Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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My Care2 Picks

  • Spills -= Past, Present and Planned
    Stories about scientific reports from the Gulf of Mexico. Australian use of Corexit, a new Corexit, pipeline protests, etc. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 13 Things in Your Water That Shouldnt Be There ...
    Youve heard the expression, Im dying of thirst, but it might just be the water you are drinking that is causing disease in your body. There are hundreds of chemical contaminants in our water now. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...
  • Antero Resources To Pipe Water To Fracking Wells
    an 80 mile pipeline will carry water from the Ohio River to fracking sites in West Virginia and Ohio. Average amount of water used to hydraulically fracture a single Marcellus Shale well: 4.2 million-5 million gallons Wells drilled 2005-13 8700 Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |&n ...
  • Industry's Gas Migration
    A Public Interest Project by Ernst Environmental Services Obtaining data on groundwater contamination caused by the oil and gas industry in Canada is nearly impossible because of confidentiality agreements (non-disclosure or gag orders). Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |  ...
  • Mayflower, Arkansas residents face health prob ...
    "The oil went to the lake," Jarrell said. "But the toxic fumes came to us." Sam Eifling at The Arkansas Times has an excellent report on the Mayflower, Arkansas oil spill. Submitted by Roseann D. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • Minnesota Jury Convicts Peaceful Farmer on Fiv ...
    Alvin Schlangen sentenced to fines, 1-year probation and 90 days in jail suspended for picking up food that people already own and delivering it to them. So, if I pick up food at a neighbor's house and deliver that food to another neighbor as a favor, am I a criminal? Think about it...
  • Transhumanism: Genetic Engineering of Man – th ...
    Yes, there are people who are actively attempting a complete takeover of humanity in order to set themselves up as supreme beings. To transcend physical boundaries by intermixing any DNA that so-called scientists think is appropriate, discard the precautionary principle as ‘too dangerous for pro ...
  • Ending the GMO Scourge
    Want to get rid of GMOs? Each of us has to make the decision that we will do at least one thing… eliminate one GMO thing from our lives. That’s it. Just do it. Pick something. Like corn, for instance…
  • The Organic Loophole – Feed Brokers’ Exemption
    Feed brokers exempt from organic certification. Therefore, there is no guarantee that organic feed is not commingled with non-organic feed or contaminated.
  • Back Online!
    Lightning took out my Internet antenna and computer network port on the 7th, and today, the 12th, is the first day we have been back online. Thank you for your patience, and stay tuned for another article due to arrive shortly. If anyone cares to help with the cost of getting Farm Wars back onli ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Fukushima bay radiation levels highest since m ...
    ShareThisFukushima bay radiation levels highest since measurements began 20 Aug 2013 Reports from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, say that measurements of radioactive tritium in seawater -- seeping out of the nuclear complex via groundwate ...
  • Tank leaks 300 tons of highly radioactive wate ...
    ShareThisTank leaks 300 tons of highly radioactive water at Fukushima plant 20 Aug 2013 An estimated 300 tons of highly radioactive water has leaked from a tank at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, with much of the polluted water apparently seeping into the ground. Tokyo Electric Power Co., ...
  • Fukushima operator says workers dusted with ra ...
    ShareThisFukushima operator says workers dusted with radioactive particles 19 Aug 2013 The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Monday two workers were found to be contaminated with radioactive particles, the second such incident in a week involving staff outside the site ...
  • Cruz will renounce Canadian citizenship
    ShareThisCruz will renounce Canadian citizenship 19 Aug 2013 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship. The Dallas Morning Ne ...
  • Ted Cruz releases birth certificate
    ShareThisTed Cruz releases birth certificate 19 Aug 2013 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) released his birth certificate Sunday amid questions about whether he is eligible to run for president. Cruz was born in Canada in 1970, to an American mother and Cuban father. By virtue of his mother’s status, Cruz ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Confidenti​al Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
      The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental disorders affil ...
  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Monkey Business: Our Broken Army
    20 August 2013 The senior sergeant at the Army’s Warrior Adventure Quest (WAQ) at Fort Hood has been fired after allegedly endangering the lives of Boy Scouts. The accusation comes from a staff member at WAQ who claims that the Army Master Sergeant abused his position while using Army kayaks ...
  • Utah beauty queen accused of throwing bombs re ...
    15 August 2013 http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-bomb-boys-book-project?c=activity
  • The Basis for Safe, Secure, and Effective Glob ...
    13 August 2013 Article written by: Atmospherics Unlimited The following is an excerpt from the Atmospherics Unlimited White Paper titled: Atmospherics in Fragile and Conflict Zones: The Basis for Safe, Secure, and Effective Global Operations. The full white paper will soon be available for down ...
  • Lavabit
    09 August 2013 www.lavabit.com
  • Jalalabad Urination: Facebook Censorship
      06 August 2013 On Saturday a suicide attack unfolded near the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.  A dozen people were reported killed with another twenty wounded.   Eight of the killed were reported to be children. The next day, 04 August, another bomb explode ...

The Killing Train

  • Update: Replying to far-fetched allegations, c ...
    1:30pm, Aug 20/13 Today a district prosecutor in Cairo sent a press release to domestic Egyptian media outlets referring to the detention for 15 days of nine foreigners -- 4 Irish, 2 Syrian, 1 Turkish, and 2 Canadian -- pending investigation into a wide-ranging list of allegations concerning eve ...
  • Detained Canadians’ Families Request Pressure ...
    August 19th, 2013 16:30am EST For Immediate Release - Egyptian authorities continue to detain two Canadians, Professor and Filmmaker, John Greyson, and Emergency Physician, Tarek Loubani, 4 days after their initial arrest. The families of the two detained Canadians are calling on the Canadian ...
  • Update Monday August 19: No visit today, press ...
    4:30pm, Aug 19/13 Although we believed there was going to be a consular visit to Tarek and John in their Cairo prison today, there was no visit. read more
  • Egyptian Authorities Continue to Detain Canadi ...
    August 18th, 2013 15:30pm EST For Immediate Release - Egyptian authorities are currently detaining two Canadians, Professor and Filmmaker, John Greyson, and Emergency Physician, Tarek Loubani, 48 hours after their initial arrest. Egyptian authorities have yet to provide a reason for the ongoing ...
  • Update: John and Tarek are okay, still no info ...
    3:20pm, Aug 18/13 We have heard from Canadian consular services that they managed to visit Tarek Loubani and John Greyson in the Egyptian prison facility. Tarek and John have both passed messages through consular services that they are okay. We still have no information about charges. Consular s ...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Israel Encouraged Egypt’s Junta to Smash Islamists
    The NY Times reveals that among the parties urging Egypt’s military leaders to stand fast against both the Muslim Brotherhood and western interlocutors  attempting to negotiate a way out of the impasse in Cairo, were Israel and Saudi Arabia.  Both have a common interest: they hate Islamist ...
  • Israeli Attorney Exposes “Parallel” Legal Syst ...
    An interesting drama is unfolding in Israel as I write this. On July 9th, Amir Oren published a blockbuster story. In the findings of a judicial inquiry into the death of failed Mossad spy, Ben Zygier, the judge had referred to the case of another secret prisoner. One the Israeli public hadn&#82 ...
  • Israeli Attorney Exposes “Parallel&#8221 ...
    An interesting drama is unfolding in Israel as I write this. On July 9th, Amir Oren published a blockbuster story. In the findings of a judicial inquiry into the death of failed Mossad spy, Ben Zygier, the judge had referred to the case of another secret prisoner. One the Israeli public hadn&#82 ...
  • Protest Egyptian Bloodbath, End U.S. Aid, Seve ...
    Yesterday’s bloodbath in Cairo in which hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood protesters were mown down in cold blood by security forces in service of the ruling military junta was predicted before it happened. Even the EU and U.S. intermediaries visiting last week warned the junta leaders not to ...
  • Protest Egyptian Bloodbath, End U.S. Aid, Seve ...
    Yesterday’s bloodbath in Cairo in which hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood protesters were mown down in cold blood by security forces in service of the ruling military junta was predicted before it happened. Even the EU and U.S. intermediaries visiting last week warned the junta leaders not to ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • On Tanning Salons
    Not that fashion is exactly my wheelhouse, but this piece on the growth of tanning salon use among white teenage women and the very real health risks involved is worth a mention, not only because it is a growing public health problem that exists for no good reason, but because tanning salons are ...
  • Lead and Fracking
    Industry fought against all evidence that lead exposure hurt people since at least 1767. Robin Russell-Jones rightfully compares that to the battle against fracking today, with industry saying that there are no major environmental problems at all with the process, despite overwhelming evidence t ...
  • Jesus Christ, What A Pathetic Operation Tucker ...
    You may remember Mark Judge from various columns in which racism and utter asininity fight to a standstill in a battle the reader inevitably loses. In today’s column, Judge argues that Obama lacks courage, discipline, self-reliance, industry, and resolution, and is therefore the “fir ...
  • Today in Duh
    It’s sad that we still need major scientific panels to determine whether humans caused global warming. I’m sure this won’t stop Jim Inhofe and his Merry Band of Corporate Hacks in Congress from claiming this was just a bunch of liberal commie treehuggers instead of real scienti ...
  • Priorities
    So, if I understand Bud Selig: Deliberate attempt to injure: 5 games.  (And that’s 5 games for a pitcher, so really it’s more like zero games.) Legally “obstructing” an investigation you have no contractual obligation to comply with: 162 games, $25 million, more than thre ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Nevada researchers collaborate to preserve Lak ...
    From Tahoe's mountaintops to the lake's sandy bottom, scientists from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno continue to study and find solutions to the breadth of issues that face the entire Lake Tahoe Basin. Read more...
  • New ice core data helps explain Antarctica's l ...
    New, annually resolved ice-core measurements collected from West Antarctica and  partially developed by researchers at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute show warming in Antarctica began approximately 4,000 years earlier than previoulsy suggested. Read more...
  • Celebrating DRI’s unique Storm Peak Laboratory
    On Friday, August 9th in Steamboat Springs, Colorado DRI will celebrate nearly $1 million in upgrades and renovations to the Institute’s high-elevation, mountain-top atmospheric sciences lab, and honor Steamboat Ski Resort with DRI’s 2014 President’s Medal.
  • Ema Kuhn, July 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
    Meet Emanuele (Ema) Kuhn, a Fulbright scholar, in biochemistry and molecular biology. She is currently working with Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Chris Fritsen studying microorganisms for the Lake Vida Project from the Antarctica Peninsula. Life in Lake Vida is the major topic for her dissertation, ...
  • A new understanding of the North American monsoon
    Scientists at DRI are developing and testing new ideas that could ultimately help predict the kinds of extreme summer weather that has occurred across the U.S., such as the all-time high temperatures recorded in numerous Western cities in June, Arizona’s deadly wildfires and last year’s drought ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Lawyers Say Sandusky Cases Beginning to Settle ...
    A 25-year-old has settled with Penn State for an undisclosed amount for the sexual abuse he experienced at the age of 13 by convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky in a shower, according to the plaintiff's lawyer, Tom Kline of Kline & Specter.
  • Toyota Attacks Alleged Evidence of Accelerator ...
    Toyota Motor Corp. has moved to strike evidence from a software expert who claims to have identified a bug in the electronic throttle control system source code that plaintiffs attorneys blame for unintended acceleration by Toyota vehicles.
  • Ex-Associate's Retaliation Claims Survive Agai ...
    A federal judge has thrown out the bulk of a former associate's race-discrimination complaint against Ropes & Gray, but set a November trial date on two retaliation claims.
  • Plan Slashes Rates for Court-Appointed Private ...
    More than 10,000 private attorneys will see less pay in federal indigent defense cases under the judiciary?s latest effort to deal with budget restraints Congress imposed.
  • A Region on the Rebound
    Boston's biotech industry is steadily gaining strength, and Portland's alternative energy and tourism sectors are serving that city well. But in areas outside the cities, places where small firms and solo lawyers practice, potential clients are cash-strapped. The upshot for region: movement, eve ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Accountability…Too Late?
    This video with Jude Stiles giving testimony of what her family has dealt with since 2010 at a hearing for the Pennsylvania DEP accountability standards. Her husband is now deceased and she and her children are very sick due to the contamination of there well water from gas drilling. At one poin ...
  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

