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Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Fifty ways to pack your circles
  Squaring the circle is but one futile endeavour akin to squeezing a round peg into a square hole. But there are many improbable problems that humanity seeks to solve and with the advent of supercomputers and so-called “big data” it seems that perhaps no problem is now off-limits. Unf ...
• Pale Blue Dot 2.1
  In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. I think we can call this Pale Blue Dot 2.1. Version 1 was the original snapped from Voyager 1 on Carl Sagan&# ...
• Why your personal CAM story is not evidence
  Your regular doc was ignoring your symptoms or told you to take a couple of aspirin and come back if the problem persists, so you headed to a practitioner who treats you holistically, who understands, who knows what you specifically need for your specific condition. You swallowed their talk of s ...
• Satisfying your curiosity
  Latest science news in my fortnightly column for Spectroscopynow.com, now online: Steroid infection: Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic reson ...
• Entrepreneurial mothers push hard
  Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that emerged during the web 2.0 explosion when mothers running small businesses and looking af ...

RFF Library

• The State of the Climate in 2012
  US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The State of the Climate in 2012 is a supplement to the August 2013 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS Vol. 94, No. 8). http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2012.php A new massive federal study says ...
• Electric Vehicle Grid Integration in the U.S., ...
  MJ Bradley & Associates for The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and the  International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) http://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EVpolicies_final_July11.pdf [Green Car Congress] A recently published paper by M.J. Bradley & Associates, ...
• Charged Up: Southern California Edison’s Key L ...
  Southern California Edison (SCE) http://bit.ly/17GTbWK [PDF]http://bit.ly/11IiWFl [Press Release] [Green Car Congress]  Southern California Edison (SCE) released a white paper summarizing learnings from its Electric Vehicle (EV) readiness program. The paper…shares information based on cust ...
• Land-Use Requirements for Solar Power Plants ...
  US National Renewable Technology Laboratory / by Sean Ong, et al. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56290.pdf [From an E&E News PM article by Phil Taylor, sub. req'd]  The NREL report found that a large photovoltaic (PV) plant that provides all the electricity for 1,000 homes would require 3 ...
• Censored EPA Presentation on Groundwater Pollu ...
  Isotech — Stable Isotope Analysis: Determining the Origin of Methane and its Effect on the Aquifer http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/08/05/censored-epa-pennsylvania-fracking-water-contamination-presentation-published-first-time http://desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Dimock%20re ...

Just World News

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frogblog

• Why are we investing in coal?
  The World Wildlife Fund have today revealed that over $1 billion of New Zealanders’ pension and accident insurance money is invested in companies directly mining for coal, oil, and gas — companies who’s future profitability depends on burning fossil fuels that have to stay in the ground if ...
• SkyCity looks to gobble up TVNZ site
  There was a good article by Matt Nippert recently outlining how poor a negotiator the Government had been over the SkyCity deal. Expect this shonky negotiation to continue as SkyCity looks to gobble up as much land as possible adjacent to its casino complex.  SkyCity particularly wants the land ...
• Government seems set on GE contamination path
  This weekend, Minister for the Environment Amy Adams followed through with an earlier threat to initiate legislative changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA), which include removing councils’ ability to control genetically modified organisms through their local plans. This is legislation to ...
• Hand Over a Hundy
  Nothing quite beats growing your own food in your back yard. It saves money, tastes great, helps keep you and your family healthy and builds community resilience. But it’s not always easy to get that garden started and many people don’t have the first idea of where to start, which is why I am 10 ...
• General debate, August 11, 2013

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Plans to evict Botswana Bushmen revealed by le ...
  The leaked report details how to evict Ranyane residents who resist relocation, such as sealing their borehole.© Survival InternationalSurvival International has obtained detailed plans for the forced relocation of Bushmen by a local council in western Botswana, despite a recent High Court order ...
• Survivors of Yanomami massacre speak out 20 ye ...
  Survivors of the Haximu massacre, in which gold-miners killed 16 Yanomami Indians, hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives.© C Zacquini/ SurvivalSurvivors of a gruesome massacre in which sixteen Yanomami Indians were killed at the hands of illegal gold-miners have spoken out twenty yea ...
• Peru repeals official report on threats to unc ...
  Raya, a Nahua elder. More than half his people were wiped out after their land was opened up for oil exploration, Peru.© Johan WildhagenPeru’s Prime Minister has announced that his government has scrapped an official report warning of the dangers a controversial gas project poses to uncontacted ...
• Proof of uncontacted Indians is serious blow t ...
  Many of the local Matsés Indians believe the uncontacted Indians are related to their tribe. They strongly reject Pacific Rubiales' work in the proposed reserve. © Christopher PillitzIn an embarrassing blow to Colombian-Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales, the Peruvian government has conf ...
• Survival celebrates tribes' ingenious skills o ...
  Survival is marking UN Indigenous Day with a gallery featuring tribal peoples' ingenious skills and the threats they face. © Claudia Andujar/SurvivalSurvival International has published a photographic gallery ahead of UN Indigenous Day on August 9, showing some of the extraordinary skills o ...

Montreal Gazette

• Montreal startup finds its Groove
  Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...
• Editorial: Post-office closings are of necessity
  It is sad for many to see traditional post offices closing, but changing times and technologies are making them unsustainable.
• Editorial: Seeking fairness for all when credi ...
  There is an inherent unfairness in the premium credit card system that penalizes business owners and customers who don't use them.
• Editorial: PQ picks a suspicious time to raise ...
  The PQ government has more pressing matters to attend to than quibbling about the new law governing succession to the British throne.
• Editorial: Rough road ahead for new environmen ...
  Removing the environment minister from the cabinet committee on economic development raises further questions about the Harper government's commitment to environmental protection measures.

Food World Order

• Armored SWAT Raids Farm After Mistaking Tomato ...
  from StoryLeak.com: In a powerful display of the war on drugs, armored SWAT members have reportedly ‘destroyed’ a farm during a marijuana raid that was the result of one officer mistaking tomato plants for a marijuana growing operation.  But perhaps the most important part of t ...
• Interviews w/ Seattle Biodiversity Conference ...
  On today's menu we have audio from the recent Biodiversity Conference in Seattle which features interviews w/ Eric Holt-Giménez of Food First, Kathleen Hallal of Moms Across America, Rachel Linden of GMO Free Arizona, George Kimbrell from the Center for Food Safety, Rachel Hynes of Slow Money ...
• Video: Morgan Spurlock's 'Inside Man' On Medic ...
  from  CNN.com: The premiere episode presents an inside look into the medical marijuana industry as Morgan Spurlock works in a medical marijuana dispensary in California.
• Video - WEED: A Dr. Sanjay Gupta Special
    Also check out Dr. Gupta's interview with CNN's Piers Morgan here
• Video: Bottled Life - The Truth about Nestlé's ...
  For more info visit: www.bottledlifefilm.com

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
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• 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

• If This Guy Is What The Future Of America Look ...
  Should taxpayer dollars be used to buy sushi and lobster for a young man whose future plans consist entirely of surfing and partying as much as he possibly can?  When I first saw the video that I am about to share with you, I was absolutely floored.  Recently, Fox News interviewed a self-describ ...
• This Is The Biggest Cluster Of Hindenburg Omen ...
  Are we heading for a major stock market decline?  Warnings about a crash of the financial markets are quite common these days, and usually they don't materialize.  But this time may be different.  A number of top analysts are pointing out the fact that the biggest cluster of "Hindenburg Omens" h ...
• They Are Systematically Destroying Our Indepen ...
  The percentage of Americans that are economically independent has dropped to a stunningly low level.  In order to be economically independent, you have got to be able to take care of yourself without any assistance from anyone else.  Unless you are independently wealthy, that means that you eith ...
• Why Are So Many People Choosing To Leave The U ...
  Have things gotten so bad that it is time to leave the United States for good?  That is a question that a lot of Americans are dealing with these days, and an increasing number of them are choosing to leave the country of their birth permanently.  Some are doing it for tax reasons, some are [...]
• Are These The Last Days Of The U.S. Marine Corps?
  Are the current personnel cuts the beginning of the end for the U.S. Marines?  Could these actually be the last days of the U.S. Marine Corps?  A decade ago, such a notion would have been absolutely unthinkable, but times have changed.  The Marine Corps was already in the process of drawing down ...

CASSE

• Getting to the Root of the Problem
  Jason Bradford realized that humanity was sitting in a precarious position of ecological overshoot. His response is downright inspiring.
• Fixing Food and Farming with a True-Cost Economy
  The transition to a steady state economy coincides with the transition to an ecologically sound food system.
• Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation
  If you're curious about what life might be like in a steady state economy, Sam Alexander's Entropia offers some intriguing ideas.
• A Post-Growth Economy in France?
  Heads of state and top economists actively discussing and debating a post-growth economy? Now that's progress!
• Bill Clinton’s Legacy: The Inconvenient Irony
  Bill Clinton could be the world's most influential steady stater... if only he would put aside the wishful thinking of continuous economic growth.

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: Running the numbers on NC's d ...
  Image Caption:  Voting rights advocates rallied earlier this year in North Carolina, which just passed one of the nation's most restrictive voting laws. (Photo by Brentin Mock.) Three lawsuits have been filed alleging tha ...
• The Bayou Corne sinkhole is one year old
  Image Caption:  Residents of Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish, La. are angry over Texas Brine's response to the massive sinkhole disaster that began unfolding a year ago this month, forcing 350 people out of their homes. (Photo by Cherri F ...
• Meet the 92-year-old plaintiff challenging res ...
  Image Caption:  Mrs. Rosanell Eaton is among the plaintiffs in three lawsuits challenging North Carolina's restrictive new voting law signed this week by Gov. Pat McCrory (R). (Still from N.C. NAACP video.) Mrs. Rosanell ...
• New study finds high levels of arsenic in grou ...
  Image Caption:  Brian Fontenot and Kevin Schug, two of the authors of a study that ties fracking to arsenic contamination of groundwater supplies. (University of Texas Arlington) Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlin ...
• In denial about its racism, Texas fights precl ...
  Image Caption:  Engaged in a legal battle over findings its new political district maps are racially discriminatory, Texas argues its behavior isn't flagrant enough to be of any concern to federal authorities. Facing a le ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast
  A huge cloud of ammonia vented from the fertiliser plant in West, Texas, is one theory for what caused last week's fatal explosion    
• Deeper, sharper, smarter news from New Scientist
  Short Sharp Science is no longer being updated, but our in-depth coverage of the latest breaking science and technology news will be getting even better    
• Today on New Scientist: 18 April 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com: evolution by flower power, Texas blast, robot builders for architects' dreams, and more    
• Bionic hands enter the app age
  Powered thumbs that can be switched between preset grips at the tap of an app could make prosthetic hands more usable for their wearers    
• Today on New Scientist: 17 April 2013
  The latest stories on newscientist.com: Wikipedian woes, oldest human skin, bespoke organ transplants, when a black hole is born, and more    

Tech Drive In

• elementary OS Luna Wallpaper App for Android
  Elementary OS Luna final was released just a day ago. As we noted in our earlier elementary OS Luna review, the developers behind the project has a keen attention to detail, which is very visible in the overall styling of the OS. That include the default elementary OS wallpapers. They are the ...
• Bloomberg Pitches in with 80K; Without more Co ...
  Ubuntu Edge fund raising campaign started with a bang. Almost 5 million was raised in the first 48 hours itself! But things have not been very rosy ever since. And understandably so. Even though the campaign smashed through almost all previous records know to the internet, it is still not go ...
• Can TOX become the Skype Alternative we all ha ...
  The recent NSA debacle was nothing short of a shocker to many. Government sponsored monitoring of its own citizens has been more widespread than most people thought. And yet, as users, we can't do much about it. Skype, now owned by Microsoft, is a widely-used, and proprietary, video chat and I ...
• A Fully Free Android based Mobile OS? FSF is A ...
  Android OS is a free and open source piece of software, just like an Ubuntu or a Fedora, no questions about that. But is it devoid of proprietary software entirely? No. Though the OS itself is completely open source, there are always components like drivers and such, which in many of the cases ...
• MKBHD Explains Ubuntu Edge
  Wondering what MKBHD is all about? They are kind of a YouTube sensation for everything tech related. I was in the process of preparing an "Ubuntu Edge explained" post and then I saw this MKBHD video detailing Ubuntu Edge. And I thought, this is as good as it gets. So here it is, "Ubuntu Ed ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• The New York Times takes down the Clinton Foun ...
  By Tim Stanley August 14th, 2013 An internal review of the Clinton Foundations’ workings has proved troubling Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation – that vast vanity project that conservatives are war ...
• Reflections in a Petri Dish | The Big Windup a ...
  By Visible Why has it always got to be a million (insert title) marching? Why can’t it be 2 million? I think this one needs five million. We’re coming up on the yearly anniversary of that Great Zionist Caper, that big ‘blame the Muslims’ extravaganza, on which the state o ...
• Smoking Mirrors | Hell’s Unfinished Symp ...
  By Visible May your noses always be cold and wet and your noble heart free of all regret. May you walk like the Sun and reflect like the Moon. May the spirit within you carry a tune. You got to love that Mr. Apocalypse, he kicks ass and takes names. Because he is working beneath […]
• Flight 77 Hijacker Hani Hanjour – 9/11 P ...
  From the ridiculous to the sublime… Federal Aviation Administration records show [Hanjour] obtained a commercial pilot’s license in April 1999, but how and where he did so remains a lingering question that FAA officials refuse to discuss. His limited flying abilities do afford an ins ...
• Coke To Defend Safety of Aspartame in New Chic ...
  NBCChicago.com Coca-Cola plans to run its first ad defending the safety of artificial sweeteners on Wednesday, a move that comes as the company looks to stem declining sales of diet soda. The print ad is set to run in USA Today in the Atlanta area, followed by the Atlanta Journal Constitution on ...

