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Online Astonomy Course - What We Do | The Planetary Society

 

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‎"This coming week will mark the first anniversary of Fukushima’s multiple meltdown nuclear disaster. There is little data on how badly contaminated the now-abandoned area of forced evacuation is in the 20-kilometer (12-mile) zone around the Fukushima plant. The mainstream media has already begun trotting out assorted "experts" to assure anyone who might be still interested in Fukushima that all is well and no one’s been harmed by all the radiation the reactors released."

One Year after Fukushima: Defining and Classifying a Disaster

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by Lucas W. Hickson: Most of Japan is skeptical about the Japanese governments’ objectivity because of their general mistrust of those who repeatedly have shown more loyalty to the nuclear industry than their own fellow citizens.

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OHI, Japan — All but two of Japan’s 54 commercial reactors have gone off line since the nuclear disaster a year ago, following the earthquake and tsunami, and it is not clear when they can be restarted. With the last operating reactor scheduled to be idled as soon as next month, Japan — once one of the world’s leaders in atomic energy — will have at least temporarily shut down an industry that once generated a third of its electricity.

Japan Shutting Down Its Nuclear Power Industry

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All but two of Japan’s 54 commercial reactors have been idled since the nuclear disaster a year ago, following the earthquake and tsunami, and it is not clear when they can be restarted.

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Having trapped themselves in a death struggle with Palestinians that they cannot acknowledge or untangle, Israelis have psychologically displaced the source of their anxiety onto a more distant target: Iran. An Iranian nuclear bomb would not be a happy development for Israel. Neither was Pakistan's, nor indeed North Korea's. The notion that it represents a new Holocaust is overstated, and the beli...See More

Auschwitz complex

 

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News flash: Israel is not master of its fate. It's not terribly surprising that a country with less than 8m inhabitants is not master of its fate. Switzerland, Sweden, Serbia and Portugal are not masters of their fates. These days, many countries with populations of 100m or more can hardly be said t...

 

US offers Israel advanced arms for not attacking Iran - report

 

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The US has proposed that Israel withhold from waging an assault on Iran till the next presidential term in America in exchange for most advanced weaponry, reports Israeli Maariv newspaper.

 

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So here's the little that we know about a pipeline break that occurred more than half a year ago and that British Columbia's Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) feels for whatever reasons the public is best kept in the dark about.

A toxic pipeline spill and communications chill in B.C. | rabble.ca

 

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Dirty Oil Diplomacy: The Canadian Government’s Global Push to Sell the Tar Sands – Climate Action Ne

 

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The new report, Dirty Oil Diplomacy – The Canadian Government’s Global Push to Sell the Tar Sands, outlines the changing domestic and international policies of the Canadian government as they work to expand the tar sands – Canada’s fastest growing source of greenhouse gas pollution. This report is b...

 

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“For those on the Gulf Coast, the disaster remains, and life continues to be measured in terms of ‘before’ and ‘after’ the BP oil spill. They are tired of it all: BP, the government, the lies and the lawyers, the hardship and the illness, the oil on the beach and in the water, the dead dolphins and the disfigured fish, the ever-shrinking hauls of oysters, crab, and shrimp, and the rest of the nation’s cold shoulder. They still don’t know the answers to many life-and-death questions. But they keep going, hoping for life to return to the way it was before.”

Sonoma Valley Sun | Consequences of the 2010 gulf oil spill « Just Joan

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Antonia Juhasz stood with us on the Sonoma Plaza for an hour on January 11 to protest escalation of the war in Iraq. Then she stood at the podium at Readers Books for another hour to tell us of her personal experiences in learning, “It’s still all about oil in Iraq.”

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BP buckled on health claims, striking a settlement deal with private plaintiffs to compensate hundreds of thousands of people whose complaints of illness from exposure to oil and cleanup chemicals were once derided as flimsy. The oil giant even caved on paying casino workers for lower earnings, beachfront property owners for loss of enjoyment and fishers for subsistence use -- the types of claims that pay czar Kenneth Feinberg often rejected over the last year and a half.

