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English: David Miliband, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State, at a press conference following their meeting in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Report: Facebook referrals up 169 percent over ...
  While Facebook page admins may be unhappy that the site has decreased organic reach, those eyeballs are going somewhere. A new report by Shareaholic shows that referral traffic from Facebook to websites has increased 169.88 percent...
• Facebook starts testing auto-play video ads in ...
  As has been rumored and planned for months, Facebook announced this morning auto-play video advertisements (without sound) in the mobile and desktop News Feeds. This will be a small test among select users who will see...
• The top 13 Instagram moments of 2013
  While Instagram recently touched on the top places to check in and the most hotly-posted about topics of 2013, the photo sharing network recently released its list of the top moments of the year, including Pope...
• Infographic: How well did Facebook ads perform ...
  Facebook ads were a key strategy for many retail brands this holiday season, as Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer Kenshoo details in an infographic. Kenshoo shows that so far, Facebook ads have performed quite well for...
• Facebook’s ‘Trending Unit’ coming soon as batt ...
  Ninety-five percent of the social conversation around TV is taking place on Twitter, Twitter has said. But Facebook shot off another volley in the battle to own social TV at Mediabistro’s Lost Remote Show in Los...

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan Signed an “Acti ...
   Last week, the row between the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and the U.S. based preacher Fethullah Gülen somewhat subsided. The occasion was a commitment by Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arinc about the ‘dershanes’, the prep schools, many of which are in the hands of the Gülen movement. E ...
• Washington Drives the World Toward War
  Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both US soldiers and the attacked ...
• De-Manufacturing Consent- “Hacking the System: ...
  Guillermo Jimenez Presents Vivien Lesnik Weisman Guillermo is joined by journalist and documentary filmmaker, Vivien Lesnik Weisman. We discuss Vivien’s upcoming film The Hacker Wars (previously titled The Reality Wars), including the individual cases of Andrew “Weev” Auernheim ...
• Mr. Snowden, It’s Time to Come Out and Take a ...
  When It Comes to Whistleblowing, Integrity & Purity of Intentions Matter Most A week ago I began writing a series of commentaries on significant consequences and conflicts of interest associated with Glenn Greenwald, his new PayPal billionaire boss, and the ownership and commoditization of t ...
• The Group of Thirty- Architects of Austerity
  In this installment, I take a look at some specific members of the G30 and their roles in justifying and implementing austerity measures. Central Bankers, Markets & Austerity For the current members of the Group of Thirty who are sitting or recently-sitting central bankers, their roles in th ...

Afro Spear

• Black France: An Al Jazeera Special Series
  A three-part series looking at the history of France’s black community and their long struggle for recognition. Click on image …Continue reading »
• The Five Mandibas
  I read this and found it quite profound: I heard someone say today there were Five Mandibas just like there …Continue reading »
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Tikun Olam

• Center for American Progress Beds Down With Co ...
  The founder of the Center for American Progress (CAP), John Podesta, is joining the Obama inner circle in an effort to save his second term.  This development led to a somewhat unflattering profile in the NY Times yesterday.  The group’s ostensible mission is to be a liberal political lobb ...
• Catastrophic Dutch State Visit to Israel
  Bibi Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister has displayed a remarkable number of diplomatic gaffes including forcing a Turkish ambassador to sit on a kindergarten chair during an official meeting, refusing to attend the funeral of one of the greatest world leaders of the past half century&#8 ...
• NSA Intelligence Contractors Created Online Ga ...
  After reading almost a year’s worth of wild tales of NSA derring-do, there isn’t much that should surprise us…Until I read yesterday’s story that the NSA contracted with security contractors to infiltrate the online gaming world.  Their mission was to lure potential terro ...
• Bibi Cancels Trip to Mandela Memorial Over Cos ...
  Whoever’s handling Israel’s foreign affairs isn’t doing a sterling job.  Deciding who to send to the Nelson Mandela memorial in South Africa today became a matter fraught with intrigue and embarrassment when PM Netanyahu decided at the last minute not to attend.  The official r ...
• Israel’s Historic Disregard for Lives and Righ ...
  The controversy over Israel’s Prawer plan to dispossess 30-40,000 Negev Bedouin of their traditional lands and congregate them in reservation-style accommodations brought back to an Israeli friend the nightmare memory of a horrific incident in the early annals of the IDF and the State. Tho ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Wage Theft in the Chile Fields
  Green chile. The greatest gift New Mexico has given to the world, when you visit the Land of Enchantment, that chile is found everywhere from the most humble breakfast burrito (breakfast taco is second rate Texans) to the high end overpriced Santa Fe restaurants where tourists from the Upper Eas ...
• There would be enough legal jobs for law gradu ...
  The ABA has just released first year enrollment figures for the fall of 2013 at the nation’s 202 ABA-approved law schools. 39,675 students enrolled this fall, marking the third straight year that has featured a steep decline, after enrollment reached an all-time high of 52,488 in 2010. You ...
• When Will the Providence Journal Promote Mayor ...
  I guess we’ve now reached the point in the presidential cycle when hometown newspapers write ridiculous articles promoting local candidates for a presidential run. If he weren’t the nation’s oldest governor, a ripe 75, Jerry Brown would automatically be counted among serious Democratic can ...
• Townhall Sez “Feminists, YA BURNT!”
  Conservative stand-up comedian, Robert Knight, reports that a wingnut Bible school teacher has spoken to both homeschooled women and feminists and decided that homeschooled girls rule and feminists drool. The matter is settled, feminists. Pack it in and move out. That said, let me present the be ...
• Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance: Only Marginally Old ...
  Yankee fans who weren’t terribly worried about the crater left in the middle of their infield seemed confident that they could recoup at least some of the lost production by signing Omar Infante. This is not going to happen. But they have a backup plan! The New York Yankees have reached a ...

Desert Research Institute

• Dan Sauceda, December 2013 Featured DRI Grad ...
  Meet Dan Sauceda, a graduate student in the Atmospheric Sciences program. He is currently working as part of the Urban Water Vulnerability-ISP EPSCoR project, working to characterize the urban heat island in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• DRI expands research and education opportuniti ...
  Through a new partnership with the University for Development Studies and World Vision International, DRI will establish an innovative research and education center focused on finding sustainable solutions to the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and environmental problems confronting West Af ...
• Scientists Present Lake Tahoe Nearshore Evalua ...
  Joint report marks initial collaborative step between the science community and resource management agencies to develop a comprehensive approach for assessing and managing the nearshore ecology and aesthetics of Lake Tahoe. 
• A new look at air pollution sources and atmosp ...
  New research from DRI provides first thorough analysis of emissions from outdoor cremation rituals in India and Nepal.
• DRI Open House to Feature Latest Solar Technology
  JoinNV Energy, DRI’s renewable energy experts and research scientists for a Solar Celebration on Saturday, October 5th at DRI’s Renewable Energy Deployment and Display (REDD) Facility for a hands-on tour.

Earth Techling

• Leonardo DiCaprio Jumps Into Electric Car Racing
  Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio gets involved in electric car racing via the FIA Formula E Championship.
• Wanted For Power Production: Bad Swimmers
  A Wake Forest University student finds a way to turn the waves that lap swimmers produce into electricity.
• Fuel Cell Bus Comes Online In Netherlands
  A new fuel cell pilot project unfolds in the Netherlands, making use of a unique hydrogen powered bus concept.
• Big Egg Laid, Green Building Honors Hatch
  The giant, new, egg-shaped Venco Campus in The Netherlands is topping the list of green building's in the country.
• A Clean Energy Industrial Revolution
  A new green industrial revolution—driven by a variety of concerns and opportunities—is gathering steam across the globe, but are we leading in it or following?

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Discovery Opening in Coordinated Asiana Crash ...
  Discovery is set to begin in nearly 50 lawsuits over last summer?s Asiana Airlines Inc. crash after a judicial panel coordinated them for pretrial purposes before a federal judge in San Francisco.
• New Law Dean Hired at Indiana's Bloomington Campus
  Indiana University Maurer School of Law-Bloomington has named Austen Parrish as its next dean, effective on Jan. 1. Parrish is a professor at Southwestern Law School and until October had served as interim dean and chief executive officer there for more than a year.
• Fourth Circuit Green-Lights Suit Over Occupy A ...
  A federal appellate court kept alive South Carolina-based Occupy Columbia's federal lawsuit against a raft of state officials following protesters' arrest in November 2011 for violating a curfew outside the state capitol building.
• 'To Put it Simply, Polygamy is Now Lawful in Utah'
  The National Law Journal speaks with Jonathan Turley about the legal victory of the Browns, the polygamist family at the center of TLC's reality show "Sister Wives," and what it means for similar families.
• THE CONNECTED LAWYER: You Reap What You Sow Online
  Social media and LinkedIn aren't the ­panacea or the silver bullet to your marketing woes, but they are tools with real power if used correctly.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Michelle Bachelet Wins Chile Presidential Poll
  According to media reports, the 62-year-old Bachelet will take office on March 11. The new leader will take over the conservative billionaire President Sebastian Pinera's seat for a term running through 2018.
• Paris Hilton The Hottest Model of Our Time
  Model and talent manager Bruce Edwin, CEO of Starpower Management and publisher of The Hollywood Sentinel reports on the final Top 10 Hottest Model of our time.
• India Makes Significant Progress In Its Fight ...
  The new mantra of 'zero new HIV infections, zero deaths and zero AIDS-related stigma and discrimination by 2015' is increasing decibels but Indian AIDS response is a complex matrix of challenges
• Six Militant Groups Active in Assam: Government
  The Assam State government, in its first sitting of the winter session gave some good news statistics, along with news that more effort is needed.
• Arts Express: The Stars Talk American Hustle
  Prairie Miller talks to Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams about conning people, competitive dance moves, guy hair curlers, furry animals and lip locking.

environment 360

• Australian Coal Projects Threatened by Drop i ...
  Major Australian coal projects risk losing value due to falling demand from China, where leaders are increasingly concerned about growing public anger over severe air pollution, a new analysis from Oxford University has found. Future coal mining projects are vulnerable to being "stranded" by a r ...
• Volume of E-Waste Projected to Soar by 2017, S ...
  The volume of electronic waste generated worldwide is expected to climb by 33 percent by 2017 to 65 million tons, according to a study conducted by a partnership of United Nations organizations, industry, governments, and scientists. So many computers, televisions, mobile phones, and other de ...
• Singapore Takes the Lead In Green Building in Asia
  By encouraging the adoption of innovative architectural design and energy-saving technologies, Singapore has emerged as a model of green building in Asia — an important development in a region that is urbanizing more rapidly than any other in the world. BY MIKE IVES
• U.S. Energy Department Invests in Small-Scale ...
  Small, nearly meltdown-proof nuclear reactors are receiving a big boost from the U.S. Department of Energy. The department will give a company in Corvallis, Oregon, as much as $226 million to develop so-called "small modular reactors," which can be used with many local power grids that can't ac ...
• In South Africa, Renewables Vie With the Polit ...
  Although coal has dominated the South African electricity sector for decades, the country’s abundant solar and wind resources offer a promising renewable energy alternative. But entrenched political interests connected to the ruling party are fighting to expand coal’s role in the national econom ...

Red Ice Creations

• Digging for the truth at Gunung Padang
  The status and history of Indonesia's Gunung Padang megalithic site are today in dispute. There is debate about whether the site is a result of natural weathering, or whether history will have to be rewritten to reflect Mesolithic man's involvement in its creation. To many researchers, like Grah ...
• Cat domestication may have started in China
  There has been much debate about how cats went from hunting in the wild to a much-loved pet. That is because we know little about their domestication. Now researchers have found the earliest case of cat domestication, which happens to be in China, along with the first direct evidence of how it m ...
• Lithuanian schools diaries replace 'mother, fa ...
  Electronic diaries in hundreds of Lithuanian schools now display 'Parent I' or 'Parent II' entries where they used to be 'mother' and 'father'. This comes after the same initiative for kindergartens was abolished over public outrage. The change in family ways has popped up in the Lithuanian syst ...
• Loretta Fuddy: The Most Unlucky Person of 2013 ...
  21st Century Wire says... Are the White House plumbers at it again? A Cessna crashes in Hawaii, and eight survive - but one woman, for some reason, could not be rescued. Her name was Loretta Fuddy, she was 65 years old, and she happened to be the Hawaiian health official who released the notorio ...
• BitTorrent Torture: Denmark Sets Example With ...
  Government works hand-in-hand with corporations in war on peer-to-peer file sharing. The state and the corporations that control it hate peer-to-peer file sharing, especially when copyright is violated. That's why the state has declared war on BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer network protocol that, ...

Not My Tribe

• Fake sign language interpreter gets it right a ...
  Hmm. “He also used no facial expression to convey the emotions of the leaders.” So he got that right too. Did you catch President Obama criticizing the use of prison walls and snipers? And admonishing other leaders for not tolerating voices of dissent?
• Pearl Harbor wasn’t our first 9/11
  Before Pearl Harbor, there was Remember the Maine (Spain’s sneak attack), before that Americans were admonished to never forget the Alamo (Mexico’s sneak attack). After Pearl Harbor, the sneak attack that conscripted US public opinion into WWII, there was the Gulf of Tonkin (Viet Con ...
• A lesson the US forgot about Iraq? Prosecute w ...
  COLORADO SPRINGS– Whose fault is it that America is “forgetting the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan”? We never learned them… Instead of prosecuting war criminals like General “H.R.” McMaster, assemblies of war lovers like the Colorado Springs World Affairs Cou ...
• Israel wouldn’t know a “historic m ...
  International diplomats have secured an agreement with Iran which appears to defuse current tensions. Crippling economic sanctions will be relaxed in exchange for limiting Iran’s capability to produce nuclear weapons. Everybody is breathing easier except Israel. Why? Is the Israeli regime ...
• New Mexico State Police treat African American ...
  OUT OF CONTROL. New Mexico state police stopped a minivan for speeding and the African American mother at the wheel decided, correctly it turned out, that she and her five children risked who knows what on a rural backroad at the hands of white cops. Oriana Ferrell of Tennessee –perhaps of ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• On four opposing theorys
  Ever since the cessation of the 9/11 attacks more than 12 years ago, people have both actively and passively wondered how the 'terrorists' could be so spectacularly successful. Within the truth movement especially, there has been a marked inability to agree on what actually took p ...
• How to Debunk DEW Arguments
  One of the most frustrating claims I hear from DEW supporters is that "you need to read Judy Wood's book before you can critique her arguments." They of course ignore the fact that she's had her arguments debunked over and over again for the past several years, and to the best of my kn ...
• Information Clearing House
  During the 9/11FreeFall promotional interview for the new WTC dust study, the host Andrew Steele asked me how I had gotten involved in the 9/11 truth movement. I explained that I originally began to explore the alternative media on the internet for research articles about geopolitics, which led ...
• A Feature Film on The Drone War Slaughter
  Rep. Alan Grayson December 6, 2013  Last month, I held a briefing on drone strikes, a cold-blooded military euphemism for a method of waging war that is more properly described as "remote killing." Last year, a mindless killing machine - an American drone aircraft - killed an innocent gra ...
• How to Debunk WTC Thermite
  Editor's Note: Please help further the study of nanothermite in the WTC dust by donating at MarkBasile.org. Posted on December 8, 2013 by Kevin Ryan                  The evidence for the presence of thermi ...