Veterans Today

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electric politics

• The Graveyard Shift
  Step back from current events in the Middle East and you can see a further phase in the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, coincidentally, at least from one point of view, the U.S. Empire is also entering a phase of decline, a decline from which it may never fully recover it ...
• Syria in Context
  R2P may have met its match in Syria because it's almost impossible to defend the proposition that introducing more weapons and/or troops will make anything better. Aside, however, from the immediate policy question it's worth taking a moment to think about where Syria fits into the continuum of ...
• Whose Future?
  If Susan Crawford is right about the introduction of fast fiber internet being analogous to the introduction of electricity then America is in big trouble — because a lot of other countries are getting fiber before we do. And, I suppose, possibly getting smarter faster, too... Unquestionab ...
• Inspector Chen
  Sometimes we learn more through literature than non-fiction. Sometimes, believe it or not, there's a lot to be learned from police procedurals. Sometimes, also, police procedurals are just plain fun! But there really aren't that many great writers of them — few enough, anyhow, such that if ...
• Après 1947
  The watershed 1947 National Security Act provided a post-war full employment guarantee to the U.S. arms industry. Indeed, it succeeded so well — with no real changes since then in the apparatus it devised — that today U.S. spending for military purposes bears no meaningful relationsh ...

PR News

• Cision ups Conway to US COO
  CHICAGO: Cision has promoted Dawn Conway to COO of Cision US, a new position at the PR and marketing software and services company.
• Olson rebrands PR team
  CHICAGO: Olson has rebranded its PR and social media unit as Olson Engage to highlight the firm's integrated work.
• Osteopathic medicine school hires French/West/ ...
  RALEIGH, NC: Campbell University has hired French/West/Vaughan to manage PR for its School of Osteopathic Medicine.
• FTI hires Franklin to lead tech, media practice
  WEST PALM BEACH, FL: FTI Consulting has appointed John Franklin MD and head of the North American telecommunications, media, and technology practice in its strategic communications unit.
• FEMA plans disaster-preparedness effort for youth
  WASHINGTON: The Federal Emergency Management Agency is gearing up to launch a national education effort to get more youths involved in preparing for potential disasters.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The Greatest National Security Speeches Never Made
  Before Queen Elizabeth almost announced World War III, Nixon nearly read astronauts their eulogy and Eisenhower all but declared D-Day a failure.
• The Navy, Marines don’t have to furlough civil ...
• Condi had her doubts about the surge; Whither ...
• Carter in Asia; The Navy fights alcohol abuse; ...
• Steve Hadley at FP: “I should have asked that ...

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Job Posting: Office and Fund Administrator, CP ...
  Position:  Office & Fund Administrator Organization:  Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Southern Alberta Ch ...
• Proposed New AEN Environmental Regulatory Caucus
  Initiative:  Proposed Environmental Regulatory Caucus Position:  Caucus Members ...
• Alberta Caribou Action & Range Planning Multi- ...
  Initiative:  Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Cold Lake Caribou Range Position:  Two (2) ENGO Delegates and o ...
• Alberta Caribou Action & Range Planning Multi- ...
  Initiative:  Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Little Smoky & A La Peche Caribou Ranges Position:  Two (2) ...
• North American Partnership for Environmental C ...
  Deadline:  10 Sep 2013 (All day) Organization:  Commission for Environmental Cooperation From the ...

Stop NATO

• NATO Chieftain: Egypt Important Partner In Med ...
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization August 15, 2013 Statement by the NATO Secretary General on the events in Egypt NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Mediterranean Special Group visiting Egypt in 2008 I am deeply concerned by the situation in Egypt, and the continuing reports of bloodshed. I deplore t ...
• Ex-NATO Commander: Keep 15,000 Troops In Afgha ...
  Agence France-Presse August 14, 2013 Ex-NATO Chief: 15,000 Troops Should Stay In Afghanistan After 2014 The United States and its allies should immediately announce how many troops will stay on in Afghanistan after 2014, former NATO supreme commander Admiral James Stavridis argued on Wednesday. ...
• Jean Giono: Led to the slaughterhouse
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Jean Giono From To the Slaughterhouse (Le grand troupeau) (1931) Translated by Norman Glass “Arthur of all people,” Jerome said. “I never knew a finer fellow. And what guts he had and what a damn hard worker he was.&#8 ...
• U.S. Military Chief Speaks Of Crafting New Syr ...
  U.S. Department of Defense August 12, 2013 Israel, Jordan, U.S. Face Common Threats, Dempsey Says By Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service TEL AVIV, Israel: Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is on a multi-day trip to Israel and Jordan for discussions on ho ...
• Russian Concerns About U.S.’s Global Mis ...
  Russian Information Agency Novosti August 14, 2014 No Progress in Russia-NATO Missile Defense Talks – Official Graphic by Mikhail Fomitchev with Novosti MOSCOW: Missile defense talks between Russian and NATO military officials in the past 10 days have reached another impasse, Deputy Defense Mini ...

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

• As Bradley Manning faces sentencing for exposi ...
  Statement by Julian Assange on behalf of WikiLeaks: Today Bradley Manning reportedly made a statement of remorse in a sentencing hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning’s statement comes towards the end of a court martial trial pursued with unprecedented prosecutorial zeal. Since his arrest, Mr ...
• As California Prisoner Hunger Strike Reaches C ...
  August 14, 2013 Press Contact: Azadeh Zohrabi, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, Ph:  310-612-9706 Oakland—All eyes are on California, as prisoners across the state’s vast prison system hit their 38th day of hunger strike in protest of the torturous conditions of solitary confinement. ...
• Filipinos protest US military presence
  14 Aug 2013, Bangkok Post Online news MANILA – The Philippines and the United States on Wednesday opened talks on increased American military presence, amid protests by leftist groups warning against foreign interference. Filipino activists hold up placards as they stage a lie-in before a ...
• California: Prisoner Hunger Strike Supporters ...
  Oakland Protestors Released Posted on August 6, 2013 at prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity   Photo of the folks who went to jail yesterday for occupying the State Building in Oakland.  Taken in the wee hours of the AM, right after they got out of Santa Rita Jail. Filed under: Government Repress ...
• California Prisoner Hunger Strike: Countdown ...
  Day 32 August 8, 2013 — Today is the one-month anniversary of a hunger strike initiated by prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison that quickly spread to other correctional facilities across the state of California. To be precise, it is Day 32 of a month-long period of no solid foods for what are ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
  Well, it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been compared to the last solar maximum: Source: SpaceWeather Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely be peaking ...
• Study: Global Warming = Increasing Violence
  I opened this news item with my skeptical hat on, given that there are so many parameters that could be used. However, it looks pretty legit*. Climate change (regardless of what is causing it) means more violence – yet another reason to be a prepper and/or shift away from highly populated ...
• Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
  Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...
• New Chambers at Teotihuacan
  What I love about archaeology is that new things are being unearthed all the time. And when you are someone like me who makes crazy declarations that “pyramids are bunkers”, then each time  a new subterranean chamber is opened, it could contain evidence that supports my position. A ...
• Tunguska was a Meteorite
  For a long time Tunguska has been a mystery – was in a comet or a meteorite or something else (Tesla anyone?). To my knowledge, this is the first time the mystery has been solved using facts rather than speculation: An icy comet would evaporate on impact, which could explain the lack of a ...

One News Page

• Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
  It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
  N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
  According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
• Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
  The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
• Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
  Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

• Dragon Drags On: China's Slowdown Sends Ripple ...
• Monsanto Baseball: Escaping Accountability in ...
• Mercenaries and Private Security Companies on ...
• Inside Syria: Britain Violates Own Anti-Terror ...
• ReThink911: The Evidence Might Surprise You

Daily Tech

• Flash PS3 (12 GB) to Make Surprise Launch in N ...
  Leaks from Kmart and Future Shop confirm variant is not EU-exclusive     
• Google is Acting "Absolutely Evil", Oracle CEO ...
  Oracle is fighting Google in Appeals court over Java use in Android, having lost its initial case     
• Russia Invites U.S. to 2014 Tank Olympics
  Italy and Germany are also international "biathalon" style competition     
• Report: 2015 Ford Mustang to Shed 400 Pounds t ...
  Ford's pony car to go on a massive diet according to a new report     
• Labor Violations Land Samsung a Lawsuit in Brazil
  Brazil's government wants $108 million in damages     

Oriental Review

• Bandar Bush, ‘Liberator’ of Syria
  Talk about The Comeback Spy. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bush (for Dubya he was like family), spectacularly resurfaced after one year in speculation-drenched limbo (was he or was he not dead, following an assassination attempt in July 2012). And he was back in the limelight no less than ...
• Arms and the Elephant (I)
  Archival material of the 1940s shows that the British supplied arms to Tibet and a movie projector to the Dalai Lama and even made vain attempts to send an elephant to him. EDMOND CANDLER’s book The Unveiling of Lhasa(1905) had described Britain’s relationship with Tibet as something akin to “th ...
• White House Courts Al-Qaeda from Kabul to Dama ...
  On August 3 the US government issued a new terrorist warning. 22 US foreign missions from Mauritania to Afghanistan are closed, including Israel, the closest ally.  The New York Police Department is on high alert. US citizens are warned of possible terrorist acts in the Middle East, North Africa ...
• Japan and the Lessons of War
  These days mark the tragic anniversary of the atomic bombing of the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. armed forces, which was carried out at the final stage of World War II. The consequence of this barbaric “experiment” is the fact that it remains only time in the history ...
• End of Great American Myth
  Human beingsare bestowed by nature with the faculties of intellect and wisdom so that they would not get lost in the sea of lies and aberrations.  The imminent aspiration of people to know the truth has become kind of a remote control mine  which has exploded and put an end to the great myth abo ...

BlogHer

• How I Saved My Financial Sanity: 4 Lessons Learned
  In a post I wrote over a year ago titled "Emerge," I discussed the turn of events that led me to begin the journey of getting out of debt. "Save for a rainy day" is what they always tell you, but no one really tells you how to do that. And while it seems like a simple task, it's one of those les ...
• Why I Lose Sleep When I Think About U.S. Withd ...
  On a good day the majority of the American public devotes around 30 seconds to our country's 11-year war in Afghanistan. Concern over drone attacks on civilian population, veterans' PTSD, and the treatment of enemy combatants have been replaced in headlines with royal babies, government gridlock ...
• Little Tips and Tricks to Get My Kids Out the ...
  This time of year is tough for us in our house. Summer school is done. The kids are SO over playing in the sprinkler and going to the library. Every day Axel says at breakfast, "School today tomorrow." Angela asks, "How many days until school starts?" about 37,245 times per day. Here it is kids ...
• What to Do When an Internet Celebrity Retweets You
  Internet celebrity is a curious thing. I often sit back and watch how guys like Chris Brogan and Gary Vaynerchuk deal with their "public." They have a lot of demands and expectations put on them - sometimes, people are downright rude, too. They call out the A Lister because they haven't repli ...
• 11 Bloggers Thank Our Amazing BlogHer '13 Sponsors
  Did you like the Expo Hall at BlogHer '13? I sure did. I loved interacting with the sponsors this year; I found them engaging and entertaining. (OPTIMUS PRIME! ZOMG!) As we've read through all of your post-conference write-ups, we've found that our attendees really liked the sponsors too. Here' ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• World Renowned Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On Wha ...
        We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being ... Related posts:Why Skipping Breakfast Might Raise Risk Of Heart ...
• Cancer in a Can: The Shocking True Story of ho ...
        To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way. The Pringles Company (in an effort to avoid taxes levied against “luxury foods” like ... Related posts:Study Link ...
• FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cance ...
  After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that’s fatal ... Related posts:How Much Arsenic Is Safe In Apple Juice? FDA ...
• Climate change linked to violent behaviour
        Study shows that even a small increase in average temperatures or unusual weather can spark violent behavior. Bring on the cool weather – climate change is predicted to cause extreme weather, more intense storms, more frequent floods and ... Related posts: ...
• EPA to American People: ‘Let Them Eat Monsanto ...
          The EPA, whose mission is to “to protect human health and the environment,” has approved Monsanto’s request to allow levels of glyphosate (Roundup) contamination in your food up to a million times higher than have been found ... Related posts:Monsan ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Details are out on proposed Patriot Coal-UMWA deal
  Last evening, Patriot Coal lawyer made this filing to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court out in St. Louis, asking for court approval of the company’s proposed deal with the United Mine Workers of America. Michael Niven over at SNL Financial is reporting on some of the details of the proposed deal: ...
• UMWA: Fight for ‘Fairness at Patriot&#82 ...
  The Gazette’s Dr. Paul Nyden had more in today’s paper about yesterday’s big announcement of a tentative deal between Patriot Coal and the United Mine Workers: United Mine Workers of America and Patriot Coal announced a settlement Monday on retirees’ health-care benefits, ...
• UMWA says it’s reached a deal with Patri ...
  Here’s the announcement just out from the United Mine Workers of America: The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) today announced that the union has reached a settlement with bankrupt Patriot Coal on new terms and conditions of employment that makes significant improvements over what fed ...
• Continuing the misplaced focus on the ‘w ...
  Politicians in West Virginia aren’t the only ones continuing the misplaced focus on fighting the “war on coal.” It keeps coming up in Kentucky, too, as this piece from the Harlan Daily Enterprise shows: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY visited Harlan on Thursday for a public forum add ...
• Friday roundup, Aug. 9, 2013
  In this photo taken on Thursday, June 13, 2013, a worker repairs a drag line bucket used to dig coal in the nearby Bowen Basin at a workshop in Mackay city, Queensland state, Australia. Falling coal prices have hastened the closure of some financially marginal mines in the basin and shed thousan ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Difference Between SSD and Flash Hard Drives
  Many are confused by the difference between SSD hard drives and flash hard drives. This should clear it up. Basics SSD stands for Solid State Disk, and it means storage that doesn’t require moving parts. This concept has been around for decades, and originally it was RAM-based, i.e. the st ...
• Can’t Wait to See “The Wind Rises”
  A SOMBRE exploration of love, responsibility and death, “Kaze Tachinu” (“The Wind Rises”) is being described as Hayao Miyazaki’s first animated film for adults. After half a lifetime making exquisite fantasy films for children, such as “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away”, Mr Miyazaki, now 72 ...
• Determinism + Randomness = Freedom?
  We all understand that there’s no free will in a deterministic universe, right? And we all understand that randomness doesn’t give one freedom, right? So how in the hell, if you’ll pardon my surprise, would adding determinism and randomness result in freedom? So we have a mecha ...
• Time, Memory, and Learning
  When, as an adult, you look back at your childhood experiences, they appear to unfold in slow motion probably because the sheer number of them gives you the impression that they must have taken forever to acquire. So when you recall the summer vacation when you first learned to swim or row a boa ...
• Quality is Subtle
  Image from clomailendesign.deviantart.com I’ve spent the last week or so in Vegas, and I’ve finally crystalized a thought I’ve had for a while now. In short, most quality things in life seem to be subtle and balanced rather than one-dimentional or overpowering. Let that simmer ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

• Arnold Schwarzenegger orders gas chambers for ...
  ...with his thick Austrian accent... The Terminator's comments at the National Clean Energy Summit were... unfortunate. According to the Huffington Post (via Junk Science and Climate Depot), he has proposed a final solution to some disagreements with his opponents that seems to be high ...
• Discussion about old and new theoretical physi ...
  I am not taking any positions about these matters – and about the Stack Exchange forums, their contents, and their moderators, among related topics – but this blog entry was written with the only purpose: to allow the exchange of information and opinions between users who are interested in the d ...
• Some physics links
  Carroll's QM, NYT's firewalls, Jester's whining on scales Sean Carroll has unlocked the quantum chapter from his "Eternity" book, Quantum Mechanics Made Easy, which I found better than expected despite its misleading comments about the "collapse", "its" relationships with the "arrow of ...
• Steve Pinker is right to defend "scientism"
  A week ago, Harvard's top evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker wrote an essay for The New Republic, Science Is Not Your Enemy: An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians, that defends the application of the scientific method to various fie ...
• Erwin Schrödinger and his cat in Google Doodle
  Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was born on August 12th, 1887, i.e. 126 years and 1 day ago, in our then capital, namely Vienna, Austria-Hungary (where he also died in 1961), to a German-speaking botanist and a mostly British daughter of a chemist. He was their only child. This bac ...

