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President Barack Obama confers with U.S.Secret...President Barack Obama confers with U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during the NATO summit in Strasbourg, France. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to Clinton's right while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen is between Brown and Clinton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Visitors on the 2009 Fall Garden Tour...English: Visitors on the 2009 Fall Garden Tour pass by the Oval Office as President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Oct. 17, 2009. Français : Des visiteurs passent près bureau ovale lors de la visite d'automne des jardins de la Maison Blanche (2009 Fall Garden Tour) alors que le président Barack Obama discute au téléphone avec le Premier ministre de Turquie Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 17 octobre 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • Cheap Airport Parking at Birmingham
    Zap’s airport parking start at y £4.93 per day during the peak season! Keep yourself updated as there are many last minute promotional deals that could further delight you pocket.
  • Syrian/FSA patrols Vs Al Nusra/Qaeda
    The mainstream Syrian rebel movement is under assault from three directions: the Syrian army, the Al-Qaeda Nusra Front and Al Qaeda in Iraq. Some of the rebel commanders controlling Damascus outskirts are clinching private ceasefire deals with local Syrian army officers, with some of whom they s ...
  • Why Did Riyadh Turn Down UN Seat?
    Washington now realizes that its proxies in the Middle East no longer have the ability to settle conflicts in their – and its – favor. Clearly, Saudi Arabia can use its assets to send car bombs, stage terror attacks of various kinds, and recruit, fund, and deploy fighters to Iraq and Syria, but ...
  • Peters Predicts An Early Election
    The New Zealand First leader is predicting an early election next year because of what he describes as a shaky Government. Winston Peters made the comments at the party's annual conference in Christchurch on Saturday. He also warned that the exchange rate for the New Zealand dollar could c ...
  • Turkey blows Israeli cover in Iran
    The Turkish-Israeli relationship became so poisonous early last year that the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is said to have disclosed to Iranian intelligence the identities of up to 10 Iranians who had been meeting inside Turkey with their Mossad case officers. Kno ...

Independent - London

  • NSA leaks: Barack Obama speaks to Hollande ove ...
    President Obama reiterated his pledge for a review of US surveillance methods as he moved to ease concerns over claims that the National Security Agency had secretly recorded millions of French telephone calls.     
  • Postcard from... Beijing
    Mao Zedong’s face already adorns every bank note, and a portrait of the Great Helmsman graces the gates of the Forbidden City at the heart of the capital Beijing. Now China’s founding father is set to feature in an animated film about his teenage years.     
  • 'This happens when I talk too long': Barack Ob ...
    President Obama interrupted a press conference addressing his controversial healthcare policy to catch a pregnant woman who was on the verge of fainting.     
  • Spain ordered to release Basque ETA terrorist ...
    Europe’s top human rights court has ordered Spain to free a Basque separatist militant, saying her extended detention was illegal and calling on Madrid to pay her €30,000 in compensation.     
  • Syria opposition meets backers in London ahead ...
    Hopes of a peace deal to end the bloodshed in Syria may move a faltering step closer in London on Tuesday at a meeting between the opposition leadership and its international backers.     

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Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Outburst of comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR)
    Cbet No. 3674, issued on 2013 October 21, reports an outburst in brightness of comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR). The magnitude of the comet was measured by H. Sato on on Oct. 20.5 to be total mag 8.5 (as measured within a circular aperture of diameter 85".2) with a brighter center about 10" across. The ...
  • Nevada police: two dead and two injured in mid ...
    Washoe county police say first reports of the violence at Sparks middle school came in just after 7am, and the suspect is 'down' Two people died and two boys were critically injured in a shooting at a middle school in Nevada on Monday. Police did not immediately offer details of who died in ...
  • Learning new skills keeps an aging mind sharp
    Older adults are often encouraged to stay active and engaged to keep their minds sharp, that they have to "use it or lose it." But new research indicates that only certain activities - learning a mentally demanding skill like photography, for instance - are likely to improve cognitive functi ...
  • Yachtsman describes horror at 'dead', rubbish ...
    Ivan MacFadyen says he was shocked by absence of sea life during his 37,000km voyage between Australia and Japan An Australian sailor has described parts of the Pacific Ocean as "dead" because of severe overfishing, with his vessel having to repeatedly swerve debris for thousands of kilometre ...
  • Couple in Greece mystery girl case deny abduction
    Pair deny abduction charges and claim girl given by mother who could not look after her. A Roma couple accused of abducting a mystery four-year-old girl dubbed the "blonde angel" by Greek media told a court today that her biological mother willingly gave her to them as a baby because she coul ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Jesse Staniforth brutally rips Rex Murphy a ne ...
    And a very well-deserved one it is. Rex Murphy's opinion piece isn't just ignorant, it's totally vacuous, the product of someone who literally seems to know nothing about the subject he's railing against. But then, there's the rub. Murphy is educated in the art of the word; not the pro ...
  • Not good . . .
    OUT OF CONTROL: when the RCMP pepper spray unarmed elders. According to Cari-Lee Raven Veilifter, who can be found on Facebook at #‎ElsipogtogStandOff‬: “the elder the RCMP are pepper spraying is our elder Doris Copage of Elsipogtog (short hair/gray jacket). Doris is one of the kindest an ...
  • Stevie and Brazil . . .
     — A protest in Vancouver over our mining operations in Tibet — WHY WOULD STEVIE TARGET BRAZIL? According to Dave Dean at Vice, “75% of the World's Mining Companies Are Based in Canada”. Maybe that's why Stevie wants to know what the Brazilian Ministry of Mines is planning? All ove ...
  • Dear Stephen,
    You're a goddamned embarrassment. Step down.
  • Foil hat time . . .
    BOOGITY-BOOGITY. “Adolf Hitler -- Agent of Zionism and Freemasonry”. Yup. Really. Must be true, it's on the web. 

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Continues To Deny That GOP Shutdown Has Ha ...
    Despite numerous economic reports explaining the negative effects, Fox News personalities continue to downplay the effects of the ill-fated, Republican-led government shutdown. Fox Myth: Shutdown Hasn't Negatively Affected The Economy  Fox's O'Reilly: "The President Wants To Con ...
  • REPORT: Once Again, Sunday Morning Talk Shows ...
    In the first nine months of 2013, white men dominated the guest lists on the broadcast network Sunday shows and CNN's State of the Union. MSNBC was the only network achieving notable diversity in its guests, particularly on Melissa Harris-Perry's show. Republic ...
  • STUDY: Media Sowed Doubt In Coverage Of UN Cli ...
    A study of coverage of the recent United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt the role of human activity in warming the planet, even though the report itself reflects that th ...
  • Fox History vs. Actual History: Fox's Shutdown ...
    Fox News' timeline of the ongoing government shutdown cherry-picked dates to omit congressional Republicans' conception and furtherance of the shutdown over their demand to defund or delay the Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA or Obamacare).Fox's Shutdown Timeline&nb ...
  • "Default By Another Name:" 5 Economists Who Bu ...
    Right-wing media figures have repeatedly criticized Obama administration officials for claiming that the U.S. will default if the debt ceiling is not raised by October 17, instead claiming the U.S. could prioritize payments to bondholders as a way to avoid default. But economists note ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Our Way Of Life
    By Maggie Fox, President and CEO, Climate Reality Project It’s funny. A lot of the rhetoric we hear pushing back against putting a price on carbon pollution parrots the argument that “it would threaten our way of life.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Fossil fuels like oil and coal help ...
  • Meteor Shower Tonight — Orionid Meteor Shower ...
    The Orionid meteor shower peaks tonight, on the night of Sunday, October 20, 2013 — or the early morning of Monday, October 21, 2013, depending on how you look at it. The exact peak will be sometime between the hours of 2-5 AM on October 21, 2013. The Orionids typically produce somewhere a ...
  • Orionids Meteor Shower Peaks Sunday Night, Oct ...
    The Orionid meteor shower will be reaching its peak only a couple of days from now — late on the night of Sunday October 20 2013 (early morning on Monday October 21 2013). The shower is already producing pretty well though, so if you want to head out tonight you might be able to see Orioni ...
  • Brewers And Wineries Must Brace For Climate Change
    Today’s suds are an endangered species, says Willy Blackmore, food editor for TakePart. (Photo: Cafe Bink, Carefree, Arizona.) So are the grapes and wines of the 20th century. Blackmore relates the phenomena to the power of climate change. The geography of earth’s agriculture will sh ...
  • Typhoon Report From TEPCO
    “Threat analysis from TEPCO. Accuracy? Credibility?” (Photo and story from International Business Times.)Typhoon Report From TEPCO was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from Planetsave, join thousands of others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook ( ...

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Axis of Logic

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

Climate

  • China Inc. Battles Big Oil for Century's Bigge ...
    (Bloomberg) For Chinese oil companies, competing in Brazil's auction today for the giant Libra field represents a change in strategy. A successful bid would be their riskiest Latin American investment. Cnooc Ltd. (883) and China ...
  • Britain Looks to Fracking as North Sea Oil Dwi ...
    (New York Times) Driving down a bumpy country road in northwest England, one comes upon a bare patch the size of a soccer field at the edge of a peat bog. Workers are erecting a security fence and unrolling watertight film to protect ...
  • David Cameron Hails Nuclear Power Plant Deal a ...
    (Guardian) David Cameron has hailed the UK government agreement with French-owned EDF to build the first new British nuclear power station in 20 years, saying it was a very big day for Britain and would kickstart a new genera ...
  • BP Recovers in Exploration Activity
    (New York Times) BP is recovering from the paralysis that followed the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, at least in terms of looking for more oil and gas. That was the message Friday from Mike Daly, the company's executiv ...
  • Activists Set Up 'Wheel of Misfortune' to Oppo ...
    (Baltimore Sun) Activists opposed to hydraulic fracturing projected their message on the side of a Fells Point building Saturday night and invited passers-by to play a so-called Wheel of Misfortune to highlight what they say are the ri ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Criminal complaint against Silk Road’s owner
    The criminal complaint against Ross William Ulbricht, known as "Dread Pirate Roberts."
  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.

