The rise and rise of citizen science
From plant hunting to virtual space exploration, how people-led science is taking the world by stormThe post The rise and rise of citizen science appeared first on Positive News.
From plant hunting to virtual space exploration, how people-led science is taking the world by stormThe post The rise and rise of citizen science appeared first on Positive News.
On Monday, Markos “kos” Moulitsas, founder of the highly trafficked Daily Kos website penned an article that many have found deeply offensive titled, Be Happy for Coal Miners Losing Their Health Insurance. They’re Getting Exactly What They Voted for. Here’s some of what he wrote:
Very clearly parties with vested interests are attempting to impede or reverse Aleppo's liberation from terrorism- Assad states very clearly ISIS came to Palmyra with a whole batch of new/improved weapons- Fighting started up again- Reports today indicate buses to transport civilians out of eastern Aleppo left empty despite the fact people had waited all night for the buses to arrive- UPDATE: 1:04pm est-Was this how the fighting kicked off again in Aleppo? Reuters:
In 1981, Ronald Reagan signaled Guatemala’s right-wing regime to escalate its death-squad operations, a decision that led to the murder of American priest Stanley Rother, now a candidate for sainthood, writes Nicolas J S Davies. By Nicolas J S Davies…Read more →
RT | December 14, 2016 President Obama’s announcement of a waiver for arming unspecified rebel groups in Syria came shortly before the terrorist group Islamic State launched a massive attack on Palmyra. Syrian President Bashar Assad believes it was no coincidence, he told RT. “The announcement of the lifting of that embargo is related directly […]
While there were many reasons for Donald Trump’s surprise victory, a particularly ugly one was his success in touching the raw nerve of white racial animosities, writes Lawrence Davidson. By Lawrence Davidson There is little doubt that white racism played…Read more →
With the oil glut largely expected to end now that OPEC and non-OPEC nations agree to output cuts, prices are sure to rise at the pump [Xinhua]
Oil futures slid slightly on opening of US markets on Wednesday despite a monthly report from the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries (OPEC) which predicted prices would “rebalance” in 2017.
The report released today predicts that “In 2017, world oil demand growth is seen at 1.15 million barrels a day” partly due to an improving economic landscape.
The EPA released a final environmental impact statement on December 7 giving the green light to creeping bentgrass, a highly invasive type of grass genetically engineered by Monsanto and Scotts Miracle Gro-Co. to withstand what would normally be a lethal dose of glyphosate. [1]
Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst
The agency recommended the deregulation of the plant because it “is unlikely to pose a plant pest risk.” Nothing could be further from the truth, based on past experience. [2]
21st Century Wire | December 14, 2016 Recently, Democrat Hawaii Congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, went on CNN’s “The Lead” hosted by Jake Tapper, to talk about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and more importantly, to discuss the disturbing reality of US taxpayer support of armed militants and terrorists in places like Syria. Instead of adulation for doing […]
What's the bottom line on Russian interference in the election on behalf of Putin's puppet candidate? Was it just propaganda aimed at an easily manipulated U.S. media coupled with fake news aimed at low-IQ voters? Or is there evidence that the Russians actually tampered with easily hackable voting machines in Outagamie Kenosha and Portage counties in Wisconsin, Macomb and Muskegon counties in Michigan and Luzerne and Erie counties in Pennsylvania.
Bright lights, loud noises, and crowds can be difficult for people with autism. At no time during the year are stores brighter, louder, and more crowded than during the holidays. To help autistic people and their families have a more peaceful, enjoyable shopping experience, some retailers (including Toys “R” Us and Target) are hosting special shopping days and events designed just for them. [1]
Press TV – December 14, 2016 Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin has accused the United States, France and Britain of spreading fake news and and waging a psychological warfare over the situation in Syria’s Aleppo. The three countries have claimed that the Syrian government targeted civilians in eastern Aleppo, with US Ambassador to the UN […]
Pernilla Norrman och leranKeramiker Pernilla Norrman, handkirurg Göran Lundborg och hemslöjdskonsulent Niclas Flink diskuterar handens betydelse i vår visuellt fixerade värld.Filosofen sitter isolerad i sin fåtölj i sitt torn och läser, medan allt fler av oss andra ägnar allt fler av dygnets vakna timmar stirrandes på små och stora skärmar. Allt färre barn leker med hela kroppen, allt färre vuxna jobbar fortfarande med händerna - om man inte räknar fingrandet på olika pekskärmar och tangentbord.
