Tuesday, September 24, 2013

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thwap's schoolyard

  • No Vision
    What does the opposition stand for? Free pot (maybe)? The environment? (Elizabeth May will need more friends then.) We're supposed to vote without knowing anything.
  • On the road ...
    I'm in transit today. Doing a lot of errands that have no money attached. Hope it's not as stressful as this: Happy trails to me.
  • Miley Cyrus, Rob Ford and Skyler White
    I was FRONT PAGE NEWS that 20-year old pop super-vixen Miley Cyrus and her fiance Liam Hemsworth have definitely called it Quitsville. I'm not sure of the reasons for the split, but it was a long time coming. Also, the bungling Obama's attempts to start World War III appear to be stuttering to a ...
  • The Sickening Stupidity of Obama Fans
     "Driftglass" is at it again. In this case, he's apparently elaborating on something that Digby said. Well, let's take care of Digby first. I don't know why it's so important for people to believe that the president is a Jedi Master but he clearly isn't. However he is willing to change cou ...
  • The Thoroughly Depressing State of Canadian De ...
    Both the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party have presided over the torture of Canadian citizens. Torture was widespread in Afghanistan. Everyone knows this. But the thing about crimes against humanity (it appears) is that they're not really that big a deal. It seems that you can even witne ...

Science Express

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-13-13
    Today, Kevin explains how every single person in America is technically breaking the law and how the IRS could take advantage of it. Plus, the author of Undateable, Anne Coyle, stops by to reveal the secret list of over 311 things that perfectly eligible guys manage to wear, say, or do to make t ...
  • Boost & Strengthen Your Immune System
    There are certain products that I endorse and recommend for anti-aging.  There are certain products that I endorse and recommend to change the way you think. And there are certain products that I travel with all the time. I always, always have Silver Hydrosol with me. I also pack Royal Velvet an ...
  • You Are What You Eat
    Eating good quality food every single day makes a huge difference in how you feel, your energy, your sleep, your skin, and your digestion.  So, a lot of people come up to me and ask, “Kevin, what should I eat? What do YOU eat?” The simplest answer is number one; always avoid high fructose corn [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-3-13
    Today, Kevin goes into why the government has banned him from every Fox News network, every Disney owned television station and even USA Today & TIME Magazine! Get the latest news you won’t hear from those news sources! 100% of Non-Organic Chickens Carry Deadly Bacteria Secrets to Boost Your ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-8-13
    Today, Kevin delves deep into the obesity epidemic in America. Plus, find out how Kevin Trudeau would run The United States of America if he were president! Self Help: Loss Weight Right! Emergency Preparedness Trace Minerals Health: The Worst Food In America Worker Dies at Cubicle, Found a Day L ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Fmr. US Marine Redefines Patriotism | Intervie ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFmr. US Marine Redefines Patriotism | Interview with Ken O’Keefe Abby Martinyoutube.com Abby Martin speaks with former US marine, Ken O’Keefe, about Syria war hypocrisy, Israel’s non-compliance with ...
  • Another Funeral, Another Bombing In Baghdad; 3 ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAnother Funeral, Another Bombing In Baghdad; 38 Killed – Monday: 38 Killed, 65 Wounded Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis For the third day in a row, suicide bombers targeted a funeral in the Baghdad area. Baghdadis saw two ...
  • Is This The Best Google Streetview Ever?
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIs This The Best Google Streetview Ever? By WashingtonsBlog washingtonsblog.com On a rural highway in Tennessee … View the original article at Washingtons BlogCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • ‘If Obama just shakes hand with new Iran ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com‘If Obama just shakes hand with new Iran leader, it’s a huge change’ youtube.com Iran’s been trying to settle the impasse over its nuclear programme ahead of the nation’s upcoming address to t ...
  • QE is like passing off pork as prime cut of beef
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comQE is like passing off pork as prime cut of beef youtube.com Watch the full Keiser Report Episode 501 on Tuesday! In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, discuss the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank as ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Now Official: For the British Ministry of Defe ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Writer, Dandelion Salad London, England September 23, 2013 The contempt with which “liberated” Afghans are treated by the British Ministry of Defence has been revealed in figures obtained by the (London) Independent (23rd September 2013) “ ‘Fatality claims’ include the deat ...
  • Spilling the NSA’s Secrets: Guardian Edi ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Sep 23, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org – Three-and-a-half months after National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden came public on the the U.S. government’s massive spying operations at home and abroad, we spend the hour with Alan Rusbridger, edito ...
  • F is for FIRE Sector by Michael Hudson
    by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com September 23, 2013 Part F in the Insider’s Economic Dictionary. Factoid: A hypothesis, rumor or story so consonant with peoples’ preconceptions that it is accepted as a fact or working assumption, even though it often is made up a prio ...
  • Three Myths About Food Stamps
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Sep 22, 2013 House passes bill to cut food stamps for up to 4 million Americans in 2014, but what are the facts behind this polarizing program?  see Robert Reich on ‘Inequality for All’ + Jacob Kornbluth: Growing Income Divide Threatens Society Saru Jayaraman: Why ...
  • Potential US War on Syria Based on a Snuff Mov ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV September 21, 2013 The American war footing towards Syria plumbs a new diabolical depth. Not only is it an act of criminal aggression against an innocent country – the supreme crime according to Nuremberg Pri ...

Your New Reality

  • "China Will Be The Centre Of The Global Film I ...
    Image via this great Joblo story  China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, has big plans for China's cinema industry, and he's cherry-picking the best talents in Hollywood to come and work for his studio. The Wall St Journal reports the property-and-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Grou ...
  • Kurt Cobain's Mad Bad Dream
    In the weeks leading up to the September 1993 release of Nirvana's In Utero album (title taken from a poem by his wife Courtney Love), Kurt Cobain explained what the Nevermind fame circus had done to his sleeping mind movies. "In my dreams, there's always this apocalyptic war going on between ...
  • Rupert Murdoch: I Don't Want To Bully The Comm ...
    By Darryl Mason Front page Murdoch tabloid attacks on prime minister Kevin Rudd Hard to believe the same person most responsible for the moral disintegration of newspapers in the West, and the destruction of dozens of competitor newspapers in Australia, actually once said ...
  • What Happened To All The Outtakes From Stanley ...
    Oh, Stanley Kubrick, what did you do? Here's Stanley Kubrick's friend and key assisstant through three decades, Leon Vitali, on why there are no 'gag reels' or even alternate takes of classic scenes from his movies, anywhere on his DVDs and BlueRays. And Why There Never Will Be: "Outtakes a ...
  • No title
     Deadwood Actor Kevin Spacey lists 17 groundbreaking, thrillmaking TV shows he thinks everyone should watch. I'm way behind on these... The Sopranos, Rescue Me, Weeds, Homeland, Dexter, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Damages, Sons of Anarchy, Oz, The Wire, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Mad ...

Wired - Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Exoplanet Around ...
    This composite image represents the close environment of Beta Pictoris as seen in near infrared light. This very faint environment is revealed after a very careful subtraction of the much brighter stellar halo. The outer part of the image shows ...     
  • Synthetic Spider Silk Capsules Assemble Themselves
    In addition to snaring dinner and protecting spider babies, spider silk makes a pretty good shield for bioreactive enzymes. Even when it’s not made by the spiders themselves. Turns out, self-assembling spider silk capsules, crafted by colonies of bacteria, are ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Prawn Nebula
    The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. Taken using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, this may well be the sharpest picture ever ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Approaching Impa ...
    This composite is assembled from separate images of Jupiter and comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, as imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy on 24 ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Colossus in Coma
    Enormous arms of hot gas have been revealed in the Coma galaxy cluster in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton. A specially processed Chandra image (pink) has been combined with optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: Why the Israel-Palestine ‘negoti ...
    The negotiations provide a cover for Israel's takeover of the territories it wishes to control and should spare the United States some further embarrassment at the UN. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go ...
  • Noam Chomsky weighs in on Syria strike
    "As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Israel’s West Bank plans will le ...
    One prevailing assumption is that there are two options: either a two-state settlement will be reached, or there will be a "shift to a nearly inevitable outcome of the one remaining reality -- a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Assaf Kfoury: The background to the July 3, 20 ...
    The greatest illusion about the cataclysmic events shaking Egypt is that, during the truncated one-year presidency of Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian military had been forced to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • IOA status update
    After nearly five years of operation, the IOA website is suspending regular content uploads. Having started immediately after Israel’s attack on Gaza in December 2008 – January 2009, the Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China Unveils Yi Long UAV
    China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
  • Airshow China 2012
  • Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
    Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
  • Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
  • Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
    Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

Pruning Shears

  • Is football on a glide path to obscurity?
    This post argues football may be about to experience a long, slow decline in popularity. First, two disclosures about why I may be predisposed to believing this - and one very important point of emphasis. Disclosures: 1) I am a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan, and since they returned to the NFL ...
  • 18th century political thinking in the 21st
    In 2006 Matthew Yglesias posted “The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics” at the now-defunct site TPM Café. He wrote how he enjoyed reading Green Lantern comic books and briefly explained how the power rings from the series worked, then added:But a lot of people seem to think that A ...
  • Shoddy gun paper excites right wing
    There is new interest in a 2007 study by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser. “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” was published in Harvard’s Journal of Public Law and Policy and has been cited recently on a number of political blogs, message boards, even on a popular ...
  • A brief review of bad reporting
    Ever since Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s first story on NSA surveillance back in June there have been various attempts to discredit him. Most has been garden variety stuff, the kind of thing it’s usually better to ignore lest it get more oxygen. A post by BooMan earlier thi ...
  • Additional planks for the platform
    On Monday lambert posted a call for a re-formulated 12-word platform; Tuesday I responded with what I tentatively called the Bumper Sticker Platform (BSP). These may be two slightly different things though. My goal is to create a campaign slogan - something that easily fits on a sign or bumper ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • This Week's Newsletter: Busting Monsanto and O ...
    Click here to read this article
  • URGENT: Take Action Today to Stop the Monsanto ...
    Congress could vote this week to extend the Monsanto Protection Act for another three months. Unless we stop them. Click here to read this article
  • Organic Consumers Association Joins Coalition ...
    FINLAND, Minn. - (Sept. 24, 2013) – The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) http://organicconsumers.org/ has joined a broad coalition of more than 80 groups that have jointly signed a letter http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_28365.cfm opposing Sec. 11312 of H.R. 2642, a provision ...
  • Joint Letter Opposing King Amendment to Farm Bill
    he undersigned groups write to express strong opposition to a provision offered by Representative Steve King, Amendment #71 adopted during the House Agriculture Committee’s markup of H.R. 1947 (the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013), and now part of the Farm Bill passed ...
  • 9 Nastiest Things in the Meat You Eat
    Meat contaminants are not likely to go away because they stem from Big Meat's desire to maximize profits by growing animals faster. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Food Waste, Pathogens, Chic ...
    The exploitation made possible by Monsanto's monopoly control is just as ugly when applied to the soybean seed market as it was when applied by the robber barons of a century ago.
  • Let’s Stop Treating Our Soil Like Dirt – Part 1
    My own love affair with soil began as a child when I spent countless hours making mud pies, digging in the sand, tending the flower beds next to our house.
  • CDC Sounds the Alarm—Where Is the FDA?
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released a report outlining the dire consequences of antibiotic resistance for public health and the economy. The agency now reports that antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause more than two million serious infections and 23,000 deaths in t ...
  • CLF Week in Links: China, Pink Slime, Farm Bil ...
    Debbie Stabenow and the rest of the Senate Agriculture Committee appear to be ignoring the glaring reality that China will get the pork and the American public will get the mess of concentrated waste, intolerable odor, pollution of air, water, and soil and the associated environmental harms of t ...
  • Hands On in the Community: Notes from a Dietet ...
    I’m Bernice. I love the first day of school. This week was the start of a new school year at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and as a second-year student in the coordinated Masters of Science in Public Health and Dietetics program in the middle of her dietetic internship, I ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Public "Education" has become indoctrination a ...
    School is about memorizing what you are told short term and repeating it. his is for the work force the most important quality in a worker bee actually is obedience. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Waste Heat Recovery Device Can Increase Car Mi ...
    Physicists at the University of Houstons physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity are working on an innovative waste heat recovery device that can increase car mileage by 5%. Submitted by Alex Clark to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • A Lesson Learned
    Melissa M.H This story brought tears to my eyes - Although my kids are considerate and thankful most times - I'm sure they would have benefited even more so with a lesson like this Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Is a Mini-Fukushima Happening in Florida? - Th ...
    Many of us have heard of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which is currently leaking radioactive water into the ground, as well as into the ocean. Less well-known, however, is the crisis happening right now in South Florida... Submitted by Day R. to Environment  |   Note-it! &nbs ...
  • Vaccines Uncensored - your right to a critical ...
    The other side of the story Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Yemen leak: former FBI man admits passing info ...
    ShareThisYemen leak: former FBI man admits passing information to Associated Press 23 Sep 2013 A former FBI explosives expert said on Monday he would plead guilty to revealing secret information for an Associated Press story about a US intelligence operation in Yemen in 2012. The story led to a ...
  • 23 more people killed in Baghdad bombings
    ShareThis23 more people killed in Baghdad bombings 23 Sep 2013 Three separate bomb attacks have killed at least 23 people and injured dozens more in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, according to Iraqi security sources. On Monday evening, at least 15 people were killed and 35 others injured in a bomb a ...
  • Assad: Terrorists may attack chemical weapons ...
    ShareThisAssad: Terrorists may attack chemical weapons inspectors, blame Damascus 23 Sep 2013 Syrian armed opposition may be ordered by its foreign sponsors to stage a false flag operation against foreign inspectors when they arrive in the country to monitor destruction of the country's chemical ...
  • Boston Police Commissioner Davis, face of Mara ...
    ShareThisBoston Police Commissioner Davis, face of Marathon bombing investigation, steps down 23 Sep 2013 Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, who led his department's response to the Boston Marathon bombing, says he's stepping down after seven years on the job. Davis was thrust into the nat ...
  • Snake on plane grounds Qantas flight
    ShareThisSnake on plane grounds Qantas flight 23 Sep 2013 A tiny snake as slender as a pen forced the grounding of a Japan-bound Qantas flight in the Australian city of Sydney overnight, stranding hundreds of passengers. The non-venomous reptile, about eight inches (20 centimetres) long, was ...

