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Stop NATO
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South Korean Missiles: Part Of U.S. Containmen ...China Daily October 11, 2012 US, ROK play risky missile game ==== [The U.S.] wants the ROK to take on more of its defense responsibilities. Washington hopes Seoul would gradually increase its weaponry [and] help strengthen the US’ anti-missile system in Asia to fulfill America’s stra ...
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Japanese Militarism: Resurrection of the SamuraiXinhua News Agency October 11, 2012 Interview: Japanese militarism on rise, says Russian veteran Moscow: Japan’s recent illegal moves to “purchase” China’s Diaoyu Islands show militarism is on the rise in that country, according to a Russian war veteran. Vasili Ivanov, de ...
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Iraq, Russia Oppose Foreign Interference In Sy ...Interfax October 10, 2012 Iraq and Russia are opposed to foreign interference in Syria – Premier al-Maliki NOVO-OGARYOVO, Moscow region: Russia and Iraq have agreed to make efforts to prevent instigation of outside interference in developments in the Middle East and in Syria, Iraqi Prime M ...
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NATO Headquarters: Pentagon Conspiring With Jo ...U.S. Department of Defense October 10, 2012 Panetta: DOD Works with Jordan, Turkey on Syria Repercussions By Cheryl Pellerin Edited by RR ==== “We’ve…been working with [Jordan] to try to develop their own military and operational capabilities in the event of any contingency there,” Panetta ...
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U.S., Spain Sign Accord On NATO Missile SystemEFE October 10, 2012 Spain, U.S. sign accord to deploy anti-missile shield ==== The adjustments will facilitate the arrival at the Mediterranean base of Rota starting in 2013 of some 1,200 U.S. military personnel and about 1,400 of their family members. Besides Spain, countries such as Poland, R ...
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Intel Hub
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TSA Welcome Romney Supporters at Iowa Campaign ...By Julio N. Rausseo theintelhub.com October 11, 2012 While making a campaign stop in Van Meter, Iowa, Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney needed an additional layer of security to feel safe speaking to Iowa farmers. Accompany Romney were members of the TransportationSecurity Administrati ...
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Bill Maher: “We Need To Promote Death”‘The planet is too crowded – let’s kill the right people’ By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com October 11, 2012 During a recent appearance on the StarTalk Radio Show, Real Time host Bill Maher expressed his desire to see more people killed via abortion, suicides and the death penalty because “the ...
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Cooked or Accurate US Employment Numbers?Stephen Lendman | or over a decade, US job prospects have been dismal. Since crisis conditions erupted in 2008, they've been dire for millions wanting work.
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War or No War on Iran?By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com October 11, 2012 In Shakespearean terms, indeed that’s the question. Longstanding regime change plans are known. Means to achieve them have been ongoing for years. A previous article put it this way: Red lines, timelines, deadlines, sanctions ...
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Peer-to-Peer Rideshare Programs are on the Reg ...JG Vibes | In recent years as peer-to-peer networks, organizations and companies have begun to enter into the marketplace
FRS
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Germany’s Merkel arrives to protests in ...October 9, 2012 [Protesters gather Oct. 9, 2012, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes her first visit to Greece since the eurozone crisis began here three years ago. / Lefteris Pitarakis, AP] by Nikolia Apostolou and Louise Osborne, Special for USA TODAY ATHENS — Tens of thousands of p ...
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Germany’s Merkel arrives to protests in ...October 9, 2012 [Protesters gather Oct. 9, 2012, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes her first visit to Greece since the eurozone crisis began here three years ago. / Lefteris Pitarakis, AP] by Nikolia Apostolou and Louise Osborne, Special for USA TODAY ATHENS — Tens of thousands of p ...
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‘Bitter Seeds’ probes suicides in ...[In his latest documentary film, Micha X. Peled traces not only the deleterious ecological effects of Monsanto's genetically engineered seeds on India's agriculture, but also the imposition of unprecedented debts foisted on millions of farmers in the forced march to buy Monsanto seeds--and the e ...
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‘Bitter Seeds’ probes suicides in ...[In his latest documentary film, Micha X. Peled traces not only the deleterious ecological effects of Monsanto's genetically engineered seeds on India's agriculture, but also the imposition of unprecedented debts foisted on millions of farmers in the forced march to buy Monsanto seeds--and the e ...
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Nepal protest of Army war criminal’s pro ...Nepal: 12 Maoist cadres injured during anti-govt protest Kathmandu, Tuesday, October 09, 2012: At least 12 cadres from a breakaway faction of Nepal’s ruling Maoists were injured in a clash with police outside Premier Baburam Bhattarai’s residence Tuesday when they were protesting aga ...
Ken O'Keefe
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Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe Freestyle on Gaza ...Max Igan & Ken O'Keefe Freestyle on Gaza Rooftop
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Back in Gaza with Max Igan & the Samouni FamilyIt is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that, it has c ...
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Hunger Strike in Solidarity with PalestiniansToday is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense. - Ken O'Keefe
StillSmallVoice
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Life is change and change is lifeAnd here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
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Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
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De-pinkifying breast cancerThere's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
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Why the occupation?You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
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Cleansing after Yom KippurYom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
Associated Content
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Obama Supporters Criticize President for Weak ...The dimensions of the thumping President Barack Obama received at the hands of Mitt Romney at the Denver debate can be measured by the fury with which his supporters have reacted. It is not happiness and joy with the president’s friends.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Oct 04, 2012
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Tax Math Too Time-Consuming? Paul Ryan Insults ...Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan insults voters' intelligence by insisting that the math from his tax proposals is too complex to explain. He's hoping that voters will cast their ballots for him and Mitt Romney sight unseen.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Oct 01, 2012
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No Foreign Aid to Egypt Until its Government B ...The Obama administration’s approach to foreign policy gets more surreal as the Middle East gets more chaotic. The New York Times reports that the White House would like to give the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt $450 million.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Oct 01, 2012
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UC Davis Errs in Paying Pepper-Sprayed Student ...The students were warned beforehand that they would be pepper-sprayed during the November 2011 protests if they did not leave the area. Authorities should not have to pay for enforcing the laws.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 27, 2012
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Obesity is so Awful, It’s Undermining Our Nati ...Will our country one day be in the position to where it can’t defend itself because there aren’t enough fit people to fight? That is how bad the obesity crisis is.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Sep 26, 2012
Popsci - Science
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Daily Infographic: A Mesmerizing Map Of Water ...Researchers at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory borrowed some code from the designers who made this incredible wind map to create the world's first beautiful water current map. The image above is just a snapshot--check out the animated one here. Totally mesmerizing.
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How Blue Light And Caffeine Will Help Humans M ...The simple tricks to fool Earth-evolved humans into living on Mars time. Living vicariously through a robot on Mars seems glamorous, and in many ways it is, zapping rocks and scooping up sand and whatnot. But the schedule is brutal--Mars has a longer day than Earth, and this is legendarily pai ...
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Everything You Need To Know About The Deadly M ...A rare form of meningitis has infected more than 150 people and claimed 14 lives. Are you at risk? And how did the outbreak start in the first place? So there’s an outbreak of meningitis? Yeah. One hundred and seventy cases reported so far. And 14 people have died. Whoa. Since when? The firs ...
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5 Tips For Scientists On How To Not Write Like ...A Stanford professor is trying to teach doctors and scientists how to write manuscripts that aren't dusty and jargony. Reading through scientific papers can be a terrifying experience, and not just because of the jargon. Take, for example, this string of words: “We classified injuries as initia ...
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Today In Pretty Space Pics: Weird Gassy Spiral ...It's the first time scientists have obtained 3-D information about a star's death spiral and offers a hint of our own sun's far future. Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have found an unusual spiral surrounding an elderly star, and they believe it was caused by a hidden companion orbiting th ...
Veterans Today
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Now It Can Be Told! The REAL Reason Obama Was ...Man-eating martian plesiosaurs?! You can't make this stuff up. But THEY can.
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Anti-Islam film: the Coptic Brotherhood“I like to call this new generation of Egypt's Christians ‘the Coptic Brotherhood’ … for they adopt the same policy & tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Octo ...The Veterans Crisis Line offers free, confidential support to Veterans in crisis, as well as their family and friends. Save this number to your phone: 1-800-273-8255 (press 1 for Veterans). You can also chat online or text professional responders at 838255.
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Home Loans and Lotteries“We are committed to the nth degree to helping Veterans get and keep housing,” said Edward Perry, Veterans Service Representative, with the Veterans Benefits Administration.
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Historical Notes 38 U.S.C. & 511 Fuhrer – Alar ...Save the best for last some have said. DANGER, DANGER, WILL ROBINSON ! Here is something for those with common sense ( the basis for intelligence ) that will open your eyes and mind.
War is Business
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State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
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“Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
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2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
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Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
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Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
Hudson's Weather & Climate
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A step forward in forecasting cold winters?Sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) has been the 'in' topic in meteorological circles in the last couple of years, ever since the severe winter of 2009/2010 in which December was the coldest since the late 19th century. SSW is linked to sudden large increases in temperature over a few days in t ...
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Regional and global climate updateProvisional Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average. It was also cooler but sunnier than normal. Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...
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All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...The deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the autumn of 2000. Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...
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Yorkshire at risk from renewed floodingHeavy rainfall in the next 30 hours could lead to yet more flooding across parts of Yorkshire. Current indications suggest some Pennine catchments of North & West Yorkshire could be most at risk. The very active weather system which I wrote about here on Friday and is currently affecting much o ...
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Autumn blast on its wayA deep area of low pressure looks set to dominate our weather late in the weekend and into next week as the official start of autumn (which is the 22nd September this year, defined as the day the sun crosses the equator into the southern hemisphere) coincides nicely with the first meteorological ...
Internat'l Political Economy
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Get Lost Foreign Students: Today's United KingdomHaving been one at various points in life, I generally believe foreign students are harmless. While they are certainly easy targets for xenophobia--recall how the United States tightened student visas in the wake of 9/11 before universities that had become reliant on full-tuition paying foreign ...
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'Security', Last Refuge of Yank Trade ScoundrelsYou've got to hand it to the Americans in the having your cake and eating it too department: While asking the rest of the world to economically open up, it has been far more guarded when it comes to accepting FDI from...certain other nations. I of course speak of China. With still-gargantuan tra ...
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FILTH No More: Expats 'Endangered' in Asia"Bye-bye, laowai!" (foreign devil) I kept hearing last year while playing the ultra-violent video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution which partly occurs in the fictional Chinese megacity of Hengsha. Set in the not-so-distant future where China has overtaken the United States as the world's dominant ...
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PRC Inc. Boycotts World Bank-IMF Meet in TokyoIn case you missed it, there's been very interesting news these past few days over the mass boycott of Chinese banks, presenters and other participants who were originally scheduled to be at the upcoming World Bank-IMF meetings to be held in Tokyo starting this coming Tuesday. Those expressing u ...
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Why Do Filipinos Trust N Korea More Than China?I was recently asked by my colleagues at LSE IDEAS to prepare a contribution on geopolitics in Southeast Asia, in particular the contest for regional influence between the United States and China. You would probably think that China has left the US for dead in winning over Southeast Asia since i ...
Economic Collapse Blog
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UNSUSTAINABLEWhen it comes to explaining the problems with our economy, one of the hardest things to do is to get people to understand that we are living in an economic fantasy world that is completely and totally unsustainable. As a nation we consume far more than we produce, we spend far more than we brin ...
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28 Good Questions That The Mainstream Media Sh ...Why is there so little trust in the mainstream media these days? CNN ratings have been hovering close to record lows over the past few months. A recent Gallup survey found that 60 percent of all Americans "have little or no trust" in the mainstream media. That was a record high according to G ...
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Police: “Enter Detroit At Your Own Risk& ...If you plan on visiting Detroit any time soon, the police have a message for you: "Enter Detroit at your own risk". That ominous message was actually emblazoned across the top of a flyer that the Detroit Police Officer Association was passing out prior to a rally on Saturday. The flyer pointed ...
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The Largest Economy In The World Is Imploding ...A devastating economic depression is rapidly spreading across the largest economy in the world. Unemployment is skyrocketing, money is being pulled out of the banks at an astounding rate, bad debts are everywhere and economic activity is slowing down month after month. So who am I talking abou ...