News Blaze

  • Prominent Journalist Omar Faruk Arrested in Mo ...
    Omar Faruk Osman who claims to be the president of National Journalists (NUSOJ) was arrested in Mogadishu on Saturday afternoon by Somali government security forces.
  • A Superb Dining Experience At Andrea's At The ...
    Our waiters arrived in moments, attending to our every desire. Kevin Aohi and Rory Brehm know where of they speak when it comes to the delicacies of Andrea's.
  • Nepal's Surprising Development Progress
    Nepalis can be proud of the progress made so far, but they must also hold the next government accountable to continue and accelerate the process.
  • Tropical Storm to Form in Gulf
    Development across the Caribbean and Gulf has been a concern since early in the week, with numerous scenarios. However, meteorologists have been getting closer to a consensus on how this system will play out.
  • Somali Minister Receives FIFA Fair Play Present
    In her speech during a meeting with FIFA instructor Ulric Mathiot at the civil service development Ministry on Wednesday where she received FIFA fair play award from the expert on the behalf of the world's top football governing body FIFA.

environment 360

  • Google ‘Street View’ Will Document Changes to ...
    Marine biologists are teaming up with Google to photograph detailed 360-degree panoramas of coral reefs around the globe. Using technology similar to Click to enlarge Google Google takes Street View to coral reefs. Google’s Street View feature, users will be able to survey coral reefs m ...
  • Future Flood Losses Could Increase Ten Times b ...
    The rapid growth of the world’s coastal cities, coupled with sea level rise and land subsidence, could mean that flood losses in major metropolitan areas could rise from Click to enlarge Stephane Hallegatte, et al/Cities facing increased risk $6 billion in 2005 to more than $60 billion in 20 ...
  • Bringing Back the Night: The Fight Against Lig ...
    As evidence mounts that excessive use of light is harming wildlife and adversely affecting human health, new initiatives in France and elsewhere are seeking to turn down the lights that flood an ever-growing part of the planet. BY PAUL BOGARD
  • Ecuador Abandons Moratorium on Oil Drilling in ...
    The Ecuadorian government has abandoned its moratorium on oil drilling in Yasuni National Park as a proposal to protect the park with the help of international donations fell apart. In a nationally televised speech, President Rafael Correa blamed the failure of the ambitious conservation plan on ...
  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Neanderthals had ’distinct cultures’: Ancient ...
    The design of handaxes demonstrate social learning in different Neanderthal groups living in what is now modern Europe An archaeologist from the University of Southampton examined the design of 1,300 stone tools from 80 Neanderthal sites in five European countries. Dr Ruebens uncovered two sepa ...
  • Swedish women don headscarves after assault on ...
    Swedish women have been posting photos of themselves in traditional Muslim headscarves in solidarity with a woman attacked apparently for wearing a veil. Among the protesters from various faiths were politicians and TV hosts. The "hijab outcry" campaigners urged the government to "ensure that Sw ...
  • False Flag Cyber Attack Looming?
    Despite many warnings, no major attack has taken place on the United States. So it is logical to ask why this hasn’t happened yet, and if it ever will. For the past few years, US officials have warned of a coming mega cyber attack against critical infrastructure, something akin to the Japanese a ...
  • Climate leaks are ’misleading’ says IPCC ahead ...
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned against drawing too many conclusions from the latest leaked version of its upcoming, and eagerly awaited, Assessment Report 5 (AR5). This massive tome will be published in four stages over the next year - the first part, the physica ...
  • Glenn Danzig: Democrats are fascists disguised ...
    You mentioned that "Mother" was about the PMRC. Were they a problem for you specifically? Yeah, you know, Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn’t, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn’t let anybody record any music ...

Not My Tribe

  • Florida open season on black teenagers
    George Zimmerman has been found NOT GUILTY of chasing and shooting dead a black teenager for being a “fucking punk”. Now what? George W. Bush got away with murder, he and Zimmerman are peas in the same simian-eyed pod. Yes a Mack Truck might have been as good as a guilty verdict agai ...
  • Have Americans overtaken the Nazis as the real ...
    Funny how Americans think the Nazis are still the ne plus ultra of evildom. Isn’t it about time we stop pretending the cruelty of Hitler’s machine exceeded ours? The US military has of course blown well past the benchmark of “Godwin’s Rule” by any measure of war cri ...
  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is no loser, ...
    Apparently Edward Snowden is a good for nothing high school dropout, but he’s a better man than you. Petty technocrats are splitting hairs to pretend that the NSA whistleblower broke the law while corporate mouthpieces are obfuscating that the public doesn’t care about its privacy. B ...
  • Prince Harry displays British hypocracy to une ...
    Want to know where you can find Prince Harry on his war cheerleading US tour? Half of it is in Colorado. On Friday he’ll be at a UK Consul-General’s reception at the private Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia. Between Denver and Castle Rock, that’s the Castle Pines exit off of I- ...
  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 911 Truth Graffiti Bombing - WTC7 Awareness
    The next level of 9/11 TRUTH street activism. For a second time, a local news channel has been compelled to explain the collapse of WTC7 to the public, as a direct result of the graffiti. The War on Terror and the loss of civil liberties is the direct result of the false flag 911 attacks. On ...
  • Answering Youtube Troll ctcole77's '3 QUESTION ...
    3 QUESTIONS 911 TRUTHERS DON'T WANT YOU TO ASK THEM:  Question: Why did Dr. Steven Jones circumvent the peer review process by not showing his nanothermite paper to the chief editor and printing it without her approval. Answer:  In April 2009, an international team of scientists ...
  • Conspiracy theory FAQ, part 1
    Saturday, 10 August 2013 James Rocket   Conspiracy theory FAQ, part 1 When confronted with hard evidence showing government complicity into the september 11th attacks, debunkers and other such apologists will forward a great variety of a-priori arguments that&nbs ...
  • Truth and Accountability for TWA Flight 800 Pl ...
    To: Deborah Hersman, Chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) TWA Flight 800 was a commercial 747 aircraft that exploded in midair and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1996. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a missile, or some kind of streaking object, in the sky at the same ...
  • Chemical Engineer Mark Basile and Other Profes ...
    To help Mark Basile finish the work he spoke of doing in the video, visit: http://markbasile.org

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • Ecuador scraps plan to save uncontacted tribes ...
    Ecuador's Waorani Indians are related to the uncontacted Tagaeri and Taromenane tribes. All are under great threat from oil exploration in the Yasuni Park. © John Wright/SurvivalEcuador’s President Rafael Correa has scrapped plans to protect the Yasuni National Park, home to two uncontacted ...
  • Real 'Avatar' tribe deals fatal blow to Vedant ...
    The Dongria Kondh have overwhelmingly rejected Vedanta's mine in their sacred hills.© Jason Taylor/SurvivalIndia’s Dongria Kondh tribe has overwhelmingly rejected plans by notorious British mining giant Vedanta Resources for an open-pit bauxite mine in their sacred Niyamgiri Hills, in ...
  • Brazil – rare footage of uncontacted tribe rel ...
    A hastily-abandoned house of uncontacted Indians, Rio Pardo, Brazil.© SurvivalBrazil’s Indian affairs department, FUNAI, has released rare footage of an uncontacted tribe living in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. It shows a group of nine Indians walking along a forest trail. The men ca ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Euro Krieg! Greece Surrenders to Germany 2013 ...
    By Michael Nevradakis for Truthout In his career as an investigative journalist, economist, and bestselling author -Vultures' Picnic, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Greg Palast has not been afraid to tackle some of the most powerful names in politics and fina ...
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  • An Open Letter to Trayvon Martin's Father
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Dear Mr. Martin, I have a 16-year old son. I cannot imagine losing him because some beast decided to play Lone Ranger. And so, with cautious humility, I make this suggestion, this plea. Sue the beast. You must. I understand you are reluctant to launch another painful ...
  • The Frog Who Crushed The Planet Did a French Y ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine You just knew it had to be one of those brie-biting, Sartre-spewing, overly-garlicked Frenchmen who pushed the Earth's finance system over a cliff. This week, US prosecutors finally began the trial of the only person on the entire planet whom they have charged wi ...
  • New York Genitals Fight for Office ... While S ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Go ahead and shoot me. It’s hopeless. My War on Stupid is facing defeat on every front. I open up the New York Times and there’s a page one story about Anthony Weiner, who is now ahead in the race for Mayor of New York. The article is 17 [...]

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Update: Poison Pen Letter, Measles
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. August 20, 2013, NY Daily News: Family of 13-year-old autistic boy disgusted after hate-filled letter is slipped under their door urging them to ‘euthanize’ boy for being a neighborhood ‘nuisance’ August...
  • Dachel Q&A: Dr. Michael Schachter
    By Anne Dachel When it comes to autism, the media continues to push the tired mantras, "studies show no link" and “better diagnosing--no real increase" in their coverage. To support these claims, there's often a local doctor who is quoted....
  • Dachel Media Update: Israel, Parental Concerns ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. August 19, 2013, San Jose Mercury News: Number of Marin children without vaccinations continues to grow; health officials worried August 18, 2013, Utica (NY) Observer-Dispatch: Are kids sicker than they used...
  • Induction At Birth, Pitocin and Autism: The Wr ...
    By Teresa Conrick It's in the news again. Yet another study that shows a supposed cause to a future diagnosis of autism. This time -- Induction and Augmentation -- I actually looked them both up to clarify what that meant:...
  • Autism Parental Input
    By Cathy Jameson Bright Lights in the Big City Last Monday evening I got a call from my friend Megan Davenhall who is also known as Sunshine from The Thinking Moms’ Revolution. Sunshine was asked by Fox News to go...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Minnesota Jury Convicts Peaceful Farmer on Fiv ...
    Alvin Schlangen sentenced to fines, 1-year probation and 90 days in jail suspended for picking up food that people already own and delivering it to them. So, if I pick up food at a neighbor's house and deliver that food to another neighbor as a favor, am I a criminal? Think about it...
  • Transhumanism: Genetic Engineering of Man – th ...
    Yes, there are people who are actively attempting a complete takeover of humanity in order to set themselves up as supreme beings. To transcend physical boundaries by intermixing any DNA that so-called scientists think is appropriate, discard the precautionary principle as ‘too dangerous for pro ...
  • Ending the GMO Scourge
    Want to get rid of GMOs? Each of us has to make the decision that we will do at least one thing… eliminate one GMO thing from our lives. That’s it. Just do it. Pick something. Like corn, for instance…
  • The Organic Loophole – Feed Brokers’ Exemption
    Feed brokers exempt from organic certification. Therefore, there is no guarantee that organic feed is not commingled with non-organic feed or contaminated.
  • Back Online!
    Lightning took out my Internet antenna and computer network port on the 7th, and today, the 12th, is the first day we have been back online. Thank you for your patience, and stay tuned for another article due to arrive shortly. If anyone cares to help with the cost of getting Farm Wars back onli ...

new geography

  • Here’s a Way to Flood the US Housing Market wi ...
    Members of the millennial generation – born between 1982 and 2003 – carry a student debt burden of close to one trillion dollars. This is the group that includes many just entering the stage in life when people tend to settle down and start families. Even though Millennials are marrying late ...
  • California Homes Require Real Reach
    In the 1950s and 1960s, Southern California was ground zero for the "American Dream" of owning a house. From tony Newport Beach and Bel-Air to the more middle-class suburbs of the San Fernando Valley and Garden Grove to working-class Lakewood, our region created a vast geography of oppor ...
  • Singapore Seeks Its Home
    August 9th is National Day in Singapore, and it is accompanied by both public and private celebrations. From my family’s flat in the public housing estate of Hougang, we can hear the roar of jet planes over our heads as they make their way to the National Day Parade grounds for a fly-p ...
  • Land Planners Dig In Again
    In the housing industry, land planners are the first to be dropped during a downturn… and the first needed in an upturn. A good way to monitor the optimism of the housing development market is to monitor the volume of land planning. The land plan is the beginning of a long and arduous process ...
  • Major Metropolitan Areas in Europe
    Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Commission (European Union) now designates metropolitan areas (Note) for the European Union (EU) and the European Three Trade Association (EFTA). The EU has 28 members, having just added Croatia, while the EFTA has 4 members. According to the ...

water.org

  • Lakshimi's Water Connection
    Lakshimi lives in the Anna Nagar slum of Hyderabad city. She is 35 years old and has two children. Lakshimi and her husband, like several others in the slum, work as construction laborers.
  • Water for Girmawit Alema
    The shortage of safe water has been a critical problem for the people living in the rural village of Kokeb Tsibah (Gradender), located in Wereda Gulo-Mekeda. In the absence of a better option, the community has been drinking water from an unprotected source for a long period of time.
  • The Impact of Water Committees
    Drinking water is not free in Haiti. Infrastructure is expensive and in order to ensure long-term sustainability, users must contribute financially in order to support things like administration and ongoing maintenance. The presence of a water committee gives people a voice in creating solutions ...
  • Neelamma’s Water Tap
    Neelamma has struggled for years without a water connection at home, suffering from skin conditions contracted through contaminated water and walking long distances to find water sources. At 37, Nelamma is divorced, has a 3 year old daughter, and lives with her parents in Mariyala village, Chama ...
  • A Water Connection for Siddamma
    Siddamma lives with her husband and a daughter in the Mysore district of Karnataka. Her family consumed water from the public tap for several years. On some days, they would get enough water, but on most days the water was not sufficient for consumption. Siddamma and her daughter would wait for ...

