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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, June 18, 2011

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  • Line drawn in stocks' battle (Reuters) - 7 hours agoReuters - The S&P 500's 200-day moving average is the line in the sand as the bulls and the bears fight over the U.S. stock market's direction. It will face one of its stiffest tests next week...
  • Greeks protest, almost half oppose austerity (Reuters) - 1 hour agoReuters - Thousands of Greeks marched on parliament on Saturday in a show of unabated public anger after Prime Minister George Papandreou vowed to push on with an austerity campaign that a poll showed...
  • Boeing refuses to rush decision on 737 upgrades (Reuters) - 8 hours agoReuters - Boeing Co says it feels no pressure to rush a decision on whether to re-engine or redesign its best-selling 737 narrow-body, despite impressive orders for an upgraded version of the competi...


  • Tripoli 'Nato strike kills five' - 54 minutes agoAt least five people have died in a Nato air strike that hit a house in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Libyan government officials say.
  • UN refugee chief heads to Lampedusa - 5 hours agoThe most senior UN official for refugees is to visit the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, where thousands of people have fled unrest in north Africa.
  • Springsteen saxophone player dies - 1 hour agoClarence Clemons - the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band - dies aged 69 in a Florida hospital a week after suffering a stroke.
  • Moroccan cities set for protests - 45 minutes agoDemonstrations are expected in Morocco as reformists say constitutional changes proposed by King Mohammed VI do not go far enough.
  • US 'in peace talks with Taliban' - 8 hours agoThe US is engaged in talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says, hours before militants kill nine in an attack on a Kabul police station.



  • The Appeal of Coupons - 1 day agoAges ago, I was an executive at Mercata, an Internet store whose strategy was to sell items whose price would go down as more people agreed to buy the item.  In theory, this creates an incentive for v...
  • You Get What You Pay For - 3 days agoWhen a loan company rewards delinquent customers with better rates and/or principle reductions, they get a lot more delinquency .
  • Greatest Bedtime Story Ever - 3 days agoListenAs read by Samuel L Jackson (hat tip Radley Balko )  Warning:  R-rated language.
  • Hypocrisy on the Left - 4 days agoFolks on the Left are the first ones to point out that people are overly obsessed with money.  Money (they would argue)  is far less important than, say, self-improvement. So why is it that it is im...
  • Bland, Corporate Wares - 4 days agoOften, the dominance of markets by bland and uninteresting mass-market products is blamed on capitalism.  This makes no sense to most business people, since if there really was a pent up demand for va...


  • Least Free State in the US - 1 day agoV48J3QQ3UFV7 Research conducted at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center has found New York to be the ”least free state in the Union” according to a set of criteria that weighs factors includi...
  • Can You Survive the 2012 Apocalypse in this French Hamlet? - 1 day agoThe tiny southern French hamlet of Bugarach has drawn scrutiny from a government sect watchdog over droves of visitors who believe it is the only place in the world that will survive a 2012 Apocalyp...
  • Anonymous Takes Down Monsanto's Website - 1 week 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...
  • Hillary Clinton to run World Bank - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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...

  • 9/11 False Flag - 19 hours agoThe world has changed after September 11th. It’s changed because we’re no longer safe. These words were used by the George W. Bush, elected President of the United States in 2000, to dictate the polit...
  • The Body Machine - 1 day agoThe Body Machine is a landmark special on the human body that shows us just how much, how many, how large, how strong, how fast – just how amazing the body really is. Utilizing impressive large-scale ...
  • One Night in Bhopal - 2 days agoThe Bhopal disaster is one of the world’s worst industrial disasters in the history of mankind. The explosion at Union Carbide plant located at the heart of the city of Bhopal caused a release of toxi...
  • Shouting Fire: Stories From The Edge of Free Speech - 3 days agoThis documentary film look at the changing interpretations of the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution – laws and court cases that have alternatively broadened and narrowed the amendment’s protect...
  • Finding Atlantis - 4 days agoCould the fabled lost city of Atlantis have been located? Using satellite photography, ground-penetrating radar and underwater technology, experts are now surveying marshlands in Spain to look for pro...

  • Debating drone use as pursuit of autonomous drones continues - 12 hours agoEarlier this month Foreign Policy magazine website ran an article called ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ arguing that those opposing drones are “misleading the public” and “distracting attention away from som...
  • The magical realism of body counts - 4 days ago Funeral for drone strike victims in Pakistan We are reposting this excellent article by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, co-editor of Pulsemedia.org , examining the reporting of civilian casualties from dro...
  • Focus on drones and targeted killing at forthcoming human rights conference - 1 week agoThe European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Amnesty International are hosting a conference entitled TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11  in Berlin on June 29 to map how the ‘war on terror’ is...
  • Doubling the Drones - 1 week agoThe rise of the drone seems to know no bounds.  Just months after  David Cameron’s pledge to double the UK’s Reaper drone fleet , the latest US military aircraft procurement plan shows that the Pentag...
  • Now We Are One: A Few Stats - 2 weeks ago1                 Drone Wars UK blog is one year old today 14               People visited looking for information about the Creech 14 64               UAV crashes reported in our Drone Crash Data...


