9 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: A picture from one of the chapels in the basement (crypt) of Washington National Cathedral (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Stained glass window at The Washington National Cathedral (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Buttresses at The Washington National Cathedral (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Darth Vader grotesque on the tower of the Washington National Cathedral (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A 3x2 stitched and HDR tone mapped image of the sanctuary at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Keystone XL demonstration, White House,8-23-2011 Photo Credit: Josh Lopez (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

CFACT

• The carbon trading money tree
  When it appears easy to make a lot of money from something simple then in all probability something is wrong. The economic rules which govern the world usually dictate that it is not easy to make a lot of money with not much effort.
• Are IPI and EPA plotting cap-and-trade for tra ...
  IPI Executive Director Michael Livermore demands that the EPA “make a finding” that transportation emissions might endanger public welfare, “propose a cap-and-trade system” for transportation fuels, find that aircraft fuels “endanger” public health, “propose a joint rulemaking with the Federal ...
• Keystone XL update: The jobs pipeline remains ...
  Former AFL-CIO executive Mark Ayres: "The Keystone Pipeline represents the prospect for 20,000 immediate jobs, and as many as 500,000 indirect jobs [just in the U.S.] via a strong economic multiplier effect."
• Biotech salmon: food fish for the masses
  Society’s real problem is to feed that peak population without destroying the world’s wild fisheries, eroding all its cropland and plowing down most of its wildlife habitat to produce our food in the meantime.
• FrackNation tv promo
  WATCH NOW. Fun new promo spot for FrackNation. Catch the premiere January 22 at 9PM on AXS.tv.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Washington National Cathedral to Allow Same-Se ...
  One of America’s most prominent churches, the Washington National Cathedral, which holds funerals and celebrations for US presidents and prominent leaders, announced on Wednesday that same-sex weddings will be performed within the Episcopal institution.
• Main News of January 9
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Dutch Govt to Block Bulgaria, Romania Schengen ...
  The Netherlands is planning again to block the issue of Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to the Schengen zone, which allows visa-free travel within the zone for citizens of member states, the Sofia news agency reported on Wednesday.
• In Electronic World, the Paper Check Persists ...
  The humble paper check has all but vanished from much of Europe—including Russia, where it is virtually nonexistent in financial transactions—but across the ocean in the United States, it just won’t fold.
• Dutch Official: Save Water, Pee While Showering
  A council official in a Dutch municipality has advised people to urinate while having a shower in order to save water and cash, DutchNews reported on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• ‘Doomsday Asteroid’ Bigger Than Estimated – ESA
  New observations made by Herschel space observatory show that asteroid Apophis, which is considered the most serious "space" threat to Earth, is bigger than first estimated, the European Space Agency said on its website on Wednesday.
• Our Galaxy May Host Billions of Earth-Size Pla ...
  At least 17 billion Earth-size planets may inhabit the Milky Way galaxy, SPACE.com reported citing a new study by US astronomers.
• Medvedev Approves Medical Science Development Plan
  Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved a development strategy for the medical sciences in Russia through 2025, a press release posted on the government website Friday says.
• For Sale: NASA Space Shuttle Stuff
  Now that the US space shuttle program is defunct, NASA is leasing and selling some of its facilities and equipment at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to private companies and entrepreneurs.
• Facebook Red-Faced As Copycat App Flops
  Just weeks after its launch, Facebook's self-destructing photo-sharing application, Poke, has seemingly fallen from grace with young mobile users still flocking to the SnapChat app that Poke was meant to smother, industry experts say.

Pruning Shears

• Best Music of 2012
  IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck.Links will be live for one week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me know and I’ll comply. You heartless, small-minded, ungenerous b******.Here are ...
• Gun violence, public health and the missing piece
  The massacre in Newtown has once again opened up the discussion of firearms in America. We are getting the usual dumbassery about how this is a punishment from God or the fault of video games (which apparently are unavailable outside of the US) and the usual preemptive whining about how this is ...
• "no one is there for you but you know who? You ...
  One of the under appreciated hazards of fracking is its effect on democracy. Fracking is a big, intrusive process - one that sucks up lots of water, creates enormous amounts of traffic and an ungodly amount of noise, etc. Setting aside the environmental dangers and health effects (!), the heav ...
• Transcript: When fracking comes to town: Maria ...
  Video here.…now sits there with two contaminated wells up for sale. As you can imagine, there’s not a lot of customers for a contaminated farm. So it’s sitting there waiting to go into bankruptcy. Her husband’s in Africa serving in the military. Her horses - she has t ...
• 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Idle No More: Hints of a Global Super-Movement
  What started as a murmur in early October from First Nations People in Canada in response to Bill C45 has become a movement that echoes the sentiments of people all over the world, a battle cry of love for the planet, "Idle No More." At first glance it might appear that this movement is isolated ...
• The Hoax of Entitlement Reform
  It has become accepted economic wisdom, uttered with deadpan certainty by policy pundits and budget scolds on both sides of the aisle, that the only way to get control over America's looming deficits is to "reform entitlements." Click here to read this article
• Professor John Vandermeer Challenges Environme ...
  Neoliberal environmentalist Mark Lynas recently gave a talk at the Oxford Farming Association in which he apologized for once militating against GMOs. Now, after having discovered "science" has decided we need GMOs to feed the world.Click here to read this article
• Secrets and Lies of the Wall Street Bailout
  It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed.Click here to read this article
• Ben & Jerry's Corporate Parent, Unilever, Spen ...
  Ben & Jerry's parent company, Unilever, spent $467,100 against ballot measure Proposition 37, the recent failed referendum to mandate GMO labeling, in California last year.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• The CLF Week in Links: New Year, New Energy
  Here are a few of the news items that are getting the most attention at the Center for a Livable Future.
• Cooking Climate-Friendly without a World-Class ...
  If it takes a professional chef to cook climate-friendly, we’re all doomed.
• Can’t Stand the Heat? Get Into the Kitchen
  Agriculture and the food system play a huge role in climate change – they’re far more important than most of us recognize. Because of that, choosing what to put on my table and on my own plate is a powerful act.
• Opa! Food For Thought Symposia at The Black Ol ...
  Black Olive owner Stelios Spiliadis and his family have been introducing Baltimore not only to their Greek culture, but also to their passion for health and wellness. Their hopes of inspiring real change through the power of good food have been spreading like wildfire.
• FDA Should Share Data about Livestock on Drugs
  It’s my hope that GAP’s lawsuit against FDA will finally compel the agency to break ties with drug companies and release the information that the public health community needs to monitor the use—and misuse—of antibiotics and other drugs in food animal production.

Investigate - Breaking News

• US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...
  US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom. US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
• Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...
  Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos. Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos
• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
  Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims. Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
• The Vitamin D Briefing
  The Vitamin D Briefing. The Vitamin D Briefing
• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
  New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage. New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage

My Care2 Picks

• The Unspoken Link Between Dispersants and Sic ...
  The federal government now considers human health an acceptable risk tradeoff for dispersant use. Many of the same chemicals in dispersants are also ingredients in diluents for tar sands and drilling fluids for hydraulic fracturing Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |  & ...
• When Engine Meets Ice
  It turns out that ice can not only build up on a planes wings; it can also do so inside sensitive parts of an aircraft engine. HWiC three-month field campaign (January to March 2013) based in Darwin, Australia will study anvil regions on top of storms Submitted by John Farnham to Science & T ...
• Saving EducationAnd the Planet
  The suggestion that teachers should also be preparing students to address our growing ecological crises might seem ridiculous at best. But what if doing so could boost student achievement? Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Predator Defense Introduces the Film :"The Imp ...
  Explainswhy wolves can't be successfully managed by state wildlife agencies: Agency methods ignore core biology: how wolves hunt and breed, but their funding depends on hunting/ trapping fees. In fact, current wolf management may result in Wolf's demise. Submitted by Michael M. to Animals &nbsp ...
• U.S. Navy sailors sue over exposure to Fukushi ...
  officials had to reposition the massive aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan after it passed under the massive plume of airborne radiation from TEPCO Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
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• 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...]]

Farm Wars

• Bugger The Bankers – They Don’t Give An Arse!
  Let's all raise our voices and join in with the Austerity Allstars!
• The Non-Logic of Fluoridating Water
  Fluoride is a compound that is added to most drinking water in the United States and some other countries. It can even be found in your food and other products such as toothpaste and dental floss. Now, why is fluoride added to the water? Let’s have a look at the alleged “logic”...
• Just Say No to GMO Hemp!
  GMO Hemp - A good plant gone bad...
• It’s 2013!
  Greetings from Farm Wars!
• A Letter of Thanks to Organic Farmers
  Whether you are a famous farmer like Joel Salatin of Virginia or The Barefoot Farmer of Tennessee, or you’re just trying to feed your family and a few friends with real food, you are healing the world! And your hard work does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• CT senator calls for background checks to buy ammo
  ShareThisCT senator calls for background checks to buy ammo 09 Jan 2013 U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D) said he wants legislation that would require instant background checks for the sale of gun ammunition. He is expected to take up the proposal once Congress reconvenes. "They can be done in 30 ...
• KBR, Guilty In Iraq Negligence, Wants Taxpayer ...
  ShareThisKBR, Guilty In Iraq Negligence, Wants Taxpayers to Foot the Bill 09 Jan 2013 Sodium dichromate is an orange-yellowish substance containing hexavalent chromium, an anti-corrosion chemical. To Lt. Col. James Gentry of the Indiana National Guard, who was stationed at the Qarmat Ali wate ...
• Flu Season Has Boston Declaring Health Emergency
  ShareThisFlu Season Has Boston Declaring Health Emergency 09 Jan 2013 Massachusetts public health officials are reporting 18 flu-related deaths in the state already this season, and Boston has declared a public health emergency. A spokeswoman for Mayor Thomas Menino says the city is working wi ...
• Obama to tap Jack Lew to head Treasury
  ShareThisObama to tap Jack Lew to head Treasury 09 Jan 2013 President Obama is set to nominate White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew as his next Treasury secretary, choosing a longtime expert on the nation's budget challenges, as the country faces an imminent battle over the debt limit, accordi ...
• US student nabbed for making terroristic threa ...
  ShareThisUS student nabbed for making terroristic threat against school 09 Jan 2013 A student has been arrested in Texas for making a terroristic threat toward his school on his Twitter account. Local authorities said the student, whose name has not been released, apparently made the treat at N ...

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: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
  The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
• 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 ...

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

• Tracking Training in South Africa
  07 January 2013
• Note from a Wise Man
  07 January 2013 A note appeared on a private message board.  This private group includes many current and former generals, and just about anyone you see on television or in books as a national security specialist, ranging from CIA to all the top war correspondents, special operations types ...
• Amber of War
  06 January 2013 A defense expert commenting on my dispatch “Stuck in the Mud” recommended the book Mud:  A Military History.  I completed reading the book.  The recommendation was solid. The subject became more interesting in Iraq.  Goo would sometimes rain from the skies ...
• Medevac Crews Increase En-Route Patient Care
  Army UH-60 MEDEVAC Black Hawk (Photo by Sgt. Daniel Schroeder, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs) 05 January 2013 Army.mil/News by Capt. Richard Barker KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- During the course of the last several months, two Medevac companies in Task Force Hammerhead, Company C, 3 ...
• Americans Never Give Up Your Guns
  03 January 2013 This interesting piece was published 27 December 2012 on a Russian blog. Reprinted here with permission: By Stanislav Mishin Americans Never Give Up Your Guns By Stanislav Mishin These days, there are few few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degen ...

The Killing Train

• Duets for Abdelrazik
  I'm listening to Duets for Abdelrazik, which my friend Stefan Christoff sent to me as an early holiday present. It's mellow music considering that it is the story of the thoroughly appalling mistreatment of someone by an appalling system. read more
• Global Research Podcast on the DRC
  A podcast interview with me on the DRC on global research.ca, conducted by Michael Welch.
• Haiti's New Dictatorship (the short version)
  December 19, 2012 Socialist Project Bullet article summarizing Haiti's New Dictatorship What constitutes a dictatorship? Haiti had an election in 2006, which the popular candidate won. It had an election in 2011, which had one of the lowest turnouts in recent history and which was subject to all ...
• Mark Twain's Killing Train
  Every time I give someone my email address, or tell them the title of my blog, I get a raised eyebrow or a shocked look. Now, telling people the title of my first book has the same effect. For that reason, I've set up this blog to have "Why Killing Train?" and an explanation about the new book v ...
• Partition talk
  When Belgium realized in the 1950s that, given that France and Britain were losing their African colonies, it would no longer be able to hold on to Congo, it set about trying to guarantee continued control over the strategic aspects of the economy, especially the mines. At first, it sponsored it ...

treehugger

• Since 2009, Sunday TV Shows Have Not Quoted A ...
  For science, what matters is data. But for policy, you need to influence public opinion, and sadly, there's often a rift between what the scientific data shows and what public opinion knows.
• 2012 Was Hottest Year on Record for U.S. Lower ...
  2012 was a notable year on many fronts, and that includes the weather.
• On It's 150th Birthday of the First London Sub ...
  It's just over a hundred years since Frank Pick started working there, and his influence has been felt around the world ever since.
• CES 2013: Samsung Unveil Evolution Kits to Upg ...
  Instead of buying Samsung's latest premium TV, you can upgrade your old (Samsung premium TV) with this new little black box.
• CES 2013: OLPC Launches Their Newest Laptop/Ta ...
  The non-profit has made three new announcements at CES this year, one of which is the OLPC 4.0 that switches from laptop to tablet and back.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Burmese migrants lose jobs after Thai wage hike
  Thousands of Burmese migrants face unemployment after new minimum wage requirements imposed by the Thai government earlier this month forced several factories and workshops to close down
• Shan rebels warn govt over recent clashes
  Shan rebels, who clashed with government troops in eastern Burma over the weekend, have warned the army to respect the terms of their ceasefire agreement or risk derailing the peace process
• NLD plans first party conference in February
  Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition Monday said it plans to hold its first ever national conference next month, in the latest sign of the party's mainstream role after decades of repression under Burma's former junta
• Displaced Kachin terrified as shells hit centr ...
  The Burmese army launched a series of mortar attacks against the Kachin rebel headquarters in Laiza on Sunday, prompting panic and fear among the 15,000 displaced people living in camps nearby, according to local sources
• NLD spokesperson defends alleged rape of ‘Musl ...
  A spokesperson for the National League for Democracy has defended one of their members accused of drugging and raping a 15-year-old girl in a statement that highlights that both he and the alleged victim are Muslims

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Global warming at a standstill, new Met Office ...
  The Met Office has downgraded its forecast for global warming to suggest that by 2017 temperatures will have remained about the same for two decades.
• Europe, wind, warming... we're slowly waking u ...
  2012 was a year when many long-dominant belief systems began to collapse, says Christopher Booker
• Climate change may have driven evolution, scie ...
  Rapid climate change in Africa two million years ago may have driven human evolution, according to new research.
• A shameless lack of blame at Patten's BBC
  Once you're at the top, it seems your very incompetence will be rewarded, says Christopher Booker
• Has Doha finally laid the ghosts of Copenhagen ...
  In terms of fighting global warming right now, it is a failure. But by finally sorting out the Kyoto Protocol and moving towards a global deal where both rich and poor countries cut carbon, could the Doha Deal finally move the world towards the treaty first hoped for in Copenhagen?

National Geographic | Environment

• 2012: Hottest Year on Record for Continental U.S.
  Last year was the warmest year on record for the continental U.S. by a wide margin, scientists said this week.
• Salt Power: Norway Project Gives Osmotic Energ ...
  Ocean energy lurks not only in waves and tides, but also in saltiness. A Norway experiment seeks to harness renewable power in saltwater’s natural movement into fresh water.
• What Lives in Your Gut?
  A citizen science project explores how diet and lifestyle affect the microbes that dwell inside us.
• Wireless Power May Cut the Cord for Plug-In De ...
  WiTricity, a company based near Boston, envisions a future where everything from mobile phones to vehicles can be charged without wires.
• Grabbing Water From Future Generations
  Many of the world's aquifers are being pumped dry to support unsustainable agriculture.

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Is the Press Fair to Palin?
  The former Alaska governor likes to criticize the "lamestream media." Does it hold her to a different standard?
• Will Nuclear Watchdog Report Change U.S. Polic ...
  The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran may still be working toward a bomb
• Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'
  After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information
• Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UN
  American leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter
• Obama's Lonely Middle Ground
  The president and Congress just haven't gotten along. In tonight's speech, he'll face a tough political calculus yet again.

