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Pensieve

  • Medicine for Bleak Mornings
    Think of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes, and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash out the m ...
  • At my work desk remembering the good times at ...
    aaronernestoortizlopez posted a photo:
  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Headline of the Day
    Bank Of America: From Loss To Profit Thanks To Mark-To-Unicorn
  • NASA 3D printing lowers costs, speeds developm ...
    NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne of West Palm Beach, Fla., recently finished testing a rocket engine injector made through additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing. “NASA recognizes that on Earth and potentially in space, additive manufacturing can be game-changing for new mission opportunities, ...
  • SHADE – Solar Home Adapting for Desert Equilibrium
    Jetson Greene profiles the SHADE house, which is designed for desert living. It’s 100% powered by solar with a number of unique design features, including vertical screen, PV panels as a shading canopy, “adaptive spaces, staggered studs, humidity buffering, hydronic micro capillary t ...
  • Nitrate polluted water leads to birth defects ...
    Nitrates seeping into groundwater from fertilizer, animal waste, and other sources in agricultural areas greatly increase the chances of birth defects, says a study from Texas A&M. An extensive new study confirms a long-suspected link between crippling birth defects and the nitrate contamina ...
  • The national security state and big tech are a ...
    “Behind every great fortune there is a great crime,” said Balzac. This certainly applies to Silicon Valley complicity with the national security state. The NSA documents that Snowden leaked clearly show the sickening complicity of Silicon Valley and Microsoft with the national securi ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – July 17 2013
  • The Jack Blood Show – July 16 2013
  • This Day In History – July 18
    1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B’Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities. 1555 – The College of Arms was reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Quee ...
  • Joker: Boston Marathon Bombings Suspect Featur ...
    Young men and woman who may have esacpaed the propaganda regarding the Boston Bombings – get it here! Five Revelations about Tsarnaev from Rolling Stone’s latest cover story, “Jahar’s World”: Read more: Rolling Stone • As Jahar lay in the boat, surrounded by SWAT te ...
  • Refusal of religious orders to compensate Magd ...
    MAGDALENE SURVIVORS TOGETHER, one of the groups representing the women who worked in the Magdalene laundries, has strongly criticised the four religious orders who have refused to contribute to the redress scheme set up by the government. The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, Religious Siste ...

The Air Vent

  • Fools and Their Right to be Fools
    Socialist Liberalism is completely out of control in this world, and now it has infected every aspect of American governance.   Nearly every news article is biased with complete left-wing nonsense and any prospect of fair representative governance is in ruins.   There is no media check for the r ...
  • NSA – Balancing the Risk
    The NSA has been tracking details of every pone call and email by every American for years.   I have no doubt that this is the case.  Yes, this is in violation of the fourth amendment which states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreas ...
  • My Apologies to Readers
    I have really let this blog go to pieces. I will post useful stuff in the future but allowing Mr Cotton to take it over again was a mistake. It seemed reasonable to allow him to write, because the topic was PSI.   It won’t happen again, even though I am starting to think a […]
  • PSI – Theory Destroyed
    So PSI completely surrendered discussion of a highly emotional topic like…. thermodynamics after only a few days.   It turns out that photons emitted from a cold body which then strike a warmer one, are the Kryptonite of the organization.   A group so cocksure of itself that it would throw ...
  • Problematic Science Incorporated
    Holy crap.  I have realized it isn’t practical to do a half of a blog.  Did you know that the Internet is full of crazy people.   I’ve heard rumors, read other blogs, often commented on the generally high quality of tAV readers but when I don’t blog on science for months, guess ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook stock roundup: Execs offload more sto ...
    A flurry of Facebook executives and members of the company’s board of directors recently sold shares of Facebook or are planning to do so soon. Board members Erskine Bowles, the former co-chair of the now-defunct National Commission...
  • 5 kinds of Facebook posts that drive 186% mont ...
    A lot of effort and good money goes into writing and promoting your Facebook posts, so it just makes sense to do it correctly. However,  there’s no single right way to post on Facebook; but a variety...
  • New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera domina ...
    Playing in the final Major League Baseball All-Star Game of his 19 year career, New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera took home the game’s MVP award and was also the most talked-about player on Facebook that...
  • INFOGRAPHIC: Optimizing your small business pa ...
    Graph Search is rolling out to all U.S. English Facebook users. Is your page ready and Graph Search-friendly? Right On-No Bull Marketing recently published an infographic showing how page admins and small business owners can make...
  • Parse to host developers’ conference
    Parse, which was acquired by Facebook in April to boost Facebook connection with mobile apps, will have a conference for app developers in September. Not much has been said since the acquisition about how Parse will...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Postcard from the End of America: North Philly
    The corner of Broad and Erie is the Times Square of North Philly, but instead of flashy signs pushing Kodak, Samsung, Canon or Virgin Airlines, you have stark billboards urging you to "ELIMINATE YOUR DEBT" and "REBUILD YOUR CREDIT."
  • SCOTUS Can't Deal with Race or Ethnic Issues
    The article examines some of the racial implications of two Supreme Court decisions - Shelby County and "Baby Girl."
  • I'm Boycotting the Store Chains Banning Rollin ...
    Rolling Stone has the photo of Boston Bomber Djokar Tsarnaev on its current cover-- because they did an exhaustive article about him. Some people are complaining. And several big chains have announced they're not going to sell the issue. I'm going to boycott the chains as long as they ke ...
  • Meet a moderate Syrian insurgent
    Your President Mr Obama told the Blessed King of Saudi Arabia last Friday that he is committed to providing more support for us. Your Secretary of State Mr Kerry said on Saturday there must be more support for us "in order to have an impact on the ground." Your CIA said they will make sure only ...
  • Why We Should Stop Subsidizing Sky-High CEO Pay
    Between 2007 and 2010, a total of $121.5 billion in executive compensation was deducted from corporate earnings, and roughly 55 percent of this total was for performance-based compensation. Given all the games, it's likely much of this "performance" was baloney.

Switchboard

  • Climate deniers' new gambit: the updated SCC ( ...
    Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate Center, Washington, DC What was once an obscure technical detail in regulatory rulemakings, the “social cost of carbon” (SCC), will be discussed at length in hearings on Capitol Hill (July 18, 201 ...
  • Dehli Based TERI applauded for climate change ...
    Kristina Johnson, Program Assistant, Food and Agriculture, India Initiative, Urban, San Francisco July 9th- July 16th India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India Climate Change TERI globa ...
  • The oil and gas industry repeatedly violates t ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A scathing new investigation from EnergyWire confirms the worst fears of citizens across the country who live near fracking sites: state regulators are not doing everything they can to prevent oil an ...
  • New NRDC study: Commuters can save money and c ...
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. All across the country, a shift is taking place. Increasingly, Americans are choosing to live in walkable communities with convenient housing, offering more transportation choices that al ...
  • New initiative to recognize most energy-effici ...
    Yerina Mugica, Associate Director, Center for Market Innovation, New York City Our nation’s buildings account for the largest share of energy consumption (41%) and corresponding carbon pollution (40%) in the U.S. So understandably, we have a l ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Developers, Knight Fellows Mingle at Matter Event
    About 20 Knight Alumni and Fellows recently converged on a big-windowed workspace in San Francisco's South of Market district. Sure, there was pizza and beer, but what really drew them was the chance to crunch ideas with developers working to "change media for good." The dozen or so ...
  • Join the Zeega Makers Challenge for 'The Makin ...
    In 24 hours, Zeegas -- a new form of interactive media -- will be installed on four projection screens at San Francisco's renowned Museum of Modern Art. This showcase is part of "The Making Of..." -- a collaboration between award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters, KQED, AIR's Localore, ...
  • OpenStreetMap Conference to Advance the World' ...
    Hundreds of users, contributors, and mappers are converging next month in San Francisco to discuss OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world often called the "Wikipedia of maps." More than 1 million people have signed up to contribute to OpenStreetMap, making it the world's largest o ...
  • The Crowd and the Mob: Opportunities, Cautions ...
    Recent events in Boston highlight both the potential and hazards of ever-present cameras. In the hours following the April 15 bombing, law enforcement agencies called upon commercial businesses and the public to submit relevant footage from surveillance cameras and mobile devices. While the tsun ...
  • Want an Affordable Infrared Camera? Give to Pu ...
    This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Don Blair. Public Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our fourth Kickstarter today, "Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project." The idea for the Infragram was originally conceptualized during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Way We Are - Lawmakers Question Collection ...
    Democratic and Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary have questioned why the National Security Agency is collecting the phone records of millions of Americans, when the majority of the calls are not relevant to any terrorist investigations.The focus ...
  • The Way We Are - Are Sounds Of The Caucasus Sh ...
    In the 10th century, an Arab geographer described the Caucasus region as a "mountain of tongues." The nickname has stuck to this day, likely because of how well it captures two of the area's main features: its dramatic cliffs and its array of languages. But new and controversial research by a U. ...
  • Afghanistan on Edge - Afghanistan's Only Olymp ...
    Afghanistan's first and only Olympic medal winner, Rohullah Nekpa, united a country in celebration and pride after his sporting heroics at the Beijing and London Games. But now the taekwondo icon is boycotting the sport's world championships to protest discrimination within the sport in his home ...
  • Book Excerpt - Excerpt from 'The Brotherhood: ...
    Here is an exclusive excerpt from Chapter Three of my new book, The Brotherhood: America's Next Great Enemy. The chapter is called "A History of Violence" and examines the MB's violent history and role as godfathers of modern day Islamic terrorism.This excerpt begins with my face-to-face intervi ...
  • Broken Economy - The Next Shoe
    In the summer of 2005 I was invited to speak ­in relation to energy markets--at a conference in Lausanne convened by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy on the subject of 'Economic Terrorism'.  Essentially this conference concerned the resilience of financial rather than physical infr ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The Speech Obama Should Give On Keystone XL B ...
    Bill Henderson writes a speech for Obama
  • The Downwinders : Fracking Ourselves To Deat ...
    Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado, or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty b ...
  • Boston, Brazil And Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, ...
    The official purpose of Hagel’s recent visit to Israel was to finalize US arms sales to Israel and other countries which total about $10 billion. Knowing how such weapons have been used in the past, one can hardly appreciate the ‘sarcasm’ in Eric Rush’s tweet of wanting to ‘kill them all.’ Per t ...
  • From Lidice To Deir Yassin: The Unbearable Sha ...
    The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral grounds, they serve to demonstrate that profound human lessons o ...
  • Postcard From The End Of America : San Jose B ...
    Each of my visit to San Jose is a kind of homecoming, for my father, brother and, uh, absolutely composed, considerate and non-screaming stepmother are still here, and have lived here for decades. Though I have no sentimental attachment to this place, I also don't hate it. Personal crap can be t ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • New Documents Reveal IRS Gave False Testimony ...
    IRS documents recently made public by Congress reveal that claims made under oath by IRS employees in the Z STREET case were false and further reveal, in the words of the IRS and in documents produced by the IRS, that Z STREET’s claim against it is correct: the IRS engaged in viewpoint discrim ...
  • Colorado Town To Vote On Putting a Bounty On D ...
    The town of Deer Trail Colorado is located in south-southeastern Arapahoe County. Deer Trail is situated along Interstate 70, approximately 55 miles east of Denver. The population was 546 at the 2010 census. Dear Trail bills itself as the home of the world's first rodeo...the town&nbs ...
  • SUMMER SCANDALABRA >IRS Chief Council's Office ...
    If you think the heat wave is cause people to sweat in  Washington DC, "you ain't seen nothing yet!" Just wait till tomorrow's House Oversight Committee hearing.  In anticipation of tomorrows testimony, Chairman Darrell Issa released a letter (embedded below) sent to Acting IRS Comm ...
  • Kathleen Sebelius Disgusting Racial Pandering ...
    Secretary of Health and Human Service Kathleen Sebielius spoke at the NAACP convention yesterday and gave one of the most disgustingly pandering, racial inciting speech I have ever read. Sebielius likened the opposition to Obamacare to the racists and segregationists of the 1950s and 1960 ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: SHARKNADO 2 Approved-Attack On ...
    Good News Twitter Fans...here comes Sharknado 2. The Syfy sensation which aired last week provided an entertaining evening of twitter memes. The "b" movie created such a buzz that Syfy has green-lit a sequel- Sharknado 2 (working title)the movie will be produced  by The Asylum who create ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbine damaged by fire
    TOWN OF LOMIRA — Fire damaged a large wind turbine last weekend in the Forward Energy wind farm between Knowles and LeRoy in Dodge County. The fire was reported at 12:34 a.m. Saturday at W2397 County Trunk K, according to the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office. The Forward Energy wind farm was constr ...
  • Spencerville votes to oppose wind farms
    SPENCERVILLE – Spencerville’s village council unanimously passed a resolution Monday night voicing its opposition to a grid of large wind turbines and transmission lines near the village. The resolution has no legal authority, but the council “strongly opposes the development and/or constr ...
  • County implements moratorium; Moratorium enact ...
    No more wind farms will be developed in Howard County in the foreseeable future. The Howard County commissioners on Monday voted to enact a county-wide, indefinite moratorium on any additional wind farms, with the exception of the already-approved E.ON Climate & Renewables project in easter ...
  • Where’s the windfall from turbine develo ...
    THUMB AREA — The financial windfall taxing entities were to reap from wind farms that was touted by a developer may be turning into hot air. When the first wind farm in Tuscola County was being developed by NextEra Energy Resources LLC, company representatives met with Tuscola County Advertiser ...
  • Wind energy encounters problems and resistance ...
    Germany plans to build 60,000 new wind turbines — in forests, in the foothills of the Alps and even in protected environmental areas. But local residents are up in arms, costs are skyrocketing and Germany’s determination to phase out nuclear power is in danger. The German village of ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...
  • Teaching Web video: Everything you need to kno ...
    In non-TV news organizations today, we see mostly one of two choices for video (or both of these): iPhone (more than any other phone or small device) DSLR (various models) All the smaller video cams seem to have fallen out of favor. Only TV and feature-length documentary makers use high-end ...
  • Code for journalism students: Presentations
    In the semester now ending, I taught a course in coding for journalism students. You can see the detailed course schedule online. Here are all the PowerPoints I showed in that class. You can view them on SlideShare or download them there. Beginning jQuery – Part 1 – Part 2 Intro ...
  • Top 10 posts this month
    These are the most-viewed posts on this blog in the past 30 days: 10 examples of bespoke article design and scrolling goodness 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling Advice to journalism students: Forget grad school! Recording phone interviews: A solution that works Get started with Web coding. ...