Cryptogon

  • Pervez Musharraf Faces Charges in Connection w ...
    Via: AP: A Pakistani court on Tuesday indicted former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf on murder charges in connection with the 2007 assassination of iconic Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, deepening the fall of a once-powerful figure who returned to the country this year to mak ...
  • Groklaw Legal Site Shuts Over Fears of NSA Ema ...
    Via: Guardian: The award-winning legal analysis site Groklaw is shutting because its founder says that “there is no way” to continue to run it without using secure email – and that the threat of NSA spying means that could be compromised. “There is now no shield from forc ...
  • Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to All ...
    Via: Washington Post: If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches.
  • Soda Consumption In Children Could Lead To Vio ...
    In other news: “When parents did cut television out of their homes, they reported that their kids didn’t bug them as much for junk food and toys advertised on TV.” Via: CBS: Studies of young soda drinkers often focus on added risk for childhood obesity. But now, a new study suggests ...
  • Cholera Strain Introduced to Haiti by UN Still ...
    Via: The Atlantic: Despite much evidence to the contrary, for nearly three years, the United Nations has categorically denied that it introduced cholera into Haiti after the country suffered a devastating earthquake in 2010. Since then, cholera has killed more than 8,000 people and infected more ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 33 Shocking Facts Which Show How Badly The Eco ...
    Barack Obama has been running around the country taking credit for an "economic recovery", but the truth is that things have not gotten better under Obama.  Compared to when he first took office, a smaller percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our jobs has declined ...
  • 18 Signs That Global Financial Markets Are Ent ...
    You can see it coming, can't you?  The yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries is skyrocketing, the S&P 500 has been down for 9 of the last 11 trading days and troubling economic news is pouring in from all over the planet.  The much anticipated "financial correction" is rapidly approaching, and in ...
  • Those That Are Not Preparing For The Coming Ec ...
    The next great economic crisis is rapidly approaching, and most people are going to be totally blindsided by it.  Even though the warning signs are glaringly obvious, most Americans continue to believe that our "leaders" know what they are doing and that everything will be just fine.  But what w ...
  • What Is Going To Happen If Interest Rates Cont ...
    If you want to track how close we are to the next financial collapse, there is one number that you need to be watching above all others.  The number that I am talking about is the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries, because it affects thousands of other interest rates in our financial system.  Whe ...
  • Egypt Is Descending Into Civil War, But Don&#8 ...
    The largest Islamic nation in the Middle East is on the verge of descending into civil war, the Syrian civil war is starting to spill over into Lebanon, and the worst violence in five years has just hit Iraq, but Barack Obama is way too busy to be bothered with any of that.  Right now, [...]

Desertification

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    Read at : http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2013/0810/Could-city-farming-be-a-solution-for-Bangkok-s-urban-poor#.UhMXdWo7yI4.facebook Could city farming be a solution for Bangkok’s urban poor? A group of nutritional experts say the trend could be harnessed to improve access to food for ...
  • The Green Wall of China, also known as the Thr ...
    Read at : http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2013/08/cracks-in-the-green-wall/ Cracks in the Green Wall By: Kaitlin Solimine It’s a typical spring scene in Beijing; northerly winds rattle windows, dust smatters roof tops, cars, and pedestrians. Walk outside and you’re bombarded with tiny sand part ...
  • Donations and the impact of desertification on ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=970348 Namibian Businesses Donate US$500,000 To Support Hosting Of UN Desertification Conference Namibia’s business community and private sector have donated some N$5 million (about US$ ...
  • Drought in the arid corner of S.W. Africa is t ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – images of the Africa Frought http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/drought-suffocates-namibian-desert-1.1561109#.Ug94t1MgBn4 Drought suffocates Namibian desert By SAPA The police are about the only people left in this village of 400 in the Namibian desert because the i ...
  • A stronger UNCCD for a land-degradation neutra ...
    Read at : http://www.unccd.int/en/about-the-convention/the-bodies/the-cop/cop11/Pages/default.aspx?HighlightID=215 Eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties (COP11) COP11 will build upon the results of the second and third UNCCD scientific conferences and review the progress after the co ...

News Blaze

  • Prominent Journalist Omar Faruk Arrested in Mo ...
    Omar Faruk Osman who claims to be the president of National Journalists (NUSOJ) was arrested in Mogadishu on Saturday afternoon by Somali government security forces.
  • A Superb Dining Experience At Andrea's At The ...
    Our waiters arrived in moments, attending to our every desire. Kevin Aohi and Rory Brehm know where of they speak when it comes to the delicacies of Andrea's.
  • Nepal's Surprising Development Progress
    Nepalis can be proud of the progress made so far, but they must also hold the next government accountable to continue and accelerate the process.
  • Tropical Storm to Form in Gulf
    Development across the Caribbean and Gulf has been a concern since early in the week, with numerous scenarios. However, meteorologists have been getting closer to a consensus on how this system will play out.
  • Somali Minister Receives FIFA Fair Play Present
    In her speech during a meeting with FIFA instructor Ulric Mathiot at the civil service development Ministry on Wednesday where she received FIFA fair play award from the expert on the behalf of the world's top football governing body FIFA.

libcom

  • Social cleansing in Tower Hamlets: interview w ...
    tower.jpg James Butler interviews Sara, a single-parent in Tower Hamlets, East London, which illustrates the impossible situation especially social housing tenants are being put in, squeezed on both s ...
  • A call for an international campaign against c ...
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  • Marikana one year later
    Niren Tolsi is, along with Kwanele Sosibo, widely considered to be South African's leading journalist. He has followed many stories of popular resistance, and state repression over the years. On 16 August 2013, the one year anniversary of the Marikana ...
  • My adventures with Interpol
    On 22 August 2012, the anti-fascist Pyotr Silaev was arrested in Grenada. He is an activist in anti-governmental protests, and the author of the book “Exodus” (published in Finland, Greece, Italy and Germany), under the pseudonym DJ Stalingrad. ...
  • Gas blowout on Total’s Elgin field: letter fro ...
    800px-CromartyOilPlatform.JPG This letter from North Sea oil worker NEIL ROTHNIE, a long-standing trade union activist, was sent today to Reclaim the Power, who together with No Dash For Gas and local ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • NSA Atrocities – Part III – Brain ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, my friends. There is a reason why the massive NSA “Data Collection Center” is located in Utah.   Make no mistake – the NSA is not about keeping America safe.   The truth is, it is without a doubt TARGETING AMERICA for totally tyranny and mass min ...
  • NSA Attrocities Part II
    Keep in mind this is OLD (at least 15 years) technology.   Add to this eavesdropping technology, then Voice 2 Skull satellite microwave capabilities,  —- well you should be able to get the picture (no pun intended) what domestic drones are now capable of doing. Can you see why I, A. True O ...
  • Please – Call me a Christian Patriot!
    Please call me a Christian Patriot.   I did no work to earn that – but Jesus did it all for me.  
  • NSA Attrocities – THE FULL STORY BEHIND ...
    Ok, friends.  I haven’t wanted to tread on this ground simply because it has been my experience that it is well beyond the scope of most people to comprehend, even though it is all completely true.   Furthermore, nothing will label you a “crackpot conspiracy nut” by the “ ...
  • Glen Beck’s Latest Lying Insanity
    Beck is flat out Crazy as Bat Guana piled in a dark cave!   Typical Zionist Mormon propagandist – spewing false rhetoric while promoting a clear RELIGIOUS FRAUD that is deceitful in every conceivable way.    That FRAUD is modern-day “Jews” falsely laying claim to being the lite ...

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Energy Collective

  • Distributive Generation and Nuclear Energy
    Amory Lovins popularized the idea of distributive electrical generation as a foil to the emerging nuclear power industry. Lovins argued that what was needed was not large nuclear generation facilities, but small localized generating facilities that drew their power from nature.
  • California Setting Standards On the California ...
    With roughly as many computers as people in California, we spend a staggering $700 million annually on the electricity needed to power them and their monitors. Imagine how much we could save on our utility bills if they didn’t waste energy even when we’re not using them.
  • New Hydro Energy Laws Could Add 60 GW Of Clean ...
    The one thing everyone working on energy issues in America can agree upon is non-existent energy policy action at the national level. But last week President Obama signed two bills that could boost US renewables generation from an unlikely source: small hydropower.
  • Paying For Climate Change Adaptations And Grid ...
    Climate change adaptation plans to harden our electrical infrastructure will be unavoidable and expensive. The grid needs to be upgraded anyway, and this is a momentous opportunity to re-architect our electrical grid to last another 100 years.
  • On Carbon Taxes and Competition
    The US and China are talking different languages on reducing carbon emissions. In the U.S., the Obama administration is the name of the game on federal action. As for legislation, I would say there’s a snowball’s chance Congress will pass any climate bill. Anybody care to debate?

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Police State Terror in Egypt
    by Stephen Lendman Proracted conflict continues. Reports suggest Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) plans to declare the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) a terrorist organization. On August 19, Russia Today (RT) said Egypt's draft constitution may prohibit religious parties from engagin ...
  • Obama's War on Yemen
    by Stephen Lendman Iraq war rules of engagement (ROE) were explicit. They ordered killing every military-aged Iraqi on sight. Afghanistan policy is similar. Drone wars reflect it. Baseless suspicion leaves innocent civilians vulnerable. Point and click death awaits them. There's no place to ...
  • The Illusion of Israeli/Palestinian Peaceful C ...
    by Stephen Lendman Peace talks are more pretense than real. They've been that way for decades. Initiatives were always stillborn. They reflect the greatest diplomatic scam of all time. It's no different now. Peaceful conflict resolution's a convenient illusion. It's guaranteed. Chances for su ...
  • Not Too Big to Jail: Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wall ...
    by Ellen Brown Before Eliot Spitzer’s infamous resignation as governor of New York in March 2008, he was one of our fiercest champions against Wall Street corruption, in a state that had some of the toughest legislation for controlling the banks. It may not be a coincidence that the reve ...
  • Bradley Manning Addresses Sentencing Hearing
    by Stephen Lendman He's an American hero. He's no spy. He committed no crimes. He acted responsibly. He did the right thing. He deserves praise, not prosecution. He exposed US war crimes. He fulfilled his legal obligation to do so. He's victimized unjustly. Police state injustice wants him imp ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Join CCPA-NS (and Karl Marx) for a special fal ...
    Join CCPA's Nova Scotia Office for a very special fall fundraiser. This year's event features Cape Breton's George MacKenzie performing as Karl Marx (returning to defend his life and his work) in the Howard Zinn play, Marx in Soho. Tickets to the event include a savoury Italian meal, and admiss ...
  • Affordable Housing in Winnipeg
    Affordability of housing has been an important issue in Winnipeg for the last decade or so, with vacancy rates well below three percent and rents rising every year. In recent years, however, there has been an increase in discussion of housing, and a broader awareness that something needs to chan ...
  • CCPA SK presents former PBO Kevin Page in Regina!
    On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will be presenting a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page’s tenure as the first PBO in Canada was an experiment in fiscal transparen ...
  • CCPA SK presents former PBO Kevin Page in Regina!
    On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will be presenting a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page’s tenure as the first PBO in Canada was an experiment in fiscal transparen ...
  • Applications open for the Next Up youth leader ...
    Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA co-hosts for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32, in Vancouver, Edmonto ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Traverse City Film Festival 2013 Awards!
    During our fantastic Filmmaker Party, Founder and President Michael Moore announced our 2013 Award Winners. We have had so many incredible films, a few new categories and so many fun contests this year, here is a complete list of all of our award winners. Congrats to everyone! AUDIENCE AWARD ...
  • House Democrats Who Voted Against the Amash/Co ...
    The Amash/Conyers amendment to rein in the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. citizens failed 205-217 on July 24th, 2013, with 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting for it. The following 83 Democrats voted against: Andrews Barber Barrow (GA) Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) ...
  • Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze ...
    In 1968 Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a top advisor to the presidential campaign of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, wrote an article called "America in the Technetronic Age," making these predictions: ...the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. ...
  • Statement from Jafar Panahi on His Invitation ...
    "I would like to sincerely thank the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for inviting me to join their organization. I am especially grateful to Michael Moore and the documentary branch for nominating me. "It’s an honor for me to join such a prestigious organizatio ...
  • Excerpt from 'Pietà' in 'Here Comes Trouble' b ...
    When we went back a few days later to sit in the House gallery, a new bill was up for discussion: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From watching the evening news and being taught to read the daily newspaper, I knew that “colored people” were being unfairly treated, even killed. A f ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Gassiest Country
    Introduction This is the 4th installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 The State of Oil According to BP Today’s ...
  • The State of Oil According to BP
    This is the 3rd installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts - Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 and Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on renewables. This post delves into ...
  • Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013
    This is the 2nd installment in a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous post – Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on wind and solar power. This post delves into hydropower and geothermal power. Some of the ...
  • Renewable Energy Status Update 2013
    Today I begin a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because the past two posts have dealt with the Keystone XL pipeline project, I thought it would be a good change of pace to kick off this series by looking at the current global picture of rene ...
  • Protecting a Drowning Man from Sunburn
    There is lots of extrapolating, and emphasis on the potential for burning all of Alberta's oil sands. Yet all of the extrapolating in the world, writes Robert Rapier, doesn't take away from the fact that oil -- over the course of the next century or more -- will make a relatively insignificant c ...

