hope everyone has a great weekend and i'll see you all tomorrow for Documentary Saturday.
Much thanks to RJ at the Global Glass Onion and the Ozarker at Conflicted Doomer for their help today! They do a lot to help make this blog all that it is, and I think it's a pretty darn good blog!
Be sure to check out the forums too. Lots of good stuff going on there all the time!
Global Conflict
Atlantic: The Middle East Didn't Really Get Any Freer in 2011
Reuters: Iran warns region against 'dangerous' stance on Hormuz
YNETNews: Report: Mashaal refuses to pass Arabs' message to Assad
BusinessWeek: Iran Denies Report It May Bomb US Mission in Turkey, Mehr Says
LegitGov: Two British soldiers arrested over allegations of sex abuse with 10-year-old children in Afghanistan
SOTT: 5 Unemployed Moroccans Set Selves on Fire
Cryptogon: Genetics Researcher Killed in Texas
ETFDaily: Investors: All You Need To Know About Iran, $200 Oil, and $6.00 Gas Prices
VOA: France Suspends Afghan Military Operations After Troop Deaths
Reuters: Iran calls for Israel to be "punished"
LegitGov: Iraq's Maliki accused of detaining hundreds of political opponents, using torture
MSNBC: 'Hatred is growing rapidly': Afghan soldiers killing more of their US allies
Star-Tribune: US has new confidence in peace talks among Taliban, US and Karzai; military, CIA are cautious
GlobeAndMail: Russia vows to block Western military intervention in Syria as clashes continue
VancouverSun: China turns on Tehran with warning over nuclear weapons
OWS
Hub sends us this video!.
We are the 1%
Politico: 'Occupy Courts' to hit Citizens United - Demonstrators are planning to “occupy” courthouses in cities across the country on Friday, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in a show of protest against the two-year anniversary of the controversial Citizens United ruling
Reuters: Protesters ready igloos to Occupy Davos
Hacker News
ABC: Murdoch to Pay Jude Law, 36 Others for Hacking
CBS: Online activists shut down Dept. of Justice web site, other entertainment sites
BlacklistedNews: CYBER WAR: Feds SHUT DOWN file-sharing website; No trial, no due process...
SOTT: Israeli Hackers Hit Saudi Stock Exchange
NYT: 7 Charged as FBI Closes a Top File-Sharing Site - The charges could result in more than 20 years in prison.
(How is it possible that they could get that much jail time for running a website and you have banksters destroying people's lives who will NEVER see jail? How is that possible? Hell, you can get less time for committing murder!)
Wired: Reid Calls Off Protect IP Act Vote
DailyBail: SOPA Protest Song - The Day The LOLcats Died
VancouverSun: MegaUpload taken down by U.S. government
IBTimes: Rupert Murdoch's Nightmare: FBI May Investigate News International Over Phone Hacking
Independent: We hacked emails too – News International - Seized computers being checked for hacking evidence
NYT: 7 Charged as FBI Closes a Top File-Sharing Site - The charges could result in more than 20 years in prison.
(How is it possible that they could get that much jail time for running a website and you have banksters destroying people's lives who will NEVER see jail? How is that possible? Hell, you can get less time for committing murder!)
Wired: Reid Calls Off Protect IP Act Vote
DailyBail: SOPA Protest Song - The Day The LOLcats Died
VancouverSun: MegaUpload taken down by U.S. government
IBTimes: Rupert Murdoch's Nightmare: FBI May Investigate News International Over Phone Hacking
Independent: We hacked emails too – News International - Seized computers being checked for hacking evidence
Domestic Financial News
TheEXiled: The Fed, Paul Krugman & The Economic Bullshit Artistry In Election Year 2012
Zerohedge: Maiden Lane LLC | Rep. Alan Grayson: You Own the Red Roof Inn, Thanks to the Fed
CreditWritedowns: Sucking up to power, Timothy Geithner edition
BusinessInsider: Time to Concede Home 'Ownership' Is A Fraud
MercuryNews: Oakland gives layoff notices to 2,500 city workers —Oakland officials are sending layoff notices to nearly 2,500 employees as the city moves to cut costs to try to make up for the loss of redevelopment money.
CalculatedRisk: Housing Starts decline in December
DailyBail: MUST SEE GRAPHIC - How The Too Big To Fail Banks Were Born
MSNBC: Lose a job, prepare for a long search
NYT: Is Banking Bad? (Yes actually, it is.)
JOC: US Intermodal Traffic Surges 7.4 Percent
CNBC: Fed's Latest Easing Could Cost $1 Trillion: Economists
Star-Tribune: Wis. loses 3,900 private-sector jobs in December
BusinessInsider: The Only 26 US Cities That Have Regained All Of The Jobs They Lost During the Recession:
Global Financial News
BusinessInsider: EL-ERIAN: We're Suffering From 'A Crisis In Capitalism'
Merkfunds: Chinese Dragon To Unshackle Renminbi? - With the Year of the Dragon around the corner, will the renminbi be unshackled?