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• "Too Big" Is Hollowing the Middle Class, Killi ...
  There are different varieties of "too big"-- banks, businesses, stores, billionaires, global trade deals-- and they are all hollowing out the middle class and destroying the American dream. I sat down for dinner last night with, Stu, an old friend from kindergarten-- a guy who has worked fo ...
• Whither Hugo? Chavez's Enemies See Opportuniti ...
  The media has launched an impressive propaganda campaign aimed at discrediting Chavez, denigrating his achievements, and spreading fear about the future. The intention is to foment political instability and gin up support for the right-wing opposition which has the implicit support of Washington.
• Supporting Nonviolence in Syria by Stephen Zunes
  This article analyses the case for nonviolent resistance in Syria versus armed struggle.
• The Soul of America
  Despite such terminology as "fiscal cliff" and "debt ceiling," the great debate taking place in Washington now has relatively little to do with financial issues. It is all about ideology. It is all about economic winners and losers in American society. It is all about the power of Big Money. ...
• Shame on NPR: Ellliot Abrams Is Not a Trustwor ...
  Despite his status as a convicted felon with a history of lying, Abrams was treated as a trustworthy authority. Melissa Block might just as well have been interviewing Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, or Rush Limbaugh.

Switchboard

• California's Environmental Leadership - Progre ...
  Annie Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, San Francisco office and Sacramento What California does makes a difference.  When President Obama increased national mileage standards last year, he built on the pioneering work that Senator Fran P ...
• Governor Cuomo's New York Green Bank: a Tripl ...
  Doug Sims, Energy Project Finance Specialist, New York Governor Cuomo's New York Green Bank:  a Triple Crown for the Clean Energy Economy Today, in his State of the State address, Governor Cuomo announced that New York State will be forming a ...
• Build Smart New York: The Governor Said So
  Greg Hale, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, New York City A few days ago (December 28, 2012 to be exact), while many of us were taking a little time off to relax and attend to holiday festivities, Governor Cuomo announced a very important initiat ...
• Is the proposal to hunt Yellowstone grizzlies ...
  Louisa Willcox, Senior Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana Photo courtesy of Creative Commons: photograher Bruce McKay, Yellow Snow Photography The Dec. 29 opinion piece in the Billings Gazette by Scott Talbott of Wyoming Game and Fish and Har ...
• Governor Cuomo: Let's enable a robust and sust ...
  Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Governor Andrew Cuomo today called for a major expansion of his NY-Sun Initiative in his 2013 State of the State address. First announced in his State of the State last January, his NY-Su ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The BBWAA’s Idiotic Moralistic Posturing
  Obviously, the BBWAA’s Hall of Fame vote this year is pretty much the equivalent of Brent Musburger’s fapping during the BCS title game. You have arguably the greatest player and greatest pitcher of all time not coming close to election, based on accusations of “cheating” ...
• Cultural knowledge and personal responsibility
  Somebody — I think it may have been the most overrated philosopher of all time, J.S. Mill — said that truth goes through three stages. First it’s mocked as absurd. Then it’s declared to be against religion. Finally, it’s said to be what everyone has believed all alo ...
• The Legality of #mintthecoin
  I have a piece up at the Prospect explaining in more detail that the trillion dollar platinum coin is 1)unambiguously legal, and 2)is preferable to allowing the GOP to either shoot the hostage and crash the economy or to make this hostage-taking an institutionalized feature of the American polit ...
• There Are Blue States and Then There Are Blue ...
  Rhode Island and Oregon are two of the most reliable states for Democrats each election cycle. If anything, Rhode Island is even more a sure thing than Oregon. But the reality of public policy in the two states shows some pretty large differences. Admittedly, the following is anecdotal, but it a ...
• Christie
  Since all the important people are now in love with Chris Christie for attacking his own party, let’s not forget that the man is the purveyor of awful, awful policies. No doubt the real solution for struggling school districts in New Jersey is to deny them money. I understand that poverty ...

Desert Research Institute

• Gary Trubl, Dec. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate St ...
  Meet Gary Trubl, a student working towards his masters in Environmental Science and currently studying the biogeochemistry related to denitrification of Lake Vida, Antarctica.
• Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...
  This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...
• Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...
  Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.
• DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...
  DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
• Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...
  Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.

Earth Techling

• Big AZ Solar Online, Another Loan Program Win
  The 150-megawatt Mesquite Solar 1 power plant, backed by a U.S. loan guarantee, is online and generating clean power for thousands of homes.
• Containers Opened Up At Shanghai Organic Farm
  A visitor center made out of 78 shipping containers at a Shanghai organic farm is turning heads for its good looks as well as its green building chops.
• Wind Production Tax Credit: An Assessment
  The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation takes a look at the recent history of the just passed wind power PTC extension.
• Back From The Brink: Home Energy Efficiency Ta ...
  Commercial clean energy wasn't the only beneficiary of the last-minute "fiscal cliff" legislation.
• Wind Power Subsidies: The Best Use Of Taxpayer ...
  OilPrice.com raises the question of whether or not wind power subsidies are the best use of tax payer dollars.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Michigan selects its next law dean
  The University of Michigan Law School is promoting from within for its new dean, selecting associate dean for academic affairs Mark West to replace Evan Caminker when he steps down on August 31 after 10 years in the job.
• Top 10 lessons for litigating against the U.S. ...
  Know your adversary -- its strengths and vulnerabilities, its practices and predilections.
• Midsize Cincinnati firm adds two practice leaders
  Cincinnati-based Keating Muething & Klekamp has added new leaders to its real estate and labor and employment groups.
• D.C. panel gives cool reception to gun dealers ...
  Judges on a federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday expressed some skepticism about the viability of a challenge to the government's demand for information from gun dealers in four states about the multiple sale of certain semiautomatic rifles.
• Whitey Bulger asks appeals court to order recu ...
  A lawyer for Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger asked a federal appeals court to order the recusal of a federal judge who had a leadership role at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston during years that Bulger claimed law enforcement immunity as an FBI informant.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
  The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
• New State Impact PA App
  Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
• OilandGasHelp.com
  I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
• The Passage of House Bill 1950…
  I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
• Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
  From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

• Somalia Congratulates Regional Sports Leaders ...
  Regional sports heads laud for Somali NOC election, praise football activities
• New Google Applications Blasted as Racist and ...
  Board of Equalization Member Betty T. Yee Demands Removal of Racist Google Applications
• Arctic Cold Heading Our Way
  Farther east, arctic air will spill into the northern Plains this weekend from central Canada and will progress southeastward in stages through next week.
• US Adds Two Sudanese Nationals to List of Terr ...
  The US State Department has disclosed the names of the terrorist as Abdelbasit Alhaj Alhassan Haj Hamad and Mohamed Makawi Ibrahim Mohamed.
• Low-Income Workers Have Higher Risk of Hyperte ...
  UC Davis Study Links Low Wages With Hypertension, Especially for Women and Younger Workers

environment 360

• U.S. Heat Record Was Shattered in 2012, NOAA ...
  Last year was by far the warmest year in U.S. history, with the average temperature in the contiguous states climbing a full degree higher than the previous high and Click to enlarge NOAA Annual climate records, 2012 every state recording above-average annual temperatures, according to ...
• Using Fireflies As a Model, Scientists Boost E ...
  Drawing inspiration from the structure of a firefly, scientists say they have improved the efficiency of a light-emitting diode (LED) by 55 percent. While studying the insects, the researchers noticed that Nicolas AndréLED inspired by fireflies a pattern of sharp, jagged scales on the fireflies ...
• Interview: The Perils and Rewards of Protectin ...
  It is difficult to imagine a more dangerous place to be a conservationist than the Democratic Republic of Congo, which for decades has been ravaged by war and civil Virunga National Park/gorillacd.org Emmanuel de Merode strife that has left several million people dead. But it is against t ...
• Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill Fails to Face Coas ...
  As part of the sorely-needed aid package to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, Congress is also considering spending billions on ill-advised and environmentally damaging beach and coastal rebuilding projects that ignore the looming threats of rising seas and intensifying storms. BY ROB YOUNG
• New Experiments Yield Insights into State of P ...
  A team of U.S. researchers recently deployed a suite of technologies in the Arctic tundra that they say will provide a better understanding of the carbon contained in permafrost soils and how much is likely to be released as the planet warms. At an experimental plot near Barrow, Alaska, scientis ...

Red Ice Creations

• Dreams of Prophecy: Evolution and the Biology ...
  In the modern world, the mystery of psychic phenomena seems to coexist alongside itself, straddling rather fractured grounds between doubt and believability. While science still remains unable to prove conclusively that certain individuals can see into the future or read the minds of others, the ...
• Obama signs Pentagon bill maintaining Guantana ...
  For the second year in a row, President Barack Obama has signed into law a Pentagon funding bill that allows for the indefinite military detention of anyone, including American citizens, without charges, while barring the shutdown of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The signing of the National De ...
• The American Security Council
  Cold War joint CIA-FBI-Pentagon front with extensive ties to death squads, drug trafficking, pedophile entrapment networks and other criminal covert operations. ""My son was tortured to death in front of my eyes," she finally told me one day, "to force me to tell them where some students were hi ...
• AIG Is Thinking About Suing the Government fo ...
  It’s been almost five years since AIG’s stock dropped 60 percent in a day leaving the company doomed to failure, when Uncle Sam swooped in with $182 billion to rescue it. But AIG must have a short memory, because on Monday night news emerged that the insurance company is actually thinking about ...
• Jihadist Terrorists Became Beloved Rebels In T ...
  When President Obama announced that he ordered the death of Bin Laden, an untruthful claim, his zombie-like followers gathered at the White House to cheer the end of Al-Qaeda’s decade of terror. But, while they were busy cheering, their leader was secretly supporting Al Qaeda in its armed strugg ...

Russia Today

• EU seeks more privacy pressure on Google, Facebook
  European Union lawmakers are hoping to pressure internet giants such as Facebook and Google, to boost personal security controls and limit the collection of data without users consent. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Saudi Arabia beheads young migrant maid for ki ...
  Saudi Arabia has beheaded a young Sri Lankan housemaid despite years of appeals for clemency from her home country and widespread international condemnation. The woman was sentenced to death for the 2005 killing of an... Read Full Article at RT.com
• No Game: App on bloody Syrian conflict raises ...
  Apple won’t back the “Endgame: Syria” app, saying it is “targeting a real government.” Questions remain on how ethical it is to simulate an ongoing conflict, with RT’s Egor Piskunov - who’s tested the game - saying it... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Flying towards war? Drone race signals escalat ...
  The development and acquisition of drones has become crucial to the ever-expanding arms race between China and Japan, as tensions over disputed islands in the East China Sea could soon reach boiling point. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Muslim exclusive: Malaysian sultan forbids usi ...
  The Sultan of the Malaysian state Selangor has issued a decree that the sacred word ‘Allah’ can be used only by Muslims. The move put more fire into controversy in the state where language peculiarities also make... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Who is ‘Idle No More’?
  Here is a short explanation of who is Idle No More? Idle No More: Hints of a Global Super-Movement
• In defense of China against US imperialism today
  China and Russia might have both been turned backwards towards capitalism by their own ‘communist parties’, but that is no reason today to let them remain undefended while under constant threats of direct military attack by Western Imperialism led by the Pentagon and Nato. And YES, t ...
• Broomfield Police play rough game of Cowboys a ...
  BROOMFIELD, COLO.- Fellow Occupy members and I joined in a “round dance” flash mob at a local mall on Wednesday night, as part of the growing IDLE NO MORE actions whose First Nations grievances include the despoiling of indigenous treaty lands by tar sands extraction and the XL pipel ...
• 14 cents
  Since cities like Colorado Springs are trying to make it illegal for anyone to ask for spare change on downtown streets and elsewhere, the State of Colorado in its infinite wisdom and kindness of the bosses has just now raised the minimum wage by 14 cents an hour! Whoopeee!!!!!! Now don’t ...
• The NYE Fiscal Cliff is a Buffalo Jump. Is you ...
  DENVER, COLORADO- The DC Kabuki Divas are amping up their New Years cliffhanger, the so-called Fiscal Cliff, to inaugurate domestic austerity measures meant to cement the widening income gap between the rich and everybody else. If it’s a cliff, it’s a buffalo jump off which the easil ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• 9/11 Truth on Netflix
  If you are trying to introduce someone to the 9/11 truth movement that has Netflix, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, can be beamed onto their TV in seconds via their streaming service! Reviews from Netflix subscribers can be read here on the Neflix site. Many other great documentaries are ...
• Why we KNOW the 911 Truth 'Debunkers' are Actu ...
  When dismissing or ignoring the key scientific evidence that proves the 911 attacks upon the World Trade Centre involved inside help most 'Debunkers' rest their case upon a few central fallacies - that the key evidence is not adequately proven or that the conspiracy material bein ...
• 911 Free Fall Radio: Mark Basile and WTC Dust ...
  Mark Basile is a chemical engineer who has worked in the industry for thirty plus years and has been a pioneer of the 9/11 Truth movement when it comes to the hard evidence. He is also featured in the latest movie by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, "9/11 Explosive Evidence, Experts Spea ...
• Occupy Steubenville, 12/29/2012
  I’m happy to announce that the Occupy Steubenville protest was a huge success. Hundreds of people showed up, and we voiced our message loud and clear for all to hear. We got some pretty good coverage by WTRF. You might recognize the guy shown at minute 1:09. ;)  WTRF 7 News Sports Weather ...
• Attending Occupy Steubenville Tomorrow
  I’m going to be attending occupysteubenvilletomorrow. For those who can't attend, the live-stream will be here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oprollredroll. While there I'll shoot some footage and pictures, and upload those online as soon as I can. Peace. Free desktop streaming ap ...

Fooducate

• The Healthiest Chicken Nugget Is…
• Comparing Burger King’s New Chicken Nuggets to ...
• 2 Years After Major Food Safety Law Enacted, F ...
• When Stevia Isn’t Stevia
• Starbuck’s Evolution Fresh Juices – What’s Rea ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• 'Human safari' row goes to India’s Supreme Court
  Months after the Supreme Court ordered a buffer zone around the Jarawa's Reserve, hundreds of tourists continue to travel along the Andaman Trunk Road every day.© Andaman Chronicle/ SurvivalSurvival has urged India’s Supreme Court to take immediate action against ‘human safaris’, exactly a ...
• In pictures: The reindeer people under threat ...
  Tribal people rely on reindeer for food, transport, shelter and warmth.© Steve MorganEach year, the image of the reindeer finds its way onto cards, sweaters and into people’s imaginations, but to the world’s indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the animal is not just for Christmas. As news emerges ...
• Indians sue Peru over broken promise to isolat ...
  The Nanti are one of several isolated tribes living inside the reserve who would be severely affected by the gas expansion plans© Survival InternationalPeru’s top indigenous organizations are taking on the government and powerful gas companies in an attempt to stop gas exploration that seriously ...
• South American tribe labelled backward by BBC ...
  Marr’s TV series re-enacts Ibore and Parojnai’s (pictured) first contact in 1998.© SurvivalA South American tribe whose way of life was labelled backward in a major BBC TV series has hit back at the programme. The moment in 1998 when members of the Ayoreo tribe in Paraguay first made contact wi ...
• Bushmen beaten, suffocated and buried alive fo ...
  Kebonyeng Kepese has been arrested and beaten for hunting to feed his family. © Survival Paramilitary police have severely beaten two Bushmen, burying one in a shallow grave, after accusing them of hunting without permits in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Nkemetse Motsok ...

Greg Palast

• Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of ...
  By Greg Palast for Truthout Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It's the oil. And it's the Koch Brothers – and it's the ketchup. [As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, ...
• 'The Assassination of Hugo Chavez' Download th ...
  Over the years many things have been said about Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez but rarely has the true story of the man Pat Robertson called "a dangerous enemy" been told - that's what I've done in The Assassination of Hugo Chavez. Since the main stream media has decided that Chavez is "a rui ...
• The Obligatory, End of the Year Top 10 List
  Here's the stories the got the most attention in 2012 The Palast Investigative Fund was quite effective this year. Vulture funds were banned, election theft made national headlines, and we outed gov't profiteer posing as a candidate. Oh, and our little book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits hit ...
• The Anti-Clause: Reverend Billy's No-Click Chr ...
  By Greg Palast for Truthout.org [New York, December 18, 2012] Even for New York, this was WEIRD. There were a half dozen Santa Clauses on Second Avenue getting a sermon from a Midwestern preacher who looks like a cross between televangelist Jerry Falwell and a white-haired Elvis. The Santa Crew ...
• Before it's too late...Xmas/Xanuka Gifts from ...
  By Greg Palast The Mayans sure know how to take the fun out of Christmas. The world ends on December 21... but that still gives you time, if you act NOW, to make your year-end tax-deductible donation to the not-for-profit Palast Investigative Fund. And we'll get a 'Thank You Gift' out to you (or ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Is it Drugs Not Guns that Cause Violence?
  Dr. Hyla Cass A common thread amongst the most horrific school shootings of the past 25 years is that the majority of the shooters were taking a psychiatric medication. With the media fixated on guns and violent video games, Connecticut's...
• Dachel Media Update: Mercury, Special Ed, ABA
  Jan 7, 2013, NorthJersey.com: LETTER Linking autism and mercury exposure Jan 7, 2013, Philadelphia Inquirer: The price of information Jan 6, 2013, Boston Globe: Turbulence? Blame gravity waves Jan 5, 2013, Ventura County Star: Who's New in Business: iFlextrain Fitness...
• Drs Moffic and Breggin and Thoughts on Newtown CT
  By Teresa Conrick With the recent Sandy Hook massacre, Age of Autism had posted for our readers, a number of articles discussing our response, as well as patterns to other senseless massacres: Age of Autism Responds to Newtown CT Autism...
• Dachel Media Update: Vaccination Rates Fall
  Jan 6, 2013, Sacramento Bee: Child vaccination rates fall I’m so used to reporters writing on vaccine issues always being extremely one-sided and selective in their coverage. They never tire of telling us that all the science is in and...
• Genevra Pittman on Chelation and Autism
  By Anne Dachel An interesting story by Reuters medical reporter Genevra Pittman came out on Dec 21, 2012. The message was clear from the title: Chelation doesn't help kids with autism: study. Chelation is a big topic in the autism...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Bugger The Bankers – They Don’t Give An Arse!
  Let's all raise our voices and join in with the Austerity Allstars!
• The Non-Logic of Fluoridating Water
  Fluoride is a compound that is added to most drinking water in the United States and some other countries. It can even be found in your food and other products such as toothpaste and dental floss. Now, why is fluoride added to the water? Let’s have a look at the alleged “logic”...
• Just Say No to GMO Hemp!
  GMO Hemp - A good plant gone bad...
• It’s 2013!
  Greetings from Farm Wars!
• A Letter of Thanks to Organic Farmers
  Whether you are a famous farmer like Joel Salatin of Virginia or The Barefoot Farmer of Tennessee, or you’re just trying to feed your family and a few friends with real food, you are healing the world! And your hard work does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.

