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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

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  • Did the Supreme Court Tip its Hand on ObamaCare? - 22 hours agoA ruling last week written by Justice Anthony Kennedy (the Court's "swing vote") offers encouragement to ObamaCare foes.
  • More B.O. Than Anyone Can Stand - 22 hours agoAmerica has gotten a steady whiff of B.O. emanating from the White House and its environs for two and a half years now, and are turning away.
  • China's Espionage Threat - 22 hours agoAmerican counterintelligence misunderstands the Chinese intelligence mindset, leading to disaster after disaster in recent decades.
  • Atlas Is Shrugging In The US And Flexing His Muscles Elsewhere - 22 hours agoCapital is relocating to regions where it is treated more favorably. The increasingly adverse climate at the federal level motivates moving outside the country
  • American Denial - 22 hours agoOverwhelming peace and prosperity, over the past many decades, has sown the seeds that will lead to rapid erosion in the American way of life.


  • Fed balance sheet hits another record size - 6 hours agoNEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's balance sheet expanded to a record size in the latest week, as the central bank bought more bonds in an effort to support the economy, Fed data released ...
  • Oil rebounds as markets await IEA emergency stocks - 1 hour agoSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude rebounded by more than $1 from a four-month low on Friday as traders and investors attempted to gauge the actual impact a release of emergency oil stockpiles coordina...
  • Bernanke passes early media test, challenge to come - 3 hours agoCHICAGO (Reuters) - Ben Bernanke used his second-ever news conference on Wednesday to teach the world's financial markets a lot more about the thinking at the Federal Reserve than they could glean...



  • US warns Syria over border move - 2 hours agoUS Secretary of State Clinton condemns Syria's reported troop movements near the Turkish border and voices concern about the refugees there.
  • EU leaders pledge to help Greece - 4 hours agoEuropean Union leaders reaffirm their commitment to help Greece out of its current debt woes, and maintain EU financial stability.
  • Eight shot dead in Rio drug raid - 5 hours agoEight suspected drug traffickers are killed during a raid by Brazilian police on a slum area in Rio de Janeiro.
  • US forces chief sees Afghan risk - 9 hours agoThe top US military officer says the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is "more aggressive" than he had originally planned.
  • US gangster James Bulger remanded - 5 hours agoAlleged Boston gang boss James "Whitey" Bulger is remanded in custody to face charges in Massachusetts, following his arrest in Los Angeles.

  • Second round of 2012 ticket sales - 1 hour agoThe second round of ticket sales for next year's Olympic games will open at 0600 BST on Friday for those who were unsuccessful in the initial ballot.
  • Bellfield guilty of Milly murder - 11 hours agoConvicted double killer Levi Bellfield is found guilty of murdering 13-year-old Milly Dowler in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 2002.
  • MPs defy ministers on circus ban - 59 minutes agoMPs defy the government and vote to support a ban on wild animals performing in English circuses.
  • Firefighters oppose pension plans - 3 hours agoMore than a quarter of firefighters may leave their pension scheme if their pension contributions are forced up, their union claims.
  • Type 2 diabetes 'can be reversed' - 3 hours agoAn extreme eight-week diet can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly diagnosed with the disease, says a study.


  • Teaching Company Sale - 6 hours agoI have bought numerous audio and video Teaching Company courses and have never been disappointed.  Until tomorrow they are having a 70% off sale on many of their courses. A few I have heard and woul...
  • Great Moments in Regulation - 6 hours agoAfter over three years of effort, and many, many checks written to numerous departments, Ventura County has granted us the right to operate a fuel tank at a particular location near Lake Piru, CA.  Th...
  • Nostalgianomics - 6 hours agoFor those on the Left who wish to return to the economic organization of the 1950′s, recognize that this era of more uni0ns and a greater dominance of the economy by hard-core manufacturing also had s...
  • Show Us Your Lightsaber Or You Will Be Fined - 6 hours agoThis year, US oil refiners will pay more than $6 million in fines to the EPA for not using a product that doesn’t exist.   Refiners are required to blend at least 6.6 million gallons of cellulosic eth...
  • Gary Johnson on Stossel - 9 hours agoMy favorite reporter interviews my favorite Presidential candidate Link if the embed is broken Update: Awesome “The fact is, I can unequivocally say that I did not create a single job while I...


