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Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs among N ...
    The Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs are sitting atop the Eastern Conference — and are also the most talked about National Hockey League teams on Facebook right now, according to PageData. While the Chicago...
  • How business owners can start a Facebook page ...
    Chances are you’ve been on Facebook for years as a “profile.” You keep track of your kids, friends, kids’ friends, and you get it. Facebook is awesome for connecting. Then you try it for your business...
  • Facebook acquires mobile data startup Onavo, b ...
    Mark Zuckerberg’s goal to make the world more open and connected got a bit of a boost when Facebook on Sunday acquired Onavo, a mobile application data startup based in Tel Aviv, Israel and Palo Alto,...
  • How well do B2B emails match to Facebook?
    B2B marketers using Facebook’s custom audiences to match their email lists to Facebook often report a 20 to 30 percent average match rate. B2C companies typically report 70 to 80 percent, which says most of their...
  • Facebook platform industry hires: Offerpop
    Offerpop, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer in apps, recently announced a round of talented new hires. Offerpop’s latest hires came from Salesforce, as well as EchoLocation and Baron Jon Uxbridge. Here’s the roundup of new employees:...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Losing faith: Global financiers look to de-Ame ...
    A US debt default could hit on Thursday, and world leaders are second guessing the dominant role America plays in finance. Regardless of the final decision in Washington, confidence and credibility in the US has already eroded. The country that has long provided a sturdy backbone to the global e ...
  • In Shutdown and Debt Ceiling Showdown, GOPers ...
    The party's recent excursion into the government shutdown/debt ceiling quagmire shows that few members of its national wing absorbed the lessons the party's coroners had assembled. The GOP's morgue brigade asserted that the party's "messaging," was hurting it.
  • If Hitler Didn't Exist the Pentagon Would Have ...
    Without Hitler, the U.S. military would collapse.
  • Too Stupid To Live
    The aim of the Elite is to use the dumbasses to bring the country to the brink and then use the ensuing panic to strip away the social safety nets in a Grand Bargain where heads they win -- tails we lose. And the dumbasses are going to lose, as Dick Cheney would say, Big Time. For next year's Da ...
  • The Tea Party and the New York Times Shut Down ...
    The reason that many people might be sympathetic to shutting down the govPolls consistently show that people grossly overestimate the amount of money going to many less popular categories of spending. This is where the New York Times comes into the picture.

Switchboard

  • California's Clean Energy Leadership
    Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA A newspaper article published today challenges some of California's clean energy investments and indicates some confusion about who is administering most of the energy-saving and renewabl ...
  • Alaskan GOP pols complain again about their sh ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC "Deadliest Catch" gets caught in shutdown and a big oil spill goes unreported for a week in Day 14 of the GOP shutdown. “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue In two-oh-one-three, we got ...
  • Going Gladiator on Asian Carp in the Illinois ...
    Josh Mogerman, Deputy Director, National Media, Chicago Well, at least somebody’s profiting from the Asian carp advance on the Illinois River... Back in 2011 I was blown away by videos of the Peoria Carp Hunters taking on&n ...
  • Food safety inspections fade and Antarctic res ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC “I knew you were trouble when you walked in Trouble, trouble, trouble I knew you were trouble when you walked in Trouble, trouble, trouble”  -- “I Knew You Were Trouble&rdq ...
  • Science takes a hit in Day 13 of the GOP's gov ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC  “I'm gettin' sick and tired of the same ole bull” “Fool About You”—Hank Williams Republicans keep saying they really didn’t want to shut the government ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Healthy Edge - The Dalai Lama to Discuss ' ...
    At his exile home in India, the Dalai Lama of Tibet this month will pick University of Michigan researcher Kent Berridge's brain about cravings. Berridge, the James Olds Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, says he's honored to discuss his findings on how the brain's large "wanti ...
  • America and Iran - Art Forgery Complicates U.S ...
    When Iran's President Hassan Rohani came home from his charm offensive in New York last month, he arrived bearing a "special gift" from the United States. But any resulting goodwill may be short-lived, with art experts now saying the 2,700-year-old Persian artifact that was returned to the Irani ...
  • Iran's Nules - Trust but Verify Iran's Current ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to reassure the Israeli people that his positions regarding Iran’s nuclear program have not changed. He told an audience at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University that the international community should tighten rather than relax economic s ...
  • Iran's Nukes - Possible Hope and Change for Ir ...
    Negotiators from Iran and six world powers are holding fresh talks in the long-running standoff over the country's nuclear program.The meetings on October 14-15 in Geneva come amid what European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called "cautious optimism". These talks are the first sin ...
  • Mexico on Edge - Indigenous Peoples of Mexico ...
    Tens of thousands of indigenous protestors and their allies in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas took to the streets on Saturday, October 12. While the date is officially called Dia de La Raza and celebrated as the Latin American equivalent of the Columbus Day holiday in the United States, i ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • So Far The State of Alaska Has ZERO Obamacare ...
    The State of Alaska: 663,300 square miles, human population (in 2012) 731,449 and zero total Obamacare signups, that's bupkus, nada, less than one! According to the Anchorage Daily News, in the two weeks since ObamaCare went live, not a single individual in the entire state of Alaska has ...
  • Brett Kimberlin Could Sue Me Next, Heck He Cou ...
    Brett Kimberlin has filed a $1 million lawsuit against five bloggers, falsely accusing them of harassment, defamation and conspiracy. Their offense-telling the truth.If he can stop citizen-journalists from telling the truth about him, the intimidation factor will endanger First Amendment r ...
  • Newsbusted: Democrats Accuse GOP of Not Wantin ...
    It was supposed to be a grand plan from the mind of First Lady Michelle Obama, "Let's Move" postage stamps showing children exercising. Unfortunately the stamps had to be recalled because of the stamps showed the kids doing dangerous activities such as skateboarding without a helmet or knee pads ...
  • Russian Doctor: Arafat's Tissue Had NO Polonium
    Almost a year ago, at the end of November 2012, the Palestinians dug up their former tyrant the terrorist Yasser Arafat's body to see if he died from Polonium poisoning. Earlier today Russian News service Interfax earlier quoted FMBA (Russia's Federal Medical-Biological Agency) head Vladimi ...
  • Leon Panetta Blasts Obama's Lack of Leadership ...
    Et. Tu Leon? Under Barack Obama he Leon Panetta was director of the Central Intelligence Agency and secretary of defense — the last two under President Obama, but he has been part of beltway politics since 1966 when he was a staffer to Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel the minority ...

Wind Watch

  • Sustainable Shetland claims victory
    Campaign group Sustainable Shetland is claiming a major victory against the Scottish government today, after a judge at the Court of Session in Edinburgh indicated that the decision to grant consent to the Viking Energy windfarm would be quashed. According to a statement released by the group th ...
  • Couple win wind turbine ruling
    A windfarm has been ordered to demolish ten turbines and pay compensation and fines after it was successfully sued by a couple. Speaking to Le Figaro newspaper, the couple’s lawyer, Philippe Bodereau, said: “This decision is very important because it demonstrates to all those who put up wi ...
  • Windmill farm seeks permit to kill eagles
    A large wind farm in Solano County would be the first renewable energy project in the nation to be issued a permit to kill eagles under a plan released Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposal, outlined in a draft environmental report, is to issue a golden eagle take permit t ...
  • Wind turbine burns up near Lahr — Fire Departm ...
    Ein Feuer hat eine der drei Windräder auf dem Areal Schlossbühl/Kempfenbühl oberhalb des Langenhard vollständig zerstört. Der Schaden beläuft sich nach ersten Erkenntnissen auf ein bis zwei Millionen Euro, hat Arno Markowsky, Geschäftsführer der Freiburger Ökostromgruppe bekannt gegeben. Um 12.3 ...
  • New Era Wind abandons area project
    “New Era no longer intends to develop a wind energy project in Goodhue County, and respectfully requests that the commission close all four dockets and all pending matters related thereto,” Peter Mastic, chief manager for the New Era Wind Farm LLC, stated in a letter to the Minnesota Public Util ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Aggregation and curation in journalism
    About two months ago, I had to explain the concept and use of aggregation in online journalism to a group of journalists (mostly editors) in Vietnam. I found most of my material in this blog post by Steve Buttry — and in fact, much of what you need to know is in his headline: Link, attribu ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use Hoo ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: I ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...

Facing South

  • NC lawmakers earn record low grades on the env ...
    Image Caption:  There is growing partisan polarization on the environment in North Carolina. (Graph is from NCLCV's 2013 legislative scorecard.) Environmental advocates call North Carolina's 2013 legislative session one o ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: More pain for the poor in gov ...
    Image Caption:  The program that provides nutritional support to poor women with young children is among those imperiled by the ongoing federal government shutdown. With the federal government shutdown approaching its second w ...
  • Nissan is violating international labor standa ...
    Image Caption:  Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn at the India Economic Summit in 2009. (Photograph by Matthew Jordaan.) Nissan is violating standards it pledged to uphold by engaging in "a longstanding, aggressive campaign of interfere ...
  • Voter purging in Florida and Virginia leads to ...
    Image Caption:  Will Florida and Virginia strike eligible citizens from their voting rolls? (Photo by Florida New Majority.) With elections fast approaching, officials in Florida and Virginia are hard at work striking names fr ...
  • NC local elections find students fired up to f ...
    Image Caption:  Students at historically black St. Augustine's University in Raleigh, N.C. marched en masse to the polls this week, showing a spirit of resistance to ongoing efforts to curb voting rights in the state. (Still from Common Ca ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.

