn't change if you move into the middle or upper middle classes.  So what's the problem?  Is it genetics?  Racism?  Cultural bias against doctors due to ...
  • Evil Or Just Ignorant?
    One of the things that amazes me in my comparative studies of Democrats and Republicans (in other words, my daily perusals of my Twitter timeline) is the almost complete naiveté with which both sides seem to approach our political processes.  There is this willingness among the electorate t ...
  • Can we stop talking about Zimmerman now? No?
    Honestly, I didn't watch the trial nor pay attention to the media discussions of it.  I was over this when the story first broke.  Yet now I find myself disappointed in the results and not for the reasons you'd think a professional, intelligent Black woman should be. I'm disappointed i ...

Care 2

  • A Rough Guide to Life in the United States of ...
    In the US of Z the law allows people to hunt each other, and feel no remorse for killing someone. It is not even about the consequences of killing another person. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Used for Hunting, Discarded Like Trash or hung.
    Greyhounds are loving animals and make great pets, but unfortunately they are regarded as mere money-making machines in the hunting world. The Spanish greyhound is an ancient breed of dog that is widely used as a hunting companion during (PLEASE SIGN) Submitted by ALEXANDRA MCMILLAN to Animals ...
  • Donations needed to help pregnant mare that wa ...
    This sweet mare was rescued from a horse auction where she was being bid on by a breeder & a horse slaughter driver. She has been used as a broodmare for a while according to her previous owner who was breeding her to Jacks to get Mules & then sell them. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals ...
  • safe seeds resource list - GMO-free seeds.
    The companies listed have signed the Save-Seed-Pledge. Submitted by jeanne schreurs to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Abandoned Dog Turns From Fear to Love After Be ...
    This got me..... a little choked up! (excuse me...) /tear Submitted by BarbKnight SunshinecatLady to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Theft by Government via Politics
    Let’s change the subject for a moment to the immigration bill. Last year some idiots in the Greek government offered a proposal that would solve their nations debt to the world. Take 10% of every Greek depositor’s bank account and give it to the bankers in Europe that wanted Greece to pay off th ...
  • George Zimmerman vs OJ Simpson
    Reflecting on the madness that has accompanied the just and proper verdict in the bogus case brought against George Zimmerman, I am struck by the disparity of the public reaction among many black Americans. Zimmerman admitted he killed Trayvon Martin. It was an act of self-defense. OJ? He killed ...
  • Media Lynching Derailed by Zimmerman Jury
    Most of the media was panting in anticipation of putting the “White Hispanic,” George Zimmerman, in jail. They envisioned the Marsellus Wallace fantasy from Pulp Fiction: Butch: So, what now? Marsellus: What now? Let me tell you what now. I’ma call a couple of hard, pipe-hittin ...
  • Nigger, Nigger, Zimmerman, Nigger
    Race baiting in Orlando, Florida? Yes. George Zimmerman is a white Hispanic. Does that mean that Barack Obama is a White Negro? Yes! Politics has infected our judicial system. I do mourn that a young man, Trayvon, lost his life, because he bought into the gangsta mentality espoused by rapppers. ...
  • USA Today’s Pakistan Bin Laden Myth
    Did you catch the USA Today piece on a leaked “secret” Pakistani Government report about Osama Bin Laden hiding in plain sight? Osama bin Laden lived undetected in Pakistan for nine years before he was killed by U.S. forces, according to a leaked Pakistani government report that blas ...

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

  • Firefighter hurt in belt fire at mine - Charle ...
    Firefighter hurt in belt fire at mine Charleston Gazette The fire occurred at about 12:50 a.m. on an overload conveyor belt at Patriot's Beth Station prep plant, which is located at subsidiary Hobet Mining's huge Hobet 21 mountaintop removal complex near Danville. Leslie Fitzwater, a spo ...
  • Greens Should Support Coal-Killing Natural Gas ...
    Greens Should Support Coal-Killing Natural Gas, Like They Used To Energy Collective Our report, titled “Coal Killer: How Natural Gas Fuels the Clean Energy Revolution,” details how the decline of coal in recent years has been an environmental blessing. Mountaintop removal obliterates ecosystems, ...
  • Local view: Duluth-Superior Quakers oppose Gog ...
    Local view: Duluth-Superior Quakers oppose Gogebic Taconite mine Budgeteer One of our party remarked that the Penokees were like “a little Appalachia,” and we wondered if, like Appalachia, the Penokees weren't in danger of being wrecked by mountaintop removal. We hiked along the cataracts an ...
  • Morrisey's abortion review is propaganda - Mar ...
    Morrisey's abortion review is propaganda Martinsburg Journal Meanwhile, West Virginia desperately needs Mr. Morrisey to protect consumers from the byproducts of fracking and mountaintop removal, improve the state's deplorable workman's compensation program, implement Obamacare and ex ...
  • All of the Above - Huffington Post
    All of the Above Huffington Post Interests are converging towards strategies to move beyond all fossil fuels, especially those hard-to-reach pockets of oil, gas and coal recoverable only through heavy-impact extraction methods like fracking, mountaintop removal mining, and deep-sea ...