Gulf oil spill moratorium claims have no place in BP settlement

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Their losses stemmed not directly from the explosion or spill, but from the government's reaction to it

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Despite the loss of 11 human lives and devastating injuries to workers, billions of dollars of economic losses in states on the Gulf Coast — including Florida — and harsh environmental damage that is still being measured, energy companies are aggressively drilling and exploring deep waters off American shores. BP, for instance, is operating the same number of rigs (five) as it did before the disaster and plans to have three more operational by the end of this year.

Editorial: The need for oil and safety

 

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It’s been less than two years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 40 miles southeast of the Louisiana coast, triggering the largest oil spill in U.S. history and threatening one of the largest marine ecosystems in the world.

 

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New Orleans, Louisiana - Hundreds of thousands of people living along the US Gulf Coast have hung their economic lives on lawsuits against BP. Fishermen, in particular, are seeing their way of life threatened with extinction - both from lack of an adequate legal settlement and collapsing fisheries. One of these people, Greg Perez, an oyster fisherman in the village of Yscloskey, Louisiana, has seen a 75 per cent decrease in the amount of oysters he has been able to catch.

Gulf Fisheries in Decline After Oil Disaster | Truthout

 

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New Orleans, Louisiana - Hundreds of thousands of people living along the US Gulf Coast have hung their economic lives on lawsuits against BP.

 

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Almost two years after Meriden Police Officer David Buck was deployed as a Coast Guard Reservist to the Gulf Coast to help clean up a massive BP oil spill there, the oil company has reimbursed the city for overtime and salary costs the city picks up for Buck – to the tune of $20,323.

BP Reimburses Meriden More than 20K For Cleanup Help

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The company repaid the City of Meriden costs for sending a police officer and Coast Guard Reservist to help with the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted 76-22 on Thursday to approve an amendment that would direct 80 percent of BP Clean Water Act fines for the massive 2010 oil spill to the five Gulf States. The fines are expected to be in the billions of dollars.

Senate approves amendment giving Gulf states 80 percent of BP spill fines

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Those fines are expected to be in the billions of dollars

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From Countdown with Keith Olbermann July 2010... Many points are made that you may not have been aware of at the time - Very valuable to revisit. Especially NOW.

BP Clean Up Crews Are Dying

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Corexit is a product line of solvents primarily used as a dispersant for breaking up oil slicks. It is produced by Nalco Holding Company which is associated ...

$4 million from unnamed donor making impact on NW Florida | www.gulfbreezenews.com | Gulf Breeze New

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We might never know the benefactor behind it, but someone with a big heart gave $20 million to the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to help coastal areas recover from the financial, emotional and physical impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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Over a year and half later, Jamie tells me that she, her father, her godfather, and many others regularly experience cycles of bronchial problems that last for months on end. They cough, can’t get enough air, just feel sick, and stay sick longer. They’d never experienced this before. “People are getting sick and they are staying sick,” she says. “It’s not normal.”

 

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All photos of Coastal conditions taken between Jan1 2012 - March 1 2012 Coastal Alabama. Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. West end Public Beach Dauphin Island Al. Over 2400 confirmed cases of Chemical toxicity in clean up workers, children, and residents in the upper Gulf. They sprayed and poisoned us like Cockroaches.

Debunking the Bp Myth..wmv

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All photos of Coastal conditions taken between Jan1 2012 - March 1 2012 Coastal Alabama. Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. West end Public Beach Dauphin I...

 

BP Oil Still Tars the Gulf

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For many Americans, the story of the BP disaster began on April 20, 2010, and ended on August 15 of that year, when the Obama Administration declared that “the majority of the oil is gone,” though the opposite was true.

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“Everything Is Dead”: Gulf Fisheries Collapse Nearly Two Years After BP Oil Spill | Stuart H. Smith

 

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The Gulf seafood industry is in a free fall – particularly in Louisiana, which once produced nearly 40 percent of all seafood caught in the continental United

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So far 179 dolphins have died on Cape Cod in Massachusetts in a little over a month. Scientists fear it could be due to a change in sea temperature -- as the region experiences its mildest winter in a hundred years. At the same time, a rare and endangered whale species has also changed its behaviour patterns.