Tatumba 2.0

• B.C. woman accused of putting glue in nephew’s ...
  A Richmond, B.C., woman has been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly putting glue in her infant nephew’s ears. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Woman accused of killing baby police can’t find A woman has been ...
• Ideas that Won’t Boost Employment: Money Print ...
  from SchiffReport: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: As US dollar loses global reserve status, America won’t be able to keep printing new money by J. D. Heyes, Natural News: As hi ...
• New mammal discovered in Andean cloud forest
  Scientists from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., are reporting the discovery of a new mammal species. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Save half of Boreal Forest from development, scientists say A group of internat ...
• The scam of unpaid internships
  How companies exploit free labor from students under the guise of unpaid internships. from MyBudget360.com: Many people have taken on internships that were unpaid merely to learn some transferable skill or to build a solid network.  This was okay in a time when graduating students had littl ...
• Pamela Wallin may be asked to pay more by Sena ...
  Senator Pamela Wallin will likely be asked to pay back more than the $ 121,348 already being sought by a Senate committee following a review of an extra $ 20,978 in expenses that auditors said were “subject to interpretation.” CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollar ...

Modern Survivalism

• Emergency Documentation To Keep In 72 Hour Kit
  In addition to the items you keep in your 72 hour kit, bug-out-bag, or any survival kit, do not discount the value of keeping a written list of information including documentation of important contacts, and even account numbers with simple encryption as explained here. Here’s why… &# ...
• The Best Prep For Survival Preparedness
  The question, “What is the best prep item to have for survival preparedness?” may seem bold, but here’s my answer and opinion…   No, it’s not bucket loads of rice and beans, it is YOU, your body, your noggin. A healthy body and clear-thinking knowledgeable brai ...
• PreMixing Dry Ingredients For Cakes And Breads?
  “Hi, I would like to mix together the dry ingredients for cakes, breads, cookies, etc. and then put it in individual bags (mylar) for storage purposes or perhaps mason jars. I would like to know if there are any issues with premixing these dry ingredients and longer term storage and what i ...
• US Power Grid Faces New Threats
  Image Source: AP The recent Associated Press article, “10 years after blackout, US grid faces new threats”, while emphasizing new money spent per mile of transmission line by electrical utilities, and some improvements made since a notorious 2003 blackout across eight states and part ...
• 10 Things That Non-Preppers Will Strip From St ...
  Immediately following a regional (or wider) disaster, when the realization sets in that the consequences are going to last for more than just a few days, there will be items disappearing from store shelves. Preppers are already prepared to an extent. But what about non-preppers? What things will ...

Fast Company

• Designer Paula Scher Weighs In On The Jane Aus ...
  Is the design of the UK’s forthcoming--and loaded--Jane Austen note a pound wise or foolish? We tend not to think much about what our money looks like, but lots of us probably see the dead-president faces on our bills more often than, say, the faces of our mothers. The media frenzy s ...
• Your Instagram Followers Are Good For More Tha ...
  Do you have lots of Instagram followers? Congrats! That means you are very good at taking retro–filtered pictures of your dog/kid/vacation/food/shoes/shirtless chest, and people are interested to see what you are going to post next! But assuming you are not a professional photographer or I ...
• This “Hyperlapse Postcard” Makes You Want to G ...
  Using a sophisticated video technique, this celebration of Georgia is a marvel. Technology continues making the world smaller and smaller. Aside from connectivity, our mastery of all things electronic and digital has made it easier to see parts of the world you once might not have, and in ...
• ScubaTone Powers Underwater Communication Usin ...
  Could the key to improving underwater communication be a technology developed for landline phones in the '60s? At a hackathon earlier this month in San Francisco, oceanographers and scientists from NASA, the California Academy of Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, and other instituti ...
• This Is Iraq's First National Park
  It took nearly a decade's worth of work, but Iraq finally has its first national park: the Central Marshes of Iraq, a 1,000 square kilometer site filled with marshlands that had previously been systematically drained by Saddam Hussein because of their usefulness as a hiding place during wartime. ...

Jadaliyya

• عودة المومياء ... The Mummy Returns
         
• The Brotherhood After 30 June: An Interview wi ...
  Abdel Mawgoud al-Dardery describes himself as “an academician by profession and a politician by necessity.” He received his doctorate in cultural studies from the University of Pittsburg in 2000. He wrote his dissertation on the historical conflict between Eurocentrism and Islamism. Soon after r ...
• Shaking Up Expectations: The Boundless New Hor ...
  Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers. Edited by Anita Amirrezvani and Persis Karim. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2013. Iranian American literature has been caught in a representational bind, one that is overdetermined by the fraught relationship between Iran and the U ...
• As it Becomes a Standard, Criticism for Common ...
  [The following article was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more information on the publishing world as it relates to pedagogy and knowledge production, follow Tadween Publishing on Facebook and Twitter.] The New York Times ...
• The Konyism of Samantha Power, US Ambassador t ...
   “Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise,” Samantha Power, 2003. On 10 August, the newly appointed US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, addressed the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit, an event of Invisible Children. This was Ambassador Power’s first public add ...

mediagazer

• Radio Times caught up in Premier League's pira ...
  Leo Kelion / BBC: Radio Times caught up in Premier League's piracy fight  —  The Premier League is attempting to prevent users visiting First Row Sports' feeds  —  Internet users have been prevented from accessing the Radio Times and hundreds of other websites as ...
• After On-Air Mishaps, Embarrassed Newscasters ...
  Kristin Bergman / Digital Media Law Project: After On-Air Mishaps, Embarrassed Newscasters Turn to Copyright Law  —  Whether we consider the purpose of copyright to be to protect economic rights or moral rights, copyright is a powerful yet dangerous instrument.  Abuse of co ...
• Full Fact launches online fact-finding tool (R ...
  Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk: Full Fact launches online fact-finding tool  —  Journalists can use the platform - which is called Full Fact Finder - to find out where to locate accurate facts and figures on a range of subjects The UK-based fact-checking website Full Fact ha ...
• Third Point Discloses $115 Million Stake in Di ...
  Rachel Abrams / Variety: Third Point Discloses $115 Million Stake in Disney  —  Hedge fund has no plans for a larger strategic push at the Mouse House  —  Daniel Loeb's Third Point LLC, the hedge fund that tried to force Sony Corp. to spin off its entertainment a ...
• AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of leg ...
  Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television  —  It's good to be AMC Networks right now.  —  The season premiere of AMC's Breaking Bad drew 5.9 million viewers in the United States on Sunday night, double the figure for ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• WikiLeaks: Manning apologizes, admits he ...
  August 14: US soldier Bradley Manning offered an apology in a military court today over his disclosures to WikiLeaks and acknowledged he "hurt the United States." "I'm sorry that my actions have hurt people and have hurt the United States," he...
• Egypt protest crackdown: Army leaves hund ...
  Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi flee from tear gas and rubber bullets fired by riot police during clashes in Cairo. Photo: Reuters TV cameraman shot dead The world is watching 'Serious blow' to peace efforts Nasr City, Cairo: Outsid ...
• After hundreds killed, Egypt faces new un ...
  CAIRO — Egypt faced a new phase of uncertainty on Thursday after the bloodiest day since its Arab Spring began, with nearly 300 people reported killed and thousands injured as police smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist president. Wednesday's raids touched off ...
• Indians across world celebrate Independen ...
  BEIJING/MELBOURNE: Indians across the globe on Thursday donned patriotic colours as they celebrated the country's 67th Independence Day, unfurling the national flag and organising cultural events to mark the occasion. India's ambassador to China S Jaishankar hoisted the tri-colour at the emb ...
• Neymar laments poor Brazil display
  After tasting Confederations Cup success only last month, Luis Felipe Scolari's side were overwhelmed by Switzerland at St Jakob-Park, much to the annoyance of their star man £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = FCB Draw LEV £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = FCB Draw L ...

no frakking consensus

• See You in September
  The (fully-searchable) electronic version of my book, The Delinquent Teenager, will soon cost $7.99 rather than $4.99. This is the only book-length evaluation of the IPCC by an independent journalist. The IPCC will release Part 1 of its new climate assessment in late September.
• What Would a Bad Job Look Like?
  A US official recently called Rajendra Pachauri's leadership of the world's most important climate body 'extraordinary.' But 'inadequate' and 'inexcusable' are more appropriate.
• The IPCC, UFOs & Pseudoscience
  The head of the IPCC has written a novel in which the central character is infatuated with pseudoscience and in which UFO enthusiast Shirley MacLaine is presented as credible. The final installment of the Nobel Laureate Summer Reading series.
• Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 4
  Girl spurns boy, marries someone else, and is anally raped on her honeymoon. Girl comes crawling back to boy, begging for forgiveness, and pleading for one more chance.
• Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 3
  There's nothing wrong with writing a sex-saturated novel. But IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri says this book is "all about spirituality."

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 8/14/13 - Under Obamacare, Are Members of Cong ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Under Obamacare, Are Members of Congress Required to Choose from the Same Set of Available Health Insurance Plans as Everyone Else? - YES - On Aug. 7, 2013, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a rule to implement Obamacare’s requirement that members o ...
• 8/14/13 - Calendar of Changes Under Obamacare
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Calendar of Changes Under Obamacare- The mandate to have health insurance and the state health insurance exchanges take effect Jan. 1, 2014. Other Obamacare changes have already happened such as no more denials for pre-existing conditions, no more lifetime limits on ...
• 8/8/13 - Historical Timeline
  sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Historical Timeline: A History of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) in Sports from Ancient Greece to Present - Our updated timeline on the history of sports and drugs includes events from 776 BC when the Ancient Greeks used PEDs during the original Olympic Games to t ...
• 8/8/13 - Are There Any Exemptions to the Obama ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Are There Any Exemptions to the Obamacare Requirement That Health Insurance Policies Cover Birth Control? - YES
• 8/8/13 - What Are the Different Methods of Sol ...
  alternativeenergy.procon.org - What Are the Different Methods of Solar Power Generation? - Read our updated question and learn about the different ways to generate solar power including photovoltaic (PV) cells, passive solar, solar thermal, and concentrating solar power.

Truth About Our World

• Notification
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• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

TVNZ

• Obama condemns violence in Egypt
  US President Barack Obama says co-operation with Egypt can't continue while civilians are being killed.
• Death toll climbs to 525 amid Egypt violence
  The death toll has now risen to 525, according to Egypt's Health Ministry.
• James Bond stuntman killed in Alps jump
  A stuntman who parachuted into the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics dressed as the fictional British spy James Bond has been killed in the Swiss Alps.
• Russian presenter claims he was fired after co ...
  A Russian television presenter claims he was sacked after he announced on live television that he was gay.
• Egypt seethes under curfew after hundreds killed
  Security forces struggled to clamp a lid on Egypt after hundreds of people were killed when authorities forcibly broke up pro-Morsi camps. 

environment 360

• Plants in U.S. Southwest Moving Higher as Clim ...
  Numerous plant species on a mountain in the southwestern U.S. are migrating to higher elevations as the climate gets warmer and drier, according to a new University of ArizonaAn alligator juniper on Mount Lemmon study. After comparing the results of a recent survey of 27 plants found on Mount ...
• Interview: Scientists, Aid Experts Prepare for ...
  Harvard University recently sponsored a conference that brought together two groups — climate scientists and humanitarian relief workers — that will undoubtedly be collaborating more closely in the future Jennifer Leaning as natural disasters intensify in a warming world. The woman who was instr ...
• Bears Using Wildlife Corridors In Canadian Par ...
  Genetic testing has revealed that bears in Canada’s Banff National Park routinely cross the bridges and underpasses along the Trans-Canada Highway, evidence that the ecological corridors provide safe HighwayWilding.orgA grizzly passes through a Banff underpass passage along a busy roadway tha ...
• Too Many Urban Beehives May Do More Harm Than ...
  A surge in urban beekeeping may be doing more harm than good to honeybee populations, according to UK scientists. As the number of rooftop hives increases in cities worldwide — including London, where there are Matthias Walendy A Berlin beekeeper now 10 hives per square kilometer — two rese ...
• The War on African Poaching: Is Militarizatio ...
  African countries and private game reserves are waging an increasingly sophisticated arms race against poachers, yet the slaughter of elephants and rhinos continues. Some experts argue that the battle must be joined on a far wider front that targets demand in Asia and judicial dysfunction in Afr ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Fracking Canada - INDUSTRY'S GAS MIGRATION
  Brief Review of Threats to Canada's Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing Tags: canada industry gas hydrofracking ...
• Toxic Environmental Bio Terrain
  Corexit and the Gulf of Mexico : environmental horror and WMD
• My Library for greenhouse gases
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• State of the Beach - Beachapedia
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• Suffer the Children | Psychology Today
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Daily Beast

• Back to School at Chloé
  Claire Waight Keller debuts a collection inspired by “night buses, independent spirit, and bare legs."
• Kenzo Livens Up Paris
  With a collection inspired by ancient temples in India and Nepal.
• Comme Des Garçon's "Infinity of Tailoring"
  And, in one look, Big Bird gone couture.
• Céline Gets Cozy for Fall
  Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.
• BREAKING: Queen To Hospital
  Aides tell the Royalist she will likely be in hospital for two days

Loonwatch

• ‘Salat Man’ is symbol of resistanc ...
  Similar to China's 'Tank Man,' Ethiopia's 'Salat Man' could prove to be a memorable symbolic icon.
• Pro-Islamic bias? Brevard School Board to disc ...
  One Brevard School Board member believes a textbook used in many ninth-grade classrooms has a pro-Islamic bias, but the board chair said the book was properly vetted before Brevard Schools adopted it. A third board member wants more information.
• Fox News guest: Keith Ellison’s transactional ...
  Fox News guest Jonathan Hoenig suggested today that Keith Ellison’s ‘Wall Street transactions tax’ idea could be seen as ‘Sharia creep’ given that Ellison is a practicing Muslim and that, as Hoenig says, Sharia law prohibits trading of derivatives and speculation of any kind.
• French Terrorist Air Force Officer Planned Att ...
  The officer has already admitted to throwing an incendiary device at a mosque last August.
• Richard Dawkins Takes Up Islamophobic Narrativ ...
  Richard Dawkins statements have little to do with speaking the truth and more about picking out which minorities it is still safe to bash.