Fooducate

• A Holiday Plea: Let’s Be Kinder on Facebook
• Guess Who’s Going Meatless in 2014?
• 4 Reasons Chobani’s 100 Calorie Yogurts Are a ...
• Three Ways Skinny Cocktails Are Actually Cheat ...
• Eating Healthier IS NOT More Expensive (In the ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Coca-Cola dragged into Brazilian Indians' land ...
  The leader of a Guarani community has sent a desperate plea for his tribe's ancestral land to be returned. © Sarah Shenker/SurvivalGuarani Indians in Brazil have urged Coca-Cola to stop buying sugar from US food giant Bunge, which has been implicated in a landgrabbing scandal. A recent Oxf ...
• Kurt Jackson donates to Survival
  Blustery Day near Oxford, May 2013, mixed media on paper, 53 x 61cm. All offers over £3,625 will be considered© Kurt JacksonLeading British artist, and Survival Ambassador, Kurt Jackson is donating the monies from the sale of two works of art from his current exhibition ‘The Thames Revisit ...
• Robert Redford ‘delighted’ as sacred objects b ...
  In July lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber and Survival International's Jean Patrick Razon handed over a katsina to the Hopi.© SurvivalArizona’s Hopi people have welcomed the news that twenty-one of their sacred katsinam auctioned in Paris against their wishes have been bought by US-based Annen ...
• Ambrósio Vilhalva, 1960-2013 – an obituary
  Ambrósio Vilhalva, 1960-2013© Fiona Watson/SurvivalOne of Brazil’s most prominent indigenous leaders, Ambrósio Vilhalva, has been stabbed to death near his community in southern Brazil. He was 53. Although details of the murder are confused and there are conflicting accounts, many believe his m ...
• FIFA World Cup and rainforest plants: an Amazo ...
  Nixiwaka Yawanawá, an Amazon Indian in London, has described London as a city 'rich in history and filled with ghosts'.© Helen Saunders/SurvivalNixiwaka Yawanawá, a Yawanawá Indian from the Brazilian Amazon, came to London to learn English and in 2013 joined Survival International to s ...

Greg Palast

• Give me 95 seconds
  A personal note from Greg Palast This is the best 95 seconds you can have with your clothes on. Watch this now! And pass it on: Now, get yourself a copy of this film, Vultures and Vote Rustlers — an hour-long real-life detective story, released just this week. - Get the DVD – signed. For a [...]
• Vultures and Vote Rustlers Watch the Trailer–G ...
    Watch the TrailerNow get the film! Shipped within 24 hours first class: The signed DVD of my new film, Vultures & Vote Rustlers. Includes an hour and a half of extras. Or download just the film right now. * * * * * What’s in this rocking hour of non-fiction detective tales? "Great fun ...
• The Mandela Barbie
  By Greg Palast for Truthout I can't take it anymore. All week, I've watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll. From Fox News to the Bush family, the politicians and media mavens who body-blocked the anti-Apartheid Movement and were happy to keep Mandela behind bars, now get to dress his im ...
• Roast Goldman Sachs' Chestnuts on an Open Fire
  Call me crazy, but I’ve couldn’t stop myself:  I’ve made a film about the scoundrels, scalawags, scumbags and bankers just in time to roast their chestnuts on an open fire. Vultures and Vote Rustlers combines my favorite eight investigations for BBC-TV  and Democracy Now into a one hour film tha ...
• Chris Christie will Hate this Film
  Know why the Guvna of Joyzee is so bloated? It ain’t the burgers: He’s pumped up with billionaire big bucks – from buck-a-roos who happen to be the stars of our new film:  Vultures and Vote Rustlers Greg Palast Investigates Vol. 2 Working with The Nation Institute, the Palast investigative team ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Review: NYT Says NO to ADD
  By Anne Dachel Dec 14, 2013, New York Times: The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder--The Number of Diagnoses Soared Amid a 20-Year Drug Marketing Campaign New York Times After more than 50 years leading the fight to legitimize attention deficit...
• Petition: Closing Loopholes as CA Public Healt ...
  Read the petition at Change.org. Public health authorities claim the power to forcefully medicate or quarantine anyone, even peaceful citizens, so long as they first declare an ‘emergency’: Many states also have laws providing for mandatory vaccinations during a public...
• "Not Paid To Post?" Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, UC ...
  By Christina Waldman In the past weeks, Prof Dorit Reiss of Hastings law school in San Francisco has been bombarding the blogs with many hundreds of comments in relation Katie Couric’s broadcast on HPV vaccine - likely in excess of...
• CONTEST! Enhansa Curcumin From Lee Silsby
  FIVE winners of either the powder or capsule form of Enhansa Curcumin supplement (regular or taste free) from Lee Silsby. Leave a comment to enter. The same original Enhansa in a water-dispersible powder form that is nearly taste-free. Enhansa Taste-Free...
• Dachel Media Review: Diagnosis, Bloomberg, Vac ...
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Dec 16, 2013, WealthDaily.com: Mayor Bloomberg Going too Far with New Flu Initiative Dec 15, 2013, San Jose Mercury News: Special education teacher's Facebook post calls autistic...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• Corporate Espionage: The Séralini Affair and B ...
  Comprehensive information regarding government collusion and the relentless push for GMOs throughout the world. What Séralini’s team discovered in rats is happening in humans.
• F. William Engdahl: Origins & Aims of GMO
  The origins and aims of GMO - Control of food by Globalist Criminal Corporations.
• Who Owns the Children?
  With all the tribulations it takes to raise a child, there should be no question that the final authority to raise a child rests with the parents. The ultimate authority over a child, resides with the parents.
• The White Wave of Organic Deceit
  The consolidation of organic interests by conglomerates having no real interest in true organics, but merely the bottom line continues at a dizzying rate.
• Did journal editor read the Seralini paper bef ...
  Hayes not having read the paper is, of course, the charitable interpretation of his actions, because if he is familiar with the paper's contents it might be hard not to conclude that he has deliberately misrepresented them.

new geography

• Suburban Corporate Wasteland
  I was a guest on the show “Where We Live” on WNPR radio in Connecticut this week. The theme was “Suburban Corporate Wasteland” – the increasing numbers of white elephant office campuses in suburbs. Apparently Connecticut has several of these and some buildings are actuall ...
• Downsizing the American Dream
  At this time of year, with Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas, there's a tendency to look back at our lives and those of our families. We should be thankful for the blessings of living in an America where small dreams could be fulfilled. For many, this promise has been epitomized by own ...
• Derailing Europe's Bike Trains
  In a fit of what now appears to have been madness, over the last ten days I attempted to live the life of a small plastic figure in an architect’s model community. I wheeled my bike through railroad stations, and took eco-friendly cycle lanes. The goal was to use only a combination of trains a ...
• Suburban End Games
  Are America’s suburbs facing end times? That’s what a host of recent authors would have you believe.  The declaration comes in variety of guises, from Alan Ehrenhalt’s The Great Inversion(2012), to “the peaking of sprawl” pronounced by urban planner  Christopher ...
• Rural Character in America’s Metropolitan Areas
  Looking at a map of the metropolitan areas of the United States, it would be easy to get the impression that “urban sprawl” had consumed most of the nation. Indeed, as Figure 1 indicates, one could drive from Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco to the Arizona-New Mexico border with ...

water.org

• Education, A Good First Step
  Water.org’s experience has proven it is best to not only empower a community to own and maintain their water and sanitation facilities, but to also educate the members on how to maximize the benefits of those resources.
• Water At Home
  I have an exclusive water connection now. I don’t have to worry about waiting in line, or timing my days around when water might be delivered.
• A Town Called Bèlanje - Part 1
  The people of Bèlanje, Haiti collect unsafe water from this open spring every day. Thankfully, less than one kilometer away, something is happening that will change their lives forever...
• What Can 3,000 Rupees Do?
  3,000 Indian rupees is only ~$45 USD, but according to Bobby G., the director of our Central-Indian partner ESAF, providing a WaterCredit loan for that small amount can change everything in a woman's life.
• Philanthropy meets the market
  From The World In 2014 print edition |Nov 18th 2013

Cryptogon

• Japan Boosts Military Forces to Counter China
  Via: BBC: Japan’s cabinet has approved a new national security strategy and increased defence spending in a move widely seen as aimed at China. Over the next five years, Japan will buy hardware including drones, stealth aircraft and amphibious vehicles. The military will also build a new m ...
• U.S. Weighing Closer Ties With Hardline Islami ...
  Via: Foreign Policy: As the moderate faction of the Syrian rebellion implodes under the strain of vicious infighting and diminished resources, the United States is increasingly looking to hardline Islamists in its efforts to gain leverage in Syria’s civil war. The development has alarmed U ...
• The 6,000-Page Report on CIA Torture Has Now B ...
  Via: The Atlantic: It cost $40 million to produce, documents serious wrongdoing, and doesn’t threaten national security. Team Obama won’t release it.
• Michigan Prison Guards ‘Did Nothing&#821 ...
  Via: Russia Today: Michigan prison officials needlessly housed juvenile inmates with adult convicts, where the guards then ignored allegations that the young inmates were sexually abused and essentially used as currency inside the facility, according to a new lawsuit. Brought forth by seven unna ...
• The Soviet Union’s $1 Billion ‘Psy ...
  Via: Medium: During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union battled on many fronts to demonstrate their superior technical and scientific achievements. Some of these battles are well known and well documented, such as the race to put a human in space and then on the Moon. Others are much less ...

The Economic Collapse

• 83 Numbers From 2013 That Are Almost Too Crazy ...
  During 2013, America continued to steadily march down a self-destructive path toward oblivion.  As a society, our debt levels are completely and totally out of control.  Our financial system has been transformed into the largest casino on the entire planet and our big banks are behaving even mor ...
• Camden, New Jersey: One Of Hundreds Of U.S. Ci ...
  All over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair.  Of course the most famous example of this is Detroit.  At one time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per ...
• Dent, Faber, Celente, Maloney, Rogers – ...
  Some of the most respected prognosticators in the financial world are warning that what is coming in 2014 and beyond is going to shake America to the core.  Many of the quotes that you are about to read are from individuals that actually predicted the subprime mortgage meltdown and the financial ...
• Now That Obama Is Allowing Chicken From China, ...
  Do you know what is in your chicken nuggets?  Thanks to Barack Obama, that is going to be a more important question than ever.  At the end of August, the Obama administration quietly decided to start allowing Chinese poultry processors to ship processed chicken into the United States.  For now, ...
• How Far Will Stocks Fall This Time When The Fe ...
  When QE1 ended there was a substantial stock market correction, and when QE2 ended there was a substantial stock market correction.  And if you will remember, the financial markets threw a massive hissy fit a few months ago when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that the Fed may so ...

Desertification

• Theory and Practice in Vegetation Reestablishm ...
  COST Action ES1104 is organizing a special session on Arid Lands Restoration & Combat of Desertification at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna (27 April-02 May 2014). We are inviting abstracts on the theme of ‘Theory and Practice … Continue reading →
• Desertification in South Africa (Google / You ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://youtu.be/BjqwjIa_pGs South Africa fights desertification | Global Ideas The indigenous Nama people in the semi-desert in western South Africa are learning how to farm sustainaby as soil depletion and rapid species loss threaten … ...
• The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sa ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.trust.org/item/20131216162913-va49g/ Africa’s Great Green Wall reaches out to new partners Source: UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundati ...
• Great Green Wall in China ? (Google / The Wash ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/let-a-billion-trees-bloom-can-a-great-green-wall-of-trees-stop-chinas-spreading-desert/2013/11/22/12908e0e-2d13-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html Let a billion trees bloom: Can a great green wal ...
• Do you know “PRACTICAL ACTION” and ...
  Read at : http://practicalaction.org/who-we-are The right idea, however small, can change lives Practical Action uses technology to challenge poverty in developing countries.Our strength is our approach. We find out what people are doing and help them to do it better. … Continue reading &# ...

