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Scoop - NZ

  • The Economist: Talk to Assad, for now ..
    No sponsor will stop unilaterally—that would be tantamount to accepting defeat. But peace can follow when outsiders act in concert, as happened in 1990 at the end of the civil war in neighbouring Lebanon. Securing a co-ordinated withdrawal of support is Syria’s best hope. But this requires Iran ...
  • Fukushima & the Cuban missile crisis
    David Suzuki says that Fukushima is terrifying, Tepco and the Japanese government are lying through their teeth, and Fukushima is “the most terrifying situation I can imagine”. Suzuki notes that reactor 4 is so badly damaged that – if there’s another earthquake of 7 or above – the building co ...
  • Mysterious Fall of Raqqa, Syria’s Kandahar
    The Euphrates overflows with blood, and the crows caw over the corpses that the Syrian city of Raqqa sacrifices every day to the princes of death in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and al-Nusra Front, ever since the two al-Qaeda affiliates turned the city into the first official province of ...
  • Youtube: Barrage on Base 80, Aleppo
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hixY3zKCKfc
  • Syrian army closes in on Aleppo
    Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, backed by a dawn barrage of artillery fire and air strikes, drove Syrian rebels from a strategic military base near the disputed northern city of Aleppo on Friday, a local photographer said. The advance into Base 80, a large military position which r ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

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

  • French court orders Google to censor previousl ...
    Now everyone will view it AGAIN Max, old bean - have you ever heard of the Streisand Effect? A French judge has told Google to devise a way to take down all links to nine images of former F1 boss Max Mosley at a sadomasochistic orgy. Mosley raised a case at the Paris superior court after cla ...
  • New study shows trustworthy people are perceiv ...
    When a person is deemed trustworthy, we perceive that person's face to be more similar to our own, according to a new study published in Psychological Science. A team of scientists from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway University, found that feelings of similarity towards others e ...
  • Kidney damage in first responders linked to 9/11
    New research findings of WTC-CHEST Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented at the 2013 American Society of Nephrology Meeting during National Kidney Week. For the first time, researchers have linked high levels of inhaled particulate matter by first responders at Ground Zer ...
  • Measles outbreak hits Queensland
    Thirty-five people have now contracted measles in Queensland in one of the worst outbreaks of the disease in Queensland's recent history. This year 30 of the 35 measles cases have emerged since August, with eight cases now confirmed at Woodford Correctional Centre. Last year only four Queensla ...
  • Second major measles outbreak in four months h ...
    Thousands of children are in ­danger of catching measles because their parents still refuse to let them have proper vaccinations. Health chiefs have warned Britain is on the brink of a second major ­epidemic just four months after the previous outbreak which claimed one life and more ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Remembering the fallen. Part 2
    In part 1 I offered the suggestion that people who were busy, uncomfortable or simply found it inconvenient to attend a Remembrance Day event should do what makes them feel comfortable. Certainly no thinking veteran will find fault in any decision along that line, keeping in mind that any and ...
  • Remembering the fallen. Part 1
    Remembrance Day, when we are all expected to observe a time to pay our respect to the fallen of the wars past, is near upon us. As the 11th of November approaches some of you will be feeling the pressure to attend a ceremony at a local cenotaph. And, I know, some of you are feeling uncomfortab ...
  • Fallout. The result of Tony Clement's nuking o ...
    I've watched in awe at the decade-long performance of Tony Clement. He's lied, he's laughed at the fatal results of a tainted food supply, he's misappropriated millions of taxpayer dollars to feather his own electoral riding with pagodas and pools, he's created the most inept "red-tape' eliminat ...
  • Harper's fishing partner. As grand as his sena ...
    Always remember ... Now head on over to Creekside. Once you've had a bit of Alison's humour you might not want to swallow that litre of bleach.
  • Take five . . .
    CHILL WITH A QUADRACOPTER. Full-screen delight for the soul, nice soundtrack, called the In-Between by A New Normal. Way, way cool . . . Now, imagine the transistor had never been invented. What would it have taken to capture the same thing? HT — Seboua, thank-you!

Media Matters for America

  • The Las Vegas Review Journal's 3 Tired Obamaca ...
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal promoted several myths about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) including that men will have excessive coverage, that young people will not sign up for insurance on the exchanges, and that heavy Medicaid enrollment will jeopardize the ex ...
  • REPORT: Fox News Spends 19 Seconds Covering Se ...
    In its latest effort to downplay the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Fox News spent a mere 19 seconds covering its historic passage by the Senate on November 7.ENDA Would Prohibit Employment Discrimination Against LGBT Workers ENDA Would Ba ...
  • REPORT: Fox News Ignores Historic ENDA Senate Vote
    Fox News largely ignored a historic vote on November 4 when the U.S. Senate voted to take up the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that bans workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. While CNN and MSNBC covered the vote, Fox devoted half o ...
  • Right-Wing Media Ignore Evidence To Claim Obam ...
    Right-wing media claimed opposition to the Affordable Care Act influenced the Virginia governor election despite polls that show the health reform law was an insignificant factor in the race.Right-Wing Media Claim ACA Opposition Significantly Changed VA Electoral Results Fox's St ...
  • Myths And Facts About Nuclear Power
    Media coverage of nuclear power often suggests that environmentalists are illogically blocking the expansion of a relatively safe, low-carbon energy source. However, in reality, economic barriers to nuclear power -- even after decades of subsidies -- have prevented the expansion o ...

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

  • Preliminary Test Now Required For Fukushima Nu ...
    Readying Fukushima 1 Unit 4 for decommission operation, but… (Kyodo News/flickr.com/photos/simplyinfo/) Not so fast with the Fukushima decommissioning, TEPCO. A Japanese government-affiliated agency (the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization) has advised the Tokyo Electric Power Company ...
  • Very Rare Endangered Borneo Bay Cat Caught On ...
    These cats are so rare they were once believed to possibly be extinct. Recently researchers caught them on video using camera traps, proving they do still exist in the wild, though their numbers are very low. “We discovered that randomly placed cameras have a big influence on the species recorde ...
  • Leonids 2013 — Leonids Meteor Shower Peaks Nov ...
    The Leonids meteor shower will be reaching its peak this year late night on November 16, 2013 (early morning November 17, 2013). The famous meteor shower, that appears to originate out of the constellation of Leo, is expected to reach a peak rate of around 10-20 meteors an hour this year — ...
  • Argentinosaurus Huinculensis — Movement Patter ...
    Argentinosaurus huinculensis was an absolutely enormous species of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous, about 94-97 million years ago. The average individual is thought to have reached lengths of over 100 feet, and weights of over 160,000 lbs — possibly more, by ...
  • Witch Head Nebula Captured In New Image From NASA
    A rather interesting looking new image of the Witch Head Nebula was recently captured by NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The new infrared portrait captures the rather strange looking resident of the Orion constellation — the hundreds of light-years across nebula ...

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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

  • DOE Failed To Report Concerns as Green-Tech Fi ...
    (Washington Post) The Department of Energy failed to disclose concerns about a green-technology company that won $135 million in federal funding but ended up filing for bankruptcy in September, according to a watchdog report released t ...
  • Two Australian Coal Mines Alone Will Emit More ...
    (Quartz) Climate-change debates often focus on how to cut the carbon spew of particular countries—China and the U.S. above all. But another way to do such carbon accounting is to look at individual fossil-fuel projects. All it takes is ...
  • Poland Gives Coal a Voice During U.N. Climate ...
    (AP) With coal-reliant Poland hosting U.N. climate talks, the fossil fuel industry will get a rare chance to play a more visible role in the global warming debate. But in a move that has infuriated climate activists, the Polish govern ...
  • Canadian Oil Companies Trail on Environmental ...
    (Bloomberg) Canada's biggest energy companies including Suncor Energy Inc. (SU) and Imperial Oil Ltd. (IMO) are trailing global peers in reporting environmental performance as scrutiny of the oil sands intensifies. ...
  • Ottawa Scales Back Oversight of Offshore Drilling
    (Globe and Mail) The federal government has released new regulations that reduce environmental oversight for offshore drilling as the oil industry is planning new exploration in the Beaufort Sea and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Harpe ...

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

  • Who Broke the Very Fabric of the Senate?
    The following excerpt raises so many issues: As senators in 2005, Obama and Biden publicly defended the filibuster and the requirement of a supermajority to change Senate rules. [Sen. John] McCain denounced any effort to change the rules unless there is a broad supermajority supporting th ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Dylan Ratigan
    Dylan Ratigan in an idiot. He claims that after he left his well-paying job at MSNBC he bought a catastrophic health insurance plan that cost him $170 a month. According to him, he cannot find a health care plan on the California exchange for less than $600 a month. So, I checked. I used thei ...
  • How to Do Latino Outreach
    How's that whole Latino outreach going? House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told immigration advocates that lawmakers will not take-up immigration reform this year. As a result, an amendment to deport DREAM-eligible immigrants which passed with overwhelming GOP support in June will b ...
  • Ambinder Provides Terrible Advice
    God, this is stupid. If demography is destiny, Republicans can't win the presidency by acting more like Democrats. The GOP's best shot in 2016 is not to nominate a moderate. They must nominate a conservative who can attract more conservative voters to the polls, just like President Obama bu ...
  • Hiding Behind the Hastert Rule
    Brian Beutler makes a good point when he argues that Speaker Boehner can't violate the so-called Hastert Rule to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act without annoying Latinos who want him to vote on the Senate's immigration bill. As long as he sticks with the Hastert Rule, which says that ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    There's plenty to keep you interested in this week's pick of links. Check out clean-shaven cartoon characters, awesome abandoned churches, cats with jobs and much more. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Elephants Never Forget: The Touching Legacy of ...
    The elephants of India's Cheetal Walk are surprisingly calm around humans, and it's all down to the lasting legacy of conservationist Mark Davidar. 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
    Hip-hop stars, grumpy cat, spooky cottages and female hackers – we've got everything in this week's coolest links! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Spectacular Blood-Red Hues of Indonesia’s ...
    Mount Bromo may not be the tallest volcano on Java, but it could well be the most spectacular. 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
    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

Mountaintop Removal

  • The GTac Mine Is Dead - Indian Country Today M ...
    The GTac Mine Is Dead Indian Country Today Media Network This is exactly what happened at Crandon and what is now taking place in the Bad River watershed where Gogebic Taconite (GTac) has proposed a mountaintop removal operation to create the largest open pit iron mine in the world upstream from ...
  • Short takes - Roanoke Times
    Short takes Roanoke Times Some take ugly personal shots at star Ashley Judd, and criticize casting an actress who once called mountaintop removal the “coal-industry operated rape of Appalachia” in a film set in a coal-mining town. Many other comments are kind expressions of ...
  • Reading Pancake - Shepherdstown Chronicle
    Reading Pancake Shepherdstown Chronicle In the early 2000s Pancake traveled around the state of West Virginia with her sister Catherine, who was interviewing subjects for a documentary called "Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice." Pancake said it was ...
  • Food & Wine Fall 2013 - Good Times
    Food & Wine Fall 2013 Good Times Mountaintop Removal is considered to be one of the country's worst ongoing environmental calamities. Local artists/filmmakers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle shed light on the issue in their revealing new documentary 'Goodbye Gauley Mountain.' PL ...
  • Wood waste could be energy source - Laurinburg ...
    Wood waste could be energy source Laurinburg Exchange Could harvesting biomass be a job-creating plus to our ecology and economy, rather than the chemical danger of fracking, and the devastating damage of the coal industry's mountain top removal process? Is our nation involved in an “assault ...