Facing South

  • Watchdog slams Duke Energy's 'sweetheart deal' ...
    Democracy North Carolina criticizes the $99,000 fine that's part of the proposed settlement between the utility giant and state regulators over water contamination from its coal-fired power plants as "piddling" while raising concerns about the company's political influence and close ties to Gov. ...
  • VOICES: For young black men in American cities ...
    There's also a George Zimmerman in me that I need to watch, because he's up to no good. read more
  • Fracking's democracy disconnect
    A new poll finds that the majority of North Carolina residents oppose fracking, but their elected state representatives are aggressively pushing to fast-track the controversial gas drilling technique in the state. Could a backlash be brewing? read more
  • Fresh scrutiny of Stand Your Ground laws after ...
    Civil rights and gun safety leaders are calling for the repeal of what some decry as racially biased "shoot-first" laws, which are especially popular in the South. Some are putting renewed pressure on the corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the business advocac ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A looming legal battle over h ...
    Hundreds of Eastern North Carolina residents plan to sue pork giant Smithfield Foods over the company's hog farm pollution, which they say has infringed on their property rights. Meanwhile, state lawmakers are finalizing an ALEC model bill designed to discourage such farm nuisance suits. rea ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

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Ian Welsh

  • Start from common humanity
    The basic political principle is that we all share our humanity.  Compassion starts from imaging ourselves in other people’s skin, in feeling that pain and indignities to them, are injuries to our common humanity.  An injury, an injustice, to one of us, is an injury and injustice to all of ...
  • On Islam, Religion and Love
    As with many things, I’m no expert on Islam.  Nonetheless, within the limitations of my language skills, I’ve done the reading. One of the things which seems clear from the life of the Prophet, is that he made things better for women and slaves. Zakat is meant to be used, among other ...
  • The comment thread you should read
    Is this one.  It’s one of the reasons why I have no time for Iraq war pushers.  It’s one of the reasons why one of my friends used to say that the person who will wipe a major US city off the face of the planet has probably been born. Read it.  Feel the hatred. [...]
  • Michael Hastings
    died in a car accident.  He was most famous for reporting on General McChrystal’s attitude towards civilian authority, and ending his career. Buzzfeed has a good reminiscence. There is only one rule of writing which matters: tell your readers the truth as you know it.  Michael understood t ...
  • The Syrian Civil War
    To put it simply, Assad is most likely going to win this.  Hizbollah has clearly turned the facts on the ground for him, and Syrian public opinion appears to have decisively turned against the rebels.  10% support is too low, it can keep them going low-grade, but it’s not sufficient to win ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • US: Hunt for mystery GM wheat hots up
    Nature – It has been nearly three months since an Oregon farmer discovered unapproved transgenic wheat in a commercial wheat field, triggering bans on imports of US wheat into Japan and South Korea. The harvest season has now begun, and with the contamination proving to be an isolated even ...
  • Formula One: Bernie Ecclestone charged with br ...
    ABC – Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been indicted on bribery charges by German prosecutors and faces a trial in Munich which could end the motor racing magnate’s 40-year-reign. The 82-year-old could face a prison sentence after being charged by Munich prosecutors in relation ...
  • Police attacked with petrol bombs in fresh unr ...
    ABC -Police were attacked with petrol bombs and a French press photographer was assaulted during a fifth night of violence on the streets of Belfast. The clashes began on Friday after police tried to enforce a decision banning the Protestant Orange Order from marching through a Catholic republic ...
  • German investor confidence in surprise fall
    DW – German investors have shown themselves to be surprisingly pessimistic about the state of Europe’s biggest economy. Polled by ZEW research group, they appear disappointed mainly by the latest trade and output figures.   Germany’s widely watched investor sentiment index fell by 2. ...
  • The Rise Of Teh Machines – DARPA’s Next ...
    Open Your Eyes News – DARPA, the technological arm of the Pentagon, unveiled its latest humanoid robot this week, demonstrating how the 7ft 4? tall beast can dodge obstacles and act intelligently to stay upright, even when knocked off balance by heavy weights. The robot, named ATLAS, presu ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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libcom

  • 100 years of anarchism in New Zealand celebrat ...
    100 years ago today, the Freedom Group was formed in Wellington, New Zealand. the activism of Josephs and others like him, whether from the soapbox or through the mailbox, played a key role in the ...
  • Organize to resist anti-gay attacks and violen ...
    mark-carson-memorial.jpg Summer’s here and that means celebrating; from annual Pride festivals and street parties to the recent Supreme Court’s striking down of the Federal anti-gay Defense of Marria ...
  • Abahlali baseMjondolo activist Nkululeko Gwala ...
    Nkululeko Gwala was assassinated on 26 June 2013. He is the third Abahlali baseMjondolo activist to be murdered this year and the fourth housing activist to be murdered in Durban this year. read more
  • From Sweden to Turkey: The uneven dynamics of ...
    turkey.jpg Short text about the current dynamics of what we have called "the era of riots". It was written before the events in Brazil. These events include the 4th of the dynamics in the &q ...
  • Turkey: The cure for state terror isn't democracy
    turkey-brazil.jpg The article that follows was written by the comrades of our section in Turkey – a young section, both in the history of the ICC and in the age of its members. Both as revolutionaries ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Good Will Lacking – Why Shouldn’t ...
    If there’s one thing our dysfunctional government excels at, sending out mixed signals in order to paralyze and confuse We The People has got to be at the top of the list. On one hand, “National Security” is something most Americans agree with.  However, when used as a smoke sc ...
  • The Truth About V for Vendetta
    Its quite amazing how the Edomites of Hollywood make heroes out of the most despicable of anti-Christian villains. Such is the case with the movie V for Vendetta. A number of individuals showed up at our 4th of July NSA protest sporting the Guy Fawkes masks popularized by the movie.  These well- ...
  • Snowden Loses Credibility by Spinning the Truth
    I smell a rat.  A BIG RAT, as a matter of fact.   How is it that a mid-level NSA computer CONTRACTOR such as Edward Snow-job Snowden is suddenly now such an expert on UFOs in addition to illegal wiretaps, PRISM, and data collections????? Check it out: CARACAS, Venezuela  – Edward Snowden, the le ...
  • Report from Iron Mountain
    Take the time to learn the truth. While long, this video is a “must-see” – come back and view it often.  
  • Why Protest NSA Utah?
    MY TOP 5 REASONS TO OPPOSE NSA UTAH By A. True Ott, PhD 1. WAR. On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry forcefully declared: “Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace, but there is no Peace. The WAR is actually begun!” It is often very difficult for humans to separate WAR from the daily BATTLES against evil tha ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Eliminating Tree-Tree Roots from a Brick Building
    Getting to the Root of the Problem Do You Need Help with a Tree Growing in your Brick Wall? Scotts Contracting will get to the Root of the Problem! Photo collection of Removing a Tree from a Masonry Brick Wall in StLouis and repairing the damage the Tree Roots had caused  to the Brick Building. ...