MacroBusiness: European banks prepare to shrink
ETFDaily: Look Out Below: The Euro Continues To Be A Dying Currency (FXE, EUO, VGK, EWG, EPV, IEV, EWI)
BusinessInsider: SocGen Doubts Equity Confidence Will Survive These Coming Tests
Zerohedge: Greek PSI Here We Come? Be Careful What You Wish For
ProPublica: Deutsche Analyst Sounded Alarm When Asked to Alter Numbers
GlobeAndMail: Glimmer of optimism in European crisis
NYT: Hedge Funds May Sue Greece if It Tries to Force Losses
NYT: I.M.F. Seeks $500 Billion More to Lend as It Plans to Cut Growth Forecast
IBTimes: In MF Global, JPMorgan Again at Center of a Financial Failure
SeattleTimes: Deal on EU embargo of Iran's oil remains in doubt - A possible European Union ban on oil deals with Iran remains in doubt just days before EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels in hopes of adopting it, a diplomat said Thursday.
Peak Oil and Energy News
EnergyBulletin: With Gas so Cheap and Well Drilling Down, Why is Gas Production so High?
DesmoineRegister: Our addiction to oil makes Keystone a must
EnergyBulletin: Sanctioning Iranian oil
ScientificAmerican: Genetically Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed into Ethanol EnergyBulletin: Sanctioning Iranian oil
GlobeAndMail: Economics biggest threat to embattled oil sands
Fossil fuels are sub-prime assets, Bank of England governor warned - Open letter to Sir Mervyn King says overexposure to high-carbon assets by London-listed companies risks creating a 'carbon bubble'
Commodities/MetalsMineweb: QE3, $2,200 Gold, and the trillion dollar bazooka
Environmental
The following is one of those articles you have to read to believe.
I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it.
ClimateandCapitalism: Worth Framing: Future World Bank president explains why Africa is ‘vastly underpolluted’
Thanks to the ThreeEs for the story.
DesdemonaDespair: Video: Rena stench adds to salvors’ challenge – 500 containers remain unaccounted forDesdemonaDespair: Michael Mann: The climate scientist targeted by the fossil fuel industry – ‘Scientists have to recognise that they’re in a street fight’
SOTT: Storm brings snow to Sahara Desert
WashingtonPost: Strong winds fueling brush fire that has burned several homes south of Reno
TechReview: Fracking Quakes Shake the Shale Gas Industry - Well shutdowns prompted by fracking-induced seismicity may inspire technology tweaks.
ExtinctionProtocol: Solar Status: Solar flare unleashes Earth-directed CME
Hosted: Reno fire 50 percent contained; 2000 evacuated
Statesman: Sierra Club sues Texas for upping plant emissions
MSNBC: Solar blast heading our way
America in Decline
BlacklistedNews: Homeland Security Installs Full Scale Surveillance Grid In Preparation for Super Bowl
NYDailyNews: Army investigates video of man beating sheep to death with baseball bat - Report
The Army Criminal Investigation Command began investigating the video back in November
Guardian: Outlawing dissent: Rahm Emanuel's new regime -It's almost as if Rahm Emanuel was lifting a page from Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine – as if he was reading her account of Milton Friedman's "Chicago Boys" as a cookbook recipe, rather than as the ominous episode that it was. In record time, Emanuel successfully exploited the fact that Chicago will host the upcoming G8 and Nato summit meetings to increase his police powers and extend police surveillance, to outsource city services and privatize financial gains, and to make permanent new limitations on political dissent. It all happened – very rapidly and without time for dissent – with the passage of rushed security and anti-protest measures adopted by the city council on 18 January 2012.
FDL: Private Prisons Don’t Save Money in Arizona - Arizona sure loves it some privatization. Facing extreme budget shortfalls, the state attempted to sell off and then re-lease its state house in 2009 to earn some extra money, along with privatizing its entire prison system.
WashingtonsBlog: Homeland Security Shreds Constitutional Right to Anonymous Political Speech - Not to Protect Our Security - But to Monitor Dissent - Anonymous political speech has a special place in American history.As leading economic blogger Tyler Durden points out: Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the bill of rights, and of the first amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation– and their ideas from suppression– at the hand of an intolerant society. ***Though often maligned (typically by those frustrated by an inability to engage in ad hominem attacks) anonymous speech has a long and storied history in the United States. Used by the likes of Mark Twain (aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) [and the founding fathers in the Federalist Papers], we think ourselves in good company in using one or another nom de plume. But DHS is shredding anonymity. Gene Howington provides details in a must-read essay:Do you have a right to anonymous political free speech? According to the Supreme Court, you do. According to the Department of Homeland Security, you don’t. They’ve hired General Dynamics to track U.S. citizens exercising this critical civil right.
InfoWars: New York Moves to Deploy Body Scanners on Street in Search for Guns - NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told CBS in New York his department is looking to deploy Terahertz Imaging Detection scanners on the street in the war on “illegal guns.” Kelly said the scanners would be used in “reasonably suspicious circumstances” and intended to cut down on the number of stop-and-frisks on the street. So called stop-and-frisks are considered a violation of the Fourth Amendment. New York City is largely a Second Amendment free zone. The city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has said that citizens “acting outside of any governmental military effort” should not be allowed to protect themselves with firearms. “The NYPD and Department of Defense are working together testing Terahertz Imaging Detection, a new way to get concealed illegal weapons off the streets,” CBS reports. Terahertz Imaging Detection measures energy radiating from the body up to 16 feet away and can detect anything blocking it.