Booman Tribune

  • Thanks, Morons
    Alberto Gonzales lackey Rep. Tim Griffin (AR-2) will not seek reelection. Perhaps former Lt. Gov. Bill Halter or former North Little Rock Mayor Patrick Henry Hays, will run for the seat. Also, in Arkansas: James Lee Witt, who was director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under fo ...
  • Reality-Based is Better
    Back in the spring, Markos Moulitsas penned a column for The Hill that explained the difference between our civil war with the Democratic Party (2002-2006) and the Tea Party civil war (2011-) that the Republicans are experiencing now. I think it's fair to say that both movements sought to get t ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Ruth Marcus
    Ruth Marcus probably angers me more than she should. Is that my fault, or hers? I don't know, but I swear that if I were Jeffrey Bezos and I was coming in and taking over the Washington Post, I would not allow any of my regular columnists to spend more than three months out of the year in ...
  • Serious Question
    I don't know. I think maybe if Jamie Dimon has to beg me for money to buy some Ramen Noodles so that he doesn't starve then maybe there might be some justice in the world. Is he the most appropriate piñata? Probably not. But why should I care? Discuss
  • The Super Hot California Model
    Everybody seems to be flogging the top-two primary system that has been instituted in California and Washington state as the antidote to hyper-partisanship and gridlock. I favor the top-two system, but not because I think it is some great cure for hyper-partisanship. I just think it gives ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Whether you enjoy learning about animals, people, civilisations or food, there's bound to be something you'll love in this week's link round up! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Photos of Spiders Battling Dangerous Foes
    We're used to thinking of spiders as the top killers of the minibeast world, but sometimes they meet their match in other creepy-crawlies... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Have a look at our coolest links from around the internet this week. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Reusable Toilet Paper: Handy Solution or Big P ...
    If talk turns to whether we should be reusing toilet paper, some get a bit grossed-out. Still, do the pros of reusable toilet paper outweigh the cons? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Dive into our pick of this week's coolest links and pics from around the web. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Marion Institute brings heavy hitters to town ...
    Marion Institute brings heavy hitters to town for annual conference SouthCoastToday.com He supports a carbon tax and has protested the controversial coal mining technique of mountaintop removal and also the proposed Keystone Pipeline that will carry synthetic crude oil from Canada's Athabasc ...
  • Keystone Pipeline Opponents Plan Widespread Ci ...
    New York Times (blog) Keystone Pipeline Opponents Plan Widespread Civil Disobedience New York Times (blog) On Monday, attendees marched over the Roberto Clemente Bridge and around downtown to protest the hydraulic fracturing and mountaintop removal coal mining that take place not far from Pittsb ...
  • Preview: Cry You One - bestofneworleans.com
    bestofneworleans.com Preview: Cry You One bestofneworleans.com The story's deeper meanings resonated with audiences elsewhere when the group toured with the show, including Kentucky audiences who saw similarities with the coal industry and mountain- top removal, Slie says. ArtSpot and Mondo ...
  • Several protesters arrested at PNC branch in U ...
    Several protesters arrested at PNC branch in U.S. Steel Tower WPXI Pittsburgh Police arrested seven environmental activists who blocked a downtown Pittsburgh bank as part of a protest of mountaintop-removal coal mining. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard said seven people were arrested at a PNC Ba ...
  • Mountaintop coal mining linked to stress, anxi ...
    Mountaintop coal mining linked to stress, anxiety in residents Healio There has been little research conducted on the mental health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining sites, but results from a study suggest that residents who live close to mining sites may be more susceptible to solastal ...

Memeorandum

  • Lonegan: The government shutdown cost me the e ...
    Darryl Isherwood / New Jersey Online: Lonegan: The government shutdown cost me the election  —  Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan (Saed Hindash/The Star-Ledger)  —  Though Republican Steve Lonegan publicly supported the shutdown of the federal ...
  • Russia bus blast: Islamist suspected (BBC)
    BBC: Russia bus blast: Islamist suspected  —  A suspected female suicide bomber has set off explosives on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, killing at least six people.  —  Officials believe the woman was from Dagestan in the North Caucasus and was ...
  • France in the NSA's crosshair : phone networks ...
    lemonde.fr: France in the NSA's crosshair : phone networks under surveillance  —  The future will perhaps tell us one day why France has remained so discreet in comparison with Germany or Brazil, for example, after the first revelations about the extent of the American electroni ...
  • Poll: Majority believe health-care Web site pr ...
    The Fix: Poll: Majority believe health-care Web site problems indicate broader issue with law  —  Most Americans say the rocky start for HealthCare.gov is a harbinger of bigger problems for the Affordable Care Act, according to results of a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
  • Facebook lets beheading clips return to social ...
    Leo Kelion / BBC: Facebook lets beheading clips return to social network  —  Facebook announced in May that it would ban videos showing graphic violence while it carried out a review  —  Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted an ...

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  • Roma couple charged with abducting 'blonde angel'
    Handout photo released by Greek Police on October 18, 2013 shows an unidentified blonde-haired named Maria, who was found near FarsalaA Roma couple were charged in Greece on Monday with abducting a young girl dubbed the "blonde angel", whose discovery has prompted thousands of calls from paren ...
  • 'Female suicide bomber' kills six on bus in Russia
    A handout photo provided on October 21, 2013 by the Russian Emergencies Ministry shows a bus damaged by explosion in the Volga River city of VolgogradA suspected female suicide bomber blew herself up on a bus packed with students in southern Russia on Monday, killing six people and raising sec ...
  • France, Mexico demand answers over US spying
    US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden speaks during a dinner with US ex-intelligence workers and activists in Moscow, on October 9, 2013France and Mexico have angrily demanded prompt explanations from the United States over new spying allegations leaked by former US security contractor Edward ...
  • Russia condemned over probe into Katyn massacr ...
    This picture taken on June 4, 2008 shows a woman visiting the memorial museum to the 22,000 Polish prisoners who were massacred at Katyn in 1940European judges on Monday condemned Russia for failing to adequately investigate the 1940 massacre of more than 20,000 Polish prisoners of war, but th ...
  • China court to issue Bo Xilai appeal decision ...
    Fallen Chinese Communist Party star Bo Xilai stands handcuffed in a courtroom flanked by police in Jinan, Shandong, China on September 22, 2013A Chinese court will rule Friday on the appeal of the once-powerful politician Bo Xilai, it announced on Monday, another step towards closing a scandal ...

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Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Millions Wrongly Treated for ‘Cancer,&#8 ...
    By: Sayer Ji, Founder Millions Wrongly Treated for \’Cancer,\’ National Cancer Institute Panel Confirms What this means is that not only are millions of screen-detected abnormalities not \’cancer\’ in the first place but even those which can be considered fast-growing are ...
  • Case Study: U.S. Military Killed 130,000 Peopl ...
    By Shepard Ambellas | October 20, 2013 | 2:43am EST | Editorial Words can’t describe the pain and suffering endured by survivors of the tragic 12-year wave of terror unleashed by the U.S. Government. Nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. The test was part of the ...
  • Obamacare levies fines on non-profit hospitals ...
    from Daily Caller: Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured Americans will be subjected to new levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new fines under Obamacare. A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new ...
  • ‘We say no to shale gas’: World unites against ...
    Activists from 26 countries participated in around 250 protests on Saturday to demonstrate against fracking technologies, which they say contaminate groundwater and hasten climate change. Global Frackdown, an annual event that takes place on October 19, targets fracking – a process used to extra ...
  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    by Catherine J. Frompovich The study that showed vaccines were responsible for causing autism-associated or autism-like symptoms from mercury in vaccines was done by CDC epidemiologist Tom Verstraeten using the CDC\’s massive Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) and presented at the Simpsonwood C ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Let’s learn about hyperinflation. Who kn ...
    Summary:  What makes an experiment is uncertainty about the outcome, no matter how great people’s confidence. That applies to the great monetary experiments now in progress by China, America, and Japan. Europe since 2008, the USA since 1998, and Japan since 1988 all have common histories: ...
  • Dr Hunt explains the great monetary experiment ...
    Summary: On the FM website we have followed the evolution of the great monetary experiment. After four years we have mostly questions. What have been the beneficial effects, and how large? What have been the ill effects today and in the future? Does quantitative easing act like an addictive drug ...
  • In “Network”, Howard Beale asks ho ...
    Summary:  On 16 December 1773 angry patriots dumped tea into Boston harbor. In the film “Network” Howard Beale yells that “he’s mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore.” But he’s unable to channel his anger into effective action, and so becomes an exempl ...
  • Occuply & Tea Party are alike, both saving Ame ...
    Summary: Collective action is democracy in action, unrestrained by the machinery of the formal political parties. Does the surge in political action of the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party Movement represent a new morning for America, appropriate at the start of a new millennium. Or are these pe ...
  • See American exceptionalism at work on the nat ...
    Summary: We have come to believe we are exceptional, not just morally, but also operationally. Beyond the need to plan and prepare for possible problems. Here we review how we came by this delusional belief, and examine how it plays out on a potentially serious problem: the growing US debt. . A ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Top of the Morning: Polio in Syria
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Suspected Cases of Polio in Syria The WHO is investigating potential cases of polio showing up in Syria. If confirmed, it would be the first cases in Syria since 1999.  “The organization said it received reports Thursday of ‘a cluster of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP ...
  • GOP Rep Angling for War with Iran Continues to ...
    Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) introduced a resolution this week that seeks to authorize the president to use force against Iran over its nuclear program. But his recent public statements on Iran have indicated that the Arizona Republican has little understanding of the subjec ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drone Strikes, the CIA ...
    “Drop the Pilot,” Economist, October 19, 2013. A 2009 poll in three of the tribal agencies found 52% of respondents believed drone strikes were accurate and 60% said they weakened militant groups. Other surveys have found much lower percentages in favour. But interviews by The Economist with twe ...
  • Saudi Arabia’s Big Security Council Blunder
    Saudi Arabia was elected by the General Assembly to serve on a two year term as one of the 10 non-permanent members of the Security Council. That was yesterday. Today, we learn that the Saudi government is turning down the position. Riyad is apparently making this dramatic gesture in protest of ...
  • Saudi Arabia Surprises World in Turning Down U ...
    CREDIT: Reuters The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia made the unprecedented decision to boycott the seat it had less than twenty-four hours ago won on the United Nations Security Council, blaming the body’s ineffectiveness in handling weapons of mass destruction and Syria. Saudi Arabia on Thursday ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Seven Stages of Important Black Film Fatigue
    If you live outside of major film markets like New York or Los Angeles, this weekend marked your first opportunity to see Steve McQueen's much-lauded 12 Years a Slave. But it's probable that you've already heard early buzz, either from fawning reviewers or from friends who've caught advance scr ...
  • Continuing the Republican Civil War with Immig ...
    Even before the shutdown crisis was over, President Obama was already making it clear that his next priority was going to be immigration reform. So can it actually happen? Right after the 2012 election, one Republican after another was saying that if reform didn't pass, their party was all but ...
  • Daily Meme: Immigration Reform, Take Two. Or Five.
    The shutdown is over, and American politics is back to its usual state of stasis. Will Congress turn its head back toward passing comprehensive immigration reform, or did our two-week vacation kill it? It looks like everyone's favorite House Republicans haven't decided to stop using the only st ...
  • Eric Schlosser, Bard of Folly
    It took decades after the invention of nuclear weapons for today’s taboos against them to take hold. Some witnesses to the first nuclear explosions apprehended their horror immediately. Some planners, civilian and military, fell in love. In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. built nuclear reactors i ...
  • Dick Cheney Still Thinks He Was a Character on ...
    Dick Cheney felt moved to write an entire book about the heart troubles he's had over the years, which I can understand. After all, we all find our particular maladies fascinating. What I don't get is why anybody else would care, since we don't tend to find other people's maladies interesting i ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • City Council Meeting in Leith, N.D., Disrupted ...
    A white supremacist who moved to the tiny North Dakota town of Leith two weeks ago was forcibly removed from a city council meeting last weekend after he arrived drunk and began confronting town residents. Law enforcement officers were called to remove Kynan Dutton, 29, last Friday as officials ...
  • Wounded Victim of Racist Serial Killer Recount ...
    Before Joseph Paul Franklin, the prolific racist serial killer, is executed, Terry Jackson-Mitchell wants to look the condemned man in the eye and tell him she forgives him for the nightmares and flashbacks that crashed into her life on a summer night in Utah 33 years ago. That’s when Franklin w ...
  • Keystone State Skinheads Hold Annual Leif Erik ...
    Skinheads at the staging point on Lemon Hill Drive This past Saturday morning, the Keystone State Skinheads (KSS) held their seventh annual rally in Philadelphia to celebrate Leif Erikson, the Nordic explorer who is believed to have been the first European to land in North America. The 40 or so ...
  • Anti-LGBT Activist Scott Lively Returns to Russia
    Scott Lively, the virulently anti-LGBT activist currently being sued for human rights violations regarding his role in the notorious anti-gay bill in Uganda, is in Russia this week participating in a planning committee meeting of the World Congress of Families (WCF), which was held October 15-17 ...
  • Seattle Metro’s Refusal to Run Anti-Jihad Ads ...
    Pamela Geller and her far-right Muslim-bashing organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, have announced they are striking back at “Sharia Enforcement” by suing the city of Seattle. Or someone. In a press release earlier this week headlined “We Are Suing the City of Seattle,” Geller ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Organic Consumers Association: Statement on GM ...
    Last week’s lawsuit, filed by the Washington State Attorney General against the Grocery Manufacturers Association for violating the state’s campaign finance disclosure laws, forced the GMA to disclose the names of the food companies that have donated to the campaign to defeat I-522.r ...
  • Child Victims of CIA Drone Strike to Appear Be ...
    On Tuesday 29 October, two children who were injured in a drone attack in North West Pakistan which killed their grandmother will appear, along with their father, at a briefing in the US Congress. Rafiq ur Rehman – a teacher in a primary school in North Waziristan – and his children ...
  • Netherlands Pushes Demand to Release the Arcti ...
    The Dutch government has lodged a rare application at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), asking it to order the immediate release of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and all those who were aboard for the peaceful protest against Gazprom’s Arctic oil platform, the ...
  • Delivering Petition Signatures from Around the ...
    Amnesty International USA today delivered more than 25,000 petition signatures from supporters throughout the U.S. and globally to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, demanding the immediate release of the last “Angola 3” prisoner Albert Woodfox. The human rights organization says after 38 ...
  • 10am Today: Thousands to March On Pittsburgh T ...
    This Monday thousands of youth activists from the Power Shift 2013 summit will take to the streets of Pittsburgh, PA to confront corporate polluters & demand they join the fight for 100% clean energy. Residents from Dimock, PA and Wyoming whose water has been contaminated by fracking will le ...