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Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Economist's Question on Obama's Promise of ...
    Nicholas C. Arguimbau Houston, The Economist "Secret government: America against democracy," http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/07/secret-government is a compelling and scary analysis of secret government in America - a nation that has become a caricature of ithe open govern ...
  • The Death Merchants of Tel Aviv
    http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/the-death-merchants-of-tel-aviv.htmlBy Gilad Atzmon Haaretz reported today As of the end of 2012, there were “6,684 individuals dealing with security exports in 1,006 companies and 312 independent businesses. The Israeli Defence Export Controls Agency issu ...
  • Snowden in Russia
    by Stephen Lendman Snowden remains in Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport transit zone limbo. Russia's his safest option. Traveling elsewhere's too risky. It's hazardous. He's seeking temporary asylum. Odds are he'll get it. Moscow won't extradite him. It has no treaty obligation to do so. Washingto ...
  • Targeting Free Expression in Israel
    by Stephen Lendman During previous Knesset session proceedings, MKs Ofir Akunis and Faina Kirshenbaum legislation to limit NGO funding was defeated. Last week, MKs Ayelet Shaked and Robert Ilatov proposed their version. They call it a "softer version of the NGO bill." It's harsh, not soft. It ...
  • Israel Waging Undeclared War on Syria
    by Stephen Lendman Israel reflects the worst of rogue state governance. It's contemptuous of international laws, treaties, conventions, its own statutes, and High Court decisions. It's out-of-control. It's unaccountable. It makes its own rules. It maintains lawless militarized occupation harsh ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Panel to review Ontario's minimum wage
    The Ontario government has named a six-person panel to study a possible increase to the province's minimum wage, which has been frozen at $10.25 an hour since 2010. Read the news story about the panel here. CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes in this blog post that Ontario accounts for ...
  • SaskNotes: The Government of Canada's Leg ...
      Beaverlodge Lake, a 57 square kilometer water body, and three other watersheds in northern Saskatchewan are seriously contaminated with uranium and selenium. Most of the contamination dates back to the 1952-1982 period when Eldorado Nuclear Ltd., a federal crown corporation, operated uranium ...
  • Violence against women: the absence of data an ...
    A study released today, authored by CCPA research associate Kate McInturff, says that progress on ending violence against women in Canada is stalled by the absence of a coherent national policy and consistent information about the levels of that violence. The study estimates the combined cost of ...
  • Thanks for the feedback!
    Recently we asked you for some feedback. We posted a survey with one question (well, actually multiple questions disguised as one): Please share your thoughts about where the CCPA should go from here... What do you think the recent provincial election means for progressives in BC? What should th ...
  • We’ve got a new look!
    We are excited to announce the launch of the CCPA’s newly redesigned website! Aside from a spiffy new look, we hope you’ll find the site easier to navigate, and more fully integrated with our blogs and social media channels. Rest assured that the website still has the same comprehensive research ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

  • Will Ohio Be Fracking's Radioactive Dumping Gr ...
  • Robert Kennedy Jr says British Petroleum has w ...
    June 4, 2013 12:35 am theunhivedmind 1 Comment ‘BP wrecked our Gulf’ says Robert Kennedy Jr BP is “getting off lightly” for the Gulf of Mexico disaster, a prominent member of America’s most famous political dynasty has claimed. A file picture released by the US Coas ...
  • Denver to start charging groups who do yoga or ...
    July 17, 2013 (NaturalNews) Fitness groups that hold classes at public parks, green spaces, and other multi-use public areas in Colorado's capital city of Denver could soon have to pay user fees to the city in order to continue using them, according to new proposals. Paid exercise programs l ...
  • BPs Extinction Level Event! Experts: 'We Have ...
    April 1, 2013 Despite the fact that dead dolphins and manatees are STILL showing up in droves along BOTH coasts of Florida, experts have been advised that they are NOT ALLOWED to discuss their findings due to the ongoing court cases involving BP. Since I am not beholden to BP nor to corrupt poli ...
  • Wal-Mart pays $81.6 million settlement for env ...
    June 12, 2013 (NaturalNews) Wal-Mart is not only the world's largest retailer, it is apparently one of the nation's biggest polluters as well, as evidenced by a massive fine levied recently by the federal government following an investigation of "environmental crimes" which las ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Greens Should Support Coal-Killing Natural Gas ...
    For decades, natural gas was considered a highly attractive alternative to coal. It produced fewer greenhouse gas emissions, resulted in far less toxic pollution of landscapes and waterways, and could be a viable bridge to a zero-carbon future.
  • Road to Daegu Series: Modernization of the Rus ...
    Siemens “Road to Daegu” activities leading up to the World Energy Congress hosted a Round Table discussion in Russia, where the panel discussed the country’s energy market.
  • Germany's Clean Energy Push: What Can the Worl ...
    Known as the Energiewende, or "energy transition", Germany's campaign to move to renewable power is ambitious, massively popular at home, and by many accounts, quite successful. With 25% of Germany's electricity currently being sourced from solar, wind, and biomass generation and a target of 80% ...
  • Electricity Prices Soar Past $200 per Megawatt ...
    With a heatwave settling across the northeastern and Midwestern United States, electricity systems across some of the nation's most densely populated areas strained to meet peak demands today, sending power prices spiking.
  • GOP Staffer Uses Pseudonym To Call on GOP to A ...
    The good news is that someone in the GOP did say it. The bad news is they had a bag over their head. One might call this a nom de plume of smoke. Or Profiles in Discourage.

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Professor Yochai Benkler's Testimony at Bradle ...
    The last was Yochai Benkler, a Harvard professor who is the author of a widely-cited paper on the role WikiLeaks plays in what he terms "the networked fourth estate." In his testimony for the defense today, he described Wikileaks as having played a legitimate role in a new world of journalism; h ...
  • Herbicide company wages campaign to discredit ...
    Herbicide co wages campaign to discredit scientists, digs into personal life of Berkeley prof, taps Steven Milloy [PJ: They must have gone to SCO School Article begins: "To protect profits threatened by a lawsuit over its controversial herbicide atrazine, Syngenta Crop Protection launched an ag ...
  • NSA affair: Ex-President Carter condemned U.S. ...
    Google Translate: Previously, the Democrat had been very critical of the practices of U.S. intelligence. "I think the invasion of privacy has gone too far," Carter told CNN. "And I think that is why the secrecy was excessive." Overlooking the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said Carter, whose r ...
  • Giants of Science: Lise Meitner, involuntary m ...
    The object of their research was to be the greatest topic any of them ever set about trying to explain: nuclear fission. It was Meitner who saw that their results, which saw uranium atoms somehow become lighter when smashed with neutrons, implied that the atoms were in fact breaking up into smal ...
  • ACLU warns of mass tracking through license pl ...
    In a new report, "You Are Being Tracked: How License Plate Readers Are Being Used to Record Americans' Movements," the ACLU discusses the data culled from license plate scanners - cameras mounted on patrol cars, overpasses and elsewhere to record your license plate number and location at a given ...

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Headline of the Day
    Bank Of America: From Loss To Profit Thanks To Mark-To-Unicorn
  • NASA 3D printing lowers costs, speeds developm ...
    NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne of West Palm Beach, Fla., recently finished testing a rocket engine injector made through additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing. “NASA recognizes that on Earth and potentially in space, additive manufacturing can be game-changing for new mission opportunities, ...
  • SHADE – Solar Home Adapting for Desert Equilibrium
    Jetson Greene profiles the SHADE house, which is designed for desert living. It’s 100% powered by solar with a number of unique design features, including vertical screen, PV panels as a shading canopy, “adaptive spaces, staggered studs, humidity buffering, hydronic micro capillary t ...
  • Nitrate polluted water leads to birth defects ...
    Nitrates seeping into groundwater from fertilizer, animal waste, and other sources in agricultural areas greatly increase the chances of birth defects, says a study from Texas A&M. An extensive new study confirms a long-suspected link between crippling birth defects and the nitrate contamina ...
  • The national security state and big tech are a ...
    “Behind every great fortune there is a great crime,” said Balzac. This certainly applies to Silicon Valley complicity with the national security state. The NSA documents that Snowden leaked clearly show the sickening complicity of Silicon Valley and Microsoft with the national securi ...

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frogblog

  • Last few days for the Māori Electoral Option
    There’s less than one week left for any New Zealanders of Māori descent to choose which type of electoral roll to be on for voting in the next two General Elections – the Māori roll or the General roll. The Option closes on Wednesday 24 July. The option is currently only open once every five [...]
  • Day two of Youth Parliament
    Yesterday was a pretty exciting day in the world of Youth Parliament, but today might have been even better… The Youth MPs finally got to experience the House, with Question Time, a legislative debate on the mock bill to increase youth participation in elections, a general debate, and notices of ...
  • Time for Nigeria (& Africa) to Support Crimina ...
    It’s time New Zealand spoke out more, and publicly, in support of the International Criminal Court. Eleven years old now, the ICC has 122 States Parties – an extraordinary development in one decade.  And it has laboured long and hard to bring individuals to justice under international criminal l ...
  • Joyce misleads on ICT
    Yesterday Steven Joyce launched another glossy report into the ICT industry. The ICT Sector report highlights strengths of the industry and challenges such as finding enough skilled workers but the report fails to recommend any steps the Government could take and in fact misleads how Government ...
  • Day one of Youth Parliament
    Youth Parliament officially started today, with 121 Youth MPs and 20 members of the Youth Press Gallery arriving in Wellington for Youth Parliament – including the 14 wonderful Green Youth MPs. After a pōwhiri and official photo, the serious business started after lunch when I and MPs from ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Economics and Armchair Psychology
    Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Not primitive: Short film showcases proud life ...
    A new 30-second short shows that tribal peoples like the Dongria Kondh are proud, not primitive. © SurvivalA new short film showing the richness of tribal peoples’ lives has been released as part of the Proud Not Primitive campaign in India.  The 30-second short aims to challenge prevaili ...
  • Tanks move in around Earth's most threatened tribe
    Brazil's military has moved in to stop illegal logging around the land of Earth's most threatened tribe. © Exército BrasileiroSurvival International has received reports that Brazil’s military has launched a major ground operation against illegal logging around the land of the Aw ...
  • Sacred object handed back to Hopi tribe after ...
    The katsina was handed over to Hopi chairman and religious leaders by lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber and Survival International's Jean Patrick Razon (no photography was allowed during the handover itself).© SurvivalIn a historic handover ceremony, an object sacred to the Hopi people has bee ...
  • Brazilian Indians block railway over health chaos
    The Carajás railway threatens the health and livelihood of Earth's most threatened tribe. © Sarah Shenker/SurvivalIndians from seven tribes in Brazil have blocked a controversial railway, demanding reforms to the indigenous health service, which has fallen into a state of chaos. Approximat ...
  • INDIA: 'Proud Not Primitive' campaign challeng ...
    The 'Proud Not Primitive' campaigns challenges the prevailing view in India that tribal peoples, like the Dongria Kondh, are 'backwards' and 'primitive'.© SurvivalA groundbreaking new campaign has been launched in India to challenge the deep-seated prejudice that tr ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • 213 Women Who Took Gardasil Suffered Permanent ...
    from realfarmacy.com: Naomi Snell, a 28-year-old woman in Melbourne, Australia, is leading a class-action civil lawsuit against drug maker Merck after suffering autoimmune and neurological complications following injections with the HPV vaccine, Gardasil. After receiving the first o ...
  • We Did The March, Now Join The Revolt. #Monsan ...
    from MonsantoVideoRevolt.com: At this point in history, we have the unique opportunity to reclaim our food supply from biotech juggernauts like Monsanto. We have the ability to remove the mutated GMO garbage from our dinner tables, and demand that activism turn into anti-Monsanto legislati ...
  • ACCC directs water companies to remove ‘organi ...
    from apperspective.net: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has directed seven suppliers of bottled water to remove ‘organic’ claims from labelling and marketing material. An eighth supplier has withdrawn its product from sale. The changes come as a result ...
  • Ag-Gag in Action: National Geographic Photogra ...
    from BlackListedNews.com: Ag-gag laws are cropping up like Whac-a-Mole across the states in an attempt to protect large-scale farming and cattle operations from those pesky activists who find out about abuse and cruelty.  Instead of addressing the systemic issue of transparency ...
  • US Military Tracks #GMO Campaigners and Indepe ...
    from sustainablepulse.com: The largest German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung has today published a shocking article that reveals how Monsanto,  the US Military and the US government track both anti-GMO Campaigners and Independent Scientists who study the dangers of GMOs. ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 40 Stats That Prove The U.S. Economy Has Alrea ...
    The "coming economic collapse" has already been happening.  You see, the truth is that the economic collapse is not a single event.  It has already started, it is happening right now, and it will accelerate during the years ahead.  The statistics in this article show very clearly that the U.S. e ...
  • The “McDonald’s Budget”: Lau ...
    Can you support a family on $2,000 a month?  Recently, McDonald's and Visa teamed up to launch a website that is intended to help employees of McDonald's manage their money.  The aspect of the website that is getting a tremendous amount of national attention is the "McDonald's Budget" which is a ...
  • A Nightmare Scenario
    Most people have no idea that the U.S. financial system is on the brink of utter disaster.  If interest rates continue to rise rapidly, the U.S. economy is going to be facing an economic crisis far greater than the one that erupted back in 2008.  At this point, the economic paradigm that the Fed ...
  • Goodbye Full-Time Jobs, Hello Part-Time Jobs, ...
    A fundamental shift is taking place in the U.S. economy.  In fact, this transition is rapidly picking up momentum and is in danger of becoming an avalanche.  The percentage of full-time jobs in our economy is steadily declining and the percentage of part-time jobs is steadily increasing.  This i ...
  • Love Your Neighbor As You Love Yourself: An Ap ...
    Whatever you may think about the George Zimmerman trial, the truth is that it is yet another example that shows very clearly how divided America is at this point.  I was hesitant to write anything about the Zimmerman trial today, because it seems like the more people talk about it the more divid ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