Energy News

• Series of chemical explosions rock hazardous w ...
• CBS St. Louis: “Fire Commander’s Warning” — Ne ...
• TV: Many U.S. sailors are suffering serious sy ...
• Nuclear Experts: One century before Japan trie ...
• Paper: Navy sailor’s health melted down after ...

Hudson New York

• China Buys Academia
  Organizers of a conference for members of the Chinese intelligence services due to be held at Cambridge University in September have barred attending academics from asking questions about China's human rights record. The Sunday Times has reported that
• Mubarak's Muslim Brotherhood Prophecy
  In a video of Hosni Mubarak when he was still Egypt's president, the strategies of which he accuses the Muslim Brotherhood have come to pass. What follows are Mubarak's words from a conference in Egypt (date unknown; author's translation): So they
• Palestinians Being Slaughtered, Displaced
  As Israeli authorities issued permits last week to hundreds of thousands of West Bank Palestinians to visit Israel, the Lebanese government decided to ban Palestinian refugees fleeing the war in Syria from entering Lebanon. So while Palestinians are
• U.S. Foils Al-Qaeda, but Blows Own Cover Again
  If there's one thing that's worked in this Al-Qaeda plot that caused 22 American embassies and consulates to close, it is the surveillance system that Edward Snowden took such pride in exposing, while accusing the U.S. of wanting to control the lives of
• Islam Conquering Higher European Education
  The Catholic University of Leuven, the oldest university in Belgium and one that has been a major contributor to the development of Roman Catholic theology for more than 500 years, will offer a degree in Islamic theology beginning in 2014. The decision

Urban Survival

• Market Blowback – Consumer Prices Disappoint
  If I were sitting in the White House, I’d be having a hissy about now:  With all the economic stimulus going about we should be seeing some escalation in prices and that wouldn’t be all bad because a little bit of inflation, especially if it is predictable and reliable, is the greatest econ ...
• Coping: With 50% Stonehenge, 30% Scaliger
  A number of people have written over the past couple of days that I must surely have lost the remaining bits of my mind to question something so “obviously true” as Stonehenge, which as a video recounts was substantially “made up” in the period of modern history since 1900.  No, I don’t thi ...
• Peoplenomics: The Kondratiev (K-Wave) View of 2013
  We will keep our morning review of current events a bit shorter than usual this morning in order to focus more on some of my recent work in Kondratiev long wave economic cycles, which are a kind of heartbeat underlying much of our economic, thence social, political, and military activities.&#160 ...
• Crash Dancin’: Retail Fails
  My consigliere called Monday to point out that Art Cashin on CNBC had noted that the last time we had this many Hindenberg Omen’s we had the 2008/2009 financial mess.  “Aw shucks, I think we have a while to run yet…after all, auto sales have been strong and this oughta take a bit more time ...
• Coping: Is Stonehenge Fake?
  Oh-oh….here we go off on anyone one of our “question everything” trips:  Got a hot tip from long-time reader Teresita in Manila who stumbled over something on YouTube  with less than 1,700 views, and one is extraordinarily odd:  “How true is this?  Just got it today and for s ...

Trends & Forecasts

• Pattie Brassard ~ Three Days of Darkness Begin ...
  Planet X: Three Days of Darkness Begins September 26, 2013 - Pattie Brassard This video introduces you to a video which is over an hour long and highlights some of what you will get there Pattie Brassard is interviewed by Pete Santilli... [[ This is a content summa ...
• ROAD TO WW3 - Egypt + Middle East On Verge Of ...
  Troops use armoured bulldozers and tear gas to control Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Egyptian security forces interrupted a six-week-long stand-off with Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, launching a crackdown on two sit-in camps... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Gerald Celente - Trends In The News - "Just Th ...
  Give President Obama another Nobel Peace Prize to put in Guantanamo. WW3 started by President who started his Presidency with a Nobel Peace Prize. The irony will be a bitter commentary on the corrupt worlds values. 'Obarnacle' ha ha. The brilliance... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• 17 Signs of America in Economic Collapse 8-15-13
  yet the Fed and Wall Street stealing from you using the cops as armed robbers while they toy with the value of your paycheck , the money is manipulated by the Fed and Wall Street so even if making $10/hr it's only worth $6 and you have to give the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• German GOLD is Gone , The FED is Lying
  The world is losing trust in the dollar as a safe haven. A major blow came after Germany's Bundesbank demanded the repatriation of a big chunk of its gold being held in the US. Because as RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports, some are concerned the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

• China Environmental News Alert
  Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
• Starting to Break the Efficiency Standard Logj ...
  Meg Waltner, Energy Efficiency Advocate, San Francisco, CA The Department of Energy did not waste any time in taking a first step towards fulfilling last week’s commitment to issue long overdue energy-savings standards: yesterday, DOE issued a ...
• Clean Energy Can Help Protect the Grid Against ...
  Allison Clements, Senior Attorney, Project for Sustainable FERC Energy Policy, New York Earlier this week, the president’s office released a report that: describes the costs of weather-related grid outages to the U.S. economy (an average of $1 ...
• Water/Climate News Digest: 7/27/2013 - 8/14/2013
  Janie Chen, Program Assistant – Midwest, Chicago, IL From Maryland to California and the Great Lakes in-between, the effects of climate change have serious implications for coastal cities, the economy, and the nation’s water resources: Vulner ...
• Canada's Lackluster Climate Record and Massive ...
  Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. President Obama recently drew national attention to Canada’s poor record on climate: But I meant what I said; I'm going to evaluate this [the Keystone XL pipeline] based on wheth ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

• President Carter, General Powell Plead For Rus ...
  A stunning Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that two of the United States highest ranking military generals delivered a “personal plea” to President Putin from retired four-star general and former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the ...
• Intercepted al Qaeda message led to shuttering ...
  An intercepted message among senior al Qaeda operatives in the last several days raised alarm bells that led to the closing of embassies and consulates Sunday across the Middle East and North Africa, CNN has learned. CNN has agreed to a request from an Obama administration official not to publis ...
• US ready to destroy Syrian air forces with 3 s ...
  The United States is able to destroy the Syrian air forces with the help of only three warships and 24 drones, a member of the US Institute for the Study of War, Christopher Harmer, says. This will prevent the Syrian air forces from being used against civilians and the rebels. According to the e ...
• Unexplained, conflicting US global terror warn ...
  Saturday night Aug. 3, the global warnings issued last week by the US State Department and Interpol against terrorist attacks covering almost the entire Muslim world, suddenly reached the American homeland. Sunday morning, Aug. 4, as US missions closed in 22 countries, including Egypt and Israel ...
• A ‘Perfect Storm’ Could Cause A Collapse In Oi ...
  Deutsche Bank strategists Rocky Fishman, Salil Aggarwal, and Lon Parisi are out with a note warning clients that a “perfect storm” of structural, demand, and supply-driven factors could conspire to cause a “major pullback” in oil prices, with the potential to derail the rally in the U.S. stock m ...

Daily Dose

• Layar augments its reality with a redesigned m ...
  Following the launch of its Creator service last year, augmented reality (AR) startup Layar is rolling out a redesigned and rebranded mobile app, logo and website. Available for Android and... Keep reading →
• Compare us to Amazon not Apple, says red hot C ...
  International media should stop referring to Xiaomi as “China’s Apple” as the two companies are entirely different, the founder and CEO of the red-hot Chinese smartphone manufacturer says. Lei Jun says... Keep reading →
• Whoops – Google botches Indian flag colo ...
  Google will often give its famous logo a makeover in honor of national holidays, and today was no exception. In honor of Indian Independence Day, visitors on Google India’s homepage... Keep reading →
• O2, Vodafone, EE: Which mobile carrier offers ...
  For the last ten months, EE has been the only national network operator in the UK offering subscribers 4G connectivity. The choice has been simple: pay for one of EE’s... Keep reading →
• Lenovo refuses to say if it will buy BlackBerr ...
  Chinese firm Lenovo currently faces a dilemma. As its Q1 financials reveal, it’s excelling in PCs and laptops at a time when most other firms are falling behind, and doing... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Time to ditch the redundant gas network
  By Ben Courtice. RenewEconomy In the record-breaking heatwave that led up to the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, an estimated 374 people died due to the heat – before the fires even started. This is more than double the official figure of 173 deaths in the fires themselves. Hot weather ...
• How to have zero emissions housing – and tiny ...
  By Dominique Hes, The Conversation A new study says that all Australia’s existing housing could be retrofitted to be zero emissions within ten years. Households could halve their energy use and go gas free. Australian households currently spend approximately A$15 billion every year on electr ...
• Big emissions cuts possible at home, study finds
  By Peter Hannam. Sydney Morning Herald Australia's homes could slash their carbon emissions by half and eliminate their use of gas by investing in efficient electrical appliances now on the market, according to a clean energy advocacy group. Jointly published with the Melbourne Energy Institu ...
• Hundreds launch Zero Carbon Buildings Plan
  Australia's buildings could halve their energy use within a decade, to make a major contribution to reducing the nation's carbon emissions – and save money on energy bills in the long run as well. A large crowd packed out an auditorium at Melbourne University to hear this message at the la ...
• It's time to start limiting the gas industry
  Gas industry campaign omits gas price hike July 29 2013 Australians should stand with the farmers who are stopping coal-seam gas developments, not the gas companies who stand to gain, according to a leading climate solutions and technology think-tank. “It's time to start placing more limits on ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Endangered Chinese monkey population recovering
  The number of black snub-nosed monkeys in southwestern China has increased by more than 50 percent since the 1990's due to conservation efforts, reports Chinese state media.
• Palm oil licenses provide cover for logging in ...
  Developers are seeking palm oil concessions to as a means to circumvent restrictions on industrial logging in Papua New Guinea, finds a new study published in the journal Conservation Letters. The research, led by Paul Nelson and Jennifer Gabriel of James Cook University, is based on analysis of ...
• Five Aceh elephants die in just six weeks
  Police in Indonesia’s Aceh province are investigating the killings of three critically endangered Sumatran elephants, as conflicts with humans led to a series of elephant deaths across the province last month. Five elephants have died in Aceh since late June, including two orphaned calves, ...
• Certification body officially terminates ties ...
  The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has formally ended its association with Indonesian logging giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL), reports the certification body.
• China's growing wine industry threatening pand ...
  In 1985, Li Hua visited a valley in the foothills of the Tibetan plateau. The area was better known for its panda population, but the oenologist realized that its high altitude, hours of sunshine, sandy soil and low precipitation also offered ideal conditions for growing grapes.