News Blaze

• Michelle Bachelet Wins Chile Presidential Poll
  According to media reports, the 62-year-old Bachelet will take office on March 11. The new leader will take over the conservative billionaire President Sebastian Pinera's seat for a term running through 2018.
• Paris Hilton The Hottest Model of Our Time
  Model and talent manager Bruce Edwin, CEO of Starpower Management and publisher of The Hollywood Sentinel reports on the final Top 10 Hottest Model of our time.
• India Makes Significant Progress In Its Fight ...
  The new mantra of 'zero new HIV infections, zero deaths and zero AIDS-related stigma and discrimination by 2015' is increasing decibels but Indian AIDS response is a complex matrix of challenges
• Six Militant Groups Active in Assam: Government
  The Assam State government, in its first sitting of the winter session gave some good news statistics, along with news that more effort is needed.
• Arts Express: The Stars Talk American Hustle
  Prairie Miller talks to Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams about conning people, competitive dance moves, guy hair curlers, furry animals and lip locking.

libcom

• Varshavsky Warehouse Squat Case: St Petersburg ...
  Denis Levkin has been imprisoned since February 2013. He was detained when the police stormed the squatted warehouse near the former Varshavsky Station in St Petersburg, Russia, and charged under article 318 part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code (use of vi ...
• Por el Triunfo de la Confederación: 80th anniv ...
  cnt__405.jpg This article from the November issue of the CNT newspaper memorializes 80 years of a militant workers newspaper in Spain. It also focuses on the present and future of the CNT, and provide ...
• Highs and lows of a wage rise - the new garmen ...
  RMG_woman-with_red_flags2013.jpg The Bangladeshi minimum wage board has, after long negotiations, announced a 76% increase in garment workers’ pay, applicable to all seven pay grades. This has quickly ...
• Attack on squats in Warsaw during nationalist ...
  anti-fa.jpg On November 11, 2013, two squats in the center of Warsaw were attacked by nationalists and fascists. The squatters resisted successfully. In their declaration the squatters' collectiv ...
• Nizhni Novgorod: Anarchist Ilya Romanov wounde ...
  Ilya Romanov, a 46-years old Russian anarchist, was wounded on 26th of October 2013. According to authorities, this happened when a homemade bomb suddenly went off in his hands. The accident happened next to a building occupied by Russian Army draft office. ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• The Mandela Mythos – Part II
  Really – you can’t make this stuff up!  The word BIZARRE is an understatement – but when one considers the TRUTH about Nelson Mandela, things start to make a little more sense, perhaps. At the December 10 memorial service for Mandela, world leaders, including of course another ...
• Nelson Mandela – The Untold Story Behind ...
  “With the rest of the world, we mourn the passing of revered statesman Nelson Mandela. His courage, kindness and extraordinary moral leadership have been an example to all people. We express our love and sympathies to his family and the people of South Africa as they remember his extraordi ...
• George Galloway – A Voice of Truth and R ...
  Scottish/Irish politician George Galloway tells it like it truly is in a speech in a church in Vancouver B.C. back in 2010.   He declared: “The Palestinians are the victims of one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century now bleeding into the 21st century!! Israel has broken more U.N. Se ...
• George Galloway – A Voice of Truth and R ...
  Scottish/Irish politician George Galloway tells it like it truly is in a speech in a church in Vancouver B.C. back in 2010.   He declared: “The Palestinians are the victims of one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century now bleeding into the 21st century!! Israel has broken more U.N. Se ...
• Expensive Grass
  “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville  “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville       Alexis de ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Tom Mulcair, Leader of the Opposition
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with the Leader of the Opposition Tom Mulcair to discuss the major political issues facing Canada today and what Mr. Mulcair's party, the NDP, would do differently in Ottawa.
• Father Thomas Rosica
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Father Thomas Rosica to discuss the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the process of electing a new Pope.
• Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater (Feb 9, 2013
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan as he prepares for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
• Mark Burnett, television producer (Feb 2, 2013)
  Peter talks about television, fame and chasing the American Dream with the king of reality TV.
• Chris Hadfield, astronaut (Jan 26, 2013)
  Peter talks to the Canadian Astronaut from his current home in space aboard the International Space Station.

Energy Collective

• My Carbon Footprint in 2012
  Writing a blog about reducing your carbon footprint is much, much easier than actually cutting your footprint. This post is where the rubber meets the road. It details my carbon footprint from 2012, the things I did, the things I didn’t do and my struggles along the way.read more
• Faux Pause 2: Warmest November On Record As Ne ...
  Last month saw the hottest global November surface temperature on record, according to the latest data from NASA. Of course, the global surface temperature is only one of the many indicators the planet actually just keeps warming.read more
• Selling Solar Energy: Why Does It Cost 49 Cent ...
  Why is it so difficult to win a residential solar customer in the U.S.? Why does it cost 49 cents per watt to acquire a customer in the U.S. while it costs less than 7 cents per watt in Germany? That's about $3,000 for the typical 6-kilowatt residential rooftop.read more
• Decarbonization Updates
  While I was working on The Climate Fix I published several peer reviewed articles on climate policies of the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia. In recent months I have updated these analyses and summarize the updates here.read more
• What's In a Word – A Microgrid or a Managed Grid?
  College campuses are often identified as excellent candidates for microgrid deployments, and indeed, many have had them for years, without calling them microgrids. They had local generation for thermal loads, and as costs have dropped, significant installations of onsite solar PV.read more

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Washington's Dirty Game in Ukraine
  by Stephen Lendman Weeks of Ukraine street protests continue. Washington's dirty hands are involved. They're manipulating things disruptively. Imperial ruthlessness operates this way. International law is clear and unequivocal. Meddling in the internal affairs of other countries is illeg ...
• 'Good' Syrian rebels on run - Saudis ask Putin ...
  Michael Collins In that case, the end result would be a negotiating table with the Syrian government and the U.S. backed rebels on one side and the Saudi backed Islamist Front on the other. Stranger things have happened lately but not much stranger than this extrapolation. Will there be ...
• The Myth of Turkish Secularism
  By David Boyajian Turkey is a secular state. So claim its government and nearly all mainstream Western media. They are mistaken. In civilized, democratic countries, secularism means not only a respectful separation between church and state but also freedom of religion. As we shall demonstrate, ...
• Making the World Safe for War Profiteers
  by Stephen Lendman Adam Smith said governments are "instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor." Wars are waged to make them richer. Howard Zinn called war "terrorism magnified a hundred times." Make it many thousands of times. Michael Parenti said "the best way to win a No ...
• Yemen: Chaos, Conflict And Revolution
  By: Sufyan bin Uzayr Yemen. The very name of this country brings many thoughts to one’s mind. It happens to be one of the oldest centres of civilization in the region, and is currently the second largest country in the Arabian Peninsula. If that does not impress you, Yemen is also the onl ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• A round-up of commentary on the Canada Post cuts
  On Wednesday, December 11th, Canada Post announced a series of changes which included cutting staff, phasing out door-to-door mail delivery to urban residents, and a new pricing system, among others. Here's a round-up of some of our work related to this hot topic: Blog posts Cutting Canada Pos ...
• Armine Yalnizyan on the Canada Post cuts
  CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan spoke to CBC Toronto's Metro Morning about the recent cuts to postal services. Armine argues against the notion that Canada Post is becoming a financial drain on the taxpayer and necessitates service cuts. Instead, she says, Canada Post needs to address the ...
• Sixteen youth tell the stories of their neighb ...
  This year, CCPA-MB's State of the Inner City Report will take you through a visual walk-through the neighbourhoods of inner city youth. Sixteen young people from two community-based organizations were trained as photojournalists to tell the stories of the what they like and don't like about thei ...
• Does Canada's economic recovery make the ...
  It’s been more than four years since the end of the recession, and the federal government claims the economy is doing great. But how accurate is that message? Is Canada’s economy the best in the world? Over the next week, CCPA’s blog Behind the Numbers will publish a series of report cards on C ...
• On the front lines: Teachers, unions, and soci ...
  The roles and responsibilities of unions have come under renewed scrutiny. Provincial and federal government hostility towards organized resistance to current policies is intensifying through heated rhetoric and legislative trial balloons.  Much of this is facilitated by the current economic in ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Someone is willing to pay a lot of money for a ...
  The allegedly authentic painting is currently listed on eBay for nearly $100,000
• Wal-Mart’s dirty partners pay up: Fired ...
  Fired workers from Wal-Mart's top US warehouse win cash and an affirmation of rights - but not their jobs back
• Firms ordered to fund $1.1 billion lead paint ...
  Millions of Northern California homes will be covered by the abatement plan
• “The Great Dying” redux? Shocking ...
  Between 150 and 200 species are going extinct daily, a pace 1,000 times greater than the "natural" rate
• Shanghai zookeeper mauled to death by tiger
  The rare South China tiger had no prior record of aggression against people

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• How Bitumen Gets to Market
  Robert Rapier concludes his series on the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he looks at the current and future logistics of getting bitumen to market.
• Seeking Input on 2013′s Top Energy Stories
  It’s that time of year, when I am compiling the year’s top energy stories. As I typically like to do, I would like to solicit input from readers on what should be included in a Top 10 list. Personally, I believe the top energy story of the year is the rail disaster in Quebec that kil ...
• The Cost of Production and Energy Return of Oi ...
  Robert Rapier continues to report on his recent visit to the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he explores the cost of production and the energy return from surface mining and in situ production of bitumen.
• How Alberta’s Oil Sands are Produced
  Robert Rapier continues to report on his recent visit to the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he explores the production processes for the two most common processes for producing the oil sands: surface mining and in situ production.
• Oil Sands and the Environment – Part II
  This week, Robert Rapier continues to look at the environmental impacts of Alberta's oil sands industry.

Discovery Educator Network

• The 8 Digital Skills Students Need for The Fut ...
  Tags: skills, students, learning, digital, citizenship, education, digitalliteracy, 21stcenturyskillsby: Dean Mantz
• Establishing A Growth Mindset As A Teacher: 9 ...
  Tags: growth, mindset, education, teaching, affirmation, PLN, teacher, visual, notes, 9statementsby: Dean Mantz
• http://lucianecurator.sharedby.co/share/aqw4vx
  Comments:Although I teach SEN students they like to use new online technologies . Please click vote if you like our projects . We use social media and many edtools and also we use GlogsterEDU to present our work because we develop and coordinate many educational projects . Thank you in addvance ...
• Guest Post - Implementing the First 5 Days | N ...
  Comments:a blog post detailing a 15 + min. exercise to see if students recognized the value of Google Translate, and were they aware of its advantages and disadvantages." - Judy RobisonTags: languageby: Judy Robison
• What is Virtual Classroom? Infographic | e-Lea ...
  Comments:What is Virtual Classroom? Infographic #edtech #edchat #elearning http://t.co/ZrsII1cxsz - Dean MantzTags: elearning, classroom, infographic, infographics, virtualby: Dean Mantz

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• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Information Liberation

• The End of Childhood in the Era of the Emergin ...
  It wouldn*t be a week in America without another slew of children being punished for childish behavior under the regime of zero tolerance which plagues our nation*s schools. Here are some of the latest incidents. In Pennsylvania, a ten-year-old b...
• The 2014 Master Auction and Battered Voter Syn ...
  Republican or Democrat? It's a trick question and a faux fight in the political war. Like a circus, it offers distraction from the real problem. The problem is not the face behind the office of power; it is the office of power itself which is unjust ...
• Police Claim Teen Shot Himself In Head--While ...
  If the police found a dead body in the back of your car, hands tied behind the back, with a hole in the head, and your defense was that the person shot himself, how do you think they would react? And yet this has happened in police cars at least ...
• Meet Christopher Onesti: Former Cop, Impeniten ...
  Somewhere, there is probably a "Wounded Heroes in Blue" roster that pays tribute to former New Jersey police officer Christopher Onesti, who retired on disability in 2006 following an on-duty incident in which he injured the ring finger of his left h...
• When Guns In Police Hands Spontaneously Fire T ...
  Krystal Barrows, a 35-year-old mother of three, was resting on the couch in her living room in Chillicothe, Ohio when her life was needlessly brought to a violent end by a police officer during a narcotics raid. Barrows was not a suspect. Ross Co...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Seasons Greetings
  And that’s it for LibertyGibbert for another year. Work and family commitments have meant I haven’t been able to write as much as I would have liked this year, yet we’ve managed to have some interesting discussions. Thank you to … Continue reading →
• Fifty Years On, And We’re None The Wiser.
  I was alive when it happened. But as I was living in Sydney, and only six months old at the time, I’m not very high on the FBI’s list of suspects. Probably. For those old enough to remember, it is, … Continue reading →
• Psephology 101, Or Why Britain Should Embrace ...
  You may recall back in August, I railed against the undemocratic farce that Australian federal Senate elections have become. As indeed it has. Since the election in September, things have turned from farcical to downright embarrassing. During a contested recount … Continue reading →
• Misery in Motown
  Every Wednesday evening at 8:30, my wife and I switch on the television in our bedroom for our weekly fill of Hardcore Pawn (you should see the raised eyebrows on our friends when we tell them this). It’s a reality … Continue reading →
• LibertyGibbert Open Forum
  I’m tied up with work at the moment so don’t have time for an in-depth article; so I’m throwing the floor over to you. A couple of starters: A number of British readers have expressed a bit of envy at … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

• Use better techniques not desalination for irr ...
  Desalination may seem like a magic solution to water shortages. It’s not, primarily because it’s expensive. A former mayor of Phoenix thinks the Sea of Cortez should have multiple desalination plants. Much of that water would go for irrigated farming. Watering The Desert says a far b ...
• 60 Minutes NSA story trashed, response from po ...
  The good news about the despicable 60 Minutes segment on NSA is multitudes of other media trashed it. The bad news is, not a single politician did. This highlights the growing gulf between the public and DC, most of whom apparently are too terrified or bought-off to publicly question NSA or anyt ...
• Grid-scale battery storage for renewable energ ...
  California is mandating utilities invest in renewable energy storage. However, no one yet knows how or if this will work. Renewable energy is by nature unpredictable yet the grid must always be in perfect parity between supply and demand. Storing energy for future use sounds like a solution. How ...
• California high speed rail plans finally in se ...
  California Governor Jerry Brown is determined to build high speed rail, his gift to big labor and big banks. But courts may have slowed him. Recent rulings say they can’t use state money because it violates the terms of the bond issue that financed it. Now lawmakers are saying using federa ...
• Solar power soaring, US is 6th worldwide
  Interesting, that despite all our hoopla about renewable energy, that the US is just sixth in production worldwide. This chart is promising however total renewable energy production is still just a blip compared to coal, gas, and nuclear.

