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Independent - London

  • First Greenpeace activist leaves Russia - with ...
    The first of 30 Greenpeace activists arrested after a protest over Arctic oil drilling has left Russia, the environmental group said on Thursday, with all expected to get clearance to leave Russia by Friday.     
  • Leaders push for South Sudan talks as fighting ...
    Fighting persisted in parts of South Sudan’s oil-producing region today as African leaders tried to advance peace talks between the country’s president and the political rivals he accuses of attempting a coup in the world’s newest country.     
  • Decline and fall of Rome’s cinematic empire: T ...
    It has created cinema classics from Ben Hur to the neo-baroque masterpieces of Federico Fellini. But now, following the third mysterious fire in six years, the drama at Rome’s Cinecittà studios appears to concern the site itself.     
  • François Hollande heading for crisis as he fai ...
    President François Hollande suffered a blow tonight to what remains of his credibility with news that he had failed to deliver his promise to reduce unemployment by the end of this year.     
  • Russia’s bitter relationship with Chechnya wil ...
    Any day soon, a bomb may go off in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. And if it does, it will be the nightmare that Vladimir Putin has been spending billions of roubles trying to prevent. The Winter Games, which start in February, have long been his pet project, designed to show the world how compl ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • NASA Discovers Enormous Reservoir of Water Und ...
          Buried underneath compacted snow and ice in Greenland lies a large liquid water reservoir that has now been mapped by researchers using data from NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne campaign. A team of glaciologists serendipitously found the aquifer while drilling in southeast Gre ...
  • The Largest Structure in the Universe Spans 4 ...
        The largest known structure in the universe, "large quasar group" (LQG), challenges the Cosmological Principle, the assumption that the universe, when viewed at a sufficiently large scale, looks the same no matter where you are observing it from. The modern theory of cosmology is based ...
  • Season's Greetings! And Our Best Wishes for th ...
        With our thanks, The Daily Galaxy Staff   Image Credit: With Thanks to the ESA
  • New NASA Mission Will Seek Out Rocky Earth-lik ...
        NASA’s Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NI ...
  • Mars Express On Course for a Daunting Flyby of ...
      Late this month, ESA’s Mars Express will make the closest flyby yet of the Red Planet’s largest moon Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface. The flyby on 29 December will be so close and fast that Mars Express will not be able to take any images, but instead it will yield ...

Natural News

  • Something is REALLY wrong with UPS, and it's f ...
    Over a week ago, I warned readers of the Natural News email newsletter not to use UPS for shipments this Christmas. That warning turned out to be entirely too optimistic: UPS is now in a crisis situation with countless thousands of packages not delivered on time. The...
  • After destroying health care and economy, Obam ...
    It's not enough that President Obama has worked overtime to destroy the nation's healthcare system and muck up its financial sector (think the Dodd-Frank "financial reform" law), now he's focused on screwing up the only economic engine driving the American economy: the...
  • Top five health benefits of bitter leaf
    Studies conducted at the University of Texas have concluded that incorporating bitter leaf into your routine diet could reduce risk factors for such health conditions as breast cancer and type II diabetes. It is normal for African cuisine to contain bitter leaf as an...
  • Pentagon sends dead Marine home to his family ...
    As bad as it is to lose a loved one who has died in the line of duty in service to their country, it is worse on a family to be denied all of the remains of the fallen. But that is precisely what happened recently, when the family of a fallen Marine was stunned and...
  • Trophy hunter Melissa Bachman causes worldwide ...
    Over a month has passed since Minnesota-based trophy hunter Melissa Bachman went to South Africa to hunt wildlife in that country, but the controversy over her "accomplishments" rages on. The images she posted, smiling broadly while squatting beside a dead male lion...

Threat Level

  • In Syria’s Civil War, Facebook Has Become a Ba ...
    For the last two years cyberwarriors loyal to Bashar al-Assad have made cyberspace a second front in the Syrian conflict. For nearly as long, Marquis-Boire and his colleagues Eva Galperin and John Scott-­Railton have been tracking and analyzing the arsenal ...     
  • Kim Dotcom Ratted Out Rival File-Sharing Sites ...
    Three months before federal authorities shuttered Megaupload and indicted its top seven executives, the file-sharing site’s founder, Kim Dotcom, urged PayPal not to do business with rival sites because of their “criminal activity,” according to a 200-page document Virginia federal ...  &nbs ...
  • Silk Road’s Alleged Top Moderators Indicted
    At least three alleged moderators of Silk Road forums have been indicted on federal charges, according to a document unsealed today.     
  • Obama Concedes NSA Spying May Need ‘Refining’
    President Barack Obama said he would propose reforms next month to the NSA’s vast spying powers disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, hinting today he might stop the bulk collection of records associated with every phone call made to and from ...     
  • What to Expect in Surveillance Politics in 201 ...
    You would think that a federal district judge calling the NSA program 'almost Orwellian' would be a good sign for surveillance and privacy in 2014. If you’re holding out hope for an act of political courage to end bulk surveillance ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Bankrupt Education Publisher Got the Romney Tr ...
    Back in November 2010, I wrote a piece titled "The End of the Tea Party." A year later, a version of that essay ("Tea Party Activists Are Just Republicans by Another Name") appeared in The Tea Party Movement, an anthology published by multi-billion dollar education publisher, Cengage Learning, ...
  • Senate Sanctions Bill Could Let Israel Take U. ...
    As 2013 draws to close, the negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program have entered a delicate stage. But in 2014, the tensions will escalate dramatically as a bipartisan group of Senators brings a new Iran sanctions bill to the floor for a vote. As many others have warned, that promise of ...
  • Two Images of Our Civil War Then and Now
    After watching Americans engage in a week of national self-flagellation over Duck Dynasty and its controversial patriarch Phil Robertson, I decided to watch something else. Passing up ersatz conflict for the real thing, I put on Ken Burns' unforgettable documentary, The Civil War. But my escap ...
  • Huck Dynasty
    Former Arkansas Governor and Baptism Minister turned Fox News regular Mike Huckabee has had a very big week. On Monday, his son David announced his father would be launching his own news and culture web site--Huckabee Post--in January. That same day, Governor Huckabee announced he was "keeping ...
  • Texas Bars Husband from Having Pregnant Wife R ...
    In 1988, Tom Delay made the painful decision to have his father removed from life support after he was severely injured in a tragic accident. Yet in 2005, then House Majority Leader Tom Delay led the massive federal intervention to prevent Michael Schiavo from choosing the same act of mercy for ...