Sierra Express

• Sierra Leoneans Must Not Settle For Mediocrity!
  Weekly Message From Mohamed K Mansaray As Sierra Leoneans, we must not settle for mediocrity, indigence and poorness. Today, I want to talk with you about my vision to prioritize education if elected president in 2017/18. Education is the new currency by which nations keep competitive and grow. ...
• When Will Their Voices Be Heard?
  A picture keeps coming to my mind. It’s a picture of our Sierra Leonean compatriots who have resorted to finding their survival on the streets of Freetown and other big towns and cities. They sit, stand and/or walk all over the place. They beg for survival. They beg anybody and everybody who com ...
• No place like home – Africa’s skilled labour r ...
  Mariam Koné left Canada five years ago to start a business consulting firm in Bamako, the capital of Mali. As her client base grew steadily, earnings from her company, Koné Conseil, also increased. Business has been great, she says. Although her previous job as an industrial engineer at a consul ...
• 20 entrepreneurs to showcase clean technology ...
  On the 15 – 16 October 2013, 20 entrepreneurs will be presenting a business case for investment at Viridis Africa. Among them will be Ben van Rooyen, CEO, ZEO Africa Zeo Africa was established in 2013 in order to commercialise ZeoForm, a patented product developed by Zeo IP, an Australian compan ...
• Transport & Aviation Minister Balogun Koroma V ...
  Sierra Leone’s Transport and Aviation Minister Hon. Leonard Balogun “Logus” Koroma has on Thursday August 8 2013, met with some members of the World Bank Africa Region in charge of Sustainable Development Department, headed by Jamal Saghir at 1818 H Street North West Washington DC USA, and held ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Risk of more bans on dairy exports
  Trade Minister Tim Groser warns further international bans on New Zealand dairy exports remain a real threat after the Fonterra botulism scare, which yesterday claimed its first scalp with the resignation of executive Gary Romano.Mr...
• Fonterra milk scare claims first scalp
  The Fonterra contamination scare has claimed its first scalp with Gary Romano, Managing Director NZ Milk Products, resigning with immediate effect.Chief executive Theo Spierings said he had accepted Mr Romano's resignation. "Gary...
• Two more countries join ban
  Dairy giant Fonterra and the Ministry of Primary Industries are scrambling to reassure other trading partners that New Zealand dairy products are safe after Belarus and Kazakhstan joined Russia in banning the company's products because...
• More countries shut the door on Fonterra
  Former Soviet republics Belarus and Kazakhstan have joined Russia in banning Fonterra dairy products in the wake of the dairy giant's botulism scare, Trade Minister Tim Groser has confirmed.A spokeswoman for Mr Groser said the two...
• Synlait owner looks better after milk scare - ...
  China's Bright Food Group, a cornerstone stakeholder in local processor Synlait Milk, is likely to get a boost from Fonterra's food scare and might get a credit rating upgrade from Moody's Investors Service.Fonterra is the...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Deputies Bust Gays with Unconstitutional Sodom ...
  "Deputies Bust Gays with Unconstitutional Sodomy Law: Don't Cops Have Better Things to Do?!" is the latest video from ReasonTV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more Reason TV clips. View this articl ...
• Chris Christie Tells Local Dad Medical Marijua ...
  So New Jersey legalized medicinal marijuana in 2009, but implementation’s been slow and stupid. It took three years, for example, for the first dispensary to open. Unsurprisingly, it’s still easier to buy street drugs in New Jersey than legal marijuana, even for medical marijuana ...
• Despite the (Totally Non-Existent) Threat of " ...
  Mike Riggs (formerly of Reason) follows-up at the Atlantic on a story I blogged last month about Concord, NH, seeking federal bucks to buy itself an armored vehicle, where, to quote a Union-Leader story: In its grant application to DHS [to get federal money to buy a Bearcat ar ...
• Steve Chapman on Bloomberg, Stop and Frisk, an ...
  On Monday, a federal judge ruled that the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of citizens by stopping and frisking them without a good reason and in a racially discriminatory pattern. As part of the ruling, police in one precinct of each borough must now beg ...
• A.M. Links: Bradley Manning Apologizes for Lea ...
  Establishment Republican “strategists” are worried that too many Republican candidates for the presidential nomination in 2016 will help Democrats. There are more than twenty Republicans mulling a run. On the Democratic side, meanwhile, politicians not named Hillary Clinton are ...

Mercury Rising

• DoJ doctors Holder speech; Obama appoints fox ...
  It’s good it’s August, or I would not believe that the Administration could get this silly. First item. Dan Froomkin unearthed the archived version of a Holder speech in which he boasts about the prosecution of people committing fraud against homeowners. Quoting from Atrios, the orig ...
• New Era Windows: A Union-Worker Cooperative
  This is what happens when American union workers remember some of the practices of their spiritual forebears (and of their European cousins today): It was just days after receiving a $25 billion federal bailout, that Bank of America cut off credit to Republic Windows and Doors, a small manufactu ...
• Spain’s Conservative Ruling Party Engulf ...
  Most parts of Spain (the Mondragon part of the Basque Country excluded) are utter economic basket cases to rival Greece. But you don’t hear much about that because Spain’s ruling party is conservative, and loves austerity. That’s probably why this has yet to make the US evening ...
• Friday Cat Blogging
• The RNC Wants To Hide Its Primary Clown Car
  Alex Pareene figures it out: Reince Priebus, the head of the Republican National Committee, has told NBC and CNN that they will not be allowed to have any Republican presidential debates in 2016 if they go ahead and air planned films about Hillary Clinton, who will likely be the front-runner for ...

Reality Sandwich

• Moon Time
  The great antiquity of the Near East has been heralded as the "cradle of civilization," but this lunar calendar discovered in Scotland predates Mesopotamia's earliest calendars by more than 5 millennia. read more
• The Battle for Our Angel
    There is a particularly powerful practice in the Islamic tradition that was specially crafted so as to dissolve the pernicious effects of what the Native Americans call “wetiko" (a word which, simply put, refers to the spirit of evil). read more
• Excerpts from the Subtle Body Practice Manual
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• Sun's Flipping Magnetic Fields
  According to NASA, our sun’s magnetic field is about to flip.  The switch will take place in about 3 to 4 months but in truth, the changes have been occuring for a while now. The fields start flipping as they weaken and reach zero then pop back up with opposite polarities. read more
• 9 Key Components of the Shift to Higher Consci ...
    This article originally appeared in WakingTimes.com.   read more

Desertification

• Mining Industry Plans Massive Use of Seawater ...
  The arid climate in northern Chile has forced mining companies to seek out new sources of water. The main source is seawater from the Pacific Ocean, whose use is expected to increase significantly in the coming decade despite the high costs of extraction and transport. The vast northern region o ...
• Fight Against Drought Is Grounds for Political ...
  The decisions taken by the Brazilian government in the fight against drought in the country’s semiarid Northeast are an example of the disconnect between politicians and the citizens, which triggered an unexpected wave of protests in June. Even though the centre-left government of Dilma Rousseff ...
• First Steps to Save Burkina Faso’s Forests
  Burkina Faso has just received a grant of 30 million dollars from the Forest Investment Programme to help protect the country’s forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with deforestation. Burkina’s forests are under pressure from the expansion of farming areas and the ...
• Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
  As the Côte d’Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region. “I am in favour of evictions, but it should not be brutal. These are f ...
• Living Laboratory for Coping with Drought in B ...
  The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years. An “underground reservoir&#8 ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

• Syria says to cooperate with UN team
  The Syrian government says it is ready to cooperate with a UN team of chemical weapons inspectors in its mission to investigate allegations of use of chemical weapons.
• UAE, Bahrain support Egypt crackdown
  The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have expressed support for Egypt’s recent fatal crackdown on the supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi.
• Turkey calls on UNSC to discuss Egypt
  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to convene to discuss the recent escalation of violence in Egypt.
• Over 30 die in Iraq bomb attacks
  Over 30 people have been killed and 50 others wounded in separate bomb attacks in Iraq.
• UN team to ‘imminently’ travel to Syria
  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says UN inspectors will ‘imminently’ travel to Syria to investigate allegations of the use of chemical weapons in the country.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Is global warming just about CO2?
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• Acetone breathalyser helps fight flab
  Dieters could soon be able to monitor how much fat they are burning off thanks to a portable breathalyser invented by Japanese researchers. The device measures levels of acetone on the breath, a by-pr...
• Quickfire Science: Lab Grown Meat
  This week, the world's first lab grown beef burger was cooked and eaten in London. But how was it made, and why is it important? Here are Ginny Smith and Dave Ansell with this week's Quickfire s...
• Toilet Hacking
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• What links Anorexia and Autism?
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Care2 - Environment

• Dancing Love Bird : Video Clips From The Coole ...
  Music makes me happy Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Engineers Making Earthquake Resistant Building ...
  Earthquake resistant buildings are somewhat like unicorns or the Holy Grail: figments of the imagination for sure, but unlikely to ever be discovered in reality. Earthquake proof buildings are not necessarily impossible... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Science & Tech  |    ...
• North Carolina governor signs worst voter supp ...
  North Carolinas Gov. Pat McCrory just signed a voter suppression bill that eliminates same-day registration, ends pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, eliminates one week of early voting, prevents counties from extending voting hours due to long... Submitted by Nancy C. to US Politics &amp ...
• Join the Movement for Canada's Parks ! PLEASE ...
  I love Canadas parks. I urge governments to conserve our wilderness and wildlife by creating new parks and better protecting the ones we have today Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• URGENT: Pigs Violently Abused at Events Need Y ...
  Please urge Man Games to forgo "pig wrestling" events in the futurethen forward this alert widely! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

JL's News ( Care2 )

• Louisana SPCA Finds Over 700 Roosters At Breed ...
  Trinh Tran, 47, was arrested at the time of the raid. Submitted by Brian M. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Department of Interior Puts Peer Review of Nat ...
  After the California Wolf Ctr posted a YouTube vid of a phone interview with Dr. John Vucetich, who was blacklisted from being part of the peer review for signing a letter that opposed the nationwide delisting of wolves, the USFWS Submitted by Michael M. to Animals  |   Note-it! ...
• Faith Destroyed and Faith Renewed Paralszed D ...
  Every day we hear horrible stories about what people do to other people, what people do to animals… its easy to lose faith in people, not so easy to restore it… but sometimes out of a sad situation will come an outpouring of human kindness Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   No ...
• Join the Movement for Canada's Parks ! PLEASE ...
  I love Canadas parks. I urge governments to conserve our wilderness and wildlife by creating new parks and better protecting the ones we have today Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• California: Restrict the Sale of Harmful Rat P ...
  The most commonly sold rat poisons not only cause a painful and slow death for rodents, but also harm and kill animals who are not intended victims. Non-target animals -- including dogs -- eat poisoned bait intended for rodents, suffer immensely, and Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nbsp ...

Articles and Answers 2011

• FBI — FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week ...
  FBI — FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending August 9, 2013. Filed under: News and politics, Safety and Security Tagged: FBI Top 10 News Stories
• U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq and Pl ...
  U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq and Pledges to Help Combat al Qaeda Press StatementJen Psaki Washington, DC August 10, 2013 Filed under: News and politics
• Congressional Budget Office – Monthly Bu ...
  www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44495-MBR.pdf. Filed under: News and politics
• Attention Veterans – New Ruling Effectiv ...
  Federal Register, Volume 78 Issue 145 (Monday, July 29, 2013). Note from:  Administrator Effective Monday, July 29, 2013, Veterans will be able to access VA records previously withheld.  Until now, VA personnel have had the final say on whether or … Continue reading →
• FBI — Halliburton Agrees to Plead Guilty to De ...
  FBI — Halliburton Agrees to Plead Guilty to Destruction of Evidence in Connection with Deepwater Horizon Tragedy. Filed under: Government Tagged: Deepwater Horizon, destruction of evidence, FBI, guilty, Halliburton

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• Linking Fair and SQUAR in Myanmar
  What’s less than two months old, has hit the headlines globally, and has more than 79,000 ‘likes’ and over 16,000 people talking about it? No, it’s not Prince George Alexander Louis but the precocious SQUAR of Myanmar, the once isolated Southeast Asian nation’s own version of social networking s ...
• U.S. Condemns Military Crackdown in Egypt but ...
  The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has denounced in unusually harsh terms Wednesday’s bloody military crackdown against supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. But, despite a growing chorus of calls by prominent lawmakers, commentators and Egypt experts here to suspend all ...
• Study Finds Many “Bee-Friendly” Plants Laced w ...
  Major U.S. retailers are selling garden plants that are billed as “bee-friendly” but laced with pesticides known to be toxic to bees, according to a preliminary study, the first on the issue, released Wednesday. Researchers with Friends of the Earth U.S. and the Pesticide Research Institute say ...
• Q&A: “We Are Building Sexual Citizenship”
  Diana Cariboni interviews Carmen Barroso, director for the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
• When Disaster and Disability Converge – Part One
  This story is part one of a three-part series on the challenges faced by people living with disabilities in a world where intense storms and other natural disasters are expected to become the "new normal".

My AntiWar

• Fallouts of Iran Sanctions
  Summary: Iran?s President-elect Hassan Rohani has promised to ease the tensions surrounding the international relations of his country. In line with the will of the majority of Iranians, the issue of economic sanctions ? weighing heavily on the latter?s day-to-day life ? will be a key to that e ...
• Islamist Militants Drive Free Syrian Army Out ...
• Two Journalists Killed in Cairo Violence
• As Military Makes Its Move, Forget About Liber ...
• US Commanders ‘Planning for the Worst&#8 ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Fallouts of Iran Sanctions
  Summary: Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rohani has promised to ease the tensions surrounding the international relations of his country. In line with the will of the majority of Iranians, the issue of economic sanctions – weighing heavily on the latter’s day-to-day life – will be a key to that ...
• US Needs More Forthcoming Approach to Iran: Report
  Summary: With the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, the United States should take a more flexible approach toward Tehran to increase the chances of a successful resolution of the latter’s nuclear programme, according to a new report by the Brussels-based International Cris ...
• Washington Ready to Repeat Past Mistakes in Nu ...
  Summary: There’s a temptation in the West to see Rohani’s election, to look at him, look at his record, look at his experience in the West, his fluency in English, all of this, [and] to see him as, in effect, a kind of Iranian Gorbachev—someone who is going to turn Iranian foreign policy on i ...
• America displays more stupidity on Iran
  Summary: I would love to know who is the jerk who wrote the White House’s press statement on the occasion of the inauguration last week of the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani. I say this was the work of a jerk, and of a band of war-addicted zealots in Washington, because it seemed desig ...
• Debunking Iran Nuke Lies
  Summary: Nuclear physicist Yousaf Butt discusses the Wall Street Journal’s fearmongering on Iran’s nuclear program; why the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty needs replacing; how Iran’s moderate President Rouhani is frustrating the neoconservatives; and the obvious outlines of a US-Iran nuclea ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Newly Discovered Object Sheds Light on Mysteri ...
                         The first link to measuring the magnetic field near the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's core came last April when NASA's Swift satellite detected a flare of X-rays from near the Milky Way's center. Observers soon determined that the X-rays were coming ...
• Massive Young Stars at Milky Way's Center Puzz ...
  A puzzling characteristic of the our galactic center (GC) is the fact that it hosts the three most massive clusters of young stars in the entire galaxy. The Central, Arches (above) and Quintuplet clusters each contain hundreds of young, hot stars that are much larger than the Sun. Th ...
• Planets of Star System 3rd from the Sun Now Re ...
    The recently discovered star system named "WISE J104915.57-531906" was discovered in an infrared map of the entire sky obtained by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, which scans the entire sky in infrared light, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of object ...
• Neandertal Technology --New Discovery Shows Th ...
              Modern humans replaced Neandertals in Europe about 40 thousand years ago, but the Neandertals' capabilities are still greatly debated. Some argue that before they were replaced, Neandertals had cultural capabilities similar to modern humans, while others argue that these ...
• Asteroid Impact May have Triggered Evolution o ...
                                 A massive asteroid that struck South Australia during a glacial cold snap 590 million years ago may have triggered the evolution of Earth’s earliest complex organisms, Australian geologists reported. In 2010, researchers from the University of Adelaide ar ...