Memeorandum

  • Republicans, White House in Talks Toward Big F ...
    Chris Frates / NationalJournal.com: Republicans, White House in Talks Toward Big Fiscal Deal  —  GOP senators and Obama's chief of staff have been meeting for weeks to set a course that might avoid a crisis when America hits its debt limit in the fall.  —  At lea ...
  • DNA test: Rep. Steve Cohen not the father (Had ...
    Hadas Gold / Politico: DNA test: Rep. Steve Cohen not the father  —  The woman whom Rep. Steve Cohen has been claiming is his out-of-wedlock daughter is not, according to a paternity test revealed on Thursday.  —  CNN had a paternity test done on Victoria Brink w ...
  • Politics shouldn't force federal case vs. Zimm ...
    Andrew C. McCarthy / CNN: Politics shouldn't force federal case vs. Zimmerman  —  Reaction to Zimmerman verdict … (CNN) — We have a Department of Justice, not a Department of Social Justice.  That is an essential distinction.  It is brought into sharp reli ...
  • Jim DeMint back at war with Republicans (Politico)
    Politico: Jim DeMint back at war with Republicans  —  Jim DeMint's at war with Republicans — again.  —  The tea party firebrand who made his mark in GOP primary races across the country is now at the helm of the Heritage Foundation where its political arm i ...
  • Exclusive: 'Dear Malala... from the Taliban' ( ...
    Channel 4: Exclusive: ‘Dear Malala... from the Taliban’  —  Channel 4 News sees a copy of a letter sent to Malala Yousafzai from a senior Taliban commander berating her “smear campaign” against them - but expressing some remorse about the attack.  &m ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Vanuatu
    Thursday, July 18, 2013 09:59:33 UTC Thursday, July 18, 2013 08:59:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 19.10 km (11.87 mi)
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    Wednesday, July 17, 2013 19:46:12 UTC Thursday, July 18, 2013 04:46:12 AM at epicenterDepth: 169.60 km (105.38 mi)
  • M 6.0, southern Peru
    Wednesday, July 17, 2013 02:37:42 UTC Tuesday, July 16, 2013 09:37:42 PM at epicenterDepth: 6.60 km (4.10 mi)
  • M 5.3, Strait of Malacca
    Tuesday, July 16, 2013 23:41:14 UTC Wednesday, July 17, 2013 07:41:14 AM at epicenterDepth: 29.20 km (18.14 mi)
  • M 5.1, South Sandwich Islands region
    Tuesday, July 16, 2013 23:05:11 UTC Tuesday, July 16, 2013 09:05:11 PM at epicenterDepth: 30.10 km (18.70 mi)

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Syria no-fly zone requires ground control
    Britain's outgoing army chief David Richards, pictured in June during a visit to Myanmar, has warned that attempts to impose a no-fly zone over Syria would lead to war, in an interview published in Thursday's Daily Telegraph.Britain's outgoing army chief has warned that attempts to impose a no ...
  • Obama calls for public service on Mandela birthday
    US President Barack Obama, pictured July 17, 2013 in Washington, DC, urged people to honor former South African president Nelson Mandela "through individual and collective acts of service," in a statement marking the anti-apartheid hero's 95th birthday.US President Barack Obama urged people to ...
  • US, Cuba in migration talks despite N. Korea w ...
    Officials inspect a container aboard the North Korean vessel Chong Chon Gang at Manzanillo Port in Colon, Panama on July 17, 2013. The United States and Cuba held migration talks, despite news Panama had impounded a North Korean freighter carrying Cuban mThe United States and Cuba held migrati ...
  • No manslaughter charges over New Zealand mine ...
    Fire rages in a ventilation shaft at the Pike River Coal mine near Greymouth, New Zealand, November 30, 2010. The families of 29 miners killed in the pit explosion say they were "gutted" by a police decision not to lay manslaughter charges over the disastThe families of 29 miners killed in a N ...
  • Ex-Goldman director fined $13.9 mn for insider ...
    Rajat Gupta, former Goldman Sachs board member exits court on October 24, 2012 in New York City. A federal judge Wednesday ordered Gupta to pay a $13.9 million penalty related to insider trading, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced.A federal judge Wednesday ordered former Goldman ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • US court dismisses lawsuit against CIA over sc ...
    A United States federal court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Central Intelligence Agency over an alleged murder of an American Department of Defense scientist, which occurred in 1953.
  • News you may have missed #846
    Cuba confirms it hid weapons on seized N. Korean ship. British undercover officers stole identities of dead children. Snowden has ‘thousands’ of damaging NSA documents.
  • Russia ‘considering spy swap with Germany’
    The Russian government has allegedly approached Germany with an offer to swap a number of jailed spies, including a couple of Russian sleeper agents sentenced for espionage earlier this month in Stuttgart.
  • Canada intelligence agency warns officials of ...
    Canada’s foremost intelligence agency has authored a publication warning government officials they are as much targets of espionage today as they were during the Cold War.
  • Are Russian spies switching to typewriters to ...
    For the first time in over a decade, the Russian government is purchasing typewriters, allegedly in order to safeguard classified documents against electronic interception.