Common Dreams-Views

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Stradivarius offered by thieves for £100 could ...
    Violin made in 1696 was stolen at train station cafe in London in 2010 and recovered in west Midlands this yearA Stradivarius that thieves once tried to sell for £100 may fetch more than £2m when it goes for auction in December, ending its long association with an internationally acclaimed violi ...
  • US admits: French surveillance revelations rai ...
    White House makes frank admission over 'how our capabilities are deployed' following call between Obama and HollandePaul LewisAngelique Chrisafis
  • French anger over NSA surveillance dents diplo ...
    Knock-on effects of Edward Snowden revelations starting to affect US and UK trade relationships in Europe and beyondFrench outrage at the scale of NSA espionage is the latest in a series of aftershocks around the world triggered by Edward Snowden's revelations about US and British espionage that ...
  • Crystal Palace v Fulham – live! | Simon Burnton
    Minute-by-minute report: Can Crystal Palace get a much-needed win over their London rivals? Find out with Simon BurntonSimon Burnton
  • UK nuclear power plant contract: £80bn deal or ...
    Political parties and industry groups welcome low-carbon project as academics and campaigners question cost and wasteThe British energy secretary, Ed Davey, has signed the first new nuclear contract with French state-backed utility firm EDF, admitting only a clairvoyant could know the true cost ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • ISAF Casualties in Afghanistan Total 144 This Year
    Kabul, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) One soldier from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in Afghanistan, bringing the total number of casualties so far this year for the coalition of 50 countries to 144. Led by the North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) and the United Stat ...
  • UK commander praises Afghan forces
    An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier from 3 Brigade 209 Kandak looks through his rifle scope as he is trained on marksmanship skills in Helmand Province, by British and American ...
  • Afghan President in Official Visit to Tajikistan
    Kabul, October 21 (Prensa Latina) Afghan President Hamid Karzai begins today a two-day official visit to neighboring Tajikistan, invited by his peer, Emomali Rahmon, and accompanied by a high level delegation. The visitor's agenda, according to an official communiqu of the Afghan presidenti ...
  • Tajikistan backs Afghanistan in fighting terro ...
    DUSHANBE, October 21 (Itar-Tass) - Tajikistan supports Afghanistan in its fight against terrorism, extremism and other threats after NATO withdraws its troops after 2014, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon said. At the talks with his Afghani counterpart Hamid Karzai on Monday, Rakhmon said, " ...
  • Afghan official denies 2500 Pakistani prisoner ...
    An Afghan official Monday denied a statement by a Pakistani political leader that Afghanistan had agreed to release about 2,500 Pakistani prisoners.The issue had been raised by leaders of the Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam Fazal after talks in Kabul, Khaama Press reported.The party's deputy chief, Ma ...

Futurismic

  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
  • The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
    Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...
  • Improving Reality
    Improving Reality… that’s an ambitious title, no? I’d expect nothing less than ambition from Honor Harger and her crew at Lighthouse, though; this year’s IR (Thurday 5th September, Brighton UK; map here; tickets here) will be the third instalment of their ongoing mission ...
  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • National Park Service Whistleblower Settles Case
    A whistleblower at the National Park Service, Robert Danno, has settled his whistleblower retaliation case.  Mr. Danno, a decorated 30-year Park Ranger, had his career stunted after objecting to the destruction of tress just to give Redskins owner Dan Snyder a better view of the Potomac Riv ...
  • Federal Court Holds Internal Whistleblowers Pr ...
    In a well-reasoned decision, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts held that an employee of the New England Investment & Retirement Group, who complained to his employer's internal compliance department regarding potential securities violations, was fully protected under ...
  • British Government Considering Whistleblower R ...
    According to an October 10, 2013, article in The New York Times, the British government is now considering creating a reward system for whistleblowers, similar to those in the U.S. The article states: “Britain’s government will “consider the case for incentivizing whistle-blo ...
  • Firing Squad Photo Sends Chilling Message to A ...
    The Washington Times reported this morning that an online training manual for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives contains a photo of a firing squad, leading to the suggestion federal agents could face a firing squad for leaking government secrets. Stephen Kohn, executive dir ...
  • Proposed New York Law Provides Rewards and Pro ...
    Pending legislation in New York State would provide protection and compensation for whistleblowers who provide original information about violations of banking, insurance, and financial services laws to the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”).    Bi ...

TechDirt

  • Leak Shows NSA Grabbed Data On 70 Million Fren ...
    Another leak has been released from Edward Snowden's files, this one covered by French newspaper Le Monde. Sam Jones, writing for The Guardian, breaks down the details. The report in Le Monde, which carries the byline of the outgoing Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who worked with Snowden ...
  • Accidentally Revealed Document Shows TSA Doesn ...
    Jonathan Corbett, a long-time vocal critic of TSA body scanners, has been engaged in a lawsuit against the government concerning the constitutionality of those scanners. In the course of the case, the TSA gave him classified documents, which he was ordered not to reveal. In using some of that in ...
  • Author Claims Copyright Over Interview He Gave ...
    A bunch of folks have alerted me to this bizarre story of author Bill Bryson, known for his "humorous books on travel," along with his publisher Transworld (a division of Random House), who are apparently claiming that Bryson holds the copyright on an interview he gave 20 years ago to Mike Gerra ...
  • The Senate Is Sitting On A Devastating Report ...
    So much attention concerning the intelligence community lately has been focused on the NSA. There has been a bit of looking at the FBI as well, but for the most part the CIA has been left untouched -- even though when the Washington Post released details of the US's black budget (thanks to Ed Sn ...
  • Copyright As Censorship Again: Game Developer ...
    All weekend long folks have been submitting variations on this story of how a company called Wild Games Studio had issued a copyright takedown on an apparently scathing review of one of its games, called Day One: Garry's Incident, done on YouTube by popular gaming reviewer TotalBiscuit (whose na ...

VacTruth

  • NYC Mayor is Calling a Meeting to Force Vaccin ...
    If you thought things in the world of vaccines could not get any worse, then you were wrong. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City has called for a public hearing recommending that all children under the age of five whose parents want them to attend day care facilities be vaccinated.
  • Seven Year-Old Vaccine-Injured Boy Refused Com ...
    On September 25, 2013, the Daily Mail reported that seven year-old Josh Hadfield had been refused compensation by the UK government, despite being left with severe narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine in 2010.
  • Little Girl Unable to Attend School Because Ju ...
    A little girl who has adverse reactions to vaccines is denied vaccine exemptions and access to school.
  • How Pharmaceutical Companies Hide the Dangers ...
    A 1:50 rate of autism in the United States, increasing autoimmune disorders, seizures, allergies and many other illnesses and disorders. Despite all this, your pediatrician, health officials, governments and pharmaceutical companies proclaim that vaccines are very safe. Did you ever wonder how t ...
  • Have All Your Staff Vaccinated and We Will Giv ...
    According to MK News, the UK Government has decided there is more than one way to force hospital staff into receiving this year’s flu vaccine. Knowing that many hospitals are struggling financially, the government has decided to turn their hand to bribery.