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

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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

  • Syria: Outrage is Not a Strategy
    02 September 2013 Never Go to War without the Support of Your People In 2006, the talking points from London and Washington insisted: we had won the war in Afghanistan, and Iraq was not in civil war.  To say otherwise was apostasy. In 2006, British Defense Secretary John Reid was famou ...
  • Syria: Outrage is Not a Strategy
    02 September 2013 Never Go to War without the Support of Your People In 2006, the talking points from London and Washington insisted: we had won the war in Afghanistan, and Iraq was not in civil war.  To say otherwise was apostasy. In 2006, British Defense Secretary John Reid was famou ...
  • Afghanistan to Syria
    30 August 2013 Before reading my Monday dispatch on Syria, please read this previous dispatch from Afghanistan. British Member of Parliament Adam Holloway is a prominent figure in both. There be Dragons.
  • Afghanistan to Syria
    30 August 2013 Before reading my Monday dispatch on Syria, please read this previous dispatch from Afghanistan. British Member of Parliament Adam Holloway is a prominent figure in both. There be Dragons.
  • 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 ...

The Killing Train

  • Demonstration tomorrow in Montréal, family and ...
    Family and supporters of Tarek Loubani and John Greyson, two Canadians now a week into their hunger strike in Egyptian prison, will be protesting at the Egyptian Consulate in Montréal at 1pm this Tuesday September 24. Tarek and John have been in prison for more than a month, and supporters are d ...
  • Deputy PM of Egypt in Toronto this week?
    Sept 22/13, 9:30am A good friend of Tarek and John's found this article in Bonjour Egypte: http://bonjouregypte.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=53890 The article, published yesterday, says that Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for International Cooperation, Zeyad Bahaa Eddine, is com ...
  • A summary of #FreeTarekandJohn in Arabic
    Thanks to some of our friends here, we have a summary of the case in Arabic, which we wrote on September 16. Please circulate it to readers of Arabic. Summary of #FreeTarekandJohn in Arabic Sept 16/13
  • QR Code for TarekandJohn.com
    You can use this QR code for posters, leaflets, etc. relating to #FreeTarekandJohn. It takes you to our website, tarekandjohn.com.
  • Demonstration at the Egyptian Consulate in MTL ...
    **Demonstration at the Egyptian Consulate** Tuesday, September 24, 2013 1000 de la Gauchetière O. (Metro Bonaventure, Rues Mansfield & de la Gauchetière) (Tarek & John are now on hunger strike.) *ENGLISH BELOW* Libérez Tarek et John! Free Tarek ...

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Telegraph - Climate Change

  • Row over IPCC report as nations 'try to hide l ...
    Scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change to be published this week are at loggerheads over their explanation for why the earth's surface temperature has stopped rising as rapidly as they previously predicted.     
  • Climate scientists urged to cover up slow in g ...
    Scientists working on a landmark UN report were urged to cover up the fact the world's temperature has not risen in 15 years, it is claimed.     
  • Climate change inaction is like Aids denial, s ...
    Politicians who fail to take urgent measures to tackle climate change are like the South African leaders who denied HIV causes Aids, a scientist has claimed.     
  • EU policy on climate change is right even if s ...
    Regardless of whether or not scientists are wrong on global warming, the European Union is pursuing the correct energy policies even if they lead to higher prices, Europe's climate commissioner has said.     
  • EU policy on climate change is right even if s ...
    Regardless of whether scientists are wrong on global warming, current European Union energy policies are the right ones even if they lead to higher prices for consumers, Europe's climate action commissioner has said.     

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

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
    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 ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- Anarcho-Detroit: In ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Karen DeCoster On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by writer, CPA, and creator of the blog “Detroit: From Rust to Riches,” Karen DeCoster. Guillermo and Karen discuss the economics of the city of Detroit, what led to its bankrup ...
  • The New Great Game Round Up- September 22, 2013
    Syrian Terror Threatens Eurasian Balkans, The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan in Great Demand & Much More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and p ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Robben Ford & The Blue Line – “You Cut Me To The Bone” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick features American blues, jazz and rock guitarist Robben Ford & The Blue Line performing You Cut Me to the Bone. Ford is one of the premier electric guitarists today, known ...
  • Decide With Your Own Eyes: The Videos of the C ...
    Evidence Contradicts the Assertions of the Obama Administration & the entire US Intelligence Community A detailed independent report by Mother Agnes Mariam, a Greek Melkite Catholic nun that is the mother superior of the St. James Monastery in Qarah, and the International Support Team for Mu ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Jordanian Journalist Who Fabricated Syrian Reb ...
    I’ve been following the story of a few weeks ago, claiming that Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia was shipping chemical weapons to the Syria rebels, which they were using on the battlefield.  As so much of the reporting on this subject, this story really stank.  But I didn’t give it much ...
  • Jewish Neocons Adopt Rwandan Dictator, Kagame
    Reading the NY Times, I was shocked to find a full-page ad entitled Genocide: Do the Strong Have an Obligation to Protect the Weak?  It was an ad for a event in New York devoted to the Rwandan genocide. What struck me especially about the ad was that the pictures of the speakers were even […]
  • Time to Cut a Deal with Iran
    Now is the time: for Iran and the U.S. to stop all the bullshit, stop all the posturing, all the grandstanding.  On both sides.  Time for the pragmatists on both sides to step forward, to put their cards on the table, to go “all in.”  There will be no other time. The last time an [&# ...
  • Gerald Steinberg’s Hasbara War
    Gerald Steinberg is a hasbara warrior for Israel.  He’s on permanent war footing, ready to do battle with everyone: Wikipedia, the European Union (EU), the United Nations, human rights NGOs.  Israel is his sacred mission, his jihad, if you will. He teaches at Bar Ilan University and founde ...
  • Mental Illness+Guns=Catastrophe
    The latest gun slaughter at the DC Navy Yard confirms two factors we already knew: first, that guns and mental illness can be a toxic combination; second, that our nation and armed forces do a terrible job of diagnosing and treating mental illness. So much about gun violence we already knew. We ...

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

  • You know who deserves a fifty-second chance?
    Hugo motherfucking Schwyzer.* Because as we all know, at any given point in time, there are only seven people who know how to type words on the Internet. It’d be different if he were as talented as he is depraved, like, I don’t know, someone or other. *We have no evidence that he&#82 ...
  • A Tribalism Bleg
    A correspondent asked me a good question that I’d figure I’d throw open to the hivemind. With the exceptions of Michael McConnell and Charles Fried (and the latter, as a Harlan disciple who was also critical of the constitutional arguments against the PPACA, barely counts these days) ...
  • What Happens When You Elect Republicans
    In yet another example of why the enormous differences between the two parties matter, we have U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes. Appointed by Reagan, Hughes is an open racist and doesn’t care who knows it: Jitendra Shah, an Indian-American engineer, sued the Texas Department of Criminal Jus ...
  • “No, Mr. uninsured cancer patient, I expect yo ...
    Responding to a House Republican’s forthcoming fake plan to replace the ACA, which he asserts will prevent discrimination against patients with pre-existing conditions without a mandate, Yglesias notes the obvious: Insuring a sick person, after all, is a lot more expensive than insuring a ...
  • Water in the West
    How bad is the long-term drought in the West? The enormous rains of last week in Colorado helped a lot locally, barely put a dent in the larger indicators. If you don’t believe the drought monitor, take a look at Lake Powell, a good barometer of water conditions in much of the West. By early [.. ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.
  • A century of human impact on Arctic climate in ...
    New study authored by Canadian and American investigators and published in Nature Scientific Reports indicates that both anthropogenic and natural factors account for Arctic surface temperature variations from 1900 to the present. Read more...
  • 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.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Ex-Nixon Peabody Lawyer Gets Seven Years in Po ...
    Former Nixon Peabody securities partner David Tamman was sentenced on Monday to seven years in prison for his role in a $22 million Ponzi scheme. U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez imposed a sentence much closer to the federal government's requested eight years than a request by Tamman's lawye ...
  • $2 Million Grant Lets Illinois Law Boost Advoc ...
    The University of Illinois College of Law is expanding its trial advocacy program with the help of a $2 million donation from the Jerome Mirza Foundation. The school will use some of the money to send graduates into yearlong fellowships at county public defender offices around the state.
  • They're Still Arguing Over ACA
    A recent discussion at Georgetown University Law Center brought together many of the key liti­gators on both sides of the contentious battle over the health care reform.
  • THE GLOBAL LAWYER: Conoco May Have Hit a Major ...
    We predicted this summer that the Occidental v. Ecuador $2 billion record for largest investment arbitration award would not last long. The only question after this month's liability award in Conoco v. Venezuela is whether ConocoPhillips matches that record, or breaks it eight times over. Ou ...
  • OPINION: The Avoidable Sticker Shock of Stude ...
    Law students and law schools have a responsibility to ensure that all graduates have a plan to manage their student debt and the ability to pursue the career of their dreams.

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

environment 360

  • Cleaner Air from Curbing CO2 Emissions Would S ...
    Gains in air quality that would come from reducing greenhouse gas emissions could save up to three million lives per year by 2100, according to U.S. researchers. Their findings, published in Nature Climate Change, come ahead of an important interim report by the Click to enlarge Nature C ...
  • Will Offshore Wind Finally Take Off on U.S. Ea ...
    After years of delays and legal battles, several offshore wind projects seem poised to be launched off the U.S. East Coast. But the lack of stable government incentives and tax credits may continue to hobble an industry that already has a strong foothold in Europe. BY DAVE LEVITAN
  • U.S. Places CO2 Limits On New Coal-Fired Power ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will for the first time begin regulating carbon dioxide emissions from new coal- and natural gas-fired power plants under the Clean Air Act, EPA Adminstrator Gina McCarthy announced. Speaking in Washington, McCarthy said, “Climate change is real, human ac ...
  • Poaching Pangolins: An Obscure Creature Faces ...
    The pangolin does not make headlines the way elephants or rhinos do. But the survival of this uncharismatic, armor-plated animal is being threatened by a gruesome trade in its meat and its scales. BY RICHARD CONNIFF
  • Climate Change Reporting Focuses on Disasters ...
    Nearly 80 percent of news articles about climate change either warn of current or future disaster scenarios related to global warming, or contain discussions about the uncertainty of climate science, an Oxford study of 350 news articles from 2007 to 2012 has found. Fewer than two percent of the ...

