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Scoop - NZ

  • “US is Preparing 'Kinetic Strikes' against Syria”
    The United States highest-ranking military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, has said that the USA is deliberating whether it should or should not use military force in Syria, and that various scenarios, including “kinetic strikes” are being prepared. The ...
  • International Crisis Group Vs Venezuela
    The International Crisis Group (ICG) sells itself as "working to prevent conflict worldwide" but there is one country where their mission looks more like promoting rather than preventing conflict. Exhibit A is their report on Venezuela, released on Friday. There is a lot wrong with this repo ...
  • Joyce get 25 yrs in Dubai
    Former Melbourne man, Matthew Joyce, has been sentenced to ten years jail in Dubai and fined 25 million dollars after a land sale involving a company owned by the Emir of Dubai fell through.
  • One law for us. Another for Amazon.
    If you want to understand any society, look at its tax system. If one man or a clique can tax at will, you can conclude the society is a dictatorship or oligarchy. If you have reasonably progressive and universal taxes, you can assume it is a modern democracy. Britain has elements of democratic ...
  • Whitney: The Housing Boondoggle & Obama.
    “Rising home prices usually coincide with rising demand as more households form or people’s preferences swing toward homeownership. The Bank says neither trend appears to be present today. Household formation rose 980,000 in 2012, compared to the long term annual average of 1.28 million betwee ...

Independent - London

  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's new term ...
    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has returned to work this week after romping home to victory in the general election, promising to fix the nation’s huge economy.Related StoriesJapan election: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hails landslide winPowerful earthquake strikes China's Gansu province, kil ...
  • Hotheads in the Philippines: Protests against ...
    The Philippine president Benigno Aquino III said on Monday that three years of anti-corruption reforms have banished his country's image as the “sick man of Asia” but added he has lost patience over continuing problems such as large-scale smuggling and declared a tougher crackdown against wrong ...
  • UK and US regulators fine trader Michael Cosci ...
    A trader who made millions of US dollars by moving the price of commodities, ranging from oil to wheat, has been fined around $3.1 million (£2 million) by authorities in the UK and the US.    
  • Kick-Ass 2 stuntmen rescue suicidal woman from ...
    Stuntmen from action film Kick-Ass 2 allegedly saved the life of a suicidal woman as she dangled perilously over the edge of a balcony during this weekend's Comic Con.Related StoriesIndignant Dolce & Gabbana shut up shopDisney’s Lone Ranger sparks anger as birth defect is used to make villain B ...
  • Kick-Ass 2 stuntmen 'rescue suicidal woman fro ...
    Stuntmen from action film Kick-Ass 2 allegedly saved the life of a suicidal woman as she dangled perilously over the edge of a balcony during this weekend's Comic-Con.Related StoriesIndignant Dolce & Gabbana shut up shopDisney’s Lone Ranger sparks anger as birth defect is used to make villain B ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • Scientists finally discover the function of th ...
    It has long been regarded as a potentially troublesome, redundant organ, but American researchers say they have discovered the true function of the appendix. The researchers say it acts as a safe house for good bacteria, which can be used to effectively reboot the gut following a bout of dysent ...
  • Mysterious animal die-offs in Australia, USA, ...
    36,000 bees found dead in Niestetal (Germany) - HNA Fipronil is held responsible for the mass death of honeybees. Mysterious Carp dead in Holter Reservoir (Montana) - KRTV Hundreds of dead carp are floating in the popular reservoir on the Missouri River between Helena and Great Fall ...
  • Cattle herds dying of mysterious disease in Sa ...
    Sargodha (INP): Mysterious disease continues to killing cattle heads in different areas of Sargodha district. Highly perturbed over the death of their precious animals which are main source of their earnings, farmers have protested against the livestock department negligence. According to detai ...
  • Bogus 'Natural' products under attack
    I was thrilled to learn that in March of this year that the Organic Consumers Association has launched a nationwide campaign to "expose and eliminate the misleading practice of 'natural' labeling and marketing. Bogus 'Natural' Products The Organic Consumers Association, North America's leading ...
  • What are you putting on your skin? What the ad ...
    By now, you've probably seen buzzwords like "all natural," "hypoallergenic" and "patented" hundreds of times. But have you ever stopped to ask what they mean? Beauty companies love terms like these because they suggest concrete benefits that don't have to be backed up by science. In fact, as lo ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Oily secrets . . .
    KEYSTONE XL May Actually Raise American Gas Prices — that's the title of an article by TRUTHOUT. Stevie ain't gonna like it: “Keystone XL is not an economic benefit to Americans who will see higher gas prices and bear all the risks of the pipeline,” said report author Judy Dugan in a ...
  • For your shopping list . . .
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  • Spying, commerce and law . . .
    ED SNOWDEN'S REVELATIONS have serious implications for American business and law — and for us. At iPOLITICS, Steve Nixon has an article you should ponder, "What the Snowden revelations mean for business". There are issues, and they are still growing as consequences appear: When the U.S. g ...
  • Constitutional violations . . .
    DIGITAL JOURNAL has a disturbing report, "Bush-Cheney began illegal NSA spying before 9/11, says telcom CEO". According to Ralph Lopez, Contradicting a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that warrantless domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court rec ...
  • Positive thinking . . .
    POSITIVE THINKING can be found at CORE77, which is a site about industrial design. Do check out the home page and articles. Anyway, one of their contributors, Ray, has a post about a Canadian triumph, "First Human-Powered Helicopter Surpasses Sikorsky Standards, and Why Humans Are Still ...

Media Matters for America

  • Zimmerman Trial Triggers Right-Wing Media Blac ...
    President Obama noted that analysis of the George Zimmerman trial has led to a misguided focus on black crime rates. Indeed, the right-wing media have repeatedly hyped black crime statistics in the wake of the trial, often without acknowledging factors contributing to the problem ...
  • "Race-Baiter In Chief": Right-Wing Media React ...
    In a press briefing July 19, President Obama responded to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, saying, "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago...the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that - that d ...
  • Key Differences Right-Wing Media Ignore Betwee ...
    Right-wing media have cited the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 as a reason to oppose the bipartisan immigration reform bill that passed the Senate June 27. However, the Senate immigration bill learns from and corrects the mistakes of the IRCA through i ...
  • REPORT: Print Media's Budget Figures Lack Context
    Throughout the first half of 2013, three major national print outlets mostly reported figures on debt, deficits, spending, and revenue in terms of raw numbers devoid of relevant context, such as previous years' numbers or monthly figures, that would give readers a more accurate depiction of the ...
  • 16 Fox Figures V. Zimmerman Juror On Whether S ...
    Even after a juror in George Zimmerman's trial for killing Trayvon Martin said that Florida's Stand Your Ground self-defense law influenced the outcome of the case, Fox News hosts and contributors continue to claim otherwise as a means to attack Attorney General Eric Holder f ...

Global Research.ca

  • Der NSA wurde in Deutschland freie Hand gelassen
    Ein Interview mit dem Historiker Josef Foschepoth, das in der online Ausgabe der Süddeutschen Zeitung veröffentlicht wurde, zeigt deutlich, dass des NSA bei ihren Operationen in Deutschland freie Hand gelassen wird – und das mit dem Wissen und dem Segen…
  • Steht Washington hinter der Machtübernahme in ...
    „[US-Verteidigungsminister] Hagel und [US-Generalstabschef] Dempsey bewegten sich auf einem schmalen Grat … während sie Bedenken äußerten und gleichzeitig versuchten, den Eindruck zu vermieden, dass die USA die Geschehenisse im Hintergrund manipulierte.“ (Military.com 3.7.2013) Die Prot ...
  • Israel to Sign Guns for Refugees Deal With Afr ...
    Writing this blog as long as I have, I’ve seen some pretty low blows from the Israeli government.  But this one ranks right up there.  Those of you old enough remember Ronald Reagan’s arms for hostages deal with the Iranians–now,…
  • On the Death of Helen Thomas
    In her long career, Helen Thomas walked a tightrope. She was part of Washington’s journalistic club yet an outsider who asked unwelcome questions. When she was tossed out of the club in 2010 over a careless remark about Israel, she…
  • Global Geopolitics: Chinese Internet vs. U.S. ...
    With the latest revelations of NSA spying on Chinese citizens and the recent meeting of Obama and Xi Jinping, US / China relations are once again in the spotlight. From his vantage point at Peking University, Dr. Thorsten Pattberg breaks down the latest developments and what they mean for global ...