BroadSnark

  • Harassment is About Power
    Yesterday it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his employees. Also a groper is  Kentucky state representative John A. Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier this week,  ...
  • Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
    Back when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around $1.35.  Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap. When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
  • What About the Hunger Strikes?
    Over the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Disaster Averted In Egypt-Ethiopia Relations, ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDisaster Averted In Egypt-Ethiopia Relations, Both Sides Move Closer To An Agreement Over Renaissance Dam Project disquietreservations.blogspot.co.ukBy Saman Mohammadi Related:   Morsi Defends Position In Looming Figh ...
  • U.S. “War On Terror” Has INCREASED Terrorism
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comU.S. “War On Terror” Has INCREASED Terrorism By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Charts Show that U.S. Policy Has Increased Terror Attacks The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to T ...
  • CryptoSeal VPN service opts to close down rath ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCryptoSeal VPN service opts to close down rather than grant NSA access RT.com CryptoSeal issued a Monday statement indicating that the company will still offer its VPN for businesses, but its customer-only service will no ...
  • Israel’s Elections Bring “Racism” to the Fore
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIsrael’s Elections Bring “Racism” to the Fore dissidentvoice.orgBy Jonathan Cook In some parts of Israel, voters in Tuesdays elections will be casting a ballot not on how well their municipality is run but on how to stop A ...
  • Debt Ceiling Deal: DC Wins, Americans Lose
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHere is Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk on last week’s spending and debt deal. Under Dr. Paul’s leadership, Campaign for Liberty will continue to make sure Congress knows we w ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Finian Cunningham: An Angel Song for Peace and ...
    Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa October 21, 2013 MyCatbirdSeat on Oct 21, 2013 ANGEL (by Finian Cunningham, originally from Belfast, Ire ...
  • Are We Being Served? By William Bowles
    by William Bowles Writer, Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 21 October 2013 Central to us on the left is the dilemma of a seemingly indifferent working class to the changes that impact directly not only on our material well-being but on the corporatisation of our cultural lives. Some argue that ...
  • Radioactive Water Spilling Over Containment Ba ...
    Dandelion Salad MOXNEWSd0tC0M on Oct 21, 2013 October 21, 2013 NHK News http://MOXNews.com *** Radiation Levels Spike 6500 Times Higher Than Yesterday In Groundwater At Fukushima MOXNEWSd0tC0M on Oct 18, 2013 October 18, 2013 NHK News; RT see Harvey Wasserman on the Ongoing Nuclear Disaster at F ...
  • Michael Hudson: QE, Neofeudalism and Privatiza ...
    by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com October 20, 2013 In Extraenvironmentalist #67 we discuss the implications of the bursting global credit bubble with economist and historian Michael Hudson. Our conversation covers many of the themes in Hudson’s new book, The Bubble and ...
  • Rick Rozoff: Time To Look At Human Dimension A ...
    by Rick Rozoff Writer, Dandelion Salad Stop NATO October 20, 2013 Press TV October 19, 2013 Press TV has conducted an interview with Rick Rozoff, from Stop NATO International Network, from Chicago, over the United States calling for legal immunity for any US soldiers left in Afghanistan beyond t ...

Your New Reality

  • China's So-Called "Ghost Cities" Now Filling U ...
    By Darryl Mason Western media got a good run of China's "Ghost Cities", numerous 'serious' newspaper stories, online slide shows, currents affairs stories, tens of million of hits and video video views, so all very popular. But not so very accurate: In the case of Henan’s Zhengzhou—frequently ...
  • "China Will Be The Centre Of The Global Film I ...
    Image via this great Joblo story  China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, has big plans for China's cinema industry, and he's cherry-picking the best talents in Hollywood to come and work for his studio. The Wall St Journal reports the property-and-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Grou ...
  • Kurt Cobain's Mad Bad Dream
    In the weeks leading up to the September 1993 release of Nirvana's In Utero album (title taken from a poem by his wife Courtney Love), Kurt Cobain explained what the Nevermind fame circus had done to his sleeping mind movies. "In my dreams, there's always this apocalyptic war going on between ...
  • Rupert Murdoch: I Don't Want To Bully The Comm ...
    By Darryl Mason Front page Murdoch tabloid attacks on prime minister Kevin Rudd Hard to believe the same person most responsible for the moral disintegration of newspapers in the West, and the destruction of dozens of competitor newspapers in Australia, actually once said ...
  • What Happened To All The Outtakes From Stanley ...
    Oh, Stanley Kubrick, what did you do? Here's Stanley Kubrick's friend and key assisstant through three decades, Leon Vitali, on why there are no 'gag reels' or even alternate takes of classic scenes from his movies, anywhere on his DVDs and BlueRays. And Why There Never Will Be: "Outtakes a ...

Wired - Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Flaming Star
    This spectacular image of the star AE Aurigae and its surrounding nebulosity was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Located in the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer, AE Aurigae ...     
  • Battling Space Junk With a Tractor Beam of Sta ...
    The growing problem of space junk around Earth could be cleaned up in part using the same forces that shock you when you rub your socks against the carpet. By shooting space debris with an electron beam, a charged spacecraft ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Bright Galactic ...
    This detailed view shows the central parts of the nearby active galaxy NGC 1433. The dim blue background image, showing the central dust lanes of this galaxy, comes from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The colored structures near the center ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Saturn From Above
    This portrait looking down on Saturn and its rings was created from images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 10, 2013. It was made by amateur image processor and Cassini fan Gordan Ugarkovic. This image has not been geometrically ...     
  • Watch Live: Partial Lunar Eclipse Darkens Moon ...
    Tonight there is a special double astronomy feature going on from the Slooh Space Camera. First, a partial lunar eclipse will create unusual shading across the moon's surface. Then, Slooh will train its telescopes on Mars, where comet ISON should ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine
    At the fringes, some observers reject the shared [US] assumptions, bringing up the historical record: for example, the fact that "for nearly seven decades" the United States has led the world in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Moshé-Machover: DeZionization – strategic cons ...
    As [the conflict] is caused by colonization, resolution requires decolonization. In this specific case, as the cause is Zionist colonization, what is required is deZionisation, overthrow of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Remembering Fouzi El-Asmar, poet of the Palest ...
    Fouzi’s work centered around Israel and the Palestinians, with particular focus on the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Following in the footsteps of his mother, Najla El-Asmar, who was an activist... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Palestinian journalist/author/poet/activist Fo ...
    Journalist Magda Abu Fadil remembers Palestinian activist Fouzi El-Asmar who died last month in the Washington DC area. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Fouzi El-Asmar: Al-Ard – the seed of the Pales ...
    Fouzi El-Asmar discusses Al-Ard (The Land), a political organization he helped found in Palestine during the late 1950s whose history and perspective have been marginalized if not largely absented... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Streaming music services: not cannibalizing CD ...
    Earlier this week David Byrne added his entry to the “artist foresees imminent end of music” category. In the last couple years these articles have focused on how streaming services are supposedly destroying the ability of artists to support themselves with their music. They are us ...
  • On supporting the Naked Capitalism fundraiser
    On Saturday Yves Smith kicked off her annual fundraiser for Naked Capitalism (NC). If you aren’t familiar with NC, there are few sites like it - ones that go against the prevailing currents of Internet convention.Fifteen years ago just having such a site was an accomplishment. As more pe ...
  • Coming Saturday, October 12th: Music for the M ...
    On Saturday, October 12th there will be a concert at the Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky to raise money to help fight mountaintop removal coal mining. Details on the Music for the Mountains 2 concert and its accompanying compilation album are here. It is supported by Ohio Citizen Action ( ...
  • The incredible shrinking Internet
    A couple of weeks ago, Yves Smith’s link roundup included a McClatchy piece about consumers dropping cable TV. She remarked: “Trust me, when you seem more consumers ditching cable, you’ll see the pipeline providers start charging based on how much you download a month.” ...
  • Is football on a glide path to obscurity?
    This post argues football may be about to experience a long, slow decline in popularity. First, two disclosures about why I may be predisposed to believing this - and one very important point of emphasis. Disclosures: 1) I am a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan, and since they returned to the NFL ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Can We Change the World Just by Changing Our O ...
    In one of the most iconic ads of the twentieth century, a Native American (actually, it was an Italian dressed up as a Native American) canoes through a river strewn with trash. He disembarks and walks along the shore as the passenger in a car driving past throws a bag of litter out the window. ...
  • 5 Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Highly Processe ...
    Want to gratify your sweet tooth but trying to avoid highly processed white sugar? Here are five eco-friendly alternatives to sugar, courtesy of the Sierra Club. Click here to read this article
  • Thousands Worldwide Urge Leaders to Ban Fracking
    On Saturday, Oct. 19, thousands of people joined together in an international day of action, with more than 250 events on six continents, calling for a ban on fracking.Click here to read this article
  • New Report Reveals Koch Brothers Could Make $1 ...
    The progressive think tank International Forum on Globalization (IFG) released a report today investigating how Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the Keystone XL pipeline is built.Click here to read this article
  • Biochar Helps Improve Atmospheric Co2 Levels a ...
    Lately, I've become impassioned with high-performance agriculture as an alternative to more harmful agricultural practices such as genetic engineering and chemical-dependent conventional farming.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Small and Big Pictures: Notes from a Dietetic ...
    I thought that coming to CLF would give me a big picture focus when thinking about improving the food environment. Instead, I got to consider the big and small pictures together.
  • CLF Week in Links: Fall Flurry of Events
    The burden of food safety should not be entirely on the consumers’ shoulders; while we can be expected to use proper, safe meat handling and cooking methods, the agencies charged with protecting our health must play a larger role.
  • New FAO Report on Livestock and Climate Change
    Why is there such a large discrepancy in estimates? One reason is that it depends on whether one is calculating the percentage nationally or globally.
  • CLF Week in Links: Salmonella, Monsanto, Catfi ...
    Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella. Last week I wrote that the federal government shutdown, in shuttering the CDC, would provide fertile ground for pathogens—and here we are, one week later, and at least 278 people nationwide have been sickened by a Salmonella outbreak in chicken. According to this ...
  • The Shutdown, the FDA, Antibiotics, and More
    It’s disturbing to me that the mutinous tantrum over Obamacare will affect the health of so many by disturbing operations at WIC and the Veterans Administration, but I am thankful that we can partially fulfill the right to food through SNAP and the federal school lunch program, at least through ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The IPCC Exposed
    The Corbett Report : includes many links to previous podcasts and sources cited including cap and trade links to oil industry promoting carbon taxes Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • U.S. Has Been "Torturing" Iran for 60 Years
    Begin with a military coup In 1979, the U.S. almost immediately turned to supporting Saddam Hussein in an assault against Iran, which killed hundreds of thousands of Iranians Why the Mafia principle.They overthrew a tyrant that the United States imposed Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Public "Education" has become indoctrination a ...
    School is about memorizing what you are told short term and repeating it. his is for the work force the most important quality in a worker bee actually is obedience. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Waste Heat Recovery Device Can Increase Car Mi ...
    Physicists at the University of Houstons physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity are working on an innovative waste heat recovery device that can increase car mileage by 5%. Submitted by Alex Clark to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • A Lesson Learned
    Melissa M.H This story brought tears to my eyes - Although my kids are considerate and thankful most times - I'm sure they would have benefited even more so with a lesson like this Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • Scientists Release Statement: No Consensus on ...
    There is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified foods and crops, according to a statement released today by an international group of more than 90 scientists, academics and physicians.
  • How to Turn a Republic Into A Serfdom
    The United States is quickly descending down the path of serfdom in a 21st century application of modern day feudalism.
  • In the Beginning There Was Monsanto
    Yes, life as we know it is ending. It is being replaced by designer genes constructed in a lab and set loose on the environment with reckless abandon. We eat them, breathe them, drink them, absorb them through our skin, and pass the genetic changes on to our children. We are the experiment.
  • Coexist with Monsanto or destroy it? Follow th ...
    “Hey, we’re all really nice people. Don’t get nasty. Monsanto is terribly misguided, so let the consumer know what he’s buying and let him make up his mind…”
  • Intestinal Disease, Immune Disease and GMOs
    Could crops that are genetically engineered as pesticide producers be a factor in the explosion of intestinal and immune disorders in the U.S.?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US-led soldier killed in south Afghanistan
    ShareThisUS-led soldier killed in south Afghanistan 20 Oct 2013 A US-led soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been killed in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance says. "An International Security Assistance Force service member die ...
  • Questions Surround Death of 2 Bay Area Transit ...
    ShareThisQuestions Surround Death of 2 Bay Area Transit Workers as Strike Continues 21 Oct 2013 Federal authorities on Sunday said they were investigating an accident that killed two workers for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system on Saturday, less than 48 hours after employees of the commuter rai ...
  • Highly radioactive water leaks at Fukushima as ...
    ShareThisHighly radioactive water leaks at Fukushima as TEPCO underestimates rainfall 20 Oct 2013 Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operating utility said on Monday, after it underestimated how much rain would fall at the plant a ...
  • DOD undertakes massive inoculation effort
    ShareThisHeads up! DOD undertakes massive inoculation effort 20 Oct 2013 The Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago had already administered 17,000 flu vaccines to active duty military, their dependents, veterans and its staff even before it held a walk-in flu clinic last Saturday ...
  • Two men charged with terrorism offences
    ShareThisTwo men charged with terrorism offences --Both men were arrested on 13 October following a swoop in which marksmen used special ammunition to stop a car on Mansell Street, near the Tower of London. 20 Oct 2013 Two men arrested in a dramatic counter-terrorism operation a week ago have ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Warning to Judge and Jurors in Grisham Trial
    20 October 2013 Mouse mutilated and published by US soldier on trial: CJ Grisham This week, the trial of CJ Grisham ended in a hung jury.  A source in the courtroom told me that the jury was 5:1 in favor of conviction. A retrial has been set for 18 November 2013. The judge and jury are ...
  • Afghanistan: A Bigger Monster
    10 October 2013 Just months ago Pentagon officials dismissed the idea of a total pullout from Afghanistan.  Today we are on the verge of ending negotiations on our future there, leading to the “zero option.”  Total withdrawal. If we execute a zero option, this is my basic worst-cas ...
  • Federal Government Explains Failure Effects to ...
    03 October 2013
  • Marine Statement on Bastion Attack
    01 October 2013 Commandant Announces Decision in Afghanistan Attack Investigation HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS, Washington, D.C. - The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen James F. Amos, has concluded that  two high-ranking Marine commanders must be held accountable for the consequences of la ...
  • Army Times: Fort Hood soldiers can face UCMJ i ...
    24 September 2013 According to the Army Times and many other publications, soldiers from Fort Hood are turning many Texans against them.  The base commander has finally put his boot down as a direct result of one Master Sergeant CJ Grisham who has been staging armed confrontations with pol ...

