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Market pressure eases on Spain amid bailout hopes
Rising
speculation that Spain will soon ask for outside help to keep a lid on
its borrowing costs has helped ease the pressure on the country in
financial markets.
Related StoriesRadovan Karadzic opens defence at war crimes
tribunalBriton on trial for girlfriend's death in CreteCrete murder ac
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A narrow victory for Obama over Romney - but t ...
A fortnight ago, Mitt Romney one the first presidential debate by a
much bigger margin than expected. Last night, Barack Obama won the
second debate by a much bigger margin than expected. But because that
first presidential debate was an outlier, and polls swung so decisively
against Obama imme ...
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Postcard from... Germany
Anyone
who had assumed they would never hear any more from Norway's convicted
mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, is in for a surprise. One of his
right-wing rants will be uttered on stage by a Turkish-born actress from
a political theatre group in the east German city of Weimar this week.
Rel ...
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Winners and losers in the Obama v Romney rematch
Neither candidate scored the clear victory Tuesday night that Mitt
Romney racked up in the first presidential debate 13 days ago. But this
is life. And in life, there are winners and losers:Related StoriesRomney
was heading for disaster – but now it's the President hanging by a
threadRound 2: C ...
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Winners and losers in the Obama v Romney rematch
Neither candidate scored the clear victory Tuesday night that Mitt
Romney racked up in the first presidential debate 13 days ago. But this
is life. And in life, there are winners and losers:Related StoriesBoth
Obama and Romney had good moments last night, and they just about
cancelled each othe ...
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Safety haven
If
Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it
would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing
their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their
crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were
looking for a hearing ...
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Small tools, big impact
Cancer,
heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians.
As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and
Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly
diseases. Based at ...
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Innovative, naturally
For
the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation
(CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award
was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is
one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the
Departm ...
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A very gourd idea
It’s
been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of
hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated
soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however,
scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of
toxic chemic ...
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Johne’s happens
Trudging
through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous
work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the
health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy
industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of
Princ ...
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How to reduce inflammation with food
Humans
should adapt to foods they have consumed for a great part of their time
on earth, and these same foods should pose fewer problems than
consumption of similar but newer (in an evolutionary sense) foods. A
nice paper from the British Journal of Nutrition I've had lying around
for a couple o ...
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Young woman who was arrested for owning 'anarc ...
Note: Leah Lynn Plante was sentenced to prison yesterday afternoon
after refusing to answer questions to a grand jury in Seattle. The
following article was posted yesterday before Leah went to court. This
witch-hunt style grand jury is unacceptable. Leah and her comrades are
tremendously brave ...
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France: The €11.7 quadrillion phone bill!
A
woman in Pessac, near Bordeaux, was stunned when she opened her
telephone bill from Bouygues Telecom - it was for
€11,721,000,000,000,000 or €11.7 quadrillion.
Solenne San Jose said it nearly gave her a heart attack - and it got no
better when she contacted Bouygues Telecom custome ...
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Ideology Matters, But What Is It?
Whoever
today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and
"historical tasks" is an actual or potential assassin.
Albert Camus
We have all been taught the 'so called' difference between the Right and
the Left. Refining these distinctions produces even more confusion
because th ...
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Rethinking the breathalyser in France as fines ...
Drivers
have been given an extra four months' grace over the imposition of €11
fines for not carrying breath tests - and the law may even be scrapped.
A shortage of tests across the country has prompted the interior
ministry to delay the start of the fines until March 1 and Interior
Minis ...
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Nasty, and ignored . . .
HEART
OF DARKNESS 2012: Northern Myanmar, aka Burma, where people are being
driven from their lands and exterminated, a kind of jungle genocide. And
behind it, our inscrutable capitalists, the Chinese. According to the
Aljazeera account by Jason Motlagh, "Blood and Gold: Inside Burma's
Hidden Wa ...
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Here we are again
Here
we are again with yet another failing of our stupid bloody simpleton's
understanding of justice and the system we built around it. With all the
research we have the shows the complex biological and social roots of
deviant behaviour, the best we can still do for those who stray is lock
them ...
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Quick thoughts on the US Veep debate
I
caught a bit of Biden vs. Ryan snake oil festival last night. In terms
of substance, Biden ran circles around Ryan. However, Ryan pulled a
Harper. You know, that calm, very carefully trained and rehearsed
daddy-knows-best voice and canned phrases that lulls the crazies into a
voting trance and ...
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The Cold War, this is not
The
reporting on the Canada-Russia spy case makes it read more like a
Johnny English script than a John le Carré novel.
From what we know so far... a very junior RCN intelligence officer rucks
up to the Russian Embassy, flashe a badge speaks to a Russian military
intelligence representative. ...
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Julia Gilliard: on misogyny and hypocrisy
Via Dawg.
May she also address our parliament.
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How The Mainstream Media Is Covering Up Mitt R ...
Major
print media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post,
and The Wall Street Journal, erased Mitt Romney's discredited lie that
his economic agenda will be responsible for 12 million new jobs in 4
years from the debate record. In fact, independent analysts have said
that Rom ...
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Will Media Fact Checkers Rise To The Romney De ...
Republican presidential
candidate Mitt Romney rehashed at least 11 previously
debunked claims during the second presidential debate that ranged from
the economy to gun rights. This continued dishonesty, coming on the
heels of a campaign official saying they would not be "dict ...
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The Right-Wing Media's "Real Unemployment Rate ...
Despite hopeful
signs of economic progress, the right-wing media have attempted to
downplay positive economic news by using alternative measures
to argue that the "real unemployment rate" is much higher than has been
reported. In fact, these alternative me ...
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Right-Wing Media Misrepresent Secretary Clinto ...
After
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she's responsible for
State Department personnel, right-wing media quickly claimed that
President Obama was dodging responsibility for the attack on the U.S.
Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But Clinton was actually pointing out that
the State Depa ...
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Contrary To Right-Wing Media Claims, Report Co ...
Media
outlets have continued to suggest that the Obama administration lied
when it said that an anti-Islam video served as a catalyst for the
attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. In fact, The New York
Times reports that the attackers said they were motivated by the
video.NY Times: Pe ...
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New York Times: Great Paper. Great Propaganda ...
On
October 11, 2011, Paul Krugman asserted on his blog that he had the
privilege of writing two columns a week for “the world’s greatest
newspaper,” the New York Times (NYT). The NYT is surely an outstanding
paper, with exceptionally wide scope, many good journalists on board and
publishing man ...
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A Page Has been Turned: Western Retreat from Syria
On
October 8, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CTSO) began
maneuvers dubbed “Inviolable Fraternity” (“НЕРУШИМОЕ БРАТСТВО”). The
scenario focuses on the deployment of a peace force in an imaginary
country where international jihadists and terrorist organization ...
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Freedom of the Press: the West Suppresses Iran ...
The
recent EU move to take Press TV off the air is to be seen as part of a
continued process of media violation against this alternative channel.
On Monday, UK-based Eutelsat stopped carrying Press TV and some 18
other channels from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), a move
which Gar ...
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Auf Kriegskurs: Europas Linke wirbt für „human ...
„Ich
glaube an zwei Prinzipien: Nie wieder Krieg und nie wieder Auschwitz.“
(1)
Diese Worte wurden auf dem Parteitag der Grünen im Mai 1999 gesprochen,
der während des NATO-Bombardements auf Jugoslawien, an dem sich auch
Deutschland beteiligte, stattfand. Sie kamen aus dem Mund des
Grünen-Politi ...
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L’arte della guerra. Siria: la Nato mira al ga ...
La
dichiarazione di guerra oggi non si usa più. Per farla bisogna però
ancora trovare un casus belli. Come il proiettile di mortaio che,
partito dalla Siria, ha provocato 5 vittime in Turchia. Ankara ha
risposto a cannonate, mentre il parlamento ha autorizzato il governo
Erdogan a effettuare ope ...
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2012 Drought: Pick Your Poison
The drought that has kept much of the nation in its grip this summer
brings a host of additional downstream worries for growers already
struggling with reduced yields.Cattle are being poisoned by
cyanide-laced weeds in Arkansas. Across the Midwest water-soluble
fertilizers are concentrating in ...
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Palestinians Face Food and Water Crisis in the ...
Beit Ummar used to be known as the fruit basket of Palestine.Nestled in
the Hebron Mountains, the old Beit Ummar was covered in olive orchards
and trees bearing brightly colored lemons, plums and dates. Lush, leafy
vineyards wound their way through the meandering mountain roads, bearing
robust ...
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Disaster in the Making: Grave Warnings Issued ...
Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series, read the second
one here on the Tyee.A pipeline materials engineer, who worked for
TransCanada Pipeline for five years, says some of the nation's major
pipeline companies are breaking the rules on pipeline safety and that
National Energy ...
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Why the New 'Golden Age of Oil' Has Been a Bust
To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive
the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.Last winter, fossil-fuel
enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new “golden age of oil” that
would kick-start the American economy, generate millions of new jobs,
and free this ...
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Oil Companies Bribing Gulf States to Ignore Spill?
Recently, Gulf area legislators have been pushing to get their states a
larger share of government income from offshore drilling. We’re told
that they need the extra revenue to improve flood protection. But more
is afoot here, and it deserves scrutiny.First, here’s the background,
from the Los ...
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PRICELE$$ – the movie
From
the Fourth of July to the halls of Congress, PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker’s
personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are
some of our government’s most basic policies, like food and energy, so
out-of-date – and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion o
...
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Rally for Clean Energy and Good Jobs – Thursda ...
We
are taking our Clean Energy Works for Texas campaign to the doorstep of
the Public Utility Commission (PUC) next week. We hope you will join
us for a rally on Thursday, October 18 at 12 p.m. in front of the
William B. Travis building at 1701 N. Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701
We are [...]
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Breaking: Daryl Hannah joins tar sands blockade
Actress
Daryl Hannah has been arrested along with Winnsboro ranch owner Eleanor
Fairchild, 78, while staging a protest against Keystone XL construction
on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The duo where defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home
and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been e ...
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Bill McKibben speaking in Austin, TX
Bill
McKibben, founder of 350.org, and technical adviser to the Texas
Drought Project, will appear Thursday, October 4th, at 7 PM at the Belo
Center for New Media Auditorium (BMC 2.106), at the northeast corner of
Dean Keeton and Guadalupe, University of Texas, Austin, TX. McKibben is
known for ...
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Texas House Committee on Environmental Regulat ...
The
House Committee on Environmental Regulation held a public hearing today
to take invited testimony on an interim charge before the 83rd
legislative session starts in January of 2013. They examined the
federal eight-hour ozone standard under the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards program ...
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Message from Rafael Alegría, Honduran leader o ...
On
May 1 of this year, my colleague Saulo Araujo (Program Coordinator for
Latin America) and I spent the day with Rafael Alegría, a leader of the
Vía Campesina based in Honduras. The video below offers some of his
reflections.
Rafael’s message is clear:read more
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Korean Women Peasant’s Association Awarded the ...