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Cancellation ...
    Unprecedented mass lease cancellation occurs near homes of some of fractivism's most effective mobilizers. Certain powerful images really stick with you when you watch Gasland or Gasland 2. First is the shot of the tap water on fire. Equally powerful are the images of the film’s di ...
  • Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate as Gas Compa ...
    The unprecedented mass lease cancellation occurred in a region that is home both to Josh Fox, fractivism’s heroic Pied Piper, and to the first fractivist organization Damascus Citizens for Sustainability. Certain powerful images really stick with you when you watch Gasland or Gasland 2 ...
  • Fracking Water Injection Could Trigger Major E ...
    New studies suggest injecting water for geothermal power or fracking can lead to larger earthquakes than previously thought. Pumping water underground at geothermal power plants can lead to dangerous earthquakes even in regions not prone to tremors, according to scientists. They say ...
  • An Open Letter to President Obama from Gasland ...
    Obama's administration has met with industry officials numerous times, now Fox is calling for the president to meet with families directly impacted by oil and gas fracking. Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary Moniz, Heather Zichal and Valerie Jarrett,I write to request a ...
  • How We Can Wrench Independence from the Corpor ...
    This week we learned what “extreme” in climate changed extreme weather means for human loss -- so what are we doing about it? "Within a few years we are going to have more people off the surface of this planet more often, and we’ll have to determine value in that new environ ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Gina McCarthy confirmed as new head of EPA
      The Senate approved Gina McCarthy to be the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency on a 59-40 vote Thursday, ending a lengthy battle over the post. President Obama nominated Ms. McCarthy, a longtime top official of the EPA, to replace Lisa Jackson, who served in the post in the p ...
  • FOODOPOLY – Meet the author on August 7th in A ...
      Wenonah Hauter grew up on a family farm that her husband runs today as a Community Supported Agriculture Project (CSA), which is part of the growing local food movement. Yet, as one of the nation’s leading healthy-food advocates, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough ...
  • Rick Perry vs The Public Integrity Unit
    As you may or may not know, Governor Rick Perry has vetoed the funding for the Public Integrity Unit, the group charged with enforcing ethics standards for public officials, as well as insurance fraud and motor vehicle tax fraud.  This veto could not have come at a more questionable time.  On th ...
  • Group Purchase for Solar brings some sunshine ...
    A local group of Solar advocates in Plano Texas has worked to put together a group purchase agreement to help reduce the costs of adding solar to your roof top if you live in Plano TX. So far they have gotten 24 locals to commit to the project and hope that they can reach at [...]The post Group ...
  • Eminent Domain: After the legislative session, ...
    NPR’s State Impact takes a look at where landowners stand against pipeline companies’ claims that they have the right to take land through eminent domain. Click here to read part one of a three-part series devoted to looking at efforts to overhaul eminent domain in Texas and what may come ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Eric Davis on scientists and UFOs
    Physicist Dr Eric Davis believes that scientists are becoming more openly involved in UFO investigation. A keen proponent of the field, Dr Davis is no...
  • World's oldest manatee turns 65
    A manatee in Florida has highlighted the way in which captivity can unnaturally extend animal lifespans. Known as Sooty, the manatee is not only the o...
  • Brain depression molecule discovered
    Scientists have identified the molecule that is believed to be responsible for feelings of depression. One of the world's most powerful x-ray machines...
  • Mission to visit Moon's south pole by 2016
    The unmanned privately funded mission could see a telescope set up on top of a lunar mountain. The $100 million price tag would be funded by the Inter...
  • American man wakes up speaking Swedish
    Doctors in the United States remain baffled by the bizarre case of 61-year-old Michael Boatwright. It is believed that Boatwright had been staying at ...

Grassroots

  • The Story of Manal Abu Shalouf
    Subheadline:  One Palestinian girl's experience since Operation Cast Lead radish_girl.jpg Here in the office of Grassroots International hang many pictures of our part ...
  • Communities to President Obama: US Government ...
    leonardo_mab_with_cindy_ggj_and_sara_at_scottsdale_action.jpg President Obama announced his new Climate Action Plan before an audience of college students at Georgetown University on June 25,  Countless young people, environmental acti ...
  • General Strike in Brazil: Social Movements Lea ...
    1039557_495414877203336_21934416_o.jpg Millions of Brazilians are marching today (July 11) in another demonstration of the vitality of national social movements. The demonstrations taking place in different major cities across the country f ...
  • Grassroots International to honor the World Ma ...
    Subheadline:  30th Anniversary Event celebrates extradinary partnership for social change Image:  invitation_cover_image.jpg Grassroots International is honoring ...
  • Agroecology Grows Food and Self-Sufficiency
    Subheadline:  Settlement in Maranhao thrives despite drought brazil-mst_farmer.jpg The embattled northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão is experiencing its worst drought ...

Climate

  • Climate Change Will Alter the Soil That Feeds Us
    (Climate Central) Global warming may be about to change the ground under our feet – and perhaps not in a good way. It could be about to affect one of the most important communities on the planet: the tiny microbes that make l ...
  • Vulnerable Maryland Weighs Threat of Sea-Level ...
    (Washington Post) It was scary enough that a team of experts on sea-level rise projected that Maryland's coastal waters could rise to six feet in this century. But to hammer home the findings of a new report, they included a link ...
  • Movement Aims to Curb Climate Change Through D ...
    (The Journal Sentinel) A Milwaukee church and the cities of Madison and Bayfield are part of a fledgling national movement that has decided to fight climate change by pushing for divestment from fossil fuel companies. Students and cli ...
  • Welcome to Portage County, the Fracking Waste ...
    (Mother Jones) Welcome to Portage County, Ohio, the biggest dumping ground for fracking waste in a state that is fast becoming the go-to destination for the byproducts of America's latest energy boom.
  • Nuclear Closures at Entergy to Exelon Seen on ...
    (Bloomberg) Nuclear reactors that light New York City and Chicago with carbon-free electricity face possible extinction before they can reap the benefits of President Barack Obama's proposed climate rules. Ent ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • These Men Are Nihilists
    The president will appear on Wednesday at ultra-liberal Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, (which is not the site of the "Don't Tase Me, Bro" incident) to unveil his economic agenda. This is almost the definition of preaching to the choir, but it is just the beginning of a campaign to prepare ...
  • Don't Go Generalizing
    Trying to write a piece about what black people think of the president is a daunting challenge and one that should, as much as possible, avoid lazy generalizations like, "To African-Americans, President Obama just gets it" or "To black supporters, that is more important than Obamas inability to ...
  • Something British
    I, too, have been somewhat mystified by how pornography just ceased being a political topic in this country. I remember when Democrats had to at least to pretend to care about the porn industry and its potential effect on the children's morals. Perhaps that lack of discussion in recent years h ...
  • Casual Observation
    They used to say "as goes California, so goes the nation," but I think the new saying should be, "as goes Arizona, so goes the nation." Discuss
  • Not Getting the Balance Right
    If former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James "Hoss" Cartwright actually gets indicted for leaking about the Stuxnet virus to David Sanger of the New York Times, I will be impressed. No one as high ranking has even been prosecuted for divulging classified information. If Private B ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Getting Trashed: Garbage Bin Spotted Exploring ...
    Follow the adventures of a friendly bin, as it spreads joy around the streets of London. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Supermassive Vacuum Cleaner At the Edge of ...
    Beyond the bounds of the observable universe, something is causing galactic clusters to speed along at unimaginable speeds following a particular path. But what is it? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    There's so much to pick from this week – be inspired by amazing bridges, creepy asylums, colorful kindergartens and much more... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Somaliland: The East African Country That Isn't
    Wedged in between troubled neighbors, Somaliland manages to stay a peaceful democracy. One day, it hopes be recognized as an official country. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    There's sure to be something to inspire you this week, whether you love food, urbex, comic books or animals. Take a look... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Band to Watch: Trails And Ways - TIME
    Band to Watch: Trails And Ways TIME The group's lyrics are decidedly political (“Mtn Tune” protests the arrest of activists working to shut down the largest mountaintop removal site in Appalachia), but you don't need to know the back story to be swept up in their sleepily beautiful songs ...
  • Forum: How Daring is Obama's New Climate Plan? ...
    Forum: How Daring is Obama's New Climate Plan? Yale Environment 360 But we will push for strong safeguards, while also tackling other key climate issues left out of the president's plan, including natural gas fracking, mountaintop removal, and the sweetheart deal for coal companies on pu ...
  • As EPA Leader, McCarthy Will Focus on Coal (Oi ...
    As EPA Leader, McCarthy Will Focus on Coal (Oil and Gas, Maybe Not So Much) Triple Pundit ... of coal with a top consumer like China would be a giant step in the right direction. Best case scenario: less overseas demand for U.S. coal, providing more leeway for the EPA to restrict destructive min ...
  • ASB trips to emphasize reflection and service ...
    ASB trips to emphasize reflection and service The Dartmouth Salas and his co-leader Dana Niu '13 will take their group to an economically disadvantaged region of West Virginia to serve areas affected by mountaintop removal — a practice that uses explosives to blow the tops off of mountains i ...
  • Obama at miners' memorial asks 'How can we fai ...
    Obama at miners' memorial asks 'How can we fail them?' People's World The Beckley area is home to much "mountaintop removal" mining, also by Massey Energy. There is great environmental controversy surrounding the impact of this kind of mining on rivers, streams, wells and o ...

