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A National Disgrace
If
you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American
politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The
modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible —
even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College —
n ...
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Your Vote Matters
Quite
apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so
much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and
open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in
The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans'
Right To ...
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For the Love of Music
In
our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture —
even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to
know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they
used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...
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The End of the Age of Oil
Coal,
because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy
possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed,
compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon
fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon
Democracy, bring ...
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Assessing Bradley Manning
According
to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of
Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we
should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction
between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether,
indeed, ...
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State Department: U.S. Supports Georgia’ ...
Trend
News Agency October 26, 2012 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State: U.S.
support Georgia’s integration into NATO N. Kirtskhalia Tbilisi: The
Deputy Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Eric Rubin
has expressed support for Georgia’s territorial integrity and its
integration i ...
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U.S. Military Chief: Pentagon Deploys Troops T ...
Trend
News Agency October 26, 2012 Dempsey: US sent troops to Turkey many
times to assist in anti-terror efforts X-band missile radar of the type
deployed to Turkey in January Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. Martin Dempsey has said there have been many times when the US sent
teams ...
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Videos and Photos: U.S. Holds Largest-Ever Mis ...
Missile
Defense Agency October 25, 2012 Ballistic Missile Defense System
Engages Five Targets Simultaneously During Largest Missile Defense
Flight Test in History Photographs and videos: Terminal High Altitude
Area Defense (THAAD) Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) The Missile
Defense Agency ...
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Star Wars or Star Peace?
Russia
& India Report October 26, 2012 Star Wars or star peace? Andrei
Kislyakov ==== The US is making huge investments into satellite
technology. Back in 2009 US Defence Minister Robert Gates convinced
Congress to designate a sum of $10.7 billion to developing this field.
“Whoever owns spac ...
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Georges Duhamel: The Third Symphony, a slender ...
====
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Georges
Duhamel: The Fleshmongers, War’s Winnowing Basket ==== Georges Duhamel
From The New Book of Martyrs (1918) Translated by Florence Simmonds
Throughout the Land From the disfigured regions where the cannon reigns
supreme, to ...
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New York: Police program stalking Muslims deno ...
NYPD
informant who tracked militants quits, denounces police Police
barricade in NYC (Mario Tama, Getty Images) By Mark Hosenball, Reuters,
October 22, 2012 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An informant recruited by the
New York Police Department to collect information on suspected Islamic
militants ...
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India: Tribal villagers displaced by fire set ...
Forest
Department Burns Tribal Village to Ashes Oct 12, 2012 by
VideoVolunteers On the morning of 15th June 2012, without any prior
notice, the Forest Department broke into the houses of 18 tribal
families. They used force to drive the families out before setting their
homes on fire. When the me ...
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China: Yinggehai Coal Power Plant Brings Chin ...
By
LOUISE WATT, Associated Press, 10/22/12 BEIJING — Residents of a south
China town protesting the building of a coal-fired power plant threw
bricks at police who fired volleys of tear gas and detained dozens in
the country’s latest unrest over an environmental dispute, townspeople
...
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China: Yinggehai Coal Power Plant Brings Chin ...
By
LOUISE WATT, Associated Press, 10/22/12 BEIJING — Residents of a south
China town protesting the building of a coal-fired power plant threw
bricks at police who fired volleys of tear gas and detained dozens in
the country’s latest unrest over an environmental dispute, townspeople
...
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US: Pesticide Threat Looms Large Over Farmwor ...
Saturday
October 20, 2012 By Michelle Chen, In These Times [Among agricultural
workers such as these fruit pickers in Oxnard, Calif., birth defects and
cancers are alarmingly high. (Alex E. Proimos / Flickr / Creative
Commons)] No matter how good your next meal tastes, it’s likely it mad
...
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Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...
Catherine
Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for
you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and
then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your
return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip
to ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...
I
think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is
genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this
one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute
for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This
useful idi ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe Freestyle on Gaza ...
Max Igan & Ken O'Keefe Freestyle on Gaza Rooftop
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Back in Gaza with Max Igan & the Samouni Family
It
is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than
those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of
which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we
become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that,
it has c ...
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Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Palestinians
Today
is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian
hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for
refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense.
- Ken O'Keefe
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Life is change and change is life
And
here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away
from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor
of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here.
Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and
-- I say th ...
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Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
"Peer
benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher.
Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren
Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich
don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has
refined his earlier ...
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De-pinkifying breast cancer
There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down.
You can read more here.
Flickr photo
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Why the occupation?
You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's
budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m.
Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
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Cleansing after Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it.
Flickr photo
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Debate Follow-Up Questions Create Risk of Poli ...
After
the first presidential debate I opined that debate moderators needed to
be younger and more forceful. Now a new debate is thrust upon us
regarding the role of debate moderator: Should the moderator be allowed
follow-up questions?Contributor: Calvin Wolf
Published: Oct 15, 2012
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Biden’s Engagement Trumped His Rudeness During ...
Biden
came to this debate well-prepared, and while he may have laughed at and
interrupted Paul Ryan too much, his substance made up for his
style.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes
Published: Oct 12, 2012
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Mitt Romney Urges Peace Through Strength in Fo ...
Mitt
Romney ventured to the Virginia Military Institute and delivered a wide
ranging foreign policy address that was made all the more important and
relevant by two recent developments.Contributor: Mark Whittington
Published: Oct 09, 2012
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Anti-Science Congressman Should Resign from Sc ...
A
recent video of Rep. Paul Broun saying science is "lies from the pit of
hell" is grossly unfit to serve on the House Committee on Science,
Space and Technology and should resign.Contributor: Micah Taylor
Published: Oct 08, 2012
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Romney vs. Big Bird: Statement Brings Out Hypo ...
Ever
since Mitt Romney made his statement about cutting the federal funding
of PBS, hypocrites have taken to social media to blast the candidate for
threatening the system they do not donate to or even watch.Contributor:
L. Vincent Poupard
Published: Oct 04, 2012
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First cold snap of the season
After
a relentlessly gloomy week, much clearer but colder air is on its way
from the Arctic in the next 12 hours, giving us our first cold snap of
the season, albeit a short lived one.
Some of us, mainly in eastern parts of the region will see showers, and
the air will be cold enough for some ...
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Quiet spell of autumn weather on the way
After
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 update
Provisional
Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than
normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average.
It was also cooler but sunnier than normal.
Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the
country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...
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All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...
The
deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of
Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not
quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the
autumn of 2000.
Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...
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Without You: Contemplating the UK-Free EU
Rest
assured that it's not only the Chinese who have a habit of disowning
Nobel laureates. For the longest time, the British have shown disdain
for the European Union project over both their supposed loss of
sovereignty and the waste of money going to Brussels (or was that
Strasbourg?). To be su ...
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China's Growth Slowdown is Utterly Unsurprising
Nobody
is immune to economic slowdowns, and it was perhaps only a matter of
China encountered such an episode. To paraphrase my erstwhile LSE IDEAS
colleague Martin Jacques, when China rules the world may be set back a
few years. Even the Associated Press via Yahoo! News has noticed that,
gee, m ...
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Of Obama's 'Retreat Dividend' and Condi Rice
Dear
readers, something most commentators missed in observing that the
United States has now had four consecutive years of trillion dollar-plus
deficits is that something remarkable has transpired: For the first
time since 1955, US government spending has gone down--from fiscal year
2011 to 2012 ...
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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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Will The Bottom Fall Out? 15 Signs That Layoff ...
If
you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly
because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the
United States is about to start getting worse again. Over the past
several weeks, a substantial number of large corporations have announced
disappointing ...
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37 Facts That Show How Cruel This Economy Has ...
Have
you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because
you didn't know how your family was possibly going to make it through
the next month financially? Have you ever felt the desperation of not
being able to provide the basic necessities for your family even though
you tr ...
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What If We Adopted A System Where The Banks Di ...
What
if there was a financial system that would eliminate the need for the
federal government to go into debt, that would eliminate the need for
the Federal Reserve, that would end the practice of fractional reserve
banking and that would dethrone the big banks? Would you be in favor of
such a ...
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Obama And Romney Both Favor A One World Econom ...
Either
way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get
slaughtered by the millions. During this campaign, Mitt Romney and
Barack Obama have both attempted to portray each other as the
"outsourcer in chief". Unfortunately, they are both right. Barack
Obama and Mitt Romn ...
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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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Texas threatens to arrest European monitors se ...
A
handful of international election monitors have touched down in the US
to swing by polling places next month when voters cast ballots for the
president, but officials in the state of Texas have issued them a
warning: you’re not welcome. State Attorney General Greg Abbott has sent
a scathing le ...
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Argentina workers protest new labor risk legis ...
Workers
in Argentina have staged a massive protest to voice their anger at the
new labor risk legislation which they say protects only the insurance
companies, Press TV reports. The demonstrators gathered outside the
National Congress in the capital city, Buenos Aires, to protest a bill
submitte ...
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UK: Want a state pension? Then do voluntary work!
First
of all we were told, British workers are “among the worst idlers” now
it’s suggested when you retire, you could do voluntary work to qualify
for a full state pension! Members may remember some months ago, we were
told that British workers are “among the worst idlers in the world”
according ...
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600 die in new Libya war with supporters of th ...