Global Research.ca

  • Thailand: Regime Police Fire Rubber Bullets at ...
    Regime violence will only increase number, resolve of protesters  - sham elections being disrupted. Several protesters have been sent to the hospital as police began firing tear gas, rubber bullets, and using chemical laden water fired from water canons at…
  • War Games in Cyberspace: NATO’s Cyber De ...
    Barely acknowledged by the mainstream media, NATO launched in late November its largest-ever cyber defense exercises  “Cyber Coalition 2013″   to test the Alliance ability to defend its networks from attacks. The exercises involved some 500 experts – more than 100…
  • The Fate of Democracy Korean Conspiracy Trial
    It made worldwide news when Lee Seok-ki, representative in the South Korean National Assembly, was arrested on charges of treason. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) fed media outlets with a transcript of a meeting that Lee attended, which appeared…
  • Albert Einstein: “A Foolish Faith In Authority ...
    Don’t Be Foolish Albert Einstein said: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth. Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to absurd lengths - and engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling…
  • Big Dairy Wants to Medicate our Milk
    The Ontario Dairy Council shared in funding a study showing that the anti-cancer properties of green tea can remain bioavailable when extracted and placed in a milk medium. The Dairy Council is looking to enhance profits with a value-added substance.…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says It’s Unconstit ...
    This may seem like a no-brainer, but it's what the industry has been doing for years. Some major parts of Pennsylvania’s two-year-old Marcellus Shale drilling law are unconstitutional, the state’s Supreme Court decided Thursday.As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports, the court voted 4 – 2 ...
  • 13 Major Clean Energy Breakthroughs of 2013
    The rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing accessibility of clean energy is the true bright spot in the march toward a zero-carbon future. While the news about climate change seems to get worse every day, the rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing ...
  • What A Year: 45 Fossil Fuel Disasters the Indu ...
    Here is a look back at some of the fossil fuel disasters that made headlines in 2013, along with several others that went largely unnoticed. While coal, oil, and gas are an integral part of everyday life around the world, 2013 brought a stark reminder of the inherent risk that comes with a fos ...
  • 10 Companies Vying for 2013 Corporate Hall of ...
    There is tight competition this year, time to get your vote in. Monsanto is a tough act to follow. When it comes to despised companies, it's set the bar pretty high. Last year the company claimed the top prize in Corporate Accountability International’s Corporate Hall of Shame. That may have h ...
  • Fracking Hell: What It's Really Like to Live N ...
    Nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, invasive chemical smells, constant drilling, slumping property prices – welcome to Ponder, Texas, where fracking has overtaken the town. Veronica Kronvall can, even now, remember how excited she felt about buying her house in 2007. It was the firs ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Fines, Follow Fun Filled Freeze
    Remember sitting at home during February 2 of 2011 as the temperatures dropped and the power kept getting turned off. As millions of Texas sat in the cold and dark Luminant, Texas largest power generator, wasn’t able to get its power plants running along with other generators. Luminant Energy Co ...
  • Wishing you a joyous holiday season
    As you close out 2013, consider joining or making a gift to Public Citizen’s work – click here. Thank you and we wish you a safe and happy holiday.The post Wishing you a joyous holiday season appeared first on TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas.
  • Keystone XL Southern Segment Starts Up Despite ...
    TransCanada had announced start up dates for the southern section of Keystone XL for January 3rd, then changed that to mid to late January, then announced startup began on Saturday, December 7th. Following reports of hundreds of flaws that could lead to spills in the southern segment of the Keys ...
  • Another Proposed Coal Export Terminal in Texas ...
    The third and final major new coal shipping proposal at the Port of Corpus Christi has been canceled, according to documents from recent Port Authority meetings reviewed by the Clean Gulf Commerce Coalition, a multistate campaign to halt expansion of coal exports from the Gulf Coast while promot ...
  • Austin Energy Cutting Solar Credits
    Is Austin Energy joining the war on solar? Bit by bit, our publicly owned, nationally renowned, supposedly green electric utility is trying to roll back programs that support customer owned solar. Austin Energy is cutting the Value of Solar tariff, which compensates solar owners for the energy t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Advances on the Journey to Food Sovereignty an ...
    Subheadline:  Accomplishments from a year in grantmaking and advocacy guatemala-woman_with_corn_and_compost.jpg This last year has seen many advances around the globe for c ...
  • Reports from Honduras Show Repression, Voter Fraud
    By Lydia SimasGrassroots International has been in close contact with our partners in Honduras throughout the recent elections there. Many offered first-hand reports that election observers and agrarian reform activists were intimidated, ballots were not collected, and people were threatened wit ...
  • Interview with Miriam Nobre, Global Feminist A ...
    miriam_photo.jpg Miriam Nobre is a Brazilian feminist activist and current coordinator of World March of Women (WMW), an international feminist movement that connects grassroots women to eliminate the root causes of poverty and violence aga ...
  • Report from Post-election Honduras Cites Viole ...
    honduras-marchers_with_banner.jpg This is a preliminary summary from the US-based Honduras Solidarity Network / Alliance for Global Justice election observation delegation. The summary casts doubt the credibility of Honduran Supreme Elector ...
  • If Farming Is Hard, Free Trade Makes It Harder
    Subheadline:  Why it's Time to End the WTO bali_online_poster.jpg Being a farmer is hard.  This is true no matter what policies exist. The work itself is difficul ...

Care 2

  • Ban Hunting of Red Panda in China ! PLEASE SIG ...
    We ask China to put a moratorium on hunting red pandas as they are facing extinction from too many factors. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop the Cruelty of Fox and Coyote Penning ! P ...
    We ask North Carolina to ban this barbarically cruel blood-sport. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Good News on Christmas Day for Arctic 30
    The final chapter in the legal ordeal of the Arctic 30 began today as the group was asked to attend a meeting at Russias powerful Investigative Committee, where the criminal case against them is being dropped en masse. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it! &nbs ...
  • Let's bring a million solar roofs to Colorado ...
    Join us in urging the governor to set a goal of generating enough solar energy to power a million roofs in Colorado by 2030. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 20 Environmental Calculators to Track Your Eco ...
    Protecting the environment has several benefits for people. Making changes to reduce the amount of energy a person uses at home or at work not only preserves resources for future generations. Reducing energy use and consumption can also help reduce home Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle & ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Merry Christmas
    To all readers, faithful and occasional, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. If you are Jewish, the same wish still applies. Look at it this way–goyim all around the world are worshiping the birth of a Jewish baby. And they celebrate this Jewish kid because he is the presenc ...
  • CBS 60 Minutes Doubles Down on Featuring a Lia ...
    First we had 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan getting the hook for putting on air a guy who lied his ass off about where he was the night that Islamic extremists attacked American diplomats and spies in Benghazi (way back in September 2012). The Obama cretins seized on Lara’s faux pas a ...
  • Who is Leaking About the CIA in Colombia?
    Washington Post was busy thumping its hollow chest last night over its latest “scoop.” Calling it a scoop reminds me of the device you use to pick up dog shit. I think scoop is an appropriate description of the Post piece. ABC reports the Post lede, “Report: CIA Helped Colombia ...
  • The End of Gay Pandering?
    The Duck Dynasty flap is awakening the proverbial sleeping giant of America’s Silent Majority. Most people are not Gay Lesbian Queer or Transgender. Most Americans do not obsess about homosexual encounters. But most Americans also do not want this shit continually shoved in their face. The ...
  • Duck Dynasty Under Attack
    I’ll state up front that I”m not a regular viewer of Duck Dynasty. I’ve seen a couple of episodes and am puzzled by its status as the number one show on cable. It is now front and center in the culture war, pitting the homosexual lobby against conservative Christians. The uproa ...