Memeorandum

  • 71 Guantanamo prisoners will get parole-style ...
    Carol Rosenberg / Washington Post: 71 Guantanamo prisoners will get parole-style hearings, Pentagon says  —  MIAMI — Seventy-one detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay will get parole-board-style hearings at the Navy base in Cuba, the Pentagon said Sunday, though i ...
  • Obama Lines Up Celebrities To Promote Obamacar ...
    Nedra Pickler / Associated Press: Obama Lines Up Celebrities To Promote Obamacare  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is enrolling some star power to promote health care.  —  Obama stopped by a private White House meeting Monday with celebrities includi ...
  • Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent m ...
    Reuters: Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out  —  (Reuters) - Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them, authorities said on Monday.
  • Nate Silver - Renowned Statistician, Author an ...
    Amy Phillips / ESPN: Nate Silver - Renowned Statistician, Author and Founder of FiveThirtyEight - Joins ESPN in Multi-Faceted Role  —  Nate Silver - Renowned Statistician, Author and Founder of FiveThirtyEight - Joins ESPN in Multi-Faceted Role  —  Will Also Cont ...
  • Are unauthorized immigrants overwhelmingly Dem ...
    Pew Research Center: Are unauthorized immigrants overwhelmingly Democrats?  —  As Congress debates immigration reform, some political leaders and analysts have speculated that there will be “an electoral bonanza for Democrats” if the nation's estimated 11.1 million u ...

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  • Big, stinky 'corpse flower' blooms in Washington
    Tourists look at the blooming titan arum plant on July 22, 2013 at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC. The plant, also known as the corpse flower or stinky plant, is blooming and may remain in bloom for 24 to 48 hours, and then it will collapse quickA towering plant that smells like rotti ...
  • Did Facebook censor Kirk Cameron?
    Oh, Facebook, you cutups. The reasoning behind what you allow and what you ban is tougher to crack than the Voynich manuscript. You have a history of turning a blind eye to some outstandingly rapey content while getting medieval on breastfeeding mothers. But while we're not exact ...
  • Spain's PM says to address graft scandal
    Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy looks on during a press conference in Madrid, on July 22, 2013. Rajoy, under fire over a corruption scandal, says he will appear in parliament in the coming days to explain the political situation of the country.Bowing to pressure from the opposition, Spain ...
  • Study: Ugly people bullied at work
    The workplace is as judgment-free as a high school, according to a new study from Notre Dame and Michigan State. After surveying employees at a health care facility, researchers found that attractiveness mattered as much as personality in how colleagues treat one another. Researchers asked ...
  • The most amazing computer ever
    So, yeah, I've been super-cranky about the Internet lately, worrying about growing inequality and hyper-temp jobs and class hostility. But then I bought a new computer, and now I love technology again. I guess I'm just easy, but gosh darn it, when you fall into the embrace of a new computer, yo ...

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IntelNews

  • Former CIA station chief arrested in Panama &# ...
    A former station chief for the Central Intelligence Agency, who was detained in Panama last week for his alleged role in the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Italy, returned to the United States on Friday.
  • Panama arrests ex-CIA chief of station wanted ...
    A retired 21-year veteran of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, who is wanted by INTERPOL for participating in the abduction of a Muslim cleric in Italy, has been detained by police in Panama.
  • US court dismisses lawsuit against CIA over sc ...
    A United States federal court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Central Intelligence Agency over an alleged murder of an American Department of Defense scientist, which occurred in 1953.
  • News you may have missed #846
    Cuba confirms it hid weapons on seized N. Korean ship. British undercover officers stole identities of dead children. Snowden has ‘thousands’ of damaging NSA documents.
  • Russia ‘considering spy swap with Germany’
    The Russian government has allegedly approached Germany with an offer to swap a number of jailed spies, including a couple of Russian sleeper agents sentenced for espionage earlier this month in Stuttgart.