Amid
conflicting reports that the Libyan city of Bani Walid was captured by
army forces, RT has learned that 600 people were allegedly killed in
Wednesday’s fighting, and over 1,000 have been hospitalized. Locals are
appealing for international aid. Libyan officials claimed that
government force ...
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Arctic plastic debris doubled in past 10 years
A
recent study has revealed that the amount of plastic debris and litter
piled up on the Arctic Ocean’s seabed has doubled in the past ten years.
German researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine
Research studied more than 2,000 photographs of the Arctic Ocean’s
seabed take ...
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Heartless Hart at it Again
Melbourne
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 Pirona
John
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 [...]
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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 ...
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Generator Safety
With
the prediction or onset of powerful storms, people rush out to buy
generators. For many people, it is the first time they have ever used a
generator. Spend a few minutes BEFORE the storm, making sure your
back-up power generator is ready to go. Check the oil and gas levels in
your generator ...
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Nuclear Meltdown Risk In The United States
Many
of you may not even know where the nuclear power plants are located
here in the U.S., and as a result you may not understand the associated
risk if one of these plants suffers a nuclear meltdown. Here are a few
maps which show some of the geographical vulnerabilities of nuclear
plants compa ...
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Hurricane ‘To-Do’ List
Guest
Post: by ‘GrnMtnBoy’ When considering hurricanes, I like to break down
my storm preparations into these time-line lists: the Start of the
Hurricane Season, Hurricane Watch, Hurricane Warning, During the
Hurricane and The Aftermath: Start of the Hurricane Season Have the
...
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Food Storage Danger: Botulism
It
is just as important to store food safely, as it is to store food. One
significant consideration is the nasty bacteria botulism and its deadly
toxins. Food-borne botulism may be found in your home food stores unless
you are careful. Botulism is a rare, deadly poisoning which is caused
from to ...
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Forecast Model: Major East Coast Halloween Storm
Source:
ECMWF model for OCT-30, as of OCT-23 A Hurricane, A Extra-Tropical
Storm, A Perfect Storm, a “Super Nor’easter”… these are some of the
possibilities of the storm named ‘Sandy’, a major storm that could
charge up the East Coast of the United States just ...
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Mepedia: LinkedIn For The Desperately Unemploy ...
The
average LinkedIn user is 44. Therein lies the tragedy of trying to
navigate the white-collar social network as a member of the Desperately
Unemployed Generation. So Mepedia is trying to become "the LinkedIn for
millennials," by creating a networking site that, if the scruffy
tattooed gentlem ...
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Triposo's Travel App Lets You Plan And Journal ...
On
a recent trip to Marrakech, the team behind smart travel app Triposo
stayed in an old town without any real streets or street signs, and the
few existing signs were in Arabic. Even finding a place to have a beer
became a challenge. Lots of us have been there--not Marrakech, any
foreign enviro ...
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You Don't Need Wealthy Donors To Run A Campaig ...
500,000
people hold elected office in the U.S. And a lot more will be running
for office on November 6th. How do they steal the spotlight--and get
votes-- during the presidential race? NationBuilder’s software is making
it simple to tap into social media and get results.
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A Look At The World's Most Amazing Kitchens An ...
Todd
Selby is known for his character-filled photographs of the homes of
creative luminaries. Now he’s in the kitchens, restaurants, and gardens
of the world’s most interesting chefs and he’s bringing you a
drool-inspiring look.
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Nile Rodgers On How To Collaborate With Anyone ...
He’s
made landmark albums for David Bowie, Duran Duran, Daft Punk, Diana
Ross, and more. Here’s how he finds his place, even in a superstar’s
galaxy.
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Egypt’s Constituent Assembly: Contempt and Cou ...
The
constitution has taken center stage this week in Egypt’s fraught
political transition. On Tuesday, Cairo’s Administrative Court referred
the matter of the Constituent Assembly’s legality to the Supreme
Constitutional Court, and the SCC is not expected to rule on the matter
for at least two m ...
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A Boiling Kettle: Kuwait's Escalating Politica ...
Power-sharing
is always a messy affair. Under the best of circumstances striking a
balance between competing forces is a perpetual work in progress, with
political actors continually vying for control of the driver’s seat. In
advanced democracies the structural checks and balances built into the
...
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis Intensifies
Over
three-hundred thousand refugees have fled across Syria’s borders to
Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon, according to the latest UNHCR
statistics. This number accounts for only those who have registered with
the UN, or are waiting to register. The UN also estimates that one to
one and a ...
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Maghreb Media Roundup (October 25)
[This
is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the
Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the
views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your
own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to
maghreb@jadaliyya.c ...
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المدن الجديدة في الخليج العربي و«الخلل السكاني»
يشكل
الوافدون جزءاً كبيراً من سكان الخليج، لكن قلّما يتم التطرّق إليهم في
الإعلام. وقد زاد عدد الوافدين بشكل هائل في دول مجلس التعاون على مدى
السنوات الأخيرة، فكانت نسبة نموهم السنوية أكثر من ضعف نسبة النمو السنوية
للمواطنين، حيث ارتفعت أرقامهم من نحو عشرة ملايين في العام 2000 إلى ستة
عشر مليونا ...
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Censored? Information goes missing from politi ...
Jake Harper / Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group:
Censored? Information goes missing from political ad files — The
Federal Communication Commission's online political ad database is
supposed to make information about heavy political hitters more
accessible, but a lack o ...
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How one geek just outdid the entire publishing ...
Tim Windsor / Zero Percent Idle:
How one geek just outdid the entire publishing industry — Most of my
friends and colleagues in journalism or the magazine world have never
heard of Marco Arment. A few more may have actually used his offline
article reader, Instapaper.&nb ...
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Current TV to Consider Offers From Potential B ...
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Current TV to Consider Offers From Potential Buyers — Any Sale Seems
Likely to Trigger Significant Changes — There's a long list of
potential buyers who might be interested in Current TV, analysts said
Friday after the network said it w ...
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Awkward: Seattle Times fact-checks its owner's ...
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Awkward: Seattle Times fact-checks its owner's political ads — The
Seattle Times Co. sponsored political ads in its paper with claims that
aren't entirely true, the Seattle Times reports. If that sounds a
little twisted, it is. —&nbs ...
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Weibo reaction to Wen Jiabao's corruption (Rac ...
Rachel Lu / FP Passport:
Weibo reaction to Wen Jiabao's corruption — On Thursday Oct 26 The New
York Times published a 4,700 word article on corruption among the
members of Wen Jiabao's family, alleging that they amassed a fortune of
$2.7 billion through shadowy business dealings.
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10 Best British Open Performances
Rory
McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans
wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one
of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past
winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..
Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
Snails
are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to
scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on
tiny land snails.
Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
For
the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the
news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The
Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............
Submitted by Anna Smith to World |& ...
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South Sudan becomes an independent nation
South
Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process
made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil
war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon are among international dignitaries
Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
Haji
Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees
of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life.
It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai.
The mosque was built in 1431 by a...
Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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10/25/12 - 3,218 schools in all 50 states and ...
www.procon.org
- - ProCon.org has been used by teachers, librarians, and
administrators in 3,218 schools in all 50 states and 50 countries. We're
thrilled to have educators in 643 elementary and middle schools, 1,652
high schools, and 923 colleges and universities using our free
educational reso ...
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10/24/12 - Gay Marriage Favored by Majority of ...
gaymarriage.procon.org - Gay Marriage Favored by Majority of Latinos in United States
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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.org
www.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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V. Bush
Vannevar
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 Katsumi
Japan’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 Migraines
Carol
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 Time
The
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 life
Humanity
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 ...
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Looking forward to a Labour science policy
Ed
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 population
After
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 campaigning
Strolling
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 ...
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Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY
- Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair
above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland.
Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the
result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read
has questioned whether it might have more ...
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Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON
- Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play
in the lives of children with special needs.
A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that
specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and
enhance the socialization skills of ...
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How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON
- A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure
and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart.
The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher
estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and
lower RV end-systol ...
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Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
BANGALORE
- The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel
MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18.
The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the
provision of the anti-defection law on October 10.
The two-judges bench on ...
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Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
CHANDIGARH
- Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian
Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature
campaign to garner public support against the decision.
They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab,
consisting of students and ...
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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 1
Jan
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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Energy Independence and Gas Prices: The Truth
©OceanaWavemaker
By
listening to the presidential debates and political pundits you could
be forgiven in assuming that there is some correlation between domestic
oil production and the price you pay at the pump. By now it has almost
become a tenet of conventional wisdom that an uptick in dome ...
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Oceana CEO Slams Seismic Testing in USA Today
Today Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless wrote an op-ed in USA Today, "A Deaf
Whale is a Dead Whale", about seismic airgun testing. As you may know by
now, the Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal
to search for oil and gas deposits in a huge expanse of the Atlantic
Ocean stretch ...
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Oceana Ranger Explores Spanish Seamounts
Our
friends in Europe have wrapped up the Oceana Ranger's 2012 expedition,
capturing more than 100 hours of footage documenting the incredible
variety of life, both familiar and bizarre, living on underwater
mountains known as seamounts off the coast of Spain and Portugal. What
they documented, ...