Facing South

  • Watchdog slams Duke Energy's 'sweetheart deal' ...
    Democracy North Carolina criticizes the $99,000 fine that's part of the proposed settlement between the utility giant and state regulators over water contamination from its coal-fired power plants as "piddling" while raising concerns about the company's political influence and close ties to Gov. ...
  • VOICES: For young black men in American cities ...
    There's also a George Zimmerman in me that I need to watch, because he's up to no good. read more
  • Fracking's democracy disconnect
    A new poll finds that the majority of North Carolina residents oppose fracking, but their elected state representatives are aggressively pushing to fast-track the controversial gas drilling technique in the state. Could a backlash be brewing? read more
  • Fresh scrutiny of Stand Your Ground laws after ...
    Civil rights and gun safety leaders are calling for the repeal of what some decry as racially biased "shoot-first" laws, which are especially popular in the South. Some are putting renewed pressure on the corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the business advocac ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A looming legal battle over h ...
    Hundreds of Eastern North Carolina residents plan to sue pork giant Smithfield Foods over the company's hog farm pollution, which they say has infringed on their property rights. Meanwhile, state lawmakers are finalizing an ALEC model bill designed to discourage such farm nuisance suits. rea ...

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • [OT] Red Hat's Seth Vidal is Killed in a Tragi ...
    Lead developer and primary contributor to YUM (a package-management utility for RPM based Linux OSes such as Red Hat), Seth Vidal, has been tragically killed in an accident in Durham, North Carolina. He was hit by a car from behind while travelling northbound in the 1700 block of Hillan ...
  • XMir will be Default in Ubuntu 13.10, Fallback ...
    Canonical is moving faster than anybody would have thought. Mir was introduced as a proof of concept display-server earlier this year, which Canonical plans to deploy slowly across their products. Now they claim that Mir is good enough to be deployed in the next major release, Ubuntu 13.10 ie. ...
  • XSensors: Lets you Monitor CPU Temperatures in ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" has its share of issues, at least for me. One of the most annoying one being the return of overheating bug (in Intel Core i3 hardware) which plagued me during the Ubuntu 11.04 release cycle (if I remember it correctly). In our previous post discussing things to d ...
  • 30 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 ...
    And here we go again. Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail was released almost a month ago and unlike previous releases, this has been more of a silent affair. Mainstream blogs and news websites didn't cover much about the release. Ubuntu 13.04 is mostly an incrementally updated release and th ...
  • US Military Academies using Ubuntu for Trainin ...
    According to The Washington Post, U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks which control almost everything these days. And guess what, they are being trained ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • THE END OF THE LIE: GERMAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OF ...
    GERMANY S DOUBTFUL ROLE IN CLOSING THE GREEK NATIONAL BROADCASTER REVEALED MILITARY OCCUPATION OF GREECE NEXT AS FAILED AUSTERITY POLICIES DEVASTATE GREECE? WILL IRELAND, SPAIN AND ITALY ALSO HAVE THEIR NATIONAL MEDIA SHUT DOWN BY THE EU AND GERMANS ON THE PRETEXT OF HAVING TO SAVE MONEY? *MERKE ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    by Joe Martino Hemp has been making a lot of noise lately, especially with the growing awareness surrounding the use of hemp oil for treating cancer. Although the word ‘hemp’ still often gets confused and lumped into the same definition as Cannabis, a similar but psychoactive plant, it’s importa ...
  • Mega Banks Go After Credit Unions
    Liberty Bliztkrieg The rampant hypocrisy in the position of the mega banks on the issue of credit unions is so glaring it’s almost hard to believe. Then again, there is nothing we shouldn’t assume when it comes to mega bank criminality and culturally destructive behavior after these last few yea ...
  • CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Polio ...
    CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Polio Vaccine Contaminated With Cancer Virus Jul 17 • Articles, Big Pharma, Vaccines • 956 Views • 1 Comments 34909 99 369 34 38 Share37091 VaccineThe CDC has quickly removed a page from their website, which is now cached here, admitting that more than 98 ...
  • Corridors of powder: Drug scandal at the House ...
    Posted by James μολὼν λαβέ on July 14, 2013 at 3:07pm in Current News/Events View Discussions Evidence of class A drug use detected in UK’s seat of power Chemical swabs found substance on toilet seats and hair dryers Drug was also found in toilets close to MPs’ offices, away from pub ...
  • In Texas, Tampons Are A Bigger Threat Than Gun ...
    Texas makes no secret of the war being waged on women, declaring feminine hygiene products off-limits at the Texas state Capitol building. As the Texas senate gets ready for a second vote on the stifling and unreasonable abortion bill, women of all walks of life are making their way into the bui ...

Veterans Today

  • Out of character and out of time, but finally ...
    Well, hell -- if the world's oceans actually just rolled off the edge of the world in the pre-Columbus cosmology, this view of Niagara Falls is what it might look like.
  • How Much does Israel Cost the Average American?
    By Alcibiades Bilzerian   While so many Americans are subsisting on food stamps, losing their homes, and accumulating credit card debt they will never be able to pay off, the US is giving Israel $3 billion in direct foreign aid every year and, according to Congressman James Traficant, anoth ...
  • Saudis’ Unprecedented Break with Washington ov ...
    One of the least commented aspects of ousting Egypt’s Morsi is the defiant act of the Saudi Royal House in backing the ouster of the Brotherhood and supporting the military restoration. The Saudi move is unprecedented in its open defiance of White House declared backing for the Muslim Brotherhoo ...
  • EU Hits Israel
    Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein- Proverbs 26:27   Many years ago, Henry Kissinger said that Israel doesn’t have foreign policy. Everything is decided upon inner and personal issues. In the third week of July 2013, an extraordinary example of this truth emerged after Prime Minis ...
  • Targeting Free Expression in Israel
    During previous Knesset session proceedings, MKs Ofir Akunis and Faina Kirshenbaum legislation to limit NGO funding was defeated.

electric politics

  • Après 1947
    The watershed 1947 National Security Act provided a post-war full employment guarantee to the U.S. arms industry. Indeed, it succeeded so well — with no real changes since then in the apparatus it devised — that today U.S. spending for military purposes bears no meaningful relationsh ...
  • Worst Cases
    As the war in Syria grinds on the children of Washington want to get credit for doing something. Arming the "good guys" and opposing the "bad guy" seems to be the path of least resistance. A pity, that, because throwing arms into Syria will only prolong the bloodshed indefinitely... Much better, ...
  • On Recognizing Geographical Realities
    The question of when a country is not a country may seem, for outsiders, little more than an abstract principle or an academic argument. But for those who dwell in the imaginary state the issue may well be about abject poverty or, indeed, life and death. The Congo being the most extreme example ...
  • Eating Healthy
    It's fair to say that there's more we don't know about food than what we do know. And it is the absolute truth that we don't know about the potential effects of thousands of additives routinely incorporated into processed comestibles. Prudence, then, suggests sticking to natural foods where poss ...
  • A Real World Sanity Test
    It would be stupid for China and Japan to again go to war. Stupid, but not impossible. Both claim a small set of islets in the East China Sea — about seven square kilometers of rock — called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku by Japan. Recently Japan, which has possession, fiddled w ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • AEN needs casino fundraiser volunteers
    Position:  Casino volunteers Organization:  Alberta Environmental Network ...
  • Career Opportunities with the Pembina Institute
    Pembina Institute The Pembina Institute is currently seeking to fill a number of job opportunities in Calgary and Edmonton. Visit the Pembina Institute website for details: Director of Finance and Administration (Calgary) Directo ...
  • Cheap Power At What Cost?
    Carbon Conversations 10 Jun 2013 - 07:30 A Panel Discussion on the Health Impacts of Alberta's Heavy Reliance on Coal-Fired Power Plants doors open 7pm, panel begins at 7:3 ...
  • Bike Month
    Velofest Edmonton League and Organization (VELO) 1 Jun 2013 (All day) - 30 Jun 2013 (All day) June is Bike Month in Edmonton. Check out the Bikeology website for events throughout t ...
  • EcoLiving Tour
    EcoLiving Events 8 Jun 2013 - 09:00 - 15:00 From the EcoLiving website: This is a great opportunity for home buyers to see the technology installed and working; ask questions a ...

Stop NATO

  • Thirteen Years After Air War, NATO Absorbing S ...
    Tanjug News Agency July 17, 2013 General Ljubisa Dikovic met with NATO General Mieczyslaw Bieniek Some of NATO’s handiwork in 1999 BELGRADE: Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff General Ljubisa Dikovic talked with NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (DSACT) Gen ...
  • NATO Aircraft Again Violate Pakistani Airspace
    Dawn July 17, 2014 Nato aircraft violate Pakistani airspace Zahir Shah Sherazi PESHAWAR: Two aircraft of Nato forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday evening violated airspace of neighbouring Pakistan by infiltrating into its boundaries by several kilometers. Intelligence sources told Dawn.com that t ...
  • 20,000 U.S. Troops Descend On Australia For Mi ...
    Stars and Stripes July 17, 2013 20,000 US troops descend on Australia for training By Matthew M. Burke SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan: Talisman Saber 2013 — a joint U.S. and Australian military and humanitarian exercise — kicked off this week as approximately 20,000 U.S. troops descended on Australia’ ...
  • Ukraine: NATO Starts Largest-Ever Military Edu ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization July 16, 2013 Ukraine modernising its military education ==== So far, DEEPs [Defence Education Enhancement Programmes] have been set up with Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, the Republic of Moldova, Mongolia, Ukraine and ...
  • Stendhal: You’ve got to learn the business bef ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Stendhal and Byron: Military leprosy; fronts of brass and feet of clay ==== Stendhal From The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff “We’re beginning to hear the infantry fire now,” said the vivandiere, whi ...

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Intel Hub

  • Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones
    JG Vibes | The Obama administration finally admits that their drone program has targeted US citizens.The post Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Department of Homeland Security Teaching Kids ...
    Cassius Methyl | Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. But are these post disaster relief camps, or military internment camps? The post Department of ...
  • JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffin ...
    author | An interesting controversy over the JFK assassination has erupted at the Huffington Post.The post JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffington Post appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump
    Cop Block | Long story short, the supervisor showed up and made the cop give me back my pump. The ambulance showed up and I went with them because I was then bleeding where the port is.The post Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can ...
    Andrew Puhanic | An exciting and new water treatment breakthrough has been announced that will now make the removal of fluoride from the drinking water supplies of the world’s poorest people more affordable than ever.The post Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can Be Used To Remove ...