War is a Crime.org

  • Review: The Terminal (2013)
      This summer’s blockbuster is a remake of Steven Spielberg’s 2004 romantic comedy The Terminal.  The main figure in the earlier film, Viktor--played somewhat awkwardly by Tom Hanks, affecting a nondescript all-purpose Eastern European accent--is trying to immigrate to New York.&n ...
  • Egyptian Turmoil Brings Greater Suffering in Gaza
    By Pam Bailey and Medea Benjamin It unfortunately has become a truism that when Egypt sneezes, Gaza catches a cold. Fearful of the "terrorist elements" automatically associated with Hamas, the governing party in Gaza, neighbouring Egypt is quick to shut what amounts to "prison gates" at the fir ...
  • Iran War Weekly - July 21, 2013
    Iran War Weekly July 21, 2013   Hello All – Iran’s newly elected president will take office on August 3, and negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program are expected to begin in early September.  In the interim, intense and possibly important debates are taking place within the US policy ...
  • Progressives Challenge Pelosi Fundraiser
  • Israeli/Palestinian Peace Talks: Dead on Arrival
      Israeli/Palestinian Peace Talks: Dead on Arrival   by Stephen Lendman   So-called peace talks are fake. They're a sham. They've always been this way. Decades of talks were stillborn from inception. This time's no different.    Chances for a just peace are ZERO. Palesti ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | The Trayvonita Tango, over t ...
    By Visible Meanwhile, I hear about all kinds of cool people, doing cool things, solo and in groups and I think; well, sure, there’s hope, there’s promise, there’s possibility and… I am an optimist. There is always the chance that the whole world will hear the word, “Cut”! ...
  • How the FBI Uses Rapists and Child Molesters t ...
    The FBI is under pressure to capture terrorists, even where none exist. So they work with some of the worst criminals to entrap losers that likely pose no real threat. July 17, 2013 | The following is an excerpt from The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism b ...
  • Was 9/11 an Inside Job or a Mossad Job? | Vete ...
    by Laurent Guyénot As the role of Israel and its powerful lobby in the recent destabilization of the Middle-East becomes clearer, the idea that a gang of Israeli likudniks, helped by their moles in the U.S. administration, are responsible for the false flag 9/11 attacks, is gaining ground. Franc ...
  • Visible Origami | The Darkness within the Dark ...
    By Visible It seems that the more we uncover, the more horrible is the filth that we uncover and it seems there is very little filth that we do uncover that does not have a good portion of the usual suspects, like Cass Sunstein engaged in it. It’s good to know that when the right […]
  • Cato Comments on TSA Body Scanners | Cato @ Li ...
    By Jim Harper Share In 2007, the president and CEO of the RAND Corporation, James Thomson, wrote up his impressions of the management at the Department of Homeland Security. “DHS leaders … ‘manage by inbox,’ with the dominant mode of DHS behavior being crisis management,” he wrote. “DHS implemen ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Watch our world warm! How warm was June? What& ...
    Summary:  Each month brings forth a crop of cherry-picked news from climate alarmists about rapid and severe global warming, usually with little or no reference to any historical context. Why do people listen, as the world’s climate science institutions show us a broader and more accurate ...
  • Interesting news about big stories followed on ...
    Summary: The FM website provides two kinds of services: forecasts and news.  The forecasting record is quite good. See the hits listed here, and the misses here. With the news, we try to highlight emerging stories before the major media. Updates on these themes get posted on twitter (to follow s ...
  • Billionaires mold our schools to produce bette ...
    Summary: During the past thirty years conservatives have worked to dismantle the institutions that produced the prosperous middle class after WW2. Decades of starve-the-beast funding have weakened the schools (along with other social factors). Now our plutocrats have begun the last phase, rebuil ...
  • A tale of New America: a billionaire plays wit ...
    Summary:  Today we have second of three tales of New America, about a billionaire playing with his toy: Sears. Its employees, vendors, and shareholders will suffer if his mad theories destroy the company. Nothing that happens will affect his family’s lifestyle for a dozen generations. Thes ...
  • Watch as plutocrats mold us into a New America ...
    Summary: Increasing wealth creates positive feedback, much like a hurricane moving over warm water. A more powerful 1% allows them to command the political and economic high ground of America, so that they can gain further wealth — and shape a New America more to their liking. This process ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Congress Misunderstands Role of Joint Chiefs
    Senator John McCain is blocking a second term for General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after a testy exchange in a hearing Thursday. His grounds? The refusal of Dempsey to "respond to legitimate questions" from the senior senator from Arizona. McCain's ...
  • Book Review: The Thistle and the Drone
    Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tobias Gibson of Westminster College. In recent days, there have been reports of U.S. drone strikes in North Waziristan, Pakistan. According to the New York Times article, these strikes killed at least two people. This remote area of Pakistan has long ...
  • For a New Approach to Iran
    By William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, and Jim Walsh. Thomas Pickering is a PSA Advisory Board Member and a former US Ambassador to the United Nations. The article was originally published in the New York Review of Books. For a New Approach to Iran Could this be the year for an engagement with ...
  • How Would Al Gore Have Fought the Iraq War?
    Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Elizabeth Saunders who is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. read more
  • The Twin Uncertainty of Authoritarian Regimes
    p>In a paper for Mexico’s CIDE that will apparently form the introduction to a forthcoming book, the always-excellent Andreas Schedler writes about the “twin uncertainties” of authoritarian regimes, one institutional and the other informational. As Schedler notes, it’s ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Subsidizing Poverty
    Want to know the problem with enterprise zones? Then check out Sunday’s Riverside Press Enterprise, one of the best midsized newspapers in California. A story in it covers Governor Jerry Brown’s successful campaign to have the legislature put enterprise zones out of their misery. (Brown recentl ...
  • My Final Post
    This isn’t my last piece at The American Prospect, but it is my last post—if you follow me on Twitter, you probably know, by now, that I’m leaving The Prospect to join The Daily Beast as a staff writer. I’m not the best at goodbyes, so I’ll say this: Not only am I grateful that The Prospect hir ...
  • The Depressing Picture of Economic Mobility in ...
    Today's New York Times has a big article by David Leonhardt on a new study of income mobility with a bunch of interesting findings, the core of which is that, especially for middle-class and poor people, where you live matters tremendously to your chances of improving your economic station. Her ...
  • The Privilege of Whiteness
    As a biracial child who spent part of his youth abroad, Barack Obama learned the feeling of otherness and became attuned to how he was perceived by those around him. As a politician, he knew well that many white people saw him as a vehicle for their hopes of a post-racial society. Even if those ...
  • Teacher, May I Plead the Fifth?
    flickr/amitbronstein In January 2008, a school resource officer—a policeman assigned to a school—named David Pritchett brought eight-year-old Anthony J. Hunt into the reading lab at Shields Elementary School in Lewes, Delaware. He planned to question him about a missing dollar, stolen ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Guilty Pleas in Texas Racist Prison Gang Case ...
    Federal prosecutors in Texas have obtained guilty pleas from eight of the 35 members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) charged with racketeering and a host of violent crimes, including murders, arsons, robberies and assaults. The first guilty pleas in the massive prosecution came just two ...
  • Leader in Georgia Antigovernment Terror Plot P ...
    LUDOWICI, Ga. – The suspected leader of a murderous militia of military men was the last to be interrogated that mild Georgia winter evening 18 months ago. Although he was only 20 at the time, United States Army Pvt. Isaac Aguigui played it cool and defiant. “You can go to hell,” he told an agen ...
  • Racists React With Shock, Anger to Fellow Acti ...
    White nationalists, learning yesterday of activist Derek Black’s renouncing of the movement, reacted with disbelief, conspiracy theories and unbridled fury. But it was the fact that Black, son of the former Alabama Klan leader who now runs the largest racist Web forum in the world, made his comm ...
  • African-American Coalition Provides Cover to N ...
    The anti-immigrant lobby has long enjoyed influence in Washington but in recent years has been forced to defend itself against charges that it represents the narrow interests of white nationalists who fear the “browning” of America. So it may have surprised some when a new coalition of African-A ...
  • Activist Son of Key Racist Leader Renounces Wh ...
    Derek Black, the son of the former Alabama Klan leader who now runs the largest racist Web forum in the world, has renounced white nationalism, saying that he had been through “a gradual awakening process” and apologizing for his past activism. In an E-mail (pdf) to the editor of this blog this ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Summers for Fed Chair? “Great Gift to the Mega ...
    WILLIAM GREIDER, 36greider at gmail.comread more
  • Cities, Conservationists and Health Organizati ...
    A coalition of nonprofit organizations, municipalities, businesses, scientists and others have banded together to promote effective, affordable rodent-control strategies that protect children, pets and wildlife.read more
  • ACLU Calls on State Officials to Launch Indepe ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts and ACLU of Florida today called upon officials in their respective states to conduct independent investigations into the shooting death of Ibragim Todashev, who was killed by law enforcement officers on May 22nd during a joint interroga ...
  • Budget Calculator Puts Costs of Programs and C ...
    Every day, articles are written about government spending, often using enormous numbers but very little context. For example, readers are told that a certain program costs $760 billion, which seems like a lot of money. However, they are not told that this cost is spread over a 10-year budget win ...
  • Sanders: Obama Must Withdraw Support for Dang ...
    U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today urged President Obama to withdraw his support for a dangerous bill likely to cause a substantial jump in college loan interest rates for students and parents in years to come. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Gen. Hayden’s Glass House
    Ray McGovern Former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden should not throw any more stones, lest his own glass house be shattered. His barrage Friday against truth-teller Edward Snowden and London Guardian journalist Glenn Greenw ...
  • Mr. President, Have Pity on the Working Man
    Bill Moyers Michael Winship And you thought the government didn’t have a jobs program. It does. The problem is that the pay and benefits are lousy, and in many cases the working conditions ai ...
  • As the NSA Follows You, We Follow the Money
    Emily Masters Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States has witnessed the rapid growth of an intelligence-industrial complex that fuses government and corporate power. According to the Project on Government Oversight, $300 billion a year is ...
  • On the Passing of Helen Thomas
    Ralph Nader There will never be another Helen Thomas. She shattered forever one anti-woman journalistic barrier after another in the Washington press corps and rose to the top of her profession’s organizations. Helen Thomas asked the ...
  • Detroit Really Is Too Big to Fail
    John Nichols

Water Privatization

  • Malaya Business News Online - Philippine Busin ...
    ‘We, therefore, urge Philippine authorities to faithfully adhere to the terms of the Concession Agreements, including following the provisions on dispute settlement.’
  • Honor water deals, groups urge gov’t
    Metro Manila’s two water concession firms have yet to recover some P105 billion in costs spent over the last decade and a half, yet some regulators want to change the rules—and these firms’ ability to recover their investments—midway through the game.
  • Miya won't retreat from Baciwa deal
    MIYA will continue with its unsolicited proposal to Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) to undertake the non-revenue water (NRW) and expansion projects even without its business partner -- Maynilad.
  • Water concession agreements Business Groups: u ...
    Business groups yesterday called on government to respect contracts in light of moves to abrogate the 16-year old water concessions that provide water supply to Metro Manila and its nearby cities and municipalities.
  • Gov't urged to honor water deals
    BUSINESS GROUPS on Friday called on the government to honor contracts granted to the country's biggest water concessionaires, warning of risks to the centerpiece public-private partnership (PPP) program given calls to revise or even scrap the deals over allegedly onerous terms.

Guardian

  • Two brothers jailed for Selfridges raid
    Sam Curtin and Connor Groake admit to role in million-pound armed raid at department store, in which gang wore burkasTwo brothers have been jailed for their roles in a "professionally planned and executed" million-pound armed raid at Selfridges, in which the gang dressed in burkas.Sam Curtin and ...
  • Morsi's family brands Egyptian army chief a 'c ...
    Ousted president's children allege human rights violations over his continued detention and say they plan to sue coup leaderThe family of the ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has branded the army chief who ordered his detention an international criminal, and announced plans to take legal ...
  • Ukrainian man charged with 'terrorist-related ...
    Pavlo Lapshyn charged with murder of Saleem, who was killed as he walked from a mosque to his home in BirminghamA 25-year-old Ukrainian man has been charged with the terrorist-related murder of 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem.The suspect was originally arrested last Thursday under terrorism laws aft ...
  • UK temperatures reach seven-year high, but for ...
    Met Office say heatwave set to break with widespread thunderstorms, heavy rain, lightning and even hailBritain sweltered as temperatures soared to a seven-year high, but the heatwave is set to give way to heavy downpours, forecasters have warned.The thermometer reached 33.5C (92.3F) at Heathrow ...
  • Lynton Crosby 'would have discussed' cigarette ...
    John Major's former spin doctor Sheila Gunn says Cameron's manner suggests 'subject's clearly come up' with Tory adviser Read the leaked document from Crosby Textor in fullDavid Cameron would have discussed the government's decision to abandon plain cigarette packaging with the Tories' chief el ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • A Conversation with Alison Spann Daughter of F ...
    Captain Jonny Michael Spann, an ex-Marine, died in 2001 while working for the CIA in Afghanistan. At the time of his death, Alison, his daughter was only 9-years-old. Today, 12 years later, she speaks with anchor Carol Hills about his legacy, her own life, and what the future ...
  • U.S.-Afghan Pact Possible by October Dempsey Says
    Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, conducts a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, after a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, July 22, 2013. DOD photo by D. Myles ...
  • US top general seeks Afghan troops deal by October
    FILE - In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013, file photo, Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks at a press conference during a ceremony at a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Karzai's office said he signed a decree on Saturday, July 20, 2013, approving a new law governing nex ...
  • EU Names Danish Diplomat as Special Representa ...
    Brussels, Jul 22 (Prensa Latina) The European Union (EU) today appointed Danish diplomat Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin as its special representative in Afghanistan, according to a communique of that regional bloc. Skjold Mellbin was appointed to that post in a meeting of the European bloc Foreign ...
  • Afghanistan reality show boom upsets hardliners
    Religious hardliners have declared a jihad against the television talent shows that have taken Afghanistan by storm, condemning the way they feature unveiled women singing and dancing. The programmes - modelled on Western favourites such as The Voice and X Factor - are hugely popular in a countr ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Updated Securities and Exchange Commission Whi ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Edward Snowden Should Be Protected, Not Prosecuted
      On June 27, Politix published a guest OP-ED by Stephen Kohn, entitled Edward Snowden Should Be Protected, Not Prosecuted.   Stephen Kohn is the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and author of The Whistleblower's Handbook.  
  • DOJ Announces False Claims Act Settlements Rec ...
    Last week the Department of Justice issued a series of press releases announcing settlements of several claims made under the False Claims Act. These settlements resulted in recoveries of about $60 million. The settlements are listed below: Fifty-Five Hospitals to Pay U.S. More Than $ ...
  • Federal Employee Whistleblowers Win Rare Victory
    The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) issued a ruling today in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. The MSPB held that the new definition of a" protected disclosure" set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WEPA) applied to cases pending and/or whic ...
  • The Whistleblower's Handbook Featured in Bosto ...
    This past Sunday Katharine Whittemore of the Boston Globe published an article entitled “A look at books on whistle-blowing.” Whittemore writes that it is currently “kind of a strange, explosive golden age” for whistleblowers. The “tipping point” in a cultura ...

