English: A sign in downtown Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, with the logo of the governing political party, the United National Movement, in the lower right (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
BSA - 2012 ... Boy Scouts have released ‘perversion files’ (Updated: Oct 18, 2012 2:16 PM EDT) ... (Photo credit: marsmet551) |
English: A map showing European membership of the EU and NATO. EU member only NATO member only Member of both Česky: Mapa zobrazující členství evropských států v EU a NATO. státy pouze v EU státy pouze v NATO státy v NATO a EU (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
English: NATO / CSTO members map (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Stop NATO
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Cosmetic Change Effected, NATO To Absorb GeorgiaCivil Georgia October 18, 2012 Ivanishvili: Georgia Passed Test, Now NATO Should Take Practical Steps ==== “I…want to recommit NATO to Georgia, the future of Georgia in NATO, our gratitude for the contribution in Afghanistan and I express my condolences and NATO’s condolences for the soldi ...
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Messianic Logic: NATO Prepares For Cyber War A ...Voice of Russia October 18, 2012 NATO prepares for cyber war against Russia Sergey Duz ==== “Cyber warfare in a broad sense includes all kinds of information attacks, like ideological wars and demoralization of potential rivals. Thus, NATO is still seeing Russia as an aggressor. This is th ...
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Anatole France: Country living under shadow of ...==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Anatole France on Émile Zola, military terrorism and world peace Anatole France on Victor Hugo: People to substitute justice and peace for war and bloodshed Anatole France on war Anatole France: Wars fought over territorial acq ...
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NATO Envoy In Tbilisi: Georgia Will Join Milit ...Trend News Agency October 18, 2012 NATO, Georgia mull European integration N. Kirtskhalia Tbilisi: The prospects for Georgia’s integration into NATO have been discussed by acting Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze and NATO’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Ce ...
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NATO Missile System Global, Mobile, Threat To ...RT October 18, 2012 US missile defense: ‘global, mobile and threatening’ – Russia Robert Bridge NATO’s missile defense system presents a threat to Russia’s national security and may trigger the militarization of Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told a NATO Parliamentary Assembl ...
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Intel Hub
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“DOOM” organization calls for violence against ...By JG Vibes theintelhub.com October 19, 2012 A group calling themselves “Defend Our Oakland Movement” or “DOOM” has been anonymously printing and handing out fliers around downtown Oakland which openly call for violence against occupy protesters, the fliers encouraging citizens to “bring bats” a ...
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The Gold Rush: Why Are We Not Being Told the T ...By Richard Cottrell theintelhub.com October 19, 2012 We are now approaching one of the most important tipping points in world history and yet we stagger on, besotted by iPhones and other electronic brain frying clutter in the expectation that things being as they are will remain the same in the ...
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Martin Sheen and Woody Harrelson Set for 9/11 ...The Guardian October 19, 2012 Hollywood is to court controversy with a film that will challenge the official version of the events of 9/11, a previously taboo topic for the industry mainstream. Martin Sheen, Woody Harrelson and Ed Asner, who have all supported conspiracy theories about the terro ...
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Americans Consume Nearly 200 Pounds of GMOs Ea ...By Lisa Garber theintelhub.com October 19, 2012 This article was contributed by NaturalSociety 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 to ...
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Japanese Brain Wave-Controlled Robotic Suit Co ...By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com October 19, 2012 Contrary to popular belief, the horrific nuclear disaster at Fukushima is far from over. Indeed, as Agence France-Presse (AFP) points out, “The decommissioning of the crippled plant is expected to take several decades.” However, the “profoundly ...
FRS
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Clashes break out at anti-austerity demonstrat ...[As Angela Merkel of Germany says the troika (the group of 3 imperial usurers) should give Greece "another chance" to surrender to the social starvation and onerous debt repayment terms demanded by the imperialist system, the people gave this response in the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki. - ...
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Chinese residents take to streets after police ...Reuters, Beijing, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the city of Luzhou in southwestern China on Wednesday, after reports a truck driver was beaten to death by policemen, residents said. Pictures and video on China’s popular microblogging sit ...
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Between the US bombs and Taliban fighters: The ...October 18, 2012 Infanticide as Policy? by DAVE LINDORFF, Counterpunch Six children were attacked in Afghanistan and Pakistan this past week. Three of them, teenaged girls on a school bus in Peshawar, in the tribal region of western Pakistan, were shot and gravely wounded by two Taliban gunmen w ...
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Israeli army veterans admit role in massacres ...Tuesday, 16 October 2012 [Mr. Neumann admitted that he took part in displacing Palestinians from their villages.] Dozens of Israeli army veterans have admitted their involvement in massacres against Palestinian civilians in 1948, and acknowledged that Zionism misled them and is a catastrophe for ...
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As government, creditors near deal on further ...NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press, October 18, 2012 ATHENS, Greece — Labor unions in recession-hobbled Greece are holding another general strike against a new harsh austerity program, as European leaders beset by a deep debt crisis and economic stagnation gather for a summit meeting in Brusse ...
Ken O'Keefe
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Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe Freestyle on Gaza ...Max Igan & Ken O'Keefe Freestyle on Gaza Rooftop
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Back in Gaza with Max Igan & the Samouni FamilyIt is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that, it has c ...
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Hunger Strike in Solidarity with PalestiniansToday is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense. - Ken O'Keefe
StillSmallVoice
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Life is change and change is lifeAnd here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
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Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
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De-pinkifying breast cancerThere's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
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Why the occupation?You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
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Cleansing after Yom KippurYom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
Associated Content
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Debate Follow-Up Questions Create Risk of Poli ...After the first presidential debate I opined that debate moderators needed to be younger and more forceful. Now a new debate is thrust upon us regarding the role of debate moderator: Should the moderator be allowed follow-up questions?Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Oct 15, 2012
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Biden’s Engagement Trumped His Rudeness During ...Biden came to this debate well-prepared, and while he may have laughed at and interrupted Paul Ryan too much, his substance made up for his style.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Oct 12, 2012
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Mitt Romney Urges Peace Through Strength in Fo ...Mitt Romney ventured to the Virginia Military Institute and delivered a wide ranging foreign policy address that was made all the more important and relevant by two recent developments.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Oct 09, 2012
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Anti-Science Congressman Should Resign from Sc ...A recent video of Rep. Paul Broun saying science is "lies from the pit of hell" is grossly unfit to serve on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and should resign.Contributor: Micah Taylor Published: Oct 08, 2012
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Romney vs. Big Bird: Statement Brings Out Hypo ...Ever since Mitt Romney made his statement about cutting the federal funding of PBS, hypocrites have taken to social media to blast the candidate for threatening the system they do not donate to or even watch.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Oct 04, 2012
Popsci - Science
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Very Important Invention: Hot Pizza And Coffee ...University of Texas at Austin researchers have designed an oral strip that relieves burns from hot foods and liquids. Burn yourself on your favorite hot refreshments no longer! University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed an oral strip that immediately numbs the pain from that venti ...
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Today On Mars: Curiosity Arrives At 'The Promi ...Now parked in the Glenelg region on Mars, Curiosity swallows its first dirt sample intended for science. The Mars rover Curiosity has arrived at its long-sought destination: Glenelg, a region where three types of geologic formations converge into a potential bonanza for scientists. "Glenelg wa ...
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Science Confirms The Obvious: Rejection Can Ma ...There's a reason genius and solitude seem to go hand in hand, a new study says. Social rejection leads to creative problem solving. Don’t let rejection get you down--it might be the ticket to creativity, science says. That’s right: If regular rejection doesn’t cause you to lose all self-confide ...
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This Mud Could Revolutionize How Scientists St ...New radiocarbon measurements from the silty bottom of a Japanese lake could help scientists pinpoint when Neanderthals died out. New radiocarbon measurements from the silty bottom of a Japanese lake could be one of the most helpful tools for natural historians in decades. With this new record, ...
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Veterans Today
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Infomercials for DespotsSanitizing news and suppressing what's most important is bad enough. Imagine compounding it by producing infomercials for despots. CNN stands accused. More on that below.
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U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $22,055,922 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-07-D-0004) to exercise an option for special progressive aircraft rework of two fiscal 2013 VH-60N aircraft.
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Press TV Ban Tantamount to Human Rights ViolationThe recent EU move to take Press TV off the air is to be seen as part of a continued process of media violation against this alternative channel.
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Taliban Attack on Malala Proves “Belief ...The cowardly and brutal attack last week on the 14-year-old girl Malala Yousafzai by the Islamic terrorist group the Taliban shows the truth to this statement by the American founder and Deist Thomas Paine, "Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man."
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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Octo ...Veterans treatment courts have popped up across the country to help troubled Vets integrate with VA care to get the help they need. The courts were featured on a recent edition of 60 Minutes.
War is Business
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State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
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“Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
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2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
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Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
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Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
Hudson's Weather & Climate
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Quiet spell of autumn weather on the wayAfter what has seemed like a relentless period of unsettled weather stretching back to the end of March, it's nice to be able to report that a quieter spell of weather seems likely next week - although talk of an 'Indian Summer', for our region at least, is a little far-fetched. Friday and Sat ...
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A step forward in forecasting cold winters?Sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) has been the 'in' topic in meteorological circles in the last couple of years, ever since the severe winter of 2009/2010 in which December was the coldest since the late 19th century. SSW is linked to sudden large increases in temperature over a few days in t ...
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Regional and global climate updateProvisional Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average. It was also cooler but sunnier than normal. Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...
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All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...The deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the autumn of 2000. Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...
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Yorkshire at risk from renewed floodingHeavy rainfall in the next 30 hours could lead to yet more flooding across parts of Yorkshire. Current indications suggest some Pennine catchments of North & West Yorkshire could be most at risk. The very active weather system which I wrote about here on Friday and is currently affecting much o ...
Internat'l Political Economy
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Fed, Asia & Bailing Heavily Indebted Rich Coun ...A recent speech by this rather deplorable character Ben "Choplifter" Bernanke defends US monetary policy from its international critics by shifting the blame on them as frustrating global rebalancing. Quoth he: In some emerging markets, policymakers have chosen to systematically resist currency ...
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Unionization, Or Why American Carriers Stink[NOTE: This post won't win me any points with the Barack Obama / Dean Baker / union apologist crowd, but this blog couldn't care less about parochial US concerns. This is the international political economy zone, buddy.] Everyone knows that American carriers are among the worst in the world, and ...
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Of Payday Lender Football Sponsorship and IslamShirt sponsors obviously occupy the best camera-estate you can buy on football jerseys. In the past, there have been infamous companies occupying this space alike the late AIG with the world's most famous football club, Manchester United. Unfortunately for the Mancunians, they had to sport the d ...
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Andy Xie and the End of the WTO's 'Golden Age'[Remember the WTO? It's been so long since I have commented on it, so here's something for everyone.] Say what you will about Andy Xie, but he isn't one who refrains from speaking his mind. Remember, he famously left Morgan Stanley in 2006 for suggesting that erstwhile Asian tiger economy Singap ...
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Get Lost Foreign Students: Today's United KingdomHaving been one at various points in life, I generally believe foreign students are harmless. While they are certainly easy targets for xenophobia--recall how the United States tightened student visas in the wake of 9/11 before universities that had become reliant on full-tuition paying foreign ...
Economic Collapse Blog
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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 ...
Infoshop - Alt Media
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Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire ArmedDespite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
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July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
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Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For PapersJurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
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Break the Chains Blog Turns Six Years OldSince June 2006 to present day, the Break the Chains Blog (http://breakthechains.info) has published over 5,400 stories on government violence a...
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Fifth Estate, Summer 2012 issue, now availableGreetings! The Summer Fifth Estate has been delivered to us by our printer and we are in the process of mailing subscriptions and shipping bulk ...
E U Times
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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 GunBoeing 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 TransactionsOutgoing 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 StarsAstronomers 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 ...
Voiceless Victim
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Heartless Hart at it AgainMelbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
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True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
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Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
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Vale John PironaJohn Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
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Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
WL Central
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2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
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2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
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2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different DirectionsBy Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
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2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
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2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...
U N News
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At dedication of memorial, UN chief lauds Fran ...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to a key figure in the formation of the United Nations, United States wartime President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died just months before seeing his dream come true 67 years ago but whose global vision surmounting national boundaries still gu ...
