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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.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

26 November - iGoogle

Global glacial mass balance in the last fifty ...Image via WikipediaRobert Ballard (the man who found Titanic, Bis...Image via WikipediaChris Anderson is the curator of the TED (Tech...Image via WikipediaTwo generations of Rover: Mars Exploration Rov...Image via WikipediaSchematic showing both terrestrial and geologi...Image via WikipediaComparison of many reconstructed proxy tempera...Image via WikipediaMali regionsImage via WikipediaThe ability of the atmosphere to capture and r...Image via WikipediaAmadou & MariamImage via WikipediaBozo girl in Bamako, Mali, West Africa, aug 2007Image via WikipediaThe Mali Empire at its height under Mansa Musa.Image via WikipediaBERLIN - JANUARY 23: A snowman is pictured wit...Image by Getty Images via @daylifeHomer and Ned's Hail Mary PassImage via WikipediaAnti-ACLUImage via WikipediaTransforming PowerImage by Rodger Levesque via FlickrA Pakistan Army soldier deployed during an exe...Image via WikipediaAfghan-Pakistani-NATOImage via WikipediaChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm...Image via WikipediaGen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Chief of Army Staff...Image via WikipediaImage representing iPad as depicted in CrunchBaseImage via CrunchBase All Things Considered - NPR
For Pesky Relatives, A CD-Buying Gift Guide

Letters: A Thanksgiving Tale

Blog of Rights - ACLU
Obama's Commutation: A Prelude to Systemic Reform?

Police Violence on Occupy Protestors Is Unhealthy for Democracy


CNN
Pakistan official: NATO attack kills 24 Pakistani soldiers
NATO helicopters opened fire on two Pakistani military checkpoints near the border with Afghanistan early Saturday, killing 24 soldiers, the...

CNet
Apple teases its new NYC store--oh, and what's this about 3D iPads?

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Instruments of Social Change

Recommended reading: Fearmonger
Carbon Farmers of Australia


Day dream believers
Circle of Blue - water news
The Stream, November 25: Record High Greenhouse Gases

The Stream, November 23: Shale Gas and Climate Change
Common Dreams
To the Winter Patriot

Occupying the Air, Because the Grass Is Closed
Daily Bell -News
Should the Government Step In?

Who Needs Austerity When Some Are Rich?
Daily Galaxy
News Update: ESA Puts Hold on Contacting Mars' Phobos-Gunt Probe Until Monday
Eco Alert: Coral Sea Marine Sanctuary Proposed --World's Largest at One-and-a-Half Times Size of France
NASA: "The Conditions for the Emergence of Life were Present on Mars"
Dwarf Galaxies Reveal Dark Matter Mass
Image of the Day: White Dwarf Zoombies
Daily News-Egypt
Protester killed outside Cabinet

Protests across Egypt echo demands of civilian rule
Democracy Now!
Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power
Discovery
NASA Mars Rover Ready for Liftoff
Preparations for launch of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket are on schedule for 10:02 a.m. EST this morning.

Stranded Russian Mars Probe Falls Silent (Again)
E!
Watch Now: Adele Sings "Chasing Pavements" & More!

Fashion Police Show: Paula Abdul's Perp Walk
Education
Colldigg
302 Customers hit by pepper spray at Wal-Mart describe scene of chaos
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283 The Fascinating History of How Corporations Became People Thanks to Corrupt Courts Working for the 1%
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231 Too young for jail? Tourist, 14, gets 2 months for buying drugs in Bali
39 Comments

223 Microsoft: We've Had Siri-Like Tech for More Than a Year
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182 Republicans Only Like Class Warfare Within One Class
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College graduation rates: Income really matters

College costs climb, yet again
Google
Pakistan official: NATO attack kills 24 Pakistani soldiers - CNN International

NBA, players reach tentative deal - CBS News
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The spread of an odd new flu virus that has been jumping from pigs to people in parts of the United States has the World Health Organization gearing up its response planning, a senior official of the agency says. The UN health body is figuring out what ...
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who get painful migraine headaches may be at a higher risk for developing clinical depression, suggests a new study from Canada. The research, published in the journal Headache, also hints that the ...
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today A researcher believes that the time has come for a fundamental shift in attitude toward cancer screening, with greater emphasis on providing the public with information about absolute risks and the potential ...
Meaning in Madness: Milton Greek, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, believes that decoding the messages in delusions can help some people recover. By BENEDICT CAREY ATHENS, Ohio — She was gone for good, and no amount of meditation could ...
As donors cut back on funds for HIV treatment, new data is revealing how many millions of impoverished Africans have been unable to get life-saving medicine even before the latest cuts. Donor governments in Europe and elsewhere, suffering from the ...
By Daily Mail Reporter Poor Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas - on Tuesday she was basking in the glory of her turkey eating record and one day later it was
Guardian UK
Tahrir Square stands united after week of bloodshed and betrayal
Deaths and injuries over past week have served only to harden Egyptian demonstrators' resolveThe stages were dismantled, the microphones muted...

Black Friday starts with pepper spray stampede
The Hayride
LSU’s Defense Will Be Just Too Much For Arkansas On Friday

Not For Weenies
Inside Facebook
Facebook Roundup: Law Enforcement, Friends, Windows and Skype
Lifehacker
Tipping Teacup Eliminates Tea Bags, Balls, and Other Infusers [Stuff We Like]
memeorandum
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf (Naomi Wolf/Guardian)
Mother Jones - politcal MoJo
We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for November 24, 2011

Romney: Indict Ahmadinejad for "Violating the Genocide Convention"
(But nobody U.S.wise : Bush,Cheney.Obama,Rumsfeld,Bill Clinton...or UK :  Tony Blair,Jack Straw..would somebody volunteer Canada's Steve Harper or Jean Chretien ?)