TechDirt

  • ISP CEO Explains What Happens When The NSA Sho ...
    As a bunch of folks have been sending in, Buzzfeed has the incredible story from the CEO of independent ISP XMission, Pete Ashdown (who, by the way, has also run for Senator in Utah, and has a really good take on copyright law), talking about what happened when the NSA knocked on his door. Ashdo ...
  • Canonical Goes Big In Attempt To Crowdfund Exc ...
    It's no secret that Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO of Canonical, maker of Ubuntu Linux, has very strongly embraced the mobile ecosystem as the future. Back in May, he famously "closed" bug 1 listed for Ubuntu, which was "Microsoft has a majority market," declaring that this was no longer true, thank ...
  • Architect Of Obama's War On Whistleblowers: 'I ...
    Over the last few years, we've covered President Obama's war on whistleblowers, including the fact that he's used the Espionage Act against whistleblowers more than every other President combined, which is really quite incredible when you think about it. The NY Times has tried to dig around and ...
  • If The Feds Say Collecting Data Is Not A Searc ...
    One of the (many) governmental excuses that have been spread in an attempt to defend the NSA surveillance practice of collecting every bit of data is that just the collection isn't a "search and seizure." That is, they claim that until they actually look at the data they've collected, they haven ...
  • Ex-CIA/NSA Boss Says Snowden Worse Than Every ...
    Former CIA and NSA boss Michael Hayden has already been making the rounds saying stupid things about Ed Snowden and his leaks, but he took it to a new level late last week by comparing Ed Snowden to a variety of former Americans who gave secrets to foreign governments... and then declaring that ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • David Sanger’s role in promoting anti-Snowden ...
    Even while the New York Times prides itself as a pillar of the American establishment, it generally tries to maintain at least a facade of independence from the U.S. government. It’s journalists generally enjoy higher levels and easier forms of access to administration officials than most ...
  • Former NSA chief sees open government as a thr ...
    In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, former NSA chief Michael Hayden was asked: Is Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor? Gen. Hayden: He’s certainly not a hero. The word traitor has a very narrowly defined legal meaning that he may not in the end quite meet. I personally think Sno ...
  • Our coming food crisis
    Gary Paul Nabhan writes: This summer the tiny town of Furnace Creek, Calif., may once again grace the nation’s front pages. Situated in Death Valley, it last made news in 1913, when it set the record for the world’s hottest recorded temperature, at 134 degrees. With the heat wave currently blank ...
  • Climate change: some reasons for our failures
    Robert Manne writes: Twenty five years ago, scientists with an interest in the climate were moving towards a consensual understanding, that primarily through the burning of fossil fuels human beings were responsible for potentially catastrophic global warming. At present, at least 97% of climate ...
  • America no longer has a functioning judicial s ...
    Washington’s Blog: The Department of Justice told a federal court this week that the NSA’s spying “cannot be challenged in a court of law”. (This is especially dramatic given that numerous federal judges and legal scholars – including a former FISA judge – say ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Why the NOAA Global Temperature Product Doesn’ ...
    The opening paragraph of NOAA’s press release NCDC Releases June 2013 Global Climate Report begins with alarmist statistics and an error (my boldface): According to NOAA scientists, the globally averaged temperature for June 2013 tied with 2006 as the fifth … Continue reading →
  • A low-sensitivity climate model that outperfor ...
    Climate sensitivity is IMHO, the most important unresolved issue in climate science. A number of recent papers, including the IPCC AR5 leak, plus the recent Economist leak of a later AR5 draft are pointing to lower climate sensitivities that what … Continue reading →
  • Stoat – unhinged
    William Connolley, aka the wiki warrior of climate, runs a blog called “Stoat” under the National Geographic brand. In his latest episode rant, he is complaining about his personal perception of Dr. Judith Curry’s professionalism regarding her ocean acidification discussion. &# ...
  • Weekly Climate and Energy news Roundup
      The Week That Was: 2013-07-20 (July 20, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “Can any witnesses say they agree with Obama’s statement that warming has accelerated during & ...
  • Australia’s average temperature
    Are Australians heading for the cooker? Guest essay by Bill Johnston Elections for Australia’s National (Federal) parliament are looming and carbon tax is a battleground issue. The incumbent Labour Party have proposed to transition its existing toxic carbon tax to … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Stunningly beautiful 3D medical animations!
    The Nucleus team of graduate-degreed medical animators, writers, and designers specializes in creating accurate, cinematic 3D medical animations for patient and professional education. via Nucleus Demo Reel 2013 – YouTube.
  • Researchers turn off Down’s syndrome genes
    The insertion of one gene can muzzle the extra copy of chromosome 21 that causes Down’s syndrome, according to a study published today in Nature1. The method could help researchers to identify the cellular pathways behind the disorder’s symptoms, and to design targeted treatments. “It’s a ...
  • Most Mutations in the Human Genome are Recent ...
    We really are a mutant race. Our genomes are strewn with millions of rare gene variations, the result of the very fast, very recent population growth of the human species. From an estimated 5 million individuals just 10,000 years ago, we ballooned to more than 7 billion. On average, every duplic ...
  • Retrovirus Replication 3D Animation
    Retrovirus Replication 3D Animation – YouTube.
  • Nailing Regeneration
    Stem cells at the base of finger and toenails act as coordinating centers to orchestrate communication between the nail, bone, and nerve tissues necessary to promote mouse fingertip regeneration after amputation, according to new research published today (June 13) in Nature. Researchers found th ...

CFACT

  • Justifying power grabs with phony climate science
    During this hot, wet summer, a “national climate expert” recently told Delawareans that they can expect even hotter summers – with a climate like Savannah, Georgia’s – by the end of the century. The culprit, naturally: runaway global warming.
  • Senate warming hearing backfires!
    The warmist experts assembled by Barbara Boxer were over-matched by the experts invited to question global warming and the massive hard evidence they brought with them proving yet again that when both sides are allowed to speak, the global warming line does not hold up.
  • “Ten Billion” is poppycock and bal ...
    Two new books, Ten Billion, by Stephen Emmot, and Population: Ten Billion, by Dan Dorley, claim too many people will bring on disaster. They claim humanity will be doomed by the combination of overpopulation, climate change and species loss.... Oddly, this claim has new proponents just as the w ...
  • Study on floods and carbon dioxide defy UN pro ...
    Those convinced of man-made global warming believe that as carbon dioxide levels rise, there should be a corresponding increase in flood levels. But according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey, floods in the U.S. have not shown the measurable increase that researchers expected to see. ...
  • Green energy: often a very bad “investme ...
    Once again, the $2.6 billion Cape Wind construction is illustrative of how the overlaps can give the developer more in taxpayer-funded benefits than the project’s actual cost. Federal incentives, including a $780 million energy investment credit, a DOE loan guarantee, and accelerated depreciatio ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • 4 Dutch Citizens Suspected of Gay Propaganda C ...
    Four Dutch citizens detained by police during a gay rights seminar outside the northern Russian city of Murmansk appeared in a local court Monday suspected of promoting homosexual relationships among minors, according to human rights activists and local media reports.    
  • Gay Propaganda Ban in Russia
        
  • Influx of ‘Other Ethnicities’ Likeliest of Rus ...
    More than one in three Russians think the influx of people of “other ethnicities” is a very likely threat to national security, more so than terrorism or environmental disasters, according to a poll published Monday.    
  • Russian Family Beaten Up by Ex-Cons in Road Ra ...
    Two men with previous criminal records beat another man, his wife and teenage son with baseball bats in a road rage attack in the south of Russia, local police said Monday.    
  • KHL: Former Avangard Forward Kuparinen Returns ...
    Finnish center Matti Kuparinen, who played last season with Russian hockey team Avangard Omsk, will return home after signing a one-year deal with Helsinki-based HIFK of the SM-liiga, Avangard said on its website Monday.    