Telegraph UK - oil

  • Workers at Grangemouth oil refinery to strike ...
    WORKERS at the Grangemouth oil refinery and petrochemical plant are to hold a 48-hour strike that could hit fuel supplies throughout Scotland and the north of England.     
  • Alex Salmond accused of dishonesty over oil fund
    Alex Salmond has faced Labour accusations of dishonesty after it emerged he was privately warned his flagship plan for an oil fund would require a separate Scotland to cut spending or increase taxes.     
  • Independent Scotland's finances 'would depend ...
    An independent Scotland's finances would be at the mercy of the cartel of the world's major oil producing nations, opposition parties have said after its leader warned against separation.     
  • Opec head blow to Salmond: Scotland should sta ...
    Alex Salmond's hope of making an independent Scotland an economically self-sufficient nation from the North Sea were dealt a serious blow on Sunday night by the head of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec).     
  • Jude Law protests against Russian piracy charg ...
    The Hollywood star was joined by musician Damon Albarn and fellow thespians Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter outside the Russian Embassy in London to demonstrate against piracy charges faced by Greenpeace activists protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic circle.     

Ian Welsh

  • If there is a default it is because both Obama ...
    I don’t know if there’ll be a debt default.  What I do know is this: if Obama doesn’t want to default he has options. Forget the platinum coin nonsense (though he could if he wanted), Obama can just tell the Treasury to keep on keeping on, and continue selling treasuries.  Ther ...
  • Why The Republicans Shut The Government Down a ...
    HBR has an article by Justin Fox on the government shutdown in Washington in game theory terms.  It’s good as far as it goes, but it amounts to this: It works, they get some of what they want People keep doing what works. Let’s add some more specifics. The article mentions that the f ...
  • (CORRECTED) If the Republican Bill were to Pass…
    Correction: I misread the bill, while the part about the individual mandate is correct, legislators were already going to be forced into the exchanges.  What the bill does is cut staffer subsidies, and most of those staffers are poor.  That’s not something I can support.   legislators ...
  • The Individual Mandate and the Government Shutdown
    Let’s get specific.  The House spending bill linked continued funding to a one year delay of the individual mandate—the requirement that everyone buy insurance.  This is not the same thing as delaying Obamacare, everyone who wanted a policy could still buy one.  While there are subsidies f ...
  • Destroying the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia ...
    Look, years ago, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) destroyed the warlords who ran Somalia’s capital.  These warlords, to give some context, would drag teenaged girls, by which I mean 14 years old, out of their parents shanty, take them away, and gang rape them. The ICU were Islamic, to be sur ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
    21st September 2013 – It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that Open Your Eyes News is to be closing down with immediate effect. I would like to especially thank Kim for his technical expertise, my co-founder Collin for helping get it all off the ground 6 years ago, our 3 longe ...
  • Message from Health & Environment Editor, Janet
    My moniker has been the Biochemist. I’m writing this on behalf of the other editors and technical staff involved with Open Your Eyes News. I, personally, have been involved with OYE News since early June 2009. The first time I met with James was on the 9th June. I started posting by 30th of June ...
  • Image of the week – Technology
  • Quote of the week – Einstein on War
    “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”- Einstein
  • Wave of Iraq car bombings kill at least 48 peo ...
    ABC – At least 17 car bombs have exploded across Iraq, killing about 48 people and wounding 130 as sectarian violence continues to surge. The blasts mainly targeted Shiite majority cities and towns. The deadliest violence was in and around the city of Hilla, the predominantly Shiite capita ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Mahendra Singh Dhoni's World Cup vision: ...
    While it was a surprising sight for many to see Suresh Raina stride out into the middle at the fall of the second wicket during the first ODI in Pune, India's skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said it was part of a plan for the future. India had their regular number...
  • World powers, Iran, brace for new nuclear ...
    World powers were set Tuesday to revive stalled talks with Iran over its controversial nuclear ambitions, with all eyes on what Tehran's top diplomat would put on the table. Two days of closed-door negotiations were due to begin at 9:30 am (0730 GMT) at the United Nations' European base in t ...
  • Peering Inside Mumbai’s Premier Pad ...
    In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. Cars, trucks, mopeds and bicycles vie for space on the streets of Mumbai, India, where they hurtle four or five abreast over bumpy roads that often don’t even have painted lanes. Then there are the rick ...
  • Earthquake death toll rises
    A 7.2-magnitude earthquake collapsed buildings and roofs and cracked roads this morning in the central Philippines, killing at least 20 people. The quake was felt across the central region, and people rushed out of homes and buildings, including hospitals, as aftershocks continued. Offices a ...
  • India's Cyclone Phailin: Thousands maroon ...
    Workers are battling to rescue tens of thousands of people marooned by rising flood waters in Orissa, after the state was hit by the strongest cyclone in 14 years. Flood waters have left nearly 100,000 people marooned in Mayurbhanj and Balasore districts, officials say. The death toll from t ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Avandia (Rosiglitazone) Does Not Raise Heart A ...
    There is not a higher risk of heart attack and cardiovascular events in patients who take controversial type 2 drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) reported after carrying out a re-analysis of data from a pivotal study. The DCRI researchers re- ...
  • Promising Results In Early Trial of Novel MS T ...
    Reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine researchers say a new method for essentially resetting the immune systems of patients with multiple sclerosis appears to be safe. Study co-author Stephen D. Miller of Northwestern University, describes the novel approach tested in this smal ...
  • Summer Deadliest Time of Year for Teen Drivers
    Crashes often linked to distracted driving Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Impaired Driving, Motor Vehicle Safety, Teen Health
  • Fewer Families Struggling to Pay Medical Bills ...
    But some may be skipping needed care altogether, expert says Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Health Insurance, Health Statistics
  • Smokers Cost Employers Thousands More Than Non ...
    About $6000 in extra annual costs stem from more time off, smoking breaks, health care, study shows Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Smoking

Common Dreams

  • Pro-Coal Kids' Pages Pulled from Government S ...
    The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has removed coal-related educational sections from its website, less than two weeks after the launch of a grassroots campaign demanding that the pages be taken down. read more
  • Russian Authorities Mass Arrest Alleged Migran ...
    Russian police rounded up and detained over 1,600 alleged undocumented migrants in Moscow on Monday, a day after white-power, nationalist protests swept the southern Biryulyovo residential district of Moscow.
  • 'Iraq Replay': Kerry Demands Immunity for US T ...
    US troops set out on a patrol in Paktika province, Afghanistan. There are currently 87,000 international troops in Afghanistan, including 52,000 U.S. troops.(Photo: David Furst/AFP/Getty Images)Secretary of State John Kerry is demanding immunity for U.S. military service members in Afghanistan a ...
  • Activists Chain Themselves Together to Challen ...
    Action ends in victory! We #shutdownice today with no arrests & we will be back!! #Not1more (via @NPAction)Immigration reform activists chained themselves outside a detention facility in Arizona on Monday continuing of a campaign of civil disobedience that calls for an end to inhumane incarc ...
  • AP: Another Historically Low Increase to Socia ...
    Next year's benefit increase for Social Security recipients is projected to be one of the smallest increases ever, according to a new analysis by the Associated Press. The AP projects that the cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the 58 million Americans who rely on Social Security will rais ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
    read more
  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Politics of Obesity
    (This is the first of two posts exploring possible links between intestinal bacteria, obesity, and other chronic illnesses.) Obesity Has Social and Political Causes  In the US, the most overweight country in the world, rates of obesity have doubled since 1980. Sixty-six percent of Amer ...
  • The Coming Wall Street Crash
    The Storm Clouds Gathering video below lays out a strong case that Wall Street is headed for another crash - either in December or January. According to the filmmakers, the rise in stock prices in 2013 is really a bubble about to burst. The main cause of the bubble is the $85 billion in Q ...
  • An Australian Looks at the US Economy
    How Private Banks (Not Government) Create Money Australian economist Steve Keen (author of Debunking Economics) has an excellent 2009 article on his Debtwatch site explaining how Fractional Reserving Banking (FSB) supposedly works. The major premise of the article is that true FSB only exist ...
  • The Phone Company That Said No to NSA
     click on image to enlarge Former US West CEO Released from Prison Former US West CEO Joseph Nacchio was released from prison last week after completing a four year insider trading sentence. He still claims the NSA framed him on the insider trading charges – after he refused ...
  • The Vanishing Farmer
    The US Farm Crisis Americans rarely give much thought to where their food comes from. They should. Rapidly expanding cities mean the US loses two acres of fertile farmland every two minutes. The dwindling number of US farmers – now at 1.5 million – is even more concerning. At ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • New Guidelines Spur India's Solar Mission, But ...
    India’s solar energy market is heating up this month as the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy releases its Phase 2 guidelines that will govern the next batch of solar energy project bids for funding through the National Solar Mission.read more
  • Illustrating How the Keystone Pipeline Fails t ...
    The fact are clear: The Keystone XL pipeline fails President Obama's climate test. The pipeline significantly exacerbates the problem of carbon pollution. It is not in the national interest, and its Presidential Permit should be denied.read more
  • Turning Small Modular Reactor Concepts Into Re ...
    In the past half dozen years, the term “small modular reactor” has entered the nuclear energy lexicon. Numerous projects have been initiated to develop various concepts, all aimed at producing nuclear reactor based power plants that are small enough to be built in a factory setting.read more
  • Climate Science for Beginners
    Does it infuriate you when people conflate measurements of carbon and carbon dioxide? Do you know your equilibrium climate sensitivity from your transient climate response? How about the relative importance of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and black carbon in terms of radiative forcing?read more
  • Why Are IEA Renewables Growth Projections So M ...
    The IEA has greatly underestimated the growth of renewables for some years now. This illustrates how important it is to allow for unexpected outcomes if policy design is to be robust, as even well informed projections can be very different from the subsequent out-turn.read more