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UN and Brazil sign $20 million agreement to he ...A $20 million agreement signed today by the United Nations and Brazil will seek to transfer the expertise of the South American country to support cotton farmers in developing economies.
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Security Council extends mandate of UN peaceke ...The Security Council today extended the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti for another year, and decided to reduce the overall force levels as responsibility for security is gradually handed over to the national police.
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UN human rights teams head to scene of deadly ...United Nations human rights officers have been dispatched to western Guatemala, where clashes between indigenous communities, police and the military have resulted in several deaths and injuries.
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Thousands of families in Colombia to benefit f ...More than 50,000 families in Colombia will benefit from a United Nations-backed rural poverty reduction project which seeks to facilitate access to financing and community services for small-scale producers.
Conspiracy Reality TV
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Aurora Batman Shooting – Many CoincidencesThe trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
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CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
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The Magic WeedHemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
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Blood ColtanBlood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
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CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the StateSome state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
Rewilding Institute
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Sea Shepherd sheds some light on the recent Sh ...Posted by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is simply smok ...
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Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...(September 4, 2012) The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy. PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
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Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
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Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
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Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...Natural History: the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango. It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
Asia Sentinel
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A North Korean Rebel• (http://twitter.com/share) Kim Jong-il's liberal grandson wishes for peace. Fat chance.
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China's Authoritarian Capitalism• (http://twitter.com/share) Is it a menace for China and the global economy?
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Best Eats: Aqua Roma, One Peking Road, Tsim Sh ...• (http://twitter.com/share) Maybe more complicated than it needs to be
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Tossing Science Out of Indonesian Schools?• (http://twitter.com/share) An education ministry decision to dumb down grade school is a mistake for the future
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The Murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu• (http://twitter.com/share) Six years on, troubling questions remain about the Mongolian beauty's death, and who ordered it
We Know the Lies
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Gun Restrictions Coming After 2012 Election!Anytime you start talking about a coming bans on firearms, people come out of the woodwork to tell you how crazy you are and how that could never happen in America. Well if you watched last night’s presidential debate, it should be painfully obvious that this is no conspiracy theory. read more
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14 Governors Prepare State Militia Defenses To ...Obama is fearing a revolution against him by the states, has moved swiftly by nationalizing nearly all National Guard Forces in multiple states; Georgia, Alabama, Kansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Virginia, Louisiana, South Carolina – to name a few. ~ BladeReport - Videos read more
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What's Going On?... Strange Domes to Line the ...Disaster-proof domes that can sustain winds in excess of 250 mph will cost taxpayers more than $50 a foot. FEMA has now offered to pick up the tab of at least $50 million dollars, to install disaster shelters in and around Houston that, according to the manufacturer, are “almost impenetra ...
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Nationwide Gun Ban Coming to America!Will they come for our guns like thieves in the night?... Who will try to disarm the American people? U.S. troops? Russian troops? Chinese troops? We won't know... The American people must not allow this to happen or we will become another UN controlled nation of disarmed fools. ~ Video read more
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There's a Quiet Urgency... There's 'Something' ...I attended a gun show yesterday morning, just over a quarter-century after attending my first and only gun show. The first venue was located less than a mile from the current venue. Despite the passage of time, the memories of attending my first event remain surprisingly fresh in my mind. I ...
Tarpley
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Just Too Weird Shows CIA Mormon Mafia Has Fing ...Webster G. Tarpley on Infowars Infowars October 18, 2012 [download audio][download video]
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The CIA Mormon Mafia and the Benghazi KillingsWebster G. Tarpley on Guns and Butter Guns and Butter October 17, 2012 Guns and Butter – October 17, 2012 at 1:00pmClick to listen (or download) use player below as backup if above fails to load [download audio] [...]
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Romney Campaign, CIA Mormon Mafia Both Respons ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV October 14, 2012 The prime suspect in the death of Ambassador Stevens and his three colleagues is Sufyan Bin Qumu, an obvious US double agent who spent several years in Guatnanmo and who doubtless swore eternal obedience to the CIA to get released. Reports have ...
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Erdogan Out on a Limb With Anti-Syrian Measure ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV October 12, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
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If Romney Wins, Get Set for a Big Upsurge of P ...Webster G. Tarpley on Truth Jihad Radio with Kevin Barrett Truth Jihad Radio October 12, 2012 [download audio]
Modern Survivalism
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Shortwave Radio Bands 101Understanding the concept of shortwave bands If you are new to shortwave radio, then the first thing you need to understand is the concept of bands (shortwave bands). If you have ever listened to AM or FM radio, then you already know what a band is. The AM band is the frequency range stretching ...
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STOP, Study, Think, Observe, PrepareA survival reminder for when facing a disaster, is to… STOP. STUDY THINK OBSERVE PREPARE Stop when you realize that you have a problem or a potential oncoming problem. Accept that you have (or will have) a problem and are in trouble. Do not fool yourself into thinking that what you ...
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Self Reliance Expo in Mesa, ArizonaModern Survival Blog.com suggests, if you are able to attend, you will be rewarded with a family atmosphere at the Self Reliance Expo in Mesa, Arizona during October 26 & 27 with exhibitors from many facets of survival preparedness. Subjects to be covered include… Alternative Energy Bo ...
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How Much Water For Freeze-Dried vs. Dehydrated ...Freeze-dried foods have 98% of their water removed. This reduces the food’s weight by about 90%. Dehydrated foods have 95% of their water removed for vegetables and 80% for fruits. Freeze dried foods retain their original color, form, size, taste and texture. Dehydrated foods will shrivel ...
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East Coast Earthquake! Magnitude 4.6Felt intensely in New England, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck near Hollis, Maine at 7:12 PM local time, October 16, about 85 miles north of Boston. The earthquake rippled out from the epicenter, which was very shallow at 5km (about 3 miles under the earth’s surface), which was a reason ...
Fast Company
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Behind The Live Action "Halo 4" Trailer, A Dav ...Director Tim Miller talk about how the new two-minute promo took shape, his collaboration with Fincher, and how the poem "Invictus" inspired him.
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How SocialCheck.me Builds A "Trust Infrastruct ...Robert Park is a founder of SocialCheck.me, which wants to transform the way employers hire people. You know that little footnote to your resume, where you list a few references--mostly people you’re sure would never say a word against you? SocialCheck.me wants to crack that section wide open, p ...
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Think Your Boss Is Psycho? "The Girl" Studies ...Director Julian Jarrold talks about telling the story of Hitchcock’s dysfunction while paying tribute to his work as a filmmaker.
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A Visual Breakdown Of The Benefits Of Working ...Are you on the fence about working from home? Is your boss? Here are some numbers to put in context how good it is for you and your job. Unless you don’t want to be a less stressed, more productive worker.
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Facebook Lends A Hand To U.K.'s New Comp-Sci C ...Britain's Department of Education is to give its moribund ICT curriculum six of the best--with a little help from Facebook. The social media firm, along with IBM and Microsoft, is to help revamp computer classes for kids, after its curriculum was axed earlier this year as not being fit for purpo ...
Jadaliyya
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What is a Car Bomb?It is surreal to wake up to news of a car bomb back home, now thousands of miles away. Immediately, the war shaped body is both numb and preoccupied with images of death and destruction. The mind wanders and sutures the past, present and future seamlessly. Phone calls, emails, and texts begin. T ...
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Hossam El-Hamalawy on Social Media and Protest ...[This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East and North Africa.] Jadaliyya (J): What do you think are the most gratifying aspects of Tweeting, and Twitter? ...
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London Event -- The Arab Uprisings: Between Ch ...Panel Discussion and Book Launch Event The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (Pluto Press, 2012) Edited by Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer, and Ziad Abu-Rish Monday, 29 October 2012 7pm Room G50, College Buildings School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Russle Square, ...
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الهامش الاحتجاجي يسقط المركز التسلطي: العملية ...ظهر كتاب" التهميش والمهمشون في مصر والشرق الأوسط" من تحرير حبيب عائب –راي بوش عن دار العين للنشر في خضم اندلاع الثورات العربية 2011-2012 (وربما تستمر في بلد أو تستأنف في آخر أو تنفجر دون سابق إنذار!)، والسودان والجزائر شاهدتين على ذلك. الكتاب مكون من ثلاثة أقسام، الأول: الهام ...
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الربيع العربي: الصحة والرعاية في المرحلة الانت ...أدّت الانتفاضات التي شهدتها منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا مؤخرًا إلى بروز عدد من التغيرات السياسية التي طالت جميع بلدان المنطقة تقريبًا وزرعت التفاؤل والأمل بإحداث إصلاح إجتماعي وإقتصادي مهمّ في هذه البلدان. وفي حين تمّ التركيز في شكل خاص على التداعيات الأمنية والاقتصادية لهذه التغيرات، كان ل ...
mediagazer
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Major Cable News Networks Won't Carry Third-Pa ...Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Major Cable News Networks Won't Carry Third-Party Debate — NEW YORK — When Larry King moderates Tuesday's third-party debate in Chicago, his former network, CNN, will not be carrying it live. And neither will Fox News or MSN ...
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Copyright Alert System Coming Within Weeks (Gl ...Glenn Peoples / Billboard.Biz: Copyright Alert System Coming Within Weeks — American Internet users can expect to start seeing notifications from their Internet service providers if they trade files on peer-to-peer networks. — A blog post by Jill Lesser, exec ...
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Publisher at Advance's Express-Times suddenly ...Jim Romenesko: Publisher at Advance's Express-Times suddenly resigns — Martin Till, who has been with the Express-Times in Easton, Pa., for 14 years, said in a prepared statement that he's decided to explore new opportunities. The departing publisher could not be reached ...
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Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a De ...Katherine Mangan / Wired Campus: Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law — 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. — ...
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Notorious ad hijacker spreads to more media, r ...Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: Notorious ad hijacker spreads to more media, retail sites — Do publishers have the right to control the ads that appear on their websites? A controversial company doesn't think so and has been injecting billions of unauthorized ads into w ...
Chemtrail News
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CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
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Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
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10 mile long chemtrail 1 Videoprobably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
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ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
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Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTubeChemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU
World News - Top Stories
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McDonald's sales growth weakens, shares f ...By Lisa Baertlein and Jessica Wohl (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp missed profit expectations for the second quarter in a row as sales at established restaurants grew at their slowest pace in more than nine years because of stepped-up competition and a weak global economy. The world's biggest fa ...
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AMD to cut work force by 15 percent Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will cut 15 percent of its work force by the end of this year as part of a restructuring. The news came along with the company's quarterly earnings report Thursday afternoon. The Sunnyvale chip maker (NYSE: AMD) has been hit by the slowdown in the PC market as use ...
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Mourinho keeps Paris Saint-Germain door o ...The Portuguese manager responds to continuing rumours about his future saying that he may one day manage in the French capital but accuses the media of twisting...
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Study Shows How Prayer, Meditation Affect ...How does prayer and meditation affect brain activity? Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD is the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomson Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College and he has studied the neuroscientific effect of religious and spiritual ex ...
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Yahoo South Korea To Close By End Of Next ...SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Yahoo Inc. said it will close its South Korean web portal and an Internet advertising business, cutting its losses in a market where it has struggled for over a decade. Yahoo's South Korea unit said Friday its Seoul office with over 200 employees will be shut by the ...
no frakking consensus
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Deja Vu All Over again…1991′s R ...Before there was Al Gore, there was George Mitchell. Politicians have been casting themselves as environmental crusaders, saving the planet, for two decades.
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How Science (Really) WorksA new report argues that alternative perspectives are vital to the scientific process. Expecting dispassion from individual researchers is probably a lost cause.
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Another False Alarm – ‘The Dying o ...A 17-year-old book about the state of America's forests is similar to current books about climate change. Its analysis and predictions were wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Your Future, Courtesy of Climate ActivistsThe head of research at a prominent UK climate facility believes that those of us who use refrigerators and drive cars will need to be coerced into altering our lifestyles.
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The Anti-Free-Speech BrigadeLast week 18,000 people signed a petition demanding that a publicly-funded television station 'never again' report on a particular point-of-view.
Anna's News
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Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
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National Parks at Risk: PhotosNational parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
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Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
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Polar Shifts on Rising SeasHow high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
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Green energy investment hits record global highGlobal investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle &nb ...