FRS

  • What Will It Take to Free Our Political Prisoners?
    July 16, 2013 By Liz Derias The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a revolutionary organization based in the u.s. that fights to uphold the self-determination and the human rights of Black people in the world, has been working to free political prisoners for over three decades. The organizati ...
  • Jose Campos Torres, and Oscar Grant, Trayvon M ...
    Gil Scott-Heron — Jose Campos Torres, and a Visual Poem for Oscar Grant Gil Scott Heron’s “Jose Campos Torres” (1978) and video by TripleTruth Trayvon Martin (no justice, just us) Inspired by Gil Scott Heron’s “Jose Campos Torres” Brooklyn born lyricist/ ...
  • The Five Most Important Demands from the Calif ...
    Thousands-strong strike is the latest chapter in the state’s unfolding prison crisis http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-five-most-important-demands-from-the-california-prison-hunger-strike-20130716 By Ryan Devereaux July 16, 2013 For more than a week, the California prison syste ...
  • How the System Worked – The US v. Trayvo ...
    July 15, 2013, http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/15/the-us-v-trayvon-martin/ by ROBIN D.G. KELLEY In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, Senator Rand Paul, Florida State Representative Dennis Baxley (also ...
  • How the System Worked – The US v. Trayvo ...
    July 15, 2013, http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/15/the-us-v-trayvon-martin/ by ROBIN D.G. KELLEY In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, Senator Rand Paul, Florida State Representative Dennis Baxley (also ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Military Responds to Oklahoma Tornado
    The Oklahoma National Guard, joined by Air Force personnel, are on location in Moore, OK, following an EF4 tornado that struck the community yesterday. At least 250 Army and Air National Guard soldiers and airmen have been dispatched.Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: May 21, 2013
  • Watching Tornadoes and Severe Weather Go Right ...
    Not everyone here in Oklahoma is sitting outside in a lawn chair, or chasing tornadoes in their cars, some of us are trying to be prepared, calm children, and be safe.Contributor: M.D. Weems Published: May 20, 2013
  • Super Cell Tornados Tearing Through Oklahoma
    Super cell tornadoes have been carving paths of destruction throughout Oklahoma since Sunday afternoon.Contributor: Marie Lowe Published: May 20, 2013
  • Congress Wants the Abrams, but the Army Says ' ...
    There’s a reason that there’s a huge bloated Pentagon budget, and it really doesn’t involve the Pentagon. It’s about Congress and the private sector pushing for products the government doesn’t want or need.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 29, 2013
  • The Red Line Crossed, Obama Now Must Step Up i ...
    According to Politico, the Obama administration has acknowledged that Syria has crossed “the red line” it said it must not cross and has dropped sarin gas on its own people. The bluff having been called, the White House is mulling what to do next.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 26, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • Scans Of Sex Addicts' Brains Call Diagnosis In ...
    In a new study, "hypersexual" brains don't respond to sexual images the same way that drug addicts' brains respond to images of drugs. Though it's a popular excuse for celebrity infidelity, there's some debate over whether sex addiction actually exists. The latest edition of the psychiatrist's ...
  • How To Argue With The Anti-Vaccine Crazies: A ...
    In honor of Jenny McCarthy's new seat at "The View" Jenny McCarthy—savvy, telegenic, and pulchritudinous—is joining the popular daytime talk show "The View." McCarthy is a strident proponent of not vaccinating kids, as she believes vaccinations made her son autistic. Now, many scientists and s ...
  • How Do You Feel About The Tigers In Your Neigh ...
    Though everyone in surveyed Nepal towns lives equally close to tigers, a survey shows different groups feel very differently about the endangered animals nearby. In Nepal, what you think about the local tigers depends a lot on what part of town you live in, according to a new survey. The Chitwa ...
  • The World Looks Bigger Through A Virtual Child ...
    A virtual reality experiment that put adults in a virtual 4-year-old's body found changes in perception. To a four-year-old, the world is a pretty big place. Once we grow up, the playgrounds and classrooms of our childhood no longer seem as towering as they appear in our memories. The childish ...
  • 5 Amazing Antarctic Research Buildings
    New designs make suffering through freezing desolation in the name of research actually look okay. It's not easy designing buildings for the harsh conditions of Antarctica: architects have to account for ever-piling snow, freezing cold, and violent winds. A new touring exhibition opening next ...

Veterans Today

  • Out of character and out of time, but finally ...
    Well, hell -- if the world's oceans actually just rolled off the edge of the world in the pre-Columbus cosmology, this view of Niagara Falls is what it might look like.
  • How Much does Israel Cost the Average American?
    By Alcibiades Bilzerian   While so many Americans are subsisting on food stamps, losing their homes, and accumulating credit card debt they will never be able to pay off, the US is giving Israel $3 billion in direct foreign aid every year and, according to Congressman James Traficant, anoth ...
  • Saudis’ Unprecedented Break with Washington ov ...
    One of the least commented aspects of ousting Egypt’s Morsi is the defiant act of the Saudi Royal House in backing the ouster of the Brotherhood and supporting the military restoration. The Saudi move is unprecedented in its open defiance of White House declared backing for the Muslim Brotherhoo ...
  • EU Hits Israel
    Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein- Proverbs 26:27   Many years ago, Henry Kissinger said that Israel doesn’t have foreign policy. Everything is decided upon inner and personal issues. In the third week of July 2013, an extraordinary example of this truth emerged after Prime Minis ...
  • Targeting Free Expression in Israel
    During previous Knesset session proceedings, MKs Ofir Akunis and Faina Kirshenbaum legislation to limit NGO funding was defeated.

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Outlook for the rest of July
    Friday will see the heat returning to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.  On Tuesday Linton-on-Ouse recorded 28.7C (84F) making it the hottest day in our region of the year so far, and there’s a chance that temperatures on Friday, perhaps again somewhere in the Vale of York, will be slightly higher sti ...
  • At long last, summer is here
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...
  • Summer is here at last
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...
  • The climate conundrum - why aren't global temp ...
    News that carbon dioxide levels have reached 400 parts per million – a level widely thought by scientists not seen for at least 3 million years – caught the headlines last month. It comes at a time when global temperatures have remained largely flat since the late 1990s, despite climate forecast ...
  • Have weather patterns really been unusual?
    There’s been much in the press in recent days following the widely publicised ‘Unusual weather’ conference held at the Met Office.  The Independent headline was similar to others in the media, advising readers to ‘Stand by for another decade of wet summers’, continuing that the UK was in the mid ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Badluck Shinawatra's Failed Global Thai Rice E ...
    I suppose that Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra has received as much grief over her first name as Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. But oh, Yingluck, how your name has proven to be unworthy of your fate as of late! Let me explain... Since her election, Yingluck Shinawatra has continued to court ...
  • Meet America's #2 Jetliner Company...Airbus S.A.S.
    Mas oui! There's an old joke that the best car made in America is the (Ohio-made) Honda Accord. Similarly, we may soon hear that the best jetliner made in America is the (Alabama-made) Airbus A320. Following the lead of Mercedes-Benz, the multinational European concern has decided to set up shop ...
  • Latest US China-Bashing: Hog Farm Protectionism
    I am a true connoisseur of all sorts of protectionism: the more obscure and inscrutable the justifications for it, the more I savour the hypocrisy. Free trade? Get outta here! In recent years, the United States has served up some of the more ridiculous examples of what is, at heart, unvarnished ...
  • Is the 2013 US Farm Bill "WTO Legal"? Nope
    Ho hum--another US Farm Bill, another round of fat agricultural subsidies for American producers that hurt farmers in the developing world. Just as Brazil successfully sued the US for its cotton subsidies a couple of years back [DS 267], the 2013 Farm Bill under consideration does not do away wi ...
  • Forcing Argentines to Accept Evita Peron Bank ...
    It won't be easy--you'll think it strange--when I try to explain why so many Argentinians refuse to honour Evita Peron bank notes issued a year ago. Over half a century after her early death, she remains a polarizing figure in Argentina. Peronists including the present leader of Argentina (and t ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 40 Stats That Prove The U.S. Economy Has Alrea ...
    The "coming economic collapse" has already been happening.  You see, the truth is that the economic collapse is not a single event.  It has already started, it is happening right now, and it will accelerate during the years ahead.  The statistics in this article show very clearly that the U.S. e ...
  • The “McDonald’s Budget”: Lau ...
    Can you support a family on $2,000 a month?  Recently, McDonald's and Visa teamed up to launch a website that is intended to help employees of McDonald's manage their money.  The aspect of the website that is getting a tremendous amount of national attention is the "McDonald's Budget" which is a ...
  • A Nightmare Scenario
    Most people have no idea that the U.S. financial system is on the brink of utter disaster.  If interest rates continue to rise rapidly, the U.S. economy is going to be facing an economic crisis far greater than the one that erupted back in 2008.  At this point, the economic paradigm that the Fed ...
  • Goodbye Full-Time Jobs, Hello Part-Time Jobs, ...
    A fundamental shift is taking place in the U.S. economy.  In fact, this transition is rapidly picking up momentum and is in danger of becoming an avalanche.  The percentage of full-time jobs in our economy is steadily declining and the percentage of part-time jobs is steadily increasing.  This i ...
  • Love Your Neighbor As You Love Yourself: An Ap ...
    Whatever you may think about the George Zimmerman trial, the truth is that it is yet another example that shows very clearly how divided America is at this point.  I was hesitant to write anything about the Zimmerman trial today, because it seems like the more people talk about it the more divid ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Fasten your seat belts, its going to get bumpy
    Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, snarled this famous line before a party brimming with hidden undercurrents, lies, and deception, in the 1950 film, All About Eve. We are in for a bumpy few years. It’s going to get bumpier come September, when the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry and N ...
  • Vatican determined to canonise him, but JPII a ...
    The news we were dreading has been released. The magic wand will be brought out and, with an abracadabra and a puff of pink smoke, Pope John Paul II will become a saint. Pope Francis has approved a second supposed “miracle”, pretending once again that someone mumbling ritual words to ...
  • Julia Gillard’s legacy lives on in historic Ro ...
    Many victims of child sexual abuse are mourning Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s overnight defeat at the hands of the smirking, conniving, grey haired boys club. I suspect she knew all along her time at the top would be short and that she had a limited opportunity to achieve real change before she ...
  • How many Cardinals will return from Rome?
    In Australia on Friday, Cardinal “Big George” Pell luxuriously draped his massive frame up the pointy end of a plane, heading for Rome and the preliminary rounds of the title fight known as the papal conclave. There he will duck and weave and sucker punch with the best of them before ...
  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...

WL Central

  • 2013-07-18 Glenn Greenwald interview at Harper's
    Harper's published an insightful interview with Glenn Greenwald yesterday on the evolving PRISM story. It's very much worth a read. read more
  • 2013-07-17 Exchange: Edward Snowden, Senator G ...
    Gordon Humphrey served in the US Senate for 12 years and was a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the Armed Services Committee, and the Judiciary Committee. The exchange below was shared with Glenn Greenwald. read more
  • 2013-07-15 Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel ...
    Swedish sociology professor Stefan Svallfors revealed on Twitter yesterday that he has contacted the Nobel Committee in Norway, nominating Edward Snowden for the Peace Prize. read more
  • 2013-07-15 Manning supporters hopeful for dism ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org Bradley Manning supporters hopeful for dismissal of major charges On Monday, July 15, military judge Colonel Denise Lind will hear oral arguments regarding four defense motions to dismiss major charges against U ...
  • 2013-07-12 Snowden statement at Sheremetyevo
    Edward Joseph Snowden delivered a statement to human rights organizations and individuals at Sheremetyevo airport at 5pm Moscow time today, Friday 12th July. The meeting lasted 45 minutes. The human rights organizations included Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and were given the op ...