War is a Crime.org

  • Snowden: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
      Snowden: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee   by Stephen Lendman   Swedish Sociology Professor Stefan Svallfors nominated him. He praised his "heroic effort at great personal cost."   He revealed NSA's lawless global spying. He told millions worldwide what they need to know. He did ...
  • New EU Guidelines on Israel
      New EU Guidelines on Israel   by Stephen Lendman   A previous article discussed them. They pertain to illegal Israeli West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Golan settlements. They leave besieged Gaza unaddressed.    read more
  • Federal Judge Parades Her Ignorance, Approves ...
    A U.S. District Judge not only doesn't know what torture is, she doesn't know her own history. read more
  • Syria/Egypt News July 18
      Al-Nusra Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant expelled from flashpoint Kurdish Syrian town by Kurdish fighters - AFP Clashes Re-Erupt in Syria Between Al-Qaeda, Kurds - aina.org VIDEO: Syria: Clashes between Kurds and Islamists - YouTube VIDEO: Kurdish defense units YPG f ...
  • Congresswoman Barbara Lee Releases Report on P ...
    Washington, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee released a report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) surrounding the presidential utilization to undertake military and other actions under the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which was enacted in response to the Septe ...

Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

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Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Let The Light of Mandela Shine on U.S. Injustice
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan As the world celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, it is timely to reflect on his life, spent fighting for equality for people of color who long suffered under South Africa’s apartheid regime. Mandela was arrested in 1962, a year before Martin Luther ...
  • READ: The Lab Magazine Profiles Democracy Now! ...
    Read a new profile of Democracy Now! host, Amy Goodman, by The Lab Magazine, in which she discusses her upbringing, her reporting in Indonesia, covering climate change and much more. The full profile is here. The Lab Magazine is an international publication and website that features intima ...
  • WATCH: Fruitvale Station Director Ryan Coogler ...
    Watch Democracy Now!'s interview with the director of the feature film, "Fruitvale Station," which opens in theaters nationwide this week. "I’ve seen these kind of things happen before, instances of police brutality and instances of urban violence, and people riot and rally," Ryan Coogl ...
  • As Hunger Strike Continues, Ex-Chief Guantánam ...
    More than 150 days in their hunger strike, at least 45 Guantánamo prisoners are being force-fed through tubes. "It's regrettable that it's taking them putting their lives at risk to get us to pay attention, that they've been cleared for transfer, yet they're still in prison," said Col. Morris D ...
  • This Year’s Best-Kept Secret: The Next Generat ...
    A microphone and a radio transmitter in the hands of a community organizer imparts power, which some liken to the life-changing impact when humans first tamed fire. That’s why the prospect of 1,000 new community radio stations in the United States, for which the Federal Communications Commissio ...

Solari

  • G20 to Seek Reassurance from U.S. Fed and China
    By Lidia Kelly and Douglas Busvine G20 summits do not always set the pulse racing, but this week’s gathering of finance ministers and central bankers in Moscow has a better chance than most of grabbing the attention of financial markets. The policymakers meet at a sensitive time with the ...
  • All That Electronic “Data Mining”: Part Two: T ...
    By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell Yesterday I blogged about that nice bright shiny new NSA facility being built (for all to photograph from their spy satellites) in Utah. As we saw in yesterday’s blog, a German company had crunched a few hypothetical numbers about the NSA’s data mining capability and co ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “It’s time to acknowledge that we don’t understand each other and we need to seek understanding as opposed to elect to be afraid.” ~Rasheedat Fetuga, in response to the Zimmerman trial verdict
  • Plunging Currency Adds to Syria’s Gloom
    By Loveday Morris and Ahmed Ramadan After more than two years of relentless conflict, Syria’s government is desperately trying to avert a secondary crisis: a sharp decline in the Syrian currency, which is adding to the country’s economic woes. Continue Reading Related Reading: Syria on Wikipedi ...
  • Morgellons : A Working Hypothesis Neural, Thyr ...
    [CAF: Clifford Carnicom continues to provide leadership and invaluable information to help us understand the impact of global spraying programs. Here is his latest - a work in progress.] By Clifford E Carnicom This paper seeks to identify a host of organic compounds that are likely to comprise ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

Inhabitat

  • Swedish Machine Turns Sweat into Perfectly Goo ...
    You probably never thought you could go to the gym and then rehydrate at the end of a grueling session with your own sweat, but that possibility now exists. Inspired by NASA astronauts, who are required to recycle everything during long journeys out in Space,    
  • Curvaceous Green Roofed Jean-Moulin School Com ...
    Located in Montargis, France, École Jean-Moulin was finished early this year. The school measures 30,000 square feet and consists of two juxtaposed volumes set beneath a luscious green roof. The iconic, curvaceous building has plenty of indoor and outdoor    
  • China Becomes World’s First Nation to Install ...
    China just secured its position as the world leader in solar power by installing a record 3 gigawatts of utility-scale solar power. The nation has constructed 40 new solar plants (with over 1 GW of production capacity) since December 2012, surpassing Germany    
  • Morphocode Unveils Plans for Crazy Home Set At ...
    If you're good at repairs and don’t have a problem with heights and noise, the Wind Turbine Loft could be your dream house. Nestled into an offshore wind turbine, Morphocode's futuristic-looking loft is designed to provide accommodations for technicians    
  • The Bird Brick Gives Endangered Birds a Home i ...
    For humans, it's hard enough to find room and board in the city without a great deal of searching and no small amount of aggravation. For the winged members of the community, it is even more challenging to find a dwelling when their normal habitats have been    