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Baiji, Vaquitas, Extinction and You
The
now-extinct baiji ©Wikimedia Commons
In this thought-provoking piece on the National Geographic's Ocean Views
blog, Mediterranean Science Commission director general Frederic Briand
discusses the precarious and uncertain fate of ocean creatures staring
down extinction. About sharks and ra ...
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500 Chefs Agree: End Seafood Fraud
Illegally-caught
fish is not on the menu
The cuisine of Mario Batali, Rick Bayless, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller,
Jacques Pepin, Eric Ripert and Michael Symon may run the gamut from
modern French to traditional Mexican, but they can all agree on one
thing: It is time to end seafood fraud.
Mo ...
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Missing Issues in the Duopoly Presidential Cam ...
There’s
been a lot of conversation about what’s missing from the Democratic /
Republican presidential campaigns, usually with some analysis about why
the identified issues are, if not completely left out, clearly not a
primary focus of either Obama or Romney. The articles often focus on the
pres ...
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Nor’Easter Sandy “May Be Unlike Anything Regio ...
CHILDISHLY
NICKNAMED “Frankenstorm,” around here we’ll call it a historic
nor’easter. The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang said “this storm
may be unlike anything the region has ever experienced.” People are
already talking about a potential impact ...
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About Today’s GDP Report
IT’S
GOOD political news for President Obama, who is now trailing Mitt
Romney on the economy, who has a 20-point lead among independents in
today’s daily tracking poll from Washington Post/ABC News. Real gross
domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labo ...
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Fox News Hypes “Exclusive” and “Death and Dece ...
Watch
the latest video at video.foxnews.com But — but the basic principle
here — basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way
without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time
information about what’s taking place. – Secretary Leon Panetta IF THE
purpose was ...
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Lena Dunham Ad Upsets Mourdock Supporters
IT’S
ALREADY known around here that I’m a huge fan of the brilliant Lena
Dunham and an avid viewer of HBO’s GIRLS. So, I’m sure you’re not
shocked that I love this Obama ad. Young women vote in much smaller
numbers. If that wasn’t true, Al Gore would have beco ...
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Freedom House Downgrades Israel, Based on Pale ...
In
a clear distortion of information, the once prestigious Freedom House, a
not-for-profit organization that purports to monitor which societies in
the world are truly free, appears deliberately to have omitted and
misrepresented easily verifiable
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Jordan's Next Leader?
It
might be helpful now to start wondering what sort of ideas Jordan's
Muslim Brotherhood, and its leader, Controller General Sheikh Hamam
Sai'd, will advance if they seize power in Jordan -- possibly with the
blessing and encouragement of the United
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Turkey in the Syrian Crisis: What Next?
Syrian
dictator Bashar Al-Assad treats Turkish military reprisals as
pin-pricks. Nonetheless, while massacres continue inside Syria,
confrontations and counterblows proliferate along the country's border
with Turkey, including exchanges of mortar-shell
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CAIR Features Imam with Ties to Hamas
The
Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, founded in 1994 by
operatives from Hamas, this month continued its tradition of embracing
individuals with ties to terrorist organizations, such as Mousa Abu
Marzouk and Yusuf al Qaradawi, by featuring,
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U.S. State Department Strengthening Hamas
The
U.S. Administration has sought to downplay the significance of this
week's visit to the Gaza Strip by the Emir of Qatar, Hamad al-Thani. "We
have seen the reports that Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa visits Gaza today
on a humanitarian mission," State
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Hurricane Sandy: There Goes The Election?
No
question about it, the Northeast could get messy this next week with a
Perfect Storm kind of set up to the hurricane’s passage this weekend.
Which means to the north we will like see a mess with … Continue
reading →
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Coping: With Catastrophism & Prepping
Our
discussion Thursday about whether there really is any “End of the
World” event coming in 2013 got reader Bill inspired to send me an email
– where he takes me to task for only putting 10% odds on a … Continue
reading →
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How Much “QE” Will It Take?
(Palestine,
TX) I’m not sure how long it will take before someone in Washington
sobers up, comes down, wakes up, or otherwise figures this, but have you
noticed that the $40-billion a month print job on Quantitative Easing
Indefinite (*QEI) … Continue reading →
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Coping: Worries Beyond Quake Watching
Oh,
here’s a video on some earthquake predictions making the rounds on
YouTube…and since Patrick Geryl’s window is here this weekend, we’ll be
watching HAARP to see what oddities bump the earth’s magnetic field in
there. Yesterday’s 6.5 in Costa … Contin ...
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Markets Score Obama Win
(Ellijay,
GA) Have the Kleenex ready for the nose bleed when the markets opening
in a few minutes. No surprise here, though. Since it’s a given that
Romney would attempt to extend tax cuts, and is considered more
business-friendly than … Continue reading →
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NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
Once
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 ...
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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 out
Most
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 ...
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National Academies: Algae Biofuels aren't sust ...
Cai Steger, Energy Policy Analyst, New York, Center for
Market Innovation
This week, the National Academy of Sciences released a
report on the Sustainability of Algae Biofuels, the drafting of which I
had the privilege to be a part of as a member of ...
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Empire State Building Cuts Energy Waste, Becom ...
Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City
The Empire State Building was never intended to be
low-impact. It was built as a symbol of the power of New York--and
today, it's a surprising case study in the power of efficiency. A series
of c ...
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Celebrating the autumnal city
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Portland
Fall is a great time to be a city dweller. These photos, which can otherwise speak for themselves, remind us why.
Only three are mine; most have been curated ...
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It's Time for the California PUC to Make Energ ...
Devra Wang, Director, California Energy Program, San
Francisco
Energy efficiency is the cheapest and cleanest way to
meet our energy needs. Yet, the California Public Utilities Commission,
which regulates the state’s largest utilities, current ...
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Eco-Fitness: Maintaining Your Body and the Planet
Tiffany Traynum, Program Assistant, San Francisco
I work in one of the most gorgeous buildings in San
Francisco; a stunning 22-story high-rise built in 1926 with a French
Romanesque design. It’s not unusual to see me dodging at least a dozen t
...
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Police Chief Sounds Off
So
this morning I received an angry email from a police chief in
Michigan. His complaint concerns a story we related about a dog getting
shot by a police officer. This is the item from our September 11
recap: St. … Continue reading →Police Chief Sounds Off is a post from
...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here
are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, October
25, 2012: Battle Creek, Michigan: An officer was charged with a felony
of resisting and obstructing police officers, and two misdemeanors of
operating a motor vehicle while under … Continue reading →National P ...
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Chicago Bartender Gets Her Day in Court — 5 Y ...
A
drunk off-duty cop, Anthony Abbate, beat up a pettite lady bartender,
Karolina Obrycka in 2007. The video below went viral at the time.
The case is now back in the news because the civil lawsuit is now
underway … Continue reading →Chicago Bartender Gets Her Day i ...
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East Haven Police Promise to Reform
Related story in today’s Washington Post.East Haven Police Promise to Reform is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
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National Police MIsconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here
are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, October 23,
2012: Wallkill, New York: A state trooper has been suspended without
pay after he was charged with assault and choking his girlfriend during a
domestic dispute. He … Continue reading →National Police MIscond ...
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Israel halts war games to deploy troops, resou ...
Defense
minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz decided
Wednesday, Oct. 24, that the heavy Palestinian missile assault from the
Gaza Strip, which escalated to 60 rockets on Israeli civilian locations,
in a few hours, must be stopped. The bulk of the personnel taking part
in t ...
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US Deploys 70 Nuclear Bombs in Turkey
The
United States of America deploys around 70 B61 nuclear bombs in Turkey
to use them in case of necessary. According to a Turkish news agency
citing well informed sources, all of the bombs are deployed in the
Turkish Incirlik air base in Adana, south of the country. The greater
part of these b ...
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Russian Nuclear Forces Ordered On “High Alert” ...
A
grim report issued today by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov states
that all Russian nuclear forces and Airborne Troops (VDV) have been
ordered by President Putin to extend their full combat alert status put
into place by former President Medvedev last November (2011) [watch
video HERE] to c ...
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Largest ever US, Israeli air defense exercise ...
The
Israeli military says its largest ever exercise with the United States
has begun. A major air defense drill called Austere Challenge 2012
started Sunday and includes more than 3,500 Americans and 1,000
Israelis. The militaries are practicing their ability to work together
against a range of ...
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Russian Nuclear Forces Complete Large-scale Drill
Russia’s
Strategic Nuclear Forces ended a large-scale command drill on Saturday,
the Kremlin said. President Vladimir Putin, the supreme
commander-in-chief of Russian armed forces, on Friday participated in
the exercises and directly controlled the testing of the automated
communications c ...
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Indonesia remains epicenter for illegal wildli ...
Demand
for exotic pets is driving the illegal harvest and trade of
herpetofauna (reptiles and amphibians) in Indonesian New Guinea,
according to a recent study published in the journal Biodiversity and
Conservation. Between September 2010 and April 2011, Daniel Natusch and
Jessica Lyons of the U ...
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Smuggling of illegally logged rosewood in Mada ...
Timber
traders in Madagascar are smuggling illegally logged rosewood despite
an official export ban, alleges a new report published by a Malagasy
researcher.
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After seven year search, scientists film crypt ...