The Killing Train

  • Free, Tarek and John
    by Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy Note: this is a rather long article. If you prefer a PDF version, it is linked here. read more
  • Touchwood PR
    As the emergency contact for Tarek and John, I was happy to field media calls and requests. Now the emergency is over, and media are being handled by the most excellent and wonderful Touchwood PR. If you wish to schedule an interview with Tarek and John, pleaes contact Touchwood at press@touchwo ...
  • tarekandjohn.com
    When Tarek and John were arrested on August 16, we were taken by surprise. We used whatever tools we had to hand to get the message out. As their emergency contact, I used my own blog and my own twitter handle, and became one of their official spokespeople. In the intervening 50 days, we set up ...
  • Tarek and John are free
    Oct 6/13 Tarek and John are out of jail. Thank you to everyone who followed, supported, wrote letters, helped, worked, and kept going when this thing ended up going so much longer than we thought it would. read more
  • Tarek and John end hunger strike
    Oct 2/13, 8pm We learned today that Tarek and John have ended their hunger strike. They have resumed eating solid food under medical supervision. They saw a doctor, as well as staff from the Canadian Embassy, today. Tarek and John commenced their hunger strike on September 16, a month after the ...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling, the Budget ...
    “Who are the Beneficiaries of Raising the Debt Ceiling?” U.S. and world political and economic leaders are faced with what they describe as a ‘systemic catastrophe’: the inability to pay global creditors, including domestic and foreign banks, investors and governments, who hold $16.7 trillion in ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The New Great Game Round Up- October 20, 2013
    Clashes & Terror Attack Foiled in Russia, NATO’s South Caucasus Conquest, IMU Targets U.S. Enemies & 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, hegemon ...
  • Last Thoughts on Helen Thomas: American Icon & ...
    “Kings, queens & presidents––they were all just people to Helen Thomas” Family, friends and former colleagues of veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas gathered together inside of the National Press Club building in downtown Washington, D.C. on Saturday, October 5, 2013 for a memorial ser ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Burning Spear – “Slavery days” Burning Spear was the very first Soothing the Beast BFP Jamiol Music Pick. After 89 weeks, I thought it might be nice to revisit his music. Tonight’s piece is Slavery Days by once again… Burning Spear. The sound quality on this clip seems a lot better t ...

Afro Spear

  • “Western Churches Neglect Causes of Radi ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 How did radical Islam become a legitimate threat in sub-Saharan Africa? Should we care? Perhaps, because …Continue reading »
  • “Is ICC targeting Africa or vice versa?& ...
    There is a silent conflict blowing between the Africa Union (AU) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). This conflict started …Continue reading »
  • Sunday Inspirations
    Africa’s First Female Airline Captain  – Capt. Irene Koki Mutungi                          Click on image for story
  • From Mis-education to Self-education: Taking R ...
    “Currently, it is the schools that are majorly responsible for socializing, instilling values, moralizing and instructing Black learners. I believe …Continue reading »
  • sat’day riddymz
    5 of The Greatest Socially Conscious African Musicians…EVER!                             Click on image below

Tikun Olam

  • Shmuley Boteach’s Jewish Histrionics
    You have to read this to believe it.  Shmuley Boteach and his new billionaire pal, Sheldon Adelson, recently hopped into bed with Rwanda’s mass killer Paul Kagame and feted him as a special humanitarian.  Despite the fact that he played a major role in the killing of 4-million Congolese ov ...
  • Did Israel Leak Story about Turkish Intelligen ...
    David Ignatius and the Wall Street Journal reported this week that after the Mavi Marmara massacre, in which the IDF executed nine Turks aboard the vessel, Turkey took its revenge by betraying a cell of Iranian agents of the Mossad.  The Israeli intelligence agency, since David Ben Gurion first ...
  • Cronyism Israel-Style: ‘That’s What Friends ar ...
    Remember that wonderful Bachrach-David song, That’s What Friends are For?  It should be the ironic sound track of this post about the cronyism and self-dealing of one of Israel’s better-connected political operatives, Zeev Bielski.  Bielski is a former Kadima MK and power broker who ...
  • Art of the Con: Israel-Style
    Much of what I do here is based on trust.  Trust with my sources.  Trust between you, the reader and I.  Your trust in my judgment as a researcher and blogger.  This, as I’ve written in the past, is a very delicate dance.  Like with any complex dance, it’s easy to get the steps wrong ...
  • Iran Hacks Azerbaijan’s Israeli-Made Drone Fleet
    The Israeli source who conveyed to me the crisis in Israel’s drone fleet has added that the Iranians have hacked Azerbaijan’s Israeli-made drone fleet as well: Using [a nearly identical drone] to the fallen Hermes 450, several months ago IAF…drones also failed in Azerbaijan.  [ ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Iceland and the World Cup
    As a casual soccer fan, I’m intrigued by the remarkable fact that Iceland is one of eight European teams fighting for the last four of the 13 spots allotted to European teams in the 32-team World Cup Final, to be played next summer in Brazil. It seems incredibly unlikely that it would be p ...
  • (Late) Sunday Book Review: A History of Air Wa ...
    John Andreas Olsen’s A History of Air Warfare is the companion volume to his Global Air Power, and is by far the stronger of the two volumes. The collection includes chapters on air warfare in World War I, the European and Pacific theaters of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Arab-Israeli ...
  • Counter-Besmirchment Team, Go!
    JenBob explained: On the blogs, the fight was particularly fierce. Fox PR staffers were expected to counter not just negative and even neutral blog postings but the anti-Fox comments beneath them. One former staffer recalled using twenty different aliases to post pro-Fox rants. Another had one h ...
  • “Freedom of Speech” Is Not “Freedom From Criti ...
    When an article starts out like this, we can safely say that its chances of making a decent argument are non-existent: If you want to know how unhinged PC has become, look no further than the controversy over sports teams with offensive names. Not only is “PC” being invoked at this l ...
  • Would-be Mentors: Don’t Be Creepy. Would-be Pr ...
    Responding to the discussion of experiencing sexual harassment by Hannah Waters and Monica Byrne, Laura Helmuth makes a couple good points: Before this week, the word I often heard people use to describe Zivkovic was mentor. And the mentor-mentee relationship is one of the most fraught of adulth ...

Desert Research Institute

  • A new look at air pollution sources and atmosp ...
    New research from DRI provides first thorough analysis of emissions from outdoor cremation rituals in India and Nepal.
  • DRI Open House to Feature Latest Solar Technology
    JoinNV Energy, DRI’s renewable energy experts and research scientists for a Solar Celebration on Saturday, October 5th at DRI’s Renewable Energy Deployment and Display (REDD) Facility for a hands-on tour.
  • Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.
  • Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.
  • A century of human impact on Arctic climate in ...
    New study authored by Canadian and American investigators and published in Nature Scientific Reports indicates that both anthropogenic and natural factors account for Arctic surface temperature variations from 1900 to the present. Read more...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • French Utility Company Agrees to Build Major N ...
    The British government and the French state-controlled utility company, EDF Group, have agreed to build the U.K.'s first nuclear power plant in a generation. The new plant, to be built at Hinkley Point in southwest England, is part of the British government's ongoing efforts to cut carbon emissi ...
  • Rising Waters: How Fast and How Far Will Sea L ...
    Although the latest U.N. climate report significantly increases its projections for sea level rise this century, some scientists warn even those estimates are overly conservative. But one thing is certain: Predicting sea level rise far into the future is a very tricky task. BY NICOLA JONES
  • Austrian Team Wins U.S. Department of Energy S ...
    Employing creative ventilation and natural wood, a team from Austria won the 2013 Solar Decathlon, a biennial competition for solar houses sponsored by U.S. Click to Enlarge Solar Decathlon Team Austria Department of Energy. The winning design features large living spaces with nat ...
  • Climate-Related Disasters Will Keep Impoverish ...
    Extreme weather events driven by climate change will exacerbate poverty in regions where people are already among the world's poorest, according to a study by the U.K.'s Overseas Development Institute. Where disasters TheHumanitarianCoaliton.ca Floods in Mozambique such as drought are com ...
  • Photo Essay: Focusing a Lens on China's Enviro ...
    Sean Gallagher Photographer Sean Gallagher has lived and worked in China for seven years, visiting nearly all of its provinces as he documents the country’s daunting ecological problems and its widely varied landscapes. In a Yale Environment 360 photo essay, the Beijing-based photojournali ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Stanford neuroscientist: ’We’re now able to ea ...
    Neuroscientists at Stanford University have made a major breakthrough with regards to how the human brain engages in quantitative thought, and some say it’s opening the door for being able to someday eavesdrop on the mind’s inner-workings. According to the scientists who conducted the study, how ...
  • FUK’D: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Continues, Jap ...
    Attention Fashion Forward Fukushima Workers Here’s some lead underwear for you, and a carbon swimsuit. If the radiation doesn’t kill you while swimming, your 7 lbs of underwear will certainly drown you. But the situation at Fukushima is ’contained’, so what are we even worrying about, right? Got ...
  • Tech lets users feel 3D objects on flat screens
    Our smartphones and tablets may be able to show us what things look and sound like, but with their flat glass screens, there’s no way that they could indicate what something feels like ... right? Actually, they may soon be able to do that, too. Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh have dev ...
  • The I Ching is an uncertainty machine
    Forget prophecy and wisdom. Using the I Ching is a weirdly useful way to open your mind to life’s unexpected twists I stepped into the dark of the ramshackle hillside temple. It was a hot day, and the climb had been steep. There were no other tourists around. The only people I passed on my way u ...
  • Casualty catastrophe - Cell phones & child brains
    "Insurers stop covering for cell phone use, called the next ’casualty catastrophe’ after tobacco and asbestos..." Tune into Red Ice Radio: Walter Graham - Wi-Fi, Cellphone Radiation, Microwaves, Electro-smog & Fluoride Sabina DeVita - Electromagnetic Pollution, The Silent Invisible Pollutant & E ...