Rodale News

  • 4 Ways the Government Shutdown Is Messing with ...
    As the government shutdown drags on for a third week, there are lots of stories about weddings being cancelled at federal monuments and national parks being closed to tourists (a situation that's apparently so economically devastating that the governor of Utah declared a state of emergency for ...
  • Survey Entry
  • Survey Rules
  • The Hidden Threats in Your Herbal Supplements
    From Echinacea to ginkgo biloba, herbal supplements are a $60-billion business in the U.S., but most of the products you’ll find at your local drug store or supermarket are mislabeled, contaminated or—in many cases—wholly without the herb you thought you were buying, shows a new study pub ...
  • Dangerously Sweet: The True Impacts of Sugar o ...
    by integrative medicine expert Isaac Eliaz, MD founder of the Amitabha Clinic & Healing Center in Sebastopol, California We know much more about nutrition than we did 20 or 30 years ago. We've learned to cut back on processed foods, scrutinize labels, and emphasize organic produce. But then ...

big think

  • Love is the Product of Lousy Neurons
    Why are humans so aberrant - that is to say - why do all human cultures have marriage-like institutions while 90 percent of mammalian species are promiscuous? The neuroscientist David Linden points to our "jellyfish-like or coral-like" neurons, which are pretty crummy parts if you are tr ...
  • Can Contemporary Art Become Too Popular?
    Contemporary art, believe it or not, is hot. When comedian Stephen Colbert “begs” British graffiti artist Banksy not to make the walls of his studio’s building the next target in his Better Out Than In series (aka, “Banksy Takes Manhattan”) and instantly send property values skyrocketing, ...
  • I Threw a Hail Mary Pass in Saudi Arabia
    Frances Townsend, a former Homeland Security Advisor to United States under George W. Bush, brought rosary beads to Saudi Arabia, not realizing that she was committing a crime punishable by death.  When Townsend visited the Crown Prince (now King Abdullah) on this important diplomatic mi ...
  • Inside the World of the Cycling Mafia
    You don't dope, you don't win. As cycling legend Greg Lemond explained to Phil Donahue at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, MA, imagine going to work every day and having to put your arm out, get hooked up to an IV and given twenty different drugs.  Lemond ...
  • Understanding Exponential Growth from a Cosmic ...
    Exponential growth can be eased out of rather than ended, but only if we foresee it.  The thing is, if you have a big concept of how things work, you can understand how our current time fits into it.  But if all you have in your mind is our current time, you just don’t understand what an ...

Groklaw

  • Presiding juror in Microsoft-Motorola trial a ...
    Among the interesting tidbits to come out of the recently concluded Microsoft-Motorola patent trial is this fact: The presiding juror was Mary-Claire King, a University of Washington professor and a renowned geneticist who played a leading role in the identification of breast cancer genes. King ...
  • Bruce Schneier's 5 tips: A guide to staying mo ...
    Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.... At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping se ...
  • Obama reassures Europeans over US surveillance
    Obama said additional changes to the programs may be required because of advances in technology. He said his national security team along with an independent board is reviewing everything to strike the right balance between the government's surveillance needs and civil liberties. "There may be ...
  • Black Budget Summary: Consolidated Cryptologic ...
    The resources devoted to signals intercepts are extraordinary. Nearly 35,000 employees are listed under a sweeping category called the Consolidated Cryptologic Program, which includes the NSA as well as the surveillance and code-breaking components of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines. [Cf. ...
  • LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities N ...
    According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It a ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Elemental discoveries – Hipsterium
    Back in the day (well 1995) I created one of the first chemistry websites – Elemental Discoveries – it was a spinoff of my news column for the RSC’s young chemists’ print magazine New Elements (a name I coined to replace the old Gas Jar). Anyway, Elemental Discoveries was ...
  • Obamacare
    The US has shut down for the day…it’s some kind of budgetary rebellion over Obamacare, right? This is roughly how Wiki describes Obamacare, or to give it its formal name The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): “[Obamacare] aims to increase the quality and afford ...
  • Tim Minchin – philosopher
    Ooh get him in his robes and mortar board…no, I mean it “get” him, ignore the robes and mortar board, ignore the long hair if that’s not your thing. But, give his philosophy a listen to, all the way through…I perhaps do his speech an injustice quoting so briefly fro ...
  • The monsters in your peripheral vision
    A while ago there was a meme that went viral, it showed images of people one after the other, but if you stared at a spot just to the side of the faces flashing past something very strange happened – you got the impression that the faces were monstrous, ghouls, with distorted features. Giz ...
  • No mystery to free will, just cause and effect
    The debate about free will rages on and on, it always will, with some saying it would violate causality and the laws of physics if it were anything but an illusion, others pointing out that it is “god-given” and so must exist(!) and yet others pointing out that so much of the brain&# ...

RFF Library

  • Black Carbon in the Arctic: the Underestimated ...
    Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2013, v13, p8833-8855, doi:10.5194/acp-13-8833-2013) / by A. Stohl, et al. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/8833/2013/acp-13-8833-2013.html Arctic haze is a seasonal phenomenon with high concentrations of accumulation-mode aerosols occurring in the Arctic in w ...
  • Extreme Weather, Extreme Costs: The True Finan ...
    US Strong /  by Curtis Fisher and Ian T. Shearn http://bit.ly/18f7wvE [Climate Progress]   A new nonprofit is calling on the government to create a fund dedicated solely to extreme weather protection and relief. On Monday, New Jersey-based group US Strong released its report, “Extreme Weather, E ...
  • Proposed U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R43204.pdf …A key congressional interest has been the federal role in managing energy resources in deepwater areas of the Gulf of Mexico, particularly in waters beyond the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ), more than 200 miles ...
  • China Energy Databook, 8th Edition
    US DOE, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, China Energy Group http://china.lbl.gov/research-areas/china-energy-databook [Green Car Congress] …In the five years since the China Energy Group of the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) released its l ...
  • New EPA Environmental Impact Statement Mapping ...
    US EPA http://nepassisttool.epa.gov/nepassist/eismapper/index.html [Press Release]  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched an interactive web-based mapping tool that provides the public with access and information on Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) filed with EPA for major pro ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

