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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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Fireball seen over Washington, D.C., Maryland, ...
Tuesday
night, around 7 p.m., several witnesses report seeing a fireball streak
across the sky in the Washington, D.C. region.
"I was walking to Alliance Francaise from the Zoo metro stop around 7
p.m. last night, and I saw a white light in the sky zip past overhead,
and then go out with a smal ...
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"It was like a bomb going off" - 'Meteorite' p ...
People
across Devon and Cornwall have inundated police with calls saying they
had experienced an earth tremor. Officers from the region said they
received reports of people hearing loud bangs and buildings shaking from
about 16:15 BST on Thursday.
Police staff in Devon's Newton Abbot station al ...
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Queens man with no criminal history put on "No ...
A
26-year-old Queens man was returning home from a trip to Austria when
he was stopped at the airport and told by airline agents that the
Department of Homeland Security had prohibited his travel.
For more than two weeks, Samir Suljovic, of Oakland Gardens, has been
stranded in Austria, where ...
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Wavering El Niño complicates NOAA's winte ...
NOAA Press Release: Elusive El Niño challenges NOAA's 2012 U.S. Winter
Outlook
The western half of the continental U.S. and central and northern Alaska
could be in for a warmer-than-average winter, while most of Florida
might be colder-than-normal December through February, according to N
...
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Former head of Israel's spy agency Mossad Meir ...
Meir
Dagan, the former head of Israel's spy agency Mossad, has been forced
to seek a liver transplant in Belarus, Europe's most autocratic state,
after European and American surgeons reportedly refused to treat him. He
is said to be in critical condition.
Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus' hardline ...
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Back to the Bates . . .
DALTON EXITS Ontario politics with a masterful stroke: proroguing the
Ontario Legislature. As a result, there are no debates about the worst
series of mistakes committed by an Ontario administration in one very
long time. From E-Health, to Ornge, to the Oakville Power Station Stu
...
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"This Is What Democracy Looks Like . . . ."
in the Excited States of America:
Pitiful, isn't it ? ? ? ?
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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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Right-Wing Media Ignores President Obama's Pla ...
The
right-wing media has claimed President Obama has no plan for the
economy if re-elected. In fact, Obama has proposed numerous economic
policies, including legislation that economists agree would lower
unemployment and grow the economy.Right-Wing Media Claim Obama Has No
Plan For The Economy
...
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Right-Wing Media Responds To Clinton's Libya S ...
After
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepted responsibility for the
security of diplomats in the wake of the deadly attack on a U.S.
consulate in Libya, members of the right-wing media launched a series of
sexist attacks, calling her a "doormat" and a "battered woman."Clinton
Takes Responsi ...
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Libya Misinformation: Fox Anchor Dismisses Ant ...
Fox
News anchor Martha MacCallum attacked the Obama administration for
referencing an anti-Muslim video produced in the U.S. in statements
about the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, calling mentions of
the video a "red herring." In fact, the video was linked to protests in
at least 20 Mu ...
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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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Fox Uses Debate Question To Obscure Gender Wag ...
During
the second presidential debate, a town hall participant asked how the
candidates planned to fix workplace inequality, "specifically regarding
females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn."
Fox News reporter Doug McKelway labeled this figure a "myth," but
research sh ...
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Week in Review: The Nobel “Peace” ...
Predatory
Capitalism: Stealing Wealth, Stealing Food: The Battle for the
Corporate Control of India, Colin Todhunter, October 19, 2012
Health Care for Profit: The Deadly Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Spreads
across America, Kate Randall, October 19, 2012
Wall Street Issues its Orders to ...
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Predatory Capitalism: Stealing Wealth, Stealin ...
In
recent years, India has increasingly conformed to a US-led economic
agenda driven by the policies of the World Bank, the World Trade
Organisation and associated institutions. Due to the decades-long
suppression of wages, saturated markets and the debt-induced demand
bubble bursting in the Wes ...
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Health Care for Profit: The Deadly Fungal Meni ...
The
deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in the US continues to spread.
According to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), 247 people in 15 states have been sickened in the
outbreak, and the death toll has risen to 19.…
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Wall Street Issues its Orders to Obama, Romney
The
top bosses on Wall Street have issued their demands for action from the
Obama administration and Congress to slash the federal deficit, in a
letter warning that failure to take action by January 1 could produce
renewed financial crisis and economic slump.…
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Does the Romney Family now Own your E-Vote?
by
Gerry Bello, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
Will you cast your vote this fall on a faulty electronic machine that’s
partly owned by the Romney Family? Will that machine decide whether
Romney will then inherit the White House?
Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt R ...
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Clean Water Act Faces its Biggest Threat
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. This critical
piece of legislation has been fraught with challenges, even from the
time of its inception. President Richard Nixon, who pushed hard for the
legislation, actually had to veto the Clean Water Act in October of ...
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Why Scientists Are in Alarm Mode Over the Keys ...
Why are scientists in alarm mode over the proposed Keystone XL
pipeline, a 1,700-mile long conduit that would transport a
chemical-laden synthetic oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to
refineries in Texas? Scientists across specialized fields have joined
forces to make public ...
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International Uproar: American Businessman Dum ...
A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron
sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off
the west coast of Canada in July, a Guardian investigation can
reveal.Lawyers, environmentalists and civil society groups are calling
...
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The Clean Water Act Turns 40 and the Work Is F ...
On October 18th, the nation will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the
Clean Water Act. This landmark piece of legislation has proven
remarkably successful. Water pollution discharges from both industry
and municipal sewer systems have declined sharply, the loss of wetlands
has bee ...
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Communities Take Food Justice Into Their Own H ...
Editor's Note: This is part of series, Facing the Climate Gap, which
looks at grassroots efforts in California low-income communities of
color to address climate change and promote climate justice. You can
read the whole series here.This article was published in collaboration
with GlobalP ...
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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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No Olive Branches Here: Settler Violence Threa ...
Israeli
settler violence against Palestinians and their property, which
escalated this summer, is on the rise again with this October’s olive
harvest season in the West Bank. Officials from the United Nations as
well as activists in Palestine and Israel are calling on Israeli forces
to intervene ...