Memeorandum

  • Talks for Iran Nuclear Deal End Without Agreem ...
    New York Times: Talks for Iran Nuclear Deal End Without Agreement  —  GENEVA — After several days of optimistic reports that negotiations with Iran were on track to produce the first agreement in a decade to freeze its nuclear program, the talks ended early Sunday without ...
  • NBC'S CHUCK TODD: OBAMA 'DOES NOT BELIEVE HE L ...
    John Nolte / BREITBART.COM: NBC'S CHUCK TODD: OBAMA ‘DOES NOT BELIEVE HE LIED’  —  NBC's Chuck Todd scored a huge interview with President Obama Thursday and opened things by immediately drilling down on the president's relentlessly repeated lie that under ObamaCare ...
  • Tom Cruise - My Job's As Hard As Fighting in A ...
    TMZ.com: Tom Cruise — My Job's As Hard As Fighting in Afghanistan  —  My Job's As Hard As  —  FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Tom Cruise not only thinks he trains harder than Olympic athletes, he believes his job as ...
  • Red Cross Fears 1,200 Deaths in Philippine Typ ...
    Floyd Whaley / New York Times: Red Cross Fears 1,200 Deaths in Philippine Typhoon  —  MANILA — The powerful typhoon that swept across the Philippines on Friday, one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, cut a path of destruction through several central islands, le ...
  • Charity Scrambles As Auction Falls Apart For B ...
    Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Charity Scrambles As Auction Falls Apart For Banksy Nazi Painting  —  Fans applauded the famed British street artist Banksy last week when a New York City charity that fights AIDS and homelessness auctioned off a “vandalized” ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, off the coast of Northern California
    Monday, November 4, 2013 05:57:21 UTC Sunday, November 3, 2013 09:57:21 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.2, Unimak Island region, Alaska
    Saturday, November 2, 2013 22:32:10 UTC Saturday, November 2, 2013 02:32:10 PM at epicenterDepth: 37.00 km (22.99 mi)
  • M 6.5, Tonga region
    Saturday, November 2, 2013 18:53:45 UTC Saturday, November 2, 2013 07:53:45 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 6.6, offshore Coquimbo, Chile
    Thursday, October 31, 2013 23:03:57 UTC Thursday, October 31, 2013 08:03:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 6.7, Taiwan
    Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:02:09 UTC Thursday, October 31, 2013 08:02:09 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • This isn’t about Jonathan Martin’s sexual orie ...
    As details continue to emerge surrounding the apparent bullying and harassment of Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin by teammate Richie Incognito, one thing this doesn't seem to be about is sexual orientation. In all the reporting about the threatening texts and voicemails sent to ...
  • Ray Davies, the Salon interview: “I can still ...
    In January 2004, Ray Davis lay in a hospital bed in New Orleans, in shock and out of his head on morphine for the gunshot wound he had just received. He was still officially anonymous, having given none of his information to the nurses when he was admitted into the E.R. Instead, he was known on ...
  • Whistle-selling hipsters: We ended war in the ...
    Soon after the end of the M23 rebellion that threw parts of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into conflict for much of the last two years, a blog post titled "We Stopped M23" appeared on the website of a California-based nonprofit called Falling Whistles.The slick h ...
  • Maureen Ogle: Michael Pollan doesn’t get the b ...
    Much of what you think you know about the meat industry is wrong, says historian Maureen Ogle. Sure, the industry is enormous, but its power is limited by narrow profit margins, an impenetrable bureaucracy and elaborate demands from American consumers."In Meat We Trust," Ogle's newest book, hit ...
  • Why teen smoking’s on the rise
    Years after the widespread decline of cigarette smoking, cigarette usage has recently escalated. Though everybody still knows about smoking's health risks, the habit seems to be on the rise due to a resurgence in the old belief that smoking is, simply, cool. Many studies, including one by the ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Saudi Arabia closer than Iran to acquiring nuk ...
    Saudi Arabia is able to obtain atomic bombs “at will” through a secret pact with Pakistan, and can acquire nuclear weapons far quicker than Iran, according to the BBC.
  • Arafat ‘may have been poisoned’, claims Swiss ...
    A forensic investigation by Swiss researchers into the death of Yasser Arafat states that the data “moderately suggests” that the Palestinian statesman may have been poisoned with a deadly radioactive substance.
  • Revealed: North Korean leader’s aunt defected ...
    The maternal aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un secretly defected to the United States with her husband in 1998, a South Korean newspaper has alleged.
  • Is the NSA spying on senior Israeli government ...
    A series of hard-hitting revelations by Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the NSA, have tested America’s relationship with a host of allied nations in recent months. One US partner, however, has been markedly absent from Snowden’s revelations: Israel. Does the US spy on what is ostensibly ...
  • FBI investigates Russian cultural center for a ...
    Authorities in the United States are probing a cultural exchange program run by the Russian government, on suspicion that it clandestinely recruited Americans as intelligence assets.

War is a Crime.org

  • Fukushima: The Beginning of The End Of Nuclear ...
    Originally Posted at AcronymTV read more
  • Give peace a chance - huge opportunity in Iran ...
    "Diplomatic heavyweights including US Secretary of State John Kerry have flown to Geneva for nuclear talks on Iran, in a sign that there could be an end to a decade-long deadlock. However, Israel has resolved to reject any proposal under discussion." RT, Nov 8 Russian President Vladimir Putin sc ...
  • How Europeans Are Opposing Drone and Robot War ...
    By Elsa Rassbach, Drones Campaign | Truthout So far only three countries are known to have used armed combat drones to carry out attacks: Israel, the US, and the UK. But this could soon change. Analysts see demand for military UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones) quad ...
  • Syria News - Nov 9
      U.S. presses Syrian opposition to agree to Geneva peace talks - Yahoo News US Navy carrier departing Persian Gulf region, underscoring the shift from military threat to broader diplomatic approach - AP Syrians and Observers Increasingly See Assad as Likely to Stay - NYTimes.com US a ...
  • Bahrain: After tear gas and jobs, medical care ...
    The health of one of the most prominent leaders of Bahrain’s Revolution had deteriorated because of ill-treatment and repression by Alkhalifa ruling family. Abdul Wahab Hussain, 59, is suffering from chronic paresthesia (tingling and numbness) affecting his nerves and has difficulty moving. He i ...

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

  • Visible Origami | Dilettantes, Dabblers and Ou ...
    By Visible Let me make something very clear. There is a vast distance between the dilettante and dabbler and the consistent practitioner. The dilettante and dabbler get scared off at certain levels because they are not considered worthy of what comes after, given that they are dilettantes and da ...
  • Nearly 250,000 Colorado healthcare plans cance ...
    DENVER – There are nearly 250,000 Coloradans whose health care policies have been or will be cancelled as a result of the Affordable Care Act, the state’s Dept. of Insurance announced on Wednesday. Many of the policies are being cancelled because of stipulations under the new law that force insu ...
  • Iran calls for global nuclear disarmament | Ve ...
    Times of Israel Iran’s UN ambassador called nuclear weapons the greatest threat to present and future generations on Monday, just days before Tehran resumes talks with six world powers aimed at reining in its suspect nuclear program. Mohammad Khazaee told a meeting of the General Assembly’s disa ...
  • Anonymous ‘Million Mask March’ goes global | H ...
    by Clark Kent Million Mask March The Million Mask March is heading to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Thousands of people worldwide joined Million Mask March rallies organized by the amorphous Anonymous movement. Rallies, both peaceful and confrontational, protested austerity, surveillance, corp ...
  • News: Irish politicians call for an end to flu ...
    by Tom Sullivan on Fri, 2013-11-08 12:33 The Dáil has debated a Private Members Bill on a proposed ban on the addition of fluoride into the drinking water supply. Independent deputy Catherine Murphy said that it was right for people to be sceptical and questioned expert opinion that fluoridation ...