David Seaton's News Links

  • Making sense (dollars and cents) of so much in ...
    David Seaton's News LinksI think we can be almost grateful for the idiotic crisis in Washington, which even with its possibility of a default which may do heavy damage to the world's economy, is giving us an ample warning of a far greater crisis looming in the foreseeable future, a crisis of dem ...
  • The magnificent quest for Shinola (updated)
    David Seaton's News LinksThis is a revised version of something I wrote a couple of years ago, which I felt that, with a few minor changes, would be more timely today than when I first wrote it. In American-Speak someone of little understanding is said to be unable to distinguish between excreme ...
  • Washington: insanity made simple
    David Seaton's News Links What is going on in Washington, why are the Republicans in Congress acting in what would appear to be such a suicidal fashion?I think I have found the answer in  Mark Leibovich's "This Town", a book which I have mentioned repeatedly in recent posts.Cutting directly ...
  • Abandon hope all ye who enter here...?
    David Seaton's News LinksDante's Inferno -  "The Thieves" - Gustavo Doré "Many decades from now, a historian looking at where America lost its way could use This Town as a primary source."—Fareed Zakaria And so we have arrived at the bizarre juncture where it makes more sense for Mr Obama ...
  • Writing opinion in turbulent times
    David Seaton's News LinksHard times for a columnist with deadlines to meet. Everything is in the air, variables multiply dizzily.Handicapping the Middle East, more than ever, is mug's game. Years on, Obama is still an enigma wrapped in a candy bar wrapper, Putin... what does he want? Who is Angi ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Debt Ceiling Explained in 10 Short Sentences
    For most of the past year, the Republican Party has been threatening to refuse to raise the federal debt limit unless Democrats give in to a broad and varying set of demands. To understand just how reckless this brinksmanship is, you have to understand just what the debt limit is and what it m ...
  • NSA Collects Millions of Address Books, Buddy ...
    Yes, the NSA is collecting your address books and buddy lists too: During a single day last year, the NSA’s Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified ...
  • A Budget Deal Finally Starts to Take Shape
    I've deliberately avoided posting about all the dueling proposals and counterproposals in the Great Budget Showdown of 2013 because (a) it's too damn depressing, and (b) you all know where to find Politico if you want to. However, it now appears that we're getting close to a deal that might ac ...
  • Yet Another Grim Poll for Republicans
    Another poll, another disaster for the GOP. According to the latest ABC/Washington Post poll, the approval rating of the Republican Party has cratered ever since the budget showdown started. The gap between approval and disapproval has dropped by 16 points for the Republican Party in just two ...
  • Can America Survive Parliamentary Norms in a P ...
    I've written before that America is in danger of adopting de facto parliamentary rule, but within a presidential system that never developed the parliamentary norms to make this work. A regular reader emailed this weekend to ask a very basic question: what does this mean? How does a parliament ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Attempts to manipulate Jarawa backfire with ar ...
    A Jarawa woman returning from gathering at the edges of the Jarawa's forest. The Jarawa rely on hunting and gathering to survive.© SurvivalAttempts by poachers to manipulate members of the Jarawa tribe in India’s Andaman Islands have backfired following swift action by the authorities. Five ...
  • International condemnation of Botswana over Bu ...
    Botswana has been condemned for barring the Bushmen's lawyer ahead of a key court case. He had successfully defended the Bushmen's rights during three previous cases.© SurvivalThe Botswana government has been subject to fierce criticism over its persecution of the Kalahari Bushmen. The ...
  • World Mental Health Day: Suicide epidemic rava ...
    A Guarani girl stands by her road-side shack – endless fields have replaced her tribe's rich forests. Children as young as nine have been committing suicide.© Paul Patrick BorhaugWarning: contains disturbing image. Ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10th, Survival International ha ...
  • Police arrest Penan as tribe blockades dam site
    Last year the Penan protested at the dam site for 36 days© SCANE/SurvivalTensions are mounting at the Murum dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Yesterday police arrested one man and dismantled Penan shelters. More than 100 Penan are currently blockading the dam site. The Penan, whose forest h ...
  • Worldwide protests demand stop to Brazil's ass ...
    Vocal protests were held in London today against Brazil's assault on indigenous rights. © SurvivalSupporters of human rights organization Survival International held a vocal protest outside the Brazilian embassy in London today in support of thousands of indigenous demonstrators in Brazil r ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: The ugly fallout of Quebec’s proble ...
    The debate over the PQ government’s values charter appears to be triggering racist confrontations.
  • COVER STORY
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Editorial: One year later, PQ’s main quality i ...
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Montreal startup finds its Groove
    Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...
  • Editorial: Post-office closings are of necessity
    It is sad for many to see traditional post offices closing, but changing times and technologies are making them unsustainable.

Food World Order

  • Man recalls eating squirrels to survive alone ...
    from latimes.com: A day after he was carried out of the Mendocino National Forest -- having survived nearly three weeks on his own -- 72-year-old Gene Penaflor described how "it all went dead" after falling down a canyon. He had separated from his deer hunting partner deep in the forest on ...
  • Interview w/ Keith McHenry of @FoodNotBombs
    Ahead of the upcoming 'World Food Day,' we're joined by Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs, to talk about the 'magic of thinking' and the ongoing effort to hide the hungry masses in America - while our shutdown government tries to cut food stamps and even stop you from giving away food. ...
  • Is 3-D Printing the Future of Food?
    3-D food printing emerges at SXSW Eco* from dairyherd.com: Food printing has been around for several years. A group at Cornell University created a printer in 2011 that could print chocolate, cheese, scallops, celery and turkey. Click here for more. Earlier this year, Dutch scientists printed ...
  • Star Athletes Like #LeBron, #Serena Cash In On ...
    from latimes.com: Superstar athletes Peyton Manning, LeBron James and Serena Williams led their colleagues with endorsements of food and beverages that are calorie-dense and unhealthful – sending mixed messages about diet and health, researchers said. Of 512 brands endorsed by 100 top athletes, ...
  • #FoodTruck Pioneer Battles #FoodDeserts With # ...
    from npr.org: What do restaurant chefs dream of? Most would be satisfied with a great review, a full house every night, maybe a restaurant or three of their own, a television show. Not Roy Choi. Choi has cut his own unconventional path to fame and success in the restaurant world, as his forthcom ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 22 Reasons To Be Concerned About The U.S. Econ ...
    Are we on the verge of another major economic downturn?  In recent weeks, most of the focus has been on our politicians in Washington, but there are lots of other reasons to be deeply alarmed about the economy as well.  Economic confidence is down, retail sales figures are disappointing, job cut ...
  • Power Mad Obama Offers Two Choices: Unconditio ...
    Barack Obama is warning that if he does not get everything that he wants that he will force the U.S. government into a devastating debt default which will cripple the entire global economy.  In essence, Obama has become so power mad that he is actually willing to take the entire planet hostage i ...
  • Extreme Hypocrisy! Obama Orders Federal Worker ...
    Why would the president of the United States try to purposely hurt the American people?  Well, in 2013 this is done in order to score political points and force the opposition in to doing what you want them to do.  A few days ago, an angry Park Service ranger publicly admitted that he and his [...]
  • 12 Very Ominous Warnings About What A U.S. Deb ...
    A U.S. debt default that lasts for more than a couple of days could potentially cause a financial crash unlike anything that the world has ever seen before.  If the U.S. government purposely wanted to damage the global financial system, the best way that they could do that would be to default on ...
  • 30 Statistics About Americans Under The Age Of ...
    Why are young people in America so frustrated these days?  You are about to find out.  Most young adults started out having faith in the system.  They worked hard, they got good grades, they stayed out of trouble and many of them went on to college.  But when their educations where over, they di ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • NC lawmakers earn record low grades on the env ...
    Image Caption:  There is growing partisan polarization on the environment in North Carolina. (Graph is from NCLCV's 2013 legislative scorecard.) Environmental advocates call North Carolina's 2013 legislative session one o ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: More pain for the poor in gov ...
    Image Caption:  The program that provides nutritional support to poor women with young children is among those imperiled by the ongoing federal government shutdown. With the federal government shutdown approaching its second w ...
  • Nissan is violating international labor standa ...
    Image Caption:  Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn at the India Economic Summit in 2009. (Photograph by Matthew Jordaan.) Nissan is violating standards it pledged to uphold by engaging in "a longstanding, aggressive campaign of interfere ...
  • Voter purging in Florida and Virginia leads to ...
    Image Caption:  Will Florida and Virginia strike eligible citizens from their voting rolls? (Photo by Florida New Majority.) With elections fast approaching, officials in Florida and Virginia are hard at work striking names fr ...
  • NC local elections find students fired up to f ...
    Image Caption:  Students at historically black St. Augustine's University in Raleigh, N.C. marched en masse to the polls this week, showing a spirit of resistance to ongoing efforts to curb voting rights in the state. (Still from Common Ca ...

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

  • The Vaccine Coverup: 30 Years of Secret Offici ...
    By Child Health Safety An extraordinary new paper [March 2012] published by a courageous doctor and investigative medical researcher has dug the dirt on 30 years of secret official transcripts of meetings of UK government vaccine committees and the supposedly independent medical “experts” sittin ...
  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    A novel device that uses only sunlight and wastewater to produce hydrogen gas could provide a sustainable energy source while improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment. A research team led by Yat Li, associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz, developed t ...
  • Lew’s Testimony on Debt Mirrors SEC’s De ...
    By Terence P. Jeffrey When Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew testified in the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, urging Congress to enact a new law allowing the administration to increase the federal debt, his description of how the Treasury handles that debt mirrored the Securities and Exchange C ...
  • Science utterly abandoned in UN climate change ...
    by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) If you\’re still a fan of Al Gore and believe his \”campaign\” against global warming is truly substantive and real, well, this story should convince you once and for all that, when it comes to climate change, he\’s nothing more than a lot of ...
  • Smoking Mirrors | A World of Flaming Shit and ...
    By Visible It’s not just the physical shit that is increasing by thousands of tons a day. It’s the other kinds of shit that make the very air we breathe flammable. I’m talking about all the people talking shit. Even the President of the United States talks shit all day long. so ...

