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Saturday, December 1, 2012

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English: Wearing an ihram to perform umrah in ...
English: Wearing an ihram to perform umrah in the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Kaaba at the heart of Mecca. As the n...
English: Kaaba at the heart of Mecca. As the night goes on pilgrims visiting the Holy House. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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A pilot with the air force of Qatar performs a preflight check on his Mirage F1 aircraft prior to taking off on a mission during Operation Desert Storm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • Qatari poet gets Life for insulting Emir
    A Qatari poet was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for an Arab Spring-inspired verse that officials claim insulted Qatar's emir and encouraged the overthrow of the nation's ruling system, his defense attorney said.
  • Peter Jackson: Running on Empty ?
    It sounds crazy to say, in light of the visionary epic fantasies he has created, but surely he could choose more creatively ambitious projects than this. Tolkien seems to have created the idealised past of Middle Earth in order to escape a confusing present. It's a shame to see Jackson doing th ...
  • The “fiscal cliff” fraud
    Behind the orchestrated wrangling between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans over averting the supposed catastrophe of automatic tax increases and budget cuts due to take effect January 1, the details of plans to impose unprecedented cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Secu ...
  • Qatar Coronavirus Case Was In Mecca for Umrah Week
    WHO has recommended wider testing, but the linkage of the initial cases to Mecca, including a trip during Umrah week, raises concerns that the novel coronavirus has spread well beyond Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Large numbers of pilgrims from Indonesia, India, and Pakistan visited Saudi Arabia for ...
  • Titan: Real Home of the Hobbit?
    Those excited by the new Hobbit movie might be interested to learn that the world’s professional astronomers, the International Astronomical Union, have joined in the fun by officially naming various mountains on Saturn’s giant moon Titan for peaks invented by Tolkien in his novels.

Independent - London

  • Islamists rally behind Morsi as Egypt's rifts ...
    Islamist crowds demonstrated in Cairo today in support of President Mohamed Morsi, who is racing through a constitution to try to defuse opposition fury over his newly expanded powers.Related StoriesIslamist-led assembly votes on Egypt constitutionMorsi fast-tracks Egypt constitutionProtests gr ...
  • Islamists rally behind Mursi as Egypt's rifts ...
    Islamist crowds demonstrated in Cairo today in support of President Mohamed Mursi, who is racing through a constitution to try to defuse opposition fury over his newly expanded powers. Related StoriesIslamist-led assembly votes on Egypt constitutionMorsi fast-tracks Egypt constitutionProtests g ...
  • North Korea vows to test long-range rocket soon
    North Korea has said it will launch a long-range rocket between 10 and 22 December, a move likely to heighten already strained tensions with Washington and Seoul ahead of a South Korean presidential election on 19 December. Related StoriesLimits of 'new' Burma tested after protest ends in viol ...
  • Officer buys boots for homeless man
    A New York police officer has been praised after a tourist photographed him buying a pair of boots for a barefoot beggar, thought to be a military veteran.Related StoriesThirty years after being 'freed', Texas man still waiting for his freedomMexico: More than 25,000 people disappear in six yea ...
  • France reaches €180m deal on Mittal steel plant
    The clash of steel between the French government and Britain’s wealthiest man ended with a partial victory for Paris last night.Related StoriesPatrick Edlinger: The highs and lows of France’s pioneering rock godWhat's happened to action man? Vladimir Putin forced to play down health rumoursThe ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • New Mexican president sworn in amid violent pr ...
    Police officers clash with rioters outside of the Congress building before the inauguration ceremony of incoming Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on December 1, 2012, in Mexico City (AFP Photo / Pedro Pardo) Protesters clashed with police outside the Mexican Congress in Mexico City on Saturd ...
  • Mysterious shorthand code used by Rhode Island ...
    The obscure book's margins are virtually filled with clusters of curious foreign characters - a mysterious shorthand used by 17th century religious dissident Roger Williams. For centuries the scribbles went undeciphered. But a team of Brown University students has finally cracked the code. His ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: Skipton Castle and the case for ne ...
    Skipton Castle in North Yorkshire dates back to 1090 and is one of the best preserved Norman strongholds existing in England today. The site is steeped in nine hundred years of history, a heavyweight as one contemplates the individual lives of thousands who have lived and died there over the cen ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: Dr. Paul Babiak on the crisis ...
    Florida - Whenever people feel that they have been manipulated or short-changed, there is a good chance that they will call their perceived wrongdoer a "psychopath." The term could very well be one of the most overused in our society. It is thrown around so casually that more than a few have pr ...
  • Multi-colored full moon-sized fireball with en ...
    Initial Meteor Sighting Reports 28 November 2012 - Phil, Georgetown, MA 23:00 EST 6 seconds duration - East to West. Bright and white, same as the moon. I saw fragmentation and a tail. It was very low in the sky. 28 November 2012 - Benjamin Lipiecki, Brighton, Massachusetts, USA 2340 ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The World Stage
    Canada's response to most of the world voting for the Palenstians and not clapping when ol' JB climbed into the pulpit to preach? Hissy fit.
  • Yes, please . . .
    From Occupy Canada.
  • Guns and college
    Much head-scratching going on in certain quarters down south over this one, I'm sure. via LGM. Since the University of Colorado's Boulder and Colorado Springs campuses began segregating dorms for students with valid concealed-carry permits this year, not a single student has asked to li ...
  • Ford fall, Blatchford does not like
    As we might expect with today's news from Toronto, the media pundits are starting rejoice or lament. Christie Blatchford is a lamentator: So, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been given the boot from office because an opportunistic citizen hired a smart and politically savvy lawyer who fo ...
  • The spark . . .
    FABIUS MAXIMUS has a thoughtful site, worthy of your perusal. "Attention Americans: the Revolution has begun. You must choose a side." is a post that discusses how important WikiLeaks has been to the resistance to America's fascists. The first sparks of Revolution are invisible to ...

Media Matters for America

  • NY Times, Wash. Post, WSJ Hide Compromise In W ...
    Major papers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, are hiding compromises in a White House proposal on federal spending and budgets, claiming that the proposal was "loaded with Democratic priorities" and lacking in cuts. In fact the White House plan mad ...
  • Myths And Facts About The Right-Wing Witch Hun ...
    Conservative media have been facilitating a witch hunt against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, claiming that her public statements regarding the attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, were untruthful and misleading. In fact, Rice was using talking points that had been approved by the ...
  • Limbaugh Doesn't Realize That Obama Has Propos ...
    Rush Limbaugh challenged his audience to provide him with evidence that President Obama has formulated policy that would lead to economic growth or debt reduction. In fact, Obama has laid out several policies that would create economic growth and reduce the federal deficit.Limbaugh Falsely Claim ...
  • Conservative Media Shrug At The Thought Of Ano ...
    Right-wing media figures are urging Republicans to refuse to compromise on budget and taxes, action that would induce automatic government budget cuts and broad tax increases and herald another recession. But economists agree that a budget deal needs to include some tax increases, which would si ...
  • Fox News Promoting And Misrepresenting A Flawe ...
    Fox News is promoting another legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act that originated in a right-wing think-tank and was hyped by conservative blogs. The State of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit based on a problematic theory that alleges tax credits within federally-run health insurance ma ...

Global Research.ca

  • Israeli Warmongers Become “Global Thinke ...
    The Washington Post Company-owned American bimonthly magazine “Foreign Policy” published in its December issue the list of world’s top 100 global thinkers. This list is supposed to introduce people who have had the most remarkable influence on the world’s economic, political and social developme ...
  • ‘Iraqis cannot forget what Americans hav ...
    by Cathy Breen “It is not written in our hearts, it is carved in our hearts.” I awoke this morning still shaken with these words in my head. Yesterday I was in Ramadi and Fallujah. Instead of bringing a message of caring, of empathy for their suffering and a desire for peace, my presence as some ...
  • Reining in Obama and His Drones
    Barack Obama, former president of the Harvard Law Review and a constitutional law lecturer, should go back and review his coursework. He seems to have declined to comport his presidency to the rule of law. Let’s focus here on his major expansion of drone warfare in defiance of international law, ...
  • Federal Court Rules D.C. Political Postering L ...
    Regulation Struck Down as Violating the First Amendment In related victory, government forced to rescind $70,000 in fines against anti-war group The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund’s five-year-long free speech battle to overturn poster regulations used to target grassroots organizations ...
  • American and French Warmongers openly Plot the ...
    Against the will of the international community, in open defiance of their own contrived international law, American and French warmongers openly plot the destruction of Syria. A recent event held by the Neo-Conservative Foreign Policy Initiative, featured a “conversation” with Senat ...

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

  • Our Climate Is Headed Toward 'Extremely Danger ...
    The following excerpt is from the introduction to Alex Steffen's new book, Carbon Zero. The rest of the book is available as chapters on Grist and in ebook form on Amazon. You can learn more about Steffen at his website AlexSteffe.com or follow him on twitter @AlexSteffen.F ...
  • We Have to Be on Guard About False Solutions f ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.As the world's governments gather yet once more for a global climate summit, the prospects for the future look more ominous than ever. Regardless of the outcome of this year’s COP 18 climate change negotiations ...
  • Is the New Focus on Climate Change Adaptation ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.As the world's governments gather yet once more for a global climate summit, the prospects for the future look more ominous than ever. Regardless of the outcome of this year’s COP 18 climate change negotiations ...
  • Latest Sanction Against BP Goes Beyond Gulf Spill
    When the Obama administration temporarily banned BP from federal contracts Wednesday, it pointed to BP's "lack of business integrity" and conduct relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill.The sanction, however, has been years in the making.BP has beencriminally convi ...
  • Sea Levels Rising 60% Faster Than Projected, P ...
    A new study, “Comparing climate projections to observations up to 2011,” confirms that climate change is happening as fast — and in some cases faster — than climate models had projected. The news release explains:The rate of sea-level rise in the past deca ...

Public Citizen in Texas

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        $25 Advance Tickets ($35 at Door, please register in advance) (Tickets include live entertainment, all food and beverages) Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin Eco Network, Public Citizen, Design Build Live, USGBC-Central Texas Chapter, Center for Maximum Potential, Texas League of Con ...
  • Koch Brothers Exposed Screening with Progress ...
    Progress Texas is hosting a special screening of the documentary Koch Brothers Exposed at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar.  They have already sold out more than half the theater – be sure to reserve your seats now before they sell out! From director Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, WalMart: ...
  • New Sea Level Rise Study Indicates the Impacts ...
    In a new peer-reviewed scientific study, experts said satellite data show sea levels rose by 3.2 millimeters a year from 1993 to 2011 — 60 percent faster than the 2 mm annual rise projected by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for that period, however  the IPCC wa ...
  • Texas Renewables Conference 2012
    I want to alert you to a unique opportunity this December.  It’s a special conference and video-taping called Renewable Energy and The Unified Energy System. And it’s going to be at the Lost Pines Resort just outside of Austin on the way to Bastrop. Renewable Energy has truly come of age. Solar ...
  • Stop Keystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska – protec ...
    Submit a comment to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on how risky the Keystone XL pipeline route is for the Nebraska Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer. Help us get over 1,000 comments submitted.  Click here to send a comment to the Nebraska DEQ.  If you are not from Nebras ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Are 2012 apocalypse beliefs dangerous ?
    NASA has warned of the dangers in believing that the world is going to end later this month. For those who subscribe to the idea that the end of the M...
  • Secrets of the immortal jellyfish
    Could the secret to immortality be found within a particularly unusual species of jellyfish ? German marine-biology student Christian Sommer had been ...
  • Gibraltar apes no longer fear humans
    The population of apes are now so tame that they are posing a risk to both tourists and residents. Originally the population of Barbary macaques on Gi...
  • Ice and organic materials found on Mercury
    NASA's Messenger probe has revealed frozen organic materials on the closest planet to the sun. Mercury might be the last place you'd expect to find ic...
  • Giant cave may have inspired mythical Hades
    A vast cave system known as Alepotrypa in Greece was a bustling neolithic hub for thousands of years. The gigantic cavern was so large that it would h...