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • The NSA Reveals That It Does 20 Million Databa ...
    As we noted earlier today, the NSA's two key "defenses" of the thousands of abuses and violations of the law that recently came out thanks to a leaked document are that there wasn't "intent" to abuse the system (we had no idea that made illegal things legal...) and, second, that it was such a sm ...
  • FRAND licensing, chip suppliers, and interplay ...
    As to what is addressed in Motorola's letter, there are three particular issues: (1) the applicability of patent exhaustion; (2) the ability of Motorola to require a "defensive suspension" clause in a license with Marvell; and (3) Microsoft's standing to allege a RAND breach based on Motorola's ...
  • David Miranda detention: a betrayal of trust a ...
    The detention of Mr Miranda subverts the benefit of the doubt that liberal democracies ask for when they arm themselves against terrorism. States pass anti-terror laws that grant exceptional powers on the strict understanding that terror poses exceptional threats and that such powers will be use ...
  • U.K. government thought destroying Guardian ha ...
    In a remarkable post, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger describes how the British government raided the Guardian's offices in order to destroy hard drives containing information provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The British government had been pressuring the Guardian to return or destroy the ...
  • David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that ...
    The mood toughened just over a month ago, when I received a phone call from the centre of government telling me: "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back." There followed further meetings with shadowy Whitehall figures. The demand was the same: hand the Snowden material back or destroy i ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Hybrid offshore wind turbine and current power
    Now this is different! A three blade vertical offshore wind turbine combined with an underwater current turbine. It’ll be tested soon in Japan. This isn’t wave or tidal power, it’s current power. Has this ever be done before? Plus, the underwater turbine can power the wind turb ...
  • 14% of Americans receive food stamps
    What strikes me as a Utah resident is that nearly 10% of Utah’s 2.8 million residents are on food stamps (and federally mandated cuts are coming) And yet Utah has one of the lowest food stamp usage rates in the country. Mississippi heads the list with 20.6%, followed by Oregon with 20%. Th ...
  • British Intelligence is as clueless about comp ...
    Wait? Isn’t NSA supposed to be the galactic champions when it comes to computers? Well, actually no, they aren’t. Neither are the Brits. Both are indeed quite skilled at coming on like B-movie heavies, making menacing noises, and being generally thuggish. But when it comes to having ...
  • 3D printing spinal implants a success in China
    A Chinese doctor has successfully 3D printed spinal implants and used dozens of them in 50 patients with no “undesirable side effects or adverse results.” “In the past we used clinical titanium mesh, but with the growth of bone, titanium mesh could easily stick into the bone an ...
  • GRID by Binary Thumb, Create shareable grids f ...
    GRID by Binary Thumb is a neat new iPhone app where you create sharable spreadsheet-like grids. Instead of numbers, you add images, contacts, map, and text. This makes it a great tool for collaboration, making lists and plans, etc. It’s easy to use and quite intuitive. Facebook Twitter Website

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First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • In loving memory of Palmira Boutillier
    The Media Co-op editorial collective and board are devastated to learn of the illness and sudden death of Palmira Boutillier in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Palmira was a Media Co-op board member and an active member of the Halifax Media Co-op. ...
  • Governing Gender
    Transgender activists fight for crucial changes to Quebec’s Civil Code MONTREAL—Deena* emigrated from Jordan to Quebec in March 2010, hopeful about settling in a city where she ...
  • Un Must d’été: SAKAHÀN
      As summer draws to a close, I scurry to enjoy all the activities I had planned to complete during the season. One such activity I enjoyed recently was SAKAHÀN, meaning light a fire in Algonquin, the contemporary indigenous art exhibition of the world at the National Gallery of Canada. It ...
  • Un Must d’été: SAKAHÀN
      As summer draws to a close, I scurry to enjoy all the activities I had planned to complete during theseason. One such activity I enjoyed recently was SAKAHÀN, the Algonquin word for light a fire, the contemporary Indigenous art Exhibition of the world at the National Gallery of Canada. It ...
  • A Brief History of RCMP Political Provocation, ...
    This was extracted from an article  published in the Septe ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Summertime - blogger's rest
    David Seaton's News Links   The endless south Europe August is well underway and I am "busy" sleeping off a a very hard year, which seems to be ending better than I expected. Before it's over I may even get a little beach in, who knows? I probably wont post much of anything till mid-Septem ...
  • Support the fast food workers strike!
    David Seaton's News LinksHundreds of fast food workers in seven cities across the U.S. walked out on their jobs Monday demanding a “living wage,” or double what many are making now. More strikes are expected this week in what’s become one of the biggest pushes to organize the industry’s histori ...
  • Whither Weiner's Weeny?
    David Seaton's News LinksAsked how he would explain the incidents to his son, Weiner said "First of all, the kid's going to grow up in Gracie Mansion. So I'm going to say, 'Kid, don't complain.'" Huffington PostThe saga of Anthony Weiner is beyond caricature. What redeeming feature does this poo ...
  • The "North Korean Propaganda" film: a discussion
    David Seaton's News LinksA YouTube video purported to be a leaked North Korean propaganda film has been making the Internet rounds. The film, which has been called scarily accurate, criticizes Western capitalism, consumerism and celebrity culture. Update: The clip is actually from a 2012 documen ...
  • Snowden... what if?
    David Seaton's News LinksDisclaimer: I would start off by saying that whoever or whatever Edward Snowden is, I believe that he has performed an important and useful service to America and to the world by revealing the extent of the National Security Agency's spying programs.  This universal ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • No, Healthcare Premiums Are Not Soaring and Fu ...
    John Boehner today, explaining the GOP's strategy on Obamacare: [We're] looking at all options to reach our ultimate goal of repealing this law that is causing premiums to soar and full-time jobs to disappear. Now let's leave fantasyland and see what's happening in the real world. H ...
  • One Last Time: Here's the Real Reason the Pent ...
    Why is the Pentagon facing an "extra" $20 billion in cuts under sequestration next year? Yesterday I said that it was due to a redefinition of "security" in the budget language between 2013 and 2014. Today, CAP's Michael Linden tells me that although it's possible this played a role, the real ...
  • Here's the Latest Fizzle in the IRS "Scandal"
    Accounting Today reports today on the latest in the IRS scandal. Yes, Accounting Today. Apparently no one else was interested, which I suppose might actually be a good sign. Anyway, it seems that the tireless Sander Levin has unearthed yet another IRS PowerPoint presentation from around 201 ...
  • Hooray for Carbon Taxes!
    Tyler Cowen recommends "Carbon Taxes vs. Cap and Trade: A Critical Review," by Lawrence Goulder and Andrew Schein of Stanford University. This is right up there with "lead abatement" on the yawn scale, but wait! There will be no long, wonky excerpts. Instead, let's get straight to the mea ...
  • Tanning Beds are Very, Very Bad for Teenagers
    Is diet soda bad for you? Who knows. It might be in large quantities, but the evidence is pretty thin. On the list of things to get outraged about, it probably ranks somewhere near the bottom of the Top 100. Indoor tanning, on the other hand, is just plain horrifically bad. Aaron Carroll pr ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 405: Twitter Nuclear War
    Amish Mafia and bad “reality TV shows” X-Files wasn’t that good Slander Wars on Twitter The lack of a nuclear deterrent on Twitter Accepting the consequences of entering into a Mutual Assured Destruction slander war Stop asking about Scott Adkins as Batman Kriss & Kev deba ...
  • IC 404: Kev’s True Baltimorean Stories
    Batman casting rumors The Flash TV Show Celebrities who did cartoon voices Sentinel or Dyson Vacuum cleaner Fox messing up comic book movies Kev True Baltimorean Stories Christian rap Share with your friends:
  • IC 403: ‘Give A Hoot, Don’t Pollute’ & Other ...
    The Wolverine & Fox trying to do comic book movies The Venture Brothers Gina Carano as Wonder Woman Harry Belafonte & Jay Z Social activism and black celebrities Stop blaming black people for issues affecting the black community Don Lemon and his 5 stupid tips Share with your friends:
  • IC 402: Nolan’s Back
    Kriss is really excited about SDCC news Kriss goes off on nerds Kev tries to steal a man’s girlfriend…then embarrasses the dude in front of her A man that is really bad at parallel parking The horrible Gladiator 2 script Share with your friends:
  • IC 401: Distraction
    Most people are aware of how rough this week has been so this show is Kriss, Kev & Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips trying to have a show focused on the more fun things in life. Random topics and reading back some listener emails. Also Kriss recorded his thoughts earlier in the day [...]

Simple Climate

  • Continuing the fight for CO2 monitoring
    Despite making critical measurements revealing how CO2 is increasing, and how it moves through nature, the tracking efforts Dave Keeling started have usually been struggling for cash, and still do today.
  • What Dave Keeling did ahead of his curve
    Almost an accidental climate scientist, Dave Keeling’s efforts to reconcile incorrect CO2 measurements paved the way to continuously tracking the relentless rise of the greenhouse gas in recent decades.
  • What Dave Keeling did ahead of his curve
    Almost an accidental climate scientist, Dave Keeling’s efforts to reconcile incorrect CO2 measurements paved the way to continuously tracking the relentless rise of the greenhouse gas in recent decades.
  • Climate change can make us more violent
    Economists from University of California, Berkeley, say projected 2°C warming could increase the rate of civil wars by over 50% in many parts of the world
  • Climate change can make us more violent
    Economists from University of California, Berkeley, say projected 2°C warming could increase the rate of civil wars by over 50% in many parts of the world

e!Science News

  • 3D graphene: Solar cells' new platinum?
    One of the most promising types of solar cells has a few drawbacks. A scientist at Michigan Technological University may have overcome one of them. read more
  • Epic ocean voyages of coral larvae revealed
    A new computer simulation conducted at the University of Bristol (UB) and University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science has revealed the epic, ocean-spanning journeys travelled by millimetre-sized coral larvae through the world's seas. read more
  • 'Groovy' hologram creates strange state of light
    Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated that they can change the intensity, phase, and polarization of light rays using a hologram-like design decorated with nanoscale structures. read more
  • Neurologists report unique form of musical hal ...
    One night when she was trying to fall asleep, a 60-year-old woman suddenly began hearing music, as if a radio were playing at the back of her head. read more
  • Mobius strip ties liquid crystal in knots to p ...
    University of Warwick scientists have shown how to tie knots in liquid crystals using a miniature Möbius strip made from silica particles. read more

unEarthed

  • In The Spotlight: The Town That Beat Fracking
    Dryden, NY featured on national television Dryden resident Deborah Cipolla-Dennis shared her story on MSNBC. (Photo courtesy of Mary Ann Sumner) The town of D ...
  • Crisis In Court: Mega-farms Trying to Seize Sa ...
    Court hearings this week may decide fate of Klamath/Trinity River salmon Local fishing communities depend on healthy salmon runs. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice) ...
  • Orcas Struggle For Survival Against Big Ag
    Mega-farms would exterminate Puget Sound whales' main food: salmon Orca L87 breaches at sunset with Whidbey Island and Mt. Baker in the background, Oct. 15, 2010. (Susan Berta / Orca N ...
  • Troubled Waters for Atlantic Herring
    Vital forage fish suffers twin setbacks Atlantic herring are a crucial part of the marine food web. (AdStock RF / Shutterstock) Pity the lowly herring, an ess ...
  • 50 States United, Redux
    Citizen soldiers talk, unite ... and triumph With some members of Congress doing less to protect the health and welfare of their constituents and more for the in ...