  • Least Free State in the US - 6 days 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? - 6 days 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 - 2 weeks 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 weeks 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...

  • History of World War II: Hiroshima - 16 hours agoIt was the defining moment of the 20th Century – the scientific, technological, military, and political gamble of the first atomic attack. This drama-documentary attempts to do what no other film has ...
  • Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision - 1 day agoDirector Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon takes a personal – and local – look at the controversy involving infant male circumcision in his documentary, Cut. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicag...
  • Daredevils: The Human Spider Returns - 2 days agoAlain Robert is known to the world as The Human Spider and is arguably the most daring climber the world has ever seen. This film follows Alain over two years, bringing his story up to date with new, ...
  • Civilization: Is the West History? - 3 days agoNiall Ferguson asks why it was that Western civilization, from inauspicious roots in the 15th century, came to dominate the rest of the world; and if the West is about to be overtaken by the rest. Fer...
  • Status Anxiety - 4 days agoWhy doesn’t money (usually) buy happiness? Alain de Botton breaks new ground for most of us, offering reasons for something our grandparents may well have told us, as children. It is rare, and pleasin...

  • Debating drone use as pursuit of autonomous drones continues - 5 days 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 - 1 week 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 - 2 weeks 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 - 3 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...

  • Pollies poking around on Facebook - 5 hours agoAs NSW Parliament erupted in cries and counter-cries of racism, press secretaries and Chiefs of Staff scrambled around their respective offices in a rush to either shut down or quickly audit the Faceb...
  • Can Afghan democracy survive US troop drawdown? - 6 hours agoThe draw-down of US forces from Afghanistan has created a nightmare for many Afghan citizens. Afghans have enjoyed proud lives under a democratic state of Afghanistan over the past ten years. These Af...
  • Mental health discussion: Good Luck Magistrate Maloney - 21 hours agoAt a dinner several weeks ago when the matter of NSW Magistrate Brian Maloney's mental illness was raised, a lawyer present said that if mental illness precluded working, many of his colleagues wo...
  • Staying the course - 21 hours ago'As soon as certain topics are raised,' Orwell writes in his classic Politics and the English Language , 'the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of sp...
  • The PM and the Peter Principle - 21 hours agoIn June last year, just weeks before she was involved in Prime Minister Rudd’s political assassination, I argued that Julia Gillard, the then Deputy Leader, was a political pragmatist and a politician...


  • Cassini samples the icy spray of Enceladus' water plumes - 1 day agoThe NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest evidence yet for ...
  • Le Bourget contracts complete Galileo network - 1 day agoAs Europe prepares for October’s launch of the first Galileo satellites, a worldwide ground network is being put in place. Contracts signed today at the Paris Air & Space Show cover satellite control ...
  • Space in your pocket… - 1 day ago…and also on your tablet! The new ESA iPhone or iPad application, or ‘App’, can now deliver a wealth of information on ESA missions, videos, images and news updates, at your fingertips.
  • Alphabus ready to offer new opportunities - 1 day agoESA PR 20-2011. Alphabus, the world’s largest communication satellite platform, is ready to offer new opportunities for satellite operators worldwide. The platform was formally accepted for its first ...
  • ESA’s high-thrust engine takes next step - 1 day agoThe new main engine to power Europe’s successor to its Ariane 5 space launcher was brought a step closer today when ESA signed a €60 million contract with a propulsion consortium at the Paris Air & Sp...

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  • Underground lab getting a new parent with the Energy Department? - 6 hours ago DUSEL , the underground lab proposed for the Homestake mine in South Dakota, was orphaned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in December, when its advisory board balked at the huge costs of bu...
  • Researchers studying static get a shock - 8 hours ago Posted on behalf of Melanie Smith. Most of us will have generated static electricity by rubbing a balloon on hair or a woolly jumper, and then sticking the charged balloon to the ceiling. The sta...
  • Bond financier will chair California stem cell agency - 18 hours agoThe board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, California's state stem cell agency, has voted to appoint bond financier Jonathan Thomas as chair of the agency's board. The...
  • Cancer researcher wins gender discrimination suit - 1 day agoThe Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has been found guilty of gender discrimination for firing a female researcher in 2005. On 28 January 2004, Lynn Hlatky , an associate professor at Dana-Farber who s...
  • Agency director defends US climate service proposal - 1 day ago Jane Lubchenco, head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was on Capitol Hill this morning, pleading for permission to reorganize her agency. NOAA is the parent agency ...