Dolphins 'dying in record numbers' : Video : World News Australia on SBS

 

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Lawmakers and federal officials continued Thursday to debate how to boost the rate of offshore drilling permit approvals in the Gulf of Mexico and whether additional funding for new hires for the U.S. offshore safety agency could create a speedier application process.

Fuel Fix » Lawmakers, federal officials debate offshore permit rate

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Lawmakers, federal officials debate offshore permit rate

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Visiting Brazil last year, President Barack Obama expressed high hopes for the country's massive offshore oil reserves, offering technical support and pledging that "when you are ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers."

Amid high hopes, Brazil's oil industry faces setbacks

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SAO PAULO, Brazil — Visiting Brazil last year, President Barack Obama expressed high hopes for the country's massive offshore oil reserves, offering technical support and pledging that "when you are ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers."

Senate rejects GOP measure to build oil pipeline - CNN.com

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The Senate narrowly rejected a Republican-sponsored measure Thursday that would have approved the Keystone XL pipeline.

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Eighty-five million gallons of gasoline with levels of toxic and cancer-causing compounds exceeding California health standards, was shipped to Martinez and sold across the state by BP, according to a lawsuit filed by state regulators.

BP Sued For Selling Dirty Gas In California

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Gevo and Butamax, a joint venture of BP Plc (BP/) and DuPont Co., are developing processes to make isobutanol from corn and non- food crops and have been sparring over patent rights. Isobutanol may be blended with gasoline or refined into jet fuel, specialty chemicals or other products that are typically derived from petroleum.

Gevo Rises on U.S. Reexamination of Butamax Biofuel Patent

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Gevo Inc., the U.S. biotechnology company backed by oil refiner Total SA and specialty chemicals maker Lanxess AG, rose the most in a week after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office agreed to reexamine a patent of rival Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC.

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Since September 2001, Global Research has been bringing our readers a broad spectrum of voices analyzing global situations, from military threats against Iran and Syria, to the economic machinations of the financial elite. And we will continue to do so because we believe that access to information is the key to the truth.

Independent Media Delivers Truth and Accountability

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Ultimately, we all have our own decisions to make on where we stand politically and economically, and the role our lives will play historically. Global Research gives you some of the important tools to make those decisions based on fact and real understanding.

'ACTA not over, people await Internet revolution'

 

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Senior members of the notorious computer hacker group LulzSec, with ties to the Anonymous movement, have been arrested and charged with cyber-crimes by the F...

 

Anonymous take down anti-virus giant and Vatican, warn of ‘March storm’

 

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Hacktivist group Anonymous has launched an online assault on anti-virus company Panda Security after Tuesday’s arrest of members of the hackers’ LulzSec collective. The group also raided the Vatican website in protest against the Catholic Church.

 

 

‘Web users want freedom, not free stuff’

 

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Internet activists do not rally for “free online stuff,” the leader of the UK Pirate Party told RT. Rather, they protest against giving government tools to censor the web and to restrict civic freedoms.

 

Tax Rebellion When war is illegal paying tax is a war crime 

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It is a crime to pay tax. This statement may, at first, appear improbable - yet it is true. The truth of it is embedded firmly in international law, and this law is explicit and unequivocal.

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With a billion dollar price tag, the 2010 Toronto G20 was one of the most expensive security operations in history. As part of that operation, police services and government officials conspired to lie to the public about supposed powers to violate citizens' guaranteed rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Suing the Police: When Citizens' Rights are Violated | Global Research TV

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Nicholas Wright, a Toronto lawyer and President of Geopoliticalmonitor.com, is suing the police for his unlawful arrest. Find out more in this week's GRTV Feature Interview. 

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US Plans to Legally Justify Targeted Killings of Americans | Global Research TV

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The Obama administration is set to offer legal backing for the targeted killing of American citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activities...