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The Progressive Realist

  • Transatlantic Trouble
    Recent revelations that the U.S. government had been spying on European allies continue to rile public sentiment on the continent, just as officials from both sides of the Atlantic sit down for talks in Washington on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a wide-ranging deal ...
  • Top of the Morning: Prominent Cameroonian Gay ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Prominent Cameroonian Gay Rights Activist Murdered The mutilated body of Eric Ohena Lembembe was discovered late Monday. “Lembembe was among the most prominent activists in one of Africa’s most hostile countries for sexual minorities. First as a journalist and ...
  • Guest Post: UNSC Debate on the Protection of J ...
    Julia Trehu is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. On Wednesday, July 17, the United States Mission to the United Nations (UN), which holds the UN Security Council (UNSC) presidency, will host an open debate in the council chamber on the protection ...
  • Iraq’s Return to Civil War
    It’s time to accept one truth: Iraq’s civil war is back. Iraq’s been ignored for some time since international troops left. In some ways, rightly so. A massive civil war broke out in Syria, protests are ongoing around the Middle East, and a massive proxy war between Saudi Arabi ...
  • Top of the Morning: African Union Proposes an ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest At AU Summit, Ethiopia Proposes an “African CDC” The fact that Sudan’s president is in attendance in contravention of an ICC arrest warrant has sucked up most attention of the AU summit. But there’s still progress on one common front. “The African Union executive co ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Rhode Island’s Small Victory
    AP Photo/Mel Evans When Governor Lincoln Chaffee signed the Temporary Care Giver’s Insurance law last week, Rhode Island became the third state—along with California and New Jersey—to grant paid time off to care for a sick loved one or a new baby. Rhode Island’s law, which goes into ef ...
  • Liz Cheney Takes Aim
    In most of the country, the Cheney name is deeply unpopular. People poke fun at Joe Biden and mock Al Gore, but Dick Cheney stands as one of the most hated and vilified Vice Presidents since Spiro Agnew. And if Republicans have abandoned George W. Bush, then in the case of Cheney, they’ve worke ...
  • Semantic Innovation in Immigration Reform
    Greg Sargent gets the skinny from a House aide about a potential new immigration proposal in that body, which would include some new triggers and deadlines, but what caught my eye was this part: The new plan would take the provisional legal status and right to work granted to the undocumented a ...
  • Why "Black-on-Black Crime" is a Dangerous Idea
      Flickr Creative Commons In writing about the myth “black-on-black crime” this week, I’ve gotten a huge number of responses, from both sides. The disagreement, in particular, has taken the form of incredulousness. For example, here’s Rod Dreher of the The American Conservative, who sa ...
  • Tired Columnists and Lost Opportunities
    Richard Cohen of The Washington Post may not have written anything interesting in the last 20 years or so, but yesterday he found a way to achieve some momentary relevance, by writing an execrable column defending racial profiling. For the first time in forever, lots of people were talking abou ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Activist Son of Key Racist Leader Renounces Wh ...
    Derek Black, the son of the former Alabama Klan leader who now runs the largest racist Web forum in the world, has renounced white nationalism, saying that he had been through “a gradual awakening process” and apologizing for his past activism. In an E-mail (pdf) to the editor of this blog this ...
  • Sixth Arrest in Anti-Racist Attack on Chicago ...
    A sixth man has been identified and arrested for his alleged involvement in a May 2012 attack by anti-racist activists on a group of white supremacists and white nationalists in a restaurant in the Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. Jason Richard Hammond, 28, of Chicago, faces state charges of armed ...
  • Rand Paul Aide’s Claims Regarding League of th ...
    In all the brouhaha surrounding Jack Hunter, the aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) exposed as a longtime neo-Confederate activist this week, Hunter’s past as the leader of the Charleston, S.C., chapter of the League of the South (LOS) hardly registered. After all, Hunter said when confronted by the ...
  • Man Arrested After Talk of Bombing of Utah IRS ...
    The FBI has arrested a Utah man who is accused in court documents of making machine guns and discussing the bombing of an Internal Revenue Service building and other government facilities. Keith Max Pierce, 34, of Provo, Utah, currently is only charged with three federal firearms charges – failu ...
  • League of the South: No Longer Possible to Wor ...
    Michael Hill. Profile avail at SPLC Intel. Files Michael Hill, the increasingly militant head of the neo-Confederate League of the South, has reached a conclusion following the revelation this week that Jack Hunter, an aide to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has long harbored neo-Confederate beliefs ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Proposal Will Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtle Ha ...
    After more than five years of delay, the federal government today finally proposed to protect 36 areas of ocean habitat across six states for
  • Federal Court to Hear Oral Argument on "Docs V ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit will be hearing arguments on Thursday July 18, 2013 in Miami on the unprecedented and highly controversial Florida “Docs v. Glocks” gag law that could strip doctors of their medical licenses if they discuss firearm safety with patien ...
  • CREW Names the Worst Governnors in America
    Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released its second report examining shady and unethical conduct by the nation’s governors.  In compiling the latest edition of its Worst Governors in America report, CREW reviewed the job performance of the governors ...
  • No Surprise Federal Pipeline Safety Exercises ...
    The federal pipeline safety agency has not conducted a single surprise exercise for more than eight years to determine whether an operator can execute emergency response plans, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Nor does the agency ...
  • Health Care Workers Suffer Highest Total Worke ...
    Health care workers suffer more injuries and illnesses on the job each year than those in any other industry, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) conducts relatively few inspections of health care facilities and is hamstrung in its ability to take action to resolve unsaf ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • An Open Letter to the Media on the 'Irony' of ...
    The supposed “irony” of whistle-blower Edward Snowden seeking asylum in countries such as Ecuador and Venezuela has become a media meme. Numerous articles, op-eds, reports and editorials in outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and MSN ...
  • Let the Light of Mandela Shine on U.S. Injustice
    Amy Goodman As the world celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, it is timely to reflect on his life, spent fighting for equality for people of color who long suffered under South Africa’s apartheid regime. Mandela was arrest ...
  • Embedded Racism
    Robert C. Koehler Did the ghosts of our slave-holding and Jim Crow past high-five each other in the Florida courtroom on Saturday? George Zimmerman was acquitted, but does that mean that American history was, too?read more
  • Building an Empire Through Arms
    Richard Seymour Why does Britain arm human rights abusers? On the face of it, this is a nonsensical question. The British state is a human rights abuser, from Iraq to Afghanistan. On a scale calibrated according to those atrocities, what d ...
  • Building an Empire Through Arms
    Richard Seymour Why does Britain arm human rights abusers? On the face of it, this is a nonsensical question. The British state is a human rights abuser, from Iraq to Afghanistan. On a scale calibrated according to those atrocities, what d ...