  • Daily Roundup: June 23, 2011 - 2 hours agoFunds for Forest:  Norway pledged $1 billion to support Indonesia's efforts to slow deforestation.  Reuters Gimme Sugar: Activist Willie Smits sees the Arenga sugar palm, which can be harvested...
  • Happening Now: Deepak Chopra Discusses Conservation - 4 hours agoThe planet’s savannahs and grasslands are home to many rare and endangered animals . And though they may seem common, the expansive, arresting habitats are in danger of being destroyed by climate chan...
  • Beyond Coal Activists Do the Pants-Off Dance Off - 5 hours ago Do you love dancing, wear underwear, and hate coal? This video's for you. The clip features a dance off in which scantily clad young people dance to transform a lump coal into more innocuous i...
  • How to Oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline - 7 hours agoThis week, prominent environmentalists including Bill McKibben and Wendell Berry issued an open letter  opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline proposal. Their group, Tar Sands Action, is calling ...
  • Green Your Picnic: Engage with Nature - 10 hours agoSummer's here! To celebrate the long, hot days, rally your friends and pack a picnic. This week's tips will help you keep it green. Tip # 4: Learn something new. Picnics are all about gett...
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  • House Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Medicare SPS - 16 hours agoA Congressional hearing on the Medicare Secondary Payer System draws testimony from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Government Accountability Office, consumer advocates, and insuranc...
  • Provider Groups Blast U.S. Senate CAP Act - 16 hours agoThe Commitment to American Prosperity Act would limit federal spending to about 21% of Gross Domestic Product and cut more than $2.7 trillion from critical safety net programs, healthcare providers an...
  • CMS Clarifies IPPS Rule on Services Made 'Under Arrangement' - 1 day agoWithin the inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule are an assortment of major and minor clarifications which—to a varying degree—will have an effect on a number of hospital departments. One...
  • NJ Neurosurgeon Named AMA President - 1 day agoPeter W. Carmel, MD, a pediatric neurosurgeon practicing in New Jersey has been elected president of the American Medical Association. He has served on the Board of Trustees since 2002.
  • Mortality Risk in STEMI Patients Linked to Slow Transfers - 1 day agoNearly 90% of patients with ST Segment elevation myocardial infarction who go to hospitals that lack catheterization capability have a 56% higher risk of mortality when they aren't transferred to ...


  • Malcolm’s X-Factor - 1 day agoManning Marable's book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, was published three days after the author's death. Marable, a history professor at Columbia University, was afflicted with sarcoidosis...
  • Cut Waste and Fraud, Not Medicare - 2 days agoUp to 30 percent of U.S. health care expenditures are wasteful, Medicare's chief actuary estimates, and Medicare could trim up to $150 billion from its $500 billion 2010 tab without harming care. ...
  • Breaking Blockades for Peace - 3 days ago"Courageous" is not a term that Kathy Kelly would ever use to describe herself, but others might. When the shock and awe campaign was bombarding Baghdad in March 2003, Kelly was not on the s...
  • Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed - 5 days 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 - 6 days 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...


  • An African Open Farm Sunday - 1 week 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! - 1 week 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 - 2 weeks 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 - 2 weeks 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 - 5 days 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 - 6 days 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. - 1 week 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? - 3 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. - 3 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...