Brave New Climate

  • Vote to get the Integral Fast Reactor presente ...
    Mass-producible integral fast reactor modules can power every country on earth for nearly a millennium with waste products already at hand. That’s the pitch that Tom Blees has made to the Climate CoLab at MIT. If Tom’s pitch garners the most votes, the push to get the first PRISM bui ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 4: The choice … waste ...
    This is the final in a four part series on nuclear waste which has run on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. I conclude the series by discussing why nuclear waste is such a valuable resource and also cleans up a few relat ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 3: Case studies
    This is the third in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1 and Part 2. Case studies in waste disposal Finland’s nuclear waste repository For many, I suspect the most compelling evide ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 2: The nuts and bolts of waste
    This is the second in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Click here for Part 1. What’s special about nuclear waste? In Part I, we found that radioactive decay in the earth’s crust is continuou ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 1: The elephant (shrew) in ...
    This is the first in a four part series on nuclear waste which will run on BraveNewClimate.com over the next four days. Geoff Russell, August 2013 (Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Mortgage Repayment Calculator and Extra Mortga ...
    On the average, the typical mortgage can last from 15 to 30 years. Most of the repayments made for these mortgages go to the interest of the loan. It will only be after a couple of years before the payments actually affect the principal amount of the loan. If you’re looking for a quicker way to ...
  • Thinking About a Loan? Try a Reverse Mortgage ...
    Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) remain popular with seniors interested in making the most of their home equity during retirement. While many of the requirements necessary to qualify for an HECM are clear, others are somewhat hazy. Seniors who are interested in these loans often wonder i ...
  • Advantages of Tankless Water Heaters
    How typically did you are taking a shower and also the water began to run cold before you were finished? do not you hate that? With a standard warmer this is often invariably a haul. And if another person needs to use predicament when you, simply forget it! shopping for a warmer with a humble pl ...
  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Time To Surrender GOP
    Never before has America seen such an organized attempt by one political party to oppose legislation that would help so many citizens. Since Obamacare was passed and signed into law, the Republicans have trying to repeal it, repeatedly lie about it’s benefits, and do all they can to keep 4 ...
  • From Daily Kos – Before Black Presidents
    •  Deliberately sabotaging economic recovery was not considered a legitimate option for the opposition party.
  • Kathleen McMorris Rodgers Is Right – Gov ...
    Here is some nonsense babbled by Kathleen McMorris Rodgers, a congress critter from in Eastern Washington State. “”We know that Washington is broken,” writes Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), chair of the House Republican Conference, in the guide. “It spends too much ...
  • From Daily Koz
    “One difference between liberals and conservatives is, liberals correct their mistakes to keep up with reality while conservatives correct their reality to keep up with their mistakes.”
  • Female? Republican?
    Are you f-ing insane?

Appalachia Rising

  • Residents Bring Dirty Water from Mountaintop R ...
    Dozens of Appalachians and their allies bring hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their homes to EPA offices in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON D.C.– Citizens from across the country have travelled to the nation’s capitol to urge an end to … Continue reading →
  • We’re Bringing Toxic Water to the EPA &# ...
    Folks have begun arriving in Washington DC for a week of meetings with the Obama Administration and lawmakers asking for protections for Appalachian water.  We have brought over 100 gallons of toxic water from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky with … Continue reading →
  • Video: EPA Action May 8th!
    Join us in DC on May 8th, 2013 Join Appalachia Rising in D.C on May 8, 2013! from Zein Nakhoda on Vimeo. Please share this powerful video made by Zein Nakhoda for our EPA ACtion on Wednesday, May 8th at … Continue reading →
  • May 8th: Day of Action
    Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
  • More Actions in Atlanta!
    Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
    Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

+972

  • In West Bank, the logic of annexation supersed ...
    Israeli authorities aren’t merely incompetent when it comes to defending the rights of Palestinians in Area C – they are part and parcel of a process dedicated to the area’s annexation. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Last week, IDF forces removed, with hardly any noise, ...
  • Israel destroys Bedouin homes in Jerusalem, th ...
    On 19 August 2013, the Jerusalem Municipality demolished all six residential structures of Tal ‘Adasa, a Bedouin community living within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries, close to the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina, B’Tselem has reported. The community is part of the al-Ka’abneh t ...
  • WATCH: Settler group pushes for demolition of ...
    Susya, a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills, is once again facing the threat of demolition by Israeli authorities. In 2010, the right-wing settler organization Regavim, along with the adjacent settlement of Susya, petitioned an Israeli court for an order to demolish homes in the villa ...
  • Despite recent improvements, Israeli governmen ...
    The increases in movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza should serve as a reminder that Israel recognizes the need for civilian access, that the army can facilitate access when it is instructed to do so, and that more even more can be done. By Tania Hary The Coordinator of Government Ac ...
  • Poverty in the IDF: Thousands jailed for econo ...
    On Friday, Channel 2 News aired a story of unique importance, offering a glimpse into the world of financial difficulties awaiting Israeli soldiers. A soldier from the notorious Kfir Brigade, which is often accused of brutal treatment of Palestinians, testified that 9 out of 10 soldiers need fin ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Tasmania's giants protected forever
    Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Water, Mark Butler, today took the final step for the protection of Tasmania's Giant Trees and Tall Eucalypt Forests under Australian law.
  • A bright future ahead for FluoroCycle
    Lighting Council Australia has officially taken on responsibility for the FluoroCycle scheme, which aims to reduce the amount of harmful mercury entering the environment from the disposal of waste mercury-containing lamps.
  • Statement - Venture Minerals
    I have granted Venture Minerals approval to proceed with their proposed Riley Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) Hematite Mine in north-western Tasmania for which a mining lease has been issued by the Tasmanian Government.
  • Local growers celebrate $3.3 Million McLaren V ...
    Up to 726 megalitres a year of precious drinking water will be saved in McLaren Vale, with the recent completion of a recycled stormwater plant in the region.
  • A '300 billion litre drink' for the River Murray
    Around 300 billion litres of Commonwealth environmental water will flow into the River Murray Valley in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia over the next seven months, helping rejuvenate natural assets like the Lower Lakes in South Australia.

Matt Weidner Blog

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...

2020 Science

  • The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
    Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
  • Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
    Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
  • Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
    Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
  • What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
    In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
  • Want to know about teens and social media from ...
    If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

  • Aging Behind Bars
    [Originally published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged: aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric sentencing, US cages, US Prisons
  • The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
    [originally published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • The whole chain of events: CLF meets CTY
    The Center for Talented Youth is another great partner of the Center for a Livable Future and we are thrilled to have had such a successful first collaboration.
  • Trying New Things: Notes from a Dietetic Intern
    Together we set up a taste test at the store—handing out cups of frozen yogurt and local peaches—to promote healthier snacking.
  • CLF Week in Links: Meat, Fish, Dolphins, and More
    The way to make room for those important fruits and veggies is to cut back or eliminate those burgers and dogs! Starting with Meatless Monday we can rely on that old principle of psychology—inch by inch it’s a cinch, yard by yard it’s real hard.
  • Welcome to the Farm
    I suspected that I might have more nuanced and informed things to say about agriculture if I tried my hand at a little farming myself. I decided to give it a go.
  • Keeping Baltimore on Track with Sewer Upgrades
    Sadly, the City seems not to have made sufficient progress and is now seeking to renegotiate terms of the decree and seek an extension to the 2016 deadline.

k2p blog

  • Update on the Dorta-Drinkel paper
    Prof Dorta has apparently responded recognising that his "just make up an elemental analysis.." comment was "inappropriate". The Editor of Organometallics has also made a lengthy response - quite unusual for an Editor to be so forthcoming
  • Faroe Islands were colonised 300-500 years bef ...
    Norse settlers reached Iceland in the 9th century and probably reached Greenland around the 11th century. But the archaeological evidence is that some unknown colonists had already reached the Faroes in the 4th- 6th century and again between the 6th -8th centuries. It is still highly likely that ...
  • Clean air legislation reinstated the global wa ...
    Industrial pollution suppressed the global warming naturally taking place after the Little Ice Age and then clean air legislation removed the suppression.
  • Clean air legislation reinstated the global wa ...
    Industrial pollution suppressed the global warming naturally taking place after the Little Ice Age and then clean air legislation removed the suppression.
  • BRICS is losing BIS as the financial crisis bites
    India, Brazil, South Africa and other emerging markets are feeling the global financial heat - and some of the heat is intense enough to cause some currency meltdowns. Sovereign ratings of these countries are likely to be degraded which will reduce foreign investment further and raise the cost o ...

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP Condemns Activist Court Ruling that Cancel ...
    Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) criticized the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision to end the basic employee rights which have sustained a non-partisan, professional civil service since 1883. In Kaplan v. Conyers and MSPB, it eliminated all independent due process rights ...
  • British Government Destroys Newspaper's Snowde ...
    Reuters: Guardian Says Britain Made it Destroy Snowden Material In stark evidence that the war on whistleblowers (and those associated with them) has transformed into a war on journalists – at least overseas – the editor of The Guardian has stated that British government officials forced the n ...
  • Continuation of Whistleblower "No-Fly Zone" Policy
    Yesterday, David Miranda, a Brazilian national and partner of whistleblower journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained at London's Heathrow Airport while in transit from Berlin to his home in Rio de Janeiro. He was questioned for nine hours under British anti-terrorism law but was eventually relea ...
  • Greenwald's Partner Held for 9 Hours at Heathr ...
    The Guardian: Glenn Greenwald – Detaining My Partner Was a Failed Attempt at Intimidation   Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s partner, Brazilian David Michael Miranda, was detained at Heathrow airport in London over the weekend for nine hours by the British authorities while trave ...
  • NSA Abuses and Rulebreaking Detailed in New Sn ...
    Washington Post: NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds  In one of the most significant disclosures from NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden, this Washington Post article details how, based on an NSA internal audit and other documents, the agency broke ...

UK Progressive

  • The Boston Marathon Bombers and the Theory of ...
    by Tina Dupuy My working theory—you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works—is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It goes like this: Never attribute anything to conspiracy, coordination or planning when laziness could explain it. Call it Occam’s Armc ...
  • Six Claims on Detainee Torture, Skewered
    by Christie Thompson ProPublica Among the news that ended up being buried in the events last week: A nonpartisan think tank, the Constitution Project, released a scathing, 577-page report on the U.S.’s treatment, and torture, of detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The investigation began in 2009 ...
  • Illegal Abortion and ‘The Way of the World’
    by Tina Dupuy The Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell was one of the few places in the state to provide late-term abortions. From witness accounts the clinic smelled of cat urine. There was a free-roaming, flea-infested feline that reportedly def ...
  • The Dis-Uniting of America (2): Social Issues ...
    by Robert Reich My first reaction on hearing of the Senate’s failure to get 60 votes for even modest measures to regulate the flow of guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, such as background checks supported by 90 percent of Americans, was to be furious at the spinelessness of t ...
  • Boston Strong!
    by Janet Landry-Borden On March 5, 1770 three men were killed on the streets of Boston in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. Two more died later from their injuries, and several more were wounded. It took five years for the British to begin to feel the tremors of the outrage of that [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The day the Global Warming death spiral began
    Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science. The Carbon Capture Report, based in Illinois, tallies up the media stories from the English speaking media on “climate change” daily. Thanks to the tip from Peter Lang, we can see the t ...
  • Did an ice sheet collapse 120,000 years ago pu ...
    Proving that nature can outdo anything humans have done, a new paper shows that sea-levels off Western Australia may have risen as high as 9 m above the current level during the last warm period over a hundred thousand years ago. The authors (O’Leary et al) conclude that seas were 3-4 m hi ...
  • Both parties trying to be Not-Green in Austral ...
    Stick with us overseas readers. The spectacle goes on… How times have changed Back in 2007 both major parties wooed the Green vote. Now Green is so on the nose that Abbott not only declared that he was putting them last on preference swaps*, but felt it was worth egging the Labor party to ...
  • The global dance of carbon dioxide and spreadi ...
    From the AIRS satellite at NASA Watch how greenness and CO2 oscillate. Carbon dioxide is the yellow stuff on the map. As you watch the yearly cycle, hold on to the thought: “my car can change global CO2 levels”… (My favourite part starts half way). Source: NASA/Goddard Space F ...
  • Schwarzenegger on ‘deniers’: Strap them to a t ...
    Arnold Schwarzenegger uses all his best scientific reasoning to wow the crowd at the annual National Clean Energy Summit on Tuesday in Las Vegas, Nevada: Speaking of greenhouse gas deniers: “Strap some conservative-thinking people to a tailpipe for an hour and then they will agree it’s a polluta ...

ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Popsci - Science

  • Back-To-School Lunch: Students To See Healthie ...
    An Obama Administration act will phase in some school meal changes this year and next. Is that a whole-wheat pancake on your tray? When U.S. kids head back to school this fall, they'll see some changes to their school breakfasts, lunches and snacks, Time reports. A few pieces of legislation, si ...
  • Good Job, Humanity: As Of Today We Are Consumi ...
    Cue the slow clapping. Today is Earth Overshoot Day. Happy Earth Overshoot Day! Except, well, we don't much feel like celebrating. That's because Earth Overshoot Day is the day each year when we've consumed natural resources at a rate beyond which our planet can replenish, and have produced mo ...
  • What Blood Shows Scientists About Suicide Risk
    A new study of bipolar patients brings researchers closer to creating a blood test for suicidal thoughts. Suicide was responsible for more deaths than motor vehicle crashes were in 2009, but it's not always easy for doctors to tell when someone is at risk. A new study from the Indiana Universit ...
  • IPCC Surer Than Ever About Human-Caused Climat ...
    But the international panel of experts is less sure how that will affect people in specific places. What debate? A recent draft of an international consensus report offers stronger-than-ever evidence that global warming is driven by human activity. The report also adjusts its expectations for i ...
  • Psychedelic Drugs Don't Make People Crazy, Stu ...
    Researchers even found some associations between psychedelic drugs and fewer mental health issues. Contrary to what some anti-drug campaigns will have you believe, dropping acid probably isn't going to make you depressed or psychotic. In fact, psychedelics might actually be associated with bett ...

Facing South

  • Progressive NC lawmaker resigns over restricti ...
    Image Caption:  North Carolina Sen. Ellie Kinnaird is resigning from the legislature to launch a grassroots effort to ensure state residents have the kind of ID they need to cast ballots under a restrictive new voting law. (Photo via the Ellie ...
  • Creating a culture of unionism in the South
    Image Caption:  To build a culture of unionism, solidarity must be non-negotiable, with an attack on any union viewed as an attack on all unions. A union organizer and a third-generation organizer working in the South offer th ...
  • Three years after BP, Gulf fishermen struggle ...
    Image Caption:  Louisiana fisherman David Arnesen once hoped to fish the Gulf into his old age. But that was before the BP oil spill disaster devastated the region's fisheries and left his and other fisher families struggling to eke out a ...
  • Moral Monday marches on with Dr. King in mind
    Image Caption:  Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. (U.S. Information Agency photo.) North Carolina's Moral Monday movement will hold rallies in the state's 13 congressional d ...
  • Dream Defenders leave capitol, heading for gov ...
    Image Caption:  Dream Defenders and civil rights leader Julian Bond when he was a student activist. (Dream Defenders photo from Facebook.) Members of the youth civil rights collective left the grounds of the Florida state cap ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Rest of July & early August outlook
    Although our weather has turned more unsettled, temperatures remain well above average.  To illustrate how warm it has been, at Linton on Ouse in North Yorkshire, up to and including the 24th July, the mean maximum temperature stood at 24.44C which places the month 3rd warmest on record.  Of cou ...
  • Exceptional July weather coming to an abrupt end
    July so far has been exceptionally dry, warm and sunny, but a notable change in the weather is expected in the next 36 hours.  At Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, less than 2mm of rain has fallen so far this month.  It’s fair to say that farmers and gardeners are now very keen for rain, althou ...
  • Outlook for the rest of July
    Friday will see the heat returning to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.  On Tuesday Linton-on-Ouse recorded 28.7C (84F) making it the hottest day in our region of the year so far, and there’s a chance that temperatures on Friday, perhaps again somewhere in the Vale of York, will be slightly higher sti ...
  • At long last, summer is here
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...
  • Summer is here at last
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Subsidies or Thailand's Descent Into Egyptific ...
    One of the biggest (fiscal) drags on the Egyptian economy is its continued use of massive subsidies for food and energy. At a touch less than a third of the national budget, it eats up a lot of money arguably better spent elsewhere. Moreover, you can hardly say that these subsidies have bought t ...
  • So, Why are China, Japan, ROW Dumping Treasuries?
    There is a debate going on here in the rest of the world concerning the United States. It isn't really whether American officials are trustworthy, but whether they are more of BS artists or ripoff artists. When it comes to foreign holdings of US Treasuries, it's arguably both: The United States ...
  • Why Venezuela Has Egypt-Like Forex Reserves
    Unlike many (left-leaning) colleagues, I remain profoundly unimpressed by the "post-capitalist" stylings of countries alike Argentina and Venezuela. When it comes to the geopolitics of the world economy, I am generally unconcerned about whether countries style themselves as "pro-American" or "an ...
  • Only in Hong Kong: Designer Handbags as Collateral
    It's been such a long time since we've had a luxury goods feature, so here's one: Anyone who has been known to Asia knows the social pecking order here among cosmopolitan (small-c, that is) women has something to do with carrying designer handbags. Mainland China is becoming a large and lucrativ ...
  • House Demolitions, or the Detroitification of ...
    A chair is still a chair Even when there's no one sittin' there But a chair is not a house And a house is not a home When there's no one there to hold you tight And no one there you can kiss goodnight... As the late Luther Vandross explained, a house is not a home. Unoccupied houses--whether de ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 33 Shocking Facts Which Show How Badly The Eco ...
    Barack Obama has been running around the country taking credit for an "economic recovery", but the truth is that things have not gotten better under Obama.  Compared to when he first took office, a smaller percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our jobs has declined ...
  • 18 Signs That Global Financial Markets Are Ent ...
    You can see it coming, can't you?  The yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries is skyrocketing, the S&P 500 has been down for 9 of the last 11 trading days and troubling economic news is pouring in from all over the planet.  The much anticipated "financial correction" is rapidly approaching, and in ...
  • Those That Are Not Preparing For The Coming Ec ...
    The next great economic crisis is rapidly approaching, and most people are going to be totally blindsided by it.  Even though the warning signs are glaringly obvious, most Americans continue to believe that our "leaders" know what they are doing and that everything will be just fine.  But what w ...
  • What Is Going To Happen If Interest Rates Cont ...
    If you want to track how close we are to the next financial collapse, there is one number that you need to be watching above all others.  The number that I am talking about is the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries, because it affects thousands of other interest rates in our financial system.  Whe ...
  • Egypt Is Descending Into Civil War, But Don&#8 ...
    The largest Islamic nation in the Middle East is on the verge of descending into civil war, the Syrian civil war is starting to spill over into Lebanon, and the worst violence in five years has just hit Iraq, but Barack Obama is way too busy to be bothered with any of that.  Right now, [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • A Tale of Three Australian Inquiries – P ...
    Everyone supporting survivors in Australia seems to have been suffering from constant exhaustion for the last few months, trying to keep up with three different inquiries and numerous media issues. They do say to be careful what you wish for. Every time we are tempted not to bother dragging ours ...
  • US Court considers dead bodies more important ...
    The law is frequently an ass. But few laws or lawyers are more asinine than the recent decision by US District Court Judge Hon Rudolph T Randa. Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese appealed against a previous decision allowing the funds stashed away in a Cemetery Trust in 2008 to be included in the di ...
  • Song of Lying Bishops
    To the tune of Song of Joy Come, hear our lame excuses We tell to all Inquiries We don’t care if you believe us We fool the Catholics on their knees   Lie after lie we can tell And no one will ever Do a thing That’s because the Catholic Mafia Ensure that we’re above your l ...
  • Newcastle Diocese’s Disgrace – Mem ...
    Public hearings of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle in recent weeks have left survivors and supporters disappointed, horrified, traumatised, gasping in disgust, occasionally giggling, and even bravely protesting before the media contingent. And finally, applauding the amazing b ...
  • Fasten your seat belts, its going to get bumpy
    Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, snarled this famous line before a party brimming with hidden undercurrents, lies, and deception, in the 1950 film, All About Eve. We are in for a bumpy few years. It’s going to get bumpier come September, when the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry and N ...

WL Central

  • 2013-08-17 Sam Adams statement on award to Snowden
    The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence gave the 2013 award for 'truth telling' to Edward Snowden. Following is their official statement. read more
  • 2013-08-16 New WikiLeaks Insurance Files
    The WikiLeaks Twitter feed is announcing three new insurance files for a total of 400 GB of storage space. No indication is given as to the files' contents. read more
  • 2013-08-16 Statements by Snowden, Assange
    Edward Snowden has issued a statement to the Huffington Post regarding confusion about his current situation, and Julian Assange has spoken with Australia's The Age in the same vein. read more
  • 2013-08-14 WikiLeaks Response to Manning Statement
    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. read more
  • 2013-08-12 Announcing the Snowden Defence Fund
    Edward Snowden has been selected as the first source to be aided by the new Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund. The JSPDF is administered by Derek Rothera & Company Charted Accountants of the United Kingdom. Details of how you can donate follow. read more

U N News

  • UN organizations in Haiti deeply concerned by ...
    The United Nations in Haiti today called on key political, religious and community leaders to inspire respect for rights and encourage restraint from expressions of hatred and contempt amid increase in homophobic violence in the country.
  • Latest killing raises UN concern about safety ...
    The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today voiced concern about the safety of journalists in Guatemala following the killing of a veteran radio personality in Zacapa.
  • Ban appoints Dutch national to head UN humanit ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Peter de Clercq of the Netherlands to the top United Nations humanitarian coordination position in Haiti.
  • Colombia grew less coca in 2012, UN survey rep ...
    Coca cultivation in Colombia, one of the world&#39s largest producers along with Bolivia and Peru, fell by a quarter in 2012, according to a new survey presented today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government.
  • In meeting with UN chief, South American natio ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today met with a group of South American foreign ministers who voiced their concern to the United Nations chief about reported large-scale surveillance programmes.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • American Bird Conservancy Job Notice – Interna ...
    American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is looking for a high-energy individual who is able to work effectively in partnership to develop and direct bird conservation programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.  This International Conservation Program Office will focus his/her work on one or more of th ...
  • The Spine of the Continent – The Race to Save ...
    Please see the upcoming dates for slide presentations and talks by Mary Ellen Hannibal. Her book, The Spine of the Continent, has just been released in paperback with a new subtitle:  The Race to Save America’s Last, Best Wilderness .                 Augus ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Oh, Give ...
    ©2013 by Dave Foreman The United States has been the world’s leader in the on-the-ground designation of protected areas—National Parks, Wilderness Areas, Wildlife Refuges, Wild & Scenic Rivers, National Monuments, National Forests, and other kinds and degrees of wild havens.  The key reason ...
  • George Monbiot: Why humans should back off and ...
    George Monbiot: Why humans should back off and let nature heal itself – Technology & Science – CBC News 2013-08-04 Reposting of original article:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/08/02/f-sunday-edition-george-monbiot-environment.html It’s not uncommon for people to l ...
  • Job Notice: Wind Campaign Coordinator
    American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is looking for a high-energy individual who is able to work effectively in partnership to address the impacts of wind development on birds. ABC supports wind power when it is bird-smart, and believes that birds and wind power can co-exist. Bird-smart wind power em ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • ALERT!... FEMA Region III... Is FEMA Preparing ...
    FEMA Region III - USACE Districts This is pretty creepy... According to a notice sent by Senator Sheldon R. Songstad, Ret. of South Dakota State and published, with a video, which will be shown below, titled “Emergency Fema Region 3 Alert!!!” The government obviously believes something big is ...
  • Reality Check... Quite Possibly the Most Eye O ...
    Maybe this is why God made a farmer... ~ Video read more
  • To Keep You Safe... The Government Doesn't Thi ...
    This would seem to embody the USDA's advisory, "Know your farmer, know your food," right? Not exactly... For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there's a problem... ~ David E Gumpert - 'So God Made a Farmer' - Video read more
  • Planning to Escape the Dictatorship?... Here's ...
    I get this question asked by many in the US thinking about leaving the country.  Much of the info available online is judgmental and flatly incorrect, so I would like to outline the straight scoop for someone in this position. ~ Greg Miller read more
  • A Reminder Of Our Past 5 Years... This Is Only ...
    Obama’s promises of these wonderful things sounded inspiring and sincere. They sounded so much better than the promises of any other President. So when Obama broke these promises, it felt so much worse than when other Presidents broke their promises. ~ Dan read more