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Nelson Mandela, Brian Mulroney & Canada's Anti ...
    Nelson Mandela, Brian Mulroney, and Canada’s Anti-Apartheid Record   By Paul Burrows                                &n ...
• 'Santas of Anarchy' Deliver Coal to Port Planners
  PORT OF VANCOUVER - Several singing Santas dropped in on Port Metro Vancouver this morning to deliver lumps of coal and a message not to develop the massive Fraser Surrey Docks coal terminal. The reception was frosty. The Santas delivered their coal and sang some songs before leaving. One Santa ...
• Abbotsford: Homeless Camp Under Siege
  ABBOTSFORD - The dozen people still living in a tent village in Abbotsford think this could be their last day somewhere dry and out of the wind. The City has ordered them off the empty provincially-owned parking lot beside Jubilee Park, where they had been camping since October.  Several sa ...
• Abbotsford: Homeless Camp Under Siege
  ABBOTSFORD - The dozen people still living in a tent village in Abbotsford think this could be their last day somewhere dry and out of the wind. The City has ordered them off the empty provincially-owned parking lot beside Jubilee Park, where they had been camping since October.  Several sa ...
• Port Metro Vancouver targeted by activists opp ...
  Help deliver the message on December 17! https://www.facebook.com/events/246405662190581 VANCOUVER, COAST SALISH TERRITORIES - This morning, activists with Rising Tide-Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories dropped a banner reading “Coal, Oil, Gas: None Shall Pass” outside Port Metro Va ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Mandela's funeral
  David Seaton's News Links Mahatma Gandhi was lucky to die when he did and avoid such a degrading celebrity circus... between the imperial selfies and the surreal sign language interpreter, all that was missing was to have Miley Cyrus perform "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", with a massed choir. DS
• Pope Francis reminds me of Gorbachev
  David Seaton's News LinksSome people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expre ...
• The Iran deal
  David Seaton's News LinksThings may unravel but at least there is hope. Perhaps this is what is most threatening to Netanyahu. He has never been willing to test the Palestinians in a serious way — test their good faith, test ending the humiliations of the occupation, test from strength the power ...
• Kennedy's Death
  David Seaton's News LinksWriting up the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination has become a momentary cottage industry and I have little that I wish to add and will spare my readers all my "where I was when I heard the news" drivel. However, I would only remark what I personally find the mo ...
• USA: mature or overripe?
  David Seaton's News Links Among the casualties of the Snowden stories are an embarrassed and chastened White House, an American technology sector which has seen its own government tarnish its business model of a global, open internet and the strong US relationships with allies such as Germany. F ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• This Might Be the Most Jaw-Dropping Tale of Fr ...
  Yesterday, a friend emailed to complain about this headline at NBC News:  Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds Technically, this headline is correct. It's about a guy who's a climate change expert. And he did perpetrate a fraud. The thing is ...
• Raw Data: Inflation Is Going Down, Down, Down
  Via the Wall Street Journal, here's how inflation has been doing over the past year. Long story short, it's been declining steadily since the end of 2012 and is now running at about a 1 percent annual rate. Bottom line: we should be worried about unemployment, not inflation. Until the labor ma ...
• It's Hard for a White Guy to Get Himself Arrested
  Over at The Atlantic, a former prosecutor named Bobby Constantino has a piece called "I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System." It's oddly riveting. It starts with a description of his former career: In between the important cases, I found myself spending most of ...
• National Review Lets Its Freak Flag Fly
  National Review is being sued by climate scientist Michael Mann for defamation. In a blog post at The Corner last year, Mark Steyn quoted Rand Simberg calling Mann the "Jerry Sandusky of climate science" (both are from Penn State); wrote that Mann was "the man behind the fraudulent climate-cha ...
• It's Time For Everyone to Check Up On Their Cr ...
  Neil Irwin praises Goldman Sachs for a year-end report in which it revisited its forecasts from last January: In this case, the Goldman team did pretty well. Of 10 predictions, they were correct on seven, accurately forecasting, for example, that the economy would not tip into recession ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Coca-Cola dragged into Brazilian Indians' land ...
  The leader of a Guarani community has sent a desperate plea for his tribe's ancestral land to be returned. © Sarah Shenker/SurvivalGuarani Indians in Brazil have urged Coca-Cola to stop buying sugar from US food giant Bunge, which has been implicated in a landgrabbing scandal. A recent Oxf ...
• Kurt Jackson donates to Survival
  Blustery Day near Oxford, May 2013, mixed media on paper, 53 x 61cm. All offers over £3,625 will be considered© Kurt JacksonLeading British artist, and Survival Ambassador, Kurt Jackson is donating the monies from the sale of two works of art from his current exhibition ‘The Thames Revisit ...
• Robert Redford ‘delighted’ as sacred objects b ...
  In July lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber and Survival International's Jean Patrick Razon handed over a katsina to the Hopi.© SurvivalArizona’s Hopi people have welcomed the news that twenty-one of their sacred katsinam auctioned in Paris against their wishes have been bought by US-based Annen ...
• Ambrósio Vilhalva, 1960-2013 – an obituary
  Ambrósio Vilhalva, 1960-2013© Fiona Watson/SurvivalOne of Brazil’s most prominent indigenous leaders, Ambrósio Vilhalva, has been stabbed to death near his community in southern Brazil. He was 53. Although details of the murder are confused and there are conflicting accounts, many believe his m ...
• FIFA World Cup and rainforest plants: an Amazo ...
  Nixiwaka Yawanawá, an Amazon Indian in London, has described London as a city 'rich in history and filled with ghosts'.© Helen Saunders/SurvivalNixiwaka Yawanawá, a Yawanawá Indian from the Brazilian Amazon, came to London to learn English and in 2013 joined Survival International to s ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Lisée gets stuck on political sweet ...
  Rather than validate the cause for Quebec separation from Canada, PQ minister Jean-Francois Lisee has made a strong case for the status quo.
• Editorial: Quebec makes right call on Enbridge ...
  In addition to its unanimous approval of the controversial 9B line reversal, the National Assembly should consider allowing Alberta oil to flow through to the Atlantic seaboard.
• Editorial: For moving oil, pipelines remain sa ...
  New requirements for divulging hazardous materials such as oil by rail are welcome, but transporting oil by pipeline remains the safest method.
• Editorial: The ugly fallout of Quebec’s proble ...
  The debate over the PQ government’s values charter appears to be triggering racist confrontations.
• COVER STORY
  The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.

Food World Order

• #FDA Scrutinizes #Antibacterial Products for H ...
  from wired.com: The FDA has announced that it is formally reconsidering “antibacterial” soaps and other personal-care products, charging that the antibacterial ingredients confer no benefit over regular soap and water while carrying extra risks. In a draft rule that will be published Tuesday in ...
• #Ecigarette Row Could Block New #EU #Tobacco Rules
  from reuters.com: Disagreement over how to regulate the booming market for electronic cigarettes is holding up a deal on strict new rules governing tobacco products in the European Union, diplomats said on Monday. In talks aimed at finalizing the legislative proposals by the end of the year, the ...
• Make Your Garden Bloom By Blasting Them With # ...
  from digitaltrends.com: Still toiling away with trowels and rakes to tend your unruly garden? Skip the hands-and-knees routine and show your soil who’s boss with Flower Shells. What’s a Flower Shell you ask? It’s exactly what it sounds like: a shotgun shell loaded with flower seeds. And no, just ...
• China bans US shellfish imports
  from Press TV: China has forbidden US shellfish imports after inspectors discovered a recent shipment containing high levels of a deadly chemical agent, a media report says. The Chinese government imposed the ban after recent shipments of geoduck clams from Northwest waters in the US were f ...
• Video: Origins & Aims of GMO
  from fairdinkumradio.com: F. William Engdahl joins Leon Pittard to discuss the origins and aims of GMO. Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, professor and lecturer. He has been researching and writing about the world political scene for more than ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 83 Numbers From 2013 That Are Almost Too Crazy ...
  During 2013, America continued to steadily march down a self-destructive path toward oblivion.  As a society, our debt levels are completely and totally out of control.  Our financial system has been transformed into the largest casino on the entire planet and our big banks are behaving even mor ...
• Camden, New Jersey: One Of Hundreds Of U.S. Ci ...
  All over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair.  Of course the most famous example of this is Detroit.  At one time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per ...
• Dent, Faber, Celente, Maloney, Rogers – ...
  Some of the most respected prognosticators in the financial world are warning that what is coming in 2014 and beyond is going to shake America to the core.  Many of the quotes that you are about to read are from individuals that actually predicted the subprime mortgage meltdown and the financial ...
• Now That Obama Is Allowing Chicken From China, ...
  Do you know what is in your chicken nuggets?  Thanks to Barack Obama, that is going to be a more important question than ever.  At the end of August, the Obama administration quietly decided to start allowing Chinese poultry processors to ship processed chicken into the United States.  For now, ...
• How Far Will Stocks Fall This Time When The Fe ...
  When QE1 ended there was a substantial stock market correction, and when QE2 ended there was a substantial stock market correction.  And if you will remember, the financial markets threw a massive hissy fit a few months ago when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that the Fed may so ...

CASSE

• The Hidden Door
  Mark Burch argues that voluntary simplicity is the best path for achieving both individual well-being and economic sustainability.
• Dualist Economics
  Herman Daly analyzes the philosophies of Frederick Soddy, a well known pioneer of chemistry, but also an insightful pioneer of economics.
• Five Christmas Gifts that Keep on Giving
  On the twelfth day of Christmas, my skewed gov gave to me EXPANDING GDP!
• Ending the Insanity of Ecocide
  Ecocidal tendencies have no place in either our legal or our economic institutions. Here's a direct way to help put an end to ecocide.
• Top 5 Threats to the World’s Beaches (and a Sy ...
  Only an economy that externalizes environmental costs would underwrite development practices that are pushing beaches to the brink of extinction.

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

• Art Pope think tank behind campaign to discred ...
  Image Caption:  The Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank founded and bankrolled primarily by N.C. budget director Art Pope, sought funding for a campaign to portray the Medicaid public health insurance program for the poor and disabled ...
• The U.S. Gulag: Incarceration and the 'immoral ...
  Image Caption:  Convict workers at Mississippi's Parchman prison in 1911. (Photo by the New York Times via Wikipedia.) The private prison industry is fueling high incarceration rates in Mississippi and elsewhere in the Un ...
• NC scholars denounce conservative think tank's ...
  Image Caption:  Scholars for North Carolina's Future circulated an open letter calling on Gov. Pat McCrory and budget director Art Pope to condemn a Pope-funded think tank's broad request for correspondence from UNC law professor and ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Courts weigh polluter challen ...
  Image Caption:  (Photo by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikipedia.) This week top U.S. courts heard two cases challenging Environmental Protection Agency rules limiting health-damaging air pollution from power plants ...
• Judicial Watch joins legal fray to defend rest ...
  Image Caption:  Judicial Watch, a conservative group that's sought purges of voter rolls in some states, has intervened to defend North Carolina's restrictive new voting law from a legal challenge by the Justice Department and civil r ...

Matt Weidner Blog

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abelard - news

• would you like to french kiss a flower my dear ...
  Making oneself look tasty to grab a little meal.
• feeling good about heroes | behaviour and inte ...
  It's easy to idolise a dead hero, or heroine, without considering much of what they actually did, or stood for - especially when you're a Leftie.
• mandela, the long walk to a myth - is there an ...
  How the warm feeling generated by ignoring the negative parts of Mandela's life (terrorism, abandoning his wife and family, for instance) is compounded by demonising the wisdom and generosity of a great Conservative leader.
• mandela, the long walk to a myth - is there an ...
  How the warm feeling generated by ignoring the negative parts of Mandela's life (terrorism, abandoning his wife and family, for instance) is compounded by demonising the wisdom and generosity of a great Conservative leader.
• socialist cake and tory cakes | politics uk ne ...
  Socialism appeals to the feckless and uneducated -or is that too harsh?-, the lazy-minded. Why? Convenient stunted logic, that's why.

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• Reflections in a Petri Dish | Merry Christmas ...
  By Visible This is the cultural blog. Is dis a culchar? This is a culture in the way that that mysterious oleaginous, sewer scum taffy on the Petri dish could be called a culture. It’s horrific and fascinating in the way that a bad traffic accident appeals to rubbernecking death and dismembermen ...
• Activist Post: VICTORY: License Plate Scanners ...
  Kevin Samson Activist Post Even as revelations of nearly ubiquitous NSA surveillance have been detailed, and databases of every stripe seem to be on the rise, we cannot ignore our victories. Little by little, we are beginning to see a roll-back of some of the surveillance state. From highways to ...
• Smoking Mirrors | Turbo Stupid and the Dominoe ...
  By Visible Sometimes you just have to open a posting with some good news; a great example of functioning humanity. A lot of people talk the talk but very few walk the talk. Here’s someone who does. I have to continue to remind myself that the criminal Crass Media, owned by the largest gene ...
• OMG! SANDY HOOK KIDS “ALIVE” CLEAR ...
  OMG! SANDY HOOK KIDS “ALIVE” CLEAR EVIDENCE!!! – YouTube.
• Israel inches closer to ‘tipping point’ of Sou ...
  Chemi Shalev — Haaretz Dec 11, 2013 This has happened in recent days: The Dutch water company Vitens severed its ties with Israeli counterpart Mekorot; Canada’s largest Protestant church decided to boycott three Israeli companies; the Romanian government refused to send any more construction wor ...

Veterans Today

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electric politics

• Facts Versus Faith
  Color me skeptical but I don't see how a technocratic "third way" can be a sustainable political strategy. Instead — and perhaps I'm being too hard on the Democratic party here — all it really demonstrates is a failure of imagination. When ordinary people decide political questions t ...
• The Coming Democratic Revolution
  Every journey starts with a single step. So, too, every revolution starts with a single idea, that justice requires a new social covenant. A revolution is about health care, but it's not about health care. It's about nuclear disarmament, but not about nuclear disarmament. It's about protecting t ...
• A Constitutional Crisis
  The budget and the national debt have become a political wedge that threatens to fracture America's constitutional order. Built-in constitutional tension has become dangerously unstable. If there's a potential fix through the electoral process (which I doubt) it's elusive: this crisis has been b ...
• Hostage Negotiations 101
  They're extremely agitated. They're desperate to get what they want but have run out of options. Now they've seized hostages and are making dire threats. You should keep the innocent safe but avoid deploying unnecessary force against the hostage-takers. What to do? For some advice on hostage sit ...
• Legal Realities
  If the President unilaterally blows past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he unilaterally chooses which programs not to fund so as to avoid blowing past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he, again unilaterally, raises taxes to stay under the debt ceiling he breaks the law. It's a tril ...