Student Occupiers: It's the Debt, Stupid
NewScientist
United Nations report global drop in HIV infections

Moody gibbon wins BIAZA photography award
News
Back From Iraq, A Soldier Gives Thanks With Family

JFK Assassination Reporter Tom Wicker Dies At 85
News 24
SA government to probe Mali kidnap
The department of international relations says it will probe the kidnapping of a South African man in Mali.

Terminate ODI cricket - Swann
Obama Conspiracy Theories
Birthers garner unfavorable coverage in NH

Obama exit rumors persist
Oddly Enough
Political paraffin-alia?
Open Secrets
Some Lobbyists Say Gobble, Gobble

Hundreds of Donors Spread the Financial Love to Multiple Presidential Candidates
PECAN Group
New Law By Obama To Jail 500,000 American Citizens Or More For The Crime Of Opposing Their Government.

9 More Ways The U.S. Government Is Waging War Against America
PEW Clean Energy Program
Pew Applauds Obama Administration for Proposed Fuel Economy Rule

National Security Demands Energy Innovation
Pesticide Action Network
Kids' health researchers talk turkey

Speaking truth about tomatoes
Philippines News - Headlines
Healthier Philippine ex-leader seeks house arrest
Psychology
Shop to the Death

Nostalgia: Are You Pining for the Past?
Pursuitist
Sartoria Cashmere Undies

Travel Destination: Dry Tortugas National Park
Reef News and Issues
Center for Biologic Diversity: Gas-mileage Rules Small Step Forward; Fall Short of What’s Needed

Justice Dept: U.S. Virgin Islands Company Sentenced for Illegal Trade of Protected Coral Gem Manufacturing Sentenced to Highest Financial Penalty for Illegal Coral Trade
Rescuing the Frog
Keystone XL and US Energy Security – You can’t have it both ways.

Math lesson
Satellite News
NASA Ready for November Launch of Car-Size Mars Rover
NASA's most advanced mobile robotic laboratory, which will examine one of the most intriguing areas on Mars, is in final preparations for a launch...

Ambitious Hubble Survey Obtaining New Dark Matter Census
Science Daily
A fifth of global energy could come from biomass without damaging food production

Small forest with big impact: Fragmented rainforests maintain their ecological functionality
Scientific American
Food We Eat Might Control Our Genes

Audio Slide Show: Pilots Scale Alaska Glacier to Find Wreckage of Northwest Airlines Flight 4422
The Star Online : Nation
PM wants Umno members to put party above self-interest

Flood situation in Kelantan, Terengganu improves
Statesman - News
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TED
The technology of storytelling: Joe Sabia on TED.com
Techdirt
A Message For Congress Over Thanksgiving
Ten Percent
Friday! Jesus Jones- Welcome Back Victoria

Burma: Questions & Answers
This Week in Science
Animal Life on Earth
USA Today
Marines to wind down Afghan combat in 2012

Pakistan: 26 soldiers killed in NATO helicopter attack
Unexplained Mysteries
Texas witness reports military UFO chase
Web MD
Bacteria Flourish in Public Restrooms
A new study shows what many people have long suspected -- bacteria are plentiful in public restrooms.
Weird
Man with a ring stuck on his penis had to be cut free by 10 firefighters

The sweet smell of Southport recreated in a fragrance
White House Press Feed
Statement by Vice President Biden on the Anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Statement by the President on the Passing of Maggie Daley
WhoWhatWhy
The Gulf Oil Spill: the Other Shoe Dropping

When Innovation Meets Irrigation
World
Zoe -It's our Nature
Let’s Share Some Spaghetti!

Swimming with Sharks … in a Bikini!

Mitt, Mormonism and politics: A cautionary tale

If Romney is the GOP nominee, Democrats might do well to learn from a mistake Ted Kennedy made in 1994 

The Washington Post’s Jason Horowitz has written a fascinating account of Mitt Romney’s work in the 1980s and early 1990s as one of the Mormon church’s top leaders in Boston. As my Salon colleague Justin Elliott (who has done his share of reporting on Romney’s past) pointed out earlier today, the Post story and other previously reported details from the ’80s and ’90s “paint a portrait of Romney as an enforcer of the most socially conservative policies of the LDS church.” Elliott has a complete run-down of what’s out there.
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Mitt Romney: Mormon enforcer

As an LDS leader, he administered among the most socially conservative policies of the church particularly in the realms of sex and women’s rights.

Continue Reading

 BBC- Science

  • Nasa ready to launch Mars rover
    Nasa is set to launch its latest rover mission to the Red Planet - a 900kg robot to find out whether Mars is, or ever has been, suitable for life.
  • CO2 climate impacts reassessed
    Global temperatures could be less sensitive to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels than previously thought, a study suggests.
  • Rare species make home in Broads
    A quarter of the UK's rarest plants and animals are found in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, according to a survey.
  • Peru protests at huge gold mine
    Thousands of Peruvians protest against plans for a huge new goldmine, in a dispute that is a test for President Humala's policies.
  • Woods 'need quality not quantity'
    There needs to be a greater focus on woodland management rather than just paying attention to the number of trees being planted, a report concludes.
  • Court hears Nature libel case
    A libel case against the scientific journal Nature brought by an Egyptian-born researcher continues in London's High Court.


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