Open Your Eyes News

• Obama nominates mastermind of controversial dr ...
  DailyMail – John Brennan, 57, the current head of counter-terrorism, has also provoked ire on the Left because of his connection during the Bush administration, when he was a senior CIA officer, to ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques’ such as water-boarding, which many regard as ...
• China ‘to reform’ controversial la ...
  Aljazeera – Chinese state media has reported that the country will reform its controversial system of forced labour camps this year. The state Xinhua news agency’s announcement on Monday contradicted earlier media reports, which cited domestic security chief Meng Jianzhu, that said t ...
• Merkel Economy Shows Neglect as Sick Man Conce ...
  Bloomberg – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s economic machine is beginning to show signs of neglect. As the continent’s growth engine and self-appointed fiscal paragon orders budget cuts for its peers, investors, economists and policy makers are starting to warn Germany is turning a blind ...
• Iraqis awarded $5m over Abu Ghraib abuse
  Aljazeera – A US defence contractor whose subsidiary was accused of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28m to 71 former inmates held there between 2003 and 2007. Tuesday’s settlement marks the first successful effort by lawyers for former ...
• EU Commission warns social gap widening in EU
  DW – Efforts to bridge the wealth gap in the European Union have suffered a major setback, the EU’s executive Commission has found. As rich nations have become richer, poorer countries are locked in a downward spiral. While debt-laden countries in the EU’s southern periphery ha ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Great white sharks may warrant listing as 'thr ...
  State fish and wildlife officials, although deeply skeptical about low numbers of great white sharks off the Pacific Coast, determined that there was sufficient scientific information to warrant a full review on whether the feared, toothy creature should be listed as threatened with extinction.
• Activist formerly opposed to GMOs explains his ...
  It’s not often that you hear someone stand up in front of a microphone and tell the world they have been wrong about a high-profile issue. But that’s exactly what Mark Lynas did last week at the Oxford Farming Conference in Oxford, England, when he renounced his long-held belief ...
• Elusive giant squid caught on video for the fi ...
  For centuries the giant squid has been the stuff of legend, but now, for the first time ever, scientists have collected footage of a giant squid, ( Architeuthis), in its natural habitat, thousands of feet below the ocean's surface. 
• Some corals are 'always prepared' to take the heat
  As the tide drops, seawater in Ofu Lagoon gets cut off from the ocean swirling around American Samoa. Under the intense South Pacific sun, these shallow waters can reach 93 degrees -- temperatures that typically would make corals overheated, cause them to bleach bone white and die.
• Judge blocks Homewood ski expansion at Lake Tahoe
  A federal judge has blocked plans to greatly expand a small Placer County ski resort on the western shore of Lake Tahoe after finding that the project’s environmental review was inadequate. 

water.org

• How far would you go?
  SUMMIT ON THE SUMMIT is an initiative designed to drive awareness and change to the global clean water crisis while engaging a community around the issue. By taking cultural influencers, educators and high profile individuals to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, SUMMIT joins the movement to bring clea ...
• A safe drink of water
  Mrs. Rangamma and her family members used to drink water directly from the tap in front of the house that was then stored inside. However, the water was not safe for drinking as Mysore City Corporation is not using proper methods of water purification. Rangamma used to find a white layer of cont ...
• Summit on the Summit Begins
  Chevenee Reavis, Director of Strategic Initiatives, co-leads a team of safe water advocates and educators on an ambitious expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro in an effort to drive awareness of the global water crisis.
• 2012 Year End Conference Call
  Recorded: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 Duration: 34:36 Our co-founder and CEO, Gary White, shared his thoughts on this past year, major milestones reached, new partnerships, and innovations. He also discuss where the organization is headed in 2013. The conference call concluded with a ...
• Thank You for a Great 2012
  Thank you for all of your support in 2012. This year, you've been a true water champion – you've learned about the water crisis, inspired your families and friends, donated your voice, held fundraising events, and gotten to know some of the individuals we serve by reading and watching their stories.

Cryptogon

• Secret Government Documents Reveal Vaccines to ...
  Via: Natural News: Through several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Dr. Tomljenovic was able to obtain transcripts of private meetings that were held between the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), a so-called “independent expert advisory committee” tha ...
• Stephen Hawking ‘More Machine Now Than M ...
  This article is great for those considering enrolling in Ph.D. programs. While the example of Hawking twitching his eyebrow to set swarms of minions aflutter with activity might seem extreme, this is actually the essence of the graduate school experience for many. Your adviser probably won&#8217 ...
• Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users
  Via: SC Magazine: Up to 80 percent of certain anonymous underground forum users can be identified using linguistics, researchers say. The techniques compare user posts to track them across forums and could even unveil authors of thesis papers or blogs who had taken to underground networks. &#822 ...
• Minimum of 40 Children Paralyzed After New Men ...
  Via: Vactruth: On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, located in northern Chad, Africa. According to the newspaper La Voix, out of five hundred children who received the new meningitis vaccine MenAfriVac, at least 40 of them between the ages of 7 and 18 have ...
• FPSRussia Business Partner Found Dead – ...
  Via: Guns.com: Business partner of FPSRussia, the popular Youtuber known for getting his hands on the latest and greatest guns and gear, was found dead Thursday evening in Carnesville, Georgia. Franklin County Sheriff Stevie Thomas told local media that 32-year-old Keith Ratliff died of a single ...

The Economic Collapse

• By The Numbers: 20 Facts About The Collapse Of ...
  The economic implosion of Europe is accelerating.  Even while the mainstream media continues to proclaim that the financial crisis in Europe has been "averted", the economic statistics that are coming out of Europe just continue to get worse.  Manufacturing activity in Europe has been contractin ...
• If Obama Can Just Create A Trillion Dollar Coi ...
  If Barack Obama can "solve" the debt ceiling crisis by printing up some trillion dollar coins, then why does the federal government need our money?  As another debt ceiling showdown approaches, many in the liberal media are suggesting that if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling that Obama s ...
• Large Cities All Over America Are Degenerating ...
  Large U.S. cities that the rest of the world used to look at in envy are now being transformed into gang-infested hellholes with skyrocketing crime rates.  Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis, New Orleans and Oakland were once bustling with economic activity, but as industry ...
• 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will ...
  Do you believe that economic trouble is coming in 2013?  If so, you have a lot of company.  According to a brand new Gallup poll that was just released, 65 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be a year of "economic difficulty" while only 33 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be ...
• The Good, The Bad And The Ugly From The Fiscal ...
  The fiscal cliff deal contains more bad news than it does good news.  Yes, the tax increases on the middle class could have been much worse, and we should be thankful that Congress at least did something for the middle class.  Unfortunately, they didn't do enough.  Every American worker is going ...

Desertification

• Good Nutrition in West Africa (Seed to Sight)
  Read at : http://www.hki.org/blog/2013/01/cape-verde-leading-the-way-to-good-nutrition-in-west-africa/ Cape Verde: Leading the Way to Good Nutrition in West Africa January 3, 2013 | Posted by Shawn Baker What’s the protocol for visiting a former head of state? In Cape Verde, our delegation ...
• Food Gardens Found With Google Earth (Science ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130103151513.htm Finding Chicago’s Food Gardens With Google Earth Urban agriculture is promoted as a strategy for dealing with food insecurity, stimulating economic development, and combating diet-related health problems in cities. How ...
• Ethanol, drought and the price of corn (New Ag ...
  Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/developments/devItem.php?a=2846 For the past three years, America’s Midwest has experienced serious drought and recent reports suggest that similar weather patterns will continue to hamper agricultural growth throughout the region. The resulting spike in ...
• New geopolitics of food security (New Agricult ...
  Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/book/review.php?a=2865 Full planet, empty plates – The new geopolitics of food security By Lester R. Brown Published by W.W.Norton Website: http://www.wwnorton.com 2012, 144pp, ISBN 978 0 393 34415 8 (Pb), US$16.95 “World agriculture is now facing ...
• Nile Water to Feed Saudi Cows (Green Prophet)
  Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/01/saudi-nile-water-for-cows/ Saudi- Arabia : Nile Water to Feed its Cows by Tafline Laylin Land grabs are old news, but National Geographic has taken a closer look at Saudi’s African interests in particular and the resulting story is … Continue r ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

• Of gazebos and Chief Spence
  By David@Sixthestate.net Under the circumstances, it’s actually a little surprising that it took this long. Through a convenient leak to the state broadcaster, presumably from the government, evidence has surfaced that hunger strike chief Theresa Spence’s Attawapiskat First Nation does a terribl ...
• Spence hunger strike victory?
  By David@Sixthestate.net As I predicted, the Harper government has seized upon the olive branch extended by the Assembly of First Nations earlier this week to hold a summit later this month as a way to extricate itself from the Theresa Spence hunger strike. Also as I predicted, Harper claims tha ...
• Chief Spence and the hypocrisy of The Globe
  By David@Sixthestate.net I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised to read this weekend that The Globe & Mail has officially joined Postmedia’s Christie Blatchford in denouncing the ongoing hunger strike in Ottawa by Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence as an act not just of protest but of ...
• Chief Spence and the Prime Minister’s pride
  By Montreal Simon I didn’t want to blog on Christmas. I just wanted to enjoy the day. But I couldn’t get these two contrasting images out of my mind. Chief Theresa Spence slowly starving to death. While Stephen Harper, with a weird look on his face, plays cribbage. And the Idle No Mo ...
• Boxing Day: Our gift to The States
  By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Boxing Day was traditionally the day servants took off to spend time with their families and received gift boxes from their employers (or so one of the explanations goes). Nowadays, Boxing Day is better known as the Day to Buy Honking Big Electronics and Other Self-Indul ...

libcom

• Irish Anarchist Review- Crisis of Consciousnes ...
  IAR6Cover280.jpg Welcome to the sixth instalment of the Irish Anarchist Review, produced by the Workers Solidarity Movement. In this magazine we look to explore ideas about the world around us, how th ...
• Ulster Loyalism, Flag Protests & the failure o ...
  The continuing opposition by loyalists to the decision by Belfast city council to limit the flying of the Union Jack is a product of a deeply sectarian colonial settlement that smothers the importance of class. The continuing opposit ...
• Youths in shorts and flip-flops throwing rocks ...
  Portugal.jpg Report on the struggles against austerity in Portugal, focusing on the street demonstrations and riots which continue to escalate. In the last few years Portugal ha ...
• Benefit envy without benefit - Junge Linke
  benefits.jpg Junge Linke discuss the government's mobilisation of benefits envy as part of its assault on living standards. The government is undertaking a massive impoveris ...
• A Profitless Market Socialism?
  anarchistshop.jpg Seth Ackerman makes a decent proposal for market socialism but is wrong in claiming it will end profit-seeking behavior. I will examine why and look for ways to improve on it. ...

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

• MK Ultra Secret of Secrets EXPOSED!!! Well do ...
  I have not been a “fan” of Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.   I frankly thought he would only tackle “safe” so-called conspiracy theories – and that made him quite suspect to me. I publicly declare that I may have been wrong in my earlier estimations.  Recently, ...
• MK Ultra Secret of Secrets EXPOSED!!! Well do ...
  I have not been a “fan” of Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.   I frankly thought he would only tackle “safe” so-called conspiracy theories – and that made him quite suspect to me. I publicly declare that I may have been wrong in my earlier estimations.  Recently, ...
• In Our Lovely Deseret! Undeniable Facts that M ...
  1.  Early Mormons are today euphemistically called “pioneers”.  Actually, they were an extremely zealous group of expatriates led by money-grubbing charlatans and frauds who left the U.S. primarily to establish a new nation/state.  In a letter to U.S. President James Polk, Mormon &#8 ...
• In Our Lovely Deseret! Undeniable Facts that M ...
  1.  Early Mormons are today euphemistically called “pioneers”.  Actually, they were an extremely zealous group of expatriates led by money-grubbing charlatans and frauds who left the U.S. primarily to establish a new nation/state.  In a letter to U.S. President James Polk, Mormon &#8 ...
• Osama bin Laden: The Cat with Nine Lie-ves
  The date was the day after Christmas, Dec. 26, 2001.   I personally remember it quite well. America was still reeling from the Israeli False-Flag Attacks of Sept. 11. The “Patriot Bill” had just been passed, and U.S. Troops were on the ground in Afghanistan fighting with the “N ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Stephen Starr, author "Revolt in Syria"
  How long can Assad cling to power and what's the road ahead for the Syrian people? Peter talks to a journalist who spent the past five years living in Syria.
• Amos Yadlin, Israeli security expert (Dec 1, 2012)
  Peter sits down with Retired Major General Amos Yadlin, Director of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, to discuss Iran, Syria, and continuing instability in the Middle East.
• Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence (No ...
  A conversation about the challenges facing the Canadian Forces.
• Russ Jackson, CFL star (Nov 24, 2012)
  Peter talks with the football legend on the eve of the 100th Grey Cup.
• Eric McGeer, author - Nov 11, 2012 (encore)
  Conversation with the author of Words of Valediction and Remembrance about the inscriptions carved into the stones above Canada's war dead. Originally aired Nov 2008.

Scotts Contracting

• What Caused the Ice in my Attic
  Why is there ICE in my Attic and where did it come from? ICE DAMS ARE CREATED WHEN THE HOT MOIST AIR RISES FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING. As the Hot Moist Air Rises into the Attic and meets the Roof Framing System.  Condensation Occurs on the Cold Framing Members consisting of: Rafters, Roof ...
• What Caused the Ice in my Attic
  Why is there ICE in my Attic and where did it come from? ICE DAMS ARE CREATED WHEN THE HOT MOIST AIR RISES FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING. As the Hot Moist Air Rises into the Attic and meets the Roof Framing System.  Condensation Occurs on the Cold Framing Members consisting of: Rafters, Roof ...
• 2012 in review
  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 32,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 7 Film Festivals Click here to see the com ...
• 2012 in review
  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 32,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 7 Film Festivals Click here to see the com ...
• Frost on Roof or Lack of Frost is a sure sign...
  Reblogged from Scotts Contracting: On the Frosty Mornings when you are outside your house scraping your cars windshield to prepare for your drive to work. Take a look at the Roof of your Home. -Lack of Frost or Snow on your Roof is a sure indication that it was melted by the Heat as it [...]

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Is Hagel's Appointment of Any Actual Use to th ...
  It may be a launching pad to push much farther to end our wars, close military bases, and cut Pentagon funding.
• "So Many People Died": The American System of ...
  Nick Turse's new book uses personal portraits to reveal an often ignored commonality of U.S. wars.
• Don't Call China's Liaoning a "Starter" Aircra ...
  Its capabilities are limited, but so is its mission.
• Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to ...
  The powerful Israel lobby faces a dilemma over President Obama's likely appointment of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon.
• A Focal Points Roundtable: Is the Taliban Losing?
  Does conventional thinking that Afghanistan will revert to the Taliban upon U.S. and NATO withdrawal need to be reexamined?