PR News

• WCG hires Fleishman's Cohen as MD
  BOSTON: WCG has appointed Adam Cohen as MD to provide additional leadership to the technology practice.
• Caribou Coffee taps Exponent as AOR
  MINNEAPOLIS: Caribou Coffee has selected Exponent Public Relations as its AOR, following a competitive review.
• More change at Visa as Donovan leaves for heal ...
  FOSTER CITY, CA: Visa communications SVP Ryan Donovan will depart the financial services giant at the end of this week to take on a senior communications role at electronic health record company Practice Fusion.
• BlackBerry's public policy exec Cameron joins H+K
  OTTAWA, ONTARIO: Hill+Knowlton Strategies Canada has appointed Mark Cameron as deputy practice leader of its national energy practice, effective January 2, 2014.
• March unveils content marketing, video, and re ...
  BOSTON: March Communications has launched content marketing, video production, and research and analytics offerings.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The Greatest National Security Speeches Never Made
  Before Queen Elizabeth almost announced World War III, Nixon nearly read astronauts their eulogy and Eisenhower all but declared D-Day a failure.
• The Navy, Marines don’t have to furlough civil ...
• Condi had her doubts about the surge; Whither ...
• Carter in Asia; The Navy fights alcohol abuse; ...
• Steve Hadley at FP: “I should have asked that ...

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Conservation Easements Web Resource for Landowners
  Miistakis Institute The Miistakis Institute has launched a new web based resource about conservation easements for landowners (www.rockies.ca/ce_guide/index.php). This web resource is available to any interested landowners or others wanti ...
• Pembina reacts to creation of Associate Minist ...
  Province the first in Canada to establish cabinet role specific to renewables The Pembina Institute 13 Dec 2013 EDMONTON &m ...
• Help Needed: Resort Lodge Planned in Caribou H ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 15 Dec 2013 (All day) The Alberta Wilderness Association is calling on the public to tell Parks Canada to reject a proposed resort lodge on Maligne La ...
• Alberta Wildlife Status Reports: Western Grebe ...
  Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development Alberta Conservation Association Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) and the Alberta Conservation Ass ...
• Funding Opportunity: ACA Conservation, Communi ...
  Deadline:  31 Jan 2014 (All day) Organization:  Alberta Conservation Association Formerly the Gra ...

Stop NATO

• Pentagon To Russia: Missiles In Europe Despite ...
  Xinhua News Agency December 17, 2013 U.S. reiterates need to continue missile deployment in Europe despite Iran deal • Hagel told Shoygu the U.S. and its allies would continue implementing missiles defense plans. • Hagel stressed that the U.S. and NATO missile defense efforts “pose no thre ...
• Caucasus: Georgian Military Integrated Into NA ...
  Ministry of Defence of Georgia December 17, 2013 Report to Defence Attaches The Defence Minister of Georgia presented an annual report on fulfilled and ongoing reforms in the Defence Ministry and Armed Forces to military attaches accredited to Georgia. At the beginning of the meeting, Defence Mi ...
• Iskander missiles deployed by Russia along Wes ...
  Voice of Russia December 17, 2013 Iskander-Ms deployed by Russia along western border (years ago) John Robles The Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation has confirmed reports regarding the deployment of a significant quantity of short-range Iskander-M (NATO classification “SS-26 Stone& ...
• Pakistan: Anti-NATO Demonstration Continues
  The Nation December 17, 2013 Anti-Nato demo continues Peshawar: Activist of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf along with their coalition partners continued their sit-in against NATO supplies on the 24th consecutive day where large number of people participated. PTI District President for Charsadda, Zahor ...
• Giuseppe Berto: No one truly survives war
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Giuseppe Berto: Selections on war ==== Giuseppe Berto From The Sky Is Red (1947) Translated by Angus Davidson He forced himself not to get up and look. It was useless to look. The town was just as it always was; he had a clear pict ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• GAP's Devine Named to 'Washington's Best Lawyers'
  GAP is pleased to announce that Legal Director Tom Devine has been identified by Washingtonian as one of "Washington's Best Lawyers." This prestigious list is generated every two years, and this marks Devine's sixth consecutive year on the list, having been named to both the 2009-10 and 2011-12 ...
• Federal Judge Rules NSA Metadata Collection Un ...
  Dear Daily Whistleblower News Reader: Thank you again for another year of subscribing to our free service. This is the last Daily Whistleblower News for 2013. GAP will restart the service in early 2014. Happy holidays! Regards, Dylan Blaylock GAP Communications Director & Editor, ...
• Snowden Whistleblower Status Confirmed by Ruli ...
  US District Court Judge Richard Leon has declared that the bulk phone record collection activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) are likely in violation of the Constitution's ban on unreasonable search. The very first of its kind, the 68-page legal opinion is highly critical of the const ...
• GAP Urges Passing of Senate Legislation to Res ...
  The following statement is from Government Accountability Project (GAP) Legal Director Tom Devine regarding the introduction of S. 1809, legislation aimed at restoring due process rights for federal employees whose jobs are deemed national security "sensitive:" Taxpayers of all parties and ideo ...
• House Approves Military Whistleblower Protecti ...
  House Approves Military Whistleblower Protection Act Makeover Last Thursday, the House of Representatives approved section 1714 in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, which overhauls the discredited Military Whistleblower Protection Act (MWPA) of 1988. The reform is a ...

UK Progressive

• JP Morgan Chase, the FCPA and Corruption of Am ...
  by Robert Reich The Justice Department has just obtained documents showing that JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street’s biggest bank, has been hiring the children of China’s ruling elite in order to secure “existing and potential business opportunities” from Chinese government-run companies. “You all know ...
• How Bureaucrats Stand in the Way of Releasing ...
  by Christie Thompson ProPublica Former inmate Veronica Barnes had three years left to serve in federal prison when she found out in January 2011 that her husband John was dying of pancreatic cancer. Doctors said it was inoperable. They gave him less than a year to live. Barnes worried who would ...
• The BLOB Hits China
  by Robert Hunziker “Indescribable… Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop It!” The Blob, staring Steve McQueen (Paramount Pictures, Sept. 1958.) In a small rural Pennsylvania town an alien creature, The Blob, a jelly-like creature, grows every time it consumes something, and its appetite is all-encomp ...
• Raw Deal
  by Robert Reich About the only good thing that can be said about the budget deal just patched together by House Republican budget chair Paul Ryan and Senate Democratic budget chair Patty Murray is that the right-wing Heritage Foundation and the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity oppose it. ...
• Mr Good Car’s LAST Letter – For God’s Sake
  by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall I’ll try not to make this sad because I am not. Unfortunately, Pastor Britt does not know, but on this week before Thanksgiving I have a head gasket leak that is getting worse daily. Mike my mechanic tried to tell Britt but he couldn’t hear it. My d ...

NewsAlert

• Cook County Sheriff's Plan to Deny Concealed F ...
  Capitol Fax reports on Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart: Illinoisans can begin applying next month for the state’s first-ever permits to carry concealed firearms. But the Cook County Sheriff complains to FOX 32 News that the system to screen those applicants is full of holes. Unless the system is f ...
• Older Entrepreneurs: The startup mentality is ...
  Yahoo! Small Business Advisor
• Harvard Student Charged In Bomb Hoax
  CBS News
• Suburban Corporate Wasteland
  New Geography
• Glenn Greenwald "US Govt Is Doing Things So Ag ...

JoNova

• Two high school students take on teacher over ...
  A reader Russell writes in to tell me his Year 9 son Jordan and his friend, Tom, took on their teacher’s sacred belief in man-made global warming. Given no warning, and called insulting names in front of the class, they took up the challenge with gusto and stayed up til 1am that night to p ...
• Climate Fat Cats exposed with naked conflicts ...
  Another cycle of the Climate Change Scare Machine is laid bare.  David Rose explains how those lobbying and advising the government on green policies are benefiting from green projects. It’s all in the  Daily Mail. The Green Industrial Complex has simply bought everyone off, and, cleverly, ...
• Snowing in Egypt for first time in years
  Many are saying it’s the first snow in 112 years, see News.com. Though there are reports the Egyptian Meteorological Authority disagrees that it has been that long. As a cold snap hits the Middle East, snow is falling in many places, including Israel, where it is said to have been the heav ...
• Why the Lewandowsky, Cook, Marriott paper woul ...
• Taxpayer funded radical plan to make you pay m ...
  Tyndall Centre UK has just held The Radical Emission Reduction Conference: 10-11 December 2013. This is their logo: Things have to go “radical” now, because there are no sensible pragmatic or long term solutions left: “About the conference Today, in 2013, we face an unavoidabl ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

• Video: The Physics Of Emperor Penguin Huddles
  Emperor Penguin Huddle Like annoying (yeah, I said it) people at ball games, emperor penguins do the wave. Like so: The waves happen when the penguins huddle together, a behavior that helps them stay warm in an environment that can reach -50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit) with wind ...
• Water May Be Flowing On Mars Right Now
  The Dark Streaks Nature Geoscience / Alfred McEwen et al. The intrepid Mars rover Curiosity has already confirmed that water once flowed on Mars, but that it's long since dried up. Still, that doesn't mean there's not flowing water now, too. NASA data has long supported the idea that a sea ...
• Big Pic: Mammalian Noses, Hot And Cold
  Mammal Noses in Infrared Lund University Mammalian Rhinarium Group This collection of cute schnozzes illustrates an interesting fact: Some mammals have warm noses, while others maintain cooler ones. Can you guess which of the above noses belongs to which animal? The answers are at the bott ...
• Interactive Infographic: The Lifespans Of Path ...
  Here's a look at maximum pathogen survival times on a dry, inanimate surface. (Not pictured: salmonella, which can survive essentially indefinitely.) Press plus and minus to navigate.        
• The Week In Numbers: A Real Jetpack, The Dange ...
  Martin Aircraft Company P12 Jetpack Martin Aircraft Company 63 miles per hour: the speed of the P12 Jetpack, a personal flight device that can reach 8,000 feet 50 hours: the time it took electrical engineer Chris Fenton to build this 3-D printed, hand-cranked calculator that uses punch card ...

Facing South

• Art Pope think tank behind campaign to discred ...
  Image Caption:  The Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank founded and bankrolled primarily by N.C. budget director Art Pope, sought funding for a campaign to portray the Medicaid public health insurance program for the poor and disabled ...
• The U.S. Gulag: Incarceration and the 'immoral ...
  Image Caption:  Convict workers at Mississippi's Parchman prison in 1911. (Photo by the New York Times via Wikipedia.) The private prison industry is fueling high incarceration rates in Mississippi and elsewhere in the Un ...
• NC scholars denounce conservative think tank's ...
  Image Caption:  Scholars for North Carolina's Future circulated an open letter calling on Gov. Pat McCrory and budget director Art Pope to condemn a Pope-funded think tank's broad request for correspondence from UNC law professor and ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Courts weigh polluter challen ...
  Image Caption:  (Photo by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikipedia.) This week top U.S. courts heard two cases challenging Environmental Protection Agency rules limiting health-damaging air pollution from power plants ...
• Judicial Watch joins legal fray to defend rest ...
  Image Caption:  Judicial Watch, a conservative group that's sought purges of voter rolls in some states, has intervened to defend North Carolina's restrictive new voting law from a legal challenge by the Justice Department and civil r ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• More on highest tidal surge since 1953 and Dec ...
  TIDAL SURGE The tidal surge which affected the east coast last week was the biggest since the historic coastal flood of January 1953 according to the Environment Agency.  In 1953 hundreds of people lost their lives. In Lincolnshire the sea came inland by 3 miles in the area around Sutton on Sea ...
• A look back at autumn and forward into early w ...
  Climatological autumn ended this weekend, and it turned out to be a very average affair.  UK mean temperatures were slightly above average, with both rainfall and sunshine both almost exactly average.  More locally as you might expect the three monthly seasonal statistics hide some detail.  Part ...
• Rest of November outlook - and what about winter?
  High pressure looks set to become dominant across much of the UK for the rest of November, ensuring a lot of dry, fine and settled weather.  Although cloud amounts are always difficult to determine in these situations, by day there should be at least some sunshine, with a risk of some frost and ...
• Weather and climate round-up
  First taste of winter next week: After a mild autumn so far, the UK is about to experience its first taste of winter next week.  Cold air is expected to flood southwards across the UK from Tuesday.  As it meets the relatively warm sea vigorous convection is expected, with the risk of heavy showe ...
• More on risk of new Maunder solar minimum and ...
  There’s been, as I expected, lots of interest in my blog from last week about the risk of a new Maunder solar minimum reach you can read by clicking HERE As part of my research into the story I visited Professor Mike Lockwood at Reading University where he told me that solar activity was falling ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Russia's Price for Buying Off Ukraine: $15B
  Put 'er there, Vlad, my country's yours for $15 billionLet us update this strange tale of Ukraine. Having told his opponents to in effect get lost since they didn't win any elections or succeed in gaining a vote of no-confidence, President Viktor Yanukovych headed to the Kremlin to speak to his ...
• Boxers-Turned-Politicians: Pacquiao vs Klitschko
  Fighting Russkies, Striking a Blow for the EUIf this were an actual fight, it would be a grossly unfair one since Manny Pacquiao stands 1.69m tall and weighs 65kg whereas Vitali Klitschko--older brother of fellow heavyweight champion Wladimir of Hayden-Panettiere-is-my-girl fame--is 2.01m tall a ...
• World's Smallest Currency Union: Caribbean Cha ...
  Yes, Virginia, these dollars bear Queen Elizabeth II's imageThe Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) is the world's smallest currency union among the four existing worldwide. The European Monetary Union (EMU) is known by all, whereas the other two are in Africa. What makes the ECCU doubly int ...
• World's #2: Yuan Overtakes Euro in Trade Finance
  Trade finance is a somewhat arcane area despite its obvious importance to keeping world trade afloat. To make a long story short, a loan taken out by a trading firm for an international transaction is known as a "letter of credit." [LC] In effect, the lending bank's creditworthiness substitutes ...
• I Wanna Riot...In Singapore [?!]
  @#$% the Police, Singapore EditionSingapore has acquired a reputation for being squeaky-clean to the point of being antiseptic. It is particularly famous for two things in this respect: banning bubble gum in public that can litter surroundings and caning juvenile delinquents alike the Yankee bra ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 83 Numbers From 2013 That Are Almost Too Crazy ...
  During 2013, America continued to steadily march down a self-destructive path toward oblivion.  As a society, our debt levels are completely and totally out of control.  Our financial system has been transformed into the largest casino on the entire planet and our big banks are behaving even mor ...
• Camden, New Jersey: One Of Hundreds Of U.S. Ci ...
  All over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair.  Of course the most famous example of this is Detroit.  At one time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per ...
• Dent, Faber, Celente, Maloney, Rogers – ...
  Some of the most respected prognosticators in the financial world are warning that what is coming in 2014 and beyond is going to shake America to the core.  Many of the quotes that you are about to read are from individuals that actually predicted the subprime mortgage meltdown and the financial ...
• Now That Obama Is Allowing Chicken From China, ...
  Do you know what is in your chicken nuggets?  Thanks to Barack Obama, that is going to be a more important question than ever.  At the end of August, the Obama administration quietly decided to start allowing Chinese poultry processors to ship processed chicken into the United States.  For now, ...
• How Far Will Stocks Fall This Time When The Fe ...
  When QE1 ended there was a substantial stock market correction, and when QE2 ended there was a substantial stock market correction.  And if you will remember, the financial markets threw a massive hissy fit a few months ago when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that the Fed may so ...