U N News

  • UN rights chief urges protection for individua ...
    A senior United Nations official today stressed the need to respect the right to privacy, using the case of United States citizen Edward Snowden to illustrate the urgent need to protect individuals who reveal human rights violations.
  • Latin American nations voice concerns to Ban o ...
    Five Latin American nations voiced their concerns to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today about the recent incident in which the aircraft carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was not allowed by several European nations to fly over their airspace on suspicion that United States whistleblower Ed ...
  • Latin American nations voice concerns to Ban o ...
    Five Latin American nations voiced their concerns to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today about the recent incident in which the aircraft carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was not allowed by several European nations to fly over their airspace on suspicion that United States whistleblower Ed ...
  • Historic journey of solar-powered plane an ins ...
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon applauded today the journey of the first solar-powered plane to cross the United States from coast to coast and declared that the historic flight could serve as an inspiration to tackle climate change and promote sustainable development.
  • UN Chief saddened by crash landing of plane in ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed sadness over Saturday's crash landing of an Asiana aircraft in San Francisco, California, sending condolences to those affected by the accident that reportedly killed two teenagers and injured scores of others.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
    Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
  • Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
    The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Wilderne ...
    End of the Frontier It hit America like a grizzly’s slap across the cheeks.  After the 1890 census, the U.S. Census Bureau said there was no more frontier.  Before, there had been a line of settlement past which was mostly wild, uninhabited country.  That line was gone in 1890.  The Killin ...
  • Cougars at Wolverine Project and Good News for ...
    From the July 2013 Wild Cat News - International Society for Endangered Cats: The Alberta Conservation Association is undertaking a field study on the wolverine in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta. Their cameras picked up some unexpected wildlife action. 24 hours, 3 very determined cats, 4,590 pho ...
  • TrekWest Blog 35: Meandering Over Sandstone S ...
    Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:08 AM PDT More Rambles in Utah’s Grandest Monument so Far When Kim Crumbo suggested that diving a hundred feet down into a Calf Creek plunge pool, here in the heart of spectacular Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, could create a fine photo opportunity for TrekWe ...
  • Rewilding Giant Tortoises in Madagascar
    by Crystal Gammon, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor First published: 28 June 2013   Two millennia ago, millions of giant tortoises roamed Madagascar, an island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa that is rich in species found nowhere else on Earth. Those tortoises kept Madagascar’ ...
  • The Oregon and California Act Revisited: Peril ...
    by Paul F. Torrence A monster is rising from western Oregon, one that makes Frankenstein’s creation look like a pussycat. It is poised to further erode the biological integrity of at least 2.1 million acres of public lands in western Oregon. But beware! This ecocidal dark vision may well be the ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Cover-Up and Conspiracy?... Michael Hastings I ...
    Why in the world would anyone cremate the body of a dead person without the consent of that persons family if that family was fully availabe to give or withhold their consent? That is what the family of Michael Hastings now wants to know... ~ Video read more
  • ALERT!... Mandatory HIV Testing For All Citize ...
    President Barak Obama posted an executive order yesterday which appears to mandate HIV testing for "all individuals ages 15 to 65 years." read more
  • We Were Warned In 2002... We Learned Absolutel ...
    A speech by Ron Paul from *April 24, 2002* Listen closely... He warned of EVERY crisis our nation, and the world, is facing today. Ron Paul's career in Congress defending individual liberty across the board inspired MILLIONS around the world to become active in politics. This video speaks f ...
  • The Marketing of Eugenics... Big Pharma's Top ...
    The ‘medical miracle’ of vaccines has proven quite miraculous on at least one front, the financial one. Investors in the manufacture, distribution and administration of vaccines have reaped handsome rewards since the creation of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). ~ Norma Eric ...
  • More Government Stupidity... Now You Need a Li ...
    New rules require dog walkers to obtain a city-issued permit, puts a limit on the number of dogs that can be walked at a time and requires dog walkers to have any vehicles used to transport dogs to be inspected, approved and carry $1 million in liability insurance, reports the San F ...

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Modern Survivalism

  • 10 Things You Will Miss Most Without Electrici ...
    To go without electricity for a couple of hours is a bad enough experience for most. But imagine the horror if the power were to stay out for days, or weeks… The resulting shock to today’s modern man (and woman) would not only be an emotional jolt, but could quickly turn into a life ...
  • The 4 Stages of Disaster
    If you think of disaster in the following four stages or phases, then you will be better able to deal with it, should you ever experience it…   PREPARATION One of the biggest challenges of disaster and survival preparedness is convincing yourself (and others) that the risk does indeed ...
  • How To Make Laundry Soap-Detergent
    Make your own natural, non-toxic homemade laundry soap and save lots of money! There are lots of laundry soap recipes online, many of them nearly identical with slight variations. I have found that for doing laundry, using just the following three basic ingredients will provide a good homemade r ...
  • Is Stored Water Safe After One Year?
    I recently received an email asking my opinion regarding the safety of drinking water that has been stored for a year under specific conditions that include being exposed to higher than normal temperatures during the summer. Here is the question and answer…   Question: Water from a ci ...
  • 4 Burglar Deterrents For Your Home Security
    These four simple, inexpensive, and practical security items WILL present a deterrent to a home burglar…   These cheap but effective home security devices provide effective deterrence and resistance to home burglary while you sleep peacefully at night.   Fake TV This little devic ...

Fast Company

  • Have Spare Office Space? Why Not Host A Startu ...
    PivotDesk lets you find a place for your startup without splurging for office space you might never end up needing (or, better yet, quickly outgrow). Signing a long-term office lease is a big risk even for big companies. It’s hard to know what space you’ll need in a year or two ...
  • Watch: A Dead Sculpture Comes To Life, Thanks ...
    Simple geometric shapes transform into interactive entities of pure light. It makes us wonder, how could 3-D projection augment the world of analog sculptures around us? Few people would look twice at this strange but dull collection of white pyramids. That is, until the lights go out and ...
  • Funny Or Die Corrects Rolling Stone’s Controve ...
    As was the intention, Rolling Stone caught lots of attention with its new cover, which features Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev front and center. Funny or Die wasted no time in taking the magazine to task. There is a right way and a wrong way to deal with outrage. You can vent it impotentl ...
  • The NSA Can Analyze Data From Way More People ...
    The NSA now says it can monitor data from anyone up to three hops away from terror suspects. Even if you aren't a direct target of the National Security Agency's PRISM program, the agency can still pluck your Internet communications for surveillance if you fall under the increasingly large ...
  • Can Cooper Union Find A Way To Continue Free T ...
    After months of protests over the decision that the school would no longer be a strict meritocracy, where anyone could attend free of charge, students and administrators may have found a solution. How do you put a price on a social mission? For the past 111 years, the Cooper Union, centere ...

Jadaliyya

  • فلسطينيون في جيش الإحتلال الإسرائيلي
    بثت ”القناة العاشرة“ الإسرائيلية الأسبوع الماضي تقريراً تلفزيونياً عن تجنيد الفلسطينيتين نادين توما، من قرية الجش الجليلية، ورغدة جرايسة، من مدينة الناصرة، في صفوف جيش الإحتلال الإسرائيلي. وتطل علينا وسائل الإعلام الإسرائيلية بين الحين والآخر بتقارير عن بعض هؤلاء المتطوعين وتغطيات إخبارية مطولة، ...
  • بحثاً عن فلسطين وسوريا في مصر الثورة
    من المُفارقات التاريخيّة، أن نسمع عِبارات مثل "عِصابات فلسطينيّة"، "إرهابيّون فلسطينيّون"، "متسللون فلسطينيّون"، في وسائل إعلام مصريّة. كيف وَجد هذا الخِطاب المقيت طريقهُ إلى الإعلام المصريّ؟ خِطاب عمِلت إسرائيّل بأذرعها الإعلاميّة وعلاقاتها الدوليّة على ترسيخهِ طِو ...
  • Woman’s Work: The Twisted Reality of an Italia ...
    He finally wrote to me. After more than a year of freelancing for him, during which I contracted typhoid fever and was shot in the knee, my editor watched the news, thought I was among the Italian journalists who had been kidnapped, and sent me an email that said: “Should you get a connection, c ...
  • من المنحط والمنبوذ إلى فضاء الطبقة الوسطى وإع ...
    في إعادة الإعتبار لتعبيرات الطبقات الفقيرة ”فشخ“ ”أحييه“ وتعريص“... من المنحط والمنبوذ إلى فضاء الطبقة الوسطى وإعلامها.  استقبل مشاهدو التلفزيون، أول أيام شهر رمضان، ببرنامج تلفزيوني خفيف اسمه ”لاسوستا“. ظهرت فيه المغنية سما المصري مع فتى يتحدث العربية، بلكنة مصطنعة مدّعياً أنه من أصل إيطا ...
  • Turkey Media Roundup (July 17)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...

mediagazer

  • Independent management warns journalists print ...
    Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette: Independent management warns journalists print edition in question beyond 2015 unless cuts made  —  Senior management at The Independent have told staff that they could struggle to produce a print edition beyond 2015 unless proposed cuts are ma ...
  • 'New York Post' gears up for early August web ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: ‘New York Post’ gears up for early August web relaunch  —  Late last month, Robert Thomson, C.E.O. of the new publishing-focused iteration of News Corp., told The Financial Times that the New York Post was working on a plan to compete n ...
  • New York Post Looks Thinner After News Corpora ...
    David Freedlander / The Daily Beast: New York Post Looks Thinner After News Corporation Split  —  It's been a while since Rupert Murdoch's New York tabloid has had a jaw-dropping scoop—or a front page that went viral.  And some laid-off staffers aren't being replaced. ...
  • Reddit Spiffs Up Its Front Page, Demoting Cont ...
    Fruzsina Eördögh / ReadWrite: Reddit Spiffs Up Its Front Page, Demoting Controversial Parts As It Goes  —  Reddit is cleaning house, sweeping some of its less savory elements under the carpet as it spiffs the place up.  —  On Wednesday, Reddit managemen ...
  • Operation Elveden: six journalists in court ov ...
    Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Operation Elveden: six journalists in court over payments  —  Four Sun staff and Daily Star Sunday deputy editor among those accused of paying public officials for information  —  Six newspaper staff including four Sun journalists staff ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Carrefour French hypermarkets, China impr ...
    PARIS (Reuters) - Carrefour said on Thursday that sales improved at its core French hypermarkets and in China in the second quarter, further reassuring investors about head Georges Plassat's ability to revive Europe's largest retailer. Growth in Brazil, Carrefour's largest market after Franc ...
  • Samsung bets on storage devices as smartp ...
    By Miyoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co on Thursday launched storage technology aimed at replacing computer hard disk drives as it targets the rapidly expanding memory devices market to offset slowing sales growth for smartphone memory chips. Samsung is the world's top maker ...
  • Honda aims to make Acura in China by 2016
    BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan's Honda Motor Co is planning to produce Acura cars in China with a local partner starting in 2016, part of an effort to tap growing demand for upscale vehicles in the world's biggest auto market. Honda said on Thursday it has agreed with Guangzhou Automobile Group C ...
  • Heatwave deaths: 760 lives claimed by hot ...
    Up to 760 people in England have died as a result of the current heatwave, figures show, and the death toll is set to rise further still. A woman with a sunburnt back Photo: PA 7:09AM BST 18 Jul 2013 Research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that between 540 and 76 ...
  • Second Ashes Test starts amid off-field b ...
    LONDON — After just a three-day break since England’s thrilling 14-run win over Australia in the first Test at Trent Bridge, the Ashes rivals will meet for the second of a five-match series at Lord’s on Thursday. But the manner in which Australia competed in Nottingham suggests Ashes-holders ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 7/17/13 - England legalizes gay marriage
    gaymarriage.procon.org – England legalizes gay marriage – Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval to the new law, a formality after it passed through the House of Lords and the House of Commons earlier in the week.  Same-sex weddings are expected to begin in the summer of 2 ...
  • 7/17/13 - Historical Timeline: A History of Co ...
    milk.procon.org - Historical Timeline: A History of Cow's Milk from the Ancient World to the Present - Our updated timeline begins in 8000 BC with the origin of the domesticated cow, and, after dozens more sourced and illustrated entries about the history of milk, ends with a 2012 government rep ...
  • 6/28/13 - Historical Timeline: History of Felo ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of Felon Voting - Our updated timeline on the history of felon voting and disenfranchisement from 1100 BC to present includes the May 23, 2013 announcement by the Governor of Virginia that voting rights will be automatically restored to nonvi ...
  • 6/27/13 - Historical Timeline: History of Alt ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of Alternative Energy and Fossil Fuels - Our updated timeline featuring the history of alternative energy and fossil fuel development from 2000 BC to present includes the latest details from President Obama's June 25, 2013 climate actio ...
  • 6/26/13 - Two Gay Marriage Cases Decided by Su ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Two Gay Marriage Cases Decided by Supreme Court