Nursing homes and animal rescues have a lot in common, when you think about it. Both can be lonely, isolating places that lack the warmth and familiarity of loved ones and home. So it makes perfect sense that the Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) in Tucson, Arizona, decided to team up with Catalina Springs Memory Care to save homeless felines and enrich the lives of senior citizens. [1]
GM seeds are increasingly being marketed in Pakistan without any assessment of their impact on environment or human and animal health
The industry links of Sense About Science USA director Trevor Butterworth are laid bare in an exposé by Stacy Malkan of US Right to Know
It’s that time of year again. Your kids are (hopefully) on their best behavior in the hopes that Santa’s elves will report good things back to the North Pole. Parents, my wish for you this holiday season is that your little ones don’t request too many noisy presents, or gifts that require 15 batteries to operate. More importantly, I hope that your family has a safe and happy holiday – so let’s take a look at the 10 ‘most dangerous toys’ of 2016.
Temer has vowed since replacing Dilma Rousseff as president that he will make sure austerity and reform packages are passed through the Senate in a bid to revive the economy and boost business confidence [Xinhua]
Brazilian president Michel Temer has won a small victory after the Senate passed severe austerity measures, which some have described as punishing the poor.
The constitutional amendment – passed by 53 votes for and 16 against on Tuesday – will freeze the government’s social spending at the rate of inflation for the next 20 years.
This is unprecedented.
21st Century Wire says…
What is really behind the current US establishment conspiracy theory that, “Russia hacked the US elections to help Donald Trump win”?
Here’s a great discussion on the Russian hack, Donald Trump’s foreign policy, the reality in Aleppo, and other EU plots being floated including an attempt to bribe Bashar al-Assad with cash in order to allow terrorists to terrorize Syria…
21st Century Wire says…
In a new interview by RT with Assad, being released today, the Syrian President warned about taking the claims of the Western governments and mainstream media outlets at face value. As 21WIRE readers well know, this is good advice.
Watch the full interview at the bottom of the page…
RT
Some fifteen years ago, when I lived in Hanoi, I used to come very often to the rooftop bar at the Meritus Hotel for an evening drink, just to feel gentle breeze and to spot ancient cargo boats majestically sailing on the surface of Red River. Sometimes the river could be clearly visible, but often it was covered by fog, like in an old Vietnamese painting.
A little thank you to CPE Bach, who died this day 228 years ago, after having unleashed a musical revolution all his own, for…
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Geopolitical fallout from the wave of anti-globaloneyism that appears to be sweeping the West continues. In just the last week, we've seen the House…
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21st Century Wire says…
This latest episode of the Democratic Party’s epic meltdown is perhaps the most embarrassing of them all.
The ghosts of Hillary’s defeat continue to haunt the halls of Washington and media headlines, as party operatives and their media surrogates conjure up old plots, as well as new and innovative ways to change the election results.
21st Century Wire says…
Keep an eye on Syria in the coming days and weeks as Palmyra has been stricken by renewed assaults from ISIS fighters, with Russia and the Syrian Army clearly planning to defend the city.
Here’s more insight and analysis from The Duran…
Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
21st Century Wire says…
How seriously can we take a “secret CIA assessment” that Russian intervention in the U.S. Presidential election played a role in the victory of President Elect Donald J. Trump when it comes from an organization that has intervened extensively in so many countries’ sovereign governments?
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There is circumstantial evidence that the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the rest of the presstitute media are part of a conspiracy with the oligarchs, the military/security complex, the Hillary Democrats, and neoconized Republicans to shut down the dissident Internet alternative media and to deny Donald Trump the presidency...
21st Century Wire says…
Recently, Democrat Hawaii Congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, went on CNN’s “The Lead” hosted by Jake Tapper, to talk about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and more importantly, to discuss the disturbing reality of US taxpayer support for armed militants and terrorists in places like Syria. Instead of adulation for doing the honorable thing, she received a hostile reaction from one of CNN’s many highly paid onscreen propagandists.
December 14, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Reading commentary, analysis, and even alleged "reports" from the Southeast Asian state of Myanmar, it would appear that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi - poster child of American and European "democracy promotion" - is helpless to avert what is quickly expanding into wholesale genocide against the nation's Rohingya minority.