Veterans Today

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electric politics

  • Hostage Negotiations 101
    They're extremely agitated. They're desperate to get what they want but have run out of options. Now they've seized hostages and are making dire threats. You should keep the innocent safe but avoid deploying unnecessary force against the hostage-takers. What to do? For some advice on hostage sit ...
  • Legal Realities
    If the President unilaterally blows past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he unilaterally chooses which programs not to fund so as to avoid blowing past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he, again unilaterally, raises taxes to stay under the debt ceiling he breaks the law. It's a tril ...
  • Inspector O
    It's not so easy to balance the curiosity of a child with the cynicism of a policeman, or a secret agent. But Inspector O, of North Korea, manages to look for things where others dare not go. And finds his answers. A deeply satisfying literary figure, O also helps us look into the mirror at ours ...
  • 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 ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Largest In Years: Sweden Joins NATO Strike For ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization October 14, 2013 Sweden to join NATO Response Force and exercise Steadfast Jazz Swedish Gripen warplane of the sort that participated in NATO’s six-month air war against Libya in 2011 Sweden is to join the NATO Response Force (NRF), and to join the Allian ...
  • Interview: White House’s Magniloquent La ...
    Voice of Russia October 14, 2013 ‘The magniloquence of the US’ language is almost pharaonic’ – Rick Rozoff John Robles While in fact being illegal aggressions and incursions onto these southern territories of foreign countries recent operations by the US in Somalia as well as the kid ...
  • Robert Graves: A certain cure for lust of blood
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Robert Graves: Recalling the last war, preparing for the next ==== Robert Graves A Dead Boche (1916) To you who’d read my songs of War And only hear of blood and fame, I’ll say (you’ve heard it said before) ”War’s Hell!” and if you ...
  • Eastern Europe: NATO Expands Influence, Activi ...
    U.S. Department of Defense October 10, 2013 NATO Fosters Partnerships Key to Future Success By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON: NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen praised efforts that are expanding and strengthening the partnerships he called fundamental to the all ...
  • Turkey: Dutch Prime Minister Inspects Missiles ...
    Hurriyet Daily News October 13, 2013 Dutch PM makes Patriot visit to NATO’s İncirlik airbase, speaks with Turkish PM NATO Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile battery Adana: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited NATO’s İncirlik airbase in the southern Turkish province of Adana, wh ...

Before It's News

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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

  • Massive Indigenous Rights Movement Launches Ac ...
    October 3, 2013 |  Amazon Watch Massive Indigenous Rights Movement Launches Across Brazil Written by Amazon Watch Thursday, 03 October 2013 07:06 Brasilia, Brazil – Hundreds of indigenous peoples representing Brazil’s native communities converged on government buildings in the nation& ...
  • 521 Years Since Christopher Columbus Brought D ...
    Burning Spear – 1999 – Christopher Columbus Burning Spear – Live – Carhaix, Bretagn Filed under: Colonialism, Culture, Imperialism, Indigenous, plunder, slavery, WAR CRIMES Tagged: burning spear, christopher columbus
  • Herman Wallace: Black Panther, Political Pris ...
    Angola 3 Newsletter, October 13, 2013:   We Speak Your Name   Yesterday, Herman Wallace was laid to rest after a memorial service befitting his liberation roots.  New Orleans supporters, friends and family came together to create a magnificent send off for Herman, just the way he wanted it. As a ...
  • Greenpeace holds global protests for release o ...
    05 Oct 2013  –  Dmitry Zaks, Sapa Activists came out with a united call for Russia’s release of 30 Greenpeace activists after being jailed for protests against Arctic oil drilling. Rock stars and celebrities joined a worldwide vigil on Saturday in support of 30 Greenpeace activists w ...
  • Greenpeace holds global protests for release o ...
    05 Oct 2013  –  Dmitry Zaks, Sapa Activists came out with a united call for Russia’s release of 30 Greenpeace activists after being jailed for protests against Arctic oil drilling. Rock stars and celebrities joined a worldwide vigil on Saturday in support of 30 Greenpeace activists w ...

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

  • Islands Can Arrive (and disappear) Overnight
    Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.   I think it looks bigger in the photo than it really is, because it is only 600 meters from the shoreline: The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabe ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The snipers of Black October
    Twenty years ago Boris Yeltsin’s army and elected Russian parliamentarians clashed in Moscow, resulting in hundreds, even thousands, of casualties. Investigations now suggest the bloodbath was sparked by snipers, some of who were perched on the roof of the American embassy. _____________________ ...
  • The War on Terrorism … or Whatever
    “U.S. hopes of winning more influence over Syria’s divided rebel movement faded Wednesday after 11 of the biggest armed factions repudiated the Western-backed political opposition coalition and announced the formation of an alliance dedicated to creating an Islamist state. The al-Qaeda-affiliate ...
  • Russia, Syria and the Decline of American Hegemony
    First, the good news. American hegemony is over. The bully has been subdued. We cleared the Cape of Good Hope, symbolically speaking, in September 2013. With the Syrian crisis, the world has passed a key forking of modern history. It was touch and go, just as risky as the Cuban missile crisis of ...
  • Why Russia should care about the Russian World
    The 23rd Economic Forum in Poland was a unique opportunity to understand the nature and causes of Russian influence around the world Is the “Russian World” a global cultural and social phenomenon? Does it unite people, who regardless of their nationality, consider themselves Russian, identify wi ...
  • The consequences of Resolution 2118
    Although the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, loudly praised himself for the vote on Resolution 2118 concerning chemical weapons in Syria, this text marks both the victory of Russia and that of President Bashar al -Assad. The vote carries within itself two consequences that permanently r ...

BlogHer

  • Putting the Hands Back in Handmade
    Full Image:  There’s headlines floating all over the interwebs right now on how Sellers on Etsy are protesting their latest change of policies. I’m betting 50% of my readers are saying, “What’s Etsy?” 45% are probably asking, “W ...
  • Conference Corner: The Eat & Earn Lunch at Blo ...
    BlogHer PRO is just a week away, and we're excited to announce an additional opportunity to grow your toolkit , expand your community, and increase your earning potential -- the "Eat & Earn" Birds of a Feather Lunch on Wednesday at BlogHer PRO! The Eat & Earn lunch gives PRO attendees th ...
  • What Does Your Closet Say About Your Journey?
    Fall is one of my favorite seasons, mainly because of the fresh, cooler air; the abundance of crisp apples; and the coziness of more candles and sweaters. I also have to admit, shopping for fall clothes is also on my list. When I was married, I didn't have to worry about my budget for cloth ...
  • Lessons Learned While Waitressing: I Want My K ...
    We all did it as teenagers, and I first did it at the Home of the Big Biscuit. My friends and I worked when we were teenagers. Our parents didn't tell us we had to get jobs. We just did. We were fortunate to grow up in a town fueled by summer tourism. A wealth of hotels and restaurants catered t ...
  • My Unhealthy Obsession with Diets (Not My Weight)
    Full Image:  I am not now, nor have I ever been, overweight. Even three long years as a binge-eater (Pita bread. Diet cheese. 4 AM. Tears.) didn't make me fat, and I blame my brief chubby period at age 15 on the fact that I was ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • This Way Up: Source of Brain Dizziness Identified
              Feeling dizzy? A part of the brain that tells “up” from “down” may be the cause, new research finds. Researchers zapped people’s brains with magnetic pulses, identifying a brain region that triggered spatial disori ...
  • Careful, Computer Users: Sitting Too Long Lead ...
            NEW YORK (MainStreet) — The medical community has a term for a new health threat on the landscape. It’s called “Silicon Valley Syndrome,” and it afflicts people who use technology a great deal and tend to sit all ... Related posts: ...
  • Healing properties of activated charcoal
              Activated charcoal is a natural substance that is carbon based. It has been used for its health benefits of healing properties for over three millenniums. Activated carbon is a type of charcoal that has the ... Related posts:NASA Confirms Sun ...
  • 20 Ways to Easily Boost Your Immune System
              Every year a new round of advertisements, medicines, and commercials targeting stuffy-nosed, cold victims circulate. It’s obviously no fun to be brought down by a virus or bug when the cold weather hits, therefore the ... Related posts:10 Bes ...
  • Go to Bed: Irregular Bedtimes Linked to Behavi ...
              Researchers from UCL have found that children with irregular bedtimes are more likely to have behavioural difficulties. The study, which is published in the journal Pediatrics, found that irregular bedtimes could disrupt natural body rhythms an ...