Natural News

• Study finds that dehydration lowers mood and m ...
  Experts estimate that approximately 75 percent of the American population is sub-clinically dehydrated, and this percentage doesn't seem to be shrinking thanks to the continued popularity of acidic foods and diuretics. While dehydration has always been linked to illness...
• Babies that eat fresh foods instead of process ...
  Research now indicates that 8 percent of children have some kind of food allergy. Common childhood food allergies include reactions to peanuts, nuts, seafood, soy, wheat, and eggs. Medical professionals try to help parents avoid specific foods that seem to be the root...
• Discover how to fortify yourself against cance ...
  With summer in full blossom and an abundance of roses in their prime glory, now is the perfect time to take full advantage of all the health promoting qualities of the flower. Whether utilizing the calming, antibacterial and therapeutic attributes of the essential oil...
• Eliminate allergy symptoms fast with these thr ...
  Allergy seasons vary from region to region; some locations have more seasons than others. Allergic rhinitis, commonly known as hay fever, often strikes many during an allergy season. The most common allergens found in several areas are ragweed and other grass pollens...
• Obamacare now clearly a bait-and-switch scheme ...
  The quest by conservatives to defund Obamacare continues unabated, but the fact of the matter is, those who have said the law will collapse in on itself are looking more like prophets than doomsayers. If you doubt that, think for a moment just how many times the White...

Threat Level

• 101 Signals: The Only Government and Security ...
  From domestic political campaigns, to military ones in faraway lands, to the attacks going on inside your computer right now, these reporters and researchers can be counted on to give you the news that matters about the state of law ...     
• ‘Maintenance Update,’ Not Hackers, Felled NY Times
  The New York Times' website and corporate email went down sporadically earlier today, fueling widespread speculation the newspaper of record might have been hacked or went offline for traffic-congestion reasons. But, in the end, it was a maintenance glitch, the ...     
• Feds Crack Encrypted Drives, Arrest Child Porn ...
  Federal authorities have cracked two encrypted drives they say are filled with child pornography in a case showing the limits of encryption and highlighting a novel legal issue in which the government has been trying to force the defendant to ...     
• Codefellas: North Korea Targets Dubstep With N ...
  Agent Topple and Nicole debate the potential damage North Korea would cause by releasing a computer virus. When Topple realizes the virus could wipe out electronic music forever, he begins to reconsider if the hack would actually do more good ...     
• CIA Refuses to Acknowledge Drone Targeted Killings
  Months after a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking Central Intelligence Agency documents outlining the government’s drone targeted killing program, the President Barack Obama administration is again claiming that acknowledging if it has such paperwork could disclose classified sec ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• GOP Still Plans to Repeal and Replace Obamacar ...
  With the ink from President Obama's signature on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) barely dry, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in March 2010 declared, "I think the slogan will be 'repeal and replace', 'repeal and replace," adding, "No one that I know in the Republican conference in ...
• Meet the Real Death Panelists
  "Death panels" are back. Just in time for Congress' August recession, conservatives are resurrecting Politifact's 2009 Lie of the Year to once again rile up right-wing rage. But while the GOP lie four years ago concerned the Affordable Care Act's proposed funding for end of life counseling for ...
• The Real Reason for the GOP's All-Out War on O ...
  During his press conference on Friday, President Obama pondered why the GOP's "number one priority, the one unifying principle in the Republican Party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care." But in attributing the 40 Affordable Care Act repeal votes, the thr ...
• Fox News Poll Shows Success of GOP's Obamacare ...
  Fox News is having a field day with its new poll regarding the Affordable Care Act, gloating that majorities of respondents want Obamacare repealed and call its implementation "a joke." Predictably, Fox does not set the record straight about Americans' misperceptions of the ACA. Instead, the ne ...
• Texas Refuses to Enforce Obamacare Insurance R ...
  They say everything is bigger in Texas. That's certainly the case when it comes to the mega-failure that is the Lone Star State's 46th ranked health care system. Six million people or 24 percent of all Texans--and 30 percent of those ages 18 to 64--have no health insurance. Twenty-two Texas c ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

• America’s Upside-Down Morality
• A Method to Egypt’s Madness
• Blaming Obama for Syrian Mess
• ’42′ and 44
• How Congress Overlooked NSA Spying

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Dancing Raccoon Taken By Authorities
  There’s no peace in the land for a man and his dancing raccoon. If you haven’t seen this video of a man dancing with his pet coon to Aretha Franklin, it is rather entertaining. The title is “The Hillbilly Slide And One Mad Coon Starring Your Favorite Coon and Coonrippy!” ...
• Cosmic ‘Cold Spot’ Challenges Inflation Model ...
  This past spring, the most detailed mapping of the early universe was released to the public. Certain anomalous features of this map have attracted the intense scrutiny of astrophysicist and cosmologists. In particular, there appears to be a massive “cold spot” in the data distributi ...
• New Shark Species Discovered Near South Carolina
  A known type of hammerhead shark has been discovered to be a distinct species. It was assumed for many years that the hammerheads in South Carolina waters at  Bull’s Bay north of Charleston,  St. Helena Sound near Beaufort and in the Charleston harbor, were all scalloped hammerheads. Howev ...
• Carrington Farms Coconut Oil (Review)
  Coconut is one of my favorite foods, favorite waters, favorite creams. It is wise to consider coconut milk, after mother’s milk, and goat milk. Coconut milk is desirable for the young to old. It is balancing and nourishing. (Fresh water of young coconuts is especially balancing for the electroly ...
• Perseid Meteor Shower 2013 Peaks Tonight — Per ...
  The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight — late night on August 12 2013 (early morning August 13 2013) the Perseids meteor shower will reach its peak for the year. So get out to see it if you can! This year the Perseids are expected to be quite the show, thanks to a number of synchronous Pe ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Water Quality Processes in a Subcatchment and ...
  Subject:  Water Quality Processes in a Subcatchment and Node/Link System of SWMM 5   via Blogger htt
• Planets Around Red Dwarf Stars May Face 'Water ...
  Planets Around Red Dwarf Stars May Face ‘Water-Trapping’ Phenomenon & Hold Clues To
• Can warm water be bad for you? Legionella in p ...
  © Sebastian Kaulitzki | Dreamstime.com I was very concerned (but not that surprised) to read about L
• Big Trees and Baby Eels
  Year 11 Senior Science from Hawkesbury High are becoming Brewongle junkies. After completing a river
• WPX benzene spill south of Silt
  A wastewater pit somewhere south of Silt Good grief. I go off the grid for a few days and there’s an

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Delicious Irony of Morris Greenberg’s AIG ...
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 12, 2013 Image by codep
• Michael Hudson: 2013 – the stage is set
  with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 11, 2013 Image by jim
• The Age of the Siege: Sanctions Are An Act Of ...
  Image by LividFiction via Flickr by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, Engla
• Gareth Porter: Afghan war, dead weight around ...
  with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 12, 2013 Image by Dandelion Salad via Fli
• America's Indefinitely Detained + Close GITMO ...
  with Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk January 11, 2013 Ima

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• "A Community Organizer for the Muslim Brotherhood"
  South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is probably wondering what he has to do to keep the Teahadists happy. He's been a very reliable asshole for the right wing for nearly two full senate terms; but this isn't good enough for the mouth-breathers. He's being challenged in the GOP primary by wing ...
• If heads rolling was a rodeo event...
  By @BginKC ...that other little backwater on the interwebs where I rant and rave about mostly state matters, would have a belt-buckle the size of a dinner plate: The president of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association has resigned after getting flak about a State Fair event in which a rodeo clown ...
• Everyday Little Corporate Scams We Probably Ne ...
  By @TomBales1  Disclaimer: The following is based on information from an unidentified source who requested anonymity on the basis that he was not authorized to speak on any facet of FedEx's operation in the countdown to taking over the US Postal Service and that if we didn't conceal his tru ...
• What happened in Sedalia didn't stay in Sedalia
  By @BginKC You know you've done something right when, in response to a blog post on Sunday morning, the first thing one of the subjects of said post does on Monday morning is lawyer up: The rodeo announcer at the center of a controversy at the Missouri State Fair Saturday night has obtained lega ...
• I really hate racists, especially the ones who ...
  By @BginKC I am sick to death of people who smugly assert that white people are superior because we're smarter, as measured by standard IQ tests. Specifically, I'm sick of a creep named Jason Richwine who has views on race so radical that even the freakin' Heritage Foundation finds him too far o ...

Care 2

• Dancing Love Bird : Video Clips From The Coole ...
  Music makes me happy Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Engineers Making Earthquake Resistant Building ...
  Earthquake resistant buildings are somewhat like unicorns or the Holy Grail: figments of the imagination for sure, but unlikely to ever be discovered in reality. Earthquake proof buildings are not necessarily impossible... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Science & Tech  |    ...
• North Carolina governor signs worst voter supp ...
  North Carolinas Gov. Pat McCrory just signed a voter suppression bill that eliminates same-day registration, ends pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, eliminates one week of early voting, prevents counties from extending voting hours due to long... Submitted by Nancy C. to US Politics &amp ...
• Join the Movement for Canada's Parks ! PLEASE ...
  I love Canadas parks. I urge governments to conserve our wilderness and wildlife by creating new parks and better protecting the ones we have today Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• URGENT: Pigs Violently Abused at Events Need Y ...
  Please urge Man Games to forgo "pig wrestling" events in the futurethen forward this alert widely! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Libertarian Capitalism Killed My Best Friends
• Reagan, Terror, And Benghazi
• Fukushima Forever?
• Blame The Auto Trade Deficit, Not Detroit's Wo ...
• Blaming Obama for Syrian Mess

Paul Krugman

• The Great Recession Test
  A little sympathy for those who were wrong.
• Hawks, Doves, and Ostriches
  Unable to admit having been wrong.
• Lost In Cyberspace
  We apologize for the temporary lack of diatribes.
• A Tale of Two Flat Countries
  Grand Bargains are a bad thing if they take you in the wrong direction.
• Wish I’d Said That, Rand Paul Edition
  Who has rights to a dead economist's legacy?

No Quarter

• Articles Worth Your Time
  Some really terrific pieces of late from around the world. I strongly encourage you to take time to read these. The first does a bang up job of dissecting Barack Obama’s weakness with Putin. Obama’s Putin Policy: Flinch and Retreat Washington and Moscow have a lot to talk about, but ...
• “400 US Missiles in Benghazi?” Poppycock!
  A writer for Breitbart, AWR HAWKIN, came out yesterday with a stupid and misleading piece of hack journalism about US missiles in Benghazi: On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.’s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained ...
• Barack Obama’s Failed Scare Tactics
  George W. Bush did it. And Barack Obama is doing it. What? When the political heat comes on the best diversion is a dire warning of imminent terrorist doom. That’s what we got last week from the Obama Administration. With the enabling help of the most of the media and some of the neo-con R ...
• CIA Under the Control of the Insane
  Having read the lastest pronouncement by the soon to be retired Deputy Director of the CIA, there is no other possible conclusion–these people are certifiably insane. Mike Morrell offered up the following as his “keen” analysis: The second-in-command of the Central Intelligence ...
• Al Qaeda’s Terrorist Rampage
  If you are waiting for the Al Qaeda terrorist offensive, stop waiting. It is here. But it is not in focused in the 22 countries where Barack Obama, choosing the route of a coward, shuttered US Embassies. Nope. It is in Iraq: The United Nations said Thursday that July was Iraq’s deadliest month i ...

Futurismic

• The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
  Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...
• Improving Reality
  Improving Reality… that’s an ambitious title, no? I’d expect nothing less than ambition from Honor Harger and her crew at Lighthouse, though; this year’s IR (Thurday 5th September, Brighton UK; map here; tickets here) will be the third instalment of their ongoing mission ...
• 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 ...