  • ATV preparing for fiery destruction - 1 day agoATV Johannes Kepler has been an important part of the International Space Station since February. Next week, it will complete its mission by undocking and burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere high ...
  • Phobos slips past Jupiter - 1 day agoEarlier this month, ESA’s Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into a movie ...
  • ESA pavilion at the 49th Paris Air & Space Show - 2 days agoThe 49th Paris Air & Space Show will take place 20–26 June at Le Bourget, bringing together key players from international space agencies and industry to highlight the increasingly important role of s...
  • Cont-Trak offers reliable container tracking via satellite - 3 days agoWhether at sea, on rail, stacked or stored, shipping containers can now be tracked worldwide via satellite with Cont-Trak, developed through ESA’s telecommunications programme.
  • GMES operations another step closer - 3 days ago


  • Researchers rebut critiques of stem cells derived from adult cells - 1 day agoFive years after stunning the world with his announcement that adult cells could be reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell-like state, Kyoto University’s Shinya Yamanaka took the stage today to defend...
  • NIH intervenes in Alzheimer's mouse lawsuit - 1 day agoThe US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has leapt to the rescue of a laboratory that was sued for distributing mouse models to researchers. Today, NIH director Francis Collins sent a letter to t...
  • University rankings ranked - 1 day agoEverybody loves a good list, and that's especially true when it comes to ranking the world's universities. Whether it's the Times Higher Education 's rankings in the UK, US News & Worl...
  • UK immigration cancels DNA screening programme - 1 day agoThe UK Border Agency (UKBA) has ended a controversial DNA screening programme to determine the origins of asylum-seekers. The Times reports that the pilot project has been cancelled after spending app...
  • Reversing course, US Senate votes to kill corn ethanol subsidies - 2 days agoWhat a difference a day can make in the US Senate. Yesterday senators grumbled about obscure procedural issues as they shot down a bid to end a government subsidy and import tariff for corn ethanol...

  • Daily Roundup: June 17, 2011 - 1 day agoBittersweet: After decades of drought, the heaviest rains in centuries have forced more than 1 million people in China to evacuate their homes. Channel NewsAsia A Day at a Time: Meatless Monday is t...
  • How Vegan Ultramarathoner Scott Jurek Do It? We Ask Him. He Tells Us. - 1 day agoAn ultramarathoner is someone who regularly runs races that make the standard 26.2-mile contest look like a morning jog. Scott Jurek, 37, is an ultra ultramarathoner. He's the U.S. record holder...
  • International Surfing Day to Make Waves on June 20 - 1 day agoInternational Surfing Da y is June 20, which means it's almost time to grab your board, locate your surfing brethren, and celebrate the sport. The seventh annual event is marked by scheduled activ...
  • Movie Review Friday: Into the Cold - 1 day 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 16, 2011 - 2 days agoBiofutile: The U.S. Senate voted to remove $6 billion in ethanol subsidies from the national budget. Reuters Treading Lightly: NOAA released a new report about extreme weather patterns, but remained...

  • Ex-Lawmakers Spar at AHIP Conference - 1 day agoFormer Senators Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Judd Gregg (R-NH), displayed divergent views of health insurance reform in remarks to the America's Health Insurance Plans annual conference.
  • Healthcare Cost Growth Deceleration Continues - 1 day agoThe average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare grew 5.39% over the 12 months ending in April 2011, continuing an 11-month deceleration of cost growth, ...
  • MedPAC Urged to Reconsider Imaging Reimbursement Cuts - 1 day agoA coalition of medical imaging organizations and patients' advocacy groups is asking the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to reconsider its call for reduced reimbursements and prior authorizat...
  • Under HIX, Quality Ratings May Be 'Market Movers' - 2 days agoHealth insurance exchanges will transform the way health insurance is bought and sold and rely more heavily on customer engagement and quality rankings, according to Deloitte executives addressing the...
  • Healthcare Leaders Address Class of 2011 - 2 days agoIn commencement addresses delivered to medical students this year, health leaders call for new doctors to indulge both their passion and compassion, share their success, make time for family, and &quo...


  • Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed - 17 hours agoIn a breathless story somehow presented as a groundbreaking revelation, The New York Times recently reported that the Pentagon is—shocker!—using all sorts of media channels to market itself to the nat...
  • Justice for the Jobless - 1 day agoIt is mid-May and the first warm day Chicago has seen in weeks, but six people have gathered in a sparsely decorated room in a union office building in the city's Near West Side. The group--an old...
  • ‘The Attacks Were All Coordinated’ - 3 days agoThroughout his career in the labor movement, Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Larry Cohen has championed organizing new workers, mobilizing members for issue-oriented politics, union ...
  • Unions Work to Turn the Tide - 3 days agoAmerica's unions are contending with the harshest legislative attack on workers' rights since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. Labor strategists, their forces in decline, face an urgent question: Wh...
  • The Royal We - 4 days agoThe Queen of England (as I think I'm allowed to call her) had a busy May. She went to Ireland, a triumphant visit and the first time an English monarch has been there for 100 years. Colm T--ib'...