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

• Fiscal Cliff Bill: 100s of Billions in Corpora ...
  The corporate media isn’t telling you about the billions in corporate tax breaks in the Fiscal Cliff Bill Obama signed this week. The mainstream media also failed to mention the corporate CEOs who had to be placated to get this deal off the ground. In his Naked Capitalism article e ...
• Georgetown Law Professor Wants to Abolish Cons ...
    In a December 30thNew York Times OpEd, Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman calls to abolish the U.S. Constitution. He refers to its provisions as “archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil.” In his piece, he argues that blind obedience to the Constitution ...
• Oliver Stone Blasts Obama's Empire
  Academy award winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kusnick have co-authored a new Showtime Series and book entitled The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the chapter on Obama with interviewer Abby Martin. According to Stone and Kusnick, their book (and series) ...
• When Facebook Deactivates Your Account
  Professor Peter Dale Scott Peter Dale Scott, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and one of the most esteemed researchers of the murky JFK assassination and CIA involvement in cocaine trafficking, recently had his Facebook account inactivated, along with a eighteen other activists who either ...
• The Women Who Set Fire to Their Boss - Part II
  Assam tea pluckers (This is the second of two posts regarding the recent industrial dispute on a tea plantation in India in which 1,000 tea workers set fire to their employer’s bungalow, killing both him and his wife.) Why Weren’t MKB Tea Pluckers in the Union? Chah Mazdoor Sangha ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Milhous, in Three Acts
  Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore ACT I: Nixon’s the One Every good Catholic blamed Lyndon Johnson for Kennedy’s death. Not that he had anything to do with the actual assassination (though there were those who believed he did). But we all kne ...
• Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Supporting ...
  From The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: Almost from the beginning, Kissinger had secretly had all his telephone calls, including those with the President, monitored and transcribed... Nixon was often on the phone with Kissinger for fifteen minutes or longer. The President was r ...
• 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 ...

Salon

• Does Obama have a diversity problem?
  He lost the votes of white men, but they're winning top cabinet picks. Still, the Times distorted his record a bit
• U.S. infant mortality rate higher than develop ...
  A new report shows the U.S. lags behind 17 peer countries in infant mortality, but it's unclear why
• Facing backlash, AIG won’t join lawsuit ...
  The bank declined to join former CEO Hank Greenberg's lawsuit over the bailout
• Report: HPV rates remain high because parents ...
  How squeamishness about the "promiscuity vaccine" is keeping a deadly cancer rate high
• Chilling details emerge about Holmes’ Au ...
  Court learns the gunman scouted his location weeks in advance and photographed himself hours before the attack

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

• Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair is right – bri ...
  Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair is right — we should bring back photo radar and, to further punish bad drivers, let’s use cameras to issue fines for illegal turns. It’s time to put technology to work.
• Plunging the schools into chaos may backfire o ...
  Ontario’s teacher unions are opening a Pandora’s Box by walking off the job and boycotting extracurricular activities.
• Ontario Liberal leadership candidate Glen Murr ...
  The Ontario cabinet minister and former Mayor of Winnipeg spoke to the Star’s editorial board about why he thinks he should be premier.
• Focus Canada’s aid to Haiti, don’t freeze it: ...
  Instead of grousing about Canadian aid to Haiti not delivering the expected results, Ottawa should put more resources into Haitian hands, and let them lead the rebuilding effort.
• Toronto’s predicted casino gold already turnin ...
  An expectation that Toronto would reap $168 million each year from hosting a casino has turned out wrong. So it’s only natural to wonder, how many other golden promises will amount to brass?

Energy Collective

• NOAA: 2012 Was Officially The Warmest Year On ...
  Last year was officially the hottest ever recorded for the lower-48 states. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tallied weather and temperature data for 2012, and found that the year was both the warmest and the second-most extreme for weather ever recorded f ...
• Risk Assessment: Are Our Regulators Going Too Far?
  Edward Calabrese has published a fascinating and terribly important paper in the University of Chicago Law Review titled US Risk Assessment Policy: A History of Deception that needs to be widely distributed and discussed. Here is the quoted introduction:
• Nearly 12% of UK’s Electricity Now Produced by ...
  New figures published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show renewable energy is now providing almost 12% of the UK’s electricity.The amount of electricity generated from renewable sources increased to 11.7% in the third quarter of 2012, up from 9.1% in the same period in 201 ...
• Berlin: More (Electric) Power to the People
  German capital Berlin is one of Europe’s great cities and if BürgerEnergie Berlin (Citizens Energy Berlin) could have its way, it will be even greater.
• Do EVs Make Good Cents or Sense?
  David Herron of Torque News stated in his article “60 kWh Tesla Model S rated at 208 mile electric driving range by EPA:” 

EU Times

• Obama Death Squads Kill Top Gun Activists As N ...
  A new Federal Security Forces (FSB) report updating their 4 January “urgent action” memorandum to President Putin circulating in the Kremlin, today, states that the “death squads” unleashed upon America by President Obama have claimed their first two victims and warns that “another massacre” in ...
• New method for curing migraine discovered
  After 10 sessions of treatment, patients with chronic migraine pain decreased by 37 percent. The method to cure migraine is known as deep brain stimulation and scientists say a weak electrical current of two milliamperes is sufficient to relieve the headache. Scientists discovered that electrosh ...
• US Congress to repeal 22nd Amendment, pave way ...
  A United States congressman has introduced a bill that would repeal the 22nd Amendment, which currently limits the president to serving only two terms as commander-in-chief. Should the bill become a law, it could allow President Barack Obama to run for reelection yet again in 2016. The bill, H.J ...
• India to respond to Pakistan’s deadly attack o ...
  India’s Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid says New Delhi will give a “proportionate” response to Pakistan’s recent deadly attack in Kashmir, which claimed the lives of two Indian soldiers. “We need to do something about this and we will, but it has to be done after careful consideration of ...
• Hundreds of wildfires rage in Australia amid r ...
  A heat wave that has already caused devastating fires on the Island state of Tasmania, with 100 people still missing, has now moved to mainland Australia and is reaping havoc in New South Wales, as the heat wave looks to smash records. ­In some areas temperatures have shot up by as much as 20C i ...

Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
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• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• The Syria Endgame: Strategic Stage in the Pent ...
  NOVANEWS By  Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research   Since the kindling of the conflict inside Syria in 2011, it was recognized, by friend and foe alike, that the events in that country were tied to a game plan that ultimately targets Iran, Syrianumber one ally. [1] De-linking Syria from Iran ...
• Obama Picks Jack Lew for Treasury
  President Obama will nominate White House chief of staff Jack Lew for Treasury secretary as soon as Thursday, Politico reports. "In doing so, Obama is throwing Lew straight into the middle of an increasingly nasty budget war, the likes of which Washington hasn't seen since the mid-1990s
• Futures Up; Clearwire, Alcoa Rising
  ZUMAPRESS.com Dish Networkâs honcho make his play Stock futures are up a fraction ahead of Wednesdayâs opening bell. Among the risers are Clearwire (CLWR), up nearly 7%, to about $3.15, on heavy volume after satellite TV company Dish Network (DISH) offered to buy the wireless network operator f ...
• Piers Morgan: Alex Jones Terrifying & Deluded
  Former Americaâs Got Talent judge, Piers Morgan got the shock of his life when he invited radio host, Alex Jones on his show, Piers Morgan Tonight , to discuss issues of gun control. Take the jump to find out what Morgan had to say about his encounter with Jones. On Monday, Jones appeared on Pi ...
• New Stamps Celebrate 150 years of the London U ...
  Royal Mail has released a special set of stamps to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground . The first train ran along the Metropolitan Railway from Paddington Station to Farringdon Street exactly 150 years ago today. The network now has 270 stations and carries 1.2 billion passengers ...

Groklaw

• DOJ and USPTO join FTC in urging Caution befo ...
  Yesterday the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the U.S. Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) united in issuing a rare joint policy statement on Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary F/Rand Commitments. As the title suggests, the policy focuses on ...
• JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access ...
  Online digital library JSTOR will begin offering free access to its catalogue of journals, papers, and books. The Register & Read program will now allow individuals to register for the service, but members will only be able to read three items every two weeks. Users won't be able to see JSTO ...
• INFLUENCE GAME: NRA reaches into courthouses t ...
  The National Rifle Association has had high-profile success over the years in shaping gun-rights legislation in Congress and statehouses and in working to defeat lawmakers who support tighter gun restrictions. Now, the group's strategy is shifting, and the NRA is looking to extend its influence ...
• Learn APIs with Codecademy!
  Programming is an amazing skill because it lets you create things on your computer. Using APIs makes that one step easier. It's often hard for developers (even professional ones!) to get up to date on the latest APIs and to learn how to use them. Dense documentation makes it nearly impossible to ...
• Senator Wyden lays out digital freedom agenda
  When SOPA and its predecessors were being debated, "People thought Rep. [Darrell] Issa and I were going to be nothing but a sizzling meal for the legacy content industry," he said. "But you know the rest of the story: the 15 million calls and e-mails that came in to Capitol Hill. A few days afte ...

WideShut

• The Case for Marijuana in Pro Wrestling
  With painkillers and other prescription drugs causing the untimely deaths of many wrestlers, is it time for the industry to embrace marijuana?
• Unlawful Killing: Princess Diana’s Death ...
  After being blocked by UK lawyers the controversial Keith Allen documentary Unlawful Killing: Princess Diana's Death has been leaked online.
• So Called ‘Friends of Syria’ Recog ...
  Despite ties to Al Qaeda the "Friends of Syria" declare the rebels Syria's political authority; "unacceptable" responds Russia.
• Another SEAL Team Six Member ‘Dead’
  SEAL who was part of alleged Bin Laden raid team joins long list of deceased members.
• Israel Clashes With UN, UK Cyber Snooping Bill ...
  Is the international community finally condemning Israel, or is it all just hot air? And Theresa May invokes 7/7 to push Communications Data Bill.

Politics in the Zeros

• Biden: Obama prepared to make executive order ...
  “The president is going to act. There are executive orders, executive action that can be taken. We haven’t decided what that is yet, but we’re compiling it all,” said Biden.
• Hedge fund parasites battle over Herbalife
  Oh gosh, two hedge fund parasites whose machinations at gaming stocks contribute nothing to the real world economy are battling it out over Herbalife Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman put on a bit dog-and-pony show recently about how Herbalife is a scam. He also shorted Herbalife massively. The st ...
• Local Harvest – Community Supported Agricultur ...
  Local Harvest lists community supported agriculture, farms, co-ops, farmer’s markets, restaurants and more across the country in an easy to use, intuitive format. I just found several CSAs that drop off organic locally grown food at pickup spots in San Jose, a city of one million. There a ...
• Incandescent lights bulbs are becoming extinct
  Shopping for light bulbs yesterday was instructive. The San Jose Walmart had virtually no incandescent light bulbs, except for specialty bulbs. They did have lots of CFLs. A nearby Lowes also had very few incandescents, but had a good assortment of LEDs along with the CFLs. Incandescents are be ...
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Just World News

• Four important reads on Syria
  The first two are excellent, on-the-ground reporting from Aleppo, by the seasoned, native Arabic speaker Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Dec 27 and Dec 28. The second two are from the Carnegie Endowment: This thoughtful Dec 24 piece by Yezid Sayegh: Can the National Coalition Lead Syria?; and this very well ...
• Crunch time for funding G. Porter's book on Iran!
  Hi, everyone! We have just six days to go in our online fundraiser for Gareth Porter's very important planned book Manufactured Crisis: The Secret History of the Iranian Nuclear Scare. We've just topped getting pledges for 2/3 of the $10,000 we need for this. Can you do anything to help us get ...
• 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 ...

frogblog

• General debate, January 9, 2013
  Fingers crossed that the heatwave in Oz doesn’t last as long as forecast.
• General debate, January 1, 2013
  Happy New Year!
• What is New Zealand’s best beach?
  Summer in Aotearoa means sun, sand, BBQs and beaches. But the beaches we love are under threat from deep sea oil drilling. Vote for your favourite beach to find out more.
• General debate, December 22, 2012
• The final word on bank profits
  The Report of the Finance & Expenditure Committee on the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Statement for December 2012 is now public and contains the following gem on bank profitability late in 2012 (from page 9): Recent data released by the Reserve Bank updated information it had provided to u ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
  Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
• 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Study Sees Rise in Young Stroke Sufferers
  By Dr. Mercola Your risk of stroke rises with age, with most cases occurring at age 55 or older. However, younger people are increasingly at risk, according to new research showing the rate of strokes among those younger than 55 nearly doubled between 1993 and 2005.1 Researchers Blame Unhe ...
• When Great Superstars Endorse Bad Lifestyle Ch ...
  By Dr. Mercola Junk food and sugary beverages contribute to skyrocketing rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, and even strokes — and not just among adults1. Food and beverage companies spend around $2 billion a year promoting unhealthy foods to kids2, and while ultimately it's the pare ...
• Act Now to Stop Genetically Engineered Fish fr ...
  By Dr. Mercola On December 21, 2012 — while everyone was busying themselves with preparations for holiday festivities—the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a giant step closer toward the final approval of the first genetically engineered (GE) fish food — a salmon designed to grow abn ...
• Disregarding Half of US Dentists and Ignoring ...
  By Dr. Mercola As countries around the globe phase out the use of mercury amalgam in dentistry, citing mounting evidence of significant environmental and human health risks, the United States has stayed mum. That is, until last November when the American Public Health Association (APHA) is ...
• How to Stop Wasting Food
  By Dr. Mercola That old bunch of carrots or pot of soup that sat for too long in your fridge, then ended up in your trash, doesn’t seem like much. But when translated over an entire year, and expanded globally, the problem of food waste transforms into one of epic proportions. Unfortuna ...

JAMA

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• Names Misspelled in: Moderate to Vigorous Phys ...
• Incorrect Figure Labels in: Association of LDL ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• 'Human safari' row goes to India’s Supreme Court
  Months after the Supreme Court ordered a buffer zone around the Jarawa's Reserve, hundreds of tourists continue to travel along the Andaman Trunk Road every day.© Andaman Chronicle/ SurvivalSurvival has urged India’s Supreme Court to take immediate action against ‘human safaris’, exactly a ...
• In pictures: The reindeer people under threat ...
  Tribal people rely on reindeer for food, transport, shelter and warmth.© Steve MorganEach year, the image of the reindeer finds its way onto cards, sweaters and into people’s imaginations, but to the world’s indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the animal is not just for Christmas. As news emerges ...
• Indians sue Peru over broken promise to isolat ...
  The Nanti are one of several isolated tribes living inside the reserve who would be severely affected by the gas expansion plans© Survival InternationalPeru’s top indigenous organizations are taking on the government and powerful gas companies in an attempt to stop gas exploration that seriously ...
• South American tribe labelled backward by BBC ...
  Marr’s TV series re-enacts Ibore and Parojnai’s (pictured) first contact in 1998.© SurvivalA South American tribe whose way of life was labelled backward in a major BBC TV series has hit back at the programme. The moment in 1998 when members of the Ayoreo tribe in Paraguay first made contact wi ...
• Bushmen beaten, suffocated and buried alive fo ...
  Kebonyeng Kepese has been arrested and beaten for hunting to feed his family. © Survival Paramilitary police have severely beaten two Bushmen, burying one in a shallow grave, after accusing them of hunting without permits in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Nkemetse Motsok ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: If 2013 is to be a year of reform, ...
  Generally speaking, 2012 might be said to have been the year of red squares and brown envelopes. Both were symbolic of things going badly in Montreal.
• 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.

Food World Order

• #Video: The Shocking Truth About 'Fortified' a ...
  from therealfoodchannel.com: Ever see a food label that said "enriched" or "fortified?" Sounds good, right? Maybe not. Here's what "enriched" means in the world of industrial food production.
• #Video: Brazilian Farmers Fight Back
  from therealfoodchannel.com: Is Monsanto invulnerable? Some might think that. But 5 million small farmers in Brazil have a different opinion.
• 2013 Food Trend: A Healthy State of Mind!
  from houstonpress.com: Many companies and corporations have posted their predictions for the food trends of 2013. Of course, many of these lists include goofy trends like cake-pop push-pops (which sounds fun), but the common theme among a majority of all the predicted food trend lists of 2013 is ...
• #Video: Food Fraud - The Vitamin Water Deception
  from therealfoodchannel.com: Few industries engage in as much as blatant, over-the-top fraud as the food industry. And it's all sanctioned by the government and justified by lawyers. The truth about one of the most popular beverages of the last ten years. What's really in Vitamin Water? It turns ...
• #Video: #Frankenfish One Step Closer To Market
  from therealfoodchannel.com: During the Christmas 2012 holiday, the FDA quietly moved the genetically modified salmon called "frankenfish" one step closer to market. The Food and Drug Administration released draft documents that assessed the environmental risks posed by AquAdvantage salmon, whic ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• By The Numbers: 20 Facts About The Collapse Of ...
  The economic implosion of Europe is accelerating.  Even while the mainstream media continues to proclaim that the financial crisis in Europe has been "averted", the economic statistics that are coming out of Europe just continue to get worse.  Manufacturing activity in Europe has been contractin ...
• If Obama Can Just Create A Trillion Dollar Coi ...
  If Barack Obama can "solve" the debt ceiling crisis by printing up some trillion dollar coins, then why does the federal government need our money?  As another debt ceiling showdown approaches, many in the liberal media are suggesting that if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling that Obama s ...
• Large Cities All Over America Are Degenerating ...
  Large U.S. cities that the rest of the world used to look at in envy are now being transformed into gang-infested hellholes with skyrocketing crime rates.  Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis, New Orleans and Oakland were once bustling with economic activity, but as industry ...
• 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will ...
  Do you believe that economic trouble is coming in 2013?  If so, you have a lot of company.  According to a brand new Gallup poll that was just released, 65 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be a year of "economic difficulty" while only 33 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be ...
• The Good, The Bad And The Ugly From The Fiscal ...
  The fiscal cliff deal contains more bad news than it does good news.  Yes, the tax increases on the middle class could have been much worse, and we should be thankful that Congress at least did something for the middle class.  Unfortunately, they didn't do enough.  Every American worker is going ...