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

  • Rising consumer debt: boon or bane?
    Summary: Have we learned much from our 2008 brush with another depression? Look at the growth in subprime education and auto loans, and decide. Will we reforge the fetters on lenders forged in the New Deal to prevent events like 2008? Failure to learn is one sin that Nature always punishes. . Co ...
  • The October jobs report: confusing, probably s ...
    Summary: Employment is the weak link in the recovery. The news media focuses on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consist mostly of noise. Strong months confirm the optimists; weak months confirm the pessimists. In fact the trend of growth remains the real story, with the US e ...
  • The achilles heel of both political parties, w ...
    Summary: The two parties in America stand as invincible barriers to political reform. They own the high ground; they control all the gates. No set of attractive policies will overcome them. Yet they have points of vulnerability exploitable by determined reformers who seek not just better doctrin ...
  • Looking at the FM website: are we helping to r ...
    Summary:  It’s the sixth anniversary of the FM website, and so time to review the point of the operation — goals, progress, and lessons learned. Pitch into the comments to say what we’re doing right and wrong — or if we’re accomplishing anything. . Contents Who are ...
  • How to recruit people to the cause of reformin ...
    Summary:  After the long journey to create modern representative democracies, we might have forgotten how our political machinery works. The basic workings of the engine, not the operation of the buttons on the dashboard. Worse, many of us have adopted superstitions about the engine. All this ma ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Going Commando
    Lionel Beehner and Joseph Young write in The National Interest that while targeted killing by drone strike is increasingly denounced (and decreasingly used by states), cross-border incursions by counter-terror ground troops are an increasingly accepted practice – despite the fact that both viola ...
  • Report Criticizes DOD, CIA for Ordering Milita ...
    CREDIT: Associated Press A new report released Monday claims that the Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency directed doctors and other medical professionals in their employ to ignore their Hippocratic oaths and other ethical codes in order to facilitate the interrogation of detai ...
  • Top of the Morning: Huge Typhoon Bears Down on ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Huge Typhoon Bears Down on Disaster-Weary Philippines The world’s most powerful typhoon of the year gained strength on Thursday as it swirled towards the Philippines. “Haiyan was expected make landfall on Samar island, about 600 kilometres southeast of Manila, ...
  • No More Neocon Faux-Cassandra Posturing: Ameri ...
    Two pieces got emailed to me in the last few days that nicely illustrate just how entrenched semi-imperial thinking has become in Washington, how wildly disconnected from the reality of US security our foreign policy community’s threat assessments have become, and the hysteria that greets seriou ...
  • Top of the Morning: Syria Peace Talks A No-Go
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Syria Peace Talks A No-Go The joint UN-Arab League envoy had no good news to report following a slew of meetings in Geneva yesterday. “Brahimi conferred with senior U.S. and Russian officials before widening the talks to include representatives from Britain, France ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Obamacare Expansion in the Offing?
    Every few days, a new poster child for the horror of Obamacare comes along, the person who just loves their insurance plan but has been told it's being cancelled. Pretty much every time, their story turns out to be full of holes—the plan they're on is junk insurance, they'd be able to get bette ...
  • Daily Meme: This Week in Misbegotten Headlines ...
    Millennials spur flood of fancy fast-food breads 5 churchy phrases that are scaring off millennials Convincing Millennials to 'Marry a Nice Jewish Boy' 5 Reasons Millennials Are Going To Save The World (We Hope) Millennials: Beware of Financial Advice From Your Parents Why Millennials Won't Bec ...
  • Rob Ford's Tragedy, Our Shame
    To say that the world is cruel and that the Internet is a public square harsher than any stocks-strewn space the Puritans could have dreamed up is to state the obvious. The proven success of judgmental web content is why we have to put up with Perez Hilton’s near-nakedness at red carpet events. ...
  • Twitter Is Neither Our Salvation Nor Our Doom
    A pop quiz: Twitter is A) a world-transforming communication medium that connects us to one another in ways that redefine what it means to be human; B) an idiotic time-waster that is the enemy of genuine thought and meaning; C) both; D) neither. What do you think? Sometimes I feel like people w ...
  • "Religious Liberty": The Next Big Front in the ...
    AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Senator Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin and the chamber's first openly gay member, is surrounded by fellow Democrats just before a historic vote on legislation outlawing workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. ...

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

  • Neo-Nazis to Rally in Kansas City, Anti-Racist ...
    If you plan on going to downtown Kansas City, Mo., tomorrow afternoon to protest the neo-Nazis coming to town, remember: no baby strollers or car seats. No coolers. No purses. No portable heaters. No water bottles. No bullhorns without a permit. No knives or guns, even with a permit. The long li ...
  • Hatewatch Exclusive: Heimbach Says White Natio ...
    At 22, Matthew Heimbach is a rising white nationalist star, just as eager to get into bed with graying Southern secessionists as he is with steel-toe-boot-wearing neo-Nazis. Over the past few months, he has rallied with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at the invitation of Thom Robb, a Christian ...
  • CBS Evening News Explores Antigovernment Views ...
    Last night, the CBS Evening News featured Hatewatch’s Mark Potok in a segment examining the antigovernment views of suspected LAX shooter Paul Ciancia. According to CBS, the FBI executed a search warrant for material “relating to Ciancia’s views on the legitimacy or activities of the Unite ...
  • FBI Thinks ‘New World Order’ Theory May Have M ...
    Last night, on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” I tried to explain how a note written by alleged LAX shooter Paul Ciancia contained several hallmarks of the antigovernment “Patriot” movement’s animating “New World Order” conspiracy theory. My remarks were based on references to the Federal Reserve ...
  • Dearborn, Mich.: We Are Not Under Shariah Law!
    The world of right-wing extremism produces people who so deeply believe in conspiracy theories woven out of fantasies that they stop being able to distinguish between reality and fantasy – or, in some cases, satire. And in the case of Dearborn, Mich., this week, satire was mistaken for reality b ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Latest News on Divestment from Fossil Fuels
    The international campaign to divest from the Top 200 fossil fuels continues to make waves across the globe. A summary of recent news is below. The campaign has already spread to over 400 colleges, cities, and religious institutions in the United States and is growing quickly in Australia, New Z ...
  • Latest News on Divestment from Fossil Fuels
    The international campaign to divest from the Top 200 fossil fuels continues to make waves across the globe. A summary of recent news is below. The campaign has already spread to over 400 colleges, cities, and religious institutions in the United States and is growing quickly in Australia, New Z ...
  • European Union Officially Rejects Australian P ...
    This past week, the European Commission (EC) posted on its website its final report of the May 2012 audit its staff conducted of the Australian meat inspection system for products destined for Europe and concluded that the privatized meat inspection system called the Australian Export Meat Inspe ...
  • European Union Officially Rejects Australian P ...
    This past week, the European Commission (EC) posted on its website its final report of the May 2012 audit its staff conducted of the Australian meat inspection system for products destined for Europe and concluded that the privatized meat inspection system called the Australian Export Meat Inspe ...
  • Walmart Workers, Supporters Intensify Protests ...
    Fifty-four Walmart workers, members of the clergy and community members sat down in the middle of the street in Downtown Los Angeles Thursday evening to call for an end to retaliation and a salary of at least $25,000 a year for Walmart workers. “Walmart has proven its willingness to break ...

Common Dreams-Views

Water Privatization

  • LatAm could double water investment just by en ...
    Latin America could more than double its much-needed investment in drinking water and sanitation services simply by controlling the widespread inefficiency in the industry, development...
  • Ombion: Water is a public interest issue
    WHICH the local government should address rightly, and the consumers should fight to get access to adequate, better and cheaper water services. Water, like power and transportation, increasingly deprives a large section of our poor and middle class population.
  • Soap Lake grants discount for mineral water us ...
    SOAP LAKE – Businesses using Soap Lake mineral water were granted a temporary 50 percent reduction in rates through the winter months.
  • Sources Say: Mud flies in water campaign
    Charges and countercharges are flying in the Portland Public Water District board campaign — and the measure hasn’t even made the ballot yet. Former City Hall employee Marshall Runkel filed an elections complaint with the Oregon secretary of state’s office on Oct. 23 against a paid petition circ ...
  • PM for taking all necessary steps to overcome ...
    ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Thursday directed to take all necessary steps for overcoming the energy crisis being faced by the country.

Guardian

  • Colchester hospital hit by fresh fears over fa ...
    At least 6,000 patients could be affected in scandal at Colchester general hospital as inquiry looks at CEO's role in bullyingThe scandal over cancer treatment at a leading hospital has widened after it emerged that its own officials now fear that at least 6,000 patients may have had their recor ...
  • Forests could face threat from biomass power ' ...
    Sustainability fear over new power stations' demand for wood pellets after report says their use has implications globallyBritain's new generation of biomass power stations will have to source millions of tonnes of wood from thousands of miles away if they are to operate near to their full capac ...
  • Labour's David Lammy aims to become the first ...
    Tottenham MP and former minister's rhetoric draws parallels with new New York mayor Bill de BlasioThe Labour MP David Lammy has declared his interest in becoming the first black mayor of London during a trip to the US where he hopes to meet the team of the new Democratic mayor of New York, Bill ...
  • Illegal migrants' children denied access to ed ...
    Report published by the Coram Children's Legal Centre finds tougher immigration stance is denying children basic rightsThe children of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants are having their lives made a misery by the government in an effort to put others off coming to the UK, according to a damn ...
  • Wales v South Africa – as it happened
    Minute-by-minute report: An injury-ravaged Wales were unable to resist South Africa in CardiffDan Lucas

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

  • Afghan opium-poppy market blooms as U.S. force ...
    As Afghanistan’s war economy contracts, opium poppies, which are processed into heroin, are poised to play an ever-larger role in the nation, undercutting two key U.S. goals: fighting corruption and weakening the link between the insurgency and the drug ...
  • Afghan war memorial to be destroyed
    To be broken up and buried ... The Tarin Kowt Memorial with the names of the 114 coalition soldiers who have lost their lives in Afghanistan is at the Australian Patrol base in Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province southern Afghanistan. Picture: Gary ...
  • Militants Killing Threatens NATO Supply Route
    The killing of Pakistan's top Taliban leader could result in another casualty -- a major NATO supply line that runs through the country en route to Afghanistan. Following the death of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) head Hakimullah Mehsud in a suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan&#039 ...
  • Pentagon Says Afghan Troop Deaths Climb
    The Pentagon says the number of Afghan soldiers killed in fighting with the Taliban during this summer's fighting season rose nearly 80 percent compared with the same time period last year. However, despite the jump in Afghan casualties, the Pentagon says the Afghan National Security For ...
  • Our women at war in Afghanistan
    HOW do the women in the Australian Defence Force serving in the war in Afghanistan feel about their roles and are they treated ...

Futurismic

  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Pennsylvania Moves Toward Adopting FCA
    Pennsylvania reportedly remains the largest state in the country without a state-level false claims statute. Two state legislators hope to change that. In early June, State Representatives, Brandon Neuman and Tony DeLuca introduced House Bill 1493, a state version of the federal False Claims Ac ...
  • Health Care Exchanges Not Covered Under False ...
    Today Senator Chuck Grassley questioned Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding the Obama Administration’s position that qualified health plans and other programs related to the federally facilitated marketplace and other programs under the Affordable Care Act are n ...
  • Most European Whistleblowers Have No Protection
    On Tuesday, November 5, 2013, Transparency International released a report finding that the vast majority of EU member states have either partial or no laws to protect whistleblowers. Two weeks ago, on October 23, the European Commission rejected a request to introduce EU whistleblower protecti ...
  • Illegal Swiss Banking Collapses
    Whistleblower Disclosures Lead To Switzerland Joining The OECD Convention Permitting The Exchange Of Tax Information Between Countries On October 15, 2013, Switzerland became the 58th country to sign the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters ( ...
  • Update-Securities and Exchange Commission Whis ...
     The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the&nbsp ...