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A Jobs Report Conspiracy?Well, isn't that convenient? The Obama campaign desperately needed the last employment report to be released before the election to show that the unemployment rate had fallen below 8 percent, and somehow it magically happened. Even though non-farm payroll employment only increased by 114,000 l ...
Infoshop - Alt Media
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Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire ArmedDespite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
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July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
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Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For PapersJurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
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Break the Chains Blog Turns Six Years OldSince June 2006 to present day, the Break the Chains Blog (http://breakthechains.info) has published over 5,400 stories on government violence a...
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Fifth Estate, Summer 2012 issue, now availableGreetings! The Summer Fifth Estate has been delivered to us by our printer and we are in the process of mailing subscriptions and shipping bulk ...
E U Times
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We have just launched our new Forum!We have just launched our new forum! We hope you’ll like it. Click here to Join Now, be among the first members to join our forum and help make it big. http://forum.eutimes.net/
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Aussie super-scope begins ET huntThe initial stage of unprecedented radio telescope has been officially opened in Australia. The project will explore the universe in search of new galaxies, black holes, planets and even intelligent extraterrestrial life – if there is any. In the heart of red desert where man-made radio signals ...
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Police, pensioners clash over austerity measur ...Greek police in the capital city of Athens have clashed with pensioners protesting against the government’s new round of austerity measures. On Monday, hundreds of Greek pensioners staged a rally outside the office of the European Union (EU) in Athens where police officers used batons to dispers ...
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Monsanto “War” Kills US Ambassador To LibyaA stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today is claiming that the 11 September attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed American Ambassador John Christopher Stevens (1960-2012) was an act of terrorism led by an armed force of mercenaries lin ...
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Tens of thousands protest in Saudi Arabia’s Qa ...Tens of thousands of Saudi protesters have held a massive anti-regime rally in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province, Press TV reports. Chanting slogans against the Saudi authorities, the demonstrators turned out in Qatif late on Sunday to condemn the regime’s suppression ...
Voiceless Victim
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Heartless Hart at it AgainMelbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
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True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
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Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
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Vale John PironaJohn Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
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Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
WL Central
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2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
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2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
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2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different DirectionsBy Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
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2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
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2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...
U N News
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UN human rights teams head to scene of deadly ...United Nations human rights officers have been dispatched to western Guatemala, where clashes between indigenous communities, police and the military have resulted in several deaths and injuries.
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Thousands of families in Colombia to benefit f ...More than 50,000 families in Colombia will benefit from a United Nations-backed rural poverty reduction project which seeks to facilitate access to financing and community services for small-scale producers.
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Haiti must strengthen rule of law institutions ...Haiti must focus on strengthening its rule of law institutions, including its national police and electoral council, to consolidate the gains it has achieved in recent years, the United Nations Security Council heard today as it reviewed developments in the Caribbean country.
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Legal equality of states' needed at UN, Venezu ...In calling for significant reform of the United Nations, Venezuela's representative to the world body, Ambassador Jorge Valero, told the UN General Assembly today that a "re-foundation of the United Nations is necessary" with a new international order based on the "legal equality of states."
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At UN debate, Ecuador calls for increased focu ...The protection of human rights and preservation of the environment must feature more prominently in the global development agenda, Ecuador's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marco Albuja, told the United Nations General Assembly today.
Conspiracy Reality TV
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Aurora Batman Shooting – Many CoincidencesThe trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
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CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
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The Magic WeedHemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
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Blood ColtanBlood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
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CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the StateSome state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
Rewilding Institute
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Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...(September 4, 2012) The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy. PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
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Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
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Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
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Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...Natural History: the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango. It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
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The Politics of Climate ChangeOriginally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change. We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels. Whoever controls ...
Asia Sentinel
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South Korea Searches its Soeul• (http://twitter.com/share) The marginalized take out their frustrations through violence
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The Electric Swiss Army Knife• (http://twitter.com/share) Mobile telephone technology is having a profound effect on the poorest of the poor
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The World is Eating Marginally Better• (http://twitter.com/share) IFPRI says the Global Hunger Index has improved, but challenges are enormous
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Resurrecting Afghanistan's Giant Buddhas• (http://twitter.com/share) But as the war winds down, will there be the will and means to do it?
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International Crisis Group's Gloomy Afghan Ass ...• (http://twitter.com/share) Neither Afghan troops nor the government are anywhere near ready to take over
We Know the Lies
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Depopulation... US Deaths Reach Record HighDepopulation is not merely an urban myth of globalist fantasy, but a true reality. There are various agendas and proposals worldwide that are either implemented or on the table from Henry Kissinger’s National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) to Ted Turners admissions on video the glob ...
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Blueseed... The Elite Will Control The Masses ...Blueseed is a San Francisco startup corporations that plans to launch a floating city 12 nautical miles off the coast of California.Blueseed will revamp a cruise ship or barge to create the off-shore city. ~ Susanne posel - Video read more
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Israel's 'Conflict' Over Iran’s Nuclear Progra ...Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration, says, “The Israel/Iran conflict is not about nukes, but water!” ~ Greg Hunter - Video read more
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Exposed!... NASA Cover-Up!... John Moore ShowJohn Moore welcomes one of the foremost experts in the field of astronomy, Professor James McCanney, for a fascinating discussion about the NASA and US government cover-up of upcoming space events. ~ Audio read more
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Entire U.S. Population to be Microchipped for ...Author and professor of biblical prophecy, Paul McGuire, talks about microchip implants and the ‘Mark of the Beast.’ He believes there is a long term plan afoot to microchip the US population. ~ Audio read more
Tarpley
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IMF Issues Forecast of Deepening Depression to ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV October 9, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
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World Needs Turkey-Syria PeaceWebster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV October 7, 2012 Thirty-nine years after the 1973 October War between Arabs and Israelis, the Middle East may once again be close to a general conflagration. For the last four days, Turkish military forces have been firing howitzers at targets inside Syria, in wh ...
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Spanish Civil War as Prelude to World War II; ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV October 6, 2012 [download video] [download audio] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that his country is not far from war with Syria amid intensified tensions fueled by fresh cross-border attacks. The remarks came as the Turkish military con ...
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World Crisis RadioNew programs posted weekly on Saturday evenings Listen now or download to your mp3 player. World Crisis Radio Ad-Free RSS Feed! Select Year 2012 2011 2010 Select Program October 6, 2012 September 29, 2012 September 22, 2012 September 15, 2012 September 8, 2012 September 1, 2012 August 25, 201 ...
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Facing Defeat in Syria, NATO’s Death Squ ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV October 4, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
Modern Survivalism
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Getting Started With Basic Food Storage PrepsDisruption to the food supply chain A basic essential to survivalism is having enough food to eat and water to drink. In today’s modern world, we take it for granted that there will always be food on grocery store shelves, and there are many built-in assumptions with that thought pr ...
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Survival Kit (US Marines)MARINE CORPS ORDER 1543.3 specifies the ‘SK’ (survival kit). It contains components that provide the user with the ability to survive in conditions or situations that force them to operate without logistical support or replenishment. The SK will enhance a Marine’s ability to survive ...
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Survival Kit (US Army)SURVIVAL KIT The ‘environment’ is the key to the types of items you will need in your survival kit. Where you are, where you will be going, climate, terrain, length of mission, purpose, etc., How much equipment you put in your kit depends on how you will carry the kit. A kit carried ...
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How Many Calories Do I Need?Want a little help trying to figure out how much food to store or how much food you actually need in a day? Knowing how many calories you burn in a day will give you an idea of how many calories you should be eating, and/or storing as part of your emergency survival preparedness plan [...]
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Detroit Police: Enter At Your Own RiskPerhaps a sign of things to come in other major cities across the U.S. struggling with their own budgets. The cuts and austerity measures have apparently been so severe in Detroit that the city has been deemed unsafe for visitors… as warned by their own police department! The police themse ...
Fast Company
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Samsung and Spotify Duet With A New Smart TV AppSamsung and Spotify have partnered to bring Spotify's streaming service to European owners of Samsung Smart TV 2012 E Series sets. Support for other Samsung Smart TV models, Blu-ray players and home theater systems will come later this year. The deal puts Spotify, which will appear as a download ...
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To No One's Surprise, People Don't Like When F ...Facebook is cutting down on wall spam from certain Open Graph apps to help improve the quality of user experiences. Which is another way of saying that, to no one's surprise, people don't like when Facebook apps are murky about what information they're going to share with your friends, and when. ...
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Unboxing The Android iPhoneI purchased this device from a street vendor named Elan. It's identical to an iPhone 4, but it runs Android 2.2 and features dual SIM slots and an SDcard slot. It uses plastic where the real thing has metal and glass--but it’s otherwise an excellent simulacrum, even sporting a removable backplat ...
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Creators! Submit! Top Digital Comics Distribut ...DC. Marvel. You. Comixology, digital comics partner to the giants, wants your self-published creations.
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Want Me Get Me Gets You The VIP Treatment In A ...Everyone enjoys a little VIP status now and then, especially while on vacation. But when we head out for sunnier spaces, we also crave a bargain deal on a hotel room that's not next to the ice machine. Enter Want Me Get Me, a new hotel booking site that treats members to VIP status at boutique a ...
Jadaliyya
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Badr Shakir Essayyab: A Profile from the Archives[”A Profile from the Archives“ is a new series published by Jadaliyya in both Arabic and English in cooperation with the Lebanese newspaper, Assafir. These profiles will feature iconic figures who left indelible marks in the politics and culture of the Middle East and North A ...
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Unionizing in Lebanon: The Struggle is ElsewhereLast month saw the successful founding of an independent workers’ union emerge out of the Lebanese private sector. Yet there has been little social media fanfare outside Lebanon over this success … perhaps not surprisingly. Class struggle in contemporary Lebanon has rarely captured the im ...
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Syria Media Roundup (October 11)[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
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Queers Resisting Zionism: On Authority and Acc ...[This article was written as a response to a recently published article by Maya Mikdashi and Jasbir Puar on the intersections and impasses between US centered pinkwashing and pinkwatching activism. Click here to read Mikdashi and Puar's rejoinder to this response. Clear her ...
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On Positionality and Not Naming Names: A Rejoi ...[This article was written as a rejoinder to Haneen Maikey and Heike Schotten's response to the authors' article on the intersections and impasses between US centered pinkwashing and pinkwatching activism. Click here to read Maikey and Schotten's response, and click ...
mediagazer
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From Digital Sweatshop To Perk Palace: Why Gaw ...Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: From Digital Sweatshop To Perk Palace: Why Gawker's Nick Denton Started Spoiling His Staff — Gawker Media owner Nick Denton cultivates a reputation for being slightly evil. That image would suffer if the world knew just how, well, nice he's been ...
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Digital Ad Report Finds Big Growth in Mobile ( ...Tanzina Vega / Media Decoder: Digital Ad Report Finds Big Growth in Mobile — Mobile continues to be a sweet spot for digital advertising according to a report issued by the Interactive Advertising Bureau on Thursday. For the first half of 2012, revenue in the category in ...
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The one person 'Times' public editor didn't ca ...Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: The one person ‘Times’ public editor didn't call about Andrew Goldman controversy: Andrew Goldman — After a Twitter fight earlier this week between New York Times Magazine columnist Andrew Goldman and several other writers and editors ...
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Business Matters: The Truth About Pandora's Pa ...Glenn Peoples / Billboard: Business Matters: The Truth About Pandora's Payments to Artists — Pandora mounted an effective publicity campaign Tuesday by revealing the amounts of royalties some artists' songs generate on its service (as opposed to how much money those artists ar ...
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Look for New York Times labor deal by early No ...Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: Look for New York Times labor deal by early November, if at all — If the mediation process between the New York Times management and Guild is going to produce a deal, it will probably come within the next month, Guild President Bill O'Meara said in an ...
Chemtrail News
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CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
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Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
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10 mile long chemtrail 1 Videoprobably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
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ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
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Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTubeChemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU
World News - Top Stories
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'Bicycles for girls' scheme yet to take o ...PUNE: The Pune Zilla Parishad's ambitious scheme to provide bicycles to the girls of standard V is yet take off with just one month left for end of first semester. The officials in the...
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Citizens group demands more water for cit ...PUNE: Sajag Nagarik Manch a citizens group has demanded that the city should get at least 1.25 TMC water per month. The group has written a letter to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and demanded that it should make arrangements to...