Medical Marijuana
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10/16/12 - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of ...healthcarereform.procon.org - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of What It Is and What It Is Not - Our new 128-page review compiles responses from experts and legislators to 62 frequently asked questions about Obamacare in topics ranging from taxes, insurance premiums, and pre-existing condit ...
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10/15/12 - Six States with Pending Legislation ...medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Six States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Two states have initiatives on the Nov. 6, 2012 ballot (Arkansas and Massachusetts) while four other states have pending bills in the state legislature (IL, NY, OH, and PA).
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10/11/12 - 174 Books Citing ProCon.orgwww.procon.org - - 174 Books Citing ProCon.org - We've added 16 new books to the list of works citing ProCon.org research, including books about the Middle East, bioethics, criminal law, and even the death of Bruce Lee.
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10/11/12 - Should the United States intervene ...2012election.procon.org - Should the United States intervene militarily in Syria? – Johnson and Stein are Con. Goode, Obama, and Romney are Not Clearly Pro or Con.
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10/11/12 - Should churches (defined as churche ...2012election.procon.org - Should churches (defined as churches, temples, mosques, synagogues, etc.) remain tax-exempt? – Johnson is Con. Stein is Not Clearly Pro or Con.
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
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- The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
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Gyrovague's Raves
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V. BushVannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
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Tokyo’s KatsumiJapan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
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Women’s MigrainesCarol Cruzan Morton Migraines are a battle of the sexes that women might prefer not winning. Each year, roughly three times more women than men—up to 18% of all women—suffer from the debilitating headaches, as tallied by epidemiological surveys in Europe and the United States. A new brain imagin ...
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Once Upon a TimeThe lure of the fairy tale. Joan Acocella Once upon a time there was a stubborn child who never did what his mother told him to do. The dear Lord, therefore, did not look kindly upon him, and let him become sick. No doctor could cure him and in a short time he lay on … Read more
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Violence as a way of lifeHumanity has hardly produced a more destructive version of itself than the new breed of terrorists, who are convinced that they have been chosen to show mankind the way to utopia. Helene Lööw The scenes and testimonies of the disaster in Norway make it difficult to justify. Pictures of children ...
In Verbena | Royal Society
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Looking forward to a Labour science policyEd Miliband certainly stirred his troops in to a frenzy of enthusiasm last Tuesday in Manchester. Labour party conference last week was quite different to my first visit to party conference world last year; the party in opposition seemed to me to be confident and business-like. At many events we ...
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We need to talk about populationAfter working on the Royal Society’s People and the planet report for almost 2 years, and after attending a number of party conferences, it seemed only natural to me that this year we might have an event at the party conferences on the topic of our report. It seemed particularly relevant given t ...
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Brighton rock and cupcake campaigningStrolling along the Brighton seafront in neon FRACK OR NOT? t-shirts, my colleague and I drew the attention of a local member of Frack Off, an organisation campaigning against shale gas extraction in the UK. Our seaside location was on account of the Liberal Democrats’ annual party conference. A ...
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An ecosystems approach: the holy grail for inn ...From Monday 24 September 2012 Yesterday evening I attended the Big Innovation Centre’s Lib Dem Fringe event: It’s innovation stupid: Is the strategy for growth working? This was by far the liveliest event I’ve attended during the Lib Dem conference so far. Although Will Hutton only used the F wo ...
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Lib Dems pass motion for sensible vs stop-star ...From Monday 24 September 2012 I’m new to party conferences, but I felt remarkably at home during Julian Huppert’s policy motion: Developing a future – policies for science and research. The science-savvy Lib Dems, voted unanimously to pass a motion (available here) for a ring-fenced science budg ...
NAU Resistance
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End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
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Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ..."On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
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The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ..."Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
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Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase OneWe knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
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Paving The Way For A North American UnionBy: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
Gaea Times
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Now, hairbrush that reads your mindWASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
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Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
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Ava Sambora Walks The Runwaymore images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
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Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnsonmore images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
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VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road aheadAYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...
TruthNews Australia
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Chemtrails brownshirts renew threats against TNRA I have once again received an ominous threat, allegedly from the group "Anonymous", and once again because of my sceptical response to claims about the existence of a global aeorsol spraying campaign known as "chemtrails", and because I insist that such claims must be supported by evidence in or ...
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A journey into Truth In tonight's show we plunge into the deeply confusing realm of philosophy with the objective of understanding the nature of truth itself. In philosophy this type of investigation is sometimes called Epistemology, or the study of knowledge. During the show we look at 2 major philosophical debat ...
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Thugs have threatened to shut down TNRA - we m ...Some of the fanatical chemtrail believers are posting threats on this website, eg: Hereward as a computer whatever I hope you know about zombie trojans and how to check for them. Buckle up boys the ride is about to get bumpy These threats are of course pathetic and indicative of a major ...
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Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...
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Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 1My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is activist and vlogger Mimi Al-Laham, better known as "Syrian Girl" on youtube. Mimi has been posting videos for some time highlighting the deceptions in the mainstream media coverage of the Syrian conflict. Our conversation ranges from questions about ...
Beacon
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Senator Calls for FDA Crackdown on Seafood FraudYesterday, in a letter to Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) urged the agency for stricter oversight and enforcement of seafood fraud, highlighting the investigative work of Oceana, writing: “It is unacceptable that proven fraud is ...
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Creature Feature: Oarfish©Pisces Sportsfishing After a gigantic eyeball washed ashore in Ft. Lauderdale last week (likely belonging to a swordfish) this week the ocean reminded us again what mysteries lurk in the deep when a 15 foot oarfish washed ashore on the Baja Peninsula. By oarfish standards, though, 15 feet i ...
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What is that animal?©OCEANA Carlos Minguell Click "read more" to find out.
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Hottest September Ever Recorded©Wikimedia Commons Well these records seem to be falling by the wayside quickly. Last month we learned that arctic summer sea ice had shrunk to its smallest extent ever. By a lot. Today we learn that this past September tied September of 2005 for the hottest on record. One stat released by N ...
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Happy World Food Day!Fisheries can provide 700 million meals a day ©Oceana If it’s October 16th then it’s World Food Day! At Oceana we recognize the importance of this day, launched in 1979 by the UN to bring light to the issue of world hunger. With the world population careening towards 9 billion by mid-century ...
Civilian Military Intelligence Group
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Military Anecdote of the Day: Ulysses S. Grant ...Commander of the Army of the Potomac, Ulysses S. Grant On his way to a reception in his honor, Ulysses S Grant was caught in a rain shower. He offered the protection of an umbrella to a stranger walking in the same direction. The stranger confided that “Between us, I have alw ...
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Bernard Montgomery Was Known For His Dashing W ...Bernard Montgomery Bernard Montgomery was a flamboyant egotist, so his detractors thought. He spoke his mind and was truculent to a fault. In 1944 Alan Brooke was Chief of the Imperial General Staff and later became Viscount Alan Brooke. General Bernard Montgomery had become the topic of ...
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When Japan Surrendered In August 1945, Hiroo O ...Hiroo Onoda Born on 3/19/1922. Hiroo Onoda is a former imperial Japanese army intelligence officer who refused to surrender in 1945. Onoda fought on until his commanding officer traveled to the island where he was in hiding and ordered to lay down his arms. He was a second lieutenant. &# ...
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The Birkenhead Drill: The Origin Of “Wom ...The Wreck Of The Birkenhead On February 26th, 1852 the HMS Birkenhead, a British troop carrier transporting troops for the Navy struck a rock while bringing soldiers to South Africa. The British were locked in a war with the Khosa tribe in what was now termed the Kaffir Wars. Reali ...
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The Sexual State Of The Union During The Ameri ...General “Fighting Joe” Joe Hooker There was plenty of pornography during the Civil War. As hard as it is to believe that well produced photographs, woodcuts, and daguerreotypes were plentiful during a war that robbed so many of their resources. From time immemorial, peo ...
Taylor Marsh
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Queer Talk: Still No Romney / Ryan Endorsement ...If your playing position is inside the System, then you must always consider the consequences of criticizing those controlling the System. That’s the reality for the Log Cabin Republicans and the Stonewall Democrats. They’re partisan organizations, who, of course, have a lot of company. Pushing ...
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Illinois’ Joe Walsh Joins the Todd Akin Wing o ...TAMMY DUCKWORTH got some help in her campaign for Congress from the guy she’s running to unseat. Joe Walsh is making the case for why we need more women in Congress every time he’s given the microphone. Asked by reporters after the debate if he was saying that it’s never medically ne ...
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Obama Still Weak on Libya with Jon Stewart, Wh ...The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook WITH MONDAY’S final debate on foreign policy looming, let’s hope somebody on Team Obama figures out a better answer than what President Obama slipped under ...
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Tim Kaine Wiped the Floor with George Allen in ...THERE IS absolutely no question that Tim Kaine outperformed George Allen in last night’s debate. Every third sentence from Allen he used the word “sequestration,” trying to scare Virginia voters that military cuts would send them to the unemployment line. I watched the debate a ...
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Australia’s PM Julia Gillard Inspires Dictiona ...LOG THIS UNDER news many missed. So, as news organizations take delight in showing the Austrailian PM’s fall in India, Gillard’s impassioned speech of last week calling out misogy has rocked the word geeks. From the Guardian on Wednesday: While the Oxford English Dictionary reworded ...
Hudson New York
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Honing Anti-Semitism in France and SwedenA wave of anti-Jewish violence has taken place in France and Sweden over the past few weeks. The difference in government response is notable, and yet there is something similarly disquieting about their actions. The Swedish government alternately denies
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Missile Defense: Serious Business as UsualThe major argument against taking preemptive military action against Iran is the fear that Tehran's retaliatory capability will engulf the Middle East and other regions in serious violence and turmoil, throwing the world's already fragile economy into a
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Muslim Lobbyist Represents U.S. at European Hu ...Freedom of speech in Europe and North America is increasingly under threat because of a growing confusion among Western leaders over how to define "human rights." The problem is being compounded by politically correct Western governments, which seek to
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Who Would You Fight For?Those few broadcasters and papers which still bother to report news (as opposed to indoctrination or gossip) seem unperturbed by this consideration: "Who would you fight for?" But it is a question worth lingering over for a moment: beneath it lies some
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Changing the BattlefieldThe unwillingness of the Obama administration to label the September occupation of American diplomatic facilities in Cairo and Benghazi, and the murder of an American diplomat "acts of war" make this an opportune moment to consider two lessons emanating
Urban Survival
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Port and Reality CheckAh…as the week winds up, we notice that the futures were down significantly in the early going, and gold was down, too. Why is something of a mystery. The overnight figs from the Federal Reserve showed the annualized 3-month rate … Continue reading →
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Coping: With Private Equity Funds as LandlordsSeveral emails came in – and interestingly, on both sides of the comments in yesterday’s column about VC money pouring into foreclosed and market-beaten homes. Maryland Jim offers this: “Hi George, Maybe the PE (pvt. equity – g) firms know … Contin ...
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Milking ConsumersI’ve got a couple of friends who have families in the dairy business. They run pretty good-sized operations of 4,000-6,000 head…and one of them mentioned a few weeks ago to keep an eye open for soaring milk prices. “Our feed … Continue reading →
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Coping: Preppers to go “No Fly”?&# ...A disturbing headline making the rounds in the prepper community this morning reads “The Red List: Prepper Put On No Fly List, Escorted Off Plane Under Armed Guard.” On the surface, it appears Kafkaesque: A man stuck in Hawaii, unable … Continue reading →
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Strong-arm and Hornswoggle Tuesday Plus CPII have to say some mornings of looking over the news there’s little rhyme or reason to it. But then there are mornings like this one when a general flow or undercurrent to the headlines seems to come into view. … Continue reading →
Trends & Forecasts
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The Best way to exploit a Society is through a ...Monopoly Men : Get a Monopoly and let society... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Money as Debt ~ The Rothschild Mafia Paul Grignon Money as Debt 3 The Rothschild Mafia Paul Grignon... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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The CIA / Mormon Mafia & The October Surprise ...People who have been deprived of work, due to... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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William Cooper Claimed Lindsey Williams Was A ...William Cooper Claims Lindsey Williams Is A... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Financial Collapse 2013 ~ The End of The Brett ...We have been betrayed, deceived, used and now we... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
Radical Chic
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NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLANDOnce you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
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AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
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AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
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RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
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FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
Boston Blog ( Nature Network)
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Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
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Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
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New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
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BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
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Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells outMost of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
NRDC Switchboard
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Pursuing nonsprawling city growth with major b ...Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC For nearly a hundred years, the downtown Sacramento Railyard was a lively, prosperous place. At its height, the yard is said ...