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 9/11 Truth Petitions/Polls and Debunking of De ...
    Scroll down past the first four petitions for commentary. All petitions in this post listed in order from highest to lowest amount of signatories as of the afternoon of 10/21/2013: Petition to the Senate to Investigate Oddities Involving 9/11 Terrorist Attacks sponsored by Citizens for Leg ...
  • WhatReallyHappened.com Picks Up Our Recent Art ...
    http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/277513 FLASHBACK - New WTC Dust Study Looks Set to Confirm Nano-thermite Did you know that a recent survey concludes that nearly half of everyone that sees the video of the 9/11 collapse of WTC7 suspects controlled demolition? Now is the perfect time to remin ...
  • New Ebook Published by Physicist Dr. Crockett ...
    I was just surfing around on the Facebook group 9/11 Truth Movement and stumbled across the following recent post there by Debunking the Debunkers blog contributor Adam Taylor concerning Dr. Grabbe's new book. This is great timing, as I've just started making Amazon.com widgets in an effort to g ...
  • Kevin Ryan's NEW BOOK 2013 "Another Nineteen"
    Published on Sep 9, 2013 Another Nineteen - Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects. Kevin Ryan talks at the August 9, 2013, Veterans For Peace National Convention about American involvement that made 9/11 possible. Starting with Dick Cheney - Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld - Secretary of Defe ...
  • Wayne Madsen 2013 "Voices from the Grave"
    Published on Oct 14, 2013 Wayne Madsen 2013 "Voices from the Grave" 9/11: Advancing the Truth Washington, DC September 13-15, 2013 dc911truth.org This historic national 9/11 truth conference was held September 14-15, 2013 on the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the events of September ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Travel companies join Botswana boycott despite ...
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled, but the Botswana government says it has an 'uninterrupted record of upholding the rule of law for all citizens'.© SurvivalOnly weeks after Survival International called for a boycott of Botswana to ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretl ...
  • The Golden Dawn Murder Case Larry Summers and ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi.  But I don't believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife:  The confessed killer is some twisted member of Golden Dawn, a p ...
  • Karl Rove’s Carolina Scheme Faces Justice
    By Greg Palast. Updated from the original article published on TheMudflats.net Note from TheMudflats.net: In 2011 Karl Rove wrote a column called “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012” - Rove was betting on North Carolina to be a swing state for the Republicans... Romney took the state but to Rov ...
  • Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Joseph Stiglitz couldn't believe his ears.  Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America's economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns ...
  • Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretl ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Australian Researcher Finds Mercury Poisoning ...
    SafeMinds proudly announces the launch of its new documentary: From Acrodynia to Autism: Mercury Across Generations, More Evidence of Harm. This heartbreaking story about the forgotten childhood illness, acrodynia, has lessons for us today as we face an eerily similar...
  • Pediatrician F. Edward Yazbak on Dr. Tom Insel ...
    Note: Thank you Vaccination News for allowing us to excerpt this article. F. Edward Yazbak MD Many thousands of American children have developed autism. The Institute of Medicine’s Immunization Safety Review Committee held its ninth and probably its most important...
  • Things to Know or Do When You’re Up Against a ...
    By Cathy Jameson October is National Bully Prevention Month. It is National Vaccine Injury Month. Ironic, no? Here are some recent vaccine-related news articles posted on the web during October: High Court Orders Two Sister Must Receive MMR Vaccine Announcing...
  • Best of: Autism From a Flu Shot... in 1937?
    We first ran this post in November of 2010. Fall is time for the flu shot push from coast to coast. By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill Seventy-three years ago, Elizabeth Peabody Trevett, a pediatrician and pioneer in promoting mass...
  • For Better of For Worse
    Today is my 22nd wedding anniversary. I think of the young women getting married today, tomorrow, last month and wonder how many will have to face an autism diagnosis in their precious child? 1 in 5000? Heck no. 1 in...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Scientists Release Statement: No Consensus on ...
    There is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified foods and crops, according to a statement released today by an international group of more than 90 scientists, academics and physicians.
  • How to Turn a Republic Into A Serfdom
    The United States is quickly descending down the path of serfdom in a 21st century application of modern day feudalism.
  • In the Beginning There Was Monsanto
    Yes, life as we know it is ending. It is being replaced by designer genes constructed in a lab and set loose on the environment with reckless abandon. We eat them, breathe them, drink them, absorb them through our skin, and pass the genetic changes on to our children. We are the experiment.
  • Coexist with Monsanto or destroy it? Follow th ...
    “Hey, we’re all really nice people. Don’t get nasty. Monsanto is terribly misguided, so let the consumer know what he’s buying and let him make up his mind…”
  • Intestinal Disease, Immune Disease and GMOs
    Could crops that are genetically engineered as pesticide producers be a factor in the explosion of intestinal and immune disorders in the U.S.?

new geography

  • Taking Flight from Asia
    Viewed from a 50-year perspective, the rise of East Asia has been the most significant economic achievement of the past half century. But in many ways, this upward trajectory is slowing, and could even reverse. Simply put, affluence has led many Asians to question its cost, in terms of f ...
  • There’s Real Economic Development Gold in El D ...
    For centuries, explorers searched for the legendary golden city of El Dorado, seeking instant wealth in the jungles of South America. But today’s treasure trove may be found much closer to home; cities like El Dorado, Arkansas, for example, that have successfully linked their economic ...
  • Where Are The Boomers Headed? Not Back To The City
    Perhaps no urban legend has played as long and loudly as the notion that “empty nesters” are abandoning their dull lives in the suburbs for the excitement of inner city living. This meme has been most recently celebrated in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Both stori ...
  • My Presence Is a Provocation
    The urbanist internet has been a ga ga over an article by artist and musician David Byrne (photo credit: Wikipedia) called “If the 1% stifles New York’s creative talent, I’m out of here.” Now David Byrne himself is at least a cultural 1%er, and at with a reported net wort ...
  • Middle-Wage Jobs That Have Survived, and the S ...
    Middle-skill jobs are in the same camp as green jobs, STEM jobs, and other groups of occupations that garner lots of attention: They can be defined many ways, by many rubrics. Regardless of the definition, however, it’s clear that middle-skill, or middle-wage, jobs have been in decline f ...

water.org

  • Empowering 500,000 for safe water
    The Caterpillar Foundation expands partnership with new commitment to Water.org. Through this remarkable partnership we will accelerate our impact significantly and empower nearly 500,000 people with access to safe water and sanitation.
  • Cooking with Water
    Clean water isn't just the cornerstone of life, it's the foundation of a healthy, delicious meal.
  • $79 and 45 days later
    In the villages in India, women of all age groups fetch water for their household consumption. Despite her growing age, Siddamma continues to fetch water. She is 53 years old and lives in Karnataka, India.
  • Building a Better Future
    Every single day, an unsafe, open-air water point serves about 7,500 people living in the mountains surrounding Corail Thor, Haiti. Now, thanks to the generous support of the Cartier Charitable Foundation, our local partner ASSODLO has begun building a simple, but transformative, gravity-fed, sp ...
  • Making Toilets Affordable
    Shanti, from Katihar, Bihar did not have a toilet at her house and used to go to the railway tracks for open defection. It always seemed awkward to defecate in open; especially when there were trains passing through, however, due to financial constraints they could never construct a toilet in th ...