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

  • Mining for victory: UMWA’s Patriot fight ...
    There’s an interesting piece out from the American Prospect by influential columnist Harold Meyerson that rightly praises the United Mine Workers of America for the success it’s had so far in its campaign for justice for the retirees at Patriot Coal. It starts out like this: The stor ...
  • Another coal miner dies on the job
    The bad news from Indiana has been confirmed: Another coal miner died on the job, this time at the Five Star Mining Co.’s Prosperity Mine in Pike County, Ind.  It happened at about 2:20 p.m. on Friday. Here’s the preliminary information from the federal Mine Safety and Health Adminis ...
  • Report: Coal’s future hangs on need for ...
    Another report out today confirms again what we’ve talked about many times (see here, here and here)  before here on Coal Tattoo: If coal industry supporters want to protect mining’s future, they need to insist that the government finally get around to setting some sort of limits on ...
  • MSHA gets more attention as shutdown drags on
    We’ve been writing for several days now about the impact of the Republican government shutdown on the ability of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration to conduct its regular — and legally required — mine inspections, a vital part of MSHA’s duty to protect the ...
  • Big news: UMWA reaches deal with Patriot, Peabody
    The press releases came very late last night — just before midnight — and best I can tell Taylor Kuykendall was the first out with a story early this morning: Patriot Coal Corp. announced it has secured a financial sponsor and reached key settlements to pave the way for its emergence ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Most People Don’t Know What Irony Is
    “A couple weeks ago he posted this thing saying he really loved the Dexter series finale, but it was weird—he kept calling the episode ‘great’ while detailing all of its flaws,” said reader Ryan Zalch, explaining his initial puzzlement with Edo’s sarcasm. “Then suddenly it hit me: This guy didn’ ...
  • Butterick’s Typography Book is a Thing of Beauty
    I’m going through Butterick’s Typography Book again, and I’m noticing a feeling that’s similar to admiring a perfect workspace, or even doing amateur astronomy. It’s about an effort towards perfection, with keen focus on the experience of all involved. I think it&#8 ...
  • Hostname Naming Conventions
    The idea is to come up with some kind of category, so that people have something to remember all the names by. Some categories: Geographical (countries, cities, parks, rivers, lakes, streets), I’ve always been a greek/latin names guy myself, but the most important thing to me has been keep ...
  • A One Minute Summary of Obamacare
    Most people are either for or against Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) without knowing much about what it is. Let’s solve that in 1 minute. The bullet points Here are the basic bullets that everyone should know about the law: It affects private insurers, public insurers, employers, and ...
  • I Just Saw a 90 Minute Navy Commercial Starrin ...
    I thought Tom Hanks was doing pretty well with the movie career, but evidently he decided to get into commercials. Seriously, though, as someone who used to be an adolescent boy, I know the draw of what’s being done with these movies that highlight the military. It’s the biggest cons ...

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

  • Warning... Decrypted New $100 Bill - Nuclear ...
    New $100 Bill + $10 Bill = NYC Nuke. The New $100 Bill has finally been released to the public. This new bill finishes the story that the $10 Bill started with the missile launch and tidal wave. The two bills together tell the story of a nuclear event taking place on the East Coast promulgat ...
  • Facebook Changes Privacy Settings So Users Can ...
    Over the years Facebook has been slowly scaling back their privacy settings, taking more and more control away from the user.  One recent change that has been upsetting Facebook users is the fact that now anyone can find your profile by searching your name in their database. ~ JG Vibes r ...
  • Warning... Enrolling in ObamaCare Allows Gov. ...
    We have already established that Healthcare.gov is not a functioning database application that allows people to shop for competing health plans. It is actually a government-run Trojan Horse that suckers people into creating accounts where they hand over... ~ Mike Adams read more
  • What’s Really Behind the ObamaCare Sign-Up Crash?
    It’s easy to say the government always screws things up and, therefore, the crash of its Obamacare sign-up system is merely another example of gross incompetence. This is shortsighted. White House officials knew, months ago, the online site was an unmitigated disaster, and yet they let t ...
  • Veterinarians Howling Over Hidden Tax in Obama ...
    Not only will Americans be paying increased insurance premiums and increased healthcare costs for themselves, they will be paying increased veterinarian bills for their non-human friends! ~ Suzanne Hammer read more

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Drillo’s departure: ‘Surprising, strange’
    Now age 71, Egil “Drillo” Olsen became a legend in Norwegian football years ago. On Friday he suddenly found himself stripped of his post as head coach of the national men’s football team (landslaget), but insisted he’s not bitter that he was asked to make room for his re ...
  • Mosques hit by threats, harassment
    Several mosques in Norway have been threatened in recent weeks and the local Islamic Council (Islamsk Råd) fears a new wave of hate and harassment. The threats have materialized both at the mosques themselves and over the Internet. Newspaper Dagsavisen reported that last Wednesday, a mosque in O ...
  • City Hall’s chimes draw complaints
    The carillon in the Oslo City Hall’s bell tower has long been a traditional part of daily life in the Norwegian capital, chiming on the quarter-hour and also playing an occasional concert. Now the classic chimes seem to have fallen out of tune with some of City Hall’s neighbours, who ...
  • SAS shares fly after Lufthansa praise
    Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)’ stock value took off this week after German carrier Lufthansa’s chief executive said that SAS was performing so well that it might attract a takeover offer. The two airlines, both members of the Star Alliance, already cooperate through route sharing. Spec ...
  • Fox head stolen as ‘Fox’ song keeps climbing
    Norway’s Film Museum in Oslo has reported a theft that resulted in the disappearance of only one item: The head of a fox puppet used in the animated Ivo Caprino film “Reve-enka” (The Fox’s Widow). Museum officials think the theft may be tied to the global popularity of th ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Elite Insurgency
    The real threat to the national interest comes from the rich and powerful by George Monbiot Subversion ain’t what it used to be. Today it scarcely figures as a significant force. Nation states are threatened by something else. Superversion: an attack from above. It takes several forms. One is fa ...
  • Regaining Sustainable Agriculture Practices in ...
    by William Park View of fish pond on Matsés land with small farm on hillside The Matsés indigenous people are master farmers, and it seems strange to even suggest farming ideas to people who live almost entirely off the land. The problem is that their traditional small-scale swidden (slash-and-b ...
  • Scientific American Disinformation on GMOs
    America’s most trusted science magazine is spreading disinformation on behalf of a failing and desperate industry, in utter disregard of scientific integrity and the overwhelming evidence of hazards to health and the environment. by Dr Mae Wan Ho, Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji and Prof Peter Saunders. ...
  • Ducks in Backyard Permaculture (Alaska)
    Here in the northernmost tip of North America’s temperate rainforest, Alaska’s infamous cold meets some of the wettest weather in the world. Our hometown of Cordova, Alaska, receives an average of 160 inches of precipitation per year — more than 13 feet of water. In addition to the intense ...
  • PRI Zaytuna Farm Internship Project – Slope St ...
    My chosen internship project at PRI Zaytuna Farm was to stabilize and prevent erosion on a steep slope from an excavation back cut. I also wanted to build topsoil and increase fertility as most of the slope is subsoil clay. This is a picture of the slope before doing anything to it I decided to. ...

Pointman's

  • Climate Prat of the Year award 2013.
    How quickly time flies. It seems but twelve months since we last ran the competition but I suppose as we grow older, time appears to pass more rapidly. Sweet bird of youth etc etc. Anyway, a recent address by the almost beatified Bob Geldorf to a bunch of stunned school kids telling them that th ...
  • Russia 2, Greenpeace 1.
    One of my simple pleasures in life is to spend an occasional evening watching a good sporting event with friends. We all come clinking along with whatever booze we prefer and a few emergency nibbles. It’s usually an evening of decent sport, a little too much to drink and giving each other ...
  • In the aftermath of AR5.
    AR5 or the fifth Assessment Report on global warming was published last week, amid a fair amount of fanfare but nothing compared to what it would have been like in the glory years of climate alarmism. Everyone has had their say on it by now but I thought it worth adding my own thoughts. What&#16 ...
  • Alice and the unicorn.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— ALICE AND THE UNICORN By Louis Karrol. Alice was almost asleep when the green rabbit wearing an unfortunate waistcoat ran past her. She didn’t notice at first that he was green because he was peering at his fob wat ...
  • Alice and the unicorn.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— ALICE AND THE UNICORN By Louis Karrol. Alice was almost asleep when the green rabbit wearing an unfortunate waistcoat ran past her. She didn’t notice at first that he was green because he was peering at his fob wat ...

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

  • RIP Herman Wallace - The Muhammad Ali of the C ...
    From the Angola 3 Newsletter. This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political prisoner world.  It is with great sadness that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing. Herman never did anything half way.  He embraced ...
  • 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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Kevin P Miller: Letters From Generation Rx - P ...
    In today's show we bring you an exclusive interview with filmmaker Kevin P. Miller in which he discusses his latest film project.  Letters From Generation Rx is a sequel to the shocking expose of the lethal effects of Psycho-Pharmaceutical drugs, Generation Rx, which was released in 2008. ...
  • 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 ...