South
America's rare and little-known bush dog (Speothos venaticus) looks
like a miniature dachshund who went bad: leaner, meaner, and not one to
cuddle on your lap, the bush dog is found in 11 South American
countries, but scientists believe it's rare in all of its habitats,
which include the A ...
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Picture of the day: a bizarre baby bird with o ...
The
crested coua (Coua cristata) is native to island of Madagascar. Unlike
much of Madagascar's wildlife, the crested coua is not considered
threatened with extinction, but is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN
Red List. There are around nine species of coua in the world, all found
in Madagasca ...
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APP overstates significance of its logging mor ...
Beleaguered
forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is overstating the
conservation significance of its recently announced moratorium on forest
conversion on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, argues a new report
issued by an Indonesian activist group.
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On Eid ul-Adha peace, joy and Allah’s blessing ...
May
this festival shower you with love, peace, goodness, warmth and
blessings of Allah From Sierra Express Media People who looked at this
item also looked at… Command Recognition by Passing a Microsoft Office
Master Exam Change of System for Payment of UK Entry Clearance Fees from
1 Novem ...
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Light policing ‘A good sign for a peaceful ele ...
Freetown,
25 October 2012 – Following the first phase of electioneering for the
forthcoming Sierra Leone elections, the light policing at campaign
rallies has been described as “a good sign for a peaceful election” by
the Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observatio ...
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Change of System for Payment of UK Entry Clear ...
From
1 November all applicants for UK Entry Clearance must have paid the
relevant application fee in to the British High Commission’s account
with Standard Chartered Bank before they attend the British High
Commission and submit their biometrics, application form and supporting
documents. The ap ...
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Political Chaos is always connected to Languag ...
Winston
Churchill once said that “politics is not a game. It is an earnest
business.” Sometimes, political necessities can be political mistakes.
The November 17 elections have been billed as our country’s date with
destiny. Some of us, as armchair observers, have enjoyed and watched
from safe d ...
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African leaders, academics to debate economic ...
Kigali,
Rwanda, October 25, 2012 – Hundreds of leaders and scholars from Africa
and around the world will gather in Kigali, Rwanda, from October 30 to
November 2 to debate the continent’s prospects for sustainable and
inclusive growth in the context of the international economic crisis.
Organize ...
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North Carolina's War on Free Speech About Diet ...
Sara Burrows at Carolina Journal had done some great
digging into the practices of the North Carolina Board of
Dietetics/Nutrition.
They are, regular readers of Reason might
remember, the villains in the case of Cooksey v. Futrell et
al., in which they tried to censor the w ...
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Rolling Stone Continues Proud Traditi ...
Back
when Rolling Stone
interviewed President Barack Obama in 2010, I had a little
fun at the expense of ageless/deathless interviewer Jann
Wenner, because his first three questions to the most powerful man
on earth were about how awful those damn dirty Republicans are
("When did ...
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Defining Radical Down
As the presidential race
tightens, Democrats and their supporters are working vigorously to
define radical down. In his Bloomberg View column today, for
example, Jonathan Alter
warns that even if GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney seems
moderate now, he won't possibly govern that ...
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Obama Campaign Now Raffling Off Election Night ...
On the heels of news Mitt Romney and
Republicans hold a
$45 million advantage over Obama and Democrats going into the
last twelve days of the campaign, the campaign is raffling off
tickets to the president’s
downsized election night rally in Chicago. Obama campaign
manager ...
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J.D. Tuccille on Ballot Initiatives That Reviv ...
There's an important constitutional issue on
ballots across the country next month, but it's not labeled by its
name anywhere that it appears. That issue encompasses concerns
traditionally considered both conservative and liberal, even if it
is embraced oh-so-selectively by its new-f ...
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Friday Cat Blogging
Princess
Mia graciously permitted the paparazzi to photograph her. Thanks, as
always, to her catstaff for sharing this portrait with us.
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Friday Cat Blogging
Princess
Mia graciously permitted the paparazzi to photograph her. Thanks, as
always, to her catstaff for sharing this portrait with us.
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Yet Another Set Of “If The Perps Were De ...
Here,
for your reading pleasure, are well-sourced yet oddly obscure stories
about Republicans — stories that, had they been about Democrats, would
be getting a lot more coverage than they are now: – Mitt Romney has an
in-law problem, and his name’s Ryan Davies. – Richard ...
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Yet Another Set Of “If The Perps Were De ...
Here,
for your reading pleasure, are well-sourced yet oddly obscure stories
about Republicans — stories that, had they been about Democrats, would
be getting a lot more coverage than they are now: – Mitt Romney has an
in-law problem, and his name’s Ryan Davies. – Richard ...
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A comment on drones
Not
that anyone pays any attention to my opinion, but I think that the
complaints about using drones for targeting killing are probably largely
misplaced. Drones are bombs. Bombs are instruments of war. If one
believes that we are at war with a stateless army, then killing members
of that army w ...
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Sex in the News
How voting for Romney screws both men and women, sex addiction
redefined, marriages that survive political differences, small penises,
and more in this week's sex in the news. read more
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Unveiling Isis
The following is excerpted from Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality (Tarcher/Penguin 2012).
read more
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Psi in the News
Ethnography of the afterlife, skeptics issue UK psychics a scientific
challenge, presentiment, premonitions and a heaping helping of NDE, in
this edition of Psi-in-the-News:
Healing Touch therapy, the role of memory in precognitive dream
experience and a replication of Dean Radin’s presentim ...
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Evolving the Vision
This article originally appeared on Erowid.org
I once gave a talk in Peru at the Annual Amazonian
Shamanism conference on the theme "Grace and Madness." My presentation went a
little something like what follows. Imagine that I'm reading this to you in a
lush tropical pa ...
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Butch Bellbird
The safety net of referring to the animal kingdom for any kind of
justification of human gender roles is proven tenuous by the various gender-bending animals that have been discovered.
read more
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Worms, Termites, Microbes Offer Food Security
Worms
and termites are not likely to win hearts and minds, but they, along
with lichens and microbes, are vital to food security, say biodiversity
specialists who attended this month’s United Nations conference on the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in this south Indian city.
“Worms, ...
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Shadow Over Aichi Biodiversity Targets
With
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 Biodiversity
The
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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SPS Supports NYC Office of Emergency Management
The
message below is posted on behalf of Dean Brian A. Peterson: My usual
flurry of associate deanery was interrupted late Wednesday afternoon by a
call from the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM). Not
that I minded the interruption, I love the OEM, but I knew the call
could only ...
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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 Lane
In
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 Opportunity
Dear
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 Countdown
Does
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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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 Medicare
A
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 Degree
Catch
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 Faded
On
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 ...
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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 ...
- October 26-28, 2012 -- OFF-TOPIC WEEKEND FORUM
- October 26-28, 2012 -- ON-TOPIC WEEKEND FORUM
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October 26-28, 2012 -- The corporate media and ...
You can't believe anything you read in the paper when it comes to international pedophiles
- October 25-26, 2012 -- OFF-TOPIC DAILY FORUM
- October 25-26, 2012 -- ON-TOPIC DAILY FORUM
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Symbol of Native Culture to Be Bulldozed for W ...
One
victim of the remodelling of Brazil’s Maracaná football stadium in
preparation for the World Cup is the old Museum of the Indian, where
people from different indigenous groups have attempted to keep their
culture alive in the heart of Rio de Janeiro. “It is as if they were
killing part of us ...
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Pacific Island Sets Renewable Energy Record
Tokelau,
a small Polynesian territory in the central Pacific, has surpassed the
rest of the world in replacing fossil fuels and raised the benchmark of
achievement on sustainable development. Located north of Samoa, the
three atolls, home to 1,411 people, will claim a world record when they
swit ...
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Q&A: ‘Baloch Groups to Unite Against Pakistan’
Karlos Zurutuza interviews ALLAH NAZAR, Balochistan Liberation Front commander.
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Defying Foreclosures in Spain
Shouting
slogans against bank foreclosures, dozens of protesters in this
southern Spanish city gathered Wednesday to prevent the eviction of a
Moroccan family who couldn’t afford to meet their mortgage payments. “I
lost my construction job and I have two small children,” the head of
...
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Regional Trade Key to African Food Security, W ...
The
World Bank is urging African countries to strengthen regional food
trade, suggesting that food security could be greatly enhanced simply by
allowing farmers to trade more easily across the continent. Currently,
despite massive food insecurity, just five percent of Africa’s imported
cereals c ...
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Poll: Iranians support their nuclear program
Summary:
According to recent data collected by Ebrahim Mohseni, who is
conducting research inside Iran as part of his dissertation at the
University of Maryland, 85 percent of Iranians said it was very
important for Iran to have a civilian nuclear program.
This high statistic suggests that, d ...
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Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in ...
Summary:
Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to
support the build-up of forces in the Gulf, citing secret legal advice
which states that any pre-emptive strike on Iran could be in breach of
international law.
source: The Guardianread more
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What the Obama-Romney Foreign Policy Consensus ...
Summary:
The Obama-Romney debate revealed much about the strategic and moral
bankruptcy of America’s approach to the Middle East. On Syria,
attachment to the delusion that the United States can arm, fund and
train fighters to undermine the Assad government—and that some of those
same fighter ...