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Consumer choice to rule property, casualt ...PUNE: Property and casualty (P&C) and life insurers will face a very different market during the next 10 years as shifting market conditions bring new rules for competition, according to technology research company...
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RBI reference rate for US dollar, euro October 11: The Reserve Bank on Thursday fixed the reference rate of the rupee for the US dollar at 53.0730 and the Euro at 68.2365 as against 53.0445 a Dollar and 68.2100 a Euro as on Wednesday. In a press release issued by RBI, the exchange rates for the pound and yen against the rupee wer ...
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Symbiosis Open Education Society's New ca ...PUNE: The Symbiosis Open Education Society's (SOES) newly developed campus skill development institute and community college at Paud village in Mulshi taluka, 17 km from Pune, will go functional from October 16. The campus will offer vocational and skill development courses custom-ised to th ...
no frakking consensus
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How Science (Really) WorksA new report argues that alternative perspectives are vital to the scientific process. Expecting dispassion from individual researchers is probably a lost cause.
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Another False Alarm – ‘The Dying o ...A 17-year-old book about the state of America's forests is similar to current books about climate change. Its analysis and predictions were wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Your Future, Courtesy of Climate ActivistsThe head of research at a prominent UK climate facility believes that those of us who use refrigerators and drive cars will need to be coerced into altering our lifestyles.
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The Anti-Free-Speech BrigadeLast week 18,000 people signed a petition demanding that a publicly-funded television station 'never again' report on a particular point-of-view.
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Calgary, Here I ComeI'll be speaking in Calgary on Wed., October 17th at the Friends of Science annual luncheon. The scientific method needs all the friends - and defenders - we can muster.
Anna's News
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10 Best British Open PerformancesRory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Tiny snails survive digestion by birdsSnails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World |& ...
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South Sudan becomes an independent nationSouth Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all FaithHaji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
Medical Marijuana
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10/11/12 - 174 Books Citing ProCon.orgwww.procon.org - - 174 Books Citing ProCon.org - We've added 16 new books to the list of works citing ProCon.org research, including books about the Middle East, bioethics, criminal law, and even the death of Bruce Lee.
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10/11/12 - Should the United States intervene ...2012election.procon.org - Should the United States intervene militarily in Syria? – Johnson and Stein are Con. Goode, Obama, and Romney are Not Clearly Pro or Con.
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10/11/12 - Should churches (defined as churche ...2012election.procon.org - Should churches (defined as churches, temples, mosques, synagogues, etc.) remain tax-exempt? – Johnson is Con. Stein is Not Clearly Pro or Con.
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10/11/12 - Should Medicare be amended to inclu ...2012election.procon.org - Should Medicare be amended to include a voucher system for health care? – Goode, Johnson, Obama, and Stein are Con. Romney is Pro.
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10/11/12 - Should voters be required to show p ...2012election.procon.org - Should voters be required to show photo identification in order to vote? – Johnson, Obama, and Stein are Con. Romney is Pro.
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
- Trudell Documentary
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- The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
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Gyrovague's Raves
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The Killing of the Liberal ArtsJOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
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Tyrants and ArtCulture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
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Barthes in ChinaAdrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
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Tokyo’s KatsumiJapan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
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Violence as a way of lifeHumanity has hardly produced a more destructive version of itself than the new breed of terrorists, who are convinced that they have been chosen to show mankind the way to utopia. Helene Lööw The scenes and testimonies of the disaster in Norway make it difficult to justify. Pictures of children ...
In Verbena | Royal Society
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Looking forward to a Labour science policyEd Miliband certainly stirred his troops in to a frenzy of enthusiasm last Tuesday in Manchester. Labour party conference last week was quite different to my first visit to party conference world last year; the party in opposition seemed to me to be confident and business-like. At many events we ...
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We need to talk about populationAfter working on the Royal Society’s People and the planet report for almost 2 years, and after attending a number of party conferences, it seemed only natural to me that this year we might have an event at the party conferences on the topic of our report. It seemed particularly relevant given t ...
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Brighton rock and cupcake campaigningStrolling along the Brighton seafront in neon FRACK OR NOT? t-shirts, my colleague and I drew the attention of a local member of Frack Off, an organisation campaigning against shale gas extraction in the UK. Our seaside location was on account of the Liberal Democrats’ annual party conference. A ...
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An ecosystems approach: the holy grail for inn ...From Monday 24 September 2012 Yesterday evening I attended the Big Innovation Centre’s Lib Dem Fringe event: It’s innovation stupid: Is the strategy for growth working? This was by far the liveliest event I’ve attended during the Lib Dem conference so far. Although Will Hutton only used the F wo ...
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Lib Dems pass motion for sensible vs stop-star ...From Monday 24 September 2012 I’m new to party conferences, but I felt remarkably at home during Julian Huppert’s policy motion: Developing a future – policies for science and research. The science-savvy Lib Dems, voted unanimously to pass a motion (available here) for a ring-fenced science budg ...
NAU Resistance
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End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
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Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ..."On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
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The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ..."Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
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Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase OneWe knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
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Paving The Way For A North American UnionBy: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
Gaea Times
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Now, hairbrush that reads your mindWASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
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Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
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Ava Sambora Walks The Runwaymore images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
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Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnsonmore images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
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VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road aheadAYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...
TruthNews Australia
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A journey into Truth In tonight's show we plunge into the deeply confusing realm of philosophy with the objective of understanding the nature of truth itself. In philosophy this type of investigation is sometimes called Epistemology, or the study of knowledge. During the show we look at 2 major philosophical debat ...
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Thugs have threatened to shut down TNRA - we m ...Some of the fanatical chemtrail believers are posting threats on this website, eg: Hereward as a computer whatever I hope you know about zombie trojans and how to check for them. Buckle up boys the ride is about to get bumpy These threats are of course pathetic and indicative of a major ...
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Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...
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Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 1My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is activist and vlogger Mimi Al-Laham, better known as "Syrian Girl" on youtube. Mimi has been posting videos for some time highlighting the deceptions in the mainstream media coverage of the Syrian conflict. Our conversation ranges from questions about ...
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International news and analysis with George Ge ...Today's show covers a variety of both local and international news with our in-studio guest Georgios. Some of the topics covered include developments in the Assange stand-off in London, and a final ruling in the protracted civil lawsuit over the death in Gaza of activist Rachel Corrie. We al ...
Beacon
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Help Stop the Assault on Whales and Dolphins W ...©Oceana Editor’s note: This blog by actress and environmentalist Victoria Principal was originally posted at NRDC’s OnEarth blog. I’ve been fascinated with marine life like whales and dolphins since I was a kid. Their grace and power, their beauty and intelligence, their joy and their song ...
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European Deep-sea Fisheries at RiskDeep-sea fisheries: Exploiting the most vulnerable species from Oceana on Vimeo. Today the European Commission proposed new catch limits for 2013 and 2014 that will allow fishermen to exploit some little-known but important deep-sea fishes against the advice of scientists. As this video of the ...
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Infographic: Seismic Airgun TestingThe Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal to search for oil and gas in vast swath of the Atlantic Ocean from Delaware to Florida with seismic airguns, an activity that, by the Department's own estimate, will injure 138,500 dolphins and whales, including the critically enda ...
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Endangered Sea Turtles Face Increased ThreatsEndangered loggerheads will be subject to 100% higher catch ©Oceana After a victory for Pacific sea turtles last week, here’s some not so good news. Two endangered species of sea turtle are facing an increased threat after the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) approved a plan al ...
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Oceana Gears up for Offshore Wind Power ConferenceOceana is a proud event partner of the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Offshore WindPower Conference, which will be held next week, October 9 – 11, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I will be attending the conference, along with our very own Matt Huelsenbeck and Leah Scull, to raise the p ...
Civilian Military Intelligence Group
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Vintage Ammunition Packaging.Source: http://accidentalmysteries.blogspot.com/
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The Platt LePage XR-1. The US Air Force’ ...The Platt LePage XR-1 was the winner of a design competition for a contract for the United States Air Force. This was the very first helicopter flown by the USAF, actually the USAAF. The prototype here flew in 1941 and was retired from flight testing in 1945. Malfunctions, a test f ...
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Military Anecdote Of The Day. The Abolitionist ...Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher was a firebrand abolitionist and provocateur. On a trip to England in an attempt to rally British support for the Northern cause, Beecher ran into hecklers. The British were probably enjoying the schadenfreude when the rebellious “colonies” ...
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Erich Von Manstein Thought Hitler Was An Idiot.Erich Von Manstein He was born Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski, the tenth son of a Prussian Plutocrat. His mother’s younger sister and her husband Lieutenant General Georg von Manstein were unable to produce children and so they adopted Erich. He had biological and adoptive parents ...
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Irena Sendler Secretly Spirited 2500 Jewish Ch ...Irena Sendler She hid Jewish children in coffins and shipped them away from the Nazi occupied portions of Poland where Jewish children were targets of opportunity. She and her organization Zegota would convince Jewish parents walled up in the Warsaw Ghetto to let her remove the chi ...
Taylor Marsh
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CBPP: Bush Policies Driving Large Deficits and ...The deficit for fiscal year 2009 — which began more than three months before President Obama’s inauguration — was $1.4 trillion and, at 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the largest deficit relative to the economy since the end of World War II. – Center on Budget and Policy Prior ...
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It’s Pollmania and It Remains Advantage ObamaThe Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook IT’S THE poll avalanche. Not my favorite thing, but it’s all the news while we wait for Biden versus Ryan tonight. And despite the flop sweat from Democrats ...
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Freak Out Over Lena Dunham’s $3.7 Million Book ...THE CATERWAULING is epic. It’s also highly revealing. Kudos to Dunham, who wouldn’t be coming under this scrutiny if she weren’t 20-something. This is ageism, splashed with Who Does This GIRL Think She Is? Even if they do break even or if somehow every single person who watched ...
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Paul Ryan has “No Concerns” About Martha Radda ...THE RIGHT wing Daily Caller reported Wednesday that Martha Raddatz, who will moderate tonight’s vice presidential debate, had Barack Obama as guest at her wedding in 1991. Raddatz’s husband was a classmate of Obama at Harvard Law School. Julius Genachowski was later to head the Feder ...
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Darrell Issa’s Benghazi Circus – Wrap Up [AEI ...The purpose of Wednesday’s hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee was to examine security lapses that led to the killing in Benghazi last month of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others. But in doing so, the lawmakers reminded us why “congressional intelligence” is an ox ...
Hudson New York
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The Qatari Takeover of FranceQatar announced last February, when Nicolas Sarkozy was still the President of France, that it was willing to invest €50 million ($65 million) in the French banlieues, the suburbs which are home to the vast majority of the six million Muslim immigrants
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Abbas's Plan to Steal Local ElectionsAfter repeated delays, Palestinians in the West Bank are scheduled to hold local elections on October 20 for 245 village councils and 98 municipalities. In recent weeks, the Fatah leadership has been working hard to ensure that its candidates win the
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Honoring an anti-Semite?At a time of increasing anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, it is deeply disturbing that the city of Clifton, N.J., — in the shadows of New York City — is considering naming a park after a virulent anti-Semite and racist named Chester Grabowski,
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Germany: Co-ed Swimming in CourtA German court has refused to allow a Muslim student to skip co-ed swimming lessons based on her religious beliefs. The case is an example of the growing number of conflicts between German school officials and Muslim parents who want to keep their
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Is the Response to Totalitarianism More Totali ...The competition may be pretty intense, but if I were asked to name the single worst idea in the twentieth century it would be the one adopted by people who believed that the response to totalitarianism was totalitarianism. The twentieth century is
Urban Survival
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The Pain in Spain……which is nearly down the drain: We notice that the ratings of Spain have been whacked again. This time down to near junk level. All of which will increase the demands that Madrid accept a bailout, which would be fine … Continue reading →
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Coping: When Government Has No AnswersA number of people have sent me links to the report on a recent sinkhole meeting where dire words like “We can’t tell you how we’re going to stop crude oil” from coming to the surface has been a major … Continue reading →
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Four Weeks to GoMy consigliore (go see The Godfather, it’ll make sense) who has the misfortune to live in a swing state to whine about being subjected to more than 7,000 presidential wannabe ads in the past month on the lardovision set. Not … Continue reading →
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Coping: Technologies Pushing the EnvelopeI’ve been involved in electric vehicles, peripherally, since 1999 when I was part of a team doing battery instrument for the HEV Challenge done by Argonne National Labs. What was apparent back then was that while electric vehicles are find … Continue reading →
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Suckonomics 101Where were we prior to the weekend? Oh yes.. Here’s what wrote a reader Friday after the employment miracle: “Take the number of people Employed on this page here – which is 873(000) and divide it by three. Answer: 291(000). … Continue readin ...