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For-Profit Folly in Haiti
Subheadline:
Development-Industrial Complex Can't Deliver Reconstruction After Earthquake
Outside Author Info
Outside Author Bio:
Jake Johnston is a Research Associate at th ...
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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 ...
kwpalogo.jpg
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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Why All the Money for Joe Walsh?
The
Now or Never SuperPAC is going to spend $4.5 million on just one House
race. That is a lot of cheese. But what is really remarkable is that
they are spending on Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois. Rep. Walsh is most
famous for being a deadbeat dad. Other than that, he's famous for
berating his o ...
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Quote of the Day
Kind
of true: Trying to run a national campaign out of Boston if youre
not a Democrat is idiotic, is how one GOP mandarin put it. Youre
surrounded by the enemy. Its like going to Moscow to negotiate a peace
treaty. What are you seeing as far a ground games in your neck of
the woods? D ...
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…You Might Have Romnesia
You need to know the symptoms so that you can avoid catching Discuss
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Odds & Ends
Barack
Obama apparently banked Honey Boo Boo's endorsement, which probably
means that he has this election in the bag. I mean, more people watched
Honey Boo Boo than watched the Republican National Convention. I
don't even know what to say about my poor Yankees. I've never seen
batting av ...
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Sen. Scott Brown is Full of It
I
haven't been following the day to day developments in the Massachusetts
Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, so I was only
dimly aware of the fact that asbestos had become a campaign issue.
Elizabeth Warren represented the families of people who died from
asbestos poisoning, ...
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Hooked: Early 20th-Century Fishing Photographs ...
These
late 19th century and early 20th century photographs from Florida show
us what sport fishing was like in an earlier time in America's history.
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Amazing Facts About Pelicans!
Pelicans
are fascinating creatures with crazy physical characteristics ranging
from air sacs in their bones, to bills and pouches that change color.
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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?
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see
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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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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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Report questions claims of vaccine efficacy an ...
By
Penny Having covered the vaccine issue and all it’s pitfalls on
countless occasions, the insincerity/hypocrisy of the pharma/medical
complex never ceases to amaze me!! As you can see by the title of this
post, a report has been released that questions the effectiveness of
vaccines in pr ...
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Computer programmer ‘quadruples producti ...
By
Stewart Maclean A computer programmer claims he increased his
productivity at work by hiring a woman to slap him every time she
catches him looking at Facebook. Maneesh Sethi placed an advert on the
classified website Craigslist to recruit someone willing to monitor what
he was looking at on ...
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Scientists: Creativity Part of ‘Mental Illness’
Anthony
Gucciardi Activist Post If you like to express yourself through
painting, writing, or any other form of artistic action, scientists now
say that you must be suffering from a mental illness of some kind. In a
new display of how truly insane the mainstream medical health paradigm
has becom ...
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Israeli money flowing into Iran
Ofer
Petersburg Published: 10.11.12, 13:45 / Israel Business While the West
is crippling Iran with sanctions, it appears that in Israel – of all
places – some people are still doing business with the Islamic Republic.
Iranian marble limestone is known for its high quality all over the
world. In ...
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New York Times Admits Stanford Organic Food St ...
Lisa
Garber Activist Post We broke the story of Stanford’s ridiculous
organic food study the very night of its publication. Now, a month
later, the media is catching on to the study’s flaws; New York Times
Opinion columnist Mark Bittman apologized for hoping—in vain—that the
study would have lit ...
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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
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Friends,
Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative
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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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Cyberdyne Creates Mind-Controlled Robot Exoske ...
This
week Cyberdyne unveiled a robotic exoskeleton called HAL (Hybrid
Assistive Limb) that allows its wearer to carry superhuman loads while
shielding them from radiation. With the Fukushima nuclear disaster still
fresh in Japan’s national memory, the research team designed HAL to aid
work ...
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Shigeru Ban Unveils Temporary Cardboard Tube P ...
Read
the rest of Shigeru Ban Unveils Temporary Cardboard Tube Pavilion for
the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Gorky Park, Moscow
Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cardboard pavilion,
exhibition spaces, garage center for contemporary culture, Gorky Park
Pavilio ...
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Scientist Develops Water-Resistant Solar Panel ...
Butterflies
are beautiful, delicate marvels of nature. While their lovely
appearance may be inspiring, there’s nothing a butterfly can teach us
about renewable energy – or is there? An ambitious University
of Pennsylvania professor named Shu Yang recently used holographic
lithography ...
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Lexus Unveils Luscious Blue LF-LC Hybrid in Au ...
Following
its debut at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year, Lexus has
unveiled an updated version of its Lexus LF-LC hybrid concept. The
biggest change to the design is the new Opal Blue exterior color –
according to Lexus, the new shade is inspired by the lustrous color
found in semi- ...
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EPEAT Defends its Decision to Approve Apple’s ...
Earlier
this week the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)
made a bit of an environmental stir when it approved five of Apple’s
newest ultrathin laptops – even though Apple initially withdrew from the
registry because their new models are more difficult to recycle ...
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Big, Smart and Green: A Revolutionary Vision f ...
What
they're doing on Marsden Farm isn't organic. It's not industrial,
either. It's a hybrid of the two, an alternative version of agriculture
for the 21st century: Smart, green and powerful. If the approach works
at commercial scales, and there's good reason to think it will, it might
just be a ...
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How to Watch the Orionid Meteor Shower This We ...
One
of the most spectacular night-sky shows will kick into high gear this
weekend when the Orionid meteor shower peaks early in the morning on
Oct. 20. It will continue to dazzle until just before dawn on the 21st.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Amazing ...
These
words, which open Shelley’s poem "When the Lamp is Shattered," employ
visions of nature to symbolize life in decay and rebirth. It's as if he
had somehow foreseen the creation of this new Gemini Legacy image, and
penned a caption for it. What Gemini has captured is nothing short of
poetry ...
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Drug-Resistant Superbugs Found in Wild Animals
One
of the most notorious and hard-to-treat bacteria in humans has been
found in wildlife, according to a new study in the Journal of Wildlife
Diseases. The researchers isolated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA) in two rabbits and a shorebird. Wild animals may act as an
environm ...