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Last Wednesday, October 10th, in New York City, I had the privilege of
witnessing the US Food Sovereignty Alliance award the fourth annual Food
Sovereignty Prize to the Korean Women Peasant’s Association (KWPA).read
more
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Five reasons organic food is good for you and ...
green_peppers.jpg
A recent study by Stanford researchers raised controversy and debate
about the comparative health benefits of organic versus conventionally
grown food. Bottom line, according to researchers: organically and
conventionally ...
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Palestinians Face Food and Water Crisis in the ...
Outside Author Info
Outside Author Bio:
Anna Lekas Miller is an independent journalist and activist.
Outside Author:
Anna Lekas Miller
Previous Publication In ...
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Honduran peasant leader's life under threat
alegria-small_pic.jpg
Yesterday, Grassroots International received the alarming news that our
partner Rafael Alegria, a leader of La Via Campesina in Honduras, has
been moved to a safe house in fear for his life, following the murder of
his ...
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The Spellbinding Tilework Mosaics of Iranian A ...
With
a history dating back to at least 5000 BC, it's not surprising that
Iranian architecture contains such a wealth intricate and beautifully
designed tile mosaics.
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5 Coolest Links of the Week
From
shocking x-rays and violent courthouse incidents to extreme cases of
OCD, here are five fascinating top ten lists from the interwebs.
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see
the full, formatted version of the article
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Green Energy and Politics in 2012
Wind
and solar power are the heavyweights when it comes to energy
alternatives, but are they as green as they claim to be? And what are
the politics behind this picture?
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the full, formatted version of the article
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20 Lonely Benches Around the World
These
benches all feature views that will make you long to spend some time on
them – especially if you're seeking a bit of solitude.
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the full, formatted version of the article
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The Horrible Effects of Dengue Fever
With symptoms ranging from muscle pain to internal bleeding, this is one illness you definitely don't want to get!
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Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20,
2009
An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s
tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
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President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009
On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission
Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A
...
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Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009
Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is
rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
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Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009
Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and
bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr
...
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Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009
As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners
in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the
government’ ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee
for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a
Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee
for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a
Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal
investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the
lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer
funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal
ch...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal
investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the
lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer
funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal
ch...
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Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
* Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport
* "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change
* Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor
By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle
OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...
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EU Wages War on Free Expression
EU Wages War on Free Expression
by Stephen Lendman
Free expression in all forms is fundamental. Without it, all other
freedoms are at risk. Included are free speech, thought, culture,
intellectual inquiry, and press freedom.
Denial risks tyranny. Voltaire said, "I may ...
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Broken Lives and Families in Bil'in
Broken Lives and Families in Bil'in
by Stephen Lendman
A documentary called "5 Broken Cameras" depicts daily and nightly
Israeli horrors committed against peaceful Bil'in villagers. More below
on what most people can't imagine.
read more
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Obama Aides Launch Preemptive Attack on New Ir ...
By
Gareth Porter, IPS
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 2012 (IPS) - Although the place and time of the next
round of talks on Iran’s nuclear programme have not yet been announced,
the manoeuvring by Iran and the United States to influence the outcome
has already begun.
Iran sought support for a revised propos ...
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Syria News - Oct 17
Syria: Assad regime ready to explore four day truce - Telegraph
Exiled opposition would welcome any Syria truce, SNC leader says - NOW
Lebanon
Erdoğan meets Ahmadinejad seeking to bridge widening gap over Syria,
moots three-way regional talks between Egypt, Turkey and Iran - c ...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Graham Nash to pla ...
What: An intimate acoustic performance by Graham Nash
When: Friday, October 26, 2012, 7:30 PM PDT
Where: Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, California 90405
Tickets: http://savebradley.brownpapertickets.com/
On Friday, October 26, the Bradley Manning ...
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The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
by Sarah Laskow.
Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and
answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry)
goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises?
If you answered goats, this post will make you sad.
Here was the ...
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Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
by Sarah Laskow.
Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer
whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca
fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the
whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
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What environmental policy could we expect from ...
by Jess Zimmerman.
Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for
definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already
out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform
could we expect from a President Colbert?
Well, for starters, no ...
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Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
by Christopher Mims.
Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the
intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR
flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new
molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
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Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
by Jess Zimmerman.
We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to
mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the
response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional
staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
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Less Than a Week Away
We
encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a
featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for
Tickets & Reservations
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The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a
huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four
giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or
commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia
Guidestones, or the ...
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The Creation
THE
CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys
upstairs")
We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the
Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has
not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to
pu ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In
his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision
of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban
growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course
of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history
plus eye-op ...
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About George Green
Dear
Friends,
Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative
materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead
and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for
those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
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Cartoon caption contest
Take
a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment
section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions
will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine,
PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and
Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether
we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the
possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their
trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading
Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute
the air ...
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Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The
rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news
on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto
Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon
Related posts:The Aging Activist
Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
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Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US
Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days
after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well?
Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York
Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
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BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike
the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit
more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to
Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and
biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable
(read: cryable ...
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Villa921: Harunatsu Archi’s Storm-proof Tropic ...
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the rest of Villa921: Harunatsu Archi’s Storm-proof Tropical Island
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Amazing Bat Cave Made From 20,000 LEGO Bricks ...
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Architecture, Art, batman, Bruce Wayne, Carlyle Livingston, comic book,
energy saving lights, LED, lego, LEGO Bat Cave, Wayne Hussey
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Now! Le Off Unveils Surprising Eco-Designs at ...
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the rest of Now! Le Off Unveils Surprising Eco-Designs at Paris Design
Week 2012 Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy
efficiency", ana lisa alperovich, Beatrix Li-Chin Lus, Botanical, Cité
de la Mode, cork, design events, DIY, folded paper, FSC, green lighting,
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Tabitha Bargh’s Striking Textured Lamp Is Made ...
Exploring
Designjunction at the London Festival this year, one of the designs
that caught our eye was this beautiful and unusual lamp shades made of
corrugated cardboard. Created by British designer Tabitha Bargh, the
lamp is constructed using cardboard made from 85% recycled materials.
While st ...
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Re-Nuble Wants to Repurpose Your Organic Waste ...
Re-Nuble has
just launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance its mission of
greening the planet one community at a time. The DC-based company
specializes in recycling organic waste to produce green fertilizer for
sustainable farming and renewable energy for responsible power
consumption. In a w ...
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New Threats to Riot if Obama Loses Election
Despite
the issue receiving national media attention, Obama supporters continue
to threaten to riot if Mitt Romney wins the presidential election,
raising the prospect of civil unrest if Obama fails to secure a second
term.
The new threats continue to dominate Twitter and the vast majority ma
...
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Administration plays confusing blame game with ...
A
confusing array of contradictions concerning the murders of four
Americans, one of which was a U.S. ambassador, was made worse by Vice
President Joe Biden's remarks during the debate with Republican vice
presidential nominee Paul Ryan Thursday evening.
Today the confusion only worsened yet ...
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Millions to Participate in FEMA Drill Next Week
On
October 18, 2012 at 10:18 a.m. EDT, more than one million people across
five states and the District of Columbia are scheduled to take part in
the first ever Great SouthEast ShakeOut. The ShakeOut is a regional
earthquake drill in which participants simultaneously practice the
recommended ac ...
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The REAL Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons A ...
Like
all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and
Japanese lives.
But most of the top American military officials at the time said
otherwise.
The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey group, assigned by Pr ...
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US Government Preparing for Biological Attack ...
In
2008, a report from the Commission on the Prevention of WMD
Proliferation and Terrorism identified a clear and present danger of
biological attack in 2013.
The Congressional Committee claimed that Middle Eastern nations like
Pakistan were the most likely to be the origination of such an at ...
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Video: Andy Worthington Asks Supporters to Sig ...
Sign
the petition for Shaker Aamer! (UK only — an international petition is
here) Last week, I recorded a brief video message of support for Shaker
Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, urging everyone who
cares about Shaker’s plight to sign the petition to the British gove ...
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Kick This Government Out! March for “A F ...
For
everyone sickened and enraged by the lies, distortions, malevolence and
idiocy emanating from the Tory-led government, Saturday’s march and
rally in central London, “A Future That Works,” is an important
opportunity for us to show our anger and our indignation at how our co
...
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Photos of Limehouse, Shadwell and Wapping: Art ...
Limehouse,
Shadwell and Wapping: Art, History and the Summer Sun, a set on Flickr.
This is the 44th set of photos in my ongoing project to photograph the
whole of London by bike, and is the second set recording a journey I
made, one sunny Sunday in July, with my wife and son from our [...]
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America’s Extradition Problem
Not
content with having the largest domestic prison population in the
world, both in numbers and as a percentage of the total population, the
US also imports prisoners from other countries, at vast expense. Last
week, five men were extradited to the US from the UK to face charges
relating to the ...
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Sunny Sunday: Photos of the Isle of Dogs and C ...
Sunny
Sunday: The Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf, a set on Flickr. In my quest
to catch up on posting some of the photos that I didn’t manage to post
before my family holiday in Italy in August, this set and another to
follow record a glorious Sunday in July when, with my family, [...]
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Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The
ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill
industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them
accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of
this nation:
Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
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Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is
this a parody or real life? You decide.
Citizens of New Milford:
I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week,
seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't
be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis.
That's why ...
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Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The
conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to
move a dangerous right wing agenda.
They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big
surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members)
were slaughtered in the 2010 elections.
So f ...
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Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober
up, Dems.
You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since
2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even
nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp!
And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive,
leftie ass off. Y ...
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The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So.
What the heck happened last night?
The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their
losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to
them.
The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party
retains control there.
The GOP picked u ...
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AFA’s Bryan Fischer Takes Knockout Punch on CNN
Bryan
Fischer, the gay-bashing, truth-challenged spokesman for the American
Family Association, went one rant too far Tuesday for CNN anchor Carol
Costello.
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Second Suspect Pleads Guilty in FEAR Militia M ...
FEAR
was afraid.
Hours after four members of FEAR, an anti-government militia largely
made up of active-duty and recently discharged American soldiers, shot
to death two teenage sweethearts in the Georgia woods last December, the
group gathered around a backyard bonfire, desperately trying to de ...
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Feds: Teen Militia Leader in Nevada Planned &# ...
Authorities
in Nevada may have just aborted another mass shooting with the arrest
of an 18-year-old, self-professed militia leader who authorities say
planned to “conduct mass killings” and “bragged about plans to shoot
people on the Las Vegas strip.”
Steven Matthew Fernandes, who claimed to be ...
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Leading Race ‘Scientist’ Dies in Canada
Jean
Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor and probably the most
important race scientist in North America, died of cancer Tuesday night
in Canada. The man who sparked a firestorm of controversy and protest in
the late 1980s with his theories about the correlation between genital
size and int ...
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Suspect Charged in Toledo Mosque Arson
Federal
hate crime charges were filed today in Ohio against an Indiana man,
Randolph Linn, who is a suspect in last weekend’s arson fire that
heavily damaged the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo.
Linn was charged with intentionally defacing, damaging and destroying
religious property, and with u ...
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If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
A
haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been
making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A
6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a
suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a
rock hiding packing ...
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Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
In
late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan
support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being
charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence
after a sex ...
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Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
The
shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing.
Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji.
Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an
intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred
her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
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Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
Wow.
Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho
posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary
of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to
stop deporting tal ...
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Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
Robert
Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United
Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda,
where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay.
Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to
...
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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 charged
So,
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 Wins
Soooooo,
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 Economies
Last
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 ...
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Squashed By Russia: The Sergei Magnitsky Story
NWC
nabbed an exclusive interview with Jamison Firestone, the law partner
and friend of Sergei Magnitsky – a whistleblower whose disturbing story
reveals the ruthlessness and corruption of the Russian government.
Sergei was tortured and killed after he exposed the looting of Russian
taxpay ...
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Presidential Policy Directive on Whistleblower ...
A
recent White House directive on national security whistleblowers has
sparked a major dialog in the whistleblower community. You can read the
National Whistleblowers Center's press release on the directive here.
Below is a full-text analysis from the Whistleblower Support Fund's
Linda Lew ...
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ARB issues decisions on summary decision, sett ...
Today,
the U.S. Department of Labor issued a summary of the September 2012
decisions of its Administrative Review Board (ARB). The twelve
decisions issued in September cover important procedural issues
involving the time limits for filing complaints and petitions for review
to the ARB, con ...
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Stephen Kohn and Richard Angino argue Wiest ca ...
On
October 5, 2012, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals conducted oral
arguments in Wiest v. Lynch, a case that tests the scope of protection
for whistleblowers under the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX). Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, attorney Richard Angino argued the case for Jeffrey
Wiest. ...
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NWC joins in amicus to Federal Circuit on Conyers
Today
the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) in an amicus brief filed by the National
Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). The brief urges the Federal Circuit to
reverse the holding of its panel decision in Berry v. Conyers. There,
the Co ...
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Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
(PhysOrg.com)
-- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side
effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the
stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by
scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides
additiona ...
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After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive
black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge
growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new
study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii.
Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
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Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A
team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other
institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus
that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure
reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses
common in the early 20 ...
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Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
(PhysOrg.com)
-- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an
interesting choice when deciding which males should father their
offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then
produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with
spe ...
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More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
(PhysOrg.com)
-- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium,
a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's
nitrogen budget.
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Nobel Prize Winning Economist Eric Maskin: In ...
We've
talked in the past about how Nobel Prize winning economist Eric Maskin
has done research questioning the value of patents in software and in
other industries. So it's not surprising -- though still fantastic --
that he's responded to the recent NY Times piece by Charles Duhigg and
Steve L ...
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Bug In Kobo's Online Store Offers Up Random eB ...
Canadian
ereader manufacturer Kobo hasn't really endeared itself to its
customers in recent months. A few months ago, it botched the debut of
its Kobo Touch ereader in Japan, falling well short of the promised
30,000 launch titles. In addition, its desktop software tended to turn
new ereader ...
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Can't Win 'Em All: Uber Gives Up Attempt To Do ...
We've
talked about how innovative ride hailing company, Uber, was pushing
regulatory boundaries across the country, often showing how restrictive
local regulators could be towards innovation. In many cases, Uber has
been able to generate enough public support that local taxi and limo
regulators ...
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Could Co-operatives Save Newspapers -- And Inv ...
A
couple of weeks ago, we reported that Rupert Murdoch's paywall at the
London Times isn't looking like a huge success. That won't come as a
surprise to Techdirt readers, but does raise the question: if newspapers
can't use paywalls alongside ads to fund journalists, what can they
turn to? Her ...
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Why The Theory Of 'Tarnishment' Doesn't Make S ...
We've
pointed out many times in the past that trademark law really doesn't
belong under the same heading as patents and copyrights, even though
they're frequently lumped together as "intellectual property." Patents
and copyright are from the same clause in the Constitution and, we're
told, are ...
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Book Review – The Occupy Handbook
The
Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this
book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any
book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor
who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer
Prize-winning wr ...
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Things You Might Have Missed
Follow
CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s
penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if
you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938,
you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
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Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...
By
now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s
piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it
as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals
are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can
neve ...
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Things You Might Miss
Not
much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff
coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello.
Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The
High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]
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On Love, Life, Cocaine, and Impossible Monday ...
Somehow
my last post on mental illness ended up in a Facebook discussion about
love. Well, I know how it happened. My friend asked if love was a mental
illness and informed me that cocaine and love release the same
chemicals in the brain. This is an intense question for a hungover
Monday morning ...
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Pakistani Taliban declare war on media
Sami
Yousafzai reports: Malala Yousafzai has taken one more step in her very
long and difficult journey. Separated from her family for now, the
14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl arrived today at Birmingham’s Queen
Elizabeth Hospital, Britain’s primary receiving facility for military
casualties re ...
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Hamas redefines itself after leaving Syria for ...
Dalia
Hatuqa reports: This month, Hamas’s political leader Khaled Meshaal
took part in a conference hosted by Turkey’s ruling AKP party. A
commentator on Syria’s state-run Al Dunya television channel compared Mr
Meshaal to “an orphan” looking for shelter after being ...
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A field guide to Syria’s jihadi groups
Aron
Lund writes: Eighteen months into the Syrian uprising, the country’s
Sunni Arab insurgency is now fighting a largely sectarian war against a
regime dominated by religious minorities, most notably the Alawite sect
to which the Assad family belongs. While the exiled opposition movement
...
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Syria and the battle for regional control
David
Hearst writes: Two years on, they are still haggling over the name. An
Arab spring? Springs are seasonal, and tumultuous though transitional
government is, what they have in Egypt and Tunisia is a long way away
from an Arab winter. If the wave of revolt sweeping across the
postcolonial bor ...
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Iraqi Shi’ite militants fight for Syria’s Assad
Reuters
reports: Scores of Iraqi Shi’ite militants are fighting in Syria, often
alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s troops, and pledging loyalty to
Iran’s supreme Shi’ite religious leader, according to militia fighters
and politicians in Iraq. Iraqi Shi’ite militi ...
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A simple resolution to the ‘faint young ...
A
faster rotating early-Earth may have compensated for reduced Sun output
Guest post submitted by Ian Schumacher The ‘faint young sun’ paradox
states that according to star models, billions of years ago the Sun
would have only been about 70% … Continue reading →
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Tisdale video on ‘dirty weather’ p ...
Part
2 of We Now Control Weather – Extreme Heat Events, Dirty Weather,
Climate Disasters Guest post by Bob Tisdale This video is the second in
the series of videos titled We Now Control Weather – Extreme Heat
Events, Dirty Weather, … Continue reading →
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Climate negotiations relying on ‘dangero ...
From
the University of Gothenburg , some appearance of sanity. The
identified critical threshold for dangerous climate change saying that
the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius
seems not to have helped the climate negotiations so … Continue reading →
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A New Climate Change Policy Attitudes Survey
UPDATE:
– Users have reported (and I’ve now experienced myself but it was not
present in the test runs I made) some sort of web posting error at the
end of the survey, so I’ve disabled it and notified the … Continue
reading →
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Wyoming experiences that “giant sucking ...
Did
your lights dim yesterday? It might have been Trenberth’s “travesty
calculator”. Readers may recall when I covered the announcement of the
building of this new supercomputer: NCAR’s dirty little secret Measuring
108,000 square feet in total with 15,000-20,000 square feet &# ...
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Anxiety increases cancer severity in mice
Worrywarts,
fidgety folk and the naturally nervy may have a real cause for concern:
accelerated cancer. In a new study led by researchers at the Stanford
University School of Medicine, anxiety-prone mice developed more severe
cancer then their calm counterparts. The study, to be published online
...
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Aged hematopoietic stem cells rejuvenated to b ...
Researchers
have rejuvenated aged hematopoietic stem cells to be functionally
younger, offering intriguing clues into how medicine might one day fend
off some ailments of old age. Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center and the Ulm University Medicine in Germany
report ...
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Collaboration seeks to find new uses for faile ...
The
U.S. government is looking for the next AZT, Viagra and thalidomide —
substances that washed out as treatments for one disease but later
turned out to work well against a totally different ailment. AZT failed
as a cancer drug but became the first antiviral to work against HIV.
Viagra didn’t ...
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Differences in dopamine may determine how hard ...
Whether
someone is a “go-getter” or a “slacker” may depend on individual
differences in the brain chemical dopamine, according to new research in
the May 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest
that dopamine affects cost-benefit analyses. The study fo ...
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Eye implants restore ‘useful sight’ ...
The
first blind patients to be fitted with electronic eye implants in a UK
clinical trial have regained “useful vision” only weeks after surgery.
Chris James was able to see outlines of objects for the first time in 20
years after surgeons fitted him with the device during an eight-h ...
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Bain Capital, leveraged speculation and cancer
Maha
has occasionally focused on mesothelioma, and yesterday she emailed a
link to this from Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Cohn. It is a look at how a
Kansas City steel company named GS Industries was bought out by Bain
Capital, sucked dry and shut down. The resulting struggle for many
former emp ...
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Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement und ...
The
NFL’s lockout of union referees, which began in June and ended today,
is just one of several recent examples that serve to illustrate how
little regard Americans give to labor and the treatment of workers.
This phenomenon is found not just among the likes of rightwing
union-buste ...
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Partial transcript, trustee meeting
From
here. Roughly from 2:36-4:50.Q: He didn’t tell you what he thought?
There would be any risk associated with it?A: He said it was, trying to
think of his exact words, symbolic. A lot of what you’re saying is
symbolic, because we still have the Ohio Revised Code we have to follow.
...
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Trustees reject symbolic statement on fracking ...
The
trustee meeting I attended Tuesday actually began over hundred years
ago. In 1910 Ohio voters approved the calling of a constitutional
convention, and in 1912 a whole series of amendments were adopted. The
Ohio History Central link goes to a short but very good summary, and
it’s defi ...
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Communities rally against toxic fracking waste
On
Wednesday communities held Freedom From Toxic Fracking Waste rallies to
raise awareness on one of the largest environmental risks from
fracking: dealing with the waste it produces. In the best case scenario
the toxic stew - of unknown composition due to the Halliburton Loophole
- is removed ...
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Bill McKibben Nails it on Bill Maher Show - Pl ...
From
my limited experience on television, I've learned what should be
obvious: It is extremely difficult to keep your head in a live,
improvised setting. Remaining calm and articulate when your adrenaline
is flowing - and it is flowing - takes real grace. So the best part
about Bill's performanc ...
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5 Ways America Is Being Hollowed Out by Unfett ...
There's
no free market -- just businesses doing whatever they please with
virtually zero accountability. Click here to read this article
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Growing Up, Growing Food: A Teenage Farmer to ...
Think
you don't regret all those high school afternoons wasted at the mall or
the skate park? Just wait till you meet Sophia Vartanian, a Vancouver,
B.C.-based urban farmer. At 16 years old, her resume is already more
impressive than some twice her age. Click here to read this article
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Excess Cancers and Deaths with GM Feed: the St ...
That
cancers are found even with a small number of rats tested is strong
evidence that the GM feed and herbicide are carcinogenic -Prof Peter
Saunders Click here to read this article
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Big Tobacco Lawyers Target Food Industry for F ...
The
lawyers who took on the big US tobacco companies, and won, have now set
their sights on the food industry. Newsnight's science editor, Susan
Watts, asks one of them why he has chosen this particular fight.Click
here to read this article
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World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...