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • AJIL Symposium: A Plea to Judges – Don’t Make ...
    by Darryl Robinson by Darryl Robinson [Darryl Robinson is Associate Professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law] I am delighted to offer this comment on Leila Sadat’s excellent article on crimes against humanity in the modern age.  Her article makes several important contributions. I agree ...
  • AJIL Symposium: Crimes Against Humanity in the ...
    by Leila Nadya Sadat by Leila Nadya Sadat [Leila Nadya Sadat is the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and Director, Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, at Washington University School of Law] I am honored to participate in this Opinio Juris/AJIL forum discussion, and wish to thank, in ad ...
  • American Journal of International Law Symposiu ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen We are pleased to host the American Journal of International Law on-line symposium on the lead articles of the new issue of the AJIL, which were written by Leila Sadat (Washington University) and Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv University). Today and tomorrow there wi ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, July 22, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said that attacks on UN peacekeepers in the Darfur region of Sudan may constitute war crimes. European Union governments agreed today to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the EU terrorism blacklist in a re ...
  • Guest Post: Jurisdictional Aspects of the Arti ...
    by Solon Solomon and Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto by Solon Solomon and Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto [Solon Solomon will join King’s College of London, Dickson Poon School of Law as of September 2013, and Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto is a Faculty member of the University of Manchester, School of Law.] Much ha ...

Public News Service

  • How Much Is Climate Change Already Costing Us?
    How Much Is Climate Change Already Costing Us? PHOENIX - How much money is damaging weather resulting from climate change costing Arizona? A look at insurance data suggests it's more than a billion dollars a year and rising. Opponents of clean-air limits on carbon pollution say the new rules w ...
  • Marriage Equality Advances; LGBT Adoption &#82 ...
    Marriage Equality Advances; LGBT Adoption – Not So Much PHOENIX – Two U.S. Supreme Court rulings have advanced the cause of marriage equality, and 12 states now allow same-sex marriage. But what about LGBT couples and individuals who want to adopt children? Ellen Kahn, director o ...
  • Advocate: Farm Workers “Treated Like Ins ...
    Advocate: Farm Workers “Treated Like Insects” PHOENIX - Farm workers from around the nation have been in Washington this week to urge Congress to pass stronger legislation to reduce what one government estimate says are 10,000 to 20,000 acute pesticide poisonings yearly in the agricu ...
  • Study: Declining Colorado River Flows Could Hu ...
    Study: Declining Colorado River Flows Could Hurt Property Values PHOENIX - If water flows in the Colorado River system decline as predicted, a new study projects, river-based property values also could decline by an average of 10 percent. The study by the advocacy group Protect the Flows survey ...
  • Road Trip! One Family's Concerns, Support for ...
    Road Trip! One Family's Concerns, Support for National Parks PHOENIX - It's not just a vacation; it's an adventure for one family traveling through the Four Corners states this week. The family of Maite Arce has made it a mission to discover National Parks and Monuments this summer, and to encou ...

Center for Food Safety

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

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

  • My dad’s 95th birthday
    My dad’s 95th birthday and family reunion. 8 out of 11 Morris first cousins and one first cousin from my mom’s side of the family. I’m 4th from the left in back row.
  • Assad regime thanks US peace movement for its ...
    Parts of the US peace movement, from the deeply naive Green Party to the loony Manichean left like PSL openly support the Assad regime against “terrorists” and he’s so darned pleased with him that he thanked them. The Syria State TV News carried a glowing report on the “N ...
  • Detroit bankruptcy. The war between pensioners ...
    Will the pensioners come before the bondholders in the Detroit bankruptcy? Right now, the plan is for bondholders to get 75% and pensioners to be kicked to the curb and get 10-20%. However, a judge has halted the bankruptcy saying the Michigan Constitution blocks pensions from being reduced. In ...
  • Arizona using same amount of water despite hug ...
    Impressive. Arizona has had a 470% population increase in 50 years yet uses only 7% more water.
  • Detroit bankruptcy – harbinger for other cities
    Long time Detroit journalist and auther Charlie LeDuff says laugh at Detroit at your own risk because your city may be next. His op-ed on the Detroit bankruptcy is evocative and powerful. Read the whole thing. The promise of a good life for a good day’s work is gone. Detroit is bankrupt. T ...

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 19 2013
    Jack Blood is moving on….. STAY TUNED TO www.deadlinelive.info FOR PERIODIC PODCASTS….. details discussed on the show. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR A GOOD RIDE! (its just a ride…) Please continue to support this site and the Podcasts with your generous donations! STAY BOLD!
  • Iconic White House Agitator Helen Thomas: Dead ...
    Also reported HERE   by Stephen Lendman Daily Censored On July 20, headlines reported the news. The doyen of the White House House press corps was gone.   After a long illness, the Gridiron Club and Foundation announced her passing. She ended decades covering presidential press confere ...
  • Colorado town ponders bounty for shooting down ...
    The farming and ranching town of Deer Trail, Colorado, is considering paying bounties to anyone who shoots down a drone. Next month, trustees of the town of 600 that lies on the high plains, 55 miles (34km) east of Denver, will debate an ordinance that would allow residents to buy a $25 hunting ...
  • Ruling That Struck Down Military Detention Pow ...
    A federal judge’s ruling that struck down a controversial U.S. military-detention law as unconstitutional was overturned by an appeals court in New York because the plaintiffs lacked legal standing to challenge it. A group including former New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges sued Presiden ...
  • This Day In History – July 19
    64 – Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned. 1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only [...]

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

  • Who is winning the battle of network stars — o ...
    TV stations are turning to Facebook to not only gain new viewers, but engage with people who already fans of shows. Networks are using Facebook to give fans sneak peeks of shows through exclusive video clips,...
  • Facebook users increasingly spending more time ...
    Facebook is reportedly considering auto-play video ads in the News Feed (though apparently, this decision may be delayed a few more months). Statistics compiled this year from comScore show that it can be a viable place...
  • Facebook users rally against controversial Rol ...
    On Wednesday, July 17, Rolling Stone magazine revealed that the Boston Marathon bomber suspect was the cover choice for their latest magazine issue. Shortly after, Facebook community outrage violently expressed itself via the page “Boycott Rolling...
  • Facebook mobile usage increasing in U.S., U.K.
    According to a report from Reuters, Facebook mobile usage for June showed an 18 percent increase in the U.S. and 22 percent in the U.K. At the first quarterly earnings report in May, Facebook reported a...
  • STUDY: Facebook beating out niche sites for lo ...
    Through Facebook’s Graph Search, the company is trying to become a player in local search. As Yext discovered in a recent study, Facebook is already a more popular local search engine than TripAdvisor and other niche...

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

  • Stand Your Ground Laws Encourage Cop Wannabes ...
    Stand Your Ground laws devalue human life. Thank you Jeb Bush for spearheading them
  • Netanyahu, Abbas Back To Square None
    President Barack Obama's administration, besieged by a dysfunctional congress at home, is barely relevant in the Middle East anymore, with Russia, France, Britain, Turkey, and even China making headway. Resuming the "peace process" is necessary to give the US a chance to claim leadership in a le ...
  • Soft Machine: A Bright Ray of Hope for Bradley ...
    Perhaps all is not lost. In the long dark night of our military imperium, a shaft of light, of hope, has suddenly appeared -- the Court of Appeal of the Armed Forces of the United States. For it turns out that if a military prisoner has faced the least mistreatment during incarceration, even a t ...
  • The Spirit That Drove Us to Civil War Is Back: ...
    Ever since the Civil War ended, the South --with a mixture of deception and self-deception-- has been trying to obscure the truth about what it was fighting for. It was all about slavery. What does it say about a spirit if it drives people to kill or die for the right of some people to treat oth ...
  • SEC Lawsuit: Paolo Pellegrini's He-Said/She-Sa ...
    To sabotage the SEC's case for securities fraud, Paolo Pellegrini audaciously lied under oath.

