Image via WikipediaEnergy and global warming news for February 8,2011: Upton,dismissing human role in warming,plans to block emission rules; Koch spent big on EPA foesHe’ll press forward with legislation to block the Obama administration’s plan to regulate emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to climate change. Mr. Upton spoke ahead of a hearing that his committee is scheduled to hold Wednesday on draft legislation – introduced last week – that would strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions.
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So , i got some hard numbers from Sri Lanka today for the last 5 weeks , the last 90 days there have been off the charts. This is rain like we never dreamed of.
7 feet of rain from just the reports with numbers. There have been at least 3 events when I couldn’t document the totals.
2011 Expected to See Flooding Along Upper Mississippi River
“Even before the massive winter storm hit the Midwest during the end of January and beginning of February, the outlook for flooding along the upper Mississippi River was grim. The NWS Weather Forecast Office in St. Louis released the office’s spring flood outlook on Jan. 27, predicting there will be “moderate or major flooding likely along the Mississippi River” that could bring spring flooding greater than any experienced in the area in the last eight years — worse than the spring flooding of 2008.”
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Letters from Chile – Transition El Manzano, Chile
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- Letters from Chile – Shaken Awake
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- Letters from Chile – the Design Stage
- Letters from Chile – Increasing Water Security
- Letters from Chile – the House Building Gets Underway
- Letters from Chile – a Little Historical Context
- Letters from Chile – Building Community Around a Permaculture University
- Letters from Chile – Eco Escuela El Manzano, a Nice Place to Learn
Sustainable Tropical Agriculture Systems in Southern Belize
Cognitive Dissonance and Non-adaptive Architecture: Seven Tactics for Denying the Truth
A Corporate Coup d’Etat
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banks and businesses to engineer the greatest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle to the ultra-rich that this country has seen in a century.
The Live Launch of the Worldwide Permaculture Network (WPN) is Now Underway!!
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Hal Lindsey discusses the Billionaires CLub: Bill Gates, David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey Warren Buffet, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg Bill Gates outlines plan to cap global population... (Population Control) Good willed philanthropist? I think not... Please "like"
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An analysis of the occult meaning of the artwork found at the Los Angeles Central Library, built by Goodhue and Lee Lawrie.
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More than 20 to 30 people between injured & killed during this terrible act.....The person (the beast) responsible for that should be punished ....for those who were killed brutally...May they rest in peace....
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Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets Get Go-Ahead From USDA The Department of Agriculture said on Friday that American farmers could resume growing genetically engineered sugar beets that had been barred by a federal judge.
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At lunch time today join citizens on the steps of Parliament to rally against government cuts that place the lives of young Australians at severe risk with the closure of an important Medical Unit at Flinders more...
Mathaba Analyst Stephen Lendman takes a look at the ongoing human rights abuses in Isratine more...
Mathaba Analyst Stephen Lendman comments on the departure of Keith Olbermann from the airwaves more...
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Image via Wikipedia``the class structure of the Egyptian society remains almost unchanged and as a country it will continue to be a hostage to the expansionist needs of the United States and its allies`` more...
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With world attention focused on Middle East events, mainly Egypt`s, Haiti`s gotten little attention despite its compelling need for real change. more...
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Roadside inspections to be expanded from rest stops more...
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``Old orders passed. New ones emerged. Everything changed but stayed the same, more than ever dominated by finance capital and monopoly corporations, controlling governments for their own self-interest at the expense of harshly exploited workers globally.`` more...
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Image via WikipediaThis astonishing picture shows the world as it is today - half the Northern Hemisphere covered with snow and ice. more...
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This is the best commentary so far on the `Egypt` and other recent and ongoing so-called `Arab Revolutions`... as the former ``Leader of the Revolution`` said: ``no revolution without revolutionary ideology`` and ``no revolutionary outside the revolutionary committees`` more...
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In his recent speech on multiculturalism and `Islamist` extremism British prime minister David Cameron displayed his total ignorance on the subject, demonstrating that perhaps he might be the one most in need of the citizenship lessons he advocates. more...
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Like last year, Obama`s address was empty rhetoric, signalling business as usual with a twist - more than ever embracing reactionary extremism, promising harder than ever hard times on Main Street. more...
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Mathaba Analyst Stephen Lendman takes a further look more...
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Image via WikipediaThis interview is from 2008 and things have come a long way since, but this is such an excellent presentation worth watching. more...
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A similar project has started in India, and there are experiments for related concepts in Mexico. more...
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Coles and Woolworths choke Australia like an octopus and the government does not care as it is in bed with big business more...
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Thermo-nuclear charges placed below New York City`s World Trade Center Twin Towers since at least 1980s, Flight 93 shot down by US Air Force, Pentagon penetrated by Granit missile and other revelations are bound to shake the world this year. Photo: Dimitri Khalezov discusses 9/11 with George Mapp in
2/09/2011 Jakarta Konsursium Coastal Defence Strategy (JCDS) Public Works Department hopes to follow up the results of the study land subsidence affecting the falling number of roads and bridges in Jakarta. Deputy Representative Bos Witteveen, one of the members of the consorti
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Apparently, former president George W. Bush does "cut and run."