Trends & Forecasts
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Megacatastrophes : 9 Strange Ways The World Co ...Megacatastrophes - Coast to Coast AM : What would... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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The Lobbyist run the politics in AmericaThe Lobbyist run the politics in America and they... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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The End of the Petrodollar Means The End of Am ...The Petrodollar is really the only thing we have... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Max Keiser on a Crusade against The BankersOur monetary system is based on credit or debt,... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Mike Rivero ~ We Are on the Verge of a Global ...It is all a religion says Mike Rivero , economics... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
Radical Chic
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NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLANDOnce you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
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AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
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AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
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RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
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FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
Boston Blog ( Nature Network)
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Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
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Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
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New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
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BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
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Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells outMost of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
NRDC Switchboard
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Extreme Weather and Climate Change: North Amer ...Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York Today, the world’s largest reinsurance company released a report stating the number of weather catastrophes has risen dramatically across the globe since 1980. “North America is th ...
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Portion-mania: problematic for waists and wast ...Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco McDonald’s has a pretty unsavory reputation when it comes to public health. Lately the company has taken some steps to improve their image, launching vegetarian restaurants i ...
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Water World: Surfing and Climate ChangeDylan Gasperik, Program Assistant, Communications, Santa Monica, California Surfline.com is the definitive surfer’s almanac, and with the fall mixed-swell season upon us in Southern California, I have been a frequent visitor. Chris Borg, Sur ...
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A Good Fight for a Good Whale: Ban Seismic Tes ...Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco Each year, as the summer draws to a close, the North Atlantic right whales begin their incredible journey southward. For millions of years, these graceful giants have called the North Atlantic thei ...
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California Climate Program Ready to RollAnnie Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, San Francisco office and Sacramento Next month California’s landmark climate program is set to take another big step with the launch of its first auction. It’s time for indu ...
Injustice Everywhere
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, October 10, 2012: Lexington, South Carolina: A deputy has been arrested and charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature. ow.ly/eoML8 Lafayette, Tennessee: The former police … Continue reading  ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 6 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, October 9th, 2012: Burke County, North Carolina: A sheriff’s deputy was charged with exchanging a schedule III controlled substance for sexual favors. He was terminated from the department. bit.ly/T1WDly … Continue read ...
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‘Nobody wants to hear the truth’For more background, go here, here and here.‘Nobody wants to hear the truth’ is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, October 6th to Monday, October 8th, 2012: New York, New York: An unarmed Army National Guardsman was pulled over on a highway and shot to death by an officer. … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Da ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, October 5, 2012 Boynton Beach, Florida: A man and his mother have filed suit for alleged false arrest. They were arrested while sitting in the man’s car in front … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsF ...
Total Collapse
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October surprise: US and Israel prepare to str ...The United States and Israel are already involved in discussions over how they could soon conduct a joint surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, a source close to the talks tells Foreign Policy magazine. After months of urging from Israeli authorities for the US to intervene in a rumored ...
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US sources: US, Israel plan October Surprise. ...Four facts deserve attention with regard to a potential attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The first is that the Iranian-Israeli war is already at hand. Iran launched it by sending an unmanned drone into Israeli air space Saturday, Oct. 6, breaking new ground in belligerence with a cyber attac ...
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Children born to parents who eat GM wheat may ...Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism that some scientists are now saying could cause serious problems for the human ...
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U.S. Says Disputed Islands Covered by Japan De ...U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said islands at the heart of a dispute between Japan and China fall under an American defense pact with Japan, while urging the sides to resolve the standoff via diplomacy. “We want to focus more on issues associated with the maintenance of peace a ...
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France to close embassies, schools in 20 count ...France said it would temporarily close its embassies and schools in 20 countries Friday after a satirical magazine in Paris published insulting cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, a move it fears will add “fuel to the fire” of global tensions over an anti-Islam film. The French government, ...
Daily Dose
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The Next Web’s Daily Dose: Security patc ...Mozilla patches security flaws in Firefox, Google shows love to India, Twitter heads to South Korea and green pigs release a cook book. All this and more in the Daily...
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The Next Web’s Daily Dose: Office for An ...Malware infects a large percentage of computers owned by folks trying to get software for free, Verizon smartphone owners need to opt out of data collection, Office 2013 for iOS...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – YouTube expands its origina ...YouTube expands its investment into original content channels to Europe, Deezer confirms big-money investment, and (years after it was first uploaded) the viral video hit ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ is...
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple remembers Jobs, ...Today on the Daily Dose: Apple marks one year since co-founder Steve Jobs died, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg writes a book and Rovio feels the force. You can catch The Daily...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook hits 1bn use ...Facebook is now serving one billion active users per month, Google brings Street View to the browser in iOS, and LinkedIn rolls out redesigned company pages to all. It’s all...
Beyond Zero Emissions
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Climate Positive supports Repower Port Augusta ...Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to announce that a significant donation from environmental non-governmental organisation Climate Positive will boost the campaign for baseload solar-thermal power for South Australia. Climate Positive is a leader in climate protection and works with Austral ...
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BZE submission to the National Food Plan now a ...To download the full submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the link and "save link as" to save the file onto your computer) Climate change has ...
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Biogas no saviour for Sydney's beleaguered tri ...The City of Sydney is planning to roll out gas burners within the city limits for a regional electricity and heating/cooling grid, powered by gas, known as “trigeneration”. When campaigners pointed out this rollout of gas generation would support the rapid development of the devastating coal se ...
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Mining energy efficiency in the homeBy Matthew Wright Before buying my first TV in 2008, I had heard horror stories of early 2000s plasma screens that guzzled as much as 500 watts when in use. I knew that typical 1980s or 1990s CRT sets only used about 80 watts when in use (and about 20 watts on standby). I didn’t find a TV tha ...
Monga Bay ( News )
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Cute animal picture of the day: baby walruses ...Two walrus male calves were discovered over the summer near Barrow, Alaska, dehydrated and ill, after their separate mothers perished. The calves have been receiving care at the Alaska SeaLife Center, but one will soon be moved to the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) New York Aquarium and t ...
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Endangered turtle urinates through its mouth One of China's most commonly farmed turtles for consumption, the Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis), has a unique ability: it urinates out of its mouth. Researchers in Singapore, writing in The Journal of Experimental Biology, have discovered that the Chinese soft-shelled turtle e ...
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Brazil forms special environmental security fo ...Brazil will set up a special environmental security force in an effort to stem rising deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, reports AFP.
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Dollar General drops APP due to rainforest des ...U.S. retailer Dollar General has stopped sourcing paper products from controversial brand Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), according to the World Wide Fund for Wildlife (WWF) which has targeted 20 companies for selling APP-sourced tissue and paper towels. APP has been under fire for years for deforest ...
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Over 70 percent of Americans: climate change w ...According to a new poll, 74 percent of Americans agree that climate change is impacting weather in the U.S., including 73 percent who agreed, strongly or somewhat, that climate change had exacerbated record high temperatures over the summer. The findings mean that a large majority of Americans a ...
Sierra Express
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Preview: Tunisia Vs Sierra LeoneTunisia’s Carthage Eagles will play host to the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone in an Africa Cup of Nations final round qualifying match at the 10,000 capacity Moustapha Ben Janette Stadium in Monastir at 19:15 local time (18:15 GMT) on Saturday October 12th. (Photo: Leone Stars players in training ...
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Will the Leone Stars qualification jinx end in ...Amidst the euphoria of the display of political party colours all over the country ahead of the November 17 coming elections, Sierra Leoneans will once again be unified in giving their traditional and adoring support to the national football team Leone Stars as it locks horns with the Carthage E ...
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On World Sight Day, MSD and Partners Mark 25 Y ...LONDON, United-Kingdom, October 11, 2012/ – Today on World Sight Day, 25 years after MSD (known as Merck in the U.S. and Canada) (http://www.msd.com) started the MECTIZAN® Donation Program (MDP), the company celebrates with partners important progress in the elimination of river blindness, ...
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Sierra Leoneans in Tunisia rally behind Leone ...Sierra Leoneans based in Tunisia, have told SWASAL about their plans to support Leone Stars in their crucial return leg encounter in the 2013 AFCON qualifier at the Mustapha Ben Jannet stadium in Monastir on Saturday. (Photo: Leone Stars training in Tunis, photo credit: Mohamed Fajah Barrie ) I ...
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The 11 rays of the sun seem to be shining in t ...It appeared subtle to many in the opposition camps that just the eve of President Koroma’s nomination procession at the country’s National Electoral Commission (NEC), scheduled for today has been gripped with the scorching heat of the sun rays as the new color of nationalism. It’s the new aura o ...
Dairy Industry - NZ Herald
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Stand-off over mutant calves not cooling downAn ongoing battle between farmers and a genetics company over a hairy mutation in calves could have been resolved by now with "a dose of pragmatism", says Federated Farmers. Around 900 farmers in the country have been affected after...
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Crafar furore showed NZ in bad light, says expatThe opposition towards the sale of the Crafar Farms to Chinese interests made New Zealand look "very bigoted" and should never be repeated, says Beijing-based Kiwi businessman David Mahon.Addressing the China Business Summit in...
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World dairy prices dip overnight (+graphic)World dairy prices have slipped overnight in the latest online dairy auction, with the benchmark GlobalDairyTrade TWI index down 0.9 per cent. It breaks a run of price increases seen in the past four auctions.Whole milk powder...
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Brian Rudman: Let's applaud canny migrant milk ...You have to feel sorry for our entrepreneur-minded migrants. We offer residency to moneyed migrants keen to set up businesses and contribute to New Zealand's economic development.But when they do just that, we are prone to pull...
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Daisy's modified milk proves divisiveAgResearch scientists have bred Daisy, the first cow in the world to produce high protein milk that may be hypo-allergenic.AgResearch scientists who may have produced a world-first in genetic modification - the possibility of hypo-allergenic...
Hit & Run | Reason
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If You Demand a Good, Progressive Commerce Cla ...I recently finished reading Smoke Signals, a new "social history of marijuana" by Martin A. Lee. By and large, it is what you would expect from the co-author of the fine LSD history Acid Dreams: engaging and full of interesting details, even for people familiar with the ...
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David Harsanyi on Democrats, the Real Tax Poli ...Last year, Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Senate's third-ranking Democrat, head of the Senate Finance Committee, accused Republicans of playing "slash-and-burn" politics, of "purposefully" undermining economic recovery while holding the American people hostage. This week, n ...
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Tim Cavanaugh Talking Romney Campaign on Istoo ...Reason.com Managing Editor Tim Cavanaugh is talking about the Romney Campaign with former Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Oklahoma) right now. At Istook Live! From the Heritage Foundation. You can listen live here. Sooners can listen to a recording of the show tonight on KP ...
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Global Temperature Trend Update: September 2012Every month University of Alabama in Huntsville climatologists John Christy and Roy Spencer report the latest global temperature trends from satellite data. Below are the newest data updated through September, 2012. Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decad ...
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Steve Chapman on Getting Shafted by the Electo ...Some 95 million people live in California, Texas, New York and Illinois -- nearly one out of every three Americans. But how many times has Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan or Joe Biden made a campaign appearance in any of them since the party conventions? Zero, or the same number ...
Mercury Rising
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A Pro-Obama video worth watchingIt’s fun and well-done. I sent it to a right-winger who keeps sending me shovelfuls of BS. Hopefully like garlic to a vampire.
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Now, that’s entertainment. Loy Mauch edi ...The cartoonist would seem to be this gentleman. He’s pretty good. Via Bartcop. Republicans get very defensive when people question whether some of their leaders might be racists, and generally try to turn the conversation to the late Robert Byrd. But of course the answer is that Robert Byr ...