Cryptogon

  • NSA Intercepts Millions of Telephone Calls&#82 ...
    Via: AFP: France and Mexico have angrily demanded prompt explanations from the United States following “shocking” new spying allegations leaked by former US security contractor Edward Snowden. The reports published in French daily Le Monde and German weekly Der Spiegel reveal that th ...
  • Outsourcing Chicken Processing to China
    [???] Via: Bloomberg: Food-safety advocates are raising alarms over a decision by the Obama administration to permit chicken processed in China to be sold in the U.S. even after several high-profile incidents of food contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in addressing a decade-long ...
  • China: Smog Emergency Shuts City of 11 Million ...
    Via: Reuters: Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China’s largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country’s first major air pollution crisis of the winter. An index measuring PM2.5, or particulate ...
  • Japan: Celibacy Syndrome
    Via: Guardian: 45% of Japanese women aged 16-24 are ‘not interested in or despise sexual contact’. More than a quarter of men feel the same way. … Japan’s under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. Millions aren’t even dating, and increasing numbers c ...
  • Robot Baristas
    Via: Quartz: In a common area at the University of Texas at Austin, the Briggo coffee kiosk, covered in fake wood paneling and a touch screen and not much else, takes up about as much space as a pair of phone booths. Its external appearance was designed by award-winning industrial designer Yves ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Another One Trillion Dollars ($1,000,000,000,0 ...
    Did you know that the U.S. national debt has increased by more than a trillion dollars in just over 12 months?  On September 30th, 2012 the U.S. national debt was sitting at $16,066,241,407,385.89.  Today, it is up to $17,075,590,107,963.57.  These numbers come directly from official U.S. govern ...
  • 12 Shocking Clues About What America Will Look ...
    The collapse of American society is accelerating.  For the moment, much of our social decay is being masked by the tremendous level of affluence that we are experiencing.  It has been reported that 4 out of every 5 adults in the United States "struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance ...
  • 9 Signs That China Is Making A Move Against Th ...
    On the global financial stage, China is playing chess while the U.S. is playing checkers, and the Chinese are now accelerating their long-term plan to dethrone the U.S. dollar.  You see, the truth is that China does not plan to allow the U.S. financial system to dominate the world indefinitely.  ...
  • The Coming Food Stamp Riots
    It may not happen this month, or even this year, but food stamp riots are coming to America.  In fact, we got a small preview of the coming food stamp riots this past weekend when a "temporary system failure" caused food stamp cards to stop working in 17 U.S. states.  Within hours, there were "m ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Desertification in MONGOLIA (Google / UN-OHRLLS)
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification   Government Policy to Combat Desertification – UN-OHRLLS GOBI DESERT and Desertification in MONGOLIA. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND GREEN DEVELOPMENT. Main natural ecosystem types. http://www.unohrlls.org/UserFiles/…/Desert%20of%20M ...
  • A strong link between prairie dogs and the pro ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/eliminating-prairie-dogs-can-lead-desertification Eliminating prairie dogs can lead to desertification by Sarah Zielinski Prairie dog haters, be warned: Removing the species you consider a pest could rui ...
  • Acacia’s plan for sustainability in Tunisia (G ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.wamda.com/2013/10/tunisia-startup-fights-desertification-creates-spaces-women-succeed In Tunisia, startup fights desertification and creates spaces for women to succeed by Wiem Melki ………………. Acacia’s p ...
  • Monitoring team to fight desertification in Ni ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://premiumtimesng.com/news/146874-nigeria-sets-monitoring-team-fight-desertification-official.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nigeria-sets-monitoring-team-fight-desertification-official Nigeria sets up monitoring team to ...
  • Water for health, food security and economic p ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46214&Cr=water&Cr1=#.UlktGFBMig0 Water holds key to sustainable development, UN chief tells Budapest summit Water holds the key to sustainable development. We need it for health, food security and economic progress. Yet, each year br ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Russian demonstrator sent for psychiatric "tre ...
    bolotnaya.JPG MARIA C., a Russian activist, comments on the sentencing of Mikhail Kosenko, who was arrested at one of last year’s demonstrations. To find out more, come to the meeting at 5.0 pm, Satur ...
  • Who can ride the garment tiger?
    RMG_roadblock-for min_wage-Sep2013-Dhaka.jpg On Saturday September 21st there began a 10 day mass agitation by Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment(RMG) workers demanding a 170% increase in their minimum wa ...
  • Another Abahlali baseMjondolo activist murdere ...
    Nqobile Nzuza, 17 years, old was shot dead by the police yesterday morning on a road blockade. She was shot in the back, twice. This is the statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo. read more
  • Joint declaration for an inclusive and anti-ra ...
    stopracism.gif Words like shock and horror do not do enough to express our disgust before the hate crime perpetrated Saturday afternoon against the Chicoutimi Mosque. We who are active every day teari ...
  • Airstrikes Threat On Syria! Third World War? N ...
    577319_255469284567025_657820563_n.jpg http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/airstrikes-threat-on-syria-third-world-war-no-war-but-the-class-war/ http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/wp-content/upload ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed ever goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed every goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY         &#16 ...
  • NSA + DARPA + “Progressives” = DEE ...
    ALERT!  Tomorrow, the 12th Anniversary of 9-11, my associates and I had long planned on conducting another massive protest of NSA, including a candlelight vigil, on the steps of the Utah State Capital.   There we had made plans to present a formal Petition for Redress of Grievances exactly as ou ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • 7 Stunning Passive Houses That Will Cost Just ...
    It is getting cold here in England, and I’m preparing for the yearly tradeoffs between comfort, carbon emissions and heating bills that are part of living in a house with reasonable but not great insulation. For the 30,000 or so owners of passive houses these compromises are a thing of the past. ...
  • Carbon Pollution Standards and Permits: What's ...
    A lot of people were confused by the Supreme Court’s decision to review one narrow aspect of EPA’s carbon pollution regulations. Some reporters got it right, but others got mixed up by the spin and swirl of certain Washington lawyers on the losing side.read more
  • Reading The Renewable Energy Tea Leaves In Lat ...
    We got all excited when our friends over at the SUN DAY Campaign tipped us off to the latest federal report on newly installed electrical generating capacity in the US, given that the overall picture looks so rosy for renewables. However, the devil is in the details.read more
  • Climate Departure: New Study Projects Timing o ...
    Planning for a sustainable future is obviously made much more difficult when a rapidly changing climate is added to the equation. Planning effective policy and development goals will depend greatly on where we find ourselves in ten, twenty, thirty or fifty years.read more
  • GE White Paper: Age of Gas To Bring Greater Fl ...
    Denser networks for natural gas will contribute to greater flexibility and improved economics, according to a new white paper released by GE. The paper, called the Age of Gas, argues that the expanding network of natural gas infrastructure expected from the gas boom, will enhance the industry.re ...

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Guantanamo Hunger Striking Continues
    by Stephen Lendman In early February, detainees began hunger striking for justice. Dozens joined others. Numbers rose to about 130. Some were force-fed. Doing so constitutes torture. Most detainees continued courageously for months. About two dozen refuse food now. Brutalizing conditions ...
  • Suffocating Palestine Toward Extinction
    by Stephen Lendman Israel wants Palestine to disappear. Stealing all valued Judea and Samaria areas advances its agenda. So do other lawless acts. Gaza's siege is Exhibit A. Imposing it has nothing to do with security. It's called the world's largest open air prison for good reason. It fo ...
  • War on Terror Advocate to Head Homeland Security
    by Stephen Lendman Obama intends to nominate former Defense Department general counsel Jeh Johnson as new DHS chief. He's responsible for endorsing some of Washington's most lawless policies. His rap sheet reveals great cause for concern. More on him below. Post-9/11, police state terror ...
  • Study Shows Palestinian Authority Corruption
    by Stephen Lendman Palestinians under PA governance are ill-served, abused, lied to, exploited and otherwise mistreated. Illegitimate president Mahmoud Abbas is a longtime Israeli collaborator. Betrayal pays well. He amassed a personal fortune. It's stashed in overseas bank accounts and ot ...
  • Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling the Budget D ...
    James Petras Introduction US and world political and economic leaders are faced with what they describe as a ‘systemic catastrophe’: the inability to pay global creditors, including domestic and foreign banks, investors and governments, who hold $16.7 trillion in US Treasury not ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Watch CCPA Saskatchewan's presentation of ...
    On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives presented a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page reflects on his tenure as the first PBO in Canada and the identifies the obstacles ...
  • Pete Hudson, weighs in on seniors and educatio ...
    See latest Fast Facts published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 17.
  • Join us for Ed Finn's book launch and ret ...
    He's the brains behind the CCPA Monitor. He's a true legend. It’s hard to believe, but Ed Finn will be retiring next spring. Join us Thursday, November 21st in Ottawa, as we celebrate Ed’s eventful career and the release of his long-awaited memoirs.  For details about the book launch and for ti ...
  • Making the case for postal banking in Canada
    A new CCPA study finds that the traditional financial banking sector is not meeting the needs of all Canadians. According to the study there are many Canadians in large regions of the country not served by banking institutions, and an estimated 3% to 15% of Canadians do not have a bank account. ...
  • Toronto's "Hot Jobs" or McJobs?

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Ice That Burns
    Methane hydrates are a huge natural gas resource, but are they worth the environmental risk?
  • Why Gasoline Prices are Falling
    Fall is always a welcome change of pace for most people after a long, hot summer. Not only from the temperatures, but fall almost always brings relief at the gasoline pump. Robert Rapier explains.
  • Government Mandated Spending: A Lesson in Wast ...
    The EPAct forced the DOE to spend money on what essentially amounted to the least stupid ideas, writes Robert Rapier. In many cases it was recognized that there was little chance of success, but the money had to be spent.
  • Nonrenewable Renewables?
    The Energy Experts Reconvene at the WSJ Generally when I find myself having to write a follow-up post to something I wrote, it’s because I obviously didn’t make my points clearly enough. I found this to be the case during a lively Twitter discussion following my latest contribution t ...
  • The Hydrogen Economy Revisited
    Some readers are aware that I am presently in Arizona working on a project. At some point I will write an in-depth article about the things I am working on, but today I want to pull the curtain back just a bit. In a series of articles in 2010, I wrote about methanol’s potential as an alter ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Quixey
    Tags: apps, search engine, ipad, search, searchengine, android, app, quixey, engineby: John Evans
  • Howard Gardner: ‘Multiple intelligences’ are n ...
    Comments:"It’s been 30 years since I developed the notion of “multiple intelligences.” I have been gratified by the interest shown in this idea and the ways it’s been used in schools, museums, and businesses around the world. But one unanticipated consequence has driven me to distraction—and tha ...
  • Do Your Students Know How To Search? - Edudemi ...
    Tags: search, research, google, studentsby: John Evans
  • 5 Reasons to Teach Kids to Code | Ed Tech Ideas
    Comments:"With the Hour of Code coming up (December 9-15), here is a great infographic from Kodable explaining why coding is such a useful skill for kids (and adults) to learn." - John EvansTags: reasons, teach, kids, code, infographicby: John Evans
  • How Inquiry-Based Learning Works With STEM - E ...
    Comments:"Learning through inquiry is not a new concept – at all. Much of the more general life- learning that we do as humans is based on inquiry. Here’s a basic example: As a baby, you saw a ‘thing’ across the room. Your little brain wondered what it was, so you crawled over to it and inspecte ...

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Dallas Cops Shoot Mentally Ill Man, Claim He ' ...
    A Dallas police officer is finding out the hard way piling false charges onto someone you shot is no longer a surefire way to escape the repercussions of your crimes. From the AP: Surveillance video showing a Dallas police officer shooting a me...
  • DC Police Officer Charged After Beating Up Sto ...
    A D.C. cop who felt it appropriate to beat a store clerk for making a snarky comment, then falsely charge the man for assaulting an officer apparently didn't consider the possibility he was being filmed in the shoe store he carried out his assaul...
  • VIDEO: Police Deploy Four Sniper Teams in Down ...
    Snipers conducting surveillance at a New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival Via: LightspeedLiberty...
  • Americans Sign Petition to Support "Nazi-Style ...
    After illustrating their enthusiasm for repealing the Bill of Rights, a video shows Americans happily signing a petition to support a *Nazi-style Orwellian police state,* in what easily represents the most shocking footage of its kind to date. C...
  • Cops Get "Protected and Served," Don't Like It
    Thomas Nestel, the Philadelphia Transit Authority police chief, is aghast over the refusal of bystanders to help a transit cop * Sam Wellington * being beaten up by one of their fellow citizens that he*d been trying to arrest. *I was horrified. I was...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Europe plans 3D printing metal parts for space ...
    The European Space Agency wants to use 3D printing for metal parts, including entire satellites, and is bringing together 28 institutions to help them do it. Not only would there be no waste in creating the parts, they would be much lighter since they won’t need bolts and fasteners. This t ...
  • Tonight We Fight – “Rock Bottom” Official Lyri ...
  • Microsoft will be most valuable company in fiv ...
    Microsoft is way undervalued, has enormous revenues, and expanding businesses, says an asset management firm Longboard Asset Management. The driver for its growth will be dominance in the enterprise cloud, duel boot Android / Windows devices, Office 365, enterprise software, and more. Microsoft ...
  • Cleantech VC investments collapse
    Venture capital investing in cleantech is way down, below 2006 levels. Worse, most of the VC investment is in existing companies with little in new and early-stage companies. The third quarter of 2013 saw the 7th consecutive drop in cleantech venture investing. In Q3 there were 40 deals and $297 ...
  • Ain’t Done Nothing If You Ain’t Been Called A Red
    I’m not a Red, however I love the fighting spirit of this song, presumably written during the glory days of the American Socialist / Communist Left in the 1930′s. “when I was just a little thing I used to love parades with banners, bands and red balloons and maybe lemonade when ...