Red Ice Creations

  • A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
    "Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality. “This is completely new and very much simpler than anything that has been done before, ...
  • Moved to Tears at the Cloisters by a Ghostly ...
    Wobbling, blissed out, a few in tears, people emerged every 12 minutes or so from the remnant of a 12th-century Spanish chapel tucked into the Cloisters museum. Something had happened there, up on a hill at the northern end of Manhattan. “It’s too soon to talk,” Margaret Cardenas said as she lef ...
  • Navy Yard Shooting: Questions and Coincidences ...
    Navy Yard shooting: SWAT team ordered to stand down, leave scene –No answers given –’[They] haven’t even been given the courtesy of a debrief.’ 19 Sep 2013 Members of an armed police squad who the BBC has learned were ordered not to respond to Monday’s mass shooting in Washington DC have yet to ...
  • Corporate Propaganda – Fox News Sells Fracking ...
    “Nature doesn’t give us a clean environment.” Recently on Fox News, Alex Epstein, the founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, and author of the book, Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet, argues in favor of hydraulic gas fracturing, or fracking, as it has become known. This is the technique of ...
  • Could NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep- ...
    Oh my. Does this mean free, alternative, open source energy options might finally get a chance, rather than being constantly thwarted and buried? Here’s hoping. Wired reports on the oncoming plutonium shortage... --- NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration By Dave Mosher | Wire ...

Not My Tribe

  • Occupy Denver hits the Terrible Twos!
    LOOK OUT DENVER! There was no birthday cake this year for Occupy Denver, though the second annual #S17 OWS anniversary celebration did not go unmarked. Subgroup offshoots of Denver’s notorietous Occupy deployed themselves with the usual rowdy spirit. Denver Homeless Out Loud, advocates for ...
  • Fuck the Police, say it while you can
    If you’re bleeding from a rollover accident and you’re a black male who’s prompted a white suburbanite to call the police, who arrive and shoot you; if you’re a non-suicidale teen who’s fallen from an overpass, broken your back, only to be tased a dozen times for no ...
  • Springs Democrats hope democracy loses to Stat ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS, CO- International news headlines read “G-20 Summit Overshadowed by Syrian Crisis” but not in Colorado Springs! Here every politically active Democrat was working to defeat a recall of state senate leader John Morse, a democrat though barely. Morse is a duly elected, ...
  • What Does Democracy Look Like? Not likely the ...
    I attended Occupy Denver’s forum “What Does Democracy Look Like?” this weekend to hear activist scholars of considerable repute throw in their two cents. The first day was a splendid gathering, except where a curated discussion of intentional community lapsed straight to theolo ...
  • Bored Oklahoma teen murder suspects not bored ...
    Bored Oklahoma teens who shot a random jogger in the back are being tried as adults not juveniles because “it was an adult crime”; though killing while bored seems a juvenile crime by definition. So does immediately confessing a motive, “we were bored,” to the police, it ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Uncritical vs. Unbiased Reporting: An Email to ...
    Below is an email I sent to Joel Mathis of phillymag.com on 9/12/2013, regarding his criticism of Paul Kurtz's coverage of the ReThink911 campaign.______________________________________________________________________ Dear Mr. Mathis, My name is Adam Taylor. I am a 9/11 activist and a contr ...
  • 9/11 Family Member Vance Green speaks at Reth ...
  • Response to Mechanical Engineer "tfk" at JREF
    By John-Michael Talboo and Scootle Royal Intro - Update to last section coming soon. What follows is a much belated response (due to still totally unresolved formatting difficulties and laziness) to mechanical engineer "tfk" - to counter his responses to John-Michael's post, "One ...
  • ReThink911 in Action - Clarion Pennsylvania
    ReThink911 New York Times Square Billboard. Photo by Scott Star.    9/11 Family Members and 2,000+ Architects and Engineers Ask That You ReThink 9/11      
  • Millette Chip Study Debunked and Buried: RIP
    When Dr. Millette´s preliminary report first saw the light of day in February 2012 - about 18 months ago - the JREF crowd heralded the report as the ultimate debunking of Harrit et al.(2009) who document the discovery of active thermitic chips in the WTC dust. When Rev. Chris Mohr delivered the ...

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

  • Evidence of Yanomami ‘violence’ relies on fals ...
    Survival's Director has demolished Napoleon Chagnon's claims that the Yanomami are 'fierce' and violent in a new paper.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new paper by Survival International Director, Stephen Corry, exposes serious flaws behind the long-standing claims that the Yanomami ...
  • Brazil: Female chief leads re-occupation of an ...
    The Guarani Apy Ka'y community has returned to its ancestral land currently occupied by a sugar cane plantation, amidst threats of death by gunmen.© Tonico Benites/SurvivalGuarani Indians have carried out a courageous ‘retomada’ (re-occupation) of the sugar cane plantation that ...
  • EU beef imports threaten uncontacted Indians
    Yaguarete has bulldozed a new track (labelled 'picada identificada' on this photo) through uncontacted Indians' forest. They plan to clear everything to the right of this track.© GATForest inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay is being destroyed to make way for cattle desti ...
  • Awá: Top human rights watchdog demands answers ...
    The Awá tribe is being driven towards extinction by Brazil's failure to protect its forest. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Americas’ leading human rights body, has demanded answers from the Brazilian government about the plight of the ...
  • Access case dismissed – Final end for Bushman ...
    Botswana's High Court has dealt a blow to the Kalahari Bushmen which could spell the end of the tribe's way of life. © Survival InternationalBotswana’s High Court has thrown out an attempt by the Kalahari Bushmen to gain free access to their ancestral land, raising fears that thi ...

Greg Palast

  • Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Joseph Stiglitz couldn't believe his ears.  Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America's economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns ...
  • Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretl ...
  • 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 ...

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 Review: Trolls, Airline Practice, ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. Sept 23, 2013, Forbes: Cashing In On Fears Of Autism: Scientists Claim They Can Predict Whether A Mom Will Have A Child With Autism Sept 22, 2013, ABC News: Children With...
  • 2003 Danish Study on Mercury Fabricated? New S ...
    New Danish/CDC Data Undercuts Claims that Autism Rates Increased in Denmark after Mercury was removed from Vaccines: Who is Telling the Truth? Please take 2 minutes to fill out this ACTION ALERT. By John Gilmore A widely publicized study released...
  • The CDC and Denmark: The Love Fest That Fizzled
    Thank you to Vaccination News for permission to share this article. Please add their site to your favorites. By F. Edward Yazbak MD I first described the warm and fuzzy relationship between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
  • There’s Always a Light at the End of Each Tunnel
    By Zack Peter I think we can all agree, the road to recovery isn’t an easy one. You don’t just pick up a book, try out one treatment approach, and wham RECOVERY! Things just aren’t that easy. Sure it may...
  • Combatting Autism
    By Cathy Jameson After a particularly difficult week, I knew I needed to make some changes. The biggest change would be about my attitude. It was going to be hard because reminders of why some things are difficult stare me...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

new geography

  • Thinking Outside the Rails on Transit
    To many in the transit business – that is, people who seek to profit from the development and growth of buses, trains and streetcars – Southern California is often seen as a paradise lost, a former bastion of streetcar lines that crossed the region and sparked much of its early development. ...
  • Is Scandinavia Female Friendly?
    Scandinavia is often hailed as the best place on the planet for women. Yet in reality --- despite being frontrunners in gender equality --- Nordic countries have not been so successful when judged by women’s career progress. A few years ago Professor Alison Wolf, director of Public Services Pol ...
  • The Next Urban Crisis, And How We Might Be Abl ...
    Urban boosters are rightly proud of the progress American cities have made since their nadir in the 1970s; Harvard economist Ed Glaeser has gone so far as to proclaim “the triumph of the city.” Yet recent events — notably Detroit’s bankruptcy and the victory of left-wing populi ...
  • Health, Happiness, and Density
    The proponents of currently fashionable planning doctrines favouring density promulgate a variety of baseless assertions to support their beliefs. These doctrines, which they group under the label of “Smart Growth”, claim, among other things, that from a health and sustainability perspective, ...
  • Fast-Growing Mining and Oil & Gas Industries, ...
    The fastest-growing industry in the U.S since 2010 isn’t large or well-known. In fact, nearly half of the estimated 5,100 jobs in support activities for metal mining are located in one state: Nevada. Nonetheless, employment in this niche mining industry has ballooned 53% since 2010, an ...

water.org

  • Making Toilets Affordable
    Shanti, from Katihar, Bihar did not have a toilet at her house and used to go to the railway tracks for open defection. It always seemed awkward to defecate in open; especially when there were trains passing through, however, due to financial constraints they could never construct a toilet in th ...
  • Making Good Hygiene Fun
    Teaching kids in India to practice good hygiene can be a tricky subject, but our in-country partners have found ways to make education fun: silly skits, contests, and fun sing-alongs like the one seen in this video.
  • Water + Toilets = Opportunity
    In rural parts of Assam, women are skilled at weaving cotton garments such as shawls, dresses and hand towels. Most of them weave on a small scale during their free time. With access to water and sanitation facilities in their households, more and more women are coming forward and taking up weav ...
  • Edme's Long Walk
    Three-to-four times a day, Edme hikes nearly an hour round-trip to bring five gallons (about 40lb.) of unsafe water to her mountainous home.
  • A new Pump Ousts Cholera
    Booz Jean-Michel's home of Bayas, Haiti was hit hard by cholera, but sanitation education and a new, clean water source brought health to both his community and his family.

Cryptogon

  • Chaos Computer Club Breaks Apple TouchID
    Via: CCC: The biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple’s TouchID using easy everyday means. A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an ...
  • Special Forces Sniper Who Claimed SAS Assassin ...
    Only the tabloids are reporting this. If there’s legitimate coverage of this anywhere (Daily Mail doesn’t count), I can’t find it. Via: Daily Mail: The SAS soldier who made astonishing claims Princess Diana was murdered by special forces has apparently fled Britain just days be ...
  • Kenya: 59 Killed in Terror Attack on Mall
    Via: CNN: Fifty-nine dead. At least 175 injured. About 30 hostages still inside, as well as perhaps a dozen gunmen. Those are the grim numbers, more than a day after Islamist attackers stormed an upscale Nairobi mall on Saturday, spraying bullets and holding shoppers captive. The tense standoff ...
  • Huge Cocaine Haul Seized on Air France Plane i ...
    Via: BBC: Police at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport have seized 1.3 tonnes of pure cocaine on board an Air France flight from Venezuela, French officials say. The drugs were found packed inside 30 suitcases on 11 September, but the operation was revealed on Saturday. France’s Interior mini ...
  • The Near Detonation of a Mark 39 Hydrogen Bomb ...
    Via: Guardian: A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today, reveals that the US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating an atom bomb over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima. ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Ordinary Americans Talk About The Economic ...
    There are hundreds of formerly prosperous communities all over America that are being steadily transformed into rotting, decaying hellholes.  The good paying middle class jobs that once supported those communities are long gone, and they have been replaced with low paying service jobs if they ha ...
  • Quantitative Easing Worked For The Weimar Repu ...
    There is a reason why every fiat currency in the history of the world has eventually failed.  At some point, those issuing fiat currencies always find themselves giving in to the temptation to wildly print more money.  Sometimes, the motivation for doing this is good.  When an economy is really ...
  • Too Big To Fail Is Now Bigger Than Ever Before
    The too big to fail banks are now much, much larger than they were the last time they caused so much trouble.  The six largest banks in the United States have gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years.  Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have disappeared from the banking industry during that ...
  • Janet Yellen: What A Horrifying Choice For Fed ...
    Are you ready for Janet Yellen?  Wall Street wants her, the mainstream media wants her and it appears that her confirmation would be a slam dunk.  She would be the first woman ever to chair the Federal Reserve, and her philosophy is that a little bit of inflation is actually good for an economy. ...
  • Median Household Income Has Fallen For FIVE YE ...
    If the economy is getting better, then why do incomes keep falling?  According to a shocking new report that was just released by the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income (adjusted for inflation) has declined for five years in a row.  This has happened even though the federal government h ...