Al Jazeera

• Series of deadly bombings hits Iraqi capital
  At least 24 killed and 56 wounded after five car bombs and explosion target Baghdad, including high security green zone.
• Brotherhood plans Cairo march after crackdown
  Islamist group calls for rally day after security forces mounted bloody clampdown on its members that killed hundreds.
• UN chemical experts to visit Syria
  Chemical team's departure imminent after Syria accepts terms of cooperation for investigation, UN says.
• Global condemnation of Egypt crackdown
  US leads global condemnation of the use of force by military-backed government to clear protest camps in Cairo.
• Israel-Palestinian peace talks resume
  First substantive talks in five years get under way in Jerusalem as Israel releases 26 Palestinian prisoners.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Follow Our Environmental Coverage
  Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
• An Addendum
  Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
• A Blog’s Adieu
  The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
• Q and A: The Angry Economist
  Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
• A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
  A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

• Is the Internet Good for the Climate?
  An exploration of the role of the Web in fostering, or impeding, public engagement on global warming.
• From the Fire Hose: Arctic Methane, Scientists ...
  A dip in the flow from the information fire hose snags updates on Arctic methane, fracking solutions and more.
• Dot Earth Makes Time Magazine’s List of ...
  My Dot Earth efforts make Time's list of 25 top bloggers for 2013.
• Bring on the ‘Frankenburger’
  Is a taste test of a burger made from lab-grown beef a one-time stunt or the dawn of an era of ethical meat?
• With Arrests, Signs of Justice in Slaying of C ...
  Eight arrests are made two months after the brutal murder of a young sea turtle guardian in Costa Rica.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• University of Minnesota to test new Light Rail ...
  This is sort of cool. Went out to U students just recently. I am hoping the Green Line is activated ASAP!! Still moar cables to install in downtown St Paul dangit. On with the show! From: Vice President Pam Wheelock Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM Good aftern ...
• Massive Minnesota Tar Sands Enbridge Line 67 c ...
  Set yr hashtags for #fearlessSummer #summerheat cause it's on! Enbridge is a Canadian corporation trying to nail down a disastrous and indeed genocidal tar sands pipeline from Alberta Canada. This would be bigger than the infamous Keystone XL. Great starting article based on latest events: Clima ...
• Money Warz: Emperor Pipeline, Darth Banker, Lu ...
  Here is a fun art project against the evil Trans Pacific Partnership treaty of Doom! Please pass the word or a couple bucks for Money Warz, a street art performance getting the Occupy Wall Street band back together on the 2nd anniversary, Sept 17 2013 - the goal is $1000 or moar... If they can g ...
• VIDEO: Minneapolis Rally #Justice4Trayvon #Jus ...
  Here is live video from #justice4trayvon #justice4terrance rally Sat night ~12:30AM in Downtown Minneapolis >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RyjuazWlik&feature=youtu.be (creative commons - interview w Mel Reeves!) - several FB events for Monday >> https://www.facebook.com/event ...
• Canadian First Nations - Shut Down the Tar San ...
  A network of direct action camps - and indeed a network of networks - continues to spread across North America uniting Natives, First Nations, meddling kids, even ranchers and activists vs corporate exploitation. Mercenaries have appeared in northern Wisconsin to protect dangerous & widely o ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• 278 People Killed in One Day in Egypt -- Globa ...
  White House 'watching' as state of emergency called and Mohamed ElBaradei resigns in protest against killings.  The United States has led a chorus of international concern aboutEgypt's crackdown on demonstrators, publicly condemning the violence that resulted in the worst loss of lif ...
• No Sex, No Drugs, and Jesus? Inside the Bigges ...
  Three stages, 50,000 believers, 4,000 altar calls—and plenty of merchandise. The following article first appeared in Mother Jones. Subscribe here for more great content from Mother Jones.Deep in central Pennsylvania, the roads are usually quiet, but today Route 747 is gridlocked. Cars crawl to ...
• Why I Find It Hard to be Friends With White People
  My best friend at 9 was white -- but interracial friendships later became a struggle. Here's why everything changed.  A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, which found that 40 percent of white people and 25 percent of nonwhite people have no friends of the opposite race, caused me to reflect deepl ...
• Gmailers Beware: Google Says You Have No "Reas ...
  Internet giant makes stunning claim in court filing in attempt to head off class action suit.  Gmail users have no “reasonable expectation” that their emails are confidential, Google has said in a court filing.Consumer Watchdog, the advocacy group that uncovered the filing, called the revelat ...
• Raped in Virginia? Prepare to Be Doubted—Until ...
  Until last week, Norfolk, VA classified all sexual assault claims as “unfounded” by default The police department in Norfolk, Virginia, was forced to evaluate its sexual assault policy last week following a rape case in which officers did not believe a victim’s story and closed her file while ...

Threat Level

• 101 Signals: The Only Government and Security ...
  From domestic political campaigns, to military ones in faraway lands, to the attacks going on inside your computer right now, these reporters and researchers can be counted on to give you the news that matters about the state of law ...     
• ‘Maintenance Update,’ Not Hackers, Felled NY Times
  The New York Times' website and corporate email went down sporadically earlier today, fueling widespread speculation the newspaper of record might have been hacked or went offline for traffic-congestion reasons. But, in the end, it was a maintenance glitch, the ...     
• Feds Crack Encrypted Drives, Arrest Child Porn ...
  Federal authorities have cracked two encrypted drives they say are filled with child pornography in a case showing the limits of encryption and highlighting a novel legal issue in which the government has been trying to force the defendant to ...     
• Codefellas: North Korea Targets Dubstep With N ...
  Agent Topple and Nicole debate the potential damage North Korea would cause by releasing a computer virus. When Topple realizes the virus could wipe out electronic music forever, he begins to reconsider if the hack would actually do more good ...     
• CIA Refuses to Acknowledge Drone Targeted Killings
  Months after a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking Central Intelligence Agency documents outlining the government’s drone targeted killing program, the President Barack Obama administration is again claiming that acknowledging if it has such paperwork could disclose classified sec ...

Equality Trust

• UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
  The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
• The Spirit Level Documentary Film
  We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
• Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
• We work in partnership with One Society
  Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
• Among Equals: read our newsletter
  Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  

PDA AMERICA

• Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
  Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
• IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
  Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
  Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
• War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
  WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
• An American Suicide Terrorist
  William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

• 1,100 receive Hepatitis A Vaccines after expos ...
  Sarah Palermo of the Concord Monitor reported that New Hampshire State health officials vaccinated more than 1,100 people against the hepatitis A virus last weekend after a bartender in Contoocook... Continue Reading
• Two Kids with HUS Linked to E. coli Outbreak a ...
  The Maricopa County Departments of Public Health and Environmental Services in collaboration with the Arizona Department of Health Services is continuing to investigate an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 linked... Continue Reading
• Cyclospora Infections from Sea to Shinning Sea
  As of August 12, 2013, CDC has been notified of 539 cases of Cyclospora infection from the following 19 states: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota,... Continue Reading
• E. coli Victims Steps Up to Prevent Next Outbreak
  Linda Thomas (a.k.a. “the news chick”) told a story that make a lawyer very proud of a client – “E. coli victim pushes to improve King County restaurant reports.” After... Continue Reading
• The Summer of Cyclospora – An ongoing Mystery
  As of this morning, the CDC has been notified of 535 cases of Cyclospora infection from Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

• First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
  Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
• Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
  Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
• Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
  Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
• First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
  Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
• New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
  Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...

Camera Obscura

• No title
• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

• Questlove on How He Warned Occupy Wall Street ...
  Some have called Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson the "Paul Revere of Occupy Wall Street" after he tweeted them a warning on the night of November 2011 police raid of Zuccotti Park: "Omg, drivin down south st near #ows. Somethin bout to go down yo, swear I counted 1000 riot gear cops bout to pull sne ...
• Web Exclusive: Questlove on His Memoir, Occupy ...
  Here are some web-only highlights of our interview with hip-hop artist Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, drummer and co-founder of The Roots, the legendary hip-hop group and house band on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He is also a DJ, music scholar and author of the new memoir, "Mo’ Meta Blues: ...
• Questlove of The Roots on His Musical Memoir, ...
  In this Democracy Now! web exclusive, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, the drummer for the legendary hip-hop group The Roots, discusses the writing of his new memoir, Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove . The book's title is a riff on the 1990 Spike Lee film about jazz musicians, Mo ...
• Questlove on How Stevie Wonder & "The Cosby Sh ...
  Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, the drummer for the legendary hip-hop group The Roots, talks about the Cosby Show episode that left an indelible impression on him when he saw it at a young age: a guest appearance by Stevie Wonder, showcasing the art of sampling. AARON MATÉ: Let's stay with S ...
• Questlove of The Roots: How the DEA Once Misto ...
  Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, the drummer for the legendary hip-hop group The Roots, has been harassed by law enforcement on multiple occasions since a young age. In this Democracy Now! web exclusive, Questlove describes what's likely his oddest experience: the time DEA agents held him at a Buf ...

Solari

• Real Solutions
  By Catherine Austin Fitts You are probably walking around the world wondering why industry after industry and government agency after government agency are behaving like they are not under adult supervision. Plain and simple – we are facing a serious implosion in governance process. In the ...
• Every Important Person In Bitcoin Just Got Sub ...
  By Kashmir Hill Things are getting serious for Bitcoin this month: a federal judge declared it real money, Bloomberg gave it an experimental ticker (XBT), and New York’s financial regulator announced an interest in regulating it. Declaring Bitcoin “a virtual Wild West for narcotraffickers and o ...
• Alfredo Moser: Bottle Light Inventor Proud to ...
  By Gibby Zobel Alfredo Moser’s invention is lighting up the world. In 2002, the Brazilian mechanic had a light-bulb moment and came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without electricity – using nothing more than plastic bottles filled with water and a tiny bit o ...
• Ubiquitous Encryption – The Promise Of K ...
  By Alastair Thompson While the following story is about Kim Dotcom and his new encrypted data delivery network MEGA.co.nz, it addresses a great deal more than piracy and copyright law enforcement. The author – Scoop founder, editor and General Manager Alastair Thompson (a member of the New ...
• Musk Unveils Plans for $10 Billion Hyperloop
  By CNBC Air cushioning: That’s the high-concept technology behind the high-speed transit concept that billionaire Elon Musk calls the Hyperloop. Musk – who already plays leading roles in the SpaceX rocket venture, the Tesla electric car company and the SolarCity solar-energy company ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

• 538 Square Foot ‘Swiss Army Knife’ Apartment F ...
  The Pop Up Interactive Apartment can sprout in any already existing building, which significantly cuts down on its construction costs. The polypropylene panels and walls are durable and flexible, and they can be easily set up and moved throughout the day.     
• Martin Aircraft Unveils World’s First “Practic ...
  The jetpack is the quintessential mode of futuristic transportation - and if all goes well for New Zealand's Martin Aircraft, you might have the chance to get your hands on one soon. Looking like one of Wile E. Coyote’s wacky gadgets, or a prop from a James     
• Volkswagen Aerrow Hybrid Car Concept Looks Lik ...
  German designer Andreas Blazunaj's Volkswagen Aerrow is a futuristic hybrid car that looks like an out of this world spaceship. The two-wheeled concept car combines attributes of different vehicles - it's light and aerodynamic like a motorcycle, but its fully     
• Help Kickstart Visionnaire To Bring Timeless F ...
  A good pen isn't just a sign of prestige -- it's a form of expression. When you hold a solid, well weighted pen in your hand, you feel more inclined to write or draw something more meaningful than you would if you were holding, say, the plastic pen you found     
• Studio RMA’s Hi’ilani EcoHouse is America’s Fi ...
  Hawaii is paradise, but building a home there takes an experienced hand and a strong working knowledge of its unique climate and geology. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the 4,000 sq. foot Hi’ilani EcoHouse gets a lot of warming sun in the day time, but ocean     

WIRED Magazine | Science

• A Magnetic Trick to Define Consciousness
  Researchers have come up with an approach that uses the brain’s response to magnetic stimulation to judge a person’s awareness, reducing it to a numerical score they call an index of consciousness.     
• A Gruesome War Crime Renews Concerns About a M ...
  Early the morning of March 11, 2012, Army staff sergeant Robert Bales left his remote outpost in an impoverished region of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan and killed 16 people in two nearby villages. In June, he pleaded guilty to the murders ...     
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Perseids Coming ...
  I hope you had a chance to see the meteors streaking across the sky these past few nights (and mornings). This year's show was strong with a good rate under moonless skies. Here is a video (and associated images) I ...     
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Shapes on Mars
  Sunlight was just starting to reach the high Northern latitudes in late winter when HiRISE captured this image of part of the steep scarps around portions of the North Polar layered deposits. The sunlight is highly diffused by atmospheric scattering, with ...     
• Engineers Identify 12 Asteroids We Could Captu ...
  By looking through the catalog of known asteroids, aerospace engineers have identified 12 candidates that we could reach out and capture using existing rocket technology.     

PakAlert

• Obamacare Provision: “Forced” Home Inspections
  “Clearly, any family may be visited by federally paid agents for almost any reason.” According to an Obamacare provision millions of Americans will be targeted.
• Elite Underground Tunnels & Cities Completely ...
  This story confirming that there are indeed underground cities beneath America and that they were being ‘stocked up’, as confirmed by a truck driver, also in this video. These tunnels and cities stretch from Area 51 to the Denver International Airport (NWO home base), from Maine to Washington DC ...
• MSNBC Blames Boston Bombing on “Deeply Racist” ...
  Claims Tsarnaev brothers inspired by talk show host, who is “getting paid to be racist” MSNBC engaged in one of the most egregious and defamatory hit pieces in its entire history earlier today when host Alex Wagner and guests all but blamed Alex Jones for the Boston bombings, claiming with no ...
• Articles of impeachment against Barack Obama f ...
  According to the report by Voice of Russia, National Black Republican Association (NBRA) filed articles of impeachment against Barack Obama. The organization calls the Congress of the United States to remove the president from the office over NSA spying, prosecution of whistleblowers, wiretappin ...
• 19 Shocking Examples Of How Political Correctn ...
  If you say the “wrong thing” in America today, you could be penalized, fired or even taken to court. Political correctness is running rampant, and it is absolutely destroying this nation. In his novel 1984, George Orwell imagined a future world where speech was greatly restricted.

Andy Worthington

• Guantánamo: British Ex-Intelligence Officer On ...
  On Monday, Harry Ferguson, 52, a former officer with MI6, the British intelligence agency, began a week-long hunger strike, as part of the Stand Fast for Justice initiative launched by the legal action charity Reprieve, in support of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay — and, in particular, Sh ...
• Congratulations to John Grisham for Writing ab ...
  In the long and horrendous history of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, it has been noticeable that very few celebrities have challenged the myriad injustices of Guantánamo — the torture; the indefinite detention without charge or trial; the decision by the Bush adm ...
• Endless Injustice: Newly Announced Guantánamo ...
  I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
• Photos: Shaker Aamer Protest in London, and Hi ...
  Shaker Aamer Protest in London, July 18, 2013, a set on Flickr. Now that many people have been wakened to the plight of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, through P.J. Harvey writing a song about him that has sent ripples through the music world, I hope that ongoing efforts t ...
• GTMO Clock Launched, 75 Days Since Obama&#8217 ...
  Please click on the “GTMO Clock” image to visit the website and see how many days it has been since President Obama promised to resume releasing prisoners from Guantánamo, and how many men have been freed. Today, the “Close Guantánamo” campaign, Witness Against Torture an ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Fifty ways to pack your circles
  Squaring the circle is but one futile endeavour akin to squeezing a round peg into a square hole. But there are many improbable problems that humanity seeks to solve and with the advent of supercomputers and so-called “big data” it seems that perhaps no problem is now off-limits. Unf ...
• Pale Blue Dot 2.1
  In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. I think we can call this Pale Blue Dot 2.1. Version 1 was the original snapped from Voyager 1 on Carl Sagan&# ...
• Why your personal CAM story is not evidence
  Your regular doc was ignoring your symptoms or told you to take a couple of aspirin and come back if the problem persists, so you headed to a practitioner who treats you holistically, who understands, who knows what you specifically need for your specific condition. You swallowed their talk of s ...
• Satisfying your curiosity
  Latest science news in my fortnightly column for Spectroscopynow.com, now online: Steroid infection: Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic reson ...
• Entrepreneurial mothers push hard
  Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that emerged during the web 2.0 explosion when mothers running small businesses and looking af ...