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Curiosity Rover Finds More Strange, Bright Obj ...
NASA’s
Curiosity rover took three scoops from a small Martian sand dune and
found several bright particles in the soil. Scientists think these are
unrelated to the odd bright object that Curiosity saw last week, which
turned out to be plastic that fell from the probe, and are probably
indigenous ...
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One Week Until U.S. Has 3 Aircraft Carriers Fa ...
In
just one week, the United States will have three aircraft carriers
facing Iran, the number usually regarded as sufficient for a state of
war.
The latest Stratfor naval update map shows that the USS John C. Stennis
has now arrived in the waters just outside Iran, joining the USS Dwight
D. E ...
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Video: New Revelation At ’47%’ Dinner – Romney ...
Mitt
Romney’s now-infamous fundraising dinner has yielded another gem. This
is the event during which he was caught saying that,
”There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president
no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who
are dependent upon go ...
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US soldiers arrive in Israel for war game
Some
1,000 US troops are expected to arrive in the Occupied Territories to
take part in the largest ever joint military drill with Israel, while
2,500 more American forces would participate remotely from the US and
Europe
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50 Reasons NOT to Vaccinate your Children
There
is no scientific study to determine whether vaccines have really
prevented diseases. Rather disease graphs show vaccines have been
introduced at the end of epidemics when the disease was already in its
last stages. In case of Small Pox the vaccine actually caused a great
spurt in the incid ...
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American-Style Fascism
On
October 16, Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY) hosted the second
Obama/Romney charade. Demagogic blather again took center stage.
Ritualistic theater was featured. Grade F spectacle defines it.
Bombast substituted for substance. Vital facts about the state of the
nation and world were excl ...
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“Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánam ...
On
Sunday October 21, 2012, almost three years since it first premiered in
London, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the documentary
film I co-directed with Polly Nash, is being screened by Lewes Amnesty
International Group, in a high-profile event that involves a panel dis
...
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Beautiful Dereliction: Photos of the Thames Sh ...
Beautiful
Dereliction: The Thames Shoreline by Convoys Wharf, Deptford, a set on
Flickr. Regular readers might recall that, three weeks ago, I posted a
set of photos of Deptford, the lively, historically important and
frequently maligned area of south east London, between Greenwich and
Rotherhit ...
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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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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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Polarized Election Season Marked by Extremist ...
It’s
well known that in recent years, this country has seen its electoral
politics polarized to an extent that has only rarely been paralleled in
American history. But that polarization in many cases goes far beyond
anything resembling mainstream discourse, extending to men and women who
are lin ...
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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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Neo-Nazi Jailed for Making Threats Released Af ...
Harold
C. “Hal” Turner, the right-wing Internet radio shock jock, racist,
Holocaust denier, FBI snitch, lynching advocate and jailbird, is back
home in his New Jersey condo after spending nearly three years in a
prison cell in Indiana for threatening three federal judges on his blog
who had uphe ...
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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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Guns Sales Soar on NRA's "Obama Conspiracy"
Gun
proponents who argued that Barack Obama would be "the most anti-gun
president in American history" succeeded in driving up gun sales and the
number of gun dealers by 3,000 during the president's term in office,
despite a lack of any new gun control legislation.
...
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Chomsky Tells Israel from Gaza: "End the Blockade"
In
his first visit to Gaza, American linguistic scholar Noam Chomsky on
Thursday called on Israel to end a six-year blockade of the occupied
territory.
Chomsky, 84, is a frequent critic of Israel's treatment of Palestinians
and American foreign policy.
...
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'Privatized Cities' Rejected in Honduras Supre ...
A
plan to build a series of 'model cities' designed to cater to foreign
investors through the privatization of development, municipal services
and legal systems within autonomous zones
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Investigation: Mexico's War Against Obesity, S ...
The
organization charged with battling the latest "global epidemic,"
diabetes and heart disease, has been exposed getting funding from the
industries at the heart of this plague. Reuter's investigative report on
the UN's World Health Organization found that the regional office ...
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Texas Keeps Executions Going in Wake of Drug S ...
Officials
in Texas are keeping executions going in the state in the wake of drug
shortages by tweaking lethal injection rules without public input or
scrutiny through changes made by one official with no medical training, a
report published Thursday shows.
Mike Ward reports for the Austin Americ ...
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This Week’s Most Popular Posts: October 13th t ...
This (evil) week we learned about what happens when you shoplift,
dealt with morons on the internet, learned the best productivity tips
from evil dictators, and more. Here's a look back. More »
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Think Like a Surfer and Take Important Risks
Surfing is a challenging sport that requires perseverance and
risk. Srinivas Rao, writing for productivity and ideas blog the 99u,
found it to be an apt metaphor for the risks we need to take in life.
You never know where the waves will hit and when you'll ride them or be
crushed beneath t ...
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The First Thing You Should Do When Your Flight ...
You're waiting and waiting and waiting and then your flight gets
cancelled. While everyone else gets into a fit of anger and chaos, your
first move, besides heading towards that long service kiosk line, is to
call the airline. More »
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How to Cheat at Online Video Games
Video games can actually add a lot of value to your life, but
some days you really just want to fire one up and destroy all your
friends—by any means necessary. Here's how to cheat at online video
games. More »
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This Study Shows How to Lose a Lot of Weight—a ...
If you want to know the secret of successful weight loss and
management, take a look at the results from The National Weight Control
Registry. The participants in the study lost an average of 66 pounds
each and kept it off for 5.5 years. Here's how they did it. More »
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Man held after string of hit and run incidents ...
Van
mounted pavements and drove straight into parents walking their
children home from school, say eyewitnessesA man has been arrested and a
van seized in connection with a series of hit and run incidents which
saw 11 people, including children, hurt in Cardiff.Eyewitnesses reported
that the dri ...
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Female executives failing to get foothold in t ...
Little
progress being made to end male domination as UK displays resistance to
mandatory board quotaThe UK's largest companies are failing to promote
female executives to senior management roles, potentially creating a
shortage of women qualified to fill future boardroom roles and
undermining in ...