Beacon

  • Creature Feature: Enter the (Leafy Sea)Dragon
    Leafy and lovely: Meet the leafy seadragon   l   Photo: ©Ta-graphy If you asked the artist Salvador Dali to dream up an ocean creature, he might have designed something very much like the leafy seadragon, one of the ocean’s most uniquely beautiful creatures. Covered in gossamer ...
  • Every Shrimp Has a Tale
    (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) October is National Seafood Month, and to celebrate this event, seafood lovers may be getting ready to partake in their favorite dishes. But how does the average consumer know where their seafood was caught? Can they be sure what they are eating is what is on the la ...
  • Capps Takes Lead on SAFE Seafood Act in House ...
    The SAFE Seafood Act will give consumers access to more information about their seafood. (Photo: Oceana / Jenn Hueting) Oceana would like to thank Representative Lois Capps (D-CA) for becoming the new House lead sponsor of the Safety and Fraud Enforcement for Seafood (SAFE Seafood) Act, ...
  • CEO Note: Bipartisan Support for the Oceans
    (Photo: Oceana) We live in a world increasingly divided and governed by partisanship. At times, it can be frustrating for those of us who want to make a difference. That is why I am proud to let you know about the Oceana’s relationship with two remarkable leaders from different sides of the ...
  • Creature Feature: Reef Lizardfish
    This good-looking creature is a reef lizardfish. (Photo: Colby Bidwell)  You won’t find land-dwelling lizards scampering about coral reefs, but you might do a double-take when you see the reef lizardfish. Also known as variegated lizardfish, these strange reef-dwellers look surprisingly ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • When a Lower Unemployment Rate is Bad News
    Today, Statistics Canada reported an unemployment rate of 6.9% for September. One might have expected Canada’s unemployment rate falling below 7% for the first time since 2008 to be cause for celebration. But as Statistics Canada noted, the decline in official unemployment reflected youth droppi ...
  • Québec’s Economic Plan: Putting Jobs First?
    The Québec government recently issued its new economic policy, “Putting Jobs First”. The Premier and her Finance Minister have realized that the long-awaited acceleration of economic growth still has not arrived. Hence, they have presented a stimulation plan meant to reinvigorate Québec’s econom ...
  • Why the City of Vancouver should divest from f ...
    This is the text of remarks I made today to Vancouver city council on divestment. Earlier this year, Council requested that staff report back on how the city’s financial investments align with the city’s mission and values, and various ethical programs like the city’s purchasin ...
  • Royalties should be the Keystone of Saskatchew ...
    The Saskatchewan Party has appropriated the province’s name, flag and football team. More recently, it asserted a new symbol of Saskatchewan patriotism: the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Earlier this year, provincial energy and resources minister Tim McMillan had the following letter in Regina’ ...
  • Toronto is Canada’s hottest job market – for b ...
    This piece was first published in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. A company called Career Builder recently released a list of what it called the ten hottest jobs in Toronto, based on data about the occupations with the fastest increases in employment between 2010 and 2013. That made me wonder: ...

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

  • China must manage the conflict between coal an ...
    “In July 2012 China proposed building 363 new coal-fired power plants, 23% of which would sit in areas with “high water stress”. China faces a serious conundrum. The country, already the world’s largest coal consumer, wants to significantly increase its coal electricity g ...
  • As Planet Warms, 13% of Humanity Headed for Wo ...
    “Researchers warn that the planet is headed for severe scarcity in which the global poor, as well as people living in parts of Asia and North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, will be hardest hit. “Now this is not a question of ducks and daisies, but of our unique natur ...
  • Mekong Dams Put Cambodian Food Security At Risk
    “Cambodia’s per capita consumption of inland fish is among the highest in the world and its people depend on fish for nearly three-quarters of their protein intake. But information released by the Cambodian Fisheries Administration (FiA) may be a game-changer for the future of the Me ...
  • A Return Long Overdue- Hiatus-Busting Nexus Re ...
      A Return Long Overdue- Hiatus-Busting Nexus Revitalisation by Miles Ten Brinke Seems it’s been rather a long while since you last heard from me, but the hiatus is done. The summer came and went, and you’ve not seen a single column from me. Fear not, it was just the season for it. Autumn’s ...
  • Polluted farm runoff linked to toxic green alg ...
    “Toxic algae is the byproduct of the same types of pollution that causes dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and the Chesapeake Bay— phosphorous and nitrogen from livestock manure and chemicals sprayed on crops such as corn that spills from farms into assorted waterways during moderate to hea ...

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

  • think we are going to start now…
    … You did not really expect at a “white” American court would see merit on a water claim submitted to it by America’s indigenous people … we have not dealt honorably with them from the get go so what makes you think we are going to start now…?   Court Rules Arizona Tribe Failed to […]
  • because there is NO regulator agency
    …why … because there is NO regulator agency or Congress willing to step up and make it happen quicker … and rest assured the 2020 year is NOT carved in stone and is extremely flexible…   Why Is it Taking McDonald’s Until 2020 to Get More Nutritious Food in Stores? By Jim Hightower, Ot ...
  • While we criticize
    …While we criticize, condemn and complain about the excesses of England’s monarchy “we” allowed our own “privileged” class to form and now we find it impossible to shut the door on them…   Congressional Perks Deemed Essential During Government Shutdown While Public Sacrifices Continue readi ...
  • was seen as conspiracy theory
    Tragically for most Americans the movie “V” for Vendetta was seen as conspiracy theory and not endorsed by corporate owned print/TV media … the irony depicted did not register with Americans … if the shutdown continues for at least another month … Americans will awake to a rudely different world ...
  • so what makes you believe it is just
    …so what makes you believe it is just the FBI that manipulates and intimates our judicial system to STOP freedom of speech … freedom of assembly … this is a perverse belief pervasive  throughout our government…   How the FBI Manipulates Grand Juries to Intimidate Political Dissidents a ...

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 )

  • Meeting the mammal that survived the dinosaurs
    So, here I am, running in a forest at night over 2,000 miles from home. This forest—dry, stout, and thorny enough to draw blood—lies just a few miles north of a rural town in the western edge of the Dominican Republic on the border with Haiti. I'm following—or trying to keep pa ...
  • Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: prac ...
    Nicaragua is a nation still suffering from deep poverty, a free-flowing drug trade, and festering war-wounds after decades of internecine fighting. However, like any country that has been largely defined by its conflicts, Nicaragua possesses surprises that overturn conventional wisdom. Not the l ...
  • 'Yet another wakeup call': global warming is h ...
    Human actions are responsible for warming the Earth, reconfirms the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today, the first mammoth report on the physical science of climate change issued in seven years. Scientists now say they are 95-100 percent certain that h ...
  • Unlikely success: how Zimbabwe has become a gl ...
    With its collapsed economy, entrenched poverty, and political tremors, one would not expect that a country like Zimbabwe would have the capacity to safeguard its rhinos against determined and well-funded poachers, especially as just across the border South Africa is currently losing over two rhi ...
  • Forgotten species: the nearly extinct primate ...
    The attention paid to charismatic popular primates—such as gorillas, chimps, orangutans, lion tamarins, and even some lemurs—could make one suppose that conservationists have the protection of our closest relatives well in hand; the astounding fact that no primate species is known to ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Sam Judd: Our nutrient world
    In the second of a series of articles, Sam Judd - our Young New Zealander of the Year and co founder of Sustainable Coastlines - reflects on the challenges and opportunities that the United Nations Environment Program faces with regard...
  • Dr Ogden's casebook
    Jenni Ogden takes the skull down from the top shelf in her library and pokes at its brain."It was under here they operated," she gestures, lifting a wrinkled, folded wedge and pointing to a piece shaped like a seahorse, called the...
  • Fred Mendelsohn: Discoveries open pathway to r ...
    The brain and the mind are two sides of the same coin. We have always wanted to understand how our minds work but, until recently, lacked the tools to investigate the brain.The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe....
  • American chemical giant out of NZ court case
    An American chemicals giant has been told it can not intervene in a High Court case which will determine whether "mutant" genes can be created outside of laboratories in New Zealand.US-based Dow Chemicals made a last-minute bid...
  • 'God particle' theorists win Nobel Prize for P ...
    Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for conceiving of the tantalising "God particle" which confers mass.Higgs, 84, and Englert, 80, were honoured for theorising a particle...