BlogHer

• 10 Fun Gift Ideas to Address a Toddler's Needs ...
  This Christmas we are concentrating on lots of fun functional items. Our house is overloaded with toys, and I'm not sure we can fit much more! Bath Time 1| It's no secret that we have a big faux-fur obsession, and Sofia is in need of a good quality bath towel. I think this one fits the bill ...
• 8 Products We Can't Live Without
  Every year, a friend or colleague introduces you to something you just love instantly -- and not something glamorous: more something utilitarian, helpful, simple, a great idea and product you now couldn't imagine doing without. We polled the BlogHer editorial staff, and here are our top picks. ...
• 5 Kid-Friendly Ways to Use Royal Icing
  If you’re anything like me over the holidays, you’re up to your ears buying gifts, attending parties, and just trying to make it through the month. December always feels like a race to the finish line. Who are these people who have time to bake? I’ve never been a huge baker, but it’s hard not to ...
• Lisa Steele's Book on Raising Chickens + More!
  Lisa Steele of Fresh Eggs Daily wrote a book on natural chicken keeping called Fresh Eggs Daily: Raising Happy, Healthy Chickens Naturally. It's been the #1 or #2 bestselling bird care book since it came out, and it is available on amazon.com, B&N.com and at local bookstores, feed stores, an ...
• Coquito: Holiday Egg Nog in the Caribbean Trad ...
  I’m a tradition fiend. Learning about the traditions that friends and family treasure is something I’ve always enjoyed. The holiday season is a time rich with familial rituals and fond memories. From the quirkiest of Chevy Chase-esque escapades to the traditional midnight mass religious ceremoni ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Are You Poisoning Your Pet? Things You Need To ...
              “One of the dirty little secrets kept by the pet food industry is that some by-products also contain substances such as abscesses and cancerous material. In my opinion, feeding slaughterhouse waste to animals increases their ... ...
• Food Safety: How Long Can Food Stay in Your Fr ...
          You reach into your freezer and pull out an hoarfrost-encrusted meat product of dubious origin. You have no idea how long it’s been there, you didn’t think to label it and now you are wondering: ... Related posts:Study Shows Fast Food Burgers Can Co ...
• Salmonella and Pet Food Recalls
              It seems like the news is constantly full of stories about pet food recalls. Most recently, we’ve been hearing a lot about recalls due to salmonella contamination. Food recalls can occur for many reasons, including mislabeling (for ...
• ‘Serious’ threat to Florida citrus
              A disease killing swaths of citrus trees in Florida is causing billions of dollars in damage and affecting thousands of jobs, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told CNBC on Friday. “It’s extraordinarily serious,” Vilsac ...
• 4 Reasons to Sweat in a Sauna
            In some areas of the world, saunas are a common household feature, often as common as showers. This isn’t only because they offer a great way to relax—like a hot bath but without the wrinkled ... Related posts:Five Reasons to Eat Watermelon ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• ‘Coal in its current form is simply unsu ...
  The latest projections from the International Energy Agency are out this morning, and here’s how they read: Tougher Chinese policies aimed at reducing dependency on coal will help restrain global coal demand growth over the next five years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in its ...
• Friday roundup, Dec. 13, 2013
  The skyline of the Lujiazui Financial District with the high-rise buildings is covered with heavy smog in Pudong in Shanghai, China, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. The dirty air that has gripped Shanghai and its neighboring provinces for days is attributed to coal burning, car exhaust, factory pollution ...
• WV PSC approves John Amos transfer
  This just in from the West Virginia Public Service Commission: The Public Service Commission of West Virginia issued an Order today approving the petition to allow Appalachian Power Company (APCo) to acquire two-thirds of the John E. Amos 3 generating unit. There will be no impact on rates as a ...
• Citizen groups sue EPA over Kentucky selenium rule
  Just in from the Sierra Club: Today, community and environmental groups took action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a recent decision allowing Kentucky to weaken its water quality standards for selenium, a pollutant common to mountaintop removal coal mines. This new standard ...
• Forward in the coalfields: ‘It’s t ...
  Snow falls in the downtown area of Maysville, Ky. Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/The Ledger Independent, Terry Prather) Here’s how the Lexington Herald-Leader (which played no small role in pushing for this discussion, with its 50 Years of Night series) started its report from the SOAR me ...

Daniel Miessler

• Dustin Curtis on Thinking Big
  I want a system that continuously scans my body and tells me if I have actionable disease, like cancer or a contagious flu. I want this device to tell me if I have a higher than normal risk of a heart attack, and, if so, which steps I should take to prevent one. ~ Dustin […]Related Posts:Y ...
• Announcing TokenScope
  TokenScope is a tool for evaluating opaque tokens for meaning during security assessments. It works by pulling in large, high-quality wordlists and transforming them in numerous ways, and then comparing them to your input. I’ve just released my TokenScope project. Go check it out if you&#8 ...
• The Problem With Free Markets and Core Services
  Conservatives are known for their belief that free markets are the answer to all problems—including those like healthcare. The idea is elegant: you have a problem and you unleash the free market upon it. Companies will compete, and you’ll have the best outcomes. Done and done. It&#82 ...
• A Drone-based Delivery System
  I read an article recently talking about consumer drones. It was a good piece, but at the very end it mentioned something I found fascinating: drones being used as a delivery system. I wrote recently about how consumer drones will affect personal security, but this delivery angle set me thinking ...
• The Fix for America’s Democracy
  Image from www.nationalhellenicsociety.org Everyone seems to know the American experiment is failing, but what we’re not hearing is a crisp reason followed by a solution. Allow me to propose one. The two conflicting forces There are two primary forces in motion within human individuals and ...

Fitwatch

• Safety Tips for Cops Off Campus 2013
  This features opening commentary from a few FITwatchers. If you’re in a hurry, skip straight to the safety tips after the stars **** at the bottom. It has been a busy week at the University of London. Months of tensions … Continue reading →
• Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
  Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
• PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
  The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
• Vauxhall Squat Raids
  These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
• New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
  Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...

Asia Sentinel

• Indonesia's Corruption Battle Gets Serious
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The KPK is changing the rules of the game
• US-Japan Defense Accord Upsets Seoul
  • (http://twitter.com/share) South Korea fears that US may set up Japan as responsible for regional security
• Survival Sex in Sri Lanka's Crippled North
  • (http://twitter.com/share) War and death make it a necessity
• Is There Opposition in Vietnam?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Some may be coming from a surprising source - the Communist Party
• Hong Kong's Crusade Against the Philippines
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Racism is at work in attempts to get Aquino to apologize for three-year old bus murders

We Know the Lies

• Top Secret Floating Structures On Both Coasts. ...
  A report appearing in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald showed shipping containers stacked on a barge in Maine – with the structure appearing virtually identical to the Bay Area barge. Also, an unconfirmed report suggested a Google barge is taking shape in New London, Connecticut. ~ Mort Ams ...
• Hiding Your House From Google Maps
  As it turns out, there is a way to prevent strangers from seeing your home online through Google Maps. Many Americans don’t realize it, but Google actually has vehicles driving around the United States taking what are called “street view” pictures. If your home can be seen from a public stree ...
• How to Avoid NSA Detection On The Internet
  We unfortunately live in the age of surveillance, when agencies like the  NSA and FBI push and cross the boundaries of unconstitutional actions. This means that everybody needs to take steps to protect their data. ~ Daniel Jennings read more
• School Computer ‘Replaces’ Parents
  Teachers are using a computer programme to help them work on children’s emotional and behavioural development to compensate for inadequate or poor parenting. As more and more mothers and fathers fail to give their children a proper grounding in life skills, schools are taking over with the ...
• Police Buy eBay Data to Target Criminals
  Police forces are paying private sector companies tens of thousands of pounds for databases of detailed personal information that exposes the anonymity of sellers conducting criminal auctions on eBay. read more

Tarpley

• Seymour Hersh Belatedly Follows Mother Agnes M ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio December 15, 2013 [download audio]  
• UPDATE: MOTHER AGNES MIRIAM EVENT WILL TAKE PL ...
  UPDATE 6pm 12/10/2013 We are back on for this evening at the National Press Club, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 at 7:00 pm with Mother Agnes Mariam of Syria who WILL attend the McClendon Group. —Webster Tarpley December 10, 2013 Because of today’s Washington DC snowfall and closings, it is ...
• Afghanistan Needs $50 Billion in Pipelines, Fa ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 9, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
• France in 1788; Food Stamp and Jobless Benefit ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio December 7, 2013 [download audio]  
• From Germany to Bengladesh to Maryland and New ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com December 4, 2013 [download audio]  

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• EWG's Sean Gray Investigates BB & CC Creams
• The Hidden Truth About Peanuts: From Food Alle ...
• Are Anti-Aging Products The Fountain Of Youth? ...
• Millennial Momentum
• Illegal use of diesel in fracking operations f ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Pat Lynch appoints city office head
• Cuomo's video message to the press
• Report: Bloomberg school reforms create econom ...
• Moreland subpoena challenges may stretch into ...
• Bloomberg on Dasani: 'Sad' but 'atypical'

Views & News from Norway

• Ryanair cuts Norway flights
  Low-fare airline Ryanair will temporarily cut back on its flights into Rygge airport at Moss, south of Oslo, while it ramps up its Italian routes. The Irish-owned airline has been embroiled in a series of controversies in Norway, but has promised a new, fresh, friendlier and more customer-focuse ...
• No more tax cards in the mail
  Online technology ushered in another “end of an era” in Norway this week, when state tax authorities announced that they no longer will be send out their annual “skattekort” (tax cards) to all of the country’s 3.8 million working residents. The cards, actually a for ...
• Identity, passport theft skyrockets
  Norwegian authorities have been accused of failing to take identity crime seriously, as the number of people who’ve fallen victim to fraud has more than doubled in the past year. Meanwhile, more than 30,000 Norwegian passports have been reported lost or stolen so far in 2013, twice as many ...
• TrippTrapp maker cashes in
  The sale announced last week of Stokke AS, maker of the internationally popular TrippTrapp stool for children and adults, is likely to result in a huge cash infusion for the Norwegian families owning it. Rune Stokke and his companies alone may wind up with NOK 1.6 billion (USD 270 million). News ...
• Bergen pedals towards cycling world championships
  City officials in Bergen claimed that Christmas Eve came early this year, when the state agreed to support their bid to host the cycling world championships in 2017. With NOK 30 million in state funding, it’s full speed ahead for Bergen to try to beat out rival potential hosts for the inte ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• A Bicycle-Powered Water Pump (Malawi, Africa)
  Sitting quietly at Butterfly, on the shores of Lake Malawi, it always struck me as odd when I would hear of people in the U.K. and the ‘leisure time’ they allotted themselves to keep fit. I found it stranger when people would want to do it while here on holiday, but each to their own.... Read m ...
• My Visit to PRI Zaytuna Farm
  Photo © Craig Mackintosh After studying and working with Permaculture in Mexico for the last four years of my life, it was an honour to be able to visit Zaytuna Farm for the first time — the home of the Permaculture Research Institute Zaytuna Farm, Australia. The visit was in the mont ...
• A Permaculture Design Course in Malawi (March, ...
  When: March 17th-29th, 2014 Where: Nkhata Bay, Malawi, Africa Venue: Butterfly Space Facilitator: Lisa Swennen Cost: $600 USD Click here to find out more and to book!
• Edible Forest Garden Tasting Workshop (video)
  A forest garden (food forest) tasting workshop Buy the books! Edible Forest Gardens, Volume One: Vision and Theory Edible Forest Gardens, Volume Two: Design and Practice
• Polyface Farm Documentary Campaign
  Trailer of ‘Polyfaces’ For the last two years we have been filming a documentary on Joel Salatin’s renowned Polyface Farm and its broad community of 5000 families that lie within a three hour ‘Foodshed’ of this unique operation in Swoope, Virginia. We do not need Ge ...