TechDirt

  • Dan Gillmor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Greetings to all. If you're like me, you've made Techdirt a must-read stop. It's also obviously in that category for many of the folks I follow on Twitter, because I increasingly see links to posts here. Dave Allen's "Musicians on the Wrong Side of History" resonated for all kinds of reasons, ...
  • Awesome Stuff Goes Dark: Dark Mail And Dark Wallet
    This week we've got two projects for our awesome stuff post that have to do with some of the topics we've been discussing lately: secure email and Bitcoin. Last week, we were the first to report that Ladar Levison was planning to release Lavabit's code as open source (including dark mail capabi ...
  • Candidate For Colorado Legilsature Proudly Abu ...
    While there are still copyright maximalists out there who insist that copyright can't be used for censorship, it looks like we've got yet another example, and it's a crazy one. Gordon Klingenschmitt, a former Navy chaplain, who is running for the Colorado legislature on what appears to be the ex ...
  • 22 Examples Of NSA Surveillance Creating Chill ...
    In the EFF's lawsuit against the NSA over domestic surveillance, the organization has filed 22 first hand examples of organizations which have directly experienced the chilling effects of the surveillance program, which the EFF reasonably argues shows how the program violates the Constitutional ...
  • How Trademark Law Can Finally Kill Dan Snyder' ...
    Before we dig into this, let's put a couple of facts into evidence. First, Dan Snyder is the owner of the NFL’s Washington Redskins football franchise. Next, as we've covered before, Dan Snyder is an idiot. In addition, the term "Redskin" is a taboo word, commonly considered offensive and ...

VacTruth

  • Ignorant Nurse Calls Parent “Loser” for Not Va ...
    A mother who made a recent trip to the emergency room at Palmetto Health Children's Hospital was left a nasty note from a nurse calling her a "loser."
  • Two More Children Left Paralyzed by Vaccines B ...
    In a shocking report, the Global Times reported that an expert from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Wang Yu, has openly admitted that vaccines can cause severe adverse reactions, including swollen organs, epilepsy, and in some instances, the diseases that they we ...
  • 7 Most Disgusting Ingredients Used to Make Vac ...
    The production of vaccines uses many disgusting ingredients. Additionally, the components used during the manufacturing process may violate your personal, religious, or ethical beliefs.
  • 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.

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

  • US Sponsored Genocide in Guatemala: Amnesty fo ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUS Sponsored Genocide in Guatemala: Amnesty for Dictator? | Think Tank Russia Todayyoutube.com : Abby Martin speaks to Jamila Aisha Brown, global strategist with HUE Global about Guatemala’s constitutional court ...
  • Stop Watching Us: Largest privacy rally in US ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comStop Watching Us: Largest privacy rally in US history hits DC Russia Todayyoutube.com Crowds are flooding Capitol Hill in Washington DC, venting their fury against the NSA’s sweeping surveillance practices. The organ ...
  • An Angel Song for Peace and an End to Violence
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAn Angel Song for Peace and an End to Violence dissidentvoice.orgBy Finian Cunningham An Angel Song for peace and an end to violence against children. “War violates every right of a child — the right to life, t ...
  • ‘Scary you could be jailed for running compute ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comScary you could be jailed for running computer service CryptoSeal co-founder RT.com In August, the highly-encrypted email service Lavabit reportedly used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden went offline after it was ordered by a ...
  • Leaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police F ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comLeaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police For Gun Confiscations and Martial Law Kit Daniels Prison Planet.com October 26, 2013 A MP in the U.S. Army leaked this video of a briefing with FEMA officials who openly discuss ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Let’s Not Repeat the Barack F*ckup with Hillar ...
    by William Blum Writer, Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org November 8, 2013 National Security Agency – The only part of the government that really listens to what you have to say The New York Times (November 2) ran a long article based on NSA documents released by Edward Snowden. One of the lin ...
  • The US: An Empire or A Bunch of Criminal Lunat ...
    by Daniel N. White Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad November 8, 2013 Recently attended a guest lecture/seminar at UT, put out by Jeremy Suri, the rising star of UT’s History department. Topic was “The US—Empire or Umpire?”, and it was yet another rehashing of the question that mainstream poly-sci s ...
  • Andy Lopez’s Family and Others Speak Out ...
    by Shepherd Bliss Writer, Dandelion Salad Santa Rosa, California November 8, 2013 The October 22 killing here of 13-year-old Andy Lopez by a hail of bullets from sheriff’s deputy Erick Gelhaus has resulted in daily peaceful marches, prayer vigils and speaking events honoring Lopez and calling fo ...
  • Chris Hedges: Detention of David Miranda on Te ...
    Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges TheRealNews on Nov 8, 2013 Chris Hedges says David Miranda’s detention represents an assault on journalism by the US and its allies. *** Transcript The Real News Network Nov. 8, 2013 [...] NOOR: Ed Snowden has continued to provide outlets like The New York ...
  • Torture on Tape: Disturbing Video Shows U.S. S ...
    Warning These videos may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. Dandelion Salad democracynow on Nov 7, 2013 www.democracynow.org A video just posted online by Rolling Stone shows a hogtied prisoner being whipped by Afghan s ...

Your New Reality

  • Why David Cronenberg Is Wrong About Stanley Ku ...
    By Darryl Mason Director David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) says Stanley Kubrick "didn't understand horror" when he adapted Stephen King's The Shining. "I think I'm a more intimate and personal film-maker than Kubrick ever was," Cronenberg told the Toronto Star. "That's why I find The Shin ...
  • 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 ...

Wired - Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Lagoon Nebula
    The Lagoon Nebula, M8 or NGC 6523. As one of the showpiece objects of the summer sky in the northern hemisphere, the Lagoon never rises very high from most locations north of the equator. This image of the Lagoon was ...     
  • How Super Typhoon Haiyan Compares to Some of t ...
    Super Typhoon Haiyan is hitting the Philippines. How does it compare to some of history's most ferocious recorded storms?     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Six-Tailed Asteroid
    This NASA Hubble Space Telescope set of images reveals a never-before-seen set of six comet-like tails radiating from a body in the asteroid belt, designated P/2013 P5.     
  • Absurd Creature of the Week: The Anglerfish an ...
    The deep-sea anglerfishes' mating ritual goes something like this: Boy meets girl, boy bites girl, boy’s mouth fuses to girl’s body, boy lives the rest of his life attached to girl sharing her blood and supplying her with sperm. Ah, ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Boxy Supernova R ...
    3C 397 (also known as G41.1-0.3) is a Galactic supernova remnant with an unusual shape. Researchers think its box-like appearance is produced as the heated remains of the exploded star -- detected by Chandra in X-rays (purple) -- runs into ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Chris Hedges: Imploding the myth of Israel
    Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The one state/two state debate i ...
    t is assumed almost universally that there are two options for cis-Jordan: either two states -- Palestinian and Jewish-democratic -- or one state "from the sea to the river." Israeli commentators... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • So how's your week going?
    Mine’s been achy and lethargic. Started feeling poorly Friday night, spent the whole weekend on my back (not in the good way), and have been largely unproductive since. Not productive enough to put together a post, anyway. See you next week!
  • Coming Saturday, October 12t
  • Cleveland concert meetup: Saturday, November 1 ...
    I had Muscle Cars by Wussy on my best of 2009 and Marathon by The Ready Stance on my best of 2012. So when I saw them scheduled on the same bill at the Beachland Ballroom you can imagine I was pretty fired up. They play Saturday, November 16th at 9:00 PM and I’ll be there with bells on. ...
  • Union and third party leaders not fighting, no ...
    On Monday workers from the Port of Oakland Truckers Association went on strike to demand better pay and working conditions. They were joined by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), and their action closed one of the terminals. Their demands are fairly modest: an e ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Millions Against Monsanto: Five Lessons from t ...
    Twenty years after the controversial introduction of unlabeled and untested genetically engineered foods and crops, opposition to GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) and Monsanto has created one of the largest netroots-grassroots movements in the U.S.Click here to read this article
  • Referendum on Food Labels Is failing in Washin ...
    State's referendum issue would require labels on foods containing genetically engineered ingredients. Click here to read this article
  • Is Israel about to Strike Iran?
    Is Israel really planning to attack Iran, or are declarations about the possibility of a pre-emptive strike at Teheran's nuclear program simply bombast? Does President Obama's "we have your back" comment about Israel mean the U.S. will join an assault? What happens if the attack doesn't accompli ...
  • Marijuana Wins Big in State Elections
    Election Night 2013 featured four proposals concerning municipal legalization of marijuana and one statewide recreational tax initiative. In every case, the marijuana measures won handily.Click here to read this article
  • As Canadian Province Puts Fracking on Hold, Wi ...
    As an energized First Nations fracking resistance movement continues to rage across New Brunswick, Canada, environmentalists are celebrating in the neighboring province of Newfoundland and Labrador where government officials announced Monday a moratorium on the dangerous and polluting gas drilli ...

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • I Love You and Believe in You
    Common Core, corporate agenda, education,student harassment,institutional failure,UNESCO,Charlotte Iserbyt,public education,learning skills,Skinnerean psychology Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Judge threatens homeschooling parents
    anti-homeschooling law in Germany, adopted under the guidance of Adolf Hitler The children were placed in a group home where tests showed the children were doing well socially and academically. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  &nbsp ...
  • Child Victims of CIA Drone Strike in Pakistan ...
    Two children who were injured in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan which killed their grandmother, while she was simply looking after her garden, visited the US Congress, along with their school-teacher father, to give evidence on their ordeal... Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • DAWNS Digest
    News to the Aid, Development and Humanitarian Community The Development and Aid World News Service (DAWNS) is a social enterprise for people who care about ideas, places and events off the radar of the mainstream press. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Not ...
  • Diebold Charged With Bribery, Falsifying Docs, ...
    Despite at least $1.75 million in bribes said to have been paid the company around the globe, nobody will go to jai.l In 2010 the company settled an SEC fraud suit for $25 million.... wildly insecure and often inaccurate voting systems and tabulators Submitted by John Farnham to World  |&n ...