  • Republican Debate - Stealth Agenda of Gingrich and Cain"The irony is that most right-wing Republicans are opposed to the idea of separation of “Church and State” notwithstanding the first amendment....Some of the 2012 Republican aspirants are not muc...
  • Independent media hopes - a setback"Jordan's reform movement was given a hefty present with the Odwan resignation. The media strategy that his committee produced will now become the rallying cry for activists and media profess...
  • Beyond Kemalism: Verdict of Turkish Poll 2011"It is reasonable to mention that the shift from Kemalism to post-Kemalism is aimed at protecting social peace and political stability. However, it is also important to note that Turkish democrac...
  • The European position is key"Palestinians are asking the Europeans to stick to their December 2009 declaration, reiterated in December 2010, and push for the adoption of this platform by the Quartet. In turn, the declaratio...
  • Why more pathetic attempts to revive a dead process?"Netanyahu appears to have concluded that Israel's growing international isolation, which could worsen after September, is both inevitable and tolerable as long as he nourishes his coalition ...




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  • Unshackling IPL from cricket - 1 week agoFirst posted on CRI on 11 June 2011 The news and analysis cycle over the past few weeks has been negative and depressing. In as much as it concerns me as an Indian citizen, it also depresses me a bit....
  • Baba Ramdev – A Few Thoughts - 2 weeks agoFirst published on CRI on 4th June 2011 (morning), before the shameful attack by the Delhi Police on the protestors at the Ramleela Ground. I had earlier written a piece on Anna Hazare (Why “Anna Haza...
  • The coming Global Jihad after Osama’s death - 3 weeks agoFirst published on CRI on 2nd May 2011. Republishing on this blog. A lot of people are in a self-congratulatory mood after the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, near Islamabad. I am sure that ...
  • Pakistan and the fruit of hate-mongering - 4 weeks agoFirst posted on CRI. As many of us studied in school, the Bible says that the wages of sin is death. What the Bible does not say is the origin of sin? Without getting too philosophical and simply stat...
  • Why Anna Hazare is out of sync with Lakhpat Karore - 2 months agoThe title of my blogpost is tongue-in-cheek, so kindly excuse me for that. It always helps to start with a smile, especially, if we are not going to end with one! For the uninitiated with colloquial “...


  • Reporter Risen Moves to Quash Subpoena in Leak Case - 1 day agoAttorneys for New York Times reporter James Risen yesterday asked a court to quash a subpoena requiring him to testify in the case of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling , who is accused of leaking cl...
  • Bill Would Keep Intelligence Spending in Defense Budget - 2 days agoAn intelligence reform proposal to establish a stand-alone budget appropriation for intelligence spending would be blocked if a provision in the House version of the Fiscal Year 2012 defense appropria...
  • Stormy Weather, and More from CRS - 6 days agoThe Congressional Research Service is prohibited by congressional secrecy policy from making its reports directly available to the public.  These new CRS reports on various topics of current interest ...
  • Govt Opposes Attorneys’ Free Use of WikiLeaks Documents - 1 week agoThe government yesterday filed a formal response (pdf) in federal court in opposition to the public use of WikiLeaks documents by a habeas attorney who represents a client in U.S. military detention a...
  • DoD Creates Lab Network for WMD Response - 1 week agoThe Department of Defense has created a new DoD Laboratory Network (pdf) to coordinate existing programs on the assessment of and response to the use of weapons of mass destruction. The new Network ...


  • This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance - 3 days agoTim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently biddin...
  • Our Battle to End Hunger - 3 days agoNo country can achieve sustainable development without improving the living conditions of its people; and the Brazilian experience shows that overcoming hunger requires co-ordinated actions, political...
  • Libya: Deep Structure and the Surface - 3 days agoKilling civilians to save civilian lives, and demolishing the parliament building to promote democracy, do not communicate well the pretended purpose. When only monarchs, emirs, and other dictators fa...
  • Imperial War behind a Humanitarian Charade - 3 days agoThe UN-sanctioned intervention, at first supposedly focused on imposing a "no-fly zone," quickly--and predictably--transformed into what Western leaders now openly say is a war to topple Qad...
  • Northern Myanmar: Civil Society Organisations Call for Dialogue and Urgent International Engagement to Support Non-Military Solutions - 3 days agoAs civil society working for peace and development in Myanmar, we write to express our grave concern over the rapidly deteriorating situation in Northern Myanmar, especially in Kachin State, where rec...

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