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Sunday, June 12, 2011

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  • Turkey ruling party set for win - 40 minutes agoNear-complete results from Turkey's poll suggest the governing AKP will win but fall short of the two-thirds majority needed to amend the constitution unilaterally.
  • 'Heavy fighting' over Syrian town - 1 hour agoSyrian state TV reports heavy fighting between government forces and "armed groups", as part of a crackdown in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour.
  • First Giffords pictures released - 7 hours agoThe first pictures are released of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords since she was shot in the head meeting constituents in Arizona.
  • Qantas cancels flights over ash - 9 hours agoAustralian airline Qantas cancels flights out of Melbourne and other cities as ash from a volcano in Chile drifts over the Pacific.
  • Jailed Iran hunger striker dies - 4 hours ago


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  • The Elite Hatred of Buses - 4 hours agoSeveral times in the past I have posited that folks in power simply hate buses.  How else to explain light rail and high speed rail projects that are both substantially more expensive and substantiall...
  • I’d Walk A Mile for a Camel - 4 hours agoThis has gotten a fair amount of play around the Internet, but it’s crazy enough to re-link in case you have not seen it.   A proposal in Australia to earn carbon credits by shooting wild camels .  Be...
  • Arming Government Agencies - 2 days agoThe PJ Tatler has this bit on the arming of government bureaucrats: Quin Hillyer  discusses the increasing armed firepower of the federal government.  Most people expect agencies like the FBI to be ...
  • Digging into the Climate Models - 2 days agoMy article this week at Forbes.com digs into some fundamental flaws of climate models When I looked at historic temperature and CO2 levels, it was impossible for me to see how they could be in any w...
  • Bank of America May Be Screwing Up Foreclosures, But At Least They Did Not Send in a SWAT Team - 4 days ago


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  • Anonymous Takes Down Monsanto's Website - 1 day agoAnonymous Takes Down Monsanto's Website Monsanto is using bribery, the law, intimidation and any other means available to it to start to control the world food supply with it's genetically m...
  • ( Among the freakier happenings online when blogging was the change of a link to a Youtube video expose "The World According to Monsanto"...to Monsanto H.Q.'s homepage )
  • Hillary Clinton to run World Bank - 2 days agoSecretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said Thursday....
  • Newt Gingrich's Presidential Set-Back - 2 days agoIn a major blow to Newt Gingrich's presidential hopes, senior advisers to his 2012 campaign resigned en masse today, citing strategic differences. The staffers include Rick Tyler, a longtime p...
  • WIN a Pair of Ecoland Men's Organic Cotton Coolmesh Quarter Socks w Arch Support - 4 days ago Ecoland Men's Organic Cotton Coolmesh Quarter Socks w/ Arch Support Looking for the perfect Father's Day Gift ? Ecoland Men's Organic Cotton Coolmesh Quarter Socks w/ Arch Support have...
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  • Kill Me If You Can - 8 hours agoHold on to your seats, this story will blow you a
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    way. Kill me if you can is a docu-drama, which follows two boys (John and Mark), addicted to an Internet chat room. There, they develop a close friends...
  • Beautiful Young Minds - 1 day agoThis documentary tells the story of some of the brightest mathematical brains of a generation. Each year, exceptionally gifted teenagers from over 90 countries compete for medals at the International ...
  • Beyond Belief - 1 day agoFrom the author: Jesus trained in India, taught meditation and reincarnation and died in India. This film provides a compelling case for this viewpoint using historical and anecdotal evidence to suppo...
  • Rivers of Blood - 2 days agoForty years after Enoch Powell’s infamous speech predicting that mass immigration would lead to violence on our streets, filmmaker Denys Blakeway explores the impact of the maverick Conservative MP’s ...
  • The Human Face - 3 days ago


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  • Evading meaty realities that make us feel uncomfortable - 2 days agoSome years back, I spent an afternoon in a local abattoir, researching the book that later became Killing: Misadventures in Violence . I was there a few hours, at most: a dilettantish trip to the kind...
  • Skeptically threatening public debate and democracy - 2 days agoYou will be chased down the street with burning stakes and hung from your f****** neck until you are dead, dead, dead. Any academic these days who chooses to speak publicly about the impacts or the im...
  • Conversations: Coal seam gas is 'a disaster' - 2 days agoThe Drum, in collaboration with The Conversation, a website that publishes commentary, research and analysis from Australian universities and the CSIRO, are publishing a series of stories interrogatin...
  • Racism, hypocrisy, whatever. Can't you take a joke? - 2 days agoEddie McGuire got upset on the weekend and with good cause. Of course, he's got lots of things to be upset about, not least of which is being president of Collingwood Football Club. That, however,...
  • 'Yes' the hardest word - 2 days ago