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Andrew Mitchell resigns - live reaction
Downing
Street has announced that the chief whip, who had been accused of
calling a police officer a 'pleb', has resignedShiv Malik
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Andrew Mitchell resigns following allegations ...
Chief
whip's resignation comes amid row over whether George Osborne travelled
in first class train carriage on a standard ticketAndrew Mitchell, the
government's chief whip, resigned from the government on Friday
following four weeks of allegations that he called a police officer a
"fucking pleb ...
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France scraps Sarkozy citizenship test likened ...
French
interior minister says under former president access to citizenship had
been 'hindered and restricted'The French government is scrapping plans
to introduce citizenship tests ordered by Nicolas Sarkozy and will make
it easier for foreigners living in the country to gain French
nationality. ...
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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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Brazilian Newspapers Apparently Don't Want Tra ...
We've
already seen newspapers in Belgium and Germany argue that Google needs
to pay them for linking to them in Google News. And we just wrote about
how French newspapers were looking for the same ridiculous handout.
But a bunch of Brazilian newspapers have taken the issue even further,
and co ...
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Spanish Gov't Wants To Make It A Crime To Phot ...
We've
had plenty of stories (mainly in the US) of police overreacting to the
public photographing or videotaping them. Thankfully, US courts have
been recognizing that recording police on duty is not a crime (and can
actually be beneficial in preventing abuse). While we still see
frequent repo ...
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Windows 8's Arbitrary App Certification Rules ...
We
have already mentioned that some game developers were having a hard
time accepting Windows 8 as a viable gaming platform. The primary
concern is with Microsoft's insistence on walling off its Metro UI and
accompanying Windows Store. When a distribution system is walled off,
new restrictions c ...
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FTC Offers $50,000 To Whoever Can Come Up With ...
The
current administration has expressed interest in different kinds of
"innovation prizes" for a while, so it's interesting to see the FTC
offer up $50,000 to individuals or small companies if they can come up
with a good solution to dealing with robocalls (automated telemarketing
recordings th ...
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First 'Three Strikes' Case In NZ Dropped After ...
One
of our biggest problems with the various "three strikes" or similar
programs is the fact that they're all based entirely on accusations not
convictions. You would think, in this day and age of bogus copyright
claims, that people would realize why that might be a problem. Down in
New Zealan ...
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Things You Might Have Missed
Took
this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of
the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town.
Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps
they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more
about putti ...
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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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Turkey calls on major powers to intervene in Syria
The
Guardian reports: Turkey has called on the US, Britain and other
leading countries to take immediate action to intervene in Syria to
prevent a looming humanitarian “disaster” that it says threatens the
lives of millions of internally displaced people and refugees as winter
approa ...
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The target of today’s bombing in Beirut
Elias
Muhanna writes: The news is still trickling out about the bombing today
in Beirut, but all media outlets are now confirming that the target was
Brigadier-General Wissam al-Hassan, the head of the Information Branch
of the Internal Security Forces. I’ve written a great deal about Wissam
al- ...
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Syrian forces’ improvised arms: desperate meas ...
C.J.
Chivers writes: As the war in Syria escalated this year, fighters
opposed to President Bashar al-Assad reached for arms from many sources,
including weapons manufactured by their own hands: Molotov cocktails,
roadside bombs and locally made mortars and rockets. These are the
familiar tools ...
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Iran: How to avoid repeating the Iraq debacle
Rolf
Ekéus and Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer write: The Iraq War might seem a
thing of the past. But nearly ten years after combat began, the United
States and its allies are using policies to address the Iranian nuclear
challenge that are eerily similar to those it pursued in the run-up to
Operation ...
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Obama’s strategic drift
Rosa
Brooks offers President Obama some tips on what to do if he gets
re-elected: 1. Get a Strategy. No, really. We don’t currently seem to
have one, grand or otherwise. We’ve got “the long war” — but we don’t
seem to have a long game. Instead of a strategy, w ...
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Muscheler retracts? Offers a NEW excuse for wh ...
Guest
post by Alec Rawls Technically Dr. Muscheler is asking me to retract
the title of my post, “Raimund Muscheler says that a steady high level
of forcing can’t cause warming“: I am sure that you are aware of the
fact … Continue reading →
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An explanation for ball lightning?
I
wonder how long it will be before Al Gore tries to blame ball lightning
on “dirty weather”? A neat video follows. From CSIRO: Goodness,
gracious, great balls of lightning Sightings of balls of lightning have
been made for centuries around … Continue reading →
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‘Broken world’ blamed on Carbon
From
the University of Leeds , 250 million year old certainty where there
was none before, now megasized. Tropical collapse caused by lethal heat
Extreme temperatures blamed for ‘Dead Zone’ Scientists have discovered
why the ‘broken world’ following the worst … Cont ...
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Gasoline alchemy from water vapor and CO2
This
seems almost scam quality – only time will tell if it is just another
pipe dream. From WUWT Tips and Notes by J B Williamson; A small British
company has produced the first “petrol from air” using a revolutionary …
Continue reading →
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Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 15 – Arctic ...
After
all of the news about a minimum record ice extent last month, this is
interesting. As we know when water loses its ice cover, it allows a lot
of heat to radiate into space as LWIR. many predictied that … Continue
reading →
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Research teams discover cellular system for de ...
Two
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research teams, along with a
group from the University of California at San Diego, have discovered
that animals have a previously unknown system for detecting and
responding to pathogens and toxins. In three papers published in the
journals Cell and ...
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Excessive Worrying May Have Co-Evolved with In ...
Worrying
may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait,
according to a recent study by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical
Center and other institutions. Jeremy Coplan, MD, professor of
psychiatry at SUNY Downstate, and colleagues found that high
intelligence and worry both cor ...
- Excellent 3D animation explaining atherosclerosis
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Researchers convert skin and umbilical cord ce ...
Ripe
for biomedical applications Until recently, the production of
pluripotent “multipurpose” stem cells from skin cells was considered to
be the ultimate new development. In the meantime, it has become possible
to directly convert cells of the body into one another – without the
tim ...
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Cooperative Neural Networks Suggest How Intell ...