Futurismic

  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Soviet Psychotronic lit review since 1911, int ...
    Let's have a nice link dump on some moar exotic science. If you care to scout this story out, you will have moar vortices of weirdness than you'll know what to do with. I like weird patents and ran into a few of them. Could all these things below be related? Can we hack a new machine to get into ...
  • NSA Boundless Informant explicated - for moar ...
    Just had to crosspost this relatively down-to-earth explanation of how all the cell phone data is hoarded in the NSA mass data mining system. What this lacks in documentation it makes up for with relative plausibility & general lack of fancifulness. SOURCE: Cryptome.org : http://cryptome.o ...
  • Aha: Carbon Market digital currency "Ven" by H ...
    Lolz just stumbled on this - had to write a quick post with a lurid headline. Ven is like the Sharper Image / corporate greenwashing version of Bitcoins and it's all tied into a big ball of classic shady stuff. There is a really nice blob of greenwashing social constructions underpinning the Ven ...
  • Terrible Trans Pacific Partnership intellectua ...
    Finally got some clue into WTF is going on. They have been trying to keep this secret as hell because a planet of 6+ billion people might rebel at another horrible technocratic scheme to control everyone's brains :( VIA https://wikileaks.org/tpp/ - way to go wikileaks. Secret Trans-Pacific Part ...
  • Scott Hargarten Pirate Party City Council cand ...
    A friend of mine, Scott Hargarten, (@scotthargarten) is running for Minneapolis City Council with the new Pirate Party of Minnesota and participated in the Ward 10 debate today. While of course the Pirate Party is a small new political venture we are getting somewhere with advancing ideas of dir ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Justine Sacco's Offensive Tweet and the Cost o ...
    Social media's outrage may be a double-edged sword. PR executive Justine Sacco wrote an offensive tweet before boarding a flight from London to Cape Town, South Africa. “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” she said. Between the time Sacco tweeted and when she ...
  • Secret CIA Program Hunted Down Leaders of Colo ...
    The CIA and NSA provided intelligence to the Colombian government to help their battle against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency have provided covert help to Colombia’s government to hunt down and kill leaders of a left ...
  • WSJ Op-Ed Bemoans the End of White Rule in America
    Joseph Epstein argues that we need more rich white men in power, preferably WASPs. There are a lot of problems in Washington, D.C these days, but not many solutions to them. Inefficiency, an allergy to cooperation, and stiff resistance to pragmatism have all ground the federal government to a ...
  • AlterNet Comics: Keith Knight on KKK Schools
    No white hoods and robes allowed!  Related StoriesAlterNet Comics: Matt Davis on Homophobic RhetoricAlterNet Comics: Keith Knight on White SantaBook Censorship on the Rise in American Schools
  • The Hard-to-Believe, Cruel Things Corporate Ex ...
    Some of what they say is almost too outlandish to believe they actually said it. At a time of year when we're inclined to show empathy for people less fortunate than ourselves, some of our top business leaders are notable for comments that show their disdain for struggling Americans. Their wor ...

Threat Level

  • In Syria’s Civil War, Facebook Has Become a Ba ...
    For the last two years cyberwarriors loyal to Bashar al-Assad have made cyberspace a second front in the Syrian conflict. For nearly as long, Marquis-Boire and his colleagues Eva Galperin and John Scott-­Railton have been tracking and analyzing the arsenal ...     
  • Kim Dotcom Ratted Out Rival File-Sharing Sites ...
    Three months before federal authorities shuttered Megaupload and indicted its top seven executives, the file-sharing site’s founder, Kim Dotcom, urged PayPal not to do business with rival sites because of their “criminal activity,” according to a 200-page document Virginia federal ...  &nbs ...
  • Silk Road’s Alleged Top Moderators Indicted
    At least three alleged moderators of Silk Road forums have been indicted on federal charges, according to a document unsealed today.     
  • Obama Concedes NSA Spying May Need ‘Refining’
    President Barack Obama said he would propose reforms next month to the NSA’s vast spying powers disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, hinting today he might stop the bulk collection of records associated with every phone call made to and from ...     
  • What to Expect in Surveillance Politics in 201 ...
    You would think that a federal district judge calling the NSA program 'almost Orwellian' would be a good sign for surveillance and privacy in 2014. If you’re holding out hope for an act of political courage to end bulk surveillance ...     

Equality Trust

  • UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
    The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

AutoblogGreen

  • Tokyo: Honda shows MC-β short-distance EV
    Filed under: Coupe, Budget, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Honda, Design/Style, Electric Taking a page from Renault and the Twizy - the page that says you don't need real doors on a tiny electric vehicle - Honda has unveiled a new version of its tiny MC-β EV. That's tiny in terms of overall si ...
  • Los Angeles: 2015 Hyundai Tuscon Fuel Cell wil ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, SUV, Hyundai, Electric If nothing else, Hyundai wants to make it as easy as pie for you to check out its upcoming hydrogen-powered 2015 Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle. Given that the Korean automaker will be the first to offer a mass-produced fuel cell vehicle in the US ( ...
  • Quick Spin: Toyota Crown Royal Saloon Hybrid [ ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, Quick Spins We don't often come into contact with the Toyota Crown Hybrid, especially in colors other than pink. But when Toyota offered us the keys and a half-hour window to test out the Japanese version of the Lexus GS on US soil not long ago, we had to accept. ...
  • Study: Oil company predicts gas-powered cars w ...
    Filed under: Technology, Electric "By 2070, the passenger road market could be nearly oil-free." That's the key line (for us, anyway) in a report out from Shell titled New Lens Scenarios. The oil giant is trying to understand the future (who isn't?) and to do that, it envisioned two possible ...
  • First Drive: 2014 BMW i3
    Filed under: Hatchback, BMW, First Drives, Electric We can only imagine the challenges BMW is going to have explaining the i3 electric vehicle to the world. It's got a new powertain (all-electric, with optional range extender), a new production method (carbon fiber reinforced plastic!), a new ...

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • CREDO Members (Or Not!): Only 1 week left to ...
    Now, more than ever, Democracy Now! needs your help. Each year, CREDO members vote to distribute 2013 donations funding — and how much we get depends on you. The more votes we receive, the greater our share of funding. Just go to this page and select Democracy Now! (you'll find us ...
  • Obama’s New Normal: The Drone Strikes Continue
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan There has been yet another violent attack with mass casualties. This was not the act of a lone gunman, or of an armed student rampaging through a school. It was a group of families en route to a wedding that was killed. The town was called Radda—not in Co ...
  • PART 2: Calls Grow to Release Aging People fro ...
    We continue our interview about the issues leading to a skyrocketing population of aging people behind bars, and feature comments about their conditions from political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. We also speak with Mujahid Farid, who was released from a New York state prison ...
  • VIDEO TIMELINE: Political Prisoners Amongst So ...
    This video timeline features Democracy Now!'s reporting on aging political prisoners, including Lynne Stewart, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Albert Woodfox of the Angola Three and others. We explored this issue on Monday's show during an in-depth roundtable discussion with formerly ...
  • Obama Wrongs the Bill of Rights
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan President Barack Obama proclaimed Dec. 15 Bill of Rights Day, praising those first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution as “the foundation of American liberty, securing our most fundamental rights—from the freedom to speak, assemble and practice our fait ...