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Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we have lived through a historical period in which the United States relinquished its tenuous claim to democracy. The frames through which democracy apprehends others as human beings worthy of respect, dignity, and human rights were sacrificed to a mode of...
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As President Obama begins the second half of his term with a campaign for "jobs and competitiveness," we would do well to consider how he might achieve these worthy goals. It is jobs that matter most to the vast majority of Americans, and unemployment remains at 9.4 percent – about double its pre-re...
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House Judiciary Democrats held a meeting Tuesday to fight the Republican-backed "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," a bill that seeks to ban federal coverage of abortion in certain cases of rape or incest. Ranking member John Conyers Jr. (D-Michigan) joined Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) and s...
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As the authorities and protesters struggle to grasp the see-sawing initiative in Egypt’s 15-day-old revolt, the government of Hosni Mubarak unveiled new pledges of reform on Tuesday, but demonstrators crammed anew into Tahrir Square in ever greater numbers to reject anything less than the president’...
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Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC anchor, will host a prime time program for Current TV, the low-rated cable channel co-founded by Al Gore. The one-hour program will begin sometime in the spring. Mr. Olbermann will also become the chief news officer for Current, the company said in a news release Tu...
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President Obama appealed to the patriotism of the members of the Chamber of Commerce to begin investing in America again, to begin bringing factories and jobs back and to begin sharing the gains of our economy with the American people.
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All kinds of people are justifiably enraged and frightened by the dismal economy. Some have concluded that immigrants are taking away the jobs that they themselves need. The logic seems straightforward. Let's assume that, at any given time, there are a fixed number of jobs available. If immigrants t...
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Over the past few years, states have acutely felt the pain of our nation’s economic woes. As some governors cope with revenue shortfalls by raising taxes and others enact deep cuts to education and other services, a silver lining has emerged out of the budget crunches: prison reform.
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The revolutionary chants on the streets of Egypt have resonated around the world, but with a popular uprising without a clear direction and an unpopular leader refusing to concede, Egypt's future hangs in the balance. Riz Khan talks to Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zi...
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NEWS BREAK FROM EL GRITO NEWSROOM El Grito Reporter El Huevón recently went undercover to investigate reports of dirty politics in the Roundhouse. What did he uncover while in New Mexico's Capitol? Watch the video to find out! Check out more news and videos at www.elgritonm.org
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Really? I've been watching (and occasionally trying to deal with) the Chamber for years, and all I know is it has a deep, abiding belief in cutting taxes on the wealthy, eroding regulations that constrain Wall Street, cutting back on rules that promote worker health and safety, getting rid of the mi
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'That was such a stain on our country. To think that people in our custody were treated in that disgusting and perverted and ghastly way - unacceptable way,' Rumsfeld told ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer.' Olivia Hampton, Agence France-Presse
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Israel did 9/11 - All the Proof in the World http://theinfounderground.com/
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Features copy desk maestra Sue Owen is our resident Dr Pepper expert. You’ll rarely find her desk without a can or small bottle of Dr Pepper on it, which is why I asked her to review the new low calorie...
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www.smirkingchimp.com Other dictatorships are trembling now. Rebellions of differing magnitudes have gripped Tunisia, Jordan, Algeria, Albania, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and - above all - Egypt.' Stephen Eric Bronner, Reader Supported News
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'The group's support for Joe Lieberman in the 2004 Democratic primary and fierce opposition to Dean, in particular, backfired rather spectacularly.' Ari Berman, The Nation
Press Conference in Lower Ninth Ward where Levees.org announced nomination of Breach Sites, Aug 4, 2010. Photo/Stanford RosenthalWe had some updates to report regarding our nomination of two levee breach sites to the prestigious National Register of Historic Places...
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Rose Aguilar: President Barack Obama is hoping to “mend ties” with big business by speaking to the US Chamber of Commerce (COC), Washington DC’s top lobbyist. That’s the frame we’re hearing in the corporate media even though the President has extended the Bush tax cuts, recently named JP Morgan Chas...
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Sarah Palin explains why Palestinians must be removed to make room for more Jews that will be coming in the weeks, months & years ahead. Apparently she sees no problem in burning orchards, razing homes, starving children & exploiting a people. Remember Sarah for who she is; a Zionist Whore & nothing
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If we accept the assumption that we think inside a personally determined box which is itself inside a "Let Markets Rule" larger box, we need to acknowledge that such a state of affairs has much affected conditions "here on the ground." I mean that what we think comprises a "good education" has alrea...
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Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. It demands. It makes no attempt to justify the flagrant theft of natural resources and wealth or the...