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‎"All things considered, the hypocrisy is plainly clear. It is therefore not only necessary but also imperative to oppose the dangerous propaganda and warmongering spread by the most aggressive factions within the U.S. and Israeli establishments, and ensure that truth prevails over rampant militarization."

Debunking Anti-Iran Propaganda: The Myth of the "New Holocaust"

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by Benjamin Schett: In a pattern of propaganda now well-established in the mainstream media, fear-mongering against Iran is reaching an all-time peak.

5 Reasons Twitter Isn't Actually Overthrowing Governments

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The media loves to breathlessly cover 'The Twitter Revolution.' Unfortuantely, the only place it actually exists is in newspapers and blogs.

Two classical future dystopias battle it out: http://dad2059.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/dystopia-vs-dystopia/

Dystopia vs. Dystopia

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Two science-fiction classics of social dystopia, Brave New World and 1984 respectively by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell ( Eric Blair ) remain the yard-sticks by which future tyrannies are measure...

( Who ? http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/1984-brave-new-world-orwell-huxley.html

Opit's LinkFest!: 18 March - Extraordinary Tales ?

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Or would we be, as Huxley envisioned, entranced by entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced by profligate consumption to embrace our own oppression? It turns out Orwell and Huxley were both ...  )

More on SETI, machine intelligence and the Interstellar Internet: http://dad2059.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/artificial-intelligence-and-the-interstellar-internet/

 

Artificial Intelligence and the Interstellar Internet

 

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Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams continues the discussion of the below light-speed seeding of Intelligence in the Galaxy from the paper that Robert Freitas wrote in the 1980s and the prospect that s...

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The governors sent a letter to the Obama administration this week in response to proposed Air Force budget cuts, which include moving the Texas Air National Guard C-130 Hercules planes away from Fort Worth’s Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in two years.

Gulf state governors oppose Air Force plan to move planes used for evacuations out of Texas

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Five Gulf Coast states’ governors and Texas’ entire congressional delegation are fighting a U.S. Air Force proposal to move eight cargo planes out of Texas that are used for post-hurricane evacuations.

 

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Why Can’t Americans Have Democracy?

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by Paul Craig Roberts: The rights that americans gained from successful revolution against King George III in the 18th century have all been taken away by Bush/Obama in the 21st century. One might think that this would be a news story, but it isn’t.

Hawaii official now swears: No Obama birth certificate

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Former Hawaii elections clerk Tim Adams has signed an affidavit swearing he was told by his supervisors in Hawaii that no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate existed for Barack Obama Jr. in Hawaii and that neither Queens Medical Center no...

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ASA has completed commissioning of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP), which is now making global environmental observations. The satellite will provide scientists with critical insight into the dynamics of the entire Earth system, including climate, clouds, oceans, and vegetation. It will also gather enhanced data for improving our nation's weather forecasting system.

Multi-Agency Satellite Begins Climate and Weather Studies

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Nano weather machines - chemtrails and smart dust! micro machines MEMS

 

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Wow! This will give you a different perspective now when you gaze up at the sky and see chemtrails in the sky. Cloud seeding could also be a cover for these ...

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Because of its extreme depth, the trench is perhaps the most inhumane place on Earth: cloaked in perpetual darkness, chilled to near freezing. At the bottom, Cameron's craft will be subjected to water pressures approaching 16,000 pounds per square inch (11,250,000 kilograms per square meter).

James Cameron Headed to Ocean's Deepest Point in Sci-Fi Sub

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In a sci-fi sub, filmmaker and explorer James Cameron is soon to make history on a National Geographic mission to Earth's deepest point.

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UN Israel killed over 1300 Palestinian kids.

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Palestinian children are bearing the brunt of Israeli attacks from the outset of the Al Aqsa uprising in the year 2...

W.A. Mental Health Act review-IMPORTANT-Kids at risk

 

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CHILDREN OF ANY AGE TO CONSENT TO STERILISATION: If a psychiatrist decides that a child (under 18 years) has sufficient maturity, he or she will be able to consent to sterilisation. Parental consent will not be needed. Only after the sterilisation procedure has been performed does it have to be repo...