CASSE

• Enough: the Central Concept in Economics
  In his foreword to the book, Enough Is Enough, Herman Daly contemplates the role of sufficiency in obtaining "the good life."
• The Visible Hand: Manipulating Market Prices b ...
  Just how efficient are are market prices when they put the future of all species, including humans, at risk?
• The Outlook for Steady State Economics in 2013
  Looking beyond Mayan myths, there's a sign of good things to come in 2013 and beyond: more and more people are joing the steady state cause.
• Aristotle in Connecticut
  Eric Zencey searches for deeper causes in the midst of grief and dismay over the most recent American shooting tragedy.
• Elect More Women: Prerequisite for a Sustainab ...
  With men controlling legislative bodies, we've arrived at a global crisis point (both environmentally and socially). It's time to try electing more women.

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

• Home builders lobby weakens drywall legislation
  Federal lawmakers trumpeted last week's passage of the Drywall Safety Act of 2012. But thanks to the efforts of U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on behalf of the industry lobby, the bill doesn't actually set enforceable standards to prevent contaminated drywall from ending up in people's homes. ...
• Big Tobacco has a ball in NC
  The parent company of Reynolds Tobacco is a key sponsor of events celebrating North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's inauguration this weekend, capping an aggressive year of political spending by the tobacco giant. read more
• NC judge tosses law that represented GOP reven ...
  A judge has ruled that a law passed by the Republican-controlled legislature to punish the N.C. Association of Educators by barring it from collecting dues through payroll deduction represents unconstitutional "retaliatory viewpoint discrimination." read more
• As foreclosure crisis drags on, so does flawed ...
  A look at the government's response as the foreclosure crisis enters its seventh year. read more
• INSTITUTE INDEX: For the 1 percent, a fiscal g ...
  A by-the-numbers look at the so-called "fiscal cliff" deal approved at the 11th hour by Congress shows that the wealthy and corporate interests got some big breaks. 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

• London's Boris turns turtle getting yearly scr ...
  See thick-skinned Boris get a tickle from a cleaner in Sea Life London Aquarium's annual January "Deep Clean"
• Today on New Scientist: 9 January 2013
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: pruney underwater fingers, the end of coffee, win a skull, Sherlock Holmes, and more
• Today on New Scientist: 8 January 2013
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: world's oldest pills, air batteries to the rescue, Australia forecast, mock Mars mission, and more
• Another day at the office for NASA's robot ast ...
  This fine figure of a robot is Robonaut 2 hard at work aboard the International Space Station last week
• Today on New Scientist: 7 January 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: hiding messages in Skype calls, shadowy quantum mysteries, Australia burning, and more

Tech Drive In

• Ubuntu Phone OS Demo at CES 2013: Showcases Ca ...
  Yet another video is up showcasing several new features of Ubuntu Phone OS. While the first video, demoed by Mark Shuttleworth himself, illustrated how slick the OS has become since it was announced, the second video here features default Camera and Photo apps, Facebook integration and brill ...
• Mark Shuttleworth Demos Ubuntu for Phones at C ...
  Ubuntu for Phones was announced with much fanfare just a few days ago. While the OS is still in pre-alpha state, there are already videos of the same running on various hardware. Initial videos showed how a pre-alpha software looks like, very buggy and quite unusable, so to speak. But this lat ...
• Steam Box is Coming this Year, Will be Based O ...
  Valve is into hardware aggressively and there were plenty of rumors circling around about the imminent announcement of official Valve gaming console. Valve is betting big on Linux and this became very clear when they released official Steam for Linux client. Even an year ago, nobody was e ...
• Wait is Over, Canonical Previews Amazing new U ...
  The countdown has ended. The wait is finally over. Unlike almost everyone out there predicted, the countdown had nothing to do with Ubuntu for Android project, it's about the new Ubuntu OS for smartphones project Canonical wanted to talk about. And from the initial looks, this new OS for sma ...
• Top 5 KickStarter-like Crowdfunding Alternativ ...
  Internet has become an hotbed of innovation. Crowdfunding is one such internet-inspired innovation which could revolutionize how we do business in the near future. It could really be the next big thing. Kickstarter.com is one such hugely popular crowdfunding venture that is creating ripples ac ...

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

• Global Warming/Climate Change, A Political Age ...
  by Tony Elliot We are bombarded on a daily basis in the mainstream media of stories warning us of the dire necessity to accept the concept of a warming world. We are told of rising sea levels, melting polar and glacial ice in both hemispheres, methane escaping from tundra because of thin ice and ...
• 2013, The Year of National Discontent. The Beg ...
  by The Watchdog Washington is out of control. The Constitution no longer restrains them from passing any law it pleases. The authoritarians are out in force coming after the right to keep and bear arms because of the Sandy Hook tragedy. They want control and cannot have it if there is still resi ...
• YES, THE TIDE IS SHIFTING
  by Kam Zarrabi Whether Chuck Hagel’s nomination as the new Defense Secretary gets through the Senate confirmation process in spite of wholesale opposition by the Republicans and even some high profile Democratic Senators like Chuck Schumer and Ben Cardin (both Jewish Zionists, of course), the fa ...
• Israel Vows To Use Veto Power If Chuck Hagel C ...
  JERUSALEM—Top-ranking government officials in Jerusalem confirmed Tuesday that Israel would exercise its longstanding, constitutionally granted veto power over American policy if U.S. lawmakers confirmed retired congressman Chuck Hagel as the United States’ next Secretary of Defense. “In light o ...
• Secret government documents reveal vaccines to ...
  by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) If you have children, you are more than likely already aware of the official U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “Immunization Schedules,” which today recommend an astounding 29 vaccines be given between birth and six ye ...

Veterans Today

• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  iGov Technologies, Reston, Va., received an increase in the contract maximum from $530,000,000 to $566,000,000 for U.S. Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) tactical local area network (TACLAN).
• Rep. Michaud Appoints Veterans’ Affairs Commit ...
  Today, Congressman Mike Michaud (D-Maine),Ranking Member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, named Nancy Dolan to be the new Staff Director for the minority committee office.
• VA Launches Challenge.gov Contest for Scheduli ...
  The Department of Veterans Affairs is challenging software developers to create new systems that schedule appointments in VA’s nationwide health system.
• Congressionial Disclosure Studies Alien Moon Bases
  Discussions of alien moon bases and videos of structures on the dark side of the moon aren't new. That congress is investigating, not only the bases themselves but three decades or more of continually doctored data from NASA and defense space projects is news.
• Obama’s War On Terror is Orwell’s ...
  The Cheney/Bush/Obama War on Terror is a never ending war of terror and no one understood the implications of this perpetual war better than George Orwell

electric politics

• Counting Electors
  If the Republican Party were to adopt a scorched earth policy — counting electors one way in certain swing states and another way in solid red states — they could conceivably lock in a Republican presidential win for the next several election cycles. As a practical matter it would no ...
• Constitutional Wrinkles
  Americans have been brainwashed into thinking we have the greatest system of government in the world. Arguably, however, much the opposite is true. In practical terms our system is neither democratic nor representative, when, that is, it works at all. But the Constitution has become America's ci ...
• Three Truths and a Lie
  'Tis the season for... reflections on life. And death. Yet death often feels ominously dark, especially when a young person dies before their time. It's difficult, in such circumstances, to remember that darkness isn't all bad — indeed, there's reason to believe it may be a source of enlig ...
• Running Against the Grain (Part II)
  Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...
• Running Against the Grain (Part I)
  Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a nearly ...

PR News

• Public housing group selects Cone for national ...
  BOSTON: HAI Group, a provider of insurance programs for the public, has named Cone Communications its PR AOR following a competitive review.
• Former JPMorgan exec Linehan joins Travelers
  NEW YORK: Former JPMorgan Chase communications executive Patrick Linehan has joined Travelers as VP of corporate communications.
• HFP Capital Markets taps Water & Wall
  NEW YORK: Boutique investment bank HFP Capital Markets has hired Water & Wall Group for PR support.
• Saudi Basic Industries appoints IPG for global ...
  The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation has appointed the Interpublic Group as its global communications agency.
• Gowers to lead Trafigura corporate comms
  Former BP and Lehman Brothers communications chief Andrew Gowers will lead global corporate affairs at commodities trading giant Trafigura.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• Saving Afghanistan
  It can be done, but only if the international community truly invests in democracy.
• The race tightens as Obama, Romney prepare for ...
  AUSA begins, What Ishmael Jones’ experience tells us about “No Easy Day,” Thanks for the cowbells, and more.
• Pakistan's Bid for Tolerance
  A tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
• Leaving Afghanistan
  Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Watershed Ambassador Breakfast
  Red Deer River Watershed Alliance 18 Jan 2013 - 07:30 - 20:45 Flow into the new year with a hot buffet breakfast and a presentation on monitoring Alberta's biodiversity! Jim H ...
• Earthbag Building Presentation
  ReThink Red Deer 16 Jan 2013 - 18:30 - 21:00 ReThink Red Deer is back at it in the new year with a great presentation on natural building! Evonne and Robert Smulders, owners of Sa ...
• AWA Tuesday Talk: Greater Sage-grouse Partnership
  Alberta Wilderness Association 29 Jan 2013 - 19:00 with Cliff Wallis, Sean Nichols, and Wonnita Andrus Join us for the first talk of the New Year as we discuss the critically enda ...
• ICYMI: Wildlands Advocate Vol. 20 No. 6
  Alberta Wilderness Association In case you missed it over the holidays, the latest issue of the Alberta Wilderness Association's Wild Lands Advocate is online.  Features A Last Look at AWA's 2012 Priorities What Ex ...
• Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Co ...
  Alberta Prairie Conservation Forum Alberta Society of Professional Biologists 19 Feb 2013 (All day) - 22 Feb 2013 (All day) Purpose The& ...

Stop NATO

• Missiles In Turkey: NATO Plans Syrian Invasion ...
  Voice of Russia January 9, 2013 NATO casts missile noose on Syria ==== “NATO is casting a missile noose on Syria. What’s the point? To enclose the Syrian air force and missiles in a NATO ring and build an anti-missile wall…NATO is ready with its plan of a military invasion. And the air def ...
• Russia To Counter U.S. Missile Shield With New ...
  Russia & India Report January 9, 2013 Russia to create new missiles to compete with U.S. Andrei Kislyakov While the United States is building a global missile defense system, Russia is preparing for a radical renewal of its strategic nuclear missile arsenal ==== The United States withdrew fr ...
• Georg Brandes: Only officers and ammunition-ma ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Georg Brandes: An Appeal Against Wholesale Murder Georg Brandes: War, uninterrupted series of horrors, atrocities, and slaughter Georg Brandes: The World at War ==== Georg Brandes From The Fundamental Causes of the World War (A ...
• Interview: NATO Enters Phase 3 Of Its Global E ...
  Voice of Russia January 9, 2013 Recorded late last year NATO is in phase 3 of its global expansion – Rozoff John Robles Audio: Download NATO is engaged in completing phase 3 of its post-Cold War global expansion, and the global nature of what once was the “North Atlantic” alliance is ...
• Russia, China To Coordinate Response To U.S. M ...
  Russian Information Agency Novosti January 9, 2013 Russia, China Plan to Boost Cooperation on Missile Defense Standard Missile-3 launch BEIJING: Russia and China are planning to intensify their cooperation on missile defense in response to America’s growing missile defense potential around the g ...

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Intel Hub

• The Making of Shade the Motion Picture – ...
  Shepard Ambellas | Over a year in the works, the filmmaking process has led me on an intense non-stop journey across the entire United States several times over as my crew and I captured some of the most encompassing documentary footage ever to be presented on film.
• Federal Reserve May Pause Quantitative Easing
  James Hall | An obscure report that the Federal Reserve may suspend the monetization of purchasing Treasury Bonds has the smell of disinformation. The perennial efforts to lift economic spirits with the beginning of a New Year often are packed with wishful thinking.
• By The Numbers: 20 Facts About The Collapse Of ...
  By Michael Snyder The Economic Collapse Blog January 9, 2013 The economic implosion of Europe is accelerating.  Even while the mainstream media continues to proclaim that the financial crisis in Europe has been “averted”, the economic statistics that are coming out of Europe just continue to get ...
• White House Formally Responds to ‘Deport Piers ...
  Paul Joseph Watson | Jay Carney defends first amendment while Obama attempts to eviscerate second
• Texas Judge Rules Schools Can Force RFID Chips ...
  Activist Post | In the fall of last year the San Antonio Northside School District in Texas announced that they would track students with RFID chips in their student badges.

FRS

• Hundreds Of Indigenous Women And Girls Were Mu ...
  By Farooque Chowdhury, Countercurrents.org 30 October, 2012 Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada . To many, it’s a baffling fact. Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. In Greece , migrants an ...
• Hundreds Of Indigenous Women And Girls Were Mu ...
  By Farooque Chowdhury, Countercurrents.org 30 October, 2012 Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada . To many, it’s a baffling fact. Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. In Greece , migrants an ...
• Philippines: Revolutionary forces making gain ...
  A victorious decade of People’s War in Mindanao Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris), Spokesperson, NDF-Mindanao December 26, 2012Together with all revolutionaries and the the people of Mindanao and the entire nation, the NDFP-Mindanao wishes to express its warmest congratulations and highest tribute to ...
• Philippines: Revolutionary forces making gain ...
  A victorious decade of People’s War in Mindanao Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris), Spokesperson, NDF-Mindanao December 26, 2012Together with all revolutionaries and the the people of Mindanao and the entire nation, the NDFP-Mindanao wishes to express its warmest congratulations and highest tribute to ...
• Update on Tracking Police Murders: Every 36 Ho ...
  This episode of  Critical Insight we were joined by Kali Akuno of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement to discuss their 2012 report detailing the fact that every 36 hours (at least) a Black person is extra-judiciously executed by “Law Enforcement” within the United States. Please watch ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
  Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
• Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
  In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
• Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
  Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...
• Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...
  Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
• Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...
  I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...

StillSmallVoice

• Life is change and change is life
  And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
• Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
  "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
• De-pinkifying breast cancer
  There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
• Why the occupation?
  You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
• Cleansing after Yom Kippur
  Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

• The Debt Ceiling is Political Dynamite -- the ...
  It is wrong for congressional Republicans to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in deficit reduction negotiations. Their refusal to approve a debt ceiling increase with Democrats will spell doom for them in 2014.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 08, 2013
• Obama Takes Great Risks in Nominating Chuck Ha ...
  It appears that President Obama is intent on nominating former Sen. Chuck Hagel to become his next Secretary of Defense, according to the Washington Post. The question arises concerning why he would do such a thing.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 07, 2013
• Voiced Outrage by Christie, Cuomo, King Gets S ...
  Chris Christie said in a press conference that he joined the people of his state in feeling betrayed by the House for not voting on the Hurricane Sandy Relief. He joined other politicians in his outrage, prompting a quick House reconsideration...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Jan 04, 2013
• 8 Men Out: Who Voted Against the Fiscal Cliff ...
  The vote against the deal by a few was bipartisan, was about future statewide elections in 2014 and 2016, as well as a possible presidential contest between a few of the dissenting votes, including Rubio, Paul and Carper.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Jan 01, 2013
• Obama was Wrong to End the Pay Freeze on Congress
  With all the belt-tightening that ordinary Americans face, especially if the U.S. goes over the fiscal cliff, why are those least deserving of a pay raise getting one?Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Dec 31, 2012

Popsci - Science

• Study Finds A Daily Dose Of Peanuts Under Your ...
  Placing a small amount of allergen under the tongue every day helped decrease participants' sensitivity to peanut powder. Peanut-fearers, rejoice -- new research suggests that treatment may be possible for peanut allergies. A study sponsored by National Institutes of Health in the January iss ...
• New Data: Americans Hate Congress More Than Ro ...
  But Congress narrowly beats ebola, bullies and Lindsay Lohan. Root canals, head lice, cockroaches, Donald Trump, Ghengis Khan, Nickelback--they’re all terrible things, but in the eyes of Americans, none of those things is worse than the United States Congress. People really disapprove of our na ...
• 2013 Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong
  Barack Obama's second term should see the same focus on funding science and technology--although the budget ax is looming. Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used to be measured in decades. But big changes arrive ...
• Researchers Reverse Engineer Fireflies To Make ...
  Fireflies have a neat trick for conserving light. Turns out, it could work for LEDs, too. Sometimes, a trick gets pulled off better in nature than it does in a laboratory. That might be the case with new research claiming fireflies' unique lanterns can be reverse-engineered for LED lights, mak ...
• #OverlyHonestMethods Hashtag Reveals How Scien ...
  In 140 characters or less, the info that didn't get through peer review. If an experiment is any good, the process needs to be replicated. That requires some details on the methods researchers used. But, uh, how detailed, exactly? Scientists have been playing off that idea, tweeting the TMI p ...