Grassroots

  • People Power versus Hydropower
    Subheadline:  Affected communities say mega-dams put profit over people, environment brazil-mab-demonstration.jpg A massive, very active social movement against the loss of ...
  • Indigenous Kaiowá in Brazil Pledge ‘Collective ...
    Leaders of the Guarani Kaiowá boldly announced that the entire community would rather die in their land defending from businesses and corporations. Their assertion is more than a war declaration. For us, the buyers of “clean energy,” their pronouncement is a jarring wake-up call that the “Green ...
  • SOFA’s Violence Against Women Campaign in Hait ...
    b_350_0_16777215_00___images_stories_women_2012-12-20_afiche_mujeres.jpg Although the January 2010 earthquake suspended the government’s work on a national strategy to combat violence against women, women’s organizations led by SOFA ...
  • Rehabilitating Haiti’s Central Plateau through ...
    mpp_november_2012_blog.jpg The Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) is one example of the amazing work peasant organizations are doing across rural communities in Haiti. In those communities, peasant organizations are working hard with limited ...
  • Who Fishes Matters
    Subheadline:  An interview with Niaz Dorry of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) who_fishes_matters_seafood_card-1.jpg I recently had a chance to interview Grassroot ...

Climate

  • Tenacious U.S. Drought Worsens, To Last Throug ...
    (Climate Central) The tenacious U.S. drought that continues to hamper American agricultural output and put water supplies and Mississippi River commerce at risk worsened during the past week, particularly in the Southeast, ac ...
  • Gov. O'Malley Touts Maryland's Fight Against C ...
    (Baltimore Sun) Gov. Martin O'Malley has urged President Obama to look to Maryland as a model for how government can fight climate change, while also appealing for federal help in his own quest to get wind turbines built off Ocean City ...
  • American Petroleum Institute Sues EPA Over Bio ...
    (Autoblog Green) In alphabet soup terminology, the API's mad at the EPA, and the RFA thinks it's a bunch of BS. Let us explain. The American Petroleum Institute, in response to the Environmental Protection Agency's ratcheting up US bi ...
  • Texas Landowner Sues State Agency Over Keyston ...
    (AP) A Texas landowner is asking a court to overturn a permit granted by a state agency to a Canadian company to build a pipeline meant to eventually connect to a larger cross-border project. Landowner Mike Bishop on Thursday filed hi ...
  • Court Rules Against Texas Landowners in Pipeli ...
    (Bloomberg) TEXAS -- TransCanada Corp. can use eminent- domain law to seize Texas land to build the Keystone XL pipeline to transport Canadian tar-sands crude to Gulf Coast refineries, an appeals court said Thursday. Texas landow ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • Did Overconfidence Hurt Romney?
    I'm still having trouble wholeheartedly accepting the idea that the Romney campaign believed they were going to win and were totally shocked when they didn't. I still think they told a lot of lies to their donors and that they are kind of locked into a narrative that they were sincere in their ...
  • Casual Observation
    This will never happen, but it is great advice nonetheless. Discuss
  • Texas (& the rest of US) Drought Redux
    While California battles unusually heavy rains, our good friends in Texas are facing another season of severe drought ahead, just like the last few years: Ninety-four percent of Texas is now abnormally dry, 54 percent is stuck in severe drought and 25 percent is mired in the extreme category, ...
  • Wanker of the Day: David Gergen
    I name David Gergen my Wanker of the Day based on the totality of his ridiculous column, but one part of it stood out and made me laugh out loud. He was discussing the tendency of political parties to over-interpret their victories, but he overreached with his analysis. Watch. What we are ...
  • National Review Advises Surrender
    The editors at the National Review are urging surrender. Total surrender. They say it would be "better to pass legislation extending the middle-class tax cuts and to allow the top rates to rise" than it would be to accept anything approaching what Tim Geithner offered them. After advising sen ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Exploring the Remains of England's Top-Secret ...
    Scheduled for demolition and prowled by security, the abandoned Pystock jet engine testing facility makes for fascinating exploration. If you can get in, that is. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Fingerprints of Climate Change on Two Extr ...
    In the last few months, West Africa and Haiti have suffered epic disasters – immense humanitarian emergencies in which climate change appears to have played a part. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Largest Canyons on Earth
    These canyons are arguably the ten largest on Earth, but there is so much more to them than their measurements alone. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Take your pick from deadly Mafia hitmen, desperate celebs who appeared in professional wrestling, amazing luxury eco lodges, and two very different lofty perspectives. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Best JFK Conspiracy Theories
    Half a century on and nobody is sure who assassinated JFK. Still, conspiracy theories abound about who was behind the shooting. Here are ten of our favorites. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • EXCLUSIVE MnDOT info cake: 2.97gb emails/docs ...
    After a long wait, on Nov 28 2012, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) released ~2.97 gigabytes of data from inside the development of a GPS-based vehicle tracking system intended to introduce a vehicle tax - which would entail a great deal of data constantly collected by the gove ...
  • A few more elements on the semi-suspended MN D ...
    Previously on hongpong.com: MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Evaluator BCA Investigation files (Nov 12 2012) -- MK Occupy Minnesota (May 3 2012) The training section of Minnesota's Drug Recognition Evaluator program continues to be suspended, after a 513-page Bureau of Criminal Apprehen ...
  • MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Eval ...
    By Dan Feidt -- hongpong.com -- MINNEAPOLIS -- NOV 12 2012 -- Law enforcement officers under a state training program called Drug Recognition Evaluators encouraged people in downtown Minneapolis, including Occupy Minnesota protesters at Peavey Plaza and other vulnerable and houseless people to p ...
  • Occupy gets rolling in Sandy disaster relief; ...
    Via Occupy Sandy Relief NYC 4 hrs ago: https://www.facebook.com/OccupySandyReliefNyc?fref=ts >>> #NOT ANOTHER KATRINA <<< Contrary to what might be inferred by a media and government blackout - Rockaway IS. NOT. RECOVERING. We can't stress this enough. It looks li ...
  • Question Time: Jimmy Savile pedophile network ...
    "What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how mu ...

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  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...

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War is a Crime.org

  • Citizens Are Winning the Battle Over Cops and ...
      By John Grant Jennifer Foster, a tourist from Florence, Arizona, was walking in Times Square on a cold night in November and came across a New York City police officer giving a barefoot homeless man a pair of all-weather boots he had purchased out of his own pocket. Moved, she took out ...
  • Truth and Trauma in Gaza
    By Kathy Kelly Dr. T., a medical doctor, is a Palestinian living in Gaza City.  He is still reeling from days of aerial bombardment. When I asked about the children in his community he told me his church would soon be making Christmas preparations to lift the children’s spirits.  Looki ...
  • UN Vote on Palestine
      UN Vote on Palestine   by Stephen Lendman   Haaretz said Israel suffered a humiliating defeat in New York. So did truth about what actually happened, what it means, and what's likely going forward. More on that below.   read more
  • Palestine UN Vote Postmortems
      Palestine UN Vote Postmortems   by Stephen Lendman   Pillar of Cloud echoes are still audible. Cast Lead crimes aren't forgotten. Nor is Gaza's siege, occupation harshness, expanding settlements, and horrific daily persecution.   Palestine remains locked down and isolated. ...
  • Military Law Is to Law as Military Music Is to ...
    Jeh Charles Johnson, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense, on Friday admitted that murder by drone is not a form of law enforcement: "Some legal scholars and commentators in our country brand the detention by the military of members of al Qaeda as 'indefinite detention without charg ...

Grist - News

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

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  • The US Is Building Secret Site 911 In Israel
    Robert Johnson | Nov. 29, 2012, 11:29 AM Leave it to legendary Walter Pincus from the Washington Post to flesh out a Request for Proposal construction project planned for Israel called Site 911. The oddly named project will cost up to $100 million, take more than two years to complete, and ...
  • OPEN CLIMATE LETTER TO UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
    Mr. Secretary-General: On November 9 this year you told the General Assembly: “Extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal … Our challenge remains, clear and urgent: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to strengthen adaptation to … even larger climate shocks … and to reach a legally ...
  • Club of Rome – Global Warming Quotation ...
    Club of Rome – Global Warming Quotation – YouTube.
  • Recent Evidence Shows Vaccinated Kids Account ...
    Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times Vaccinated populations contract some of the highest rates of disease and more evidence on whooping cough is coming forward to support this claim. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is spreading across the entire US at rates at least twice as high as those ...
  • THE WORLD REVEALS ITS ANTI SEMITISM IN YESTERD ...
    “Why don’t they love our occupation and atrocities”? But first, here’s how the vote went …. Voted for the resolution: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazi ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • DIY GIFT IDEA: Flavored Cooking Oils In Beauti ...
    Read the rest of DIY GIFT IDEA: Flavored Cooking Oils In Beautiful Bottles Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cooking, DIY, diy gifts, flavored oil, herbs, olive oil
  • 14 Eco-Friendly Design Alternatives to the Tra ...
    Read the rest of 14 Eco-Friendly Design Alternatives to the Traditional Christmas Tree Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Christmas, christmas tree, eco christmas tree, fake christmas tree, faux christmas tree, green christmas, Green Christmas Tree, green design" title="O ...
  • How to Green Your Holidays With Eco-Friendly C ...
    The holidays are a time for peace on Earth and goodwill toward men, but decorating your home with energy-guzzling lights and dead trees hardly fits in either category. Luckily, eco-conscious yuletide cheer looks just as festive as some of the more traditional options, and there are lots of cool ...
  • Guerilla Gardening Gift Boxes are a Great Way ...
    These Guerilla Gardening Gift Boxes from Greenaid Seedbombs are a fun way to inspire urban transformation this holiday season. The fantastic gift pack comes in one of three themed boxes (“Critters”, “Flowers”, “Edibles”) with different seed mixes. Each kit con ...
  • BiLD’s Re-structured Suburban Split House Pull ...
    The Split House is a fantastic new renovation located in Melbourne, Australia, completed by architects BiLD. Taking a typical inter-war period house as a starting point, BiLD replaced various elements of the original house while up-cycling and recycling timbers and other structural elements. Mod ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Apple Rolls Out a Cleaner iTunes
    Apple has introduced the free iTunes 11 for download. It's still the front end for music, videos and iGadgets, and its features and personality are much the same. But the design has been overhauled - deeply, controversially, but, in general, successfully.
  • Laptop Buyers Should Pay Some Attention to the ...
    David Pogue says it's been a long, patient slot for Google to get here, but with year after year of careful tweaks and improvements - and a jaw-dropping $250 price - the Chromebook is finally ready for prime time.
  • You Can Stop Spreading That Facebook Notice Now
    An odd piece of boilerplate text about copyright that has been making the rounds on Facebook is not grounded in reality.
  • Pogue's Mailbag: Tethering, Generators and More
    A sampling from just one day's worth of reader e-mails - an inside look at a technology columnist's job. Topics include tethering to a phone for wireless data on a laptop, the reliability of Drobo storage and unsubscribing from junk mail.
  • What Is a 4G Network?
    Here is the difference between 4G and 4G LTE.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Teddy Be ...
    In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed ...
  • Link to Price Spikes Prompts Banks to Consider ...
    Financial giant Barclays is considering an end to food speculation, a controversial practice linked to sudden, dangerous spikes in global food prices. Rich Ricci, head of Barclays' corporate and investment banking arm, told British lawmakers on Nov. 28 that public disapproval of food speculation ...
  • From Medieval Map to Modern Mind: A Quirk of F ...
    What’s most intriguing to me, though, is how medieval ribbon farms – or rather the lack thereof in much of the United States – shaped attitudes toward modern transportation, and continue to shape our psychology as a nation today.
  • Spider Silk Inspires Beautiful Music
    Musical compositions based on the structure of silk could help engineers make stronger threads.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Heights ...
    This new topographic map, from Arizona State University in Tempe, shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire Moon with a pixel scale close to 100 m (328 feet). A single measure of elevation (one pixel) is about the size of two football fields placed side-by-side.