Solari

  • We are Celebrating Christmas!
    Dearest Friends and Allies: We are celebrating from December 24 – January 1. Our office will be closed. We will post the next Jon Rappoport special on December 26th and the blog post for the Annual Wrap Up on December 28th. Make sure to mark your calendars for the Wrap Up on January [...]
  • Annual Wrap Ups
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I’m preparing the Solari Report Annual Wrap Up on January 2nd. This is a fruitful time – a time to take stock of the road traveled in 2013 and what’s ahead. What is the deeper news essential for crafting 2014 investment strategies? Many publications  a ...
  • In Hoc Anno Domini
    Vermont Royster’s Christmas message has been republished by The Wall Street Journal every Christmas since its first publication in 1949. As I can not think of a more beautiful way to celebrate the birth and life of Christ, it is reprinted here in its entirety, as it was in 2007, 2008, 200 ...
  • Lesta Frank’s Christmas Card
    Lesta Frank Watermedia
  • On Free Speech
    “Today, we are putting all our ‘Duck Dynasty’ products back in our stores, and, we apologize for offending you. We respect all individuals’ right to express their beliefs. We certainly did not mean to have anyone think different.” Cracker Barrel, after pulling its “Duck Dynasty” merchandise on ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

Inhabitat

  • How to Reuse, Recycle and Green Your After Chr ...
    Want to get a P.H.D. in what to do with your P.H.W.? (That's short for post-holiday waste in case you didn't know.) While you may not have heard of the term (we kind of just made it up), we're pretty sure you know what we're talking about - the crumpled wads     
  • Top 6 Art Stories of 2013 – Vote for Your Favo ...
    From a room that let us walk through the rain without getting wet to a repurposed slaughterhouse truck filled with wailing stuffed animals, 2013 saw a vast assortment of eco-art stories that had our readers coming back for more. Read on to see all of our top     
  • Old Christmas Trees Hung Under BQE as Life-Siz ...
    Last year, artist Michael Neff rescued more than a handful of Christmas trees from a sad, dried out, sidewalk fate by installing them as a pine-scented installation beneath the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. Set up at the highly-trafficked Metropolitan Avenue     
  • 6 Ways You Can Help Victims of Typhoon Haiyan ...
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS  The International Medical Corps focuses on infection control and deployed a team of medical personnel and sanitation experts to respond immediately to the disaster. The organization also ships clean water, food and medicine. Donate     
  • Inhabitat’s Top 6 News Stories of 2013 – VOTE ...
    With 2014 just around the corner, we are taking a retrospective look at the biggest news stories of 2013, and we're seeing a healthy combination of both really disturbing, depressing news and positive news that suggests humanity is waking up to the 21st century's     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • The Most Amazing Images NASA Took of Earth Fro ...
    NASA's fleet of satellites took a slew of beautiful images of Earth this year. From erupting volcanoes and wildfire scars to idyllic islands and surreal cloud formations, here are our favorites.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Saturn Moon Shadow
    This close-up view of Saturn's disc captures the transit of several moons across the face of the gas giant planet.     
  • The Best Scientific Visualizations of 2013
    Amidst the eye candy of popular science, not much attention is paid to figures accompanying articles in scientific journals and white papers. Even if they’re utilitarian and low-resolution, though — or perhaps because of that — these figures are a ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Curiosity Wheel
    The left-front wheel of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows dents and holes in this image taken during the 469th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Nov. 30, 2013). The image was taken by the Mars Hand ...     
  • New Clues and Some Wild Guesses About Those St ...
    Late last week, we revealed that the elaborate, fenced-in spires spotted in the Peruvian Amazon are made by spiders. Now, scientists are puzzling over what kind of spider is responsible for the silky constructions.     

PakAlert

  • Locations and Nature of the Upcoming False Fla ...
    More details are being revealed with regard to the nature of the weather wars false flag attacks coming against America. This is breaking news and new details are still coming out. In speaking to many of my alternative media colleagues, many of them are surprised at the pace that the country ...
  • Director Who Released Obama Birth Certificate ...
    Long form document stoked suspicions of forgery The health director who approved the release of President Obama’s long form birth certificate, which some claim was a fraudulent document, has died in an unexplained plane crash in Hawaii, it was announced today
  • No More Mosques in Moscow; By Order of the Mayor
    The mayor in Moscow, Russia, has made another controversial move not a couple of months on the heels of Russia banning the Qur’an. Despite the overcrowding in the city’s four mosques, they have decided that they will not build one more mosque in the city
  • What Will Happen When the Arrests Begin?
    A futuristic picture of mass arrests, critical mass and journalistic awakening Here in America people are beginning to visualize what it will be like to overcome the mass political oppression we are now all under at the hands of a small group of global control freak elites who also control th ...
  • Agenda 21 and the Master Plan to ENSLAVE YOU: ...
    Apparently, living in a small New York apartment can cramp more than your style. Even though Mayor Michael Bloomberg has championed the micro-unit, some experts are concerned that living in 250 to 370 feet spaces could be risky

Andy Worthington

  • For Christmas, the Reverend Nicholas Mercer Ca ...
    As I spend Christmas with family, I recall that, on this Christian holiday, which commemorates the birth of Jesus — drawing on an older tradition of celebrating the winter solstice, and the beginning of the sun’s rebirth after the shortest day of the year — there are other peop ...
  • How Congress Is Finally Helping President Obam ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our ac ...
  • Two Sudanese Prisoners Released from Guantánam ...
    As the 12th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay approaches (on January 11, 2014), the run of good news regarding the situation at the prison continues, with the news that two prisoners — Ibrahim Idris, 52, and Noor Uthman Muhammed, 51, hav ...
  • Omar Khadr Condemns His Guantánamo Plea Deal, ...
    Good news from Canada, finally, as former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Khadr has been “reclassified as a medium-security risk,” and will be moved from Edmonton, where he is currently held as a maximum-security prisoner, to Bowden Correctional Institution, north of Calgary. The move will ...
  • The Stories of the Two Guantánamo Prisoners Re ...
    I wrote a version of the following article, under the heading, “Who Are the Two Guantánamo Prisoners Released to Saudi Arabia?“ for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to b ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Last post…of 2013
    Festive Felicitations to you all, hope to see you in 2014, here on the Sciencebase site (newsfeed), on my Song, Snaps, Science page, or on Twitter @sciencebase), Google+ and Facebook, of course. Last post…of 2013 is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom S ...
  • Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
    Coughs and sneezes really do spread diseases, airborne droplets from your infected mucus, phlegm and snot sprayed over your companions on the daily commute, in the office, at the shops, at school etc can pass the viral or bacterial particles to infect that other person if the particles get into ...
  • Yesterday’s future tomorrow
    In a thousand years’ time, our apps and smartphones, our status updates and our tweets, Our hybrid EVs, solar panels, windfarms, all of our digital neats Will seem so quaint, and misguided, so twee and lopsided They’ll talk of yet more Dark Ages repeats Just think of our medical scan ...
  • Zinc, the only supplement
    Zinc is the only supplement I take if I feel a cold coming on. Vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil etc have no proven effect. But, recent Cochrane analysis vindicates earlier research on which I based my choice. Zinc – The promise: Laboratory studies have found it can inhibit replication o ...
  • Large Hadron Collider Pop-Up
    Papadakis publishers have released the Higgs edition of their unique publication – the result of a collaboration between the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky. Radevsky’s previous pop-ups include The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Bo ...