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Iran Considers Tougher Line After Combative US ...
Summary:
Iran “is weighing a more confrontational strategy” that would “boost
levels of uranium enrichment unless the West makes clear concessions to
ease sanctions,” according to the Associated Press.
source: antiwar.comread more
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Hollywood Demonizes Iran Again
Summary:
Comparing Not Without My Daughter with Argo through critical lenses
simply alerts us to a frozen time, as if in the twenty year separating
the two movies, commonly focusing on Americans' escape from Iran,
Hollywood has learned nothing new, still immersed in its ideological
wheel of s ...
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Image of the Day: A Cosmic Bubble Mystery
Wolf-Rayet stars are massive, highly luminous stars that continually
shed material in a stellar wind -- which commonly form bubbles in the
interstellar medium. But the unusual structure of the NGC 2359 arcs
indicate something more complex is going on. Experts wonder if ...
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The Strange Planets of 'Fomalhaut' --A Spectac ...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
(ALMA) in Chile discovered that planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut must
be much smaller than originally thought. The discovery was made
possible by exceptionally sharp ALMA images of a disc, or ring, o ...
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Monster Elliptical Galaxy Discovered --Ten Tim ...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a
remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy, with a core
bigger than any seen before. There are two intriguing explanations for
the puffed up core, both related to the action of one or ...
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Saturn's Monster Storm --Bigger than Jupiter' ...
The heat-seeking capabilities of the international Cassini spacecraft
and two ground-based telescopes have provided the first look at the
aftermath of Saturn’s ‘Great Springtime Storm’. Concealed from the naked
eye, a giant oval vortex is persisting long after the visi ...
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Mystery of the Background Glow of the Universe ...
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a
cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire
sky. It comes from isolated stars beyond the edges of galaxies. These
stars are thought to have once belonged to the galaxies b ...
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All Non-GMO Project Verified groceries on sale ...
This
is big news, so let me get right to the point. Food prices are rising
everywhere. Global food inflation is on the rise, and 2013 is going to
be even worse thanks to the extreme droughts of 2012 that struck
croplands across North America. At the same time, grocery...
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Cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure a ...
In
a world where threats to national security are increasingly coming from
online sources, the United States must do more to beef up its cyber
defenses or suffer consequences similar to, or worse than, those
suffered on 9/11.
That dire warning came from Secretary...
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Life Without Limbs: An Exclusive Interview wit ...
The
world is beating a path to the door of Nick Vujicic.
When I called, his publicist was managing 8,000 press inquiries and
turning down 300 speaking engagements per week. The meteoric rise of his
evangelical ministry, LifeWithoutLimbs.org, and for-profit
motivational...
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Health benefits of steam inhalation
Steam
inhalation is a method of introducing warm, moist air into the lungs
via the nose and throat for therapeutic benefit. Essential oils are
often added to provide additional relief. Ancient Egyptians recognized
the good therapeutic effects of inhalation therapy through...
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British cop blasts blind stroke victim with 50 ...
When
61-year-old Colin Farmer, a blind, retired architect and stroke victim
from the British town of Lancashire, was forced to the ground recently
while walking to meet his friends for dinner, he thought he was being
murdered. But in reality, Farmer was actually suffering...
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The Romney Recession vs. the Obama Boom
After
campaigning for months on the long ago debunked slander that President
Obama "made the economy worse," Mitt Romney is now promising voters a
"big change" over the next four years. President Romney's change would
be big, all right, just not in the way he is pledging. That's because
while ...
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Top Romney Economic Adviser: "Rich Are Taxed E ...
Back
in June, Mitt Romney's top economic adviser Glenn Hubbard caused a stir
when he took his partisan politics beyond the water's edge and onto the
op-ed page of a German newspaper. Now, the man the New York Times
labeled Romney's "go-to economist" has uttered something far more
appalling, if ...
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GOP Still Mocking the "Health of the Mother"
If
for nothing else, you have to give the 2008 and 2012 GOP tickets for
getting their lines straight. On Thursday, John McCain rejoined Mitt
Romney in support of embattled Indiana Republican Senate hopeful Richard
Mourdock. That McCain would come around after accepting Mourdock's
"apology" for ...
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The Economist Pounds Romney on the Economy
In
the next several days, The Economist newsmagazine will make its 2012
presidential endorsement. Despite its mantra on free trade and free
markets, in the past that icon of international business and politics
has endorsed both Democrats (Bill Clinton in 1992, John Kerry in 2004)
and Republican ...
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To Prosecute Ahmadinejad, Romney Turns to Inte ...
Among
the more puzzling moments of Monday's final presidential debate was
Mitt Romney's call for the prosecution of Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad on war crimes charges. As it turns out, Romney has been
urging the United Nations to indict Ahmadinejad ever since his "close
friend" and Isr ...
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Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Establishing t ...
Dandelion
Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House For Immediate Release October
26, 2012 Executive Order — Establishing the White House Homeland
Security Partnership Council EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - ESTABLISHING
THE WHITE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL B ...
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Noam Chomsky: Who Owns the World? + Transcript
Dandelion
Salad with Noam Chomsky Oct 26, 2012 by democracynow In the week when
President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated
issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to world-renowned
political dissident, linguist, author and MIT Professor, Noam Chomsky.
In a ...
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Gaddafi and 66 Others Murdered After Capture - ...
Vijay
Prashad: Report says that Misrata-based militias butchered Gaddafi then
captured and disarmed members of the Gaddafi convoy and executed at
least 66 at the nearby Mahari Hotel
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Black Financial and Fraud Report
Bill Black: Government Sues Bank of America but No Criminal Prosecutions
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Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fuele ...
In
the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt
Romney debated issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to
world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT professor,
Noam Chomsky. In a recent speech, Chomsky examined topics largely
ignored or gloss ...
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Exoplanet That Was Previously Discovered And T ...
A
previously discovered exoplanet, that had its existence called into
question by outside researchers, is most likely a real planet, according
to new research. The work, done with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, is
reviving the idea that the nearby star Fomalhaut is orbited by a massive
exo ...
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Backyard CAFOs
More
on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and Factory Farms
From PlanetSave: Top 5 Ways to End Factory Farming From CAFOtheBook:
CAFO the Book From GMO Journal: Big Chicken=Big Pollution From PETA:
Chickens Used for Food Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and
StumbleUpon ...
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Neuro Scientists Discover How to ‘Read’ Dreams
Dreaming
and ordinary (waking) visual perception share similar neural
representations in the higher-order visual areas of the brain. Knowing
this, researchers are able to “decode” and even predict the content of
our dreams. This is the main finding of a team of neuroscientists led by
...
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The Rise and Fall of Oxygenation
The generally held theory regarding the oxygenation of planet Earth can
be described as a one-way staircase starting 2.4 billion years ago with
what is informally dubbed the Great Oxidation Event, followed almost 2
billion years later with a second irreversible rise in oxygen. However, a
...
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Mars Rover Curiosity Is Now On The Hunt For Bi ...
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been the subject of rumors lately
–specifically, that it may have discovered methane on the planet
(Curiosity is the first rover with the ability to do so). Methane has
been previously detected on Mars from a variety of different satellites
and telesc ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Romney's Epitaph: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt"
By
@TedFrier
The funniest line from the third and final debate between President
Obama and Mitt Romney wasn't the President's riff about "horses and
bayonets" which he used to sink Mitt Romney's hilarious suggestion the
US Navy has gone to rot on Obama's watch because America has fewer
dreadnaug ...
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Republicans Suffer Empathy Gap
By
@TedFrier
The sorry spectacle of Richard Mourdock reminds us why putative
"Massachusetts moderates" like Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have been
trying to step away from today's Republican Party as if it were an ugly
fat man who just farted.
The Indiana Republican whose name rhymes with those l ...
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Syria-Iran Gaffe Shows Scumney Too Stupid To B ...
Haven't
we had enough stupid MFs as our presidents?
Monday night, Mitt Scumney repeated a gaffe that he'd committed several
times before. Unfortunately, Obama chose not to drive a Mack truck
through that one. I guess he didn't have time to get to all of them.
Syria, he said, is Iran's route to t ...
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Third Debate Shows Scumney Isn't Ready For Pri ...
What
seemed to emerge clearly from Monday night's final presidential debate
between incumbent Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Scumney -- er, Romney, may have to get used to that if the bozo really
gets elected -- is that he doesn't seem ready for prime time.
Oh, he was very well- ...
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"LIBERAL" The 21st Century "N" Word
By
@TomBales1
To those of you who base your entire political agenda on anger and hate,
I would like to ask you once and for all just what your definition of
Liberalism is. You post your little Facebook entries and you carry your
little misspelled signs proudly at the Tea Party's hate rall ...
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Hillary and Barack, The 3AM Failure
The
3AM phone call came, but it was not at 3AM. The phone rang a little
after 1600 Lima (that’s military jargon for local) in Washington, DC.
And Hillary Clinton, David Petraeus and Barack Obama failed to answer.
Their failure facilitated the deaths of Americans. In my opinion, they
have b ...
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Mitt Romney Seals The Deal
It
was “Reagan-esque.” This is Mitt Romney’s “closing argument” on the
economy. A moving, powerful, compelling speech … many adjectives, all
deserved. A sweeping panoramic view of how we can HEAL this nation,
ourselves, and every country on earth. So goes our ...