PakAlert

  • Agenda 21 Revealing The Next U.S. Land Grab, T ...
    But there is another driving force behind Heritage Areas – something with which all you may very familiar. I mentioned H.R. 4099, a bill now before Congress to “Authorize a National Heritage Area Program, and for other purposes…” The bill describes the need for Heritage Areas this way: “Certa ...
  • U.S. gives Iran until March to cooperate with IAEA
    The United States set a March deadline on Thursday for Iran to start cooperating in substance with a UN nuclear agency investigation, warning Tehran the issue may otherwise be referred to the UN Security Council. The comments by U.S. diplomat Robert Wood to the board of the International Atomic ...
  • Now sick babies go on death pathway: Doctor’s ...
    Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’. Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults. But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdraw ...
  • A World In Denial: Underestimating Japan’s Nuc ...
    Every day, very sad and disturbing news about the Fukushima nuclear disaster reveals itself. People in Fukushima are suffering the brunt of this nightmare. But it is also a fact of life that Tokyo drinking water is irradiated. It is not by much, but as we will see even a little bit of radiation ...
  • 34 Signs That America Is In Decline
    The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline. Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me. I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love. Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our Founding Fa ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos: Greenwich Early and Late
    Greenwich Early and Late, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, this, the 63rd set I’ve posted, contains photos taken in Greenwich, in south east London, in the early morning and after dark, on two recent trips — the first after an ...
  • The Long Pursuit of Accountability for the Bus ...
    In June 2004, in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, a notorious memo from August 2002 was leaked. It was written by John Yoo, a lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and it claimed to redefine torture and to authorize its use on prisoners seized in the “war on terror.” I [...]
  • A Photo of Shaker Aamer After Eleven Years in ...
    Please sign the e-petition to the British government, calling for Shaker Aamer’s release, and the international petition on the Care 2 Petition Site, addressed to both the British and the American governments. The family of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, have just r ...
  • When Night Falls: Photos of Lewisham, Greenwic ...
    When Night Falls: Lewisham, Greenwich and Deptford, a set on Flickr. This photo set — the 62nd in my ongoing project to photograph London by bike — follows on from the previous set, in which, just a few weeks ago, I recorded a particularly warm and vivid sunset from Hilly Fields, the ...
  • Photos: Autumn Sunset in Hilly Fields, Brockley
    Autumn Sunset in Hilly Fields, Brockley, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, my most recent photo sets — with the exception of the set featuring images from Saturday’s massive demonstration in Lewisham to resist plans to close the ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Woman Long Sought in Largest ‘Eco-Terror’ Case ...
    Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, a 39-year-old Canadian who has been sought for a decade in the largest “eco-terrorism” case in United States history, was arrested today by FBI agents after she surrendered in Blaine, Wash. Rubin, an alleged member of a group that called itself “The Family,” is to be take ...
  • New ‘Aryan’ Compound in Idaho to be Sold Off i ...
    The public foreclosure sale of property that was to be a new Aryan Nations and Ku Klux Klan compound in North Idaho is set for Jan. 14, court records show. The foreclosure will mean eviction for white supremacist Shaun P. Winkler, his wife and their small child, along with a small band of their ...
  • New Intelligence Report Focuses on Mass Murder ...
    When Wade Michael Page strode into a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and began to kill, it was the culmination of more than a decade in the neo-Nazi movement. The best evidence suggests that Page came to his racist beliefs while serving at a North Carolina Army base that was then a hotbed of white supr ...
  • In New Novel, Glenn Beck Warns of Squirrel-Wor ...
    America’s favorite far-right entertainer, Glenn Beck, has always got the scoop on the coming End of the World and how to protect yourself from it. When he’s not urging fans to buy guns and gold, he’s telling them to build bunkers and stock up on food. Now, just in time for the holidays, the fear ...
  • Racist Accused of Shooting Idaho Deputies Face ...
    A man with white supremacist tattoos, accused of shooting and nearly killing two Idaho sheriff’s deputies last month, has been charged by federal authorities with being a felon in possession of a handgun. That handgun, with an obliterated serial number, was found after Kyle Alan Batt was arreste ...

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Lifehacker

  • Clean Oil Splatters Using an Oiled Paper Towel
    Many appliances gain a coat of oily sludge near the range, microwave, and range hood if you pan fry foods in oil. Cleaning these areas with just a paper towel can result in left behind dust from the towels. Instead use a light coat of mineral oil on your paper towel before wiping off those ...
  • BaconReader is a Tasty Reddit Client for Android
    If you're an active Redditor with an Android phone or tablet consider installing BaconReader; a Reddit client that makes it easy to browse, comment, and create new topics as well as upload images from your phone directly to Imgur. More »
  • Make Lots of Compost for Free Using Guerilla C ...
    If you have a large garden or flowerbeds or perhaps you want terraform a large patch of rocky dirt into black loamy soil you'll need lots of compost. You can buy it from garden supply centers for several dollars per sack or take advantage of free resources to build up your compost on the ...
  • Frozen Ginger Keeps Longer and is Easier to Pe ...
    I love cooking with fresh ginger, but rarely do I use the entire root before it dries out in my fridge or cupboard. Freezing ginger will not only make it last for months but you'll also find that it is easier to peel with a standard paring knife and much easier to grate as fresh ginger ten ...
  • Top 10 Kitchen Annoyances, Solved By Genius
    Learning to cook is hard enough without spills, smells, smoke, and bugs getting in your way. Here are our 10 biggest kitchen annoyances, and the clever methods you can use to solve them. More »

Water Privatization

  • MSD moves ahead with $57m water offer
    MSD Merger proposal highlights • $57 million in compensation to Asheville for water assets. • MSD to assume and pay off all outstanding water capital indebtedness — $71 Million as of June 2012.
  • MSD moves ahead with $57m water offer
    MSD Merger proposal highlights • $57 million in compensation to Asheville for water assets. • MSD to assume and pay off all outstanding water capital indebtedness — $71 Million as of June 2012.
  • Petition drive to let voters decide fate of Al ...
    A petition drive to let Allentown voters decide if the city should lease its water and sewer systems reached a milestone Wednesday afternoon, when petitions bearing more than 4,000 signatures were presented to the City Clerk in City Hall. More milestones must be passed before drive organizers ca ...
  • Drilon supports privatization of MIWD
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  • Water services excluded from Canada-EU trade d ...
    The Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Public Employees are welcoming the exclusion of water services from the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, according to ...

Guardian

  • Miners' strike: 'All I want is for someone to ...
    The tumult of the 1984 dispute may be retreating in the memory, but for those arrested and charged, the events of that angry summer have been life-changing. Now a campaign seeks a review of what it claims is wide-scale malfeasance by the policeA truncheon is clearly visible in the picture, poise ...
  • Ed Miliband sets PM Christmas deadline over pr ...
    Labour leader says David Cameron has one last chance before campaign to rally cross-party support for a Commons voteLabour leader Ed Miliband has set David Cameron a Christmas deadline to back a new law to regulate the press, saying he will pull the plug on cross-party talks if the prime ministe ...
  • Kansas City Chiefs' Jovan Belcher named in sus ...
    Linebacker shoots himself dead at Arrowhead Stadium, minutes after he is believed to have killed his girlfriendA professional American football player shot himself dead at his team's training facility on Saturday, just minutes after he is believed to have killed his girlfriend. Jovan Belcher, 25 ...
  • Tory rural raid will ruin countryside, says An ...
    Chair of CPRE and former poet laureate describes Nick Boles's plans to build on greenfield sites as 'incredibly irresponsible'Andrew Motion, the chairman of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, has launched a scathing attack on the "incredibly irresponsible" planning minister leading the charg ...
  • Ukip achieves record support as Tories drop 3% ...
    Forty three per cent of voters say government should focus on growth, while 33% say cutting deficit should be top priorityThe Conservatives have dropped 3% to 29% in the latest Observer/Opinium poll at the same time as Ukip have surged by the same amount to 13% – a record for the anti-EU party s ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghanistan manslaughter case against Calgary ...
    CALGARY - The fate of a Canadian reservist charged in a fatal training accident in Afghanistan will soon be in the hands of a military jury. Maj. Darryl Watts faces charges that include ...
  • Brightest minds of the West give Afghanistan a ...
    The international community is preparing Afghanistan for the upcoming withdrawal of NATO troops. First and foremost, it goes about financial aid. But the Western countries have set a hard and nearly ...
  • Four killed in Afghanistan blast
    Moscow, Dec (IANS/RIA Novosti) A suicide car bomber in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province killed at least four people, including three children, Saturday, a local media report said. Three children were ...
  • Afghanistan Suicide Bomb Kills Three
    Afghan officials say that a suicide car bomber killed three civilians, including two children, in southern Afghanistan. Abdullah Himmat, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the bomb ...
  • US-Afghanistan open talks on post-2014 militar ...
    The United States and Afghanistan launched crucial talks Thursday on the status of US forces remaining in Afghanistan after the NATO withdrawal of combat troops in ...

Futurismic

  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Files Amicus Brief on IRS Whistleblower Pr ...
    On November 5, 2012, the National Whistleblower Center filed a briefing paper/amicus brief with the Internal Revenue Service addressing key questions of law governing the IRS Whistleblower program. The brief, linked here, addresses the issue of "collected proceeds" under the IRS w ...
  • Federal Whistleblower Protection Enhancement A ...
    President Barack Obama signed into law today the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). Whistleblower attorneys working pro bono with the NWC played an instrumental role in passing this Act. NWC’s Executive Director Stephen Kohn testified before the Senate Homeland Security Commi ...
  • Perspectives from the NWC Founders
    DC cable television aired this timeless interview with NWC founders Stephen Kohn, Michael Kohn, and David Colapinto:
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in Monday at 5:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Jane Turner interviews Kenneth Smith and John Melson along with their lawyer, Dave Scher. Kenny & John were hired by government contractor Jorge Scientific to perform security services in Afghanistan, but end ...
  • Squashed By Russia: The Sergei Magnitsky Story
    NWC nabbed an exclusive interview with Jamison Firestone, the law partner and friend of Sergei Magnitsky – a whistleblower whose disturbing story reveals the ruthlessness and corruption of the Russian government. Sergei was tortured and killed after he exposed the looting of Russian taxpay ...

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.

TechDirt

  • Rob Reid's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Rob Reid founded the company that created the Rhapsody music service, and more recently is the author of Year Zero - the tale of a vast alien civilization that’s so into American pop music that it inadvertently commits the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang, thereby bankrupting ...
  • Author Andrew Piper: Turning Pages Is Importan ...
    Every technological advance is greeted as some point during its life cycle (usually as it approaches ubiquity) by the disgruntled arguments of people who prefer older things or methods. Never has this been more prevalent than in the digital era. People diss mp3s for their sonic limitations, whic ...
  • New Kickstarter Rules Make Sense In Principle, ...
    Kickstarter is an amazing platform that faces a lot of interesting challenges. Chief among them is a combination of quality control and expectation management — both of which revolve, in many ways, around image. As in: what is Kickstarter in the eyes of users? On the one hand, the company ...
  • In Wake Of NewsCorp Scandal, UK Says Press Mus ...
    Between the UK's onerous libel laws, its insistence on "protecting" freedom of speech and press while attaching a million exceptions to this "freedom," and the recent phone-hacking scandal that saw Rupert Murdoch's papers crossing lines that even the most loathsome of hacky tabloids had yet to c ...
  • DailyDirt: Everyone Loves Bacon
    Bacon is one of the most universally enjoyed foods... it's been called the "gateway meat" for vegetarians (and it's created quite a few ex-vegetarians). If you can't resist bacon, then you'll probably enjoy these links, too. Smucker's has a Maple Bacon-flavored syrup to make breakfast ev ...

VacTruth

  • Who Says There is No Money in Making Vaccines? ...
    In 2011, the US Federal government awarded 6 pharmaceutical corporations over 5.7 Billion to manufacture vaccines children’s vaccines alone.
  • 4,250% Increase in Fetal Deaths Reported to VA ...
    Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS) fetal death reports by 4,250 percent in pregnant women.
  • Brainwashed Police Prosecute Parents to Protec ...
    Retired Sergeant Christopher Savage confirms police are writing off cases of vaccine injury as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. and Shaken Baby Syndrome.
  • Bill Gates Funding Drone Technology to Deliver ...
    When it comes to money and imagination, Bill Gates seems to have an endless supply of both. One of his latest financial donations is funding unmanned aerial vehicles to quickly and inexpensively deliver vaccines.
  • The American Medical Association Will Soon Be ...
    The American Medical Association (AMA) recently published a paper proposing the introduction of a new law to force you and your children into experimental vaccine trials against your wishes. Your only way out of this directive would be to sign an ‘opt out form.’ In January, the AMA publish ...