Pointman's

• Who is Michael Smith?
  This is a guest article by one of our regular commenters, Blackswan. Among other things, it demonstrates the new reality that if the mainstream media allows itself to be muzzled by politicians, or chooses to only represent views it finds itself in agreement with, then those views can nowadays fi ...
• Used intelligently, they’re our bitches now.
  Within any community of people, there’s always a natural diversity of personality. Usually that diversity is an asset to be tapped into and utilised, sometimes it’s a liability and people learn to cope with the variations. On average, some people are good in certain situations and ba ...
• COP19 – the grubby truth behind it all.
  It must have been a weekend because I was about. The kids rushed in and I had the “Dad, Dad, he’s hurt” and their miniature hands plucking at me like a flock of birds pecking and pulling me urgently out of the house sideways. They do that, you know it’s important because ...
• The silver apples of the moon, the golden appl ...
  There’s a lot of stuff you can get away with in the armed services but being a bad leader of a group of men who know they’re going into harm’s way isn’t one of them. They have trust in you or they don’t and you can tell that from their faces. The skinny 25-year-old ...
• Australia – you beaut.
  We have lived in a globalised society for a lot longer than that relatively recently coined phrase might suggest. Because we’ve greater and easier access to foreign news, and even if we don’t take advantage of that, more foreign news is still reported on by domestic outlets, but usua ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Victory at Last! Louisiana has Removed Hundred ...
  From our friends at Women With A Vision. Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those who have been criminalized through the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute, but for all women and LGBTQ people who have been criminalized across the globe.  The class a ...
• Police Profiling, Harassment, and Violence Aga ...
  A version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America website. The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village. Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against the gay ...
• RIP Herman Wallace - The Muhammad Ali of the C ...
  From the Angola 3 Newsletter. This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political prisoner world.  It is with great sadness that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing. Herman never did anything half way.  He embraced ...
• Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Ye ...
• Women With A Vision and BreakOUT! Respond to T ...
  The Times-Picayune/nola.com’s six articles and one video (and counting) about Tulane Avenue, dubbed “Uneasy Street,” are an unfortunate example of glorified and sensationalized media reporting that leads to increased criminalization of marginalized communities, rather than solutions. As staff o ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Science for Policy
  I’ve been interning in the Science Policy Centre for over a month now and the natural division of policy for...
• Can Curious George remain committed to science?
  £11m for a Higgs Centre for physics in Edinburgh. Uncapped places for undergraduates from 2014-15 with enhanced funding for STEM. And...
• Re-building, re-planting and re-thinking after ...
                  A trip to post-Sandy New Jersey gets to the nub of what...
• Getting organised: reflections on the World Sc ...
  This week saw the sixth World Science Forum held in Rio de Janeiro – the first time this meeting has...
• Royal Society strengthens its scientific partn ...
    My usual commutes to Carlton House this week have been decorated, not by Christmas lights, but by a prominent...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

• Back to School at Chloé
  Claire Waight Keller debuts a collection inspired by “night buses, independent spirit, and bare legs."
• Kenzo Livens Up Paris
  With a collection inspired by ancient temples in India and Nepal.
• Comme Des Garçon's "Infinity of Tailoring"
  And, in one look, Big Bird gone couture.
• Céline Gets Cozy for Fall
  Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.
• BREAKING: Queen To Hospital
  Aides tell the Royalist she will likely be in hospital for two days

Loonwatch

• Why are Christian Militias never “Christian Ex ...
  Christian militia massacred 24 Muslims this week but they are rarely described as "extremist Christians."
• Alabama Delays Approval of History Texts After ...
  Alabama’s board of education delayed an approval vote on 12 middle school history textbooks last week after lobbying by anti-Muslim groups Eagle Forum of Alabama and ACT! For America.
• “The Muslim Advisory Council” Thou ...
  Muslim Advisory Council's appalling reward to spy chief featured in anti-Muslim film.
• Viral post claims Barack Obama has begun a &#8 ...
  Another chain email lie propagated by the Conservative interwebs.
• Pig’s head stuck on a spike outside Portsmouth ...
  A pig’s head was stuck on a fence spike outside a Muslim school in Portsmouth.

Energy News

• AP: ‘Tritium rain’ to result from disposal of ...
• Official: Fukushima fuel melted “on unpreceden ...
• Radiation in Fukushima groundwater skyrockets ...
• Hot particle found 400 kilometers from Fukushi ...
• Gundersen: All of Japan is contaminated, gov’t ...

Hudson New York

• A Slap in the Face for Anti-Israel BDS Movement
  The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions [BDS] against Israel received a slap in the face last week from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. As BDS supporters continue to campaign against Israel around the world, Abbas,
• More Slaughter in Muslim Lands; Media, Governm ...
  Two of the most tragic Islamic attacks on Christians, killing several women and children, took place in the month of October, one in Syria, another in Egypt. On October 21 in Syria, U.S.-supported Islamist rebels invaded and occupied the ancient
• Europe: Islamic Fundamentalism is Widespread
  The majority of Muslims in Europe believe Islamic Sharia law should take precedence over the secular constitutions and laws of their European host countries, according to a new study, which warns that Islamic fundamentalism is widespread and rising
• Jordan: Why Would a Christian MP Support Jihad?
  We are used to hearing Muslim fundamentalists voice support for jihad and terrorism, but when a prominent Arab Christian publicly comes out in favor of jihad, it is surreal — especially at a time when Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered in a
• Do You Think The Wrong Thing?!
  We must face up to it. The Western democracies have a great and serious problem which appears only to be growing: the general public are developing views highly questionable to those in positions of power. Larger and larger swaths of people, when asked

Urban Survival

• “Two Turkeys” This Week!
  There’s much to taste this morning as the headlines seem to indicate a slow cooking of the world’s goose prior to the long weekend, such as it is with storms and such. For one thing, the Israelis are seriously pissed about the US going off and making what may be a massive mistake in allowing the ...
• Coping: With Irregular Turkey
  Elaine came home from grocery shopping with about a 10-pound bird Friday afternoon (late) and didn’t have room in the fridge.  We figured that since the temps in East Texas weren’t going to get above 40, things would be fine and we would likely make it to Tuesday before having the turkey th ...
• T’is the Season to be Rally
  Trah-lah-lah-lah-lah…. lah lah lah lah….This ain’t hard to figure:  Gold is down, so the dollar is up, so the number of dollars to buy the market should be down, so the futures should be weak. But wait!  The Dow is likely to pop up 60 and the NASDAQ and S&P also look like they’re s ...
• Coping: With the Winds of Noumenon
  I’m not sure what set it off, but long-time readers will remember that I’ve had occasional dreams that have had what’s seemingly “prophetic content.”  The last “biggie” I had was before the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, which I wrote up as having aspects of oil/petroleum industry, murder, fi ...
• Peoplenomics: A Gathering of Trends
  Every year about this time, while most other people are out shopping for do-dad an thingamajigs to buy the affections of others, Ures truly starts looking at the “big picture” stuff in preparation for our Annual Forecast, which is unusually issued just after the turkey leftovers run ...

Trends & Forecasts

• Edward Snowden The NSA whistleblower seeks asy ...
  National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has offered to help Brazil in exchange for asylum. Snowden petitioned the public after revelations President Dilma Rousseff's phone was hacked by a US spy agency. Rousseff's office said it has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• The Alex Jones Show ~ Matt Dubiel, William F. ...
  Matt Dubiel, William F. Jasper, Larry Klayman -- Date: 12/17/2013 --Today On this bombshell Tuesday, December 17 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex completely exposes the accelerated destruction on property rights, privacy rights and national... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• White House Says No Amnesty for Edward Snowden
  At a press conference Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the U.S. Government's position on Edward Snowden had not changed and the fugitive NSA whistleblower should return to the U.S. to face trial. Carney, you're a paid liar for the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Wikileaks Exposes 9/11 Conspirators!!!
  Wikileaks is a fraud that diverts away from the 9/11 truth movement. Julian Assange is an example of how far our governments will go to hide the truth. It's insanely easy to confuse the sheeple of the world. Visit http://www.newsbooze.com... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Lou Dobbs ~ The Next Obamacare Crisis To Drop? ...
  The Next Obamacare Crisis To Drop? - Small Business Costs - Lou Dobbs - America's News HQ The people have lost their spine and continue to vote for a political elite that have moved on from democracy and have ceased to act in the best interests of... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...

Radical Chic

• STAINS IN A VOID – By: Uzoma Okoroafor
  Our uncle’s death will go down in the memories of the religious as an untimely one. For the traditionalists, a strike by an unkind deity. As a Maths teacher always ready to flog the living daylights out of his dull students, he was nicknamed Mister Pain. I will never forget how he made me write ...
• WHEN NIGERIAN’S DO STUPID SHIT! – ...
  While it is true that Nigeria is a rather homophobic country, attempts are being made to rebrand it as a country of the daft, lazy and incurably addled. I suppose that this is slightly preferable to being homophobic. In fact, all of those things make homophobia excusable. Now, I’m not pull ...
• WHEN YOUR KILLER COULD HAVE BEEN A CHILD SOLDI ...
  Although the Liberian war is now over, I cannot wish away the memories. There are nights in my sleep when I still find myself dressed in army uniform, AK-47 ready. On these nights I hear the voices of parents calling their children; others joking, shouting: “Where’s your bunker?” The air cracks ...
• CRAZY IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK
  I’m crazy. Nobody has to tell me. I’ve known this for a while now. It’s probably crazy that I think I’m crazy because that in itself might make me seem less crazy; but trust me, I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things. Crazy things like playing chess against myself an ...
• BODY HOSTAGE
   A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]

NRDC Switchboard

• New Report Shows How Green Infrastructure Inve ...
  Larry Levine, Senior Attorney, New York “Green infrastructure” in urban and suburban areas – that is, techniques like green roofs, tree plantings, rain gardens, and permeable pavement, which absorb rainwater near where it falls &nd ...
• Federal Investigation Reveals Massive Taxpayer ...
  Bobby McEnaney, Senior Lands Analyst, Deputy Director Western Renewables Energy Program, DC Interior Department Abandons Reforms that Would Have Addressed this Giveaway Oil and gas wells in Colorado. The impacts from drilling are undeniable, the le ...
• The Power of Measurement, Part II: Projected F ...
  Tina Swanson, Director, Science Center, San Francisco If your doctor, or even the pharmacist at your local drug store, measured your blood pressure, found that it was higher than what modern medicine tells us is healthy, and advised you to lose weig ...
• Six stocking stuffers that will ultimately red ...
  Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco From a waste perspective, the best stocking stuffer is probably no stocking stuffer.  But if you are looking for that trinket that might be a little less wasteful, why not giv ...
• What is the "Green Edge?"
  Alisa Valderrama, Senior Project Finance Attorney, New York Capturing stormwater using “green” practices such as trees, rain gardens, and porous pavement helps solve major urban stormwater problems while also improving the health and liv ...

Peakwater

• A Successful Push to Restore Europe’s Long-Ab ...
  “From the industrial cities of Britain to the forests of Sweden, from the plains of Spain to the shores of the Black Sea, Europe is restoring its rivers to their natural glory. The most densely populated continent on earth is finding space for nature to return along its river banks. The re ...
• WATER: Trial begins in Metropolitan rate-setti ...
  “The dispute is over how much Metropolitan is charging the San Diego agency to move supplies from the Colorado River to the city of San Diego. The city buys the water from Imperial Valley farmers and Metropolitan delivers it through its canals, pipelines and pumping stations. Lawyers will ...
• Growing a Glacier
  This year has been a fascinating one for glaciology.  Dozens, if not hundreds, of important discoveries have been made, and are rampant within academic literature. However, the bulk of glaciological developments are often too complex for wider dissemination. Consequently, I relish glaciological ...
• World Rivers Review – Dec. 2013: Focus on Arts ...
  Protecting rivers and communities from the ravages of large dams tends to involve brainy pursuits: there’s often a heavy focus on policy and political issues, and on designing strategic campaigns to stop destructive river projects and promote better options. While these efforts play a very impor ...
• Water – Making It Personal: Communicating A Su ...
  “Throughout history, journalism and storytelling have defined civilization. Journalists are the first responders to global crises, the pointers to important trends and the translators between disciplines. Good journalists seek out knowledge, ask thoughtful questions, listen carefully and t ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• $pin … $pin … and more $pin
  . . . $pin … $pin … and more $pin … from another corporate $pon$or…   The Shameless New York Times   Yes, we expect to see corporate-friendly spin from the Times — but outright lying to prop up the myth of corporate innocence seems like something new.   Photo Credit: Shutter ...
• pass on all EXTERNATLITIES to you and me
  . Like most of today’s corporation Walmart has found the secret to pass on all EXTERNATLITIES to you and me and like good neighbors we are there and we pick up all those costs … meanwhile the Walton family laughs all the way to the bank…   Walmart Seems Like a Deal, but Have You […]
• It only ends IF we allow it …
  . . . It only ends IF we allow it … The End of Free Internet as We Know It? By Timothy Karr, Save the Internet The open Internet is threatened by litigious telecommunication companies and consolidation—a privatization process undermining the very spirit of its creation………. READ MORE»Filed under: ...
• corporate will suffer no loss to its profit
  . . . It may seem like a laughing matter … but … understand corporate will suffer no loss to its profit and will take whatever means necessary to make damn sure you & I continue to support them … in their book there is no e$cape…   City to evict woman for living "off […]
• head on a platter
  . . . it appear from what the Arizona Republic reports that most everyone wants Mr. Carter’s – DES chief -  head on a platter … and there appears to be valid rationale to back up that request … however … if – WE – (that’s you & me) are simply going to allow DES […]

Popular Technology

• Darth Vader an Author at the CRU?
  It appears Dr. Clare Goodess a Senior Research Associate of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has chosen an interesting alter-ego. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation she converted to a PDF file is authored as "Darth Vader", Maybe climate alarmism really is the dar ...
• Who is Willis Eschenbach?
  As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter. He is not a "computer modeler", he is not an "engineer" and he is certainly not a "scientist" (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary). "A final question, one asked on Judith Curry's blog a year ago by a real scientist, ...
• 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic ...
  "Wow, the list is pretty impressive ...It's Oreskes done right." - Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics "I really appreciate your important effort in compiling the list." - Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist and Geoscientist "A tour de force list of scientific papers..." - Robert M. Carter, P ...
• Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
  Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...
• Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
  On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Scientists make one of the biggest animal disc ...
  In what will likely be considered one of the biggest (literally) zoological discoveries of the Twenty-First Century, scientists today announced they have discovered a new species of tapir in Brazil and Colombia. The new mammal, hidden from science but known to local indigenous tribes, is actuall ...
• Journalists win environmental news reporting p ...
  Mongabay's internship program has benefited from the hard work and great environmental reporting of more than 30 writing interns since the program's inception in July 2012. This year, Mongabay asked this pool of contributing authors to submit their most compelling piece out of over 150 articles. ...
• Animal Earth: exploring the hidden biodiversit ...
  Most of the species on Earth we never see. In fact, we have no idea what they look like, much less how spectacular they are. In general, people can identify relatively few of their backyard species, much less those of other continents. This disconnect likely leads to an inability in the general ...
• Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013
  1. Carbon concentrations hit 400ppm while the IPCC sets global carbon budget: For the first time since our appearance on Earth, carbon concentrations in the atmosphere hit 400 parts per million. The last time concentrations were this high for a sustained period was 4-5 million years ago when tem ...
• Powered by Google, high resolution forest map ...
  Researchers today released a long-awaited tool that reveals the extent of forest cover loss and gain on a global scale. Powered by Google's massive computing cloud, the interactive forest map establishes a new baseline for measuring deforestation and forest recovery across all of the world's cou ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Robots to test their metal in US trials
  The real world has not caught up yet with Star Wars and its talking, thinking robots, but some of the most sophisticated units that exist are heading to Florida this week for a Defence Department-sponsored competition.Seventeen...
• Google search ... and destroy
  Big Dog is capable of many things of interest to its new owners at Google. What remains to be seen is whether the quadruped robot's ability to pick up a breeze block and hurl it across a warehouse with impressive dexterity and speed...
• Consumer watch: Low-cost screens get a big tick
  Three inexpensive sunscreens sold in supermarkets have come out tops in Consumer NZ testing.The advocacy group received Ministry of Health funding to run tests comparing 10 sunscreens that claim to have high levels of sun protection...
• Babies: Smarter than we think
  My baby could not look more like a subject in a laboratory experiment. Wearing a soft white skullcap attached by long wires to an EEG machine measuring his brain activity, he is also surrounded by computer equipment and fussing researchers...
• Time to ditch the 'Venus and Mars' cliche
  As hardy perennials go, there is little to beat that science hacks' favourite: the hard-wiring of male and female brains. For more than 30 years, I have seen a stream of tales about gender differences in brain structure under headlines...