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Breaking News: Obama Admin Denied Real Time R ...
Latest
Update: Charles Woods wants to know why his son Tyrone died. The father
of the slain former SEAL gave a radio interview today. From the audio
below: “When [Obama] came over to our little area’ at Andrew Air Force
Base, says Woods, “he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m ...
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Lucky 13! Place Your Bets
It
is HIGH NOON on Friday — thirteen days to go until we find out who the
NEXT man will take the oath of Office in January, 2013. (Below the fold:
Insights and advice from “Ho Ho” and Sally Vaca‘s comments last night,
and more news.) Huh. Dwight Eisenhower was president o ...
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Was Iran Behind Benghazi?
*
Bumped Up * Regular readers of NoQuarter know that I am no hawk in
favor of starting a war with Iran. I think it would be foolish and
self-destructive for us and Israel. But when you look at what happened
in Benghazi, it is clear that the elimination of the CIA base there
serves [...]
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Hope for a Global Spring?
Perhaps
it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the
US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year
politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest.
Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time
I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
I
get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects.
Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less
about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema.
Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of
pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
So,
I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to
approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around
accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency;
hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the
full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always Wins
Soooooo,
yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree…
doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet
here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a
mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New Economies
Last
month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy
Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative
destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that
incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within,
incessantly destroying ...
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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 Thoughts
November
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 Attacks
Panic
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 ...
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“I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” - I ...
“I
Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody”
It's Getting Hot In Here
Hell's Gate was the property line from where you could literally look
down on massive mountaintop removal operations. It was stunning. I've
seen clear cut forests, oil spills and an industry polluted lake near
Butte, ...
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Open Letter to President Chopp: Quakerism in t ...
Open
Letter to President Chopp: Quakerism in the Tri-Co
The Daily Gazette
I am particularly excited to tell you about a Tri-Co Fall Break trip
which I was able to attend this past week to learn about and protest
Mountain Top Removal coal mining in West Virginia. The trip was
co-sponsored by two ...
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Quakers protest banks support of mountain top ...
Main
Line
Quakers protest banks support of mountain top mining (with video)
Main Line
Activists with Earth Quaker Action Team protested mountaintop removal
mining operations at the Narberth branch of PNC Bank on Saturday.
Protesters walked into the Montgomery Ave. bank shortly before 11 a.m.
and ...
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Candidate Will Keep Running Until He Wins Or D ...
Candidate
Will Keep Running Until He Wins Or Dies Trying
Huffington Post
Or as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency describes it,
"Mountaintop removal is a form of surface coal mining in which
explosives are used to access coal seams, generating large volumes of
waste that bury adjacent ...
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“I Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody” - C ...
“I
Ain't Collateral Damage. I am Somebody”
CounterPunch
Hell's Gate was the property line from where you could literally look
down on massive mountaintop removal operations. It was stunning. I've
seen clear cut forests, oil spills and an industry polluted lake near
Butte, Montana, bu ...
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Romney economic speech at company that receive ...
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Romney economic speech at company that received stimulus funds — Ames,
Iowa (CNN) - The owner of an Iowa construction company where Mitt
Romney will deliver a speech on the economy received stimulus funds,
according to the government's web site that tracks ex ...
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Romney's Closing Argument (Zeke Miller/BuzzFeed)
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney's Closing Argument — At speech today in Ames, Iowa, Romney will
make the case for “Big Change,” because “We cannot afford four more
years like the last four years.” — Republican presidential nominee
Mitt ...
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Romney Makes Closing Argument At Firm That Ben ...
Josh Dorner / ThinkProgress:
Romney Makes Closing Argument At Firm That Benefited From Stimulus
Funds — On Friday, Mitt Romney will make his closing argument on the
economy in what his campaign is touting as a major address. The site
Romney has chosen, however, exposes t ...
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Transcript of 1944 Bretton Woods Conference Fo ...
Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Transcript of 1944 Bretton Woods Conference Found at Treasury —
WASHINGTON — A Treasury economist rummaging in the department's library
has stumbled on a historical treasure hiding in plain sight: a
transcript of the Bretton Woods conferenc ...
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Ronald Reagan Made A 'First Time' Voting Joke ...
Eric Kleefeld / Talking Points Memo:
Ronald Reagan Made A ‘First Time’ Voting Joke 32 Years Before Lena
Dunham Did — Some conservative were outraged Thursday, when the Obama
campaign posted a Web ad starring Lena Dunham, creator of the TV show
“Girls,” ...
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M 5.3, southern Italy
Thursday, October 25, 2012 23:05:26 UTC
Friday, October 26, 2012 01:05:26 AM at epicenterDepth: 3.80 km (2.36 mi)
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M 5.4, northern Peru
Thursday, October 25, 2012 20:49:33 UTC
Thursday, October 25, 2012 03:49:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 8.00 km (4.97 mi)
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M 5.0, Papua, Indonesia
Thursday, October 25, 2012 18:57:08 UTC
Friday, October 26, 2012 03:57:08 AM at epicenterDepth: 44.40 km (27.59 mi)
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M 5.3, Fiji region
Thursday, October 25, 2012 18:40:39 UTC
Friday, October 26, 2012 06:40:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 604.10 km (375.37 mi)
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M 5.8, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:32:27 UTC
Thursday, October 25, 2012 07:32:27 PM at epicenterDepth: 48.10 km (29.89 mi)
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10 Big Surprises in Store For Tea Partiers Fle ...
If there's one thing that screams 'patriotism' and love of country,
it's fleeing the United States when a Democrat wins an election.Here are
but a few examples of the hundreds, if not thousands of Tea Party types
who totally swear they're moving to Canada if the Kenyan usurper and
his Zombie A ...
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The Cultists Lose Their Minds After Barack Oba ...
The election's tight, so the racket is to yell "we're winning" in a
loud voice till the votes are counted. (And if you have a little lung
power left over, bitch about the liberal media.) We that have free
souls, it touches us not, and we take our pleasures where we can. I'm
...
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10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing ...
Brace yourself for one of the most aggressive corporate lobbying
campaigns of all time. And one of the most hypocritical.“Fix the Debt”
is a coalition of more than 80 CEOs who claim they know best how to deal
with our nation’s fiscal challenges. The group boasts a $6 ...
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Tina Fey Unleashes Her Wrath on Akin and GOP R ...
At a gala for the Center for Reproductive Rights, comedian Tina Fey had
a few choice words for Todd "legitimate rape" Akin. Known for her
dead-on impersonation of Sarah Palin on SNL and acerbic wit in general,
Fey took aim at the folks whom Stephen Colbert would call "team
rape": Akin and ...
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Almost 1.4 Million Pledge For Jesus as Write-I ...
As of October 18, 2012, when I reported in my story Graham's Romney
Endorsement Accidentally Spreads "Mormonism is a cult" Meme to
Millions - about superstar evangelist Billy Graham's disastrous effort
to woo Protestant evangelical voters to vote for Mormon Republican
presidential ca ...
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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 Call
Call – 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 – 1/18/2011
Little 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 Justice
WarIsACrime.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 Terrorist
William
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 ...
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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 Hybrid
Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain
After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety.
We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...
Filed
under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric
Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric
vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart
brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for
"Information Network Social ...
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Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...
Filed
under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury
Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half
minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric
Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it
catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
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Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...
Filed
under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric
2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the
Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains
technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a
much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
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WATCH: Full Expanding the Debate Special on Fo ...
Watch our full three-and-a-half hour Expanding the Debate special
featuring Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and Justice Party
nominee Rocky Anderson responding to the same questions posed to
President Obama and Mitt Romney in the final debate of the campaign. In
addition, we speak t ...
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Part Two: Shane Bauer: "Solitary in Iran Nearl ...
In his first live television interview since his release from Iranian
prison, journalist Shane Bauer shines the light on solitary confinement
inside the California prison system. Bauer was one of three Americans
detained in 2009 while hiking in Iraq’s Kurdish region near the Iranian
border. He ...
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Audio: Aid Boat Set to Reach Gaza Saturday, Fa ...
We speak with Mattias Gardell, who is sailing through international
waters on board the Estelle, the latest boat to attempt to break the
Israeli blockade on Gaza. The boat aims to reach the Gaza Strip
Saturday and has been called a "provocation" by Israel’s ambassador to
the U ...
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Watch Amy Goodman on teleSUR Friday Night, Oct. 19
Amy 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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Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...
PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A
CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012
SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB
SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn
Univ ...
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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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Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–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 Spectrum
Stepping
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 »
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Last week’s dark prediction becomes this ...
Summary:
Forecasting the next stage in the decay of the Second Republic becomes
more difficult as it accelerates. Last week we posted Putin’s ads today
are those of America’s future, describing the likely evolution of
campaigns into entertainment — like Wimbledon, a fun stylish competitive
...
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How OODA loops break
Summary:
Analysis of America on the FM website talk about broken
Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action (OODA) Loops. But what does this
description mean? What are the consequences? Here’s the second of a
series by Chet Richards (Colonel, USAF, retired) explaining this
important subject. ...