Switchboard

  • Challenges with environmental laws in China
    David Pettit, Director, Southern California Air Program, Santa Monica, CA NI hao.  NRDC has a China office in Beijing that has within it an environmental law program, headed by a very talented lawyer, my friend Yan Wang.  I'm on my third v ...
  • Memo to the President: Transportation Choices ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. The President, Scott Wilson of the Washington Post reports today, will launch a series of speeches, using his “bully pulpit” to promote more economic opportunity for ...
  • What NYC Can Do to Contribute to a Better Food ...
    Johanna Dyer, Attorney, New York Last week, six of the major candidates in the race for New York City Mayor gathered at The New School to speak about a topic that's relatively new to the city’s political scene: food. The event was hosted by a ...
  • Radioactive oil and gas waste criss-crossing t ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. NORM is a term for Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material. TENORM is a term for Technologically Enhanced NORM. Generally, when it comes to solid oil and gas waste rather than wastewater, the sour ...
  • Crisis Averted...For Now: How We Can Learn Fro ...
    Janie Chen, Program Assistant – Midwest, Chicago, IL As I sit here, sweating through this weeklong heat wave, nothing sounds better than drinking a glass of ice water or taking a cold shower.  With temperatures stubbornly hovering in the 90&rsq ...

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 - Old Ways Not Obsolete
    They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. And in the U.S. Senate, that’s not a bad thing.On Tuesday, the upper chamber saw an eleventh-hour deal to avert the so-called nuclear option, a rule change to alter Senate procedure that would have multiplied the level of polarization and distr ...
  • The Edge of Medicine - iKnife Improves Removal ...
    An experimental surgical scalpel is helping surgeons target only cancerous tissue when they remove a tumor. The iKnife — or "intelligent knife" — “sniffs� the smoke produced as it cauterizes the tissue, distinguishing malignant cells from surrounding healthy tissue.From the moment patien ...
  • The Way We Are - US Survivors of Military Sexu ...
    Four U.S. military veterans who are survivors of military sexual assaults testified Friday before a House of Representatives Veterans' Affairs subcommittee. They asked for better care and treatment for their trauma from the U.S. Veterans Administration.The U.S. Defense Department released a stud ...
  • Israel and Palestine - Israel, Palestinians Se ...
    Israel and the Palestinians are setting down guidelines for new peace talks brokered by the United States.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the expected resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians after a four-year stalemate. Speaking at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusal ...
  • Russia on Edge - Vera Kichanova: Russia's Oppo ...
    It's not every 22-year-old that gets a meeting at the White House with U.S. President Barack Obama's national security adviser -- and shows up for it in peach-colored knee-high socks. Meet Vera Kichanova, a young woman whose hipster garb belies her maturity, and whose fresh complexion has become ...

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

  • Scandalabra--CLOSING IN? IRS Chief Council Met ...
    The IRS scandal (the one about targeting Tea Party organizations) is creeping closer to the White House. As reported on Dick Morris.com Friday and seconded by the Daily Caller today, the IRS Counsel named in last weeks hearing of the House Government Oversight Committee, William Wilkins, IRS Chi ...
  • Obama To Pivot To Economy For the 12th Time Si ...
    For the 12th time since he was elected President Barack Obama is promising to pivot to the economy. According to the Associated Press: Drawing renewed attention to the economy, President Barack Obama will return this week to an Illinois college where he once spelled out a vision for an ...
  • PA President Abbas Asks What Kerry is Talking ...
    As expected, John Kerry doesn't know what heis talking about.  In his first comments since Secretary of State Kerry announce the restart of peace talk, Palestinian President Abbas said this  morning that he has not yet agreed to talks and will not until Israel agrees to start negotia ...
  • Europe's Half-Arsed Hezbollah Resolution
    They are so proud of themselves. After years of negotiation The European Union's Counsel of Foreign Minsters have declared that Hezbollah's military wing is a terrorist organization, proving that these minster's don't understand or don't give a damn that the "military wing" is part of the e ...
  • Dubai Rape Victim Sentenced to Jail For Extra ...
    Hey nothing like compassion from the Religion of Peace.  Marte Deborah Dalelv from Norway, 24, reported to UAE authorities that she was raped their reaction was to arrest her, haul her before a judge and sentence her to 16 months in jail for having sex outside of marriage. "I have to sp ...

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

  • VOICES: Southerners take to the streets
    Challenging the stereotype of the happy-go-lucky Southerner, residents of North Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia are taking to the streets and standing up to the right-wing corporate agenda. read more
  • Opening the Box: Sarah Shourd on Herman Wallac ...
    Once accused of being a spy and held in solitary confinement by the Iranian government, Sarah Shourd is now a playwright who is using her work to shine a light on the notorious case of Herman Wallace of Louisiana's Angola 3 and the broader human rights issue of prolonged solitary confinement in ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: North Carolina tax revamp hel ...
    The Republican-led legislature has dramatically overhauled North Carolina's tax code, but not everyone will benefit from the changes. read more
  • Virginia unveils plan for restoring voting rig ...
    In May, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) announced a plan to automatically restore voting rights on an individual basis to nonviolent felons who completed their sentence. This week, his administration revealed the details of the plan, which was crafted with the help of voting rights advocacy grou ...
  • NC Senate outdoes the House with harsh voter I ...
    The Republican-led state Senate unveiled legislation this week that will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians to vote. Voting rights advocates are protesting the latest example of the state's regressive political turn. read more

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.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • People can believe pretty much anything
    This is something I may be posting on at length later, but Gary Olson has written a post that says much of what I’d say, albeit in a different way: It can’t be emphasized too strongly that all brains are basically alike, with the same equipment,but differing cultural experiences contribute ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • China’s Gansu province hit by powerful e ...
    BBC – Two powerful earthquakes have struck China’s north-west Gansu province, killing at least 75 people and leaving more than 400 others injured. The first earthquake near Dingxi city had a magnitude of 5.98 and was shallow, with a depth of just 9.8 km (6 miles), the US Geological S ...
  • WHO had asked India to ban toxin that killed c ...
    Reuters – The pesticide that killed 23 Indian schoolchildren last week is a nerve poison banned by many countries because of what the World Health Organization (WHO) describes as its “high acute toxicity”. As early as 2009, the United Nations health agency urged India to consid ...
  • Detroit bankruptcy unconstitutional, Michigan ...
    Global Post – Judge says governor can’t allow Detroit to file for bankruptcy because it would threaten pensions, retiree benefits.  A Michigan judge on Friday complicated Detroit’s bankruptcy even further by saying the move was unconstitutional.  Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina rule ...
  • Hepatitis B vaccine kills 3 babies in Vietnam
    Than Nien – Health authorities and police in the north-central province of Quang Tri have sealed 136 vials of hepatitis B vaccine and banned the use of other vials in two batches following the death of three newborns on Saturday morning soon after they received the shots. Lam Chi Duc, dire ...
  • Yes, America, You Have Executed an Innocent Man
    The Atlantic – Carlos DeLuna was put to death in December 1989 for a murder in Corpus Christi. But he didn’t commit the crime. Today, his case reminds us of the glaring flaws of capital punishment. Read Article

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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

  • Support the Huddersfield 2
    Barclays11.jpg On 26th July two local anarchists are to be tried at Huddersfield Magistrates Court after they were arrested at an Anti-Bedroom Tax demonstration on 6th April this year. The arrests occ ...
  • Building a Revolutionary Anarchism Speaking Tour
    545708_531809053500796_959639503_n.jpg A look at a speaking tour by Colin O'Malley about the idea of a nationwide revolutionary anarchist movement. ...
  • 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

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

  • NSA Utah Facility Is All About Mind Control
    Take a few minutes and watch this short, incredibly factual video about Dr. Jose Delgado.   Keep in mind that Delgado was the primary point researcher in a Black Ops CIA/NASA/NSA project called MK Ultra during the 60′s and 70′s.  MK Ultra did not die, it just went deep undercover wit ...
  • 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.  