October
seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful
harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second
year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are
on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused
as t ...
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The Farm Bill – What Now?
As
of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After
spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on
the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards
this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to
make [.. ...
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Where Was Agriculture in the Presidential Debate?
Ignoring agriculture and food policy in presidential debates is nothing new, but the availability of food is essential to life.
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Handle with Care: Food, Climate, and Fragile S ...
The
frightening truth is that climate change and food supply are intimately
linked, and as the weather events in this country and around the world
become more extreme, so will our struggle to feed ourselves.
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New Survey Shows Meatless Monday Makes Room fo ...
Not
only has awareness of Meatless Monday been steadily increasing since it
was founded in 2003, but the campaign is also positively influencing
dietary behaviors.
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Obama-Romney debate number two: Another stage- ...
ShareThisObama-Romney
debate number two: Another stage-managed charade 17 Oct 2012 Both
candidates ritualistically invoked the American “middle class,” which
has largely disappeared, as millions have been thrown into the ranks of
a working class whose existence neither candidate acknowledged. ...
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Obama Says Romney Words Aren't 'True' in Secon ...
ShareThisObama
Says Romney Words Aren't 'True' in Second Debate 17 Oct 2012 President
Barack Obama repeatedly challenged the truth of challenger Mitt Romney's
statements as the two battled over the auto industry bailout, energy
policy and social issues in their second debate. "What Governor Romn ...
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Revealed: Canberra shared intel on Assange wit ...
ShareThisRevealed:
Canberra shared intel on Assange with Washington 17 Oct 2012 WikiLeaks
and Julian Assange have been the subject of intelligence exchanges
between Australia and the United States for more than two years, the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has revealed. The WikiLeaks pu
...
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Energized Obama takes aggressive approach in s ...
ShareThisEnergized
Obama takes aggressive approach in second debate 16 Oct 2012 A newly
energetic and aggressive President Obama went directly after his
Republican challenger from the first moment of their second debate to
the last, attacking Mitt Romney’s business record, his positions on
issue ...
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About 106 US tanks delivered to Yemen
ShareThisAbout
106 US tanks delivered to Yemen 14 Oct 2012 About 106 armored tanks
were delivered to Yemen's defense ministry, state sources affirmed,
pointing out that about 12 armored vehicles were also brought to Yemen
to protect the US Embassy. The sources said the tanks were delivered to
Ye ...
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VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
‘Poliomyelitis
(polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades
the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.
It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three
(over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
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VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
We
are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode
the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a
race to gain complete control over our inherent right to
self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
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VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
The
road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental
disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies
(HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature
breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network”
designed to prot ...
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VRM: The Flu Report
The
Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups &
swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general
population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their
elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health
Organization & a Vacc ...
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VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
Article
continued from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification
& Restoration of The Body
Replenishing the vital mineral base
We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of
“vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
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You Know You're Getting Old When...
A
few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG
washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them.
The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a
Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little
luxur ...
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Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today
a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new
thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If
you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the
Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air
conditi ...
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Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I
decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted
our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on
the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also
installed a new ...
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Strawberry Picking
Our
family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do
once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old
daughter realize where food comes from.
While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around
the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
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Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I
received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which
claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm,
or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right?
Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what
might be a good deal fo ...
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Updating my archives - Palestine 2002, Chiapas ...
I
have been updating my Writings Archive (see the tab above) and making
sure that all of the links are working, putting copies of the material
published elsewhere into this blog so it's all searchable and such. Part
of this is re-posting work that hasn't been on the internet in a long
time, so i ...
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The "Innocence of Muslims" video
A few notes on the video that has sparked ongoing mayhem in West Asia.
* The production values are very poor - it seems to me that no film professionals were used in the making of this film.
read more
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Two small outrages
While
these aren't the worst things in the world, a couple of things from the
world of information and journalism that were surprising enough to me,
even though I think I ought to be pretty hardened to these things by
now.
(1)
Through Wikileaks' twitter feed, I saw this story about one of the fo
...
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Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in November
Hi
everyone,
In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New
Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October.
I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC
in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour.
It's in the p ...
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Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
Hello
friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered
signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways
to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin
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The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working
towards a coordinated ini ...
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Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
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The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a
subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday.
This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between
Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were
countersuit ...
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UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
[JURIST]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
[official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill
8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in
Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it
violates ...
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UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
[JURIST]
The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of
England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the
British government for torture they suffered while in detention under
the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe
ruled th ...
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UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
[JURIST]
The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition
of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week
after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave
its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved
[JUR ...
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Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
[JURIST]
The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its
reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large
international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of
the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court
ori ...
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Did America's Cyber Attack on Iran Make Us Mor ...
By invading a foreign nation, the U.S. government may have put our own infrastructure at risk.
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A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
Twitter
is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a
variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care
reform. The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in
frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl
...
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2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
Resurgent
Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in
surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats --
because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have
not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been
increasingly ...
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2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
Confirming
rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced
today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to
"communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state
spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our
welfare ...
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Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
For
progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe
Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's
Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew
Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of
his acti ...
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Iranian Drone Incident Was Unacknowledged IDF ...
I’ve
often noted the parallel between the IDF’s public statements and
Kabuki-style Japanese theater. Everyone wears a costume (or uniform)
and mask, everyone plays a role, no one’s actual role or anything they
say bears any resemblance to reality. So the Iranian drone inciden ...
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UK Former General Greases Skids for $1-Billion ...
Elbit
Systems is one of Israel’s largest defense contractors, something like
Lockheed, General Dynamics and Boeing rolled into one. It has its
tentacles in virtually every high-tech weapons system developed by and
for the IDF. Like its American counterparts, it also has an extensive
over ...
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Iranian Drone Downed 10 Miles from Dimona, Lik ...
Iran’s
message to Israel regarding the drone it sent deep into Israeli
airspace last week: two can play at this game. Just as Israel has
assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists and sabotaged its nuclear
facilities with computer worms and sabotaging electricity lines, Iran
can target Israe ...
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Israel’s New Cyber-Virus Attacks Computers fro ...
Kaspersky
Labs announced today that it had discovered a new cyber-virus it’s
calling mini-Flame, used to hack computer systems in the Middle East.
The code, a variant of the Flame and Stuxnet computer worms, which have
previously been attributed to joint Israeli and U.S. development,
penetrated ...
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Israeli Protest Song Banned from Army Radio
There
was once a time when Israeli songs like A Matter of Habit were
routinely written, aired and became hits. These were songs of political
commentary or protest, songs of hope and idealism. They represented
the aspirations of Israel’s secular liberal (generally Ashkenazi) eli
...
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VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
Janet
McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the
history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't
any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names?
Shouldn't the ...
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Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
You
might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on
all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by
a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the
top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You
would be wrong.
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Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
He
looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile,
wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a
bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning,
making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took
the picture ...
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American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
Israel's
Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel
"The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It
reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency,
and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
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Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
Today's
New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the
Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli
forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these
deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak
refused to apol ...
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As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and
more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not
only will you ...
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BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
Big
news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could
give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us
online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but
finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the
GOP Corporat ...
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The Eye On Citrus Show
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Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in
Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction
books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
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Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
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63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
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What side are you on?
As
a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional
committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports
that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American
people have been very clear. They understand how important Social
Security, Med ...
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The Unsuitablog Archive
The
Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to
investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of
advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of
Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a
reality. To ...
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The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
Four
years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of
The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless
nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the
repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation
in creating the hund ...
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You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
On
Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader
of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is
radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil
disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not
radical. Radica ...
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Strikes vs Royal Weddings
There
is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are
condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the
government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t
damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it
...
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WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
It
seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite
NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to
give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a
stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s
...
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Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
A
few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece
looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth
inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall
tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding
that duri ...
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Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
Over
the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim
commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility.
When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t
commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de
...
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Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep.
Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American
Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t
cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax
dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and
urgent issue of ...
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Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One
of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be
that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as
members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them.
Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East
Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
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“I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The
Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the
disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the
fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt.
“I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we
saw in Gaza (cour ...
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Super-Fast Autoplay-Enabled Watchup 1.4 Now in ...
One of our bold beliefs here at Watchup has always been to iterate fast
over users' feedback. Watchup is a Stanford startup, incubated at
StartX, the Stanford startup accelerator, and as such we always try to
apply the design thinking principles to our work.
The latest version 1.4 of your ...
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A LocalWiki for Antarctica
Many
months ago, we were approached about helping start up a LocalWiki
project in Antarctica.
In. Antarctica. Antarctica!
The project, named "Open Antarctica," would aim to initially document a
region of roughly 2 miles surrounding the Palmer Station United States
base on the Antarctic Pen ...
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Social Media's Role in the Evolution of Frontl ...
It's
Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh
anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social
media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS.
'Democratization of Development'
In a recent BBC Future article, I wrote about ...
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MapSurvey: Start a Map-Visualized Survey in 1 ...
A
few months ago, we became the largest crowdsourced journalism project
in Latvia to date. We reached 2% of the general population and gathered
unique data. However, to generate the data and launch the survey we had
to program, design and test the system for weeks and invest several
thousand dol ...
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The State Decoded Debuts Version 0.4
Version
0.4 of The State Decoded was just tagged on GitHub and bundled up for
download, the result of six weeks of work. The State Decoded is a
platform that displays state codes, court decisions, and information
from legislative tracking services to make it all more understandable to
normal hum ...
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Japan on Edge - American Sailors Stand Accused ...
The
latest alleged crime committed by American servicemen in Japan
threatens to ignite escalated protests on the southern island of Okinawa
against the U.S. military presence there. There has been an immediate
diplomatic outburst following the detention of two U.S. Navy sailors on
Okinawa. A Jap ...
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Drugs Wars - Latin American Nations Consider D ...
Last
March, Central American nations held a drug legalization summit in
Antigua, Guatemala. As the host of the summit, Guatemalan President Otto
Pérez Molina suggested that production, consumption, and sales of
narcotics should be regulated and legalized. In April, current
strategies to fight t ...
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The 2012 Vote - Arguementative Obama Heats Up ...
President
Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney faced off
Tuesday in the second of three nationally televised debates. This forum
contained far more confrontation than the first, with the candidates
occasionally lapsing into arguments.With his poll numbers fading after a
l ...
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Israel and Palestine - Hamas Fires from Gaza a ...
An
anti-aircraft missile was fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza last week at
an Israeli aircraft but missed its target, the Hebrew language
newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported on October 16.According to the report
the missile was smuggled in from Libya. Israeli authorities have
worried that the mis ...
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The Women's Edge - Initiative Empowers Rural Women
October
15th is International Day of Rural Women. The United Nations says rural
women play a critical role in development, food security and
eradicating poverty.Four U.N. agencies recently launched a five year
initiative to speed economic empowerment and gender equality of rural
women. Initially ...
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Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry
to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget
to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry
to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget
to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...
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Practicing Peace in the New Year
A
friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along
some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has
written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the
competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our
young p ...
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BREAKING: Obama Spokesman-Maybe the Buck DOES ...