Farm Wars

  • GMO: The Eugenics Connection – F. William Engdahl
    The foundation of genetic engineering is eugenics. F. William Engdahl breaks it all down. This is a must-listen lecture.
  • EU Allows GM SmartStax Maize in Food and Feed
    The EU Commission today authorised the controversial genetically engineered maize SmartStax for food and feed. The decision was taken despite thousands of protest mails being sent to the Commission. Maize 1507 for cultivation to be decided soon.
  • Former EPA Scientist Explains GMO Disaster to ...
    Ray Seidler, former Senior Scientist at the EPA who wrote the Biosafety Plan with a PhD in Microbiology, presents the science and economics behind the GMO disaster - Why Measure 15-119 to ban their cultivation is necessary.
  • Klamath Basin Water Wars and Jefferson State
    Join Dave Hodges and myself this Sunday as we talk about the Klamath Basin water theft issue, Agenda 21, and the proposed new state of Jefferson carved out of a piece of both Northern California and Southern Oregon, which just so happens to be the area affected by the proposed removal of the Kla ...
  • Scientists who say GMOs not proven safe climbs ...
    Given the scientific evidence at hand, sweeping claims that GM crops are substantially equivalent to, and as safe as, non-GM crops are not justifiable.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Newtown police officer first on Sandy Hook sce ...
    ShareThisNewtown police officer first on Sandy Hook scene faces firing 07 Nov 2013 Newtown officials have notified a police officer who hasn't returned to work since responding to the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that he could be fired. Thomas Bean, a 12-year veteran, submitted ...
  • Train carrying crude oil derails, cars ablaze ...
    ShareThisTrain carrying crude oil derails, cars ablaze in Alabama 08 Nov 2013 A 90-car train carrying North Dakota crude derailed and exploded in a rural area of western Alabama early on Friday, leaving 11 cars burning and potentially bolstering the push for tougher regulation of a boom in movin ...
  • Mandatory flu shots worry UNM Hospital employees
    ShareThisMandatory flu shots worry UNM Hospital employees 08 Nov 2013 University of New Mexico Hospital employees...object to being told the flu vaccination is now mandatory, and they want clarification about who pays if an employee has an adverse reaction. That was the message delivered Thursd ...
  • Super Typhoon Haiyan 3.5 times more forceful ...
    ShareThisSuper Typhoon Haiyan 3.5 times more forceful than Hurricane Katrina --Major coastal city of Tacloban took brunt of storm with water rising 40 to 50 feet 08 Nov 2013 As dawn broke Saturday in the Philippines, the devastation of Super Typhoon Haiyan was expected to become better known a ...
  • 'We were wrong': CBS's Lara Logan apologizes f ...
    ShareThis'We were wrong': CBS's Lara Logan apologizes for Benghazi report --The CBS story lie was cited by congressional Republicans who have demanded to know why a military rescue was not attempted. 08 Nov 2013 CBS correspondent [bimbo] Lara Logan apologized Friday and said the network was "wr ...

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.

Politics in the Zeros

  • If your computer won’t open Google Chrome
    My Google Chrome completely crashed. It wouldn’t open at all. There wasn’t even an error message. After much thrashing about, I found a solution. You might want to bookmark this. Google reports that if Google Chrome does not open or stay open, and no error message appears, that you m ...
  • World’s first 3D printed metal gun
    This 3D printed metal gun from Solid Concepts is a copy of the revered 1911 semi-auto pistol and made so gunsmiths can get hard to obtain parts. It is completely legal and requires high end 3D printing capabilities to create. “We’re proving this is possible, the technology is at a place now wher ...
  • They’re baaack. Banksters securitizing single ...
    Private equity and hedge funds are buying tens of thousands of single family homes, renting them, then slicing and dicing the income streams and selling them. Securitization of course is one of the primary reasons the real estate market tanked and took down the economy with it. Banksters have no ...
  • Healthcare.gov problems are almost comical
    Are healthcare.gov problems the result of chimpanzees randomly typing code? I’m a software developer and have experience here. Their problems are just over the top. Telling people to send in written applications if they can’t get online doesn’t work because a government agent h ...
  • Greenbotics robots clean PV panels at grid sca ...
    Here’s a job that no one will mind being replaced by robots, meticulously cleaning solar panels 2-3 times a year in baking heat in deserts. Hell yeah, let a robot to it. Sunpower has bought Greenbotics, who builds these helpful robots, which use much less water than humans too. Greenbotics ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • 7,500 drones in U.S. airspace within 5 years, ...
    The chief of the Federal Aviation Administration predicted Thursday that U.S. airspace could be crowded with as many as 7,500 commercial drones within the next five years, as he unveiled a long-awaited regulatory blueprint that seeks to protect Americans’ privacy while requiring testing for law ...
  • NFL Player Walks Away From Game, Will Start Po ...
    ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - John Moffitt wasn’t unhappy with a lack of playing time in Denver. He quit the NFL because he’d lost his love for the game and was tired of risking his health. [skipping ahead] Moffitt, 27, made about $1.5 million before taxes in his 2 1/2 seasons in the NFL. &#822 ...
  • Ron Paul: “Its ‘Insane’ to V ...
    WOW…. Of course we have seen this before from Dr Paul and C4L orgs. Could this be a further payoff for his son Rand Paul’s future? When will we stop this ‘INSANE’ endorsement of the lesser of two evils of the one party system?????   Via CONservative Byte On Monday, f ...
  • Gunman clad in ‘full body armor’ o ...
    Also details on yesterday’s CT Campus shooting – BELOW NJ Mall Shooter Found Dead With Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound November 5, 2013 by legitgov   Gunman clad in ‘full body armor’ opens fire in New Jersey mall –’This is something that we train for quite o ...
  • In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights for Public’s Rig ...
    We are always told, “If you have nothing to hide, then why should care about the NSA (for ex.) monitoring everything you do?” We answer with the 4th and 5th amendments of the US Constitution! We have a right to our privacy, the US police, FBI et al do not. They work for YOU! But [&#8 ...

The Air Vent

  • Winning and Losing
    Some things in blogland make you smile, others, not so much.   I just answered a comment from a reader which left me cold.  If you want to comment here, bring more than a thimble full of facts with you.   For reference, I am an EVIL business owner with a natural dislike for the authoritarian pop ...
  • Change and Hope – ($2700/family/year)
    So I’ve got the rest of the health care news for this year.   We’re looking at an 18 percent increase, our previous plan was dropped because it didn’t make sense for the insurance carrier to have different rules for different companies and we have several added coverages which ...
  • Snipped at Psychological Science
    I seem to have a way with people.  While they did allow quite a bit of critique in the replies, and nearly all were incredibly critical, my comments were snipped.  — The Subterranean War on Science I’ll just reproduce the critique here then: I can’t believe the self-righteous tone of ...
  • Health Insurance – Preliminary
    Another 17% annual increase, bringing the total for our 40 people to approximately 35% over the past 3 years and we will receive a new health plan.  The reason I don’t have exact numbers is because we got pushed off our plan last year also and changed companies. We currently pay 100% of ou ...
  • The Revenge of Lewandowsky – our deserts
    Sorry to have been gone so long.    It seems impossible to blog with so many other fun things going on.  Still, I read my favorite blogs and occasional climate paper, even if I don’t comment much.   Recently Lewandowsky et Mann (birds of  a feather?) published yet another pro-government ra ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook highlights conversion count, cost per ...
    Within Ads Manager, it appears that Facebook has highlighted a new way for marketers to see how well their ad campaigns are doing. Andrea Warner of SEO Braintrust noticed two new columns within Ads Manager: conversions...
  • Report: Teens on Facebook love Eminem, seniors ...
    You may not be able to afford to hire household name musicians as spokespeople for your Facebook page, but you can definitely tap into customers’ interest in certain performers for your marketing strategy. A report just...
  • Facebook tests new placement of star ratings
    Facebook is trying to put star ratings in a more visible place, according to a test noticed by TechCrunch. Select pages have their star rating (out of 5) right below the page name. A Facebook spokesperson...
  • Facebook strengthens U.S. Hispanic marketing c ...
    Facebook has decided to tap into the growing Hispanic market by assisting businesses with new tools to reach this demographic. In the U.S., 23 million Hispanic users are active on Facebook every month, and the company wants...
  • As Twitter IPO begins, a look back at Facebook ...
    The world’s second-most popular social network — Twitter — goes public today. For months, experts and investors have been comparing the Twitter IPO with Facebook, using Mark Zuckerberg’s social network as the basis for what Twitter...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • You Know You Are Old When -
    Some of us don't know that we are getting older. Here are a few clues to guide one through the Golden Shower years as you slowly evaporate at the Jesse Helm's Retirement Home for Befuddled Re-Puritans and Calcified Conservative. Have fun, and, please add your observations in the comment section.
  • Pragmatists, Ideologues, and Inequality in America
    he real ideologue is Christie, who vetoed an increase in the minimum wage in New Jersey. The current minimum of $7.25 is far lower than it was three decades ago in terms of purchasing power, and the typical minimum-wage worker is no longer a teenager but a major breadwinner for his or her family.
  • Are we, in fact, a welfare nation?
    This week, conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly blessed America with an article titled: "We are, in fact, a welfare nation," putting forth the theory that there are more people in America today who are on welfare than have full-time jobs. I agree with him, but have a slightly different focus than his.
  • Iran's Nuclear Talks: Theater of the Absurd
    There is more to the Iranian nuclear talks than meet the eye.
  • What America will look like in 2050--cultural ...
    "They claim the right not to assimilate, and the day is coming when the question will be how can the United States regulate the defiantly unassimilated cultures, religions, and mores of foreign lands? Such immigrants say their traditions trump the U.S. legal system. Balkanization of the United ...