Veterans Today

• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  iGov Technologies, Reston, Va., received an increase in the contract maximum from $530,000,000 to $566,000,000 for U.S. Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) tactical local area network (TACLAN).
• Rep. Michaud Appoints Veterans’ Affairs Commit ...
  Today, Congressman Mike Michaud (D-Maine),Ranking Member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, named Nancy Dolan to be the new Staff Director for the minority committee office.
• VA Launches Challenge.gov Contest for Scheduli ...
  The Department of Veterans Affairs is challenging software developers to create new systems that schedule appointments in VA’s nationwide health system.
• Congressionial Disclosure Studies Alien Moon Bases
  Discussions of alien moon bases and videos of structures on the dark side of the moon aren't new. That congress is investigating, not only the bases themselves but three decades or more of continually doctored data from NASA and defense space projects is news.
• Obama’s War On Terror is Orwell’s ...
  The Cheney/Bush/Obama War on Terror is a never ending war of terror and no one understood the implications of this perpetual war better than George Orwell

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Met Office scale back global warming forecast
  A new global temperature forecast published by the Met Office, through to 2017, has scaled back projections of the amount of warming they expect compared with previous estimates. The new projection can be seen below with more details on the Met Office website. I have written several times ...
• Dry weather returns to UK following 2nd wettes ...
  2012 averaged across the UK was the second wettest on record in data which stretches back to 1910, falling short of a new record by only 6.6mm. In total 1330.7mm fell last year, compared with the average of 1154mm. A new record has been set across England and Wales with 1205mm of rain. And ...
• How the Arctic may be impacting UK summers
  We may have to get used to wet summers like we've seen recently across the UK, according Dr Edward Hanna from Sheffield University in an interview which you can see on Inside Out and Look North tonight. According to Dr Hanna and an international team of scientists, melting summer Arctic ice ma ...
• The Beast from the East is slain
  The cold easterly which a large majority of computer models were predicting to develop this week has failed to materialise, with a much more unsettled weather pattern expected to return from the Atlantic during tomorrow. Last week, 80% of the ECMWF model solutions wanted an easterly 'blocking' ...
• The Beast from the East is lurking
  There is now growing consensus between most weather computer models that cold air from the east is likely to spread across Britain next week. If so, it will be the first time since March that high pressure has properly dominated our weather, and will end a long sequence of at times record brea ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Nuke to Thrill: Rekindling Japan's Fission Passion
  The taste of love is sweet  When hearts like ours meet  I fell for you like a child  Oh, but the fire went wild... [The chart above is from Nuclear Tourist.] The return to the status quo ante of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership in Japan unsurprisingly means the comeback ...
• TorrentWorld: How LED TV Makers Co-Opt Piracy
  Pssst...is that a 720p or a 1080p? Here's one last story whose implications run in the billions and billions that involves home entertainment as we come to the end of the holiday season. (Oh, the sacrifices I have to endure alike watching a digitally enhanced Mariah Carey moping around in a Sant ...
• PC Gone Mad: Women Drivers' Car Insurance in EU
  Contrary to hoary stereotypes about "women drivers," the truth is that they are safer drivers--at least in the EU. So much so that women have been charged commensurately lower premiums in EU nations for years. However, in a dubious case of political correctness, the EU has issued a directive aga ...
• Falklands Referendum is Farce (But I Support UK)
  Oh, when will we ever be done with the firebrand red-haired woman from Argentina, Missus Kirchner?  Never will I more clearly support a blatantly specious argument for "democracy"*--make that *****--than here. At midyear 2012, the UK government announced plans to hold a Falklands referendum ...
• Racism and Turkey's EU Bid, Episode VLXVII
  In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man Now I've reached that age, I've tried to do all those things the best I can No matter how I try, I find my way into the same old jam  Good times, bad times, Turkey's had its share alike Led Zeppelin. When it comes to its pros ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• By The Numbers: 20 Facts About The Collapse Of ...
  The economic implosion of Europe is accelerating.  Even while the mainstream media continues to proclaim that the financial crisis in Europe has been "averted", the economic statistics that are coming out of Europe just continue to get worse.  Manufacturing activity in Europe has been contractin ...
• If Obama Can Just Create A Trillion Dollar Coi ...
  If Barack Obama can "solve" the debt ceiling crisis by printing up some trillion dollar coins, then why does the federal government need our money?  As another debt ceiling showdown approaches, many in the liberal media are suggesting that if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling that Obama s ...
• Large Cities All Over America Are Degenerating ...
  Large U.S. cities that the rest of the world used to look at in envy are now being transformed into gang-infested hellholes with skyrocketing crime rates.  Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis, New Orleans and Oakland were once bustling with economic activity, but as industry ...
• 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will ...
  Do you believe that economic trouble is coming in 2013?  If so, you have a lot of company.  According to a brand new Gallup poll that was just released, 65 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be a year of "economic difficulty" while only 33 percent of Americans believe that 2013 will be ...
• The Good, The Bad And The Ugly From The Fiscal ...
  The fiscal cliff deal contains more bad news than it does good news.  Yes, the tax increases on the middle class could have been much worse, and we should be thankful that Congress at least did something for the middle class.  Unfortunately, they didn't do enough.  Every American worker is going ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• The Broken Teapot: A critical analysis of curr ...
  We all start life with our teapot intact and at some point a little crack starts and slowly grows, or maybe one day we slip and the whole thing ...
• Modern Slavery journal has new website
  Modern Slavery is a new journal for the abolition of all forms of enslavement, published as an independent, not-for-profit project of CAL Press....
• Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
  Despite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
• July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
• Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For Papers
  Jurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...

E U Times

• Obama Death Squads Kill Top Gun Activists As N ...
  A new Federal Security Forces (FSB) report updating their 4 January “urgent action” memorandum to President Putin circulating in the Kremlin, today, states that the “death squads” unleashed upon America by President Obama have claimed their first two victims and warns that “another massacre” in ...
• New method for curing migraine discovered
  After 10 sessions of treatment, patients with chronic migraine pain decreased by 37 percent. The method to cure migraine is known as deep brain stimulation and scientists say a weak electrical current of two milliamperes is sufficient to relieve the headache. Scientists discovered that electrosh ...
• US Congress to repeal 22nd Amendment, pave way ...
  A United States congressman has introduced a bill that would repeal the 22nd Amendment, which currently limits the president to serving only two terms as commander-in-chief. Should the bill become a law, it could allow President Barack Obama to run for reelection yet again in 2016. The bill, H.J ...
• India to respond to Pakistan’s deadly attack o ...
  India’s Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid says New Delhi will give a “proportionate” response to Pakistan’s recent deadly attack in Kashmir, which claimed the lives of two Indian soldiers. “We need to do something about this and we will, but it has to be done after careful consideration of ...
• Hundreds of wildfires rage in Australia amid r ...
  A heat wave that has already caused devastating fires on the Island state of Tasmania, with 100 people still missing, has now moved to mainland Australia and is reaping havoc in New South Wales, as the heat wave looks to smash records. ­In some areas temperatures have shot up by as much as 20C i ...

Voiceless Victim

• Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
  It was encouraging to learn today that German researchers working with catholic officials to produce the latest, supposedly independent, supposedly research based support for Vatican lies about endemic child rape by catholic religious have had enough and pulled the plug on the project. Read the ...
• Fire’s Too Good for These Devils
  As much of Australia prepares to face catastrophic bush fire conditions today, I hope everyone is safe from fires and comes through unscathed. That even includes the church’s carefully protected child rapists and those who sacrifice additional children to cover up their crimes. Fire is too ...
• Smokescreen Council Working for Deceitful Chur ...
  The CEO of the Council Which Should Not Exist, Francis Sullivan, is following in the footsteps of church officials by claiming, without basis, to speak for victims of the serial child sex offenders enabled and protected by his church. This week’s comments include a stated desire to be &#82 ...
• Papists protect child rapists
  Papists protect rapists  by Voiceless Victim Papists protect their child rapists but won’t protect kids – like me. Papists pretend. What rapists? Who cares what those lies do to me. Papists revere holy rapists but won’t even listen to me Papists stand up for their rapists the o ...
• Untruth, Injustice and Denial of Healing Council
  One month after the announcement by the Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, of a national Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions, the Catholic Church in Australia announced its own body. The so-called Truth, Justice and Healing Council. Sounds like i ...

WL Central

• Inside the Hourglass, A World Rising Anew
  With economic and military force, in the last decades the United States has attained sole superpower status in the world. The legacy of the US empire carries a dark history: genocide of natives, slavery of blacks and criminalizing immigrants from the South. None can deny that much of US hegemon ...
• 2012-12-28 Julian Assange essay wins "Russian ...
  This month, Russian Pioneer magazine reportedly awarded WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange the "Grand Prix" in the publication's second annual literary competition. Assange received the prize for his essay "Washington vs. Mankind" Winners were said to receive bicycles and bottles of cogna ...
• 2012-12-28 Assange leads in online vote for Pe ...
  Julian Assange is currently the lead contender in an online voting contest for the Pericles Prize. Votes for the WikiLeaks leader and others have been cast in answer to the question "Who of all politicians was most sincere in his fight for social progress in 2012?" In the "Global" category, Assa ...
• 2012-12-26 More pro-WikiLeaks Swedish organiza ...
  On Monday Torrent Freak reported that, after three years of service to the organization, PayPal has frozen the funds of PRQ, an ISP founded by The Pirate Bay's Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm. Earlier this month, sources also reported the suspension of the Twitter account of Anonymous Sweden ...
• 2012-12-24 Several WikiLeaks movies in product ...
  Following on the heels of Underground: The Julian Assange Story - a 2012 biopic on the WikiLeaks founder's teen years - several major Hollywood studios are in various stages of planning or producing feature films about Assange and his organization. One full-length feature, tentatively titled The ...

U N News

• Canadian authorities must start meaningful dia ...
  A United Nations independent expert today urged the Canadian Government to establish a meaningful dialogue with the country's aboriginal leaders in light of recent protests.
• Renowned US doctor appointed to support UN eff ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed renowned United States physician Paul Farmer to help galvanize support to eliminate cholera in Haiti, where the disease has already claimed over 7,750 lives.
• Secretary-General returns to renovated, eco-fr ...
  Returning to his usual office for the first time since the United Nations Headquarters' major restoration project began almost five years ago, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed excitement for the "historic" and eco-friendly renovations which have revamped the 60-year old Secretariat ...
• Ban expresses deepest condolences to Connectic ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to the Governor of Connecticut in the United States to express his deepest condolences at the murders which took place on Friday at an elementary school there, according to his spokesperson.
• UNESCO chief calls for investigation into deat ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called for an investigation into the death of a Colombian journalist who died of injuries sustained while in custody.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Aurora Batman Shooting – Many Coincidences
  The trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
• CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...
  He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
• The Magic Weed
  Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
• Blood Coltan
  Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
• CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
  Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Rewilding Institute

• Life on the Brink
  LIFE ON THE BRINK  Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation Edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist University of Georgia Press, December 2012 About the book Life on the Brink aspires to reignite a robust discussion of population issues among environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, ...
• Wild Utah Project needs your help!
  HERE’S WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing West-wide for years. They have just gone live with their first video, Dance for Survival: Protecting the Sage-Grouse and a fundraising chall ...
• Sea Shepherd sheds some light on the recent Sh ...
  Posted by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is simply smok ...
• Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...
  (September 4, 2012)  The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy.  PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
• Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...
  Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...

Asia Sentinel

• Indonesia Turfs out ExxonMobil Chief
  • (http://twitter.com/share) At stake is refusal to divest gas fields to Indonesian companies
• Hong Kong Tries to Hide the Books
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Embarrassment for government officials, China party hacks may be behind the move
• Turning On Myanmar's Lights
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The country's backwardness could turn out to be a boon when it comes to power generation
• India Cuts its Defense Budget
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Big shock for a military trying to catch up with the Chinese
• The Heroine of Japanese Women's Rights
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Beate Gordon stood up to MacArthur and won

We Know the Lies

• What Is The United Nations Organization For?
  The United Nations Organization was founded in 1945 to stop conflicts and provide a forum for debate, discussion and dialogue for crisis management. It costs around 15 billion USD a year to run, so in indexed terms has already spent some one thousand billion dollars of taxpayers' money. On.. ...
• Property, The Rule of Law And Freedom
  While in the midst of a wholesale reevaluation of the right to private property, it is timely to reexamine the history of US property rights. What exactly caused America’s unparallelled level of prosperity and freedom? ~ Kelly O'Connell read more
• Agenda 21... The War Against U.N. Agenda 21 Ju ...
  The war against U.N. Agenda 21 just got hotter in Virginia. Thinking Americans understand now what U.N. Agenda 21 is and are not backing down from fighting the anti-American, anti-prosperity, wealth redistribution scheme of the United Nations against our way of life. ~ Dr Ileana Johnson Paugh ...
• House Resolution 15... Introduced to Remove Pr ...
  Is one member of Congress attempting to make Obama a dictator? Congressman José Serrano (D-NY) introduced House Joint Resolution 15 which would remove the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. ~ Related article read more
• Very Strange... United Way Sends Condolences t ...
  A Google search for ‘Sandy Hook United Way’ shows a cached page dated December 11, 2012, three days prior to the school shooting stating “United Way extends our most sincere condolences and prayers to all those families affected by the devastating events in Newtown/Sandy Hook, Connecticut. ...

Tarpley

• Republican Austerity Fanatics in New Drive for ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 7, 2013 Tarpley at a demonstration promoted by the United Front Against Austerity (UFAA) at the US Capitol, December 31, 2012, as Obama and the Congress prepared a Satan Sandwich of capital gains and estate tax cuts to benefit Wall Street finance oligar ...
• The Key to Peace in Syria: Expel the NATO-back ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 5, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
• Boehner Blocks Sandy Funds for NY-NJ-Connectic ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com January 2, 2013 [download audio]
• Obama Still Seeking Killer Cuts in Safety Net; ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on INN World Report Radio with Vox I.N.N. World Report December 27, 2012 [download audio]
• The Second Great Depression Deepening Across t ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 24, 2012 In Charles Dickens’ celebrated short story A Christmas Carol (1843), the Malthusian miser and London stock exchange speculator Ebenezer Scrooge is told by the ghost of his deceased partner Jacob Marley that “it is required of every man that th ...

Modern Survivalism

• Executive Order Imminent For Gun Control Says ...
  Vice President Joe Biden revealed that President Barack Obama “is” going to use an executive order to deal with guns.   “The President IS going to act…they’re executive orders, executive action, that can be taken…we haven’t decided what that is yet, ...
• Top Retailers in the United States
  The following list of the Top 20 Retailers in the United States, sourced from stores.org from the most recent 2011 data, reveals some interesting numbers when put into context with the debt of the United States and the budget deficit that we are running. Let’s first look at some statistics ...
• British Berkefeld Drinking Water Filter
  I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to have a high quality drinking water filter system in your home. Even if your current tap water tastes good enough, and is apparently safe enough (according to gov’t standards), a quality water filter will make your water taste even better, it ...
• FOOD STORAGE 101, Date and Rotate
  ROTATE YOUR FOOD STORAGE One of the easiest ways to make your food storage a success is to practice good rotation. Organization and rotation are the key to not losing your storage to spoilage. For us, being organized means we rotate without having to consciously think about doing so. Let me expl ...
• 10 Tips For Women Versus The Predator
  1. The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do! 2. If a predator asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you… Chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you, and [...]

Fast Company

• The World’s Biggest Wind Turbine Has Blades Th ...
  It’s being developed in England now. The whole structure will be nearly 1,000 feet tall. When it comes to wind turbines, bigger is generally better. , and taller structures are cheaper to construct and maintain than several smaller ones with the same output. That’s why turbines ...
• Charming Animal Sculptures Built From Abandone ...
  Over the past 15 years, Barcelona’s residents have come to expect Marc Sparfel’s weekly visits to their rubbish heaps. Just don’t call it "upcycling." When French sculptor Marc Sparfel left the École des Beaux-Arts, precipitated by “an overwhelming feeling th ...
• A Space Needle For Phoenix, Designed By BIG
  Bjarke Ingels was hired by a group of developers to imagine an observation tower in downtown Phoenix. The result is a spatially interesting, financially risky pipe dream. Fifty years after Seattle’s Space Needle came to stay, many in the city still revile it. As writer Jonathan Raban ...
• Foursquare Hackathon Winner Will Tweet-Shame Y ...
  The winner of the social check-in company's first hackathon of the year is Gym Shamer. If you do not check in to your local gym, not only will your glutes sag, the Gym Shamer will know. And it will tell your friends via social media. The app is the winner of Foursquare’s first hackat ...
• Mesmerizing Landscape Photographs Of Everywher ...
  A Vancouver photographer borrows themes from Land Art and applies them to landscape photography. “It’s both the genius and curse of photography to be bound to the time and place of its subject,” says Canadian photographer Jason Gowans. Separating a photograph from its aut ...