BroadSnark

  • Ted Leo Benefit Show for Bradley Manning
    I have disappeared again, mostly hiding in a case of vodka. But I have also been helping to put together the benefit show this Saturday. If you are in the area, come out. Also, there is a protest out at Ft. Meade on Tuesday. The FB event is here.
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Took this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town. Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more about putti ...
  • Book Review – The Occupy Handbook
    The Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning wr ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Follow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
  • Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...
    By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The price of human domestication
    Civilization is overrated — and often confused with culture, whose development predates civilization by tens of thousands of years. The popular view is that once we started ploughing fields and building cities, we could rise above the needs of mere survival and start cultivating our higher ...
  • Are Syria’s rebels about to win?
    GlobalPost reports: With coffins stacking up at the airport in Syria’s Alawite heartland, and funerals now a daily routine for its mountain villagers, support is fraying among the community on which the Syrian regime depends. “Day by day the military operations are getting harder and harder,” sa ...
  • Syria army pushes to secure Damascus perimeter
    AFP reports: The Syrian army shelled the outskirts of Damascus Saturday in a drive to establish a secure perimeter around the capital, including the key airport road that has come under sustained rebel attack. The 27-kilometre (17-mile) highway remained perilous a day after troops said they had ...
  • Syria’s long civil war
    Glenn Robinson writes: The first year and a half in the current round of Syria’s long civil war took as many lives as the three-week orgy of violence in the city of Hama that ended the last round in 1982. In both cases, some 25,000 to 30,000 people were killed, and in both cases, the [...]
  • Obama’s cynicism on Israel and Palestine
    M.J. Rosenberg writes: The U.S. vote against raising the status of Palestine at the United Nations was a deeply cynical move. It was cynical because there is not a chance that President Obama believes that he did the right thing. It is also cynical because, in the name of friendship for Israel, ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Another inconvenient truth – 2012 US tor ...
    Somewhere, weepy Bill McKibben is weeping and Al Gore is raging, because they won’t be able to say “2012, the hottest year ever, caused more tornadoes” So much for “dirty weather” Heh. The NOAA Storm Prediction Center just updated their … Continue reading →
  • Al Gore’s ‘Reality Drop’ is ...
    Guess what? WUWT readers make up the majority of viewers of this farce video. Mostly curiosity I suppose. Watch the video, then see the numbers below. Yesterday, Tom Nelson asked this question, and it got me to digging. It’s now … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – Josh of the month club
    Yes, you too can be a member of the “Josh of the month club”. You may have read at the Bishop Hill blog that Josh made a 2013 Calendar that was offered there. That got a lot of interest, but … Continue reading →
  • More WUWT.TV: Interview and presentation with ...
    From our WUWT.TV 24 hour broadcast answer to Al Gore’s dirty weather on November 14-15, 2012. Dr. Sebastian Lüning of Dr. Franz Vahrenholt are co-authors of the book “Die Kalt Sonne” which we previously reviewed here and here on WUWT. … Continue reading →
  • NOAA: ’2012 was an active [hurricane] ye ...
    NOTE: see video below, where you can watch the entire 2012 hurricane season on satellite time-lapse, way cool. – Anthony Busy 2012 hurricane season continues decades-long high activity era in the Atlantic Four U.S. land-falling storms include devastating Sandy and … Continue reading ...

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Biosingularity

  • Making a Flu Vaccine Without the Virus
    A new vaccine strategy could make flu shots cheaper, safer, and easier to produce. Using synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) instead of proteins purified from viruses, German scientists have shown they can protect mice, ferrets, and pigs against influenza. “This is a very interesting new approa ...
  • Newly discovered effects of vitamin D on cancer
    Vitamin D slows the progression of cells from premalignant to malignant states, keeping their proliferation in check A team of researchers at McGill University have discovered a molecular basis for the potential cancer preventive effects of vitamin D. The team, led by McGill professors John Whit ...
  • Terminator arm is worlds most advanced prosthe ...
  • Inadequate cellular rest may explain effects o ...
    Ss aging inevitable? What factors make older tissues in the human body less able to maintain and repair themselves, as in the weakening and shrinkage of aging muscles in humans? A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators and collaborators at King’s College London d ...
  • Too Much Alcohol Cuts Brain Neuron Formation
    Drinking a couple of glasses of wine each day has generally been considered a good way to promote cardiovascular and brain health.  But a new Rutgers University study indicates that there is a fine line between moderate and binge drinking – a risky behavior that can decrease the making of adult ...

CFACT

  • Does the UN have Africa in an emissions arm lock?
    The rich kids are trying to push Africa around, bullying African countries into accepting their opinions and, even worse, adopting their “solutions.” Africa should resist the moral and psychological pressure being exerted on it to agree to binding limits on carbon dioxide emissions. Any such a ...
  • Qatar and the climate thieves
    The climate campaigners in Doha, Qatar are likely to shun media coverage of their schemes to transfer massive amounts of money from developed to undeveloped nations. They want to make their fortunes at the same time. Thieves work best in the dark.
  • Canada being hoodwinked in UN climate process
    TOM HARRIS Canada should purge climate alarmism from all government communications, especially those of Minister Kent. In Qatar the only solution that makes sense for Canada is to get out of the UNFCCC that spawned the Kyoto, Cancun, and Durban agreements in the first place.
  • Media Release: CFACT sends delegation to COP18
    CFACT's delegates to COP 18, the UN climate conference, are your eyes, ears and voice in Doha, Qatar, Will Obama try and push the U.S. into a binding UN treaty? Will Lord Monckton jump out of another plane? Read CFACT's media advisory and then follow all the developments at CFACT.org/Qatar.
  • Morano debunks extreme weather climate propaganda
    Campaigners are using natural disasters for climate propaganda as UN climate talks kick off in Qatar. Using storms as a poster child for global warming is completely devoid of science, explains Marc Morano of CFACT's Climate Depot. "This has now reached the level of the Mayan calendar and Nost ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Georgian Guestion Ex-Prime Minister
    Georgian investigators questioned former prime minister Vano Merabishvili on Saturday over his attempt to cross the state border with a forged passport, officials said. The investigation is the latest in a series of cases brought against members of the ousted administration of President Mikheil ...
  • Volga, Terek Splutter to 1-1 Draw
    Shamil Asildarov rescued a 1-1 for FC Volga against his old side Terek Grozny in the Russian Premier League on Saturday.
  • Situation in Afghanistan
  • A Blast Kills 4 in Afghanistan
    A suicide car bomber killed at least four people on Saturday in Afghanistan’s province of Uruzgan, local news agency reported.
  • Berdyev Keen to Remain at Rubin Kazan
    Long-serving Rubin Kazan coach Kurban Berdyev is keen to extend his 11-year reign at the Tatarstan-based club when his contract comes up for renewal on December 31.

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Pruning Shears

  • Reasons to support Corrente fund raising week
    Corrente is having its fund raiser; please stop by and throw some money into the hat if you can.Corrente is an important site for liberals to support because of what it is and what it does. Here’s what it is: an old school blog. While political blogs existed before 2000, they weren&#8217 ...
  • Trafficking and the new civil liberties debate
    Civil liberties are more often than not difficult to stand up for in practice. In theory everyone is in favor of them, but the only times they make it into national debate is when they are under attack. When times are good policy makers and the public don’t seem to give much thought to r ...
  • Third party laziness, 2012 edition
    Kevin Gosztola’s post on safe voting strategies quotes historian Howard Zinn’s claim that “we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls.” But Zinn veers ...
  • Empty chairs and missing signs in Ohio
    This year’s presidential election has produced a brand new form of messaging. It isn’t very cutting edge, though; not some kind of recently developed social media application or scary new number crunching technology. No, it’s empty chairs. Really. People (in northeast Ohio ...
  • Home rule on that ballot this election season: ...
    Ohioans have experienced a number of different frustrations in trying to get their government to be responsive to their concerns about fracking. The biggest one may be the state’s usurping of home rule of home rule on the issue. Ohio’s Constitution had home rule - basically, the ri ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic Consumers Association Statement On Cal ...
    The OCA Continues to Monitor Prop 37 Election Results, Has Not Ruled Out a ChallengeClick here to read this article
  • How to Build a Grassroots Power Base
    Millions of Americans are eager, even desperate, for a political movement that truly challenges the power of Wall Street and the Pentagon. But accommodation has been habit-forming for many left-leaning organizations, which are increasingly taking their cues from the party establishment: deferrin ...
  • The Invisible Nuclear Threat Within Non-Organi ...
    There is a profound misunderstanding in the mass market today about the value of certified organic food. The question is not whether the 50% higher or more you pay at the register for an organic product is really worth the added vitamin, mineral and phytonutrient content you receive.Click here ...
  • "Labeling It Ourselves": With Real Food Calcul ...
    As the defeat of Prop 37 is mourned in California and throughout the food movement, students are actually enacting it, continuing the hard work for food chain transparency that they started well before the Prop 37 battle entered the mainstream.Click here to read this article
  • Liberals and Progressives Happy but Not Elated ...
    Many Americans sighed with relief the day after the 2012 election that they had beaten back a powerful right-wing assault. There was little enthusiasm about what we had achieved in retaining Obama, but much joy that for the moment the most reactionary forces in American life were held at bay. Li ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • What We’re Reading: HIGH STEAKS Strikes at Hea ...
    In High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat, author Eleanor Boyle addresses these reasons and many more for why America should steer away from industrial meat production in both its policy priorities and consumption habits.
  • Improved Agriculture—It’s About Energy, Soil, ...
    How can farms become more resilient? Self-sufficient? Energy-efficient? The answer to all these questions is “ecological agriculture.”
  • FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...
    Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
  • Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...
    If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
  • Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...
    Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.

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My Care2 Picks

  • Thank You for being a Virtuous Citizen!
    We, the virtuous self-governors of the world are truth seekers and believe in ourselves, our talents and abilities to create a world of abundance without tyranny and oppression. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 28-Gate: BBC Crisis Deepens in Exposure of Rig ...
    The BBC sank further into crisis today after new evidence ties two recent pedophile scandals to a secret climate advisory panel that rigged reporting on global warming for six years. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • A Box Filled With Love
    Mom started the care packages. She sent them to my brothers when they left home to join the military, to us girls when we moved away to other cities and towns, to friends who were going through tough times and to complete strangers who faced a particular Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat &n ...
  • U.S. uses al Qaeda to Advance Its Military Adv ...
    Israeli spy chief says Tel Aviv supports regime change in Syria, amid ongoing efforts by the anti-Syria governments to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Climate Change Timeline
    The history of climate change concern 1895 - 2009 How does this fit in with co2 concern? http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/08/19/the-pariah-u-n-requests-criminal-prosecution-immunity-for-climate-scientists-engaged-in-constructive-fraud/ Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture &nbsp ...

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Court upholds sentence of ex-CIA station chief
    ShareThisCourt upholds sentence of ex-CIA station chief 30 Nov 2012 An appeals court has unanimously upheld the nearly 5 1/2-year sentence of a former CIA station chief for sexually abusing an unconscious woman at the mansion the U.S. government provided for him in Algeria. The three-judge panel ...
  • Canada's Polar Bears: International Environmen ...
    ShareThisCanada's Polar Bears: International Environmental Group Demands Policy Explanation 30 Nov 2012 Canada is being forced to explain its polar bear policies to an international environmental watchdog. The Commission on Environmental Co-operation, which is part of the North American Free Tra ...
  • San Onofre Nuclear Plant Investigating Possibl ...
    ShareThisSan Onofre Nuclear Plant Investigating Possible Sabotage of Safety System 30 Nov 2012 A California utility said Thursday it has notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of potential sabotage, possibly by an employee, of a crucial piece of safety equipment attached to one of its nuclea ...
  • Justice Department Uses Red Tape to Delay Rele ...
    ShareThisJustice Department Uses Red Tape to Delay Release of Required Information On Domestic Spying Until Well After It Matters 29 Nov 2012 A couple of months ago, Julian Sanchez wrote about the ridiculous situation in which he filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request to reveal the ...
  • Wikileaks suspect Bradley Manning admits makin ...
    ShareThisWikileaks suspect Bradley Manning admits making noose 30 Nov 2012 A US Army court has seen a noose made from a bed sheet by alleged Wikileaks source Private Bradley Manning as he considered suicide. Pte Manning, 24, told the hearing he had made it while being held in Kuwait, shortly aft ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...
  • VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
    ‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...

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

  • Coalition Combat Forces in Afghanistan: Afghan ...
    01 December 2012
  • WolfPack 102: Sensors
    This sensor was hidden in the middle of an Afghan village on 31 July 2011. It was positioned to spy over a dirt road intersection about 10-20 meters away. US casualties were occurring in this village. Six hours before this photograph was taken, perhaps a couple of hundred meters away, Brice Scot ...
  • The Contribution of Economists to Military Int ...
    28 November 2012
  • Wolf Pack 101: Introduction to Combat Tracking
    27 November 2012 Helicopters are crucial in modern combat. It is not necessary to be a pilot to assert that helicopters are game changers.  Their value is obvious. NCOs and officers who have developed infantry skills over an apprenticeship of years, particularly in infantry combat, simila ...
  • Mysterious Blood Trails at my Home
    26 November 2012 About a month ago, I came home and found mysterious blood trails around my home. I mapped them out, studied them, and kept trying to recreate the scene.  The scene confounded me.  I did not assume that it was blood.  There was no physical evidence of painting or ...