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Statoil sell-off to be reinvested off Norway
    Gains on the sale of some Statoil assets in the North Sea will be reinvested in other major Statoil projects on the Norwegian continental shelf, chief executive Helge Lund said this week. Much of it will be used for development of the huge Johan Sverdrup oil discovery. Statoil announced Monday t ...
  • Contract loss cuts Hapro jobs
    Another 125 employees of Hadeland Products (Hapro) in Jaren, one of Europe’s leading electronic manufacturing service companies, are losing their jobs after Hapro lost its biggest customer, Cisco. The loss of the Cisco contract is forcing the staff to be cut in half. Local newspaper Hadela ...
  • Electric shock over new trains
    Officials at state railway NSB are reeling over the quantity and cost of electricity needed by their new so-called “Flirt” trains. The higher-speed commuter trains need so much electrical power that state railroad Jernbaneverket has to invest nearly NOK 400 million in new equipment. ...
  • Thousands drive over new Hardanger bridge
    A controversial new bridge over the scenic Hardanger Fjord already attracted more than 13,000 motorists just during its opening weekend. The traffic exceeds all expectations. The toll for a single car is NOK 150 (USD 25) and NOK 600 for a truck or trailer, and that may well curtail traffic after ...
  • Reindeer herd found shot
    Police in Norway’s most northern county of Finnmark were investigating the shootings of 24 reindeer whose carcasses were found in the mountains at Nordmannset in Porsanger just before the weekend. Investigators say they have no doubt the reindeer were intentionally and illegally killed. &# ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • International Permaculture Volunteer Opportuni ...
    For all those seeking international adventure and to share their knowledge with those who really need it, the Australian Red Cross is looking for a volunteer to fill the position of Permaculture Officer in Uganda. The role is to help subsistence farmers to establish a sustainable, organic and c ...
  • Design Opportunities at the Edge of Society (S ...
    With an inspired mind, opportunities for improved design present themselves at every turn. Problems show themselves as challenges for demonstration. In this way, it’s almost as if our world’s most frustrating social and environmental issues become the best canvasses on which to patie ...
  • Want to Help Create an Ecovillage? (Victoria, ...
    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Buckminster Fuller A week or so ago I received the most exciting email ever. It was from a reader of the Simplicity Collective who had just finished ...
  • We Are Chlorophyll Managers
    Last night I ate a couple of dozen cherry tomatoes from my just-getting-started garden. A little pepper and salt and I was in tomato heaven. I was expecting them to taste a whole lot better than the supermarket ‘tomatoes‘ I’m otherwise forced to consume, and I was not at a ...
  • GMO Potato: Cisgenesis is still Genetic Modifi ...
    The new trial on GM blight-resistant potato is being sold as cisgenic technology to confuse the public, but it is still genetic modification with all the attendant risks — most of which are not addressed. by Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji A new genetically modified (GM) ‘blight-resistant&#8 ...

Pointman's

  • Know your enemy : the “green” poli ...
    Any time you make an assessment of a situation or a group of people, you have to be aware that it will have a certain shelf life. Things change, situations evolve and new factors appear as time moves on. Of all the groups I’ve looked at in this series, that consideration applies to politic ...
  • A Berlin story : Eva.
    I first met Eva at the bottom of an escalator, late in the evening of a brutal Berlin winter. She was just standing there at the foot of the thing, trying to judge when to take that first frightening step onto it. There was nobody there but us, and I’d the feeling that a few of &#8230 ...
  • Why would anyone believe a single word coming ...
    One of the climate alarmist’s standard responses to any criticism of the theory of global warming is that unless the person is a climate scientist themselves, the point being made is from a position of ignorance and can therefore be ignored. As with most propaganda designed to silence any ...
  • A quarter of a million pages later.
    The pages read counter on this blog is closing in on 250,000, so it seems to be a natural review point. The blog came out of an extended discussion with some friends that occurred at the height of climate hysteria. We could all see the damage it was doing but for them it was an … Read ...
  • Know your enemy: the establishment journalist.
    The origins of journalism go back a long way. For most of agrarian history, there were individuals who travelled from settlement to settlement, mainly trading goods but part of what they did was bring the news of what was happening in those distant lands twenty or more miles away. Beyond the new ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Women With A Vision and BreakOUT! Respond to T ...
    The Times-Picayune/nola.com’s six articles and one video (and counting) about Tulane Avenue, dubbed “Uneasy Street,” are an unfortunate example of glorified and sensationalized media reporting that leads to increased criminalization of marginalized communities, rather than solutions. As staff o ...
  • Dream Defenders Florida Take Over Enters Week ...
    Packed into the small reception area of the Florida Governor’s office in Tallahassee, a couple dozen determined Dream Defenders conducted a people’s hearing on racial profiling.  Black and brown college and high school youth took turns giving compelling testimony of being profiled at school ...
  • “This Day, We Use Our Energy for Revolution”
    Reprinted from our friends at Women With A Vision: This past Sunday, WWAV gathered with friends, allies and fellow organizers in a Solidarity Rally for Trayvon Martin. We want to personally thank everyone who came out so that we could raise our voices in unison.  This is the beauty of New ...
  • Open Letter From Curtis Muhammad on Upcoming C ...
    Below we are reposting an open letter from civil rights movement veteran Curtis Muhammad, a founder of People's Hurricane Relief Fund and the International School for Bottom-Up Organizing, among many other projects and initiatives. Dear friends and comrades, We are fast approaching the time fo ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Issues LGBTQ Pol ...
    From a press release from BreakOUT! After organizing for over two years, BreakOUT! members enjoyed a victory today in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) with the issuing of Policy 402, dealing with the treatment of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questio ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • The internet revolution: what went wrong? - Part 1
    In the 2nd hour of today's show Josh Jackson and I take you on a journey into the history of the internet with aim of discovering where, why and how this amazing tool of empowerment and communication became a tool for the big brother corporatist state. In the first hour I am joined once again ...
  • TNRA’s mission statement
    In today's show we come clean on the core agenda of this radio broadcast. We are here to quicken the mass awakening which is already taking place around the globe. We are here to amplify the dissent which already exists in many peoples' minds but which does not easily find expression. We are h ...
  • The elephant in the room: it’s immigrati ...
    Both sides of Australian politics are once again playing the game of "getting tough on people smugglers", taking turns to sound more aggressive, ruthless and brutal in turning back boats filled with people less fortunate than ourselves. Tony Abbott has declared a "national emergency" and plans ...
  • A heart to heart talk with Fair Dinkum Leon - ...
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Leon Pittard, host of Fair Dinkum Radio, a show which lifts the lid on the sordid mess of corruption, propaganda and disinformation which characterizes Australian public discourse on virtually any topic. During the show we go through issues of the da ...
  • Craig Isherwood outlines plans for a Cyprus st ...
    Craig Isherwood is the National Secretary of the Citizen's Electoral Council (CEC). The CEC recently launched a petition to the Commonwealth Parliament, calling for immediate legislation to enact a Glass-Steagall-style banking separation in Australia, to protect deposits and essential banking se ...

Beacon

  • The Perfect Protein: By the Numbers
    A few clear steps could provide hundreds of millions of hungry people around the world with a nutritious, protein-rich meal of wild seafood, like this mackerel  In a recent interview with Coast magazine, Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless discussed his new book, The Perfect Protein. While the phr ...
  • Creature Feature: Meet the Fangtooth!
    Fangtastic: Meet the incredible fangtooth l Photo: Citron Like something out of your nightmares, the fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta, Anoplogaster brachycera) lurks in the darkest depths of the ocean. Wielding huge, saberlike teeth, the fangtooth has the largest teeth in the ocean relative to ...
  • Countdown to 2013 Pacific Expedition!
    Colorful basket stars and sea anemones radiate life offshore Port Orford, Oregon. © Oceana   Anticipation and excitement is building as Oceana’s U.S. West Coast staff prepares for seven days at sea exploring and filming largely undocumented coral and sponge colonies off the coast of ...
  • Victory! Basque Region of Jaizkibel to be "Spe ...
    This guy is really psyched about the victory, we swear. l © OCEANA / Félix Aguado We're thrilled to report that last month, the Basque area of Jaizkibel has finally been nominated as a special area of conservation! Oceana made this recommendation back in 2010, and has been fighting for t ...
  • The 2013 Ranger Expedition Has Set Sail!
    © OCEANA / Carlos Minguell This post comes to us from our Communications Officer in Brussels, Belgium, Angela Pauly, as the Oceana Ranger sets sail to explore the Mediterranean.  Less than two months after our successful coastal expedition in the Baltic ended, we’ve sent out another tea ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Stealth Ski-Doos and the price of milk: What d ...
    Remember that uncle who gave you a remote control car for Christmas and then played with it himself all day? Not that you wanted a remote control car. But still, who was that present for anyway? Well, Prime Minister Harper is up north again and he’s got a wicked stealth snowmobile and a big bag ...
  • What’s a Point of Corporate Tax Worth?
    Tom Mulcair’s recently reiterated unwillingness to raise personal tax rates puts the spotlight on corporate taxes. But how much revenue is at stake? Three and a half years ago, I posted a fiscal breakdown of Harper’s corporate tax cuts and how much revenue could be retained by stopping or revers ...
  • Can Democracy save Victoria and Favour?
    Today marks the National Day of Action for Victoria Ordu and Ihuoma Amadi, the two University of Regina students that have spent the past 14 months in sanctuary to avoid deportation. Both students made the honest mistake of working at a local Wal-Mart for two weeks, thereby violating the terms o ...
  • Austerity Bites? Public-Sector Implosion Hits ...
    Statistics Canada reported a loss of 39,000 jobs in July, even as Canada’s working-age population grew by 39,000. As a result, unemployment rose and many Canadians withdrew from the labour market altogether. The decline reflected a loss of 74,000 public-sector jobs, which was only partly offset ...
  • Saskatchewan Budget Saved by Falling Loonie
    Following last week’s troubling news about potash, the Saskatchewan government released its first-quarter financial report today. The headline seems to be “Oil Keeps Budget in Black”, with a forecast increase in oil revenue more than offsetting a forecast decline in potash and other revenues. Bu ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • The slow death of India’s Majuli Island
    “But for five decades, the river has been gnawing at the edges of this quaint island, slowly but steadily shrinking it from 1,250 square kilometers to one-third of its original size. The river swells every monsoon, swallowing large chunks of land. “I can never forget how hungry the r ...
  • New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Grou ...
    “A recently published  study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking sites in Texas’ Barnett Shale. While the findings are far from conclusive, the study provides further evidenc ...
  • In the ‘Wild West’ of Water, Nestl ...
    “International food giant Nestlé is striking gold in British Columbia—dubbed the ‘Wild West’ of water regulation—extracting hundreds of millions of liters of fresh groundwater each year without paying a cent. As the only province in Canada that doesn’t regulate groundwater use, ...
  • Texas towns run out of water due to fracking
    “Across the south-west, residents of small communities like Barnhart [Texas] are confronting the reality that something as basic as running water, as unthinking as turning on a tap, can no longer be taken for granted. Three years of drought, decades of overuse and now the oil industry’s ou ...
  • The Complications Of Getting Running Water In ...
    “Four enormous water tanks sit high on a hill in the West Bank. These hold the lifeblood for Rawabi, the first planned, privately developed Palestinian community, about 25 miles north of Jerusalem. After five years, the first neighborhood is nearly built. But developer Bashar al-Masri is w ...

D. Kucinich

  • The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
  • Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
  • Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

  • NO longer leaders they are followers
    …why are we picking on colleges/universities as they are only taking a page from the Congre$$ional playbook as well as our Military … colleges/universities are NO longer leaders they are followers…   7 Shocking Ways Colleges Have Trivialized Rape Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet Universities are s ...
  • we have NO authentic reporting
    …when we have NO authentic reporting it is amazing what transpires in our backyard and no one seems to be the wiser … where  is Arizona’S Pre$$ … obviously they chose not to report … did not know … knew and did nothing … why the secrecy…? Filed under: Blogroll
  • you still don’t believe that EPA
    …what you still don’t believe that EPA is beholding to corporate … wake up … take a good look at what’s going on with our environment … then tell me who is calling the environment plays for America…?     EPA chief: “Responsible” natural gas development is a key part of our climate stra ...
  • States Are Screwing the Poor
      …Ways States Are Screwing the Poor By Making Welfare Almost Impossible to Get   …   TANF doesn’t recognize the real world people live in… August 14, 2013  … AlterNet / By Sheila Bapat  When President Clinton signed welfare reform into law 17 years ago this mo ...
  • we’re “big-pharma” we are to ...
    ….Trust us … we’re “big-pharma” we are to make a profit … OOP$ … check that we are here to help you…   …(NaturalNews) Did you know that one of the lead researchers involved with developing the two available vaccines for human papillomavirus (HPV), Gardasil (Merck & Co.) and Cervarix (Gl ...