Working
together can hasten brain evolution, according to a new computer
simulation. When programmed to navigate challenging cooperative tasks,
the artificial neural networks set up by scientists to serve as
mini-brains “learned” to work together, evolving the virtual equivalent
of b ...
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What is ethical energy and why aren’t th ...
From
Ron Arnold’s article in The Washington Examiner: When Romney told
Obama, “You cut permits and licenses on federal land and federal waters
in half,” the president replied, “Not true, Gov. Romney.” Romney hounded
Obama for about five minutes about it. Neither bud ...
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Morano debates bankrupt A123 & Green stimulus ...
Marc
Morano, editor of CFACT’s Climate Depot, appeared on Fox Business News
to discuss the bankruptcy of taxpayer-backed battery maker A123. “The
Obama administration tried to become a venture capitalist and create a
market where none exists,” said Morano.
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Senate Report: EPA’s coming regulatory o ...
President
Obama's EPA has an ambitious regulatory agenda on hold until after the
November elections.
Win or lose they plan to unleash these regulations once they no longer
have cause to fear the voters. Read the full U.S. Senate report.
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Winners and losers energy policies
Governor
Mitt Romney strongly supports North American energy independence as the
foundation of renewed US employment and prosperity. President Obama is
waging war on fossil fuels, job creation, and efforts to end our
economic recession and reduce dependence on Middle Eastern and Russian
oil.
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Morano: Warming stopped 16 years ago, Canadian ...
Marc Morano is founder and editor of CFACT's award-winning Climate Depot.
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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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Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...
Little
did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of
the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating
days of my professional career to date.
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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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McGovern nears death with family at his side
ShareThisMcGovern
nears death with family at his side 19 Oct 2012 Former U.S. Sen. George
McGovern is surrounded by his family members as he nears the end of his
life. Family spokesman Steve Hildebrand tells The Associated Press that
90-year-old McGovern is peaceful and resting. He has been in h ...
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Navy to go after rats, mold in Gitmo legal offices
ShareThisNavy
to go after rats, mold in Gitmo legal offices [Too bad they don't go
after the actual RATS behind the 9/11 terror attacks aka inside job, six
ways to Sunday. --LRP] 19 Oct 2012 Legal offices that are so
contaminated with mold and rat droppings that lawyers in the Sept. 11
terrorism ...
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Man arrested for tossing voter registration fo ...
ShareThisMan
arrested for tossing voter registration forms in Virginia 19 Oct 2012 A
31-year-old man working for the Virginia Republican party was arrested
on Thursday after he was caught throwing out voter registration forms,
Richmond, Va., the Rockingham County sheriff's office confirmed to CB
...
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U.S. Navy, Allies Find Less Than Half the Sea ...
ShareThisU.S.
Navy, Allies Find Less Than Half the Sea Mines Planted in Key Exercise
15 Oct 2012 A major international naval exercise last month in and
around the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea, led by the U.S. Navy with more
than 30 other nations participating, located fewer than half of the [29]
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Curfew Imposed on American Troops in Japan
ShareThisCurfew
Imposed on American Troops in Japan 20 Oct 2012 The United States
military imposed a curfew on Friday on all of its nearly 50,000
uniformed personnel stationed in Japan, as it tried to respond to public
outrage over the suspected rape of a woman in Okinawa by two American
sailors ...
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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.
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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 ...
[JURIST]
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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Leon Panetta and the Hypocrisy of U.S. Cyber-W ...
Antiwar.com
has just published my new piece discussing Leon Panetta’s first major
adddress on U.S. cyber-war policy. In it, he warned Iran that we could
not only take revenge for Iranian cyber-attacks on our web
infrastructure, but that we would detect such attacks before they were
mounte ...
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Israel Lobby Threatens Church Groups With Cong ...
A
coalition of U.S. church groups recently made public a letter which
called upon the U.S. government to condition future military aid to
Israel on its fulfillment of obligations under U.S. law. The statement
was intended to express criticism of Israel’s use of U.S. weapons like
cluster b ...
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Dagan in Critical Condition After Liver Transp ...
I
don’t usually write here about medical operations, but I was struck by
the fact that Meir Dagan, facing the critical necessity of a liver
transplant chose to have the operation done in Belarus. While I’m no
expert on these matters, Belarus doesn’t strike me as a nation whose ...
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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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Beware of the BBC
Stuart
Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing
untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged,
to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township
of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime
to I ...
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Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
And
there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he
understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is
the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically
stealing American technology with both military and civilian
applications. The US dev ...
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New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
International
security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that
Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of
American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered
American security.
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How to Contact the US Government and Media
Contact information for the U.S. government and media.
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Remember Rachel Corrie
On
March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a
bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order
materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and
community.
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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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EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book,
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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Announcing 'Source': Where Journalism and Codi ...
I
sent an e-mail from a hotel room in Berlin in September of last year,
while completely blitzed out from jet lag. In it, I mentioned the idea
of putting together a site that could serve as a center-point for a lot
of the amazing code being written in the journalism community. The
response I got ...
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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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Broken Borders - American Dream Becomes Nightm ...
In
a nation built by immigrants, they thought they could pursue their
American Dream — with loved ones at their side. Instead, they're
living an American nightmare that's tearing families apart and forcing
Americans into exile. Chris Xitco, a native of Los Angeles, never
imagined that aft ...
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America on Edge - Dallas Suburbs Lead in Effor ...
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.The probe
examined the number of attempts by the 20 largest Texas cities to block
public requests f ...
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The Battle for Syria - Obama's Shortcomings in ...
For
months now, the United States has been providing direct so-called
humanitarian assistance to the Syrian rebels-while cautioning Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and other Arab states to limit the types of weaponry they
provide. Rifles and other small arms are okay, the administration says,
but not heavi ...
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Gaza on Edge - Both Israelis and Hamas fear Sa ...
A
growing number of Islamists from the Egyptian-based Salafist network,
who embrace global jihad, are multiplying and taking root in the Gaza
Strip, while Hamas, which governs that portion of the Palestinian
population, has done nothing to stop the extremist "invaders," Israeli
police sources ha ...
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The Race for Solar - Jordan Mandates Domestic ...