Jadaliyya

• New Texts Out Now: Lisa Hajjar, Torture: A Soc ...
  Lisa Hajjar, Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, 2012 [“Framing Twenty-First Century Social Issues” series]. Jadaliyya (J): What inspired you to write this book? Lisa Hajjar (LH): Torture is my great and terrible obsession. I think, read, write, and talk abo ...
• Repossessing the Dispossessed
  To mark the end of 2012, a somewhat bumpy year for Tunisia’s political transition, the Tunisian Ministry of Finance organized a spectacular event: a public auction and sale of goods and trinkets nationalized from Ben Ali’s private palace in Sidi Dhrif, a palatial home overlooking the Bay of Tuni ...
• Tadween Publishing Roundup: News and Analysis ...
  [The following is a roundup of the latest news and analyses from the publishing world that relates to pedagogy and knowledge production. It was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more updates, follow Tadween Publishing on Facebook& ...
• عن التفجير والأزمة الطائفية: محاولة للفهم وأخر ...
  إن حادث كنيسة القديسين –وتداعياته- كان بكل المقاييس خاطفاً للعقول ونقطة تحول خطيرة في المجتمع وحدود الجنون والشطط الطائفي. فلقد كان التفجير بمثابة التفتيت في اللحم المهلهل والتكسير في العظام المهشمة. ومع انفجار الشظايا، لم تُشق فقط أجساد الضحايا، وإنما شق أيضاً الشارع المصري المنقسم على ذاته. وم ...
• المثليّات المضمرة في أغاني رباب والخليج العربي
  [تنشر هذه المقالة ضمن إتفاقية شراكة وتعاون بين "جدلية" و"معازف"] الخطاب المشفّر للأغنية الأنثويّة العربيّة    تتبدّى لنا في تجربة المغنية رباب (1958-2010) عراقيّة الأصل وكويتيّة الانتماء، بعد مسيرة تجاوزت الثلاثين عاماً في الحقل الثقافي على مستوى الشعر وال ...

mediagazer

• The Biggest New Media Trend Is Analytics Trans ...
  Charlie Warzel / Adweek: The Biggest New Media Trend Is Analytics Transparency  —  If we've seen one trend in the past few years across digital media (besides large-scale growth), it's a transparency that is often lacking in the corporate boardroom culture of major tradtional me ...
• Chinese Officials Pledge to Loosen Controls Ov ...
  New York Times: Chinese Officials Pledge to Loosen Controls Over Embattled Newspaper  —  GUANGZHOU, China — Propaganda officials in the southern province of Guangdong have agreed to loosen some controls over an embattled newspaper whose struggle against censorship has galv ...
• Redbox Instant by Verizon launching out of bet ...
  Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: Redbox Instant by Verizon launching out of beta in March  —  Streaming movie service Redbox Instant by Verizon will fully launch to the public before the end of the first quarter, the venture's CEO said today at a CES 2013 breakfast.  —&nbsp ...
• Alasdair Milne, former BBC director general, d ...
  Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Alasdair Milne, former BBC director general, dies aged 82  —  Milne's five-year tenure at BBC featured rows with Thatcher government over coverage of miners' strike and Northern Ireland  —  Alasdair Milne, the former BBC director general w ...
• Bradley Manning trial delayed until June after ...
  Guardian: Bradley Manning trial delayed until June after sentence reduction granted  —  Judge reschedules former US soldier's trial to give more time for review of classified information related to WikiLeaks case  —  A military judge has pushed back the trial of ...

Chemtrail News

• CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
  I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
• Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
  Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
• 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
  probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
• ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
  Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
• Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
  Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

• Martin Scorsese gets a museum show
  Berlin museum spotlights acclaimed American film-maker Martin Scorsese. A woman sits in front of a photograph showing US director Martin Scorsese with the band The Rolling Stones during a preview of the 'Martin Scorsese' exhibition at the Museum for Film and Television in Berlin, Germany Pho ...
• Ferrer advances in Auckland
  Three-time Auckland titlist David Ferrer earned a hard-fought 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 victory over Taiwan's Yen- Hsun Lu on Wednesday at the Heineken Open, a final Australian Open tune-up. The top-seeded Ferrer needed just under two hours to...
• Lazio president Lotito denies Lampard lin ...
  The Biancocelesti chief denies reports that they are ready to swoop for the Blues star and insists they are not a club that chases big names in the...
• Obama green fleet shows Ford loses to Hyu ...
  President Barack Obama’s administration, which set a goal of buying only alternative- technology vehicles for its fleet by 2015, cut purchases of hybrid and electric models by one-third last year and bought mostly Asian brands. About 54 percent of the 1,801 alt-fuel vehicles purchased by U.S ...
• Protecting yourself during the flu epidem ...
  The new year kicked off with high expectations, but many soon found themselves battling the possibly worst case of the flu in years. A decade to be exact. It has been reported that 41 states are now confirming the flu has hit home. So far, 18 children have perished due to this year's flu epi ...

no frakking consensus

• Are a Third of IPCC Review Editors MIA?
  IPCC review editors were supposed to file a report last September. A third of them apparently didn't bother.
• IPCC Legal Notice
  The Legal and Liaison Officer of the IPCC has sent me a boilerplate notice, requesting the removal of Secret Santa documents from my website.
• The Secret Santa Leak
  Thanks to a whistleblower, draft versions of most chapters of the IPCC's upcoming report are now in the public domain. Among the new revelations: the IPCC has learned nothing from the Himalayan glacier debacle.
• Happy New Year!
  The German translation of my book is now in bookstores, readers of this blog are generous souls, and a troubling examination of free speech on university campuses sheds light on the climate debate.
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Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

• 1/9/13 - Climate Change Made 2012 the Hottest ...
  climatechange.procon.org - Climate Change Made 2012 the Hottest Year in Continental United States Since 1895, NOAA Reports
• 1/9/13 - Would financial motivations encourage ...
  euthanasia.procon.org  - Would financial motivations encourage insurance companies, health care providers, and patients to seek euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide if those options were legally available? Read new pro and con arguments from physicians, medical organizations, and advoc ...
• 1/4/13 - Educators in over 3,500 schools in al ...
  www.procon.org - – Educators in over 3,500 schools in all 50 US states and 53 countries use ProCon.org. 756 elementary and middle schools, 1,821 high schools, and 983 colleges and universities use our free nonpartisan research to stimulate critical thinking. The newest international schools usin ...
• 1/4/13 - How many people in the United States ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - How many people in the United States use medical marijuana? There are an estimated 1,029,315 patients in the 18 legal medical marijuana states and DC, as well as an estimated 2,421,069 medical marijuana users in the United States (based on an ave ...
• 12/31/12 - Should the United States return to ...
  www.procon.org - - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should the United States return to a gold standard? - Proponents of the gold standard argue it provides long-term economic stability and growth, prevents inflation, and would reduce the size of government. Opponents argue a gold standard would creat ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Post-revolutionary science
  Last year’s Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt’s first free presidential election made headlines around the world. There have been differing perspectives on what a Muslim Brotherhood victory might mean for science. For example, it was recently reported in Nature that some Egyptian scientists we ...
• The Future of Academic Impact
    LSE’s public policy group put on an excellent conference programme on 4 December at Beveridge Hall. The conference explored the themes:1) the Economic impact of academic research; 2) impact and the new digital paradigm; 3) next steps in assessing impact; 4) impact as a driver for Open Access. ...
• LERU 10 – Open Horizons: A Revolution in Open ...
    Brussels on a cold morning, the sun reluctantly rising in the clear sky, and there’s science to be done. Sitting at a jaunty angle from the European Parliament is “possibly the best investment Bavaria ever made” (according to Gunnar Wiegand, Deputy Director at the Representation of the Free St ...
• CODATA 2012
    On the understanding that we needed to be indoors for a conference, the Taipei weather was accordingly drizzly with rain. The CODATA 2012 International Conference began on Sunday 28th October running until Wednesday 31st October. With several keynotes, high level panel discussions, and 4 or 5 ...
• Predistribution Strategies: Innovation, Financ ...
  I attended a Policy Network event on 3 December. It was part of their series on economic reform, and the launch of William Lazonick & Marian Mazzucato’s paper called The Risk-Reward Nexus. Committee Room 3 in the House of Lords was a wonderfully grandiose setting. The event was to centre on ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• The pharmacracy exposed, with Thomas Szasz - P ...
  In the second hour of today's show we bring you some audio clips from the late Dr. Thomas Szasz, pyschiatrist, philosopher and intellectual giant of the modern era. Szasz was well known for his critique of biochemical reductionism in psychiatry, but it is interesting to note that he was also a ...
• Rochelle Macredie on the Sandy Hook massacre - ...
  My guest tonight is Rochelle Macredie, LLB, BSc, who joins us to expose discrepencies, anomalies and disinformation in the coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Rochelle's incisive intellect dissects many confusing strands of this story in an attempt to penetrate through the propaganda t ...
• Restore Australia! - Part 1
  On today's show in the second hour we welcome Mike Holt of Restore Australia. Restore Australia’s goal is to amend Section 128 of our Constitution to give all Australian voters, as well as the Parliament, the right to initiate a referendum to amend the Constitution. Why should we do th ...
• Australia - the new capital of the New World O ...
  Today I'm joined in studio by Damon Crowe for a general discussion about the quality of life in Australia and the way in which our society has been swallowed up by the forces of international homogenisation and enslavement. We look at the cost of living, sky rocketing property prices, and the ...
• Radiation expert Don Maisch on the health risk ...
  Today we are joined in the first hour by Dr. Don Maisch, the founder of EMFacts Consultancy, which has produced a wide range of reports and papers dealing with various health issues related to human exposure to electromagnetic radiation. From the website: This website was established in 1 ...

Beacon

• The Real-Life Kraken, Caught on Tape
  After a decade-long hunt almost as obsessive as Captain Ahab’s search for Moby Dick, a team of researchers and journalists from Japan’s National Science Museum, the Discovery Channel, and Japanese broadcaster NHK have captured video of the mysterious giant squid in its natural habitat, about 9 m ...
• Stampede!
  Whale watchers off of Dana Point, California were treated to an exhilarating sight this weekend, witnessing a spectacular if unusual phenomenon: the so-called dolphin stampede. All at once a massive pod of 1,000 dolphins turned the waters around Capt. Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari boat white, ...
• Tiny Fish Climb Giant Waterfalls for Love
  The suction cup-like belly sucker of a round goby. The Nopoli goby boasts two such suckers for scaling waterfalls. Photo: Wikimedia Commons If you think the dating world is tough for a human, consider for a moment the Nopoli rock-climbing goby of Hawaii, which scales waterfalls up to 100 feet ...
• Victory! Congress Extends Tax Credit for Offsh ...
  Coming soon to a coast near you. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Congress has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons this holiday season, but news out of the Capitol this week could not be better for the nation’s burgeoning offshore wind industry. As part of the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ de ...
• 2012 in Review: Oceana's Top Five Victories
  Sharks, like this great white, won several major victories in 2012. Source: Wikimedia Commons   As 2013 rapidly approaches, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year at Oceana. Thanks to your support, we were able to achieve more than a dozen major victories for the oceans ...

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Taylor Marsh

• Aaron Sandusky Gets 10 Years for Operating Leg ...
  WELL, AT least they’re legal in California. But since it’s illegal under federal law, the Obama administration and the Justice Department lowered the boom. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money, which results in anything but justice. A Southern California man was sentenced Monday t ...
• Michael Kinsley: Secretary Clinton is Trying t ...
  HAVING WRITTEN the book on the sexism leveled at Hillary Rodham Clinton in her historic 20-year rise in politics, I’m never surprised when another shot crosses her bow, including when it comes from men of the left. But Michael Kinsley really out does himself on his latest anti-Clinton scre ...
• Climate Change and a Change in Leadership: It’ ...
  On Monday of this week, nearly seventy environmental and health organizations sent a letter to President Obama, asking that he take a strong leadership role in addressing climate change. That was the day before the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a report tha ...
• News Desk: Jack Lew Headed to Treasury to Repl ...
  ACCORDING TO Bloomberg, though this nomination has been widely expected. Lew comes from the Clinton era economic wing that prominently featured Robert Reich. President Barack Obama plans to name White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew tomorrow as his choice for Treasury secretary, replacing Timothy ...
• Richard M. Nixon Should Have Been Impeached [V ...
  “I’m saying that when the President does it, it’s not illegal.” – Richard M. Nixon MARKING THE 100th anniversary of Richard M. Nixon’s birth, the legacy he leaves behind was seen in full glory through President George W. Bush’s unitary executive notion. ...

Hudson New York

• Hagel's No-Nukes "Global Zero"
  Former Senator Chuck Hagel, nominated to be Secretary of Defense, is also a signatory of what is known as the "Global Zero" plan. It calls for the United States and Russia to begin comprehensive nuclear arms negotiations in early 2013 to achieve zero
• Is Egypt the Next Sudan?
  In celebration of Egypt's new Islamic constitution, President Morsi went before the newly assembled upper house of the parliament – the Shura Council – and delivered another one of his enthusiastic and disconnected-from-reality speeches. In response to
• The Christian Aid Conference on Peace and Just ...
  The Christian Conference on Peace and Justice in the Holy Land took place in Gateshead, England on November 3, 2012; I attended in part to make a record of the proceedings for the local Jewish community, whose members were unable to attend because the
• Qatar's New Pearl: Al Jazeera America
  Most disturbing about the sale of Al Gore and Joel Hyatt's Current TV to Al Jazeera are the reported sanctimonious remarks about the character of the Current Network and the comparable frame of mind of Al Jazeera. Qatar's leadership, according to Gulf
• President's Nomination of Hagel May Encourage ...
  President Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense risks increasing the likelihood that Iran will develop nuclear weapons. It poses that risk because Hagel is well known for his opposition both to sanctions against Iran and to employing

Urban Survival

• Bread & Circuits
  THE big financial story is all the hype and circumstance surrounding the Consumer Electronics Show which opens today in Lost Wages.  As you would expect, there’s excellent coverage in places like PC World where a lot of the focus is … Continue reading →
• Coping: Newtown & the Poison Pill Defense
  This is turning into one of those stories where pieces are starting to come un-fit, as it were.  Besides the stories around the ‘net that there was a professional acting company involved (one which does acting gigs for security drills, … Continue reading →
• Busy Times at the WH HR Offices
  You talk about overtime, there’s so much shuffling going on in Washington it’s like Musical Chairs has gone mainstream.  For one, Chuck Hagel is headed for the SecDef job.  The nomination of Hagel may be tougher than the John Kerry … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Messages in the Media
  Have to hand it to reader Natasha this morning…this is a rather disturbing thought for this early in the week:   “George:     Have you ever wondered if our corporate overlords are simply shoving what they plan to do in … Continue reading →
• Don’t Even TALK About ending QEI
  That’s Quantitative Easing (to) Infinity.  The futures for the precious metals were (how to politely say this?) in the crapper this morning with Gold down $40 on the futures earlier and silver down 4% as well.   What’s going on … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Piers Morgan's Anti-2nd Amendment Argument Com ...
  Despite America being the #1 personal gun owner... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  Broadcasting live from the studios of KLBJ in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• The End of America ~ Stefan Molyneux
  There Will Be No Economic Recovery, Prepare... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Links for 2013-01-08 [del.icio.us]
  Sea Fish will never be the same again after Fukushima Disaster U.S. Presidents involvement with UFOs ~ Grant Cameron Texas secession movement gains traction The 4th Reich in America - Jim Marrs Alex Jones Flames Out On Piers Morgan Extermination by Food Drugs and Vaccines ~ A Gary Null Doc ...
• Peter Schiff ~ Obama should lead by example an ...
  Ted Nugent and Peter Schiff Talk Gun Control :... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

• NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
  Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
• AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
  I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
• AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
  This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
• RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
  It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
• FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
  Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

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• Build Smart New York: The Governor Said So
  Greg Hale, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, New York City A few days ago (December 28, 2012 to be exact), while many of us were taking a little time off to relax and attend to holiday festivities, Governor Cuomo announced a very important initiat ...
• No Study Needed: Shell's Arctic Blunders Show ...
  Chuck Clusen, Director, National Parks and Alaska Projects, Washington, DC -Special thanks to Jeff Benzak for helping draft this blog Royal Dutch Shell’s beaten and battered drill rig is currently anchored in a remote, pristine bay on the eas ...
• Public Transit is Boring. Why Not Make It Fun?
  Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Approaching the escalators exiting the Metro stop near my workplace yesterday, I was annoyed to see that half were out of order. Which half had staff decided to keep running? Tho ...
• Top Three Things We Urge Obama to Do to Curb C ...
  Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Most people don’t think chocolate factories or hardware stores have much to do with climate change. Yet residents of Queens, New York have discovered that extreme weather can devastate local b ...
• Money vs. morals, is there an answer in Promis ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Promised Land -- everyone in the fracking world is talking about this new film. Almost as much as people were talking about the new season of Downton Abbey. As my colleague Kate Sinding blogged: ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, January 8, 2013: Seneca County, Ohio: An officer was arrested, fired, and sentenced to 6 months in prison for stealing from the village while he was in office. ow.ly/gDJYv … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
• Disorderly Deputy Arrests Orderly Man With Vid ...
  From TwinCities.com: He had been filming from about 30 feet away, he said. Henderson said deputies gave him no warning before Muellner took his camera. The deputy wrote on the citation, “While handling a medical/check the welfare (call), (Henderson) was … Continue reading →Diso ...
• Police Take Pregnant Woman Out of Hospital; Sh ...
  Police Take Pregnant Woman Out of Hospital; She Dies in Jail is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
• Judge Finds ‘Deliberate Indifference’ by NYPD
  From the New York Law Journal: In sum, while it may be difficult to say where, precisely, to draw the line between constitutional and unconstitutional police encounters, such a line exists, and the NYPD has systematically crossed it when making … Continue reading →Judge Finds ‘ ...
• Does Facebook Help the Prosecution, But Not De ...
  From Wired’s Ryan Tate: [P]rosecutors generally have an easier time than defense attorneys getting private information out of Facebook and other social networks, as highlighted in an ongoing Portland murder case. In that case, the defense attorney has evidence of … Continue reading & ...