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Los Verdes are the Greenest: Latinos are the n ...Linda Escalante, Southern California Advocacy Coordinator & Latino Outreach Specialist, Santa Monica This year was the year of Cesar Chavez. Decades ago Senator Robert F. Kennedy called him "one of the heroic figures of our time." &n ...
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PA Supreme Court Hears Act 13 Oral Argument as ...Daniel Raichel, Legal Fellow, New York The Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday on the constitutionality of provisions of Act 13, a recently enacted state law that would virtually eliminate all local zoning authority to control t ...
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The Environment and the "Fiscal Cliff"Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC When Congress comes back from its “recess” the major issues on their plate will be taxes and spending. Without further action, i.e. Congress doing nothing, the Bush tax cut ...
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NRDC Challenges Navy's Plan to Utilize Dangero ...Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica Today, NRDC sued the U.S. Navy and the government agency charged with protecting marine mammals from the Navy’s harmful use of sonar. Both the Navy and the National Ma ...
Injustice Everywhere
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, October 17 , 2012: Washington, DC: A federal jury indicted an officer on nine counts, including assault with intent to kill while armed, in connection with a shooting that … Continue reading →National Police Misconduc ...
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Upcoming Supreme Court Action: Florida v. JardinesGo here to read the Cato Institute amicus brief in this case.Upcoming Supreme Court Action: Florida v. Jardines is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, October 17, 2012: Lee County, Florida: A sergeant is off of the job after accusations came out that he told deputies to ignore extra work like traffic stops. He … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed ...
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Police Go to Wrong House, Shoot DogFrom KSAT: A local couple says a San Antonio police officer who shot their dog in the jaw early Sunday morning was at the wrong house. Albert Morales said his brother, Hector Serna, woke him up before dawn after hearing … Continue reading →Police Go to Wrong House, Shoot Dog is a pos ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, October 16, 2012: Culpeper, Virginia: A police captain is on paid administrative leave pending an ongoing investigation by the Virginia State Police and FBI into alleged wrongdoing. He is … Continue reading →National Po ...
Total Collapse
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Monsanto “War” Kills US Ambassador To LibyaA stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today is claiming that the 11 September attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed American Ambassador John Christopher Stevens (1960-2012) was an act of terrorism led by an armed force of mercenaries lin ...
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October surprise: US and Israel prepare to str ...The United States and Israel are already involved in discussions over how they could soon conduct a joint surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, a source close to the talks tells Foreign Policy magazine. After months of urging from Israeli authorities for the US to intervene in a rumored ...
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US sources: US, Israel plan October Surprise. ...Four facts deserve attention with regard to a potential attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The first is that the Iranian-Israeli war is already at hand. Iran launched it by sending an unmanned drone into Israeli air space Saturday, Oct. 6, breaking new ground in belligerence with a cyber attac ...
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Children born to parents who eat GM wheat may ...Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism that some scientists are now saying could cause serious problems for the human ...
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U.S. Says Disputed Islands Covered by Japan De ...U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said islands at the heart of a dispute between Japan and China fall under an American defense pact with Japan, while urging the sides to resolve the standoff via diplomacy. “We want to focus more on issues associated with the maintenance of peace a ...
Daily Dose
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Newsweek goes digital- ...Newsweek is shutting down its magazine, going digital only. Sprint is overtaking control of Clearwire, no acquisition needed. Color is said to be in acquisition talks with Apple. You can...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – Instagram the Android hit, ...The iPhone 5 is hard to build, venture capital work is going strong, and Android users love them some Instagram. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – Softbank takes control of S ...Japan’s Softbank has acquired 70% of Sprint, Microsoft’s Xbox Music launches tomorrow, and Facebook lets you get all smiley in comments. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – iPad Mini reveal reportedly ...Reliable reports say that the Apple’s iPad Mini will be announced on 23 October, Microsoft Office 2013 hits ‘Release to Manufacturing’ status, while Rovio and CERN team up to help...
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The Next Web’s Daily Dose: Security patc ...Mozilla patches security flaws in Firefox, Google shows love to India, Twitter heads to South Korea and green pigs release a cook book. All this and more in the Daily...
Beyond Zero Emissions
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Parliament supports motion for solarToday the South Australian Parliament committed to looking seriously at building solar thermal in Port Augusta. Th ...
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Rising prices show we must get off gasAustralian households are to be hit by another rise in energy bills, this time due to rising gas prices, as highlighted by a report releas ...
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Sydney, NSW: Health and Social Harms of Coal M ...When: Monday 29 October 2012 Time: 5:30pm-7pm Location: Medical Foundation Auditorium - The University of Sydney, 92-94 Parramatta Road Camperdown NSW 2050 See map below for directions Cost: Free but RSVP is essential to kerry.jenson& ...
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BZE submission to Sydney Trigeneration plan av ...Download full submission here: Trigen_master_plan_BZEsubmission.pdf Download accompanying spreadsheet here: BeyondZeroEmissions_Trigen_master_plan_data.xls (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this p ...
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Biogas no saviour for Sydney’s trigen planBy Matthew Wright. The City of Sydney plans to build a network of gas burners, each of which would simultaneously provide power, heating and cooling to public and private buildings. The City believes that this approach – known as trigeneration – would reduce the carbon emissions of connecte ...
Monga Bay ( News )
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Most controversial aspects of Brazil's new For ...Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signed into law a revised version of the country's Forest Code, vetoing some of the most controversial changes proposed by agricultural interests in Brazil's Congress.
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Photos: emperor penguins take first place in r ...Photographer, Paul Nicklen, says he'll never forget the moment when a slew of emperor penguins burst by him in the frigid Ross Sea; he'd waited in the cold water, using a snorkel, to capture this image. Now, Nicklen has won the much-coveted Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year ...
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South Africa hits another new record in rhino ...Four hundred and fifty-five rhinos have been killed by poachers in South Africa since the beginning of the year. The number surpasses the record set last year (448) and proves that national efforts to stem poaching have not yet made a dent in actual killings. The mass killing has been spurred on ...
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India pledges over $60 million for biodiversit ...The Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, pledged around $50 million (Rs. 264 crore) for domestic biodiversity protection, reports the Hindu. The pledge came this week at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Hyderabad, India. The CBD has set bold goals on stemming the rate ...
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Will we need to pull carbon out of the atmosph ...This year saw the Arctic sea ice extent fall to a new and shocking low, while the U.S. experienced it warmest month ever on record (July), beating even Dust Bowl temperatures. Meanwhile, a flood of new research has convincingly connected a rise in extreme weather events, especially droughts and ...
Sierra Express
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Councilor-Aspirant in Development GaitThe slum communities have a rugged history with poverty shading a portion growth of life and existence in their inhabitants. This is what a visit at Susan’s Bay wharf would portray. A special dreg of life is in blossom sometimes thinking the inhabitants are existing on their own. (Photo: Top v ...
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USA and UK call for peaceful electionsUnited States Ambassador Michael S. Owen and British High Commissioner Ian Hughes have in a joint press conference on Tuesday 16th, sermonized people of this nation to demonstrate political maturity and democratic values by exercising peaceful, fair, and credible elections in the forthcoming da ...
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Retired Heroes to Resume Training SessionsReports reveal that the Sierra Leone Retired National Football Heroes team will soon resume training sessions in preparation for the regional veteran football competition to be hosted in Senegal. (Photo: Sierra Leone Retired National Football Heroes in Mali) According to the chairman, Umaru Dee ...
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EFSL Donates Drugs to GraftonThe Evangelical Fellowship of Sierra Leone (EFSL) has donated assorted drugs to the Grafton community in a bid to combat the cholera that has plagued the country recently. Handing over the items to the Grafton community headman, the general secretary EFSL Rev. Jonathan Titus Williams said their ...
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Press Release – APC National Presidential Camp ...The public is hereby informed that the unwarranted and unlawful obstruction of the presidential motorcade by the SLPP presidential candidate Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio demonstrated total disregard for constituted authority and the rule of law. (Photo: His Excellency, President Ernest Bai Korom ...
Dairy Industry - NZ Herald
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Fonterra unveils new share trading boardFormer PriceWaterhouseCoopers chairman John Shewan has been appointed chairman of the establishment board set up for the introduction of the new Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, which is expected to be launched before the year's end.Shewan,...
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Dairy prices up 1.8pc overnight (+graphic)Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, with whole milk powder posting its biggest gain since March last year.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.8 per cent compared to the last sale two weeks...
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Fran O'Sullivan: Meanwhile, back at the ranchIs Fonterra's Sir Henry van der Heyden staying on past his use-by date as the dairy co-operative's chairman to protect chairman-elect John Wilson from a boardroom coup?That question was doing the rounds even before Fonterra confirmed...
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Oz supermarket giant drops Kiwi cheeseOne of Australia's biggest supermarket chains has dropped New Zealand's Mainland cheese brand much to the chagrin of its loyal customers, but Mainland's owner Fonterra is still smiling after its Aussie-made Bega brand remains...
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Stand-off over mutant calves not cooling downAn ongoing battle between farmers and a genetics company over a hairy mutation in calves could have been resolved by now with "a dose of pragmatism", says Federated Farmers. Around 900 farmers in the country have been affected after...
Hit & Run | Reason
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Solitary Confinement Abuse Rampant in Californ ...Ricky Gray has been in solitary confinement since 2006, despite having a violence-free prison record and no major disciplinary infractions. Shane Bauer’s excellent Mother Jones article on solitary confinement—which tells Gray's story—is the latest addition to a long line ...
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Annoying Traffic Cameras Are No Match for Subv ...I admit to a weakness for anything that, intentionally or otherwise, sticks it to the man. And I really don't like automated traffic cameras that issue tickets to alleged speeders and red-light runners who are often driving at perfectly safe speeds and cornering on too-closely time ...
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Arizona Proposition Would Install California-S ...As noted on Reason 24/7 yesterday, third parties in Arizona are worried about Proposition 121, the “Open Elections/Open Government Act,” which would create a single primary for all candidates with the top two advancing to November. And then you have to pick between Kodos and Kang. ...
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Iowa Civil Rights Commission Shakes Down Landl ...The Des Moines Register reports that for five years ending in February 2011, the Iowa Civil Rights Commission shook down landlords for "voluntary contributions" in exchange for dropping discrimination complaints. The Register obtained copies of 27 settlement agreements inv ...
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Promotional Poster in European Commission Leav ...Member of the European Parliament and Youtube phenomenon Daniel Hannan posted a photo of a poster hanging in the European Commission on his blog today. The poster is from Europe4All and features the E.U. logo in the top right corner. At first glance it looks like a happy ...
Mercury Rising
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Angry Republicans target soup kitchenJed Lewison has the story at DK. The soup kitchen that Paul Ryan invaded for his photo op has come under verbal assault and a financial boycott for…what? Why don’t these people just wear brown shirts to simplify things?
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In which the Miami Herald endorses communism, ...Really, the American press continues to discover new levels of stupidity. You may remember that Republican Congressman David Rivera is under investigation for bribes, false election filings, and other criminal acts. The Miami Herald grudgingly concedes he “carries too much political baggag ...
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Retire the words “fact” and “ ...FAIR had a good take on the Romney-Benghazi-”act of terror” thing here. The so-called “fact-checkers” like Annenberg’s Brooks Jackson and Politifact‘s “main imperative … is to maintain an appearance of impartiality by making it seem like both sides ...
Reality Sandwich
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The Book of SoygaScholars of Occult Magic, rejoice! The heretofore unpublished Book of Soyga, written by 16th century magician Dr. John Dee, is coming to print for the first time. Previously known only through references in other texts, the Book of Soyga was discovered in 1994 at the British Library. Since th ...
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The Skeleton FestivalFor reasons that remain unclear, fascination with Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebration has been building in the global zeitgeist. Its iconography of smiling skulls and animated skeletons are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in high fashion and trinket-culture alike. But what really is the Da ...