Desertification

  • Mongolia has now scientifically acknowledged d ...
    Read at : http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/?p=6107 Desertification affects 77% of Mongolian territory By M.ZOLJARGAL The Ministry of Nature, Environment and Green Development (MNEGD) presented the public with Mongolia’s first ever “Desertification Atlas” on September 18. With the atlas, Mongolia has ...
  • Human impacts are always all or part of the de ...
    Read at : http://www.youris.com/Environment/Desertification/Is_Desertification_On_The_Increase.kl Is desertification on the increase? Fighting desertification will require a better understanding of the drivers of this process, with a little help from a new tool to study how dry regions evolve. N ...
  • 13 million trees planted nationwide since the ...
    Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=26789 South Africa To Plant One Million Trees In 2013 Summary & Comment: The government does have a plan for forests and tree planting, spurred on by the forest industry. 15% of S.A.exports are from forestry. Timber … Continue reading ...
  • Global efforts to combat advancing deserts and ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/africa/2013-09/15/c_132722561.htm UN meeting set to renew fight against desertification NAIROBI, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) — Representatives from 194 countries and the European Union are due to begin a biennial meeti ...
  • In the Southern Hemisphere winter is especiall ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – images of the African Drought http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/drought-suffocates-namibian-desert-1.1561109#.UjgNx7wgBn4 Drought suffocates Namibian desert By SAPA Orupembe, Namibia – The police are about the only people left in this village of 400 in the Na ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Left Wing Student Union Activist in Ukraine At ...
    On September 11, another activist of left wing student union “Direct Action” was attacked by a fascist paramilitary group with their faces covered. The attack happened in a public place in the city centre, near the subway station. The activist was not ro ...
  • Greece: Anti-fascist rapper stabbed to death b ...
    13000_229865670502310_812389109_n.jpg Greece: Anti-fascist rapper and metal worker was stabbed to death by 25 neonazis on the night of Tuesday 17 September in the Keratsini area of Piraeus. ...
  • Response by a Syrian anarchist to the First of ...
    Syria.jpg A Syrian anarchist responds to Toward an anarchist policy on Syria by the First of May Anarchist Alliance, largely correcting misconceptions and historical inaccuracies in the document. ...
  • Abahlali baseMjondolo organise march of thousa ...
    red two.jpg This article is from the mainstream press in South Africa. But it gives a good enough account of the large protest (thousands of people) that Abahlali baseMjondolo were able to organise in ...
  • Belarusian anarchist political prisoner Aliaks ...
    He will be under police supervision for 6 months after the release. Aliaksandr Frantskevich, who served his term in correctional colony No. 22 in Ivatsevichy, was released early in the morningof 3rd of September. His mother and activists of opposition or ...

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 + DARPA + “Progressives” = DEE ...
    ALERT!  Tomorrow, the 12th Anniversary of 9-11, my associates and I had long planned on conducting another massive protest of NSA, including a candlelight vigil, on the steps of the Utah State Capital.   There we had made plans to present a formal Petition for Redress of Grievances exactly as ou ...
  • NSA + DARPA + “Progressives” = DEE ...
    ALERT!  Tomorrow, the 12th Anniversary of 9-11, my associates and I had long planned on conducting another massive protest of NSA, including a candlelight vigil, on the steps of the Utah State Capital.   There we had made plans to present a formal Petition for Redress of Grievances exactly as ou ...
  • When Irish Eyes are Smiling
    Don’t mess with the Irish – the PURE BLOOD of Israel – Mr. Obama!! (They are the TRUE ISRAELITES, not the phony KHAZARS whose backsides you have been kissing since 2008). Listen to the auburn-haired, blue-eyed Ms. Clare Daly, in her righteous indignation take a pound of flesh f ...
  • When Irish Eyes are Smiling
    Don’t mess with the Irish – the PURE BLOOD of Israel – Mr. Obama!! (They are the TRUE ISRAELITES, not the phony KHAZARS whose backsides you have been kissing since 2008). Listen to the auburn-haired, blue-eyed Ms. Clare Daly, in her righteous indignation take a pound of flesh f ...
  • The Agenda of “Education” in Ameri ...
    Imagine for a minute that you have critical “insider” information that would allow you to absolutely corner a vital world stock market.  You make your move, and as a result you amass incredible wealth and power.   Over the next century, your sons, cousins, and “elite” blo ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Road to Daegu Series: Energy Growth in the Mid ...
    Our most recent “Road to Daegu” round table discussion took place in Abu Dhabi, where the panel debated energy trends in the Middle East, such as increasing energy demand, consumption, efficiency, renewable sources, oil and gas exports, and training of local personnel.
  • Part 2: The Mad Scientists at the Department o ...
    The National Laboratories have a storied history and presence in the energy innovation space. They have evolved over time to conduct “big science” to address leading national missions and solve complex societal problems, and their work in clean energy is no different.
  • US Nuclear Energy Plant Performance August 2013
    I realize that I may be accused of cherry-picking a particularly good month for US nuclear power plants, but I wanted to share something that helps to explain why I am so darned enthusiastic about nuclear energy’s potential to improve the human condition.
  • Colorado Flooding: How Fantasy Becomes Fact
    The flooding in Colorado has wreaked tremendous devastation, and by one estimate the costs will total about $2 billion. There are still some people remain unaccounted for and it will be many months if not longer before the Front Range recovers.
  • FAQ: What Is This New EPA Carbon Pollution Sta ...
    We have an obligation to protect future generations from the costs and risks of climate change. It's the most pressing environmental challenge of our time. It's already imposing large and growing costs on our country. It's putting our future at risk.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Arab People in War and Peace
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. Arab people appear oppressed, demoralized but instinctively furious at the Western world for not coming to rescue them from the daily civilian bloodbaths, use of chemical weapons in Syria, on-going massacres of the innocents in Egypt and Iraq and progressively moving c ...
  • Occupation Harshness Belies Dead on Arrival Is ...
    by Stephen Lendman So-called peace talks continue. They represent the greatest hoax in modern times. Israel deplores peace. So does Washington. Palestine's represented by longtime Israeli collaborators. Peace in our time won't happen. Pretending otherwise is willful deception. Occupation har ...
  • Lynne Stewart Petitions for Justice
    by Stephen Lendman Numerous previous articles discussed her. She's one of thousands of political prisoners. They languish unjustifiably in America's gulag. They do so out of sight and mind. Lynne's a courageous human rights lawyer. She represented numerous clients authorities wanted convicted ...
  • Israeli Forces Attack EU Diplomats
    by Stephen Lendman Life in Occupied Palestine reflects institutionalized colonization and apartheid. Israel governs extrajudicially. It does so ruthlessly. It's an out-of-control rogue state. It enforces lawless militarized occupation harshness. It spurns international laws, treaties and con ...
  • Russian evidence may point to rebels in chem a ...
    Michael Collins Robert Fisk released some preliminary reporting on questions about who actually fired the chemical weapons missiles in Damascus on August 21. Robert Fisk, The Independent, September 22, 2013 The United Nations report released last week contained speculation on the trajectory ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Interview with Erika Shaker on university affo ...
    Radio Canada International recently interviewed Erika Shaker, Director of CCPA's Education Project, about her recent report, Degrees of Uncertainty: Navigating the changing terrain of university finance. In the interview, Shaker addresses the report findings, who is making decisions about tuitio ...
  • Province increases RentAid, but is it enough?
    In August 2013, the Province of Manitoba introduced changes to its RentAid Program.  Is it enough?
  • Five years of economic recovery have been far ...
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan has written a new blog post on why five years after the global economic crisis, inequality has become an inescapable political and economic issue, in Canada as elsewhere. Find out more about why the economic recovery have been far from equal and why this c ...
  • Participate in our study on alternative media ...
    Are you concerned about climate change? Researchers with Simon Fraser University and the CCPA are looking for people to participate in a study called “Alternative Media and Climate Change.” Participants will be entered into a draw for a chance to win $100 if they choose to participate in a gro ...
  • Is tuition affordable in your province?
    A new report from the CCPA’s Education Project tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and ranks the provinces on affordabil ...

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

  • Nonrenewable Renewables?
    The Energy Experts Reconvene at the WSJ Generally when I find myself having to write a follow-up post to something I wrote, it’s because I obviously didn’t make my points clearly enough. I found this to be the case during a lively Twitter discussion following my latest contribution t ...
  • The Hydrogen Economy Revisited
    Some readers are aware that I am presently in Arizona working on a project. At some point I will write an in-depth article about the things I am working on, but today I want to pull the curtain back just a bit. In a series of articles in 2010, I wrote about methanol’s potential as an alter ...
  • What Happened to Advanced Biofuels? Let Me Explain
    Ask and Ye Shall Receive Last week, The Economist posed the following question: “What happened to biofuels?” The biofuels in question are so-called second generation biofuels that are produced from trees, grasses, algae, — in general, feedstocks that don’t also have a use as food. The appe ...
  • Prepare for the Chinese Energy Juggernaut
    The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently released its International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013). While the EIA doesn’t have a sterling track record for predictions, many organizations make decisions at least partially based on EIA projections. Therefore the organization’s forecasts ...
  • The Carbon Dioxide Problem Worsens
    Introduction This is the 6th and final installment in a series that examines data from the 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 The US is the Gassiest ...

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Police Officer Smashes Car Window After Female ...
    A police officer broke a female student's window after she refused to roll it all the way down. The cop, Timothy Isaacs, ordered Victoria King to her to roll the window down "for his safety" so he can extort her, er, give her a "traffic citation...
  • Making the Victim Pay for the Bullet
    In overtly totalitarian countries, families of condemned state enemies are often required to pay for the bullets used to execute their loved ones. Two recent federal court rulings indicate that a very similar custom has taken root in proto-Soviet Ame...
  • Who Needs an Official State Media When We've G ...
    In a recent Esquire column (*Dianne Feinstein Defines *Journalist,** September 19), Charles Pierce recalled presidential historian George Reedy*s prediction years ago that so-called *shield laws,* which protect reporters against criminal prosecution ...
  • Overcoming Stockholm Syndrome
    In the 1970s, a strange psychological phenomenon was identified: in traumatic abduction situations, a certain percentage of the population is prone to falling in love with their abductors. But if we are living in a societal prison of the mind, then...
  • Why is California Jailing Landscapers? Don't C ...
    California suffers from one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and the state is under court order to release 10,000 inmates, yet state agents are jailing people who manage to find home-improvement work. After placing ads on Craigslist,...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • LibertyGibbert Open Forum
    I’m tied up with work at the moment so don’t have time for an in-depth article; so I’m throwing the floor over to you. A couple of starters: A number of British readers have expressed a bit of envy at … Continue reading →
  • DT Down for Maintenance – Ozboy’s ...
    James Delingpole’s posters are welcome over here till service resumes… Current topics include the recent sacking of Tim Flannery and Drunk Tanks. Or anything else that takes your fancy. I’ll close off this thread after the DT blogs resume operation.
  • The New, Libertarian Conscience Of the Senate
    I said the other week that I agreed with Paul Keating’s famous denunciation of the Senate as “unrepresentative swill”. It’s now looking highly likely that, due to complicated preference deals which few voters understood or were even aware of, six … Continue reading ...
  • Clean Up Australia Day
    Today’s the day. After six years of Labor incompetence and obsession with leadership battles, Machiavellian sub-plots, the best-forgotten Gillard Experiment, and the finale of Rudd Redux, Australians today will finally have their chance to go to the polls and cast … Continue reading ...
  • Unrepresentative Swill
    I said the other day I’d have more to say about Senate voting, and why I believe it has descended into an undemocratic farce. The Australian Senate is an artefact of our history. Our founding fathers in the 1890s, looking … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

  • Lords of Altamont – Save Me (From Myself)
  • R’uh R’oh. OWS Rolling Jubilee got some ‘splai ...
    Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism, who has often defended and praised Occupy Wall Street, slams their Rolling Jubilee project over lack of transparency and an apparent refusal to account for the $617,000 it raised to pay off consumer debt. There has been no news on the Rolling Jubilee site in month ...
  • JPL climatologist on California’s future and water
    JPL Climatologist Bill Patzert has some fascinating observations about water in California. Here’s a few excerpts. Read the whole interview. In Southern California and L.A., the average rainfall is 15 inches a year. That supplies enough water for about 5 million people, but right now there ...
  • Activists in Uganda oppose GMO bananas
    GMO bananas are resistant to diseases decimating banana crops in Uganda, where it is a major food. The real problem with GMO crops is restrictions put on them by the vendor, who require repurchasing the seeds for each planting. Poorer farmers may not be able to afford the seeds. These particular ...
  • JPMorgan to refund $309 million for illegal cr ...
    Does the Obama Administration EVER file criminal charges against the big banks? How many more times will JPMorgan pay fines and avoid criminal indictment? But then Obama and JPM CEO Jamie Dimon go way back. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced today that JPMorgan Chase must refund ...