Just World News

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frogblog

  • Our oceans are dying
    I’ve been reading some interesting ocean articles this week. First up is the harrowing tale of an Australian sailors recent journey “The Ocean is broken”, second is Tim Flannery’s exceptional must-read “They’re taking over!” and lastly this crucial study investigating the impact of climate chang ...
  • European trip thoughts
    I’ve just returned from a nearly three week long work trip to Europe. I started the trip with Tau Henare and Darien Fenton, as part of a NZ Parliamentary delegation, and then I headed off by myself to talk to various policy and political groups.Here are a few thoughts from the trip. We sta ...
  • Point of order
    Yesterday in Parliament I asked Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce about the SkyCity deal, and whether the Government would delay the bill in the House until after John Banks’ court case was resolved. As some of you may have seen or heard, it was pretty interesting. Not just becaus ...
  • The human side of mining
    This is a powerful story about the effects of historical mercury mining in a community where new mining is proposed. We’ve obtained the transcript of the Radio New Zealand story that ran this morning so you can read why Ngati Hau claimants are united in their opposition to mining in the fu ...
  • International Day for Eradicating of Poverty
    Today I asked Paula Bennet what she will do to ensure beneficiaries are able to get their legal entitlements. I mentioned just three examples that are symbolic of what community advocates have told us is symptomatic of a culture of blame and suspicion that make it “near impossible for peop ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • IC 412: For Colored Boys Who Listen to Drake ...
    Pacific Rim Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm NYCC They Live and the most awesome bad fight of all time Bedazzled dildos SNL and lack of black women talent Adrian Peterson is actually a good father King Kendrick Rap God Drake gets emotional….again Skinny jeans music Drake Slander Share with ...
  • IC 411: #NeverForget Travis the Chimp
    The NFL and Breast Cancer Awareness Going overboard with Breast Cancer Awareness month The Government Shutdown Just how dumb Republicans are Obamacare vs Affordable Care Act Fuck George Zimmerman’s wife Woman 0 Tiger 1 GTA Online Share with your friends:
  • IC 410: Phone Wars
    GTA V What might be in store for us in GTA Online and possible dlc Next gen systems The Iphone 5c At what point do we not need a faster phone? Droid vs Iphone….who cares? Kanye is right………..and an asshole Share with your friends:
  • IC 409: Jesus Smash
    GTA V is the game of the year….period Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson Russell Simmons rewrites history on the the Harriet Tubman Sex Tape Video Hollywood isn’t starving for creativity Passion of the Christ wasn’t a good movie Are there any movies that shouldn’t be remad ...
  • IC 408: The Can’t U Niggas Troll Convention
    Phenom from Where’s My 40 Acres is a guest Why Kriss doesn’t Hookah Kev’s story of the bitter bitch at work The Cult of Rod and why some nigga’s just suck at podcasting Rules for Podcasting #SoftC and their Cunt Convention Just being a shitty person with a shitty characte ...

Simple Climate

  • Braving African piracy reveals abrupt rainfall ...
    After Peter deMenocal avoided harm extracting sediment cores in dangerous waters off the Somali coast, Jessica Tierney has painstakingly used them to show century-scale climate transitions in the area.
  • If we pass safe climate limits, it’s a long wa ...
    If we want to get back to pre-warming levels once greenhouse gases and temperatures have peaked, we’d have to take more CO2 out of the air than we originally emitted, Andrew MacDougall from the University of Victoria, Canada, has shown.
  • How ocean data helped reveal the climate beast
    Prompted by findings of abrupt temperature changes in history to describe climate as an ‘angry beast’ Wally Broecker has more recently helped establish efforts to calm it down by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it.
  • How ocean data helped reveal the climate beast
    Prompted by findings of abrupt temperature changes in history to describe climate as an ‘angry beast’ Wally Broecker has more recently helped establish efforts to calm it down by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it.
  • The joker who brought climate science out of t ...
    Drawn to a lifelong career of research and pranks at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory by a friend, Wally Broecker confirmed that changes in the Earth’s orbit paced ice ages, and foresaw the global warming that has gone on since 1975.

e!Science News

  • Groundbreaking report details status of US sec ...
    The Center for Geoscience Education and Public Understanding at the American Geosciences Institute has released a landmark report on the status of Earth Science education in U.S. middle and high schools, describing in detail significant gaps between identified priorities and lagging practice. r ...
  • Researchers advance toward engineering 'wildly ...
    In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits of genetic reprogramming and open new possibilities for increasing flexibility, productivity and safety in biotechnology. read more
  • Brain may flush out toxins during sleep
    A good night's rest may literally clear the mind. Using mice, researchers showed for the first time that the space between brain cells may increase during sleep, allowing the brain to flush out toxins that build up during waking hours. These results suggest a new role for sleep in health and dis ...
  • Pacific ocean temperature influences tornado a ...
    Meteorologists often use information about warm and cold fronts to determine whether a tornado will occur in a particular area. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found that the temperature of the Pacific Ocean could help scientists predict the type and location of tornado activity in ...
  • Virginia Tech researchers publish study on jel ...
    Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are part of a national study that has cracked how jellyfish move with the lowest cost of transport of any animal. The findings will be used as researchers continue to design bio-inspired jellyfish for the U.S. Navy. read more

unEarthed

  • Costs of Coal Exports, Part IV: Jason Reed of ...
    Many in his classes have issues that make them vulnerable to air pollution Jason, at the Curtis Bay neighborhood's Filbert Community Garden. (Chesapeake Climate Action Network) ...
  • Supreme Court Preserves Victory Over Oil/Gas D ...
    Action prevents development leases in Utah's red rock country Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah. (Darren J. Bradley / Shutterstock) It is rewar ...
  • High Court Turns Deaf Ear To Climate Change Attack
    Industry falls short in challenges over health and car/truck emissions This week the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed industry by refusing to hear challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that carbon dioxide and ...
  • To House Majority, Coal Ash is More Important ...
    Congress and the White House reach bipartisan budget compromise On Wednesday night, with less than two hours before the country defaulted on its debts, Congress ended the standoff that shut the government down for 16 days, kept cou ...
  • Bison: Wildlife or Livestock?
    As wild bison return to the plains, ranchers target them as livestock Newborn wild bison at Ft. Peck in the spring of 2012. (Bill Campbell) Now that the court ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Shut Up And Bow Down To The Rich
    That is right. Give up. They won, haven’t you noticed. Most of the government works for them, or their campaign $$ in our failing democracy. Read: Let’s Get This Class War Started By Chris Hedges. Maybe you will get a better understanding of the “elites” that run our lives.
  • The Koch Brothers Are Spending Millions Denyin ...
    It’s not me saying this. The Koch funded political scumbag organizations are doing all they can to keep Americans from being able to buy affordable health insurance. Democratic Underground: Koch-Backed Group Targets GOP Lawmaker Open To Obamacare Medicaid Expansion… Think Progress: B ...
  • Budget Fight – Coming Soon
    Get ready for the next round. The Republicans will fight to the death to make sure the top 2% that have 50 trillion in assets pay taxes at lower rates than the bottom 98%. Remember Mitt Romney’s 13.9% tax rate? I do. He also makes his 20 million a year without even working. Must be [...]
  • Calling Rand Paul’s Senate Offices? Don& ...
    I tried to call Rand Pauls’ Senate office yesterday. I just got a message that due to the shutdown, they were unable to help, or answer they phones or something. I fear it the problem may be something else. The message should have been “due to all the people calling my office that ar ...
  • America’s Wealthy Have 50 Trillion In As ...
    That’s right. The wealthy in America have enough money to pay off our entire national debt, and they wouldn’t even miss the money. So when we go to war over the “budget” and “sequestration” remember. It is all a smokescreen. The GOP is fighting to the death to ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Survey: LES customers want renewable energy, but don't want to pay extra
Lincoln Journal Star
LES commissioned the survey to gauge customer interest in renewable energy, specifically in community- and customer-owned renewable projects, and what customers were willing to pay, said Marc Shkolnick, manager of energy services. To date, about 23 ...
The Renewable Boom
TIME
Earlier this year, the U.S. became a net exporter of oil distillates, and the International Energy Agency projects that the U.S. could be almost energy self-sufficient in net terms by 2035. Domestic oil production hit 7.75 million barrels a day in ...
Renewable energy is the answer, not the enemy
The Detroit News
Remember last year's ballot initiative to amend our state constitution to require Michigan utilities to supply 25 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2015? Sadly, opponents were successful in scaring Michigan consumers into believing that such ...
What's New on
Energy Collective
Scott Edward Anderson is a consultant, blogger, and media commentator who blogs at The Green Skeptic. More » · Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and a professional explainer focused on Smart Grid. More » · Gary Hunt Gary is an ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
State will start cleaning up Burien's Lora Lake sites; Ecology seeking comment
The B-Town Blog (blog)
In June 2009, Ecology and the Port entered into the Agreed Order, under which the Port agrees to conduct a Remedial Investigation/ Feasibility Study (RI/FS). The Remedial Investigation will identify the nature and extent of contamination associated ...
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Panel to study impact of hydel projects on Uttarakhand's ecology
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Acting on a Supreme Court order, the ministry of environment and forests has constituted an expert committee to make a detailed study whether the environmental degradation caused by hydroelectric power projects (existing ones and those ...
International ecologists offer plan for next 100 years
News & Observer
The year 2013 marks the 100th birthday of the British Ecological Society, so the International Congress of Ecology recently met in London to mark this auspicious occasion. Like many scientific professionals, ecologists reluctantly come away from their ...
Renton aerospace parts manufacturer pays $24000 Ecology fine
Renton Reporter
An aerospace parts manufacturer in Renton will pay the state $24,000 to settle a penalty from the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) for repeated dangerous waste violations, according to an ecology department press release. Ecology inspectors ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
For Tepco and Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, toxic water stymies ...
Washington Post
An aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks. The operator of the nuclear plant said that four tonnes of rainwater that may be contaminated leaked during ...
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Cold-water fish food not adapting to a warming world, study says
NBCNews.com
The cold-water plankton lives for one year or less. Researchers examined a 50-year dataset from the North Atlantic to determine how this creature and another plankton that thrives in warmer water fared over half a century. "Lots of people have ...
Kansas Farmers Commit To Taking Less Water From The Ground
NPR (blog)
That water comes from a huge pool of underground water known as the Ogallala Aquifer, part of a larger system called the High Plains Aquifer. Scientists calculate that farmers are pulling water out of the aquifer about six times faster than rain or ...
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GOP lawmakers grill EPA on water reg 'power grab'
Fox News
At issue are new federal rules pertaining to the Clean Water Act. The EPA says it's working on new regulations because there is confusion about small streams and wetlands, "some of which only flow after precipitation or dry up during parts of the year.".
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