Food and Water
Smithsonian: Ancient Popcorn Discovered in Peru - "People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there"
BusinessInsider: 21 Crazy Facts About The Unbelievably Corrupt Olive Oil Industry - Olive oil has played a prominent part in Mediterranean culture for over 2,000 years and is beloved by foodies the world over.
CityFarmer: The Dark Side of Backyard Farming: Should Slaughter Be Banned in Urban Environment?
Science and Technology
DeclineoftheEmpire: They Tried To Teach My Baby Science!
TechReview: New Apps let Facebook Record Your Personal History - The site can now provide summaries and stats that offer a window on your life months or years in the past.
ScienceMag: Electric Material in Mantle Could Explain Earth's Rotation
PopSci: Video: How Flies Somersault to Safety Just Before You Swat Them
Independent: Into the abyss: The diving suit that turns men into fish
PopSci: ISS Video: Lightning Over Africa, Backlit By the Milky Way - ISS Over Africa via YouTubeThe International Space Station affords a pretty decent view
NewScientist: Friday Illusion: Stop a spinning object with your mind
theStar: Apple iBooks 2: Can Apple revolutionize textbooks?
Medical and Health
VOA: US Doctor Prescribes Food as Medicine - Daphne Miller focuses on nutrition to treat modern diseases
Politico: Supreme Court holds the fate of Medicaid - Two cases before the Supreme Court have the potential to effectively do what Republican lawmakers have tried and failed: transform Medicaid into a block grant program for states with few enforceable federal rules about how they provide health coverage for the poor.
RedditScience: Quebec's ban on fast-food ads reduced consumption of junk food, between 11 million and 22 million fewer fast-food meals eaten per year
Time: When Penicillin Pays: Why China Loves Antibiotics a Little Too Much - Chinese consume antibiotics at ten times the rate of Americans, raising fears of immunity and questions of medical ethics. Can China kick the habit?
PoliticalCalculations: The Core Business of Planned Parenthood - How much of the revenue Planned Parenthood generates through its health center affiliates comes from performing abortion procedures? The question arises because of a chart Planned Parenthood provided in its 2009-10 annual report. In it, Planned Parenthood indicates that abortion services account for just 3% of all the health services it provides:
NYT: Depression Defies the Rush to Find an Evolutionary Upside
TodayHealth: Teen girls' mystery illness now has a diagnosis: mass hysteria
TodayHealth: Couples who cohabitate are happier than marrieds
Doomsteading, Gardening, Urban Farming
TransitionVoice: The Happy Hoarder: Fire in the belly
ModernSurvivalBlog: Winter Survival Insulated Outerwear
PreppingToSurvive: Pacific Northwest Survival - The following article has been contributed by Rob Toledo, an avid outdoorsman and prepper in the Pacific Northwest.
Other News
NYT: Indictment Charges Megaupload Site With Piracy Federal prosecutors in Virginia say they have shut down one of the world's largest Internet file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com
NYDaily: Kidnapped woman forced to watch teen's torture death - The dismembered body of Carina Saunders, 19, was found in duffel bag
Reuters: San Francisco sheriff pleads not guilty to spousal abuse
MSNBC: Indonesian children make perilous journey to school over collapsed bridge
Politics
VOA: Angry Gingrich Denies Asking 2nd Wife for 'Open Marriage'
NakedDC: "Hey, it says Economics in the title. That counts, right?" - Dave Spence is a Republican running for governor in Missouri. He has gone around the state for weeks on end, talking about his economics degree and how he’s a perfect fit as governor because he’ll know how to tackle the state’s budget woes. He’s Dave Spence, economics degree holder, and he’ll fix your fiscal insolvency! Poor Dave, he’s not an economics degree holder, he’s a degree holder in HOME economics. That’s right, Dave Spence graduated from the University of Missouri in 1981 with a degree in how to be just like Betty Crocker and Martha Stewart combined!
CNNMoney: INSIDE NEWT'S TAX RETURN
RawStory: Gingrich suggests he will ‘ignore’ Roe v. Wade
Forums
TinfoilPalace: Tea Party Heavy N.H. Legislature Wants to Defund Planned Parenthood, Weaken Domestic Violence Laws
TinfoilPalace: Sound Familiar? - Penn State Child Abuse Scandal TheOilAge: Warren on Max: Bank Holiday Coming to a Bank Near You
TheOilAge: Illusion of electoral politics choice (cartoon)
HubbertsArms: US Homeland Security Suggests Military Action in Nigeria
HubbertsArms: Old Country Buffet/Ryan's Restaurant Chain Files for Bankruptcy
SilentCountry: Anonymous shuts down Department of Justice website
SilentCountry: 2 more US refineries shutting down next month
No comments:
Post a Comment