Common Dreams -News

  • UN Human Rights Chief: Surveillance Backlash A ...
    The UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay. (Photo: EPA)Surveillance revelations have implications for human rights, UN human rights chief Navanethem "Navi" Pillay said during a radio interview Thursday. read more
  • Christmas Day Drone Strike Pounds Pakistan
    Drone strikes in Pakistan--like this one that struck a madrassa last month in Hangu, killing six and wounding many more--have sparked nation-wide anger and protest (Photo: REUTERS/Syed Shah)In what is being reported as the
  • Americans to Wall Street 'Scrooges': Give Your ...
  • Obama's Quiet Gift to Iraq: Hellfire Missiles ...
    People stand among debris at the site of a bomb attack at a marketplace in Baghdad's Doura District December 25, 2013. (Photo: Reuters / Ahmed Malik)The U.S. is quietly shipping hellfire missiles and surveillance drones to war-torn Iraq in an alleged bid to help the government fight the country& ...
  • Egypt Designates Muslim Brotherhood as “Terror ...
    Supporters of ousted Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a rally, in Nasser City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, July 4, 2013. (Credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)In Egypt, the interim appointed government of Prime Minister Hazem Biblawi, backed by the military junta that made the coup ...

Lifehacker

  • Netflix Playlist Creates Custom Episode Playli ...
    Firefox: Winning the award for the most self-explanatory name, Netflix Playlist gives Netflix a feature it sorely needs: the ability to create custom, hand-picked episode playlists.Read more...     
  • How to Return Nearly Anything Without a Receipt
    Whether you've gotten a gift you really don't like or you're just prone to losing receipts, returning items without a receipt can sometimes be a minefield. Here are some tips and techniques to make sure you get your money back.Read more...     
  • Use a Dummy Google Account for Chrome Extensio ...
    Chrome extensions make life easier, but not all of them are above board. Some of them eat up your data and send it to the developer, leak passwords, and are generally more intrusive than they should be. One easy fix—use a dummy Google account for Chrome, so if it is leaking data, it won't be ass ...
  • Avoid Typing Your PIN at the Pump to Reduce Yo ...
    We've discussed when to use credit versus debit when shopping, and usually at the gas pump, credit is your best option if you're not paying cash. If you have to use debit though, Consumer Reports suggests processing it like credit—as in, don't type your PIN—to reduce your odds of getting your ca ...
  • Convert Anything Seriously Converts Any Unit o ...
    Android: Unit conversion apps are a bit of a bore, but Convert Anything takes the concept to a whole new level. It's probably the most complete unit conversion tool we've seen, and can convert everything from length measurements and currency to clothing/shoe sizes to resistance and magnetomotive ...

Water Wars

  • Water Wars: Fact: LA is well on the...
    Fact: LA is well on the way to its driest year in history and forecasters say SoCal is in for its third year of drought in a row. So why aren't we hearing doom-and-gloom PSAs about saving water? Authorities say...
  • Morning Buzz: Friday 12.20.13
    Kevin Roderick: Huizar named in 2005 groping complaint. The California water wars. Drivers and homeowners are the problem in LA. David Ulin's and Michiko Kakutani's favorite 2013 books. Mark Zuckerberg donates $1 billion. And some media notes.
  • Related Stories
    THE first thing that hit me about Dawn on the morning of Dec 17 was that the paper’s masthead looked new and ... THIS is apropos article ‘Outsourcing option and falling profits’ (Business pages, Nov 25-Dec 1). It’s not only...
  • Unbreakable
    Water wars. Good luck with that claim Egypt. Last Pharaoh who tried that got drowned,
  • Calif. tries to find a balance with water needs
    By Karen Weise, Bloomberg A century after William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct first began watering the Southland, the water wars in California show no sign of abating. The state reached a milestone on Monday in its effort to balance equal-but-conflicting goals: channeling more water to dry ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Alberta’s Tar Sands Will Now Be Regulate ...
    The Alberta Energy Regulator, a corporation funded by fossil fuel fees, has the ability to approve oil, gas and coal permits.The post Alberta’s Tar Sands Will Now Be Regulated By Fossil Fuels-Funded Group appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Poll Finds Strong National Support For Extendi ...
    Federal unemployment benefits that keep long-term jobless people off the streets expire on Saturday. Most Americans want the program restored.The post Poll Finds Strong National Support For Extending Unemployment Benefits appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • McDonald’s Ditches Worker Advice Website ...
    The McResource Line website had brought wave upon wave of bad press this year, so McDonald's decided to shut it down.The post McDonald’s Ditches Worker Advice Website Due To ‘Unwarranted Scrutiny’ appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Iranian MPs Propose Bill To Enrich Near Weapon ...
    Iranian Members of Parliament are proposing a bill to require the government to enrich uranium at near weapons grade levels in response to American lawmakers' push for more sanctions.The post Iranian MPs Propose Bill To Enrich Near Weapons-Grade Uranium After Congress’s Sanctions Push appe ...
  • Pennsylvania’s New Draft Climate Change ...
    The draft comes just weeks after Pennsylvania's new head of environmental protection, who doesn't think climate change is harmful, was confirmed. The post Pennsylvania’s New Draft Climate Change Plan Has No Emissions Reduction Goal appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

  • Revolution - the ONLY Solution
    There's just no other way. We cannot "reform" capitalism. At least not in the way that US Democrats, Canadian Liberals and "social democrat" NDPr's want to do it. They want painless reform, ... as in reform that doesn't anger the powerful. It can't happen. It's their mewling "vision" of compassi ...
  • Wut We's Got's To Do
    My point about the lack of a response to the TTC fare increase was that I, who have been told several times that my plans are too grandiose, am pointing out the sheer invisibility of the standard leftist response to problems. If I had my druthers, I'd be organizing a transit-users' strike, or an ...
  • And What Is Everyone Doing About Toronto's TTC ...
    Just to bring non-Torontonians up to speed: Toronto has gone from having what was widely regarded to be a good public transit system to having what is widely regarded as being a bad transit system. Bus service in the outer city is deplorable. Long waits to get on over-crowded buses, or to watch ...
  • Whose Side Are You On?
    Do you stand with the victims or with the aggressors? Do you stand with the tortured or the torturers? Do you stand with the oppressed or with the oppressors? Do you stand with the raped or the rapists? Do you stand with the weak or with the strong? Do you stand with the poor or with the ri ...
  • NORTH KOREA!!!!!
    Last summer, North Korea's mad ambitions to attack the United States [actually desperate blustering in the face of USA/South Korean provocations] were all over the news until a bomb exploded at the Boston Marathon. "Poof!" North Korea's inscrutable threat vanished into the thin air from whence i ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • In harshest move yet, Egypt declares Muslim Br ...
    The New York Times reports: Egypt’s military-backed leaders on Wednesday designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, outlawing the country’s most successful political movement and vowing to treat anyone who belongs to it — or even takes part in its activities — as a terrorist. Th ...
  • Pope calls on believers and atheists to unite ...
    The New York Times reports: Pope Francis used the first Christmas address of his papacy on Wednesday to make a broad call for global peace and an end to violence in Syria and parts of Africa, urging atheists and followers of other religions to join together in this common cause. On a windy Chris ...
  • Video: Edward Snowden’s Christmas message
  • The War on Terror’s Jedi mind trick
    Julian Sanchez writes: A Republican-appointed judge and President Obama’s own handpicked Surveillance Review Group both came to the same conclusion last week: The National Security Agency’s controversial phone-records program has been of little real value to American security. Yet its defenders ...
  • The funders behind climate-change denial
    Drexel University: A new study conducted by Drexel University environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD, exposes the organizational underpinnings and funding behind the powerful climate change countermovement. This study marks the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis ever conducted ...