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Now, that’s entertainment. Loy Mauch edi ...Republicans get very defensive when people question whether some of their leaders might be racists, and generally try to turn the conversation to the late Robert Byrd. But of course the answer is that Robert Byrd was born in 1917 and, at worst, voted to retain southerners’ exorbitant white ...
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Here’s Rob Zerban’s First TV AdRob Zerban’s giving zombie-eyed granny-starver Paul Ryan his first real challenge since Ryan won his congressional seat in the late 1990s. It’s so serious that Ryan, who up to now would debate any and all of his political opponents, won’t go near Zerban. It’s so serious t ...
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Here’s Rob Zerban’s First TV AdRob Zerban’s giving zombie-eyed granny-starver Paul Ryan his first real challenge since Ryan won his congressional seat in the late 1990s. It’s so serious that Ryan, who up to now would debate any and all of his political opponents, won’t go near Zerban. It’s so serious t ...
Reality Sandwich
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Blueprints of UtopiaIn reponse to the Canal Istanbul project, NYC based designer, Dror, created HavAdda Island, a cybernetic-eco island whose innovative design is breaking heads open by pushing the practices of urban planning and architecture to utopic limits. read more
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Psi in the NewsA neurosurgeon claims that heaven is real, Ke$ha says she slept with a ghost, Discovery Online's "Is ESP for real?" test, and a free remote viewing course in this edition of the Psi News Round-up. read more
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Desertification
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Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on BiodiversityThe United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars needed to implement the ‘Aichi targets,’ due to be met by 2020. “Decisions made here will lay th ...
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Donors Must Seize 2013 Opportunity in Sahel, U ...Reporting that the worst of the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa appears to have been averted, the United Nations’ top official on the area, David Gressley, warned on Wednesday that the potential passing of the immediate emergency should not divert international attention from what need ...
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Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food ...Humanity’s ability to feed itself is in serious doubt as climate change takes hold on land in the form of droughts and extreme weather, as well as on the world’s oceans. Less well known to many is the fact that emissions from burning oil, coal and gas are both heating up the oceans a ...
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Water for Phosphate, Not PeopleGafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis. “This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says Lakhdar Souid, coordinator of the Blue Plan for a Green Tunisia. “Gafsa (343 km south of capital Tuni ...
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Laissez-Faire Failing World’s Dwindling ...Growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the U.N. Security Council, a panel of experts said in a new report. However, that report ignores the biggest threat to water security: neoliberal policies of the free m ...
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Press TV - Middle East
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No suspicious item on Syria plane: Eng.An engineer says no suspicious items have been found onboard a Syria-bound passenger airplane grounded in Ankara yesterday, adding that the plane crew have been handcuffed by Turkish security forces, Press TV reports .
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Eight killed in attack on Syrian busAt least eight people have been killed and another eight wounded in an attack on a bus carrying civilians near the Syrian border with Lebanon, Press TV reports.
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1 killed in Turkish helicopter crashA Turkish military helicopter has crashed in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, killing one soldier and injuring seven others on board.
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Yemeni security official shot deadA Yemeni security official has been shot dead while on the way to the US embassy in the capital Sana'a, an official says.
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Syria halts power purchase from TurkeyTurkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz says Syria has stopped buying electricity from Turkey, amid tensions between the two neighboring countries.
CUNY SPS Community Blog
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Support SPS: Give the Gift of OpportunityDear SPS Community, As we inaugurate the 2012-13 academic year at the CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS), in addition to celebrating new beginnings, we are also very proud to mark the 10th anniversary of SPS. As a member of the SPS community, you are vital to our growth and success, and I ...
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The Final CountdownDoes anyone remember what the feeling is like when you are on your way to school and you realized that you forgot your homework assignment at home? I had that heavy pit in my stomach last night at practice. A fellow American Cancer Society DetermiNator reminded me that we have just 4 weeks left ...
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Alumna Linda Ames Key Receives Fulbright Speci ...The School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Linda Ames Key, a graduate of the School’s M.A. in Applied Theatre program, has been named a Fulbright Specialist. In 2011, while completing her M.A. in Applied Theatre degree at SPS, Ms. Key participated in the School’s Project Rw ...
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Beta Testing “In Your Class”SPS is participating in a CUNY pilot program this fall of the Beta version of In Your Class, a unique social networking service developed by CUNY students for CUNY students. The pilot launch date is today, September 20th, 2012. In Your Class connects students with their classmates, professors, a ...
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Getting to Know… Lisa PoelleLisa Poelle, faculty member for the Child Development Associate (CDA) program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, is author of the soon to be released book, The Biting Solution: The Expert’s No-Biting Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Early Childhood Educators. Lisa’s twenty-five years ...
Dissident Voice
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Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
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The Dawn of MedicareA highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
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Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
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Inflation of the University DegreeCatch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
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After The Fireworks Have FadedOn July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERNR ...
Destructionist
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
Wayne Madsen
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October 11-12, 2012 -- Clinton's saber rattlin ...Hillary Clinton: raking in the rupees.
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IPS - Inter Press Services
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New Threats, Same Old U.S. HegemonyAlthough it admits that it cannot be a long-term solution, Washington insists on strengthening the armed forces in Latin America, to confront “new threats,” including citizen insecurity. But activists argue that it is only another means of maintaining control over the region. The new U.S. milita ...
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U.N. Launches Global Campaign to Abolish Child ...The United Nations has launched a global campaign to abolish an anachronistic social practice still prevalent in some communities around the world: child marriages. “International conventions declare that child marriage is a violation of human rights because it denies girls the right to de ...
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Reduce Poverty in Africa – Educate a GirlWhile in the last decade an additional 52 million of sub-Saharan Africa’s children enrolled in primary schools, with girl’s enrolment increasing from 54 percent to 74 percent, a large majority of girls – 16 million – are still being denied access to education. This is according to a report ...
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Q&A: Tracing Hate Crimes to the Fear of the &# ...Becky Bergdahl interviews Political Scientist DONALD P. GREEN
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Q&A: “Cuba Needs to Be Bold and Creative”Patricia Grogg interviews RICARDO TORRES, an academic with the Centre for the Study of the Cuban Economy
My AntiWar
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Obama Announces Yet More Iran Sanctions on Nat ...Summary: President Obama has announced that he is imposing yet more sanctions against Iran?s economy. With their oil industry now under a virtual state of embargo, he is now moving against Iran?s natural gas exports, not a huge portion of their economy by any means. source: Antiwar.comread more
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
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NAM expresses support for global nuclear disar ...Summary: The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has highlighted the need for global nuclear disarmament, endorsing the rights of each state to develop peaceful nuclear energy. source: Press TVread more
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Why Target Iran?Summary: On the front page of a prominent newspaper the news is grim: a Middle Eastern country run by a ruthless dictatorial regime has been secretly developing “weapons of mass destruction.” While in public they deny it, in their underground labs their scientists are busy, cooking up a radio ...
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Obama's terrorist-list blunderSummary: The French diplomatic genius Charles Maurice de Talleyrand once said: "It was worse than a crime; it was a mistake." This is perhaps the best way to describe the US State Department's recent decision to take the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) off its notorious list of 52 foreign terrorist ...
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Iran Offers 9 Point Plan to end Nuclear Crisis ...Summary: Iran has proposed a 9 step plan to end the crisis over its nuclear development. It requires an immediate cessation of all sanctions. From Sec'y of State Clinton, "The U.S. has no intentions of relaxing sanctions". So much for the latest offer from Iran. It has been portrayed as an ex ...
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UN Chief: Sanctions Mostly Harming Iran’s Civi ...Summary: In a report to the General Assembly today, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon cautioned that the growing sanctions against Iran are primarily hitting the nation’s civilians, driving up unemployment rates and leaving medicine in short supply for average Iranians. source: antiwar.comr ...
The Daily Galaxy
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New Math Breakthrough Points to Travel Beyond ...Einstein’s theory holds that nothing could move faster than the speed of light, but Professor Jim Hill and Dr Barry Cox at the University of Adelaide's School of Mathematical Sciences have developed new formulas that allow for travel beyond this...
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Exo-Planet Discovered With Chemistry Vastly Di ...New research led by Yale University scientists suggests that a rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. "This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth," said...
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Strange New Spiral Structure Discovered Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a totally unexpected spiral structure in the material around the old star R Sculptoris. This is the first time that such a structure, along with an outer spherical shell, has...
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The 'Daily Galaxy' Twitter Followers Soar Abov ...Join the 223,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations such as NASA,...
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Alien State of Matter Found at Neutron Star Co ...Evidence for a bizarre state of matter was identified in the dense core of an extinct star, a so-called neutron star, based on cooling observed over a decade of Chandra observations. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first direct evidence...
Natural News
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Western vs. alternative medicineToday, most people who visit a doctor's office don't give any thought to the type of doctor that they're going to see. The traditionally trained doctor in the U.S. is trained one way whereas holistic doctors, also known as natural medicine practitioners, are trained...
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Bombshell: mind-control engineers are drugging ...It's the latest thing. Psychiatrists are now giving children in poor neighborhoods Adderall, a dangerous stimulant, by making false diagnoses of ADHD, or no diagnoses at all. Their aim? To "promote social justice," to improve academic performance in school. The rationale...
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Should Alzheimer's patients give Ginkgo a try?Ginkgo biloba is an herb that has been used for thousands of years for various treatments. Studies have recently focused on the leaf's memory-enhancing effects for the treatment of Alzheimer's, although there have been conflicting results. The National Institute on...
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Chemtrails used for corporate profits, weapons ...On the surface, weather control (manipulation) appears to be a good idea - except for one thing - it's really quite deadly! Why would anyone (in their right mind) think that spraying toxic chemicals (chemtrails) - into our atmosphere - is a good idea? So, the question...
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Detroit police declare city to be 'war zone' u ...The once-great city of Detroit is continuing to self-implode, a victim of decades of gross mismanagement that borders on the criminal. The latest sign that this former automobile manufacturing capital of the world is headed for the metropolitan dustbin of history...
Threat Level
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WikiLeaks Goes Behind Paywall, Anonymous Cries ...Secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has moved millions of documents behind a paywall, prompting blowback from elements of an underground ally, the hacking group Anonymous, including one well-known member to conclude that it “cannot support anymore what WikiLeaks has become.” Upon clicking ...
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New Election System Promises to Help Catch Vot ...A new election system being used in next month's presidential elections in Florida promises to give election officials the ability to independently and swiftly audit the performance of their optical-scan voting machines.
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Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in B ...A federal judge on Wednesday said universities had a fair-use defense to charges of copyright infringement when they systematically pooled millions of books they had digitized without permission from rights holders.
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Supreme Court to Rule on Patents for Self-Repl ...The Supreme Court is agreeing to decide a case begging the question of how far down the stream of commerce -- in this instance the farming cycle -- can a company control its patents, especially for products like weed-resistant soybeans ...
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Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electroni ...The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's bid to hold the nation's telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency a backdoor to eavesdrop on Americans' electronic communications without warrants.
PERRspectives : Blog
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Romney Lies About Anti-Abortion Bills He BacksMitt Romney's history on abortion reads like the Kama Sutra: it contains almost every position imaginable. Now, the man GOP strategist and former Romney adviser Michael Murphy in 2005 called "a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly" is at it again. In a meeting with the Des Moines ...
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Cowardice is a Virtue and the Strategy for Rom ...You can't hit what you can't see. That in a nutshell has been Mitt Romney's campaign strategy for months. From his mysterious tax returns and erased Massachusetts records to his shifting immigration stands, AWOL strategy for Afghanistan and so much more, Team Mitt long ago decided that discre ...
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Romney Endorses Middle East Peace Process He M ...In his latest October surprise, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney used a major foreign address Monday to declare he would provide renewed leadership for the Middle East process. But if that wasn't surprise enough, his new-found support for a Palestinian state was truly jaw-dropping. ...
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Romney Tax Plan Would Crush Charitable GivingOn the eve of last week's presidential debate, Republican Mitt Romney floated a trial balloon to deflect public attention from his detail-free tax plan certain to give a massive windfall for the wealthy, burden middle class taxpayers and balloon the national debt. But largely overlooked in his ...