Water Privatization

  • Is privatization panacea for Pakistan?
    Privatization was made fashionable by Britain’s Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. The sale, during her reign as prime minister, of poorly performing state enterprises to the private sector was widely lauded.
  • Activists Ready to Launch Ballot Initiative fo ...
    Activists are aiming to put the Portland water wars back on the ballot—this time with the goal of wresting control of the water and sewer bureaus from City Hall. A coalition of water activists and utility ratepayers say they'll officially announce Thursday morning what has been expected for ...
  • Flooded with water issues
    I want to continue on the water case because it’s much more than an issue of whether the concessionaires should be given revenue increases, and how much, or not at all.
  • It’s not water under the bridge
    The announcement regarding the privatizations of the country’s two biggest water and sewerage companies, EYDAP of Attica and EYATH of Thessaloniki, by the end of this year’s third quarter, ought to be re-evaluated in the wake of recent statements made by Internal Market and Services Commissioner ...
  • Makabayan bloc formally asks for congressional ...
    If warranted, the bloc is urging the chamber to take action to stop any impending water rate increases pending termination of the review.

Guardian

  • Letting agents must be upfront about hidden fe ...
    Committee says leading letting agencies as guilty and calls on ministers to end practice that cost tenants hundreds of poundsThe campaign against "rip off" charges levied by leading high street letting agents has won the backing of MPs who demanded the government end the practice of hidden fees ...
  • Nelson Mandela 'doing much better' as 95th bir ...
    At launch of new clothing range, granddaughters give update on former president's healthTheir family has been accused of crass commercialism, exploiting their grandfather's name and tarnishing his legacy by fighting over his final resting place. Undaunted, two of Nelson Mandela's granddaughters ...
  • Greece simmers as Antonis Samaras government p ...
    German finance minister due in Athens with public sector employees continuing protests against new measuresGreece's parliament has narrowly approved a new batch of austerity measures, including thousands of public-sector job cuts and transfers, demanded by the country's creditors to keep vital b ...
  • NHS care watchdog CQC to overhaul hospital ins ...
    New system of carrying out in-depth investigations lasting more than a week aims to restore public confidence in hospitalsThe NHS care watchdog is abandoning its discredited way of inspecting hospitals and instead plans to use much larger teams of inspectors, including patients, to do in-depth i ...
  • Alexei Navalny found guilty of embezzlement
    Russian prosecution has been seen as means of silencing a popular opposition leader and critic of Vladimir PutinA Russian court has found Alexei Navalny guilty of embezzlement in a trial widely seen as a means of silencing the popular Russian opposition leader.A judge in the provincial city of K ...