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Are Minds Confined to Brains?The following is reprinted from the book Science Set Free by Rupert Sheldrake. Copyright © 2012 by Rupert Sheldrake. Published by Crown Archetype/ Deepak Chopra Books, a division of Random House, Inc. read more
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A Report from Psychedemia, 2012: Integrating P ...Psychedemia, 2012 Philadelphia, PA Although my stay in Pennsylvania was brief, I was fortunate to attend Psychedemia, and felt blessed to participate in the highest expression of the current Uranus-Pluto square, the transit defining the 2010‘s. Psychedemia was a 3 day conference at the Un ...
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This Week in PsychedelicsUPenn hosts the first university-sponsored psychedelics conference, a U.S. teenager dies during an ayahuasca trip in Peru, and ketamine is linked to depression relief in this week's psychedelic news. read more
Desertification
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Shadow Over Aichi Biodiversity TargetsWith negotiations to mobilise resources for preservation of biodiversity at a major United Nations conference going nowhere, the Group of 77 and China have hinted at possible suspension of the ‘Aichi targets’ under the Nagoya Protocol. Algeria, current G 77 chair, stressed in a statement at ...
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Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on BiodiversityThe United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars needed to implement the ‘Aichi targets,’ due to be met by 2020. “Decisions made here will lay th ...
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Donors Must Seize 2013 Opportunity in Sahel, U ...Reporting that the worst of the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa appears to have been averted, the United Nations’ top official on the area, David Gressley, warned on Wednesday that the potential passing of the immediate emergency should not divert international attention from what need ...
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Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food ...Humanity’s ability to feed itself is in serious doubt as climate change takes hold on land in the form of droughts and extreme weather, as well as on the world’s oceans. Less well known to many is the fact that emissions from burning oil, coal and gas are both heating up the oceans a ...
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Water for Phosphate, Not PeopleGafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis. “This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says Lakhdar Souid, coordinator of the Blue Plan for a Green Tunisia. “Gafsa (343 km south of capital Tuni ...
Blogging Canadians
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DayStar Technologies, Inc. (DSTI) Announces Ac ...UNION CITY, CA--(CRWENewswire - Oct 16, 2012) - DayStar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:DSTI) ("DayStar") ("the Company") announced the purchase of solar projects from Avatar Solar of Simi Valley, California. DayStar's acquisition is a first step and it's for the Avatar Solar's Hawaiian-based project ...
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New Frontier Media To Be Acquired By LFP Broad ...Transaction Represents 79% Premium Based on Closing Stock Price Prior to Unsolicited Offer BOULDER, Colo. and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15, 2012 (CRWENewswire) -- New Frontier Media, Inc. (Nasdaq:NOOF), a leading provider of transactional television services and distributor of general motion picture ent ...
Press TV - Middle East
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Hezbollah condemns Beirut bomb attackLebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has condemned the deadly car bomb attack in the capital, which killed at least eight people and injured scores of others.
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Hariri blames Syria for Beirut explosionFormer Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad al-Hariri has accused the Syrian government of being behind the deadly car bomb attack in Beirut.
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UN-AL envoy Brahimi arrives in SyriaThe UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has arrived in Damascus to secure a temporary ceasefire between government forces and insurgents.
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Blast hits Israeli patrol on Gaza borderAn Israeli military vehicle has been damaged after an explosive device was detonated near Israeli soldiers patrolling on Gaza border.
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8 killed, 78 injured in Beirut bombingAt least eight people have been killed and more than 78 others injured in a bomb explosion in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, reports say.
CUNY SPS Community Blog
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CUNY SPS Students Making Strides Against Breas ...The following message is posted on behalf of David Mordkofsky, SPS student in the Project Management (PROM 210) course. Hello SPS Community! We wanted to let you know that a group of SPS students will be taking part in a worthy event on Oct 21st, and we invite you to join us! As part of [...]
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A Walk Down Memory LaneIn less than 4 weeks, I will be standing in Staten Island waiting for the start of the 2012 ING NYC Marathon with great anticipation. This is what I have been working so hard for over the last 5 months. It started with giving up a pack of Marlboro Lights a day and my commitment [...]
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Support SPS: Give the Gift of OpportunityDear SPS Community, As we inaugurate the 2012-13 academic year at the CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS), in addition to celebrating new beginnings, we are also very proud to mark the 10th anniversary of SPS. As a member of the SPS community, you are vital to our growth and success, and I ...
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The Final CountdownDoes anyone remember what the feeling is like when you are on your way to school and you realized that you forgot your homework assignment at home? I had that heavy pit in my stomach last night at practice. A fellow American Cancer Society DetermiNator reminded me that we have just 4 weeks left ...
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Alumna Linda Ames Key Receives Fulbright Speci ...The School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Linda Ames Key, a graduate of the School’s M.A. in Applied Theatre program, has been named a Fulbright Specialist. In 2011, while completing her M.A. in Applied Theatre degree at SPS, Ms. Key participated in the School’s Project Rw ...
Dissident Voice
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Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
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The Dawn of MedicareA highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
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Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
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Inflation of the University DegreeCatch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
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After The Fireworks Have FadedOn July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERNR ...
Destructionist
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
Wayne Madsen
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October 19-21, 2012 -- CIA continues to influe ...Australia is independent in name only
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IPS - Inter Press Services
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The Face of Food Security Is FemaleIn a major endorsement for investment in women – the bulk of food growers in the developing world – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said food security could not be achieved without women, and that the world’s hungry also needed leaders to prioritise actions. “ ...
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Amid Food Crisis, Caribbean Agriculture Going ...With the average age of a farmer in the Caribbean now 62 years old, there is growing concern that commercial agriculture is on a path to extinction – a dire scenario for a region already shouldering a massive food import bill. “Our region is faced with an aging farmer population. Analysis has sh ...
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Brazil Frustrated with European “Backtracking” ...In the aftermath of last week’s elections to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s executive board, Brazil and others are expressing frustration that a reforms process aimed at increasing the representation of developing countries is being stymied by European countries. “There was some movemen ...
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Argentina – Fighting the Worst Child Obe ...Pediatricians and nutritionists stress that there is no single factor explaining why Argentina is the country in Latin America with the highest rate of obese and overweight children. “In Argentina, between 2.5 and 3.0 percent of preschoolers were obese in the 1980s, compared to 10 percent today, ...
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Cooperatives Help Women Farmers Tighten RanksSabina Zaccaro interviews SAQUINA MUCAVELE, executive director of MuGeDe - Mulher, Genero e Desenvolvimento (Women, Gender and Development), a non-profit based in Mozambique.
My AntiWar
- CIA Seeks White House Backing for More Drones
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
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"You are mistaken" if you believe the media ab ...Summary: Remember when NeoCon Oliver Kamm wrote an article (behind paywall) in Rupert Murdoch's Times (of London) in which he dramatically "exposed" a document that supposedly proved that Iran had conducted tests with atomic bomb detonators (known as neutron triggers)? Naturally, it quotes Da ...
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U.S. Efforts to Take Away Iran’s Rights by Uni ...Summary: One of the more striking passages in President Obama’s address to the United Nations General Assembly last month presented Obama’s view of Iran’s nuclear rights. Specifically, the President noted, “We respect the right of nations to access peaceful nuclear power, but one of the purp ...
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No panic in Iran despite currency collapse, in ...Summary: Iran’s currency virtually collapsed last week, and the public protests that followed in Tehran stirred memories of the massive anti-regime protests of 2009. This has caused excited speculation in the United States and its allies about the imminent fall of President Mahmoud Ahmadineja ...
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EU denies ordering satellite companies to take ...Summary: The European Union (EU) has denied claims by European satellite companies that it ordered the providers to take Iranian channels off the air. This is while both European satellite providers, Eutelsat and Arqiva, confirmed to Press TV that they terminated their contracts with Iranian ...
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US-Led Iran Sanctions Putting Millions of Live ...Summary: US-led economic sanctions are putting millions of Iranian lives are at risk by blocking the importing of medicines and hospital equipment, according to country’s top medical charity. source: antiwar.comread more
The Daily Galaxy
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Avatars --Will They Have a Big Role in the Fut ...Dr Grace Augustine's Avatars on Pandora the the movie Avatar go well beyond current technologies. Robotic avatars could allow humans to fully experience the environment of other worlds. Through the eyes of robotic avatars we could watch the sunrise over...
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Mars Curiosity Science Lab Begins 1st Analysis ...NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission. The rover's Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument is analyzing this sample to determine what...
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Image of the Day: Supernova Fireballs --A Neve ...In 2011, studies of two supernova remnants using the Japan-U.S. Suzaku observatory revealed never-before-seen embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed the explosions. Even after thousands of years, gas within these stellar wrecks retain the imprint of temperatures 10,00 ...
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Was Saturn's Titan Created by Massive Impacts?Among the oddities of the outer solar system are the middle-sized moons of Saturn, a half-dozen icy bodies dwarfed by Saturn's massive moon Titan. According to a new model for the origin of the Saturn system, these middle-sized moons were...
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"The Mars' Strain" --Searching for Martian DNATwo renowned entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in an effort to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. In a first-ever search for for the first extraterrestrial genome, Human genome-pioneer J....
Natural News
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When a promising cancer treatment was destroyed(NaturalNews)As stories of innovative cancer treatments have spread over the years, they've been distorted numerous times. We end up with either unalloyed praise or across-the-board denial. "Treatment X was curing people like crazy." "Treatment X cured no on ...
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Sitting for long periods increases your risk o ...A new study has found that those who tend to sit for long periods of time - think office workers, clerks and other administrative personnel - are at great risk of diabetes, heart disease and death. The meta study, led by Britain's University of Leicester, in association...
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Music therapy is on the riseTeen angst is under more scrutiny than ever these days. While extreme emotional highs and lows are expected during pubescent years, an array of prescriptions, help groups, and various forms of therapy have presented themselves to control these temperamental moods. Whether...
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Why skipping breakfast will make you fatter an ...Remembering to eat a hearty, healthy breakfast every morning before starting your day just might make all the difference in determining your likelihood of becoming overweight, ill, or both. A recent study out of Imperial College London (ICL) found that breakfast really...
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When did obesity become an issue?The fact that obesity statistics have never been higher has raised a substantial amount of awareness and concern in regards to this issue. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just over one-third of U.S. adults, about 97 million, are obese. This...
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License Plate Frame Foils Irksome Traffic-Ligh ...Traffic-light tickets have ticked off a gazillion drivers, some of whom have had to fork over $500 for running a light. Now there’s a way for you to throw a monkey wrench into that money-making machine.
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Inside the Mansion—and Mind— of Kim Dotcom, th ...Please Choose One of the Following Statements: A. Kim Dotcom is not a pirate. He’s a hero. The savior of my online liberties. A visionary digital entrepreneur. His company Megaupload was a legitimate data-storage business used by hundreds of millions ...
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Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega!Megaupload's takedown by the U.S. government spurs Kim DotCom to build a filesharing replacement that relies on encryption so owners can't be blamed for knowing that copyright infringing files are on company servers. That, DotCom thinks, will probably keep the ...
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Hacker Fight: Everything You’ve Been Told Abou ...As someone who has studied millions of passwords and how they were constructed – I’ve spent most of my waking hours for over a decade obsessing about authentication methods – I say we can have both security and practicality. But ...
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Russian Anti-Virus Firm Plans Secure Operating ...Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab announced on Tuesday that it plans to develop a secure operating system for use with critical infrastructure systems, but a security expert says the chance of such a system being adopted is a longshot.
PERRspectives : Blog
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Romney Family ValuesTagg Romney never fought for his nation, but for his thin-skinned dad he would take a swing at the President of the United States. But if he seems like the embodiment of Romney family values--unshakable belief in their own entitlement and destiny, unacknowledged privilege, generosity and charit ...
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Romney's Abortion Rewrite Edits Out "Dear, Clo ...One week after Mitt Romney comically claimed "There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda," the Romney campaign began airing a new ad whitewashing his past positions and his party's extremist present on the issue. After all, Romney' ...
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Democratic Presidents Outperform GOP on Manufa ...As voters prepare to go to the polls in tightly contested manufacturing states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, a new study is stark reminder about which party built and is committed to sustaining America's industrial heartland. The new analysis shows Democratic presidents ...