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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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Peoples Voice

  • America, the Powerful and the Powerless
    Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja Hans Morgenthau (Politics Among Nations, 1948) defined the concept of power as condition related to the psychology of mind. In a nation state, leaders use their mind to transform the vested power into political acts. Late Professor Morgenthau offered proactive intuition ...
  • Sabotaging the Egyptian Revolution
    By Dr. Elias Akleh The June 30th Egyptian revolution had been over-analyzed, scrutinized, criticized, mislabeled, and distorted by many writers, analysts, politicians, and governments. This was a national Intifada (uprising) through which Egyptians had expressed their will in purely democratic ...
  • Aafia Siddiqui: Victim of US Injustice
    by Stephen Lendman She's one of thousands of US political prisoners. She's well known. She committed no crimes. She's been brutalized in captivity. Mercy isn't in America's vocabulary. Rogue states operate that way. Washington's by far the worst. It reportedly agreed to Pakistan's extrad ...
  • EU Guidelines on Israel: Part II
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed them in detail. They're largely old wine in new bottles. They're more bark than bite. They'll do virtually nothing to help long-suffering Palestinians. Occupation harshness continues. Gazans are ruthlessly besieged. West Bank and East Jerusalem c ...
  • Venezuela Bashing
    by Stephen Lendman It's not new. It's longstanding. Washington targets Bolivarian principles. They shame American injustice. Both countries are constitutional worlds apart. They're polar opposites. Venezuela reflects government of, by and for everyone equitably and fairly. America serves wea ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Applications Now Open for Next Up Saskatchewan!
    Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA co-hosts for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32, in Saskatoon, Vancouve ...
  • Applications open for the Next Up youth leader ...
    Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA co-hosts for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32, in Vancouver, Edmonto ...
  • Education and the art of social justice
    From teaching dance to elementary school students, to using poetry about conflict in the Middle East to facilitate a classroom discussion about difference and acceptance, the arts provide students with opportunities to engage more deeply with their learning process(es), expose injustice, and wor ...
  • 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

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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

  • Transforming China’s Grid: Will Coal Remain Ki ...
    China’s coal sector from mine to boiler is undergoing a massive consolidation designed to increase efficiency. Coal’s supreme position in the energy mix appears to be unassailable. Scratch deeper and challenges begin to surface.
  • Why New EPA Chief Gina McCarthy Will Be Import ...
    After getting blocked by Senate Republicans, Gina McCarthy was confirmed as head of the EPA by a vote of 59-40. Now she is tasked with quickly moving forward on a climate plan that relies heavily on EPA for implementation.
  • DECC Tables Plan to Support Independent Renewa ...
    The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published plans to help independent renewable generators gain entry to the electricity market, in order to promote competition and innovation.
  • Court Affirms Michael Mann's Right To Proceed ...
    Decisions were handed in DC Superior Court affirming scientist Michael Mann’s right to proceed in his defamation lawsuit against CEI and the National Review Online for their accusations of data manipulation and fraud.
  • Nuclear Energy Videos: Uranium Mining and Milling
    It’s hot out! Across much of the United States, the largest heat wave of the summer has been stagnating all week. This would be a good time to head to a cool underground…uranium mine?

EU Times

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • HopStop for Windows Phone Scrapped Following A ...
    HopStop, the transit-navigation app that Apple recently acquired for an undisclosed sum, appears to have had its platform availability narrowed a bit since the deal closed. Though it was available for Windows Phone as recently as last week, HopStop's support for Microsoft's mobile operating sys ...
  • Re: Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Bee ...
    Lightbody: Here's my semi-educated guess for how the attack started: from casual observation (view source, URLs ending with .action, etc) a good chunk of the ADC is written in Java and uses WebWork/Struts2, a framework I helped create years ago. Late last week a security advisory came out tha ...
  • Kentucky: we can ban an advice columnist
    "Kentucky claims that writing an advice column that appears in a newspaper in the state - in the specific case of their complaint, the Lexington Herald-Leader, though it appears in others as well - is not an act of freedom of the press, but rather practicing psychology without the required licen ...
  • Did we all just witness Windows start to die?
    You may think that Surface RT and Windows RT are just a tiny sliver of the Windows 8 Project. To an extent that's correct if you look at the numbers, but what it has done is allow the market nine months to test whether the "bait" that Microsoft had been showing them was tasty and delicious enou ...
  • Touch: Where Microsoft Went Wrong
    If the earnings show one thing, it's that outside of its business and enterprise offerings (which delivered relatively good results), Microsoft just doesn't have any products right now that consumers want to buy. - Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch

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  • My dad’s 95th birthday
    My dad’s 95th birthday and family reunion. 8 out of 11 Morris first cousins and one first cousin from my mom’s side of the family. I’m 4th from the left in back row.
  • Assad regime thanks US peace movement for its ...
    Parts of the US peace movement, from the deeply naive Green Party to the loony Manichean left like PSL openly support the Assad regime against “terrorists” and he’s so darned pleased with him that he thanked them. The Syria State TV News carried a glowing report on the “N ...
  • Detroit bankruptcy. The war between pensioners ...
    Will the pensioners come before the bondholders in the Detroit bankruptcy? Right now, the plan is for bondholders to get 75% and pensioners to be kicked to the curb and get 10-20%. However, a judge has halted the bankruptcy saying the Michigan Constitution blocks pensions from being reduced. In ...
  • Arizona using same amount of water despite hug ...
    Impressive. Arizona has had a 470% population increase in 50 years yet uses only 7% more water.
  • Detroit bankruptcy – harbinger for other cities
    Long time Detroit journalist and auther Charlie LeDuff says laugh at Detroit at your own risk because your city may be next. His op-ed on the Detroit bankruptcy is evocative and powerful. Read the whole thing. The promise of a good life for a good day’s work is gone. Detroit is bankrupt. T ...

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  • 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

  • Venezuelan Indians travel to capital amidst mi ...
    Yanomami woman. Mining is bringing devastation to the land of the Yanomami, Ye’kuana and Sanema Indians. © VICTOR ENGLEBERT /SURVIVALA delegation of Ye’kuana and Sanema Indians traveled to Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, to express their fears about the devastating effects mining is having on thei ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Share This Chart With Anyone That Believes The ...
    Anyone that thinks that the U.S. economy can keep going along like this is absolutely crazy.  We are in the terminal phase of an unprecedented debt spiral which has allowed us to live far, far beyond our means for the last several decades.  Unfortunately, all debt spirals eventually end, and the ...
  • 25 Facts About The Fall Of Detroit That Will L ...
    It is so sad to watch one of America's greatest cities die a horrible death.  Once upon a time, the city of Detroit was a teeming metropolis of 1.8 million people and it had the highest per capita income in the United States.  Now it is a rotting, decaying hellhole of about 700,000 people that [...]
  • Worldwide Unemployment Crisis: There Are 93 Mi ...
    Did you know that the total number of unemployed workers in G20 counties is now up to 93 million and that it is increasing with each passing day?  You see, the truth is that the United States is not the only one dealing with a systemic unemployment crisis.  This is literally happening all over t ...
  • Everything Is Fine, But…
    Everything is going to be just great.  Haven't you heard?  The stock market is at an all-time high, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says that inflation is incredibly low, and the official unemployment rate has been steadily declining since early in Barack Obama's first term.  Of course I a ...
  • The U.S. Government Will Borrow Close To 4 Tri ...
    When you add maturing debt to the new debt that the federal government is accumulating, the total is quite eye catching.  You see, the truth is that the U.S. government must not only borrow enough money to fund government spending for this year, it must also "roll over" existing debt that has re ...

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    Renewable Energy Sources Gaining Market Share
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    In a positive sign for United States energy consumption, a new report shows that the market share of renewable energy sources grew at a larger pace than fossil fuels for the year 2012. Additionally, the first half of this year has seen an enormous ...
    Indiana power company accused of creating unnecessary obstacles for ...
    WSBT-TV
    Renewable energy advocates and contractors are watching the case closely as they try to convince state policymakers and utilities that Indiana needs to further encourage cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels such as coal. They say the filing could have ...
    Hydropower: the unsung hero of renewable energy
    Christian Science Monitor
    This is the 2nd installment in a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous post – Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on wind and solar power. This post delves into hydropower ...
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    NEW DELHI: A website offering second-hand goods lists tiny hydropower projects. Many more renewable energy projects are up for grabs offline as policy troubles and a tough environment have blown away profits from windmills, while it seems like sunset ...
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    An economy is sustainable only when it respects the principles of ecology
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    It was the market that formed the current devastating economic model that, because it sustains itself on a scale of increasing production to "meet" exaggerated consumption levels, it squanders the main ecosystem services, depleting environmental ...
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    LANCASTER, NY--(Marketwired - Jul 22, 2013) - The Board of Directors of Ecology and Environment, Inc. (E & E) ( NASDAQ : EEI) has declared a six month dividend of 24 cents per share. This is the 53rd consecutive dividend that has equaled or exceeded ...
    Ecocide Is Not Development; Love And Ecology Are The Answer
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    Earth's ecosystems are collapsing, human and all species' habitats are being lost, and our one shared biosphere is failing and dying. Love of other peoples and species and of nature, truth, justice, and equity are the only lasting basis for global ...
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    Japan utility: Radioactive water likely seeped into sea
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    YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images. TEPCO had persistently denied contaminated water reached the sea, despite spikes in radiation levels in underground and sea water samples taken at the plant. The utility first acknowledged an abnormal increase in ...
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    Private Company Brings Fresh Water to Kenya Community
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    KISUMU, KENYA — This engine from the Nyamasaria Water Works is pumping muddy water from the Kibos River. It will be purified and stored until delivery to over 30,000 customers in the peri-urban district of Kisumu East. The company produces an average ...
    Water on Mars? Ancient Red Planet had humongous ocean, say scientists. (+ ...
    Christian Science Monitor
    The small section of Aeolis Dorsa features many ridges called inverted channels, which form in river bottoms over time when coarse material, such as gravel, is deposited by flowing water. Inverted channels can linger long after the rivers that created ...
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