After
Hillary Clinton took "full responsibility" for the security of US
diplomats, and hours after refusing to respond to follow up questions
from reporters, Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki fully reversed the
Administration's position.
Psaki just told Fox News' Sheppard Smith:
SMITH: a ...
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State Dept. Makes Biden a Liar
A
little more than a week ago Vice President Biden criticized Governor
Romney for suggesting that should the generals recommend it based on
conditions on the ground he may keep a a presence in Afghanistan past
the 2014 date. According to the State Department the SCHMOTUS may not
been entirely t ...
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Live Blogging The Hofstra Debate From The Spin ...
Folks
I am credentialed for tomorrow-night's debate at Hofstra. I hope to
provide insights into the two candidates along with a behind-the-scenes
look at the goings on in the "spin room." Sometimes the reaction of the
spin meisters is more indicative of how a debate is going than polls or
pundit ...
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Obama: The Libya Buck Stops THERE
Finally
someone in the Obama Administration has shown some leadership,
unfortunately that person is not the Commander-In-Chief Barack Obama,
but the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Remember when Barack Obama was bashing Romney about Bain Capital? This
is what he said:
A ...
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Obama Pollster Mocked GOP For Criticizing Gall ...
Just released today, the USA Today/Gallup Poll showed GOP candidate Mitt
Romney with a 4 point lead over Barack Obama amongst likely voters in
the key battleground states and a two point lead in the other 38 states.
Even more newsworthy is the fact that amongst female likely vo ...
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Foxconn Hires Minors for its Chinese Factory
REUTERS
| OCTOBER 17, 2012 Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest
contract electronics maker, has acknowledged hiring teenagers as young
as 14 in a Chinese factory, in breach of national law, in a case that
raises further questions over its student intern program. Labor rights
...
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Chevron will pay $ 19 billion for Damages in t ...
By
LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 17, 2012 A judge in
Ecuadorian ordered authorities to confiscate assets that belong to
American oil giant Chevron as part of a multimillion conviction for
having caused environmental damages in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Wilfrido Judge Erazo, a j ...
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Slavery Incorporated: American Schools are Bre ...
By
JOHN WHITEHEAD | ROTHERFORD INSTITUTE | OCTOBER 16, 2012
“[P]ublic school reform is now justified in the dehumanizing language of
national security, which increasingly legitimates the transformation of
schools into adjuncts of the surveillance and police state… students
are increasi ...
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Nanopatch Vaccine in the Mail
“We
know that vaccines do not prevent disease, they GIVE the disease. As
the vaccine industry becomes the main source of income for Pharma they
will create disease they can vaccinate for because that is what makes
them money. If you die while they make money then all the better. Did
Bayer ...
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Biofuel Industry Exterminating Guarani Kaiowá ...
By
LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 16, 2012 In how many ways can
someone describe murder, corruption, crime, collusion, complicity to
commit murder, thuggery, injustice? I struggled greatly to title this
article because one or two lines cannot describe the shame I felt — ...
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Environmental groups criticize wind energy project
A
proposal to build the country’s largest wind energy project south of
Rawlins is drawing heat from environmental groups. The Laramie-based
Biodiversity Conservation Alliance is considering legal action because
of its concerns that the Chokecherry Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project
would dev ...
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Proposed wind farm causes controversy among Mo ...
MONTICELLO,
San Juan County — A battle has erupted over a proposal for southeastern
Utah’s first wind farm. It’s ironic because city leaders in Monticello
aggressively promoted wind industry development. Now, some residents are
shocked to find out just how close some of the giant win ...
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AWA Goodhue wind project put under the microscope
SAINT
PAUL — The development once dubbed “the most troubled” wind project in
state history by Minnesota Public Utilities Commission member Betsy
Wergin is back under the microscope. PUC staff posted a four-part
information request Thursday for the AWA Goodhue wind project permittee,
...
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Hundreds rally against big wind projects
Hundreds
of protestors demonstrated against wind energy projects Friday, hoping
to get the attention of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s administration. A
passionate crowd from all parts of Vermont descended on the statehouse
with a common cause on Friday. “We are a group of Vermonters that have
...
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State: Reject wind testing in Windham
WINDHAM
— The state Department of Public Service is urging rejection of a
proposal to build wind-testing towers here, saying such construction
would be “wholly contrary” to the Town of Windham’s regulations. The
department’s strongly worded letter does not end the p ...
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Is Being Less Productive Good for Humanity?
It
is not often that one comes across an article, especially one in
arguably the most important newspaper in the country, that is so
misguided across the board that one hardly knows where to begin in
pointing out its errors. Unfortunately, such an article appears in the
May 27 New York Times. Ti ...
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U.S. to Help Create an Elite Libyan Force to C ...
“The
Obama administration quietly won Congress’s approval last month to
shift about $8 million from Pentagon operations and counterterrorism aid
budgeted for Pakistan to begin building an elite Libyan force over the
next year that could ultimately number about 500 troops. American
Special Operat ...
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True Progressivism
“In
the rich world the cronyism is better-hidden. One reason why Wall
Street accounts for a disproportionate share of the wealthy is the
implicit subsidy given to too-big-to-fail banks. From doctors to
lawyers, many high-paying professions are full of unnecessary
restrictive practices. And then ...
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Stripping off the Gray Flannel Suit
Sloan
Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is one of those business
novels about which everyone has heard—especially since it was referenced
on Mad Men—but which almost no one reads any more. This is a shame
because the most common descriptions of it in the press and online are
not partic ...
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Stripping off the Gray Flannel Suit
Sloan
Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is one of those business
novels about which everyone has heard—especially since it was referenced
on Mad Men—but which almost no one reads any more. This is a shame
because the most common descriptions of it in the press and online are
not partic ...
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What should be in a “visual journalism” course?
One
meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism.
There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully
disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism”
is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...
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Should you major in journalism now?
Like
any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats
tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching
for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and
whether it’s smart to be a journalism major.
I teach about online journali ...
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Blogging basics for journalism students
Having
just finished grading some student blog posts, I have a few thoughts:
1. Headline. The headline (or title) of a blog post should accurately
represent the content of the blog post. If the blog post is a critique
of, say, a news story, don’t write your blog post headline as if your p
...
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Plagiarism lessons and examples
I’m
catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about
the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this
article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious
transgressions:
Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com
I think one thi ...
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Use Instapaper to capture, read blog posts
I’ve
been using Instapaper, a free on- and off-line reading tool, for a
while, maybe more than a year. Mostly I use it for its most common
purpose — to capture very long articles from a Web page and read them
later. Often I read them on my Kindle when I’m not connected to wi-fi
...
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Forest for the trees on the job #s
Jack
Welch was wrong that the BLS fixed the job #s. But so what? He was
right on the key point: there is no way in HELL that the economy
produced 873,000 jobs, as per the Household Survey. Ordinary people
know this, and all the pundits who argued about whether the BLS fixed
the # [...]
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Drones are not weapons of the powerful
If
this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones
are cheap. They are just big radio controlled planes. They cost
nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard.
Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows). Hezbollah is
sophisticated, they ...
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Drones are not weapons of the powerful
If
this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones
are cheap. They are just big radio controlled planes. They cost
nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard.
Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows). Hezbollah is
sophisticated, they ...
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Woops
The
post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t
notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have
used Employment survey #s. Ouch. I am officially embarrassed. At
least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever,
as we all kn ...
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Woops
The
post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t
notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have
used Employment survey #s. Ouch. I am officially embarrassed. At
least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever,
as we all kn ...
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Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My
colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where
she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is
Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and
journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez
has become a terr ...
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PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A
few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met
Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She
was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It
changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the
Israeli childr ...
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FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I
listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find
something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of
such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important
issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become
...
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PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban
Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding
in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond
anybody's imagination".
At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have
died, and disease and hunger will c ...
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China and the end of the end of history
Many
economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's
being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the
recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more
serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy
and worl ...
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Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
An
ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human
disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node”
of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China
meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and
genetic medicine ...
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US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
Americans
may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug
company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to
produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US
government officials announced 13 December.
The approach is an alternative to conve ...
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NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
A
National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its
recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria,
'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort
was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says
task force co-chair J ...
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Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
More
than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by
governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between
2000 and 2010, a new study reports.
This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long
term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
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Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
Forget
Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the
underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of
aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a
former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company
that aims to ...
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CERF's Economic Policy Plan
Here
at California Lutheran University's Center for Economic Research and
Forecasting, we think that each presidential candidate does have an
economic plan. But it is a bit difficult to discern the policy under all
the campaign noise. Then there is the problem of the truth. When out
of office, ...
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A Planet of People: Angel's Planet of Cities
Professor
Shlomo Angel's new book, Planet of Cities, seems likely to command a
place on the authoritative bookshelf of urbanization between Tertius
Chandler's Four Thousand Years of Urban Growthand Sir Peter Hall's
Cities and Civilization and The Containment of Urban England. Chandler
produ ...
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Thoughts on Chicago’s Tech Scene
I’ve
said before that I don’t think Chicago is well positioned to become
some type of dominant tech hub, but should only seek to get its “fair
share” of tech. However, as the third largest city in America, Chicago’s
fair share on tech is still pretty darn big. If you look at what’s been
happenin ...
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A Geographer Who Navigated the Globe
Many
people ask, “What do geographers do?” I would suggest that Marvin
Creamer’s life story is all you need to know about the practical
application of geography, even though most of us will never be stuck in
a horizonless Indian Ocean on a “sea of glass”, or try to navigate the
ferocious Drake ...
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Florida: When Your Best (Place) Just Ain't Go ...
Real
estate broker Coldwell Banker handles corporate relocations for a large
portion of our middle class. It recently released a survey of
Suburbanite Best Places to Live. While it's easy to dismiss as a sales
tool for their realtors, the survey provides a fascinating glimpse of
middle class, s ...
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EU Commissioner brought down by anti-fraud inv ...
Commissioner
John Dalli today announced his resignation as a member of the European
Commission, with immediate effect because of the results of an
anti-fraud investigation.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-788_en.htm
Dalli was responsible for health and consumer affairs, including ...
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Time to scrap biofuels, not push GMOs
EXTRACT:
"The sustainable intensification approach is a wolf in sheep's
clothing. On the surface, it favours ecological science and farmer-led
solutions to the food crisis, the preferred method of several UN backed
studies. Dig a little deeper and it seems to be a disguise for some
Governments a ...
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Americans eat their weight in GM food
Americans Eat Their Weight in Genetically Engineered Food
Renee Sharp
Environmental Working Group, October 15 2012
http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2012/10/americans-eat-their-weight-in-genetically-engineered-food/
Americans are eating their weight and more in genetically engineered food every year, a ...
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Seralini's stats stand up - Prof. Peter Saunders
NOTE:
Over and over again the claim has been made that Seralini's recently
published study, which found high levels of tumours in rats given GM
feed and tiny amounts of Roundup, can be safely ignored because he
didn't use sufficient numbers of experimental animals. But in the
following article P ...
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In India GM crops come at a high price
NOTE:
Recently India's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture issued
a damning report on GM crops, which was all the more powerful for being
signed unanimously by all of its 31 members, who represented India's
entire political spectrum.