The Bovine

  • Vive la raw milk difference
    From Christian Saretzki via The Biodynamics blog: “Milk was never appealing. It was rather tasteless and a bit too watery, not to mention the fact that it came in a plastic bag on which the words “homogenized” and “pasteurized” were clearly … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk, TED, and the resurgence of neo-primi ...
    Scientist Rupert Sheldrake was exiled from TED after spouting this heresy: TED has been told, it would seem. They’ve been told to hew to the materialist dogma, and to eschew what they are calling bad science, or pseudoscience. Because back … Continue reading →
  • Is the 100th monkey effect kicking in on the f ...
    First, a few words about the 100th monkey effect, from Wikipedia: “The story of the hundredth monkey effect was published in Lyall Watson‘s foreword to Lawrence Blair’s Rhythms of Vision in 1975,[2] and spread with the appearance of Watson’s 1979 book Lifetide. The claim ...
  • Lessons from the Bushmen in Laurens van der Po ...
    Both as an author and as a man, Laurens van der Post was someone who did not shy away from the difficult questions of life. Although one biographer slags him for allegedly fabricating stories and passing them off as real, … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Decisive Victory by Le Pen's Eurosceptic Natio ...
    Two recent events regarding Marine Le Pen and her eurosceptic party have the nannycrats in Brussels worried. The first occurred in early October when Marine Le Pen's Eurosceptic "National Front" Party Took Lead in France National Poll. Yesterday, a huge victory by the National Front in a lo ...
  • Marc Faber on Investment Strategies, Governmen ...
    Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, told Tom Keene and Sara Eisen on "Bloomberg Television" today "there is no safe haven. The best you can hope for is that you have a diversified portfolio of different assets and that they don't all collapse at the same time." On t ...
  • Bond Market Closed; Obama Warns of Catastrophe ...
    Bond markets are closed today but the likely reaction to all this talk of catastrophe would be the same big yawn as before. And one has to wonder how many times the stock market can rally on the same non-news that meetings are underway. The BBC reports President Obama to meet with Con ...
  • Judging the Obamacare Rollout Two Weeks Later; ...
    Tomorrow marks the two-week anniversary of the Obamacare rollout. Inquiring minds may be wondering how things are going. The short answer is exceptionally poorly. Hawaii is not even up and running yet due to software glitches. On day 10, some sites reported that a mere 51,000 signups had o ...
  • China's Exports "Surprisingly" Drop
    Economists expected a 6% rise in Chinese exports. Instead, exports fell 0.3%. Please consider China's September export growth in surprise slide. China's export growth fizzled in September to post a surprise fall as sales to Southeast Asia tumbled, data showed, a disappointing break to a re ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    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 ...
  • Whatever Became Of Western Civilization?
    A Total Collapse of Economic & Government Morality Not that long ago government and free market proponents were at sword’s point, but no more. With little left in the private sector to rip off, the financial gangsters have turned to the public sector and put to work for them the free market ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent-The New Media Revolut ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Abby Martin On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by the founder and editor of Media Roots and host of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin. Guillermo and Abby discuss a wide variety of issues and news stories, focusing on the psychological and soci ...
  • Empire Under Obama, Part 2- Barack Obama&#8217 ...
    Welcome to Obama’s War OF Terror Under the administration of Barack Obama, America is waging a global terror campaign through the use of drones, killing thousands of people, committing endless war crimes, creating fear and terror in a program expected to last several more decades. Welcome ...
  • The New Great Game Round Up- October 13, 2013
    Gas Over Democracy, Xinjiang & the New Silk Road, Meet the World Uyghur Congress & 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 profits in Central A ...

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

  • Profit Targets Missed as Giant New Containersh ...
    Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — Kuehne & Nagel International AG, the world’s biggest sea-freight forwarder, reported third-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates as volume stagnated and the use of giant container [...]
  • Maersk to Build 10 New Product Tankers?
    Danish newspaper Borsen has reported today that confidential sources reveal Maersk’s plans to build up to 10 long-haul to medium range product tankers. In an emailed statement to us this [...]
  • Mubadala, Trafigura Win Control Of Batista Por ...
    By Guillermo Parra-Bernal SAO PAULO, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Brazilian businessman Eike Batista ceded control of an iron ore port to Dutch energy firm Trafigura Beheer BV and an Abu [...]
  • gCaptain Radio Episode 18 – Hollywood
    This week marks the 18th episode of gCaptain Radio sponsored by Six Maritime. gCaptain Radio is a weekly talk show discussion with gCaptain founder John Konrad and radio host Jeff Eckles. gCaptain Radio is recorded each week [...]
  • U.S. Captain of Greenpeace Vessel Denied Bail ...
    MOSCOW, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Russia denied bail on Monday to the American captain of a Greenpeace ship and two other foreign activists who are among 30 environmentalists arrested on [...]

Press TV

  • Iran, P5+1 to prevent breakdown of talks
    Iran and the six world powers “will prevent a breakdown” of the ongoing nuclear negotiations currently held in the Swiss city of Geneva, says a political commentator.
  • Snowden’s new head-spinning revelation
    A new document leaked by former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals that the US spy agency the National Security Agency (NSA) steals up to 250 million online address books each year.
  • Iran seeks enrichment right recognition
    Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi says the main goal of Geneva talks is the recognition of Iran’s enrichment right and allaying concerns over its nuclear energy program.
  • Tehran Short Intl. Filmfest kicks off
    The 30th Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) has kicked off in the Iranian capital city of Tehran with presenting various categories.
  • British military’s Afghan toll tops 445
    The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed the death of another trooper in Afghanistan, whose death takes the total number of British troops killed in the country since 2001 to 445.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Date Night
    It’s Friday night and I am on a date. Yeah! Don’t get me wrong most people who are on a date are probably having dinner and taking in a movie.  Guess what y’all?  My date night is me sitting on a computer while my date watches old boxing matches on cable.  But I am a […]
  • My Color Conundrum
    As I write this I am sitting under a hooded dryer, 10 minutes into a 40 minute process involving 2 steps and 3 chemical mixtures to achieve one result: hide my gray hair. To be a successful magician I have to do this every 4 weeks and I am not alone; I am a hairstylist […]
  • MAAT Alumna Awarded Cornell University’s ...
    Sarah Chalmers graduated from the CUNY SPS MA in Applied Theatre program in 2010. In 2012 she started her own company, Civic Ensemble, and was recently awarded the Civic Leader Fellowship from the Cornell University Public Service Center. She will teach applied theatre techniques to Cornell stud ...
  • #FindYourReason
  • I’m back
    Hello All, This is my second post. I had to work through the kinks.  Well it’s officially week 5 and although it’s a lot of work but I am actually loving school.  I feel so academically inclined these days.  Tonight I am going to rush home to do some schoolwork and get ready for the ...

Dissident Voice

  • “The law on immigration cannot be punitive” Sa ...
    “We must reflect on the absurdity that the survivors of a shipwreck are put under criminal investigation,” said Cecile Kyenge, Integration Minister in the current center-left Italian government.1 Steve Scherer, “Divers recover more migrant bodies from Sicily wreck,” Reuters, 6 Octobe ...
  • Symphony of Failure: Environmental Activism in ...
    Allegro – Local Failure In 2010, I wrote an article titled, “Environmentalism is Dead,” decrying the ineptitude and/or downright skulduggery of large environmental nonprofit organizations. At the time, I still held the foolhardy belief that we could keep environmental activism alive at the local ...
  • The Act of Killing, the U.S.-Indonesia Allianc ...
    Among the casualties of the U.S. government shutdown is President Barack Obama’s trip to Indonesia for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. In calling President Yudhoyono of Indonesia on October 3, to express his regrets over the last-minute cancellation, Obama, according to the ...
  • The Man Who Saved a Billion Lives
    Safe to say, most of us have never heard of agronomist Norman Borlaug.  If I hadn’t been tangentially involved with Indian agriculture, I wouldn’t have heard of him.  But Borlaug is not only a famous scientist, he’s one of only seven people to have won the Nobel Prize, the Presidential Medal of ...
  • Why Is Surrender So Often The President’s Firs ...
    For all the talk about the United States approaching a catastrophic Debt Ceiling and subsequent unprecedented but exceptional default that would have unpredictable but probably dire impact on pretty much everybody, one thing you don’t hear much is that There is No Debt Ceiling. Seriously, the re ...

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Newswise

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    The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia is elevating its kinesiology program to department status.
  • Researchers Chosen to Develop Advanced Microel ...
    The University of Arkansas is one of 10 institutions selected by NASA to develop technology that will address technical needs and enable future missions of America's space program.
  • Elon University Announces the 2014-2016 Center ...
    Elon University is pleased to announce the 2014-2016 Center for Engaged Learning Seminar on Mentoring Undergraduate Research, a two-year research seminar that supports individuals interested in pursuing research that advances excellence in mentoring undergraduate research. We invite interested s ...
  • Baylor College of Medicine Researchers Find Co ...
    A new randomized controlled trial conducted by Baylor College of Medicine researchers and published today as an Article in Press in The American Journal of Medicine finds that overweight and obese adults following a community-based weight loss intervention, namely Weight Watchers, lost significa ...
  • Tip Sheet: A Woman's Journey
    The following are summaries of selected presentations from among 32 prepared by Johns Hopkins faculty physicians for the 19th annual "A Woman's Journey" (AWJ) symposium, slated for Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Hilton Baltimore located at 401 West Pratt Street Baltimore, Md. 21201. To cover the symp ...

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Jae's News

  • GOP congressman offers solution to debt limit ...
    GOP congressman offers solution to debt limit crisis: Impeach Obama if government defaults. Please sign petition. Submitted by Judy E. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • House Repubs Changed the Rules to force the Go ...
    How House Republicans guaranteed a shutdown: by changing the rules Submitted by Kathy Bergquist to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Congress Did Something So Spectacularly Creepy ...
    the GOP quietly passed a measure that said only the House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, can call for the shutdown to end (unless he gives a designee permission). Not even the most senior GOP congressperson, Speaker of the House John Boehner, is allowed to Submitted by BMutiny TCorporationsEvil t ...
  • China state media blasts US shutdown, calls fo ...
    With days to go before the United States debt default deadline, Beijing aired its frustrations with the shutdown Sunday, saying it was time to consider a de-Americanized world order. Submitted by Robert Tomlinson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Ad ...
  • China Bashes U.S. Shutdown, Calls for World to ...
    Chinas official news agency, isnt happy with the U.S. government shutdown. - In a scathing editorial it argued that the time when the hypocritical U.S. dictates other nations well-beings is over, and it called for a new, de-Americanised world order Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov& ...
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