The Killing Train

  • Goma falls to Rwanda
    Rebels, called the M23, have taken Goma, the main city of North Kivu, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s eastern provinces. Their plan is to march to Bukavu, the main city of South Kivu, and from there, they say, across the massive country to Kinshasa, the Congo's capital. A geogra ...
  • Pillar of Defense Deaths until November 18
    A map of deaths from Israel's Pillar of Defense operation, inspired by the UK Guardian's map of "incidents". I added a timeline and removed anything that didn't result in deaths, on the basis that war is mainly a collection of deaths, and not a collection of "incidents". The geographical informa ...
  • One less reader
    Writing political books about, for example, Haiti, means knowing that every reader who gets the book is a victory. Consequently, having one less reader get the book is a serious matter. I tried to send my book to Alex Hundert, a G20 defendant who is currently locked up in Penatanguishene. I was ...
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship: Video of Book Launch ...
    This talk was recorded on November 15, 2012 at Concordia University in Montreal.
  • An attack on Dr. Mukwege
    Gunmen came to Dr.Mukwege's house in Bukavu, killed his security guard, and almost killed him. Here is a profile I wrote of Mukwege in 2009 for The Progressive Magazine. Here is the press release from PMU.

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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 ...

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Tikun Olam

  • UN Recognizes Palestine
    Haaretz’s headline said it all: Israel Suffers Humiliating Defeat in UN Vote.  Palestine has won a victory, no doubt.  It’s fitting that it wins this vote 64 years to the day after the General Assembly voted to partition Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state.  Now Palestin ...
  • The Mossad and the Iranian Graph That Never Was
    Tonight, I’m writing a blog post that no blogger wants to write.  And almost none do, even ones who should. I recently reported an AP story that reputed to offer a leaked Iranian nuclear explosion simulation prepared by its thee most senior nuclear scientists. In my story, I noted my grave ...
  • NY Times Public Editor Proudly Announces Jodi ...
    No sooner do I admire a column by the NY Times’ public editor, Margaret Sullivan, than she produces one of the truly strange pieces, taking the paper’s Israel bureau chief to task for “improper” tweeting.  In her story, she wags her finger at Jodi Rudoren for being carele ...
  • Iran’s Nuclear Bomb Diagram Stolen by Mossad Hack
    AP is reporting a breaking news story that officials of a country hostile to Iran (hint, hint) have leaked an Iranian diagram that plots the force of the explosion of a simulated nuclear device: Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than tr ...
  • Advocating Israel Talk to Hamas is Criminal Of ...
    If you’re a much-decorated IDF general advocating the radical step that Israel recognize Hamas and negotiate with it you’ll merit a front page article in Haaretz.  That’s what Gen. Giora Eiland, a former national security advisor, did during the height of last week’s figh ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

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

  • Highlights from the Mozilla Festival in London
    This post was written by Miranda Mulligan, executive director of the Knight News Innovation Lab, and originally appeared on the the Knight Lab blog. A significant portion of the Knight Lab team was fortunate enough to join the Mozilla Festival in London, November 9-12. This incredible event, ...
  • Meograph: The Future of Storytelling is 4D (wi ...
    Meograph, new storytelling startup that launched in July, gives online journalists and storytellers an added dimension that too often has been missing: context. With Meograph, you can create what co-founder and CEO Misha Leybovich calls "4D storytelling" through a simple interface that lets u ...
  • MapBox: The Secret to Making USA Today's Elect ...
    MapBox worked with USA Today to build their election night maps that tracked results as they came in from across the country. USA Today's primary goals for their digital-mapping content was it should have multiple forms of embeddable maps for the home page, articles and landing pages, it should ...
  • Lessons Learned From Sandy 'HurricaneHackers' ...
    This post was co-written by Pablo Rey Mazón. A day before Hurricane Sandy touched down, netizens began to congregate via etherpads, Google Docs and IRC, assuming the name "HurricaneHackers." HurricaneHackers teamed up with Sandy CrisisCamps -- a series of hackathons organized by CrisisComm ...
  • OpenNews Announces the 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellows
    When talking about the OpenNews project, I describe it as an ecosystem. All of our programs are interdependent: Hack Days and Code Sprints and Source -- they all work together to build, implement and document new experiments at the intersection of journalism and code. But the living, breathing h ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Netherlands on Edge - Dutch Parliament To ...
    Insulting God will no longer be a crime in the Netherlands after the Dutch parliament decided to revoke a decades-old blasphemy law from the statute books. The law, which was drafted in the 1930s, had not been used for half a century, leading legislators to decide there was no longer a need for ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Internet Returns to Syria
    News agencies report that Internet service has returned in Damascus after a two-day blackout. It's not yet clear whether mobile-phone service also returned on December 1 after being cut off during the same period. The blackout of communications has come amid claims that the Syrian government is ...
  • The Iranian Threat - Iranian Cyberpolice Chief ...
    Iran's police have fired the head of their cybercrimes unit over the case of a blogger dying while in police custody. Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency said on December 1 that General Kamal Hadianfar was fired due to "failure and lack of sufficient supervision over the performance of personne ...
  • Broken Economy - A Debt Strategy for the Next ...
    The United States is on an unsustainable fiscal course. This year marks the fourth in a row that the U.S. federal deficit will exceed $1.1 trillion. Since the end of 2007, the federal debt, now $11 trillion, has doubled as a share of annual GDP-from 36 percent to 73 percent. The long-term o ...
  • Destination Macedonia - Dubai-Style Plans Emer ...
    When Subrata Roy arrived at Skopje Alexander The Great Airport in mid-June, he received a welcome that included Macedonian Finance Minister Zoran Stavreski and a hostess decked out in Macedonia's traditional dress.Months of negotiations later, on November 20, the Indian magnate submitted an opul ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

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

  • Newsbusted: Obama to Break HIS Pledge as Part ...
    Much of the political discussion this week has been about the negotiations between the GOP and President to avoid the "fiscal cliff' on January 1st.  Part of the controversy is the pledge most Republicans made to their constituents (and collected by Grover Norquist) not to raise taxes. ...
  • Reports of Mahmoud Abbas' Moderation Is Like a ...
    A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communication equipment. Due to the clouds and haze the pilot could not determine his position or course to steer to the airport. The pilot saw a tal ...
  • Today The UN Will Make Arafat Proud and Steal ...
    Yasser would be so proud!  Today the UN is expected to complete the journey it began in November 1974 when it invited a mass-murderer from Egypt to speak in its General Assembly. At the time Yasser Arafat said he brought with him an olive branch of peace, and a gun. To the d ...
  • Obama's Fair Share of Taxes Argument is a FRAU ...
    This class warfare arguments used by progressives is merely a straw-dog that the Republican leadership refuses to attack.  Lets start with the President's semantics. Obama keeps talking about tax cuts for the middle class and for the millionaires. There are no tax cuts for anyone.&nbs ...
  • Obama Expands Class Warfare Campaign With New ...
    The War on Terrorism may be over (at least according to the President) but the War on Success continues. Later today President Obama will deliver remarks at an event at the White House with middle class Americans who would see their income taxes go up if Congress fails to act to ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.S. Government gave $5.7 Billion Given to Vac ...
    By JEFFRY JOHN AUFDERHEIDE | VACTRUTH | NOVEMBER 30, 2012 In 2011, the US Federal government awarded 6 pharmaceutical corporations over 5.7 Billion to manufacture children’s vaccines alone. According to information on the Centers for Disease Control and Federal Business Opportunities w ...
  • Death Panels for Babies now being used under & ...
    ‘‘I have also seen children die in terrible thirst because fluids are withdrawn from them until they die’ By SUE REID | MAILONLINE | NOVEMBER 30, 2012 Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’. Unti ...
  • A new World: United States and Israel irreleva ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 30, 2012 We are entering into a new world order and amazingly the US and Israel are becoming more irrelevant. The latest example is the voting that took place yesterday at the United Nations where the General Assembly approved the inclusion ...
  • Former MK-ULTRA Expert Murdered by the CIA, sa ...
    By FREDERIC J. FROMMER | AP | NOVEMBER 29, 2012 The CIA had a program in the 1950s and `60s called MK-ULTRA, which involved brainwashing and administering experimental drugs like LSD to unsuspecting individuals. The project was investigated by Congress in the 1970s. Olson consumed a dr ...
  • Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi shows his Teeth
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 29, 2012 After a modest attempt to bring opponents together, the Egyptian president turned dictator, Mohamed Morsi and his political movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, have opted to shield themselves again against the political crisis grippin ...

Wind Watch

  • Blade breaks on wind turbine near Armstrong
    ARMSTRONG — The firm that operates the recently built California Ridge Wind Farm in Vermilion and Champaign counties said it is looking into how a wind turbine’s blade broke on Tuesday night. Chicago-based Invenergy LLC released a statement Wednesday, saying that one of the wind farm’s 134 turbi ...
  • Bridgewater officials state opposition to wind ...
    Selectmen Maurice Jenness Jr., Terence Murphy, and Henry Woolner decided they had to take a stand, fearing their town could lose tourism income. "While we support the concept of sustainable energy, the board of selectmen opposes additional construction of wind turbines in the Newfound area," ...
  • Turbine survey shows most prefer town purchase ...
    A survey sent to homeowners living within zero to one-half miles of the town-owned wind turbines show that most of the respondents prefer that the town purchase their homes rather than pay their home electricity costs or cover the cost of retrofitting their homes to increase the sound insulation ...
  • Whistling Ridge wind farm proposal process mov ...
    The administrative record of decision for a proposed wind power project in southeastern Skamania County has been transferred to the Washington Supreme Court for review. Thurston County Superior Court Judge James J. Dixon issued an order Oct. 26 that granted the state’s motion to certify the stat ...
  • Nonprofit sues federal agency to stop Kibby Mo ...
    PORTLAND — A nonprofit organization filed a federal lawsuit Monday in a last-ditch effort to prevent the planned expansion of the Kibby Mountain wind farm in northwestern Maine. The Friends of the Boundary Mountains filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Portland against the U.S. Army Corps ...

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

  • Now in Portuguese and Chinese: Reporter’s Guid ...
    A new translation of this guide is now available, thanks to the efforts of Alessandra de Falco, a journalism professor at Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei in Brazil. She uses the guide in her classes. Em Português: Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency (PDF; 1 MB) Also, I neglec ...
  • Election 2012 maps: Showing data
    This was the first U.S. presidential election in the post-Flash era. In 2008, data maps were made with Flash. Now the online mapmakers have moved on to other technologies, largely using JavaScript. Here are three examples, with a full view and a zoom of each: WNYC Radio, New York: LA Times ...
  • 5 examples of interesting data presentations
    What do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.) Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.) Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...
  • What should be in a “visual journalism” course?
    One meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism. There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism” is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...
  • Should you major in journalism now?
    Like any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and whether it’s smart to be a journalism major. I teach about online journali ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The deepening partisan divide ...
    In the wake of the latest election, the number of state legislatures under one-party control is at a historic high -- and half have partisan supermajorities. What does this mean for the future of politics nationally? read more
  • The changing face of Southern voters
    The 2012 elections revealed that, like the rest of the country, the South is undergoing big demographics changes that will change the shape of politics in the region for years to come. read more
  • Latest sanction against BP goes beyond Gulf spill
    The government's decision to at least temporarily ban BP from federal contracts is a result of not just the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, but years of safety problems at the oil giant. read more
  • Is North Carolina's renewable energy law in je ...
    Conservative groups whose clout grew in the recent N.C. elections want to repeal a groundbreaking state law requiring utilities to generate a small percentage of energy from renewable sources. Incoming Republican Gov. Pat McCrory has close ties to renewable energy foes -- and to renewable energy ...
  • Giving Tuesday: Support a voice for a better S ...
    Giving Tuesday is your chance to support fearless media and a voice for a better South. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Interview available for listening
    My interview on Virtually Speaking is now up. If you missed it and would like to listen, it can be found here. We talked about kindness in public policy and about the economics and politics of global warming.
  • Interview available for listening
    My interview on Virtually Speaking is now up. If you missed it and would like to listen, it can be found here. We talked about kindness in public policy and about the economics and politics of global warming.
  • Interview tonight at 9pm EST
    I’ll be talking with Virtually Speaking’s Jay Ackroyd tonight at 9pm EST.  Current plan is to discuss kindness as the base prescription for policy and then talk about the implications of Bill McKibben’s 3 numbers on global warming, but if past episodes are any guide we’ll ...
  • Interview tonight at 9pm EST
    I’ll be talking with Virtually Speaking’s Jay Ackroyd tonight at 9pm EST.  Current plan is to discuss kindness as the base prescription for policy and then talk about the implications of Bill McKibben’s 3 numbers on global warming, but if past episodes are any guide we’ll ...
  • Default to Kindness
    If there is one policy point I’d like to make it isn’t a policy point, it’s an ethical one: default to kindness. Or try kindness first. In policy terms, the kind thing to do is usually the right thing to do.  I’d go so far as to say, almost always. Treating prisoners with ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • South Pacific Island "Undiscovered" by Scientists
    Have you ever tried to visit a South Pacific island near New Caledonia called Sandy Island? A team of Australian scientists attempted just that and found no sign of the supposedly sizeable landmass. Instead, the team from the University of Sydney were greeted by open ocean and nothing mo ...
  • Angry Gran: Mobile Game or Demographic Game-C ...
    “Angry Gran” was one of the top mobile app games of 2012 globally. In it, the gamer assumes the persona of a grandmother gone rogue: Angry Gran is angry and needs money! Whack your enemies like piñatas until the cash comes flying out... The objective? Support Gran’s ‘active’ and ‘financially s ...
  • The Expanding Economic Pie & Grinding Poverty
    A review of data from the past 200 years indicates not only a huge increase in the world's population, but an even more significant increase in real incomes. This is illustrated using the data series developed by the late Angus Maddison of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develo ...
  • Where Americans Are Moving
    The red states may have lost the presidential election, but they are winning new residents, largely at the expense of their politically successful blue counterparts. For all the talk of how the Great Recession has driven people — particularly the “footloose young” — toward dens ...
  • Millennials Ready to Play Key Role in Housing ...
    Recent data from a survey commissioned by Better Homes and Garden Real Estate (BHGRE) suggests a pent up desire among 18-35 year olds to own a home of their own that could easily fuel a real estate boom for at least the rest of this decade.  In contrast to predictions from some futurists ...