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The Syrian dominos
Summary:
Today Tom Hayden briefs us on the situation in Syria, about what’s
happening — and what might happen soon. Civil wars are the worst type of
warfare. However, we are not implying that there is such a thing as
“good warfare.” There are only good causes. In Syria we have a situ ...
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How Strong Is the U.S. Navy?
Summary:
We spend a substantial faction of the US national income on national
defense (broadly defined), roughly the same amount as the rest of the
world spends (most of which is by our allies). Yet our leaders
frequently warn that we’re at risk, and our military edge can vanish
quickly. ...
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Where do we start, taking the first step to re ...
Summary:
Again we consider solutions, how to reform America. None of the past
presented here have held up to scrutiny and time. Perhaps this one
will. Share your thoughts in the comments. Contents Where do we start?
Solutions For more information A reminder that it’s always been all abou
...
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Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
Press
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 dollar
Breitbart
– 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 50yrs
PressTV
– 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.
...
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Syrian Ceasefire Shattered after Four Hours
It
took only four hours for the ceasefire painstakingly negotiated by
Lakhdar Brahimi to come undone. From the BBC:
The [Syrian Observatory for Human Rights], one of the most prominent
groups monitoring Syrian casualties, says its reports are impartial.
However, its information cannot be indepe ...
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Afghanistan Weekly Reader: An Expensive, Ineff ...
The
U.S. has almost met its target number for Afghanistan’s security
forces. But the limited capabilities of the Afghan army and police have
many wondering why the U.S. spent billions pursuing a “quantity over
quality” strategy. Meanwhile, NATO allies are seeing signs that cos ...
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You Might Have Missed: Drones, Targeted Killin ...
Maria
Abi-Habib, “Troops Shot After Taliban Leader’s Call,” Wall Street
Journal, October 26, 2012.
Anti-American feelings are rife in the Afghan army and police, the two
forces that are supposed to take over once the coalition’s military
mandate ends in 2014. “We call the Americans t ...
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Though Bin Laden Was Hiding in Plain Sight, Hi ...
Mark
Bowden of Black Hawk Down fame has just weighed in on the mission to
kill bin Laden with a book titled The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin
Laden (Atlantic Monthly Press). Much of the excerpt that Vanity
Fair published chronicles how President Obama et al chose between a
drone strike, preci ...
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What a China Corruption Story Says About the P ...
Yesterday,
the New York Times dropped a bombshell of investigative journalism on
the Chinese Communist Party, reporting that the family of Prime Minister
Wen Jiabao has amassed something like $2.7 billion in wealth in recent
years, mostly through insider dealings. That a top Party official has p
...
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Wed, Nov. 07 Electoral Vote Predictor
Obama Wins Third Debate
The snap polls are in and President Obama clearly won last night's debate.
The CBS poll
of uncommitted voters gave President Obama a decisive 53% to 23% victory.
The CNN poll
of debate watchers also put Obama ahead, albeit by a smaller margin, 48% to 40%.
PPP ...
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Hope in Maryland for Marriage Equality
I’ve heard from many folks in the Maryland and D.C. area who really,
really want to win marriage equality at the ballot this November 6. And I
deeply hope that you will—more profoundly than I can express. But I
don’t like how the numbers look at this particular moment. Going into
the balloting ...
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Peeking In on Canada's Election
AlexSBurton
Last year, Canada's Liberals—the party of Pierre Trudeau and Jean
Chrétien, the party that held power for most of the 20th
century—suffered a crushing electoral defeat. Its representation in the
House of Commons was cut by more than half, and for the first time in
its histor ...
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Paul Ryan's Other Opponent
Flickr/Rob Zerban for Congress)
Rob Zerban giving a speech in early October as he delivered 50,000
petition signatures to Paul Ryan's office requesting a debate.
Paul Ryan's congressional district should be prime swing territory for
Democrats. The party held the seat from the 1 ...
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Fri, Oct. 26 Electoral Vote Predictor
Are We Heading toward a Split Decision?
The closer we get to election day—and it is only 12 days away now—the
more likely it becomes that the voters render a split decision with Mitt
Romney winning the popular vote and Barack Obama winning the electoral
college. A new WaPo/ABC national poll ...
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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 Adventure
WILL
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 GOP
MARK
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 ...
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BBC Newsnight journalist and the economic crisis
BBC
Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason discusses the current global
economic crisis from a journalist’s perspective, asking – “When and how
will the crisis end?” Writing in the International Journal of Management
Concepts and Philosophy, Mason argues that the global ec ...
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Sound levitation makes drugs safer
Earlier
this year, researchers at Argonne National Lab demosntrated how they
could use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions
containing different pharmaceuticals. The aim being to allow solvent to
evaporate with crystallisation occurring so that an amorphous form of a
drug can ...
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Customary blog post about my book
It’s
nice to be in such esteemed company. Apparently, customers who
downloaded the free Kindle sampler of my forthcoming book Deceived
Wisdom have also grabbed a copy of one or more of the following popular
science books: “How Many Friends Does One Person Need?” by Robin Dunbar
...
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Something for the weekend…
Well-known
popular science author John Emsley had this to say about my forthcoming
book: “Bradley debunks more than a hundred popular misconceptions that
govern the way we behave, and he does it in a light-hearted and
enjoyable fashion.” As I think I may well have mentioned before, y ...
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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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The Moderators' Agendas: An Analysis of What W ...
The
establishment media figures who moderated the 2012 major-party
candidate debates confined the discussion to a remarkably narrow range
of topics, a FAIR analysis of debate questions finds.
A wide variety of topics were never brought up in questions during the
six total hours of debate. Amo ...
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Climate-change Denying Senator James Inhofe Wi ...
Senator
James Inhofe, one of Congress’ staunchest deniers of climate change and
stalwart human obstacle to federal action on this unprecedented global
crisis, is the lucky recipient of the Center for Biological Diversity’s
2012 Rubber Dodo Award, which is given annually to those who ...
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Voting Rights Advocates Call on Florida Electi ...
Today,
Common Cause President Bob Edgar condemned the anonymous and fraudulent
letters that were sent to eligible Florida voters misstating their
voting rights, and called on Florida election officials to investigate
this act of voter intimidation. The letters, sent largely to Republican
voters ...
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Voting Rights Advocates Call on Florida Electi ...
Today,
Common Cause President Bob Edgar condemned the anonymous and fraudulent
letters that were sent to eligible Florida voters misstating their
voting rights, and called on Florida election officials to investigate
this act of voter intimidation. The letters, sent largely to Republican
voters ...
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Consumers Demand Right To Know
Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement calling
for labeling laws to inform consumers which foods are genetically
modified. A ballot initiative in California may soon give consumers in
that state a chance to demand information. Congressman Kucinich is the
author ...
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Democratic Rep. Explains Why Now Is The ‘Absol ...
LOUISVILLE
— There is no better time than now to invest in America’s crumbling
infrastructure, Kentucky Rep. John Yarmuth (D) told ThinkProgress in an
interview this week. With the nation facing high unemployment and in
need of a massive upgrade to its roads, bridges, and other infra ...
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Tennessee Appeals Court Upholds Most Of Voter ...
A
Tennessee appeals court upheld the state’s voter ID law Thursday, with
the caveat that the state must accept Memphis library identification
cards. In a unanimous ruling, the state’s intermediate court held that
the photo ID requirement did not impose burdens akin to a poll tax, and
that the st ...
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116 Million Europeans ‘At Risk Of Poverty,’ Wi ...
According
to the European Commission, “roughly 40 million Europeans are suffering
‘severe material deprivation’”, while “116 million EU citizens are
judged ‘at risk of poverty.’” Yet, the continent is doubling down on the
same austerity policies th ...
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Brian Brown: Obama Wants To ‘Insert’ Gay Marri ...
The
National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown is back with another
brash claim about what marriage equality advocates are trying to do. In
his weekly fundraising screed, he claims that if President Obama is
re-elected, he will appoint a new Supreme Court Justice and the Court
will & ...
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High Health Care Costs Force Many To Crowd Sou ...
While
politicians clash over the details of health policy and President
Obama’s landmark health reform law, social media often serves to cut
through the political rhetoric and reveal the human impact of what’s at
stake in this debate. When a musician tweeted about her experience goin
...
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I'm Not Calling For Voter ID Laws
Some
progressives have been hailing the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing
Ted "Homo-Hater" Opitz his theft of the Etobicoke-Centre election.
Supposedly, the Supreme Court of Canada has decided that our rules,
procedures and safeguards for conducting free and fair elections
shouldn't interfere ...
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Canadian Democracy Officially a Fraud
I
am, at present, reeling from skimming this article - "Conservative MP
Ted Opitz to keep his Etobicoke-Centre, Supreme Court rules".
Here's how it works folks. We have elections, see? And they're
first-past-the-post, meaning that all a candidate has to do is get the
largest bloc of votes in th ...
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No Responsibility
So,
I'm almost finished The Monster by Michael W. Hudson. There's a part in
it where some state regulators are trying to shut down the predatory
lending scam. Wall Street poured out billions and billions of dollars to
predatory mortgage companies so that they can gouge people and Wall
Street can ...
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Make the Rich Pay!!!