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The BLS Jobs Numbers the GOP Won't Talk AboutRepublicans and their media water-carriers are apoplectic about Friday's report showing the unemployment rate dipped to 7.8 percent in September as the U.S. economy added 114,000 new jobs. But while many conservatives have been quick to follow in Richard Nixon's footsteps in accusing the career ...
Blackspot News Feed
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"Earthship Biotecture": Renegade New Mexico Ar ...New Mexico residents are trying to a break free from Los Alamos' nuclear legacy by creating more environmentally sound ways of living. At the forefront of this struggle is renegade architect Michael Reynolds, creator of radically sustainable living options through a process called "Earthship Bio ...
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After Decades of Uranium Mining, Navajo Nation ...New Mexico's long history of uranium mining on Native American lands provides fuel for the front end of the nuclear industry and stores much of the mine tailings and radioactive waste from nuclear weapons and power plants. We look at the devastating impact uranium mining continues to have on Nat ...
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Birthplace of Atomic Bomb, New Mexico Remains ...In this special broadcast from just outside Los Alamos National Laboratory, we look at the radioactive legacy of New Mexico. The atomic bombs used in World War II were designed and developed here, and the state still plays a key role in maintaining the nation's massive nuclear arsenal. We're joi ...
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Neo-Liberal Capitalists Strengthen Control of ...Minqi Li: Recent struggle in the leadership has been a decisive defeat for forces pushing for more income distribution and social reform
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Sanctions Against Iranian Banks is Economic Wa ...Phyllis Bennis: Excluding Iranian banks from the SWIFT system of interbank transfers helped cause a devaluation of Iranian currency and great hardship for ordinary people
Consortium News
- Romney’s Middle East Militancy
- Romney Tests the Limits on Lying
- Romney’s Incoherent Foreign Policy
- The Neocons’ Waiting Game
- How Petraeus’s Afghan ‘Surge’ Failed
TruthOut
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Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
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News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
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In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)read more
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Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
Planetsave
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Guns: The CartoonA rare cartoon that does not cover an environmental topic. However, my concern with gun control and safety runs parallel with my environmental concerns. Simply, other people should not be making huge decisions that grow their bottom line while putting the masses at risk. Like the many agri-chemi ...
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Transcanada Seizes A Grandmother On Her Own Pr ...The Canadian fossil fuel giant Transcanada (net earnings 2011: $1.5 billion) is encountering increased resistance from the “Tar Sands Blockade” in eastern Texas — now in its 18th day of an extensively constructed “tree sit-in.” And it is employing increasingl ...
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Do the Washing, Eradicate Pollution!Mitigating the tonnes of pollution that are being swept into the atmosphere every day is a big part of environmental research these days, and researchers from the University of Sheffield and the London College of Fashion have managed to come up with the coolest method of contributing to the remo ...
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Carbon Nanotubes Inscribed On Surfaces By ‘Wri ...Carbon nanotubes can provide a very useful function as a new way to detect harmful gases that are present in the air. But, currently, the methods that are used to build carbon nanotube sensors involve hazardous materials and aren’t really suited for production on a large-scale. But ...
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Ancient Spider-Eating Wasp Preserved In Amber, ...A spider moving in to kill a wasp, a 100-million-year-old scene preserved in time by amber. The only fossil ever found of a spider attacking prey caught in its web was recently discovered by researchers, the frozen actions of the combatants date back over a 100 million-years. This really ...
Water Quality - WordPress
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Surry River pollution discharge haltedA discharge of effluent into a Surrey river which killed more than 100 fish has been stopped, accord
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Floating Gardens Update: A Grass Grows in GowanusThis morning, we stopped by the Salt Lot to check on the Floating Gardens projects that were launche
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Off-Channel Habitat Success...The Habitat Restoration Project on Stoney Creek, Burnaby BC is nearing completion. Check out Les
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Lepore is too good to be trueLepore lays out his view of COGCC’s mission New director chats with industry critics at EAB me
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Squeezing more water out of every glassECOS Magazine 06 September 2012 Improving the productivity and value of existing water supplies – wh
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
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Overview: The Bubble and Beyond by Michael Hudsonby Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com August 10, 2012 Image by
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The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al ...by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org August 11, 2012 Image by jennzeb
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Chris Hedges: When Empires Emplode + Update on ...Image by World Can’t Wait via Flickr with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August
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Cindy Sheehan: Nobody Wants Their Children To ...with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soap
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The Future Does Not Look Good for Iran by Mich ...Image by Shreyans Bhansali via Flickr by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Par
Axis of Logic
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ..."The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
They Gave Us a Republic
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Obama Must Expose Romney in Next DebateBy @TedFrier Before I comment on the excellent column below by Newsweek consulting editor Richard Just on last week's debate, let me just a few words about that contest. The first is that we live in a society that rewards aggression (so long as it does not morph into hysteria) and so for that re ...
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Only Jobless Rate Romney Ever Reduced Was The ...News came out Friday that the U.S. unemployment rate, as measured by nonpartisan sources, had fallen from 8.1% to 7.8%, a 44-month low, with the main reason being people moving into new jobs. No sooner had the news been announced than right-wing Republicans were up to their usual bilge. Most not ...
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Akin's Gag
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Teresa Hensley (D): retail politics in Missour ...The 4th Congressional District spans twenty-five counties from central to west central Missouri. Campaigning in a district with this expanse, in addition to the paid media and mail, can also entail quite a bit of retail politicking. Today we took the opportunity to accompany Cass County Prosecut ...
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Whiny Little CrybabiesBy @TomBales1 I don't get to buy many books these days but I think I'm going to get this one. Just got done reading a teaser for a book by Thomas Frank Called "Billionaires Are The Victims" in which he chronicles the Republican strategy of "victimhood". This is their ultimate fallba ...
Care 2
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'Stranded' goat evades rescuers after three-ho ...A search and rescue team in West Yorkshire were called to rescue a goat after it had apparently become stranded on a rocky ledge, but after three hours of trying to free the animal, the goat simply jumped to safety without any help. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat | Not ...
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West African seahorse filmed for first timeThe little-known but vibrantly coloured West African seahorse was spotted off the coast of Senegal. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Tell Alabama's Governor and Senate President: ...In Alabama, the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners will rule on October 10 at 2 p.m. on its plan to shut down non-profit spay/neuter clinics that serve caregivers and animal rescue groups. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Co ...
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David Siegel Email To Workers Threatens Layoff ...David Siegel, the founder and CEO of giant timeshare company Westgate resorts, sent an opus-like email to his workers, railing against one-percent bashing and arguing that the presidents reelection would threaten your job. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture | Note ...
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Burger King: Stop Tortu ...A breaking Mercy For Animals investigation reveals sadistic animal torture at Bettencourt Dairiesa Burger King supplier. The investigation has already led to three workers, including a manager of the dairy, being charged with criminal cruelty to animals. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals & ...
Smirking Chimp
- Is This Why Romney Won't Talk To Sensata Worke ...
- What to Watch for As Joe Biden and Paul Ryan S ...
- Sheldon Adelson Obliterates Democracy at Home ...
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- Mitt’s Advisors: He Has No Clue on Foreign Policy
Paul Krugman
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The IMF and the GOPEven more wrong that we thought.
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Deleveraging Shocks and the Multiplier (Sort o ...This situation is different, and predictably so.
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A Tragic VindicationContractionary policy is contractionary.
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The 30-second RuleWhen do falsehoods matter?
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Fact-checking Financial RecessionsA garden-variety severe financial crisis.
No Quarter
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What Hillary Should Say and Do, IMOSecretary of State Hillary Clinton announced last year that she would resign her office at the end of Barack Obama’s first term as president, probably mindful that it was likely to be his ONLY term as president. Unfortunately, recent developments in Libya and other hot spots have created specula ...
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Obama’s Libyan Lies Taking TollObama arrogantly assumed he had a cake walk when it came to foreign policy. With Bin Laden’s scalp hanging from his belt, Barack and his advisors were confident they could reverse the tradition of Democrats being portrayed in national campaigns as weak-assed surrender monkeys. That strateg ...
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Lara Logan on Libya * Open ThreadLara Logan: “This Is Terrorism” and “Our Way of Life is Under Attack” With developments in the Middle East and surrounding region very fluid and a Presidential debate focused on foreign policy on the horizon, I urge you to view this exceptionally chilling clip in which CBS News Lara Logan lays o ...
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Live Blog C-SPAN Noon ET * House Oversight Hea ...From my post, “Obama White House in Meltdown over Benghazi (UPDATE)“: “TODAY’s hearing on murder of four American “diplomats” at the hands of Al Qaeda linked terrorists on the 11th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks will put the final nails in the coffin carrying ...
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Obama White House in Meltdown over BenghaziTomorrow’s hearing on murder of four American “diplomats” at the hands of Al Qaeda linked terrorists on the 11th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks will put the final nails in the coffin carrying the political corpse of Barack Obama. His Presidency is dead, done and finished. We h ...
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
Therapy News
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Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
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Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
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GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational ThoughtsNovember 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
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Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
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Three Steps for Dealing with Panic AttacksPanic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...
Mountaintop Removal
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3 environmental groups fight permit issued to ...3 environmental groups fight permit issued to mountaintop removal mine in East ... The Republic KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Three environmental groups are challenging a state permit for a mountaintop removal mining operation in East Tennessee. The Sierra Club, Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerme ...
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He Battled To Save The Mountains - West Virgin ...He Battled To Save The Mountains West Virginia MetroNews He was small in stature but played a big role in the mountaintop removal mining debate. The late Larry Gibson will be honored this weekend during a celebration of his life and legacy. Gibson passed away last month. He was working on his fa ...
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Patriot, Environmentalists Face Off Over Pollu ...Patriot, Environmentalists Face Off Over Pollution Deadlines Businessweek The groups have been sparring with Patriot for more than five years over groundwater pollution caused by the discharge of selenium at so-called mountaintop-removal mines. In 2010, a federal judge ordered Patriot to install ...
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Mountaintop Removal Linked to Heart Disease - ...Current TV Mountaintop Removal Linked to Heart Disease Current TV A published study by researchers at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and School of Public Health is the first of its kind to suggest that exposure to air pollution particles from mountaintop mining sites may impair ...
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West Virginia Mountaintop Removal: How Coal Mi ...West Virginia Mountaintop Removal: How Coal Mines Have Changed The ... Huffington Post Mountaintop removal mines in Appalachia have demolished an estimated 1.4 million acres of forested hills, buried an estimated 2,000 miles of streams, poisoned drinking water, and wiped whole towns from the map ...
Memeorandum
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Pro-Israel group airs ads against Baldwin (Mag ...Maggie Haberman / Politico: Pro-Israel group airs ads against Baldwin — The pro-Israel, conservative Emergency Committee for Israel is going up with a rough spot against Democratic Senate hopeful Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin. — The spot dubs her “extreme, ...
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18% Consider Vice Presidential Debate Very Imp ...Rasmussen Reports: 18% Consider Vice Presidential Debate Very Important To Their Vote — Voters are attaching less importance to tonight's vice presidential debate compared to the one four years ago but think Paul Ryan will do more in the debate to help his running mate than Jo ...
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Obama: Romney Now 'Severely Kidding' About Pas ...Talking Points Memo: Obama: Romney Now ‘Severely Kidding’ About Past Positions — In a notably sharper stump speech on Thursday, President Obama attacked Mitt Romney for his shifting positions on taxes, health care and education by using the Republican's own descrip ...
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Turkish Leader Says Russian Munitions Found on ...New York Times: Turkish Leader Says Russian Munitions Found on Syrian Jetliner — MOSCOW — Escalating a confrontation with Russia, Turkey's prime minister said Thursday that Russian military equipment and ammunition bound for Syria's Defense Ministry had been confiscated ...
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Breaking News: Sixth Circuit Decides Provision ...Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog: Breaking News: Sixth Circuit Decides Provisional Ballot Cases, Finds Constitutional Violation in Not Counting Certain Wrong Precinct Ballots — The Sixth Circuit has decided SEIU v. Husted and NEOCH v. Husted in a single opinion. —&nb ...
Energy & Environment News
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Green Blog: Will Seismic Blasts Upend Atlantic ...Environmental and fishing groups lobby against a plan to allow seismic testing off the coast of seven states.
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Green Blog: Panda Cub Died of Lung and Liver D ...The Smithsonian National Zoo discloses the results of a final necropsy.