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

  • Aussie soldier wounded in Afghanistan
    An Australian Special Forces soldier has been wounded during an operation in Afghanistan.The soldier suffered fractures and concussion during an unspecified incident last week but the injuries were not life-threatening, Chief of Joint Operations Lieutenant General Ash Power said."The wounde ...
  • Eight Afghan Laborers Killed While Traveling T ...
    Taliban militants have reportedly shot dead eight laborers on their way to work at a U.S. military base in southeastern Afghanistan. Rais Khan Sadeq, deputy police chief of Logar Province, said on July 18 that the insurgents stopped the laborers' vehicle as they made their daily trip to ...
  • Gunmen Kill Eight Afghan Civilians
    Kabul, July 18 (BNA) - At least eight Afghan civilians working as labor in a NATO-led coalition security forces military base were killed by unknown gunmen in eastern Logar province of Afghanistan, according to local authorities. Officials further added that the dead bodies of the civilians wer ...
  • Afghani police say Taliban killed eight civilians
    Cadets from the Afghan Local Police (ALP) look on during their graduation ceremony at a police training centre on the outskirts of Jalalabad on July 17, 2013. (Source: AFP/Noorullah Shirzada) Eight Afghan civilians, who work at a U.S. military base south of Kabul, were shot dead by Taliban gunme ...
  • Better Indo-Pak ties crucial for Afghan peace ...
    British Prime Minister David Cameron praised India and Pakistan for taking initiative to resume bilateral talks to improve relations and urged them to play a crucial role in bringing back peace to war-torn Afghanistan. The British leader said that better Indo-Pak relation is a cornerstone for re ...

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

  • Updated Securities and Exchange Commission Whi ...
    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 ...
  • Edward Snowden Should Be Protected, Not Prosecuted
      On June 27, Politix published a guest OP-ED by Stephen Kohn, entitled Edward Snowden Should Be Protected, Not Prosecuted.   Stephen Kohn is the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and author of The Whistleblower's Handbook.  
  • DOJ Announces False Claims Act Settlements Rec ...
    Last week the Department of Justice issued a series of press releases announcing settlements of several claims made under the False Claims Act. These settlements resulted in recoveries of about $60 million. The settlements are listed below: Fifty-Five Hospitals to Pay U.S. More Than $ ...
  • Federal Employee Whistleblowers Win Rare Victory
    The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) issued a ruling today in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. The MSPB held that the new definition of a" protected disclosure" set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WEPA) applied to cases pending and/or whic ...
  • The Whistleblower's Handbook Featured in Bosto ...
    This past Sunday Katharine Whittemore of the Boston Globe published an article entitled “A look at books on whistle-blowing.” Whittemore writes that it is currently “kind of a strange, explosive golden age” for whistleblowers. The “tipping point” in a cultura ...