Just World News

Empty newsfeed.

frogblog

  • Namibia is putting NZ to shame on marine prote ...
    The Namibian Government has decided to impose a moratorium for 18 months on marine phosphate mining while our National Government makes a mockery of our marine protections by considering an application to mine for phosphate in a marine protected area. Foreign owned company Chatham Rise Phosphate ...
  • Toru Fetu Talks The Talk
    Last week the Education Select Committee went to visit the Toru Fetu kindergarten at Cannons Creek in Porirua. The kindergarten is a trilingual centre which supports children and their families in three heritage languages from the Cook Islands, Tokelau and Niue. All these languages are vulnerabl ...
  • Syria: thinking through the disarmament process
    The duopoly that is passing for global governance right now has its positive side.  The two largest militaries in the world, the US and Russia, are seriously coordinating their actions towards a common goal, however specific that might be: the CW disarmament of a UN Member State. In the Framewor ...
  • Next step in the fight against a surveillance ...
    The Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Bill, otherwise known as the TICS bill, is an accompanying bill to the GCSB legislation that passed last month. In a nutshell, this bill forces communications providers to provide ‘lawful intercept’ capabilities so that the GCSB, SIS ...
  • Sharks at Parliament
    Parliament may be better known for its attacks and feeding frenzies than for across-the-floor political cooperation but I was privileged to be part of a group of MPs working together to co-host a documentary premiere at Parliament.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • IC 409: Jesus Smash
    GTA V is the game of the year….period Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson Russell Simmons rewrites history on the the Harriet Tubman Sex Tape Video Hollywood isn’t starving for creativity Passion of the Christ wasn’t a good movie Are there any movies that shouldn’t be remad ...
  • IC 408: The Can’t U Niggas Troll Convention
    Phenom from Where’s My 40 Acres is a guest Why Kriss doesn’t Hookah Kev’s story of the bitter bitch at work The Cult of Rod and why some nigga’s just suck at podcasting Rules for Podcasting #SoftC and their Cunt Convention Just being a shitty person with a shitty characte ...
  • IC 407: Replies Very Selectively
    Phenom making White people uncomfortable at fight parties Twerking being associated with low income black women The dumb bitch who said teachers raping 14 year olds isn’t that bad Kev’s fumble on the goal line Kriss & OkCupid rejection Dave Chappelle’s “melt down&#82 ...
  • IC 406: Ben Affleck & #TheAvengersInitiative
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips is a guest Kriss talking coaching Jury Duty Ben Affleck is Batman The Wolverine Broke Rod People who can’t complain about Ben Affleck as Batman Why Zach Snyder has more pressure than Affleck The problem with movie critics Episode 3 is the best Star Wars Film ...
  • 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 ...

Simple Climate

  • Enhanced fingerprinting strengthens evidence f ...
    Ben Santer from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s use of warming near the Earth’s surface and cooling higher in the atmosphere as evidence of humans’ effect on climate saw critics demand he be fired. Now he’s back with new data showing “natural causes alone are extremely unlikely to expla ...
  • CO2 for oil swap brings carbon capture viabili ...
    Pumping CO2 from coal power stations to free more oil from old fields can stop large amounts of the greenhouse gas entering the air and make money, models from Carey King and colleagues at University of Texas at Austin suggest.
  • Does lower home energy use mean England and Wa ...
    Average household energy consumption in the two countries fell by a quarter between 2005 and 2011 thanks largely to simple personal actions, showing that what we do can impact greenhouse gas emissions and therefore climate change.
  • Bouncing lasers off satellites backs faster Gr ...
    Kosuke Heki from Hokkaido University and Koji Matsuo from Kyoto University in Japan have doubled the duration of gravity based measurements of ice loss from Greenland, providing more evidence that this process is speeding up.
  • Fossil fuels are more than just a bad habit
    While my blog so far this year has shown how clear the case for fighting climate change is, our financial dependence on fossil fuels makes this difficult. But now divestment campaigns might be giving us a way to start untangling this sticky web.

e!Science News

  • Pesticide regulation in California is flawed, ...
    Approximately 30 million pounds of fumigant pesticides are used each year on soil that yields valuable California crops -- strawberries, tomatoes, peppers and the like -- in an attempt to control pests. Responsibility for the safety of pesticides must be evaluated and approved by the California ...
  • Modifying rice crops to resist herbicide promp ...
    Rice containing an overactive gene that makes it resistant to a common herbicide can pass that genetic trait to weedy rice, prompting powerful growth even without a weed-killer to trigger the modification benefit, new research shows. read more
  • Fossil record shows crustaceans vulnerable as ...
    Many ancient crustaceans went extinct following a massive collapse of reefs across the planet, and new University of Florida research suggests modern species living in rapidly declining reef habitats may now be at risk. read more
  • Researchers publish enormous catalog of more t ...
    More than 83,000 volunteer citizen scientists. Over 16 million galaxy classifications. Information on more than 300,000 galaxies. This is what you get when you ask the public for help in learning more about our universe. read more
  • Spinning CDs to clean sewage water
    Audio CDs, all the rage in the '90s, seem increasingly obsolete in a world of MP3 files and iPods, leaving many music lovers with the question of what to do with their extensive compact disk collections. While you could turn your old disks into a work of avant-garde art, researchers in Taiwan ha ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • ‘Pandora’s Promise’ document ...
    For my Australian readers, October 2013 is THE month for green energy. It’s at last time to book your tickets to see Pandora’s Promise! You can get further details at the Cinema Ventures website, here. I’ve been involved with the movie, in various small ways, for the last few y ...
  • Willacy’s Fukushima
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has collections here and here. The following article was sent to ABC’s “Drum” websit ...
  • MIT Climate CoLab update – the result?
    This is an update to this recent BNC post: MIT competition update – 3 days left, votes needed! ———- Guest Post by Ron Gester M.D. The Treasurer of SCGI, Ron is a retired emergency physician and geologist, who is a passionate about solving the climate change problem. Votin ...
  • MIT competition update – 3 days left, vo ...
    Below is an update on the MIT competition that I highlighted in the last BNC post, including a plea for final action. There are only 3 days left to register your support, and in my opinion, this really counts. The winner will get in front of potential implementers at the Crowds & Climate Con ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Is There A Hell?
    I have no idea if there is a hell or not. One thing is for sure though. According to every single thing Jesus taught, if there is a hell, every single Republican that voted to cut food stamps will spend ETERNITY there. I’m just sayyin’…. I just wonder why the folks in our gover ...
  • Solar / Wind Power – Cheaper Than Coal Now
    Yes, it is cheaper to build new solar and wind turbine installations than to even run existing coal plants when all costs are considered. Read this article, and you will see what I mean. Solar And Wind Cheaper Than Coal Article….
  • Dear Chuck Todd: Pointing Out Lies Is Your Job
    If corporate controlled bobbleheads like Chuck Todd actually called liars liars, then then said liars would only be able to tell their lies on Fox News, and Right Wing talk radio. Whenever a “conservative” (puke) mouths a lie on some entity once called “news” the story be ...
  • Republicans Are Fighters
    It’s just that they aren’t fighting for your family. They are fighting for themselves, and the billionaires they work for. I dare anyone to name one thing that Republicans fight for that is better for most Americans than it is for the 1%. I won’t hold my breath.
  • GOP Cuts Food Stamps
    Today’s Republicans will fight to the death to make sure billionaires, who have never paid lower taxes, will not get a tax increase. At the same time they will vote almost to a man (woman) to cut 40 billion from food stamps for people making next to nothing. What is wrong with these people ...

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:

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  • Between violent reprisal and random police bru ...
    M., a resident of the West Bank village of Al-Ma’asara, was attacked by Border Policemen solely for living in a village that actively opposes the occupation. By Yesh Din (written by Yossi Gurvitz) One morning in early August, M., a resident of the West Bank village of Al-Ma’asara, we ...
  • Netanyahu’s lesson from killing of Israe ...
    Just hours after an Israeli soldier was shot to death by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron Sunday, while the body was still warm, Prime Minister Netanyahu declared that settlers should inhabit more and more of the occupied West bank city. As Haaretz reported, Netanyahu said: Anyone who tries to upr ...
  • Between south Hebron, the Jordan Valley and Is ...
    Noam Sheizaf offers some notes on a couple of West Bank incidents from the last few days, and one final thought: 1. Israeli singer Ehud Banai, who was due to perform in the archaeological, Jews-only site of Susya in the south Hebron Hills, cancelled his gig following left-wing protests, then can ...
  • Why we can’t stop having the one- or two ...
    The absence of an honest one- vs. two-state debate prevents progress in the reconciliation between Jews and Palestinians in Israel/Palestine. By Dubi Kanengisser In a recent piece, Noam Sheizaf berated the entire gamut of participants in the debate surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fo ...
  • PHOTOS: ‘Price tag’ vandals hit Ea ...
    Seven Palestinian-owned cars and a wall are damaged in Sheikh Jarrah, settler slogans spray painted. Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem awoke to a suspected “price tag” attack Sunday morning. The vandals slashed the tires of seven Palestinian-owned cars, spray p ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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Matt Weidner Blog

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abelard - news

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Iran says they’ve decoded downed CIA drone
    Iranian officials say they have successfully hacked the Central Intelligence Agency drone that the United States lost possession of nearly two years ago near the city of Kashmar. Hossein Salami, the lieutenant commander general of Iran’s Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, told the ...
  • Washington Navy Yard Shooter Was At The Boston ...
    Can this explain why Alexis had to be eliminated? (Before It’s News) The above picture is that of Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis.  Mr. Alexis killed 12 people and wounded 10 others before police shot and killed him. Compare that picture above with this picture below.  Look in th ...
  • UK Man Wins Court Case Against BBC For 9-11 WT ...
    Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 over 20 minutes before it occurred. WTC 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was no ...
  • 51 UN Countries Vote to Keep Israel’s Nuclear ...
    By 21wire With all of the 24/7 righteous indignation about weapons of mass destruction in Syria and call for ‘compliance with international norms’, the mainstream media barely mentioned this week’s UN vote on whether or not Israel should enter the international community by allowing nuclear weap ...
  • The iPhone’s Fingerprint Sensor Has Alre ...
    John Herrman BuzzFeed Staff A European hacker group has announced a simple, replicable method for spoofing Apple’s TouchID fingerprint authentication system. “A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s sec ...

Veterans Today

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electric politics

  • Purge the Generals
    It's rare for an officer still in uniform to become a whistleblower. LTC Daniel L. Davis earned his bones reporting publicly the results of his investigations into how things are failing in Afghanistan. Now, refocused on a bigger picture, Danny is calling for a purge of high level military brass ...
  • Wrong Turn
    The notion that America can fix politics in the Middle East or anywhere else is laughable. It won't happen through our good example, and especially not through war. Unless, that is, we were prepared to take over the government of Bamboozlestan and occupy the place for several generations, which ...
  • But For The Intercept
    In September 2009, Najibullah Zazi — a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Afghanistan — loaded his car in Aurora, Colorado, drove to New York City, and prepared to blow himself up in the subway system. Trained in Pakistan by al-Qaeda, Zazi had used simple, readily avai ...
  • American “Democracy” In Perspective
    America has many of the vestments of democracy but, in truth, not so much of the substance. Compared to advanced democracies abroad we're in a category by ourselves. What's possibly the most peculiar thing of all is that we're so unaware of how very, very different we are, or why that's the case ...
  • Rising Inequality
    It's becoming the age of the American Banana Republic. We haven't gotten there yet but we're heading straight for it and it's close. We should be ashamed. But parsing the policy that surrounds inequality gets complicated. Tim Noah has thus done a tremendous service by collecting the threads in h ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • CSTO Nations Oppose Western Military Aggressio ...
    Itar-Tass September 23, 2013 CSTO countries unanimously call for peaceful settlement in Syria SOCHI: The member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) called for a peaceful settlement in Syria and opposed possible aggression against that country. “The CSTO member states are ...
  • NATO Intensifies Global Response Force War Games
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe September 23, 2013 NATO Response Force Training, The Road to Steadfast Jazz Story by SHAPE Public Affairs Office Allied Command Operations will conduct a wide variety of dynamic and demanding e ...
  • Wars Not Always Fought On Battlefields: U.S. C ...
    United States European Command September 22, 2013 Cyber injects help transition Combined Endeavor into operational exercise U.S. ARMY GARRISON GRAFENWOEHR, Germany: Wars are not always fought on the battlefield; some occur in places we can’t even see like ‘the network’. For mos ...
  • Iraqi Bloodbath, Other Terrorist Acts Directly ...
    Interfax September 23, 2013 Iraq violence “directly linked” to Syria crisis – Moscow MOSCOW: Russia has claimed that the current escalation of violence in Iraq is “directly linked” to the crisis in neighboring Syria. Russia’s Foreign Ministry made the point in ...
  • Mediterranean: 25 NATO Warships In Strike Forc ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe September 23, 2013 NATO RESPONSE FORCE CONDUCTS MAJOR MARITIME EXERCISE TO STRESS TEST ITS CRISIS REACTION CAPABILITIES Story by: SHAPE Public Affairs Office Brilliant Mariner 2010 A large flee ...