Posters
like this used to adorn telephone poles in my hometown when the
Communist Party ran candidates in federal elections. I was about ten
years old. My friends and I used to snicker because we knew that
communists were authoritarians masquerading as democrats and they were
also looney-toons l ...
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NAMBLA Gives Award to First Nations Individual
The
North American Man-Boy Love Association today awarded a North American
Aboriginal person (who has obtained a legal injunction against the
publication of his name in association with this story) with their
not-coveted "Person of the Year" prize.
All major media outlets are featuring this sto ...
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Alix Ohlin's 'Inside' is masterfully written
Alix
Ohlin’s ‘Inside’, is a masterfully written novel that spans more than a
decade and travels to Montreal, Nunavut, New York, Hollywood, and
Africa.
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Foreign Policy Calls For Diplomacy, Not Bravado
Diplomacy
is no joke. Foreign policy is not a pissing contest. And pure bravado
does not diplomacy make. Watch the 3rd Presidential debate in its
entirety to get the facts straight before forming your opinion about the
candidates' foreign policy position.
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Ipsos/Reuters poll: Obama beat Romney in final ...
An
Ipsos/Reuters post-debate poll published Tues., Oct. 23 shows
respondents favored President Barack Obama as winning the third and
final presidential debate. Forty-seven percent said Obama won the
debate while 31 percent said the same of Mitt Romney.
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Writer offers Mitt Romney $5 charity donation ...
A
writer for the online news site, Digital Journal, is offering to donate
$5 to the charity of Mitt Romney's choosing if the GOPs presidential
nominee releases more taxes. He's giving Romney until the night before
the Nov. 6 election to make up his mind.
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Toronto cops Name-tags — Not visible as push-i ...
Several
years ago the City of Toronto made it mandatory that on duty police
must wear their personal name-tags on their uniforms at all times. If
that is the case, why are they attached to the uniforms with velcro.
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Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling
the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday
season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a
new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way
to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe
an ...
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Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This
Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest
feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful
for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way.
Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we
have ...
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Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What
are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or
they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning
and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling:
Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan
is the site of 50 to 100 ...
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LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead
of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it
illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a
one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do
something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar
high ...
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Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite
its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the
homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people
living there.
In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged
at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
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U.S. Ambassador: Al Qaeda Could Plan Other 9/1 ...
April
2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The US Ambassador is lying.”
–KTRN According to Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Kabul, if
the United States does not continue to occupy Afghanistan, al Qaeda
would be able to plan and carry out another September 11, 2001- ...
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Lawyer For Soldier Accused Of Afghan Slaughter ...
April
2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Should anyone be surprised by
this? What are they trying to hide?” –KTRN John Henry Browne, the
attorney for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the man accused of
single-handedly massacring 17 Afghan villagers, is now accusing the Unit
...
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Orwellian Free Speech Zones Expand to Mesa, Ar ...
April
2, 2012 Activist Post By AP “Shouldn’t there be free speech everywhere?
Watch the video below. The man interviewing the cop should be given a
medal.” –KTRN The “free speech zone,” despite being anathema to the U.S.
Constitution, has been used intermitten ...
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French Constitutional Court Bans Law Enforceme ...
April
2, 2012 EFF By Katitza Rodriguez & Maira Sutton Last week, the
Conseil Constitutionnel, the highest authority on the French
Constitution, declared the provisions of a law permitting judicial and
police use of a centralized national ID database to be unconstitutional.
200 members of the ...
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How Wall Street Manipulates and Manufactures A ...
April
2, 2012 Activist Post By Tony Cartalucci An attempted color revolution
backed by Wall Street unfolded in Bangkok, Thailand in 2010, leaving 91
dead. Since then, Wall Street as well as its proxies inside of Thailand
have attempted to blame all 91 deaths on the Thai military despite
overwhel ...
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Hadi appoints new SCER
On
Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges
to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER
is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal
role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
High
risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests
continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in
Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable
and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a
video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
Without
much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its
defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for
licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012
Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
Several
children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda
fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action
Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC
said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June
13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
Al
Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless
the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing
prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,”
Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to
use detainees ...
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Seven Killed Across Iraq
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Across Iraq – Friday: 7 Killed, 18 Wounded Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis
The Eid al-Adha holiday has, so far, been relatively quiet. Violence had
been expected surrounding the observances, which began la ...
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‘Americans extremely reluctant to enter ...
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Todayyoutube.com Israel’s calls to bomb Iran have stoked the U.S.
presidential debate, making support for Tel Aviv a tough issue for the
candidates. President Obama and his rival Romney are now walking a tig
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Study of charter schools supported by Romney, ...
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teacher’s command of his class is total. “Which one is the whole
number?” he asks crisply. “Is it seven over three, or is it four?” He
zeroes in on a child who gives the ...
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New Film Exposes Engineered Collapse
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October 26, 2012 Joel Skousen sits down with Alex Jones and discusses
strategies on how to prepare for and survive major disasters. Joel
Skousen is a world renowned expert in designing secure homes, geo ...
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DHS, Secret Service Say They Are Taking Romney ...
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on assassination, riot chatter Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Oct 26,
2012 As threats of violence and death against Presidential candidate
Mitt Romney continue to explode on Twitter, Homeland Security o ...
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Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Establishing t ...
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Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House For Immediate Release October
26, 2012 Executive Order — Establishing the White House Homeland
Security Partnership Council EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - ESTABLISHING
THE WHITE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL B ...
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Noam Chomsky: Who Owns the World? + Transcript
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Salad with Noam Chomsky Oct 26, 2012 by democracynow In the week when
President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated
issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to world-renowned
political dissident, linguist, author and MIT Professor, Noam Chomsky.
In a ...
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Chris Hedges: Everything Emanates From Corpora ...
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Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 26, 2012 Oct 19,
2012 by CUTV CUTV met with journalist Chris Hedges on the occasion of
the publication of La Mort de l’Élite Progressiste, French translation
of The Death of the Liberal Class, by Lux Éditeur. We asked him about
the ...
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Ralph Nader: Half of Democracy Is Showing Up ( ...
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Salad with Ralph Nader www.booktv.org Oct 21, 2012 by reticularimus
Ralph Nader presents his thoughts on America’s economic and
sociopolitical landscape and provides seventeen solutions that he
contends will answer several issues facing the country. The independent
candidate for ...
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Michael Parenti, Savvina Chowdhury, Sarah Rega ...
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Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org October 24, 2012 Oct 21, 2012 by ToddBoyle
Michael Parenti, Savvina Chowdhury, Sarah Regan panel: “State of the
Struggle” – at the Peoples’ Movement Assembly in Olympia WA, Oc ...
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A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World
A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent :
It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter
Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the
king-makers to the pol ...
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Julian Assange, 2012:
They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to
happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to
get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious
mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no
role in t ...
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Tupac Rises
Well, fuck me....
From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable.
How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums?
I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon:
Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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Dinosaurs Sprouted Wings Earlier Than Thought
Dinosaurs
still walk—and fly—among us: We call them birds. Most paleontologists
think birds descended from a group of winged dinosaurs, and thus dinos
never went completely extinct. But where did the wings come from? New
discoveries from Canada suggest that both wings and feathers arose
earlier ...
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Saturn Storm Creates Largest and Hottest Vorte ...
On
the surface, Saturn seems calm. But the appearance of the largest and
hottest vortex ever seen in the solar system has astronomers thinking
that Saturn’s atmosphere has more going on than meets the eye.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Monster ...
The
giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this image, taken by NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope, is the most massive and brightest member of the
galaxy cluster Abell 2261.
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Public or Private: The Fight Over the Future o ...
All
around the world, from the Himalayas to the Great Plains, fresh water
is starting to run low. It’s shaping up to be one of the 21st century’s
great environmental and humanitarian challenges: People use water faster
than nature can replenish it. Some people argue that privatization is
the ans ...
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Video: Easter Island Statues Could Have ‘Walke ...
The
giant statues of heads on Easter Island, the moai, have posed an
enduring problem for archaeologists -- how did their creators move them?
The most popular hypothesis is that they were rolled across the island
on wooden logs, but one anthropologist has proposed a more unusual
possibility -- t ...
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Jonathan Cook: Israel’s formula for a starvati ...
There
can be no doubt that the diet devised for Gaza – much like Israel’s
blockade in general – was intended as a form of collective punishment,
one directed at every man, woman and child. The goal,...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian l ...
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Moshé Machover: On Israeli Apartheid
In
my opinion the whole semantic discussion of Israeli "apartheid" skirts
around the fundamental question: the underlying political economy of
Zionist colonization.
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to ...
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How Chomsky came to Gaza: a statement by eight ...
The
eight signatories of this letter are members of the group that traveled
with Noam Chomsky to Gaza. We have spent three and a half days here in
Gaza with Chomsky, who departed yesterday. We would...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian ...
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Gideon Levy: Apartheid without shame or guilt
Now
it is not just critics at home and abroad, but Israelis themselves who
are openly, shamelessly, and guiltlessly defining themselves as
nationalistic racists.
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...
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Hanan Ashrawi: Israel’s grand illusion on Pale ...
Palestine
is seeking UN recognition in accordance with international law, but
Israel claims that this constitutes a barrier to peace, or even
“diplomatic terror.” The idea that we are supposed to get...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian ...
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