GM Watch

  • GM babies - do you want a say?
    1.UK: Genetically engineered babies unless you act now! 2.Mitochondria Replacement Would Forever Alter the Human Germline. Do You Want a Say? --- --- 1.Genetically engineered babies unless you act now! Dear friends, You probably hoped it wouldn't come to this, but it has. British scientists ar ...
  • GM babies - do you want a say?
    1.UK: Genetically engineered babies unless you act now! 2.Mitochondria Replacement Would Forever Alter the Human Germline. Do You Want a Say? --- --- 1.Genetically engineered babies unless you act now! Dear friends, You probably hoped it wouldn't come to this, but it has. British scientists ar ...
  • EFSA has lost touch with reality
    IS EFSA NOW COMPLETELY BONKERS? An organization which has lost touch with reality Dr Brian John The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) statement entitled "Final review of the Séralini et al. (2012a) publication on a 2-year rodent feeding study with glyphosate formulations and GM maize NK603 as ...
  • EFSA has lost touch with reality
    IS EFSA NOW COMPLETELY BONKERS? An organization which has lost touch with reality Dr Brian John The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) statement entitled "Final review of the Séralini et al. (2012a) publication on a 2-year rodent feeding study with glyphosate formulations and GM maize NK603 as ...
  • GM lobby continue their retraction campaign
    NOTE: This New Scientist piece, though otherwise almost entirely one sided, does - to its credit - refer to the allegation that biotech interests are hidden behind "the cohort of academic titles" weilded by many of Seralini's critics. Ironically, the article itself provides unintentional support ...

spiked

  • Unlearning liberty
    Leading American free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff tells spiked about the dire state of free speech on US campuses, and how censorship is teaching people to be dumb.
  • Why the rich want the super-rich to be restrained
    A new book critiquing the lives and antics of plutocrats reveals just how widespread the discomfort with rapid economic growth has become.
  • Is Venice really sinking?
    A brilliant new book puts today’s doom-laden debate about Venice into historical perspective, arguing that it is informed more by a downbeat view of humanity than by hard facts.
  • After ‘New Atheism’, let’s r ...
    In his latest selection of essays, Raymond Tallis puts the case for wonder against the deterministic pseudoscience of modern atheists.
  • The poverty of environmentalism
    In a manifesto too ridiculous to spoof, Mark Boyle argues that we should all live without money to help save the planet. No thanks.

Cryptogon

  • Securing the Homeland: You Might Be A Terroris ...
    Via: Public Intelligence: Known or possible terrorists have displayed suspicious behaviors while staying at hotels overseas… Not providing professional or personal details on hotel registrations—such as place of employment, contact information, or place of residence. Using payphones for ou ...
  • Poverty: 50 Million Americans Struggling to Su ...
    The United States is projected to spend an estimated US$323 billion for development and procurement on the F-35 program, making it the most expensive defense program ever. The total lifecycle cost for the entire American fleet is estimated to be US$1.51 trillion over its 50-year life, or $618 mi ...
  • Broadwell Had Substantial Classified Data on C ...
    Hmm. Via: Reuters: A computer used by Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with CIA Director David Petraeus led to his resignation, contained substantial classified information that should have been stored under more secure conditions, law enforcement and national security officials said on W ...
  • Open Sourced: Google Engineer Builds Page-Turn ...
    Via: The Verge: For the past eight years, Google has been working on digitizing the world’s 130 million or so unique books. While the pace of new additions to the Google Books initiative has been slowing down, members of the team have come up with a new automated scanner design that could both m ...
  • Bloated College Bureaucracies, Absurd Salaries ...
    Via: Bloomberg: J. Paul Robinson, chairman of Purdue University’s faculty senate, strode through the halls of a 10- story concrete-and-glass administrative tower. “I have no idea what these people do,” said Robinson, waving his hand across a row of offices, his voice rising. The 59-year-old prof ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Wake Up! 11 Facts That Show That Europe Is Hea ...
    Europe is not just heading into another recession.  The truth is that Europe is heading into a full-blown depression.  The economy of the EU is actually larger than the U.S. economy, and we are watching it melt down right in front of our eyes.  Things just continue to get worse in Europe, and ye ...
  • 34 Signs That America Is In Decline
    The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline.  Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me.  I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love.  Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our Founding ...
  • All Of This Whining About The Fiscal Cliff Is ...
    The fiscal cliff is coming!  Run for the hills!  There have been endless stories in the mainstream media about the "fiscal cliff" that our country is facing if the Democrats and the Republicans can't come to some sort of an agreement.  If there is no agreement, taxes will go up and government sp ...
  • The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming T ...
    By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar.  The rest of the world is watching this nonsense, and at some point they are going to give up on the U.S. dollar and throw their hands up in the air.  When that happens, ...
  • Hungry For The Holidays: 20 Facts About Hunger ...
    All over America there are millions of people that will be missing meals and going hungry this holiday season.  Even as much of the country indulges in the yearly ritual of unbridled consumerism that we refer to as "the holiday season", more families in the United States than ever before will be ...

Desertification

  • Call for Speakers at 3rd Annual World Congress ...
    On behalf of the organizing committee of BIT’s 3rd Annual World Congress of Agriculture – 2013, which will be held on September 23-25, 2013 in Hangzhou, China, we cordially welcome you to give a speech at Track 7-5: Desertification, Drought … Continue reading →
  • Why should EU go Land degradation Neutral ?
    Conference: ‘LAND AND SOIL DEGRADATION POST RIO +20’ EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 16 Nov 2012 Luc GNACADJA Executive Secretary United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
  • Latin America Could Eradicate Hunger by 2025 (IPS)
    Fabíola Ortiz interviews RICARDO RAPALLO, coordinator of the Hunger-Free Latin America and Caribbean Initiative http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/11/qa-latin-america-could-eradicate-hunger-by-2025/ VALPARAÍSO, Chile , Nov 26 2012 (IPS) – The hunger suffered by 49 million people in Latin America ...
  • MADAGASCAR: Sentenced to malnutrition (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96835/MADAGASCAR-Sentenced-to-malnutrition ANTANANARIVO, 21 November 2012 (IRIN) – Former gang member Robert, 62, shares a cell with 145 other inmates in Antanimora Prison in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo. He receives one meal a day of dried ca ...
  • DJIBOUTI: Rising food insecurity fuels migrati ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96904/DJIBOUTI-Rising-food-insecurity-fuels-migration BALBALA, 27 November 2012 (IRIN) – Successive years of poor rains have eroded the coping mechanisms of pastoralists in Djibouti’s rural regions, even as high food prices and unemployment rates af ...

The Paper Trail

  • Drug lobby donation went to pro-Democratic non ...
    A nonprofit group in Montana that supported a conservative state Supreme Court candidate was not the recipient of a $500,000 donation from the nation’s top drug lobby as suggested earlier this week and probably wouldn’t accept the money even if it were offered.“I’ve never raised a dime from a ...
  • Warehouse worker lawsuit targets Walmart
    MIRA LOMA, Calif. – Walmart will be named a defendant today in an ongoing federal lawsuit alleging wage theft from mostly immigrant Latino contract workers at a warehouse complex in this Los Angeles suburb. The move officially draws the nation’s largest retailer into a case in which it ...
  • Drug lobby gave $750,000 to pro-Hatch nonprofi ...
    When six-term GOP incumbent Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah faced the prospect of a mutiny from conservative activists, his allies within the pharmaceutical industry stepped in to help defend him.New documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity show that the drug lobby’s main trad ...
  • EPA slaps BP but punishes the Pentagon
    The Environmental Protection Agency imposed a new penalty for wrongdoing against the BP oil company on Nov. 28, but it may fall heavily on the Defense Department, an unflaggingly loyal client that has kept buying fuel from BP since the company’s errors caused its well to disgorge nearly 5 mil ...
  • Medicare paid $3.6 billion for electronic heal ...
    In early 2009, federal officials announced they would pay billions of dollars to hospitals and doctors who agreed to buy electronic medical records and use them to improve the quality of health care.But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has since paid out more than $3.6 billion t ...

backofthebook.ca

  • BlackBerry 10: RIM’s comeback device
    By Mark Evans Research in Motion has thousands of employees but, in some respects, it’s a startup whose prospects hinge on the much-anticipated introduction of the BlackBerry 10 on Jan. 30th. With negative sentiment surrounding Canada’s flagship technology company slowly starting to dissipate as ...
  • Will Canada’s Progressives defeat themse ...
    By Montreal Simon In the growing darkness of Harperland, it’s hard to know what’s the truth, what is illusion, and what’s just another Big Lie. But sometimes the truth is so blinding, like a fire in the sky, that it’s impossible to ignore it. Or to live, like so many Cana ...
  • The Cons’ $165 billion fiscal cliff
    By David@Sixthestate.net As I pointed out in my last post, the fact that the Conservatives have admitted they will miss their budget projections next year isn’t news. There hasn’t been a single annual budget yet that actually reached the projected balance it was supposed to, and, as a result, th ...
  • A Modest Opinion — I Demand to See Nate ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Listen, I never thought I would be agreeing with Donald Trump about anything (except for picking Arsenio Hall as the winner of “Celebrity Apprentice” – because that dude worked his ass off . . . at convincing people he was still a celebrity). I mean, when Trump sta ...
  • The Conservatives miss their budget projection ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net Last week, the media delivered its resounding judgement on the Conservatives’ fall budget update. Jim Flaherty, they say, has unfortunately allowed the projections to slip. The deficit has grown. Canada may not balance its budget on time. Curiously, this fact does nothin ...