Truth About Our World

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environment 360

  • Should Wolves Stay Protected Under Endangered ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has stirred controversy with its proposal to remove endangered species protection for wolves, noting the animals’ strong comeback in the northern Rockies and the Midwest. It’s the latest in the long, contentious saga of wolf recovery in the U.S. BY TED WILLIAMS
  • New App Identifies Species By Recordings of Th ...
    A new app is enabling scientists and the public to automatically identify frogs, birds, insects, monkeys, and other animals by recording their vocalizations. Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico have created a system called the Automated Remote Biodiversity Monitoring Network (ARBIMON) th ...
  • Russia Blocks Plans to Create Massive Marine R ...
    Russian officials have blocked plans to establish the world’s largest marine reserve in the waters off Antarctica, citing concerns that it would restrict their John B. Weller/The Pew Charitable TrustsRoss Sea pack ice fishing interests in the region, according to news reports. The plan, which w ...
  • Map Shows Possible Link Between Warmer Springs ...
    An interactive tool produced by the group Climate Central illustrates how rising temperatures and reduced snowpack in the western U.S. have corresponded with an increase in wildfires in recent decades. Based on Climate CentralLinking warm springs and large fires in the U.S. West federal wildfi ...
  • New Green Vision: Technology As Our Planet’s L ...
    The concept of ecological modernism, which sees technology as the key to solving big environmental problems, is gaining adherents and getting a lot of buzz these days. While mainstream conservationists may be put off by some of the new movement’s tenets, they cannot afford to ignore the issues i ...

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Energy News

Hudson New York

  • France: Slouching Toward Totalitarianism
    As expected, the Paris Court of Appeals declared Philippe Karsenty guilty of defamation against journalist Charles Enderlin and public television station France 2. The evidence accumulated by experts and specialists, showing that the al Dura video report
  • Faked Outrage in the Middle East
    Having spent most of my life in the Middle East, I am sensitive to recognizing artificially-induced, exhibitionistic, whipped-up outrage -- "shaming fits" -- forced upon ordinary people by "the system." "Shaming," as in, "Have you no shame?" and
  • FGM Debate Continues in Muslim Lands
    While overshadowed apparently by the general civil conflict over the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) regime in Egypt, the spreading problem of female genital mutilation (FGM) has recently shaken the land of the Nile. Yet the mass upsurge against the tyrannical
  • Former UN Ambassador John R. Bolton Joins Gate ...
    NEW YORK, July 17, 2013 – Gatestone Institute (www.gatestoneinstitute.org), a think tank dedicated to educating the public about the American ideals of freedom and democracy around the world, announced today that Ambassador John R. Bolton has joined the
  • UK Taxi Rapes
    Great Britain is in the throes of a rape and pedophilia epidemic unlike anything the country has experienced in living memory. Many of the sex crimes are being perpetrated by Muslim child grooming gangs responsible for drugging, raping and torturing

Urban Survival

  • A Digital Tulip Progress Check
    It is reliably reported that during the peak of Tulip Mania, offers were made to buy as much as 12-acres of land with a single tulip bulb.  Surely, something was amiss, a reasonable person might have argued at the time, … Continue reading →
  • There Goes (or should I say WENT) HAARP
    Normally, I’d start up a report with something economic – like this morning’s consumer price report which we’ll get to in a second – but the first thing out of the hopper this morning is to note the report from … Continue reading →
  • Here Comes “Honesty Enforcement”
    I’ve been doing research since returning from our conference up in the Northeast about the details underlying Big Data.  This is scarier stuff than I ever imagined and it has already led to a world where people can be targeted … Continue reading →
  • Data-Driven Week
    If you’re looking for excitement, this week has some good potential with the Consumer Prices report due tomorrow.  I can hardly wait to see how the soaring food prices get understated this time.   In the meanwhile, we have the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: A Few Notes on Futuring
    Time for a thought problem:  I’ve been ponder the nature of predictive systems a good bit lately because it occurs to me that if indeed, as some have claimed, only a very few (and maybe only one) can use a … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • BODY HOSTAGE
     A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
  • MURDER BY MEDICINE 5: Short Term Advantages vs ...
    Most of us never really stop to consider the long term effects of some of the drugs we take. We are eager to attain short term relief without taking into account the many effects these drugs may have further down the line. Aspirin is one of the most popular drugs in the world, with over [...]
  • WOULD MEN HAVE LESS SEX IF THEY WERE CAPABLE O ...
    Men are without a doubt the most promiscuous of the two sexes. Women can go significant periods of time without needing to experience sexual relief; and episodes such as periods, giving birth and menopause play a role in limiting or changing their desire to do so in any case. Men really don&#821 ...
  • MURDER BY MEDIA 13: Addiction To Recognition
    It’s always good advice to be told to question every desire, because its easy to forget that deceiving ones self is the easiest form of deception. The media has helped to create a world where recognition has become a not so subtle addiction that we feed on and hunger for everytime we are s ...
  • IS A MARRIAGE FOR LOVE TOO UNREALISTIC?
    Love has come to be the proud and somewhat reluctant owner of many definitions; one of which likens it to a ‘fairytale’. In today’s world the reality is that there are quite a number of other things to think about before love is even considered. After all, love doesn’t pu ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Climate deniers' new gambit: the updated SCC ( ...
    Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate Center, Washington, DC What was once an obscure technical detail in regulatory rulemakings, the “social cost of carbon” (SCC), will be discussed at length in hearings on Capitol Hill (July 18, 201 ...
  • Dehli Based TERI applauded for climate change ...
    Kristina Johnson, Program Assistant, Food and Agriculture, India Initiative, Urban, San Francisco July 9th- July 16th India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India Climate Change TERI globa ...
  • The oil and gas industry repeatedly violates t ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A scathing new investigation from EnergyWire confirms the worst fears of citizens across the country who live near fracking sites: state regulators are not doing everything they can to prevent oil an ...
  • New NRDC study: Commuters can save money and c ...
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. All across the country, a shift is taking place. Increasingly, Americans are choosing to live in walkable communities with convenient housing, offering more transportation choices that al ...
  • New initiative to recognize most energy-effici ...
    Yerina Mugica, Associate Director, Center for Market Innovation, New York City Our nation’s buildings account for the largest share of energy consumption (41%) and corresponding carbon pollution (40%) in the U.S. So understandably, we have a l ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, March 7, 2013: Mcallen, Texas: A federal grand jury indicted three more law enforcement officers on drug conspiracy charges. The indictment charges them with conspiring to possess with intent … Continue reading →Nation ...
  • CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job
    More here.CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • ACLU Looks into Militarization Trend in Police ...
    From Huffington Post: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local … Continue reading &#85 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, March 5, 2013: Update: Denver, Colorado: A police officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault and kidnapping. He was in uniform when he came … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...
  • Worst of the Month – February 2013
    This month it is the story from California where totally innocent people were shot by police during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner.   There is no greater responsibility for a police officer than his/her use of deadly force.  If they get … Continue reading →Worst of ...

Total Collapse

  • Japanese jets intercept Russian bombers, on he ...
    Russian strategic nuclear bombers taking part in large-scale military exercises flew practice strike missions in the western Pacific on Monday and were intercepted by Japanese fighters, according to Japanese and Russian officials. The bomber flights were the latest case of strategic saber rattli ...
  • U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Governmen ...
    For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thous ...
  • U.S. Military Prepares for Global Unrest Amid ...
    Though Earth’s shifting climate evokes many images, civil unrest usually isn’t one of them. Yet, a warming planet could have a profound impact on national security, both in the United States and abroad. This time, the threat isn’t from terrorism or a single enemy, but from natu ...
  • Israeli Subs Destroy Russian Missiles In Syria ...
    While the (chemical) dust over Syria has yet to settle, one country is not waiting around before in tried and true fashion it kicks the proverbial hornets nest. Only this time the recipient of Israeli aggression is not some small country that can hardly afford to defend itself against made in th ...
  • Russia Readies Strategic Bombers in Snap Far E ...
    Russia’s air base of Tu-95MS Bear-H strategic bombers in the Amur Region is switching to full combat readiness as part of massive snap drills in the Eastern Military District, the Defense Ministry’s press office reported on Sunday. The exercise, which involves over 160,000 servicemen, some 1,000 ...