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • Indian TV interview with Delhi U. Professor Sa ...
    Sep 19, 2013 Is GN Saibaba, the wheelchair-bound professor of English in one of the country’s premier university, the new face of Naxalism? The Maharashtra Police raided the home of Delhi University professor Saibaba last week, alleging that he is an active member of the banned CPI-Maoist. ...
  • Indan TV interview with Delhi U. Professor Sai ...
    Sep 19, 2013 Is GN Saibaba, the wheelchair-bound professor of English in one of the country’s premier university, the new face of Naxalism? The Maharashtra Police raided the home of Delhi University professor Saibaba last week, alleging that he is an active member of the banned CPI-Maoist. ...
  • Press Conference Condemning the Attack on Prof ...
    (Press Note circulated in the Press Conference held on the 14th of September in Professor GN Saibaba’s house along with the report on proceedings) On Thursday, 12 September 2013, a 50 strong police contingent drawn from the Maharashtra Police Force, the Delhi Police Special Cell and the Maurice ...
  • Press Conference Condemning the Attack on Prof ...
    (Press Note circulated in the Press Conference held on the 14th of September in Professor GN Saibaba’s house along with the report on proceedings) On Thursday, 12 September 2013, a 50 strong police contingent drawn from the Maharashtra Police Force, the Delhi Police Special Cell and the Maurice ...
  • Arundhati Roy: “GN Saibaba is Being Tar ...
    GN Saibaba is a joint secretary of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) and the convenor of several forums against Operation Greenhunt and the persecution of adivasis and tribal people in Central India. He teaches English at a DU college. by Ushinor Majumdar, Tehelka September 13, 2013 Click ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • When The Shit Hits The Field
    SHTF has been a common name for a global disaster or cataclysm, but the reality is that in many parts of the world it is our own faeces that helps feed us. Check out these snippets from an article in the South China Morning Post: You produce some 500 litres of urine and 50kg of faeces a year. Be ...
  • Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
    Well, it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been compared to the last solar maximum: Source: SpaceWeather Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely be peaking ...
  • Study: Global Warming = Increasing Violence
    I opened this news item with my skeptical hat on, given that there are so many parameters that could be used. However, it looks pretty legit*. Climate change (regardless of what is causing it) means more violence – yet another reason to be a prepper and/or shift away from highly populated ...
  • Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
    Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...
  • New Chambers at Teotihuacan
    What I love about archaeology is that new things are being unearthed all the time. And when you are someone like me who makes crazy declarations that “pyramids are bunkers”, then each time  a new subterranean chamber is opened, it could contain evidence that supports my position. A ...

One News Page

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

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Oriental Review

  • The bonfire of democracy
    One curiosity of the current historical era is that democracy has identified itself with the liberal market.  Democracy will henceforth claim victory – the victory of the successful over the unsuccessful.  And there is nothing wrong with winning – everyone has his chance.  But these triump ...
  • The Ghouta chemical attack: Where are the miss ...
    The UN Report published earlier this week on the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Ghouta area of Damascus on Aug. 21, 2013 has clarified many issues but left the key questions unanswered: who committed the attack and who are the victims? The UN inspection team led by Prof. Ake Sellstrom cl ...
  • American Fair-Play In Syria
    Notorious fair-play, allegedly immanent for the American political and business culture, doesn’t really work  when it comes to practice. Here is the last example. On September 16 the United Nations inspection team submitted a report to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.  The document su ...
  • How Obama lost the first battle for Damascus
    A good propaganda system aims at controlling the public dialogue, and in the marketing of war one technique that has proven very successful in recent years has been to encourage public debate about a proposed war, but to do so within a framework that already assumes the basic dogmas that you are ...
  • Who is Washington’s protégé for Syria?
    Despite the breakthrough agreement on the Syrian peace process reached in Geneva between Russian and American Foreign Ministers, the US administration did not give up its plans to oust President Assad and is still supporting the militants in Syria. Speaking in Paris today after the talks with Fr ...

BlogHer

  • Scrapbooks, Smashbooks, Mixed Media & More - W ...
    I feel like the fact that I scrapbook is my dirty little crafty secret.  Like somehow I am going to lose my street cred if I have ever caught at a crop.  In my sub set of Indie crafters who embrace their needles, hooks and pliers the idea of scrapbooking curls a few pierced noses. &nbs ...
  • I Confess: I'm Prejudiced (And Ashamed of It)
    I was at the grocery store one day and got in line behind a woman I recognized as the mom of a girl in my son’s kindergarten class. She had a pile of produce in front of her, and the cashier was holding a few Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) checks, which I realized are food stamps. The cashier ...
  • "MOM" Is the Show Allison Janney's Been Waitin ...
    I was intrigued by the premise -- Faris plays a newly sober single mother, and Janney is her recovering addict mother -- so I welcomed the chance to watch the duo rehearse some (very funny!) scenes and then talk about this unconventional comedy, which premieres tonight. Last night’s Emmy broadca ...
  • I Am a Yoga-Pants-Wearing Mom
    In the past few months, I've seen several things online dissing yoga pants. Sometimes indirectly, sometimes not. I've read articles in which moms are chastised for wearing yoga pants to the grocery store or playground. "Yoga pants are for wearing to yoga," they say. These tend to be written with ...
  • I Hurt Myself Playing Candy Crush
    I woke up one day last week and couldn’t move my thumb. My left hand throbbed, and the base of my thumb especially felt like it had been crushed in a door. At first I thought I’d slept on it and the pain would subside quickly. But instead of getting better, over hours, then days, the pain got wo ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Five so-called ‘healthy’ snacks to ...
              As the nation’s collective waistline continues to expand, it has become more important than ever to educate yourself as to what sorts of foods truly are and are not healthy for you, despite what their labeling says ... Related posts:How ...
  • 5 reasons to re-think using your microwave
            Microwave defines functionality at its best. You just put the food in it, program the time needed, and in the blink of an eye you have a meal. Microwaves have become a predominant device in many ... Related posts:Why Did Russia Ban The Use Of Microw ...
  • Chronic inflammation juice
          inflammation is the body’s response to an infection or an injury. There are 2 types of inflammation: Chronic and acute. Chronic inflammation tends to be persistent. It has been linked to conditions as serious as asthma, heart disease, ... Related posts:Car ...
  • Whooping cough reaches epidemic level in Texas
            Whooping cough has reached epidemic proportions in Texas with nearly 2,000 cases reported so far this year, including two infants who died, according to health officials. The children were too young to receive the whooping cough ... Related posts:BP ...
  • Is milk good for you?
            Cow’s milk has been consumed for thousands of years, and has been touted as a healthy drink for strong bones and teeth, among many other benefits. Ever since we were kids, most of our parents made ... Related posts:Saturated Fat Tied to Sinking Sper ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • How coal miners die on the job
    On Friday, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration released the report of its investigation into the February death of Glen L. Clutter Jr., 51, of Baxter, who was killed at CONSOL Energy’s Loveridge Mine in Marion County, W.Va.  Here’s the report’s overview section: On F ...
  • Monday roundup, Sept. 23, 2013
    A C.S.X. train loaded with coal winds its way into the mountains in this Nov. 21, 2004 file photo taken near the New River at Cotton Hill in Fayette County, W.Va.  (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) While I was out last week, the big, big news was obviously the announcement — as expected — by t ...
  • Remembering the Jim Walter Mine Disaster
    UMWA miner Ricky Rose, who survived the 2001 disaster, showed me his truck — decorated to honor his fellow miners who were killed — during a visit to Brookwood, Ala., a few years ago. Twelve years ago today, a series of explosions rocked the Jim Walter Resources No. 5 Mine near Brookwood, Ala., ...
  • Friday roundup, Sept. 13, 2013
    The Sufco Mine White Team rescues a trapped miner during the National Coal Mine Rescue Competition at the the Greater Columbus Convention Center on Sept. 11, 2013. Teams are judged by government officials and have 75 minutes to complete a series of rescue tasks throughout the course. (AP Photo / ...
  • What’s next in the Upper Big Branch crim ...
    When U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin stood before the local media Tuesday afternoon for a brief press conference following the sentencing of former Massey official David C. Hughart, the first question was pretty predictable. I didn’t write down the exact wording, but it was something to this e ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Threat Modeling Against Apple’s TouchID
    InfoSec is usually a sliding bar between usability and security. When you gain one, you lose the other. 4-digit pins are more secure than having no passcode, but they’re more annoying to use. And having no passcode at all is maximally simple, but offers no security. TouchID Apple’s T ...
  • Moving to a Magic Mouse and Natural Scrolling
    I’ve tried several times to use an Apple Magic Mouse, with little success. Recently, though, while hanging in an Apple store waiting to camp for the iPhone, I was browsing on the machines within the store using their setups. They of course use magic mice, and they have natural scrolling en ...
  • Apple’s Touchscreens Dramatically Faster Than ...
    When I explain to people why I feel Apple’s mobile experience is superior I often refer to the intangibles that just make it “feel” better somehow. This is one of those “somehows” that just became tangible. The touch screens on Apple devices are just brilliantly res ...
  • Real-world Testing of the iPhone 5s Fingerprin ...
    image from digital trends.com Apple just released its iPhone 5s and one of the main features is the fingerprint reader. Being a security guy I was curious about the tolerance this system has for unexpected finger states, so I decided to test out the fingerprint reader in the following scenarios: ...
  • Remarkable Table Design
    Just stunning.Related Posts:‪Java TrailerCultivating Gratefulness | TEDMagnet Through Copper PipeThis Drummer is Into ItA Guy Talking About LifeA Talk on Parenting You Should SeeOn Failure and SuccessiZON Remote Home MonitoringThe Death Star Was an Inside JobBike Parkour

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • 911... One Hour Before First WTC Tower Was Hit
    A fleet of black SUVs with sirens and lights were seen heading towards Manhattan one hour before the first WTC tower was hit. ~ Video read more
  • Did You Know US Air Force Dropped Live Hydroge ...
    The US Air Force inadvertently dropped an atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961. If a simple safety switch had not prevented the explosive from detonating, millions of lives across the northeast would have been at risk, a new document has revealed. read more
  • The Horrific Secrets of Plum Island... Germs G ...
    Lurking in the dark waters of Long Island Sound is a mysterious place known as Plum Island. Just ten miles off the coast of Connecticut, this tiny speck of land has long been rumored to be the epicenter of top-secret bio-warfare research. ~ Video read more
  • A Dire Warning Issued From The World’s Most Ev ...
    Goldman Sachs is the epitome of the word "evil". If one wants to know what the evil central bankers are up to, one only needs to pay attention to the actions of Goldman Sachs. ~ Dave Hodges read more
  • 1 Million Truck Convoy Coming to Washington DC ...
    The American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a GENERAL STRIKE on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013! Truck drivers will not haul freight!' No commerce on those days. No banking, no shopping, no money transactions. Plan ahead... it ma ...

Tarpley

  • American Banker Wharton Barker’s First-P ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net September 23, 2013 Wharton Barker This account, written by the American banker Wharton Barker and published in The Independent (LVI) of March 24, 1904, recounts Barker’s conversation with Russian Tsar Alexander II, the celebrated Liberator of the serf ...
  • Bonesman Kerry Blackmailing Russia and China t ...
    Vladimir Simonov — NEO (New Eastern Outlook) September 23, 2013 The United States and its Wahhabi allies have switched from financial blackmail to direct aggression against Russia. On this occasion, a mortar bombardment of the Russian Embassy took place in Damascus on the morning of Sunda ...
  • Russian Government Condemns Syria Poison Gas P ...
    Tarpley at DC 9/11 Truth Advancing the Truth Conference on September 14, 2013 Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net September 22, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
  • World Public Opinion Turning Against Kerry-Hag ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio September 21, 2013 [download audio]  
  • Commemorating the Russian Fleets of Autumn 186 ...
    McClendon Group Meeting Who: Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, Ph.D., historian and commentator What: The 150th Anniversary of the Russian Fleets in New York and San Francisco, 1863: How Tsar Alexander II Helped Lincoln Save the Union by Deterring England and France When: Tuesday, September 24, 7 p.m ...