It’s
about time: Regulations come into effect in April 2013 and make solar
water heaters obligatory for every new residence (including apartments)
sized 150 m2 or greater in Jordan where there is ample sun. Private
houses sized a minimum of 250 m2 and office spaces sized a minimum 100
m2 must ...
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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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Dear Whoopi Goldberg: Haven't We Suffered Enough?
I
have a request for Whoopi Goldberg. I wish that she would go back to
using her birth name Caryn Johnson, at least the Johnson part. Because
of her adopted last name, some people may think she may be Jewish. To be
perfectly honest there is enough Antisemitism in the world without
peop ...
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Newsbusted: Obama to Bomb University of Colorado?
I
don't know if this is legal, but Obama does act like an imperial
president. A recent University of Colorado study of past elections
predicted that Mitt Romney will win the election now 18 days away. in an
exclusive report by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller (see below) we learn
that (coinci ...
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HOLY COW! Mitt Romney Can Be Really Funny!
Folks,
I am supporting Mitt Romney because I truly believe he can turn the
economy around and make America respected in the world again, not
because he can be laid back and cool. In fact at times he does seem a
bit stiff. That is actually a welcome change considering the fact that
for the ...
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Must See Video! Bill Clinton: Romney is Right, ...
I
wonder if Chris Matthews will call Clinton a Racist! This just in from
a Bill Clinton rally for Obama today in Ohio.
“Governor Romney’s argument is ‘we’re not fixed, so fire him and put me
in.’ It is true, we’re not fixed. When President Obama looked into the
eyes of that man who sa ...
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Former Auto Czar Rattner: Obama's Economy Wors ...
Former
Obama Auto Czar and Democratic Party "sugar daddy" Steve Rattner
appeared on Morning Joe today and said some not so nice things about the
President's handling of the economy:
MSNBC’s MIKA BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah. We looked at post-debate polls that
suggested people seemed ...
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Obama’s ‘Green’ Energy Failures
By
ASHE SCHOW | THE FOUNDRY | OCTOBER 19, 2012 It is no secret that
President Obama’s and green-energy supporters’ (from both parties) foray
into venture capitalism has not gone well. But the extent of its
failure has been largely ignored by the press. Sure, single instances
garner att ...
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Untested Toxicity Found in Gardasil Vaccine
HPV
DNA bound to insoluble aluminum adjuvant. By NORMA ERICKSON | SANEVAX |
OCTOBER 19, 2012 Genetic modification of food has come under severe
criticism from the scientific community as new health risks are being
discovered. Do genetically modified vaccines carry any less risk? The st
...
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European Union Sets Banking Takeover for 2013
By
LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 19, 2012 The Heads of State
and the Government of the European Union (EU) agreed Thursday to create a
single banking supervisor. The entity should be ready next December and
it will gradually begin its takeover of the banking system during 20
...
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Spanish Government Wants to Ban Recording Poli ...
Is
this a ploy to cover up Police brutality? By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL
AGENDA | OCTOBER 18, 2012 The Spanish Director General of Police,
Ignacio Cosidó said today that coming changes to the Public Safety Act
will prohibit the collection and dissemination of images of police on
the int ...
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US and Israel Maneuver to train Attack on Iran
By
LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 18, 2012 The U.S. and Israeli
armies will play war games during the largest joint maneuvers for a
period of three weeks with thousands of military troops from both
countries training on details for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities
...
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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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Official proposes bullet tax to curb Chicago crime
“Cook
County Board President Toni Preckwinkle submitted a proposed budget on
Thursday that would impose a tax of a nickel for each bullet and $25 for
each firearm sold in the nation’s second-largest county, which
encompasses Chicago. Preckwinkle’s office estimates the tax will
generate abo ...
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U.K. court sides with Samsung in Apple suit
“Britain’s
Court of Appeal has backed a judgment that Samsung’s Galaxy tablet
computer is “not as cool” as Apple’s (AAPL) iPad — and therefore doesn’t
infringe Apple’s rights. The panel’s upholding of the findings of by a
lower court en ...
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Official proposes bullet tax to curb Chicago crime
“Cook
County Board President Toni Preckwinkle submitted a proposed budget on
Thursday that would impose a tax of a nickel for each bullet and $25 for
each firearm sold in the nation’s second-largest county, which
encompasses Chicago. Preckwinkle’s office estimates the tax will
generate abo ...
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Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism ...
In
Robust Political Economy, Mark Pennington offers one of the best cases
for classical liberalism ever presented in a single volume. I do not
exaggerate. Pennington—professor of political economy at King’s
College, University of London—here surveys fully and summarizes fairly
the major object ...
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Greek Negotiations Hit Snags, from Inside and Out
“Still,
the negotiating tensions in Athens this week underscore the realpolitik
that has frustrated Greece’s lenders — and that has characterized
Greece’s efforts at reform ever since Athens helped ignite Europe’s debt
crisis three years ago, when it admitted to falsifying its financial ac
...
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5 examples of interesting data presentations
What do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.)
Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.)
Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...
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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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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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Demographic Dead End? Barack Obama's Single Na ...
President
Obama brought up Planned Parenthood three separate times at Tuesday’s
town hall debate. It was an appeal aimed directly at a key part of
his base: If he is reelected, it will be because of the Single
Nation.
Democrats have woken up to the huge political rifts that have ...
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The Land Premium That's Punishing Property
High
land prices have all but killed the Australian housing industry.
Lower housing starts has led to lower GST revenues (house construction
attracts full GST) and lower stamp duty receipts are crippling state
budgets and cruelling the chances of low and middle income earners to
get a start ...
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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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GMO cheerleaders who also deny climate change
NOTE:
In this article Tom Philpott notes the climate scepticism of the
director of the Scientific Alliance, amongst other prominent GM
supporters. The Scientific Alliance is well known for its sceptical
position on climate change and its strong opposition to policies aimed
at carbon reduction.
...
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GMO cheerleaders who also deny climate change
NOTE:
In this article Tom Philpott notes the climate scepticism of the
director of the Scientific Alliance, amongst other prominent GM
supporters. The Scientific Alliance is well known for its sceptical
position on climate change and its strong opposition to policies aimed
at carbon reduction.