Watts Up With That?

  • So much sea ice in Antarctica that a research ...
    It is summer in the southern hemisphere and yet there is still signifiicantly above normal amounts of sea ice present as the passengers and crew of one tour ship discovered. The icebreakers Xue Long and Aurora Australis, and a French … Continue reading →
  • New paper: Clouds blown by the solar wind
    This paper suggests a terrestrial impact on cloud cover from the interplanetary electric field (IEF) via the global electric circuit. A primer video on the GEC is below. Clouds blown by the solar wind M Voiculescu et al 2013 Environ. Res. … Continue reading →
  • From the Apollo 8, forty five years ago: &#82 ...
    While ISS astronauts do a spacewalk this Christmas eve, I thought that this would be the best tribute I could make for them, and for all of my readers, contributors, and moderators. Audio and some stunning new video follow. On … Continue reading →
  • Monckton: Of meteorology and morality
    By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley To those of us who have dared to question on scientific and economic grounds the official story on global warming, it is a continuing surprise that there is so little concern about whether or not … Continue reading →
  • How to keep your kids entertained for hours fo ...
    My lovely wife is out doing last minute Christmas shopping and I’m home with the kids. While it would certainly be easy to just let them play video games all day, I like to challenge them to look beyond their … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • ▶ Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation
    ▶ Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation – YouTube. You may receive endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation if you are in an emergency situation involving severe respiratory problems or if you are having general anesthesia during a surgical procedure. If you have severe respirato ...
  • Healing Damaged Hearts With Stem Cell Implants ...
    We’re much better at saving the lives of those who suffer a heart attack these days. Sadly, many people survive a heart attack only to later succumb to heart failure from the damage it caused. Modern methods help heal the heart somewhat after a heart attack, but cardiologists think stem cell the ...
  • Predicting the fate of stem cells
    University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology could have potential use in regenerative medicine and drug development. Findings are published in this week\’s issue of the journal ...
  • How Staph Toxin Disables the Immune System
    Scientists at the NYU Langone Medical Center report the discovery of a novel mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus bacteria attack and kill off immune cells. They say their findings “Staphylococcus aureus Leukotoxin ED Targets the Chemokine Receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 to Kill Leukocytes and Pro ...
  • Monaco and humanitarian aid for a heart surgery
    In this compassionate video, the monaco humanitarian aid organization describes a 12 year old girl, Aminata Keita who lives in Barnako, in the African country of Mali with a heart condition. Aminata suffers from cardiomyopathy, which results in failure of the heart and requires complicated and d ...

CFACT

  • Podesta hired to carry out the Obama Doctrine
    “Canada is a sovereign nation and we will develop our resources with appropriate regulations and enforcement to protect the environment,” said Paula Caldwell St-Onge. The Consulate General of Canada, St-Onge was in Albuquerque to talk up, and answer questions about, the Keystone pipeline. She’d ...
  • RELEASE: CFACT challenges constitutionality of ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CFACT to Supreme Court -- EPA emissions rules violate Constitution's separation of powers They are harmful, arbitrary, capricious and fraudulent. Read the brief.
  • Colorado monument designation would quash mini ...
    Yet another effort to take away the mineral wealth of the United States in looming in Colorado, thanks to Sen. Mark Udall. Even worse, the Obama Administration could just speak the Browns Canyon National Monument and Wilderness Area into being, just as President Clinton robbed Utah of much of i ...
  • Battle brews over proposed copper mine in Minn ...
    Plans by PolyMet Mining Corp. to open a copper and nickel mine in Minnesota are putting Governor Mark Dayton on the hot seat and dividing the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party just months before Gov. Dayton faces a reelection campaign in 2014. Green DFLers oppose the project, whereas Iron Range DFL ...
  • EPA climate expert Beale sentenced to 32 month ...
    EPA “climate expert” John C. Beale was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison plus $1.3 million in restitution today following a guilty plea. He said his motivation was "greed."

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Natural Health News

  • New Study Validates EFT's Effectiveness
    By Dr. Mercola Although frequently overlooked, emotional health is critical for your physical health and healing. No matter how devoted you are to the proper diet and lifestyle, you’re unlikely to achieve optimal health if emotional barriers stand in your way. Energy psychology us ...
  • Hospital Room Lighting May Worsen Your Mood an ...
    By Dr. Mercola Hopefully you have never spent much time in a hospital, but if you have you likely experienced frequent disruptions to your sleep. Aside from the beeping machines and nightly checks from hospital staff, your room was probably dimly lit with artificial light both day and ni ...
  • A Warm Christmas Message From Dr. Mercola to You
    By Dr. Mercola Christmas day is a time for family, friends, and others who have touched our lives deeply. On this day, I hope you are sharing in the joy of the season with those who matter most to you, and I want to let you know that, each and every day, I am grateful for subscribers like ...
  • Ractopamine: The Meat Additive Banned Almost E ...
    By Dr. Mercola Meat—and beef in particular—is a mainstay of the traditional American dinner. Unfortunately, the vast majority of it is filled with harmful additives of one form or another, and is raised in such a way that it contributes to the degeneration of health... This is no ...
  • How to Help Fluoride Toxicity
    By Dr. Mercola The absolute best way to help fluoride toxicity is to prevent it in the first place, which is why we are so passionate about removing it from the water supply because it is so hard to remove once it is there. One of the risks of adding fluoride, a known poison that bio-acc ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • New Essay on the Legal Recharacterization of F ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have posted a new essay on SSRN entitled — borrowing a phrase from a dissent written by Judge Van den Wyngaert — “A Stick to Hit the Accused with”: The Legal Recharacterization of Facts Under Regulation 55. The essay is forthcom ...
  • Weekly News Wrap: Monday, December 23, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Middle East British and U.S. spies targeted a senior EU official, German government buildings, and the office of an Israeli prime minister, according to t ...
  • Events and Announcements: December 22, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers The Stanford Journal of International Law seeks contributions by academics, practitioners, and policymakers for its Symposium titled Governing Intelligence: Transnational Threats & the National Security State, which will take place on Ma ...
  • Banksy Comments on the Wall — As Only He Can
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller British artist Banksy knocks it out of the park again, with a rather unusual rendering of a Nativity scene: As ArtInfo notes, this is not Banksy’s first comment on the Israel/Palestine conflict. He painted nine amazing murals directly on the wall i ...
  • “Love is Greater than Treaties”
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis That’s the punchline of a podcast Radiolab just released this week, provocatively titled “Sex, Ducks and The Founding Feud”.  Along with John Bellinger, Joseph Ellis and Nick Rosenkranz, I was interviewed for the story by Jad Abumrad and Kels ...