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

  • ‘Home alone’ party ended in death
    A party held at the home of a teenager whose parents weren’t there ran seriously out of control over the weekend after word of it spread on social media. As many as 80 other teenagers showed up at the house in the small Norwegian town of Hokksund, and one of them ended up assaulting anothe ...
  • 13-year-old stabbed on way to school
    A small community in northern Norway was shaken this week after a man in his early 60s stabbed a 13-year-old girl as she walked to school on Monday morning. The school’s principal found the girl bleeding profusely on the steps of Borkenes School in Kvæfjord, Troms County. “I sat with ...
  • Cyclist acquitted of negligent homicide
    A 35-year-old man who admitted he was riding much too fast on a sidewalk in Oslo has been cleared of causing the death of another cyclist with whom he collided last autumn. He did, however, get a 60-day suspended sentence for his recklessness. The case marked the first time that a cyclist had be ...
  • Outgoing ministers descend on UN
    Norway’s left-center, lame-duck government that’s ruled for the past eight years hasn’t let its election defeat earlier this month thin its ranks at the United Nations (UN). No less than five government ministers are attending the opening of the UN’s General Assembly in N ...
  • Looking beyond the destruction
    PHOTO FEATURE: Two years after a bomber attacked Norway’s government complex in Oslo, Norwegians could finally see for themselves how the buildings held up. State officials hosted an unusual “open house” that resulted in a weekend of reflection for many over the events of July ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Backwards Forest Garden
    Walking Backwards into the Forest. Photo by David Ashwanden For a huge number of permaculture enthusiasts, the places where we live are not nearly wild enough. When it comes to paved yards, rigidly laid-out fields and neatly weed-free lawns the reaction can be quite a radical pull in the other ...
  • Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate ...
    Editor’s Note: I want to express my heartfelt thanks to Susan for taking the initiative for this excellent series, and, I’d also like to second Susan’s request for volunteers to continue it! There may also be individuals who would like to start a similar series for other climat ...
  • Marla Spivak: Why Bees Are Disappearing
    Back in 2007, when the words ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’ first hit the media spotlight, I wrote an article that sought to steer through all the reductionist scientific responses — where scientists and the public sought silver bullet solutions by trying to pinpoint a single c ...
  • OrBio – a Cover Crop Strategy for Market Gardens
    A bug’s eye view of the sky, from a stand of cover crop Photo © Craig Mackintosh A recent post by Australian permaculture aid worker, Miles Durand, writing from Lesotho, reminded me to share a method of growing vegetable crops alongside cover crops that I learned when I studied organ ...
  • Soil, not Dirt – Dr Elaine Ingham Talks Soil M ...
    Dr. Elaine Ingham talks about soil fertility and the role of soil microbial life. Dr. Ingham is a world-renowned soil biologist who pioneered many of the currently used biological soil amendment techniques and pioneered the testing of soil microbial life as an indicator of soil and plan ...

Pointman's

  • Armageddon Report No. 5.
    The IPCC is about to issue AR5 or its fifth Assessment Report on global warming, but since these successively more alarming reports always predict a looming end of the world as we know it, I prefer my own interpretation of the acronym. It’s going to be a tough gig for the Cassandras of cli ...
  • Know your ultimate enemy : the dream.
    It’s about having an honest conversation. That’s what I’ve come to think blogging is. Yes, you can muck around showing how slick or amusing you are but unless you’re genuinely trying to talk to one or two other human beings out there, who perhaps may only exist in your mi ...
  • Know your ultimate enemy : the dream.
    It’s about having an honest conversation. That’s what I’ve come to think blogging is. Yes, you can muck around showing how slick or amusing you are but unless you’re genuinely trying to talk to one or two other human beings out there, who perhaps may only exist in your mi ...
  • Phlogiston and Global Warming.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— Gracious acceptance of criticism is not a common human trait.  In most scientists it provokes irritation, denial and antagonism.  Among what their admirers call the top climate scientists, dissent seems to provoke ...
  • Know your enemy : Kamikaze politicians, enviro ...
    Before the final and to my mind the most important article in this series, I thought I’d roll up the remaining parties into one piece, since most of them I’ve already covered in some depth in other articles, the appropriate links to which you’ll find at the bottom of this page. ...

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

  • Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Ye ...
  • 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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Western anti-Syrian propaganda analysed and ex ...
    Today's show focuses once again on Syria. We analyse and highlight the issues in the Syrian crisis and remark upon the inability or unwillingness of corporate media to give any credence to the possibility that the chemical weapons attacks in Syria were false flag provocations designed specifical ...
  • Scott Bartle on the dirty little secret about ...
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Scott Bartle, author of "Frequently Unanswered Questions of the Australian Government". Scott claims that the "Australian Government" is now in receivership, having defaulted on repayments of bank loans which are ultimately underwritten by the US Fed ...
  • Updates on Syria, the Australian election and ...
    Today's show largely focuses on Syria and we bring you 2 interviews during the course of the show. In the first hour I am joined by John Bursill who outlines his view about Syria and then gives us a breakdown of his view of the Australian political spectrum. This show was recorded before the 2 ...
  • Narcissism and the New World Order - Part 1
    Foreign Minister Bob Carr says that there is a flaw in international law, and the US should be able to bomb Syria without UN approval In today's show we delve into the psychological underpinnings of the new tyranny. We propose the idea that modern society is afflicted with an epidemic of narci ...
  • Susan Lindauer on whistleblowers, Iraq and 9/1 ...
    In the 2nd hour of today's show I'm honoured to introduce Susan Lindauer, a former CIA asset and back channel negotiator who tried in vain to avert the 2003 Iraq war and was incarcerated under the Patriot Act on spurious charges which were later dropped. Susan is a passionate anti-war activist ...

Beacon

  • Sheryl Crow Editorial Calls for an Airgun-free ...
    The government estimates that seismic airguns will injure at least 138,500 dolphins and whales. (Photo: Mike Legend)  Oceana’s efforts to fight seismic airgun use in the Atlantic are off to a strong start. Right now our activists are conducting forums in nine different states t ...
  • Creature Feature: Magnificent Frigatebird
    Yes, that’s a bird, and yes, it’s supposed to look like that. (Photo: Mark Vance) Magnificent frigatebirds aren’t the beauty queens of the bird world, but they do get points for bold style. These seabirds have a seven foot wingspan and an inflatable, bright-red throat sac under their bills th ...
  • The Amazing Disappearing Octopus
    Now you see me, now you don’t. (Photo: Snailgenie)  This amazing video has been making the rounds on the internet for a while, be we still couldn’t resist sharing it with you! You may know that an octopus can change the color of its skin to blend in with its surroundings. But d ...
  • Fleet of Gliding Robots Collect Ocean Data
    A slocum glider, with its wings, is prepped before deployment. (Photo: Christena MacDonald, OTN/MEOPAR) It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s an ocean-going robot! Scientists from the United States and Canada are teaming up to launch up to 14 ocean-monitoring robotic gliders. These gliders are coll ...
  • Hong Kong Bans Shark Fin Soup at Government Fu ...
    Dried shark fins are the key ingredient in shark fin soup. (Photo: Choo Yut Shing)  We have some encouraging news for you out of Hong Kong – the government of Hong Kong announced that it will no longer serve shark fin soup at government functions, and that it will encourage government-fu ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • What’s the real cost for Regina’s wastewater P3?
    Regina is engaged in a controversial debate about a proposed public private partnership (P3) for the city’s wastewater plant. Residents formed a Regina Water Watch group to keep the facility public.  They collected enough names to take the issue to a municipal referendum on September 25th, despi ...
  • Trickle-down would work if it weren’t for the ...
    This piece was first published in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. Five years after a global economic crisis unleashed chaos on markets everywhere, income inequality has become an inescapable political and economic issue, in Canada as elsewhere. That’s because of mounting evidence that th ...
  • Pipeline vs. Rail: a red herring
    Ever since the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, there’s a question which constantly comes up with regards to oil transportation. Are we better off transporting oil by rail or using pipelines? That’s in fact a red herring. All the projected pipelines announced by the Canadian oil industry would be insuffici ...
  • Jeopardy, Jackpot, or Wheel of (Mis)Fortune?
    It seems all that fuss being kicked up about tuition fees rising faster than inflation, significant levels of student debt, dismal employment prospects for young people, and parents having to postpone retirement to help shoulder some of the burden under which their kids are struggling has not go ...
  • Student job market is tighter than a pair of s ...
    For most university students across Canada, this week marks the end of summer and the first full week of fall classes. As CCPA noted on Wednesday, most students celebrated ‘back-to-school’ with tuition increases and higher student debt. However, new data from Statistics Canada suggests that stud ...

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

  • Black Market for Water Expands in Delhi
    “On a recent afternoon, as an intense stench rose from a carcass dump, a group of women pushed, shoved, and threw expletives at each other outside a temple in Sangam Vihar on the southern edge of Delhi. The women, carrying a few plastic buckets and empty jerry cans, were fighting to get a ...
  • Amid Drought, Explaining Colorado’s Extreme Floods
      “U.S. President Barack Obama declared an emergency for Boulder, Larimer, and El Paso Counties on Friday and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has deployed four rescue teams to the area, the most ever in the state. Just as troubling as all the damage, Udall says, is that ...
  • Golf a major drain on Coachella Valley water s ...
    “With a total of 124 golf courses, the Coachella Valley has one of the largest concentrations of courses in the nation. The lush fairways set against backdrops of ocher brown mountains have helped make the valley a mecca for the sport. And for half a century, golf has driven the desert’s r ...
  • Fukushima radiation readings spike to highest ...
    Radiation readings around tanks holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have spiked by more than a fifth to their highest levels, Japan’s nuclear regulator said Wednesday, heightening concerns about the cleanup of the worst atomic disaster in almost three ...
  • Massive Aquifer Discovered in Kenya holds 70 Y ...
    “A newly-discovered aquifer in Kenya’s arid Turkana region contains enough water to meet the nation’s needs for the next 70 years. The discovery of the Lotikipi Basin Aquifer was officially announced Wednesday at an international water security meeting of the UN Educational, Sc ...

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

  • they got the memo … they don’t giv ...
    …they got the memo … they don’t give a damn… House GOP Didn’t Get Pope’s Memo On Poor Before Slashing Food Stamps By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet GOP war on poor now seen in new and harsher light. READ MORE» Filed under: Blogroll
  • remain in the safety of their D C bunker
    …would Senator Graham and Senator McCain want to stand front and center and actually lead American boys into the a Syrian “killing field” or do they choose to remain in the safety of their D C bunker…? Sen. Lindsey Graham to seek authorization for U.S. attack on Iran 09-20-2013  •  Was ...
  • suggests that young Americans are not willing ...
    …. suggests that young Americans are not willing to submit to blind belief in anything … not such bad or wrong idea … has great potential… One-Third of Americans Under 30 Have No Religion — How Will That Change the Country? Americans are abandoning religion in droves …  In the t ...
  • Read … watch and determine for yourself& ...
    …Read … watch and determine for yourself… Are GMOs Safe? Let’s Look at the Facts 09-19-2013  •  Our Wellness Revolution   … Read Full Story  …             WATCH VIDEO HERE … http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rN0NQX ...
  • do you really have to ask this question…?
    …read any book … watch any movie … do you really have to ask this question…? Why Does American Culture Glamorize Getting Dangerously Wasted on Booze, While Vilifying Pot? Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, Mason Tvert, Chelsea Green Publishing Alcohol is far more dangerous than pot. READ MORE» Filed und ...