Was the Cold War against communism, or against Russia? Russia was our ally in World War II, and we’d have a Nazi world today if 26 million Russians hadn’t died from Hitler’s bombs and attacks while Russia fought on with courage amidst desperation, finally to crush his regime.
Verity. Donald Trump will likely be one of the greatest Presidents of our republic. And Obama one of the most ineffectual. Meanwhile, Hillary apologists are trying to reconfigure the logic anent Trump’s appointees. They’ve nothing to say since abandoning the Russian hack bit.
While the Democrats morph into a neoconservative party of paranoiacs whose main issue is hating on Russia, and the John McCain-Lindsey Graham duo arises to make its last stand in a Trumpified GOP, Rex Tillerson is the perfect target of their ire. Seeking to delegitimize the President-elect as a Russian-controlled Manchurian candidate, the CIA-Clinton-Saudi axis […]
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Originally posted at TomDispatch. “Did China ask us if it was OK to… build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don’t think so!” tweeted President-Elect Donald Trump after shattering nearly 40 years of U.S.-China diplomatic protocol by having a telephone conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. The call […]
On December 11, the Islamic State group seized Palmyra after heavy clashes with the Russia-supported Syrian Army. The militants established full control of the area less than a year after being driven out. Evidently, there were miscalculations and wrong decisions on the part of Syrian command. Some Western media are gloating over the event and offer biased reports about what happened...
Reading commentary, analysis, and even alleged “reports” from the Southeast Asian state of Myanmar, it would appear that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi – poster child of American and European “democracy promotion” – is helpless to avert what is quickly expanding into wholesale genocide against the nation’s Rohingya minority.
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, December 13, 2016 5,000 Jihadis with Families Will Start Departing in Bus Convoy Headed for Idlib at 10pm Eastern Tonight (03:00 GMT Wednesday), According to Evacuation Agreement Between Russia and Turkey; Qatar Foreign Minister Promises Syrian War Will Continue; Ban Ki Moon and Samantha Power [...]
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, December 12, 2016 Expect Gasoline Price Surge in U.S. During First Half of 2017; Obama Should Take Measures Against This Collusion, Including Using Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Punish Longs; Exxon-Mobil’s Tillerson Not the Right Choice to Face This Challenge; FBI and CIA Split Over Russia’s [...]
Donald Trump overlooked the ASEAN countries in his pre-election campaign. His disregard of the actively developing region with a population of 625 million people and a total GDP worth 2.4 trillion dollars (the world’s seventh largest economy), which is playing an important role in the Asia-Pacific Region, is in stark contrast to Barack Obama’s policy of strengthening the USA’s position and influence here.
I read The Edward Snowden Affair by Michael Gurnow a couple of years ago and did a dozen or so posts about it since then.
Militants executed a journalist in Mosul.
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Trump’s pick of oil industry chief Rex Tillerson as the next Secretary of State is an encouraging sign that the president-elect is indeed following through on campaign promises to mend bilateral ties with Russia...
December 14, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - After a day of claiming up to 82 civilians were "shot on the spot" by Syrian forces battling to retake the northern city of Aleppo from armed terrorists who have occupied it since invading the city in 2012, no evidence or even the source of the claim has surfaced.According to the BBC, the UN Human Rights office in Geneva received reports of the incident.Despite Western journalists having been on the g
December 14, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - For months as terrorists backed by the United States, Turkey, and their Persian Gulf allies lost significant ground to the Syrian Arab Army in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, the battle was characterized by the Western media and Western politicians as a brutal assault on the city's residents - the extinguishing of a 6 year-long uprising.However, in reality,
« Je les connais, les banquiers de Goldman Sachs ! Ils exercent un contrôle total sur Hillary Clinton ! » Donald Trump n’avait pas de mots assez durs, au printemps dernier, pour dénoncer à bon droit les liens étroits unissant la candidate démocrate aux dirigeants de la puissante banque d’affaires Goldman Sachs.
Sunday we talked about how Trump allowed congressional Republicans to walk all over working class voters, inserting their ideological extremism-- that he doesn't share-- into legislation hurting retired coal miners' health insurance programs.
A new study urges more U.S. interventions By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • December 13, 2016 The Establishment and Realist foreign policy communities in the United States often seem separated by language which leads them to talk past each other. When a realist or Libertarian talks about non-intervention or restraint in foreign policy, as […]