Daily Dose

  • Google cleared of unfairly using Android to ai ...
    South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission watchdog has acquitted Google of anti-competitive charges against the search giant following a two-year-long investigation, Yonhap News reports. The FTC had reportedly reviewed the case and... Keep reading →
  • Adobe Social update brings predictive publishi ...
    Adobe today launched its updated social marketing platform. With this release, Adobe Social is now featuring social predictive publishing capabilities, a new mobile interface, streamlined reporting, better collaboration, plus integrations... Keep reading →
  • Korea’s LG Uplus launches world’s ...
    Korean operator SK Telecom took the wraps off the world’s first LTE-Advanced network late last month, and now the Asian nation’s smallest mobile carrier LG Uplus has introduced a rival service, boasting... Keep reading →
  • Singapore-based online grocer RedMart closes S ...
    Singapore-based online grocery store RedMart has closed its Series A round of funding, the company announced today, bringing its total amount of funding to $4.6 million so far. Singapore-based Garena, an... Keep reading →
  • A huge coalition of tech companies unites to p ...
    Silicon Valley tech giants have united against a common cause: seeking greater transparency from the US’s National Security Agency and openness when it comes to surveillance activities. According to AllThingsD,... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Is climate action working?
    With the first year of the carbon price just over, we've seen a lot of commentary and hyperbole from all sides. Fortunately some facts are also available. Emissions have fallen. Prices have not skyrocketed and the sky has not fallen in. Case closed? Jenny Riesz and Roger Dargaville have written ...
  • Govt underestimates high-speed rail profits by ...
    The government has underestimated by $190 billion the profits of its Melbourne-Brisbane high-speed rail (HSR) plan, enough to repay the capital cost of the network, according to  Researchers at independent think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Beyond ...
  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...
  • Graphs: Can high-speed rail cut air travel emi ...
    By Ben Courtice Australia’s domestic air travel (and its associated greenhouse emissions) has grown markedly – especially in the last 10 years, as this graph illustrates. Air travel (passenger km) data from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics We have calculated emis ...
  • Graph: Can high-speed rail cut air travel emis ...
    By Ben Courtice Australia’s domestic air travel (and its associated greenhouse emissions) has grown markedly – especially in the last 10 years, as this graph illustrates. Air travel (passenger km) data from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics We have calculated emis ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Haze summit proposes sharing concession data, ...
    A high-level meeting to discuss approaches for curbing fires that drive haze over Southeast Asia ended today with a recommendation that governments establish a haze monitoring system that would share detailed land-use and concession maps to help coordinate action against companies that set illeg ...
  • 80% of rainforests in Malaysian Borneo logged
    80 percent of the rainforests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging, finds a comprehensive study that offers the first assessment of the spread of industrial logging and logging roads across areas that were considered some of Earth's wildest lands less than 30 years ago. The ...
  • Featured video: mangroves in El Salvador imper ...
    A new short video by Friends of the Earth International highlights the impacts of climate change on mangroves in El Salvador, which local fishermen depend on for their livelihoods.
  • Stunning moth species discovered in the mounta ...
    A new species of moth (Stenoloba solaris) was discovered in the Yunnan province of China, a new addition to the nascent genus of moth, Stenoloba. The discovery was published in the open access journal ZooKeys. The moth is colloquially known as the “sun moth” because of the intricate ...
  • Apple investigating if tin for smart phones in ...
    Apple is investigating whether tin mined from Bangka Island in Indonesia, where child labor and environmental damage from the mining has been reported, is used in its iPhones and other products.

Sierra Express

  • Vacancy Announcement – Two M & E Positions
    National Secretariat for the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancy (Ministry of Health and Sanitation), with support from the United Nations Background In Sierra Leone, teenage pregnancy is one of the more pervasive problems affecting the health, social, economic and political progress and empowerment ...
  • Vacancy Announcement – One Communication Expert
    National Secretariat for the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancy (Ministry of Health and Sanitation), with support from the United Nations Background In Sierra Leone, teenage pregnancy is one of the more pervasive problems affecting the health, social, economic and political progress and empowerment ...
  • Consultancy – Support for Strengthening Core E ...
    The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Sierra Leone Country Office, invites applications from interested person for the above mentioned consultancy to work with the MSWGCA and the consultancy firm to finalise the Child Protection Policy, develop and support the implementation of the ...
  • Blind and Deaf and Dumb Schools barricade Wilk ...
    Hell broke loose on 15th July when pupils of the Milton Margai School for the Blind together with the School for the Deaf and Dumb stormed and barricaded the Wilkinson Road with desks and chairs preventing vehicular traffic in the morning hours. The physically challenged pupils were demanding a ...
  • D-LEF Donates to IPAM Muslim Jamaat
    The Duramany-Lakkoh Education Foundation [D-LEF] past Friday 12th July donated building materials worth millions of Leones to the IPAM Muslim Jamaat during the Juma prayers. The items included 4 bundles of zinc, nails etc., assorted food items such as bags of rice, onions, 5 gallons of oil, suga ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra slashes prices in China
    Fonterra has announced a 9 per cent price cut in its Anmum maternal health products sold in mainland China just as the people's republic gets an investigation into the pricing of dairy products there under way.The co-operative said...
  • Fonterra cuts China prices amid price-fixing probe
    Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, cut the price of its Anmum-branded products in China as the local regulator looks at potential price manipulation by major foreign firms selling into the world's most-populous...
  • Dairy payout lift tipped as world prices up 4. ...
    Dairy farmers could be looking at another record year for profit in 2013-14 after a 4.9 per cent rise in GlobalDairyTrade prices was recorded at the overnight auction, banks said.Prices for whole milk powder - the most important...
  • NZ riding China's big dipper
    China's so-called "economic miracle" has hit some speed wobbles, but a top New Zealand economist says this country should be reasonably insulated from any direct impact.The Chinese Government, which revealed a sharp drop in exports...
  • Shakeup for dairy industry on cards
    Federated Farmers says news that FrieslandCampina of the Netherlands had taken a 7.5 per cent stake in Canterbury's Synlait Milk could herald a shakeup for the New Zealand dairy industry.Willy Leferink, Federated Farmers Dairy chairman,...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Thomas Menino, Deval Patrick Slam Rolling ...
    The latest issue of Rolling Stone features a cover story about alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, or “The Bomber” as the headline on the cover declares, the story of  “how a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster.” Of ...
  • Without Warrants, License Plate Scanners Track ...
    Courts are at least starting to rule that police need a warrant to attach a GPS tracking device to your car, even if the feds are fighting tooth and nail against that requirement. But that protection may be almost moot if the police can follow everybody's movements by tracking t ...
  • Obamacare May Lower NY Health Premiums — Under ...
    Is there a place in the United States where the Affordable Care Act, now almost unversally known as "Obamacare," may actually bring health costs down? It's possible, but you might need very peculiar circumstances, such as those that prevail in New York state, where very interesting s ...
  • After Taking a Curt Schilling Pitch to the Fac ...
    Rhode Island appears to be taking the hit for Curt Schilling’s doomed video game venture, budgeting $112.6 million to pay off a failed loan that lured Schilling’s company, 38 Studios, to the state. The video game company subsequently went bankrupt without having produced the game th ...
  • Obamacare’s Big Implementation Challenges: Aff ...
    It’s clear at this point that the Obama administration thinks the key challenge in rolling out the health care law this year and next is getting enough young, health adults to sign up for insurance. The administration says they need 2.7 million young, basically healthy adults, a majo ...

Mercury Rising

  • Banjos!

  • Princess Liz Wants Her Senate Seat, Dammit!
    The end result of this will still likely be a Republican, but at least a few local radio and TV stations will pull in a few extra million from the primary campaign spending: Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz Cheney will run against Wyoming’s senior U.S. senator in next ...
  • Broken Promis
    For those with long memories, Promis was a program developed in 1974 by Inslaw. The developers claimed DoJ ripped them off. The case swirled endlessly. According to Wikipedia: A conspiracy theory developed around the case, with allegations that “back doors” had been inserted into the ...
  • Yes, “Stand Your Ground” Law Playe ...
    Media Matters has the details: In fact, Florida’s self-defense laws set the framework by which Zimmerman was tried, setting the standard by which the jury would have to determine if Martin’s death resulted from the justifiable use of force. Indeed, the jury instructions in the case s ...
  • “It Never Was America To Me.”
    From 1938, Langston Hughes brings us a poem about privilege and those who never fully (or even, for many, partly) in the American Dream: Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America […]

Reality Sandwich

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  • Psi in the News
    The Parapsychological Association announces new officers for 2013, Eben Alexander gets grilled by Esquire,  Sheldrake contra Dawkins on London Real, and a few tips for developing telepathy and psycho-kinesis in this edition of Psi in the News.   read more
  • Connecting the Dots
    Cambridge neuroscientist Daniel Bor explores memory, pattern recognition, and their relationship to consciousness in his new book The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning. read more
  • Two Takes on New Age, with an Introduction
    Introduction In 1928 a brilliant philosopher/logician from Vienna, Rudolf Carnap, published Der logische Aufbau der Welt, The Logical Structure of the World. Ten years before, Ludwig Wittgenstein had conceived his highly cryptic Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, “the last philosophical book ...
  • The Ancient Underwater Forest
    A group of scuba divers discovered a prehistoric underwater forest several miles off Alabama's coast. The Bald Cypress forest was protected in an oxygen-free environment for more than 50,000 years and was likely exposed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. read more

Desertification

  • Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
    As the Côte d’Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region. “I am in favour of evictions, but it should not be brutal. These are f ...
  • Living Laboratory for Coping with Drought in B ...
    The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years. An “underground reservoir&#8 ...
  • Climate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia a ...
    Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge amounts of coal, oil and gas, the World Bank is warning. “Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts ...
  • FAO Highlights Inseparable Links Between Food ...
    Since food and water are so closely interlinked, there is a lingering fear based on the assumption, if there is no water, there will be no food. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) underlines the strong links between the two when it declares that agriculture accounts for over 70 percent ...
  • Small Farmers Buffeted by Climate Change
    The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has long warned that a quarter of the world’s farmland is “highly degraded”. The main culprits are natural disasters, including droughts, floods and desertification. These pressures have now reached critical levels, with climate change expec ...

Blogging Canadians

  • $ 200 Billion to see stupid men kicking balls ...
    I wonder what the people in poor  countries think when they see the sheikdoms  throw billions of dollars away on frivolous pastimes (in my opinion) when that kind of money could have been used to teach the poor in Africa and elsewhere how to cultivate and grow food and livestock which ...
  • Life without electricity in flooded Toronto
    In my area of Toronto, we SUFFERED for six LONG hours.  Yeh, I know ... that's laughable ... but that's how much pampered and dependent on the niceties of comfort we have become.  Even six hours was hard to take. There are some areas of Toronto where people are still without power so I ...
  • Rough and rude treatment of travellers by Cana ...
       Complaints pile up over airport border guardsReports show pattern of rude, disrespectful treatment of travellers by CBSA agents "Dozens of travellers arriving home at Ottawa International Airport have filed complaints about rude treatment and harassment by Canada Border Services ...
  • Vatican prostitution ring was a fake, but deep ...
    It turns out that rumours about a gay prostitution ring operating in the Vatican were unsubstantiated. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t serious problems there. As Pope Francis himself admitted, there is indeed a gay lobby operating in the Vatican. A few weeks ago we also ...
  • The Seasons Test: Are People Too Stupid for De ...
    Last week, an interesting story flashed around the world’s media: in pretty much every country, men are much more knowledgeable about politics than women. Now, you might think that journalists would be disturbed at their failure in this regard. You might think there would be some public so ...

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Intelligent scalpel detects tumour edges
    A scalpel that can discriminate healthy and cancerous tissue, to tell a surgeon when a tumour has been entirely removed, has been developed by scientists in the UK and Hungary. The technique is inte...
  • Seconds of 'fat gene' keeps you hungry
    Genes have a significant effect on how much and what types of food we eat, new research has revealed. We know that possessing certain forms of a gene known as FTO (the 'fat mass and obesity-associate...
  • HIV treats genetic disease
    HIV can be used as a gene therapy vector for in-born genetic disease. For a long time HIV has been associated with incurable illness, but it could be the answer to solving some genetic disorders. ...
  • A new IVF fertility treatment
    This week, Connor Levy became the first IVF baby to be born using a new screening technique called next generation sequencing. This is a new way to check how healthy embryos are before they are imp...
  • MRI to Improve Autism Diagnosis
    MRI scanning could aid in thediagnosis of autism in young infants, a US research group have found. For some time scientists have known that the heads of autistic children grew more rapidly in s...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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
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