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 )

  • President's pledge to ban commercial fishing a ...
    In 2010 President Anote Tong of Kiribati made a historic pledge, committing to protect the waters around his island nation in a massive marine protected area. He said the gesture represented Kiribati’s contribution to protecting the environment and he urged industrial countries to do the s ...
  • Attempt to export nearly-extinct pygmy sloths ...
    Last Monday, the police officer on morning duty at Isla Colón International Airport, Panama noticed some foreigners loading crates with what appeared to be animals on a private jet. Finding this suspicious, he alerted his supervisor. Within minutes the local police chief, the mayor of Bocas ...
  • Butchering nature's titans: without the elepha ...
    Africa's elephant poaching crisis doesn't just threaten a species, but imperils one of humanity's most important links to the natural world and even our collective sanity, according to acclaimed photographers and film-makers, Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson. Authors of the book Walking Thunder ...
  • Climate change could kill off Andean cloud for ...
    One of the richest ecosystems on the planet may not survive a hotter climate without human help, according to a sobering new paper in the open source journal PLoS ONE. Although little-studied compared to lowland rainforests, the cloud forests of the Andes are known to harbor explosions of life, ...
  • A year after devastating attack, security retu ...
    On June 24th of last year, MaiMai Simba rebels, led by an elephant poacher known as Morgan, launched a devastating attack on the headquarters of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Epulu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The attack, which was reportedly in response to a crack down on poaching and i ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Family anger at acid spill
    A boy, injured when acid splashed in his eye during a science class, will need up to a year to recover.The entire surface of Ryan Edward's left eye was burned in the chemistry class accident at Glendowie College three weeks ago.He...
  • Whale of an achievement
    For tourists on the Hauraki Gulf whale and dolphin-watching cruises, an added thrill often comes after a whale encounter, when one of the crew heads for the back of the boat, grabs a fine mesh net and scoops up a load of whale poo."You...
  • Wildlife heroes honoured
    In an emotion-charged ceremony, Rochelle Constantine was one of three inaugural recipients of the Holdaway Awards at the Hauraki Gulf Forum's annual seminar this month. Other conservationists presented with tokotoko (carved walking...
  • Earth's heat could push humans to take refuge ...
    Life on Earth will continue for at least another 1.75 billion years ... but human life could die out long before.Astrobiologists predict our planet will move out of the solar system's "habitable zone" and become too hot for even...
  • Michael Parker: Jurassic Park no closer to reality
    On the same day that the latest instalment of the Jurassic Park film series has been confirmed, a study published in the journal PLOS One has detailed experiments that seem to demonstrate once and for all that dinosaurs will never...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt’s learnings from three d ...
    From Michael Schmidt, raw milk advocate, farmer, and accused sheep-napper: Day one, two, three in court from my perspective Our court proceedings are becoming a family gathering of determined CFIA prosecutors and accused sheep-nappers Here are the main players: Mr. … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt and Montana Jones in “Le ...
    Montana Jones shares her perspective on three days of court hearings last week: The government wants Michael Schmidt and I to please pick a different lawyer. I’m not surprised. They say it’s due to a potential conflict of interest in … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt and Montana Jones in “Le ...
    Montana Jones reports on three days of court hearings last week: The government wants Michael Schmidt and I to please pick a different lawyer. I’m not surprised. They say it’s due to a potential conflict of interest in the pending … Continue reading →
  • The State of Raw Milk in Illinois
    From the Midlife Farm Wife blog: “Last week , September 10, our group of pro-raw milk individuals, made up of farmers and consumers, met again with representatives from the Illinois Department of Public Health.  It was our 4th mtg with … Continue reading →
  • The State of Raw Milk in Illinois
    From the Midlife Farm Wife blog: “Last week , September 10, our group of pro-raw milk individuals, made up of farmers and consumers, met again with representatives from the Illinois Department of Public Health.  It was our 4th mtg with … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Reader Question: "How Can One Calculate True P ...
    Reader Mel writes ... Hello Mish I really enjoy your blog.  You provide a very interesting viewpoint.  One question:  I have seen an analysis based on the old Sears catalogs of 30-50 years that shows how much more an average income can buy today versus 30-50 years ago ...
  • Illusion of Prosperity: Deflating the American ...
    In The Morning After; Price Discovery is Zero; PUT on the Bond Market? Is Inflation Really Under 2%? I posted a chart with a caption of "wages" buy the corresponding chart showed "income". The post is now fixed, but newer data has come in, and Doug Short at Advisor Perspectives has updated ...
  • Europe Hooked on Easy Money Too: ECB President ...
    ECB president Mario Draghi is in on the no-normalization act along with the Fed. Of course, a mere reduction in asset purchases by the Fed from $85 billion a month to $75 billion is not even a baby step towards normalization. Anyway, it's liquidity full throttle in the Eurozone as well beca ...
  • Reflections on Conspiracy Theories and Sensibl ...
    I received several emails regarding my post on Risk-Free Banking and Fractional Reserve Lending that I would like to share. Reader Alice who travels the world at a ripe young age of 89, says ... Hello Mish It is wise always for professionals to stand aside from conspiracy theories ...
  • May Be a "Grand Coalition" Nightmare After All
    As votes near final counting, CDU/CSU may be 1-3 seats short of an out majority. The projections posted earlier may be incorrect. For example Haartez and PressTV had stories proclaiming an outright majority for CDU/CSU. From Haartez German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
    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 ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- Anarcho-Detroit: In ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Karen DeCoster On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by writer, CPA, and creator of the blog “Detroit: From Rust to Riches,” Karen DeCoster. Guillermo and Karen discuss the economics of the city of Detroit, what led to its bankrup ...
  • The New Great Game Round Up- September 22, 2013
    Syrian Terror Threatens Eurasian Balkans, The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan in Great Demand & Much More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and p ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Robben Ford & The Blue Line – “You Cut Me To The Bone” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick features American blues, jazz and rock guitarist Robben Ford & The Blue Line performing You Cut Me to the Bone. Ford is one of the premier electric guitarists today, known ...
  • Decide With Your Own Eyes: The Videos of the C ...
    Evidence Contradicts the Assertions of the Obama Administration & the entire US Intelligence Community A detailed independent report by Mother Agnes Mariam, a Greek Melkite Catholic nun that is the mother superior of the St. James Monastery in Qarah, and the International Support Team for Mu ...

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

  • Norsafe Reclaims World Record for Tallest Free ...
    Norsafe, a leading supplier of marine safety equipment, is happy to announce that it has reclaimed the world record for highest freefall lifeboat drop... and it is HIGH!
  • Oracle Team USA Continues Winning Streak Again ...
    Oracle Team USA continued their winning streak this afternoon after sailing a race that Kiwi opponent Dean Barker described as “flawless” in a post-race interview. The conditions were fairly light [...]
  • Princess Cruises Confirms Power Outage on New ...
    Carnival Corporation's Princess Cruises has confirmed that a power outage on board its newest Royal Princess cruise ship has forced the cancellation of at least the remainder of the ship's current voyage so that repairs can be made.
  • Shipping Lenders Toughen Oversight After Worst ...
    Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) — Shipping lenders are tightening rules on who their clients can trade with after the industry’s worst rout in at least 23 years. Banks are threatening to [...]
  • Royal Caribbean Cuts Steel on Third Oasis-Clas ...
    Royal Caribbean International has cut the ceremonial first piece of steel for its third Oasis-class ship at the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, marking the official kickoff of construction for what will be the world's largest cruise ship.

Press TV

  • Americans pay subsidies to big business
    $6,000. That's over and above our payments to the big companies for energy and food and housing and health care and all our tech devices. It's $6,000 that no family would have to pay if we truly lived in a competitive but well-regulated free-market economy.
  • ‘Russia won’t surrender to US on Syria’
    A US political commentator says Russia will never agree with US military intervention in Syria which he believes is a tactic to take the spotlight off its crumbling economy.
  • Iran Army to hold massive drill in October
    A high-ranking military commander says the Iranian Army's Ground and Air Forces will conduct a massive exercise in the southeastern part of the country in mid-November 2013.
  • Israeli experts in Kenya to end siege
    A team of Israeli experts has arrived in Kenya to help its close African ally end the three-day standoff with Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters at a partly Tel Aviv-owned shopping mall in Nairobi.
  • ‘Gunmen kill 10 in northern Mexico’
    Ten people have been shot to death when assailants armed with assault rifles opened fire on a house in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, officials say.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Where are you from?
    Piper Anderson is a 2011 graduate of the CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre program. She is currently the Director of Education & Artist Development at Young Audiences New York. She is also a performance artist, writer, educator, and life coach. Below is her reflection on the question “Where a ...
  • September 17 is Constitution Day
    In 2004, Senator Robert Byrd [D-WV] introduced legislation that lead to the passage of a bill establishing Constitution Day. Here are five fun facts about the Constitution of the United States that you might not know: Thomas Jefferson didn’t have a chance to place his “John Hancock” ...
  • From The Classroom to The School Bus
    The following was submitted by Brandon M. Chiwaya (Murphy Institute ’13):   After graduating from SPS in June, I reached out to Tanya Fields for a bit of career advice. Tanya (who you may remember from my last blog post was the commencement speaker at the spring 2013 SPS graduation ceremon ...
  • An Evening With the Bus
  • Viewing Videos in Blackboard and Digication Us ...
    Now that the fall semester has begun, some students have reported issues accessing content in their Blackboard course site and have reached out to the Help Desk to ask which browser is best for use with Blackboard. Firefox is SPS’s preferred browser; however, the most recent release of Fir ...

Dissident Voice

  • Protesters Demand Transparency for the Trans-P ...
    Washington, DC – This afternoon, September 23rd, protesters concerned about the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) covered the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative with banners calling for a democratic process and a release of the treaty’s text. The group, which included members of Flush ...
  • A Postal Savings Bank
    The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is the nation’s second largest civilian employer after WalMart. Although successfully self-funded throughout its long history, it is currently struggling to stay afloat. This is not, as sometimes asserted, because it has been made obsolete by the Internet. In fact, ...
  • Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Ye ...
    While Colorado and Washington have de-criminalized recreational use of marijuana and twenty states allow use for medical purposes, a Louisiana man was sentenced to twenty years in prison in New Orleans criminal court for possessing 15 grams, .529 of an ounce, of marijuana. Corey Ladd, 27, had pr ...
  • Mad, Mad, Mad World of At-Will Work — Te ...
    Let’s call this adjunct worker looking for work, Chip. You know him or her – chip off the old block. He or she is looking for work, err, well, it’s a calling, teaching, and no one ever said you should get paid for a calling. A passion? “You pay, dude, like a hobby. Remote control [&# ...
  • SIM Card Corruption in Burma Stalls Progress
    In 2008 when I arrived in Yangon there was barely a usable internet unless one made a trip to an expensive hotel and sat for hours using what Americans once called hi-speed dial-up. For telephone communications one had to use a landline and then, most likely, the call was difficult to connect or ...

Nick Turse

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Newswise

  • Protecting Specific Area of the Brain During R ...
    Protecting the stem cells that reside in and around the hippocampus - a C-shaped area in the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain associated with the ability to form and store memories - substantially reduces the rate of cancer patients' memory loss during whole-brain radiotherapy without a ...
  • Drug is Found to Eradicate HIV Permanently fro ...
    The anti-fungal drug Ciclopirox causes HIV-infected cells to commit suicide by jamming up the cells' powerhouse, the mitochondria, according to a study by researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. And unlike current anti-HIV drugs, Ciclopirox completely eradicates infectious HIV from cel ...
  • Reassuring Findings for Mothers Who Have Flu S ...
    Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Boston University, in collaboration with the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), have found evidence of the H1N1 influenza vaccine's safety during pregnancy.
  • Woman Finds Relief from Pelvic Pain after Near ...
    Anne Mosley developed intense pelvic pain while she was pregnant with her youngest child 17 years ago. The pain was caused by a grape-sized pocket of fluid on her urethra, which became infected.
  • Medicare Expenses for Patients with Heart Atta ...
    Medicare expenses for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack) increased substantially between 1998 and 2008, with much of the increase coming in expenses 31 days or more after the patient was hospitalized, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Net ...

Metanoia

Jae's News

  • It's the Austerity, Stupid: How We Were Sold A ...
    Austerity is working out fine for the 1 percent: Their jobs are safe, their investments are growing, and their taxes are low. But the rest of us are paying a high price in the form of slow growth, high unemployment, and stagnant wages for years to come. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics &amp ...
  • Report: American-supplied arms fell into al Qa ...
    And this is to no one's surprise, of course this was part of the CIA's overall strategy to destabilize Assad...where else would the weapons go? Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • U.S. backs brutal Egyptian military regime
    Armed to the teeth by the U.S., the Egyptian military regime under General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is brutally attacking not only the Muslim Brotherhood, but also a wide range of progressive groups and individuals, including striking workers, journalists,etc Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics &am ...
  • Who Should Run the Fed? Yellen, Kohn, or The P ...
    The fight over who will succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve rolls on, getting bigger and more tangled as it goes. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cornel West rips GOP: Vote to cut food stamps ...
    Civil rights activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West laid out the case for the countrys continued income disparity to conservative pundit William Kristol on CNNs Crossfire Monday night. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...
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