Switchboard

  • Demanding CLEAN Power
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The Wall Street Journal recently reported that 1 in 20 Americans live within a mile of a fracking site. That means more people than ever before have drill pads, toxic wastewater pits, and heavy truc ...
  • A New Era of Flood Management: Farms, Fish and ...
    Monty Schmitt, Senior Scientist, San Joaquin River Project Manager, San Francisco Something happened this week that probably would not have even occurred just five years ago – a farmer worked with conservation groups to sell his 497 acre dairy ...
  • Aggressive Energy Efficiency Programs Could Sa ...
    Ariana Gonzalez, Energy Policy Analyst, Midwest, Chicago Office Michigan homes, businesses, and industries could save nearly $7 billion on their electricity and natural gas bills over the next five years – and a whopping $13 billion over ...
  • This Week in Whales: Japan is Hunting Some Dol ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica News in the world of whales this week (or close to it), presented by guest blogger Lauren Packard: The Japanese tradition of killing around 17,000 small cetaceans each year in Ja ...
  • The Utility of Fashion
    Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco Let's be frank -- I am not a fashionista.  The last time I may have even been remotely on the cusp of being fashionable was well-over a decade ago, (unless you count my penchant for neoprene ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Cyber Edge - Cyber Insecurity Unchallenged
    A recent report on U.S. business community’s acute vulnerability to cyber attacks—96 percent according to Ernst & Young—is alarming. This report is troubling not only because of its findings—lack of proper cyber defense capabilities—but because it reflects the prevalence of a passi ...
  • The Iranian Threat - Netanyahu Urges Kerry Not ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry not to sign what he described as “a very, very, bad deal� with Iran that would relieve sanctions on the country in return for it curbing its nuclear program.“It’s a very bad deal,� Netanyahu said followi ...
  • Inside Politics - House in Play in 2014
    Even though we are a year away from the midterm elections, and much can and will happen in that time, as of right now, the House is in play. It’s all in the data, and the multitude of polling shows House Republicans scraping the bottom of the barrel. Thanks to heavy gerrymandering, the calcula ...
  • The Race for Energy Recovery - Wireless Device ...
    Using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have designed a power-harvesting device with efficiency similar to that of modern solar panels.The device wirelessly converts the microwave signal to direct ...
  • Broken Healthcare - Obamacare Outlaws Policies ...
    As I watched Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius being grilled by members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week, it was immediately clear to me just how many of them are in the pockets of the industry I used to work for.Former colleagues of mine undoubtedly had a ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Typhoon Haiyan 'One Of The Strongest Storms Ev ...
    Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, strikes the Philippines with gusts of up to 200mph (320km/h). Meteorologists say that if initial estimates based on satellite images are borne out, it could be the most powerful storm ever to make landfall
  • The Deep-Time Blueprints And Consequences Of T ...
    The phenomenon of a biological species perpetrating a mass extinction of species through the fastest-rate climate change known, at least during the last 65 million years, cannot be reconciled with established principles Darwinian evolution. While the great late dinosaurs, having survived for nea ...
  • The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black, And Fema ...
    The future of the human species—if there is to be a future—must be radically green, red, black and female
  • National Security Agency – The Only Part Of Th ...
    I have on occasion asked people who reject or rationalize any and all criticism of US foreign policy: “What would the United States have to do in its foreign policy to lose your support? What, for you, would be too much?” I’ve yet to get a suitable answer to that question. I suspect it’s because ...
  • 120 Reasons Why Australians Must Vote 1 Green ...
    Detailed here are 120 reasons why Australians should reject the disgraceful Coalition. Mainstream media lying in Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy and Corporatocracy Australia ensures that most of these reasons are kept well away from the Australian public. Apprised of these matters, decent Australians w ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Poor Tom Cruise-- Says Acting is as Hard As Fi ...
    Tom Cruise has never been shy about expressing his beliefs, and in a recent deposition, the actor said he believed acting was as hard as fighting a war. Cruise was being deposed for his case against Bauer Publishing. He is suing them for stories two of its publications that stated h ...
  • Stupid Media Bias Tricks, The Election Week Ed ...
    This was a big week for lies and nastiness from the mainstream media and progressives, from the coverage of the President's " you can keep your taxes, period" lie, to his lie about the lie, to at times slanderous coverage of election day results. This week there slanders about conservat ...
  • Obama Selling Out Israel With "Sucker" Deal Ca ...
    The United States of America used to be a tower of strength in the world but Barack Obama is turning us into a shivering tower of Jello. Trying to get attention off his administration's various scandals, the latest of which is the failure of the Obamacare introduction and his associated lies ...
  • Electric Manufacturer Tesla Motors "Burning Up ...
    If you have a burning desire to own an electric care, perhaps Tesla Motors is the way to go. The luxury electric car model S has suffered its third fire in five weeks and people are calling for a federal investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “absolutely has to ...
  • Obama Answers Chuck Todd Softballs He's Sorry ...
    President Obama sat down with Chuck Todd from his home network today and discussed his broken "you can keep your insurance, period" promise lie. Todd asked him what happened to the promise, but assumed from the start his misleading of the public was unintentional. But then again that's why the ...

Wind Watch

  • 600,000 bats killed at wind energy facilities ...
    Over 600,000 bats were killed by wind energy turbines across the United States last year, with the highest concentration of kills in the Appalachian Mountains, according to new research. In a paper published Friday in the journal BioScience, University of Colorado biologist Mark Hayes used recor ...
  • Wind turbine collapses in Washington
    Another of the thousands of wind turbines that now dot the Columbia Plateau has collapsed in a wind storm, this one at the Stateline wind farm near Touchet, Washington. It’s a fairly rare event, but still raises questions about the longevity of region’s burgeoning wind fleet, whether ...
  • Wind turbine goes up in flames
    [A wind turbine burned Sunday in Bördekreis in Sachsen-Anhalt. Firefighters stood by helpless, watching a million euros destroyed. It was not the first such event.] Windrad geht in Flammen auf Düsseldorf. Es sind atemberaubende Aufnahmen, die im Bördekreis in Sachsen-Anhalt entstanden sind. Ein ...
  • Dead in Ooltgensplaat wind turbine fire
    A wind turbine caught fire Tuesday afternoon in Ooltgensplaat on Goeree-Overflakkee, costing the lives of two mechanics. Four mechanics were at work in the wind turbine on the Mariadijk, about 80 meters above ground, Tuesday afternoon. By a cause, yet unknown, a fire started in the engine room. ...
  • Foes file lawsuit to block Aroostook wind project
    Opponents of a soon-to-be-built wind farm in the Aroostook County town of Oakfield took legal action on Tuesday, in a last-minute attempt to stop the project. They filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Bangor, aimed at a 50-turbine wind farm to be erected by First Wind of Boston under its su ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Smarter: A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, a new experiment. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are very ...
  • Code for journalists, or why journalists shoul ...
    Friday I was visiting the Center for Collaborative Journalism, and I watched director Tim Regan-Porter teaching a class called Hacking the Media. In it, about 12 students were learning to do something with Ruby on Rails. Some of the students were journalism majors. Others were from engineering o ...
  • Aggregation and curation in journalism
    About two months ago, I had to explain the concept and use of aggregation in online journalism to a group of journalists (mostly editors) in Vietnam. I found most of my material in this blog post by Steve Buttry — and in fact, much of what you need to know is in his headline: Link, attribu ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use Hoo ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The high public cost of fast- ...
    Image Caption:  This graph is from "Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry." See link below. The U.S. fast-food industry generates $200 billion a year in sales. Why are s ...
  • The war on women voting in North Carolina
    Image Caption:  North Carolina's restrictive new voting law turns back the clock on women's access to the ballot. (Photo from the Library of Congress.) It's well-documented that the heaviest burdens under strict phot ...
  • Through song, Mississippi Delta teens speak ou ...
    Image Caption:  A new video offers Mississippi Delta teens' perspective on why the Affordable Care Act matters. (Image is a still from the video below.) The national debate over "Obamacare" rages on, but whose voices are ...
  • Youth help turn back the tea party in Virginia ...
    Image Caption:  Terry McAuliffe, at left, decisively defeated Ken Cuccinelli to become the next governor of Virginia, and he did it with the help of the youth vote. (Photo of Terry McAuliffe by Edward Kimmel via Wikipedia; photo of Cuccinelli b ...
  • Youth voting rights activists monitoring NC po ...
    Image Caption:  NC Vote Defenders is a group of young people and students taking action to protect voting rights amid efforts to restrict them. Galvanized by new laws restricting voting rights in North Carolina, young people a ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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Ian Welsh

  • The Role of Violence and Coercion in Saving th ...
    It will be impossible to save the world from climate change without coercion.  The problem of climate change is a problem of common sinks and limited resources: the atmosphere can only absorb so much carbon, the seas only have so many fish and can only withstand us dumping so much plastic and ot ...
  • What is an economy?
    Perhaps the greatest difficulty I have talking about the economy is that most people don’t understand what an economy is. An economy is what people produce and the relations that make that production possible. An economy is not money.  Printing more money does not automatically increase th ...
  • Jerome Armstrong’s Oral History of the Dean an ...
    (This a comment elevated from my post on why Democrats and Obama don’t do what progressives want.  It is written by Jerome Armstrong, not by me. Jerome was the founder of MyDD (Kos’s Blogfather) and co-author of Crashing the Gates, among other things- Ian) by Jerome Armstrong In the fall o ...
  • Jerome Armstrong: A blogger is the first follo ...
    By Jerome Armstrong I want to say something about the role of a blogger, just to try and frame the expectations and limitations inherently in place. The blogger is like that first follower in the famous Derek Sivers video, that is: “the first follower is the person that transforms the lone danci ...
  • Modern Violence, Resistance and the Calculus o ...
    Let us talk, today, about violence, resistance and revolution.  It has been observed that armed populations often seem to be more free, equally it has been observed that armed populations live in a state of misery and anarchy, as in most failed states, where virtually everyone is armed. An armed ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Olympic Torch Spacewalk: Sochi Torch Rela ...
    MOSCOW -- MOSCOW (AP) — The Sochi Olympic torch has started its first spacewalk. NASA Live TV showed Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy carrying the unlit Olympic torch, bobbing weightlessly at the end of a tether in a darkness dotted by stars, outside the International Spac ...
  • Health care cancellations: 2 intimate vie ...
    CHICAGO -- For Shonn Hild, a landscaper from Sullivan, Ill., the controversy over Americans losing their health insurance plans, despite a promise by President Barack Obama, is frustrating and personal. For Jon Gabel, a University of Chicago health care researcher, the surprise is not the ma ...
  • Crisis brewing in Israeli-US relations
    JERUSALEM (AP) -- A pair of testy public exchanges this week appear to have undone whatever good will was created between the Israeli and U.S. governments during a high-profile visit by President Barack Obama early this year. Tensions burst into the open during a swing through the region by ...
  • Obama golfing at 'Caddyshack' course in F ...
    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President Barack Obama is hitting the greens at the private Florida golf club where...
  • Player Ratings: Real Madrid 5-1 Real Soci ...
    A sensational hat-trick from Cristiano Ronaldo added to a dominant performance from the hosts, as the visitors struggled to make any impact on the game By Sam Bisby Comments Real Madrid 3.69 3 0 3.50 Diego López Rodríguez Not troubled once in the second-half, but the ‘keeper had a very busy ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Mainstreaming Natural Health Care
    (This is the 3rd of four posts on the effectiveness of “natural” or “alternative” health care.) Third Party Coverage Presently Germany, which has publicly guaranteed health care for all its citizens, is the only country to offer “natural” health care on a ...
  • How Natural Health Care Affects Genes
     (This is the 2nd of 4 posts regarding the effectiveness of “natural” or “alternative” health care.) The Wall Street Journal article I mentioned in my last post also mentions other research into the mechanism by which plant-based diets, yoga, and meditation halt ...
  • Natural Health Care: the Research Evidence
    Politics Masquerading as Science (This is the 1st of four posts on the effectiveness of “natural” or “alternative” health care.) I find it ironic how eager mainstream doctors are to condemn natural health treatments for not being “evidence-based.” Especial ...
  • End Taxpayer Subsidies for Nuclear Power
    Sign the Public Citizen petition! One week we learn the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has contaminated the entire North Pacific with via the daily discharge of  300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean. The following week we learn that Britain has approved the first new, “ ...
  • Cellphones and Breast Cancer
    Insurance Companies Cease Coverage for Cellphone-Related Cancer Check out the video below to see why cancer patients are filing class actions lawsuits against cellphone manufacturers. Why brain tumors have overcome leukemia as the most common childhood killer. And why cellphone manufacture ...