Total Collapse

• Russian Navy to Get over 50 Warships by 2016
  The Russian navy will receive more than 50 new warships by 2016, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. In the coming three years, 18 surface warships, 30 special-purpose and counter-subversion vessels as well as six multi-purpose strategic submarines will be put into service, the ministry said in ...
• Obama Warned To Prepare For Hillary Clinton Death
  A startling Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Obama was informed by White House medical personal shortly after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s return to the United States that her health prognosis was “grim” as her likelihood o ...
• Russian Navy to hold biggest war games in decades
  The four major Russian Navy fleets will hold a joint exercise in late January in the Mediterranean and Black seas. It will be the biggest such event in decades. Commands for the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea and Pacific fleets have been preparing for the exercises since December of last year, the ...
• Hillary Clinton in hospital amid speculation o ...
  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s admittance to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Monday, Dec, 31 – with a blood clot caused by concussion – gave wings to a cloud of rumor and conspiracy theories surrounding her state of health. The hospital, where Saudi King Abdullah was also ...
• Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret ...
  A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [photo 2nd left]was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed near ...

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose: WSJ says Apple plans a cheap ...
  Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper iPhone according to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft will transition Messenger users to Skype in March, and LinkedIn passes 200 million users. It’s... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Ford lets developers loose o ...
  Ford launches a Developer Network for SYNC-enabled cars, Samsung reveals 60″+ TVs, and Apple’s Tim Cook is in China for high-powered meetings. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple’s 40 billion App ...
  Apple announces 40 billion total App Store downloads from 500 million active accounts, Yahoo Mail users suffer widespread hacking, and it may be possible to send encrypted messages via the... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: The FTC closes its Google pr ...
  Google is all but cleared by the FTC, Spotify stops users from purchasing music downloads (for now, at least), and Facebook quietly launched a Pages Manager app for Android. It’s... Keep reading →
• TNW’s Daily Dose: Rovio downloads, BuzzF ...
  Rovio’s astounding festive season downloads, BuzzFeed funding and Current TV becomes Al Jazeera America, it’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
  To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...
• This summer, BBQ without cooking the planet
  For the summer holiday season, the first thing on everyone's mind is naturally how to minimise their carbon emissions. Well, maybe not the first thing on everyone's mind, but it is at least possible to have a barbie without contributing extra greenhouse emissions – and probably more convenient ...
• BZE Awards its Volunteers
  BZE relies on its dedicated and skilled volunteers for much of our research and public education initiatives. All our volunteers deserve an award! Today we are recognising those people that have excelled themselves in 2012. A big thank you to them and to all the people that have volunteered fo ...
• Hartcher should stop providing PR for the gas ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions statement, 20 December 2012 New South Wales Energy Minister Chris Hartcher recently said “If we are unable to access gas the lights will go out. It's as simple as that." (Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2012). The statement is clearly wrong, on many counts (see below). Why is ...
• Is dirty gas killing clean coal?
  CSG fracking: destroying carbon capture & storage potential? Media release, December 17, 2012 “Fracking” to tap unconventional gas resources could destroy the much-hyped “clean coal” carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Earlier this year, Scientific American reported findings that ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Google invests $200m in west Texas wind farm
  Google has made another big renewable energy investment, putting $200 million into a Texas wind farm, said the Internet search giant in a post on its official blog.
• Biofuel boom could lead to life-threatening oz ...
  Not long ago biofuels were seen as one of the major tools to combat climate change, but a large number of studies in recent years have shown that many first generation biofuels may have little climate benefit—and some are actually harmful—and are also linked to rising food prices. No ...
• Australia reels from record heatwave, fires
  Yesterday Australia recorded its highest average temperature yet: 40.33 degrees Celsius (104.59 Fahrenheit). The nation has been sweltering under an unprecedented summer heatwave that has spawned wildfires across the nation, including on the island of Tasmania where over 100 houses were engulfed ...
• New giant flying frog discovered near city of ...
  Jodi Rowley is no stranger to discovering new amphibians—she's helped describe over 10 in her short career thus far—but still she was shocked to discover a new species of flying frog less than 100 kilometers from a major, bustling Southeast Asian metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City. Unfortu ...
• 2012 was America's warmest year on record
  2012 was the warmest year on record for the contiguous U.S. according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Sierra Express

• ‘Government is ineffective without opposition’ ...
  The Executive Director of the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat has disclosed that no government will effectively function and succeed without the support of the opposition.  (Photo: Dr. Ivan Agibola Thomas lecturing on the Role of the Opposition in Parliament) Dr. Ivan Ajibol ...
• Police Officers Victimize Seasoned Journalist
  The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) has again displayed a high level of unprofessionalism by harassing a seasoned journalist, Ibrahim Samura.  The incident occurred past Wednesday a Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), New England Ville, Freetown. (Photo: Harrassed journalist, Ibrahim Samura) ...
• RFMA hold workshop with local councils on feed ...
  The Board and Management of the Road Maintenance Fund Administration (RMFA)  held a one-day workshop with local councils to discuss and agree on the rural feeder roads maintenance programme and how Councils can solicit funds from the RMFA, which brought together the 19 local councils in the coun ...
• NATCOM Sierra Leone holds consultative meeting ...
  The body that has the constitution mandate to regulate service providers (telecommunication houses), National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) Sierra Leone, over the weekend held a consultative meeting with mobile phone companies, members of the Forth Estate, members of the Top-up Sellers ...
• Ethiopian journalist loses appeal, remains in ...
  Washington, DC – The IWMF is gravely concerned about freedom of the press in Ethiopia upon learning the cassation court’s decision to uphold Reeyot Alemu’s conviction and prison sentence in Addis Ababa today. Ethiopia has become one of the most oppressive in the world for press freed ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Crunch time alarm sounded
  Financial institutions may struggle to be ready for new anti-money-laundering laws if they haven't yet begun preparations, a legal expert warns.PricewaterhouseCoopers advisory partner Eric Lucas said that when Australia introduced...
• Increased dairy farming investment in pipeline
  Investment in New Zealand dairy farming will step up this year after the sector attracted strong interest in 2012, according to dairy farm syndication specialist MyFarm.MyFarm said the industry was entering a positive cycle in 2013...
• Rock stars of NZ business world
  This has been another testing year for New Zealand businesses as they rock along the decade of "grumpy growth" that Finance Minister Bill English has signposted. It's not been plain-sailing by any means for the five "business heroes"...
• Liam Dann: Another year over, better to come
  And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?Sorry about that. I just can't get the line out of my head and it is silly season, all right? As a young business reporter I once did the full Twas the Night Before Christmas as...
• Big year for changing of the guard
  The face of New Zealand business changed over 2012 with a series of senior appointments made to some of the country's top jobs.These include former World Bank managing director Graeme Wheeler who took over from Reserve Bank governor...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Taxpayer Advocate Says Tax Code is “Unconscion ...
  If there's one word that appears over and over in National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olsen's 2012 Annual Report to Congress, it's "burden" and variations thereof. A quick search found 25 repetitions of "burden," "burdens" or "burdensome" just in the executive summary (PDF), not counti ...
• James Buchanan: He "Uneducated" the Economists
  The New York Times has a long and interesting obituary for Nobel-winning economist James M. Buchanan, whom Brian Doherty wrote about this morning. Some snippets from the Times' send-off: Over the years since Dr. Buchanan won the Nobel [in 1986], much of what he predicted has pla ...
• A World Without Chavez, TSA Fights Off Privati ...
  Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is clinging to life, and U.S. leadership is considering whether his death might help improve relations with the country. Sean Penn just isn’t enough. In the meantime, the nation’s Supreme Court approved delaying Chavez's inauguration. TSA work ...
• Reason Writers Around Town: Shifting Transport ...
  Reason Foundation Director of Transportation Robert Poole writes: As Congress grapples with impending budget cuts, we need to do a fundamental rethink of how the federal government assists with much-needed transportation infrastructure. The reality going forward is that there will ...
• Judge Rules Bradley Manning Pre-Trial Detentio ...
  As noted on Reason 24/7 earlier today, a military judge has ruled that Bradley Manning’s pre-trial confinement, 23 hours a day in a windowless cell room for months, was “excessive” and “more rigorous.“ As such, the judge ordered 112 days be credited toward any sentence handed down ...

Mercury Rising

• Former Head Of US Mint: The $1T Platinum Coin ...
  I think this should settle it once and for all as to whether the famed Platinum Coin Option is feasible. Via Daily Kos, we see that Philip N. Diehl, who was not only the Director of the United States Mint under Bill Clinton but the co-author (with Mike Castle) of the bill making platinum coinage ...
• Venezuela may be on path to crisis
  Newly-elected president Hugo Chavez is in Cuba getting treatment for cancer. He developed a lung infection, which means he can’t travel back to Venezuela for the inauguration. The Venezuelan Constitution specifies (see Art. 231) that the swearing in must be done on the 10th, either before ...
• Justice is done. Maybe. (Tom DeLay sentenced). ...
  Via Avedon, former House Majority Leader Tom “The Hammer” DeLay earns himself 3 years in prison, assuming he doesn’t jump his ridiculously low bond, get the sentence overturned, or get a pardon from the Republican Governor. [Oops. My bad. The article is from 2011. Thanks, PW.] ...
• Social Security Lie #1: “Its Creators Di ...
  Spurred on by this excellent MyFDL piece, which cites this deceitful New York Times Op-Ed piece, I have decided to address what may be the most pernicious lie told about Social Security — namely, that it wasn’t originally designed to take the aging of America’s population into ...
• US Productivity Goes Up, Corporate Profits Go ...
  What’s wrong with this picture? Everything: The red line is productivity, the green line is real median family income. The time period spans from 1947 to 2011. Notice that while the red line has kept marching upward at roughly the same rate from beginning to end, the green line — whi ...

Reality Sandwich

• Psi in the News
  The Rhine Research Center announces new courses for 2013, Steve Volk discusses his path to Fringe-ology, the Global Consciousness Project releases a 14 overview of the study with provocative results, the Felix Experimental Group releases more photographs of reported ectoplasmic phenomena, and ...
• Top Films that Capture the Mystical Experience ...
  We polled Reality Sandwich contributors to find out what films they thought most effectively captured the mystical experience. As you might expect, we got a diverse list -- and more suggestions than would comfortably fit into a single column. So here is Volume 1 of the RS mystical films list. Mo ...
• The Gold Standard, Chemical Weddings, & the Jo ...
  "If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want." --Greek proverb Extraterrestrial "It is observed of gold, in an old epigram, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow." --Samuel Johnson read more
• Right to Nature
  [Action Alert] • Stop the Swedish Government's persecution of shamanic healer Jungle Svonni and the supression of natural plant medicines. After spending six years in the Amazon rainforest studying Shamanism and natural healing Jungle Svonni returned to his home country only to face a ...
• What's Too Weird for Wired? My Predictions for ...
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Desertification

• OP-ED: Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of ...
  Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we unequivocally learned that the fossil fuel energy that powers our societies is destroying them. Accepting this reality is the biggest challenge of the brand new year. Re-engineering our societies and lifestyles to prosper on green a ...
• OP-ED: A Universal Climate Change Agreement Is ...
  The results of the United Nations climate change conference that closed in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 8 show once again that the international negotiations are moving steadily in the right direction, but alarmingly slow. At the heart of these negotiations is nothing less than the most challenging energ ...
• Critics Brand Climate Talks Another Lost Oppor ...
  Rich countries came to the U.N. climate talks in Doha intent on delaying needed action on climate change for another three years and a still to be hammered out new global treaty. This delay will be extraordinarily expensive and risky. Every year that fossil fuel emissions fail to decline adds to ...
• Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts ...
  The United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without financial commitments between 2013 and 2015. “This an incredibly weak deal,” said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a coalit ...
• A Hotter World Is a Hungry World
  Food prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18, scientists and activists say. Carbon emissions are already disrupting the world&# ...

Blogging Canadians

• Finale: "The Government / #Bankster / Corporat ...
  the biggest #mafia in the world is the government/#bankster/corporate/military cartel. by J.S. Kim As originally posted on: Gold&SilverRealMoney (smartknowledgeu) on Twitter August 9, 2012
• On the Twelfth Day of Cronyism . . . : The System
  The following tweets were originally posted by "Anti War" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/_AntiWar_), variously, on October 17, 2012; December 9, 2012; December 10, 2012; December 11, 2012; December 13, 2012; December 14, 2012; December 15, 2012; December 16, 2012; December 17, ...
• On the Eleventh Day of Cronyism . . . : "The P ...
  WAR IS BUSINESS. by "Ann Arky" As originally posted on: annarky's blog. December 24, 2012 In times of "austerity" our "democratic" governments still spend a whopping slice of your money and my money in killing people across the globe. We in the UK are the world's fourth largest spender on ...
• Liberal leadership – a beauty pageant?
  If Justin Bieber were a nobody and you’d met him in the street or at a bar, you might be inclined, provided he’s your type, to ask him, “Wanna hang out sometime?”, or, more awkwardly, “For you, I’d change the alphabet and put U and I next to each other.” (Yeah, good luck with that.) But Justin ...
• On the Tenth Day of Cronyism . . . : "Academic ...
  The following tweets were originally posted by "Anti-Academics" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/AntiAcademics), variously, on November 24, 2012; December 16, 2012; December 17, 2012; December 18, 2012; December 19, 2012; December 20, 2012; December 21, 2012; December 22, 2012; ...

Press TV - Middle East

• Hamas, Fatah leaders meet in Egypt
  Leaders of rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have held unity talks in Egypt.
• UN censures Qatar for jailing poet
  The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has criticized the Qatari government for imprisoning a poet.
• Israel arrests 13 Palestinians in WB
  Israeli forces have arrested 13 Palestinians, including minors, during fresh raids on several towns throughout the occupied West Bank, Press TV reports.
• ‘Israel legalizes illegal outposts’
  An Israeli watchdog says that the Israeli regime has quietly legalized an illegal settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank, in the tenth of such moves authorized by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
• Turkey, PKK reach peace deal
  The Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have agreed on a peace roadmap to end nearly three decades of hostility.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• On The Day My Life Changed Forever
  Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]
• MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
  In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...
• Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
  In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
• I am a marathoner.
  Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...
• A Post-Sandy Report from Far Rockaway
  Hello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]

Dissident Voice

• Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
  Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
• The Dawn of Medicare
  A highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
• Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...
  In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.”  Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
• Inflation of the University Degree
  Catch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
• After The Fireworks Have Faded
  On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERN&#82 ...

Nick Turse

• yahoonews:Wildfires rage across Australia am ...
  yahoonews: Wildfires rage across Australia amid searing heat:  COOMA, Australia (AP) — Firefighters battled scores of wildfires Tuesday in southeastern Australia as authorities evacuated national parks and warned that hot, dry and windy conditions were combining to raise the threat to ...
• guardian:Dramatic pictures of five young chi ...
  guardian: Dramatic pictures of five young children and their grandmother huddled together under a jetty in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley were captured by their grandfather Tim Holmes as the family took shelter from Australia’s wildfires in the water to escape the flames. The family was forced ...
• killanythingthatmoves:For more than a decade ...
  killanythingthatmoves: For more than a decade, pundits, historians, generals, and the chattering classes have argued about how the “Vietnam analogy” applied to Iraq and Afghanistan — and yet for all the ink (and blood) spilled, they managed to miss the one unfailing parallel between America’s ...
• "In the mid-1970s, Hugh Carey, then governor o ...
  “In the mid-1970s, Hugh Carey, then governor of New York, was already noting the hollowing out...
• Telegram from Reporter to the New York Times ...
  Telegram from Reporter to the New York Times Regarding the Battle of Gettysburg: 07/03/1863 credit: NARA

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