...
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No room on our plates for "golden" rice
NOTE: GMWatch's take on 'golden' rice is here
http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-myths/11130
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No room on our plates for "golden" rice
Ditdit Pelegrina
Greenpeace, October 16 2012
http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/ph/News/greenpeace-philippine-blog/no-room-on-our-plates-for-golden-rice/blog/42640/
...
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No room on our plates for "golden" rice
NOTE: GMWatch's take on 'golden' rice is here
http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-myths/11130
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No room on our plates for "golden" rice
Ditdit Pelegrina
Greenpeace, October 16 2012
http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/ph/News/greenpeace-philippine-blog/no-room-on-our-plates-for-golden-rice/blog/42640/
...
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All GM field trials in India to be stopped
The Coalition for a GM-Free India, 18 October 2012
MEDIA ALERT
*10-year Moratorium on field trials of Bt food crops
*Moratorium on field trials of Herbicide Tolerant crops (till independent assessment of impact and suitability) and
*Ban on field trials of GM crops for which India is a Cen ...
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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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55 Facts About The Debt And U.S. Government Fi ...
The
future of the United States of America is being systematically
destroyed by our politicians, but unfortunately most Americans don't
really grasp exactly what is happening. 30 years ago, our national debt
had just crossed the one trillion dollar mark. Just recently, it
crossed the 16 trilli ...
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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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Daily Disclosure: Mystery group spends $1 mill ...
Less than three weeks before Election Day, a new mystery group dropped
nearly $1 million on an anti-Obama expenditure, according to
records.Citizen Awareness Project appears to be a nonprofit
organization. It reported the independent expenditure opposing President
Barack Obama Thursday, accor ...
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Separated by law: Families torn apart by 1996 ...
In a nation built by immigrants, they thought they could pursue their
American Dream — with loved ones at their side. Instead, they're living
an American nightmare that's tearing families apart and forcing
Americans into exile. Chris Xitco, a native of Los Angeles, never
imagined that af ...
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A dizzying series of legal twists and turns
Given the white-hot politics of immigration, it’s perhaps not surprising
that President Obama instantly drew fire with a proposal in January to
help undocumented spouses of American citizens obtain legal status —
without being ousted from the U.S. for years as punishment.Rep. Lamar
Smith, R-T ...
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Stealth spending on the rise as 2012 election ...
If there was a silver lining for open-government advocates in the U.S.
Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that unleashed corporate and union spending
on elections, it was that the identity of those who pay for all those
annoying ads would be made public on a regular basis.It hasn’t quite
worked out ...
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The ‘Citizens United’ decision and why it matters
By now most folks know that the U.S. Supreme Court did something that
changed how money can be spent in elections and by whom, but what
happened and why should you care?The Citizens United ruling, released in
January 2010, tossed out the corporate and union ban on making
independent expe ...
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Amanda Todd’s avengers: not Anonymous enough
By
Frank Moher As much as one would like to see some sort of justice for
Amanda Todd, the 15-year old BC girl who took her life last week after
years of cyber-bullying, what’s gone down on the internet in the last
few days is truly disturbing. On Monday, someone purporting to be part
of [. ...
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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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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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CIA – What You Need to Know, But Are Afr ...
From
my friend and colleague in Truth, John Hankey comes this 40 minute
video on the FRAUD that is Mittens Romney: Commentary from Alex James:
Romney’s secrecy in business is detailed, and revealed; as well as his
role as a drug money launderer for GHW Bush; his connection, through
...
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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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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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Huge Mushroom Cloud in Louisiana Underground “ ...
Some
sort of an explosion or something sent a plume of smoke 7000 feet into
the air. This happened in Louisiana near Camp Minden on Monday night
around 11:30pm. Multiple witnesses apparently reported that they saw
something falling down from the sky towards the earth before the
mushroom cloud wa ...
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USA starts tests of High-Energy mobile Laser Gun
Boeing
Corporation has started the second phase of tests of the prototype of
HEL MD mobile laser gun. During the tests, specialists will shoot the
10-kW solid-state laser. The power of the laser can be increased. All
tests of the HEL MD laser gun are to be finished within three years.
Afterwards ...
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UK Cops Taser Blind Man After Mistaking Walkin ...
Police
tasered and handcuffed a blind two-time stroke victim in northern
England, reportedly mistaking his walking stick for samurai sword. Colin
Farmer, a retired architect who is 61 and cannot move unaided, was on
his own and walking down a street in Chorley, in the county of
Lancashire, on a ...
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Mexico Bans Large Cash Transactions
Outgoing
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed into law a ban on large
cash transactions. The ban will take effect in about 90 days and it is
part of a broader effort to control monetary flows within the country.
Under the law, a Specialized Unit in Financial Analysis operating within
the ...
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Astronomers Discover Planet with 4 Stars
Astronomers
have identified a giant gas planet, located just under 5,000
light-years away, that its sky is illuminated by four different stars
(suns). According to the report published in Astrophysical Journal, the
planet named PH1, after the Planet Hunters site, is slightly larger than
Neptune ...
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It Is The Opinion Of The Court (comic)
JUDGE: As the presiding juge, it is my sworn duty to consider every motion, and all evidence, fairly and without prejudice.
[PJ: To understand this comic, as you may know, the Choir sound comes from a movie called Invaders from Mars, associated with
making tunnels and vortexes under the sand t ...
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Chief Justice Roberts: Technology among top is ...
"Is
being able to see through walls a violation of search and seizure
protections? I think it will be a good opportunity to see how prescient
the framers were if the Constitution will be able to deal with these
questions," Roberts told an audience of several thousand. "What is the
fundamental pr ...
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Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a De ...
Coursera
offers free, online courses to people around the world, but if you live
in Minnesota, company officials are urging you to log off or head for
the border.
The state's Office of Higher Education has informed the popular provider
of massive open online courses, or MOOC's, that Coursera is ...
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Nokia's Q3 show phone sales down by a fifth
This
can hardly be encouraging news: Nokia's third-quarter financial results
show the number of handsets it sold down by 22 percent compared to last
year and 1 percent on the quarter before.