The Bovine

• Water fluoridation banned in Muskoka
  From Collective Evolution: “The district of Muskoka, Ontario is home to about 60,000 and is a hot spot for Toronto resident cottages. On Monday October 21st, the district voted during a council meeting to end the practice of water fluoridation. … Continue reading →
• From cellphones to Fukushima — subnature ...
  “We’ve got 3 reactors, the cores have left the vessel. They’ve burned through the bottom of the vessel. We don’t really know where they are, because the radioactive environment even fries robots that TEPCO’s been trying to send in there. … Continue reading →
• Food police in Manitoba schools are “put ...
  From Weighty Matters blog: “It’s quite possible that the single stupidest school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange interpretation of the Manitoba Government’s Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article … Contin ...
• More than one way to destroy enzymes
  From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “So I was curious to read a lengthy article in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, “How Much for Salad in  a Bottle?”, about the new “raw” juices that have appeared. Most of the article … Continue reading →
• Michael Schmidt and Montana Jones court procee ...
  On Nov. 15, Montana Jones posted the following message on her FB page: “NO COURT this Mon or Tues. for Michael Schmidt or myself — BUMPED again by our juducial system. Thanks to all who were coming out to support…I will post … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Rand Paul Ponders NSA Class-Action Lawsuit Opt ...
  In the wake of a welcome court ruling that NSA mass collection of phone conversations is unconstitutional (see District Court Judge Rules NSA Phone Taps Likely Unconstitutional; 68 Page Ruling Cites "Orwellian Technology" and Unreasonable Searches), come more welcome news that senator Rand Paul ...
• Laughable Eurozone Banking "Non-Union"; Expect ...
  On December 12 the Financial Times reported EU reaches landmark deal on failed banks with a "common rule book for handling failed banks". Gunnar Hökmark, the lead negotiator for the parliamentary side, said: “We now have a strong bail-in system which sends a clear message that bank shareholders ...
• Fed Study Shows Drop in Participation Rate Exp ...
  A November Fed study on the Causes of Declines in the Labor Force Participation Rate by Shigeru Fujita at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia concludes "The decline in the participation rate in the last one-and-a-half years (when the unemployment rate declined faster than expected) is entir ...
• Congress Base Pay $174,000: House Working Days ...
  Inquiring minds may be asking "How much do our representatives make, and where do there spend their time?" Those are good questions, and here are some answers. While You're Working, Congress Isn't Please consider six factoids plucked from the Yahoo!Finance report While You're Working, Congres ...
• Rich Pay All The Taxes (Yes, Including Payroll ...
  In response to Rich Don't Pay Most of the Taxes (They Pay All of Them); Reflections on the "Almost Rich" several people complained that I am ignoring payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare. They are wrong. Here is a repeat of the key facts, followed by an addendum. Buried inside ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan Signed an “Acti ...
   Last week, the row between the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and the U.S. based preacher Fethullah Gülen somewhat subsided. The occasion was a commitment by Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arinc about the ‘dershanes’, the prep schools, many of which are in the hands of the Gülen movement. E ...
• Washington Drives the World Toward War
  Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both US soldiers and the attacked ...
• De-Manufacturing Consent- “Hacking the System: ...
  Guillermo Jimenez Presents Vivien Lesnik Weisman Guillermo is joined by journalist and documentary filmmaker, Vivien Lesnik Weisman. We discuss Vivien’s upcoming film The Hacker Wars (previously titled The Reality Wars), including the individual cases of Andrew “Weev” Auernheim ...
• Mr. Snowden, It’s Time to Come Out and Take a ...
  When It Comes to Whistleblowing, Integrity & Purity of Intentions Matter Most A week ago I began writing a series of commentaries on significant consequences and conflicts of interest associated with Glenn Greenwald, his new PayPal billionaire boss, and the ownership and commoditization of t ...
• The Group of Thirty- Architects of Austerity
  In this installment, I take a look at some specific members of the G30 and their roles in justifying and implementing austerity measures. Central Bankers, Markets & Austerity For the current members of the Group of Thirty who are sitting or recently-sitting central bankers, their roles in th ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• OSG Jones Act Tanker Secures Record-Breaking C ...
  A Jones Act tanker was recently chartered for six months at a record high rate of $110,000 per day, market sources said, the latest sign of how surging U.S. crude production is squeezing the niche market for U.S.-flagged vessels.
• Thirteen Injured After Passenger Ferry Runs Ag ...
  The U.S. Coast Guard along with partner agencies responded Tuesday morning to a report of multiple injuries after the Bald Head Island Ferry Adventure ran aground in the vicinity of Battery Island near Southport, North Carolina.
• Top 20 Most Viewed Maritime Stories of 2013
  2013 was a wild year, with a lot of anticipated highs and some unexpected lows in the maritime world. Here is a look back at the top 20 stories that got you clicking
• UBS Sells $45.2 Million Note Tied to Ensco, Bi ...
  UBS AG sold $45.2 million of seven- year notes tied to offshore oil drilling company Ensco Plc, the Swiss bank’s largest U.S. offering in 17 months.
• Transiting the Welland Canal on the CSL Whitef ...
  CBC’s Rick Mercer transits the Welland Canal on board the CSL bulk carrier Whitefish Bay. The Welland Canal is a key point in the St. Lawrence Seaway as it connects [...]

Press TV

• WHO: Global cancer reaches 14 million
  The number of people suffering from different kinds of cancer has increased to 14 million, according to the latest report announced by the World Health Organization (WHO).
• 2 die as blast hits Hussainia in Pakistan
  At least two people have been killed and several others injured after an explosion ripped through a congregation hall for Shia Muslims in Pakistan’s northern city of Rawalpindi.MP/SS
• 'Iran paying for economic independence'
  The United States has extended its sanctions against Iran because of the Islamic Republic’s economic independence, an analyst tells Press TV in an interview.
• Spy agencies 'run US government'
  American civil rights activist Sherwood Ross says US intelligence agencies are not punished for their violations because they are probably running the government.
• 'Zarif has Saudi Arabia visit on agenda'
  Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif plans to pay a visit to Saudi Arabia in line with Tehran’s policy to promote ties with its neighboring countries, a senior Iranian diplomat says.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• My Strange and Sometimes Wonderful Dreams
  After stuffing myself with turkey, Spanish rice and pasteles on Thanksgiving, I had a very strange dream. I was riding around on a bicycle at full speed, circling around cars and running red lights, and people were running out of the way of the crazed lady on the bike. The neighborhood was where ...
• THANKSGIVING – And I am Grateful
  The last few years have been pretty tough on the family – we lost so many in so little time and unexpectedly. It almost seemed like we were cursed with all the tears and so many hearts to heal. This year was a bit different and we are all still here, and although there are […]
• 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
  When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
• 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
  When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
• The Dreaded Freshman 15
  OMG!!! Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15.  I know we have all heard about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their 1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight. Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...

Dissident Voice

• Gazans Suffer Genocide under the Israeli-Egypt ...
  “The world has forgotten Gaza, its women and children. The blockade is as bad as the war; it’s like a slow death for everyone in Gaza. We are paying the price for disputes between different powers. Isn’t that shameful? The world has lost its humanity,” said Attiyeh Abu Kh ...
• Ecce Mortis: Epics of the Deep: The Poet Alter ...
  Professor Alterkocher’s office was open to all always — even Summer hours. Room of his own. Read, thought, wrote, dispensed wisdom to The Young. Plantman met with him one evening after work to discuss his famous new fame. Alterkocher wore his customary suit and running shoes, smoked his pipe. Ha ...
• November 2013: Hottest on Record
  “This year is likely to be among the top 10 warmest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.”1 According to Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, “All of the warmest years have been since 1998, and this year once again continues the und ...
• Ecce Mortis: Epics of the Deep: Epic Sensation
  Epics of the Deep was the box-office sensation of the Summer. Starlette Nova, who played “The Missing Girl,” and Don Coyote as “The Mad Cetologist,” covered every magazine that profiled celebrity entertainment interviews and idols of The Nation. Talk. Talk. Talkety-talk. shot straight through th ...
• Christmas: Wasteful, Extravagant, and Immoral
  On this date 360 years ago, Oliver Cromwell was made Lord Protector of England. What does that have to do with Christmas, you may ask? Well, the parliament of puritanical Protestants that he led tried to ban Christmas for being un-Christian. In 1645, four years before the execution of King Charl ...

Nick Turse

• "Today, a secret program authorized by a secre ...
  “Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day,...
• theatlantic:The Middle East’s Snowstorm, Vie ...
  theatlantic: The Middle East’s Snowstorm, Viewed from Space We’ve seen the amazing photos of the uncharacteristically early and intense snowstorm that blanketed the Middle East last week (and if you haven’t, head on over to In Focus), but sometimes you just can’t beat the view from 440 miles ...
• "I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ...
  “I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary’ invasion than this systematic and...
• "Today, a secret program authorized by a secre ...
  “Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day,...
• latimespast:The Times’ Angel Jennings tells ...
  latimespast: The Times’ Angel Jennings tells the story of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Santa Claus (a.k.a. Langston Patterson), quite possibly the only black man working as a mall Santa Claus in the L.A. area.  He got the job on a fluke. In 2004, Patterson was sitting in the shopping cent ...

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Newswise

• Are We Hard-Wired to Follow Celebrity Medical ...
  Celebrities have substantial sway as health advisers, as there are strong biological, psychological and social bases for why people follow celebrity medical advice, say McMaster University researchers. Celebrity power can be harnessed to disseminate information based on best available research ...
• A Roly-Poly Pika Gathers Much Moss
  In some mountain ranges, Earth's warming climate is driving rabbit relatives known as pikas to higher elevations or wiping them out. But University of Utah biologists discovered that roly-poly pikas living in rockslides near sea level in Oregon can survive hot weather by eating more moss than an ...
• World Health Organization Study: Atrial Fibril ...
  Atrial fibrillation, long considered the most common condition leading to an irregular heartbeat, is a growing and serious global health problem, according to the first study ever to estimate the condition's worldwide prevalence, death rates and societal costs. The World Health Organization da ...
• Meet Healthcare's Secret Weapons: Pathologists
  Sometimes called the "doctor's doctor," pathologists are physicians who who use laboratory medicine and technology to identify and diagnose disease. Pathologists are responsible for analyzing everything from the human body--such as blood, fluids, and tissues-- from before birth to after death.
• Safety Tips for Playing Outside in the Winter
  When it snows, most children have fun by engaging in snowball fights, sledding, building snowmen, and making snow angels. However, it is important for parents to prepare their children for the cold weather. Outside activities are wonderful as long as appropriate safety precautions are taken.

Metanoia

• Psywar screened on Free Speech TV on MLK day
  https://www.freespeech.org/tv-schedule/day/2013-01-22T00–2013-01-22T23?timezone=MST
• Rise Like Lions screened at Digital Film Festi ...
• Rise LIke Lions screened at Seoul Independent ...
  http://www.filmfestivalworld.com/festival/Seoul_Independent_Film_Festival/
• Lifting the Veil screened at Peace and Justice ...
  http://www.peaceandjusticefilms.org/2012fall/index.html
• American Empire: the Feature Film
  Scott Noble’s “The Power Principle” American Empire: the Feature Film by RON JACOBS Counterpunch Discussing the nature of the US Empire and how it got to where it is today with most US residents is always a challenge. Recommending books explaining it is equally so. This is espe ...

Jae's News

• Wall Street Regulator Replaced by Wall Street ...
  The scandalous saga of the Wall Street bailout continues, for bank regulators are now watering down Congress' pathetically weak reforms. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• As It Turns Out, There Still Is a Vast Right W ...
  Even if ALEC were to disappear tomorrow, its agenda still would be propelled by a variety of institutional allies Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Overturn Extreme Anti-Choice Legislation in Mi ...
  Lansing Republicans just passed more extreme anti-choice legislation. The anti-choice extremists in Lansing want to restrict health insurance plans from covering ANY abortions -- even in the case of rape or incest. Submitted by Freya T. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it ...
• 10 Certifiably Insane Rants from the Right-Win ...
  Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump and Pat Robertson vie for the craziest prize. Submitted by Melva H. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Open Thread - 12/15/2013
  Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle and a homemade cartoon (shown). I'm calling-in sick. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Sunwarrior

• How to Build Muscles as a Vegan or Vegetarian
  Many vegan and vegetarian athletes manage to compete and do well without relying on animal products for protein. In fact, most of us get more protein than we need.
• Lower Blood Pressure Naturally
  Your heart is responsible for the beat in your pulse and the air in your lungs. It's time to give back with 10 ways to help lower your blood pressure.
• Become Grounded with Nature and Relax
  Grounding helps to neutralize the energy field and one's vibrations during times of stress, anxiety, and periods of healing.
• Explosive Deep Muscle Building Tricep Dips
  This hits all three parts of your triceps muscle group and gets deep into the muscle fibers with the addition of explosive reps.
• Vegan Moroccan Lentil Soup Recipe
  It's simple and bursting with vibrant and fresh flavors. You can cook it up on the stove top or throw everything in the slow cooker to simmer all day.

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