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U.S. Struggles to Rescue Green Program Hit by ...A federal program intended to promote biodiesel through renewable energy credits has attracted counterfeiters and is hurting the market for smaller biodiesel producers.
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For Solar Panel Makers, a Volley of Trade CasesThe U.S. Commerce Department concluded, despite China's denials, that Chinese manufacturers had "dumped" solar panels on the U.S. market for less than it cost to manufacture and ship them.
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Death of an Oil Spil ...An ailing sea otter at a Chicago aquarium is euthanized 23 years after surviving the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
5+ quakes - 7 days
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M 5.5, Valparaiso, ChileThursday, October 11, 2012 17:22:10 UTC Thursday, October 11, 2012 01:22:10 PM at epicenterDepth: 81.90 km (50.89 mi)
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M 5.3, off the west coast of northern SumatraThursday, October 11, 2012 17:07:53 UTC Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:07:53 PM at epicenterDepth: 28.60 km (17.77 mi)
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M 5.4, South Sandwich Islands regionWednesday, October 10, 2012 22:49:35 UTC Wednesday, October 10, 2012 08:49:35 PM at epicenterDepth: 55.30 km (34.36 mi)
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M 5.2, southern IranWednesday, October 10, 2012 16:56:35 UTC Wednesday, October 10, 2012 08:26:35 PM at epicenterDepth: 21.20 km (13.17 mi)
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M 5.3, Costa RicaWednesday, October 10, 2012 12:19:46 UTC Wednesday, October 10, 2012 06:19:46 AM at epicenterDepth: 35.60 km (22.12 mi)
China Dialogue
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恒河豚濒临ା ...长江白鱀豚功能性灭绝之后,被当地人奉为神明的恒河豚很快将在印度最长河彻底绝 ...
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伦敦铁路工ఴ ...当中国沿海地区湿地面积日益缩小之时,英国正试图恢复古代盐沼。杰夫·基尤手里 ...
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中国未来十ॲ ...中国环保先锋马军对未来十年中国环境体制的改革与出路提出了建议。自1980年代以来A ...
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联合国生物ࣩ ...本周在印度举行的联合国生物多样性峰会将争取更多的资金来保护野生动物,改善那 ...
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发电能力扩ঃ ...汇丰银行气候变化战略专家陈伟欣认为,由于中国平均每周就要新建三座发电站,北 ...
AlterNet Top Stories
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4 Terrible Outcomes of a Romney Supreme CourtIn an interview with the Columbus Dispatch yesterday, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney brushed off a suggestion that he would usher in a constitutional amendment overrulingRoe v. Wade, stating that “[t]hat’s not where America is now.” That does not mean, however, that Romney will not us ...
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What Does Leadership Look Like? Business Exper ...Are Americans electing a salesman-in-chief or commander-in-chief on November 6th?Polls taken since the first presidential debate suggest a lot of likely voters don’t know the difference, finding as The New York Times reported on Thursday that Romney projected more leadership qualities—even as ...
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How an Israeli Voter Registration Group Might ...In mid-July, two prominent Republicans were enjoying the goods at a boutique winery in the Israeli settlement Psagot in the West Bank. Former George W. Bush White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer and Republican Jewish Coalition director Matt Brooks weren’t on vacation, but touring Israel ...
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Jon Stewart on Obama's October Surprise: He's ...Last night, Daily Show host John Stewart did not seem happy with the sitting President. Amidst much fanfare and hand waving, he revealed that Obama's new October campaign strategy has been to simply give up. He also took the President to task for latching onto Romney's silly death-to-Big-Bird ...
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2 BILLION Dementia Patients? Medical Establish ...No one--to repeat, no one--understands how it happens. Every day, the minds of millions of high-functioning people slowly slip into another reality, one in which life events, loved one’s faces, children’s names and all the other memories that constitute a person’s identity have disappeared. De ...
Threat Level
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WikiLeaks Goes Behind Paywall, Anonymous Cries ...Secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has moved millions of documents behind a paywall, prompting blowback from elements of an underground ally, the hacking group Anonymous, including one well-known member to conclude that it “cannot support anymore what WikiLeaks has become.” Upon clicking ...
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New Election System Promises to Help Catch Vot ...A new election system being used in next month's presidential elections in Florida promises to give election officials the ability to independently and swiftly audit the performance of their optical-scan voting machines.
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Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in B ...A federal judge on Wednesday said universities had a fair-use defense to charges of copyright infringement when they systematically pooled millions of books they had digitized without permission from rights holders.
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Supreme Court to Rule on Patents for Self-Repl ...The Supreme Court is agreeing to decide a case begging the question of how far down the stream of commerce -- in this instance the farming cycle -- can a company control its patents, especially for products like weed-resistant soybeans ...
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Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electroni ...The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's bid to hold the nation's telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency a backdoor to eavesdrop on Americans' electronic communications without warrants.
Equality Trust
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The Spirit Level Documentary FilmWe're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...
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Act Local = Reduce the GapFind out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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We work in partnership with One SocietyVisit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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Among Equals: read our newsletterRead the latest edition of our supporter newsletter
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Action for HappinessAction for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon. They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
PDA AMERICA
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan CallCall – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For JusticeWarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide TerroristWilliam John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
Marler Blog
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Marler Clark Clients Profiled in Bloomberg Foo ...Thanks to Marler Clark clients, the Beach, Fenstermaker, Hurley, Lewis, Wakley and the Lee families for telling their stories, and my friends in food safety Randy Napier and Rylee Gustafson... Continue Reading
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Vancouver’s On the Border Restaurant Salmonell ...Marissa Harshman of the Vancouver Columbian reports the number of probable salmonella cases linked to Vancouver’s On the Border restaurant is increasing, but health officials are still unsure of the... Continue Reading
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XL Foods E. coli Outbreak Hits 12 in CanadaOver 2,500,000 pounds of meat sent to United States – No reported illnesses According to Canadian food safety authorities, based on all the information collected to date—epidemiological, microbiological and food... Continue Reading
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White House and OMB holding Food Safety Rules ...Erika Bolstad of the McClatchy Newspapers likely has me in trouble with my democratic friends with her article today: “As food recalls mount, White House still lingering over new safety... Continue Reading
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Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese Recalled due to Liste ...Whole Foods Market announces that it is recalling “Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese KY BL” sold in its Louisville, KY store and “Blue Kentucky Rose Kenny’s” cheese sold in its Nashville, TN... Continue Reading
AutoblogGreen
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First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In HybridFiled under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...
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Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
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Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...Filed under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric 2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
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Official: Renault donates all-electric Popemob ...Filed under: Minivan/Van, Etc., Europe, Renault, Electric Popes know how to travel in style, as the long list of iconic Popemobiles can attest to. In recent years, His Holiness Benedict XVI - aka the "Green Pope" - has been trying to clean up those bubbly vehicles with alternative powertrains ...
Rafe's Radar
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Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computersPointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
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First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
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Groupiter makes workflow as simple as DropboxTiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...
Camera Obscura
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Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
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The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
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Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
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Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
Democracy Now!
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Workers Fight for Justice, From Wal-Mart to Ch ...By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The great recession of 2008, this global economic meltdown, has wiped out the life savings of so many people and created a looming threat of chronic unemployment for millions. This is happening while corporate coffers are brimming with historically high l ...
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Expanding the Debate: Upcoming Democracy Now! ...In the coming weeks, Democracy Now! will air a number of special programs leading up to the November 6 election. Mark your calendars. All shows will be broadcast by Free Speech TV & Link TV and livestreamed at DemocracyNow.org. Urge your local TV and radio stations to air the broadcasts. ...
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Expand the Debate: This Is What Democracy Soun ...By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan DENVER—A few miles south of the campus arena in the Mile High City where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met in their first debate, Democracy Now! news hour broke the sound barrier by expanding their gated debate to include two third-party presidential can ...
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Colorado Springs Independent Profiles Amy GoodmanDuring the Election 2012 Silenced Majority 100-city tour, Colorado Springs Independent profiles Amy Goodman in Independent Streak It’s difficult for Amy Goodman to carve out time for an interview. On Monday, Goodman and company pulled into Blacksburg, Va., site of a Democracy No ...
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Expanding the Debate - Watch Democracy Now's F ...As President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney squared off in their first debate, Democracy Now! produced a three-hour special, Expanding the Debate. We aired the Obama/Romney debate and paused after questions to include responses from two presidential contenders who were shut out ...
Suzie-Q
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Mitt Romney Isn’t Telling the Truth R ...Published on Oct 5, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Mitt Romney didn’t tell the truth about his tax plan, his plan for Americans with pre-existing conditions, his Medicare plan, nor the President’s Medicare plan. Why would Romney not tell the truth about what he’d do as Presiden ...
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FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT – 10/3 ...FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT. You can follow along tonight on these channels: barackobama.com/debate will be livestreaming debate coverage and host a special message from the Vice President directly after the debates. @TruthTeam2012 will be livetweeting and factchecking the debates as they ...
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Debate Livestream – October 3rd, 2012Debate tonight- October 3rd, 2012 Debate livestream will be here: www.barackobama.com/debate
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Solari
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Wall Street Compensation Bounces Back: NY Stat ...By Bernice Napach While government prosecutors pursue lawsuits against JPMorgan (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC) for “misconduct” in the mortgage market and Wall Street firms complain about new regulations, compensation on the Street is rising. New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli r ...
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Detroit 2025: After the Recession, A City Reim ...By Bill Morris Detroit’s comeback is not only inevitable, it’s already underway. Popular Mechanics envisions the bright future of the great American city. The year is 2025. Detroit, the poster child of the Great Recession, is emerging as a model of urban life. The transformation cou ...
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The Fiscal Cliff Official Story[CAF Note: Now that fiscal year, 2013 is underway, the focus is shifting to the changes underway to reengineer the federal finances. I will be writing a lot about how you can "jump the curve" on the household and community impact. Check out the upcoming quarterly wrap up on the Solari Report ne ...
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Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sa ...By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday, I will be talking to from Tennessee. I’m flying back to join Franklin for the Precious Metals Market Report and then for the Transformations & Renewals Gathering this coming weekend. We still have five spaces available – sign up now if yo ...
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Quote du Jour“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” –John Burroughs, American naturalist and essayist
Insurgency Watch - Newswire
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Times ScareISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The SpectrumStepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
AlterNet - Rights and Liberties
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Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
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Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
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Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
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Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
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Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.
Sideways News
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Could you be a 10:10 community champion?The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
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Brit mums strict about eco-choresFamilies in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
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UK venue offers rainforest weddingsGetting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
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Battery recycling 'too difficult'The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
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10 green resolutions to save you moneyBy taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...
Fabius Maximus
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Prof Black blasts back at yesterday’s po ...Summary: Economics is one of the central sciences of our time, especially about one of the frontier subjects: the macroeconomic effect of debt. Yesterday’s post centered on a graph from Ed Dolan. Today we have a rebuttal by Prof William K. Black. There are few aspects of economic theory m ...
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America’s strength is an illusion create ...Summary: Our slow recovery, especially compared to Japan and Europe, has boosted America’s sense of exceptionality and general awesomeness. So our Presidential candidates speak of new foreign wars (lots of potential in Africa and the Middle East), new domestic programs, and tax cuts — ...
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The NDAA shows that justice is blind in Americ ...Summary: Last week saw yet more evidence that the two parties have similar goals for America, differing mostly in the speed with which they’ll drive us there. We also learn that Justice is blind in the New America, as it was in the America-that-once-was, but in a very different way. ̶ ...
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Our crusade slowly crushes Iran, and reveals m ...Summary: In pursuit of dominance over the Middle East the US government destroyed Iraq, one of the two regional powers. Now we run the same playbook against Iran. Being a docile and easily led people, we don’t notice the similarity, or that our government trashes America’s greatest ...
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Understanding our political system: the how-to ...Summary: Rarely does the news media run an article about our history that explains much about today’s America. Here’s the exception, from The New Yorker, about the origins of political consulting — and the formation of our current political system. It was built by people who u ...
Open Your Eyes News
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Vatican kicks out Roma on EasterPress TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
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Euro strikes 16-month high against dollarBreitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
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British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrsPressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
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Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
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Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...