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Mitt Romney is "Sticking It to Seniors"During the 2010 campaign, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell falsely charged that with the Affordable Care Act President Obama was "sticking it to seniors." McConnell's GOP was rewarded for that fiction, as a 21 point margin among voters 65 and older propelled the Republicans to an overwhel ...
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Vanishing ER's Expose Romney's Health Care FarceFor the second time in three weeks, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney echoed George W. Bush, Tom Delay, Mitch McConnell, Paul Broun and other Republicans pretending that "people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room." But in claiming "We don't h ...
Blackspot News Feed
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Bookmarks for 2012-10-19Stories from the New Aesthetic: James Bridle on VimeoStories from the New Aesthetic: James Bridle Stories from the New Aesthetic took place at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City on October 11, 2012. The New Aesthetic is an ongoing research project by James Bridle, investigating ...
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As Sen. McGovern Nears Death, How the Antiwar ...EXCLUSIVE: We broadcast Steve Vittoria's award-winning documentary, "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern," narrated by Amy Goodman. A family spokesperson confirms the 90-year-old McGovern is no longer responsive and is "at the end stages of his life." He has been i ...
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Black Financial and Fraud ReportBill Black: Romney's Secret Plan; the 1% Now Have More Wealth than the bottom 90%
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Headlines for October 19, 2012Dozens Killed in Syrian Bombing of Rebel-Held Town, Report: CIA Seeks Massive Expansion of Drone Arsenal, Obama Touts Record on Fair Pay, Abortion, Clinton, Springsteen Rally Dems in Ohio, NY Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down DOMA, Texas Vows to End Heath Program if Planned Parenthood Allowed t ...
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If the "War On Drugs" has Failed, is Legalizat ...their names (members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition): The "War on Drugs" helped create a situation where from gangs, to police to lawyers to jails, there is massive amounts of money to be made in this never-ending "war"
Consortium News
- The Danger of Wealth at the Top
- ‘America’s Stolen Narrative’
- Who’s the Real ‘Savage’?
- Ellsberg Warns of a Romney Victory
- Mitt Romney’s ‘Perry Mason’ Moment
TruthOut
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Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
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News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
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In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)read more
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Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
Planetsave
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70% of Americans Believe in Global Warming NowIn a report released Thursday by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, 70% of Americans now say they believe global warming is a reality. This is the highest level of concern since 2008, when it was at 58%. “Historically Americans have viewed climate change as a distant proble ...
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The World’s Greenest Cities (Infographic)The folks over at HouseTrip, which is a holiday rental site, have taken their expertise and created an infographic showing the top greenest cities in the world. These eco-friendly cites were judged on everything from tree planting to water usage. Six cities where selected, including; Lond ...
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Climate Change Causing Extreme Drought and Flo ...The UK has experienced a record rainfall on top of a severe drought this year. The record rainfall created widespread flooding of a magnitude never seen before. Still, the groundwater levels were above and “well above” the average for early Autumn. Terry Marsh from the Centre ...
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Global Food Reserves Lowest in 40 YearsFor over half of the last decade, the world has consumed more food than it has produced. What happens when the world consumes more food than it produces? Well, it must start tapping into the global food reserves ,and it seems that in the past decade those reserves have been hit pretty ha ...
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Great Posters from WWII — When Driving Was Con ...Should brave men die so you can drive? And what about innocents burning? There is nothing new about our concern with the nonsense and destructiveness of our dependency on oil. Our gross needs for gas could be done away with, transformed to clean energy, or at least mitigated to a lesser n ...
Water Quality - WordPress
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APES - Inflatable Dams to Control Sewage & ...Inflatable Dams to Control Stormwater in NYC Graphic of Inflatable Dams: http://www.nytimes.com/inte
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Physical, chemical and biological characteriza ...D.E. Egirani*1, & A.J., Otor2 1. School of Applied Sciences, University of the West of En
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APES - Water Quality Standards, Regulations, & ...Water Quality Standards, Regulations, & Policies
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APES - Chapter 15 PowerPointChapter 15 Lecture on Freshwater by Withgott & Brennan
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APES - Sewage Treatment Plant and Water QualitySewage Treatment Plants and Water Quality In-class assignment for Thursday, Sept 27th. Read through
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
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Israel’s Iran War Talk Aims at Deal for Toughe ...by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP Aug. 16, 2012 Image by World Can
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Stand Strong and Do Not Despair: Some Thoughts ...by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com August 16, 2
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Chris Hedges: We've Betrayed Our Neighbor + Th ...“But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. W
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Criminalizing Dissent by Chris Hedgesby Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 13, 2012 Image by Shrieking Tree via
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Saving the Post Office: Letter Carriers Consid ...by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com August 12, 2012 Image by Dandelion Sala
Axis of Logic
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ..."The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
They Gave Us a Republic
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Right Wing Authoritarians Just Can't Take a JokeBy @TedFrier When the fast-talking, deal-closing Mitt Romney steamrolled President Obama in Debate # 1, liberals may have grumbled about the somnambulant moderator, Jim Lehrer, and marveled at the shameless metamorphosis into "Moderate Mitt" which their right wing rival was attempting to pull of ...
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Republican's Double Standards on LibyaBy @TedFrier Here is my two cents on Libya consulate controversy. It is important that we get to the bottom of this story so that we can learn how much security is appropriate in this volatile region of the world and prevent it from happening again. But historical context is also important. The ...
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Yes, Mittens, Government Can And Does Create JobsMitt Scumney lost Tuesday night's encounter with President Obama on points, and Obama showed more fire than he did in their lackluster first debate. Scumney, though, seemed prepared for a more spirited show from Obama and didn't do badly, on the whole. But one "point" he emphasized stuck in my m ...
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Same Crap, Different CenturyBy @TomBales1 I've been a science fiction nut for over 60 years now, ever since an aunt gave me a box containing 40-50 of her old SF paperbacks and pulp magazines. Science fiction has been my crutch for all those decades, propping up my relief that things were going to be a whole lot ...
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Debate II: Mitt's Marshall McLuhan MomentBy @TedFrier Somewhere Woody Allen is smiling. If the Oscar-winning actor/director was watching last night's debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney he surely recognized the surprise appearance of a "Marshall McLuhan Moment." You know the moment I am talking about, the one made fam ...
Care 2
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In Conference Call, Romney Urged Businesses To ...In a June 6, 2012 conference call posted on the anti-union National Federation of Independent Businesss website, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney instructed employers to tell their employees how to vote in the upcoming election. Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't ...
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Romney in a bind over 'binders of women' commentThe Republican presidential nominee is being challenged about the details of hiring women for top government positions when he won election as governor of Massachusetts in 2002, giving a possible late boost to efforts by President Barack Obama's campaign Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politi ...
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Say it aint so, ETNO: Dangerous proposal a thr ...Specifically, WCIT delegates will approve changes to the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs), an international treaty traditionally concerned with telecommunications interoperability, and these negotiations have the potential to affect the Submitted by J.L. A. to Science & Te ...
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Video:Resisting Internet Censorship: Katherine ...Katherine Maher of online internet rights site Access discusses the rise of censorship in the Arab World and how citizens can learn more about internet governance and online human rights. Submitted by J.L. A. to Science & Tech | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Fallen Wolves Across America So Far!This is the Rolling Blog Tracking All The Fallen Wolves Across America Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Smirking Chimp
- 5 Things You Need to Know Before Election Day ...
- Obama Revives, Wins Second Debate
- Whoa! Even Romney's Scripted Binder Story Was ...
- Sex and the Not So Single Dinesh D’Souza
- Meet Romney’s Economic Hit Man
Paul Krugman
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1933 And All ThatA slower recovery because we didn't screw up as badly.
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Understanding RomneynomicsPersonal awesomeness to the rescue.
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Small-Time MittA plucky little startup, financed by Latin oligarchs.
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Financial Crisis DenialismTaylor subtracts from our understanding.
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Itsy Bitsy BainMitt Romney, mom-and-pop business owner.
No Quarter
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Obama vs. Romney: Comic ReliefBarack Obama and Mitt Romney circled each other Thursday night at the 67rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City. Hosted by the Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, this annual dinner offers a timely pause in the current campaign. Even so, the campaign was ...
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Improve the Debate Moderators, PLEASE! + HK2′s ...What lousy debate ”moderators” we have had lately! Where do they get these people? Are they chosen by lots from a pool of “worst possible so-called journalists?” First off, are they ALL from left-leaning news sources? Has there been even one who wasn’t? What, no Charles Krauthammer? No Geor ...
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Obama’s Libya LieObama’s delusion about what he said in the Rose Garden on 11 September, 2012 persists, but facts are facts. He did not refer to the attack in Benghazi as an act of terror. Instead, in spoke in generic terms about America’s Here’s the relevant portion of the transcript: Of cours ...
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Barack Obama Good at Helping Mexican Drug Gang ...You think that title is over the top? Perhaps. But consider this (hat tip to Retired for this idea). Poorly conceived undercover law enforcement and intelligence operations, designed and implemented under the authority of Barack Obama, have killed five Americans and thousands of Mexicans, Libyan ...
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Media BiasSpecial Ops vets generally do not view Obama as either a good or competent Commander-in-Chief. While the U.S. military respects the chain of command and the Office of the President, the man, Barack Obama, is viewed as a spineless weasel. The latest from a group of Spec Ops vets makes the point i ...
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
Therapy News
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Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
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Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
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GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational ThoughtsNovember 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
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Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
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Three Steps for Dealing with Panic AttacksPanic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...
Mountaintop Removal
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Lawsuits target health impacts of mountaintop ...Lexington Herald Leader Lawsuits target health impacts of mountaintop removal mining Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two new lawsuits filed in West Virginia and Kentucky allege the Obama administration is ignoring a growing body of science that links living near mountaintop removal opera ...
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On Clean Water Act's 40th, Appalachian Communi ...Circle of Blue WaterNews On Clean Water Act's 40th, Appalachian Communities Fighting For The Right to ... eNews Park Forest Late yesterday, on the eve of the Clean Water Act's 40th anniversary, citizen groups filed a lawsuit challenging a Clean Water Act permit for a mountaintop removal ...
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Groups Sue to Stop Eastern Kentucky Surface Mi ...Groups Sue to Stop Eastern Kentucky Surface Mine WFPL A valley fill is created during mountaintop removal mining--the mountain is partially removed to reach coal seams, and then the dirt and rock (or "overburden") is disposed of in valleys. This is the first lawsuit that's been fil ...
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When Polluters Attack The Clean Water Act - un ...National Geographic When Polluters Attack The Clean Water Act unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) by Kelsey Oliver: Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water · Earth's Great Storyteller -- Water. One of the biggest threats to water in Appalachia is mountaintop removal. Entire communities ...
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Longtime Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining Oppon ...Between The Lines Longtime Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining Opponent Larry Gibson ... Between The Lines Over the past few decades, mountaintop removal coal mining has become a scourge throughout southern Appalachia, in many parts of West Virginia and Kentucky as well as Virginia and Tennessee. In ...
Memeorandum
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Vandals spray-paint swastikas on Obama campaig ...John Ingold / Denver Post: Vandals spray-paint swastikas on Obama campaign office in Conifer — Vandals struck an Obama campaign office in Conifer overnight, spray-painting swastikas onto the side of the building. — Jefferson County Sheriff's spokesman Mark Te ...
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Walsh backtracks slightly on abortion comments ...Bob Secter / Chicago Tribune: Walsh backtracks slightly on abortion comments — Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh backtracked slightly on his controversial remarks about abortion, saying today that there are “very rare circumstances” in which a pregnant woman may need ...
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Scott Brown Supporter From Ad Calls Elizabeth ...Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post: Scott Brown Supporter From Ad Calls Elizabeth Warren ‘D*****bag,’ Obama A ‘Muslim’ On Facebook … FOLLOW: — Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown, Elections 2012, Video, Elizabeth Warren Asbestos, Massachusetts Senate Ra ...
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Romney leads by 1 point in Iowa and New Hampsh ...Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling: Romney leads by 1 point in Iowa and New Hampshire — PPP's newest polls in Iowa and New Hampshire find Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama 49-48 in both states. That represents a big decline for Obama compared to last month. Obama ha ...
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Massachusetts Senate Race Now Leaning Toward W ...Adam Carlson / The Huffington Post: Massachusetts Senate Race Now Leaning Toward Warren In Polls … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Senate Races , Elections 2012, Video, 2012 Polls, 2012 Senate Elections, 2012 Senate Races, Politics News, Polls, Pollster Analysis, S ...