Public News Service

  • Year-End Tax Tips from an Expert
    Year-End Tax Tips from an Expert PHOENIX – There are only a few days left in 2013, but tax expert Marshall Mennenga of Mennenga Tax and Financial Service says there are some steps people can take before 2014 arrives to not only lower their tax bill, but help others at the same time. He s ...
  • Smartphone or Online, Arizona Kids Can Track Santa
    Smartphone or Online, Arizona Kids Can Track Santa PHOENIX - Before visions of sugarplums dance in their heads, Arizona children can keep an eye on Old Saint Nick's journey around the globe tonight. For more than 50 years, NORAD has been tracking Santa Claus on Christmas Eve and providing childr ...
  • Arizona Public Land Managers Honored for Achie ...
    Arizona Public Land Managers Honored for Achievements PHOENIX - Two federal land managers from Arizona are being honored by The Wilderness Society for their work in promoting conservation while balancing multiple uses on Bureau of Land Management lands. The so-called CAPE awards go to Kathy Pedr ...
  • Study: Poverty Influences Children’s Ear ...
    Study: Poverty Influences Children’s Early Brain Development PHOENIX – According to a new study, children of low-income families have slower rates of growth in a number of areas, including two key parts of the brain – the parietal lobe and the frontal lobe. "Poverty seems to ...
  • A Lifesaving Gift: Arizonans Urged to Give Blo ...
    A Lifesaving Gift: Arizonans Urged to Give Blood This Holiday Season PHOENIX - At hospitals and clinics across the state, the need for blood knows no season, but donations tend to drop this time of year. That's why officials are urging Arizonana to consider rolling up their sleeves to give a lif ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
    Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor.  The rider undermines the federal cou ...
  • Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
    Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food

Pensieve

  • Medicine for Bleak Mornings
    Think of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes, and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash out the m ...
  • At my work desk remembering the good times at ...
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  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...

Green Times

  • Kangaroo cull
    Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
  • Environmental News 01/06/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
  • Green Capital Australia
    Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
  • Environmental News 31/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • White Man’s Burden – the Israeli O ...
    (crossposted from the Villages Group blog) Dear Friends, By a miracle of sorts, we had a mostly peaceful day in South Hebron today; such an event is so rare that I thought it might be worth mentioning to you. In lieu of a more substantial report, let me just say that Abu Sharif and Fadil pl ...
  • What’s Behind Israel’s Boom-and-Bu ...
    One of the great successes of the Israeli government’s “Brand Israel” campaign has been the re-branding and re-packaging of Israel as a “Start-Up Nation”, attributing the source of its current wealth to its burgeoning hi-tech sector. As we know, the best propaganda ...
  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • US Embassy Bangkok: US Soldier Running Rogue O ...
    CJ Grisham was arrested in Texas a second time this past November for criminal trespass. 18 December 2013 A troubled US Army Soldier claimed to be assigned to the US Embassy in Bangkok for an unknown purpose. The active duty counterintelligence soldier, who has a Top Secret clearance, is sta ...
  • Air Force being Downgraded to "Air Persuasion ...
    Published on: 12 December 2013 From: Eric K. Fanning, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force Chief of Staff Chief Master Sgt. James A. Cody, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force To the Airmen of the United States Air Force: We are the best Air Force in the world ...
  • Not a Crosswalk
    Aleppo, Syria 09 December 2013 The Syrian war is growing.  Growing in size and complexity. Yet the more one learns about this conflict, the less accurate it becomes to call it “The Syrian War.”  Thousands of foreigners have flooded in.  Some are moving through southern Turkey t ...
  • Afghanistan: Talking Points US Troops
    08 December 2013 Many of our Soldiers in Afghanistan are required to carry this paper in a pocket at all times.  Troops are expected to memorize the talking points and cough them up to any journalists coming through. We decided to help headquarters spread their message. Many complaints ...
  • Thailand: Pause on Fighting for King's Birthday
    04 December 2013 I am in Turkey to study the Syrian civil war.  Yet this is also a crucial moment in Thailand.  A few words on the Kingdom are due. December 5 is His Majesty's birthday. As an American, I was raised since birth to reject all kings. That is our upbringing and what we a ...

The Killing Train

  • Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities Oct 28, ...
    On October 28, 2013, Justin Podur gave a lecture for the Toronto Public Library's "Thought Exchange" series titled "Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities". The lecture was based on his trip to Kabul in March 2013 and his chapter in the 2013 University of Toronto Press book, "Empire's Ally: Canad ...
  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for work on the issue. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): ...
  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for that work. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): I think ...
  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    On July 25, 2013, at Hart House, at the University of Toronto, Justin Podur presented some background notes and observations on the indigenous (adivasi) struggle in Central India and the Kashmir conflict. Topics: Canada
  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    On July 25, 2013, at Hart House, at the University of Toronto, Justin Podur presented some background notes and observations on the indigenous (adivasi) struggle in Central India and the Kashmir conflict.

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Myint Myint Aye completes third day of hunger ...
    Three farmers’ rights activists have been on hunger strike in Pegu division’s Paungde prison since Friday, 13 December, protesting their detention without trial.
  • The rebel voice of 88 returns
    Last September, Moe Thee Zun returned to Burma for the first time in 25 years. Last week, he sat down with DVB’s Rangoon correspondent, Alex Bookbinder, to discuss his political ambitions and the future of Burmese democracy.
  • Burmese ironman takes the gold
    Burma's Min Zaw Oo wins first place in the men's bodybuilding 80kg weight category in Rangoon on Sunday
  • Biased refereeing at SEA Games?
    The sports authorities and media from several Southeast Asian countries have pointed to what they have called “biased” or “questionable” judging in many of the events.
  • Suu Kyi says constitutional reform will unify ...
    “I see that the current constitution, while not only inciting enmity between the army and the people, was designed to use the Tatmadaw as scapegoats whenever issues arises that upset the public," said the NLD leader.

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Congress Must Not Cede Its War Power to Israel
    Americans should refuse to let Congress give Israel the power to drag the United States into war. American and Israeli intelligence agencies say Iran has no nuclear-weapons program. Israel, remember, is itself a nuclear power. But even if Iran were a threat to Israel, that would not warrant let ...
  • Phil Robertson and the Catholic Bishops on Hom ...
    Phil Robertson, the self-described Bible-thumper who is the 67-year-old patriarch on the popular television show "Duck Dynasty," has rather crudely expressed views regarding homosexuality -- in a profile published in GQ. However, despite the crudity of his statements, it is important to examine ...
  • Obama's Not-So-Terrible Year
    Official Washington is giving a big thumb down to President Obama's performance in 2013. But his diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East and even some of his troubles with Obamacare and the NSA could ultimately make the year a historic turning point, says Robert Parry.
  • What America Would Look Like If Libertarians G ...
    You've heard it from Sen. Rand Paul and other conservatives this winter: unemployment benefits increase unemployment. It's an enormously destructive idea, though absurd on its face. It's like the argument that hospitals create sick people; after all, there are so many of them there. We usually c ...
  • Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating
    Its rise is now almost vertical.

Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • New Inspector General report finds EPA needs t ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A new report was released today by the EPA Inspector General (IG)—the environmental agency’s independent internal watchdog— regarding drinking water contamination linked with natura ...
  • California's Efficiency Good News Story Part I ...
    Lara Ettenson, Director, California Energy Efficiency Policy, San Francisco We’ve seen a lot of great progress in 2013, including extensive energy-saving programs that save customers money and cut pollution. In addition, this year the state mo ...
  • More Bad News for the Pebble Mine: Rio Tinto ...
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA Today, in yet another sign that the massive Pebble Mine is doomed, the London-based mining giant Rio Tinto publicly announced that it is considering “divestment” from the ...
  • Historic Agreement to Slash Energy Use by Set- ...
    Noah Horowitz, Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Energy Efficiency, San Francisco, CA Under a historic agreement announced today, the electricity used by the more than 230 million set-top boxes installed in America’s homes by y ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • China on Edge - Rising rivalry with China Incr ...
    The recent flare-up in tensions in the Pacific has raised new doubts about America and China’s ability to peacefully coexist as both set their sights on Asia’s booming potential. On a range of issues — from territorial claims to business practices, economic policies to the environment — ...
  • Inside Washington - Memorable Quotes from 2013
    The year started with a deal on the fiscal cliff and ended with a deal on a two-year budget accord. In between, there were fights over the Benghazi, Libya terrorist attack, National Security Agency surveillance programs, immigration reform, the war in Syria and the implementation of ObamaCare.He ...
  • The Musical Edge - Finest Musicians Turn to St ...
    Great pianists need great pianos. Vladimir Horowitz, the famous Russian pianist, used to travel with his own personal Steinway when he played concerts around the world.For 160 years, the pianos of Steinway & Sons have been considered the finest in the world thanks to superior craftmanship an ...
  • The Edge of Healthcare - Male Hormone Reduces ...
    Researchers have known for some time that men tend to experience more severe influenza and get sicker from microbial infections than women.  A new study suggests it may be that immune responses in men are affected by the male hormone testosterone.In a small study involving 53 women and 34 m ...
  • Iraq on Edge - Bombs Targeting Christians Kill ...
     Christmas Day bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 50 in an area where many Christians live.  Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako said, however, that he does not believe Christians were the specific target. Workers swept shards of glass and rubb ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Harrowing Torture, Summary Killings In Secre ...
    Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that controls large areas of northern Syria , said Amnesty International in a briefing published today. ISIS, which is linked to al-Qa’ida in Iraq, is an armed o ...
  • “Bride And Boom!” By Tom Engelhardt
    USA is number one in obliterating Wedding Parties in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen.... And were a wedding party to be obliterated on a highway anywhere in America on the way to, say, a rehearsal dinner, whatever the cause, it would be a 24/7 tragedy. Our lives would be filled with news of i ...
  • Walking In An Anthropocene Wonderland: "But I' ...
    According to a recent, exhaustive study commissioned by the US Department of Energy and headed by a scientific team from the U.S. navy, by the summer of 2015, the Arctic Ocean could be bereft of ice, a phenomenon that will engender devastating consequences for the earth's environment and every l ...
  • UNRWA’s Bitter Winter Solstice…And Now Dershow ...
    Preparing for a tough next few months is what the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is doing these days and the UN Specialized Agency is working in the face of daunting odds. UNWRA was founded in 1949 and for more than 60 years it has been pla ...
  • Richard Falk Interview… Stealing Palestine By ...
    Let us look the children of Gaza in the eye if we can. And if we can’t, as I could not, seize the moment to reflect on what it means to be (in)human during this holiday season

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • al Qaeda Releases Video of Warren Weinstein My ...
    I am not sure whether its good news or bad. Seventy-two year old Warren Weinstein one of the people most responsible for tuning me into a political geek has been held by the al-Qaeda terrorists since mid-August 2011. Yesterday they released a video, where he asks President Obama to give in ...
  • Readers Top 50 Stories of 2013 #50-41
    I would like to thank the readers for hanging with "The Lid" for another year.  This was the biggest single year for traffic we have ever had with almost 1.4 Million page views and about 1.1 Million individual visits spread over 1,144 posts so far in 2013. And this doesn't count the peopl ...
  • An Important Message About Dinner For Jews on ...
    Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto my mailing list. Feel free to reproduce any article but please link back to http://www.jeffdunetz.com
  • Egypt declares Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist ...
    Until the revolt which overthrew Hosni Mubarak, The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was considered terrorist group and banned from participating in Egyptian politics. In the two years since it was allowed to return to the mainstream, the Brotherhood was elected into power and then overthrown by the ...
  • When The Palestinians Took Over Jesus' Birthplace
    It was just a few days after Easter of 2002 and about five months after the break out of the second intifada. Israel was moving into the west bank after a series of horrible homicide bombings causing dozens of deaths leading up to and during Passover. Over a hundred Palestinians took "refuge" ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbine explodes, sparks brush fire in Campo
    A wind turbine on a ridge overlooking the Golden Acorn Casino exploded today, sparking several spot fires in surrounding brush that collectively charred about a half an acre. David Elliott, a Manzanita tribal member, lives about quarter of a mile from the wind facility on the neighboring Campo r ...
  • Deadly blades: US offers 30-year permits for k ...
    Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the Obama administration said Friday it will allow companies to kill or injure eagles without the fear of prosecution for up to three decades. The new rule is designed to address environmental consequences that stand in the way of the nation’s w ...
  • Shock as another wind turbine disintegrates at ...
    Another Donegal wind turbine has been smashed – by high winds! A blade on a turbine at Corkermore wind farm has snapped clean off and embedded in the ground below. Just a month ago the site was given the go-ahead to add four new turbines by An Bord Pleanala. The site of the windfarm is nine kilo ...
  • In growing trend, Wyoming wind project seeks p ...
    The Power Company of Wyoming plans to apply next month for a federal permit that will allow the firm to kill a limited number of eagles every year at its planned Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm in Carbon County. The decision of the Denver-based developer to seek what is known as an “eagle-tak ...
  • Turbine neighbors blast lawmakers over windmil ...
    BOSTON — A plan to speed permitting for wind turbine sites across the state encountered a gale of opposition testimony on Tuesday as residents who live near turbines lined up to tell a legislative committee about the giant windmills’ harmful health effects. “This bill is disgraceful, ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Smarter(6): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) recent articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. Refuge: 18 stories from the Syrian exodus. Many Americans ar ...
  • Smarter(5): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) recent articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. (I missed posting the past two weeks.) Planet Money Makes a ...
  • Smarter(4): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. Medium’s metric that matters: Total Time Reading. Are you reading M ...
  • Smarter(3): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math. Matt Waite use ...
  • Smarter(2): A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, I am trying something. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are ...

Facing South

  • Big voting changes coming to the South in 2014
    Image Caption:  People in North Carolina marched and protested against new voting restrictions that take effect in 2014. (Photo by Sue Sturgis) A look ahead to the changes in election procedures residents of Southern states ca ...
  • Study finds shift to 'dark money' in climate d ...
    Image Caption:  So-called "dark money" plays an increasingly important role in funding climate science denial efforts. A new study digs into the financial underpinnings of the climate denial movement and finds a sign ...
  • Pickets at Art Pope stores reach small-town No ...
    Image Caption:  Barret Brown of the Alamance County (N.C.) NAACP says the purpose of pickets being held at stores owned by conservative donor and state budget director Art Pope is to help customers understand where the money they spend there go ...
  • NC backslides on voting rights by disqualifyin ...
    Image Caption:  The red states fully reject provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct, the blue states partially count such ballots, and the green states offer election-day registration. (Map from "Saving Votes: An Easy Fix to the Pro ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A call for racial justice in ...
    Image Caption:  A new report from the NAACP documents the racial and economic injustice of current energy policy -- and the many benefits of moving to clean energy. A new report from the NAACP makes the case for why energy pol ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Nelson Mandela: The Global Icon Goes Home
    Mandela's work to end apartheid in South Africa and fight for peace and equality throughout the world has left an indelible imprint on the global community.
  • Nelson Mandela: The Global Icon Goes Home
    Mandella's work to end apartheid in South Africa and fight for peace and equality throughout the world has left an indelible imprint on the global community.
  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
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