Common Dreams -News

• Profits Trump Blood as US Aid Undeterred by Eg ...
  The bodies of protesters who died Wednesday in Cairo. (Khaled Elfiqi/EPA)Following the unprecedented crackdown that left more than 500 protesters dead at the hands of the U.S.-funded Egyptian military on Wednesday, President Obama made an official statement condemning the interim government' ...
• Massive Explosion Rocks Beirut Streets
  A massive car bomb exploded in Beirut, Lebanon Thursday killing at least three and injuring scores more. (Photo: @thearabdigest/ Twitter)Developing.... A massive explosion has torn through a heavily populated area of southern Beirut, Lebanon on Thursday. Television footage showed crowds in the s ...
• Hot Century Ahead: Study Finds Onslaught of He ...
  People take shelter from the heat in a government meeting center in Shaoxing, China, on Saturday, August 10 (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images)A new study dishes out some very bad news about the global warming crisis. read more
• Win for Equality: California's Prop 8 'Gone fo ...
  A gay rights flag flies high above San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. (Photo: caribb/ cc/ Flickr)In a major triumph for same-sex marriage in California, the state's Supreme Court struck the final blow against Proposition 8 Wednesday when a bid to revive the state's marriage ban was una ...
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Lifehacker

• The Airy Apartment Workspace
  It's not always easy to tie a desk and tech gear into a multi-function room, but this small yet bright apartment does it gorgeously.Read more...     
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  Chrome: Lingualy is a language learning extension for Chrome that learns how good you are with a language, and then recommends texts online for you to read to test your skills. Read more...     
• This Video Checks How "Old" Your Hearing Is
  We're all aware that hearing loss is pretty easy to prevent, but most of us probably don't bother actually getting our hearing tested that often. If you're curious about how your hearing is doing, the folks over at AsapSCIENCE have put together a quick test you can administer yourself with noth ...
• The Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion ...
  There is a common mistake that often happens to smart people—in many cases, without you ever realizing it. The mistake has to do with the difference between being in motion and taking action. They sound similar, but they’re not the same.Read more...     
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  iPhone: We're big fans of the sadistic to-do app, CARROT, and today CARROT has expanded into the alarm clock space. As you'd expect if you've used the to-do app, it's just as sadistic and makes waking up in the morning a whole new experience. Read more...     

Water Wars

• Alabama quiet in new water war case
  Florida's decision to sue Georgia over how much water flows downstream from Atlanta into Apalachicola Bay is a sign that negotiations have deteriorated enough to send the water wars back into a courtroom, but - so far - Alabama is on the sidelines.
• Alabama quiet in new water war outbreak
  By Mary Orndorff Troyan Gannett Washington Bureau -- Florida's decision to sue Georgia over how much water flows downstream from Atlanta into Apalachicola Bay is a sign that negotiations have deteriorated enough to send the water wars back into a courtroom, but - so far - Alabama is on the s ...
• Another costly legal fight looms for Georgia o ...
  Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday warned Florida that Georgia is ready for a new fight over regional water rights and vowed the state “will not roll over.
• Kazakhstan Uses Renewable Energy to Expand Reg ...
  When Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov said last year that the escalations over two proposed dams in central Asia — Kambarata-1 in Kyrgyzstan and the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan — could “lead not just to a serious confrontation, but even water wars,” there was imminent controversy in Central Asia.
• Pasco looks to purchase 12,400 acres from Pinellas
  Thirty-seven years ago Pinellas county would purchase land in central Pasco county during the so-called "water wars" when local governments were trying to secure water supplies for the future. 

WordPress | Economics

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  One of the greatest myths of our time is that public services can be made more efficient if we run t
• Oman's Ports Welcome Outside Investors
  Though the quiet Sultanate of Oman may not make international headlines very often, the good things
• Navigating the global sphere of exchange
  Courtesy of 1stBorn.Photography by Tshepo Phologane By Thokozani Mhlambi It must be understood from
• Tension And Your Pores and skin
  Tension And Your Pores and skin Most of the time, when a human being is not feeling properly his/her
• Economics of Technological Progress
  Futurologists have a tendency to describe either a future they desire, or a future they despise. In

Electronic Intifada

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  Max Blumenthal New York City 12 February 2013 Why are J Street leaders afraid to debate Palestinians advocating a boycott of Israel?
• Biased new study skirts around racism in Israe ...
  Nurit Peled-Elhanan 12 February 2013 Western academics get offended when Palestinians use terms like “colonialism.”
• "I was determined to live with dignity," says ...
  Rami Almeghari Rafah 11 February 2013 Prisoner’s daughter recalls pain of not having her father around on her wedding day.
• Defying surveillance, Gaza farmers demand boyc ...
  Eva Bartlett Gaza Strip 11 February 2013 Protests against Israeli goods take place close to the Gaza-Israel boundary.
• "Gaza is a Bantustan": author Samah Sabawi int ...
  Joe Catron Gaza City 10 February 2013 Playwright and political analyst visits Gaza after 17-year absence.

The Wonk Room

• California Supreme Court: Marriage Equality Is ...
  Marriage equality is here to stay in California, at least as far as the state's Supreme Court is concerned.The post California Supreme Court: Marriage Equality Isn’t Going Anywhere Anytime Soon appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
• From Bad to Worse
  From birther eruptions to lonely diatribes against immigration reform to doubling down on their anti-science climate denialism, things are just not going very well out there for Republicans this August.The post From Bad to Worse appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
• MSNBC’s Chris Hayes On Why So Many Conservativ ...
  On Thursday (1 pm ET), Chris Hayes is hosting a Google+ Hangout on the politics of climate change — with me, Andy Revkin, Kate Sheppard and a couple of others.The post MSNBC’s Chris Hayes On Why So Many Conservatives Deny The Climate Problem: They Hate The Solution appeared first on ThinkP ...
• Congressman Invites Rodeo Clown From Offensive ...
  Steve Stockman wants a rodeo clown slammed by Missouri Republican and Democratic officials alike to come to Texas instead.The post Congressman Invites Rodeo Clown From Offensive Obama Stunt To His Home State appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
• Doctors Who Are Afraid Of Lawsuits Are Driving ...
  Doctors who are afraid of a malpractice lawsuit are far more likely to order order unnecessary tests and procedures for their patients, according to a new study.The post Doctors Who Are Afraid Of Lawsuits Are Driving Up U.S. Health Care Spending appeared first on ThinkProgress.   &nbsp ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Advanced Culture's Thoughts On Pornography ...
  Nuff said.
• This Is What FULL EMPLOYMENT Looks Like
  ... in case you're wondering: ... Yes! I noticed the sub-texts of racism and misogyny too! This is a great historical artifact!
• Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
  Just so weird. Saw this: And wikipedia gave me the back--story and then some ...
• Faust
  Here's the classic silent movie ... And another ... I don't believe I have a soul to sell. But I still recall thinking these films were groovy when I was a teenager.
• I Had a Dream
  Part of it was that I was in the lobby of a mental hospital and this woman who was in a very agitated state was being told by the nurses at the front desk that they didn't have any room for her. The woman was short, late middle-aged, with a cheap printed knee-length dress on. She was depressed a ...

Science Express

• Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
• More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
  Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
• Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
  This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
• Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
  What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
• LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
  Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
• Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
  Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Sanctions? What sanctions?
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• MPs endorse a nuclear weapons ban
  Ceasefire.ca would like to thank all volunteer campaigners across Canada, and to the many MPs who have voiced their support for peace and global nuclear disarmament.
• Harper’s War Lobby is reacting to our campaign
  Last week the head of Canada’s largest defence industry lobby association, Tim Page, challenged us in a 700-word opinion piece published in the Ottawa Citizen. Read our reply.
• Is there a new anti-nuclear movement growing?
  Unprepared to sit and wait while thousands of nuclear weapons remain on full alert, citizens are organizing on every continent to demand their governments establish a convention banning nuclear weapons.
• Would your MP ban nuclear weapons?
  Tell your MP that you support a nuclear weapons ban and want them to do the same. Send your letter, right away.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-1-13
  Today, Kevin reveals the secrets to beating the odds and making big money in gambling. Self Help: Mineral Based Make Up Change The Way You Think Make Your Dreams Come True Health: Fast Food Causes Childhood Obesity Harmful Medical Devices Causing Too Many Deaths Everything Kevin: Become An Insid ...
• How do you get people out of their trance?
  A lot of people come up to me and ask, “How do you get people out of their trance?” This is the mystery question of the ages, and the answer is this; you can’t make a horse drink, you can only lead a horse to water. In other words, you can’t make anybody get out [...]
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-6-13
  Today, Kevin abolishes all rumors and gives you the truth behind inflation, the TSA and the government. Plus, Dr. Bob Marshall gives you the facts behind the dangers of Magnesium Stearate & Stearic Acid! Self Help: Cure Your Fears Health: Eating Healthy Is Bad For Economy 10 Things Snack Foo ...
• Get healthy, fit, and have fun all at the same ...
  When was the last time you had a good bounce on a trampoline? Probably as a child, I bet. But did you realize that for us grown-ups, getting back on a trampoline can seriously affect our health – in a positive, fantastic way. We’re talking specifically about mini-trampolines  – or rebounde ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-22-13
  Today, Kevin reveals how he was able to build his financial empire and gives you tips on how to do the same! Self Help: Flood Your System With Nutrition Loss Weight Safely Become Financially Set Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast Follow Kev ...

Armies of Liberation

• Hadi appoints new SCER
  On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
• High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
  High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
• State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
  Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
• Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
  Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
• Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
  Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

• Mid-August Hurricane Development Region Sea Su ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMid-August Hurricane Development Region Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update By Bob Tisdale According to the NOAA National Hurricane Center, there are two low pressure systems in the tropical North Atlantic with good c ...
• City Reduces Police Force By Placing Public Un ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIn 40-foot high watch towers, police officers are practically prison guards over population. Kit Daniels Prison Planet.com August 15, 2013 A New Jersey police department is replacing their beat cops with “virtual p ...
• Marine Corps Colonel: Homeland Security Buildi ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFallujah veteran says government is afraid of its own citizens Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com August 15, 2013 A former Marine Corps Colonel who was stationed in Fallujah and trained Iraqi soldiers warns that the De ...
• Screaming in Bradley Manning’s Trial
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comScreaming in Bradley Manning’s Trial By DavidSwansonwashingtonsblog.com I sat in the courtroom all day on Wednesday as Bradley Manning’s trial wound its way to a tragic and demoralizing conclusion. I wanted t ...
• ‘Conscious living’ community raided at gunpoin ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJ. D. Heyes Natural News August 15, 2013 A small, Texas-based group calling itself a “sustainability community” says it was raided by a police SWAT team over suspicion that members were growing and distributi ...

Dandelion Salad

• Letter From Yemen by Felicity Arbuthnot + Defi ...
  by Felicity Arbuthnot Writer, Dandelion Salad London, England August 13, 2013 The remarkable London-based legal charity, Reprieve(i) which defends lives “from death row to Guantanamo Bay”, providing legal support for prisoners unable to pay for themselves, have released a letter to President Oba ...
• Screaming in Bradley Manning’s Trial by ...
  by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad warisacrime.org August 15, 2013 I sat in the courtroom all day on Wednesday as Bradley Manning’s trial wound its way to a tragic and demoralizing conclusion.  I wanted to hear Eugene Debs, and instead I was trapped there, watching Socrates reach for ...
• Bradley Manning apologizes to court for &#8216 ...
  Dandelion Salad RTAmerica on Aug 14, 2013 Private first class Bradley Manning’s sentencing sessions continued on Wednesday in Fort Meade, Maryland. The soldier is convicted of one of the largest information leaks in US history and he finally spoke in his trial regarding his involvement in ...
• Who’s Pushing Post Office Privatization? by Jo ...
  Dandelion Salad by Joseph Piette www.workers.org August 11, 2013 Postal and community activists struggling to save the U.S. Postal Service from privatization need to know who they are fighting against. The Postal Service was established in 1775. It needed government administration as it was so i ...
• Two Births: A Gilded Arrival and a Poisoned Le ...
  by Felicity Arbuthnot Writer, Dandelion Salad London, England August 13, 2013 ” … war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.” (Howard Zinn, 1922-2010) On 22nd July two babies were born – in different worlds. Prince George Al ...

Your New Reality

• The Coolest, Most Fashionable Mug Shot In History
  In 1976, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were partying in New York. The hotel suite got raided, and vice cops found 182 grams, or more than 6.4 ounces, of cannabis. A few days later, David Bowie posed for his mugshot, and remained super cool.  More On Bowie And I ...
• Left-Handed People Know How To Rock History
  By Darryl Mason We left-handed people might only make up 10% of the population, but we sure know how to make our mark on history and the arts. Today, is Left-Handed Peoples Day.  Gee, a whole day for Lefties in a world designed for right handed people!  Aren't we lucky? Famous Lef ...
• Food Mash-Ups Make New Yorkers Seem Even More ...
  Hundreds of Americans, with apparently nothing better to do, have recently been taking to the streets, day after day, to line up for $5 deep-fried croissants (cronuts) and hamburgers with buns made out of ramen noodles (I don't know why). They're called Food MashUps and they're making people go ...
• Murdoch Portrays Australian Prime Minister As ...
  A story so weird, so hard to fathom, few on Twitter believed it when it started circulating. First week of the Australian Federal Election campaign and Rupert Murdoch's Daily Telegraph in Sydney hits peak-Godwins Law by portraying the prime minister Kevin Rudd as a Nazi on the front page. A Ho ...
• Weeks Before Fort Hood Shooting, Bizarre 'Deat ...
  Just weeks before the Fort Hood Shooting, the military base unveiled a bizarre new sculpture, telegraphing death and mayhem. From Fort Hod Sentinel September 17, 2009: Anyone for whom “The Death Dealer” evokes memories of Conan the Barbarian wouldn’t be far from the so ...

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