libcom

  • Monti’s government “democratic and sober” resp ...
    roma 14 nov1.jpg The demonstrations that took place all over Italy on 14th November as part of a European Day of Action against austerity are already setting the pace of the new management of public o ...
  • Russia: police search Kirov anti-fascists' hom ...
    At six in the morning of November 27, a series of searches at homes of eight members of anarchist group Autonomous Actions were carried out in the Russian city of Kirov by police officers who were accompanied by operatives of the anti-extremism E Centre. ...
  • Education workers’ strike sabotaged by the uni ...
    Workers in education sector in Slovakia have started an indefinite strike on Monday 26th, 2012. However, the education workers' union put the strike on hold on Wednesday, because they entered negotiations with the government. There are no results yet a ...
  • Death-trapped in a burning cage - the Ashulia ...
    factory-Nov2012-2.jpg Comments on the horrific fire of Saturday 24th November 2012 that swept through a Bangladeshi garment factory. Another fire in a Bangladeshi garment factor ...
  • Moscow anti-fascist may become permanently dis ...
    Health condition of anti-fascist Alexei Olesinov, who is held at Moscow's Medvedkovo pre-trial detention centre as a suspect in the "Moscow antifa case" for allegedly participating in a brawl, has sharply deteriorated. Independent expert e ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Death Ray = Deuterium Laser = SDI (Strategic D ...
    I authored the following document in May of 2010 – and posted it on this blog.   Download the original PDF file by clicking here: MIRACL ILLUMINATION!! The article prompted a visit from U.S. Air Force “investigators” – who simply wanted me to tell them who was leaking inf ...
  • Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)
    What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...
  • Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)
    What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...
  • Important Update on Hurricane Sandy – th ...
    I just received this incredible, “smoking gun” document from a trusted source in Washington who understands the subject and how it is controlled by Israel and the “Jews”: WeatherModificationReport 1966 This was authored by NASA Director, Homer E. Newell, a deeply Zionist ...
  • Important Update on Hurricane Sandy – th ...
    I just received this incredible, “smoking gun” document from a trusted source in Washington who understands the subject and how it is controlled by Israel and the “Jews”: WeatherModificationReport 1966 This was authored by NASA Director, Homer E. Newell, a deeply Zionist ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Fake or Real Xmas Trees- Green or Not
    Have you ever wondered are the Real X-mas trees you buy green or is it better to use a Plastic Tree? What’s Greener: Real or Artificial Christmas Trees? Photo: Shutterstock Have you ever wondered if it’s more eco-friendly to buy a real or an artificial Christmas tree? Even the most w ...
  • How To Save Money And Make Your Business Susta ...
    For businesses large and small, there is a continuing quest to make operations more eco-friendly and sustainable as part of the growing clamour to be a leader in social responsibility. In many cases, running a more sustainable operation means that there are also significant money savings to be m ...
  • Small Business Saturday
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog SBA Region 7 SBA News Shop Small Business Saturday – November 24, 2012 By Karen Mills In between the Black Friday sales and the Cyber Monday deals is Small Business ...
  • 1st Floor Weatherization-Benton Project
    3 MAIN ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES TAKEN ON THE BENTON PROJECT R22 Insulation installed in 2×6 Wall Framing Members Vapor and Air Filtration Barrier Additional HVAC Cold Air Return Duct R22 Batt Type Insulation-Friction Fit- Johns Mansfield No Itch Insulation Water and Air Barrier The Above ...
  • Residents Meet About Nuclear Waste In West Lak ...
    Reblogged from FOX2now.com – St. Louis News & Weather from KTVI Television FOX2: BRIDGETON, MO. (KTVI) – A group of north St. Louis county residents met Tuesday night to discuss what they believe is a radioactive hazard in their midst.  It is a story that has its roots in the Manhattan Proje ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Republican Donors: the Big Losers in 2012
    Karl Rove: in big trouble with Republican donors According to the Center for Media and Democracy PR Watch , a lot of Republican donors are extremely unhappy with Republican strategist Karl Rove, credited for Bush’s election victories in 2000 and 2004, for his mismanagement of his Sup ...
  • The Fiscal Cliff: Why We Should Go Ahead and Jump
    photo credit motherjones.com In a recent broadcast, Thom Hartmann makes a compelling argument why Democrats should allow Congress to jump of the “fiscal cliff” and allow the automatic tax and spending cuts to take place on December 31st (when the Bush tax cuts expire and automat ...
  • A New Zealand View on Black Friday
    Security guards break up Black Friday fight in Kentucky (AP photo) Stuff.co.nz compares America’s Black Friday to “something you might see might see amid a humanitarian crisis, a war or in the aftermath of a natural disaster.” They link to a video which originally appeared ...
  • Washington County Bans GMOs
    Washington's idyllic San Juan islands While some anti-GMO legislation like Prop 37 was shot down via a deceptive “No” campaign that received massive corporate funding, San Juan County in Washington State thumbed their nose at Monsanto et al by passing Initiative Measure No. 2012-4 ...
  • Rand Paul Tries to End Indefinite Detention un ...
    Just days before Thanksgiving, the US Senate was planning on taking a vote on the National Defense Authorization Act. The vote was delayed by Republican Rand Paul’s amendment reaffirming the sixth amendment right to a fair and speedy trial. The following RT video clip features comment ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...
    Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Criticizing Democ ...
    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Se ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About the War on Women on ...
    From @MMFlint "McCaskill, Warren, Stabenaw, Klobuchar, Baldwin Senate victories = Declare a War on Women, prepare to lose. #legitimate" "RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, how the f*** are all these women winning?! They don't even wear TIES." "RT @KailiJoy: Magic lady parts not only detect rape s ...
  • GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quite
    By Walt De Vries From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...
  • OCTOBER 9, 2002, TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S. Gov ...
    From Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn: In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative Italian Prime Minister Sil ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Honda Accord Hybrid, Plug-In Hybrid Get New De ...
    Honda, at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show, unveiled additional information about hybrid plans for its popular Accord sedan. The vehicle has not seen a hybrid in its line up since 2007, so the fact Honda is choosing now to ramp up its plans reinforces the fact that, while it recently crossed 1 mil ...
  • Why Did President Obama Veto Europe's Airline ...
    In a rare show of bipartisan action, Congress recently passed and the President signed a bill to protect all U.S. Airlines from possible future European Union (EU) carbon taxes. A planned EU Emission Trading System (ETS) action would require all Commercial Airlines to pay carbon taxes for their ...
  • Ford Fusion Named the Green Car of the Year 2013
    With two of its cars among the five finalists, Ford took the Green Car of the Year Award for its 2013 Fusion on Thursday at the LA Auto Show.
  • US East Coast Hit By Historic Sea Level Rise
    Hurricane Sandy and a series of noreasters have combined with an apparently unprecedented one year jump in sea level to cause a wave of destruction on the U.S. east coast.
  • Scientific American: ‘Loss of Ice, Melting Of ...
    Another day, another (accurate) apocalyptic review of climate science.

EU Times

  • Anomalous winter disasters paralyze Moscow
    Moscow was literally paralyzed at night of November 30. The city and the region experienced two natural disasters in one night: a super heavy snowfall and an ice storm. The ice storm approached the Russian capital from the southwest. “The movement of these precipitations to the north and n ...
  • Mexicans protest Enrique Nieto’s swearing in a ...
    As Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is worn in, thousands protest across the country, clashing with police and injuring at least five officers. Protesters on Saturday threw Molotov cocktails and objects towards police officers, who were standing outside the country’s congress. Police respond ...
  • New Year’s Resolution: Stop Smoking
    For those who (yet again) have earmarked giving up smoking for their New Year’s Resolution, then there is some good news on the way: Facilitas Healthcare has come up with some important new information: regular consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables reduces craving. The research divulge ...
  • Eurozone jobless rate at record high of 11.7% ...
    Official data show that the unemployment rate in the eurozone hit a new record high of 11.7 percent in October as the 17-nation bloc continues to grapple with a worsening financial crisis. The Eurostat data agency said on Friday that a total of 18.7 million people were out of work in October, up ...
  • GMO giant hires retired cops to hunt down farmers
    GMO giants DuPont have contracted dozens of retired law enforcement officers to begin patrolling farms in the US next year to spot any potential intellectual property theft. DuPont Co, the second-largest seed country in the world, is hoping to find farmers that have purchased contracts to use th ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Tim Duncan And Tony Parker Had Some Fun At The ...
    From what we can tell, this photo only started making the rounds yesterday, even though the Spurs night out on Halloween had been well-documented otherwise . These are the same costumes Tim Duncan and Tony Parker wore then—Duncan as the Punisher, because of course he'd pick a relatively obscure ...
  • Nuggets at Lakers recap: Nuggets lose big in L ...
    I'm not going to spend too much time recapping tonights game per se. Not really needed on a night like this. When Antwan Jamison gets 33 points and hits a crap load a three point shots, you know it's not your night. For that matter when Jodie Meeks rains 5 first half threes on you (he hit 7 tot ...
  • How Syria Turned Off The Internet
    How Syria Turned Off The Internet -- Cloud Flare Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1029 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened. The following ...
  • Could the Gregg Popovich-David Stern fiasco bo ...
    As a huge NBA fan, I love San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich for similar reasons that I love Tom Izzo . Pop is undeniably successful, entertaining albeit prickly with media and he is set in his ways. Popovich has famously picked regular season games over the years to simply rest his aging s ...
  • Israel To Build New Settler Homes In East Jeru ...
    Israel’s government has approved the construction of new settler homes in illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem on Friday, less than 24 hours after the UN General Assembly approved upgraded status for Palestine. The government approve 3,000 new homes in the settlements, though ...

Groklaw

  • Supreme Court to decide if human genes patentable
    The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether human genes can be patented, a hotly contested issue with broad practical and ethical consequences for the future of gene-based medicine for millions of people worldwide. The nation's highest court in a brief order agreed to review a case ove ...
  • Unitary Patent Plenary December 2012
    The European Parliament is about to vote for a regulation on the unitary patent, during its plenary session, on December 11th, 2012. The purported goal to have a single patent covering the whole Union may be praiseworthy. But this regulation, up to its very title, is actually very deceiving. In ...
  • New EU Patent Court in conflict with public in ...
    On 14 November the Council of European Union presented a new Draft Agreement on a Unified Patent Court. This agreement is part of a legal package to establish an EU Unitary Patent which aims to accelerate the granting of patents within the EU. The European Parliament is supposed to adopt this dr ...
  • French National Assembly on Unitary Patent
    FR national assembly sees #UnitaryPatent is illegal, just makes patent microcosm swell, but nevertheless push for it http://ur1.ca/bm4xt - Gerald Sedrati-Dinet ‏[gibus], Twitter
  • Mediator Joins Contentious Effort to Add a Do ...
    Into this rancorous battle steps a new mediator, Peter Swire, a professor of law at Ohio State University and a former White House privacy official during the Clinton administration. On Wednesday, the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, the international consortium that has been trying to develop ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • T’is the Treason. La Cucaracha
  • EU climate change report is alarming
    The European Environment Agency has released a 300 page report detailing anticipated results of climate change. Grist summarizes it, and the predictions are unsettling [...]
  • Renewable energy facing rough times, coal and ...
    BusinessInsider has detailed charts showing how renewable energy is generally expensive while the cost of natural gas and coal is low. Even worse, government subsidies for renewable energy are much less effective than subsidies for nuclear, oil, and gas in terms of electricity produced. Investor ...
  • Microsoft hater admits they may be getting coo ...
    Seemingly all of a sudden, Microsoft is releasing innovative new products that even impress hardcore Microsoft haters. The Borg is back in town. [...]
  • Public solar-powered charging stations
    A Serbian startup, Strawberry Energy, is building public solar-powered charging stations. GigaOm says this is exactly what all cities need, especially considering what happened to New York and New Jersey after mega-storm Sandy, when the recharge zombies wandered the streets searching for power. ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

  • Palestine and the Arab Spring
    Plenty of western commentators have asserted that the attention that participants in the Arab Spring have been paying to governance issues in their own countries means that somehow they no longer really care about Palestine. (A few people, most notably As'ad Abou-Khalil, have challenged that as ...
  • Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?
    Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with ...
  • Notes on Israeli threats of launching a 'Dahiy ...
    1. Some prominent Israelis are calling for a 'Dahiyeh' operation against Gaza. I just watched this clip from a news/discussion program on Israel's Channel 2. In it, "military analyst" Roni Daniel openly calls for the implementation of a "Dahiyeh" operation ("like in Beirut"), against Gaza. Dahi ...
  • Fundraiser for key new book on Iran-- please help!
    As some JWN readers know, twelve days ago I launched an online fundraising campaign to support the writing and publication of one of my company's most important books for 2013, a book by award-winning investigative reporter Gareth Porter that exposes how the U.S. and Israel have "manufactured" t ...
  • Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)
    I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...