TechDirt

  • Just As US Finally Realizes Copyright Terms Ma ...
    As even the more traditional maximalists in the US have started to admit that copyright terms are too long, it appears some are still leaning in the opposite direction. Maira Sutton points us to the news that Japan is now looking to retroactively lengthen copyright terms from life plus 50 years ...
  • Team Prenda Keeps Trying To Convince Judges Th ...
    We've discussed in the past how Team Prenda loves to use the "I know you are, but what am I" defense, in which they accuse opposing counsel of doing all sorts of nefarious things to game the legal system -- something that they themselves have been accused of by multiple judges. In the past few d ...
  • DailyDirt: Better Than 20/20 Vision...
    The next big thing for computing could be a flood of wearable electronics. Google Glass has been getting some media attention, but for a long time people have been trying to avoid wearing eyeglasses (eg. LASIK, contact lenses, etc). Still, the possibilities of augmented vision seem pretty cool, ...
  • Two Key Cases Involving Gatekeepers Using Copy ...
    A little over a year ago, we wrote about a bizarre situation involving a variety of Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) -- which are more or less the gatekeepers of the real estate industry -- teaming up to attack an online service called NeighborCity (built by American Home Realty Network (AHRN)), ...
  • Woman Who Bragged That She Was 'The Queen Of T ...
    The stupid never seems to stop when it comes to dumb criminals. Whether it's accidentally dialing 911 during their murder-plotting or jumping on YouTube to make sure grandma knows what a great little bank-robber you are, there's just something about these criminals that make them go internet stu ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...
  • The Power of Denial
    My relationship with my parents started a downhill slide when I reached my teen years and never recovered. My father was the type of person who never wanted to talk about anything. He would blow up once in a while. But mostly he handled the hurt – the hurt that he felt or that he [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure none of you have missed the NSA spying scandal, which will probably blow over in about 10 minutes. Or maybe people will finally freak out when they find out all their phone sex and dick pics are being filed somewhere. How intricate do you think their filing system is? A homeland s ...
  • Stuff Dudes Do
    Mild rant warning. I’m an anarchist. I used to be in a punk collective. I worked on criminal injustice issues. Sadly, all of these things mean that I end up in spaces that are largely dudes. Maybe those things attract more men than women. Or maybe a whole lot of us women have been chased [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Obama’s ‘Insider Threat’ policy equates whistl ...
    Steven Aftergood writes: A national policy on “insider threats” was developed by the Obama Administration in order to protect against actions by government employees who would harm the security of the nation. But under the rubric of insider threats, the policy subsumes the seemingly disparate ac ...
  • The NSA admits it analyzes way more people’s d ...
    Atlantic Wire: As an aside during testimony on Capitol Hill today, a National Security Agency representative rather casually indicated that the government looks at data from a universe of far, far more people than previously indicated. Chris Inglis, the agency’s deputy director, was one of ...
  • The creepy, long-standing practice of undersea ...
    Following revelations that both the U.S. and the U.K. spy agencies, the NSA and GCHQ, are tapping directly into the Internet’s backbone, The Atlantic asks: how does one tap into an underwater cable? The process is extremely secretive, but it seems similar to tapping an old-fashioned, pre-d ...
  • Obama’s Orwellian America
    The Washington Post reports: The Department of Homeland Security has warned its employees that the government may penalize them for opening a Washington Post article containing a classified slide that shows how the National Security Agency eavesdrops on international communications. An internal ...
  • From Tom Paine to Glenn Greenwald, we need par ...
    Jack Shafer writes: I would sooner engage you in a week-long debate over which taxonomical subdivision the duck-billed platypus belongs to then spend a moment arguing whether Glenn Greenwald is a journalist or not, or whether an activist can be a journalist, or whether a journalist can be an act ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Peter Gleick Makes Progress… by Hoping P ...
    Post by Brandon Shollenberger Rhetoric in climate change debates has never been highbrow.  There’s lots of name calling, gotcha games and other petty behavior.  Still, there’s something about suggesting people you dislike should die that turns most people off.  That’s … C ...
  • The Met Office hides the decline, starring &#8 ...
    I’ve come to think of Richard Betts as “Dr. No” mainly because he seems to say no to any possibility that the Met Office might not be giving out accurate forecasts to the public. I’ve had a few Twitter exchanges … Continue reading →
  • Will the real The Death Valley 134F high tempe ...
    “…someone made this fake form off the original and even forged Oscar Denton’s name on it.” Readers may recall that last week I noticed differences in the two “official” paper records presented by NOAA/NWS and the National Park Service in … Continue readi ...
  • Kenji gets mail – ‘Union of Concer ...
    Kenji got this in his inbox today (donation links redacted): ============================================================= UCS supporter— It’s bad enough that climate deniers get elected to Congress. But it gets much worse: some purveyors of disinformation sit on the House Science Committe ...
  • Global Warming = Climate Change
    Guest Essay by Ed Hoskins This short essay questions the actions to combat Global Warming / Climate Change from three points of view: The Temperature Context Man-made CO2 emissions 1965 -2012. The Significance and Influence of Carbon Dioxide CO2 The … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Most Mutations in the Human Genome are Recent ...
    We really are a mutant race. Our genomes are strewn with millions of rare gene variations, the result of the very fast, very recent population growth of the human species. From an estimated 5 million individuals just 10,000 years ago, we ballooned to more than 7 billion. On average, every duplic ...
  • Retrovirus Replication 3D Animation
    Retrovirus Replication 3D Animation – YouTube.
  • Nailing Regeneration
    Stem cells at the base of finger and toenails act as coordinating centers to orchestrate communication between the nail, bone, and nerve tissues necessary to promote mouse fingertip regeneration after amputation, according to new research published today (June 13) in Nature. Researchers found th ...
  • Vaginal Birth (Childbirth)
    This wonderful 3D medical animation of a baby’s birth shows a time lapse view of labor and delivery during normal vaginal birth in a simplified form with only the mother’s skeletal structures and the baby in the uterus. Also shown in detail is dilatation (dilation or dilating) and ef ...
  • Molecular discovery puts cancer treatment in a ...
    Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the National Institutes of Health have obtained ground-breaking new knowledge about proteases – important enzymes which, among other things, play a role in the development of cancer cells. The findings may be significant for the development ...

CFACT

  • Green energy: often a very bad “investme ...
    Once again, the $2.6 billion Cape Wind construction is illustrative of how the overlaps can give the developer more in taxpayer-funded benefits than the project’s actual cost. Federal incentives, including a $780 million energy investment credit, a DOE loan guarantee, and accelerated depreciatio ...
  • USDA shirking its responsibility to inspect or ...
    The Wall Street Journal and Breitbart.com accuse President Obama of dragging his feet on providing more funding for the FDA to inspect food imports. But ... it’s the USDA, not the FDA, which is supposed to watch over organic crops. If the FDA were to provide more scrutiny – which a Center for Fo ...
  • Solar panel malfunctions going global
    Getting electricity from the sun has always been expensive. But many communities have made investments in solar electricity figuring the costs could be recouped. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/259/5169.mp3]
  • Score one for property rights!
    Dealing an unexpected blow to power-hungry local officials accustomed to running roughshod over landowners, the U.S. Supreme Court June 25 ruled in favor of property rights and against government abuse of the U.S. Constitution’s Takings Clause. The 5-to-4 ruling marks the culmination of a nearl ...
  • Endangered Species Act a failure after 40 years
    This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. But has it been effective? Laura Huggins, of the Property and Environment Research Center, says no and has this to say. . . . [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/259/5168.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russian Diver Bazhina to Skip Barcelona World ...
    A back injury that kept diver Nadezhda Bazhina out of this month's World University Games back home has also ruled the Russian out of the World Aquatics Championships starting Friday in Barcelona, her coach said Thursday.    
  • Dagestan Gov’t Attacked by Hackers
    Taking North Caucasus instability to cyberspace, unidentified hackers have brought down several websites of the local administration of Russia’s Republic of Dagestan, an official said Thursday.    
  • Russian Rights Champion Questioned Over Yukos ...
    Russia’s Investigative Committee called the presidential human rights council’s former head in for questioning this week, in what fellow activists link to an ongoing probe into experts who backed releasing jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian media reported Thursday.   &n ...
  • The History of a Yukos CEO
        