Popular Technology

  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...
  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...
  • Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of lef ...
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Political Compass" frequent Skeptical Science commentators and moderators took a political quiz revealing (much to their surprise) they all share ...
  • Skeptical Science: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it is revealed their lack of humanity for the death of a political adversary. In a forum thread titled, "Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43" f ...
  • Skeptical Science: The Censorship of Poptech
    "The impact of that ban on PopTech was to silence him." - Skeptical Science In March of 2012, the same computer illiterates at Skeptical Science who do not know how to use Google Scholar had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these I am mentioned in at least 65 discussion ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hid ...
    While the olinguito looks like a wild, tree-climbing teddy bear with a cat's tail, it's actually the world's newest mammalian carnivore. The remarkable discovery—the first mammal carnivore uncovered in the Western Hemisphere since the 1970s—was found in the lush cloud forests of the ...
  • Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extin ...
    In a large room that used to house aquatic mammals at the Minnesota Zoo, Erik Runquist holds up a vial and says, "Here are its eggs." I peer inside and see small specks, pale with a dot of brown at the top; they look like a single grain of cous cous or quinoa. Runquist explains that the brown on ...
  • Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinct ...
    The world's species are in worse trouble than widely-assumed, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which reevaluates how scientists estimate extinction rates. The new model takes into account the impact of forest fragmentation on extinction rate ...
  • Little NGO takes on goliath task: conserving t ...
    Landlocked in the navel of South America, the forests, wetlands and savannahs of Paraguay boast rich biodiversity and endemic species, yet the unique landscapes of Paraguay also face increasing threats, primarily from agricultural expansion. Controlled burns and clear cutting have become common ...
  • Scientists discover new flying mammal in bushm ...
    The bushmeat markets of Lao PDR (Laos) are filled with racks of wild game harvested both legally and illegally from the surrounding landscapes. While these meat markets certainly provide local protein to patrons, for wildlife biologists they offer something more. These bizarre zoological exhibit ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • CBD air given a health check
    Scientists are keen to discover what effect the hustle and bustle of downtown Auckland has on those who walk its streets every day.A two-week survey, now under way, will eventually reveal how traffic affects sound and air quality...
  • Tremors on path down country, say scientists
    A sequence of quakes rattling the centre of the country appears to be shifting down the South Island and away from Wellington.But those in the capital are expected to feel aftershocks for some time yet and there is still a reasonable...
  • Growing organs tough to deliver
    It's 1998 and science is taking big strides. The first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, has just had her first lamb; the first robotically assisted heart surgery has been completed.In a bold announcement, biomedical engineer Professor...
  • Kiwi peer review system speeds up science
    Two Wellington entrepreneurs have developed an online platform which they hope will radically disrupt the 300-year old academic peer review process. Their business has already attracted the attention of more than a dozen investors...
  • Sue Kedgley: Let's talk birds and bees seriously
    Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson warned that if we continued to spray vast quantities of pesticides indiscriminately over our farms, forests, and wildlife, we would end up with a poisoned world in which birds would no longer sing.Few...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk legislation vetoed in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Any politician worth his or her salt is good at charades–you know, the game where you pretend you are something that you’re not. Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has given a masterful … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk legislation vetoed in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Any politician worth his or her salt is good at charades–you know, the game where you pretend you are something that you’re not. Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has given a masterful … Continue reading →
  • Science-based public policy being eroded in th ...
    From Carrie Saxifrage, in the Vancouver Observer: “Dr. Katie Gibbs has seen her colleagues at the University of Ottawa biology department realize that if anybody in Canada can stand up to the attacks on science, it’s the scientists themselves. Last … Continue reading →
  • Science-based public policy being eroded in th ...
    From Carrie Saxifrage, in the Vancouver Observer: “Dr. Katie Gibbs has seen her colleagues at the University of Ottawa biology department realize that if anybody in Canada can stand up to the attacks on science, it’s the scientists themselves. Last … Continue reading →
  • GMO scientist turned anti-GMO activist
    From Ken Roseboro, on NewHope360.com “The “conversion” of for­mer anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas to GMO promoter has gar­nered huge media atten­tion, but Thierry Vrain, Ph.D., a for­mer genetic engineer who speaks out against the risks of genetically engi­neered foods, has far … Contin ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Socialist Delusion: France Promises Full Emplo ...
    If you are looking for a good laugh today, simply read Ministers set out utopian but hazy vision of a strong France France’s Socialist government has set out a gleaming vision of the future marked by full employment and cutting-edge factories thanks to “a third industrial revolution”. ...
  • Surprise Awakening Awaits Merkel in September ...
    In response to my August 13 post Tale of Colours, All in Denial; Assessing Merkel's Chances reader Bernd from Germany (not AfD chairman Bernd Lucke) offered these comments ... Hello Mish Main stream parties have had success pushing AfD into the “right wing” corner. It would appear that m ...
  • Fed Chairman Update: Odds Shift Heavily Toward ...
    In Tweedle Dum vs. Tweedle Dee; Does Janet Yellen Have What It Takes? I made the case it did not matter much whether Larry Summers of Janet Yellen was the next Fed chairperson. Here is a recap: Tweedle Dum vs. Tweedle Dee The only candidate that makes sense is the candidate who w ...
  • Egypt Ponders Banning the Brotherhood to "Prot ...
    Court Frees Ousted President Hosni Mubarak Violence has escalated in Egypt and a couple of new complications are in the works. Please consider Egypt Defense Chief Says Army Will Fight to Protect State. A Cairo court ordered ousted President Hosni Mubarak freed from prison, a move that co ...
  • Government Spending as Percentage of GDP; Fede ...
    Here are a few charts from reader Tim Wallace on spending, the deficit, and GDP. Federal Spending as a Percentage of GDP Spending and GDP in U.S. Dollars Deficit Compared to Revenue Wallace writes ... Hello Mish 1. In the past 48 years we have averag ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 2 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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  • The EyeOpener Report- Constitution-Free Border ...
    As new revelations of NSA abuses continue to emerge on a daily basis, even the most politically oblivious Americans are now aware that the 4th Amendment has for all intents and purposes been consigned to the dustbin of history. This will be no surprise at all, however, for those who have been fo ...
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  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 1 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Bollinger Delivers Seventh Fast Response Cutte ...
    Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana has announced the delivery of the seventh Fast Response Cutter to the U.S. Coast Guard. Named CHARLES DAVID JR, the vessel is a Damen Stan [...]
  • Explosion Rocks New Jersey Naval Weapons Station
    Eight people were injured, one of them seriously, after an explosion and fire struck a U.S. Navy ammunitions depot near the New Jersey shore on Tuesday, Navy officials said.
  • Floatel Orders Fifth Semi-submersible Accommod ...
    Floatel International announced today the signing of their fifth semi-submersible accommodation newbuild contract with Keppel FELSs. The order adds USD $280 million to Keppel’s backlog and the vessel is scheduled [...]
  • KKR Enters Maritime Finance
    KKR & Co said it has formed a company to provide loans to the maritime industry, including offshore oilfield services and shipping companies.
  • Woodside to Recommend Shell FLNG Solution at B ...
    Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia’s second-biggest oil producer, will recommend using Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s floating liquefied natural gas technology to its partners to develop the Browse [...]

Press TV

  • US should probe criminals, not Manning
    A political analyst says the United States should prosecute people in the government who violated the law instead of whistleblower Bradley Manning.
  • 3 dead, 5 injured in Germany shooting
    Police say at least three people have been killed and five others injured when a gunman opened fire in a restaurant in a village in southern Germany.
  • The US minimum wage scam
    You'd think the exceptionally low minimum-wage - $7.25 an hour - would be the shame of a country like the United States that prides itself on its economic leadership. Half of minimum-wage jobs are held by adults over 25 years old, and asking adults to live on $7.25, or $14,500 a year, doesn't le ...
  • FBI training police on killing response
    The FBI is taking an active role in training local police departments in the US to respond to mass shootings.
  • US companies and Egypt military aid
    US officials deny reports that Washington has suspended its military aid to Egypt or is deciding to do so despite a deadly crackdown in the Arab country.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Combat censorship with ‘PirateBrowser’
    The Pirate Bay recently celebrated their 10th birthday this past Saturday by announcing a new gift for internet users — PirateBrowser: “a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible.” screenshot via th ...
  • 25 Apps You’ll Need to Survive College
    25 Apps You’ll Need to Survive College Mashable’s Sarah Ang annotated a list of 25 apps designed to support academic success. My personal favorite is SelfControl. The app allows users to block websites for a designated period of time, making it impossible, for example, to scroll through yo ...
  • Featured Student: Idalia Reyes
    Idalia Reyes is a current student here at The CUNY School of Professional Studies, studying in the Online Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media. Academic Advisor, Johanna Rodriguez recently had the chance to ask Idalia a few questions about her goals and motivation for pursuing higher edu ...
  • M.A. in Applied Theatre: Reminiscence Theatre ...
    During the current summer session, eight students in Tony Goode’s course “Creating Meaning through Community Drama” have conducted life history interviews with New York City seniors, ranging from members of SAGE, the nation’s first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender S ...
  • From SPS to Singapore
    Claire Yang is a 2011 graduate of the CUNY School of Professional Studies MA in Applied Theatre program. She recently took a moment to send us this update: In September 2012, I moved back to Singapore after three years in New York City. I was sad to leave a wonderful community of theatre practit ...

Dissident Voice

  • When Beckett’s Look-like Theater Tries to Defi ...
    The removal of elected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, the ongoing crackdown on the Muslim Brothers, the sad deaths of hundreds of people from both sides, and the destruction that ensued have ignited fiery debates between those who support the action and those who oppose it. It is curious to s ...
  • Threading the Needle with Our Camels
    when you believe that there are no teachers anymore, that’s  when you have no idea how dumb your culture really is It’s what most of us called precarious college faculty want to say, or have deep within, cultured like intellectual bacterium waiting to take over all synaptic functioning – H ...
  • Manning, Apology and an Onerous Fidelity
    Promises, and more promises.  First, of a punishment that would be over a century.  Then, a reduction to a punishment less than a century.  And then, sixty years incarceration with a hefty fine of $100 thousand., though this may well be trimmed to 25 years  All of this, for leaking information t ...
  • Geography and Justice
    He was not famous. He never invented anything. He never created a great work of art. He never composed a symphony. But there was something special about him. He had lived a life of moral perfection. He never told a lie. Never disappointed a friend. Never disrespected his parents. On March 21, 20 ...
  • US Encourages Democracy in Yemen, Then Turns D ...
    “Blowback” is a lesson the United States government should have learned in the mountains of Afghanistan, the streets of Iraq and the wild territories of Pakistan: Be careful what you sow, because you will reap it tomorrow. A small delegation of CODEPINK peace activists travelled to the bea ...

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Newswise

  • Former Fed Economist Available to Comment on F ...
    Tim Yeager, finance professor at the University of Arkansas and former economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, is available to comment on the Federal Reserve's announcement Monday that the 18 largest U.S. banks have failed to satisfy at least one of the five areas critical to risk ma ...
  • Higher Urinary Albumin Excretion Linked With I ...
    In a large national study, higher levels of the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio was associated with greater risk of incident but not recurrent coronary heart disease in black individuals when compared with white individuals, according to a study in the August 21 issue of JAMA.
  • Study Shows Gypsum Wallboard Does Not Keep Out ...
    The researchers found that carbon monoxide diffused across single-layer gypsum wallboard of 2 thicknesses, double-layer wallboard, and painted double-layer wallboard. "Gypsum's permeability to CO is due to its porosity.
  • Lateral Wedge Insoles Not Associated With Impr ...
    Although a pooling of data from 12 studies showed a statistically significant association between use of lateral wedge insoles and lower pain in medial knee osteoarthritis, among trials comparing wedge insoles with neutral insoles, there was no significant or clinically important association bet ...
  • 'Treat Me Like a Child': Should an Adult Hospi ...
    An opinion piece in this week's JAMA from Penn Medicine fourth-year medical student Mark Attiah suggests that if adult hospitals were modeled more closely after children's hospitals--from the paint color to practice patterns--they may improve patient quality of life, satisfaction and even health ...

Metanoia

Jae's News

  • Take Action: #TPPTuesday: Say "Yes!" To Transp ...
    Click through the article to sign the petition to "tell President Obama that the people demand transparency and a democratic process for the Trans-Pacific Partnership." Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What Ted Cruz actually needs to do to renounce ...
    Unfortunately for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, you cant just say you renounce your Canadian citizenship. Its not like bankruptcy on The Office. According to the Canadian government, there are 6 steps to prove eligibility for renouncing ones citizenship. Submitted by Dale O. to US Politics & Gov&#3 ...
  • Ted Cruz, Tea Party favourite, to renounce Can ...
    U.S. Senator Ted Cruz said Monday that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship. The Texas Republican and Tea Party favourite announced his plans Monday night in a statement. Submitted by Dale O. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Perpetual Drone War
    Obama's continuing militaristic approach in the Middle East is exploding the prospects for the any significant change in US policy that many had hoped would come with his election. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Gov Scott Walker rewarded Capitol police for c ...
    Walkers enforcers are getting bonuses for cracking down on Grannies and other hard core criminals such as tourists and veterans. wondered why Walkers police take part in his crackdown while at the same time he speaks of stripping them of their union? Submitted by Roxy H. to US Politics & Gov ...
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