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  • Daily Roundup: June 10, 2011 - 1 day agoMystery Solved: German officials declared bean sprouts as the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak. Time Winds of Change: Firefighters took advantage of two days of light winds to combat a raging f...
  • Making the Grade: College Students Take the Carbon Test - 2 days agoStudents at Santa Clara University wanted to know their greenhouse-gas footprint. But even with the many  carbon calculators out there, they couldn’t find one that took into account all the critical ...
  • Movie Review Friday: The Tree of Life - 2 days agoEscape to the movies with one of our  Movie Review Friday  selections. Each week we review a film with an environmental theme. Seen a good eco-flick lately?  Send us a short review  and look for it in...
  • Daily Roundup: June 9, 2011 - 2 days agoSetting an Example: Connecticut passed a clean-energy and economic-development plan with broad bipartisan support. It's being called the nation's first "green bank." Climate Progress...
  • One Small Step For California's State Parks - 2 days ago


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  • Oprah’s Celebrity Pyramid Scheme - 2 days agoThe Age of Oprah came to an end not with a bang, but with a long series of celebrity purrs. Heartfelt testimonials poured in from Michael Jordan and Madonna. These were punctuated from the great Midwe...
  • America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm - 2 days agoLaugh me off as the idealistic son of a physician (which I am), but I still thought the doctor's ethos of "first do no harm" was a notion we could all agree on. Even in this hyper-polari...
  • Detroit Scrap City - 3 days agoThe Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium is a white, wedge-shaped building that fronts the Detroit River. Despite its terrible acoustics, the Ford was home to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for 33 years. A...
  • Chicago’s SlutWalk: ‘Yes Means Yes and No Means No’ (SLIDESHOW) - 4 days agoWomen across the globe are challenging "slut-shaming" and victim-blaming with a new slut-themed march inspired by a police officer in Toronto who in late January said women could avoid being...
  • Cancer Calling, Again - 5 days ago


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Lots of Inconvenient Truths -- Chemical Illness Epidemic in the Wake of the BP Blowout - 3 days ago
Recently Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer overseeing the $20 billion Gulf Coast Claims Facility to "make it right" for people harmed by the British Petroleum oil blowout disaster, told a Louisia...


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  • Turkey's ruling party set for landslide poll win - 3 minutes agoANKARA - Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted party is set for a record landslide win in Sunday's parliamentary polls and a third straight term in power, according to a projection and partial resul...
  • Sudan army planes 'downed' amid UN alarm - 3 minutes agoKHARTOUM - Embattled fighters in north Sudan's flashpoint state of South Kordofan claimed on Sunday they had shot down two northern army planes, and said the conflict had so far displaced 75,000 p...
  • First photos of shot US lawmaker Giffords - 4 minutes agoWASHINGTON - Photos of a smiling but visibly altered Gabrielle Giffords have been posted on her Facebook page, the first images of the US congresswoman released since she was shot in the head in Janua...
  • Arabs, Indonesia back Lagarde for IMF top job - 5 minutes agoCAIRO - French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who has been on a whirlwind tour touting her credentials to head the International Monetary Fund, on Sunday won the backing of Egypt, Indonesia and ...
  • Greek anti-crisis protesters urge new mobilisation - 6 minutes ago


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  • Settlement Reached in Thomas Drake “Leak” Case - 2 days agoIn a whirlwind conclusion to the prosecution of former National Security Agency official Thomas A. Drake , Mr. Drake agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of “exceeding authorized use of a co...
  • U.S. Aid to Pakistan, and More from CRS - 2 days agoA comprehensive new account of U.S. aid to Pakistan was prepared by the Congressional Research Service this week.  See “Pakistan: U.S. Foreign Assistance,” June 7, 2011. Also newish from CRS is “Imp...
  • NSA Declassifies 200 Year Old Report - 3 days agoThe National Security Agency announced yesterday that it has declassified a report that is over two hundred years old. The newly declassified report, entitled “Cryptology: Instruction Book on the Ar...
  • NSA Declassifies 200 Year Old Report - 3 days agoThe National Security Agency announced yesterday that it has declassified a report that is over two hundred years old. The newly declassified report, entitled “Cryptology: Instruction Book on the Ar...
  • Emerging Issues in Text Messaging, and More from CRS - 3 days ago

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