One of the most impressive aspects of the report ...
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Skilled Work, Without the Worker
Via:
New York Times: The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be
more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors,
which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in
Fremont, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley. More than half of the
building i ...
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Suicide of Deloitte Partner Daniel Pirron Link ...
Via:
Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for
answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing
firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal.
Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in
New York, w ...
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Water Shortages Hit U.S. Power Supply
Via:
New Scientist: As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought
threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling
the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated
and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations
struggl ...
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Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ ...
Via:
Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called
designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes
them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical
ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice ...
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Cows Eating Second Hand Candy During the Drought
Via:
WPRI: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because
the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one
rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield’s United
Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for
success. &# ...
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The Last Days Of America? 25 Signs Of Extreme ...
Are
we on the verge of societal collapse? Many of the greatest empires
throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces. Rather,
they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in. There have been
many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what
America is goi ...
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Greece Is Not Poor – It Actually Has Mas ...
It
turns out that the poster child for the European debt crisis is not
actually poor at all. In fact, the truth is that the nation of Greece
is sitting on absolutely massive untapped reserves of gold, oil and
natural gas. If the Greeks were to fully exploit the natural resources
that are liter ...
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21 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Ab ...
The
global debt crisis has reached a dangerous new phase. Unfortunately,
most Americans are not taking notice of it yet because most of the
action is taking place overseas, and because U.S. financial markets are
riding high. But just because the global economic crisis is unfolding
at the pace ...
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Will The Election Results Cause Massive Riots ...
Will
the most divisive campaign in modern American history culminate in
massive riots in our major cities? Right now, supporters of Barack
Obama and supporters of Mitt Romney are both pinning all of their hopes
on a victory on November 6th. The race for the presidency is extremely
tight, and o ...
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UNSUSTAINABLE
When
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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Transparency in Texas: Dallas suburbs lead in ...
Among the state’s biggest cities, several sprawling Dallas-area suburbs
tallied the highest rate of requests to Texas Attorney General Greg
Abbott last year to keep government information secret, according to a
recent examination by the Center for Public Integrity.The probe examined
the numbe ...
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Christian college asks for refund of donation ...
A nonprofit college says it has asked for a refund of a $5,000 donation
to a conservative super PAC after an inquiry by the Center for Public
Integrity.Colorado Christian University gave the money last month to
“Jan PAC,” the super PAC of Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer,
according t ...
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Lobbyists rake in $14 million for Romney
As Republican Mitt Romney works to unify the party faithful behind him,
the number of lobbyists raising money to help him secure the White House
has soared.More than five-dozen lobbyist-bundlers have raised at least
$14 million for Romney’s election efforts, according to reports
submitted Mon ...
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IMPACT: Administration official asks for Medic ...
The nation’s top health information technology official has launched an
internal review to determine if electronic health records are prompting
some doctors and hospitals to overbill Medicare.Dr. Farzad Mostashari,
the Obama administration’s National Coordinator for Health Information
Technol ...
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Daily Disclosure: Smaller super PACs target do ...
A new batch of super PAC donor information arrived at the Federal
Election Commission Monday, and among the top contributors was the
nonprofit Americans for Limited Government, profiled by the Daily
Disclosure Monday.The organization, which released a Web video implying
that Vice President Jo ...
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The Globe: War is Peace
By
David@Sixthestate.net Even by the steadily declining standards of The
Globe and Mail, Canada’s “paper of record” hit an unusual low in its
angry and Orwellian response to the announcement that the European Union
was being given this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It’s definitely a bit of
a head-sc ...
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Out of the woods
By
Montreal Simon I went for a walk the other day through the leafy lanes
of The Shire, with a friend of mine who has suffered from severe
depression from about this time last year. It was such a beautiful fall
day. He was so happy, at having made so much progress on the road [...]
Tags: ...
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A Modest Opinion – Like Father, Like Sons
By
Nathaniel Moher Quick, who is the greatest Prime Minister of Canada?!
If you voted for Kim Clark, you’re obviously . . . Kim Clark. The
answer, of course, is His Royal Robotness, the great Mr. Harps (if only
because, if he wasn’t the greatest Prime Minister ever, why would we
re-elect him af ...
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Not so risky business
By
Mark Evans Canadian venture capitalists have a problem: they’re
cautious, conservative and have a low tolerance to risk. It’s an easy
thesis to accept because, in part, it’s true. It explains why The Globe
& Mail published an extensive feature on the challenges facing
Canada’s venture cap ...
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Next victim of XL Foods: The Conservatives
By
Montreal Simon Four years ago, during a Listeriosis epidemic that
killed 22 Canadians, somebody created a video game called the Cold Cuts
Cannon. Where you could fire cold cuts at little Gerry Ritz heads
floating gently over Parliament Hill. Pop his balloon so to speak, for
having had the cra ...
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More leaks expose depth of attack on civil ser ...
jobcenter 2.jpg
On September 28, the Cabinet Office wrote to all HR
directors across the Civil Service, instructing them to review terms
and conditions with a clear view to rolling them back. The lett ...
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Far right washouts!
Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! The various far
right grupuscules were all a wee bit busy this weekend. It’s a pity they
all can’t agree with each other cos if they all joined together there
would be almost 350 of them and they could take over!
...
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Marikana prequel: NUM and the murders that sta ...
The coverage of the Marikana massacre seems to
start with the mass killings of 16 August. But that’s not where, or how
the violence started, and it wasn’t rivalry between unions, either.
Rewind a few days and prepare for goosebumps: you’ll find a web of con
...
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Call for Anarchist Solidarity in Response to D ...
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Yet another young black person has been murdered by the police.
[from @news:http://www.anarchistnews.org/content/call-anarchist-solidarity-response-derek-w ...
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Issues that Obama and Romney avoid
Romney.jpg
As the US election approaches, Noam Chomsky
examines how similar the two candidates are on the biggest issues, and
points out that only mass action, not voting, can change things.
...
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The Last Post
This
will be the last post I write for the FRI blog. If this is the first
time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to
October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best
posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan. Or go to the [...]
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How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
Our
little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas. My brother
Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his
IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big
pain in his ass. We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
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Vision Quest
Editors
note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas
Comes Home) so it makes sense. We will try to get more posts up sooner
than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well
as we hoped . Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
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Band On The Run
Editors
Note: It is important for first time readers to start this story from
the beginning. This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother,
Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to
living a normal life back in the states. Any donations received by the
FRI bl ...
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Dead Man Walking
Dalton
continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for
change. Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this
cracking tale will go directly to Dalton. For the record, I (Baba T)
did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can’
...
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Way to Go Veterans!!!
This
has to be filed in the “What Were They Thinking?” waste bin. The
American Flag is a symbol that means a great deal to American vets – men
who bled and comrades who died to raise the emblem on the mountain top
at Iwo Jima. Unfortunately, to many others The Flag has sadly b ...
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World War III – The Protocol of the R ...
This
pretty much says it all. “In every age it has been the tyrant, the
oppressor and the exploiter, who has wrapped himself in the cloak of
patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.”
(Eugene Debs, 1855-1926, speech Canton, Ohio, 16th June 1918.) The
Life of an A ...
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The Future of Medicine is Here NOW!
Part
of the “programming” of the masses is brainwashing them that only those
“MD’S” (i.e. Medical Deities) in white coats are qualified to dispense
health information. The Truth is that most “MD’s” are themselves
programmed from day one in “M ...
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Update on “Event Contract” Post
This
is an update to my February 2011 post on “Event Contracts” -
http://wp.me/pUCM2-4P Just to refresh your memory – the term “Event
Contract” is big EDOMITE money strategically invested to reap a huge
profit following a devastating event that is in reality CAUSED ...
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Great Expose – MUST READ!
This
is an absolutely correct assessment. Remember the following definition:
HEGEMONY 1: preponderant influence or authority over others :
domination 2: the social, cultural,
ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group 3
Reasons the US an ...
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Moving to a New Location
Scotts
Contracting is Moving For the Past week or so I have been moving into a
new Work Shop, Office, and Warehouse. Stay tuned for further Details.
Build Green, Scotty
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Join me to oppose:Res 37 Toxic Air Bill by Sen ...
I
am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill
offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I
signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and
emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy
Blunt are at the bo ...
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Little Green Thumb Recycling Adventure
GRATITUDE
OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have
been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed
that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little
Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
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Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChange
Climate
change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s
estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this
century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out
more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
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Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
The
extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By
Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy
Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation
of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the
south and east sid ...
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GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quite
By
Walt De Vries
From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign
strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign
research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in
the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...
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OCTOBER 9, 2002, TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S. Gov ...
From
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq
War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn:
In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative
reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative
Italian Prime Minister Sil ...
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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: Ari Fleischer Claims Oil ...
Original
...
Q
And I have a question -- how much does oil have to do with the
assessment of the threat from Saddam Hussein? President Bush didn't
mention it.
MR. FLEISCHER: I'm not sure I follow your question.
Q Well, you keep talking about blackmail. You're talking about
blackmail ...
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Bob Woodward on First 2012 Presidential Debate ...
On
Kilmeade and Friends, October 4, 2012
WOODWARD: Now I've not done any reporting on this, but I'm going to give
you my honest view – something happened, maybe in foreign affairs, they
got some intelligence report or something, you know, who knows the
things that can happen in a presiden ...
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Romney: Jack Welch – Who Believes in Strange N ...
From
'Transaction Man: Mormonism, private equity, and the making of a
candidate' in the New Yorker, October 1, 2012:
"The private sector is less forgiving," [Romney] said. "If you make
serious mistakes in the private sector, you'll lose your job, or, if
you're in a position of responsibilit ...
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Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For
SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps
PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat
clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of
the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of
the 2,91 ...
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Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba
throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during
a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death
penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly.
Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit
at the camera ...
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K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For
SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G
Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday.
Bopaiah signed the ...
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Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For
SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight
people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered
injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah
Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two
heads, beli ...
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Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For
SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON:
Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that
political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime
and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes
caused damage ...
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France prepares for military intervention in Mali
French
Defense Minister says an African intervention in its former colony Mali
is a matter of weeks, not months following Paris’ persistent lobbying
for the initiative. “It’s a matter of weeks, not months, weeks,”
Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a televised interview on Tuesday. Le ...
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Police arrest US presidential candidate Jill S ...
Police
arrested Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running
mate, Cheri Honkala, after they tried to enter the site of tonight’s
presidential debate at the Hofstra University. “Jill Stein, Cheri
Honkala arrested, call tonight’s debate a “mockumentary”,” said a ...
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Scottish referendum countdown begins with Came ...
Details
of Scotland’s ‘most important political decision in 300 years’ to be
confirmed in Edinburgh. Scots will on Monday be given 100 weeks to make
the “most important political decision in 300 years” of Scottish history
when David Cameron and Alex Salmond sign a d ...
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Turkey closes airspace to Syrian civilian flig ...
Ankara
has placed a ban on Syrian Airlines flying into Turkish airspace, after
a diplomatic row that began when Turkey seized cargo from a Syrian
civilian plane it forced to land in Ankara. Earlier, Damascus closed its
airspace to Turkish airlines. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
said ...