FourWinds10

  • Denver to start charging groups who do yoga or ...
    July 17, 2013 (NaturalNews) Fitness groups that hold classes at public parks, green spaces, and other multi-use public areas in Colorado's capital city of Denver could soon have to pay user fees to the city in order to continue using them, according to new proposals. Paid exercise programs l ...
  • 'OUTDOOR ALABAMA' MAGAZINE LIES ABOUT HOW 'GOO ...
  • Wal-Mart pays $81.6 million settlement for env ...
    June 12, 2013 (NaturalNews) Wal-Mart is not only the world's largest retailer, it is apparently one of the nation's biggest polluters as well, as evidenced by a massive fine levied recently by the federal government following an investigation of "environmental crimes" which las ...
  • Something Is Killing Life All Over The Pacific ...
    Oct. 30, 2013 Why is there so much death and disease among sea life living near the west coast of North America right now?  Could the hundreds of tons of highly radioactive water that are being released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day have anything to do with it?&nbsp ...
  • Something's fishy: Hundreds of animals, fish a ...
    July 5, 2013 (NaturalNews) More events of mass wild-life species deaths are occurring exponentially, usually without explanation. Often the immediate problem is recognized, but what caused the problem remains unknown. The term "non-point pollution" pops up, indicating that the source o ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • 7 Ways To Reduce Your Electricity Bill
    A lot of people are looking to save money these days. No one knows what the future holds, and we all know that the world has been marred with economic troubles in the past decade or so. A major household expenditure for most of us is our electric bill.read more
  • 3 Ways Superstorm Sandy Could Change Utilities ...
    A year after Sandy, the utilities that suffered the most damage and the longest outages have been taken to task by politicians and regulators. The starkest example is Long Island Power Authority, which was stripped down, privatized and will now be run by PSE&G.read more
  • UCLA Report: Top 10 Solutions to Global Ocean ...
    A new report released recently identifies the best solutions to tackle the urgent problem of an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter entering the ocean each year. Plastic pollution is a daunting crisis for the marine environment, one that demands action.read more
  • One Year Following Sandy, Go Out And Create A ...
    It’s tough to believe that only one year ago, Superstorm Sandy struck the Atlantic coast. The devastation from the massive storm was wide-spread and unyielding, and ended up knocking out power to over 8.5 million people in a matter of hours. read more
  • New Documents Reveal Canada Not Serious on Add ...
    Freedom of information documents makes public that Canadian climate policies under consideration will still lead to significant increases in tar sands carbon pollution. This comes days after the Canadian government released its annual report on greenhouse gas emissions.read more

Rodale News

  • 5 GMO-Free Thanksgiving Dessert Ideas
    The food writer Michael Pollan once wrote, "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." Sadly, most of the food that now adorns Thanksgiving tables, particularly the dessert table, wouldn't meet that basic requirement: pumpkin from cans, "whipped topping&quo ...
  • FDA Finally Moves to Ban Trans Fats
    Better late than never, as the saying goes: Twenty years after scientific studies began revealing the damage that trans fats are doing to America's collective cardiovascular health, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it finally intends to ban the man-made fats. The agency ...
  • Toxic Tampons: The Dangers of Your Feminine Pr ...
    Many women use dozens of personal care products every day—shampoo, conditioner, moisturizers, makeup, and hair sprays and gels. Then there are the really (personal) personal care products…things like tampons, pads, vaginal douche, and wipes. These products get up close and personal with extrem ...
  • Study: Your Flooring Could Trigger Asthma
    Some asthma triggers, such as air pollution and out-of-control allergens, are easy to identify. Others are more difficult to pinpoint, but Swedish researchers are the latest to find a link between asthma in children and vinyl flooring, often marketed as "laminate" flooring. Made of PVC plastic ...
  • Fresh Picks: Essential New Food Knowledge! The ...
    • Gluten may not be the bad guy in wheat (Refinery 29) • The new "other" white meat is not what you think (NPR’s The Salt) • Avoid food spoilage and waste by getting your fridge ready for the holidays (GoodHousekeeping.com) • How to shop organic on a budget for big get-togethers (The Honest C ...

big think

  • Discovering the World Beneath the Waves
    In the XPRIZE Insights video below Dave Gallo talks about the natural wonders that have been uncovered beneath the waves. There are potentially a lot more discoveries to be made within our oceans, with as little as 5% of it explored so far.  Watch here: Image cour ...
  • Helping Research Projects Over the 'Valley of ...
    We are experiencing right now a remarkable deluge of discovery in terms of the causes of disease, much of it coming out of genomics, the ability to pinpoint at the molecular level what pathway has gone awry in causing a particular medical condition.  And that in itself is exciting because it’s n ...
  • Poetry is the Essence of Education
    The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that’s really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from . ...
  • What Will it Take to Get More Women in Technology?
    I think that the internet really allows for more inventive and flexible ways for women to engage in society and also be mothers.  Sometimes I think the internet was the tool the feminist movement always needed because when my mother went back to school to get her PhD she had to leave the house a ...
  • Ideas Must Be Tested, So Arm Yourself With Evi ...
    I think if you have a culture where dissent is difficult or disagreement is difficult you’ve got a big problem because any organization is going to make mistakes and those mistakes need to be fixed as quickly as possible. So one way or another you’re going to have to find a way where mistakes ar ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • A graphene piano
    Is there anything Nobel-winning, all-carbon, one-atom-thick, wonder material graphene won’t be able to do? Here’s a demonstration of a graphene “piano”… A graphene piano is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom Subscribe to our Ema ...
  • Move closer…what if the Moon…
    …were as close to the Earth as the International Space Station (ISS). Gravitational and tidal effects aside, this is a nice photorealistic animation to show the night during the day. And, then…what if the Earth had rings like Saturn? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoz5Q2rGQtQ Move c ...
  • News from the Squares – Book review
    In Robert Llewellyn’s eagerly awaited sequel to News From Gardenia, erstwhile engineer Gavin Meckler is trying to get back to the present in his Youneec aircraft, but something is amiss. He soon realises he has travelled sideways through time to another possible future, as unlike his visit to 22 ...
  • Designing out desire for sustainable life
    We’ve got it all wrong, it seems. We invest millions in recycling centres, refuse sorting facilities, and in some parts of the world in assimilating every last scrap of metal, plastic, glass and feeding it back into the system as usable source materials whether that’s for plastics re ...
  • Amygdalin – anticancer “vitamin” B17
    Amygdalin the so-called safe and natural anticancer vitamin B17, is none of those things. It is not a vitamin in any sense of the word. It has no anticancer properties. It is poisonous. The compound, formula C20H27NO11, is a glycoside initially isolated from the seeds of the tree Prunus dulcis i ...

RFF Library

  • Wildfire Management: Federal Funding and Rela ...
    Congressional Research Service http://bit.ly/199hxHe Wildfires can have beneficial and harmful impacts on ecosystems (e.g., by reducing fuel loads, or by damaging communities and timber resources). These impacts are generally measured and discussed based on the priorities of humans in these ecos ...
  • Extreme Risks – 2013
    Towers Watson http://bit.ly/1bChwyf …Towers Watson’s extreme risks ranking has a new top three: Food/water/energy crisis, Stagnation and Global temperature change – while Sovereign default and Insurance crisis have both fallen five places and Depression loses the top spot for the first time sinc ...
  • Carbon Capture: A Technology Assessment
    Congressional Research Service http://fulltextreports.com/2013/10/28/crs-carbon-capture-a-technology-assessment/ …Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is widely seen as a critical strategy for limiting atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)—the principal “greenhouse gas” linked to globa ...
  • Hydraulic Fracturing: Selected Legal Issues
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43152.pdf …An amendment to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) passed as a part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) clarified that the Underground Injection Control (UIC) requirements found in the SDWA do not apply to ...
  • Minable US Coal is Rapidly Running Out — ...
    Warning: Faulty Reporting of US Coal Reserves http://cleanenergyaction.org/2013/10/30/warning-faulty-reporting-on-us-coal-supplies/ [Website] Federal Estimates Overstate Reserves by Including Coal That Cannot Be Mined Profitably; Production Already Down in All Major Coal Mining States… And Utili ...

frogblog

  • The Chorus copper kerfuffle
    The announcement today of an independent review into Chorus will hopefully provide some answers to the next mess National has created around the roll-out of ultra-fast broadband and how copper pricing is now affecting it. I support Minister Amy Adam’s independent review announcement and believe ...
  • CERA finally listened to Cantabrians on centra ...
    After a year of waiting, last week the Accessible City Transport Plan for Christchurch was released. Many Cantabrians had submitted on what kind of transport infrastructure they would like to see for the city, and it’s great to see the difference that those submissions made. Christchurch citizen ...
  • The solar revolution is here
    New research just released has shown that solar installations in New Zealand have increased by 370% in just two years and the solar energy sector is currently worth around $40 million. It’s a huge rise and highlights the real potential of clean energy in New Zealand. It also marks the beginning ...
  • Live-streaming select committees
    Today, we take a step in the right direction for parliamentary openness and transparency, with the start of a trial of live-streaming public sessions of Select Committees.
  • Biodiversity hotspot Denniston now open for co ...
    Last week, the Environment Court ruled against Forest and Bird’s plea to stop Bathurst’s open cast coal mine on the breathtaking Denniston Plateau. This week, Dr Leon Perrie of Te Papa wrote a blog post highlighting the Department of Conservation’s report that finds eight critical, endangered, o ...