Energy & Environment News
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Dot Earth Blog: A fusion energy researcher get ...A veteran of decades of fusion research narrows the field.
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Green Blog: From Radiation to Smog, Numbers fo ...Safecast wants everyone to know what you're breathing.
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Green Blog: Toward a Hip Solar Historic LandmarkNew York City posts an online guide on ways of greening a historic rowhouse without marring its distinctive architectural features.
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Dust Storm in OklahomaVehicles spin out of control and crash on an interstate highway as a reddish brown swirl whips through the area.
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Green Blog: Living on the Edge May Help Cheat ...Fishes previously thought to be extinct found refuge in harsh edge environments dividing Lake Victoria from surrounding wetlands
5+ quakes - 7 days
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M 5.2, south of the Fiji IslandsFriday, October 19, 2012 17:22:03 UTC Saturday, October 20, 2012 05:22:03 AM at epicenterDepth: 14.00 km (8.70 mi)
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M 5.3, Kermadec Islands, New ZealandFriday, October 19, 2012 15:34:14 UTC Saturday, October 20, 2012 03:34:14 AM at epicenterDepth: 34.90 km (21.69 mi)
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M 5.0, eastern Mediterranean SeaFriday, October 19, 2012 03:35:12 UTC Friday, October 19, 2012 05:35:12 AM at epicenterDepth: 15.20 km (9.44 mi)
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M 5.1, Flores region, IndonesiaThursday, October 18, 2012 04:14:31 UTC Thursday, October 18, 2012 12:14:31 PM at epicenterDepth: 32.70 km (20.32 mi)
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M 5.5, TongaWednesday, October 17, 2012 17:23:42 UTC Thursday, October 18, 2012 06:23:42 AM at epicenterDepth: 29.80 km (18.52 mi)
China Dialogue
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中国近海涸૦ ...中国近海捕捞已连续多年处于“零增长”。受过度捕捞和环境污染影响,今年出海可&# ...
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低油价何以ৎ ...如果能够抑制化石燃料价格并重新分配补贴,可再生能源将势不可挡,成为真正的赢 ...
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美国和中国৛ ...为了使世界摆脱对化石燃料的补贴,石油价格需要稳定。为了实现这一目标,中国和 ...
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石油价格为߮ ...十年来,炒家操纵能源市场,迫使石油价格和补贴金额飙升。化石燃料是地球上获得 ...
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中国南航被৘ ...南方航空公司的运输令一只宠物狗死亡。南航拒绝道歉,只提议按每公斤100元标准进Ŝ ...
AlterNet Top Stories
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Paul Ryan Is an Ayn-Rand Loving "Satanist" and ...Back in 2011 a series of attacks from leading conservative evangelicals darkly warned that Ayn Rand devotees, Paul Ryan included, might be worshiping at the altar of crypto-satanism. Now, within the last 24 hours, a flurry of mainstream media articles cover a controversy erupting aft ...
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5 Things You Need to Know About Mitt Romney's ...Mitt Romney is not only one of the wealthiest presidential candidates in history, his finances are by far the most opaque. In April, the Washington Post reported that Romney “has taken advantage of an obscure exception in federal ethics laws to avoid disclosing the nature and extent of ...
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This Thing Is Not Over: How Obama Could Still ...We will learn soon enough whether Barack Obama’s forceful performance on Long Island will translate into a polling boost.But there was a one ominous indicator for him in the insta-polls conducted immediately after Tuesday’s debate. Even though Obama was scored the overall w ...
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11 Enemies of Marijuana Legalization In 1990, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates told a Senate committee that people who smoked pot occasionally “ought to be taken out and shot.” That kind of fanaticism, which dominated the debate on drugs 20 years ago, seems to have faded. Today’s politicians are more like ...
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7 Brilliant and Funny Ways Critics Panned Romn ...After Mitt Romney’s remark about de-funding PBS during the first presidential debate launched several “fired Big Bird” Twitter accounts, his “binders full of women” comment at Tuesday night’s town hall debate spawned an even larger national phenomenon. ...
Threat Level
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License Plate Frame Foils Irksome Traffic-Ligh ...Traffic-light tickets have ticked off a gazillion drivers, some of whom have had to fork over $500 for running a light. Now there’s a way for you to throw a monkey wrench into that money-making machine.
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Inside the Mansion—and Mind— of Kim Dotcom, th ...Please Choose One of the Following Statements: A. Kim Dotcom is not a pirate. He’s a hero. The savior of my online liberties. A visionary digital entrepreneur. His company Megaupload was a legitimate data-storage business used by hundreds of millions ...
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Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega!Megaupload's takedown by the U.S. government spurs Kim DotCom to build a filesharing replacement that relies on encryption so owners can't be blamed for knowing that copyright infringing files are on company servers. That, DotCom thinks, will probably keep the ...
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Hacker Fight: Everything You’ve Been Told Abou ...As someone who has studied millions of passwords and how they were constructed – I’ve spent most of my waking hours for over a decade obsessing about authentication methods – I say we can have both security and practicality. But ...
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Russian Anti-Virus Firm Plans Secure Operating ...Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab announced on Tuesday that it plans to develop a secure operating system for use with critical infrastructure systems, but a security expert says the chance of such a system being adopted is a longshot.
Equality Trust
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UK Drug Policy Commission Report published todayThe UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
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The Spirit Level Documentary FilmWe're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...
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Act Local = Reduce the GapFind out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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We work in partnership with One SocietyVisit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan CallCall – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For JusticeWarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide TerroristWilliam John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
Marler Blog
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Foppen Salmonella Smoked Salmon Sickens 1,000 ...Three people have died and the number of those sickened by Salmonella Thompson after eating Foppen smoked salmon has risen to 950, Dutch health officials said on Thursday. “Three elderly... Continue Reading
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Three Lawsuits in 105 Person Salmonella OutbreakFood Safety News reports that at least 105 people now have confirmed or suspected Salmonella Virchow infections after eating at mexican-style restaurant, On the Border, in Vancouver, Washington according to... Continue Reading
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E. coli Petting Zoo Deja VuThe Division of Public Health of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services in collaboration with Local Health Departments is investigating an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infection in... Continue Reading
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On The Border Salmonella Virchow Set to Top 10 ...At least 94 people are now suspected to have been sickened with Salmonella Virchow at an On the Border in Vancouver, Wash. since September 20. That number is expected to... Continue Reading
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Cleveland County Fair E. coli Outbreak – 61 si ...According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services the outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections now includes 61 (38 children and 23 adults) who attended the Cleveland... Continue Reading
AutoblogGreen
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Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
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First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In HybridFiled under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...
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Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
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Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...Filed under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric 2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
Rafe's Radar
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Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computersPointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
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First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
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Groupiter makes workflow as simple as DropboxTiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...
Camera Obscura
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Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
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The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
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Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
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Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
Democracy Now!
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Watch Amy Goodman on teleSUR Friday Night, Oct. 19Amy Goodman will be interviewed on the program "Cruce de Palabras" airing on teleSUR Friday, Oct. 19. Viewing times on teleSUR are: Caracas, Venezuela: 21:00 Havana, Cuba: 21:30 Buenos Aires, Venezuela: 22:30 New York: 21:30 “Click here for more information about ...
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VIDEO: Amy Goodman's Appearance on C-SPAN's Wa ...Amy Goodman appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Sept. 29 to discuss the recent events and social movements that are shaping society, many of which are documented in her new book, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance & Hope, written with Denis ...
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Binders Full of Women, and Two Women BoundBy Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan You may have noticed that the Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, was absent from the “town hall” presidential debate at Hofstra University the other night. That’s because she was shackled to a chair in a nearby New York police facility, a ...
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WATCH: Three-Hour Democracy Now! Debate Specia ...On the night of the second presidential debate at Hofstra University, Democracy Now! did a special broadcast from the campus, near the official debate hall. We aired the entire President Obama-Mitt Romney debate live and spoke with students and local residents about the issues they wanted to he ...
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Part Two: Camila Vallejo & Noam Titelman on Ma ...Part two of our conversation with two of Chile’s most recognizable student protest leaders: Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman. They are in the United States, in part to receive the 2012 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, which is given by the Institute for Policy Studies. It is named for the C ...
Suzie-Q
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President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...The President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!
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Presidential Debate President Obama and Mitt R ...PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK OCTOBER 16, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CANDY CROWLEY, MODERATOR CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, ...
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Joe Biden/Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Debate ( ...Addicting Info October 11, 2012 By Matthew Desmond Here’s the transcript, via the New York Times: MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. I’m Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honore ...
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Mitt Romney Isn’t Telling the Truth R ...Published on Oct 5, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Mitt Romney didn’t tell the truth about his tax plan, his plan for Americans with pre-existing conditions, his Medicare plan, nor the President’s Medicare plan. Why would Romney not tell the truth about what he’d do as Presiden ...
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FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT – 10/3 ...FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT. You can follow along tonight on these channels: barackobama.com/debate will be livestreaming debate coverage and host a special message from the Vice President directly after the debates. @TruthTeam2012 will be livetweeting and factchecking the debates as they ...
Solari
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Stand By MeStand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World from Concord Music Group on Vimeo. Note from CAF: For decades, the music industry has built an empire converting the music of authentic composers and artists into financial wealth for those who control. Now, we have a fresh oppo ...
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Transcript of Equity Market Report with Chuck ...Transcript of Equity Market Report with Chuck Gibson is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Okay. So now time to have our interview. You all met Chuck Gibson, my partner at Solari Advisory. When we did View From Silicon Valley, an excellent background piece for these eq ...
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Gary McKinnon Wins His Extradition FightDisabled hacker Gary McKinnon won his decade-long extradition battle today after Home Secretary Theresa May blocked his extradition to the US on human rights grounds. Mr McKinnon seized international headlines when he hacked into Pentagon and NASA computer networks from his north London flat in ...
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Support Educational Visionary, John Taylor Gatto[CAF Note: If you want to understand the US education system, read and listen to John Taylor Gatto. If you want to support a REALLY worthy cause and support one of the people who has done a tremendous amount to protect American children, contribute to the fundraising effort for John Taylor Gatt ...
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Pick a Third Party or Independent Presidential ...Here is a complete list of contenders By Catherine Austin Fitts Your vote counts. Marianne Williamson asked her Facebook followers who they thought would win the election. The two most knowledgeable responders said, “Goldman Sachs.” They could have also added “Monsanto.̶ ...
Insurgency Watch - Newswire
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Times ScareISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The SpectrumStepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
AlterNet - Rights and Liberties
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Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
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Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
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Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
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Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
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Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.
Sideways News
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Could you be a 10:10 community champion?The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
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Brit mums strict about eco-choresFamilies in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
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UK venue offers rainforest weddingsGetting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
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Battery recycling 'too difficult'The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
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10 green resolutions to save you moneyBy taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...
Fabius Maximus
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Under the cloak of liberalism America slides t ...Summary: Today’s post shows that another American has become aware that our two major parties have broadly similar policies, differing mostly in the speed with which they’ll take us to oligarchy and empire. That’s not to say that the choice is unimportant. Speed is deadly for u ...
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Putin’s ads today are those of America&# ...Elections offer choices to the people. In modern America the choices are often fake. In 1932 FDR ran as a budget-balancing fiscal conservative; in 1940 he promised to keep us out of the war he was already preparing for. In 1964 Johnson ran as the peace candidate (while he prepared to expand the ...
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When did anthropogenic CO2 become the major dr ...Summary: the world has been warming for two centuries. Only the past few decades of that trend results from our emissions of CO2. It’s a fact well-established in the climate science literature, but hidden by propagandists — since it weakens the narrative. It is a commonplace belie ...
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Kevin Drum talks about global warming, shows w ...Summary: These posts about the climate change debate not only provide little-known information about this important subject, but illustrate important aspects of US society. Many posts on the FM website have discussed the Right’s anti-intellectualism and emotional reasoning in pursuit of ...
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What every American must know about the Republ ...Summary: Their racism, a key component of the Republicans coalition from the Southern Strategy begun with Goldwater, is the most obvious evil aspect of the new GOP. It’s a repudiation of the Party’s Grand origin, but only the most obvious of its ugly planks. Here we look at one exam ...