[PJ: If the real plan is, like SCO, to go after deep pockets for IP
infringement (and Nokia and Microso ...
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Internet providers to begin warning customers ...
If
you use AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, or Verizon as your
Internet service provider, you could receive the first of one of these
notes starting in the next two months. [PJ: If you are a customer of any
Internet service provider that spies on you as you surf the Internet,
why are ...
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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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Brain fades to grey
Has
John Key’s brain joined the exodus to Australia? Who or what is
actually running the country? If John Key’s brain was sunning itself in
Queensland it would explain a few things starting with how the Prime
Minister can’t remember anything that it doesn’t suit him to remember.
The latest lapse ...
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Will our young people be celebrating this Labo ...
There’s
an hilarious take on the old Monty Python skit about the Romans called
‘What have the unions ever done for us?’ It lists some of the many
things that workers and their unions have fought for and won – including
weekends off, paid annual leave, sick leave, health and safety laws,
paid par ...
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Greenwash and the Consumer Law Reform Bill
I
sit on the Commerce Select Committee and we have been covering the
Consumer Law Reform Bill which has just been reported back to the house.
This Bill, which proposes the most significant changes to consumer laws
in more than 20 years, is a substantive and complex piece of
legislation which upd ...
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Fed Up with FSANZ
Tuesday
was World Food Day, a day set to acknowledge the founding of the United
Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation and issues such as food
security. In Australia and New Zealand the day was justifiably used to
point out the slack approach to food safety by our trans-Tasman food reg
...
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First day of lobbying submissions
Submissions
started today on the Lobbying Disclosure Bill, and the biggest news was
Labour's decision to withdraw the proposed exemption for unions and
NGOs.
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Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of
the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds
clash in loggerheads.
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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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Buttered Popcorn Flavoring Linked to Alzheimer’s
By
Dr. Mercola
If you like to snack on the occasional bag of microwave popcorn, it's
probably the buttery flavoring that you crave.
This comes from an artificial flavoring called diacetyl, which is a
natural byproduct of fermentation found in butter, beer and vinegar...
and also a chemical m ...
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Melatonin Helps Patients With High Blood Press ...
By
Dr. Mercola
About 22 million Americans are on long-term treatment with
beta-blockers, a class of drugs frequently prescribed to manage high
blood pressure and as cardioprotection after a heart attack.
Having difficulty falling or staying asleep, or insomnia, is one of the
most common side ...
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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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UK snubs tribal rights by refusing to ratify k ...
The
more countries that ratify ILO 169, the more protection it offers for
tribal peoples everywhere.© Stephen Corry/SurvivalThe UK has dismayed
tribal and indigenous peoples as well as activists around the world by
refusing to ratify a key international law, which protects their basic
human righ ...
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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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World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'vio ...
from cryptogon.com: Via: Guardian: A controversial American businessman
dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part
of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July, a
Guardian investigation can reveal.
Lawyers, environmentalists and civil society ...
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Americans Consume Nearly 200 Pounds of #GMOs E ...
from
naturalsociety.com:
We know that the vast majority of corn, soybeans, and much of many other
crops are genetically modified, but do we know how the how much GMOs
are consumed each year? Actually, yes. Average Americans today eat about
193 pounds of genetically modified foods ...
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Fast Food Chains Use Loopholes And Low-Tax Cou ...
from thinkprogress.org: Technology companies have mastered the use of
schemes involving low-tax foreign countries in order to avoid billions
of dollars in American taxes each year. Now, fast food chains like
McDonalds, Burger King, and Subway are doing the same. When the
companies create a pr ...
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Arctic apples: The genetically engineered appl ...
from naturalnews.com: For the past 10 years Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a
small company out of British Columbia, Canada has been developing what
will most likely be the first genetically engineered apple to hit the
market. The purpose of the genetic alteration is to prevent the apple
from turni ...
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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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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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55 Facts About The Debt And U.S. Government Fi ...
The
future of the United States of America is being systematically
destroyed by our politicians, but unfortunately most Americans don't
really grasp exactly what is happening. 30 years ago, our national debt
had just crossed the one trillion dollar mark. Just recently, it
crossed the 16 trilli ...
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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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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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Canonical ups the ante over Windows 8, Calls i ...
"Avoid the pain of Windows 8. All new Ubuntu 12.10 is out now," reads
Canonical's official banner announcing the arrival of Ubuntu's latest
iteration, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Pretty strong language, I must
say. It is a normal practice in the corporate world to NOT name their
biggest comp ...
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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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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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Report questions claims of vaccine efficacy an ...
By
Penny Having covered the vaccine issue and all it’s pitfalls on
countless occasions, the insincerity/hypocrisy of the pharma/medical
complex never ceases to amaze me!! As you can see by the title of this
post, a report has been released that questions the effectiveness of
vaccines in pr ...
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Computer programmer ‘quadruples producti ...
By
Stewart Maclean A computer programmer claims he increased his
productivity at work by hiring a woman to slap him every time she
catches him looking at Facebook. Maneesh Sethi placed an advert on the
classified website Craigslist to recruit someone willing to monitor what
he was looking at on ...
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Scientists: Creativity Part of ‘Mental Illness’
Anthony
Gucciardi Activist Post If you like to express yourself through
painting, writing, or any other form of artistic action, scientists now
say that you must be suffering from a mental illness of some kind. In a
new display of how truly insane the mainstream medical health paradigm
has becom ...
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Israeli money flowing into Iran
Ofer
Petersburg Published: 10.11.12, 13:45 / Israel Business While the West
is crippling Iran with sanctions, it appears that in Israel – of all
places – some people are still doing business with the Islamic Republic.
Iranian marble limestone is known for its high quality all over the
world. In ...
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New York Times Admits Stanford Organic Food St ...
Lisa
Garber Activist Post We broke the story of Stanford’s ridiculous
organic food study the very night of its publication. Now, a month
later, the media is catching on to the study’s flaws; New York Times
Opinion columnist Mark Bittman apologized for hoping—in vain—that the
study would have lit ...
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Your Vote Matters
Quite
apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so
much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and
open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in
The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans'
Right To ...
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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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