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 414: Cash of Duty Ghosts
    Changes coming to The Insanity Report and Movie Trailer Reviews The work that goes into applying for SDCC press passes Award Season and Kev gets a ton of Indie movies to review Arkham Origins might have a better story than Arkham City Gamers who play for status symbol instead of enjoyment Why I& ...
  • IC 413: The Golden Rule: Don’t Be a Dick
    Killing Time on Netflix Batman Arkham Origins Happy “Dress up as another race in an offensive manner and then claim you had no idea it was offensive even though it is blatantly obvious it was offensive” Month Owning up to being offensive How stupid you have to be to do a racist costu ...
  • 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:

Simple Climate

  • The man who got the world to agree on climate
    Bert Bolin played a key role in putting the risk of human-caused climate change on the political map, from one of the first official government recognitions, to guiding the IPCC to a Nobel prize.
  • The underprepared figurehead that led climate ...
    Bert Bolin overcame the death of his mentor to define how computers and satellites would aid weather and climate research and set up organisations that would lead to creation of the IPCC.
  • The underprepared figurehead that led climate ...
    Bert Bolin overcame the death of his mentor to define how computers and satellites would aid weather and climate research and set up organisations that would lead to creation of the IPCC.
  • Tundra plants show modern temperatures unmatch ...
    As plants preserved under glaciers for at least 44,000 years are revealed in surprising abundance, Gifford Miller from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team have used them to show how far beyond natural patterns the warming humans have driven is.
  • Tundra plants show modern temperatures unmatch ...
    As plants preserved under glaciers for at least 44,000 years are revealed in surprising abundance, Gifford Miller from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team have used them to show how far beyond natural patterns the warming humans have driven is.

e!Science News

  • Hubble catches stellar explosions in NGC 6984
    Supernovae are intensely bright objects. They are formed when a star reaches the end of its life with a dramatic explosion, expelling most of its material out into space. The subject of this new Hubble image, spiral galaxy NGC 6984, played host to one of these explosions back in 2012, known as S ...
  • Snap to attention: Polymers that react and mov ...
    Microvehicles and other devices that can change shape or move with no power source other than a beam of light may be possible through research led by the University of Pittsburgh. The researchers are investigating polymers that "snap" when triggered by light, thereby converting light e ...
  • A new scorpion species from ancient Lycia
    Scientists discover and describe a new species of scorpion, Euscorpius lycius, coming from the area of ancient Lycia, nowadays the regions of the Muğla and Antalya Provinces in Southwestern Turkey. With the new discovery, the scorpions from this genus found in the country go up to a total o ...
  • High-energy physicists predict new family of f ...
    An international team of high-energy physicists says the discovery of an electrically charged subatomic particle called Zc(4020) is a sign that they have begun to unveil a whole new family of four-quark objects. read more
  • Slacktivism: 'Liking' on Facebook may mean les ...
    Would-be donors skip giving when offered the chance to show public support for charities in social media, a new study from the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business finds. read more

unEarthed

  • EPA - Here Are 55 Reasons To Listen Closely
    Citizens give EPA an earful at carbon pollution listening sessions Hundreds spoke during the public listening sessions on carbon pollution controls. (Photo courtesy of Moms Clean Air Force) ...
  • Messed Up in Michigan
    New report talks trash about Michigan's ash In Michigan, no regulations prohibit dangerous dumping of coal ash. (Clean Water Fund) Clean Water Fund&rsquo ...
  • Fracking Voted Out in Three Colorado Communities
    Strong support across the northern Front Range for halting fracking Residents of large and small communities across the northern Front Range area of Colorado voted Tuesday to halt fracking in their backyards. These defeats for the ...
  • Kauaʻi Mayor Ignores Constituents, Vetoes Ordi ...
    Ordinance would provide safeguards against pesticide exposure Large crowds had gathered at the County Building, in support of the ordinance. (Photo courtesy of Pesticides on Kauai) ...
  • Shell Plans to Drill in The Arctic in 2014
    Moves ahead despite past failures, warnings and a wrecked rig The conical drilling unit Kulluk sat aground 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, AK, on the shore of Sitkalidak Island in Januar ...

Brave New Climate

  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part II
    This is the second part of a comprehensive 3-part series on radiation that is being published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week, we look at… mutations! ———- Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, ...
  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – P ...
    This is the first of a comprehensive new 3-part series on radiation, which will be published on BNC in weekly instalments. If you really want to distinguish science fact from science fiction on the many vexed issues surrounding radiation, including cancer risks, genetic and physical mutations, a ...
  • ‘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 ...

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

  • Why Some Health Care Policies Cost More
    This is a great article from the Huffington Post on Why Some Health Care Policies Cost More  And Some Policies Are Being Cancelled… There is no legislation where everyone is a winner. The point of any good law is to help the most people while harming the fewest. In the case with Obamacare ...
  • 1,046,000 Texans Won’t Get Free / Afford ...
    That’s right. If Ricky the dirtbag worked with the the feds, they could have set up a system to enroll Texans like the one in Oregon, California, Washington and other places to get free, or low cost health insurance to millions of hard working Texans. But noooooooo. Weall in Texxas duddunt ...
  • Dear Patty Murray
    So Patty,  you are “negotiating” with Paul Ryan are you? Here is your new message. If the wealthy paid taxes at the rate of the middle class, and corporations weren’t allowed to stash their profits overseas, we wouldn’t have a deficit. There is no need to screw the elderl ...
  • The Best Ted Cruz Blog Post Ever!
    From bayside on Raw Story: “Keep up the hate Cruz and soon republicans will be small enough to drown in a bathtub.” From Raw StoryArticle “Cruz lashes out at Senate GOP over shutdown failure”….. Personally I don’t thing “approval” for Republicans w ...
  • So The Tea Party Is Racist – Duh
    Why is it that only Congressman Alan Grayson is pointing out this simple fact? Grayson Stands Behind Statement… I am sure there is one or two Teabaggers that aren’t racist to the core. At least I am pretty sure. I am sure they hate President Obama simply because he is a Socialist, Ke ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Government to confirm destruction of Bedouin v ...
    After being expelled and relocated in the 1950s, the residents of Umm al-Hiran are about to lose their homes once again – this time to make way for a Jewish national-religious settlement. The Israeli government is about to make one of its most outrageous decisions in recent years (and ther ...
  • The rise of Israel’s animal rights movement
    The last week has been action packed for Israeli animal rights activists, offering further proof of the movement’s growing influence over Israeli society. It started last Friday, when members of an animal rights group stood silently in the center of Tel Aviv. Each member held a dead chicke ...
  • Denying ‘Israeli nationality’ only ...
    One group of Israelis is working tirelessly to ensure that every citizen of Israel feels like they belong, regardless of religion or ethnicity. By Uzzi Ornan (Translated by Jordan Michaeli) There is a discriminatory regime in Israel, a regime under which citizens are granted and denied rights on ...
  • Bil’in revisited: The small changes in l ...
    Joining Bil’in’s weekly demonstration against the wall after not attending for a while exposes the little differences in the routine of occupation and resistance. It’s been a couple of months since my last visit to Bil’in. Not too long, but long enough to suddenly notice ...
  • ‘Death to Arabs’ sprayed on Palest ...
    The only Palestinian kindergarten in the Israeli-controlled part of Hebron is vandalized with threatening hate speech. Similar slogans found elsewhere in the H-2 part of the city. Israeli settlers vandalized a Palestinian kindergarten in Hebron earlier this week, spray-painting “Death to A ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Metro: Last Light and Football Manager 2014 Av ...
    Two more blockbuster games are now available for Linux via Steam. Metro: Last Light is a single-player first-person shooter and horror video game developed by Ukrainian studio, 4A Games. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world and features a mixture of action-oriented and stealth game ...
  • Project Ara: Motorola's Open Hardware Platform ...
    When Google took over Motorola an year ago, the speculation was that Google would simply sell off the hardware division of Motorola since they are only interested in the patents. But the arrival of Moto X proved everyone wrong. And now, Google is really starting to bring more life into Motor ...
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    TO DO

    renewable recycling conservation
    Media Mum? Europe's Renewable-Energy Push Leads to Utility Costs Spike
    NewsBusters (blog)
    As it turns out, going green comes with a hefty price tag and at least a few media outlets have noticed. In Europe, the push toward renewables in order to meet carbon emission goals has “backfired,” driving costs way up, according to Business Insider ...
    Exhibition on renewable energy products commences in Trichy
    Times of India
    TRICHY: An exhibition cum conference on 'Energy as Strategy - Augmenting Non-Conventional Energy Capacity' to give awareness about the benefit of switching to solar energy from conventional electricity commenced in Trichy district on Friday.
    California Seen Beating Renewable Energy Generation Goal
    Bloomberg
    Public support for rooftop solar and investments by major companies will pushrenewable energy generation beyond California's targets by 2020, a Los Angeles energy lawyer said. Projects by Microsoft Corp. and other companies are showing an appetite for ...
    Utilities in Pain Selling Renewable Assets at Record Rate
    Bloomberg
    About 43 percent of the 275 deals completed in the power industry in the first nine months were for renewable generators, up from 37 percent in the year-earlier period, according to data compiled by Ernst & Young LLP. The value of all the deals ...
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    HUMAN HABITAT

    ecology water energy
    Assistant Professor in Organismal FishEcology
    Scientific American
    Qualifications: The successful candidate will hold an earned doctorate (Ph.D.) or similar terminal degree at the time of the appointment in an area applicable to organismal fish ecology. Postdoctoral experience is preferred. Candidates must have a ...
    Nature award for Ecology Centre
    Fife Today
    Speaking after winning the award, Julie Samuel, Ecology Centre general manager, told the Press they were really pleased to win the accolade: “We are delighted to receive this award which is a well-deserved pat on the back for the army of volunteers who ...
    5th-generation Ionian committed to ecology
    Sentinel-Standard
    Fate spent a summer taking classes (GeneralEcology and Freshwater Algae of the Western Great Lakes) at the University of Michigan Biological Station at Douglas Lake at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula in 2011, and also spent time in the ...
    City of Auburn supports ecology preserve
    Opelika Auburn News
    For the second year, the city of Auburn has pledged a five-to-one match for individual and corporate contributions of up to $50,000 for the Louise Kreher ForestEcology Preserve, a community outreach program for Auburn University's School of Forestry ...
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    WATER POWER

    water floods pollution
    Two condor deaths in Kern water tanks are major blow to species
    Los Angeles Times
    The deaths of two California condors found last month in water tanks used by Kern County firefighters have state wildlife officials working on a way to keep the large, endangered birds out of the tanks. California wildlife officials have sent the ...
    Early morning pipe failure floods San Jose street, leaves dozens without water
    San Jose Mercury News
    SAN JOSE -- A San Jose neighborhood awoke Saturday morning to a soggy, smelly mess, thanks to an underground water main that burst. The pipe blew shortly before 5 a.m. beneath Shawcroft Drive in the city's Blossom Valley area. Water flooded the street ...
    The brief life of polywater, the water that 'doesn't freeze'
    The Verge
    In the 1960s, scientists in the US and Russia independently discovered a new form ofwater that was 40 percent denser, didn't solidify until 40 degrees below Celsius, and didn't seem to boil no matter how much it was heated. They called it polywater ...
    City, JEA in talks to help some residents living without clean water
    Florida Times-Union
    The Larsen neighborhood has about 300 homes, but at least 100 of them aren't connected to city water. While that alone isn't usually a problem, most of the wells the residents are using are bringing up sand and other possible contaminants or are dried ...
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