  • Convicted Navalny to Drop Moscow Mayor Bid Say ...
    Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigning blogger who was handed a five-year-jail term on Thursday, is to withdraw his candidacy for the upcoming election for Moscow mayor, his campaign office said.    

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Proton-M Rocket Downed by Reversed Sensors – R ...
    A Russian Proton-M rocket that exploded after launch on July 2 was lost because its angular velocity sensors were installed upside-down, the country’s space agency said Thursday.    
  • NASA Searches for Cause of Helmet Leak in Abor ...
    NASA said on Tuesday that it is struggling to determine what caused more than a liter of water to pour into the helmet and suit of an Italian astronaut during a spacewalk Tuesday outside the International Space Station (ISS), prompting the US space agency to abort the spacewalk out of concern fo ...
  • NASA Reports Discovery of New Neptune Moon
    The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tiny moon orbiting Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the distant planet, NASA said on its website.    
  • Evacuation of North Pole Station to Cost Russi ...
    The Russian government will consider allocating 65.6 million rubles (over $2 million) from the budget to cover expenses caused by an urgent evacuation of a drifting polar research station, the government’s press service said in a statement on Sunday.    
  • Russia’s Baby Mammoth Yuka Goes on Show in Japan
    An exhibition featuring Yuka the baby mammoth, which was found in Russia in 2010 and is thought to be 39,000 years old, opened to the public in Japan on Saturday, local media report.    

Natural Health News

  • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
    Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
  • 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
    A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
  • NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
    A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
  • Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
    A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
  • Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
    If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, July 18, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The UN is reviewing support to Democratic Republic of the Congo’s army units accused of desecrating the corpses of rebels and mistreating detainees. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will confer with key Palestinian leaders today about a possible res ...
  • Political Science Fiction
    by Chris Borgen In his book Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order, former diplomat and Yale professor Charles Hill argues that The great matters of high politics, statecraft, and grand strategy are essential to the human condition and so necessarily are within the purview o ...
  • Supreme Court to Review Bauman v. DaimlerChrysler
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson About the same time (April 2013) that the US Supreme Court released its opinion in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the Court also granted review of a Ninth Circuit case, Bauman v. DaimlerChrysler. Just ahead of the July 4th weekend, the Obama administra ...
  • Emerging Voices: Implied Conferrals as Consequ ...
    by Daniel Seah by Daniel Seah [Daniel Seah is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.] Has the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) finally had its own post-ontological moment?  No longer are we condemned to participate in the banality of questioning ASEAN’ ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, July 17, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The British House of Commons has passed a law legalizing gay marriage in the UK. According to a recent parliamentary report, Britain has issued more than 3,000 licences allowing the export of weapons to countries where the UK has human rights concerns. UN of ...

Public News Service

  • Advocate: Farm Workers “Treated Like Ins ...
    Advocate: Farm Workers “Treated Like Insects” PHOENIX - Farm workers from around the nation have been in Washington this week to urge Congress to pass stronger legislation to reduce what one government estimate says are 10,000 to 20,000 acute pesticide poisonings yearly in the agricu ...
  • Study: Declining Colorado River Flows Could Hu ...
    Study: Declining Colorado River Flows Could Hurt Property Values PHOENIX - If water flows in the Colorado River system decline as predicted, a new study projects, river-based property values also could decline by an average of 10 percent. The study by the advocacy group Protect the Flows survey ...
  • Road Trip! One Family's Concerns, Support for ...
    Road Trip! One Family's Concerns, Support for National Parks PHOENIX - It's not just a vacation; it's an adventure for one family traveling through the Four Corners states this week. The family of Maite Arce has made it a mission to discover National Parks and Monuments this summer, and to encou ...
  • Stewardship Program Helps Forest Service Monit ...
    Stewardship Program Helps Forest Service Monitor AZ Wilderness PHOENIX - The U.S. Forest Service is understaffed, but is getting more help in monitoring more than 1 million acres of Arizona wilderness. Over the weekend, another 30 volunteers for the Arizona Wilderness Coalition stewardship progr ...
  • Community Clinics Playing a Vital Role in Heal ...
    Community Clinics Playing a Vital Role in Health Reform PHOENIX – As part of her visit Wednesday to Phoenix, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a roundtable discussion with some two dozen community leaders and health care providers about the impact of health reform ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
    Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor.  The rider undermines the federal cou ...
  • Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
    Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
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