The Progressive Realist
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Top of the Morning: Going Rate for Child Soldi ...Top stories from DAWNS Digest. UK Government Backed DfID Restoration of Aid to Rwanda The controversial decision by outgoing international development secretary Andrew Mitchell to grant £16 million in aid to Rwanda had the backing of both the office of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Office. ...
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Korean Missile EnvyThe 800 kilometer range arc for missiles from Seoul. Credit: Al Jazzera The United States and it close ally, the Republic of Korea (ROK), have just scored an “own goal” by agreeing to allow ROK development of longer-range ballistic missiles – a move that will set back international efforts t ...
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What Supporting the Global Gag Rule Means…in T ...News from the US Presidential election today: Mitt Romney today said no abortion legislation is part of his agenda, but he would prohibit federally-funded international nonprofits from providing abortions in other countries. “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with ...
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Complications in US – Pakistan RelationsThis article was written by two Spring 2012 Participants in PSA’s Congressional Partnership Program. All CPP articles are produced by bipartisan groups of Democrat and Republican Hill Staff who were challenged to develop opinion pieces that reach consensus on critical national security and fore ...
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Top of the Morning: Malala Yousafzai in Stable ...Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Pakistani Taliban Gun Down Teenage Girl Activist. She’s Now in Stable Condition. An absolute horror that is reverberating across Pakistan. “At the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai took on the Taliban by giving voice to her dreams. As turbaned fighters swept throug ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
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Can Biden Stop The Bleeding?Vice presidential debates are usually mere sideshows. But tomorrow’s face-off in Kentucky might be quite different. Barack Obama’s disastrous performance last week was the boost Mitt Romney needed to erase the president’s post-convention gains and turn the race into a genuine toss-up. The Repub ...
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What's the Truth about True the Vote? Gage Skidmore Catherine Englebrecht of True the Vote speaking at the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. This is part one of a two part series on True the Vote. Tomorrow, we’ll examine allegations that the group has partisan goals. Two years ago, the we ...
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Colorblinded(AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Imagine a college whose orchestra was missing a bassoon player, or whose football team was down a running back. It would go without saying that this school could admit an applicant who plays the bassoon over a candidate who plays the French horn, even if t ...
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Romney Lunges to the Center on AbortionIf there’s any one issue that is emblematic of Mitt Romney’s core malleability, it’s abortion. Over the last 16 years, Romney has called himself “unequivocablly pro-choice,” pro-life (but unwilling to change the status quo), “delighted” to sign a national abortion ban, eager to extend the 14th ...
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Get Ready for Real ZingersLack of proper preparation can be costly. That's one of the main lessons to be learned from the first presidential debate, with Romney taking a slight poll lead following his matchup with Obama last week. In advance of Thursday's vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan, the Pro ...
Buzzflash
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Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
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Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent AdventureWILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
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BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
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We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
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The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOPMARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...
Glenn Greenwald - Salon
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The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speechMuslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
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Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian sagaA series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
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Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
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Celebrating the fall of a dictatorReports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
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A tweet that explains everythingThe nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict
The BiPartisan Report
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Sciencebase
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Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2012UPDATE: And the Prize goes to… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to Robert J. Lefkowitz Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA and Brian K. Kobilka Stanford University School of Medi ...
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Felix Baumgartner space diveUPDATE: Aborted. Disappointed. Frustrated. UPDATE: Seems like he’s got really bad wind and won’t be reaching for the edge of space just yet…they seem to have pulled the live feed from Youtube and from their own website, although countdown shows 43 mins at time of writing… ...
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2012UPDATE: Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and David J. Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of ...
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2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineThe Nobel Prize recognizes two scientists who discovered that mature, specialised cells can be reprogrammed to become immature cells capable of developing into all tissues of the body. Their findings have revolutionised our understanding of how cells and organisms develop. John B. Gurdon discove ...
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Don’t drink liquid nitrogenNo matter how trendy it might seem, do not drink cocktails made with liquid nitrogen. BBC reports today that a teenager apparently had to have emergency surgery to remove her stomach after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen and suffering severe pain and breathlessness. Liquid nitroge ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
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National Security Whistleblowers Not Effective ...Yesterday, the Obama Administration issued a Presidential Policy Directive designed to “protect” national security whistleblowers. The National Whistleblowers Center recognizes the Directive as a small step forward, but strongly criticizes it as failing to provide any real or substan ...
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30 January: Verdict Expected in Court Case on ...For the first time in history, a Dutch court verdict is expected about the case of a European company, Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, which appeared in court today to account for damage it caused abroad, says Friends of the Earth International. [1] Lawyers for both parties pleaded at a key hear ...
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World Bank Must Advance Universal Health CoverageCivil society groups representing 40 countries will meet with World Bank president Jim Yong Kim at the World Bank annual meetings today asking that he support developing countries to achieve universal health coverage. They will present Kim with an open letter, signed by 110 organizations from ev ...
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Greece: Investigate Allegations of Torture in ...The public prosecutor in Greece should act swiftly to investigate allegations that police tortured protesters detained at the Attica General Police Directorate (GADA), Human Rights Watch said today. The Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection should also conduct a prompt, thorough, and i ...
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Is There a Real Foreign Policy Debate?PETER VAN BUREN Van Buren, a 24-year veteran Foreign Service Officer at the State Department, spent a year in Iraq. He is author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. read more
Common Dreams-Views
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Why California’s Proposition 37 Should Matter ...Michael Pollan One of the more interesting things we will learn on Nov. 6 is whether or not there is a “food movement” in America worthy of the name — that is, an organized force in our politics capable of demanding change ...
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Romney in Denial about Lethal Lack of Health I ...Matthew Rothschild Mitt Romney doesn’t understand how deadly our current health insurance system is. “We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance,” Romney ...
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The Ongoing Attack on Democracy in the Maldives Stephen Zunes A political struggle now under way on a tiny island nation in the Indian Ocean has huge implications for the global struggle for democracy and human rights. Western powers which profess to support democratic and accounta ...
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Imran Khan’s March Brings Global Attention to ...Alice Ross US peace activists joined politicians, lawyers and the world’s press on Sunday as they attempted to march into Pakistan’s tribal region in protest at the CIA’s drone campaign.A host welcomes guests from the conv ...
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US Supreme Court Finalizes Gift of Immunity to ...Glenn Greenwald So pervasive and reliable is the rule of elite immunity - even in the face of the most egregious crimes - that one finds extreme examples on a weekly basis.read more
Newshoggers - AfPak
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This Is The War That Never EndsHASH(0xa903c40)
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Who could have expected...?HASH(0xa09d238)
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Making Afghanistan Safe For ChinaHASH(0xb4f0fb0)
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The Costs of WarHASH(0x9061ce8)
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NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?HASH(0xaac03c0)
Water Wars
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Pennies for preserves: How the Penny for Pasco ...By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 6, 2012 In north Pasco, an American green tree frog clings to vegetation Wednesday in Jumping Gully Preserve, a 598-acre tract of county-owned land that was purchased with Penny for Pasco money. SHADY HILLS — Keith Wiley stood on a berm in an ...
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Delta, accustomed to water wars, prepares for ...Landowners plan their fight against two 35-mile underground tunnels that would carry water from the Sacramento River to the giant pumps that fill southbound aqueducts. SUTTER ISLAND, Calif. — As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tra ...
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Delta, accustomed to water wars, prepares for ...Landowners plan their fight against two 35-mile underground tunnels that would carry water from the Sacramento River to the giant pumps that fill southbound aqueducts. SUTTER ISLAND, Calif. — As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tra ...
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Small business owners less likely to hire duri ...How are you feeling about the economy? A new poll shows many business owners are still nervous.
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Delta, accustomed to water wars, prepares for ...Landowners plan their fight against two 35-mile underground tunnels that would carry water from the Sacramento River to the giant pumps that fill southbound aqueducts. SUTTER ISLAND, Calif. — As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tra ...
WordPress | Economics
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Huffington Post Is Shamelessly Protecting The ...The Huffington Post is not a credible journalistic outlet. It is a shameless propaganda operation. I
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Europe suffered 51 'severe' communications out ...Europe suffered 51 ‘severe’ communications outages in 2011, study shows In this f
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Telestroke Network Business Model StrategiesSource: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 2012 Oct; 21 (7): 530-534 Follow this link fo
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I'm Addicted to Online Classes... Marginal Rev ...To follow up with all of the university level classes online, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok from the
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Growth - And What's Wrong with The Media Anyway?Green Man – huge potential for growth True Growth Potential Remains Unrecognized Michael Felle
Electronic Intifada
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European Parliament must reject new trade deal ...Annette Groth and Tanja Tabbara 11 October 2012 Human rights are supposed to be at the core of all the EU’s activities. Why, then, is it boosting economic cooperation with Israel?
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Hidden health crisis for Palestinian refugees ...South Africa 10 October 2012 Medical services and mental health needs for Palestinians in Lebanon’s refugee camps have been sorely neglected.
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Israel's abuse of anti-Semitism tackled head-o ...Asa Winstanley 9 October 2012 Antony Lerman has incurred the wrath of influential Zionists for challenging their bigotry.
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Ireland has a moral duty to ban goods from Isr ...Stephen McCloskey 8 October 2012 While the Irish foreign minister has made some positive noises, more pressure is needed to bar imports of products from Israeli settlements.
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Israel takes pride in the ethnic cleansing of ...Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Negev 9 October 2012 Happy that their theft of the West Bank has succeeded, right-wing Israelis are turning their sights on the Negev.
The Wonk Room
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For-Profit Inspectors Approve Food That Sicken ...Foodborne illnesses sicken and kill thousands of Americans each year, but the threat is still taken lightly by Washington’s law- and policymakers. One in six Americans suffer from a foodborne illness, each year, with 128,000 resulting in hospitalization and 3,000 in death. The federal gove ...
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ThinkProgress Will Liveblog Tonight’s Vice Pre ...ThinkProgress will live blog tonight’s vice presidential debate, starting at 8:45 PM. Stay tuned for our reporting and real-time fact checking. But as we wait for Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan to take the stage, here is what everyone needs to know about tonight’s main e ...
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Obama Talks (And Tweets) Climate Change. Will ...On Tuesday, President Obama tweeted out a short version of his convention comments on climate to his 20 million twitter followers. Today, Obama added a slightly tweaked version of his convention riff to his stump speech at his University of Miami speech in Coral Gables (full video here): Yes my ...
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Restaurant Company Uses Obamacare As An Excuse ...Darden Restaurants Inc., which owns the Red Lobster and Olive Garden chains, announced that it will experiment with shifting more workers to part-time status due to impending health benefit requirements under Obamacare. Starting in 2014, Obamacare requires firms with 50 or more full-time workers ...
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Federal Reserve Official Calls For Placing Lim ...Federal Reserve Board Governor Daniel Tarullo called for placing limits on bank size in a speech yesterday, making him one of the highest ranking economic officials to propose a remedy to reduce big bank dominance of the economy. Tarullo said that, in order to keep big banks from growing so larg ...
thwap's schoolyard
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Who is the Left-Wing KKKate MakkkMillan?It's been awhile since I bothered to check, but I believe that KKKate MakkkMillan's SDA blog is still a very highly trafficked blog. So, is there a Canadian left-wing equivalent? Is there a left-wing Canadian blogger who either types or has regular commentators who type: That Israel really shou ...
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On the Debasement of Canadian DemocracyThis post (about Dalton McGuinty and Chris Bentley's contempt of the Ontario legislature and the Toronto Star's partisan attempt to belittle it) describes something that we should all take seriously. The Star article mentions that finding a minister in contempt is unprecedented in the le ...
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Congrats to Chavez!Hugo Chavez won re-election last night. This is a good thing. The concern trolls can go fuck themselves. US client regimes rape, torture and kill innocent people. The US rewards them. Chavez wins elections and reforms his country legally and democratically, and he's described as a dictator. He's ...
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Ephemeral asks ...If we root for Al Pacino in "And Justice For All" then would we root for the lawyer of Tori Stafford's killer if he turned on him?
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God is not GreatI liked Hitchens' books For the Sake of Argument, The Trial of Henry Kissinger and at least a good part of No One Left to Lie To. I read somewhere that his book on Orwell was, unoriginal, to say the least and I think there's no justification for his support for the US invasions in Afghanistan an ...
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