frogblog

  • Palestine’s path to UN Observer Statehood
    (All photos via the Guardian, the New York Times and Indymedia) Early November saw a huge surge in violence between Hamas and Israel: A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative: A Palestinian officer inspects an unexploded Israeli missile which landed in the Gaza strip: Ibrahim Khamis, ...
  • Summary of the first day of hearings on welfar ...
    There were several very powerful submissions from people talking about what these changes would have meant for them as well as some very personal presentations that spoke quite deeply to our values and compassion, and the potential for a loss of life due to these changes. The Home schooling lobb ...
  • Hobbit Fever
    I’ve been a big fan of JRR Tolkien since I was a kid. I was so taken with Lord of the Rings that after I finished reading the books I became convinced that one of my older sisters was a hobbit and she started shaving her toes to shut me up. In my teens my [...]
  • In preparation for Doha: Assessing New Zealand ...
    With the 18th UN climate change conference under way, every country will have its climate change policy under scrutiny.  This blog sets out where New Zealand stands. Four criteria are relevant to assessing a country’s performance. How has it done with emissions record from 1990 to 2012? What tar ...
  • “As predictable as a Tui billboard ad&#8 ...
    The 18th UN annual climate change conference commenced on Monday.  I’ll be attending the 2nd week, and will blog from there about its dynamics and outcome. Meanwhile the Key Government, with breath-taking timing, has taken two decisions in the run-up to Doha, both resulting, intentionally or oth ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How the Sugar Industry Hoodwinked You about th ...
    By Dr. Mercola When sugar consumption declined 12 percent in two years because people were beginning to look at sugar as fattening, and a potential cause of heart disease and diabetes, the sugar industry crafted a mammoth advertising campaign to bankroll scientific papers and hire lobbyists t ...
  • Another Health Fraud -- “Fat-Blocking” Soda
    By Dr. Mercola “Pepsi Special” is the latest “healthy soda” to hit the market, this time in Japan. Infused with dextrin, a type of fiber that’s popular in fiber supplements in the U.S., Pepsi Special is being marketed as a “fat-blocking soda,” as it claims to help reduce your body’s abso ...
  • 90 Percent of Melanoma Surgeries are Unnecessa ...
    By Dr. Mercola A new report in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology1 claims that 90 percent of melanoma patients may not only have had their skin lesions removed unnecessarily, but may also have actually increased their morbidity risk by doing so. The study looked at 300,215 m ...
  • Anti-Fluoride Group Submits More than 35,000 S ...
    By Dr. Mercola In a country where fluoride is added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies to supposedly aid in the prevention of cavities, Portland, Oregon stands out from the crowd. Portland is the largest city in the United States that has yet to add fluoride to its water su ...
  • Science Behind Tamiflu Recommendations “Missin ...
    By Dr. Mercola What should you reach for when you come down with the flu? The antiviral drug Tamiflu is the second recommendation on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) list of recommended treatments, right behind the flu vaccine. Both the US Food and Drug ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Russian indigenous peoples’ organization order ...
    A Khanty man in Siberia© Jon SpaullAn organization representing indigenous peoples in Russia has been ordered to close, in the country’s latest crackdown on NGOs. The Ministry of Justice said it was suspending RAIPON (Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North) for six months b ...
  • Brazilian Indians' water 'poisoned' in bitter ...
    Guarani Indians of Ypo’i community in Brazil.© MPFA community of Brazilian Indians say their main source of water has been poisoned by one of the state’s most controversial ranches. The Guarani from Ypo’i community in Mato Grosso do Sul state used a mobile phone to film the contamination, which ...
  • Brazilian mining giant given green light for p ...
    Awá man. The Awá are warning the expansion of the Carajás railway could bring disastrous consequences© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian government has given the go-ahead for a railway project that severely endangers Earth’s most threatened tribe. Mining giant Vale announced it has obtained an ...
  • Penan set deadline for dam demands
    Penan man, Sarawak, Malaysia.© Robin Hanbury-Tenison/SurvivalMembers of Malaysia’s Penan tribe have suspended their lengthy blockade of the Murum dam site, and given the Sarawak government an ultimatum. They say authorities have a month to guarantee sufficient compensation for the dam’s ne ...
  • US food giant accused over biofuel 'tainted wi ...
    A Guarani man in front of sugarcane crops, grown where the tribe’s forests once stood.© SurvivalA US food giant has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians. He ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Poll confirms sovereignist movement ...
    The separatist movement’s problem is not so much that it is divided into partisan factions , but that most Quebecers aren’t interested in what it’s peddling.
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.

Food World Order

  • New Study Reveals Alarming Data: GMO Foods May ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Controversy rages about the safety of genetically modified foods. Monsanto says there is no need to test these engineered foods. What is the other side of the story? Can genetic modifications to foods affect human cells? Here are compelling research results from the ...
  • Are Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather” Claims And Tacti ...
    from drtimball.com: Fraud is defined as “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.” Did Al Gore campaign to deceive the world about the role of human produced CO2 causing world ending global warming and climate change. He profited through carbon credits b ...
  • Opium Cultivation Rose This Year in Afghanista ...
    from nytimes.com: Opium poppy cultivation rose substantially in 2012 in an “alarming” trend, despite a major opium eradication effort by Afghan governors, United Nations officials said Tuesday as they released the organization’s 2012 opium survey, which was undertaken with the Afghan Ministry ...
  • Empirical Data Confirm Autism Symptoms Related ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Entropy: Abstract: Autism is a condition characterized by impaired cognitive and social skills, associated with compromised immune function. The incidence is alarmingly on the rise, and environmental factors are increasingly suspected to play a role. This paper inve ...
  • Hostess Products Flying Off the Shelves
    from nbcchicago.com: In the wake of news that Hostess, the company that makes Twinkies and other baked goods would liquidate its business, Chicago area connoisseurs started hoarding the sweet treats. The Target store on Roosevelt Road in Chicago reported higher than normal sales for the ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Wake Up! 11 Facts That Show That Europe Is Hea ...
    Europe is not just heading into another recession.  The truth is that Europe is heading into a full-blown depression.  The economy of the EU is actually larger than the U.S. economy, and we are watching it melt down right in front of our eyes.  Things just continue to get worse in Europe, and ye ...
  • 34 Signs That America Is In Decline
    The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline.  Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me.  I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love.  Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our Founding ...
  • All Of This Whining About The Fiscal Cliff Is ...
    The fiscal cliff is coming!  Run for the hills!  There have been endless stories in the mainstream media about the "fiscal cliff" that our country is facing if the Democrats and the Republicans can't come to some sort of an agreement.  If there is no agreement, taxes will go up and government sp ...
  • The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming T ...
    By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar.  The rest of the world is watching this nonsense, and at some point they are going to give up on the U.S. dollar and throw their hands up in the air.  When that happens, ...
  • Hungry For The Holidays: 20 Facts About Hunger ...
    All over America there are millions of people that will be missing meals and going hungry this holiday season.  Even as much of the country indulges in the yearly ritual of unbridled consumerism that we refer to as "the holiday season", more families in the United States than ever before will be ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The deepening partisan divide ...
    In the wake of the latest election, the number of state legislatures under one-party control is at a historic high -- and half have partisan supermajorities. What does this mean for the future of politics nationally? read more
  • The changing face of Southern voters
    The 2012 elections revealed that, like the rest of the country, the South is undergoing big demographics changes that will change the shape of politics in the region for years to come. read more
  • Latest sanction against BP goes beyond Gulf spill
    The government's decision to at least temporarily ban BP from federal contracts is a result of not just the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, but years of safety problems at the oil giant. read more
  • Is North Carolina's renewable energy law in je ...
    Conservative groups whose clout grew in the recent N.C. elections want to repeal a groundbreaking state law requiring utilities to generate a small percentage of energy from renewable sources. Incoming Republican Gov. Pat McCrory has close ties to renewable energy foes -- and to renewable energy ...
  • Giving Tuesday: Support a voice for a better S ...
    Giving Tuesday is your chance to support fearless media and a voice for a better South. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 30 Must Have Android Games for 2012
    Android is surging, their remains no questions about it. Android is a proven platform now and that is particularly showing in the burgeoning apps market. Google Play Store is now home to nearly 900,000 applications and games. More than 25 billion apps and games have already been downloaded fro ...
  • How to Get Netflix Working with Ubuntu 12.04/1 ...
    Yes you read it just right. Netflix now works with Ubuntu. And no, there's no official Netflix support for Linux yet. Thanks to the hard work done by Erich Hoover and guys at iheartubuntu, Netflix has been made to work under Ubuntu using Wine and there is now a PPA to install the whole hac ...
  • Unity 4 Released, Adds Ability to Publish Game ...
    First, it was Valve, who went all the way by releasing Steam dedicated client for Linux (still in beta testing phase). Then came NVIDIA, a world leader in GPUs, announcing their optimized for Linux NVIDIA GeForce R310 drivers (in collaboration with Valve) for enhanced gaming experience in Linu ...
  • Elementary OS Luna Beta 1 Released
    The much anticipated Linux distro, Elementary OS "Luna", is finally here. For a beta release, Luna already looks pretty awesome. A quick overview of Elementary OS Beta 1. What's New in Elementary OS Luna Beta 1? Pantheon is the new desktop environment and shell for Elementar ...
  • Android is Surging, Adoption Rate Now 6 Times ...
    This is not news anymore, Android is becoming or as some might say, has already become, the numero uno OS for smartphones. But smartphones market is still in its infancy and is set to explode in the coming years, especially in the developing world. In places like India, Android has been a bloc ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The US Is Building Secret Site 911 In Israel
    Robert Johnson | Nov. 29, 2012, 11:29 AM Leave it to legendary Walter Pincus from the Washington Post to flesh out a Request for Proposal construction project planned for Israel called Site 911. The oddly named project will cost up to $100 million, take more than two years to complete, and ...
  • OPEN CLIMATE LETTER TO UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
    Mr. Secretary-General: On November 9 this year you told the General Assembly: “Extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal … Our challenge remains, clear and urgent: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to strengthen adaptation to … even larger climate shocks … and to reach a legally ...
  • Club of Rome – Global Warming Quotation ...
    Club of Rome – Global Warming Quotation – YouTube.
  • Recent Evidence Shows Vaccinated Kids Account ...
    Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times Vaccinated populations contract some of the highest rates of disease and more evidence on whooping cough is coming forward to support this claim. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is spreading across the entire US at rates at least twice as high as those ...
  • THE WORLD REVEALS ITS ANTI SEMITISM IN YESTERD ...
    “Why don’t they love our occupation and atrocities”? But first, here’s how the vote went …. Voted for the resolution: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazi ...

TO DO

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Cash Boost for Renewable Energy Solutions
Sacramento Bee
The team at renewable energy company Enviko are among a number of specialists delighted by the news that the UK is set to dramatically increase investment in renewable power. It has recently been reported that the government has agreed terms on a deal ...
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How To Pick Renewable Energy Stocks In Changing Markets: John McIlveen
Seeking Alpha
It's impossible to generalize when it comes to renewable energy investments. Therefore, investors must approach opportunities on a case-by-case-and state-by-state-basis. But Jacob Securities Senior Vice President of Research John McIlveen knows how to ...
Renewable Tax Credit Expiration Could Setback Industry
Vermont Public Radio
Tax credits that are seen as vital for the renewable energy industry are set to expire at the end of the year. Vermont's congressional delegation supports extending the credits. But the legislation is tied up in high-level budget and revenue ...
Chain Restaurants ClaimRenewable Fuel Standard & Corn Ethanol Cost Billions
Triple Pundit
The National Council of Chain Restaurants (NCCR) released a study that claims the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) could cost the restaurant industry up to $3.2 billion annually. The NCCR commissioned PwC to ...
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Port Angeles responsible forEcology projects, lawmakers say
Peninsula Daily
PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Peninsula's three state legislators said the city bears varying degree of responsibility for circumstances that led to $57.5 million to $65.2 million needed for five state Department of Ecology-related projects that...
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Ecology creates certified water right examiner program to increase efficiency ...
Access Washington
The program is being created under a 2010 legislative directive and complements Ecology's"Lean" campaign to streamline the process for water right permit holders seeking final water right certificates. The Water Resources Program at Ecology has been ...
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The Rise of 'Urban Ecology'
The Atlantic Cities
Earlier this year a trio ofecologists analyzed where otherecologists conducted their research and discovered that, by and large, it wasn't in cities. The group categorized some 2,500 studies published in ten influential ecology journals between 2004 ...
Ecology Action Centre weighs in for real Christmas trees
TheChronicleHerald.ca
A metre-tall fir tree is almost 10 years old. A two to 2.5-metre one has been quietly stretching toward the sun for 12 to 15 years. Shouldn't we be leaving these innocent plants alone instead of hauling them out of their cozy forest homes at Christmas ...
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Mercury's water ice at north pole finally proven
BBC News
Scientists have finally shown what has been postulated for decades: the planet Mercury holds billions of tonnes of water ice at its north pole. A report in Science shows evidence from the Messenger spacecraft that craters in constant shadow host water.
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San Diego Approves Pact for Desalinated Water
ABC News
A regional water agency approved a contract Thursday to buy the entire output of what would be the Western Hemisphere's largest seawater desalination plant, clearing the way for construction to begin early next year. The San Diego County Water ...
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Residents battle high water in Waubay
Daily Republic
“There's an island under there,” the mayor of Waubay said, breaking into an uncomfortable laugh and pointing to a grove of dead trees jutting from the waterabout a mile away. At a time when much of the Upper Midwest wrestled with the worst drought in...
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Low water levels on Mississippi River threatens shipping
Denver Post
LOUIS — After months of drought, companies that ship grain and other goods down the Mississippi River are being haunted by a potential nightmare: If water levels fall too low, the nation's main inland waterway could become impassable to barges just as ...
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