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Gareth Porter: The central justification of the U.S.-NATO war against the Afghan Taliban - that the Taliban would allow al Qaeda to return to Afghanistan - has been challenged by new historical evidence of offers by the Taliban leadership to reconcile with the Hamid Karzai government after the fall ...
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Dean Baker: The elite media are on yet another jihad. They are determined to cut the pay and benefits of public-sector workers who can still enjoy a middle-class lifestyle. The idea that a schoolteacher or highway worker can retire with a pension of $2,000-$3,000 a month is directly at odds with the...
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The Egyptian military has rounded up scores of human rights activists, protest organizers and journalists in recent days without formal charges, according to watchdog groups and accounts by the detainees. While most arrests have been brief — lasting fewer than 24 hours — experts say they're a sign t...
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As we've watched the dramatic events in the Middle East, you would hardly know that we had a thing to do with them. Oh yes, in the name of its War on Terror, Washington had for years backed most of the thuggish governments now under siege or anxious that they may be next in line to hear from their ...
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After nearly five years of legal and regulatory battles, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has fully deregulated Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa that is genetically modified (GM) to be resistant to Roundup herbicide.
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Recent events provide us with a great case study of the cosmic forces that may lie behind large storms such as cyclones, hurricanes, blizzards and much more. The recent events I speak of include the major blizzard that swept across the Midwestern and...
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Justice for George W’s torture violations jumped much closer this weekend. Ex-President George W Bush was supposed to fly to Switzerland to speak in Geneva February 15. But his speech was cancelled over the weekend because of concerns about protests and efforts by human rights organizations as
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'The brutal truth is this: where it ends in the cradle of civilization will not be America's call. The particles of political energy are scrambled; to presume to know where they will re-align is to think the sun can be kept from rising on a given day.' Timothy Egan, The New York Times
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'Frank Wisner, President Barack Obama's envoy to Cairo who infuriated the White House this weekend by urging Hosni Mubarak to remain President of Egypt, works for a New York and Washington law firm which works for the dictator's own Egyptian government.' Robert Fisk, Independent UK
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'AOL's purchase of the Huffington Post is the equivalent of a fourth-quarter Hail Mary pass. The game clock was ticking down on CEO Tim Armstrong's pledge to demonstrate by the second half of this year that AOL could mount a comeback from the near dead.' Ken Auletta, The New Yorker
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The danger of permitting the Egyptians democracy, rather than replacing a dictator with his (and our) torturer lies, let us be honest, not in the possibility that Egyptian politics will approach the religiosity of our own Republican Party, and not in the possibility that the civil liberties we have
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Picture a huge, ancient chariot being pulled through narrow city streets, carrying a crude idol of a god. So massive is the chariot, citizens are crushed under its wooden wheels.
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Each year, about this time, balloons are blown, champagnes corked, and songs sung—invariably, as well, members of the Old Guard linking arms with a few from the New Guard, and trotting down many a Southern Street, bleating chants of “We Shall Overcome,” to commemorate the history of a people who, af
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Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets Get Go-Ahead From USDA The Department of Agriculture said on Friday that American farmers could resume growing genetically engineered sugar beets that had been barred by a federal judge.
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Uwe Reinhardt has a post about the Rivlin-Ryan Medicare Plan, which would convert Medicare into a voucher program for people currently under 55 and also fix the growth rate of the value of the vouchers at GDP growth plus one percentage point. The issue Reinhardt focuses on, and which I also blogged
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Juba, Sudan — Clashes spread across a key border region in southern Sudan on Saturday following a wave of mutinies among southerners in the northern army, leaving at least 41 dead as Sudan begins to divide into two nations following a southern referendum on independence last month.
FEMA Requests Millions of Rations For 'Catastrophic Disaster In New Madrid Fault System' -- Sott.net
www.sott.netThe US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently put out a tender or 'Request For Information' (RFI) for a LOT of emergency rations. The reason, in their own words, is: "to identify sources of supply for meals in support of disaster relief e...
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Robert Dziedziech, an employee of the parks department in New York, was on his first snow duty and worked long into the night on overtime with other plows from across city departments and private tow companies to clear snow from city streets. (Photo: Benjamin Norman/The New York Times)
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In the 1980s, as refugees from U.S.-sponsored wars in Central America sought safety in the United States—only to be declared “illegal aliens” by the government—progressive churches and communities throughout the country decided to become sanctuaries and offered protection. They were continuing
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Kia Optima Super Bowl 2011 commercial - Super Bowl ads frequently blur the line between marketing and entertainment, but rarely as ambitiously as this phenomenal Kia Optima Super Bowl 201...
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'The billionaire brothers' influence is most visible in the makeup of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where members have vowed to undo restrictions on greenhouse gases.' Tom Hamburger, Kathleen Hennessey, Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times
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The Chinese government issued a ban on animal circuses and certain types of animal abuse at zoos that went into effect on Tuesday.
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