Police brutality on youtube: with entertainment like this, who needs horror movies?

 

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The following videos were found during a casual youtube search which began with a story about a 20 year old girl in Florida who suffered severe brain damage as a result of being tasered in the back while handcuffed. These videos demonstrate over and over again the same pattern, with police officers ...

EvolutionE: A child's view

An Evolution Animation Unlike Any You’ve Seen Before… | PsiVid, Scientific American Blog Network

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How do you make an authentic evolution animation? Quite simply: you allow it to evolve. Tyler Rhodes, a student in the animation program at Virginia Commonwealth ...

Diet Soda, The Silent Killer? | Before It's News

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CARBONATED WATER, CARAMEL COLOR, ASPARTAME, PHOSPHORIC ACID, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVES FRESHNESS), CAFFEINE, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVOR

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Learn how diet may contribute to causing migraines and what you can do to cure them.

Cure Migraine Headaches: Nutrition & Supplementation - NaturalNews.tv

 

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‎9Did you know diet & natural supplements can reduce migraine headache incidences by up to 77%? Dr. Meschino explains which supplements can actually reduce the frequency & severity of migraine headache

 

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Sharon Palmer (raw milk farmer) is INNOCENT of all charges, and DA is staging public theater, declares attorney in public statement: http://www.naturalnews.com/035186_Sharon_Palmer_Rawesome_Foods_arrest.html

 

Rawesome Foods' Sharon Palmer innocent of all charges, District Attorney staging public theater, dec

 

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Rawesome Foods' Sharon Palmer innocent of all charges, District Attorney staging public theater, declares attorney

 

Real Coastal Warriors

Gevo and Butamax, a joint venture of BP Plc (BP/) and DuPont Co., are developing processes to make isobutanol from corn and non- food crops and have been sparring over patent rights. Isobutanol may be blended with gasoline or refined into jet fuel, specialty chemicals or other products that are typically derived from petroleum.

Gevo Rises on U.S. Reexamination of Butamax Biofuel Patent

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Gevo Inc., the U.S. biotechnology company backed by oil refiner Total SA and specialty chemicals maker Lanxess AG, rose the most in a week after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office agreed to reexamine a patent of rival Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC.

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‎"Coal keeps the lights on and the chemo pumping": New project advocates for public health protections from mountaintop removal mining.

Stop the ACHE | HOME

 

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Update - California Ballot Initiative to Label GMOs

 

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Update - California Ballot Initiative to Label GMOs Thanks to everyone who wrote to the Sacramento Bee in response to the hit pieces it published attacking the OCA and the CA Right to Know/Label GMOs ballot initiative coalition. Thanks to your pressure, the Bee finally provided space for a rebuttal ...

Ninja Blocks: Connect your world with the web.

 

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The Ninja Block is controlled with “if this then that” style tasks and connects your things to the web (Dropbox, Twitter, & more).

 

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With Raspberry Pi and Cotton Candy, Linux Launches a Revolution

 

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All the world may be agog over Microsoft's Windows 8 previews this week, but at the same time a quiet revolution is taking place. It's powered by Linux, it costs a fraction of Windows' price, and its first tangible evidence is now available in not just one but two “sweet” forms: Raspberry Pi and Cot...

 

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Just as Southern preachers once served as tools of mill owners to keep workers pliant and passive, the religious right today is also a tool for the oil barons and Wall Street types who truly rule.

Super Tuesday, the Tea Party and the South: Preaching the gospel of raw capitalism and the evils of.

 

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I'm a Catholic who grew up in the Pentecostal Holiness Church, and I'll never forget the little Macedonian Pentecostal Church outside of Sanford, N.C., where my Uncle Eb preached. From the pulpit he reminded me of an Old Testament prophet with his eagle eyes, beak nose, and gravelly voice.

 

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Video shows just how ineffective the virtual strip searches are.

How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners

 

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