  • Keep World Heritage standards high - 2 days agoThe UNESCO World Heritage Committee will open its annual meeting in Paris this Sunday. The Committee will announce the new remarkable natural and cultural areas that have made it to the list of World ...
  • IUCN and Abu Dhabi join forces for conservation - 3 days agoIUCN and the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) have signed a four-year Framework Agreement in support of the IUCN Programme, as well as a Memorandum of Understanding to support the implementation o...
  • A grain of hope in the desert - 3 days agoThe regal Arabian Oryx ( Oryx leucoryx ), which was hunted to near extinction, is now facing a more secure future according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Its wild p...
  • A grain of hope in the desert - 3 days agoThe regal Arabian Oryx ( Oryx leucoryx ), which was hunted to near extinction, is now facing a more secure future according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Its wild p...
  • Get latest news on World Heritage Sites - 1 week agoNew remarkable natural and cultural sites to be added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List will be announced at the meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Paris, June 19-29. A total of 42 sites will be...

  • An African Open Farm Sunday - 2 days agoThis post is by Anthony Goggin, LEAF Marque Technical Manager. I have recently returned from sunny Sub Saharan Africa where I helped with LEAF’s first ever African LEAF Open Farm Sunday in Kenya! …it ...
  • Open Farm Sunday 2011 – Wet but not a washout! - 5 days agoJust days after drought was declared in Britain, after one of the driest springs on record the heavens opened, with some parts of the UK getting more than half an inch in less than 24 hours. Unfortuna...
  • Good Luck and Have Fun at Open Farm Sunday! - 1 week agoOnly a few days left to go before Open Farm Sunday, farming’s annual open day! Hundreds of farmers across the UK will be getting out the brooms and paint, putting up the livestock pens, polishing the ...
  • Late sown ELS Wild Bird Seed Mix Solutions - 1 week agoThis is a guest post from LEAF member Ian Gould of Oakbank Game and Conservation Ltd. He had received a number of calls from people experiencing the same problem, with this post he hopes to provide so...
  • LEAF’s Comments on the Government’s Natural Environment White Paper - 1 week agoLEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) welcomed the publication yesterday (June 7) of the Government’s Natural Environment White Paper (NEWP).  “The first on the natural environment for over 20 years,...

  • The Real Truth About the CIA & HAARP - 16 hours agoClick here to visit the Beyond Top Secrets home page and discover a lot more. Filed under: 2012 End of World, Conspiracy, Fact, Fiction, Illuminati Tagged: Conspiracy, High Frequency Active Auroral Re...
  • Comet Elenin JUNE 2011 (Update) By Russian Reports - 1 day ago1st collector for ELENIN UPDATE JUNE 2011 (RUSSIAN REPORTS WARN C… Follow my videos on vodpod After watching this video, it’s actually then that I realized how serious this stuff really is. At the mom...
  • The Cure to Cancer is now becoming a Business Ordeal. - 5 days agoThe World and Its Society are now becoming something else. While certain people are fighting for the good and progress of others, the hatters obviously have their negative roles in destroying the good...
  • What is Islamic Fundamentalism? - 2 weeks ago“Muslim fundamentalism is fast becoming the chief threat to global peace and security as well as a cause of national and local disturbance through terrorism. It is akin to the menace posed  by Nazism ...
  • Teen Mother claims that her cigarettes while pregnant have made her child stronger. - 2 weeks agoA young mother who smoked 15 – 20 cigarettes a day during pregnancy claimed it helped to make her baby stronger. Charlie Wilcox, 20, from Rainham, Kent, was warned that smoking while pregnant restrict...

  • Plantation Nation"Our government - with rare exceptions - serves financial masters who buy it in election sales that are sham performances of democracy. It is employed by an oligarchy laughing all the way to the ...
  • Deny! Deny!"Any talk about the Jewish State leads inevitably to the question: What are the Jews – a nation or a religion?...Official Israeli doctrine says that “Jewish” is both a national and a religious de...
  • Dealing with The Jim Jones of the Arab World"For those of you keeping stats - Obama stood by the Tunisians after Ben Ali was on a plane to Saudi Arabia. Hillary, a self-confessed family friend of the Mubarak clan, decided that “Egypt had a...
  • UVA/Reagan War Hawk defends Obama's War"Turner claimed that the UN Charter obliges the United States to fight this war. However, Kucinich pointed out that a treaty cannot trump Article I of the Constitution, and Turner agreed. He mere...
  • Harnessing the Courage of a Syrian Rebel"One of the unique aspects of the Syrian uprising is that the battle has been joined in the countryside but has yet to gain strength in Damascus and Aleppo where state security forces have always...





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