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Strange Domes to Line the Texas Coast in Prepa ...
Disaster-proof
domes that can sustain winds in excess of 250 mph will cost taxpayers
more than $50 a foot. FEMA has now offered to pick up the tab of at
least $50 million dollars, to install disaster shelters in and around
Houston that, according to the manufacturer, (ABC Domes based out of
Seal ...
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Yankees turn big double play to escape 6th inn ...
Okay, maybe it's just time to realize that yes, while nobody's perfect
or unbeatable and the New York Yankees still have a great deal of talent
in that lineup, no: the Yankees are not going to beat Justin Verlander
in this game. After a 1-2-3 fifth inning and a 1-2-3 sixth, Verlander
has a) all ...
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Appleâs got something little to show you, iPad ...
Apple have sent out invites to journalists for October 23rd. The invite
has the tag line âWeâve got a little more to show you.â The focus is
clearly on the little, alluding to the much rumoured and leaked smaller
version of the iPad known as the iPad Mini. While I still donât see the
need for a ...
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Yankees bench both Alex Rodriguez and Nick Swi ...
The Yankees are getting desperate. Joe Girardi has benched both Alex
Rodriguez and Nick Swisher for tonight's critical Game 3 of the ALCS
against the Tigers and ace Justin Verlander. Brett Garnder, who has only
one official at-bat during this series and only three since April,
leads off ...
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Samsung Galaxy S3 lasts slightly longer in ble ...
The fine folks at BlendTec have continued their fine heritage of
appliance-based science by seeing whether or not the Samsung Galaxy S3
or the iPhone 5 are able to survive industrial-strength spinning blades.
The short answer is no, neither of them can withstand BlendTec's
whirling wrath, but a ...
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Commissioner Gary Bettman Press Conference Tra ...
Commissioner Bettman Media Availability Transcript Toronto, October 16,
2012 Good afternoon, everyone. Bill Daly and I just spent the last hour
with Don and Steve Fehr, and I would like to briefly report to you on
what was discussed. As I think all of you know we have been extremely
disappointe ...
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Android malware, FUD, and the FBI
In
any case, both programs aren't classic computer viruses. They require
users to go above and beyond the call of stupidity to catch them.
With both, you typically need to open a suspicious looking email, then
follow a link, and then agree, in Android's case, to download the
unknown Android app ...
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Judge threatens to 'strangle' attorney in 'rid ...
But
leading national experts on legal ethics said McDonald's comments about
the case, in which Barron is seeking a new trial for death row inmate
Roger Dale Epperson, indicate that the judge had improperly prejudged
the case.
"The judge's conduct in general is highly injudicious," said Hofstra
...
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Samsung S5 550 Chromebook: All in after a week
The
recent purchase of a Chromebook surprised me by proving how well it
works for me. After a week of using the Chromebook, that surprise has
morphed into total satisfaction. - James Kendrick, ZDNet
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Back In Court (comic)
STEVE
(BINKY): Your Honor, there is no reason to force Apple to produce the
same level of email during discovery that Samsung is. Samsung is the
company that is under the most scrutiny in this case.
SAMSUNG LAWYER: What? - Help Desk, Eviscerati
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EU Privacy Watchdogs Blast Google's Data Prote ...
The
European watchdogs said it remains unclear to users how their data are
being used and recommended that Google implement layers of privacy
notices that include "interactive presentations" that avoid long legal
disclosures and "allow users to navigate easily through the content of
the [privacy ...
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Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)
I
realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis,
for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more
importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so)
people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis--
one that, whe ...
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News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...
I've
recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in
The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to
much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma.
Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to
The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
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Two observations on the tragedy in Syria
1.
War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone.
Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the
commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely
committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the
exacerbation of tensions can ...
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'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
Despite
many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political
situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the
most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does
carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out
there i ...
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July 2006, lest we forget
In
these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were
battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"--
designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily
by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly
that they would turn ...
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The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral
institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is
and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
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SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is
notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it
has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
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How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes
up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive,
humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
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Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their
institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored
group.
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The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code
was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's
curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
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Misdeeds, Not Mistakes, Behind Most Scientific ...
By
Dr. Mercola
The medical and health fields are absolutely riddled with dogmatic
beliefs that defy both commonsense and scientific truth. And yet they
prevail because they are supposedly backed by "science."
But what if that science was not actually trustworthy, but rather a
carefully orche ...
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Will Boosting Your Vitamin D Levels Help Preve ...
By
Dr. Mercola
For the last ten years, I've regularly reported on the benefits of
vitamin D, especially for combating colds and flu. But according to a
new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),
vitamin D supplements appear to be useless for reducing the number or se
...
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New Evidence Demolishes Claims of Safety and E ...
By
Dr. Mercola
There are currently two HPV vaccines on the market, but if there was any
regard for sound scientific evidence, neither would be promoted as
heavily as they are.
The first, Gardasil, was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in 2006. It is now recommended as a ...
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BPA Damages Chromosomes, Disrupts Egg Development
By
Dr. Mercola
When a woman experiences a miscarriage or has a baby born with a birth
defect like Down Syndrome, the cause is usually a mystery. Modern
medicine simply does not have an explanation in most cases, although
there are some clues coming in.
Environmental Chemicals Like BPA ...
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Confirmed Again: Statin Drugs Accelerate Cardi ...
By
Dr. Mercola
Statins are the world's most-prescribed class of medications. A
staggering one in four Americans over the age of 45 now take
cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Pravachol, Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor,
Crestor, and others. A majority of them are taking these drugs for
primary prevent ...
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Land grabs in Ethiopia leave tribes hungry on ...
A
boy from the Lower Omo stands on the riverbank.© SurvivalViolent land
grabs in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley are displacing tribes and
preventing them from cultivating their land, leaving thousands of people
hungry and ‘waiting to die’.
As the world prepares to raise awareness of the issues beh ...
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Leaked plans to resettle Penan surface as bloc ...
The
Penan's blockade of the Murum dam road began on 26th September.©
SCANE/SurvivalLeaked plans to resettle Malaysia’s Penan have surfaced,
as the tribe continues to hold a two-week blockade on the road leading
to the controversial Murum dam.
Anger is growing within the tribe, which says i ...
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Australia’s Channel 7 seeks judicial review of ...
Paul
Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she
wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the
Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease.© Channel 7Australia’s Channel 7
goes to court tomorrow (11 October) seeking judicial review of a
devastating ruling a ...
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Company boss named in forgery probe linked to ...
Paraguay's
Ayoreo were the victims of a forgery scandal earlier this year.©
SurvivalThe boss of a company controlled by one of Spain’s biggest
corporations has been linked to a scandal involving forged signatures in
Paraguay.
Diego Eduardo León is the vice-President and acting Chairman of ...
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Blockade by Earth’s most threatened tribe para ...
Indians
blockade key railway to demand their land rights are respected.©
CIMI/SurvivalA protest involving Earth’s most threatened tribe, the Awá,
has forced the world’s largest iron ore mine to suspend operations
along its main railway line.
On Tuesday, hundreds of Indians including the Awá, to ...
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New Evidence Demolishes Claims of Safety and E ...
from mercola.com: There are currently two HPV vaccines on the market,
but if there was any regard for sound scientific evidence, neither would
be promoted as heavily as they are. The first, Gardasil, was licensed
by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006. It is now
recommended as a ...
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Australian Govt Wants to Outlaw Inexpensive Al ...
from
cryptogon.com: Via: The Australian: CHEAP wine will be banned under a
federal health agency’s plan to make drinkers pay at least $8-$10 for a
bottle of booze. The Federal Government’s Australian National
Preventative Health Agency will advise this week that a “floor price”
and new taxes be ...
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#VIDEO: Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Ly ...
from mercola.com: Unrelenting pain. Headaches, muscle aches, swollen
joints, rashes. Loss of coordination and muscle spasms. Intermittent
paralysis. Cycles of disabling symptoms that persist for years, causing
ceaseless suffering and frustration for patients and their families.
This is the pi ...
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Oakland Sues U.S. to Prevent Closing of Mariju ...
from nytimes.com: The City of Oakland has filed a lawsuit in federal
court to prevent the Department of Justice from seizing property leased
to the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the country. “This
lawsuit is about protecting the rights of legitimate medical patients,”
City Attorney ...
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Child Suspended from School for Kombucha in Lu ...
from
thehealthyhomeeconomist.com:
The trouble apparently started because the kombucha drink was packed in a
glass bottle which is the appropriate container for this healthy,
vitamin and probiotic filled beverage. The mother even took care to
safely place the glass bottle in a ...
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The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
source:
Huffington Post, 8/24/2011
Michael Mungai
Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids
I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the
outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my
two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
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Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
source:
Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011
Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect,
were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle
village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some
dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
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Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
source:
India today, July 1, 2011
A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and
setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district
in Andhra Pradesh.
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The changing face of the church
source:
Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011
Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures
around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom
and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West
Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
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Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011
In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged
Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with
having sex with young girls and getting them to abort
S Shyam Prasad
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The Last Days Of America? 25 Signs Of Extreme ...
Are
we on the verge of societal collapse? Many of the greatest empires
throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces. Rather,
they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in. There have been
many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what
America is goi ...
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Greece Is Not Poor – It Actually Has Mas ...
It
turns out that the poster child for the European debt crisis is not
actually poor at all. In fact, the truth is that the nation of Greece
is sitting on absolutely massive untapped reserves of gold, oil and
natural gas. If the Greeks were to fully exploit the natural resources
that are liter ...
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21 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Ab ...
The
global debt crisis has reached a dangerous new phase. Unfortunately,
most Americans are not taking notice of it yet because most of the
action is taking place overseas, and because U.S. financial markets are
riding high. But just because the global economic crisis is unfolding
at the pace ...
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Will The Election Results Cause Massive Riots ...
Will
the most divisive campaign in modern American history culminate in
massive riots in our major cities? Right now, supporters of Barack
Obama and supporters of Mitt Romney are both pinning all of their hopes
on a victory on November 6th. The race for the presidency is extremely
tight, and o ...
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UNSUSTAINABLE
When
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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Every end is a new beginning...
Just
remember that death is not the end...
So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the
many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me
in my little sidestep venture:
http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/
Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
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Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
On
the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has
posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first
time)...
...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than
replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters
on Twi ...
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European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
Here
are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment
Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of
Commons yesterday.
Bill Cash MP
Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt
to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
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Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
Archbishop
Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in
public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at
the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the
invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Part of Tutu's thinking ...
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The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
As
is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left
at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death.
Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more
than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click
on the th ...
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Search for new executive director of Center on ...
Karen
Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security
(CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities.
Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the
Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism News
Today’s
Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the
staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular
thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn
O’Hara … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism News
In
Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King
Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third
congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States
Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism News
In
Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to
Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments
Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy
weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism News
In
Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing
Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers,
one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in
2009 reached a … Continue reading →
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Ubuntu Needs a "Project Butter" like Android
I'm a fairly satisfied Ubuntu 12.04 LTS user and I'm quite optimistic
about the forthcoming changes to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. But that
doesn't mean they both are somehow "perfect" or something. Unity, which
was a huge departure from the traditional GNOME 2.0 desktop, has been
around&nbs ...