Open Your Eyes News
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Vatican kicks out Roma on EasterPress TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
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Euro strikes 16-month high against dollarBreitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
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British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrsPressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
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Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
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Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...
The Progressive Realist
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You Might Have Missed: Drones, Targeted Killin ...Nassar Arrabyee, “Qaeda Leader Reported Dead in Yemen Attack,” New York Times, October 18, 2012. A drone fired on a group of people preparing to attack Yemeni troops on Thursday, killing at least nine, including a man identified as a leader of the local branch of Al Qaeda, according to Yemeni an ...
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War Costs, Part 2: The War That Won’t EndNote: This is the second in a three-part series on the economic costs of the war in Afghanistan. Part one can be found here. Part three is forthcoming. The War That Won’t End After eleven years of war in Afghanistan, the U.S. is planning to withdraw its combat troops by the end of 20 ...
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For Syrian Refugees, Life at Home May Be Hell, ...Ed note. This is a special guest post by Marcy Hersh of Refugees International (Al-Dlail, Jordan) ― Hannan, four years old, squirms on her pink hospital bed, covering her face with her hands as if I cannot see her that way. When she thinks I’m not looking, she peeks up at me between her fingers ...
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Drone Panic: Posner EditionEric Posner writes an article that manages to regurgitate a bunch of myths about drones: In the past, presidents faced two major obstacles when trying to use force abroad. The first was technological. The available options—troops, naval vessels, or air power—posed significant risks to American m ...
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Another Global Issue the Foreign Policy Debate ...At Foreign Policy in Focus on October 16, in an article titledSix Global Issues The Foreign Policy Debates Won't Touch,acting editor Peter Certo wrote: "There is no other policy arena in which the president of the United States has greater latitude than foreign affairs. With U.S. foreig ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
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Obama's Missing BounceWait a minute: Wasn’t President Obama supposed to get a generous boost in the polls from his masterly comeback performance on Tuesday night? A counter-bounce to the one Romney got from Round One? If so, it’s been awfully slow in coming. The main polling headline in recent days sent Democrats r ...
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Free Speech Weirdness from OverseasToday, Philip Bump at Grist passed along this interesting story about a shock jock in Australia who, after spewing some false nonsense about climate change on the air, "has been ordered to undergo 'factual accuracy' training, and to use fact-checkers." Obviously, the government has no such powe ...
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Romney Still Hearts ClintonI’ve written before about the Romney campaign’s odd insistence on using Bill Clinton as a de facto spokesperson. Every so often, Team Romney highlights a comment by Clinton as a critique of President Obama, as if Clinton wasn’t an avowed and enthusiastic supporter of the president. The rational ...
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Salad Days for the Gun IndustryThis week's town hall debate featured only one really surprising question, on gun violence. In any other election one might have expected a question about this topic, but both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been completely silent on the issue, so in all likelihood neither one of them expecte ...
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Georgia's Bitter Charter BattleIn mid-March of this year, the Georgia Department of Education released an in-depth report showing that students in the state's charter schools perform worse than those in traditional schools. You might have thought such a conclusion would prompt lawmakers to at least pause on a constitutional ...
Buzzflash
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Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
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Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent AdventureWILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
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BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
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We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
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The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOPMARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...
Glenn Greenwald - Salon
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The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speechMuslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
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Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian sagaA series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
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Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
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Celebrating the fall of a dictatorReports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
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A tweet that explains everythingThe nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict
The BiPartisan Report
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Sciencebase
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A chemistry song“Hallo Jen, with your eyes of cobalt blue, A man-gan-e-asily fall in love with you…” “I really like your pigtails, Why thank you, I’ve been platinum…” A chemistry song is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogA chemistry song is a post from: Sciencebase S ...
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Greatest app on EarthAtlas by Collins (launched today) pitches itself as the greatest app on Earth (geddit?). It’s a constantly evolving data visualisation tool for representing worldwide information on a selection of themed globes with over 200,000 places to explore. I took a look and I have to say it is stup ...
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Google Scholar formatted citationsIn case you missed it, Google Scholar now does formatted citations for references. The end of Endnote? Move over Mendeley? Your thoughts? Google Scholar. Google Scholar formatted citations is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogGoogle Scholar formatted citations is a post from: Sciencebase Scie ...
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Fighting Between the Wars – a songAny psychoanalysts in the house care to tell me what I meant when I wrote these lyrics? Between the wars In kinder times, we’re winning, but they left out all the sinning The judges call and we have to tell them no The thieves are running wild. And they’re drinking blessed mild, but ...
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Like Scrabble for chemistsElemensus is a new board game with a geeky twist. It’s an elemental update to Scrabble one might say and you can play it periodically…chemist and non-chemist alike. Don’t like that “NeBULaS” though…plural is NeBULaE but there is no E element… Nevertheles ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
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New Report: Here’s What Nearly 30 Corporations ...Corporations that disclosed their donations to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce gave the association $3.5 million in non-tax-deductible contributions, which can be used for political spending, a new Chamber Watch report shows. read more
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Global Commission on Drug Policy Meets in Pola ...The Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) will gather in Warsaw on 24th and 25th of October to highlight the impact of the war on drugs on public health in Eastern Europe and prospects for change around the world. The Global Commission was convened in July 2010 and has been working to establis ...
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Millions More Acres of Protected Jaguar Habita ...In comments submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today, the Center for Biological Diversity provided evidence that, to recover in the Southwest, jaguars will require millions more acres of protected habitat than the roughly 838,000 acres the agency proposed in August.read more
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Human Rights must be at the Forefront of Third ...Grave abuses of human rights fuel or underpin many of the foreign policy challenges that will be the focus of Monday night’s final presidential debate. Whether it is the security situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the transitions in the Middle East and ...
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* Syria * Pakistani Malala Yousafzai’s ShootingIARA LEE read more
Common Dreams-Views
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The End of the New World OrderSeumas Milne The following is an edited extract from Seumus Milne's new book, The Revenge of History: the Battle for the 21st Century, published by Verso.read more
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Cue the Math: 350’s Roadshow Takes Aim at Big Oil Wen Stephenson It was game time. The Saturday night crowd on the Vermont campus was festive, boisterous, pumped. People cheered and whooped when told that one of their heroes, climate activist Tim DeChristopher — serving a two-year fe ...
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When Police Spy on Free Speech, Democracy SuffersCarol Rose Psst! Check out this super-secret Boston Police "intelligence report":Boston police amassed surveillance videos of peaceful protestors (Photo from the ACLU of Massachusetts Report) read more
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On War and Peace, George McGovern Will Die Vin ...Conor Friedersdorf George McGovern, who remains in hospice, never waivered on his opposition to the Vietnam and Iraq wars. (Reuters file)Speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 1972, George McGovern kicked off his ill-fated presid ...
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US Justice Likely Coming Soon to Benghazi with ...Glenn Greenwald Ever since the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Obama officials, including the President himself, have been vowing that the perpetrators will be "brought to justice".read more
Newshoggers - AfPak
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Water Wars
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A Hay Ride Down Memory LaneFor me, a trip to Mt. View Orchards is a trip down memory lane.
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Warring parties agree on some levee, habitat f ...They have fought over the sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for years. Now Delta residents and those who demand its water have managed to agree on $1 billion in short-term projects to help the estuary.
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Not Just for Kids: A clone's feelings are ...Rachel Cohn's first book in what promises to be a terrific series focuses on a teen clone made to serve the wealthy. But she is no unfeeling clone. Beta
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Candidates target water issues—This is one in a series of articles. Oklahoma’s water wars are bound to get worse as tribes battle the state over ownership rights and rural residents fend off attempts to pump limited resources to urban areas.
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Former governors offer critique of Florida' ...The "Conversation with Florida Governors" was sponsored by the UF law school's Law Review as part of the Allen L. Poucher Legal Education Series.
WordPress | Economics
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EDITORIAL IV - Four Weeks InWe shall call this the four week introduction. I have now completed week 0 through 3 of my physics f
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Frederic Bastiat's Senseless Perception Of Pro ...In the course of economics I’ve come across some really weird and senseless statements by some
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"A Just Scotland"?Last month, just after discussing “caring capitalism“, I spent the day at an event organ
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What Are the Chances Your Vote Will Matter? Only one vote matters. In the United States, the vote that gives a presidential candidate the majori
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Zombie ApocalypseThis one goes in the category, “why should I suffer alone?” I don’t know what
Electronic Intifada
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Protests and strikes as Israel raids Bedouin v ...Budour Youssef Hassan Negev 19 October 2012 Tear gas fired at school in Naqab village of Bir Hadaj as JNF threatens to demolish Palestinian homes
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Twelve-year-old arrested 10 times by Israel in ...Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Jerusalem 19 October 2012 Muslim Odeh has constant nightmares after the child’s experiences in Israeli jails.
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Gaza opens first recycling plant as waste cris ...Rami Almeghari Rafah 18 October 2012 Components brought into Gaza via underground tunnels used in project set up by environmentalists.
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New film explains the basics to achieving just ...Asa Winstanley 18 October 2012 Filmmaker Sami Moukaddem demonstrates that the Palestinian situation isn’t complex in his debut documentary.
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“I don’t seek out enemies” -- A year since ban ...Joe Catron Gaza City 17 October 2012 In an interview with The Electronic Intifada, Iyad Abu Khaizaran reflects on being banished to Gaza one year ago.
The Wonk Room
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An Answer To ‘Drill, Baby Drill’: Countering T ...If you’ve turned on the television, walked by a bus stop, or visited a social networking site in the last 10 months, there’s a very good chance you’ve been targeted by the American Petroleum Institute’s “Vote 4 Energy” campaign. It’s one of the most prom ...
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Me And Mother Jones’ Asawin Suebsaeng On ‘Amer ...I wrote earlier this week about American Horror Story: Asylum, and how for me, the show is most effective when it brings out the monstrous in human behavior rather than when it trots out the whole, bloody bag of horror tricks. But as always, I enjoyed talking to my podcast partner Asawin Suebsae ...
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GOP Congressman Admits Romney/Ryan Would ‘End ...During the fourth and final debate between incumbent Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) and his Democratic challenger, Tammy Duckworth, the Republican Congressman openly admitted that he and his GOP colleagues want to “end Medicare as we know it.” Walsh defended the Romney/Ryan plan to turn Medic ...
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GOP Senator Upset That Low-Income Aid Programs ...A study by the Congressional Research Service has determined that federal programs to assist low-income Americans — welfare, Medicaid, food stamps, Pell Grants, and so on — grew from a total of $563 billion in 2008 to $746 billion in 2011, according to a report today from The Hill. T ...
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Romney Team Plans To Continue War Spending Ind ...A top Romney foreign policy advisor has indicated that Mitt Romney intends to incorporate war spending into his military budget even after 2014, when American troops are set to be out of Afghanistan. Speaking at a debate last night at the Military Reporters and Editors Association Conference in ...
thwap's schoolyard
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Rape?I've long had a problem with the argument that "rape is not about sex; it's about power." If that were the case, there'd be a lot more bar fights between men, ending with the loser getting forcibly sodomized, than there are. I mean, if it's not about sex, but about power, who has more power in t ...
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McGuinty's ProrogationBack in the immediate aftermath of harper's fraudulent majority win I argued that harper had no claim to legitimacy because he had eviscerated the whole concept of "responsible government" with his first controversial prorogation (the one that was called specifically to avoid an impending no-con ...
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McGuinty's Crimes, Not the "Robamney" ScamI have almost zero interest in the sham debate between the two representatives of the oligarchs. What we should be talking about is condemning anyone who praises Dalton McGuinty's era of corruption and contempt. OUR own democratic process, which is teetering at the edge of the abyss is what shou ...
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McGuinty's ResignationAssuming that Dalton McGuinty doesn't have a secret, life-threatening illness, I'm going to assume that Dalton McGuinty's surprise, sudden resignation as the leader of the Ontario Liberals is rooted in frustration and petulance. McGuinty discovered that incompetent, scandal-plagued government is ...
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Policies that Benefit the Wealthiest ...I remember hearing for over a decade about how Brian Mulroney, then Jean Chretien, the Paul Martin, the Mike Harris, etc., etc., ... all were accused of pushing tax-cuts that benefited the wealthiest and which would deny governments of revenues to help the poor and the middle class. Now, ...
on Government Oversight
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