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Additional Drivers Application Moved to Softwa ...
On the WiFi front, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was a big
disappointment for me. Nothing seemed to work until I started using an
alternative network manager called Wicd. Things are slowly starting to
get better with each new update in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but not
there yet. So ...
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23 Brand New Features in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal ...
The Ubuntu juggernaut is moving ahead and huge improvements and brand
new features keeps pouring in. Every new Ubuntu release cycle gives you
the impression that, things have really been improved and enough
features have been added, until you start seeing the changes being done
in the next rel ...
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Tears of Steel: Fourth Official Blender Movie ...
Blender movies have always amazed us all with its interesting little
stories and sophisticated visual graphics. While Elephants Dream was of
sci-fi kind with mind-bending ideas and graphics, Bug Buck Bunny was a
light-hearted comedy. The third one, Sintel, also had splendid graphics
to bac ...
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Google Play Store Celebrates 25 Billion Downlo ...
Google is on a roll. Few weeks ago, Chrome had already surpassed IE to
become world's most popular web browser and now this. According to
official Android blog, Google Play Store has just hit the magic 25
billion downloads mark and to celebrate the occasion, Google is now
offering a ...
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The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
Sipping
some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one
of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian
Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God
protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the
Annexatio ...
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Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
You
read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank
Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“
opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the
solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as
Justice Minister. ...
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Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
At
a time of crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized
the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the
Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all
today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve
banking scam ...
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FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
*Frank
Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the
sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and
chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign
the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a
second document: Schw ...
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Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
Here
it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry
dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and
Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the
incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine
with ...
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For the Love of Music
In
our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture —
even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to
know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they
used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...
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The End of the Age of Oil
Coal,
because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy
possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed,
compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon
fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon
Democracy, bring ...
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Assessing Bradley Manning
According
to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of
Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we
should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction
between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether,
indeed, ...
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Inner Worlds
Emanuel
Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote prolifically about his inner life. His
wild visions influenced, among many others, William Blake, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Carl Jung, and W.B. Yeats. Yet Swedenborg remains difficult to
access directly, difficult to assess objectively. Paradoxically, what
was cry ...
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Mormon Madness
It's
not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run
things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do
you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it
will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be
...
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Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia: Threat of R ...
Hurriyet
Daily News October 17, 2012 Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Russia ====
By providing financial assistance and arms [the] Sunni coalition and its
Western supporters converted the Syrian uprising into a civil war. The
danger is that this sectarian coalition might backfire at the end of the
...
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Iran: Democracy Won’t Come Out Of NATO G ...
Fars
News Agency October 16, 2012 Ahmadinejad: Democracy Not Possible
through NATO’s Guns TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed
out at the West for pursuing a militaristic approach under the guise of
expansion of democracy. “Democracy cannot be established through NATO
...
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Germany: U.S. Leads NATO Exercises For Post-Af ...
United
States European CommandOctober 16, 2012 Saber Junction tests U.S.,
partners’ interoperabilityDenver Beaulieu-Hains, JMTC Public Affairs
==== U.S. Army Europe’s Joint Multinational Training Command facilitates
this realistic training environment…enacting the larger maneuver space t
...
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Turkish War Moves Strengthen Russia-Syria-Iran ...
Russia
& India Report October 15, 2012 Russia-Turkey ties slip downhill to
the lowest level with over grounding of Syrian plane Dadan Upadhyay
==== Corroborating Syria’s view and denying Erdogan’s allegation, Lavrov
told media persons in Moscow that Russian cargo seized from the Syrian
aircr ...
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NATO Readies 25,000-Troop Global Strike Force ...
North
Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Rapid Reaction Corps October 12,
2012 NATO gives HQ ARRC green light for NRF role in 2013 ==== An NRF is a
coherent, high-readiness, joint, multinational force package of up to
25,000 troops that is technologically advanced, flexible, deployable,
interop ...
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Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein ...
By
Alex Thomas theintelhub.com October 16, 2012 In what can only be
described as an absolute smack in the face of this once free country,
Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein and her running mate have
been arrested while attempting to gain access to tonight’s debate. Stein
was att ...
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Government Spending: $27 Million for Moroccan ...
By
Alec Scheer theintelhub.com October 16, 2012 Contributed by
WeAre1776.org Tom Coburn, a medical doctor and a member of Congress has
published “Waste Book 2012,” which outlines some of the wildest
government expenditures. He reveals that $19 billion is spent on
outlandish projects and programs ...
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Obama or Romney: War and Economic Collapse Reg ...
By
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com October 16, 2012 CNN is making a big deal out
of Romney’s “right leaning” supporters. The corporate media branch of
the Pentagon’s psyops program thinks there’s a good chance these
“severely conservative” voters may push Romney over the top and get him
installed in the ...
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Don’t Celebrate Yet, But a Grassroots Victory ...
By
Mike Adams Natural News Oct 16, 2012 The battle against genetically
modified organisms being secretly engineered into our foods now has only
one possible outcome: Victory for the People… and defeat of the
corporate quack scientists and the outrageously dishonest and sinister
biotech industry ...
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Election Day Chaos? Obama Supporters Claim The ...
Alex Thomas | Supporters of President Obama have apparently taken to
Twitter to threaten Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney with assassination
if he happens to win the election.
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IMF’s “generosity” imprisons ...
IMF
gold windfall helps poor countries now but won’t break cycle of debt By
subsidising cheaper loans to low-income countries, the IMF will keep
them trapped by debt repayments for years [A demonstration against the
IMF and austerity policy in Lisbon. Are IMF loans maintaining a debt
crisi ...
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US military’s Asia-Pacific strategic foc ...
US
troops held over Okinawa alleged rape [Photo: There have been many
protests over the US military footprint, like this one over the Osprey
deployment] BBC, October 16, 2012–Two US troops have been arrested over
the alleged rape of a Japanese woman on the island of Okinawa. The two
men, i ...
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The South Is Risen: Old Jim Crow Thrives Insid ...
September
15, 2012 By Kevin Rashid Johnson, Oregon prisoner In her book, The New
Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander did a masterful job of
exposing the U.S. criminal (in)justice system for what it is: namely, an
updated, more sophisticated, continuation of repression and
containment, and ...
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The South Is Risen: Old Jim Crow Thrives Insid ...
September
15, 2012 By Kevin Rashid Johnson, Oregon prisoner In her book, The New
Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander did a masterful job of
exposing the U.S. criminal (in)justice system for what it is: namely, an
updated, more sophisticated, continuation of repression and
containment, and ...
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Mexico: 176 arrested as student teachers prote ...
Student
protest in Mexico turns violent, 176 arrested By Agence France-Presse,
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 MORELIA, Mexico — Mexican students protesting a
new curriculum threw homemade explosives, fired rockets and hurled
stones at police in a melee that left 176 arrested and 10 police
officers in ...
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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 Family
It
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 Palestinians
Today
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
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Life is change and change is life
And
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 cancer
There'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 Kippur
Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it.
Flickr photo
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Debate Follow-Up Questions Create Risk of Poli ...
After
the first presidential debate I opined that debate moderators needed to
be younger and more forceful. Now a new debate is thrust upon us
regarding the role of debate moderator: Should the moderator be allowed
follow-up questions?Contributor: Calvin Wolf
Published: Oct 15, 2012
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Biden’s Engagement Trumped His Rudeness During ...
Biden
came to this debate well-prepared, and while he may have laughed at and
interrupted Paul Ryan too much, his substance made up for his
style.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes
Published: Oct 12, 2012
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Mitt Romney Urges Peace Through Strength in Fo ...
Mitt
Romney ventured to the Virginia Military Institute and delivered a wide
ranging foreign policy address that was made all the more important and
relevant by two recent developments.Contributor: Mark Whittington
Published: Oct 09, 2012
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Anti-Science Congressman Should Resign from Sc ...
A
recent video of Rep. Paul Broun saying science is "lies from the pit of
hell" is grossly unfit to serve on the House Committee on Science,
Space and Technology and should resign.Contributor: Micah Taylor
Published: Oct 08, 2012
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Romney vs. Big Bird: Statement Brings Out Hypo ...
Ever
since Mitt Romney made his statement about cutting the federal funding
of PBS, hypocrites have taken to social media to blast the candidate for
threatening the system they do not donate to or even watch.Contributor:
L. Vincent Poupard
Published: Oct 04, 2012
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New Discovery: An Earth-Scale Planet Orbits Al ...
Meet
our closest neighbor. The planet closely orbits Alpha Centauri B, which
is a little bit smaller than the sun. The Alpha Centauri system, our
closest interstellar neighbor and long the stuff of science fiction
lore, harbors a planet about the size of the Earth. It whips around its
star, Alp ...
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Infographic: How Close Did Felix Baumgartner G ...
Did
he get close to orbiting satellites? Could he have been struck by a
flaming meteor? PopSci investigates! Austrian daredevil Felix
Baumgartner set a new world record Sunday when he leapt from a capsule
suspended 128,100 feet--about 24 miles--above Earth's surface. Watching
the livefeed as h ...
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The Economics of Genomics: [Sponsored Post]
Genetic
science is already shaping everything from medicine to agriculture. And
the latest advances suggest this may only be the tip of the iceberg.
Taymour Tamaddon - Taymour Tamaddon is a vice president of T. Rowe Price
Associates, Inc. He is a research analyst in the U.S. Equity Division,
fo ...
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New Version of Classic Marshmallow Experiment ...
Whether
to eat a treat now or save it for later depends on a child's
worldview--which can be manipulated. For four decades, a classic
psychological experiment on kids has tested the strength of their wills:
Will a toddler eat a marshmallow right now, or hold out for two? It’s
been used to measu ...
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PopSci Q&A: How Much Do Presidential Debates M ...
And
what do voters really care about? The authors of "Democracy Despite
Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work At All Works So Well" weigh in.
With one presidential debate down and the second gearing up for
tonight, we've been wondering: Do debates actually matter in an
election, and if so, w ...
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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 update
Provisional
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 flooding
Heavy
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 way
A
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 ...
Water Power
Los Angeles Times
On Thursday, one of the country's most effective environmental laws — the federal Clean Water
Act — will turn 40. Los Angeles County residents owe the law a huge
debt of gratitude. Because of it, Santa Monica Bay no longer has a dead
zone, its bottom ...
USA TODAY
"I saw a water
bottle, and I was like, 'this will work perfectly,'" said Willenbrock.
Why did Yale eventually decline to lend a tee? Gamesmanship, perhaps.
This was a big game for the Bulldogs and Mean Green, with both teams
starting 0-1 in Ivy League ...
The Seattle Times (blog)
What
actor is your movie deal-breaker, asks our movie critic Moira
Macdonald? She says a reader suggested she invite fans of her Popcorn
& Prejudice blog to name actors whose presence in a film will cause
them to skip the movie. The reader's list: Adam ...
Huffington Post (blog)
I
have just been in America where I was in San Francisco for work. Eating
in San Francisco was an utter pleasure and there were so many fabulous
places to choose from. As I arrived, word on the street was that I had
to try a new restaurant called Flour ...
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